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We came across a pharmacy with a door and that's blasted out. We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

Hello everybody and welcome to Saubones, a Marital Tour of Miscavid Medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McElroy.

And I'm Sydney McElroy.

Sydney, you've cleared up a lot of medical misconceptions for me over the years, but I don't think any are as stunning as when we're watching commercial for aspirin.

And you looked at me and said, you know, you shouldn't take aspirin for a headache.

Because like for me growing up, I thought that that's what everybody did. Like aspirin for a headache is like a thing.

Well, I'm not a major thing.

Let me clarify. I'm not saying an aspirin can't work for your headache. I'm saying that there are other over the counter pain relievers that may be a better choice for your headache.

And there are a lot of reasons why someone may not be able to or why it might not be advisable for them to just take aspirin whenever they need to for a headache.

I rarely recommend to people to just take an aspirin whenever they feel like it for aches and pains or headaches or anything like that.

Let's also double back and double clarify that until that exact moment, I thought aspirin and Tylenol were the same thing.

So.

And they are definitely not so they're definitely not so why don't you educate me about what aspirin actually is.

Sure. So first of all, you aren't the first person to want to know about aspirin.

Good.

No. So thank you to Mary, and Rayna, and Jen, and Matthew, and Mark, who have all suggested this topic.

So aspirin is probably older than you know about. It's been around a long time. Yeah.

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