Exploring small town Iowa ||| Behind-the-scenes with the Wiseguy 

Here's all my previous videos from Iowa! ru-vid.com/group/PL4jqwLUrhjNSOhDwmDdYYgXnjzJWiBZVC

Bohemia is/ was a small country in Europe. There were people who came to the US from there. The book My Antonia has Bohemians in it.

Very interesting video! Dont change a thing, your tribe follows you because we enjoy what you do and how you do it! Keep on, keepin' on! Enjoyed this one very much! 👍

Yay! You went through my mom's hometown of Cascade. I have so many great memories from there. Was last there in January. Thanks for the great videos John!

I love your videos! Your no the only one who likes ghost towns! I like them two!

Behind the scenes video was informative! For me, any footage of old buildings, especially churches and schools, and cemeteries are worth showing. Glad you include places you tried to find but couldn't. Safe travels

Cool to see you stay in Maquoketa. That's where I was born. Raised in small town Grand Mound until 8th grade, then moved to Denver.

Love IA. Stayed in Iowa City one summer with my uncle. Been to Ottumwa a few times and Des Moines. Stopped to see the American Gothic house on one trip.

Hi John, great to see a behind the scenes of the video's we have seen. Don't put yourself down, where you are talking is always interesting, irrespective of your preference.... kinda selfish of me I know, but I always enjoy them! Just a point of order, the picture 'Run to earth' was painted in 1892 by Heywood Hardy and is in a museum or gallery in Nuneaton. a market town in the Midlands of the UK. Run to earth as you said is correct, however in fox hunting parlance, the earth is the foxes lair and it means it has escaped the pack and gone underground (I used to follow a hunt in my younger days). Bohemia is also a region in Czechoslovakia, it would have been interesting to see some of the names at the cemetery, the original people resting there may have been truly Bohemian rather than avaunt guard artists. Honestly John, to hear your trials and tribulations of what appear to be easy runs on 'Ghost town' or 'Ten smallest' videos is interesting. You work hard on your RU-vid channel and its fascinating to see the 'nuts and bolts' of how the videos are made, thank you very much. Frank.

Very interesting journey. Alot left to make more videos in these area's. Enjoy watching behind the scenes . Thank s John for your commit to excellent video. 😊

Don't worry about what people want. Keep it real, keep it simple and just be your genuine self. After that everything will fall into place. The path to success is not seeking the approval of people you don't know. We watch your videos because we like your style. Stay true to that.

Always really love to watch your BTS video's. Its cool for us to see in Europe, how the hotels/motels are, the roads, breakfasts and so on 😊

Leon has a beautiful town hall/courthouse. I never tire of the terrain here in the Midwest. There’s a stark beauty there. Thank you again for taking us along for the ride.

Your small town series are the best. Thanks for having me along.

It was a very interesting look behind how it's all done. Love all the small town court houses, so grandiose. Ahh but Gravity, what a name and it's a law we can all live with. Good job John . Connor, yeah Colorado guy, my home state.

thank you for being honest with your videos and not trying to deceive with your thumbnails

Great shots of the vintage gas pumps in the small towns. Bohemian cemetery could also mean a place where a lot of people of Czech ancestry are buried as there is one place in. Iowa that is the Czech capital of the state>

There is surprisingly a lot to see in Iowa. People not from around here poo-poo it as boring, nothing but cornfields, but if you just look a little you'll find some cool things

Definitely enjoyed the behind the scenes, it adds more context to the overall trip. In regards to your various meals, for me it would be the unique ones. The ma and pa cafes and local restaurants only found in the out of the way places you visit. McDonald's etc. forget it! Thank you for all your efforts on producing these videos. Safe travels

These "Behind-the-Scenes" videos are fascinating. Your regular videos have such a relaxed, effortless feel to them, so it's interesting to see just how much planning and forethought goes into creating your content. Thank you for what you're putting out here, I could spend hours daily watching.

Nice scenic drive. Love the old building s on main street in the towns.

I have watched both behind the scenes (if there’s others I have not made it through all your videos), and think it’s pretty great to see a personable side along with a little peak at what is involved in putting together the videos you do. It shows how much you enjoy doing what you do!! “Traveling. It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”- Ibn Battuta

My favorite videos of your are the ghost towns of Kansas and the Oregon Trail series, but certainly have enjoyed them all.

I checked to make sure of where I was talking about, but the Bohemian Cemetery is probably named that because the original settlers came from Bohemia, which is part of the Czech Republic in Europe. I knew it was around Germany somewhere because it played a factor in WW2.

Just wanted to give you a thumbs up and an atta boy... I live in TX but grew up and own some farmland around the LeRoy and Garden Grove area. Still home to the wife and I with tons of family there. Thanks for the tour, those ole southern Iowa roads I swear I could drive em blindfolded 😂.

Great Job John From a point of view of your question you asked about how did we like the behind-the-scenes, you nailed it this time.

I am not sure how long you have been making videos as I am somewhat new here, but really love the places you go to and show us. We I was little, on the weekends we would get in the car and go explore. I loved that and still try to do that today.

I really enjoy seeing all of the small towns in your videos.

As usual......that was outstanding and fun. Your doing a great job with your behind the scenes. Just keep being you, that's part of what makes it interesting and fun. And thank you for sharing.

I really love watching your videos

It's always interesting seeing everything you do, food, resturants and nteresting things you do Mr Wise.

Beautiful countryside and towns ! Thanks John wonderful video like always !

Great trip. Iowa seems like a friendly state, at least the only place you were ran out of is a cemetery. Love when you film the animals and such. Been a long time since I saw corn stalks stacked that way. I think you did great on behind the scenes #2. As long as I know you got to eat well and a good, safe,comfortable place to sleep I'm happy, thanks for including the prices. No need to see the food, lol I do like seeing the gas prices in all videos I watch, makes me a tiny bit happier with the prices in my area. I enjoy seeing your tee shirts, I'm a tee shirt person myself. Really enjoyed this and glad to see you had a great trip. Stay safe and GOD bless

Seeing the Iowa videos makes me miss living there. Iowa will always be in my heart.

Thanks for sharing this. I love your videos. Keep doing what you do. I always look forward to them.

Great video, I enjoyed it a lot. I especially enjoyed the clip when you played the air guitar. Thanks for sharing.

really cool you got to see the covered bridges festival. I had always intended on going to that but just haven't

I have traveled rather extensively through Iowa. Did a quick search and it does not look like you have been to Fairfield, Iowa yet. Google the story behind Maharishi University, interesting story. I was at the Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper crash site memorial on April 8th, 2024.👍

Thank you for another great video. I loved it😊

I love your videos, the only thing I would like for you to do is when you find an old abandon church the if you can go in side that you would show a little more of it.

😂😂🤣🤣 Loved the two ?? bending into the hood of the truck!! 👏👏👍😉

My brother lives in Cedar Falls.😮

I love your small town videos.

oh Clarinda, if you're not familiar with old NBC Tournament history Clarinda used to make annual apperances in that tournament ever year

I’d like to see more “interesting” accommodations in your videos. I’m glad that you’re showing where you stay and what you’re spending, but the US 50 videos I particular could’ve used at least a few more unique places to stay. Loved the motor court-style motel for $67 a night!

Another good video, which was no surprise to me. Grown use to the wonderful videos you produce. But this one made me very homesick for my native Iowa. Your videos of driving and see those beautiful rolling hills, with the sometimes winding road running through it. Cross country drives away from the beaten path is so rewarding in Iowa as well as most other states. It is the "world" rhat I prefer to see. Got a laugh at your comment about how dark it was in that one small town at dusk. Reminds me of rural Iowa back in the 1950's. We had manual yard lights that we shut off when we came in, no high powered night lights. Street lights in towns were dim enough you didn't see them till you were within a few miles of town. But rhe night sky was so beautiful back then, when all the lesser stars were visible. Fun fact on the jail cells. They are displayed now outside, but they were inside of town buildings when in use. In the small towns around where I grew up, if the police station was too dmall to include the cage, it might be in the fire station, city hall, or maintenance shed.. All in all, I feel your first Iiwa trip showed a very good representation of rural Iowa and it's small towns. Plenty of nice country roads, snall towns, and history One trip I have done parts of, but never got fully into before leaving Iowa was exploring Mississippi River towns on both sides of the River from St. Paul to St. Louis. Much beauty and history. Just wasn't disciplined enough to get it done.

Fun trip! Next time you are in Winterset check out John Wayne's childhood home.

If you have opportunities to have a conversation with people, I enjoy hearing comments from "locals."

I love your videos have watched all of them . Just a suggestion on smallest towns in Iowa if ever back that way lineville Iowa is my hometown and it sits on Missouri/Iowa line would love if you could do that town .

I would love to see some videos of ghost towns or small towns of eastern Colorado

Nice this is America small town very good reviews

Hey coach.I have no criminal history,but if I ever had to do a stretch. that fine building @22:49 might make the time pass more easily, with a couple of blue spruces to boot, outside my window. As regards your channel, It 's good and a bit more drone wouldn't hurt. In closing, you are certainly not a click bait phony

Adding video on the places you stay and eat would be nice. Everyone loves food we are always looking for that whole in the wall place that has top notch food.

I still can't say "Eisenhower Airport." I have always known it as Mid-Continent Airport and that is probably what I will always call it.

You can tell me what you think of your meal. I like your historic comments. A movie or parts of being filmed in an area. I like the fact that videos are family freindly. It's interesting to listen and find out about repeated town names.

Maybe some of the small town dives/floozies? Dunno, I'm reachin'

Have you checked out Independence yet? Not a ghost town but a smaller town with great history.

I like all your videos. I especially like the smallest towns in nebraska because I live In nebraska.

Field of Dreams is a tourist attraction that isn't real "touristy." What I mean by that is it's never really crowded with people. There is plenty of space

If you come back to do a video about the day the music died, try Nashua, it has the little brown church, it's roughly 1/2 hour north of Waterloo. On this vid you went through or by Clarinda, birthplace of big band leader Glenn Miller.west central Iowa has Wall Lake, birth place of Andy Williams.also Winterset is the birth place of John Wayne. Just some ideas for you,also I enjoy your vids. PS Lake City- We have everything but a lake (my dads birthplace), they have a renowned organ building company there though.

AN INTERESTING OVERVIEW OF YOUR EARLIER IOWA VIDEOS!! ONE YOU MIGHT DO IS FROELICH IOWA. THIS IS THE FIRST TOWN IN THE USA THAT THE FIRST EXAMPLE OF THE MODERN FARM TRACTOR WAS BUILT WITH AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE! THIS TRACTOR ITSELF WAS A FAILURE, AND VERY SOON OTHERS TRIED THEIR HANDS AT IT AND SUCCEEDED! ALSO YOU MENTIONED ALASKA! I HAVE BEEN THER TWICE, DELIVERING LARGE CRANE TRUCKS, ONE TO ANCHORAGE, THE OTHER TO FAIRBANKS, FROM OLATHE KS. ANY TRIP TO ALASKA REALLY BEGINS AT DAWSON CREEK, BRITISH COLUMBIA! WILL BE GLAD TO SHARE THE ADVENTURES AND ADVICE WITH YOU !!

Your "site" is bigger than you think. I have no concern for what you eat (lol). Your growth, even since I started watching, has grown dramatically, and that's a fact. Very nice video, be good, be safe !!

Quite interesting 😽❤️

Will you be doing iowa small towns that continue in the future i know your busy planning but was just asking you

the Bohemian cemetery is for the settlers that came from Bohemia I would assume.. I think it's in Czechia/Germany?

11:30. I laughed.

You need to do another water tower video at some point

Very interesting video,

Enjoyed this one. Few comments: I do not mind seeing your mug on camera, can you get out of the car and record a short bit outside more? Stop stressing about recording every town in the same weather and light conditions - this adds variety and seeing what you encountered along the way is fun to watch. Plum thicket cemetery was likely behind the lake enclosed by the corn field. You can find the cemetery on FG and many have GPS coordinates to help find specific headstones. Take a few flying lessons before you go to Alaska. I think it could really enrich the experience of flying in the backcountry.

Don't really need another cooking ch, just keep doing what doing please

Any plans to do Minnesota and The Dakotas at some point?

did you eat any cool, small town places that you recommend?

I would rather be there than in New York.

Have you ever seen a rain 😊

What I would like to see.... just say the direction you're going n s e w and maybe what highway or county rd you're on. Thanks😂

The history of towns reviews if plzce to stay a lot of town have better stays than cities food too

You were hanging around in Maquoketa and didn't go see the caves??

By any chance did you run in to Cousin Eddie 😊

As soon as it starts getting crowded i would leave.

That painting is fox hunting. Still looks the same today unfortunately. "Run to earth" means you've forced the prey to literally "go to ground" i.e as in the painting, the pack of hunting dogs have chased a fox back to it's den, in the earth. Rich dudes on horses will now send in terriers, the fox will be ripped apart, successful hunt bravo. Ahhh the beauty of English tradition 😕. Wonderful video, tho 😊 thanks.

There are very good Motel 6 motels in the country. It is likely the knowledge of the best Motel 6 motels come as a result of a word of mouth. Ironic some immature rotten apples treat any Motel 6 as if it was a place to trash. In other words, they do not care.

No pictures of food! I went to Antarctica last year and before I went I tried looking at RU-vids. You go all the way to Antarctica and all you show is your food, the airport, the bus taking you to the shop, etc etc etc. Useless! But oh, the girl was pretty so I guess that's why the hundreds of thousands of likes.

That's stupid, you have to go south to go north

I watched your videos before and I've enjoyed them. But this one you just kept telling us where you were but never showed us anything.

Way too much face time in these videos. I would rather just see the countryside. You could still talk. It seems kind of a waste for us to be looking at you while we could be looking at the scenery.

Disappointing. A whole video of a guy in his car driving, pretty much.