{"id":25101,"date":"2023-02-27T14:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T19:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=25101"},"modified":"2023-02-27T14:48:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T19:48:36","slug":"mcelroys-sawbones-live-podcast-to-kick-off-herdcon-2023-on-march-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/mcelroys-sawbones-live-podcast-to-kick-off-herdcon-2023-on-march-24\/","title":{"rendered":"McElroys, Sawbones Live podcast to kick off HerdCon 2023 on March 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Marshall University\u2019s annual pop culture convention, HerdCon, kicks off at 1 p.m. Friday, March 24, with a visit from Justin and Dr. Sydnee McElroy of the internationally known podcast \u201cSawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sawbones Live event will be in BE5 of the Memorial Student Center, and tickets became available at 9 a.m. Monday, Feb. 27. Tickets are free but limited. A livestream link will be available to the event for those unable to attend in person. Both ticket information and the link will be available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/herdcon\">www.marshall.edu\/herdcon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both Justin and Sydnee McElroy grew up in Huntington and attended Marshall. Throughout their careers \u2014 Justin\u2019s, which has involved podcasting, YouTube projects and more, and Sydnee\u2019s, which has involved medicine and podcasting \u2014 have actively raised funds and supported community organizations such as Harmony House, the Huntington Children\u2019s Museum and the local theater group HART in the Park.<\/p>\n<p>The McElroys\u2019 Sawbones podcast began in 2013, following the success of Justin\u2019s podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me, which he records with brothers Travis and Griffin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are honored and thrilled to be able to include Justin and Sydnee in this year\u2019s HerdCon celebration. They are an inspirational force in our community,\u201d said Michelle Alford with Marshall Libraries. \u201cTheir generosity and support for local organizations like Harmony House bring such a positive energy and image to Huntington and the surrounding area, and we are so proud of their accomplishments as natives of the area and [graduates of] Marshall University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Presented by Marshall Libraries, HerdCon is free and open to all. It features vendors, cosplay, gaming and more, and will take place March 24-25 at the Memorial Student Center on Marshall\u2019s Huntington campus.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University\u2019s annual pop culture convention, HerdCon, kicks off at 1 p.m. Friday, March 24, with a visit from Justin and Dr. Sydnee McElroy of the internationally known podcast \u201cSawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine.\u201d The Sawbones Live event will be in BE5 of the Memorial Student Center, and tickets became available at 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":25104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25102,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25101\/revisions\/25102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}