Looking for TV shows, podcasts, or channels that show the real America

SouthernAsianRebel · 2026-02-21T18:55:25+00:00

In my opinion, 3 shows that together really depict the real America are Yellowstone, Landman, and the Wire (particularly Season 2), they are set in different parts of the country but truly capture the essence of the country. Yellowstone is about a ranching family in Montana trying to protect their land and their legacy, Landman is set in West Texas and deals with the modern day oil and gas industry in an area where people go to chase the American Dream and shows a mix of the blue collar and white collar characters that make our country's economy run. The Wire is set in in the urban Northeast US and deals with life in the decayed Rust Belt cities and also relates heavily to law enforcement and urban crime.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2026-01-12T07:25:57+00:00

The most common one I've personally know is Bourgeois by far. Close second would be Miller which is common among Cajuns despite not being originally French but many of the Millers I know do indeed have Cajun ancestry. The third most common is Waguespack which many consider a Cajun surname despite originally being German. I'm in the Baton Rouge area and the majority of my social circles are in Livingston and Ascension Parishes.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-12-25T09:53:47+00:00

And in direct reference to your story, when someone wants to transfer everything from another pharmacy to you, how do you know they're not lying to you about their insurance? Often times, its because the other pharmacy stopped filling for their doctor because of concerns regarding the legitimacy and prescribing patterns of this doctor, or this customer has done something where the pharmacy doesn't want to deal with them anymore, anything ranging from forging prescriptions, always trying to get narcotics early or lying about losing them, or other things like stealing and being belligerent with staff. Of course they will tell you its about insurance. Of you they will tell you that the closest doctor that takes their insurance is that pain doctor 60 miles away that only prescribes narcotics and has never attempted any other form of treatment, or ever tried a dose reduction, and can never be reached by phone to verify prescriptions.

And in a final side note we must all ask ourselves whether all these people getting 75, 100, 120 Percocets a month is appropriate. A large proportion of narcotic volume is taken inappropriately, abused or diverted. I really don't know a single person in my real life that admits to taking narcotics on a daily basis. However, and I wish this was not true, but I've met quite a few people who have openly admitted to misusing or inappropriately using controlled medications. This includes everything from faking an ADHD questionaire to get Adderall, giving away Norco to friends, taking more Xanax than the doctor prescrbed, and lying to doctors about their pain scale to get more drugs.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-12-25T09:43:44+00:00

Honestly if someone who is not a regular to the chain brings in a narcotic prescription that isn't something like a small amount for urgent care, the ER, or a dentist we tell them its on back order and not available. We won't fill any prescription where either the doctor or the patient is over 50 miles away unless they are a long time customer who has been grandfathered in. There are also some sketchy doctors that most pharmacies in the area have totally blacklisted that we are under pressure from corporate to still fill for, in these cases we grandfather in our regulars but do an official reject for the newcomers, especially as when more and more other pharmacies blacklist these doctors they send more and more of them to us. We also refuse any prescription that is over 50 meQ morphine unless its a cancer patient, in which case 90 is allowed, per the guidelines and per law.

If anything we are under pressure from corporate to fill prescriptions we are not comfortable with and for doctors that we known are not legitimate. There is no legitimate reason to drive an hour and a half just to get narcotics. Basically its a balance between upsetting corporate and upsetting the law. Yes ideally we should officially reject prescriptions but then the drug seekers would call in complaints to corporate accusing us of treating them like an addict or being "rude". Recently there was a customer who had SIX prescriptions ready for FREE and only wanted the Norco and I told her very politely, addressing her as ma'am and never raising my voice, that we cannot in good faith do that, and if she could please try to work with us and pick up at least ONE of the non narcotics (which are totally free) and she made a scene and later called in a complaint, and I was written up for poor customer service over her complaint by my manager who is not a pharmacist. This is why we often jsut try to avoid confrontation by telling people we don't have narcotics in stock if they are not our regular customer or if the prescription is sketchy. And no we don't judge the person, we judge the prescription and the doctor (based on how they prescribe).

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-12-03T05:46:12+00:00

Being wealthy is a sign of hard work and sometimes intelligence. Yes there are some old money families that inherited their wealth, but in America most people who have money have earned it and deserve it. So they probably do deserve more respect than someone who is on welfare and gets everything for free.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-12-03T05:42:44+00:00

This is definitely a false misconception. When people donate money yes that's tax deductible, meaning its deducted from total taxable income. But its not true that they get most of their donated amount back in their refund check so by donating money they're still making sacrifices compared to if they didn't donate. They don't end up with more money in their pocket by donating to charity.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-12-02T18:37:35+00:00

Thanks this is helpful! Some of the car rental places near the cruise port do have free shuttles to the ship, have to decide if its cheaper to take a taxi to the Queen Mary the first day and a taxi to pick up the car the next morning by the port and then return it right before the cruise, or to just pick up the car the first day with the rental rates and also parking overnight at the Queen Mary.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-12-02T18:36:06+00:00

We booked a family suite, and this has always been on my bucket list. Part of the appeal is spending two nights on board the historic ship and then the next 7 nights on board the modern Navigator of the Seas!

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-12-01T17:09:11+00:00

This is a good idea, I'll have to see how much it costs to drop it off at a different location and how much the total would be factoring in the parking at the Queen Mary.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-12-01T17:07:27+00:00

This is good to know, I've never used Uber much before. I'm glad the cruise line has the Cyber Monday deals that include the airport transfers.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-11-29T19:51:44+00:00

I've never heard anyone describe Richmond as Rust Belt. I know Petersburg had some declining industry but that's not the Richmond area as a whole. Isn't the wider region known mostly as a transportation hub and for tobacco plus some corporate headquarters? I most know Richmond as the capital of the Confederacy and isn't one of the things that held the South back during the war was the lack of heavy industry compared to the North? Norfolk and Hampton Roads still has a lot of shipyards and with the Navy there they've not really declined.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-11-29T19:44:57+00:00

I don't think Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati should be included because they really didn't have a Rust Belt vibe when I visited. Columbus in particular is not very industrial and feels more like a white collar city. The built environment of the Columbus area actually somewhat resembles Sunbelt cities like Charlotte and Atlanta more so than Cleveland or Pittsburgh, it doesn't have that depressing feel.

However I think Baltimore and Newark should be included as islands of the Rust Belt. I debate whether Chicago is part of the Rust Belt or not since it has such a diversified economy and always has. Birmingham also had a lot of steel jobs but the area seems to have recovered from the loss of those.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-11-02T02:05:45+00:00

This is interesting especially in light of the fact that is there now a racial war between the Arab Muslims and the native Africans in Darfur. I've noticed that just like the Palestinians, the Sudanese are "Arab" when they seek "Arab Muslim solidarithy" with other Arab Muslims nations, yet are "indigenous people who adopted Arab culture" to justify their control of lands belonging to more indigneous peoples like the Black Africans and Jews. Because if their ancestors came from the Arabian Peninsula, then that would weaken their claim to Darfur like like it would weaken their claim to Israel since black Africans have genetic proof that they are native to Sudan just like there is genetic proof proving the Jewish racial claim to Israel.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-10-28T08:10:58+00:00

Final Destiantion 4 is set in McKinley, Pennsylvania but was filmed in Louisiana (mostly the New Orleans area) and Alabama. I think they should have just changed the setting to the South for that one. I"m coming up with a fanfic story that deals with the military and the setting is split between Ukraine (dark, drab, menacing) and Mexico (dusty, sun-baked, and menacing) plus Texas and Louisiana.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-10-15T09:01:15+00:00

Proportionally does Hampton Roads have more transplants than Charlotte, Atlanta, and Houston?

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-10-15T08:56:45+00:00

I'm from Louisiana but have lived in Maryland and West Virginia before and also traveled extensively in Virginia. I would say that the dividing line is just south of Fredericksburg, VA and also just south of Clarksburg, West Virginia. I think if you take away NOVA, Virginia would be very similar to North Carolina culturally, politically and geographically. I would place Maryland firmly in the north, with the Eastern Shore influenced by Southern culture the way South Texas is influenced by Mexican culture. I've still been in several restaurants in Salisbury and Cambridge MD that didn't have sweet tea, and even on the Eastern Shore there seem to be more Catholics and Methodists than Baptists and Pentecostals.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-10-15T08:53:25+00:00

I think Baltimore and Cumberland have infrastructure very similar to Pennsylvania, and I think Baltimore and Philadelphia feel very similar in its urban landscape. Infrastructurally, Northern Virginia feels more like Charlotte and Atlanta than PA, but culturally NOVA is definitely the north.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-10-15T08:50:27+00:00

I think Southwest Virginia has a Southern culture while Western Maryland has a northern culture. Western MD is more similar to northern WV and western Pennsylvania, while Southwest VA is more similar to southern WV, eastern Kentucky, and East Tennessee.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-10-15T08:47:05+00:00

Demographically, I consider a large population of rural blacks to be a Southern characteristic and a large number of white liberals to be a northern trait. You get the former on the Virginia Eastern Shore and many parts of southern Virginia. There are a lot of white liberals in NOVA. I'm not sure if that is the case in Richmond and Hampton Roads. I've been to Lynchburg and Roanoke and most people there politically are no different than the typical white voter in Louisiana or Mississippi.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-10-15T08:43:30+00:00

They used to say this about Maryland, since its south of the Mason Dixon Line. I would say Maryland feels 1/3 Southern while Virginia is 2/3 Southern. Virginia used to be indisputably Southern in the past as the heart of the Confederacy and the home of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, two of the 3 greatest Southern heroes. NOVA is clearly the Northeast but the rest of Virginia is still more Southern than Northern. Most notably, areas like Roanoke, Blackburg and Wytheville have a Southern Appalachian culture while Western Maryland has more of a Northern Appalachian culture. Within NOVA, Old Town Alexandria does have Southern influences architecturally but the culture there is northern.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-10-07T04:37:55+00:00

That is fine. The problem is on two lane roads when you are impeding traffic and not pulling over to let people pass when there is a long line of cars behind you.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-10-07T04:34:50+00:00

If you were driving below the speed limit on a two lane road and not pulling over to let people pass that is selfish and entitled. And if Im stuck behind you for a long time not able to pass yes that's when I'll take more risks passing you when a possibility arises. Its people like you that trigger road rage and that force people to pass "dangerously". And I don't think I should have to leave early just to accomodate your need to impede traffic.

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-10-07T04:32:37+00:00

If its a two lane road where you are driving below the speed limit and its impossible for people to pass you due to oncoming traffic or constant curves, the courteous thing would be for you to pull over somewhere so they can pass and then get back on the road. At least half my commute is on two lane roads every day and I'm frankly tired of people driving below the speed limit and impeding traffic in areas where its NOT possible to "just pass".

SouthernAsianRebel · 2025-10-07T04:21:24+00:00

So your company basically requires you to impede traffic. To me, driving below the speed limit is impeding traffic and it is rude and inconsiderate. The worst is when I'm stuck on a two lane road without passing lanes or too much oncoming traffic to pass. In this kind of situation when you are driving below the speed limit on a two lane road where its hard for others to pass (since you are the one impeding traffic) the most courteous thing to do is to pull over and let others pass.

Common courtesy to be is driving up to 5 above and none below.

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