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And today, me and Bongo are taking part in a scientific data collection effort.
Ooh, ooh, turn it up, Guy Raz.
Oh, uh, sure.
That's right.
We're testing the first ever Smart Underwear.
Chuck, if you want to learn more and take part, get on down to Flatus Fest.
Flatus Fest.
Smart underwear at Flatus Fest?
Oh, yeah.
Smart underwear is a new scientific innovation from a group of researchers at the University of Maryland.
Wow, really?
Can we go, Mindy?
Can we go to Flatus Fest?
Please?
Please, please, please, please, please, please, please.
Well, we were on our way to Basket Fest, but I guess we can change our plans and go to Flatus Fest.
Hold on, everyone.
We got to reroute this ice cream truck.
Flatus Fest, Flatus Fest.
So, Mindy, tell us, what's behind this smart underwear idea anyway?
Well, from what I understand, it's a new kind of underpants with toot-tracking technology.
And it's very intelligent.
Uh...
Huh.
There ain't no way a pair of underpants is smarter than me.
Yes, there is, Tommy.
They're scientist underpants.
Well, I do not believe in underpants.
What? only wear over the pants.
Grandma G, Forest, you're wearing your undies on the outside again.
Well, I'm not going to wear them on the inside, else or no one will see them.
So I heard these smart science underpants are so smart, they can see right into your digestive guts.
Good job.
And I heard they can tell you how many times a day you flatulate.
Yeah, and how many times you fart.
Oopsies.
What in the... Granny J!
Now say excuse me.
Oh, right.
Pardon me, duck.
I didn't see you there.
What?
A duck?
Wait, where did that come from?
I don't know, but he's mine now.
Come here, duck.
Oh, look, we're here.
All right, last one out smells like a rotten egg.
Come on, duck.
Look at that.
Welcome to Flatus Fest.
Tickets, please.
Oh, uh, right.
Tickets.
Uh... Uh, Mindy, I don't think we have tickets to Flatus Fest, do we?
Uh, no, but...
But I do have a ticket for one free spin at the Spin Zone and four raffle tickets for Raffle Fest.
Do you take raffle tickets?
Oh, I'm afraid not.
Sorry.
Raffle.
Please step aside so I can let this nice lady and her duck through.
What?
Yoo-hoo!
Young lady with the duck!
Oh, me?
Yes, you.
Please step forward and have a flatus-filled day at Flatus Fest.
Okay.
Just pass through the gas, dear, and enjoy your stay.
Oh, yeah.
Toodle-oo!
Yeah!
But she didn't even have a ticket.
Yes, that's because it's Undies on the Outside Day.
Everyone wearing their underpants on the outside of their clothes gets in free.
Oh, well, why didn't you say so?
What in the... Ta-da!
Dennis, how did you get your undies on the outside so fast?
Ha-ha, magic.
Huh.
Thanks.
Okay, I'm ready as well.
Thomas Fingerling, how did you get your underwear on the outside so fast?
Well, I always keep spare underpants in my pocket.
You know that.
Uh, no, I don't.
Excellent, sir.
Come right on through.
Who'd have thought?
Underpants on the outside so you can get in for free.
That's okay.
We'll just pay.
How much for two tickets?
Two tickets will be $40.
You mean $40?
Yes, exactly.
Okay, here you go.
Thank you, and have a flatulence day.
Did you mean fabulous day?
What did I say?
Flatulence Day.
Next.
Come on, Guy Raz.
Let's go.
Right behind you, Mindy.
Play this fest!
Play this fest!
What should we see first?
Well, it looks like there's a free fart facts booth over there.
I want to see them smarty farty underpants that the big toot was talking about on the radio.
Uh, hmm.
It looks like they're saving that big unveiling for last.
Hello.
Over there, can I interest you in a sample of high-fiber fart food?
Oh, beans.
I love beans.
Well, what I really love is organizing my beans in alphabetical order.
Wait.
High-fiber fart food?
Tell me more.
Of course.
See, beans contain a special sugar that your body can't completely break down.
And once that sugar reaches your large intestine, the microbes or bacteria that live there get to eat it instead.
And let me guess, when bacteria or microbes eat, they make gas.
And that gas builds up.
And your body has to toot it out.
That's right.
I'd love some beans.
There you are.
Oh, my.
So, how long until I'm full of flatulence?
Um, well...
Whoa, what's that?
That is the Flatus Fest Trouser Trumpet Band.
Cool, dude.
I'll catch up with you all later.
Okay, Mr Fingerling, but be sure to meet us back at the main stage in time for the big smart underpants reveal.
Okie doke.
Hey, you all know the song Thunderfinger.
So what's next, Mindy?
Hmm, I'm not sure.
Would you care to see a demonstration?
A tutorial, if you will?
I do, I do, I do.
What's the tutorial?
On how flatulence is made.
Well, I already know that.
Granny J!
That was the duck.
Why, yes.
We would love to see how to make our own toots at home.
Yeah, me too.
Okay, wonderful.
Gather round my mixing bowl.
The ingredients are simple.
We need some nitrogen hydrogen, a dash of methane, a scoop of carbon dioxide and a pinch of oxygen.
Where can I find all those ingredients?
At your local grocer, probably.
Actually, you can find all of these ingredients in your own bodies.
Wow.
Okay.
Now, I'm just going to mix them all up here in my mixing bowl.
Mix them up?
Exactly.
The nitrogen, hydrogen, methane, carbon dioxide, and oxygen will combine to create flatus.
Any questions?
Oh, I have a question.
Yes?
How come we can't see any of the ingredients you're mixing up?
Oh, well, that's because they're invisible.
Oh, like magic?
Um, no.
Dennis, it's because hydrogen, methane, carbon dioxide, and oxygen are all gases.
And these gases are invisible to the human eye.
Oh!
Oh, is that why all toots are invisible?
Well, Flatus should be invisible, yes.
So cool.
Well, thanks for the tutorial, Mr. Volunteer Person.
Come on, everyone.
Let's go see if we can score any Flatus Fest swag.
Wait, don't you want to smell the finished product?
Look, Mindy.
Look, Guy.
Over there.
A demonstration on toot-trapping undies.
Ooh, Guy Raz, we know about these.
Remember Underease?
Oh, yeah.
Toot-trapping undies or Underease, which were invented in the early 2000s by an American inventor named Buck Weimer.
Oh, yeah.
They're so cool.
They have a built-in activated charcoal filter.
So when you toot through your underpants, the gas has to pass through the fabric.
And then the charcoal traps and absorbs the odor molecules before they can escape into the air.
In other words, it traps and holds the toot so that you don't have to.
Soak?
Oh, well.
Wow, toot-trapping underwear.
What will they think of next?
I don't know.
Bottom booster boxer briefs, sauce pocket dunker drawers.
What in the...
Since the dawn of man, one question has persisted throughout all human history.
Mindy, it's happening.
This must be it.
That question, who farted?
No.
Whoever smelt it dealt it.
Whoever denied it supplied it.
Whoever said the rhyme did the crime.
All of these answers dissatisfying.
But this stinky mystery is about to end.
From the scientific masterminds at the University of Maryland, introducing Smart Underground.
What?
I don't see any underwear.
Mindy, do you see any underwear?
No, I just see a little black button.
Huh.
Um, Mr. Announcer?
Uh, yes?
Where are the underwear?
Are they under that little black button?
Uh, no.
They are this little black button.
This is the smart underwear.
Uh... Smart underwear is a wearable device designed to measure human flatulence.
Ah, it's a device.
And by tracking flatus flaunting hydrogen gas, this device holds the truth about our toots.
What is flatus?
Oh, flatus is just a fancy word for, uh, farts.
Oh, fancy.
Now, I've got a question for all of you.
How many times a day would you say you fart?
32 times a day.
But I always say excuse me.
It's really not something I like to talk about.
I don't never fart.
Excuse me.
Exactly.
So many answers.
But which one is the truth?
You there.
You with the underpants on the outside of a wrestling unitard.
Benny G, that's you.
Yes, you.
You with the duck.
Come on up to the stage, please.
Well, can I bring the duck?
Um, no.
Go on up, Grandma G-Force.
Guy Raz will hold the duck for you.
Fine.
What?
Me?
Why do I have to hold the duck?
He was the duck!
Ma'am, why don't you tell us your name?
No.
That's my grandson!
Ah, Miss G-Force, is it?
I believe I heard you claim that you pass gas zero times a day.
That is correct.
Would you care to put that claim to the test using smart underwear?
Well, I don't not got any smart underwears.
My underwears are so dumb.
Look.
They say it's yesterday up here on the waistband, and everybody knows it's Monday.
Wait, those are my day of the week underpants.
Grandma G-Force!
And also, it's Saturday.
Miss G-Force, I will ask you one more time.
How many times a day do you...
Float an air biscuit.
Huh?
Burp from the bottom.
What?
How many times a day do you fart?
I already told you, Mr. Announcer Man.
Zero.
Zero times a day.
Huh?
Ah, what was that?
Oh, that?
Well, that was just a little snoring mouse.
You know, Guy Raz, for a long time scientists didn't have a good way to count how often people tooted.
They mostly had to just ask people to keep track themselves or use really uncomfortable medical tools in small studies.
But as we can see here with Grandma G-Force, people seem to lose count or forget altogether.
Or two while they're sleeping.
And also, different people feel gas differently.
I mean, two people might pass gas the same amount, but one barely notices, while the other feels it a lot.
Now, what do you say, Ms.
G-Force?
Would you care to back up your claim of zero farts with our flatest detecting device?
You're wrong.
Excellent.
Ms.
G-Force, please connect this little device onto your outside underwear.
Okay.
There.
Clipped it right in there behind of the old release valve.
Now, this smart underwear device uses electrochemical sensors to track intestinal gas production around the clock.
Huh?
What does that even mean?
That means we only need to patiently wait until your body relaxes and... And what?
And...
Something tells me that wasn't a duck.
Aha!
And there we have it.
No, that was an anomaly.
Oh, goodness gracious.
Wow.
She is really letting them rip.
That's a bad squeaking chair.
And that floor is squeaking too.
Is that your fault?
So Mindy, I always understood that from a scientific perspective, the average person passes gas around 14 times a day.
I mean, is it possible that this smart underwear technology is going to tell us that that number is higher?
I think it's safe to say that that number might be looking much, much higher.
I do not know what is happening right now.
From the data scientists have collected so far, using this smart underwear technology...
They found healthy adults pass gas on average of 32 times a day.
Twice what was originally thought.
But this, this is positively groundbreaking.
Oh, that was not me.
I don't even think that was a human.
So, Mindy, I mean, what do scientists plan to do with this smart underwear technology?
And all the information that they're going to learn from it.
Well, right now, scientists don't actually know what a normal amount of tooting even is.
I see.
And if you don't know what's normal, it's hard to know when someone is tooting too much.
Exactly.
So these scientists are starting something called the Human Flatus Atlas.
And it's basically a big project to measure how often people toot during the day and at night while they're sleeping.
And I guess by wearing this smart underwear technology, the counting is done automatically.
That's right.
And people from all over the United States can join from home.
The scientists will compare the tooting patterns with what people eat and the tiny little living things inside their guts called microbes.
According to our smart underwear data, there are three types of people in this world.
First, we have the Zen digesters, people who eat a lot of fiber but barely fart.
And then there are the average, everyday farters who pass gas roughly 32 times in a 24-hour period.
Hey, that's me!
But what we have standing here before us... is a microbial marvel.
Miss G-Force, I crown you a hydrogen hyperproducer.
Oh, me?
Queen Hypergen Hyperducer?
That's right.
I'm Grandma G-Force, and the G stands for Cassie.
I'm sorry, a hydrogen hyperproducer?
Zen digester?
Oh, yeah.
These are real terms that these real scientists are using in their human flatus atlas.
By calling Grandma G-Force a hydrogen hyperproducer, they're basically saying she just toots a lot more than most people.
And these scientists are looking to study people like her?
And also the infrequent tutors or Zen digesters like that guy over there.
In order To better understand what the microbes in our guts are doing and what causes some to produce more gas than others.
You know it.
And also to help scientists figure out what a normal amount of tooting really looks like and how the foods we eat might change what's happening inside our bellies.
So, in other words...
With this new smart underwear technology and the information being shared in the human flatus atlas, scientists are Basically building the world's first fart map.
Yes.
Who knew flatulence could be so fascinating?
Ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause for Miss G-Force, the Thank you, thank you.
Now, where's my friend?
I want a million dollars.
And can I get a little sash or something?
Oh, boy.
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