April 7, 2026 • 10 mins
On the Tuesday April 7, 2026 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...
- Who is the King of Farts? Joe brings us some fascinating research!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For Jack's sake, who will just refer to him as
the kof It's one more thing. Doctor Michael Levitt, a
gastro entrologist, became known as the King of Farts.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That can be to think of a podcast. Do I
have to participate in this?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You really don't if you don't want to, because evidently
you have no interest in science. This is from a
brand new book that's been written by another gastro entrologist,
Tricia Pashricha pastricha a streeker. If I got your name wrong, Tricia.
The title of the book is You've been pooping all wrong.
(00:50):
But this section of the book also concerns the art
of gastro entrology, Jack specifically flatulence hard fart primary that
there's no need for foolishness Michael. Again, this is a
discussion of science, she writes, and she is a she Jack.
Science has finally settled the age old debate of who's oh,
(01:13):
you know what, it's funny. I've come to the brink.
I'm standing on the high dive and I don't want
to jump off because it's so it sounds so childish
and base. Yes, yes it does. That's my point. Hmm.
I thought you were, all, well, it's science. Just I'm
(01:34):
not going to I know. Well, I climbed the steps
to the high dive with great verb and confidence, and
I got out there and thought, nope.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well you can do it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I believe you. Wow, thanks for that shoving. You make
me gpt.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Now if you give me a few minutes, I could
go down to the grade school and get an eight
year old and they could come home and do this,
because that's who would appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I'll use fancy words because it makes me feel better.
Science is finally settled the Agel debate of whose flatulence
is more objectionable men are women.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh my god, it's even worse than I thought.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oh it's just getting started. That's right, Science is right.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It's the first sentence, Jack, He'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So anyway, I mentioned doctor Michael Levitt. It actually gets
more interesting and less childish from there. So Levitt. One day,
while a gastro enterology fellow was called into his advisor's
office and introduced to a new laboratory instrument, the gas chromatograph.
And this thing is actually used in many applications. It
(02:35):
analyzes gas content in soil. It's used in crime scene investigations,
but of course, to two gastro entrologists, it was clear
that someone should use it to gain a better understanding
of the most pressing of scientific needs, and that would
be indeed farting, And so an illustrious career was born.
Levit eventually published over three hundred original scientific works, has
(02:56):
won every prestigious award of the UH just the American
gastro Enterological Association. He helped develop space suits filtered with
activated charcoal to prevent astronauts from having to inhale their
own flat us during a space walk. Hmm. I'm sure
(03:19):
the as we speak these words, the Fellows and Gal
up in space and the Artemis two mission are enjoying
his technology. Right.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The best system we had prior was you just kind
of have to like tooting your own helmet.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, essentially, God, Yeah, give you the George Carlin bit
on this topic.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
See you go pull dutch Oven in your space suit.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And now thanks to this science jack, they don't have
to toot in their own helmets.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well and and quite literally who smelt it, dealt it
in the aggressive scents. I was trying so hard. So
then actually this lady gastroentrologist. This sentence is pretty funny,
but it was one particular study that put the gender
(04:10):
debate to rest, and it is a study I returned
to often, both in my clinic and at dinner parties
where I have on occasion misjudged the room. Oh so
this Levitt's character invited sixteen healthy men and women to
consume items that boost gas production, specifically pinto beans on
(04:32):
a synthetic sugar called lactu lose. Now was that a
factor in the legendary sugar free gummy bear review that
was posted to was at Amazon the first time? Oh harribo,
yeah gummy bear. Yes, the first time I read that
and spawned many attempts at imitation. And you people should
(04:54):
be ashamed of yourselves. Quit painting faux mona lises. I
had years streaming down my cheeks the first time I
read that review. It's brilliantly written, and it had to
do with the just spectacular gastro intestinal effects of wolfing
down way too much lactolose.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
See you in hell Araba with sugar freak gummy bears?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That's it? Yes? Yeah, Oh, the descriptions are it's some
of the best humor. I think that's ever been written
in the English language anyway, But just I'd say, you know,
to bing it or whatever, but you don't want to
find an imitation participants. Okay. So they fed the men
and women the pento beans and lactulos. Participants and listen
(05:41):
to this I used to as longtime listeners know, I
would earn five bucks the hard way going to college.
I was I would make myself the subject of psychology
department experiments, which were always actually pretty interesting. This is
an hour of my time and at the time it
was decent enough money. It might have been ten bucks.
I don't know. But so participants were fed the beans
(06:03):
and lactylos. Then they showed up to the laboratory where
a rectal tube was inserted and made a gas tight
seal with their darriers. Oh okay. The tube was then
connected to a gas impermeable bag and after releasing what
they must, its contents were subsequently evaluated by chromatography. But
(06:25):
it gets better. The flattest collected in these bags was
then sniffed and raided by two independent judges on who
signed up for that. Jack Oh my god, listeneth Jackie
is suffering oh, we're so awful, where they were judged
on a linear scale where zero was no odor and
(06:46):
eight was very offensive an aggressive scent worth mentioning. In
the year twenty oh three, Popular Science ranked Levitt's flattest
codor judge as the worst job in science.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Zero you could say, congratulations, your shit doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Stick exactly exactly. So their job was terrible, but their
contributions were enormous. She writes. They found that compared to
that of men.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Job in science, oh, that's awful.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Compared to that of men, the flattess of women, women
had a much greater odor intensity. But hold your horses,
which reminds me of Kramer in the Horse and Seinfeld
of course that he fed beeferino. What was it? Something
(07:40):
like that. Yeah. The study also found, though, that men
produced a larger volume of gas per two, and Levitt
argued that because flattess's ability to simulate the nose is
more dependent on volume than on concentration noxious gas, that
is debatable these differences between the sexes balance out in
real life. Now, let's see she takes a shot of
(08:05):
teenage boys, which is really mentions their lack of restraint
in this this realm but final couple of really interesting
scientific facts, because I have no interest in debating the
man woman thing. That would just be indelicate. And you
know me, mister delicate.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
You're not gonna get me to comment on it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Still, in certain situations, she writes, no matter your skills
in you know, controlled explanation, we're all helpless. One such
situation as air travel, we are all gassy on a plane.
Maybe it's you, maybe it's your neighbor. Before you judge
anyone aboard, remember the ideal gas law PV equals NRT.
(08:42):
With increasing altitude, air pressure, including intestinal air pressure falls. Therefore,
the volume of your intestinal gas has to expand. The
air in your colon is blocked from traveling backward by
a small muscular valve connecting it to the small intestine.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Are you all relating to this? I don't relate to that.
I have not had this experience.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Oh my god, you and your fart denial.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well, I just have not had this experience. Does this
happen to people on planes? I've never heard anybody mention
it in my life.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, it's because we're trying to be delicate, like I said,
But yes, it's nearly universal.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Really, yes.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Therefore, the only path flattis can take is forward and outward,
where it joins the recirculating cabin air for the remainder
of the flight, which is delightful. But if you need
a simple last minute solution to gas our friend and foe,
take bi smooth subsalisate over the corner. Five and twenty
(09:39):
four milligrams my mouth, four times a day beforehand will
do the job. This smooth subsalisate, better known as pepto bismol,
binds and neutralizes more than ninety five percent of sulfide
gases in the gut. Another landmark discovery from the great
doctor Levitt.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
There you go, worst job on science the.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Kof right there.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I enjoyed the information just about as much as I
loved the just look of disgust on Jackson's.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I am the only time ever in thirty years, I've
ever been ashamed to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, it was. It was disgusted and like being beaten down. Yeah,
it kind of combined into a delightful, nice little disgust
and defeat crushing of his spirit. Yeah, defeat, that's the word.
It was defeated. There, well doed in doctor Levitt your
name will live on in glory. Well done, sir.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I tried to activate my glops the best I could
in between, but just they never stayed activated.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, I guess that's it.
For Jack's sake, who will just refer to him as
the kof It's one more thing. Doctor Michael Levitt, a
gastro entrologist, became known as the King of Farts.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That can be to think of a podcast. Do I
have to participate in this?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You really don't if you don't want to, because evidently
you have no interest in science. This is from a
brand new book that's been written by another gastro entrologist,
Tricia Pashricha pastricha a streeker. If I got your name wrong, Tricia.
The title of the book is You've been pooping all wrong.
(00:50):
But this section of the book also concerns the art
of gastro entrology, Jack specifically flatulence hard fart primary that
there's no need for foolishness Michael. Again, this is a
discussion of science, she writes, and she is a she Jack.
Science has finally settled the age old debate of who's oh,
(01:13):
you know what, it's funny. I've come to the brink.
I'm standing on the high dive and I don't want
to jump off because it's so it sounds so childish
and base. Yes, yes it does. That's my point. Hmm.
I thought you were, all, well, it's science. Just I'm
(01:34):
not going to I know. Well, I climbed the steps
to the high dive with great verb and confidence, and
I got out there and thought, nope.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well you can do it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I believe you. Wow, thanks for that shoving. You make
me gpt.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Now if you give me a few minutes, I could
go down to the grade school and get an eight
year old and they could come home and do this,
because that's who would appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I'll use fancy words because it makes me feel better.
Science is finally settled the Agel debate of whose flatulence
is more objectionable men are women.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh my god, it's even worse than I thought.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oh it's just getting started. That's right, Science is right.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It's the first sentence, Jack, He'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So anyway, I mentioned doctor Michael Levitt. It actually gets
more interesting and less childish from there. So Levitt. One day,
while a gastro enterology fellow was called into his advisor's
office and introduced to a new laboratory instrument, the gas chromatograph.
And this thing is actually used in many applications. It
(02:35):
analyzes gas content in soil. It's used in crime scene investigations,
but of course, to two gastro entrologists, it was clear
that someone should use it to gain a better understanding
of the most pressing of scientific needs, and that would
be indeed farting, And so an illustrious career was born.
Levit eventually published over three hundred original scientific works, has
(02:56):
won every prestigious award of the UH just the American
gastro Enterological Association. He helped develop space suits filtered with
activated charcoal to prevent astronauts from having to inhale their
own flat us during a space walk. Hmm. I'm sure
(03:19):
the as we speak these words, the Fellows and Gal
up in space and the Artemis two mission are enjoying
his technology. Right.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The best system we had prior was you just kind
of have to like tooting your own helmet.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, essentially, God, Yeah, give you the George Carlin bit
on this topic.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
See you go pull dutch Oven in your space suit.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And now thanks to this science jack, they don't have
to toot in their own helmets.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well and and quite literally who smelt it, dealt it
in the aggressive scents. I was trying so hard. So
then actually this lady gastroentrologist. This sentence is pretty funny,
but it was one particular study that put the gender
(04:10):
debate to rest, and it is a study I returned
to often, both in my clinic and at dinner parties
where I have on occasion misjudged the room. Oh so
this Levitt's character invited sixteen healthy men and women to
consume items that boost gas production, specifically pinto beans on
(04:32):
a synthetic sugar called lactu lose. Now was that a
factor in the legendary sugar free gummy bear review that
was posted to was at Amazon the first time? Oh harribo,
yeah gummy bear. Yes, the first time I read that
and spawned many attempts at imitation. And you people should
(04:54):
be ashamed of yourselves. Quit painting faux mona lises. I
had years streaming down my cheeks the first time I
read that review. It's brilliantly written, and it had to
do with the just spectacular gastro intestinal effects of wolfing
down way too much lactolose.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
See you in hell Araba with sugar freak gummy bears?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That's it? Yes? Yeah, Oh, the descriptions are it's some
of the best humor. I think that's ever been written
in the English language anyway, But just I'd say, you know,
to bing it or whatever, but you don't want to
find an imitation participants. Okay. So they fed the men
and women the pento beans and lactulos. Participants and listen
(05:41):
to this I used to as longtime listeners know, I
would earn five bucks the hard way going to college.
I was I would make myself the subject of psychology
department experiments, which were always actually pretty interesting. This is
an hour of my time and at the time it
was decent enough money. It might have been ten bucks.
I don't know. But so participants were fed the beans
(06:03):
and lactylos. Then they showed up to the laboratory where
a rectal tube was inserted and made a gas tight
seal with their darriers. Oh okay. The tube was then
connected to a gas impermeable bag and after releasing what
they must, its contents were subsequently evaluated by chromatography. But
(06:25):
it gets better. The flattest collected in these bags was
then sniffed and raided by two independent judges on who
signed up for that. Jack Oh my god, listeneth Jackie
is suffering oh, we're so awful, where they were judged
on a linear scale where zero was no odor and
(06:46):
eight was very offensive an aggressive scent worth mentioning. In
the year twenty oh three, Popular Science ranked Levitt's flattest
codor judge as the worst job in science.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Zero you could say, congratulations, your shit doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Stick exactly exactly. So their job was terrible, but their
contributions were enormous. She writes. They found that compared to
that of men.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Job in science, oh, that's awful.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Compared to that of men, the flattess of women, women
had a much greater odor intensity. But hold your horses,
which reminds me of Kramer in the Horse and Seinfeld
of course that he fed beeferino. What was it? Something
(07:40):
like that. Yeah. The study also found, though, that men
produced a larger volume of gas per two, and Levitt
argued that because flattess's ability to simulate the nose is
more dependent on volume than on concentration noxious gas, that
is debatable these differences between the sexes balance out in
real life. Now, let's see she takes a shot of
(08:05):
teenage boys, which is really mentions their lack of restraint
in this this realm but final couple of really interesting
scientific facts, because I have no interest in debating the
man woman thing. That would just be indelicate. And you
know me, mister delicate.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
You're not gonna get me to comment on it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Still, in certain situations, she writes, no matter your skills
in you know, controlled explanation, we're all helpless. One such
situation as air travel, we are all gassy on a plane.
Maybe it's you, maybe it's your neighbor. Before you judge
anyone aboard, remember the ideal gas law PV equals NRT.
(08:42):
With increasing altitude, air pressure, including intestinal air pressure falls. Therefore,
the volume of your intestinal gas has to expand. The
air in your colon is blocked from traveling backward by
a small muscular valve connecting it to the small intestine.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Are you all relating to this? I don't relate to that.
I have not had this experience.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Oh my god, you and your fart denial.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well, I just have not had this experience. Does this
happen to people on planes? I've never heard anybody mention
it in my life.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, it's because we're trying to be delicate, like I said,
But yes, it's nearly universal.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Really, yes.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Therefore, the only path flattis can take is forward and outward,
where it joins the recirculating cabin air for the remainder
of the flight, which is delightful. But if you need
a simple last minute solution to gas our friend and foe,
take bi smooth subsalisate over the corner. Five and twenty
(09:39):
four milligrams my mouth, four times a day beforehand will
do the job. This smooth subsalisate, better known as pepto bismol,
binds and neutralizes more than ninety five percent of sulfide
gases in the gut. Another landmark discovery from the great
doctor Levitt.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
There you go, worst job on science the.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Kof right there.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I enjoyed the information just about as much as I
loved the just look of disgust on Jackson's.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I am the only time ever in thirty years, I've
ever been ashamed to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, it was. It was disgusted and like being beaten down. Yeah,
it kind of combined into a delightful, nice little disgust
and defeat crushing of his spirit. Yeah, defeat, that's the word.
It was defeated. There, well doed in doctor Levitt your
name will live on in glory. Well done, sir.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I tried to activate my glops the best I could
in between, but just they never stayed activated.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, I guess that's it.
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