Spelade
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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 Episode 006. -
The Menendez bros, Reggie and Ron Kray, Wednesday and Pugsley Addams: all COMPLETE amateurs in destruction compared to these siblings.
This week we discuss Betsy Devos and Erik Prince, members of a family that have worked tirelessly to maim and wipe out as many of us as possible in the name of wealth, or faith, or, something... -
What happens when you entrust the dissemination of political and economic happenings to bunch of billionaire media moguls? Mostly a lot of pharmaceutical ads honestly.
This week, Ken Klippenstein joins us to talk Ted Turner, CNN, and corporate media in general. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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" when you give away only 0.3125% of your net worth!
