Brit Reacts to Inside American Appalachia's Most Remote Border

Added: 2026-05-10

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[00:00:01]Today I'm checking out Inside Appalachia's most remote border. Um, I've got a few of these videos. So, I basically I've like made myself a little schedule of recording. Um, and I've got a few of these types of videos, these longer ones um that hopefully give us a bit more of an in-depth look at um like I guess I don't want to say real America, but like right in there. Um, I'm hoping they'll be informational and um, be interesting too for you guys to follow along as well. So, if you enjoy this kind of content, guys, let me know in the comments below um, anything else you'd like me to check out in relation to this kind of style. Um, and if you could leave a like and subscribe, too, that would be amazing.

[00:00:43]Let's check it out, I guess. Let's go.

[00:00:52]It is falling apart.

[00:01:00]here. Everybody is just like trying to find out everybody else's business.

[00:01:04]>> People don't know a lot about this part of the country.

[00:01:06]>> This is just the old co country with scrap. Get by.

[00:01:09]>> With the drugs, does that affect everybody or is that mostly young people?

[00:01:14]>> While the people back here, they live in buses and >> campers. Trump took over. We stood up and cheered. It was like a feelgood movie.

[00:01:26]>> You say hillbilly is like people who live out here, do they call themselves hillbillies? Is that a >> You know, it ain't like hillbillies or what you think they are.

[00:01:33]>> Martin County, Kentucky. The poverty rate is 48% and the water undrinkable.

[00:01:38]We came to investigate claims of a water crisis and ended up in one of the most remote hollers in Appalachia. This is that story.

[00:01:47]In one of the most remote hollers in Appalachia. This is that story.

[00:01:56]Okay, let's go.

[00:02:01]That is a very empty store.

[00:02:14]>> Oh, wow. Okay.

[00:02:16]>> So, is the water actually brown?

[00:02:18]>> Yeah. I won't drink it. Everybody drinks it, but they said it causes cancer.

[00:02:22]>> So, you're saying like you won't drink the tap water here?

[00:02:24]>> No.

[00:02:25]>> No, I won't drink it. It's been going on for 5 years, I'd say.

[00:02:29]>> Wow.

[00:02:30]>> And the water's like brown when it comes out of the sink or what?

[00:02:32]>> Yeah. Yeah. When we turn it on. Yeah.

[00:02:34]>> What does that mean?

[00:02:34]>> Followed that man's directions and ended up in Inz, the last town before West Virginia.

[00:02:45]But then we kept driving into the mountains. As we got closer to the Kentucky West Virginia border, the businesses disappeared. There were nothing but occasional homes, often dilapidated.

[00:02:55]People we talked to said they had no clean water and that work was at least an hour away. We drove for miles along the border that separates the states.

[00:03:02]>> That's so bad. No clean water.

[00:03:06]>> Just there should be a basic human right.

[00:03:15]Then we found this turnoff.

[00:03:21]Feels like we're in a horror movie. I'm scared.

[00:03:28]Oh, no. I would actually be freaking out right now.

[00:03:42]Where are they?

[00:03:47]>> I think we're good. I think we're good.

[00:03:54]>> We're We're just trying to understand a bit about I don't know how how people live here. Holler is very different from other parts of the country.

[00:04:00]>> Laid back pain as much as >> Do you work or what kind of work did you do before? I'm uh disabled.

[00:04:09]>> Disabled.

[00:04:10]>> Yeah. I used to do all kinds of different things. Security guard was my last job.

[00:04:15]>> Okay.

[00:04:16]>> I imagine there's not much work.

[00:04:19]>> I imagine there's not much work in this this >> Well, they ain't ain't much work here at all.

[00:04:25]>> To get work, you got to go 45 minutes to highway. It's just not worth it.

[00:04:30]Especially with the gas prices.

[00:04:32]>> It seems like one thing people people in the country, especially in this part of the country, are much more uh I don't know they understand nature a lot better.

[00:04:39]>> Yeah.

[00:04:40]>> And they're a lot better with their hands.

[00:04:41]>> I used to be a herber back when I was younger.

[00:04:44]>> What kind of stuff would you make?

[00:04:45]>> Jens and you know how many people live in here overall?

[00:04:49]>> There's me and my wife and my brother.

[00:04:52]I've got another brother that lives in the camper but he's gone. Monica.

[00:04:55]There's two people that lives there and then my sister and her husband.

[00:04:58]>> Hey, we'll take a walk up there.

[00:05:00]>> Wow. So, it's like a little family.

[00:05:01]They've got like a little family thing going on. That's nice.

[00:05:04]out.

[00:05:05]>> Oh, I love $80.

[00:05:08]>> Well, all right.

[00:05:10]>> Thank you.

[00:05:17]>> All right. We're going to go check out, I guess, his brother-in-law down the street.

[00:05:21]>> All right. So, one person who spoke to us off camera told us it's a very peaceful area until people get drunk or high. I said, "Hi, what?" And this person said, "Meth." They said, "Everyone's on meth. Everyone.

[00:05:32]Everyone." That's not the first time I've heard that. So, it seems that meth is a big problem.

[00:05:40]>> I'm the one that built that house up there.

[00:05:42]>> You built that.

[00:05:43]>> What made you move out here?

[00:05:44]>> We used to live on other end county and the coal company sunk our land up there and it switched us out.

[00:05:51]>> People don't know a lot about this part of the country.

[00:05:54]>> This is just the old co country. Since S since co's down, this country is down.

[00:06:01]What do people do now?

[00:06:03]>> Well, we scrap get by. There ain't no jobs. I ain't nothing. I got disabled in uh 20 and I quit working in 20 5 years.

[00:06:16]It took everything that I had to scrape by, you know, going to the doctor. Both have oxygen, but it's hard to put oxygen on this door.

[00:06:27]>> Got you got the machete though. Yeah, I got a machete.

[00:06:30]>> You say around here is pretty peaceful.

[00:06:34]>> Yeah, it's a peaceful country. We usually don't lock our doors or nothing.

[00:06:38]This is all family this holiday.

[00:06:40]>> It's hard getting by without no job. You know, you got to do what you got to do.

[00:06:44]>> And I've been junking here and there.

[00:06:46]>> You get the metal and you get the parts off those cars and you go sell them somewhere. Sell them on Facebook or sell them in town.

[00:06:51]>> Facebook.

[00:06:52]>> So, what do people do when they have no job? I mean, do do people kind of sit inside most of the day?

[00:07:01]Try to pedal. Try to get some money.

[00:07:04]It's hard to get money around here. I guess >> thing as well, they're so far away from from like civilization, from people, from towns, from shops, from jobs. Um, they're so far away from all of that.

[00:07:18]Uh, but I guess on the plus side, they've got their little family family community around them.

[00:07:23]>> Many drugs around here. This place is awful about drugs. What kind of drugs?

[00:07:29]>> Just everybody with worst. That's the worst thing I had. Them damn pills.

[00:07:36]>> Was it always that way or did that?

[00:07:38]>> No, that just come in after the mind boom went out.

[00:07:43]>> Appalachian people are kind of famous for being like uh resourceful.

[00:07:48]They make stuff.

[00:07:50]>> Make stuff.

[00:07:50]>> They fix stuff.

[00:07:51]>> Fix stuff. What kind of stuff do you think you know and other country people out here know that city folk like us don't know >> how to live in the wild after you been out here? You know how >> Yeah. I guess if anything happened they'd be the best. They they'd know how to get through and how to keep living for longer.

[00:08:11]>> This heat you got to know how to take care of it. My body is in our nation.

[00:08:20]>> With the drugs, does that affect everybody or is that mostly young people?

[00:08:24]>> Miss getting into the older folk too.

[00:08:27]>> Like meth. Does it make people violent or does it are they relaxed?

[00:08:30]>> No, it just relaxes them and stuff, but they do anything for it.

[00:08:39]>> Most boring places you'll ever be in your life. Seriously.

[00:08:45]They actually call it um place >> here.

[00:08:51]>> Yeah.

[00:08:51]>> Cuz there's so many elderly people.

[00:08:53]>> No, because there's nothing for the young people.

[00:08:56]>> How long you been living here?

[00:08:58]>> I have been here on and off for the last 30 years.

[00:09:02]>> How'd you end up living here if you're from Ohio?

[00:09:04]>> Uh my dad and my mom divorced when I was little and I didn't know my mom till I was like 14 years old. And when I met her, she lived back here. So I came back here to live with her and I got married at 18.

[00:09:18]>> Having gone through two marriages, I'm going to get married next year.

[00:09:21]>> What's my lesson?

[00:09:22]>> Yeah. What What advice? What advice?

[00:09:24]>> Don't do it. That's my advice.

[00:09:28]>> I mean, I don't know if that's what you wanted to hear, but >> and I tell my kids that, too. Don't do it. Live with them. Don't marry. Live with them.

[00:09:37]>> What's the difference? because they think they own you when you get married.

[00:09:44]>> I think if you marry the right person, they don't think that because I've been married nearly 2 years and I don't think that piece of paper is like a title to acquire.

[00:09:58]Once they got it, they own you. The only reason I stayed married 30 years is I got my kids raised. And after I got my kids raised, that was it. And uh I'll never marry again. Never. I don't care.

[00:10:09]He could be Prince Charming.

[00:10:10]>> Good thing my name is Prince Charming.

[00:10:14]>> What do people do for work around here?

[00:10:16]>> It used to be big on coal mines, you know, mining and stuff, but the minings is uh went down a whole lot.

[00:10:24]>> Do you all know each other pretty well?

[00:10:26]>> Yeah, my ex-husband's right up there.

[00:10:28]>> How would you describe the people of this this part of the country? What what values do they have or what what's kind of their culture >> here is completely different than Ohio?

[00:10:40]Ohio everybody tries to stay out of everybody's business cuz get shot here.

[00:10:47]Everybody is just like trying to find out everybody else's business. They're good to you. Everybody around here is good. And most of them, you know, if you need something, they'll help you. I can't say I don't love the people here because I do. I love all of them.

[00:11:03]They're all good. But you have problems anywhere you go. No matter where you go to, you're going to have problems. A hauler is a place that is got two hills on both sides and a road that goes right up the middle. That's all a hauler is.

[00:11:16]And it comes to a dead end. But this is a hauler.

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[00:11:48]There he is.

[00:11:57]Oh.

[00:12:09]Oh no.

[00:12:23]She's got a nice garden.

[00:12:26]>> Yeah, she always does.

[00:12:41]Buddies over here.

[00:12:45]Maybe that house down there.

[00:12:47]>> Oh, wow.

[00:12:48]>> That was what this this used to be the house.

[00:12:50]>> Yeah.

[00:12:53]>> Yeah. This is the armpit of the United States. Used to be Mississippi, but uh you know, now it's now it's Kentucky.

[00:13:01]It's the armpit of the United States. Uh the cities in Kentucky, they go Democrat and they tend to follow political agendas and things like that. While the people back here, they live in buses and campers, uh, in houses with their families, you know what I mean? Uh, and if they get sick or something, you know, they can't, they got to go in with a family, be taken care of or something like, and they, you know, they can't s sustain themselves back here. There's no work. Used to be work back when the mines were open and things started prospering and people started buying trucks, pickup trucks.

[00:13:41]You could tell they were prospering.

[00:13:42]They had a new pickup truck. You know, that's that's a sign of prosperity among a hillbilly to be able to drive a new pickup truck.

[00:13:48]>> I spent most of my life, well, a good part of my life in Pennsylvania.

[00:13:54]All my family's from around here. And uh after a marriage broke up there in Pennsylvania, I moved back here. And uh >> that [ __ ] roll so loud. Oh my god. I couldn't deal with that every day.

[00:14:05]>> Kind of became immersed in the culture.

[00:14:07]But I'm looking at the culture from an outsider. Been here for about 20 years now. So, what do you think about the schools? What do you think about the fact that that this >> schools?

[00:14:15]>> Yeah.

[00:14:15]>> I'll tell you about the schools. I had three grandchildren came home from school the first day of school. All three of them gay.

[00:14:24]Now, is there any probability, statistical probability of that ever happening? That well, now two of them came home the first day of school. She was gay. The third one she hiding it.

[00:14:36]>> They went to school for the first day and came back. All three of them gay that year.

[00:14:41]>> What >> the two of them on the two the you two youngest it was on the first day of school. The other one was kind of hiding it, you know, because she knew that it would be socially unacceptable. And even now she's scheduled to be married. So evidently she wasn't gay. She's got a wedding and got a baby in her arms. What kind of programming? Now I'm a child adolescent psychologist and I know there was something they were screwing in school.

[00:15:09]They were screwing with them youngans's minds. Can you think of any more basic thing you can take away from a young and mess up their head than their own sense of sexuality?

[00:15:22]And now don't get me wrong, I'm not a homophobe. I'm no my daughter is gay. I have a daughter that's gay and I love her dearly. She's my favorite young. a little disappointed that she ain't going to give me no grandchildren, but I still love her dearly. And I understand that it's the sins of the father are in her inherited to the third and fourth generation. If a man knows to do good and continues to do evil, that his children will be given over to a repbate mind with desires for strange flesh. That's what the word of God says.

[00:15:49]So that kind of puts that on me. All those years of me judging a man by the law of my own heart, by wanting grace for myself. So homosexuality is I have to forgive myself for it even though I don't wasn't aware of what I was doing.

[00:16:08]>> One thing we've heard a lot talking to people in this in this part of the state is about drugs >> and the toll drugs have taken on, you know, on communities here.

[00:16:16]>> Her son, her youngest boy, he called me up one day. He was needing to talk to somebody. He said his best friend had just just called him up and he wanted to say goodbye to him. He said he was on the side of the road and he didn't think he was going to make it. He said he a friend of his had given him something.

[00:16:33]He tried it and it he didn't think he was going to make it. He went and drove like hell trying to get to him, but he found him dead on the side road, slumped over his four-wheeler.

[00:16:42]So, yeah, it happens back here. You don't have about the only thing that they're doing at all is the churches are having like uh drug recovery, alcoholic recovery, but I don't think they're there for the kids. You know, >> it seems like the church is the pillar of a lot of the communities around here, right?

[00:17:00]>> It's all we got.

[00:17:01]>> Okay.

[00:17:02]>> It's all we got.

[00:17:04]>> People in this part of the country, they know a lot of stuff that other people don't know. They understand a lot of stuff other people don't know. They've also been through a lot of hardship, right, that people in other parts of the country don't go through. I'm wondering, you know, through that through the stuff that you've seen, through the stuff that like this community goes through, what kind of wisdom people here have that we don't have?

[00:17:21]>> You're more spiritual minded because >> you're left in a position to where you got to rely on on a power higher than you to get by else you'd never even try.

[00:17:31]But, uh, the knowledge on how to get roots and stuff like that, that's sliding away. I guess welfare or something done something to the people, younger generation, they don't they don't know nothing.

[00:17:43]They don't even know if they're homosexual or not. You know, they don't know nothing. They've had everything taken from them. They've been left to the school system where it programs them to be fighters.

[00:17:54]But for what? They don't know what they're fighting for. They're ignorant.

[00:17:58]They're of the truth. And so they're go out fighting in the wrong direction. You know what I mean? And that's all they're taught. You know, they're fighting for homosexuality. Why would you fight for a curse? You know, you don't go out and have pride and wave flags. God cursed us, you know, because my dad didn't know what he was doing and was was a hard-hearted Christian or something. You know, this world went crazy during the Biden administration. Went plum crazy.

[00:18:23]And when Trump took over, we stood up and cheered. It was like a feelgood movie. Him making all these choices one right after everything that we said that they ought to do for the past 40 years.

[00:18:35]He's up there just doing it one right after the other, just knocking it down.

[00:18:39]You know what I mean? like a champion of the people, you know, and you say, "Man, I hope he lasts for the whole four years." You know what I mean? We need him the whole four years. You know, you say hillbilly is like people who live here, do they call themselves?

[00:18:51]>> I can't really comment on that because I don't really know the ins and outs of the things that the presidents do like in terms of what they support and all that stuff. Um, but yeah, I yeah, I can't really can't really comment on that. Guys, if you're going to comment in the in the comments below about it, just please be respectful of people.

[00:19:13]>> Hillbillies. Is that a derogatory?

[00:19:14]>> They think of themselves as hillbillies.

[00:19:17]It's a sense of pride. But if you go down to Virginia then and you got a little bit of a hillbilly accent in school, you know, like you go to school in Virginia like I did, they laugh at you mercilessly.

[00:19:30]>> Treat you like you're the dullest tool in the shed, you know, and everything. Actually, I got an IQ that'll smoke just about anybody's. You know, I can talk with you about ancient history. It goes back 6,000 years. I can talk to you about ancient Kuneaform writings and, you know, how they translate. You know, I was just reading the Bible and wanted to prove that it was true. So, I went back and done some research. You know, I got a degree in psychology, child and adolescent psychology as well as uh >> geriatric psychology. It came in handy when both my parents developed dementia and I had to be the number one care provider, you know. So, uh, you know, it ain't like hillbillies are what you think they are. You know what I mean?

[00:20:10]It's just their opportunities are less than what you think they are. You know, back here they're talking about, >> you know, making it to where the youngans can't get food stamps anymore unless they're working at least 20 hours a week. Yeah. What do you think about that? Well, um, where what you're going to they go out, catch the bus down at the road, you know, it's going to be sitting there and driving on that road that's broken off. We don't have buses out here. You go, my stepson got the cancer. Turned his life over to God and found out he had cancer three months later.

[00:20:44]Strange thing. I guess God was calling to him because he's going to need him, you know, to get through this battle he was up against. They gave him a 15% chance to live. You know, he needs to get his driver's license paid off. He'll go up in them mountains and dig out roots.

[00:20:59]>> Jins Singh and that kind of stuff.

[00:21:01]>> Yeah. Now, he's got cancer. He shouldn't be exerting himself like that. But you can't keep him from taking from earning his own money. You know what I mean? I mean, he that's the way he earns it. He goes up the mountains, comes back sweaty, dirty, dragging a big bag of roots. He's washes it off and everything. Takes it down to the place and gets money. You know, cuz he can't find work. You know how you how's a man with half a tongue and you know he's had the part of his lower part of his chin cut out and part of his leg grafted up buried where he can't really talk that well. How's he going to take and go find himself a job where he's competing for anything out there?

[00:21:36]>> I mean Eastern Kentucky very you know proTrump Republican at least in a lot of people around here they depend on food stamps or you know on social security.

[00:21:46]>> It doesn't matter that it doesn't matter. It's the stability of the economy that we depend on.

[00:21:53]>> Because see, when Biden ran up the inflation, what 20 25% that meant that my 100 grand that I'd saved for my and my wife's retirement, you know, to help get us through, it was only worth 70 grand.

[00:22:13]To a poor man, it makes a difference.

[00:22:14]And when a poor man is used to paying so much for his food, for his bills, for his insurance, everything, and it goes up 30%.

[00:22:26]When you're in the rural area, it's 35, 40%. Because everything comes with gas.

[00:22:31]>> Yeah.

[00:22:32]>> That's like an additional tax. And so up in the mountains, they are hammered when it when when you drive inflation out of the way. So we don't need that. What we need is a president that'll keep things stable.

[00:22:46]>> You know, some of the Republicans now want to cut, you know, the Medicaid, like you said, the work work requirement uh for police.

[00:22:52]>> I don't mind if they cut the DEI programs. Those are nothing but spreading racist ideology. When they started spreading DEI, I saw the black children going to school starting to become afraid. When I was going to school 20 years ago, it was far less prejudice. It was far less racist and they those little back black children going to college didn't feel like they needed support groups and places. They just felt like one of the students. But it speak for political purposes. They've made those four youngans afraid. And it ain't right.

[00:23:27]They did it for political power. Yeah.

[00:23:30]>> Separated. I'm one of the people that believes we're all cousins. Grandpa Noah got off the ark in the year 2356 BCE. We were all one big family. We got along. I believe the earth was divided in the year 200 years later. I believe we were printed off in the year 404 B.CE by a superior race. I believe we were created to be a race of priests and kings and reign at the right hand of Christ who was also born into our race. And about a third of the beings out there said, "Oh no, that ain't going to happen." And they rebelled against God. And once the war is over with, he'll return. And those that have accepted the blood of the lamb, you know, to cover their sins, they'll be changed into a higher form of existence. And they'll reign at the right hand of of Christ over all the other races. Seems like it'll just be a couple of days, you know, but it'll probably be 30, 40 years for that for the second coming comes.

[00:24:28]I'll probably done and gone. I want to see it, man. I want to be standing there. I want to see it. I would have liked to have been here with my dad and seen it, you know, but he he had to go on. Everything's going to be going on like normal that there will be something called a rapture where people that are ready, willing, and able, they're going to be snatched up and go to a breakfast supper where everybody that's died is going to get together. We're going to have a big honking party. Questions going to be answered. A lot of things going on. It's going to be a good time.

[00:24:53]After that, this city of God is going to make itself known as the sun rises from the east to the west. It'll it'll it'll make its way over to over top of Jerusalem and settle down. The city of God is 1,500 m by 1500 miles by 1500 miles.

[00:25:08]>> So then what happens to all the all the the third of people who aren't chosen people or however >> the third that were killed? Some of these may be Christians.

[00:25:17]>> A third kill a third of man humanity.

[00:25:19]You know, it's kind of hard to pick and choose when you're wiping out people on that kind of a I'm hoping it I mean I believe it'll happen over in the Middle East.

[00:25:28]That's where they'll come out. You know, they'll probably start over there. But I know that Israel can't be destroyed.

[00:25:33]God's got to fulfill his words. Else he ain't God, you know. And he's made some promises. And that's where you get the reptilian statues, the little reptilian statues of the little lizard people, nursing babies, you know, that they dug up out of the ground. They're his offspring. And then he needed a slave race to work in the mines. The slaves almost overcame the gods. But I guess if you got some of the slaves being 500 feet tall, you know, but there was thermonuclear war.

[00:26:00]>> This is when back in >> before flood. Why do you think the flood came?

[00:26:04]>> Thermonuclear war before Noah's arc and that.

[00:26:07]>> Yes. Why do you think the flood came?

[00:26:09]See, all flesh was corrupted.

[00:26:12]>> So they wiped it out. Thermonuclear war.

[00:26:14]Thermonuclear war.

[00:26:17]>> Them dogs scare me. Why are all these little dogs like the yappiest?

[00:26:22]Everybody around here is good.

[00:26:26]They really are. They're really good people. And most of them, you know, if you need something, they'll help you. I can't say I don't love the people here cuz I do. I love all of them. They're all good. And a hauler is a place that is got two hills on both sides and a road that goes right up the middle.

[00:26:44]That's all a hauler is. And it comes to a dead end. But this is a hauler.

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[00:27:02]>> That was good, guys. Let me know your opinions in the comments below. Um, and your thoughts on it. Um, I'm definitely keen to check out some more videos like this. I find them super interesting. Um, and yeah, it's it's kind of I like I guess learning a bit more about different different cultures, different areas, different ways that people live.

[00:27:23]Um, obviously that is very different to the way that we live. Well, like I live and I'm sure very different to way that some of you guys live. But if you some of you guys h live there or have lived there, um, let me know your experiences in the comments below. I'd be really interested to read through them um, in the comments. Uh yeah, but have a fantastic day, guys. Like I said, let me know any suggestions in the comments below, and I'll see you in the next one.

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