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Why go for minced testes when you can just ram whole goat balls in? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkl
by hprotagonist 5y ago
Why go for minced testes when you can just ram whole goat balls in? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhexl https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhexl
do it right, and you'll wind up building the highest power pirate radio station in the west!
- pram 5y agoHaha I was going to post the same thing. I'm from Del Rio and Brinkley is still a very well known figure to everyone there.
- meepmorp 5y ago> Unsurprisingly, in light of his questionable medical training (75 percent completion at a less-than-reputable medical school), frequency of operating while intoxicated and less-than-sterile operating environments, some patients suffered from infection, and an undetermined number died. Brinkley would be sued more than a dozen times for wrongful death between 1930 and 1941. Let's be fair: see how well you do implanting goat testicles in people when you're drunk and don't know what you're doing anyway.
- Y_Y 5y agoModern medical ethics obviously forbids anyone from being intoxicated or working in a less than spotless surgical environment. The price of caprine xenotransplantation has gone up 4000% even after accounting for inflation though.
- chefkoch 5y agoNow we just let them operate sleep deprieved.
- analognoise 5y agoDon't forget deny medical degrees from other places the right to practice, and collusion between hospitals to keep prices high.
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- burnt_toast 5y agoThis is what I was expecting the article to be about at first. Very interesting podcast episode lol
- 1-more 5y agoThe Dollop also covered him in episode 62! In addition to his freaky surgical quackery he was a pioneer in border blaster radio stations (operating in Mexico at higher power than the US's FCC would allow). He even got a law named after him to ban the practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkley_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkley_Act
- walrus01 5y agoIf you visit some of the 'street food' markets in the urban cores of Rawalpindi or Lahore you can find food cart vendors with fried sheep and goat testicles for sale. It's fairly common.
- gambiting 5y agoEven in the US some places eat "mountain oysters" - which are just bull testicles. Not exactly common, but not unheard of either.
- dylan604 5y agoWhich is doubly weird where in Texas there's nary a mountain found.
- hprotagonist 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters "calf fries" is apparently the panhandle localism.
- leephillips 5y agoIt may be more common in Appalachia.
- strait 5y agoWest Texas is still in Texas.
- dylan604 5y agoThis is fun. I can play too. East Texas is also still in Texas. South Texas is still in Texas. And wait for it... North Texas is in Oklahoma? No, that's not right. It's also still in Texas.
- Anarch157a 5y agoHere in Sao Paulo, theres a dinner that serves fried rooster testicles. People will eat the strangest things if they believe it will make them more "manly".
- kazinator 5y ago> highest power pirate radio station in the west While it's great to have lofty goals for the sake of advancing an art of craft, I'd consider anything over 13 inches to be a success.
- wpietri 5y agoFor those interested, I strongly recommend the Brinkley documentary "Nuts!" http://www.nutsthefilm.com/ http://www.nutsthefilm.com/ It was both funny and informative. And the early-days-of-radio experience is surprisingly parallel to the early days of social media.