- [Chuck] How did Stuff You
Should Know get started?
- [Josh] I remember how Stuff You
Should Know got started.
It was back in aught-eight,
- [Chuck] Yeah.
- [Josh] and we were just little staff writers,
I think, for HowStuffWorks.
Yeah, just little junior--
- About that big.
- Kids--
- Yeah.
- And the guy running the show
at the time, Conal Byrne, came along,
and he said, pulled out
his cigar, and he said,
"Let's start making a podcast.
"Get to it, you, you, and you, go!
"Make a podcast."
- And we said, "It's 2008,
"you can't smoke in the office."
- Yeah, and no one knows
what a podcast is, too.
Those were two issues
that we had to deal with
right there.
- Sure, well, he just
approached you at first.
- He did, he did.
Now, the idea originally
was, it was gonna be
whatever I was writing and then
whoever my editor was at the time.
- Right.
- We were gonna get together
and just talk about an article, but if
you remember, I mean,
the first ones were ...
- Well, they were short.
- They were,
but then, but pre-Chuck, I mean.
- Oh, yeah.
- And then, you came along,
and it was like pew! (Chuck laughs)
- Yeah, well, we were work pals,
and so, the camaraderie
was there to begin with,
and you were kind enough to put in a vote
for me as full-time cohost.
- Sure, right.
- I appreciate that.
- I do remember,
I remember, after the first one,
we came out, and Roxanne was there.
She was just kind of standing there
with her mouth hanging
open just a little bit.
Just enough so that you
knew it was legitimate.
She wasn't putting it on anything.
She really had her mouth hanging
open a little bit, just clicked.
- Wow, really clicked.
- From that point on,
it's been Stuff You Should Know.
- That's right.
- Yeah.
