Reacting To India's Poop throwing Festival

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Have you ever thought to yourself, "Man, I wish I could throw poop at somebody."

[00:00:03]Well, lucky for you, there is a bunch of other people on this earth that want to throw poop at each other. I'm serious.

[00:00:08]This video sounds 100% fake, but is 100% real. Tyler Oliver went to India to investigate the India poop festival.

[00:00:17]Yes, poop festival. I'm not kidding.

[00:00:18]Let's jump into this thing. I don't want to do this. Oh, it looks disgusting. It just looks so disgusting. This video has been out for 5 months and I've refused to watch it. I don't want to do this.

[00:00:27]Why? Here we go. Let's jump into this.

[00:00:29]Tyler Oliveria investigation into India's poop festival.

[00:00:36]>> That's me at a poop throwing festival in India where the villagers spend 6 months collecting cow poop.

[00:00:43]>> They spend 6 months in preparation for this. 6 months collecting poop. Oh my gosh.

[00:00:49]>> At each other and rubbing it on their skin.

[00:00:52]>> I'm sinking. I'm going to die today.

[00:00:55]>> How is he walking around? I understand he's in a Tyveck suit, but still, how you walking around like that? That's crazy.

[00:01:11]>> Oh, it's in his hair. It's in everything.

[00:01:13]>> It all started when I flew over 10,000 miles to South India, linked up with my translator, Vivec, and began our trek into the remote village of Gumatapura.

[00:01:22]Did this village still celebrate this strange tradition or is it merely a legend of the past?

[00:01:30]After a couple >> That was a lot of disclaimers for a poop video. I'm a little worried.

[00:01:34]>> Drive and immediately upon arrival, we were met with unmatched hospitality.

[00:01:40]>> They do look like happy people. Like the people here look happy. Maybe we should start throwing poop more because the people they look excited about this and just like happy people. I like it. Every home have some cats.

[00:01:52]>> Ah, can we see?

[00:01:53]>> Yeah.

[00:01:54]>> And they have collected the dung of it.

[00:01:56]>> And this local was kind enough to bring me inside his home and show me something very important he'd been stockpiling.

[00:02:02]>> Oh, right here. Okay. It doesn't smell that bad at all. And how long did it take to collect all this poop?

[00:02:07]>> Uh, more than uh five 6 months.

[00:02:09]>> Five or 6 months. All of this 6 months worth of poop.

[00:02:13]>> So halfway into the year you need to begin the collection.

[00:02:15]>> This is for small.

[00:02:17]>> This is small. So a little bit right here.

[00:02:19]It's perfect for fresh.

[00:02:20]>> I see fresh right there.

[00:02:22]>> Oh, but it's >> Can I smell?

[00:02:23]>> Why did he just ask to smell it? I'm sorry.

[00:02:26]>> It's not for you. Just eating for a little bit little bit daily.

[00:02:30]>> Eat it. Eat a little bit.

[00:02:31]>> Little bit little bit. Eat it.

[00:02:32]Scientific taste for it's for not coming for cancer.

[00:02:36]>> Okay. So, scientifically proven that if you eat a little bit, it cures cancer.

[00:02:39]>> Daily.

[00:02:40]>> You eat daily. Can you show me >> like just like just a small? You don't have to do it. I just want to see how much. Just a small amount.

[00:02:46]>> Small. Anything you can eat, dude?

[00:02:53]>> He just ate poop. He just ate poop.

[00:02:55]Okay.

[00:02:56]>> After the locals confirmed I could participate in the festival tomorrow, I wanted to see the sheer scope of how much cow poop was collected for the festival. I began to see piles upon piles of cow poop everywhere in the village.

[00:03:08]>> Cowdunks. Oh my god.

[00:03:10]>> I don't think y'all realize how much poop that was just now. That was piles that were like they looked huge. That's a lot. After the villagers cover their bodies in cow poop, how exactly do they clean themselves afterwards? All right, behind me is the lake where they're going to bathe themselves in after the event. Um, it looks maybe not like the cleanest place to take a bath afterwards.

[00:03:31]>> They after they'll go home and they'll take a clean bath also from their own water also. But first, it's a ritual.

[00:03:36]>> This is going to be amazing.

[00:03:38]>> The gas lady, he's literally >> This is going to be amazing.

[00:03:43]>> I don't know if he believes that. Uh truly everyone is smiling on the left.

[00:03:47]>> Oh. Oh, there it is. There's even more.

[00:03:51]It keeps coming. More kowong right here for Goraba. Are you excited for Goraba?

[00:03:56]>> Yes.

[00:03:56]>> Look at all this. The sheer quantity of cowong. And there's even more. Truly huge. This is a massive pile.

[00:04:02]>> Listen, I believe in Jesus Christ and that he died for our sins. So, I don't fully understand everything they're talking about here.

[00:04:10]After seeing the sheer scale of poop gathered for the festival, the next day it was time to celebrate.

[00:04:16]>> I might need to throw on a hazmat very quickly. I'm out.

[00:04:20]>> We have traveling villagers here to celebrate. Um, there is complete chaos happening right now. Just look, all sorts of people coming in right now.

[00:04:27]Happy Diwali. Happy gurava. What is this right here? Is this cowdong?

[00:04:31]>> No, this is just a fire.

[00:04:32]>> It smells very good.

[00:04:34]>> Is this Is this cowdong? No, it's just a fire. I mean, he's just assuming everything is cow dog now, which is rightfully so. It seems like everything has cow dog.

[00:04:43]>> But before our poop throwing war could begin, there were several other traditions involving the use of cow poop leading up to it.

[00:04:50]>> Very beautiful. Happy Diwali.

[00:04:53]>> Wow.

[00:04:53]>> I don't think I could prep myself for a day like this. And as the tractors came in preparing to haul the poop ammunition into the town center, you might be wondering if everyone here is excited to cover themselves in cow poop and if they believe it actually has healing properties.

[00:05:07]>> Yes, that is exactly what I want to know. I want to know if these people actually believe this or if they're just doing it for fun. I feel like they're doing it more for tradition.

[00:05:14]>> Does anyone get sick from the poop when it gets in their eyes or their their mouth or their their nose?

[00:05:19]>> N um does does the village eat any of the cow poop for cancer prevention?

[00:05:26]No, no, no, no.

[00:05:27]>> Just the guy I met.

[00:05:29]>> Okay. Okay. Nobody. Nobody. Okay.

[00:05:30]>> Just one person is exception.

[00:05:32]>> Just one person. Okay. Okay. I met the only guy who eats cow poop. Apparently, >> that dude was definitely just trying to get Tyler to eat cow poop. We met the only guy that eats cow poop. These dudes were like, "No, no one eats that." Play this a little faster now.

[00:05:44]>> And to my surprise, I went back to the temple as the festivities began. A mainstream news reporter was here.

[00:05:49]>> French news station. Okay, very nice. We have another photographer right here.

[00:05:58]>> Holy [ __ ] Let Rob again. Now they're bringing the poop our direction. AH, HERE WE GO, BABY. HERE WE GO.

[00:06:06]>> Ready to be smeared and thrown at the children.

[00:06:10]>> You must catch up with the poop. Got to catch up with the poop. Okay, >> the cow poop has been released. More poop. Mayday, mayday.

[00:06:22]Oh, but before the adult men battle it out in a pile of poop a size larger than your imagination is capable of conceiving, the kids first have a smaller scale battle of their own.

[00:06:42]Ah, >> battle's over.

[00:06:47]>> And the kids going to another play right here.

[00:06:55]>> They just put the kids in a little tiny coliseum and they're making them open at each other. They're not making them.

[00:07:00]They look like they want to do it.

[00:07:01]>> As the kids marched to and from every house in the village, battling it out, some were having fun and some were not.

[00:07:12]AROUND.

[00:07:14]OH, you're right here.

[00:07:19]Run, run, run.

[00:07:22]>> I mean, I would not want to be there.

[00:07:24]>> Kids finished their poop war. The battle preparations for the grown men were nearly complete. My god, look at the sheer scope of poop right here. Look at how much [ __ ] there is. Oh my god, I'm slipping. Just look at how much there is. There's a lot of poop right here. My feet instantly sunk into it.

[00:07:41]Unbelievable quantities of [ __ ] right here. Truckloads of poop. Just dumped out into the main city street right now.

[00:07:49]>> But first, these guys rolled in the grass. Wow.

[00:07:55]>> And then the men gave this donkey a bath in the water for some reason.

[00:07:59]>> I did almost [ __ ] Go back. Go back. GO BACK. MOVE BACK. MOVE BACK.

[00:08:06]YO, that donkey was trying to like start boxing these guys. Let him free. He does not want anything TO DO WITH THE POOP FESTIVAL. LET THE DONKEY GO.

[00:08:18]>> There's more donkey. There's more donkey. There's more donkey.

[00:08:24]>> LET THE DONKEY GO, MAN. HE DOESN'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH your freaking poop.

[00:08:28]>> And finally, the gladiators entered the poop coliseum. Will you be covered in poop by the end of this?

[00:08:33]>> Yeah, that's okay. Thank you. my friend.

[00:08:36]I may be too. I'm nervous. Time for war.

[00:08:39]Time for war. Everyone get in your stations. Okay. Yes.

[00:08:42]>> THEY'RE GOING FOR IT. OH MY GOD. My goodness. My goodness. Unbelievable.

[00:08:49]HAPPY.

[00:08:55]>> Oh my god. Oh Jesus Christ. It just looks like mud, but you have to imagine when you're there, just the smell of this poop just everywhere being turned over every second. It just has to smell horrible. Also, I want you to look at these guys' faces. Every single guy here is smiling so big.

[00:09:20]>> And I swear, the moment I stepped in the pile of poop, it nearly swallowed me whole.

[00:09:24]>> It sucks me in.

[00:09:27]Oh, this is just disgusting.

[00:09:30]>> This is unbelie Oh, it just went all over that guy's mouth. He was standing there to just Oh, >> while I was hesitant to get my hands dirty, I realized the throwing of this poop was far more violent and aggressive than I expected. THIS WAS >> REALIZED THE THROWING OF this poop was far more violent and aggressive than I expected. This >> This guy just got like two or three mounds of poop to the back of his head.

[00:09:54]He's face first in the entire mound of poop. He's a face first in the land of the poop.

[00:09:59]>> This was war.

[00:10:04]>> While the men were throwing poop meteors enough to concuss each other, I was naive to think I could be a war journalist without getting shot in the crossfire.

[00:10:17]>> What the [ __ ] >> Hey. Hey, pray for me.

[00:10:26]>> He says, "Come play with me like the Joker."

[00:10:32]>> OH MY GOD.

[00:10:33]>> OH, I DON'T KNOW HOW HE'S NOT throwing up in his mouth right now.

[00:10:38]>> INDIA'S POOP THROWING FESTIVAL. THE SMELL IN HERE is inexplicable.

[00:10:48]>> Not the shot in the mouth.

[00:10:52]Oh, please.

[00:10:55]>> My man needs to get out of there. Why is he still there? Tyler, run. RUN, BUDDY.

[00:11:00]RUN. GET OUT OF THERE BEFORE YOU DIE IN THE POOP.

[00:11:18]Really look at this man here. This has to be a lowest point in his life right here. I was defeated. What if what the Indians online had said about me was true? Was my immune system weak? And was my mind even weaker? How could this be the thing that broke me? I had traveled over 10,000 miles for this day. Oh, it's okay. It's okay. It's okay. I'm good.

[00:11:39]Let's try it again. Let's try it again.

[00:11:40]And I couldn't let India down as their first participant from America. I refused to let the poop win.

[00:11:47]>> I got to try again. I got to try again.

[00:11:49]>> Oh my gosh. He's like making me feel like he's so heroic. Like he's Superman going back, but he's not saving anyone.

[00:11:54]He's just going to eat more poop.

[00:11:56]>> I had to make it all the way through to the other side of the battlefield.

[00:12:09]>> No, no, NO. OH. OH. BRUT a fatality. It is. It's pretty fun. Pretty fun. I like it. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[00:12:18]>> This is um complete warfare.

[00:12:21]>> It's just such chaos.

[00:12:28]>> I can barely navigate this [ __ ] right now. Can barely navigate it.

[00:12:32]>> I've been hit. I've been hit.

[00:12:34]>> This is festival for India. Proof.

[00:12:36]>> Poop.

[00:12:36]>> Yeah.

[00:12:37]>> India number one.

[00:12:37]>> YEAH. NUMBER ONE.

[00:12:38]>> AMAZING.

[00:12:40]They need to tell them it's the number one festival for poop. How many festivals for poop do they have?

[00:12:51]Happy.

[00:12:58]>> He's a happy and they started lifting up mouths to THROW AT HIM. HE'S RUBBING THE [ __ ] IN MY FACE.

[00:13:06]WHAT THE [ __ ] WHAT THE [ __ ] OH, I don't know how many more times I could watch poop get this man.

[00:13:21]>> I'm sinking.

[00:13:27]>> Even with the hazmat suit and goggles, I had reached my limit.

[00:13:32]>> What crappy video? This is so crappy.

[00:13:36]This is probably the crappiest video I've ever reacted to. This is bad. It blows my mind that this is real. That once a year people throw poop across the sky like it's the Fourth of July, literally. Yeah. I'll see you guys next time.