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  1. Youngstown born & raised, this documentary is on point, well done.
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  2. really informative piece! Keep hustling amigo this is good stuff!
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  3. The level of quality of your videos is off the charts 👌🏻 It's a good day when I see a Roca News video drop 👏🏻 So much love for what you guys are doing, As a British person I find the US so interesting, But it's hard to get a good picture of what It is ACTUALLY like out there for regular folk, I understand that the rust belt is not a representative of the whole country and the US has plenty of areas especially in the South that are doing very well, So it's just interesting to see these kinds of areas that go under reported because I can draw parallels to the North of here in the UK – albeit, your government seems to give even less of a shit about the people that fall through the cracks in your society (And I thought our government were bad enough) Kudos from the UK 🇬🇧
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  4. Hey its me in the skater crew, great to meet you guys
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  5. Usually the only times you hear Ohio being mentioned now is in memes, it’s always amazing to see people detailing the state, especially Cleveland where i’m from! thank you for your true journalism these rust belt videos have been fantastic!
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  6. This was so much fun! Stephen..you get around, very informative for our American friend. I visit Blackpool from London every year to let my hair down & remind myself of what friendly people are like lol. The town has it's problems but there's plenty of good points.
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  7. Im born and raised in Youngstown, and my father was born, raised and still lives in East Cleveland. My father lives in the apartment building in the background at the beginning of the video. Thank you for shining a light on the dark forgotten city's of Youngstown and East Cleveland. I had to subscribe and i will start supporting you. May God bless and protect you.
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  8. Only found this channel a couple days ago and you guys make great videos. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺.
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  9. This channel is so amazing im an ohioan and fell in love with it
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  10. Yo it’s me in the skater bit 😂 was sick seeing you guys
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  11. Another RocaNews banger. I'm going to college for journalism and hope to work for a company like this when I get out.
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  12. As someone who grew up in the area and had generations of my family work in the steel mills; I now look on the whole thing decades later as unions wanting more and more pay and benefits for less and less work from the employees. Eventually, they sucked the companies dry. I love to hear everyone talking about greed, like there are people who open businesses with the intention of losing money. The whole point of a business is to make money, if that is greed....ok. What do you call asking for more and more pay and benefits ? That isn't greed ? My whole life I have heard stories of steel workers and tradesmen bragging about going to work and doing nothing, stealing everything that wasn't nailed down.............. and then they cry because they no longer have a company to milk and steal from. FWIW: I spend my life working as a paramedic including in Youngstown: I can confirm that the number of opioid overdoses is crazy: I have worked in much bigger cities and rarely saw an opioid overdose.
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  13. Nominating daddy of Blackpool for next UK prime minister
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  14. You guys are making some seriously amazing content. This channel is going to explode
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  15. I went to college at Franciscan University. I was from California and had many many friends from all over the country attend this amazing college. I highly recommend going there if you want to meet good people. Many alumni are staying and buying homes and creating businesses there It's absolutely amazing y'all actually went there. So cool. Keep it up!
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  16. Lived here all my life thanks for the video
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  17. So most people in your video are completely brand new arrivals in Blackpool. You need to find the old families for the proper awesome stories of Revoe Layton grange south shore.
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  18. Art use to cut my hair when I was a kid at Superfly on Euclid and Lee. Positive man Art is 🙏🏽
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  19. 👀wait a minute 😳 say what now,? The guy at the end took me all the way out 😏😅🤣🤣 he went from sayiny, " we're living in tribulation times, The Lord is coming back..to 🤷🏾‍♀️I'm just a black man trying make it. If I was the one recording I would have yelled cut🎬 and walked off laughing.. but honestly I enjoyed each and every part of this video, it made me think of the tv show "The Office" keep up the good work 👍🏾
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  20. I’m from East Liverpool and live in wellsville! That little church you visited on Main Street helped me more than I have words to describe. They are a beacon of hope and they feed a lot of folks of all walks of life! Thank you god
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  21. Go easy pal, they are from America.
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  22. Friendly suggestion, when visiting these towns other than bars and quick stop stores. Consider asking where all the barber shops are and pay them a visit and see who will talk to you there. I think you will get a different perspective from that group in the wait area.
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  23. Just stumbled apon this channel awesome work! Informative and Straight to the point.
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  24. Commenting again to also say you have my respect for not simply making more of the click bait “poverty porn” that is all too prevalent on YT. Thanks for having some standards and actual journalistic integrity(rare as hell in this era, like bordering on extinct) You also don’t seem fearful of jumping right into the unknown…that’s often how the best journalism happens. No fear and no judgement just let real people talk and record it. Peace and happy holidays.
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  25. I’m from the clay valley! Appalachian foothills baby
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  26. amazing video. im so happy i found your channel. please stay UNBIASED!! im excited to see your content in the future.
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  27. This is good content, in yo face vlog… keep up the great work
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  28. Damn man, you need a Tommy G collab to blow your channel up. You’re doing gods work my friend keep it up!!!
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  29. Excellent driving for a yank.
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  30. Man only video I ever seen that really captures where I’m from this is how it really is!
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  31. Y.O. born & bred here! I can attest to the glory days when the steel mills and General Motors Lordstown were thriving. After 'Black Monday' there was definitely a shift in the atmosphere but we still had hope in the OTHER major employer in the Mahoning Valley - GM. I personally got caught up in the opioid prescription crisis and EVERYBODY was on Vicodin or Oxycontin. As with everything the devil deceives you with, it was fun and felt good in the beginning but it turned into a living hell. Once the healthcare guidelines changed in prescribing practices in Ohio, it was a wrap. Doctors weren't going to risk losing their medical license for some drug seeking individual. It hurt the honest people who dealt with chronic pain on a daily basis but doctors just stopped writing opioid prescriptions. People either moved onto Suboxone to eventually quit or they sought out heroin & fentanyl in the streets. I went the former route. Youngstown gets a bad rap but it's very affordable and the people are nice.
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  32. Great videos. You should do videos 25-30 min long at least. I'm enjoy watching sincere people. Salute from Belarus ✌
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  33. Great video!! bro you gotta keep doing this. I’m an Amazon delivery driver from Canton, Ohio. So I go to all these small towns and I always wondered what the hell happened. You can see how everything has decay in unison, including the peoples hope. Although all very nice people, I’m always interested in why they would stay in such a place and what the history of it is. If you cover enough places and show what has happened to America I think you can make a significant impact given what the new administration is trying to do a lot and I mean a lot of town need help because America is just not what it used to be.
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  34. Another incredible video. I enjoy watching your episodes about Ohio. Keep up!
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  35. Great production quality although I would love 30-40 mins documentaries but I understand it's costly
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  36. Love the video. Akron isn’t the best but I still love my city
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