Big Flatus Reveal; Don't Know Why She Swallow the Botfly - Dan Riskin
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What groundbreaking news does David share about the Human Flatus Atlas?
Time for science with the science appliance. Dr. Dan Riskin on The Last Show with David Cooper.
That's me farting.
Wow. You've really been working on that. That's impressive.
I have. I have. And that's our setup to our punch of what we're about to talk about. It's fart science. Fart punching? No, fart science, Dan. Fart science. Yes. It's a real branch of science.
Well, listen, I was reporting on a study not too long ago where somebody was measuring people's flatus. And I remember thinking, this is like David Cooper gold. I hope David Cooper finds a way to bring this to the next level. Bring it to fartition, which is fruition in a smelly way. See, this is why I thought of you, because right away you're ready, like with bad puns and jokes, like you've got that figured out. What next? What next?
Okay, so here's the deal. So some people wanted to research, honestly, in earnest, like gut microbiome, bacteria, what it says about digestion. Like these weren't just like, ha ha, let's study fart scientists. These were like, you know, macro microbiologists, whatever, evolutionarily microbiologist. Yeah. Sure. Did I get that right? Yep, that's what they call them, yep. Evolutionary biologists. Biologists. Okay, okay. So they did a study, and you sent this to me as a list of topics, and I'm like, well, we already talked to the scientists. We already had them on the show. Amazing. But, but... It's so much more. It's so much more. So let's just briefly go over the study because I didn't really get questions in.
I was so enamored by this guy who was studying farts. You didn't ask him questions about the study? I mean, I did a little, but I was more like you are. I compared him to like Einstein and Newton. I was like he was one of the great scientific minds who dared to study what no one else did, you know? Like Galileo was arrested for studying the cosmos. For lesser crimes. Yeah. Yeah. The man dared to do science and he paid the price. These people dare to do. Anyway. And yet it moves. Right. Do you know that? Do you know that story?
Yeah. I don't know. I think that's a false quote. Yeah.
What strange medical case involves a woman sneezing out maggots?
Like the idea is that they arrested him and he like just pointed to the sky and he was like, yet it moves. Like he was making the point like you can arrest me all you want, but the data are there. And so like this, this idea is going to stand no matter what. Yes. And it's unclear whether he actually did say that at all, but it's part of the story that gets told.
Yeah, it's one of those famous like misquotes. There's just like so many of them. Yeah, but it's a good one. So let's keep saying.
But anyway, OK, so I feel like we're taking away from your story. I want to know. Oh, yeah, we were going to give. So my recollection of the study to give you the science, since you talk to the person who did the study but didn't ask them about it, is that they they made some kind of device that you wear that attaches to your underwear that can measure how much you you fart. And that people turn out to fart way more than they realize because for decades people have been doing studies where they ask people to keep track for a day and people do and they come up with a number that's like 20. And then when they gave people this device, it turned out to be much more like 32 on average, not even the max.
Yeah, and there was like one outlier that did thousands. So I was asking about the number of farts, what's in the farts, what does it mean about our gut? Okay, you did ask questions. I asked questions, but I did miss one key question. But the good news is, for those listening, there's going to be a second chance for me to make up for this, and we'll get to that in a second. But I wanted to know definitively if women farted less than men, or is that just a myth that we like to believe because women pretend they don't fart sometimes? Some do. Not the one I live with, but that's not besides the point. Sure. Like my mom claims to not fart, but boy, does she. Right. Yeah, yeah. I inherited my IBS, I think, from her.
I think from her, yeah.
Wow. Yeah, I know.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What groundbreaking news does David share about the Human Flatus Atlas?
0:01–2:11
2
What strange medical case involves a woman sneezing out maggots?
2:11–5:14
3
How do cultural perceptions of apologies differ between Americans and Canadians?
5:14–7:19
4
What surprising results did the study on customer service apologies reveal?
7:19–10:07
5
How does the Canadian accent influence perceptions of speech?
10:07–12:20
6
What insights does Dan provide about the science of farting?
12:20–15:14
7
What is the significance of the Human Flatus Atlas project?
15:14–18:07
8
How do AI company logos reflect societal perceptions?
18:07–39:25
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