Within the early 1900s, a “physician” named John Romulus Brinkley turned wealthy and well-known by providing a singular remedy to males affected by ED and a wide range of different illnesses: implanting goat testicles.

Now, you may suppose that not too many individuals can be keen to go underneath the knife for it, however you would be fallacious. For many years, Brinkley supported the armored personnel service of his clinics, which operated throughout the nation. Folks desperately needed his remedy to work, and for an extended time have been too embarrassed to confess that it did not.

Nonetheless, the goat ball empire finally imploded. Scrutiny by the medical career and a spate of malpractice lawsuits led to the millionaire being discredited and fleeing to Mexico, the place he pioneered a brand new type of large-scale fraud with a massively well-liked radio present.

It is all extremely weird, which is why we have been so excited to find each unusual twist on this man’s life on this episode of Soiled Cash. Our visitor Pope Brock tells us all in regards to the loopy offers he wrote about in his nice e-book, Charlatan: America’s Most Harmful Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam. “Reality is stranger than fiction” is a little bit of a cliché, however damned if it isn’t acceptable on this case.

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Soiled Cash is a brand new podcast sequence from Entrepreneur Media that tells the tales of legendary scammers, scammers and barely authorized criminals who will cease at nothing to extort their thousands and thousands of {dollars}. Hosted by Entrepreneur editors Dan Bova and Jon Small, the podcast takes a deep dive into the dissenters behind the acts.

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