# The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour: Why America’s Elites Are So Out of Touch Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ricochet-superfeed-446950/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-why-america-s-elites-are-so-out-of-touch Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ricochet-superfeed-446950/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-why-america-s-elites-are-so-out-of-touch.md Podcast: [The Ricochet Superfeed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ricochet-superfeed-446950) Published: 2026-06-19T12:16:16+00:00 Episode link: https://ricochet.com/podcast/radio-free-hillsdale-hour/why-americas-elites-are-so-out-of-touch/ Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0c7e618e-d306-498b-89ea-af55014957fe/c846b5d6-dbda-4db3-80c3-af5700e2f321/b5ac3afb-0b8c-41bf-b27b-b46501121c7b/audio.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ricochet-superfeed-446950/episodes/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-why-america-s-elites-are-so-out-of-touch Duration seconds: 2758 ## Resource Guests: Scott W. Rasmussen and Richard Samuelson Host Scot Bertram talks with Scott W. Rasmussen, legendary pollster and political analyst, about the character of American elites and his new book, Out of Touch: The Elite One Percent and the Battle for America’s Soul. And Richard Samuelson, associate professor of government at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C. campus, continues […] ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ricochet-superfeed-446950/episodes/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-why-america-s-elites-are-so-out-of-touch/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ricochet-superfeed-446950/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-why-america-s-elites-are-so-out-of-touch.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.