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Whitesburg

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Oct 12, 2026

TomHOST
13:08
Are you g- are you guys coming to here, Kentucky?
Jon AndreGUEST
13:12
We've got, um, so our tour in October, um, starting, I think, on, on the, the day that the EP is due to be released, will be, um, in Whitesburg, Kentucky, so not too far from you, I think.
TomHOST
13:27
I don't know.
TomHOST
13:27
Wait a minute, I think it is.
TomHOST
14:46
Um, have you guys played that place before?
Jon AndreGUEST
14:49
We haven't played Wiles.
Jon AndreGUEST
14:50
Um, anytime we go to Whitesburg, um, we've played Summit, which I, I think has recently closed.
Jon AndreGUEST
14:58
But, um, we, we have some good friends in, in Whitesburg, so we're, we're always happy to go there, and, um, Lexington also.
Andy BeshearGUEST
24:55
It's an instruction and not just a story, but it's called this because after one of the natural disasters, I saw the Good Samaritan in person, and somehow recognized it in the moment.
Andy BeshearGUEST
25:06
So we're in Whitesburg, Kentucky, Far Eastern Kentucky.
Andy BeshearGUEST
25:09
Town had been fully underwater.
Andy BeshearGUEST
25:10
We couldn't even get to it for a couple of days.
Andy BeshearGUEST
26:13
I mean, she started with her neighbor.
Andy BeshearGUEST
26:16
Despite having a young family, she started with her neighbor, despite the fact that it could mean that she lost more.
Andy BeshearGUEST
26:22
And just in that moment, I saw God in Whitesburg, and I thought, we're going to make it.
Andy BeshearGUEST
26:28
Because if people are this good, if they're willing to do this for each other, we're going to make it.
Dan DuttonGUEST
53:24
We talked about what we were gonna do.
Dan DuttonGUEST
53:25
We were gonna get up the next morning, go out, and, and go to, to Whitesburg, where the th- things started g- going strange on me.
Dan DuttonGUEST
53:35
And, uh, so, uh, uh, I...
Dan DuttonGUEST
53:39
That night, not because I was, um...
Dan DuttonGUEST
53:57
It was pleasant.
Dan DuttonGUEST
53:58
It was pleasant enough, but didn't really sleep.
Dan DuttonGUEST
54:01
We got to, um, Whitesburg, and I was thinking, you know, I started telling the story again, standing on the spot where it had happened, you know? It's all very strange to be there again and being, trying to explain to, to people what I'd seen and what I, had happened to me.
Dan DuttonGUEST
54:22
But I felt like I was doing good.
Anna GarciaHOST
1:07
highly shocked.
Anna GarciaHOST
1:08
The shooting leaving the small town of Whitesburg, Kentucky in utter disbelief.
Anna GarciaHOST
1:13
I think it shocked our whole community.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1:16
I never thought the sheriff would do something like that.
Matt JonesHOST
17:38
Mm-hmm.
Matt JonesHOST
17:39
You got Whitesburg.
Matt JonesHOST
17:41
Okay.
Matt JonesHOST
17:41
You...
Matt JonesHOST
17:41
Now, I didn't tell you that you don't have to do Whitesburg.
Matt JonesHOST
17:44
That's good- I don't- ... good info ... are we on? We, we are on in Whitesburg, I believe.
Matt JonesHOST
17:47
I know we used to be.
Matt JonesHOST
17:48
We used to be, and I think we still are.
LaceyAUDIENCE
2:11
Hey, Michelle.
LaceyAUDIENCE
2:11
This is Lacey from Whitesburg, Kentucky.
LaceyAUDIENCE
2:16
I am driving currently, and I was catching up with your episodes, and I thought I would call in with one of my own stories.
LaceyAUDIENCE
2:25
I am an artist, and I was so excited to get a studio space in the nearby Artisan Center that had been renovated into this beautiful place for studios.
LaceyAUDIENCE
4:41
And I went back to get my stuff and get out of there the next day that there was actually somebody working there.
LaceyAUDIENCE
4:49
So, yeah, that freaked me out.
Michelle NewmanHOST
4:59
Thank you, Lacey from Whitesburg, Kentucky.
Michelle NewmanHOST
5:05
Whitesburg sits right in the heart of Letcher County, deep Appalachian coal country.
NoahHOST
30:52
coming it's not gonna
Heavy DHOST
30:55
happen okay so like I said that's in Whitesburg Kentucky at the rec center Kentucky Championship Wrestling third show in Letcher County I have heard a lot of hype about this show though like just people coming up to me on the streets and stuff like man can't wait for that that the wrestling show again
NoahHOST
31:18
Actually, I think it was yesterday, I was at work, and I was making a delivery, and I got to this shop, and their little kid was in the office, and right before I walked in, I got gifted a replica WWE title.
NoahHOST
31:37
And I was like, where did that come from? And he just pointed at his mamaw.
NoahHOST
32:18
He gets to come
Heavy DHOST
32:18
back, but Nate's over there.
Heavy DHOST
32:22
Nick Blackwell's going to get real Blacksburg heat.
Heavy DHOST
32:24
It's going to be crazy.

Unknown podcast

Slave Narratives A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VII, Kentucky Narratives-Various

Sep 30 · 1 Mention

speaker_11UNKNOWN
73:48
He was Southern Republican and was elected as congressman by that party from Manchester, Kentucky.
speaker_11UNKNOWN
73:55
He was the son of Hugh White, the original founder of Whitesburg, Kentucky.
speaker_11UNKNOWN
74:02
Master White was good to the slaves.
speaker_11UNKNOWN
74:04
He fed us well and had good places for us to sleep, and didn't whip us only when it was necessary, but didn't hesitate to sell any of his slaves.
Andy BeshearGUEST
2:31
Uh, I...
Andy BeshearGUEST
2:31
The, the title really came from a moment after flooding in 2022, when I was in a house in Whitesburg, watching a woman furiously mucking out this house, and I made a wrong assumption.
Andy BeshearGUEST
2:43
Yes, I'm a politician who can admit he was wrong.
Andy BeshearGUEST
2:45
Um, I looked at her and said, "It must be tough, uh, looking at your house like this." And she said, "It's not my house." Then I made a second mistake, a second wrong assumption, and I said, "Well, it must feel good to have your house mucked out, because, you know, you gotta do it as fast as you can, 'cause the mold sets in and can ruin everything." She looked at me and said, "Oh, we haven't started on my house.
Bessie McPeakGUEST
1:50
We have four hospitals.
Bessie McPeakGUEST
1:53
I- we used to do five hospitals, and in Harlan, Kentucky, um, they quit delivering babies, so all those in Harlan come to Whitesburg, which is Letcher County.
Bessie McPeakGUEST
2:04
So we do sev- usually 72 to 75 babies a month, just in Whitesburg.
Benson GregoryHOST
2:10
So you, you said you go primarily to Whitesburg.
Benson GregoryHOST
2:13
Is that the only hospital that you, uh, service?
Bessie McPeakGUEST
2:16
No, sir.
Benson GregoryHOST
5:00
How, but how did you start doing it?
Bessie McPeakGUEST
5:03
Well, I started, um, uh, many, many years ago.

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