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Did we want to just keep doing the intro in the same direction that we’ve been doing it?
Or did we want to?
Yeah.
Hi, friends.
I’m Jacob and that’s Reese.
And this is That Which Doesn’t Kill You, a podcast where we speak about pop culture and
dreadful things and end each episode by setting some intentions for the following week.
Today we’re talking about microbiomes.
If you have any questions, comments or random thoughts you’d like to start a future episode
with, send us a DM on Instagram at our new handle, Argonauts.tube.
Beautiful.
Thank you.
I am super excited to introduce today’s tarot card,
which I again used AI to decide for us
because the pack is all the way over there.
– Over there.
We can’t, we’ll never reach it.
– It’s too far away.
It’s at least two inches away
from your fingertips right now, so it’s too far.
– It will never happen.
– And we were given the Tower, upright,
meaning sudden change, revelation of the truth,
Unexpected events, disruption of the status quo
and liberation from old patterns.
– Nice.
– Which I think is very relevant to us right now
because our old pattern was not recording.
And so we are liberated from that old pattern
by recording in this moment.
– Yes.
– Unexpected events.
– A lot.
– I mean, what isn’t unexpected?
– Yeah, I–
– You think I planned for this?
– I planned for nothing.
Everything just happened to me.
– It’s so scary.
It just bubbles over.
– I’ve been, yes.
I’ve been unprepared for the revelation of the truth.
– This week we are talking about microbiomes
as you so eloquently told us.
And I’m very excited because we,
in my head earlier I had a little joke
and I was like, “He, he.”
I was like, this is like the follow-up
to the incels episode.
(both laughing)
– What, why?
– Not because they’re both little bugs, but also that.
(Meghan laughing)
Because it’s more of like a,
here’s like a bit of like an informational dive
into a topic that interests me.
Hopefully it’ll interest you too.
It’s not necessarily pop culture.
It can be dreadful, but it’s not necessarily like,
you know, it’s not true crime or haunted things.
It’s something that’s like within all of us.
– I was really interested that you put this as a topic.
So if anything, I want to see where your mind took you
and tell me your tale.
– Yes, well, ’cause we’ve talked pretty openly
about hyperfixating on topics.
And I tend to get interested in something
and then have to know everything about it
and make it like my entire life’s mission
for about two weeks,
and then forget about it for six months.
And then not know anything about it.
– And now it’s just in the collective unconscious.
– It’s like, hopefully I’ll remember.
– It’s somewhere in there.
– Vitamin K, I don’t know.
– Don’t know her.
– So let’s start, which is kind of like an overview
of kind of what the importance of,
what a microbiome is and what its importance is
to each of us individually.
– Okay. – And then I’ve got
a couple kind of deeper dive avenues
that I wanna take us in.
– Okay. – So we’re gonna hop
in the car. – I’m ready to learn
a thing. – We’re gonna go for a ride.
Yes, we’re speeding down the information superhighway.
– And you’re– – Straight into your ears.
– You’re a very good teacher too.
– Thank you.
– You’ve sat me down and patiently taught me things.
So I am looking forward to hear.
Very nice. About this.
I 100% was planning on–
Feeding me up.
Yes, on filling this entire opening
with microbiome puns.
(laughs)
Oh. But I thought instead
we should just get to the bottom of it.
Did you?
I don’t understand.
It’s okay, you will.
Okay.
We’ll be right back.
(dramatic music)
(upbeat music)
Come on, Mabel.
I should have done that before.
Come here, come back up.
(laughing)
– I was like, did you press record
and then say, “Come on, Mabel.”
– Yeah, sure did.
– You’re funny.
– I’m a silly little goose.
– You’re silly.
– All right, let’s go ahead
and start with some overarching facts.
Let’s get down to the science of the microbiome.
– Yeah. – Microbiomes are very important
to the health of pretty much every multi-cell organism,
including humans.
They help us to digest our food,
fight off pathogens, and maintain immune functions.
They are little passengers on our bodies,
inside our bodies, inside all of us.
They’re in our guts, they’re in our stomachs,
They’re on our skin, they’re in our eyeballs.
– I’m scared and horny.
– Thank you.
This is why I was like, this could work for the pod.
– I was like, that does sound kind of dreadful
when you describe it like that.
– In the last couple of weeks,
we’ve covered cold spots, haunted dolls,
and at some point, I’m sure, possession, alien abductions.
And today, your ass is getting abducted
by a bacterium. – Organisms.
(both laughing)
– The human microbiome consists of trillions
of microorganisms each, including bacteria,
viruses, fungi, and protozoa that live in and on our bodies.
They are unique to each individual
and can be based on factors such as diet,
age, and environment.
So you could have a completely different microbiome
than me just based on what you’re eating,
how you’re living, where you come from,
where you’re going, even things like,
if you had a C-section versus a vaginal birth,
you could have a completely different microbiome
based on that one factor alone.
– Whoa, okay. – To this day.
So like, your alien style expulsion from your mother’s body
could determine your microbiome 30 years later.
– If that’s not body horror, I don’t know what is.
– That is absolutely wild.
(laughing)
What are your thoughts so far?
– Well, I’ve heard of,
I guess you may talk about it,
but I’ve heard of gut microbiomes,
where you have to,
as an individual, you have to take care of that
because a lot of your health, if it’s bad,
can come from what you are or are not doing
to take care of that.
– Exactly.
It’s really interesting because even this isn’t actually something that I put in here, but something that.
Ryan, it reminded me is even things like like your serotonin receptors and stuff like your microbiome
can adjust how your body creates and processes like serotonin and dopamine,
like these things that are integral to us.
So a lot of what we do, obviously, as somebody who takes medication,
I’m not saying don’t take medication for your depression.
I’m saying–
– Yeah, they say we’re both medicated.
– There are multiple steps that it takes to be well
and taking care of your little babies inside of you
is just as important as popping a pill.
– Oh, when you say it like that, sounds cute.
– That’s right, I know, I’m like, when I drink my–
– You take care of your little babies?
– When I get my kombucha every day, my one bucha a day,
I think, I think, I think, you know,
I take my little swig of like–
– This is for you.
– I take my little swig of my V8 energy juice
and I’m like, “This one’s for me.”
And then I take a little swig of my kombucha
and I’m like, “This one’s for the trillions of you
“that love me, that need me.”
– I’m your God.
(both laughing)
– Without me, the trillions of you would die.
Do you think when Thanos snapped–
– All the microbiome?
– Half of our microbiome disappeared?
‘Cause there should be a lot more
leaky gut syndrome out there.
– I was gonna say, can you imagine like the deleted scenes
where people were just like dying in the streets?
– Just vomiting in the streets.
– Because yeah.
– Just straight out both sides.
– My microbiomes, bleh.
– Wow. – Ant-man.
– Yeah.
– Micro, ’cause he’s tiny.
– He’s teeny.
– He’s little baby. – Little baby.
– I’m surprised we never got like a honey,
I shrunk the kids moment before we went full
into the quantum realm.
But let’s not talk about Ant-Man right now.
Let’s get back.
(laughing)
– He finds a way to bring it back to Marvel.
(laughing)
– So as we were discussing,
the gut microbiome is the largest
and most diverse microbiome in the human body.
And it’s responsible for digesting food,
producing vitamins, and regulating our immune system,
which is why it is so important that it’s healthy.
Other examples.
– Dogs too?
– Dogs too.
– Dogs have microbiomes?
I actually have a very important part about dogs coming up,
which is very–
– We have dogs.
– Interesting.
– Okay.
– As we discussed, diet can influence a variety of factors.
Nope, let me rephrase that.
Microbiome can be influenced by a variety of factors,
including diet, antibiotics, stress,
and environmental toxins.
So pretty much every horrible thing that happens
in this world can somehow affect your microbiome
and that will, ugh.
Do you need to go, do you need to go work on your microbiome?
All right, let’s go.
Go, go, oh my goodness, oh my God, go get down.
All right, hold these.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
– Thank you so much.
(laughing)
– ‘Cause you be arching it too much.
– I be throwing it back too much.
– Stop that.
(both laughing)
Where were we before I was rudely interrupted
by my dog’s needs?
Microbiomes can be influenced by a variety of factors.
This includes diet, antibiotics, stress,
environmental toxins, pretty much everything wrong
in the world can kill us from the inside and out,
which is very exciting.
When the balance of microorganisms
in the microbiome is disrupted,
it leads to a lot of different health problems.
there’s a condition known as dysbiosis.
That’s how I remember when I was practicing it.
And I was like, how the fuck?
So dysbio, gonna get fucked up.
– Cis. – Cis.
– Dysbiosis. – Dysbiosis.
– Oh. – And that’s a mnemonic device
for that S.
– Dysbiosis.
– Microbiomes,
Microbiomes can actually communicate with each other
and with the host through a variety of signaling mechanisms.
So like when I was- – The host.
– The host, the host body,
which is why like when I was saying like,
they’re pretty integral to things like serotonin
and chemicals and even things like vitamin K, vitamin D,
like all these things are kind of created
by the bacteria that are in our guts
and they’re signals to our body
that tell it what they need and vice versa,
which is just a very, you know, it’s like a,
you have like parasites and then you have like
little hopeful buddies that are like
filling your stomach with vitamins.
Like it’s very interesting and also terrifying.
I’m like, it’s like, you know, I think of like–
– There’s so many systems that make a body work.
– Right, and I’m like, you know,
I think of like a little dust mite or something,
and I’m like, that’s disgusting, get it off me,
burn it with fire, I don’t even care if I can’t see it.
I want them gone.
But then I think of these little critters
and I’m like, aw.
And you know when you get like,
the little, what’s the word?
Oh God, I should have thought of this ahead of time.
(laughing)
Probiotics.
– Oh, really?
(laughing)
– I’m like, literally, I’m like sitting there like,
pre-pro, pre-pro, pre-pro.
I’m like, what’s the word?
– I saw the gears turning.
– Oh, that was stressful.
– All right, probiotics.
Oh, I love probiotics.
– They’ll literally, so like a prebiotic,
this is not at all in my script.
This is just me kind of like,
let’s jump in here and add this.
– Okay.
– Because you wanna be able to add to your microbiome
when you need to, which is why people do things
like kombucha or probiotics or things like
fricking pickles and shit, like fermented foods.
– I love fermented foods.
What’s the difference between the prebiotic and probiotic?
– So prebiotic is food for the bacteria.
Probiotics are like bacteria themselves.
That’s why on a probiotic, you’ll see it says like
one billion of this guy. – Yeah, these things.
This guy. – This guy.
– This one.
– But the thing is, is a lot of times,
probiotics are, they’re already either already dead,
which is pointless, or you’re never gonna get enough,
or they’re not used to your body,
so they’re not gonna survive anyway.
So that’s why things like fermented foods
are like a more real is it ’cause it’s like a more natural.
– Oh, like sauerkraut and kimchi and stuff.
– That’s gonna have a lot more survivability, like a diet.
– That’s your daughter.
– I know, she’s so fucking annoying.
That’s your daughter.
(upbeat music)
Jacob, no.
(upbeat music)
She’s like, there’s only bad bitches here.
Mabel, come on up, mama.
Come on.
Come on, mama.
Come on.
Come here.
Yay.
She’s like, I’m here.
Podcast dog.
Lay down podcast dog.
All right.
Where were we?
What were we saying?
We were talking about fermented foods and pre and pro.
Pre.
So having a diet that consists of food that are naturally going to be beneficial
to your marker biome, it’s going to be a lot more effective than taking a
pill that says it has a billion of something,
but then it’s been sitting in a pill.
Like it’s not–
– Well, from what you’re saying,
is prebiotic stuff more beneficial than probiotic then?
– A lot of times, yes, because that means that the
biome that’s already, the microorganisms
that are already in your body are being fed,
and then they’re propagating.
– Okay, and that makes sense,
‘Cause like you were saying in the beginning,
like it’s based off of your body.
– Right, exactly.
– Like yours and mine are different.
– Yeah, and we could have, I mean,
like I said, there’s a thousand different reasons
we might have a different combination of organisms.
And that’s gonna come down to all those different reasons
that one, you know, maybe if you’re immunocompromised
or something, you’re probably gonna have
different needs than I’m going to
when it comes to your microbiome.
– Ah, okay, okay, okay.
– But your microbiome’s also really important
’cause it can help you with your immune system
and staving off worse pathogens
that could potentially kill you and shit.
So, all in all–
– So pretty freaking important.
– Pretty important.
And I think as far as health stuff goes,
I don’t think we really talk about it enough
’cause I think people do get kind of wigged out by it.
– Well, it’s almost, I started hearing about
pre and probiotic stuff relatively recently,
and I mean probably within the past five years or so.
So it’s almost like, I would say,
a fad that’s coming back or starting or something.
‘Cause like you said, if it affects so many things,
so many parts of your body, if it’s not working correctly,
it should definitely be a more
paid attention to part of your diet, I guess.
I do like a good yogurt.
– Mm-hmm, well, what’s really interesting,
so there used to be this kind of myth
that people would say that there were more microbiomes,
or there’s more microorganisms than cells in your body,
And the truth is it’s really more closer,
it’s probably more like one to one.
Which means half of who we are is other organisms.
– Whoa, you’re not even you.
– Bro.
– Whoa, Mabel.
– Mabel, can you believe?
– Mabel, you’re not even.
– You’re not even.
Who are you?
All right, so I wanted,
there’s a couple kind of more avenues
I wanted to take us down.
The first one is, I find it really interesting
how all of these organisms that are separate organisms
can communicate with each other.
So we talked a little bit about the way
that they’ll process certain chemicals to kind of,
and then our bodies will react to those chemicals,
and that’s kind of like a way that they exchange information
on each other’s needs.
There’s this other thing that they release
called immunomodulatory molecules.
And these regulate the immune response
and prevent inflammation.
So basically, if you think about your immune system
as attacking all these viruses and shit
that are in your body,
you don’t want your body attacking your microbiome
because it’s so important to all these things.
And a lot of times, your microbiome is capable
of producing things for you, like certain vitamins,
that your body can’t produce on its own.
So what you’re saying is that is there like a health issue
where your body would attack its own microbiome?
– Yeah, I mean, if it, if for some reason,
I mean, and immunology is a whole other episode
that I could definitely see.
Maybe that’ll be next season.
– I like seeing you do like medical stuff.
– I actually really, science is cool.
Science is cool as fuck.
– Well, I like, I work in the health field
and I mean, I’m in physical therapy now,
but I was in primary care and pediatrics
and like body is crazy, man.
– Yeah, I mean, essentially, your body trains
certain blood cells to go out and stop other things
that are, like other pathogens and stuff.
You don’t want it to be making copies and attacking itself.
And if half of your body is microorganisms–
– That’s a lot that is being taken out.
Okay, gotcha, gotcha.
– Another way that microbiomes communicate
with each other. And they have this process called quorum sensing, which basically it
detects the density of the population and responds by altering gene expression. So it
starts to figure out like a little too many of us around here.
– Sounds like sci-fi shit. – Literally. I mean, quorum sensing sounds
like, like, – Star Trek.
– It’s like Star Trek, like, or like Star Wars when they like, when you’re, when they’re at the
the Senate or whatever.
– Quorum sensing. – We have a quorum.
– We have a quorum. – I’m sensing a quorum.
– Everybody. – Guys.
– Chill. – Stop spreading.
– Quorum.
Everybody check your microbiomes.
– Everyone.
We need you to be a little more micro,
a little less biome, okay?
(laughing)
– Who is the Senate queen that you are?
(laughing)
– Everyone, chill. – Everyone.
– I need everyone to calm down.
Mechanisms can, microorganisms, microorganisms can also exchange genetic material through
a process called horizontal gene transfer in which genetic material is transferred between
cells through mechanisms, I kept trying to say mechanizations, also that.
There’s robot microorganisms out there.
– Ooh, talking about robots.
mechanisms such as conjugation, transformation, and transduction. This process allows microorganisms
to acquire new traits such as antibiotic resistance and adapting to changes in the environment.
Basically, it means they are telling each other like, “Hey, I learned about this new
tool. It’s called a hammer and it goes really well with this spike protein you have that
is a nail. And we’re gonna build some walls or something. (laughs)
– That actually makes more sense than I thought it was going to when you first started talking.
– I sensed this quorum and then I decided we’re gonna put your hammer with my nails.
– Solutions. Solutions. – And one of the interesting things,
this is the kind of our next avenue because we’ve got our little podcast doc here.
and we had talked about how all creatures for the most part have microbiomes except for
probably like bacteria themselves. I’m sure there’s some bacteria that even have bacteria
depending on the size of it. I did not look that deep into it. But studies have shown that dogs
microbiomes differ significantly from humans and that by living with dogs, we’re actually
increasing the diversity of the microbial species that are in our gut microbiome. So we-
– How?
– By having cats and dogs around us, I’m assuming cats too, but dogs, there’s like
the specific thing that I knew about from whatever podcast I’d listened to three years ago.
– Collective unconscious.
– Right, they were specifically talking about dogs and it’s because they’re around us. If you
shake my hand, your skin microbiome is gonna,
you know, we’re gonna be passing over each other
a little bit.
But if you’re living with a sweet little angel,
who’s the most beautiful little baby in the world.
– And sleep with us and do everything with us.
– That microbiome’s gonna, you know, be spreading.
But then if you’re thinking at the gut level,
like it’s so interesting that even the microbiome
that’s locked deep inside of you
is being altered by the species sitting next to you.
– I love all the body horror that I’m just thinking of.
I’m just like, this could go very wrong.
– I mean, there are some assumptions that I can make
that are not very happy to me.
– Okay.
– Dogs be licking their butts.
– Oh, yeah.
– And then they be licking you.
– Yes.
– And then you be like,
You’re like, “Oh no, my biome.”
– I’m gonna eat this chicken finger.
I don’t know what’s a finger food that, I don’t know.
That’s the weirdest reference for a vegan to make
who hasn’t had meat in 16 years.
(laughing)
– You’re pretending to be just a regular old Joe.
– I love chicken fingers.
– Chicken fingies.
– I’m quorum sensing that we need to have
a nice plate of chicken fingers.
– Like if you ever, for some reason.
– Do I have to infiltrate the–
– Yeah, the only thing you’ll eat is chicken fingers.
– Much like a probiotic, I am infiltrating this organism.
– You’re laying right on it.
– Made of meat eaters.
Okay, I’m gonna get to the bottom of this.
I’m gonna keep making that joke too.
So bottom because gut.
– Oh, you’re gross.
– Yeah, not my greatest work.
– Body whore.
It’s just so weird how something that,
oh, it’s just, it’s gross, but it’s also wild.
But it’s like, now Mabel is a part of me
because she’s one-to-one microbiome
and I’m one-to-one microbiome.
And now my microbiome has mixed with her microbiome.
And so now Mabel is a part of me.
– I’m gonna go home and hug Rocky.
(laughing)
I’m just gonna hold him up.
– And the more time you and I spend together,
The more our microbiomes are microbioming.
Bro, you’re inside me.
– Ugh, I don’t like that.
(laughing)
– Yeah.
– That made me upset to hear with my ears.
– I’m so sorry.
It is, obviously it’s important.
Other things–
– This topic has made you disgusting.
– I was already disgusting.
I’m quorum sensing that you think I’m disgusting right now.
It’s important to also note living with dogs
and microbiomes can spread other things like salmonella
and all sorts of different things.
It’s not like only beneficial bacteria spreads
between people, obviously.
and all that kind of stuff as well.
– Yeah.
– The fungi, literally all of the stuff
that make up our microbiome,
there’s obviously good and bad to it.
And some people are going to react differently
to something that their body’s not used to.
Just like an allergy to anything else
is your body reacting to something it doesn’t like.
That’s always possible to happen.
Could you imagine falling in love
with the perfect person,
but then finding out your microbiomes are not compatible,
And the moment you try to live with–
– You have to put in your profile.
– You’re like dating them and you’re like,
everything’s going great.
And then you move in together and like a week later,
you’re like, I’ve been shitting a lot.
– Yeah, I’m sick all of the time.
– And this didn’t used to be like this.
– I have not changed my diet.
I have changed nothing except–
– All I’ve done is got married to you
and put this ring on.
– That is grounds for divorce.
– Honestly.
– All right, last points, last little side track here.
Antibiotics and harsh cleaning products
can significantly disrupt the delicate balance
of microbiomes leading to various health issues.
Because microbiomes are so complex
and they’re like communities of communities,
you know what I mean?
Like they’re so intricate.
You might be trying to get rid of, I don’t know,
a ringworm or something,
but that could end up fucking your gut up.
So a lot of times if you find yourself
constantly having to take antibiotics,
you probably also find that your microbiome
is not as strong as it could be.
– Well, and when you say stuff like that,
it reminds me as someone who was born with a vagina,
there’s always these things that they tell you
about antibiotics and the things that you eat.
and the medicine that you take that disrupts,
I guess that would be called a microbiome
of the bacteria down there.
– Exactly.
– And so, you know, I’ve been taking like cranberry.
I’m like, love that, it helps.
– Yes, very, exactly.
– Well, like I was just talking to Vivian about it yesterday.
She was like, yeah, you gotta make sure
that you use like, you know, non-scented stuff
because that’s gonna mess with the bacteria
that you have. – The fragrance and stuff.
– Yeah. – Yeah.
Well, even like mice,
my skin has always been very sensitive.
So a lot of that, I’m sure it comes down to my microbiome,
of my skin microbiome, especially my face.
Like when there’s actually a kombucha essence,
I don’t know, I think there’s live,
I guess there’s live like something in there.
It’s from BiFresh. – Oh.
– And that one always made my skin a little more,
like kind of less finicky,
’cause my skin reacts really strongly to my environment.
So ever since going back and helping out at a previous job,
like I’ve been doing for the last couple of weeks,
my skin has been so crazy,
just from being there two, three times a week
because of just the environment, you know what I mean?
And it’s very interesting just to see how that kind of works
and I’m always kind of conscious
when I’m trying to like a new skincare product
because I’m like, is this, is my skin going to hate this?
Is my microbiome going to hate this?
Am I gonna start breaking out
because the bacteria on my face are like, I do.
– Everyday.
– Every single day.
I look into the mirror and I say, look, all trillion of you
we need a quorum census right now.
– Brought it back, brought it back.
– What’s the census?
– Quorum census is gonna be the name of the census.
– Good, it should be.
– So in addition to antibiotics,
very harsh cleaning chemicals can also really fuck
with your microbiome. – That I did not know.
– Yeah. – But that makes sense.
– So especially like your skin microbiome,
like I was just talking about how some things
really fuck up my skin.
You know, we ingest and intake things
in ways that we don’t always consider.
We even take things in through our skin layer.
– Pores.
– Pores, you know, micro particles get in through,
into our food.
Like, so even if you think you’re spraying bleach
in the bathroom, that doesn’t mean a particle,
you know, particles of it aren’t gonna end up in your food.
Which is gross, but that’s life.
That, you know, it is what it is.
– It happens.
And so obviously I’m not like a never vaxxer.
I’m not saying like don’t wash your hands.
I’m saying be cognizant of like,
are you using something that’s gonna not only be harmful
to harmful bacteria, are you also going to be harming
your own bacteria that makes up half of your body?
You gotta think about all the little babies too.
– All of your babies.
– Yes, because when your microbiome gets majorly fucked up,
there’s digestive issues like bloating,
gas, constipation, diarrhea,
everything pepto-abysmal is good for,
it does not mean you rely on pepto-abysmal, okay?
– Just IV it into your body.
– It does not make up.
– Just pepto-abysmal enema is what you’re saying, yeah.
– Gross.
(laughing)
trying to work in quorum sensing into Pepto-Bismol
and I can’t make it. – No.
– I can’t make it. – It’s too soon
after the last one, stop it.
(both laughing)
– Research has shown that maintaining a healthy microbiome
is crucial for overall health and wellbeing.
So a balanced diet, including a variety of fruit,
vegetables, and whole grains,
can help to promote the growth
of beneficial microorganisms in the gut.
Additionally, wow, I’m gonna start over that whole sentence.
Research has shown that maintaining a healthy microbiome
is actually really crucial to overall health and wellbeing.
So adopting a balanced diet includes a variety of fruits,
vegetables, whole grains.
I feel like we all know this stuff.
We all, I mean, obviously–
– I grew up with the food pyramid.
– I’m not gonna be that vegan who’s like,
“You guys should really be more like me
because my microbiome is really
quorum something right now.”
(both laughing)
– So happy for you.
– Thank you.
(both laughing)
– She drinks all the boocha.
– All the boocha.
– All the boocha.
– This really does help to promote the growth
of the beneficial microorganisms.
And additionally, you can avoid unnecessary antibiotic use
and just kind of think more about
kind of what environmental toxins
you’re exposing yourself to.
Things like pesticides, harmful chemicals,
And a lot of our modern day food practices are not great.
And so it’s much like the microbiome, it’s a balance.
Because you don’t have the opportunity to say,
I’m only gonna eat raw vegetables from the farmer’s market
that were locally grown so that it’ll match my microbiome.
Because that’s not realistic.
Nobody has that kind of money, nobody has that kind of time.
People gotta get out the door
and they gotta grab their freezer burrito
and it is what it is.
– You’re speaking from experience.
– Listen, okay.
Yes, I have a 24 count of ramen, okay.
– Specifically me with my…
Makes me wanna eat more kimchi.
– I think that’s a fair assessment.
That’s a good takeaway.
Is that gonna be your intention for the week?
– That’s my intention is to eat more fermented things
because you know what?
– I love me a pickle.
– Listen, okay, speaking of pickles.
– Yeah.
– We really gotta get back into the pickle game.
– Oh, okay. – It’s fun to make.
– Thank you, I was thinking that too.
I was like, you know what?
I have a lot of jars.
– All right, pickles season four.
– Okay.
– Give her a good look out for it.
– Pickles.
– Pickles.
Obviously, as a closing note,
as we said, it’s also the,
Nope, I’m just gonna skip it.
That is all the same words.
All right.
So yeah, so that’s my overview of the microbiome
and why it’s important and why I want
all of your little critters to be safe
and healthy and beautiful and gorgeous and glowing.
– I learned a lot.
– Thank you, I’m glad.
– That was pretty good.
– So microbiome, terrifying, but not deadly.
– Yes.
– And also kind of not terrifying,
Kind of lovely.
– No, very scary.
What if they all, what if you like made them big
and then they all just came out of you at once?
– Mega biome.
– Yeah.
– Like in Akira. – They just burst out of you.
Yeah.
(laughing)
Yes.
– Let’s try it and see what happens.
– Okay, you go first.
– Okay.
– We’ll be right back.
(laughing)
Aren’t you though?
– I’ve taken, I’ve been known to take the Metro now and then
and have sex on it. – Sexually.
– Yeah.
(laughing)
I’m sexually attracted to a train.
Did you?
– Yes, you did.
– I didn’t know you did.
I didn’t hear the clicky.
– Now you’re saying you’re sexually attracted to the metro.
– To trains.
(laughing)
Specifically the metro.
– All right, let’s go ahead and set our intentions
for the week.
– Okay.
Why you take a sippy sip?
– This is not kombucha.
This is probably bad for my microbiome.
– Is gin, is gin bad for you?
– I would think alcohol is probably not a great,
I mean, I would think–
– I mean, I don’t know.
– Artisanal soda.
– Rubbing alcohol is so bad for you.
– I sometimes just drink just straight rubbing alcohol.
– Yeah, like you’re in a prison.
– It’s like 100,000 ounces of high fives for my microbiome.
– They’re like, “Woo!”
– They’re just rubbing palms.
(both laughing)
– It was a stretch, I know.
So don’t look at me like that.
– She’s hardcore judging. – What’s your intention
for whatever week this airs?
– I want to pickle some things.
– Yes, I love that.
I definitely think, I mean, as we’ve already discussed,
I’m one of those hipster assholes
who drinks a kombucha every now and then, daily.
– You know, actually, I’m gonna change it.
I should start drinking some kombuchas.
– Okay.
It really does make me feel–
– Was there one that I,
I feel like I had one that you had here that was good
because it’s a flavor thing to me.
I don’t know what it is.
I just, I really can’t find one
that I actually want to finish.
– I really like the Wegmans ones.
They have a couple of different flavors I like
and they’re a little more subtle.
– I need to find one with a flavor that I like.
– Do you like a raspberry moment?
– I do like raspberry.
– Do you like a lemonade moment?
– I feel like those are good flavors
for the strong, the like, strongness of the,
what the kombucha is.
‘Cause I don’t know what it is.
I just, I don’t like–
– Do you wanna set our intention really easy
and say, let’s have a raspberry lemon kombucha right now?
– Can we drink one now?
– Uh-huh.
– Okay, is it okay to drink?
– Yeah.
– Okay.
– All right, cool.
So that’s our intention.
Let us know what your intention is gonna be for the week.
– Yes, no matter how small, an intention is an intention.
Come find us on Instagram, Argonauts.tube.
– Yes.
– You can also take that link into your browser
and it’ll take you straight to our YouTube channel
that does not exist yet, but I–
– Share us, tell your friends.
– The information’s super highway.
Please make us more friends.
We want community, okay?
So you gotta tell people about us.
You gotta say, hey, I know these really two,
Nope, I know, I know.
– I know these two queers.
– These F words.
– Oh. – That you’re gonna love.
– Yeah.
– All right, you’re gonna think they’re the bee’s knees.
They’re the cat’s pajamas. – If you like us,
I hope you’ll be referring to us as the F word.
(both laughing)
– But only if you are one.
Otherwise. – Otherwise.
– I don’t wanna hear it.
– What are you doing here?
– That’s so rude, that’s messed up, man.
– Come on, man. – What the hell?
Bro. Guy.
And on that note, see you next time.
Have a great week.
Yes.
Whatever.
Thanks.
See you.
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