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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.  This episode is just a series of hopes dashed for a company that...

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 episode so don't worry we are just taking one week of...

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 Expansion, and Crashes. So Many Crashes.  Pan Am Rebuilds...

This week we are going back in  time,  AND up in the  skies with our new series  on the Pan Americain World Airways Company. Pan am was an Airline Goleth 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 and the early years of luxury travel aboard  Boeing...

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. After their first few attempts fail due to questionable financia...

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 money while doing it. And then we have some classic unicorn f...

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 scope of their company into Housing, Fitness, and even Education? ...

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 WeWork. Fueled  with Delusions and Vibes, Weworks Rise and  Fall...

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 even more laws. And we end with the court case and sentencing. The...

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. Then some people steal some large chunks of cash from the silk r...

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 wearing eye patches and going rogue. And VarietyJones becomes friend...

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 also begin talking about the various federal agencies that...

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 learn about some really cool artists and lawyers who made it their...

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 patient and maintain their monopoly for another few decades. I...

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  dangerous qualities  of their drug. This one is heavy b...

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 they found new and shadier ways to make money off. We finish...

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 advertisements and got extremely wealthy doing it. This series is gonna b...

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: “Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well Set Table" by...

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 Sources: “Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well Set...

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 Utopia to the Well Set Table" by Ellen Wayland Smith(2016...

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 Wayland Smith(2016) The Days  of  My Youth:  A Childhood...

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 Follow the podcast @yeettherichpod Follow Emily @thefun...

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 Follow the podcast @yeettherichpod Follow Emily @thefunnywalsh F...

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 @yeettherichpod Follow Emily @thefunnywalsh Follow Danny @dmoss315 Send u...

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 Follow the podcast @yeettherichpod Follow Emily @thefunnywalsh F...