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Bonus: Halloween Special 2022

This week we're joined by University of Chicago professor of history, Gabriel Winant, to discuss the social and political origins of the modern healthcare industry in places like Pittsburgh and Appalachia.

To learn more, you can purchase Gabe's book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Healthcare in Rust Belt America: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091

And you can always support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 276: Infirmary Blues (w/ special guest Gabriel Winant)

Our good friend Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell) is back to tell us about the NEOM city-state in the Saudi Arabian desert, as well as all the soulless architects and designers working on it. 

You can read Kate's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/line-in-the-sand-wagner

And support us on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 277: NEOM Moon (w/ special guest Kate Wagner)

We sit with longtime QAnon reporter Will Sommer of the Daily Beast to discuss Baby Q's weird cult, the rise of QAnon over the last few years, the hunt for Q's identity, and the Q-man Centipede. We also touch on the latest internal Fox News messages that reveal their eagerness to platform lies about the election even when they didn’t believe those lies themselves. Will Sommer's book is 'Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America'.
 
Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous

Will Sommer: https://twitter.com/willsommer
Will's Book 'Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America': https://www.harpercollins.com/products/trust-the-plan-will-sommer

QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com

Music by Max Weber. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode 220: Baby Q Rising feat Will Sommer

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Banks, Apocalypse

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241 - Armageddon Outta Here! 03.10.23

We explore Tucker Carlson's attempts to rewrite what happened on January 6th by focusing on footage of Jacob Chansley AKA the QAnon Shaman. We also delve into the changing story about what led to Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick's death. We then spend some time with a twitter account basically LARPing as Jack Smith, the special counselor who's the new great hope for Muellerites.
 
Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous

QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com

Music by Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode 224: The Battle to Frame J6 (Trump Arrested Edition)

QAnon the musical, Baby Trump, poetry, charcuterie, a Frank Sinatra impersonator, "JFK Jr" AKA Juan O Savin and members of the -48 QAnon numerology cult — including rapper Pryme Minister. We headed to Texas to attend one of the most melted QAnon events yet. It did not disappoint.
 
Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous

QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com

Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode 225: Undercover at Reckoning Fest in Frisco, Texas

This week we're discussing John Brown, as seen through the eyes of the late novelist, Russell Banks, in his novel Cloudsplitter. DISCLAIMER: Please be aware that Russell Banks's novel is a work of fiction, and is not meant to be read as a literal interpretation of history--and thus neither is our episode.

To help us work through it, we've enlisted the help of writer John Lingan, whose great book on Creedence Clearwater Revival is out now: https://www.amazon.com/Song-Everyone-Creedence-Clearwater-Revival/dp/0306846713

And please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 288: Crazy White Boy University (w/ special guest John Lingan)

"Charting a different course in the Vietnam War to fewer deaths and a better end," muses a book review in the Washington Post. "The Vietnam War was begun in good faith, by decent people," a Ken Burns PBS documentary tells us. "The Iraq War Reconsidered," reads a headline from The Atlantic.

Often, especially when an anniversary of a U.S. invasion or withdrawal rolls around, we're told that the devastation wrought by the US war machine was complicated, flawed, but ultimately necessary if not beneficial. Sure, the United States has killed millions, destabilized power structures, wrecked communities and economies, lied about the reasons for doing it all, and drawn the ire of people throughout the world. But, in hindsight, many in U.S. media insists, a horrible act of war from a world superpower wasn't an unequivocal, deliberate, and needless crime against humanity, but somewhere between a misunderstood righteous cause and a bumbling, good faith mistake motivated by humanitarian concerns.

An ideological system of reassurance therefore emerges. Once wars are broadly viewed as either wrong or a "failure" in the popular imagination — as in the case of Vietnam and Iraq — a cottage industry of punditry and pseudo-history emerges in the subsequent years designed to soothe the egos of elites and muddy the waters of both memory and reality for casual media consumers.

Put another way: we all see a dead body on the floor, no one can doubt this. No one can reasonably argue the destruction of Vietnam and Iraq didn't happen. So, this cottage industry springs into action, on behalf of those that caused the death, working to get the guilty party a charge of third degree manslaughter rather than murder. It was an accident, they were mistaken, they had bad intelligence, they were driven by concerns for freedom and human rights.

After all, those who destroyed Vietnam remained in power well into the 2000s. And those who destroyed Iraq currently run our major publications, universities, nonprofits, and think tanks. They still even run the country itself. So the incentive to make sure they all plead guilty to third degree manslaughter rather than first degree murder is tremendous, otherwise, we’re just a country led by war criminals — and this simply cannot be. We need absolution. We must remain, when all is said and done, innocent.

On this week's episode, we’ll explore the war revisionism industry, breaking down five ways in which media seek to sanitize and justify even the most notoriously unpopular and horrific U.S.-led and backed wars — namely Vietnam and Iraq — as unpleasant, imperfect, mistaken, but ultimately incidental byproducts of a noble and righteous empire that, above all, meant well.

Our guest is The Intercept's Jon Schwarz.

Episode 181: US Media's 5 Most Popular Revisionist Tropes About the Iraq and Vietnam Wars

The former President attempts to paper over class conflict and leaves the viewer equal parts manipulated and confused. Joining us is friend of the show Maximillian Alvarez of The Real News.

News Brief: 2000s Zombie Neoliberalism Lives On in Obama's New Netflix Doc

We are forced by Fate and obsession to follow the tale of the Titan in its journey into the deep — and into the very gates of what scientists are calling "Wet Hell."

Episode 277: NEOM Moon (w/ special guest Kate Wagner)

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