@ai6yr well, jeepers.

Boner chocolate?! 🧐

@knowprose @ai6yr old candy tagline suggested but not uttered

@autolycos @knowprose @ai6yr
Maybe we’ll see the day when there’s a medical backlash like the one that drove quacks like the goat gland guy out of the country and then out of business 🐐

After his lucrative time broadcasting on million watt radio stations he set up just across the Mexican border ⚡️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley

John R. Brinkley - Wikipedia

@knowprose @AccordionBruce @ai6yr yeah I should have put in "melts in your mouth, not in your hand" to avoid that train wreck of American history

@autolycos @AccordionBruce @ai6yr I just read the whole entry and...

There are some interesting parallels with the present administration. 🤣

@knowprose @autolycos @AccordionBruce Holy crap, that's just a crazy story
The Dollop Podcast Ep 62- Goat Doctor John Brinkley

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@coolcalmcollected @ai6yr @knowprose @autolycos
Can’t recommend enough Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford’s book:

Border Radio:
Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves

Lots of wacky stories. The Carter Family, the Goat Gland guy, Crazy Water 💦, Nazis in Mexico during WWII?
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292725355/

Border Radio

Before the Internet brought the world together, there was border radio. These mega-watt "border blaster" stations, set up just across the Mexican border to ...

University of Texas Press
@AccordionBruce @coolcalmcollected @ai6yr @autolycos I love stuff like this! Thanks!
@knowprose @AccordionBruce @coolcalmcollected @ai6yr I'm just gonna hum Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo to myself and try to accept that YOU HAVE SULLIED A SONG I WILDLY MISINTERPRETED
@autolycos @knowprose @AccordionBruce @coolcalmcollected I am pretty sure I have run into some of those people (quacks, pitchmen, plus conspiracy theorists and religious wackos etc.) in the broadcast business today, adjacent to amateur radio, so every once in awhile you run into some guy who says they own a high power radio station... you look it up, and it's an apocalyptic christian right wing cult shortwave station. 😬
@ai6yr @knowprose @AccordionBruce @coolcalmcollected having grown up on syndicated Paul Harvey, I can tell you Wells Lamont is stu-u-u-ubborn about quality