One Small Step for Luxury, One Giant Whiff for Neuroscience: Lunar Hotels and the Science of Sniffing Farts | 472
Hysteria 51
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Pack your bags (and maybe a clothespin for your nose) because this week on Hysteria 51 we’re going interplanetary and intestinal.
First up: luxury travel has officially left Earth. A startup is taking reservations—yes, real money—to be among the first guests at a proposed hotel on the Moon. We’re talking deposits that can range from “casual quarter-mil” to a full $1,000,000 just to hold your spot, with the total trip potentially climbing far beyond that once you factor in the whole “rocket commute” situation. It’s space tourism with a side of “do they validate parking in low gravity?”
Then we come crashing back down to Earth with science that sounds like it was invented in a middle-school cafeteria: the idea that “sniffing farts” could help protect your brain. Under the jokes is a real research thread around hydrogen sulfide (the “rotten egg” gas associated with flatulence) and how it may help protect brain cells in Alzheimer’s-related mouse studies—less “weaponized crop dusting,” more “biochemistry doing something weird and promising.”
So if you like your weird news with equal parts sci-fi dreams and “please don’t say that out loud,” this episode is your perfect storm: moon hotel reservations, space-tourism absurdity, and the unexpectedly serious science of stink.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a fourth-hand production. |
| 0:02.5 | David and Brent are back. |
| 0:15.8 | Hello, I've heard of them. |
| 0:16.8 | A blurry hysteria. |
| 0:18.4 | Hey, all right. |
| 0:20.3 | How goes, sir? |
| 0:21.8 | Good. |
| 0:22.7 | Back from the Mile High City and you survived. |
| 0:26.6 | Yep, yeah, yep. |
| 0:27.7 | I was telling Brent earlier, I was actually watching a play and everybody's phones just went off with what we thought was an Amber Alert, but it was a shelter in place from police. |
| 0:41.0 | And it turns out they didn't mean to send it to everyone. |
| 0:44.6 | Man. |
| 0:45.2 | Mistake. |
| 0:45.8 | Oops. |
| 0:46.6 | My bad. |
| 0:47.3 | We both had fun, or not so fun, police stuff this weekend. |
| 0:52.6 | I had the SWAT team down the street. |
| 0:54.8 | Yours is much better. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, a guy boarded himself into his house |
| 0:57.9 | and the SWAT team finally |
| 0:59.7 | raided and he |
| 1:01.9 | he self-deleted |
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