Doing Small Town Stuff

[@cameronschmit6472]

Holy fuck the "2 Knutsons, different families, not related" is toooooo spot on

[@jeffcollins7443]

Is it Knutson or Knudson or one of each?

[@zackknudsen7516]

I’m a Knudsen 🤘🏼

[@gk4thewin049]

Yup especially being one of the 2🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gk4thewin049]

@@zackknudsen7516 same

[@ericaknudsen6839]

@@zackknudsen7516 same im also a Knudsen

[@pottergirl287]

The most small town thing though is behind the scenes - having to drive the 20-30 minutes to get to the Fleet Farm. Ah, I haven't been to Barnesville in ages!

[@foxiflakes8245]

wait, Barnesville? what state?

[@logmanfarmsfs8822]

Yup. Been there done that. Gonna do it again.

[@captainmgtowschool5132]

@@foxiflakes8245 Hwy 12 runs from Chicago to Madison Wisconsin which I lived off the hwy..... FBI agents used that hwy to go to Lake Como, Wisconsin to arrest Baby Face Nelson

[@foxiflakes8245]

@@captainmgtowschool5132 yeah I'm thinking the complete opposite side of the country lol

[@captainmgtowschool5132]

@@foxiflakes8245 Well in Wisconsin Pic In Save is a big grocery store chain, but can't find that store in south Carolina they have Food Lions, but Piggy Wiggly are in both spots😨

[@coppha3037]

Being from a town of 1,800 people, this was like watching a buddy do a documentary in the backyard.

[@Mike45-47Q]

Lol I instantly found myself wanting to argue...my towns smaller than your town, like the song. But for real tho, we have half that.

[@coppha3037]

@@Mike45-47Q Listen man lol, there's no fixed number that determines a small town. We just all know one when we see one

[@austinduncan1271]

@@Mike45-47Q 478 was what our sign said in bunker, Mo

[@amrogers4]

@@coppha3037 1,400 here. Can't beat small town livin, though! It might take 20-30 minutes to get outside of BFE, but I wouldn't trade it for the world :)

[@garrisonfolk7277]

For real the school part really hit close to home

[@fredericknault4882]

He’s a fireman…”volunteer”. If that isn’t small town, idk what is.

[@west_texas_H.D_rider]

Every station in my home town was volunteer. I think some have since become paid stations. Most the guys were paid firefighters in the city and volunteered for fun in our town

[@kj7792]

That was Kyle man!!! You see miles face when he mentioned him🤣😂

[@getreal1175]

We have volunteer foundation savers here!

[@stuborowski5301]

First one to the station gets to drive the firetruck. They're all Chiefs too!

[@ryanvess6162]

The only city in the whole state of Delaware that has a paid fire department is Wilmington

[@NewportMoneyGroup]

As someone who works sheet metal and construction in the upper peninsula of Michigan, these videos just hit harder and harder

[@alwagers574]

I’m a plumber/fitter and I came up to vacation with kids and just see myself moving up there. Man it’s beautiful!

[@Real28]

@@alwagers574 I tent camped over a New Year 2018. Pictured Rocks covered in ice and snow, it's insane. Like nothing else I've seen. I need to take fam up during summer.

[@madtownangler]

@@Real28 i backpacked there for a week in like 1990 or so. Couldn't wait to climb down the sand dunes at the east end.

[@lukeWiz44]

Y’all sayin it’s pretty, try being here during November-March… lol

[@skykaptain007]

906 gang rise up. Former Eskymo here

[@TheBML2]

Heard we’re getting a “insert ok restaurant franchise” this town’s getting too big now

[@TheTspaeth]

We're gettin' a Burger King. Real talk of the town now that the Taco Bell has been around for a couple years.

[@meal_team666]

That’s how my town acted after getting a second gas station

[@thompkins6796]

@@TheTspaeth I swear, I've heard so many rumors about my small town's supposedly planned """McDonald's""" in the past few years.

[@saldanagaona]

AppleBees was that point. Honestly, it was after Transformers 3 was filmed in town that everything changed. You can guess one of two small cotton towns I was raised in 😂 okay I’ll tell yall. Taylor, TX.

[@jaaxoon]

Literally my parents when I visit

[@johnl6371]

A Fleet Farm AND a Dairy Queen?? Damn that's the big city as far as I'm concerned!

[@sarahannaltmann]

Unfortunately the small town that has the dairy queen doesn't have a fleet farm. The fleet farm is 30 min away. But we don't mind the drive.

[@treva7162]

Different towns. Gotta go to the city for fleet farm. It's got a subway though.

[@randomlando4851]

@@sarahannaltmann Burnsville?

[@10duders]

@@randomlando4851 I think someone said Barnesville , that Fleet Farms in Fargo though

[@jamesogorman3287]

@@treva7162 Why bother puttin’ the train underground? Looks like there’d be plenty of land up top fer it.

[@bdevl52]

There wasn't a single reference in this video that didn't flood my brain with memories. We're all the same aren't we?

[@Wonderhorse9006]

I dont live in north or south America so i wouldn’t know

[@SomewhereInIndiana1816]

absolutely!

[@10duders]

I didn’t expect him to whip out the potato days lol

[@BobSmith-cb5xr]

Nope, I'm batshit crazy. One of a kind

[@rhs.m]

Yeah pretty much anybody from a cow town or farm town lives like this. I'm from a small farm town in Idaho and the Fleet Farm is a Tractor Supply and the DQ is a Jack in the Box but other than that it's identical lol.

[@marcw6875]

What he didn't mention was that Rick the Groundskeeper drove by just then because someone in one of the houses nearby called him to tell him somebody suspicious was loitering near the football field. Small towns, man. ;)

[@ryanalexander984]

I recently moved from my home town of Phoenix to my wife’s very small hometown in Idaho. This is so accurate. 1 street town. My graduating class had 1500 students, hers 74. Her dad was also a volunteer fireman. Small towns>big cities.

[@TheTspaeth]

I live in a small town outside of a big city. Best of both worlds.

[@TheBowie7]

I had 74 in my whole school.

[@MrMosebysLobby]

62 was my grad class. Welcome to midwest lol

[@TheMangolorian735]

Bruh I had like 20🤣🤣🤣

[@jamisonstrilchuk8008]

@@TheTspaeth ain't that the truth

[@brightnorris8572]

my dad is actually the fire chief of his volunteer fire dept in the small town of bennet ne 750 ppl so thats nice ....always has his pager on him

[@thepinkzebra3]

Nice! I did my EMT clinicals at Wahoo NEs volunteer fire dept!

[@ZoeyTheGSP]

What’s a pager?

[@ZoeyTheGSP]

Is a pager like some new fancy technology? Or is it some super old technology from decades ago ? Is it better than an actual phone?

[@Mweedy420]

@@ZoeyTheGSP they were little square/rectangular devices that clipped to your belt and it basically let you receive little messages.

[@alexbiehl2332]

Something special about this perspective on life though... feels like you're just a tiny bit more grateful for the life you've been given!

[@devinm9245]

I like the sentiment till you see empty beer cans out in the woods while camping I'm sorry this was uncalled for and I apologize, I'm just sick of seeing the litter, let me know if I should delete this comment, again sorry. Watch out for deer

[@natereniger8773]

"It's the church band, but they let loose on Saturdays" there has never been a truer sentence spoken in the history of mankind.

[@paulhunt598]

My small (county seat) town installed its first traffic light. For three weeks the local weekly paper ran articles on how to use it. They also reported on the frequent accidents happening at the only traffic light in the county. One week the paper proudly displayed a photo of the tracks in the grass where a car rolled out of the grocery store parking lot. The weekly local paper is a county paper. Our little town is now much larger and sports numerous traffic lights, gas stations and competing farm supply stores. But one tractor dealership pulled up stakes and moved to another small town three miles away leaving us locals only three tractor brands.

[@michellemarie1197]

Thank you for glamorizing or shining a light on small midwestern towns, I love this channel

[@KimberlyOnnen]

I love Barnesville! We’ve lived here 16 years and we’re still “new”. 😉 The Fleet Farm is in Fargo… and is my hubs’ favorite store… the “old man’s mall”.

[@mirrorblue100]

Yeah, I worked at an "office" in a small town - (population 2500) - it was five years before they'd let me go get the mail.

[@AdrianIsaacs]

I was born in a city, but when I was nine my family moved to a small town. In my twenties, I moved back to the city. I can say that this is spot on, though the "small town" I grew up in was a little bigger than this. We had a Walmart, a Kroger, and a few restaurant chains. It was still a pretty rural town, though. One thing I never fully realized while I lived there was how much everyone "knows everyone." I know it's common to say "everyone knows everyone" when talking about small towns. But after I moved away and reconnected with old friends who still lived in the small town of my youth, I realized that's true on more levels than one. For instance, if you go to a small town, many of the people have lived there their whole lives. Likewise, many of their parents lived in that small town their whole lives, too. Their grandparents probably did, too. Going back several generations, their whole families have been in that town. Consequently, not only do they know most people in town, they're also distantly related to many people in town.

[@UserName-ts3sp]

it's interesting... i feel this too. my mom married into a family that had lived in this small town (about 5,000), while she was from the nearby big city. it's really interesting how they've lived in this small town most of their lives, their kids lived there, etc.

[@packersproductions24]

this is literally Midwest glory 🙌🏻

[@Christian-vq8rd]

I live in a small town in South Carolina. Change the last names, add a few more churches, and it's the same. Also, the Fleet Farm would be a Walmart.

[@bradlincoln8591]

I don't see the glory in it really

[@packersproductions24]

@@bradlincoln8591 ok idc

[@SomewhereInIndiana1816]

absolutely!

[@PaulDixon25]

Just showed a few friends around my tiny little college town in PA earlier today. This video was timed perfectly for me.

[@jasonparker6670]

I grew up in a town of 1800, I concur everything is spot on in this video. Esp the pull tabs...

[@rossohio07]

This is what it's like when going to Wal-Mart at 2am, entertainment for sure!🤣

[@ianrix5116]

So true. I grew up in Hazen, ND. Thanks for keepin it real!

[@melindaroth9398]

We are raising our kids just outside of a small town! K-12 is all in the same building, that’s been added on few times. Each class is roughly 40 kids per grade! Town population is between 1400-1500! We are still the “new people” and we’ve lived here now 5+ years! I know the one bar & grill owner personally! Everything either happens through the school or at the American Legion and we have to travel 30minutes to get to a Fleet Farm! Wouldn’t change it a bit!

[@etuckedfg]

I lived in a town with no bar. if you wanted to drink, you drink at the Legion, or at home, or in the woods

[@michael9016]

I was a deputy in a county of nothing but small towns in northwest Wisconsin for 8 years. I would be the only deputy on duty, for the whole county, for half the day...on the gun deer opener!!! Everything was always ok thanks to the Midwest niceness of all the deer hunters. I don't work there anymore but miss that agency and talk about my "up nort" life a lot. Great video, brought back great memories.

[@nerasoderstrom2517]

I could never live in such a crowded area lmao I got three neighbors and that's three too many. Love the rural country life!

[@joshullrich8594]

THIS IS MY HOMETOWN! Barnesville,MN

[@jdmandan]

Thanks! I was trying to figure out from the road signs but couldn't quite get it.

[@BelowTheYellowLine]

We just moved from a small town in Arkansas to about 7 miles outside of Washington D.C. It's a big change for sure and though there is a lot of cool history here, I can't wait to get back to my small town. My grandpa lives about 10 minutes outside of a very small town and we're convinced the Sonic in DeWitt is the most profitable restaurant in town!

[@alexworthington7585]

One time my grandma and i went for a short 3hr ride along the coast of lake superior in the wintertime, counted somewhere over 180 deer, that was a fun ride!

[@outdoorsmen49]

What a lot of people don't know is that showing someone new around is a very eventful day

[@operator1192]

This speaks to me. It helps that I live just one town over from here so a lot of these places are familiar anyways haha.

[@katherinerevier2488]

I was thinking you were in Barnesville and your reference to Potato days confirmed it. Gotta love small town Minnesota

[@saratheg]

Yup! This is (one of) my hometowns, and I'm from New Hampshire. We don't have Fleet Farm, so that would be our Runnings, Tractor Supply or Harbor Freight. One street, the few bars you do not want to go to, and the school. I drove through my first cornfield there ❤️

[@danofyork]

Grew up in Midwest but living in NYC now. This one is funny like all the videos but uniquely giving me a straight shot of nostalgia

[@MrBlue-os7su]

my dad showed me around his hometown once and he was really hyping up this one spot he used to hang out and when we got there it was just a big rock by the lake

[@victorialaur]

Love how he can point out the driver of the vehicles on the street and he knows who it is!!! Classic small town!

[@Rider-nb5ts]

Oh man since moving from Minnesota, I love these videos because there’s so much truth in them!! Oh and I do miss Fleet Farm so much!! Dad and I used to run for milk and detour to fleet…it was 30min out of the way. Mom used to be so pissed lol!!!

[@infallibleblue]

I’ve been to Fleet Farm for the first time in my 30 year old life and it was fantastic!

[@SoCalSeaChaser]

This reminded me of the town of 1600 that I lived in up in Oregon. The big excitement, besides Friday night high school football, was driving 30 minutes to the next town to Fred Meyers or Walmart to walk around. Once done there, head back to town and stop at the 1 grocery store to hang out in the parking lot to BS with friends, 😂 . Spot on video.

[@mstringham]

Looks like small town Midwest fun is the same as the west small town fun (Wyoming). The only difference is we didn’t have the fleet farm. We cruised main street too which was fun

[@thetowerfantasymusic]

I love small town stuff, that's what small towns are all about !

[@MtnDewMonkey3]

That looks like Barnesville my dad and uncle grew up there, we still have the old farm property not to far from there.

[@holdintime2904]

I just passed through the other day looking for new fishing spots. I came in on the same road as the video and I was like....wait a minute

[@Mweedy420]

One of my favorite things to do on a cool late summer/early fall night is load the truck up with a thermos of cocoa, my girl, and my dog!(binocs and spot light are already in there at all times) and go deer spotting. It is very relaxing and therapeutic 🇺🇸🦌💪🏻

[@dcommonsense5926]

coming from a town of 500 people and potatoes are in my family and etc......this is true and rocks....love this

[@patrickbranon5444]

Deer rides in small townFairfield Vermont never get old. He really knows small towns if he threw in the "go looking for deer" line

[@nreynolds75243]

😂So relatable! Where I was raised, they call it the city but it's a small town in Louisiana. This is so true.

[@AlbeeSoaring]

Love Fleet Farm. This year when I was out visiting I had to make sure to hit not only the Fleet farm but the super Fleet Farm. Such a cool Place.

[@Zackdrock]

Tackle box still can’t find the board stretcher

[@daytona_200]

Walkin around in the one store is accurate

[@shaneh7519]

The town I went to hs in was a bit on the bigger side, but still smaller than what I was used to. We had an academy we would walk around in

[@OpeoAslam]

I got a good deal on a pair of Muck boots in Appleton years ago. Love that store. Wish we had em and Menards in the south.

[@nolankirkwood9655]

I worked in in Green Bay a couple years ago. Fleet farm became my addiction. My first trip I didn’t spend a dime, but I made up for it with several subsequent trips. I’d be broke if they had one close to home.

[@mikemaus9011]

I do the same thing when I go back to my home town in rural WI.

[@tomtheplummer7322]

Our volunteer fire department hasn’t lost a foundation yet. 😉

[@meal_team666]

Same for ours, we’ve even managed to save a few basements

[@annieseaside]

Ansolutelt true!!!! Lol

[@sontagfamily5611]

The fastest way to make a volunteer fireman mad! LOL

[@bridgerwon]

Live in a small town in Montana. As you drive our one street through town there's a Dairy Queen on the left and a Subway on the right! Followed by the church I go to. We had a Knutson marry an Olson last year, both work at the lumber mill in town. Only thing missing from the video is showing off your grocery store LOL

[@dylansgarage2024]

"Somewhere between a 14 and 20 point buck." That's hilarious.

[@g.d.764]

The town I've lived in for most of my life just got a stoplight. It was so weird to drive thru the first green light

[@SunnySky7]

Absolutely 100%. Not big enough for any actual stores though!

[@paulhaag3926]

The real question, how far from that main street did they have to drive to get to a Fleet Farm, 25 minutes minimum I'm guessing.

[@Raesling1]

When your town is so small that the only "department store" for 20+ miles is Dollar General.

[@MrMosebysLobby]

@@Raesling1 basically napoleon mo lol. 222 people. Only department store is dollar general near us and the walmart a town over

[@jlbaker9565]

fun fact: #1 job in a small town is being a full time volunteer firefighter

[@kingelk2408]

Nothing like watching a You Betcha video while wearing You Betcha merch. Represent!

[@amelioratetoolate]

Shoot a couple weeks earlier, and ya would've been at Barnesville potato days! That's the party of the year in that town.

[@stephanielynn2339]

Every small town in the Midwest has a bar..... so spot on! Lol!!

[@GrimR3eaper99]

Im from the city but something about going to a small town for a nice little weekend getaway really makes you appreciate how awesome they are. Everybody knows each other and you gotta love that clean country air.

[@parkerrountree246]

I honestly don’t know how people live in the big ol’ cities man. I mean Fort Worth is probably the only city I could make do in…But Dallas or New Orleans is really pushing it. No disrespect, but it just seems like a hassle.

[@KristiWilson]

The problem is everybody knows your business in a small town.

[@TroyerFilms]

Sometimes you visit small towns and get shocked the changes. "Yeah, there's the Dairy Queen, the pizza place, and the--WHAT DID THEY DO TO THE GRAIN MILL? IT'S GONE!"

[@jessecreegan9451]

You have the school in your town!!! I had to drive to the next town over to get to my K-12, and it was uphill both ways.🤣🤣🤣

[@nicoleblackstock5550]

Except for the actual franchise restaurants, last names and stores. I can guarantee you I’ve said these things. We were the Trojans!! We have 3 churches, a restaurant that is open only weekends, the gas station owned by the co-op, and a tractor dealer for 400 people.

[@HatedJared]

Looking for Deer on the side of the road is exactly the entertainment I was raised on. We didnt go to Farm and Fleet though. We had Menards.

[@lukerice6134]

I’m from barnsville Minnesota and that’s where this video is

[@RK-zf1jm]

Man gew up in a seaside village like that place here in the UK about 700 people tops 1 school for all age ranges biggest store in the village was some local (what you guys would call mom n pop) replace deer hunting with fishing and you got my old village.

[@Pinhead101]

"Forgot the binoculars" - Proceeds to stare for 45 min... Not there yet. 15 min tops without them.

[@rickpresley63]

Not even kidding - Our Marching Band used to be in the parade every year at the Coho Festival. Midwest is best!

[@tbirds5313]

Potato days… reminds me of the Askov, MN Rutabega Festival…

[@pattheticc]

This is my dream. I’ve never been to US but if I ever visit, I want to visit a small town like this.

[@scottfeuerhammer3595]

Gotta go "shining" for deer at night with a case of PBR with 3 friends. Road sodas. See all the deer you can handle. I had a 1 million candle power Coleman unit back in the day. Badass. They're like the sun today. Light up the whole field/woods like Griswolds house on Christmas.

[@zackschmidt4381]

Albertas fleet farm is definitely Peavey Mart!

[@KristiWilson]

I miss Mills. And Menards. And Pizza Ranch. None of them in Florida!

[@quarterblacktravis]

This is for real real. I went to a school that was k-12 and there was familys that have those same names where I lived. Wtf. Everything you said is on point

[@calvinhoffmann4570]

Ah Barnesville... Good ol Rick and Rick Jr. helped us out when our tire blew on the boat trailer

[@perrygilbert72]

Barnesville! And the Fergus falls fleet farm?

[@dominickjustave3558]

Moved from a major city to a small town of 1400 love it .

[@jellybean13ct]

We have one stop light in my town. My graduating class had 65 people in it.

[@milesstelly8630]

Glad you upgraded to the 21’ f150. Nice.

[@RetroMonkey1999]

I've lived most of my life in NoDak, with a few years in the Twin Cities and a couple in STL. I moved back to raise my son up here. It will always be home. But, winters are getting a little harder than I want to deal with and hubby's a southerner, so we're moving to Florida in 2 weeks. I'm glad I'll still have this channel to remind me of home! (Won't miss having to drive 100 miles to Fargo just to go to the Dr though! )

[@jakeoconnor3400]

Reminds me of every small town in North Dakota ❤🇺🇸

[@ndsufan6439]

It should. This video (except Fleet Farm) was filmed in Barnesville MN, about 30 minutes from Fargo

[@zeramproxy8502]

Cool we just had pancake days. Much better then potato days.

[@garrettga1]

Ha! The VFW! Best bar in every small town!

[@tylatham_]

He’s got the plug from Fleet Farm! Let’s go!!

[@garyburrus9379]

Oh, my god. I moved from a city to a small town, and it is EXACTLY like this! It blows your mind at first, but it literally becomes part of you!

[@noahtrautman5704]

I actually had a couple different teachers named Mrs. Knutson. They had the same last name, but aren't related. Also the history teacher is the school football coach.

[@threej44]

When I worked for Spee Dee, I delivered to several towns that only had a bar, church and a post office

[@meatloafperfume8218]

one main road, god that sounds so wonderful and zen like

[@mikehuff2173]

I love these videos, always good for a laugh!!

[@randomfreedomlovingguy1536]

I grew up on Highway 12 in another state................... but the truth is real here too in a place called Mossyrock!

[@brendenthorkildson2019]

I live in this town, and there is no fleet farm(although I wish). When he was pointing to his “school” he was pointing to the fair grounds. The town is Barnesville MN

[@ruglife]

My home town had one stoplight and a population of about 1300. Also k-12 school lol.

[@sRhinnoGG]

my town has a church, a bar, and a volunteer fire dept. it couldn’t get any more small town. WE DONT EVEN HAVE ANY STOPLIGHTS, OR A GAS STATION!

[@judgedredd8657]

Small ish town of 10k. It's the big town for the western part of the whole county... we have a Walmart and a Canadian tire!

[@emminor]

I live in a small town in Alberta, Canada. Half the town is liquor stores and half the town is churches

[@thomas9565]

Dairy Queen and subway!!! I wished we had some shit like that where we grew up.

[@elgoog7830]

My little town literally consists of 1 building, which includes a gas station, restaurant, bar, post office, deli, corner store, hunting/fishing supplies.

[@bobsiddoway]

Heck yes to the Dairy Queen!