Hi everyone, Tom here from the Bowery Boys.

The Gilded Age is back for season three on HBO,

and I'm co-hosting the official Gilded Age podcast,

along with Alicia Malone from TCM.

Every week we examine the history that is packed into every TV episode,

and we interview the actors and the artists who bring the show to life.

You can find new podcasts every Sunday night after the TV show airs, and this season you

can also watch us too, on HBO Max, on YouTube, or wherever you watch videos.

And over here on the Gilded Gentleman podcast, Carl will be having a little fun too with a series of tie-in shows also related to the Gilded Age television show and some of its most interesting characters.

But first, let's go back to one of Carl's earliest shows, exploring the life of one of the Gilded Age's most interesting women, both

on the TV show and in real life.

That's Mrs. Caroline Skirmahorn Astor.

In a classic Gilded Gentleman episode featuring special guest Tom Miller from the website

Daytonian in Manhattan.

And now, enjoy the show.

Caroline Aster, known just as Mrs. Aster,

has often been thought of hands down as the most well-known

and powerful person in Gilded Age society.

She ruled with an iron fist clad in a soft calfskin glove from Paris,

of course. With a wave of her bejeweled hand, you were either in or you were out. And if she

chose not to know you, well, you just might as well pack up your social climbing dreams and take the next

train to Toledo. But just who was this woman that ruled over the Gilded Age elite? Well,

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