All Episodes

#266: Raise Hell, Praise Dolly (and more)

#265: Can we really chip away at the GOP supermajority in West Virginia?

#264: The Data Center Revolt

#263: Fighting the scourge of Black Lung in the courts

#262: We can build working class power in the South

#261: How NOT to tell the story of extraction in Appalachia

#260: The West Virginia Water Crisis

#259: East Palestine Train Derailment: 3 years later

#258: Defeating AI music with Goldengrass (ft. The Brothers Comatose)

#257: F**k ICE

#256: Appalachian identity and the radical left agenda for the hollers

#255: Louisville Tenants Union

#254: Appalachia Comics Project

#253: State of political discourse + David Gate's rebellion of care

#252: The Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency (This Guy Sucked Crossover)

#251: Bonafide Appalachian musicians

#250: Stories of rural resistance from the Holler

#249: Big Beautiful Bulls**t

#248: Barbara Kingsolver and the house that Demon built

#247: Big John's Second Swan Song

#246: Former MSHA head sounds the alarm on RFK's cuts at NIOSH

#245: Hurricane Helene: 7 months later

#244: Party-grass with Addie Levy

#243: Palmyra

#242: Discussing the recent Soft White Underbelly controversy

#241: 18 Husky Brownie Bites

#240: Emily Calandrelli is the 100th Woman in Space

#239: The Appalachian Accent Project and 2025 soft launch

#238: Wild Foxfire remedies, and the BEEF with Ponderosa

#237: From Appalachia to the Ivy League (But not JD Vance!)

#236: Giving thanks for our old AIM screen names

#235: About that 2024 election

#234: Hillbilly Elegection: Our presidential predictions

#233: What's up with the Appalachian Clean Hydrogen Hub?

#232: The canaries in the coal mine of climate change (with the Chaotic Forager)

#231: Fat Bear Week analysis & the hurricane of misinformation in Appalachia

#230: The Palestinian-American representing Appalachian Georgia, Rep. Ruwa Romman

#229: The Appalachian in charge of our nation's mine safety

#228: Haitian immigrants are NOT eating pets in Ohio

#227: Rednecks took center-stage at the DNC

#226: Kangaroos on the loose and crowdfunding classrooms

#225: Defeating a private equity takeover of trailer parks

#224: Is Appalachia Trump Country?

#223: A couch-tastrophe and a threat to marriage equality

#222: Hillbilly Elegy: A New Cope

Biden drops out on National Ice Cream Day

#221: Our thoughts on the attempted assassination

#220: Did SCOTUS screw over opioid victims?

#219: Throwback - Ponderosa Buffet and Dolly Parton: Two American Treasures

#218: JD Vance simping for venture capital at the expense of millennials?

#217: The attack on Dolly Parton & Mothman's hind "quarters"

#216: Reefer Madness in Congress + making authentic music with Huey Mack

#215: The Appalachian pro-wrestling lawyer who is also fighting opioid companies

#214: Fallout 76 is telling the story of Appalachia to a new audience

#213: We support the students protesting & a BIG union win in Appalachia

#212: Ponderosa, UBB, and a 4/20 Beef?

#211: Financial Televangelists and a Retroactive Beef Reversal

#210: The Second Coming

#209: The WORST candidate in Appalachia + p***y politics!

#208: Homelessness is being criminalized in Appalachia

#207: Why does a Wall Street hedge fund own Appalachian trailer parks?

#206: The 4th Annual Appodlachia Appalachian Awards ("The Appies")

#205: Satan, Sacklers, and Slum Lords

#203: AppHarvest Exposed

#202: Manchin and red vest millionaires are OUT; weed, abortion, and Beshear are IN

#201: Abortion and Weed are on the ballot

#200: Video game workers are organizing

#199: Creepy Appalachia

#198: Powerful men behaving badly in Appalachia

#197: Taylor Swift can fix the Appalachian economy

#196: Peerless City & the Manchin-churian Candidate?

#195: WVU Students vs. E Gordon Grift

#194: A Covenant mom speaks out about gun violence

#193: WTF WVU

#192: Songwriting in Appalachia & How Streaming Has Changed the Music Industry

#191: There's a vampire in Appalachia, and we're running out of blood

#190: Gay Coal Miners, "Hick-Libs," & A Small Appalachian Town Uniting Against Hate

#189: Do urban liberals have it wrong on Appalachia?

#188: Hillbillys in Hollywood on Strike!

#187: God made dirt but NC gon’ hurt, wild stories from the woods, and William Matheny's grand old feeling

#186: Papaw Stories and the Opioid Morphing Epidemic

#185: Gay Poems for Red States

#184: We're also getting indicted

#183: What is Joe Manchin's political future?

#182: The Youngest Party Leader in America is bringing change to the Tarheel State

#181: Politics in the Bluegrass Commonwealth

#180: Appalachian Queer Film Festival

#179: Organizing while Brown in Appalachia

#178: Kelly Craft, Appalachian Debt Relief, and winning back the Buckeye State

#177: The Tennessee Three

#176: Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead: Appalachians React

#175: Progressive rural organizing and facts don't care about your feelings (on school lunch)

#174: A North Carolina mill town's 1,100 union jobs disappeared

#173: Anti-drag law and your favorite Appalachian papaw

#172: Cocaine Bear and the Tennessee Holler

#171: East Palestine Deep Dive: Norfolk Southern’s Disaster

#170: Appalachian Moonshining

#169: Bringing Black Agriculture to Appalachia

#168: Sex and Purity Culture in Appalachia

#167: Appalachian Gatekeeping

#166: Dew Mouth revisited & Dental Access in Appalachia

#165: App-uh-LATCH-uh or App-uh-LAY-shuh?

#164: Who can claim to be Appalachian?

#163: The 3rd Annual Appodlachia Appalachian Awards!

#162: Being a queer journalist in Appalachia

#161: Philip Bowen on the Strings!

#160: Cannabis in Appalachia, THC in Congress, and Cornbread Mafia not in your podcasts

#159: Climate Crisis in Appalachia & Pipeline Politics

#158: Western NC's Youngest Mayor, Smashing Cryptids, and the pothole from hell

#157: Gen Z Appalachians (Live show in Morgantown)

#156: Unhinged Dem Fundraising Emails and Beef with Big Joes

#155: Getting Cucked at the Greenbrier and Election Predictions!

Midterm Election Bonus Bonanza Part 2

#154: Defunding the Appalachian Regional Commission?

Kentucky Midterm Election Bonus Bonanza!

#153: Appalachia's Spookiest Destinations + Hip Hop in Rural Virginia

#152: A shining beacon of hope in Appalachian politics (with Del. Danielle Walker)

#151: Reefer Madness in Appalachia and fighting cannabis prohibition

#150: Gunslingers and Politicians Defrauding the Government in Appalachia

#149: Hillbilly Gothic: Banjos over Bigots

#148: Appalachian Foraging

#147: The Uneducated Stereotype

#146: Jewish in Appalachia

#145: Arming Teachers in Appalachia and Dr. Oz's Quackiest Quips (w/OH-AFT President Melissa Cropper)

#144: Loving Appalachia despite its flaws (w/ Silas House)

#143: Masculinity in Appalachia

#142: Roll Damn Tide! (with Sen. Doug Jones)

#141: JD Crowe, not JD Vance: A look at Bluegrass in Appalachia

#140: JD Vance is broke, sustainable farming in Appalachia, and Cheri Beasley's senate campaign

#139: Chief Richard Sneed on the Eastern Band Cherokees in Appalachia

#138: Holiday Husky Fit: Drinking while answering AskReddit questions

#137: An unfiltered reaction to the gutting of Roe v. Wade

#136: Activist Judges Shaping Appalachia's Federal Courts [Part 2]

#135: The Dark Money Group Shaping Appalachia's Federal Courts [Part 1]

#134: The Last Abortion Clinic in West Virginia

#133: Don't Call it a Canton Comeback: Appalachian Holler Politics

Bonus: Raising Hell with Reckon South

#131: Every Rose Has It's Cawthorn

#130: JD Vance oppo dump and Rural Organizing (w/Anderson Clayton)

Rapid Response: A Post-Roe Appalachia

#129: Pruett Can Do It!

#128: Passing the Pod-ton: The Buffet King's Speech

#127: Identity and Media Portrayal of Appalachia

#126: A teaching crisis in Appalachia

#125: Code-switching, Identity, and New Media in Appalachia

#124: Building power in the margins in Appalachia (with Peshka Calloway)

#123: Appalachian Expats

#122: Appalachian Eco-Anxiety (with the "Garbage Queen" Alaina Wood)

#121: Kentucky New Deal (with Charles Booker)

#120: Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns (with Dr. Bill Turner)

#119: Husky Fit: Appalachia's groundhog and crypto edgelords of Ohio

#118: Is TikTok censoring Appalachian progressives?

#117: Why come to Appalachia?

#115: Leaving Appalachia

#116: What gets people back to Appalachia?

#114: What is Appalachia?

#113: A year of bangers and our favorite one-star reviews

2021 Appalachian Awards

#111: Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

#110: Payday Lenders are Profiting off Appalachian Poverty

#109: Thanksgiving Porch Talk

#108: Medical Weed and Paid Leave in Appalachia

#107: Strike-a-lachia!

#106: John Brown Part 2: LinkedIn influencing the Harper's Ferry Raid

#105: Appalachian TikTok Legend Danielle Kirk

#104: John Brown: American Abolitionist (Part 1)

#103: Read Appalachia

#102: It's infrastructure (and fat bear) week

#101: A foster crisis in Appalachia

#100: Amazon Factory Towns: America's hottest new dystopia?

#99: Fighting for Appalachia's Working Class (with Rep. Tim Ryan)

#98: Perfect Black (with Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson)

#97: The Battle of Blair Mountain at 100

#96: Bring Afghan Refugees to Appalachia

#95: Dan Oingo Boingo's powdered wig of freedom

#94: Much love for childless cat ladies, tough love for progressive politics

#93: Politics of eviction moratorium and the crisis in Appalachia

#92: Husky Fit: Hamptons are the New Heartland

#91: Husky Fit: "Having Polio is my God-given American right"

#90: Rep. Mad Dog 20/20, God's AR-15, and Baby Dog Lotto Scandal

#88: Liberal Redneck Trae Crowder

#87: Climate change, UFOs, Cardi B, and more (With Space Gal Emily Calandrelli)

#86: UMWA miners strike in Alabama and the media blackout

Opioids Part 5: A story of addiction, incarceration, recovery, and advocacy (with Bethany Hallam)

Opioids Part 4: Breaking the stigma of addiction in the faith community (with Rev. Paul Bennett)

Opioids Part 3: Harm Reduction (with Dr. Sydnee McElroy)

Opioids Part 2: 780 Million Pills (Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Eric Eyre)

Opioids Part 1: Profits of Pain

#80: Hillbilly

#79: Are Mission Trips to Appalachia a good thing?

#78: Corey Ryan Forrester on mental health, comedy, and more

#77: Rural broadband is sexy

#76: Amazon's union-busting, Lil Nas X, and Kidz Bop double-standard

Bonus: Talking politics, voting, coal, and more with Beyond Politics

#75: Who is really behind the anti-transgender agenda in Appalachia?

#74: Catching up with Cornbread Hemp

#73: The Assault on Voting Rights in Appalachia

BONUS: Covid Relief, a Big John Beef, and a thriller podcast called Thirteen

#72: Ponderosa Buffet and Dolly Parton: Two American Treasures

#71: Stereotypes, politics, hunting, and more with The Outpost

#70: From the Hood to the Holler with Charles Booker

#69: Banning the torture of LGBTQ youth in Kentucky

#68: Southern Appalachian Comedy with Drew Morgan

#67: Appalachian Accents are Beautiful

#66: Mental Health in Appalachia

The Flatwoods Monster Part 1 (PREVIEW)

#65: A young, progressive Appalachia with Councilman Cory Roman

#64: New River Gorge: Appalachia's newest national park

The 2020 Appodlachia Appalachian Awards

#62: Sen. Sherrod Brown on the future of unions and fighting for Appalachia

#61: An Appalachian Year

#60: Mothman Revisited: The Burger King Butterfly Effect

#59: Appalachian Murder Ballads

#58: Talking WEED with Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman

#57: Hillbilly Elegy Counter-Programming: Steve Hofstetter

#56: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

#55: Appalachian Identity

#54: The Battle for the Soul of Appalachia

#53: Election 2020: The Pepperoni Roll Vote

#52: Appalachian Stereotypes: The Media Portrayal of Appalachia

#51: Is the Hyperloop just a fancy PRT?

#50: Sam Brown Petsonk - Democratic nominee for Attorney General of West Virginia

#49: Dwayne The Rock the Vote Johnson

#48: RBG's impact on Appalachia

#47: Ben Salango - Democratic nominee for Governor of West Virginia

#46: BLM Helmets and the Campaign of Miner Bo

#45: How to lose your voting rights in Tennessee (with Sen. Jeff Yarbro)

#44: Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hamby on the fight Black Lung benefits

#43: Old Gods of Appalachia

#42: Queer Appalachia: show us the receipts!

#41: Rosemary Ketchum, West Virginia's first openly-transgender elected official

#40: Re-opening schools in Appalachia (with Christina Trosper)

#39: The Struggle to Stay

#38: Appalachian Rednecks

#37: Donald Trump's broken promises to coal miners

#36: Kid Rock: Coronavirus Clown?

#35: Incest in Appalachia - Soft White Underbelly

#34: Replace Confederate Monuments with Mothman Statues

#33: Black Lives Matter in Appalachia

#32: Pepperoni Rolls: An Appalachian Delicacy

#31: Chili vs Sauce: A region divided

#30: Dope Hope: Being blunt about cannabis in Appalachia

#29: Grading the governors on COVID-19

#28: Appalachian Stereotypes: Mountain Dew Mouth

#27: All backroads lead to Appalachia (with David Morris)

#26: Tiger King in Appalachia

#25: Pusher Movie: an Authentic Portrayal of an Appalachian epidemic

#24: Don Blankenship: Worst Appalachian of the Decade

Mothman Bonus

#23: Hillbilly Elegy: The Ice Man Strikes Back

#22: Hemp, CBD, and Dunking on Hillbilly Elegy

#21: Hillbilly Elegy: The Farce Awakens

#20: Jerry Falwell Jr. is an idiot

#19: Cannabis saved my life (with Rusty Williams)

#18: Marijuana: Appalachian Cash Crop?

#17: Canary in a Code Mine

#16: Rockwool

#15: The Stereotypes Episode