Trillbilly Worker's Party

We're unlocking this week's premium Patreon episode, after technical difficulties thwarted our plan to release a new free episode this week. We're really sorry about that, we're trying our best, please don't be mad at us!! We'll have a new episode to you by the end of the weekend. This is still a good episode though, mostly because we discover that Tom has some serious acting chops.

This week we're joined by Tyler Mahan Coe of Cocaine and Rhinestones, a podcast about the history of country music. We talk about some popular songs, such as Merle Haggard's "Okie From Muskogee" and Loretta Lynn's "The Pill," as well as other miscellaneous country music stuff. The song at the end of this episode is "Winter's End" by Michael Howard.

We recorded this before the infamous last minute teachers' pension vote in the Kentucky General Assembly. But it's probably pretty good context for what's going on in the state overall.

New post up on Patreon. This is just a preview. Like and subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/posts/17822310

This week's episode is brought to you by Ira Glass and the good libs over at Buffalo Wild Wings.

This episode is like a vulgar noirish video game. It ends with me and Matt starting a new religion that has its own theme song and everything. But you've gotta listen through the first hour of the show just to find out about it!! Good luck!!

The original trio holes up in a log cabin in the woods to plot their next move.

Scott Benson (@bombsfall) drops in to answer a burning question: what was it like to be straight edge in medieval times? Jk this episode is mostly about his killer video game, Night in the Woods. Enjoy!

Special Trillbillies West Virginia correspondent and folklorist Emily Hilliard and Jacobin Magazine contributor Cathy Kunkel got some great interviews with striking teachers in West Virginia, and so we present them to you here as a demonstration of what organized labor and direct action looks like in the Mountain State.

For our latest episode, we welcome back Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) of the New Republic to talk about her recent piece on the legacy of Billy Graham (the preacher, not the wrestler) in light of his recent death. We also talk about how the paranoid style of American Evangelicalism brought us to this current moment, and how Graham helped usher that in and bring it into the mainstream.