AI6YR BenApparently it's almost the wild west out there with herbal supplements.
Taran Rampersad@ai6yr well, jeepers.
Boner chocolate?! 🧐
Darth Osler@knowprose @ai6yr old candy tagline suggested but not uttered
AccordionBruce@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
@AccordionBruce @autolycos @ai6yr I think the link is this?
@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. 🤣
🏴🏳⚧🏴☠
The Dollop Podcast Ep 62- Goat Doctor John Brinkley
@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/
@coolcalmcollected @ai6yr @knowprose @autolycos
One of the engineers who built these up to a million watt stations, Bill Branch, got electrocuted by one of the transmitters in the early 1950s (Fowler pg 134)
Another Jim Welden, designed this tube, taller than he was, for the border stations
Then went on to engineer a 2,000,000 watt radio station in Saudi Arabia before retiring
@coolcalmcollected @ai6yr @knowprose @autolycos
Guess he was non-denominational or whatever in his faith in broadcasting
Guess he was non-denominational or whatever in his faith in broadcasting