PETER SAGAL, HOST:
Right now, panel, time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Roy, we're all familiar with ride-sharing apps that help us track and predict when to expect our rides. But now there's an app that helps us track and predict our what?
ROY BLOUNT JR.: Is it sort of like ride sharing?
SAGAL: Not in any way.
BLOUNT JR.: Wow.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: But it is a way, you know - the whole idea is it's allows you to predict the arrival of something, how big it's going to be, when it will arrive, et cetera, et cetera.
ADAM FELBER: Does this have to do with Alexa and a toilet?
HELEN HONG: Yeah. That's what I was thinking.
(LAUGHTER)
BLOUNT JR.: God, I hate to say fart on the radio. But I...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Yeah, it's your farts. Indeed.
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BLOUNT JR.: I promised my mother I would never do it. And now...
HONG: I actually enjoyed hearing you say fart on the radio.
(LAUGHTER)
BLOUNT JR.: Did you really? Fart.
FELBER: What a week we're having.
SAGAL: Your fart is arriving in four minutes, and its name is Ignacio. Oh, no. It's rated 5 stars.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: A team of Australian researchers have developed a tool to help track the passage of air through your digestive system. You swallow an electronic tablet - little pill. Not like an iPad. That would be hard.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: But a little pill - a tablet.
(LAUGHTER)
FELBER: All right. You've lost me already, but keep going.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: All right. And this little pill...
BLOUNT JR.: Yeah.
SAGAL: ...Little pill communicates various internal chemical levels and pressures through your phone app.
HONG: What?
SAGAL: And the app is actually able to detect the exact moment of air from your stomach passing into your colon.
HONG: Wait. So this little digital bug thing is like riding an air bubble inside you all the way out.
SAGAL: Yeah, pretty much.
BLOUNT JR.: It's surfing.
SAGAL: And so you're like, come on. We've got to get in the elevator. Not yet.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: OK, now.
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DIANA ROSS: (Singing) I'm coming out. I'm coming. I'm coming out. I want the world...
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