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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://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhexl

do it right, and you'll wind up building the highest power pirate radio station in the west!

> 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.

Modern 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.

Now we just let them operate sleep deprieved.

Don't forget deny medical degrees from other places the right to practice, and collusion between hospitals to keep prices high.

The 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

Wall of Voodoo's song Mexican Radio is about listening to border blasters.

As is ZZ Top’s “Heard it on the X”.

We can all thank Doctor B / Who stepped across the line / With lots of Watts he took control / The first one of it's kind.

For those interested, I strongly recommend the Brinkley documentary "Nuts!" 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.

Haha 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.

If 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.

This reminds me of the joke with the tourist in spain, who orders "cohones del toro", the testicles of combat-bulls and likes them so much, it becomes his daily food. One day he gets a much smaller portion. He calls the waiter to complain, pointing first at the arena, then at the plate :"What is this?" The waiter: "Today the bull won."

I've had them. We were butchering a lamb, and my sister-in-law noticed that he had a nice pair (I'm being serious, they were very large), so she looked up a recipe. They're incredibly delicious, especially when cooked in cream. It may have been psychological, but we all felt like thumping our chests after eating them.

Would recommend trying them if you get the chance. Worth it.

> and my sister-in-law noticed that he had a nice pair (I'm being serious, they were very large)

I think this qualifies as the sentence I have least expected to read on this site in my many years of enjoying Hacker News

I'm confident that I followed every rule when posting this, and I am very proud of it.

That’s what makes it perfect, and you should be

Even in the US some places eat "mountain oysters" - which are just bull testicles. Not exactly common, but not unheard of either.

Sheep testicles are actually more common. Bull testicles are a bit more rare, and generally come from old bulls. Lamb testes are pretty big, and absolutely delicious.

Here 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".

Which is doubly weird where in Texas there's nary a mountain found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters

"calf fries" is apparently the panhandle localism.

It may be more common in Appalachia.

West Texas is still in Texas.

Now I was under the impression "gurday" kapooray came with kidneys too?

> 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.

This is what I was expecting the article to be about at first. Very interesting podcast episode lol

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