Phil Smyth
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410 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Phil Smyth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Good morning, here are we talking about washing again, I see.
Well well well this is uh a problem that is a I am acutely aware of because I have ADHD so I will often had previously washed clothes five or six times over the course of three days.
Uh and what's happening is uh a bacteria is building up and I suppose we're talking about this because there was someone that was saying that uh uh uh bacteria is building up and can be like after eight hours you can have as much bacteria as as you know, uh without washing it.
And that's not necessarily true.
It's a headline that kind of got slightly ahead of the science.
The idea is basically right.
Washing, it's not sterilizing your clothes.
Like microbes are still alive, they're they're still there, and leaving them sitting in something wet and warm is very kind of it's like a I suppose a bacteria Airbnb where you're kind of just the perfect conditions to relax and grow.
Uh there isn't necessarily good scientific evidence about the
Eight hour deadline.
Um, so you shouldn't be setting an alarm for seven hours, 59 minutes.
But it is one of the kind of tropes or conditions you're trying to save money and use energy when it's not on higher demand, and then they sit there for a longer time.
The the biggest thing about this is you're you're obviously taking bacteria, it's coming from from us, from the water, from the washing machine itself.
So I suppose domestic washing machine.
machines have their own little microbial communities that are living in damp places like the rubber seal.
I know it sounds gross, but it's actually quite cool because they live in the rubber seal and the like the detergent drawer.
And if you're washing close to thirty to forty degrees to kind of save energy, sometimes that doesn't, you know, get to a higher level to kill all the bacteria and you'll need a higher clean wash every so often to kind of clean things out.
Well, we're remote we're we're removing a lot of it.
I suppose one of the things to understand is that and in science is always about definitions, is the difference between clean and sterile.
We're also not trying to get them sterile.
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