Talking Rockmart
Podcast features the heritage and people of Polk County’s second largest city
Coming through the internet airwaves from deep underground Rockmart, The Rockmart Podcast has gained a steady following of listeners since it debuted earlier this year.
And while there may not be really much of an underground Rockmart, three guys have found that there is a voice to go with the stories and people who make up Polk County’s secondlargest city. It just so happens that it is theirs.
“We’re still new, and we’re still kind of evolving, but the spirit of it initially was to create almost like a platform or a local radio show, which is a podcast, and showcase local business leaders, community leaders, educators and just have guests on from around the community,” said Josh Brown, one of the hosts of the show along with Richard Abrams and Wes Everett.
“We’re still going to do that but what we’ve learned is, oddly enough, and not what I was expecting, people enjoy us just hanging out and talking. So it’s becoming a little bit of both.”
Recorded in Wes’s podcast studio in the basement of his wife’s art gallery and studio in downtown Rockmart, The Rockmart Podcast featured Mayor Sherman Ross as its first guest and has spun out from there, with guests lined up every so often.
Abrams has a knack for local history, with an episode discussing the upside down crosses that were once a featured part of the architecture of the Rockmart First United Methodist Church.
“I’m new to Rockmart but I feel like I’m very grounded here, and it feels like home,” Brown said. “And because of that I have this interest in it, in the history of it, and an interest in it to kind of get better, to grow, and in a good way.”
As they sit together in Everett’s basement podcast studio, the interview fades into a conversation about what downtown Woodstock has done, a trip Abrams took with his wife and how that could translate that to downtown Rockmart, something that could easily be on the podcast.
“I haven’t really known Richard that long. Not even a year, I think. And I just met Wes. And we just have this fun dynamic where I can make fun of Richard on the podcast, and he just