Join us next week, where contestants will be commanded by God to kill their children, and they will have to grapple with the doubt that it isn't God at all, because there is a chance it might just be our producers trying to stir up drama for ratings.

The wisdom nerds got back at them eventually by throwing into the doubt the clear demarcation between science and non-science.

"Wait, I see what you are doing. You are trying to seem cool and aloof, because you know women like that."
"No, Hume, once you realize the flesh decays and rots away, and physical beauty passes, you will realize that pursuing it cannot bring you lasting pleasure."
"Lasting? I'm only looking for about five minutes!"

David Hume had very similar ideas to Buddha about the nature of the self, or rather, about the nature of the not-self. He believed that human existence was nothing more than a "bundle" of experiences together, and there existed no further thing which did the bundling. The Buddhist doctrine of anatta also claims there is no self at all. In fact, Hume might have gotten this idea from Buddhism, as there were very early translations of Buddhist texts available around that time where Hume was living.
The conclusions that Buddha and Hume drew from the fact that no self exists, however, couldn't be further apart. Whereas Buddha teaches something like turning away from desire, passion, and temporary pleasure for meditation and moving towards an enlightened state, Hume says exactly the opposite. While he doesn't exactly give a defense of Hedonism, he famously said that reason should be a "slave to the passions." In other words, our desires and passions should come first, and reason should merely be a tool to figure out how to obtain them. Hume himself was known for being a bit of a socialite and ladies man during his time in Paris.

I know it might not be "logical" or whatever, but I believe Hue Jackson is going to turn around the Browns. You'll see, you'll all see!

"Wait, are you accusing the Poets of corrupting the youth? I thought you were in favor of that?"
"That was when I was young. Now that I'm a cranky old man I think the youth should obey the wisdom of their elders. Namely me."

In The Republic, Plato described the ideal city, and said that the Poets would be cast out of the city, along with the rhetoricians. It can be sort of hard to understand why he hated the poets so much, or thought they were so dangerous as to be exiled entirely, which seems a little extreme to us today. He seemed to think that, like the rhetoricians, because poetry doesn't make its aim to understand the truth, it was a dangerous way to spread ideas. It worked by inciting grand feelings or emotions, rather than engaging in a sort of ration, platonic dialogue. This sort of thing he held up as being fundamentally opposed to philosophy, which is what he believed should be governing the city, and governing our lives.
You can read more about Plato's views on Poetry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

"Wait, are you accusing the Poets of corrupting the youth? I thought you were in favor of that?"
"That was when I was young. Now that I'm a cranky old man I think the youth should obey the wisdom of their elders. Namely me."