Our Americana

Our Americana

Our Americana is a podcast that explores unique small towns across America and examines the stories that impact, cultivate, and challenge community. New episodes coming in August 2023.

Episodes

Retrospective 3: Darkness

July 24, 2026 • 50 mins
In Retrospective 3, Josh discusses how 24 harrowing hours changed his life and the course of True Crime Bullsh**. He discusses how an incident re-shaped his vision for the first episode of the podcast, and his view on true crime and its darkness. Plus, the impact of that first episode on listeners, and the impact of those listeners on Josh.

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Retrospective 2: Investigations

July 9, 2026 • 58 mins
Retrospective 2 takes us to the origin of the investigation; where Josh's interest in storytelling evolved into his obsession of needing to know everything. And it started in a surprising place: a bound book of correspondence between two teenage girls and their landlord. What started as comedic found writing, became a mystery that people could not let go. And as Josh made his way through it, while working on TCB, he learned about i...
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Retrospective 1: The Ignition

June 5, 2026 • 85 mins
To celebrate 10 years in podcasting, we're spending the summer going back in time and both highlighting key episodes and telling the stories behind them; you’ll get new behind-the-scenes information about what was happening in life, in various investigations, and in the world that impacted these important episodes and their podcasts. You’ll learn how Josh started podcasting, how he started investigating Israel Keyes, so...
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Small Town Spotlight: Longview, WA (Lemonade)

September 13, 2018 • 19 mins
A man ahead of his time, built an entire town around the timber industry. A century later, the town is building itself around and in support of a local nuisance. Finding comedy in stress, it turns out, has been a decades-long tradition in Longview, Washington. Plus, the best way to survive a volcano eruption; and how fun, industry, and ecology can thrive in symbiosis.

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A Sense of Space | Port aux Basques, Newfoundland

August 30, 2018 • 68 mins
A four-person support group, for parents of children with autism, inspires an entire community to become Canada's first Autism-Friendly Town.

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Written, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark Guests: Joan Chaisson, Cathy Lomond, Cindy Goudie-LaPolla, Wa...
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4.4: Roadside Attractions (Monuments)

August 2, 2018 • 60 mins
In this collaboration with The Story Behind podcast, we explore the story behind Roadside Attractions. We take a look at how three Roadside Attractions have impacted and been impacted by community: including the world's largest beagle, the world's (former) largest cherry pie pan, and the Unclaimed Baggage Center (a museum of lost luggage).

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Majority Vote | Pittsfield, New Hampshire

March 29, 2018 • 52 mins
When a rural town's only high school is in jeopardy, the community comes together to change it in some very radical ways. And then the school, in turn, changes the community.

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The Tornado | Greensburg, Kansas

March 15, 2018 • 43 mins
A tornado forever changes the rural town of Greensburg in the most unexpected way. And we separate ideas and movements from the constraints of politics.

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Written, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark
Research Assistance by Torey Griffith

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The Reading | Mount Horeb, Wisconsin

March 1, 2018 • 73 mins
A rural town, known as The Troll Capital of the World, unites over the attempted banning of a book reading and its very close-to-home consequences.

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Hometown Stories: Jen (Palm Beach, Florida)

July 28, 2017 • 54 mins
We head to South Florida to take a very candid look at the struggles of drug addiction and recovery through the lens of a listener.

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Music by: El Perro del Mar, Chris Zabriskie, Lee Rosevere, and Freya Ridings
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S03|E08: Roadside Attractions (The World's Biggest Fish)

June 1, 2017 • 53 mins
Hot off the heels of #VanLife, we stick to the open road and explore American Roadside Attractions. Manatees, vacuums, Big Fish, and some listener stories.

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S03|E07: In America (#VanLife2)

May 19, 2017 • 49 mins
Josh catches up with the four #VanLifers who he chatted with last July. Jennifer and Josh talk about the privilege of experience. Alex finds solace and liberation in a disconnected life. And we find out whether Giddi and Jace made it back out onto the road after having their baby.


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The Next Right Thing | Austin, Indiana (Part 2)

April 28, 2017 • 54 mins
Seth tries to uncover how exactly the epidemics began and continue to occur. Jesse comes through recovery and starts the long road to creating a new life for himself. Holli, once a beacon for hope in Austin, struggles with the intersections of religion, media, and welfare; and then ultimately loses hope, herself.


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A Personal Story | Austin, Indiana (Interlude)

April 19, 2017 • 37 mins
We pause the story in Austin, to talk more personally about HIV.

Music by Chris Zabriskie & Luke Pigott.


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Five Percent | Austin, Indiana (Part 1)

March 31, 2017 • 35 mins
In a small, rural Indiana town, what started as a drug epidemic became an HIV crisis. Government, religion, public health, the community, and the media coalesce in their various attempts to help a town in peril.

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The Quiet Zone | Green Bank, West Virginia

March 22, 2017 • 46 mins
In a town with no radio or cellular waves, with no wifi or cable, life is wonderfully quiet. We examine our strange relationships with technology and meet a woman who suffers from electromagnetic sensitivity so bad, she spent a year living in a Faraday cage.

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Microcommunities | Fairfield, Iowa

March 13, 2017 • 45 mins
In a rural Iowa town rooted in Transcendental Meditation and home to the microcommunity movement, community-building and intention have been redefined.

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Bruno | Longville, Minnesota

February 28, 2017 • 42 mins
A northern Minnesota town, struggling to find its economic identity, gets a little help from an unlikely resident and his uncanny routine. Plus, turtle racing.


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Hometown Stories: Adrienne (New Bern, North Carolina)

November 29, 2016 • 31 mins
Our Americana listener Adrienne walks us through her hometown. We talk about how tragedy shaped her, politics and conversation in North Carolina, and life in a town full of memories. Plus, a song about bears.

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Benny Bills | Salem, Oregon

November 25, 2016 • 43 mins
In 2013, hundred dollar bills started mysteriously appearing throughout Salem, Oregon; in diaper boxes, tip cups, people's cars. This is the story of the mysterious person hiding them, and how their generosity became contagious.

This week's guests:
Heather Martin, JoAnn Culbertson, and Rob Whelan

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