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And of course, southern Ohio has more to do with Kentucky than it does to do with, let's say, Cleveland or something like that. So it's culturally closer to Appalachia. Now it happens—and you may not know this—that I was a folklore minor in college, and hillbilly culture and black culture are sort of the two great wellsprings of American folklore. And so, I was always of the opinion that this was like one of the great artistic regions of our country. And one of the things that that meant was, is that we were left with a lot of folk song, which describes a world that I feel has been almost forgotten by coastal America in particular—and this is quite funny—left-of-center coastal America. And one of the things that I'm dying to talk about is coal and its legacy, as we sort of distance ourself from this sort of dirty form of energy that we.

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