Episode 421: Cart Blanche

Aaron & Tom review the state of the holiday retail climate, the history of America's vapor economics, the CNN x Kalshi collab, and financing Air Jordans at 22% interest. Subscribe to our patreon today: https://www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Journalist Eamon Whalen drops by to discuss his latest for Mother Jones "How a Mercenary Became a Minneapolis Mall Cop" (link Below) https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/crg-mercenary-mall-cop-nathan-seabrook-minneapolis-george-floyd-protest-paramilitary/

Aaron and Tom are joined by writer, producer, and podcaster Manny Fidel to discuss the proliferation of online sports betting and its implications on society in the context of a US economy that's increasingly immaterial in conjunction with the "male loneliness epidemic." Manny's GQ piece can be found here: https://www.gq.com/story/online-gambling-is-ruining-sports-bars Preorder Manny's forthcoming book "Colored People Time (A Case for Casual Rebellion)" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740001/colored-people-time-by-manny-fidel/ Check out Manny's podcast "NO SUCH THING" here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-such-thing/id1780210954 Subscribe to our Patreon here: https://patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we talk the recently released Epstein emails and interview journalist Thomas Birmingham about his piece in The Nation "The Eviction Kings" (linked below). https://www.thenation.com/article/society/american-landmark-evictions-israel-electra/

Friend of the show Steve Sladkowski of PUP the band joins us as we discuss voter suppression in Kentucky with regards to the New York mayoral race, Zohran's victory in that race and what hope we can take from it as well as what we would like to see from the left going forward nationally, good and bad A.I. bubbles, UPS plane crash in Louisville, and the ongoing perils of being governed by drunks and morons. Catch Steve here: @sladkow on X/Twitter; PUPtheband.com Subscribe to our patreon: patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty For the everyday is Halloween crowd, our Halloween special is available here now for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2BTmHqs2Dw&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2F

Aaron and Tom discuss how few things in American life are what they seem, Hurricane Melissa, Trump's latest bullshit. Plus some audio of our Halloween special available now at patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Unfortunately we had to discuss the gooning article in Harper's. From there we went on to talk about the growing "China envy" among Silicon Valley's tech elite, Draft King's entry onto Wall Street, how China's approach to AI differs from America's approach to AI, and, finally, why so many pundits still think that centrism is the best way to engage with politics Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we're looking at Trumponomics, how Nazified the GOP and country at large has become, and Doug Wilson's vision for a theocratic dictatorship Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we're speaking with Evelyn Vargas and Antonio Gutierrez from Organized Communities Against Deporations (OCAD), about all the recent things going on in Chicago: Operation Midway Blitz, the Sept 30 raid on the South Shore Apartments building, Trump sending in the National Guard and declaring war on Antifa, and how the Democrats fit into all this Support Organized Communities Against Deportations here: https://www.organizedcommunities.org/ Support us on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

This week we're having a truth and reconciliation hearing for the libs Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty