Appalachian Mountains

Season two is a novella that's in 13 episodes called Witchworks.

And the third season is the novel in 13 episodes as well called Wraiths of the Appalachian.

Well, David, the clock has got us.

But once again, you know, I think it's absolutely amazing that I had the honor to be your student.

She's really phenomenal, but I brought her in.

I teach a hoodoo course, okay? And I brought her in as a guest speaker to speak about granny magic, Appalachian granny magic.

She's an expert.

And it was just really, really neat because they incorporate Christianity into their teachings too, into their practices.

When a police officer says to her, hey, can you pass out this flyer for this missing old lady? She's like, is there a reward? like she immediately wants incentive to help with someone who may be in trouble like she is horrific as a human being it's actually comical which kind of gets to what you were saying that is that some of the stuff just goes so far that it actually starts being funny at a certain point um same with all the sex stuff same with some of the kills some of them have some pretty dodgy looking cg to be fair but some of the ideas for the kills are so over the top that you can't help but uh enjoy a bit of it also and we're far enough in they'll just say it like all of the incest talk in this one is like we're going through the roof so there's bad movie things here to enjoy but it is definitely objectively the worst wrong turn movie up until this point

What's so funny is, yeah, like, part of it is, I guess we haven't talked about the plot too much, just like a really quick overview is, yeah, like you were saying, it's basically like this group of kind of city folk that are going to this resort in the, you know, Appalachian Mountains or whatever, because the one friend...

It's kind of weird.

It's like, oh, you inherited this resort, but wouldn't that only happen if all the other family members died or whatever? There's still two alive family members running.

Northern part, not the south, but yes, my whole life.

So there are tons of things on the internet speaking about Appalachian folklore, cryptids, weird rules.

Are you familiar with any of those?

Yeah.

Yeah, there's no denying it's scary, but... scary does not necessarily equal supernatural.

Sure.

Now in your life growing up in the Appalachians, has anything unexplained ever happened to you while traversing these woods at night?

So as I submitted to you, yes, I have had several experiences, um, over the last 20 years.

The Ten Thousandth Morning, that's the title of the song translated into English.

It sounds like it could come from the back porch and an Appalachian holler, but it's actually composed and performed by the Japanese trio Kekoseikatsu.

Kekoseikatsu

The members of the group hail from Tokyo, and they decided that if they wanted to be closer to the softer side of folk music and their many influences from Irish traditional to American bluegrass, they should leave the megalopolis for the countryside.

And you can use these favors, and as I said, some of them are intrinsic to the Second World Campaign, like call family.

Now, for that, that's for the Appalachian dwarves.

So you have these dwarves that live in the Appalachians, and I mean, I don't know how can we put a term, because I don't want to make it come off as disparaging.

Mountain Williams, we'll say.

I don't know if that's now a bad term, what I'm trying to say here.

But the height of the physical building, we've got a 360-degree view of it.

uh, the tail of the, the Appalachian chain.

And it is, it's breathtaking when you get up there, but it's the inside.

I loved, I love the time that I spent in the library.

Looking across these three states, we got a question from a listener who said, I want to understand how Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin can be so different politically because they seem to be very similar demographically.

Maybe take issue a little bit with this in that, like, Wisconsin is clearly the whitest of those states and Ohio has an Appalachian vibe that, you know, Wisconsin and Michigan don't.

But, you know, it does seem like there's some pretty different stuff happening in those three states this cycle.

Yeah, and this is where I do think that just candidates matter.

And we'd want him maybe to run the state's opioid commission.

And Kentucky, like a lot of Appalachian states, has been ground zero for the opioid epidemic that began with OxyContin being introduced back in the late 90s.

Mm-hmm.

So all these opioid manufacturers and distributors had settled with a bunch of states and paid them money for all the damage caused by the opioid epidemic.