Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 223: Never Felt Better In My Life

Episode Date: November 4, 2021

We debrief from Halloween, then spend a little time talking about Election Day results. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Are you little bitches ready? I think we little bitches is ready. Three little bitches. Today on the... Goldilocks and the three little bitches. Three blind mice. Three little bitches. Today on the Little Bitch Podcast, we're trauma dumping.

I hope you're ready to trauma dump. Always. You know it's been deemed problematic if you do this to your therapist. It's like, so what is your job then? Yeah, what am I paying you for? Well, my question is,

when does it become dumping? Like, how much drama can you unload before it's a dump? Drama or trauma trauma i have a high threshold for drama drama i am drama drama dumping is acceptable trauma dumping is considered um faux pas but i guess it depends on the trauma because if you were trauma dumping like you sat down your therapist and you were like all right at the age of three i killed a man with my bare hands your therapist is like no no no no don't tell me any more about that well you should never trauma dump if it's going to implicate you in a crime yeah never admit to criminal activities

um well and there's a difference between capital t trauma and little t trauma what's the differences i was about to say don't ask me the difference i don't know that's what the therapist told me really man this bunch is a racket now little t and big t trauma well it's like stuff that you know trauma that builds over time because of this that and the other instead like capital t trauma is like you were kidnapped. You were kidnapped. Okay. You were kidnapped. Little T trauma might be that you wished you had been kidnapped. Oh, okay.

I got it. No, I don't know the difference. Yeah. That's probably a good guess, though. So, like, capital T would be you got shot with a gun and you thought you were gonna die. And then little t is like you had a panic attack and thought you were gonna die.

In both cases, you thought you were gonna die. But in one case, it was war today. In one case, it was mental. In the other case, it was physical. At the same time though, I mean, I almost have to say,

if you think you're going to die, no matter how you cut it, it's still pretty scary. Yeah. I don't know that your brain processes it any differently if the threat is real or perceived. Yeah, you might actually be more calm if you get shot. I mean, you're going into shock. Slow down. we're trauma

dumping for real now folks well and and i will say that little t trauma because it's harder to recognize and unpack can be even harder to get help for can be harder to work through because it's not i mean you can you can hire a doctor and say hi i was shot i need to i need you know you can it's it's you you will get a pinpoint yeah you can get a you can get a ptsd diagnosis pretty quick just go ahead and start you on the meds but if you contact you know if you call the doctor and you're like, hey, I'm not sleeping and I think I might kill myself. It's just going to be a lot longer to figure out what's going on. A lot of processing.

Maybe harder to treat even, you know? Well, speaking of trauma. Again, I'm not a doctor, but I do have a spooky Halloween story about getting shot. And I didn't actually think about it And I didn't actually think about it. I didn't actually think about it. So do we, actually. But yeah, that's kind of what it was. I didn't think about it being so like, so witching until I said it out loud to a friend recently.

And they were like, holy shit. But what happened was so when I was young my uncle one of my mom's oldest brother my mom's one of six and my oldest uncle got shot and we were the whole family besides him was at Myrtle Beach at the time with my mamaw and of course like somebody called and said like jeff's in the hospital so and so shot up the gas station because my uncle was running running the family gas station that my papa left him anyway someone had shot up the whole gas station which could have meant an explosion obviously i think the guy probably was trying to blow up the gas. But instead, Jeff took a non-life-threatening bullet.

Okay, so the whole reason I was telling this story to my friend was that my mamaw was with us. And the siblings, my mom and her siblings, decided they were not going to tell mamaw what had happened while we were on vacation. Jeff was coherent. He was like, don't tell her. Y'all don't come back I'm fine I'm in the hospital just come see me when you get back because we was only there a week I mean it's it's Myrtle Beach and so no one told my mom but when we got back and she found out she was so pissed she wouldn't talk to anybody for a while she was so mad but the crazy part is that because of where the bullet was, it wasn't safe to remove the bullet at the time. And like it wasn't threatening his life.

So they left the bullet in him for years, like 20 years. My Uncle Jeff had this bullet in him. The day, like a few years ago, maybe like five years ago, he got the bullet removed. The day he had that bullet removed removed the guy who shot him died oh damn whoa holy shit this is all true folks sheila sheila would back this up wow yeah. And the whole family was just like, what? That's weird. That's weird. That is nuts, man.

How did the guy die? Do you know? I don't know. I'm going to ask mom. She probably knows, but I don't remember. I don't remember how he died. I don't think it was anything super weird, but I'm going to ask. It was like his life was just pinned up in like keeping that bullet in your uncle yeah

yeah very strange though right am i right wow that is strange okay y'all got a y'all got a gunshot story not nearly as good as that but we might have busted open a topic of recent import topic of recent import. Yeah, I want to know, I'm fresh back from vacay, celebrating my biggest holiday, as you know. What was our reactions to the Frankenstein episode? What have people been saying?

I don't know. I don't read it anymore. The dance is forbidden from reading it, but I saw nothing but positive, nice feedback. Oh, that's great. I just like taking a minute to recognize the community for fostering an inclusive and uplifting environment. To keep Tom alive. Yeah, in the interest of my personal well-being.

Thank you so much. Well, we went up to Terrence's for Halloween, and we got into a Ouija session. At first, nothing was happening. We tried several different combinations of players. It really was kind of been obstinate for a little bit. And then out of nowhere, it starts spelling things out. Would you like to know what it's spelling out, Tanya? I'd love to.

The first word it spelled out was rust. And then... And then 63. Mm-hmm. And then dead and how. Now all that taking in aggregate just sounds like gobbledygook until you realize that Alec Baldwin is 63 years old. He's 63, yeah.

And that movie was called Rust that he was working on when that accident happened. When he killed someone? Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, who knows what. And who knows if we were talking to the actual decedent, the actual

deceased, or if it was someone. He was 63. Or if someone else was playing the track. This is kind of a creepy coincidence, though. It said die how dead how I also think it's spelled FEMA

I don't know why yeah it did it did so I don't know there's a there's a FEMA tie in yeah interesting so if anybody can make sense of any of that just let us know any of

you know licensed experienced practitioners of the dark arts we're tourists totally well uh my first night in salem on this past trip was pretty scary um we got to a seaside airbnb in a nor'easter in a fucking nor'easter goddamn pouring down rain and we get up it's like an apartment um it's like a townhouse and we have to go upstairs and shit and there's two doors two locked doors to get in um well three technically and so we've got our we've lugged our shit up we're looking around there's randomly dirt in the bathroom there's just like dirt in the floor and in the sink it's kind of weird but there weren't like there wasn't dirt anywhere else just in the bathroom floor it looked like someone had

tracked it in but there wasn't any dirt anywhere else perhaps it was uh native earth of a vampire has to sleep on you know they sleep on their native earth oh yeah just a thought um all right well keep keep these. There are many things to clock here. Texans also have to be born on Texas soil. So if you ever see someone in the hospital putting down some dirt underneath a birthing room. Oh, my God. Colt McCoy's dad did that, didn't he?

That is. He was born in Hobbs. That's the legend. Oh, my god. He put Texas dirt under the hospital bed. Yeah. Okay, well so because it's storming so bad, and I'm telling you, it's gray.

That place was gray as far as I could see. Across the harbor. I did a lot of fake Boston accent this past week. I've been trying to stop it. You've nailed it. It's hard to to stop it. You've nailed it. It's hard to reel it in. You've got it perfected.

They should cast you in The Departed 2. So it's pouring the rain. It's gray. So there's dirt in the floor. That's a little weird. But we don't think nothing of it. I'll take a picture of it, though, just in case I need to try to get my money back for other purposes on this bnb i'm like okay well if i have to dispute anything else this will be one part um so then it's so it's storming and but i have another bag i need

to go get so i'm like okay i'm just gonna go out and get my other bag before it gets even worse because it had kind of stopped raining a little bit. So I go downstairs and I'm in the farthest exterior door. And I'm turning the knob and nothing is happening. Like I unlock it. It's unlocked. I'm on the inside of the door. But the doorknob will not open. And it seems like the more I pull it, I realize that it looks almost like someone has used a screwdriver

and has tried to take the knob off. like it's not a problem with the lock it's the actual door knob it's just like not catching it is not connected anymore and we just came up this motherfucker it's been like a half hour interesting and so i think maybe we got real stone so i think maybe i'm too high to work a doorknob. So I go back up. I'm like, hey, bitch, come down here and try this doorknob. I'm apparently too stoned to work a fucking doorknob. So she comes down. She says she's like, nope, this door, this something's happened to this door in the last 30 minutes since we came in.

And we are now locked in this house. Like, we can't get out of the fucking house what wait a second wait this is the furthest exterior door the door will not open we both try to open it let me ask you a question you think it's possible they recognized you as part of salem's two billion dollar and growing uh spook industry and they're like let's give them a little something extra maybe i mean that's literally what i taught what i taught her i was like well we're getting what we paid for bitch we came up to halloween town in the middle of a fucking nor'easter and here we are so we get

back upstairs and i'm messaging the landlord or the woman like hey we can't even get out of the fucking house what's up and there's dirt in the floor in the bathroom about that time the rain picks up and the lights start flickering i shit you not oh boy and then i you know i'm texting with this person over the house who owns the house at least it was run by a person who owns it and not some fucking housing company have you have y'all come into contact with this where airbnbs are just run by fucking rental agencies i've heard about it i've not used it i'm back i like hotels now i stay in hotels when i travel now yeah i do too but i hotel guy i can't with the dogs anymore well everything's booked up um and usually i'm trying to travel with the dogs not this time anyway long story short

long story long maybe about that time my friend says she hears someone knocking on the fucking door down the steps did you hear this too no i didn't hear it because i was i was trying to get a hold of this woman to come so she tells us she's like sends me her number she says call me she's like listen it's seven o'clock at night there's no way i'm coming out there i'll have to come tomorrow and i'm like we're locked in the house we We can't leave the house. This is not safe. This is a fucking fire hazard. She's like, no, you're not. Oh, you can use the steps on the deck.

Because there's a deck. There's like a deck overlooking the water. I mean, it was fucking gorgeous. Once the, once the Norwegian, the Norwegian cleared out. The Norwegian. The Norwegian. That's what we had. Yeah, we had a Norwegian.

That's what I had. to Norwegian. That's what we had. Yeah, we had a Norwegian. So, we go out on the deck and see that there's steps down the deck. She's like, just use the sliding doors until in the morning. So, we're like, okay, okay.

So, we go out together. I'm like, let's go get this other bag together. Not a comforting feeling going into a house and then being trapped in it within minutes. And I'm like, let's just go sit in the car and decide, maybe we'll just pack up and leave. Not a comforting feeling going into a house and then being trapped in it within minutes. I got to say. And I'm like, let's just go sit in the car and decide, like, maybe we'll just pack up and leave. Fuck it.

But everything's booked. It's Halloween in Salem. This was one of the last places that even come up. I had called multiple places just a few weeks before that. Yeah. That are all booked up. Anyway, we get down the steps and it is so narrow we have to walk all alongside this housing unit and the walkway is so narrow that i can barely fit my fat ass

through it and it's pouring the rain we don't know what's on the other side of this door that won't open uh-huh but we got some guesses no we get around to the front there's nothing out there there's no one at the door um i get my bag and i have to i mean maybe the funniest part of the whole thing is me trying to wrestle my huge oversized checked bag so i when i got to the airport my bag was 11 pounds over because the motherfuckers filled with floor-length velvet gowns god damn it oh my god jesus christ we have to open up my suitcase at the airport and move it and move around 11 pounds worth of shit oh my god oh boy so i'm dragging this behemoth just literally ricocheting off of every pole that's because there's all these decks on all these units and it's literally i barely could get my hips through it and now i'm trying to drag this fucking insanely huge checked bag through here it's pouring the rain the wind's

blowing we just got here did it go was it uphill or downhill from there um it was mostly all downhill from there it was fine there wasn't we didn't die but i did that next that night i was like you know what the i'm getting the cards out the situation's right yeah but um we survived the first night and the next morning i was like this is the beginning of a horror movie like we survived the first night and it gave us just enough comfort to think we were going to make it and today's the day today's our day but as you can see we survived it she came the next day and uh fixed the door she did have to buy a new doorknob put a new doorknob on i don't know what happened to the doorknob we never figured that out i i agree with tom i read an article about how um what's the word profitable i guess like october is for the city of salem like it's their entire

their entire economy is built around october yeah that's all they got they call it haunted happenings oh yeah um the friend i stayed with in boston before we left sent me an article that was like complaining about how salem has become a place where you just buy three hundred dollar wands or something crazy yeah no i mean it's um yeah it's um five thousand of its 43 000 residents identify as practicing which is an untold passage of thousands passing through as part of a spiritual pilgrimage oh that's a nicer article that i read the other one was just like fuck all this yoga retreat at the satanic temple um official this is a lot of fuck they make a lot of money off of this that's crazy tom tom made a really funny point which is that like which is that like could you imagine if you went back to

the 1500s in like england or um i don't know the bavarian provinces or whatever and told them that like in 500 years witchcraft would be a uh two billion dollar a year business in salem alone shaking and trembling at this now but in 500 years this is gonna make us all this is gonna the rising tide of satanism is gonna lift all boats oh god yeah i mean it's really like the northeast um gatlinburg you know how much i love gatlinburg like i've heard people who live up there describe it that way even people who live in maine and places they like they all like it's a lot it's a place where even like people who just live in a hundred mile radius go for go during october just to like take it in you know well it's whatever kooky thing you're into like roswell i mean is like you know i'm

sure you get all kinds of ufo shit there oh yeah and then like there's places in nevada that would be like small towns like uh winnemucca and other places that are just like oh ufo sightings and it's like much more obscure like ufo stuff than area 51 you know i mean like well i mean that's really what whitesburg is what every small town in america needs if it's trying to um be on the come up survive yeah you know like it needs something because you know there's like the mothman and point pleasant you know we need something like that. We need some sort of extra... Meat shower or something like that.

We need a meat shower. Oh my god. Every little town needs a little bit of lore though. That's just to kind of... You know? Hoopman always... Jim Webb.

Hoopman always wanted... He we been coasting on in Wattsburg? Jim Webb? Well, Hoopman always wanted... He was always talking about the Space Needle... The Pine Mountain Space Needle Spa. Space Needle Spa. Yeah. I mean, it still might have legs. Who knows? I think it's possible.

Anything's possible. Yeah. If you put your mind to it you either need some sort of like insane landmark thing like a temple or a ruin or just an architectural wonder like a space needle that's a spa or or like a celebrity who's decided he's gonna be... You know, like, didn't J.D. Salinger move to, like, a small town in Connecticut or something? Yeah. Yeah.

Well, it's like Chappelle in Yellow Springs. Right. Kanye West in Cody, Wyoming. Do you think he just goes and, like, eats in diners just to fuck around in town? Kanye's the type of guy to go to Wendy's, but not like Wendy's in like Whitesburg, but Wendy's in like Prague or, you know, Helsinki. Something like that, you know? Well, before we get too far from my trip, there are two funny things i couldn't wait to tell you

all okay let's hear them most of it was just really fun um and there was some actually fun scary stuff this dark arts festival we went to but anyway um the funny dark arts festival yeah they had a dark arts festival outside of town that was mostly local artists and some like nationally renowned artists came there for this festival and it was fucking awesome it was let me ask one question before you go any further with this did you go to a yoga retreat at the satanic temple no okay thank god but i did go to the Satanic Temple. The Satanic Temple in Salem is great. It's an art gallery. They have a bunch of Salvador Dali's in there.

It's incredible. And of course, I did a striptease for Baphomet this year. I'm going to have to edit that out. Like I did for Mothman. Actually, you know what? I'm not editing that out. People are getting the raw and cut Tanya. What's the problem?

What's the problem? Surely this isn't surprising. Anyways, continue. Okay. Okay, the funny... One of the funniest things I saw was there was a black cat on my flight home to Ohio. An Ohio bitch got on a fucking airplane with a black cat. With a black cat.

On Halloween. Took it to Salem and flew home with it. You know what? Imagine there's like, you're at the ASPCA in Salem, Massachusetts and like you're not a black cat. Like you're going to the kill factory.

Like 100%. It's just like being marked for death but if you're a black cat you're like oh yeah i fixed the meat big time because somebody's gonna come to salem and adopt a motherfucking black cat straight from the aspca oh it hadn't occurred to me that the that the woman got it in salem and was taken at home i assumed it was just her familiar she brought with her no she definitely got that thing there i don't know that. That cat was on a leash. It was in a carrier. It was being pretty cool and chill to be a cat on an airplane. First cat on an airplane I've seen.

Yeah, I had to drug Arrow for three months to ride her and Terrence's truck. Two hours. Yeah, for two hours. Yeah, it was pretty wild. So that was pretty funny. I mean, I was in airport security with a cat, with a black cat. It was incredible. I was just waiting for some weirdo to freak freak out and be like this is bad luck i'm not riding on a plane

with a fucking black cat because we were flying to columbus ohio i mean there were definitely some rednecks on that flight um okay anyway so the best, funniest thing that happened to me was driving around, driving in Boston, and I got the most Boston welcome to the city. A man, I'm driving around, and maybe I'm high, but I thought I was driving well. I thought I was doing fine. You heard somebody saying racial slurs. No, what happened was a large bearded bald man white man in a convertible no less in a convertible flies around our rental car which we had ontario plates that

motherfucker was killing kilometers we thought we were flying we were like that's why we were going so slow we thought it was in kilometers because our rental car was canadian anyway we have ontario plates so he who knows what he maybe he just really hates canadians i don't know but this man bolted around us and screams from a convertible fucking morons because you're going so slow um i don't know i don't know if it was because we were going slow i think i had just recently tried to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk but it wasn't like that's not something you do in boston apparently not but it was like the most Boston accent. You fucking morons! Oh, God. I mean, I blew this man a kiss.

I was cackling. I was laughing so fucking hard. You pull him over and explained your car was in kilometers, and that's why you were a pain in the ass to be behind. I just couldn't believe a man in a convertible, like, where are you in such a hurry to get to, my man? The colors are gorgeous. It's a beautiful day. You got your top down on your convertible like where are you in such a hurry to get to my man the colors are gorgeous it's a beautiful day you got your top down on your convertible and you can't just be behind

two hotties in a fucking ontario plate rental you have to scream obscenities out the window really it could be when i lived in austin the worst week of every year was south by southwest and like everybody descends on the city so maybe he was just sick and tired oh he knew we were witches yeah he was well the witch i was with she didn't miss a beat she didn't like i was cackling i thought i was so into it i was so into being i wish to god he had called us bimbos or something oh this reminds me i watched a movie the other night extremely problematic but i don't know maybe it's not i don't know um have you guys seen the witches of eastwick duh yeah like 10 times well like what do you think about it's incredible are you kidding me share it's share um oh my god three iconic

witches are you just talking about witches like the raw doll adaptation no it's a john updike novel no it's they're they're in love with what's his dick he's the devil jack nicholson's the devil you didn't find it kind of like rapey though um i could see that yeah it was as in like he convinced like because he's the devil so he just like has powers over people yeah it was um it just made me feel really weird oh yeah there's a couple like conversations he has with people like shares trying to turn him down shares like i'm not fucking you and he's like yeah you are yeah i mean basically he uh manipulates and abuses her into having sex with them and it's like not really presented as much of a problem it's kind of like oh this is what he's up this is what he does he's the devil and then she likes it because then she gets into witchcraft. And I was like, dude, I don't

know. I mean, it wasn't like... The ending is worth it, though. The ending's fucking worth it. It's got a pretty good ending. It's Susan Sarandon. Okay, the witches are Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer. It's incredible. So you didn't like the movie in general or you just

were uncomfortable with the rapey parts? No, I mean... Look, I mean, no. Look, I mean, I've, I watch just about anything, no matter how uncomfortable. I mean, if you've watched A Clockwork Orange, you know, there's a lot of like classic horror that have some despicable rape scene or something. Like it's, at this point, it's almost a fucking milestone of most of the horror of the horror genre oh and and it makes me feel uncomfortable every time i see it in those movies as well i'm not um i'm not saying that like um you should throw out all old cinema because it's all rapey i'm just saying that it was like it's a john updike novel and

john up it was based on a john updike novel and and john updike was kind of like this guy who wrote about like american masculinity and the loss of american masculinity and like um it i like i feel like the movie kind of presents presents it this empowering thing, but I've not read the book, but if I had to guess, I'd say that the book presents the devil in a little more flattering light. This movie didn't fully, like, I didn't feel like the, I don't know. It did kind of, it definitely indicted him by the end of it. It's definitely got a payoff. But it was pretty, it was just interesting.

I'd never seen it before and they have it on uh like hbo right now and so i watched it yeah i watched it this year too a few weeks ago yeah i mean i feel like most movies where there is some type of sexual tension between to a man and a woman like a hetero love situation in a movie which most movies have there's teetering especially anything older than 10 years old there's like a teetering just like flirtation it's like they do not know how to flirt without it being hyper sexualized and like manipulative sounding i was watching ghostbusters the other night in the scene bill murray goes and checks out her apartment he's just like all over her i was like yeah

oh yeah um sigourney weaver is that who's no yeah yeah yeah i'm in ghostbusters yeah um have you seen that movie tom the witches ofwick? I'd be interested to read it. I know what it is. For some reason, I think he was talking about the Angelica Houston Witch. That's just witches, though. Yeah, witches. And they redid that this year or last year, I think. I always get Witches of Eastwick and Mermaids mixed up.

I think it's both because they have Cher. Because Cher, yeah. Mermaids is such a good movie. Well, I'm sorry to interrupt you continue it's just something you said made me think of that it's also set in like the northeast like new england um i think it's like rhode island or something but yeah it's new england i don't know what i was saying i don't know what you interrupted you were talking about the guy that got pissed and um I don't know what you interrupted.

You were talking about the guy that got pissed. Oh, the witch in the car with me immediately. She just didn't speak. She said, don't worry about him. He's going to die of a heart attack. And it was so funny because it was like she was saying that as a response of like, he's obviously carrying so much anger. He's going to die of a heart attack. But it also because we were like out witching around it felt like she had hexed him you guys killed an innocent man god tanya you listen we were trying to get to the bottom of

a murder using untraditional means and you were out there causing them. Hopefully not. It does feel like, like we were talking about this, about the Alec Baldwin thing. The whole thing really does feel like the plot of a, of like a Columbo episode, or like some sort of, I mean like.

A clue reboot. Yeah, it's weird. It's almost like someone put the bullets in that gun without anyone knowing and expecting it was suspicious. I mean, it is very suspicious. It's just so fucking weird. Yeah. Like how does that happen?

Why would there be live rounds in a gun on a set? Right. Exactly. Like live rounds on a set at all. They, and this is the thing that really pisses me off so bad about that. Like, I mean, obviously, it's a horrible tragedy, and that is, like, the biggest, like, tragedy about this. But, like, the double irony of the whole deal

is that, like, movies don't even use practical effects anymore. Everything is CGI. So, like, there's no need to even have a gun. I mean, they've already sacrificed every good part of movie making to just cheap special effects, and they don't use practical effects or guns or squibs or anything anymore. So again, why the fuck were they using a real gun? It just, I don't know.

were they using a real gun? It just, I don't know. Also, there's the, you know, they had did the IOTC sort of demonstration like moments before all that. That's kind of a curious thing, right? Because it wasn't like part of this, like some dimension of this is that scab labor was in place because they were cutting some corners or something.

So I don't know. I'm not going to speak on that because I don't know all the facts about that, but like... It really does feel like... Because that becomes more clear. It feels like the plot of a noir movie or something from the 1930s. You've got these

like... This labor action and then it just seems like maybe it was set up or something. Or maybe someone had it out for Alec Baldwin and they put those bullets in the gun to make sure that it happened that way or like something is just doesn't add up it's fucking weird yeah it's very strange i don't know it's uh yeah it's just i mean it's sad all the way around but god damn yeah it feels like that yeah especially suspicious that your ouija would speak on it well who who knows i mean the thing about it the thing about ouija is that um i think people have

this understanding of ouija it's just like oh you know it's like a telephone you know you open it up and you talk to the other realm. But the thing about it is if that was the case, then you just put the goddamn thing on your table and it would start talking to you. Like, like you have to, like Ouija is a, um, is a collaborative process and people bring things into it. And, um, who knows? knows i mean maybe that was like something that was emergent when we all sat down and it was on our minds and that happened or or we were mediums for something or someone trying to tell us something but i i don't i don't know my mind is very open when it comes to ouija in the sense that like i'm not i don't think that every time you use it it's

supernatural um but I don't know at the same time like what is magic like magic could be when you sit down with your friends and come up with a conversational topic that none of you agreed on beforehand then you all just kind of naturally went that way. See what I'm saying? Podcasting, basically. Podcasting is magic, Terrence Ryan. Well, I'm with you on magic, you know, magic being our ability to see things that don't exist yet and create them out of the tools we have. That is magic.

Yeah. I don't know how I feel about magic, but I'm probably more open to about any damn thing anymore. It makes about as much sense as anything else. Did you have something else? I thought you said you had two stories. Or you. Me?

Yeah. I think I've told about three now ain't i yeah well listen i just what i was going to tell y'all and it's there's a an update just moments ago that goes with it and perhaps fortuitous that we didn't meet in person today. But, so, I guess it's a couple of days ago. My neighbor's brother, he was like in his 60s or 70s, visiting from Michigan, takes a tumble off my front porch and just busts his shit open on the sidewalk. Like blood everywhere, rolling around in the yard. And his sister comes over and knocks on my door and says can you come out here and help you know he's kind of a bigger guy whatever it's like can you

come up help us get him up so i go over there you know we kind of tom's out there with his mask on no i know well that's more on that uh you don't you know in those situations like you don't think you know you just see like this guy old older guy you know like bleeding every damn where you know and it's like you don't really think about that you know go out there whatever paramedics come and uh you know work out whatever well i was supposed to come record with y'all in person dad just got a text message from his sister said oh yeah by the way when they admitted him to the hospital he tested positive for covid oh shit it's just the funny thing of like i've essentially taken myself out of life for like two years over this because i'm such a fucking health freak. And then, like, you just get in a situation where there's an immediate crisis you have to respond to just out of a sense of duty. And that's how you might have gotten exposed.

Oh, my God, Tom. So, yeah. So I'm sitting over here like, okay, well, I feel okay. I feel not as scared about it as I would a year ago. I feel okay. I feel not as scared about it as I would a year ago. Well, see, the thing is, dude, if you were a good citizen and you actually cared about your neighbors and your fellow Americans, you wouldn't have helped them because you're trying to stop the spread, bro.

You can't be out here helping other people. Can't do it. You cannot do it. I should have played the long game instead of the short game. I should have let him, like, have a subdural hematoma. Right. It'll stop the spread anyway. Yeah, you gotta stop the spread.

You cannot be out here being a good Samaritan. These are serious times. Dude, it is so weird. This is actually kind of the logic behind it. Yeah. I ask you, would Jesus have resisted giving medical care to the unvaccinated? No, he would not have. He would have served them.

Oh, man. Yeah. That's crazy. What else is going on in the world? Nothing we want to talk about. Fucking same old shit, same old election bullshit. Well, yeah, I mean, I've been off Twitter, and, you know, there was an election earlier this week.

you know there was an election earlier this week and um well as you might imagine they've blamed you in particular for the for the democrats loss in virginia terrence ray is he's uh subverted the mccullough campaign single-handedly single-handedly damn and i do it was not over and wise working against terry mccall and i was completely blissfully unaware damn they really there were multiple statements that i saw this week that were like make no mistake this loss is because of Bernie Sanders. Oh, I've seen that too. What's her name? Sally whatever.

Yeah, just point blank. This is absolutely the cause of Bernie Sanders language. Make no mistake. Sally Albright. I hadn't seen her since 2016. All of a sudden I see her all over the TSA. Make no mistake, this is the fall of Bernie Sanders. It's like, man, we quit doing J.D. Vance.

Can you quit doing Sanders now? Yeah, just fucking come off it, bitch. Oh, Lord. And then Van Jones starts crying on CNN saying, this is not who we are. And if we don't change something soon, there's going to be a reckoning. Wait, Van cried on CNN? Every time the Democrats shit the bed,

he cries and acts like he's got the secret sauce to win these elections. And he does this ominous thing where he's like, if we don't straighten this out, we're going to lose our democracy. It's the guy that was a communist in college. know now look at it wow wow um this may be a uh this may be a reflection of the pandemic people just not being around. People just like only being around their neighbors for so long.

But this trip to Massachusetts, I heard more like more than I've ever had in my life in one week. People saying, where are you from? You from the south? Where are you from? Like all I had to do was say, thank you. Hello. And people were like demanding to know where i was from damn did they want to know if you um i think it's because they want to know if you are responsible for trying to

subvert democracy on january 6th oh yeah i was like yeah i gotta report uh to the to prison in a week serve out my sentence i tried yes i have a question ma'am was it you that was took part in the theft of our democracy on january 6th no the last woman who did it was the last night i was there we went out to have this we went out to a really nice seafood place and our server did it she was like where are y' from? And then I loved it so much she couldn't have said anything better. She compared us to True Blood. Her only frame of reference for Southern accents was

True Blood. Oh, I loved it so much. It's written by Kentucky. I freaked out. I was like, yeah. Yeah, I love True Blood. I based my accent on that in particular what why has um so here's the thing this is what i mean by like so i'm off uh twitter and like you know just opening it and like scrolling through and and stuff like this is the thing i don't understand and why

it's so bizarre it kind of distorts reality in a way it's hard to explain like why have they latched on to that specific election as like the harbinger of what's to come even though i do think it's probably true like i don't think democrats are gonna do very well in the midterms but it's just weird i don't i guess it's a fundraising i don't know yeah i feel like they say that about i feel like they say that about every election yeah yeah you're right every every election is like the biggest election of our lives or some shit but yeah and i i told y'all i had to i've had to come out of retirement and i'm back on a in a campaign now and we're gonna be using fucking the van and shit apparently and so now people i'm working with are gonna know i ain't been voting

i'm gonna have to fucking you have to come out as an anti-voter. I'm going to have to reckon with this. If somebody asks me point blank, I'm going to act like I've got amnesia. You really have been subverting democracy then. Who have I had to vote for? I don't know what they want me to do. The thing is, just gotta do it Whether it's

You just gotta vote You just gotta do it We have a mission And that is Me and Terrence have been plotting for about three weeks We need to somehow get Charles Booker to stop running against Rand Paul and just take John Yarmuth's seat.

I don't understand what the thinking behind this is. Because Atticus Scott is running against John Yarmuth. No, John Yarmuth is retiring. No, I know. And I think Atticus Scott is running. Oh, for that seat? Yeah. Shows you how much I know.

Well, don't listen to me. And the local dems are not supporting her it sounds like even though she's already an elected democrat in this shit-ass state they like even john yarmouth apparently wants his son to take to take over the seat which is such uh it's such an american just like the worst of american politics is that you inherit a fucking position you're supposed to be voted into damn republican it don't fucking matter i think the point still stands because charles would foxtrot to that fucking seat you know what i mean not even a question but ran paul's a taller hill to climb you know yeah well i don't know i mean it's probably because he's well i don't know i don't know what his obsession with the senate is who knows because that's he ran against mitch before right or that was he was yeah right i get the whole i

get the whole like you know the headlines sort of write themselves with the running against Mitch McConnell thing. I don't think that was ever – I'm not saying Charles wasn't in it to win it or anything like that, but I don't think anybody's surprised on the result of that, particularly with the Amy McGrath thing. Right. Well, he lost to Amy, not Mitch. Right.

And I think – This shit has to – at a certain point, you have to be, like, sort of smart and strategic about it. Would you rather, like, have somebody, a progressive, step into that safe seat? Or would you rather just, like, basically run, like, yeah, it's probably not as Mission Impossible as running against Mitch McConnell, but it's not far off the fucking pace. Well, hopefully Attica gets it. She's got a lot of support just from people in Louisville. I mean, she's been on the school board.

She's a state senator, whatever. Hopefully she'll foxtrot into it. But, yeah, I don't know. Maybe he thinks, I mean, maybe him and him and who knows i mean he he actually did have a pretty good take i saw about this last election i mean it's no virginia election yeah it's not no news or anything but he's like he just said you know republicans are going to continue to win weaponizing racism and shit and democrats are going to keep losing by ignoring it second ignoring all the problems that people are yelling about that people that's ruining people's lives well i've already seen people floating around on the tl talking about you

know like kamala harris and pete bootage being like the what's funny is nobody's considering the possibility that joe's gonna be like, well, I'm going to run again in 2024, I decide. Nobody's considering that. They're like, no, we're definitely putting this motherfucker out to pasture. He probably will. Surely he will, right? Yeah, I think he will.

I mean, but think about how awful he was on this past campaign trail. Three years from now, he's going to be an absolute fucking corpse heavy in shambles well but it's funny it's funny to think about like oh well like the two obvious choices were the guy that somehow won iowa even though he had less support than bernie there and then somebody who was out before the primaries. And, you know, body slammed the current president as like a racist and a bigot, rightfully.

But then it goes and works for the guy. It's really weird. I don't really keep up with the electoral politics so much these days but uh i have kind of been keeping up with that climate summit that they've been at the past week in europe or whatever old tree hugger yeah can't stop won't stop yeah old habits die hard um and it is interesting because like Biden had a quote that was like, it was something to the effect of like, my support for continued oil and gas drilling is not in conflict with my support for reducing climate emissions. And then like they say this. Democrats are absolute maniacs. Like they, they have brain diseases.

Well, it's fucking nuts because, like, they say this stuff with, you know, on one side of their mouths. And then the other side of their mouths, they say, like, you know, they scold China and, like, Russia for not coming to this thing. And it's like, who is, like, who is smarter here? who is like who is smarter here like i mean i have way more respect for russia and china being like nah we're just gonna keep doing what we're doing and growing our economies and building out infrastructure and destroying the planet while we're doing it i have way more respect for that than this bullshit like no we are serious about climate change meanwhile they're approving 10 just 10 thousands of permits right it's just it's just yeah solutions theater they're just like the the dams truly are a house of cards just

there's nothing in there it's no substance there's just nothing but lies and manipulation these people are sick i mean i i can see how the how the virginia election is just like pretty disappointing because virginia's had some pretty good um success in the past few years like the weed decriminalization of weed um and that was done in a pretty grassroots way like they had pretty a lot of people made that happen um who knows what's gonna happen now i mean there are several little things that may can make life easier for people living in virginia like i've been trying to figure out thinking about moving where i want to be um and you know if you live in tennessee the simplest solution is running anthony floccovento for absolutely everything in the same way that to to quote adam from the

glorifiers in the same way that movies quit being good when earnest quit going places politics quit being good when anthony flo going places. Virginia politics quit being good when Anthony Flacavento wasn't running for everything from governor to fucking notary public. In Virginia, you can change your gender on your license to X. There's just a bunch of random things that make people's lives

better in the interim. That's like, i won't call it harm reduction but uh it just kind of fucking sucks it's like here we go again just lose a little more ground just slowly but surely just fucking bad getting worse baby you love to see it well the other the other big um news from that turn from that election day was the um it's funny because i've literally read maybe a headline and half an article about all of the things we've just talked about that's how unplugged i am but um but i did have a friend who was like ranting to me about the india walton thing um mostly because like all of their friends like lib friends were online like see now this is why you don't run a socialist like people don't want a socialist and all this fuck you know just just like stuff like that and um

but like i looked at the map you know of like how she did um i mean for a socialist it's not that bad i mean it's like and a black woman like can we not they just it's obvious people are just racist and there's plenty of reasons i mean it's very i'm i'm pretty shocked that a write-in candidate beat her it's fucking nuts well in fairness he was her successor that she beat out in the primary and then the other thing that people aren't taking consideration here is the role that the billsills Mafia played in sabotaging the election. Wait, so tell me a little bit about that. I saw serious

left scholars and analysts say that if we abolish, would people be more interested in local politics if we abolish sports? And then when they get called out on called nerds and everything else, they're like, well, I was just joking, but, you know, it bolsters my point.

And it's like... There's people alive in the Ivory Coast because of Didier Drogba and soccer. Like, get the fuck out of here. How is that real? That's nuts. I'm not sure. I've yet to figure out the link between Bill's Nation, or Bill's Mafia, as they call it,

and the Walton loss. Yeah. Didn't you say, were people quoting Chomsky to bolster this point? Was that what they were doing? Oh, yeah, this guy was like... He has said that in the past. I've read him say that in the past, that sports is basically what keeps people out of political

engagement what what's his my man has been asleep in the woods for 12 fucking years you see him jeez yeah okay

yeah I'm gonna yeah let's hear what a fucking 97 year old fucking linguist has to say about sports in America. I pass. Sorry to the Chomsky heads, but your boy's not always right. I just love that he is speaking, that he's had to start speaking on sports to try to just shred a little relevance in his late life some of this stuff is a little it's a little older like i think there's what people were quoting to me it was a passage from manufacturing consent where he's like and this essay from a couple years ago where he was like you know i listen to the radio a lot and

invariably i'll come up on sports talk radio and people call in and they have like all these like it's intricate knowledge and what the coach should have did and like everybody has a real stake in that in the community and da da da da and he's like and i can't for the life of me figure out why or for the longest time i couldn't figure out for the life of me why people didn't have the same level of analysis with global affairs you can't figure out why no i'm gonna go ahead and put it out there for you it's because sports don't fucking lie to you at every turn you know you tip off you play it and something happens. Yeah, and it's actually accessible to people. It's marketed to humans.

I would say even on a more base level, you're much more likely to get laid talking sports, going to a sports bar, lowing about them than fucking knowing about global affairs. You're more likely to score if you know the score that's right not god damn it that shit pisses me off so bad just just like the sheer like sort of nerddom of it just like aggravates the shit out of me like like athletes and sport like you know there's a fucking reason why obama hit the line immediately

when like it looks like the nba players were going to go on strike in the bubble you know what i mean yeah like this has reverberating effects if you're like oh it's not what we're saying he's talking about local politics it's like how is that not local politics you know what i mean yeah he he um yeah he has uh one thing i really do it really does annoy the fuck out of me when people do like when chomsky says something and people are like all right grandpa it's like no the dude is still very much um you know with it he just sucks just accept it like he just like he's still very much like i mean i mean i don't want to like because like one of his books really was very formative for me um and it's understanding

it's called understanding power and in that book he does talk a lot about that that whole sports thing that you just said tom that whole argument um but it's uh it's like he's also got like this weird thing about how um the assassination of jfk was not a big deal like it doesn't matter have you ever heard that no oh that's a good tie-in with current affairs exactly that's a really weird contradictory thing it's like okay dude like uh seems like people are pretty interested in that maybe that might be an inroad to like talk to people about how power works but it's like to him it's immaterial he's just he's kind of weird um i mean yeah i don't mean i didn't when i i you know i want to walk it back i didn't mean to be

like oh 97 year old linguist i don't want to be ageist about it. But like the other thing is, it's like all your, your heroes can and frequently are wrong about things. Yeah. I'm just, yeah. The only reason I say that,

because it does annoy me when like, he will say something that like goes against what people's preconceived notions are. And then, and then people will be like all right gramps like or or he'll say something like we gotta vote for democrats which he's been saying for 40 years like people are saying like and you know and people will be like all right he's just an old man it's just like no kind of like a guy that calls himself an anarchist but tells you to vote for democrats might not be exactly who he says he is.

It's kind of interesting. This all feels very standard academics to me. Like, just projecting people's shortcomings based on ridiculous shit. Like, oh, I listen to the radio in the mornings from 8 to 9 a.m. And before i read a thousand pages and the same people that would like jump down your throat for just citing something anecdotally like do the same shit themselves but we just don't have credentials from university of pennsylvania you know yeah like also while we're on that topic academics

just feel so fucking irrelevant it's just so they they they're like get further from the sun every day what what what did y'all think about biden's curious choice to not release the jfk stuff exciting that it might have some blowback on our first responders police officers and military what no i missed did you not see this no no but he'll be on vacation so it's you know so he was like set to or like you know there was some sort of timetable to release like declassify the stuff about the jfk assassination wait is this why all the q anon people were out in dallas i don't know it might be that was crazy i think they were waiting for jfk jr jfk jr yeah they were somebody else to come back from the dead they were waiting for him to resurrect from the dead literally they

were they thought he was going to show up yeah if they would have you know how crazy that would be because remember how the bible says that like two will like lay dead in the streets and then be resurrected or something that would be nuts anyway b, Biden has said now that because of the implications for the safety of our men and women in uniform and police officers and first responders, he's going to be a little more judicious about when he releases the JFK stuff, and it's not going to be right. Is someone going to go just blast a cop because

because Alan Dulles killed JFK? Like the Bush family had popped? The Bush family had him popped? I don't get it. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It's funny that it's

indicting basically the whole apparatus of a state that we've bolstered for generations to help them achieve this status in society. And apparently it sounds like it's just going to tear the moral fabric of everything that we've shoved down people's throats for generations. They'll release it when everybody that was alive during that time is dead you know like there's no kissinger and then they'll do it yeah well like even our parents who well actually i guess my my parents were born after that happened but like you know there's still a lot of people who are still alive who like remember where they were that day and stuff you know what i mean like it's like they're 9-11 yeah we're gonna be like 65 and then they'll release it and they'll be like

see i told you it's alan doles yeah we'll be old we'll be ancient when they fuck we'll be chomsky's age by the time they put that out yeah yeah so that was fucking hilarious because of the implication for police, military, first responders. I mean, that combined with shit he's saying at these climate talks, it's like, we cannot, we have a completely incoherent president. There's just no way to, at what point would you even care to believe anything he says? He'll do some sort of Barack Obama, well, we tortured some folks. Or some sort of Reagan,

well, my best guess is that, da-da-da, but it looks like we did sell weapons. He'll do one of those things. It's like, you know, I still believe with all my heart that Lee Harvey Oswald acting as a lone gunman did this. But it looks like there's a difference of opinion here. A little sketchy.

That's weird. Anyway. Well, I mean, some people say that he's our best president um the thing is i need to go some people are saying i need to like preface this i am not a biden supporter at all but like on the merits like everything has been so bad for like the last hundred years 200 years i mean he's really done the most since like which is saying something because he's done basically nothing he's basically done nothing

well i mean i'm just saying well i'm just saying pulling out of afghanistan is pretty fucking crazy i mean i know that trump basically i know trump basically initiated that but like you know he he stood by his guns and it was pretty fascinating i look i'm not a Biden supporter. I'm not standing this guy. I'm just saying that it's very interesting. Obama could have done that and didn't. If we're at the end of history, maybe the long arm of history won't have any perspective because it won't come around. I just don't know how anyone who botched an international health crisis pandemic this badly could go down in records as being a good president. Like the man had every, like he could have made, he had every ability to stop all this death and and has actively every day chooses not to well yeah the reason is is because republicans didn't get vaccinated i mean it really is that

cynical like they could have taken precautions and made sure that this thing didn't get spread but no they told you to go out and take your mask off and by july 4th everything will be all right knowing full well that republicans weren't going to get vaccinated and that we would spread it to them and like they fucking died off in like tens of thousands of numbers it's fucking crazy what's crazy is that they really but hey you're not looking on the bright side though we all save 16 cents on our 4th of July supplies this year. I'll just say that in that window of time while Trump was still in office, that like from November to January, where it was like Trump and Joe trying to figure things out,

doing the transition of power or whatever bullshit they call it, that was a perfect window for them to rally all everyone from all points of view or whatever the fuck republicans democrats all of them to like address them all together and talk about the importance of the vaccine they could have done that i guess that was like maybe right before the vaccine come out huh no the vaccine dropped in december didn't it no no i didn't no no i didn't get mine till march but like trump could have just like they could have done a commercial anything if they had just had trump's dumb ass voice on the radio or tv saying i'm getting vaccinated please yeah you get this is my vaccine just let him claim just let him claim that it was his vaccine but they but they didn't boost him it was only for his like his little echo chamber you

know what i mean yeah they it's funny though there was a press this was it was too late i get this at this point you're saying like early on it would have worked you're probably right yeah but they had every opportunity to be like this is not this is not partisan we are dying and we have an opportunity to turn this around and they just don't they just don't do it they just don't fucking care yeah they they he did tell people to get vaccinated at a campaign rally in i think july and got booed and they booed him didn't they yeah it was pretty funny by that time it was too late it was already it was already a culture bullshit by then you know right i you know here's my thinking on that now not to get too far down that rabbit hole again but i think basically the people that were going to get vaccinated were going to get vaccinated

from the beginning and those that weren't weren't yeah i think that i'm sort of turned against the idea i feel like it has been very cultural and you know why because people are getting vaccinated in secret tom i know oh yeah no no i don't doubt that at all i'm just saying that like i think there was always going to be a certain amount of people that were just never going to get vaccinated you know whether it's an office or not yeah yeah but i think the margin's pretty wide of people who like were just became convinced by either their own either peer pressure in their own circles or whatever that this was like a liberal thing to do yeah it's it's weird because i remember when i was working at the wastewater treatment plant we all had to get like a hepatitis A vaccine to work there.

And like I remember from back then, I was thinking about this, like guys were like, shit, I wouldn't get that. If I got to have this fucking job, I wouldn't get that damn thing. You know what they, who knows what they put in those things, you know what I mean? There's just something about getting a shot that is like a little, you know, brave new world, you know? I do think, I think both of you are correct it is yeah very cultural perhaps it could have been avoided or that gap could have been closed um but uh i do think that all of these things feel like they were i don't want to say set in stone because nothing is ever inevitable but it does feel like a lot of these things were pretty much set on the course they eventually wound up

moving towards like decades ago right like i mean about that i mean just like the erosion of um a social fabric uh yeah i mean if you like yeah especially if you want to talk about the the just uh shambles our health care system has been in for a very long time and people's fear of health care in general doctors right yeah just just yeah the hollowing out of it for nothing but profit i mean mean, that was only going to lend itself to a response to this thing that made sure more people died. And it was just, I don't know,

it's just really like, we had already made our beds, you know? And I don't know, it's really, it's kind of a mind fuck when you think about it in that way because it like really does prove to you like the power of of history and of um and class conflict is really what it is it really shows you the power of class of like how class struggle really does create history because these motherfuckers like they created the conditions for this long ago in their war against the poor and against working people and um and they were never for a second sweating that

they would have a problem they none of them ever thought they were going out like stan except for trump himself who thought he was going out with like stan for like three seconds he was downright convicted of that you know in a way you kind of have to admire his like resolve in the face of that am i going out oh boy oh man may we all be as brave and hilarious on our deathbeds if he if he if he would have died after saying that that would have ranked right up there with oscar wilde's either i either the the wallpaper goes or I do or Pete Maravich's I've never felt better in my life.

God damn. Alas, we're going to have to wait a little longer for Trump's final parting words, but they're going to be great. I know that. They'll be good. I mean, he's still cranking out hits. He's still absolutely cranking out hits.

I mean, his is the first press release I've read in years. He just puts out these random press releases. And I'm not... Who else am I reading press releases from? Nobody. Yeah. Alright. Oh, shit. I gotta bounce, boys.

Alright, well, thanks for listening, everybody. Go check out the Patreon. Patreon.com slash Trail-T-R-E-O-N dot com slash Trillbilly Workers Party. Thanks for listening this week. Any parting thoughts? Final words?

You fucking morons! You fucking morons. That's how I've been saying it constantly since the end. I just love it so much. Fucking morons. That's how I've been saying it constantly since then. I just love it so much. Fucking morons. All right. All right.

Well, we'll see you next time. Thanks for listening, everybody. Bye-bye.