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The Brohio Podcast

Old Time Medicine

The Brohio Podcast

The Bros of Brohio

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Before WebMD convinced you that your headache is terminal, medicine used to be… absolutely unhinged. This week we dive headfirst into the horrifying, hilarious world of Old Time Medicine—when doctors prescribed heroin for coughs, crocodile poop for birth control, and thought the best way to diagnose illness was by drinking your pee like a fine wine. From arsenic beauty wafers to tapeworm diet pills, humanity spent centuries confidently poisoning itself in the name of “science.” We explore the weird cures, the gross treatments, and the moments where medicine was basically guessing with confidence. Spoiler: somehow we survived long enough to invent antibiotics.

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0:00.0

Quick question, why does every pop star suddenly cover one eye?

0:04.0

Why do kids' movies have more occult symbolism than a 19th century spellbook?

0:08.4

And why does everyone say, oh, it's just a coincidence right before they change the subject?

0:13.5

Welcome to occult symbolism and pop culture, the podcast where we ruin movies, music, and your sense of reality in a fun way.

0:20.5

My name is Isaac Wisehop.

0:21.6

In each episode, we decode the hidden language of Hollywood conspiracy theories, secret societies,

0:26.6

MK Ultra Mind Control, Saturni and Death Cults, and much more through familiar pop culture.

0:31.5

From Deep Dives of the Shining to 1984 book clubs to Alien Disclosure updates, to Dark

0:36.4

Enlightenment conspiracies of peter teal's

0:38.2

antichrist to interviews with guests like dr jacques valet it's your new home for truly independent

0:42.6

research into the occult is it all intentional is it psychological is it spiritual warfare or am i just

0:48.1

being paranoid i don't tell you what to think i just hand you the red string and let you connect the dots

0:52.5

subscribe to occult symbolism and pop culture on all podcast platforms at my new YouTube channel

0:56.7

at Occas Symbolism because once you see it, you can't unsee it.

1:01.2

Texas is well known for scorching heat, vast expanses of land,

1:06.4

and predilection for doing things bigger.

1:10.2

But beyond Big Band and Big big trucks lies something darker, big crime.

1:17.3

On Gone Cold, Texas True Crime, we dive deep into the facts and theories of an unsolved case each week.

1:25.2

From the mysterious 1974 disappearances of Rachel Trellisa,

1:30.9

Renee Wilson, and Julie Mosley, collectively known as the Fort Worth missing trio, to the

1:37.2

unthinkable, the Orange Texas abduction and murder of four-year-old Denaria Finley in 2002.

1:45.4

To hear those and more than 350 other stories of unsolved homicides and missing persons cases,

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