Re: [IRCA] Coast To Coast AM, George Noory, and Criticalhealthnews.com

[Eric Floden <eric.f99999@xxxxxxxxx>]

wow, I did not know this segment of radio history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley

thanks

ef

On 22 March 2016 at 15:33, Theo <theod@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Cue the tale of 'Doctor' John Brinkley...
>
> TD
>
> On 3/22/2016 12:50 PM, Rick Dau wrote:
>
>> To be quite honest, Les, this is nothing new.  Back when Art Bell hosted
>> the program, he used to do reads for a product called Dr. Duplisky's Super
>> Prostate Formula.  I would listen to one of these and think that it all
>> sounded like a lot of hooey.
>>
>> Now, I'm too young to remember this (I'm 51 and didn't start DXing until
>> 1981), but I've heard stories about how, back in the 1950s and 1960s, the
>> border blasters like XERF would run ads for doctors that were only slightly
>> less shady than snake oil salesmen.  Supposedly they would hawk things like
>> goat gland operations that were designed to spice up your sex life, or some
>> such.   Makes me think that maybe all-night radio hasn't changed much
>> through the years, after all.
>>
>> 73,
>> Rick Dau
>> South Omaha, Nebraska EN21af
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