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@mattwinfield9411
October 16, 2026 at 3:48 pm
love this guy. he was really annoyed about that leather chair
@ChurchOfThought
October 16, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Your Love?
@squirrelinarmor
October 16, 2026 at 4:04 pm
It intrigues me to think that the gilded age is so romanticized, despite being wrought with wealth inequality. Having personally juxtaposed this, I find it infuriating that we live in possibly the most wealth inequal United States currently. No doubt, this was in part brought about by the advancement of AI. With these AI models, among other things, now being used to paint a wrongful picture of the past, is it exactly what one would expect? I think it may be; however one interprets it, I feel that observing human history, it’s funny in a disappointing way. Like so many other human actions, try as you may to do something about it, but in the end I guess you just have to laugh about some things.
@MousesHouses
October 16, 2026 at 4:14 pm
One of the best of this series! I would LOVE to see a Part 2!!!
@ChurchOfThought
October 16, 2026 at 5:32 pm
Your Best?
@EvilPigPowers
October 16, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Can I go back in time and have this dude be my history teacher? Would have loved history class with a teacher that passionate about history.
@craigbenz4835
October 16, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Warning: The number of ads in this video is obscene.
@ChurchOfThought
October 16, 2026 at 5:32 pm
Your Warm?
@toxicitysux
October 16, 2026 at 4:31 pm
don’t even think about AI around this guy😂
@ChurchOfThought
October 16, 2026 at 5:32 pm
Your AI?
@toxicitysux
October 16, 2026 at 5:35 pm
im ai with the braidzzz🥶🔥
@Speed-Daemon-123
October 16, 2026 at 4:39 pm
We must be in a new gilded age, I just saw horse 💩 in the street today.
@corvidsRcool
October 16, 2026 at 4:57 pm
My new favorite fact checker. Carl Raymond is fabulous!
@ChurchOfThought
October 16, 2026 at 5:32 pm
Your Carl?
@CriminalMynd
October 16, 2026 at 5:32 pm
“Have you ever tried to eat a croissant in bed??” 🤭
@ChurchOfThought
October 16, 2026 at 5:39 pm
Your Hotel?
@AhmedAlhamidi-v2e
October 16, 2026 at 5:47 pm
I was in the Brooklyn Bridge in a class trip
@TheAlexSchmidt
October 16, 2026 at 6:22 pm
3:45 huh so Shrek 2 wasn’t making it up?
@andreasfort1599
October 16, 2026 at 6:26 pm
Side stepping Isabella Steward Gardner who bought up a Vermeer?
@applejuice_foo423
October 16, 2026 at 6:35 pm
My favorite historian once said “The Gilded age is the historical equivalent to your landlord painting over molded walls”
@Grantonioful
October 16, 2026 at 7:13 pm
This made me mad, I can’t imagine how much rage he’s suppressing
@garlicandglitter1286
October 16, 2026 at 7:14 pm
So excited to check out his podcast!
@astriferoussprite
October 16, 2026 at 7:21 pm
15:33 not just ballgowns, but ahistorical ones. They’re not tight enough to be late 1870s when women temporarily abandoned the bustle, but they’re lacking the bustles that made 1870s and 1880s dresses so, well, shelf-butt.
@elizabethbennet4791
October 16, 2026 at 7:34 pm
When do we get to the part when emma goldman bombs stuff and labor protests and they try to take over the government(look up the “business plot 1933)?
@edv2411
October 16, 2026 at 7:43 pm
NEXT!!! 😂
@ShaunShadari
October 16, 2026 at 7:45 pm
Lots of projection going on in these comments.
@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme
October 16, 2026 at 7:48 pm
2:30 as a fashion history enthusiast i am frothing with rage. CORSETS DID NOT BREAK RIBS. AND NO POCKETS???????????????????????????????????? THEY HAD 5 TIMES THE POCKETS OF WOMEN TODAY WTF
@iveyao120
October 16, 2026 at 7:53 pm
This man ain’t holding back the roast, and I love it.
@stilelits
October 16, 2026 at 7:59 pm
26:00 animating historical images is one of the few legit uses that i recognize for ai image generation…as long as it doesn’t try to introduce anything ridiculous, it CAN really bring them to life
@NumNumbat
October 16, 2026 at 8:42 pm
Some fashion vloggers do say that corsets were not that restricting. They just created an illusion of a thin waist. People needed to function in them.
@ununuh
October 16, 2026 at 8:46 pm
Visit the tenement museum in NYC. Fascinating!
@janehates
October 16, 2026 at 9:16 pm
Ironically this video did get me more interested in studying the Gilded Age
@NingDaLord
October 17, 2026 at 6:38 am
Love this Fact Checking series
@seantlewis376
October 17, 2026 at 7:35 am
I like that some attention was given to the less than wealthy lifestyles. All that luxury for the wealthy was made by the people on the bottom end of the stack.
@MikePulcinellaVideo
October 17, 2026 at 8:18 am
The spread of this kind of misinformation will be the downfall of civilization. It kind of has already started.
@jonnie7891
October 17, 2026 at 8:25 am
Who is this diva?? He so was disgusted and annoyed and I live for it.
@NewtonHatesMe
October 17, 2026 at 8:45 am
i believe that lemon in a bowl thing was a test in the movie “Scarface”, cannot remember the details.
@nickneuharth
October 17, 2026 at 9:16 am
He’s so wonderfully bitchy. Love him ❤
@BinglybertSlaptyback
October 17, 2026 at 10:43 am
Go Carl! Great job!
@tittyfartcramps
October 17, 2026 at 11:07 am
LOVE THESE FACT CHECKS!
@duck8dodgers
October 17, 2026 at 1:08 pm
Yay Carl! Always good to see you even if it’s ok the screen. The Observatory has been just a little less posh since you left.
@actiondork
October 17, 2026 at 1:24 pm
People use surgery now instead of corsets.
@prsanfrancisco1688
October 17, 2026 at 1:31 pm
I like when the millionaire wakes in his mansion on fifth Avenue… And stands straight up in bed because there is no mattress? A hole in the mattress? He has no legs?
@Fatherofheroesandheroines
October 17, 2026 at 1:31 pm
The Gilded Age looked like the “I’m too lazy to do actual research” age! I am all for AI at times, but you have to actually TRY.
@FiorentinaNJ
October 17, 2026 at 1:32 pm
Carl is the BEST! Bravissimo Gilded Gentleman 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@Amaspa5555
October 17, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Love the disgust at AI, iconic
Also love how people today cosplay Gilded Age rich people, while those people during that age cosplayed rich Renaissance europeans lol
@kevin-b4e6i
October 17, 2026 at 3:07 pm
Lobster are you kidding? Lobster was food for the poor,dog food, or for prisoners.
@GlassDeviant
October 17, 2026 at 3:26 pm
20:23 One other thing about the condition of the roads, or perhaps two: There were no painted lines, the clip looks like a modern road cleared for this scene. And even if they had painted lines back then, you wouldn’t have been able to see them under the layers of filth.
@PaladinDansesGirlfriend
October 17, 2026 at 5:12 pm
The fancy version of The Ditch Guy and I’m here for it
@GlennC789
October 17, 2026 at 5:13 pm
I’m addicted to the Nero Wolfe novels partly as a casual sort of amateur cultural anthropologist of the American century. It’s saddening how pop culture notions are cartoonishly distorted, leading to serious misunderstandings about almost everything. Nero Wolfe came well after the Gilded Age but there are echoes at least of the Roaring Twenties, then the depression, the war, and the dramatic postwar era when peace, prosperity, and the compression of wealth inequality coincided.
Nero Wolfe had an elevator, liked money and lived in a roomy double-width Manhattan brownstone, but was dedicated to justice and integrity and always paid every cent of tax he owed even at his marginal rate well above eighty percent, while only occasionally complaining.
@DrCilantro
October 17, 2026 at 5:38 pm
This will be more necessary than ever because people are reposting all times of nonsense.
@mmcmullen8543
October 17, 2026 at 5:50 pm
“you would be entertaining your 400 closest friends”
I don’t even know that many people
@SkyeSoleil
October 17, 2026 at 6:51 pm
I would listen to this guy for hours. I hadn’t even thought the type of chair men and women sat in was different. Imagine all the other things he knows
@bones37
October 17, 2026 at 7:45 pm
15:25 don’t these people have jobs?!?!
@evynart7415
October 17, 2026 at 7:58 pm
400 of your closest friends is hilarious
@TomTom-yu1xp
October 17, 2026 at 8:25 pm
I miss the Jukes and the Kallikaks.
@galeng57
October 17, 2026 at 8:45 pm
There’s an image you said you liked. Look at the flag(s) in that clip/image. There are way too many stars on that flag.
@trahylime
October 17, 2026 at 10:05 pm
Oh he’s great, I love him
@tatiscolombia
October 17, 2026 at 10:24 pm
I’m not particularly interested in the Gilded Age but I loved this video and this expert. Really interesting
@RealSaintB
October 17, 2026 at 11:10 pm
2:30 I live in the town where Spirella has it’s headquarters, they built made to order corsets that used flexible, springy, steel instead of whalebone and whatever. They built to order and the company still existed when I was born in 1984, but was sold in 1985 and dismantled by 89.
@GoldenPickaxe
October 17, 2026 at 11:25 pm
It took you
How many of these to find someone that doesn’t like it LOL
@GoldenPickaxe
October 17, 2026 at 11:49 pm
19:30 idk about 200 years ago but modern croissants produce less crumbs than toast soooo
@peni1641
October 18, 2026 at 12:03 am
But for the most part, these ppl weren’t American, they were colonizers or children of colonizers. American Presidents included. They are mostly German, French pan Europeans. That’s why they look alike
@a0z905
October 18, 2026 at 2:24 am
This man needs to lend his no hold’s barred commentary to every single thing happening in the world right now.
@Kate-ms2mn
October 18, 2026 at 4:56 am
I was curious about what theatre vestibules might look like, so I google image searched it. Did not expect to see so many vulvae…
@lounamana
October 18, 2026 at 8:02 am
3:44 Am sorry to say i saw an american doing this at a bistro in Paris…they had chicken wings…didn’t use the wipe didn’t dip hands in bowl 😬 they drunk the lemon water 😅😂
@azarashi_lessthan3
October 18, 2026 at 8:34 am
please bring carl raymond back for future videos! he’s amazing and super informative and entertaining!
@nickpaul3623
October 18, 2026 at 8:36 am
Those streets look much cleaner than they do today.
@kryptofreak74
October 18, 2026 at 8:39 am
29:00 Guess the system didn’t “collabs, Perhaps” when Astor died….
@transbian_mousegirl
October 18, 2026 at 12:41 pm
bro is yelling for no reason
@KateEllenSkalka
October 18, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Can we have him back again? Because this was a delight.
@TMIDiva
October 18, 2026 at 3:14 pm
Here in Pasadena, we have the Huntington Library and Gardens. The homes ground floor is sumptous and gives a glimpse of this era.
@MerOrMerlin
October 18, 2026 at 6:56 pm
“in the 1900 the civil war had been over for 30 years 😒” PREACH
@blueprairiedog
October 19, 2026 at 7:51 pm
35, actually.
@Timelog88
October 18, 2026 at 7:14 pm
20:35 modern cars 😂
@track1949
October 18, 2026 at 7:33 pm
Why did he waste his time watching any of it???
@adelem1955
October 18, 2026 at 9:28 pm
If you enjoyed this video, you should listen to his podcast, “The Gilded Gentleman”. A new one comes out twice a month, and he covers so many topics related to that amazing period in time.
@rosemadder5547
October 18, 2026 at 11:24 pm
0:38 already went and followed your podcast 😂 I know instantly that I’ll like listening to you
@rosemadder5547
October 18, 2026 at 11:29 pm
5:53 didn’t some rich lady do this? And all the Americans gossiped that it was too try hard and new money?
@Stevros999
October 18, 2026 at 11:32 pm
I thought it was really good 👍
@BubbleGumzKorner
October 19, 2026 at 1:53 am
11:45 up all night at the Astors? Oh, yeah, that cocaine was FLOWING
@BubbleGumzKorner
October 19, 2026 at 1:58 am
16:00 the cliffwalk is still there. I have worked festivals in the homes
@FTZPLTC
October 19, 2026 at 3:00 am
5:08 WHAT?!
@GenomancerBot
October 19, 2026 at 3:07 am
Before watching, will he mention the fact that brownoids are forced into every historic media?
@zejaguar
October 19, 2026 at 4:50 am
Living under such social pressure was insane. If I was rich in those days, I would find excuses to avoid such weirdness.
@RedPanda79
October 19, 2026 at 6:50 am
The faces of disgust on these experts face😅
@CEOCthulhu
October 19, 2026 at 7:22 am
This guy is great. I just want him to review stuff.
@hoofhearted4
October 19, 2026 at 9:58 am
We need contrasting videos where he reacts to well done AI videos (like he did for a bit at the end). I want to see these videos and see these people react to them.
@LowlanderReincarnate
October 19, 2026 at 11:26 am
You didn’t have to do my boy like that in the thumbnail why did you give him a tiny little hand.
@SlayerofFiction
October 19, 2026 at 7:07 pm
I think the 70s kids were the last to have whiskey rubbed on their gums.
@JoeyDCote
October 19, 2026 at 11:11 pm
Don’t care, love the show.
@DetailDisoriented
October 20, 2026 at 9:54 am
This video isn’t about the show.
@VICTORIALYELOCK
October 20, 2026 at 11:23 am
I LOVE this.
@100mssnipes5
October 20, 2026 at 1:35 pm
Not even AI wants to do it’s Homework
@triphonia444
October 20, 2026 at 1:45 pm
He’s definitely a girl dad 😂😂
@Cadychan
October 20, 2026 at 2:06 pm
Can we get the poor guy a drink, at least?
@megmca
October 20, 2026 at 2:57 pm
I love the modern street markings on some of those streets. They weren’t paved with asphalt or concrete either.
@kaitlynnp582
October 20, 2026 at 6:44 pm
Corsets were also padded out. Hips and bust could have little pillows, making a greater contrast between them and the waist.
@elizabethlblock_author
October 20, 2026 at 9:04 pm
Love all of this, Carl Raymond! NEXT! Anyway, off to listen to The Gilded Gentleman podcast
@trm90
October 21, 2026 at 1:38 pm
Not to sound incredibly uneducated but I had no idea the HBO show’s overarching storylines were pretty similar to history
@christinecassone5050
October 21, 2026 at 2:39 pm
Carl is the best! Love his podcast
@Jazzy-n-NYC
October 22, 2026 at 7:34 am
Great job Carl ! So fun!
@FlameOnTheBeat
October 22, 2026 at 7:38 am
5:09 I also just stand up in my bed like a robot when I wake up.
@LSTEdD1
October 22, 2026 at 5:52 pm
😅😂🤣
@tjt5055
October 22, 2026 at 4:23 pm
Wild how much cultural caché Europe had at the time. Feels like nobody in America with money today cares about what the Parisians or Viennese are doing
@SavvaMaster-p8c9m
October 23, 2026 at 8:36 am
once again is just spreading misinformation
@KrisC849
October 23, 2026 at 9:03 am
I admire how mad it makes him, everyone around me seems to think this is normal.
@k-onlegacy
October 23, 2026 at 11:19 pm
I wa so curious about the Gilded Age as a history nerd, I love architectural/city history
@sademcmurrin
October 24, 2026 at 2:30 am
Not even a minute in and I already love this guy
@АлексПротасов-о9е
October 24, 2026 at 3:36 am
i am Russian, i like this guy
@Alxin-b7u
October 24, 2026 at 3:56 am
6:03 the guy just moving a concrete block like it’s paper is ridicolous
@grumpyed58
October 24, 2026 at 9:20 am
Well done. History and very entertaining
@lordofuzkulak8308
October 24, 2026 at 9:48 am
14:17 – technically, wouldn’t she be the second? Unless she drove her own carriage, the driver would’ve made it across a couple seconds before her. ;p
@DarlingKnight
October 24, 2026 at 10:11 am
I HATE generative AI and I HATE that we have to live in this timeline. I’m so done
@marygoround1292
October 24, 2026 at 6:55 pm
I could watch these fact check videos all day
@muffinconsumer4431
October 24, 2026 at 7:37 pm
3:47 delicious soup
@HeatherFeather19-y2v
October 24, 2026 at 11:17 pm
There seems to be a great misconception about corsets. I represent the historical costuming community when I say that, as a standard, corsets weren’t designed to be uncomfortable. On the contrary, corsets were used to achieve the fashionable silhouette and styles of whichever era it was. Yes, a minority of women did tight lace or lace their corsets to a point wherein they were extremely uncomfortable to achieve a smaller waist or what have you; however, this was a minority and very uncommon, as most women weren’t trying to purposefully harm themselves for the sake of fashion. Again, corsets were not harmful in any manner as designed, but could be manipulated to produce harm. I hope this clears things up. Please stop perpetuating this stereotype that corsets were evil. If you are interested in learning more, I recommend checking out Nicole Rudolph’s videos on this or Abby Cox’s channel as they both talk in length about these topics. This notwithstanding, the video was great! 🙂