Saubones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion.

It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?

We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.

You're worth it.

Alright, Tommy is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.

We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out. We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

Hello everybody and welcome to Saubones, a marital tear of misguided medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McAroy.

And I'm Sydney McAroy. I don't know why my introduction had the Doppler effect. That's a new one for me.

It was like rising action. Just trying some different stuff. Just trying to keep it fresh.

I think our listeners keep our program fresh with their questions, with their fresh hot questions straight from the brain of it.

Interesting. I don't know.

That wasn't some of my best work.

I will try very hard. Use and dust your questions about medicine. As always, this is not any sort of medical advice that I'm about to offer you.

It is just some fun, sciencey facts. If you actually have a question about your human body and you have concerns about your own health and safety, please go ask your own health care provider.

It's not me, a podcaster. Who is a doctor? Yes.

But in this context, the podcaster.

Here's our first question. Does wearing lip gloss or chapstick make me catch more germs?

So before you have, when you drop a piece of toast, butter side down, it will, they actually say jam side down, but I think it's just for musical.

It will pick up visibly more gross stuff than if you dropped a dry side down. Is it the same for my lips? If they're wet, we'll more germs stick to them.

Thanks. Love the show, Aaron.

So when I first saw this question, I thought probably not, but then that's not a great answer in science, probably not. That's never what you want to hear. I couldn't find any studies that actually tested this exact question.

What you'd need to do right to set this up properly is have a group of people who are wearing chapstick regularly and you'd have to like standardize it, what kind of chapstick, how much they're applying, how often they're reapplying, all that kind of stuff.

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