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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
What I'm about to tell you all is going to
make you feel gross.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Your skin is going to crawl, You are going to
maybe want to burn your house down.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Don't do that.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
There is a doctor that has come out and.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Revealed the everyday household items that are dirtier than your
toilet's seat. And now this article is being red and
shared so many times, but I'm pretty sure it's because
of how hot the doctor is, which has nothing to
do with it. But I'm going to get a bit
sizsy here for a minute. He talks about these things
in units of c f us, which is colony forming units. Now,
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that is how they see how dirty something is. It's
bacteria per square inch. Before we get into a list though,
and rat that off.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, the only thing that I have been told that's
more dirty than a toilet is money.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
That's like have you heard that old wives tail?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
That's money that lives tale that every single dollar coin
or like coin or notes.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Or whatever have actual preop particles on them.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Well, I've also heard I've got a few other ones.
The door handle of the toilet.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is the worst than the truth.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
You don't wash your hands.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
What touches the toilet seat?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Guy?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Maybe? Okay, don't answer that. My brain was going one hundred.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Now depends on if a man is sat down to
do a poo, because then it's more things to touch
on the toilet seat usually.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I've also heard a rumor that toilet yes trush.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Days, you've got to tuck it in my Okay, my usband.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Into this show, he'll be thrilled.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Okay, let's get back on track.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
So to give you context, because we want to base
it off this, a toilet seat has fifty CFUs Okay,
forming units.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That's the bacteria. So we're going with fifty bits of bacteria.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Now, listen to this.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
A TV remote you sit down at night, one hand
in the popcorn, then you touch the TV remote that
has five thousand CFUs. So that's one hundred times dirtier
than your toilet seat.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And it's discussing.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Okay, you think that's bad.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
No, strap in cutting board can have up to ten
thousand CFUs.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That makes it two hundred times dirtier.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I can believe this one though, And I also wonder
is like plastic chopping boards or wooden chopping boards worse
because wouldn't it can't be good.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Wooden harbor is more bacteria.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Of course, it's soaksen and then just sits in there
and then every so often you give it a bit
of a wash, right, and there's your chicken for three days.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
This one, I feel like, we know, but this is disgusting.
It makes me want to go get some bacteria wipes
and wipe it down now. But your mobile phone twenty
five thousandfu poos.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Surely boobs, surely though.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Your mobile phone is only dirtier if you're someone who
doesn't wash your hands, because if you're the only person
handling your phone, it's because it's everywhere other people put
their hand on a surface, The phone goes on the surface,
then it goes onto your hand.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It's like it transfers off every But.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Then your hands would have more dirt on them than
a toilet seat because they're touching.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It's your hands, they do.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I don't have the poohs stats on that one, but
then your hands, God forbid, let's stick around.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
That's going to be our next week's show.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But do you want to know what the two highest
ones were?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
A pillowcase if you're not washing your pillowcase weekly, which
I reckon most people listening, I don't think people are
doing it weekly, maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Bi weekly, like bi weekly is twice.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I mean fortunately, Yeah, thank you for that bi weekly.
You're killing it. Bi weekly, You're good.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
But a pillow case if left unwashed for one week,
three million poos and then if we move on to
the killer, the number one, So you need to go
home and throw these out single use your kitchen sponge.
What you think you were wiping bacteria with to clean
it is actually spreading it ten million.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
See if you poos?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Do you know what? Though?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I listened to this and yeah, look horror terrorizing. Ah,
I'm so scattered of the germs.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I'm not a very germy.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Person as in, like, I don't care about germs as
much as we do.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
You sick every week? No, but I'm not sick. That's
my point.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
My point is is that I think you need germs
to be able to have some sort of immunity.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think ten thousand poop particles.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
No, But I think we worry a bit too much
about Like I'm the mom that when I dropped back
in the day, my kids are not with dummies anymore.
But dummy drops on the ground, Pick up the dummy,
wipe it on your shirt, shove it back in the kid.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
She's fine.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I look, I eat off the floor all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
It's fine.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'm not a jemmy person. I worked in a hospital
for thirteen years. I have picked up everything, and I
have a really great immunity. But there's something about knowing
that you are spreading ten thousand poopsy if youse across
your bench when you're wiping it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's just not cool. I think there's some things we
need to learn from it. I think throw it out.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I agree. And just because it's soap doesn't mean it's clean.
I will never forget.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Just because it's cold. I mean, raining doesn't mean it's cold.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
No, I will never forget being in a public toilet
once I was like maybe thirteen years old. It's a
memory that stuck with me forever. And I went to
wash my hand. There was a bar it was a
bar soap that was sitting in this public toilet. You
know when the bar soap's like old and dried and
it's got like it's crabby in it, and it's well,
it's just got the cracks in it because it's so dry,
and the cracks are kind of like black in between
the cracks. The soap was there. This old lady was
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in the in the bathroom. She was washing her hands
as well. This was just with water. And she turned
around to me as I went to reach it, and
she goes, Darling, just because it's soap doesn't make it clean,
It's true. And I looked at that soap and I
was like, I'm gonna that's a wise, wise woman right there.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And I've kept that lesson my whole life, and I
kept that soap.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I've still got it.