Premium 343: Respect The Ailments (w/ special guest Alex Press)
Added 2025-01-28 02:05:36 +0000 UTCOur buddy Alex Press stopped by the podcast to talk about a number of things: nominative determinism, Trump 2.0. and Mac Miller
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Project ppppaaaattah?! Ong tom !!!!!
RevolverOcethot
2025-04-21 01:53:59 +0000 UTCwhat was the book on Muhammad called?
Wyatt
2025-03-20 05:44:34 +0000 UTCGive audiobooks a try, you can find most for free if you look hard enough. I have a hard time reading too, but can tear through 2 or 3 audiobooks a week.
Benjamin Behrman
2025-02-23 21:40:32 +0000 UTC💯💯💯🧠🧠🧠
Cody Woodyard
2025-02-10 19:05:28 +0000 UTCDefinitely worth a read for anyone that wants to nuance their understanding of theism acros multiple religious traditions. The dialectical plane that evangelicals and new atheists are stuck debating on is so mind numbingly stupid. DBH is a great way to transcend that discussion as if God was just another "thing" in the universe. Also once you have some philosophical framework for a different understanding a mystical experience either with or without the assistance of substances can help solidify thinking differently.
Bryce
2025-02-10 19:02:45 +0000 UTCFire ep, A++
JJ
2025-02-03 21:28:02 +0000 UTCWhen did it become ok to joke about Tuberculosis when it's still a pandemic and cause of death for a lot of folks in the Global South, and it's making a come back in the US in both Kansas and Michigan?
johland
2025-02-03 12:35:18 +0000 UTCYou wanna talk about a Visigothic name, Alaric is about as Visigoth as it gets. Dad had no idea about that, just saw it in a baby name book and thought it was cool. Blew the mind of just about everyone in my medieval history grad program when I got there. King of the Nerds.
Alaric
2025-02-01 19:58:06 +0000 UTC...though it was sorta funny when it was undercut by the first part of the episode, where the democratic party apparently is pretty set on "posting themselves out of this mess" by being more aggressive in their online response (as a way to combat Trump or whatever). They're perfectly ill-suited for this. I forsee exactly zero rising to the occasion (among the top). There's going to be so many black-sassy-woman-gifs being posted on main.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-02-01 19:41:16 +0000 UTCCommenting here because I can’t on the Apple Podcasts feed but Tom’s comments on episode 378, starting at about 1 hour 6 mins in resonated so strongly with me. Thanks Trillbillies. Really means a lot to me.
Dude of H-town
2025-02-01 18:06:04 +0000 UTCGuys, Tarence didn't have tuberculosis. His corset was just too tight, and he had to steady himself with one hand, while placing the other on his forehead, palm out and - involuntarily, mind you - utter "oh my stars!" as air was pressed over his vocal chords. Thankfully, there was a knee-high daybed in his vicinity, which provided ever so much cushioning, and much elation. Now stop all this foolish, hurtful rumormongering. It really is quite childish.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-02-01 17:43:42 +0000 UTCI love Alex she's so funny. Great ep. I haven't read much Walker Percy but i once read his essay Loss of the Creature. It was a good read but I hated it because he has such a depressing outlook. I think about it often because whenever I feel self conscious about my own enjoyment of things I have to remember that I reject him and his thoughts
Harper
2025-01-31 23:26:39 +0000 UTCCDC datasets are coming down now. I'm going to meetings (even zoom calls) and NIH colleagues are gone they can’t email or talk. I totally agree that I’m an atheist but I’m afraid to speak about something I’m afraid of. But I also think a thought or a word is real and God (to me) is not. Real things might have ripple effects. I’m stressed about the strong “shoot the messenger” energy. I’m also stressed that the LA wildfires and the military flying into a plane have been immediately blamed on women working. But I kinda also suspect that not saying what I’m afraid of isn’t some kind of fool proof plan.
BookMisser
2025-01-31 21:04:50 +0000 UTCMy 19 month old nephew. Doug.
Carrie G
2025-01-31 20:15:21 +0000 UTCThe great Marxist mystic Simone Weil changed the whole way I think of questions like that; her ideas of attention vs will can be distilled into asking “why do I read” instead of “how do I read”. I also got rid of my Wi-Fi lol, so that helps
Adam R
2025-01-31 17:37:44 +0000 UTCYou guys have such great banter with Alex. Really enjoyable episode. It’s like the first time I’ve laughed in a week.
Emily L
2025-01-31 16:33:04 +0000 UTCY’all need to get Tanya back on for a guest spot. I was listening to old episodes and it was so fucking funny. Great chemistry between you guys. The episode when you talked about Mayor Pete and wearing zoot suits killed me man, Terrance saying “There come them Trillbillies!” Episode 225 on the free feed if anybody wants to go back.
Cory Waring
2025-01-31 15:35:16 +0000 UTCI feel silly asking this question. It’s for everyone in the chat: How do you all read? Lmao. Like what I mean is, how do you find the time and self-discipline to sit down, read books, essays, open browser tabs, etc. The amount of stuff out there to keep up with is overwhelming. One of the best parts about this pod is you guys distill and contextualize various texts in ways that are really helpful.
Mike
2025-01-31 14:54:55 +0000 UTCThe only good Dougie, is a Dougie Jones, Dougie. Peep this Dougie Jones tee https://www.etsy.com/listing/1242750328/?ref=share_ios_native_control
The Hollywood Hater
2025-01-30 19:48:30 +0000 UTCI'm currently reading through Gravity's Rainbow again so the Pynchon talk was some spooky fun synchronicity. He'd be an incredible get for the pod.
Rangifer Tarandus
2025-01-30 17:00:23 +0000 UTCInteresting, that teacher did recommend Slaughthouse 5 to me, so that lines up
Warbs
2025-01-30 15:04:41 +0000 UTCThis idea is explored in Vonnegut’s Mother Night. Kurt seems to agree with your teacher.
Sammy
2025-01-30 14:45:12 +0000 UTCfriends, can someone help me find when the boys call the cheezit a new york queen? i could have sworn i just heard it but i can't find it!
ohiocorn
2025-01-30 04:25:55 +0000 UTCmy condolences to the Dougs that got blindsided by shade in this episode. they should really rub that hat down with some fritos so it's got that 🌽 🌽 🌽 smell
mexicanhalloween .
2025-01-29 19:13:07 +0000 UTCGoing to compile all of Tom’s race science discourse and release a monograph
Al Harris
2025-01-29 18:34:28 +0000 UTCCoalfluencer if you will
Al Harris
2025-01-29 18:29:28 +0000 UTCYeah yall really should have Alex on more. Much like Aaron she elevates you too from the Slop mines
Joey Bag O Doughnuts
2025-01-29 18:06:57 +0000 UTCha ha let's get real I can name at least 150 episodes where Tarence has something wrong with him~~~
pipistrello65
2025-01-29 16:17:08 +0000 UTCthis episode is an all-timer for sure!! can we have more alex???
Jacob Nathan
2025-01-29 13:54:20 +0000 UTCMy HS history teacher claimed Hitler was in heaven... because he was insane.
Warbs
2025-01-29 13:48:21 +0000 UTCThis was one of the funnest episodes in a really long time. I demand you all host Alex semi-frequently.
Jordan Hunnicutt
2025-01-29 12:30:31 +0000 UTCI once broke up with a “Wally” for obvious reasons
SF
2025-01-29 12:08:33 +0000 UTCTarence-since you're into Keats consider checking out the Hyperion Cantos series of books by Dan Simmons-lots of wild scifi stuff and much of it revolves around Keats and his work, super cool
E
2025-01-29 11:52:50 +0000 UTCSounded to me like she didn't like him because he was close friends with an abuser since she clearly stated that was why they didn't like him. Not to mention, most people have guys they hated in high school enough that they still think "God, I hated that guy" when they are reminded of them but also many years out can recognize the reasons seem less notable many years removed in adulthood.
BK
2025-01-29 11:02:05 +0000 UTCGreat episode but sucks to the hear the Malcolm hate. It’d be one thing if he was an asshole or something but sounds like she was hating on him for not growing up poor.
Julian Berman
2025-01-29 03:53:11 +0000 UTCdamn this episode made me laugh all the way out loud.the visceral jewish need to be superstitious and get out of germany, BB name game recognition, alex’s relationship with her dad. thanks ❤️
hhannahh
2025-01-29 03:42:23 +0000 UTCTarence Bae—TB. Coincidence? I think not.
Richard Cochnar
2025-01-29 03:42:16 +0000 UTCHas Tarence read The Magic Mountain? I'd like to hear what he thinks. Especially re the medical treatment.
Amy
2025-01-28 22:46:00 +0000 UTCIndiana too
Kellen Singer
2025-01-28 21:44:12 +0000 UTCPaw paw is a small fruit that grows in Missouri
daniel
2025-01-28 21:26:27 +0000 UTCWtf this was a great, fun episode. More Alex Jess, please.
Lars
2025-01-28 21:16:36 +0000 UTCTarence is responsible the largest TB outbreak in US history https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak
Brakiachi
2025-01-28 21:11:10 +0000 UTCI saw the same TikTok lol, That kid in the Coal Miner Influencer video looks a bit like Cooper Norris in “Landman” ⛏️
Sam Ward
2025-01-28 20:32:36 +0000 UTCHe aprendido español para escapar de Texas a México 🙃 Cough is "tos" Lungs are "pulmones" "Tengo tos" = I have a cough I like the spanish words for cold, personally, for the sickness es "un resfriado" vs. "el frío" for the temperature. They just sound so right idk if that makes sense.
Austin
2025-01-28 20:28:59 +0000 UTCGood to have some lady energy on the pod again. Makes me miss Tanya. Hope she’s doing well.
Richard Cochnar
2025-01-28 20:21:47 +0000 UTCGreat guest!
Noah McClellan
2025-01-28 19:43:25 +0000 UTCReckless and sensual are the two words to describe old country buffet for sure. Heat lamp meat and 10 hr old mash potatoes are served at Mar-A-Largo as well as TB hotspots in Northwest Indiana. Oy Vey, what a country
Michael Wadman
2025-01-28 17:17:29 +0000 UTC“TB was thought to come from too much passion, afflicting the reckless and sensual” that’s a Sontag quote about how it was the old heroin chic. old country buffet 🔥🧖♀️
BookMisser
2025-01-28 16:59:53 +0000 UTCI think it can be easy to understate the impact of the deep seek release; due to the fragility of the FIRE sector and how most US growth is based on precarious tech bubbles it could cause some dominoes to fall. Government will probably step in, but this meth addict country can’t take much more stimulus
William
2025-01-28 15:38:15 +0000 UTCPersonal TB story here. Worked at an Applebee's in my early 20's that was next door to an Old Country Buffet where a TB outbreak occurred. It closed one day and found out TB was the reason. They were both located in a run down dirt mall. Perfect personification of merica.
Michael Wadman
2025-01-28 15:37:44 +0000 UTCI respect the meningitis sure. But y’know what I respect even more? The womeningitis. It’s 2025 guys. Let’s be better than this.
Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing
2025-01-28 15:35:26 +0000 UTCI was thinking more Slacker than anything really. That style of "characters aimlessly walking around and telling littles stories, and it can go either way if it's about anything or just self-indulgent" became a short-lived trend in 90's indie movies (the "hangout" movies).
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-01-28 15:23:21 +0000 UTCBasically EoG defines the word “God,” utilizing the Vedic tradition, Christianity and Sufi Islam primarily… completely blew my mind the first time I read it
Cody Woodyard
2025-01-28 15:19:22 +0000 UTCTom and Tarence need to read some David Bentley Hart haha Experience of God helped me see the typical new atheist v theist (like William lane Craig and those dummies) debates as completely missing the point by both operating under a Cartesian definition of “god” that none of the religious traditions really meant by that word
Cody Woodyard
2025-01-28 15:18:29 +0000 UTCBro I won’t be able to enjoy Before Sunrise again 😂
Cody Woodyard
2025-01-28 15:07:30 +0000 UTCI just came on to post this!
Jesscon
2025-01-28 15:00:07 +0000 UTCTarance, you get sick frequently, lol. We can go to the tapes on this one
William
2025-01-28 14:55:24 +0000 UTC♥️
Trillbilly Worker's Party
2025-01-28 14:23:37 +0000 UTCMaybe I wasnnt getting exposed to Bolshevism then lol makes more sense
Trillbilly Worker's Party
2025-01-28 14:22:55 +0000 UTCThe Dougphobia on display is truly sickening
foul tarnished
2025-01-28 14:06:37 +0000 UTCThe world is descending into chaos; but you gotta protect yourself from letting all that news take advantage of your human ability to be empathetic. I wrote more, but it sounded preachy; hearing about ice raids in Chicago really made me spiral and I guess I’m saying I feel ya. I feel helpless, angry, etc… but I still have to live and so do you
William
2025-01-28 13:50:22 +0000 UTCBonn was the capital of west Germany, its best köln
Mae Berens
2025-01-28 13:30:32 +0000 UTCAlex is the perfect guest holy shit!
AL
2025-01-28 12:07:13 +0000 UTCTrump narrates things like a 90's Linklater character. Lots of intensity and blow-by-blow excessive detailing and repetition that ends in a "anyway" dead-end where you're unsure how much of the story is allusion to something else or just genuinely completely pointless.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-01-28 10:47:38 +0000 UTCRepublican is a great thing to be in like everywhere but the United states. We should have Labor Republicans The thing about their initials being in order had a lot more impact when there were three of them Nominative determinism- I know a trans man whose deadname was "a man, duh"
Andrew Dunn
2025-01-28 09:54:52 +0000 UTCDude im self employed. So…maybe?
Louis Wilkins
2025-01-28 07:12:58 +0000 UTCI feel you man. I’m honestly just telling myself daily to hold on until enough other people have nothing to lose that we’ll have the numbers to Do Something. Probably never going to happen bc the whole world is just Axis now, idk who is going to sacrifice millions of people to fight the nazis this time… but the rubber room is gonna be fucking lit and hopefully our deaths will be quick. Maybe you’ll be able to kill your boss in all the chaos when things fall apart in a year or two.
Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing
2025-01-28 06:51:06 +0000 UTCI sent an edible arrangement when I thought you had the consumption and weren't long for this world. I hope those melon balls and are kiwi flowers are already spoilt when they arrive.
Andrew Ratcliffe
2025-01-28 05:45:28 +0000 UTCIt’s the Coal Mining ASMR to Black Lung ASMR pipeline.
Leyland
2025-01-28 04:46:01 +0000 UTCIm working too hard and the world appears to be descending into chaos. I’ll get over it.
Louis Wilkins
2025-01-28 04:44:54 +0000 UTCAw yay what a lovely episode!! Hope you’re all doing well. Tarence if you and Alex started an email newsletter for your writings I’d absolutely subscribe
Yani x
2025-01-28 04:42:53 +0000 UTCThe people yearn for the White Tarence Settler-Colonialism Reading List!!
Daniel E
2025-01-28 04:35:14 +0000 UTCyou 3 have great chemistry!
kp
2025-01-28 04:01:52 +0000 UTCWtf
Kellen Singer
2025-01-28 03:52:47 +0000 UTCPraying for Tom’s phone
Kellen Singer
2025-01-28 03:51:09 +0000 UTCLook at what you’ve conjured into reality - https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-01-27/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-is-largest-in-recorded-u-s-history-what-to-know
Elfriede
2025-01-28 03:36:43 +0000 UTCStay strong 🏳️⚧️
James she they
2025-01-28 03:36:37 +0000 UTCWhat a time to begin HRT thru Planned Parenthood deep in the heart o' TX 🫠🤪 I am probably buying a gun soon lmao
Austin
2025-01-28 03:15:58 +0000 UTCWhat’s happening
William
2025-01-28 03:09:13 +0000 UTCtapped in!
Ethan
2025-01-28 03:07:56 +0000 UTCEthan Ethan where are you
abby
2025-01-28 03:07:05 +0000 UTCI was at the Utes - USA game in 64; wasn’t a blow out but man, the USA had a comfortable 30pt lead the whole game
William
2025-01-28 02:49:29 +0000 UTCGODDAMN FUCKING JESUS IM LOSING MY FUCKING MIND OVER HERE. Sorry y’all but I kind of am. The world feels like a Leonard Cohen song.
Louis Wilkins
2025-01-28 02:35:40 +0000 UTCsecond, but also third and first . It’s a dialectic
Jawn Feddermang
2025-01-28 02:29:42 +0000 UTCsubstansive
minty
2025-01-28 02:12:50 +0000 UTCFirst
Noah Shue
2025-01-28 02:06:44 +0000 UTC
