... Can we take rides on Cranky even if we're already subscribed? Like, is there a line, are the rides free or is he willing to take chicken nuggets as payment?
True story: My mother was up in the Texas Panhandle with a friend from Scotland, and when asked where he wanted to go next he said he always wanted to go fishing in the Gulf. So they set out from Abilene to Galveston... And got a motel for the night in, I wanna say Dallas. Next morning as they started driving Scotty asked "So, how many states do we pass through until we get there?" "Oh, we've been in Texas the whole time," came the reply, "It's just about another 4 hours away." The Scotsman was stunned; they'd been driving for 2 days by the time they got there. If you try to drive anywhere back home in the UK for more than a day you're gonna need a boat because no matter what direction you go you're gonna run out of land.
When Texas hosted its State Championship football games in Houston in 2015, the local newspaper compared the distance where each team was coming from to the distance of European countries.
When I was a kid growing up in Texas, I'd ask my parents "Are we still in Texas?" on long road trips. The answer was always "Yes". Now, in my mind, Texas is the default size of a state and all other states are just small.
Same. Even more confusing are all the places with towns touching each other. If there ain't at least two rest stops between them, can you really call it a seperate city?
@@parkivich if you're talking about around downtown Orlando or Tampa, I agree with you. Try navigating I295 at the Buckman bridge or the I10/95 interchange. True story.
@@parkivich I always feel like I'm getting ready for the start of shuttle launch whenever I hop on I-4. "Alright, passed the toll, heading into the loop. Getting ready to merge in 3... 2... 1... vvvvrrrRRRRRMMMM!" Cause if you don't step on the accelerator somebody going 5 times the speed of sound is gonna slam you like a pancake.
I'm from Virginia, living in Florida now. I expected the usual: head on up 95, see the sign for Dumfries, y'all are purt near there. But it gets weird the closer you git. Are you sure that's where you wanna go? Why? Well Bless your heart, y'all take care now.👋 But that's just my directions.🤣 👵☮️🖖 Have a blessed day now.
As a Cajun who's lived in Texas his whole life, I can confirm the Texas one is true and I'm proud that I understood every single word spoken by the Louisiana guy
Southeast Louisiana here, as in Texas. I understood every word as well, but Texas...I am convinced they just make shit up here! Nothing is pronounced the way it is spelled. At least in Louisiana, we can blame it on the French, but not so much in Texas.
@@orp8428 if you're referring to towns, then yep, that's definately true. Some examples: Buda, Manchaka, Blanco, Bexar (yes ik it's a county). It's ridiculous 😆
Moving to NC from Washington state next week for the better year round weather, option of lakes, the ocean, and mountains, and for the job opportunities in my field. I also have some family on that side of the country. What do you think of North Carolina? Will I like it? I’m excited but also nervous to move out of my hometown
Born and raised in Louisiana and he wasn't saying anything, he was imitating the dude from Waterboy 😂 we don't talk like that... unless you go real deep in the bayous But, he did say in the middle "you see that alligator you gone jump right over him. Move on over I'll take yall there"
Exactly. Quick story: When I was in college, I had a class with a girl from CA. One day, she made the mistake of saying "well, THIS is how we do it in California (can't remember what we were talking about, but she was implying that the CA way was the correct one)." It was followed by a room full of eyerolls, and the professor - I repeat, PROFESSOR - said "well, why don't you pack your shit and take your happy ass back there." She learned a lesson that day. When you move to TN, you never, EVER, begin a sentence with "well, where *I* come from..."
Fellow Tennesseean here, I feel the same way. I live in Knoxville, so I’m not as annoyed if someone moves to Nashville, but I just don’t want them to go any further east.
Consider yourself blessed, all ours in South Carolina are from up north. Two thirds of my class at the University of South Carolina were from the north. Of course, most people from South Carolina can't get in the University of South Carolina business school, but I don't think they should all be from up north, or foreigners. Stay strong.
As a 25 year resident of Louisana I can attest to getting directions nearly exactly as you portrayed, only longer and even more confusing. It all stemmed from a supposition that I knew where “John’s former gas station” was. Things went downhill from there. 😅 Thanks for the laugh, Matt!
Lol. When I moved to Southern MO ( and , yes, it's the south) I was so frustrated by " where the furniture store used to be". That was 30+ years ago. We're civilized now. Unfortunately.
@@badelementofstyle5238 Significant parts of Missouri are Midwestern but they are known for BBQ and SEC football, so they are getting absorbed by the South. If you meet a native who says Missouree, they are the Midwestern variety, while the Missourah ones are Southern
Florida man here. That part is spot on. If you want to give Cranky a tip, he loves those small yappy dogs the people that retire from New York love to walk along the edge of the lake.
I was a firefighter/EMT up in North Georgia and was new to the county I was working in, and we got a call in the middle of the night. I stopped by the dispatch office (in the same building) to get directions, and she told me "Go by where Farmer Tucker's barn used to be, turn left, and go down a smidge."
As a proud Cajun from south Louisiana, I can confirm the accuracy of the Louisiana directions. Especially the part about stopping for a link of boudin. Though we too use Dollar Generals and Jesus billboards as landmarks. And "big rig wreck lawyer" billboards too, unfortunately. So many billboard lawyers..........Hey! Maybe we can feed some to Cranky!!!!!!!!!
I lived in Lake Charles for a little while and I loved it! One of my favorite places I lived. Even though I couldn’t understand a lot of ppl, they were always friendly! And I loved the drive thru mixed drink tiki huts. Never saw those anywhere but LA.
I live in New Orleans and I don’t understand anything anyone says in the rural parts west of Baton Rouge, and I’ve lived in the south my whole life. I even had family that lived up in Morehouse Parish, far up in North Louisiana, and their accent is straight Southern up there. I understand that just fine. The folks that talk with that Cajun influence though are truly speaking a different language, even when they’re not speaking a different language.
I actually understood the last third of that! I’ve lived with a man who has chaw in his bottom lip for most his awake time and has a bad MS accent anyway plus is quiiiiiiet. I can understand him now about 75% of the time, so the LA guy was fun once I realized he wasn’t gonna talk so he was intelligible. LOL
I've never been to Texas, but I have a relative who lives in Lubbock. He once told me that when the area was first being settled, land went for a penny an acre. Then he said, "If you ever saw the land there, you'd think they paid too much!"
You just described the trip from El Paso to San Antonio. The only reason that Fort Stockton is between them is to give you a chance to get gas and to take a break. It's like being on the ocean, where the scenery never changes.
My grandparents lived in Texas, went every summer & it was always a 2.5-3hr drive to the airport, which I thought was long....then my DUMB-ASS thought I'd drive there when I was older...3hrs ain't NOTHING! 🤣
@@cariwaldick4898 Ain't THAT the truth! You got me to laugh out loud! I'm up 'round DFW. I always say I know I'm home when I get off the plane and smell that TEXus smell - hot grass and lawnmower/car exhaust.
Mississippi is so true. I stopped at a little country store to ask directions. Didn't know anyone, But ended up having lunch with the owners, and then they "fixed a bag" for me to take for later. It was great!!
The five complete stops I made on the interstate around Atlanta during the two hours it took me to drive through one city gave me a deep appreciation for Ted Turner and his ability to bring companies like AOL and Time Warner together. Apparently, he is the only person from that city who knows how to merge.
Growing up in the ATL area for 26 years of my life from birth till 26. I can confirm that merging doesn't exist, you just hope you don't die by that one guy on 285 or 85 or 75 or now recently 400 weirdly going 90mph in the far right lane and nobody knows why. Basically Atlanta driving is like a 4 way stop that you never fully stop at you just keep inching forward till everyone starts moving again and that one crazy guy merging in and out. You know that guy I told you about earlier the one going 90 in the far right lane? Ya its probably the same guy.
Matt did it AGAIN! Your portrayal of "Kentucky" was right on the money :) We're suspicious of EVERYBODY -- including our own families. If somebody shows up uninvited we JUST KNOW they are scouting another location for a Dollar General -- and we tell them to "Git!"
@@dizzysdoings depends on where you move. If it’s in the city your fine. Unless it’s Louisville. Then it could go either way depending what area you go to. If it’s in the hills. Make sure you go in the day and make sure you know what drive way is the one you want to be on.
As a native Texan I actually had a Ms Darlene and she gave directions as you go over yonder and …. Her father was a baptist preacher who was passed before I met her but he painted the winged pegasus sign on things across Texas. She was related to Buster Welch and once had a party where I met Tex Hill of the Flying Tigers. True story.
As a former Quarter Horse cuttin' horse owner / competitor here living in Illinois - the late great Buster Welch is still & always be my inspiration ! ( my best cuttin' mare was Southern so hope maybe I'm a little bit Southern by that connection ? )
Oh my God, that opening of the Texas one is practically a quote from my wife during my first visit to the state. We drove down from Chicago for Thanksgiving dinner with my in-laws in East Texas, where we found that her uncle, who lived in Lubbock, had had to cancel. She was disappointed that we missed him, so I suggested that since we'd already driven all the way from Chicago, we should go visit him in Lubbock after Thanksgiving. She just laughed and laughed, then told me I needed to go look at a map with a scale. Yeah, it's roughly the same distance from Longview, Texas to Lubbock as from Chicago to Longview. Man, this is one big-ass state.
I don’t know about the rest of Kentucky, but in Louisville, we tend to give directions based on things that are no longer there. For example, “You know where the Bacon’s used to be? You’re gonna take a left there, and then you’re gonna drive past the library that used to have a tank out front.”
Live South of Louisville and we all give directions based on the unique gas station names that aren't official since the bigger companies bought em all up. So in a way yeah we do the same here lol
My dad had a friend who was visiting Mississippi and was looking for the nearest hotel to stay in. This was years ago, so he had to rely on maps and word-of-mouth for directions. Anyway, he asked some local, who told him that the nearest hotel was “four far-sees and a possum toss”-and he was serious, mind you. Like, that was actually a serious estimation he made of the distance.
Dude, I've never seen your channel before, but I'm glad I stumbled onto this. First, as a native Nashvillian, a thousand AMENS to your portrayal of sending the Californians back to where they came from. And although it was subtle, I caught your little jab about driving until their electricity runs out. Nice touch. Second, as one who has lots of family in Texas and having driven all the way across the state many times, your Texas impersonation was also spot on and hilarious. Also, seeing as how I couldn't understand a word the Louisiana guy said, that also was fantastically accurate. Furthermore, I loved all the repent names in South Carolina. And finally, the Virginia one about DC, so true. The accuracy of each is what made them so good. Well done sir.
Idk as a native Floridian I don't remember hearing anything like that, though most of the time I just ride with someone else anyway. Not to mention my mom is a native Midwesterner (born in Indiana but raised in Illinois)
Remind me to never get lost down South. My mother gives out directions this way. Whenever I need to get somewhere, she'll tell me the names of every other store near it, or near where I need to turn off, and I have to tell her again and again that I don't pay attention to what's on the sides of the road when I'm driving, so if I've never gone _to_ a particular establishment, I could've driven past it 100 times and it'll still be useless to me as a landmark because I have no clue where that is.
This is why I laugh when europeans say you "Americans" should be able to get around by walking. I say "bless your heart...sure if you live somewhere like NY city, but it isn't that way in the south." Here you can drive from one side of Texas for 12 hours and still be in Texas and that's not to mention it's hotter than coal fires of hell if you happen to be doing it anytime past June. Then I invite them to come on down in August and see how far they get walking...😂
Ikr! They don't get it because of how things are portrayed in movies and on TV. I have heard from folks overseas that all they know about the USA is places like NYC, or the wild west and cowboys, lol. I have an uncle who came here from Thailand as a young man, and he totally believed that the whole USA was just like wild west and cowboys everywhere. To this day, he has cows and horses and believes that is the way to "be American". He is all about anything that he thinks is the American way, and for him, that's cows, horses, and rodeo, lol. But i will say, he loves this country and appreciates it more than most who were born here. He's a good guy.
@@crystalparker2542 LOL, bless him I bet he's a hoot!!! If he loves and respects our country then he's alright by this Texans standards! We have so many ungrateful half-wits and a lot are moving here to Texas from terrible states! I just wished we could switch them out for those that would come here and respect what a privilege it is to live here, people like your uncle!
I've always said that we need to focus on making those changes up north. But yeah, alot of the south and Midwest just too spread out. I'd say you guys would get more out of rail. But yeah unless they intend to make cities into huge shaded areas with massive mirrors like some 1980s Sci fi stuff
As someone living in South Carolina, this couldn’t be more accurate 😂 we use a mixture of church’s, religious billboards, and waffle houses to give directions
That, and where stuff used to be. What I've always gotten around here is , "you know where the old A&P used to be?" Or maybe ,"you know where the peach orchards used to be?"
S. Carolinian here too. I've given directions based on all of this and pot holes. I once told someone "After you pass this road and see a big pot hole, go ahead and get in the right lane because that pot hole is smaller and then make an immediate right".
When you get back to the main road, take a left. After you pass 5 Baptist churches, take a right. Don't turn right AT the 5th Baptist church, you have to pass it and take the next right. Then go until you see a huge oak tree split down the middle and turn left before you get to it. If you see wagon wheels buried in the ground as a driveway marker, you've gone too far.
For Georgia, you forgot that the same road changes names every quarter mile or so. And the spelling is different each time (Clermont/Clairmont/Clairmonte).
My dad used to live in Kentucky, and he got lost in the woods, and from the story I was told, the only thing missing from your sketch was the lack of a shotgun.
Although the "big cities" in Kentucky are welcoming. You can take that from this Chicago boy who lived in both Lexington and Lou'vul. But, if you move there, be prepared that the first question you will be asked is, "What church do you go to?"... and you better have the right answer!
@@randmeller 1. Thank you for saying the name of the town correctly. 2. I always have the wrong answer for the church question. 3. As I learned, most problems are solved by the local bourbon.
My first big trip out of San Antonio as a kid was to Colorado. By the time we got to El Paso, I had already pledged to never leave Texas by car again. I only have one life, I'm not spending half of it driving.
@@JackieBaisa Man, I live just north of San Antonio and there are so many rude people moving here. Please, keep your share of Californians to yourself!
I was staff for a convention in College Station once & we were talking to one of our guests about getting to the con. He suggested that he could fly into Lubbock and just drive to the convention. The staffer working with him just said deadpan, “It’s a big state, Brian.”
@@TheCJTok Even Houston is about 2 hours away. I think he wanted to avoid the small plane that he'd have to use to get to the airport in College Station, but eventually that's what we did..
In Georgia we build a moat around Atlanta to keep the city folk in there. If you see a sign for 285, just get on it and drive around till you find the interstate you started on again.
Make peace with your favorite deity, first; I-285 is officially the deadliest interstate highway in the country. It averages about 3 fatalities per mile, per year. I learned how to drive in that traffic.
The moat doesn't work. I grew up in Hartwell and it's full of Atlantans who've bought lake houses. Everybody calls them the lake people and after they come here all they do is complain that Hartwell needs more stuff to do. Go back to Atlanta.
@@pamelahornick8108 I hear that; I grew up in a quiet neighborhood in Lilburn, but these days it's so built up, it might as well be part of Atlanta. So glad I moved out to a rural area.
So I clicked on this video SPECIFICALLY to see how you would portray Texas. I was expecting something like "when you get to the prickly pear that's actually flowering take a left, and take a right at the one farm that has a black horse" lol. But I'm seriously impressed. Texas is HUGE. We often forget how much bigger Texas is than other states but it's definitely a mood....lol
My favorite experience was asking for directions at a roadside store in Vermont and being told “You can’t get there from here. You have to go someplace else to start.”
Almost 20 years ago, my two friends and I decided to "spontaneously road trip" to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. No plans for a hotel or place to stay, just go... enjoy the party scene for to days and leave. Upon exiting the vehicle, some guy approached us asking for cigarettes. My friend gave him a pack and asked where we should start .... he proceeded to give us a tour in the THICKEST Cajun accent imaginable. We were more lost after that encounter than we were when we started! Nice guy, pretty sure he was homeless but we didn't assume. Told us which alleys to stay out of to avoid trouble by pointing and saying "no! Trouble chér" [or "troubles there" I dunno]. It was a stupid decision made by 3 young men that thankfully ended in a hilarious memory that we are able to share 20 years later. I hope that "homeless man" or whatever he was is doing well and living a blessed life!
As a lifelong resident, Louisiana this is spot on. The further south you go the less intelligible people get. But it doesn’t matter because hospitality and great food are languages too. And we’re exceptionally fluent in both.
@@thecringeprince2040 I was just watching a video about the different regions of the US and they mentioned that a lot of the katrina people went to atlanta. Never came back. I love that swampfire seasoning from down there. 🔥
Mississippi hospitality is so great. I stopped at a gas station for gas and lunch going from Louisiana to Georgia to evacuate from hurricane Ida. They chit chatted with me like we knew each other, they said I could bring my dog in so he didn't have to wait in the car, and they gave me fresh fried fish while we were waiting for our lunch order. That whole evacuation turned into a nice vacation. My area back home got hit pretty hard though.
This had me howling! Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia were so right on. And yes, I'm a Texan, my late mom's family is full of Mississippians, my ex is from Louisiana, and other kin are Georgian. 🤣
@@mikebyars9463 honestly I don’t see people moving to s southern state from a southern state as a transplant really. I see the entirety of the south as a big family, now if they came from outside of the south id say it is then.
As a southerner from Kentucky, I can say that the Kentucky one is partially true. Theres 2 different types of Kentuckians, the one in the video and then there’s the “oh you poor thing lemme show you where to go!”
What I noticed is the more city they grew up, the ruder they are like if you ask directions from a guy in Louisville he’ll be exactly like In the video but if you ask someone from say SouthWest of South Central Kentucky they’ll be like “Oh bless your heart you poor thing so you take this road until you see………”
As an Arkansan born and raised, I can affirm that we have some of the weirdest names for towns. Other than ones that were mentioned in the video, these are some of my favorites: Bald Knob, Possum Grape, Booger Hollow, Nimrod, and Snowball.
Don't forget Friendship and Hope. Also, as a kid, Smackover used to give me the giggles, and I'm not quite sure why. Also, the look of horror on my wife's face, who's from Georgia, when I corrected her pronunciation of El Dorado was priceless. For those who don't know, the town in Arkansas is pronounced El Doh-Ray-Doh, or if you're like me, El Duh-Ray-Duh
For the Georgia one you should have finished it with, “Once you see a peach tree you’ll be in Georgia then. Oh, you thought Atlanta was Georgia? No, it’s not. It’s in the state, but it’s not part of the state if that makes any sense.”
@@yourregulartexan1113 Spot on friend. Social cancer hit Austin years ago and it is slowly spreading. I am 61 and Texas born and raised. I hope I have time to die before Texas falls to the cancer. To find real Texas, you have to get out of the major 'urban' areas and go out into the rural land. Good percent of the 'transplants' crowd into the urban areas (big cities) -- to be in Texas does not make you a Texan. You have to live it, breath it and think it and these transplants will never reach that level. Only home grown have it down.
@@reesaserik3759 Better enjoy it before the axe falls. I'm up near Dallas, and about your age. Austin has developed a collective psychosis. (Hardly anybody in Austin is from around here anyway. Can't they just move to Seattle? It'd be PERFECT for them, they're gonna LOVE it.) People are pourin' in here looking for affordable housing (which, now, it ISN'T), no state income tax, and a balanced state budget (won't stay that way), and I think our schools are okay. ("We just have to change a fewww things, 'kay?! ;> Like, you CAN'T tell my son that no amount of surgery and lipstick will give him two X chromosomes, a uterus and ovaries, capable of birth! That's not teaching factual information, it's HATE-SPEECH!") People, at least in Austin, moved away from the fallout of failed experiments and collapsing social structures, but they seem to have dragged some of the broken, demonstrably destructive ideas along for the ride. Now, they want to put their toxic old millstones around OUR necks. I feel like some people want to punish Texas for being successful - and maybe, because we've been conservative thus far, and it's WORKED. So, they'll flood the state, scream so loudly that the voices of reason will be drowned out, then proceed to make us everything that they wanted to escape from. For anyone who wants to call me a "hater", do you truly ADMIRE the surging violent crime and homelessness in Seattle? Do you truly love San Francisco's defecation-stained sidewalks littered with addicts overdosing in shanties? Tell me, what have those situations improved or produced? Is that what anyone hopes that their child will someday have?
On the Oklahoma bit I’m pretty sure the best way to describe our southernhood is we’re that friend at the party that only knows the person we came with
Not really. If you would consider Texas and Arkansas to be the South, then you have to consider Oklahoma to be Southern as it sits smack dab between both of them and is below the Mason Dixon line, in line with Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
@@John-vp2jqI defend Oklahoma to be southern ( I grew up in eastern part by Arkansas) but I will say most of the state is Southern-esque because most folk from there are from Texas/Arkansas but for generations 💪🏾🤷🏾♂️
The Mississippi one was so true to me brought back so many memories of going on hurricane Katrina to cut trees and the people were so friendly and even cooking and looking out for each other and us and the other people there to help, can't beat southern hospitality for sure.
As a Kentuckian I have to explain the way we REALLY give directions. It’s like this: Turn left where the old Dollar General used to be. Go 2 miles and then turn right where they’re going to build the new high school. Go slow over the bridge because they haven’t finished fix in’ it yet. Turn right where Jenkin’s barn burned down that year of the bad wind storm. Can’t miss it.
This is exactly how I heard directions given in the south when I first moved there. Once I knew my way around, I would give other people directions with street names and they would look at me with confusion and say, “huh?” So eventually I gave in and was giving directions with landmarks like everyone else. But I never said, “can’t miss it” because I know for a fact that you CAN miss it and be hopelessly lost driving down roads that have no signs or sign of life.
I explained to someone the other day about refusal/acceptance etiquette; you should politely refuse twice so that you aren't seen as "taking advantage" of someone's hospitality, but then you MUST accept on the third offer or you insult your host.
Went on a vacation to Mammoth Cave Kentucky. Had to ask for directions once. Was deliberately given the wrong directions. Matt's portrayal of Kentucky seems spot on to me.
I’ve lived in Kentucky my whole life and that’s not something the majority of Kentuckians would do. That person must have been a transplant. Sorry that happened to you.
As an Okie, we are Southern and Midwestern all at the same time. Go to Tulsa and OKC and you’ll see the Midwestern. Go to pretty much anywhere else and it’s the South.
I refer to Oklahoma as where the South meets the Midwest. The rural parts of the state could literally be dropped in Alabama, and if you ignore college football affiliations you couldn't tell the difference. We do not properly prepare our roads for winter, creating a nightmare anytime we get any sort of snow or ice. But you get more midwestern words in Oklahoma than you do in most of the south. But really, I know "Historically" what the South is. But if you want to say Virginia is still southern, then Oklahoma is easily a southern state.
I once saw a guy try to determine which region each state is in. At the end, he said there were two states that didn't fit into any region--Oklahoma and West Virginia. Being from northern WV, I used to think that anyone categorizing WV as a southern state was crazy--it was obvious to me that we were part of the northeast--but then I found out that pretty much everybody south of Weston considered us to be a southern state. For the last 23 years, things have been changing, and northern WV is becoming more and more a part of the South. I've also seen some people try to categorize WV as a Midwestern state. That seems really crazy to me--unless maybe you live right on (and I mean RIGHT ON) the Ohio River.
So true about Mississippi- I went to Mississippi to help with the Hurricane Katrina cleanup. I thought I'd help, and I'd probably lose a few pounds since I was spending my time helping people clean up debris. I gained 5lbs- everywhere I went, people kept feeding me- best gumbo and shrimp ever
@@jackielinde7568 I was born in Arkansas and so was my mother. My mother said of Oklahoma, "They can give it back to the Indians." My great-grandmother, born in Texas, lived in Oklahoma until she died.
Okie here as well lived in Boca Raton FL Atlanta GA little towns all over Mississippi Bama got family in Nashville Tennessee never actually lived there tho I almost forgot my adventures into Texas lived in Galveston Austin Houston
When I lived there, 28 streets were named Peachtree something or other, but only one was Peachtree Rd. And everyone from there knew where that one was. :D
Your KY impression is SPOT ON!!!! My mom worked as an census taker in 2000 and there were places that her boss told her not to go to because they "didn't take kindly to strangers", my mom has never met a stranger so she thought she'd be fine, yeah that didn't last long and she finally listened to her boss. She didn't do the census in 2010, obvs.
My grandparents in Kentucky say otherwise. Because my grandmother is one of the nicest women on earth. I’m willing to bet money even if a felon walked into their house she would serve him a meal.
@Mason Pyle My mom's the same way, but not everyone is so kind. It's not a KY only thing, but in some of those backwoods people are interesting individuals.
Growing up in SC, this is how I remember directions: Go down yonder 'til you get to the four-way yield, but don't worry, no one actually yields, we're not sure what that means. Then hang a right at the old tree. You can't miss it; it's covered in kudzu. Head down the road a piece until the red barn that was torn down. Hang a left and keep going and it's just over the third hill. If you see anything resembling a town, you've gone too far. Watch out for the tractors and deer. God Bless.
Though Matt ain't wrong about the Jesus signs, this is on point for SC. For me, it's always where things "used to be" or "the old tree that's covered in kudzu".
@@Lizzievance12 I'm upstate too! Another thing that's true in this video is about Biltmore. I'm right at the state line, yet I've never been. Can't afford it.
As someone born in Virginia and living in North Carolina (specifically where the Biltmore House is} both of these are hugely accurate. Except there's no longer a Pizza Hut anywhere near the Biltmore.
The Tennessee content is 100% true. I see California plates on a car and I get the urge to remind them that Tennessee is the way it is and we like it that way.
The Tennessee bit is pretty accurate. I can't tell you how many California's I've met who keep moving here talking about how cheap rent is... Our home values are through the roof now to the point locals are having to move out.
@@Mclovin7345 how many times have you run into feces on the sidewalk; got robbed in front of cops who don’t do anything; or harassed by a crackhead trying to give you AIDs because “love is love”? Go back to California
As an Okie that has missed being represented in your skits, I died at the end of this one! 😂I love your videos! Oklahoma can't seem to decide if we are in the South, the Midwest, or the Southwest LOL
Oh you're so right! When you say "You guys wanna go get a pop?" and your friend says "Y'all wanna get a coke?" and both sound equally right, well, that says something.
Absolutely rolling! I lived in a small west Texas town for two years. By small, I mean less than a thousand. All dirt roads, no mail service at the house (had to go to PO and pick it up each day). Unless born there, you were a newbie. No street signs. Directions were given from the Tasty Freeze and houses were the original owners as in "Oh, you live in the old R. Timmons' place." To go to Lubbock or Amarillo, it wasn't measured in miles, but in hours. In fact, no one spoke of mileage at all. Groceries and gas?--that was a half-hour away. Hospital?--an hour...or so.
I lived somewhere like that on the TN/AL line I LOVED it I have no idea how far away things were still, just how long took to get there! My life goal (& I’m old) is to get back there no.matter.what.
I can tell you where the line between the North and the South is. It's between Morgantown, WV and Fairmont, WV. You'll see signs like that everywhere in Fairmont, but you won't see a one in Morgantown.
There's also all those "Caliente!" Signs for the South of the Border. No lie, once saw a brush fire burning directly underneath that "Caliente!" Pedro's sign, if only I'd snapped a pic!
Replace the religious items for citrus and pecan stands, Stuckey's, and discount tickets to Daytona resorts or Disney and you have Florida's stretch of I-95. 😆
as an urban american that somehow wandered into the eastern kentucky backlands, i can say that this depiction is 100% accurate. god forbid you take a picture anywhere in a small kentucky town, you become an automatic felon.
Oh! Oh! I'm from Oklahoma! I was hoping you'd include us the whole time. See, you take a left out of town and keep driving striaght on the toll road through an endless blank landscape for a couple hours, turn at the Kiowa Casino, then pass about 10 dispensaries and you're there.
I genuinely appreciated the "the keep going til you smell corruption" comment about DC 😂 And as a South Carolinian, I can attest to the religious signs. In my area it's mostly church signs. There are 3 at the end of my road 😅
This is perfect. I travel to people's houses for work a lot and my favorite directions ever is "2 American flags down from the dollar general." Courtesy of Pennsyltucky.
Had a friend come from Ohio. She had a list of places she wanted to see in Texas. I looked at her list and said " Well that one is a 4 hour trip. That one is 8 hours. We can do both of these in 12 hours...."🤣🤣
Spot on! Typical directions in rural Florida: Go down to the field where Mr. Johnson used to keep his cows, turn left, then look for the abandoned shed. Turn right, keep going until you get to the package store and then you'll see it over there by the Piggly Wiggly.
The Kentucky part is absolutely accurate. I once made the mistake of parking in front of a restaurant in Lexington, but when I got out of the car I headed for a different establishment. I also had shoulder-length hair and MIchigan plates. Let us just say the proprietor wasn't happy about it. What I heard was something like "Git outta here, you son of a bitch, an' don't come back!"
As a person from Atlanta, I can confirm we wear only Braves gear 24/7. I wore my Austin Riley shirt to my grandfather's funeral and my 2021 World Champions shirt to my aunt's wedding.
Also, all our streets are indeed named Peachtree. There's Peachtree Road, Peachtree Street, Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Peachtree Circle, Peachtree Court, and that's only the ones I remember.
Don’t lie, you’re one of those people from the northern burbs who tells out-of-towners that you’re from Atlanta when you’re really from like Woodstock or Cumming. 😂😂😂 Atlantans are more likely to wear a UGA or Falcons football jersey, or a Trae Young Hawks jersey (not a generic Hawks jersey, specifically a Trae Young jersey)
...who the hell are you? I live in Buckhead, directly off of Peachtree Road. I really do not care for the Falcons, because they suck. I'm not that into basketball, either, but the United are fun to watch. What does it matter, anyway? The Braves stadium is in Cobb county, which isn't even in Atlanta.
Then there's the other way we give directions in South Carolina: by where things USED to be. "Turn right there where the old K Mart was, and it's on the left across from what used to be the tire store. If you get down to where the traffic circle used to be, you've gone too far." (Actual directions to my office, & it works every time.)
@@bigscarysteve I think it's an anomaly in the space-time continuum. I wondered the same thing when I moved here, but I now find myself doing it, too. As long as you ask, " How's your momma and them," it's all good.
Yep, they put several county offices in former grocery stores here YEARS AGO, and you still have to tell people "No, that's in the old Kroger, not the old Food Lion."
Holy shit. I'm born and raised Texan, with one grandma from Mississippi and one from Arkansas, and my dad lived in Florida the last 20 years of his life, and this is ACCURATE. ALL of it.
Native Floridian here (though no longer there) - I grew up in Tallahassee, and there was a guy who walked around major intersections named King Love (RIP King Love). He wasn't drinking out there, but this reminded me of him. I also recall my first mother-in-law giving me directions to her place in Wakulla County (that place has seriously grown since I moved away!). "Turn off the paved road, drive until you think you're lost. Take a left then a right." And yup, that landed me right in her front yard.
Sounds about right. On a North Carolina road, 15 miles "straight ahead" might take you in every direction on the compass at least twice, and the name of the road may turn at an intersection while you drive straight through and find that you are now on a new road.
I learned not to ask for directions from an old dude sittin' & spittin' on his front porch on a trip to Fayetteville. He kept telling us to turn on Far Tar road... After the 3rd loop, we realized he was saying Fire Tower Rd.
As a Floridian, I prefer the backroads with the alligators and cows over the overcrowded toll roads. Also, that Tennessee response is relateable. We frequently tell people to get back on I95/I75 North. 😂
Obviously you never got stuck on the side of the road waiting along the Tamiami Trail shortly after it was first built during the middle of July for six hours sitting in a hot sticky sweltering un-airconditioned vehicle alongside an alligator and snake-filled canal with 20 million mosquitos eating you for lunch while waiting for a tow truck to pull someone out of the ditch. But, hey, everyone is different.
Subscribe or take a ride on Cranky
... Can we take rides on Cranky even if we're already subscribed? Like, is there a line, are the rides free or is he willing to take chicken nuggets as payment?
Matt, you absolute fool.
You oughta know by now that we are all doing both as fast as we can.
Just to be safe I created another account and subscribed just to avoid any potential issues.
Don't you threaten me with a good time. Either way.
But I want to ride cranky, subbed already. Sorry, but I'll be measuring him for boots.
True story: My mother was up in the Texas Panhandle with a friend from Scotland, and when asked where he wanted to go next he said he always wanted to go fishing in the Gulf. So they set out from Abilene to Galveston... And got a motel for the night in, I wanna say Dallas. Next morning as they started driving Scotty asked "So, how many states do we pass through until we get there?" "Oh, we've been in Texas the whole time," came the reply, "It's just about another 4 hours away." The Scotsman was stunned; they'd been driving for 2 days by the time they got there. If you try to drive anywhere back home in the UK for more than a day you're gonna need a boat because no matter what direction you go you're gonna run out of land.
When Texas hosted its State Championship football games in Houston in 2015, the local newspaper compared the distance where each team was coming from to the distance of European countries.
Did you mean Amarillo (in the panhandle) instead of Abilene (west central Texas)?
@Kim Sadler as someone from Lubbock I'd agree that Abeline isn't the panhandle
@@DevinMoorhead I lived in Abilene for 24 years. Moved out of state and still miss Texas.
@@Naturesong56 it's beautiful just off the caprock
As a former Louisiana resident, I understood every word he said
Me too🤣
I can understand most Cajun as it really isnt that different from the Kentucky hillbilly speech my dad spoke.
Yeah Wasn’t hard to understand him . I have known folks around here sound like that just a little wound up is all.
How? It sounded like straight gibberish.
@@JanelleGodwin-zl8li It's quite simple, just live in louisiana for about 2 months, and you'll understand
When I was a kid growing up in Texas, I'd ask my parents "Are we still in Texas?" on long road trips. The answer was always "Yes". Now, in my mind, Texas is the default size of a state and all other states are just small.
You should try diving in Alaska. :D
You're not wrong!
Tennessee counts if you happen to be going east/west. We went from East Tennessee to Oklahoma and the halfway point was in Tennessee.
Same. Even more confusing are all the places with towns touching each other.
If there ain't at least two rest stops between them, can you really call it a seperate city?
As a Californian, I have the same sort of mindset.
The aggressive Southern Hospitality shown by Mississippi is so accurate 😂
And the knowing of their kin- folk
It ain't just over there in MS, half my family in AL and GA are the same way.
Biedenharn Coca-Cola Museum 1894, Coca-Cola was first bottled for consumers 🎉
Vicksburg, Mississippi, Red Carpet City of the South, home to the Miss Mississippi Pageant, with 4 Miss America Titles
And it's a treasure.
As a Floridian, this is PAINFULLY accurate. It’s either toll roads ‘till judgement day, or backwoods routes that are better navigated on alligatorback
@@parkivich if you're talking about around downtown Orlando or Tampa, I agree with you. Try navigating I295 at the Buckman bridge or the I10/95 interchange. True story.
I know at least 4-5 ways to get somewhere that don't cost tolls. and they're all back roads.
@@lelandconner3337
Malfunction Junction
@@parkivich I always feel like I'm getting ready for the start of shuttle launch whenever I hop on I-4. "Alright, passed the toll, heading into the loop. Getting ready to merge in 3... 2... 1... vvvvrrrRRRRRMMMM!" Cause if you don't step on the accelerator somebody going 5 times the speed of sound is gonna slam you like a pancake.
@@brianhall4182 same thing on I75. I hate driving on it! Who needs to go to a Daytona race when you can just drive on the fricken interstate. 😮
As a Virginian that was 110% accurate.
"You're going to DC?"
"Why?"
Had my giggling silly.
And he dressed like most people here
As a Virginian, I was just happy to be included in a video about the South
I'm from Virginia, living in Florida now. I expected the usual: head on up 95, see the sign for Dumfries, y'all are purt near there. But it gets weird the closer you git. Are you sure that's where you wanna go? Why? Well Bless your heart, y'all take care now.👋
But that's just my directions.🤣
👵☮️🖖 Have a blessed day now.
@@TintagelEmrysright!? I was pleasantly surprised.
In reality, you would probably get directions to a moonshine distiller way out in the mountains instead.
As a Cajun who's lived in Texas his whole life, I can confirm the Texas one is true and I'm proud that I understood every single word spoken by the Louisiana guy
I, sadly, did not..
Can you please transcribe it?
My grandfather’s side of the family are Cajun and his Louisiana directions made me laugh so hard
@@mochimochi7669 It became an accurate imitation the second he mentioned boudin 😆
Southeast Louisiana here, as in Texas. I understood every word as well, but Texas...I am convinced they just make shit up here! Nothing is pronounced the way it is spelled. At least in Louisiana, we can blame it on the French, but not so much in Texas.
@@orp8428 if you're referring to towns, then yep, that's definately true. Some examples: Buda, Manchaka, Blanco, Bexar (yes ik it's a county). It's ridiculous 😆
Born in Alabama. Grew up in Virginia. Live in Texas. Spent time in Georgia, North Carolina, and Mississippi. You’re spot on for all of them.
Moving to NC from Washington state next week for the better year round weather, option of lakes, the ocean, and mountains, and for the job opportunities in my field. I also have some family on that side of the country. What do you think of North Carolina? Will I like it? I’m excited but also nervous to move out of my hometown
I hope you like spring. Because it’s the growing season in NC year round… there are orange cones and barrels growing everywhere.
Except in the actual spring when the pine pollen turns the state yellow.
@@ratmoneygI've in Charlotte for 5 years and I can tell you it'll be great.
And orange vests only half the time. For speed enforcement reasons (never read the boy who cried wolf. 1 NC Politician)
As someone who moved to Louisiana twenty-five years ago as a child, I am proud to say I understood a full _three-quarters_ of what he said.
Then PLEASE tell me what Dr. John was saying in the live version of Iko Iko. I mean the English parts. Please.
I'm from Tennessee and I got about half. But I used to watch Justin Wilson's cooking show. He told great stories and boy could he cook!
Born and raised in Louisiana and he wasn't saying anything, he was imitating the dude from Waterboy 😂 we don't talk like that... unless you go real deep in the bayous
But, he did say in the middle "you see that alligator you gone jump right over him. Move on over I'll take yall there"
@@sheilab15 omg he was the best!!!!!
I'm from sc and knew what he said 😂
as a Tennessean i thank you for saying what we all think when we hear " hi i just moved here from California "
Exactly. Quick story:
When I was in college, I had a class with a girl from CA. One day, she made the mistake of saying "well, THIS is how we do it in California (can't remember what we were talking about, but she was implying that the CA way was the correct one)." It was followed by a room full of eyerolls, and the professor - I repeat, PROFESSOR - said "well, why don't you pack your shit and take your happy ass back there." She learned a lesson that day. When you move to TN, you never, EVER, begin a sentence with "well, where *I* come from..."
Fellow Tennesseean here, I feel the same way. I live in Knoxville, so I’m not as annoyed if someone moves to Nashville, but I just don’t want them to go any further east.
Hat's Off to this man for correctly representing how we feel as Members of the Volunteer State ! LOL
Tennessean here, nailed it, absolutely nailed it
Consider yourself blessed, all ours in South Carolina are from up north. Two thirds of my class at the University of South Carolina were from the north. Of course, most people from South Carolina can't get in the University of South Carolina business school, but I don't think they should all be from up north, or foreigners. Stay strong.
As a 25 year resident of Louisana I can attest to getting directions nearly exactly as you portrayed, only longer and even more confusing. It all stemmed from a supposition that I knew where “John’s former gas station” was. Things went downhill from there. 😅 Thanks for the laugh, Matt!
At this point just direct them to a Walgreens which is either near or at where they are going
I agree! Although, we usually pull out a napkin and draw an equally confusing map cause we’re a visual folk. Friendly too…
Lol. When I moved to Southern MO ( and , yes, it's the south) I was so frustrated by " where the furniture store used to be". That was 30+ years ago. We're civilized now. Unfortunately.
@@YSLRD Most sources I found call Missouri the MidWest
@@badelementofstyle5238 Significant parts of Missouri are Midwestern but they are known for BBQ and SEC football, so they are getting absorbed by the South. If you meet a native who says Missouree, they are the Midwestern variety, while the Missourah ones are Southern
Florida man here. That part is spot on. If you want to give Cranky a tip, he loves those small yappy dogs the people that retire from New York love to walk along the edge of the lake.
Love the implication to stealing from the damned snow birds. A fellow Florida Man approves.
I was a firefighter/EMT up in North Georgia and was new to the county I was working in, and we got a call in the middle of the night. I stopped by the dispatch office (in the same building) to get directions, and she told me "Go by where Farmer Tucker's barn used to be, turn left, and go down a smidge."
🤣🤣🤣
I live in NW GA, 15-20 mins from TN line and I can confirm this is how directions are given 🤣 I try to avoid Atlanta bc of Peachtree everything!
@@renaesmith687Traffic is horrible too
@@renaesmith687 Who would want to travel ITP anymore.
Is farmer Tucker like the Texaco Mike of Georgia?
The fact that I'm born and raise in SC and I knew exactly which Repent sign he's referring is sending me over 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
BAHAHAHA ITS ACTUALLY *REAL*?!!! That’s soooo much better!
😂😂😂😂😂 omg now that's hilarious
Same 😂😂
Oh goodness, that's hilarious. I live in SC, too, but I don't take the interstate enough to know that.
Same 😂😂😂😂😂
As a proud Cajun from south Louisiana, I can confirm the accuracy of the Louisiana directions. Especially the part about stopping for a link of boudin. Though we too use Dollar Generals and Jesus billboards as landmarks. And "big rig wreck lawyer" billboards too, unfortunately. So many billboard lawyers..........Hey! Maybe we can feed some to Cranky!!!!!!!!!
I lived in Lake Charles for a little while and I loved it! One of my favorite places I lived. Even though I couldn’t understand a lot of ppl, they were always friendly! And I loved the drive thru mixed drink tiki huts. Never saw those anywhere but LA.
Hello cousin from central louisiana. It's just easier to take people to their destination and Yes, we're stopping for boudin.
You guys actually understood that?? LMAO
I live in New Orleans and I don’t understand anything anyone says in the rural parts west of Baton Rouge, and I’ve lived in the south my whole life. I even had family that lived up in Morehouse Parish, far up in North Louisiana, and their accent is straight Southern up there. I understand that just fine. The folks that talk with that Cajun influence though are truly speaking a different language, even when they’re not speaking a different language.
I actually understood the last third of that! I’ve lived with a man who has chaw in his bottom lip for most his awake time and has a bad MS accent anyway plus is quiiiiiiet. I can understand him now about 75% of the time, so the LA guy was fun once I realized he wasn’t gonna talk so he was intelligible.
LOL
Best line: "get on I-40 west and just keep going.."
"Hope you've got that baby all charged up."
I lived in Texas for 23 years. Truer words have never been spoken. Texas has a monopoly on having miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles.
I've never been to Texas, but I have a relative who lives in Lubbock. He once told me that when the area was first being settled, land went for a penny an acre. Then he said, "If you ever saw the land there, you'd think they paid too much!"
You just described the trip from El Paso to San Antonio. The only reason that Fort Stockton is between them is to give you a chance to get gas and to take a break. It's like being on the ocean, where the scenery never changes.
I'm a new transplant to Texas, and I swear, the state rock is the concrete traffic barrier.
My grandparents lived in Texas, went every summer & it was always a 2.5-3hr drive to the airport, which I thought was long....then my DUMB-ASS thought I'd drive there when I was older...3hrs ain't NOTHING! 🤣
@@cariwaldick4898 Ain't THAT the truth! You got me to laugh out loud! I'm up 'round DFW. I always say I know I'm home when I get off the plane and smell that TEXus smell -
hot grass and lawnmower/car exhaust.
Mississippi is so true. I stopped at a little country store to ask directions. Didn't know anyone, But ended up having lunch with the owners, and then they "fixed a bag" for me to take for later. It was great!!
As a Mississippi resident, we humbly await your return
(We enjoyed having you)
Sounds like I should spend some time in Mississippi!
The five complete stops I made on the interstate around Atlanta during the two hours it took me to drive through one city gave me a deep appreciation for Ted Turner and his ability to bring companies like AOL and Time Warner together. Apparently, he is the only person from that city who knows how to merge.
We named the place where 75 and 85 merge “the Merge”
You can imagine why
Being a resident of the metro Atlanta area I can attest sir that you are correct.
Growing up in the ATL area for 26 years of my life from birth till 26. I can confirm that merging doesn't exist, you just hope you don't die by that one guy on 285 or 85 or 75 or now recently 400 weirdly going 90mph in the far right lane and nobody knows why. Basically Atlanta driving is like a 4 way stop that you never fully stop at you just keep inching forward till everyone starts moving again and that one crazy guy merging in and out. You know that guy I told you about earlier the one going 90 in the far right lane? Ya its probably the same guy.
Dope stock market joke. No way anyone else gets it tho. 😂😂
😂
"You're from out of town looking for Biltmore? Yeah, that's...shocking."
Correct.
So true about Asheville. When friends and family come to town they want to see the House.
True southerners understood the Louisiana voice on the first listen.
I did!! Grandpa was from Jennerette, LA. I was born in Savannah, GA but raised most of my life in TN
I mostly grew up on the West Coast but a lot of my family is from Southeast Texas, so that's probably why I had no trouble understanding it.
teywutscootoballtakeyadeah!!
Yep. Have family from the Monroe area. 👍🏽
Had family in Grosse Tete. I'm from South Dakota and can't understand much, but their kindness always shines through.
Matt did it AGAIN! Your portrayal of "Kentucky" was right on the money :) We're suspicious of EVERYBODY -- including our own families. If somebody shows up uninvited we JUST KNOW they are scouting another location for a Dollar General -- and we tell them to "Git!"
I hope they don't treat me like that! I'm hoping to move there in the fall.
From Kentucky, yes you are correct about Cincinnati
I’ve gotten scared sh*tless getting lost down too many hollers. Unfortunately sometimes work takes me down too many unfamiliar hollers.
@@dizzysdoings depends on where you move. If it’s in the city your fine. Unless it’s Louisville. Then it could go either way depending what area you go to. If it’s in the hills. Make sure you go in the day and make sure you know what drive way is the one you want to be on.
@@dredennis113 have no desire to be in or even near a city! And, I don't go out much at night.
It's always fun to see the combination of awe and horror when someone thinks going from Dallas to San Antonio is a quick trip from here to there.
It's only about 4 hrs. Not too bad 😂
@@pugsabi I was going to say that, it’s only 4 hours!
That’s a day trip for lunch.
It depends on what time you hit Austin and for the last couple of years it takes an hour to get through Waco thanks to construction. So 4 to 8 hours.
@@texasforever7887 if you go through Austin to get to San Antonio, you aren't doing it right
As a native Texan I actually had a Ms Darlene and she gave directions as you go over yonder and …. Her father was a baptist preacher who was passed before I met her but he painted the winged pegasus sign on things across Texas. She was related to Buster Welch and once had a party where I met Tex Hill of the Flying Tigers. True story.
As a former Quarter Horse cuttin' horse owner / competitor here living in Illinois - the late great Buster Welch is still & always be my inspiration ! ( my best cuttin' mare was Southern so hope maybe I'm a little bit Southern by that connection ? )
Oh my God, that opening of the Texas one is practically a quote from my wife during my first visit to the state. We drove down from Chicago for Thanksgiving dinner with my in-laws in East Texas, where we found that her uncle, who lived in Lubbock, had had to cancel. She was disappointed that we missed him, so I suggested that since we'd already driven all the way from Chicago, we should go visit him in Lubbock after Thanksgiving. She just laughed and laughed, then told me I needed to go look at a map with a scale.
Yeah, it's roughly the same distance from Longview, Texas to Lubbock as from Chicago to Longview. Man, this is one big-ass state.
Not every day I see Longview mentioned. Sorry you had to go there.
Cumberland Gap VA is closer to St. Louis than it is to Virginia Beach.
No way! I had to look this up.
Longview to Lubbock is indeed about 7 hours. But Longview to Chicago is about 13 and a quarter hours.
@@TomHoffman-uw7pf loud im Virginia and didnt even realize that
*laughing in Texan*
I don’t know about the rest of Kentucky, but in Louisville, we tend to give directions based on things that are no longer there. For example, “You know where the Bacon’s used to be? You’re gonna take a left there, and then you’re gonna drive past the library that used to have a tank out front.”
Live South of Louisville and we all give directions based on the unique gas station names that aren't official since the bigger companies bought em all up.
So in a way yeah we do the same here lol
Wait... So y'all don't give directions based on where your own relatives lived 30 years ago??
Florida too
West Virginia, too.
@@nikkimcdonald4562 that could be East Kentucky, lol.
My dad had a friend who was visiting Mississippi and was looking for the nearest hotel to stay in. This was years ago, so he had to rely on maps and word-of-mouth for directions. Anyway, he asked some local, who told him that the nearest hotel was “four far-sees and a possum toss”-and he was serious, mind you. Like, that was actually a serious estimation he made of the distance.
so about an hour and a half?
Noted
Ok...that is a serious estimation, pretty much anywhere in the south. It's ok. We know what we're talking about
That's anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour away, and probably just over 50 miles.
Dude, I've never seen your channel before, but I'm glad I stumbled onto this.
First, as a native Nashvillian, a thousand AMENS to your portrayal of sending the Californians back to where they came from.
And although it was subtle, I caught your little jab about driving until their electricity runs out. Nice touch.
Second, as one who has lots of family in Texas and having driven all the way across the state many times, your Texas impersonation was also spot on and hilarious.
Also, seeing as how I couldn't understand a word the Louisiana guy said, that also was fantastically accurate.
Furthermore, I loved all the repent names in South Carolina.
And finally, the Virginia one about DC, so true.
The accuracy of each is what made them so good.
Well done sir.
Ditto! Subscribed!
Idk as a native Floridian I don't remember hearing anything like that, though most of the time I just ride with someone else anyway. Not to mention my mom is a native Midwesterner (born in Indiana but raised in Illinois)
Lived in Florida half my life and Georgia the other half. Oh man I wish we could send the NYC transplants back to where they came from
Yall are so pathetic getting mad at Californians trying to leave a state they don’t believe in , yall are sad 😂 good luck with that
I find it funny that it seems like half the states in the country have a california problem
I’m from Mississippi and I love Mrs. Darlene! She is a sweetheart. So accurate! I love that Mississippians wind up knowing somebody you do. ❤
I’m from Mississippi and can say your telling the truth. She is such a sweet lady.
But did ya ever know grandpa Stephens over in Mendenhall?
@@DChrls Home of the sweetest Miss Mississippi I ever met!
@@DChrls Yes sir. He was a great guy.
@@TheGoffense8120 ~ What do you mean WAS! I just saw him yesterday, at the Sunflower..
“You head out the Evergreen road then you turn left where that big pecan tree used to be.”
That pecan tree blew down in 1963.
Lol.
Remind me to never get lost down South.
My mother gives out directions this way. Whenever I need to get somewhere, she'll tell me the names of every other store near it, or near where I need to turn off, and I have to tell her again and again that I don't pay attention to what's on the sides of the road when I'm driving, so if I've never gone _to_ a particular establishment, I could've driven past it 100 times and it'll still be useless to me as a landmark because I have no clue where that is.
This is why I laugh when europeans say you "Americans" should be able to get around by walking. I say "bless your heart...sure if you live somewhere like NY city, but it isn't that way in the south." Here you can drive from one side of Texas for 12 hours and still be in Texas and that's not to mention it's hotter than coal fires of hell if you happen to be doing it anytime past June. Then I invite them to come on down in August and see how far they get walking...😂
Ikr! They don't get it because of how things are portrayed in movies and on TV. I have heard from folks overseas that all they know about the USA is places like NYC, or the wild west and cowboys, lol. I have an uncle who came here from Thailand as a young man, and he totally believed that the whole USA was just like wild west and cowboys everywhere. To this day, he has cows and horses and believes that is the way to "be American". He is all about anything that he thinks is the American way, and for him, that's cows, horses, and rodeo, lol. But i will say, he loves this country and appreciates it more than most who were born here. He's a good guy.
@@crystalparker2542 LOL, bless him I bet he's a hoot!!! If he loves and respects our country then he's alright by this Texans standards! We have so many ungrateful half-wits and a lot are moving here to Texas from terrible states! I just wished we could switch them out for those that would come here and respect what a privilege it is to live here, people like your uncle!
Satan doesn't dare come here in August.
I've always said that we need to focus on making those changes up north. But yeah, alot of the south and Midwest just too spread out. I'd say you guys would get more out of rail. But yeah unless they intend to make cities into huge shaded areas with massive mirrors like some 1980s Sci fi stuff
Right now in Fort Worth it is 105 degrees (40 celsius) and has been for weeks. I barely walk to my truck.
Funny cuz they're true.... as a Southerner my whole life I am absolutely amazed by how accurate these sketches are... great job once again!
As someone living in South Carolina, this couldn’t be more accurate 😂 we use a mixture of church’s, religious billboards, and waffle houses to give directions
That, and where stuff used to be. What I've always gotten around here is , "you know where the old A&P used to be?" Or maybe ,"you know where the peach orchards used to be?"
S. Carolinian here too. I've given directions based on all of this and pot holes. I once told someone "After you pass this road and see a big pot hole, go ahead and get in the right lane because that pot hole is smaller and then make an immediate right".
@@bluebirdonmyshoulder5633 I count potholes instead of miles to know when to change oil. Such is the joys of living in the GSP region.
@@slaughterzealibib ,well hi neighbor. I'm also in the GSP area so I can relate. Hope you have a lovely night and wonderful weekend!
When you get back to the main road, take a left. After you pass 5 Baptist churches, take a right. Don't turn right AT the 5th Baptist church, you have to pass it and take the next right. Then go until you see a huge oak tree split down the middle and turn left before you get to it. If you see wagon wheels buried in the ground as a driveway marker, you've gone too far.
For Georgia, you forgot that the same road changes names every quarter mile or so. And the spelling is different each time (Clermont/Clairmont/Clairmonte).
You want Peachtree NE, now that road goes southwest, and then becomes Peachtree N
😮😂😂
I hate that shit
Oh, man. I thought they only did that in Denver. #LordHelp
Ain't that the DAMN Truth!
My dad used to live in Kentucky, and he got lost in the woods, and from the story I was told, the only thing missing from your sketch was the lack of a shotgun.
Had to have been Eastern KY where all the crazy hilljacks live. We're much nicer and more civilized in the Western part of the state.
Or rifle, depending on the time of year.
Ain't no lies. We don't like outsiders lol
Although the "big cities" in Kentucky are welcoming. You can take that from this Chicago boy who lived in both Lexington and Lou'vul. But, if you move there, be prepared that the first question you will be asked is, "What church do you go to?"... and you better have the right answer!
@@randmeller 1. Thank you for saying the name of the town correctly.
2. I always have the wrong answer for the church question.
3. As I learned, most problems are solved by the local bourbon.
"Get off my property." Yup that is us in Kentucky.
Same in WV 😂😂
That or you’ll meet the nicest person you’ll ever meet on the road is about to explain the directions as if they’re a google maps assistant
Sad but true lol
I thought the entire south was like this 😂 glad to know my home state is just that unhinged
My first big trip out of San Antonio as a kid was to Colorado. By the time we got to El Paso, I had already pledged to never leave Texas by car again. I only have one life, I'm not spending half of it driving.
I'm in Washington State and we were full of Californians for the last decade, so y'all can have 'em all now! 🤣
@@JackieBaisa Texas says no thanks and would you consider letting us air lift AUSTIN up to you.
@@aweeks6649 HA! Fair enough!
They put Fort Stockton between San Antonio and El Paso as a bit of comic relief.
@@JackieBaisa Man, I live just north of San Antonio and there are so many rude people moving here. Please, keep your share of Californians to yourself!
I was staff for a convention in College Station once & we were talking to one of our guests about getting to the con. He suggested that he could fly into Lubbock and just drive to the convention. The staffer working with him just said deadpan, “It’s a big state, Brian.”
Right? He’d be better off flying into Houston and driving up.
@@TheCJTok Even Houston is about 2 hours away. I think he wanted to avoid the small plane that he'd have to use to get to the airport in College Station, but eventually that's what we did..
@@Pseudowolf This is hilarious.
@@jac-attack 😂 When I was at A&M, Tech was our nemesis when our baseball team traveled there.
Was it AggieCon? I was on the staff in the early 80s. Got to hang out with Brian Aldiss (RIP). He was a hoot and a half. Good times!
In Georgia we build a moat around Atlanta to keep the city folk in there. If you see a sign for 285, just get on it and drive around till you find the interstate you started on again.
True! I think Spaghetti Junction was built to confuse the heck out of anyone trying to get off 285.
Make peace with your favorite deity, first; I-285 is officially the deadliest interstate highway in the country. It averages about 3 fatalities per mile, per year. I learned how to drive in that traffic.
The moat doesn't work. I grew up in Hartwell and it's full of Atlantans who've bought lake houses. Everybody calls them the lake people and after they come here all they do is complain that Hartwell needs more stuff to do. Go back to Atlanta.
@@pamelahornick8108 I hear that; I grew up in a quiet neighborhood in Lilburn, but these days it's so built up, it might as well be part of Atlanta. So glad I moved out to a rural area.
So I clicked on this video SPECIFICALLY to see how you would portray Texas. I was expecting something like "when you get to the prickly pear that's actually flowering take a left, and take a right at the one farm that has a black horse" lol. But I'm seriously impressed. Texas is HUGE. We often forget how much bigger Texas is than other states but it's definitely a mood....lol
You can't expect prickly pears to be flowering all year long.
My favorite experience was asking for directions at a roadside store in Vermont and being told “You can’t get there from here. You have to go someplace else to start.”
Nailed LA! As a Missourian who got lost in a bayou low on gas one time, can confirm 100% truth been dropped.
Almost 20 years ago, my two friends and I decided to "spontaneously road trip" to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. No plans for a hotel or place to stay, just go... enjoy the party scene for to days and leave. Upon exiting the vehicle, some guy approached us asking for cigarettes. My friend gave him a pack and asked where we should start .... he proceeded to give us a tour in the THICKEST Cajun accent imaginable. We were more lost after that encounter than we were when we started! Nice guy, pretty sure he was homeless but we didn't assume. Told us which alleys to stay out of to avoid trouble by pointing and saying "no! Trouble chér" [or "troubles there" I dunno].
It was a stupid decision made by 3 young men that thankfully ended in a hilarious memory that we are able to share 20 years later. I hope that "homeless man" or whatever he was is doing well and living a blessed life!
As a lifelong resident, Louisiana this is spot on. The further south you go the less intelligible people get. But it doesn’t matter because hospitality and great food are languages too. And we’re exceptionally fluent in both.
Awwww
Intelligence is based upon the individual, however, some of these towns do have a little to much radon in the well water if you catch my drift.
@@270emanhalf of Louisiana still hasn’t rebuilt
@@thecringeprince2040 I was just watching a video about the different regions of the US and they mentioned that a lot of the katrina people went to atlanta. Never came back. I love that swampfire seasoning from down there. 🔥
@@270emanintelligible doesn't mean intelligence. It just means you can't understand them.
Mississippi hospitality is so great. I stopped at a gas station for gas and lunch going from Louisiana to Georgia to evacuate from hurricane Ida. They chit chatted with me like we knew each other, they said I could bring my dog in so he didn't have to wait in the car, and they gave me fresh fried fish while we were waiting for our lunch order. That whole evacuation turned into a nice vacation. My area back home got hit pretty hard though.
As someone from Central Texas who has to travel hours and hours by car before I hit a border, I salute you.
Same here! The fastest way out of Texas is to Mexico! 🤣
@@Wowee2012 🤣🤣🤣
did a nearly country wide roadtrip from GA to NM. It was just under 24 hours, and 13 of those hours were just in Texas.
@@MauiWowieOwie bless your heart!
This had me howling! Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia were so right on. And yes, I'm a Texan, my late mom's family is full of Mississippians, my ex is from Louisiana, and other kin are Georgian. 🤣
As a Texas transplant from Mississippi, I approve this message
@@mikebyars9463 honestly I don’t see people moving to s southern state from a southern state as a transplant really. I see the entirety of the south as a big family, now if they came from outside of the south id say it is then.
Florida: “It’ll cost you an arm and a leg in tolls”
New Jersey: “awww that’s cute”
Avoid tolls by taking back roads, my brother has a master degree in back road shortcuts lol least in Florida😂
Pennsylvania looking at the other two: Oh you have no idea
FL has 734-ish miles of toll roads, the most in the US , so here’s your beer back 🙃
@@kaelanmcalpine2011 Yet we still have the worst roads ever.
HA. Have you driven in South Carolina? I don't know what they spend their money on but its not Highway maintenance.
As a southerner from Kentucky, I can say that the Kentucky one is partially true. Theres 2 different types of Kentuckians, the one in the video and then there’s the “oh you poor thing lemme show you where to go!”
Don't tell them how nice we really are, they'll want to come here.
What I noticed is the more city they grew up, the ruder they are like if you ask directions from a guy in Louisville he’ll be exactly like In the video but if you ask someone from say SouthWest of South Central Kentucky they’ll be like “Oh bless your heart you poor thing so you take this road until you see………”
As a Kentuckian. Please don't let the truth out.
As a resident of Northern Kentucky, I thought the Cincinnati line was funny.
The other one is giving directions by landmarks that used to be there.
As an Arkansan born and raised, I can affirm that we have some of the weirdest names for towns. Other than ones that were mentioned in the video, these are some of my favorites: Bald Knob, Possum Grape, Booger Hollow, Nimrod, and Snowball.
I thought West Virginia won the award for weird town names, but now I think Arkansas may be the champ.
Don't forget Friendship and Hope. Also, as a kid, Smackover used to give me the giggles, and I'm not quite sure why.
Also, the look of horror on my wife's face, who's from Georgia, when I corrected her pronunciation of El Dorado was priceless. For those who don't know, the town in Arkansas is pronounced El Doh-Ray-Doh, or if you're like me, El Duh-Ray-Duh
Don’t forget Blue Ball
Don't forget Tulip.
Oh we had Meat Camp in NC and plenty more
For the Georgia one you should have finished it with, “Once you see a peach tree you’ll be in Georgia then. Oh, you thought Atlanta was Georgia? No, it’s not. It’s in the state, but it’s not part of the state if that makes any sense.”
So like Austin and Texas!
@@j.martin5504 Austin is like the Vatican City for Texas. They think they're Texans but they ain't
@@yourregulartexan1113 Spot on friend. Social cancer hit Austin years ago and it is slowly spreading. I am 61 and Texas born and raised. I hope I have time to die before Texas falls to the cancer. To find real Texas, you have to get out of the major 'urban' areas and go out into the rural land. Good percent of the 'transplants' crowd into the urban areas (big cities) -- to be in Texas does not make you a Texan. You have to live it, breath it and think it and these transplants will never reach that level. Only home grown have it down.
@@j.martin5504 or Huntsville and Alabama, or Miami and Florida, or Tupelo and...no, that one checks out
@@reesaserik3759 Better enjoy it before the axe falls. I'm up near Dallas, and about your age. Austin has developed a collective psychosis. (Hardly anybody in Austin is from around here anyway. Can't they just move to Seattle? It'd be PERFECT for them, they're gonna LOVE it.) People are pourin' in here looking for affordable housing (which, now, it ISN'T), no state income tax, and a balanced state budget (won't stay that way), and I think our schools are okay. ("We just have to change a fewww things, 'kay?! ;> Like, you CAN'T tell my son that no amount of surgery and lipstick will give him two X chromosomes, a uterus and ovaries, capable of birth! That's not teaching factual information, it's HATE-SPEECH!")
People, at least in Austin, moved away from the fallout of failed experiments and collapsing social structures, but they seem to have dragged some of the broken, demonstrably destructive ideas along for the ride. Now, they want to put their toxic old millstones around OUR necks. I feel like some people want to punish Texas for being successful - and maybe, because we've been conservative thus far, and it's WORKED.
So, they'll flood the state, scream so loudly that the voices of reason will be drowned out, then proceed to make us everything that they wanted to escape from.
For anyone who wants to call me a "hater", do you truly ADMIRE the surging violent crime and homelessness in Seattle? Do you truly love San Francisco's defecation-stained sidewalks littered with addicts overdosing in shanties? Tell me, what have those situations improved or produced?
Is that what anyone hopes that their child will someday have?
On the Oklahoma bit I’m pretty sure the best way to describe our southernhood is we’re that friend at the party that only knows the person we came with
Not really. If you would consider Texas and Arkansas to be the South, then you have to consider Oklahoma to be Southern as it sits smack dab between both of them and is below the Mason Dixon line, in line with Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
LOL. Oklahoma is the designated driver at the southern states party.
And we cant drive 😂
I think it's pretty wild that a state which borders Colorado is considered Southern. Southwestern, maybe, but not Southern
@@John-vp2jqI defend Oklahoma to be southern
( I grew up in eastern part by Arkansas) but I will say most of the state is Southern-esque because most folk from there are from Texas/Arkansas but for generations 💪🏾🤷🏾♂️
Me and my wife are from VA and absolutely lost it. “Why” 😂😂
The Mississippi one was so true to me brought back so many memories of going on hurricane Katrina to cut trees and the people were so friendly and even cooking and looking out for each other and us and the other people there to help, can't beat southern hospitality for sure.
As a Kentuckian I have to explain the way we REALLY give directions. It’s like this: Turn left where the old Dollar General used to be. Go 2 miles and then turn right where they’re going to build the new high school. Go slow over the bridge because they haven’t finished fix in’ it yet. Turn right where Jenkin’s barn burned down that year of the bad wind storm. Can’t miss it.
Perfect! As a Kentuckian I know that exact spot 😉
This is exactly how I heard directions given in the south when I first moved there. Once I knew my way around, I would give other people directions with street names and they would look at me with confusion and say, “huh?” So eventually I gave in and was giving directions with landmarks like everyone else. But I never said, “can’t miss it” because I know for a fact that you CAN miss it and be hopelessly lost driving down roads that have no signs or sign of life.
Now, I dunno about you, but I am a little suspicious you didn't mention where the new Dollar General will be?
Are you from Cincinnati?!
Exactly!
Checks out as real Kentucky directions: a majority of the directions are based on things that don't exist anymore.
As a Mississippian I really love and relate to that clip. We are hostile hospitable- you WILL come in and sit a spell lol
As lifer on Miss. I can agree whole heartily. Tennessee is spot on also.
How long does it take to say goodbye? I mean from the first 'wr gotta get going' to actually pulling away in the car?
If you're lucky it'll only take an hour to say bye in Mississippi
I explained to someone the other day about refusal/acceptance etiquette; you should politely refuse twice so that you aren't seen as "taking advantage" of someone's hospitality, but then you MUST accept on the third offer or you insult your host.
Mane always like that in wiggins
I was in North Carolina, and wanted to find a laundromat. I asked a man on the corner. He said “you can’t get there from here”.
That’s North Carolinian for “leave” 😂
@@shadow6543 - You’re probably right. Lol
Went on a vacation to Mammoth Cave Kentucky. Had to ask for directions once. Was deliberately given the wrong directions. Matt's portrayal of Kentucky seems spot on to me.
Someone had fun with you there
@@coolandhip_7596 nothing fun about being sent 45 minutes out of the way.
I’ve lived in Kentucky my whole life and that’s not something the majority of Kentuckians would do. That person must have been a transplant. Sorry that happened to you.
Sorry somebody did that to you. That’s not cool at all. Not al of us are jerks I promise 😅
Sorry somebody did that to you. That’s not cool at all. Not al of us are jerks I promise 😅
As an Okie, we are Southern and Midwestern all at the same time. Go to Tulsa and OKC and you’ll see the Midwestern. Go to pretty much anywhere else and it’s the South.
please say you're from Muskogee that'd make my day lol
I refer to Oklahoma as where the South meets the Midwest. The rural parts of the state could literally be dropped in Alabama, and if you ignore college football affiliations you couldn't tell the difference. We do not properly prepare our roads for winter, creating a nightmare anytime we get any sort of snow or ice. But you get more midwestern words in Oklahoma than you do in most of the south.
But really, I know "Historically" what the South is. But if you want to say Virginia is still southern, then Oklahoma is easily a southern state.
I once saw a guy try to determine which region each state is in. At the end, he said there were two states that didn't fit into any region--Oklahoma and West Virginia. Being from northern WV, I used to think that anyone categorizing WV as a southern state was crazy--it was obvious to me that we were part of the northeast--but then I found out that pretty much everybody south of Weston considered us to be a southern state. For the last 23 years, things have been changing, and northern WV is becoming more and more a part of the South. I've also seen some people try to categorize WV as a Midwestern state. That seems really crazy to me--unless maybe you live right on (and I mean RIGHT ON) the Ohio River.
You Sooners are the Buffer between the Midwest and the South just like Kentucky is the buffer between the Yankee and Dixie
@@Taterstiltskin lol nope. No Okie from Muskogee here.
So true about Mississippi- I went to Mississippi to help with the Hurricane Katrina cleanup. I thought I'd help, and I'd probably lose a few pounds since I was spending my time helping people clean up debris. I gained 5lbs- everywhere I went, people kept feeding me- best gumbo and shrimp ever
😂😂😂
I'm rural Virginia and I approve this message!
As an Okie (Boomer Sooner!) who has also lived in Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, I approve this message.
Having lived in Arkansas for three years and driven through Oklahoma, I feel for you. I really do.
@@jackielinde7568 I was born in Arkansas and so was my mother. My mother said of Oklahoma, "They can give it back to the Indians." My great-grandmother, born in Texas, lived in Oklahoma until she died.
@@kevingray8616 so you chose treason?
I’m originally from Oklahoma myself live now In Alabama and I approve this message
Okie here as well lived in Boca Raton FL Atlanta GA little towns all over Mississippi Bama got family in Nashville Tennessee never actually lived there tho I almost forgot my adventures into Texas lived in Galveston Austin Houston
The Atlanta one is great. The look of confusion you see on peoples faces when you say about 3 or 4 different peachtree streets never gets old.
There are at least 8 Peachtrees lol
When I lived there, 28 streets were named Peachtree something or other, but only one was Peachtree Rd. And everyone from there knew where that one was. :D
Your KY impression is SPOT ON!!!! My mom worked as an census taker in 2000 and there were places that her boss told her not to go to because they "didn't take kindly to strangers", my mom has never met a stranger so she thought she'd be fine, yeah that didn't last long and she finally listened to her boss. She didn't do the census in 2010, obvs.
I know of some relative of mine that, let's just say, we're the last to see a census taker
@@coolandhip_7596 Hilarious! I can only imagine!!!
My grandparents in Kentucky say otherwise. Because my grandmother is one of the nicest women on earth. I’m willing to bet money even if a felon walked into their house she would serve him a meal.
@Mason Pyle My mom's the same way, but not everyone is so kind. It's not a KY only thing, but in some of those backwoods people are interesting individuals.
And this is why the South will never fall to invaders. We're like Afghanis on steroids 😂😂😂
Matt is hysterical! 😂 ❤the different personalities he develops for each character!
Growing up in SC, this is how I remember directions:
Go down yonder 'til you get to the four-way yield, but don't worry, no one actually yields, we're not sure what that means. Then hang a right at the old tree. You can't miss it; it's covered in kudzu. Head down the road a piece until the red barn that was torn down. Hang a left and keep going and it's just over the third hill. If you see anything resembling a town, you've gone too far. Watch out for the tractors and deer. God Bless.
Though Matt ain't wrong about the Jesus signs, this is on point for SC. For me, it's always where things "used to be" or "the old tree that's covered in kudzu".
So true! Upstate SC typical directions.
@@Lizzievance12 I'm upstate too! Another thing that's true in this video is about Biltmore. I'm right at the state line, yet I've never been. Can't afford it.
The Texas one, though haha. It feels weird driving through a couple of states in about the amount of time we drive between metropolitan areas.
It was a culture shock for me when I moved out of Texas. I was amazed at how I could travel within 2-3 states within 10 hours, lol.
As someone born in Virginia and living in North Carolina (specifically where the Biltmore House is} both of these are hugely accurate. Except there's no longer a Pizza Hut anywhere near the Biltmore.
So you live in Asheville I see…
The Tennessee content is 100% true. I see California plates on a car and I get the urge to remind them that Tennessee is the way it is and we like it that way.
The Tennessee bit is pretty accurate. I can't tell you how many California's I've met who keep moving here talking about how cheap rent is... Our home values are through the roof now to the point locals are having to move out.
I am a Californian and I live in Tennessee and it is miserable
@@Mclovin7345 miserable as in Tennessee is miserable or California is miserable? Or are you saying it is miserable in a different way?
@@Mclovin7345 how many times have you run into feces on the sidewalk; got robbed in front of cops who don’t do anything; or harassed by a crackhead trying to give you AIDs because “love is love”?
Go back to California
@@dblevins343 He’s either using subliminal messaging to keep other Californians out, or he lives in Memphis.
Where do the locals move to when they get priced out of Tennessee??
Bro, ya got Louisiana spot on 🤣🤣🤣
Is it weird I don't need that translated.
@@Denozo88 🤣 Right!! Completely clear and concise 😅
Everything seems fine to me
It felt like that is more Southern Louisiana and not Northern Louisiana.
@vtaylor21 true, up north ya get more of that country drawl...at least the family I have up there 🤷♂️ I'm in cajun country lol
As an Okie that has missed being represented in your skits, I died at the end of this one! 😂I love your videos! Oklahoma can't seem to decide if we are in the South, the Midwest, or the Southwest LOL
Missouri is the same way, minus the Southwest part.
Missouri is either in every surrounding region at once, none of them, or both
I’m from Oklahoma too but I can tell you something
Oklahoma doesn’t exist I’m a paid actor to tell you I live here
Oh you're so right! When you say "You guys wanna go get a pop?" and your friend says "Y'all wanna get a coke?" and both sound equally right, well, that says something.
@@Aaron-zt5ee And the boot heel. I'm convinced they actually shipped that part upriver from Mississippi.
Absolutely rolling! I lived in a small west Texas town for two years. By small, I mean less than a thousand. All dirt roads, no mail service at the house (had to go to PO and pick it up each day). Unless born there, you were a newbie. No street signs. Directions were given from the Tasty Freeze and houses were the original owners as in "Oh, you live in the old R. Timmons' place." To go to Lubbock or Amarillo, it wasn't measured in miles, but in hours. In fact, no one spoke of mileage at all. Groceries and gas?--that was a half-hour away. Hospital?--an hour...or so.
I lived somewhere like that on the TN/AL line
I LOVED it
I have no idea how far away things were still, just how long took to get there!
My life goal (& I’m old) is to get back there no.matter.what.
Live in small town SC. There are signs everywhere about heaven, hell, repentance, etc., including along major highways, so yes, very accurate.
I can tell you where the line between the North and the South is. It's between Morgantown, WV and Fairmont, WV. You'll see signs like that everywhere in Fairmont, but you won't see a one in Morgantown.
There's also all those "Caliente!" Signs for the South of the Border. No lie, once saw a brush fire burning directly underneath that "Caliente!" Pedro's sign, if only I'd snapped a pic!
Replace the religious items for citrus and pecan stands, Stuckey's, and discount tickets to Daytona resorts or Disney and you have Florida's stretch of I-95. 😆
My mom is from small town SC and I visit my aunt over there every year. Maybe because I'm from small town Alabama, I don't even notice those signs.
@@joyfuljaj Alabama and SC are very similar. The Pee Dee of South Carolina and Western Alabama are very similar.
As an Okie, I was happy to finally see us included in the South....Until, yeah...... Great video as always!
I hear youre the most conservative of the Southern states, no joke
That was a funny ending.
@@thejohnbeck 100% red counties.
as an urban american that somehow wandered into the eastern kentucky backlands, i can say that this depiction is 100% accurate. god forbid you take a picture anywhere in a small kentucky town, you become an automatic felon.
@@user-uf4ju7wz3u small town bumpkins are notoriously gossipy and very anti-outsider. its spooky. they can smell a city slicker a mile away
@Faris T I still live in eastern Kentucky and even I don’t know
LOL! As a South Carolinian, the big “Jesus Save Me” sign in between Columbia and Myrtle Beach helped me navigate how much longer of a drive I had
Oh! Oh! I'm from Oklahoma! I was hoping you'd include us the whole time. See, you take a left out of town and keep driving striaght on the toll road through an endless blank landscape for a couple hours, turn at the Kiowa Casino, then pass about 10 dispensaries and you're there.
What's Oklahoma without 10 dispensaries, 10 churches and, a casino or 3?
I genuinely appreciated the "the keep going til you smell corruption" comment about DC 😂
And as a South Carolinian, I can attest to the religious signs. In my area it's mostly church signs. There are 3 at the end of my road 😅
This is perfect. I travel to people's houses for work a lot and my favorite directions ever is "2 American flags down from the dollar general." Courtesy of Pennsyltucky.
Oh Matt the Louisiana accent was perfect and someone who lives in Kentucky you were spot on...love your videos!!
Had a friend come from Ohio. She had a list of places she wanted to see in Texas. I looked at her list and said " Well that one is a 4 hour trip. That one is 8 hours. We can do both of these in 12 hours...."🤣🤣
The Mississippi one was so accurate... Miss Darlene is good people.
That one was really funny.
Spot on! Typical directions in rural Florida: Go down to the field where Mr. Johnson used to keep his cows, turn left, then look for the abandoned shed. Turn right, keep going until you get to the package store and then you'll see it over there by the Piggly Wiggly.
Nice reference to his last video.
Yep!!! 😂
Piggly Wiggly? In Florida?
@@ORenyRenshocking right ? Piggly Wigglys only exist in the panhandle tho
The Kentucky part is absolutely accurate. I once made the mistake of parking in front of a restaurant in Lexington, but when I got out of the car I headed for a different establishment. I also had shoulder-length hair and MIchigan plates. Let us just say the proprietor wasn't happy about it. What I heard was something like "Git outta here, you son of a bitch, an' don't come back!"
As a Virginian, those exact words have come out of my mouth many times!
As a person from Atlanta, I can confirm we wear only Braves gear 24/7. I wore my Austin Riley shirt to my grandfather's funeral and my 2021 World Champions shirt to my aunt's wedding.
Also, all our streets are indeed named Peachtree. There's Peachtree Road, Peachtree Street, Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Peachtree Circle, Peachtree Court, and that's only the ones I remember.
@@i_overbyte Peachtree Battle Ave, Peachtree Corners Circle, Peachtree Ln....
@@Emma-se5wm thanks
Don’t lie, you’re one of those people from the northern burbs who tells out-of-towners that you’re from Atlanta when you’re really from like Woodstock or Cumming. 😂😂😂 Atlantans are more likely to wear a UGA or Falcons football jersey, or a Trae Young Hawks jersey (not a generic Hawks jersey, specifically a Trae Young jersey)
...who the hell are you? I live in Buckhead, directly off of Peachtree Road. I really do not care for the Falcons, because they suck. I'm not that into basketball, either, but the United are fun to watch. What does it matter, anyway? The Braves stadium is in Cobb county, which isn't even in Atlanta.
Then there's the other way we give directions in South Carolina: by where things USED to be. "Turn right there where the old K Mart was, and it's on the left across from what used to be the tire store. If you get down to where the traffic circle used to be, you've gone too far." (Actual directions to my office, & it works every time.)
How can it work if someone's not from the area and doesn't know where anything used to be?
@@bigscarysteve I think it's an anomaly in the space-time continuum. I wondered the same thing when I moved here, but I now find myself doing it, too. As long as you ask, " How's your momma and them," it's all good.
Yep, they put several county offices in former grocery stores here YEARS AGO, and you still have to tell people "No, that's in the old Kroger, not the old Food Lion."
Kentucky born
"What you Wont" was accurate af
Holy shit. I'm born and raised Texan, with one grandma from Mississippi and one from Arkansas, and my dad lived in Florida the last 20 years of his life, and this is ACCURATE. ALL of it.
Native Floridian here (though no longer there) - I grew up in Tallahassee, and there was a guy who walked around major intersections named King Love (RIP King Love). He wasn't drinking out there, but this reminded me of him.
I also recall my first mother-in-law giving me directions to her place in Wakulla County (that place has seriously grown since I moved away!). "Turn off the paved road, drive until you think you're lost. Take a left then a right."
And yup, that landed me right in her front yard.
Tally Buddy! RIP the King, yes.
As a Texan, the Lubbock jokes always get me to at least smile. “Once you stop at Allsups for a burrito, keep driving.”
I swear they put something addictive in Allsup's burritos. I haven't had them in years and there is a void in my soul.
Mississippi,Texas, and Alabama is where I’ve lived and oh boy is this accurate especially when Mississippi offered you something to eat😂😂😂
When I lived in North Carolina I was given 7 places to not turn to get to a place that was 15 miles straight ahead.
😂😂
Sounds about right. On a North Carolina road, 15 miles "straight ahead" might take you in every direction on the compass at least twice, and the name of the road may turn at an intersection while you drive straight through and find that you are now on a new road.
I learned not to ask for directions from an old dude sittin' & spittin' on his front porch on a trip to Fayetteville. He kept telling us to turn on Far Tar road... After the 3rd loop, we realized he was saying Fire Tower Rd.
The old southern dude in Mississippi immediately knowing the person and having to have some random loud reunion perfect
My dad‘s from Louisiana and I understood everything you just said😂 and I’m native Texan and you’ve got it just about right😂😂
New Orleanean here and I started *WHEEZING* when Louisiana came up!!!
Love that Matt is repping the UAB Blazers. Tennessee was accurate, ....we're full, thanks for visiting.
We need a sign that says that at the state line. Full indeed! Taking all our farmland for rows of houses. What a pity, downright shameful
Damn Carpet-Baggers😆
@@dolphinbear661Now, now, California has been taking in outsiders for generations... it's your turn to take them and their bratty kids back. 😉
As a Floridian, I prefer the backroads with the alligators and cows over the overcrowded toll roads.
Also, that Tennessee response is relateable. We frequently tell people to get back on I95/I75 North. 😂
We make sure to tell them about the free secret midnight tours of Graceland .
Obviously you never got stuck on the side of the road waiting along the Tamiami Trail shortly after it was first built during the middle of July for six hours sitting in a hot sticky sweltering un-airconditioned vehicle alongside an alligator and snake-filled canal with 20 million mosquitos eating you for lunch while waiting for a tow truck to pull someone out of the ditch. But, hey, everyone is different.
I think I peed my shorts laughing at this because it's so true.
Hey Alma and Tony ❤️ Have a fantastic day 💖
I know, I bout fell out of my chair laughing at the guy from Louisiana!
@Roby Love hey Roby. Thanks, you too friend.
@@treefuzz7509 lol me too. Matt is hilarious.