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  • S2E6: The Origins of Cross Border Smuggling in North America

    S2E6: The Origins of Cross Border Smuggling in North America
    2024/11/21
    For over a hundred years now, the Mexico-U.S. border has been home to the smuggling of all sorts of psychoactive substances. This episode explores the birth of this century long phenomenon and how the actions of decades past continue to affect us to this day.
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    1 時間 29 分
  • S2E5: The U.S. Goes Synthetic

    S2E5: The U.S. Goes Synthetic
    2024/11/14
    The United States has had a long, complicated history with opioids. This episode explores the origins of this relationship which began in the midst of the Civil War, and how, over a century later, we are still aeffected by the policies and perspectives of the past.
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    59 分
  • S2E4: A Brief History of Psychoactive Substances in Mexico

    S2E4: A Brief History of Psychoactive Substances in Mexico
    2024/10/31
    Before the Mexico-United States border became one of the main hubs for drug trafficking in the world, it had to exist in the first place. This episode dives into both how the country of Mexico itself was formed, and the ways psychoactive substance use in this land evlolved and changed along the way.
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    27 分
  • S2E3: When the U.S. Was Its Drunkest

    S2E3: When the U.S. Was Its Drunkest
    2024/10/24
    Following the American Revolution, the United States struggled to import a regular supply of liquor. Rather than slow down consumption, this era birthed an explosion in the country's whiskey industry and soon led to the heaviest drinking period in American history.
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    48 分
  • S2E2: The Commodification of Narcotics

    S2E2: The Commodification of Narcotics
    2024/10/17
    Psychoactive substances have been used by humans for thousands and thousands of years, but their time as a marketable product came about fairly recently. The second episode of season two dives into this history and the ways certain substances were integral to the growth of European colonies across the Americas.
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    55 分
  • S2E1: Why Do We Get High?

    S2E1: Why Do We Get High?
    2024/10/10
    The return of Fickle Future! This first episode of the second season explores the origins of humanity's relationship with psychoactive substances and the many theories as to why we began consuming in the first places.
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    33 分
  • Episode 10: Mexico's Recent Elections and the Modern War on Drugs

    Episode 10: Mexico's Recent Elections and the Modern War on Drugs
    2021/08/20
    Find all of Hobi Beats' work here: https://linktr.ee/hobibeats

    In the final episode of my first season, I give a sneak peak into season two by highlighting some of the reasons the most recent cycle of Mexican elections has been some of the most violent in the nation's history.
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    18 分
  • Episode 9: Freedom of the Press Around the World

    Episode 9: Freedom of the Press Around the World
    2021/08/12
    Find all of Hobi Beats' work here: https://linktr.ee/hobibeats

    In this episode, I look at three countries around the world with greater press freedom than the United States, and the ways in which they have improved safety and rights for journalists in recent years.
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    21 分