King Leopold II Part One- Its Congoing To get ALOT Worse

Yeet the Rich

Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss

True Crime, Comedy, History

5.0 • 39 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week we're taking a bit of a more serious turn, discussing the history of King Leopold II of Belgium. He was a monarch in the late 1880s who seized an enormous amount of the Congo in Africa all while knowingly deceiving the public and claiming to be a humanitarian and philanthropist. This week we'll discuss the first European trips to the Congo and King Leopold II taking the throne and focusing immediately on claiming colonies any way he could. Sources: King Leopold's Ghos...

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0:00.0	But don't be ashamed if you get confused when you talk to your friends or you watch the news.
0:10.0	They try to tell you where all went wrong.
0:13.0	Now you don't need to argue, just sing this song.
0:17.0	It was rich people stacking the dick dick Rich people with big pack checks
0:24.0	Rich people
0:25.6	They're having a ball
0:27.3	Rich people been
0:29.4	Fri's on
0:31.1	Hey everybody
0:37.0	And welcome back to Yeat the Rich.
0:40.1	I'm Emily Walsh, and that was my husband and co-host, Jenny Moss.
0:46.8	My air horn's a little, it's malfunctioning at the moment.
0:49.1	It seems tired.
0:50.5	Yeah, he's tuned.
0:51.8	Yeah.
0:52.4	But you didn't know you could tune an air horn, but.
1:12.7	I don't think you can. Yeah, yeah. Maybe you can. I can't. I believe in you. Well, that's nice. I'm nice. Emily, what are we talking about today? Okay, so we've had a couple topics in a row that have been a little sillier, a little lighter. You know what? I've been kind of thinking I need more of. To be like horribly depressed. Crimes against humanity. Crimes against humanity.
1:17.9	This story is literally where we came up with that phrase. Yeah. Crime against humanity.
1:24.6	That is crazy. Yeah. So this So this whole story is quite insane.
1:29.8	And I'm bringing it to the table and I'm bringing it to the podcast because it's something that I knew very little about.
1:35.9	And I think it's another failure of our educational system and of our privilege as white Americans that we just learn from the winners. And, you know, we, so let me
1:47.9	explain what we're talking about first. We're talking about King Leopold II of Brussels. And he
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