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One Damn Thing After Another
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
- One Damn Thing After Another
One Damn Thing After Another: The Disease We Declared Gone
Cole follows the November 2, 2026 New York measles death back through elimination in 2000, the pockets, the failed fixes, and the forks — and asks what it…
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One Damn Thing After Another: A Bet on the Ballot
Prediction markets and election betting, from the 1916 Wall Street betting crowds to this week's renewed CFTC probe of Polymarket, six days before the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…