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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 

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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. 

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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...

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 dyn...

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 ...

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...

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! 

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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 ...

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...

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 d...

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 wee...

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.

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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 ...

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....

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 ra...

This week we are wrapping up the Jim and Tammy Faye story. We finally get to some water slide action. But this victory is very short lived. The house of cards finally tumbles down. 

The allegations against Jim finally begin coming into the light. And at the same time other powerful ministers begin trying to turn the Bakker's downfall to their advantage. 

The ministry gets temporarily passed over to Jerry Fallwell a popular Bapti...

The saga of Jim and Tammy Faye Baker continues this week while we get into the building of Heritage USA, using peoples payments from one project to fund the next, and the completion of the water park!

They are getting real footloose and fancy free with their finances and it's about to come back to bite them. Some staff is let go, and others start gathering stories and ammunition for the eventual collapse of PTL. 

PTL The Rise an...

This week we're getting into Jim and Tammy Faye's rise to TV success! Their ministry is expanding, and they're misappropriating funds all over the place! It's not illegal if its for the lord!

We'll also get into the assault of Jessica Hahn and how it will help unravel PTL in the late 80s. 

Next week, we build the theme park that will take down the whole operation! 

PTL The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye B...

This week we get into the international television ministry of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, famous pentecostal ministers from the 70s. They revolutionized religious television, starting from the humble beginnings of a kids puppet show and eventually becoming a very successful satelitte network on hundreds of stations. 

Jim and Tammy Faye met as bible college students and went on to build an empire together, one that would be brought d...