Rural Remix
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 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.
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May 29, 2024 • 8min
Keep It Rural - Ep 10: On Savoring and Slowing Down
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.
May 24, 2024 • 25min
Rural Food Traditions: Sourdough
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, show notes, and more on our website.
May 17, 2024 • 26min
Rural Food Traditions: Fry Bread
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 discussed on our website.
May 15, 2024 • 9min
Keep It Rural - Ep 9: Justice for the Donner Party?
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?
May 1, 2024 • 6min
Keep It Rural - Ep 8: Lies About Rural Environmentalism
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
Apr 17, 2024 • 6min
Keep it Rural-Ep 7: The Year of Whales!
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.
Apr 12, 2024 • 24min
Running Away to Yourself: Growing Up Rural and Queer
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.
Apr 5, 2024 • 28min
Home Cooked - Ep 5: Meth Today
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.
Apr 3, 2024 • 5min
Keep It Rural - Ep 6: The Loneliest Road in America
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.
Mar 29, 2024 • 32min
Home Cooked - Ep 4: The Transition
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 policing meth in the U.S.?
Learn more on our website.
