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One Damn Thing After Another
by Kirk Moore
One Damn Thing After Another starts with this week's news and pulls the thread backward: the pattern, the original wound, the fixes that failed, the forks where it could have broken the cycle, and what would actually have to change. Why does this keep happening?
Episodes
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One Damn Thing After Another: The Hundred-Dollar Habit
Why oil shocks keep happening, on schedule, about once a decade. From the 1973 embargo to this week's 111-dollar Brent crude: the pattern, the original wound, the failed fixes, the forks where it could have broken the cycle, and what would actually have to change. AI Generated
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One Damn Thing After Another: The Stadium Shakedown
Three governments committed $2.6 billion to stadiums in eight days. Cole pulls the thread: the shakedown playbook, the buildings taxpayers paid for twice, the fixes that failed, and what it would actually take to end it. AI Generated
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One Damn Thing After Another: When the Cure Was the Poison
Cole pulls the thread on medicine's reversals — fen-phen, Vioxx, hormone therapy, the low-fat craze, trans fats, the opioid push, diet sweeteners, and the 1946 cigarette ads that started it all. The pattern is certainty, mass uptake, harm in the data, reversal. With the new weight-loss drugs in…
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One Damn Thing After Another: The Trial Before the Trial
Pilot episode. The Lindsay Clancy case — and why TikTok decides who's guilty before the trial ever starts. From the Lindbergh trial to Court TV to Depp v. Heard, the pattern keeps accelerating: one damn thing after another. Serious, curious, humane. AI Generated
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
One Damn Thing After Another starts with this week's news and pulls the thread backward: the pattern, the original wound, the fixes that failed, the forks where it could have broken the cycle, and what would actually have to change. Why does this keep happening?
HOSTED BY
Kirk Moore
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