King Leopold II Part Three- Elder Dumpster Fires

Yeet the Rich

Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss

True Crime, Comedy, History

5.0 • 39 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week we're back to talking King Leopold II of Brussels, the king of Brussels who thought he deserved the Congo by any means necessary, and tried to convince the world he was taking over for altruistic reasons and now absolute greed. This week we discuss how the rubber trade escalated the brutality and Danny tries to keep it light with interspersed fun facts! And we start talking about some of the Europeans who finally try to stop the cruelty. Sources: King Leopold's Ghost: A ...

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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.
0:24.0	Rich people with big back checks.
0:27.3	Rich people, they're having a ball.
0:30.7	Rich people been f*** us on.
0:40.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Yeat the Rich.
0:41.2	We're back, baby.
0:42.0	We're back.
0:46.5	I tried to break up my normal cadence, and it just sounded weird.
0:47.8	Now I think it sounded great.
0:48.3	All right. Your voice is mollifuble.
0:52.4	Melifilus.
0:53.5	What a beautiful compliment. I've never gotten that one before. Melifuous? Melodious? No, there's a word that's, that's, it might be a word that Shakespeare made up, but it is a word, I just cannot pronounce it. And it means you've got a very lovely and sonorous voice. Wow, you're just, these three dollar words you're throwing out on a Sunday morning.
1:13.1	There's, there are a lot.
1:13.8	You know, just trying to stretch the bounds of wordmanship.
1:19.7	No.
1:20.8	No.
1:21.5	Okay.
1:22.4	Anyway, we're back.
1:24.5	We're talking about King Leopold the second again.
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