Sawbones: Lisztomania

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Before the hysteria of Swifties and Beatlemania, people were getting hype over the handsome pianist Franz Liszt. Dr. Sydnee and Justin talk about what exactly about this artist made regular fandom escalate into a mania and what this medical condition actually meant. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ World Central Kitchen: https://wck.org/

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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 macaw for the mouth
1:01.3	Hello, and welcome to Sawbones
1:06.4	A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
1:08.2	I'm your co-host Justin McQuarroy
1:10.1	And I'm Sidney McElroy.
1:10.9	I'm actually, you know what I'm going to do, Sid?
1:12.1	I'm going to lower my microphone volume just to a scosh because that's the level of my energy, of my excitement to be recording this podcast with my wife.
1:21.5	We were on vacation.
1:23.3	We had a beautiful time in South Carolina, rejuvenated by the sun, the surf, the sand.
1:31.3	And the doing of nothing.
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