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  • From Breadlines to the Space Age
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In this episode, we explore from breadlines to the space age. I want you to imagine, just for a second, that you're a time traveler. OK, I'm with you. But your time machine has this very specific limitation. It doesn't have a massive range. You can only skip forward exactly 20 years. Just 20 years. That's not a lot in the grand scheme of things. Right. So you start your journey in 1930. You're standing in a country that is absolutely crippled by the Great Depression, a nation where millions are focused entirely on basic daily survival just hoping they have enough to eat tomorrow yeah the absolute rock bottom exactly then you hit the button you step out of the machine in 1949 and you have just arrived in a nuclear armed global superpower that is like Broadcasting live television, mass producing instant cameras and actively launching a monkey into spa ... 
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