Episode 90: Bloodhound Gravel Gang (w/ special guest Alex Pareene)

Trillbilly Worker's Party

Comedy

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Alex Pareene (@pareene) stops by to talk about his latest piece in The New Republic, "Nihilist in Chief," about Mitch McConnell's complete and absolute transformation of American politics over the last 3 decades. Check out Alex's piece here: https://newrepublic.com/article/153275/mitch-mcconnell-profile-nihilist-chief Check out Tarence's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/get-real-ray And subscribe to our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

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0:00.0	What do you think about Mike gravel the meme, not the candidate?
0:07.0	Mike gravel the meme.
0:11.0	I don't think I know Mike gravel the meme. I know the candidate.
0:14.0	Are they into a candidate?
0:16.0	You're talking about the candidate that's speaking truth to power?
0:19.5	It's just classic case of speaking truth to power. Classic cases speaking truth to power.
0:22.8	Classic cases to be the truth of power.
0:25.0	I love speaking truth to power.
0:26.6	I do it every day.
0:28.8	As Alex, my girlfriend, which you know that, just clarifying for the audience.
0:35.0	Yes, I do fuck.
0:38.0	Has a brewery in her hometown. It's Yellow Springs brewery. And their tagline is
0:46.0	crafting truth to power and every time I see that I just want to I don't even like speaking truth to power as a phrase.
0:55.0	Yeah, that's easy.
0:57.0	Much less.
0:59.0	Crafting truth to power.
1:01.0	Dude, that is bad. That is so bad. I find the Mike gravel thing interesting because I think in
1:09.0	20-19 we finally have reached the singularity in politics to where we now have
1:18.3	candidates as sort of cultural signifiers. They're not even really, I mean to me like the Mike gravel, like I don't really
1:26.0	get the impression that anybody's really serious about him. I'm ask your question. Are you just
1:30.7	just the long way of saying that you're not
1:33.0	hashtag gravel gang.
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