Trillbilly Worker's Party

We take all your questions and confessions in this, our 100th episode. We're learning and growing ever more powerful by the day... Come on out to our show with STREET FIGHT on June 14th, 9pm, at Best Friend Bar in Lexington, KY. $10 cover. And sign up for our Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we trace our pleasure lineages with Minister Turner, talk more about incrementalism, and examine how Sunday School really messed us all up. Send us questions and confessions for the 100th episode at trillbillyworkersparty@gmail.com, or DM us!! Support us at our Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Topics this week include: male fragility, Tom becoming a first responder, Kentucky's governor race, and abortion. If you wanna hear part 2 of this, in which we dive into the lives of some of the horniest people who ever lived, look for it on our Patreon this Sunday: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Writer Hannah Gais (@hannahgais) joins us to talk about her article in The Baffler about what the late Soviet Union's obsession with conspiracy theories can tell us about our current political and cultural moment. After that we discuss an article in the New York Times about an Appalachian coding nonprofit that turned out to be a fraud. Read Hannah's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/psychic-healing-at-the-end-of-history-gais Read the New York Times article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/mined-minds-west-virginia-coding.html And support our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we dig into the Kentucky Derby, the State Department's plans for the Arctic, and another article about how insane rich people are. Please support our Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

We debut some new characters, such as Ace Frehley Keyes, and Tom tells us about his trip to Miami. Then we do a little bit of reading from the New York Times about some rich kids who are under the illusion that they're revolutionaries. Support our Patreon!!!! www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

The gang recaps the CNN town hall debates, Elizabeth Warren's student debt forgiveness plan, and how to be a good wedding guest.

Kate Wagner, the genius behind the website mcmansionhell.com, schools us in architecture, degrowth, the Notre Dame fire, and why we'll get to have nice things under communism. Support our Patreon at: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Friend of the show Chad Vigorous (@prettybadlefty) drops in to talk Assange, ecofascism, Bernie, and weightlifting. Support Chad's Patreon here: www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse And support our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Professor Joshua Clover (@joshuaclov3r) stops by to talk Gilets Jaunes, rioting, class struggle in the 21st century, and the challenges of the next 50 years. Check out the professor's book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2084-riot-strike-riot And subscribe to our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty