Sawbones: Anyone Else Get Pee Shivers?

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Cozy up by the fireplace with some weird listener medical questions. What's the difference between a disease and a disorder? Where does the extra blood during pregnancy come from? Did getting my gallbladder removed change my taste buds? Plus an update on the CDC website's recent posting about vaccines. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ Native American Aid: https://nativepartnership.org/naa/

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0:00.0	Sawbones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion.
0:07.2	It's for fun.
0:08.7	Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?
0:14.2	We think you've earned it.
0:15.8	Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.
0:22.6	You're worth it.
0:25.9	All right.
0:27.5	Tommy is about some books.
0:30.6	One, two, one, two, three, four. We came across a pharmacy with its windows blasted out
0:52.0	pushed on through the broken glass
0:54.4	And had ourselves a look around
0:56.3	The medicines, the medicines
0:58.4	That I scall and McCorm for the mouth
1:04.8	Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones
1:08.2	A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
1:10.4	I'm your co-host Justin McElroy And I'm Sydney McRoy. I like to have my chair at a height where my legs are just barely off the ground. And it makes me feel like a little rascally boy. Do you like that? I like to keep my chair at that height because most of the time I sit crisscross applesauce, you know, which is not good for me. No. No. I can't imagine doctors would recommend that. No. If you know any. I can't do that anymore because of my knees. That's actually, see, that's why I don't like the chair to be at this height. It hurts my knees. I got a little, do you want me to lower it for you? I got it lower.
1:45.8	Oh, whoa, too much. why I don't like the chair to be at this height. It hurts my knees. I got a little, do you want me to lower it for you?
1:57.0	I don't, can't lower. Oh, whoa, too much. Okay, hold on. Up, up, up, up, up, up, up. How is that? A little more, wait, a little more. A little more, up. No, up. You got a stand. You got a stand. I can't up without you help it. Okay.
1:57.6	A little bit lower?
1:59.0	A little bit lower.
1:59.8	Okay.
2:00.5	That'll work.
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