Kfm Lunch with EB Inglis: The 40-year-old pillow
Lunch with EB Inglis · 15 May 2026 · 1m
Speaker 1: How often do you either wash or replace your pillows? Because the study was done Speaker 1: amongst the my well analyzing the microbial contents of ten household pillows ages ranging from Speaker 1: eighteen months to twenty years, and researchers found that more than a million spores and Speaker 1: up to sixteen species of fungi, including bread and shower molds, were found in each Speaker 1: pillow. And then I got this voice note. Speaker 2: I used to have this pillow that had a smooth like silk label attached to Speaker 2: it, and I used to call it my orange pillow because it had orange pillow Speaker 2: case over it. Speaker 3: But let me tell you, that thing must have been about forty years old. I Speaker 3: think my mom's mom had that pillow in our house and I still used it. Speaker 3: Completely loved the pillow. I thought it was amazing. But the main reason why I Speaker 3: used it was because of that silk label that I told you about. I used Speaker 3: to rub that silk label like NonStop, till the label itself even turn a bit Speaker 3: brown. And yeah, call me close, call me disgusting, I don't care. But that was Speaker 3: my favorite pillow in the whole world, and I lost it. I actually think I Speaker 3: finally decided to like just give it away because it was a bit gross. But Speaker 3: that's the whole point of the pillow. The pillow was meant to be gross. That's Speaker 3: what made it comfortable. That's what made it nice, you know. And I feel like Speaker 3: anyone that disagrees with this statement hasn't had their own gross…
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