Episode 461: Billiken Blues LIVE at Institute 193 (w/ special guests Jesse Montgomery and Devin Thomas O'Shea)

Live show recorded on 8/14/26 at Institute 193 in Lexington, Kentucky, with authors Jesse Montgomery and Devin Thomas O'Shea Video of the show can be found at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty/posts/trillbillies-w-169238145 Buy Jesse's book here: https://uncpress.org/9781469693965/it-is-not-enough-to-survive/ Buy Devin's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2770-the-veiled-prophet

Aaron and Tom discuss lying about your cousins, modern attitudes about tv size, and Zionists wanting indebted Americans to fight for Israel.

Interrogating our past Dolly (and authorial) crimes, and examining another week in bizarre Trump policies Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

The boys welcome back friend of the show to talk mostly about foodborne illness among other topics. Get Steve’s New Record Here: https://ovalwindowrecords.bandcamp.com/album/steve-sladkowski-joe-sorbara Catch Steve on tour with PUP here: https://www.puptheband.com/#tour

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An epoch-turning week in American politics Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty Come to our show on August 14th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trillbillies-live-with-special-guests-devin-oshea-and-jesse-montgomery-tickets-1994899655571

The boys talk living with part of your head missing, the growing prospect that the US/Israel are leading the entire world into a massive conflict, and we read about a pastor who has made a replica of himself with AI because he says his congregation was getting too big for one man to handle. We have a live show coming up in Lexington, KY on Friday, August 14 @ Institute 193 (doors at 7:30) buy your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trillbillies-live-with-special-guests-devin-oshea-and-jesse-montgomery-tickets-1994899655571 Support us on patreon here: patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we're looking at a hilariously grim foundational text of Christian Zionism: John Hagee's mid-aughts book "Jerusalem Countdown." We discuss the history of non-Jewish Zionism, the nature of the United States and Israel's relationship, and why no one can admit that Iran has gotten the upper hand against Israel and the U.S. We also talk discuss a few other texts in this, including Patrick Wolfe's "Traces of History," Regina Sharif's "Non-Jewish Zionism: Its Roots in Western History," and Adolf von Harnack's "The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries." Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

We discuss the T levels of our nation's military, and check in with our friend Jonathan Chait who says we already HAD universal healthcare we just didn't know it. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/c/trillbillyworkersparty

Friend of the show Josh Poe of Kentucky Tenant Union joins us again to give tenant organizing updates. Plus we talk McConnell, Platner, data centers, and Kentucky politics among other topics. Check out Kentucky Tenants: https://www.kytenantunion.org Subscribe to our Patreon: patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty