Romanticize Moving to a Small Town
Summary
A stranger argues we've glorified city life when we should be romanticizing small towns, where everyone knows your name and anonymity doesn't exist. The conversation gets oddly specific. What if the only plumber in town sleeps with your wife? You still have to hire him. That's small-town reality. Kareem's skeptical, but the rider paints a vivid picture: sitting in your driveway drinking bruskies with the boys, learning the two-finger wave, hanging out in Walmart parking lots in a town of 8,000 people. That's real American culture, he insists. Cancel culture can't survive when there's only one of everything. Kareem practices the wave but doesn't seem convinced.
Full Transcript
So what's your take? We have romanticized moving to a big city, but I think we should romanticize moving to a small town. 100% agree. The thing about small towns versus, like, places like this is that you're not anonymous there. Where everybody knows your name, you know? What's crazy about a small town too is that I don't think cancel culture exists in a small town.
I think it does. You can gossip, but the thing is, like, there's—say there's one plumber in town, right? And the one plumber sleeps with your wife. Sleeps with your wife. But you need someone to plumb your—I'm hiring them. It's the only plumber in town. I romanticize myself sitting in my driveway drinking a couple bruskies with the boys. Working, you go like this. Everyone does this in small towns. This is a two-finger wave in a small town. No one does that. You got to get immersed with a real American culture. Go to a town with 8,000 people where everyone hangs out at the Walmart parking lot. That's the American culture that you should live in.
Nope. That's—do it with me. Together. One, two, three. It's nice.