Trillbilly Worker's Party

Well lap it up folks, because this is the only Hillbilly Elegy content you're getting from us this year. We cover the film very briefly, talk some more about Dolly and Obama, then wrap things up with stirring round of Speak Your Piece. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Author and urban theorist Mike Davis joins us to talk about the political economy of rural America, and about what insights we can take from the 2020 election. GoFundMe for our cohost Aaron Thorpe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/aaron-thorpe-car-accident?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1 Check out our episode with Chapo about Hillbilly Elegy: https://www.patreon.com/posts/475-hills-have-44321527 And last but not least, support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Please support political prisoners in Georgia: https://atlsolidarity.org/ This week it's apparently international men's day on the pod. This means Tom gets his own theme park, just like Dolly Parton. Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

It's another week of begrudgingly covering the news. Is Trump attempting a coup? What can Biden's transition team tell us about the future? How will honest Americans like the MAGA Florist and Stormin' Norman fare under a repressive Biden regime? Tune in to find out... Tarence has a new article about Congressman Hal Rogers up at Dissent Magazine: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/hal-rogerss-kentucky-kingdom Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Trillbillies coverage of Election Day 2020 Also please welcome our newest Trillbilly member, Aaron Thorpe, who we couldn't bus up to Kentucky for this episode but who was on our most recent Patreon episode and will be on our upcoming episodes: @posadist_trapgd on Twitter if you'd like to say hello And please check out Tarence's article at Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4905-a-view-from-trump-country And finally you can support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Halloween Special Featuring Stories From Special Guests: Gangsta Boo, The First Lady of Three 6 Mafia. Her Catalog is streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, and all the usual places and you can catch her now on Run The Jewels' HolyCalamavote Special now streaming on HBOMax. Scarah, The Damsel of the Doomed! Host of Horror Web, and the Tub of Terror which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjeYPlaunEEtKmoqUkUcWMQ Ken Layne, Host of the inimitable Desert Oracle Radio available wherever fine podcasts are consumed and the author of the forthcoming Desert Oracle, Vol. 1: "Strange True Tales From The American Southwest" available for pre-order here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374722388 Daniel Pujol, Nashville based punk rock writer-musician. He's got a patreon with music and poetry you should check out here: https://www.patreon.com/pujoldotrocks

On this installation of Year Zero we sit down with author and scholar Jordan T. Camp to talk about the work of geographer Clyde Woods and his book "Development Arrested." We cover the political economy of white supremacy, how to study a region, how the planter bloc never really went away after the Civil War, and how the blues came to be born. If you like content like this and would like to support us, go to www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

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

(The audio gets better a couple minutes into the episode) This week we cover: the earliest known Devil's Milkshake (at least in Trillbilly canon anyways); the Hillbilly Elegy trailer; and the McGrath vs. McConnell Senate debate Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

For this very special bonus episode we're joined by the hosts of the Black in Appalachia podcast, Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin and Angela Dennis, as well as the director of the Black in Appalachia project, William Isom, to discuss the history of the black experience in Appalachia. Check out the Black in Appalachia podcast on iTunes, Spotify, and wherever else you get your podcasts. You can also visit their website at https://www.blackinappalachia.org/