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Episode 277: NEOM Moon (w/ special guest Kate Wagner)
Our good friend Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell) is back to tell us about the NEOM city-state in the Saudi Arabian desert, as well as all the soulless architects and designers working on it.
You can read Kate's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/line-in-the-sand-wagner
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01:03:5809/02/2023
Episode 276: Infirmary Blues (w/ special guest Gabriel Winant)
This week we're joined by University of Chicago professor of history, Gabriel Winant, to discuss the social and political origins of the modern healthcare industry in places like Pittsburgh and Appalachia.
To learn more, you can purchase Gabe's book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Healthcare in Rust Belt America: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091
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01:24:4626/01/2023
Episode 275: Crystal Privilege
Come for the Nat Turner discourse, stay for the Progress In Science and Technology discourse
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01:12:3419/01/2023
Episode 274: One Out Of Three
We start off with a little bit of giant discourse (different from last week's giant discourse); cover some news miscellanea; and then hear another entry from the all-time great New York Times column, The Conversation
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01:31:4012/01/2023
Episode 273: The Iseman Cometh
On this first (free) episode of the year we take a journey through cop lore; talk movies; and meet a real life Mr. Freeze, who's here to kick some ice
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01:12:1505/01/2023
Episode 272: The Mt. Rushmore of Liars (w/ Special Guest: Bryan Quinby)
Friend of the show Bryan Quinby of Street Fight Radio fills in for Tarence as we talk Jerry Falwell Jr., George Santos, Andrew Tate vs. Greta Thunberg, and why a man ended up on death row because of a Jeff Ross roast.
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Check out Aaron's other pod: Everybody Loves Communism wherever you get your podcasts.
01:34:0330/12/2022
**UNLOCKED** The Beggar, The Blazer, The Blueline
No episode this week, so here's an unlocked episode from our Patreon, about a tale as old as time
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01:09:3515/12/2022
Episode 271: Ouija Board Terms of Service (w/ Special Guest: Jack Wagner)
Aaron and Tom check in on the results of the Warnock/Walker runoff and an attempted coup of Germany by a descendent of the Kaiser; Tarence and Tom interview Jack Wagner of "Yeah, But Still" about his new show "Otherworld"
55:5909/12/2022
Episode 270: Present Company Included
**audio gets better after a couple minutes** This week we talk about the most recent AppHarvest news, and then move on to an extremely cool article about Disney magic
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01:12:5701/12/2022
Episode 269: Thusin' With the Bois
More talk about the rise of fascist terrorism, followed by an article in the MIT Technology Review about the ultra rich and their fascination with longevity
Judith Butler article referenced in the episode: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2021/oct/23/judith-butler-gender-ideology-backlash
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01:17:2623/11/2022
Episode 268: The Forms
This week we look at The Forms. If you know you know.
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01:10:0416/11/2022
Episode 267: Election Dowsing
Midterms 2022
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01:20:5110/11/2022
Bonus: Halloween Special 2022
Halloween Special 2022
46:3530/10/2022
Episode 266: Calipari In The Coal Mine (w/ special guest Haley O'Shaughnessy)
Friend of the show Haley O'Shaughnessy (@HaleyOSomething) stops by to chat "yall culture," sports cheating, and the interesting case of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari's heritage
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01:13:0028/10/2022
Episode 265: 17 Easy Ways To End History
This week we address the true Kanye West Of The Academy: Francis Fukuyama, and his End of History thesis.
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01:28:1520/10/2022
Episode 264: And Much To Refute It (w/ special guest Tyler Jordan)
(I don't really eat on this one it was just a fake out) Today we discuss various topics that are by this point old news but which you will still no doubt enjoy, including: Kanye meta-discourse, rainbow fentanyl, free cable, and Tim Ryan vs. JD Vance. Then we switch over to an interview with Tyler Jordan from the Austin, Texas band Good Looks, which you should definitely be listening to.
Check out Good Looks: https://goodlooksband.com/
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01:22:3813/10/2022
Episode 263: Fish City
We talk about some more cheating scandals, then visit a story about a Tuskegee airman landing in Loretta Lynn's childhood backyard, and finally present an exciting new opportunity for Trillbillies fans: a Trillbillies Essay Contest
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01:10:2006/10/2022
Episode 262: The Voice vs. Joyce
We cover a wide range of topics this week, and show off our vast knowledge of literature and gain of function research
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01:07:5122/09/2022
Episode 261: Internalized Misophonia
This week we get into a bit of melungeon and diet talk, and then turn to a new entry in the Getting The Goods segment
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01:21:5215/09/2022
Episode 260: We're All Grit In The Long Run
Tarence and Tom preview the most important upcoming ballot race of this election season: Letcher County Judge Executive. Then we take a look at new developments with some old friends of ours', AppHarvest.
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01:38:1308/09/2022
FEMA Ice Cream Truck
Unlocked episode with more flooding updates, should be getting back to your regularly scheduled programming soon folks
Link to Baffler article: https://thebaffler.com/latest/flooding-in-the-sacrifice-zone-ray
01:34:1015/08/2022
The Big Three
More flood updates (unlocked premium episode)
01:28:5308/08/2022
Flood
unlocked premium episode about the flood that came for east kentucky in august 2022
01:13:5002/08/2022
Episode 259: Blocked, Cancelled, Rebuked, and Denounced
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This week we tackle an age-old issue: what would it look like to buy capital stock in a human's life?
01:07:0228/07/2022
Episode 258: 9th Generation Parasites
We discuss some headlines from the news and then head to a landlord convention in the Midwest. It's predictably grim.
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01:11:4721/07/2022
Episode 257: Not Yet A Statistic
More crisis talk
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01:29:5214/07/2022
Episode 256: If You're 15 Minutes Early, You're 30 Minutes Late
It's just like your old football coach used to tell ya
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01:19:5708/07/2022
Episode 255: Polydore Cowboys
Listen up partner, today you'll be meeting the forest troll who can reverse your mandated vasectomy
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01:03:2730/06/2022
Episode 254: Dr. Yakub, CDC Director
We discuss all the latest and greatest crises on this week's episode of Trillbillies
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01:27:2424/06/2022
Episode 253: Comfort Zone To Danger Zone
A little talk about Top Gun and the Profiles in Cancelled Courage, followed by an extended discussion about the latest nonprofit article making the rounds
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01:32:2216/06/2022
Episode 252: Warkin' Hard or Hardly Warkin'
First we take a look at what Amy McGrath's been getting into since we last saw her. Then we take a ride through Pencesylvania with another generous offering from The Atlantic Magazine's Ideas section. And finally we hear from a listener who went through a harrowing experience.
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01:35:2610/06/2022
Episode 251: What A Fool Believes (feat. Amber Rollo and Rax King)
Amber Rollo (@ambercrollo) and Rax King (@RaxKingIsDead) from the podcast Low Culture Boil stop by to chat about recent developments in Whitesburg flag discourse, and then we get into a lengthy discussion about political phenotypes and how low-knowledge people need to get sent to Jupiter to get more stupider
Buy Rax's book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669783/tacky-by-rax-king/
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01:24:5502/06/2022
Episode 250: Basically Harmless
Guided meditation for when you'd prefer to be literally any other living thing than human
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01:14:5226/05/2022
Episode 249: Illegalize It
We talk about how abolishing the CIA is a lot more popular an issue than people think
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01:22:2519/05/2022
Episode 248: RICO The Rotary
We discuss the RICO charges against Young Thug and YSL, and then get into a discussion about how America got to have so many millionaires
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01:18:4112/05/2022
Episode 247: The Fifth Trumpet
Let's hope it at least has one of those cool jazz mutes
Link to the Antifada episode: https://fans.fm/p/AqVYZ43
Link to the Subliminal Jihad episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/111-hopkinsville-65473164
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01:34:0805/05/2022
Episode 246: Under Hipgnosis (w/ special guest Rich Woodall)
This week we're talking about the music industry, and about how there's a scramble for profitable IP among the record labels and various so-called "song funds." Old songs are all the rage now, and as investments they're even more profitable than oil or gold, apparently. We're joined by writer Rich Woodall to help steer us through the complicated, treacherous world of song rights, streaming platforms, and contracts.
You can read Rich's writing at the Baffler here: https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/the-masters-own-you-woodall and here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/mass-hipgnosis-woodall
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01:01:2028/04/2022
Episode 245: Righteous Gangsterismo With Insane Characteristics
This is the article we discussed on today's show: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets
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01:45:0021/04/2022
Episode 244: The Digital Broadform Deed
An episode about how bored and wealthy philanthropists are using your DNA to solve their favorite true crime cases
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01:10:4714/04/2022
Episode 243: A Couple of Bad Hombres
This week we take a look at the hottest new publication to hit the streets since at least Martin Luther's 95 Theses. That's right, we're talking about Compact Magazine, ostensibly a collaboration between some guys with ideas. They're some bad hombres, in other words.
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01:24:1907/04/2022
Episode 242: Bad Boys of American Letters
This week we touch on a really strange article about cancel culture in The Atlantic. It doesn't go down well. Also, this episode contains discussion of sexual violence, blackout drinking, and consent. Listener discretion advised.
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01:37:0801/04/2022
Episode 241: Our Own Fort Knox
This week we take a more in-depth look at the current state of crypto mining in the state of Kentucky, particularly in our neck of the woods in eastern Kentucky.
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01:24:1524/03/2022
Episode 240: Always the Duelists Maid, Never the Duelist
In this one we discuss: being out for the season due to scurvy; Princess Diana, the film Spencer, and royal medicine; and the life and times of Aaron Burr.
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01:07:5917/03/2022
Episode 239: The Fragmented State (w/ special guests Craig and Ruth Wilson Gilmore) [Year Zero 6]
For this latest installation of the Year Zero series we're joined by long time researchers, teachers, and prison abolitionists Craig and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, to help us think through the carceral state: what it is, where it's heading, and how we can change it.
Please read Ruthie's book, Golden Gulag: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag
And Craig's Real Cost of Prisons graphic novel, from which today's episode art was taken: http://www.realcostofprisons.org/prison_town.pdf
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01:20:4710/03/2022
Episode 238: The Backwash of History
Sorry for late episode this week gang, and also NO EPISODE NEXT WEEK. Sorry
Today we play fast and loose on Ukraine, then talk about the exciting new bitcoin mining operation planned for our county
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01:27:5325/02/2022
Episode 237: Got Some Nice Dresses For You
We lick our wounds after being snubbed for an important award, talk about how Gayle Manchin is trying to whack Sleepy Joe, and make a brief-but-aborted attempt at understanding the coming "vibe shift"
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01:07:2417/02/2022
Episode 236: The Hang Ten Melting Pot
This week we discuss a cop getting his feelings hurt about a song; our senile congressman being inappropriate with his colleague; and the ways in which emojis can both solve and explain racism in America
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01:17:0310/02/2022
Episode 235: The Parallels Are Off The Charts
This week we serve up a full course meal of articles: one about China, one about Canadian truck drivers (sort of), and finally, for dessert, one about a CIA guy getting called honky
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01:20:5803/02/2022
Episode 234: The Canklehorse Economy
We spend most of the episode discussing the new NFT initiative planned for our great state of Kentucky. Pictured: canklehorse NFT
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01:13:5528/01/2022
Episode 233: Hotboxing The Senate
This week we observe the tragic cognitive effects of drinking radioactive fracking fluid; explore the genealogy of Joe Manchin; propose a new film for filmmaker Chloe Zhao; and sound the alarm on all the fairweather capos now turning on Biden
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01:20:0820/01/2022