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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Havana Syndrome

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got a real mystery for you on Sawbones this week: Havana Syndrome. It’s either a secret beam being blasted at American diplomats . . . or a mass psychogenic illness . . . or a complete fabrication. Or anything in between? Yep, it’s a weird one. Hang in there.

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0:00.0

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, a marital tour of Miss Guy de Medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McAroy.

1:11.0

And I'm Sydney McAroy.

1:12.0

Sydney, what do you got on the docket for me today? What do you got? I'm ready to learn. I got my thinking cap on. I got my stinking cap off.

1:20.0

I don't even know why I bought it. Honestly, it seems like you're going to get a lot of use out of a stinking cap, but I didn't even think through it.

1:26.0

Well, when you go into Spencer's, you hate to leave empty handed.

1:29.0

Yeah, that's true. And my drinking cap, that's my back pocket because the week is just around the corner.

1:34.0

But for right now, my thinking cap is on. And my shrinking cap has not been invented yet. I have some diagrams. I'd like to say here.

1:41.0

Okay, let's just...

1:42.0

Dr. Zelensky and I have made a lot of progress on the shrinking cap.

1:45.0

Let's just do this episode of Saubones.

1:47.0

That sounds like a good start. Let's do that.

1:50.0

So there's a lot of stuff going on currently, event-wise related to medicine.

1:58.0

But we've done episodes on most of that stuff. So I know we got some emails like you should talk about Ivermectin.

2:05.0

There is an episode on Ivermectin. If you'd like to listen to that, it does not treat or cure COVID. Please do not take it for COVID.

2:14.0

Please do not take a horse medicines ever for anything.

2:19.0

Ever.

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