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Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Jake fills everyone in on the crispy current state of Los Angeles (he's safe, folks). Then Anders gives an overview of the wacky world and history of the chiropractic practice. Full episode available at Patreon.com/Poddamnamerica

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0:00.0

This one is still I'm a little skeptical of, but this is apparently part and parcel of chiropractic

0:06.8

therapy, which I just sounds strange, but magnetic healing apparently has succeeded. It does have a

0:16.5

webmd page. So shrug emoji to that one. All right. But legit. Yeah. And there's stuff like that.

0:24.6

There's also bone setting, which was seen as obscure and weird, but more so than that, it was in a lot of ways a class thing.

0:33.9

Because bone setters who would, were kind of proto chiropractors, they worked part-time usually,

0:41.8

and they served clients. And there's a really interesting sort of academic analysis and

0:51.5

paper about chiropractic from

0:54.4

JAMA, J-A-M-A-M-A,

0:56.7

which I don't know it sounds like

0:58.3

Faislamma JAMA, but it's a

0:59.9

journal of, I think it's alternative

1:02.1

medicine, but I look them up, I check

1:04.2

them out, they are legit, they have

1:05.8

like interviews with Fauci and stuff,

1:08.1

so they're not like off the wall by

1:10.1

any stretch, but they say, yeah, bone setting was part-time.

1:15.6

And it was looked down on by the mainstream medical community because the things that

1:22.1

bone setters were doing were, which was probably, you know, working class people who had like back problems and

1:28.8

stuff, joint pain.

1:30.0

They thought that was beneath them, like most doctors, uh, who wanted to get paid to,

1:34.8

to do the, the leeches and the big stuff.

1:37.5

Um, I mean, by then they probably weren't still doing leeches, but chiropractic.

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