Is it OK to wear outside clothes on your bed?
NO SUCH THING
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4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, we tackle our first listener-submitted question: is it OK to wear outside clothes on your bed? Everyone has strong opinions, but what does the science say? We speak with microbiologist Dr. Lisa Cuchara of Quinnipiac University and ran a swab test to get some answers.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Annie. I'm Noah. |
| 0:01.7 | This is Devin, and this is no such thing. |
| 0:04.0 | The show will resettle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. |
| 0:08.7 | Today's question, is it okay to wear your outside clothes on your bed? |
| 0:13.0 | We go beyond the vibes and actually send some swabs to a lab. |
| 0:17.5 | We have the results back from the lab. |
| 0:20.5 | I can't wait. |
| 0:23.2 | There's no such thing. |
| 0:25.2 | No such thing. |
| 0:28.2 | No such thing. |
| 0:31.2 | No such thing. |
| 0:32.0 | No such a thing. |
| 0:34.1 | No such a thing. |
| 0:37.1 | Okay. So this one actually, manning came up at your birthday party. |
| 0:45.1 | We were talking about the podcast and we were asking people, do you have any ideas that we should, you know, debate or talk about? And Jordan, our good |
| 0:57.3 | friend was like, is it actually bad to wear outside clothes inside? Like if you're on the train and you |
| 1:03.4 | have, like, clothes and you sit down on your bed, are you actually tracking in a lot of germs? |
| 1:08.9 | Well, let's let me back up. Growing up, it was very much a thing in my house where my parents would be like they were |
| 1:16.4 | like outside clothes and they were like inside clothes. |
| 1:19.1 | So if you went outside to play in clothes, when you, if you came inside and you were in for |
| 1:25.9 | the day, you would change your clothes because the clothes that you were previously wearing have outside dirt and germs. |
| 1:36.1 | And this is like no matter what you were doing. |
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