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Introducing: Our Town · Balance of Power

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  Speaker 1: If you drive ninety miles northeast of Nashville into the
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  Speaker 1: foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, you'll land in Gainsboro, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: How would you describe this place?
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  Speaker 2: I think raw would be a good word to start.
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  Speaker 1: Just over one thousand people live here, many go back generations.
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  Speaker 3: I was related to pretty much everyone here.
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  Speaker 1: But in the fall of twenty twenty four, a group
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  Speaker 1: of outsiders started scooping up big tracts of land.
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  Speaker 2: That piques my interest because most time he would sell
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  Speaker 2: it to Jimbob over the holler.
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  Speaker 1: As the battle for the future of America plays out
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  Speaker 1: in one small.
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  Speaker 3: Town, we were all flat footed. We didn't have a clue.
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  Speaker 1: Developers with right wing ties have purchased hundreds of acres
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  Speaker 1: of land in the area.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing you see when it pops up is pioneers.
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  Speaker 1: In Appalachian, Pioneers in Appalachia. But the goal wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: to buy real estate.
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  Speaker 4: We need cities on a shining hill that exemplify and
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  Speaker 4: embody the healthy, natural human way of life, the Christian
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  Speaker 4: way of life.
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  Speaker 3: Stop right there is that normal.
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  Speaker 1: From Bloomberg News and The Big Take podcast, This is
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  Speaker 1: Our Town, a show about what happens when a small
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  Speaker 1: town becomes the site of a social experiment. God need Bend.
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  Speaker 4: We're on the cusp of I think a land grab
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  Speaker 4: an Appleatchia.
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  Speaker 3: Our hometown is not a test too.
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  Speaker 1: And decides to fight back. Do not use my hard
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  Speaker 1: work to sell your book.
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  Speaker 5: They're not just opposing what's being planned for here. They
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  Speaker 5: feel like they're standing in opposition to an entire administration.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you didn't move in on a bunch of dumbhillbillies. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Did you listen to our town on the iHeartRadio app,
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  Speaker 1: Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts