HOME TOWNS! Good Influences Episode 27

We're back! Hope everyone had a lovely holiday season. Your favorite pod is back with an episode all about HOMETOWNS. Did you visit your hometown for the holidays? Still live in your hometown? Leave a comment and let us know!!
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[@laurenc9939]

I wish they would put a picture of what they show each other on their phones, I wanna be involved 😩

[@relanithomas2881]

Yesss

[@teresav46]

real

[@ZaynMalik-sq2li]

Yes lol

[@calicook1041]

I saw this comment at the begging of the episode then When carly showed the Gordmen font I was so sad I couldn’t see it so I had to comment this lol

[@ashleylarkin9399]

this was a cool episode because you all brought such unique and different experiences and stories!

[@GoodInfluences]

:)

[@natsdd1416]

Hi from Spain! not sure how I discovered you but thank you for the podcast :) find it so interesting to listen to people from another part of the world talk about different subjects

[@katiefoster2169]

I grew up in the same area as Matt, it’s weird hearing him talk about the same things I grew up knowing. Texas is big, but I swear the same stories get passed around. We would always talk about the goat man when we went camping, it’s like the loch Ness monster for Texas.

[@KatsObsession]

We have a goat man story where I’m from too. Not in Texas though

[@marissamorales7537]

Ugh, thank God y’all posted!!! No one has posted since vlogmas ended and I’ve been so bored!

[@GoodInfluences]

we’re back!!

[@jessbhamp]

As someone who recently moved back to my hometown and became a teacher at the same elementary school I attended - the smell thing is so real! Every time I take my students to lunch, I’m immediately hit with the same smell I remember from my childhood. It’s actually so strange. Lol great episode! Love you guys.

[@samanthadavila4084]

Hearing Matt bring up Mr gattis made me so happy. I had almost every birthday there as a kid 😭

[@jennayyy7028]

I love hearing Matt talk about his hometown cuz I can imagine exactly where everything is at. Im born and raised in Dallas! And when I think of Carrollton I think about how cute and small their downtown is lol. So hearing them say it’s huge is crazy to meeee

[@jasonhunter2819]

You know you like listening to a group of friends when they take a week break and it feels like a month haha

[@michellecastaneda9475]

Action park closed in the 90s, i remember going there as a kid. Someone always got hurt, crazy times

[@taylernewman398]

I loved this episode. I would love to see you 4 go to each of your hometowns and dedicate an episode to them. Sounds like a lot of work but in my mind it sounds interesting haha. Anyways great episode as always happy new year everyone.

[@Robin-ladybug]

I lived in Ashland Mass for a few years when I was younger, so I wonder if I ever saw Erin in passing without knowing it. Also, I used to go to that bar you were talking about all the time! So funny

[@xoviolet32]

the fact that erin knows what twin river casino is shows she’s a true new englander lol

[@kailynpeterson5027]

I look forward to this podcast and unfiltered on patreon every week! Love you guys!

[@tomorrow_needs_you]

Same!!!!!!!!!!!

[@desthepsychonaut]

hi everyone I’m from Corpus Christi TX 😎 shout out Selena Quintanilla RIP 🕊❤ BE CAREFUL GOING ALL DETECTIVE MATT AND THE HANNAH MONTANA REFERENCE KILLED ME BRO you just get funnier and funnier

[@kyleimiller5483]

Favorite podcast hands down. Big fan of everyone on the podcast for years! I do like unfiltered but I don’t listen unless I know Matt & Mariah are on!

[@hannahzimbouski9515]

I live in New England (connecticut) and it’s truly so beautiful!!! Until you get older you don’t realize how nice living in New England is. History weather landscape is all amazing

[@live.life.with.oh.wells.]

I loved this episode! It’s so fun to hear Erin’s stories because I grew up in Medfield, MA and we always played Ashland in sports

[@taylorklinke]

I'm in Fargo, ND and we also have a lot of Pizza Ranch locations here. There's an arcade inside and it's like a pizza buffet! We also had a Gorman's before it closed a few years ago.

[@taylorklinke]

Gordmans*

[@austinharper2573]

Midwestern here, I grew up in Wisconsin my entire life. This spring I'll have lived in Seattle, Washington for two years. Im told all the time, especially in a work setting, that I have a midwestern accent / twang and everyone automatically assumes im from minnesota lol

[@grapes406]

It was very eye opening to hear how big/ small and how many people were in everyone’s hometown. I didn’t realize how big of a city I live in. I knew it was within the top 15 biggest cities in the US but I always though it was normal for everyone. I though others were exaggerating when they would say they were from a small town. Also, I wouldn’t consider my city to be big but I guess it’s always been compared to bigger cities so it didn’t seem as big. To hear Erin say it took 5 minuets to get to the other side of town was crazy to me because for me it takes 30-45 minuets. Or to just ride your bike to your school/library, that’s was like riding a bike on the side of a crazy busy highway also dangerous because you didn’t know who would approach you. Idk if this made much sense, I was just kinda blown away haha!

[@LiveLaughLoveDayo]

Can you do an entire episode on like true crime? I’m also really interested in those cases and love the way Matt talks about them!

[@dancer2106]

ONE thing I would like to bring light to and this is absolutely noooo shade to the good influences podcasters or any other influencers but 9 times out of 10 y’all who come from outside of Los Ángeles county experience the gentrified side of LA. Growing up in Los Ángeles and experiencing the native culture of this city is a completely different side

[@sourflower3727]

Matt, the name dropper: BARNEY!! lol 🤣

[@jordancraft2592]

well Mothman, the mythical creature is pretty much the only thing keeping my town in business lol. Point Pleasant WV

[@megansteinberg3587]

my fav pod !!

[@madisondevries9925]

i’m from the town where action park was!! its actually still here as a water park in the summer and ski resort in the winter but now its called mountain creek (and obviously more safe). my dad and all his friends from high school worked at action park when it was crazy and they have so many stories

[@maegenmccleary4799]

Carly, my queen, pizza ranch is a buffet and has fried chicken and mashed potatoes. Which makes it country/farms hence pizza ranch 🤣

[@avabrenneman4011]

YES! I MISSED YOU GUYS!

[@__alessandramarie__]

my mouth DROPPED when Mike said Twin Rivers... basically my hometown Hightstown / East Windsor.. shook

[@christinazilocchi486]

me too! i'm from twin rivers so mike saying that was the coolest thing!

[@lyndseyandrews9800]

Omg Matt, I grew up in Carrollton/farmers branch, all through elementary. Then McKinney through middle school/high school and graduated there. I was so shocked when you talked about the quarries in Princeton. I’ve definitely been there. I get so excited when you talk about North Texas. I currently live in Wylie. I wouldn’t doubt if we knew some of the same people.

[@ellene20]

so excited because i am from an area super close to where Carly is from, so im excited to hear her take on it!!

[@cassidyemmert5437]

I grew up going to what is now Mountain Creek but was Action Park and I can tell you it was just as sketchy growing up lol actually a ride recently caught on fire lol super fun place tho

[@danichesney1876]

I was stranded in Lincoln Nebraska once and we found a good gordmans. I loved! Then 10 years later one opened up in my town in mid Michigan. I was so pumped. Tgey closed like 3 years after opening. 🙃

[@rebeccacartwright9457]

Thank u for blessing me w this

[@caram227]

Me who grew up in Orlando… and moved away as soon as I got the opportunity haha. Thanks for understanding, Mike.

[@AM-br1mw]

Erin, Twin River is the name of a casino! There was one located here in Lincoln, Rhode Island *it was recently renamed but everyone still calls it Twin Rivers

[@megan_1]

omg rolie polie olie!! childhood memory unlocked

[@VeronicaxRose]

absolute favorite podcast

[@LovelyLikeLaura]

been looking forward to this ep since i'm also from ashland mass!!

[@amelias5013]

these podcasts are so funny, I love them!!!!

[@gretchenloveable]

We had a Pizza Ranch in the Kansas City area it was a buffet pizza place! We also had a Gordman’s really close to where I grew up in Missouri. middle school wardrobe was that store hahaha

[@Kpat-gp3qs]

I thought I was the only person who remembered Gordmans!!!! They had a couple in my hometown in Oklahoma but they all shut down

[@therealme5379]

Loved this and happy new year to u guys 🫶🏻

[@megirving]

New Zealand is an incredibly beautiful country to grow up in. There is so much culture and nature, it’s really something hard to explain and need to experience

[@mhandy1029]

i grew up in mass but i def used to called it a circle when i was little but now its a cold-a-sack in north carolina

[@dancingfreakalicious]

Your podcast is so relatable and so funny!!!

[@danniamendoza9260]

Love this podcast

[@passivelyobsessive5460]

i did in fact go and roll the tape back and watch Matt's mic slowly drop at the beginning

[@esmeraldavaldez9329]

I’m from Dallas,Tx and didn’t know about the two girls disappearing!! I’m invested now and will be doing tons of research

[@Emmabasketball44]

Omaha gamgggggg. Live in PHX now but loved Nebraska. Carly you are an Omaha icon!!!

[@johnshay9527]

I grew up in a small town of 1000 people in Iowa and still live here and am almost 32 I definitely wanna try and live somewhere else in a few years!

[@htarwater7]

Brad Pitt is from Springfield, MO! Being from Missouri teaches us that. Carly, loved your Omaha connections!

[@emborgmeyer]

I’m surprised Carly didn’t bring up Mystery Manor, a haunted house in Omaha that actual axe murders happened in 1929.

[@rachellane]

To explain about the trafficking through Texas...it's more to do with the proximity and crossing of many large interstates. I'm from Oklahoma and that was what I remember being told a lot. Also Texas and Oklahoma are notorious for never having an open weigh station along the interstates that trucks have to check in to.

[@brittanysimon8331]

Yay!!!!! I missed this!!!!

[@ariele702]

Lol at circle Carly, that’s what I grew up calling it too! The first time I heard cul-de-sac I literally was like huh? 😂

[@lyndsaypeterson7243]

We have pizza ranch in Wisconsin too! Love that place 😀

[@NYRoger24]

I’m from the suburbs right outside of NYC and we call cul-de-sacs circles too 😂

[@kccarter6578]

i have a really important question for carly: do you remember the impact of justin bieber's omaha mall song as a teenager??? genuinely every time i hear about omaha that is the ONLY knowledge i have, i remember being like 13 and wanting to go so bad

[@celiaaroca7286]

we had a gordmans !! 😂 memory unlocked lol

[@briellevlogs8847]

Omg Erin I’m from Westfield, MA and literally lived in the house my mom grew up in and her neighbors were he neighbors growing up! Weird!!!

[@amanduhhhh42]

i'm gonna be honest - if someone knocked on my door and said they used to live here, and wanted to come in and look around, i would 100% say no. i think it's a weird invasion of the current owners privacy to do that. but that's just my opinion - i know most people dont feel that way. either way this was a great episode! when living in my home town, i couldn't wait to get out, and now i have nostalgia for it. it's interesting to hear how other people view their home towns as well.

[@demi.doobiedoobiedoo8707]

Just came here to share because Matt’s story triggered my memory that I found out after I graduated that a bunch of the jocks in my high school were doing legit heroine (including before school everyday) and a couple of them eventually had to go to rehab after graduating

[@victoriaramirez2105]

Matt I completely get you when it comes to true crime cases happening in your hometown! The Lacy Peterson murder happened in my hometown & I was the same age as Scott’s mistresses daughter at the time + my ex boyfriend lives down the street from their house so we would pass it on our walks all the time. It was super eerie & just a sad place to walk by knowing what happened.

[@rheannagutierrez5441]

lived in Los Angeles and Pasadena my whole life lol

[@vanesszarebekahars7073]

Sometimes I wish one of u where outside of the US. It would be interesting to listen that side too. Now i just have to came up with my own side like Im the 5th member😂

[@emilypeyman8021]

The pizza bomber happened in my hometown good ol Erie Pennsylvania!!

[@rebeccamlol]

MATT my family settled Carrollton, IL which then inspired the naming of Carrollton, TX and i grew up in Dallas so hearing you say park & preston in plano i was like 👀

[@traceefitzpatrick1093]

Hey Erin, I’m from Mass too! 🙋🏻‍♀️

[@brooklynnpierce822]

I heard Matt talk about Bridgeport and how his cousins live near a tiger sanctuary (on unfiltered) and it’s so crazy bc we live right near there, Bridgeport is so small & to hear he knows about it too is super cool!

[@LA-us6kp]

Can you guys share the graphics on the screen when you look at something on your phones lol it can’t be that hard to edit that in (like the Gordman’s font)

[@charlottelach1]

Bray, Co.Wicklow, Ireland now in London UK 🎉

[@notjuliasmith]

Got stuck in my home town for 4 extra days this year due to flight cancellations lol

[@isabellaa5647]

steve carrell is from my hometown! not too far from ashland!

[@ariannadams4168]

As a person who was born and raised in New York City, I 1000% agree that you don’t really have the normal childhood where you can explore the woods and really be outside. But I can say, every summer I would visit my grandparents in Pennsylvania and that’s where I got to really be the true outdoor kid. It was a blast! And now I currently live in PA

[@MikeShefferFilms]

The best pod is back !

[@jasonhunter2819]

My sister worked at a Half-Price for a bit right when it turned into Goodman's...man that is the MOST 90's sign font ever! I still live only about 7 minutes from where I grew up from 6th grade until college and my parents didn't move until 08 or so...but I literally cannot go back. It was a semi-rural house on the opposite side of a little lake with just a couple other houses and a land developer bought the land after my parents moved and bulldozed all the houses and...then ran out of money. So now the area is just a patch of empty field up past a locked gate being used for absolutely nothing. Kinda makes me sad...

[@bethaneykerr6507]

So Brad Pitt is from Springfield, Missouri! He went to Kickapoo High School! I know, because I did too! Lol

[@emilyevans9503]

being from omaha this is a very good episode

[@ashleyk167]

My mom went back to her childhood home and asked to see it. The people asked her if she could prove that she lived there. She told them that there's a big circle burn in the basement shag orange carpet from when her brother set a coffee pot on fire. Then they let her right in lol

[@sparklyhotdog707]

Pam from The Office is from St.Louis which is close to my hometown. 🙃

[@saigetaylors]

Anyone else immediately think of bridge to terabithia when Erin walk talking about swinging over a the res with a rope hahaha

[@van____]

I’m still living in my hometown (still in high school) and my town is literally 1.9 square miles with 5,700 people 💀 lots of farms out here

[@KatsObsession]

Haha Matt I live in a lake community. It’s amazing.

[@normaltaylor]

I’m from Jacksonville, Florida. My hometown is 841 square miles. Biggest city in the country land wise with 949,000 residents.

[@janiese.rivera]

YES MR GATTIS! I’m from lubbock texas but they like shut down 2 years ago😕

[@isaacokorocha4356]

When you only go on yt to watch this pod but they didn’t post 😢

[@Lexaloodle]

My hometown has the eighth gate to hell 😱

[@tammylee7377]

Matt, Oklahoma City used to have Mr.Gatties!! Knowing you're from Texas have you ever heard of Mr Burger? Let me know 😝🤣🤣🥰

[@ExaltedPotato122]

We have Pizza Ranch in WI. It’s a buffet restaurant.

[@oliviat3611]

kacey musgraves is from mine it’s like something i take so much pride in ❤

[@juliecourtney5777]

Pizza Ranch is a franchise! They have arcades inside of them!

[@qauckingducks]

My highschool was torn down😭 I guess I'm not walking around there anytime soon LOL

[@VeronicaxRose]

from los angeles and moved to Denver 😅

[@emilyparrish2543]

Natalie Holloway went missing my 6th grade year in my hometown, so sad

[@ryleerubalcava1773]

I’m from a tiny town in Oklahoma, currently live in Orange County CA! :)

[@GoodInfluences]

welcome to california !

[@Patatepourrie]

lol I always say I'm from Omaha but I'm from Bellevue. Also in defense of calling cul-de-sacs circles, it's because the street is usually called circle?? Like Robin Circle or Whatever Circle. lmao

[@_juicyyjess_]

I’m from a small town called Ukiah in Mendocino county and the only famous person I can think of from here is Casey Frey lol and I love that for us

[@rachelaureenb6]

Am I Mike? I have the same story from New Jersey about moving 8 houses in the same district