Trillbilly Worker's Party

This week we do some Devil's Milkshake revisionism, talk about the mental deterioration of Pelosi and Biden, and discuss the significance of the ICJ case/UNRWA moral panic Please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we're joined by writer Lily Lynch (@lilyslynch) to talk about the end of humanitarianism, how and why the liberal international order was established in the 90s, and how the realists were right about Ukraine. You can find her writing here: https://www.newstatesman.com/author/lilylynch and here: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/search?query%5Bauthor%5D=Lily+Lynch You can support us on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

If you don't want to hear us rant and rave about the Hofenstaufen dynasty, Frederick II, and how Prince Andrew of Hungary was the Hunter Biden of the middle ages, then fast forward to about minute 17. This week our old pal Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell) joins us to discuss the pope, AI-generated content, conspiracy theory-fueled wildfires, the ecstasy we apparently felt at electing Joe Biden, and the latest designs at Neom. You can support Kate at the Duchy of Patreon: www.patreon.com/mcmansionhell And us too: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we discuss South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice charging Israel with genocide, as well as the latest climate news Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Topics this week include everything from Israel's bombing of a neighborhood in Beirut; the US bombing of Iraq; bombings in Iran; the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay; and much more Please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

An episode on plane rides and the TV show Yellowstone. Also features two diseased articles: one from Max Boot, and another from Ross Douthat. Enjoy! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we're joined by freelance writer Austyn Gaffney (@austyngaffney on Twitter) to talk about an issue that is near and dear to all of our hearts: the rise and fall of ag-tech start-up App Harvest Check out Austyn's article for Grist here: https://grist.org/agriculture/appharvest-indoor-farming-morehead-kentucky/ Support us on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we discuss maps and their various uses; all the latest lies from Israel and the Biden administration; and why green feudalism isn't a thing. Finally we end on some synth your piece just like in the old days. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Recorded 12/6/23 — We talk about the COP28 climate summit, Biden's recent statements at a fundraising event in Massachusetts, Thomas Müntzer's theory of dreams and visions, the imploding brains at the State Department, and more Support our program on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

The latest news about shrimp, climate summits, Henry Kissinger, Democratic politics, and Israel/Palestine Sign up for our Patreon for more great content: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Recorded 11/22/23. Clips used in this week's ep (content warning): Annihilation Choir, State Department employee Stuart Seldowitz, and NSC spokesman John Kirby. Listen to Part 2 of this episode at Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Recorded 11/16/23 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we're joined by three members of Louisville Tenants Union—Jessica Bellamy, Josh Poe, and returning guest Haley O'Shaughnessy—to discuss tenant organizing in Louisville; the similarities between what's going on in parts of America and Palestine; the political economy of real estate capital; and how the rent is too damn high, among many other things. Please throw some money their way to help out the fight: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tenant-takeover-2023?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer And you can follow them here: @LouisvilleTenantsUnion on Instagram @LouisvilleTenants on Facebook @LouTenantsUnion on Twitter Finally, you can support our Patreon at: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Recorded 11/3/23. More discussion of Israel/Palestine, this time with a specific article from NBC about "growing concern" within the White House regarding Israel's atrocities against Palestinians Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

People have asked us to unlock our most recent premium episode, so here it is. Recorded on 10/30/23, with a few new things (music + sound bytes) added in. Music produced both in-house and by Lee Baines III You can find more episodes like this over at our Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty Also check out these recent podcast appearances: Rock Hard Caucus Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rockhardcaucus/124-flock-of-dudes-with-tarence-ray-10292023 The Worst of All Possible Worlds Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/108-dc-talk-jesus-freak-feat-tarence-ray/id1570782388?i=1000630930270

Annual Halloween Special featuring Frank Hurricane, John Haywood, Caleb Hanson, Tommy Anderson, and Ken Layne. Music by Lee Bains III, production, editing and additional sound design by Matthew Carter, and artwork by Hayden Miles.

Recorded 10/26/23 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

We talk about President Biden's address to the nation re: Israel/Palestine, as well as Israel's attempts to obfuscate what happened at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

More updates on the progress to breed a perfectly red calf and usher in the End Times, but mostly another discussion of Israel/Palestine and current debates on/in/about the left's response to it You can find our previous episode about this over at Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

First we confer with our friends over at Compact Mag about how leftists should be more interested in ancient Rome. Then we talk about how the rest of the world is laffin at us. Finally we take a look at a rural community in Michigan who is apparently fighting the red tide. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Unlocked from the Patreon vault: Christina Heatherton, professor of American Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College in Connecticut, talks with us about global radicalism in the era of the Mexican Revolution Buy Christina's book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520287877/arise

In the first half of the show we have an interview with author Molly McGhee about her upcoming book, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind, as well as a discussion on a variety of themes: debt, dreams, work, and religion. Then in the second half of the show Tom joins us for a look into how the other half lives, by way of the society pages in the New York Times. Order Molly's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734829/jonathan-abernathy-you-are-kind-by-molly-mcghee/ And support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we're talking about once again about y'all etiquette, Boebert, class distinctions, the Appalachian creation myth, and the UAW strike Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Probably against our better judgement, we decided to do the Romney article. Please forgive the bad audio...I've been sick in quarantine and this was the best I could do :) Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we talk about roping and riding, hear a tale from a listener, head to Texas for some garden variety insanity, and get an update on the situation at WVU Please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we're talking about the proposed cuts and layoffs at West Virginia University, and to do it we've enlisted a damn platoon. First we have Dennis Hogan, a postdoctoral fellow at Haverford College, who has an article in The Baffler this week about the WVU situation (link below). Then we have two grad students at WVU, Bethany Winters and Christian Rowe, who are involved in the union (@westvirginiaunited on Instagram, @wvunitedsu on Twitter). Finally we have writer and professor Glenn Taylor (@GlennTaylorBook on Twitter), who teaches in WVU's creative writing department. Check out Dennis Hogan's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/capture-the-flagship-hogan To contact the board of governors [email protected] To contact the provost [email protected] To contact the vice president of strategic initiatives [email protected] Petition for vote of no-confidence in Gee: https://www.change.org/p/support-wvu-assembly-resolution-of-no-confidence-in-gordon-gee Petition to save creative writing program: https://www.change.org/p/save-wvu-s-mfa-program-preserve-the-future-of-creative-writing-education?utm_medium=custom_url&utm_source=share_petition&recruited_by_id=90780690-c462-012f-672a-4040acce234c

This week the Washington Post gives us a lesson in democracy, and then we check the various reactions to the GOP debate from the good folks over at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week...we're going back for more Ethicist Support our show on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we discuss: original sin, whether or not we've ruined sex, and synth your piece Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Activist, lawyer, author, and former autoworker Jon Melrod joins us this week to discuss his new book Fighting Times, and the militant union movement in the 1970s Buy Jon's book here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1289 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty Outro music: https://hollybodyhollybody.bandcamp.com/track/positive-pressure Intro music: in-house

Topics today: ecological tipping points, indigestion, the flawed teleological premises of sports, real-time reactions to Mitch McConnell short-circuiting during a press conference, one year anniversary of the flood, and synth your piece. Apologies in advance, it was too hot to think during this one. Sign on to urge Congress to stop GOP attempts to fast track a prison in Letcher County: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScF-ELN4R1Z5UmlLjPac9Nka-H3bod4WbuLPOvMgYDkjN2bIQ/viewform Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

For our 300th (free) episode, we're joined by Kentucky musician Will Oldham, aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy, aka Palace Music. We talk about various country music scandals, buried treasure, QVC for bones, the new era of digital music, and so much more. Pre-order the new Bonnie "Prince" Billy album at Drag City's website: https://www.dragcity.com/products/keeping-secrets-will-destroy-you And please support us at Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we discuss all the latest developments in climate change, artificial intelligence, motherhood, and liberty Please support us (and our friend Piedmont) at Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we talk about posers, soap operas, Frances Gary Powers, viral meningitis, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, how capitalism is ruining pot, and how we're disrupting the firefighting space Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we discuss how to Sextonize your life; predictions for 2024; and, of course, more entries in our new favorite NY Times column, The Ethicist Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we're joined by Jake and Thomas from the podcast Pendejo Time to talk about how (to pay $10,000) to be a real man, former West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins, sports programs in general, and the infidelities of a certain assistant bowling coach in Texas Support Jake and Thomas on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pendejotime And support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we discuss the occluded existence of the most perfect boring boy in the world, the orca rebellion, and two crypto geniuses who are just live-laugh-loving their way through life Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Does ACAB also apply to cop impersonators? Find out on this week's episode of The Trillbillies Podcast Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Might have gotten a little carried away on this one. Sorry in advance Also, Tom lost his job, so we need your support on Patreon now more than ever: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we got bogged down in trying to answer some of the biggest ethical questions of our day Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

The rest is just waiting. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week on the Trillbillies we're disrupting the criminal justice system Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Bob Dylan goes to Deadwood, Thomas Friedman opens up some boxes, Cop City comes to West Virginia, Letcher County speaks its piece Support striking WGA workers: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/the-snacklist-support-striking-workers And support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we're discussing John Brown, as seen through the eyes of the late novelist, Russell Banks, in his novel Cloudsplitter. DISCLAIMER: Please be aware that Russell Banks's novel is a work of fiction, and is not meant to be read as a literal interpretation of history--and thus neither is our episode. To help us work through it, we've enlisted the help of writer John Lingan, whose great book on Creedence Clearwater Revival is out now: https://www.amazon.com/Song-Everyone-Creedence-Clearwater-Revival/dp/0306846713 And please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week it's a grab bag of allergy-fueled bits and news, followed by an op-ed from a friend at the NYTimes about the formula for making crime go up Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we talk a wide range of topics, mostly centered on what's going on in states like Tennessee: mass shootings, anti-trans bills, centralization of power in state governments, etc. To do it, we've enlisted our Tennessean friend Mina Shedd from Middle Tennessee DSA. To wrap it all up, we cover an op-ed from the New York Times about "Wagon Wheel Gun Reform" You can find and support Mina's many projects on Twitter at: @ScrewballDetctr And you can support us on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we're talking about landlord self defense classes, tenant unions, and tenant organizing, with special guests Katy Slininger (Cargill Tenants Union) and Ben Mabie (Crown Heights Tenant Union, Tenant Union Flatbush). Make sure to stick around for the end, where we look at how landlords are arming themselves for the rev. Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-the-emergency-tenant-organizing-committee/ Connecticut Tenants Union: https://www.cttenantsunion.org/ Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we discuss one white liberal's quest to end race-based affirmative action Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we discuss (yet again) Silicon Valley Bank, Bret Stephens's reflections on the Iraq War, and a man named Johnny Shield's views on conservatism in higher education. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

A mysterious man crawled out of the ceiling of Tom's high school English class and taught everyone a very important lesson. Also features coverage of the Murdaugh murder trial, and a reading of David Frum's Iraq War revisionism. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty