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Yeet the Rich

Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss

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If a billionaire donates money to a good cause, does that make them a good person? Hosts Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss are two married millennials who learned about financial crises by living through them, and now they’re diving into the wild world of the uber rich. They discuss financial crimes, the breakdown of the American dream, and why funding a museum doesn’t necessarily make you a good person. They get into the old timey rich, like the Rockafeller family, and current events, like why yo ...
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Americas Got Yeet

Americas Yeet Podcast

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We don't give a damn real names for privacy sake if you love offencive memes and communist jokes and such then keep listening to our newest episodes of podcasts where we talk about offencive memes and stupid things that are going on in the world with Trump and such so if you love this then you'll love our offencive jokes.
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Yeet the Press

Jason and Amanda

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Friends for twenty years, Amanda and Jason are just regular people who happen to really be into politics. They’re not pundits, wonks, beltway insiders or political scientists. They’re just two ordinary people trying to make sense of the news of the day.
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Welcome to a Yeet Fans Quickie Podcast — where we chat with different internet personalities on what drives them, tips for growth, and so much more. Each 10-minute episode is simple — straight to the point, with actionable tips — brought to you by YeetFans.com - a place to monetize your influence.
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Send us a text Ok this week we are doing something a little different. Emily is away on an adventure so we have a special guest this week: Katie Mischler!!!! Katie and I will be checking in on some of our least favorite corporations, to see what nefarious activities they have been up since we recorded. We will talk about new PFOA news, Walmarts App…
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Send us a text This week is a big one for the Crazy Eddie story. We start with an amusing little bit of insurance fraud and then we meet the final piece of the Crazy Eddie Crime Puzzle! Sam E. Antar was Eddie's nerdy younger cousin and he had an idea. An idea So Outrageous, So Crazy, and So Illegal that Eddie couldn't resist. They Were going to tri…
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Send us a text Our new topic this week is Crazy Eddie and the Antar family. An insane electronics company that started as part retail store, part scam. Every customer was a mark waiting to be tricked. We get into their wild marketing and loud obnoxious commercials and strange cult following that formed around hating them. This story is super fun an…
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Send us a text This week we are wrapping up the United Fruit story! Bananas are essentially running the CIA, creating wars, and dying of disease. There are pesticides and people being sterilized, war crimes and court settlements. Sources for this week: Documentary Banana Land- Blood, Bullets, & Poison Bananas How the United Fruit Company Shaped the…
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Send us a text We are still talking about bananas! And let me tell you, it is getting wild. This week we get into the CIA connections, Fidel Castro. communism, the Bay of Pigs, and even a JFK assassination conspiracy, as a treat! Sources for this week: Documentary Banana Land- Blood, Bullets, & Poison Bananas How the United Fruit Company Shaped the…
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Send us a text 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 wee…
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Send us a text 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: Doc…
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Send us a text Welcome Back! This is the last installment of the Pan Am Story and oh boy is a WILD Ride! Prospects for the airline go from bad to worse and then to rock bottom. After Juan Trippe surprises everyone with his retirement, Pan Am goes through a series of CEOs who are forced to sell off more and more of the company just to stay afloat. T…
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Send us a text Hope Y'all had a lovely Fourth of July. Happy Fireworks and Hotdogs day! Emily and I needed a little breather this week so we decided to go back to our roots and do a rerelease of the very first episode we did. We have a lot of new listeners so if you hadn't gotten a chance to listen to this one here is your chance. Its a one off epi…
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Send us a text Welcome Back! This week we are going deeper on Pan Am. We talk about their success after the introduction of Jetliners and talk about Juan Trippe's Hand in the American Supersonic Jet program and the development of the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet. Then We start getting into the three key components to their eventual failure. Politics, Over …
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Send us a text This week we are going back in time AND up into the skies with our new series on the Pan American World Airways Company. Pan am was an Airline Goliath but now it's long gone. In this series we will be talking about their meteoric rise followed by their slow decline into bankruptcy. This week we are focusing on the founder Juan Trippe…
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Send us a text Finally! FINALLY! The investors have started to realize that WeWork is a financial Black Hole and maybe they should stop giving them money. All of WeWorks life rafts abandon them and they are forced to finally turn to public investments. We learn about their last minute delusional attempt to produce an IPO called Project Wingspan. Af…
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Send us a text We are now to the point in our story where WeWork has more money than they know what to do with and their main investor is advising Adam Neuman to be even Crazier! And he absolutely delivers! The company slowly goes more and more off the rails, using their vast amounts of money to completely crush any competition and making almost no…
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Send us a text We are back this week with the insane rise of Adam Neumann and the WeWork company! They are taking on more and more investors making it all the way up to a 16 Billion dollar evaluation. But they are burning through their cash as fast as they can raise it. They quickly expand into a bunch of new cities and then begin expanding the sco…
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Send us a text This week we are getting into WeWork, a company that was meant to change the world but was really just renting office space and creating a new and fun way to spend ALOT someone elses money. We talk about founders Adam Neumann, Rebekah Newmann, and Miguel McKelvey. Starting with their backgrounds and then getting into the begining of …
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Send us a text This is the thrilling finale to The silk road and the Hunt for Ross Ulbrict. We focus a lot this episode on the various law enforcement personalities and the breadcrumbs that Ross unknowingly left behind that eventually lead to his arrest. Carl is still out here Carling harder than ever developing even more alter egos and breaking ev…
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Send us a text This episode was a lot of fun to record. Carl is BACK Baby! And he is off the rails! The lines between under cover friendship and real friendship start to blur for Ross and Carl. And Carl gets into some very fun mischief. Ross begins taking a much darker turn. He oks some very ethically dubious new items to be sold on the website. Th…
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Send us a text We are back with the Silk Road and our old pal Ross! He has taken up the moniker The Dread Pirate Roberts and he has started forming a crew of dark web hackers and drug dealers to help run his website. This week we add a few new colorful characters to the story. Carl Force is an erratic DEA agent assigned to the case that loves weari…
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Send us a text In this episode we are going deep into some internet nonsense and talking about the Amazon of illegal Drugs. It was a website called Silk Road! The internet's favorite way to buy drugs on the internet one pill at a time! We talk about founder Ross Ulbricht and his libertarian beliefs that allowed him to make billions of dollars. We a…
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Send us a text This week we are wrapping up the Sacklers. This ep has plenty of righteous indignation as well as we learn about how the family used their money and influence to avoid any true punishment. But we also learn about how the Art world turned its back on the Sacklers even after they spent so much money trying to buy its friendship. We lea…
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Send us a text In this episode we start talking about the court cases and all of the shady dealing that follows. All of the Sacklers are moving out of leadership positions in order to shield themselves from the inevitable blow back. And while the Epidemic is growing exponentially, Purdue Pharma is working to tweak the recipe of Oxy to renew their p…
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Send us a text Today we are really digging into the rise of Oxycontin. We discuss the army of marketers and entire economy that built up around selling as many of these pain pills as possible to consumers without any regard for public safety. We also talk about how much and how early the Sackler Family and Perdue Pharma knew about the addictive and…
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Send us a text In this episode we follow Aurthur Sackler in his quest to earn class through the purchase of art and museum exhibits. Spoiler alert it doesn't work that well and he leaves a couple failed marriages and disappointed children in his wake. We also start talking about the second generation taking power inside the family company and how t…
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Send us a text This week we are starting a Big one. Is finally time for us to talk about The Sackler Family. Emily takes us through the older generation of the Sacklers who built the machine that would later be used to create a nation wide Opioid Epidemic. Arthur Sackler was the man that developed the monster that is modern Pharmaceutical advertise…
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Send us a text This week we are wrapping up Spoons and the Oneida Community. We talk about Pierreponts suprisingly progressive labor policys followed by his radically traditional views on gender rolls. We also once again are talking about Eugenics.... and then we follow the company all the way up until its bankrupcy in 2006. Hope you Enjoy! Sources…
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Send us a text In this episode, we wrap up the end to Old John Humphreys communist sex cult and follow the transition of the community back into a purely capitalist group. And how even after John's death, his ghost helps lead the community through periodic Boardroom seances. Then we are FINALLY talking about Spoons! I hope y'all are excited! Enjoy …
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Send us a text 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…
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Send us a text This week we begin discussing the fascinating Oneida Community.Oneida Community Limited becomes one of the largest silverware manufacturers in the United States. But this episode we discuss its humble beginnings as an 1800s communist sex cult in upstate New York! Sources: “Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well Set Table" by Ellen…
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Send us a text This week we are digging deeper into the Clark Family! We're going to wrap up Huguette's life, all her extravagant gifts, the wealthiest nurse of all time, and the fight over the estate. Sources: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr …
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Send us a text This week we are digging deeper into the Clark Family. We talk about W. A.'s short lived Political career, some spicy inheritance nonsense, and Hugettes complicated love life. Enjoy! Sources: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr Foll…
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Send us a text We're diving into the the family of W.A. Clark and his recluse daughter Hugette. How he made his money in the mines and his best attempts to join society. Sources: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr Follow the podcast @yeettherichp…
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Send us a text We are finishing up the Beanie Baby saga this week! Learn about how Ty's relationships ended up, the creation of the website, the retirement of so many beanies, the burst of the bubble! Sources: The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zach Bissonnette The Beanie Bubble- Apple TV Beanie Mania- HBO Foll…
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Send us a Text Message. This week is part two of the Beanie Baby saga and we're getting into lighting design, the band of the Beckys, and the Beanie shredder! Sources: The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zach Bissonnette The Beanie Bubble- Apple TV Beanie Mania- HBO Follow the podcast @yeettherichpod Follow Emil…
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Send us a text This week we get into the Beanie Baby craze and Ty Warner and his journey through the world of plush. Sources: The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zach Bissonnette The Beanie Bubble- Apple TV Follow the podcast @yeettherichpod Follow Emily @thefunnywalsh Follow Danny @dmoss315 And please rate, rev…
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Send us a text We are wrapping up the Uber series this week! We'll find out how Travis finally left the company and where all the players in the game have ended up. Follow the podcast: @yeetttherichpod Follow Emily: @thefunnywalsh Follow Danny: @dmoss315 Sources: Super Pumped- The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac Whistle Blower by Susan Fowler Where I…
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Send us a text This week we talk about the beginning of the end for Travis at Uber. A jam packed six months full of sexual misconduct allegations, failed self driving car tests, and a series of news articles revealing Ubers habit of using their tech to infringe on riders privacy. Enjoy! Sources this week: Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike I…
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Send us a text This week we're getting into the culture of Uber, the numerous cases of sexual harassment, and TK's attempt and obsession with getting into China. Sources this week: Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac Whistle Blower My Unlikely Journey to Silicon Valley and Speaking Out against Injustice by Susan Fowler Follow the podcas…
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Send us a text Today we are getting SOOOO Pumped to begin talking about Uber. We talk about how Uber went from a scrappy tech startup to a Golieth of a ridesharing company. Founder Travis Kalenick wanted to change the world and didnt care what he broke along the way. Enjoy! Sources: Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac Super Pumped: The …
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Send us a text We are wrapping the Kellogg Brothers again this week And This one is a doozy! We talk about a court case that pushed the brothers out of eachothers lives forever, John's darker sides, and Will's failed attempt to find someone to carry on his legacy. Hope you all enjoy! Sources: The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by H…
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Send us a text We are back with the Kellogg Brothers again this week where we plumb the depths of a one sided sibling rivalry. We talk about some crazy medical discoveries and the lack of ethics that went into making them. And we finally get into the development of the very first cornflake. Enjoy! Sources: The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Bat…
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Send us a text This week we are getting into the Kellogg Brothers! They brought us cereal, fine broom making skills, and some religious fundamentalism! Check it out! Sources: The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel Follow the pod: @yeettherichpod Follow Emily @thefunnywalsh Follow Danny @dmoss315…
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Send us a text We are wrapping up our series on the Johnson and Johnson family this week, and getting into the court cases surrounding baby powder, fake hips, and why talc is terrible for you. Sources:Johnson & Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection | The New Yorker https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/business/johnson-johnson-baby-powder-recal…
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Send us a Text Message. This week, we are back to talk about the next generation of Johnson and Johnson nonsense! We get into some more failed marriages, some alarming paternity test schemes, and how everyone in this family is trash. Enjoy! Sources Crazy Rich: Power. Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty (Jerry Oppenheimer) Foll…
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Send us a text This week, we discuss the sloppiest family on the Fortune 500 list. We are talking about the Johnson family and it is a WILD ride! Sources Crazy Rich: Power. Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty (Jerry Oppenheimer) Follow the podcast @yeettherichpod Follow Danny @dmoss315 Follow Emily @thefunnywalsh…
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Send us a text We finally wrap up all of the short selling nonsense. Then we get into the financial aftermath and all the backroom deals made to stop the economic freefall that resaulted from the failure of the subprime market. Sources The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis (book) Too Big To Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin Follow the p…
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Send us a text We're still cruising through the housing crisis and learning about everyone's outcomes after the credit default market starts to crumble. Sources The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis (book) The Big Short Adam Mckay (movie) The History of the United States in Five Crashes Scott Nations (book) Follow the podcast @ye…
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Send us a text We're learning even more about all those fancy finance words that mean we'll never be able to afford houses! We dive back into the "Big Short" and the 2008 housing crisis and learn all the important players in the game. Follow the pod @yeettherichpod Follow Danny @dmoss315 Follow Emily @thefunnywalsh Rate, review, and subscribe!…
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Send us a text This week we're diving into the 2008 housing crisis, but first we're learning what stocks and bonds are! It's a big week for all of us. Sources The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis (book) The Big Short Adam Mckay (movie) The History of the United States in Five Crashes Scott Nations (book) Follow the podcast @yeet…
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