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3 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
45 mins
Billy travels from Chicago to Seattle on the mighty Empire Builder. He stops off to witness a true slice of Americana at the Minnesota State Fair, where giant butter sculptures, corn beauty pageants and live animal births are just some of the bamboozling entertainment on offer. He tackles a world famous 'jucy lucy' burger in Saint Paul before skirting the badlands of North Dakota to experience the highs and lows of an oil boom town. He marvels at the thousand upon thousand acres of uninterrupted prairie land before arriving at Montana's answer to Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow, Montana is small town America in all its glory. And Montana is a land of cowboys and ranching families who have worked the terrain for generations. Billy's journey's end is in windswept Seattle - not in the glamorous tech city but Tent City, where many of Seattle's homeless live.
Episode 2
46 mins
In Oregon, Billy visits a vegetable farmer who has switched to growing cannabis. His next stop is the world's largest and probably loudest elephant seal rookery. He also meets U.S. border guards in Arizona and visits a nuclear missile silo,
Episode 3
46 mins
Billy travels from San Antonio Texas and up the soulful Crescent Route to New York. Kicking off in a spectacular fashion - a Friday night in Texas, which can mean only one thing: football. Billy chews hot dogs with the best of them at the ten thousand seat stadium where soccer moms, ambition and marching bands collide. From there it's on to the swamps of Louisiana where Billy braves an attack from jumping Asian carp and meets the genteel frog princesses of Rayne, the frog capital of the world. After a moving tribute at the graveside of one of Billy's heroes - Hank Williams - it's onto Birmingham, Alabama, to hear the startling stories of the child crusaders who changed the course of history and segregation in the south. Billy's penultimate stop is Baltimore, but don't let a visit to the city's morgue put you off. Here Billy uncovers the incredible tale of the multi millionairess who became known as the Mother of CSI and her collection of creepy dollhouses.