- Hello. My name is Adam.
- Hello. My name is Liz.
- And today we are answering Google's
most searched questions about the South.
- We're gonna answer them for you as if we're Google.
- Google's question number one.
- Are southerners happier?
Happier than what? - Yeah, happier than what?
- Happier than the rest of the world?
- In the world, are southerners happier?
- Yes.
- Mm-hmm. 100% because we have banana pudding.
- Look at this smile.
- We got good food, so.
- If we're either at a meal
or thinking about the next meal coming up
or thinking about a meal we just had,
we're probably, on the scale of happiness,
we're probably kind of off the charts.
- They say money can't buy happiness.
- But it can buy banana pudding.
- And food can equal happiness. It's an equation.
- If you were to look at that pain chart that has faces...
(Liz laughs)
- What number are you? And you're just the...
- I'm a zero because I'm eating.
Then I stepped outside 'cause of the heat
and not I'm a 10. - Now a 10.
- Why can't southerners drive in snow?
- Well, it's 'cause we don't have snow to drive in.
- Do they teach y'all up north how to drive in snow?
'Cause they don't teach us.
How would they? We don't get to practice.
It just happens.
One January morning you wake up and like,
"Well this is it. Time to get to work or die."
- You know, it's like saying, "Why can't fish walk?"
- Yeah, similar. Similar to that. Definitely.
- I think it's about balance. Everybody needs a kryptonite.
- God said you can't all be perfect.
Let's just give them snow once a year to throw them off.
- Yeah. Yeah. Keep us humble.
That's what it is. - That's all that is.
- Are southerners less educated?
- Well, we read that question.
- Who Googled this?
- Yeah. We'll find you.
And we'll hunt you down
with our super smart brains, big brains.
- Everyone on this channel has a college degree.
Several of us have multiple college degrees.
- I'm not one of those.
- And we can read, we can write,
and we can whoop your (duck quacks).
Again, I say Roll Tide.
- We saw you flinch.
- What?
- How do southerners eat grits?
- How? - How?
- I usually snort mine.
(Ryan laughs)
- Are you saying it in a way of like,
"How do you eat this stuff?"
Or you really want to know
how we eat it. - The mechanics of it.
- With a spoon.
- Because if this is a question,
then you're the less educated.
- Yeah, bowl to mouth.
And really any way you can make that happen is fine
as long as it goes from A to B.
- But if you're asking the more, like, a conceptual how,
how does southerners eats grits?
It's because they're delicious.
- Why do southerners there's call northerners Yankees?
- Well, it's 'cause we assume
that everybody up there plays for the New York Yankees.
- We all assume you're all on the same baseball team.
- I just figured that it was because "Yankee Doodle"
was their top favorite song up there.
- It's always the top 10 up there, I think.
(Ryan hums "Yankee Doodle")
- I don't really know that.
- I truly have no idea.
- And I'm afraid to go there.
- Yeah, I feel like this is a historical thing
that we're not-
- I don't wanna get it wrong.
- Yeah.
- Why do southerners look different?
- Look different?
- Look different from each other
or from everybody else or just in general?
- I like that it would be framed as each other.
Like, I don't know. Genetics, man.
- It's 'cause we're sweaty.
- That is probably it, to be honest with you.
Like, why everybody looks real shiny down there.
- I don't think I could look at someone and be like,
without hearing them talk, without talking to them at all,
I don't think I could look at someone and be like,
"You're from the South and you're not."
- People say the guys down here dress like tablecloths,
and I don't...
Maybe sometimes.
- Why do southerners say Miss first name?
- 'Cause it's polite.
- Yeah.
- That's because we're afraid. It's scary.
Southern moms are scary.
It's gotta be Miss or ma'am or yes, ma'am.
Or they'll get you.
- Usually the Miss would be because it's a friend's mom
or a teacher or something like that.
It just comes from growing up and wanting to be polite
to friends of your parents.
- They have this fun little term that they throw around.
It's like you were brought into this world,
but we can take you out.
And they mean that.
- Yeah.
- Why do southerners have an accent?
- Why do you have an accent?
- You proud? Proud that you said that?
- You ever thought that maybe you're the one
with the accent? - Mm-hmm.
- But there are certain words
that I absolutely have an accent on,
but it's like not all of them.
- Yeah, like every time I say dwog.
(Liz laughs)
- This is the way that English was supposed
to be spoken is the way that we're talking right now.
You're wrong.
- Y'all is in the Bible.
Look it up.
- Kind of where you grew up and who talks like what, where,
and then there's some sort of linguistic history
behind where accents come from that I don't know
because I am less educated.
- Because as southerners, we are less educated.
- Why do southerners call soda Coke?
- Why not?
(Matt laughs)
Why not?
- Why do you have a problem with that?
- Why?
- The more ubiquitous soda.
- I mean, it's like Kleenex.
We don't call it tissue.
You call all tissue Kleenex.
So we just call all sodas Cokes.
- Back in the day,
used to be you called all video games Nintendo games.
- Really? - Even if they weren't.
We're gonna play Nintendo, even though you fire up the Sega.
It's the same thing.
- Since we're on the subject, what about you guys?
You know, y'all are like,
"We like pop," and I'm like, "Why are you calling it pop?"
That sounds dumb.
That is a genre of music.
And you're over here like, "I'm thirsty. I want some pop."
And I'm like, "You can't drink music. I tried."
- It makes no sense. Y'all, stop doing that.
- Why do southerners say whenever instead of when?
- Whenever is a word, right?
- Yeah.
- So...
- I think it's saying
that southerners use them maybe interchangeably.
- What's wrong with your knee?
Well, whenever I do this...
And yeah, maybe that's not in the right context,
but it's just going to prove to y'all
a lot of people say southerners shorten our words.
No, sometimes we double them.
Sometimes we make them twice as long.
- Whenever you want to. It's casual.
It's like saying
when you wanna go. - It's a little loosey goosey.
- I'm throwing
the ball back in your court. - Yeah, whenever you want to.
- Whenever. Whenever. I'm easy-going.
I'm loose. I go with the flow.
I am not high maintenance.
- It adds more flavor to the sentence, right?
- Yeah. I think so.
- You know, like whenever.
Why just say when you can say whenever?
That's why we're happier down here.
We add flavor to food and to English.
- The language. Yeah, exactly.
- Why don't Southern houses have basements?
- Okay, so this is another regional thing
because we do have basements here in Birmingham
where we film these videos.
- I'm not an engineer, but for the ones that don't,
it's probably due to flooding
or possible flooding in that area.
- New Orleans, they don't have basements
because they're under the water.
- You have a basement. I have a basement.
South is very big. We got basements.
- I wanna know when you Google this, what came up?
Was it just some sort of article that said that basically.
- Probably an article from SouthernThing.com.
- Do southerners like northerners?
- Well, I guess it all really depends
on your behavior, now, doesn't it?
- Yeah. - Depends on if you're
a good person and we vibe.
- Unless you piss us off.
- We're cool.
It's just when you guys ask dumb questions
and then expect us to be okay with those dumb questions.
I'm actually still upset about the basement question.
And I think we need to circle back. We have basements.
- All of our answers for these are just like,
"I don't know. Talk to people."
- I'm kind of offended.
- I don't know.
Talk to someone else that's not like you
and maybe you'll strike up a friendship.
- Yeah, just live normal life.
- How do southerners say oil?
- Oil.
- Oil, oil.
- What's-
- Oil.
- Oil?
- Oil. - Well, I believe they
say it like, "Ol."
- Ol.
- Gotta put some ol in the car.
- Ol in the pan.
- Yeah, need a ol change.
Hey, can someone get the dwog out of the car?
- The dwog's covered in ol.
- Oil pronunciation.
- [Phone] Oil.
- [Ryan] Why'd she say it like that?
- Very breathy.
- Yeah. Oil.
- [Phone] Oil.
- No one has ever said it like that.
Even if that's supposed to be right, that's not right.
- Oh, hello. Express Lube?
I need an oil change.
- You would get a free Express Lube-
- They would run me out of there.
They wouldn't even look at my air filter.
They were just like, "I'm sure it's good,
and see you later."
- I'm out of here. Bye.
- Excuse me, I need a
oil change. - Oil.
- Why do southerners talk so much?
- Well, we got stuff to say.
- Because we're paid to on these videos.
- Yeah, this is specifically about this cast.
- I can't answer this. I talk a lot.
- I feel like we've been pretty quiet today.
- Yeah.
- I mean, the stereotype about southerners talking slow
is obviously not correct.
- No, 'cause we are mile a minute right now.
- Right.
- This is a good sign, though.
If a southerner is talking to you a lot, they like you.
- Very true.
- Yeah, we will start with small talk,
and then we find some common ground.
And then we're gonna carry it on there.
- And then that leads to a two-hour story about our uncle
that you had no interest in,
but we're gonna tell you anyway.
- For sure.
And then next thing you know,
you gonna be getting a Christmas card every year from us.
- Being around my family
is very much you kind of just have noise
for about three hours
and then you go home and sit in silence.
- Yes, every time my mom
would have her Bunco group come over and play,
I just think everybody sat around laughing the whole time.
- They're like, there's no words being said.
- They weren't even talking. They're just laughing.
- And if you ever see them after that first small talk
and they don't ask about your mama and them,
then you're not on good terms.
We'll ask right now. How's your mama and them?
- Yeah.
- Let us know. - Yeah.
Tell us in the comments. - Please.
- Well, if you have any other questions,
leave them in the comments.
- Ask Google.
- Or message us. Don't do that.
I got too many messages.
- I don't think we've done enough educating in our videos,
apparently, if they're still having to run to Google
to ask these questions.
Also, that's a lot of questions.
I don't think I've ever asked Google,
"Why do northerners do anything?"
Y'all obsessed with us.
- And the moral of the story
is we're not so different after all.
- We're not so different,
you and I. - You and I.
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