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Eat The Rich

271 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 518 ratings

Eat The Rich is a show about our political economy, late stage capitalism, and the millionaires, billionaires, and multinational corporations hell bent on staving off its death rattle.

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Theme song by Gavin Castleton.

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Ep 018 - Tucker Carlson with Jordan Uhl

December 11, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 95.3 MB

Burgeoning fascism, right wing propaganda, white nationalist fan base: obviously we're talking about a preppy, private school heir! This week Jordan Uhl joins us to talk about Tucker Carlson, Fox News, and how they have become the mainstream mouthpieces for nationalist extremists.

Ep 017 - Michael Bloomberg with Mike

December 04, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 99.5 MB

How do you stop a bad guy with a billion dollars? A good guy with a billion dollars. This week, Mike (@aniceburrito) joins us to discuss Michael Bloomberg, his draconian NYPD, authoritarianism, and his penchant for food so salty it'll turn your mouth into a dried-out prehistoric riverbed.

Ep 016 - Thanksgiving Special

November 27, 2019 10:24 - 1 hour - 97.1 MB

We would like to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving! But did you know it was created as a federal holiday by Lincoln in an effort towards unification after the Civil War not to mention its saccharine white washing of indigenous genocide? This week, we give this federal holiday the Eat The Rich treatment.

Ep 015 - Roger Stone with Will Sommer

November 19, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 95.9 MB

Come for the verdict, stay for the sentencing! This week Will Sommer joins us to talk the trial of Roger Stone, the over-the-top dandy who made his career lobbying on behalf of human rights abuse.

Ep 014 - The McMahons with Leslie Lee III

November 12, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 117 MB

Lack of living wages, union busting, borderline human rights abuses: that's WWE folks! This week we are joined by Leslie Lee III to talk about Vince McMahon, Linda McMahon, and their litany of anti-worker policies they've used to enrich themselves.

Ep 013 - WeWork with Sam Knight

November 05, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 108 MB

Want to watch Capitalism metastasize in real time? Watch the story of WeWork unfold! This week we're joined by Sam Knight of The District Sentinel to discuss WeWork: the completely obnoxious (and very rich) founders, the ridiculous permutations of their business model, and the apparatus of Capital desperate to lend them money.

Ep 012 - Televangelist Trash

October 30, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 114 MB

What do these three televangelists have in common? Is it piety, charity, devotion to the ministry? Nope. It's federal investigations! This week we talk about a few televangelists with varying diagnoses of depravity, grandeur, and just straight up tax-evasion.

Ep 001 - Waltons - Re-release

October 21, 2019 09:00 - 54 minutes - 50.6 MB

You asked, so we're delivering. This week we re-release our pilot episode talking about the Waltons. This venerable band of siblings are the heirs to one of the most corrosive, ubiquitous, and exploitative multinational corporations out there. What you learn may not surprise you.....but it totally will.

Ep 011 - Gilded Age Garbage

October 10, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 82.4 MB

If it's true that history repeats itself, we've got some bad news... This week we take a look into three curious cases of wanton Capitalism from the Gilded Age. You will be repulsed by an heir, confounded by a dumb lucky maniac adventurer, and frankly grossed out by a puritanical rich cereal killer. We also take some of your Curious Cat questions.

Ep 010 - Google

September 30, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 109 MB

By far, one of the most shockingly infuriating episodes we've done. This week, we pull back the curtain on the saccharine, ukulele and whistling face of good ol' cuddly Google and show the true nature of an arrogant, crazed, and unfeeling monolith hell-bent on creating shareholder value at any cost.

Ep 009 - With Tarence Ray

September 17, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 70 MB

We are very honored to have Tarence Ray of the Trillbilly Worker's Party join us for this episode. We discuss the Blackjewel Coal miner's protest in Harlan County, KY, the apparatus of shell corporations and bankruptcy protections exploited by Blackjewel's CEO, Jeff Hoops, and, most insanely, the Roman theme park he is concurrently trying to build in West Virginia. Folks, welcome back to Eat The Rich.

Ep 009 - With Guest Tarence Ray

September 17, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 70 MB

We are very honored to have Tarence Ray of the Trillbilly Worker's Party join us for this episode. We discuss the Blackjewel Coal miner's protest in Harlan County, KY, the apparatus of shell corporations and bankruptcy protections exploited by Blackjewel's CEO, Jeff Hoops, and, most insanely, the Roman theme park he is concurrently trying to build in West Virginia. Folks, welcome back to Eat The Rich.

Ep 008 - Gina Rinehart With Cari Hernandez

September 10, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MB

What's cooler than a billion dollars? INHERITING a billion dollars. Cari (@eatinginmycar) joins us to tell us about Australia's mining billionaire most prominently known for unearned wealth, an extremely racist father, and sorta kinda wanting to import a labor force to work for $2 per day (because Australians don't WANT to work badly enough). Friends, welcome to Gina Rinehart's Thunderdome.

Ep 008 - Gina Rinehart With Guest Cari

September 10, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MB

What's cooler than a billion dollars? INHERITING a billion dollars. Cari (@eatinginmycar) joins us to tell us about Australia's mining billionaire most prominently known for unearned wealth, an extremely racist father, and sorta kinda wanting to import a labor force to work for $2 per day (because Australians don't WANT to work badly enough). Friends, welcome to Gina Rinehart's Thunderdome.

Ep 007 - The Pizza Zealots

September 04, 2019 11:08 - 1 hour - 109 MB

Gonna be another wild one for you. This week we discuss Gorbechev's nihilistic descent into Capitalism, Domino's founder Tom Monaghan's attempt to create a Catholic caliphate, and Herman Cain's 1980s corporate hellscape. Join us for a look into the religious and corporate zealots behind some of America's pizza chains.

Ep 006 - The Bushes

August 23, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 108 MB

Ahhh the Bushes. A venerable, noble family of WASPs that have shaped generations. They're rich, they're powerful, and they got their money from slave wealth and Nazi war profiteering?! The media and talk show hosts love to remember George W Bush as a clumsy, folksy, loveable President back when Republicans were noble. They laud George H.W. Bush wistfully as the grandfather he was, but did he grow up with a father that tried to perform a corporate coup d'etat in the US? Buckle up for Episod...

Ep 005 - With Guest Eli Valley

August 16, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 78.2 MB

Eli Valley joins Eat The Rich to describe his arrest during the ICE protest at the NYC Amazon Store this week. We talk burgeoning US fascism, how companies that profit from it, and how Anthony Scaramucci made a failed musical about the Trump family.

Ep 005 - With Eli Valley

August 16, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 78.2 MB

Eli Valley joins Eat The Rich to describe his arrest during the ICE protest at the NYC Amazon Store this week. We talk burgeoning US fascism, how companies that profit from it, and how Anthony Scaramucci made a failed musical about the Trump family.

Ep 004 - Rich Boys Of The Dem Primary

August 10, 2019 17:07 - 1 hour - 106 MB

What's better than one millionaire? TWENTY millionaires running for the Democratic nomination! Are there any that have earned their money in particularly devastating ways? YES! We'll talk about three of the rich boys of the Democratic primary race: John Hickenlooper, Tom Steyer, and John "The Maryland Muscles" Delaney. Turns out they're such big piles of garbage we had to do an extended episode.

Ep 003 - Jim Justice League

August 01, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 87.1 MB

What do Gov. Jim Justice, Don "Cocaine Mitch" Blankenship, and Mylan Pharmaceuticals CEO Heather Bresch have in common? They're all screwing the working class (and occasionally throwing things at them)! Welcome to Part TWO of our dive into West Virginia coal extraction and the bizarre cast of characters surrounding it.

Ep 002 - Chris Cline

July 25, 2019 09:00 - 50 minutes - 57.5 MB

What's the point of a state having natural resources if you can't have all of the benefits go to one person? Especially if the resource is one of the dirtiest, cheapest, most polluting fossil fuels we have? Of course we're talking about a coal billionaire! This week we talk about Chris Cline, native son of West Virginia and recent graduate of the Bermuda Triangle Institute of Technology. We take a look into his past, present, and the curious reasoning behind being called a "philanthropist" w...

Guests

Bill Gates
1 Episode
Chris Smith
1 Episode
Jeff Bezos
1 Episode
Nancy Pelosi
1 Episode