What Makes Something Valuable? (Finale)

Red Pilled America

Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.8 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What makes something valuable? In the finale, we tell the story of how the De Beers diamond cartel finally cracked—not through courts, but through science. Along the way, we hear from precious-metals expert Kevin DeMeritt, founder of Lear Capital. As lab-grown diamonds erase scarcity and prices collapse, the episode reveals why diamonds followed the same path as pearls, and why true value isn’t built on marketing or belief, but on permanence. Presented by The Licorice Guy.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.3	This is Red Pilled America.
0:07.5	A quick question before we start the show.
0:09.6	How many shows are there out there like Red Pilled America?
0:12.8	You know the answer.
0:13.8	It's zero.
0:14.5	And why?
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0:28.7	back catalog of episodes. Help us
0:31.1	save America one story at a time.
0:35.3	Previously on Red Pilled
0:36.8	America. Diamonds were not valuable because they were rare.
0:40.3	They were valuable because they were controlled.
0:44.3	Central banks don't store what's fashionable.
0:46.3	They store what works when everything else breaks.
0:49.3	And during the onset of the Great Depression, the smart money began accumulating gold.
0:59.4	European orders from De Beers for industrial diamonds began to climb, and Oppenheimer understood what that meant.
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