Andrew (host)
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first heard Jul 2026
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It really annoys me.
And also, yeah, he was married.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
No, that guy was a psycho.
I mean, both of them were psycho.
Okay.
So this next one is from Jennifer from Montana.
think is this the last one yeah this is the last one so the last one Jennifer from Montana so back in the day they used to call Butte Montana the richest hill on earth and the name was no exaggeration so beneath the town lay one of the greatest deposits of copper ever found oh interesting yeah copper huge in like four or five thousand bc still huge today
And as America wired itself for the electric age, that copper turned a handful of men, the quote-unquote copper kings, into some of the wealthiest people in the country.
Marcus Daly's Anaconda Company alone pulled fortunes from the ground that would look staggering even today.
So their money built mansions, bought newspapers, and endowed lasting institutions, among them one of the finest mining engineering schools in the nation.
Yeah.
But the men who actually dug the copper were not getting rich, of course.
Yeah, of course not.
They were typically immigrants, Irish, Cornish, Finnish, Italian, and Slavic, who had crossed an ocean to take, you know, the dirtiest and most dangerous work the country had to offer for wages that barely fed a family.
Yeah, I know.
It's it's I just hate like reading that and being like, oh, well, we still do that today.
We still do this today.
They went down into the heat and the dark for 12 hour shifts, breathing dust that would later kill them as surely as any cave in wood.
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