Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks associated with mysterious green spots in ice cream.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Jeni’s Ice Creams
• A Greenish-Black Discoloration of Chocolate Ice Cream

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating homemade roasted sriracha chickpeas left at room temperature for three days.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Roasted Sriracha Chickpeas - ShortGirlTallOrder
• Easy Roasted Chickpeas - Super Healthy Kids

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using expired pasteurized cows milk used for yogurt.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• 563. Chris’s Yogurt Without Heating — Risky or Not?
• 128. Milk on the Counter Over Night — Risky or Not?
• Foods Near the End of Their Shelf Life - Consumption Recommendations | Consumer Food Waste Community of Practice | Connect
• Staphylococcus aureus Toxin Formation in Hydrated Batter Mixes

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating fruit that has been bitten by a bat

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Teacher Bitten By Bat In Classroom Dies Of Rabies
• Zoonotic Exposures: Bites, Stings, Scratches & Other Hazards | CDC Yellow Book 2024
• Unrecognized diversity of mammalian orthoreoviruses in North American bats - ScienceDirect
• Rabies - Frequently Asked Questions | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• Ecology and Host Identity Outweigh Evolutionary History in Shaping the Bat Microbiome | mSystems
• Bats: Important Reservoir Hosts of Emerging Viruses | Clinical Microbiology Reviews
• Bluesky Climbs to 24 Million Users, AOC Now Has 1 Million Followers: Should You Join? - CNET

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing a tomato sauce lid after it has been licked by a dog.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼  Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song) - YouTube
• Microbiota populations in supragingival plaque, subgingival plaque, and saliva habitats of adult dogs | Animal Microbiome
• The Impact of Dogs Oral Microbiota on Human Health: A review – Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia
• Cultivable Oral Microbiota of Domestic Dogs | Journal of Clinical Microbiology
• Dog Saliva: 9 Facts You Should Know | PetMD
• 700. Dog Tongue Kiss — Risky or Not?

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from washing poultry blotting towels in cold water.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Kitchen cloths: Consumer practices, drying properties and bacterial growth and survival - ScienceDirect
• 1 Million Dollars Scene | AUSTIN POWERS (1997) Movie CLIP HD - YouTube

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating a paper ballot.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Arc de Triomphe - Wikipedia
• Acrylamide | ToxFAQs™ | ATSDR
• Safety Data Sheet - Voters Ink
• An unusual case of xylophagia (paper-eating) - PMC
• Do By Friday
• ChatGPT- is it safe to eat a paper ballot
• A meta‐analysis of pica and micronutrient status - Miao - 2015 - American Journal of Human Biology - Wiley Online Library
• ChatGPT - how many episodes make an arc?

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks using a strangers paper napkin found in a parking lot.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Keep America Beautiful: The Crying Indian (1970) - YouTube
• Iron Eyes Cody - Wikipedia
• First Thanksgiving - SNL - YouTube

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing a paper towel used to cover microwaved Kraft Dinner.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Kraft Dinner - Wikipedia
• Barenaked Ladies – If I Had $1,000,000 Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
• Can you use the plastic cake covers you get at the store and use them as microwave covers? - Quora
• ChatGPT - Microwaving Mac and Cheese

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks reusing unwashed cutlery that has food particles attached.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Food Utensil Bacteriology - PMC
• Microbiological assessment of cutleries - MedCrave online
• Contamination of knives and graters by bacterial foodborne pathogens during slicing and grating of produce - ScienceDirect
• Enterobacter aerogenes B199A May Be an Effective Surrogate for Quantifying Transfer of Salmonella Newport 96E01152C-TX from Cucumber Peel to Edible Flesh and Peeler during Peeling - ScienceDirect

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks associated by getting kissed once by your dog with tongue.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• 284. Dog Kisses — Risky or Not?
• Grey Cup - Wikipedia
• People Kissing Dogs in Mouth | TikTok
• Zoonoses in the Bedroom CDC podcast transcript
• Zoonoses in the Bedroom - Volume 17, Number 2—February 2011 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
• Pasturella Multocida Meningitis in a Dog Lover (or Don’t Kiss Pets!)
• Pasturella multocida meningitis in a dog lover (or don’t kiss pets!) - PubMed
• Pasteurella multocida sepsis–should immunocompromised patients give up their pets? - PubMed
• Merch — Risky or Not?
• ChatGPT - Canadian man and dog