King Of Quacks
True Weird Stuff
Now! Media
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Today's True Weird Stuff - King Of Quacks
Curtis Howe Springer was a radio evangelist, self-proclaimed medical doctor and minister. In 1944, he laid claim to 12,000 acres of land in California's Mohave Desert and created his own town. The only problem? The land wasn't his. He was also a medical fraud who used his radio show to sell fake miracle potions. Springer was the ultimate con man known as the "King of Quacks."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and conversation. |
| 0:11.0 | Your old friend Curtis Springer coming to you with the facts about life and how to live it. |
| 0:17.6 | As we answer your questions from Zizik's Mineral Spring, way out here in the heart of the |
| 0:23.6 | great Moabee Desert of California, where we have 12,000 acres devoted to teaching folks |
| 0:31.6 | how to get a greater joy out of life. Now we want you to come out here when you can enjoy this beautiful 12,000 |
| 0:40.3 | acre oasis. Have a wonderful time with us. In the meantime, have your paper and pencil ready |
| 0:47.3 | in about 14 and a half minutes because I want to send a free package of one of our products to each of you listening in. |
| 0:56.0 | There'll be no charge whatsoever. |
| 0:59.0 | We want you to use it in your own home and at our expense to prove to you how you can assist nature |
| 1:07.0 | in building up your system through sensible habits of eating and living. |
| 1:13.1 | Media, religion, and the flim-flam scam. Curtis Howes Springer was the master of it all. |
| 1:20.8 | You see, in my particular work, friends, I don't pull for any one branch of the therapy or of the |
| 1:27.3 | sciences of healing because I've |
| 1:29.5 | studied them all. I have my degrees in the various ones and I'm very proud of them, though |
| 1:36.0 | I do not practice. There were no degrees, but Springer most definitely did practice. He practiced |
| 1:44.0 | the art of the con. And here's how good he was. Springer most definitely did practice. He practiced the art of the con. |
| 1:45.9 | And here's how good he was. |
| 1:47.8 | Springer built himself a town. |
| 1:50.6 | On land, he didn't own. |
| 1:53.1 | Selling services that didn't exist. |
| 1:57.4 | Welcome to Zizik's California. |
| 2:00.2 | And they got a small beam of light against the mirror. Welcome to Zizek's California. |
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