Thursday, April 21, 2005
holy goat gonads!
Speaking of goats, this was mentioned on NPR's Fresh Air today, which talked about border radio stations from the 20's and 30's:
"The great-grandfather of shock radio, Brinkley was the first broadcaster to have his license taken away by the FCC. A down-home-sounding physician who originally built a radio station in order to entertain the patients who came to his clinic in Kansas, Brinkley offered his patients something better than Viagra. He claimed that he could counteract male impotency by transplanting goat gonads into the human scrotum. Thousands of individuals underwent the procedure in hopes of becoming, as the good doctor put it, 'the-ram-that-am-with-every-lamb.'"
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol17/issue37/music.capstar.html
"The great-grandfather of shock radio, Brinkley was the first broadcaster to have his license taken away by the FCC. A down-home-sounding physician who originally built a radio station in order to entertain the patients who came to his clinic in Kansas, Brinkley offered his patients something better than Viagra. He claimed that he could counteract male impotency by transplanting goat gonads into the human scrotum. Thousands of individuals underwent the procedure in hopes of becoming, as the good doctor put it, 'the-ram-that-am-with-every-lamb.'"
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol17/issue37/music.capstar.html
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