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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Harry Beno: The Poison King

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

Medical History, Health & Fitness, History, Medicine, Comedy, Sawbones

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Harry Beno (not BEAN-o) one day walked into a barn hungry for biscuits and emerged the poison king. Believing himself immune to strychnine, Beno took to eating poison for an audience. From there his act escalated to the next logical step, hammering nails into his head and burying himself alive. Justin and Dr. Sydnee tell the story of “Beno the Wonder” who confused doctors but couldn’t escape the ultimate Sawbones lesson: don’t drill a hole in your head. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

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

0:07.0

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

0:14.0

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

0:22.0

You're worth it.

0:24.0

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

0:33.0

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.

0:56.0

Hello everybody, welcome to Saubones. It's Merrill Tour of Miss Guy in Medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McRoy.

1:10.0

I'm Sydney McRoy. What was with that sort of, I don't know, sing songy in the nation?

1:15.0

I'm still excited because it is the max fun drive. It is.

1:19.0

It is. It is. It's the time of year that we come to you and say, hey, we are destitute and you're the only thing keeping us off the streets.

1:26.0

It's really more like, hey, we need your help.

1:30.0

Maximumfund.org forge.js join. We are part of a listener-funded network. That means that we come to you and say, hey, could you pledge $5, $10, $20 a month to help us make the shows that we make?

1:46.0

You pay for other stuff that you like and this is no different. We just don't make you pay for it like some of the big streaming subscription services.

1:54.0

We're more like a pay, pay what you can kind of deal.

1:59.0

Exactly. We want everybody to be able to enjoy the stuff we make but it really helps us out if you do enjoy it.

2:05.0

If you can give us a little bit of money every month so that we can keep making our shows, making more of them and make them better.

2:11.0

Improve our equipment, improve our research materials, give everything more time. All of those things are improved with your help.

2:18.0

There's gifts. So like $5 a month you get a bunch of bonus content, like 15 days with the bonus content.

2:24.0

We've recorded many bonus episodes over the years. One is a, this year's is a special...

2:31.0

Charlie is the guest host instead of Justin and she reads questions from children in our listening audience or children known to our listening.

2:41.0

Children sent these questions.

2:42.0

It's fun. There's lots of great fun stuff on there. There's another guest we're going to talk about in the middle of the show but right now we would ask you this is our last episode of the drive.

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