Preston finds a seed in his belly button and asks Kathy to lick it
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00:00For as much as I put my nose...
00:01You don't pick your belly button?
00:02No, I don't do it.
00:03Check, see if there's anything in there.
00:04I just did, it was weird.
00:05And I felt a weird sensation.
00:07You felt something pulling back.
00:09I'm like, there's something in there.
00:10Yeah.
00:10And then I had to, I had to, like, work it out.
00:14And it was, I'm like, that's a seed.
00:17Help us, we've been trapped here.
00:19Let's see what else we have in the institute.
00:23The institute.
00:25The J-I.
00:26What is it again?
00:27J-S-I.
00:27Just say J-S-I.
00:29The J-S-I-R.
00:32Rob Dunn and his team of ecologists are professional navel gazers.
00:38What?
00:38Have they turned on by the navel?
00:41Well, their new study details the microbial contents of volunteers' belly buttons.
00:47I mean, come on.
00:49But wait till you hear.
00:50This is crazy.
00:51I know this is going to be disgusting.
00:53Man.
00:53The whole thing started about two years ago.
00:55An undergrad's only in a biology lab ID sampling colleagues' navel bacteria for a holiday card.
01:02Struck a chord with the North Carolina State University team, which had adopted a new focus on citizen science.
01:08I'd like to do something that allows me to look at navels.
01:11And they said, and belly buttons are just ridiculous enough to appeal to almost everyone.
01:15This is according to Rob Dunn.
01:18What's more, given the belly button status as one of the body's more rarely scrubbed crannies,
01:25it's often researchers, it offers researchers a chance to study as close to a pristine microbial landscape as is possible on the modern human.
01:34Do you clean out your navel in the morning when you're showering?
01:36No.
01:37Oh, yes.
01:38I do, too.
01:38I knew you guys would.
01:39Oh, my God.
01:40I can't believe you don't.
01:42My finger, water, boom.
01:44Okay, done.
01:45Yeah.
01:45Wait, so my roommate in college was so grossed out by her own belly button that she would, like, she couldn't touch it.
01:52Like, it would almost, like, you know, like nails on a chalkboard for her.
01:55My buddy was like that as well.
01:56He could not stand.
01:58Yeah.
01:58Time for therapy.
01:59So weird.
02:00It's just, I guess, he felt like it was a...
02:04A hole?
02:04Yeah.
02:05Essentially, like, it was just a weak part of his body.
02:09I found some lint.
02:09Yeah.
02:10Yay!
02:10That's great.
02:14Yeah?
02:15My little brother couldn't stand it when you would touch his Achilles heel, and that's how my buddy George was with his belly button.
02:22Oh, yeah.
02:23I wouldn't want anybody sticking their finger in my belly button.
02:26No.
02:26No.
02:27That's private.
02:27Get out of there.
02:28It's like, you know...
02:29Get out.
02:30That's an orifice.
02:30Besides Nick, most of us don't want people probing our buttholes, either.
02:34That's right.
02:35Thank you, Steve.
02:37But, no, my belly button does not gross me out.
02:39And the fact that I don't get in there and dig around and clean it out does not bother me, either.
02:44Well, it's naturally going to clean.
02:45I mean, I go one extra yard because I like it.
02:48Occasionally, I like to have a little bit of coffee in it.
02:50I found that people generally like it when you walk up to them and you push their belly button and you say...
02:56They love that.
02:58The researchers handed out swabs of 60 to 60 volunteers.
03:04Back to the lab, the scientists examined the genetic makeup...
03:08Now, back to the lab!
03:09...of their bacterial loot.
03:10From 60 belly buttons, the team found 2,368 bacterial species, 1,458 of which may be new to science.
03:23So, they discovered new species in the human navel.
03:29This is how infrequently they go in there and look around.
03:32So, we're trying to send a ship to Mars and we have yet to explore our own navels.
03:38Listen to this.
03:39One science writer apparently harbored a bacterium that had previously been found only in soil from Japan where he had never been.
03:48So, the dude had stuff you could only find in Japan in his belly button.
03:57Isn't that wild?
03:57That is crazy.
03:59You probably have that in your belly button.
04:00I probably do.
04:01You probably do.
04:02I got some stuff from India.
04:02Some teriyaki.
04:04I'll bet I got Antarctica bacteria in there.
04:07Look at this!
04:08All seven continents.
04:09Yep.
04:10Trip around the world.
04:11Press his belly button.
04:12What's this?
04:13Bamboo!
04:14Another more fragrant individual who hadn't washed in several years hosted two species of so-called extro-mophile bacteria that typically thrive in ice caps and thermal vents.
04:31What the hell?
04:33So, do they have any suggestion as to how Japanese matter ended up in a dude's navel?
04:39No.
04:40Mm-mm.
04:41Despite the diversity...
04:44I was with the Japanese hooker, but perhaps?
04:47...themes emerged even though not a single strain showed up in each subject.
04:52Eight species were present on more than 70% of the subjects, and whenever these species appeared, they did so in huge numbers.
05:00So...
05:00Mm.
05:01Okay.
05:02You ever...
05:03Obviously, we've all known people who are Audis, who had the Audi navel.
05:07It's an interesting-looking thing.
05:08I wonder if that has less of an occurrence of this sort of stuff because it's more exposed and easily cleanable.
05:13Here's a point somebody makes on the text.
05:17It says, try being pregnant.
05:18Your belly button is so stretched out, you don't need to actively clean it.
05:22You ever seen a really...
05:23It's just a bump.
05:24...pregnant woman's belly button?
05:25Yeah.
05:25Yeah.
05:25It comes popping out.
05:27It's wild.
05:28Same thing happens to me when I haven't gone in a while for my sphincter.
05:31Oh, yeah.
05:31It just almost completely disappears.
05:33Uh, so, Dunn said, that makes a belly button a lot like rainforest.
05:38In that there's so many exotic birds?
05:40In any given forest, he explained that the spectrum of flora might vary, but an ecologist can count on a certain few dominant tree types.
05:49We're inside Kathy Romano's navel, and it's quite impressive.
05:54Over there is a beautiful toucan.
05:57He said the idea that some aspects of our bodies are like a rainforest to me is quite beautiful.
06:03Yeah, of course it is.
06:04Because he's a lunatic.
06:05But predicting which species might like to call the human body home is only the first step.
06:12To make the knowledge useful, scientists need to know why these bacteria are showing up.
06:18Hang on a second.
06:19I have a girlfriend here.
06:20Meg wants to talk about her boyfriend's belly button.
06:22Hi, Meg.
06:23Good morning.
06:24Hi.
06:24Good morning.
06:25How are you?
06:26Good.
06:26What do you want to tell us about your boyfriend's belly button?
06:28So, if there's enough lint in it, I will totally pull it out and blow on it like a wishy, like a dandelion.
06:35Every single wish has come true.
06:37Every belly button wish has come true?
06:40I kid you not.
06:42Like what?
06:43That's awesome.
06:45I got a brand new motorcycle for my birthday.
06:47Dude, that's pretty cool.
06:49You got a brand new motorcycle.
06:51That'd be worth pulling belly button lint out of somebody else's belly button.
06:52Yeah, absolutely.
06:53I'd pull ass lint down for that.
06:54So, you will pull it out and then make a wish and blow it into the wind?
07:00Yes.
07:00Okay.
07:01Yes, exactly.
07:02I have to ask, is there any sort of, because, you know, sometimes people's belly buttons can stink.
07:06I mean, are we dealing with an older situation?
07:08I guess not, right?
07:10No, definitely not stinky.
07:11It's more like when you're doing your laundry and clean out the lint trap.
07:15Okay.
07:15Okay.
07:16Interesting.
07:17His navel's a lint trap.
07:18That always smells kind of nice.
07:19I do like that, though.
07:20It can set a house on fire.
07:21Thank you, Meg.
07:21So, be careful.
07:22I told you guys about the time that I found a seed-like thing in my belly button.
07:30This is awful.
07:31Do you remember that, Kathy?
07:31Yeah, yeah.
07:32Yeah.
07:32It was a creature.
07:33No, it wasn't a creature, but I looked it up online, and it's a legit thing that can happen.
07:41It wasn't a freak of nature.
07:43No, it was legitimate.
07:44And I forgot what it was.
07:45Nick, look up belly button seed.
07:47Yeah, I remember talking about it.
07:48I found an old-style coin belt in my ass, Preston.
07:51Here you go.
07:51A navel stone.
07:53Oh, great.
07:53A navel stone.
07:54Is a hard, stone-like object that forms inside your belly button.
07:59They're most commonly found in people with deep belly buttons.
08:02I do have a deep belly button.
08:03Would it share, like, characteristics with, like, a gallstone?
08:08And those who don't practice proper hygiene have it.
08:11There we go.
08:13There we go, Kathy.
08:14They're seen more often in adults because they can take years to grow big enough.
08:19Unwashed legs and filthy navel.
08:21To be noticed.
08:24He'll be on his tombstone.
08:26Yeah, I remember that.
08:27It was weird.
08:28I was picking around in there.
08:29Yeah, yeah.
08:30You know, every now and then I do take a pick.
08:32And you heard, like, a baby crying.
08:33Take a look and see if there's anything in there.
08:34I never do.
08:35For as much as I pick my nose.
08:37You don't pick your belly button?
08:38No, I don't do it.
08:39Check, see if there's anything in there.
08:40I just did.
08:40It was weird.
08:41And I felt a weird sensation.
08:43You felt something pulling back.
08:44I'm like, there's something in there.
08:45Yeah.
08:46And then I had to, like, work it out.
08:50And it was, I'm like, that's a seed.
08:52Help us.
08:53We've been trapped here.
08:54This is making me nauseous a little bit.
08:58So.
08:59What's worse for you, Kathy?
09:00So ear wax or navel?
09:03Okay.
09:03Yeah.
09:05What would be, would it be harder to lick the inside of my ear or the inside of my
09:10belly button?
09:10No, belly button.
09:11Okay.
09:11Yeah.
09:11Okay.
09:13How about butthole?
09:13Just set.
09:14Okay.
09:15No one.
09:15Honestly, it's just a common thing.
09:17You ask anybody at work, would you mind licking my butthole?
09:21I'm sure that's being asked every, in every business.
09:24But, I mean, that's just simply for a scientific test.
09:27Somebody recently told me that guys love that.
09:31No.
09:31No.
09:32That is incorrect.
09:32I'm kidding you.
09:33Listen, there may be some that dig that.
09:36No.
09:36No, I do not.
09:37She goes, oh, they'll go wild.
09:40What?
09:41No.
09:41Who?
09:41Who said that?
09:42I swear to God.
09:43Who?
09:44All right.
09:45Write it down.
09:45Diane, your wife.
09:46Oh, dear.
09:48Because I thought it was Jerry.
09:50I thought it was your mom.
09:52Yeah.
09:53Your mom who won't let you eat gum out of a vending machine is encourage you to toss people
09:58salad.
10:01No ice cream for you, but please go to town on some dude's ass.
10:04I had to get out of that conversation quick.
10:06I was like, this is, no.
10:08No.
10:08That's funny.
10:09I'm dying to know who that is.
10:10We need to hear later on.
10:10I'm not telling you.
10:11I'm not telling you.