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Cody Crouch: MAGA | Centuries Collide

January 18, 2025 | S2:E10

Cody Crouch: MAGA | Centuries Collide
Long before the infamous red hat, President Franklin Delaware Rosevelt had a bold vision to rescue America from the Great Depression by making America great again.
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Centuries Collide | Cody Crouch: MAGA | Centuries Collide | January 18, 2025
  • I am cody crouch, and this is the craziest
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  • Crash course on american history you'll ever see.
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  • Buckle up.
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  • It's time for centuries collide.
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  • ♪♪
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  • Hey everybody, how about a little presidential
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  • Pop quiz?
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  • Are you ready?
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  • First question, has any president ever
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  • Unanimously won all electoral votes?
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  • Surprisingly, yes.
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  • George washington is the only president to ever
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  • Claim this honor, and that dude did it twice
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  • Like a goat.
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  • Alright, next question.
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  • This one's multiple choice.
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  • How many presidents have been impeached?
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  • Three, six, or 11.
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  • The correct answer is three.
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  • This distinguished honor is held by the three
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  • Impeachment amigos, andrew johnson, bill
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  • Clinton, and most recently donald j. trump.
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  • Question three, which president has won more
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  • Votes than any other in history?
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  • The answer, joe biden.
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  • That's what's up.
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  • Our final question
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  • Centers on a very controversial president
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  • As well as the focus of today's episode.
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  • I'll give you three hints.
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  • This president came from a successful family of
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  • New yorkers who gained their wealth through
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  • Business and real estate.
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  • He was also known for his trademark hat.
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  • Next clue.
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  • After a period of terrible financial
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  • Instability, this president promised to
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  • Make america great again.
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  • Okay, so that's probably a total dead giveaway.
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  • The answer, of course, franklin delano roosevelt.
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  • I know.
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  • You're probably thinking of the other famous new
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  • York president, miller fillmore.
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  • Oh yeah, but he didn't wear hats.
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  • So fdr, it is. in the midst of the
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  • Great depression,
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  • President roosevelt made america an offer
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  • It couldn't refuse, a new deal to rebuild our
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  • Nation and restore our wealth, and this new deal
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  • Changed everything, but did it really make
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  • America great again?
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  • ♪♪
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  • In the 1930's, america was in rough shape.
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  • We needed a major facelift.
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  • Oh, hey guys, good to see you.
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  • George is looking nice and chiseled.
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  • Anyway, where was i?
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  • Oh yeah, facelift.
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  • In the midst of the great depression, america was
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  • Out of money, out of jobs, and well, super
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  • Depressed. we needed a fresh outlook, and that's
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  • Exactly what we got.
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  • Over 2000 hospitals, 2,500 firehouses and a
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  • Thousand libraries, 15,000 auditoriums, gyms,
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  • And recreational centers,
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  • A thousand airports, 12,000 playgrounds, 1200
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  • Skating rinks, a thousand swimming pools.
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  • 630,000 miles of roads and 1 million miles
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  • Of sidewalks.
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  • Not to mention some super amazing national
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  • Monuments like these guys right here.
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  • So how do we go from super depressed to making
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  • America great again?
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  • Well, let's rewind a bit.
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  • The 1920's was one big party in the usa, and if
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  • You don't believe me, you should watch our
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  • Last episode.
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  • We helped win world war i, women could vote, and we
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  • Had a ton of money to spend on exciting new
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  • Things like radios, telephones, cars,
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  • And illegal booze.
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  • But then in 1929, the whole party came
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  • Crashing down.
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  • The stock market crashed and america
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  • Got depressed.
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  • ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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  • Enter the great depression, the worst
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  • Global economic downturn in history.
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  • By 1933, 15 million people were unemployed
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  • And nearly half of the country's banks
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  • Had collapsed.
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  • Things were grim.
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  • Central park was filled with
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  • Homeless encampments.
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  • It looked like modern day california.
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  • Yikes.
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  • These homeless camps were nicknamed hoovervilles,
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  • And not just because they sucked, but they were
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  • Named after president hoover, who had earned a
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  • Reputation for not being a very helpful president.
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  • This place is getting to be a real hellhole.
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  • More like hoover hole.
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  • Am i right?
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  • I'm sorry, mr. president.
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  • Well, what are we going to do?
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  • We could get some of those giant checks and
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  • Deliver them by balloon to people's houses.
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  • Gad zooks, man.
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  • Where are your pants?
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  • I thought
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  • We were going to video in mr. president.
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  • Uh, same.
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  • Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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  • What if we just
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  • Do nothing?
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  • Nothing. nothing.
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  • It's simple, easy to accomplish.
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  • That'll be my new policy.
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  • Great.
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  • Good work, man.
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  • That's a real hoover of an idea.
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  • That's how you use hoover in a sentence.
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  • The problem was by 1932, food lines were
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  • Everywhere.
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  • Private charities were bankrupt.
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  • There just wasn't enough food, clothing, and
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  • Medicine to go around,
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  • But hoover still didn't want to intervene.
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  • You see, he was a pretty classic pick yourself up
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  • By the bootstraps kind of guy, which have you ever
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  • Tried to do that?
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  • [loudly struggling]
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  • America was in bad shape and the people were
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  • Looking for help, which is exactly what
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  • Democratic party candidate franklin delano
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  • Roosevelt promised in the 1932 election.
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  • Oh, hello there.
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  • Thought i'd change up my location and my
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  • Communication style because that's exactly
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  • What happened
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  • In 1932. presidential candidate roosevelt
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  • Became famous for his fireside chats with the
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  • American people.
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  • Although he wasn't sitting next to an actual
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  • Fire. he was simply making a dinnertime
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  • Radio broadcast.
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  • It felt warm and cozy and he made use of a big new
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  • Tech this day,
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  • The radio. you see, roosevelt knew how to
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  • Speak to the people of the 1930's and it worked
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  • Really well.
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  • Confidence and courage are the essentials of
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  • Success in carrying out our plan.
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  • You people must have faith.
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  • You must not be stampeded by rumors or guesses.
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  • Let us unite in banishing fear. and send.
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  • That was probably the greatest communication
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  • That has ever been communicated by a
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  • Communicator who's ever communicated.
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  • And just like the politicians today, it
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  • Didn't matter that he didn't have a
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  • Specific plan.
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  • Fdr was super inspiring.
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  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. send.
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  • Like i said, inspiring fdr's knack for speaking
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  • Directly to the american people helped him win a
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  • Landslide election.
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  • But it was his truly epic acceptance speech that
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  • Set the tone for his larger than life presidency.
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  • Roll tape.
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  • I pledge you,
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  • I pledge myself to a new deal for the american people.
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  • It's going to be huge.
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  • A new deal for the american people.
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  • That sounds pretty awesome.
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  • So he may not have had an airtight plan, but fdr
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  • Definitely had a strategy.
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  • What's the deal with
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  • The new deal?
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  • His new plan is called relief,
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  • Recovery and reform.
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  • Let's just call it the three r's.
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  • Relief. what is that?
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  • This relief is intended to help those in the
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  • Worst immediate crisis.
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  • The relief took the form of breadlines,
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  • Government created jobs, welfare, and most
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  • Famously the social security act, which we
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  • Still have today.
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  • And the recovery?
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  • The recovery is aimed at helping the economy
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  • Bounce back.
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  • The agricultural adjustment act helped
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  • Regulate the production and prices of goods like
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  • Eggs, beef, cotton, and tobacco.
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  • And reform,
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  • What's the deal with that?
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  • The goal here was to tackle bigger systematic
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  • Problems so that we'd never have another
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  • Great depression.
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  • Okay, that's all for today.
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  • Thank you so much.
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  • So what does this all mean?
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  • How did it all work and what was the political
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  • Philosophy behind it?
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  • I know.
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  • These are the types of questions you really hope
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  • I don't start answering.
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  • So how about i have two adorable bunnies
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  • Break it down for us?
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  • So the basic idea behind the new deal was that the
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  • Government could create a more just society by
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  • Super imposing a welfare state on top of a
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  • Capitalist system.
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  • Welfare state?
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  • For the last time, stop shoving socialism
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  • Down my throat,
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  • Brittany, stop making this about you.
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  • Whatever.
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  • A welfare state on top of a capitalist system.
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  • This is actually something we hear a lot
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  • About today
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  • I guess just proving once again that there are no
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  • New ideas in politics.
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  • So are they as good together as peanut butter
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  • And jelly, crackers and cheese, fudge and ice cream?
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  • And how well did these systems actually work in
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  • The 1930's?
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  • Let's take a look at what the new deal
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  • Did accomplish.
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  • In 1933, the homeless population of the united
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  • States reached 15 million people.
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  • People were desperate for help.
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  • I have 10 days to get another house.
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  • No job, no means of paying their rent.
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  • Can you advise me as to which way would be the
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  • Most humane way to dispose of myself and my
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  • Family as this is about the only thing that i see
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  • Left to do?
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  • So how would a compassionate,
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  • Financially responsible president respond to such
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  • A plea for help?
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  • And send.
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  • Excuse me, mr. president, but no one seems to know
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  • What covfefe means.
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  • Oh my gosh.
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  • Okay, let's try that again.
  • 00:10:17.231 --> 00:10:19.100
  • So how would a compassionate,
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  • Financially responsible president respond to such
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  • A plea for help?
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  • Man, i'm on fire today,
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  • Mr. president,
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  • The press are confused about your new terms.
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  • Of course they are.
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  • What else is new?
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  • I would like a little more clarity on your last
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  • Messages, sir.
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  • Clarity, i'm the most clearer president ever.
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  • What about, what does fera, wpa, cwa mean? are
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  • You even speaking english?
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  • Acronyms. oh. oh.
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  • The new deal brought us a ton of new acronyms like
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  • The federal emergency relief administration,
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  • The public works administration, the civil
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  • Works administration, all supported by the acronym
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  • In chief, fdr.
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  • The president wants to do something big,
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  • Really big.
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  • He's expanded the federal government by
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  • A hundred fold.
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  • A big fan of big government, peter.
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  • In fact, i have a quote from him.
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  • The federal government is the only agency with
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  • Sufficient power to meet the situation.
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  • It is the duty of the united states to give
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  • Employment to all of these three and a half
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  • Million people now on relief.
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  • This is the method to meet this problem
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  • Of unemployment.
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  • We have assumed this task and we shall not shrink
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  • From it in the future.
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  • All emergency public works shall be united in
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  • A single new and greatly enlarged plan.
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  • So what did all these fancy new agencies do for
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  • The american people?
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  • It got us working again.
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  • Hardworking americans built schools and skating
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  • Rinks, hundreds of airport hangers,
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  • Thousands of miles of bridges, tunnels,
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  • Drainage ditches, hundreds of water
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  • Treatment plants, thousands of via ducts.
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  • Over 12,000 playgrounds.
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  • The government even hired artists, authors, actors
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  • To do whatever it is they do.
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  • Of course, all of this was super expensive, but
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  • It did make a big economic difference and
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  • It boosted the morale of the country.
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  • I'd rather stay out here in
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  • That ditch
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  • Than take 1 cent in direct relief.
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  • Turns out, unlike today's social media influencers,
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  • America's in the 1930's actually wanted to work,
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  • Take that, social media. in order to learn more about
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  • Fdr and the original maga movement,
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  • We need to talk to judy berdy in new york city
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  • Right here on roosevelt island.
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  • Our story starts with the great depression.
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  • Kind of walk us through just how bad the great
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  • Depression was for the american people.
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  • Well, the great depression was bad
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  • Because people had no work.
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  • They had no jobs, and our administrations were not
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  • Focusing on the people.
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  • So franklin d. roosevelt was elected president and
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  • Immediately he set about changing the way we
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  • Do business.
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  • He strengthened the banking laws because a
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  • Lot of banks would just go broke and everyone
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  • There was no insurance and people would lose all
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  • Their savings.
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  • He regulated the stock market so that you could
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  • Not do trading without financial backing.
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  • People would just like betting on it.
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  • And he also started all kinds of work projects.
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  • He also ended prohibition, which
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  • Was very good.
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  • Well, it brought revenue because you paid taxes on
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  • Your liquor.
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  • I bet people were really happy about that.
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  • Yes, and he also built some model communities and
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  • They would have strict guidelines as who could
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  • Live there.
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  • You had to be mom, dad, and two kids.
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  • Also, mom was not allowed to work, and unfortunately
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  • Most of 'em were very segregated and it was a
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  • Time before integration and they didn't think
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  • That way.
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  • I think it's safe to say that roosevelt is one of
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  • The most politically influential presidents.
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  • Oh, sure.
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  • How did the new deal kind of change
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  • Political philosophy?
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  • I don't know if we've had any presidents since him
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  • That has put so many projects into improve our
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  • Country, except lyndon baines johnson.
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  • A lot of the great society programs in the
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  • 1960's were based on the same kind of projects to
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  • Get middle people up and out and working.
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  • We're over the halfway point of our show now,
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  • And it's a segue for us to talk about the
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  • Midpoint of the 1930's.
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  • Right in the middle of the decade, a pretty huge
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  • Historical event took place all the way over
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  • In germany.
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  • Now, stick with me because i'm going to
  • 00:15:08.013 --> 00:15:09.481
  • Connect the dots.
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  • The great depression wasn't just limited to
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  • The united states.
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  • It was a global economic downturn.
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  • The crash of the us stock market was just the
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  • Beginning, the first domino, if you will.
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  • It was the largest depression in the 20th
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  • Century for london, same for france.
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  • Spain's exports of olive oil and wine fell to all
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  • Time lows, and there was mass unemployment across
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  • Finland and sweden, but germany, they were hit
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  • Really hard.
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  • The widespread unemployment, famine and
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  • Misery led to the rise of the 20th century's
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  • Greatest super villain, adolf hitler.
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  • Higher, higher, higher.
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  • The 1936 olympic games were going to be held
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  • In germany.
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  • And for adolf hitler image was everything.
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  • So hitler and his all white, not a jew in sight
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  • Team of athletes are ready to show their
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  • Racial superiority on the world stage.
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  • I mean, how could such a perfectly diabolical
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  • Plan fail?
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  • Am i right?
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  • Enter jesse owens.
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  • Jesse owens was the youngest and definitely
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  • Fastest of 10 kids from an all-american family
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  • From alabama and ohio.
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  • And in the 1936 olympics, jesse would race hitler's
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  • Quote, superior race of athletes and totally
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  • Kick their butts.
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  • Roll tape.
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  • I mean, jesse annihilated any chance germany had of
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  • Proving their white superiority.
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  • So much for that plan.
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  • Hitler was so mad, it was rumored that he wouldn't
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  • Even shake jesse's hand.
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  • And once again, we have actual footage.
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  • I tell you this story for a few reasons.
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  • First, it happened in the 1930's and is
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  • Totally awesome.
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  • And second, well, we'll get to that in a minute.
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  • Back to the new deal.
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  • The government was spending money, americans
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  • Were working, blah, blah, yada, yada.
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  • You might even say the jobs multiplied like a
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  • Litter of rabbits.
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  • America was working again and it felt great.
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  • Morale was boosted.
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  • There was more food on the table, and all of
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  • These public works projects gave america a
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  • Beautiful facelift.
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  • It also expanded the power of the federal
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  • Government like never before. before the 1930's, the
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  • Government stuck to the basics, paving roads,
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  • Paying for public schools and funding the military,
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  • The basics.
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  • But now the government was into banking,
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  • Building, healthcare, pensions, job creation,
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  • Housing, and basically everything else.
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  • One of the greatest legacies of fdr's new deal
  • 00:18:17.116 --> 00:18:18.951
  • Might just be a huge shift in political philosophy.
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  • After the new deal, americans began looking
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  • To the federal government for the halth of the
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  • Economy and the welfare of its citizens.
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  • And for better or worse, that trend continues today.
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  • In 1930, entitlement spending made up about 2%
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  • Of the nation's budget.
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  • But today, entitlement programs like medicare
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  • And social security consume about 51% of all
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  • Federal spending.
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  • That's a lot of dough.
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  • So i know you guys are just dying to know the
  • 00:18:54.153 --> 00:18:56.022
  • Answer to the big question, right?
  • 00:18:56.022 --> 00:18:58.791
  • Did the new deal work?
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  • Did it make america great again?
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  • Did it end the great depression?
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  • Turns out, not really.
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  • Yes, the new deal had some great successes, but
  • 00:19:09.268 --> 00:19:11.804
  • Generally historians don't credit the new deal
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  • With ending the great depression.
  • 00:19:14.974 --> 00:19:16.742
  • So what did? well, remember the 1936
  • 00:19:16.742 --> 00:19:21.280
  • Olympics? in the 1930's while we were climbing
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  • Our way out of the great depression, germany was
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  • Building a war machine and america didn't
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  • Really care.
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  • After all, that could never affect us.
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  • Right?
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  • Fast forward to december 7th, 1941, pearl harbor.
  • 00:19:35.328 --> 00:19:42.101
  • When the japanese attacked, america was
  • 00:19:42.101 --> 00:19:46.005
  • Dragged into the war, and president roosevelt did
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  • What he did best.
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  • He inspired the american people.
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  • No matter how long it may take us to overcome this
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  • Premeditated invasion, the american people in
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  • Their righteous might will win through to
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  • Absolute victory.
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  • Americans took the message to heart and we
  • 00:20:09.695 --> 00:20:12.264
  • Got to work even harder.
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  • The world
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  • Is at war.
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  • What does this mean for the american people?
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  • The president wants the american people to work
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  • Even harder.
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  • Tanks need to be built, bombers and bombs.
  • 00:20:23.943 --> 00:20:25.945
  • We need war planes, ammunition, silk parachutes.
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  • Who's going to do all this work?
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  • All americans. even those who have struggled to
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  • Find work, this is the place for you now.
  • 00:20:34.186 --> 00:20:37.656
  • We need everyone, young and old,
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  • African-americans, teenagers, and yes, yes,
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  • Even women.
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  • The american war machine effectively ended
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  • Unemployment and classes of people who'd usually
  • 00:20:50.870 --> 00:20:53.739
  • Have difficulty finding work like
  • 00:20:53.739 --> 00:20:55.908
  • African-americans, teenagers and women were
  • 00:20:55.908 --> 00:20:59.145
  • Now gainfully employed.
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  • The new deal didn't necessarily end the great
  • 00:21:01.247 --> 00:21:04.483
  • Depression, but it did prepare us to enter and
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  • Win the second world war.
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  • And when our boys came home in 1945, the great
  • 00:21:10.256 --> 00:21:13.192
  • Depression was a distant memory.
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  • President roosevelt looms large over
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  • American history.
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  • He's known as one of the greatest presidents we've
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  • Ever had, and rightfully so.
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  • He made our nation look great again. in his era,
  • 00:21:24.904 --> 00:21:28.774
  • Some of our greatest landmarks were built like
  • 00:21:28.774 --> 00:21:31.610
  • The hoover dam.
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  • And these guys right here. president roosevelt
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  • Presided over two of the greatest crises america
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  • Ever faced, the great depression and world war ii.
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  • And sadly, he didn't live to see the end of the war.
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  • The toll of being commander in chief, plus
  • 00:21:47.593 --> 00:21:49.562
  • His lifelong struggle with polio had finally
  • 00:21:49.562 --> 00:21:51.964
  • Worn him down.
  • 00:21:51.964 --> 00:21:53.899
  • Wait, i did mention fdr had polio, right?
  • 00:21:53.899 --> 00:21:59.405
  • So you might've noticed that president roosevelt
  • 00:21:59.405 --> 00:22:01.440
  • Was always photographed sitting down.
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  • He never wanted to be seen in a wheelchair for
  • 00:22:04.009 --> 00:22:06.479
  • Fear of being considered weak or incapable.
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  • Of course he was
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  • Anything but. when it comes to making america
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  • Great again, i think it's safe to say president
  • 00:22:14.820 --> 00:22:16.989
  • Roosevelt left america in greater shape
  • 00:22:16.989 --> 00:22:19.158
  • Than he found it.
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  • And that's a pretty cool deal.
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  • We'll see you next time.
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