Is Appalachia really just pills and poverty? I spent weeks traveling through the Smoky Mountains, Cherokee, Asheville, and forgotten coal towns to find out — and the people I met changed everything I thought I knew.
From a chainsaw-carving magic shop in Gatlinburg to a leather tanner who biked into the wilderness at eighteen, from a self-built castle in Tennessee to a homeless philosopher living in the woods, this is the Appalachia nobody shows you. Real people. Real stories. Never before told.
Chapters:
0:00 — Hook
0:46 — Why I went to Appalachia
1:40 — Gatlinburg: Rick and the magic shop
8:05 — Don the leather tanner
12:52 — Fort Armageddon
24:54 — Into the deep woods
31:29 — Cherokee
33:18 — Melissa
53:38 — Asheville and Smiles
1:17:37 — Danger and the compound
1:44:58 — Tone
1:57:14 — Thurmont: a ghost town
1:59:49 — Is Appalachia just pills and poverty?

Credits: ‪@ToneLive‬
‪@phntm13‬ -Music
Danger Ranger
Maddie
Terranaut
Woozuh@kick

Thank you all for watching my travels through Appalachia.

Check out my other Video on Train Hopping!!!
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