In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys are finally back together at Disgraceland Studios with one of our all-time favorite guests, comedian Ed Greer! We kick this one off with an energy drink called "Liquid Ice" that is only made drinkable when you add hard liquor. We chat about some modern day piracy in Washington State and some of the terrible implications from the merger of hip-hop and country music. Rivers tells the gang the story of the "goat glad doctor" and the greatest flim-flam man of the Great Depression, John R. Brinkley. Our JAM OF THE WEEK is "Reefer Madness" from The Kottonmouth Kings. Keep on shinin' all week and tune in now! Follow Ed on all forms of social media @EdGreerDestroys Follow the show on all the socials @TheGoodsPod Rivers is @RiversLangley Sam is @SlamHarter Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for the UNCUT video version of this episode as well as TONS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt here: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
Bridget Todd talks with Gare about how disgraced Daily Wire podcaster Candace Owens is using a celebrity scandal to rebrand her conservative politics for a normie audience.
We dig into a grand theory that Ed is building through a series of essays on the AI industry and the Silicon Valley Consensus, or how “a bunch of independent profit-seeking actors have converged on sustaining a certain technology through a frenzy of overbuilding, overvaluing, and overinvesting in order to realize excessive gains that can be translated into political power aimed at restructuring society.”
••• The Silicon Valley Consensus & AI Capex (Part 1) https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-silicon-valley-consensus-and
Standing Plugs:
••• Order Jathan’s new book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble
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The race toward de-extincting mammoths (and other creatures) continues apace, here at what Ben calls "the end of history." The newest step toward this furry resurrection? WOOLY MICE. An unidentified bird drops a severed hand at a school. Also schoolteachers are getting in trouble for "pretending" to sell pills, and forcing kids to fight each other in Juvie. Hoping to end on a positive note, the guys come through with some fantastic space updates (side note: spacedates?) -- anyhow, all this and more in this week's strange news segment.
Native Americans have a lower risk of developing skin cancer than their white counterparts. But a more comprehensive look at the disease over ten years’ time shows gaps in how skin cancer among Native people is counted. It also signals problems in awareness, diagnosis, and treatment among people who live in poverty or in rural areas. We’ll look at the links between Native Americans and skin cancer, and get a reminder about what to look for.
Mia and James discuss how the neoliberal state created the markets that made Elon Musk the richest man alive and how the structure of global capitalism ensured his rise.
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
The Future of Peacekeeping In Africa
The Last Trial of the Fight Against Mountain Valley Pipeline
The USA's Impending Telemedicine Cliff
King Trump Yells at Congress
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6
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It's a harrowing story, often untold in the West: while everyone's tired of scam calls and texts, we rarely ask about the lives of people on the other side of the call. While it's devilishly easy to make light of the scammers and the con artists, the harsh reality is that thousands of people pushing scams are being forced to do so, often held against their will in what amounts to modern-day slavery. Following up on their earlier episode investigating the terrifying scam compounds in Myanmar, Ben, Matt and Noel welcome special guest, the award-winning journalist Denise Chan, to learn more about the continuing catastrophe in her newest project, Scam Factory, by Wondery.
Military veterans make up just under a third of the thousands of federal job cuts that the White House has imposed since January. On top of that, the Trump Administration indicates it intends to cut 80,000 jobs from Veterans Affairs. We’ll explore how those cuts are being felt by the population that traditionally has the highest military participation compared to any other group. 