🎙️ DEAR RACHEL is here.
A fictional call-in show with real-world resonance.
In Episode 1, The Aspiring Creator asks:
"Why am I doing everything right—and still falling behind?"
This isn't satire—it’s a mirror.
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Why We Created “Dear Rachel” – Giving a Voice to the Voiceless
In the post-industrial shadow of the Foothills Corridor—a stretch of the Southern Mid-Atlantic once powered by mills, factories, and generational stability—something has been unraveling for decades. First it was jobs. Then community cohesion. Then dignity itself. The systems meant to catch people began collapsing, and those left behind were told to reinvent themselves, hustle harder, or fade quietly.
Dear Rachel was born to push back on that silence—not through data charts or policy memos, but by dramatizing the ache in the room that no one talks about. It’s a fictional call-in show, but the voices you hear are rooted in real-life struggle. Each archetype comes from The Shrinking Center, a cultural mapping of characters shaped by economic dislocation, civic betrayal, and a relentless demand to adapt in a system rigged for the already-powerful.
The Aspiring Creator, The Grandparent Who Stayed, The Institutional Lifer—these aren’t abstract types. They’re based on people we know, or perhaps the people we’ve become. They wrestle with questions like: “Why am I doing everything right and still falling behind?” or “What happened to the promises we built our lives around?” Dear Rachel gives them a place to ask out loud—and to be answered with care, insight, and solidarity.
Why now? Because traditional media doesn’t reach this center anymore. Because the loudest voices online often erase the human texture of working-class life. And because there are millions of Americans stuck between nostalgia and progress with no one speaking for them—until now.
I’ve asked people to send me feedback, and while I’ve gotten some, it’s been very little. I can see there are views, that something’s registering—but it still feels like I’m operating in a void. That’s unfortunate. It’s not cool being made into a loner just for trying to speak up with purpose. If you’re watching, reading, or listening—reach out. Let me know you’re out there.
Dear Rachel isn’t satire. It’s not parody. It’s a mirror. The Hickory Hound Network presents this series with dignity and depth—because people like us deserve to be heard.
The Aspiring Content Creator
The Grandparent who stayed
The Institutional Lifer
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