#174 Mass Observation and how did Ultimate Warrior eat cookies? (Part 2)
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
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This week we’re looking at attempts through history at mass observation; we have Britain in the late 1930s, American culture after the Great Depression and the Soviet diaspora in Europe in the 1950s.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free, |
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| 0:16.9 | Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in history |
| 0:22.1 | you might have popped up. |
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| 0:26.3 | forward slash |
| 0:27.1 | oh, what a time. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello, this is part two |
| 0:30.3 | of mass observation. |
| 0:32.1 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:32.9 | Music So it's 1935. It's the United States. We are in the depths of the Great Depression. |
| 0:50.4 | And obviously the US are facing a crisis on multiple fronts. |
| 0:54.1 | The economy has collapsed after the Wall Street crash of 1929, which we have covered before, |
| 0:59.3 | I believe. |
| 1:00.0 | Millions were unemployed, but at the same time, something we haven't covered, which I think |
| 1:03.3 | we should, the dust bowl, this devastating environmental disaster in America was turning |
| 1:09.7 | vast areas of farmland into dust. |
| 1:12.7 | And it's against this backdrop |
| 1:14.0 | that President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 1:15.7 | launched an ambitious program of recovery |
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