Snake Oil - It's a Traditional Chinese Remedies

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Chinese immigrant workers are coming in doing this hard, manual labor of building a rail road. And to soothe that, they used snake oil, which is like a traditional chinese remedy. So white people saw that this worked, right athing overwhelmingly. The challenge is, these guys want to make american snake oil.

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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