Episode 50: Gulag Holler (w/ special guests Sylvia Ryerson and Judah Schept)

Trillbilly Worker's Party

Comedy

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On our 50th episode, we're joined by journalist Sylvia Ryerson and Eastern Kentucky University professor Judah Schept, to discuss the federal prison that has been slated for construction in our home of Letcher County, Kentucky. We also talk about rural prison expansion and the carceral state more generally, and about how prisons are sold as economic development for deindustrialized regions. Check out their recent article here: http://bostonreview.net/law-justice/sylvia-ryerson-judah-schept-building-prisons-appalachia And check out Sylvia's Restorative Radio project here: http://www.restorativeradio.org/audio-postcards-2/

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0:00.0	Is that Tanya Tucker?
0:05.0	It's me.
0:06.0	In the Big Apple?
0:08.0	I am.
0:10.0	I navigated the whole city today by myself.
0:12.8	How many construction jobs have you worked on today
0:16.9	since you've been there since you're a hardworking East
0:19.1	Kentucky and Tanya?
0:20.9	Oh my God.
0:22.4	I went and got my fucking nails done. I will say I walked Tanya to the bus stop
0:28.8	this morning. It was really cute. I was taking my little kindergartner to the bus.
0:32.6	Yeah, she, I hugged her, I hugged her as I got onto the bus,
0:36.8	and the bus driver was literally shaking his head
0:39.8	because I had dollar bills in my hand
0:41.8	and the bus doesn't take dollar bills it takes
0:43.7	quarters and he and I was like it's 275 right and he was like quarters quarters orders. It was fine. He just let me ride anyway because it my goodbye was so beautiful with you. That's why
1:08.1	Well, it sounds like everybody is here and ready to go
1:14.4	More or less. More or less.
1:15.4	All right, welcome to the Trailbillies.
1:17.5	It is, we are joined today by
1:22.1	Tanya Tucker in the Big Apple,
1:25.2	corresponding all the way from New York City
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