A Play and Pray Rerelease: Thomas Halloway and Opium for Babies

Yeet the Rich

Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss

True Crime, Comedy, History

5.0 • 39 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

We're going back in time to one of our first episodes to learn all about Thomas Holloway in the 1800s and all the fake medicines of the day. We talk about his history, legal lying in advertising, and what people will resort to when they cant afford a proper doctor. This story has everything! Opium, asylums, Charles Dickens, and even college for women! Source Material: The Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire- Verity Holloway Follow the podcast: @yee...

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0:00.0	Don't be ashamed if you get confused when you talk to your friends or you watch the news.
0:10.0	They try to tell you where all went wrong.
0:13.0	Now you don't need to argue, just sing this song.
0:17.0	It was rich people stacking the dick, rich people with big pack checks, rich people
0:25.6	they're having a ball, rich people been fiss us on.
0:36.6	Hello everybody, and welcome back to Eat the Rich.
0:40.9	I'm Emily Walsh, and I am here with my co-host and husband, Danny Moss.
0:46.5	What's up?
0:47.7	What's up?
0:49.8	How are you doing?
0:50.8	I good.
0:51.3	I really need to like...
0:52.1	I good.
0:52.8	I good.
0:53.2	I good.
0:53.9	I is good. What I was going to like... I good. I good. I good. I is good.
0:54.9	I need to...
0:55.5	What I was going to say is I need to prep my intro plan. Because I keep trying to mix it up. And then in the moment, I say something stupid. See, I don't. I do the opposite. I never mix it up. Oh, okay. So what I do, I feel really awkward, but I should mix it up because I don't need to listen to it the same way every day.
1:12.7	I have like robot tendencies and if I love myself. it up. Oh, okay. So what I do, I feel really awkward, but I should mix it up because I don't need to listen
1:11.5	it the same way every day. I have, like, robot tendencies. And if I let myself, I will say it in exactly the same tone. Hi there. My name's Danny Moss, and I'm just calling. That's how Danny makes every single phone call. Even if he's calling to be like, is your restaurant open, they don't need to know that your name is Daniel Moss.
1:28.5	I already asked you how you are.
1:29.9	I, good, also. Is your restaurant open? They don't need to know that your name is Daniel Moss.
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