History Podcast / Sawbones

** The September 27th 2022 episode features Canadian journalist Justin McElroy, discussing media reporting of the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Pliny the Elder, the recurring "character", is usually mentioned entirely because he wrote about ''everything'' (and was wrong about most of it), and so is brought up mainly for his views on the episode's topic to get dunked on by Sydnee and Justin. However, he got an entire episode, 140, about him; it was [[UsefulNotes/BroadwayAndTheWestEnd in New York and ended with a short song in his honor]].

** The September 27th 2022 episode features Canadian journalist [[NamesTheSame Justin McElroy]], discussing media reporting of the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: From episode 223, "Bee Therapy": ''Doctor Bodog F. Beck''.

-->'''Justin:''' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWwNlLCP6jQ&ab_channel=hntsu1 Hold. On. The. Phone.]]'' '''Encarta'''?

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Episode 55, rather than being the history of some disease or medical technique, instead has Sydnee and Justin telling the long and somewhat scary (but ultimately happy) story of the birth of Charlie, their first child and elder daughter. It's also significantly longer; most episodes of Sawbones are 30-40 minutes, but "Our Birth Story" is almost an hour. They did it again for Cooper, their second (and presumably last, given that Justin got a vasectomy soon after) child and daughter, with "Our Second Birth Story", less intense but perhaps funnier, for episode 220, mostly to avoid [[SiblingRivalry Cooper being envious when she was older]]. Finally in 233, they tell "Our Mental Health Stories", as a way of demystifying and destigmatizing talking about it (though, as ever, they note they can't give medical advice and if a listener wants real help for such issues they should contact someone who can).
** Episode 257, "A Medicine Called Christmas", is a live reading of a parody "Hallmark"-style Christmas movie for the annual Candlenights special, a story about a big-city Christmas-careless doctor named Tabitha Bigcity who does a doctor exchange with a small town called Poinsettia Point, where they do things a little bit different...

--->"Two ''Film/SpaceJam''s are enough to take care of you in your twilight years."

-->'''Sydnee:''' There was a physician named 'Kombu'...you can see where this is headed...\\

** Subverted, of all things, in episode 221, "Ambulances". Talking about doctors making house calls, Justin implies she doesn't do it anymore...and she bursts out laughing, which seems an odd overreaction to what appears to have been, at most, a joke about how doctors don't do house calls anymore. Then there's a music sting, and Justin explains that newborn Cooper pooped the moment he'd asked the question.

* BerserkButton: In general, any medical quackery that has since fallen out of favor gets amusement from Sydnee and Justin. If it's still in use in some circles and it's for something serious, however, they can get...''intense''. (Justin, who usually hasn't researched the topic, often has a sharper reaction as it's a surprise to him.)

* NotSoAboveItAll: Sydnee often comes off as the sensible and thoughtful one of the two. But in episode 330, "The Weight of the Human Soul", she comments that some scientists' experiments indicates that mice don't have souls. Justin lists off several pop culture mice characters ([[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail Fievel]], Film/StuartLittle, and others) as "counter-evidence." Sydnee...begins suggesting others. She even gets back on track for a moment, and then blurts:

* SpoofAesop: The moral Justin takes from episode 125, "The King of Quacks", is that the man in question contributed to research in the Mojave Desert (because his properties and buildings there were seized by the federal government when they finally caught up with him and ended up being used by a desert research foundation to this day). Sydnee is...less than impressed.

* [[Crossover]]: There's been a couple.

* Crossover: There's been a couple.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Sydnee plays herself as a doctor doing this in relation to various Music/JimmyBuffet songs in the live episode "Jimmy Buffet."

->''"Sawbones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion. It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?"''

-->'''Sydnee:''' ''Why don't you think bugs have souls, honey?''\\

'''Justin:''' Because I didn't like ''Film/ABugsLife''