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Yeet the Rich

The Sackler Family Part 1- Both Chutes AND Ladders

Yeet the Rich

Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss

True Crime, Comedy, History

5.039 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week we are starting a Big one. Is finally time for us to talk about The Sackler Family. Emily takes us through the older generation of the Sacklers who built the machine that would later be used to create a nation wide Opioid Epidemic. Arthur Sackler was the man that developed the monster that is modern Pharmaceutical advertisements and got extremely wealthy doing it. This series is gonna be a doozie. I hope you enjoy! Sources: “Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler...

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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 it all went wrong.

0:13.0

Now you don't need to argue, you just sing this song.

0:17.0

It was rich people stacking the dick, rich people with big pack checks, rich people

0:25.7

They're having a ball, rich people been f***ing us on

0:37.3

Hello everybody and welcome back to Eat the Rich.

0:41.9

I am Emily Walsh, and I'm here with my co-host and husband, Danny Moss.

0:46.5

That's right, I am.

0:47.8

And we are about to embark on a journey of sadness.

0:52.0

Uh-oh.

0:52.8

I realized recently, as much as I love making this podcast with you, everyone that tells

0:58.7

me that they listen is like, yeah, but I can't really binge it because I get too

1:04.3

sad.

1:05.6

And I'm like, maybe there's a flaw in our original idea.

1:09.6

Perhaps.

1:10.3

I mean, the problem is we're dealing with like tough systemic problems that every

1:15.6

time you've learned about one, you're like, that too? Yeah, it's some roof stoof.

1:20.4

Some roof stoof. And speaking of roof stoof, speaking of roof stoof, we are getting into a big boy

1:26.0

today. I have been a little intimidated by this topic since we started just because it is vast,

1:33.0

but we're going to go for it.

1:34.8

I honestly have no idea how many parts this is going to be, probably four.

1:40.3

It's a long story.

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