Everything from religion to industrial disasters to Mehdi Hasan's debating methods

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Episode 278: The Freight Awakening

This week we talk Ukraine, the ruling class's fixation on Boxes, and the mass hysteria of Devil's Milkshakes issuing from East Palestine, Ohio

Check out Aaron's story here: https://spacelight.substack.com/p/this-machine

Tarence's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-devils-milkshake-ray

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Episode 279: Vance Macabre

This week we talk about the ecological phenomenon known as "whiskey fungus," followed by a hard pivot into the world of higher ed

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Episode 280: Valedictorian Of The Soft Curriculum

This week we discuss (yet again) Silicon Valley Bank, Bret Stephens's reflections on the Iraq War, and a man named Johnny Shield's views on conservatism in higher education.

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Episode 283: Baghdad Bob The Builder

Folks we got him. Plus France protests and Tik Tok. What a week.

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Your Fired

This week we're talking about landlord self defense classes, tenant unions, and tenant organizing, with special guests Katy Slininger (Cargill Tenants Union) and Ben Mabie (Crown Heights Tenant Union, Tenant Union Flatbush). Make sure to stick around for the end, where we look at how landlords are arming themselves for the rev.

Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-the-emergency-tenant-organizing-committee/

Connecticut Tenants Union: https://www.cttenantsunion.org/

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Episode 285: Con Air Landlordism (w/ special guests Katy Slininger & Ben Mabie)

This week we talk a wide range of topics, mostly centered on what's going on in states like Tennessee: mass shootings, anti-trans bills, centralization of power in state governments, etc. To do it, we've enlisted our Tennessean friend Mina Shedd from Middle Tennessee DSA. To wrap it all up, we cover an op-ed from the New York Times about "Wagon Wheel Gun Reform"

You can find and support Mina's many projects on Twitter at: @ScrewballDetctr

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Episode 286: Feuerbach, Texas (w/ special guest Mina Shedd)

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

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

"I Was A Teenage Conspiracy Theorist," The Atlantic magazine playfully titled a 2020 essay. "Choose your reality: Trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise," reported The Associated Press in 2022. "Do You Know Someone Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories? We Want to Hear About It," wrote The New York Times last year.

Fears of "conspiracy theories" are a common trope in the U.S. media, a worry that's grown more acute with the rise of QAnon, anti-vaxx sentiment, anti-semitism and a host of other dangerous theories that unduly rot brains throughout the country. To a great extent, this understandable: Many ideas that meet the definition of "conspiracy theories" are, indeed, baseless and dangerous and can direct people's political energy and resources into wasteful, racist, and downright stupid rabbit holes.

But that fact shouldn't delegitimize or foreclose all skepticism of those in power, but too often the term "conspiracy theory" is used to do just that. Repeatedly, media lump together so-called conspiracy theories, regardless of their accuracy, rationale, and ideology: at once, UFO chasers, QAnon, and the Black Panther Party being subject to FBI disruption are somehow placed in the same category of paranoid kooks. At the same time, unproven, and often debunked ideas advanced by media that also meet the definition of "conspiracy theories" — such as Saddam Hussein being behind 9/11 or so-called Havana syndrome — are treated as unassailable, meriting ongoing investigation, limitless resources, and of course, utmost solemnity.

On this episode, we detail the double standards applied to conspiracy theories inside and outside of the realm of U.S. corporate media. We’ll examine the development of the concept of conspiracy theories and the media's selective invocations of the term to discredit real grievances directed at American power and the U.S. government, and moreover, how power-friendly conspiracies — namely those focused on Enemy States like the Havana Syndrome narrative — are permitted to fester and grow without pushback because their red yarn dot connecting implicates the right lists of Acceptable Bad Guys.

Our guest is Jacobin writer Branko Marcetic.

Episode 180: Havana Syndrome and the Power of Mainstream, Acceptable Conspiracy Theories

The rest is just waiting.

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Episode 291: Rodeo Is Life

Does ACAB also apply to cop impersonators? Find out on this week's episode of The Trillbillies Podcast

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

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