Yeet the Rich

This week we get into how doctors at John Hopkins purposefully gave misleading information to the public about the HeLa strain. They gave a false name to obscure Henrietta Lack's true name, successfully hiding her identity for about 20 years. We also talk about Chester Southam and some incredibly unethical uses of the Hela cells. He injected over 600 patients with live cancer cells to see if cancer was communicable. Other than a small study with prisoners, he never told the patients abo...

Transcribed - Published: 2 June 2026

This week we talk about the darker side of cell culturing history including a man named Alexis Carrell and his not so "Immortal Chicken Heart". Also unfortunately more about eugenics... We also get into the final months of Henrietta's life. Her cancer was incredibly aggressive and in the end there was nothing that doctors could do to stop it. However they also could have treated her with much more kindness and dignity in her final days. After that we look into all of the fast medical ad...

Transcribed - Published: 26 May 2026

This week we are talking about Henrietta Lacks, a young black woman born in the 1920’s and her cells that would change the face of modern medicine. Scientists would call Henrietta's cells HeLa cells. The First HeLa cells were removed from her cervix in 1951 at Johns Hopkins hospital only a few months before her death caused by cervical cancer. Henrietta was 31 when she died. These cells however would live on long after their owners death. The HeLa cells would become one of the most medi...

Transcribed - Published: 19 May 2026

This week we are wrapping up the Jay Gould story! After tanking the Gold exchange, Jay got right back to work messing up the train industry. He had a dream of connecting a transcontinental rail path, and he got to work purchasing any train companies he could get his rascally little hands on. By WHATEVER means necessary. All the while, perpetrating some stunning examples of price fixing, insider trading, and pump and dump schemes leaving most of his business partners in his wake. A...

Transcribed - Published: 12 May 2026

We are back with another installment of the Jay Gould story. This week we have moved on from leather and firmly landed in the world of trains. Gould thought he saw a prime opportunity in the Erie Railroad. however he wasn't the only one. In order to gain control of these tracks and trains, Gould would have to pick a fight with the already infamous Cornelius Vanderbilt. Both men were willing to stop at no cost to get control including but not limited to tanking the entire economy to do it.&nbs...

Transcribed - Published: 5 May 2026

We are back with another installment of the Jay Gould story. This week we have moved on from leather and firmly landed in the world of trains. Gould thought he saw a prime opportunity in the Erie Railroad, however he wasn't the only one. In order to gain control of these tracks and trains, Gould would have to pick a fight with the already infamous Cornelius Vanderbilt. Both men were willing to stop at no cost to get control including, but not limited to, tanking the entire economy to do it.&n...

Transcribed - Published: 28 April 2026

This week we start a new series on Jay Gould, one of the richest men in America in the 1800s. He isn't one of the most well known titans of the time, but he was one of the richest men in America and was one of the pioneers of taking advantage of the stock market. He manipulated the money markets in innovative, possibly criminal ways, and was the catalyst for a lot of market regulation on Wall Street and the railroads. For the start of our series we talk about his beginnings in map...

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2026

This week we are wrapping up our series on Floreana Island in the Galapagos. The Baroness and Robert have been missing for weeks, Rudolph is no better off, and Friedrich has forgotten that poison is bad for you. Thankfully the drought is finally over, and the Wittmers just keep working away and trying to mind their own business. Sources: Eden Undone- A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War 2 by Abbott Kahler The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden ...

Transcribed - Published: 14 April 2026

This week things are getting spicy on Floreana Island. Tensions are rising in a drought that will never seem to end, and the desperation is causing everyone to act a little out of character. People are starting to suffer, animals are dying, and a few folks even disappear! Dore and Margret's accounts of 1933 continue to diverge, as the story gets more complicated and we work on keeping it together. Sources: Eden Undone- A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of W...

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2026

This week we are back on Floreana Island for more flawed Utopian hijinks. The Baronese with her two sexy male "assistants" have fully moved onto the island. She very quickly begins playing political games all while stealing everyone's rice. They begin work on a "luxury" hotel but do not get very far before it all starts to fall apart. Meanwhile the young family living farther into the island successfully gives birth to a healthy baby named Rolf. *Trigger Warning for a section on a compl...

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2026

This week we journey to Floreana Island, in the heart of the Galapagos Islands. Millionaires from all over had started visiting the Galapagos Islands after Charles Darwin did, for the exotic animals and uncharted territory and to bring back plenty of critters and carcasses. Foreign businessmen were also visiting with the intent of figuring out how to profit there, and how to buy the islands for their governments. Then, three different groups: an odd couple, a family, and a pretend baron...

Transcribed - Published: 24 March 2026

We are Wrapping up the Ma Mandelbaum Story this week and boy is she going out with a bang. We have The SHADIEST of lawyers, wild court cases, Running from the law, vigilantly Private Investigators. We talk more about Howe and Hummel her silly and corrupt lawyers, The Pinkerton National Detective Agencies. and how ma continued to evade Justice. Enjoy! Sources: “The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss” by Margalit Fox (2025) Send us ...

Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2026

This week we continue our journey through the life of Frederika Mandelbaum notorious gilded age crime boss. Ma is getting into not only the illegal silk trade but also the bank robbing business!. Funding and planning multiple bank robberies including the Oceans National Bank Heist and the Manhattan Savings Institute heist, with the help of some new criminal masterminds and partners. We also discuss her connection with Tammany Hall and her suspiciously good ability to avoid suspicion by ...

Transcribed - Published: 10 March 2026

Week two of our Ma Mandelbaum Series. This week Ma is starting her own shop and really working to train an army of thieves. We talk about tricky diamond heists, and a how too handbook she created to teach new thieves how to steal. Then we get into how she constructed her shop to help her do all of her clandestine activities. Hope you enjoy! We did have a few technical difficulties this week and lost a little bit of data. Sorry for the glitchiness working to fix! Sources: “The Talented Mrs. Ma...

Transcribed - Published: 3 March 2026

This week our story is set in Gilded Age New York City. the Rising center of wealth and crime during an era with one of the worst examples of wealth inequality until maybe now? Huge amounts of money made from industrialization and the consolidation of industries by America's robber barons. And the Subject of this series is a woman named Frederika Mandelbaum aka Marm Mandelbaum. She became one of NYC first and most infamous crime bosses and ruled over the theft and sale of stolen luxury ...

Transcribed - Published: 24 February 2026

We're going back in time to one of our first episodes to learn all about Thomas Holloway in the 1800s and all the fake medicines of the day. We talk about his history, legal lying in advertising, and what people will resort to when they cant afford a proper doctor. This story has everything! Opium, asylums, Charles Dickens, and even college for women! Source Material: The Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire- Verity Holloway Follow the podcast: @yee...

Transcribed - Published: 17 February 2026

Join us on an absolutely unhinged ride through the 2019 movie Sister Aimee! Starring our favorite pretend kidnap victim, Sister Aimee Semple McPherson. This movie states at the very beginning that only 5 1/2% was true, and that sounds about right! It focuses on the time Aimee disappears until the day she shows up in the desert, and the screenwriters certainly took some creative liberties. There’s gun smugglers, mustaches, possible lesbian love stories, and just enough eggs for one! ...

Transcribed - Published: 10 February 2026

Sources: Chappaquiddick: Power, Privilege, and the Ted Kennedy Coverup by Leo Damore Send us a text! Let us know what topics you want us to cover!

Transcribed - Published: 3 February 2026

The saga continues! This week we continue the discussion of Ted Kennedy and the accident/negligent homcide/scene from Succession that ended in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Ted gets a foam collar to show off his injuries, they attend the funeral, investigators start doing a tiny bit of investigating, no one talks to anyone else at the party, and we have a seven minute court hearing, that feels like justice right? Oh, and Emily tries to do a Boston accent again with very little su...

Transcribed - Published: 27 January 2026

This week we continue the story of Ted Kennedy, Mary Jo Kopechne, and the tragedy at Chappaquiddick. We are talking about what actually happened that night and the beginning of Teds schemes to avoid accountability. The main Kennedy family finally gets notified of the accident and their political machine begins powering up to help Ted. Meanwhile Ted is doing everything he can to muddy the waters but ends up making things worse. Next week we will talk about the actual coverup and th...

Transcribed - Published: 20 January 2026

This week we get into the story of Ted Kennedy, Mary Jo Kopechne, and the tragedy at Chappaquiddick. Ted Kennedy, the 9th of the Kennedy siblings, was able to be a senator for forty seven years after being responsible for the death of Mary Jo, in one of the most flagrant examples of rich white guys getting away with stuff. These week we discuss the actual accident, how Ted left the scene, and the initial reactions. Next week we'll get into how he tried to make sure he wasn't held respon...

Transcribed - Published: 13 January 2026

The Final installment of the P.T. Barnum Story!!! This week we are Finally talking about the Circus! Which means we are also talking about some very sad and abused elephants. Turns out American Elephant training was pretty horrible! Some trainers eventually learned that kindness was the key all along. But definitely too little too late. We also get into Barnum's brief stint as Mayor of Bridgeport, CT. And the sad passing of his wife charity followed by an uncomfortably fast marriage to ...

Transcribed - Published: 6 January 2026

Week Three of the P.T. Barnum saga. This week we talk about Barnum's attempts to rehabilitate his relationship with his family and his reputation with the world. Though it seems like he did some real work on his marriage it seems like his reputation as a dishonest humbug man would be set in stone. We talk about the real relationship between him and Jenny Lind "The Swedish Nightingale" and Barnum's failed attempt to rebrand himself as a purveyor of high brow entertainment. Th...

Transcribed - Published: 16 December 2025

Week two of The P. T. Barnum Story and we get into some more racist shenanigans. We talk about more of Barnum's early acts and the use of blackface in his shows. Then we get into the purchasing of The American Museum and some of the wild exhibits Barnum Put into it. Including one of Barnum's most famous living wonders "General Tom Thumb". We talk about how Barnum met 5 year old Charles S. Stratton and worked with the boy to create the character of Tom Thumb. Tom Thumb quickly becomes one of B...

Transcribed - Published: 9 December 2025

This week we are beginning the story of P.T. Barnum aka "The Greatest Showman". He was a showman, museum owner, international celebrity, Politician, and of course co-owner of the Barnum and Bailey Circus. There is so much to get into in this story he was both a Con artist and a beloved entertainer, he maybe owned a slave woman for a short time but also became a big advocate for the abolitionist movement. He was a naturalist but also led to the deaths of SOOOO many elephants. We wi...

Transcribed - Published: 2 December 2025

Hey Yall We are doing another silly Movie Night Mess around for the week of thanksgiving. This episode we are going ALLLL the way back to the beginning with the Dupont Teflon Scandal with a movie called Dark Waters. Dark Waters was actually a pretty good movie and very informative and relatively accurate to life so its definitely worth a watch, If you want to be in on all our nonsense check it out. We had some fun with this one hope you Enjoy! Send us a text! Let us know what topics you want ...

Transcribed - Published: 25 November 2025

This week we wrap up the story of Aimee McPherson and the Four Square Church. She's not going to jail, and now shes back in the church and shes ready to spend more money. Aimee continues to build her congregation as well as build her own castle, while also remarrying and traveling the world on tour. This episode is full of financial issues, fistfights, and facials! Get into it! Sources: Sister, Sinner The Miraculous, Scandalous Story of Aimee Semple McPherson by Claire Hoffman S...

Transcribed - Published: 18 November 2025

In the fourth installment of the Aimee Semple McPherson story we get into Aimee's harrowing story of how she spent her 33 days after everyone thought she had drown. How she wandered into a small town in Mexico, either from a kidnappers shack or perhaps from a car that had just driven around in circles a bit. We discuss the court case that almost didn't happen, and all the indictments that followed. And how Aimee's insistence on being a martyr led to her being entangled in the most expensive c...

Transcribed - Published: 11 November 2025

Tonight is part three of the Aimee Semple McPherson saga, where we get into her return from her 33 day disappearance. We detail her story about being kidnapped and ending up in Mexico, and all the other witnesses that tell a difference story. Lots of people accuse her of lying, and even more accuse her of having thick ankles! Then we get into the the grand jury testimonies and the court process of it all! Next week we will wrap up her story! Sources: Sister, Sinner The Mirac...

Transcribed - Published: 4 November 2025

This week we continue talking about Aimee Semple McPherson. We get into her journey to Los Angeles to fulfill her celebrity preacher destiny, the building of the Angelus Temple which still stands today, and her establishing her style as a preacher with style, scenery, and sometimes camels on stage! And we finally get into the day she walked into the sea and disappeared for over 30 days. Sources: Sister, Sinner The Miraculous, Scandalous Story of Aimee Semple McPherson by Claire Hoff...

Transcribed - Published: 28 October 2025

This week we are diving in the world of the famous pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson. Born on a small farm in Canada in the late 1800s, she was one of the first women preaching and traveled the country, eventually landing herself in Los Angeles, one of the most famous people in the country and a millionaire before the age of 35. Then one day she went into the ocean, and thousands searched for her, and the month long search would only increase her imfamy, but we'll get into tha...

Transcribed - Published: 21 October 2025

We are wrapping up our series on the Deepwater Horizon Disaster and the BP Gulf Oil Spill. This episode we get into the weird way that BP was using security to create a media blackout on what was happening in the gulf sometimes seemingly with the help of the coast guard and local authorities. We will talk a bit about BP's history of bad behavior and a few smaller disasters that should have been huge red flags leading up to the Deepwater disaster. They FINALLY get the flow to stop so we ...

Transcribed - Published: 15 October 2025

This week we are getting back into the wonderful world of Deep Sea Oil Cleanup! We discuss the direct aftermath of the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig and BP's many Failed attempts to stop the underwater leak. We get a little into politics and then we talk about the effects on the local Gulf community and the disastrous effect on the Gulf Ecosystems. We get VERY Sad about the effects on Gulf Birds and Turtles and then Get incredibly mad about BP's refusal to give there cleanup wo...

Transcribed - Published: 7 October 2025

This episode we are going to do something a little different. At the suggestion of multiple listeners, Emily and I have both watched Armageddon and Deepwater Horizon! Armageddon because: Drilling and Space and we thought it was going to be a fun movie. Spoiler Alert it opened up some existential questions about women's portrayal in the media and what that means for our daughter! Then we watched Deepwater Horizon because we wanted to know what Marky Mark knows about Oil Rigs! It turns out he w...

Transcribed - Published: 30 September 2025

The BP Gulf Oil spill is the largest marine oil spill in the history of the Petroleum Industry. The spill lasted for 87 days resulting in a conservative estimate of 3.19 Million Barrels or 134 Million Gallons of petroleum into the gulf of Mexico. Leading to over 1300 miles of oiled shoreline and 43,000 mile oil slick on the oceans surface. Not to mention the millions of gallons of oil dispersed under the water. The breakout began with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizons Oil Drilling...

Transcribed - Published: 23 September 2025

This week we wrap up the Spinach King! We get into the demise of the company and the sons trying to declare their father incompetent, while he tries to claim they've kidnapped him! It's a wild ride but we're going to button up all the loose ends and finish all our spinach. Sources: The Spinach King The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by John Seabrook Send us a text! Let us know what topics you want us to cover!

Transcribed - Published: 16 September 2025

The Spinach Saga continues! We get into the Seabrook families involvement in WW2, the expansion of quickfrozen vegetables and the wonder of the mylar bag, the Japanese internment camps sending workers to New Jersey, movie stars, a stroke, skinny dipping and more! The Seabrooks are peaking and demise is coming soon, but this episode gets into the hey day. Because war is always good for someone's wallet. Sources:The Spinach King The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by John...

Transcribed - Published: 9 September 2025

This week we continue the story of C.F. Seabrook and the family farm. We discuss how they started innovating with frozen vegetables, using the expertise of Clarence Birdseye, how they changed the farm to make progress, and the path leading to C.F.'s youngest son Jack taking over. This episode also gets into the strike of 1934, when black and white workers banded together to strike for higher wages and fairer treatment, and how the Seabrook farm, with the help of the police force, vigila...

Transcribed - Published: 19 August 2025

Welcome back! This week we start our series on the Seabrook family, and C.F. Seabrook, the Spinach King and "Henry Ford of irrigation"! The Seabrooks were a farming dynasty that peaked in the 1950s, and at one point were shipping a third of the vegetables in the United States, only to lose it all a few years later. This episode we get into their humble origins, how irrigation changed their fortunes, their weird family dynamics, the racism that permeated the industry, and break down how ...

Transcribed - Published: 12 August 2025

We are finally Wrapping up the story of the historic Womens National Soccer Team's Fight for equal pay! The end of this series and this episode is all about how you can work really hard and be really good at your job and not get recognized for what you have done. Then you can try and work within the system, use reason and logic and still hit a brick wall over and over again. You unify the players, gain a huge following and fan base, get the media on your side but still go nowhere. And t...

Transcribed - Published: 5 August 2025

Welcome Back! Sorry for the delay; babies are tough, but we are getting back on track!! This week we are talking about common injuries faced by professional soccer players and the tragic outcomes for those players who unlike many other men's professional athletes have no safety net because of their habitually low career income. We will talk about a heated battle over astroturf in the canadian worlds cup and a few more examples of Women's Professional Soccer being under valued and under ...

Transcribed - Published: 22 July 2025

Thank you all so much for your patience and sorry for the absence over the last few weeks. We had a surprise addition to our staff here at Yeet The Rich Pod and it took a little longer to onboard her than we anticipated. We would like to Introduce you to Frankie Hazel Moss our new social Media manager. She doesn't have a lot of experience since she was born about a month ago but she makes up for it with a lot of passion! We are back to talk about the Women's National Soccer team and the...

Transcribed - Published: 8 July 2025

Ok This Week we are beginning to talk about the Women's National Soccer Teams Fight for equal pay. I'm very pro women's sports in general and really excited about this series. We Start out with an uplifting note talking about the 2019 World cup where the WNT won for the second time in a row right after banding together to sue their employer the US Soccer Federation on the grounds of Equal Pay discrimination based on Gender. The women were demanding equal pay and equal treatment as the m...

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2025

We have had quite the week. Baby classes, crazy work stuff, shows, and ofcourse a three day long family baby shower event. Unfortunately that left very little time to prepare a fully researched episode. So we decided to do a bit of a current events roundup on all of our favorite crooks and frauds and have a little check in with ourselves. Also just realized we have recorded over 100 episodes! Crazy this one will be 105??? Time flies when you are self medicating the existential dread of late s...

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2025

This week we wrap up the story of the Buffalo Creek Disaster, when a poorly built dam system gave way to a flood and killed 125 people, leaving thousands homeless. We get into the lengthy court settlement, the investigation into "psychic impairment" and the idea of monetary compensation for mental trauma, the actual timeline of the disaster as far as what the owners, the Pittston Company, were doing at that time, and we discuss several women who gave warnings who definitely should have ...

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2025

This week we discuss the Buffalo Creek Disaster, a disastrous flood caused by the negligence of the Buffalo Mining Company and stockholders, causing 125 people to die and hundreds of others to lose their homes. But the silver lining of this story is that the survivors banded together and fought back with a lawsuit seeking damages for both their physical losses and mental suffering, and succeeded! We love an underdog story! This week we lay the groundwork for this victory. Sources:...

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2025

We are back to talk about the College Admissions scandal. Last episode we talked about the financial structures that may have helped Rick Singer perpetuate his nonsense .Then we talk about some of Rick's key collaborators at the different schools he was working with, as well as some of the famous parents who joined in on Rick's frauds. Like Aunt Becky and Mossimo Giannulli, Felicity Huffman and William H Macy. This Episode we are wrapping this thing up finally getting into the DOJ...

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2025

We are back to talk about Rick Singer and the College Admissions scandal! Last episode we talked about Rick Singer leaping over the line from unethical lies on applications to setting up a crazy system to cheat on the SAT and using his so-called Side door to bribe coaches for a guaranteed college acceptance. Rick went from a small scale operation focused on Sacramento, California to a nation/world spanning company called “The EDGE College and Career Network” promising the “Key to Winnin...

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2025

We are back this week to continue the story of the College Admissions Scandal and Operation Varsity Blues! Getting into college is getting harder and more complicated. Many Ivy League Admissions rates have fallen as low as 3% which is nuts. Parents are looking for a guaranteed way for their kids to succeed and get into the best schools. Wealthy and Powerful Parents have had back door paths to ensure the best education for their kids.Paying for Elite Private Preschools, Kindergartens, and Prep...

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2025

This week we are talking about the 2012-2018 College Admissions scandal. This is definitely a story of the rich and powerful families having all the advantages when it comes to college education. And a Man named Rick Singer who came along for the right price was willing to bend the rules and break the law in order to give his clients just one more edge. In a world where a regular college degree means less and less and acceptance rates at the elite schools are plummeting, parents are des...

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025