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In this episode, we explore from first flight to the market crash. OK, let's unpack this. I want you to imagine, just for a second, that you were born in the year 1900. Oh, wow. OK. Right. So by the time you're blowing out the candles on your 29th birthday, you would have watched humans literally take to the sky in power of flight. You would have survived the first mechanized global war, lived through a massively devastating global pandemic, and then You know, watch the entire global economy just completely vaporize overnight. Which is just, it's a lot for one lifetime. It's an unbelievable amount of web lash. And that is exactly why we're here. Welcome to the deep dive. Today, we are immersing ourselves in this incredibly dense timeline of United States history. Specifically, we're looking at the sources from 1900 to 1929. Right, that crucial 30 -year window. Exactly. And our mission today is to connect the dots across raw output and profit margins completely over human life. Absolutely. And the public outcry from these events is what fueled this massive wave of government regulation that we now call the progressive era. Like, the government passes the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act entirely because the public suddenly realized just how dangerous and unregulated their food supply had become. Right. The country was essentially waking up and realizing that a modern industrialized society required a fundamentally different relationship between the government, big businesses, and everyday citizens. Right. But OK, let me push back on the historical momentum here for a second. Go for it. Because in 1901, President William McKinley is assassinated. And that puts his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, the bull moose, straight into the White House as the 26th president. So here is my question. If McKinley hadn't been assassinated in