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

Behind the Bastards

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I Don't Have a Way With Words, I'm a Bad Podcaster

Dr. John Brinkley's license to broadcast radio was canceled by a three to two vote on June 13, 1930. The state of Kansas got involved in an investigation into his shadiness and found he had signed the death certificates of five patients who died under his care. He also hired Pinkerton Detectives to harass, threaten, and bribe his unhappy former patients to keep them quiet. His wife was a fake doctor, too. She had a fake diploma from the same fake school he did.

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