So every ten years to get people in the media to come because those who say the been down here and talk about it so spread out overwhelmingly white and poor persons and will bear a child or socially and economically tos communities. So dispersed its not concentrated or visible or a way of life with newspapers and Media Companies so it tends to fly under the radar a bit. To get in and get out . Or how you connect with people. Yes. We do have those similar things that i get in the car and i talk to people. Is a magical process called journalism and harass people questions and you write down what they say. So that particular story came from a long trip from dallas to southern virginia and back was places along the way that we would about and tennessee and West Virginia and tennessee and West Virginia and to be very good at crossing the bridge not just writing the story or recording it but with the storytelling to talk to these people in these communities how much storytelling for them is
Available as podcasts. I am so excited to interview kevin. I am thrilled talk talk to you about your book. Can you talk about how you came up with this . The name is from a couple physical kentucky, i spent some time in the county, a lot of journalists visiting because every ten years, this comes out and it turns out this is where they get. The pain in the butt media people come and its funny the people i talked to, i know these people from your time. They come down and talk about so what i came to believe is spread out, overwhelmingly wide, poor places in rural america, or in many ways, socially and canonically politically similar similar for urban immunities although there were important differences like crime so it is a way of life that we dont write about as much because it is not concentrated and visible and it is not a way of life lived the places where major newspapers and companies and things like that are based tends to fly under the radar. How much time did you spend there .
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They had . Saw is aat we continuation of this trend of unconventional convention. We had [indiscernible] this conflation of the president S Administration and his campaign. I think the messages they wanted to get across was they wanted to humanize this president somewhat. We had his wife talking about ,im, referring to him as donald talking about his record and what he has done in the white house. I think there was a continuation of outreach to minorities. Theyw on the first night showcased the depth of their bench in terms of having there and nikki haley there. Lets not come obese outreach to women as well as immigrants through the naturalization ceremony we saw. Host what was the goal of secretary of state pompeos address from israel . Caller that is what guest that is one of the that happened. The consternation before the broadcast, he was in israel on official business. The he addressed to the convention was [indiscernible] there were issues of whether they potentially violated the
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