by Working People
Working People: A podcast by, for, and about the working class today (now in partnership with In These Times magazine and The Real News Network). Working People is a podcast about working-class lives in 21st-century America. In every episode, you'll hear interviews with workers from around the country, from all walks of life. We'll talk about their life stories, their jobs, politics, and families, their joys and hopes and frustrations. Overall, Working People aims to share and celebrate the diverse stories of working-class people, to remind ourselves that our stories matter, and to build a sense of shared struggle and solidarity between workers around the country.
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April 23, 2025
<p class="has-drop-cap" style= "background: white; margin: 24.0pt 0in 24.0pt 0in;"><span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #111111;">I would like to see Texas become the center of the universe for bitcoin and crypto,” US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) <a style= "box-sizing: inherit; background-color: initial; transition: box-shadow 150ms; box-shadow: rgb(246, 191, 0) 0px -3px 0px inset;" href= "https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/28/texas-republicans-blockchain-bitcoin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style= "color: black;">said</span></a> in 2021. In 2024, Republican Governor Greg Abbott <a style= "box-sizing: inherit; background-color: initial; transition: box-shadow 150ms; box-shadow: rgb(246, 191, 0) 0px -3px 0px inset;" href="https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1855015903496147225" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style= "color: black;">said</span></a> Texas “wears the crown as the bitcoin mining capital of the world.” But in small towns like Granbury, TX, about an hour southwest of Fort Worth, residents are the ones paying the price for Texas’ crypto boom. Granbury’s 300-megawatt bitcoin mine, which is owned by Marathon Digital, a Florida-based cryptocurrency company, uses a mix of liquid immersion and industrial fans to prevent over 20,000 computers from overheating. Many residents say that it’s the constant sound from those fans that has made life increasingly unbearable in their small town—and that their concerns are going ignored by the company and government officials. In this episode of <span style= "font-family: 'Georgia',serif;">Working People</span>, we speak with four residents of Granbury living near the Marathon bitcoin mine: Danny Lakey, Karen Pearson, Nick Browning, and Virginia Browning.</span></p> <p style= "background: white; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; overflow-wrap: break-word; max-width: 100%; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 24.0pt 0in 24.0pt 0in;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #111111;">Additional links/info:</span></p> <p style="background: white; margin: 24.0pt 0in 24.0pt 0in;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #111111;"> </span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "color: #111111; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Protect Hood County <a href="https://protecthoodcounty.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style= "color: black;">website</span></a></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "color: #111111; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Andrew R. Chow, TIME, “<a href= "https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="color: black;">‘We’re living in a nightmare:’ Inside the health crisis of a Texas bitcoin town</span></a>”</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "color: #111111; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Andrew R. Chow, TIME, “<a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXCga3toxok&t=103s" target= "_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="color: black;">Noisy neighbor: Bitcoin’s hidden health cost</span></a>” (Video Report)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "color: #111111; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “<a href= "https://therealnews.com/trnn-wins-2025-izzy-award-for-coverage-of-east-palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="color: black;">TRNN wins 2025 Izzy Award for coverage of East Palestine, OH, trainwreck & chemical disaster</span></a>”</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "color: #111111; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “<a href= "https://therealnews.com/i-had-to-move-away-from-everything-that-i-ever-had-chemically-exposed-residents-of-east-palestine-oh-and-conyers-ga-have-been-left-behind" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="color: black;">‘I had to move away from everything that I ever had’: Chemically exposed residents of East Palestine, OH, and Conyers, GA, have been left behind</span></a>”</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "color: #111111; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “<a href= "https://therealnews.com/csx-coal-terminal-curtis-bay-baltimore-residents-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="color: black;">‘This is murder!’: Industrially poisoned South Baltimore residents march on state capitol, demand help from Gov. Moore</span></a>”</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "color: #111111; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Maximillian Alvarez, Steve Mellon, & Mike Balonek, The Real News Network, “<a href= "https://therealnews.com/trainwreck-in-trump-country-partisan-politics-hasnt-helped-east-palestine-oh-documentary" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style= "color: black;">Trainwreck in ‘Trump Country’: Partisan politics hasn’t helped East Palestine, OH (DOCUMENTARY)</span></a>”</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "color: #111111; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Keaton Peters, Inside Climate News, “<a href= "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10072024/texas-bitcoin-mining-threatens-power-grid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="color: black;">Texas leaders worry that bitcoin mines threaten to crash the state power grid</span></a>”</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "color: #111111; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> NBC News</span><span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">, “<a href= "https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/inside-the-texas-bitcoin-mine-reportedly-making-residents-sick-218859077625" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="color: black;">Inside the Texas bitcoin mine reportedly making residents sick</span></a>”</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "color: #111111; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> James Pollard, The Texas Tribune, “<a href= "https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/28/texas-republicans-blockchain-bitcoin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="color: black;">Texas Republicans want to make the state the center of the cryptocurrency universe</span></a>”</span></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "line-height: normal; 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mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> The Real News Network <a href="https://therealnews.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style= "color: black;">website</span></a>, <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/c/therealnews" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style= "color: black;">YouTube</span></a> channel, <a href= "https://therealnews.com/our-shows-podcasts" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style= "color: black;">podcast</span></a> feeds, <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/therealnews" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style= "color: black;">Facebook</span></a> page, and <a href= "https://twitter.com/TheRealNews" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style= "color: black;">Twitter</span></a> page</span></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "line-height: normal; background: white; margin: 24.0pt 0in 24.0pt 0in;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #111111; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Featured Music…</span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "color: #111111; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song</span></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "line-height: normal; background: white;"><span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #111111; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez<br /> Post-Production: Jules Taylor</span></p> <p style="background: white; margin: 24.0pt 0in 24.0pt 0in;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; 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