How I ended up in this American Prison | S1E62

Just one last safety thing in the west cell block and north segregation that was solitary and death row most of the cells are open you're welcome to go into them take pictures in them whatever just don't close the doors they get stuck people will lock themselves in before oh my god yeah my journey begins at north america's most northern drivable point the plan is to ride through canada and america before crossing over to europe from there i'll make my way across asia and down to australia new zealand's southern most drivable point will mark the end of my journey i'm calling it the big spiral and this is act three across north america good morning from iowa city uh so today we got to keep driving east um i have a flight to catch in halifax from my motorcycle to and uh there's a limited time in which i have to get to halifax so uh yeah we got to keep going east but um there's a lot of interesting places along the way that we're going to visit and uh yeah i'm kind of excited for it actually but before we do this um the chain on my bike is too long and so i need to shorten it before we go because it's all flopping around if you're a little bit technical and you know about motorcycles the rear wheel can slide forwards and backwards to take up the tension in the chain while it's all the way back so i need to uh take a link or two out to solve the problem once we get that done uh then we'll take off and find some interesting all right so you might be wondering why i always insist on working on my own bike and why don't i just take it somewhere and let them deal with it well it's because i want to learn as much as i can about my own bike so if i'm out there by myself i can fix it by myself but anyways yeah i've always been super independent and i just don't want to depend on other people to fix my stuff i just want to be able to do it myself so i remember once um i had this bike and i was just kind of learning how to build bikes like bicycles and i would put this tube in the rear tire and i'd pump it up and in the middle of the night you just go bang like you pump it up to 80 psi or whatever because there's a road tire in the middle lights bang like three four nights in a row it just would do this you're so confusing like what is going on like and then my girlfriend at the time she's like why don't you just take the bike shop and have them fix it and i was like so like like what why would i do that because my mindset is one of like well if i take it to them i won't learn anything you know and you know that kind of act of troubleshooting and figuring out the problem is is skill in itself you know so yeah yeah for me it was like what why would i do that this just like doesn't make any sense at all like i'm gonna figure this out obviously maybe she was annoyed because every night this tire exploded anyways it turned out there's like a rim strip inside the tire that was it was just garbage and over time the tire would push through the rim strip into the spoke holes and then as it pushed through the spoke holes the tire would blow up you see a hole would form and it would blow up but it took quite a while to figure out like what the hell was going on but it's like from that experience i kind of learned how to troubleshoot stuff think about stuff in kind of a critical way and if i need to fix my chain out in the wilds well i know how to do it whereas if i didn't know how to do it i'd be stranded and on top of that it's free and i don't have to wait for somebody else to you know fix it for me so i checked my tire pressure this morning because in the last video i had problems with a tire going down i had no idea after pumping it up uh to 35 psi the day before yesterday morning it was down 25 so i pumped it back up to 35 this morning it was 35 so i have no idea motorcycle tires are a bit of a black hole of logic there's no rhyme or reason to why it's doing this stuff in my mind but maybe that's another thing i need to learn about but all right uh so our first stop today is riverside iowa now i think for most people that location won't sound like anything special at all but if you're a star trek fan it might ring the bell it might ring the bell it's a little bit silly it's a little bit stupid but it's really it's amusing i i think it's kind of funny so but uh i know there's like one percent of you that are like oh he's really going there 12 minutes and we'll be there for you five seconds cornfields of riverside iowa oh oh there's the sides already this town is fully committed oh okay this is making me a little too happy okay i think i might be up here oh i see a sign do you see see that there it is so for those that don't know james d kirk was the captain in the original star trek and he's just a fictional character he's not a real person and of course star trek took place in the future so this is the future birthplace of captain james d kirk uh he was born or he he was born he will be born march 22nd 2228 i guess gene roddenberry the writer of star trek he chose riverside iowa as his birthplace and so now they've fully committed and there's like star trek stuff all over the town even this is the post office here a whole bunch of star trek stuff now i just want to go check out i saw the enterprise over there or a version of the enterprise yeah so here's the enterprise history and star trek exhibits souvenir shop oh it's closed okay well i gotta get a shot of the enterprise oh they open at noon i think i have to keep going though all right well at least i can see through the gloss but all right i will all right that made me happier than it should have yeah that's that's really cool i like that was really fun um to be honest i was more of a tng fan like actually i've watched every episode of the next generation and uh yeah so you can see you have uhara you got the enterprise there and then you got scotty but if i wasn't a tng fan next generation fan i definitely wouldn't have come here but i loved the next generation like that what a fantastic show it actually it was a bit curious because like next generation had a different captain michonne luke picard played by patrick stewart and uh his character was born in france so i looked up you know his birthplace in france and it seems like they haven't done the same thing in in that town in france so but fans have gone to that town just to be like yeah i've been to his future birthplace though so our next destination is three hours 19 minutes away it also has to do with um into illinois with this river i'm not sure what river this is though welcome to illinois east so we've just arrived in juliet illinois and this is the location of our next destination so this building or maybe group of buildings has appeared in many movies and tv shows including the blues brothers uh and then the show prison break although i've never watched that one oh i see it already wow maybe you can tell by now what it is it's an old prison juliet correctional facility and uh it's basically an old prison built in the 1800s that was actually still active until 2002 all right this is turning out to be a little bit more involved than i thought yeah i think i'm gonna go inside and yeah pay pay the price to see what this is all about good how are you doing good here to see the prison yeah uh how much is it that's 20 a person okay sure and that's just like a self-guided yeah it's a self-guided tour i've marked on the map here all the buildings that are open oh yeah sweet so here's a map for you that's also your ticket in just one last safety thing in the west cell block and north segregation that was solitary and death row most of the cells are open you're welcome to go into them take pictures in them whatever just don't close the doors they get stuck people will lock okay all right and when that does happen can you hear like the knocking or whatever well we'll find you we'll have employees going around okay but the last time somebody locked themselves in a cell the fire department had to be cold so okay we ask that you just don't do that okay all right thank you note to self don't lock yourself in solitary confinement all right the prison gates good how are you all right kind of a creepy place huh yeah and it's i stumbled upon it because i was oh yeah driving dropping a friend off that lived down here and he was like well take this way and i was like what is that he's honest oh jolly i said what and so then i started researching it so i just finally made it after six months over here to look at it and it's it's amazing and then when you look at how the prison progressed over years and how it was at first all the way to them not even having running water yeah and then when they got done with it just came and dumped it out in the field is that what they did yeah it's a sign over that says when they finished they had a slop jar so basically if you had to go in the middle of the night yeah or you know and they would bring it out and just dump it oh must have been some mess out here yeah jeez it's it's so old that they house civil war people here prisoners from civil war yeah it's so old that the prisoners themselves built the prison that kind of makes sense yeah prisoners from the alternate uh penitentiary yeah brought them here yeah to build a prison so the prisoners built themselves a prison it's kind of a good idea yeah and then the stone that you're looking at was actually quarried from the area yeah you're a good tour guide oh wow there's some more light over here yeah oh that sound it's a pretty small room thanks for that okay well i'm not inside it so i should be able to close the door the clink oh this is one with the bed oh there's a bed oh it's a bunk there's two guys in here oh yeah this is one that's totally open without a door oh look at this giant switch release ports open emergency unlock wow that made an amazing sound which one is the solitary it's to the right i know all right okay i'm gonna go take a wander okay yeah have a good one oh these are the original cells well the rooms are quite big aren't they oh they blocked this off to protect it it's never too late to mend well that's that's kind of pick me up i need to hear when i'm in prison so check out the way they lock this door so the door can only open that way so they've got a big metal bar that goes here to this padlock here and this building is looking newer and the doors are open so it's the dining hall wow lots of simpsons art in here but imagine this is where you came for lunch every day it's funny there's no smoking signs like were people allowed to smoke outside while you're in prison were you even allowed to smoke it seems really odd wow it wasn't full of water i wonder if that goes to the tower there i wonder if that's how it works but there is a door at the bottom of the tower it's blocked off this place is kind of intense to be uh it's a good uh you know reminder be good don't break the law or you'll end up here all right uh well that was pretty interesting oh it's getting late in the day already i don't want to ride in the dark again so i think i'm just gonna ride a little more and find a hotel uh before i get the hotel i have something to pick up here oh there it is right there so i'll show you what it is it's my canada east map very important okay uh now that we did that uh maybe i'm gonna find some dinner and then while i do that i'll find a hotel healthy fast food chick-fil-a oh man maybe chipotle i'll try panera bread but i don't really know what it's like but give me one solid week give me four years to climb the stairs and bathrooms and jails it's not fun is it oh but uh quite interesting to see i've never been to a place like that before and it's uh to be honest quite interesting to see um yeah just what life in a jail would be like um that one's a little different because it's been like upgraded throughout the years so like imagine when it was first built it must have been just absolutely horrid squad conditions but uh anyways also the future birth place of james d kirk i i actually really enjoyed that that was like it's it's so silly but it's been taken relatively seriously and uh which i kind of appreciate you know like they made this whole expensive plaque the whole town's covered in these in the star trek stuff this star trek memorabilia and all that and yeah i wonder if they had like a got permission from like i don't know who owns star trek but paramount paramount was star trek don't they i wonder if they because they're using all this star trek stuff in their town and all that and it's clearly a tourism thing but anyways that doesn't really matter but um yeah maybe uh i'm looking this way because the map's there so maybe we should look at it so here's our central usa map um and this morning we started in iowa city and uh i went first thing first went south and then went to riverview and then from there i and that's where the star trek stuff was and then i went this way something like this and then to davenport and then what did i do something like that crossed into illinois and keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going interesting there's a town called ottawa which is also the capital of canada and then kept going to juliet juliet juliet that's where the prison was and then i just went somewhere over here and i think this area is called south holland but it's just just uh south of chicago so so i'm pretty sure in the next video we'll enter canada uh we'll just have to rip through michigan i've got i think i've got at least one place to check out michigan and then once we get to canada i found a whole bunch of cool stuff to check out in canada so i'm kind of excited about that because some of it's like really interesting but also very canadian uh which uh all the canadian viewers i think you're going to enjoy so um yeah uh so if you like this video or the other videos or you're interested in the whole trip 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