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Stuff You Should Know

SYSK Selects: Does the five-second rule work?

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

You know when you drop a piece of food and if you pick it up within five seconds it's still good to eat?

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.4

Hey everyone, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S. case to Lex, I've chosen this episode

0:36.3

on the five-second rule.

0:38.2

And I want to point out that my opinion on what constitutes something that can be eaten

0:42.4

off of the floor has narrowed dramatically since this episode came out in January of 2013.

0:49.9

And I was also surprised to figure out how many of my cleanliness habits actually came

0:55.9

from researching this episode.

0:58.9

Maybe it'll have some sort of positive impact on you too.

1:01.7

Who knows?

1:02.7

There's only one way to find out and that is to enjoy this episode.

1:06.4

Thank you.

1:09.7

Welcome to Steffi Shed No, from Howstuffworks.com.

1:21.8

Hey and welcome to the podcast on Josh Clark, Charles W. Chuck Bryant's consulting is

1:26.1

notes he's wearing as classes everybody's getting ready to podcast.

1:29.8

So that means this is Steffi Shed No.

1:32.2

Stretching through my yoga, you just peed for the fourth time in the last hour.

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