It's Curious City, where we take your questions about Chicago and the region, and investigate, report, explore, from WBEZ.

Hi, this is Alexandra Solomon, Curiosity's editor.

And you know how you often hear warnings at the beginning of podcast saying if you have

kids listening, you might want to ask them to leave the room? And then you have to quickly

scramble to turn the thing off before your kids notice. Well, this curiosity episode is the

opposite of that. It's actually meant for kids, but adults are welcome to enjoy it as well.

So if you have kids or nieces or nephews, hit

pause and go find them. Or save this episode for a family car trip because we're sharing an

episode of a podcast called But Why. It's kind of like Curious City. It takes questions from listeners and answers them,

but all the questions come from kids. And this particular episode is about two topics

kids of all ages find endlessly fascinating. Poop and farts. And as you'll hear, part of the story includes an episode of Curious City we did four years ago

about where all the poop goes in Chicago.

So here is But Why from Vermont Public Radio.

Music This is But Why, a podcast for Curious Kids, produced at Vermont Public Radio.

I'm Jane Lindholm, and today we're going to talk about something everyone does, but a lot of people

don't want to talk about it, at least not in polite conversation. So tell your adults that today, right now, just as long as this

episode is going on, and maybe if you have questions afterwards, you have permission for some

potty talk because we are going to be discussing poops and farts. That's right. I said it. Poops

and farts. Get all of your giggles out. Go ahead.

In a couple of minutes, we'll learn about where your poop actually goes after it leaves your body.

There's a whole infrastructure set up to take it away from you and away from your house.

But first, some fundamentals.

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