Indiana is like the guy sipping a beer for 3 hours, pretending to be drunk. Northern border they call it Michiana. A college there has a mascot named Fighting Illini. LoL. They should at least call the Eastern border In-ah-Ho š
There's a lot of truth in what you say, but your way of saying it was pretty mean-spirited. In the past 50-60 years the gap between the rich and the poor has gotten much wider, and rural areas bear much of the brunt of this phenomenon. Every person in each of these towns is an individual with his/her own story .. but what they share is that they are living in areas which have seen the money leaving. Along with the money goes opportunity, and along with the opportunity goes hope. Hopelessness leads to bad choices .. like drugs. Let's just not forget that these people are Americans, like the rest of us.
ESPN is now W0KE sports, just saying…. Chris, this was a great watch, lots of humor "more than normal" but not over the top. QUESTION: What makes Mountain Dew that "toxic" green color. It looks like Prestone. The guys putting up the TALL signs must be lacking someplace else….. Hmmm Chris, check out the car at 12:38 Hmmmmmmmmm
My takeaway: Scottsburg is still 100 times better that San Francisco or Portland "Not Portland Maine but Portland Oregon" Oops, time to get back to work……
The gap between rich and poor is caused in part by voting for politicians that are happy to offshore jobs and let drugs in through a "Open DEM Border." Thanks again to Chris for his time, work and posting………………..
You hit the nail on the head with that "Scotts-tucky" comment. In Rockford people say "Loves-tucky" when referring to Loves Park (and as you noted in a past episode Loves Park is a nice little community). Always enjoy your content, thanks for another great episode š
I'm originally from Illinois and I feel the same way about southern Illinois. Once you get outside of the so called "Chicagoland" area and go further south, everything is pretty much different variations/levels of redneck. I dated a woman who was from the Colombia City/Fort Wayne area and she used to dish all the time about Indiana. Very interesting to hear about the similarities between Southern Illinois and Southern Indiana!
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Born and raised in Southern Indiana and this is pretty dead on. I would quibble about Seymour and Columbus being Southern Indiana. For us near Evansville, that's Central Indiana. And additional info on the HIV outbreak in Scott County. The only HIV testing being done was by the local Planned Parenthood clinic. That was until then Gov. Mike Pence cut all funding for Planned Parenthood over abortion. Nevermind that the Scott County clinic didn't do abortions. It did pre-natal, OBGYN and STI testing. But because of the loss of funding, Planned Parenthood had to close their clinic, leaving the closest access in Louisville. Pence only took action when the CDC actually declared an HIV outbreak in the county and even then dragged his feet.
LOL. Thanks for the tour of your old hood. I'll remember to steer clear of this part of IN or maybe all of IN. Also since I live in CO, thanks for the tour of Camp Denver. Most metro areas on the planet look like this. Back in the day we used to call these people bums (not PC). The Denver PD weren't allowing that sort of behavior back then. If you complained that your civil rights were being infringed upon you would be on the receiving end of a nightstick or worse. Oh the good old days. LOL
Where I live the crime rate is high for the same reason " Drugs". Governor Abbott signed a bill making it a state jail felony to steal, buy, or sell a stolen CC. With up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. You told it like it was during this trip. I had a friend from Beechgrove Indiana. I do not blame the smart graduates for leaving. Having grown up in Berlin DE and then living in Houston most of my life I was a city dweller until I retired in the country.
Well I guess you done went down the same road and challenge another word people use are the dictionary definition no longer matches the common way it's used. That's sad. REDNECK has historically been a description of a very trustworthy person whose word is good as gold. The neck is a little red on the back side, because they work hard for a living outside. To this day I still remember the biggest redneck I've ever met. He's also one of the darkest black man I've ever met. The attack on the term to make it equivalent to white trash šļø increase exponentially when Hillary Clinton and Oprah really came onto the national scene. Remember also created another term about being a right-wing conservative. But we all have looked at it and become a little more educated have figured out that my mother was right. When somebody is pointing your finger at somebody else, you have three fingers pointing back at yourself. Dad always said that they probably got their thumb up their ass.š¤£š³. The opioid and drug addiction is a battle we cannot lose. We have been losing it. You might want to be careful because organized crime is prevalent across many of these small towns extending out from the suburbs especially of the larger metropolitan area. The main culprit for primarily white people would be Texas syndicate. Many of them call themselves Aryan brotherhood Midwest. Meaning of them think that they belong to the Aryan brotherhood a white supremacist radical militant terrorist organization. They may not call themselves terrorists, but they are defined as such by federal law enforcement organization. The Black and Hispanic and Latino communities have their own versions of this. Not all country folk driving these pickups or meth heads. After all and headache would spend his last penny on another hit before he would spend it on food much less hiking up his truck. I don't see the value of having a truck stand two or three times higher than it normally would. But that's a personal statement just like lowriders are personal statement. There never has been a lot to do out in the countryside in the Midwest. The same could be said for the countryside out in the east coast and the West Coast. You have been to Myrtle Beach and parts of Florida recently. BUT WHEN DID THAT DEVELOP INTO A PROPER EXCUSE TO SHOOT UP YOUR ARM AND POP PILLS!?!?!?! He might do some of this to increase ratings and piss people off. Let's get more responses. But looking deeper than that I see a man who is fed up with the current conditions that he is seen in our country. He is shining light on it and getting people to recognize and hopefully think of these problems. By realizing that it's not just your local neighborhood punks doing this stuff and there's a greater problem, then maybe we will better develop some countermeasure to these problems. They are going out hunting our children. They wish of needles in arms free pills freepot whatever it takes to get the youth hooked. Thus ensuring feature clientele 4Ever. Nobody said that these younger people be a children teenagers take their first hit of acid or whatever it might be, freely. They hold them down inject them with drugs for the hell of it and to get them hooked. Even in my day we were told to not leave your drink because somebody might put something in it. So they may sneak something into other people's drink or food. By the way everything I say in this, is one-hundred-percent fact. The only question is how widespread it is? The answer to that is extremely scary! Now I grew up around true rednecks! Definitely not the people you described as rednecks nowadays. I have Fairmount of college education, many hours beyond the bachelor degree. But what this world seems like a lot of NOW, is what I give credit to as far as my best educational value. TRUE REDNECK CREDENTIALS AND COUNTRY BOY LOGIC. Unfortunately that's a historical statement because monsters are winning and have been. And they are destroying our society. Putin's manhar throughout our country. Rather the Russian mafia here is tied directly to him isn't the question āļø. The Russian mafia organization shares Putin's outlook for the world especially the United States. The Trojan horse works well historically. In the military and political science classes we were taught extensively about the use of a fifth column. Get inside the organization and destroy it from the inside. Simply change the philosophy of that organization and bring more in like yourself and take over the organization during a few decades. The monsters have done this quite well. I pity anybody who laughs at what I say and think that I'm a crackpot and just stick their head in the ground. Sayang na this can't be happening because if we look around the evidence is everywhere. Then there's first-hand knowledge and observation, that most people don't get if they're on the outside of this monsters bubble. Maybe I'll come up with a better term then just calling them monsters but it definitely fits. Safe travels while you are out there. Because it's a lot more dangerous in the areas that you go then you realize. And you leave a trail that comes right back to you. I applaud you maybe not always agreed with you. But I applaud you for bringing these things to light and getting people to think about it and discuss it. Hopefully this discussion will lead to a counter engagement to the problem. Because we have to do that and illegal way, before we can even attempt to solve the problem. š
Southern Indiana native here. I actually went to Scottsburg for a job back in the early 80s – & it was a good one, too. What a buddy from Indy & I learned right away was 1) that there really wasnāt anywhere that you could eat & drink at the same time & under the same roof, & 2) the trick to cruising around with a cooler & staying out of trouble was to keep the county mounty on duty in front of us where we could see him.
Having learned that much, doing five tens & getting the hell out of town for the weekend turned out to be the thing to do.
Hey Chris, Jim here, nice vid bro. I went to IPFW in Fort Wayne, IN. back in the day. And the next town over called Muncee was very racist. I hated it.
I went on a date with a firefighter in Scottsburg when I first moved to Louisville and when we went to his house it smelled like dog pee and poo so badly š¤¢
I noticed you were driving around with no visible concern for your safety. Cant be that bad there. And I didnāt see graffiti everywhere. Why donāt you do a video on āterror townā, you know, that garden area of Chicago around 71st to 79th and Yates to the lake. By the way, thatās the local residents name for the area.
Indiana is like the guy sipping a beer for 3 hours, pretending to be drunk. Northern border they call it Michiana. A college there has a mascot named Fighting Illini. LoL. They should at least call the Eastern border In-ah-Ho š
You're a talented storyteller Chris! What a great way to spice up a travel video of a flatland rural town. Kinda like Garrison Keillorš¤.
There's a lot of truth in what you say, but your way of saying it was pretty mean-spirited. In the past 50-60 years the gap between the rich and the poor has gotten much wider, and rural areas bear much of the brunt of this phenomenon. Every person in each of these towns is an individual with his/her own story .. but what they share is that they are living in areas which have seen the money leaving. Along with the money goes opportunity, and along with the opportunity goes hope. Hopelessness leads to bad choices .. like drugs. Let's just not forget that these people are Americans, like the rest of us.
I went to high school with Dan Dakich(Andrean) . Total fuckin dipshit! If duct tape can't fix it it ain't broke! Lol
Pence prayed about it and did nothing. He is an idiot on a massive scale.
Now this was nice. LMAO. Double thumbs up to you Chris.ššššš
I liked this video. Thank you for sharing. šā¤
ESPN is now W0KE sports, just saying….
Chris, this was a great watch, lots of humor "more than normal" but not over the top.
QUESTION: What makes Mountain Dew that "toxic" green color. It looks like Prestone.
The guys putting up the TALL signs must be lacking someplace else….. Hmmm
Chris, check out the car at 12:38 Hmmmmmmmmm
My takeaway: Scottsburg is still 100 times better that San Francisco or Portland "Not Portland Maine but Portland Oregon"
Oops, time to get back to work……
The gap between rich and poor is caused in part by voting for politicians that are happy to offshore jobs and let drugs in through a "Open DEM Border." Thanks again to Chris for his time, work and posting………………..
You hit the nail on the head with that "Scotts-tucky" comment. In Rockford people say "Loves-tucky" when referring to Loves Park (and as you noted in a past episode Loves Park is a nice little community). Always enjoy your content, thanks for another great episode š
I'm hoping you do some rural Ohio towns soon. I live in one and I would like to see your take on them.
Doesn't look any worse than any other small town Midwest.
Chris is definitely fed up with Southern Indiana!
SN: As somebody who's lived in the Carolinas my entire life, I thought "Redneck" is exclusively a Down South term. I stand corrected.
I'm originally from Illinois and I feel the same way about southern Illinois. Once you get outside of the so called "Chicagoland" area and go further south, everything is pretty much different variations/levels of redneck. I dated a woman who was from the Colombia City/Fort Wayne area and she used to dish all the time about Indiana. Very interesting to hear about the similarities between Southern Illinois and Southern Indiana!
I hear locals around my area calling Stockbridge Michigan "Stocktucky" š¤£
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Born and raised in Southern Indiana and this is pretty dead on. I would quibble about Seymour and Columbus being Southern Indiana. For us near Evansville, that's Central Indiana.
And additional info on the HIV outbreak in Scott County. The only HIV testing being done was by the local Planned Parenthood clinic. That was until then Gov. Mike Pence cut all funding for Planned Parenthood over abortion. Nevermind that the Scott County clinic didn't do abortions. It did pre-natal, OBGYN and STI testing. But because of the loss of funding, Planned Parenthood had to close their clinic, leaving the closest access in Louisville. Pence only took action when the CDC actually declared an HIV outbreak in the county and even then dragged his feet.
LOL. Thanks for the tour of your old hood. I'll remember to steer clear of this part of IN or maybe all of IN. Also since I live in CO, thanks for the tour of Camp Denver. Most metro areas on the planet look like this. Back in the day we used to call these people bums (not PC). The Denver PD weren't allowing that sort of behavior back then. If you complained that your civil rights were being infringed upon you would be on the receiving end of a nightstick or worse. Oh the good old days. LOL
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I drive through Gary indiana, and south side Chicago every day, this looks like paradise to me.
Very entertaining video Chris! Thanks for the laughs!!
My cousin was roaming in the ghetto of Detroit, this past Sunday he was shot and killed
Rednecks, white socks and Blue Ribbon
Where I live the crime rate is high for the same reason " Drugs". Governor Abbott signed a bill making it a state jail felony to steal, buy, or sell a stolen CC. With up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. You told it like it was during this trip. I had a friend from Beechgrove Indiana. I do not blame the smart graduates for leaving. Having grown up in Berlin DE and then living in Houston most of my life I was a city dweller until I retired in the country.
An interesting paradox is that people look down on the state of Kentucky, yet the fast food chain Kentucky Fried Cholesterol is still in business.
I grew up in Seymour. In school, North Vernon was the town we ripped on most. Jennstucky.
Well I guess you done went down the same road and challenge another word people use are the dictionary definition no longer matches the common way it's used. That's sad. REDNECK has historically been a description of a very trustworthy person whose word is good as gold. The neck is a little red on the back side, because they work hard for a living outside. To this day I still remember the biggest redneck I've ever met. He's also one of the darkest black man I've ever met. The attack on the term to make it equivalent to white trash šļø increase exponentially when Hillary Clinton and Oprah really came onto the national scene. Remember also created another term about being a right-wing conservative. But we all have looked at it and become a little more educated have figured out that my mother was right. When somebody is pointing your finger at somebody else, you have three fingers pointing back at yourself. Dad always said that they probably got their thumb up their ass.š¤£š³. The opioid and drug addiction is a battle we cannot lose. We have been losing it. You might want to be careful because organized crime is prevalent across many of these small towns extending out from the suburbs especially of the larger metropolitan area. The main culprit for primarily white people would be Texas syndicate. Many of them call themselves Aryan brotherhood Midwest. Meaning of them think that they belong to the Aryan brotherhood a white supremacist radical militant terrorist organization. They may not call themselves terrorists, but they are defined as such by federal law enforcement organization. The Black and Hispanic and Latino communities have their own versions of this. Not all country folk driving these pickups or meth heads. After all and headache would spend his last penny on another hit before he would spend it on food much less hiking up his truck. I don't see the value of having a truck stand two or three times higher than it normally would. But that's a personal statement just like lowriders are personal statement. There never has been a lot to do out in the countryside in the Midwest. The same could be said for the countryside out in the east coast and the West Coast. You have been to Myrtle Beach and parts of Florida recently. BUT WHEN DID THAT DEVELOP INTO A PROPER EXCUSE TO SHOOT UP YOUR ARM AND POP PILLS!?!?!?! He might do some of this to increase ratings and piss people off. Let's get more responses. But looking deeper than that I see a man who is fed up with the current conditions that he is seen in our country. He is shining light on it and getting people to recognize and hopefully think of these problems. By realizing that it's not just your local neighborhood punks doing this stuff and there's a greater problem, then maybe we will better develop some countermeasure to these problems. They are going out hunting our children. They wish of needles in arms free pills freepot whatever it takes to get the youth hooked. Thus ensuring feature clientele 4Ever. Nobody said that these younger people be a children teenagers take their first hit of acid or whatever it might be, freely. They hold them down inject them with drugs for the hell of it and to get them hooked. Even in my day we were told to not leave your drink because somebody might put something in it. So they may sneak something into other people's drink or food. By the way everything I say in this, is one-hundred-percent fact. The only question is how widespread it is? The answer to that is extremely scary! Now I grew up around true rednecks! Definitely not the people you described as rednecks nowadays. I have Fairmount of college education, many hours beyond the bachelor degree. But what this world seems like a lot of NOW, is what I give credit to as far as my best educational value. TRUE REDNECK CREDENTIALS AND COUNTRY BOY LOGIC. Unfortunately that's a historical statement because monsters are winning and have been. And they are destroying our society. Putin's manhar throughout our country. Rather the Russian mafia here is tied directly to him isn't the question āļø. The Russian mafia organization shares Putin's outlook for the world especially the United States. The Trojan horse works well historically. In the military and political science classes we were taught extensively about the use of a fifth column. Get inside the organization and destroy it from the inside. Simply change the philosophy of that organization and bring more in like yourself and take over the organization during a few decades. The monsters have done this quite well. I pity anybody who laughs at what I say and think that I'm a crackpot and just stick their head in the ground. Sayang na this can't be happening because if we look around the evidence is everywhere. Then there's first-hand knowledge and observation, that most people don't get if they're on the outside of this monsters bubble. Maybe I'll come up with a better term then just calling them monsters but it definitely fits. Safe travels while you are out there. Because it's a lot more dangerous in the areas that you go then you realize. And you leave a trail that comes right back to you. I applaud you maybe not always agreed with you. But I applaud you for bringing these things to light and getting people to think about it and discuss it. Hopefully this discussion will lead to a counter engagement to the problem. Because we have to do that and illegal way, before we can even attempt to solve the problem. š
I prefer the music.
Trying to channel your inner Nick Johnson? This video didnāt feel āon brandā for your channel.
Southern Indiana native here. I actually went to Scottsburg for a job back in the early 80s – & it was a good one, too. What a buddy from Indy & I learned right away was 1) that there really wasnāt anywhere that you could eat & drink at the same time & under the same roof, & 2) the trick to cruising around with a cooler & staying out of trouble was to keep the county mounty on duty in front of us where we could see him.
Having learned that much, doing five tens & getting the hell out of town for the weekend turned out to be the thing to do.
Hey Chris, Jim here, nice vid bro. I went to IPFW in Fort Wayne, IN. back in the day. And the next town over called Muncee was very racist. I hated it.
Any validity of your opinion went out the window when you mispronounced Louisville.
What is the origin of the word "redneck?"
I went on a date with a firefighter in Scottsburg when I first moved to Louisville and when we went to his house it smelled like dog pee and poo so badly š¤¢
Go to Martinsville, Indiana. They still got Klan members living there.
I noticed you were driving around with no visible concern for your safety. Cant be that bad there. And I didnāt see graffiti everywhere. Why donāt you do a video on āterror townā, you know, that garden area of Chicago around 71st to 79th and Yates to the lake. By the way, thatās the local residents name for the area.