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Yeet the Rich

The United Fruit Company Part One- This Week is Bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

Yeet the Rich

Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss

True Crime, Comedy, History

5.039 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week is truly bananas as we begin the story of the United Fruit company and the many trials and tribulations of the banana industry. This week we establish the beginning of the export business to the US and Europe, and by the end of the series we'll get into the settlements surrounding Chiquita Banana! Sources for this week: Documentary Banana Land- Blood, Bullets, & Poison Bananas How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World - Peter Chapman Follow the podcast @yeettherich...

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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 back checks, rich people, they're having a ball, rich people been f***ing us on. Hey everybody and welcome back to Yeat the Rich. I am Emily Walsh and I'm here with my co-host and

0:45.5

husband Danny Moss. Hello. And we, it is, are you ready? Are you even ready? We are back. We are starting a brand new series. I came in with a weird energy because our dog just looked at me. He was being very calm for a long time and then he decided, what if I picked up a squeaky toy? The moment we hit record, he was like, let's party. And so I had a little bit of a visual standoff and I think he's going to win. But, you know, we'll see what happens. We'll kick him out if he's actually start squeaking. But yeah, I'm excited. We're doing it. Yeah. New series. So this is going to be banana. It's going to be banana. So that was our really clever hint last week. So subtle.

1:31.9

So, you know, how could you even so veiled in mystery? What could it be about?

1:33.4

I know it's going to be nuts.

1:34.8

Well, no, it's not nuts.

1:36.0

It's bananas.

1:37.6

Oh.

1:38.1

We're talking about bananas.

1:39.1

We're talking about bananas.

1:40.4

Today we, so this is going to be a journey.

1:43.5

And it was brought to my attention by a recent settlement that we're not going to get into until it becomes relevant.

1:53.1

We're going to go through this chronologically.

1:54.9

Okay.

1:55.3

But I had no idea that the entire concept of bananas in America was based on some of the craziest stuff around.

2:06.3

This story...

2:07.2

What does that mean?

2:08.3

Boy.

2:09.8

This, you know, Stefan on S&L where he's like, this place has everything?

2:13.9

It's one of those, but just bad things.

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