On June 1, 2001, the nation of Nepal was shocked at the announcement that 10 members of the Nepalese Royal Family were killed in a massacre inside the royal palace.
It wasn’t just a case of homicide, it was a case of regicide, patricide, matricide, fratricide, sororicide, parricide, and suicide.
It was a moment that changed the course of modern Nepal.
Learn more about the Nepalese Royal Massacre, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Cannabis "legalization" hasn't lived up to the hype. Across North America, investors are reeling, tax collections are below projections, and people are pointing fingers. On the business side, companies have shut down, farms have failed, workers have lost their jobs, and consumers face high prices. Why has legal weed failed to deliver on many of its promises? Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics(U California Press, 2022) takes on the euphoric claims with straight dope and a full dose of economic reality.
This book delivers the unadulterated facts about the new legal segment of one of the world's oldest industries. In witty, accessible prose, economists Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner take readers on a whirlwind tour of the economic past, present, and future of legal and illegal weed. Drawing upon reams of data and their own experience working with California cannabis regulators since 2016, Goldstein and Sumner explain why many cannabis businesses and some aspects of legalization fail to measure up, while others occasionally get it right. Their stories stretch from before America's first medical weed dispensaries opened in 1996 through the short-term boom in legal consumption that happened during COVID-19 lockdowns. Can Legal Weed Win? is packed with unexpected insights about how cannabis markets can thrive, how regulators get the laws right or wrong, and what might happen to legal and illegal markets going forward.
Robin Goldstein is an economist and author of The Wine Trials, a controversial exposé of wine snobbery that has become the world’s best-selling guide to cheap wine. Daniel Sumner is Frank H Buck, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. Together they take readers on a tour of the economics of legal and illegal weed, showing where cannabis regulation has gone wrong and how it could do better.
John Emrich has worked for decades years in corporate finance, business valuation and fund management. He has a podcast about the investment space called Kick the Dogma.
For centuries Comanches have captivated imaginations. Yet their story in popular accounts abruptly stops in 1875, when the last free Comanches entered a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. In Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands(U Nebraska Press, 2022), the first tribal-specific history of Comanches in film and media, Quanah Parker descendant Dustin Tahmahkera examines how Comanches represent themselves and are represented by others in recent media. Telling a story of Comanche family and extended kin and their relations to film, Tahmahkera reframes a distorted and defeated history of Comanches into a vibrant story of cinematic traditions, agency, and cultural continuity.
Co-starring a long list of Comanche actors, filmmakers, consultants, critics, and subjects, Cinematic Comanches moves through the politics of tribal representation and history to highlight the production of Comanchería cinema. From early silent films and 1950s Westerns to Disney’s The Lone Ranger and the story of how Comanches captured its controversial Comanche lead Johnny Depp, Tahmahkera argues that Comanche nationhood can be strengthened through cinema. Tahmahkera’s extensive research includes interviews with elder LaDonna Harris, who adopted Depp during filming in one of the most contested films in recent Indigenous cinematic history. In the fragmented popular narrative of the rise and fall of Comanches, Cinematic Comanches calls for considering mediated contributions to the cultural resurgence of Comanches today.
We're talking about more important elections around the U.S. Seven more states are holding primaries today that could set the stage for the fall.
Also, what to know about the British prime minister's recent victory and why some say he still won't hold onto his job for long.
Plus, an "unheard of" result in a cancer drug trial, where the largest four-day workweek experiment is happening, and the key announcements from Apple: from unsending your iMessages to a new way to pay and more.
As abortion access continues to decline on the local level, lawmakers and advocates across the country are devising new ways to protect abortion access as much as they can, where they can. Chito Vela, an Austin City Councilmember, joins us to discuss what he’s doing to decriminalize abortion in Austin, Texas, should Roe be overturned.
And in headlines: Seven states have primary elections today, a federal grand jury charged five members of the Proud Boys with seditious conspiracy, and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a no-confidence vote among Conservative members of Parliament.
Show Notes:
Washington Post: “Empty clinics, no calls: The fallout of Oklahoma’s abortion ban” – https://wapo.st/3xo4aZn
In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys are hangin' out at Disgraceland with comedian and returning champ Reza Asgari! Rivers talks about one of the weirdest comedy open mics in L.A. and then feeds an energy drink called "CUT" to the rest of the crew. We also go into the bizarre story of Wiley Brooks and the hilarious rise and fall of his early-80s diet cult "Breatharianism". Top 3 lists in this one include most preposterous band names the most badass movie spies of all time! "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen is our JAM OF THE WEEK. Tune in now! Follow Reza on Twitter @RezaAsgari. Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod. Rivers is @RiversLangley Sam is @SlamHarter Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
What is a woman? Seems like a pretty simple question. But in today’s America, the left thinks females aren't the only ones who count as women anymore. Stories abound of biological males not only invading women's private spaces such as bathrooms and locker rooms, but dominating in women's sports.
All of this comes with the support of radical leftists and activists in medicine.
Worse, those medical doctors aren't just focused on treating adults. Transgender ideologues have targeted children.
Matt Walsh, author, podcast host, and filmmaker with The Daily Wire, has released a documentary film titled "What Is a Woman?" that he hopes will expose the worst aspects of gender ideology.
"You feel like you're staring into the pit of hell, honestly. I mean, you're looking at pure evil when you consider what they're doing to these kids, and they know what they're doing," Walsh says. "They have to know what they're doing, because they're the doctors and they know what it entails. They know that this stuff is obviously irreversible and they also know that kids can't actually consent to any of this stuff."
Walsh adds:
Kids don't know what they're doing. They're not looking five, 10 years into the future. I mean, even before you get to surgery and that's horrific enough, you've got the drugs, the hormone drugs, the so-called puberty blockers, and those drugs among other consequences, they also have the effect of sterilizing kids.
Walsh joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss his film and what gender activists are doing to kids, and offer solutions on how to escape this post-truth environment.
We also cover these stories:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk accuses Twitter of refusing to provide information on the number of bots and fake accounts populating the platform.
The national average price of a gallon of gas hits a new record high of $4.86.
Several players for the Tampa Bay Rays, citing religious reasons, refuse to wear "pride" logos on their uniforms during a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox.
Republicans who still haven’t accepted that Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in 2020 are recruiting “a volunteer army” of poll watchers and poll workers for upcoming elections. For those who want transparent and fair elections, an influx of enthusiasm is theoretically a good thing. But if new poll workers and poll watchers have an agenda— chasing after fraud that didn’t happen—can they hurt more than they help?
Guest: Alexandra Berzon, investigative reporter for the New York Times.
Guest hosted by Mary C. Curtis, columnist at Roll Call and host of its Equal Time podcast.
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