Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 111: Someone's Goin to Hell, and Someone's Goin to Jail

Episode Date: August 29, 2019

U.S. Senate candidate Amy McGrath makes a visit to Whitesburg, and in the process lies to a bunch of coal miners about the campaign ad she included them in. You love to see it folks.

the ultimate put down goes as follows you walk into a room you say ladies gentlemen tanya i did see uh your lawyer at summit city just now daniel yeah i always talk to uh brooke I always talk to Brooke or Stacy. Those are nothing alike. There's main squeeze. What's her name? Ashley.

Ashley. That's it. There's I feel like there's a half dozen Stacy's and a half dozen Brooks in Whitesburg. Well, no, most of them have moved now. Thank God. That's true. No, I've. Thank God. That's true. No, I've always liked Ashley.

Ashley's legit. Every time I see her, it don't matter if it's been 10 minutes, she says, Lord, where you been? I ain't seen you in so long.

Ashley. She's nice. I love her. I love Ashley. She's just pretty nice. Well, what's going on, everybody?

Tanya's fucked up. I'm so sorry. I should have done everybody? Tanya's fucked up. I'm so sorry. I should have done the other one. Tanya's fucked up on Cody Brown. I'm fucked up on... I should have drove over here. Coffee and almonds, which means I'm going to probably have to shake a shit at some point. Terrence's kryptonite's fucking salted almonds.

This man is 87 years old, my friend. Yeah, I have a papaw diet. I have diverticulitis. I can't eat nuts. The other day you were describing an old home, an old folks home, the selection of food you would get there. And I was like, that's my diet to a T. Was I?

Applesauce? I don't even know. Applesauce, almonds, prunes. Now you really do eat a lot of prunes. You caught me mixed up. I think that was somebody else. Prunes are not in my... You are so singularly unique. I've never mixed up a single conversation.

Hard to mix you up with anybody else i think that's quite the compliment honestly you know there were plenty other people y'all could have come to asking to do a jd vance podcast with you know what no short list honestly honestly how many no that you gotta tell me truth i'm gonna hook you bitches up to a lie detector. Alright, alright. Hook me up, baby. It's like Dragula. I just finished season two of Dragula because season three starts today. Okay.

How many people did you ask to be on the podcast before me? No one. Literally no one. That's the truth. Not bad. Yep. I'm not even lying about that. Who else could we ask?

That's true. I mean, it's slim pickings out there. Everybody either has a kid and wants to stay respectable. All the funny people have kids and families and, like, don't want to ruin their lives. Can I say something? With the podcast. Do you think I've ruined my life with this podcast? Can I say something? Yes. I'm glad we picked you i know you are yeah i am too because i mean

you uh i was telling tom the other day me and me and tom are are basically patterson hood and mike cooley and the drive-by truckers. You're our Jason Isbell. I need to grow some more chest hair and start wearing gold chains. Yeah, like the truckers had posted this, you know, like 15 years ago, they released that album, Dirty South, and on Twitter they were like, what's your favorite songs from the album? And everybody in the comments was like, man, I love y'all, but those Isbell songs, nothing's better, nothing beats that.

It mirrors exactly our uh itunes comments every review man i love you guys but it's i just balance it's out is all people still i couldn't carry this by myself obviously it's obvious not in that not in the shape you're in right now you can't operate heavy machinery right now i should have drove over here oh shit should not have driven up well i was driving in and i thought i saw you walking out of summit looking like uh you tarried a little too long at the whiskey. Red faced. And I did. I went in there. You know how I am about peer pressure. I'm pretty bad. And so

today at work I told Pearson I'd buy him a drink for his 21st birthday. He's hauling shit. He's trashing. He's trying to haul off 50 years worth of garbage out of Apple Shop right now. And he's worked all day, sweat his ass off. God damn, you ain't gonna have no staff over there.

Good one, Tom. Jesus Christ, is it that easy now? I'm the only one. This is like slow pitch. Like, our dads are pitching us softballs. Hey, I love slow pitch softball. Fuck you. Anyway, I told him I'd have a drink.

I'd buy him a drink for his birthday. Well, I get over there. He's like, I've already had two beers. I got to drive back to Virginia. And I was like, we need three shots, ma'am. I know. So, of course, I forced him to take whiskey shots i shouldn't have done that why it's your 21st birthday right i know i said i mean i know it's a tuesday but damn

he's like tommy already bought me two beers i had a guinness i just feel like i have to drive back to virginia now i don't know he'll probably get a ticket and it'll be my fault i don't think they give you tickets for drunk they could just take you to jail well i will text him here right now and say your blood alcohol level is 0.2 uh here see you in court in two months drive on home keep it between the lines man so listen if you get pulled over on the way home Just call me I can get you God damn So anyway I had too too many Whiskies just now I didn't think it would hit me like this

I'm such a lightweight these days This is depressing I can't even have two shots of whiskey Well If I took two shots of whiskey I'd be on the floor I don't have a Tolerance anymore You think I could took two shots of whiskey, I'd be on the floor. I don't have a tolerance anymore. You think I could handle two shots of whiskey?

Well, that's what I would have said before I just had to. And now, although I have new glasses on, I feel like it's making me look... I have a little drunk goggles right now, but it's because my glasses are new. You know how new lenses are? You have to adjust. Yeah, yeah. I know. That's how I feel right now.

I'm like... I can't relate to the blinds. You have to adjust. Yeah, yeah, I know. That's how I feel right now. I'm like... I can't relate to blinds. I have perfect vision. Yeah, Tom doesn't know. I know what you mean. The ground looks higher up. No, you have perfect vision. I don't believe you.

I figured you just didn't wear glasses because you're vain. Yeah, I've seen you wear glasses before. I am joking. I wear readers. That's true. You wear cute glasses sometimes. Real hip circles circles you know thanks

tony glad you noticed that tortoiseshell i am a tortoiseshell guy i've got tortoiseshell i just ordered a pair of pink tortoiseshell they look really cute they're really round and tortoiseshell pink and black tortoiseshell wow pretty cute um maybe i'll have to order some yeah you've been rocking those a while. Yeah. Well, see, for a short amount of time, I tried to change it up with the big clear frames like every other hipster dipshit. And then I was like, you know what? I'll just go back to these.

I like this. I like a bold color on my frame, honestly. These are my regular black ones. But I broke them last week and just reordered new ones. Why do you like a bold color? Color blocking is my thing and I'm offended you haven't noticed. What's color blind? I'm color blind. Tell him, Tom. I'm color blind.

It's kind of like when you contrast the, you know. Like you're wearing a light green on top of a darker green or, you know. I went home after work since we had to push our time back. I was like, I ain't staying here until 6 o'clock. So I went home. Of course, there's a serenade happening in my living room.

Cutest shit you've ever seen. But I was banned to the bedroom. But I got this in the mail today, so I put it on to show you guys. That's good. It says, which set are you on? It's a Moe Kessler design. Oh, shout out to Moe. Shout out to Moe.

I got your shirts in the mail today. So I got me, well, I just got two in the same size for me and Michelle to share. But this one, tank top and the baseball tee. It's good. It's a good shirt. It's really cute. Well done. Anywho, what was I saying?

You have a serenade in your living room right now. Yeah, before that. I don't know if there was before that I think that was Oh, I remember I went home, but had I not went home first You ought to have got to see me In a really peak color block Outfit today

What did you go with? Salmon and teal? No, sir, I have a brand new uh pencil skirt see this is my last full-time week at work so i gotta stunt on them bitches yeah because i am gonna be only part-time starting next week so i'm only gonna be there one day a week right so this week i mean it's only tuesday but two days now. And I have plans for the next three days to wear all my best outfits. So they know what the fuck they're going to miss next week. It's like breaking up with somebody.

Exactly. I thought about the way to work this morning. I was like, eat your fucking heart out. It literally is. It's like I'm moving out of your house in stilettos right now. You know what I mean? But we have to tread lightly here. You're not fully quitting.

I don't care if they fire me tomorrow. I got no shits to do. That's the whiskey talk. Yeah, you're a few shots deep. I ain't got them. I ain't got them. I don't let them fucking fire me. This is recorded.

I'll tell you confidently, they need me more than I need them. Oh, God. Damn, here. Boys, get you fucking waders on. Shit's getting deep. If you don't think that is true. Look, I think it's true off the record. I think it's true off the record.

But remember, nothing's getting cut from this shit okay sure I she talks I guess you're kind of maybe take it out of there how many times have I said into this microphone just cut that out Terrence and then heard myself well

say I will always tell you podcast cut this out Terrence and then exactly what he was supposed to cut out. Just plain as day. Yeah. Look. He only cuts out stuff if it makes him sound bad. Absolutely. Not the rest of us.

Editor's choice here. I don't give a fuck. I don't. I got so little fucks to give. You're best raw and unfiltered, ain't you? Yeah. Just like whiskey. Yeah. I guess so. fucks to give. You're best raw and unfiltered, ain't you? Yeah. Just like whiskey. Yeah. I guess so. Barrel proof.

But my new pin skirt, it's like a bunch of different colors. So it's color blocked all on its own. But then I wore my raspberry colored glasses because there's like some raspberry pink blocks in the skirt. Yeah. There's like some raspberry pink blocks in the skirt. It's Empire Way. It's like a silky black tank top tucked in with one of those ribbon, you know, like the ribbon tops where you tie the bow at the top. I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds pretty cool. You know what I'm talking about, Tom. Tom's our fashion correspondent. And my cute pointy-toed black flats.

So I looked cute today. I even curled my hair. You can tell that at least. Yeah. And I had really long mustard yellow. You know, mustard yellow is really in right now. Is it? It's really cute.

And I have these really cute long mustard yellow earrings that went really good with them. It's funny how colors can be in and not in you know just like you terrence just like me one day you're in one day you're that's right oh one day you're the bear and one day the bear eats you yeah i believe that's how but you know i needed to dress like i needed to dress to impress today because i dealt with a lot of weird shit today yes so truly that's what we wanted to get to truly bizarre tuesday today i was walking downtown and i passed amy mcgrath that's what i want to talk about too is your amy mcgrath amy mcgrath was just my afternoon drama i had a whole morning drama before her ass even rolled into town so i'm the only one that didn't cross past

amy mcgrath no i didn't see her today but she brought a lot of havoc into my life today i saw her today she was wearing like um she was wearing like a color block pencil skirt the little thing that ties up if she showed up in my outfit i would have beat her down to death on and she'd have fucking worked she's a united states she was wearing the whitesburg uniform you know we need she was wearing the whitesburg uniform i know we need she was wearing the whitesburg uniform hold on say before you show me before you show me she looks like a heritage kitchen table top oh god okay when you say the whitesburg uniform you're either talking about uh denim jacket with buttons on it or wine mama tire Or, or CFA t-shirt tucked into, like, Levi's 501 or 50. Try, like, cargo bands with a carabiner.

No, no. Okay. You know, like a carabiner and, like, a fucking. Okay, if we're talking about Whitesburg stereotypes, I got the best one. God damn, why would you wear something like that? She's horrible. Is she not a Heritage Kitchen tablecloth? Yeah, 100%.

Shit me not. It's giving me a headache just to look at her. And that picture's probably of her in Heritage Kitchen. Zoom out. That's the health department. I know, because that's where I saw her. I know. She was in the health department.

Okay, we'll get to that story. She looks like this photo of Alec Baldwin. She looks from Beetlejuice. She looks like Alec Baldwin in Beetlejuice. She really fucking does. She's wearing the exact same thing he's wearing. She thought that that's the only small town reference she has is fucking Beetlejuice. And she showed up here trying to blend in that cunt.

Damn. Fuck Amy McGrath. Can you say that word? Sugar gay. Sugar gay. Sugar gay. Have y'all seen the videos of Mark McGrath freaking out because someone said sugar gay? I have not. I wish to God I could have made it downtown to yell sugar gay at Amy McGrath.

She would have been like. You think she would have gone no you don't understand i'm amy not mark amy i'm running i'm i'm i'm uh running against mitch mcconnell i'm in your district again when it's over you're gonna feel really guilty about voting for me When it's over, you're going to feel really guilty about voting for me. Oh, fuck me up. So you want the Amy story first? Lose by more than 15 points. Hit me with the Amy story first, Tay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you saw her before I did, so. I never saw her today. Chronologically. I didn't see her. Oh, you didn't see her. I never laid eyes did, so. I never saw her today. Chronologically. I didn't see her. Oh, you didn't see her? I never laid eyes on the bitch. I laid eyes on her.

She rolled up in a blacked out SUV with blacked out tinted windows. Could have been Mitch McConnell for all we know. Fucking murdered out. Could have been. I just want to say the tinted window really doesn't get its due in symptoms of, you you know like the alienated society we live in like tinted windows are fucking weird especially when cops have them i feel like all cops have tinted windows but essentially it should be illegal it just closes you off from the world yeah but regardless she rode up in her blacked out murdered out out chariot and got out with two young, very young

like younger than me aides. And I did a double, I did a triple take. I was like, was that you? We locked eyes. And I wondered if she

remembered me calling her the Daenerys Targaryen of... Kentucky Falls. Tell me what you got for me. Tom is wearing a Save the Whales t-shirt. Did you get that free from Sarah Club? Very important. Very important to save the whales, motherfucker.

Is it? The back is cool. What's the back? Show us. It shows all the shit that whales eat in the ocean. Like tennis rackets, cars, babies.

Oh my God. They eat babies. I don't know if that's true. It just diagrams what two whales have eaten. That's cool. Is that a Sarah Clip shirt? No.

Hmm. Supreme. Hey, quit picking me apart, goddammit. Tell me what Amy McGrath did. Well, what happened? Okay. This is my afternoon drama. I'll tell you about my morning drama later.

So I'm having lunch on the couches at work. So I'm having lunch on the couches at work. And these two big dudes come waltzing up the steps. And I've never seen them before. So I knew immediately it was going to be good. Unless they were just lost. Sometimes people show up at Apple Shop lost. Oh, yeah. But they waltzed in.

They said, we need to talk to whoever it was put on that black lung miners recreation were they mad yeah they're pissed interesting and i was like recreation he said reenactment it was a reenactment and i said do you mean leatherwood yeah the civil war i don't think you mean the civil war reenactment of leatherwood that's in october he said no i'm talking about the reenactment of us going to dc and i was like i didn't i was like looking around there were a couple other people i was like we knew you yeah we sent a reporter with you all to dc but there what do you mean the reenactment he said we got in a bus at jenkins

and the cameras came out and we drove from jenkins to whitesburg jenkins to whitesburg back and forth 10 times for the cameras for the apple shop documentary and so we all started looking at each other i was like that's the first i heard i don't i don't know i don't think that's true i was just like you calling me a liar i was like i was like i'm not i'm not familiar and no one else knew what they're talking about either who's sitting there we were just like we kept asking questions and we all became more confused i think finally we get it straightened out that they did a reenactment literally they planned a re a reenactment of the miners going up to D.C. to lobby against Black Lung. Who did?

Well, that's what's to be determined, sir. That's the question. So, hold on a second. Hold on a second. I got a question. I got a question. That's to be determined, sir. So so they got these guys in a goddamn bus and they just drove them back and forth from weisberg to jenkins 10 times acting like they was going to dc i swear to god that's what he said and he had on a big

black lung kills t-shirt you know the one oh. Oh, I know. It's like an ACLC t-shirt, maybe. Yeah. Anyway. And so, and he's like, and they told me, he said, I knew that guy was liberal when he told me that this shirt made him uncomfortable and told me to change it. And the other, my co-worker sitting there said, we'd never do that. But when, but he said. Trust me. We let guys that killed Vietnamese children at radio shows. We'll let anything go around this joint. Sir, we have no morals here.

But this... He said... No, now that guy, he said, I already talked to the man who called me to come out here. I know him, Jimmy, and I done told him meet me anytime, anyplace. His ass is grass. I don't... And I'm the lawnmower did he say that they like that one they like that to be lied to i don't get like i don't like being lied to so this guy claimed he'd never been owned claimed yeah he said i'm getting me a lawyer tomorrow i said yeah i'll get one too hold on hold on hold on hold on

a second so they just show up i think it's funny because you know that like a lot of people that just have like generic grievances with like liberals around here just like take it out on apple shop oh yeah which i knew whether they had anything almost immediately i knew this is what's happening but he said that the cameraman told them it was for an apple shop documentary he said i want to know who did who's doing the documentary where they at i won't talk to them because we were lied to and i said honey there ain't been a documentary made here in a decade we're in the real estate business make films but when we really knew because i said well you know fuck herbie was at lunch i said hell herbie

might have done like a freelance job for somebody and told him he worked at apple shop and wires got crossed that's possible yeah and and then he said then he says yeah there was a big camera on wheels and they rolled it up and down the bus the whole time and i was like no that definitely wasn't us no we got an over-the-shoulder boulder holder honey we ain't got we've literally have cameras strapped to bras there's no no ain't no bells and whistles there no we don't have no mobile technology so it's definitely wasn't us but he said that the cameraman told him that the that the uh reenactment was for an apple shop film so amazing but guess so that's why he did it he said that's why i did it was for an apple shop film so amazing but guess so that's why he did it he said that's why i did

it was for an apple shop film that's why i did it even though i thought it was weird he asked me to take the shirt off but then i got a question now hold on a second before we go any further what was he lawyering up about this is where this is where today he sees the footage of him in an amy mcgrath ad i saw the ad it's an it was an amy mcgrath ad oh this is what we need it's an amy mcgrath this is a gift from the heavens an amy mcgrath ad dropped where they convinced a bunch of miners they told these guys this was an apple shop film yes yes they're so unscrupulous they really are i mean look look look they got in the span of a week they're running the worst campaign possible absolutely in the span of the week they got matt jones fired

yep and then they fucking lied to a bunch of lied to a bunch of dying coal miners about what they were using the footage of them for. Had them act out their own trip to Washington. This guy said, he said, I did the reenactment because they said it was an Apple Shop documentary. Okay, let me just go ahead and say, if we ain't said it yet again, fuck Amy McGrath. Truly.

I mean, fuck her to the, go back to wherever the fuck it is you came from. I said, buddy, I don't know what has happened here, but I can tell you right now amy mcgrath has said hair to kitchen i think you ought to go take it up with her i tried to get him to go down there that would have been so good and then you should follow him down there well they went to washington in the first place to meet with mcconnell and mcconnell gave him one minute he gave the miners one minute i mean like if any of us went in there he wouldn't give us the time of day like you you'll get a minute if you're a coal miner or like a troop or something keep that in mind if any of you have some charges coal miners or troops

go in there as a cult wear your fucking headlamp in mcconnell gave him one minute and uh that's what the ad is about the ad is about how they got one minute with and so moscow mitch with the help of putin is uh not giving them black lung benefits but they made him take off his black lung kills t-shirt and made him put on a flannel shirt for the shoot holy sh he said you gotta look authentic he said this is the shirt i wore to to dc i mean he said all of us wore these t-shirts to D.C. Get this guy's name. If we find out who this motherfucker is.

Let's rally around him and bury Amy McGrath. I told him I said, buddy. In Eastern Kentucky. I said, she's going to carry any damn votes here. No, she's not going to win anyway. If I turned up in an Amy McGrath ad, unaware, I'd be getting a lawyer too. Oh, my God. No, no, no, no no no no no i i i would go i would i would

have to make a stronger statement than that he already threatened jimmy who runs the black lung association oh yeah well i think that's why she was there she was at the health department meeting with the black lung association he said i saw her going to the health department yeah he said she's at some meeting he said what no he said our oh yeah she's supposed to be at this meeting down here and somebody said oh yeah she i just saw her at the health department her going to the health department. He said, she's at some meeting. He said, oh yeah, she's supposed to be at this meeting down here. And somebody said, I just saw her at the health department. She's in the health department. He said, you ain't supposed to be campaigning in the fucking health department. You're right, son.

You're not wrong. Well, I know that that's... She was there for the Black Long Association. But he came to Apple Shop to kick somebody's ass today. And honestly, I wish he would have. I like they gave him flannel. They were like, we need you to look authentic. Literally.

You cannot wear the t-shirt. It's probably the same one she's wearing right now. Amy, Amy, Amy. It's in the costume. How many Afghani kids did you kill today? Now. That's a fucking word for she. She doesn't have to be buried.

She's already shooting herself in the foot. This is the thing. People pissed at us like you're really going to put more energy into taking down Amy McGrath than taking down McConnell. Did people mad about that? People said that? Yeah, people have said that.

Oh, shut the fuck up. Are you making that up? No, no, no. This is the thing. This is like... You're trying to get her worked up. Her liquored up like this. I ain't got time. time i can't i ain't got the energy for this i've the only point i'm trying to make is that you don't have to she's already fucking uh she's already taking her own campaign she's signed she don't need our help she doesn't need our exactly but anyways tank girl um the best part perhaps was while all this is going on and we were all

confused and trying to check it out and figure out whose ass was getting whooped somebody's packing an ass whooping an apple shop who's gonna be you just put sean land out front there this this episode is way too many like somebody's going to hell. White's for characters. Somebody's going to jail. And I'm right with the Lord. This one has too many kids. That's what he said. No, that's Evelyn Williams' quote. Oh, God. She called up somebody.

When a coal company trespassed on her land, she called somebody and she said, well, I'm going to tell you right now, somebody's going to hell and somebody's going to jail today and I'm right with the Lord. She was going to shoot today and i'm right with the lord she was gonna shoot a motherfucker so anywho this like real polished i ain't gonna say his name on air but comes this guy um he's not from here he's from somewhere else and he but he's here occasionally he come walking up the steps just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. He got to the top of the stairs. We're all standing there trying to figure it out. And I was like, oh, hi, how are you?

And he said, I'm good. I just ran into Amy McGrath and she bought me lunch. Who did? Who said that? I ain't going to say his name. Oh, God. And I was like. Hell, I wouldn't tell it.

And that guy immediately said, did you have anything to do with this campaign ad that just come out because i didn't say you know he like went off he said i didn't sign a consent i didn't say i was gonna be in no no damn ads and i'm getting a lawyer before he could even the guy just he literally asked him a direct question and the guy was so flustered instead of saying no he said i have no idea that is the most rookie shit ever just like they didn't even get them to sign consent forms they were just like he said well he signed he said he said he signed in as a minor who went to dc that's there's a little loophole they lied they lied through their motherfucking teeth this is for an apple shop

did they really think that they were going to drop this ad and no one was going to be like what the fuck why i'm in an ad that i did not consent to they didn't think anyone was going to be pissed you know this is the funniest thing um i love this so much honestly yeah so i'm brand this is like thank you amy i hope this fucking sends you to hell. It's like history does repeat itself as farce. You know, the Alison Lundergren Grimes campaign was her on her hands and knees in a coal mine. You know what I mean? She came to East Kentucky to get in a coal mine. And now Amy's on a bus to D.C.

They're not even trying anymore. They're just like, well, let's just go get 30 former coal miners. That's why. Here's the thing. They know they can't win. just like well we'll fuck it let's just go get 30 coal miner former coal miners and it's because here's the thing they know they can't win okay they know they stand no chance of winning they're in this because every dumb ass liberal from fucking here to california is pumping money into this stupid ass campaign and the stupid ass moscow mitts shit it's like just fucking grow up what grow the fuck up that's tom's favorite line just grow up grow up so it's like, just fucking grow up. Grow the fuck up. That's Tom's favorite line. Just grow up.

Just grow up. So it's like, just grow up already. Well, what's crazy is I don't fully understand the Matt Jones situation, but when we finally worked it out with old boy who showed up and said Amy McGrath had bought him lunch ignorantly, he said... He slipped on banana peel. It was like a fucking Greekreek tragedy just like it was just it's just like shakespeare and people just come in at just the right time with their stage cues

are all fucking lined up and i was dressed to the nines like i was a fucking philadelphia lawyer yeah and i was just like this is juicy honey juicy i went went over to Dustin Hall and I was like, pop popcorn. Make us some popcorn. So then he says, oh, damn, that's awful. He said, that's how they got, ain't that how they got Matt Jones fired? And so I don't know. That guy said they got Matt Jones fired. What the? This is what old boy said.

And I was like, I don't fully understand the Matt Jones story, how they got Matt Jones fired. Yeah, do you know? So here's the story. So to hear WLEX tell it, I think they had to let him go because he's writing this book about Mitch McConnell. Mitch, please. Oh, yeah, that's the worst book, Kyle. Me and Tanya were talking about it. Mitch, please.

It's even worse than Ditch Mitch. It really is. Mitch, please. Mitch, please. It's even worse than Ditch Mitch. It really is. Mitch, please. Mitch, please. So I guess maybe WLEX, they wanted to preserve their McConnell ad revenues or something. Well, that didn't stop Amy McGrath's campaign manager from going around and gloating that he got Matt Jones fired, the most popular sportscaster in the state right who might come out against her and in fairness would do much better than she would oh

yeah uh i don't understand why this guy still has a job i mean he's the dumbest son of a bitch in american politics who watches someone be murdered on the street and then walk over and be like i did that you know like take claim for a fucking... You talking about McConnell? Shut the fuck up. No, her campaign manager. Oh, okay. He's an idiot. I have to pee. Okay. I'm sorry. Take five.

Well, let me just... So wait, so did he actually get him fired or is he just saying that? It's unclear. I think Matt thinks that yeah they had something to do with it i think that you're spot on i think i think it's probably an isis situation like lex probably let matt jones go because of the mitch mcconnell thing and they're just taking claim for it you like you've got that you've got it you've got a small

cadre of the lamest motherfuckers that ever lived that think that they're starting a new day in kentucky politics uh-huh like i i don't think they're actually in it as a grift i think that's just like kind of the b story the a story is i think they think they're the big the mcgrath people think they're the big swinging dicks and in politics now and they're deeply unpopular yeah they have no idea how they have no idea what they're stepping into in their minds though they are like machiavellian geniuses they they think they're like ninth but in your but you're spot on though in the sense that like the only reason this is even existing is because all this money is poured in for moscow

mitch because this is who i think the liberals are sort of hedging their bets like oh what if Bernie gets the nomination they'll be like okay so we've got to latch on to the next big sort of big enemy or whatever it's McConnell and they're gonna like you know do everything they can to get him out but there's nothing you can do

I mean there's nothing you can do I mean Mitch McConnell Mitch McConnell will die there and he will be in office till he dies and probably several years after frankly dear god that's so bleak man it'll be like weekend at Bernie's you're so right well this campaign

is weekend at Bernie's like it's this is not a real person it's just some I don't know it's just some like assemblage of things that liberals like, and they're running it as a candidate just because they've got all this money for the Moscow Mitch thing. Yeah, just because Rob Reiner wants to ditch Moscow Mitch. You know what I mean? It's so fucking embarrassing.

And it's embarrassing just as a a kentuckian to be like that's i don't understand like in in the landscape of kentucky political figures why we're like fucking matt bevin fucking amy mcgrath fucking just the most embarrassing assemblage of legislature you could imagine truly truly well the funny the funny thing about Amy McGrath is that she's never won. No, no. She's not even a politician. She's a figure in Kentucky politics that's never won an election. She's the goddamn Harlan

Tootie Seals of state politics. I went into an office today that there was a teenager in there and I was telling my co-worker what was going on with the minors. And she was like, oh oh my god and the teenager said who she said who's amy mcgrath and we were trying to explain and my co-worker said she ran for governor this bitch is so unremarkable we can't even remember what she lost well it's funny because

i mean we've said this before but you know it's just kind of a symptom of the Democrats feeling upward stuff. Like Beto fucking loses to Ted Cruz. Well, at least Beto won a race at some point, though. Yeah, at least Beto's in office. Currently is still in office. Is he? Is he? He's a representative for El Paso.

Oh, okay. He's in the house. And then, you know, just on and on. But like, Amy McGrath is like, it's just kind of like Pete Buttigieg. It's like,

the donations don't match the voters. You know? She's made a full-time job of running, losing Kentucky elections. Right. It's pretty badass.

It's like when Pusha T said, if Drake the swag don't match the sweaters. That was the hardest line in history jesus well she is giving in her all i can't believe that she uh well she's about to be sued by the minors in her ad which i love this i love this just because it's a rich seam of content like the more missteps this fucking dumpster fire of a campaign makes the more content we got to go on there's still another year there's still another 12 13 months today i just feel like i can't even tell i can't even say on record all the crazy shit that

happened today but i walked in to someone's office today, and they were like, hey, what's going on? She's like, just Googling when the official electoral season starts so I know when to hide. Slash quit. Some people say even liberals don't even like electoral politics. No. It's just terrifying. Yeah. Ready to go hide in a bunker somewhere.

Well, I mean, anytime campaigns lasting more than two years, it's like, Jesus Christ, man. Jesus Christ, man. It's all really, if you think about it, it's all connected to the big sham reconstruction of Appalachia, which Terrence writes about so eloquently in Oh, yeah, in the Baffler. In the Baffler this week. But it's not online, right? We can't find it online? It's in the print edition, so y'all go get a copy

of the print edition of the Baffler. Terrence is in there this week. Can I look at it, Terrence? Let's talk about it a little bit right now. Give us the synopsis, Terrence. Let's interview Terrence about it. Oh, I wanted to do an episode specifically about it, though. Oh, so you don't want just half an episode. You want the whole kit and caboodle.

It's good content. Well, what it is is what I did. Stingy bitch. What I did was I looked at this little thing called the Power Initiative. You ever heard of that? Yeah, I think I've heard of it. It was a President Obamaama program to uh people owning error people owning errors whatever errors it's like p it's like um god damn time

i don't even know what it stands for it is an acronym though it's an acronym, though, isn't it? It's an acronym, yeah, it is. P-O-W-E-R. Prisoners of War Reenacting. Emergency Reenactments. Yeah, Emergency Reenactments. No, it's a... I wanted to read through some of the projects that got funded under power, which we should do on an episode, just because it's hilarious. There's, like, drone... under power um which we should do on an episode just because it's hilarious there's like drone like they you know like they want to turn southwest virginia into like a drone racetrack

or something yeah yeah all that kind of good stuff it's hilarious farm to food table stuff it also just kind of proves our point that this is like the proving ground for whatever's coming next we get like the most half-assed beta version of whatever they're trying to move to the cities. Did you outline all the Power Initiative grants? Not all of them, but I chose a few. A bunch of them? Yeah. Amazing.

I chose like a select few, and I talked to some of the people that run them. As an expert of the Power Initiative, I heard this this week, and I have a question. Who doesn't know what the acronym stands for? People owning whatever Earl rejects. Yeah, that's good.

That's probably right. Mr. Ray. It's Charlie Rose over here. Who's also canceled. Who's also canceled and fucked up half the time you're not canceled tanya if i'm canceled i got a fucking list of 20 others who better goddamn well be too taking you down with me just like a suicide vest of cancellation i'm taking everyone else with me. I got receipts.

Okay. What I've heard is that the power grants that they've awarded in other states are actually, like, you know, at least tiptoeing around cool. But Kentucky has only funded, sludge fine yeah like pipelines to prisons literal sewage like just the dumbest the worst shit possible because not anything anybody can get excited about is so behind this so pitiful i listen y'all i i saw sandy curd lead a goddamn prep pep rally about a goddamn prison a couple years ago. She came in that motherfucker looking like Tony Robbins with her fucking headset on and said, there's something else brewing in Letcher County everybody's excited about.

And everybody's looking around at each other like. Meanwhile, she was parked in a handicapped spot on Main Street. Oh, that's poor form. She's pitiful highly poor form she goes prison prison prison and like the only one stood up and clapped was aylwood's fucking crusty ass well the thing about sandy curd that's a whole different dark that was promised zones that was promised yeah yeah sandy curd was promised zones i know the only reason i'm pointing it out though by demeanor and look is a very classic villain classic villain she deserves her own horror series well look the whole the

whole premise behind the promised zones and the power initiative is that they were explicitly sort of billed as sort of answers to the war on coal you You remember this? Like, it was kind of Obama's, like, Obama with Jason Walsh. This was their thing. They billed the power initiative as, like, this thing that was like, well, we're kind of putting a lot of coal miners out of work, you know, like with these changing, you know, regulations. The winds of change. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So they were like, our answer to that is, like, we're just going to pour a bunch of money into the nonprofit sector. Yeah. We're going to give them points on their grants. Yeah. That's so fucking stupid. Stepping back away from it,

it's like, all these people are suffering. Okay? Overdrafted at the bank. Just like what's going on in Harlem. Everybody's overdrafted at the bank. Can't buy groceries. Can't buy their young'uns school clothes. None none of that and the federal government's response to such things in like

the neoliberal sort of era is let's give a bunch of money to the people that all make like 40 and 50 000 a year that are more or less doing okay and see if they can't bail these coal smudge reprobates out it's trickle down itrobates out. It's trickle down. It's like we have never abandoned trickle down. Well, and it's also an inability to think about social. This is the funny thing about the neoliberal era is that even people who considered themselves liberals, there was a distinct period in the middle of the 20th century that you could call a classical liberalism or social liberalism. Where, like, you say you have social problems like poverty. Well, the answer to that was through governmental programs, the welfare state, stuff like that.

Now, in the neoliberal area, we can't even think about social problems outside of markets. Right. So, like, we can't even conceive of treating social problems outside of markets. Can you add a little boozy in here saying bill clinton yeah i mean when when we went from entitlements to block grants and under the clinton fucking welfare gutting scheme it set the tone for all this shit so i mean like to say nothing of his you know sex crimes the poor people of this world should definitely put Bill Clinton on a spit for that alone.

Bill Clinton. Well, anyways, how does that relate? How does the sham revitalization of Appalachia relate to... I was just asking you about it because I went all over Lexington trying to find a copy. Oh, it's not out yet. But you got...

It's not out until September 3rd. Oh, a copy of Appler. Yeah. Well, that'd be nice to fucking know. We'll wait and talk about it after it comes out and people can go buy it okay after people read it and try to cancel me for it and oh you think you're gonna get canceled it's pre-cancellation that's exciting that's so exciting yeah yeah yeah yes what you think people who already have canceled you are going to try to cancel you again i mean i just can't think that people are really going to be happy about it, especially, like, my former coworkers and, you know, all those people.

I just can't imagine people really being happy about it. Honestly, I haven't read it yet, so I hate to jump to your defense already. But I'm glad you've got your fire back, you you think i've got it back well i don't know i haven't read it yet but somebody published it must be okay but i felt like you told i mean you said live on the show it's to no secret that that article that got you fired broke your brain oh yeah and you haven't been able to publish much of substance since. Very, very accurate. And so this is your rebound. I think it is.

It's definitely in the same wheelhouse as that essay. I saw that weird crypto note situation in there. That looked promising. The art? Yeah. The art on it? The art. Yeah, yeah.

Did you like that? Very madman. I didn't do it, but. Oh, you didn't do that? Somebody else did? Yeah, someone else did it. Interesting. His name, I can give you a shout...

I can shout him out. That looked like the ramblings of a maniac. I assumed it was you. I look here, he has two copies, and he ain't offered us one. Well, I gotta, like, send one to my mom, probably. Oh, I'll be goddamn... Carolyn's gonna enjoy this. Colin Mathis.

I don't know your mom's name. Shout out to Colin Mathis. Betsy Ray ain't going to read the goddamn bathroom. Betsy. Such a mom name. Love you, mom. She's listening to this. This is how she found out that Tom moved to Lexington.

She texted me the other day. She goes, did Tom move to Lexington? I was like, yeah, you know. Sort of. He's bi-coastal. I'm bi-coastal. And I was like, I don't know. Sort of. He's bi-coastal. I'm bi-coastal. And I was like, I don't know. I'm just kind of struggling with it.

I'm having a hard time with it right now. And she was like, you're one of the most resilient people I know. You'll be fine. He didn't seem like a good friend anyway. What a sweet motherly response. Honestly. Yeah, it was. So sweet.

It was good to be told those. See, if I try to get that kind of sympathy off of garden sex, and I'm talking about a woman who used to slaughter hogs and rain chicken eggs, like I just don't. If I told her I was lonely, she'd just. This is how much my mother cares. Get a cat or something. Cares for my well-being uh she has an

angry ex lover on her coattails and she goes out for the weekend with another dude on his pontoon and she texts us all before she's out of service and says nobody answer if danny calls but if you do i'm with tanya she told a fucking maniac fucking maniac. You've gotten to the age where Sheila's become the daughter. And you've become the mom. That's been about 20 years running now. I'm the mother figure. Thank you, Sheila.

For nothing. Spoiler alert. Her pontoon weekend was a bust and her ex is backing over her house. Really? Why, yeah. That's what my sister told me today. My nephew FaceTimed me.

He lost his first tooth. It was the cutest shit I've ever seen. Really? Did he have to pull it out, or he just lost it? No, he lost it. Do your parents ever do that shit where they tie it to a doorknob and shut the door? No. No one cared enough about my health as a child.

I, uh... Father with this. Wait, we did that. My mom had a tooth pulled without Novocaine one time at the dentist. And they all came out to talk to her because they thought she was insane. But she was just like, no, I need that money. It's $100. I need.

And they were all like, we've never pulled a tooth here without Novocaine. Like, what kind of bougie fucking dentist are we at here, mom? I was eight and I knew this was bullshit. Oh, as, yeah, yeah. That would suck. That would suck really bad. But, yeah, yeah, it did suck. I bet it did that, though.

Well, Novocaine's an extra $100. It is. Which, that was in 99, so who knows what it would be now. That was the going to the dentist under Clinton. That's probably about 94, I guess. Still going to the dentist under Clintoninton oh god that's probably about 94 i guess still going to the dentist under clinton yeah going to the dentist under clinton yep um well so uh so what else happened to you today you're i mean can you talk about it on the radio i don't know we don't have to

i'm not sure do you hear me on the radio yesterday? No. Why don't you never listen to me on the radio anymore? I heard the end of it on the way into work. I just don't get up that early anymore, honestly. I've given up. Damn. I heard at the end, I heard you were talking to Ricky about something. Me and Ricky were talking about jury duty.

Oh, yeah, jury duty. That's how I knew. Oh, that's how you know I listen to you. Yeah, yeah, you mentioned that to me. Because Michelle got a jury duty letter, too, but she's getting out of it, hopefully. I was also talking about how, like, yesterday there was this article going around about how Netanyahu, like, was sort of, like of apologizing for Hitler. He was basically like, Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews. But he was going around.

But it was from like 2015. And I just thought it was interesting. I've bet on a couple of those before, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Post it like it's news. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Post it like it's news. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've bet so many times on the Hillary Clinton getting in the race. That'd be the only thing that would just really send this over the top.

Right. Yeah. She would wait until the 11th hour, though, to make a big stink about it. She would. She totally would. I'm going to get a big stink about it. She would. She totally would. Get some sleep tonight, bud. Do you want to join me?

Here's my new life plan. I think I'm giving up writing, maybe even podcasting. I don't know. I think I want to become like a you know like an ascetic. You know what an ascetic is?

Yeah. You know, like a mystic. Like I want to... Become an ancient Christian mystic. I want to become an ancient Christian mystic. And I have to do... I obviously live without technology and food or water or anything. I just fast and study the scripture.

And you have to be celibate? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm out. You have to be celibate. There's easier ways to achieve ego death. Okay, how? Tom can help you out. Other than having a micropenis and other than taking way too many.

That's all I know. I'm just saying there's other ways. I don I know. I was just saying there's otherwise. I don't know. I think it could be cool. It is having micropenis tantamount to achieving ego death. Every person I've known with a chode has been a complete maniac. How many of these are going around? With a huge ego.

I've known two personally. Really? That you've seen? Yeah. Well, one was just a picture but he sent that why would you bravely oh i mean it was his kink he like needed people to see his micro dick oh was it no although he had a small one he did have a small dick but i saw that one i wouldn't call it my god he wasn't afraid to flaunt it no he did porn and everything like cheap cheap snapchat premium snapchat porn but yeah i've been thinking about doing that we need a cam empire we need to parlay triblies into a cam empire i've been telling you bitches

this for years do you think it would like complicate you know your relationship who care oh wait you mean my personal relationship yeah no i've already worked with that wait wait i thought you're gonna say friendships i don't fucking care no no like your romantic your romantic relationship no i've talked her into it she's she's down she's she'll she'll hold the camera until she's ready to warm up and get in front of it basically but honestly it doesn't even have to be it doesn't even really have to be sex sex. Like, I know someone who's made $300 for a video of them just brushing their teeth naked. Well, I was just thinking about that. I'm talking about solo porn.

You know, just like, if somebody wants to pay me $500 to jack off, I would do it. That's so fucking lovely. I'd do it for a lot less. Well, yeah. Do it for a lot less less five times a week the future of all the of the i've told you all the internet's going to be completely just 100 porn in a few years anyway yeah and the future of making money at all doing anything is going to be doing it naked i guess just doing all the regular stuff just sweeping mopping watching

netflix brushing your teeth working on your laptop probably my strongest contribution to sex work world would be some some voice acting yeah see but i feel like that's more for a bygone era like the 1-900 era like i feel like i could did okay in the 1 900 era just talking some shit yeah that era's back obviously every like podcasting is popular asmr and stuff yeah people love a fucking voice but it's this is this is you know i really don't understand podcasting so don't listen to podcasts you all know this already But I surmise that the real. Did I use that right? Yeah, I think you got it. That the issue is that we are so inundated with images.

I mean, it's your hyper normalization, but it's like for everything. Like we just cannot. Hyper normalization, but make it dicks. Yeah. Okay. But I mean, no, just like... Because supposedly we see like four... On average, the average person at this point

looks at 4,000 images a day. Sees 4,000 different images a day. What the fuck? Do they mean like just walking around? Because like these are images... No, digital images. Oh. Just like scanning the timeline all day.

That's a lot of images. It's a fucking lot there's a lot to take in maybe there's a it's the average in a time group it's 400 i don't know i can't remember it's a four number well i want to be an ascetic i want to exactly i wanted to purify myself i also want to do like people like can't handle any more visual stimulation that's why podcasting has become so popular like people just are like they can't deal with any more visual stimulation that's why podcasting has become so popular like people just are like they can't deal with any more visual stimulation than they're already getting and so they're like looking for information in a different way i think that's why i think it's like i think it's one one

yeah i think it's surely a theory shit hey look it's just a theory, goddammit. Don't come for me, bitch. Well, um... So Terrence is torn between $500 jack-off videos and ascetism. Someone PayPal this man for a dick pic. Goddammit, take one for the team. Yeah, I'd do that. do that okay sure and me too please i mean i'll even strap on pic i i'm better yeah i'll talk i'll talk dirty for you for $1.99 a minute exactly see we have three distinct skills here people well i want to be like um a hot jesus like messiah figure though you know what i mean like you don't start a sex cult

i don't want to i don't want to participate in the sex cult but if people want to have sex in my cult then that's fine like i don't care providing that the leader can do or not i don't want to watch cult really i want like um i want like uh i love where this episode is going. To just turn the clock back on everything, really. I want to go back to a time when you had to do all kinds of arcane rituals. Like you draw a line in the dirt and hop over it seven times before the cock crows. And, you know, give blessings to the sun or something like that. It's the sun god. You want a...

Classic pagan. You want a... Yes. It like that it's the sun god you want a classic pagan you want to yes it sounds like it's classic ocd yes you want an ocd uh sex i want an ocd sex cult religion an ocd diagnosis yeah yeah that's what i want a lot of of ritual, religious ritual is OCD, you know? I want to be a sugar baby. What's that? Like someone who gets doted on, like by a sugar daddy? Yep. Or a mommy.

Well. I'm not picky. Judging from all the comments I've read, reviews of this show, I think they could probably do that. They'd probably find a couple of tigers. Hal, please, DM me, goddamn. Y'all are leaving me hanging. I think they could probably do that. They'd probably find a couple of tigers. How? Please, DM me, god damn. Y'all are leaving me hanging. I've been left on the table week after week. No one

is sending me... I haven't asked. I was asked for a couple nudes in the DMs a while back. But it was like 2 a.m. That's creepy. Just do it regular time, like noon. Like, you know. Or make a legit offer bitch what's a legit offer you know like i've got 250 to spend what can i get for 250 okay i'm gonna be 100 honest with you i love both of you i'm sure you both look great naked in fact i think I think I've seen both of you naked. You've seen me naked.

But I think I could probably find $250 better used than spent somewhere else. You definitely can. But in the year of our Lord 2019. The only thing. But I've got the milk for free, though. Listen, bitch. The only thing making money in porn anymore is kink. Like, regular porn is free.

You can find almost any regular old bullshit you want on Pornhub. But do they still get paid for it, right? People on Pornhub? Well, I mean, porn actors and sex workers in general, like, they're still getting paid. I mean well well there was the thing mia khalifa said she only made 12 grand in porn oh yeah that's not and she was a she was a big deal so you're saying only kink is i mean if i knew i'm listen if i knew all the facts i wouldn't be on this podcast probably i'd probably be just making money through porn

if i had it figured out. I don't. Obviously. But. That's what I hope my future holds. And my tits ain't getting any perkier. I tell you that. Well. I saw.

You know that Hassan Piker. You know who he is? Yeah. He was like. Got into this big thing with Dan Crenshaw. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Like. I guess. Somebody threatened to like. Leak his nudes or something. I don't know if this was a joke or not. I can't tell. And so. He posted a picture of himself. Was like like this is the only nude i've ever sent

anyone and i was like damn dude like i mean he's really hot but i was like i was thought about myself like i've sent out so many nudes man like you could definitely find my nudes probably probably back somewhere back before cameras or phones were cameras essentially oh yeah i was taking nudes i had like a whole film everybody what you do especially if you have a dick is you see which angle it looks the biggest from and so there's probably just about 19 just throwaways if you're just trying to yeah. Those are the funniest ones. And like most people just have like a few ready to go a few whatever they've taken. Yeah, like this ain't a

You caught good lighting, looks big. Very few fresh dick pics coming your way. I can't do the stock. You know what I mean? I can't do the stock. It's gotta be in the moment because otherwise it's like That's what a man with a couple stocks would say can't do it folks can't do the stock look i don't even know i'm talking about it

this is sin this is all sinful i'm not yeah you're you gotta pick a horse you can't serve god and man i'm like i'm living in a seat or are you fucking uh i'm pious i'm living a uh life of purity y'all always go back to the jesus talk to the lord we might as well just declare true billy's a fucking religious podcast we always end up talking you fucking jesus freaks we can't get off it we can't come off it listen our trauma is so deeply entrenched rooted in in basement lock-ins from church camps. Tonya, you can call me a Jesus freak all you want, but, you know, there will be a special place for me in heaven. What will they do when they find out it's true? Yeah.

I don't really care if you label me a Jesus freak. I will say this, though. I was reading the other day. I was reading the Bible. That needs to be the outro music on this podcast. Tom, you know the story in Mark 5, 1 through 10? You remember this one? You two are the ones sending all this shit in to speak your piece, ain't you?

What's that? All the Psalms. I'm thinking of Mark 7, 38, I think, which is, isn't that, let your yes be a yes and your no be a no. The rest is the work of the devil. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Mark 5, isn't that let your yes be a yes and your no be a no? The rest is the work of the devil. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Mark 5, 1 through 3. No, no, no.

That's the traditions of men have made the word of God a non-effect. You set me up for that. You just said something, so I would say yes. So you could be like, actually, no, that's not what it is. No, I was mistaken. Is that discouraging negotiation? What? Or is that a strong biblical support for consent it's it's yeah it's for

contracts i guess i don't fucking know i haven't read mark 7 in fucking 15 20 years have you read the bible cover to cover uh not probably not every single book but i've read most of it i mean but this is a long time ago tanya this is your readers though you love to read decades ago i got the book we got in the mail this week was hideous i was like well okay i'll say this mark 5 1 through 10 it's the story of jesus healing the demon possessed man okay you know and it's like he him and the disciples they come across a man who is possessed, and they heal him. They drive his spirits out.

But the story is really goddamn funny, because the guy, after he's been healed, he's like, so, can I, like, come with you guys? Can I, like, join the Jesus cult? Can I be a disciple? And his disciples, him and his disciples are like, yeah, I mean. Kind of at capacity. It kind of works with 12. 12's a good even number.

13, kind of unlucky. Just throw the symmetry off. You know, it's good. I got a softball team. Yep. Jesus. That is, you know, I couldn't get this out of here

without telling a a bible funny a bible funny i've been reading the bible a lot lately i've been reading this book i've been reading this book called king jesus and it's um i mentioned it when i was up at your house the other day because you've been been studying the parallels of Jesus and Epstein. A lot of overlap there. Both carpenters. God damn it.

Of course. Uh-huh. Look, I just really, really want to live in a pagan society. Me too. society with hundreds of different gods and um an overbearing repressive romans imperial as far as politics go the romans are way off but religiously i think they're on the side good religion paganism is just very communist don't you think? Yeah. Totally. Tell me more about that. What's the coolest religion? Like, specific. Like, not just

paganism or Christianity. Like, specific sect, blah, blah, blah. Satanism. Satanism's, like, kind of lame, in my opinion. Interesting. It was cool in, like, the 80s, maybe. Yeah. Coolest religion. I mean, mean what do you what are the what are their choices what makes something cool yeah i mean anything

zoroastrianism is pretty tight what's that uh you know like the ancient it's like the first month of babylonian we're not Babylonian, I'm sorry. Yeah, that kind of... Yeah, they practiced it in the Persian... Persian. Ancient Persian Empire, I believe. The Seleucid Empire. When you died, they put you up in a tower and let the birds come.

Oh, the Tower of Silence. Yeah. Yeah, they put you on... It's called the Tower of Silence. They put you up there in the... Yeah, you get eaten alive. Or not alive, your body gets eaten by vultures. I'll be honest with you, everybody that bags on religion I have to disagree with.

I'm kind of, my new thing is I'm kind of into cultural religion. I'm just kind of a religious tourist. Okay. You know what I mean? Just, you know. You go to a different church every Sunday? No, just, you know, when you're with the Muslims, to a different church every sunday no just you know when you're with the muslims do as the muslims when you're with the jewish folks do as the jewish

folk you know just yeah i feel like we've been doing that for a while get you a little sampler platter well i will say this though um i got to thinking about this after we recorded that last patreon about when we were talking about trump but like of all the things that sort of draw parallels to the roman empire thing it kind of feels like it was really a long time coming before someone just put two and two together and said i am the chosen one i am uh d if i am like uh god's plan made manifest in man and um you know what i mean like i feel like towards the end of the empire the roman emperors were just like yeah i'm a god doing that shit i'm a god what do you think would happen if bernie said the same thing was like actually no i'm the chosen one

what do you think would happen i don't know some people say i'm the chosen they should all start doing it honestly um but with trump when you start getting the average donation of 27 you can be the chosen one okay well trump it makes sense because i chose me what trumpet makes sense because he's had his whole like sort of gilded empire thing, you know, and it's finally made manifest in him being the executive of the state. All it took was all his life of swindle and fraud and privilege to merge with running the empire and his brain literally looking like Swiss cheese.

When all those combustible elements came together, you got the chosen. That's right. Apotheosis. You look mad about it, Tonya. You're not happy about it? I'm just not following. Are you sobered up now? I'm coming down.

Now. I knew this was going to happen was gonna happen coming down a little bit i don't feel good i'm just thinking about dinner can you tell us what else happened to you today or we're just gonna call it you want to call it i mean essentially i ran a scam where i was supposed to funnel money from one from a queer group to a non-queer group, and I didn't. I just got the money to another queer group. That's what happened.

No, I'll tell you what happened. I called the Harlan County Fiscal Court. No, the Harlan County Judge Executive's Office. The Fiscal Court. Wait, no. The Fiscal Court. Wait, no. That's not right. court no the harlan county judge executive's office the fiscal court wait no the fiscal court wait no that's not right the county judge executive which is the fiscal courts yeah the later of the fiscal court yes so half a dozen in one yeah two dozen in the other or something no it's six in one half a dozen and the other Because they're the same Terrence What's that saying even mean

I've never understood what that means Because six is half dozen You dummy I'm sorry that was rude And lo and behold Sissy bug Janice I think her name was I said Janice I think her name was I said Janice

I need to know how to Donate money virtually If I can't just come to the courthouse And write a check to the miners blockade The miners We had to get rid of some money fast The miners who is we Us the trailbillies

The miners Gays and lesbians for the Meaners. Okay, here's what's happened. This is no shock, but you remember we talked about the racist truck drivers who showed up in MAGA at the Harlan County Black Jewel Minor Blockade in MAGA Morris Cove, did we not? We did. That was the premise of that episode, actually. Yep. Well, those motherfuckers showed back up and they were even worse they're nazi sympathizers and they run an org they're fucking identified with an organization that probably isn't even an organization called black

smoke matters regardless even the concept is sounds very ad hoc garbage i have to say complete garbage ad hoc like they showed up they made the blockade very unsafe for any people of color or queer people made it like a very racist space and essentially the camaraderie that people thought was built there maybe wasn't it was not strong enough to hold off a bunch of racist nazi sympathizer truck drivers so people who felt unsafe had to leave and then since they had been asked to and were trying to manage some of the fundraising and donations that were coming in for the camp base because it takes a lot to run a fucking camp also they that the the harlem county black jewel blockade has has a literal free store set up for back to school clothes and supplies they were literally filling class lists of school supplies and just having them in tents and people were coming to pick it up.

Right. So whatever money was left over at this moment when they left was like needed to get rid of. So I called the Harlan. I was helping. I called the Harlan County. Fiscal Court. Fiscal Court. County Judge.

Yes. fiscal court fiscal county judge yes janice said oh well the best way to give online to support is through what's it called with love from harlan oh it sounds great sounds like a wine mom fun that's that's also like a duck uh really like sharp rebranding from bloody harlan yeah it's yeah it is something soft we can't ride on this like grizzled fucking like murderous reputation any longer it essentially is a wine mom fundraiser but it's like a overall campaign that's that has of folks from harlem who have raised money for a bunch of different or like causes in harlan um and so now they're able to like funnel money pretty easily they've figured it out but the golden

nugget here is that it's ran by lesbian couple oh nice so i got the go ahead as soon as she told me i was like fuck yeah i already know these people i've watched their kid for a few hours they have a bunch of kids so i got to just fund all this money to more queers felt great okay but still the minors to go to the minors still going to the minor but yeah the mainers queer people know how to manage money but the keep keep going with your accent because the one of the funniest parts is that the fucking mayor of Cumberland, Kentucky, this half-wit piece of shit. When I was organizing over there, the mayor of Cumberland was a woman. So I don't know who this new limp dick is. His name is Charles Raleigh.

That's him. You asked me to. I actually look into this. You're my favorite PI. Got to build you up so i could break you down and so this limp dick has like we're gonna warrants for arrests these he just launched a bunch of racist and homophobic shit yeah against people at the blockade and so homophobic that he's taking screenshots of people's purse like people's instagrams where they're just like jokingly like saying country queer yeah solidarity cutesy you cute whatever fucking old town road dance parties right whatever yeah cute shit he's screenshotting

it and calling people perverts and he goes and digs up literally he's on facebook 1950s straight up because down here well because the gays and lesbians who supporting the minors from england that group that's still oh yeah you know sort of functional the minors they launched their own fundraising campaign and have been sending money oh and they've posted a bunch of fun stuff because their whole thing is pits and perverts uh-huh right because it's all pit mines over there and they were screenshotting that shit because they have no they have no historical context for anything because he's a fucking idiot a half-wit literally my favorite moronical half a half-eaten jar of applesauce for a brain my favorite tom fucking set right

anyway so his stupid ass is posting all this homophobic shit and so we were like you know we just need the my advice was just let them let them have it let them fight over it fuck it just exit stage left but let's just send it to more queers just heavenly well that might answer a question because i keep getting a lot of uh messages like where do i send money if i want to donate so well now i know you send it to from love with heart no from harlan with love no that's right no you're right i think you're right that's right or with love from harlan i thought it was with love from harlan that's it with love from harlan at yahoo.com paypal them bitches they've been taking and like this whole time they've been running supplies to the camp

too yeah that's a good answer because uh like i said i keep getting the question and i'm like i don't know i mean because i don't know what these last days are gonna look like over there but uh it's getting shaky over there which is to totally to be expected when new yorkers show up hacking wearing trump hats this is what fucking pisses me off because everything's just fucking rainbows and sunshine until people roll in from the fucking city with trump hats and that is our experience and so that's why we're always so fucking dumbfounded when we are the fucking trump country bitches you know yeah whatever we don't have to ride that horse again but hey i'm always down to ride it fuck black smoke matters that is the dumbest what should

have happened is we should have let the fucking air out of his truck tires rolled it into the fucking kentucky river and took his kneecaps out. Fuck that guy. Totally. Well. Teamster looking bitch. What did you call him? He's a teamster, so he said. No, there's no way. Oh.

I think he's still in valor. Scratch that. I think he's still in valor from the teamsters. Well, fuck that guy. Go to With Harlan From Love or With Love From Harlan. Yeah, everybody that's been hitting us up asking if we can donate money and tell you that sounds like the best option right now. That's right.

And if you want to give us money, go to Patreon.com. If you want to give us the content, mine or some other. Trillium Workers Party. There's a big discrepancy between the amount of listeners we have onpancy between the amount of listeners we have on SoundCloud and the amount of

patrons we have and I'm getting fucking sick and tired of it. You're fucking sick and tired of that shit, bro. I'm pissed. I'm so pissed. You do what you want. It's your money. Also, we got t-shirts. If you want one of our Deeply Deeply

Diseased Tour t-shirts, go to our big Cartel store, trailbillaworkersparty.bigcartel.com. Pre-order one of them. They'll ship out in about two weeks. Hey. All right. See you on tour.

Well, that'll be a few weeks from now. We'll get a couple more episodes in before that. I don't think we're going to see anybody before then though. You're right. That's true. Are tickets on sale? Is it at the door?

How's this work? Yeah, how are tickets sold right now? I don't know yet. Great. Hope type. We're a month out. You got time to save up.

All right. Well, go to the Patreon and we'll talk to you later. Bye.