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Yeet the Rich

The Oneida Community Part Two-Couple To Throuple

Yeet the Rich

Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss

True Crime, Comedy, History

5.039 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week we really get into life on the commune with John Humphrey and his followers at the Oneida Community. The comune is growing. They are Industrializing and the sex stuff gets even weirder. Also Emily gives you her simple step by step plan on how to create a cult...but dont create a cult please! Sources: “Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well Set Table" by Ellen Wayland Smith(2016) The Days of My Youth: A Childhood Memoir of life in the Oneida Communi...

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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, rich people with big pack checks, rich people

0:25.6

They're having a ball, rich people been f*** us on.

0:36.6

Hello everybody, and welcome back to Yeat the Rich.

0:41.3

I'm Emily Walsh, and I'm here with my co-host and husband, Danny Moss.

0:45.8

That's me.

0:47.0

And we're still talking about silverware sex cults.

0:50.7

Yeah, yeah.

0:51.8

Maybe we'll get to some silverware today.

0:53.6

I mean, do you know? I do. Okay. I was like, I'm not in charge. You tell me. Yeah, no, I do know. Okay, great. We're talking about. But we'll find out. But we'll find out together. That's right. It's a surprise. Wonderful. I'm excited. All right. Just a quick recap. We've been following our, I'm not going to call him a friend. He's just a guy that he's pretty weird.

1:13.1

John Humphrey Noyes, the leader of the Oneida community, which is a religious communist commune slash cult.

1:20.1

That definitely was not in the 1970s like I thought it was. Not in the 1970s. No, in the 18, well, eventually it makes it to the 1870. Okay. Okay. Yeah, so it gets there. It goes all the way up until 1881. That's nuts. Yeah. So far, we've talked about John's childhood and his combination of an overactive libido and crippling shyness. Yeah, he's real scared of them ladies. Real scared to them ladies. But, you know, best way to deal with that, I've always said create a sex call. Yeah. Yeah, no, you always say that. I thought it was weird. I've always said it a lot, yeah. He set up a small community in Vermont until their practices of complex marriage, got them arrested and shunned. Complex marriage is a fun way to put that. Yeah, that's what they call it. They're just like, oh, it's just so complex. It's so complex. And now they finally landed in Oneida, New York, where our weird religious sex called Adventure really begins. Okay, I am ready for it. Okay. So they begin building their new home on a large plot of land in Oneida, New York, in 1848.

2:21.5

Roughly where is Oneida?

2:23.3

Onida is close to Ithaca, so it's on one of the Finger Lakes up there.

2:27.1

Gotcha.

2:27.8

And this property used to be part of a Native American reservation that used to house part of the Oneida tribe of the Iroquois Nation.

2:36.5

But, of course, in the 1800s, the state of New York and white land speculators manipulated the nation into selling off most of its land and forcing them to move out west.

2:45.8

Ugh.

2:46.8

Yeah. So it was now open land with remnants of old Native American cabins and I think a perfect place to begin a fledging sex cult.

2:55.4

Oh, God, is this on an ancient Native American burial ground?

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