Dan and Jesse go to Texas, a state where nearly all the land is in private hands and where they are wary of strangers. Political games have permeated this state for a long time, continuing to the present day, especially during elections.

In the first episode, they meet Texans, conspiracy theorists who believe that America is surrounded by enemies who want to destroy it.

What's bothering them?

Dan and Jesse keep moving through the South, across Louisiana, towards Angola, the largest maximum-security prison in the United States. They are going to see its famous rodeo, where the riders are inmates and the audience pays for tickets.

On the way, a police officer pulls them over. For a while it looks like the two of them might end up inside Angola in a different role.

Producers: Polina Ivanova, Rita Medzhovich. Script: Elizaveta Simbirskaya. Editing: Vitaly Dedkov. Sound design: Nikita Chernat. Executive producer: Gulnaz Ratu

A Tolk studio production. tolk.studio

Description. Dan and Jesse continue through Louisiana, passing one half-empty town after another. The locals do not say much. When they do, they complain about chemtrails, dismiss the climate crisis, and recommend the one attraction worth seeing around here: the swamps, with their alligators and plants that grow nowhere else.

How do you turn down an offer like that?

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The road trip is coming to an end with two last stops: Jackson, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Each in its own way shows what a forgotten America looks like. Jackson is a city with almost no one left on its streets. New Orleans has people, but you would rather not run into some of them after dark.

Danger, abandonment, and uncertainty: by now these feel like synonyms for the South. And against this backdrop Dan has one more thing to do before the trip is over. He has to vote for the next president of the United States.

Producers: Polina Ivanova, Rita Medzhovich. Script: Elizaveta Simbirskaya. Editing: Vitaly Dedkov. Sound design: Nikita Chernat. Executive producer: Gulnaz Ratu

A Tolk studio production. tolk.studio