Annoyed microbiologist 🦠

Unless you are living under a rock or have already perished from COVID-19, you've likely seen a YouTube video making the rounds where a medical doctor (wearing scrubs!) purports to give COVID-19 advice. (1/33)

Wow, one thousand (1,000) episodes and Halloween to boooo(t) riskyornot.co/episodes/1000-…. I also have an important announcement. Starting with Monday's episode (1001) we will only be posting new episodes once a week. Too many administrative responsibilities for both of us 😞

Apologies to everybody that has downloaded today's 1000th episode of Risky or Not. The audio was not correct, but I have fixed it. If you want the actual audio you can delete the incorrect version from your podcast player and re-download, and you should get the correct audio.

Kind of an odd-ball but interesting question. We have some fun tangents. riskyornot.co/episodes/999-w…

In a surprising split decision we break the less common way, where I say #Risky, and Ben does not. riskyornot.co/episodes/998-e…. I try to pull out just enough of my CV but Ben remains unconvinced.

This one was inspired by a weird Instagram post. riskyornot.co/episodes/997-c… definitely #Gross, but we both agree also #NotRisky.

This one was a split decision. I was not able to convince Ben that enough salt would make it safe. riskyornot.co/episodes/996-t…. Either way it's probably #Gross.

A big thanks to Ethan from "Don't Cook That" for the inspired topic riskyornot.co/episodes/995-c…, with some microbiology and toxicology related content. Please check out dontcookthat.com if it looks like your jam... if you listen to us, it probably is.

This has been a good week for Ben-related content. His kids featured on Monday, Canadian Thanksgiving on Wednesday and now some prime hockey related content. riskyornot.co/episodes/994-r…. I'm pretty sure that Ben's buddy does not wear hockey garb in the kitchen but you never know.

We were able to fulfill our mandatory Canadian content for this week with this episode. riskyornot.co/episodes/993-c…. Ben is able to provide his own data in support of his position. Apologies, as we missed the holiday by two days.

So what?

Ben did decide that this was going to be part 2 of an arc related to photographs we have on our phone riskyornot.co/episodes/992-w… I think I really startled him with my comment towards the end about pregnancy

Ben might consider this part of a leaky package arc riskyornot.co/episodes/991-t… we don't often think about toothpaste from a food safety perspective, but this was interesting to consider.

Thanks to the listener who wrote a really detailed question. riskyornot.co/episodes/990-b… sadly the food had been discarded before our verdict.

This was an interesting one riskyornot.co/episodes/989-e… we not all only got to explore the dangers associated with leaving food out of temperature control, we got into heat stable toxins and touched on prevalence and distribution of organisms in a food.

Today's episode was a fun one riskyornot.co/episodes/988-c… and not just because I got to quiz Ben on his Monty Python trivia knowledge.

Any day I can talk about Risk and prevalence and statistical sampling plans is a good day. riskyornot.co/episodes/986-e… sorry this is posting late

This was another example where we try to arbitrate a potential spousal dispute. riskyornot.co/episodes/985-e… file this one under #GrossButNotRisky

I got really behind on posting episodes from our latest batch of recordings. This one should've gone out yesterday riskyornot.co/episodes/987-a…. The good news is the next batch of future episodes is all loaded and ready to go. I'll also be posting about previous episodes to catch up.