Dr. Steven Novella

hang on hang on all right like it's backward yes you're getting close bob said the magic words let me put it all together for you but first i'll give you an explanation why i was thinking i know my shit i knew bob would know that's why i asked cara did your wallet get stuck in the in the turn this thing so this past weekend i was opening we have a little we have a small cabin on a lake in new hampshire that we bought for my wife's cousin right just to keep it in the family

And so we were opening – it's not winterized.

We have to prepare it for winter.

Then we have to open it in the spring.

So we went up there to open it for the spring.

And it's always a gamble, like what's going to be working, what's not going to be working.

And this time, the one toilet was leaking.

The tank was leaking around the water intake.

So I replaced the intake just to see, because that's like a $20 part.

It's nothing, right?

And hoping that that would fix it, but it didn't.

So then I needed to call a plumber.

So now I'm there with four women.

I mentioned that they're women because they were incredibly unwilling to do their business in the woods.

Far more unwilling than I would have been.

So I had to turn off the water and empty the tank, flush the tank, just so that all that water wouldn't leak into the bathroom.

But I said, listen, the toilet bowl itself is still working, and we could use it.

You know, we're near our lake, so we could get a bucket of water from the lake and do what's called a bucket flush.

Have you guys ever heard of a bucket flush?

Yeah, I mean, if the flushing mechanism's working, you can put it in the tank.