Makin’ Whoopee: The hilarious history & science of fart sounds

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Design, Music, Music Commentary, Arts

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Farts have been funny to humans for thousands of years. This basic bodily function has countless nicknames around the world, but our fascination with farts is probably best illustrated by the simple whoopee cushion. In this episode from the podcast Brought to You By, Charlie Herman reports on the history of the whoopee cushion and why we can't help but laugh when we hear that sound. Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced by Defacto Sound. Subscribe on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to see our video series. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mystery.20k.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Support the show and get ad-free episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠20k.org/plus⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Dallas on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join our community on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Reddit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Subscribe to Brought to You By wherever you get your podcasts. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/makinwhoopee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.9	Sound is used for so many different things in our lives.
0:40.8	Alarms get our attention.
0:42.8	Notification sounds help us navigate.
0:44.8	And music can relax us or hype us up.
0:48.4	Sound can also be used as peak comedy.
0:57.0	Yep, farts.
0:59.0	And even the word fart is funny.
1:01.0	It almost feels like a curse word.
1:03.0	Fart, fart, fart, fart.
1:05.0	And all the derivatives of the word fart are funny too.
1:07.0	Toot, blurt, cutting the cheese, passing gas,
1:10.0	trouser cough, letting one rip,
1:12.4	stepped on a duck, stepped on a frog, barking spider, back end blowout, butt bazooka, booty
1:17.7	bomb. I could keep going, but I think you get the point. There's something fascinating about
1:23.0	the fart sound, and there's probably no better example of this than the simple whoopie cushion.
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