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Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month.Unofficial Hit Factory Sci-Fi Correspondent Aaron Thorpe is back to discuss the time traveling eccentricities of Terry Gilliam's '12 Monkeys' - a sort of quasi-remake of Chris Marker's 'La Jatée' (1963) featuring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad PittWe unpack the career of Terry Gilliam, why he was seen as a studio liability in the early 90s, and how this film represents the very peak of his critical and commercial successes. Then we discuss the film's take on the messy narrative contrivance of time-travel, how it attends to its bleak vision of a futureless future, and how some modern time travel narratives help reveal a sliver of hope in the film's tragic determinism. Watch "George Carlin on The Environment".Follow Aaron Thorpe on Twitter.Listen & Subscribe to The Trillbilly Workers Party.Listen & Subscribe to Struggle Session. ....Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish.
We've got Sarah Lazare from Workday Magazine on how the UAW is making sure Stellantis follows through on re-opening Belvidere and Tom Sexton from the Trillbillies joins to celebrate our Kentucky debut! We'll also take a look at some recent back on forth jabs in the media between Shawn Fain and Jim Farley, and more! ✦ ABOUT ✦The Valley Labor Report is the only union talk radio show in Alabama, elevating struggles for justice and fairness on the job, educating folks about how they can do the same, and bringing relevant news to workers in Alabama and beyond.Our single largest source of revenue *is our listeners* so your support really matters and helps us stay on the air!Make a one time donation or become a monthly donor on our website or patreon:TVLR.FMPatreon.com/thevalleylaborreportVisit our official website for more info on the show, membership, our sponsors, merch, and more: https://www.tvlr.fmFollow TVLR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheValleyLab...Follow TVLR on Twitter: @LaborReportersFollow Jacob on Twitter: @JacobM_ALFollow TVLR Co-Creator David Story on Twitter: @RadiclUnionist✦ CONTACT US ✦Our phone number is 844-899-TVLR (8857), call or text us live on air, or leave us a voicemail and we might play it during the show!✦ OUR ADVERTISERS KEEP US ON THE AIR! ✦Support them if you can.The attorneys at MAPLES, TUCKER, AND JACOB fight for working people. Let them represent you in your workplace injury claim. Mtandj.com; (855) 617-9333The MACHINISTS UNION represents workers in several industries including healthcare, the defense industry, woodworking, and more. iamaw44.org (256) 286-3704 / organize@iamaw44.orgDo you need good union laborers on your construction site, or do you want a union construction job? Reach out to the IRONWORKERS LOCAL 477. Ironworkers477.org 256-383-3334 (Jeb Miles) / local477@bellsouth.netThe NORTH ALABAMA DSA is looking for folks to work for a better North Alabama, fighting for liberty and justice for all. Contact / Join: DSANorthAlabama@gmail.comIBEW LOCAL 136 is a group of over 900 electricians and electrical workers providing our area with the finest workforce in the construction industry. You belong here. ibew136.org Contact: (205) 833-0909IFPTE - We are engineers, scientists, nonprofit employees, technicians, lawyers, and many other professions who have joined together to have a greater voice in our careers. With over 80,000 members spread across the U.S. and Canada, we invite you and your colleagues to consider the benefits of engaging in collective bargaining. IFPTE.org Contact: (202) 239-4880THE HUNTSVILLE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD is a union open to any and all working people. Call or email them today to begin organizing your workplace - wherever it is. On the Web: https://hsviww.org/ Contact: (256) 651-6707 / organize@hsviww.orgENERGY ALABAMA is accelerating Alabama's transition to sustainable energy. We are a nonprofit membership-based organization that has advocated for clean energy in Alabama since 2014. Our work is based on three pillars: education, advocacy, and technical assistance. Energy Alabama on the Web: https://alcse.org/ Contact: (256) 812-1431 / dtait@energyalabama.orgThe Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union represents in a wide range of industries, including but not limited to retail, grocery stores, poultry processing, dairy processing, cereal processing, soda bottlers, bakeries, health care, hotels, manufacturing, public sector workers like crossing guards, sanitation, and highway workers, warehouses, building services, and distribution. Learn more at RWDSU.infoThe American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union proudly representing 700,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas. Learn more at AFGE.orgAre you looking for a better future, a career that can have you set for life, and to be a part of something that's bigger than yourself? Consider a skilled trades apprenticeship with the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. Learn more at IUPAT.orgUnionly is a union-focused company created specifically to support organized labor. We believe that providing online payments should be simple, safe, and secure. Visit https://unionly.io/ to learn more.Hometown Action envisions inclusive, revitalized, and sustainable communities built through multiracial working class organizing and leadership development at the local and state level to create opportunities for all people to thrive. Learn more at hometownaction.orgMembers of IBEW have some of the best wages and benefits in North Alabama. Find out more and join their team at ibew558.org ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Tom Sexton of the Trillbilly Workers Party podcast joins Beowulf to discuss religion, politics, natural disasters, and all the other things you aren't supposed to discuss at the family dinner table. Check the Trillbillies out here and subscribe to them on Patreon here.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5189985/advertisement
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined from the top of the hour by Aaron Thorpe, Jamie Peck and Jorge Rocha, hosts of the podcast Everybody Loves Communism. Aaron is a cohost of the Trillbilly Workers Party podcast and organizes with the Democratic Socialists of America in Atlanta, Jamie is a veteran of The Majority Report and the Antifada and organizes with North Brooklyn DSA, and Jorge is a NYC-based organizer with DSA and serves on the International Committee. Aaron, Jamie and Jorge open the proceedings by sharing stories of how they were radicalized before elaborating on some of the highlights from their regular discussions of Marxist theory and socialist history. The gang touches on two classical texts from Marx as well as the socialist feminism of Alexandra Kollontai, exploring the defining features of capitalism and how communists have broken with liberal conceptions of equality, including the relationship between socialism and liberation for women and queer folks. You can follow Aaron on Twitter @borgposting, Jamie @Jamie_Elizabeth and Jorge @LineGoesDown, and the show account @ELCPod, and you can find Everybody Loves Communism on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts.
If you didn't enjoy Emily St. John Mandel's post-apocalyptic book Station Eleven, you're not alone—Lyta didn't like it either. However, the HBO Max mini-series, starring Mackenzie Rio Davis and Himesh Patel, brings a powerful, unique, and deeply human quality to St. John Mandel's story of a devastating global flu pandemic and societal collapse. In the latest installment of Art for the End Times, Lyta talks with writer and podcaster Aaaron Thorpe about why Station Eleven, an underrated and brilliant TV show in its own right, is one of the few contemporary examples of anticapitalist utopian storytelling.Aaron Thorpe is a writer and podcaster based in Atlanta, Georgia. You can find his writing at Space and Light and his podcasting on The Trillbilly Workers Party, Everybody Loves Communism, and Struggle Session.Read the transcript of this podcast: Pre-Production/Studio: Cameron GranadinoPost-Production: Jules TaylorHelp us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-podSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/newsletter-podLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews
Episode 1: If You Got It, Haunt It - hosted by Tom Sexton Billy Wayne Davis is a stand-up, writer & actor who has performed in 41 states, 4 countries and Texas. He has appeared on Conan, Last Comic Standing, WTF w/Marc Maron, voiced characters on Adult Swim's SquidBillies, hosted a documentary for CMT, opened for Sturgill Simpson's Living the Dream Tour, and released 2 comedy albums, “Billy Wayne Davis” & “Billy Wayne Davis: Live at Third Man Records.” He is also the host of Podcast Wayne Davis. He now resides in Los Angeles with his dope little family. Twitter: @BillyWayneDavis IG: @billywaynedavis Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/PodcastWayneDavis Jon Carter is a livestock legend and widely considered one of the bright young(ish) minds in American agriculture today. He hails from Carter County, Kentucky originally but currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky with his wife Meredith and daughter Ellie. Host, Tom Sexton is a writer and podcaster based out of Lexington, Kentucky. He co-hosts Trillbilly Workers Party and his writing can be found in The Baffler, Popula, The Daily Yonder, and the Faces In The Corner Zine (Link Below!) Faces In The Corner https://twitter.com/FITCPod https://www.instagram.com/facesinthecorner/ Cash App: $facesinthecorner Venmo: @facesinthecorner Zine: https://trillbillies.bigcartel.com/product/faces-in-the-corner-zine-vol-1-season-zero Email: facesinthecorner@gmail.com
Join us on Patreon for Part 2: www.patreon.com/whatslefttodo If Patreon isn't your thing, please join us in supporting this work with a contribution over at: www.whatslefttodo.com/support This week we have 1/4 of The Trillbilly Workers Party, with Aaron Thorpe, who is, ironically, originally a yankee. The son of Jamaican immigrants growing up in NYC was pretty apolitical until he began sneering at the denizens of Zuccotti Park during Occupy as a high minded employee of the DNC (!!), believe it or not. He picked up his sister's copy of The Communist Manifesto shortly after, and...well...you know the rest
Jamie is joined by Aaron Thorpe (@posadist_trapgd) of Trillbilly Workers Party and A Time Of Monsters and Andray Domise (@andraydomise) of The Drop Squad on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to discuss the first volume of Barack O'bummer's serial killer memoir "A Promised Land." What is 44 trying to do here? Is he Lena Dunham, Walter White, or a perfect synthesis of both? And what's so bad about going to therapy that men will literally run for president to avoid it? Apologies for the poor sound quality on Jamie's end, she forgot to check the input settings and feels very bad. The Drop Squad: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drop-squad/id1523282652 A Time Of Monsters: https://www.patreon.com/atompod Trillbillies: https://soundcloud.com/user-972848621-463073718 Aaron's substack: https://spacelight.substack.com/ Become a member at patreon.com/theantifada to unlock bonus content and our Discord community!
In order to discuss the appalling ways that poor white people are portrayed in the United States, we had to have on Tarence (@tarenceray) from the Trillbilly Workers Party. We all watched JD Vance's execrable 'Hillbilly Elegy' so you don't have to. Out of this came a great discussion about deindustrialization, rural poverty, the opioid epidemic and media portrayals of that figure of derision and fear, 'the white working class'. What changes to US political economy caused widespread immiseration over the last 50 years in places like Appalachia? How have politics failed the workers in these communities? And what dark visions do the Charles Murrays and JD Vances of the world have for a solution to the rural poverty problem? Outro song: Total Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Heart - Bonnie Dauvé Become a member at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to access bonus content and our Discord community!
It's the first episode of Aaron Sorkin's last season! New episodes! New theme song! New explosions of incoherent rage! Old guests! Josh & Dave paddle down the river of the 4th season premiere, and get jumped by Tom and Terence from The Trillbilly Workers Party.
Welcome to the second installation of the Trillbilly Workers Party's Year Zero series, where we try to unravel some of the biggest political-economic questions of our day, and learn some things along the way. For this one we're joined by Timothy Mitchell, author of the Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (2011, Verso Books)who talks to us about how oil became central to the restructuring of the global economy after WW2, and then became central to the unraveling of that economy during the late 1960s and early 70s. We also look at what the future of energy politics might look like in the years to come. If you'd like to support us on Patreon, please do so at www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty
Guest: Tom Sexton (@TomSexton) of The Trillbilly Workers Party (@thetrillbillies) joins me to talk about the Amy McGrath - Charles Booker primary race in Kentucky, the uncharismatic void that is Chuck Schumer, and the video Ted Turner made for the end of the world. The "cocktail" of the month returns with the gin radler, which is not really a cocktail but needs to be a part of any good hot weather self-care routine. Question Cathy returns with the mailbag. Please support Mass for Shut-ins, an independent and ad-free podcast, via Patreon. Contact me via Facebook, Twitter (@edburmila), or the venerable website Gin and Tacos. Thanks: Tom Sexton and all the Trillbillies, the bands that contribute music (Waxeater, IfIHadAHiFi, The Sump Pumps, Oscar Bait), Zachary Sielaff, Question Cathy, and all Patreon supporters, subscribers, and listeners.
Recorded as LA was being shut down, Josh and Dave romp through a piquant and heady brew of misogyny and stupid right wing tax plans with Trillbilly Tom Sexton.
Well you'll never guess who joined us all the way from Whitesburg, Kentucky, to talk about the particular desert landscape of SE New Mexico and East Texas. But we will tell you anyway: Tarence Ray from Trillbilly Workers Party. Oh and we're dealing with the matters at hand, as best we can. Fitting new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show.
In this long awaited Antifada x Trillbillies crossover, Jamie speaks with Tom Sexton (@tomsexton), Tarence Ray (@tarenceray) and Tanya Turner (@auntiebernice) of Trillbilly Workers Party (@thetrillbillies) about their media project, Kentucky's recent election, and how they became dyed-in-the-wool radicals and electoral skeptics. Also: jobs vs. environmentalism, the pitfalls of the "just transition" program, and an update on Penny the Pony! https://thebaffler.com/salvos/hollowed-out-ray https://thebaffler.com/latest/nothing-to-learn-ray https://thebaffler.com/latest/get-real-ray Outro music: Erik Petersen - For an Old Kentucky Anarchist
Kate and Julia chat with Tom Sexton and Tarence Ray of The Trillbilly Worker's Party podcast. One of our favorite episodes so far! Sources: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/bernie-sanders-brutally-honest-mayoral-memos/ You can find The Trillbillies podcast on Twitter at (@)thetrillbillies You can find Tarence at (@)tarenceray You can find Tom at (@)TomSexton And you can find Tanya Turner at (@)auntiebernice Julia and Kate can be found at (@)OhJuliaTweets and (@)KateWillett Hosts: Kate Willett and Julia Claire Producer: Genevieve Gearity Theme Song: Emily Frembgen and Kate Willett Artwork: Adrienne Lobl
Street Fight Radio, The District Sentinel, and Trillbilly Workers Party have joined up for an adventure to the DSA convention in Atlanta, GA. We’ll be having a blast and hanging with all y’all along the way as we spread our radical egalitarian mess across the Southern US. Starting with the capital! Washington DC – The Big Hunt – Sunday 7/28 – 2 Shows Chapel Hill, NC – Nightlight – Tuesday 7/30 Jacksonville, FL – Rain Dogs – Thursday 8/1 – 2 Shows Atlanta, GA – The Bakery – Sunday 8/4 Nashville, TN – DRKMTTR – Monday 8/5 Street Fight Radio is the #1 anarcho-comedy show on any station across the nation. We’ve been traveling barefoot across this flat earth and we got some stories to tell. We will also be listening to your small business tyrant nightmare scenarios. District Sentinel Radio does watchdog and policy reporting for the left, without taking itself too seriously. Recording from the heart of the beast in our nation’s capital, Pisstown, USA. Trillbilly Workers Party started in 2017 in beautiful Whitesburg, Kentucky and covers the southern, Appalachian, and rural left in the most ridiculous manner possible. THE DISCOUNTED TICKET SYSTEM “Comrade” means you put down half the price of a ticket for someone else. “Discount” means you are paying half price for the ticket and someone else picks up the other half.
Very special Father’s day weekend show with The Trillbilly Workers Party podcast from Best Friends Bar in Lexington, Kentucky.
We chat with Tarence Ray, writer and 1/3 of the Trillbilly Workers Party, about his recent article in The Baffler about what liberal pundits like Paul Krugman get wrong about rural America. Additional links/info below... Tarence's Twitter page Tarence Ray, The Baffler, "Get Real" Trillbilly Workers Party Patreon, Twitter, and Facebook page Tarence's author page on Popula and The Baffler Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
Get prepped for the Southpaws Bracket Challenge and learn way to much about Roger Powell, Delonte West, and Nate's devotion to the trickle down theory of Big Ten basketball dominance with Tom Sexton of Trillbilly Workers Party (https://patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty) Make sure to sign up for the bracket: https://goo.gl/forms/8FJdgCqPo54BYEl12 Check out the charity Tom picked for the proceeds: https://cooperationjackson.org/