Last Podcast On The Left - Episode 652: The Du Pont Foxcatcher Murder Part I - The Merchants of Death

Episode Date: February 13, 2026

The boys kick off a new series examining the Foxcatcher murder and the dynasty behind it. The Du Pont family didn’t just produce a killer... they helped design modern America. War profiteering, political manipulation, and industrial death are baked right into their legacy. This is what privilege without limits really looks like. For Live Shows, Merch, and More Visit: www.LastPodcastOnTheLeft.comKevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Last Podcast on the Left ad-free, plus get Friday episodes a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There's no place to escape to. This is the last podcast. On the left. That's when the cannibalism started. No, America makes my favorite a little bit. Remember that? No, I don't know what you're talking about. Make me feel the way that you do is right aside.

Oh, yeah, yeah. You're not saying words. It's a lot of... It's like mumbling. It's just in my head. So are you telling the audience to get ready? Sure. Get ready.

Here we come. It's last podcast on the left. My name is Marcus Parks. I'm here with Henry Zabreski, the man who vaguely knows the words of songs, but not really. I know a lot of words to 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. Ride, ride, ride, let it ride. Yes, correct. He'll always be correct. Bachman Turner overdrive. Now, that's a family, I would agree, in letting them run the United States of America.

The Buckman Turner's? Yes. Yeah, okay, yeah. 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 Foxcatcher murder. On January 26th, 1996, an Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler named Dave Schultz was murdered on a sprawling estate in Pennsylvania called Foxcatcher Farms. He was murdered by the farm's multi-millionaire owner. an heir of the DuPont family named John E. DuPont. Now, was he dressed like a fox? Because that would have been his first mistake.

These would then be the DuPont furry murder. But it's not. Honestly, I wish they were. John E. DuPont is indeed a fascinating and bizarre character worthy of an episode. But after looking into this story further, we decided that the story of John DuPont would work as a nice companion piece to our series, on Alec Murdoch.

See, 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. Well, it took that long that we know of.

Yeah. The history of the DuPont family, who were nicknamed the merchants of death by journalists after World War I 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 family's companies have provided munitions and explosives to the American government in every war in our country's history, save the revolution. From the gumpowder 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. Okay.

Oh, I thought you were saying they were really good at business. If this was a different podcast, that would have been like a praise. From the gumpowder used in the War of 1812 to the enriched uranium used in the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, the DuPont Company truly is a titan of industry. history. Good on you, DuPont, and 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 out of her. And I'm certain I'm 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, quote, Better Things for Better Living through chemistry. I would put it more like Better Things for Better Living Through Chemistry Yeah, well that is how it went Like some guy read it like that

And we can't talk to the people like that Can we rejudge that honestly Robot chick Barney We need to stop doing these commercials Better Things for Better Living Through Chemistry Depond company

Vanilla Flavor Dush I'm dressed in rayon Oh, can I look your frying pair? Good work, Bernie. Now that's a solid middle American. The DuPont companies have provided this world with rayon, nylon, cellophane, and countless other products that are an everyday part of our lives. Look around you, and you'll probably see a dozen things that DuPont's had a hand in making or creating.

These things? All of these things? All DuPont. Yeah, maybe. They probably had something to do with the plastic and the metal, yeah. Right? Yeah, at some point. Yes, 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 that cross my fingers.

So it doesn't count. No DuPont, no Nestle, no, Nessly, no, Nesley. Yeah, and then it's done. 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 him. Hey, man. Anything that helps her one person show.

You know? So you mean to tell me that DuPont itself is an amazing benefactor to the world of solo theater? The role of the solo theater, definitely for hospitals. Dude, no Oppenheimer. Yeah. Yeah. And you know what that means? No Barbenheimer. Wow.

Yeah. We would have missed out on that cultural exchange. And man, it was worth it. Now, the DuPont family knew that leaded gasoline, Taflon, and C8 were dangerous and deadly from the get-go, either because their workers lost their minds working with it, as it was with leaded 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, Marcus.

And honestly, that's what they said. They're super. They're not. No one's into it. No one wants to see that. But you may get your snuff film after all. Yeah. Yeah.

See saying for years, snuff 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 Linings 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, 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, motherfuckers, 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 Thiel

He's not thinking about us No, you believe that shit? I'm so, I thought he was my pay pal! I looked at, honestly, honestly, I looked at He's not even my pay a queen! The bromance between Joe Rogan, I've been shipping, shipping them, Peter Thiel, Joe Rogan for a long time

And that romance 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 booker at? Right? Come on, guys. Come on, send them over to LPN. We need some of that hate.

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, there are lazy serial killers.

I still believe that Nathaniel Barjona is the laziest of the serial killers just because he used his butt. Yeah, because he just, sad on kids. Yeah, that's just fucking, I mean, it's fun for a time, but afterwards, you got to 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 pawns 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 general. generation. 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... What are you talking about? Our fucking about... We buckle under the least of our employees' requests. We learn.

We've learned wisely. We've learned. With Epstein, what I find interesting is what we're seeing here is, again, the difference between the Murdox, which is a B-Team Illuminati. To the DuPons. The Dupons. Even, yeah. When you look at the DuPonts, it's...

C or D? They're huge, right? Epstein, what he wanted to do deep in his emails is that you saw some of the things that he was talking about was trying to connect back to old money. That was the thing that Epstein never got. He was talking with the Rothschilds. He tried to create some fake lore about his own family name connected to Adolf Hitler. All of this shit, dude. That's 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. It was like a whole thing. Was he bragging? Yes. 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 Nouveau-Riche. 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.

Yeah. Well, I mean, 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, like, his cum farm. Yeah. Right? He had his cum farm where 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'd think so. Well, he might. You don't know. It seems that the cum didn't take.

Seems like him. But as it was, with Al, Merdoch, 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 DuPonts rank as probably the most evil family in American history. 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 absolute horrific things that this family

has done throughout the centuries before we even get to the fox catcher murder. Context. Context. Context. If you want to talk context, the DuPonts are the context. They really put the cunt.

The DuPonts 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, imbreeding, and explosions

to give the DuPont story that old-fashioned last podcast kick throughout. Yeah. And also, we got plenty. Don't worry. This year, we have a lot of murder coming away. Hey, 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.

That's again, well, you know, under 10, it's not, it's, was it? Under 10, it's a tragedy. Like over a million, it's a statistic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We were talking about the DuPont's, like, an uncountable amount of deaths. Uncountable, like, once we start getting into it and we get through it, by the end of the second episode, they may be responsible for more deaths than any family in world history. Well, as the resident capitalist, I'll say, thank you for the stock market, DuPont. Yes.

My dad would always buy money Buy DuPont stock He would always buy DuPont It was the first thing he checked Every time he opened the stock things Yeah But you know we were poor But yeah

It worked out great for For y'all Yeah I saw 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 scent locks Hearing of all this one. Hefty and a 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 context. You're going to fucking joke on it. There's going to be so much fucking context. Your life's going to fucking end. I'm going to fucking wrap my balls in context. on your fucking nose. Hell 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. Oh, Amazon don't care. Well, it's not. Yeah. Well, yeah, Amazon

doesn't, they really don't care about anything. Yeah. I mean, they do. I mean... They've made life so simple that everyone's just like, oh, fuck it. I want my package tomorrow. They have, they have seen that the phrase convenience is king truly does apply in America. If you give Americans convenience, you can do anything you want. Sadly, they were more functional than U.S. government during the pandemic. It's really sad.

Yeah. Now, there are currently over 1,500 living DuPonts in the United States. That's a lot of doo-doo. Thanks, Barney. Barney, you got to stop coming into these ad rooms or at the end of these meetings, okay? You read copy, Barney. DuPont's fucking dookie kind of spell. Barney, save that gold for the recording studio. Oh, my billiards.

Oh, seems that he's saving the gold, but he shared a little brown. Oh, Barney, gotten into the cotton candy again. It tastes so good. I know, but it ain't not food, Bernie. My nostrils hurt. What are those 1,500 living DuPonts? Just about 50 DuPonts form the core. The core DuPonts controlled $200 billion in assets.

Those assets come from over $100 multimillion corporations and banks around the world. The DuPonts are therefore easily the money. the richest and most powerful family on earth, with a direct personal wealth estimated in excess of $15 billion, 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 in companies that make chemicals, weapons, cars, aircraft, and oil. They control insurance companies, computer companies, sports teams, foods, utilities, investments, law firms.

They controlled General Motors, Boeing aircraft, Remington 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 M.K. 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 DuPont's 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 come for bananas, okay? I like bananas. Bananas are a big part of Edonize life. There's a lot of potassium in bananas. I'm just saying the human cost of making sure that we can get a banana whenever we want is pretty fucking high. I agree. I still like the bananas.

The bananas are not at fault. They were just being yellow. Everything you listed there doesn't seem like there's really that much conflict of interest. No, none. 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.

DuPont had a controlling interest in United Fruit starting in the 20s. So they are responsible for God, so much. God. Poor, poor bananas, bananas. But back in America. The horns of pain. Oh, bananas filled with blood. Bananas 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. But back in America, the DuPonts also more or less own the state of Delaware. No wonder no one knows what they're doing. Honestly, at least it's a shitty state. That's the one of the bad ones. It's a shitty state because of the DuPonts. 11% of Delaware still works directly for the DuPonts.

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 Doopy. That's Barney's father. I love Uncle Doopy. He's got a big penis. Look the God, spend a lot of time on my ding-dog. Another lot of time on my brain port.

You look tired, Uncle Doopie. You want massage? Yeah, start with it. Star with my ding-dong. Bernie, get back in here. We got to record another commercial. Well, since Uncle Doopy 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 hares from the very start of his political career until the very end. Marcus, how dare you? How dare I talk about our beautiful center-right president to do that for those poor corporations again and again and again? Let me be here, clack, all right? Let me be clear, click-de-clack, all right? DuPont, I don't know, DuPont, all right?

Joe Pond, I know. John Pond, I know. DuPont never met a man. DePont de Leon? You discovered America. If 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 cost the rest of us. They didn't work hard enough. Hold on. You're telling me they weren't Bernie fans? That'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. Love hunger, man. Yeah. And you know what? Guess what? Not in the Epstein file. No, no, no, no, dude. He just made his own stupid Ukraine money, man. It's so

funny that all these like former sex workers are coming out and talking about like how nice he was to them. Yeah, very generous. Very good. Fun guy. Just a fun guy. I did see a funny tweet. So it was like, yeah, Hunter Biden, of course he's not in there. He liked crack in adult Latinas.

That's what Hunter Biden liked. Yeah. Captain Monast. Yeah, it did. Live from North Lane. Now to show you how the DuPont's 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. But 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.

See, 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, I'll buy 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.

Again, it's 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'd wear all this stuff. bathing was considered like low class. So they would just dump perfume on themselves over and over again and just fucking reek. And they all were like melting from syphilis. Yeah. Who didn't like France? John Adams.

No. Hated 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 the kind of shit that we do are right here. Although their revolution was far bloodier and far more cruel than the American Revolution.

I think in 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 monarchic 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 wormed 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? A guy with no skills who manages to charm his way into a scenario where he took control all over rich guy's money. Yeah, yeah, just because he knows the best way

to make money, to fuck people over. Time. Yeah. 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. Oh, ponytail boy. It's all about who you know. Yeah.

You know what also all the Epstein stuff really shows me? I'm so glad I was bad at networking. I hate it networking so much and this is all networking get 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 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 of 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 it was the natural order of things. Mm-hmm. Well, 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 to run 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. Sure. computers are going to write songs and make comedy shows. Yeah.

Where 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's so-called reign of terror, in which tens of thousands of people had their heads lopped off to the delight of the cheering French crowds. Yay! The reign of terror, however, ended before DuPont's head ended up in the body pits. Boom. Yeah, yeah. If there was one, if there was one, that we could have just get him in there. Yeah, he would have been, there would have been another fucking guy,

another guy named, like, Ron Boulnter or some hell. At least the motherfucking guy doing the same exact schick, unfortunately. 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 DuPontz was.

Pont 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. Man, fucking T.J., dude, you? Everyone thinks he's the best. Thomas Jefferson? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he can say, you know, I mean, like, that's what they teach us anyway. That's what they teach us. It's John Adams.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's definitely John Adams. He's the good one? Yeah, John Adams. Oh, he already memorialized the only way it could possibly, possibly be appropriate for John Adams is that he was played by Paul Giumadi. 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 gunmakers 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, 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's just, it comes back. Yeah. Because right now I'm mostly reading Kabbalah and watching and reading everything,

and reading Epstein files. Yeah. And that's how you got... Both sides of Judaism. And that's how you got civilists. 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 Irone DuPont, he had become absolutely consumed with the science of gunpowder.

DePont 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. 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. That's true. There's a lot of stuff. There's a lot of fun stuff in here for Americans. Yeah.

And like, just have to remember, guys, they're not going to choose you. No. They, you know, what I've learned as a human being, like, honestly, this is a 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 what they tell us. And you get out there and you do everything you can to put yourself in the right position, blah, blah, blah, and that, of course, they can't wait to have a new disruptor 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, that makes them really angry. And as a matter of fact, it's what keeps 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. It's like, people are 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 an idea how easy the life of an actor is? This is an accident. You have a fucking idea how-together. Exceptionally easy Timothy Chamolet's life is. All right? This is a much more difficult road. But we like it.

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. That's because the Eagles fly. Yeah, why name your boat after a bird? Yeah, they haven't after a fish or a whale.

It's really a, but that goes, oh. What's on the water? What stays on the water? How'd they get lost? Just like left? Left. Honestly, it happened a lot. Keep taking left so we get there.

Ocean's big. There's no signposts. He ended up way down south. 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, Timmy's. Emperor? 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. What's betis is the guts? Mm-hmm.

What? The guts. The rat guts. The rat guts. We should be it. You should be the rat guts. You got to close out. The only thing is, like, they're livers if you can feed one rat, enough fragrant foods and thick fats.

Yeah. Then the liver will grow, then it'll be taste. Flag rat. Yeah, foie grat. You're just talking about making a rat and a flog 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... Well, that's how you know they're self-made. Yeah. Because their parents had a lot of money. 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 all those francs? God's kind of hairy or a bill or something, you know? It's kind of confusing sitting there. Were the rats named Frank? He'll be the first against the wall. who are most immigrants to America in the early 19th century were forced to live in muddy hovels for months or years

before being able to afford somewhere better the DuPont 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. So I got time. Yeah, yeah, you got plenty of time.

We'll have to really just get the legislature really kicking in. 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 Irene DuPont's obsession with gunpowder. See, Irine 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 Irine had devised a process to make high-quality, affordable gunpowder on American soil. So, Irna scouted locations for the first DuPont powder mill and eventually settled on the Brandywine 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. 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 may the DuPonts, lot of money. God, that's like almost one a year. Yeah. You know what? Well, we sometimes have a lot going on at once. Congratulations again, guys.

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, man. I got my O.J. Simpson's is innocent pog. The slammer. I've got my Michael Jackson as innocent

pod. I've got my Woody The Allen is innocent pog. It's amazing. We were talking about it all the way back in Pog time. Yeah. And just like we said earlier, you read that whole thing in a different inflection. They look like fucking hero.

Exactly. Damn. That's crazy deal. They've been involved in every single American war, invasion, and police action since 1803. That's for those counting, that's 223 military conflicts and still going to this day. We're looking at you, Iran.

I feel like we're at the Dup. Park Museum. With Barney there who's just been like, and that's why we try to make the presseers. We made all sorts

of preserves. We need more pudding into your cafeteria. Bernie, not now. There's no pudding or out of pudding. Bernie, don't worry. Here's some lead.

Watch out, Columbia. We're coming for you. Hope you like grapes. Now, the United States government began its contract with DuPont gumpowder with an order of 22,000.

pounds, and that amount only increased with every year. Manufacturing gunpowder 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. Gump powder 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 going to mean to tell me this whole situation is completely safe?

My one question is, why does 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 of 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 like when you're laying in bed with your wife and you fart outside the blanket.

That's what I do, man. Send it to the closet. Yeah, man, we definitely know as like a Jersey family that the DuPont family ruined the Raritan Bay in New Jersey to the point where it was like a largest like $2 billion 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 is 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 Obama. Like that was floated. And people considered it. Like it was like long discussions about it. I'm sure

there was a DuPont executive in the room when that discussion was happening. It's like, you know, we could blah la la la. Yeah, they're like, great idea. I'm fucking awesome. Even I who know that it's bad is like, but how big would it be? Yeah.

Can we film it? I'd be curious. Hypothetical. Hypothetical. But even with this practice of having three walls so the explosion would go outside, entire mills would sometimes explode. In just one year in the 1800s, five DuPont gumpowder 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 It's the worst part of getting off of work and the only way you can get home is in a bucket Man it would be a great way to fucking like just escape though life You know just like ah he was in the DuPont explosion No you call it uh pulling a 9-11

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, when the war of 1812 kicked off against the British, the United States government increased their gunpowder order with the DuPonts to half a million pounds per year, which meant that Irone DuPont had to build even more powder mills to keep up with the demand. But even though profits were skyrocketing, the DuPonts 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 DuPonts would have their private army guard the bank where the workers got paid. And in exchange for their compliance and voting the way the DuPonts wanted, the workers were, let's say, highly encouraged to take hard liquor or beer if they drank, if they were Methodists, or gunpowder if they didn't, if they were quick. Wow, that is like, not a lot. Yeah. Like, it's not a lot for it. But it's still, people really like that stuff to this day. Oh, I get it. They do, but it's also like they are highly.

It's that thing like, you know, it's like a Serpico, like, oh, you're not taking a money? What's wrong with you? Why are you not taking the money? You're being forced to do it. Yeah, you were being, like, 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. They're more than a mafia. They are a literal army. Yeah. The mafia, they would destroy the mafia. Again, 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, Irone DePont's brother, Victor DuPont, he got a lot. 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 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 it later. I know. I'm joking.

I'm joking about Delaware. I'm certain it's fine. It's the first state. Oh, that's right. Yeah. The first one is say, yay. Now, the DuPonts were rigging the system in America,

just as 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, Ironer Dupont's daughter married the son of Ironet DuPont's brother. Wait a second. Hey, no, no, no, 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 Garthin is so succinctly put it in preacher, son of God, son of man, you can't fuck your sister and expect much good to come of it. Yeah, it makes for 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, an inbred 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 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 Holden McNeely. His grandparents. His grandparents were first cousins. Oh, yeah. But that's the thing.

I think they were just first cousins once. I think if you just do it once, you just get a Holden. 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, yeah. You think it was once? No, 19 states.

Yeah. And Washington, D.C. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, 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 in existence that aren't.

Why do we need this rule? Now, the DuPonts 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 DuPonts in any meaningful way. As the unstable American economy of the 1800s took down tens of thousands of other businesses, the DuPonts never faltered and in fact scooped up as many of these businesses as they could whenever the market took a downturn. Mostly though, the DuPonts thrived because providing munitions for American wars always has been 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, pain in the ass, too. I can't believe that they just sat there where they lived. Move!

Move! I said, move! Look at my hat. Get my booms dick. I could see your balls. You don't deserve a house. American armies, along the Canadian and Mexican borders, they also,

they always needed plenty of gumpowder reserves at the ready. Additionally, the United States government, they owed a debt to the DuPonts for whatever lands they obtain for whatever may have happened on those Canadian and Mexican borders. Just as Pierre DuPont had played a part in the Louisiana purchase, the DuPonts also provided gumpowder 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 DuPont. The DuPontz 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 diapers. The DuPonts, however, were not selling gunpowder to America because they believed in the American experiment.

The DuPonts were pure. business and therefore sold gumpowder 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 gum powder to Napoleon Bonaparte to aid Napoleon's conquest of Europe. Where are you going to get it? Checks clear. By the 1830s, the DuPonts were also exporting 1.2 million pounds of gum powder 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. Them and smallpox. And hey, but again, remember if the indigenous people had

the scratch, they could have bought it too. That's right. And I think that's what we're talking about here is if they really, if they wanted to get in. So you're talking about the market forces. It was market Market forces. You see, if they really wanted to get in there, they could have bought it. Doing it the right way. Yeah. The American way. And also the French way and the market way.

You get every way. The Western way? 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 reason to be negative. They don't like to make people upset. The South really likes to blow shit up and they buy a lot of bombs from us. So, please. You know, I also kind of noticed a lot of the North had 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 DuPont's best customer. Did they sell gunpowder to the South? No, not at all. In fact, the way that the DuPont 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,

whereas 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 got the North one, but it's also interesting in the fact that they, it's like the very first, like, inner war we fought was also about, like, resources and those with the most resources won. So you hear that all you confederate sympathizers? It's DuPont's fault that you lost. You should take your anger out on. Anti-corporation.

Yeah, DuPont. It was DuPont who did it. Yeah. They hate your flag. Yeah, dude. Go through some cellophon. Go honestly, wrap your Confederate flag in some cellophane,

bring it down to the local state house, and just start fucking stabbing elected officials with them. That's what I recommend you do. Or I would say go through your house and find every single product that has DuPont's hand in it, and you 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. Live from Northland. A gumpowder was merely where a thing started for the DuPont family. In the late 1860s, an enterprising member of the family named Lamont DuPont became very interested in a new invention called Dynamite. Lamont, however, was one of the few DuPonts to become a victim of his own system. See, Lamont 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 use dynamite when gunpowder can do the job just as well? But they're saying, dynamite bigger. Big a bit, big, big, big, big, big, big. And so, Lamont went behind Henry DuPont's back and began making dynamite in his own factory in New Jersey. But since Lamont 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, Lamont was working on his chemical mixture when he accidentally allowed 2,000 pounds of nitroglycerin to boil overnight. What?

That's a bad accident. I know, I know. Rookie mistake. Yeah, yeah, that is. I always... Sometimes he's like, I just cut it so close. This caused an unstoppable chain reaction. And even though Lamont 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 do-doo. You're right, you're right. You're right, Barney. Let's get you back over here. Stop looking at all the tragedies. Stop eating all the rubble.

I'm sucking out of God. I like that. Now, play with that funny little mechanism there. Now, Lamont 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 DuPonts lobbied for laws that prevented unionizing and therefore prevented regulation on the argument that unions, it impeded the DuPont's free speech.

Yeah. It's the First Amendment. Think about the concept of a corporation's free speech. Yeah. Yeah, man. All they want to say is that, oh my. That's it, buddy. Let their freak flag fly, man.

DuPont workers, however, pushed forward. But when they began striking in the 1890s, DuPont Highland. 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 won't they think about how hard a time they're having. They're distracted. There's so much going on when you fuck your cousins.

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 Quattles. You fuck just like my uncle. I know your daddy's 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 ick, guys. Yeah, girls don't care. Girls are like super not impressed if you blow your brains out in front of them. Yeah, and like, by the way, the head's like the worst place to shoot yourself. You like almost always die. Yeah, so. Caribbean a pussy.

Totally true. But speaking to 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 wasn't having it.

Gunpowder barons, they're just like us. That's all right. I get it. It's a lot of pressure. You need to have your, was it a gamol? Was it called when you get the lady on the side? Was it when a gamol? Mistress?

No, no. The gumaw. The gumma. The gumma. Are you talking Italian now? The sopranos thing. Okay, yeah, 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, that's my official girlfriend because of your wife. She can't do that. She kisses my kids with that mouth. Yeah, you can't go fucking around. You got to make sure. You got your Guma.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well, this guy's Guma shot and killed him. What are you? No. Now, when the so-called... Happened sometimes. Die.

Now, when the so-called American century began in 1900, the DuPontz found a way to be at the forefront of just a 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.

Yeah, dude. I was saying LPN wanted to do. I think we were going to invest in a fusion tank. Sure. Oh, cold fusion? Cold fusion. That's cool. We're going to have it here in the office.

I want to get a black hole machine. Yes. Thank you. Yes, next. Sure. Yeah. Write a proposal. We'll look into it.

Yeah. Hell yeah. That's so great. It's my big. It's called the Universe Gaper. I like working here. I want to end the world. 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 I.

Oh, great for them. Fifteen 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. That equals 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 gumpowder by this point, along with everyone else. But if you'll remember, the key ingredient in the United. smokeless powder was industrial alcohol made from fucking molasses. Do you remember? That means that the DuPonts

were possibly, inadvertently, connected to the Great Melasses flood of 1919 because nobody in America made more smokeless gumpowder during World War I than the DuPont company. Yeah, sure. It didn't fucking not. Yeah, I mean? Like, it definitely didn't help.

So 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. But they were driving the market. Yeah, 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, I mean, 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.

Yes. And they are all following DuPont's lead. And I got to, 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 I? Yeah. They did not get it from DuPont.

No. No, no, no. There was a little bit of There was a bit of sneakiness With Germany In World War I With Dupont But the real sneakiness is going to come with Germany

In World War II Oh yes, they were real sneaky Yeah, yeah So we're super sneaky Yeah, we'll get into the sneakiness Of the Dupons and the Nazis On the next episode Oh, they created their own thing called the Hyperbosch process

They had their own way of innovating gunpowder Cool, good for them Yeah. Now, the DuPonts sold millions of pounds of gumpowder to the British alone over the course of World War I. 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. 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 a true American. Yeah. Well, a true fucking American. I do the same thing. We have to constantly, we have to like un, like, we're brainwashed. Yeah. We're brainwashed. Well, it's it, 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 our 15 year anniversary of doing podcasting. Yeah. And it's amazing how low the bar

could be if you just get there first. Yep. Actually, in June, it will be uh, June is my 25th anniversary in broadcasting. Oh wow! Yeah, yeah. I've been in this business for 25 years. Should I give you like an ashtray

or something? Yeah. Give me a a watch. How's about that? We'll see what we can do. You'll see what we're going to dig up. I'll look at you. Yeah, please look at me. Now the DuPonts did not just look at me. 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, after I give you all of what these do, tell me which one you want. All right, cool. Yeah, okay. I'm leaning towards mustard. Love pretzels. I mean, I do. First response would be like mustard or chlorine.

I'm like, give me mustard. Yeah, dude. Is it honey mustard? It's actually more sulfur. It's mustard because sulfur is yellow. Oh, I thought it was farts. Sulfur's farts. But I like a good sulfur bath.

We'll talk about it. Yeah, you did 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. Mustard gas, meanwhile. See, I would assume it would be 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, it's blood. 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. You know, not anymore. I'm sorry that I got to say this again, but...

Cool. Exactly. He's getting it. Mustergast, 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 muster 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, you know, anything like that,

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's worse.

Yeah, it is. It's worse. It's definitely worse. With mustard gas, I could still smoke weed and eat hot dogs. You might still have some breathing problems Because it's not like breathing mustard gas was like Great for you But it wouldn't fuck you up on the inside as 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 did You know, who needs skin? Yeah, that is true Yeah, man, skin for me I like muscle and grit Yeah, it's just holding your muscles back Just give me a cool jacket

And I'm fine Yeah, dude, honestly that'd be kind of cool You skinless and an awesome leather jacket How are, everybody? How are you doing? 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. That'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 lavish estates, 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. It also seems like the DuPonts never quite forgot the French Revolution, because some of their estates were built surrounded by walls that had shards of broken yet a trance. attractive glass poured into the wet concrete. This served as a sort of trademark DuPont aesthetic. It's barbed wire for the incredibly wealthy that, of course, also keeps out the unwashed masses. So it's a glass like jutting out from the concrete?

It's glass jutting out from the top of the concrete. I'm looking at right now. But it's also very pretty as well because it's like antique. Yes, it is truly beautiful. Like it's just like colored glass. Oh, like hyper sharp just built into the concrete. I mean, Cool.

Exactly. God, we just like villains, all right? 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. It's me, man. 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 unenched.

educated. 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. Yeah. 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'd build a building. Not the DuPonts. Yeah, 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, uh, 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're 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 Ross Perrault. We didn't have billionaires. It was like Ross Perrault was like the most in my mind, in my childhood. Yeah, Kenna fish, got a fish, got fish. It was like he was the first guy I remember being like he was like I'm a billionaire and I do amazing things. It's so funny because he did look like the Monopoly Man.

Yeah. It's very funny. But it's interesting to see how like now all of these morons are addicted to the same thing we're addicted to, which is attention. And you'd think a billionaire. would be past it. Nope. And you wait, the DuPonts,

like they keeping Delaware stupid, no offense, Delaware, back then, it's obviously different now. Sorry. Sorry, Ian.

But keeping them like uneducated and keeping them poor is a different form of slavery in my own personal opinion. Oh, 100%. They're like, oh,

it's just a little bit more expensive, but they're basically slaves. Well, it's just stuff like Dr. Oz, like very casually dropping recently about how no one should ever retire. Yeah. Yeah.

What is that then? if we're just working for the absolute rest of our fucking lives. Yeah, you're just making money for the people up top. And the DuPonts knew all of the most evil ways to do this. They kept their workers poor, tired, and sick. Many DuPont laborers made just a dollar a hour during the war, and most worked 60 to 80 hours a week. And when the work was over,

they'd go to sleep in uncomfortable shanties built by the DuPonts, where thousands would be crammed in to spread sickness and disease. And they would fucking thank the DuPonts for what they had Because they didn't know any better Uncle Doopie Like they have a cute fucking nickname Now on the job Safety was not really a word

That was even used in a DuPont factory The workers had no equipment to protect themselves with Because equipment costs money And since many DuPont businesses dealt with dangerous chemicals Workers routinely died from fumes Or chemical byproducts That literally changed the color of their skin

DuPont chemicals like Benzell's turned workers blue, while men who worked with pickric acid were called canaries because the acid turned their skin yellow. Pickric acid, by the way, also poisons the lungs, attacks the intestinal tract, and destroys kidney and nerve centers. And pickric 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. It is a fucking, the misery that the DuPont's cause compounds and builds and builds. In all, almost 350 DuPont workers were killed in plant accidents during World War I. 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. Yeah, 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 DuPont.

That was AMCO, but like, fuck. Yeah. It's the same bullshit. You know, it is accredited to them. Like, the workplace incident wasn't what killed him. It was the cancer five years ago, but he wouldn't have gotten the cancer if it wasn't for that. Exactly. Yeah.

I mean, that's what John Stewart was trying to fight for with all the, they were talking about after 9-11. All these people got super, super sick, and they were all like, yeah, but if they die like so much later, is it really a thing? Now, because the DuPonts cared more about 150 room mansions than the lies 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 are 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, yeah, Pinkertons deserve their own episode one day. Oh, we've been talking about it 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 DuPont rebuttals against organizing would also frequently get violent, and the DuPonts, therefore, had another private military made up of no less than 1,400 bootlickers to guard and police their factories. The DuPont's tactics, however, only got harsher after the October 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia. The DuPonts actually felt personally slighted by the revolution because Tsar Nicholas II had ordered almost a million pounds of TNT from the DuPonts. He was a great customer. Yeah, that is the whole thing. And when the Tsar went down with the rest of the Russian upper classes, the DuPonts lost out on millions of dollars in Russian czarist contracts.

And that was, of course, TNT, that Tsar Nicholas II was planning to use against his own people. Now, regardless of what you may think of Bolshevik tactics, Vladimir Lennon, or the Soviet Union, the Bolshevik revolution was still at its most basic level, a people's revolution that overthrew a corrupt and out-of-touch elite. if we take it down to just bear, bear, bare bones. Yes. And that was terrifying for people like the DuPonts. Terrifying that that 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 is we definitely never get one. Yeah, yeah. Definitely, I can't wait to get the emails about the people defending marrying your first cousin. That is going to happen. I'm absolutely going to receive an email about how I, you know, I offended them because they think cousins should be free. You're in love, Henry.

Yeah, I can't wait to get an email telling me that I justify, that I support the murder of small little girls because I said that sentence. You do, though. Yeah. Do I support

the murder of little girls in basements? You didn't say no. You didn't say no, you didn't. Fuck, Anastasia. At this point, at this point, am I going to bat for Anastasia? No. No. No.

Great movie, though. I like their bat, though. Yeah. that the United States should go to war with Russia specifically to overthrow Vladimir Lennon. 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. act. But perhaps more importantly, the Bolsheviks had personally slighted a DuPont. And that's super offensive. Yeah. And, 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 U.S. 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'd 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 $1 an hour job that they no longer had. Of course these guys are going to say, hmm, yeah, I might be a fucking communist. Yeah. So to distract people from the real problem, which was that extremely wealthy families like the DuPonts used up the bodies and souls of average Americans. and do everything they can to prevent giving a fucking cent back, 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, you guys are fucking idiots that you don't see the real problem here. What is the real problem?

Immigrants. Oh, 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 ones. The other immigrants. You're right. Other immigrants. And back then, the other immigrants were mostly.

We talked about it in the molasses episode, Italians. Yeah. Yeah, wow. That's a loud group of immigrants. It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare. If we throw out all the immigrants, who's going to give me a fresh pepper? Hey, hey, whoa.

Well, the United States, therefore, began a far-reaching violent crackdown on the immigrant population to distract the public. to distract the public in 1917. This play has been in use for over 100 years. Now, the government began throwing people that they considered foreign anarchists, communist, or radical leftists into detention camps nationwide. The largest detention camp for immigrants

was on, guess where, Ellis Island. Oh! It's 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. Like 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. And that's where you 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 remained 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 an American.

Yeah, it's just fucking so ridiculous. And the DuPonts are behind all of it. Are definitely one, I will say, I imagine. Oh, yeah. No, what a. What up? Yeah. No, no, they're not the, it's not like the DePonts are like that America's some

shining fucking, like, beacon of goodness and truth. And the Jepons are like the one rotten apple. The one evil ones. No, there's some bad stuff in there. They're not gargamel. No, but 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 we got to get rid of these fuckers. Oh, fuckers.

We got to get rid of. Well, as to the DuPonts, 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.

Ah, yes, where they go from Weddalen to Dittalyn. It depends on how old you get if you live. Oh, and the Boy Scouts, that would inspire Hitler. My Scoutmaster touched my weebelows. Yeah, well, you should have been better at not tying. You would have been able to get your pants down. Well, in the early days, with the DuPont's guidance. And actually, they're a...

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 this stupid scarf. Who do you think made the badges you're fighting?

This was the influence of the DuPonts, 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, we're going to cover them up. No, you're victim blaming. Kids should be able to wear as short as shorts as they want without some nasty scoutmaster

coming in and grabbing them. You're blaming the victim? They will just kind of have to see about that one. You know, between 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, buddy. That's why, you know, I just also remember just how unpleasant sports was. 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 near any of the bad men anymore. Yeah, yeah, or just running around in a circle.

pretty safe. I'm looking until you get the Olympics. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then it gets real bad. Then 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 Greece, Marcus. I've been fucking boys since before God. You don't think the first script wasn't from Socrates? You know, like, that was me. He ran.

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. 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 we'll pick back up next week with the stock market crash, the atomic bomb, Teflon and

Viet Fugcan't wait man fucking toss it That's gonna be a great soundtrack Whatever's going on And it doesn't matter man

It's a great ass soundtrack We're gonna put some good tunes For the story Yeah yes Yes and I do know I already know That DuPont was not The number one supplier

of Napalm In the Vietnam War I do know that 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, you know, giving cancer to thousands of people and the sites that enriched that uranium due to, you know, low safety standards. It'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, Barbenheimer. That is true. Because didn't think everything changed after Barbie, didn't it? Yeah, honestly, you know, I love Margo and I think about her. She really needs the money. Yeah, she does. Who else needs the money, us?

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Satan had nothing to do with any of this shit. Yeah. You know what? Hell Mark Ruffalo. Because he was in Foxcatcher as, as Schultz, and he was also in the, in the dark water movie against DuPont. Oh, wow. Yeah. He double hates DuPont. But you don't think that DuPont probably didn't also pay for those movies, so we're going to look like they were cool. Hmm.

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