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The Strange Journey of the World's Worst Smell

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Andrew Masters and Allen Wittman, founders of the popular prank product Liquid Ass, are photographed outside their factory in Mills River, North Carolina on September 17, 2015. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)

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Today’s story is about a very bad smell: the smell of butt crack with a hint of dead animals, to quote its inventors. Is it actually the world’s worst smell? Hard to say for certain, but it’s gotta be up there.

Our first episode tells the story of how two Midwestern truck engineers staked their fortunes on this terrible smell and the unlikely leap the smell itself took, to a place we’re positive you will not see coming.

This place:

Iraqi village set, StrategicOps, San Diego.
“Iraqi village,” StrategicOps, San Diego

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