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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Plague Medicine

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2013

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Sawbones, where Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin McElroy take you on a whimsical tour of the dumb ways in which we've tried to fix people. This week: We launch plague-ridden bodies in a catapult. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Transcript

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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.

0:07.0

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 pushed on through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

0:56.0

The medicines, the medicines that escalate my cop for the mouth.

1:03.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones, the meadow tour of Miss Fire Medicine. I am your co-host Justin Napoli.

1:20.0

I'm kind of freaked out, Justin.

1:23.0

What's wrong sweetheart? This is my wife Sydney. She's a medical practitioner.

1:29.0

What are you, what are you wearing?

1:32.0

Oh, this, uh, yeah. Well, you told me we're going to be talking about the plug, which pretty spooky for me.

1:41.0

So I thought, because my immune system, you know, work on the internet. So my immune system is basically non-existent.

1:47.0

Sure. So I, I, I, I'm trying to pluck myself. I made sort of a, uh, kind of a mask here.

1:55.0

I, I see that. What, what exactly were you trying to do with, with this thing?

2:00.0

Well, I'm trying to protect myself from catching the plug. I, uh, I know you can't catch it from podcasting about it, but it's a conceit for the intro.

2:11.0

So, so what, tell me about this mask that you've rigged up here, like, what, what was your thinking with, um, this nose piece?

2:21.0

Yeah, the nose pieces to keep the holes that I breathe in separate from my actual mouth.

2:27.0

Uh, so it's to keep it distant. And I've got some popery inside, right?

2:31.0

Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, Tim, that's both, I mean, that's a little something for me, but also to keep the disease out.

2:37.0

Right. And there was a basis for that. I mean, there wasn't, but they thought there was. So, okay.

2:42.0

And, uh, what else, what, what have you got going on in the eyes here, honey? What, what, what would you call these?

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