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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Teething

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2014

⏱️ 34 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 perforate your baby. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Saabones 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

I'm not a sense, I'm not a sense, the escalant macaque for the mouth.

1:03.0

Oh, we're already in. Welcome to Saabones, a medical tour of Miss Guyton, and I am New Yorker who's Justin McElroy.

1:11.0

I'm Sydney McElroy.

1:12.0

I said the nursery is just about done, but I forgot. I still need to get plugs for the outlets.

1:20.0

Oh, like the little safety, the protectors, the little little plastic things.

1:25.0

I should probably learn the name for that. The plastic thingies.

1:27.0

At some point, the plastic thingy that goes in the holes in the outlet.

1:30.0

I think your house can be unsafe at first because where's that kickin' go?

1:34.0

She and I'm not gonna go anywhere. I don't tell her to go.

1:37.0

That's true. I can't see she won't really be able to like roll at first.

1:43.0

So I can't see her being able to get to the outlets. It's probably safer just to do it ahead of time.

1:48.0

Probably. Because then you got a kid later.

1:51.0

Does it even make two prong ones? Cause all our outlets are only two prong, which is the biggest pain in the butt.

1:56.0

We're getting an adapter to put.

1:59.0

Two prong to two prong, plastic adapter, safety.

2:05.0

You know what's so much harder, I think, to raise kids these days than it would have been in olden times.

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