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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.

The medicine, the medicine, the escalant macabre for the mouth.

Hello everybody and welcome to Saubones, a mental tour of Miscite and Medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McElroy.

I'm Sydney McElroy. Justin, I'm kind of upset. I'm kind of in a bad mood.

Yeah, why? I'm really disappointed in myself. Oh, sweetheart, why?

Yeah, because I mean, you know, I like to get things right. I don't like to one quality about me is that I don't like to do things that I can't kind of be the best at or do perfectly.

Sure, yes, yes.

And it has been brought to my attention that we did that series on patent medicines. Do you remember?

Yeah, it was a three-parter when we were on tour. Yes. It was our live shows. We covered all the patent medicine men and women, mostly men, but also women who tried to sell people fake medicine before, you know, we had laws to prevent

just like lying rampantly about anything you wanted to about medicine. And when you actually had to start telling people what was in it, we apparently left somebody out.

What was it a big winner? Yeah, I think you could say it was a big one since this was a guy who was known as the king of quacks by the AMA, the American Medical Association.

And he also referred to himself as the last of the old time medicine men. Yeah, it seems like a notable emission from our from our repertoire.

Yeah, I'm really I don't know how I missed this guy. Well, I but I did and I'm just really disappointed in myself because now I think all of our listeners knowledge of old time, he patent medicine salesmen is incomplete.

I would tend to blame Sam Beckett. If usually if I make a mistake like that, I tend to think that he changed something in history that had a reverberating effect down through the years to this guy. So this guy maybe was just a schlub before Sam Beckett inhabited his body or his dad's body or his dad's dad's body or his dad's mom's dad's body and changed history somehow.

And now he's a big deal and he wasn't when we did the shows initially. Why do you think there's not a show about that like quantum Sam Beckett quantum leaping in his chemistry for everybody. There is called quantum leap.

No, no, I mean like the oops like.

Oops, like all the stuff that happens after he leaps like the oops. That looked good. But guess what else. Here's the rest of the story.

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