The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method

**Chuck Bryant** (0:00)
Hey, everybody, Chuck here. Continuing our journey down the science trail, here we are with, I believe, episode seven on the list, How the Scientific Method Works.
Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from howstuffworks.com.

**Josh Clark** (0:22)
Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry, Stuff You Should Know. Why you grinning? It's been a while, man. I know.
It's funny, like those words come pouring out of my mouth, and it's cool.

**Chuck Bryant** (0:36)
You wake up in the middle of the night saying that, and Yumi slugs you in the face.

**Josh Clark** (0:39)
Right, she's like, go back to sleep. She has to dry my brow.

**Chuck Bryant** (0:44)
Yes, we pre-recorded some for December, as we like to do, to take a little time off at the end of the year, and not explain things for a few weeks in our real lives.

**Josh Clark** (0:54)
It's nice.

**Chuck Bryant** (0:55)
Like, people ask me things like...

**Josh Clark** (0:57)
What happened to that stick of butter?

**Chuck Bryant** (0:58)
Yeah, I don't know. Don't ask.

**Josh Clark** (1:00)
Don't even ask me.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:01)
I could tell you, but I'm not gonna.

**Josh Clark** (1:03)
Exactly.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:03)
That's how it goes in my house. Find your own butter.

**Josh Clark** (1:07)
Right.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:08)
December was find your own butter month.

**Josh Clark** (1:10)
That's a good one.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:12)
That should be a T-shirt. Stuff You Should Know, find your own butter.

**Josh Clark** (1:16)
Or December's find your own butter month.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:18)
Yeah, that's right.

**Josh Clark** (1:18)
Maybe a stick of butter with some garland on it. Yeah, I like that.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:22)
So, it's good to see you again, man. Good to be back in here.

**Josh Clark** (1:25)
Yeah, it is nice to be back, isn't it?

**Chuck Bryant** (1:27)
As much as the break was great, I'm happy to be explaining things again.

**Josh Clark** (1:30)
Well, that's good, because if we got in here and you're like, I can't do this, I can't do it again.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:34)
We'd be in trouble.

**Josh Clark** (1:35)
Yeah. So, I'm glad we're all feeling good. Jerry, you feeling good? Jerry's got two thumbs up and a big, goofy smile.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:42)
Two of her three thumbs.

**Josh Clark** (1:44)
She looks like Bob from that male enhancement pill ad.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:48)
Oh, is he the guy, the old man that's like super buff?

**Josh Clark** (1:51)
I would call him old. He was middle-aged. He looked like kind of a Bob Dobbs typey dude. I think that's kind of who he was modeled after.

**Chuck Bryant** (1:58)
Is he the guy that's super muscly now? I'm thinking of someone different, I think.

**Josh Clark** (2:02)
You're thinking of Jack LaLanne.

**Chuck Bryant** (2:03)
No, no, no, no. Just there's some ad, there's some old man that looks like really creepy because from the neck down.

**Josh Clark** (2:08)
Because he's super buff?

**Chuck Bryant** (2:09)
He looks like a 25-year-old.

**Josh Clark** (2:11)
No, remember there was like a male enhancement pill, and I'm making air quotes here.

**Chuck Bryant** (2:15)
For erectile dysfunction.

**Josh Clark** (2:17)
Well, there go the air quotes. But yes. And it was like in the early 2000s, I think.
Maybe late 90s, but I think early 2000s. And these ads were everywhere. And there was Bob, and like all these great things happened to him because he started taking this pill. I can't remember the name of the pill. But the company like got into a lot of trouble because it was basically like a subscription service. And like you gave them your credit card and you got this free trial, but then they started sending it to you and it was like next to impossible to cut off service.

**Chuck Bryant** (2:49)
Interesting.

**Josh Clark** (2:49)
They were like, no, we want your mails to be enhanced. So, you've seen these ads.

**Chuck Bryant** (2:55)
Yeah, I was gonna start asking questions, but why bother?

**Josh Clark** (3:00)
I will find it on YouTube.

**Chuck Bryant** (3:02)
I'll be like, oh, Bob.

**Josh Clark** (3:03)
Yeah, you will. You'll go, oh, I'll have to come back in and record an insert.

**Chuck Bryant** (3:07)
Right, the guy that's on the back of all those pill bottles in my bathroom.

**Josh Clark** (3:12)
So, Chuck.

**Chuck Bryant** (3:13)
Yes.

**Josh Clark** (3:13)
I don't even remember how we got, oh yeah, Jerry did that. That was Jerry's fault. But you remember we did the Enlightenment episode?

**Chuck Bryant** (3:21)
Yeah.