Hey everyone, Jody Avergan here. For those of us who follow politics and are affected by politics in the U.S.,

it has been quite the first full week of the Donald Trump administration. There is what I can only

describe as a full-bore assault on the state as we know it from the inside, a dismantling of regulation

and equal protections. I'm sure, no matter where you fall

on the political spectrum, and I know we have listeners all over the political spectrum,

you have probably found this week as head spinning as I do. I find it ham-fisted and scary and

immoral as well, but that is just me. Look, I've mentioned that we're going to do more episodes

that try and give us some

context for what we're seeing play out through the lens of history. That will generally happen

on Sundays. Don't worry, the vast majority of our episodes will continue to be the usual short

dives into the past. But a couple times a month on Sundays, we're going to all get together

and talk about what we're seeing play out. And other times, we're going to bring something out from the archives, which feels like it speaks

to this moment, which is what we're doing today. So here is an episode about airline deregulation.

We did this about a year ago, tracing the way in which the airline industry got deregulated,

pushed out into the open market, and some of the

ripple effects of that, namely that flying became a much worse experience, competition actually

decreased, and safety standards became compromised. Of course, this week, amidst it all,

we saw a couple plane crashes one of the worst weeks in aviation history in decades.

So I've been thinking a lot about this

episode, and it's not to say that we know exactly the cause and the underlying forces that led

to these specific accidents, but I think in general, both with airlines and in other sectors,

we need to think a lot about the lessons from the past when it comes to what happens,

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