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00:00:30No more farts!
00:00:52When she farts it's always funny, even if it smells.
00:00:59When I fart, it's only sometimes funny, depending on a lot of factors.
00:01:05But when the dog farts it can be hilarious, to downright goddamn dangerous.
00:01:12That air is toxic, better hold your breath.
00:01:18Dog farts!
00:01:21How unfortunate, oh.
00:01:23Dog farts!
00:01:24Someone open a window.
00:01:26Dog farts!
00:01:27I think he woke himself up with that one.
00:01:33I thought, at last, somebody's making a film about farting.
00:01:37It's been a long time coming.
00:01:38Well, I have to say, at first when you said that you were going to do a documentary on
00:01:42farting, and I thought, oh my, yeah.
00:01:46The first thing I said was, how can I be a part of this?
00:01:49Dog farts!
00:01:50How can a creature so little?
00:01:52Dog farts!
00:01:54Make her smell so huge?
00:01:56Because it's a very interesting subject, and underexplored.
00:02:01And it's worthy of closer attention.
00:02:05I'm now going to warm up my sphincter muscle with a bit of classical music.
00:02:12Right, well, my name is, do you want my real name or both names?
00:02:16Real name is Paul Oldfield.
00:02:21But my alter ego, because like any superhero, I need an alter ego when I
00:02:27perform my superhuman abilities.
00:02:35So I metamorphosize into Mr. Methane.
00:02:40How do you prepare yourself before you perform?
00:02:44I've been upstairs in the dressing room doing lots of stretches and warm-ups.
00:02:49And I've been tensing using the abdominals, so we're now fully relaxed.
00:02:54OK, I see.
00:02:56They say in Spain and Brazil, Senor Metano.
00:03:01OK, so what kind of activity are we going to see first?
00:03:05First of all, I've got a little bit of fine talcum powder, and I'm going to
00:03:11sprinkle a little bit on my bottom so people can actually see that I am
00:03:16breaking wind.
00:03:17OK, so it's not a fake?
00:03:19That's exactly, because obviously people sat at home...
00:03:29These people over here, they've got what we call the ringside seats.
00:03:37OK.
00:03:39OK.
00:03:40A little bit of talc on the bottom.
00:03:43There we go.
00:03:44Like that.
00:03:45OK.
00:03:46Is it... I haven't got a rear-view mirror, is the...
00:03:49It looks very nice.
00:03:50Is it well covered?
00:03:51OK.
00:03:52Yes, it's fantastic.
00:03:53Here we go.
00:03:55In Australia, I...
00:03:56Down under, I hold the record for the most amount of complaints
00:04:00to a television show.
00:04:02From five.
00:04:03OK.
00:04:04Five, four, three, two, one...
00:04:07HE BLOWS A RASPBERRY
00:04:10APPLAUSE
00:04:22All right.
00:04:23Very good.
00:04:26Can you guess where this comes from?
00:04:31MrMethane.com
00:04:34Obviously, there is a Mr Methane website out there,
00:04:38because if you're not on the web now, that's it, you're not in business.
00:04:42So, I've got a website, MrMethane.com.
00:04:45MrMethane.com
00:04:54The world's windiest website.
00:05:02Lovely, lovely.
00:05:09What is your background?
00:05:11My background field is actually American literature,
00:05:14but I developed an interest in American humour.
00:05:17I run the creative writing programme here,
00:05:19and I teach a module on how to write humour.
00:05:22I've been farting, I happen to know.
00:05:24It features throughout the history of humour.
00:05:27I mean, I did a project a few years back
00:05:29where I went in search of the oldest joke in the world.
00:05:33You can't actually find the oldest joke in the world,
00:05:36but the oldest joke that I could find, the oldest recorded joke,
00:05:39in other words, the oldest one-liner, if you like,
00:05:43is actually a fart joke.
00:05:55Jim Dawson is my name, and I write books.
00:05:58I write books on... mainly non-fiction books.
00:06:02Well, farting was, you know, it was a fairly unexplored topic
00:06:06back in 1997 and 1998 when I wrote Who Cut The Cheese?
00:06:12Who cut the cheese?
00:06:14And when I pitched it to my agent, he was extremely happy.
00:06:18He says, I think we can sell this book.
00:06:20It seems to be, as far as its humour is potential,
00:06:23it seems to be fairly ubiquitous, I think,
00:06:26you know, across cultures and throughout, you know, history.
00:06:30So the oldest recorded joke is a fart joke,
00:06:35and fart jokes have featured in jest books throughout the ages.
00:06:40It's about 4,000 years old.
00:06:43I'll tell you that joke if you want to hear it.
00:06:45Yeah, I do. Go ahead. I'd like to hear it.
00:06:47It's not... Don't expect too much of it.
00:06:49No, it's 4,000 years old.
00:06:51Exactly, and it's, like all humour, it's context-dependent, I suppose.
00:06:55But it goes...
00:06:56Something that's never been known since time immemorial
00:07:00is a young lady who didn't break wind in her husband's embrace.
00:07:05Now, you're not laughing, are you?
00:07:07No.
00:07:08That's usually the response I get.
00:07:10Well, first of all, there's the sound of it.
00:07:14The sounds, all the funny little things that come out of it.
00:07:21Because they produce an embarrassing noise,
00:07:25many people...
00:07:26Try to hide?
00:07:27Yeah.
00:07:32Wow, this is awesome!
00:07:33All right, here we go, here we go.
00:07:40Wow.
00:07:56CLASSICAL MUSIC
00:08:11When would you like to start discussing the said subject?
00:08:18Come down, ladies, bring it on.
00:08:22No, it is not. You fart anywhere.
00:08:24You fart anywhere, in front of everybody.
00:08:31I should be able to fart any time I want.
00:08:36For God's sake.
00:08:42I suppose you don't expect women to fart, do you?
00:08:44Of course, we have the same pipe working, you do.
00:08:47So, what about in the States?
00:08:49Is there a different attitude to farting?
00:08:54And once it gets to the stomach...
00:09:00Yeah, have you ever heard of anybody lining a belch?
00:09:05Well, that's because it doesn't come out of your...
00:09:07Seriously, it's two different dances.
00:09:09Lining a belch.
00:09:10Lining a belch.
00:09:11Lining a belch.
00:09:12Seriously, it's two different dances.
00:09:16Probably wasn't funny for the first caveman that farted on a fire.
00:09:25I'm just saying.
00:09:30Anyway, going back to the basis of farting,
00:09:33it's a metabolic process, quite natural.
00:09:37So why do people find it obnoxious?
00:09:40The thing is, it's a bit like smoking, isn't it?
00:09:42When you smoke, you affect other people.
00:09:45And when you fart, you can affect other people.
00:09:47No, I think it's a problem of education.
00:09:49Just people's society has established
00:09:52that you don't do this thing in front of people and that's it.
00:09:55But there are some people that do it.
00:09:57Because men like noises.
00:10:01Or reactions.
00:10:02And I have to wait to expect...
00:10:05Expect is the word.
00:10:06I have to expect that my fart will be a silent one.
00:10:09So nobody hears it.
00:10:12That's when your cheeks start to bulge.
00:10:20I get really upset about this.
00:10:22Honestly.
00:10:23Do you want equal rights to fart?
00:10:25Of course.
00:10:26This is for all my ladies out there
00:10:28who have a problem with their gas.
00:10:34Contrary to what they would have you believe,
00:10:36girls do fart.
00:10:38Fart is the bodily function of passing intestinal gas,
00:10:42also known as flatus,
00:10:44through the anus.
00:10:45Have you heard of Mr Methane?
00:10:47No.
00:10:48The gentleman that does the...
00:10:50He's a professional farter.
00:10:52Do you know of any professional farters?
00:10:55No.
00:10:56No, but do you know who might pay him?
00:11:00Oh, really?
00:11:01Well, they've been around, I think,
00:11:03professional farters for a number of years, haven't they?
00:11:08Yes.
00:11:15Because, you know, in France, for example,
00:11:17in the late 19th century,
00:11:19one of the top stars in Paris
00:11:23was a guy named Lepetit Mane,
00:11:25whose act at the Moulin Rouge was farting.
00:11:29Lepetit Mane.
00:11:32Well, Lepetit Mane, his real name was Josie Pujol,
00:11:35and he performed at the Pink Windmill,
00:11:37the Moulin Rouge in Paris,
00:11:40where the famous can-can dancers perform.
00:11:44And he was the highest-paid act.
00:11:46He grossed more than the pop stars of the day,
00:11:49which were the opera singers,
00:11:51and he performed a fart show.
00:11:53Even back in the days, in Roman days,
00:11:57there was a Lepetit Mane character then.
00:12:01Beyond that, it's very difficult to get the actual facts.
00:12:05And he could suck wind into his anus,
00:12:08and then he could expel it at will, you know,
00:12:12and he had such control over his sphincter
00:12:15that he could imitate musical instruments,
00:12:19animals, birds,
00:12:21and he will often add, my mother-in-law.
00:12:25So you get this thing,
00:12:27you don't know how much it's become Hollywoodized, if you like,
00:12:32you know, how much it's been pumped up for the movie.
00:12:37And it's, I suppose,
00:12:41it's difficult to know how,
00:12:44it's difficult to get to the bottom of it, really.
00:12:47I would say that's the problem.
00:12:49And for a couple of years,
00:12:51they would actually have medical people in attendance
00:12:56because women, especially with their corsets,
00:13:00they would go into these hysterics over this guy.
00:13:03It was so funny that they couldn't catch their breath
00:13:07and they would be passing out,
00:13:09and so these people would rush up
00:13:12and, I guess, loosen their corsets.
00:13:14But he was extremely funny,
00:13:17and even today there are people who are still doing that,
00:13:21like Mr. Methane over in England.
00:13:27I know that I can do it,
00:13:29so therefore I know that Le Petit Mane existed,
00:13:32and I don't think the tale came out of nowhere.
00:13:37You know, there's enough people who actually recounted this tale,
00:13:42and it has become folklore.
00:13:44Maybe some of his abilities were a bit, if you like, trumped up.
00:13:48But still, even though the French would laugh at farting,
00:13:53you know, it wasn't something that was socially acceptable.
00:13:56In fact, I was unable to find any sort of culture
00:13:59where it was truly accepted as just, you know,
00:14:02oh yeah, yeah, fart, you know, yeah, sure, that's okay.
00:14:05farting
00:14:13farting
00:14:22farting
00:14:24And Japan even, you know, even had a guy that did that,
00:14:28and there was a famous scroll,
00:14:30which I talk about in Who Cut the Cheese,
00:14:33and it told the story, this goes back about maybe 300 or 400 years or so.
00:14:38You know, even in Japanese society, you know, farting was funny.
00:14:44In some places, like there were some African countries
00:14:49where if you farted in front of the wrong person, you could be killed.
00:14:59John Wyckoff, and the degree is D.O.
00:15:02Flatulence, in the purest sense, is gas that's made in the intestines,
00:15:06usually from the digestion of food by various bacteria and organisms.
00:15:10I don't know why people get so embarrassed about farting.
00:15:13After all, it's a natural process, isn't it?
00:15:20Some people say they get some bloating and distension in the abdomen,
00:15:25and that can be relieved by flatulence.
00:15:28Sometimes people try to hold in the flatulence,
00:15:31and that can cause them discomfort.
00:15:33You know, if it's a bodily function, there's cause and effect,
00:15:36so something causes it, something causes gas to build up,
00:15:39something causes gas to release, okay?
00:15:41It's a chemical reaction.
00:15:43Nothing serious is going to happen by not passing flatulence.
00:15:46Okay, so it's not bad for you, then, to hold?
00:15:48No, it's more it's going to cause discomfort.
00:15:51But you're not going to explode or have any problems like that.
00:15:57There are a number of theories of humour,
00:16:00and you can theorise farting relative to all of them, really.
00:16:06It's a taboo, I suppose.
00:16:08So Freud would say it has comic potential
00:16:11because it's one of those things that we repress.
00:16:14It was difficult to... Just excuse me a minute.
00:16:18Oh, excuse me. I just...
00:16:20It was difficult to actually...
00:16:24That's a bit... Actually, I shouldn't have done that.
00:16:27Two, one...
00:16:31Well, farting is... We all do it.
00:16:33Farting is something that...
00:16:35It's very, very funny for, you know, young children.
00:16:39Once you reach a certain age
00:16:41and you're supposed to grow up and grow out of childish humour...
00:16:45Fart four, fart five, fart six,
00:16:49fart five, fart 11, fart 12.
00:16:54I think that the younger generations
00:16:59tend to be more open with a lot of things
00:17:04than when I was coming up.
00:17:06I mean, it's just a totally different environment.
00:17:09For them, it's somewhat... Everything's about humour.
00:17:13So, yeah, it's more accepted because of the humorous aspect of it.
00:17:17You were talking about the 16-year-old that stays in the household.
00:17:21It's about funny, whereas before it was about where you were at
00:17:26and if it was proper based upon who was around you.
00:17:30And now that's irrelevant.
00:17:33We are mentally, emotionally, intellectually...
00:17:38We are the same.
00:17:41A point he rather inadvertently proved
00:17:44through an unexpected story about gas.
00:17:47When in aeroplane, sometimes this gas problem comes.
00:17:52Then, you see, difficult to let out.
00:17:58So occasionally, you see, look around.
00:18:01Then, like that.
00:18:03LAUGHTER
00:18:09Now, are you the kind of person that laughs at the general fart joke?
00:18:13I laugh at fart jokes and I laugh at farting.
00:18:15Right.
00:18:16I laugh in situations where people fart.
00:18:18Because, as I say, it always has the potential to be funny.
00:18:22There are a variety of reasons why that's the case, I think.
00:18:25Hi, I'm Mr Safety, and today I'm going to teach you
00:18:28how to hide your farts in public.
00:18:30We've got a tennis player called John Newcombe,
00:18:33and it's his birthday today,
00:18:37so why don't we say, you celebrate...
00:18:40It's great, I said, I'll fart happy birthday.
00:18:43I said, and then I've got some candles,
00:18:46we'll put them on the cake and we'll blow them out.
00:18:48And that was very nice, and...
00:18:53You are still going, I can hear you.
00:18:55I'm ready, yes.
00:18:56We're going to celebrate, this is for the people at home
00:18:59and people in the audience who may have a birthday.
00:19:06We're going to blow the birthday cake, the candles out.
00:19:10OK. One at a time.
00:19:18Just down there, Harald.
00:19:20OK.
00:19:21One.
00:19:24Two.
00:19:27Three.
00:19:28Is this the last one? Yes.
00:19:30Make a wish. OK.
00:19:34And apparently afterwards, the switchboard at Channel 9,
00:19:37it was a meltdown.
00:19:39It's a surprising sight anyway, but it's surprising when it comes out
00:19:42of somewhere you're not expecting it to come out of.
00:19:45Everybody does it, yet most people are ashamed to fart.
00:19:49Most people don't even like to talk about it,
00:19:51they think it's pretty gross.
00:19:54Here at Jokestrap, we think farting's pretty hilarious.
00:20:02You know what? It's not just us.
00:20:04A bunch of my friends think farts are funny.
00:20:06That's probably because all your friends are in junior high school.
00:20:10You know, sometimes you've just got to let it rip.
00:20:13And then I get scared to death that she's going to walk in my office.
00:20:18I think so.
00:20:19I think so.
00:20:20I mean, I think it's like with any type of socially maybe less than
00:20:24acceptable symptom, it's not something that people readily discuss.
00:20:35My kids.
00:20:37Yeah.
00:20:38My husband.
00:20:40My husband.
00:20:42My mom.
00:20:46And my dad.
00:20:47And my dad.
00:20:48Tolerated at home, but not in public.
00:20:50And not at the dinner table, that was a big thing.
00:20:55Just say eventually, you know, you learn your boundaries
00:20:58and other people's boundaries, and you're like, alright, I'm not...
00:21:02As soon as you're done eating, it's a fair game.
00:21:05Right.
00:21:06Because usually food creates that.
00:21:10Me and a co-worker, we were at that comfortable level
00:21:12where we would fart around each other,
00:21:14and they would often make me go back and hide in the ATM room to fart
00:21:18because they were smelly and didn't want me to do it out
00:21:22where the customers would come in.
00:21:24So I don't know what I did to her, but ticked her off somehow.
00:21:28So we were down opening a safe where you had to have two people,
00:21:31so she did her part, and then I went down to do my part,
00:21:34and her butt was right by my head, and she farts,
00:21:37and you can, like, feel it on your face.
00:21:40It was the most disgusting thing I've ever experienced in my life.
00:21:44I've never had somebody actually fart on my head until that point,
00:21:48and I'm hoping that's the last time.
00:21:51That's not normal in workplaces, and it shouldn't be.
00:22:15Have you, in present or past relationships,
00:22:18farted in front of your other half?
00:22:22Yep. Yep.
00:22:24Oh, my gosh, yes.
00:22:26Farting is one of those things that is a sign of a good relationship,
00:22:30I think, isn't it?
00:22:31Our first five years we dated, he didn't fart at all.
00:22:34If you can fart in front of one another...
00:22:36We got married, he farted for a whole frickin' week.
00:22:40He farted for a whole frickin' week.
00:22:42There's a lovely homey quality to the relationship,
00:22:46and, you know, it's a positive thing, isn't it?
00:22:49After five years, you changed your mind and felt good to go?
00:22:54No.
00:22:55No, OK.
00:22:56Started eating her food.
00:22:58Seriously, no, women don't suppose to fart.
00:23:02Why not?
00:23:03Well, I don't know, it's the way he was brought up,
00:23:07it's very, I don't know, who told you that?
00:23:11Oh.
00:23:12It maybe bothers you if a woman, because a woman is more delicate.
00:23:17Ladylike.
00:23:18Ladylike, but then we have to put a cork in there.
00:23:23I have a crazy story, I don't even know why I'm admitting this,
00:23:27but I was dating a man,
00:23:31and we were at a hotel,
00:23:34and I felt the fart coming on,
00:23:37and I grabbed the blanket and I pulled it up and I stuffed it in,
00:23:43and it was the worst thing I ever could have done.
00:23:46I don't know whether the acceptability of family farting
00:23:50varies much from family to family.
00:23:52I guess it must, I mean, I'm sure the Queen and Prince Philip
00:23:57don't sit there watching TV at night ripping them off, do they?
00:24:04Sort of call the butler to bring the air freshener in, will you?
00:24:07Maybe they do, I don't know.
00:24:09The poor guy got to bed and he said,
00:24:11what are you trying to do, kill me?
00:24:13I couldn't be with somebody that didn't think
00:24:15that was the funniest thing in the whole wide world.
00:24:17I grew up with my parents having farting contests.
00:24:19They would start at the top of the stairs and see who could go down
00:24:22and who could keep farting down the line.
00:24:24That's how I grew up, so I can't, people that don't think it's funny.
00:24:27Did you have to eat a special meal before you did that, or?
00:24:30Well...
00:24:32The cousins, we all have special foods that we would eat
00:24:35and have farting contests with.
00:24:37Growing up, it was not something that was easily talked about.
00:24:42It was kind of said to be something that you didn't want to do in public.
00:24:47HE SIGHS
00:24:49FARTING
00:24:51LAUGHTER
00:24:55FARTING
00:25:00FARTING
00:25:05FARTING
00:25:09FARTING
00:25:13FARTING
00:25:17FARTING
00:25:25CHEERING
00:25:27Yeah, the people, like my best friend in the world
00:25:30does not think that it's funny, so it's twice as funny to me.
00:25:33So I try to lock out the windows and I'm like,
00:25:36oh, did you, oh, guess what?
00:25:39I had the exact opposite upbringing.
00:25:42You know, my dad was all about farting and, you know,
00:25:46he would drive around in the car, he's a classic rock fan,
00:25:49and he would always try to fart to the tunes,
00:25:52and when Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple was on,
00:25:56and that's like his shining moment
00:25:58when he perfectly just released a fart to Smoke on the Water.
00:26:02It was amazing.
00:26:07Your story is completely different from mine growing up
00:26:11because I didn't fart as a child.
00:26:14What did you do?
00:26:16I had four brothers and a sister, and if they would say,
00:26:19Lord, did you fart today? I would say no.
00:26:22Because I was so completely embarrassed by it.
00:26:25I think it's absolutely hilarious
00:26:27because usually women are so prim and proper,
00:26:30and, you know, it's not prim and proper for a lady to cut one.
00:26:34But yeah, I think it's the most hilarious thing when you see them do it.
00:26:38It's just that, you know, you've got to be open to allow it,
00:26:42and when women do it, it's hilarious.
00:26:45Because, you know, it's oops!
00:26:47You don't always expect it.
00:26:49Oh, yeah, that's always the cover of oops, oh, I'm so sorry.
00:26:52You know, for guys, it's like, hey, it happened.
00:26:55In the most basic sense, it's funny,
00:26:57but it's not funny when you're taught by society
00:27:00that it is something you shouldn't do, especially women.
00:27:03You shouldn't do that.
00:27:05Men can do that in the gym or in the locker room or whatever,
00:27:09but women don't do that.
00:27:11Polite ladies don't do that at the dinner table.
00:27:14Other than your family. I know!
00:27:16My dad's the same way.
00:27:18Oh, it's not going to smell
00:27:20and just releases the most disgusting fart you've ever heard
00:27:23and then just keeps the window up.
00:27:25It's like, come on, have some respect.
00:27:27Oh, yeah, the sulfur from the eggs.
00:27:30We used to do the whole, we'd eat my aunt's broccoli salad,
00:27:34deviled eggs, and my aunt's baked beans,
00:27:37and then we would all go lock ourselves in our bunkhouse
00:27:41and go to town.
00:27:43Yeah, my boys, you know, have fart contests all the time.
00:27:47Yeah, so there's a lot of gas.
00:27:49laughs
00:27:51Lots and lots of gas.
00:27:53Well, my 16-year-old, him and his buddy, we were staying at,
00:27:57we got a hotel room, and I told them, because they are horrible,
00:28:02I don't even know what they eat.
00:28:04My sister's all about gender equality now,
00:28:07so everybody's allowed to fart, I guess.
00:28:09Still do that, but it has to be in jest.
00:28:11I mean, you can't really be disgusted by anything that they do
00:28:15because then you're not in relationship the way that you should be.
00:28:19First date, I'm not going to do it.
00:28:21I would probably laugh about it.
00:28:23It's definitely not a game changer.
00:28:25It's not a mood kill?
00:28:27No, it could be, depending on what mood you're in.
00:28:30We were over at the lake, and it was Christmas time,
00:28:33and my dad was being so sweet, and he said,
00:28:35why don't you give me the keys to the car,
00:28:37and I'll go scrape off your windows, and I'll warm it up for you.
00:28:40I was like, that's so nice.
00:28:42And so I did.
00:28:44I gave him the keys to the car and stuff,
00:28:46and when I went out there, he had not only scraped it,
00:28:49but had turned the heat on high
00:28:51and had repeatedly farted in there for a good 20 minutes,
00:28:54and I smelled that all the way home.
00:28:56Well, one time he did this big adult fart, like...
00:29:02Where were you?
00:29:04Well, we were just in the car driving somewhere.
00:29:08Driving is a big issue in our family
00:29:11because we took a lot of road trips,
00:29:13and they want you to hear it, and they want you to smell it.
00:29:16So there's no, I'm going to roll the window down,
00:29:18even if you can't hear it, because I'm going to wait for you to smell it.
00:29:21And my sister was always the one who would be sleeping in the back seat,
00:29:24and then all of a sudden it's like, come on,
00:29:26you have to roll the window down, you're waking her up.
00:29:29Sometimes when we're in the car...
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00:29:35As oil gets scarcer, gasoline gets more expensive,
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00:29:48So what's the answer?
00:29:50How about a car that's good looking,
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00:29:53and runs on clean, environmentally responsible natural gas?
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00:29:59There's probably 10 kids in the back of my friend Sarah's mother's truck,
00:30:04and somebody did it, and we didn't know who did it.
00:30:07And it was probably a 10-minute drive from the church to the house.
00:30:11So the whole way home, it was just the kids back and forth
00:30:14and back and forth and back and forth.
00:30:16And it was you, I know it was you, and there was a lot of boys in the car,
00:30:19and everybody was just arguing to the point of getting really angry.
00:30:22And finally her mother said, would you just shut up, it was me!
00:30:26And we all just stopped.
00:30:28Like, wait a minute, that's a mom, that wasn't supposed to happen.
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00:30:57If something slipped out at dinner in the car or something,
00:30:59I would laugh about it, and I would probably,
00:31:03it would make me feel like they were comfortable enough to do it.
00:31:07I'm not going to never call somebody again because they farted.
00:31:12So you wouldn't be judgmental about it?
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00:31:54No, I think the worst place is a funeral.
00:31:57No, I think it's fine.
00:31:59If you could do it with your partner wherever you're at.
00:32:02Oh, that would just ruin it for me.
00:32:04Well, it's not exceptionally funeral.
00:32:07It's a funeral.
00:32:09No, I think it's fine.
00:32:11If you could do it with your partner wherever you're at.
00:32:14Oh, that would just ruin it for me.
00:32:16Well, it's not exactly sexy, but I mean, not everything
00:32:19about that encounter is always, is it?
00:32:21Sometimes it's funny, so you know.
00:32:23In TV shows, movies, you don't really see the women
00:32:26in the fart jokes.
00:32:28I guess Bridesmaids had a scene with farting and diarrhea
00:32:32that was, I thought, one of the funniest scenes in the movie.
00:32:36Playing up on the social idea
00:32:38that women are not supposed to fart makes it funnier.
00:32:41Why is it that men find it funnier than women?
00:32:44Do they?
00:32:46It is a man's thing, and we find it funny
00:32:48that the women don't like it.
00:32:50Do you think women laugh at fart jokes as much as men?
00:32:53Yes, especially if it's men doing it.
00:32:56Or somebody in a very proper situation
00:32:59that you just know would mortify you to death,
00:33:02but it's not you, so you get to laugh.
00:33:04It's on the other foot, I've often thought about this,
00:33:07you know, if a woman farted, you know,
00:33:10then it's a massive turn-off for a guy, you know what I mean?
00:33:13It's like, ooh, you know.
00:33:15There's always one that, if you're going to do it,
00:33:17take the credit for it.
00:33:19It does not excuse him for holding the blankets
00:33:22over my head at night.
00:33:24Yeah, holding the covers down, we call that the Dutch oven.
00:33:27My mom doesn't really make any farts.
00:33:30Is she the silent type?
00:33:32Yep, and then, um, and then she, um...
00:33:37Well, we always say her farts smell like roses,
00:33:41because they don't.
00:33:43Is that what she tells you to say?
00:33:47With no-one else to frame, I take the blame
00:33:50You can't believe it's been me the whole time
00:33:54Trotting gal, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
00:33:58Trotting gal, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
00:34:01I think I farted, I think I farted
00:34:05I think I farted, I think I f-f-f-farted
00:34:10No, no, social acceptance, um...
00:34:14is a difficult one, because even I, as a performing flatulist,
00:34:18understand that.
00:34:20People say to me, hey, don't break wind in here, you know,
00:34:24and I'm like, well, look, I'm a professional, you know,
00:34:27I've got more control than you, so that's rubbish, you know.
00:34:30It's not dinner table subject, except at our dinner table sometimes,
00:34:34but that's just because somebody just did it.
00:34:36We had standards, you weren't supposed to just go into church
00:34:39or something and fart loud and get a high-five for it, but...
00:34:43So you still had to have respect for your surroundings,
00:34:46and especially big public places, and my parents would get embarrassed,
00:34:50or my mom more so than my dad.
00:34:52My dad would give you the high-five down low, but keep it hidden.
00:34:56I can't, I don't know if there's any one story,
00:34:59people talk about having flatulists on airplanes, in job interviews,
00:35:03and the social embarrassment that goes along with it, associated with that.
00:35:07Work or having sex would be the worst.
00:35:10That is when it is not acceptable.
00:35:12I disagree.
00:35:22It came out, and I got more coverage on that
00:35:25and sold more of that than all my other books combined.
00:35:29People, remember this man,
00:35:31because this man will be able to tell you
00:35:34that Mr. Methane does trump from his bottom.
00:35:38Because now, this gentleman is going to place his left ear on my anus,
00:35:45and we're going to fart in his ear.
00:35:48Farting was still a big part of my life,
00:35:51I'm going to place my left ear on my anus,
00:35:54and we're going to fart in his ear.
00:35:57Farting was still fairly taboo in the United States,
00:36:04and they had all these morning zoo programs,
00:36:08and they were looking for an excuse they could find
00:36:11just to say the word fart or to play fart effects on the air.
00:36:17After the book came out in February of 1999,
00:36:19for like the next six months,
00:36:21I was up pretty much every morning around 4 o'clock
00:36:25doing all these morning zoo shows.
00:36:27Oh man, it was just, I was laughing so hard I was crying,
00:36:31but I was totally embarrassed, it was awful.
00:36:34Welcome sir, welcome.
00:36:36Sammy.
00:36:37Welcome Sammy, welcome.
00:36:39Come and put your left ear on my anus, nice and close.
00:36:43Left?
00:36:44Yes please.
00:36:45It's specifically, not the right, the left.
00:36:48The left, the left, the left.
00:36:50This is nothing gay here, this is like men bonding like vikings, okay.
00:36:55Nice and close, nice and close, okay.
00:36:58It does not have teeth, it does not bite.
00:37:01Even closer, closer, here we go.
00:37:04No microphone.
00:37:06No microphone, okay.
00:37:085, 4, 3, 2, 1.
00:37:17But that's the worst part, when you think you have to fart
00:37:20and you're really worried that it might not be a fart.
00:37:25Uh, doo doo.
00:37:31Sammy, Sammy, I want to thank you.
00:37:33That was real.
00:37:36That was definitely real.
00:37:38I'm serious.
00:37:39True.
00:37:40You know, you walk away, that might leave a mark.
00:37:48Sorry about the mess there, wash it off.
00:37:52Doo doo, I just farted again.
00:37:56We're just setting up the competition.
00:37:59I'm just saying.
00:38:00Is that why you go look for a restroom at that point?
00:38:03Too late.
00:38:06That was maybe fart thread in English.
00:38:09What do you think? He tried fart hard.
00:38:12He tried, yes, but you've got to make sure you don't go all the way.
00:38:16You know, it's difficult to get the balance right.
00:38:19Because you can have an accident.
00:38:21Okay.
00:38:22This is my signature look.
00:38:24I think I may have just pooped myself.
00:38:26Like there was a girl that Troy and I work with that came in
00:38:29and she's kind of higher up and she's like,
00:38:32wow, I have a question, I'll serious.
00:38:34And as she opened her mouth to ask the question,
00:38:36her butt opened at the same time.
00:38:38And she just farted all the way through this question and went,
00:38:41oops, I couldn't even focus.
00:38:45I just kind of, and I thought I'm at work, I can't laugh.
00:38:48Because it's not funny at work.
00:38:50I mean, it is funny, but I would never do it at work.
00:38:52And when she laughed, as soon as I knew she got down to her office,
00:38:55I couldn't control myself the rest of the day.
00:38:57The day was over.
00:38:58Like they should have just sent me home.
00:39:01She just said, oh, whoops, and then walked out.
00:39:04Like not even excuse me, but just.
00:39:06I'm like, you just opened your mouth and your butt at the same time.
00:39:09How can you even face me ever again?
00:39:11And being a boy, you know how it was.
00:39:13We just, you got to go, you got to go.
00:39:16Absolutely.
00:39:17So it's a natural human bodily function anyway, so.
00:39:21But it was seen as rude.
00:39:23It was seen as rude, absolutely.
00:39:25The louder you sing, the louder I fall.
00:39:29I do feel in any case, in company, there's a time and a place for the farting.
00:39:34And I don't sort of fart around the dinner table, you know.
00:39:38Unless I really know the people there.
00:39:40And they're comfortable with it.
00:39:42Because I understand that social etiquette.
00:39:44I am ready.
00:39:45Let's start.
00:39:46All together now, let's do it.
00:39:51My name is...
00:39:52Yes, that's exactly what my name is.
00:39:55And today, I give you the history of the whoopee cushion.
00:40:00No, but at my wedding, they tried to put a whoopee cushion on my chair.
00:40:04And my kid thought that was...
00:40:06My uncles are the ones that brought the darn thing.
00:40:09Ready, set.
00:40:13The first known item that resembled a whoopee cushion was used by a Roman emperor by the name of...
00:40:19El Gabalus.
00:40:22And he tried to get me to go sit down and try to, you know, be all nice and leave me by my hand.
00:40:26And, like, he was going to seat his mother and all.
00:40:28And I saw the thing underneath my seat cover.
00:40:31And that blew the whole thing off, all of them.
00:40:33So, I didn't sit on it.
00:40:37This company put the word whoopee on this cushion.
00:40:41Whoopee cushion.
00:40:42And bingo.
00:40:43Then, years later, in the early 1900s,
00:40:46two factory workers who were experimenting with leftover scraps of rubber
00:40:53discovered that if they glued two pieces of rubber together,
00:40:56they could make them farter face.
00:41:02It wasn't the sort of thing that you would put, you know, have a big advertisement in The New Yorker, you know.
00:41:08But the thing caught on, and these were like mail order companies.
00:41:14The owner of Gem Rubber Co., the company where the factory workers worked,
00:41:18took this new item to the marketing geniuses of Samuel Adams,
00:41:23of sneezing powder fame in the early 1900s.
00:41:25But he passed on the product, saying that it was completely and totally undignified.
00:41:30You see them in the back of just a regular magazine, comic book.
00:41:37And ordered, and they would send it to your door.
00:41:39And it became part of our culture.
00:41:43The rubber guy then went to Sam's competitor.
00:41:45That one was silent.
00:41:46The Johnson Smith Company.
00:41:48He sold novelty items such as fake vomit, X-ray goggles, and the buzzing handshaker.
00:41:56I don't even know if people use them as whoopee cushions anymore.
00:41:59I think they buy them just to have it.
00:42:01Just, you know, just showing somebody a whoopee cushion has the effect.
00:42:05He saw the inherent value in the whoopee cushion, and he began marketing it immediately.
00:42:10At which point, Samuel Adams then said, hey, that's a great idea,
00:42:13and made his own version of the whoopee cushion, called the raspberry cushion,
00:42:17which is what the English people call farts.
00:42:20You know, it's like Pavlov's dog at this point.
00:42:26All they have to do is see the thing, and then they laugh.
00:42:51Oh, hello, and welcome to Fart by Mail.
00:42:54You might be asking yourself, what exactly is Fart by Mail?
00:42:57In the back it said, farts just like dad used to make.
00:43:00Oh, that should be good.
00:43:02It's a mail order fart service where we send farts to your friends for you.
00:43:18Your friends also get a stunning, professionally printed, high-gloss, full-color greening card.
00:43:25With a custom message, a heinous odor, and a hilarious fart sound.
00:43:30I peeled something, it said, peel off, it says, smell here.
00:43:32I think I will avoid that at all costs.
00:43:35It smells like real poo.
00:43:38Yeah, I guess that would be from our son.
00:43:43I saw Fart Extinguisher, which had, it was an air freshener, but it was in a little extinguisher bottle.
00:43:50It was very, very clever, quite a practical joke.
00:43:53It would have been a gift to give your father.
00:44:01I saw the Santa fart doll.
00:44:03Oh.
00:44:06On the first day of Christmas, my true love said to me.
00:44:10Santa Claus was saying the night before Christmas, and he'd let it rip, and he'd laugh, and then he'd modify his story a little bit to include it.
00:44:34It was a, yeah, it's a strange thing.
00:44:41I just settled down to take a wig.
00:44:46It's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas.
00:44:53Here comes Santa Claus.
00:45:03You ever notice how opossum taters and chicken fried antlers just go right through you?
00:45:10She'll be coming round, she'll be coming round the mountain, the chicken.
00:45:17I think they normally complain, but are laughing on the inside.
00:45:22No, we're complaining about the smell. That's a whole other thing.
00:45:33Lots of comedy in the UK is actually based around farting, isn't it?
00:45:39Good, yeah, I like the idea. Very good.
00:45:43I think when people on stage get nervous, so the muscle tense is up, so they're unable to fart.
00:45:51So it's very difficult to come up here and fart.
00:45:54When my daughter was little, she'd sit on my lap and she'd fart. Oh, my God.
00:45:57Jaken, you're the king of walking by someone and farting and then leaving. What do we call that?
00:46:03Bingo deal.
00:46:05Crop dusting.
00:46:07Crop dusting.
00:46:13There was a time and a place, though.
00:46:15But my mom and dad, when we'd go to the grocery store, my dad would leave one somewhere for my mom to walk in it and be like...
00:46:23You're walking through the mall or something and you're like, oh, my God, what is that?
00:46:27Because you know it wasn't you, but somebody left that mark and there's no one there.
00:46:31It was that bad that it just kind of sat there for a while.
00:46:44The foul stench of flatulence comes from the bacteria inside our intestines.
00:46:48In the process of converting food into useful nutrients, the bacteria produces a smelly byproduct called hydrogen sulfide gas.
00:46:55Fart generating ingredients include sugar, fiber and starches.
00:46:59What's unusual is how loud or how stinky.
00:47:03That's what sets you apart.
00:47:06I think it's different if you're the donor or the receiver.
00:47:14You know, the odor issue really runs the gamut. It probably relates more to the type of foods that you had to eat.
00:47:19So I don't think odor is something that you can reproducibly or predictably use as an indicator.
00:47:25Certainly a persistent foul odor that's maybe different than the past and continues, maybe of some significance.
00:47:32But for the clinician, it's very hard to use odor as a gauge of what's going on.
00:47:36You know, typically, when you have a loud fart, it doesn't smell.
00:47:41What's worse, noisy or stinky?
00:47:44Oh, stinky.
00:47:46No, it's the smell-noise thing, isn't it?
00:47:49No, the smell is terrible, but if it's not noisy and you don't know who's done...
00:47:53Is this true?
00:47:55Nothing worse than a silent stinker.
00:47:58You know, usually you've got the noisemaker that has no impact,
00:48:02and then those silent but deadly ones that kind of clear the room.
00:48:06He's both, all in one.
00:48:08He's got the best of both worlds?
00:48:09Yeah, he's got, he's both, all in one.
00:48:11This is Albatross, you never know.
00:48:13You never know.
00:48:14And then you come into which is the most obnoxious type. Is it the silent but violent?
00:48:19That's bad.
00:48:20Or the noisy but innocent?
00:48:22Worse, in terms of producing humour, I think noise has more potential to produce humour.
00:48:34As far as what might make me a bit squeamish, I think it's the smell.
00:48:39I don't know if he held it in.
00:48:41You know, the noise is funny, but when it smells so bad, that's just gross.
00:48:47That's a bonus.
00:48:49Well, Jake and Deuce, do your farts reek?
00:48:53No.
00:48:55Really?
00:48:56They really do.
00:48:58I mean, I didn't mind smells associated with farts too much,
00:49:01until I learned that smells are actually produced by physical molecules.
00:49:08Whenever I remember that, whenever I think there's something physical from somebody else's insides in my nostrils,
00:49:16then that tends to make me a bit queasy.
00:49:18Thank you for teaching me that.
00:49:20There's actually particles in the air.
00:49:22Yeah, we know. We don't want to think about it.
00:49:24Are you happy?
00:49:25Yeah, you really are tasting it.
00:49:30The escapee, which takes place when trying to pee at the urinal or forcing him to poop.
00:49:37It's not like he just pooped on him. I mean...
00:49:39Well, sort of. It's in the air.
00:49:41I know. It went on his throat, right?
00:49:44This is almost always followed by an overwhelming sense of shame and embarrassment.
00:49:49If this does take place, remain calm. Pretend it did not happen.
00:49:54If you are in the vicinity of this happening, do not acknowledge.
00:49:57It is uncomfortable for all involved.
00:50:02Well, children absolutely adore farting.
00:50:05Just about every family, no matter how proper they are,
00:50:12has some kind of little expression that they use with the kids.
00:50:17Because everybody farts, and kids fart, and kids find farts funny.
00:50:22So adults have to deal with it in one way or another.
00:50:30So they would have all these expressions, like somebody let Fluffy off the leash.
00:50:38Did somebody step on a duck?
00:50:40And if you've ever farted in the shower, facing away from the shower,
00:50:45you know that when you fart, it makes a quacking sound.
00:50:54When it came time for this third book, that just seemed like a good title.
00:51:03What does your daddy do that stinks?
00:51:05What?
00:51:09Is that funny?
00:51:10And I'm brilliant at making children laugh.
00:51:13If you happen to be on a long-haul flight and there's a child crying,
00:51:18then I can stop them crying. I can make them laugh.
00:51:21And I do it by doing this.
00:51:24Within seconds, they're falling about.
00:51:29There's just something.
00:51:31With adults, it doesn't work quite so well.
00:51:35With children, they love it.
00:51:37There's just something about that scent.
00:51:43My kids like my fart app on my Kindle.
00:51:45They love it.
00:51:46They love it.
00:51:47They love it.
00:51:48They love it.
00:51:49They love it.
00:51:51My kids like my fart app on my Kindle.
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00:52:19Think of it, though. It's a noise that comes out of your butt.
00:52:22How is that not funny?
00:52:24don't say goodbye. I know that most girls try to keep their flatulence and die but I can't lie.
00:52:31I need a man who knows the past, a lot of gas that smells like acid, here to laugh for a bit and
00:52:36give it all. I think about it. I think about it. I think about it. I think about it. I think about
00:52:52it.
00:53:12My kids can't do it without announcing it. They'll do it and of course the whole world
00:53:16hears it. Mom I farted. Really? Yeah. Pull my finger.
00:53:23Well we were on a cruise ship and my sisters and we were all in the elevator. Well the elevator
00:53:30fart. And the elevator door opened and these people were getting in and I said you don't
00:53:34want to come in here. Do not go in there. It was him? Yeah. I don't recall this story.
00:53:43It was in Alaska.
00:53:54Right so what would you say is your most embarrassing fart story?
00:54:02It's embarrassing for the person that does it isn't it sometimes. None of them are embarrassing
00:54:07for me. He just lets it rip. When it's time it's time. I think yes it's obviously embarrassing
00:54:13if you're with complete strangers or people you've just recently met and I think in some
00:54:19circumstances if someone does it's followed by silence and awkward silence. I'm not sure I get
00:54:26embarrassed about farting. One time I had this big fart at Target. In that sense it's not something
00:54:31that I associate with humor in my own life really. I can imagine some very prim and proper
00:54:38situations where the one that did it was probably terribly embarrassed or mortified
00:54:42but everybody around him was just couldn't wait to get outside to bust out laughing you know.
00:54:49Okay and I sure think it's paying off. You guys did an outstanding job.
00:54:53I'm in the parks again. I've got to win again Charlie. I haven't eaten this much citrus fruit
00:54:59in 20 years and I'll tell you one thing in another 12 days I ain't never eating any more.
00:55:05I put them up over the right up in here. They ain't there.
00:55:11All right Houston. Yes sir. Okay I'll dial you when you have my hot mic.
00:55:18All right we had that. Of course if it's people you know or family then
00:55:22somebody will make a witty remark. That's right. If I want to fart I just do.
00:55:31It's not me. I don't fart. If you toot do you blame it on somebody else? No kind of no not really.
00:55:40So you take responsibility for your own farts? Of course I do. How'd you know it was me? We knew.
00:55:49We knew. I don't know what you're hearing but it's not me. Denial.
00:55:56You normally don't raise your hand.
00:56:00That was me. Yes I mean I don't announce it obviously. That was me. That was me.
00:56:11Actually sometimes I do announce it but it depends on the company. I guess sometimes I you know I
00:56:16sneak them out the same as everybody else does. Originally when I started obviously I discovered
00:56:27this ability to breathe with the bottom end. I'm just going to give you one for level.
00:56:33That was George Michael.
00:56:45Careless whisper. I was introduced by Kelsey Grammer, Fraser of Cheers.
00:56:51Two. One.
00:56:56You know and he gives a monologue and then he's with a lady actress I think her name was Brett
00:57:04Butler and she says oh that farting guy was awful you know and his anecdote is look it's the first
00:57:11thing we ever laugh at in life and possibly the only thing we can always laugh at. I think you
00:57:19know what's going on here now. Then it becomes less funny and adults who aspire to be more
00:57:28sophisticated and cultured tend to try and distance themselves from that kind of humour
00:57:34but it's like any taboo I suppose. It always has the potential to resurface in humorous ways and
00:57:41so it always tends to have a you know a humorous potential farting but yes I mean it's it's more
00:57:49associating with children and childish humour which is a shame. Swift you know wrote a lot
00:57:58of things about people farting because he saw that as an expression of our basic humanity
00:58:05that we're always trying to cover up and therefore it's always funnier than it really
00:58:10is. Can you say something about the you were in the underground in London with a lot of people?
00:58:16Oh that's right I went to a soccer match football match many years ago and it was
00:58:24absolutely packed you like sardines. This is a Piccadilly line service to Oxbridge. You couldn't
00:58:32move, couldn't move. One of my colleagues from work had been drinking beer, hot dogs, onions,
00:58:41the whole lot. Well anyway halfway along the journey he dropped. The moment I tentatively
00:58:52made this claim to be the world's only performing flatulence. There were moans and you could tell
00:58:58you could actually hear it passing up the coach, the carriage. I'm not so tentative now because I
00:59:05do know there are other flatulence or other people who perform my art. As the complaints
00:59:11moved up the train gosh and nobody could you couldn't escape you couldn't walk away you
00:59:15couldn't do anything it was so it was disgusting. But to actually go out there and perform a show
00:59:22and make a living out of it which I do strangely I still find it bizarre you know
00:59:31and there's times when I try and retire and it's like a calling it pulls me back
00:59:36it pulls me back it says you won't do that no you will go to Japan you know and you will fart
00:59:42on the television on Fuji TV. For the entertainment value of course. Not lots of times but on a few
00:59:52occasions I've had hostile sort of reactions from an audience.
01:00:02Luckily it's not a lot of the time and I've had to sort of say well obviously it's not for you
01:00:07and just wind it up. I think once was a BMW sales conference. I am ready is the orchestra ready?
01:00:15Are you ready?
01:00:19He said come on the show and we'll sing a duet so I came on the show and we sang a duet of
01:00:25I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still.
01:00:32It was a you know it's a piece of classic television.
01:00:38That was it I was never shown on the BBC and by today's standards it's quite mild.
01:00:45But at the time it was just nope no yeah I mean we're going back I think it was
01:00:531997 so you know attitudes were different.
01:01:03And really when I create something it's a labour of love I just take it and reform it
01:01:09but you know it's still a labour of love this is what I do as a job and
01:01:14to me that's a work of art.
01:01:21It's just a fart you know to me all you have to do is fart over it they don't
01:01:26realise what a lot of hard work goes into that farting really.
01:01:31You know I once recorded a version of In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins.
01:01:36I remember.
01:01:38It's a very you know music it's a precious creation it's something they've created so
01:01:44they're very they like to laugh a lot a lot of big artists like the fact that I've done
01:01:51In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins you know but if you turn around to them and say well could we do
01:01:59one of your tracks oh no no no no no no so they like to laugh but it mustn't be spoil their work.
01:02:14I do understand that you know when you create something and it's a work of you know in your
01:02:21eyes that's a work of art it's a labour of love and then a guy comes along and farts all over it.
01:02:28But in this country there have been some big changes since my book came out in 1999
01:02:37when Who Cut The Cheese came out.
01:02:40Of course there were a lot of films by that time that had farting gags and
01:02:44but the LA Times for example would not use that word and then over time I saw that
01:02:52that they start using the word fart in the you know if they were talking about old people you
01:03:00know he's a you know he's an old fart. We're so old we fart dust. And then gradually they would
01:03:08start they would they would quote someone that says something about fart jokes because
01:03:13they're after after a while the idea of fart jokes and films became sort of like a big topic
01:03:19out here because every every comedy had at least one fart joke scene you know and it became sort of
01:03:27a lot you know like the a bad example of comedy you know you know is there can there be at least
01:03:36one comedy film that doesn't have a fart joke in it. But I think a lot of the sort of comedy
01:03:42cowboy movies. Yeah well Blazing Saddles is the classic. If somebody would make a comment like
01:03:48that the LA Times would print it. So gradually they would you know they would the word fart
01:03:55crept into the newspaper and I think that really expresses the overall acceptance that's been going
01:04:01on for the last well let's see what this is 2013 so we're talking about you know if it was 14 years
01:04:09ago. I think generally it's best for people to get them out because there's nothing worse than a
01:04:16cooked one. A lot of humor is shock and shame you know that that's that that's all part of
01:04:27what's funny. We're all on the same road. Yes. With the ultimate goal. That's right. But we're all different
01:04:33travelers. And also same experience of gas. I don't think I'll ever forget this day.
01:04:49Well it reminds us that no matter how high and mighty we may think we are we may think we're
01:04:55part of the we're we're we're part of the angels or something but when it comes down to it we're
01:05:01just like the dogs and the cats you know what you know we we poop and pee and fart just like
01:05:07everybody else like like all the other animals out there.
01:05:19Hey Randy are farts flammable? Yes Ian. Farts are flammable. The proper way to light a fart is to
01:05:26lie on your back with your legs up. Probably more of what I would call one of the internet
01:05:31wives tales. Apparently the hydrogen sulfide that's produced in the bowel has some potential to ignite
01:05:42but I've never heard anyone that's done it but it isn't the realm of possible. Probably good
01:05:47myth busters. Humans fart up to about a half a gallon a day. That's about 15 to 20 farts a day.
01:05:53Some a whole lot more.
01:06:00Human being farts 14 times a day. On average. 14 times a day. Do you know the volume?
01:06:0514 times a day. I don't know. I don't have that. I don't think so. How many cc's of toxic gas?
01:06:13And the mile per hour one is news to me. That very well made true. I'm not sure I'm not sure
01:06:17how you measure that. The 14 I've heard they were from 8 to 20 as being the normal range for most
01:06:23people. Oftentimes you know the flatulence is passed when you're sleeping or in a way that you
01:06:27don't even notice you're passing it but 14 is probably right and 7 miles per hour sounds good
01:06:33to me. I don't I don't know how you measure. Maybe they have a meter, a flat-o-meter or something.
01:06:42Maybe that's it. There's a whole study of flatology so maybe they've studied it. Well that
01:06:49was laid on me. You know people say well can we call you a fartologist and I said well sure
01:06:56and you know and it it it helps sell books I suppose. So what what is the definition of a
01:07:04fartologist I guess? Well a fartologist is somebody who has been studying all the the the the
01:07:12phenomena of farting. When forcing a poop sometimes a fart will take place in a rapid
01:07:17machine gun fashion possibly as a result of drinking too much or of feeling sick.
01:07:24When this happens keep calm and wait until the bathroom is cleared before planning your exit.
01:07:29I don't care anymore. I used to keep it in or I used to go to the bathroom. In our family there
01:07:35was a rating system you know there were there were five of us including the dog and dad was top
01:07:43our daughter was number two stinky then was my son then was the dog then was me because I made
01:07:53the system. The sound the you know the fart sound I believe it's just from the the anal opening the
01:08:00anal sphincter of skin vibrating as the gas is expelled through normal peristalsis. Your colon
01:08:06can contract as it contracts it pushes things through including gas and they can push it through
01:08:12and they can push it through at apparently seven miles per hour so the passage of the gas through
01:08:18the anal opening the anal verge produces a sound. Most British men my age now should have a beer
01:08:25belly that I can it's that big I can rest you know I can rest a tray of chips and gravy on it and eat
01:08:30from you know but I haven't you know I keep I keep farting fit. I don't know I guess everything that
01:08:37we can that we can explore or that we can be more honest about just breaks down more barriers it's
01:08:43just you know like you said eliminate the shame eliminate the judgment I mean if we can all just
01:08:51agree that it's normal then there's not any reason to have anything other than laughter right?
01:08:56I think I farted. On your cat. I think I farted. On my cat. I think I farted. On a photo of me running. I think I f-f-f-farted.
01:09:06Ah crap I just f***ed my pants. Final summation farting is always fun farting with others is
01:09:11more fun and making it like someone else farted well that's just money. It's my pleasure
01:09:17all right now I'm gonna go fart
01:09:29come on everybody
01:09:35let's have a party
01:09:46you're misinterpreting what I do you know you think I've got a gas problem
01:09:55and what I've got is a control of my gas
01:10:05what do you guys actually think about us doing a documentary about farting?
01:10:09I think it's fabulous can't wait to watch it can't wait to buy it and own it
01:10:14are you gonna have to buy it? Are we gonna have to buy it?
01:10:27I'm gonna let it go hey I don't know if I want to touch it
01:10:32I'm looking for the reaction yeah but it's a manly thing to do
01:11:02you