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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: The Most Dangerous Parade

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sawbones, we discuss Philadelphia's disastrous Fourth Liberty Loan Parade that helped reignite the 1918 influenza epidemic in the region. We'll also examine some other unnerving similarities between that century-old disaster and our current situation. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

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 were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

0:56.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones, a medical tour of Miss Guyed Adminisson. I'm your co-host Justin McAroy.

1:10.0

And I'm Sydney McAroy.

1:11.0

Sydney, this dark time that we find ourselves in has given birth to a lot of really powerful Facebook meme culture.

1:17.0

That's definitely true.

1:18.0

The memes they move so fast these days.

1:21.0

Yeah.

1:23.0

You can, the one with the guy who's walking with the one girl but he's turned around to check out the other girl.

1:29.0

That one's getting a lot of use for a lot of different purposes.

1:33.0

Yeah, a lot of different purposes.

1:34.0

A lot of the, this is fine dog with the coffee cup on fire.

1:38.0

Yeah, the fit, this is fine dog as sort of, yeah, as you bet with us at this point.

1:45.0

One in particular that has surfaced that I actually saw required snopes to check into recently is I think something worth discussing on our show because it is referencing.

1:58.0

Let me start recording.

1:59.0

Hold on.

2:00.0

Okay, go ahead.

2:01.0

Oh, I thought you were serious for a second now.

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