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- 0:00Speaker 1: If you drive ninety miles northeast of Nashville into the
- 0:03Speaker 1: foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, you'll land in Gainsboro, Tennessee.
- 0:08Speaker 1: How would you describe this place?
- 0:09Speaker 2: I think raw would be a good word to start.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Just over one thousand people live here, many go back generations.
- 0:16Speaker 3: I was related to pretty much everyone here.
- 0:19Speaker 1: But in the fall of twenty twenty four, a group
- 0:21Speaker 1: of outsiders started scooping up big tracts of land.
- 0:25Speaker 2: That piques my interest because most time he would sell
- 0:28Speaker 2: it to Jimbob over the holler.
- 0:30Speaker 1: As the battle for the future of America plays out
- 0:34Speaker 1: in one small.
- 0:34Speaker 3: Town, we were all flat footed. We didn't have a clue.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Developers with right wing ties have purchased hundreds of acres
- 0:43Speaker 1: of land in the area.
- 0:44Speaker 2: The first thing you see when it pops up is pioneers.
- 0:48Speaker 1: In Appalachian, Pioneers in Appalachia. But the goal wasn't just
- 0:52Speaker 1: to buy real estate.
- 0:54Speaker 4: We need cities on a shining hill that exemplify and
- 0:57Speaker 4: embody the healthy, natural human way of life, the Christian
- 1:01Speaker 4: way of life.
- 1:02Speaker 3: Stop right there is that normal.
- 1:04Speaker 1: From Bloomberg News and The Big Take podcast, This is
- 1:08Speaker 1: Our Town, a show about what happens when a small
- 1:11Speaker 1: town becomes the site of a social experiment. God need Bend.
- 1:16Speaker 4: We're on the cusp of I think a land grab
- 1:18Speaker 4: an Appleatchia.
- 1:19Speaker 3: Our hometown is not a test too.
- 1:22Speaker 1: And decides to fight back. Do not use my hard
- 1:26Speaker 1: work to sell your book.
- 1:29Speaker 5: They're not just opposing what's being planned for here. They
- 1:34Speaker 5: feel like they're standing in opposition to an entire administration.
- 1:37Speaker 1: I guess you didn't move in on a bunch of dumbhillbillies. Now.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Did you listen to our town on the iHeartRadio app,
- 1:43Speaker 1: Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts