Hello, Trill Billy Family. On this week's episode we are interviewing Mike Davis, who is an

urban theorist, a professor at University of California Riverside and an author of such great books

like City of Courts, Planet of Slums, Victorian Holocaust, and one of my personal favorites, one about the history of the car bomb

called Buddha's Wagon, or maybe that's Buda's Wagon.

I'm not sure how to pronounce it.

Anyways, we're talking to Mike about the political economy of rural America,

trying to map out some generalizations about it, its role within the larger national political structure and why it

votes the way it votes you know what implications we can take away from the 2020 election.

So we really hope you like that because it kind of fits into the political economy category we are putting this in our year

zero series so if you're sitting around this holiday weekend with nothing really

else to do and you haven't listened to the previous

year zero episodes I highly recommend you check them out they're very accessible

they're funny they're just like pretty much everything else we put out. We really think you'll like it.

Two quick announcements before we get to the interview. The first is that Tom and I appeared on Chappo Trap House on their most recent Patreon episode talking

about Hill Billy Elegy.

So if you would like to go check that out, go to the Chappo Patreon page.

We dissected the film, talked about how bad it is.

But if you'd like to hear the Trill Billy take on it, I believe we will be finally tackling that on next week's episode.

So stay tuned for that.

And finally, and most importantly, I just need to say that our co-host Aaron was involved in a car

accident this week. Don't worry he is alive and well but he is a little bit banged up and he's probably going to need a new car as well. So we are going to put a

link to a go-fund me for him in the description for this episode. So if you'd like to donate

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