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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Earwax

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sawbones, we make earwax way, way worse before we remove all of it. Well, most of it. You gotta leave some you know, it's good for you. Eh, you should probably just listen. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

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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, we're already in welcome to Saubones, a mental tour of Miss Guided Medicine. I'm your co-host, Justin McAroy.

1:09.0

I'm Sydney McAroy. Sydney, quite a feat we've achieved with today's episode.

1:15.0

You mean like how late we are? No, it is a little bit late.

1:20.0

Our daughter would not sleep for an hour and 45 minutes last night.

1:25.0

And the night before she pulled us somewhere. She did that, but it was a midnight.

1:30.0

We've been having some sleep issues.

1:33.0

We've been having a few sleep issues. It's okay though, it's just a 20-month sleep regression. In case you don't have kids yet, let me tell you this.

1:41.0

There's sleep regressions all the time. No matter what, you search for what age. There's sleep regressions.

1:45.0

There's sleep regressions. Yeah, exactly. They constantly do it. Basically what it means is at any age, your kid isn't going to sleep.

1:52.0

If you decide to have kids, don't sleep again. Sleep again. It's fine.

1:57.0

The big achievement is that this is our first three combo. We've chained together. Daisy chained three episodes of Saubones.

2:07.0

One inspired the other and inspired the other. So we start with Hemophilia.

2:11.0

And that led us to... I had an off-hand comment in that episode about how hydrogen peroxide doesn't really work.

2:18.0

Which, of course, I had to then address in a whole episode. Right, and in that episode.

2:24.0

Well, since I've mentioned all the things hydrogen peroxide doesn't really work for, because it doesn't.

2:30.0

A lot of people have been asking the question, but what about ears? Because I didn't address, can you dump it in your ears?

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