Every Southern State Giving Directions

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

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  • @alostrich
    @alostrich  Год назад +1151

    Subscribe or take a ride on Cranky

    • @silverdemonwolf426
      @silverdemonwolf426 Год назад +47

      ... 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?

    • @timothywomble3335
      @timothywomble3335 Год назад

      Matt, you absolute fool.
      You oughta know by now that we are all doing both as fast as we can.

    • @mortgagepeteus9634
      @mortgagepeteus9634 Год назад +12

      Just to be safe I created another account and subscribed just to avoid any potential issues.

    • @bryantsteury8910
      @bryantsteury8910 Год назад +19

      Don't you threaten me with a good time. Either way.

    • @cavtroopermunoz
      @cavtroopermunoz Год назад +11

      But I want to ride cranky, subbed already. Sorry, but I'll be measuring him for boots.

  • @sirrliv
    @sirrliv Год назад +4011

    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.

    • @vtaylor21
      @vtaylor21 Год назад +381

      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.

    • @Naturesong56
      @Naturesong56 Год назад +153

      Did you mean Amarillo (in the panhandle) instead of Abilene (west central Texas)?

    • @DevinMoorhead
      @DevinMoorhead Год назад +98

      ​@Kim Sadler as someone from Lubbock I'd agree that Abeline isn't the panhandle

    • @Naturesong56
      @Naturesong56 Год назад +53

      @@DevinMoorhead I lived in Abilene for 24 years. Moved out of state and still miss Texas.

    • @DevinMoorhead
      @DevinMoorhead Год назад +17

      @@Naturesong56 it's beautiful just off the caprock

  • @joshuahamby2199
    @joshuahamby2199 Год назад +962

    The aggressive Southern Hospitality shown by Mississippi is so accurate 😂

    • @izrael3301
      @izrael3301 Год назад +39

      And the knowing of their kin- folk

    • @wildeyedfirebrand
      @wildeyedfirebrand 11 месяцев назад +19

      It ain't just over there in MS, half my family in AL and GA are the same way.

    • @charlabufkin906
      @charlabufkin906 7 месяцев назад +4

      Biedenharn Coca-Cola Museum 1894, Coca-Cola was first bottled for consumers 🎉

    • @charlabufkin906
      @charlabufkin906 7 месяцев назад +4

      Vicksburg, Mississippi, Red Carpet City of the South, home to the Miss Mississippi Pageant, with 4 Miss America Titles

    • @itsmejerkface
      @itsmejerkface 5 месяцев назад

      And it's a treasure.

  • @CaNew07
    @CaNew07 Год назад +1014

    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

    • @pirategamer6630
      @pirategamer6630 Год назад +12

      I, sadly, did not..
      Can you please transcribe it?

    • @mochimochi7669
      @mochimochi7669 Год назад +32

      My grandfather’s side of the family are Cajun and his Louisiana directions made me laugh so hard

    • @CaNew07
      @CaNew07 Год назад +28

      @@mochimochi7669 It became an accurate imitation the second he mentioned boudin 😆

    • @orp8428
      @orp8428 Год назад +22

      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.

    • @CaNew07
      @CaNew07 Год назад +7

      @@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 😆

  • @mljackson18
    @mljackson18 Год назад +346

    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.

    • @ratmoneyg
      @ratmoneyg 11 месяцев назад +1

      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

    • @donjackson5522
      @donjackson5522 11 месяцев назад +2

      I hope you like spring. Because it’s the growing season in NC year round… there are orange cones and barrels growing everywhere.

    • @donjackson5522
      @donjackson5522 11 месяцев назад +2

      Except in the actual spring when the pine pollen turns the state yellow.

    • @1Rez_EZ1
      @1Rez_EZ1 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@ratmoneygI've in Charlotte for 5 years and I can tell you it'll be great.

    • @ankhmortus1470
      @ankhmortus1470 9 месяцев назад +1

      And orange vests only half the time. For speed enforcement reasons (never read the boy who cried wolf. 1 NC Politician)

  • @spaceemperorspar4791
    @spaceemperorspar4791 Год назад +1078

    As a Floridian, this is PAINFULLY accurate. It’s either toll roads ‘till judgement day, or backwoods routes that are better navigated on alligatorback

    • @lelandconner3337
      @lelandconner3337 Год назад +28

      @@Oldney 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.

    • @GoddessNeith
      @GoddessNeith Год назад +28

      I know at least 4-5 ways to get somewhere that don't cost tolls. and they're all back roads.

    • @JRotten
      @JRotten Год назад +14

      ​@@lelandconner3337
      Malfunction Junction

    • @brianhall4182
      @brianhall4182 Год назад +31

      @@Oldney 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.

    • @KristiWilson
      @KristiWilson Год назад +13

      @@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. 😮

  • @GunterChung
    @GunterChung Год назад +1135

    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.

    • @jackielinde7568
      @jackielinde7568 Год назад +72

      You should try diving in Alaska. :D

    • @AuralayKristine
      @AuralayKristine Год назад +9

      You're not wrong!

    • @jamesstewart556
      @jamesstewart556 Год назад +42

      Tennessee counts if you happen to be going east/west. We went from East Tennessee to Oklahoma and the halfway point was in Tennessee.

    • @Armorlord04
      @Armorlord04 Год назад +22

      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?

    • @ryanflake3481
      @ryanflake3481 Год назад +18

      As a Californian, I have the same sort of mindset.

  • @jexxer
    @jexxer Год назад +784

    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.

    • @doomsdayaddams2894
      @doomsdayaddams2894 Год назад +15

      Then PLEASE tell me what Dr. John was saying in the live version of Iko Iko. I mean the English parts. Please.

    • @sheilab15
      @sheilab15 Год назад +18

      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!

    • @chelseapthib36
      @chelseapthib36 Год назад +26

      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"

    • @syndigriner-owens4351
      @syndigriner-owens4351 Год назад +3

      @@sheilab15 omg he was the best!!!!!

    • @reaperhunter7297
      @reaperhunter7297 Год назад +4

      I'm from sc and knew what he said 😂

  • @careydavis7059
    @careydavis7059 7 месяцев назад +110

    Best line: "get on I-40 west and just keep going.."

    • @thomasvilla6109
      @thomasvilla6109 3 месяца назад +5

      "Hope you've got that baby all charged up."

  • @antigensift
    @antigensift Год назад +401

    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."

    • @monikal9384
      @monikal9384 Год назад +12

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @renaesmith687
      @renaesmith687 Год назад +33

      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!

    • @MrZadir-nu7bd
      @MrZadir-nu7bd Год назад +5

      ​@@renaesmith687Traffic is horrible too

    • @microagent2419
      @microagent2419 Год назад +1

      ​@@renaesmith687 Who would want to travel ITP anymore.

    • @伏見猿比古-k8c
      @伏見猿比古-k8c Год назад +4

      Is farmer Tucker like the Texaco Mike of Georgia?

  • @teenzset8827
    @teenzset8827 Год назад +779

    As a former Louisiana resident, I understood every word he said

    • @Tyshwan
      @Tyshwan Год назад +16

      Me too🤣

    • @maddhatter3564
      @maddhatter3564 11 месяцев назад +41

      I can understand most Cajun as it really isnt that different from the Kentucky hillbilly speech my dad spoke.

    • @harlanborders943
      @harlanborders943 10 месяцев назад +7

      Yeah Wasn’t hard to understand him . I have known folks around here sound like that just a little wound up is all.

    • @JanelleGodwin-zl8li
      @JanelleGodwin-zl8li 9 месяцев назад +6

      How? It sounded like straight gibberish.

    • @teenzset8827
      @teenzset8827 9 месяцев назад +32

      @@JanelleGodwin-zl8li It's quite simple, just live in louisiana for about 2 months, and you'll understand

  • @barbaragallo8862
    @barbaragallo8862 Год назад +136

    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!!

    • @cedar8179
      @cedar8179 8 месяцев назад +14

      As a Mississippi resident, we humbly await your return
      (We enjoyed having you)

    • @ThomasRussell-xo1gl
      @ThomasRussell-xo1gl 3 месяца назад +1

      Sounds like I should spend some time in Mississippi!

    • @vroomkaboom108
      @vroomkaboom108 Месяц назад

      Visited some relatives in Mississipi one time and I was just by a little pond near an older gentleman's house (who was in a rocking chair at the porch), kicking rocks and doing nothing.
      The man simply calls me over for coffee. Did NOT know him. I was NEVER in that town before. I went inside, met his wife, we shared our WHOLE life stories for hours, and the coffee became corn bread and the corn bread became pie with Ice cream and after a whole (amazing) supper and 5 hours in, I realized it got dark. After much insisting I have them let me do the dishes and went on my way. Hope you're doing well Mr and Mrs. Philipps.
      God I love Mississippi

  • @texasaggie8449
    @texasaggie8449 Год назад +64

    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.

    • @cynthiajohnston424
      @cynthiajohnston424 Год назад +3

      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 ? )

  • @NOLAgenX
    @NOLAgenX Год назад +715

    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!

    • @cephalonplant4087
      @cephalonplant4087 Год назад +12

      At this point just direct them to a Walgreens which is either near or at where they are going

    • @Heartwing37
      @Heartwing37 Год назад +17

      I agree! Although, we usually pull out a napkin and draw an equally confusing map cause we’re a visual folk. Friendly too…

    • @YSLRD
      @YSLRD Год назад +10

      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
      @badelementofstyle5238 Год назад +3

      @@YSLRD Most sources I found call Missouri the MidWest

    • @JosephBKora
      @JosephBKora Год назад +8

      ​@@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

  • @CallsignArclight
    @CallsignArclight Год назад +984

    As a Virginian that was 110% accurate.
    "You're going to DC?"
    "Why?"
    Had my giggling silly.

    • @Manasseh1
      @Manasseh1 Год назад +18

      And he dressed like most people here

    • @TintagelEmrys
      @TintagelEmrys Год назад +47

      As a Virginian, I was just happy to be included in a video about the South

    • @BROUBoomer
      @BROUBoomer Год назад +18

      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.

    • @kevrides5706
      @kevrides5706 Год назад +5

      @@TintagelEmrysright!? I was pleasantly surprised.

    • @kazeryu17
      @kazeryu17 Год назад +3

      In reality, you would probably get directions to a moonshine distiller way out in the mountains instead.

  • @stephanviator370
    @stephanviator370 Год назад +500

    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!!!!!!!!!

    • @renaesmith687
      @renaesmith687 Год назад +10

      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.

    • @cgamejewels
      @cgamejewels Год назад +8

      Hello cousin from central louisiana. It's just easier to take people to their destination and Yes, we're stopping for boudin.

    • @danielwoods3896
      @danielwoods3896 Год назад +1

      You guys actually understood that?? LMAO

    • @SneakyCheeseThief
      @SneakyCheeseThief Год назад +6

      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.

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад +2

      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

  • @Aikibiker1
    @Aikibiker1 4 месяца назад +43

    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.

    • @kingofthings7929
      @kingofthings7929 3 месяца назад +1

      Love the implication to stealing from the damned snow birds. A fellow Florida Man approves.

  • @50TNCSA
    @50TNCSA Год назад +3558

    as a Tennessean i thank you for saying what we all think when we hear " hi i just moved here from California "

    • @twiggystardust9573
      @twiggystardust9573 Год назад +453

      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..."

    • @kellibrown3859
      @kellibrown3859 Год назад +232

      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.

    • @CrashHarper
      @CrashHarper Год назад +169

      Hat's Off to this man for correctly representing how we feel as Members of the Volunteer State ! LOL

    • @theinvisibleswordsman1196
      @theinvisibleswordsman1196 Год назад +166

      Tennessean here, nailed it, absolutely nailed it

    • @screddot7074
      @screddot7074 Год назад +66

      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.

  • @ItzSailorChaos
    @ItzSailorChaos Год назад +257

    The fact that I'm born and raise in SC and I knew exactly which Repent sign he's referring is sending me over 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @pointstill3755
      @pointstill3755 Год назад +16

      BAHAHAHA ITS ACTUALLY *REAL*?!!! That’s soooo much better!

    • @nenep1872
      @nenep1872 Год назад +9

      😂😂😂😂😂 omg now that's hilarious

    • @kdub87
      @kdub87 Год назад +1

      Same 😂😂

    • @ChibiPanda8888
      @ChibiPanda8888 Год назад +4

      Oh goodness, that's hilarious. I live in SC, too, but I don't take the interstate enough to know that.

    • @bethannybiscuits
      @bethannybiscuits 3 месяца назад

      Same 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @tfodthogtmfof7644
    @tfodthogtmfof7644 Год назад +164

    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.”

  • @mitchelltague3674
    @mitchelltague3674 Год назад +64

    "You're from out of town looking for Biltmore? Yeah, that's...shocking."
    Correct.

    • @jwm51
      @jwm51 2 месяца назад

      So true about Asheville. When friends and family come to town they want to see the House.

  • @ScottChristianSimmons
    @ScottChristianSimmons Год назад +308

    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.

    • @smorgasdorgan
      @smorgasdorgan Год назад +16

      Not every day I see Longview mentioned. Sorry you had to go there.

    • @TomHoffman-uw7pf
      @TomHoffman-uw7pf Год назад +9

      Cumberland Gap VA is closer to St. Louis than it is to Virginia Beach.

    • @SolarxPvP
      @SolarxPvP Год назад +5

      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.

    • @colinwaller3792
      @colinwaller3792 Год назад +1

      @@TomHoffman-uw7pf loud im Virginia and didnt even realize that

    • @laughingsnake1989
      @laughingsnake1989 Год назад +2

      *laughing in Texan*

  • @Pseudowolf
    @Pseudowolf Год назад +163

    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
      @TheCJTok Год назад +14

      Right? He’d be better off flying into Houston and driving up.

    • @Pseudowolf
      @Pseudowolf Год назад +10

      @@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..

    • @dianaurbauer4187
      @dianaurbauer4187 Год назад +4

      @@Pseudowolf This is hilarious.

    • @TheCJTok
      @TheCJTok Год назад

      @@jac-attack 😂 When I was at A&M, Tech was our nemesis when our baseball team traveled there.

    • @colormedubious4747
      @colormedubious4747 Год назад +1

      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!

  • @waltonvelvet
    @waltonvelvet Год назад +222

    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.

    • @augustcanyon3438
      @augustcanyon3438 Год назад +20

      so about an hour and a half?

    • @infozek1994
      @infozek1994 Год назад +1

      Noted

    • @crystalparker2542
      @crystalparker2542 Год назад +12

      Ok...that is a serious estimation, pretty much anywhere in the south. It's ok. We know what we're talking about

    • @lordpumpkinhead265
      @lordpumpkinhead265 11 месяцев назад +5

      That's anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour away, and probably just over 50 miles.

  • @DarkBiCin
    @DarkBiCin 6 месяцев назад +15

    Me and my wife are from VA and absolutely lost it. “Why” 😂😂

  • @HeartlandHunny
    @HeartlandHunny Год назад +197

    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.”

    • @AhrenAKADan
      @AhrenAKADan Год назад +15

      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

    • @nikkimcdonald4562
      @nikkimcdonald4562 Год назад +19

      Wait... So y'all don't give directions based on where your own relatives lived 30 years ago??

    • @sarahMuahahaha
      @sarahMuahahaha Год назад +3

      Florida too

    • @bigscarysteve
      @bigscarysteve Год назад +6

      West Virginia, too.

    • @vtaylor21
      @vtaylor21 Год назад +11

      @@nikkimcdonald4562 that could be East Kentucky, lol.

  • @gypsybelle4757
    @gypsybelle4757 Год назад +84

    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. ❤

    • @TheGoffense8120
      @TheGoffense8120 Год назад +6

      I’m from Mississippi and can say your telling the truth. She is such a sweet lady.

    • @DChrls
      @DChrls Год назад +5

      But did ya ever know grandpa Stephens over in Mendenhall?

    • @gypsybelle4757
      @gypsybelle4757 Год назад +4

      @@DChrls Home of the sweetest Miss Mississippi I ever met!

    • @TheGoffense8120
      @TheGoffense8120 Год назад +5

      @@DChrls Yes sir. He was a great guy.

    • @johnnyreb3542
      @johnnyreb3542 Год назад +3

      @@TheGoffense8120 ~ What do you mean WAS! I just saw him yesterday, at the Sunflower..

  • @susantownsend8397
    @susantownsend8397 Год назад +80

    “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.

    • @theresagomez2605
      @theresagomez2605 Год назад

      Lol.

    • @CyberchaoX
      @CyberchaoX Год назад +1

      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.

  • @Sucha_Hufflepuff
    @Sucha_Hufflepuff 7 месяцев назад +8

    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.

  • @stevenbrock435
    @stevenbrock435 Год назад +69

    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.

  • @thestoryfactory8429
    @thestoryfactory8429 Год назад +326

    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.

    • @pugsabi
      @pugsabi Год назад +39

      It's only about 4 hrs. Not too bad 😂

    • @goosegirl941
      @goosegirl941 Год назад +28

      @@pugsabi I was going to say that, it’s only 4 hours!

    • @MsGoldgirl
      @MsGoldgirl Год назад +20

      That’s a day trip for lunch.

    • @texasforever7887
      @texasforever7887 Год назад +30

      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.

    • @DevinMoorhead
      @DevinMoorhead Год назад +26

      ​@@texasforever7887 if you go through Austin to get to San Antonio, you aren't doing it right

  • @genejing09
    @genejing09 Год назад +82

    "Get off my property." Yup that is us in Kentucky.

    • @wvcricker5683
      @wvcricker5683 6 месяцев назад +2

      Same in WV 😂😂

    • @KeatonssBodi
      @KeatonssBodi 6 месяцев назад +8

      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

    • @kyerenilrem6947
      @kyerenilrem6947 4 месяца назад +2

      Sad but true lol

    • @lawrencemalone-px6qe
      @lawrencemalone-px6qe 3 месяца назад

      I thought the entire south was like this 😂 glad to know my home state is just that unhinged

    • @Friggsdottir
      @Friggsdottir 5 дней назад

      ​@@lawrencemalone-px6qeunhinged or cautious?

  • @thecreek7152
    @thecreek7152 Год назад +306

    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
      @dizzysdoings Год назад +2

      I hope they don't treat me like that! I'm hoping to move there in the fall.

    • @JBreeze4598
      @JBreeze4598 Год назад +27

      From Kentucky, yes you are correct about Cincinnati

    • @PelafinaLievre
      @PelafinaLievre Год назад +6

      I’ve gotten scared sh*tless getting lost down too many hollers. Unfortunately sometimes work takes me down too many unfamiliar hollers.

    • @dredennis113
      @dredennis113 Год назад +18

      @@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.

    • @dizzysdoings
      @dizzysdoings Год назад +1

      @@dredennis113 have no desire to be in or even near a city! And, I don't go out much at night.

  • @PatrickRsGhost
    @PatrickRsGhost Год назад +373

    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).

  • @scottthompson2022
    @scottthompson2022 Год назад +99

    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.

    • @vtaylor21
      @vtaylor21 Год назад +12

      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.

  • @karenk2409
    @karenk2409 10 месяцев назад +10

    I'm rural Virginia and I approve this message!

  • @butcherboy2008
    @butcherboy2008 Год назад +505

    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.

    • @LordHoward
      @LordHoward Год назад +24

      We named the place where 75 and 85 merge “the Merge”
      You can imagine why

    • @chrisvaughn2945
      @chrisvaughn2945 Год назад +12

      Being a resident of the metro Atlanta area I can attest sir that you are correct.

    • @DrillSergeantApex
      @DrillSergeantApex Год назад +18

      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.

    • @Jinni99
      @Jinni99 Год назад +4

      Dope stock market joke. No way anyone else gets it tho. 😂😂

    • @rockroc1
      @rockroc1 Год назад +1

      😂

  • @DonP_is_lostagain
    @DonP_is_lostagain Год назад +101

    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
      @mikebyars9463 Год назад +6

      As a Texas transplant from Mississippi, I approve this message

    • @mintz9782
      @mintz9782 Год назад +1

      @@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.

  • @stephh4495
    @stephh4495 Год назад +201

    True southerners understood the Louisiana voice on the first listen.

    • @3doggymom
      @3doggymom Год назад +1

      I did!! Grandpa was from Jennerette, LA. I was born in Savannah, GA but raised most of my life in TN

    • @AslanKyoya1776
      @AslanKyoya1776 Год назад +1

      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.

    • @bcj842
      @bcj842 Год назад +2

      teywutscootoballtakeyadeah!!

    • @TheDeadTheories
      @TheDeadTheories Год назад

      Yep. Have family from the Monroe area. 👍🏽

    • @Cowboyup57717
      @Cowboyup57717 Год назад +1

      Had family in Grosse Tete. I'm from South Dakota and can't understand much, but their kindness always shines through.

  • @mchapman132
    @mchapman132 8 месяцев назад +10

    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”.

    • @shadow6543
      @shadow6543 4 месяца назад

      That’s North Carolinian for “leave” 😂

    • @mchapman132
      @mchapman132 4 месяца назад

      @@shadow6543 - You’re probably right. Lol

  • @noControl556
    @noControl556 Год назад +93

    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.

    • @thumbelinasgrace
      @thumbelinasgrace Год назад +13

      True! I think Spaghetti Junction was built to confuse the heck out of anyone trying to get off 285.

    • @quietpsycho1
      @quietpsycho1 Год назад +4

      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.

    • @pamelahornick8108
      @pamelahornick8108 Год назад +5

      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.

    • @quietpsycho1
      @quietpsycho1 Год назад +1

      @@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.

  • @t.thompson8985
    @t.thompson8985 Год назад +117

    As someone from Central Texas who has to travel hours and hours by car before I hit a border, I salute you.

    • @Wowee2012
      @Wowee2012 Год назад +3

      Same here! The fastest way out of Texas is to Mexico! 🤣

    • @t.thompson8985
      @t.thompson8985 Год назад

      @@Wowee2012 🤣🤣🤣

    • @MauiWowieOwie
      @MauiWowieOwie Год назад +6

      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.

    • @t.thompson8985
      @t.thompson8985 Год назад +1

      @@MauiWowieOwie bless your heart!

  • @williamcox1552
    @williamcox1552 Год назад +244

    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.

    • @sharonmontano4924
      @sharonmontano4924 Год назад

      Awwww

    • @270eman
      @270eman Год назад +1

      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.

    • @thecringeprince2040
      @thecringeprince2040 Год назад +1

      @@270emanhalf of Louisiana still hasn’t rebuilt

    • @270eman
      @270eman Год назад

      @@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. 🔥

    • @bec7080
      @bec7080 Год назад +3

      ​@@270emanintelligible doesn't mean intelligence. It just means you can't understand them.

  • @djjohnston8759
    @djjohnston8759 Год назад +8

    Matt is hysterical! 😂 ❤the different personalities he develops for each character!

  • @coolhandluke7772
    @coolhandluke7772 Год назад +277

    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.”

    • @j.martin5504
      @j.martin5504 Год назад +30

      So like Austin and Texas!

    • @yourregulartexan1113
      @yourregulartexan1113 Год назад +19

      @@j.martin5504 Austin is like the Vatican City for Texas. They think they're Texans but they ain't

    • @reesaserik3759
      @reesaserik3759 Год назад +10

      @@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.

    • @thedickens6490
      @thedickens6490 Год назад +8

      @@j.martin5504 or Huntsville and Alabama, or Miami and Florida, or Tupelo and...no, that one checks out

    • @farvista
      @farvista Год назад

      @@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?

  • @dvldog_
    @dvldog_ Год назад +46

    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!

  • @PaulGAckerman
    @PaulGAckerman Год назад +193

    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.

    • @bigscarysteve
      @bigscarysteve Год назад +22

      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!"

    • @tommyhawks856
      @tommyhawks856 Год назад +13

      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.

    • @cariwaldick4898
      @cariwaldick4898 Год назад +10

      I'm a new transplant to Texas, and I swear, the state rock is the concrete traffic barrier.

    • @u-neekusername4430
      @u-neekusername4430 Год назад +9

      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! 🤣

    • @farvista
      @farvista Год назад +5

      @@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.

  • @sheldonwheaton881
    @sheldonwheaton881 10 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks for having Virginia in your list. I live in my hometown of Jax, Fl. now, but grew up in S.E. Va. My heart lies in Richmond!

  • @thananightshade
    @thananightshade Год назад +84

    Nailed LA! As a Missourian who got lost in a bayou low on gas one time, can confirm 100% truth been dropped.

    • @Torsion
      @Torsion Год назад +10

      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!

  • @AAblade7
    @AAblade7 Год назад +49

    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.

    • @TheSaltySeaman
      @TheSaltySeaman Год назад +1

      There are at least 8 Peachtrees lol

    • @SaravanjaSteele
      @SaravanjaSteele Год назад

      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

  • @slendermanproxies
    @slendermanproxies Год назад +69

    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

    • @coynichols3517
      @coynichols3517 Год назад +8

      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.

    • @Threedog1963
      @Threedog1963 10 месяцев назад +6

      LOL. Oklahoma is the designated driver at the southern states party.

    • @swhip897
      @swhip897 9 месяцев назад +2

      And we cant drive 😂

    • @John-vp2jq
      @John-vp2jq 9 месяцев назад

      I think it's pretty wild that a state which borders Colorado is considered Southern. Southwestern, maybe, but not Southern

    • @raybrannon1118
      @raybrannon1118 4 месяца назад +3

      @@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 💪🏾🤷🏾‍♂️

  • @Housebuilder4840
    @Housebuilder4840 Год назад +68

    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!”

    • @laneclaypool8005
      @laneclaypool8005 7 месяцев назад +17

      Don't tell them how nice we really are, they'll want to come here.

    • @KeatonssBodi
      @KeatonssBodi 6 месяцев назад +6

      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………”

    • @trilight3597
      @trilight3597 6 месяцев назад +6

      As a Kentuckian. Please don't let the truth out.

    • @danitapowell2291
      @danitapowell2291 6 месяцев назад +6

      As a resident of Northern Kentucky, I thought the Cincinnati line was funny.

    • @SenaBryer
      @SenaBryer 5 месяцев назад +1

      The other one is giving directions by landmarks that used to be there.

  • @Zaiterion
    @Zaiterion Год назад +202

    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

    • @crystalparker2542
      @crystalparker2542 Год назад +14

      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?"

    • @bluebirdonmyshoulder5633
      @bluebirdonmyshoulder5633 Год назад +15

      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".

    • @slaughterzealibib
      @slaughterzealibib Год назад +5

      @@bluebirdonmyshoulder5633 I count potholes instead of miles to know when to change oil. Such is the joys of living in the GSP region.

    • @bluebirdonmyshoulder5633
      @bluebirdonmyshoulder5633 Год назад +1

      @@slaughterzealibib ,well hi neighbor. I'm also in the GSP area so I can relate. Hope you have a lovely night and wonderful weekend!

    • @mikeorr3333
      @mikeorr3333 Год назад +3

      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.

  • @thrownheat
    @thrownheat Год назад +326

    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.

    • @bigscarysteve
      @bigscarysteve Год назад +21

      I thought West Virginia won the award for weird town names, but now I think Arkansas may be the champ.

    • @mud137
      @mud137 Год назад +37

      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

    • @stephenbeatty2573
      @stephenbeatty2573 Год назад +12

      Don’t forget Blue Ball

    • @ImallamaToo
      @ImallamaToo Год назад +11

      Don't forget Tulip.

    • @Batmandabomb
      @Batmandabomb Год назад +5

      Oh we had Meat Camp in NC and plenty more

  • @stbrown08
    @stbrown08 Год назад +42

    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

    • @dana780
      @dana780 Год назад

      😂😂😂

  • @rennamiller5347
    @rennamiller5347 3 месяца назад +1

    Oh Matt the Louisiana accent was perfect and someone who lives in Kentucky you were spot on...love your videos!!

  • @mightymouse654
    @mightymouse654 Год назад +97

    As a Mississippian I really love and relate to that clip. We are hostile hospitable- you WILL come in and sit a spell lol

    • @carlasmith1579
      @carlasmith1579 Год назад +6

      As lifer on Miss. I can agree whole heartily. Tennessee is spot on also.

    • @dagneytaggart7707
      @dagneytaggart7707 Год назад +5

      How long does it take to say goodbye? I mean from the first 'wr gotta get going' to actually pulling away in the car?

    • @jl7655
      @jl7655 Год назад +6

      If you're lucky it'll only take an hour to say bye in Mississippi

    • @asdisskagen6487
      @asdisskagen6487 Год назад +4

      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.

    • @lil_spooky4435
      @lil_spooky4435 Год назад

      Mane always like that in wiggins

  • @kangarooninja2594
    @kangarooninja2594 Год назад +98

    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.

    • @JackieOdonnel
      @JackieOdonnel Год назад +4

      I'm in Washington State and we were full of Californians for the last decade, so y'all can have 'em all now! 🤣

    • @aweeks6649
      @aweeks6649 Год назад +17

      ​@@JackieOdonnel Texas says no thanks and would you consider letting us air lift AUSTIN up to you.

    • @JackieOdonnel
      @JackieOdonnel Год назад +2

      @@aweeks6649 HA! Fair enough!

    • @tommyhawks856
      @tommyhawks856 Год назад +5

      They put Fort Stockton between San Antonio and El Paso as a bit of comic relief.

    • @kangarooninja2594
      @kangarooninja2594 Год назад +4

      @@JackieOdonnel 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!

  • @MeghanClark825
    @MeghanClark825 Год назад +12

    Live in VA, grew up in MD. The "why?" about going to DC was so spot on lol 🤣🤣🤣

  • @ronnicolas4001
    @ronnicolas4001 8 месяцев назад +1

    As someone born and raised in Kentucky I have to say you nailed it. You also got the Biltmore accurately.

  • @TrineDaely
    @TrineDaely Год назад +21

    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.

  • @christophercrowder872
    @christophercrowder872 Год назад +110

    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.

    • @coolandhip_7596
      @coolandhip_7596 Год назад +2

      Someone had fun with you there

    • @christophercrowder872
      @christophercrowder872 Год назад +3

      @@coolandhip_7596 nothing fun about being sent 45 minutes out of the way.

    • @carriemcmahon6500
      @carriemcmahon6500 Год назад +8

      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.

    • @benkenobi6582
      @benkenobi6582 Год назад +2

      Sorry somebody did that to you. That’s not cool at all. Not al of us are jerks I promise 😅

    • @benkenobi6582
      @benkenobi6582 Год назад +1

      Sorry somebody did that to you. That’s not cool at all. Not al of us are jerks I promise 😅

  • @pantsbonanza3027
    @pantsbonanza3027 Год назад +79

    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.

    • @mattlutz1105
      @mattlutz1105 Год назад +6

      So you live in Asheville I see…

  • @MindyAngelette
    @MindyAngelette Год назад +4

    As a person from New Orleans and never lived outside of Louisiana. I laughed my butt off!!!! I would have died from laughing if u had a hook on the brim of your hat, so thank u for not having that. 😂😂😂

  • @nicoleimes
    @nicoleimes Год назад +222

    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

    • @Aaron-zt5ee
      @Aaron-zt5ee Год назад +10

      Missouri is the same way, minus the Southwest part.

    • @T_Man
      @T_Man Год назад +17

      Missouri is either in every surrounding region at once, none of them, or both

    • @Connor_Cope
      @Connor_Cope Год назад +20

      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

    • @davidrussellhamrick1828
      @davidrussellhamrick1828 Год назад +13

      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.

    • @davidrussellhamrick1828
      @davidrussellhamrick1828 Год назад +3

      @@Aaron-zt5ee And the boot heel. I'm convinced they actually shipped that part upriver from Mississippi.

  • @ASC10120
    @ASC10120 Год назад +85

    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 😅

  • @BayouCouyon
    @BayouCouyon Год назад +179

    Bro, ya got Louisiana spot on 🤣🤣🤣

    • @Denozo88
      @Denozo88 Год назад +23

      Is it weird I don't need that translated.

    • @BayouCouyon
      @BayouCouyon Год назад +10

      @@Denozo88 🤣 Right!! Completely clear and concise 😅

    • @zacharyparfait4809
      @zacharyparfait4809 Год назад +4

      Everything seems fine to me

    • @vtaylor21
      @vtaylor21 Год назад +7

      It felt like that is more Southern Louisiana and not Northern Louisiana.

    • @BayouCouyon
      @BayouCouyon Год назад +3

      @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

  • @r.f.pennington746
    @r.f.pennington746 Год назад +5

    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.

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад

      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.

  • @RealBigDLil
    @RealBigDLil Год назад +19

    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😂😂

  • @creepy-kitty
    @creepy-kitty Год назад +23

    The old southern dude in Mississippi immediately knowing the person and having to have some random loud reunion perfect

  • @irienerd8178
    @irienerd8178 Год назад +228

    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...😂

    • @crystalparker2542
      @crystalparker2542 Год назад +40

      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.

    • @irienerd8178
      @irienerd8178 Год назад +11

      @@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!

    • @queenb67
      @queenb67 Год назад +8

      Satan doesn't dare come here in August.

    • @Aztesticals
      @Aztesticals Год назад +4

      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

    • @janettamcgee8124
      @janettamcgee8124 Год назад +3

      Right now in Fort Worth it is 105 degrees (40 celsius) and has been for weeks. I barely walk to my truck.

  • @jimthompson606
    @jimthompson606 Год назад +5

    Matt, you mentioned the Alex Shunnarah sign in the Alabama part. I was visiting a relative in a Birmingham hospital and some poor fellow down the hall kept calling out, 'Doctor, nurse help me'. He did it over and over as it wasn't really urgent but he just did it. I know it's a sad situation we shouldn't laugh at, but from time to time he would also call out 'Call Alex Shunnarah!'

  • @tmwilson524
    @tmwilson524 Год назад +62

    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.

    • @coolandhip_7596
      @coolandhip_7596 Год назад +6

      I know of some relative of mine that, let's just say, we're the last to see a census taker

    • @tmwilson524
      @tmwilson524 Год назад +2

      @@coolandhip_7596 Hilarious! I can only imagine!!!

    • @masonpyle5929
      @masonpyle5929 Год назад +2

      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.

    • @tmwilson524
      @tmwilson524 Год назад +2

      @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.

    • @asdisskagen6487
      @asdisskagen6487 Год назад +2

      And this is why the South will never fall to invaders. We're like Afghanis on steroids 😂😂😂

  • @sarahhannush1466
    @sarahhannush1466 Год назад +29

    Georgia, SC, and NC had me dying. I'm from Asheville NC, so that Biltmore thing? Ooooh yep. I remember when it wasn't so bad, we'd get a season pass, go walking the gardens and such, but dang. The price now? Absolutely painful.

    • @shadow6543
      @shadow6543 4 месяца назад +1

      Asheville is like 98% transplants

    • @bethannybiscuits
      @bethannybiscuits 3 месяца назад

      GA should have said if you see a peach tree, you've gone to far because you are in central South Carolina 😂

    • @bethannybiscuits
      @bethannybiscuits 3 месяца назад

      Also I used to go to Biltmore every year, but I can't afford it now 😢

  • @DeboraKerr
    @DeboraKerr Год назад +32

    As a Virginian, those exact words have come out of my mouth many times!

  • @turnerfaughn338
    @turnerfaughn338 5 дней назад +1

    As a Kentuckian, your protrayal is partly true. When we're in public we're the nicest people ever, would smile and give you directions, etc, but when we're at home, we want our alone time lol

  • @coupofmentality3417
    @coupofmentality3417 Год назад +21

    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.

  • @acouch213
    @acouch213 Год назад +56

    As an Okie, I was happy to finally see us included in the South....Until, yeah...... Great video as always!

    • @thejohnbeck
      @thejohnbeck Год назад +7

      I hear youre the most conservative of the Southern states, no joke

    • @theresagomez2605
      @theresagomez2605 Год назад

      That was a funny ending.

    • @dalesmyth7398
      @dalesmyth7398 Год назад +1

      @@thejohnbeck 100% red counties.

  • @florptytoo
    @florptytoo Год назад +37

    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.

  • @ViterboFangirl
    @ViterboFangirl 2 месяца назад +1

    New Orleanean here and I started *WHEEZING* when Louisiana came up!!!

  • @tonysamosa1717
    @tonysamosa1717 Год назад +264

    Florida: “It’ll cost you an arm and a leg in tolls”
    New Jersey: “awww that’s cute”

    • @C.A.S7447
      @C.A.S7447 Год назад +16

      Avoid tolls by taking back roads, my brother has a master degree in back road shortcuts lol least in Florida😂

    • @kaelanmcalpine2011
      @kaelanmcalpine2011 Год назад +5

      Pennsylvania looking at the other two: Oh you have no idea

    • @lakeireland
      @lakeireland Год назад +6

      FL has 734-ish miles of toll roads, the most in the US , so here’s your beer back 🙃

    • @lunachick7549
      @lunachick7549 Год назад +3

      @@kaelanmcalpine2011 Yet we still have the worst roads ever.

    • @terryk711
      @terryk711 Год назад +4

      HA. Have you driven in South Carolina? I don't know what they spend their money on but its not Highway maintenance.

  • @TsukiNaito1
    @TsukiNaito1 Год назад +14

    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.

    • @padenbeckwith5148
      @padenbeckwith5148 4 месяца назад +1

      What's Oklahoma without 10 dispensaries, 10 churches and, a casino or 3?

  • @Anticrystal88
    @Anticrystal88 Год назад +35

    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.

  • @tinabelcher8116
    @tinabelcher8116 Год назад +1

    Of all your videos, this is my fave😂
    ❤ from Alabama

  • @kdfleming2
    @kdfleming2 Год назад +11

    I resemble more of those states than I realized. A great Friday chuckle. Thanks Matt.

  • @nkymomof02
    @nkymomof02 Год назад +18

    Okay, I am in northern Kentucky. Right next to Cincinnati, I laughed out loud at that one.

  • @robylove9190
    @robylove9190 Год назад +35

    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.

    • @bieuxyongson
      @bieuxyongson Год назад +2

      😂😂

    • @alanlight7740
      @alanlight7740 Год назад +3

      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.

    • @mickeyspencer1006
      @mickeyspencer1006 7 месяцев назад +1

      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.

  • @ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb
    @ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb Год назад +5

    The Georgia one is so true. The amount of times people get Peachtree City (southwest of atl) and Peachtree Corners (in northeast atl) confused is hilarious

  • @bornagainsheep337
    @bornagainsheep337 Год назад +36

    Love your Cajun man impression❤ from a Cajun girl all my elders spoke Cajun French. I can see how they sound exactly like that to a fellow Southerner who doesn’t understand dat aK-cenT
    So refreshing to hear it imitated with love, not arrogance and it’s actually a good impression 😊 Mais we love y’all too Sha!

  • @DarkRuins
    @DarkRuins Год назад +72

    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.

    • @DarkRuins
      @DarkRuins Год назад

      @@user-uf4ju7wz3u small town bumpkins are notoriously gossipy and very anti-outsider. its spooky. they can smell a city slicker a mile away

    • @daltonred1156
      @daltonred1156 Год назад

      @Faris T I still live in eastern Kentucky and even I don’t know

  • @tylervanmarter7303
    @tylervanmarter7303 Год назад +52

    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.

    • @Taterstiltskin
      @Taterstiltskin Год назад +2

      please say you're from Muskogee that'd make my day lol

    • @bordomsdeadly
      @bordomsdeadly Год назад +11

      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.

    • @bigscarysteve
      @bigscarysteve Год назад +6

      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.

    • @yourregulartexan1113
      @yourregulartexan1113 Год назад

      You Sooners are the Buffer between the Midwest and the South just like Kentucky is the buffer between the Yankee and Dixie

    • @tylervanmarter7303
      @tylervanmarter7303 Год назад

      @@Taterstiltskin lol nope. No Okie from Muskogee here.

  • @christineaerin13
    @christineaerin13 4 месяца назад +3

    Dude, as an Okie, incredible. I literally laughed out loud!

  • @Waterboyofsuperman
    @Waterboyofsuperman Год назад +54

    As a Tennesseean I didn’t think anything was better than your Louisiana accent until I heard about Tennessee 😂. Still laughing.

    • @TarnaxTheBarbarian
      @TarnaxTheBarbarian Год назад +3

      It's exactly how I feel when someone tells me they've just moved here from California.

  • @lucasa6253
    @lucasa6253 Год назад +113

    The Texas one is too accurate. Flew in to Dallas bc it was cheaper than flying into Lubbock and ended up driving eight hours or so there. Still ended up being cheaper 💀

    • @jimthompson606
      @jimthompson606 Год назад +5

      Dalhart TX is closer to North Dakota than Brownsville.

    • @joshuamirabal3617
      @joshuamirabal3617 Год назад +8

      @@jimthompson606and El Paso is closer to California than it is to the eastern border of Texas.

    • @stevenserna910
      @stevenserna910 Год назад +1

      Awww c'mon now, y'all makin' it seem like Texas is too big. Y'all try gettin' to Laredo from Dallas. Hell traffics' so bad on 35 now, you'd need to take the toll way. Money-up, you're gonna need it.

  • @elizabethquinn1037
    @elizabethquinn1037 Год назад +68

    My mom grew up mostly in GA but all her family is from AL. When she was a teenager her friend wanted directions to the town her family lived in near the beach. She literally told him to take the interstate to Montgomery “and then go south until you see the exit with the big tree”. She thought those were good directions. 😂

    • @retha90
      @retha90 Год назад

      😂😂😂

    • @brandywine4000
      @brandywine4000 Год назад +4

      While living in middle Ga, we used: Take the exit with the Big Peach

    • @robertsouthard1174
      @robertsouthard1174 Год назад +2

      @@brandywine4000 Its funny i know what Big Peach you are talking about.

    • @brandywine4000
      @brandywine4000 Год назад

      @@robertsouthard1174 I love It! I have not south in several year and I’ve wondered if it was still there

  • @talos_the_automaton2329
    @talos_the_automaton2329 Год назад +3

    From Georgia, and we do have a lot of roads with the name Peach tree. Also wanted to acknowledge we have a road called due West road North West in Cobb county so Georgia all around just loves confusing road names.

  • @quanqued
    @quanqued Год назад +20

    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.

    • @crystalparker2542
      @crystalparker2542 Год назад +2

      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
      @Lizzievance12 Год назад +2

      So true! Upstate SC typical directions.

    • @crystalparker2542
      @crystalparker2542 Год назад +2

      @@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.

  • @LighthawkTenchi
    @LighthawkTenchi Год назад +43

    As a Floridian, there are at least 3 ways to get anywhere: The freeway(or turnpike/ toll road, depending on where you are), the back roads, or the water. The first is crowded, there’s no cell signal on the second, but you get the choice of toothed creature depending on the salt content of the water you’re on. It’s either ancient lizard or ancient fish

    • @lakeireland
      @lakeireland Год назад +3

      You must not be from the Panhandle. We have to use either Hwy 98 or I-10. Need to Evac for a hurricane? Better leave the day before they tell you to leave.

    • @Pablo44528
      @Pablo44528 6 месяцев назад

      @@lakeirelandreal Floridans don’t evacuate

  • @honeywesley
    @honeywesley Год назад +18

    OMG, this may be your best one yet!! (Although I say that with each new video I see, LOL!) You know how some people start their day with a few minutes of meditation? I start mine with a few minutes of Matt Mitchell! That's a guaranteed way to start my day off right with a good laugh! You've got a brilliant mind for comedy Matt, and I love how you can make fun of the South without being offensive (long-time Southern gal here, should probably start saying long-time Southern old lady now, LOL!) Keep doing what you're doing, and God bless you for bringing good clean humor...you never disappoint!

    • @bigscarysteve
      @bigscarysteve Год назад +1

      I agree. I don't mind good-natured fun--in fact, I enjoy it. Just don't get offensive.

  • @malanikaflugence7170
    @malanikaflugence7170 Год назад

    Omg, as a proud citizen of New Iberia, Louisiana, not all of us, but a lot of us especially the “under the oak/pecan tree mechanics” sound just like that. I had my head down listening to this and I knew when you were doing us!! SPOT ON!!!!😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤