Episode 20: The Mothperson Prophecies (w/ special guest: Emily Hilliard)

Trillbilly Worker's Party

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4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In episode 20, we welcome our friend and professional folklorist, Emily Hilliard to discuss labor and capital's roles in the creation of folklore, West Virginia's Mothman legend, and why so many whites think they're directly descended from brown people (i.e. Cherokee Indians, Melungeons, Pocahontas, etc.), among other topics.

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0:00.0	Are those chilly peppers on year round?
0:02.0	Yeah, I wore them for Leo's season for the Leo party last night.
0:07.0	What's the right?
0:08.0	What's the reason?
0:09.0	Fire.
0:10.0	That's my fiery a staring.
0:12.0	It's me eclipses. What happens in Leo's? That's my fieriest earring. And the eclipse is...
0:14.0	What happens in Leo season?
0:16.0	Everything changes.
0:18.0	Damn right it does.
0:20.0	Leo's are terrifying humans really.
0:22.0	They kind of are. Well they 100% are.
0:25.0	They come terrifying.
0:27.0	One what way? I've come around to you but most of them.
0:30.0	They're like very various to fault.
0:33.0	So I might call it shifty.
0:36.0	I always think that they have red hair but no,
0:39.0	but like that kind of personality
0:42.0	you're assisting with the red-haired people?
0:44.0	My dad was a Leo, my stepdad was a Leo.
0:46.6	My mom lived with Leo for a long time, and I have three ex-Lios.
0:51.1	You're Leo down. Me and my mom had to make a pact. No more motherfucking Leo.
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