Buffalo Creek Disaster Part Two- That is a Damn Dam!

Yeet the Rich

Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss

True Crime, Comedy, History

5.0 • 39 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week we wrap up the story of the Buffalo Creek Disaster, when a poorly built dam system gave way to a flood and killed 125 people, leaving thousands homeless. We get into the lengthy court settlement, the investigation into "psychic impairment" and the idea of monetary compensation for mental trauma, the actual timeline of the disaster as far as what the owners, the Pittston Company, were doing at that time, and we discuss several women who gave warnings who definitely should have ...

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0:00.0	But 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 dick rich people with big fat checks rich people they're
0:26.1	having a ball rich people been f*** us on hey everybody and welcome back to eat the rich i am emily walsh and Hey, everybody.
0:39.6	And welcome back to Eat the Rich.
0:44.7	I am Emily Walsh, and I'm here with my co-host and husband, Danny Moss.
0:45.2	Hello.
0:46.6	Hello.
0:49.1	How the heck are you? Oh, man.
0:49.7	So bad.
0:50.9	Wow.
0:51.5	Yeah.
0:52.2	Did it sounds like you just got, like, a massage or you just like... No, it was like... It was like to my favorite person who wanted to make you know back. Wow. Yeah. Did it sound like you just got like a massage or you just like.
0:54.6	No, it was nice to my favorite person.
0:56.3	We want to make you a dog.
0:57.6	Russ.
0:59.5	Well, yeah, we're feeling peppy today.
1:02.1	It's a Saturday morning.
1:03.1	Yeah.
1:03.3	We're feeling good.
1:04.0	I don't know why I always feel like I got to tell people what time of day it is, but it just
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