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Nov 2, 2026
DJ PetrovskiHOST
Hall, Magic, Los Angeles, California, Philosophical Research Sock, page 46.
DJ PetrovskiHOST
Quicksilver, which was one of the things the early Astor family traded in, was one of the primary items employed in the alchemical transmutations.
DJ PetrovskiHOST
The oxide produced using quicksilver was considered magical and mystically identified with the god Osiris.
DJ PetrovskiHOST
As the reader may have already figured out, alchemy practiced hermetic magic from ancient Egypt.
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DJ PetrovskiHOST
In fact, the six-pointed star was so significant to them that Meyer Amschel Boer decided to adopt it as his new name.
DJ PetrovskiHOST
Meyer Amschel Rothschild, Rothschild equals Red Shield.
DJ PetrovskiHOST
I believe this was done to identify his family with occultism and the likes of Saturn or Ashtoreth, whom the Astors are named after.
DJ PetrovskiHOST
Meyer was sent to be a rabbi when he was 10 in 1753.
Stephen GloverGUEST
The Observer was a right-wing newspaper before the war.
Stephen GloverGUEST
And then it was taken over, the Astors had owned it for some time, but David Astor was a sort of young, a young liberal, took over the editing of the, the editorship of the Observer, I think very much at the end of the war.
Stephen GloverGUEST
He'd fought in the war.
Stephen GloverGUEST
And
Kathryn VanArendonkHOST
Agnes is played by Christine Baranski and Ada is played by the one and only Cynthia Nixon.
Kathryn VanArendonkHOST
They, along with the Astors and the, you know, Morgans, they represent this old money New York, but...
Kathryn VanArendonkHOST
Things are changing.
Kathryn VanArendonkHOST
The steel barons are coming up.
Kathryn VanArendonkHOST
Agnes is played by Christine Baranski and Ada is played by the one and only Cynthia Nixon.
Kathryn VanArendonkHOST
They, along with the Astors and the, you know, Morgans, they represent this old money New York, but...
Kathryn VanArendonkHOST
Things are changing.
Kathryn VanArendonkHOST
The steel barons are coming up.
Kimberley SheltonHOST
They've determined the rules of society.
Kimberley SheltonHOST
We've got the Astors.
Kimberley SheltonHOST
We'll learn about Mrs. Astor more as we go in.
Kimberley SheltonHOST
The Van Ryans.
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Kimberley SheltonHOST
So then we have the heart of the season, Ada's late love.
Cindy BrownHOST
Oh.
Kimberley SheltonHOST
The first episode of the season, we meet Luke Forte, who's the new minister at everyone's church on Fifth Avenue, the Van Rydens and the Russells and the Astors and everyone who's anybody.
Kimberley SheltonHOST
And although her sister objected to it, Ada falls in love with Luke.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
To deal with the Morgan group, therefore, as opposed to Kuhn and Loeb, for example, was in some circles almost a point of national patriotism.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
When J.P. Morgan Sr. died in 1913, people were shocked to learn that his estate was valued at only $68 million, a paltry sum compared to the fortunes held by the Vanderbilts, Astors, and Rockefellers.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
It was even more believable when Jack Morgan died in 1943 and left an estate valued at only $16 million.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
A small amount had been transferred to members of their families prior to their deaths, but that did not account for the vast fortunes which they visibly controlled during their lives.
Jason JorjaniGUEST
reasons.
Jason JorjaniGUEST
So you're like rivals with the Astors or something? Yes.
Jason JorjaniGUEST
He was? Okay.
Jason JorjaniGUEST
John Jacob Astor, who died that night, had decided to fund and back Tesla.
JoshHOST
I
CammiHOST
would love a show about the lineage of the Astors and the Rockefellers.
CammiHOST
Who are they now?
JoshHOST
Like what are
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
And I want to mention just one family, the Russell family, and you'll know why in a second.
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
Because the Russell family was intimately involved in the opium trade with J.P. Morgan family and many of the others, Cabot, Astors, the Perkins family, all gained their initial wealth on opium trade.
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
Why is the Russell family so important? Because it was the Russell family that set up the Russell Trust that created Skull and Bones.
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
Well, I know
JoeHOST
The conversation started with rich families whose relatives had died aboard.
JoeHOST
Families such as the Astors, the Guggenheims, and the Wideners, which is a hell of a name.
JoeHOST
A man's name.
JoeHOST
I wonder if it's supposed to be Widener, but let's go with Widener.
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