Episode 652: The Du Pont Foxcatcher Murder Part I - The Merchants of Death

There's no place to escape to. This is the last talk. Yes! On the left. Ha ha! Why are you putting your legs? That's when the cannonball's started. Oh! It was bad. Oh! Yeah! Yeah! Oh! Never make it! Makes me feel world duty! It was a war! One of that? What? No, I don't know what you're talking about. I feel the way that you do inside a side. Oh yeah! Indeed! It's a real deal. It's just a play. It's not saying the worst. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. It's like Mumbling. It's like me in my hand. So are you telling the audience to get ready? Sure. Get ready! Here we come. It's the last podcast on the left. My name is Marcus Parks. I'm here with Henry Zabraski, the man who vaguely knows the words of songs, but not really. I know a lot of words of songs. It really depends if they're playing on the radio while I'm listening to it. Yeah, and I said the word radio. I'm ancient. Fuck all of you. He's 42. He's not ancient. And we have with us the eldest member of the last podcast family, Ed Larson. That's right. You can see the morning, but I can see the light. Right, right, right, let it dry. Yes, correct. He'll always be correct. Fuck, been turner overdrive. Now, that's a family I would agree. And letting them run the United States of America. The Bachman turners? Yes. Yeah, okay. The Canadian, I believe. Yeah. Why are we talking about the men who run America? Well, today we are starting a series. It started off as a one-parter. Then it moved to a two-parter. And now it is a fucking three-parter. This is the Dupont Fox Catcher Murder. On January 26, 1996, an Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler named Dave Schultz was murdered on a sprawling estate in Pennsylvania called Fox Catcher Farms. He was murdered by the Farms multi-millionaire owner and heir of the Dupont family named John E. Dupont. Now, was he dressed like a fox? Because that would have been his first mistake. So these would then be the Dupont furry murder. It's not an honest thing. I wish they were. John E. Dupont is indeed a fascinating and bizarre character worthy of an episode. But after looking into the story further, we decided that the story of John Dupont would work as a nice companion piece to our series on Alec Murdoch. While Alec Murdoch was an example of what happens when privilege gets out of control within a family that controls just five counties in one of America's poorest states. The story of John E. Dupont is what happens when the same thing occurs within one of the families that controls America itself. It's kind of amazing it took that long. Yeah. It took that long that we know of. The history of the Dupont family who were nicknamed the merchants of death by journalists after World War One because of the insane profits they made off of the war. That history is inextricably linked to the darkest sides of American history. It goes back to damn near the founding of our country. The Dupont families companies have provided munitions and explosives to the American government in every war in our country's history save the revolution. From the gunpowder used in the war of 1812 to the enriched uranium used in the atomic bombs dropped in Japan. So congratulations. That's not what the point you're trying to make. Oh, I thought you were saying they were really good at business. Yeah. This was a different podcast that would have been like a praise. Yeah. From the gunpowder used in the war of 1812 to the enriched uranium used in the atomic bomb dropped on Japan. The Dupont company truly is a tighten of industry. Good on you, Dupont. I can't wait to be a billionaire myself. All I have to do is pull my dick that seems to be swollen inside of my sister. I'm not on my way to millions of dollars. The Duponts, however, are not just involved in war profiteering. As their 1935 slogan put it, the more public facing side of the Dupont company provides quotes. Better things for better living through chemistry. I would put it more like better things for better living through chemistry. That is how it went. Some guy read it like that and we can't talk to the people like that. Can we re-judge that? No, I'm not. Robotic. Barney? We need you to get stopped doing these commercials. Better things for better living through chemistry. Bad thing for bad. Vanille and flavoured douche. I'm dressed in rayon. Can I look you fire, baby? Good work, Barney. Now that's a solid, a middle American. The Dupont companies have provided this world with rayon, nylon, cellophane and countless other products that are in every day part of our lives. Look around you and you'll probably see a dozen things the Duponts had a hand in making or creating. These things? All of these things? All Dupont. Yeah, maybe they're probably something to do with the plastic in the metal, yeah? Right? At some point, at some point in the creation or the manufacturing, the Duponts have their hands in every fucking sector of the modern world. That's why I buy things across my fingers. No Dupont, no Nestle, no Dupont, no Nestle. That's fine. Well, on the dark side of that though, the Duponts were also responsible for the manufacture and widespread use of leaded gasoline. Lead gas pollution has all but been proved to have heavily contributed to the serial killer epidemic and the high crime rates of the late 20th century. These trends of violence have risen and fallen in every single country in the world that has used then banned leaded gasoline. It has been proven. But perhaps worst of all, the Duponts are responsible for Teflon and the proliferation of the forever chemical C8, which has been scientifically linked to several forms of cancer and it currently sits in the bloodstreams of every single person listening to my voice right now. It is in you. So yes, merchants of death is indeed a fitting nickname for the Dupont family. Yes, if you had cancer in Ohio, thank you. Anything that helps or one person show. You know, so you mean to tell me that Dupont itself is an amazing benefactor to the world of solo theater. Yeah. Roll the solo theater definitely for hospitals. Dude, no up in Heimer. Yeah. Yeah. No, and you know what that means? No barbed in Heimer. Wow. Wow. Wow. We would have missed out on that cultural exchange. And man, it was worth it. The Dupont family knew that let it gasoline, Teflon and C8 were dangerous and deadly from the get go either because their workers lost their minds working with it as it was with let it gasoline or their scientists straight up told them this shit is bad as they did with Teflon and C8. The Duponts just don't fucking care. The Duponts have also spent centuries pushing America into war after war for their own personal profit and they have manipulated American politics for just as long, not based on what was best for America, but rather on what would maximize the Dupont family's profits and power. As such, I would actually go so far as to say that the Duponts are a perfect example of the systemic rod that has been exposed in the latest Epstein files because remember, even though we got millions of pages recently, it is still only a small fucking percentage of what they have. Well, that is just because they wanted to cover all the pictures of teenage corpses like us. And honestly, that's what they said. They're super. They were not. No one's into it. No one wants to see that. You may get your stuff film after all. Yeah. Things and for years, stuff films don't exist, but it turns out the government has all of them. Turns out there are 6,000 hours of them. You ever seen the movie Silver Lining's playbook? Yeah. That's what this is. But like the Dupont family, the people exposed in those Epstein files do not care about red or blue, Democrat or Republican. They do not care about America, democracy, or the people who do all of the work that makes them their obscene piles of treasure. All these people care about is the accumulation of wealth and power because when you have that much money, laws and morals cease to exist. It proves that there is no war but class war mother fuckers and the latest Epstein drop is the starkest example we have ever seen of that. I mean, the worst part of the Epstein files is just the flip it way in which they do business. And honestly, the lack of care. It makes me so upset. I mean, Peter Teal, he's not thinking about us. No, I don't believe that shit. I'm so scared. I thought he was my PayPal. I looked at him, honestly, honestly. I looked at the bro. He's not even my pay a quaint. Yeah, the bro man's between Joe Rogan. I'm been shipping, shipping them Peter Teal, Joe Rogan for a long time. And that's the fact that there have been no less than six people in the Epstein files that have been guests on Joe Rogan's podcast that also. Yeah, where's that book around? Right? Come on guys. Guys, come on, sit him over the LPN. We need some of that. Actually, I think it might be up to eight now as they discover more and more names. Man, it's just, I got a feeling this is going to be like the series that makes me the most angry. It's going to make you very angry. Like, at least with like serial killers, there's like passion and artistry. Sometimes they're in lazy serial killers. I still believe that Nathaniel Bargona is the laziest of the serial killers. Just because he used his butt. Yeah, because he just sat on kids. Yeah, that's just fucking, I mean, it's fun for a time, but you have to watch me get and mix it up. But to bring it back to the Duponts, this is not a new phenomenon. See the Epstein class, that's the class of people so rich that they exist in a world free of consequence. Those people have been using the rest of us as ponds and play things for centuries. I would actually go so far as to say that the Duponts are not only a part of the Epstein class, but were in fact one of the families that created the conditions that made Epstein possible. If you want to know how we got here with Epstein, it is essential to know the history of families like the Duponts here in America. But while everything involved with Jeffrey Epstein is an example of the most evil shit that the rich and powerful do, John E. Dupont, the eventual subject of this series, he is an example of the dumbest shit that the rich and powerful do. The principles, however, are the same. That's what happens when cousins fuck for many generations. See John Dupont was extraordinarily wealthy, completely detached from the real world and out of his fucking mind in every way possible. But even though he was crazy and dangerous, he had no guardrails whatsoever because he was rich. And he lived life without consequence. Instead of using his money to build a pedophile island though, John Dupont used his wealth to turn his Pennsylvania estate into a compound dedicated to his personal obsession. John Dupont was obsessed with athletics and specifically competitive wrestling, not professional but competitive, like collegiate and Olympic wrestling. But even though it was not a sexual endeavor in any way whatsoever, John Dupont truly loved competitive wrestling simply for what it was, he still destroyed lives, made people miserable and eventually committed murder when his playthings began behaving in ways that John Dupont did not want them to. You hear that, Rob? Better be careful. Better be careful. One question I give. He talked about our fucking about, we buckle under the least of our employees' requests. We learn. We learn. We learn. We learn. I, with Epstein, what I find interesting is what we're seeing here is again, the difference between the Murdoch's, which is a BTM illuminati. So the Dupont's. See team, even. When you look at the Dupont's, it's C or D. They're huge, right? Epstein, what he wanted to do, deep in his emails, is that some of the things that he was talking about was trying to connect back to old money. That was a thing that Epstein never got. He was talking with the Roth's childs. He tried to create some fake lore about his own family name connected to Adolf Hitler. All of this shit, dude. That's the God damn it. That's the most insane thing where he said that his family owned the boarding house that Hitler stayed out in Austria and that they were the ones who made Hitler hate Jews. He was like a whole thing. He was like a bragging? Yes. Yes. Yes. It's like a bragging thing within these worlds. And he was trying to create lore about himself because Epstein, no matter what he wanted, he was newvo-rish. No matter how much money he made, no matter how many connections he made, he was trying to set this situation up for himself. And it just shows it takes family. Yeah. Vin Diesel knew. Well, he did try Epstein did try making his own family with, you know, what was it the genetically engineered- Well, yeah, he was trying to make his come farm. Yeah. Right? He had his come farm or he saved his farm and he was trying to make a baby like factory. There was all that stuff. But to be frank, I honestly think at this point, he might have been infertile or something because you'd think he'd have dozens and dozens of children. You think so? Boy, he might. But we don't know. It seems like they come didn't take. It seems like him. But as it was with Alec Murdock, to show you how someone like John Dupont comes to exist in this world, we're going to cover the history of the Dupont family because if we're talking about pure death and suffering, the Dupont's rank as probably the most evil family in American history. Now, you've got to have one hell of a pedigree to take the spot as the most evil American family ever. So that's why we're going to spend not just one, but two entire episodes covering the absolutely horrific things that this family has done throughout the centuries before we even get to the Foxcatcher murder. Context, context, context, context, context. If you want to talk context, the Dupont's are the context. They really put the cut. The Dupont's are pure context. They are the context for why things are the way they are. And considering how incredibly fucking angry we all feel about the Epstein files, there is no better time than the present to lay out that context in full so we can start to figure out how to finally fucking do something about it. Plus, there's more than enough death, murder, mutilation, inbreeding and explosions to get the Dupont story that old fashioned last podcast kicked throughout. Yeah. And also, we got played, don't worry, this year we have a lot of murder coming away. Yeah. There's plenty of them, but there's like five murders. Oh, no. I mean, like one-on-one murders in this episode, you know? Yeah. But we're again, well, you know, under 10, it's not, it's, it was it, under 10, it's a tragedy, like over a million, it's a statistic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we were talking about the Duponts, like an uncountable amount of deaths. Uncounted, like once we start getting into it and we get through by the end of the second episode, they may be responsible for more deaths than any family in world history. Well, as the resident capitalists, I'll say, thank you for the stock market, Duponts. Yes. My dad would always buy money for, would buy Duponts stock. He would always buy Dupont. It was the first thing he checked every time he opened the stock things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It worked out great for, you know, yeah, that's all the generational wealth that you were handed down. I do know that your father bought only the finest garbage bags when he was wrapping the menu to make you drop weight. These are the set locks. Yeah. You know, well, this one. Hefty and hefty. Now, for our main source today, we used Dupont Dynasty behind the Nylon Curtain by Gerard Colby. It is incredibly long. It's like a thousand pages, but it is fantastic for anyone who wants maximum historical contact. You're going to fucking show God. I mean so much fucking context. Your life's going to fucking end. I'm going to fucking rip my balls of context or on your fucking nose. Oh, yeah, man. You all are going to die. You might be out of luck if you're a hard copy purist here because the Dupont family bought up most of the copies of Dupont Dynasty upon the book's publication, then convinced the publisher to not print another edition, despite the first printing selling out. It's funny how that happens. Dupont Dynasty, however, is easily available through another corporate behemoth, Amazon, and is readily available on Kindle for anyone who wants to know how we got to where we are today. Interesting. I wonder why they expose them like that because they're essentially just as evil. Amazon? Yeah. All the games I don't care. Well, yeah, Amazon doesn't, they really don't care about anything. Yeah. I mean, they do. They made life so simple that everyone's just like, I'm fucking, I want my package tomorrow. They have seen that the phrase convenience is king, uh, truly does apply in America. Oh, yeah. You give Americans convenience, you can do anything you want. Sadly, there were more functional than US government during the pandemic. It's really sad. Yeah. Now, they're currently over 1500 living Duponts in the United States. That's a lot of doodoo. Thanks, Barney. Barney, I got a stop coming into these ad rooms or the end of these meetings. Okay. You read copy, Barney. Duponts fucking dookie kind of spell. Barney, doodoo. Save that gold for the recording studio. Oh, my billiards. Oh, it seems that he, he's saving the gold, but he shared a little brown. Oh, Barney got into the cotton candy again. It's so good. I know, but it's not food, Barney. My nostrils hurt. What are those 1500 living Duponts? Just about 50 Duponts form the core. The core Duponts control 200 billion dollars in assets. Those assets come from over 100 multi-million dollar corporations and banks around the world. The Duponts are therefore easily the richest and most powerful family on earth with a direct personal wealth estimated in excess of 15 billion dollars, although it's impossible to know for sure just how far their reach really extends. But because their tentacles are so long, the list of corporations they control is far too massive to list. They have controlling interests and companies that make chemicals, weapons, cars, aircraft, and oil. They control insurance companies, computer companies, sports teams, foods, utilities, investments, law firms. They control general motors, Boeing aircraft, Rimmington Arms, Phillips, petroleum, canoco, domino sugar, farmers' mutual insurance, liberty mutual insurance, and the United Fruit Company. United Fruit, of course, counted CIA director and MK Ultra Instigator Alan Dulles as a board member for decades. And we are to this day still dealing with the consequences of what the CIA and Duponts United Fruit did down in South America back in the 50s because God forbid we don't have constant fucking access to bananas. Let's not comfort bananas, okay? I like bananas. But bananas are a big part of a nice life. There's a lot of potassium in bananas. I'm just saying the human cost to making sure that we can get a banana whenever we want is pretty fucking high. I agree. I still like bananas. The bananas are not at fault. They were just being yelled. And like everything you listed there, it doesn't seem like there's really that much conflict of interest. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, none whatsoever. We're going to be getting into United Fruit, the CIA and Dupont far more in the next episode. Yeah, Dupont had a controlling interest in you and fruit starting in the 20s. So they are responsible for God so much. God, the back of bananas, bananas. But back in America, the horns of pain. Oh, bananas filled with blood. But anas are great because you know, there's so many things that you can eat and then fuck the jacket it was wearing. Yeah, like a lady. Yeah. But back in America, the Dupont's also more or less owned the state of Delaware. No one knows what they're doing. Obviously, at least it's a shitty state. That's the one or the bad one. It's a shitty state because of the Dupont's 11% of Delaware still works directly for the Dupont's. And when you include businesses that depend on Dupont, that number rises to 60%. In fact, the Dupont company even has a cute nickname in Delaware. People call it Uncle Dopey. That's Barney's father. I love Uncle Dopey. He's got a big penis. Look at that God spent a lot of time on my ding dong. And a lot of time on my brain pot. You look tired, Uncle Dopey. You want the size? Yes, I would. I would. My ding dong. Oh, Barney get back in here. We got to record another commercial. Yeah. Well, since Uncle Dopey has their hooks so deeply in Delaware and I'm talking about the Dupont Corporation here, that means that the Duponts almost certainly had Joe Biden by the short hairs from the very start of his political career until the very end. Which I'm going to just how dare you. I've dare I talk about our beautiful center of right president went to do that for those poor corporations again and again. Let me be here. Here. All right. All right. All right. I don't know. Joe Pond. All right. Let me be clear. All right. Joe Pond. I know. Do Pond never met a man. Do Pond only on you scoped American. This tells you anything. Biden purchased a 10,000 square foot former Dupont mansion in what year? 1970 fucking seven. As such, I very much guarantee you that the Duponts had every reason to want Joe Biden in office for as long as possible, no matter what it costs the rest of us. They didn't work hard enough. Hold on. You're telling me they weren't Bernie fans? Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah, they weren't Bernie fans. No, no, not at all. And they definitely wanted Biden to keep rolling, rolling down the fucking halls of the White House for as long as possible, keeping him in office and keeping him in the election far fucking longer than he should have been. Now to show you how the Duponts rose to power here in America. Hunter Biden's my precedent. Yeah. A lot of Hunter, man. Yeah. And you know what? Guess what? Not in the Epstein file. No, dude. Fuck it. He just made his own stupid Ukraine money, man. It's so funny that like all these like former sex workers are coming out and talking about like how nice he was. So that's very generous. Very fun guy. Just a fun guy. I did see a funny tree. This was like, yeah, Hunter Biden, of course, he's not in there. He liked crack and adult Latinas. Yeah. That's why Hunter Biden liked. Yeah. Yeah. Captain monster. Yeah, it did. I'm not ready. Now to show you how the Duponts rose to power here in America, we actually have to go all the way back to the fucking French revolution. Every time this is why it's hard to find context, man. I assure you. It really does all start here. Now we don't need to get super deep into the French revolution today. That's a series for another time. We know. We know. For the purposes of this episode, all you need to know is that in 1780s, France, the king had lost the support of the people because life was shit for most Frenchmen. So King Louis had driven France into an economic depression through both the seven years war with England and the rampant corruption and decadence of the upper class, which all this was fantastic. If you were rich, if you lived in Versailles, it was fucking amazing. But the majority of France did not live in Versailles. And so enlightenment thinkers like Francis Bacon and our very own Benjamin Franklin. Yeah. Oh, by a woman. They began spreading the idea that if you had one person like say a king making decisions based only on what the king thought was best, then those decisions very often made the lives of most people pretty fucking horrible. I also was reading about the bathing habits during the time period of the royals. I guess it was like long thing about how truly putrid it was hanging out with the rich people in Versailles because bathing was considered to be like, you'd wear all this makeup and you wear all the stuff and you bathing was considered like low class. Yeah. So they would just don't perfume on themselves over and over again and just fucking reek. And they all were like melting from syphilis. Yeah. Yeah, we didn't like France. John Adams painted it there. Oh, interesting. Well, after America's successful revolution against King George in 1776, the French started their own revolution against their corrupt monarchy in 1789. You're welcome. That's a connoisseur. We do all on him. That's a kind of fucking shit. Although their revolution was far bloodier and far more cruel than the American revolution. I think that way it made a more lasting impression. Yeah. Now, a lot of Frenchmen were living high on the hog as a result of the corrupt monarchy system that spurred the French revolution. And while a lot of those people died during the chaos, one man in the French court who survived was Pierre Samuel Dupont. Now Pierre Dupont had been born the common son of a watchmaker, but through pure ambition, he had warmed his way into the courts of both kings, Louis the 15th and the 16th as what else but a financial advisor. What does that sound like? I got no skills who manages to charm his way into a scenario where we took control all over rich guys money. Yeah, yeah, just because he knows the best way to make money and he knows the best way to fuck people over time. In fact, Pierre Dupont's ideas had heavily influenced both the corrupt French courts and the economic policies that kept the rich rich and the poor poor in France. But outside of his capacity as a financial advisor, Pierre Dupont was also a part of the negotiating team that allied France with the colonies in America against their common enemy of England during the American revolution. And so, and this is the most important part, after America gained independence, Pierre Dupont befriended the American who was acting as a diplomat to France in the 1780s. Pierre Dupont's new friend was none other than one of our most famous founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson. I owe ponytail, boy. Yeah. It's all about who you know. Yeah. I'm all, you know what, also the all the Epstein stuff really shows me. I'm so glad I was bad at networking. Yeah. I didn't networking so much and this is all networking, got you. Well, you just said no in some very key situations. That really did help me. Yeah. I want to say I'm proud of me. Yeah, I'm proud of you as well. That I wasn't either corrupted or fully sucked. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, Pierre Dupont was without a doubt a monarchist, but his reasons were, of course, evil and cynical. See, the Duponts always ran their companies and their company towns in America with a Dupont knows best attitude. In other words, they ruled everything like kings because the Duponts were very much to the belief that the people on high should always tell the people down below what to do. And the people down below should follow their orders without question. Well, they believed there was the natural order of things. Mm-hmm. But I mean, it goes back to the divine right of kings, the divine right of gods, which, you know, today is borne out by the whole prosperity gospel that you see in evangelical Christians. I am rich because God wants me to be rich and anything that I do with that money must therefore be godly. It's the same shit that kings used to say. I am king because God wants me to be king. Therefore, anything I do is the will of God. It's the exact same fucking logic. It's kind of interesting because it used to be almost even kind of cute in a way that they'd hire a bunch of children around the factories. But now it's just the humans are going to be plugged directly into some sort of box in which we're just going to use their flesh as a battery for computers that are going to write songs and make comedy shows. Yeah. And we're about to do. Or else are we going to get the water from? But on the capitalist side of things, Pierre Dupont also knew exactly how to make money within the monarchy system that the French elites had built in their country over the centuries. And Pierre Dupont absolutely did not want that to end. He was against the French Revolution, of course. But as a result, Pierre Dupont was very nearly publicly guillotined during the French Revolution, so called reign of terror in which tens of thousands of people had their heads locked off to the delight of the cheering French crowd. Yay! The reign of terror, however, ended before Dupont's head ended up in the body pits. Boo! Yeah, yeah. If there was one, if there was one that we could have just given there, I wonder he would have been in several of them another fucking guy. Another guy named Ron Baller, Terce Mell, who is the other fucking guy doing the same exact stick on Fortress. Well, Dupont was therefore released from prison. Pierre, however, still believed in the monarchy. So after he publicly opposed Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power in the 1790s, after the Revolution, Pierre was thrown back into prison. And so, after he was released, Pierre finally decided that France was no longer stable enough to make money, or at least no longer stable enough to make money the way that he knew how to make money. In 1799, Pierre Dupont decided to try his luck in America, where his friend from the French court, Thomas Jefferson was just about to be elected our third president. And fucking TJ dude, you, everyone thinks he's the best. Thomas Jefferson, you know, I mean, like that's what they teach us anyway. That's what they teach us. It's John Adams. Yeah, it's definitely John Adams. He's the good one. Yeah, John. Where's his memorial? Oh, he already memorialized the only way it could possibly possibly be appropriate for John Adams is that he was played by Paul Jumon. Yeah. That's the memorial. That's the best memorial he could possibly have. Now the opportunities in America that Dupont saw were soaked in blood from the very start. See, the French Revolution had really only kicked off after gun makers industrialized. The mass production of guns meant that anyone who had enough money could just buy an army. In fact, the industrialization of gun manufacturing was also what enabled the United States to free itself from its monarchy. And Thomas Jefferson had told Pierre Dupont that the future of America was indeed in guns. That's why in Siv, it's so important to keep your production up because obviously the gold, the area, obviously, you're going to have a hard time building an up army from scratch if you're doing it, you know, by unit, but you could buy an army. Yeah, that's true. That's very true. It's been a long time since you've had a Siv reference. It just, it comes back. Yeah. Right now I'm mostly reading Kabbalah and and watching and reading Epstein files. Yeah. And that's how you got both sides of Judaism. That's how you got Sivulus. Yep. Oh, cute. See, there was a lot of land to plunder on the American continent and therefore a lot of people to kill. This was going to require many, many guns and it just so happened that when a Pierre Dupont's adult sons, Irenae Dupont, he had become absolutely consumed with the science of gun powder. Dupont also saw that there was ample opportunity for the establishment of a new kind of class in America, a class that had all the power of a king, but none of the responsibilities, nor the accountability that a king might feel from his subjects. Dupont saw that if a person had enough money in America, they could do and get away with just about anything because as we still see today, there have always been people at the bottom in this country willing to bow down to the people at the top for just the slightest chance that they might one day be allowed to join the elite. That's right. And if they don't like that, they still love to blow shit up. Yeah. That's true. There's a lot of stuff. There's a lot of fun stuff in here for Americans. Yeah. I just have to remember guys, they're not going to choose you. They, you know, what I've learned as a human being like, honestly, this little little lesson is that I thought the way show business and the way life worked was that you'd be so good at something. When I was a little boy, I really thought that you get good at something and you work hard at it. That's it. Tell us. And you get out there and you do everything you can to put yourself in the right position, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that, of course, they can't wait to have a new destructor in there. They can't wait to have the new person that's going to take over the kingdom with all of their innovative ideas. Yeah. No, they don't. They don't like that. As a matter of fact, it makes them really angry. And as a matter of fact, this will keep you from hitting certain levels because you can't, because you're not going along the grain. You have to suck dick to get in the club. Yeah. And that's the thing is like, people like Henry, you're doing great. You got this fucking huge deal. Everything's wonderful. You run this company. He doesn't want this. He wants to be an actor. All I wanted to do was nothing. Do you know how easy the life of an actor is? This was an ex. You're doing a really, really good. Totally an actor. Exceptional easy to be the channel. He's life is all right. There's a much more difficult road. And we like it. Yeah. Yeah. And so Pierre Dupont, his wife and their two adult sons, boarded a ship set for America in October of 1799. The trip was only supposed to take five weeks, but the captain of the ship, the American eagle, got lost and sailed aimlessly around the Atlantic for three months because the eagle's fly. Yeah. Why name your boat after a bird? Yeah. They're a fish. It's really about that goes under. Yeah. What's on the water? What stays on the boat? Have they get lost? Just like left. Left. Honestly, what? I mean, it happened to last. Keep taking left so we get there. Yeah. Ocean's big. There's no signposts. You know, like I ended up like way down south like they ended up just sailing around aimlessly, trying to put up, you know, like distress flags, supplies ran out. Duponts had to survive on a soup of boiled rats that they'd trapped in a hot tub. But this temperate, um, boiled rats. I said you on some point though, you boil enough rats. You do eventually get good at boiling rats. You got to. Yeah. Let's bet us the guts. Mm-hmm. The guts. The right guts. We should be. You should be the right guts. You got to close out. The only thing is like there are livers if you can feed one rat enough fragrant foods and thick fats. Yeah. Then the liver will grow. Then it will be tasty. Flaw grat. Yeah. Flaw grat. You're just, you're just talking about making the rat in a flaw grot. But this temporary dip into discomfort, this provided the Duponts with a creation myth that made them seem more common than they really were because they knew that in America, a success story is the most powerful story of all. Their official biography claims that they arrived in America with no money. But in reality, they landed on our shores with large wooden crates full of furniture, clothes, books. They had a quarter of a million francs in cash with millions more on the way where most immigrants. But I said, you know, they're self made. Yeah. Yeah. Because they bought what they had. Yeah. That's a lot of francs. There's a lot of francs. Yeah. I mean, like, what are you even doing with all those francs? Gotta get a hairy or a big hair or something, you know, just like it's got to get confused and sitting there with the rats named Frank. He'll be the first to dance the wall. Where most immigrants to America in the early 19th century were forced to live in muddy huffles for months or years before being able to afford somewhere better, the Duponts simply bought a big comfy house in Bergen's point, New Jersey, and christened it, good stay. You know, it's humble when it has a name. Pierre also, in short order, purchased several slaves for his wife. And Pierre and his sons also bought up large swaths of land so they could sell it off piece by piece at a huge markup to the actual struggling immigrants who just arrived in America. Self made. Yeah. Marcus, what anniversary is the slave purchase? I think that's 35 years. Oh, wow. 35 years. Yeah, you got plenty of time. Well, to really just get the legislature really kick him in. Yeah. But while the Duponts were always adept at immediately finding the best way to make money by fucking over others with less power, the thing that made the Duponts a dynasty in America was Irina Dupont's obsession with gunpowder. See, Irina saw that gunpowder in America was hard to get expensive and of poor quality and say what you will about the Duponts, but they were actually geniuses when it came to chemistry. And Irina had devised a process to make high quality, affordable gunpowder on American soil. So Irina scoured at locations for the first Dupont powder mill and eventually settled on the brandy wine creek in Northern Delaware as the place where the Dupont dynasty would begin. And that's why the Duponts own Delaware. Now, at the same time that the Duponts were establishing themselves in America, their friend Thomas Jefferson became the third president and he had done so with an eye toward westward expansion. Now, since the Duponts had left France, Napoleon Bonaparte had indeed taken over and he decided that he needed the French soldiers who were defendant all those American territories, he needed those soldiers back in Europe so he could kill the British. So Napoleon put the Louisiana territory up for sale. And when Thomas Jefferson needed an advisor to negotiate what would be the Louisiana Purchase, he called up none other than Pierre Dupont. Now since the Duponts were heavily involved in the Louisiana Purchase, which effectively doubled the size of our country overnight, Thomas Jefferson returned the favor by leading the United States government into a contract with the newly established Dupont gunpowder company. As a result of that first deal with Thomas Jefferson, the Duponts have had their hands in every single American war, invasion and so-called police action since 1803. For those counten, that's 223 military conflicts, all of which made the Duponts a lot of money. That's like almost one a year. Yeah, it's all what we sometimes have a lot going on at once. Congratulations again, guys. I really great work there. That's crazy. Get in on the ground floor. I mean, early investor in America. Yeah, dude, come on. No one gives a fuck about my pogs. I have so many pogs still. I got my OJ Simpson's is innocent pog. The slammer. I've got my Michael Jackson is innocent pog. I've got my Woody Allen is innocent pog. To make that we were talking about it all the way back in Pog time. Yeah. Yeah. And just like we said earlier, you read that whole thing in a different inflection. They look like fucking heroes. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy to deal. They've been involved in every single American war and vision and police action since 1803. That's like for those counten that's 223 military conflicts and still going to this day. We're looking at you around. I feel like we're at the DuPont Museum. What Barney there has just been like, I live right. We try to make the precease. We made all sides of the precease. We need more putty into the cafeteria. Barney not nine. I know putting around a putting. Barney, don't worry. Here's some lead. Home. Home. Home. Watch out, Columbia. Where come and for you? Hope you like grapes. Now the United States government began its contract with DuPont Gumpouter with an order of 22,000 pounds and that amount only increased with every year. Manufacturing Gumpouter is of course incredibly dangerous. So a lot of men died fulfilling these orders. These guys worked in conditions that would become basically the DuPont style. These men were tasked with doing the job as quickly as possible, as cheaply as possible, and to hell with any hazards that might come as a result. Gumpouter manufacturing for example, was so dangerous that workers would stand behind stone walls when it came time to mix all the ingredients together. Walls that were supposed to shield the men because explosions occurred so often at this step in the process. Now you're mean to tell me this whole situation is completely safe. One question is why is there so much rubble? Do they work? Explosions were actually so common that powder mills were built with only three walls. This enabled the brunt, the frequent accidental explosions to blow outside into the river instead of towards the workers, which of course also polluted the fuck out of the river. No. That's what you're laying in bed with your wife and you fart outside the blanket. That's what I do, man. Send it to the classic. Yeah, man. We definitely know as like a Jersey family that DuPont family ruined the rarid in Bay in New Jersey to the point where it's like the largest like two billion dollar settlement and it's still fucked up to this day from everything that they built for World War II. But hey, those fish got all that money. Yeah. And that's one of thousands of bodies of waters that the DuPont family has rendered not only useless but deadly in the United States. I'm still thinking about last week about how we almost blew up half of Alaska. Just using hybrid and like that was floated. And people considered it like it was like a long discussions about it. I'm sure there was a DuPont executive in the room when that discussion was happening. Oh, you know we could blow it up. Yeah, they're all great ideas. Fucking awesome. Even I who know that it's bad is like, but how, how big would it be? I think we can we film it. I'm curious. Hypothetical. But even with this practice of having three walls to the explosion would go outside, entire mills would sometimes explode in just one year in the 1800s, five DuPont gum powder mills exploded killing 36 people, only eight of those 36 dead were identifiable because the rest of the victims have been reduced a little more than bloody chunks of flesh and shattered bone. Cool. Yeah, I just like, you know, this is the worst part of getting off of work and the only way you can get home is a bucket. And it would be a great way to fucking like just escape though life, you know, just like, oh, you was in the DuPont explosion. No, you call it pulling a 9-11. Yeah. Yeah. And when the war of 1812 kicked off against the British, the United States government increased their gun powder order with the DuPont's to half a million pounds per year, which meant that Irune DuPont had to build even more powder mills to keep up with the demand. But even though profits were skyrocketing, the DuPont's still wanted more. They wanted to keep taxes on the company and wages paid to their employees as low as possible. So they hired an actual paramilitary force to quote unquote, bribe people into voting for legislation that favored those policies. Basically, the DuPont's would have their private army guard the bank where the workers got paid. And in exchange for their compliance and voting the way the DuPont's wanted, the workers were, let's say, highly encouraged to take hard liquor or beer if they drank, if they were a Methodist or gunpowder if they didn't, if they were quicker. Wow, that is like not a lot. Yeah. Like you started a lot for it. But it's still people really like that stuff to this day. No, I get it. They do, but it's also like they are highly, it's that thing like, you know, it's like a serpent call like, oh, you're not taking the money? What's wrong with you? Why you're not taking the money? What's wrong with you? Yeah, you're being forced to do it. Yeah, you're being fought like they're they're bribing quote unquote, bribing, but you're being forced to take it. Now, there were enough people. Yeah, because they're a fucking mafia. Yeah. Now, there were enough people, more than a mafia, they are a literal army. Yeah. The mafia, they would destroy the mafia. I can't congrats. Now, there were enough people in Delaware who didn't work for the DuPonts where an uproar rose over this vote rigging. Delaware therefore passed a state law prohibiting the raising of private armies by employers. They actually had to make that a law, but the DuPonts were one step ahead. Instead of fighting the law, Aaron A. DuPont's brother, Victor DuPont, he got elected as a state representative and later a senator with the DuPont in Congress. They enacted legislation that basically guaranteed DuPont rule over Delaware in perpetuity. Still in the still rule it to this day. Honestly, you can keep it. I was thinking the same thing. It's bad because of that. Well, I'm going to get into a later. I know that. I'm joking. I'm joking about Delaware. I'm certain it's fine. It's the first date. Oh, it's right. The first one to say, yay. Now the DuPonts were rigging the system in America. Justice Pierre had rigged it with the monarchy in France, but the DuPonts thought of themselves as royalty in more ways than one. See in 1833, Aaron A. DuPont's daughter married the son of Aaron A. DuPont's brother. Wait a second. Hey, you're not a don't interrupt. Don't interrupt the French. The newlyweds were of course first cousins. And this would become a common practice amongst the DuPonts. Of course. Nothing nobody kisses like my fucking aunt Becky. And honestly, thank God her downstairs lips made her upstairs lips once again with my cousin Becky. Well, like the monarchies of old, the DuPonts routinely married their first and second cousins to keep the company entirely within their family. Oh, yeah. Now as Garth and his so succinctly put it in preacher son of God or son of man, you can't fuck your sister and expect much good to come of it. Yeah, it makes horrible movies. But while the DuPonts weren't necessarily sister fucking as far as we know, they have been in the strictest sense of the word in in bread family since the 1830s. And that's bound to create a few weird fuckers here and there as they continue to shit out more and more DuPont parasites. You can say it's like regal to marry your first cousin and whatever state I want to say it's like through how many it's like three or four states or whatever you can marry legally marry your first. It's a fair amount. I mean, we know, you know, everyone knows holding MacNeely. His grandparents. My parents were first cousins. Oh, yeah. But that's a thing. I think they were just first cousins once. I think if you just do it once, you just get a hold on. But if you keep doing it over and over and over again, you get a John DePont. So you think it was once. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You think it was once. Um, no, 19 states and Washington DC. Oh, really? Yeah. No. So yeah, that's our capital. That's fun to do. It just feels like it's too close. Yeah. There's all kinds of rules that should be that should be an existence that aren't you? Why do we need to with this rule? Now, the DePonts acquired enough wealth early on in America's history where the boom and bus cycles that ruined the lives of regular Americans, they never touched the DePonts in any meaningful way. As the unstable American economy of the 1800s took down tens of thousands of other businesses, the DePonts never faltered. And in fact, scooped up as many of these businesses as they could whenever the market took a downturn. Obviously though, the DePonts thrived because providing munitions for American wars always as men and always will be very good business. Settlers traveling west, for example, back in the 1800s, they needed a lot of gunpowder to fight and kill any tribe that stood in their way. There were a lot, a lot of tribes out there to kill. Yeah, man. Fucking no pain in the ass too. I can't believe that they just sat there where they lived. Move. Move. I said, look at my hat. My bones ticked. I could see your balls. You don't deserve a house. Meghan Armies along the Canadian and Mexican borders, they also, they always needed plenty of gunpowder reserves at the ready. Additionally, the United States government, they owed a debt to the DePonts for whatever lands they obtain for whatever may have happened on those Canadian and Mexican borders. Justice Pierre Dupont had played a part in the Louisiana purchase. The Duponts also provided gunpowder for the Mexican American war, which resulted in the acquisitions of Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and where we sit currently, California. Wow. That's another one of those sentences you want to read it again? Just as Pierre Dupont had played a part of the Louisiana purchase, the Duponts also provided gunpowder for the Mexican American war, which resulted in the acquisitions of Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and that beautiful land in which we currently sit, California, USA. Thank you for the dipons. The Duponts, however, were not selling gunpowder to America because they believed in the American experiment. The Duponts were pure business and therefore sold gunpowder to whoever wanted it just so long as it didn't conflict with their biggest contract, the one with America. For example, even after Pierre Dupont had been jailed in France for speaking out against Napoleon Bonaparte, Pierre still sold 40,000 pounds of gunpowder to Napoleon Bonaparte to aid Napoleon's conquest of Europe. Where are you going to get it? Check it out. By the 1830s, the Duponts were also exporting 1.2 million pounds of gunpowder per year to South America and the West Indies in service of slaughtering those indigenous populations as well, meaning that the Duponts were, in effect, the sponsors of indigenous genocide across the globe, built them in smallpox. And hey, but again, remember, if the indigenous people had the scratch, they could have bought it too. That's right. I think that's what we're talking about here. Is that they really, they wanted to get in. So you're talking about the market forces. Yeah, market forces. Yeah. See, if they really wanted to get in there, they could have bought it during the right way. Yeah. Yeah. The American way. And also the French way and the market way. And you get every way. The Western way. Yeah. Well, it may also come as no surprise that the Duponts were pro slavery or as they put it, they weren't pro slavery. They were against abolition. Hey, no worries. It would be negative. Like to make people upset. The South really likes to blow shit up. They buy a lot of bombs for myself, please. Oh, you know what else? I kind of noticed a lot of the North head slaves anyway. So we didn't really, you know, in the end, we thought you guys didn't really care. We don't really care. Yeah, I'm in Delaware. I had slaves. But when the American Civil War broke out, the Duponts sided with the Union because the United States of America had always been the Duponts best customer. Did they sell gunpowder to the South? No, not at all. In fact, the way that the Duponts set up pricing and because the Duponts had become the biggest supplier of gunpowder in America because they had been kind of like near a monopoly, they charged the United States 33 cents per pound for gunpowder, where he's the Confederacy had no access to Dupont gunpowder. And the Duponts did make the best gunpowder around. So the Confederacy had to pay up to $3 per pound for their gunpowder, which of course, greatly contributed to the Confederacy's defeat. And it shows you exactly how corporations can simply use prices to complete, to shape the world, to fit their own wants and desires. It's how it all works. And in one hand, it's like, yeah, good. I'm going to have the North one, but it's also interesting the fact that they, they said, it's like the very first like inner war we fought was also about like resources and those with the most resources one. So you hear that all you Confederates sympathizers? It's Dupont's fault that you lost. You should take your anger out. Anti-corporation. Dude, dude, dude, it was Dupont who did it. Yeah, they hate your flag. Yeah, dude. Go throw some celloph up. Go honestly, wrap your Confederate flag in some cellophane, bring it down to the local state house and just start fucking stab and elected officials with it. That's when I recommend you knew. Or I would say go through your house and find every single product that has Dupont's hand in it. He take it out to the front yard and you burn it. And then you go back into your, well, your empty lot because your house is going to have to be burned down as well. So yeah, go for it. I'm your play. A gunpowder was merely where things started for the Dupont family. In the late 1860s, an innerprising member of the family named Lamott Dupont became very interested in a new invention called dynamite. Lamott, however, was one of the few Duponts to become a victim of his own system. See Lamott had to contend with the head Dupont at the time, Henry Dupont, and Henry was notoriously stubborn. He thought the dynamite was too newfangled. Why are you dynamite when gunpowder can do the job best as well? Because you're saying dynamite bigger. Bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger. And so Lamott went behind Henry Dupont's back and began making dynamite in his own factory in New Jersey. But since Lamott Dupont was so hell-bent on getting dynamite off the ground, he was present and involved when his New Jersey plant blew the fuck up. One day in 1884, Lamott was working on his chemical mixture when he accidentally allowed 2,000 pounds of nitroglycerin to boil overnight. What? I know, I know, I know. I'm in a rookie mistake. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know always. Because sometimes he's like, I just cut it so close. This caused an unstoppable chain reaction. And even though Lamott tried to dilute the mixture himself, it was too late to stop the inevitable explosion. The vat blew up, taking the entire factory down with it. And since the mill was built into the side of a hill, tons of earth came crashing down on the mott, breaking his neck instantly and badly mutilating his corpse. That's a lot of dough. You're right, but you're right. You're right, Barney. Let's get you back over here. Stop looking at all the treads. Stop eating all the rubble. I'm sucking out of God. I like that. Now play with that funny little, little mechanism there. Now Lamott Dupont was nowhere near the only person killed in a Dupont munitions factory in the 1800s. Throughout the century, almost 400 people died in Dupont powder mills, mostly from explosions caused by static electricity. See, safety regulations slow down production. We all know this. So the Dupont's lobbied for laws that prevented unionizing and therefore prevented regulation on the argument that unions, it impeded the Dupont's free speech. Yeah. It was the first amendment. Think about the concept of a corporation's free speech. Yeah, man. All they want to say is that oh my, buddy, let their free flag fly, man. Dupont workers, however, pushed forward. But when they began striking in the 1890s, Dupont hired private and federal armies, police and who else but the infamous Pinkerton detective agency to end these strikes with swift and brutal violence. At the same time, though, the Dupont family was going through a fair amount of personal dramas. And they think about how hard time they're having. They're distracted. And there's so much going on when you fuck it, cousin. Oh, I guess it's because you got to, I mean, honestly, you spend so much time together having growing up together. I love my miss all my cousin quarters. And you fuck just like my uncle. I know your daddies knees are broken by the Dupont jackboots, but this other Dupont's having a fight with his brother. I actually really feel a lot for them. When 1892, a Dupont named Louis shot himself in the head with a revolver because he was upset that his brother was marrying a woman that Louis loved. Not a cousin, by the way. Also guess what, major ik guys. Yeah, girls don't care. Girls are like super not impressive. You blow your brains out in front of them. And like, by the way, the heads like the worst place to shoot yourself feel like almost always dying. Yeah. So, Krabina Pussy. Tolla Drew. But speaking of cousins, a bit of a Dupont family feud swelled when another Dupont man declined the option of marrying one of his cousins in favor of a poor Irish barmaid. Quite scandalous. The scandals only continued when a Kentucky Dupont named Alfred, the wealthiest man in Louisville, he was shot and killed by a disgruntled sex worker after Alfred got the sex worker pregnant and tried abandoning the poor woman. She wouldn't have any. Dupont or barons, they're just like us. That's all right. I get it a lot of pressure. You can either have your was a was a was a Gamal. Was it called when you got there when you had the lady on the side? Um, was it when a Gamal mistress? No, no, no, the Guma, the Guma, the Guma. I'm talking Italian. No, it's a piano. Okay, yeah, you're Guma. Well, it's like, it's a mob thing. The Guma, the Guma sucks your dick. Your gun mall. Yeah, no, it's my, it's my official girlfriend because your wife, she can't do that. She, my kids with that mouth. You can go fucking around. You got to make sure you got your Guma. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this guy's Guma shot and killed him. What are you doing? No, when the, happen sometime. Die. No, when the so-called American century began in 1900, the Duponts found a way to be at the forefront of just about every great project for the next 100 years. Wow. As it turned out, Dynamite had been a pretty good investment. The Panama Canal, one of the first massive works of the century was built with Dupont Dynamite. You know how much dynamite you need to blast a hole that fucking big? It's a lot. Okay. Yeah, dude. I was saying, like, LPM wanted to, I think we were going to invest in fusion tank. Sure. Oh, cold fusion. Cold fusion. That's cool. We're going to have it here in the office. I'm going to get a black hole machine. Yeah. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Sure. Yeah. Right a proposal. We'll look into it. Yeah. Hell yeah. That's so great. It's my bigs called the universe caper. I like work in here. However, there would be nothing more profitable for the Duponts thus far than the five years of firestorms and mass murder that was World War One. Oh, great for them. 15 to 22 million people would be dead by the end of the war. But in the United States, the war would also create 20,000 new millionaires. They're people's out. That's amazing. Oh, that's the same. It is pretty. I mean, if you're looking at the map, how they look at it. Yes. If human lives equal capital, then net positive for America and many of those millionaires would of course be Duponts. Now, the Duponts had switched to smokeless gunpowder by this point along with everyone else. But if you remember, the key ingredient in smokeless powder was industrial alcohol made from fucking molasses. Do you remember? That means that the Duponts were possibly inadvertently connected to the great molasses flawed of 19, because nobody in America made more smokeless gunpowder during World War One than the Dupont company. Yeah, sure. So it didn't fucking not. Yeah, I mean, like it definitely didn't help. So they were they like responsible for that too. Was that their company? It was not their company. I did check on it actually. It was one of their competitors. Okay. But they were driving the market. They were driving they were driving the market because that's the thing is that these competitors were needing to make as much as possible to try to compete with the Duponts because the Duponts kept their prices so low. It's the same thing that like Walmart does today. You keep the prices incredibly low to drive out all the local competitors. So yeah, it does when you have these companies like this, it does not necessarily force because these men of course aren't forced to do anything, but they feel like they have to cut corners in order to get more profits so they can follow the big dogs. But it is, I think the point is it is Dupont who is setting the tone. And they are all following Duponts Lee. And I got it, you know, obviously if you don't know the answer to this, we'll just cut it out. But where did Germany get their gunpowder? Did they get it from Dupont? In World War One? Yeah. They did not get it from Dupont. No, no, no, no. There was a little bit of there was a bit of sneakingness with Germany in World War One with Dupont. But the real sneakingness is going to come with Germany in World War Two. Oh, yes. They were real sneaky. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Super sneaky. Yeah, we'll get into the sneakiness of the Duponts and the Nazis on the next episode. Oh, they created their own thing called the hybrid Bosch process. They had their own way of innovating gunpowder. Cool. Good for them. Yeah. Now, the Dupont sold millions of pounds of gunpowder to the British alone over the course of World War One. What began as 21 million pounds in 1914 for the British grew to an order of 455 million pounds just four years later. At the same time, though, the Duponts were also behind a propaganda campaign to get the United States involved in the Great War so the Duponts could get their best customer in the game. The big Dupont in the early 20th century, Coleman Dupont routinely published scathing attacks on any government official who was anti-war by using an organization called the National Security League. The NSL called for increased military service and an increased arsenal. And they bought politicians to echo that message. There was even a Dupont senator in Congress who spent all of his time steering other senators towards entering the war, which we did in April of 1917. Dupont, of course, provided the munitions and that senator retired from Congress that same year. Oh, very smart. Yeah, man. Job done. Man, it's so many times it's like my first thought is just like, man, these guys really fucking awesome. And then you're like, oh, wait a second, this is really bad. Yeah, of course. You know what that is, Eddie? You're true American. Yeah. We're true fucking American. I do the same thing. We have to constantly do. Just do like un, like, we're brainwashed. Yeah. We're brainwashed. Well, it's, you know, it's respecting the game, you know, it's like where you're like, wow, like holy shit, that's clever. It's very clever. What also just shows if you get in early, you know, you can do a lot, speaking of, it's a 15 year anniversary of doing podcasting. Yeah. It's amazing how low the bar could be if you just get there first. Yep. In June, it will be June is my 25th anniversary in broadcasting. Oh, wow. Yeah. I've been in this business for 25 years. Yeah. Should I give you like an ash tray or something? Yeah. Give me a watch. How's about that? Let's see what we can do. Let's see what we can dig up. Let's see what we can dig up. I'll look at you. Yeah, please look at me. Now, the Duponts did not just man, look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Now, the Duponts did not just manufacture explosives for the Allied forces, although the Dupont company did make 40% of all the explosives used by the Allies throughout the war. Remember that the Duponts were chemists, so they also manufactured deadly poison gases for use in the battlefields. They made chlorine gas. They made the dreaded mustard gas. They were not the only people who made this stuff, but they definitely made it and sold it and it was used on the battlefield. Now, the point of both of these gases is that they burn and blind the enemy. While one gas mostly burned internally, while the other mostly burned externally, it's hard to say which one was actually worse. And I actually kind of want to ask the two of you, like, out of the after I give you all of what these do, tell me which one you want. All right, cool. Yeah, okay. Okay. I'm leaning towards mustard, love pretzels. I mean, I'm on friends. I'm leaning towards my first response. It's like mustard or chlorine. Give me mustard. Yeah, dude. Is it honey mustard? It's actually more sulfur. It's a mustard because sulfur is yellow. Oh, that was fart. Sulfur is fart. Yeah, but I like a good sulfur bath. We'll talk about it. Yeah, he did it one nice one. Chlorine gas, for example, that causes internal burns to the esophagus and stomach when inhaled. It causes debilitating pain and frequently blood vomit. It's just a mustard gas, meanwhile. Yeah, it would assume it would be vomiting, vomiting blood. But it's just called blood vomit. I mean, that's what I call it. Oh, okay. Are you vomiting blood? Because to me, if you're vomiting, it's vomit. But if it's blood, it's blood vomit. It is blood vomit. Yeah. It's specifically blood vomit. And they are vomiting blood because of what the chlorine gas is doing to their inside. So there's no food in there. It's just blood. It's just blood. And it's your own blood. It's not blood that you like drank earlier. No, not anymore. I'm sorry that I got to say this again. But cool. Exactly. He's getting it. Mustard gas, meanwhile, could cause third degree chemical burns all over the body, which often destroyed all the layers of the skin down to the deep tissue. But mustard gas was not a one and done. Within two to 48 hours of exposure, large painful blisters filled with fluid would form on the skin. And those blisters would only be made worse when the victim was sweat. So anywhere that you sweat armpits, anything I got, that's where the blisters would be the most painful. And when the blisters burst open, they created open wounds prone to infection, scarring and eventually skin cancer. Both gases could also temporarily or permanently blind anyone exposed and both were happily manufactured by the DuPonts. Hearing all that information, mustard gas. You're going for mustard. Yeah. Only because chlorine, I feel like the interior is worse. Yeah, it is. It's worse. It's definitely worse. Mustard gas, I could still smoke weed and eat hot dogs. So I'm taking it. I still have some breathing problems because it's not like breathing mustard gas was like great for you. No, you know, it wouldn't fuck you up on the inside. It's bad as chlorine gas would. And chlorine gas also wasn't great for the skin, but it wouldn't fuck you up as bad on the outside as mustard gas dead. You know, who needs skin? Yeah, that is true. Yeah, man, skin for me. I like muscles. Grit. Yeah, just hold your muscles back. Just give me a cool jacket. And I'm fine. Yeah, dude, that'd be kind of cool. You skin less than an awesome leather jacket. How are we fighting? How are we done? Now by the end of the war, the DuPonts had increased their workforce from 800 men to 85,000 men. And their profits were no less than $247 million in 1919 money. It's roughly $4.5 billion in today's currency. And that's just World War I. The DuPonts, however, were clever enough to spread this wealth amongst many DuPonts. After quite a few DuPonts became millionaires, they began building mansions with 150 rooms on lavishest states furnished with decadent antiques. This is, of course, we'll be getting into that with the Foxcatcher murders on part three. This is one of those estates. Cool. This also seems like the DuPonts never quite forgot the French Revolution because some of their states were built surrounded by walls that had shards of broken, yet attractive glass poured into the wet concrete. This serve is a sort of trademark DuPont aesthetic. It's barbed wire for the incredibly wealthy. But of course, also keeps out the unwashed masses. So it's a glass like jutting out from the concrete. You can't glass from the top of the concrete. Oh, looking at right now. It's also very pretty as well because it's like antique. Yes, it is truly beautiful. Like it's just like colored glass, all like hyper sharp just built into the concrete. I mean, cool. Exactly. God, we just like villains, right? I fucking, when I played the Star Wars card game, I only ever played the fucking Empire. I only ever played all the evil characters in risk. Who me? The DuPont family, however, also did their best to keep those unwashed masses from even learning about the French Revolution. Here's where we get to Delaware. The DuPonts made sure that Delaware stayed uneducated. And as a result, Delaware had some of the worst literacy rates in the country, despite being, they had one of the worst literacy rates, but were also because of the DuPonts throwing off the average, the fourth richest state in the entire nation. And that's also like, and then money attracts money. And where there's people with money, other groups with money will come and be a part of it. It's like sharks. Yeah. But they also, but the DuPonts also made sure that they didn't pay any taxes into Delaware. So Delaware also remained poor. Well, these are also the old school guys that would do it the old way, right? Like Carnegie, all these guys, they'd go do something bad and then they build a building. Not the DuPonts. I know. That's the thing is that that's why we know about, that's why we know Andrew Carnegie's name. That's why we know, you know, Guggenheim, why we know all these guys is because they did build these massive monuments. They did give their money. DuPont, all you know their name from is a fucking label. Oh, yeah. Because the DuPonts, the DuPonts liked to stay in the background as much as they possibly could. They did not like the spotlight because they smart. Yeah, they're smart. They knew that the moment you come forward, the more you were public facing, the less you can get away with. And they knew that the less people know that you are a king, the more like a king you can act. Shithead billionaires talking to us. We are in a new realm of that billionaires were never like this before in my time growing up. I don't remember billionaires. I mean, I guess we didn't have billionaires. Was like Ross Perot was like the most in my mind in my, in my childhood. He was like, he was the first guy. I remember being like, he was like, I'm a billionaire and I do amazing things because he did look like the monopoly man. Yeah, very funny. But it's interesting to see how like now all of these morons are addicted to the same thing we were addicted to, which is attention. And you think a billionaire would be past it. Nope. You wait, do ponds like they keeping Delaware stupid, no offense Delaware, back then it's obviously different now. Sorry, sorry, sorry, but keeping them like uneducated and keeping them poor is a different form of slavery in my own personal opinion. Yes. 100%. No, it's just a little bit more expensive, but they're basically slick. Well, it's just stuff like Dr. Oz, like very casually dropping recently about how no one should ever retire. Yeah. What is that then if we're just working for the absolute rest of our fucking lives? Yeah, if you're just making money for the people up top and you know, and the du ponds knew all of the most evil ways to do this. They kept their workers poor, tired and sick. Many du ponds laborers made just a dollar an hour during the war and most works 60 to 80 hours a week. And when the work was over, they'd go to sleep in uncomfortable shanties built by the du ponds where thousands would be crammed in to spread sickness and disease. And they would fucking thank the de ponds for what they had always. I didn't know any better. Of course. Of course. They think they have a cute fucking nickname. Now on the job, safety was not really a word that was even used in a du pont factory. The workers had no equipment to protect themselves with because equipment costs money. And since many du pont businesses dealt with dangerous chemicals, workers routinely died from fumes or chemical byproducts that literally changed the color of their skin. Du pont chemicals like benzol turned workers blue while men who worked with pickrick acid were called canaries because the acid turned their skin yellow. Pickrick acid, by the way, also poisons the lungs, attacks the intestinal tract and destroys kidney and nerve centers. And pickrick acid is also only it's just used to kill people. It's used in munitions. They are being killed by things that are being used to kill people. Workers were also fatally poisoned by mercury fulminate and nitroglycerin fumes, more explosives. While the fumes made by the manufacture of smokeless powder made lung diseases like tuberculosis far easier to contract. And of course, if you get tuberculosis, that spreads even further. That spreads far beyond just the fucking workers that spreads to your family that spreads to the community. That is a fucking, the misery that the du ponts cause compounds and builds and builds. And all almost 350 du pont workers were killed in plant accidents during World War One. But the amount that survived terrible injuries or died later because of the long term effects of chemical exposure or the people that died just down the line, impossible to know for sure. My grandfather died from a chemical spill in his factory and you got cancer five years later and he died. And that's, you know, that wasn't du pont. That was amaco, but like fuck. Yeah. It's the same bullshit. You know, it is incredible to them. Like the workplace incident didn't wasn't what killed them. It was the cancer five years ago, but he wouldn't have gotten the cancer for it wasn't for that. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, that's what John, that's what John Stewart was trying to fight for with all the, they were talking about 9 after 9, 11, all these people got super, super second. They were all like, but if they die like so much later, is it really a thing? Now because the du ponts cared more about 150 room mansions than the lives of their own workers, they spread propaganda that unions and strikes were un-American. Because remember, people can have their opinions about unions, but if someone tells you that unions are un-American, they're doing it on behalf of someone like the DuPonts. How do I put it? If somebody ever says the word un-American, don't take them seriously. No. Now, like many other large corporations, the DuPonts hired the Pinkerton detective agency, either break unions and strikes or to prevent laborers from organizing unions in the first place. One of the Pinkerton's favorite tactics was to manufacture evidence that would result in organizers being charged with espionage against the government. That's a lot of prison time. Yeah. Pinkerton's deserved their own episode one day. We've been talking about for fucking years. We've been talking about for a long time. It's just, it's so massive and much of it is unions. Yeah. The DuPonts' plot rebuttals against organizing would also frequently get violent, and the DuPonts therefore had another private military made up of no less than 1400 bootleakers to guard and police their factories. The DuPonts' tactics, however, only got harsher after the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. The DuPonts actually felt personally slided by the revolution, because Zarnikolas II had ordered almost a million pounds of TNT from the DuPonts. Oh, here's a great customer. Yeah. That is the whole thing. And when the Zara went down with the rest of the Russian upper classes, the DuPonts lost out on millions of dollars in Russian Zara's contracts. And that was of course TNT that Zarnikolas II was planning to use against his own people. Now regardless of what you may think of Bolshevik tactics, Vladimir Linen, or the Soviet Union, the Bolshevik Revolution was still at its most basic level of people's revolution that overthrew a corrupt and out of touch elite. We take it down to just bare, bare, bare bones. Yes. And that was terrifying for people like the DuPonts. I'm terrifying that they could happen in one of the largest countries on earth. All I know is is that every single time we like simplify something like that, we never get any emails. That's all I know. We definitely never get one. Yeah. But I can't wait to get the emails about the people defending marrying your first cousin. That is going to happen. I am absolutely going to receive an email about how I offended them because they think cousins should be free. Yeah. They're in love, Henry. Yeah. I can't wait to get an email telling me that I just, that I support the murder of small little girls because I said that sentence. You do though. Yeah. I support the murder of little girls in the. You didn't say no. You didn't say no. You didn't. I have fucking anesthesia. At this point, at this point, am I at this point, am I going to bat for anesthesia? No. No. No. Great movie though. I like their bat, though. Yeah. Anesthesia. That's fun. You better fight for anesthesia. You got to fight for anesthesia. But it depends because they were so terrified of the Bolshevik revolution. They, along with many other corporate leaders, began sowing the seeds way back in 1917 that the United States should go to war with Russia specifically to overthrow Vladimir Linnon. This shit did not start in the aftermath of World War II. It did not start with Stalin. It started in the beginning. The capitalist drumbeat for war against the communist was there from the start. And that drumbeat began solely because the communists fucked with the Duponts already obscene profits. The Duponts lost a big contract. But perhaps more importantly, the Bolsheviks had personally slided a Dupont. And that's super offensive. Yeah. I mean, they come from the French Revolution. They know what this shit can lead to. Yeah. Now, the Duponts enacted mass layoffs after the war. Bringing their workforce of 85,000 down to 18,000 in just seven weeks. Who needs them? Got them loose. Got them loose. That guy's coughing too much. Other companies did the same. And before long, four million people in the United States were unemployed. We were in a recession. But instead of taking care of the workers who had made them so much money, the Duponts and the US government were far more concerned with stopping the spread of communism. And the Duponts did have reason to worry because communism was very attractive to a bunch of guys who just been told to fuck off by the biggest corporations in America after they had just made those corporations record profits. And it's especially after a bunch of these guys' buddies have been killed by the corporate indifference and greed of these corporations. And that doesn't even get to how many guys had chronic health problems from the one dollar and hour job that they no longer had. Of course these guys are going to say, hmm, yeah, I like the communist. I might be a fucking communist. Yeah. So to distract people from the real problem, which was that extremely wealthy families like the Duponts use up the bodies and souls of average Americans and do everything they can to prevent giving a fucking setback, the United States government used the playbook that the wealthy elites in charge are still using today. The government began telling people that the real problem here, I mean, yes, they're fucking idiots. You don't see the real problem here. What is the real problem? Immigrants. Yeah. Well, that's a thing. It's not like we're a country made of them. No. No, the real problem is no, not those immigrants, not the white one. Other immigrants. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. And back then, the other immigrants were mostly, we talked about it in the last episode, Italians. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, wow. And the United States. That's a loud group immigrant. That was a nightmare. That was a nightmare. If we throw out all the immigrants, who's it going to give me a fresh pepper? Hey. Hey. Well, the United States, therefore, began a far reaching violent crackdown on the immigrant population to distract the public in 1917. This play has been in use for over 100 years. The government began throwing people that they considered foreign anarchists, communists, or radical leftists into detention camps nationwide. The largest detention camp for immigrants was on, guess where, Ellis Island, which is all, such a funny joke, which it tells you, you know, all the shit the government's doing now. Where it's like, it's kind of funny. They're trying to be funny and kind of cute. Yeah, come on in right over here. Right over here. Right over here. Right over here. Yeah, you sit here right behind the island and look at her ass. Yeah. Fucking live now. Yeah. Yeah, it's where you live until I send you back. Thousands of immigrants were deported without due process after detention, while all those who remain were villainized by America's right wing media, who all said that anything that even smelled a bit like socialism, anything that wasn't pure, unadulterated capitalism. I was, guess what? It's un-American. Yeah, I'm just fucking so ridiculous. And the due punts are behind all of it. Are definitely one, I will say I imagine. Oh, yeah. No, what a, what a, yeah. No, no, no, no, no. It's not like the deposit, like the America's some shining fucking like beacon of goodness and truth and the Japan's are like the one rotten apple, the one evil ones. No, they're not fucking stuff in there. They're not Gargamel. No, they made the playbook. Yeah, they did. But I still. This country, man, we still got a shot. We do have a shot. No, no, I do believe in the promise of America. I truly do. We still do have a shot. But it's just, we got to get rid of these fuckers. Well, fuckers, we got to get room. Well, ask the due puns. Instead of offering to pay more taxes on their profits to take care of the workers who had made them those profits, the family got to what was really important. They decided that the best use of their time and money was to invest in the manipulation of children. So they became a leading force in the creation of the boy scouts of America. Oh, yes, where they go from Whittling to Dittling. I depend on how old you get if you live. Oh, and the boy scouts, that would inspire Hitler. My scout master touched my wee baloze. Yeah. Well, you should have been better at knotting. You would have been able to get your pants down. Yes. Well, in the early days with the due punts guidance and actually their goal for the boy scouts was not dissimilar from the Hitler youth. Every boy scout would swear an oath of unyielding loyalty to the president, the country, to the boy scouts leader, to the boy scouts parents. And lastly, an oath of loyalty to the boy scouts employer. The most important of all. Yes. The guys who paid for the stupid scar. Who did they make the badges your fight? This is the influence of the due punts who wanted to turn the boy scouts into a nationalistic paramilitary alternative to socialism. Instead, it unfortunately became as many of these things do. Just another place where children could easily be molested by an authority figure. Honestly, a lot of it, I point towards length of the shorts. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to cut them off. Now, your victim, Blamem. Yeah. Kids should be able to wear short of shorts as they want without some nasty scoutmaster coming in and grabbing them. Well, you're blaming the victim. Well, just kind of have to see about that one. You know, but to wait, everything, it's so weird because like as time goes on, like the boy scouts football, all this shit, the safest place for a child seems to be theater. Yeah. Yeah, but that's why you know, you know, I guess also remember just how unpleasant sports was. I'm like, that's like part of the reason why I went to theater was because it was gross and the men were bad. And I didn't want to be anywhere nearer to the bad men anymore. Yeah. And I just run around in a circle. It's pretty safe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, that was until you get the Olympics. Yeah. Yeah. And then it gets real bad. And you get molested again. Yep. Well, that's gymnastics. Yeah. I'm certain there's some track guys that got molested. Yeah. I know there are. The Olympics started in grease, Marcus. You've been fucking boys since before God. You think the first one wanted from Socrates? Yeah. You know, like that was me. He ran. Now there were some people in the media who pushed back against the Duponts. It's around the time that the profits from World War I were reported that journalists began referring to the Dupont family as the merchants of death. Cute. But even with everything that the Duponts had already accomplished, there would be no decade in which the Duponts made a larger impact on American society than the 1920s. And it's there that will pick back up next week with the stock market crash, the atomic bomb, Teflon and Viet fucking. Wow. Can't wait, man. Fucking toss it. That's going to be a great soundtrack. Whenever it's going on, it doesn't matter, man. It's a great soundtrack. We're going to put some good tunes in the store. Yes. Yes. And I do know, I already know that Dupont was not the number one supplier of Nape home in the Vietnam War. I do know that. Okay. But they did still supply enough. They got in there. It was enough. Hey, man, they got in there. Yeah. Yeah. And providing all the enriched uranium for fat man and little boy and giving cancer to thousands of people and the size that enriched that uranium due to low safety standards. That's worth something. Not to mention the fire bombing of Tokyo. The fire bombing of Tokyo. That was also part of it. Again, one word, barbed inheimer. That is true because didn't think everything changed after Barbie, didn't it? Yeah. Honestly, you know, I love Margot and I think about her. She really needs the money. Yeah. She does. You also need some money. Us. Go to patreon.com slash last podcast and left and you can give us money for ad free episodes. Isn't that nice? You also can see us live 6 p.m. PST every Tuesday for last stream on the left where we will go make good fun for you. But then if you give $25 to the patreon, you can actually submit videos for a brand new show last stream on the left after hours in which we will show those videos. 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