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Episode 97: Appalatchiks (w/ special guest Hannah Gais)

Trillbilly Worker's Party

Trillbilly Worker's Party

Comedy

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Writer Hannah Gais (@hannahgais) joins us to talk about her article in The Baffler about what the late Soviet Union's obsession with conspiracy theories can tell us about our current political and cultural moment. After that we discuss an article in the New York Times about an Appalachian coding nonprofit that turned out to be a fraud. Read Hannah's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/psychic-healing-at-the-end-of-history-gais Read the New York Times article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/mined-minds-west-virginia-coding.html And support our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

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0:00.0

Well, Hannah, before we get started, I just want to lay out a scenario.

0:08.0

It's 1990, they're about, and all three of us are kind of been partying all night and we're sort of

0:17.3

like stoned and drunk and five years old right five years oldanging out with Boris Yeltsin and you stumble into a grocery store to get some food because you know you're

0:29.8

fucked up and hungry and Boris is just absolutely enamored with the tabloids next to the checkouts.

0:39.0

Is the Bat Boy. is the bat boy and also the frozen food of course right right

0:48.2

yeah Boris does look like a guy that probably, you know, when things opened up, you know, when the

0:58.9

era after Gorbachev has been Pizza Huck commercials and stuff, a guy that probably lived off TV dinners and can food

1:06.1

I can see it actually yeah it sounds pretty accurate

1:10.4

Although go ahead I feel like his wife probably would prevent him from doing that but if she was gone he'd just be like no.

1:19.2

Who is Boris Yeltsin's wife, what is her story?

1:23.0

I don't know that much about her except the fact that she was kind of religious.

1:26.3

Interesting.

1:27.1

Interesting.

1:28.1

Yeah.

1:29.1

That sounds like a very Eastern Kentucky thing.

1:32.2

Like just a ne'er-do-well guy that's married to a super religious woman that like you know keeps

1:36.5

him in line.

1:38.5

Well I think Boris Yeltsin was like didn't, isn't there like a really famous story about him like

1:45.0

getting found passed out drunk like on the White House lawn in like, in the mid 90s?

1:51.0

Yeah, I think it was, I forget if it was him who was the one who was wandering around trying to find pizza or someone else.

1:57.0

But yeah, he had a bit of a drinking problem to put it nicely right

2:08.7

So funny well so yeah I just wanted to lay out that scenario because I thought it was really funny.

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