Dax Shepard changed his mind on the death penalty after learning that the average legal cost for a death row inmate — through appeals and clemency processes — exceeds $1 million, negating his original fiscal argument for capital punishment.
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The episode winds down with Dax and Monica acknowledging they asked listeners to nominate their favorite classic fact checks from the show's back catalog, which will be rerun as a summer series. They tease an upcoming interview with someone who 'could have been on death row' as an inspiring counter-narrative to the death penalty discussion. Monica wraps with final thoughts on the body-swap fantasy game she and Jess play — she'd spend a week in his body playing basketball and masturbating out of scientific curiosity — before a final Allstate roadside assistance sponsor read closes the episode.
A total of 8 states have filed lawsuits against social media platforms, including an ongoing case in Tennessee, using product liability and public nuisance theories to seek accountability.
France built 56 nuclear plants in the 1970s and now has the cheapest energy in Europe, making it independent of Russian or Middle Eastern energy geopolitics.
Estonia has a single tax form, a law preventing the government from asking citizens for the same information twice, and a flat rate of tax — enabling competitive taxation.
Portugal's Lisbon, once a city with a major heroin problem, legalised drugs and redirected enforcement spending into rehabilitation and housing, dramatically reducing crime.
The first Boland Amendment banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras passed the House unanimously — yet the Reagan administration ignored it.
Over just two years, Saudi Arabia alone donated $32 million to the Contra rebels, giving loosely affiliated factions millions they had no way to spend on arms.
The National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty raised $6.3 million for the Contras but only $3.3 million reached them — a shockingly low 52% program expense rate.
Richard Secord and Albert Hakim marked up their arms shipments to the Contras by as much as 300%, making enormous personal profits from the covert operation.
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, tapped to run the entire covert Contra support operation, had no prior experience in covert operations whatsoever — he was learning as he went.
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