Rural Remix

Your source for a deeper, richer story about life in rural places. Each episode of Rural Remix spotlights unexpected rural stories and pushes back on stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding rural communities.Rural Remix is a co-production of the Daily Yonder and the Rural Assembly, both projects of the nonprofit Center for Rural Strategies. Rural Remix is an evolution of Everywhere Radio, an interview podcast that featured conversations with rural leaders and allies, spotlighting the good, scrappy, joyful ways rural people are building a more inclusive nation.

Rural Remix is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 175 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  A New Public Mosaic In Whitesburg, Kentucky Commemorates The Flood of 2022 While Serving As A Community Archive

  Jul 24, 20268 min

  This month marks the four year anniversary of the 2022 flood that devastated parts of southeast Kentucky. In Letcher County, the memory of the flood still cuts deep. It was one of the hardest hit counties, where residents experienced widespread damage and even loss of life. To commemorate the flood, community members are creating a public mosaic. The project is proving to be an opportunity for storytelling, memory-keeping, and even healing.

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  Episode 3: Witness and Worries

  Jul 22, 20268 min

  This episode explores the considerations of care, safety, and visibility for welcoming congregations and looks at how they share their community welcome in often oppositional cultural and political climates. Rev'd Whitney Kimball Coe talks with Rev'd Claire Brown about what she observed in her research and church visits with LGBTQ+ affirming churches in the rural South.

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  Episode 2: Queering Southern Hospitality

  Jul 15, 20268 min

  How are the values of Southern hospitality and Christian welcome practiced in LGBTQ+ affirming churches in the rural south? Drawing on real-life examples from churches in Mississippi and North Carolina, The Rev’d Claire Brown shares stories and observations of hospitality and welcoming for LGBTQ+ people in churches she visited during her research on affirming churches in the rural South. Rev’d Brown found that it goes beyond official theological positions and into the simple practices of church hospitality. This is a conversation with the director of the Rural Faith Initiative, Whitney Kimball Coe.

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  Episode 1: LGBTQ+ Affirming Churches in the Rural South: Does that Even Exist?

  Jul 8, 20268 min

  What does it look like to build and sustain an LGBTQ+ affirming church in the rural South? The Rev.’d Claire Brown visited and spoke with more than a dozen such churches to find out. More LGBTQ+ people live in this region than any other part of the country, and in this first episode of a series of conversations, Rev’d Brown talks with the director of the Rural Faith Initiative, Rev’d Whitney Kimball Coe, about the ways these communities of faith defy cultural and religious stereotypes by living out their inclusive values. The Rural Faith Initiative is a program of the Center for Rural Strategies. We know churches and faith communities are essential institutions in rural communities. RFI provides media training, accompaniment, and facilitation tools to faith leaders and faith-based orgs, supporting their efforts to build stronger, kinder, more just communities.

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  Beyond the Clock with Tim Z. Hernandez

  Jun 23, 202635 min

  In this episode of Beyond the Clock, Ash and Anna are joined by Tim Z. Hernandez, an award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker whose work has spent decades recovering stories that history tried to forget. Raised in California's San Joaquin Valley by migrant farmworker parents, Tim describes himself as a "shepherd of stories," someone called to follow narratives wherever they lead. In this conversation, Tim, Ash, and Anna discuss the relationship between memory, place, naming, and visibility as Tim reflects on his lifelong commitment to recovering erased histories, the courage required to follow a story into unfamiliar creative territory, and the responsibility of telling stories that open dialogue rather than deepen division. Tim grounds this conversation in his research on locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon, the incident made famous by Woody Guthrie’s song of the same name, which is chronicled in his books, All They Will Call You, and the sequel, They Call You Back. All They Will Call You is now a full-length documentary film project and you can find more info at www.timzhernandez.com .

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