Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 163: Call Someone Who Cares

Episode Date: September 10, 2020

Live from the front porch, this week we touch on everything from outlaw country singers to social justice jewelers to Biden's diminishing youth vote Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

It's raining in. Oh, whoa. Sounds great. The rain on this little tin roof. It's nice and cool, too. It feels great. I finally pulled out my denim jacket. I feel alive.

Fall's finally creeping up, boys. Tanya, you make it so hard to just be cynical and disillusioned. i think that's a compliment i think that might be i didn't mean it as a compliment well i'm taking it as one most of the things you say to me you don't mean as a compliment and that's how i take them hey i think it was frederick douglas said nobody can offend you without your consent

there you go he did not say that i have no idea who said that and also more examine that that feels like a libertarian it's not true was Freddie D a libertarian might have been I don't know I know they're probably claiming

they're claiming them motherfuckers are like like Mormons the Mormons yeah the Mormons baptize everybody after people are dead yeah

they convert them after death they just claim everybody saving souls party of Lincoln baby good to have you back on the porch

Tom feels good I'm so glad you came back Tom cause uh I hate recording those distance episodes, man. I hate them.

We're better when we're live. We really are. Truly. We really are. And we look better, too. I don't know about that. So I've been doing a roughage diet like Terrence. Oh, wow.

And it's yielded some mixed results. How's it working out for you so far? You got that obvious of your hands? I have some gastrointestinal disturbance. But I will say this. I feel better. Because I'm actually getting nutrients instead of like real nutrients

instead of like sprayed on your like cereal nutrients. I think there's a difference. Dude, I've taken to my like late night snack now My like evening cigar Is a carrot And I just walk around my house

With it between my fingers Like a cigar Oh my god That's the roughage way Treating himself with a carrot A treat. A little treat for me. I mean, I would even, it's not even considered like blueberries a treat, even though they're delicious.

You know what I mean? Oh, my God. Like, I thought you were going to say like some Ben and Jerry or something. I have a very Spartan life. Okay. I'm not mad at it, man. I think there's something to be said about dialing it down to the bare essentials. That's, i do too

i really do philosophically i believe that that is why we are fundamentally opposite you're a maximalist i'm a minimalist i don't know both have their merits i don't know but i put either of us on that far of a spectrum neither are wrong it's just a matter of strokes for folks. Either are accurate. That's right. I do feel like I need to downgrade because the trailer's getting pretty tight with my stress ordering.

Got a lot of cardboard and stuff. Oh, well, no. We burned that off. Yeah. Oh, God. Y'all have had several fires. Yeah. We had a nice big bonfire this weekend. It finally got down in the 60s at night. It felt so good. Yeah.

It was really good. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. And the mosquitoes have chilled. I knew this day would come, but it was hard to see it in the thick of it. It's in stark contrast to other places in the United States at the moment. Oh my God. It's pretty bad.

The pictures I saw of California this morning sent me Obviously I've recovered. I feel like I'm in a good mood, but this morning was rough. We have had a few days like that here. Oh yeah. I'm not trying to do the whole thing like you think you've got it bad. No. We've had it

we had we did have our own fires you remember a couple years ago when like yeah it was very dystopic i was working in schools and there was literally smoke coming in the school events and that shit got so close to the road like you drive at night and it looked like yeah more or something yeah yeah it was crazy hills in this this was Harlan County High School I was in one of the days. And the kids were going around. The dragons or the bears? Bears. So it's Harlan County.

Okay. And the kids were going around coughing real loud, trying to go home, trying to get school out. They were like, come on, take us home. They have a legit claim to that now. And the fucking principal came over the intercom and said, listen, people, there's smoke here. There's smoke at your house, too. Ain't nobody going home. You might as well come off it.

He lost the draw. By God, he was born in Harlan County. Got to ride it out the rest of it. You'll not leave here alive. I was so dystopic. I was like, I got to go, man. I got to go home. I don't have to stay here.

I was driving up through Harlan today. I stopped and wanted to get at Racks, eat at Racks, because the Racks in Harlan County, I think, is the last Racks in the country. No way. Yeah, it's defunct. Yeah. They're still rocking a buffet in there. Really?

Last I was there, maybe not COVID, but last I was in the Racks, maybe like three years ago. Yeah, well, nobody's open right now, but the drive-thru was open, but it was out to the damn road, so I had to go to Wendy's, and then I was telling Terrence I went to Wendy's, and then everybody was wearing their mask with their nose out, and I was like, I'm not mad at you. I ain't going to say nothing, but I can't eat that.

You didn't eat it? So I just paid for it and took it and then just didn't eat it. Damn. Damn, man. Went to my lunch pail and ate peaches and chia seeds and pumpkins. Sorry about that. Pepitas instead, like carousel. Oh, my God.

See, you've been living that Lexington life where things get dropped on your door and you don't have to see who made it. You can just assume they were wearing their mask correctly. No, I don't really do that much. Oh, well, that's what I'd do if I was in Lexington. No, I don't do that. I've did it a few times. But there is something that feels... I mean, I won't say that I've not done it,

right? But like there's, it does feel a little fucked up. Yeah. What prompted the roughage switch? Well, I've been having this weird symptoms, right? Well, I've been having these like heart palpitations. I've been having like, like my muscles, like kind of tense up and stuff like that. And so I just did a little Googling, you know, and it could be.

I've narrowed it down to either B12 deficiency, magnesium deficiency. I think it's some sort of electrolyte imbalance. Right. That I think is now corrected through supplementation and eating real food. Well, also, I highly recommend a B12 supplement. I'd take that now. Okay, good. Yeah.

That'll change your whole life. Yeah. Well, I think I had to because I was, like, flirting with veganism but was not, like, eating, like, taking a B12 supplement or anything, which is dumb. And everybody told me, like, hey, you got to take, there's a few things you got to take if you're going to do this. Mm- take if you're gonna do this so yeah yeah i'm sure i'll get it somewhere it turns out you can't get b12 unless you eat animal products or supplements so really yeah b12 is so important i mean i don't

know what the deal is but you definitely feel fucking different when it's bottomed out i i would literally go to the doctor in the old world and beg them to shoot me i was like please give me a shot of b12 you can put it in my eyeball i don't fucking care but i need it too bad help b12 folks so earlier right before we started recording you were telling us that your closest childhood friend not my closest childhood friend but definitely a good friend of mine in high school i had it on facebook and he didn't remember me i see which is which is funny because i've had i've had several of these things happen to me in my adult life i had this guy i went to high well i went to elementary school

with named shay called me up one day like i was in college at this point but he talked to me like fifth grade was yesterday uh-huh you know what I'm saying and I was like yeah man what's been going on nothing and then he just rolled right into man remember this room it was room when I was remember when right right and I couldn't wait could not wait to get off the phone yeah man that was i have a few friends that do that every few years but your friends probably peaked in high school and not fifth grade i legit don't remember shit from elementary school i remember playing rook that's about it that's about all we did must have been yeah so so my friend and i won't say his name because we've have an understanding now he thinks i'm all right so he he approved the ad but it was weird because i was like i was

throwing things at him you know what i mean i was like you remember that radio show we had at mmt you pulled a remember when on him i did i did you didn't even know you didn't realize that here's okay so like the last here's the last two things that happened me and him we rode the bullet together at the carnival you know the bullet the thing that goes in it twist ships i down yeah i wouldn't today either absolutely not and then the next thing that happened was well i don't want to incriminate anybody but he had to go away because of you there was a robbery that he may or may not have been involved in bummer we love robberies i love a good robbery robbery in my mind is just you know yeah taking back what's due you but anyway

um but i was I had knowledge of, anyway. But nothing. It seems like. You pulled all this out and he couldn't, he didn't remember a thing. Yeah. So I think what's happened, what I'm surmising is that he, either I'm not that memorable, What I'm surmising is that he, either I'm not that memorable, which I find I'm ready to accept that, or maybe there is a drug-induced thing or sort of a brain injury.

Or it's possible he's got, you know, deep trauma that he has buried. That's true. Hey, what if could also be a You got mixed up in it. Could also be a double, a doppelganger. Whoa. Right? I mean, you don't know for sure that this is a person. This is over social media, correct? Or maybe you yourself are a doppelganger. Okay, I don't want to say his name, but I told you before what it was, what his name was.

I don't think there's many of those running around okay fair enough yeah i think that's right um but it could be like stolen identity well i i in his defense do you remember much from fifth grade i mean this was high school this was a high school shay was fifth grade No I would let that High school's only what Fifteen years ago We're fifteen years

Out from high school That's not that long I don't know Even high school I Might have some trouble We Fifteen years ago

Six We I don't know Yeah I think that's about Fifteen years I'm trying to think Of a way to tell this Without giving his

Identity away but We were mulling A rap group together About 15 years. I'm trying to think of a way to tell this without giving his identity away, but we were mulling a rap group together. Because he rapped under the name The Crazy NDN. Oh, my God. NDN. I should say he is native American. He is native American.

And you were the producer? You were like the Chad Hugo behind him? He wanted me to be Big Hector. I wasn't wed to that name, but he seemed to feel strongly about it. He wanted you to be a hot man? I think so. Yeah. When me and Tom had a radio show, Tom, you do come up with the best Aliases

Like you've been sweet baby I've been sweet baby Cute baby Tiger stripe cute baby junior I think you were like orange Wait what was it Orange Julius and you wonder Why every time I've got

Dealing with a troll I think it might be you That's fair enough. See? At the same time though think about it logically. Like can you imagine Tom actually going

through the motions of signing up for an account sitting down for hours a day to type things out to you. Hours a day. It was one message.

It was just one. It was just the first one and I was like damn it Tom. Maybe he spent an hour thinking. Was there anything in that account that made you think it was me one. It was just the first one. I was like, damn it, Tom. Maybe he spent an hour thinking. Was there anything in that account that made you think it was me that was like, this is the hallmark

of Tom Sexton? I thought it was you pretending to be a redneck. Okay. Turns out I think it may be. As a bit. As a bit. Imagine that. A bit. Me pretending to be that as a bit. Interesting. I'm sorry.

Well, anyways. So anyway. You resolved it with him. Yeah, he approved it. The ad. And I said, thanks for the ad. You know how the old... Well, thanks for the ad and I said, thanks for the ad. You know how the... What a climax.

You know how the old... Well, thanks for the ad. You know how the old do that? The old's very, yeah. You're right. The old, yeah. My mom posted a picture on Facebook this week

of herself and it was a picture of me and her that she cut me out of. It wasn't even a profile pic. She just posted it. I was like, I bet you I said, why'd you cut me

out of that picture? Shit, I'd cut you out too. God as she does shit needs you dragging her now she literally said she said i knew that was gonna piss you off and she did it anyway that's probably why she did it that's why she did it she was fucking god damn no let me it is actually funny what she said She said that she's got a new boyfriend. I've not met him, obviously. I don't know. But they were making it Facebook official. And when it popped up, she said it was a picture of his dog.

Because it uses your profile pictures, you know. She said it was a picture of his dog and the grandbabies. And I thought that was weird. And I was trying to fix it. I wanted it to be a picture of me and him. And it just astounded me that she was so concerned. This sounds like you're a bee rabbit

from 8 Mile, she's Kim Basinger and he's Michael Shannon. The new boyfriend. I can't follow that at all. That one just went right over you. Right over. You never watched 8 Mile? It's been, yes, but it has probably been high school.

What's Michael Shannon's character's name? Craig Buell? Me, you, and him, we went to the same school. I probably haven't seen 8 Mile since it came out. Me and him watched 8 Mile together. At the theaters. No. In the movie theater?

Hand to God, yes. And you? No, no, no, no, no. Me and my friend That doesn't remember That's what I said I was like there's no way He came out when we were in high school

Me him and Charlie Raimi Sit there front row How you gonna forget Who you watched 8 Mile with God damn it Shit But anyways You resolved it

Yeah we're good Alright Thanks for that We're good. I didn't say anything. I threw that in there for laughs. The point here is Facebook sucks. That's not all.

I feel kind of bad for reading him the riot act. I was like, man, you don't remember Herbie? Or no, he remembered Herbie because you can't forget Herbie. But then I was like, you don't remember Adam Adams? Adam Adams. The most rememberable name. His first name is his last name. The first human in

Christian theology. Yes. The first human to live. Adam Adams. Were his parents just punking him or what? Was that just like a joke? They thought it'd be funny? My uncle. Well, you gotta understand my aunt and my uncle Blade were. There is a funny speak your peace about Facebook this week.

We know a guy whose last name is Stewart. No. His last name's Baker. Yeah, Jonathan Hoopman's friend, Stu D. Baker. Yeah, they named him Stu D. Baker. Because they're just fucking drunks. I don't know. Fuck.

How you gonna do that? That's like, what's the old boy that just got canceled? Squidbilly's guy. Oh,unks. I don't know. Fuck. How are you going to do that? That's like, what's the old boy that just got canceled? Squidbilly's guy. Oh, yeah. I don't know. What's his real name? Is his real name Stuart Baker too? Oh, I think it is.

I think it is. Yeah, I didn't know his real name until he got canceled on Twitter very publicly. What was it for? Was it about a Black Lives Matter? He went in on Dolly. Same week we went in on Dolly, but for two very different reasons. Oh, fuck.

That's true. We flew too close to the sun, I'm telling you. We cut my hair. There was another round of Dolly posts this week. You know, I just pulled out my denim jacket for the first time yesterday and it has a dolly pin on it and i thought about taking it off because we've just been shitting on her so much but i was like no fucking i'm leaving her on there look how cute she is looks great i love dolly and i could rip doll i can hold

the issue is you motherfuckers having heroes the issue is capitalism it's true it's just yeah it's the what oh yeah that's true i can't find it i can't find it the good old um anyway it was a it was a facebook it was a speaker piece about facebook and it it was this. Did you see it this week? No, I haven't bought the paper. Oh, yeah, I did. But it came out today. The gist of it was that people log on to Facebook to just be hateful.

Like, why can't they log on? Why can't they log on to just share pics of their family? I feel like that's Twitter. And be nice to each other. People log on to Twitter to be hateful. But Facebook does. To me, Facebook does seem mostly like just pics of well grandbabies and dogs and shit speaking of that where's my phone at

reading speak your peace and then seeing that story today about donald trump like um did y'all see that how he um like which one said or there's a few that we need to talk about chronologically i think maybe we should start with the votes sinking you don't think we covered that one on sunday's show all right all right sorry i haven't listened yet but uh no trump said he wanted to play down the threat of covid. Yeah. I'd like to, too, honestly. But at a certain point, you've got to deal with what's in front of you. Can you blame the guy? And the motherfucker who released it has been sitting on it since February.

Yeah. Well, to sell a book. Bob Woodward of Woodward and Bernstein fame. I know nothing of that. Famous composers. They, yes, are famous composers. Oh, okay. They broke Watergate.

Oh. There's that movie with Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, All the President's Men. It's called Deep Throat. That's the guy who broke this one. Wow. So what are your thoughts on him now? Now that you know that he should be valorized for breaking the great water.

No, I still do not give two shits about him. Man, the thing is, as big as that is, you can't rest on your laurels and float on past glory. You know what I mean? I agree. We have no room to talk, clearly. As we've already covered, no one has any memory of anything. And anything you did yesterday is old fucking news, literally. We don't care.

No one cares. I am looking at this the whole wrong way. I should just be thankful that my exploits weren't remembered. Truly. You probably did something to him that you're glad he forgot. And both of you don't remember it. I didn't. I loved him like a brother.

And then you'll remember it simultaneously. I've done terrible things to my sisters that I regret. You could love someone like a sister and a brother. I know, but I'm a better person than you are. No, that's absolutely false. Absolutely false. It's hard for me to say. I like how Tanya turned it.

Care to comment? Who's the tie-breaking vote here? Care to comment? No, I'm so uninterested in your all's opinion. Or anybody's opinion. I've both seen you... I've got no time for this. I've both seen you do good and bad things.

Like any human being. Yeah, fuck. That's true. We're all just messed up a little bit. If you deny the dumb shit you do, that's a sociopath. That's true. If you deny the bad, I mean, there's some spiritual thing in there I could go off about, I'm sure. You mean like evil or something?

Is that what you're... No, like the balance. Like there is no good or evil, bad, or evil, or light. Not light without darkness. Yeah, exactly. Speaking of that, have you guys seen, like in the last week or two, really since the DNC,

Biden and them have run with the messaging that they're the good... Like that's literally what they're saying ally with the with the good side the light side or something like that have you seen that it gets darker by the minute yeah their audiences are republicans they have not spoken directly to even a democrat a liberal they're only speaking to republicans there's no it like... I would not be surprised if the same advertising agency that made the Star Wars trilogy, and yes, I'm positive it was an advertising agency

because there's no soul in it. Those must be the same people running the Biden campaign. Sort of like a Mad Men thing, you know how they run president's elections and shit. Totally. God help us. I liked it i'll just

keep pretending it's not an election year because it doesn't matter i don't know no no no good can come from any of this yeah not a bit of it i tend to agree to it i tend to agree that is you're right man it's like it's lucas film is running fucking tom's been over there just like wheels have been turning yeah yeah i think there's gonna be that little scroll pages you know what i mean if he whips out a lot safer if he whips out a lot there was two really crazy things about biden this there's this crazy thing This is just a crazy week. Well, there's more stuff about Trump. I've got all kinds of things on my list. Our Department of Justice has taken over

a lawsuit against him for raping somebody. Who? Trump. Jesus Christ. You didn't see this? Holy shit. My list. Our own Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Justice has had to step in

to represent our president in a rape scandal that happened in the 90s well i have heard about that but i didn't know that they were yeah it's like an active lawsuit and he was apparently whoever he hired to represent him is botching the whole thing and so the doj is stepping in that's probably michael cohen who went to jail for him and is now writing a tell-all book that could be considered botched yes you definitely don't want your attorney writing a tell-all as a general rule. Dude, that is really true. How is that? The cliche about mob movies from The Godfather, Robert Duvall, or The Sopranos,

is that the lawyer is the one person you go to with all your secrets. With all your secrets. I mean, Trump will be able to sue him, I'm sure. No cleric. Your lawyer. That's why the man that knows more about me than anybody is daniel f daniel fane dots an attorney at law i've been in such a dark place since pandemic started

that i almost called daniel dots called daniel dots and asked if he what it would take for him to be my lawyer just in case i needed well let me tell you i'll just go ahead and call in an emergency i'll just go ahead and tell you what he told me one day he said son he said he said he said you he said your life's a mess and you ain't got no money he's like he's like you're more trouble than. No, he represented me just because he likes me. You're more trouble than you were. I can't hear myself in my headphones. Oh, damn. I only hear, did you turn me down again? No.

Like at all or just a little bit? A little bit. Tom's a lot louder in my headphones than I am, I guess. Really? I should say, yeah. So interesting. I mean, I don't care. Some people pay for that.

Well, I'm not, yeah. It's so interesting. I mean, I don't care. Some people pay for that. Well, I'm not some people. It sounds right for me, but maybe one of you got... Well, if it sounds right to you, it's fine. So you don't care? No, I don't care. As long as you haven't muted me completely. I've got a good mix. I drove all the way up here, for fuck's sake.

Drive all the way up here to be muted. Be silent. I didn't drive up here to be muted, goddamn. I wore my dolly pin. I had a really crazy list of things to cover. Number one on the list with a bullet was Travis Tritt melting down. Oh, wow. That was something, wasn't it?

Travis Tritt meltdown is not what I... I mean, anything's on the damn bingo card nowadays It's true I thought he had kind of faded into obscurity a little bit And you know what's sad I'm not afraid to admit it I used to stand for Travis Tripp Of course you did because in the 90's

He's the best looking man coming and going in the country On multiple occasions I found myself debating Would it be can to reply To any one of these tweets That he's embarrassing himself on with but just the line here's a quarter call someone who cares yeah he really has but honestly there's you haven't i'm sure you've been in these conversations or at least heard people say that like travis tritt marked the ending of like quote unquote good outlaw country in the beginning of this like

country bro shit i could see that yeah he is he does sit at the intersection of great country and horrible country and i have often and i have often uh defended him and thought that i'll i'll i'll really like i will say this travis tritt is one of the best singers in the world. Just like in terms of his voice. He does have a wild range. Incredible wild range. I mean, it's like unreal. Well, yeah. I mean, he's not Mariah Carey, but okay.

No, I mean like. Could you imagine if Travis Tritt could hit that high note? Like Mariah Carey. But yeah, I mean he travis tritt is of up i've debated many people about him because he does sit at this very interesting intersection of country culture and i used i i guess now i'm gonna have to lean the other way i got rice cooking in the microwave yeah, how you gonna shit on somebody who wrote where corn don't grow?

I believe he made, like, an anti-trans remark. Oh, I'm sure he did. Absolutely positive. But don't you remember, like, a lot of detail about where you were

when you first saw that video of his pregnant wife falling off that boat? Johnny's daddy. No, that'scgraw god damn no um i mean it's like he it was a series it was like a three song series y'all remember this i don't know all right what was all this talking about um yeah it's um god damn it fuck what is i mean she's she's, it's... God damn it. Fuck, what is... I mean, she's...

So it's like a multi-episode story arc. Yeah, and the videos told the story, and I can hear it in my head, and I can't think of the name, but she's like cleaning the boat, or she's on the dock or something, and it's real dramatic. I remember the video.

Yeah, she falls, and she hits her head. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What song is that? I think it's If I Lost You. And why did I think that was Tim McGraw's? Tell Me I Was Dreaming. Tell Me I Was Dreaming. Tell me I was...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's it. Great, we've got a Texas flag. The Binary Vixen Presents. Wow, The Binary Vixen. Jason Isbell kind of had a sick dig at it. He said, I like the new and improved Travis Trick, Chris Stapleton. Which makes sense because Chris Stapleton is...

They do have very similar voices. Very similar voices. Like Chris Stapleton, too, one of the best singers in the world. Wow. I do not listen to Chris Stapleton and think best singer in the world. I'm not saying he's not, but that is like a wild take. He's got a great voice. Wow.

That's not a wild take. Justin Timberlake thinks he's the best singer in the't think but that is like a wild voice wow that's not a wild take justin timberlake thinks he's the best singer in the world he's really good the person who's saying you're all i ever wanted i want you back i act like justin timberlake can't fucking sing no i love justin. The filter on this video looks like California on fire. Oh, are you watching it? It's good.

It's good shit. But Chris Stapleton does sit at that intersection too because... You can convince me. I'm not disagreeing. I just never heard anyone say that. I haven't really considered it.

I found it. And I love you. I fucking... There's not many things I love more than the drama of a 90s country song. Oh, God. Oh, it's too much. Oh, hell yeah.

Tell me I was... It's so good. What I love about 90s country songs like that is they've got a little bit of that, like bit of that arena rock kind of build up to it. So it feels big and cinematic. Oh, yeah. Country people know how to create a motherfucking moment. That's all there is to it.

What was some other good examples of this genre? Of like the break between good and bad country, quote unquote. I mean, just like the cinematic 90s and bad country quote unquote. Well, no, I mean just like the cinematic 90s like. Oh, Reba McIntyre? Come on. Every fucking Reba McIntyre song and video.

Wasn't it the Garth Brooks Thunder Rolls video? Was that one? Oh, yeah. That one used to scare the shit out of me. But also that one, but also,

what's the one that has the Oklahoma City bombing in it? I don't know. Garth Brooks? Oh, um. Is it about the dance? There's the dance, too. Garth Brooks has got, like,

four or five of these motherfuckers. Oh, yeah. Garth Brooks has sold more records than anybody. Really? Anybody. Yeah, I believe that. Even Michael Jackson?

I mean, like, probably not, like, for album album. But, like, in total, I think it's true. Garth Brooks has sold more records than anybody. He's a big deal. Who has put out the most albums? Do you think it's Willie Nelson? He puts out like six albums a year.

That's hard to say. I don't know. Willie's also been around forever, too. Right. I mean, he's been putting shit out since the 50s. Yeah, he has like hundreds of albums. Yeah. I heard a new Willie Nelson song I hadn't heard before this weekend that's literally

a terrific gay anthem. It's all about gay cowboys. Have you heard it? What's it called? I don't know. Gay cowboy. Oh, cowboys are often fond of one another. I think that's what it's called.

It's great. It's a great tune. That is a great song. That is a great title. It's so good. I haven't heard that. Cowboys are fond of one another. Often fond another each other i don't know okay something like that but it's really good and it's obvious i mean it is intended to be gay it's not just like

queer bait poking poking around at the notion yeah every single lyric is like they have like the women are to throw off the scent of all the time they spend i mean sang by a man who sucked a dick for sure right wow well that's a pretty salacious accusation no evidence willie nelson's ever sucked a dick No I think I do Really? I would write a thesis on it actually What's your theory here? I would type it out Hey Terrence

I mean Willie's a liberated man Okay So this is But this is Is this pure speculation Or is this like a rumor thing? He's wrote many gay songs I don't know

It seems pretty like. You were always on my mind. I guess he didn't write that one. But his version of it is sung as if he's tapped into the pain of it, I guess. I just think outing somebody's poor form, that's all I'm going to say. I don't think our audience would mind. This news about Willie. Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year.

That's my favorite part. It doesn't make a difference to me, one way or the other. Listen, hey man, I don't give a damn who Willie loves. You're right. Willie should come out On his own terms You're trying to force him out You know Yeah you're trying

To nudge him out a little bit I think he came out With the song he wrote But okay I mean What song? Cowboys are often Fond of one another

I thought I heard So you think That specific song At least At the very least Do you think Do you think Bob Dylan was himself

The hurricane? He's inhabiting a character. He's telling a story. He's observing it. Maybe in the third person. Okay, no, no, no. But really, tell me what the name of the song is again so I can set for myself. I'm pretty sure it's Cowboys Are Often Fond of Each Other.

I feel like we've went an hour on this already of just like country weird. I know. Tell me. But do you remember the Reba McEntire video? Also had a boat. Which one? Where she had a twin and she blew the boat up at the end. Yeah.

I can't think of the fucking name. See? This is why you should cut your high school friend a little slack. These songs basically raised me while my mom worked all the time. You can't remember the words to them. I can't remember the fucking names, though. Yeah, I can't remember the names or words to them. But I can visually really clearly see that video.

But they like dolled up the... Oh, dear. Oh, wow. Did you read the lyrics? All right, well, spin us a line. Wow. Told you. Okay.

I'm saying you can't speak from experience. I'm just saying the artist has an artistic license. I think this may not have aged, but maybe it does. I don't know. You want me to read it to you? Is it a little homophobic? I don't know. I can't tell until I read the whole thing out.

Everything is a little homophobic. Does he say in it, I, Willie Nelson, love men? And this is in real life. This goes for real life, too, not just the songwriting world. Does he say that in the song? Oh, my God. I don't think he does. You want me to read it to you?

Well, there's many a strange impulse out on the plains of West Texas. There's many a young boy who feels things he can't comprehend. And a small town don't like it when somebody falls between sexes. No, a small town don't like it when a cowboy has feelings for men. And I believe to my soul

that inside every man there's the feminine. And inside every lady there's a deep manly voice, loud and clear. Willie's just saying we're all a little gay. I think, you know, you're right. I was just reading the surface level. It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I just told you, it's terrific.

Well, a cowboy may brag about things that he's done with his woman, but the ones who brag loudest are the ones that are most likely queer. I don't know about that. I think he's got with his woman but the ones who brag lattice are the ones that are most likely queer i don't know about that i think he's got a point the biggest truck anybody with balls hanging off the back of their truck truck nuts very gay true that's true also having one when we were at summit city in those drag shows remember all those guys that would come camp out in the back? And they were, they acted like they were just there

for the spectacle, but really and truly, you kind of feel like they were, they were strolling a little bit. They were performing themselves.

That's true. They were performing to be upset, offense, self-hate. Can you believe that shit? Remember the dudes who sat at the back when we did vagina monologues at Southern City?

Yeah, I was one of them. You bastard. Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other. Say, what do you think all them saddles and boots are about? Yeah, see? And there's many a cowboy who don't understand the way that he feels for his brother. And inside every cowboy, there's a lady that'd love to slip out we've been sleeping on willie honestly no i've always loved willie redheaded stranger no i don't mean like that but i meant like the full range willie's full

range willie nelson has three of my 10 favorite albums dog He's got some fucking favorite. Redheaded Stranger, Phases and Stages. What's the one before Redheaded Stranger? Is it Whiskey River? Whiskey River, take my That's what I'm telling you. I feel like he has hundreds of albums. Shotgun Willie's incredible. Shotgun Willie was the one I was thinking of.

I think. Anyways, Willie Nelson. I'd love to have him on the show could you imagine how fun that would be we could get so high with Willie that was just so great that's a really cliched thing to say but it's so

yeah it would be so great I have no interest in getting high with Willie Nelson I want to eat oatmeal with him in the morning because he says that's the secret to his longevity is eating oatmeal every day. I do that. I bet me, you, and Willie could enjoy a good roughage diet in the morning together like brothers. I hate

oatmeal. That's what I'm talking about. Oh. Well, I had all kinds of fucked up dark things on my list. I mean, we're glad you brought all we can do. You brought some levity. All we can do is just... You're like Biden.

You're the light side. You bring the light. Now, bring the darkness, Terrence. Bring the darkness. Bring to your yang. No, I'm not going to. I don't want to profane

the space, you know? Maybe I'll just throw a little mixture. Because some of these things we don't really need to get into. They're so dark, they don't even have... There's nothing profound to say about them.

The entire West Coast is burning. And it's like 120 degrees. I was going to go in on the wear their names jewelry. Did you guys see that? Yeah, we got to talk about that shit. Also... You sent me that. Didn't you know?

Somebody sent me that. We got to talk about that. We got to talk about Daniel Cameron might be appointed to the Supreme Court. What? That happened just like two hours ago. He has never been in court. The man has never, never tried a case. Also, also, also, the man.

I'm more qualified. I've been in many courtrooms the man played four years of division one football at loserville l's down baby oh my which means that he might be the first supreme court appointee to have cte oh my god i'm not even i'm not even i'm not even saying that in jest that is totally likely I'm not able to process what you've said, honestly. Although, I mean, I guess that that'd probably be a marked improvement for Manton and Scalia. I'd rather have somebody that can't wipe their own ass than Scalia and someone. Okay, who's coming down?

Oh, I think you know. Yeah, we all know. We all know. Is it RBG? She ain't long for this world, Tonya. Is RBG coming off? She's in her 80s with cancer. I mean, let's just...

Call it what it is. She's got to be going soon. And I'm not... Listen, I'm not saying this in some macabre, fuck the liberals kind of way. I don't want to... Like, I don't... But, like, you got to be like you got

to look in the eye you know what i mean so rbg is she like bad off i didn't know is she in the hospital or something who knows nobody knows oh it would be because every time we want an update on her health she just posts a picture of her and antonin scalia on an elephant in India. Oh my God. Her and Antonin Scalia doing shooters at fucking that one bar in New Orleans that sells the hand grenades. You know how like

Putin is always like there's always a Russian guy that turns up every two or three years who's been poisoned by Putin. It would be funny if RBG was poisoned.

I mean it wouldn't be funny in the universal sense, but in the sense that it would give more ammo to the liberals because then they really would think that Russia was behind everything. Oh, my God. They're like, they're stealing our elections and they're poisoning our Supreme Court justice. It really is.

Also, not for nothing, buddy boy, you better hope she doesn't get poisoned. You're going to get your door kicked in. Not by the CIA, by some angry liberals. He's a Putin asset. Liberals really are obsessed with having conservative friends. There is nothing the liberal loves more than the unlikely friendship. The dog that loves the cat. Magneto Professor X.

They love the unlikely pal. I hate it so much. That is one of the biggest hallmarks of liberalism. It's true. They love to agree to disagree. They just love it. That's just liberal shit, man. It's because they really believe in like,

you know how Washington famously at the end of his presidency was like, no, don't do any parties. Don't do parties. And people immediately did parties. Yeah.

They're like, Washington, that we gotta go back to the true meaning and founding of this country. Well, I hate to bring it back local, but that same thing happened at

alice lloyd college the last thing alice lloyd said was do not name this school after me that's the truth and that's exactly the fucking thing you know what was funny it was probably funny it's like alice alice lloyd's on her deathbed she's like don't name this school after me and her mind she's like i don't want this piece of shit place named Netflix. I'm joking. Alice Lloyd College is a fine institution. There are no fine institutions. Alice Lloyd might be like one of a handful because

right? Because you go there for free. Yeah, but they're so conservative. Oh yeah. They're very Christian. Oh God, you can't. They have a very strict dress code. Like one or two days a week you have to wear a suit and tie to class all my formative sexual experiences were with june girls that went to june buchanan that's probably good i bet they were smart girls uh not really one left i'll never i'll never forget the day that i found out the iraq war was starting i went to school with fucking

hickeys all around my neck like oh my god like like in a row looking like fucking like you know what i mean like an egg carton kind of like right one's here one's here like just wow i i have to go back to why there's a conversation about cameron being appointed to the u.s supreme court he's on like he i mean there's nobody more fresh off a fucking turnip truck than this motherfucker so i guess trump released like a few names 20 or so of people he was considering for appointment to the supreme court honestly so scary because it drives home like the long game of Cameron. I guess we should have

already predicted that, but God, it's dark. Trump just wants some fucking goon that's going to be there for a hundred years, you know what I mean? Well. Joke's on him. That motherfucker's tapping out 54 from CTE. Oh my God. Oh my God.

Loserville. Hell's down, baby. So there was that and there was say their names jewelry. Wear their names jewelry. Okay, okay. So this... Do you want to talk about it?

This was from the rubble from Charleston protests in Charleston, South Carolina. Yeah. This enterprising person collected the glass

and metal and whatever from the protests. I saw one pic that someone screenshot and sent me. Were they a white dude with dreads? It's a white... He might have dreads. It's hard to tell in this photo. Sorry I interrupted you again, Tom.

No, no, no, you're fine. And so he fashioned people's names that had been murdered by police out of these in a cell. Out of broken glass? It's him and his partner. And I can read you their bios real quick. Please don't. No, You don't want to?

They started... I guess this is good content but I want to saw my arm off. I actually need this time if you don't care. Okay. Photographer Paul Kelmis and Jean Nguyen.

They live in Somerville, South Carolina. Been there. Yeah, Somerville. Kelmas says, my camera is my greatest weapon of making a difference in the world. Buddy, let me tell you something. Stranger with a camera, eh? So the guy, I guess, is a photographer. And his partner, this is their bio.

They are a longtime high-end jewelry consumer who has noticed some flaws in her own purchases. And went to graduate school in business. And so they've started this nonprofit. It's a nonprofit.'ve started this nonprofit. Wait, it's a nonprofit? It is a nonprofit selling... Which everyone should read as scam. It's a nonprofit, and it's giving all of its profits, quote-unquote, to another nonprofit.

I shit you not, this is going to blow your mind. It really will. If I can find it real fast. This is the meme of all the kids throwing water bottles back and forth in the circle. Just non-profits giving money back and forth to each other. It really is. It really and truly

is. The profits from all sales will be donated to From Privilege to Progress, a national movement working to desegregate the conversation about race on social media. Okay, okay, okay. So just to give you the whole holistic picture here, these people are taking glass from riot detritus, the leftover, Windows, things like that. Turning it into jewelry, putting it on their website and selling it for like 200 bucks a pop

for rings called things like the Tamir. Oh my God. The Ezel, the Eric. Oh my God. The Brianna. The Brianna. And then that money is going to another non-profit called Privilege to Progress. From Privilege to Progress.

I'm sorry. And their job is to quote unquote desegregate the conversation around race on social media. This sounds like some of those motherfuckers. desegregate the conversation around race on social media. This sounds like, you and me too, this sounds like, this sounds like, this sounds like some of those motherfuckers. What, what, who'd we tell, who were we talking about that one time?

Generation? Resource. Oh, generation. Resource generation or whatever. That sounds like, like something right out of their playbook. It's very vague. I mean, like basically, yeah, getting tens of thousands of dollars to just post all day. Okay, let me ask you a question. Is that, I mean, like, basically, yeah, getting tens of thousands of dollars

to just post all day. Okay, let me ask you a question. Is that, I mean, like, okay, this is an exceedingly poor taste to begin with, but also, let's just say that for the sake of argument, it's not. Is that really the best place

to funnel your money into posters? Posting. Yeah. they're taking well as someone who has been paid to drive people around eastern kentucky and see the sites uh poverty tour if you will and has literally seen people jump out of a moving van to pick up coal off the side of the road. I can very... How's it going? What are you thinking? Let me just get some ambient cricket noise.

I can see very clearly these people jumping out of vehicles illegally parked in Somerville and scraping up broken glass and materials. And it is so... If anyone can get footage of that, Tom will pay you 100 US dollars. So,

what you're saying is someone should turn that into jewelry business. Some enterprising fellow. Pictures of these people. No, coal recovered from the side of Mount Topper. Oh, that's what these people were doing. They were picking up coal. You know what they were doing? They were turning it into art.

And I'm an art hoe. I love art. But you know what the art was? They were super gluing pieces of coal onto those like baby safe outlet things. You know like the plugs you put in the outlet it's just like a plastic plug to cover it up so a baby can't stick their finger in it they were gluing them to those to put into outlets to help people remember where their electricity comes from so that they have to pull a piece of coal out of their outlet before they plug in their toaster

that's dope that's what they did with it. That's so fucking tight. I prayed that they were going to get arrested. That's so fucking tight. Still copping it. That's really goddamn funny. Well, there was this one guy. These people are jumping out.

Can you imagine them doing that? There was this one guy, Tom, we knew who had turned acid mine drainage into art. Remember, Tom? Who is that? I don't know. He got like a... You should not be within

a large range of that. He got like a Fulbright. I was going to say he got like a Guggenheim or something. Oh, my God. He got some massive fellowship to turn acid mine drainage

into art. Woo! It's pretty bizarre. I mean, for the uninitiated, that's what comes off of mine. I don't think there's anyone in the world who thinks the words acid mine drainage is good. I don't think you've got to clarify for anyone that acid mine drainage. If you come to Appalachia and you see orange water, that ain't normal.

That ain't good. That's what it is. Yeah. I did learn an interesting fact, though. Cat tails, you know there's iron in water if there's cat tails growing out of it. Oh, I love cat tails. Really? Yeah.

God's remediation plan is what they told me it was. Wow. Cat tails grow because they absorb iron. That's how they... So I've got a few Biden items I just want to hit real fast before we go. See, I keep pretending he's gone. Me? Or Biden.

I keep pretending Joe Biden's dead. Yeah. That's the trajectory I'm on. We don't really have any proof. He is 70. That's what I'm saying. I mean. He would be the oldest president elected, technically.

I know. The other day I saw somebody post, Biden's only five years older than Trump. It's the things they keep saying. It's just going to be endless. That's incredible. That's all. What's hilarious is in 2008 that was like a democratic like sticking point against mccain was the age thing yeah country first um all right you want

a few things here uh you know i don't we hit travis tritt where their name's jewelry what does he actually i'm curious about this travis tritt thing where their name's jewelry. Actually, I'm curious about this Travis Tritt thing. Where did that other picture come from? What's he even talking about? He's talking about the dishonest left. What happened? He's just talking nonsense. I just dolled him up.

Wait, before we go there, I had another question, though. I want to go back to Trump. We've been all over the goddamn place. I wanted to talk about Trump playing down the threat of COVID. This is the 2020 mind. I want to know. Everybody's following. I kind of feel like reading Speak Your Peace today, I think people really did run with the headline that he was talking shit about the troops.

I mean, there are people defending him. What is Speak Your Peace saying about it? really did run with the headline that he was talking shit about the troops. And, uh... I mean, there are people defending him. There are people defending him, like always, but I do feel like I've seen several Speak Your Peace lately that have been, like, voted for him in 2016 and not doing it again. Like, I'm not getting fooled

again or something. You know, stuff like that. I don't know. Fool me once, shame on you. I don't know. Fool me once, shame on you. I don't know. Fool me twice, I must have done something to deserve it. I'm a big dumbass. I only, that is my analytic. Nate Silver's got his

algorithm. I've got speak your piece. You can take the pulse of speak your piece. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me either if there was a bunch of liberals like we were that were trying to skew the conversation one way right right and then to speak your piece say it oh i'm not voting for him again that would have been something like lgp era us would have pulled y'all know it would have been trying to change the narrative trying to change the narrative

putting out our own thing about changing the narrative is it fucks the temperature checkup. That's true. It really does. All right, Tom. So wait, do you think he's... Do I think Biden's dead? I know that... What are you asking? That Trump might be done. You think this might stick to him finally?

I have no idea. I don't... What did he even say about the troops? I don't know. He was talking say about the troops? I don't know. He was talking shit about World War I. Just why would he even do that? God, man, haven't we had enough of World War I already? Just get over it already.

What was his thing about World War I? I don't understand. No, he said that was about... That was the guy's son that was with him. Yeah, Mark something. Oh, wow. Yeah. He had died in Afghanistan.

If they want Trump to get elected, they have to keep him out in front of cameras. No, they don't. There's no way. That's the only thing that keeps him remotely tied to his base, I feel like. He's just... That's Biden's thing that keeps him remotely tied to his base, I feel like. That's Biden's strategy because Biden's not as sharp as Trump, I don't think.

Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah, I want to tell you something. There's one way we get out of the e-crisis. I just don't want to say epistemological again. Thank you. Now I can remember it. One way we get out of the e-crisis. Now I can remember it. One way to get out of the crisis.

And that is, I think everything has to just, things have to get so bad. I mean, we're on the right track. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, we're not. I mean, listen. There's no absolutes is what you're saying. He's surging in this. Like, I'm talking about Trump's going to have to systematically send death squads after all of his followers like mothers and children. And even then, they're going to be like, well, they must have done something to deserve it.

Oh, my God. Right. Like, it's got to be something just egregiously bad. That's the only way that, like, because, man, it's in there. You're right. You know what I mean? It's in there. It's in there. You're right. You know what I mean? It's in there. It's fucked up.

You're right. Yeah, there's this totally sleazy guy driving around a Jeep downtown with a huge Trump flag hanging out of it. Here's my thing, man. They're losing their shit. Here's the thing, man. Here's the thing. Here's the thing, Jack. But also, though, Tom, think about it this way.

I feel like the last time something like this happened, it was just specifically relegated to one individual, John McCain. And the conservatives, they don't fuck with John McCain. They don't care one way or the other. But once you slander troops as a whole, I mean... Then they have a problem of their own. I feel like that is the one thing you cannot say. You feel like they went to Trump and they said, here's two things you don't do. Yes. It's like my brother has this story

about when he was preaching when he was a teenage preacher. He said that he would go to a church and the pastor would pull him aside and say, okay, preach on whatever you want except for cigarettes and, what was the other one? And eating. Oh, right. Anything else is fair game. Do you think the Republicans

went to Trump and said, like, be as zany as you want to be just don't fuck with the troops. Don't fuck with the troops and don't fuck with tort reform. Those two things. Don't fuck. That's the joke. The estate tax and the troops. So you think

like the dams have turned on him i mean the republicans have turned on him over i don't know i mean as i say it we talked about this on the episode on sunday but i believe they'll probably just rationalize it like fake news right it's fake yeah he didn't really say it but i don't know but didn't wasn't there a He didn't really say it, but I don't know. Wasn't there a time when, because I was just thinking about, talking about how both of them are totally incoherent. Didn't Nancy say that there shouldn't be any debates, they're not going to debate? I think she did say that, yeah.

Nancy Pelosi said that? Yeah. I think she did, yeah. She said there's no need. Well, she said we're not going to platform him. We're not going to platform Donald Trump. Okay, that's what you'd be doing. She said, I think enough's been said. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're going to deplatform the President of the United States. Good, good, good, good plan, you fucking moron. That's the decolonization of the queer Appalachians. Yeah, yeah. Nancy Pelosi is decolonizing the debate. Well, but you can see how they've, they really have retreated into their own separate worlds. On Trump, it's like, on the Trump side,

it's like, no, he didn't say any of those things, whatever. On the liberal side, they've retreated into this world where they don't actually engage. Exactly. They siloed themselves off from it and make no mistake make no mistake themselves they do that only so that that joe biden doesn't step in shit because he cannot he can this is totally about buying on both of their merits joe biden cannot outperform trump in the debate he could outperform anybody no um

Trump in a debate. He could not perform anybody. No. Joe Biden had one good debate and it was that debate against Bernie. I know. And Bernie choked. And Joe Biden somehow stayed cogent for two hours. They had him choked full of so many fucking... I saw this former staffer this week.

This former Warren staffer like stepped in shit on Twitter because he said he wasn't going to vote for Joe Biden. It was like a big Warren guy. Just probably a bot. A guy with 100,000 followers who just says the most... They got the weird Holocaust tattoo

with them? I think he's the rose emoji Warren dude. He's a total fucking idiot. But it is... The rose emoji Warren dude. Imagine just explaining this to somebody. That's no way to talk about Sam Adler, Belle Jesus Christ, man I'm just kidding, I love you, Sam Sam Adler, ding dong

Just scorched earth over here Okay, listen to this Listen to this story We're gonna doplatform the president i can't get past it this is we're gonna de-platform sam hadler bell while we're at it yeah i love it um okay so two stories i can't believe you have to have a cat box. You have to have a litter box. PB just came up here and shit in that. When the whole world's their litter box. It is kind of funny to think about, isn't it?

You have an outdoor litter box. PB, you little stank ass, go shit somewhere else. Did she just now poop? Yeah. No, but she knows that's a designated spot. Better to do that than her think the inside of the house is her oyster, too. Yeah, she doesn't poop on the inside. That's all I care about.

I don't give a shit where she poops. Sorry. Stop trying to police my goddamn pets. You've got your world, and it's nice and happy. Leave me to my world. Everything's fucked up. We're going to de-platform you, Tanya. Please. Please put me out of my mood. Everything's fucked up. We're going to deplatform you, Tanya. Please.

Please put me out of my mood. I am thinking about deleting Twitter. I am thinking about deplatforming myself. I'm thinking about deplatforming myself. All right. I never really figured Twitter out. That's the truth of it. I don't get it.

All right. You all know this. One of these days, I'm going to get to these. Do you guys want to go home? No, I want to keep talking. I was talking to you about Biden. More. Give me more, man. I'm just waiting for you to team me up.

I'm just fucking with you. We're never leaving. We're all home now. This comes by way of Politico. The headline is Purity Test. Democrats Clash Over Biden Diversity Goals.

Black Democrats are... Can we hire Jessica Krug? Oh my god. Wouldn't that be so great? That would be so... She doesn't have a job right now. You're safe here, Jessica. Come on.

Jessica Krug working for the Biden campaign. It's fucking gold. What a needle to thread. I'm sorry, Terrence. I like that. I think you should follow that thread a little bit more. See where it takes you. Keep going with that.

No, I can't. I'm sick. Okay, alright. I'm not going to riff on that. Black Democrats are urging Joe Biden to resist growing pressure from the left to impose an anti-Wall Street purity test on his hiring decisions

if elected. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Anti-Wall Street. Hold on a second. Democrats are putting it on black folks to support wall street like they're they're saying that black folks want them to support wall street that's what it appears to be what they're saying call me yes that is correct um fucking amazing wait what um i'll continue reading it'll become it'll it'll it'll flesh itself out a little more.

Warning that it, okay. So, black Democrats are urging Joe Biden to resist growing pressure from the left to impose an anti-Wall Street purity test on his hiring decisions if elected. Warning that it threatens the party's desire to boost diversity in powerful executive branch posts. I love this. I love, oh my gosh. Pump it into his veins. branch posts i love this i love my gosh progressives have been calling on biden to take a hard line in filling out his cabinet with groups such as justice democrats and sunrise movement demanding that he pledged to appoint zero current or former wall street executives or corporate lobbyists to his administration but black

democrats on capitol hill and on k street say that's a direct conflict with the party's overarching diversity goals and would keep many people of color, including those with ties to the financial world, from ascending to key positions long enough dominated by white males. Okay. There's almost a. Go ahead. Keep going. Oh, my God. Keep going. Oh, my God. We've got to fix all of the problems that were created over the last four years, said Representative Gregory Meeks, Democrat of New York,

a senior lawmaker on the House Financial Services Committee and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. We're going to need every hand on deck. Black business leaders that Democrats have floated for potential Biden cabinet positions include Roger Ferguson, CEO of TIAA, CEO of Aerial Investments. We have seen the effects of corporate control over the American government for our entire lives.

Okay, this is somebody who thinks Biden should not put those people on his cabinet. Let's see. So essentially the story here, though, is... The Democrats went and found all the black CEOs and are using them as a wedge against people saying that we shouldn't appoint people that are in finance. Essentially, yes. They're saying that what they're doing

is they're pointing out a contradiction, that the Democratic Party cannot simultaneously commit itself to economic egalitarian policies and these this kind of corporate racial identity politics it's saying that basically it has to pick you either commit to turning your party into one that advocates for more people of color on corporate boards, or you start trying to help out working class black people. What they're saying is that there's a contradiction and the party has to decide. Oh my God, dude.

This is fucking hilarious. Isn't it weird? This is so weird. It's like, oh, we can't go forward unless we can have these very exorbitantly wealthy CEOs that happen to be black. Oh my god. That is so...

It makes you wonder. It's a very weird deal. I can't wait for Jay-Z to be appointed Secretary of State. You think he would? You think he'd do it? Go be our ambassador or diplomat to russia yeah oh god

what a banana situation yeah i mean it's just think about how long is it till the election eight weeks i believe oh my god really oh what yes one two three four five six seven eight um well i was just like imagine how fucking insane the last eight weeks have been and how by that margin the next eight weeks are going to be barely survivable i really do think i need to just de-platform myself i think i just need to throw my phone into Bull Hall. Yeah. Could y'all contact me a different way? You want a landline?

Yeah. Could y'all call me on my landline to come record? We could do that, actually. I'll just come here, and even if we have to call Tommy, I'll just do it here at your house. You can do freeconferencecall.com and record it from there. We could do, like, a party line. Okayconferencecall.com and record it from there. We could do like a party line. Okay.

Alright, I'm considering it honestly. An all analog episode? That would be cool. It wouldn't make much of a difference anyways. I mean the quality wouldn't suffer. We're bottomed out at this point. Someone said I do not believe the goals are intention, fighting the

revolving door and promoting diversity among regulators are means, not ends. I disagree, but I can see where they're coming from. Let's see. I don't know. So there's that story. There's that one that I wanted to cover, but then there was another one that I wanted to cover.

Anything else you wanted to plug into that? Carry on. I got nothing else. This is the second one this is in the washington post biden campaign campaign pulls out all the stops to woo young voters oh yeah i'm sure he did the campaign sounds sounds like sounds like he's off to a hell of a start running a tick tock this one's a bit more long form so you you know just follow me here for a little bit. Joe Biden, upon first meeting his current campaign pollster, John De La Volpe, at a gala dinner in 2018, started taking notes from their conversation about the student debt crisis and gun violence on the back of a name placard at the table between speeches honoring former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

I would give any amount of money to see those notes. Hey, man, see the thing is here is the... It's just like the big Lebowski, like, just scribbling the name. You need to see the figure with a boner. Oh, my God. you need to see the figure with a boner oh my god just like true two big titties on the back of a napkin

that's all he's talking about you should have saw my ex my wife my first wife's fucking cans I still think about them to this day so to set the stage they were at a gala in 2018, and Joe Biden was taking notes in between two speeches honoring former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Jesus fucking Christ. The person who launched the Iraq War. The Iraq War. Honoring Colin Powell. Not even just like... Honoring him, yeah. Biden made it clear that the issues facing young people were deeply personal to him i'm sure he did well before he announced his run for

president said dole said dela volpe who last month took leave as director of polling at the harvard kennedy school's institute of politics to start officially advising the biden campaign on the youth vote biden spoke about how old is this man advising on the youth vote. Biden spoke about... How old is this man advising on the youth vote? I have to know. That's a great question. He worked at Harvard. He's probably in his 30s or 40s. He can't be in his 20s. It doesn't say, Tanya. This is probably intentional.

Delevolpe, probably Italian. Let's see. They didn't let Italians work in politics until... I'm joking. Biden spoke about helping pay off student loans taken on by his youngest daughter, etc., etc. Biden's daughter has student loans? You expect me to believe that?

Well, actually, this is the weird thing about Biden is that... He's kind of broken. He's one of the few politicians who has resisted like... Oh, does he have a coke habit? No. His son does. That's his boy. From what I understand anyways... He's a gambler like Tom. No, I just

think that he's... He's a guy that like... I think... You know, the pat on the back means the most to him. Yeah. You know? Like, on the back means the most to him. Yeah. You know? Like, he'd just do the most deviant shit for, like, a fucking Steelers commemorative plate from Super Bowl whatever.

And a nice, kind word said about him. Right. Like, I believe his wife was, like, still working for, like, a community college. They were paying off a mortgage still, like, as recently as just a few years ago. When Obamaama said joe you don't have to do this that's what he was talking about it's like there's actually plenty of money there for you anyways um with less than eight weeks until the november three election the biden campaign is making an urgent and final push to turn out the voting block that has proved to be his most elusive. Young voters, he struggled to win over in the crowded Democratic primary.

Biden's team, previously criticized for lackluster voter youth outreach, is now pulling out all the stops, bringing celebrities to virtual policy conversations and launching massive grassroots outreach campaigns. Who are the celebrities? Cardi B. This connects back to the Cardi B fight this week. Did y'all see this? Nope. Tell us more while I dig into this. Cardi B went in on Candace Owens. Owens, yeah.

Yeah. Who's like a right-wing author or some shit. You know Candace Owens. She was the one. Kanye was big into her when he was doing his MAGA flirtation. I do remember this. Yeah. to her when he was doing his i do you maga flirtation i do remember this yeah yeah well candace basically said that biden thinks cardi's a dumb ass and only talked to her like because he

doesn't care about black people and she's a dumb idiot or whatever and of course like and that she's being used and of coursei went in and talked about how Trump's literally using Candace and all this fucking... Anyway, they went back and forth on Twitter and Instagram this week, and it was pretty... Cardi's pretty sharp. She's incredible. She's fucking very sharp.

Wow, Tom, that was a very problematic thing you said. It was like you were... For some reason, you must have been devaluing her in some way says she's smart but she's proven time and time again anyway cardi was pissed um actress ashley de la rosa is one person who's a celebrity that's done stuff with Biden campaign? I don't think I know who that is. Model Karlie Kloss, who is also the wife of Jared Kushner's younger brother, and who headlined a recent Young Folks for Biden event about the Democratic Tickets plans for young women in science, technology, and the arts. I would, I mean, I've...

I don't know any of these people. I'm not a fan of them. Since went into elder statehood a little bit here, but I still think I have my finger on the pulse, and I have no fucking clue who these people are. Yeah, I'm saying. I don't either. I these people. Since when to elder statehood a little bit here, but I still think I have my finger on the pulse and I have no fucking clue who these people are. I don't either. I feel the exact same way. Although the VMAs happened recently, I think,

and I didn't really recognize any of the names. So I think I am definitely just like in retirement or something. Hmm. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know any of these things. If there is a youth-driven political so basically this thing is about how the biden campaign has hired people to basically do social media for them to basically reach out to youth on social media the youth there's a oh there's a

really hilarious it's not even hilarious it's just so banal line in here that just says and this is editorializing on the writer's part if there is a youth-driven political revolution during the pandemic it might not happen in real life or as the youth say irl oh my god the youth say irl these are absolute freaks making a ton of money on by using urban dictionary absolutely absolute fucking freaks absolutely oh fuck um but yeah so there you have it i mean like the biden people they're struggling to connect to the youth they're struggling to connect to struggling is putting it we're just they're just struggling They're just struggling.

They're just struggling all the way around. Having said that... You know what? We all are so good for them. I still think they'll probably win. You think Biden's going to win? It's really a question of who's going to lose. That's my commentary.

We all lose. All of us. We're all losers. That is true. L's down. That is certainly true. L's down for Cameron. Peter's out for Bernie.

Speaking of which, Peter's out for Bernie Ado, man. So it's no more. At present, it's oil and gas workers for Joe. And I think that's ironic, judging from the content they're in. But not good. Well, Joe's big on oil and gas workers, right? Like, he's big on the oil and gas workers. They don't want to hear that.

I tell them every day, I was like, you actually would be fine under a Biden president. They're like, no, man. You don't understand. So they're Trump guys, basically. Yeah, they're Trump guys. Well, so this is, is again this is my own sort of horseshoe theory they photoshopped

a picture of me and Trump in a compromising situation they did to you what liberals do to Trump and Putin yeah

oh my god amazing yeah they're not they kind of own themselves in a way I guess by their own

by their own logic not by mine I think it's I think anal sex with another man's fine. But by their own logic, it's an abomination. And their guy was doing it to me. Their guy was doing it to me. Anyway. Jesus. Their guy was doing it to me Anyway Jesus Yeah

This is the kind of abuse You put up with If everybody's saying I'd give anything To be in that group No you wouldn't Trust me Who's saying that?

It's mostly a bunch of Middle aged guys Talking about What they eat for breakfast And then like Calling me a liberal After I After I give

him all the evidence to the contrary. This is the fascinating part. In the right-wingers' mind They are like literally trolling you. There's no distinction between liberal and left in the right-wingers' mind. My cousin Ryan thought he took it a step too far and he called me the other night to apologize and tell me about his

experimentation with mushrooms. I ran into him the other day. He was in town. Yeah? Yeah. What'd he say? We just talked about West Texas. He saying that Peter's out for Bernie?

He did not. He did not mention Peter's out for Bernie. Okay. Well, anyway, it's turned into a shit show. It's like Fight Club. Right, right. That used to mean something else again though this is very interesting like i don't think that i really don't think they realize biden and them really don't realize that in the right winger's mind there's literally no distinction between the liberals and the left. They don't...

Is that why they're putting out ads that are like, looting is terrible? Yes. Well, it's a hedge, yeah. The Democrats are fighting that instead of leaning. When they should be leaning into it, they're leaning out of it. That's my analysis.

It just seems so simple just to point out all the very obvious miseries of human existence that we're all in like that even trump supporters can't deny they're totally miserable they really are i mean we're all miserable and fucking biden is just yelling about looting it's just a complete fucking no one could have written this more bananas. I don't know. Well, after I defended myself saying that,

I bet you wouldn't say that to my face, man. Somebody chimed up and said, hell, you couldn't hit in high school and you can't hit now. Damn. Wow. I think they were talking about on the football field. They said I couldn't hit. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Did you play football, Tom? Briefly. That's when you became a videographer? No. That was later on in life. That is such a hilarious idea. Liberals really... I'm thinking about this.

They really don't understand that people are literally not going to vote if you're scolding them into voting like they really literally don't understand they really think that it will work to say you didn't get what you wanted in this but you still have to vote for biden because it's the only moral thing to do they don't understand that that's not going to work in big and it might work with us three. Maybe. I don't even know how y'all are going to vote or how I'm going to vote, but it's not going to work

on a mass scale. That's telling how bad this campaign is that none of us know how each other are going to vote or not vote. Right. I see no reason to go to a poll. Here's my thing. Are there any local elections? Here's my thing. Y'all didn't have any problem

badgering people to go out to the fucking polls like this summer why y'all trying to do this whole fucking like oh let's we're gonna do mail-in thing taking the moral high road

on COVID safety shut the fuck up you surrendered that when you got people killed in Florida and Illinois it's another yeah you're right it is

that's incredible you're exactly right wait the mail-in thing? There are people dead today because of the Biden campaign. Absolutely. And that's got nothing to do with their policy. That's just this sanitation theater stuff. That too isn't going to work on a mass scale.

You can't just lean on people's virtue. Most Americans aren't virtuous. We're just trying to survive. Yeah, you've built this nastiness. You've literally built this don't we're just trying to survive yeah you've built this nastiness yeah exactly like this up that we're all fucking monsters it's just a it's a really hilarious but i mean i could be wrong there was like apparently massive voter turnout in 2018 midterms and i guess hillary clinton got more votes than like any person ever so really i could be fucking wrong she won won, Tanya.

Didn't even know that. I know. She won. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that like voter turnout has been high. It just doesn't really feel like it's resulted in much. I don't know.

I think everybody should do whatever they want to do. That's my feel. I just don't. I feel completely numb. Yeah. I just feel so far removed at this point i'm just like i go back and forth i'm gonna be honest like i really kind of to be candid i really do

sometimes in my mind think that you might vote for trump no i mean i think like would i vote for biden like i mean it wouldn't be The worst thing I ever did Exactly like It's not like I'm saying I would vote for Biden It's some fucking I'm not trying to take

A high horse about it I just don't I just honestly To be candid Don't give a fuck Well that's what I'm trying to This is what I'm trying to say Like for us

I don't know what The thing to do is We're probably I mean like If I'm being real I I'm probably going to vote. I'll probably vote for all the Democrats because that's just the way I've been conditioned. But the point

I'm trying to make is that that may work with a few isolated people, but it's not going to work on a large scale. I don't know. My favorite thing is going it's not going to blow, blow, blow, and then going, not alone.

Not even me. I'm going to write in John Bastola, who was my high school audio video guy that he would print out a primitive Photoshop of him with a Tommy Hilfiger model. Say, this is my girlfriend my new girlfriend this is a man in his mid-40s he kind of looks like a young f murray abraham with a john waters mustache wow and he drove a purple dodge plymouth with a university of

tennessee volunteer pom-poms in the back window. I feel like F. Murray Abraham kind of looks like John Waters with the John Waters mustache. They have a very similar build. No? No, yeah, don't ask. John Bustola kind of looked like F. Murray, and John Waters ran off in the woods together. Well, that'll do it for this week. Yeah, I like my off the tracks.

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