This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.
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Each episode of Campside’s weekly podcast, Eclipsed, features a true story hidden in the shadow of another historical event.
For example, the murder of an Australian pop star on the day of the moon landing was overshadowed by… the moon landing.
But the episode of Eclipsed hosted by Layne was not about murder. It was about Cecil H. Dill, a well known 1930s manualist, a performer who makes music by squeezing air between his hands.
To be clear about his claim to fame, a 1933 newsreel prominently featured Dill’s “hand farting.” And Layne’s episode featured a theme song composed of fart sounds.
Layne and Anthony treat this topic with the seriousness it deserves. And Layne begins by explaining how she tracked down Dill’s nephew.
Anthony wonders what separates the amateur manualists from the artists. And he relates all this to Marty Supreme and the notion of a niche king.
Now, as you’re no doubt wondering, how could Layne avoid mentioning Weird Al? She could not. And also, should Chalamet play Dill in the inevitable biopic?
The conversation then turns to the Hunt brothers, the subject of other episodes in the series. They were not hand farters, rather entrepreneurs who tried to corner the world’s silver market. The Hunts ultimately lost more than a billion dollars, but that did not stop the family from becoming NFL owners. Go Chiefs?
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