The United Fruit Company Part Two- Bloody Nanners

Yeet the Rich

Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss

True Crime, Comedy, History

5.0 • 39 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Welcome back to the violent world of Bananas! This episode we talk about how the United Fruit company and its competitors begin using their vast wealth and power to manipulate and destabilize Central American governments in hopes of creating laws more favorable to the banana industry, through any means necessary. Sources for this week: Documentary Banana Land- Blood, Bullets, & Poison Bananas How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World - Peter Chapman Follow the podcast @yeett...

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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 in the dick.
0:24.0	Rich people with big pack checks.
0:27.3	Rich people, they're having a ball.
0:30.7	Rich people been f***s us on.
0:41.6	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Yeat the Rich.
0:46.2	I am Emily Walsh, and I'm here with my co-host and husband, Danny Moss.
0:46.8	Hey!
0:49.6	It's woke, okay, coming in hot!
0:51.2	Yeah, I had a second coffee today.
0:52.3	I'm ready to go.
0:53.7	Party time! I did not even finish my first. Let's peel this episode and get right into it. This is bananas, baby. It is bananas. This week is still bananas. I will have you know that I did not prepare that pun. That one just came right to me. N-A-N-A-N-A-S. Oh, the simplest banana joke of all time. Oh, come on. It wasn't that bad. It wasn't appealing to me. No, it wasn't. No. If we keep this up, I'm going to have to split. You'd have to get divorce. Just kidding. We're fine. I was editing last week's episode, the first episode about the United
1:34.5	Food Company and the Chiquita Banana story. And I sound a little unhinged. I sound a little like I'm
1:40.3	having a hard time. And I was like, by next week, I'm going to solve all my mental health problems. Oh, yeah? Just right there. And it didn't happen in a week, weirdly enough. Huh. But I did, I feel like I'm more prepared this week. I googled a lot more things. I practiced pronouncing. I can't even pronounce pronouncing. Guys, bear with me. I think it's going to be great.
2:02.4	I will, if it helps, our PA, Eric, shout out to Eric, hey, buddy, said that he was very excited about the first episode and I thought it was really great.
2:09.5	Awesome. He did ask that when we have a moment, we should research Guatemalan Hitler, because apparently he's involved in the United Fruit Company story somewhere
2:18.4	along the way. Also, literal Hitler. Oh, yes. That is a spoily. But also, this episode might be four or
2:26.3	five parts. Okay. This is an incredibly dense story. I don't know why I thought I could sum it up,
2:33.3	like it's a one family or one person. It's like
2:35.9	150 years of history in multiple countries. It's not calm. A lot of violence and other
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