Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 153: The Kentucky Axis of Evil

Episode Date: July 2, 2020

Hop on board the poonanni train as we learn about the Kentucky Axis of Evil and Amy McGrath's whereabouts on 9/11 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Well, I'm just going to go ahead and say it right off the top. How canceled would a man be if he wore a shirt that read Poonani Train on it? History would tell us he would not be canceled at all. Okay, good. I'm going to wear the shirt that says Poonani Train on it then. You know how back in the day trains were powered by i guess logs and steam i don't even know what the fuck how a train even works now uh what is the punani i can tell you how the train at dollywood works tell us punani? Does it work off stereotypes? Hillbilly stereotypes? Yes, in fact, in the form of coal.

Burning coal. They burn crystal meth in the... They say it's like the last train, functional daily running train or some shit. I don't know what they say, but that's run by coal. Burning coal. When it starts slowing down and losing its steam, everybody just starts yelling, welfare queen.

Welfare queen. It just keeps going. It just keeps magically rolling. What is the Punani train powered off of? Punani! The good times, baby um all aboard i was reading in the newspaper so to answer your earlier question tanya no there's nothing in the paper about juneteenth this week except your speak your piece which made it

wow great they were afraid not to i'd say tanya they do have a very fascinating story though about how abandoned mine land abandoned mine cleanup programs are nearly broke Like, it's bad, folks. I saw that. I saw that article. Just some poor bastard has passed go and been down to an orange creek. Yeah. Yeah, that was me six years ago.

What does it say? What's actually bankrupt? Our morals. Our morals, yeah. As evidenced by the Punani Train t-shirt. The abandoned mine land cleanup programs.

So you know how they have to put up bonds when they open up a permit or apply for a permit? Yeah, but I thought all that was kind of fairytale anyway. Oh, I mean's it's absolutely that's long been like some tooth fairy shit as far as i could tell it's always been um an illusion a mirage but just finally admitting it i guess well it's i think the full scope of

it is becoming clearer and clearer as the industry... So I guess coronavirus has kind of been the death nail on the industry. It says here coal production has dropped 26%. Zero. It's one of those oil things where we're now digging coal at a 26% loss. Yeah.

But it's the Black Jewel and Revelation bankruptcy that threatens the the cleanup funds here in kentucky i mean like it's the gift that keeps on giving baby well it has to be in some in some significant percentage due to jim justice's unpaid um fees fines just in kentucky because they're to the tune of millions i mean it's pretty funny concept the cleanup funds it was basically like look if you want to destroy this mountain you're gonna have to pay a couple hundred million dollars up front so we can like spray fescue grass on it over the next 15 years. Honestly, it really was like the, it was foreshadowing and it was kind of like the futuristic or the get out in front of it.

I don't know how to say it, but it was like the early carbon capturing nonsense. Like that's based on the same premise. It was like the early carbon capturing nonsense. It's based on the same premise. Is carbon capture in the Green New Deal? It was attempted in the Obama years. That was the Obama Green New Deal cap and trade. I think that's what they were trying to run the Punani train off of. Or not just carbon. Carbon credits. Yeah, not just carbon. Carbon credits.

Yeah, not just carbon capture, but credits. Carbon crediting. Carbon crediting. The good stuff. Are we releasing this today? Probably tomorrow. This is Wednesday, July 1st. Probably tomorrow, July 2nd.

Well, either way, I want to do a shout out. First thing. For July 1st. Probably tomorrow, July 2nd. Well, either way, I want to do a shout-out. First thing. For July 1st. One, today's the beginning of the best month of the year. God damn it. Two. Is it your birthday month? God damn it.

Already? I forewarned you of this. I've been talking about it since April. Let me tell you what you've done. You've went from taking a birthday, since I've known you, taking a birthday week to taking a birthday month to taking a birthday season.

And now you can't see this, people, but she's voguing. That was for your eyes only, Tom. Friendship is a really beautiful and amazing thing because any other person if they took a birthday month, I would say that person's insufferable. But since you're one of my best friends. You don't think I'm insufferable?

I just assumed that you did. But you, because I know that you're such a masochist, you love, that's why you love me. That's true. I love the pain that you bring me. Because I cause you so much suffering. You can't stay away. This is true. While we're doing shout outs here, I did just get this down.

I didn't even get to do mine. Oh, I'm sorry. Go for it. Go for it. Jesus, fuck. Sorry. Go for it. Unless you're going to shout out yourself.

No, I'm not shouting out myself. God. I need to shout out a listener who's also one of my favorite people, Stephanie Tyree. Today's her birthday. Okay. Her birthday. She's out in West Virginia being so hot, so great, so smart. Best mom, best butt, all all around best shout out to steph it's

her birthday today um love you wish i was with you okay i guess this is running tomorrow i don't know but she always texts me she the other day she texted me and she said, I just had to pause the Trillbillies episode at a minute 50 to laugh at you. Because my favorite bit on Trillbillies is you not have heard hearing of something that's happened in the news. And Tom and Taryn's explaining to you what has happened. And you reacted in real time the way all of us have reacted to that thing already. This show would not work if you actually read the news. I tried to start, and we just started tanking immediately. I had to stop.

Well, shout out to Stephanie Terry. Happy birthday, Stephanie. And also, this is going out to Drew Gray and her husband, Joey, who have their third wedding anniversary coming up on July 8th and 9th, which I was admonished was for religious reasons. But happy anniversary, Drew and Joey. Oh, my God. Yes.

Happy anniversary. And OK, we have one more shout out. I'm sorry. This is so great. Can we just make this a shout out show? I love it already. OK. You guys.

OK. Remember when we did the Q&A? Remember when we did the q a remember when we did the q a show uh-huh or was that our 100th episode episode 100 yeah okay if you all recall i'm pretty sure this was the that that episode i got a question from listeners who were trying to get pregnant and they had messaged me and asked if i if i could get had any advice from for them because they had heard me talk about doing a spring equinox fertility ceremony for a friend who then got pregnant do y'all remember this yes i do well they messaged me back in january to let me know that they um were were pregnant uh-huh and thanked me and that they were pregnant and thanked me and that was so sweet and then

Monday, yesterday, two days ago look I got a picture of their baby they just had their baby. Oh nice. Congratulations. This Trillbillies willed this baby to be. Good looking child. Truly. I know most babies are kind of iffy.

This is a cute baby, right? It's a good looking baby. Truly. I know most babies are kind of iffy. This is a cute baby, right? It's a good looking baby. Full head of hair. I'd kill to have a head of hair like that child. Truly, this baby has more hair than Tom. No, that's not true. I don't know. What's so funny is that I'm not really bald at all, but I've made it such a bit that people think I'm bald.

And they're really surprised when they see that I kind of do have a full head. Tom, the whole point is you lower expectations so that people are pleasantly surprised. I got one more shout-out before we roll on here. Happy literal born day, Margo. So glad you're in the world. You're a Trillbillies baby now. Keep the shout outs rolling

this shout out goes out to to joey who is one half of the aforementioned drew and joey sounds like my man's got birthday coming up on july 27th and just want to get that out here before i forget it absolutely not that's a leo. We will have to shout that out in Leo season. 27th? July? That's Leo. That's Leo season. Absolutely.

Are you going to argue with me about this? You're wrong, Tanya. Fucking A. July 27th is a Leo birthday. Oh, it's his golden birthday. All right. I'll allow it. Okay. Joey's going to be 27.

But Joey's a Leoo let's be clear drew says that they're also i should say um they're on drew i'm not sure drew i think i said drew is her and i'm not i'm i don't know if that's a fact or not so drew i apologize if i've misgendered you. In any case, their favorite happy birthday song is Fried Chicken Country Hog. It's your birthday. Hot dog. So, sending that out to you, Big Joe.

Wow. Even though you're Leo. I mean, it's also... Joey, I'm a Leo, too. I make little apologies for it. From one Leo to another. It's also like a shout-out within a shout-out, because it's the same person you just shouted out.

Anyway, let's get the show rolling. How about it? Anything worth doing is worth doing three times. My shout-out is to Jim Justice, toms uh what my uh shout out is to jim justice who's one of his family's companies would cost 134 million dollars to reclaim yeah or the minds that belong to it anyways friends we are living in an environment that is um at war with us. And obviously, we all know this. We're in the middle of a pandemic. But it is, you know, it just piles on.

It just piles on. And when I saw this in the newspaper, that was my first thought today. I'm going to get killed by a landslide just because a friend messaged me after we had talked about uh the only thing that people really ask of local elected officials is erosion control they said they were gonna make t-shirts left us against erosion. Terrence needs that t-shirt. It's a very important issue, in my opinion. Terrence, how long would you say you've been against erosion?

At least a solid 20 years. At least a solid two decades. I've not been aware of erosion for 20 years. The only erosion I'm aware of is our 20 years. The only erosion I'm aware of is our eroding social safety net, am I right? That one I knew about 20 years ago, definitely.

The very first time I ever heard landslide by the Dixie Chicks. You mean the chicks? The chicks, my bad. They are no longer The chicks They could have just done the chicksy dicks That would have been good

The chicksy dicks, yeah I agree with that That would have been cool Tom I'm sending you some Speak your piece, we don't have to read them this week If you don't want but I figured I might as well send them to you If we don't read them you can at least read them after the episode and get some well we already read mine last week when i sent it so yeah no no need for that tom

why it made it in though there's a lot of salacious ones this week they've moved on mostly from the black like uh you know like i saw? Like, you know, like, I saw you with so-and-so. Oh, yeah. I know you're together. The creepy. A lot of scandal. Back and forth. Here's a weird one.

That old bitch that keeps yelling about Juneteenth. I'm joking. I threw that in there for laughs. I know they won't print that. They won't print the word bitch, but they print KKK excitedly with exclamation points. They did print the word sex this week. Oh, nice. Read us that one.

Let's talk about sex, baby. Let's talk about you and me. Here's just a little bit more of a hint to a young gentleman who went behind his uncle's back and tried to have sex with his uncle's wife. She can't speak about it, but I can. I'm going to laugh and gloat when this man has nothing and his wife truly finds out what he did behind her back. I can prove it. did what he did behind her back i can prove it people at speak your peace always claim they have receipts but i've not seen any brought forward i think they need to amend the speak your peace rules to allow for receipts yeah printed receipts printed receipts oh here it is

here's the text i'm pleased that we have at least two politicians in these United States who will stand up and tell the truth. Oh, who are they? I can't wait to hear this. You're going to love it. One you might have heard of, Tanya. The other you definitely have. One is Donald John Trump. The other is Terry Adams.

Oh, fuck me. You've got to be kidding me. Judge Adams is a fine young man. And he told the truth about what was going on with that march in the city of Wattsburg, which was so silly. I'd like to see more people stand up and tell the facts. Nobody's against black people. Well, I mean, I, you know, I need to see some more paperwork on that.

Need to see some receipts on that one, actually. Oh, my God. Okay, we need to pause here. Did you all see that a teacher in Pike County got fired yesterday? Got fired this week for blackface? No. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. When did they do blackface?

This week. Two days ago. They did blackface this week wait wait wait wait when did they do blackface this week two days they did blackface this week you all miss this yeah i miss this so like this isn't one of those situations where like they found it they uncovered it oh no oh no this bitch okay she's a middle school teacher in pike county she put on her snapchat or facebook or something. A picture of her in a black face mask. Like a exfoliation mask or something. You know, like she's rubbed and it's black. It's probably got charcoal

or something in it. You know what I'm talking about? Wait a second. Was she doing blackface or was she doing skin care face? Both. This is how it became blackface. Her comment said, you think i can get free health care now oh my god what okay but okay y'all y'all are shocked y'all are so shocked that maybe i shouldn't ask my next question but i'm going to anyway so she people were outraged at first she worked she worked for belfry school in pike county at first so people were outraged. She worked for Belfry School in Pike County. At first, people were outraged, of course,

and they started flooding Belfry with complaints, and Belfry started blocking everybody. Oh, classic. Finally, the school board superintendent got a piece of it, and she was forced to resign within a day. But here's my question. Why are people not mobilizing in that way against terry adams comments are they not at least as damaging

from the highest ranking official in our county as a blackface is it just like the performance of of speaking out against blackface is so much more rewarding that people don't actually want to hold a local officials accountable for the like tyrant violent racist things they say see i think i think terry's thing is is it's vile don't get me wrong but i think the thing is it's like you believe terry's so dumb he doesn't know the difference you know what i mean this this person obviously presumably if they're teaching in public school in a county with you know there's i mean there's plenty of black communities in pike county there are black communities everywhere but i'm saying saying like, I mean, in Appalachia sometimes we tell the story,

if we like to act like there's like, oh, it's just as black as anywhere else. And that's not exactly true, but that also discounts the experience of people that live here that are black. Yeah. But what, yeah, I just,

you just expect a little bit more out of a public school teacher than you do Terry Adams. A public elected official? So you think the intent, it's the intent? I mean, it's just like Terry's just watched Fox News nonstop for the last 12 goddamn years. That is just like ugly and mean-spirited, you know what I mean? Well, but.

Terry's just goddamn stupid. I think that, to me, the difference, and I can't speak for everybody. I don't know if everybody sees it this way. But for me, the difference is that the teacher's thing is explicitly racist. Nothing Terry said is explicitly racist. It's all that coded racist shit. Dog whistle. Yeah, it's all the dog whistle shit that the right-wingers always go with.

Does that make sense? Yeah, no, totally. That's flagrantly racist the teacher yeah i don't uh yeah i mean one we're not the arbiters of such things but two yeah that's exactly right you know that's i don't know i don't know what do you what do you think what do you tanya i don't know that's why i asked i don't know i mean it just i just immediately i can't believe y'all miss this i immediately like so many people were posting the phone like the screenshot and of this girl and the phone number to the board of education and like she was fired within a day and i see what you're saying you're saying why don't we have that same it just feels bigger about about out and terry yeah and i'm not trying to say

a school teacher has less power than him because he's a high he is the highest ranking official he has a lot of power but teachers also have a ton of fucking power and like you can't talk about racism without talking about power right and structures and so like hitting going for power structures that have the power to create racist policy, create racist people as a teacher, like, they both are in positions of power. But I just, I've been trying to understand the last couple days why the response to these things were so different, because it's hard for me to understand. I guess. I agree with you, but I think the thing is there are plenty of people that would say Terry

has plausible deniability whereas the thing is flagrantly racist. Okay. Well, I mean, what did Terry say exactly? He was like, they're like Hitler. They're trying to destroy monuments. Discrimination does not exist. monuments discrimination does not exist discrimination does not exist he said that has in our little county

yeah he says that um well even in the world racism only exists in our minds and the people who pull the race card the people who pull the race card quote are the real racist right right right yeah i mean again that's very racist to um to us but like blackface and saying you think i can get health coverage now like that is uh that's uh i'm not yeah i wasn't trying to like debate which one was worse because that's totally useless, but just trying to understand the difference in reactions, local reactions. I mean, I think you hit on something interesting there. Like, people can get a teacher fired.

Like, unless we, like, arm the courthouse with guns, like, storm it with guns, like, we can't get Terry Adams out of there until we vote him out. Or like he resigns yeah we can only shame him and resign it which is crazy i mean the young people i've been working with like i feel like such a dick saying over and over again like trying to explain because it's unfathomable it's unfathomable to anyone especially people new to political process that there's nothing we can do about this man nothing and I'm like no you guys there really is not there's nowhere we can file a complaint there's nowhere we can like we can't get him fired and so maybe that is it maybe it's just like the process to holding elected officials accountable is so dire it's like so difficult it's going to inevitably cause all of us to lose a lot of sleep

and uh just like i mean in real time we don't have like the human capacity to even try to run that type of campaign we're slowly realizing you know what i mean and so that's true it's like they could easily in a day they made calls and got her fire we could call the courthouse for a month straight all day long every day we could show up to the courthouse every day and he may not resign and there will be nothing we can do about it in fact and and the opposite case too we might just embolden them you know what i mean right like the more you badger some of these folks the more just like belligerent and emboldened they get whereas like the teacher is like obviously clear-cut in the wrong you know what i mean it's like kind of an open and shut like most people would

agree that that's yeah just vile well anyway we can cut this out if we want i just have been like I think it's interesting it's been hard to understand people's reaction and like because so much of the you know like move new like action by white people especially locally and

corporate certainly just feel so performative right now it's just like well going after your own elected official isn't as sexy as you know call blastering uh blackface all over your instagram and shit so you can say that you're holding this blackface bitch accountable i mean that's that's um that's a conversation that i'm not gonna wade into this week because I feel like I've been canceled about 18 times in the last three or four weeks. But the whole,

the whole idea behind getting people fired is, uh, something that I, I don't want it to get out there that trail Billy support just getting people fired. Um, but I don't know. This case is,

uh, I'm not going to tell you how i really feel about it because i will get canceled for that but uh i do feel like it does necessitate a bit of nuance um i don't i don't ever i don't think it's a good precedence to get people fired but at the same time this is somebody who's molding young minds, and this is obviously that that's how she feels. I don't know. That's not who you want molding, the minds. Yeah, I don't know. It's all disturbing either way, but.

Yeah. To the old witch here in Doty Creek, every time I have weeds growing around my house, you call the state police, and they fly their little helicopter up here looking for a pot patch. I haven't grown pot in the last 15 years. You do. That's what the neighbors hang out with you and do.

This was one of my favorites. Now, now, now. If she was really a witch, she'd be, because I thought this is where it was going, she'd be plucking all them weeds and using them in ceremony. Or she'd be flying on her broom and looking for the pot patch. Witch cop. A witch cop. Real witches ain't narcs, damn it. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh, is it that bad? Is this the one I think you're referring to? Oh, God. Don't even read it. I can't handle it. I'm weak. I'm weak this week.

Oh my god. Alright, I'm going to go for it. I'm going in. I'm going in. Actually, let me read something else and then we'll get back to that, because that might be a good segue into our conversation about the goings-on here. Jesus.

Stick a pin in that. Problem with making videos on cell phones is they come back to haunt you. I'd like to know from a certain lady if she'll ever confess to her big ordeal over there at the Traveler's Motel in Virginia. That's why you don't make videos. They get shown to people. Your big leopard skin lingerie outfit. Yes, it's out there

and it's going to cost you too when your old man finds out. That's salacious. It's a salacious week. There's a lot of racy stuff in here this week. To a certain woman. I was just wondering what you tell your husband when you go to meet your boyfriend. You telling you have to go change his diapers twice a day or take him to the doctor and give him a little bubble bath? I just wonder about that. And then he talks about me like I'm a dog at Worthless Piece of Trash.

Men are so interested in the actions of women. And then he talks about me like I'm a dog at Worthless Piece of Trash. Men are so interested in the actions of women. They are just like real. I mean, what do these people have to do with this? They ain't the husband or the other man. How do they fucking care? That one kind of sounds like it says, and then he talks about me like a dog at Worthless Piece of Trash. I think that was a woman that wrote that. worthless piece of trash. I don't know. You think that was a woman that wrote that?

It kind of sounds like it might have been. Oh, boy. There's two in here that are giving me pause. But I'm going for it. I'm going for it. Here we go. I don't think I have the energy. Look, I don't know if I have the energy to withstand another battle over free speech.

Even though the really funny thing about people getting mad about me saying it was okay to print that speak your piece, even though I don't even know if I really believe that or not. It was kind of a bit. Oh, did people get mad about that? Yeah, yeah. The funny thing about that is that we repeated it. So aren't we just doing the same thing? We literally gave a platform to it.

I thought the same thing. And then I wrote in and I wrote in. I put KKK in the paper again this week. So it's like, look, we're hypocrites. We're just stumbling over ourselves every day. Listen, Miss Psychotic. Just because you think you've got a super education gives you no right to start doing again what you did before.

My brother got the plate of food that you brought him and it was the same thing. You showed no concern at all about him. You know what you gave him. You're poisoning him again, aren't you? Sooner or later, you're going to end up in the penitentiary for doing what you're doing you can't keep on attempting murder and get away with it this is some southern gothic shit

some fucking county knows you're doing it isn't anybody in the county concerned about him i live in the county i don't know i for one i'm not concerned about him i'd love to know who the hell we're talking about i bet dollars to donuts he deserves it. Well, the whole county knows what's going on, Tanya. Isn't anybody concerned about him? You all know exactly who I'm talking about. Most of you women know because she's been out with just about every one of your husbands. My brother's a good man.

Listen, Miss Psychotic. Listen, Miss Psychotic. Listen, Miss Psychotic. All right, here we go. Do the last one, and let's let it roll us into the next topic of discussion. I think a false prophet was hoisted on the people of Winchester County by the Black Lives Matter organization in conjunction with U.S. Senate candidate Mr. Charles Booker and his friend and ally Kentucky State Representative Angela

Hatton. With the help and support of Whitesburg Chief of Police Tyrone Fields and Letcher County Sheriff Mickey, I would die for you Steins. Example, Father's Day weekend, Chicago, Illinois. 106

people shot, 14 murdered, including a 13-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy. No one protesting, no one marching, no politicians speaking. This jackass stuff must stop. Thank you. Well, there you have it, folks. False prophet.

They printed jackass? They did, yeah. What I think is hilarious is they think that there's an axis of evil with Charles Booker, Angie Hatton, and Tyrone Pitt. And Mickey. And Mickey Stein. Yeah, and Mickey Stein's a cube of evil, a square of of evil a perestroika of terror a quadrant

amazing well I guess that brings us into the topic du jour it is July 1st and it is the day after the Kentucky Senate primary results were announced. Coming in on top with...

You guys want to hum a few bars while I bring up the election results? I got it right here. I'm not your lover. I'm not your friend. I'm something that would take you to jail. I'm not your lover. I'm not your friend. I'll pull you over. I'll take your lover I'm not your I'll pull you over I'll take your weed

I'm just the sheriff of Letcher County, man Cause I I would Die for you I'd sell the guns If you want me to Down at the

Veterans Museum For thirty dollars And a couple of pills. Okay, coming out on top. Amy McGrath with 247,000 votes, 45% of the vote is the winner over Charles Booker who had 231,000 votes and 42.6% of the vote. Charles Booker won five counties. All of them, well, not all of them, but at least three of them metro areas. Fayette County, Jefferson County, and Warren County.

I don't know anything about Boyle County or Christian County, but he won those two. Are there bigger cities there? Is Paducah? Boyle County is damn good. Boyle, Danville. There's a liberal arts college there. Got it. Here's a question.

What's the total number of votes you just said? Like 500,000? It's around 500,000, yeah. Over a million people voted, supposedly. Why are there only... What's the deal? Why did only half the people vote for a U.S. Senator? There was a Republican primary, too. Gotta hear both sides, Ton.

You gotta hear both sides. Sorry. Mitch had two challengers. You know, neither of them got even remotely close. Those two challengers, yes. Mickey Steins and Tyrone Fields. Oh, God. You know, so Amy McGrath won.

Uh, oh, shit. My landlord, Tandyman, just texted me. Do you mind if we shut your water off for a minute? Sure, go for it, man. All right, um, so anyways,y mcgrath um one there's a lot of there's a lot of stuff here there's a lot of stuff to talk about i mean like there's a lot of things in the air like apparently 6 000 missing votes uh 95 of the polling places were removed in that kind of stuff but um so we can focus on the conspiratorial

aspect of this, or we can focus on the absolutely healed and disciplined Democratic electorate that needed to see McGrath win.

But, I don't know. Where should we start? I'd prefer to tackle both if it's all the same to you. I have a couple of theories I'd like to float. I'm saying all I know. Why don't you take the floor, Tom, and maybe Tanya and I can feed off of that a little bit because

Tanya's ready to throw period blood at somebody and I spent all night reading Amy McGrath's dissertation from when she was at John Hopkins. What? Oh, God. Oh, God. What? God damn hell position.

We have got, listen, honestly, I want to make a care package for Nicole. I want to make a care package for Nicole. I think she deserves some support, honestly, because she clearly is not getting the best of you at this point. Send that woman some of them candy droppers. Let's post Nicole's Venmo. How about that? Let's send out Nicole's Venmo. Donate to Terrence's partner. Let's sit out Nicole's memo.

Donate to Terrence's partner. In these trying times, she has to live with this maniac. I know, and everyone loves Nicole. She is so beloved. In a place where we love to hate people, you can't hate Nicole. You love her.

She's so lovable. I'm very lucky. And she somehow, I don't know how this happened. Somehow she wound up with me. A mentally ill psycho. Mr. Psychotic. Mr. Psychotic to the poison food ladies.

Mrs. Psychotic. Well, Tanya, if it's all the same to you, I think I have the floor there. First thing I'd like to float. I got out on the timeline. Hell, I guess that's been a week and a half ago now and i said to everybody i said listen i ain't saying i'm the victim of intentional voter suppression here or anything like that i'm not saying i was willing to believe in the better angels of the nature of the Kentucky Department of Elections, notoriously chaste and upright organization. And I said on the time, I said, look, I ain't saying that I'm targeted here. All I am saying is that for the past two and a half days,

I have called the Board of Elections, and I said, hey, I haven't gotten an absentee ballot, and there's others like me out there. There's others. And they said, hey, I haven't gotten an absentee ballot and there's others like me out there. There's others. And they said, oh, I hate that. Here, hold on a second. Let me pat you through to somebody that can help you out. Mr. Josh Richardson at the fucking Frankfurt Department of fucking elections.

I left three voicemails on that box. Not a goddamn one of them replied to in three and a half days. That would have been ample time enough to overnight me a ballot. But, I guess Mr. Richardson didn't feel like it was...

I might be getting this guy's name wrong. They're going to call this... There's no Josh Richardson in the Department of Elections. What the fuck are you talking about? Whoever this guy is, for the sake of it, we'll call him Josh Richardson. To protect his real identity. I've listened.

And then I noticed something. While the Joe Sankas of the world and whoever else, the straight journalists, which I ain't got nothing against Joe, I like Joe, all of them were saying, no, no, this is the left that's saying, shouting voter disenfranchisement everybody else yeah y'all got an ally in republican state senator congressman whatever he is damon thayer like me

yeah that was pretty seriously like listen two things can be true one you can have high voter turnout despite actual attempts to suppress the vote. That can happen. Suppression does not mean you can't vote. It means you have to jump over nine goddamn hurdles to vote. And or it means that a certain type of person is being prevented to vote. Exactly. Tanya, I'm glad you brought that up because my next point is this. It's a funny fucking thing to me.

We have one polling location in the 43rd largest city in America, but in goddamn Somerset, you can vote through any goddamn Arby's drive-thru. So I have a number three for milkshake. And by the way, let me go ahead and punch one in for... Hal Rogers.

For Harold Hal Rogers of Kentucky 5th Congressional District, the poorest in the country going on four decades now. I just think it's like, are we above interrogating those things? Or is it the situation where you thought that like, oh, well, Booker's looking like he's going to walk the dog here, so let's just not make a big fuss. That way nothing's brought up in the event that he wins. But let me tell you something.

I don't give a goddamn if Charles was up by three million votes. If you've got thousands of people out here that didn't get to vote, that's a problem. It should give us pause. They closed 2,000 polling locations the week before the fucking election. Why are we not saying, why are we just saying, oh, well, fuck, yeah, this was a bipartisan effort from the Democratic governor and the Republicans

to make everybody vote. Get the fuck out of here, dude. I got a fucking bridge to sell you if you believe that the McConnell machine has any interest in helping people vote no what did that decision happen a week before the election because i hadn't heard nothing about it until basically two days before the election yeah i mean it was like it was like just kind of a thing in the middle of it it's like 2 000 polling locations but we're so fucking desensitized and we're so like well adjusted to like injustice that we just didn't bat an eye at 2 000 polling locations closing also they don't even okay they

not only close those locations it's not like everyone got something in the mail telling them your location is closed go to this place instead they didn't even bother to hang signs at the closed locations telling people where to go. Organize like local people had to do that themselves. Like that was like local organizing. There was no there was like so so many other things that could have happened. No, Tony. No, it wasn't.

It was the outsiders. It was the outsiders telling us how to run our elections because they think we're dumb and can't help ourselves. You are so close to the camera, I see a booger. Let me tell you a sad thing is I first noticed that about two hours ago and did nothing about it. Anyway, so that's the second thing, okay? The third thing is, man, like, look, I get the whole, like, if you don't want, you know, fucking, I don't know,

Ron Perlman or LeVar Burton telling you that you got, you know, election fraud going on, whatever. I mean, but the thing is, it's like, that shit should give you pause, and if you live anywhere in the world and hear of a place of closing 2,000 polling locations a week before election, that's worth interrogating. And it's just so wild to me that we have tons of local journalists, including a Pew Supplies winner, that

just was like fucking scolding people about questioning the integrity of some of these parts of the selection it just blows my fucking mind yeah well it's because they have to do two things they have to walk a razor's edge between these two things the one is the journalistic integrity part

the second is the which doesn't exist which doesn't exist and the second is the... Which doesn't exist. Which doesn't exist. And the second is, like, the respectability gatekeeping part. So, like, nobody else can talk shit about the region or the issues that they cover because they think it's theirs and theirs alone, so they have to sort of, like, post up under the hoop to sort of box everybody else out. Right, right. Well, exactly. It's like they don't want anybody infringing on their bead is what it is it reminds me of how people often talk about appalachia like um how they're like it's not just all poor people you know the media tries to

make appalachia look poor it's not just all poor people and it's like okay so what you're saying you're saying there's rich people here? Yeah, are you saying, so what, you want identity representation for the rich people here? Let somebody think of the Justice family, for God's sakes. But it's, they can't let anybody else paint an unflattering portrait of it because only they are allowed to do that. It has nothing to do with actual reportage or justice. It's all about their personal individual relationship to it because that is the brain disease of journalists in 2020. They are benighted upon they are victims they are the single individual standing atop history yelling stop you know the last the last uh the last bulwark between us and fascism. But the thing that's crazy about it is,

it's like they're sitting there hollering about people outside telling us about our own elections or how we can't help ourselves. It's like, man, I'm not like, like me, I'm not even talking about that. I'm talking about me, a guy that's lived in this state his whole life, and like fucking dozens of people in my DMs,

disproportionately black folks from the west end of louisville saying hey i never got an absentee ballot either or or i didn't follow the deadline in time and i would have to find a babysitter and i would have to take public transportation to get to the polling place because i can't just like walk down the street and vote now you know what i'm saying so like even if like you know, yes, I get they opened the convention center. That's great. Yes, I get that early voting was extended and all that stuff. That's great.

But guess what? The other parts of that too is like most people, particularly poor and working people, can't just like drop what they're doing and go fucking vote any day of the week. Like I know what you're going to say. Well, your employer by law has to give you an hour to vote. Motherfucker, go work in a BP eastern kentucky tell me that's true since when do employers abide by any laws first of all but second and like because because of the way of louisville you had to take the interstate to even get to the fucking voting location and people were waiting in an hour's worth of traffic to get there exactly and

and when our our polls close at six and i know that uh booker got the louisville location extended till 6 30 but fuck so what rush hour lasts three hours in louisville right i mean you get jammed up there there's just no way you could do it and add hundreds of thousands of people trying to get to one location to vote jesus fuck well it's just so comical because like while they're saying all this it literally took an act of a judge and a hundred motherfuckers beating on the doors to get in to vote to like get their attention you know what i'm saying yeah just to get a 30 minute extension while they're sitting here fucking doing all this pearl clutching and shit about, oh, turnout's great.

Oh, it's fucking amazing. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you got fucking 100 motherfuckers out here trying to beat the doors down to get in because they closed the goddamn polls at 6. That's criminal. I tell you what, it is crazy. I really hadn't thought about this. It is crazy to use Kentucky kentucky's normal voter turnout

as a baseline of success our we have the lowest voter turnout in the fucking world or something it's insane at what for the for trump in 2016 let like less than 20 percent of people in letcher county voted but all the trump country news was that 80 percent of people in letcher county voted but all the trump country news was that 80 of people in letcher county voted for trump no 80 of people didn't vote at fucking all yeah our voter turnout is so so bad and to use that as a baseline and then be like oh we soared past normal records well for god's sakes the bar wasn't that goddamn high to begin with. The bar was buried six feet. Yeah. No. It's true.

So, I mean, while all that's true, that's, like, whatever. You know, who the hell knows what's going to happen. But just know that, like, do your fucking job. Like, if people are saying in your own state, hey, I'm having these obstacles to vote, this doesn't seem right. saying in your own state hey i'm having these obstacles to vote this doesn't seem right like that's worth interrogating instead of like fucking trying to quail because you think that there's some like grander narrative you want to run with in your writing or whatever well um i mean it was obvious that there was voter suppression um but uh the the fucked up thing about it is and this is the sort of catch-22 of voter suppression is like how do you how do you vote for people to end

voter suppression when you can't vote you know like what i mean right well i figure this is where terrence beeps in to say we shouldn't have had a primary. We shouldn't have had an election anyway. Yeah, I do believe that. I mean, that's the people in danger. Well, that's the contradiction of like saying that 95% of polling places were closed. Like 100% of polling places should have been closed. We should not have been forced to go out in a pandemic. I mean, like this is bad i i've been really in a bad place about this all week like i want to go and visit family in a few

months and like is am i going to be able to do that like are we even going to be able to travel you know leave the state i mean like this is just getting so much worse like europe opened up travel restrictions this week but you can't travel to europe uh from the u.s i knew that was coming i mean every country should ban travel from the u.s if they haven't already why would anyone be allowed to travel from here um i was at the doctor this week it's my first like in in-person doctor's appointment since all this started and she said that you know they're expecting another spike in November but they're also expecting a vaccine in November and I said well do you think the vaccine is actually going to work do you think it's going to be widely

accessible and she said well you always hope so but she said in all likelihood you know this virus has already mutated so many times that it's very likely that the vaccine they're creating right now will not be will not affect the effect against all strains the mute the mutations that have happened by November. And I just stared at her. Like, what? Yeah. Shit. It's so bad. I saw the thing Fauci said.

I hate to be a Mango Mussolini Cheeto guy and quote Fauci, but Fauci is the same. We're on pace to have a hundred thousand new infections per day in this country jesus fuck a hundred thousand new infections a day here's another crazy thing about going to the doctor i so i got tested two weeks ago they never gave me my results but my doctor called and got my results like they gave they gave my doctor my results but they wouldn't give them to me i called over the phone three times and never did get them anyway.

It was negative. But that was two weeks ago. So really, that's like not even fucking helpful now. You know what I mean? And I went to Tennessee. I mean, it's just over the border, not far out of the state. But I went and helped my sister move into a new house this past weekend. And so I told my doctor that I said, could I get tested again? I went to Tennessee to help my sister. She said, well said well where'd you go and i told her and she said well that's not a hot spot i was like no but still like you know i was out of the state and then she

asked me about all my she asked me about all these symptoms are you having this this this is this and i didn't and she said well then i don't recommend it so they're still restrictions they're still putting restrictions on testing they didn't they didn't test me even though i asked for it multiple times and also they're still it's like they they haven't fully admitted to themselves that people are asymptomatic like yeah people are testing positive without symptoms that is fun that is an interesting thing that you bring up there because it's like while um like i see all these businesses are like, yeah, we're taking all the proper precautions. We're, like, taking people's temperatures and all that kind of shit.

While, like, it doesn't fucking matter, because now we know that at least half of the transmissions are from asymptomatic carriers. I'll tell you all this. I made a grave mistake a few few nights ago might have been a week i had seen this crazy video of a woman like slinging her groceries out of her bath out of the buggy at throwing things at people and i was trying to find it again and michella ended up putting YouTube on our TV. And we ended up watching like probably an hour's worth of videos of people freaking out about COVID.

And like trying to enter places without masks and just acting terrible. It was just like highlight reels. And it was so depressing to see people. Like, you know, a video here and there is kind of it's like alarming, but it's also slightly entertaining to see why women out in the world just acting fucking insane. But to see a bunch back to back was so debilitating. I was just like, there's no hope for us. Before that, I was like, I think I'm going to write an op ed and talk about this. And then I saw that I was like, I think I'm going to write an op-ed and talk about this. And then I saw that and I was like, it's worthless.

Words are worthless right now. They're not worth the paper they're printed on. Truly, no. An op-ed. No. I was like, this is really. I'm going to write a letter to the editor. I'm going to write it to the editor I'm gonna write it to the piper

Oh it's bad I mean not to take us further down the rabbit hole But I saw this thing that said stocks closed out Best quarter since 1998 Clawing back most quarter one losses This is at the same time that only Half of the US population has a job

I mean like we're just witnessing an incredible looting, like, in front of us. I mean, like, we talk about looting in the streets. Like, this is looting on a scale that we can't even conceptualize. It is so vast. Think of this. Think of this, what you just said. We're talking about rebounding from record losses and then some at the same time that now the ruling class knows that they can just keep you know picking our pockets while at least half

of us are out of work yeah that's not a good it's incredible good uh development i mean i can't even understand that michelle read me that headline in bed the other morning and and I asked her to read it three times because I was like, or no, it might have been something slightly different, where it was like someone predicts that we could rebound the economy five more percent if we did this, this, this, and this. And it's just like, what's wrong with you people? I want to do my part to make sure that we don't rebound the economy. I'm pulling my money out of my goddamn retirement.

There is no retirement. If you're lucky enough to be one of the 50% people still employed and you're contributing to your retirement fund, you're goddamn rude. My mom shamed me this past weekend when I was there helping my sister. My mom shamed me for not having a retirement plan. I just looked at her. Listen, I don't know if you understand the playing field here, but it's a coin flip if we make it to 50 at this point. Truly.

I mean, I'm not going to tell her that. I don't want to scare her even more than she already is. But I mean, she doesn't have a retirement plan. She's going to be working until she's dead in the grave. And I guess that's why she's telling me. She's like, you don't want to have to do what I've done. And it's just like, telling me she's like you don't want to have to do what I've done and it's just like woman there's just no

I was talking to some people in Whitesburg family members this week and surprisingly my hyper religious family is taking this seriously but they said they were telling me stories of other people that weren't taking it so seriously including one woman who claims that she's washed in the blood

and that'd be the blood of christ for anybody that's going home not my menstrual blood and now not tanya's menstrual blood although i imagine at least a couple people at the Board of Elections might be covered in that soon. We hope. But, yeah, but she said that because she was covered with the blood, no COVID was going to touch her. And, you know, I hate to use this old cliche, but big if true, that could be a breakthrough. It could be a development. Kanye just put out a song this week called Washing the Blood,

so maybe this movement's gaining traction Oh my god Um well regardless of what happens At least we've got Amy McGrath Um coming to Did you guys know that um So I watched I listened to this podcast With her on it

Um Like because like when you read Her thesis her college thesis i did i did it's very boring incredibly boring it's like not a call it's a thesis it's a there's not an unboring dissertation in existence they don't exist this is academia hers was the good ones are kind of duddish hers was about like the application of like US soft power in the world and how like

interesting stance for a fighter pilot to take yeah the soft power influence of American education on foreign military officers I mean it's very boring but uh but like I listened to this because like when we first started like when she first announced that she was running we did an episode about her like about her she was like the first woman fighter pilot to pilot an F-18 in combat and all this.

The episode is called I Just Wanna Die. That is one of several. Little did I know I actually didn't wanna die. Yeah, that didn't age well. Yeah. Like all our episodes. We were just pissing and moaning at that time. Oh my God, things are so bad.

Yeah, we had no idea. What was weird was Jeffrey Epstein was alive and then dead like a few days after that episode. I'm sorry, Terrence. Go ahead. Well, so we covered like the broad basics um but there's like other details of her life i wasn't aware of and i listened to this podcast called um angry americans uh it's like by this she was a guest on it and it's it's like hosted by this guy who is, like, one of those progressive army guys. Like, there's a specific strain of military guy in the U.S.

who just wishes that liberals had been in charge of the Iraq War instead of conservatives. You know what I'm saying? And Amy McGrath is very obviously in that camp. She just wishes that liberals would have prosecuted that war rather than conservatives um but this podcast was it was brutal it was like it was about like uh epic things like whiskey and like bacon and you know like just the epic stuff that like liberal yeah stuff like that and um and i didn't know this but she said on this podcast that on 9-11 she was the last line of defense for los angeles so she was flying an f-18 over los angeles

during 9-11 and was the last amy mcgrath was the only bulwark between al-qaeda and Los Angeles. And Hollywood. Yeah. She's got these stories that she tells of herself. I've seen her recount them in several other places where she talks about how when she was a kid, she wrote to her congressman about how she wanted to be a fighter pilot, and they told her no because she was a little girl. They were like, no, women can't do that. You can't be a fighter pilot, and they told her no because she was a little girl. They were like, no, women can't do that.

You can't be a fighter pilot. And it's like, okay, that's – I would need to see the receipts, obviously. But, like, who the fuck wants to be a – When did she grow up? The 1940s? People love to tell little girls, oh, you can be whatever you want to be. That's what i'm saying it's like yeah it's like in practice yeah but what you you would never tell little girl she can't be something she exactly exactly like i need to see receipts and also like it is a certain kind of dead-eyed psychopath who wants to be a fighter pilot from like the age of

eight and then goes on to do it and uh and then parlize that into like that's the that's the difference like when you really look at it from that angle like that person was nominated over someone whose campaign motto was from the hood to the hauler you know what i mean like yeah that's where we're at um i'm just so depressed that we have to keep talking about her for months more. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it doesn't fucking matter. Like, she's, obviously she serves one purpose in this campaign, and that is to make Mitch

McConnell spend money while raising money for the DNC. That's it. That's all she's there for. Yeah, it's a perfect, she's, she is the perfect Democratic candidate if you know what the Democratic Party is trying to do. Which they, I mean at this point, what else can you think they're doing? Here's the thing. Here's the thing though. Here's what the Dems didn't figure.

You can raise all the money in the world, but if you're putting it on dead money, what's the fucking point? I mean, this person barely eats out a victory with all these sort of like voter suppression tactics in place and out-fundrates her opponent 41 to 1 almost. Even less than that, really. Like 41 to.8 and lost. If Mitch McConnell fucking has a goddamn 99 cents and a cup of coffee he'll win this election because that's what the dems want they do not want to beat mitch mcconnell and i had these crazy this isn't even a hot take i had these crazy

people in my mentions yesterday or whenever the fuck this happened yeah it was yesterday god damn uh and literally someone said your your take on this is so twisted twisted i don't know or care show me one shred of evidence anything any shred of evidence that the democrats want to win anything really i mean that i'll kiss your ass uh it's um but imagine if she does win like imagine if biden and like imagine how badass it's gonna be if biden and mcGrath win. It's going to be so tight. Do you realize how tight it's going to be?

Here's the thing. Here's the thing about that is, though, is you still you just can't get excited about anything. You know what I mean? I love the people already on my tail that have been like, even on my Facebook, are like, man, I dread voting in November, but we got got got to do it gotta get me gotta get mitch out of there gotta grit your teeth and do it people already they won yeah oh i'm already dreading that november maybe what we should have done is not run a candidate we have to have qualifiers about and then like act like we and like people actually feel like they can't act excited about voting for them. You know what I mean?

Well, like even the Amy supporters know she sucks and can't act like they're Amy supporters. I mean, the fascinating thing about it, and this is the thing with Biden, too. And so this is a sort of microcosm of that. The fascinating thing about it, and this is the thing with Biden, too, and so this is the sort of microcosm of that is, I mean, just to kind of put a bow on it, is that Booker was an actual candidate. I mean, he was running on clear platforms, clear policy platforms and with a sort of political vision that was unprecedented, unprecedented for this state. unprecedented unprecedented for this state he was actually tying together the sort of oppressions that happen in inner city urban areas like louisville and lexington with the sort of rural areas like eastern kentucky and central western kentucky like that is an actual politic and then only i'm sorry to interrupt you oh yeah go ahead may go ahead. May I? Not only was he, you know, our furthest left candidate that we have ever been able to vote for, but he's maybe the only candidate for anything in Kentucky that didn't lean on stereotypes to get elected.

Yeah. Yeah. No, and his story is also completely compelling. I mean, he suffers from all of the things that he's trying to end. You know, whether it's environmental pollution or health care problems, struggling to pay for those things, etc. I mean, this is, again, you can't put it any clearer. I mean, this is, again, I mean, you can't put it any clearer. And the fact that the Democratic Party, I mean, like, the fact that their preferred candidate is this person who has no beliefs. I mean, if you listen to her, like, I was listening to her on this podcast and the guy was asking her, like, why'd you run as a Democrat?

Why did you decide to run? Why did you decide to run? And she was like, the modern Republican Party is just, it's not even recognizable anymore. And she said, I don't want to be in the, she said, I feel very strongly that I had to stand up. Where is our leadership? What's going on with our country? I didn't want to be on the couch with my children and say, well, I didn't have the courage to run. Like, this is somebody who's just like,'s nothing there she's a psycho she's a literal murderer so hey hey which was funny that she says i just didn't want to sit on the couch

with my children and run like when that moderator asked her about like the protest like well did you go to louisville and stand up with black lives matter i had family things no i was at home on the couch with my kids yeah i was at home on the couch with my kids she's a murdering war criminal maniac and i literally can't tell you any actual thing about her and and we know all this about booker and so we know all these things it's just like it's just they're they're they just could not be more different yeah exactly and so like just by that objective reality just by those objective facts that like just the idea that um people sort of would scold you into like voting or say well you got to do it you got to do it got to hold your nose it's just like it's like whatever man i mean this goes back

to what we said a few weeks ago when we read that letter from the old SDS dinosaurs. It doesn't matter. The fact that the major American corporate party now is not even interested even remotely in challenging the Republicans, this very clearly fascist organization that is trying to, I don't know, literally kill all of us. um, trying to, uh, I don't know, literally kill all of us. Just the fact that they're not even willing to put up a challenge to that, but would rather fundraise off of it instead of challenging it. Like what Booker wanted to do. They wanted to fundraise off of it. Like that should tell you that it doesn't matter if you vote for her or not. It doesn't fucking matter because that's the priorities of the party. There's no fucking challenge to this genocidal you know uh death

cult that wants to kill us all that that that is it and it doesn't matter so i here's the thing here's the thing if charles would have won it would still been an uphill battle you know i mean it's mitch mcconnell we're talking about yeah like but at least charles wants to win you know what i mean at least he's interested in changing things. And imagine the conversations about Kentucky and about the possibilities for Kentuckians. Those conversations the next few months would have been worlds different. Yeah. And that's what she stole from us.

There's literally nothing. We have no platform to talk about anything that we believe in or want or need and no no no way to organize with anyone around fucking amy fucking mcgrath i have nothing but contempt for her same now same i mean and charles booker had already mobilized so many new new people new organizers it's just fucking insane yeah i mean you know i like i said last week i tried not to get my hopes up and at this point it's water under the bridge uh we did what we could and he um he did a great job but this is the future of america this is where it's going and um and uh so at this point it really is only revolution or bust you know there's like

there's obviously there's no any kind of like electoral sort of avenue for relief and it's fascinating no one even talks about health care now have you guys noticed this like it's it's not even in like's pandemic in a pandemic no one even talks about it anymore it's like not even remotely on the fucking agenda so i mean this is it this is what they wanted and uh and like the only thing that we have right now is each other um and so that's the only uh sort of thing to take away from this, I guess. And the looming specter of 100,000 new coronavirus infections every day. Yeah.

Maybe I will write that op-ed. Yeah, maybe you should. I mean, 700 people in Letcher County did vote for Charles Booker. And the motherfucker, his stance on his website is so clear and easy to understand they they couldn't have made a mistake about what they were voting for you know what i mean well i mean this is the thing uh you know i'm i'm not i can't sit here and be like well he almost won and it's good that he got so many votes i mean because it is and it's those things but i but at the same time i i think celebrating an almost one campaign you

know like almost only counts in like horseshoes and hand grenades or whatever the fuck it is regardless um it does it does show you that uh there is still a very sizable portion of their out there and we learned this with bernie, of the Democratic electorate that is so completely brought to heel. They're so completely disciplined by the Democratic Party, and more importantly by the Republican Party,

that they can't envision anything else. And I think that is what's scary to me, going into the next couple years with this pandemic and other things. It's like those people are just as dangerous as the Republicans. And so we have to look for the people that are on our side. And we have to stay together. Because, yeah, I can't sugarcoat it.

This isn't – I mean, like like we kind of expected this to happen but at the same time every time it happens you're like god damn like this isn't good i don't know i don't know what do you what do you guys say any closing thoughts about it i think our faces say it all i hope god smites chuck schumer for one truly that's one thing i hope if i could get an arm's reach of him he'd be drinking my fucking period blood um i got plenty of it to share around yeah yeah it's just that was just depressing it's just like yeah anyway well it is what it is you know there's nothing we can do about it now it is uh it's life i guess that's funny everybody's in the mentions talking about well there's 6 000 votes thrown out don't give up hope yet there's gonna be go to it's like man i can tell you exactly what any fucking judge in the country is gonna say well it's a moot point

now because the election's over you know what i mean maybe if like before the results were certified they filed this shit and maybe could have said oh wait but it doesn't matter now no i mean they're not going to overturn the election his margin is much larger than 6 000 votes at this point anyways um and i mean so yeah it's over and but also again this goes to i mean i kind of feel like there's a bit of an inevitability here people would probably call this not marxist and not materialist but i kind of feel like it's inevitable that mcgrath would win i mean at this point in that by that token it kind of makes sense that biden would win in november. It kind of makes sense from a narrative standpoint. You know what I mean?

Like, this country is so committed to its own, I don't know, to its own... Myth-making project. Yeah, yeah, that this is the only outcome. You know, I mean, like, we've still sort of internalized the idea that there are no alternatives and that has brought us further and further down this road um i mean because like when this coronavirus stuff all started like i remember what we were all saying

we're all saying like oh this is going to be it this is this might be the thing that finally reveals america's contradictions for all that it is and might spill it out into the open and creates like some sort of social change some sort of impetus towards maybe a universal health care system or something like that and it's like none of that's happening uh what's what it's what appears to be happening now is just Just retrenchment and further just, you know, driving towards utter self-destruction. Yeah. Instead of defunding police, they are investing in more police. I have some good news for you, friends, though. Do you?

If there's any parallel to be drawn between the late Soviet Union and here this bitch is getting ready to collapse and if any luck if there's any

luck involved we'll get to lead some of these people into a tiled room with just a drain in the

floor and they don't get to come back out so take a little bit of solace in that even though

that's probably yet another dumb fucking fantasy I have. But, you know, you got to take it where you can get it, you know? Happiness in life is largely about self-delusion. It is. You just got to be there for each other and enjoy it while it lasts, you know? each other and uh enjoy it while it lasts you know i mean like i just revert to all the sort of like um platitudes that uh i see like on my mom's like joyce meyer posts and stuff it's like

be there for each other you know celebrate friendship it's like well that's all you ever left really so you know our leaders have failed us. Let's see what the woman who got in trouble with the Senate for owning a golden toilet, tax-free, has to say about that. Oh, fuck, man. Well, anyways, we can continue burning shit down now. So we got that. But I really can't stress enough.

Be safe out there, folks. Your number one priority right now should be not getting coronavirus. I don't care what that entails. If it means not protesting and staying in, whatever you got to do, do not get this virus. Take all the precautions you can. Be disinfecting, wear masks, social distance. We can't afford to lose each other other especially not to something this fucking stupid that was totally in that was totally unavoidable or that was totally avoidable um so uh take precautions my friends did you say

the lessons from hong k No, I did not. Hong Kong's one of the most densely populated cities in the world. And they kept their numbers very small, right? They never really even had, like, a huge outbreak. And they attribute it to 97% – I don't know what you call it compliance yes compliance with masks and they said the other three percent was mostly americans and europeans incredible the three percent who did not comply anyway you know facts can be misleading but masks really do work like we we aren't just making things out up out of nothing like we have all of this other all these other places in the world to learn from but as usual

we're not listening is though it's it's an all or nothing proposition if you have to have everybody buying in or not at all so well i mean there is that but you can do things to reduce the possibility that you might get it and and that's what i'm saying like i think that that has to be our number one priority yeah we should burn down wendy's but we should make sure that we don't get fucking coronavirus yeah we gotta stay alive and again it's it's like, this was totally avoidable. Like, this has just been botched so spectacularly. It's so bad. I mean, it defies human comprehension.

And so in those conditions, in that kind of situation, it's like we got to look out for each other and ourselves. And, um, because like no one's at the wheel, like that's the craziest thing about it. Right? Like no one is at the wheel.

Uh, just eight guys that have the keys to all the banks and the money. Yeah. Right. Well, friends, uh, thanks for listening this week. A little bit of a downer, I guess. I, well, thanks for listening this week.

A little bit of a downer, I guess. Well, it took a downturn. Yeah, I've been depressed as fuck lately, man. It's totally my fault. That's not just you. It's me, too. This is the first day I've come out of a depression, so. Yeah.

I don't feel bad. Yeah, I just can't stop thinking about death i mean like i literally it's all i think about all the time i didn't think that was really that new for you though no it's not that new but it's like i think it's the older i get the more it's like i'm gonna die like it's so what is a meaningful life what is is the point? You know, I think this is, I can't stop thinking about it. And is this what I should be doing? Should I be podcasting for a couple thousand people who scream, fuck you, at me every week?

I don't know. We all deserve to make a living, Terrence. I guess you're right. Even you. This is how I pay the bills. It could be worse. It could be worse. I think about death, too, but I think about it from a different direction. For me, I have a more

materialist position on it. It just looks like it hurts. Tom knows he's got a mansion waiting for him in the sky. He doesn't fear death. That's the difference between me and Tom, I guess. He's looking forward to them pearly gates. I've spent at least 15 minutes of every hour of my life since I was 13 thinking about death.

Me too, but it's just gotten harder, I guess. The older I've gotten. I don't know. It could happen tomorrow, you know? Let's hope not. Let's hope not, I guess't know. It could happen tomorrow. You know? Let's hope not. Let's hope not, I guess. Anyways. All right.

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