@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
Blasters - Border Radio

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