SHATNER: Suntory.

HEUGHAN: This one is Hibiki.

SHATNER: Their beers are really good. I was in Tokyo and Osaka, and that’s really a beautiful place if you can get there—on a bullet train it’s a couple of hours. Do you like Japanese food?

HEUGHAN: Yeah. I’m extremely excited to just eat sushi and obviously have some good beer. I’m a big fan of Kirin and Asahi and all that.

SHATNER: I had an event here yesterday, about 20 people. There was somebody lecturing, and in the middle of her talking, somebody farted. Everyone looked at everybody else because it was outside, and there was no directional sound. But I knew it was the lady speaking because I was close-up. [laughs] Have you ever been in one of those situations?

HEUGHAN: I just had one in Australia.

SHATNER: Tell me about it.

HEUGHAN: We were doing an interview on live television, and there were like five of us on the sofa, five interviewees chatting. And they brought out some haggis for the presenters to try. And haggis, as you know, is a delicious Scottish dish that should be eaten on occasion but—

SHATNER: Delicious only to the Scots, Sam.

HEUGHAN: Well, I think the …

SHATNER: Only to the Scots, Sam.

HEUGHAN: Well, it’s a delicious …

SHATNER: Only to the Scots.

HEUGHAN: That’s why we send it to you guys so you can try it as well.

SHATNER: No, no you send it to us so we realize how fierce the Scots really are.

HEUGHAN: How fierce our stomachs are.

SHATNER: Right. So everybody ate it, and then what happened?

HEUGHAN: Well, as it came out on a platter, I thought it looked uncooked. There was this terrible stench and it smelled like someone had, I don’t know, lost control of their bowels.

SHATNER: That’s really what haggis is, you know.

HEUGHAN: Well, exactly. But I think everyone else thought someone had farted, and we’re all sitting there talking on this couch, and I was convinced it was one of the other presenters. And they probably all thought, “Who is this very smelly Scotsman?” But they all proceeded to try the haggis, and I think they’re probably going to be very, very ill.

SHATNER: [laughs] The person was never found out? Well, once it’s in gas form, it’s difficult to determine its origin.

HEUGHAN: [laughs] That’s true. We need to develop a system. They probably had one on Star Trek, didn’t they? So that you could track somebody by their—

SHATNER: Well, no. But do you have dogs? We have dogs, and you can tell which dog is passing air by the smell.

HEUGHAN: Uh, great.

SHATNER: Have you ever been able to identify somebody by the smell of their methane gas?