February 14, 2025 • 27 mins
Ever wondered how the Roaring Twenties echoes into today's world? We unravel the vibrant cultural, technological, and economic shifts of the 1920s that paved the way for the Great Depression, paralleling them with today's tech-driven economy. Marvel at how jazz icons like Louis Armstrong and daring flappers revolutionized society, and how Prohibition-era crime shaped the underbelly of America. Fast forward to today, where China's DeepSeek is disrupting markets without pricey tech, and explore the curious case of why Elon Musk hasn't yet taken a personal rocket ride to space. These themes intertwine, offering a time-traveling reflection on the cyclical nature of society and innovation.
Hold onto your headphones as we draw striking comparisons between the moguls of the 1920s and our contemporary titans like Musk, Bezos, and Trump. History seems to repeat itself, as we see parallels in economic strategies and personal ambitions. Yet, amidst the complex discourse, a beacon of optimism shines with the return of TikTok and a cutting-edge soundboard upgrade, promising an enhanced listening experience. This episode navigates through the intricacies of past and present, delivering a thought-provoking narrative with a hopeful gaze toward the future. Join us for an engaging exploration where historical echoes meet modern-day marvels.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
hey, welcome back to paranormal 956.
My name is david and, as always, I am here with bianca.
Hi guys, what are we talkingabout today?
You can take that shit off.
Uh, we already did an updateepisode.
(00:25):
Yeah, we did.
So we're done with that.
Why is it like that?
I don't know.
There we go.
Anyways, I don't know what wasgoing on there.
We got ghosts, what's that?
The fuck was that?
I really don't know.
I really don't know.
Anyways, we already did anupdate episode.
(00:46):
What are we talking about today?
I have no idea.
I don't know.
We're talking about the greatdepression more, there's more to
it.
So so we're a little bit out ofsorts today.
Yeah, we don't know.
We're trying our best.
Yeah, if you got suggestions,like I said, just throw them out
(01:09):
there.
We have had some, somemalfunctions and some miscues
today, but we're back on track.
Yeah, today we're talking aboutthe Great Depression.
There is a saying that thosewho forget the past are doomed
to repeat it, and so we aregoing to talk a little bit about
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the past to make sure we don'tforget it.
There's something going to berelevant at the end Before we
get into the Great Depression,which was in the 1920s.
Is that around your time?
No, before, the GreatDepression was in the 1930s.
I'm sorry we're going to talkabout.
Is that around your time?
No, before.
Well, the Great Depression wasin the 1930s, I'm sorry we're
going to talk about.
Is that about your time?
No, no, we're going to talkabout the 1920s, okay.
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So my parents were born in the1950s.
I was born in the 1970s.
My grandparents were born inthe 1920s.
So we're going all the way backto my grandparents.
Okay, they were little kidsduring this, but during the 20s,
setting this up to what led tothe Great Depression, right,
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okay.
So in the 1920s, jazz starts tobe a thing, right, big names
like Louis Armstrong, dukeEllington, etc.
Think about it, like Tupac andBiggie at the time, okay, valid,
where, like, rap is like a newthing and these are the cool
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guys in the rap, understood,understood.
Yeah, there was also this kindof movement called the flappers.
These girls Are they likestrippers?
No, no.
So think about, you know, like,in the 60s, they had the
hippies.
They were like a certain kindof girl, right, and there's like
the preppies and there's likeall these different things.
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So right now, it would be likethe Hello Kitty girl, I guess.
So I don't know.
Today, I don't know.
Today, I don't know, I wear ablack shirt almost every day, I
don't know, but these girls werevery much into fashion.
They were cutting their hairshort for the first time.
They were wearing slacks, whichwas like unheard of at the time
.
There were women that werehaving sex before they were
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getting married.
They were wearing shorterskirts.
They were wanting to Right,they were wearing shorter skirts
.
They were wanting to get jobs.
They were holding off gettingmarried.
Like, women's liberation wasstarting, right, right, they
were very into fashion.
Like I said, at the same time asthese kind of liberal things
are moving forward, crime startsto pick up.
Prohibition is a thing, theoutlaw alcohol, and so the mob
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starts to become a thing alittle bit bigger.
Um, they start making thesethings called speakeasies, which
they looked like a normalbusiness in the front, but then
there was like a hidden roomwhere there's a bar.
Okay, right, and so thingsstarted to.
So that's's where it started,yeah, in the 1920s.
And so now we're talking aboutmoonshine and these, the crazy
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shit Running moonshine and allthis stuff.
Right, immigration also startskicking up in the 1920s.
Right, is that great enough.
Well, that's kind of why we'retalking about this, right,
because this is we're on our way.
Remember, we talked about thefourth, turning in an episode a
few back, yes, and how things goin cycles.
Yes, well, this is kind of theprecursor to the upcoming cycle,
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right, and I really thought2025 was going to be my year.
Who would have thought, yeah,so we're going to get into, get
into this, right?
So immigration picks up at thetime.
It's people from italy andrussia are starting to move over
here.
Okay, a lot more right.
Some of them are getting intoorganized crime, right, because
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the italian mafia, etc.
Etc.
Right, and so that's a bigthing.
As far as the economy, in the1920s, mass production starts to
be a big thing.
They're making cars.
There's these factories, right,cars are affordable for most of
the people in the United States, and so people are starting to
move around a lot more right.
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The radio is a big deal.
People are starting to spreadideas.
People are getting radios andkeeping up to date with current
events and learning about things, right, right.
And then aviation, when theairlines start taking people
places and so, for the firsttime, you're able to travel
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across the country into othercountries at the time in a way
that you could never do before.
So people's eyes and minds arestarting to open, right, and
starting to see the world isaccessible and being able to do
things for the first time.
People that had never been outof their own city are are now
traveling, going to new statesand new countries and things.
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Right, and so it was a big deal,right, this was like a what do
you call it?
Like a quantum leap forward formost of the people, right?
So remember, I said that theRussians were coming over here,
so the Russians were communists.
Right, so communists are today.
We would call them socialists,right?
Okay, there was a big fear,because the United States was
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kind of scared of losing theirfreedoms, and so communism was
looked at as like a big, likethe big enemy in the room, and
so they started taking people tocourt, accusing them of being
communists and all this stuff.
Right, that's crazy, it's crazy, but all this stuff, right,
that's crazy, it's crazy, butit's true, right?
Okay, so women's suffragestarted happening, the early
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days, the very early days of thecivil rights movement, with the
blacks starting to writeliterature right, with DuBose
and all these people that werewriting in the Harlem
Renaissance, they call it right.
Okay, the Scopes trial wasabout Christianity versus
evolution Went to the trial,right, and so things are
(07:15):
starting to become a little bitmore secular.
People are starting to trustscience, like.
A lot of things are happening,right.
They started questioning more,yeah, so their brains are kind
of moving, right.
Yeah, at the same time, theclimate is starting to rumble.
There is a flood on themississippi river that displaces
hundreds of thousands of people.
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Okay, right, at this time, thereare quite a few people that are
super rich, right.
So there's a guy namedRockefeller.
In New York City, there's aRockefeller building where, like
they call it, 30 Rock, whereNBC films, saturday Night Live
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and all these things right.
Okay, rockefeller Center right,it's where they put that big
tree in New York City.
Right, it's named after thisguy.
He was the very firstbillionaire.
There has never been been abillionaire before, but he was
the first one.
He was the first one, okay,into into oil and into real
estate, okay, oh.
Okay.
There was a guy named dupont.
You heard of the dupont company.
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They're into chemicals, right,and they're making these
chemicals and fertilizers andplastics and all this stuff,
right, he's also a really,really rich guy, right, jp
Morgan.
I don't know if you've everheard of JP Morgan Financing.
It's an investment group and abank.
He was into financing and stockmarket Very rich, millionaire
person back then.
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Okay, and then your favoriteHenry Ford was around.
Tell him I fucking got.
So.
Bianca hates Fords.
I don't hate them.
We worked on a lot of Fords andyou have a bad taste in your
mouth from Fords, from Fords,yeah, right, yep.
So now that's the 1920s andthey're still fucking up in the
fucking they call the RoaringTwenties.
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And so these are the richpeople of the time.
Henry Ford is into movingobjects, right.
Cars, right.
Rockefeller is into real estate.
When did Dodge kick in?
Dodge is later.
People that worked for Fordeventually make Dodge.
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Jp Morgan is in the financing,et cetera, et cetera, etc.
Right.
So now we move into the 1930sand I don't remember the date
exactly, but there's a daycalled black tuesday where the
stock market crashes.
This is the beginning.
It's not black friday, it's notblack friday, it's another
black tuesday, right.
And so the stock market fallsfor the first time, and so it
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crashes really bad, like it hadnever really done that before.
But like why, what, when?
I don't get it.
So at the time.
I don't know if you arefamiliar with what they call
bubbles, so, like, think aboutit this way I've seen bubbles,
nope, like in the stock market,right, oh, no.
(10:07):
So let's say like names, okay.
So Stanley Cups are like a bigthing right now, right, okay,
right.
So people start buying them andselling them and buying them and
selling them.
And so you buy one it's 20bucks and then you resell it For
like 40, 60 bucks, right.
And then that person resell itfor like 40, 60 bucks right.
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And then that person resells itfor 80 bucks right.
And then they try to sell itfor 160.
It's like stock x, then, right.
And so think about it this way,right.
So if you bought one for 20,you feel good about that, right?
Yeah, it's a good buy.
And then, if I buy it for 40, Igot my money and a little
profit, yeah.
And so if I bought it for$40,000 and then would you buy
it back from me for $80,000?
If I want it that bad, okay.
(10:47):
And then let's say, dependingon the model and stuff, right.
So let's say, somebody elsebought it for $80,000, right.
And now would you buy it for$160,000?
Oh shit, okay, right.
Okay.
So your point yeah, if you'rekind of, maybe some of them,
maybe let's go again.
Yeah, $300.
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Would you buy a Stanley Cup for$300?
Oh, when I got it for $20 atfirst, that's what got me.
So this is what happens withthese bubbles, right?
I don't know what's happeningwith it.
What the fuck?
For some reason, my light justgot really bright.
But think about this.
So now let's start sayingthey're just starting to sell
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Stanley Cups everywhere now for$300.
Right, and everybody's buyingthem.
And eventually they're like youknow what?
This fucking isn't worth $300,right.
And then people are like I'mnot going to buy them anymore.
That bubble pops and then thevalue just goes back down to 20.
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That's how it works, okay.
So think about it.
Like Tesla or X or whatever,there are stocks Facebook, right
, people are buying the stocksback and forth, right, and they
keep buying them, like, oh, thisis a good company.
And eventually they're likelet's stop it there, it's not
really worth this much.
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And the bubble pops.
And so these bubbles in thefinance world have happened
several times.
In the most recent one, it wasthe housing market.
People were buying houses andbuying houses and buying houses
and then eventually they werelike this house isn't worth
$500,000.
And that bubble popped and thenthe houses went, their values
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went down really, really, reallybad, right?
Well, that happened back in the1930s At the same time, because
everything was kind of wild andfree.
In the 20s, people had a lot ofcredit card debt.
They had credit cards back then.
Oh yeah, they had credit carddebt.
They also had a lot of studentloans.
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They had schools.
Back then they had all thisstuff, right?
That's kind of similar.
You're telling me the peoplethat created Ford went to school
.
We aren't peopled, went toschool, we are people.
I mean.
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So just they went to school,just to put it for, just just to
tell you, just so you canunderstand a little bit of how
history works, a little bit.
So you've heard of oxforduniversity.
It's in london.
When oxford was around, likewhen it started, the mayan and
aztecs were still here.
You're lying.
No, it's 100, true?
That's crazy.
So a lot of the things thatwere happening before didn't go
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to that school.
I don't know what school fordwent.
I don't know anything.
Do you even graduate?
I don't know, don't know.
Your vitriol towards ford is alittle too much, right.
I'm sure some of our listenershave forts get a dodge.
We're not sponsored, though, soanother thing that was happening
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at this time right, we talkedabout this credit crisis, with
people with student loans, etcetera.
They also started to have WorldWar I was like in 1914.
And so now these tradecompanies, countries, were
trading with each other.
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Now, with the war, all of thesetrade what do you call them?
Treaties and things Okay, allstarted kind of crumbling.
So now countries aren'ttrusting each other and they're
starting to put tariffs on eachother, right, and things are
starting to not go so well,right, not at all Not go so well
(14:44):
, right.
In addition to that, the laborunions start getting a bad name
and the government starts makinglaws that make the labor unions
weaker, right, and so then,also, the rates of people that
are joining the labor unions aregoing down, right.
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At the same time, there was alot of these speculators, and so
, for example, today we don'tprice gas and oil by how much
people are buying and how muchthere is.
I don't know if you know that,but people have a job where
they're like I think they'recalled speculators that gas
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should be this much or oilshould be this much.
I think that that's gonna go up, I think it's gonna go down.
So we're just speculating.
We just speculate, right, andso that's why, throughout the
process of life, with a price ofgas so we actually don't use,
so what the fuck is speculatedfor it to be like over three
(15:52):
dollars?
Yeah, because, well, people aredoing that, right, I'm done.
That's fucked up.
Would you speculate that?
I wouldn't, but people do.
When it's your money going intoyour pocket, you're going to
make it more expensive, right?
That's the problem withspeculators.
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This was happening in the 1930sand it's happening now, right?
So recently there was a newcompany that came out from China
called DeepSeek.
Angie was talking about this alittle bit earlier.
Okay, so, angie, as in his wife, yeah, so you know that there's
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ai all over the place right now.
Right, like so, google hastheir own ai, facebook has their
own ai.
There's ai all over the place,yes, and in each one of those
instances, the companies thatdeveloped the artificial
intelligence spent like abillion dollars or multiple
billions of dollars to get theseAIs going, and they use this
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special chip that's superpowerful in order to run these
programs, right, well, chinacomes out and they say we didn't
use that fancy chip, we hadtiktok.
We use this little chip and wedidn't spend a billion dollars.
We spent a couple or a fewmillion dollars and we did it
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super quick, okay, and so lastweek, last week, the stock
plummeted because China did thatDumb Right?
So, in other words, a bubblepopped Pops, right, because the
company that makes that superexpensive chip was valued at
over or around a trilliondollars Shit.
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And they lost like 20% of theirvalue in one day, in one day,
in one day, in one day, in oneday crazy.
And so the stock market'sgetting ready to fall, right?
And so do you remember?
And so do you remember that,saying that I said at the
beginning that those who forgetthe past are doomed to repeat it
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, right?
So one of the things that Ithink makes it where we get
along, how our brains kind ofwork, is we're very logical
people, right, and so if thiseverybody's supposed to be, like
that they're supposed to be,but they're not right, they're
not right, they're not so, andit's just not because we're
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aries, but this is the thing,right?
So those who forget the pastare doomed to repeat, right?
Do you know what happened tothose rich people that I
mentioned earlier in the 1920s.
What happened to them in the1940s?
What kind of test is this?
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They had twice as much money.
Because this is what happens inthe 1930s, when everything
crashes, yes, and people arestarving and they're out of
business, and they're bankruptout of business and they're
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bankrupt.
These rich guys that Imentioned before are able to
come in and just start buyingthings dirt cheap, right, right.
So when I say those who forgetthe past are doomed to repeat it
, the logical conclusion to that, the next extension of that, is
that those who understand thepast can pull the levers of the
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past to benefit in the future.
So we buy the china aid.
So this is what's happeningright now.
There has, there is not aneconomist on the planet that
thinks that president trump'stariffs are a good idea.
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Right, because it's going toincrease the price for everybody
.
Yeah, he knows that.
Yeah, he wants that.
Yes, because it's going to makecompanies and people go
bankrupt.
Yes, so that him and hisfriends remember all those
billionaires that I talked aboutbefore, millionaires and
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billionaires.
They're all his friends.
They're all just waiting tocrash the economy.
Just take whatever is next andpick up all of the mess, and so
that's what's in store for us,because the labor markets are
going down and this is not aprediction, this is just a
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logical explanation, guys.
Well, this is the fourthturning that we talked about
before, and so none of thethings.
People the liberals in thecountry are looking at all of
this and super upset and they'resaying how dumb Trump is
because how can he not know, howcan he not know?
Dumb Trump is because how he's,how can he not know, how can he
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not know.
But the joke is on them becausehe does know and he's purposely
pulling the levers of historyto make them all more money, the
thing that people don't reallylook at.
(21:22):
So we know space six right,space success here in
brownsville, and so we see asrockets and we bubble ball right
.
But did you know that theperson who owns virgin mobile
also has a rocket?
No, did you know that?
The?
No?
No, how the fuck do you knowwho the fuck owns a rocket?
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That's my question.
Okay, so that's it.
We're just sending peoplerandomly.
You own a, you can go, and jeffbezos, the guy who owns amazon,
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has built a rocket, gotten intoa rocket his own rocket and has
gone into space.
So that's what we're doing now.
But but figure, we're talkinglogic, right?
We're talking logically.
Yes, I get it.
It.
Elon Musk has rockets.
Yes, he does.
He has not been in his ownrocket.
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Elon Musk has not gone to space, but he started all this shit.
But Jeff Bezos has gone tospace, yeah, and I think his
name is Branson has gone tospace in their own rockets.
Branson, that's a good name.
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But why do you think Elon Muskhas not been in his own rocket
and gone to space?
Why do you think?
What is the logical reason?
He's not dumb like that, but Idon't think he would expose
himself like that to any givensituation.
But what would make him dumb?
Okay, I'm just going to tellyou these other guys have gone
to space in their own rocket.
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Yes, the reason Elon doesn't goand hasn't gone, has he told
you, Is because it's the logicalthing.
Okay, it's the logical thing.
What happened to his last rocketthat went up like two weeks ago
?
What happened to that rocket?
It blew up.
It blew up.
How many rockets have gone upand blown up?
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Has one of them gone up andbeen successful since we've been
here?
They don't fly, they blow up.
We've had them all blow up,they blow up.
So he's not getting in thesedumb rockets because they're
bombs.
These other guys are makingreal rockets.
They go into space and they flyaround the world and they come
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back.
Right yeah, elon Musk doesn'tdo that because he is just
making more money, making moremoney.
When the last rocket a coupleof weeks ago exploded exploded
the company.
They're all outside watchingare cheering that it failed.
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They're cheering that it failedbecause it just means the
government's going to give themmore money to do it again and
again and again and again.
That's why he's the richest manin the world, because he's just
wasting Americans' money andthey're just giving him money by
the truckloads, but he's nevergoing to get in his own rocket
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and we're never going to go toMars.
Get this.
You know how we're all talkingabout going to Mars.
Get this.
Do you know how long it wouldtake us to go to Mars?
Get this.
You know how we're all talkingabout going to Mars.
Get this.
Do you know how long it wouldtake us to get to Mars?
It would take us the exact sametime as the longest person who
has ever been in space.
And then they have to land andthen they have to build a
society and then they have tocome back.
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It's not going to happen.
Buckle up when?
Because we don't even got aspace ship.
Buckle up, we don't even got aspaceship.
Let's just start up.
Things are gonna getinteresting.
We don't even have a rocket, wedon't get.
So we're just gonna be straightup depressed.
That's it.
That's what you're saying.
The economy is, I'm gonna.
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I'm happy as it is.
I'm happy.
I mean, I see what's happening,I'm not.
The economy is not gonna dowell, yeah, they're not.
We're fucked, guys.
It's so bad.
At least tiktok's back, but youknow the but I fucking deleted
(25:35):
it.
It's not even fucking.
It's.
It's back for me.
But you know, we were talkingabout these people.
Like Ford is making these cars,elon's making Teslas, like all
of these things are allhappening.
I mean, even the Teslas areblowing up, yeah, but these rich
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people, they have theircounterparts today.
You know Jeff Bezos, elon Musk,the guy from TikTok, trump
these are the same avatars fromthe 1920s and the 1930s.
This is happening.
Same same Again.
History is repeating itself.
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That's it for today.
I don't mean to end it on such adepressing note.
Even the last one was kind offucking depressing.
Anyways, it's been a fewdepressing episodes, yeah, so
we're in a good place, anyways.
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Good news, though you have anew soundboard, I do, so it's
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Look at that, guys.
We'll be upgrading the soundsand stuff.
We're going to be giving herher own unique sounds, yeah, to
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hey, welcome back to paranormal 956.
My name is david and, as always, I am here with bianca.
Hi guys, what are we talkingabout today?
You can take that shit off.
Uh, we already did an updateepisode.
(00:25):
Yeah, we did.
So we're done with that.
Why is it like that?
I don't know.
There we go.
Anyways, I don't know what wasgoing on there.
We got ghosts, what's that?
The fuck was that?
I really don't know.
I really don't know.
Anyways, we already did anupdate episode.
(00:46):
What are we talking about today?
I have no idea.
I don't know.
We're talking about the greatdepression more, there's more to
it.
So so we're a little bit out ofsorts today.
Yeah, we don't know.
We're trying our best.
Yeah, if you got suggestions,like I said, just throw them out
(01:09):
there.
We have had some, somemalfunctions and some miscues
today, but we're back on track.
Yeah, today we're talking aboutthe Great Depression.
There is a saying that thosewho forget the past are doomed
to repeat it, and so we aregoing to talk a little bit about
(01:31):
the past to make sure we don'tforget it.
There's something going to berelevant at the end Before we
get into the Great Depression,which was in the 1920s.
Is that around your time?
No, before, the GreatDepression was in the 1930s.
I'm sorry we're going to talkabout.
Is that around your time?
No, before.
Well, the Great Depression wasin the 1930s, I'm sorry we're
going to talk about.
Is that about your time?
No, no, we're going to talkabout the 1920s, okay.
(01:54):
So my parents were born in the1950s.
I was born in the 1970s.
My grandparents were born inthe 1920s.
So we're going all the way backto my grandparents.
Okay, they were little kidsduring this, but during the 20s,
setting this up to what led tothe Great Depression, right,
(02:15):
okay.
So in the 1920s, jazz starts tobe a thing, right, big names
like Louis Armstrong, dukeEllington, etc.
Think about it, like Tupac andBiggie at the time, okay, valid,
where, like, rap is like a newthing and these are the cool
(02:36):
guys in the rap, understood,understood.
Yeah, there was also this kindof movement called the flappers.
These girls Are they likestrippers?
No, no.
So think about, you know, like,in the 60s, they had the
hippies.
They were like a certain kindof girl, right, and there's like
the preppies and there's likeall these different things.
(02:57):
So right now, it would be likethe Hello Kitty girl, I guess.
So I don't know.
Today, I don't know.
Today, I don't know, I wear ablack shirt almost every day, I
don't know, but these girls werevery much into fashion.
They were cutting their hairshort for the first time.
They were wearing slacks, whichwas like unheard of at the time
.
There were women that werehaving sex before they were
(03:21):
getting married.
They were wearing shorterskirts.
They were wanting to Right,they were wearing shorter skirts
.
They were wanting to get jobs.
They were holding off gettingmarried.
Like, women's liberation wasstarting, right, right, they
were very into fashion.
Like I said, at the same time asthese kind of liberal things
are moving forward, crime startsto pick up.
Prohibition is a thing, theoutlaw alcohol, and so the mob
(03:47):
starts to become a thing alittle bit bigger.
Um, they start making thesethings called speakeasies, which
they looked like a normalbusiness in the front, but then
there was like a hidden roomwhere there's a bar.
Okay, right, and so thingsstarted to.
So that's's where it started,yeah, in the 1920s.
And so now we're talking aboutmoonshine and these, the crazy
(04:10):
shit Running moonshine and allthis stuff.
Right, immigration also startskicking up in the 1920s.
Right, is that great enough.
Well, that's kind of why we'retalking about this, right,
because this is we're on our way.
Remember, we talked about thefourth, turning in an episode a
few back, yes, and how things goin cycles.
Yes, well, this is kind of theprecursor to the upcoming cycle,
(04:36):
right, and I really thought2025 was going to be my year.
Who would have thought, yeah,so we're going to get into, get
into this, right?
So immigration picks up at thetime.
It's people from italy andrussia are starting to move over
here.
Okay, a lot more right.
Some of them are getting intoorganized crime, right, because
(04:58):
the italian mafia, etc.
Etc.
Right, and so that's a bigthing.
As far as the economy, in the1920s, mass production starts to
be a big thing.
They're making cars.
There's these factories, right,cars are affordable for most of
the people in the United States, and so people are starting to
move around a lot more right.
(05:20):
The radio is a big deal.
People are starting to spreadideas.
People are getting radios andkeeping up to date with current
events and learning about things, right, right.
And then aviation, when theairlines start taking people
places and so, for the firsttime, you're able to travel
(05:41):
across the country into othercountries at the time in a way
that you could never do before.
So people's eyes and minds arestarting to open, right, and
starting to see the world isaccessible and being able to do
things for the first time.
People that had never been outof their own city are are now
traveling, going to new statesand new countries and things.
(06:05):
Right, and so it was a big deal,right, this was like a what do
you call it?
Like a quantum leap forward formost of the people, right?
So remember, I said that theRussians were coming over here,
so the Russians were communists.
Right, so communists are today.
We would call them socialists,right?
Okay, there was a big fear,because the United States was
(06:31):
kind of scared of losing theirfreedoms, and so communism was
looked at as like a big, likethe big enemy in the room, and
so they started taking people tocourt, accusing them of being
communists and all this stuff.
Right, that's crazy, it's crazy, but all this stuff, right,
that's crazy, it's crazy, butit's true, right?
Okay, so women's suffragestarted happening, the early
(06:51):
days, the very early days of thecivil rights movement, with the
blacks starting to writeliterature right, with DuBose
and all these people that werewriting in the Harlem
Renaissance, they call it right.
Okay, the Scopes trial wasabout Christianity versus
evolution Went to the trial,right, and so things are
(07:15):
starting to become a little bitmore secular.
People are starting to trustscience, like.
A lot of things are happening,right.
They started questioning more,yeah, so their brains are kind
of moving, right.
Yeah, at the same time, theclimate is starting to rumble.
There is a flood on themississippi river that displaces
hundreds of thousands of people.
(07:36):
Okay, right, at this time, thereare quite a few people that are
super rich, right.
So there's a guy namedRockefeller.
In New York City, there's aRockefeller building where, like
they call it, 30 Rock, whereNBC films, saturday Night Live
(07:57):
and all these things right.
Okay, rockefeller Center right,it's where they put that big
tree in New York City.
Right, it's named after thisguy.
He was the very firstbillionaire.
There has never been been abillionaire before, but he was
the first one.
He was the first one, okay,into into oil and into real
estate, okay, oh.
Okay.
There was a guy named dupont.
You heard of the dupont company.
(08:17):
They're into chemicals, right,and they're making these
chemicals and fertilizers andplastics and all this stuff,
right, he's also a really,really rich guy, right, jp
Morgan.
I don't know if you've everheard of JP Morgan Financing.
It's an investment group and abank.
He was into financing and stockmarket Very rich, millionaire
person back then.
(08:38):
Okay, and then your favoriteHenry Ford was around.
Tell him I fucking got.
So.
Bianca hates Fords.
I don't hate them.
We worked on a lot of Fords andyou have a bad taste in your
mouth from Fords, from Fords,yeah, right, yep.
So now that's the 1920s andthey're still fucking up in the
fucking they call the RoaringTwenties.
(09:00):
And so these are the richpeople of the time.
Henry Ford is into movingobjects, right.
Cars, right.
Rockefeller is into real estate.
When did Dodge kick in?
Dodge is later.
People that worked for Fordeventually make Dodge.
(09:24):
Jp Morgan is in the financing,et cetera, et cetera, etc.
Right.
So now we move into the 1930sand I don't remember the date
exactly, but there's a daycalled black tuesday where the
stock market crashes.
This is the beginning.
It's not black friday, it's notblack friday, it's another
black tuesday, right.
And so the stock market fallsfor the first time, and so it
(09:47):
crashes really bad, like it hadnever really done that before.
But like why, what, when?
I don't get it.
So at the time.
I don't know if you arefamiliar with what they call
bubbles, so, like, think aboutit this way I've seen bubbles,
nope, like in the stock market,right, oh, no.
(10:07):
So let's say like names, okay.
So Stanley Cups are like a bigthing right now, right, okay,
right.
So people start buying them andselling them and buying them and
selling them.
And so you buy one it's 20bucks and then you resell it For
like 40, 60 bucks, right.
And then that person resell itfor like 40, 60 bucks right.
(10:27):
And then that person resells itfor 80 bucks right.
And then they try to sell itfor 160.
It's like stock x, then, right.
And so think about it this way,right.
So if you bought one for 20,you feel good about that, right?
Yeah, it's a good buy.
And then, if I buy it for 40, Igot my money and a little
profit, yeah.
And so if I bought it for$40,000 and then would you buy
it back from me for $80,000?
If I want it that bad, okay.
(10:47):
And then let's say, dependingon the model and stuff, right.
So let's say, somebody elsebought it for $80,000, right.
And now would you buy it for$160,000?
Oh shit, okay, right.
Okay.
So your point yeah, if you'rekind of, maybe some of them,
maybe let's go again.
Yeah, $300.
(11:09):
Would you buy a Stanley Cup for$300?
Oh, when I got it for $20 atfirst, that's what got me.
So this is what happens withthese bubbles, right?
I don't know what's happeningwith it.
What the fuck?
For some reason, my light justgot really bright.
But think about this.
So now let's start sayingthey're just starting to sell
(11:33):
Stanley Cups everywhere now for$300.
Right, and everybody's buyingthem.
And eventually they're like youknow what?
This fucking isn't worth $300,right.
And then people are like I'mnot going to buy them anymore.
That bubble pops and then thevalue just goes back down to 20.
(11:53):
That's how it works, okay.
So think about it.
Like Tesla or X or whatever,there are stocks Facebook, right
, people are buying the stocksback and forth, right, and they
keep buying them, like, oh, thisis a good company.
And eventually they're likelet's stop it there, it's not
really worth this much.
(12:13):
And the bubble pops.
And so these bubbles in thefinance world have happened
several times.
In the most recent one, it wasthe housing market.
People were buying houses andbuying houses and buying houses
and then eventually they werelike this house isn't worth
$500,000.
And that bubble popped and thenthe houses went, their values
(12:35):
went down really, really, reallybad, right?
Well, that happened back in the1930s At the same time, because
everything was kind of wild andfree.
In the 20s, people had a lot ofcredit card debt.
They had credit cards back then.
Oh yeah, they had credit carddebt.
They also had a lot of studentloans.
(12:57):
They had schools.
Back then they had all thisstuff, right?
That's kind of similar.
You're telling me the peoplethat created Ford went to school
.
We aren't peopled, went toschool, we are people.
I mean.
(13:17):
So just they went to school,just to put it for, just just to
tell you, just so you canunderstand a little bit of how
history works, a little bit.
So you've heard of oxforduniversity.
It's in london.
When oxford was around, likewhen it started, the mayan and
aztecs were still here.
You're lying.
No, it's 100, true?
That's crazy.
So a lot of the things thatwere happening before didn't go
(13:40):
to that school.
I don't know what school fordwent.
I don't know anything.
Do you even graduate?
I don't know, don't know.
Your vitriol towards ford is alittle too much, right.
I'm sure some of our listenershave forts get a dodge.
We're not sponsored, though, soanother thing that was happening
(14:02):
at this time right, we talkedabout this credit crisis, with
people with student loans, etcetera.
They also started to have WorldWar I was like in 1914.
And so now these tradecompanies, countries, were
trading with each other.
(14:23):
Now, with the war, all of thesetrade what do you call them?
Treaties and things Okay, allstarted kind of crumbling.
So now countries aren'ttrusting each other and they're
starting to put tariffs on eachother, right, and things are
starting to not go so well,right, not at all Not go so well
(14:44):
, right.
In addition to that, the laborunions start getting a bad name
and the government starts makinglaws that make the labor unions
weaker, right, and so then,also, the rates of people that
are joining the labor unions aregoing down, right.
(15:07):
At the same time, there was alot of these speculators, and so
, for example, today we don'tprice gas and oil by how much
people are buying and how muchthere is.
I don't know if you know that,but people have a job where
they're like I think they'recalled speculators that gas
(15:32):
should be this much or oilshould be this much.
I think that that's gonna go up, I think it's gonna go down.
So we're just speculating.
We just speculate, right, andso that's why, throughout the
process of life, with a price ofgas so we actually don't use,
so what the fuck is speculatedfor it to be like over three
(15:52):
dollars?
Yeah, because, well, people aredoing that, right, I'm done.
That's fucked up.
Would you speculate that?
I wouldn't, but people do.
When it's your money going intoyour pocket, you're going to
make it more expensive, right?
That's the problem withspeculators.
(16:13):
This was happening in the 1930sand it's happening now, right?
So recently there was a newcompany that came out from China
called DeepSeek.
Angie was talking about this alittle bit earlier.
Okay, so, angie, as in his wife, yeah, so you know that there's
(16:35):
ai all over the place right now.
Right, like so, google hastheir own ai, facebook has their
own ai.
There's ai all over the place,yes, and in each one of those
instances, the companies thatdeveloped the artificial
intelligence spent like abillion dollars or multiple
billions of dollars to get theseAIs going, and they use this
(16:57):
special chip that's superpowerful in order to run these
programs, right, well, chinacomes out and they say we didn't
use that fancy chip, we hadtiktok.
We use this little chip and wedidn't spend a billion dollars.
We spent a couple or a fewmillion dollars and we did it
(17:20):
super quick, okay, and so lastweek, last week, the stock
plummeted because China did thatDumb Right?
So, in other words, a bubblepopped Pops, right, because the
company that makes that superexpensive chip was valued at
over or around a trilliondollars Shit.
(17:43):
And they lost like 20% of theirvalue in one day, in one day,
in one day, in one day, in oneday crazy.
And so the stock market'sgetting ready to fall, right?
And so do you remember?
And so do you remember that,saying that I said at the
beginning that those who forgetthe past are doomed to repeat it
(18:05):
, right?
So one of the things that Ithink makes it where we get
along, how our brains kind ofwork, is we're very logical
people, right, and so if thiseverybody's supposed to be, like
that they're supposed to be,but they're not right, they're
not right, they're not so, andit's just not because we're
(18:26):
aries, but this is the thing,right?
So those who forget the pastare doomed to repeat, right?
Do you know what happened tothose rich people that I
mentioned earlier in the 1920s.
What happened to them in the1940s?
What kind of test is this?
(18:49):
They had twice as much money.
Because this is what happens inthe 1930s, when everything
crashes, yes, and people arestarving and they're out of
business, and they're bankruptout of business and they're
(19:10):
bankrupt.
These rich guys that Imentioned before are able to
come in and just start buyingthings dirt cheap, right, right.
So when I say those who forgetthe past are doomed to repeat it
, the logical conclusion to that, the next extension of that, is
that those who understand thepast can pull the levers of the
(19:35):
past to benefit in the future.
So we buy the china aid.
So this is what's happeningright now.
There has, there is not aneconomist on the planet that
thinks that president trump'stariffs are a good idea.
(19:56):
Right, because it's going toincrease the price for everybody
.
Yeah, he knows that.
Yeah, he wants that.
Yes, because it's going to makecompanies and people go
bankrupt.
Yes, so that him and hisfriends remember all those
billionaires that I talked aboutbefore, millionaires and
(20:17):
billionaires.
They're all his friends.
They're all just waiting tocrash the economy.
Just take whatever is next andpick up all of the mess, and so
that's what's in store for us,because the labor markets are
going down and this is not aprediction, this is just a
(20:38):
logical explanation, guys.
Well, this is the fourthturning that we talked about
before, and so none of thethings.
People the liberals in thecountry are looking at all of
this and super upset and they'resaying how dumb Trump is
because how can he not know, howcan he not know?
Dumb Trump is because how he's,how can he not know, how can he
(21:01):
not know.
But the joke is on them becausehe does know and he's purposely
pulling the levers of historyto make them all more money, the
thing that people don't reallylook at.
(21:22):
So we know space six right,space success here in
brownsville, and so we see asrockets and we bubble ball right
.
But did you know that theperson who owns virgin mobile
also has a rocket?
No, did you know that?
The?
No?
No, how the fuck do you knowwho the fuck owns a rocket?
(21:43):
That's my question.
Okay, so that's it.
We're just sending peoplerandomly.
You own a, you can go, and jeffbezos, the guy who owns amazon,
(22:03):
has built a rocket, gotten intoa rocket his own rocket and has
gone into space.
So that's what we're doing now.
But but figure, we're talkinglogic, right?
We're talking logically.
Yes, I get it.
It.
Elon Musk has rockets.
Yes, he does.
He has not been in his ownrocket.
(22:24):
Elon Musk has not gone to space, but he started all this shit.
But Jeff Bezos has gone tospace, yeah, and I think his
name is Branson has gone tospace in their own rockets.
Branson, that's a good name.
(22:44):
But why do you think Elon Muskhas not been in his own rocket
and gone to space?
Why do you think?
What is the logical reason?
He's not dumb like that, but Idon't think he would expose
himself like that to any givensituation.
But what would make him dumb?
Okay, I'm just going to tellyou these other guys have gone
to space in their own rocket.
(23:05):
Yes, the reason Elon doesn't goand hasn't gone, has he told
you, Is because it's the logicalthing.
Okay, it's the logical thing.
What happened to his last rocketthat went up like two weeks ago
?
What happened to that rocket?
It blew up.
It blew up.
How many rockets have gone upand blown up?
(23:26):
Has one of them gone up andbeen successful since we've been
here?
They don't fly, they blow up.
We've had them all blow up,they blow up.
So he's not getting in thesedumb rockets because they're
bombs.
These other guys are makingreal rockets.
They go into space and they flyaround the world and they come
(23:47):
back.
Right yeah, elon Musk doesn'tdo that because he is just
making more money, making moremoney.
When the last rocket a coupleof weeks ago exploded exploded
the company.
They're all outside watchingare cheering that it failed.
(24:10):
They're cheering that it failedbecause it just means the
government's going to give themmore money to do it again and
again and again and again.
That's why he's the richest manin the world, because he's just
wasting Americans' money andthey're just giving him money by
the truckloads, but he's nevergoing to get in his own rocket
(24:32):
and we're never going to go toMars.
Get this.
You know how we're all talkingabout going to Mars.
Get this.
Do you know how long it wouldtake us to go to Mars?
Get this.
You know how we're all talkingabout going to Mars.
Get this.
Do you know how long it wouldtake us to get to Mars?
It would take us the exact sametime as the longest person who
has ever been in space.
And then they have to land andthen they have to build a
society and then they have tocome back.
(24:54):
It's not going to happen.
Buckle up when?
Because we don't even got aspace ship.
Buckle up, we don't even got aspaceship.
Let's just start up.
Things are gonna getinteresting.
We don't even have a rocket, wedon't get.
So we're just gonna be straightup depressed.
That's it.
That's what you're saying.
The economy is, I'm gonna.
(25:14):
I'm happy as it is.
I'm happy.
I mean, I see what's happening,I'm not.
The economy is not gonna dowell, yeah, they're not.
We're fucked, guys.
It's so bad.
At least tiktok's back, but youknow the but I fucking deleted
(25:35):
it.
It's not even fucking.
It's.
It's back for me.
But you know, we were talkingabout these people.
Like Ford is making these cars,elon's making Teslas, like all
of these things are allhappening.
I mean, even the Teslas areblowing up, yeah, but these rich
(25:56):
people, they have theircounterparts today.
You know Jeff Bezos, elon Musk,the guy from TikTok, trump
these are the same avatars fromthe 1920s and the 1930s.
This is happening.
Same same Again.
History is repeating itself.
(26:17):
That's it for today.
I don't mean to end it on such adepressing note.
Even the last one was kind offucking depressing.
Anyways, it's been a fewdepressing episodes, yeah, so
we're in a good place, anyways.
(26:38):
Anyways, good news that's beenmy sound for the whole fucking
month of January.
Good news, though you have anew soundboard, I do, so it's
not all bad news.
Look at that, guys.
We'll be upgrading the soundsand stuff.
We're going to be giving herher own unique sounds, yeah, to
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help her express herself alittle bit better, and we will
see you all next week.
Follow us on all of our socials, including tiktok, and we're
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