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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: The Chattanooga Medicine Company

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sawbones, live from the historic Ryman Auditorium, hear the patent medicine company so insidious they made Dolly Parton sing about laxatives on one of the biggest stages in country music. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Transcript

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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, 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

Some medicines, some medicines, that escalate my cop for the mouth.

1:03.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Saubones, Mayoralty or Miss Guy de Medicine. That's your cool little Sydney Macaroy.

1:27.0

I was trying to do a thing where it's her binocular t-shirt, isn't it? Dang it!

1:33.0

And I'm just a Macaroy whatever.

1:36.0

It's fine. I know where I stand. It's fine. It's fine. I know where I stand. Hello Nashville, Tennessee.

1:45.0

Thank you for saying my name just in case I forgot it or I appreciate that.

1:54.0

We go on, we have played shows all over this beautiful country of ours and we're returning to Nashville. We played here in 2017.

2:05.0

And we're in a car driving over to the Adventure Science Center.

2:11.0

Is that the formerly the Cumberland Science Museum?

2:20.0

We've also been to Science Museums all over the school.

2:23.0

We've got a Science Museums all over the... Science Museums are aquarium because we have a one year old and a four year old.

2:27.0

And as we're pulling up to the venue, the Adventure Science Museum, we both look at and say, oh wait a minute, we've been here before.

2:35.0

We've literally been to so many Science Museums and Aquariums but I gotta say folks, it's a great one.

2:41.0

It really is. It's a... I have been as finest in this great land of ours.

2:46.0

So whenever we go on the road and do a live show, we like to talk about topics that relate to where we are and then the area or in.

2:54.0

And I want to talk to you, this theater is so beautiful. I'm distracted by...

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