Can’t recommend enough Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford’s book:
Border Radio:
Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves
Lots of wacky stories. The Carter Family, the Goat Gland guy, Crazy Water 💦, Nazis in Mexico during WWII?
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292725355/
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