The Spinach King Episode One- The Atrocities of Creamed Spinach

Yeet the Rich

Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss

True Crime, Comedy, History

5.0 • 39 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Welcome back! This week we start our series on the Seabrook family, and C.F. Seabrook, the Spinach King and "Henry Ford of irrigation"! The Seabrooks were a farming dynasty that peaked in the 1950s, and at one point were shipping a third of the vegetables in the United States, only to lose it all a few years later. This episode we get into their humble origins, how irrigation changed their fortunes, their weird family dynamics, the racism that permeated the industry, and break down how ...

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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 pack checks
0:24.0	Rich people
0:25.6	They're having a ball
0:27.3	Rich people been
0:29.4	Fri's on
0:30.7	Hello everybody And welcome back to Yeat the Rich.
0:40.8	I am Emily Walsh, and I'm here with my co-host and husband, Daddy Moss.
0:46.6	Hello, how are you?
0:48.4	Pretty good. I'm pretty good. We had a slow start.
0:51.8	Slow start.
0:52.8	The baby... She is here and ready to party. She's ready to party. We had, we literally sat down. It could not have been written more like a rom-com or something like that. Two parents just trying their best because we had a plan all day. Yeah. We were like, okay, we're going to get this stuff done. And she was ready to go to sleep.
1:11.4	Yeah, we cleaned her diaper. She went a couple of times. So we're like, great, she's settled. She's ready to party. All of her bodily functions are accounted for. And then the second Danny sat down, she pooped through her clothes, his clothes, and the carrier. So we're doing great. We're doing great. You know.
1:27.3	Pause.
1:27.9	Get that cleaned up.
1:28.9	Yeah.
1:29.2	Yeah.
1:29.8	But, you know, we're doing great.
1:31.4	Yeah. the carrier. So we're doing great. We're doing great. We'll just pause, get that cleaned up.
1:49.1	Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, we're doing great. Yeah, we're doing so good. Excited about. Vegetables. Spinach. Frozen stuff. Frozen. They're going to freeze daggers of spinach and stab all their competitors with them. That's not. and then make big blocks of frozen vegetables and throw them in the cogs of the machine.
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