Today's guest is HANK!   Who's Hank??  Well, not Hank Jr or Hank Sr, though getting Hank Sr would've been a feat!  It's Hank from the Hillbilly Nerd Talk podast.

 How often do you hear “hillbilly” and “nerd” mentioned in the same sentence, much less in the same show title? Hillbilly Nerd Talk is a podcast recorded deep in the hollows of rural Appalachia by a married couple, Hank and Petra, who can best be described as educated Hillbillies.

Hank says, “We started our show as a way to entertain as well as meet and interact with new and interesting people.  We blend two seemingly opposite worlds into one strange but funny talk show.”

Appalachian culture is often ridiculed by outsiders, but on this show you will get an unscripted glimpse into our world.  Don’t be scared.  It’s not all Deliverance and Wrong Turn around here.  There are lots of rural Appalachian traditions we enjoy, but as you will hear we also embrace science and technology.  Our discussions will range from terraforming Mars to our neighbor’s problem with opossums getting in his chicken coups.  Have you ever made moon shine?  How about a discussion on the latest parallel universe theory?  Are you getting the show concept?  With your input, we just might use our Hillbilly Nerd Logic to solve all the world’s problems

I grew up in rural Eastern Kentucky in a hollow between two Appalachian Mountains. My childhood was spent working my ass off in tobacco fields, orchards and our small farm in general.  My dad bought me a 410 shotgun when I was 8 years old to shot groundhogs that were getting into our pumpkin patch.  I have made moonshine, dried apples, canned beans, made sorghum and all the other super rural country activities that you can think of, minus the incest of course.  I grew up about as country as it gets.  When I was a kid in the 1970s my dad had rental houses that still had out houses for bathrooms.  Seriously.