Time Travel Thru Headlines: 1936 New York Times

Buckle up, time travelers! I’ve yanked every screaming headline from the New York Times front page of 1936—365 days of chaos, one for each square on your grandma’s bingo card—and slapped them into a video that’s equal parts history lesson and fever dream. We’re talking “Italians Bomb Red Cross Unit” on Day 1, “Hauptmann Fries for Lindbergh Baby” in April, and “Edward VIII Dumps Crown for Love” by December—because who needs a throne when you’ve got Mrs. Simpson? Each headline’s paired with AI-generated art, a different genius painter per month: January’s all Van Gogh swirls, February’s got that Picasso cubist panic, and so on. It’s like the Louvre had a baby with a tabloid stand.

Set to an AI voice—because human inflection might accidentally make “Hitler Sends Troops Into Rhineland” sound too chill—this thing reads the headlines raw, barely tweaked from the original ink. You’ll hear “Roosevelt Dares Critics to Repeal New Deal” and “Floods Sweep 12 States, 134 Dead” like a robot newsie shouting on a street corner. It’s unhinged, it’s glorious, and it’s proof 1936 was a rollercoaster piloted by lunatics—Rebels vs. Loyalists in Spain, Black Legion whackos in Michigan, and a heat wave so bad it killed 3,000 while Landon and FDR slung mud. History loves a rerun, folks, so enjoy this peek into the past before we all relive it. Smash that like button, subscribe, and tell your friends—because if “Mussolini Nationalizes Everything” doesn’t make you hit replay, I don’t know what will!