Season Two opens with an uncomfortable truth: every new industry confuses momentum for validation and the hemp sector has been no exception.
In this episode, we revisit the anatomy of failure through the lens of 1929 stock market crash, the 2008 mortgage crisis and the 2018 Farm Bill movement — tracing how hype cycles repeat when systems are built on optimism instead of architecture.
What We’re Breaking Down:
* Why hemp’s first act — the flower and cannabinoid boom — became a master class in failure.
* The economic and behavioral parallels between the hemp collapse and historic financial bubbles.
* Cisco’s supply-chain “incident-management lifecycle” — a model for how real industries design resilience instead of hoping for it.
* How feedback loops, telemetry, and validation systems can turn hemp fiber into an operationally credible, globally traded commodity.
