Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine - The Ghastly Gauntlet: A Sawbones Super Quiz

Episode Date: April 12, 2018

How well do you know your horrifying medical history? Find out this week as you test your knowledge with The Ghastly Gauntlet: A Sawbones Super Quiz! What will you score? Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Saubones 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? We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth. You're worth it. that weird growth. You're worth it. Alright, time is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four. Hello everybody welcome to Saw Bones, a man of the tour of Miss Guy and Medicine, I'm your For the mouth. Wow. Hello, everybody. Welcome to Saw Bones, a metal tour of Miss Guy

and Medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McElroy. And I'm Sydney McElroy. A little too much. Yeah, I'm not going to do any of that. I have Cooper on my shoulder. She's very close to my mouth. So I'll use my regular voice, which I think she finds soothing.

Yeah. Or at least not. It's not like that. That thing you just did that thing you just did was not soothing Have a drink of my forces, isn't that? No the voice thing. Oh, okay. I'll try to keep it to a minimum Um, hi everybody. It's max fun drive Yes, are you waiting for everybody to say hi? Hi You pauses if you're waiting for a minute. Hello, Mr. McElroy. From your headphones and microphones, give it a try. I'll listen. Oh, you, you card. It's Max Fundra, which is the time of year

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Five ten bucks a month Whatever 20 whatever you can do it really helps us out. It helps Make our shows it helps us make our shows better and bring new shows onto the network. But enough about that Sydney. I'm so excited about tonight's show. It was my idea and I think we're going to regret it by the time we're done, but regardless. Do you have a name for this that we've that we've hooked up here? No, I didn't. I've titled my document, Sobbo and Squizz, and that's not very...

Whoa! That's not a... I'm gonna... That's just a literal... That's exactly what we're gonna do. I'm gonna call it the Gastley Gauntlet, a Sobbo and Super Quiz. Ooh.

The Gastley Gauntlet, that sounds like super quiz. The first part sounds like it's from Harry Potter. Yes. Yes. Yes. There is nothing about Harry Potter in this quiz. I would beat you in a Harry Potter quiz.

You would beat me in a Harry Potter quiz. We got the, the Smurls just went to Universal and they brought back Harry Potter, Trivial Bursuit. Mm-hmm. The city's looking forward to dominating me. Yes. Yes, I am a Gryffindor in case you're interested. Yeah, if you didn't get someone off a puff, we make it work. So here's the thing, and this is going to be fun because

you can play along at home if you would like to and try what Sydney has gone through. The history of solbona, it's not all the episodes, but a selection of episodes and pulled out trivia questions, some number to be determined, time dependent, trivia questions based on our previous episodes that she is going to quiz me on to test my comprehension and let you sort of at home test yourself. What have you learned? This is an educational podcast. What have you retained?

Absolutely. And your prize, if you do well, is, uh, Twitter score, get those bragging rights. Twitter score with the, uh, maximum fun.org for its last donate link. Uh-huh. Twitter's grow out with the max fund drive hashtag and that donate link. And, uh, You'll have the satisfaction of a job well done as well as my, I am my pride in you. I will be very proud.

Make sure to tag us in it too. And we'll re-tweet some of those if you really crushed it. Yeah, if you did well. If you didn't, we won't re-tweet it. Like, mercifully, we will. Yeah, we want you to get internet bullied. We don't want our brain making fun of you for not remembering all these episodes.

So, friends, it's me, Justin McElroy, ready player one, me, Justin, stepping into the oasis and preparing for this virtual gauntlet that Sydney has prepared. So you know, it's a mixture of there's some multiple choice, there's some just answer the question, essay type, I suppose. essay type, fantastic.. essay type fantastic. So it just depends. Our first one, I feel like this is, we're starting out kind of mild to get things

run. So question number one, what was the to me used for in some ancient Indian cultures? And I am just going to say you are on a computer and I'm going to trust that you're not going to Google anything. I'm creating a uh, uh, score sheet here. Okay. Uh, just to help me. So what is the, what was the to me used for? To some Indian cultures. If I ask the episode would it give it away? Okay.

The Toomey was a device used for creating holes in the skull. Hey! Can you name that procedure? Treponation. Ding, ding, ding, you got it. So what's up, I just kind of, okay, so what I use there, did I remember that context clues? I figured that Cindy would probably go to our first episode

for the first question of the quiz, and I took a flyer, okay, so here we are. The two of me is used for treponation. Give yourself one point, you got the one right. All right, you ready for question number two? Are you gonna sign point values? Are they all of equal point value? Can you give a point value after each question? Or before that? Okay. I can keep track of it. It's no problem.

Then I've run a signing point value. Just they're not all just one point. Then that one is only one point because I thought that one was kind of easy. Okay. Great. Sorry. All right. Question number two. Yes. What was in the blue mass pills taken by Abraham Lincoln for depression that was likely also poisoning him? I have multiple choices if you need them. Was it mercury? That is correct. Yes! Just in rules. How many points is that? That one I think was harder and you didn't go for the multiple choice that I was going to provide you. So I'm going to give you three points.

Three points, alright. This is all random. This is sticking with the Harry Potter theme. This is all random. This is like the house points. Like I'm just going to randomly give and take points away. Okay. But I will keep track of a complete total score

that you could have by the end. Okay, question number three. Yes. Do we use bloodletting in any form today? Yes, we do. And for bonus points. Uh-huh. For what do we use bloodletting?

We use bloodletting to get rid of... Like, an acrotic flesh. No, you gave me a look, let me try again. We use bloodletting for to eat scabs. No. No, what is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it?

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What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? So, the things we can use bloodletting for today, so we can still apply leeches to like, when we reattach fingers, remember that with microsurgery, reattaching appendages, and to prevent

them from getting congested with blood once they are reattached. So you can use leeches for that. And then for conditions like hemacrimatosis, a build up of iron in the body. like hemacrimatosis, build up of iron in the body. We do obviously bloodletting by taking blood from people and we don't use leeches or anything. We want to say there's two points if you know that. Sure. Okay. Next question, see if you got either of them, either of the uses. Okay. Yes. Yeah, you didn't have to get both. Okay. Question number four. According to the now defunct urine flavor wheel, from what ailment did you likely suffer if your urine was a stringent, sweet, white, and sharp?

And again, I do have multiple choices if you need them. Okay, yeah, give me the multiple choices. Okay, your choices are Anemia, Diabetes, Calera, or Lupus. Okay, and what are my choices? What am I, sorry, the qualities? Astringent, sweet, white, and sharp. The only one I remember is that diabetes was sweet. So I'm going to say diabetes.

That is correct. Woohoo. I said, I said lupus in there is a nod to house. Because never lupus never lupus. Sometimes it's lupus, but in this case, it wasn't. Okay. My points. That was a tougher one. We'll give you three points for that one three points again Okay, even with the multiple choice. Yeah, you're right no two So the three point question yourself down if you knew it without the choices and three point question I got two points. We got two points two out of three points. Okay Fair enough And now the urine flavor wheel we should provide some context with some of these in case people never listen to the episode

Yeah, I figured we would if we just go straight through and we're gonna run out of time We're gonna run out of questions. So yeah, you're kind of the physician here. I didn't even know what this was So maybe you should be the urine flavor wheel. You don't remember there used to be a do squid. I'm trying to like okay There used to be a tool that Physicians could use. I mean, it kind of, it's self-explanatory. It was a wheel with different properties of urine marked on it. And it would have to do with like the smell, the color, the taste,

the, like how bubbly it was or frothy it was or how cloudy or hurt, how clear, all these different things. And you would kind of use the wheel to turn it to the different things until they lined up. And it would lead you to various diagnoses. And that was because urine was a popular way to diagnose disease. And this was a one oddball doctor or one culture. Like these are all over. If you Google image or this, you will see dozens

of different urine flavor wheels. That was that one of the first things that a doctor would do for many, for many thousands of years was take your urine and try to figure out what was wrong with you based on your urine. That was kind of step number one. I think we, in the episode reference, like Shakespeare, I think fall staff talking about the doctor checking out his water and letting him know what was going on. All right, said next question. All right, question number five.

This is an essay question. Okay. It's not a long one. Explain the doctrine of signatures and provide an example. Okay. doctrine of signatures and provide an example? Okay, the doctrine of signatures is where I'm stalling. I mean, I know this, of course, but I want to give people time to think about it. I think they're answers.

The doctrine of signatures is a, I think this was from homeopathy and it was things that look like things can treat the things. is a, I think this was from homeopathy, and it was things that look like things can treat the things. So like, if something is, looks like, if you're prone with your brain, you eat cauliflower, because it kinda looks like a brain.

That'll work. All right. Good job. Yeah. Yes, that's like, here's like, is the doctrine of signatures. So yes, things that look like things I think our example was was the head like if you have a headache But here would be a walnut because it looks like a brain, but I'll take cauliflower because sure

But that's different from like attracts like attracts like is the secret and that's that's the law of attraction That's different from the what did you call it? What just hit was doctrine of signature. Dr. Sidditich was in law of attraction, or he still worked in that they are both not real. But, but it is not the secret that it's like, it's like, it's like, can I say that the doctrine of signatures while it is not real, I agree with you. It's it's much like more poetic. It's a beautiful idea. and it's a lovely name for it. It's not real, I saw it made up.

No, it's all fake. But I just like the the name, the doctrine of signatures. It makes a very good name. Yeah, it's better than the secret. Maybe the secret is very big title. How many points would you describe to that one, Sincere? That was an essay, and you got both parts of the essay, and it was well done. So I'll give you four points for that one. Oh, don't. I feel like how do you think I'm doing so far? I think you're doing impressively well.

I mean, haven't you you've only missed like one, right? Yeah, I feel like I'm crushing it. All right. I feel really good about this. All right. Let's keep trucking. All right. Question number six. Okay. Which of the following was not a former patent medicine? Okay, was not Vicks vapor rub Ludens cough drops Angus terabitters or phillips milk of magnesium Okay, Vicks vapor rub. Lutin's cough drops, angisterabitters or phillips milk of magnesium.

I'm pretty sure that Vicks was, I think, milk of magnesium was, I'm pretty sure angisterab bitters was, I know that was originally created, I think that was patent medicine. I'm going to go with Lutin's cough drops are, I think that was patent medicine. I'm gonna go with Ludens' cough drops are the ones that were not patent medicines. I'm gonna say I feel really bad because this was a trick question. They were all former patent medicines. Oh man!

Can I give you a point because I feel bad? No, you can't give me a point because you feel bad. I don't want your pity point. This would never be a lot on a test, especially like in med school, the professor would get eaten alive for a question like this. So no, these were all patent medicines. I just wanted to demonstrate that so many things that are now you like we use as medicine today originated as these fake Medicaid, not real medicines, just items that made you have different effects and that were well marketed to people and sold widely.

What kind of point value would you get that one said, sir? If you got that, since that was a trick question, if you managed to get that one right, you get four points for that. Four? Yeah. All right. That was a hard one. I know. I just feel like, okay, for sure.

It was really unfair. Yeah, I acknowledged that. It was really unfair. It was very unfair said. Okay. All right. Go ahead. Next one.

Question number seven. Yes. What did Austrian physician Wilhelm Reich believe was the cure for all neuroses? Wilhelm Reich believed in the cure for all neuroses. And I have multiple choices if you need them. No, I don't. Okay. The cure for all neuroses was a orgyastic cosmic sex energy that he tried to capture in a box.

You know, I put the orgasm, but I'll accept that answer. Okay. Because the orgasm was the climax of your orgasic sex energy. He was trying to capture the energy. He was trying to like bottle up that orgasm. Bottle an orgasm, yes. Or an organ energy, so to call it, organ energy. Oh man.

Somebody's been listening the whole time. And you may remember from this episode, right? You guys should get me the points right away or also, give me the points. And, and you may remember from this episode, well, I'm right. You guys should get me the points right away or also, give me the points. Say how many points? Uh, three because you didn't accept the multiple choices. Okay. If you needed the multiple choices, I guess, I'm sorry.

I guess I could have asked for. Okay. Uh, so if you remember, this was, this was Reich's sex box. He created a box, too. It was like a fair day cage to collect organ energy. And he sent one to Einstein. And Einstein's been a day investigating it. And determined that he could not find any cosmic sex energy in the box.

As you may have guessed, you probably would have heard of that. If the Einstein didn't managed to pull that off. He studied under Freud and even Freud thought this sounded a little off. All right. Question number eight said. Number eight is a gimmie. I just felt like at this point in the quiz I should give you. I should give you one.

You didn't think I'd be like destroying it. It's good. No, I didn't know. I didn't know how you're going to do. Question eight is, should you get vaccines? Yes, you shouldn't. This is a't know how you're gonna do. Question eight is, should you get vaccines? Um, yes, you should. This is a point in solbons where I remind everyone, who, and everybody knows this already.

I'm not, I'm not going to patronize you, but please get your immunizations. Please get all of them and get them in a timely fashion. You're helping yourself and everyone else. Are my points. Do I really have to give you points for that? 100 points. 100 points. We're all gonna get it. Okay, 100 points. 100 points. Nice. Yeah, because if you got that one wrong, then you're

going to lose. Yeah, I want to be a bonus bitch. You have to lose this. Yeah. All right, number nine. Yes, I'm ready. What medicinal, and I have air quotes around medicinal, I should say, medicinal substance did King Francis the first carry at his waist in a pouch at all times. I don't have multiple choice for this one because it would give it away as soon as you heard it. So. Oh, okay.

What medicinal substance, what was Kat's name? King Francis the first. You heard it, so. Oh, okay. What made this all substance? The what was cat's name? King Francis, the first. I have absolutely no idea. He carried a pouch of mummy. Oh, okay. So as you may remember from our episode, I think we titled it a title that medical cannibalism.

For a while, it was fashionable to eat mummies as medicine. from our episode, I think we titled it a medical cannibalism. For a while, it was fashionable to eat mummies as medicine. So fashionable that we almost ran out of mummies. We didn't, I think they're still some left, but. Delicious, by the way, dry aged at this point, they're gonna be even more tempting. All kinds of human substances were used as medicine, but mummies were the most shocking and most powerful. So.

How many points would you have given someone forget that one, right, Sid? We'll say three points for that one. All right. Three points. All right. One more before the break. Okay. King Louis XIV, that's the sun King, had over 2000 of this medical

procedure performed in his life. What is the procedure? King Louis, sun King, had what? Over 2000 of this medical procedure, he had this medical procedure performed over 2,000 times in his life. Sometimes while holding court, that is correct. The sun King loved his animals. A lot of royalty did at the time. I don't want to single him out. It's but he is very popular. But but yeah, he famously even even while holding court. I'm points. Um, that's another that was another tough one. You get three one three for that one. Great. All right. Um, I we are a hold on. You know what? I'm actually going to pause the recording and I will give you a comeback with a quick tally of where we're at.

Uh, currently. a quick tally of where we're at currently. So currently by my math, we are at 127 available points of those I currently have 117 of them. It's really good. I think it's not bad. Another thing that's not bad is supporting the media that you love. In fact, Sydney, I would go so far as to say, is good. It's really good. It's really good to do that. Once a year, we, let me back up. We're

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Thank you. All right, Sid. I think we got a little unfinished business. You have some indeterminate number of questions that I'm ready to take on. That's right. So we're question number 11. Okay, I'll take your word for it. What was the purpose of nosebleeds for men according to Pliny the Elder? I picked this just for you because you get nosebleeds so often. Cool. So it's like a quiz, combo, dunk on Justin's ass. Why would Plenty say it was so important for you to have nosebleeds?

Because I'm too smart and there's too much blood in my brain, so I need to get rid of something. No. What did Plenty say? He said it was vicarious menstruation. Vicarious menstruation. What a sweetheart I would be. Yeah.

You would get headaches and joint pains if you did not have regular nosebleeds, so he thought it was very important. Okay. Vicarious menstruation. How many points would you give for vicarious menstruation? Oh my gosh. That's like a lot, isn't it? Yeah, it was a toughy.

That was tough. Five points for that. Oh god. Of course I missed the biggest one. Sheesh. Okay. That's kind of how I'm gauging how many points they should be worth. So now I feel bad.

Okay. That's fine. Alright. Number 12. What is a trico-bezoar made of? I have multiple choice if you need them. Here? Hey, just that fast.

You got it. You got it. That's three points, right? You got it without the... I mean, wasn't that hard because I got it right away. Without the multiple choices. Yeah. All right. Number 13. And what is that? Oh, a traco baser. I should probably, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. In case you didn't listen to that. So, baser wires are collections of indigestible material that is found in the human, or well, any GI tract, I don't have to be any human, anybody's GI tract, any animal. And it can be made up of different substances. In the case of hair, that's specifically associated with trick-a-tillomania, which is when you eat your own hair.

And you can find these giant collections of hair in the stomach or throughout the GI tract. Actually, if it snakes down throughout the intestines, it's sometimes called Rapunzel syndrome. Charming. What a charming veg. Yeah. So those and those are, there's can be very dangerous. But, um, but you can find different collections of like seeds, plant fibers, grass, whatever, and other animals as well.

Alright, so you have another question. That, hey, that was also used in Harry Potter. What? Bezoar. Oh, yeah, I guess. It's true. Yeah. Harry saves Ron, right? With the Bezoar from Poison. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, because they thought they were thought to be a cure for all kinds of different Poisons and things. And apparently they were. Yeah, so there was a market

for fake ones. That's how popular they were. That's right. Yeah. Question number 13. And this is not a short question. This is a real question. Which of the following? That's what you would say, but go ahead. Which of the following did Tarrara? Remember Tarrara? Yeah.

Guy, you ate a lot. Which of the following did he not eat? Okay. Okay. And this is in one sitting. A quarter of a cow. A whole eel. A live cat. An entire bowl or a human corpse was last one a human corpse.

A human corpse would be what he did not eat. That is incorrect. Was that a bowl? He was kicked out of a hospital because he was drinking blood and eating, eating bits of corpses in the morgue. It was the entire bowl. He did receive... The entire bowl was in the morgue? No, he didn't eat an entire bowl.

You said... So the cat was in the morgue? No, I... You said in one sitting. Yeah, in one sitting. He ate the corpse. No, I mean, like each of of these things he ate all at once. Okay.

Like to say that you ate a quarter of a cow over the course of several days is not a big deal. But I thought you meant he ate all of them one sitting and I didn't see a situation where he would have a life cat and a dead person all over. So do I have to make this worth for your points because you misunderstood the question. I don't, I just,

this is just like med school, you're a gunner. You're a gunner. He's a quiz master, you're the quiz master. I'll just make it one point. Okay. Fine. He ate a quarter of a cow in one sitting. He ate a whole eel. He ate a live cat once. He ate a huge he ate parts of a human corpse, but he never did eat an entire bowl. He was given 30 pounds of bowl liver and lung as a present from Napoleon's army because he worked as like a messenger for them. He would swallow boxes with messages, yeah, and then carry them as well. To the other side. Yeah.

The cold cat. Question number 14. Yes. What did John Hunter get during his self-experimentation to discover the cause of gonerian syphilis? Is a disease. Okay, hold on. And I have multiple choices. What did John Hunter get, say it again? Say the whole question again. What did John Hunter get during his self-experimentation to discover the cause of goneria and syphilis?

Goneria and syphilis? Yes, both. Yes, both of them. Both of them. He got Gonerian syphilis. If you remember, he was trying to prove that they were different phases of the same disease. Right. And so he took pus from the penis of someone who had, I believe, gonorrhea.

And he put it in his penis. And then he developed symptoms of both gonorrhea and syphilis. And so he thought he proved that gonorrhea was the first half of the disease and syphilis was a later half, but really the patient he got it from had both gonorrhea and syphilis. Great, fantastic. He said medicine back a while.

Good science. He created a name for the shanker. It was the hunterian shanker for a while. Right. All right, question number 15. For what condition did Plenty recommend using an onion as a suppository eating garlic with wine but vomiting it back up, or you could use a fresh root of rosemary and rub it on your butt or a cream made from the lard of a pig and the rest of chariot's

wheels. I could have used any one of those, but they're all just so good. So for what condition did plenty recommend all this stuff? Was it, no, I've got choices. You know what, I'm not going to get cocky this time. Give me the choices. Diarrhea, constipation, hemorrhoids, ornament, yeah. See, I thought it would be butt stuff

because it seemed like a lot of the stuff was being applied to the butt. I'm gonna say constipation. I'm sorry, it's hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids. I'll never spell hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids. I'll never spell hemorrhoids. That was worth two points since I gave you the choices, right? Sure, but it would have been worth three. Yeah, if you got it before I gave the choices, you get three points for that.

Three points. How much was the last question worth? Oh, we didn't name it worth for that, did we? No. Oh, for the last two, did we? Yeah, bowl was one point. Okay. Because it's a good season question.

That's right. Yeah, so for John Hunter, we'll make that one worth two points. Two points. This is all so common, more. Okay. It is. It is. I'm making it up as I go. Okay. All right.

You ready for question number 16? I'm ready it up as I go. Okay. All right. You ready for question number 16? I'm ready, Sydney. What medical malady may have inspired God save the king, which may have later inspired God save the queen? Do you remember this episode? I don't. I don't know. It was, we're back to the Sun King, his anal festuala.

Anal festuala. This may not be true, but it was a great story that God saved the King was actually sung to the Sun King by a bunch of schoolchildren in preparation for his anal festuala surgery, and that it was stolen by Handel and turned into God's A. The Queen. I don't know that that's necessarily true, but it's a good story. If you knew that good story, how many points would you be getting on? That should be worth a lot.

Yeah, it was a toughy. Yeah, we'll do four points for that one. Four points, all right. Here, this one should be a little easier for you. Number 17, what should you strap to a boo bow to cure the plague? Chicken. That's right. A chicken.

That was a popular cure for bubonic plague. You should try to chicken to it until it died. Mm-hmm. And then you should be fine. Great. Unless you died first. That poor chicken. Uh, that one, I guess, is that just a point,

probably, it's just a point, two points, you think? I'm not done right. Okay, two points, fine, two points. I said, we got two more questions. Let's do it. I'm ready. I'm cranking it. We're on question 18.

Yes, three more questions, I guess. I can skip one if you need me to. No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, question 18. Yes, three more. I can skip one if you need me to. No, no, no, no, no. Question 18. What New England-based soda introduced in 1884 by Dr. Augustine Thompson was good for, quote, brain and nervous exhaustion, loss of manhood, helplessness, softening of the brain, locomotory, taxia, and insanity. It's also loved by John Hodgman. Moxie. That's right. Crush. Originally a medicine.

I think a lot of our listeners are gonna know that because of Hodgman's love for Moxie. I don't give him many points. Give him two points. No, give him two points. Right. Right, number 19. 19.

How many sit-ups did the presidential fitness test created in 1985 demand of a 17-year-old boy? 50. Oh man, you're so close. 40. No. 60. It's just all over the place.

It was 55. 55. 55, I know you're so close. I'll give you a point for being close. Yeah, you're a point. How about this? One out of two one out of four That was a hard one you had a poor number out of your butt. Yeah, you get one point out of four points Okay, yeah, and it's close just you know decide how close you were and give yourself some honor system high point You know, we trust you on that one.

Yeah. If you're curious for girls, it was 44. Just like that. And you had to do it in a minute. Parallelism, okay. All right, number 20 is a lightning round. Oh gosh, okay. You ready?

Yes. All right, we'll do these are one point H, okay? Okay. So all of these are what did Pliny suggest the following cures for? So I'm gonna give you the cure and you're gonna give me the disorder. Gosh.

Okay. You ready? Yes. The ashes of a wolf's head. You're never gonna get any of these but they're fun. I'm not migraine. Nope, too thick.

Okay. Deep fried canary. Uh, migraine. Hangover. Hangover. Hangover. Think okay deep fried canary Migraine hang over hang over Okay, weasel ashes Name any medical malady hysteria nope cat cataract. Okay. Rams will steeped in oil. For this one, it's indigestion. No female complaints. Okay. Dog's fat. That one would be light. Light. Light. But partridge is that partridge eggs boiled in a copper vessel with honey would be good for glaucoma. Hey, we'll get you guys. Got that one. See, I just was one ahead. Is it it? Yeah, that's it. Oh my gosh. Okay. That's it. All right. Let me give this a Final tally in you at home can see you get one point free through those.

So let's see so let's see I Might for that round. I totaled 32 available points out of them. I got 14. So in the end, the total is 131 points out of an available 159. I really blew it in that second round. I got 14 out of 32, which is just the second half. The second half I knew was going to be harder. Well, you know what's sad. I kind of went through

our old episodes in chronological order, so you're forgetting the more recent stuff. So we have a ranking system. It is, if you have 131 points, you are very, very smart. If you have less than 131 points, you should keep plugging away, but we'll do better next time if you have more than 131 here to show off and nobody likes to show off. So that's the ranking. This is the one that we developed. You could tweet your score with max fund drive hashtag and the link maximum fund.org forward slash donate to help us spread the word and spread what a smarty you are. And then congratulations no matter what your score

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