In this episode, we explore america built by the unemployed. You know, it's a funny thing about walking around an older American city. Oh, yeah. Always something to trip over. Literally, you trip over a slight, like, uneven crack in the sidewalk and you look down to catch your balance. And right there, stamped permanently into the concrete at your feet, are three letters. W -P -A. Exactly. W -P -A. And today we're unpacking exactly what that stamp means. Our material for this deep dive is drawn from a comprehensive Wikipedia entry detailing the history, the staggering scale, and the complex controversies of the Works Progress Administration. Yeah, it's this literal imprint left behind by a very specific moment in time, a time when the government had to figure out how a nation actually responds to you know, total economic collapse. Right. And our mis ...