In 18 forty seven, two thousand newspapers ran 11 million patent medicine ads. Patent medicine was pitched at medicine shows, but also on street corners out of these,. like suit cases, on tripods. The pickup artistvery, like they would talk to some one and ten be like, oh, you can afford this. And then the person would be like, i can't afford it. It's like, ye had the sports cars only for people that like, have a sense of danger. But you wouldn't be interested in that.
The world of dieting and wellness is full of so-called snake oil salesmen—but what IS snake oil? This week, we take a wild ride through the history of health scams and discover a startling twist about an everyday idiom. Along the way, Aubrey delivers fun facts about sanitation from memory and Mike roasts the state where most of his family lives.
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