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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 the Seabrook farm, with the help of the police force, vigilantes and the KKK tried to suppress the movement. Plus communism! 

Sources:The Spinach King The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by John Seabrook 

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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 farming has evolved in America in the past hundred years. 

Sources:The Spinach King The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by John Seabrook 

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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 then somehow almost miraculously a perfect combination of new leadership, lawsuits, Public pressure, and Persistence finally pays off. There are just so many moments when you think that they are going to finally get better compensation then it falls through but I promise by the end of this EP there will be a big change!

Sources:

“A Greater Goal: The epic Battle for Equal pay in Women’s Soccer-And Beyond” By Elizabeth Rusch(2024)

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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 invested in. 

The team will officially become more popular and more viewed by the men's team. Bring in more eyes and more revenue but still US Soccer refuses to pay them fairly. A new passionate consultant named Becca Roux joins the fight on the side of the Women's national team and helps kick the fight up into high gear. 

Eventually lawsuits start to fly and the players band together to make a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 

Frankie really hopes you all enjoy this episode! Thanks for listening!

Sources:

“A Greater Goal: The epic Battle for Equal pay in Women’s Soccer-And Beyond” By Elizabeth Rusch(2024)

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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 their fight for pay equality against their employers, the US Soccer Federation! This episode we will continue that story of really stellar fetes of athletic prowess followed by underwhelming response and support. We will talk about America's first Olympic women's soccer team. And the beginning of the team fighting back and demanding more from the Soccer Federation. 

We are going to do our best to get back on a regular schedule but parenthood is tricky so no promises! Thank you all so much for listening!

Sources:

“A Greater Goal: The epic Battle for Equal pay in Women’s Soccer-And Beyond” By Elizabeth Rusch(2024)

 “19 of the youngest OIlimpians in the history of the games”- Teen Vogue By Colleen Curry and Marilyn Le Jeunesse (2024)

“Billie Jean King” National Women’s History Museum Website  Brandman, Mariana. (2021)

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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 Gender. The women were demanding equal pay and equal treatment as the men's national team.

Then We jump back in time to the first ever Women's national team and their struggles to earn respect for their achievements and try to stay financially afloat all while juggling training, tournaments, and the part time jobs that they are forced to take because of their low income as athletes. 

Also another Shoutout to Emilys Dont Tell Set! "Not Another Teen Mom" just dropped on Dont Tell's Youtube page. It is so funny and very well produced and we would really appreciate it If you could watch it and send it to a few friends. Thank you for Listening!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBHRNg6MwcE

Sources:

“A Greater Goal: The epic Battle for Equal pay in Women’s Soccer-And Beyond” By Elizabeth Rusch(2024)

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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 stage capitalism with a bit of humor!!

We are of course once again in our bed. In our coziest of close and this is gonna be a good time! The episode will probably be a bit shorter than usual but we are going to have fun with it and it will still have some interesting and fun facts and a small teaser for the next series. Hope you enjoy!

Sources:

• Volkswagen:
  • “Four Former VW Managers Found Guilty in Emissions Trial”  By Jack Ewing and Tatiana Firsova-New York Times  May 26, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/business/volkswagen-emissions-trial.html
• Jim and Tammy Faye:
  • “Elton John’s Tammy Faye’ musical announces its closing just days after Broadwaty Debut”  By Malia Mendez-Los Angelos times Nov 2024 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-11-20/elton-john-tammy-faye-musical-closing-short-run-broadway#:~:text=Elton%20John's%20'Tammy%20Faye'%20musical%20announces%20it%20is%20closing%20just,a%20producer%20on%20the%20show.&text=The%20Lord%20giveth%2C%20and%20the,capacity%20audiences%2C%20the%20Guardian%20reported.
• Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos:
  • “Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner has a new Blood-Testing Start-Up” By Rob Copeland-New York Times May 10,2025
    • https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/business/elizabeth-holmes-partner-blood-testing-startup.html
• Billy Mcfarland:
  • Source: “Fyre Festival's embattled founder is selling the brand: 'It's time to pass the torch” by Rachel Treisman NPR April 2025
  • https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5374909/fyre-festival-for-salrl-billy-mcfarland

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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 been listened to! 

Sources:

The Buffalo Creek Disaster- How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company-and Won 

By Gerald M Stern

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a2f1ea2c8ba9494b821d76458b15b41c

Timeline by West Virginia University

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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:

The Buffalo Creek Disaster How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company-and Won 

By Gerald M Stern

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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 investigation, Rick as a terrible informant, the eventual arrests, and a really wild series of court cases. 

Hope you enjoy!

Sources:

“Guilty Admissions: The Bribes, Favors, and Phonies Behind the College Cheating Scandal” by Nicole LaPorte (2021)

“Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & The Making of the College Admissions Scandal” by Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz (2020)

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