hey everybody adam savage here in my cave and i am answering mythbuster questions submitted by tested
patrons and uh andrew bahal's ba hls balls balls uh andrew balls wants to know this is a nice one
uh what mythbusters myth result had a direct impact on your everyday life
for me after watching the myth that everyone uses the first all the public restroom so
therefore you should use the last one of which the popularity of myth proved its bustedness
complicated sentence structure but i get you uh andrew says he immediately started using the
first stall and saw a marked improvement not that the bar is particularly high um
yes yeah the bacteriological myths definitely removed um
they definitely how do i put this things are way dirtier than i realized once we started
sampling stuff using using agar soy agar plates and growth media and and ovens to grow bacteria
in petri dishes um what we learned was the world is filthy and we are a colony of filthy bacteria
and all sorts of stuff and a lot of that it like helps us run correctly but like make no mistake
99 of the cells in your body are non-human in origin you and i we are all colonies of organisms
mythbusters really helped solidify that for me um i too now take the first bathroom stall
immediately after that story i started taking the first bathroom stall and i too have noticed
an improvement albeit the bar is low uh but the most radical shift in my life from making
a mythbusters episode was our mythbusters flu spreading episode which came in handy this year uh
having made my own made our own high-speed shots of transmissible sneezes how far they go
uh talking about the size of bacteria double dipping with when where we learned that humans
shed like 50 to 100 000 skin scales per hour as they just move as we move through the world um
so what was the difference that it actually made i know that's the question the difference
that it made for me in the time of covid and the lockdown was to feel somewhat confident that the
measures i was taking were enough um they gave me uh and i'll wager all the other mythbusters
although i haven't checked in with any of them it gave me a perspective from which to look at
the best available recommendations for comporting oneself in order to not receive the virus and
to be totally clear here my hero in this regard is carrie byron because if you haven't watched
the flu episode i think it's still up for free discovery put it up shortly after the lockdown
which is awesome of them um and in that episode i we replicated a scientific methodology from a
famous uh flu spreading experiment in which i had a fluorescent dye dripping right off the side of
my nose from my glasses something that i had to deal with like a like a post nasal drip and
we held a dinner party and at the end of the dinner party we put black light on the table and
everything was covered with the fluorescent dye that had started at my face everything
everything it was on wine glasses on all the silverware and all the plates oh my god it was
absolutely disgusting totally disgusting and you know who didn't have one little bit on them and
that is carrie byron who was already a bit uh germphobic and boy was she was she like seemed
to be the god of academe in our team on that front so like when lockdown happened i just
want you to know that i had no worries about carrie and how she would how she would fare um
the bacteriological myths were also some of the most fun scientific methodologies that we did
which is funny i didn't expect that but like coming up with a a correct methodology a
a reasonable methodology for double dipping in salsa in which
i blended soy agar sterile soy agar i sterily blended it into a
mash of that was that was the same texture as salsa so that you could dip it and bite it
yeah so what you do is you have people dip in salsa take a bite and then dip in the soy agar
and take that bite away and then we would test to see if any of the bacteria from their bite
ended up in the soy salsa and the answer is it didn't double dip to your heart's content
as long as you're working with a dry chip let's just be clear um yeah double tip to your heart's
content you there's no issues there whatsoever george costanza was being a bit of a jerk when
he was double dipping but i'm here to tell you that the science supports him how many times did
i say i'm here to tell you it's just ridiculous a ridiculous thing of course you're watching
of course i'm yeah that's that's it's just like a flourish that's unnecessary
i think i might try and remove it from my vocabulary yeah i might um let's see nope
that's about it andrew i really oh you know what the other one the other one that really changed
my life was that your mood affects your fuel efficiency more than almost any other single thing
understanding that and realizing it and then watching myself and seeing the way i drive when
i'm mad the way everyone drives when they're mad that was that was fascinating fascinating and it
really has uh it's definitely changed the way i drive since we shot that story andrew thank you
for that great question uh i really appreciate it and uh to everyone on uh tested patrons
of the tested patrons please keep submitting your questions and i will keep enjoying answering them
thank you guys so much stay safe wear a mask happy holidays and i'll see you next time