WEBVTT - SYSK Selects: Does the five-second rule work? 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.720 M Hey everyone, it's me Josh and for this week's 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.280 s Y s K Selects, I've chosen this episode on 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.920 the five second rule, and I want to point out 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.920 that my opinion on what constitutes something that can be 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.600 eaten off of the floor has narrowed dramatically since this 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:20.040 episode came out in January of two. And I was 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.120 also surprised to figure out how many of my um 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:28.960 cleanliness habits actually came from researching this episode. Maybe it'll 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:31.880 have some sort of positive impact on you too. Who knows. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:33.960 There's only one way to find out, and that is 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:43.080 to enjoy this episode. Thank you. Welcome to Stuff you 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:51.879 Should Know from house stuff Works dot com. Hey, and 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.880 welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, Charles W. Chuck 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.360 Bryant's consulting his notes, he's wearing his classes. Everybody's getting 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:02.320 ready to podcast. So that this stuff, you know, stretching, 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.479 doing my yoga. You just pat for the fourth time 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.200 in the last hour, got more coffee and drink a 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:13.000 lot of coffee. But that was exciting. Yeah, And while 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:14.920 I was getting coffee, I was like, I used my 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.600 elbow to press the buttons to make coffee. Are you 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.480 doing that now, Um, I have become I'm trying to 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.520 think back to what initiated it, but I've definitely become 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.880 far more germ conscious. I'm not a germophobe, because I 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.839 can just be like, oh god, you know that's fine. 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:36.720 You your fingers touched your mouth, stop simpering, right, Like 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.119 I can get ahold of myself like that. But at 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.520 the same time, you know what it is. It was 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.840 that it was flesh eating bacteria when it was going 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.000 around Georgia for a little while. And then simultaneously like 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.440 being aware that, like the gym is lousy with germs, 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.760 and I think that that did a one two number 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.520 on me, and all of a sudden, I'm just very 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.320 I'm very aware of what I touch. Yeah, I'm not 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.160 super germ conscious. I have been more so though since 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.800 we've started learning more about this crap um. But we 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.720 have a mutual friend whose girlfriend won't even keep her 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:16.000 toothbrush in the bathroom. Oh really, Yeah, she said, why 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:20.720 would I among the fecal air? Why would I keep 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.480 my toothbrush in the bathroom? Makes sense? Yeah, And uh, 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.560 she knows who she is. I don't know who she is. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:31.799 I'll tell you after. Um, so you're kind of you're 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.680 okay with it, You're okay with the idea of germs. 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.440 I mean, there is this whole there's this whole thing 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.040 called the hygiene hypothesis, which makes uttering complete sense to 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.079 me that if you're allow more germs and you'll just 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.760 learn to fight them and have more robust immune systems. Yes, 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.399 especially growing up as a child and the children who 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.960 develop allergies, it's because they are raised in a sterile 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:57.880 lisol environment. My environment was filthy, dirty, and and so 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.120 when they finally get out into this very filthy an 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:05.200 the world e g Um preschool, Yeah, they are. They 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.640 don't have any anybody's built up for it. It makes 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.960 a lot of sense. I don't know that there's any 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.840 hard science that backs it up, but I don't know 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.080 that it's ever been disproven. But that's called the hygiene 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.440 hypods It appeals to me. It appeals to me. I'm 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.400 not I don't have allergies. I don't get sick that much. No, 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.359 and I'm unhealthy as it gets. I wouldn't call you that. No, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.800 I'm in the middle. Yes, I appreciate that. Okay, I 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:35.520 guess really the division line between a germophobe in a 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.760 non germophobe would probably be found somewhere in the five 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.640 second rule. When don't you think sure? So, like if 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.720 I dropped something, depending on what it was and where 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.640 I dropped it, I would possibly eat it. There's a 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.480 there's a comedian here in Atlanta. It's pretty good. It 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:57.880 names no Garden Schwartz and he's saying, yeah, yeah, it 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:02.960 means Noah Black Garden, I think and uh. He was 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:07.680 saying that, Um, the five second role is basically exists 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.200 on a sliding scale. Like if it's a piece of broccoli, 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:14.760 it's like a zero second agreed. If it's like a cheeto, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.000 it's like a whenever I find it rule. Whenever I 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.960 find it, pick it up and eat it. Roll. Um. 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.920 He does it way better than me. But he had 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.400 a great observation about the five second role. The point 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.080 is for me, it depends on what it is where 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.360 it is, not really even how long it's been there. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.400 I mean, if if it's because there's so long and 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.920 it's under the couch and there's like dust bunnies accumulated 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.640 on it, I won't eat it. No, no, no, you 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.880 wouldn't eat anything that you didn't recently drop. Would you 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.200 if you just found a cookie on the floor, you 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:52.000 would eat it. Again, it depends on where where it 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.120 was found. Like some places seem far cleaner to me 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:01.800 than other's, Like my in Numi's apartment is very very clean. Sure, 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.880 So if it fell and was just slightly under the couch, 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.640 yeah yeah I would. Yeah, I'd eat it. It depends. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.640 I mean, if it were a piece of salami or something, 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.840 I wouldn't. But if it were like a very dry cookie, 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:21.960 perhaps they a good potato chip, Yeah, that wasn't stale yet, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.560 it's very clean, I would blow it off and eat it. Yeah, 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.680 I would. Um, since we're talking about our sliding scales, 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:34.080 I would eat nothing that I didn't recently drop, unless 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.120 it was a if it was like a little bit 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:41.880 sweets Um the King, they're candy bar the King. If 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.960 I found one of those that I had just forgotten 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.800 that was under my couch, unwrapped on the floor, I 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.280 would eat that no matter how long it had been there. 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.920 I would maybe rinse it off, or I would melt 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:57.360 it down or in reform it or do something deconstructed. 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.920 That's why I would do that. Um, you know, they 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:05.400 released a box a selection of caramels called stuff you 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.440 Should Eat a little Bit Sweet stuyah, and it says 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.920 specifically on their website that that's in honor of us. 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:15.159 Thank you, listen jen Um. Okay, So I feel like 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.480 we've gone in depth on what we do with the 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.600 five second rule. The question still remains, Chuck, is it? 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.520 Is it viable? Is that a real thing? Like if 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.679 you if you are an adherent to the five second 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.400 rule and you're like, I'm a very clean person. I 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.840 only eat stuff that's been on the floor for five 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:36.400 seconds or less. Are you full of it? Well, you're 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.400 sort of full of it. You're totally full of it. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.960 There's a high school student UH in two thousand three, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:45.560 Jillian Clark and UM. She was doing her internship at 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.039 the UH fighting L I and I of the University 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.679 of Illinois, and she said, you know what, we should 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.640 do a little study because it's the old wives tale 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.680 about the five second rule. And she coded, um, these 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.920 tiles with E. Coli, which is really gross, and drop 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.760 cookies and gummy bears and things onto the surface for 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.040 certain amounts of time and then studied what kind of 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.760 bacteria picked up And of course no matter how long 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.400 have they been down there, bacteria did jump onto the 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:16.280 food within five seconds. What is important to point out, though, 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:17.760 is the long you left it there, the more it 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.600 picked up. So the five seconds are under is important. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.960 Like it's usually not five seconds for me. If I 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:25.680 drop a piece of food, I've got it back within 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.200 my hand in like two seconds. I've seen it. You're 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.560 like a like a ninja. And it matters because the 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.560 longest they are, the more bacteria it's gonna pick up. Right, Yeah, yeah, um. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.640 So Jillian Clark just did this very initial preliminary investigation, 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.640 but she was a pioneer and received the two thousand 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:46.600 four Ignoble Prize for Public Health for her efforts. Yeah. Um, 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:51.640 and so she kind of she established this trail. She 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.880 blazed the trail. Uh. And then about four years later, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:08:00.120 some closing university researchers really kind of dug in to 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.679 figure out what was going on with this five second 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:07.240 rule and built on Clark's work. Tigers. Yeah, I mean, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.360 we gotta say it. I don't feel like we do. Okay, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.280 screw you, tigers. Um, all right, so what did they 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:16.880 found out? They found out, Well, if you thought that 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.160 the same thing, right, if you thought the E. Coli 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.560 bacteria and the tiles was gross, and where you're going. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.280 These guys created a broth of salmonella. They call it 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:30.080 salmonella soup, which is so nasty. Yeah, and they they 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.839 applied it to three different types of material, because I mean, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.560 like sure, maybe five seconds you're gonna get some bacteria 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.800 on it. But what if what doesn't it depend on 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.040 the kind of food. Doesn't it depend on the kind 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.319 of surface that comes in contact with So these investigators 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.360 their pros they were at Clemson. Um, they applied to 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:52.400 salmonella soup to tile, would surface and carpet, right, and 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:57.400 then they started dropping bread and bologny on it. Good choice, 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.880 why not? Um? And they they found what Clark found 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.600 that in less than five seconds, no matter how short 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.920 at the time, but there was a bacterial transfer, Yeah, 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.640 between a hundred and fifty and eight thousand bacteria if 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:16.440 under five seconds, and consider this with salmonella, you only 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:22.840 need ten individual bacterium too for what's called an infectious dose. Okay, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.280 so that is five seconds or under. If he left 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:26.800 it down there for a minute, it was going to 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:31.280 be ten times that. And um, there are ten strains 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.640 of salmonella not I mean, besides just the bacteria, it's 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.280 there's a lot of stuff going on down there on 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:41.199 your floor, most notably poop on your shoes. Yeah, that's 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.880 another thing too, everywhere. But you should you should take 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.599 your shoes off. My wife is of Japanese ancestry, and 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.160 I definitely picked up from hers, like you take your 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:52.959 shoes off when you come in the house, so you 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:54.920 just walk around without shoes on all the all the time, 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.400 or slippers or something. Yeah, because like, especially if you're 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.280 germ conscious, man, if you go into a public bathroom 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.240 and you walk out of there, you're the bottom of 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.040 your shoes are just like a nightmare. You don't want 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.000 to track that all over your house because you may 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.880 find a cookie on your couch that you want to eat. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.720 You have to plan for the future basically, and that 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.800 starts with taking your shoes off in your house. For 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.880 some reason, I don't think the Japanese culture is rooted 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.560 in the hopes that you'll find a cookie on your 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.880 floor and be able to eat it. No, maybe not, 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.600 but they are bigging into taking their shoes. My friend 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.719 Jason and in Tokyo that he is married to a 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.280 woman in Keiko and years ago when we're living in Athens, 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.920 they started that tradition of removing your shoes and he 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.360 was like, hey, you mind, I was like, of course, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:39.520 not watch this. Well. Sometimes they will even provide like 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.600 slippers and stuff for guests, like if you're in a 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:47.040 Japanese home, so you're still wearing shoes in there, But 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.400 I guess you point have never left your house, so 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.240 that's the deal. Yes, and I don't like wild environment, 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.679 you're all good. Yeah, And I won't wear my slippers 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.920 in the bathroom either. I gotta tell you, I just 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.400 got some new slippers. What go barefoot in there? The 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.240 socks or whatever? Yeah, okay, but like I don't want 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:08.880 to burn the socks cut my feet. I bought some 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.760 new slippers. Dude. I'm not usually wanted to plug things 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.880 on the air, But if you're a grown man and 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.200 you want some the best slippers you've ever had, and 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.120 you don't mind throwing down little cash us men slippers, 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.680 my friend, what do you think I wear that we were? Yes, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.559 I wonder if they're the same ones. They are like 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.680 little loafer sort of swede. Mine don't have a back. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.040 They just have this soul have a back, and they 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:32.480 have like the hard bottom, so you can go out 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.440 and get in the mail or if you're me, go 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:39.080 to the grocery store. Man, it's so comfortable and all 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:43.640 the what is it upper or whatever, it's not as sharp. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.640 It's called sharper lining. Oh is it? Yeah? The sheep 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:52.920 shear that's what That's what some people call it. So cozy. Okay, 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.200 so slippers. I need to start plugging these things and 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.920 giving them for free. I'm a sucker. Always buy them 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.480 and then plug them, right, but it's not a sucker. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:25.400 Chuck here above the boards. Okay, Um, So back to it. Oh. So, 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.920 the longer the stuff stayed in contact the more the 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.080 more it was, the more bacteria that came upon it. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:37.280 But surprisingly what they found was that the transfer was 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.959 the least for carpet. The type of surface that came 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:41.840 in contact with made a difference. I thought it was 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.760 the most for carpet was the least. It was the 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:50.079 least transferred. But the stuff survived in the carpet longer, 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.960 so it all washed out. So it made some difference, 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.040 but not really. Whether it's wood, tyler carpet, when you 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.600 drop something on it, there's going to be a a 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:03.120 lot of bacteria transfer. But this stuff survives on these services. Carpet, 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.360 you're kind of like, okay, yeah, there's a lot to it. 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.600 There's pile and you know, there's some sort of Berber 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.000 factor and all that. Um, you can't forget the Berber factory, right. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.559 Uh So, of course, Carpet, that's not much of a 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.360 surprise that there's a lot of bacteria in there. But 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.520 would or tile Not only do they find that, like 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:23.199 the stuff can survive for a while, it survives for 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:28.040 up to a month. A month after they put this 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.160 stuff on there, a month later there was still living 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:36.200 bacteria enough for an infectious dose on all three surfaces. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:39.840 A dude, that's okay, I'm becoming more of a drama fobe. 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.839 And yeah, we're all turning into David Putty right now. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:52.040 And yeah, remember he and Peggy who called Elaine Suze Susie. 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.720 They both turned out to be germaphobes. They had like 0:13:54.720 --> 0:14:01.520 a little bacteria. Yeah, remember Cramer made a radish rose 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.040 in his shower. He had a garbage disposal in his 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.400 shower so he could remember bathe at the same time. 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:12.360 It was that episode. Um, so I know earlier you mentioned, Um, 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.400 it's just kind of off handedly said, you know, if 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.480 it's something dry like a cookie, or that actually makes 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.840 a difference. You found out that moisture can be the 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.840 key to more bacteria transfer. Um, So a dry cookie 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.440 versus a piece of like wet bologna or salami or 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:33.600 moist bolognay I said, moist bologny, Um, we'll have more bacteria. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.640 And that's why they say when you go to the 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.320 restroom and you wash your hands, the drying is just 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.400 as important, if not more important than the watching. Yeah, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.360 they found that, um, this transfer bacteria seems to be 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:49.080 facilitated by moisture. Right, so when you touch something with 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.960 your wet hands, you're gonna get a bunch of a 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.840 bunch of bacteria transferred onto your hands. If you wash 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.600 your hands and then use one of those hands free 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.600 paper towels spencers and dry your hands, you can touch 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.560 that a surface that you would have touched with your 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.480 wet hands, and you're gonna have far less bacteria transferred 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.560 to it. Yea, or nowadays the air dryers in the bathroom, 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.440 have have you noticed in the past few years or 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:13.520 just like for fifty years, it was the same air dryer. Oh, 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.240 now there's the accelerator. Now there's the accelerator and the 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.640 Dyson blade dryer. I like the accelerator because the Dison 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.280 blade do you have to stick your hands down in 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.080 there like that and it's almost like playing operation, Like 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.520 it's almost impossible not to touch the side, and then like, 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.520 what's what does anyone clean the bottom of those things? Like? 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.680 I don't think so. The accelerator, it's all just like 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.480 blowing your hands and you're you're done, and it's you 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.560 cannot touch things more. It's true. I like the accelerator 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.040 because the the way it makes your skin ripple, like 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.400 the g forces is pretty amazing. Like we were in 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:48.200 the indoor skydiving thing. Oh yeah, exactly. And let's talk 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.400 about hands real quick, chuck. So there's a study that 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.560 came out of the University of Colorado at Boulder and 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.920 UM they found some really surprising things using this technique 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.920 called metagenomics where they take a swab of like a 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.640 sample off of your hands and then rather than doing culture, 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:10.200 they do basically a DNA profile for everything found in 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:15.160 that swab. What they find, well, they did fifty one participants. 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:23.160 They found different bacteria species across the fifty one participants UM, 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:27.640 and what what I found was particularly interesting. They found 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:32.360 that um only five percent of these species were found 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.960 in all fifty one participants. No, five period, not even percent. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.000 Oh yeah, five period. So out of all these species 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.480 only when we're sharing. So that means we there's just 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.600 way more out there than we thought, I guess. Huh ye, 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:46.640 And it's just luck of the drawers to what leaps 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.920 to your hands, I guess so. And not only your hands, 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.680 but specific hands too. They found that the right and 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:57.080 left palms of a single person shared only seventeen percent 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:03.440 of the bacterial species, So that means there's different species 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:07.040 on different hands of the same person. That's weird. And 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.399 then women tend to have a higher diversity of bacteria 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:15.159 on their hands than men. Not necessarily more uh bacteria total, 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:19.800 but more diversity among species. Interesting. So depending on which 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.439 hand you shake, you're going to be getting a different 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.399 type of bacteria from someone. Yeah. And if somebody like 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.280 shakes your hand is like, oh, it's just water, I 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.160 washed my hand, punch them in the head because you're 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:35.600 that's bacterial transfer. Jerk dry your hands. Yeah, and uh, 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.359 and since you mentioned women. Um, I think the study 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.640 by the girl in two thousand three found that women 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.560 are more likely to eat something off the floor than men, 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.800 which surprised me. What surprised me is where the person 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:49.919 who wrote this article got that. I couldn't find it. 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.879 Anyone didn't either. I saw that women were more familiar 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:54.960 with the concept of the five second rule, but that 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.119 not that they used it more. Yeah, you know what, 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:02.240 I'm gonna call that a dubious statement, then dubious indeed. Uh, okay, 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.640 so you've eaten something off the floor? Are we get 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.399 on hands? Yeah? Thanks for that, okay. I like in 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.680 the article they pointed out that out of the fifty 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.880 one participants, there were a hundred and two hands. Yeah, 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:15.919 it's just like, all right, so good. You didn't have 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.199 any amputees in the study, right. What was funny is 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.480 I was I didn't think it added up, and then 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.000 I realized that's why I stopped for a second a 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.320 minute ago. Um, all right, so you've picked up a 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.920 cookie off of the floor, it's dry, it's been down 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.360 there for three seconds, and you think, you know what, 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.840 I'm gonna roll the dice and eat it because my 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.199 stomach acids and the acids, and my saliva is going 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.919 to kill all this stuff factor fiction. That is fiction. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.600 That is very much fiction. So says uh. The germ 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:48.720 guru of the University of Arizona, go, what are they? Wildcats? 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.400 Sun devils? Who's the Arizona State? That's Arizona State. Arizona's wildcats, 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:57.800 cats go wildcats. Charles Gerba, his name almost looks like germ, 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:02.119 yeah close or gerb closer than Clark. Like he's the 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.679 adult version of the Gerber baby. So he says that 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:10.560 uh virus is actually uh survived the low pH In fact, 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:12.480 a lot of them like it, and that pretty much 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.480 any bacteria that you can infect your intestine with is 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.840 going to stay alive long enough to get to your intestine, right, 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.800 it's going to survive that that acidity in your stomach. Yeah. Look, look, 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.520 look for a podcast on digestion. That was a good one. Man, 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.440 That was great if you want to learn how that works. Um, 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.320 And it does make a difference on where it's landed. 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.440 Like you said, Um, some floors are more dangerous than others. 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:40.200 In bathrooms are the worst place on earth. Yeah, And kitchens, 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.200 actually kitchens are the worst. There's supposedly dirtier than bathrooms. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.960 It depends on the bathroom. But yeah, Gerba points out 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.679 that of all the shoes that he's ever analyzed, and 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.520 this guy like runs around on Good Morning America in 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:53.639 the Today Show and like analyze this stuff and just 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:59.800 freaks people out. It's like kind of his um, his trade. Yeah, 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.480 he said that the fecal matter appears on about of 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.000 the shoes he's ever analyzed. Of course it does. Yeah, 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.679 like I said, there's poop everywhere, poop everywhere, especially in 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:14.000 my house. So uh yeah, you'd think of public restrooms 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.439 pretty bad, and it is, but it depends on what 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.240 part of the public restroom you're talking about, and sometimes 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.960 compared to other places that it doesn't hold a candle. 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:28.760 There's some surprising germ statistics that were about to unleash 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:32.080 on you. Let's start with uh, let's just jump all over. 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.280 Then I got the kitchen floor. UM, the area on 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:37.000 the kitchen floor just in front of your sink. We're 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.600 gonna be doing your dishes and dropping food and poop. 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:44.600 UM has more bacteria than your trash can square inch 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:50.200 as opposed to four eleven, So double um and your 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.600 kitchen sponge I know everyone knows that that's a really 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:56.520 filthy thing to have. You remember that one necessary but filthy. 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.359 Remember the I think the Clorox wipes or lights Al 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:01.760 wipes commerce Still where the lady was using a sponge 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:03.199 or like, if you're using a sponge, you might as 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:05.159 well be doing this, and she was just rubbing like 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:07.320 a raw chicken breast on her counter like it was 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:11.080 a sponge. That's basically true, though. It's like you you 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.240 should be really careful with your sponge, what you clean 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.399 with it, what you don't clean with it, um, the 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:20.439 letting it dry out, changing it like regularly. Like if 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:23.200 you've got a two month old kitchen sponge and you're 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.960 using that to wipe your counter, you were spreading bacteria 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.360 all over the place. You don't love your family, so 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:29.880 you can use it at first, is what I do. 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.960 Because I'm a clean guy. My wife is not. I 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:36.199 will clean up after her with a sponge and then 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.600 I'll go back with my organic spray and then do 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:43.160 the paper towel wipe after that. That's the final step 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:46.160 in the process. As always, the dry paper towel with 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.880 my seventh seven stuff is what I used. And then 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:54.679 a little bit of lighter fluid sterilized the counter. All right, 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:58.000 So your kitchen floor is is dirtier than your trash can. 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:02.480 Your sponge holds sixty times more bacteria than your pet 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:05.840 food bowl, even though pet food bowls are pretty gross too, 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:08.440 supposedly because you don't clean them out as much. Sure, 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:14.720 and all of this is germier than a toilet seat. Yeah. 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:17.080 You always hear that the old toilet seat. Yeah, And 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:20.320 I think the reason why the toilet seat is surprisingly 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:25.560 cleaner in comparison, or surprisingly germ free compared to other 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:28.360 things like your kitchen sink and all that is because 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:32.200 people clean the toilet seat more frequently because they think 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:34.359 of it as a dirty place. And this is kind 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:36.920 of borne out in another study that Gerba carried out 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:41.320 on behalf of the Chlorox Corporation, who make lights all wipes, UM, 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:43.560 and he found that one of the dirtiest places in 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:50.520 the universe is a person's desk. And he found that, um, apparently, 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:52.959