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In this episode, we explore from horseback to the wall street crash. You know, it's incredibly easy to look back at history and just see it as this slow, dusty crawl of black and white photos. Right, like it's completely disconnected from us. Exactly. But I want you to imagine, just for a second, that you were born in the late 1800s. You grew up in a world where the speed limit of human existence is... Well, it's basically tied to biology. Yeah, a horse or a sailboat. Right. A message can only travel as fast as a horse can run or a ship can sail. There's no income tax, there are no airplanes, no such thing as national radio. And then in the span of just three decades, bam, you are completely thrust into the modern world. It's wild to think about the entire foundation of human life essentially flips upside down before you even hit middle age. Yes, su ... 
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