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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Cough Drops

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

William Goldman wrote in The Princess Bride "True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops." This week on Sawbones, we ruin them. We're really sorry, Bill. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Transcript

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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.

0:25.0

Alright, time 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 and welcome to Saubones, Marlotte Durab, Miss Guy at Middison. I'm your co-host Justin McAroy.

1:09.0

And I'm Sydney McAroy.

1:11.0

Well said, triumphilling, inspirationally. There I say it. I'm on the road to recovery after last week's

1:18.0

Inferment, common cold, perhaps maybe something more serious cold. It was a cold. It was a cold. It was quite sure.

1:27.0

No, it was a cold. Everybody had a cold. We were on tour and I was in a hotel room in which everyone it seemed was coughing.

1:36.0

Yeah, but me we were really passing it around. It was rough. So much coughing nonstop coughing all day, all night, just lots and lots of coughing.

1:46.0

It seems to have really gotten in a nursing. Oh no, I just I I just hated to hear you all so sick. It was my emotional.

1:55.0

It worried me. You're saying the part of you that is in all human beings that worries about sick people that you're related to was active.

2:06.0

Yes, the neurons of that part of your brain, part of my brain, the sick sympathy for your family members.

2:13.0

The nurses were firing nonstop. Yeah. No, it's just you all coughed a lot. I love you. I'm glad you're all fine now. I wish you hadn't cough so much.

2:25.0

Well, sorry, I guess I that seemed insufficient at this point, but I'm sorry.

2:31.0

Now it's fine. Really, it's fine. It's fine. Anyway, I couldn't help but notice that none of you attempted to stop your cough with any cough drops.

2:45.0

Yeah, which is unusual for me. I usually, you know what? I just wanted to get get it all out.

2:53.0

No, okay.

2:55.0

Not hold the coughs in. No, not hold the coughs in. I needed the bad things to come out.

3:00.0

And I wanted the coughs to be gone. So I just let them go because if you hold them in, that's like a set number of coughs that are stored it within you.

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