(light, cheerful music)
- So long, everyone!
- Hey, Kate.
Where you going?
- Like a rolling stone,
gotta keep tumbling.
- Yeah, but what about making videos?
- Meh.
- So long, everybody!
- You're leaving too?
- Oh, I just,
thought it was a thing we're doing now.
- Guys, wh...
Oh, hey.
Welcome to It's Personal.
A show exploring what makes you, you.
Today we're talking about where you live
and how or if it affects your life.
Guys, hang on!
("Mrs Rossas Smile")
- Guys, are we really doing it?
Are we moving?
- We're doing it.
- I guess.
But do you guys have any plans whatsoever
or did you just put all your stuff in boxes and
then leave?
- Hey, look, it's Colin!
- Oh, hi guys.
- Hey, it's Colin!
How's it going?
- Pretty good.
- Where you off to?
- I'm off to eat some soul food
and get educated.
- Oh, cool.
Well, let us know how it goes.
- Will do!
- There he goes.
- What a weirdo.
- Later, Colin.
- We're in Inglewood, California.
We're gonna eat a bunch of
vegan soul food.
- Let me tell you something about soul food, okay?
- What do I know about soul food?
I think mac and cheese.
I think fried chicken.
I think corn bread.
(lively jazzy music)
- Inglewood, like many low-income areas in Los Angeles
really struggles to feed people
quality, healthy food.
- Welcome to Stuff I Eat.
- Babette opened this restaurant in 2008
to try and combat that issue.
She's inspiring a community to understand
food they love in a broader context.
- So is this your very first vegan soul food platter?
- Yeah.
- [Colin] Really?
So, first of all let me describe exactly what you have
on this plate.
This is all vegan,
100% vegan.
Kale greens,
black eye peas.
We've got mac and cheese.
- Vegan.
Barbecued tofu.
Got a little cole slaw
and potato salad!
We've got some gluten-free corn bread
and your yams.
- Ready...
Go!
- You're an animal, Colin.
- [Colin] I'm an animal?
- Yes.
Oh my god.
This mac and cheese is so good.
- Yeah, I wouldn't say it tastes like,
traditional mac and cheese.
- She's not trying to
imitate
regular soul food mac and cheese.
She made it her own and it's amazing.
- Everyday. I'd eat this everyday.
- I've never had tofu before.
- [Colin] What?
- I've never had tofu.
In my mind, it's always been, like,
scary and weird.
Yeah.
- Wait, have y'all had this cole slaw?
This is a rave.
Cole slaw is rave.
Like, I'm about this cole slaw like no other (laughs).
This is like Sunday.
- My plate, almost done.
- [Colin] Pick up the pace, Freddie.
- I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming.
What's your definition of a balanced meal?
- That.
- This?
- What did you expect me to say?
When we first moved over here,
I introduced the soul food platter.
It was only going to be a special.
Couple of the local residents came in,
they had the soul food platter, and they liked it.
And then,
I didn't have it the next day.
And they were like, well, what happened to that?
And I'm like well, it was just a special.
They walked out.
That happened several times, several weeks in a row.
And we just made the soul food platter
a part of the menu.
And I think that's how we became
the vegan soul food restaurant.
- Why did you wanna open in Inglewood?
- I live down the street!
First of all,
every time I wanted a decent vegan meal,
I had to drive across town.
There are a lot of health conscious people
living in this community,
and they needed me here.
They needed this situated right here where it is.
And why not?
Why not a good vegan restaurant in my community?
So, there.
- So, since you've been here, have you noticed
that more people from the neighborhood have started to come?
Like are there people who aren't vegan
who just come for the food?
- Most of my customers are not vegan.
- You know I've never, for one second,
thought about becoming vegan,
but I'm actually, legitimately considering it.
With how good the food is, and how good you look...
(laughing)
- Okay, all right.
Yep.
Talk to you later.
Bye.
That was Colin.
- Oh, great.
- He said the food was great
and he learned a bunch of stuff.
- Fantastic!
- Yeah.
- Uh...
You think we should've planned this move out a little more?
- Nah.
It's pretty nice out here, though, right?
- Yeah.
You know,
I could see myself happy in the country.
I'd own a sauerkraut farm.
I'd make the best sauerkraut in the world.
Call it Kate's Kraut.
- Ooh, I like that.
Can I come?
- Yeah.
Totally.
Uh...
I mean, I'm gonna be in the charge of the sauerkraut,
but you can be in charge of cows.
- Cows, right.
Sweet.
- Guys, before we get carried away with this,
let's do a little
semi-scientific poll.
'Cause it'll be fun and educational.
We'd go out to the city,
go out to the country side,
we'd interview people
about their happiness
and rank it on a totally subjective happiness scale.
Who's in?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I'm down.
- All right, early.
Let's do it.
The world is pretty evenly divided.
Those that live in rural areas
and those that live in cities.
But how do people decide which of these two
will be the right fit for them and make them happy?
Can a place even make you happy?
I dove into research to see who's happier.
This study says that rural people are less depressed.
But then this book shows how cities make people happier.
Then again, this study concludes rural dwellers
are actually happier.
So what's the truth?
We asked people in Los Angeles about their happiness.
Well, we're here
on the streets of Los Angeles,
the big city,
talking to people about happiness.
First question,
Are you happy?
(laughs)
- I mean, I feel like I'm not that happy
when I'm in the city.
- (laughing) Well, I'm actually moving.
'Cause I'm not happy here.
- Are you happy.
- Very happy.
- You're very happy.
- Very happy.
- Are you happy?
- Uh, sometimes.
I wouldn't say all the time.
Sometimes.
- So, after those mixed answers,
we headed out to the country.
Stopping at the Halfway House Cafe
for good, old-fashioned food
and a chat about happiness.
So I'm here with Sandy.
- Hello.
- [Brandon] Are you from around here?
- Yes.
I've lived here for 30 years.
- Sandy, are you happy?
- Yes.
- Well, there you have it.
- Are you happy?
- Absolutely.
- Yeah?
- Absolutely.
Great area.
Great place to be.
- Are you happy?
- Yeah.
- Oh, well great!
The rural people did seem happier.
But was their happiness actually connected
to living in the country?
We asked some of the same people
if they thought location affected their happiness.
Do you have a lot of home town pride?
- Yeah, I do.
Yeah, I went to school here,
my kid went to school here.
Yeah.
I know all these people.
Yeah, this is my life.
This is my town.
- Do you feel like you'd be happier
in a rural environment?
- I love the country,
but...
The city bring everything.
You can go to the country,
but not to live there.
- I don't really like going to the city at all.
- What things make you happy?
- I do a lot of exercise outdoors.
It just helps me relax and I feel like
those things make me happy.
- So, it's not really a debate between rural and city life.
People that are happy are often just a match to their homes.
This actually makes sense
because the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index
has liking where you live as one of the five main indexers
for overall well being.
So, if you like where you live,
you could be one step closer to happiness.
(lively music)
- Well, that was a lot of fun.
- Yeah!
- It seems like the people who live in the city
just kinda fit in the city.
- And people who live outside the city,
just kinda fit outside the city.
- Yeah.
Like, people are happiest where they belong.
But guys,
where do we belong?
- Don't worry about it, Kate.
I actually know quite a bit of information
about each and every one
of the United States of America, so,
why don't we learn a little bit
about each and every one of them
and then we'll have a good idea of where we belong?
- Okay.
- Observe.
We have space camp.
Ranked most prepared for a zombie apocalypse.
- You like canyons?
We've got a grand one.
(whistles)
- We have the most dog owners.
- Most professional sports teams.
Nothing but net.
- We've got disproportionately more gluten-free stuff
as compared to the national average.
- An old-timey nickname for us is the Nutmeggers.
- Home to the Pumpkin Chunkin World Championship.
This thing where they
use a bunch of devices to throw pumpkins.
- Second largest ocean coastline.
After Alaska.
- We're number one in barbecue.
- State where you're least likely
to collide with a deer.
- We produce 72 types of precious and semi-precious stones.
- Deep dish pizza.
- The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the world's largest
spectator sporting facility.
- We've got the highest population of pigs.
Look at those pigs.
- Home to one of the two largest balls of twine.
- We have the longest cave system.
Whoa!
- We've got the most single people.
- We've got the oldest population.
- The state sport is jousting.
- Home to the top three most Irish towns.
- Colon, Michigan is the self-proclaimed
magic capital of the world.
- We've got the most golfers per capita.
- (yawns) We get the most sleep per night on average.
Tied with Alabama.
- Ah, birth place of Mark Twain.
And where most of his famous stories took place.
- Residents view it as the best place to live.
Tied with Alaska.
- We've got the most homes with indoor plumbing.
- Do you like what you see?
Prostitution is legal in parts of Nevada.
- The first free public library was founded here in 1833.
- First state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
- We have the highest population of Hispanic people.
- Birth place to the most astronauts.
- First public university.
Oh, thank you. I did it.
- Uh, we got the largest penises.
- We're the most likely to (bleep) curse.
♫ Oklahoma has a musical written about it ♫
- Portland, Oregon has the most strip clubs per capita.
- We're home to Geddysburg, Independence Hall,
Liberty Bell, and Valley Forge National Park.
- More Rhode Islanders over the age of 12
smoke marijuana monthly than any other state.
- We're the most polite state,
thank you very much.
- Cows outnumber people over four to one.
- Home of Jack Daniels,
the best selling American whiskey in the world.
- Texas has the most deaths from hands, fists, and feet.
- We're number one in volunteerism.
I'm not even getting paid for this.
- We've got the most craft breweries per capita.
- We got the most of any license plates per capita.
- We're the least likely to
gosh-darn curse.
- Home of the first Mother's Day celebration.
Happy Mother's Day.
- (breaths deeply)
Cheese.
- 92.7% of the population
is Caucasian.
- Guys, there's too many states.
- Way too many states.
- And they've all got something to offer.
- I can't make up my mind.
- Well, let me float this idea past you guys.
We're all pretty happy in Los Angeles, right?
- Yeah.
- And we've got friends and jobs and places to live there.
- Yeah.
- Well, why are we even leaving?
- I don't think I thought it through.
- I don't think either of you did.
- I definitely didn't think it through.
- Well, look,
let's turn this thing around and go home.
- Yeah.
- Yeah!
- Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.
- [Kate] I miss home.
I hope someone's taking care of my rabbit.
- Hey, Brandon, what happened to your arm, by the way?
- [Kate] Oh, yeah.
- [Brandon] I don't know.