🎩 High-stakes games, a mustachioed legend, and one hell of a revenge story—this episode has it all! Eleanor Dumont, better known as Madame Mustache, was a sharp-witted gambler, a successful businesswoman, and a woman way ahead of her time. From outplaying men at their own game to tracking down her con artist husband and personally delivering justice, her story is as wild as the Wild West itself.
😲 Why did the world remember her mustache more than her empire?
🎲 How did she run the classiest gambling hall in the lawless West?
🔫 And what was her final, dramatic exit?
🔥 Get ready for gambling, crime, whiskey, and Wild West nonsense!
📌 Chapters & Timestamps:
0:00 - Welcome to Rainy Day Rabbit Holes
2:10 - Jody wears a mustache for the occasion
9:45 - Eleanor Dumont takes over the gambling scene
26:30 - The ultimate revenge: tracking down her husband
30:20 - Madame Mustache’s high-class brothel
36:45 - The final hand: how Eleanor’s story ends
🎧 Listen now & fall down the rabbit hole!
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