- [Rhett] Can we confirm where these germs first squirmed?
- [Link] Let's talk about that.
(intro music)
- [Link] Good mythical morning.
- [Rhett] We have swabbed some stuff around our homes,
and today we're gonna find out
what grew the most alarming amount of bacteria.
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- [Rhett] I've assumed so too.
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- [Rhett] He built a ukulele.
- [Link] Yeah. It's one thing to learn
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- [Rhett] Right.
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and while Lando finished this ukulele,
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(plays muted guitar strings)
- [Rhett] And then he played the muted strings.
- [Link] He played muted.
- [Rhett] Yeah, I get it, all right.
That's a great Lando impersonation.
All right, let me show you what Shep created.
- [Link] Uh huh.
- [Rhett] Okay.
Wait for it.
(laughs)
- [Link] There it is.
- [Rhett] Look at that. It's not a ukulele,
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Now let's discover firsthand where the most germs
are lurking right under our noses.
- [Link] It's time for
any time we're gonna see a clip of us,
or a mythical crew member swabbing something specific,
and then we're going to be presented with
two Petri dishes that are chock full of bacterial
material, and then we're gonna discuss
and try to match the bacteria to the correct place
that it came from.
- [Rhett] And we're going to be playing as a team,
you know, Team Lickdaddy Dan and Lickdaddy Dale,
coming up the hill, they got germs in a pail,
you know the guys, it's us.
And if we guess the majority of rounds right,
then we're gonna receive some sweet personalized
hand sanitizer.
- [Link] I need some of that.
Okay and since neither of us really knows what's
going on with these Petri dishes,
we reached out to our friend Science Mike,
and also to associate producer of,
not producer.
- [Rhett] Well.
- [Link] Professor.
- [Rhett] Professor, yeah.
Close second to producer.
- [Link] Right, of biology at King University
Dr. Laura Ong who is Emily, uh,
Emily babysat her kids.
- [Rhett] Right.
- [Link] So we got that.
- [Rhett] It's not Emily, it's Emily babysitting,
you said it was Emily.
- [Link] (laughs) No.
Emily's moonlighting as her babysitter apparently.
Not her babysitter, her kid's babysitter.
Good gosh.
- [Rhett] You know what, we all understand.
- [Link] Science!
They're gonna help us understand a little bit more
generally about what's up with these germs.
Stevie, I hope you have that information.
- [Stevie] Oh boy, do I.
- [Rhett] Okay and quick note, while swabbing
Petri dishes is a fun science experiment
that you could do at home, you're literally
growing bacteria, this ain't a sea monkey, so
you always wanna be safe, we followed safety
protocols for the proper handling and growth
of our Petri dishes, and as you can see we are
wearing PPE, and we're gonna make sure
to sanitize our desk after the game.
Safety first, guys.
Okay, let's see the first clips.
- This is my dirty gross working hand.
This is the hand I try to keep intentionally dirty.
It's called my dirty digits.
Let's find out just how dirty it is.
- Dip it in solution. Do a little air dry.
Rub it on my hands, which I got a lot
of weightlifting callouses from,
and I use a really rusty kettlebell at home,
and then I cook a lot of food,
and I go to the bathroom a lot.
(laughs)
What if there's an embarrassing amount of bacteria
on my hands and I get fired.
Is that a possibility?
I think I'm done.
- [Rhett] Now there's a big difference between
these two. Over here on A, you can see
it's a widespread infection of sorts,
- [Link] Infection.
- [Rhett] With a couple of like, uh, if you can see that,
- [Link] Oh, we have got a pen camera y'all.
- [Rhett] That's pretty nasty, but.
- [Link] The snowy, fuzzy and purple part.
Oh there's two eyes! Is it going to wink at us?
- [Rhett] There's a lot happening here.
- [Link] And there's less happening on B,
almost nothing happening.
- [Rhett] And it's also very uniform.
- [Link] As I watched Josh, and even in between
shots, when I'm on set, I know that he
is capable of washing his hands.
Pasley might be throwing us off when he's
like, saying 'I keep a dirty hand,' you know,
and Pasley's working on a bunch of different stuff
but like, bacteria is something that can from from
like, foods that then is cooked off.
- [Rhett] I agree with you but I also think
that Josh is washing his hands more often
than he even realizes because he's in there.
So I just think that for our own safety,
and just own security, I want to believe
that this is Josh.
- [Link] We want to believe this, we want to
believe that Pasley's dish has gone buckwild,
because someone's has.
- [Stevie] Okay wanna hear what the scientists
have to say about stuff?
- [Link] Yeah.
- [Rhett] Sure.
- [Stevie] So apparently, these look like
typical hand microbes aka skin flora, of course.
And Petri dish A has more types of skin flora
than B. Also those drier looking spots,
slash, colonies, are probably fungal,
but fungal spores are really common in the air
and they fall onto our skin all the time,
and we breathe them in constantly, so Petri dish A
- [Link] We can't hold that against them.
- [Stevie] Exactly, so, something that
the scientists wanted to note here is that
A and B's hands are not that different in how
dirty they are,
A just has more diversity
in what's on its hands, they wanted to stress
that it's important to note that without
bacteria you die,
so again it really
- [Link] They don't want Josh to lose his job.
- [Stevie] Yeah, exactly. So it's not about
dirtiness, it's about the diversity of materials.
- [Link] I think we need to switch them.
- [Rhett] Can we switch after the science portion?
- [Stevie] Yeah you can, you can switch,
I didn't give you the answer. But doesn't that
go against what you just said?
- [Link] Different foods, it didn't pick up
all these different things?
- [Stevie] Okay so you think that Josh has a more
diverse hand than Pasley.
- [Rhett] I don't know how I feel about that switch.
- [Link] I'm gonna give Josh a hard time
if this is the case, regardless
of what the science has said.
We've locked in.
- [Stevie] You have them swapped now.
You were right in the first place,
which makes sense because I would think that Pasley
would have a more diverse grouping.
- [Link] We were wrong, we were right then we were wrong,
and now it's right again.
Josh you're off the hook, Pasley I, you know.
You say you did it on purpose.
- [Rhett] He can touch all the wood he wants,
I mean with dirty hands, I don't care.
- [Link] All right, let's see the next one.
- Gonna start with a Big Mac.
A little bit off the top.
Let's get into that patty.
Whopper time.
Little bit off the top.
(laughs)
- [Link] Lucas is quite a burger swabber.
- [Rhett] Whopper versus Big Mac, okay so,
on A side over here, first of all
these look kinda similar if you just wanna pull B up,
but A is more like, granular,
and B is kinda smooth.
- [Link] A is
- [Rhett] It's more concentrated and rougher,
if that's a scientific term, versus B is like,
it's sorta just smooth.
- [Link] That white, oh, those
- [Rhett] There's some nasty stuff happening.
- [Link] It's like snot polyps.
A is more diverse, I mean there's a McDonald's, a-
- [Rhett] Let me see B again.
I mean B has, I don't know man.
- [Link] It's just got, it got four white spots.
- [Stevie] I'll tell you, B is more diverse.
(laughs)
- [Rhett] Yeah, B is more diverse in my mind as well.
- [Stevie] So
- [Rhett] A looks very similar, it's a lot of the same
exact thing, just sort of spread out.
- [Link] Which restaurant has more stuff floating
around in it?
- [Rhett] Burger King. Here's my theory, theory why,
here's my theory why.
McDonald's fries, Big Macs, that stuff kinda lasts
forever, I feel like sort of the system that this,
the system that creates McDonald's things
is even more like, sterile and utilitarian
than Burger King.
- [Link] So you're saying the more diverse
- [Rhett] Which would be Burger King.
- [Link] You guys are calling B,
is on Burger King.
- [Rhett] And at McDonald's, like, they only
let one kind of bacteria into a McDonald's.
- [Stevie] Okay so the scientists thought
that it had something to do with whether the
patties were frozen before they were cooked,
and how hot or how long they were cooked,
now all these obviously are just hypotheses,
but that was their best guess as to why
there was more diversity on B.
- [Rhett] We know that McDonald's patties are frozen,
are Burger King's patties like, not frozen
and that's like something advertised?
- [Stevie] Okay, you locked in?
- [Link] Yeah.
- [Stevie] You're right!
- [Rhett] Yeah.
- [Link] Yeah.
(background laughs)
- [Rhett] You, you seem like you're really coming
along for the ride. (laughs)
- [Link] Yeah I just, I'm a little lost, so cool.
Let's see another one.
- Okay this is my bathroom, my toilet,
this is the toilet that my rear end makes
the most contact with of any toilet in the house.
Oh gosh. This is where my booty sits.
This is where my booty sits.
Okay I'm in my boys' bathroom,
it does not smell good
in here, this is why I don't come in here on a
regular basis.
(groans)
- [Rhett] Pretty clean looking.
I didn't pre-clean their bathroom, that toilet looked
pretty clean, which I think it had just been cleaned.
- [Link] I mean, and stuff has grown here.
On both of these.
- [Rhett] They're pretty similar.
- [Link] Nothing's out of control.
- [Rhett] B is significantly,
significantly got more going on.
- [Link] Yeah show the, get out the pen light
and let's look.
We've got some defined
- [Rhett] There's not a whole lot happening
over on it, I mean there's, it's pretty similar,
pretty uniform.
But B, look at that.
- [Link] There's more defined yellow splotches
and a couple of orange splotches.
- [Rhett] Like look at that, that's just a random
orange thing.
- [Link] What does it mean when there's like,
some orange?
- [Stevie] Well we asked the science team
about the dots you see in the Petri dishes
which are a little bit different
than the ones you've seen before, and basically
they said to imagine that the center of each spot
was the landing place for each original bacterial cell.
The spots grow bigger as each microbe divides and multiplies
so the spots that we see have thousands to millions
of identical bacteria within them. Probably millions.
- [Rhett] Okay, I have to assume
- [Link] So this one has a little bit more.
- [Rhett] That's gotta be my boys. I mean, right,
I have to assume, I just have to.
I have to assume that my kids are dirtier than me.
- [Link] Jessie also uses your toilet too right?
- [Rhett] Well, she's cleaner than everybody.
- [Link] Hmm. When's the last time you specifically
washed your butt cheek?
- [Rhett] I wash the butt crack. And I guess the butt
cheek might get, you know.
- [Link] Do you think your boys wash their butt cheeks?
- [Rhett] No, they don't even wash their butt cracks.
They're boys.
- [Link] All right, well I defer to you, we're locked in.
- [Stevie] So I too wanted to believe that this was
correct, but it's not.
- [Rhett] Oh no!
- [Stevie] But again it doesn't mean that one's dirtier
than the other one.
- [Rhett] No it does mean that, Stevie.
- [Link] You need to start washing your butt cheek,
intentionally man.
- [Rhett] Maybe I will throw my wife under the bus,
my wife's got a dirty butt.
(Stevie laughs)
And now everybody knows. Put that on Twitter.
(laughs)
- [Link] Or let's just watch another video.
Okay here we have Lily's toothbrush,
swabbing Lincoln's toothbrush,
get it, get it, get it.
I am swabbing Lando's toothbrush.
- [Rhett] Do they know you did this?
- [Link] Uh yeah, I was going to say,
I did not tell them I was doing that,
but Lily was like, 'what are you doing?'
Because she caught me and I was like,
oh you know, just swabbing.
- [Rhett] Okay there are, these are very similar
on first blush but if you look closer,
there is a difference.
- [Link] B has the most different stuff.
- [Rhett] Most bacteria, that's most different.
I would say the most total bacteria.
- [Link] Most total.
- [Rhett] A has the most diverse collection of bacteria,
and C is the cleanest, so you as the dad of three kids,
who has the most bacteria, who has the most different
bacteria, and who is the cleanest.
- [Link] I, well, I'm actually encouraged across
the board, nothing to be embarrassed about here,
but I mean, Lando is certainly the most meticulous
out of my kids.
- [Rhett] Give him a C then.
- [Link] I'm gonna say the cleanest, which one says Lando?
- [Rhett] Right next to you.
- [Link] I'm gonna start off there, and then
Lincoln's in the same bathroom, they share a bathroom.
- [Rhett] That means that Lily probably stands on her own.
This is the most different from the two.
Because it's got the orange stuff.
Don't you think that Lily's getting the orange stuff?
(laughs)
- [Link] I think that might be from a, certain
feline litter box.
- [Rhett] Oh she's gonna get, get that cat disease.
- [Link] Well she brought it on herself.
- [Rhett] Toxoplasmosis, or whatever it is.
- [Link] So we are locking in.
- [Rhett] We might have that disease right here.
If we get all these right, we still get our
hand sanitizers? Hopefully please.
- [Link] Here they are.
- [Stevie] Yeah. Sure. I think we can part with them,
and that you can have the ones with your names on them,
yeah. Um, while we might wanna think the difference is here
because someone has a dirtier mouth, our scientists
believe that while the brushes are showing mouth bacteria,
things like how well the kids rinse the brushes,
how hot the water is they use to rinse,
and how well they shake off the brushes
to let them dry better would affect this type of
experiment, so that the main difference
like you pointed out, was the white bacteria is a little
more common on Petri dish B
than on A or C,
so it's possible that whoever has Petri dish B
rinses their brush less well than the other two.
- [Rhett] That seems consistent.
- [Link] Lincoln doesn't, he's not a rinser.
- [Rhett] Yeah this seems consistent.
- [Link] He's a brusher and a leaver.
- [Stevie] Okay. I'm gonna go through each one.
So Lando is C, you got Lando right.
- [Link] Ha!
- [Stevie] But you gotta switch the other two.
- [Rhett] Oh wow, so Lily's
- [Link] Lily's the leaver.
- [Stevie] Lily's is B, and Lincoln is A.
- [Rhett] So Lincoln is getting some orange stuff,
you need to ask him about that.
(background laughs)
and Lily needs to do more rinsing.
But you know what, Lando, just as we suspected.
He's got it on lockdown.
- [Link] And you know what, I'm gonna give you a little
personalized
- [Rhett] Aww, thank you.
- [Link] Sanitation of your gloves.
- [Rhett] Yeah, I got super super clean gloves.
- [Stevie] To be clear, you guys lost.
But you, yeah still sanitize.
It's important.
- [Rhett] No you know what, we'll give these to
somebody else, just as we deplete them of all
sanitary power.
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