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Claims (33)
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Vanderbilt family documented
“I guess that first tree you could really see how diluted a family's worth can be over the generations. It just keeps spreading and spreading. So the real founder of the Vanderbilt family fortune is, of course, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 3:51
William Vanderbilt member_of
Vanderbilt family documented
“He said the other son, Cornelius, not too exciting. Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt. William Henry had some kids. And they are worth talking about. And the first one is going to be one William Kissam Vanderbilt. Born in 1849 to 1920. So this …”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 25:55
William Vanderbilt member_of
Vanderbilt family documented
“That's what kind of father he was. Okay, so William Henry Vanderbilt, that's Billy, gets all the money. It rages the siblings. Court battles follow. Tabloids in the newspapers were all over the story. They wanted to talk about Vanderbilts. …”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 22:35
Anderson Cooper member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“And then right after that, her husband died. OK, so the thought is that she was satanic and that she was basically that that picture was kind of a photograph saying, hey, you know, you can kill my kids. I mean, you can kill my husband if yo…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12B @ 1:30:35
Gloria Vanderbilt member_of
Vanderbilt family documented
“But we know from the Q-drops and the paintings of the swimming pool at the bottom of Biltmore and so forth, that there were children. The accusation is that there were children sacrificed there and so forth. And we know that Gloria Vanderbi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:31:17
Anderson Cooper member_of
Vanderbilt family documented
“And then right after that, her husband died. OK, so the thought is that she was satanic and that she was basically that that picture was kind of a photograph saying, hey, you know, you can kill my kids. I mean, you can kill my husband if yo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:31:47
Anderson Cooper member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“who 10 years after the father died decided to jump from a 14-story balcony standing right next to his mom and kill himself and then of course their other child who we all know Anderson Cooper and I've got to play something because you know …”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 51:15
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr founded
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“i don't know second classes and a new serfdom and that's how america was built and it was not honest this just shows you a huge wealth disparity at the time it really is and the only reason this family has a name is they have one ancestor c…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 1:09:02
Consuelo Vanderbilt member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“And they would invite all of their English friends. This was their party room. My apologies. It's Consuelo is the one you're talking about that married the Churchills. Yeah. This was painted by them. It's gaudy. And there's a whole story to…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 1:28:08
Vanderbilt family member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“Another railroad company. Guy by the name of Cochran. He's a partner at the previously mentioned J.P. Morgan. Whitney's a bonesman. He just ran the family business, but the Whitney's are so expansive and pervasive. That's a huge multination…”
▶ The Shadow State #18 Secret Societies Pt. 2; Skull & Bones @ 1:16:42
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr founded
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“And so how is this Vanderbilt related to the ones that built the breakers? Yeah. It was, was it Cornelius that built the breakers? Well, the Commodore was the first, the founder of the family fortune was Commodore and he did a lot, but it r…”
▶ The Shadow State 21 Secret Societies 5; Skull & Bones 1887-1908 @ 59:29
Alva Vanderbilt recruited
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“invited Mrs. Astor to the party yet. And she's asked about it. She goes, well, how could I? Mrs. Astor has never called on me socially. Within two to three hours, Mrs. Astor was there in a coach in front of her mansion, in front of Alva's m…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 29:52
Consuelo Vanderbilt member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“11 million dollars to build which would be about 300 million dollars today called it the summer cottage and of course she is so fashionable she builds the chinese tea house that both the colonel and i have pictures of because we both visite…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 31:21
George Washington member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“of manhattan so and there's also a whole section of new york called stuvescent i think new yorkers pronounce that differently but i haven't been in new york so long i don't remember how they do it i said what do you know about george born i…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 35:41
Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“24-7 staff to maintain. Very much so. Okay, before we go on to the next generation, we should probably talk about George Washington Vanderbilt II. Let's get him in here. Here's George Washington Vanderbilt II. See him here married to an Edi…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 34:51
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“of the biltmore because it has a veranda on the back of it and he wanted to be able to approve the view from each level of the veranda yeah well the guy didn't know how to spend money that's for sure all right who we're going to do next let…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 39:10
Alice Claypoole Gwynne Vanderbilt member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“He spent some time and money donating to universities, hospitals, and churches, and then ends up committing suicide at age 51. He marries Alice Claypool Vanderbilt, and they have a bunch of kids, which we'll get to. Here's Consuelo Vanderbi…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 40:31
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. We have spoken about before when we did Skull and Bones. She marries a Henry Payne Whitney from the Whitney family. Bear with me. I'm jumping around a bit. And, of course, we did basically a whole show on the Wh…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 41:11
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“Oh, yes, he did. His wife, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, was not a Vanderbilt, so she had no claim on the Vanderbilt money, so it was all left, what was left of it, to their daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt, who we'll get to. Then, of course, we've …”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 45:25
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“Well, that's one of the oldest families in America. And it goes all the way back to Williams, Collins, Whitney, etc. We talked about them quite a bit. There have been about four or five Whitney's in Skull and Bones. And that's who Gertrude …”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 42:39
Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“Born 1880 in Manhattan, died at age 45, 1925. And what do we have to say about Reginald? He's a fun one. Known as Reggie. Also known, and we'll talk about that in a second, he is a playboy and a gambler. He never worked. He never invested. …”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 44:49
Gloria Vanderbilt member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“Oh, yes, he did. His wife, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, was not a Vanderbilt, so she had no claim on the Vanderbilt money, so it was all left, what was left of it, to their daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt, who we'll get to. Then, of course, we've …”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 45:25
Gloria Vanderbilt member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“He would, interestingly, he was on a Lusitania in 2015 off the coast of Ireland when the German U-boat hit it. And apparently, even though he could not swim, stories are that he died a hero. He gave up his life jacket to save a woman he did…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 46:16
Wyatt Emery Cooper member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“They kind of broke the mold on whether divorce was a cool thing. They get a lot of credit for that. You know, the high society didn't divorce. Well, a lot of Vanderbilts divorced. So you can give them a bit of credit for that one. Anyway, h…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 50:37
Carter Cooper member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“They kind of broke the mold on whether divorce was a cool thing. They get a lot of credit for that. You know, the high society didn't divorce. Well, a lot of Vanderbilts divorced. So you can give them a bit of credit for that one. Anyway, h…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 50:37
Pilgrims Society member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“It is like the perfect matchup to the origin story of Operation Gladio. You had the Astors, the DuPonts, the Rockefellers, Carnegie's, Vanderbilt's. You also had all of the people from the secret societies, Skull and Bones at Yale that Ward…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 1:17:17
American Pilgrims member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“Fabian Society time. And a lot of the crossover, because they have one in London as well, it is like the perfect matchup to the origin story of Operation Gladio. You had the Astors, the DuPonts, the Rockefellers, Carnegie's.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 17 @ 1:17:29
Vanderbilt family funded
The Breakers host_asserted
“It seems to me that the Vanderbilts cared only about the status, nothing about charity. I mean, they may have donated to some libraries, but every single thing they spent their money on was about building gaudy monuments to their great-gran…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 1:16:35
Vanderbilt family funded
Biltmore Estate host_asserted
“It seems to me that the Vanderbilts cared only about the status, nothing about charity. I mean, they may have donated to some libraries, but every single thing they spent their money on was about building gaudy monuments to their great-gran…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 1:16:35
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr covered_up
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“evidence of scandal with cornelius who's the king of the shippers for you know better part of 40 or 50 years you know we know it probably happened but they just either they've been so they were so wealthy they could cover anything up and th…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 1:29:52
Vanderbilt family trafficked
China host_asserted
“And I thought you were going to finish at Vanderbilt. But you said Cornelius Vanderstar. And the thing I was thinking right away was that in the 19th century, the early 20th century, we had these two big oligarch families, two big famous fa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:30:20
Vanderbilt family trafficked
China speculative
“We know the opium wars were going on. I think both of them were involved in shipping the opium into China. And to do that, if they were getting the opium out of Bengal, which was British at that time, they had to have the permission of the …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12B @ 1:29:36
Gloria Vanderbilt married
Vanderbilt family speculative
“And then right after that, her husband died. OK, so the thought is that she was satanic and that she was basically that that picture was kind of a photograph saying, hey, you know, you can kill my kids. I mean, you can kill my husband if yo…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12B @ 1:30:35
Mentions (64)
▶ 17:11
And this is an interesting part here. Paul Helliwell was the son of an Englishman who was a cloth buyer, a member of the inner circle. And he also hung around with Henry Sturgis Morgan, who was the son of J.P. Morgan Jr., Nicholas Roosevelt…
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Political satire extraordinaire. Laughing at Elwood in the chat. He's shocked. Just shocked. We've had four Vanderbilts. One of the most powerful families in history. Oh, how about someone else we've mentioned before? Sheldon Whitehouse. Oh…
▶ 43:14
For those of you who may have missed that show, Rhode Island, which you have Newport, which is where all of the money was. If you guys never been to Newport, Rhode Island, you have to go. Driving around that place is amazing. And it's just …
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And most of the time, it isn't even their real name. It's a name they picked. So I think it's intentional. Okay. So let's look at the ambassador here. He was appointed the ambassador by Eisenhower. And he, let's see. Oh, maternal grandparen…
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I wouldn't know this, but some people might. There was a luxury furniture company called W&J Sloan, and they catered to families like the Rockefellers, the Whitneys, and the Vanderbilts. So we're talking deep establishment family, William S…
▶ 59:23
And so how is this Vanderbilt related to the ones that built the breakers? Yeah, it was. Was it Cornelius that built the breakers? Well, the Commodore was the first. The founder of the family fortune was Commodore, and he did a lot. But it …
▶ 59:55
So the Vanderbilt family spread far and wide very quickly after Commodore Cornelius. Yeah. I was just wondering which one built the breakers. I'd have to go back. That's a funny story between him and the, it may have been anyway, whatever. …
▶ 1:17:17
It is like the perfect matchup to the origin story of Operation Gladio. You had the Astors, the DuPonts, the Rockefellers, Carnegie's, Vanderbilt's. You also had all of the people from the secret societies, Skull and Bones at Yale that Ward…
▶ 1:29:45
Operation Gladio has been mentioned on the Tucker Carlson show, the Joe Rogan show. And that's the way it's done. And you guys do a great job doing it. So keep it up. I love it. All right. Anybody else? Colonel. Yes. I watched your last two…
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And I thought you were going to finish at Vanderbilt. But you said Cornelius Vanderstar. And the thing I was thinking right away was that in the 19th century, the early 20th century, we had these two big oligarch families, two big famous fa…
▶ 1:30:49
We know the opium wars were going on. I think both of them were involved in shipping the opium into China. And to do that, if they were getting the opium out of Bengal, which was British at that time, they had to have the permission of the …
▶ 1:31:17
But we know from the Q-drops and the paintings of the swimming pool at the bottom of Biltmore and so forth, that there were children. The accusation is that there were children sacrificed there and so forth. And we know that Gloria Vanderbi…
▶ 1:31:47
And then right after that, her husband died. OK, so the thought is that she was satanic and that she was basically that that picture was kind of a photograph saying, hey, you know, you can kill my kids. I mean, you can kill my husband if yo…
▶ 1:32:15
So then you start talking about the CB star guy. And the thing that hit me right away is the Latin word for star is Aster. Okay. We've got Vanderbilt. We've got Vanderstar. And we've got Aster, which means star. And then you start talking a…
▶ 1:32:45
Well, he wasn't involved in China trade per se. He was an insurance. Right. Yeah. But he insured the trade. Right. And then he also has the ties to the CIA and all that. Correct. But it just struck me like, because when you said Vanderstar,…
▶ 1:33:11
And then you said, no, he's a junior. His father was named that, too. And I'm like, oh, boy. So is this a multi-generational cover story thing? So I don't I would not say it's a cover story. What I would say is because of the naming traditi…
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thought of because just two years ago we went and toured all of their um we went to um um north carolina we went to newport rhode island we went into all of the um vanderbilt houses um just because i wanted to see what they all look like um…
▶ 1:34:11
uses the middle name as like the maiden name of the mom or whatever. And so I'm still convinced there's a connection there. I've not been able to prove it, though. So there's that. But I do want to mention, since you were talking about the …
▶ 1:16:42
Another railroad company. Guy by the name of Cochran. He's a partner at the previously mentioned J.P. Morgan. Whitney's a bonesman. He just ran the family business, but the Whitney's are so expansive and pervasive. That's a huge multination…
▶ 59:29
And so how is this Vanderbilt related to the ones that built the breakers? Yeah. It was, was it Cornelius that built the breakers? Well, the Commodore was the first, the founder of the family fortune was Commodore and he did a lot, but it r…
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So the Vanderbilt family spread far and wide very quickly after Commodore Cornelius. Yeah. I was just wondering which one built the breakers. I'd have to go back. That's a funny story between him and the, it may have been anyway, whatever. …
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You also have all of the original families of the Astors, DuPonts, Rockefellers, Carnegies, Morgans, Vanderbilts, all part of this. They talk about the fraternity and sororities of Yale and Harvard. And their match in England is Oxford and …
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political saturn's extraordinaire laughing at elwood in the chat he's shocked just shocked um we've had four vanderbilts one of the most powerful families in history oh how about someone else we've mentioned before sheldon whitehouse oh my …
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for those of you who may have missed that show um rhode island which you have newport which is where all of the money was if you guys never been to newport rhode island you have to go driving around that place is amazing um and the it's jus…
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You did a great job of laying out the people behind the scenes that no one ever talks about because they don't talk about them for a reason. Yeah, and the Whitney's have done, they've had so much control over all the different elements of s…
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A senator from Massachusetts, 1874 to 1875, and was also the Massachusetts governor. We would have a Richard Taylor. He was a member of the Louisiana State Senate, and he was a Confederate general. Fought against the Union. One of the very …
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You're going to see a lot of railroad connections and you're going to see a lot of Vanderbilt and other family connections. It's funny. I was listening to a video, someone else doing something on skull and bones last week. And the guy comes…
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And I told the colonel that we just booked a trip for two weeks from now. We're going to go down to Rhode Island, Newport for my birthday weekend and visit all the mansions of the of the Gilded Age robber barons. So I'll be visiting the Van…
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I think it might be two. It's almost a tongue twister. It may be two or three shows. It depends on how much depth we want to go into. We're going to be repeating a few things on some of the people. We're definitely going to have an entire s…
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The way the Vanderbilt's actually the rise and fall, all that good stuff. Yes. But again, there's some other great names. And, you know, a good friend, Dr. DeProgram, has done a lot of homework on the Auchincloss family. And I've told I've …
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In the Northeast, that was a big deal. There's something called Century. There's one called University. There's one I've run into before called Grolier, which is a bunch of bibliophiles. It's a book club. He's a member of New York's Siwanka…
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First one is a William Adams Delano. When you talk about the Delanos, you've got to talk about the Roosevelt's. So I want to spend an entire day, entire show on the Delano Roosevelt's because I've got some Roosevelt corruption stories you'r…
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edition of Warhamster and I's series on secret societies. Warhamster, what do you have for us today? Well, today we're going to take a little bit of a curveball. We're talking about secret societies, but this is going to be sort of a differ…
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of one family's rise to prominence in one generation, a second generation where only one of the 12 or 13 children were actually competent enough to maintain it, and then a third generation just born in a splendor and a life of luxury who ba…
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Well, it's funny you use the word curse because that's one of the things that tabloids came up with back in that third generation of the Vanderbilts, or even the second, is they started calling it the Vanderbilt curse. And it's a result of …
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It's not necessarily that they had any political influence, although when you're the richest family in America for a brief time, you're going to have some. And you don't see a lot of Vanderbilts working in government and not very many in co…
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Skrull and Key alumni start to get involved with a little bit of crossover with their bonesmen and other people into the government. But the Vanderbilts aren't really one of them. So, in the 1890s, one of the Vanderbilts was a member of Skr…
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So I find it fascinating. Me too. Shall we dive in? Absolutely. Okay. Time for the screen share. Right. So this is a Vanderbilt family tree that I pulled off the internet. And it's got a whole bunch of people. Not a lot of them are. A lot o…
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I guess that first tree you could really see how diluted a family's worth can be over the generations. It just keeps spreading and spreading. So the real founder of the Vanderbilt family fortune is, of course, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt…
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moved here from a Dutch county called De Bilt. John Urchin would eventually change his name to Van, meaning from De Bilt, so Vanderbilt. That's where it came from. And he came over and was a servant for a wealthy Dutch family. That's their …
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It's a little bit of a victim of circumstance. Like I said, a lot of the competition disappears in 1812. But he's just a cutthroat, ruthless negotiator. He will cut his rates to destroy the competition, buy up their boats on the cheap, and …
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Vanderbilt won. Cleared the way for the federal government to basically be superior in all interstate commerce issues. It's a big deal. States' rights got smashed right there. So Cornelius continues on, acquires the business from his boss, …
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He drives them into bankruptcy, buys out their ships on the cheap, and then he raises his rates right back up. So what kind of man was he? Ruthless, iron will, swore excessively, chewed tobacco. He sought out spiritualists and psychics, and…
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So anyway, Sophia's got it done in a very good picture. Let's put her back up on screen. Okay. And of course they have, bear with me. Okay. They have 13 children together, 12 of which live to adulthood. I believe it's 10 girls and three boy…
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So these kids aren't living like they grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth. Not these ones. So he's doing great in his steamship business. Marrying, kicking out kids all over the place. Although they live in a humble abode. He's buyin…
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was to go to Panama and get on a string of mules to go across Panama. Doesn't Panama show up when we talk about Gladio quite a bit? Yes, it does. Well, everybody shows up in Panama. So the story we're going to tell right now is probably whe…
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controversy over the Panama Canal because Congress eventually does approve the funding for the Nicaraguan Canal. Yes. Well, tell me if this sounds familiar. No, but it's exactly proven our point. Exactly. Yeah, they do it because they need …
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You go through Lake Nicaragua, and then you jump out on the San Juan River, and you can get to the Pacific and go straight to California. Cornelius Vanderbilt would help hack out that route himself through the jungle, and he establishes som…
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And at the time, Vanderbilt, most of 1853, Vanderbilt and his whole family touring Europe on his yacht, the North Star. So his partner, White, would conspire with Charles Morgan, one of J.P. Morgan's, I think, brothers or cousins, to betray…
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Out of business. They had to basically pay him off, and they ended up buying his ships from him at an inflated price. So this guy just wins everywhere he goes, right? All right, a little bit more on Cornelius. He would then shift to transat…
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He drove them into extinction by cutting prices. Sensing a pattern here? Yes. Goes back, repurchases the accessory transit that line over Nicaragua again, cheaper than he sold it for. Here's where it gets fun. Right before he bought it back…
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How many people know that an American actually was the ruler of Nicaragua in the 1850s? I did, but only because I went through this. So this guy by the name of Edmund Randolph, he's a close friend of Walker's. He convinces Walker to annul t…
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who, like the rest of Central America, declared war in Nicaragua when Walker took over. He sends his men, mercenaries, to lead a raid that captured steamboats on the San Juan River and cut Walker off from his reinforcements, and he had to g…
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What we see post-World War II was nothing new. It's just the installation of these same activities inside the government because they went on for at least 100 years before that. Yeah. Well, piracy is nothing new. Correct. It really isn't. I…
▶ 19:20
moved south and developed a monopoly on the California steamship business because that's what this guy does. We get to the Civil War, and he donates his biggest steamship, known as the Vanderbilt, to the Union Navy. That's the one they outf…
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And what they did is they defeated him by issuing what's called watered stock, which is basically printing fake certificates. And Gould had bribed the New York legislature to allow the issuance of the stock. And they actually beat Vanderbil…
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So he sells off his shipping interests and invests in railroads and consolidates railroads throughout the North. And it's even richer. He's the guy that built Grand Central Station in New York City. A lot of it was consolidating rail lines …
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How about if I share my screen? Okay. We are going through, of course, scroll and key, and we're going through the 1890s. Last week, we talked about the Vanderbilt family. Two weeks ago, we talked about the Vanderbilt family, but the other …
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Vanderbilt's were new money and Delano's were, oops, get out of there. Delano's were very old money. So we're going to tell their story. And there are a lot of very interesting characters that happen to kind of fit into our overall theme ab…
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Yeah, very much so. Really just they're setting the tone for what becomes their whole regime change stuff. You get your trading interest in the ports. You start influencing the government. This is right in the middle of the industrializatio…
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The tomb, the Delano family tomb where he's buried, it was designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the same guy that built all the Vanderbilt mansions, builds their family tomb. So I thought that was interesting. That is interesting. Okay. Let's g…
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basically sticking her nose into the marriage. The affair gets discovered in 1918. Eleanor offers, I'll offer you a divorce. And Sarah comes in and says, that ain't happening. If you do that, Franklin will lose his entire inheritance from t…
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Now, he's an interesting gentleman because that wasn't his first proposal. His first proposal was to Consuelo Vanderbilt, the dollar princess that would marry into the Churchill family. That was more attractive to the Vanderbilts than marry…
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affair continued there's also talk that eleanor and fdr never slept in the same bed again and they were basically just political business partners yeah and um the vanderbilt is the one um that was held prisoner until she married um the euro…