This Is Odessa: The Most Dangerous City In Texas
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- Опубліковано 1 бер 2024
- You've never seen this side of Texas before! This needs to be seen!
I spent two days exploring Odessa, Texas - a city that's been called the most dangerous city in the USA at one point. How does it look today? We'll find out.
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Thankyou Nick , I grew up on a cotton farm outside San Angelo, Texas. No tents and druggies on the streets of Odessa. No fear for the police the locals will move your tent for you I am sure, of it. Real Texans are good people they just want to be left alone. Thankyou for a the nice videos you always give us. I live in Southeastern Washington State for 32 years. Great place , rural type agriculture but it has grown almost too big with Pasco, Kennewick, Richland (tri cities) over 325K now. Was 145,000 when I moved here.
Nick...how is living in north Carolina compared to San Bernardino?
It's like sleeping with a pillow instead of a rock
Thanks again for another great vid Nick. I can't understand though, why the hell haven't any of the houses got solar panels on the roof or gutters feeding rainwater tanks ? Just doing these two things would let people save money on electricity and water. Is it that there aren't any incentives available to do it or do people just not even think about it?
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Just living in Odessa is enough to make you turn bad. Freezing cold in the winter, buring hot i the summer. The wind blows 15-20 every day and its as flat as the lunar surface. Most the jobs in the oil business are hard, unless youre an engineer. Im in a bad mood just talking about it and I've never lived there.
The lunar surface actually isn’t flat at all.. There’s craters and hills all over.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Thx
Moon video was shot in canada@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
I woke up in a bad mood.
Midland is better. Better meth too
So true about the middle class disappearing. The middle-class is the backbone of America, without it the body collapses.
The middle class is shrinking. Since the Great Tax Cut the ultra rich have increased their share of the total economy and it didn't come out of no where. It came from the middle class.
That's why we need Trump as king of America! We can all take care his family and the wealthy. Hail Trump!
You hit the nail on the @@huntingtonbeachanthony4957
@@huntingtonbeachanthony4957Hail for the BIG tax credits for the most wealthy ! Thank you daddy Trump!
You have no idea how money works do you?@@DBGE001
Right next to Odessa is Midland, which has zero character, and is perpetually covered with dirt. I'm not kidding about the dirt. I pulled into a major gas station in Midland, and wondered why such a large establishment wasn't paved. Turned out, it WAS paved. The pavement was just buried under two inches of loose dirt. True story.
Calling BS. Midland was always considered the cleaner city. More boring but way cleaner
Isn't Midland where George Bush lives?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO@@cindylynn
Ain't nothing out there and it stinks you'll probably catch cancer breathing out there. @@RDas99
@@cindylynnGW lives in Crawford, west of Austin, near Uncle Ted's ranch...neighbors who are totally opposite, ones a neocon war monger, the other loves America & Bow hunting
Born in Odessa in the 80s dad worked on the rigs it’s definitely the armpit of Texas
Nick your almost at 1 million subs.. congrats .. you really have done a great job!!!!!
Yay!
It’s amazing how much a beautifully sunny day with blue skies can do for a neighborhood. Go back to that same area on an overcast day with dark skies and maybe you’ll feel that place feels sketchy.
HaHaHa -- How many days per year does Odessa have a dark sky?
Thanks Nick.
Makes you realise it's all going down everywhere
Sadly so many towns are starting to look like so many malls.. empty n abandoned 😢 only cities end up with crime, ppl living in poverty n homelessness. Breaks my heart
You are either wealthy or poor working class, you got that right, there is no middle class.
Got that right 👍 Government ruined that
That’s what the government wants
The government, no matter who runs it, is held in power by the Illuminati. They simply don't care about people, only power and money. They just need to act like they care, so they can get votes.
That’s because Democrats are the welfare state.
Our new government is called inverted Totalitarianism and it's like Russia- rule by super rich oligarchs and corporations. It's almost totally completely converted now. That orange thing is trying to actually behave just like putin does with his enemies.
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Nick tells you like it is….
There are other good channels but some of them sugar coat things .
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I grew up in Odessa then left after the oil bust 95/96. It has its ups and downs but it was never a hood where people roamed the streets. Like any city it’s what you make of it or who you hang with. Lots of drinking there. I don’t remember much of a drug problem but it seemed everyone drank.
Amen Mike. I was there during the 70’s thru the 90’s and into the 2000’s. We only left to travel after retirement. We loved it. Odessa is full of great people who will lend you a hand with any problem you have.
I just left after being there 4 months for my husband’s solar job. It was horrible! I wish you would’ve went to a Walmart and asked for something they don’t speak English!
yes do that!!
😂 I know the feeling, what gets me is the employees wear a vest with the saying "How can I help you" and they Tell you they don't speak English
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It's Texas. What do you expect?
@@Ese361 What a cute comment peanut
Definitely the best channel to show us reality of these days. Reality that politicians do not want to show us.
I graduated from UTPB in 1977. Loved my two year stay in Odessa. Rented a room on Alpine St, then a house on Amburgey, an apartment on N Lee St, then finally a house on Brentwood. Met some wonderful people out there.
That era/decade of the 1970s is long gone and never to return.
It's good money in Odessa, TX you just have to work for it. Odessa got me back on feet 😎
I've been robbed in Odessa a few times LOL!!! oil field work... every week the company man just gave us a credit card and told us to go buy more tools. no big deal
You're a walking lick 😅
I don't think it's so bad. Both Midland-Odessa are providing more opportunities to residents and visitors alike. There building a new Zoo, Bass Pro Shop, and several high end stores and restaurants. Plus a brand new 18 story hotel will be breaking ground this year in the heart of downtown Midland.
Yeah!! If they don't like Midland & Odessa then don't come!!
Thank you I live here to
Another City Of Truth From Nick Johnson, You Are Very Much Appreciated💯💯❤❤👍👍👏👏
None of it seems to be true but birds of a feather flock together
I lived in Odessa for a few years about 25 years ago working in the oilfields and it was a fun place to be.
Dying America. Reminds me of the video game name: State of Decay.
You were 100% right about Odessa being full on diesel and gas vehicles. I looked up how many Tesla charging stations they have for a population of 100,000. They don't have any charging stations. They only have 2 Tesla chargers! Pretty funny 😅.
That's what I don't like about electric cars, what do you do if you own one n have no where to charge it? I don't own one, I could never afford one
@@mariacherrington61920 I have plenty around where I live. I have an EV but I use it only for driving around town. I'm retired so it covers most of my everyday driving. I like that I don't have to keep track of oil changes on it. But when I go camping I have an SUV and I can't imagine being out for over a week with an EV for camping. Go to remote areas of Utah and Nevada I would have range anxiety for sure.
@@mariacherrington61920 I can get an EV anytime I want to if I want to. I won't. I don't want a soulless computer with wheels.
Odessa is about oil and gas. They don't want evs
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Just wanted you to know that I really appreciate and enjoy all of your videos.
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Lmao when u recorded the boots of everyone taking a dump. Had me cracking up.
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Haha
Consider this: Odessa leads the state in per-capita homicides because of all the meth-heads getting shot, while breaking into someone else's property. So, does this make Odessa dangerous, or safe?
Still dangerous
When I was at Ft Bliss, 83-86, Midland Odessa was a very nice area. Very clean, nice place to take folks to visit. The whole country has just gone to crap.
If odessa texas is the armpit of texas, houston Texas is the bung hole of it.
I grew up here. I was a star basketball player with a full ride to a D-1 college. First time I did meth was 13 with a family member. I ran the streets there till I FINALLY got out of Odessa. Been sober for 8 years. I will never go back. God bless
*Thx4share good journalism and great Videography,good on you Nick for saving the turtle* 💪👍🇺🇲
You know it’s going down when nicks got his cowboy hat and mustache on 😂😂😂😂
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True lol😅 and cowboy jacket on he brought
Another informative & quite entertaining profile on another Texas town! That delightful exchange with Mappy & those guns going off was a riot! You definitely have a real knack for these relaxing town tour vids!
Mappy is bonkers!
Nick's a natural for this.
Mappy is the kind you wanna sit down and have a beer with at the bar😎
I was born in Midland, raised in Fort Stockton.. We used te drive an hour and a half from Fort Stockton to Odessa just to see a movie or go to the mall, or to see anything cool.
Thanks for doing your part to keep people from moving to Texas
Any time
I attended 1st grade in Odessa way back in the 1950's. We lived in a fairly new housing development - small, nice little homes. Everyone had a fence in their front yard. There were snakes. People would kill snakes & hang them from the fence posts in their front yards. Walking down the street was terrifying to me. The people were kind. I always wondered what it was like today. Thank you so much for this tour. Much, much more frightening that a few snakes. So sad to see.
We are not that bad his just in the worst places out on of the end of town. Not the In the town We Sare still nice he has a lot of BS to say.
I'm glad to hear that! Every town has "sketchy" areas, I guess. Thanks.
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@@kathydavenport4422im thinking of moving to odessa..im a nurse..tell me more please..thank you
Birds of a feather flock together
Ahh, thank you for Saving the turtle/tortes, Nick.
Wow, I learned alot here about Odessa and those historical facts about oil and cattle. I had no idea it was so crime ridden.
Coke and meth from mexico
@brentsmith6234 Alot of Hispanics in Odessa Texas?
@@Ese361 Good workers ,but when I was there they would take drum of diesel for coke . A lot of guys I knew took steroids and coke .They became monsters .There all dead . 1982 to about 2ooo . We had to work with them . Some were straight most were corrupt . Good old Mexican weed and whatever .
@brentsmith6234 Ya, I heard about the Sunday cruise on clements Street, I believe, and a nightclub called tequila nights in Odessa Texas
@@Ese361 can't remember the bar ,you walk one way if you walk the other way you picked your fight .
16:35 Bro literally handed back free money with a, "That's not enough!" Well dang... send it to me Nick, I'll use it to buy some coffee. 😅
So sad for everyone there. Thank U kindly for the informative video!! I really appreciate your videos...And thank U for helping the turtle.
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I remember picking up a Texan hitching in the top of Western Australia. He said he'd been taught that Texas was the biggest and best, he then giggled and said he'd just been working as a roustabout on a farm that was bigger than all of Texas!
Ok Nick I worked on the drilling rigs back in the 79&80 I was based in Kermit Tx two restaurants and a few 7/11’s I shared a room with two other guys at the Kermit Inn and thank God all had different shifts because there was only one bed lol,best time of my life.
12:40 a Statue of a Steer. Now THAT'S Texas!
You gotta run down the road to Van Horn and eat at Hotel El Capitan. They've got a pistachio encrusted chicken fried steak that will blow your doors off!
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You ain’t kidding on the big dumps! You’re crazy if you stop at a Pilot to use the restroom.
i was just in this area , it’s def growing. just like everywhere here in texas 😞
It’s a boom and bust town
@@Bhq870 It doesn't bust like it did in the past thanks to fracking. Thanks to fracking oil companies can still make money even if crude oil drops to $40-50 per barrel. In the past $50 per barrel would be catastrophic. Its currently about $80 per barrel so the oil companies are making billions.
it was bad in the 1980's and 90's. I testified in a Federal drug trial there and the man got 99years!
Was it the guy who shot the drug pilot? He got 99 and retrial gave him 20 years. He got out in 18 and killed another man in 2005. Received 132 years in 2006.
@@margaretthatcher6828KOOL! Great minds think alike!!
@@Romans12_18This was in the early 1990's. he was convicted in a RICO case.
I had sold he and his wife some guns that were recovered after a high speed chase. He had a paving company in Fort Worth but was moving keys of coke.
@@margaretthatcher6828 I remember the Dallas Morning News about the case and then recently heard about the character who did it.
The bars were a real dangerous place to act up back then. Tons of shooting/stabbings back then in bars
Love this channel always real ❤
I love Mike...He knows how to SHOW/SHARE/TALK sincerity and trust that we all feel and want deep down inside when meeting strangers. Thanks for sharing your journeys. .
I remember stopping for gas in Odessa while driving cross country.
Stood in line inside at the huge gas station.
Three guys in front of me and three behind me, all in Halliburton overalls.
Almost all the vehicles were white three quarter ton pickups.
😂 im still cracking up after the video shot in the bathroom stalls lol ..
My home town. It wasnt bad in the 60s and 70s . There wasnt much to do there. Walking around the neighborhood and the skating rink was what kept us busy growing up
Nick, been following you for a few years now. Your videos keep getting better and better !!! I appreciate your insights and the amount of homework you do, as you travel to each part of the USA. Anyone can take pictures, but I love your insights, analysis, humor, costume getups and your interaction with MAPPY. Keep doing what you’re doing…….VERY interesting to me. Thank you for your first class effort.
I grew up here and thought it was a normal place until I moved away
It will all be for the rich. Most of us won't survive.
Another great one Nick! Love this channel
Great vlog! Thank you for helping the turtle get to a safe location. I would have done the same thing!
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lets go brandon
I spent a month in Odessa one night...
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I drove through that area a few times nearly 20 years ago, main thing was the numerous oil refineries and smoke. Been hearing about the wildfires in the panhandle, saw Your video, You must have just got out in time!
This was probably filmed months ago.
There are no oil refineries in Odessa. The refineries are on the coast.
As a turtle lover, i appreciate the saving of lil dinoasur, you da man for that one🐢 👍👍
I always suspected Nick was a Texas Ranger. I hope you went to Lonesome Dove. I've always wanted to see that place.
Maybe it's because its right next too New Mexico same shit applies for Southern Colorado
Great video! These are some scary places to go. Thank you for your work!
Glad you like them Mark!
Thanks for sharing this 🙏🙏🙏
Get a shot of the old Bush Family home?
and THE MOST RECENT HOME TOO!
Back in the 1970's I flew into the Midland/Odessa Airport. What was notable being from upstate New York, how flat. I could see the curvature of the earth, the electric power poles disappearing over the horizon. I was certainly impressed a local dealership had a Rolls Royce on display. There was a flurry of single engine aircraft taking off for about an hour. It was quitting time, around 4p. These were the commuters. Hey, a virtual , unobstructed emergency airfield out there.
You didn't see the curvature of the earth, that was an optical illusion.
@seananon4893 Well, if the heights of yhe power poles gradually diminish? Ok...you're a flatlander. You sound like a person with a little intelligence that is
overrated.
Anyway, it's my description. Why ruin a good story with facts??
@seananon4893 Sorry, "evidence" of earth's curvature. Those power company engineers must have had the pylons gradually reduced in height to produce a real illusion 🫣
I just want to say a big thank you for these videos. They must take a lot of work, and I love how they are long videos of your adventures and they really are informative and eye opening, as well as interesting (and your sense of humor always makes me laugh). They are healing because they are voices of something that needs attention. They are thought provoking videos and gives perspective and attention to things that need work. I like how you give voices to so many people from different walks of life. As well as your own thoughts.
It's meaningful. Keep it up cowboy! (Being serious!) :)
Also, the videos of you just exploring nicer places too, it's a real treat. Like checking out random bars, places to eat, or areas, it gives a nice big picture of the country high and low, big and small. All your videos are top tier and you are a natural and making great videos. Thank you :)
No prob! I wish UA-cams algorithm didn't suck.
The Odessa was my grandpa's rig.He brought it out the yard in 77 i do believe. They was drilling off shore of Lafayette,come into 16k. Shut the pipes in the bag on they (now comical) 10k stack. She blew by. My dad was rough necking at the time and uncle Lindsey had just relieved my gp. Anyway.They abandoned ship.She burnt. They had to drill relief to shut her down.
Thank you for what you do, Deputy.
I live and work around here. You miss the best parts buddy the places where we all go out to work. And all the crosses on the side of the roads people have died. The roads are more dangerous than anything else.
Agree I absolutely hate driving here the roads are full of potholes and the people drive like maniacs.
Something new?
I've learned a lot about the good ol' USA from your travels.
Thanks.
Yum Yum..? Oooooh Lawdy. 🤦🏾♂️ I like yum yum, at least he was honest. ✌🏾
Facts😂
This is so depressing to look at, thanks for these videos Nick.
I was there the past 4 months and although boring and not a beautiful place. It didn’t seem dangerous but I’m glad we’re gone. Went to a Walmart where the cashiers didn’t even speak English
No way, I heard these people just want to be Americans. It sounds like they are just illegally fleeing to a different economic zone and making little Central Americas everywhere.
now u hav to learn spanish
Wal-Mart the new workers are Cubans 😂😂😂
@@victoriafisher6934 nope it’s time for Trump to start deporting
Your videos are informative and quite entertaining. Don't change your format.
Stay safe out there Mr. Johnson
English, Spanish and Methanese spoken here 🤣
Nice.
$2.85/gallon!!!!! That would just about get you two litres over in the UK.
1.50 litre in Canada
1 U.S. gallon = 3.785 litres. So our "petrol" costs about 59 pence per litre or 0.69 € per litre.
Or 1 litre of the weak stuff in New Zealand dollar for dollar
The last day Trump was in office it was a $1.30 a gallon in my town
What's a litre
Thanks!
What??? Mark!! Wow. Thank you.
Great video Nick..LMAO the gun shots had me laughing good... hahahahaha
Great open land views-thanks
@11:56 - George is 93, it has spawned three times; a 34-yo spawn named Alex who's the front spawn designee to further the agenda, a 53-yo spawn named Jonathan that manages The Soros Fund and it is just as dangerous, as is the 60-yo-spawn that also manages the Fund to destroy civilization. They more than likely have spawn of their own. Alex just hooked up with Killary's assistant, Huma, who's now a hag - but that doesn't mean Al won't spawn or has already spawned. So you're gonna need a posse.
Take your meds
Don't go after dark!! PERIOD
Another Gem Nick
Love your videos Nick, they make my hour plus commute slightly less painful everyday. However, I almost ran off the road laughing at the 'big dumps' line. Bravo sir 👏
Man I loved Odessa when I was out there. Torchy's Tacos, Texas Burger, Cinergy, Rosa's Cafe, Press Cafe, Keith's Hamburger Station and all these other great places. Yeah there were some crazy moments, I was heading to the Walmart that day when the shooting started, but what city doesn't have crazy people shooting things up now.
I almost forgot the Golden Chick! If I didn't have to work I'd move back out there in a minute.
I live in Midland it's lot quieter than Odessa ODT can get a rough at times Sometimes Midland have it's little episodes at times
The video at the end with all those modern clean homes in a row is unique.
I had not idea Odessa was so bad....I grew up in west Texas and have lived all over the country....never heard how bad it is. I guess I'm keeping all of those smaller west Texas cities neatly tucked back in my 1980's childhood of them all being just sleepy towns built on oil. Didn't realize it was Detroit-lite LOL
It's not nearly that bad
Pretty sure whatever crime rate people are talking about would be based on rate per capita which realistically can mean very little when talking about small towns.
Trust me there is zero comparison to Detroit😁
If you're still out there just go a bit north to Loving County. At only about 64 residents, the least populated county in the USA. Water is naturally poisoned with gypsum. A lot of water is cleaned and used for fracking. About the only industry out there.
Great video Nick.I am Texan born and raised but I am not tough enough for Odessa.I would never want to live there
How you havent got a million or 2 subs buddy ill never no, another great lil upload Nick 'Cheers from Sydney nsw were the price of homes to buy or rent is crazily expensive like on par wit California trust me n thats even if u can get one. .
The seventies were the boom years, it ended in 1983- oil patch in Texas ain’t no joke
Micheal was seriously thinking about rolling you it crossed his mind more than once in your conversation.
Nah
Robbing you meant
I came to your channel by accident from a video you made about Richmond VA but I enjoyed so much. Great channel, you deserve more subscribers. 💪
I know but UA-cam plays games
@@NickJohnson thank you Nick, BTW I just watched again but with my wife and she really enjoyed it. Great video and great story, God bless you and keep the doing amazing videos with amazing stories 👍💪
You and Mappy are getting a little carried away with them guns, and that's just fine with me... Thanks for bringing us along.
Can you dig a basement there without hitting oil? How far down is the water table? What with mineral rights and all, how deep are you allowed to dig on your own land?
Basements are not a thing in Texas, and I always thought that was strange, knowing how many tornadoes hit this state.
This video changed my life, thank you!
Sure....❤️
Nick, you are a hero. Thanks for rescuing the turtle.
I cant believe he wouldn't accept the help because it 'wasn't enough'
Thanks to inflation anything less than $10 doesn't really buy much anymore! A $10 bill is the new $1 bill. I would've given him a $20 for taking the time to talk in a respectful manner.
Had to re-watch that two or three times to figure out what that was all about. At first I thought it was a pack of some kind of illegal substance...
I believe the feller started to open up and felt bad when he realized he wasn't being tricked into something weird, that the conversation was legit.
Nope it must've been cheap!
@@williamstamper442 yeah perhaps he thought he was being baited into something who knows