‘What’s Happalachenin?’ …Duo creates podcast to celebrate Appalachia
By Kayla (Hawthorne) Dunham - khawthorne@aimmediamidwest.com
OHIO VALLEY Two Point Pleasant, W.Va. residents and next-door neighbors recently started a podcast to share the stories and beauty of Appalachia.
Gabe Roush and Cody Greathouse, who are both council members in the city, started “What’s Happalachenin?” at the beginning of November. The duo uses their podcast to fight the negative stereotypes they hear about Appalachia.
“Our main goal of the podcast is to show people the true beauty of Appalachia,” Greathouse said. “Some of the people we’ve met and some of the things we’ve done throughout this journey that Gabe and I have been on, it’s kind of all fallen into this whole goal of trying to paint Appalachia as beautiful instead of uneducated people and poverty stricken.”