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Hello, Lindsay, what's happening?

Not much. Thanks for having me here. Yeah, yeah,'s happening? Not much.

Pleasure to meet you.

Yeah, yeah, good to meet you.

I'm the girl who tags you in all the disgusting medical history photos.

And I'm really looking forward to grossing out your audience today.

I'm looking forward to you doing that as well. You have fascinated me with your

Twitter page and you like first of all how you are a doctor right well I'm a PhD I can't save anybody's life okay

perform you know Victorian surgery amputation or something I think anybody can right yeah

is that a real one that's is a prop. So this was a real fun

thing to get through customs when I was coming in from Britain. It's a Victorian amputation saw.

It's called the Clockwork Saw.

And for people who are just listening,

it's a circular saw and there would have been a crank

that you wound it with and then you'd release it and it would spin sort of automatically.

Oh God.

Yeah and the idea was that it would make it faster but the reason why I love this

saw so much is that it was a massive failure and I don't think we talk about failure enough in science and

medicine you know all the things that work there's a lot of things that don't work and

so this guy who invented this saw when he tried it out it was spinning so fast that he took off his

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