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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

349 - The 1928 Banana Massacre

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that American banana corporations turned almost all of Central America into US satellite states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for roughly half-a-century? It took the massacre of thousands of unarmed, exploited, and striking Columbian banana workers in 1928 to turn the tide against American imperialism.

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Bananas, delicious, yellow, sexy bananas,

0:03.8

waiting to be ravaged or eaten normally by normal people

0:06.6

who like normal bananas in a normal way.

0:08.6

Did you know that Americans eat more bananas per year

0:11.6

than apples and oranges combined?

0:13.6

In other parts of the world, bananas more than rice,

0:15.7

more than potatoes, are what keep hundreds of millions

0:18.2

of people alive.

0:19.4

Bananas are great.

0:20.8

As a protein smoothie lover, I have a banana almost every day

0:23.9

and half for years.

0:25.2

I like to chop them up, put them in cereal,

0:27.2

or an acai bowl, I love banana bread,

0:29.4

banana cream pie, banana slices on some Nutella,

0:32.6

on a crepe, delicious.

0:34.6

For a while as a kid, my favorite dessert was a banana split.

0:37.2

And then there's banana pudding.

0:38.5

I could go on and on.

0:39.7

Bananas are great.

0:40.6

Such an easy and tasty snack on the go.

0:43.1

Bananas also help shape the modernization

0:45.2

of Central America in some really dark ways

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