Gilded

Dr. Tate R. Hole, PhD and Ariana

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SOCIETY & CULTURE
UPDATED BIWEEKLY

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12/08/2024

IP Slop for Me

Ariana shares her goonette filmgoer experience watching Gladiator 2 featuring the handsome Paul Mescal’s receding hairline; Dr. Hole reviews Heretic. We discuss anti-intellectualism and the dearth of criticism, Pitchfork payola poptimism and its consequences, parasocial celebrity veneration and society’s lack of cultural education. We give you both scathing critique and glowing praise of Wicked and explore anorexia as a social contagion. Finally, we dip our toes into the insidious right-wing propaganda rag Evie Magazine and revisit Ballerina Farm, their 2024 cover girl. We answer our first two listener calls from a lovely lady. She asked what we think about maintaining friendships with people we love who have vastly different political views. Dr. Hole shares her controversial not-at-all-flippant take on being friends with men as we segue into the next question about dating emotionally unavailable men. If you have any questions on your mind or have something you would like to share, please leave us a message at 505-357-0140 and we’ll respond on the show! Sound credits: HARP GLISSANDO UP.wav by olver -- https://freesound.org/s/505063/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 HARP GLISSANDO DOWN.wav by olver -- https://freesound.org/s/505064/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

2h 3m
11/23/2024

United States of Amnesia

Topics discussed: Lawncare, plant homicide, 21-year-old thought leader Olivia Rodrigo’s dating rule, space and deep sea exploration, mermaids and Atlantis, comparing and contrasting the 4B movement with Lysistrata, contextual gummy smiles, Dworkin’s Right Wing Women, and the sugar baby to trad wife pipeline. We offer an election postmortem through the historical lens of Dr. Hole’s kin, Senator Thomas Pryor Gore and Gore Vidal, explaining why, as Vidal often said, we should be called the United States of Amnesia. As a reminder, please call +1 (505) 357-0140 and leave a message for us to play on Gilded if you would like advice, or chime in and tell us something you’re thankful for as we enter the holiday season! 💌 Sound credits: HARP GLISSANDO UP.wav by olver -- https://freesound.org/s/505063/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 HARP GLISSANDO DOWN.wav by olver -- https://freesound.org/s/505064/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

1h 47m
11/16/2024

Aspirational Gangbangs

Aspirational g******g girlbosses, the many controversies of flop pop-star-turned-professional foot pic purveyor Lily Allen, our poet laureate Azealia Banks, why Dr. Hole says chickens are barely people (but men are people too 🥹), trad wives as fetish content, and finding the real ones by living your p***y lip truth. Also we’re announcing the opening of our phone line! Please call +1 (505) 357-0140 and leave a message if you would like advice, or chime in and tell us something you’re thankful for as we enter the holiday season. Sound credits: HARP GLISSANDO UP.wav by olver -- https://freesound.org/s/505063/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 HARP GLISSANDO DOWN.wav by olver -- https://freesound.org/s/505064/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

1h 45m
10/27/2024

Fireside Tales

Join us around the fireplace for our Halloween episode of Gilded! Topics covered: cultural skepticism of ghosts and the supernatural, Ghost Whisperer aka Gilmore Girls for slightly goth bitches, our first horror movies, our shared strange spooky experience at a desert makeout point, Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game, Hat Man and its potential psychological or paranormal implications, Robert the Doll, Gef the Mongoose, the Bell Witch, the Swiss folk tale Sennentuntschi and Dr. Hole’s pitch for a modernized American reimagining thereof, El Cucuy, Kuchisake-Onna (the slit mouthed woman), near-death experience auditory hallucinations, aliens as a cover for nefarious government activities, Elon Musk’s pork skin, the CIA vampire psy-op in the Philippines, Mokele Mbembe, and North Sentinel Island. We read the following listener-submitted ghost stories: Studio City Haunting, A Haunting in LA, and The Woman in the Walls. Sound credits: HARP GLISSANDO UP.wav by olver -- https://freesound.org/s/505063/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 HARP GLISSANDO DOWN.wav by olver -- https://freesound.org/s/505064/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

1h 51m
10/11/2024

Oreo Coke Zero Satanic Ritual Abuse

Topics discussed: Oreo Coke Zero satanic ritual abuse; a tasting of Oreo Coke Zero as requested by Mariano, friend of Gilded Podcast. The deeply unsettling film Cure (1997) dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa; a brief history of hypnosis and mesmerism and its impacts on society today. Direct-to-Amazon trough slop House of Spoils (2024, ft. Steven Seagal apparently, dir. by Who Cares) as a subpar horror-themed The Bear ripoff; anthropomorphized wet cardboard queens Ariana DeBose and Camilla Cabello. The Monroe Institute’s the Gateway Tapes, binaural beats and consciousness, lucid dreaming and nightmare experiences (ft. big cats and Chuck E. Cheese tunnels), helicopter parenting and its consequences, exotic pet ownership, the post-COVID dog ownership landscape. Pickup artists, male manipulators, and The Art of Seduction by vacuous balding moid Robert Greene; why Jordan Peterson proves that incels need healthy father figures; the manosphere. Media’s influence on dating expectations, social media, body image, and societal standards of attractiveness; modern dating culture and the pressure on women to appear self-confident; overcompensation in self-presentation and insecurities; bimbo feminism and Y2K nostalgia. Manipulation tactics in salesmanship and everyday life and their parallels to the stages of demonic possession. Triggers: 30 Sales Tools by Joseph Sugarman; identity formation in marketing; makeup's role in self-perception and identity; the psychological impact of altering appearance through makeup; evolution of fandoms and online spaces and today’s dire lack of community. The Substance (2024), dir. Coralie Fargeat; body horror as representation of the female experience; mainstream discussions on women's experiences in film; declining movie theater etiquette; Dr. Hole’s brilliant movie theater bathroom break innovation ideas. The Diddy allegations; Suge Knight's recent interview with Chris Cuomo; Jeffrey Epstein and abusive networks; industry-wide issues of normalized abusive behavior; the Franklin scandal and Satanic Panic as cover for abuse; Blink Twice (2024), dir. Zoe Kravitz and its commentary on power dynamics; why certain personality types are drawn to positions of power. We close out this cheerful episode with a short Gilded Tale read by Dr. Hole and a guided hypnosis for inner peace read by Ariana. Sound credits: HARP GLISSANDO UP.wav by olver -- https://freesound.org/s/505063/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 HARP GLISSANDO DOWN.wav by olver -- https://freesound.org/s/505064/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Relaxation music #63.wav by ZHRØ -- https://freesound.org/s/697610/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Relaxation music #64.wav by ZHRØ -- https://freesound.org/s/697609/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

1h 39m
09/27/2024

On Gooning

Topics covered: Dr. Hole and Ariana’s favorite and least favorite f****d up films, feat. disturbing classics like The Notebook and The Human Centipede 2; supernatural horror vs. gore; horror as a haven for social outcasts and the fine line between horror fan and gore gooner. Fruit Chan’s Dumplings and the extremes women are pushed to to pursue beauty; Dr. Hole's findings as a budding data scientist on lip fillers/Botox; the Brazilification of America, body dysmorphia, and going into debt for cosmetic procedures. Porn’s impact on beauty standards; parallels between porn and images of extreme images of violence by the way of Sontag; Mondo films as well-meaning educational content, then as propaganda; porn tropes and Lana Del Rey shaping women’s sexual experiences. Sex as power; Salò as Marxist critique of fascism and consumerism, and as possible admission of Pasolini’s Boy Lover mind a la SmartSchoolBoy9; artistic value vs. gratuitous shock content of exploitation cinema; why every pornsick freak needs to watch A Serbian Film. Gooner cultural anthropological analysis; the social pressure of women to accept increasingly extreme pornography; is Lana del Rey the ultimate pick-me goonette? The evolution of Japanese erotica from woodblock prints to the eroguronansensu movement; the impact of Allied occupation and censorship laws on pornography and the birth of Pinku; a case study on porn’s societal impact through public harassment and deep-seated child exploitation issues in Japan. The post-COVID increase of street harassment; the interconnectedness of war, violence, and sexual exploitation of women; and our own radical grey demi-asexual identities. Finally, we read a listener-submitted spooky story about a shadowy visitor as a teaser for our upcoming Halloween event, Gilded Fireside Tales. Please submit your stories at tinyurl.com/gildedtales!

1h 25m
09/14/2024

Theatre Kids Is as Theatre Kids Does

Bella Hadid nootropic beverage and 1980s actresses named Jennifer misinformation, the radical resistance of pronouncing Glossier with an R at the end, being Ebony Raven Darkness D'Mentia Way, BookTok midwittery and female goonery, high IQ mobile games, AI relationship apps, "the talking stage," Perfect Blue and its eerie connections to the death of Selena Quintanilla as outlined in Surreal Idol by Meg Sipos, Ariana Grande's identity confusion mimicry and stone-cold SpongeBob homewrecking, Chappell Roan's meltdowns and why Dr. Hole would fire her if she were her annoying donut shop employee, why curly-haired redheaded Midwestern girl representation matters, Jeanette McCurdy's Hit Book I'm Overjoyed that my Mother is Deceased, child stardom, being fujoshi weeaboo Batman, malevolent female autism fakery and the pathologizing of women's intellectual interests/idiosyncratic personality traits, gender as performance and the compression of womanhood within the gender binary. We announce our upcoming scary stories episode and ask listeners to send in their scary stories at https://tinyurl.com/gildedtales.

1h 22m
09/02/2024

365 Temperate Girl

Dr. Hole's rediscovered hatred of pop music, listening to a song about getting dicked down so hard you can't walk in the middle of Subway, female welders, the rightoid monopoly on culture war issues and moral outrage, the arrest of living Roblox character Bobby George, salt of the earth libtards, GMO weed, potent fermented nootropic placebo beverages, adaptogens, Bella Hadid's brain colonizing bacteria, why Alton Brown is zaddy, and Adam Driver's GI bill Juilliard education swag. Finally, Dr. Hole drunkenly rage baits Ariana about the perils of alcohol and the party girl lifestyle.

1h 31m
09/02/2024

Cackling Kamala

How ASMR could have saved Jeffrey Dahmer, Dr. Hole's misophonic rage, fundamental antisocial brokenness, and love for hot baths, Top of the Lake, Blue MAGA, whether Kamala is brat, Ariana's cracker-sona Mackenzie, Trump losing his rhetorical sauce, Dr. Hole's Hillary Clinton hot sauce slay, reactionary rightoid delusions, Red Scare podcast host coomer sandpaper pussy and pelvic floor atonia, carnivore diet, inflammation as more than just a buzzword, the Ballerina Farms saga, why beautiful men look better without facial hair, Mormon soaking, upcoming buzzy trad wife influencer horror novel and film adaptation Yesteryear, and an update of life out of the pod.

1h 25m
09/02/2024

Escape the Pod

Emma Watson's pubic hair oil and Brown nepotism slay degree, jojoba oil, the struggles of yuppie pod life, the definition of birdbrained, Mormon mommy bloggers, backlash against aspirational girlboss lifestyle and the pressure to have it all, linea albae, the undervaluation of feminized labor, the dehumanizing evils of food delivery apps and the status of gig workers as an underclass of people, Wall-E as prescient dark dystopian film, Dr. Hole and Ariana's border town upbringing, Julia Fox and Emrata's intellectual posturing, Your Fave is Problematic's twisted world that we're all just living in, cultural Protestantism vs. Catholicism, exercise as punishment, movement as hygiene, cankles, an exhaustive list of American Girl dolls and their lore from Kiddles Kidpedia, America as a country of failsons, trad LARPing, regretful parents, being dusty and crusty, House of the Dragon's swaglessness, Dr. Hole's Bridgerton trauma, the retroactive victimization of Shelley Duvall and her legacy, Asia Argento's grooming scandal, and our excitement for our triumphant escapes from the pod.

1h 58m

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