One of the state’s most successful marijuana entrepreneurs tells us how to make it big selling legalized pot: a business in which you can make a small fortune provided you start with a large one.
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Lewis Black joins us to talk about going nuts during the quarantine and going on vacation in an empty tour bus before going totally batshit on Trump's handling of the pandemic.
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Choreographer Vanessa White talks about her ribald holiday sensation, in which strippers, pole dancers, and ballet divas defy race, gender, genre, and body type as they totally reinterpret Tchaikovsky’s traditional score. It’s like the kinky off-spring of Mark Morris and John Waters.
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In his controversial book The Stop Dwayne Bryant offers a life-saving tool kit for people of color who are pulled over by law enforcement.
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Jeff Foster is the AP Government teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, site of the deadliest high school shooting in US history. Many students credit Mr. Foster as the influence behind their national organizing campaign and he talks to us about moving beyond heartbreak to political action.
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Bestselling author Sarah Smarsh joins Ira to talk about Dolly Parton, the most successful female artist in country music history; a business mogul, a philanthropist, a writer who gives voice to millions of working class women, and a 21st century icon to gays and transgender people all over the world.
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Sometimes, you just have to escape the news cycle and what better indulgence than True Crime? Today we’re taking a deep dive into New York City’s most ruthless 20th century gang, Brooklyn’s own Murder, Incorporated, and how a band of sadistic killers turned on each other and destroyed the mob.
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On the 30th Anniversary of the Martin Scorcese classic, New York Times film critic Glenn Kenny indulges his inner hit man and talks about the famous scenes, camera shots, improvs, and back lot relationships that went into the making of the greatest mob movie ever.
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For 20 years reporter Steven Dudley’s beat was gangland Central America. Here he tells the real story of MS-13: a vicious criminal organization that also serves as a surrogate family for people whose lives were destroyed by US foreign policy.
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