Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 208: No Ketchup Packets In Space

Episode Date: July 22, 2021

This week we follow up on the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (see Patreon episode #122), then discuss the so-called Billionaire Space Race. Finally we talk about some very strange ideas about rural poverty. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Almost 90, but it's not even just that. It's the sun and the humidity. Yeah. What you need is a crop top. A crop top? I should turn this into a crop top, yeah. There's an article in the New York Times today. It's sort of like a moral panic thing about the crop top.

What? I do love to have my big belly out in a crop top in public, and people just be so uncomfortable. You're like aghast. Oh yeah, I love it. I love it. Although I will occasionally see that one fat girl that's like looking

happy, you know? And she like holds up the fist of solidarity. Yeah, she just, no, she's still staring. She's like, she's trying to figure it out. I like to think that after that she goes and crops one of her t's too yeah yeah you inspired her yeah hell yeah dude well look at this look at this shit world what's a soft belly out gonna do god damn a little soft belly for the people shit hell yeah yeah might as well get your bellies out

why yeah I like to get my tone out every once in a while too yeah shit are you guys recording yeah yeah that's good shit Ben recording oh shit

hold on let me get my L8 i left it over there oh man bras in the parks skivvies on fifth avenue is this the logical endpoint endpoint of increasingly blurred distinctions between public and private um but is this the crop top thing yeah but for all i can tell it looks like it looks like a dude wrote this which is kind of interesting it's it's another classic entry in the like i don't want to be horny stop making me horny a guy wrote a hit piece on crop tops in the new york times i'm just guessing that's about right for 2021 covid cases are surging again hospitals are having to turn people away but the crop tops you got flooding heat waves but the crop tops the crop

tops yo unprecedented just pure chaos crop. They gotta go. Totally. Listen, before we even get started, I gotta tell y'all that Ivy Park's dropping at 2 o'clock exactly. I got an alarm set. I already got my bag filled. I just have to hit purchase. God, you're worse than me. So, just so you know, at 2 o'clock, I'm gonna have to do a little... You gotta dip the fuck in.

You know what I mean? I'm just gonna do it. It'll be part of the show. You'll get to see me order my Ivy Park bathing suit when I was on my Hot Beast shit I used to do that there's so many work calls over the years

I was like yeah I gotta bounce an 11 Supreme was coming with his J's drop Nike sneakers was dropping something uh huh he's got me Nike Snakers was dropping something. Uh-huh. Yeah. He's got me. Jeez, man.

Well, you'll be excused. But do you even have to leave? This is the beauty of podcasts. No, I'm not going to leave. I'm just going to have my phone up. I see. Hitting purchase. I already have my cart full of what i want and i have an alarm set i already have my money set like all my shit saved i'm ready to go you're not worried that's

gonna sell out in like minutes it will i've done this multiple times and i never get everything in my cart but i always get something in my cart shit i should learn from you for the sneakers and i'm just well the sneakers i tried with the nike that's a whole other the issue i think that if there's an algorithm and i order a lot of adidas so i think they give me i think they give me stuff your favorite yeah well because i order a lot of adidas but uh i don't know how it works really but. But with the sneakers, remember, I tried to get them Valentine's Day issue. You have no luck. I clicked the second.

The very second. Watch the clock tick down. See, I'm going to show you all. See, it's 51 minutes. Click it down. It'll just be a bit. No, I'm not going nowhere. I'm just going to be sitting here, and y'all will get to hear in real time what I got out of my cart.

This is a lesson in commodity fetishization, kids. Don't do it. I'm sure the intersection between the Trillbillies listeners and the people who like Ivy Park shit, they'll be excited. Yeah. Yeah. Those 12 people will be right by you. There's got to be like 12 at least. Yeah, exactly.

I love them. And there's a small Venn diagram overlap of uh drag race fans too and they always hit me up and they're like oh my god can you believe bimini holy shit did you see that lip sync and i'm like so yeah hit me up those few drag race fans that are also trill billy's fans i have to leave at 230 because I'm doing something productive with my time, donating blood. Okay. Me too. I'm going to donate blood today.

Although I have a question. Can I have blood drawn for medical purposes and give blood on the same day? After your weekend, I'd say probably not. It's not advisable. I did have a COVID test. I'm COVID free. My COVID test came back negative. I did get a COVID test after my wild weekend. I would space them out.

Well, we are in a national blood shortage. Yeah, but you only got eight pints, so use it wisely. And they take one when you donate. And then when you, I don't know, have blood drawn. It just depends on what you're getting tested for, really. I'm trying to get some motherfucking ADHD meds and they're making me do a whole bunch of blood work and everything. Can y'all just give me medicine? What's the problem here?

Women, grown women trying to get treated for ADHD, you might as well fucking just go jump off a bridge, bitch. Good luck. It ain't happening. Right. Waiting on some beautiful boy to is that that uh is that the inject me uh with adderall um tanya i'm gonna be honest the last thing you need is addderall. That's just my armchair diagnosis. Listen, okay? If anything, you need a benzodiazepine of 12. Tom, it has an opposite effect on you if you're a hopper, if you're a hop all the time.

No, it doesn't. Yes, it does. That's the whole fucking point. That is literally not how it works. I swear to God, if there's a doctor that writes you Adderall, I'm going to take them before the American Medical Association and have their credentials pulled. I literally would have to buy Adderall in college to even get anything done.

And still, at the time, didn't think I really had ADHD. I thought I was just a pill head. Jury's out. I do like this idea though that if you have ADHD and you take Adderall, it acts like a benzodiazepine and you're just chill.

It focuses you. Listen, I've had enough diagnosis from you two armchair cucks. I'm not, no. Fuck. I'm just saying.

Well, anyway, this is why they're getting blood work, I guess. Well. Terrence, you just like giving blood, don't you? Well, there's a national shortage. Y'all should all be giving blood. Everybody should be giving blood everybody should be go giving blood the problem is they don't like my blood because i've fucked men who fucked men and there's all this so you got bad blood yeah give it giving blood's very homophobic

they literally ask you have you had sexual relations with a man who has had sexual relations with the other man i mean we've had this conversation i was like i need to i might need to phone a friend here i don't i don't have all the details what's that other one they ask you if you've been to machu picchu yeah it's like actually whales was on the list at one point i couldn't give because i'd been to whales why is that something with elevation or some shit like that I don't know what was it Terry is there like some sort of bacteria that it's like harmless but it stays in the blood I don't know

that sounds racist to me I don't know sounds like race signs sounds like race signs yeah these are uh don't worry these are just calipers we're getting out here this is standard we're just out here. This is standard. We're just going to put it up to your head.

It's like you may be of Mediterranean descent. Air quotes around Mediterranean. Oh, shit. Well, welcome to the to the trail billies i thought i was thinking this is that our host shelby foot i was thinking it would be funny if we're gonna have like billionaires going to space like why can't we have like a you know like sort of like delta planter class billionaire at least you know because if it's gonna be like this let's at least make it interesting you know on this propitious occasion with the moral rectitude befitting the gentleman of my persuasion.

The frontier has been abnegated. You know, that kind of stuff. He's gonna have a twirling of mustache with a monocle but in space. I mean, his ass did wear a cowboy hat. Did he? That's true. He did. Yeah, he come out of that rocket and put on a goddamn cowboy hat.

Well, we forget. You find out you're kin to George Strait and you think you can get by with anything. that rocket and put on a goddamn cowboy hat. Well, we forget you find out you're kin to George Strait and you think you can get by with anything. Bezos is kin to George Strait? No. Yeah, he's George Strait's cousin. No. I don't buy it. Isn't that a disappointing

revelation? Wait, who is George Strait? Ah! Stop it, Aaron! if there's a plane or a bus leaving dallas there's a george straight song there's a singer songwriter out of the clear blue sky out of the clear blue sky is a george straight song that could be can did you ask if he's a singer-songwriter? Yeah. He started singing a song. You're in Georgia, Aaron!

I'm going to forever refer to George Strait as a singer-songwriter. Singer-songwriter George Strait. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. Known as the King of Country. George, how many hits does he have? Did you Google him and it said he's the King of Country? That's what Wikipedia says. He's the King of Country.

He paid somebody good money for that. I think Willie Nelson, personally, is the King of Country. I think Willie Nelson might personally Is the king of country Um Well okay Although a brave take I've decided this week Is that Pistol Annie's

Might have the best country album of all time Interesting I don't disagree I've never heard it though So I don't know I guess you can't I guess I can't disagree. I've never heard it, though, so I don't know. Well, yeah, I guess you can't. I guess I can't disagree. Well, okay, so I wanted to talk about that today.

There's a whole lot of things in there we can talk about. You wanted to talk about the King of Country today? I wanted to talk about the King of Country, yeah. Wanted to talk about the king of country today? Wanted to talk about the king of country, yeah. But first of all, before we get there, I did want to kind of take a victory lap. It's a victory lap over something that is very bleak. But a few, I think it was earlier this year, Tom. We did an episode on Patreon about... Yeah, it was at the end of last year's, October 2020.

We did an episode about that plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. And our... Oh, they finally get her? They finally got her. Congrats, guys. You did it. Shout out. Basically, we did this whole episode,

and it was basically like, I would be very suspicious or wary of this, because it seemed to us at the time like the fbi perhaps had not just infiltrated this group but probably encouraged them to do it to go along with it um but you know that was just speculation on our part we had literally zero evidence for that other than the past other than just reputation all the evidence we've ever received about the fbi exactly um there were right-wingers right there like are alt-right guys but um you know and so we took some flack for it of course i think some people were like you know

um you know these are alt-right people. They don't deserve our sympathy. And they don't, necessarily. But, however, so as this trial plays out, there was a big thing released by BuzzFeed earlier this week that went into, like, all the court documents. And wouldn't you know it, according to these documents, an examination of the case by BuzzFeed News reveals that some of the informants,

there was at least three embedded in this group, and one of them was an actual FBI agent, acting under the direction of the FBI, played a far larger role than has previously been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception.

The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them. Shocking. Wait, okay, Terrence, I have to ask. Have you had a Google Alert set for this this whole time? No, actually. So, you know how you have fans reaching out to you about Drag Race? Well, I have fans reaching out to me and saying,

you guys were right about this. Oh, our loyal. Okay. I'll buy that. Wouldn't it be funny, though, if, like if like you know the fbi the authorities were the ones that actually wanted to kidnap gretchen whitmore and like you know what i mean it kind of like engineered this what's her deal i don't know shit about her i can't remember back that far i'm pretty sure i was even on that episode she was briefly um she was briefly like sort of

floated as a potential vp candidate for biden she's like pretty she's like liberal you know she's just like you're sort of running the mill lib um but um so an sbi an undercover fbi agent encouraged her kidnapping pretty Pretty much, yeah. You know what's wild? They could have fucked around and got her killed. Literally. Very easily. Those motherfuckers had guns and shit.

Of course they do. These guys are, from all appearances, these alt-right guys are totally inept. Not only are they inept they had no training as to how to actually pull something like this off but they're also broke they had none of the money for any of the like explosives or any of the stuff that the fbi said they had the fbi just basically floated them the money it also paid one of the informants was a former veteran of the iraq war they paid that guy over about sixty thousand dollars they even bought him a car the fbi bought him a car to be an informant this guy

was for a while the second in command of this group but then they then the person in command of the group so basically yeah the fbi basically paid a guy to hash this plot and then it just ensnared a couple of other people into it who are basically idiots and i'll i'll snitch on liberals for 60 grand in a car we're doing it for less um wait so this is so hard to understand so they spent all this money and resources to entrap two dumb rednecks that's it it's like six dumb rednecks but yeah so now those six dudes are going to jail yeah they're probably going to get the book thrown at them i mean because a lot of people are watching this as a sort of test case for the

january 6th stuff because there's some parallels in the sense that like these guys a lot of them were involved i don't know if you guys remember this at the beginning of the lockdown last year a lot of these guys were involved in the storming of the michigan capitol building yeah over the mass stuff yeah yeah um and that and then um so so a lot of people are watching this to kind of like test case for that like is this going to hold up? And there is speculation. And honestly, at this point, I fully believe this. I totally understand if you don't, though, the audience and my co-hosts.

I do fully believe that the January 6th Capitol siege was probably an FBI plot gone wrong as well. A million fucking percent, dude. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, that's not a controversial take at all. You think they'll eventually come out with that? No, they'll bury that deep, deep, deep, deep, deep. Yeah. That's just one you're going to have to take on faith.

See, my thing is, like, it gets so confusing where it's like, if they weren't provided confusing where it's like if they weren't provided if these like people weren't provided with the like material support and like the money to carry this shit out like it would not have happened if it wasn't for the fbi so it's just like well whose fault like who is really here to blame you know what i mean yeah like the fbi is the one that wanted to assassinate gretchen gretchen whitmore you know what I mean you know and probably AOC in the capital yeah you know if it happened it happened if it didn't

it's just like well you can't really trace it back to us because you know I mean it's not enough to pin it on the president do you know what I mean it's like anyway I listened to one of the episodes y'all did last week when i was out i can't remember which one but i tuned in to see if y'all wished me a happy

birthday which you didn't um but i did well you know what wait wait wait wait you know what i didn't get invited to the party so uh no i'm not gonna wish you a happy birthday let's talk about that for a second it was ghouls and gays only boys i'm sorry um sorry not sorry but listen i heard tom say that recently trump said his only regret was not lowering the flag oh i couldn't take that i had to pause it the whole processing of that amazing you know it's i mean it's not funny because obviously these guys like i mean this is what you know the nat six state does is just lures patsies into ruining their lives to meet their little weird chess game ends in the world but it is kind of kind of funny that those guys that like for for guys that pride themselves on hating the government and everything they really got worked and pretty easily by them

right well um at no point was gretchen whitmer's life actually ever in danger though they tipped her off three weeks prior to the planned kidnapping like they knew like the FBI did like the whole thing was engineered you know sort of constructed from start to finish these guys were controlled absolutely

absolutely you know there was some part part of this though I thought was pretty fascinating because you, I was telling you they paid the guy like 50 grand and they bought him a new car and everything. I didn't know this, but between 2012 and 2018, the FBI spent an average of $42 million a year on payments to confidential informants. So, I mean, there's a whole economy out there of like just snitches and rats what are the odds that we know a paid fbi or cia informant i hope very low uh yeah i'd hope low but probably high probably like the chances of what us knowing a paid informant i had this conversation recently with someone because there's a couple i've there are friends in knoxville that think there's some informants

in knoxville and i'm like how much time have we spent having this conversation and i wonder if any of them ever come to fruition but i did remember a really uh high profile one that a friend was really close to in New Orleans, that Common, remember right after Katrina? Not right after, but shortly after Katrina. That guy's- The fucking, like, yeah, he was, like, the CEO over Common Bound or Common Dreams. I can't remember.

Brandon something. I can't remember his last name. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. He come out as an informant. He ended up being an informant, and now he does fucking right-wing radio shit. Goddamn. So when I lived in Austin, Brandon Darby was his name.

That's it, yeah. He was from Austin, and he ran around in some of these same sort of anarchist, because I used to do this anarchist pirate radio show at this anarchist collective there. And he used to run around there and i remember going to a coffee shop and seeing that guy's face on a like a cork board and it was like if you see this man don't talk to him he's a snitch and all this other shit because this was around 2009 when he finally got revealed to be like a snitch yeah and that's what i'm saying man i mean but like again like none of this is new i mean the black panthers you know like you have cointelpro yeah infiltration by all these like radical you

know black groups from the 60s and 70s so i mean it is not any funnier when it's like dumb rednecks you know i mean no it really isn't i mean a little bit some of these guys are pretty funny the january 6th guys are pretty hilarious but i mean it's the same kind of entrapment, you know, to lure people to, like, you know, these radical extreme kind of, you know, ends where it's like, yeah, man, I'm not sure they would have done it anyway if they didn't have the means to do so, you know? Yeah. When I was, there's some Earth First stories, too. There's actually a really funny, you know those weird ass uh folk songs there's one called he looked a lot like jesus have i told y'all about this and it's a girl a girl wrote this song and recorded it about uh her falling in love with an informant and him like

getting her she spent 10 years in jail over trespassing and some bull you know trashing a fucking bulldozer or some shit he's like he looked like jesus he had long hair and a beard we've got we've got some some uh good feedback we need to start a little mini series about like draconian punishments i mentioned this on the last episode, and some people hit me. I was like, yeah, you should run with that. But that would be a good example of that type of shit. You know what I mean? You know, yeah.

Apparently, dude, there's good money in being a fucking snitch. Read this part right here. It says, One longtime federal informant has allegedly hauled in some $4.9 million in government payments over the past two decades. You could become a millionaire. It's a snitch economy. This is one person made $4.9 million snitching.

One person. God damn. What the fuck? Wow. Damn. I wonder if there's any people who've become millionaires snitching with you not in Kentucky. Oh, those people all got fucked.

Absolutely. Some of them got straight up murdered. They did. Some of them got murdered by the cops. Some of them got murdered by other people. People they snitched on their families yeah yeah i came out of my uh house one time in high school and my neighbor's tailgate had snitch spray painted across it damn and my mom was like, well, if they were going to kill him

they done would have. That was a warning. Don't be a snitch. Don't be a snitch, man. Well, so I don't know. I thought that was an interesting story. It was very fascinating to see that it played out basically exactly how we said it did

in the episode with incredible oracles here we are another one score another one for the true bellies crystal ball it really is a curse it really is a curse to see the future because it's bad future ain't good folks i'm gonna go ahead and put i'm gonna go ahead and put my next one out there we're gonna find out that pitbull is cia yeah what pitbull just do well he's just doing on the cuba anti-communism shit but yeah yeah but i i have a question if we know that the fans have their hands in the entertainment industry. This is well documented. How does a middling rapper from Miami end up

who's not really attractive traditionally or even traditionally talented for that matter end up as one of the biggest pop stars on the planet? Name me a more unlikely pop star than Pitbull

and I'll kiss your ass. Dude, you're right. Yo, what if he's going around giving speeches to anti-communist speeches, anti-Cuban speeches? No, he's been doing it. I just posted a video on Twitter from 13 years ago when he was doing

the Gusano shit. He did this little video of this old Cuban man having a heart attack because a kid walks into his shop wearing a Che Guevara shirt. Oh my god. But he's not Cuban, right?

No, Pitbull's Cuban. Okay. But like, you know, again. Lord have mercy. Just interesting. I'm fully with you, Tom.'m with you absolutely rag us into the cave well let's before we get too far from this how are the january 6th uh proceedings going terrence you keeping a watchful eye well so you know they're trying to put together this like like, commission or something.

I don't, I guess it's a commission, right? Like, they're trying to. Yeah. Right. From what I heard, it's a commission, yeah. Yeah, and I don't know. It keeps running into various roadblocks. Like, I saw Kevin McCarthy yesterday say something about Pelosi. Like, she's, oh, okay.

So, I think what I saw yesterday was they put Liz Cheney on on one of on this commission and this is apparently really controversial because like you know the conservatives hate Liz Cheney now um but the libs think they're getting you know like this is a big win for them I don't know it's it's pretty fucking stupid we're never gonna know we're never gonna find out the truth it doesn't matter the fucking feds We're never going to know. We're never going to find out the truth. It doesn't matter. The fucking feds did it. I mean, and Trump. You know who knows the truth? Trump.

I was about to say that. You know what he said? He said that the cops and the people there that were protesting, they were hugging and kissing, quote, is what he said. He said, you haven't seen anything like it. They were hugging and kissing just like in trump's mind it's just like when two groups of people get along they hug and kiss it's so fucking funny that's what he fucking does all the time yeah he always says that the hugging and kissing folks it's so weird when his mind drifts to his like homoerotic fantasies i know i know beautiful boys great bodies oh the generals yeah yeah yeah our handsome generals there was a booming trump store in pigeon

forge there is currently a booming oh yeah in pigeon forge i was pretty surprised but that whole area is really starting to turn toward just nazis have really taken over gatlinburg guys i don't know what to say about it but uh yeah it's like really right wing down there but um yeah a very active trump store and i saw many trump 2024 shirts fact, I had a little run in with a granny at the pool. Would you like to hear about it? Yeah. These girls were handing out popsicles at the pool.

Free popsicles, like girls that worked at the hotel. And we were all getting popsicles, and this granny runs up in a red Trump 2024 shirt. And I was just violently high about noon and

I said free popsicles are communism and granny you're about to give this lady a heart attack cause literally this woman was over here handing out popsicles to us and these kids next to us and this granny beeline here Handing out popsicles to us And these kids next to us And this granny beeline straight for the free popsicles

And I was like Who do you think is paying for these popsicles Anyway I yelled that And my friend next to me said Tanya we're at a resort That is just That is all you need to know about the weekend i had the dumbest ship imaginable but honestly the the hope that there is even going to be a 2024

is really you mean period yeah period general. Honestly, the audacity, the guption. You know what's really dark? I didn't find this out until a couple of days ago. I didn't realize this until a couple of days ago. But we are coming up on the 250th anniversary of America in 2026. They're planning these major events you know what i mean like there's like a government commission and everything you mean a major event like a war they're planning a war a war to commemorate yeah that sounds right commemorative world war three

to celebrate the 250th year of america They've already hit us with a germ weapon. What's for an encore? Chemical weapons? Yeah. Fireworks show. Ultimate fireworks show. Oh, fuck. Woo!

Well, okay. So next thing I wanted to talk about, probably the big news from this week, Okay, so next thing I wanted to talk about, probably the big news from this week. Our, you know, billionaire overlords have decided that space is the new frontier. This is not for any, like, research, scientific purposes or anything like that. This is purely for what they're calling, what, celestial tourism? This is purely for what they're calling, what, celestial tourism? This is space tourism.

I think it was last week or a week and a half ago, Richard Branson went to space on some weird-looking plane. And then earlier this week, Bezos went to space on a dick-shaped rocket. On a dildo. Yes, I did find out why why so apparently it is shaped like that because the the head the dickhead in the top in order to bail in for our friends in the bail-in um it it can detach um just like every man's penis the head comes off and if there's a malfunction in the rocket it can get away from it so basically they did it i mean jeff bezos had to fly up in a dick shaped rocket just to stay safe like that was basically the bargain he had to make you know

they're like all right jeff you can go to space, but the rocket's going to look really fucking stupid. It's the only way we can keep you safe. Right. And so, I don't know, there was, the funniest part about this, though, was like Bezos coming back, and, you know, he's a fucking idiot, right? But he like had, which i'm sure every person if they

were to go to outer space and look back down on the earth they would have some sort of profound sort of almost quasi-religious experience and so bezos did and he came back and like you know you could tell that in his like you could tell that in his own stupid fucking way, he had been profoundly affected in some way. And what he said was, what did he say? He was like, there's so much more. No, I'm kidding. What did he say?

He said that we're going to have to move our all-polluting industry into space to keep this beautiful gym. Jesus, yo. Apparently, we're thinking he was in a high school valedictorian like he talked about um like building these like space hotels um and this is under like or this is in college i think this is under the guidance of some professor who had this idea for space colonization where you have these hotels orbiting space, but Earth would be left alone and pristine as some sort of national or worldwide park or something like that, like global park. So we wouldn't actually,

nobody would live there. But from time to time, we would revisit to see where we came from and it would be left in pristine condition, assuming that all other industries, extractive industries had moved to space. That's awesome. Yeah, man, it's awesome.

Go ahead, Tom. No, Bezos is like every rich dick that ever went to a new country or a new resort for the first time and comes back and just, oh, you got to do this. And with no regard to whether your ability to afford it or not. Or if everyone should do that. Obviously, everyone should not. Right. Yeah. Well, I mean, the first thing he said was,

we need to move all polluting industry there, right? And that was like... Right. His very first words was, we need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and move it into space. And I thought that was pretty funny.

There's like a weird synchronicity there because i remember one time years ago i was tasked with the job of driving a washington post reporter around looking for like abandoned idled coal mining equipment around eastern so you could like take photos of it for like the washington post story and now the owner of that newspaper wants to take all that abandoned idled equipment and put it in orbit you know around earth catapulted and how long was he up there he didn't even get out he didn't get out of the car he was up there he just he just he spent what did what did they spend 10 minutes you like yeah the whole fight lasted like 10 minutes he only spent like three minutes in in weightlessness in the atmosphere yeah he was white this motherfucker spent 10 minutes behind a window all could have been simulated for all he knew this is the rich person way you know all they gotta do is spend 10 minutes doing something they think is cool,

and then they swear they got to voice that on everybody else. Didn't even get out of the car, and is ready to move every major industry in the U.S. or all over the world straight to space. Pretty good. Did he also thank did he also think yeah oh the amazon sounds about to say let us not forget for paying for this like vanity project like this like midlife crisis that he had man it was very smart for him to stay out of the public eye for the last how like he really

wasn't in the public eye that much. Right? He wasn't doing that much shit. He was keeping a fairly low profile for a billionaire. That's just called divorce. My man had to cough up 50 bees. I'll lose a half of your fortune. And now,

he has just positioned himself as a premier villain. I mean, he already kind of was, but he has just positioned himself as a premier villain. I mean, he already kind of was, but he has stepped into the limelight now. Yeah, he really is like a comic book supervillain, man. He is like Lex Luthor, man. In a literal cowboy hat. To bring it full circle, not to divert us or anything, but in Pitbull's address to the American people and actually the global

community, he did say Jeff Bezos, comma, a Cuban American, comma, could really help Cuba in their time of need. And he begged, he begged Jeff Bezos for no less than 40 seconds to help Cuba to SOS Cuba.

What? So maybe that's why he came back, you know? Is Bezos a Cuban-American? His dad is Cuban and adopted him when he was like four. So I guess, yes, but not by blood. Cuban. Honorary Cuban, yeah. Well, I mean, let me just kind of sum up those sort of like the commentariats

sort of views on this this is an op-ed in the Washington Post also you know owned by Jeff Bezos opinion the billionaire space efforts may seem tone deaf but they're important milestones. This is by a guy named Miles O'Brien. Oh, that's a bad name. Yeah. Miles O'Brien. On Tuesday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos traveled to space on his own rocket. He followed Richard Branson, who on July 11th became the first owner

of a privately built spacecraft to take it for a suborbital ride. That's the... Earlier, you mentioned vanity, I think, Aaron. Like, this was a sort of pure effort of vanity. privately built spacecraft to take it for a suborbital ride that's the that's the you earlier you mentioned vanity i think aaron like this was a sort of pure effort of vanity that's what this was um what they were both trying they called this you know like the billionaire space race they were trying to be the first person uh the first owner of a privately built spacecraft to take it into suborbital like that it's just the lowest i mean who the fuck

cares well i mean like what's the likelihood that these things will like explode upon like you know like uh like i guess take off or whatever you know so if there's this billionaire like space race i mean go ahead man go do it at some point you know at some point you give it a probability you know something's gotta go wrong right i really gutsy call uh letting the only person with any like you know interstellar space experience be an 83 euro yeah yeah yeah i mean it's a coin flip that motherfucker was going to come back or not. Wait. You know, another thing, though, is like Bezos took with him like this 18-year-old kid. Yeah, the kid, wasn't he the son of a hedge fund manager dude or something?

I mean, is he? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait so that guy that kid's not like some like like the doogie hauser of astronauts no no he's just some 18 year old beautiful boy that bezos took to space with it yeah he's like yeah that is so creepy he's like a son of a swiss baker or some shit like that. He's a millionaire son, yeah. Yeah. So you mean like somebody's daddy called in this birthday present? Yeah.

Pretty much, yeah. I thought this kid was just like the star of like Space Camp or something. It was like, nah. Nah, he's worked over like a couple million dollars to be in space for like, yeah, another like three to ten minutes. I don't know. Oh my God. Well. That's bleak could be

i've been reading a little too much esoterica lately but i do think it is kind of a i do think it's kind of an interesting symbolic thing that the guy's last name is damon i mean it's kind of it's kind of fucking sus it's kind of weird kid, that's his last name. It was Damien. Oh, shit. Yeah. You mean like Lucifer? Yeah. Like the Omen type shit? Yeah.

But in space? Yeah, Damien. Well, hey, actually the Omen does open up with like that, you know, like the astronomers at the Vatican. Yeah. Oh. I'm just saying. That's not a weird parallel to draw.

So, yeah, Miles O'Brien writing for the Washington Post. The idea of billionaires reaching deep in their pockets to fund their own gold-plated bungee jumps may seem frivolous and tone-deaf, given the aching wealth... Yes, yes, it does, actually.

Actually, yeah. Just let me stop you right there. Given the aching wealth disparities and environmental catastrophes confronting the spaceship we all share, Earth, it's hard to stomach such a narcissistic spectacle. But you may not love them, but the billionaires behind these private sector efforts

have both the resources and the impatience with government bureaucracy to put americans back in space where they belong i don't know if americans belong well actually that we probably do all belong in space on the sort of like moral cosmic we do all probably need to be shot into space we are making the world a worse place oh man i i uh anyway keep going they'll help the rest of humanity along the way solar power can be generated in orbit and with much greater efficiency and beamed back to earth and asteroids can be mined for minerals. We need to find cheaper, faster ways to launch

sensors into space to help climate scientists quantify the calamity back home. Like, do we? We know it's bad. Why don't you just do... Why don't you just build solar panels on Earth? Exactly! It's gonna take decades if not centuries to do this shit. Yo, we don't have

decades or centuries. You could just do all of that shit here. Yeah, it's this weird thing where they suspend their own common sense capabilities or capacities. No one in their right fucking mind thinks that any of this is for any kind of scientific endeavor or pursuit. The only thing this is for, it is for vanity and profit. That's it. It's not like the 30s or the 40s, you know, golden age science fiction where at least you could say, like, these were, like, the fantastical, like, you know, whims of, of like people who were futurists you know right who believed in like a future that we could all like you know uh share in you know technologically this is obviously like like they're like the fact that they're going back to

this like jules verne like you know like type elaborate contraptions when they themselves know that that shit is not possible man we're not going to be spending like tens of billions of dollars or even more to like build structures in space like we know that shit's not going to happen right now you know what i'm saying yeah absolutely i mean what did there was a quote elon musk had a few weeks ago it which basically just said that like what was it terrence that oh it was basically promoting like like space slavery. Essentially, we just need to start slave colonies on the moon and Mars. Well, didn't y'all cover that a while ago, man?

Talking about how some people were admitting who support this idea. Yeah, it will be hard and brutal for some people, but it's for the greater good. People are going to die doing this shit. What else are we going to do? What it what it said the space tweet was those who attack space maybe don't realize that space represents hope for so many people it's just like no not for me i mean a better world is what is was what i'm hoping for hope he thinks poor people have hope in space that's what he thinks. Like poor people look up at the night sky and be like, damn, I can't wait till we get there.

Well, he's not wrong because a lot of poor people find their only relief in thinking they're going to be in heaven one day. So he's not too far gone. You know what? I tell you, if by some stretch of the imagination all this sort of fantastical shit pulls off, guess what we're going to be doing? What? There's going to be a... Miners aren't going to code. They're just going to be reassigned to do the same job,

but on the moon. And it'll be... There'll be so much valor in mine in the moon oh yeah untouchable we say that kind of in jest but do y'all remember like toward the end of trump's term when there was like those articles coming about about like oh who owns the mineral rights on the moon or whatever just something i would just want to float yeah i don't know you know not planning on doing right right oh my god well um yeah so i don't know i mean that's basically his point is basically that these are milestones for that reason that it's more than just uh tourism like this is a you know a milestone in that like i think one of these planes i think um a milestone in that, like, I think one of these planes,

I think maybe Richard Branson's, was able to make the same flight within, like, two or three weeks, which is apparently sort of a big deal, in the sense that, like, when they take cargo up to space stations and shit, they, you know, I don't know. I think that, like, partially what the more sort of, like, you know, I don't know. I think that like partially what the more sort of like, you know, I freaking love science types who are totally, you know, willing to give capitalism the benefit of the doubt. Like they have to catch this in their own like, well, you know, it is kind of bad that there is starvation and poverty on the earth and the world is a boiling but you know there are benefits to this trust me i know uh trust me there's there's there's some benefits and there's not there's nothing what's curious to me is that elon musk has is like the most

infamous uh billionaire sinking tons of money into spacex trying to get off a rocket and his have only blown up right yeah his have only exploded and then some then bezos comes out of nowhere i had no idea this motherfucker was building rockets or whatever the fuck he's been doing i didn't know this he just comes out of nowhere and just takes a little saunter around the moon and back and i mean what what does Elon think about all this? Well, that's probably why he hasn't gone up. He's like, man, I don't know. My shit's going to blow up.

He probably, at the most base level, knows he's a fraud. You know what I mean? So he's like, I ain't going to get up in that thing. And the first takeoff we see on TV of Beos he's in the rocket he's not been flaunting unlike elon he's not been flaunting his mistakes on tv i'm sure he's blown a ton up himself well but the thing is it's actually an interesting distinction tanya because weirdly enough elon has like little fanboys they're annoying as fuck and they're totally weird but Elon has little fanboys. They're annoying as fuck, and they're totally weird, but he's got fanboys.

Nobody likes Bezos. It's crazy. There are no Bezos fanboys. You know what the weird thing is? I mean, I'm not making a judgment call, but, I mean, gun to my head, I would rather hang out with Bezos than Musk. Well, also, it's like,

they put his dumb ass on snl who musk or bezos yeah oh yeah you're right actually i don't know i take it no actually actually actually i could see that because musk seems like insufferable where like like he would really try to make people like him but he just can't where bezos just seems just seems like, just like, I don't even have to talk to you. You know what I'm saying? Like, you're just there. Like, he just seems also completely unlikable, but not that he would try to make you like him, you know? It's so hard to say.

Gun to my head, I would honestly probably say Musk, actually. Like, there's something about Bezos that just creeps you out. Gun to my head, I'm taking the gun I've had a good run boys see you in hell I know if it's what's the game fuck marry kill

you just kill yourself fuck marry kill Richard Branson Elon Musk Jeff Bezos Fuck, marry, kill. Fuck, marry, kill. You just kill yourself. Okay. Fuck, marry, kill. Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos. Yeah, kill yourself. You kill yourself. I'll start kill myself. Oh, shit.

Okay, my alarm went off, boys. Oh, this is your time? We got a five-minute countdown. Is it time to... Carry on. Well, I don't know. I guess that's really about the extent of the old Bezos. Of the old Rocket Boys. Of the old Rocket Boys, yeah.

I thought you were going to write some type of like October Sky situation about all this. The Solomon 4. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That was about the Solomon. Right. Right.

All I'm going to say is I was watching that shit. I didn't even know it was happening. I was watching on the news and I don't know, man. Like, I really, really wanted and I knew I wouldn't see it happen. There was like this deep nugget inside me that really went to see something go know, man. I really, really want it. And I knew I wouldn't see it happen. There was this deep nugget inside me that really wanted to see something go wrong, man. Well, I think a lot of people felt that way, which is fucking hilarious.

I was trying to will it into existence. Exactly. And that's very powerful. But the fact that he's still alive gives me great doubt in witchcraft, honestly. Because we were all putting so much very targeted intention into that motherfucker going on in flames. Look what happened with Trope. Look what Trope got COVID, you know.

Also, Tanya, another demerit for the dark arts. Jeff Hoops, he's building the Grand Patrician, going off without a hitch, and he's brought the Marshall football team in for free labor. Oh, what? Did you see that story? What? Yeah, Jeff Hoops. He's got the Marshall football team, which had a movie written about them.

This ain't no normal-ass football team. Well, it's a different football team than that one. That team died. He brought them back from the dead. I'll tell you, Matthew McConaughey is no longer the coach. He brought them back from the dead. Matthew McConaughey is no longer the coach. He's got an army of the dead building his grand patrician.

Again, witchcraft. The dark arts have turned on us, friends. How is there a football? Was this for a publicity stunt like what here we go he's a he's a he's from huntington so he's like a big marshall university sports booster he had the marshall football team out yeah doing free labor at the grand patricia hold on last week i've got the story right here so for those that don't know, Jeff Hoops... I cannot process this.

Yeah, I've got the story right here. For those that don't know, Jeff Hoops was the coal mine owner of the coal company that shafted its coal miners and didn't pay them, and they signed up a... They set up a coal mine blockade on a railroad track in Harlan County. We did a live show about him and about how he's building this resort in West Virginia called the Grand Patrician. It's like Rome themed. They're going to have like a miniature golf course there.

They're going to have like a wedding chapel. I think they're also going to have like a miniature baseball stadium or something. And in our live show show we cursed his life well that's why i was getting that that's why you didn't you didn't do good so um so yeah so this is the uh story grand patrician resort golf course coming along with help from marshall football players help coming along with help who not slave labor help yeah i want to hear more about because he's claiming to put a rehab facility in there right yeah oh my fucking god i need to point out the entire marshall football team died in a plane crash in like 1978 so okay maybe our curse is

working maybe jeff hoops is actually dead this is a Beetlejuice scenario. It's the Beetlejuice football team. The pandemic created some unforeseen hurdles for the Grand Patrician Resort, the multi-million dollar luxury resort being built just off the interstate in Milton. One of those was the worker shortage. Trying to find crews. I can't believe this. Trying to find crews to help push them through the supply shortages and everything else. However, with Jeff Hoops, the owner and developer of the resort,

used his close ties to Marshall to seek out people possibly looking for summer jobs, and he found them within the Marshall football team. Bruh. Bruh. The grand patrician needed help getting turf rolled out on the golf course so for the past months players like um players like nazi johnson and brandon dayton go to conditioning in the morning and spend the rest of their afternoon working on the course it takes a different person really a different breed to get up every day and do this day once they are finished for the day they head

back to practice in the evening what a different breed listen to this listen to turn football players to construction workers back to football players in one fucking day it says i'll be in bed at like 8 p.m every day because we're out in the sun like 24 7 it seems like johnson said but they both wanted this yeah they both wanted this opportunity to create something special for the community and tourism and also make some money and gain experience um it's just crazy to me that this was you know framed as a pandemic labor shortage story it's like and also like it's a community like we're building something for the community. Yeah, yeah. And these kids get summer jobs, too, you know?

Yeah. While they're at it. Well, I mean, this is not particularly new in the coalfields. I mean, UK basketball players used to go, like, work in the coal mines in Eastern, not, like, as miners, but, like, you know. Basically, it was, was like all these coal barons in eastern kentucky wanted to show off like i'm a friend to the program so they'd have like you know uh sam bowie and uh melvin turpin and all these old uk guys go and uh you know just do like little bullshit jobs in the coal mines and my my story, possibly apocryphal of that period,

is that Sam Bowie, who was famously drafted ahead of a guy named Michael Jordan, broke his leg in three places in Maynard Hogg's coal mine when he flipped over a three-wheeler that Dinner Bell Mel Turpin landed on top of with him. God damn it. So the reason behind, Sam Bowie considered the NBA's biggest bust in history

may be because of some activity like this. Yeah. I mean, could be the same with these guys. I mean,

I don't know, man. That's crazy. Oh, man. Well, I mean, I gotta be honest with you, Tonya. I was never big on man. That's crazy. Oh, man. Well, I mean, I got to be honest with you, Tanya. I was never big on the dark arts myself anyway. But I knew it was your thing, and I was just being nice. I was just being deferential. Well, I don't need your niceties.

We support your – we're ecumenical. That's right. Well, it's still all I I got so I'm not turning away Hey Tanya I'm sending you all that dark love And dark energy man I'm still with you Speaking of dark love and dark energy The Paula Jean Swearengin tweet

Has 666 retweets Right now as we speak Oh my god Look just for posterity Oh my god So I have to bring this up This is some light teasing Oh, my God. Look, just for posterity. Hell, yeah. Here we go. Oh, my God. So I have to bring this up, but this is some light teasing. I'm not going to slam Paula Jean or whatever, even though Paula Jean has been very mean to us on Twitter a few times.

Really? Has she? She's been a little chippy with us at times. Fuck off, Paula. She said nobody should be in government until they survived on a ramen noodle and or pinto bean diet. Okay? And this is just, you know, run of the mill. This is pretty commonplace in the Appalachian, like, activist scene or whatever.

Like, common, we're poorer than thou shit. You know what I mean? She's taking it quite a step further, though, no? Oh. She's not letting anybody have any ground here. So people have replied to this to this tweet okay people are into it that's hilarious yeah not letting anyone have any ground just like drew the line at ramen and beans yeah if you ain't never fuck on a bear mattress that you're not allowed to be somebody named peach mcdougall said

does store brand mac and cheese diet count question mark paul gene swearingen the arbiter of poverty said not if you don't have a store within a 50 mile radius at shoes cat and dad At Shoes Cat and Dad, Mr. Charles Sherringe said, What about the whatever was left over from the prom wedding party I worked tonight

and took home in foil from the kitchen diet? Apologine says, That's good intent, but most poor people can't afford to party, which is bullshit. If anything, poor people are going to find a way to party. For sure. Oh, my gosh. But the other thing was this guy wasn't saying he was partying. He was saying he was working a party.

He clarified. Charles clarified. He says, no, I was saying a party i worked not one i attended nothing like surviving off of leftover buffet stuffed chicken breast for a week from the prom you worked friday night so like these are people just like trying to like find common ground and kind of bro out with paula Literally. Similarly diseased people. Paula says, poor people can't afford to party.

Sorry. At Tiffany McNeely one, I vote green on Twitter. I say we make them sleep on the streets during winter as well with no blankets. Trust me, it sucks, but I feel it gave me an insight that not

a lot of people have. Riding a bus to stay warm was my only option. There are too many people who have to do this. Apologete says, not on my watch. How heartless when coal miners' families don't even have streets to sleep on.

They're floating in space because they're mining the goddamn moon. No streets to speak of. No streets to speak of? Yeah. Wait, wait. Is that what it said? They're saying coal miners' families don't even have streets to sleep on.

You at least have streets to sleep on. We don't have no streets down here. She's literally trying to own houseless people because at least they have streets to sleep on. This might be the most grain shit I've ever seen. I'm looking for being sweet. No, it's definitely the radio.

This is unbelievable this woman has a Netflix special you guys it's like wielding your poverty like it's a badge of authority man like you know what I'm saying it's like if your life sucks your life sucks

like this kind of shit this kind of mentality like oh you might have it bad but you don't have it this bad like that's the greatest impediment to any sort of like collective action exactly because all we do is sit here and like piss and moan about who's had

it worse but this is the coup de grace the feather in the cap of this whole this whole thread at miss urban jungle marie gerard says if you can't exist on crackers and ketchup packets, you don't know what it's like to be Poe. To which, I'm just going to have to take it on faith that when she said Poe, she's from New Orleans or something. I'm going to have to accept that. Nevertheless, Paula Jean says, ketchup packets are not available in rural areas. We don't even got ketchup, dude. We don't even got ketchup, dude.

We don't even got ketchup. Where the fuck was she raised? She raised in some fucking like some goddamn like uncontacted island somewhere. Some hippie drum circle that doesn't allow sugar. Oh my

fucking god. I'm laughing so hard at her. We don't even got ketchup packets ketchup packets are not available in rural areas like this woman is not letting anybody have have the holy shit i just love the thought of her sitting by her i'm gonna i'm gonna say she did this from her computer from a from a desktop machine i love the thought of her sitting on her desktop computer waiting for the replies waiting to just stab them everyone nope not here nope not me no just deflating them what if like like um uh you know like my friend hans who like floated to miami on a piece of fucking styrofoam from haiti when he was a kid like he's i just imagine him entering the chat saying that and she's like well at least you got styrofoam from Haiti when he was a kid.

I'll just imagine him entering the chat saying that and she's like, well, at least you got styrofoam to float on. At least you got water to get away on. Tom, has this all been in the last... Has this all been today or in the last couple days? I think this is all today. How far does this go? How far does this go? I'm gonna go ahead and say this

I miss Twitter man Oh are you still banned? Oh hell yeah They should never gave her They should never gave her Netflix I wasn't gonna say at the time You know I was being ecumenical Just like I was with the dark arts

I support everybody. I just want to be supportive of everybody. Now, now, let's not lump the dark arts in with Paula Jean. Come on. Not with Paula, bro. Chill out. That's disrespected dark arts, man. Yeah, she sucks.

She sucks pretty bad. What's the end of this where does she go that's just kind of where wait let me see if there's been any update to this like on the actual post oh my god this was a few days ago if you have more than one pair of underwear you shouldn't be ready for office poor people don't wear underwear poor people don't have toothbrushes poor people are commando only fucking crazy that is um i have met a few people like her in my sort of organizing experiences people who like think that their individual experience is universal and then like they try to browbeat everybody if you deviated outside of it or had a different experience.

Which is really a very, that is like the centerfold of a conservative viewpoint. Liberals are so indiscernible at this point. Right. Okay. She kind of came back and posted

I'm not faulting inner city poverty. It breaks my heart. She's been called in. She's been called in. Listen to this. Imagine sleeping on the cold, hard ground. Oh, my God. In the middle of nowhere and feeling helpless too.

No shelters, no food banks, no transportation, nothing too no shelters no food banks no transportation nothing but isolation no choices no hope how do we help people in rural areas too well i mean does she think that does she think that people who live in like atlanta who live in like food deserts you know i'm saying who live in places where the city doesn't even come and pick up the garbage like in south atlanta does she think that these people have it easy because they can get ketchup packets at the nearest chicken spot like fucking two miles away? What the fuck, dude?

She ain't never been to South Atlanta. God damn, bro. I'm inviting her. I'm inviting her. Yeah, yeah. This is our olive branch here. Oh, my God. Jesus fucking Christ.

Just like someone telling her like what if you grew up in the occupied territories in the west and she's like well we can't build walls here we don't we are here sir we don't even have the mortar to support a wall at least at least you have territory to take over. Right. Listen, Terrence knows as well as I do. Me and Terrence have spent a lot of time in the far most rural corners of West Virginia as well as the, well, I said the urban area.

There's one of those. And it probably isn't considered urban by most definitions but i will tell you this there's not many towns in appalachia you could go to that there's not like a dairy queen or something like objectively there are ketchup packets in the best rural places in this country. The ketchup packet test, man. Yeah, I know some motherfuckers live at the headline fork and shit, but you could get to

a restaurant if you had to. Barely quick. That's the test of poverty, man. Whether you can get ketchup packets in your vicinity. The thing that drives me nuts about that shit about the whole

Appalachian activist scene really and truly I'll never forget this. It all started when Tanya conned me into going to something called Power Fest. Was it Power Fest? Power Fist. Power Fist. What was it called?

Power Surge. It was it called? Power surge. It was a lesbian convention power field. What was it called? Power shift. And I knew you were going to go here. I knew that's what you were going to talk about. I knew. Won't let it go.

When I came back home and dipped my toe in this shit, the first thing I saw was three veteran Appalachian activists that were sitting on this panel with all these liberal kids from Berkeley and wherever the fuck else, all over the country. And I only say Berkeley because I was wearing a Berkeley sweatshirt that I found in a thrift shop, and then this white girl with dreads came up to me and said, Oh, did you know Berkeley's divesting?

I was like, Oh, wow. Oh, for sure, man. Oh, for sure. In this workshop, I saw three veteran Appalachian organizers sit on a goddamn podium. And they took a gallon jug of water that looked like somebody had either pissed in it or put carburetor fluid in it.

And and like said you can buy this at any gas station in the mountains. Like people, there's like people making money just bottling like orange water out of the creeks

you know what i'm saying yeah it's like man it's like the shit the shit's bad enough you don't have to embellish it just to like try to get points on like right you know people in the city i once saw dave cooper uh show up with like a bucket of rocks to say that he pulled these out of somebody's house because they had shot off of a stream. I'll be gone there. That's the inventor of the post-it note, folks. Jesus. Oh, God.

Oh, well. They don't have ketchup packets in space, everybody, so we do know that. They don't have them there. Not yet. So if you would like to support our fine programming here on the Trailbillies, please go to patreon.com, P-A-T-R-E-O-N. com slash trailbillyworkersparty. We will take payment in the form of American currency, specie, and ketchup packets. So please go support us there.

We're very bereft of ketchup packets. I have a parting thought. Is space rural? Think about it. We'll talk about it next week. Wow. Terrence, did you know that Kentucky Headhunters is playing Wattsburg tonight? I did.

I might go, but I don't know how I'm going to feel after I donate blood. I don't know. I might use it as an excuse to be like, ah, I can't. You know, I'm kind of feeling weak. I just want to hear Dumas Walker. That's all. Are you going to go? I'm not going to go get in a crowd of people.

No, I've had my share of that this weekend. But I might go park close enough to hear Dumas Walker okay well if you make it downtown yeah if you make it downtown let me know alright alright everybody please go support us on Patreon

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