047: The Over/Under on Christmas

Trillbilly Worker's Party, the end of history, being divorced and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

The Trillbilly Worker’s Party podcast is hard to explain.

Their Patreon description is “a podcast about a town called Whitesburg, Kentucky”. This article describes them as “part of the loose coalition of left-wing media outlets that have sworn off civility politics in favor of a more vulgar, irreverent confrontation of power that has become known as the “Dirtbag Left.” For me, the Trillbillies are the closest thing I can get to driving around in a pickup with my best friends from high school, giggling as they crack jokes and commentate on everything from our church youth group, to our teachers’ sex lives, to the NBA draft.

Anyway, in this week’s episode, there was an exchange that was apropos of Christmas. It started with riff on the boys’ annual struggle to survive the risk of “a psychotic breakdown” before the end of the month of December.

Tarence: “You can never truly know—it’s crazy how much of life just comes down to luck and chance, I see now why you’re into gambling .”

Tom: “It’s…