1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 1: Fellow ridiculous historians, you have statistically farted about five to 2 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: ten minutes before you tuned in. 3 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:13,319 Speaker 2: And it in. 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 3: Tune it in. 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, there he is, Yes me, No, we love farts. 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 2: It's fun farting, humor doing it. It feels good, it 7 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 2: feels right, y'all. It's human and that's been And there 8 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 2: was once a time in ridiculous history when farting was 9 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 2: not only a fun thing to do and joke about, 10 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 2: but an actual profession. 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: Let's roll the tape. Oh my gosh, wait, do you 12 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: guys know any good fart jokes. I know a joke 13 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: about a guy who farts on an elevator, but it's 14 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: wrong on so many levels. Ridiculous History is a production 15 00:00:49,920 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. First things first, everyone, no matter who you are, 16 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: from a king to a popper, everyone farts. Not the 17 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: fart would be not only medically fascinating, but it would 18 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: probably be dangerous. On the average day, most people are 19 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: passing more than a leader of gas per day, spread 20 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: out over like thirteen to twenty one incidents. 21 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 2: Isn't there a book about this? Everybody farts? 22 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 1: There should be surely there is no. I think that's 23 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: poops Everybody Poops is the children's book, but Everybody Farts 24 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 1: would be a great follow up. 25 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 2: Surely there should be one, and that should be a series, 26 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 2: a series that we could write. Noel, that's you, oh Man, 27 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 2: and you're Ben, and as apparently you also fart. 28 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, even our super producer Casey Pegri. It's just 29 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: a medical fact that people do this. However, the vast 30 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: majority of human beings do it purely. 31 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: As a. 32 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: Labor of love. Purely is a thing that happens in 33 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: the human body. 34 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 2: It's sort of a regulatory process, right, It keeps your 35 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 2: systems and check your guts and all that. Right. 36 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, most of us are amateure farmers. However, there are 37 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: a very very small number of people who have managed 38 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: to become professional flatialist. 39 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 2: It's true, Ben, it's true. And this dates back much 40 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 2: farther than you might think. Or maybe I don't know, 41 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 2: Maybe it's exactly as far as you might think. Maybe 42 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 2: it's even less far than you would think. But where 43 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 2: we're gonna start today's story is in the medieval times. 44 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 2: Like the restaurant you know where you go and you 45 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 2: eat a turkey leg and they got the horses and 46 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 2: the show like and the cable guy. 47 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: And you cheer for whichever team you're assigned to. 48 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out that restaurant concept based on an 49 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 2: actual history oracle period. 50 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: Right, Oh yeah, right, it's not the medium level of 51 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 1: evil the way that some people might assume. 52 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that for a long time. You spelled 53 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 2: really funny too, like med. I guess it's one of 54 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 2: those words I can never properly spell. But we digress. 55 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: I do at least Ben tell us about fartistry in 56 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 2: medieval times. 57 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked Noel travel with us, folks to 58 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:29,239 Speaker 1: the reign of King Henry the Second. There's a great 59 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: line about King Henry the Second from historicuk dot com 60 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: the very first sentence of the poor guy's biography, Henry 61 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: two seems to struggle to make an impactable and popular history. 62 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 2: That's the first sentence, and that is also printed on 63 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 2: his gravestone. Ouch, that's not true, but that'd be funny. 64 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: That would be funny and sad. So King Henry Two, 65 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: who reigned from the December of eleven fifty four to 66 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: eleven eighty nine, was known for several different, hugely important 67 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: things in the course of the history of the United Kingdom. 68 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: But did you know, fellow ridiculous historians, that he also 69 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: had a notoriously popular gesture. 70 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 2: That's right, and we're gonna invoke a word here that 71 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 2: every time I see it printed, I think it's a 72 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 2: different word. The word that it actually is is flatulist. 73 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 2: The word I always think it is when I see 74 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 2: it on paper is floutest. Both do involve making sounds 75 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 2: by expelling air from their bodies, but the flatualist is 76 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 2: a little bit different. It is, as we've alluded to, 77 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 2: a professional farter. But what's really cool about this is 78 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 2: it requires a pretty specific set of skills, doesn't it been. 79 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: That's right, So this guy Noel was known as Roland 80 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: the Farter. He had several other nicknames. They are in French. 81 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,799 Speaker 1: At this point, I'd like to ask for some help 82 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: from you, Casey. Could you help us out with some 83 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: of Roland the Farter's French nicknames? 84 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 4: Yeah, so that would be Roland la sarcere, Roland la fartere, 85 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 4: and Roland la Piturey's. 86 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: But off the record, while the court is not in session, 87 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: I have a couple more questions, Casey, could you translate 88 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: some of these for us into into English. 89 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 4: So, uh, roland la fartere fartre pretty self explanatory, right there. 90 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 4: Fart roland, la piture peture derived from pete, which is 91 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 4: the French verb to fart pass gas. So p e 92 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 4: t e r is the verb form, and then peture 93 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 4: is just that kind of personified. And then the last one, 94 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 4: roland la sarcer comes from Old French. And I'm getting 95 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 4: this from a book called on Farting, Language and Laughter 96 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 4: in the Middle Ages by v Allen. And in that 97 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 4: book they write that it's a variation sarce, a variation 98 00:05:55,800 --> 00:06:00,799 Speaker 4: on sare to siv. Alternately, sarsier means to dark. Also, 99 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 4: sarsara could simply just be a slip of the pen, 100 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 4: and they meant to write farcar, which is from farsier 101 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 4: to just or to make fun of. 102 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 2: Well, you know, they do say you ever heard somebody 103 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 2: say something was tight as a sieve? Yeah, maybe they're 104 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 2: talking about you know, also leaks like a siev. Oh wow, okay, yeah, 105 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 2: maybe no one says tight as. 106 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 4: Hey, let's start it. 107 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 2: Let's start. 108 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 4: I think it starts today. 109 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've excented you. Well, you know, because a siev 110 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 2: just lets certain things pass through so maybe you know 111 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 2: it's about the action of passing, because you know passing 112 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 2: of the guest. I have a question for you, Ben, 113 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 2: and I think you have an answer for me. With 114 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 2: this gester being a British gester, an English gester, why's 115 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 2: he got all these French nicknames? Ah? 116 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: Great question. You see, although Henry two was King of England, 117 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,799 Speaker 1: he never learned the English language himself because his family 118 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: came over from Normandy in ten sixty six, which means 119 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: that they spoke Norman French. Now Henry was intelligent, he 120 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: spoke Latin as well, which was the language of the 121 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: elite at the time, just as French was. So his 122 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: court would have a lot of business conducted on Francais. 123 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 2: All right, So let's pop into this Latin section. Here 124 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 2: there is a book, a document, a collection of ledgers 125 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 2: called the English Liber Feodorum, which translates roughly to the 126 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 2: Book of Fees. And this is where we get the 127 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 2: information that we know about Roland because it was an 128 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 2: account of all the payments that went to various members 129 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 2: of the court, but unfortunately didn't have any dates. It 130 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 2: just had personnel and what they were paid, and you 131 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 2: know what their particular skill was or the action that 132 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 2: they were paid for for. Roland the language is as such, 133 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 2: unim saltem at siphalitum at unim bumbalum executed simultaneously. 134 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: That translates in English to one jump, one whistle, and 135 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: one fart. And this happens every Christmas. 136 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 2: Every Christmas because they had a big old shindig soire thing. 137 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: And what does he get in return for this very 138 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: specific physical stunt. 139 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, Henry the second must have been a huge fan 140 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 2: of this guy, because he was awarded with like lands 141 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 2: and an estate. 142 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: Right, Yes, he was granted a manor house Hemmingstone in 143 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: Suffolk and depending on which source you read, either thirty 144 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,079 Speaker 1: acres of land or a hundred, which is a heck 145 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: of a variation. 146 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, but that obvious. He didn't keep particularly good records 147 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 2: back in those days, so you know. 148 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, And we do know that although Roland the Fart 149 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: really did exist and really did carry out this very 150 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: specific act of a jump, a whistle and a fart 151 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: once a year executed, at the same time, we know 152 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: that his story gets very murky very quickly. There's actually 153 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: very little verifiable information about the guy other than the 154 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: Book of fees and later biographers loved this story so 155 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: much that if you look back at the timeline all told, 156 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: it sounds as if he has been doing he was 157 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: doing this for more than one hundred years, which is 158 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: clearly not true. 159 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 2: No, there's no way. And was this like his big finish, 160 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 2: the jump in the whistle on the fire or was 161 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 2: this you know, it sounds like he was sort of 162 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 2: a member of a particular type of performer that would 163 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 2: have had a variety of skills, not just being able 164 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 2: to jump whistle and far simultaneously, but this was his 165 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 2: particular kind of like signature move. 166 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, he would pull off. 167 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 2: And the fact that he was credited like that in 168 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 2: a legal document that speaks volumes. 169 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: Well, that was the only thing that he legally had 170 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: to do. But surely there was a bit of showmanship. 171 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: There was a bit of lead into it, you know, 172 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: probably a couple of politically sensitive hot take kind of jokes, 173 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 1: because Jester's ough pi such a unique and powerful role 174 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: in a court. We also know that Roland was not 175 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: the only professional flatialists. We know that there are practices 176 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,199 Speaker 1: involving did I see these pictures to you of Japan 177 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: in the Edo period? I'm just gonna show this to you. 178 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 2: Noel. Oh, that's a whole genre of art. I've seen 179 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 2: like these prints, these Japanese wood cut prints of like 180 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 2: dudes just you know, with crazy explosive fart lines coming 181 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 2: out of there usually bear behind, right. 182 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: There's this artistic trope of in Japan of depicting farts 183 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: both as satire and as weapons of battle. The word 184 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: war would be he gossen h e ash g A 185 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: S s e n. There were also the Brugador or 186 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: farters of Ireland, and there were seven rule other a 187 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: ritualistically important or professionally paid flatialists throughout history. Unfortunately, we 188 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: do know a lot about one of the most famous, 189 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: I would say the most famous flatialist in history. 190 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 2: Talk about lat Yes, yes, La pet that's right, La 191 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 2: Petro Main aka Joseph Pougeol, who was a young Frenchman 192 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 2: from Marseilles, I believe, isn't that right, Marseille. 193 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: Marseille, Marseille. Yeah, that's been Casey on the Case, Part. 194 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 2: Two, Part two, and we've got a third one coming up. 195 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 2: But don't don't you, don't you worry. And that was 196 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 2: in eighteen fifty seven, by the way, that that he 197 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 2: was born. Yeah, he was. He was the son of 198 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 2: a baker, and baking becomes another one of his passions 199 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 2: throughout his life. But he there's a really great story 200 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 2: about young Pougeol. When he was a young man, he 201 00:11:55,520 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 2: was swimming in the sea and realized that he was 202 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 2: actually taking in water up his uh is uh anus. 203 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: I was going to say Australia for the euphemism, but 204 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: or his rectum, we could just go into the scientific 205 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: term series it's yeah uh. And this happened as he 206 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: was inhaling. There's a great depiction of this off damninteresting 207 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: dot com written by Alan Bellows. He returned to shore 208 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: and he freaked out, understandably feeling this water in the 209 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: wrong place or an unexpected place, and he immediately goes 210 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: back to shore where he is astonished to see quote 211 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: a great deal of seawater pouring from his backside. Luckily, 212 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: a doctor said that this was not something he needed 213 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 1: to be gravely concerned about, and Joseph, in a way 214 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 1: similar to like a Marvel superhero, discovers that he has 215 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: an extraordinary ability. 216 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, he could actually do this with with air in 217 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 2: addition to water, which makes sense, but you know, how 218 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 2: cool is it to be able to realize this is 219 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 2: something he could control and not just a fluke, because 220 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 2: I'm sure he was kind of, you know, understandably freaked 221 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:12,599 Speaker 2: out by it. And then all of a sudden it 222 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 2: became like empowering. It's like I can do this, you know, 223 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,839 Speaker 2: for fun. Yeah, And and oh what fun he had. 224 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. He found that he could deliberately suck water in 225 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: through this area of his body and then project it 226 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: back out, even creating a spout that went on for 227 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: several meters. He thought, you know, this is cool, but 228 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: let's see if I can do the same thing with air. 229 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: And in addition to discovering that he could do the 230 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: same thing with air, he also learned that with the 231 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: right contortion rhythm, he could reproduce some songs. And again, 232 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: he's a young person at this point, he's still in school. 233 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: This is a hit in his class, right. 234 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 2: I can only imagine, can only imagine. I bet the 235 00:13:57,679 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 2: teachers loved him. 236 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: No, no, they might have. They probably laughed about it 237 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 1: outside of the classroom. 238 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 2: We haven't even talked about the fact that farts are 239 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 2: are funny. 240 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 1: Still, farts are funny because they're something a little bit 241 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: naughty that applies to everyone. 242 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean. 243 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: It's a very equalizer like death. And as Alan wrote 244 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: in the in the book that Casey had mentioned earlier, 245 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: farts had a We're seen as a reminder of mortality 246 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: back in the day, right, so they occupy this important role. 247 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: We learned so many fart facts for today's episode, fun 248 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: far facts, fun fart facts. 249 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 3: Just so. 250 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: We learned that the oldest joke in the world is 251 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: a joke about farts, which maybe we can get to 252 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: at the end of the story. It's not really related 253 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: to this, but it is interesting also objectively, I don't 254 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: think it's that funny. I think something's lost in the translation. 255 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: But back to the Petal Main, before he becomes this 256 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: professional artist, he joined the army. 257 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I've seen it in a couple of different 258 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 2: places that he actually got that nickname from his army buddies. 259 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 2: They bestowed it upon him. And as we learned from Roland, 260 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 2: the fart or the peture right, this means fart. But 261 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 2: it took it a step beyond where Roland's name was. 262 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 2: It took it to the level of an artist, the fartist. Yes, 263 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 2: he became known as the fartiste, and when he left 264 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 2: military service, he opened a bakery in his hometown and 265 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 2: he was known for making these amazing brand muffins. But 266 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 2: he decided to take it further and in eighteen eighty seven, 267 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 2: when he was thirty years old, he went on stage 268 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 2: in his hometown, not to do a live baking demonstration, 269 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 2: but to take his flag to the to the theater. 270 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 2: Aren't brand muffins a little bit farty? 271 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of the common beliefs about them. They 272 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: contain fiber which makes people regular, right, so that could 273 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: play a role. We also we had a long list 274 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: in some old episode of brain Stuff of all the 275 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: different foods that are thought to be fart inducing foods. 276 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: So of course beans, right, and brand muffins could be 277 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: on there. 278 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 2: I don't know. 279 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: I hesitate to ask people to write in and tell 280 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: us about their experience brand muffins in this regard? 281 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 2: Why why don't hesitates? We welcome your brand stories with 282 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,359 Speaker 2: open arms. So what was his performance all about, Ben. 283 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked Noel. Initially it was met with 284 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: a lot of skepticism fart history, said the French audience members. 285 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 1: What on earth could this be. Surely it's a one 286 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: time gig, but he won the audience over. He was 287 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: a big success. I think now it's time to let 288 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: the badger ount of the bag. We have an example 289 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: of some of his work, don't wait. 290 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 2: We do we do? This is what one of his 291 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 2: performances might have sounded like, let's roll the tape. 292 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 3: What doing that? Ola found. 293 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 2: No name and we heard it up. I think we've 294 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 2: heard it up. 295 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: This is what Let's stop there. You could hear it 296 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 1: in full. 297 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 2: I can't help I'm such a child. I just think 298 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 2: I just can't help but laugh. 299 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 1: Well, it's his it's his also his real job. I'm 300 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: sure he'd be glad to hear that his craft is 301 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: respected well in twenty eighteen. 302 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 2: And what you realized he is, he's like he's doing 303 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 2: bits in between them. He's he's setting up the different 304 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 2: types of right arts that. 305 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: He's doing, giving context like any good impressionists. Let's if 306 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: we can stop the let's uh, let's defer to Casey Pegram. Casey, 307 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: can you help us out with I know that audio 308 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: is really rough, but could you give us any guesses 309 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: at what the petal manas saying in these. 310 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 4: Yeah? So you guys sent me this clip, and at 311 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 4: first I didn't know if I was going to be 312 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 4: able to get much of anything out of it, but 313 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 4: I did eventually kind of decode a few different other phrases, 314 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 4: and then I was able to plug those into Google 315 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 4: and actually find a complete transcript of the entire thing 316 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 4: courtesy of somebody on a Reddit. Then that reddit person 317 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 4: was Ariat that was on the r today. I learned 318 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 4: subreddit six years ago. Anyway, So some of my favorites here, well, 319 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 4: to begin with one of the early ones, the pet 320 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 4: de my mother in law's fart, the pet de masson. 321 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 4: That's a pretty rough rue. That's the Mason's part. 322 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 3: No man uh. 323 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 4: And then immediately after he says lamemn, which is the 324 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 4: same dry being failed. So wait what he gambled and 325 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 4: he lost? 326 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 2: I think? Is the. 327 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there's there's a little some extra at the 328 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 4: end of that one. 329 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: Was there something about giraffes? 330 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah. 331 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 4: The draft one is bizarre, so la pete dela and 332 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 4: metical debut. Part of the standing up draft or the 333 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 4: draft as it's standing up, it cuts one. 334 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: And that's been Casey on the Case Part three, Part three. 335 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: We're a Part three and I'm loving every second of it. 336 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 1: He also the petal man, not our man, Casey. He 337 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,200 Speaker 1: also played songs, and he blew out candles, and we 338 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 1: should mention I guess some of the song stuff, because 339 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: that's what seems tough to me. Right, Even if you 340 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 1: can expel gas on command, getting the right tone is different. 341 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 2: Well, Ben, it's a lot like whistling, my friend. I mean, 342 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 2: you're whistling. You make different challenges by changing the tightness 343 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 2: or looseness of your lips. So I would imagine the 344 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 2: same would apply to the butt. 345 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: We're being very like, I'm proud of us for being 346 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,920 Speaker 1: as diplomatic. We're doing our best as we are at 347 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: this point. It's tough, so we said. The crowd reacted 348 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: favorably despite their initial skepticism. So what happened? What happened 349 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: to Laptomol after this first show? 350 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,919 Speaker 2: Well, he was a hit. He was a massive hit, right, Yeah, 351 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 2: And he parlayed that first performance into a pretty lucrative 352 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 2: contract at the famous Mulin rouge. 353 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, the same one that you've heard about in film. 354 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,880 Speaker 1: And the show started to get a hint danger, right, 355 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,400 Speaker 1: because people were laughing so much that some women would 356 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: pass out because of their laughter and their tight corsets. 357 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: And then one guy had a heart attack and died. 358 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 2: That's terrible, but you know, farting is objectively hilarious, and 359 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 2: I guess that's an okay way to go. 360 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 1: Well, they capitalized on it in the marketing. They put 361 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,640 Speaker 1: up signs and they had nurses stationed around the theater, 362 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: and the signs would be like, this may be dangerous. 363 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 2: Now let's point something out, okay before we go any further. Sure, 364 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 2: this might be grossing you guys out, and I can 365 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:38,159 Speaker 2: understand that. But let's not forget that lepetut Man. Remember 366 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 2: that first story about the intake of the water. Yes, well, 367 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 2: he basically was able to give himself kind of an 368 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 2: automatic enema, right, and he did that up to three 369 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 2: times a day. He was apparently a health food and 370 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 2: a vegetarian and a teetotaler. He did not drink a 371 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 2: drop even in the crazy, absynthe soaked world of the 372 00:21:58,960 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 2: Mulan Rouge. 373 00:21:59,720 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 3: Not. 374 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,959 Speaker 2: His effort was devoted entirely to his craft, so his 375 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 2: farts did not smell bad. 376 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 1: That's an interesting point. Yet, Now he did smoke cigarettes 377 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,160 Speaker 1: from both ends, so was it completely healthy? 378 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 2: I think everybody smoked cigarettes, and I think that was 379 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 2: just a rite of passage for being French. 380 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: It would be abnormal not to at this point in history, right, 381 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: And it's true his expellations really did not generate a 382 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 1: noticeably terrible smell. And just to clarify as the Grand Final, 383 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,400 Speaker 1: when he's playing the songs, he has an ocarina attached 384 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: to the end of a hose and he plays through 385 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 1: the ocarina and the audience sings along with him, a 386 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: little bit of crowd work at the end. 387 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 2: And he's a real seasoned pro. 388 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,199 Speaker 1: And he gets an exclusive contract with mulin Rouge. Did 389 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: we mention that part? 390 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 2: No, I just said it was a contract, but yeah, 391 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 2: exclusive is right. And it caused him a little bit 392 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 2: of trouble because he, I think, did a piece of 393 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 2: his act like on the street for somebody, or like 394 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 2: a private fart serenade, Yeah, to promote a friend's new 395 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 2: business in eighteen ninety five, and that did not go 396 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 2: over well with the proprietars of the mulon Rouge. 397 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, the owner of the theater sued him for breach 398 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 1: of contract because of this public serenade. His contract allowed 399 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: him only to do this sort of performative farting. It's 400 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:36,360 Speaker 1: a weird term, performative farting in the mulin Rouge theater itself. 401 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: And this might make the owner of the theater sound 402 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:44,719 Speaker 1: like a real pill. But it's important to note for context. 403 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: At the time of this lawsuit, Le pental Mount is 404 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:54,400 Speaker 1: the highest paid entertainer in the entirety of France. He's 405 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: like the Michael Jordan of professional farting. That's twenty thousand 406 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 1: for some of his higher performing shows. And that's not 407 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: per year, that's a single show. And again that's way 408 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: back in the late eighteen hundreds. 409 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually off. Mike tried to run this through 410 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 2: the handy dandy inflation calculator, but it could not crunch 411 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 2: the numbers this time, the timeframe and the currency exchange 412 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 2: was a little too much for the inflation calculator to crunch. 413 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: Old Flady can't win them all, but the inflation calculator 414 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:36,199 Speaker 1: will return in future episodes. You have our word. So 415 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: he gets sued by the owner of the Mulan Rouge, 416 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 1: and he doesn't take this sitting down, because that's not 417 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: part of the act. He instead fights the situation in court. 418 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: But while this is going on, the Mulan Rouge decides 419 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: to replace him with a different performer. 420 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,880 Speaker 2: Now it's really really a rough time. I'm for old 421 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,479 Speaker 2: La Petu Man because they replaced him with a lady 422 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 2: f artist named it was just left. 423 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 3: Me. 424 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, who turned out to be a fraud fatale. 425 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 2: It's right. Yeah, Apparently under her enormous petticoats, she was 426 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,640 Speaker 2: hiding a bellows that was being worked I'm guessing by 427 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 2: her foot or. 428 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: Maybe like thigh master rule. Yeah, but couldn't you see 429 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: that he's moving. 430 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 2: And adding insult to injury. Her act was a one 431 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 2: to one ripoff of his act, and it it. You know, 432 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 2: it was quite a kerfuffle. 433 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was quite a to do for sure. 434 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: No Joseph Parole, not to be defeated, said, you know what, 435 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to open my own theater. God knows I 436 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 1: have the money in the capitol to do so. So 437 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,399 Speaker 1: he opens his own theater and begins working for him himself, 438 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: and for years and years and years he is doing 439 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 1: quite well. He builds up a name, people go to 440 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: see the world famous Le Petromint, and things are rolling 441 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 1: smoothly along until World War One occurs in nineteen fourteen. 442 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,199 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I guess. I guess things just 443 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 2: got kind of dark and people just weren't in the 444 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 2: same mirthful spirits they used to be, where farts would 445 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 2: would make them, you know, have heart attacks in the aisle, 446 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,919 Speaker 2: they were having heart attacks from like serious stuff, like 447 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 2: you know, having bombs dropped on them and things, and 448 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:35,919 Speaker 2: just living in utter fear and terror. 449 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 1: And additionally, his two sons were disabled in World War One. 450 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 1: So he packs up his career as a professional flagelist 451 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 1: and he reopens a bakery, which he was doing at 452 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: the beginning of the story. And guess what he's known for, Noel, 453 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: Is it the brand Muffins? It is the brand Muffins. 454 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: He lives to the ripe old age of eighty eight 455 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 1: years old and expires in nineteen forty five. 456 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, and leaves behind him a legacy of fartestry that 457 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 2: has actually been carried on today by a pretty admittedly 458 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 2: small group. But there is one guy who is carrying 459 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 2: this mantle, and I mean an appearance on the BBC 460 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety seven. He goes by the name of 461 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:38,439 Speaker 2: mister Methane and uses the same technique the whole idea 462 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 2: of inhaling air into the sphincter and pushing it back 463 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 2: out and being able to make different tones. And you 464 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 2: can kind of tell by the way he sticks the 465 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 2: microphone right in his butt and then speaks into it 466 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 2: afterwards that he too has a odorless expulsion. 467 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 1: Well, he certainly certainly presents it as such. An we 468 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: can talk a little bit about the science of this too, 469 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: but first let's let's play a clip of mister Methane 470 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 1: if we've got one handy. 471 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, this clip was banned from the 472 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 2: BBC on the grounds of bad taste. According to this 473 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 2: this YouTube clip here, you'd be the judge, a man 474 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 2: a mud party of my hatstead. Still, somebody told me 475 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,159 Speaker 2: his name was phil. 476 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:36,880 Speaker 3: O my hot stead. Still his name was phil. 477 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 2: And when just just set the tone. And this guy 478 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 2: is wearing green spandex a with a purple cape and 479 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 2: a green little face mask, and that is mister Methane 480 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 2: and Frank Skinner performing did Run Run, which is backed 481 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 2: by the band the Skinnerettes, for BBC Television nine ninety seven, 482 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 2: but apparently it did not make it to air. I 483 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 2: want to confirm that, but that is what I'm reading here. 484 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: He is not for the record singing. He is just 485 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: providing the the wind for this. Praised as a true genius, 486 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 1: a huge star by Howard Stern. He's appeared on numerous 487 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: different programs, not just the BBC, but he's on Francis 488 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: Scott Talent, Britain Scott Talent. Simon Cowell called him a disgusting. 489 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 2: Creature, did in fact call then that's true. 490 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: But he also mister Methane, not Simon, got to the 491 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: German version of the show Dos Super Talent. He made 492 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: it to the semi finals. The winner was actually a dog. 493 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 2: You know, the Germans are into that stuff. 494 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 1: You can read the entire story from his perspective at 495 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: his website, which is still up mister Methane dot com. 496 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 2: He also has a Facebook page where he has six 497 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 2: and ninety five likes. So, you know, an admittedly niche talent, 498 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 2: but very much you know, carrying on the torch of 499 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 2: you know, past heroes like Roland the fartr and La 500 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 2: pate Main. 501 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: And since we promised it in the beginning, we can 502 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: go ahead. While while we're on the subject of farts, 503 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: tell you the world's oldest joke. It has been traced 504 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:31,960 Speaker 1: back to nineteen hundred BCE, and it is Samerian. These 505 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: the s Marians lived and was now southern Iraq. And 506 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: here it goes. Tell us if you think it still 507 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: translates something which has never occurred since time immemorial, semi colon. 508 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: Here a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap. 509 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 1: That's it, that's the joke. 510 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't I don't understand. 511 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 1: I don't get it either. It feels like maybe there's 512 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: some social commentary that applied more to that time than 513 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 1: it does the twenty eighteen. But it's it's neat that 514 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: the world's oldest joke is a fart joke. I suppose, Yeah, yeah, 515 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: you said you like fart humor. 516 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 2: I just don't think. I don't know. I would rather 517 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 2: hear hear a fart than that joke. 518 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: And someone who did not like poop humor. This might 519 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: surprise some of us to learn, was Le Petelm himself. 520 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: He did not want to denigrate or diminish the quality 521 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: of his artistry and impressions. 522 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a fartiste. He had been working on 523 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 2: this craft for many years. I don't even think we 524 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 2: said that that from the time he found out about 525 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 2: his talent to the time he actually graced the stage 526 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 2: for the first time. He had been like working on 527 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 2: this stuff for like five years or something, and you know, 528 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 2: work shopping him. 529 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, picture him staying up late night at the bakery 530 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 1: just humming songs to himself and trying to figure out 531 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: where he could slip the right fart in. And you know, no, 532 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 1: I think this was a pretty good one. This is 533 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 1: this is some fascinating stuff. I gotta speak up in 534 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: defense of farts though. 535 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 2: I wonder how many times we said the word fart 536 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 2: in this episode. 537 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: Well, we've certainly said the word more often than hopefully 538 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: either of us have actually farted during this recording. 539 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, man, didn't you have a stat 540 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 2: about how often in a day people fart and they 541 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 2: don't even realize it. It's not like they're like big, 542 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 2: you know, boisterous ones. It's just like that kind of 543 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 2: regulation of your gas. 544 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I said in the top of the show, 545 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: it's about a leader to one point five leaders of 546 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: gas per day, and most people will tend to fart 547 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 1: on average about thirteen to twenty one times. 548 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 2: So we're all on this together. 549 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 1: We're all in this together. And as I was setting 550 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 1: up in defense of farts, if you ever feel guilty 551 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: for laying a particular stinker, remember your farts are going 552 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 1: to be manufactured by the bacteria that lives within your body. 553 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 1: About seventy five percent of your farts are created in 554 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: your lower intestine, not by you. So the true culprit 555 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 1: of a smelly fart is not you, but your bacteria. 556 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 1: And that's why le petalumint and other professional flatulists don't 557 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: have that smell because they're taking in air from outside 558 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 1: and then expelling it. 559 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,400 Speaker 2: But you're saying that the legit way. It's not even 560 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 2: your fault because you're really just farting your farts farts. 561 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 1: Right, which leads us to a bigger question, who or 562 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 1: what are we farting inside of? 563 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 2: Let us know what you think. You can write to 564 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,960 Speaker 2: us at Ridiculous at HowStuffWorks dot com. You can check 565 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 2: us out on Facebook and Instagram, or we are Ridiculous 566 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 2: History and we should thank everybody. 567 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd also like to before we go to our 568 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 1: thank you's issue a clarification. Previously we had attributed to 569 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: episodes to our research associate, Christopher hasiotis Christopher being the 570 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,200 Speaker 1: stand up, great guy that he is, wrote to us 571 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: off air to point out that those previous two episodes 572 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 1: were actually the work of our research associate, Eve's Jeffcoat, 573 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 1: and you can find more of Eve's work over at 574 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 1: the Afropunk Solution Sessions show, as well as stuff Mom 575 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 1: Never Told You So do tune in check those out. 576 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 1: Thanks of course to super producer Casey Pegrim, thanks to 577 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: Alex Williams who wrote this track, and thanks to you, Noel, 578 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 1: always a pleasure. 579 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:27,839 Speaker 2: You're welcome, Ben goodbye. 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