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Part Two: The Goat Testicle Implanting Doctor Who Invented Talk Radio

Behind the Bastards

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Do You Want Goat Balls?

Dr. John Brinkley's Million Watt Station broadcast country music to impressionable young minds across the entire nation for years. He claimed he'd carried out more than 16,000 goat gland operations so God only knows like the total health impact of his work. The Mexican government got fed up with Brinkley and in 1941 they made an agreement with the US government to cut out renegade stations like X-E-R-A. By May of 1942, he was poor, sick, and dying. His last words were reported to have been, if Dr. Fishbean goes to heaven, I want to go the other way.

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