Humans have been using soap for literally millennia -- nearly five of them... at least.

And while there's a run on alcohol-based hand sanitizers, it turns out that good, old-fashioned soap is a simpler, more-reliable way to destroy all that coronavirus that might be all over your gross, dirty hands.

In the end, though, "A little bit of soap / Will never never never ever begin / To take away the hurt that I feel..."

GUESTS:

• Kieran Dahl - A freelance writer; his piece for Vox is "How a decades-old hippie soap brand became a touchstone of wellness culture"
• Brian Resnick - Senior science reporter for Vox

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