Trillbilly Worker's Party

Episode 163: Call Someone Who Cares

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Live from the front porch, this week we touch on everything from outlaw country singers to social justice jewelers to Biden's diminishing youth vote ...

Episode 162: Playing To Win

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week it's anarchist jurisdiction zones, Biden's anti-protestor ads, and the disturbing cottage industry that's sprung up around Breonna Taylor's ...

Episode 161: God Needed A Driver

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Note: we recorded this outside, so apologies for the ambient bug noises. We cover all the craziest news of the week--hurricanes, wildfires, shootings...

Episode 160: Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Chronic Lyme

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Our friend Katy (@itsbedtime_) joins us to talk about the postal service, the DNC, and what might happen in the coming months. Support us on Patreon...

Episode 159: Pseudo-Apostles and Sweet Boys

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

T&T dig into the late middle ages, Biden's VP pick, and the soon-to-be congressional battles between THE SQUAD and QANON Support us on Patreon: www.p...

Episode 158: The Scab Couple

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we cover Trump's Axios interview, a grifting social justice Instagram account, and a couple that just loves to scab on their fellow workers....

Episode 157: The London Review Of Holes

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we talk about Senate candidate Amy McGrath's visit to Whitesburg, and then discuss the ultimate Kentucky Devil's Milkshake. Support us on P...

Episode 156: SS Promise Zones (w/ Special Guest: Bayley Amburgey)

24 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We talk with organizer and teacher Bayley Amburgey about our home county's fiscal woes, as well as the situation in Louisville.

Episode 155: Neowise County Comet

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A blood omen in the night sky during a time of pandemic. Except make it boring Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 154: No Fake Accounts

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Live from Tarence's front porch (all safely socially-distanced of course). In this one: the infamous Harper's Letter; Tanya has the only correct take ...

UNLOCKED: Premium Episode 106: "Dollyology For The Masses" (w/ Special Guest: Dr. Jessie Wilkerson)

05 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jessie Wilkerson (@Dr_JessieW), author of To Live Here, You Have to Fight, joins us to talk about Dolly Parton and the recent push to replace Conf...

Episode 153: The Kentucky Axis of Evil

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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....

Episode 152: Tanya Turner, White Resident

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we do some debriefing about our local self-organized Juneteenth art parade, review some Speak Your Pieces, and then maybe even submit a few ...

Episode 151: Anything But The A-Word

19 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After our local BLM rally last week, the highest-elected official in the county took to Facebook with a few choice words about leftists, racism, and A...

Episode 150: Cop Dialectics

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Time to do some theorizing about your favorite subject: cops Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty Support Charles Booker he...

Episode 149: One Million Realities

04 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Week 2 of the nation in revolt -- brought to you from a log cabin in the woods of Eastern Kentucky. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbilly...

UNLOCKED: Posse Commie Tightass

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We decided to unlock our Patreon episode for the weekend, about the nation in revolt. Enjoy! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkers...

BONUS: End Bail Now! (w/ special guest Shameka L. Parrish-Wright)

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tanya talks with Shameka Parrish-Wright (@Seasoned4u) for this bonus episode about incarceration in Kentucky, Bail Reform, COVID-19 in our prisons, an...

Episode 148: End Times of Something

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another seminal week in the late-era American republic, with all of the grotesqueries and monstrosities you would expect to find in such a situation. ...

MEMORIAL DAY BONUS: "TRILLBILLY SPORTS RADIO, VOL. 2 (w/ Special Guest: Matt Jones)

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Jones of Kentucky Sport Radio stops by to talk Kentucky politics, his new book, and sports/life in general in the era of coronavirus.

Episode 147: Trump's Treason Movement

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another week with Speak Your Piece, Harry Truman, the Iron Stache, and the Holy Bible. Support our show on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkers...

Episode 146: The Buzz Dosage

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week it's Dylan 2 Dylan, peehole parasites, and more scolding from the old New Left. Surely there's a throughline somewhere in there. Support u...

SUNDAY SERVICE 4: Loopholes of the Bible

10 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this series finale, Trillbilly Baptist Church is being closed due to quarantine violations, but Bishop Sexton and Music Minister Ray are able to ge...

Episode 145: Island Time With Tom Sexton (w/ special guest Josh Olson)

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Screenwriter Josh Olson (@joshuarolson, @TheMoviesMadeMe) stopped by the trillbilly quarantine zone to talk Hollywood, celebrity culture, and the noto...

YEAR ZERO 1: The Thousand Year Stare (w/ special guest Sean KB)

05 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Introducing Year Zero, a new miniseries on political economy hosted by Tarence. In this first episode we speak with Sean KB (@as_a_worker on twitter)f...

Episode 144: Ocean Front Property on the Kentucky River

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A low energy (Low T) episode rife with technical difficulties and incorrect speculations about the nature of the universe and what not. Go listen to...

SUNDAY SERVICE 3: Great Political Leaders of the Bible

26 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bishop Sexton preaches about the need for Strong Italian Leadership; Music Minister Ray brings the heart of worship back to the heartland; and the Apo...

Episode 143: Survival Mode To Beast Mode

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week it's Epstein, welfare queens, and coffee beans. Support your local small business on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

SUNDAY SERVICE 2: Gays and Lesbians of the Bible

19 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We tackle all those thorny (and horny) passages from the Bible, like Leviticus 18 and David and Jonathan's love affair in the books of Samuel. Forwa...

Episode 142: Uniquely Qualified For These Times

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we cover Bezos making billions off the pandemic, MAGA protests to re-open the economy, Pelosi's ice cream stash, and the Bernie/Obama endors...

SUNDAY SERVICE 1: Fakes And Liars Of The Bible

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On this Easter Sunday we're taking you to First Trillbilly Baptist Church as part of our new quarantine series, Sunday Service. This week you'll learn...

Episode 141: In the Land of Uz

09 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

RIP Bernie 2020, Death to America Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 140: O.P.P. (Other People's Paychecks)

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week it's landlords, Joe Biden, the free hand of the market, and trying to avoid nihilism by converting to religion. This week's free episode br...

Episode 139: Trial Balloon for a Climate Disaster

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The gang talks about the blood sacrifice offered to the market earlier this week as well as the stimulus package, and then enters the science lab to e...

Episode 138: Keeping The Faith (w/ special guest Asad Haider)

19 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We take a look at what is quite possibly the most insane couple of days in the last 3 or 4 decades and ask a couple of questions, like: what do I do n...

*UNLOCKED*: Narcan and Bernie Posters

15 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We unlocked this one for all you stuck at home without a Patreon subscription during this global pandemic. If you'd like to support us, please do!!! ...

Episode 137: Keep On Pushing

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Real dengue bois T&T look at a timeline of the far future and then try to understand our current moment. Not edited for clarity or brevity because whe...

Episode 136: No New Brains

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Super Tuesday results. If you came here to find a new brain, you came to the wrong place. Listen to more episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillb...

Episode 135: The Robert Mueller Underground

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we've got two articles for you, one from a liberal who really wants to bomb a post office, and another about how #work can be #innovated. ...

Episode 134: The Devil's Milkshake

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What do you call it when an elected official has to take a drink of poison to make democracy look good? Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillb...

*UNLOCKED*"Screwy Stuey & The 6 Million $ Man Do Gatlinburg"(w/ Special Guest: Sturgill Simpson)

16 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We got up with Sturgill Simpson to talk Jam Bands, Work, Bernie Sanders, Gatlinburg, The Music Business, Leaf Hound Melting Motherfuckers' Faces Off, ...

Episode 133: The Promise Zone

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Trillbillies: Ewar and the DNC resort to mad scientist tactics, Amy McGrath bombs a few more houses, and the gang enters the Promise ...

Episode 132: World Record for Blood Loss

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What a week it's been folks. From the Iowa caucuses to impeachment to Trump's State of the Union, one thing is clear: the Democratic Party must die. ...

Episode 131: Carbon Offset

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tom's back in this episode about just transitions, Vexit, and the deeply diseased world of Lingua Franca. Please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.c...

Episode 130: Tomorrow's Peehole

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss the Virginia gun rally, "yall" culture, and the ongoing destruction of one Jeff Hoops, former CEO of Blackjewel coal. Supp...

Episode 129: Burners and Berners

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is about the extremely online topic of Bernie vs. Warren. We apologize in advance, we recorded this before the anti-anti-backlash. We'...

Episode 128: The Bleach Boys

09 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another episode, another Beach Boys reference. On this year's opening episode we cover...JD Vance?? as well as America's military empire. Then we fini...

Bonus Episode: A Conversation with State Representative Charles Booker

07 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kentucky state representative Charles Booker is running in the Democratic primary to defeat Mitch McConnell, and he stopped by the cabin to talk about...

Episode 127: Mountain Oracle Radio (w/ special guest Ken Layne)

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're joined by Ken Layne (@KenLayne), host of Desert Oracle Radio, to talk about cattle mutilations, the Pentagon's UFO problem, and Oumuam...

Episode 126: Tom Takes A Stand

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we dig into the absurdity of private insurance and Mayor Pete's weird relationship with the insurance companies; we talk about Matt Bevin's ...

Episode 125: The Whiteout Factory

05 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we huff a whole bunch of whiteout and get totally psychedelic. We talk about selling out to the mainstream media and then take a look at the...

Episode 124: Better Ingredients, Better Airplanes

27 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

An episode all about flying, just in time for your Thanksgiving holiday travels. We also talk about Papa John, Trump knighting Jon Voight, and read fr...

Episode 123: Trolleyology For The Masses

21 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we look at one liberal professor's attempt to teach ethics to the benighted, coalsmudged hillbillies of Appalachia. Support the Patreon her...

Episode 122: For Whom The Bell Polls

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about our very favorite eastern Kentucky towns, as well as other Kentucky politics arcana. Then we do a little bit of Speak Your Piece. And fo...

Episode 121: We Called It

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

All the hottest and best takes about the Kentucky governor's election

KENTUCKY ELECTION DAY BONUS EPISODE: "TRILLBILLY SPORTS RADIO" w/ Special Guest: Matt Jones

05 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kentucky Sports Radio's Matt Jones joins us to talk politics ahead of today's election.

Episode 120: Happy Halloweed

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We talk travels, run-ins with the law, depression, pleasure activism, Silas House, and we even use the Quija to speak with the (apparently still-livin...

Episode 119: Satan is Trill, Pt. 1

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1 of our Halloween special has Tanya and Tom swapping haint tales, and dabbling in the dark arts with our friends Carrie, Matt, and their daughte...

Episode 118: God Is Right And Man Is Wrong

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The title of this one says it all.

Episode 117: Cops Are Ruining The World

10 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We take a dive into the Joshua Brown/Botham Jean case and discuss how cops and prisons are indeed destroying the planet.

Episode 116: Richard Petty Bourgeois

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're tired from tour folks but we're here to talk about impeachment and argue about what class is. Support the Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillywo...

Episode 115: Rise of the Neoliberal Biker (w/ special guest Sam Adler-Bell)

26 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Cincinnati journalist Sam Adler-Bell (@SamAdlerBell) drops in to tell us about his recent article in The New Republic about fascist farmers and the ov...

Episode 114: President My Guy

19 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A rundown of news items from the last few weeks: Biden falling apart, Warren surging, What To Do About Bernie, and radioactive messages to the future ...

Bonus Episode: Voices from the Frontlines of a Rural Healthcare Crisis

17 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Our very own Tanya Bernice Turner went down to Kingsport, Tennessee, to speak with community members protesting the closure of a neonatal intensive ca...

Episode 113: Cotard's Delusion for the Masses

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We've got a live one here folks. We cover everything from gun control to Jonathan Franzen to Chris Paul Hayes. Then we do a Tony award-winning dramati...

Episode 112: No One Agency Should Have All That POWER

05 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we talk a little bit about the Harlan County coal blockade, and then we dig in to Tarence's article in The Baffler about the Appalachian Reg...

Episode 111: Someone's Goin to Hell, and Someone's Goin to Jail

29 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

U.S. Senate candidate Amy McGrath makes a visit to Whitesburg, and in the process lies to a bunch of coal miners about the campaign ad she included th...

Episode 110: MAGA Morse Code

22 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week it's Tarence and Tanya covering everything from Hal Rogers to truckers to the Chosen One himself, Donald Trump. We also do a little bit of S...

Episode 109: Doing Crimes To Live

15 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We explore the mysterious circumstances and similarities around the deaths of one Jesus Christ and one Jeffrey Epstein. Then we look at Moscow Mitch, ...

Bonus Episode: Voices of the Harlan County Coal Blockade

09 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Special Trillbillies correspondent Shaylan Clark (@316shaylan), a journalist and student at Berea College, talked to miners, family members, and suppo...

Episode 108: Birds All The Way Down (w/ special guest Sam Sacks)

01 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Sacks from District Sentinel Radio joins us on this dispatch from the road, wherein we discuss a compelling new theory of everything that involves...

Episode 107: On the New with the Wonders

25 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tanya tells us about dental dams and glamping, and Tom makes a surprise revelation. Come see us on tour! https://www.streetfightradio.com/street-figh...

Episode 106: Mother Jones' Will (w/ special guest Emily Guendelsberger)

18 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we chat with author Emily Guendelsberger, who gives us an inside glimpse into the current state of service work. You can read Emily's arti...

Episode 105: I Just Wanna Die

11 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week it's a fun journey into the world of Kentucky Democratic politics as we roast Amy McGrath, war criminal extraordinaire and latest candidate ...

Episode 104: A Notorious And Vile Cheat

03 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we meet Mary Toft, the latest installment in our series Trillbillies Profiles in Courage. If you'd like to hear about Franz Reichelt, the ...

Episode 103: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Debate, Part 1

27 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1 of our abysmal commentary on the equally abysmal first Democratic primary debate, and on the nature of the American character itself. Part 2 ...

Episode 102: Why Is This Happening???

20 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tanya stumbles upon a straight pride parade in Wokelahoma and gives them a piece of her mind. Then we meet a new character, Chris Paul Hayes, who bugs...

Episode 101: Kitsch Mitch

13 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we dive into the 12th and latest iteration of the sure-to-be-successful Ditch Mitch campaign. Come to our show with Street Fight in Lexingt...

Episode 100: Growth And Self Crit

06 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 99: Trillbillies Templar

30 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we trace our pleasure lineages with Minister Turner, talk more about incrementalism, and examine how Sunday School really messed us all up. ...

Episode 98: Not All Dogs, Part 1

22 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Episode 97: Appalatchiks (w/ special guest Hannah Gais)

16 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Writer Hannah Gais (@hannahgais) joins us to talk about her article in The Baffler about what the late Soviet Union's obsession with conspiracy theori...

Episode 96: The Feelings Caucus

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 s...

Episode 95: Resource Degeneration X

03 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 Yor...

Episode 94: The Situation Package

25 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 93: Mcmansion Heck (w/ special guest Kate Wagner)

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 nic...

Episode 92: Cheating The Weights (w/ special guest Chad Vigorous)

12 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Friend of the show Chad Vigorous (@prettybadlefty) drops in to talk Assange, ecofascism, Bernie, and weightlifting. Support Chad's Patreon here: www...

Episode 91: Des Têtes Vont Tomber (w/ special guest Joshua Clover)

04 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Joshua Clover (@joshuaclov3r) stops by to talk Gilets Jaunes, rioting, class struggle in the 21st century, and the challenges of the next 50...

UNLOCKED: Hillbilly Butterfly Effect

02 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In honor of Jamal Khoshoggi's children getting a huge pay out from the Saudi government as compensation for having their father dismembered, we're unl...

Episode 90: Bloodhound Gravel Gang (w/ special guest Alex Pareene)

29 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Pareene (@pareene) stops by to talk about his latest piece in The New Republic, "Nihilist in Chief," about Mitch McConnell's complete and absolut...

Episode 89: Getting Queer About Rural America (w/ special guest Rachel Garringer)

21 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're joined by special guest Rachel Garringer, who tells us all about her oral history project Country Queers (@countryqueers) which, as yo...

Episode 88: Republic Of Half Truths (w/ special guest Anna Merlan)

15 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Writer Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) stops by the show to talk about her new book, Republic of Lies, which details the weird world of conspiracy and propa...

Episode 87: Tanya Soprano & the Trillbilly Outlaws

07 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tanya Soprano brings her NPR totebag to the Pricele$$ budget grocery store and confusion ensues. Also more commentary on how All Cops and Democrats Ar...

Episode 86: Metal Detector Economics

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How are we going to fund single payer healthcare? How are we going to fund the Green New Deal? Simple: the spare change in your couch cushions. That's...

TEASER: Adventures of Pacman

27 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is a teaser from Premium Episode #37, "Hillbilly Butterfly Effect," which can be found over at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pr...

Episode 85: Getting Back to the Heart Of Worship

21 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we take a bit of a dive into televangelism, grifting, and Oral Roberts University's GEB TV. Then we read from a very funny book about leavin...

Episode 84: Super Bowl of the Love Game

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

T&T break down Valentine's Day and the forgotten history of eastern Kentucky racism. Don't forget to check out the great episodes over our Patreon: ...

Episode 83: Morelos By Morning

07 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

T&T talk about the biggest news of the week: the Green New Deal. Can a Just Transition occur without incurring the wrath of an armed chud rebellion? F...

Episode 82: BARBARIC!

01 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The gang breaks down frank conversations, beekeeping, what not to tell a rural person, and of course, Senator Robert C. Byrd Sign up for our Patreon!...

Episode 81: Rich People Are Deeply Diseased (w/ special guest Brendan O'Connor)

24 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Friend of the show Brendan O'Connor (@_grendan) stops by to talk about his recent article in Sludge, which looks at the rise of anti-immigrant environ...