Best Rural Remix Podcasts (2024)

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Backroad Ballots - Ep 3: Diverging Economies, Fractured Politics 46:45

3h ago46:45

46:45

How have rural and urban economies diverged in recent decades, and what effect has that had on the geography of American politics? In this episode, Daily Yonder reporter Olivia Weeks speaks with historian Keith Orejel and journalist Nick Bowlin about the history of “small-town boosters,” the outsized effect of the Great Recession on rural America, …

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Keep it Rural-Ep15: The National Park Crowd Dilemma 9:45

12m ago9:45

9:45

Hours-long lines, faulty vehicle permitting systems, and poorly maintained facilities beg one question: are there too many people visiting national parks?

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Backroad Ballots - Ep 2: Who is the Rural Voter? 50:06

3h ago50:06

50:06

Who is the rural voter and what does she stand for? In conversation with political scientists Nicholas Jacobs and Chelsea Kaufman, Daily Yonder reporter Olivia Weeks discusses the demographics of the rural electorate. In this episode, learn more about who actually turns out to the polls and the values that motivate their decisions.…

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Rural Assembly Everywhere Virtual Event: Register Now! 2:32

1h ago2:32

2:32

Rural Assembly Everywhere virtual event is August 1st, 2024 at 1 pm Eastern. Register now! In a year marked by elections and challenges, it’s essential to shift our focus toward envisioning what it truly means for rural areas to flourish. That’s why this year’s Rural Assembly Everywhere will explore a diverse range of topics, all centered on nurtur…

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Backroad Ballots - Ep 1: Representation Reimagined 51:55

3h ago51:55

51:55

In this episode of Backroads Ballots, Daily Yonder reporter Olivia Weeks asks what the post-2016 years have taught us about progressive organizing in small-town America. With rural movement builders Annie Contractor and Anthony Flaccavento, they discuss the role of the labor movement in rural life, the “branding problem” facing Democrats, and the m…

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Keep It Rural - Ep 14: Kamala Harris and Rural America 7:05

4h ago7:05

7:05

Kamala Harris is most likely the new Democratic nominee for president. Does she have what it takes to win rural voters?

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Keep It Rural - Ep 13: Gone Batty 7:55

25d ago7:55

7:55

Daily Yonder reporter Claire Carlson's recent bat encounter on a camping trip prompted this episode all about the only mammal that flies. Over the past decade, a fungal disease has killed millions of bats in North America. The struggle to contain the disease illustrates how little control we humans have over illness and death, much to our own chagr…

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Keep It Rural - Ep 12: Extremism and Conspiracy 9:09

1M ago9:09

9:09

Are rural communities prone to conspiracy? Not necessarily. Daily Yonder reporter Claire Carlson breaks down this misconception by looking at the notorious Bundy family and the election denial movement.

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Rural Food Traditions: German Bread 15:39

1M ago15:39

15:39

Lois Keller is an avid baker and a spokesperson for the Kansas Wheat Commission. In this episode, she speaks about how her son’s diagnosis of Celiac disease has been a part of her baking history and all about many unique German bread recipes. Check out recipes, show notes, and more on our website.

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Rural Food Traditions: Biscuits 15:56

2M ago15:56

15:56

On this episode we are learning all about the art of making biscuits! Appalachian leader Margo Miller speaks about how a middle school competition led to a lifelong passion for biscuits and how she is returning to her roots through crafting and baking. Check out the recipe, show notes, and more on our website.…

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Keep It Rural - Ep 11: Notes from a Juror 9:24

2M ago9:24

9:24

With the recent conviction of former President Donald Trump, juries have been in the news. And on the mind of Daily Yonder reporter Claire Carlson who just reported for jury duty. In this episode, she discusses her experience and questions if certainty beyond all doubt is possible in courtrooms.

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Rural Food Traditions: Cornbread 14:14

2M ago14:14

14:14

Tina Mozelle Braziel is a poet and author living in rural Alabama. In this episode she shares her secrets to cornbread, what life is like in the glass cabin she built with her husband, and some of her poetry. Check out the recipe, show notes, and more on our website.

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Rural Food Traditions: White Bread 12:55

2M ago12:55

12:55

On this episode, we are speaking with Cheryl Whitesitt about her grandmother's recipe for white bread. Cheryl is the Executive Director of the Minnesota Future Problem Solving Program where students are taught how to think, not what to think. Cheryl lives in Brownsville, Minnesota on a farm that has been in her husband’s family for many years, wher…

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Keep It Rural - Ep 10: On Savoring and Slowing Down 7:37

2M ago7:37

7:37

Our obsession with speed and efficiency might fill our stomachs, but it doesn’t do much else. Daily Yonder reporter Claire Carlson discusses how we can slow down in a fast food culture.

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Rural Food Traditions: Sourdough 25:07

2M ago25:07

25:07

On this episode we are speaking with Eliza Blue about the art of sourdough bread. Eliza is a folk musician, writer, and rancher residing in one of the most remote counties in the contiguous United States, Perkins County, South Dakota. Listen to learn how we can co-evolve with bread and how bread connects us to our ancestors. Check out the recipe, s…

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Rural Food Traditions: Fry Bread 26:29

3M ago26:29

26:29

Welcome to Rural Food Traditions. We’re starting where many meals across diverse food traditions begin: with bread. On this episode we visit with Nico Albert Williams about fry bread. We discuss the bread's Native American roots, controversial history, and Nico's personal relationship to the language of food. Check out the Fry Bread recipe discusse…

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Keep It Rural - Ep 9: Justice for the Donner Party? 8:37

3M ago8:37

8:37

Extreme survival stories like the Donner Party’s expedition over the Sierra Nevada or the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes are sensationalized for the lengths they went to survive, but is what they did really so unbelievable?

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Keep It Rural - Ep 8: Lies About Rural Environmentalism 6:10

3M ago6:10

6:10

Don’t be fooled by stereotypes. Rural people care about the natural resources on which their communities depend. This week Daily Yonder reporter Claire Carlson discusses the importance of specificity in environmental conversations and why environmentalists should listen to rural perspectives

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Keep it Rural-Ep 7: The Year of Whales! 6:20

4M ago6:20

6:20

Daily Yonder reporter Claire Carlson heard stories of multiple beached whales on the northwest coast in January 2023. Beached whales are not that uncommon on the shores of beaches on both coasts, but the number of dead whales has been growing. Claire's interest was piqued and thus began her whale obsession.…

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Running Away to Yourself: Growing Up Rural and Queer 24:10

4M ago24:10

24:10

This episode of Rural Remix centers on the story of Jeans Corduroy and his journey as a transmasculine man in East Tennessee. Daily Yonder reporter Lane Wendell Fischer speaks with Jeans to explore growing up rural and queer, and identity’s impact on family, religion, and community. Read the full story on ⁠The Daily Yonder.…

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Home Cooked - Ep 5: Meth Today 28:21

4M ago28:21

28:21

In the series's fifth and final episode, the narrative links back up with the present. Synthetic drugs like meth and heroin are being seized in their highest quantities to-date, and deadly overdose rates have reached new heights. What can be done? And what can the newfound popularity of harm reduction offer the debate? Learn more on our website.…

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Keep It Rural - Ep 6: The Loneliest Road in America 4:40

4M ago4:40

4:40

While the Nevada suburbs continue to sprawl, a remote stretch of Highway 50 is starting to feel more and more like home for Daily Yonder reporter Claire Carlson. On today’s episode, she discusses a love for open spaces in the state of Nevada.

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Home Cooked - Ep 4: The Transition 32:24

4M ago32:24

32:24

As the U.S. found ways to successfully limit domestic production of methamphetamine, Mexican drug traffickers innovated new, high-volume production methods. Meth became very potent and very cheap, and began to infiltrate new American drug markets. What does this new system mean for the illicit drug supply? How does it affect people using and polici…

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Home Cooked - Ep 3: Lab School 35:48

5M ago35:48

35:48

In 1999, the state of Missouri destroyed more than 900 clandestine meth labs. Among the officers tasked with carrying out that constant cleanup process, fear reigned. In response, the state trained an astronomical amount of resources on understanding the problem. A slew of state and federal laws were passed to limit access to meth’s precursor chemi…

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Keep It Rural - Ep 5: Blast from the Past 9:00

5M ago9:00

9:00

Home can be a difficult place to leave, even for Oregonians in the danger zone of a major earthquake. In this episode of Keep It Rural, Daily Yonder reporter Claire Carlson discusses natural disasters of the past, present, and future.

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Home Cooked - Ep 2: Made in the U.S.A. 31:01

5M ago31:01

31:01

In the 1950s, meth was available over the counter. In the 1960s, it was still unscheduled by the FDA and widely prescribed by doctors. All kinds of people – among them housewives, truckers, and college students – used the stimulant to induce weight loss, wakefulness, and high spirits. But in 1971 meth was reclassified as one of the nation’s most da…

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Home Cooked - Ep 1: Old Meth, New Meth 36:58

5M ago36:58

36:58

Welcome to Home Cooked: A 50-Year History of Meth in America. In the early 2000s, the “Faces of Meth” were tacked to cork boards in high school hallways and the nightly news was full of meth lab explosions. In this period, the stimulant was stigmatized as a “white trash” drug, and thought to favor rural trailer parks and farmhouses over inner-city …

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Keep It Rural - Ep 4: Beyoncé's Country Debut 6:07

5M ago6:07

6:07

Country music is inextricable from Black culture, no matter how much the music industry has tried to separate them. Beyoncé’s new country songs could force a long-overdue change to how we think about a genre. Daily Yonder reporter Claire Carlson discusses the overhaul of country music that is happening before our very eyes.…

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Trailer | Home Cooked: A 50 Year History of Meth in America 3:17

5M ago3:17

3:17

Home Cooked: A 50-Year History of Meth in America Stay tuned for Home Cooked, Rural Remix’s five-part series on the history of methamphetamine in America. How’d meth get a reputation as a “hillbilly” drug? Why was meth ever so explosive in rural America? And why is it back in the news today? We’re investigating these questions and more, beginning w…

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Keep It Rural - Ep 3: Extinction in the Anthropocene 4:55

5M ago4:55

4:55

To love something is to eventually grieve the losing it. But what happens when climate change speeds up our rate of loss? Daily Yonder reporter Claire Carlson discusses love, life, and loss in the anthropocene.

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Keep It Rural - Ep 2: Wolves and Humanity 6:52

6M ago6:52

6:52

This is Keep It Rural. Your spot for musings on rural news, exploration of rural culture, and queries about rural life. Today Daily Yonder reporter Claire Carlson discusses a Colorado effort to reintroduce gray wolves and the debate over humans' place in the natural world.

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Planning for a ‘Broadband Breakthrough’ in Rural Illinois 13:13

6M ago13:13

13:13

It's 2024 and we're still talking about how to get high-speed internet to the rural people and places that need it. An influx of federal dollars coming from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 may offer a path forward, and a group of Illinois government and business leaders are getting ready to seize the opportunity. As part of the B…

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Keep It Rural - Ep 1: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles 6:36

6M ago6:36

6:36

This is Keep It Rural. Your spot for musings on rural news, exploration of rural culture, and queries about rural life. Today Daily Yonder reporter Claire Carlson discusses how a viral airplane near-disaster made her think about pedestrian safety on rural roads.

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The Rural Horror Christmas Show 37:11

8M ago37:11

37:11

With Halloween in the rear view maybe you thought spooky season was over. But the scariest day of the year is yet to come… the horrors of Christmas are almost upon us. It's time for a Rural Horror Holiday Special. Join us for a bonus episode of the Rural Horror Picture Show as we explore this uniquely absurd and terrifying sub-genre of films that r…

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Rural Remix: Bridging Communities Through Culture with Erin Eveland 35:13

9M ago35:13

35:13

In Rushville, Illinois, Erin Eveland and her team at The HUB - Arts and Cultural Center are carrying out a mission to to bridge the gap between art, culture, and rural communities. In this new episode of Rural Remix, Eveland and Rural Assembly Deputy Director Libby Lane (a Rushville native!) talk about what drives the work, as well as the challenge…

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The Rural Horror Picture Show - Ep. 5: Legacy 41:32

9M ago41:32

41:32

Was Burkittsville, Maryland ever the same after the "Blair Witch?" What about the Texas town that played host to the "Chainsaw Massacre?" Dawn breaks and we conclude our series with some reflections on the lasting legacy of rural horror. How have the places featured in popular films been affected by their depictions on screen? And what do the trope…

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The Rural Horror Picture Show - Ep. 4: Supernatural 37:01

9M ago37:01

37:01

No examination of rural horror would be complete without talking about folk horror. Superstitions about witchcraft and the occult hearken back to the country's pastoral, Puritan roots. We dig into the sub-genre and how it uses rural places to illustrate modern tensions between science and the supernatural. Films discussed include "The Children of t…

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The Rural Horror Picture Show - Ep. 3: Isolated 35:34

9M ago35:34

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Sometimes the monster isn’t so literal, and deeper fears take center stage: isolation, grief, disillusionment, despair. In these cases, rural landscapes often play a supporting role. In our third episode, we turn our attention to the fear of isolation — both physical and emotional —and how it’s connected to portrayals of grief in horror movies. Fil…

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The Rural Horror Picture Show - Ep. 2: Killbillies 37:16

10M ago37:16

37:16

Continuing on from our first episode, we zoom in to a specific kind of "urbanoia." Join us for a closer look at a set of iconic movies that made a horror trope out of an over-the-top stereotype, introducing us to an infamous class of villain: the killer hillbilly and his degenerate rural family. As some Appalachians and rural people seek to reclaim…

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The Rural Horror Picture Show - Ep. 1: Urbanoia 36:38

10M ago36:38

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Where do horror movies happen? Small towns, dark forests, cornfields, and farmhouses have each been the locations for iconic scary films. But why are rural settings so popular, and how do these choices affect the areas represented? In the first episode of our 5-part series exploring the often-flawed, but always interesting, depiction of rural peopl…

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Welcome to Rural Remix 0:41

10M ago0:41

0:41

Beginning this month Everywhere Radio becomes Rural Remix. Together with our partners at the Daily Yonder and Center for Rural Strategies, we'll bring you unexpected rural stories that talk back to the stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding rural communities. Up first, just in time for Halloween, is our debut series, the Rural Horror Picture Sh…

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More at stake: When extremist political movements infiltrate rural communities 29:18

10M ago29:18

29:18

Daily Yonder reporters Sarah Melotte and Claire Carlson talk about what's at stake in rural communities when extremist political movements infiltrate local politics. Melotte and Carlson talk about their own reporting and how they came to the same notion: that when extremist political movements — banning electronic voting systems or defunding librar…

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Celinda Lake: How Rural Americans Are Feeling About the Future 29:38

11M ago29:38

29:38

How are rural people feeling about the future? What are they concerned about? What do they value? Pollster Celinda Lake talks with Center for Rural Strategies President Dee Davis about the findings of a soon-to-be-released poll that explores what's on the minds of rural voters in 2023. "We really asked questions to get beyond the surface, and we lo…

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In Conversation with 100 Rural Women Founder Teresa Kittridge 27:16

1y ago27:16

27:16

Teresa Kittridge has spent much of her life serving rural people across the country as a leader in the private, public and nonprofit sectors as well as serving in elected office in Minnesota. She founded the nonprofit organization 100 Rural Women to inspire leadership and create connections among rural women. We talk with Teresa about the organizat…

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Introducing Libby Lane, the Rural Assembly's New Deputy Director 31:42

1y ago31:42

31:42

Whitney talks with Libby Lane, the Rural Assembly's new Deputy Director. She comes to us from the rural Midwest, from the 16-County region in Western Illinois, sometimes called Forgottonia. She grew up in a town of 3000, fell in love with musical theater and acting, and ultimately made her way to Chicago, where she now lives with her wife and their…

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Tony Pipa on Reimagining Rural 30:42

1y ago30:42

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Tony Pipa is part policy wonk, part story teller. He focuses on connecting with policy makers, local leaders, and community members to reimagine federal policy to fit the needs of rural America. He uses his wide range of expertise to uplift stories of progress and success in rural communities. We talk with the native rural Pennsylvanian about the d…

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Prisons, Coal and the Appalachian Economy with Judah Schept and Sylvia Ryerson 36:04

1+ y ago36:04

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The United States is the world's largest incarcerator. Many of the prisons built since the 1990s are in rural places, particularly in Central Appalachia as an economic development strategy to replace the coal industry. The prison economy of Central Appalachia figures strongly into the work of both our guests, multimedia artist and organizer Sylvia …

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Bruce Poinsette: Telling the stories of Black rural Oregonians 28:42

1+ y ago28:42

28:42

Guest host Claire Carlson interviews Bruce Poinsette, an Oregon based writer, organizer, and educator whose work focuses on the Black experience in Oregon and the historic and current racial tensions that shape this experience. He hosts the YouTube series “The Blacktastic Adventure: A Virtual Exploration of Oregon’s Black Diaspora” and “The Bruce P…

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Dawn Luedtke: Representing rural in a diverse county 32:02

1+ y ago32:02

32:02

Our guest Dawn Luedtke is a council woman in Montgomery County, Maryland. Montgomery County is just outside of Washington D.C. yet it includes a surprising amount of rural land. In fact, it's home to the Agricultural Reserve, 93,000 acres preserved for farm land and rural space and hailed as one of the best examples of land use policy in the countr…

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Leading Rural Prosperity in Kansas and Wisconsin: Trisha Purdon + Beth Haskovec 34:18

1+ y ago34:18

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What is an Office of Rural Prosperity? Both Kansas and Wisconsin have them, and on this episode we talk with the two women charged with running them: Beth Haskovec, from Wisconsin, and Trisha Purdon, of Kansas. Statewide Offices of Rural Prosperity are dedicated to ensuring rural stakeholders are part of the equation, across policy, capital, resour…

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