Sawbones: Mary Roach

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Holy crap you guys, we talked to Mary Roach! Yes, THAT Mary Roach, the author of Gulp, Bonk, Spook and her newest, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, due out in early June. We spoke with Roach about a history of wrong thinking on diarrhea, why the military kept weather-related secrets from her and the Medicare code for maggots. 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, Tommy 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	The medicines, the medicines, the escalant macaw for the mouth.
1:03.0	Wow!
1:05.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to Saubones, a medical tour of Miss Guy of Medicine. I'm Eric Coho's Justin McAroy.
1:10.0	And I'm Sydney McAroy.
1:11.0	Sydney, I am so excited.
1:13.0	I am too.
1:14.0	We're so excited.
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:16.0	We're not teasing. This isn't one of our classic bits.
1:22.0	This is true blue excitement.
1:24.0	True blue excitement. We have for you such a treat this episode. It is our very first guest episode.
1:32.0	We have said on Saubones for this is truth. This is complete truth. Justin and I've talked about if we were going to have a guest, who would we want?
1:40.0	I was going to say a ghost, not a ghost, a guest. If we were going to have a guest, who would we want a guest to be?
1:44.0	And we have had the same name that we keep coming up with. If we were going to have a guest, who do we want?
1:49.0	And we got her.
1:50.0	It's Mary Roach.
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