Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 122: For Whom The Bell Polls

Episode Date: November 14, 2019

We talk about our very favorite eastern Kentucky towns, as well as other Kentucky politics arcana. Then we do a little bit of Speak Your Piece. And for the grand finale, we look at a mysterious fire that brought down former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin's bell manufacturing plant in 2012. Support us on patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Just dealing with the tomfoolery today. A lot of it. You know my Wednesdays are hell anyway. What did you do today? Dog park. I feel like all you do is take Sally to the dog park. Work calls. Right here.

Work calls. Protons. Neutrons. Neutrons. Electrons. Tom has mastered the conference call. There's a man in the moon. I try to hide in conference calls.

I'm not built for conference calls. That's why I say you've, uh, you've, like, you've perfected it. I just defer to everybody else. Yeah, I think whatever Bonnie said makes sense. That's usually what I do. And it's because my mind just does not work quick enough like that. Today was the first day that I'd been

on a conference call in over a year probably. You seemed a little rusty. Oh yeah, I was about to say, oh, what did you have a conference call for? So we had a year probably. It seemed a little rusty. Oh yeah. I was about to say oh what did you have a conference call for? It was us.

We had a conference call. I thought that went very well. Okay. That sounds a little bit better. Looks like your levels are pretty good.

I think I got the bad mic. Alright. But who knows? Since I had to drive all the way to Lexington, I want to talk about today the microcosm, the Appalachian microcosm that is Hazard, Kentucky. Okay.

Okay. okay everything uh wrong or fucked up or unjust or insane and absurd is manifest in hazard kentucky yeah anything that's awful i say it's the whatever it's the hazard of whatever that is they have been doing road construction and the thing is for five or six years now and it has only gotten worse have you noticed this yeah that's because it's coal mining it's not road construction yeah they're just mining coal on the side of the road they have to have an infrastructure project to justify the permit but i mean exactly that's the point i'm trying to make that's why they've been trying to widen that two lane and hazard for six goddamn years dude it is insane so it just gets more and more ridiculous as time goes on now here's my question have you

seen the map like the uh illustration of what it's supposed to be in the future like the future illustration of it the end game no i have not remember i worked in hazard for two years and so they were spreading this propaganda around what it would eventually be they've got it looking essentially like an interstate exit like instead of four-way stops there are off ramps on and off ramps on the whole thing like that curl around yeah yeah that's why that's why that's how pathetic now mind everybody out here this is a town of at its peak probably about 5 000 people now it's probably closer to two or three thousand dude they've literally got it as going off ramps and shit so that they can justify mining that far away from the road that's what they that's the whole they're not getting a

lane they're getting 18 off ramps at every single intersection will now be a huge circular off and on ramp. Which is the stupidest possible thing for such a congested area. Amazing. I was thinking the other day.

Plus like six lanes. I was thinking the other day the funniest thing about it, the most representative thing about the whole thing. Number one partner right there. Oh, thanks, Alex. Thank you, Alex.

Thank you. Why do I sound so funny? I sound like I'm in a tube. Put that on something. That's mid-century walnut, pal. There you go. My bad. The funniest thing about Hazard about hazard man is like that uh when you're coming into town

and you're you go past the double quick and there's that hill up on the right they i don't know if y'all remember this there used to be houses up on that hill up on that you know what i'm talking about right like apartments yeah yeah yeah and so they just right like apartments yeah yeah yeah and so they just demolished them all and then and then they had some like inloaders or bulldozers up on that hill for years just moving shit around you remember this they just moved dirt from one spot to the next yeah and then did nothing with it now the entire hill is just grown over with kazoo it's amazing no i think they put a billboard okay they put a billboard they put a billboard there they're also doing the uh a hill that once had purpose and use utility well that's capitalism that's a capitalism well also they're doing the weird potent can village

fake mountain thing too now like Like where they like you know. Oh yeah where it looks like a pixelated. Yeah but it's just plaster. It's a fucking 8 bit. Yeah it's like an 8 bit pixelated Mario video game high wall. It does. It looks like you're in

Mario Kart. It straight up looks like Super Nintendo. I don't know how else to explain it to somebody who hasn't seen it like imagine the side of a cliff and then imagine if someone was trying to imitate that in a mario kart like 19 nintendo 64 1998 pixelated it is 8-bit absolutely it's ridiculous and the whole point is to just make it look like you're in the mountains but you're in the fucking mountains anyways i don't understand the point i don't understand it what i think they're trying to do is not make

it i think it's a beautification project that goes awry you know what i mean like their calculation is oh we fucked up thisside, so let's make it look pretty. You know what I mean? And it looks like fucking shit. Even worse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd take my mountainside over a creepy, weird, fake mountain anytime. So you're saying it's like a PR thing in the sense that they know it looks like shit.

Well, and also part of it, too. Also part of it, too, I bet, is you know how when they mine the shit out of the sides of the roads and they cut like you know like passes for roads and stuff like you got fallen rocks we don't talk about that east for kentucky rocks fall off mountains and kill motherfuckers all the time dude i was standing on the walking trail i guess it's a hedge against that there's a huge rock fall on the walking trail oh yeah there's a massive one yeah the the walking trail i feel like i'm taking my life into my own hands every single time because you walk by like six rock falls uh-huh eastern kentucky is and and what i love too about sorry before we get off of this walking trail i have a bone these motherfuckers have spent money black topping

over grass which obviously people prefer to walk on grass. Am I crazy? At the record show, I voted against that. It used to be a railroad. That's why they did that. They wanted to blacktop it? Well, it wasn't grass. It was just all a big thing of gravel with a railroad on top of it.

You know what I mean? Well, not in Apple Shop's backyard. Okay, not that part. Yeah, there was. There was railroad ties all the way through there was railroad ties oh yeah you're right but but up until very recently had grass on it which is very much more nice to walk on i fucking hate that gravel shit i hate walking yeah me too anyway they did that the week that that that my article in the bath where came out and i was walking on it like god fucking damn it man you did this terrence what did i do they were like

just to discredit you like oh we got a lace, oh, we got to lay some pays, man. We got to do some shit we said we were going to do eight years ago. Yeah, I know. It's just like they've spent money on signs. They've bought a bunch of signs that the city won't even put up. All this crazy trail expansion shit. Yet, there's a rock fall. Multiple rock falls no one's made a peep about they're not gonna try to attempt

to fix that at all that shit was weird they just let that sit there i was like that's bad somebody was sitting in that first blue bench there dead yeah dead and fucked done done so man i fucking love hazard then like as you're going through it there's a massive like power station or something off to the side i don't even know what it through it there's a massive like power station or something off to the side i don't even know what it is it's just a steam factory they just blow fucking shit up into the air and so you're driving by the beautification project with mountains literally falling all around you and there's two lanes and so every back traffic is backed up they basically have you pinned in like they're like you're going to die

it really is apocalyptic because they're like the space of eight lanes of traffic for bulldozers and two but two for cars and any smallest bridges and a rock could fall down at any point and you're sitting ducks down there absolutely nowhere to go you remember you remember that tom dug up an image like an old image uh one time of oh fuck it was a depiction of all all roads just being abyss instead and showing like how little space we've allowed for humans versus cars remember that when was this i don't know probably a while back but you would you would unearth this picture and you're like this is so terrifying sounds like something it was a picture of people walking on sidewalks but then instead of all the roads around them it was just like

abyss like they would fall oh yeah and it was it was just to show how much space we've given to cars. Like we have no space for human, human, anything. Anyway, that is how the hazard there's, there's, there's an inch for cars. There's 60 feet for bulldozers and tractors and all kinds of shit.

No room for humans. There is no, think about if you didn't have a car and hazard, which is probably at least a lot of people a double digit percentage of people in hazard do not have vehicles i can assure you you have to take your own life into your hands there's no way it's completely unlawful i think hazard's the best town in eastern kentucky no it's hilarious it's just so nice and seedy i think i find it to be hilarious in that very dystopic way like you're saying

it's not even remotely pedestrian friendly in fact it's more dangerous because they've got you pinned in where boulders could fall at any point just for them to make this long you know highway project that is actually a coal project there's so many layers there they have the city itself has funded moving so much stuff in the past 15 20 years from downtown onto the bypass to to send commerce to make the to make the bypass a thing essentially including the public library when i first started working for kfdc 10 years ago all the members in hazard were just like depleted because they had just moved because most of them did not have cars they were walking around and they had just moved the public library from downtown hazard where everyone lives

up to the fucking bypass to which you could only get there by car there's literally no way you'd have to scale a hillside oh yeah they. They, they, they hid the public library behind JCPenney. Absolutely. Yeah. There's no way to get to that library on foot. Absolutely. No way. It's up on,

it's pretty big. You would be run over. It's tucked the fuck back too. And so now all these people, basically everyone who used their public library is downtown with no car. And now the library sits a million dollars, I'm sure. It's like keep away from the people that were really using the library. I think it's also, though, one of those situations like our local high school where there's a massive high wall next to it.

Right? Isn't the Perry County Library like that? Yeah. Yeah, it's like, it's right for wrong. I bet it was a reclamation. I bet it was a reclamation deal right the point yes it was like the walmart in jackson when the boulder rolled through the store if coal if coal barons convince a town to put something where the mine was they can make it they don't have to do anything yeah yeah they'd be like oh we've gifted this tarred land yeah

which is why though the flat land for development right that's why they do the beautification we're going to get into steve basheer i got a hunch later but stick a pin in that steve basheer was a big flatlander guy yeah oh no it wasn't steve who was it was another guy who he said he coined the term mountaintop development. Paul Patton? No, no. It was, oh, fuck, I can see his ugly face. He's so warm.

Wait, it was Rocky. Was it Rocky? Yeah, it was Rocky. And they fucking. No, he's a doctor. This guy's a doctor. Monjardo? Daniel Monjardo?

That might have been it. Because he said, I live on. You all have to remember this speech. This is epic. We could could probably find it on youtube oh no no no no you're talking about greg stumbo was it greg is he a doctor i don't think so no he's not not a medical doctor is he a witch doctor this was an epic this was an epic grandstand this motherfucker gave at that remember that like this has been again 10 years ago that um huge hearing they had nationwide 21 nationwide 21 pyramids permits he grandstand he was like i live on mountaintop development because he lives on a golf course i work on mountaintop development because he works at pmc i all this

shit he's like i love his bag on mountaintop development oh yeah i loved it he just went on this nut nut job of uh leslie comes used to use that a lot too what happened to her leslie comes remember her i literally just thought about her the other day and wondered what the fuck has happened to leslie you thought about it because we were talking about lobbying. And me and you went into her office and had one of the most absurd experiences. Were you with me when she freaked out on me? I've ever had. I don't think so. Oh, she drugged my ass.

Leslie Combs, for those that don't know, is our state senator. Former. Former state representative who's probably most famous for bringing a gun to the Capitol building and it going off. Y'all that yeah they called her annie oakley she retired shortly actually i don't think that you were well well what she did remember i was so mad this is how we came angie hatton came to be elected she announced that she would not be running for re-election a day before the filing deadline a day the day before the so her successor would have a clear path to win the nomination yeah and then angie fucked it up angie fucked it up but she was clearing a path for a fucking

republican and this bitch is a democrat imagine she thought that she had squared up her a seat for herself in bevan's cabinet oh yeah she never got it she never fucking got it because angie had hoodwinked her ass that was crazy so she's literally been in hiding ever since i'm convinced i've not seen or heard of her since then totally i totally lost track of her after that oh i've been clocking her ass for a long time because at some stupid years ago at some stupid kftc letter writing party i wrote her a letter like i'm embarrassed of you because she's like against abortion and everything fucking female dim and i'm just like this is pitiful and i sent off the letter with everybody else's i showed up in her office for an appointment and she remembered my fucking name and she was sitting there she's like

oh you're tanya turner please come in do come in and she drug my ass in front of like six people and i literally walked out of the room and started crying she fucking cut me down i will never i would love my second round with leslie gomes i was just like it looks like it looks like the uh it looks like the teacher has become the student, Leslie. Yeah, where you at now, Leslie? Dude, that is so fascinating to me. Helene Oakley. Our representatives just bully the fuck out of us.

She shot off. She shot off. Just bully us. There was a time when you could say anything you want to them, they just had to keep a stiff upper lip. Yeah, yeah, you know it's complicated. Now they don't even care. They're just like, I'd crush you out, you little lamb.

Yeah, she sent me straight to therapy. I mean, picture this. I had driven a fucking van full of people five hours to meet with her stupid ass. And when I walk in, she would just. Was Russell from Hazard one of them? Yeah. I love Russell. He was the main one against the library move.

Yeah, Russell's a big time library guy. Yeah, well, he can't even get to the Hazard library now. I know, he told me about last time. But yeah, Benny and all them, we were all there. They all looked at me and looked at her. Oh my God, Cleveland Smith. Y'all remember Cleve? Y'all know Cleve?

Yeah, I know. He was standing there and he come out and he said, God damn, I thought you was gonna fight. Am I gonna swing on a state ramp in the Capitol House?

She's a felony. Who's definitely packing heat and shot off a whale. She would have shot your ass. She would have shot me. She was looking for, she wished a motherfucker would. Yeah, she did.

I mean, this woman shot off a pistol in a building made of marble. Not right at all. She ain't right. Just wasted your ass in front of everybody. Wasn't she, I don't know if this is true or not, but I feel like I remember. Wasn't Leslie one of those that put up a fight when they were talking about taking Jefferson Davis' statue out of the statue out of the rotunda which i don't think ever happened no he's still there no he's there oh you're right he's definitely there i think she led the charge about like preserving the history or something of that i don't remember she might have she's bad

but how do we get there mountaintop development. Mountaintop development. She used to use that one a lot, yeah. You know, I think what was her downfall, since we're down in the weeds here, was she went to bat for UPIKE to become public. Remember that? And that got shot down after she grandstanded on it for two years. And then eventually it became public, rightstanded on it for two years. And then eventually it became public, right? No, it's still private.

No, it's still a private university. It went from Pikeville College to the University of Pikeville. Oh, they just changed the name. Yeah, it went from a college to a university. Yeah. But it's still private. And when she couldn't make that happen, I think she just felt like, I think most people just gave it up on her. Like, you ain't got no power.

Yeah. The only thing she ever did for me is she got me two tickets to the Obama inauguration. How? Back when I was excited about that. I guess through Hal Rogers. You went to the Obama inauguration? No, I didn't end up going. I was about to say, how do I not know this about you?

I didn't end up going. I got to. But you did see him at a speech, though, didn't you? Well, yeah. I saw him at Shawnee State University. So you weaseled tickets and then couldn't go? No, this is when I started. We were going to go, and then I started having panic attacks.

That's when I first started having panic attacks. And I was like, what the fuck? Obama did this to you. Obama's not going to close Guantanamo. I started having panic attacks after he. I bought into hope and change. I bought into hope and change. I bought into hope and change. I have neither.

Cash, jobs, and hope. God damn. What was it like seeing him on the campaign trail in 2008? Were you like, this guy's gonna... Did you see him before or after he won the primary? Before. That's when he was still on the... He was still running against Dennis Kucinch.

This is when Uncle Joe was in the race. was still running against this is when uncle joe was in the race dennis q sims bill richardson bill richardson was in it yeah bill richardson is it's so i always think of bill richardson is like he almost missed the me too cut like the jeffrey epstein me too cut you know what i mean yeah he was like he was on like he he was the last guy outed before that went away he's like oh he was deep in the epstein shit and he was my governor dude he used to hang out in how in hobs like with the like the rich oil uh elite in hobs yeah you know people would always talk about bill richardson getting incredibly fucked up at whatever party and he looks like a guy that would you know get go off the rails where Leslie Combs was definitely a bitch that'd get fucked up

I vividly remember mowing someone's you know like in 2008 um this might have even been the summer 2007 I guess it might have been I remember mobile Richardson's lawn I wasn't mowing Richardson's lawn but I was mowing. I was mowing a lawn because that's what you did at that age, right? I didn't know y'all had lawns out there. 19 or 20. Well, the rich did. It's a status, though.

The rich had a lawn. That's the way it was in Vegas, too. Nobody had a lawn unless you lived in a rich neighborhood. Right. It's a status symbol, exactly. I remember getting a phone call, though, from my friend who, if you're paying attention to the catalog, we referenced in the two patrons ago,

but the Kanye thing. Right. But I just remember him telling me like, yeah, man, I think, uh, I think it's totally possible. Obama could be the antichrist.

I think it's totally possible. It's like, Oh yeah, man, definitely. Oh, for sure, man.

Oh, for sure, man. You know, people who thought this. Yeah sure oh yeah oh definitely like even before he was elected i know like yeah i know people who literally thought that they were i don't know literally the antichrist my ex-girlfriend's family they got in on the ground floor of the obama antichrist thing you always know someone who was on the ground they were on that shit when this motherfucker gave the dnc speech his star-turning moment

before anybody knew he was gonna run or whatever they were like that that's the one that's gonna come out of the revived roman empire i'm telling you right now look at his name barack obama that is a really crazy thing to me about electability like every time anyone brings I'm telling you right now, Barack. Look at his name, Barack Obama. That is a really crazy thing to me about electability. Like every time anyone brings up the electability thing, it's like we elected a guy named Barack Hussein Obama twice. Yeah, and we can't elect a communist. You know what we should do?

We should start a rumor that if you play Obama's speeches backwards, they have satanic masses. I think anything played backwards they have satanic messages. I think anything played backwards has a satanic message. That sounds crazy as shit. Yeah, I agree. If you play Trillbilly, this is true, if you play Trillbilly's backwards, definitely satanic messages. Yeah, for sure. If you play it forward, satanic messages.

Yeah, also true. But just please don't play it on double speed, please. I bet that's extra satanic messages yeah also just please don't play it on double speed please i bet that's extra satanic message so you think that thing in hazard is a cold job yeah it's definitely a cold job for sure it's definitely a cold job uh another fun exercise to do is to say which eastern kentucky city matches up with which greek city state okay well they all have like greek sister cities and shit really don't a lot of a lot of eastern kentucky cities have like international well a lot of cities in general well i would say preston is probably athens really well you're gonna say weisberg's Athens. Really? I know your rationale for Prestonsburg

is they're supposedly the best school, number four school system in the state or something. I was going to say that and they have a theater. The Ginny Wiley Theater. That is true.

There's no Athenian in Weisberg. I think Paintsville's the best. Got the good school system, ain't it? Paintsville. Is it Prestonsburg? What's...

Rhodes was the one with the massive statue in front of it that you had to sail under, right? Go under their legs. Where? Hazard is that. The statue isn't a large man.

It's their coal synergy project. It's just a drag line. Next to every McDonald's. Hazzard does have several McDonald's. They used to have a two-story McDonald's. Yeah, that was that Roy Tackett managed. That was badass. What happened to that?

They turned it into a police station. It's a double-decker KSP post now. The downtown one? Yeah. That's a double-decker KSP post now. The downtown one? Yeah. That's a cop spot now? That's a cop spot. It is. It literally is their post.

Wow. Now, that was a seedy McDonald's. A two-story McDonald's. You can't keep track of everything going on in there. I love Hazard. I remember hanging out there during a Black Gold Festival. That's a whole part of Hazard we haven't talked about. They have the

Black Gold Festival. Yeah, that is true. To which one of the first things I was forced to do as an organizer was register voters at a KFDC tent at the Black Gold Festival where I got my ass chewed out about 18 times really yeah you know i sat there got this this guy in stripes was like you want my kids to

starve his kids were standing right there they were just looking at me fucking scared to death i have been through it i see okay so you're You're talking about war on coal era. I don't peak. That's not as embarrassing as me doing it as a volunteer. I wasn't even paid to do it. At least you were paid to do it. Yeah, you just walked right into a bear trap. That's true. Because you're trying to make friends. This is how people will like me?

This is how I'll gain their trust. That black gold, dude i sat there one time while a man a retired a disabled miner with a literal fucking oxygen tank argued with a man about strip mining for what felt like three days i'm sure it was about 30 minutes but i was just sitting there with like tears welled up in my eyes just disassociated just so just so dehumanized that is one of the hardest things to do see those guys yeah you so but i don't know is coal even profitable i mean like so that you tried to get in the call i like i like he's not smoked in forever he's like like it's like smoking his first joint again i know we told you this was bad idea but it's

okay is is coal even profitable man can you even make? I think what's happened is there's such a regulatory environment that it's profitable to run coal at a loss right now. There's such a what? Regulatory environment such that it's advantageous to run coal at a loss because. There are no regs. Well, because Trump's just given these huge subsidies for coal companies and stuff. And they know they're never going to have to pay anything. So they have to actually be a coal company. You know what I mean?

But yeah, it's like if they're leaving it in the ground, it's actually costing them more money to pay the... Did y'all read the latest Mount Eagle last week? Maybe. I don't know. I haven't heard. There was a Matt Jones fan in there. Oh, I didn't even notice that. I brought this week's Mountain Eagle. What were they saying about Matt Jones?

Oh, they were coming to his defense. Oh, I don't know. Did y'all see the article I tweeted about? I know you all got me hit on the timeline. It's fine. But the front page. Tanya, you're muted.

I know I am. The front page of last week's Mountain Eagle had a mugshot on it. They often do. But this one was of a man who owns a coal mine in Eola. Who was running hookers and stuff i know who was literally he literally bankrupted his mind while running a huge sex trafficking ring out of law so well it was something sinister so oh very sinister most of the girls were underage oh my god 40 upwards of 40 there's a follow-up in it in this week's paper and they he literally said they literally

admitted disturbing as hell you didn't see me tweet about this it is the most yeah i actually i remember you talking about that but i didn't know i thought he was just like had a prostitution ring i didn't know it was like a child sex trafficking no this was a sex some of them were over age but most of them were very young girls and they literally admitted to giving them free pills until they were addicted oh my god and then and then giving them essentially let giving them an opportunity to turn tricks to repay them for the pills they'd already took so they never got paid is this is not the most company town shit i have ever heard so they have turned this coal mine motherfucker this mine owning motherfucker has turned his like coal company company town politic

into fucking sex trafficking human trafficking operation oh is there anything more dark no i don't i don't know that's fucked up this like, this is like taking the template of like, like you were saying, like the coal company towns and then. It literally is. Insert like the most sinister crime of our age. So these girls were just like, you know, continuously pimped out. Just strung out and pimped out. Continuously strung out, pimped out. And then they never made any money.

All the money they made was owed back for pills they'd already taken they they could not have worked themselves out this is this is literally i know who's getting the wall first yeah what's crazy i mean this fucked up one of the wildest things of the story the story was written terribly shocker but they had they had gotten most of this information from text messages and so they printed just a ton of their text messages between between the pimp guy in london and the guy who owned the viola mine and one of the text messages y'all didn't see this no one you need to go back and look i swear one of the text messages say said i gotta lay low

for a day or two i'm bankrupt in this mind that's literally what it said and then he just comes back into the message like i'll have and they were like victim two and victim three this week like they they didn't name them but they had like victim 1 through 18 quoted in it they called them victims yes in the text they called them victims no no in the newspaper that would be i was like that's literally dehumanizing i would like to order a victim fine matt jones said in the mounds people just tell you anything right to your face, and he's right. No, yeah, you ain't wrong. No, so it was just fucked it up. I've never seen anything more bizarre and just depraved.

I got to bankrupt this mind real quick, but I'll have Sally and Jesse and Raphael when I get back. Just fucking diseased. Dude, there is a guy who writes in the Speaker piece every week, and it starts with this line every single time. God bless you, Mr. President, and God bless your family. You know which one I'm talking about? Yeah, every time. Every week it starts with God bless you, Mr. President.

Is Comrade Cletus in there this week? No, I have not seen Comrade Cletus. Bring us up to date on comrade cleatus well the best one was from last week tom we had a bunch of requests for you to read it won't you read it it's the one from last week i don't have the paper with me from last week it was it is it is great we did a bunch of dramatic readings of it at my house let me pull it up for you tom we get time to read it to us. These are great. How do y'all not see this?

You really do have me muted. Don't lie. These are so crazy. I don't have you muted. You just ignore me analog style. I don't have you muted, Tanya. You really think we would do that to you? Yes, absolutely.

That's a goddamn shame. That's a terrible slander upon my name. Trust. I'm just a concerned Lexington citizen. I showed up here to record tonight, and I was like, where y'all at? Oh, we're having dinner without you. Well, you know what, Tonya? We told you where we were at, and you could drive over.

Shut up. You could literally walk over. It's 18 steps from my door. For an interview that didn't happen, so. Well, same here. Okay, here you go, Tom. Here's the first part, then the next one. Give it to us.

I say the Trump worshippers have received new instructions from their handlers in St. Petersburg, Russia. One of them wants to know why Democrats don't, quote, leave this country, end quote. from their handlers in St. Petersburg, Russia. One of them wants to know why Democrats don't, quote, leave this country, end quote. Well, here's your answer, little man. I ain't leaving because this is my country, and I see every last one of you stinking pieces of right-wing trash shoveling coals in the deepest, hottest pits of whatever version of hell you believe in before I'll turn my country over to a pack of goose-stepping Nazis, neo-Confederate clan slime, Putin-loving Russian agents, and

Christo-fascist wannabe god kings. Does that answer your question, Comrade Cletus? Wow. Did you write this, Terrence? Maybe. I want to say something here. You know, I've been talking a little bit about this phenomenon, about how Southern humor suffers from just saying too many words.

Uh-huh. This is one instance where it kind of works, but completely unintentionally. Yeah, it worked out. Right. Goose stepping. I really loved that. Oh, my God. Now, there's some really good ones in there oh baby

this week's figure piece is good too oh there's some great shit sorry i'm trying to find something real quick pass them to tom let them keep them keep it going yeah tom why don't you read some shit it's been a long time since we did this it wasn't in a live show there's some really really good ones in there. I know. I can go ahead and add them. You gotta buy a big dollar ticket for this nowadays. This is a fucking free episode. Oh, baby. This is what we keep on the back burner when people stiff us.

When we don't, when we got no show interviewers. Yeah. Matt Bevan lost the election by 5,000 votes. Probably those 5,000 school teachers he'd knocked out of detention.

It is amazing how so many people have such low IQ as to believe all the political propaganda that pretends to be news.

This is weird without any sense in the back. To the drug dealer at EOLA, thank you for ruining the lives of my family and me. Your day's coming, buddy. To that fellow who's talking about opting out on exposing these false prophets and false Christians,

no, don't you do that. You are doing a good job. You have told the truth. Hang in there. Don't that sound just like the Tower of Babel? One says one thing while the other says another thing. Read 1 Corinthians starting with chapter 1 verse 10. To a certain person running a business in the town of Wattsburg,

we hear of neighbors helping neighbors, but apparently you only know how to help one of your neighbors while you treat your other one like an outcast it's true you even loaned your good friend you would split her and gave him your firewood but you don't even offer to help the other neighbor it's a shame i was always aware that our country was a Christian and free nation. But I still believe that arguing settles nothing but one's IQ. I always voted, but no one knew whom I voted for except me. I voted mostly Democratic until the last two elections.

That's when I started voting for Mr. Trump. I read about him and listened to the news, which I thought was fairly believable. And when he came along, I felt we needed a businessman with a proven record making the big-time financial decisions for this country. What did he think was believable? I felt that if he had enough

intelligence to be successful to the degree that he had been, that he could gather enough help to make the correct political decisions and to be a president to make America number one again and take the richest country in the world out of the red and into the black. So I voted for him. Editor's note.

The Speak Your Peace answering machine cuts your comments short because it's set at one minute. Next time, feel free to call back and pick up your message where you left off. peace answering machine cut your comment short because it's set at one minute next time feel free to call back and pick up your message where you left off dude trump's one of the only people who has bankrupt a casino in the state of nevada right they're such cash cows it's nearly damn near impossible to bankrupt a casino it rocks but he's such a great business um terrence tell me what's going on with impeachment hearings i have no idea kanya we're fucked up i really haven't been paying even the slightest bit of attention

or yesterday i think they started today yeah well they started up did everybody show up is my question because the last time they picked up hearings, literally no one showed. It was like Mueller's fucking day off. They were all just sitting there. It was Mueller's day off. Yeah, Mueller's. That's a pretty good one.

Sorry I'm stuck over here. Matt Bevin is right. The election was crooked. All five times I went to vote, there were teachers at the polls campaigning. I didn't read that. God bless you and God bless your family. God bless you, Mr. Trump. I'd like

for someone to get in touch with Jeff Foxworthy. Dude, I wanted you to read this one. Because I just saw another redneck joke for sure. The people in the burgundy car who just stopped and jerked the white stuffed cat out of the tree might be rednecks i wish i had that on film please put the cat back in the tree go directly to the right i think there's one right next to it that's good to one real sharp pretty thing who lives on Smoke Creek. This is it, yeah.

You were married, but it looks like you're divorced now. Also looks like you're dating a sheepdog. If you want a real man, baby, you can do a lot better than that. And I'm here anytime, any day, in any place. Oh, shit, I've been there. Dating a sheepdog. Yeah. It took long enough, but we finally got a governor who's pro-choice

one who supports relaxed borders illegal voting same-sex marriages higher taxes and red flags in our second amendment seriously christians keep your head high but your faith higher we can get through it oh my god holy shit we can get. We can read that again, actually. What did he say? Please read that again. Illegal voting or something. It took us long enough. We finally got us a governor here in Kentucky who's pro-choice, one who supports relaxed borders, illegal voting, same-sex marriages, higher taxes, and red flags on our Second

Amendment. Seriously, Christians. Keep your head higher, but your faith higher. We'll get through it. Damn. We'll get through it. Damn. We'll get through it. Just a pep talk. Illegal voting.

Here's some good insight that sort of talks about what Terrence was talking about in that article. We can talk a little bit more about that. This might be a good segue. Dear Speak Your Peace, I really don't care

who won the election for governor. I'm a Republican, voted for Matt Bevin, but my heart wasn't in it my way of thinking is way out of the norm with what most people think i won't legalize marijuana and the dea off the backs of doctors who want to help pain patient people and to help the doctors who don't well i don't what is that what wait explain that to me again what is that and how does that segue into what article what terrence wrote in the baffle this week uh what i was just saying that there's a variety of experiences that we can't account for, and that's why we have the result we got. Okay, yeah. I don't know if you – did you look at the, like, precinct results?

Did either of you look at the precinct results? Only at Kings Creek, but that's because this guy said, apparently there's 88 idiots that live at Kings Creek. I'm thinking about moving. Well, there are 88 votes for andy well although honestly i mean in in places that small you can't figure out willa told me that um when they last voted for obama they watched the results come in and they they thought they would be the only votes for Obama, and there were four. So there were four that wasn't them.

There were four extras. That ain't got shit. On 2012, there were like 16 Jill Stein voters in Letcher County. I know. It's like, where are you people? Where are you? Everyone at Summit City watching the retirements. Yeah, we were all there together.

at summit city watching the retirements yeah we were all there together um did you see that uh the career journal reported that there were thousands they said thousands of twitter accounts the night of the election that were just rattling off weird shit about like they were bots rattling off weird shit about uh voter fraud like one was like ha ha ha just shredded 50 million republican votes bye bye those were irony left guys well what's going to reply guys what's going to end up happening is bevin's going to point to that as evidence of voter fraud or something dumb so didn't he go to did he go to california and like yeah make some sort of speech about how that he was being cheated out of the election he will not he will not lose a dirty election that's what he said yeah on a rat fuck what's he gonna do i hope that he goes nuclear i hope he goes ballistic he'll do it let's leave comes he'll just disappear silently yeah so boring

this actually might be a great time to introduce my new segment uh we have a new segment on this show all right it's called friction fires oh god i'm going to highlight all my favorite friction fires or at least the ones that i suspect are the ones um so and this has to do with matt bevin and this is from tom's telling of the fire that that you saved the time you kept uh your apartment building from burning down right tom said you call that a friction fire. Right. Where your mortgage rubbed up against your insurance. Look, well, it's not mine.

I just hear people say it all the time in Westbury. But look, so I don't know if you guys knew this, but in 2012, Bevan's business, the Bevan Brothers Manufacturing Company of East Hampton, Connecticut. They made bells. Burned down. What a pussy ass business. Bells?

Like B-E-L-L-S? Yeah. Ringing bells. Sleigh bells. Ring-a-ding-ding. Jingle bells that you make the... Wow. A bell business.

Church bells. Ring-a-ding-ding, lady mice. Come get your cheese. He was like the last... His company was like the last... So this is his family. A bell business. Church bells. Ring-a-ding-ding, lady mice. Come get your cheese. He was like the last. His company was like the last. So this is his family. This has been in his great-great-great-grandfather.

It was founded by his great-great-great-grandfather in 1832. And Bevan firmed it down to take the insurance from him. And remaining in the family continuously since. Bevan Bros is the last American company That exclusively manufactures bells By 2000 Check this out By 2011 the company owed $116,000 in delinquent taxes

And was named the number one delinquent tax firm In East Hampton Collectively the Bevans decided that Matt Was the only family member with a business Acumen and financial wherewithal to keep The company solvent There are indications that Bevan keep the company solvent there are indications that bevin became the company's president in 2008 although he claims it was 2011

by 2012 the company's delinquent taxes had been paid but then in may of 2012 a lightning strike a funny thing happened but then a funny happened. A lightning strike sparked a fire that destroyed the factory on May 27th, 2012. Although he carried little more than liability insurance on the business and his losses were compounded by looters who stole 4,500 bales. Who stole

4,500 bales? What? Who is looting? Wait, you're unhooked, son. I'll actually turn my mic up. I'll tell you this now. If somebody that stole one of those

4,500 bells were to come forward, I swear to God, you're welcome on this show anytime. You can ring the bell for a fucking hour into the mic. Tom promises you 100 US dollars. I hate that son of a bitch 100 u.s dollars to come ring your bell on trail billies um so 4500 no one stole 4500 bales this is ridiculous bevin vowed to rebuild telling the hartford courant I'm a Bevan and Bevans make bells

How'd they not use this against him on the campaign trail? What a pussy business to be in Now I want to show you something You're telling me that he did not make money off that fire? No, but here's what I suspect I suspect that the bell business was fucking going under and then he burned it down basically just uh you know to cover over the fact that he wasn't going to be a successful businessman right like he's a dumbass

it's like he couldn't yeah that's true idiot like and so he probably And the only reason I say this... He did this just to escape. The only reason I say this is because the pictures of this event are so truly fucking bizarre. Is there a video of him running away from the scene? No, he's standing in front of it. The jingle bell in his face. He's jingling all the way. Look. The jingle bell in his face. He's jingling all the way. Look, he's, okay, so in one of these photos, he's standing in front of a burned out building with an American flag draped over the front of it.

No. Does this not look like a publicity stunt? Absolutely. He put a massive American flag. Look at his hands. Look at his hands. He is literally, that is a politician hand. Exactly.

Show Tom this photo. Look at this. Absolutely. And you can find this on literally, that is a politician hand. Show Tom this photo. Look at this. Absolutely. And you can find this on the. This is a pre-campaign. It's on the Hartford Courant. He's using this to run for something. Because this is, this happened in Hartford, Connecticut, because that's where he's from.

His, or he's from New Hampshire or Connecticut or something. When is this? When did this happen? He keeps turning off his box so he can chew Halloween candy. 2012. Without pissing off terrorists. He took over the business in 2011. How did we win the fucking Bevan lottery?

Of all the states he could have moved to. Whoever called his ass up and said, we want you to come run for governor. Made they rot in hell, honestly. Nobody did. He took that upon himself. No, someone had to. You don't think somebody was like, come on, I can get you in.

He rode in on that Tea Party wave and ran against Mitch McConnell. McConnell beat him. And then he was like, he's like one of the few examples of Republicans failing upward. What happened is he entered in. I feel like all Republicans fail upward. That's all they do. Well, you know how the Democrats do. They just fail. fail up or well but that's all they do well you know the democrats do in 2015 he is because he

lost that primary against mitch he entered the governor's race like last minute and there had been an election that year where the two republicans that were in it just went at each other's throats the whole fucking time and so by the end of it people were so tired of those two that when bevin threw his hat in at the very end they just voted for bevin and that's why he got like 500 000 votes or something like that it was just like people were worn the fuck down democrats knew that jack conway wasn't gonna win or or that he was weak enough to not pose any kind of like uh challenge and so they just threw in the towel and so yeah he literally just slipped in it you know slipped and landed in the governor's seat it really is wild to me though that he got more votes this

time around than he did the first time see i think it makes sense he won the year before trump like before maga train in november 2015 people thought trump was still a marginal factor in conservative politics you think i think that trump's win has a lot to do with the increased turnout from 2015 to now. Because that's really the only sort of substantive difference. And that could be like, I guess that could be

the Times being like, well, you're saying it's nationalized then. And yeah, I guess in some ways it is. But I don't know. I think that they at least knew the stakes anyways. It has to do with Trump, right? I guess. I mean, yeah, I guess in some ways it is, but I don't know. I think that they at least knew the stakes anyways. It has to do with Trump, right? I guess. I mean, is there anything not impacted by Trump at this point?

You know what I mean? It's just like... It does live in our heads. Rant free. I still can't get over the fact that my state elected a fucking bellboy from New England. He's a fucking bellboy. It's amazing. Tom, let's run you for something. I think it has a...

Let's do it. I think it has a pretty good chance of being a friction fire, right? It has a pretty good chance. Yeah, after seeing that picture, yeah. Also, didn't the state of Connecticut bail him out on that or something? He got a massive grant or something.

But look, there's even pictures of the fire pretty early on it's almost like he had photographers run up there and not that's a nice picture called into the hartford current or current and said oh the bevin uh bell building is on fire and there's 4 500 people looting I'm a bevin' and we make bales. 45 bales missing and counting. 4,500. I'm a bevin'. No, they're wheelbarrows. People are running out of a fire,

out of a burning building with wheelbarrows of bales. Dude, I can't. I cannot. That's incredible. No one sold 4,500 bales from this cannot. That's incredible. No one sold 4,500 bells from this maniac. That is incredible mythology. He's such a liar. No other Republican out there right now has this kind of mythology.

I'm a Bevan. Bevans make bells. I'll be hearing that in my sleep for years to come. We elected a bellboy from fucking Connecticut as our governor. Well, luckily we didn't elect him twice. You think we really will get rid of him, though? He won't run for something else? Because that's his trajectory.

He'll just run for something else, right? He'll move to, like, what's the next marginal state down from Kentucky? West Virginia? He'll move to West Virginia and run for state representative. That's what they do. That's what these guys do. They go to where it's cheap to run for office, establish residency, and then

run for whatever. Arizona. Go to Arizona, Bevan. He can stick it out here and run for something else because, I mean, the Republicans took power of the state essentially. They have every single other... Every single. They have the House, they have the Senate, they have every...

The Attorney General's office. Yeah, I mean, it's just going to be the same thing. So for the last four years, Bevin was governor. Andy Brashear was the Attorney General. And all we did was just sue ourselves. And Brashear was just suing Bevin

over every decision he made.'re just tied up we spent millions i want to know actually how much money how much money did we spend in the past four years on lawsuits against ourselves probably millions it's an unbelievable amount of money suing ourselves probably i saw that's what's about to happen again i saw a sobering statistic kind of tangentially related to this the state state of New York spent almost half a billion dollars on police settlements last year. What? Paying off bad? Like, no, like, police, like, misconduct and shit.

Like, people suing them. That's what I'm saying. For, like, them having to pay offs because cops can't act right. Right. The New York police beat the hell out of tabo cephalosha who's an nba player dude they beat the hell out of james blake who's a professional tennis player like one of like only a handful of black guys that are on the well not anymore but like just indiscriminately just beating the fuck out of even famous black people yeah just yeah it's i love how

people um wow yeah seven half a billion dollars it's like 700 million dollars oh my god apparently chicago city of chicago is way worse than that anyway i didn't mean to make a big diversion of this but would it not cost less to just fire everybody and rehire them and retrain them or something? I think it... Just get rid of the cops. Probably cost less just to murder every cop in New York City. Can't they just get rid of them, half of them or something? Yeah, well...

I don't know, we'll see. God. Out in the world is going with that, anyway. Damn, that is bleak. People, one of the things that people say they love so much about this show is how bleak it is is that what people love about it by that i mean like i love this show makes me want to kill myself but i love listening to it the reviews really are like that speaking of you get any good uh feedback on your article this week I don't know. It seems to have been mostly pretty good. You goose-stepped on it earlier.

Tell us about what you would have added. Well, I think that, I don't know, man. I spent a lot of time looking at the precinct totals in eastern Kentucky today. By a long time, I mean like ten minutes. To the point your eyes were crossing and you were seeing Epstein messages and numerology and stuff? Yes. Well, I did. The most helpful map that I've seen post-election is the one that, like, it's a 3D.

And so, like, the more votes, the higher. Have you seen that one? It's like a 3D. Right. It comes out at you? Yeah. I haven't seen it. And so it's either blue or red, obviously,

but then the tint and the height of the county shows you how many votes. Like Louisville is just like a tower. Right. And the rest of the state is mostly flat. Does that make sense? Yeah, I know what you're saying. You didn't see that one? No, looking on the the new york times one like you can select

it by precinct and like in letcher county i don't know it's just shit that it's so bizarre to me like basheer took the blackie area but it like by a landslide but then bevin took the uz area by like a landslide. That makes total sense. How about May King? I didn't check May King. May King, I think. The most positive was Bashir. Whitesburg was heavy Bashir.

The places around Whitesburg and Blackie were Bashir. Jenkins. Maybe Jenkins is what I'm thinking of instead of May King. I don't know. Well, anyways. Well, the Mountain Eagle printed on the front page bevin won easily here but they're just their headlines are so terrible the headlines are pretty funny bevin won easily here but brashir takes state guv oh yeah that's what it said guv i had to i had to google it to see if i thought it was a typo you thought it was a typo yeah because i've never seen governor abbreviated guv really yeah

well i know the love gov you know of uh was it alabama or mississippi no wait who was the guy went went to have his mistress in Argentina? Oh, okay, sorry. Hmm. Anyway, where were we? Argentina, love gov. Anyway, yeah, I'd only seen it a preview at a GOV.

I was like, the fucking mountain. I saw that. Bevan wins, yeah, Bevan wins easily here. But I don't know um but there's a lot of things that just didn't make a whole lot of sense to me like uh mcguffin county went democrat yeah a lot of the north well all those rocky it's all those rocky areas oh that makes sense rocky lives up there rocky land for yeah there's like well elliott county is always damn anyway and then like was it mcmorgan county them around there yeah yeah rowan yeah i mean round has a public college

right public university yeah i don't remember a lot of intellectuals up there in marhead but like floyd county mcgin, I think Wolf County went Democrat. Interesting. Really? Wolf County's the poorest, usually the poorest county in the country. Is it Wolf? You're thinking of Owsley.

Owsley, yeah. Owsley's number one and Wolf's like number three. Yeah, Owsley's the man and Wolf's like number three. Yeah. Owsley's the man. Well, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to take it there. I just mean that it's interesting that like Wolf County went, that some of those counties went Democrat.

I don't know. I don't know. Like I was looking at like, like you can even look like in Perry County, like some of the places around like viper or democrat like i don't know yeah i don't know i feel like i think those are like old union heads or something you know yeah old union families also teachers right anybody I guess, has a pension. Yeah. Which would make sense why the fraternity order of police endorsed Andy

Brashear, which I didn't know until Tom mentioned it. Oh, the FOP, huh? They endorsed Brashear. We had this idea earlier we kind of cooked up. This was a very 90s-esque race. This was like, Brashear's kind of a throwback to the golden era of Kentucky,

like Democratic governors. It does fit. Like Paul Patton's and his dad, obviously. He felt like a sort of third-way Clinton-type candidate. Yeah, for sure. Yeah.

I really couldn't repeat to you one thing he said on this entire campaign, true. Right. Well, if you just look at the smattering of endorsements he got from the fop to the nurses union and i mean he just like they know like business people know he's going to be

conciliatory to them and then working people think that well we gotta get rid of bevin so to have a puncher's chance to have the pension funded and whatever i don't know it's just a very like he's just a very 90s democrat yeah we're living in the 90s i saw bernie just landed a nurses a big nurses union yeah i saw that as well the nnu i think so to round this out put a bow on this is there anything you wished you had put in your article that you missed is that what you were saying no i think it's uh probably more or less enough yes it's substantive well check out terrence in the baffler this week. Is it going to be in the print version? No. No, just a little drop in, make some commentary, drop out. Just a little punditry.

A little punditry. A little punditry coming at you. Yeah, you can check that out. And if you're out there and you're an investigative journalist, look into the May 2012 burning of the Bevan Brothers Bell factory. Yes, please. Please, somebody. We need an expose on the Bell. Seriously, like, it makes sense, right?

That he would be such a sort of grifter that he has to just move from one thing to the next. There's not a doubt in my mind that he burnt his great-great-great great great grandfather's bail business to the ground allegedly so that he could hold his hands in a triangle i need to say allegedly because we're gonna get sued but yeah the lawyers are nudging me over here saying allegedly people all i'm saying is in my heart i believe. I'm not saying it's true. I just believe it to be true. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. I'm not saying...

Deduct your own conclusions. It ain't slander if it ain't false. Well, that's... Or something else. Something like that. This week's segment of Friction Fires catches next week as we discuss the Chicago the Chicago fire.

Nero's fire in Rome. Yeah, we have a lot of historical Ooh, that would be a good segment. Historical fires. I gotta write you two in. The historians. It's like

it's just gonna be depressing in any scenario pretty much anyway spin it the triangle shirtwaist fire also depressing a lot of fires we can talk about a lot of fires and they're all depressing except both literal and metaphor except for the friction fires because those are funny unless people a lot of people die but but this impeachment feels like a friction fire the bell thing is has it's a funny fire right absolutely yeah the him saying that 4 500 bells were looted during this fire you know how kids are on the loot bells where also also just the hilariousness of somebody trying to make off with something as noisy as a bell. Exactly. Just running away.

It's just ridiculous on the face of it. 4,500, though. 4,500. 4,500. Could we even fit that many bells in this house? They would hear you from miles away. That is so many bells. He's such a dumb bastard that just came out of his mouth

before he thought of the ridiculousness of it on it he had a double tail dude i'm laughing so hard there's upwards of 4 500 bells that were looted how is this real oh it's just like let me just address the Commonwealth real quick. Just that fucking smile of his that looks so psychopathic. Someone that's just done a bunch of steroids or something. Oh, God. Just like that. It's the grin of somebody telling you with a stray face,

but those crazy eyes that 4,500 bells were stolen from their burning factory. This didn't happen. This guy is also, I mean, Matt Jones was, the guy just lies about dumb shit. Yeah. Yeah. Like, just, but this may be the dumbest thing anybody's ever lied about. Somebody looted 4,500 bells in a small Connecticut town outside of Hartford. Dude. I can't.

That's incredible. Anyway, open invitation to any owners of a Bevan Bell. I don't want to stop saying it. Like, the sentence itself is so preposterous. 4,500 Bells were looted from my father, my great-great-great

grandfather's Bell factory. That's amazing. And you know they've got some dumbass story. It's like Paul Revere had one of my great-great-great-granddad on his famous ride. Paul Revere rung a bevin' bell. And that's his justification for his blood and soil shit. Shit, dude. Fuck.

Oh, wow. justification for his like blood and soil shit dude oh wow but this is why i like dinner bells cowbells yeah jingle bell is it triangle bell technically yeah i suppose it's in the bell it's in the bell i don't know that it's uh the bell you're a percussionist you tell us i never had to play the triangle you ever used a cowbell i've used the cowbell of course i've used the cowbell is that about the cowbell this man was over praising worship tom yes of course i played cowbell there was definitely a cowbell behind that plexiglass every Every move I make, I make that. That's a map. We gotta go. This is it. I'm calling it. Oh, man.

I can't get into praise and worship. It's too late. All right. Well, look into the Bell's conspiracy. Fuck. Please do. And hit us up on Patreon for the good stuff. Well, this is Patreon.

If you have a Patreon Bell, or if you have a patreon bell or if you have a bell bell or a bevin bell if somebody can produce to me a bevin bell i'll see i'll personally send you the patreon files because i don't know how let me just say two things before you get in here i'm a bevin and bevins make bells that's one sentence i'm sign. The other one is somebody looted 4,500 bails. Is this a Patreon? No, I don't think so. I don't think so either. This is going on the main. This is dropping tomorrow,

right? Are you... I thought we were putting out the other one. I don't know. Well, if it's not, whatever. Go to the Patreon. You know what you're listening it's not, whatever. Go to the Patreon. P-A-T-R-U-A-N.com. You know what you're listening to better than we do. That's right. We'll see you later.

Yee-haw. All right. Viva Evo.