The Belligerent Confederate States of Appalachia

The Crackpot Podcast Episode 13 with LaFond & Lockhart

Many thanks to John Paul Barber for the inspiration for this episode!

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In preparing this episode, it dawned on me that my carefully timestamped show notes in the last episode were probably off by 25 seconds or so, because I may have added the intro track after I took the notes, maybe.  I can't remember and I am not going to check.  But I will do it right this time.

0:01:05 James' Myth of 20th Century podcast appearance
0:01:24 Lynn reads quote from John Paul Barber
0:03:30 James recounts his experiences in Appalachia, and using that setting in fiction
0:07:33 James discusses keeping Appalachia out of the future Peoples' Republic of African North America
0:08:25 James tells some of the history of the Scots-Irish people
0:10:23 White Indians
0:12:37 James Watt Raine, The Land of Saddle-Bags, or Saddlebag Folk
0:15:30 James LaFond the White Devil adviser to the ghost of Nathan Bedford Forrest
0:17:15 Lynn angling for a job in the new administration of the Belligerent Confederate States of Appalachia
0:19:30 Education policy
0:21:27 Criminal justice policy
0:25:35 Family law
0:33:56 Novel, North & South, the importance of the extended family
0:40:40 Big Ron and the junkie as a revenue unit
0:41:37 Department of Defense or Department of War
0:44:50 James' fictional Islamic America
0:49:37 The fate of cities in case of an American break up
0:52:31 Arsen Darnay, Hostage for Hinterland
0:55:22 Does the military have any regional loyalties?
0:56:50 Preservation of power is the top priority
0:59:13 Crackpot moment, Lynn pours cold water all over it, I forgot to mention the main thing, which is that journalists are morons
1:02:50 The Khan offers Lynn a promotion
1:05:05 Discussion of wind energy
1:08:18 California wildfires
1:09:10 Capitalism or pastoral agriculture  -- banking is at the root
1:15:25 Cool Hand Luke carwash scene

(c) 2017 James LaFond & Lynn Lockhart