Forgotten America
75 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago -Welcome to Forgotten America, a podcast about the many places that get flown over, driven past, or completely forgotten and the people who call these places home. In each episode, we’ll diagnose the unique challenges faced by rural America and unpack and explore the solutions to those challenges. We’ll also share the culture, stories, and perspectives of Forgotten Americans from the hilltop to the holler and the desert to the delta.
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Ep. 074: Out of the Paw Paw Patch and into the Mountains
May 07, 2024 09:00 - 52 minutes - 120 MBTiffany Hoben is the Director of Education Partnerships & Strategy for the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy. She joins the Forgotten America Podcast to share her motivations for moving from the Sunshine State to the Mountain State, her passion for civics education, and her belief in the importance of feeling rooted in a local community. The Outpost: https://outpostnrg.com/ Florida Civics Standards: https://www.fldoe.org/civicliteracy/ Comments from the Civics Alliance on the...
Ep. 073: Homer Hickam: From McDowell County to Rocket Boy
April 23, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBHomer Hickam is a true West Virginia hero. Raised in Coalwood, a mining town in southern West Virginia, he went on to fight in the Vietnam War, work for NASA, and become a best-selling author. His book, Rocket Boys, was made into the popular movie October Sky. In this episode, he shares with Garrett stories from his life that reveal how his upbringing in West Virginia contributed to his success. Homer tells about the inspiration behind his books, expresses his love for the Appalachian moun...
Ep. 072: Hitchhiker’s Guide to Rural America
April 09, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBThis episode of Forgotten America opens with a brief walk down memory lane. Garrett shares how he first met Dr. Thompson at his Moral Foundations of Capitalism seminar at Clemson University. Dr. Thompson’s lecture was a catalyst moment for Garrett that led him down a career path that brought him home to run the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy, a free market think tank. Dr. Bradley Thompson was born in Canada, but he considered himself an American born in the wrong country from ...
Ep. 071: Into the Wild: Life in the Mat-Su Valley of Alaska
March 26, 2024 09:00 - 52 minutes - 121 MBSarah Montalbano is the Policy Manager for the Alaska Policy Forum and a senior fellow with the Independent Women’s Forum. She was born and raised in Wasilla, AK, and her family has roots in the state from the era before Alaskan statehood. Sarah joins the Forgotten America podcast to share about the culture, natural beauty, and economic growth of the state. Garrett & Sarah discuss public policy challenges Alaska faces, art and culture, and the history of the native population as well as...
Ep. 070: Do The Best You Can With What You’ve Got: An Agricultural Ethic for Life
March 12, 2024 09:00 - 53 minutes - 35.2 MBJerry Apps is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of more than 35 books. He is a storyteller and historian, joining the Forgotten America podcast to share about his life growing up on a dairy farm in rural, central Wisconsin. Born during the Great Depression, his youth inspired much of his subsequent work and his love for rural America. He joins Garrett to discuss his upcoming book, Farms & Rural Communities: An Agricultural Ethic for the Future. If you’...
Ep. 069: Pulling Appalachia Back from the Precipice
February 27, 2024 12:00 - 56 minutes - 47.9 MBNick Deiuliis is a chemical engineer, attorney, and business executive. During a career spanning 30 years, he served as the CEO or Chairman of the Board of five public energy companies. During that time, Nick has been on the front lines of the war being waged by elites against working men and women of Appalachia, the “doers” of the American economy, and the free-thinking individual. Nick is a lifelong Pittsburgher and considers himself a proud capitalist and free enterprise a...
Ep. 068: Don’t Be Afraid To Try Something New - The Supply Side of School Choice
February 13, 2024 10:00 - 56 minutes - 45 MBElyse Marcellino is the Director of Embark in Mississippi. Embark is a new schools accelerator that works with school founders to help them move from idea to doors open. They guide school founders through early planning and preparing to launch so they can successfully open new schools to serve students throughout the state. Elyse and Garrett start this episode by celebrating what West Virginia and Mississippi have in common and commiserating as residents of states that are often ridiculed b...
Ep. 067: Can Junior Colleges Save the Future of American Higher Education?
January 30, 2024 15:21 - 59 minutes - 43 MBFred Fransen is the President of Huntington Junior College and Co-Founder of Certell, Inc. He also previously served as Executive Director at the Center for Excellence in Higher Education and as Senior Fellow for Liberty Fund. He has been working to make breakthroughs in how to improve education at both the K-12 and higher education levels. Garrett & Fred talk about the role of junior colleges in the reformation of education in the United States, particularly about the changes Fr...
Ep. 066: Gratitude - A Light in Dark Times
November 28, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes - 20.6 MBJoin us for a Thanksgiving-themed episode before we pause for the holidays! On Thanksgiving Eve, Garrett recorded another solo episode. He shared ten things he is grateful for this Thanksgiving. He observes how the practice of gratitude can break up the monotony of life and cut through the polarization of our day. For Garrett, remembering the good things in his life has helped him get through dark times. Gratitude is a catalyst for both joy and togetherness when both might otherwise be abs...
Ep. 065: The Role of the Rural College
November 14, 2023 16:25 - 1 hour - 46 MBMonica Moses is a policy fellow for the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy and a PhD candidate at West Virginia University. She joins Garrett today to discuss the role colleges and universities play in rural communities. She discusses how growing up in a small town near St. Bonaventure University influenced her interest in researching the role universities and colleges play in rural areas. Garrett & Monica explore the symbiotic relationship that these higher education institutions ...
Ep. 064: Horror Stories, Faith, and Scary Encounters in Appalachia
October 31, 2023 09:00 - 54 minutes - 47.4 MBAshley Stinnett is the Communications Coordinator for Coalfield Development, he’s a co-founder of the Film Futures Foundation, a former republican candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates, an actor, and an author. He was born and grew up in Lavalette, West Virginia and currently resides in Wayne County. Today he joins Garrett to talk about Halloween, the horror genre, and his book Haunted Tales From Appalachia: Ghosts, Spirits and Other Strange Happenings from the Hills a...
Ep. 063: Standing in the Gap for Kids
October 17, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 67.6 MBKim Dully has a Master’s degree in School Counseling, she is a Grassroots Coordinator with Love Your School-WV, and a co-host of the We Have Hope podcast. She has years of experience working with families and kids, particularly with recruiting and teaching foster parents in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. On today’s episode of Forgotten America, Kim shares her experience with the foster care system as a child whose siblings were in foster care in Pennsylvania and as an adult...
Ep. 062: Overlooked and Underloved
October 03, 2023 15:01 - 49 minutes - 44.6 MBAaron Renn is a writer and consultant based in Indianapolis and is a co-founder and Senior Fellow at American Reformer. He had a first career in management and technology consulting advising major corporations as a Partner at Accenture and a second career in urban policy as a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Today his focus is on helping conservatives and the American church rise to the challenge of finding success in the 21st century. Appalachia is the ...
Ep. 061: Health Care in Rural America - A Perspective from Georgia
September 19, 2023 09:00 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MBJessi Troyan, Director of Policy & Research for the Cardinal Institute, takes over the Forgotten America podcast as guest host. She interviews Chris Denson, Director of Policy & Research at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, about health care in rural America, particularly focusing on his experiences with the healthcare system in Georgia. Prior to his time at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, Chris served as Director of Outreach at HCA Memorial Health in Savannah, a 612-b...
Ep. 060: Do Political Candidates Care About Rural America?
September 05, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBAnthony Hennen covers Pennsylvania as a reporter for the Center Square and is the Managing Editor of Expatalachians. He also was recently named a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow with the Fund for American Studies. He joins Garrett today to discuss Presidential election season and how candidates are addressing rural American issues. Find Anthony online at: Center Square: https://www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania/ Expatalachians: http://expatalachians.com/ Anthony’s previo...
Ep. 059: Life in the Land of Enchantment
August 23, 2023 00:33 - 1 hour - 49.6 MBMarina Herrera is a 17th generation New Mexican on the Spanish side of her family with roots as far back as time immemorial on the indigenous side of her family. She joins Garrett today to talk about her life growing up in New Mexico’s Mora Valley. She takes us on a journey through the culture, language, food, and art of the region that inspires a sense of awe. Marina also shares the challenges New Mexico faces and the ways she is working with the Rio Grande Foundation to address those ...
Ep. 058: New York State of Mind
July 12, 2023 20:35 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBWhen you hear the words “New York,” what do you think of? Maybe you think of Times Square or Wall Street. Perhaps you think of the Empire State Building. Does your mind immediately go to pizza? Mine does. There’s a number of cultural references to New York that may come to mind. But whatever you think of, I’m willing to bet the first thing that comes to mind is related to New York City . . . not New York state. What is the rest of New York like beyond Manhattan? How do New Yorkers feel ab...
Ep. 057: The Leaf-Mould of an Appalachian Mind
June 02, 2023 05:54 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBThis may have been one of my favorite episodes to record in quite awhile, and I hope you all enjoy it too. In this week’s episode, Garrett interviews West Virginia author, S.D. Smith, author of the beloved Green Ember series. Garrett & Sam discuss such wide-ranging topics as the beauty of Appalachia, Sam’s childhood in South Africa, the philosophy and writing of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and the feeling that many West Virginians have of inferiority inter-mixed with a deep sense of prid...
Ep. 056: How American Municipalities Can Flourish And What’s Holding Them Back
May 16, 2023 09:30 - 1 hour - 124 MBMark Moses has provided finance-related management and consulting services to local government agencies since 2011 after spending two decades working directly for municipal agencies in senior-level finance and administrative management positions. He joins Garrett today on Forgotten America to discuss an area of political life that is often forgotten, overlooked, and dismissed: municipal finance. Each of us is often most aware of national politics, and when it comes to certain iss...
Ep. 055: Danny Murphy - Right on Crime
May 02, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBDanny Murphy, the Director of Right on Crime for Virginia and West Virginia, joins Garrett Ballengee and Jessica Dobrinsky Harris, Cardinal’s Policy Analyst, for a discussion of what it means to reform the criminal justice system in America and how we can approach this issue from a perspective rooted in the principles of liberty. In this episode, we tackle issues like mandatory minimums, what it means to be “tough on crime,” differences in types of drug offenders, bail reform, ple...
Ep. 054: Rediscovering the One Room Schoolhouse in America
April 19, 2023 16:52 - 57 minutes - 102 MBKerry McDonald, a national expert on education entrepreneurship and alternative forms of education, joins Garrett to discuss nontraditional schooling and the growing trend of microschooling in America. Garrett & Kerry explore the history of homeschooling and the reasons why many have chosen to return to a model of education that is reminiscent of the one room schoolhouse while debunking several popular myths about homeschooling and other forms of alternative education. Kerry also s...
Ep. 053: Market Urbanism Around the World
April 03, 2023 18:47 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBToday’s episode takes a bit of a detour outside of our typical topics about communities and challenges in rural America. Scott Beyer joins us again on the Forgotten America Podcast - this time to discuss the Scott Beyer Market Urbanism World Tour, where he is exploring 40 cities across 3 regions for a year and a half, to see how the fast pace of development in the Global South can inform free-market policy and urban issues in a broader context. Garrett talks with Scott just ...
Ep. 052: A Renaissance in Rural Education
February 21, 2023 11:00 - 56 minutes - 52.8 MBDr. Matt Ladner is an education policy researcher and is the Executive Editor of ReimaginED, a blog focused on education choice. Matt is also the Director of the Arizona Center for Student Opportunity at the Arizona Charter School Association. Matt joins Garrett today to discuss his recent paper, co-authored with Jason Bedrick and published by the Heritage Foundation, Rustic Renaissance: Education Choice in Rural America. They talk about how well American public education is doing...
BONUS: Maternity Care in Rural America
February 08, 2023 00:23 - 48 minutes - 57.2 MBIn this special Bonus episode of the Forgotten America podcast, Amanda Kieffer, Communications Director for the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia hosts an episode focused on maternity care access in rural America and the role midwives play in caring for women. Our guest this week is Beth Redden, a Certified Nurse Midwife from Southern West Virginia and fellow of the American College of Nurse Midwives. Amanda and Beth discuss who midwives are, what they do, and the regulations that impa...
Ep. 051: The Intersection of Energy & Culture with Stephanie Wissman
January 31, 2023 14:08 - 49 minutes - 56.9 MBStephanie Wissman is the Executive Director of API Pennsylvania, a division of the American Petroleum Institute. API’s mission is to promote safety and to influence public policy in support of a strong, viable U.S. oil and natural gas industry. Stephanie joins Garrett to talk about domestic energy policy, wonder in awe at the marvel of modern fracking innovation, and dream of one day finally getting to see the Mountain Valley Pipeline in West Virginia. All on this episode of Forgotten Am...
Ep. 050: Jack Johnson Pannell: A Firm Handshake In Baltimore
January 17, 2023 15:10 - 56 minutes - 64.3 MBAs the founder of Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, a public charter school, Jack Johnson Pannell aims to disrupt the status quo in education and design by building an effective model of teaching and learning for boys of color. As an impact social entrepreneur, he is expanding the Collegiate Model through a national network of schools. Jack joins Garrett on the podcast to talk about what makes an all boys school so different, and the massive impact that just a firm handshake an...
Ep. 049: Meet the Movers and Shakers of Way Makers, Kenny & Charlotte Webb
January 03, 2023 12:30 - 59 minutes - 68.2 MBCharlotte and Kenny Webb have dedicated their work to finding innovative solutions to help formerly incarcerated and recovering individuals gain access to resources and employment opportunities. Through their company, Charleston Property Restoration, they hire “fair-chance” employees and offer practical assistance through their nonprofit organization, Way Makers. In this episode, Charlotte and Kenny tell Garrett why they decided to form a nonprofit organization aimed at removing...
Ep. 048: Forest Folk and The Return of John Hood
December 21, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 69 MBWhat do Sojourner Truth, Davy Crockett, Ichabod Crane, and a Cherokee river dragon have in common? They are all characters in John Hood’s second historical-fantasy novel, Forest Folk. John Hood is president of the John William Pope Foundation, a Raleigh-based grantmaker that supports public policy organizations, educational institutions, arts and cultural programs, and humanitarian relief in North Carolina and beyond. He is also a newspaper columnist, historian, and an author with a...
Ep. 047: Looking Inward & Looking Backward
December 06, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 36.4 MBWelcome back to the Forgotten America Podcast! We are returning from a strategic pause in releasing new episodes in order to build up a robust catalog of episodes and add new content formats to the show. We have a lineup of fantastic guests and we're excited to share those conversations with you. In this episode, Garrett goes solo as he reflects on the importance of exploring our roots as a way to find meaning and purpose in our lives. He discusses how those who came before us influence ...
Ep. 046: Bird Nerds with Garrett & Jessi
May 31, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes - 42.4 MBNote: As you probably noticed, this episode is being released a week later than our usual schedule. Extensive traveling has made it difficult to schedule a guest interview while Garrett is on the road. So we brought in Cardinal Institute's Jessi Troyan to do a deep dive with Garrett on the current state of the US economy. Jessi Troyan is the Director of Policy and Research for the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy. Jessi was raised in Pinch, WV, about 20 minutes outside C...
Ep. 045: Spending Time with Art: Why Art Should Matter to Rural America
May 10, 2022 11:15 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBGarrett is joined by Brian Fencl, Professor of Art, and Director of the Nutting Gallery at West Liberty University. This week, Garrett and Brian dive into some of the reasons visual arts are so important for fly-over country. Are rural Americans portrayed fairly in art? Should the government continue to support the arts? Is it even possible to define what art is? All coming up in this episode of Forgotten America. Brian Fencl, @fenclstudio https://westliberty.edu/media-visua...
Ep. 044: What's the Big Deal With Microschools? With Don Soifer
April 26, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBGarrett is joined by Don Soifer, President of Nevada Action for School Options, a nonpartisan “action tank” he founded in 2017 to support the growth of diverse choices of rich, high-quality, and personalized educational opportunities for all students. This week, Garrett and Don discuss his approach to alternative education, including microschools, learning pods, and hybrid learning, along with some of the challenges facing the School Choice movement. Don Soifer @donsoifer Nevada Action...
Ep. 043: New Mexico's Errors of Enchantment with Paul Gessing
April 12, 2022 10:01 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBGarrett is joined by Paul Gessing, President of the Rio Grande Foundation, an organization dedicated to increasing liberty and prosperity for New Mexico citizens by promoting individual freedom, limited government, and economic opportunity. This week, Garrett and Paul discuss the many economic and social issues currently facing New Mexico and how leaders at the state and local levels are picking up the slack left by the federal government. Paul Gessing, @pgessing Rio Grande Foundatio...
Ep. 042: Defining Rural Broadband with Professor Gus Hurwitz
March 30, 2022 09:30 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBGarrett is joined by Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, Professor at Nebraska College of Law and the Director of Law & Economic Programs at the International Center for Law & Economics. Gus's work builds on his background in law, technology, and economics to consider the interface between law and technology and the role of regulation in high-tech industries. In this week's episode, Garrett and Gus discuss the logistical, political, and philosophical questions surrounding broadband in rural America. ...
Ep. 041: Redefining Rural Education with Garris Stroud
March 15, 2022 10:00 - 57 minutes - 65.8 MBGarrett is joined today by Garris Stroud, Founder and Chief Editor of Rural Ed Voices, an organization seeking to elevate the conversation on education opportunities in rural areas and small cities. In this week's episode, Garrett and Garris discuss colleges of education, school choice, and the role that schools in rural America play in shaping the landscape of opportunity for students. Garris Stroud @garrisstroud Rural Ed Voices https://ruraledvoices.org/ @RuralEd...
Ep. 040: Let’s Work Together: Creating Practical Change and a Better Society in the Spirit of “E hana kākou"
March 02, 2022 12:15 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBThis week's episode is hosted by Cardinal Institute's Development Director, Jessi Troyan. Jessi is joined by Keliʻi Akina, President and CEO of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. The Grassroot Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization focusing on the values of individual liberty, economic freedom, and accountable government. In this episode, Jessi and Keliʻi discuss the Jones Act, how pandemic lockdowns affected Hawaii's economy, and creating practical change and a better society...
Ep. 039: A Vision & A Calling: Restoring Hope to Children & Families
February 15, 2022 10:15 - 1 hour - 90 MBGreg Clutter is the director of Foster Care Initiatives at Chestnut Mountain Ranch, a Christ-centered home and school. They reach the hearts of young men and restore broken families through a structured loving community. Their vision is to restore hope to children and families. He shares the history of the community and how it came to be located in Morgantown, West Virginia. Greg also discusses the role of religious communities in foster care and family welfare work, emphasizing the import...
Ep. 038: Catholic Education in Rural America
February 01, 2022 10:30 - 58 minutes - 68 MBGarrett is joined today by Shawn Peterson from Catholic Education Partners and Jill Annable with the National Catholic Education Association to discuss the Roman Catholic Church’s stance on education and the role Catholic education plays in the greater education environment, especially in rural communities. They explore the history of Catholic education in the United States and also discuss how the role of Catholic education has evolved overtime in the lives of Catholic families as school ch...
Ep. 037: Agriculture & Life Growing Up in the American West
January 18, 2022 10:00 - 53 minutes - 60.9 MBBen Stiegelmeier shares stories from his life growing up farming and ranching in Selby, South Dakota where he, alongside his family, carried on his father’s legacy in production agriculture. He describes his German-Russian heritage and the German culture that is still prevalent in his area of the Dakotas. He reflects on the somewhat insular nature of the community he grew up in and also on the beauty of the community ties - ties that he sees changing as modern life makes it less necessary to...
Ep. 036: Healthcare on the Frontier
January 04, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutes - 46.1 MBKendall Cotton, President of the Frontier Institute in Montana, joins us today to discuss health care and certificate of need laws. Today’s episode is a little more wonky, and dives into the impacts of these CON laws on rural America. Kendall shares how Montana reformed them to improve the health care system in their state and what we can learn from their example. Garrett & Kendall also talk about other types of CON laws outside of healthcare and how difficult it can be to find people willin...
Ep. 035: The American Melting Pot in Appalachia
December 21, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBA strategic consultant, political maven, & social entrepreneur based in the Washington, DC area, Rina Shah has been nationally-recognized as an astute businesswoman with a strong streak of political activism. Prior to relocating to northern Virginia, she grew up in Beckley, West Virginia and attended West Virginia University as a college student. She shares with Garrett her experiences as the daughter of immigrants living in West Virginia, what it’s like being a representative of West Virgin...
Ep. 034: No Way to Treat a Child
December 07, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBToday Garrett is joined on the Forgotten America podcast by Naomi Schaefer Riley, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute focusing on issues regarding child welfare as well as a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum. She joins us to discuss her new book, No Way to Treat A Child: How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives. She discusses the lack of a conservative presence in the conversation surrounding foster care policy, ...
Ep.033: The Hallmark Movie Plan to Save Small Town USA
November 23, 2021 10:00 - 58 minutes - 56.9 MBToday Nolan Gray joins Garrett to discuss how principles of market urbanism and regional planning can be applied to rural America and small towns. Nolan is originally from Lexington, KY and is studying to receive his PhD in Urban Planning at UCLA. He is also one of the co-authors of the Cardinal Institute’s recent paper entitled Homegrown Revival: Removing Barriers to Home Based Entrepreneurship in West Virginia. Nolan shares the importance of building an echo system of entrepreneurs rather ...
Ep. 032: Climate Change & Rural America
November 09, 2021 10:00 - 54 minutes - 45.2 MBGordon Tomb is a senior fellow with the Commonwealth Foundation in Harrisburg, PA, a free-market think tank focused on Pennsylvania state policy and a senior advisor with the CO2 Coalition founded with the purpose offor the purpose of educating thought leaders, policy makers, and the public about the important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy. Gordon joins Garrett today to discuss climate change, energy policy, and rural America. Follow Gordon’s work at...
Ep. 031: Get the Heck INTO Dodge!
October 26, 2021 09:00 - 54 minutes - 48.7 MBJames Franko, President of the Kansas Policy Institute, joins Garrett to explore the Sunflower State. Garrett & James discuss everything from the appropriate degree of doneness for a steak to Kansas tax reform. We learn that even flat Kansas has elevations to rival the Mountain State, and we dive into local Swedish art, the demographics of Kansas, increasing mechanization’s impacts on the local economy, and Trump’s legacy in the Great Plains. Read about the history of “Bleeding Kansas...
Ep. 030: Property Rights Can Save the Environment
October 12, 2021 09:00 - 48 minutes - 42.8 MBPeter J. Hill is Professor of Economics Emeritus at Wheaton College and a Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, where he currently resides. He joins Garrett on Forgotten America to discuss free-market environmentalism (FME) and the property rights framework he uses to evaluate conservation issues. P.J. also gives us a look back into the truth about the Wild West and whether or not it was really all that wild. Follow P.J.’s work and the work...
Ep. 029: The Real Jersey Shore
September 28, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes - 33.4 MBOur newest team member, Andrew Bambrick, joins Garrett to discuss his home state of New Jersey and what it was like growing up in the small town of Hammonton in southern New Jersey. He tackles stereotypes that come from shows like the Sopranos and Jersey Shore, talks about the cultural and political differences between north and south New Jersey, and he shares why he loved growing up in the Garden State. Go visit Hammonton, New Jersey for their Blueberry Festival! https://www.hammont...
Ep. 028: Blame the Government, Not Purdue Pharma
September 14, 2021 09:00 - 48 minutes - 41.8 MBThe opioid crisis is back in the news with the death of actor Michael K. Williams. West Virginia is even suing Purdue Pharma over its role in the opioid crisis. However, today’s guest, Jacob Rich, a drug, tobacco, and healthcare analyst with the Reason Foundation and Senior Contributor with Young Voices, says that the majority of the blame should be placed on the government. Join Garrett & Jacob for today’s episode of Forgotten America as they discuss the history of the opioid crisis, govern...
Ep.027: Youth and Life in West Virginia
August 31, 2021 09:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBJessi Troyan and Jessica Dobrinsky from team Cardinal take over the Forgotten America podcast this week. They chat about why they chose to stay in West Virginia, how Jessica transformed from an avid Bernie supporter to a leading young voice for conservatives in West Virginia, their mutual love/hate relationships with Pittsburgh, and their perspectives on West Virginia culture. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You can support the Cardinal I...
Ep. 026: Life in Coal Country
August 17, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes - 48.3 MBMany people think that all of West Virginia is coal country, but that simply isn’t true. Garrett joins his wife, Kimberly, on this episode of Forgotten America to discuss life in the southern coalfields, how her upbringing was different from his in the Mid-Ohio Valley, the strength of the Appalachian woman, and the future of West Virginia. You can learn about the various regions in West Virginia and their differences in this article by West Virginia Executive Magazine. http://www.wvex...