Henrietta Lacks Pt Three- Mouse Men and the HeLa Bomb

Yeet the Rich

Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss

True Crime, Comedy, History

5.0 • 39 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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This week we get into how doctors at John Hopkins purposefully gave misleading information to the public about the HeLa strain. They gave a false name to obscure Henrietta Lack's true name, successfully hiding her identity for about 20 years. We also talk about Chester Southam and some incredibly unethical uses of the Hela cells. He injected over 600 patients with live cancer cells to see if cancer was communicable. Other than a small study with prisoners, he never told the patients abo...

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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 stack in the deck.
0:24.0	Rich people with big back checks.
0:27.3	Rich people, they're having a ball.
0:30.7	Rich people been f*** us on.
0:40.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Yeat the Rich.
0:44.8	I am Emily Walsh, and I am here with my co-host and husband, Danny Moss. Hello, hello, hello.
0:46.5	Wow, how many coffees did you have today?
0:50.7	Only two.
0:52.0	Okay.
0:52.6	Which, you know, I think is pretty good for me. You just came in real hot there. I did. Yeah. Well, because I was doing something stupid with cords that I should have done before we started the podcast. Yeah. Which you can probably now see on the video. Yeah, that's kind of the whole thing is they can see video. Yeah. Yeah. The 12 people that are out there watching the video,
1:12.2	we love you. God bless them, you know. We appreciate you. This is definitely worth it.
1:16.8	Yeah. I hope y'all are enjoying. No one, I mean, maybe people ask for it. I don't even know
1:22.4	anymore. You're grounded. My ground, yes. I hope Kathy is really enjoying our antics.
1:26.7	And other than that, you guys, let us know if you're watching it.
1:30.3	We do get some feedback from time to time. We love feedback. Yeah.
1:36.1	Yeah, I've had two coffees. You didn't ask. I'm going to tell you anyway.
1:40.9	That's too jazz-topped up in my own coffee, exactly.
1:42.5	I know.
1:48.2	One of them I was tired enough to buy,
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