The Shocking & Shady Past of Bananas
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Published 2022-03-17
Welcome to the Dark History podcast. There’s always money in the Banana stand, but that money has a dark, dirty history. And today we’re getting into just that. Today we’re going to talk about the WILD history of bananas.
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Chapters:
00:00 INTRO
02:42 THIS S#&T IS BANANAS
05:01 THE BIRTH OF UFC (not the fighting company)
17:01 MINOR GOES BANANAS
22:54 THE BANANA MASSACRE
33:20 SAM THE BANANA MAN
42:19 THE GUATEMALAN OVERTHROW IS FREAKING BANANAS
48:08 THE ATTEMPTED OVERTHROW OF CUBA (because of freaking bananas)
53:57 BANANAGATE
1:00:24 CONCLUSION
Bibliography
docs.google.com/document/d/11DINoXjEM6nqrBr578WnUS…
Additional resources: visualizingtheamericas.utm.utoronto.ca/
Dark History is an Audioboom Original.
This podcast is Executive Produced by:
Bailey Sarian, Kim Jacobs, Dunia McNeily from 3arts, Justin Comins, and Claire Turner From Wheelhouse DNA
Producer: Lexxi Kiven
Research provided by: Thomas Messersmith
Writers: Jed Bookout, Joey Scavuzzo, and Kim Yaged
I'm your host -- Bailey Sarian
Special thank you to Historical Consultant Kevin Coleman, Associate Professor of History University of Toronto
Video Director: Trent Barboza and Eric Abell
Shot By: Zachariah Huckaby
Edited by: Jim Luci
Production Management: Meredith Ewinger
All Comments (21)
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I'm Colombian, we learned this in school but I always wondered if people from the US would learn about the banana craze too. Thanks for giving visibility to our history!
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my father overheard me watching this video and he sat down to watch it with me long story short, my dad is now a fan of yours. he says you'd be a great historian i have now successfully turned my whole family members into your loyal fans 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
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As a Honduran, when we learn about Honduran history we have about hundreds of pages just about the united fruit company and how they weaseled their way into having so much power around honduras and other central American countries. A Honduran author, Ramón Amaya Amador even wrote a book about it called "prisión verde" about the strike that happened to overthrow united fruit company and we all have to read about it in school. My grandfather was a child when it happened and everything is just so dark and sad.
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Don’t knock the “romantic” coupon book! I taught at an inner city high school, and I had several teen-aged boys in my class who were bummed because they couldn’t afford presents for their girlfriends in Valentines Day, so I suggested making a coupon book. You never saw anything sweeter than a bunch of “thugs” trying to think of nice things they could do for their girlfriends. 💕❤️💕
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As a colombian born and raised, still living here and also beeing a victim of crimes comited by the colombian government I want to sincerely THANK YOU MY DEAR ANGEL. Greetings from this Banana Republic of Colombia
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My dad grew up on a banana plantation in Honduras and my family worked on the fields for chiquita banana between 1960-1979. I feel like a bit of my ancestry was recognized
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Anyone else in awe of how many times she said something was "crazy" or "wild" and never said "This whole thing was BANANAS."
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Isn't that how the US operates internationally to this day? Stories like these are never taught so that it can be replicated. Thank you for your story telling.
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My grandpa grew up during the Depression in the Southern US and was poor af. One year at Christmas he got a banana 🍌. He’d never seen one and he always remembered what an ‘exotic’ thing it was.
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The Dark History book needs to be given to people in schools. Literally learning so much more than I did in history during school.
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I’m from Costa Rica. The “bananeras” as we call it, are still very much difficult, to say the least. I love to hear a story from Bailey that gives some background to our lands history. ❤️🙏🏻
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I am in tears, every time I hear about the banana masacre here in Colombia my heart aches. To think that there are senators here that deny the masacre as if the live of this people don't matter. Colombian history is filled with blood and death, banana masacre is just another one in the list, but not for that underestimated or forgotten. Thank you for reminding us about the history that must not be repited.
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Dark History makes me feel so intellectual. I love this safe space
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I can’t believe you talked about la masacre de las bananeras, in Colombia we always hear about it and I was always confused on how the heck it got to that point, thank you so much Bailey 🇨🇴❤️
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My great grandpa worked for them (the former Chiquita) and changed his last name to protect himself. My mom would bring it up but she never explained it so thoroughly on the history before.
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I went to a prestigious private school in Bogota, Colombia and let me tell you my friend...you explained this topic wayyyyyy better, 10 million times better than my history teacher...if I can even call it "explaining." 🥇🏆🏅👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Just posted and tagged Bailey in my story on Instagram. I was ironically stocking bananas while listening to this. I stock produce overnight. And I just kept giving side eye so hard to the bananas like 😠
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Only Bailey could make me watch an hour long yt video of bananas. 🍌
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I listen to these on Spotify while i’m cleaning the house. I fell for MM&M, I stayed for Dark History. Thank you for educating me/us in a fun & interesting way & teaching me things I may have never learned otherwise.
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Thank you so much for explaining the real history of America's role in messing up people's lives. School never taught me this, but I will make sure my grandkids understand the truth about situations that still affect us to this day!
