Trillbilly Worker's Party
Trillbilly Worker's Party is a podcast that blends political commentary with humor and Southern charm. Hosted by a group of friends from Eastern Kentucky, it covers topics from labor rights to pop culture, all with a leftist perspective. The show's tagline, 'Born to Party, Forced to Work,' reflects its irreverent yet serious approach to politics.
Episodes
Episode 465: Air Chud
This week we chat a little about televangelists, folk heroes, and Israel's tone deaf commemoration of Oct 7, folllowed by a lengthy cinematic retelling of a political disagreement at an Ohio dog park.
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Episode 464: Scranton Strong
This week we use all the latest news items regarding Israel and the war with Iran to talk about the late Biden administration's attempts to rehabilitate their complicity in the Gazan genocide, courtesy of an excerpt from a new memoir by former Biden national security advisor Brett McGurk
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Episode 463: Blaxis
We discuss two big stories out of Boston, and a new place in Uruguay that sounds like it sucks ass.
Episode 462: Mad Cow Disease (w/ Special Guest: Alexander Aviña)
We're all insane cattle now. We welcome back friend of the show Alexander Aviña to talk climate change, the wages of 9/11, the coming collapse, and whether or not leaf blowers have to go.
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Episode 461: Billiken Blues LIVE at Institute 193 (w/ special guests Jesse Montgomery and Devin Thomas O'Shea)
Live show recorded on 8/14/26 at Institute 193 in Lexington, Kentucky, with authors Jesse Montgomery and Devin Thomas O'Shea
Video of the show can be found at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty/posts/trillbillies-w-169238145
Buy Jesse's book here: https://uncpress.org/9781469693965/it-is-not-enough-to-survive/
Buy Devin's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/
Episode 460: The Failing Jerusalem Post
Aaron and Tom discuss lying about your cousins, modern attitudes about tv size, and Zionists wanting indebted Americans to fight for Israel.
Episode 459: Frolicking With Intention
Interrogating our past Dolly (and authorial) crimes, and examining another week in bizarre Trump policies
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Episode 458: Schrodinger’s Origin (w/ Special Guest: Steve Sladkowski)
The boys welcome back friend of the show to talk mostly about foodborne illness among other topics.
Get Steve’s New Record Here:
https://ovalwindowrecords.bandcamp.com/album/steve-sladkowski-joe-sorbara
Catch Steve on tour with PUP here:
https://www.puptheband.com/#tour
Episode 457: Paying The Price
We're on track to become a top 500 podcast very soon
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Episode 456: Wigless and Unresponsive
An epoch-turning week in American politics
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Episode 455: Dead As Hell
The boys talk living with part of your head missing, the growing prospect that the US/Israel are leading the entire world into a massive conflict, and we read about a pastor who has made a replica of himself with AI because he says his congregation was getting too big for one man to handle.
We have a live show coming up in Lexington, KY on Friday, August 14 @ Institute 193 (doors at 7:30) buy you
Episode 454: Jerusalem Flatline
This week we're looking at a hilariously grim foundational text of Christian Zionism: John Hagee's mid-aughts book "Jerusalem Countdown." We discuss the history of non-Jewish Zionism, the nature of the United States and Israel's relationship, and why no one can admit that Iran has gotten the upper hand against Israel and the U.S.
We also talk discuss a few other texts in this, including Patrick W
Episode 453: Acrid Vibes
We discuss the T levels of our nation's military, and check in with our friend Jonathan Chait who says we already HAD universal healthcare we just didn't know it.
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Episode 452: Loosey Theory (w/ Special Guest: Josh Poe)
Friend of the show Josh Poe of Kentucky Tenant Union joins us again to give tenant organizing updates. Plus we talk McConnell, Platner, data centers, and Kentucky politics among other topics.
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https://www.kytenantunion.org
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Episode 451: Trump-l'oeil (w/ special guest Kate Wagner)
Our old pal Kate Wagner rejoins us to talk about America's 250th anniversary "State Fair" celebration, as well as all the other Trump news this week, from housing prices, to Supreme Court decisions, to the impending fertilizer shortage
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Episode 450: Amerikkkan Pastoral
What happens when hillbillies get too much college and go to Ivy league law schools? The answer may shock you.
Episode 449: Loss Faking (w/ Special Guest: Noah Kulwin)
This week the boys welcome back Blowback's Noah Kulwin to discuss Trump's G7 comments re: Iran/Israel, the Knicks, hair loss and what to do about it, and the new Blowback Miniseries "No Daylight" that examines the history of the US/Israel relationship.
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**UNLOCKED** The 10th Ring Of Hell
Removing this one from behind the paywall due to popular request. We talk skull & crossbones, kerosene, flintstone vitamins, Eddington's everywhere, SpaceX IPO sham, and why the world's oldest public/private partnership will soon give us the 10th ring of Hell.
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Episode 448: The Factory's Been Offshored (w/ Special Guest: Chris James)
As America's 250th birthday draws nigh the fellas enlist the help of Canadian friend of the show Chris James from Guys: A Podcast About Guys to discuss the programming as well as an abbreviated history of American sports, and the ethics of pissing in swimming pools.
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Episode 447: The Prophet And The Interpreter
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Episode 446: The Dank Threat Analysis (w/ Special Guest: Daniel Boguslaw)
Today we welcome reporter and writer Daniel Boguslaw on the program to talk his latest for WIRED about what the feds are trying to do about widespread opposition to data centers among other topics of import.
Daniel's piece in WIRED:
https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
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Episode 445: A Critical Massie
The fellas discuss Trump's very open, public grift reaching new heights, the US's deteriorating relationship with Saudi Arabia, and the very peculiar Thomas Massie/Ed Gallrein primary in Northern Kentucky (among other topics).
Episode 444: Bulletin Board Material (w/ Special Guest Jayson Buford)
Aaron and Tom welcome friend of the show Jayson Buford on to talk about his two new pieces, the fetishization of white rural culture, and what happens when the biggest stars on the planet align themselves with the "manosphere."
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Episode 443: The Rich Man & The Sea
Our friend JJ sits in for Tarence as we take the gang's temperature on the recent hantavirus scare, why "uncle" is too sacred a position to be held by an AI model, and why there was only one rich man ever built for a seafaring life--among other important topics.
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Episode 442: The Get Big Era (w/ Special Guests: Tara Raghuveer & Josh Poe)
Our friends Tara and Josh of TUF (Tenant Union Federation) join us to talk the latest in tenant organizing around the country and the importance of that organizing in the south in particular.
Check their work out here:
https://tenantfederation.org/
Episode 441: Everything Is Mystical (w/ special guest Alexander Aviña)
Our old pal Alexander Aviña stops by to talk about Argentinians eating tree bark, Javier Milei's obsession with Zionism, and the world descending into multiple overlapping holy wars, before pivoting to talk about the state of the U.S. empire in Spring 2026
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Episode 440: Grand Nephews of Anarchy
This week we look at the rise of the jester and jesternetics, followed by a rousing new journey into the mind of The Ethicist
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Episode 439: The 141 Million
Is Trump the Red Heifer? The Beast? Or the Beast's useful idiot? Can the 141 million be saved? Tune in to find out.
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SUNDAY SERVICE 5: He Is Not Here
Part Five of a series we started—and thought we ended—all the way back in 2020. This time we're looking at resurrection stories, fake friends, the historical context of the Jesus movement, and much more.
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Episode 438: Christ vs. Khan (w/ special guest Jasper Nathaniel)
Journalist Jasper Nathaniel joins us to talk about both Christian and Jewish variants of Zionism, Israel's expansion into Lebanon, the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, and finally the recent pogroms of Palestinians in the West Bank
FACT CHECK: Billy Graham was not a Calvinist, and was actually a Southern Baptist
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Episode 437: The A Triple K Conference (w/ Special Guest Alexander Aviña)
Friend of the show Professor Alexander Aviña joins us as we talk the latest on Iran, as well as the latest crimes of the Donroe Doctrine in Latin America among other topics of import.
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Bonus: Large and in Kharg (w/ special guests Pendejo Time)
Jake and Thomas from Pendejo Time stop by to talk about the Unc Draft, the challenges of invading Iran, the cyber targeting of drunk drivers, so-called "alpine divorces," and the state of Texas's quest for establishing a "Yall Street" in opposition to Wall Street
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Episode 436: The Fascism of Fools
We revisit the Tablet article "Zionism for Everybody" with more insights, the latest developments re: the offensive of Iran and the resulting global financial turmoil, and how one day you're a STEM major at Cal Tech and the next you have to sleep with one eye open.
Bonus: What Do You Do When You're Lonesome (w/ Special Guest: Jonathan Bernstein)
Friend of the show and journalist Jonathan Bernstein (Rolling Stone, Oxford American, et al) drops by to talk about his new Biography of singer Justin Townes Earle entitled "What Do You Do When You're Lonesome" available now wherever fine books are sold.
Episode 435: Pandæmonium
All the demons both great (Netanyahu, Trump) and small (Bret Stephens, Jake Paul, Live Nation Guys) are here.
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Episode 434: II Huckabees 6:66
Name the little burgers after me.
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Episode 433: When People Fear the Government, there is Tiranë
Look, the food supply will fall apart if we don't have it
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Episode 432: The Sheridan Effect (w/ Special Guest: Bryan Quinby)
Friend of the show Bryan Quinby drops by to talk about Kid Rock and RFK Jr., why he sometimes misses doing a politics show, the latest goings on, and we check in on a few guys of course.
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Episode 431: Claude Seeding
Spent more time on AI than we meant too (and stand by very little of it in the sober light of the morning!) Also hit some of the other topics du jour toward the end.
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Episode 430: The Organ Sheriff
Diners, Prions, and Drive-bys.
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Episode 429: The Price is Blight
Tarence and Tom discuss the ongoing situation in Minneapolis, whether or not poor kids benefit from their proximity to their well-to-do friends, Giancarlo Esposito's call for revolution, and naturally what would The Price is Right have looked like in feudal times.
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Episode 428: Carneyval
We cover Trump vs Carney at Davos, the lib and middle powers' markets reaction to it all, and why no matter how bad America sucks we'll never let the Dutch talk down to us.
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**UNLOCKED** Be Loud, Form A Crowd (w/ special guests Brooke Bartholomew, David Gilbert-Pederson, and Aisha Gomez)
Unlocked premium episode in which we're joined by a panel of guests from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to talk about what's going on in their city: Operation Metro Surge, the execution of Renee Good, how locals are fighting back, and the long lineage of resistance in Minneapolis.
Links to support:
Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee: https://www.miracmn.com/
Minnesota Immigrant Movement: https
Episode 427: Heaven's Dress Code
If it happened this week, pretty sure we talked about it on this one. No worries if not. Support us at: patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty
Episode 426: Paper Jaguars (w/ special guest Alexander Aviña)
This week we're joined by returning guest Alexander Aviña to talk about Trump's invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro, as well as what it may mean for both Latin America and the world, before finally pivoting to a discussion about ICE's murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Episode 425: Hopesick
In which we try valiantly to cheer you up!
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Episode 424: The Ghost Of Christmas Past Participle
Debrief from the holidays with Tarence and Tom
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Episode 423: GOMAD or Go Home
We discuss whether or not an old powerlifting protocol for gaining mass cures seasonal depression or not. We also discuss the Intercept's piece on this week's congressional votes regarding the continued antagonizing of Venezuela (link below).
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/17/venezuela-war-powers-vote-congress/
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Episode 422: Bargain Bin Futures
There's two types of people in this world: those who will let their backyards be disintegrated into rubble and those who won't.
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Episode 421: Cart Blanche
Aaron & Tom review the state of the holiday retail climate, the history of America's vapor economics, the CNN x Kalshi collab, and financing Air Jordans at 22% interest.
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Episode 420: Blart of Darkness (w/ Special Guest: Eamon Whalen)
Journalist Eamon Whalen drops by to discuss his latest for Mother Jones "How a Mercenary Became a Minneapolis Mall Cop" (link Below)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/crg-mercenary-mall-cop-nathan-seabrook-minneapolis-george-floyd-protest-paramilitary/
Episode 419: Two for the Money (w/ Special Guest: Manny Fidel)
Aaron and Tom are joined by writer, producer, and podcaster Manny Fidel to discuss the proliferation of online sports betting and its implications on society in the context of a US economy that's increasingly immaterial in conjunction with the "male loneliness epidemic."
Manny's GQ piece can be found here:
https://www.gq.com/story/online-gambling-is-ruining-sports-bars
Preorder Manny's forthcomi
Episode 418: The Eviction Kings (w/ Special Guest: Thomas Birmingham)
This week we talk the recently released Epstein emails and interview journalist Thomas Birmingham about his piece in The Nation "The Eviction Kings" (linked below).
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/american-landmark-evictions-israel-electra/
Episode 417: Springabreakers (w/ Special Guest: Steve Sladkowski)
Friend of the show Steve Sladkowski of PUP the band joins us as we discuss voter suppression in Kentucky with regards to the New York mayoral race, Zohran's victory in that race and what hope we can take from it as well as what we would like to see from the left going forward nationally, good and bad A.I. bubbles, UPS plane crash in Louisville, and the ongoing perils of being governed by drunks an
Episode 416: The World's Largest Haunted House
Aaron and Tom discuss how few things in American life are what they seem, Hurricane Melissa, Trump's latest bullshit. Plus some audio of our Halloween special available now at
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Episode 415: A World Of Thieves
Unfortunately we had to discuss the gooning article in Harper's. From there we went on to talk about the growing "China envy" among Silicon Valley's tech elite, Draft King's entry onto Wall Street, how China's approach to AI differs from America's approach to AI, and, finally, why so many pundits still think that centrism is the best way to engage with politics
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Episode 414: Maximizing Hypertrophy
This week we're looking at Trumponomics, how Nazified the GOP and country at large has become, and Doug Wilson's vision for a theocratic dictatorship
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Episode 413: The Monsters Of Midway (w/ special guests Evelyn Vargas and Antonio Gutierrez)
This week we're speaking with Evelyn Vargas and Antonio Gutierrez from Organized Communities Against Deporations (OCAD), about all the recent things going on in Chicago: Operation Midway Blitz, the Sept 30 raid on the South Shore Apartments building, Trump sending in the National Guard and declaring war on Antifa, and how the Democrats fit into all this
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Episode 412: For Those Afraid To Rock
This week we're having a truth and reconciliation hearing for the libs
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Episode 411: Awakening The Warrior Spirit
Catching up on the latest news after a brief hiatus: Charlie Kirk memorial and everything therein; Kamala's new book about the 2024 election; and debating whether or not democracy really can survive
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**UNLOCKED** Parasitic Ambition (w/ special guests Josh Poe and Haley O'Shaughnessy)
We're unlocking this week's Patreon episode due to popular demand. Louisville Tenants Union reps Haley O'Shaughnessy and Josh Poe drop in to update us on their latest efforts both locally and nationally and the challenges and opportunities with tenant organizing in the era of ICE proliferation, as well as the use of Charlie Kirk's murder as pretense to go after the left.
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Episode 410: The Family Agenda (w/ special guests Olivia Katbi and Mitch Green)
This week we're taking a break from recent news to hear from Olivia Katbi, co-chair of Portland DSA, and Mitch Green, Councilor on the Portland City Council, to talk about their organizing in the City of Roses: their strategies and tactics, their successes and failures, and the issues facing many Portlanders in the early 21st century
Portland DSA: https://portlanddsa.org/
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Episode 409: Throwing The Circuit Breaker
Documenting another turbulent week in the American Years of Lead
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Episode 408: Scared Straight For Nukes (w/ special guest Mina Parkison)
This week we're taking a look at Trump's health scare, Florida ending vaccine mandates, dog autism, the impending recession, and an article in Politico about the inevitable AI doomsday
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Episode 407: Spirit Halloween Party
Cracker Barrel is BASED, Democrats are COOKED, Vaccines are OUT, martial law is IN, artificial intelligence is COOL, Zohran Mamdani is the reason your life SUCKS
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Episode 406: Performing American Life
James Dobson (Rest In Piss Bozo), trumpet or sax?, phones in schools, AI data centers, and the data center mine in eastern Kentucky
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Episode 405: A Jobs Program For Neurotics
Probably the last entry in a multi-part series looking at Frances Yates's "Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition"
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Episode 404: How We Destroyed The World
Dean Cain is joining ICE...
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Episode 403: War Boy Academy
We start off this week with some light discussion regarding a few items in the news lately, then pivot to a more serious discussion expanding on Monday's Patreon episode about the ongoing catastrophe and genocide in Gaza. We end with a lighthearted but still somewhat concerning article about a new AI school in Texas.
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Episode 402: The Secret Wisdom Of The Ages
Crime, Ozzy & Hulk Hogan, Rerun, Drake & Kendrick, Paranormal beliefs, Eddington, how we need a new separation of church & witchcraft, the new trad pop song burning up the streets, we live in hell
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Episode 401: Gotta Have Them Libs
This week we're talking "toxic empathy," more Epstein-Trump news, and finally the new Democratic formula for success: saying more curse words
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BONUS: Six Degrees Of Ed Begley Jr. (w/ special guest Ed Begley Jr.)
We managed to catch up with actor and environmentalist Ed Begley Jr. while he was in town for Harry Dean Stanton Fest. We talked about a number of things like, of course, Harry Dean Stanton, as well as demonic possession, our favorite movies, and why a hot pot of magma will make you well-liked among all your friends. Also, happy birthday to our dearly departed Harry Dean Stanton.
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Episode 400: A Different Level Of Criminality
Recorded on 7/2/25, so a little late on getting this one out. Nonetheless, a fun dive into Herodotus and the story of Cyrus The Great
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Episode 399: Venetian Polymath Diet (w/ special guest Steve Sladkowski)
Our old pal Steve Sladkowski from the band Pup stops by to talk tariffs, Canadian politics, TikTok, Drake's abs, and what peak performance looks like
Go see Pup on tour soon: https://www.puptheband.com/, and be sure to check out their new album
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Episode 398: If You Don't Fight, You Lose (w/ special guest Tracy Rosenthal)
This week we're joined by returning guest Tracy Rosenthal to discuss the Zohran Mamdani mayoral campaign: how it was shaped, how it won the Democratic Primary, what it may look like going forward, and how the rest of the media and political class is reacting to it. But first, we catch up on some housekeeping re: Israel and the U.S.'s war against Iran, and talk very briefly about Peter Thiel's fixa
Episode 397: You Did Not Seek This Moment, This Moment Sought You
Covering everything from the Big Beautiful Bill, to Ted Cruz's interview with Tucker Carlson, to Israel's latest attempts to pull the United States into another war(s), to Trump's potential nuking of Iran
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Too Much Goodness Is A Sin Today (w/ special guest Jason P. Woodbury)
For this special bonus episode we're joined by Jason P. Woodbury from Aquarian Drunkard's Transmissions podcast, to talk about everything from Christian music, to the Michael Tait allegations, to the mystic/freak-folk scene of the mid-2000s, to the crossovers between Ufology and Christianity
Please go check out Jason's podcast on iTunes or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ErL7gvZD6v3HJ4Nx5
Episode 396: Rat-Tail King Of Kentucky
After some not inconsiderable preamble, we look at two Kentucky-specific stories today: one about a New Age guru roofing magnate, and another about the Kentuckian millionaire who tortured another millionaire for bitcoin in Manhattan
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Episode 395: Your Lucky Episode
Don't put it in your pocket
Episode 394: Bring The Kiln (w/ special guest Devin O'Shea)
Writer Devin O'Shea joins us to talk about the recent tornado that hit St. Louis: how it has revealed the socio-economic past, present, and future, and what we can expect in a world where climate change will continue to disrupt the social landscape
Read Devin's article here: https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/st-louis-tornado-delmar-divide-recovery/
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