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Every channel on Channel GG. Pick a show, or turn the knob and let fate decide.

  1. CH 17:30Channel GGCartoons, the crew and the toy aisle. Pour a bowl and start here.
  2. CH 28:00Meet the CrewSay hi to the microbes working your night shift. Trading cards, tools and the buffet.
  3. CH 38:30Saturday Morning LessonsFive-second cartoons about what your gut gets up to all day.
  4. CH 410:00The ArcadeGames that teach. Insert no coins.
  5. CH 510:30The Toy AisleGut goodies for grown-ups. Collect the set, feed the crew.
  6. CH 69:00The MapRide the gut from Chomp Station to Downtown and get your passport stamped at every stop.
  7. CH 79:15The Tool KitEnzymes that snip, chip, slice and pop, plus bile, the soap. Grab one and cut something.
  8. CH 89:45The BuffetPrebiotics and fibre: food your tools can’t cut, served to the crew Downtown.
  9. CH 911:30The StationWho runs this channel, questions, fan mail and the fine print.
  10. CH 1011:00The GlossaryGut words from A to Z: a true definition and a silly one, side by side.
  11. CH 117:00The TV GuideWhat’s on, what’s next, and what’s on at 3 a.m. (it’s the fine print).
  12. CH 1210:45A Word from Our SponsorsJingles, slogans and a very calm announcer. Stay through the break.
  13. CH 1311:15The Sticker BookPeel, stick, show off. Then go find the ones you’re missing.
  14. CH 1412:30The Season PassNever miss an episode. Your goodies turn up every month, for less.
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10:00The Arcade

Spore Wars

Sporty is a spore: Bacillus coagulans packed into a tough, seed-like coat. Steer him across Acid Lake without cracking it. In real life he doesn’t need you. Play anyway.

Sporty, an orange armoured spore with a visor and blue sneakers
pH2.5
Route0% to the Valve

Now playing · CH 4

Steer Sporty across Acid Lake

Dodge the acid drops for 40 seconds and reach the Valve. Three cracks in the coat and Sporty hatches too early.

8:30Meanwhile, in real life

How a spore gets through

Same ride, at the speed of a real stomach: a few hours, not forty seconds.

  1. Suit upWhen times get tough, B. coagulans packs its DNA into a spore: a dry, tough coat built in layers. It can sit out heat and dryness for a very long time.
  2. Acid LakeYour stomach runs at about pH 1.5 to 3.5, strong enough to fizzle most bacteria, while pepsin starts snipping proteins. The spore coat shrugs off both.
  3. The ValveThe pyloric sphincter, a ring of muscle at the bottom of the stomach, lets the contents through a little at a time.
  4. HatchIn the small intestine, bicarbonate from the pancreas brings the pH up toward neutral. The spore germinates and Sporty is a rod again, making lactic acid.
Far-out fact

Your stomach runs at about pH 1.5 to 3.5: lemon-juice sour, give or take. A spore is how B. coagulans gets through. It’s a survival suit, not a superpower.

Gastric juice is mostly water, hydrochloric acid and pepsin. The stomach protects its own lining with a layer of mucus.

StarringSportyEP 1 Spore WarsNo.04 Digestive + Gut Health Strips

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Build-a-Microbe

Rods, branches, spores and sneakers. Mostly sneakers.

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