Hetty Green | This Woman Saved J.P. Morgan

Things I Learned Last Night

Space Tim Media

Comedy, Education, History

4.6 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, one woman defied expectations and became one of the wealthiest individuals in the United States. Her name was Hetty Green, but history remembers her by a different title—the Witch of Wall Street. Known for her sharp financial mind, frugality, and ability to turn risky investments into massive gains, she left a lasting impact on Wall Street. Things I Learned Last Night is an educational comedy podcast where best friends Jaron Myers and Tim Stone talk about random topics and have fun all along the way. If you like learning, and laughing a whole lot while you do, then you’ll love TILLN. Watch or listen to this episode today! Become a Patron and Get Early Access to Ad-Free Episodes: https://tilln.com/support Episode link: https://tilln.com/hettygreen Support TILLN & Join The Mailing List: https://linktr.ee/tillnpodcast Watch Ida Wood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkuyHObsYys&ab_channel=ThingsILearnedLastNight Text TILLN to 66866 to become a patron and gain access to ad-free episodes, the exclusive discord, and earn discounts on TILLN Merch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we're talking about the richest woman that maybe ever existed. Yeah, she propped up the financial
0:04.2	industry in 1907 during the panic of 1907. Without her, multiple banks and financial institutions
0:10.1	that still exist today might have failed. Yeah, and she amassed an astonishing amount of wealth.
0:16.4	That's crazy even to this day. And a pretty interesting reputation. So today we're learning about
0:21.9	Hetty Green. This is things I learned last night. It's an educational comedy podcast. We're going to
0:26.0	learn a lot about the life and the story of who this person is. But we're also going to joke
0:29.9	around a lot and laugh along the way. Today's date is February 25th. Yep, nailed it. Nice. So this
0:36.9	weekend, I'm in the Chicago area and that I've got a lot of dates in March and April and May and June and none in July. I don't know. But all my tour dates are on jeremiahs.com slash shows. I would love to see you at a live show. Let's laugh and hang out together. But if I don't see you there, I will see you every Tuesday on this podcast.
0:56.1	I don't know how to land.
0:57.0	That's great.
0:57.3	I love that.
0:57.7	All right.
0:58.1	Let's get to the episode.
1:02.1	You know there's a place called sandwich in London.
1:07.3	Are we going to do Earl of Sandwich?
1:09.0	Is that what we're doing right now?
1:10.0	No.
1:10.5	I don't think it's in London.
1:11.3	I think it's in the UK or something like that.
1:13.5	I don't know.
1:14.0	Is this unrelated?
1:14.7	I don't know where Sandwich is.
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