You accurately described the month of July we had in kansas last year, but why did we get a southern summer up here? All the folks I knew had to deal with their air conditioning breaking down. It was intense. Heat warnings day after day is stupid. Even the students at the college from Saudi Arabia said, "how does it get this hot, it's not this hot back home." 🤣
With love and respect, Matt...please take a walk each night and start eating salads. NOT potato, chicken, ham or crab "salad", but actual greens. We are starting to really worry about you and want you around for a long time. Love, Jake, Mike, Stevie and families.
@mattmitchell California born but southern bred by virtue of my dad , mother, godmother and grandmother ( who i affectionately referred to as nana ): they are from Louisiana , Georgia , Alabama and Texas respectfully
No joke, on that swamp alligator trapping show a while back, I had to turn on closed captioning because I couldn’t parse what they were saying in real time.
In "winter" season, make sure to check your weather ap every morning to see if you need long sleeves, short sleeves, jeans, shorts, and maybe that lonely jacket in the back of your closet.if it's cool in the morning and warmer in the afternoon wear short sleeves and a light jacket under a heavier jacket, so you can take your heavier jacket off at 10:45 and your lighter jacket off at 12:56.
Spot on! My Wife's Uncle passed away a few years ago and we got some of his stuff. He had some clothes from all the work he'd done as an Electrician all over the US. Some of it is great for icy cold Northern Weather... I have yet to touch it again after it got shoved into an old Marine Corps duffle bag at the back of the coat closet. That was like 3 or 4 years ago.
Yup! Sometimes I have to keep a jacket in the car or bring a short-sleeved shirt as a backup to work. I work in an office, but that humidity will FIND you
Now I am an old woman, California-born, but raised by a displaced southern mother. I have to let you know how much I enjoy your videos...it is almost like she is sitting next to me again. Putting me in my place with that razor wit...
You're just like my mom and me about my grandma! We're Californians through and through, but she was from tiny town Kentucky, and now that we live in Texas, these videos have layers upon layers for us. 😍
@@shirw same here. My dad was born and raised in the south. His family here for 170 years. My mom was a transplant from Massachusetts. She taught me the proper pronunciation of every word. We had civil war in our household every night... Her famous phrase was we whipped your butt once before in the civil war and will do it again
That heat part is spot on. I'm from East Tennessee and joined the army in 1998. Some of those guys were talking about how hot it gets where they were from. I smiled when the kid from Minnesota was telling me how hot and humid it's gets back home. The third day it got to 97 degrees and 89% humidity at Ft. Jackson SC and those boys almost died.
I was talking to a guy from Finland a while back. He was making fun of me when I told him I can't handle the cold. It was funny when he took a trip to Florida in July and nearly passed out on the tarmac after exiting the plane. Lol
My first job out of college was in Connecticut (I was born in Alabama and raised in Georgia). We used a test facility in central Tennessee. Several of my coworkers told me that if I had a chance to go there, watch out because no one could understand the locals. When I was finally able to finagle a trip there, I was confused. No one talked funny like they did up north. Everyone I met in Tennessee talked normally.
Connecticut has the least amount of accent of ANY northern state! LOL Either you were drunk, high or you should ask for a refund from that 'college' you went to! LOL
The most absolute Southern things my WWII era grandfather ever did were 1) teaching me to shoot his father’s .22LR Remington pump action rifle in his unfinished basement by putting hay bales against the foundation wall and turning an old couch over for us to kneel behind. 2) paying me $1 each for every blue jay I killed that tried to eat his cucumbers and tomatoes out of his garden with his Crosman pump air rifle. After I got to $11 one day he wouldn’t pay me anymore. Ahh the South.
My uncle convinced my brother that he was going to have to eat the first blue jay he shot. Put the bird in the freezer and everything, and pretended to cook it and served him a thin slice of chicken.
Y'all, I seriously don't think I'd survive anywhere else, but here in the South. Not because I wouldn't be able to survive, because, y'all know a country girl can survive. But where I come from when we talk about 'the war' in my family, there's still some prejudices that lie deep within. I fear rather than teaching a few of them yanks how to bag a few blue jay's, I'd likely take a few hunting for snipe. Which are real, but idk that they even got any up yonder. Yeah, I'll be in Georgia if anyone needs me til Jesus comes.
My great-uncle told us if we could catch a calf we could keep it. My brother wanted to try and uncle said, "Just watch out for the bulls." Brother asked, "Which ones are the bulls?" "The ones that aren't running away," said Uncle. After my brother was out running after the calf I asked my uncle if he could actually catch a calf and he replied, "No, but it's fun to watch him try." He also told us the green gooseberries are good to eat.
Grandpa was also no nonsense too. When I was 16 or so we took my 5 year old cousin fishing with us to a friend of my grandfather's pond. The man had some cows and a low voltage electrified wire fence that ran along the other side of the road from the pond we were in. My cousin, bless his heart, kept going across the road and I kept going to get him to keep him from getting hurt, grandpa a couple times too. We kept telling him leave that alone because it will hurt. But nooooo he kept going over to it. Finally he went one too may times. "Grandpa, Lee's going after the fence again." Long look, long pause from grandpa then "He'll learn" and makes a cast into the water and sure enough about a minute later I see him grab the fence with both hands and go GAHHHHHHTTTTPPPP as he shook and then came running back crying with little red lines on his palms and fingers. He holds his hands up to grandpa and grandpa looks at him and said "Hurt, didn't it." Lee sat there with us the rest of the time we fished and didn't move anywhere near that fence again.
they been coming down here for the past 100 years inbedding yankees in our land, very few actually born here are actually southerners, if your family aint been here since at least the civil war or before y'all aint truly southern. like a majority of florida.
"Go straight to the ATL airport and go somewhere else" best advice from those that want to tell you that is not how they did it back home. We don't care how you did it up north or out west, you are in the south now.
Roll Tide Roll!!! Thunder Struck! Elephant Stompin'! We don't PLAY football, WE LIVE IT!!! Aaawww, you get it....we crush any other conference.....yearly!
Spot on! But now we need a Southerner's survival guide for when we gotta go up north. Edit: So I actually moved to New Jersey 3 years ago, for life saving medical care I couldn't get back home in Tx. It's a culture shock, but honestly, it's not too bad. My local store even carries Milo's sweet tea!!! Actually, my one piece of advice is to always carry hot sauce. Mild back in Texas is spicy/hot up here, no joke.
Why would you wanna go up North? Unless your a trucker or you travel for work, I wouldn't suggest going up North. If you do have to make that wicked trip, don't forget to take grits with you. Because all they is cream of wheat or oatmeal.
Well, according to this I'm the IDEAL guide/translator for the newcomers to the south. I was born and raised in northern Maine so I speak the original French dialect of the Cajun. I've lived in Florida for over forty years so I know all about the weather patterns and seasons, and I married a girl from central Tennessee so I can understand the dialect and accent of people who pronounce the name 'Jim' in two syllables and have a working knowledge of the intense rivalries during March Madness and Bowl season. I've got it ALL covered.
I explain " we're refugees from.NYS" and immediately we're accepted. I love learning about Southern culture and experiencing everything. I live in a sweet little Tennessee town , close to the Alabama. It's so refreshing! The price to pay is hellish hot summers and murdering bugs that extend for about two and a half seasons .. but we've seen enough snow to last a lifetime! I love the South!
After 19 years of living in Southern Louisiana, I can understand enough to get by... As long as we don't go into full-on Cajun French. Then I just smile and agree. But seriously, these are the best people I've ever met. I love it here, and the additional 40 lbs I've gained shows it 🤣🤣
But why? LOL The bigger cities are notorious for the not talking to strangers. Go somewhere more rural, and you will find people more relaxed.I have DEFINITELY had good conversations with people in a grocery store and NONE of us were from the south! Miracles CAN happen! LOL
Nailed the seasons perfectly! I actually charcoal grilled this past week. Also I went shopping yesterday and I saw a volunteer daffodil in bloom in my yard and here it is only the 17th of February. That and someone's Forsithia was blooming. The good Lord may have said as long as th eEarth endures the seasons will continue but he didn't say they couldn't be messed up some. 🙃
I never knew how regionalized I was until I moved from Massachusetts to Florida years ago. I know that Florida isn't southern to a lot of people but it was more than enough for us. We left after 3 months. Came back to Massachusetts with no jobs, no place to live in February. Heaved a huge sigh of relief and haven't regretted coming back once.
Wish my southern grandparents were still alive to relearn the language. ❤😂 One expression my grandma from KY would say when something went wrong in the kitchen was sh!t fire.
To which people standing around reply “Save matches” in tones of sympathy. My Mamaw said,” Aye law.” You knew someone was fixin to get it. Catholics have nothing on the guilt of a southern child running through the list of things you did that day that might be about to get you killed.
As a Virginian who has lived in South Carolina and just got back from a week of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, I can confirm that I had no idea what anybody was saying.
I was born in Staten Island and raised 2 1/2 hours north of there. Lived in alabama now 17 years and this made me spit out my lunch. Thank you. You saved me some calories while burning some extra with laughing so damn hard.
Spent the first 50 years of my life living in PA. Moved to NC 9 years ago and all your videos are hilariously true about moving to the South 😂 love your channel!
Bless you for being real about people who don’t like the way we live but KEEP moving here. We have had a crazy influx of them in the last 5 years. I understand wanting to get out of that too… but if it’s that bad why recreate it here??? We didn’t want it to start with.
@@navykip we have a lot from California and New York moving here to east Texas. The ones that move because they can’t stand the laws and culture that have taken over those areas are pretty decent people BUT there are a lot that are simply creating what they left behind.
It's not that it's bad and that's why they move. We move for other reasons (kidnapped by a Southerner) and we're excited and then there's culture shock. I'm in Louisiana and black mold is in all the apartments, the Mexican food is horrible, and the only grocery store for 100 miles is Walmart. If you don't buy watermelons the minute they open, people buy them and sell them out of their truck in the parking lot for $10 each. Also, there's no snakes, and certainly no venemous ones. Ya'll got Buc-Cee's, Whataburger, I can wear shorts on Thanksgiving, and Bama football. When we say "that's not how it's done where I'm from" that means I'm not paying $400k for a house just because it has an attached garage and rain while you're driving is not a reason to be paralyzed with fear.
LOL, that whole "you'll wonder if you will ever be dry again" really hit home. Living in Arkansas, the simple act of drying yourself off after a shower is enough to make you sweat... and be damp all over again. Seriously, I'm pretty sure hell has nothing on an Arkansas summer. 😅
Loved this one. I was raised in South Georgia, now I live in Texas. It gets hotter here, but never as humid, and I just watch people "melting" and shake my head. Very accurate, right down to the terms of endearment.
One day this winter here in Texas, I check the weather channel site, and it's 80 F. And there's an ad for campbell's soup! Just what I wanted when it's 80 degrees 😂
It's not just to the south. You hear constantly about people moving from the city and get all bent out of shape about the farm they just moved next to.
I used to live in an area where they actually passed "right to farm laws" due to the city people. City people would move in next to 100+ year old farms, then bitch about the farmers working their fields or smelling manure.
I’m southern Louisiana born and raised. I can confirm nobody outside of 100 miles of here knows what I’m saying half the time 🤣. I went to Dollywood last year and almost everyone I talked to first looked at me like they were lost then hit me with some variation of where the hell are you from😆
"Go to your nearest dollar general and if there isn't we'll build immediately!" So true! I've visited the south for family members and I swear there's one on every corner it seems like 😂
But sometimes, you people do DUMB things (where ever you are at, not just the south)! I understand and would agree if someone is trying to change EVERYONE to be like themselves, but seriously, a little progress wont hurt you if you have ridiculous traffic laws or somesuch!
@@inconnu4961 Living in a tourist area it's normally they can't follow the basics and not be rude. I get the more local laws are hard to follow, but stop signs always mean stop. As well as just pretending you know how to drive in certain weather because you experience a lesser version or see the locals driving more comfortably.
I actually do understand the heat of the south despite living in the north, only during the north's summer though and shockingly only when i walk inside my place of work. Factories are a joy.
My mama was from the South but she ended up here in Ohio and we always knew we had done something really bad when she said bless your heart and I picked that up and said still people think I'm from the South lol but note I'm a Buckeye through-and-through. Love your content Matt I lived in the South myself for awhile several years and I have to admit I didn't enjoy the pace better than up North here And the sweet tea
I love being a Georgia peach. I left my New England ways behind and embraced the South. I used to be an introvert. You can’t be an introvert in the South. Perfect strangers will pull your life story out of you while ringing up your groceries. Having a bad day? More strangers will gather round and pray for you. I’m still getting used to hearing the tornado sirens going off in December, but even born and bred Southerners still flinch when they hear tornado sirens. And remember, they don’t have an accent, you do.
Humidity? Prepare to feel like you're trying to breath through a sponge.......... You can feel drier taking a shower ........... Out in the desert you sweat it evaporates and it helps your sort of feel a little cooler......... Here? It's already humid so when you sweat you just feel sticker and hotter. But I do love the food, the ability to wear flip-flops in the winter (summer-lite) and calling friends up north in February bragging about my tomato and strawberry plants. About the only serious drawback here in FL, are northerners who come down here and proceed on trying to turn things around and make it like, well, the north. No, I do not want to hear 'Up North, this is how it's done - the right way." "Really, precious? Well, bless your heart, darling" "We'll say 'Isn't that interesting' because that seems more polite than just telling someone where they can stick it"
SC hockey fan here. I lived in Atlanta back in the mid to late 70s and got interested in the game as a Flames fan. I had season tickets for a few years. Now I [ull for the Canes. It's a great game. Can't stand the Rangers or Bruins though.@@inconnu4961
Keep the vids comin' Matt. I'm originally from New Orleans but have lived overseas for many years. I don't even TRY to describe the New Orleans language and social constructs to the people I live and work with.
I have to say, since moving to the (technical) south a year and a half ago, I really love the terms of endearment perfect strangers use. Darlin' is my favorite. Almost all of them beat the rudeness of the north.
Love to see you do a series of "Southerner visits foreign lands," like Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Boston, the Jersey Shore, etc. Kinda a Stranger in a Strange land theme. Skip NYC -- its overdone.
How about do one from OUTSIDE the big cities! To be honest, the big cities are odd compared to the rest of area outside! Big cities are big cities, so they arent THAT strange! Unless you lived in a cave somewhere for too long.
Truth! Thank you so much Matt for your honest, humorous, real videos of "the south." It's diversity, and humidity, keep up always entertained and on the local church prayer list. Your videos always bring a smile to my heart. As a disable Veteran, I've lived all over the world, but here I am still in the south. It's home, it's familiar, it's where my family is to this day. I would move away in a heartbeat, especially during the high humidity of summer, or an random ice storm, but there's no place quite like the south. And the food! OMG! We got it all! Keep 'em coming!
Hello from Knoxville TN. This video is fantastic! Last summer, (pretty sure it was the 3rd one) I was in the DMV waiting. Just being neighborly I asked where everyone was from. There were 4 from California, 2 from New Jersey, and 1 from New York. I did give 1 piece of advice to all the refugees from “California’stan”. -Buy a Bible, a good gun, and learn to love sweet tea.
I served a mission for two years in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, I can attest that everything Matt was schooling you on is true! I miss the south often, If it wasn’t for my love of snowboarding I’d move to Clanton Alabama or Fayetteville Tennessee in a heartbeat. Love your channel Matt and crew!
Yep…I lived in Clanton for 5 1/2 months give or take when I was on my mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We covered all of Chilton county.
I worked for a company that had a plant and corporate offices in N WI and several plants in the South. Living in the Midwest, but mostly in the South, I was the translator. Explaining the “bubblier” was the funniest
I worked for years at a call center that specifically handled calls from the South. The thing about Southern Louisiana is no joke. You may think you can understand what anyone with any accent is saying, but there's no chance of making it through a conversation like that without an interpreter.
I’m in Alexandria Louisiana, dead center of the state. I am fluent in both coona$$ english, and north Louisiana redneck english. My skills as an interpreter are often employed. Lol
Lordy this is all true! We moved to South Central Texas last year and experienced our first southern summer. I about died. It was awful! Hoping I’ve acclimated enough to endure this summer.
I moved to East Texas from the PNW about 20 years ago. It does get better! It may take longer than a summer or two but you do get used to it. Not sure if it’s a temporary or permanent move for you but at some point I started to crave the heat and hate the cold. I’m so tired of this cold and rain we’ve been having lately, bring on the summer! Welcome to Texas btw, I hope you feel welcomed and are treated well. Texans can sometimes be…feisty lol to “outsiders” but unless it’s straight up mean it’s meant to be in good fun.
It will take you more than one summer, but don't worry, it will happen. You will grow gills like the rest of us in a few years and grow to love it. And you will hate the cold.
I’m from Alabama and was engaged to a guy from Southern Louisiana. It took me months to understand what his family was saying! That’s not even including other friends and extended family. And they didn’t even live that far away!! They were awesome, tho, and the partying most ppl I’ve ever met!
Fun fact, my mom stopped wearing makeup when we moved to TX because it would just melt off of her face it was that humid, and when we moved to East TN, we were rather surprised at the Tennessee Twang some people had. Also, the seasons here are as follows: winter, is it still winter?, I think its spring? nope, the weather can't make up its f--ing mind (this is a very long season that can bleed into the next,) Allergies because everything grows here (good luck successfully breathing through your nose during parts of mid march to early june), HOT, FOOTBALL, ooo I can be outside for 5 min without being a hot sweaty mess, fall, and winter. Fall is actually pretty nice here because you can actually tell when it happens. Pretty colors and you can no longer tell who's in Marching band or sports by their half-gallon water jugs that they need for practice so they don't have to worry about passing out because of the heat. (no joke, I almost passed out one time because the heat got to me and I didn't have my half-gallon at the time, I was working with my puny 28-ounce) Hydrate or Die-drate people! And wear sunscreen! my brother came home after practice one day lookin like a lobster
Yay! I'm that yankee transplant and I ingratiated myself to my new southern neighbors by making them apple butter and a pie. I havent gotten a "bless your heart" or a stare yet! One thing I did notice as a transplant from Maryland is... at least in South Carolina, you can escape the 110 degree summer heat by standing in the shade. That wasnt possible before! So I love the south!
Matt you forgot to mention the ice storms in the winter, and hail the size of oranges. I thought I was prepared for winter until I tried to drive on ice. I lived in the bootheel of MO. I remember the humidity. Weatherman saying the humidity was at 100%. I never understood how that could be and I could still breathe, lol.
I'm originally from NJ, but I lived near New Orleans for college, and I got a chance to work with a bunch of people from Lafourche parish over a couple of years for summer high school band camps. I had taken 6 years of French classes before college, so the parents loved me because they thought it was awesome that the Yankee fella was the only one who understood them with no problems. 😂⚜⚜😂
This is so true! We lived in Dallas for 2 years & I have never felt heat & humidity like that. Can't say I want to again. And it never really cooled down at night. The day the movers came to get us out of there, it was 108, felt like 115 with the humidity. I had plenty of ice cold water for the moving guys & they went through an entire case & then some. Gave the foreman money to take the guys out for beer afterwards. Best BBQ we've ever had, though...and Shiner Bock is life. Luckily we can get Shiner here now. Thanks for always making me laugh, Matt.
I’m from the southwest , which is different then the South and when I’m trying to help my family, who are all west of the Mississippi River, understand Southern culture I send either Matt’s or It’s a Southern Thing videos to them. Matt, I especially love your observations on the weather here - and I still get mad when the temps Drop during the Day!!! But at least I know now to have every sweater, coat, rain jacket -whatever! With me at all times 👍😂🤷🏻♀️.
I was born in Maryland (I know) raised all over (military),married a man from New Orleans (met him in ND, we are AF). He didn’t have an accent, he was in speech, debate and drama in HS. Then I went to NOLA to meet the family. 😮 it took me a week to understand what they were saying to me.
Years ago Delta airlines had an advertising slogan 'Delta is ready when you are." Still relevant to those who persist in comparing and deriding the south to wherever they fled from. Some, not all.
Watching these videos has made me wonder if a certain type of acknowledgment while jogging or walking is a southern thing. It's been this way my whole life, whether living in TN, SC, or KY. When you go out walking or jogging and pass other people, you always give them a fraction of a second of eye contact and nod at each as you pass. This happens 99% of the time I jog or walk around town Whether it's in Nashville, Charleston, Atlanta or a small rinky dink town. Both men and women do this in passing. I went to Michigan recently and jogged like normal. No one acknowledged me and a few people acted visibly confused. It tripped me out. In all my years of jogging, this has NEVER happened. It made me nervous. In the south, everybody acknowledges you from snobby looking people to homeless people. I'm thinking this is a southern thing. Like country people wave to cars that pass. What do you think?
It's a Southern thing. It's polite to do. And depending on how big your family is, they could be a cousin, or somebody your family goes to church with. You don't want your grandma calling you saying she was told by Miz Daisy at church that you walked past her, and snubbed her. It'll take you a month of Sundays to get back in her good graces. And you may have to go visit Miz Daisy and apologize for your indiscretion of not acknowledging her the previous time you saw her. Besides it only takes 7 muscles to smile, and 49 to frown. And kindness is free. And like my grandma said, a green switch is free too. Take care, stay safe, have a nice day. 👵☮️🖖
I'm from South Carolina. Visited my grandparents in South Dakota. Walked to the local store one day. Passed a man on the sidewalk and said, " Hello " like a good Southern child would. He stopped and turned around and stared at me as I walked on. Such a weird encounter that I still marvel at it 65 years later.
I just came back from my first trip to Alabama. Matt’svideos made me want to visit the true south, not Atlanta. I recommend February for hiking and outdoor see sighting. Alabama definitely has 5 different regions and accents. Keep the videos coming Matt!😁
Born & raised in Portland OR. HORRIBLE rain/clouds Oct thru May but ABSOLUTELY lovely June-Sept. No bugs, nice & dry summer, all the outdoor stuff!!! So, I just moved to TN & while I LOVE the politics & friendliness, the last two summers have had me (and even my DOGS) thinking I MAY have made a mistake. I've never, EVER experienced heat & humidity like this and it's got me wondering how the first settlers to this region, the ones that survived that first summer w/o air conditioning, didn't just. keep going.... This is a serious question I have.
Summer SUMmer SUMMER!!!!!!😂😂😂😂❤ I am from Florida soooo true. And I have always wished to tell some new residents to go back home😂😂😂 love y’all’s work.
