Something funny just happened.
The guy asked me to pull up my shirt before I entered the bar.
I'm like, “Why do you want me to pull up my shirt for Man?”
“That's so weird.”
So I pulled up in the front
and then he goes, “Turn around and do it” and so I pull it up in the back.
And he was checking for weapons, you know, to make sure I wasn’t packin’.
Do I look like I'm packin’?
The other thing you notice here is the smell of ganja.
Greetings Friends, I did not expect to find
hugely bustling streets here in the U.S.
Oh, my God.
It reminds me of India and there's a lot of similarities.
It is very, very cool here in Nashville.
So let me take you for a walk around this place and just show you
how incredible it is and the similarities that I see traveling from India.
I actually find Southern Americans quite similar to Indians.
They too have a very strong culture and they love to share it.
They're very friendly people and they want everybody who comes here to experience
their food, their fashion, their music, and they just love sharing it with people.
So there's one other thing
called the Southern Charm as well, which they're known for here in the South.
And I've experienced this every day on my trip.
It’s just the friendliness of people.
They have a charm about them.
You might be walking down the street and everyone's saying hello to you
for no reason.
It won't happen in this area because, you know,
what you're about to see is party central.
But it will happen in the suburbs.
Some old man like walk up to me said hi
and just started chatting to me for like 5 minutes.
That's just how they are.
Really sweet, really charming.
And just yesterday, actually, I was at this Hattie B’s eating,
and I met a midwestern couple in the line, and they invited me to sit with them.
And because I was alone and yeah, we just chatted
and this has been my experience in America.
People are going to be warm and welcoming.
So yeah, let's go see what's happening around here.
Can't wait to show you.
All right, guys,
we are on the Honky Tonk Highway.
And can you believe this?
There is
music venues
from beginning to end, all the way down to that Ferris wheel.
There is. - Hi.
There is music venues, both sides of the road.
You can hear the music starting.
You can hear the bands performing.
And every one of these is a bar or restaurant.
And they all have live bands playing all day and all night.
And it's just out of this world.
It's really incredible this place.
This is the heart of the country music industry
in the U.S.
and a lot of famous acts have come up through here.
Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, the Kings of Leon,
they all came from performing in these
types of bars.
I'm not kidding you.
Every single place has a band playing.
Like, isn't this just out of this world?
This is the music heaven.
Okay?
If you love music, this is the place for you.
There's Jack's Barbecue.
We'll go there later and I'll tell you about the food.
But this is the Honky Tonk Highway everybody!
This place is wild, Man!
You can not come here and have a bad time.
Even if you're alone like me,
you can enjoy the music because, yeah, it just gets inside you.
It's incredible.
Ths is basically like what Mumbai is to Bollywood,
Nashville is to country music.
Just see how many people are here.
It's incredible.
Everybody's here for a good time.
And to have some fun and dance to some music, and listen to some good music
The other thing you’ll notice here is
the smell of ganja.
There’s a lot of that going on here, I guess is legal here.
I don't know.
Something funny just happened.
The guy asked me to pull up my shirt before I entered the bar.
I’m like, “Why do you want me to pull up for my shirt for?”
“That’s so weird.”
And so I pulled up in the front.
And then he goes, “Turn around and do it.”
And I pulled it up in the back.
And he was checking for weapons to make sure I, you know, I wasn't packin’.
Do I look like I’m packin’?
They weren’t checkin’ everybody.
Maybe I look like I'm packin’.
I mean, I would be if I lived here in the U.S.
and I was allowed to carry a gun.
And just look at these neon signs.
Don't you love them?
Don't you just love these signs all along the road here?
All right.
So I'm here at Kid Rock's bar, and he's got, like, a three story bar.
Let’s go check it out.
All right, let's go
and try some classic Southern food
and that would be barbecue.
This is like a classic barbecue restaurant.
We're going to try some some real southern barbecue here.
And the first thing that hits you is you can just you can smell the barbecue
and you can smell the sweet barbecue sauce as soon as you walk through that door.
So you can see in there all the meat is in there.
Where do you guys do the barbeque?
Oh, it depends, that’s brisket for tomorrow.
We smoke it 18 to 20 hours.
Where do you smoke it exactly? - Right down here.
Oh, you guys smoke it right here? - Yeah, yeah.
Okay, so this smoker right here, it's a smokehouse.
There’s this big smoker here
and there is another smoker upstairs just like this one.
Oh, wow. Look at that. - Yeah.
Okay.
This is where you want to come for barbecue.
Ow, it is!
That's what I'm having. I've ordered ribs,
and he's just cutting them up, plating them up.
Man, looks good.
It’s pork, right?
Pork ribs, yes they are. Where you from?
Actually, I live in India. - In India?
Yeah.
But originally New Zealand.
Okay. Yeah. Which one you like the most?
India or New Zealand.
Bro, I live in India, so I think I made the decision. Right?
You're right, touché.
Yeah.
A lot of people are quite surprised by it, but no, no, I love India, man.
So what's the best part about India for you?
Everything. I'm from a small country.
India is a huge country man like America.
You can never get bored there.
Yeah, it's incredible.
There's so many states like the U.S. - Yeah.
And there's so much to see in every single state.
So for a guy who loves traveling like me, it's heaven, absolute heaven.
And the people are good, obviously.
Like, I married my wife there.
Oh, okay.
What’s your YouTube channel name?
It's my name.
Karl Rock.
Karl Rock? R.O.C.K? - Yeah, yeah, exactly.
You'll find a man. - Yeah, thanks.
All right.
I got my barbecue.
This is my first time eating barbecue in the U.S. as well.
You won't believe it.
And say one thing about the U.S.
Nothing is cheap here!
It is really expensive.
So this plate was $27.
And so you have the price of something you have to put on state tax
and then you have to put on a tip as well.
So everything ends up being really expensive here.
I will admit it doesn't look very appetizing.
So we've got two sides here.
This is macaroni and cheese and corn and this is this is the good stuff.
This is pork ribs.
And you can see that kind of like a smoke ring there.
Let's try the sides first.
So, Mac and cheese, my first American mac and cheese.
It's just cheese and macaroni.
Cheese and pasta.
That's it. Simple.
It tastes like fake cheese.
Alright, corn and something. I don't know what else is in there.
No idea.
It's a sweet corn and butter.
This is the shhhh.
It's just so meaty.
See. It's falling off just like that.
Absolutely perfectly cooked meat.
Oh, wow.
It’s really been worth coming all this way just to,
you know, have real American barbecue.
I saw it on YouTube so many times, and I said, I got to come and I got to do this.
One of my travel highlights.
There's also a G.B. Road here that I stumbled upon
earlier today.
I don't know if it's legal or not here, but
yeah, there was a whole area
just for.
Hey, what's up? What's up?
Just for G.B. Road type activities.
It's a bit later now and there's just massive queues everywhere
now you get into anything
And a lot more people on the street.
This is just 10pm now at night.
We're getting down to the end of the Honky Tonk Highway
and we're going to hit the river in a second.
Just let me show you.
It's a bit sad at the river.
So one thing that I did not expect
because, you know, you think this is America.
I didn’t ealize there was so much
so many homeless here and so many beggars here in the U.S.
I did not expect that and I've seen that across my time here
and I seen some really sad stuff, unfortunately.
That was just one thing that I noticed here
that I didn't expect it to be that bad.
As bad as I’ve seen.
I don’t know why I didn't expect this level of
just nightlife here in the U.S.
I don't know.
I didn't expect it.
You know, I’m used to this bustling
this, bustling-ness in India, but I didn't expect to see it here
and I'm really pleased I found it.
Oh, man, what a night.
I think it just goes to show you,
we all have these really strong cultures and, you know,
Southern Americans, like Indians, they love to share it with everybody else.
And that's exactly what you're going to find here in Nashville.
So get your butts here.
Soak it up. I wish my wife was here.
She couldn't come because Indians can't get a tourist visa at the moment.
Or else she would have been here
and this is the exact place for her. She’ll be dancing on bar top.
Man, I love this is coming alone, but I really don't come alone.
And ideally I have a few drinks, I don't drink, so what to do?
You can smoke up here though.
If I had to do something,
it would be that. But I don't even do that.
I'm loving my time here in America and like everybody else says,
God bless America.