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First things first, we're driving over to a cowboy church. What that is, we don't know, but we're going to go and find out.
It sounds pretty bloody Texan to me.
Well, this is definitely a first.
Doesn't look like any church I've been to before.
Good morning, sir. How are you?
>> Very good. How are you?
>> Very good. We're not from around here.
We're from England.
>> Yeah, I would have never guessed.
>> And we want to We're traveling around the US filming our experiences. Would it be okay if we attended a service here?
>> By all means.
>> Yeah?
>> Please, yeah.
>> Yeah?
We've never been to a cowboy church before. This is our first time. We've never even heard of them.
>> Oh, really?
>> Yeah. So, what's your name, sir?
>> Butch.
>> Butch Ellis.
>> Nice.
>> Alicia.
>> Nice to meet you.
>> Nice to meet you.
>> I like your outfit. I like your hat.
>> Well, thank you.
>> Yeah.
Welcome to cowboy church.
>> Yeah, you see out there, that's the riding arena. That's where they train horses.
>> Oh, wow.
>> You don't know, please do.
>> Okay, thank you.
Good morning, sir. How lovely to meet you.
You all good?
>> John Ellis.
>> He's one of our musicians. You've never seen a cowboy church?
>> Never. We don't even know what a cowboy church is. Could you please tell me?
Like, what What makes this different than a regular church?
>> Rural areas like this, we have farmers and ranchers, cowboy churches just started popping up. And our pastor is a five-time world champion cowboy.
And so, I train horses all day long, every day.
>> Working ranches.
>> Or working ranches.
>> There's no day off from feeding. There's no day off from, you know.
So, they would actually ride up on their horseback and have a church service.
>> Ah, cool.
>> I think it appeals to a lot of people.
>> Mhm.
>> It's like me, I'm not a cowboy.
>> No.
>> But I've spent my life in the country music business.
>> Mhm. You what we told you Keith?
Really? I like Toby Keith. We really like country music, you know, especially the old school country music.
>> That's about when I retired. Retired in '99.
>> We're honored to be here. Thank you.
Thank you for having us, yeah.
>> Beautiful.
>> And so you're here >> We're just doing a little >> road trip around the southern US.
>> Stay away from Houston.
>> Yeah.
We're not going to Houston. We're not going to any of the big cities. We like small towns, you know, we're exploring small town America.
>> They actually sit on hay bales.
>> Mhm.
>> And on this side, them were all horse stalls.
>> So this really is a cowboy church.
>> Yeah. The first cowboy church I ever went to, it was a functional horse barn.
So they had the stalls that have the bars, you know. And they would open them and then the horses would have their heads out, you know. And if you were sitting too close, they'd try to nibble at your straw hat, you know.
>> Oh, no way.
>> But yeah.
>> Good morning, sir.
You okay?
>> And you might get a lot of hugs, you might get a lot of, you know.
>> So that's all good. That's all good.
That's all good.
We like meeting new people, you know.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, that's all good.
What's your name, ma'am?
>> I'm Linda.
>> Linda, lovely to meet you.
>> Or they call me trouble.
>> Trouble, yeah? Why do they call you that?
>> You just have to be around her for a little bit.
>> We'll find out, yeah.
>> [laughter] [music] >> So you're the youth pastor here at the church.
>> I >> Can I ask, like here at the cowboy church, is there no dress code?
>> Absolutely. I mean, I'm in shorts and boots [music] today. Pretty relaxed, you know. I worked night shift last night, so I woke up about, I don't know, 30 minutes ago and drove here.
>> Wow. That's dedication.
>> I I just love coming here. It's definitely not your like, we're not this big production, but I mean, everybody here is genuine. We see he's amazing things done here. But I mean, I'll show up in Crocs sometimes.
>> Crocs.
>> Oh, yeah. It's just come as you are and I mean >> No, but I like that. I like that. It feels humble. It doesn't feel commercial here. I like our small little church.
>> You like it here, yeah.
>> Nice to meet you.
>> Ellis.
>> Ellis.
>> Ellis.
>> Ellis.
>> Nice to meet you.
>> What's up, my man? This is my grandpa, by the way.
>> Oh, nice to meet you, sir. Yeah.
>> I'm Bill.
>> Bill.
>> Bill. What's up, man? Nice to meet y'all. They tell me y'all are from England, huh?
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> Just visiting over in this country?
Looking around? Wanted to come to the cowboy church? Yeah. I'm glad you picked this one.
>> Thank you very much.
>> God's going to God Hey.
It's no accident you're here. God's got something for you.
>> This is Jimmy. He's our sound guy.
>> How you doing?
>> Nice to meet you, sir.
>> How you doing, guys? Singer. What do you do?
>> Hi. Lovely to meet you. Lovely to meet you, Ellis.
>> Nice to meet you.
>> Congratulations.
>> Nice to meet you.
>> Nice to have met.
An obscene amount of people already since we came into this church.
>> It's such a great community. Good morning. How are you?
>> Very good, thank you, Mom.
>> Good morning, Mom.
>> Mommy.
>> Ellis.
>> I'm Gloria.
>> Gloria. Ellis.
>> [music] >> I'm the pastor. Today I'm the pastor.
>> Okay, okay, okay.
So this is the All Around Cowboy Church.
Check it out.
I can honestly say I've never seen anything like it, but I am buzzing to be here. The people in here are incredibly nice. I've pretty much met everyone in the church. Me and Ellis have just gone around shaking hands with everyone.
Being introduced.
>> I feel like there's such a nice sense of like community here. Everybody knows everybody.
>> He's different. He's different.
>> I mean, we speak American.
>> Yeah.
>> Y'all speak English.
>> Yeah.
>> A lot of people don't understand us here cuz we have quite a thick accent.
>> You'd be surprised at people that don't understand me over here.
I'm from Louisiana.
A >> Yeah, a of people will ask me, "Yeah, but it's not the same French." It's not the same.
>> Thank you.
>> It's If I'm speaking to somebody from Belgium or France, most of the time they'll say, "Well, you're speaking the 15th century French." Which is when we came over.
>> Okay. Yeah.
>> So, we haven't evolved like a lot of the French people that you hear is like they choke on >> Oh, yeah.
>> I just No, that's not French.
>> Bless.
This is the coolest church we've ever been to.
The service is officially begun. We're sat right [music] on the pastor's table as special guests. Let's enjoy. Let's worship. [music] >> It's my first time, so >> Oh, yeah.
>> Yeah, thank you.
>> [music] >> We've been invited up to the front to get involved.
>> [music] >> How nice is this? Like just have such a relaxed feeling at a church. And it's not like super formal.
>> [music] >> The [music] whole church is a bit nervous. You know, cuz it's our first time like >> Don't be nervous.
>> No?
>> Embrace it. Have an open heart.
>> Okay.
>> GOD IS GOOD. GOD IS GOOD.
>> AT THIS POINT WE'D REALIZE THINGS WERE ABOUT TO get pretty interesting.
>> [music and singing] [music] [singing] >> More and more.
Let me tell you something. God's got for you and he's going to put something inside of you already. You can feel it coming even as we're talking. Father, we know we can look around at circumstances and things may not look good, but we know that you are good. We thank you, Jesus, for the work you did on the cross. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
We're going to change it up just a little bit, boys. Key of G.
>> [music] [music] >> Real good singers in here. They were real good.
>> [singing] [music and singing] [screaming] [music] >> Everything I am, EVERYTHING I HAVE, EVERYTHING I EVER WILL BE, GOD, I'M YOURS.
>> And I just [singing] want to speak the name of Jesus over every [music and singing] enemy.
>> Well, confess.
>> Jesus, over my family, I speak the holy name.
>> The devil has no authority in our lives, in anything that we have our hands on.
>> [singing] >> Well, that was absolutely beautiful.
Across the pond this morning. Mr. Ellis and Mr. Ellis are here with us.
They are visiting us Yankees and uh And they're moving around. They saw the cowboy church and they said, "We've never been to a cowboy church. Let's go."
You, along with all the rest of us, are not here by accident this morning.
Almost, if not more than half of the United States are sovereign. You know what? If we're not all in, we're not in at all.
>> You start thinking you can get somebody to change you a boy into a girl or a girl into a boy. That's how ignorant you can get without God. In the beginning, God created them both male and female.
And you're not going to find anybody that's not either male or female. If you love your brother, you're not going to commit adultery with his wife. If you love your neighbor, you're not going to you're not going to steal from him.
>> [applause] >> Your life will never be the same. Very important that you tell somebody.
>> Well, that was beautiful. It was powerful. It was moving.
Don't know what to say.
Well, thank you very much.
Very powerful.
Thank you.
Yeah, no, we're very very grateful, honored to be here.
>> They lay hands on the sick and they will recover.
>> Lovely to meet you, sir. Yeah, all the best.
>> [music] >> You're good okay with Jesus?
>> Yeah, yeah, of course.
>> Okay.
Just want to ask. Just want to ask.
Don't want you to walk out of here without being right with Jesus. That's the most important thing on the face of the earth.
>> We may never see each other again this [music] side of heaven.
We might.
>> We might. We might.
>> Appreciate it.
>> You're a good man. You're a good man.
>> I appreciate [music] that.
>> God bless.
>> Appreciate you all and see if you've welcomed us like family. You know, we've never met anyone here and we feel we feel at home, you know, and it's >> Anything we can ever do to help you?
Hey, technology these days. We're just a phone call away, right?
>> Yeah.
>> Or an email away or whatever, you know.
>> So, how many genders are there?
Two.
>> Actually, even the [music] term gender was invented in the 1950s by a professor who was working toward developing what we we call gender identification. So, really, gender is not even a real word.
>> That's so sad.
>> Sex. You're male or female. That's it.
God created us male and female. And all of history and all of biology verifies that.
>> To be honest, I can't believe we've got to a point where this is even these new concepts are even accepted as normal because the world has become a crazy place.
>> Yes.
>> Yes.
>> Yes. Did you know me?
>> Yeah, we met. Appreciate it, yeah. No, thank you for having us, yeah.
It was great.
Fantastic, yeah.
Really grateful. Honored to be here, honestly.
>> This is my oldest daughter.
>> How old is Christie?
>> Christie Ellis.
>> Hi there. I didn't realize y'all were from England.
>> Yeah.
>> So cool.
>> All the way from the other side of the pond.
>> I know.
I'm just so glad y'all got to be here.
>> We loved it. We loved it. It was fantastic, yeah.
>> So if y'all ever move here, you know where we are.
>> around. Yeah, yeah.
>> Oh my goodness. I'm glad y'all are here.
>> No, thank you for having us.
>> Yes, you can.
>> I told her, I said, "We we have to >> This is my mom.
>> It's just some people kind of freak, you know.
>> No, we're all good. We're really chilled out, yeah.
>> Sometimes, you know.
>> This is my daughter.
>> And this is my mom.
>> Oh, amazing.
>> And I'm her oldest friend.
>> Aw, lovely.
>> She's my oldest daughter, my oldest friend.
>> the other one that was singing on the platform is my granddaughter.
>> Aw, she's fantastic.
>> And we have five generations.
>> Wow.
>> We do.
>> So Kenneth is giving us some honey that he produces.
>> You made this honey?
>> Yes.
>> No, our bees did.
>> [laughter] >> That's the best honey in the whole place. That's the >> Yeah.
>> We appreciate that.
>> Yeah, and I bought all that stuff from you.
>> Yeah, we'll have that beer every day.
>> It's looking like it's mostly all crystallized.
Do y'all drink tea?
>> Yes, we do.
>> Yeah, I figured y'all were tea drinkers.
>> Yeah.
>> You should clean it up and put it in there.
>> This is the real deal, yeah.
>> Yeah, that's real pure honey.
Shepherd's pie or uh uh fish and chips?
>> Fish and chips. Fish and chips, yeah.
Can't go wrong with fish and chips.
Well, I can honestly say, right, hand on heart, I've never met such a welcoming group of people in me life.
>> Haha. Walk around if you wanted to, or >> So what's up? No, thanks for having us.
Good.
Again, thank you, thank you, thank you.
What can I say?
>> Pleasure meeting you.
>> It was an absolute pleasure.
>> Yeah. You have a nice adventure.
>> Thank you. Yeah.
>> Hope it all goes well.
>> Yeah. All the best to you, sir. Yeah.
>> Thank you.
>> You're a top man.
>> Oh, this is home for y'all, right?
>> Yeah. This is the English weather right here.
>> There you go.
>> We're no strangers to the rain.
>> Pastor Sunny trains cutting horses.
Right. I don't know if you're familiar with that or not.
>> Can you explain to us what that is? What What is cutting?
>> Okay.
You take a herd of Let's just take the old ranching days.
>> Yeah.
>> When you've got a herd of cattle out there >> Mhm.
>> and you have to doctor these cattle.
>> Mhm.
>> Your horse is trained to go in the herd and you pick out a particular cow and your horse will help you move and separate that cow or calf from the rest of the herd.
Then typically they'll rope that calf, tie him down so they can doctor him, doctor his ears, whatever. You know, whatever whatever needs to happen, but that horse is trained to work the calf.
Have y'all ever ridden horses, been around horses very much at all?
>> I've ridden a horse once in Mexico.
>> Okay. Okay. Well, this is the tack room.
This is where they keep their saddle. We call it tack, all the paraphernalia.
>> Yeah.
>> Saddle pads, goes under the saddle, bridles, all those things, all the different saddles. This is the workshop for a horse trainer.
>> Yeah. So, the horses are in here.
>> Yeah, some of them, I think. I don't know these horses, so >> Okay. Okay. Okay.
>> I'm sure they're probably okay.
>> How are you doing there?
>> Cameron, did you meet these guys?
>> I did not.
>> Cameron works for Matlock here.
>> Cameron I'm your assistant.
>> Oh, cool.
>> Down here. This This is uh Alicia.
>> Yes.
>> Right?
>> Yes, sir.
>> Did I say that right?
>> Yeah, you did.
>> Okay. And Ellis.
>> Not Alex.
>> Not Alex. Ellis.
>> [laughter] >> England, sir.
>> Yeah.
>> Never been to a cowboy church before and saw the sign and said, "Hey, >> let's go."
>> He's never been on the ranch before.
>> Okay. Cameron's Cameron's from up up north, was it?
Dakota?
>> Iowa.
>> Iowa. Wow, you've come far.
>> Came down in the hills.
>> I've been I've been down here for almost 10 years now.
>> Okay.
>> Worked for many different trainers, worked out in Arizona, Florida, Utah.
>> Yeah.
>> California, all over.
>> But you're happy here, >> Sorry?
>> you're happy here, yeah?
>> Yes, sir. He's a farrier, so he does he does their feet.
>> The horse keeping business looks easy from the outside, but it's not, is it?
>> No.
>> No. You put a lot of work in.
>> A lot of time and work. That horse right there, that's Snap. He's out of a 46's mare, 6's cowgirl, out of Jesse's Topaz um stud out of a Mr. Jess Perry.
But he's a good horse. He's for sale right now. I just sold one this morning for about 10,000, going to Oklahoma.
>> I'm sorry, sir, but I have no idea what you just told me.
>> [laughter] >> Sorry, I spoke a different language.
I just nodded and agreed with you, but it sounds cool.
>> Yeah, he's he's a good horse. I do everything on him.
>> He's a good horse. Can I go and have a look at him?
>> Yeah, go ahead.
>> Yeah, don't mind.
Hi, Snap.
You're all right there?
You're lovely, you.
Lovely.
>> This is what we call a walker.
>> Yeah.
>> You can tie them on to each end of the pole and they'll walk around, just exercise a little bit.
>> Just get fit, yeah?
>> Just to exercise a little bit.
>> get fat.
>> All of these are cow horses.
>> Yeah, so they're all bred for working cows, doing any work here on the on the ranch.
>> You saw some cattle in the pastures when you drove up. Yeah, yeah. They'll bring those cattle in and use those cattle to train the horses on.
>> Right, that's what they do in the arena there. Now, over here, we've got the arena of the ranch. Check it out.
This is where they'll practice doing whatever they do.
This place is well impressive. It's a full-blown ranch with a church attached to it.
>> crazy. I've never been anywhere like this in my life, ever.
>> I mean, it's a bit of a different church experience, isn't it?
>> Our girls use some of the horse shampoo for themselves cuz they like it better.
>> Yeah. So this is the the horse car wash.
They'll pull in they'll pull in, yeah?
Do they have to pay?
No. [laughter] I mean some of these horses are real beautiful.
And hungry.
It seems hungry as well.
>> For the most part they they train horses for other people.
>> Oh yeah, so you can send your horse here to get trained up.
>> Exactly. They typically pretty good, but they're animals they're not machines.
And if a horse a horse like that he can reach down and get a 500 lb calf bite him and lift him up off the ground.
>> Oh so they're strong.
>> That's how strong it is. So he could literally bite your finger off.
>> So stay away from him.
>> They don't No no no no I don't know about him.
I don't know he might be he might be wild as everything I don't know. Yeah guy I'm talking about you.
Let's see he's back over here and we'll go get something to eat. What do you think?
>> I'd say that's >> Sounds good I'm starving. We didn't have breakfast today.
>> There you go.
He's probably thinking okay Bill we've seen all the horses we want to you shut up let's go eat.
>> Well thanks for showing us around.
>> Oh sure sure sure.
>> Well the gate's shut.
>> Now I feel like I'm on a ranch opening the gate.
>> Come on Lee hurry up I'm starving.
I DON'T KNOW. Hang on hold the phone here hold the phone. There's a button at the side of the road. Don't tell me that opens the gate.
There we go.
You press a button the gate opens automatically.
>> Oh my goodness.
>> Right everyone we've been invited to go out for barbecue with everyone after the service. Now that's an offer we just can't refuse isn't it?
It's pissing down the weather is miserable, but we've arrived to Hinze's Barbecue.
Smells good from outside. Let's check it out. We are so hungry. We've not eaten anything before church.
>> Texas Barbecue.
>> Texas Barbecue.
>> I have a barbecue plates. I have a one meat, two meat, three meat. They all come with two sides. Your meat choices are brisket, sausage, ham, turkey, pork, chicken, and ribs.
And all of our sides are in red on the third screen.
>> Right.
>> We also have chicken fried steak, chicken fried chicken. Um we have hamburger steaks. We have fish, shrimp.
It's all fresh cooked here. So, very good.
>> Is there anything you don't have?
>> Uh not really.
>> You [laughter] couldn't have made the menu any bigger.
Please can we get the deluxe plate with three meats?
>> Okay.
>> And can we get ribs?
>> Uh-huh.
>> What else should we get?
>> Brisket.
>> Maybe should get a sausage. Yeah, go on.
Yeah, please.
>> Okay. And you get two sides. They're all good. So, it just depends what you like.
>> We have like 20 of them. We have 20 sides. Yeah, we have pinto beans, baked beans, mustard greens, potato salad, bacon onion potatoes, twice baked potatoes, mashed potatoes.
>> an idea. You just surprise us with the two.
>> Really?
>> Yeah, please. Yeah.
>> Oh, god.
>> [laughter] >> So, I'm here like at least once. She She probably knows me by name by now.
Okay, so surprise you with the sides?
>> Yeah, whatever. We're easy. We eat everything.
>> You want to pay for them?
>> to pay for them.
>> That's fine, darling.
>> You're paying for us?
>> Yes.
>> Are you sure about that?
>> And yes, I'm sure.
>> You're amazing. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah.
>> Uh drinks?
>> That's so kind.
>> Drinks for One drink >> We'll just >> Share a drink?
>> We'll share a drink. Yeah, please. Thank you.
Well, I didn't expect that, did you, Louise?
>> This is so nice.
>> Or this one is my treat. Imagine me and you taking out after church. Just like >> What are we doing? I like this. Look at this. It says, "Do not touch. Very old."
I wonder how long that's been there.
>> [laughter] >> A long time, eh?
>> Didn't it Didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out very old, right?
>> Look at the state of these pies. They look unbelievable.
The pies in the US, oh boy, I'm looking forward to trying them over this trip.
We're going to try them in a few different states and yeah, they're just like classic, aren't they?
Classic pies.
The type you see in the movies, the type you want to just get, put some whipped cream on top and go phew.
So, as always in an American barbecue place, you've got your sweet sweet tea and your sweet tea.
>> The sweet tea?
>> Yeah.
>> Here is to die.
>> Really?
>> So good.
>> We've had too much sweet tea, we need a break. We're going to go for the lemonade today. Let's get some ice.
The sweet tea is too sweet. It tastes so good, but you know, I quite like my teeth.
>> I used to get on it.
I usually get on pretty much all unsweetened and I just put just a tad of sweet in it just >> That sounds right, yeah. You sweet tea addicts here in Texas.
>> You have >> You've got a problem.
>> You have to.
65 >> We're going to go for the lemonade.
We're going to go for the lemonade.
Let's get this lemonade to go. It looks good. It looks good in that machine.
Cheers, people.
It's crack.
So good, but it's so sweet.
>> Oh, you've got to be really careful with that.
>> I agree.
>> [laughter] >> I'm not going to lie to you, people. The sides in here look real good, especially that cucumber salad and whatever that is. They look good.
>> salad.
>> In Texas, do you not share a barbecue plate? Do you get your own?
>> That's what I should That's what I should do.
>> Yeah.
>> [laughter] >> We've got to get ourselves some barbecue sauce. Look at that.
That's the real deal. That is thick, it's chunky.
>> How much rather have some more of it?
>> Proper all made stuff. Ready to rock and roll?
>> I think so.
>> This is lovely, isn't it? Everybody eats in together after the church service.
>> Heck yeah.
>> Yeah.
No, how are you doing?
>> Clayton.
>> Clayton.
>> wife.
>> Alice.
>> Hi, nice to meet Christine.
>> Christine, lovely to meet you.
>> are your sons.
>> Nice to meet you, lads.
All good?
I like your haircut.
It's cool.
How was it as an American going to India? Like what was your first impression like the first day you arrived?
>> Uh I never thought I saw poverty until then. I never saw real poverty until India.
Like it it's crazy just seeing moms and family members just on the street. They're they're bathing in into the in the rain water.
>> Yeah.
>> You know, and there's no and then that's what they do. That's their normal life.
You know, and I was like, "Oh, wow."
>> Does it humble you?
>> Yeah, it's it's very humbling.
>> Yeah.
>> You know, if you have a dollar in your pocket, you're doing a whole lot better than most of the world. When I first got there, I was like, "I'm not getting those cars." And then all of a sudden you do and you're like, "Oh, man, they're swerving." And then you learn that the the lines are just the line the lines for the highway, it's literally just uh they're not there.
>> [laughter] >> If they can fit seven cars wide, they're fitting seven cars. It's so unique. And my co-co-co-workers, we had we had bets of how many people we could see on one motorcycle. I said five, we saw six at one point.
On one little motorcycle.
>> This is one cool barbecue place. Look at all the taxidermy on the wall.
Check it out.
This food looks really good. Let me show you what we've got. So we've got a piece of bread and underneath here we've got some pork ribs.
We have got some brisket and some sausage.
Underneath the onion, look all that sausage. And for sides we've got mac and cheese and a potato salad it looks like.
The reason we came here, you know, like the small town America is because we think that that is the real America, you know?
>> Right.
>> It is.
>> Like if you come in here as as a foreigner from a different country, that's I feel like this is where you're going to find what we're looking for, you know?
>> a lot of kids from the Dominican and that's what they say, too. And like our Western Wear store, we had a little Western Wear store. They gave them hats and then we had like world champion team ropers that came over, taught them how to rope. Like we had all kind of They just like rally around these kids, you know?
>> Yeah.
>> That was pretty cool. The cowboy culture is very different than the city.
>> Yeah.
>> And so it's like a subculture inside the culture of the US.
>> Everyone's been looking after us here, like we'll park in a small town, we'll start walking around the square, like around the courthouse, and someone will come out of a shop, they'll be like, "You need something? Like, you're looking for something?" And then they'll just talk to us for like half an hour, telling us where we should go, and and like, you don't get that in the city, like you go to Miami, you come to the US, you're going to have a completely different experience than if you go to these little towns, you know?
>> I feel like in the country, it's just different.
>> First off, let's try these ribs, they look nice. Cheers.
Awesome, aren't they?
Pork ribs. Pork is life.
It's got a real nice smoky taste to them.
Look at that piece of brisket right there.
That's a thing of beauty, isn't it?
Yeah?
So, dreams are made of that.
It's beautiful. I wish I could write it a poem.
We've got to chase this barbecue with a fresh onion, the pickle.
Last but not least, let's try that sausage, dipped in that barbecue sauce.
Go on, then.
What can I say?
Unbelievably tasty. Oh, yeah.
Juicy sausage, nice hard casing.
Smoky.
That barbecue sauce as well.
>> [laughter] >> Not too sweet.
>> Ribs, just what you wanted, just what we needed.
>> Really good.
I love it here.
Lovely to meet you, sir, yeah?
Yeah.
>> Enjoy your time.
>> Thank you, thank you. Extremely grateful, yeah?
See you again.
If you don't mind me asking, how old are you?
>> 86.
>> 80? No, you're not.
>> Yes.
>> You don't look a day over 60.
>> Oh, I love that.
>> You look fantastic.
>> On the 1st of October, my husband and I would have been married 60 years.
>> Wow. I've got messy hands now. I've got messy hands after the barbecue.
>> A little bit of water in there.
>> Oh.
>> Yes.
>> Thank you.
>> Okay.
I know it does help. It does. Get the grease >> Thank you very much for that.
But you've got to eat with your hands, right?
>> Huh?
>> You've got to eat with your hands. Yeah.
>> Yeah?
>> Yes. You just >> Can't be using cutlery.
>> You use the cutlery for potato salad.
>> Yeah, for the sides.
>> Ribs, no.
>> [clears throat] >> No.
>> Never.
>> You just got to get in there with your hands. Get messy. Enjoy it, yeah?
>> Yeah.
>> You got to enjoy it, yeah?
>> Oh, yeah. The best >> The toilet in this barbecue place is bloody mad. It looks cool. It's got the urinal, but look at the pooer.
There's no flipping door. What do you do?
Just sit here and stick your hand out like, "Oh, I'm having a poo, mate.
Please don't bother me." What's that all about?
I don't think you'd catch me having a poo in there.
So, I just put my camera down. I said goodbye to everyone. I went to the toilet and I've come outside and everyone's gone.
But they were so nice. They were such nice people. Literally looked after us like they'd known us for 20 years.
What was barbecue? Texas. Bloody Texas.
Texas is one of the greatest places ever. I don't reckon there's anywhere else on Earth quite like Texas.
This weather is terrible.
Miserable. It's like England.
You know, I come to think about it. I don't reckon I've ever experienced that many firm handshakes in such a short period of time that I did back there at the cowboy church. Probably the firmest handshakes I've ever received in my whole life and I like it, you know?
Everyone knows you're not a real man unless you can shake someone's hand properly.
It's a skill that um young people don't really have nowadays.
What a deep analysis of a handshake right there, but it is what it is.
What on God's green earth is this?
hell. Look at the size of this Dollar Tree.
Look at it.
Oh, it's not?
>> It's the warehouse.
>> Oh, can we go in?
>> Uh no, it's only for employees. Yeah.
>> okay. Thank you. Okay, thank you.
Wow.
How's that?
>> I was so excited for that. I couldn't wait.
>> I thought that was about to be the biggest shop we've ever been in, but no, it's a warehouse. Let's get back on the road. That was embarrassing.
It just won't stop pissing it down today. The weather is nasty. So, what we're going to do is drive out into the country somewhere and find a classic Texan bar. That's the plan. That's the plan. Whether it happens or not, I don't know. We're going to find out.
We just come across this spot, or Tiago's place, straight off the motorway here.
It's got to be good, hasn't it? Let's go in. Let's check it out. Proper dive bar.
That's one big truck.
Right, everyone, how you doing?
All good, yeah?
Check it out in here, then.
Oh, this is pretty cool, yeah? This is cool.
You all good, yeah?
>> You what?
>> You all good?
All good, yeah? Do you sell Lone Star?
>> We do. You want to try Lone Star?
>> Yeah, please. I've not tried that.
>> and I've got red.
>> I'll have a light cuz I'm driving, yeah?
I'll be sensible today. Let's get two lights, please.
>> All right, let me get you some cozies.
>> Oh, cool.
>> Keep your beer cold and your hands warm.
>> Perfect.
Thank you.
>> Here you go, beautiful.
>> Thank you so much.
>> You're welcome.
>> So, how much are these running you?
>> $3.25 a piece.
>> $3.25 each? Not bad.
>> visiting from?
>> England.
>> England?
>> Yeah.
>> Well, welcome.
>> Oh, thank you.
>> You're very welcome. You got a little cowboy bar.
>> Yeah, he's cool. Do you call these places ice houses in Texas?
And what does that mean?
>> It's just ice house basically like a beer bar, but my husband and I always say, you know, meet me at the old watering hole.
>> Yeah, that's what you call it.
>> Yeah.
>> [laughter] >> An ice house is where we only sell beer and wine.
>> Yeah.
>> We don't sell liquor, but you can bring a bottle of liquor in and we can sell you a setup.
So, we can sell you a cup of ice and a Coca-Cola or whatever, you can make your own drink. You can't do that at a liquor bar. This is a good old place.
>> Yeah.
All right, let's try this Lone Star, yeah?
Ice cold, that. Bloody hell. Cheers, mate.
>> Ah, cheers.
>> Cheers. Cheers.
>> Nice to meet you, guys.
>> No, nice to meet you.
Bloody hell, that is cold. That's cold.
>> Alicia and Stephanie.
>> Alice.
>> Alice.
>> Nice to meet you, Stephanie.
>> Pleasure to meet you.
>> Yeah, lovely. Right, let's give you a proper review of the Lone Star Light.
It's decent. It's a light beer, you know what I mean?
>> It's nice. I like it.
>> It's light.
>> It's And it sounds stupid, but it's curing.
>> It's all right.
>> The thing about an ice house is we keep a lot of our beer on ice.
>> Oh, can I come and have a look, please?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Wow.
We keep a lot of our beer in old-fashioned coolers on ice.
>> So, you don't find this in other bars?
>> Uh, no.
>> No? You know on a hot day in the Texan summer, do you ever feel like, you know, just climbing inside and going [music] to sleep?
>> Yes.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, or the ice maker, which is really big.
>> Really?
This bar is real cool. We've got the country tunes on. You've got the pool table here.
Or really can play some slots. [music] You've got the old Corona tables.
But just look at the decor like >> [music] >> the bars in the US are always mega cool.
That's what we're drinking there. Lone Star.
Texan beer. What's free?
>> Barbecue pork sandwiches with [music] a bag of chips is free.
>> Why are they free?
>> We just do that all the time. When people come we cook. We have stuff in the crock-pot. It's all dashing home town service >> Yeah.
>> You can help yourself >> Oh, thank you very much.
>> or if you need me to, I'll make it for you.
>> This this bar is excellent.
>> I know, it's unbelievable. I love this is all like wood.
Pure wood. It's cross like Santa Fe.
>> My friend made this table.
>> He [music] made the bar and that table over there. All of our regular customers that come every [music] stinking day, they sit over there. We call it the table of the minds.
It is until they've had their fourth beer.
>> [music] >> You said the bikers here in the US are some of the nicest people.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> But it's funny because like outside the US, you know, people think like um motorbike gangs evil people, you know, like like criminals.
>> I'm telling you what, if you're in trouble [music] >> Yeah.
>> a biker is the first person to pull over and help.
>> Yeah.
>> They don't tolerate abuse towards women.
They don't tolerate anything going on with If something happens to a kid, you'll have 30 bikers show up just to support that kid. There's a biker group called BACA, Bikers Against Child Abuse.
And they show up to every trial that child has to face. 30 bikers. They give them a biker [music] name and a jacket.
And they make them feel safe again when they've been hurt or abused.
I'm telling you bikers are the best people.
>> Yeah.
>> They're the kindest people.
>> They care about the community, you know.
>> They just they just are are are caring people in general. Like if anything happens, our bikers are there to make it right. If what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong. We have a bunch of jackals, but you can't help that. You can't judge everybody by just a few people.
>> Unless they're from LA.
>> I I am not a fan of LA. I'm not a fan of New York.
>> I've not been to New York, but I feel like New York looks better than LA.
Nicer people, you know, more down-to-earth people.
>> Yeah, maybe.
>> It's a dog-eat-dog world.
>> Yeah, but it's a more selfish place.
When you come to Texas, everybody's like, "How you doing?"
If you're in a bar, "Can I get you a beer? What you buying? What you doing?"
Come on.
We're just a friendlier place.
>> Yeah.
>> We care about our children, our family, our God.
>> [music] >> Little souvenir.
>> Aw, thank you.
>> It has our name on it, Ortega's Place, and it's the Run for Rayborn Cancer Bike Rally.
>> Thank you. Yeah, appreciate it.
>> So when you you get your beers and your other bottles, you can put your coozies on it. Have your own coozies.
>> yeah. Thank you.
>> You're welcome.
>> Ortega's bar is absolutely fantastic. We just found out that the radio is on the TV 24 hours a day.
It doesn't go off.
>> That one's always on. That one gets turned on.
>> [laughter] >> I love it. Even when the place shuts, the radio stays on the TV.
>> That's Irma. That's our bar cat.
>> This is the bar cat, Irma?
>> Irma.
>> Oh my god.
>> All right, Irma.
>> Look at her.
>> You're friendly.
>> She's beautiful. You can just sit here, drink your beer, and stroke the cat.
>> Aw.
>> Oh, she's snuggling. Look.
>> Is this a normal thing for a bar to have a cat?
>> Um Ice Houses, yeah. It just goes.
>> Yeah.
>> It just goes.
>> Try and have a cat in the bar in England, you get shut down.
>> They'd shut it down.
>> Someone might have an allergy.
>> We got the doors open, so your allergies can blow out there.
>> [laughter] [music] >> Are you sure you want to buy us the beers?
>> Yeah, of course.
>> That's really bloody kind of you, no, thank you, thank you.
I [laughter] quite like a cat, yeah.
>> name?
>> Ellis.
>> Nice to meet you.
>> [laughter] >> All right, thank you, yeah.
>> It's nice to meet you guys.
>> Oh, it was cool to stop by, yeah.
Yeah.
>> I don't like cats.
>> No, we both don't we both don't like cats.
>> But that one, that is the only >> Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This one's different, yeah. I quite like this cat, yeah.
Cuz it acts like a dog.
>> She does.
>> Have a lovely day, yeah.
>> You too.
>> You're going to give me this?
>> Yes, it's yours.
>> Yeah.
>> Take it back with you. Little momento from the little bar.
>> Legend. I love how in the US you put flags everywhere.
Especially is this a Texas thing or does everyone do it?
>> Uh Texas does it more than anyone else.
>> Yeah.
>> Cuz we're we're proud of our flags.
>> You've got proper Texas pride. Just Texan flags on everything.
>> Yes, cuz we're proud Americans.
>> You won't find a most American people here in Texas.
>> Yeah. Yeah? You think so?
>> you.
>> All right.
>> I promise you.
>> Yeah, well we couldn't have started anywhere better than could we? Best Best first place.
I love it. We've only been in America for 1 week and I never want to leave.
If you don't mind, we'll just have a little sandwich to share.
>> you a little sandwich.
>> Yeah.
I love how you say bun.
Our accents are so different.
>> We are, I love hearing y'all's accents.
>> Yeah, if you want to say it like you say bun.
>> Bun.
>> A bun.
>> It's a bun.
>> A bun.
>> [laughter] >> You play good music in here, too.
>> Yeah, no honky-tonk.
>> Yeah. Oh, that's plenty. Don't worry.
>> It's got to be spilling over the side of your bun to be a problem.
>> right. All right. All right.
>> pulled pork sandwich.
>> Beautiful.
Thank you very much.
>> Wait.
>> Oh, there's more? Oh, crisps as well.
Bloody hell. So, we call these crisps in England.
>> You do?
>> Yeah, not chips. Crisps. We're going to have to get used to saying chips.
>> And fish and chips is a a fish and french fries, right?
>> Yeah, it's our national dish. Not french fries, though. Chips, like big fat uh potatoes, you know?
>> Yes.
>> Fresh cut chips.
>> may be potatoes that they're all dried up and crunchy.
>> Yeah? That's really kind. I appreciate it.
>> You're welcome.
>> Well, let's try that.
We'll eat that and we'll head off.
>> napkins for your fingers.
There you go, baby.
>> Thank you.
The hospitality here is off the flipping charts. Why are people so nice? I mean, we're in the USA, a country that a lot of people say don't visit. It's dangerous. People aren't nice. People are selfish. What are they talking about? They have no idea.
>> [music] >> Go on. I can't watch you eat that. I'm going to have to get stuck in. Pulled pork sandwich.
Cheers, people.
Mhm. Smoky pulled pork, pickle, fresh onion, barbecue sauce. What's not to like?
Oh, and I forgot to mention, it's free.
Cheers to that.
What's this funky machine you've got here?
>> It's a can crusher.
>> A can crusher.
>> Those in here, bag them up, recycle them.
>> All right. Nice. Nice. That's old school, that.
Yeah?
>> It's very old school.
>> Yeah.
>> But, that's a old school that works best.
They don't make new stuff like they used to cuz it's made in China.
>> In England, we have a saying, you buy shite, you buy twice.
>> Yes, that is true.
>> So, you buy you buy good quality straight away, it's going to last.
>> I'm a hugger. That's what we do in Texas. It was wonderful to meet you.
>> It was so nice to meet you.
>> Next time you come back, you have to come see me.
Give me an update on everything.
Safe travels to you guys.
>> Thanks for having us.
>> If you ever need backup while you're here in Texas, just call up the Mercedes place, tell me where you're at and I'll bring a posse.
>> Ah, real kind, real kind. Right, God bless you, Lacy, yeah?
See you later, yeah? See you later.
>> Bye guys, it was nice to meet you.
>> So, we said we were leaving like 10 15 minutes ago. We've not left. But it's sat here listening to her talking We've been offered multiple more rounds of beers. We can't. It's enough. So, we're actually going to leave now. We're actually going to leave, yeah?
Thank you.
Appreciate it, yeah?
Yeah.
No, thank you, sir.
Yeah.
So, all the best to you.
We're actually getting out of here now.
See you later.
>> Bye.
>> How was that?
>> Honestly.
Every single time I go into a business or meet anybody, I come out with a souvenir.
>> Where are we going to put this flag then? Where are we going to put this flag?
>> I know, just the questions.
>> Is that going to fall because I've been given strict instructions that that flag can't touch the floor?
>> It's not going to fall, but look, we've got the flag and we've got Jesus.
They're on the dash.
We're ready. We're in America, baby.
>> Basically, American, aren't we?
Right, everyone. We're going to leave this one here.
All I've got to say is, God bless Texas and God bless America. Love you. Bye.
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