Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 169: Normalize It

Episode Date: October 22, 2020

We talk about voting and how it's pointless, then we have some Speak Your Pieces, and finally we talk about the brand new movie featuring JD Vance and Amy Adams (not Hillbilly Elegy) Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Well, I just got back from exercising my civic duty at the Letcher County Recreational Center. Not exercising your glutes. Not exercising my glutes, pecs, abs, or bives, bives and tries, but exercising my civic duty. You're not getting tested for COVID-19. No, by voting for Joseph Robinette Biden. Oh, my God, you voted for Biden. Is this your official endorsement? You're riding with Biden.

You're Team Joe. I'm Team Joe, man. Oh, God. I know that's not cool. We thought we knew you. Hell, I voted for him, too, by God. I'll go ahead and tell you. Well, since you already voted, tell me what the early voting is like in Letcher County,

because I guess that's what I'm going to go do, too to since i didn't order a damn what you call it's pretty simple they give you a stylus go over to a machine you punch in your you punch in you yeah you punch in your nominations for write-in candidate for city council like joe bug nice well i don't get to vote for city council i don't live in city limits oh yeah well but it was pretty it was pretty low-key now before any of you call me a sellout let me just justify myself i don't think anyone cares let me just this podcast is now on the payroll of chesapeake energy brought to you by the wonderful folks at chesapeake energy

we have an actual budget now you can expect better editing and guests um no this is the first is it all at the high school though for real is it all at the high school all the early voting or is it at your normal place no it's at the rec center oh what it's at the rec center it's at the rec center in the courthouse i don't know but that wow you you really did exercise huh hey let me ask you a question i did were you hectored by legions of uh mega people as you went in the doors, hissing at you to vote for Trump? Or otherwise trying to turn you away? Any assault rifles in view?

You know, no guns. Not as much hand-sandy as I would have wanted, but maybe they're trying to kill us that way maybe the libs are supposed to go over to the rec center while the trumpers go over to the courthouse they just they just you tell them what party you're with and if you say democrat they send you over to the machine that's got like a bunch of coughing people like standing around in a circle oh my god well the woman so you you know you enter it into a machine and it prints off your thing and and then you go you stick it into another machine i don't know it's pretty stupid but the woman that's not fishy at all no no

sounds fine um the woman operating that machine was not wearing a mask. What? Actually, none of the women signing anybody in were wearing a mask. What? They had them. How is this not? What? We have a statewide mask mandate. Sonia, I don't know if you're up on this, but there's really not any rules anymore. No.

They're not even wearing masks at polling locations. I don't know. That hits a little different, to be honest. Look, look, look, I've been I was me and Tom were talking about this on Sunday and I was thinking about this. We have entered a new phase of the campaign. And, you know, and i hate to say this i hate to go down the paranoid conspiracy rabbit hole but for a brief brief moment this week that's where we live i that's yeah for a paranoia mineshaft in for a brief moment this week i kind of thought that maybe

trump getting covid was a hoax now hold on just a minute before you get mad at me let me explain wait what have they been doing all year so ever since the pandemic started they they've realized that they're not organized enough to get a handle on this thing that it's been a disaster that we've got more deaths and more cases than any other country. So at a certain point, it was around April or May, the Trump administration pivoted. And what they started to do, they tried it a few times. I don't know if you remember this. In March and April, they said, you know, we've got to get our human capital stock back to work. Some people are going to die, but that's whatever.

They were never fully able to get people to internalize the notion that everything is normal and fine and that you should not worry about the virus. The one thing that allowed them to do that was Trump getting COVID. Now, what was the first thing Trump said after he got COVID, after he got out of the hospital? He said, don't let it dominate your lives, folks. It's not something to be scared of. Don't let it dominate your lives. I agree with you, something to be scared of. Don't let it dominate your lives. I agree with you, and I'm going to tell you why I agree with you. Trump, which this might not be true because he seems blissfully unaware that he does look like a tub of goo just like melting in the August sun.

But Trump also is very meticulous about his look look and he got on camera looking like dog shit for two days yeah like and he had to know it too because he didn't put on like the the sunless tan or any of that shit like he was just like his normal 78 year old ashen color with his hair a little disheveled but not too much a death visage he had to sell it didn't he yeah terence you're right the motherfucker never had covet 19 i'm all i'm saying is that even if he never had it it was extremely advantageous for him though because it finally allowed the trump administration to do the one thing they've been trying to do since april and may which is normalize it. Say, everything is fine. Don't let it dominate your lives. I had it.

It's all right, folks. I had it. Now I don't have it anymore. It's okay. It's nothing to be scared of. We're learning more and more all the time. He said he felt the effect that that has had. He had the best doctors, the best treatments.

I feel better than I have in 20 years. Yeah, that's true. Better than that's what he said. years i feel better than yeah that's true better than that's what he said he's gonna come out to his next campaign rally to uh that's bob marley's legalize it but it's gonna be the lyrics change to normalize it it's like the steel drums playing and trump just comes out there yeah he comes at normal light only cure for asthma oh my god now let it ruin your life i don't know i don't know if only cure for glaucoma i don't know if i'm of sound enough mind to accept that our president has faked a lethal disease i don't know that i can even process that at all so i'm not gonna consider it much further if it's all the same to you like any conspiracy

though like 9-11 or whatever the consequences are way more important than what actually happened because the consequences have been a wholesale acceptance of the disease among conservatives because as you know tom and i were talking about this on sunday but they are out there campaigning and rallying sooner than he should have been as per quarantine protocol correct yeah he defied the cdc's own uh standards yeah guidance rather yeah no it's it's it's and so i don't know maybe that has to do with people not wearing masks at the polls because i 1000 guarantee you that all the people who work at the polls in ledger county are conservatives they're trump people well yeah when i found out i was briefly socialist workers party you thought that right yeah that's the best thing that's ever happened in a primary in litch county

that's what i was trying to set up a new caliphate or something in town um which brings me back to your voting story this is a general election it's not closed primary. Why'd you have to give them your party? They asked for your party? Is that how they have people in the book or whatever? No, but... Yeah, they do anyway, regardless. They do, yeah. They do ask you the party.

It says it right there underneath your name when they check you in. That's why Tom's had Socialist Workers Party on his. They couldn't find me. She said, oh, that's in the back of the book but the woman who did take me to my sheen was like if you want to vote straight party this is how you do it and she said sit there for a couple extra seconds longer than she needed to and i looked at her like all right okay were you kind of standoffish did you try to keep your distance since they didn't have mask on

uh yeah i did yeah i like imagine if you get covid not taking on the vote for joe from voting people are absolutely going to joe fucking biden one million percent it's the first i will say that likely that someone will get covid and die from voting this year absolutely the first democratic presidential candidate i've voted for since 2008 by the way so the first actually conservative um presidential candidate i've voted for since barack obama and the funny thing about that is um i was just sitting standing there i was just like you know what i honestly i didn't know what my game plan was i went in there and i was like i'm not gonna vote in any of the elections except for my local representative and then i got to that part and she was she was just running on a post

and i was like god damn it I don't even need to be here I'm risking life and lung for god damn Marty Baker for coroner and Joe Biden for president Angie's unopposed I don't think I'm gonna bother going I don't get to ride in anybody for city council

why bother unopposed Tanya I'll tell you why you bother I'm gonna bother going. I don't get to ride in anybody for city council. Why bother? Unopposed. Tanya, I'll tell you why you bother. You bother as a hedge against these jackals that are gonna fucking string us up by our fucking toes if Joe Biden loses. It's really

just insurance against that. You know, to be honest, I can't really tell you why I did it. I think that it's because, look, if you're going to go vote for Joe Biden, you need to fully jettison the idea that you can pull this candidate to the left. That's never going to happen. Get it out of your head. Nope.

That never works. I can tell you all for all three of this have worked in the non-profit world for years during the obama years we can all tell you with plenty of experience that you will never ever ever pull a presidential camp administration to the left ever i mean he's already running to the right. This man is in a sprint. He's a conservative. Absolutely.

Now he's a conservative. I saw he's vetting a handful of Republicans for cabinet positions because he thinks there's something novel about having two rivals. He is. John Kasich was one of them. Oh my God, you all. I think quibi ceo and co-founder of quibi which went under which just went under god damn yeah i just let's stop for a second you know what

we like to get in the time machine that's the only place i'm comfortable anymore really because reality right too much if we go back to the days where we were so hype on bernie and we just knew that bernie was landsliding these motherfuckers these jokes we were still terrence was still on his hip um what was a stupid name? Buttigieg. You were still doing Buttigieg. That was your primary. Oh, yes. That was your primary character. That seems like so long ago.

I'd look to be able to get a cabinet position. That was this calendar year, my friends. I'm going to be Secretary of State under Joseph Robinette Biden. You were trying to summon a lobotomy that's right as pete we could have never predicted how bad this got no even as even as pessimistic as we are let me paint you a picture real quick yeah paint paint us a birmingham will you we're sitting in Terrence's cabin. Somebody reaches over and plays the OJs for the love of money on the record player.

I know, I know, I know. We're all smoking cigars. Kicking back in chairs, drinking champagne, saying, Bernie's gonna win 47 of 50 primaries and don't it feel so good? And then... And now... Go ahead. Well, I just said, then South Carolina happened.

And here we are. And fast forward to this. Among the names being floated for possible Biden cabinet posts are Meg Whitman, CEO of Quibi and former CEO of eBay, and former Ohio Governor John Kasich, both of who spoke at August's Democratic National Convention, Massachusetts GOP Governor Charlie

Baker, and former Senator Jeff Flake have also been mentioned, as has former Representative Charlie Dent from Pennsylvania. Jeff Flake had that stunt where he wrote a $1, thousand dollar check to, uh, was, who was it? Was it the Obama campaign or something? Do you remember that? Jeff Flake, Jeff Flake is, like, in that vein of, like, uh, John McCain and Mitt Romney where, like, people think he's, like, some kind of maverick, like, on a much smaller scale.

He doesn't have the name cachet, like you know he's like you know he's the guy that can see both sides kind of thing but then when the rubber hits the road he just gets in line with the rest of them yeah he wrote a check to the democrat opposing roy j or he wrote a check to doug jones oh yeah oh yeah that's right he wrote he $1,000 check to the guy running against a pedo. Very brave. Good job. Well, just to go back to my previous statement. Don't vote for Joe Biden. I mean,

you know, I mean, do whatever the fuck you want to do. I'm fully I would never ever scold anybody for not voting. if you don't want to vote i don't give a fuck but if you do don't try to rationalize it to yourself like oh we're gonna pull them to the left like there's something good things that come out of this no just fucking say it's for spite or something like i did just as a grievance because it'd be funny to see the trump people lose that's all you got. You got nothing else.

I'm sorry. There's nothing else. There might be a generic benefit to getting Trump out of office. That's the only possible thing that you could point to that could be different. It's going to be wholly less

entertaining. Obviously, I don't want him in office. I don't want him in office. No, that's for damn sure. I don't want him in office, but as someone who is clinging to the dark comedy that we find ourselves in as my only sanity. Is Trump going to be as funny out of office, you think? I don't know. Fuck, who knows? I doubt it.

I'll tell you what, yesterday rudy giuliani had me in tears i absolutely cried yesterday laughing at rudy giuliani and i never thought i could i never would have thought i said that did you it's been a weird week it's been such a weird week anyway listen humongous hasn't uh laid down on a bed and fiddled with our microphone device in front of a 15-year-old? You know what I mean? Normal stuff. I mean, did you, okay, did you all see someone, this, maybe this was fake. Either way, I don't, I mean, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't make it any less funny. It doesn't make it any less funny. But someone was sharing screenshots from a text message where they were pretending to be Ivanka texting Rudy Giuliani. Y'all didn't see this? I didn't see this. No. Was this real? Well, the reason I think it may have been real is because it started like a couple weeks ago.

I'd have to dig it up. I can't remember anything anymore. But I never have been able to but he had texted rudy giuliani and said hey is this rudy and then the reply was who might this be and they said it's ivanka and sent a selfie of like uh ivanka taking a picture of herself in the mirror waving and he said oh i didn't realize you got a new number anyway and he just left it at that well that was two weeks ago and he had shared it two weeks ago then he re he redid it yesterday with a new with a new message he said that just said hey are the rumors true and he said some of it's true i need to talk with your dad about it first oh man apparently it's not real apparently this is satire according to regardless if it's real or fake it was so funny and that was

the beginning of me just like going down a rudy rabbit hole yesterday and i'll tell you what, it paid off. It was good eating. I loved it. So, apparently, Sasha Baron Cohen tricked Rudy Giuliani into thinking he was about to get his knobs lobbed. By a 15-year-old girl, actually. Yes. Which caused Giuliani to melt down this also came in the same week this also came in the same week that new yorker writer jeffrey tubin uh was caught jacking it on a zoom conference call um which i you know my i think my man was just trying to show everybody on the call, his new trailblazer shirt.

I think that's all he was trying to do. Oh my God. I think we need some sympathy for. And the camera slipped down a little too low. Yes. Yeah. Well, would you say the funny thing about this, Tanya, you'll appreciate this a lot, a whole lot, um, in the, in the last 24 hours, because Jeffrey Toobin is a respected journalist who cannot be flawed in any way,

there's been a concerted media effort to basically say that he was engaged in pleasure activism. He was sex positive, bro. We can't. It's okay. It's okay to jerk. You should not hate yourself for masturbating. I never saw anyone say pleasure activist, but I have seen people defending the school. Well, is this not pleasure activism?

Listen to this. No, exposing yourself at work is not pleasure activism. This is on the New York Daily News. Jeffrey Toobin's history of bad sexual judgment is really about our unease with masturbation but i'm guessing you do the same dear reader maybe you should stop feeling weird and guilty about that wow oh my god well the world's ran by pedophiles and the next step is their undersecretaries are all just going

to be sex perverts. Yeah. Yeah. Man, I tell you what. Here's the thing that I can't wrap my head around about that. It's like,

how, okay, we're hanging out. We're having a Google hangout here right now if i were to start vlogging it right here like i feel like you all would like kind of notice what was up immediately you know what i'm saying without even getting a peekaboo yeah like how was he even getting into it you know what i'm saying without like somebody said hey jeff you're doing what i think you're done so it started with his dick

yeah it started with his dick off camera and somehow eventually the dick came into the camera like that's my question i mean that's my like he was clearly he was clearly being an exhibitionist and trying to believe that the camera was off. Oh, he says he thought the camera was off? How many times have you been on Zoom and it's been at fucking crotch level? You know what I'm saying?

He had to be trying to get away with something. Had to be. That's fucking bizarre. I mean, you calling him a respected journalist is enough it's just like these people love to see what they can fucking get away with also let's just call it what it is jacking at work is not jack in front of your colleagues okay jacking at work is fine just you know in the bathroom which we can't do that anymore who among us hasn't rubbed one out in the bathroom in under in a stressful work day fuck yeah i'll give you that it's it's funny to read a tweet like that it's just like that would never ever be written about somebody who is like i don't know a gas station attendant yeah

or fucking amazon warehouse worker yeah yeah yeah i think my man was just trying sorry this is just wild well this actually came up a few days before that a listener a friend um messaged me it was like hey uh we had to fire uh one of my co-workers today for being a sex worker and i I was like, oh, that sucks. And they were like, no, it was pretty bad. They did some not good shit at work. And then I was like, oh, yeah, that sucks. What the fuck? What happened? Is your friend their boss?

No, no. They just worked there. I don't feel like I could give any more details. But it was. Wow, way to dangle it in front of us and pull it back. Just so sad it's just like this is just such a culmination of a weird fucking week

of pervs in the news and in my DMs which that's not nothing new really but right but no this is not pleasure activism Terrance why not

but I tell ya I'm not able to keep up with the old discourse on Twitter at the moment. Every time I log on, it feels like it's been a fucking century and I have no idea what's going on. Like yesterday, it took me too long. Well, one, to figure out the new retweet function, but also to figure out who the original joke was about, about the dad and son. It took me so long to track that down i can't keep anything straight anymore i'm not you might need to log off don exactly i'm not mentally able to keep no i'm saying like one day off the internet one day off twitter and so much has happened it's there's it's too much to catch up on it's too much uh catch up on. It's too much. Check me out, y'all.

I'm kind of bald and like James Gandolfini. Yeah. I think it looks pretty sexy, personally. That's why I'm going to just lean into it. Jim was a snack. What else is going on in the world? I don't know. I'm feeling kind of guilty now about voting for joe biden i i don't know why i did that i've been you ever do things and you're like why did i do that every day i also voted for amy mcgrath did i tell you that

these are my confessions this Yeah. Oh, man. It's a good thing I'm a minister, Terrence, because you do need a confessional. Buddy, I wrote you a Charles book. I had to tell somebody. Terrence, rebuke him. Or Tom, do something. Exercise him. Get Satan out of this boy.

All right. No, there's no doing it. Did you clock one in for amy too your neighbor i wrote well here's c booker oh good smart jesus that's okay i mean i kind of feel like here's my here's my philosophy on it it doesn't matter one way the other and this is why ultimately why i did it it did take several take several weeks of triangulation and philosophically trying to reason why it would probably be okay. Because look, the shitty thing about this country is that if you protest vote, nobody knows. If you don't vote as a protest, nobody knows.

And if you do vote, nobody knows. So it ultimately doesn't matter. Well, I have a counterpoint here, which you should know as someone who's volunteered with a campaign and worked for nonprofits, is actually whether you vote or not is recorded and known. You can buy that data. Oh, yeah, definitely. and known you can buy that oh yeah definitely and i was gonna say that one one potential positive here on our pro con list of voting is that if you don't vote it might get you removed from all these goddamn lists and get joe and the dems out of your fucking phone there's literally

zero chance of that see that's a that's a very that's just zero chance that's a huge might i don't think that would ever happen you were you were in the jaws of the beast for the rest of your born days my friend you don't think they're backing out and this is all thanks to bernie i never got these fucking messages no no any money it ain't bernie i'll tell you it ain't bernie it's you you fucking sign one move on.com petition and then it's the floodgates oh yeah change that word i don't know it all started when i started giving bernie money i get i'm getting fucking daily emails have you checked up this like really sad tone that they're doing they're doing this thing where it's like we're losing again it's over like just completely

defeatist like they can't like run good candidates to get you excited so the next thing is to like guilt you and make you feel like you're complicit in fascism if you don't give jamie harrison ten dollars or if you don't give uh you know well mcgrath whatever well i've already been complicit in fascism either way say more you're you're right i just want you to talk about it me or tanya no you you never want me to talk there's a lag i'm sorry i'm sorry what did you say you've already been scolded no you go ahead we got like a little I don't even remember what I said now complicit in fascism

yeah you said either way we're complicit that's why I said say more not because I didn't want to hear Tanya speak well you're complicit in fascism either way because there's a very good chance that a foreign policy under biden administration is going to be way more aggressive and militaristic than a biden or than a trump presidency um you know the deportations and child children in concentration

camps and splitting up kids from their parents at the border started under obama etc so you're complicit either way right the problem is is that you're you're complicit either way right the problem is is that you're also not complicit either way it's really bizarre it's like it doesn't matter if you don't vote for that because i mean it's it's such a gargantuan problem that it doesn't all ride on you but at the same time it doesn, you voting isn't going to cause all of those things anyways because all of those things are already set into motion.

So really it all just came down to I had a free hour, I had nothing else going on, and I found myself close to a voting booth, so I went in and I punched one in. On my way to the thigh thigh abductor machine i slipped on a banana pill and voted for joe bud you show up exactly you show up like oh yeah i was just in the neighborhood you don't want anyone to think you're there on purpose the poll workers

are just like oh okay right i mean the problem the thing is is that america needs to be destroyed regardless death to america absolutely but it's like um but at this it's also like uh i don't know now i'm i want to go back maybe i can go back and ask him if i can i have my vote back oh my god can i undo my vote for joe's if i told him that i voted for joe biden they'd probably let me do it they'd be like yes take it back all right well you know what oh god that would be a good experiment to play it'd just be like yeah actually we got about three people it's dead if you just go vote under all their names for trump oh my god they'd probably laugh man you know it's so goddamn funny and i i don't mean to go on like a huge tangent about like this sort of vote scolding thing or like even the latest futile celebrity

efforts to like get out the vote or whatever but it really is strange that like confidence this didn't start necessarily with the republicans either but like confidence in like the legitimacy of elections is like feels like it's at an all-time low and it's like how do you not feel that fucking way when like you have to like go in there slip on a banana peel on your way to the abductor machine go to a machine with a stylus punch it in get a ticket go stick it in another machine fucking uh have the lady sign you in jerk you off real quick get your fucking your fucking cum tribute and then go stick it in like the blue box

get COVID in the process and only then will your vote be counted you know what I mean there's just so many god damn like just practical hurdles it just makes no god damn sense even if you're not dealing with any sort of racial or class sort of like barriers to it you know yeah and while most people won't

face a direct vote like scolding for not voting i for one half in person and since we just mentioned the van earlier the video the memory has come flooding back over me. When I first started in paid electoral organizing, been like 11, 12 years ago now. So I was only like 22. I'd only been voting, you know, a handful of years any damn way. But I'm in my first like voter training van, voter activation network training, room full of people. And I'm the newest person on staff so when they're showing everybody they use me as a guinea pig and they're like let's

put in tanya's name now let's do tanya tanya tanya for fun so they searched me in the van and i'm like oh yeah let's see and it comes up and of course i've only voted like three times in the past eight elections i could have because i hadn't voted in the primaries and i'd missed one general and they i swear to christ everyone in the room just turned and looked at me like i was a demon in the room and i just started nervously laughing just because you had like a gappy voting history yeah i had a very gappy voting history. It's like when you go apply for a job and they're like,

please explain gaps in your unemployment history. They're like, please explain gaps in your voting history. Yeah, that's exactly how it felt. Oh my God, that would be... You know how like some weird fucking startups like check your credit score to get a job and all that kind of shit? I can imagine the liberal NGO sphere saying, well, you need to produce a state-certified voting record so we can see that you're really about it.

Absolutely. What if they start doing, oh, this is fascinating to think about. What if it's means testing for health care or whatever but you can only get it if you've produced proof that you voted so it's like voter discrimination in reverse it's like you have to vote or else you don't get any benefits from the state yeah yeah oh my god that's oh my god that's dark as hell man oh man but it's it's so obvious that's the direction for moving well you're right you're both right or you're right there's like there's never been more there's never been more skepticism over the legitimacy of the voting process but at the

same time as of yesterday at least 42 million people have already voted in the 2020 election general election i'm i'm not gonna say this lightly but biden's gonna win that's a pretty good turnout right even if like wouldn't that be a pretty good turnout even if like we just called it there yeah what's the turnout right now i think so for. For absentee? 42 million. What was the turnout for Hillary and Trump, like total? Do you remember? Let's see. Let's look here. Wasn't it really low?

Turned out that year really low? I think it was the highest it had ever been. Oh, really? I thought Obama said people got lazy or some shit. That's just what he said. Complacent. Complacent. A hundred and twenty five, a hundred, about a hundred and thirty million people.

Okay. Voted in 2016. And we've, there's already. So we're almost a third of the way there to the, like, 2016 total. And your number, the number, 42 million is the number of votes that have already been cast, returned ballots? Yeah. And early voting? Okay.

Hmm. Yeah. I don't know. I was really hoping that, well, I won't say that, but I'll just say it would have been, this is a year we came pretty close to the potential of people voting for someone who later died before Election Day. I mean, how many times will that be so statistically possible? Also, you have to be more specific who you're talking about. Either one of them.

That's what I'm saying. Either one of them. That's what I'm saying. It's either candidate. This is like literal necropolitics. Speaking of necrotizing politics, let's talk about Mitch McConnell's goddamn hands for a second. The fuck is going on there? Here's another thing.

I thought it was two tattooed hands and I thought it was about to be like a conspiracy that Mitch McConnell's covered in tattoos. That's literally what I thought you were sending me. Yeah, Mitch McConnell's like was like part of Goddamn Eastern Promises or something like that.

Yeah, he's got knuckle tats. He puts cigarettes out in his tongue and has to like fuck women in front of his colleagues oh my god oh my god what were you gonna say tance i'm sorry i i well i i you know i'm running through so once again i so i you know i mean i've been in therapy lately tanya i don't know if i've told you that i'm so proud of you i've been doing therapy lately, Tanya. I don't know if I've told you that. I'm so proud of you. I've been doing therapy. I'm so happy for you. That's great.

I can't believe you didn't tell me. And so in the pursuit of self- That's great. I'm happy for both of you. What's that? Equally happy for both of you. Oh, thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. But in the interest of self-reflection, I've been trying to understand why I do some of the things I do. And so that's what I'm doing right now. I'm trying to understand why I do some of the things I do. And so that's what I'm doing right now. I'm trying to understand why I voted the way I just did. And perhaps it was voter intimidation, some sort of fear and mixture of spite and grievance. But once I saw Amy McGrath's name up there next to Mitch McConnell's, it has this weird effect where you're like, next to Mitch McConnell's, it has this weird effect where you're like,

well, I don't want McConnell, and not voting doesn't really make any sense. It's like my resolve melted away. Like, if you're really not going to vote, don't even go near a poll. Because once you see the names next to each other, you're like, well, McConnell bad, McGrath also bad. McConnell really bad. And so, I mean, it is the lesser of two evils. Start doing a little moral calculus on the spot there. How many bodies do each of these people have on them?

Mitch McConnell was trying to pull us out of Iraq. Granted, it's because of the midterms. Amy McGrath did some shit in Iraq. Yeah. I mean, Amy's probably more likely than about anybody to try to drag us back into war. Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.

She will vote for any war. One million percent. But here's the thing. Here's the thing. Can you be... This is a philosophical and ethical question. Can you be, this is a philosophical and ethical question, can you be held responsible for that if you voted for it? And now this is really the big question. If that's the case, if you vote for Amy McGrath,

she gets us into another war where millions of people died. Is voting for Amy McGrath worse than voting for Donald Trump in 2016? Is it worse? For everybody listening at home, I just want to point out that Terrence is flicking a switchblade up and down while he's making this point. Deeply unsettling. We need to go to Twitch just so people can see exactly how you're tidding this up no i think i listen we can't say it out loud because people will like you know throw tomatoes at you and wrap a cane around your neck and pull you off stage but you're right like in truth

you are right there is an argument to be made to that effect. But then, yeah, well, so then I got to thinking about it and said, well, if that's the case, if this does result in war and famine and deaths, is it the worst thing I've ever done? I've done some pretty bad things in my life. I mean... Hated and abetted pestilence and the rise of global Nazism. However, I don't know if you at this point can be blamed for any war and famine necessarily.

Oh my God. Well, I feel like if you knowingly voted for Amy McGrath, maybe you can. That's what I'm saying. You know what? Up until now, though. I'm prepared to take that burden on my back. You clicked one in for Barack. I did it for Kentucky.

Well, I mean, listen. What you want is you want some strong leadership with some experience in the battlefield. I don't think that's unreasonable. You know what I mean? She was tasked with perhaps making a tough call, and that tough call was whether she was going to shoot down a commercial airliner filled with civilians in service to save the Pentagon. To save, you know, all these foreign policy ghouls working in the Pentagon's lives. So, I mean, you know, who's to say, man?

Who's to say? Well, real talk well real talk real talk the the options in front of you if you do slip on a banana peel and wind up in a voting booth are two ultimately conservative options and so you're voting for a conservative one way or the other that's on you at the end of the day if you want to be like me and have regrets, then do it. But if you want to be like Tanya and live your life with no regrets, then don't do it. But,

you know, there were a few headlines this week that I thought were pretty fascinating. Following the debates, Democratic support for a fracking ban dropped an eye-popping 16 points from 65% to 49%. These headlines is why I lost it completely over Rudy. It was just like the last straw.

Yes, and then the second one was support for Amy Coney Barrett has risen 18 points among Democrats after the hearings. So make no mistake, folks. We're really moving the dial. It's all conservative. Yes, there's no moving the needle. If you thought, oh, with Bernie, we're going to pull things to the left, it's the Overton window, baby. We can participate in this.

Get over yourself. That'll never happen. We lost. Leftists will never, ever, ever be able to influence. And I don't want to hear this again when it comes up in 2024 when AOC runs. Shut it down. Shut it down quick. You'll never be able to influence the electoral process as a leftist.

Get over it. This isn't 1932. It's never happening again. That's all you can say about it that's the last word that's the last word on it nail in the coffin that NASA's tapped Nokia, no less, to put a cell tower on the moon

before, just in time for AOC's run for president. I think that's dope. Maybe it won't come to fruition. Remember it's been years ago, maybe even a decade ago that they were uh toying with us and uh throwing out some uh uh some threats to start projecting ads on the moon do you remember that yeah that was tight that never happened i don't think did it

that makes me so unfathomably sad that i have to look up in the night sky and see like the verizon logo or something absolutely yeah yeah like the bat symbol oh it's bad well what they're trying to do they're trying to you know they're trying to see if they got those moon minerals and all that shit was the basis for that goddamn uh space force bullshit and all that stuff it's just it's just a way to get you know private companies to put the basis for that goddamn uh space force bullshit and all that stuff it's just it's just a way to get you know private companies to foot the bill for space exploration and da da da da da well even you know what's come out even um in the last couple weeks too is that spacex or whatever has said that they are going to be able to buy some date soon, that

they're going to be able to guarantee same-day weapons delivery anywhere in the world. So, do y'all see this? You didn't see this? So, it's like this, all this, like, all this space, even calling it SpaceX, it's all a fucking ruse. It's all like, people are into space. People like space. we love the moon so they're just gonna keep using words like this to convince us that we're doing something cool

that they're doing something cool when really they're just um you know getting tons of government money and who knows whatever uh to figure out how to fly around the planet delivering weapons that's incredible that's absolutely incredible they're like you need a weapons drop just give us your low coordinates same day delivery oh well speaking of that sort of on that same note did you guys see this thing going around for an ad it was there was an ad for uber but for bodyguards tom hosted i saw tom had a good good idea he was just gonna his plan was to make a killing being beaten to death well yeah to death while his clients get away.

I wonder if you could just, like, you're going to rob a bank, so you're like, I need some bodyguards for this. You get on your phone. Guys, I've already paid you $6.28. You have to ride this out with me. cents you have to ride this out with me and on the the screenshot of the like form you fill out one of the questions was what is the threat if known right man you're gonna have you're gonna have motherfuckers living in the suburbs going to trader joe's that respond with Al-Qaeda because they just want like, you know, terrified that like,

you know, a Mexican guy is going to accost them or something. Oh. Uh-huh. Well. Bond. It's called Bond. Why bother when you can get a weapon delivered same day? Quicker than groceries. Imagine this. Imagine this.

Thursday night in a college town everybody's out drunk having a good time you pull up and you've got lyft and uber in the window and then you've got bond on the other side and so like you're like in between like dropping people off you might have to like go like go on like a secret mission to like transport a fucking like diplomat to the airport or some shit meanwhile i'll still be living in a world where my partner and i can't get on a call at the same time god damn work video calls you know that episode king of the hill where dell's a mercenary and gets the call from the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine?

That's what that shit reminded me of. Oh, damn. Some of these testimonials for Bond are pretty funny. You know, this does create a problem for Hollywood. Hazel. What's that? I mean, how are they going to come up with shit

crazier than what's really going on is my question. I did, yeah. I did feel like that while watching the golden arm that quibi show um were you supporting me attempt at a quibi show anyways no i was not but there was a thing going around about it about one of the shows on it called the golden arm the fucking quibi thing is really goddamn funny um someone someone posted yesterday a screenshot of a interview from the founders and um it's funny because like the quibi was started on the idea that young people like their attention spans are too short and so

they need like little snippets little bites quick bites. That's what Quibi you stood for Which is really hilarious because young people aren't like that at all, but Bites Yeah But this this this is a hilarious goddamn interview People have wondered why Kassenberg and Whitman, in their late and early 60s, respectively, and not very active on social media, would believe they have uniquely penetrating insight into the unacknowledged desires of young people. When I ask Whitman what TV show she watches, she responds,

I'm not sure I'd classify myself as an entertainment enthusiast. Wow. But any particular show she likes? Grant, she offered, on the History Channel. It's about president grant what this is ridiculous that's the biggest freak i've ever heard they're very out of touch absolutely oh my god and yet these people are so sick and and twisted and connected that they probably didn't actually lose any money they probably still made money on a failing business it's sick yep yep and now she's gonna be some fucking who knows what

in a presidential cabinet okay not to drag us back to rudy but what I think what sent me over the edge is that I didn't even realize this but that Rudy Giuliani was a was a fucking security czar or something for Trump at one point um maybe he's his personal lawyer now that's the most corrupt New York shit I've ever heard of. But he was like a security... He's, you know, pretending to be a security expert, and so all of this is just...

He's got a Giuliani partners... He's got an LLC like we do. Giuliani's a comrade with us. We're in the same class bracket. Small business owners. Small

business owners. Got some good speaker pieces this week. Christ almighty. Let's hear some speaker pieces because I know there's a few good ones in here. Well, I never got to listen to the last, what was it, Sunday? Did y'all do?

You said there were some all-timers? Oh, there was some all-timers. If you want some all-timers, go to the Patreon. We've got some all-timer speaker pieces on the Patreon on Sunday's episode. So go to check that out. I bet I can't get last week's paper now. It's Thursday. The new one already come out.

Yeah. Tom, speaking of the new one. People, be careful who you vote for. Seems somebody in Letcher County doesn't share Terrence's opinion that it doesn't matter who you vote for this time. The Bible says in Matthew 6 and 24 that no one can serve two masters. If you vote for evil, you will be in trouble. You better vote for someone who's going to help your country, not take your social security

or make things more evil. Read the Bible, serve God, vote for Trump, please. Amazing that Trump's going gonna be the one that's not gonna take your social security that one was really interesting because it was i didn't know where it was gonna go uh he is not for evil he is for good bad people are out there stirring up trouble please live for god don't do evil. Read God's word and serve him. Yeah, I just want to make clear that my official position is that it does not matter. If you're an American citizen who wants to do good, it doesn't matter who you vote for.

That voting actually doesn't matter whatsoever. I'm saying this post-vote. I want to be clear on the record opposing this. I want to be clear. Yes, I want to be clear on the record opposing i want to be clear that's just i want to be clear on the record here's a here's a diametrically opposed position donald trump has paid more for sex than he did on his income tax statement for the past decade same honestly what are you gonna do oh man this next one's excellent to the old grouch who doesn't like me going across the road to try to be friends with somebody i don't care not one bit what you

think and what you say keep your thoughts to yourself on sesame street they have a grouch who lives in a garbage can his name is oscar maybe you ought to watch oscar and take some pointers from him but this ain't sesame street this is the real world and i don't live in a fantasy world like you do wait i i thought that was pretty funny because it's it says it says you're a grouch like oscar on sesame street but this is the real world i don't live in the fantasy world like you do yeah it's like a weird circular own i like this one because it's broken up with an ad that says ladies fur line boots oh my god oh god i heard that i heard that preacher's running for office and bragging that the nra had endorsed him does he not trust god to take care of him

if he trusts god why does he think he needs his guns this is actually i'm going to go ahead and say this is not a trap point because like the same people that like think god will protect them from a coronavirus also have like a fucking artillery in their fucking tool shed yeah exactly that's why i love this one i think they should disarm the preachers and let god defend them i'll let god defend me because i trust the lord enough not to worry about guns and the NRA and things like that. Hell yeah. Wow. Excellent.

Dear speak your peace. Oh, this is gold. Dear speak your peace. I think it's time to put the kids back in school. My son had the coronavirus. He is 37. He had almost no symptoms. He sweated it out, and he had a taste problem i think the kids would probably have a better immune system than him so it's back to school

time i like the idea that you can just sweat out like coronavirus like you can sweat out like you know a hangover or you know yeah which is also dumb because you're hung over because like there's an electrolyte imbalance you know what i mean sweating for a hangover is actually the worst thing you can do i love just pointing at your watch back to school time back to school time for you my 37 yearold son had taste problems. And I know you kids have better immune systems than that, so it's time. I also just like how this is strictly one anecdotal case, and they're totally glossing over the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have died from this.

Yeah. Yeah, your son was lucky, but guess what? God bless you, Mr. President. The world needs to be concerned about the 8 million tons of plastic that's being dumped into the oceans each year, most of it being just plastic bottles. Another thing the world should be concerned about is the millions of gallons of radioactive water

Japan is going to release into the ocean from the crippled fukushima nuclear plant how can japan do this there is a lot going on in this world that the future can't stand there is no future left if we keep going the way we're going with our oceans in our air we are murdering our oceans hi i love this one starts off god bless you mr president truly what how where is the what a whiplash i like what i like so much about this is this is like like this person stuck in like 1946 yeah you know what i mean like just like post-world War II, like, xenophobia toward Japan. Right.

I've been through several haunted houses in my day. But we went through Mountain Mayhem last night in Whitesburg and found it to be the best haunted house my family's ever gone through. Wow. It was very scary and very good. The three things that stood out were the creepy clown, the awful nun, and the scarecrow. Ooh. Watch out for them. They are

really good. Check out Mountain Mayhem. It's really cool. Thank you. Guaranteed. That's a nice endorsement. I want this person to write an endorsement of our show. Nah, I guarantee who wrote that is the people who are running that haunted house. But I know we're that sad. That's right by the greenhouse where we got our starts after all ours died.

The creepy clown, the awful nun, and the scarecrow. That's us. I'm the awful nun. Tag yourself. You're the awful nun. You're not the awful nun. Maybe you are. You're the awful uh i'm definitely the

creepy clown y'all can fight over the other time okay as long as i'm not the clown i can't handle clowns i'll be the scarecrow yeah i'm kind of yeah that sounds right last one here awful nun just leading the praise and worship band when When you're driving on Main Street in Whitesburg, you have the right-of-way unless a pedestrian crosses the street at a crosswalk. When you're coming off the bypass on the Main Street or from the old high school hill, you have a stop sign. Get it? Get that?

Two stop signs feeding into Main Street. You come to a complete stop wait until main street is clear before you carry on so young man don't flip off an elder waiting at a stop sign when you have the right away and driving on main street shame on you you hurt my feelings truly i picked this one i picked this one because it could have been me. It's entirely possible that I am the young man in question here. They just caught you on the wrong day. You flipped off an old man. Well, I get so pissed off that people just don't give a fuck about pedestrians downtown.

They just fucking zoom on down. Maybe I should write my own speaker piece. This is about a pedestrian? I didn't see this from a pedestrian point of view no it's it's an old man getting pissed that a young pedestrian pissed flipped him off he was the old man was in his car the young man me flipped him off gotcha and don't pedestrians always have the right of way or something? I don't know. Yes, technically, yes.

Technically, yes, they do. It was actually Terrence as his old man character riding the speaker piece. Hello. Yeah, that pissed me off. Terrence is both people in this story. Hello. Hello. I was driving downtown, and i was just coming back from voting

and a young man pissed me off i went i went there slipped on a banana pill voting for joe bob i voted for i voted for the aircraft fighter pilot pilot and now aircraft fighter pilot and now guess what the japanese are gonna release the nuclear waste from fukushima and uh and amy mcgrath is gonna stop them well that about does it for us, folks. Wrap it up. You know, before we go, yeah, before we go, I've got a little bit of a plug here. Tom and I went on a podcast, Reply Guys, the other day, and I had a good bit on there that was not appreciated on that show, so maybe it'll be appreciated on this show.

But it was about... You know that movie where Amy Adams plays... You know that movie Arrival where Amy Adams plays a linguist? Yeah. That's a good movie. Yeah, imagine that... That's the movie, but the aliens are J.D. Vance coming back from Yale Law, and he knows all these fancy words, and Amy Adams plays an opioid-addicted hillbilly, and she has to decipher the fancy words.

An opioid-addicted hillbilly linguist? Yes. She knows everything about universal grammar and Chomsky dip thongs yes but she loves her oxycontin but she loves oxycontin and and just uh living in shabbiness yes and she has to decipher the big words that jd learned when he was at school like uh jurisprudence and stuff like that so it's her jeremy renner in a in the tent and she's strung out and they're on a chalkboard and she's like sounding out the words jurisprudence and uh omnipotent i don don't know, what are some big words you would learn at Yale Law? Motion and

liminy? I don't know. Let me re-watch Legally Blonde real quick and come back. Yeah. There you go. Well, there you go. That's the new movie from Ron Howard coming out summer 2022. Screenplay by

Terrence Ray. That's me. That's like, that needs to be the next trend instead of doing like all these reboots. It's just reimagining movies to make them funny. Anyway.

Like, Apollo 13, but it's Apollo 69. They send in Kevin Bacon and Tom Hanks. It's like, yeah, it's like Apollo 13, but they let Gary Sinise go on the mission, and it turns out he had some horrible disease. He did. He had smallpox in that movie. that what it was he had smallpox i don't have his smallpox yeah it's apollo 13 but they let gary sinise go on the trip and hilarity howard film uh that's really dumb really really stupid

i love it oh wow okay all right on that note um don't go vote, people. Throw a wrench in the electoral process by freaking not voting and a middle finger in the air, man. Don't be like us, man. Be like Tom Morello. Yeah, don't be like us. You can be like me. I haven't voted yet and may not. Or be like Tom. But let's be real. You're going to vote like me. I haven't voted yet and may not. Or be like Tom.

But let's be real. You're going to vote. Honestly, I don't know. Me and Michelle talked about it. We were like, we feel no pull to do that. We have no interest in it. And if we do – You don't think that –

I have not been to town. I can't tell you the last time I was in downtown. Tanya, I want to tell you something. You do so at your own peril. Vote or don't vote. Anybody that's going to vote scold me, by God, go here next year, order the little list, and you will see by Tom Sexton that I did punch one in. You think if I don't vote, I'll live to regret it because i'll be scolded for it for the rest of my life if don't trump selects to a second term they will run you out of your house with

torches and pitchforks oh my god my neighbors i'm i'm gonna regret having voted um but it also doesn't matter because i really do think biden will win and i in well here's the thing here's the really funny thing about where we live do you think biden's gonna win kentucky no biden will not win kentucky but here's the thing about where we live which is very interesting if you live in a place like kentucky every political development is a foregone conclusion like if you if you don't listen to this episode and you just somehow turn it

on three weeks from now after the election, I guarantee you three things will have happened. You don't even need a crystal ball to know this. One, Trump will have won Kentucky. Two, McConnell will have beat McGrath. And three, Hal Rogers, our congressional representative,

will have won his 21st consecutive term in office. Oh, my God. So why vote? Why the fucking vote? Amazing. I guess the only reason I did it is because I feel like such an angsty teenager or whatever when I tell people, like, I gonna vote or i didn't vote if this is i mean like i just can't say it with a straight face and and take myself seriously i guess that's why any i've not thought about it much honestly but every time i do think about it do you know what

you know what i think i think i'm not gonna go i'm not gonna bother doing it but i'm gonna tell everybody i did i'm just gonna lie well tanya you just let the cat out the bag and two an hour ago you just said oh people can see exactly who cares it's all so that's true consequential none of it matters yeah i don't know i've just had a lot going on the past two weeks and it really has i mean i deleted facebook i've muted election everywhere i just i cannot get further away from it and if it weren't for this podcast i'd know very little about what was going on you two are my slow drip of misery from the outside world world oh my god uh will you really remember don't don't remember the bad times tanya when you look back on these years don't remember the bad the despair and exactly everything we forced upon you

for your job i'm trying to remember the good shit i'm trying to focus on the good times an election remember apollo 13 remember apollo 13 where gary sinise goes to the moon gary sinise got to fly gary sinise uh uh uh flew fly flew so we could walk to install joseph robinette biden a nokia tower That's right. Progress demands it. That's right. Okay, well, go to the Patreon

if you want some more good content. P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com slash Trailbilly Workers Party. Look, I've been hearing that the last couple episodes have been bangers. So go check those out. They got some good speaker pieces in them.

One of them does anyways. Not very expensive either, $5. Not a lot of money, folks, $5. It's a $5 bill. Go and give your money. So you can go do that at Patreon. And I guess we'll see you there.

And if not, we'll see you next week on the main feed. Any last words, friends? Happy Scorpio season. I guess they've left me already. I'd just like to thank Gary Sinise for his contributions.

That's it. Happy, happy Scorpio season. What are y'all doing for Halloween? I'm staying in like a responsible Of course you are,

but are you going to watch movies? Are you going to cast some spells? Are you going to bake a poison apple? What are you going to watch movies? Are you going to cast some spells? Are you going to bake a poison apple? What are you going to do? Well, I hadn't considered that, but maybe I'll do that. You know what, Terrence? I think you should go down to the bridge downtown and do a photo shoot with the pumpkins. And cast yourself off of it.

Absolutely not. We need you at 100%. We don't need you with a broke wrist. Or whatever that kid broke when he threw himself off the bridge. I swear, there's some things I think about every day, and that's one of them. That kid? That kid dramatically said, oh, if you don't go out with me I'm gonna kill myself and jumping off an eight foot bridge poor bastard

and showing up the next day in a cast trying to get her back yeah god damn it it's hard no go get under that uh that halo of witch hats downtown right now and take some pics of yourself.

Alright, I'll do that. Alright, let's go! Well, thanks for listening, everybody. Alright, let's get out of here. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you soon. Bye-bye!