Gilded Age

Is Democracy over in the U.S.? It sure might be.

Alex and Walker talk with David Daley, the author of the national best-seller on partisan gerrymandering "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count" and "Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy," about how colossally f*cked we'll be when the GOP gerrymanders congressional and state legislative districts in the coming months.

Congressional Democrats could stop this, but some senators and the president seem content to cede power to the anti-democratic GOP for the next decade or more.

Epidemiologist, geneticist, and Ph.D. Deepti Gurdasani, a senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, joins Gilded Age to debunk myths about Covid-19, including some spread by health experts and governments, and answer questions about health and safety precautions.

Epidemiologist and Harvard fellow Justin Feldman talks with the Gilded Boys about the United States' mishandling of Covid-19 and whether, or if, the pandemic will end.

Mark and Walker have a wide-ranging discussion with author and former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson about the corporate oligarchy that dominates the U.S., spirituality, Covid-19, and lots more.

The Gilded Boys chat with Eoin Higgins about demilitarizing the police, especially how it relates to the Jan. 6 insurrection. We also discuss the controversy surrounding those $2,000—er, $1,400—checks that Biden's pushing for.

New York State Rep. Ron Kim joins the Gilded Boys to talk about the dire circumstances in his state due to COVID-19 and the governor's refusal to raise taxes on billionaires to fund relief efforts.

Alex and Walker talk about the election and Democratic Party down-ballot failures with journalist Malaika Jabali. We recorded this the day after Election Day.

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The Gilded Boys speak with academic, author, and PhD Sara Kamali about white nationalist militancy in the United States—how it originates, and what we can do to stop it.

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The Gilded Boys review Republicans' "anti-anti-racism" platform and the failure of the The Democrats™ to meet fascism with substance. The second half of our discussion will be released later this week for our premium members.

Mark and Walker discuss how precariously perched we are on a cliff overlooking nuclear catastrophe.

At last, we know who Joe Biden's running mate is. The Gilded Boys review Kamala Harris' history of being "tough on crime" and evaluate Biden's pick in a time of mass protest against police brutality and a draconian criminal justice system.

Former Bernie Sanders surrogate Nomiki Konst and Democratic National Committee member Brent Welder join the Gilded Boys to discuss the DNC's horrendous platform votes against a ban on corporate lobbyists, Medicare for All, legalizing pot, and many more no-brainers.

Author, professor, and war veteran Roy Scranton comes on the pod to talk about how the climate, and the fate of human civilization, has changed since publishing his 2015 book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. Sponsored by Chevron®.

In Part One of Climate Deadline, Walker, Mark, and Alex discuss just how supremely f*cked the planet is in the context of three important books on climate change. Plus, birds are freaking dinosaurs!! 

In this premium episode for our patrons, the Gilded Boys sit down with journalist and photographer Jack Crosbie of the new Discourse Blog to discuss the media's useless 'thinkfluence' industry. Huge charities like the Knight Foundation have billions of dollars, but are they using them effectively?

Documentary filmmaker and environmental activist Josh Fox joins the Gilded Boys to talk about how to get us off of fossil fuels, pipeline protests, environmental racism, and other important topics.

In this premium episode for our patrons, Alex and Walker sit down with extremism reporter Jared Holt to discuss how prominent white nationalists are finally being kicked off of social media platforms. Plus, racist tweets from Turning Point USA Diaper Boy Caleb Hull!

Should Facebook censor its users' posts? What do we do about hate speech online? Is Mark Zuckerberg actually Godzilla? Alex, Mark, and Walker discuss speech and liability issues, the ills of giant social media companies, and potential solutions.

Alex, Mark, and Walker dissect the ills of the corporate media and its utter failure to produce accurate and independent reporting in the time of the Movement for Black Lives and Donald Trump. Popula founder Maria Bustillos joins the Gilded Boys in the second half to examine why The New York Times and other mainstream outlets cover for violent cops, mischaracterize Trump, and more broadly...suck.

Alex, Mark, and Walker explain how a 1976 Supreme Court decision, Buckley v. Valeo, set the stage for a corporate takeover of U.S. elections. Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) joins us for an interview at the end of the episode.

Black Lives Matter.

The Gilded Boys discuss the Biden Boys, relics from the Clinton-era past who are catastrophically advising the presumptive Democratic nominee.

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