Sawbones Classic: Christmas is Trying to Kill You

Episode 563

9th December 2025

A pre-Christmas warning, we’re re-releasing our 2015 live show outlining all the ways that you need to watch out this Christmas – and not just from Santa’s wrath.

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A pre-Christmas warning, we’re re-releasing our 2015 live show outlining all the ways that you need to watch out this Christmas – and not just from Santa’s wrath.

This week on Sawbones, Live from Huntington, WV and Candlenights 2015: CHRISTMAS IS TRYING TO KILL YOU. Grandma. Egg nog. Trees. Mistletoe. The Grinch. RUN.

Music: “Medicines” by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

Harmony House: https://harmonyhousewv.com/

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Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin welcome you to Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine. Every Friday, they dig through the annals of medical history to uncover all the odd, weird, wrong, dumb and just gross ways we’ve tried to fix people over the years. Educational? You bet! Fun? We hope!

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