Since the “private people” at the country-western clubs so rarely talked politics at the clubs – where they spent nearly all of their free time – members had little or no companionship in developing methods for analyzing politics. How do people like the Buffaloes, who had so little opportunity to talk politics, ever learn to think about politics? Interviewing them showed me just how risky and strange it was for most members to talk politics. This chapter reports on ten interviews and backstage political conversations with country-westerners. What most overwhelmed me in the interviews with this group was that their political worries, though often strong, were far-flung, even eccentric, not overlapping with other members' concerns. For example, Charlene had been so worried about nuclear war in the early 1980s, she read a book about how to grow potatoes in underground caves and live in the Yukon, “because of wind patterns making it a place fallout wouldn't land”; another member devoted a large portion of our interview to his worry that we receive radioactive rays from light bulbs and toasters. Another “would fear for [her] health” if she were to become politically involved, giving as an example a popular docudrama about whistleblower Karen Silkwood, killed by the nuclear power company whose crimes she exposed. These varied worries almost never made it to everyday conversation. Country-westerners were worried – sometimes devoured by worries – but they did not talk about their concerns, and so experienced them as purely unusual, personal fears that demanded purely personal strategies to vanquish.