Yeah, it seems like I'm a media whisperer of the hillbillies. It seems like the media loves to use me as the token hillbillies.

So, I guess I'll have to step up to the play.

Do you find why exactly is that you find that somewhat offensive to some level or is it just what it is or how do you feel about all the attention you're getting specifically?

Well, I don't feel about how the attention I'm getting specifically. Well, I guess the only bothersome thing is I think I'm unfairly getting an amount of attention.

I think there are a lot of people out there that I guess I'm not really saying a whole lot of new things.

I mean, people have been saying things I'm saying, but really I think being a white man, a white oil cis man, particularly.

I get a good bit of recognition when I speak.

Yeah.

But when you're a hillbillies, it's interestingly enough, you also get that next level of condescending kind of disbelief.

So, you get me talking. I'm just wide enough they want to listen, but just not classy enough that they can still run me around like a circus animal doing this kind of.

Oh, look, is it a chicken playing mother-fucking-tick-tack-toe or some shit?

But no, I think liberal media is the only ones I've been mad at.

Leftist media have been real respectful.

I've been real good about it.

Absolutely.

And I hope that this interview falls on that end of the spectrum because I am conscious of exactly what you're saying about the racial dynamics here and sort of the novelty of it and how there is some level of,

you know, a little bit, it feels a little gross and exploity.

Well, you know, when the liberal media comes into town and, you know, wants to shove cameras in your face, it's almost as if they're using you at some some level.

And what I want this to be is more of a articulation of the issues that go on in Appalachia and, you know, those real issues tied to race and stuff.

And I want to give your voice a platform because I think it's important.

And I think that a lot of people don't understand the issues that plague that area and they don't understand the history of that area.

And that's really a lot of it.

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