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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Modern Day Snake Oil Salespeople

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Often on Sawbones, we talk about pushers of false cures as if snake oil is a relic of a bygone era. This week on a special MaxFunDrive episode of Sawbones, a reminder that snake oil salespeople are just a present as ever. DONATE NOW! 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

Two big, big came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out.

0:52.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Saubones, a marital tour of misguided medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McElroy.

1:10.0

And I'm Sydney McElroy.

1:12.0

Our cat is purring very loudly. She's snoring. I mean, let's call what is she snoring? I don't know if the chair.

1:18.0

I mean, I'm concerned she has sleep apnea apologies. Cat. Cat. Cat.

1:23.0

But how will we buy her a special sleep cat sleep apnea, clap, nea medicine. Well, it's thanks to you.

1:31.0

A beloved listener because this is the last day, or at least on Friday, it's the last day of the maximum fun drive.

1:39.0

That's right. That's right. This is we are on a pledge supported network. That means that our shows happen because of people like you,

1:47.0

that listen to these shows and say, this is worth supporting. This is worth being in the world. You know, I was tweeting about last night how I feel like this model for supporting creators is really the only way to keep everything from being owned by like one monstrous media company.

2:02.0

I love the mouse. Do not give me wrong. Crazy about them. But it is kind of nice that there are some people that are not directly employed by the mouse.

2:10.0

And we love that support. We appreciate it. And this is the time of year where you do it. And if you if you can kick in.

2:20.0

It's like monthly donation levels that you range from five bucks all the way up to 200 bucks a month. And we have gifts at every level in between.

2:30.0

But if you can just do five bucks a month right now, go to maximum fund or for its last donate. If you can do $5 a month right now, you're going to get access to over 225 hours of Boko that much that much of bonus content.

2:45.0

Okay. There's some there's some really good stuff in there. We've done an episode before about going with powder and goop. We've done an episode where we went to a pharmacy and made fun of the stuff that didn't work.

2:56.0

Yeah. It's good. This this time we recorded an episode that's all about not medicine. Just a no medicine episode bonus just for you. And you'll get access to all that at $10 you can get a great pro Vax.

3:09.0

Sobans pinned design by Megalyn Caut just the best pen best pen. I upgraded our donations this year. So I had a score one. But if you if you like our show.

3:20.0

And you support it statistically speaking about nine out of 10 of you have not kicked in and that's fine. I get it. But if you're able to please don't wait because this is the last day it shows you this on Friday.

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