The Whittakers-Spring 2022

[Music] all the west virginia news our majestic and our brand their son with faith in glory like the prince emmanuel's land is it any wonder then that my heart could rapture bill as i stand once more with the loved ones on the west agenda here [Music] among the western [Music] all the west virginia hills i must bid you now will do in my home beyond the mountains i shall ever dream of you in the evening time of life if my father only will i virginia here [Music] is [Music] [Music] hey ray good to see you you want to show me what you guys built next door show me the house next door take me over there show me this very nice you got a new car too you got this too yeah yeah nice who's staying here stay there right larry is this the car you got is this the car you got no you got that turtle right there oh the the truck backs up i'm sorry i said that the truck my fault it messed up on oh okay i gotta get it back all right well we can help you with that i hope you do i've become like your new uh lifeline yeah i understand that's all right that's all right how have you guys been you look great when we didn't meet doctor daddy we're doing okay you survived winter spring's coming yeah i know what are you showing me i can't i can't wait what's over there you want to take me hey hey hey kenneth how's that mark good so you're staying next door yeah how about that one that's great that's nice so what have you guys done with some of the money i gave you you got a new a new roof not your bro the roof looks great put your inside around the house you got siding yeah i don't even i don't even recognize the house new kitchen cabinets and a car excellent the truck yes i mean that's great now are you corn down on the floor i'm sorry you fall down on the floor oh i see yeah excellent yeah hey lorraine how are you on my tongue i know she doesn't talk much timmy talks thank you i'm doing damn me how are you timmy you guys all look healthy what's going on you guys had dinner yet uh have you had dinner yet no what are you guys gonna do for dinner tonight i have no idea what do you guys normally do typically like when i've been here but in the past i see ray grab a loaf of bread and some some like sliced meat and he makes a little sandwich yeah bologna or whatever something like that you know all that anybody cook here no nobody cut their candy bars yeah i do a lot of cooking what kind of what kind of stuff will you make for these guys i made many times and she get it out not fixing for him investigating and stuff like that she liked my cooking i guess yeah i can't get on my leg long enough her legs make a lot of trouble your leg yeah how's ray's knee well he's not walking around yeah you seem strong oh right here you're taking another piss ray doesn't use the bathroom yes i see that i see that and everybody drive by here they open up yeah yeah right yeah because they know here right your knee is better yeah the siding looks beautiful yeah what are you doing in the back you're in the in the creek show me okay take me to your beautiful creek take me to your creek show me the creek huh yeah that's the sighting the extra extra siding who stays next door what's going on next door what at large place that's where i live you live next door yeah i don't know who lives where so you stay there [Music] kenneth is in the new trailer [Music] and lorraine and lorraine and betty timmy and ray stay here yeah show me ray's bedroom can you show me ray's bedroom he wants a red bedroom it's right there in the living room ray show me your bedroom what so the money has helped you a lot it's improved your quality of your life a bit the the money has improved your lives a bit that's great it's nice that we could help out yeah a lot of people donated a lot of money show me ray i hear my porn oh you have another bedroom here can i peek in i'm being nosy so that's where you sleep buddy this is your room where do you stay there oh you sleep on the sofa yeah that's where you sleep all year long so who sleeps there who who sleeps in this room teaming what were you sure oh they share a bed oh okay who's that dog it's my dog who's that what's his name what's her name his name's wolfie wolfie yeah and how many dogs do you have exactly right there sassy how's jason how's jason he's still in jail yeah what does he get now do we know tell jason i'd love to do an interview with him i i would love to do an interview with jason if he if he's willing jason i'm fascinated with brother you did say that you'd be alone but i couldn't bear to see you in such streets it's okay yeah you're walking around just fine you were hurting last time i was here tell me about your kitchen you guys ever cook show me your kitchen do you guys ever cook who cooks who cooks here well sometimes i cook in the morning cooking and there's my kitchen cabinet but kenneth cooks for you guys kenneth cooks for you guys sometimes yeah and i bought that used deep freezer money oh your stock your fridge is well stocked nice we're getting the whole tour here that's a heater yeah yeah hey you ever take a bath i saw you in the bath once i came in and you were taking a bath including what's back there show me oh the laundry room time to take the garbage out right that's fine hey so everyone health everyone's health is okay everyone's health is okay oh yeah you guys look healthy you look good in the doctor and stuff like that lorraine's heart timmy's timmy had a heart issue too right right i didn't hit it or amazon i didn't know give me a problem ready you guys stay healthy you gotta you gotta stay healthy because you're the you're the one that keeps this whole cookie yeah clan together like nothing more than that i'm i'm worried about you more than anybody even though you look great you look fine up how long has it been here since october now halloween night they brought in because you were living in beaver for a while right you got a new fever yeah i tried to fix that there was anything i got insulation nice money you ran out of money now all right well these videos tend to get you guys some help we got a nice bedroom in there look at that yeah you got the nicest room in the in the hole yeah you're cleaner than the rest of your family oh yeah what was it what was the rest of the family like so i i know ray and timmy lorraine betty larry but the rest of the gang i don't really know so much tell me tell me about the rest of the family i don't know i don't know how you secrets my friends no but what about growing up as a kid who else was there i don't know we've done a lot of that when yeah what kind of stuff would you guys get into i'll work in the garden get out of that playing mud make my cake drop that everybody yeah the ones that have the biggest impairment would be like rey and lorraine right yeah everyone else was a little better off yeah no one else was like ray or lorraine and then timmy came and joined the gang yeah what what what do you think the the problem that ray has and ray and lorraine and maybe even timmy what do you think it is is it environmental or is it genetic yeah but like you know even the eyes like your eyes are a little bit off you know yeah i'm not quite yeah and larry has you know everyone seems to have that in the family yeah do you think that was genetic or do you think it was uh environmental from coal mining i don't know it might be yeah what are you showing me ray yeah yeah well you want a cake ray wants a treat there you drink oh yeah i can't fix it up right now all right well maybe maybe this video will generate a little more attention you guys can fix up this uh the interior of your uh your trailer yeah the exterior looks nice the exterior looks nice oh yeah and they did a nice job fixing up their place oh yeah i'm gonna have to fit done everything you know it's nice here on this street [Applause] road it used to be a dirt road right yeah i need to be the dirt road and there used to be how many 15 14 okay 15 yep all here yeah over here raise it up your parents were busy got four or five room houses over we raised that door there's four or five rooms over there yeah it was in that house oh there was a house yeah it was a house over there fell down i don't know i moved out like the dirty though i moved out when i got it i was 18. you moved out when you were 18. you finished high school yeah what and what kind of work have you done how are you going to work bark at night come to club cutting timbers and stuff like that you ever think about leaving west virginia i live with me i didn't even know crime virginia kentucky oh you see you've been around i've been around these guys have never left the state these guys have never i bet you these guys have never left raleigh county no way to go visit somebody in that rebellion ray you like it here you're happy i gave you a bunch of coat i got you a bunch of coats i thought was those he's all drunk up right now what's your favorite memory as a kid kenneth what what's your favorite memory as a kid right ray ray used to be much rowdier though yeah i remember the first time i met ray when freddie was around yeah and and ray was so out of control yeah i i walked up to this i think you were the one that helped me get them to uh allow me to photograph them it was you there yeah down on the side you you were the one that helped me yeah because i think somebody had just passed away and uh larry was in the house in the trailer across the street and he said we just we're mourning somebody who passed away yeah and they didn't want me to bother anybody and i said okay i gotta respect that right but then i came up with the the idea that maybe taking an 8x10 polaroid which is what i was doing at the time an instant photo that you could put in the casket with the person that passed away and i guess everyone liked that idea and you helped me take a photo of you and then i took a photo of ray and i took a photo of timmy and then eventually oh no freddy and then eventually which we tried to get ray to cooperate and every time i'd i had the photo the camera set up on a tripod and i asked ray to stand for the camera he would stand like right next to it like this and he uh and as soon as i asked him to step back he got upset and he ran off his pants would fall around his ankles because they didn't have a belt and he'd go kicking a garbage can you remember raised to do this yeah yeah he'd kick a garbage or a metal garbage can and just like scream in the corner yeah and this happened over and over and over and then eventually he got ready to stand for a photo with timmy and uh and freddy all right yeah i'll give you but he's calmed down look at right look at ray he's mellow now yeah you sway a little bit yeah which one which one is it your left knee or your right knee where'd you want to hurt you you're walking fine you seem okay you get out here walk everywhere you take up without the road you can't go get him he goes for a walk yeah he walks the dogs or anything oh yeah yeah yeah you keep your trailers nice nice and clean yeah hey not like the rest of your family are you horrified by the dirt over there it's a mess over there yeah yeah is that is that how the parents were when they grow up was it a messy house yeah yeah the apple don't doesn't fall too far from the tree yeah yeah that's nice you've you've kept it together and you were married once right yeah i was married once before mm-hmm you're saying i'm lord you're single now yeah we ran into you at walmart so i saw your is your daughter that was your step daughter how are you doing yeah she's living with your grandmother's grandpa right now i won't go down to sleep when i get done with ain't working yeah i work a lot you know a good truck so this is the truck you guys bought with some of the money just bought my brother yeah okay i gave ten thousand i was in my own pocket oh you paid for this i'll pay for it i played 405 oh hold on what happened you got an accident here he hit a deer you hit a deer yeah larry did hurry again yeah i see how's the deer how's the deer i don't hate that youtuber yeah is your firewood this is how you heat the house yeah i got 10 grand for this you pay 10 grand 10 grand 10 grand i got on payment 400 500 405 dollars every month what do you see what are you pointing to rick ray what do you think oh you're talking about a tree you feel oh a tree though it didn't hurt anything hey it makes a route oh it fell on the house yeah you fell around the destroyer oh wow when did this happen i don't know i wouldn't even around then they take a big a pine tree feeling yeah yeah i see i see yeah yeah i cut those trees out of there right i get a journey right you don't like the belt i got you you don't like the belt you don't wear a belt he don't worry bill he got a bunch of bailey in there is that right yeah people getting a bottom of bell he don't worry people don't change yeah yeah right yeah yeah what's your favorite season ray you like you like summer you like winter you're right it's summer winter right you like the snow he won't get up when it's nothing yeah i don't blame him it's cold here get out of here you won't see me in the winter either i grew up in that i hate to i need to get out there working that's not for me is that pogo right yeah you buy a vehicle can ray ride a bicycle hey youtube now yeah when you're growing up now i don't know i'd love to see ray on a bicycle right get on that bicycle so mark you get on about to get down the road hey he won't take a picture of me can you ride a bike hey yeah i'll hold it here i'll hold your cape go get out right [Music] [Applause] hey [Applause] what was it like growing up here what was it like growing up here as kids it's okay yeah it's really nice what kind of things would you guys do what kind of things would you guys do as kids photographs 15 kids 15 kids yeah there was a house across the street yeah it was a house right there where your trailer is now where your trailer is did you have this one then did you have if you had more money what would you continue to do and what what am i we're going to finish you're picking this house up yeah we are you've done a nice job so far yeah what takes so much people charging you a lot yeah i know house house improvements aren't cheap yeah i know you tell me what money i will get picked up over there yeah we'll help you out timmy what are you doing what are you doing are you drawing right he's writing show me what you're right right right in there he probably carried him out when he writes in him no he probably pulled him out he turns him out when he get home that's what he wrote give me one timmy you can spell dog i think timmy is much smarter than he appears he graduated high school you graduated high school timmy yeah yeah yeah i ain't great who's the i know timmy's uh a nephew yeah who's the youngest of the 15 kids she comes to visit you sometimes yeah yeah who's the oldest dad lorraine is the oldest yeah no no you guys you guys see each other still you guys all see each other you're the one who drives yeah yeah oh the one here god you and you and betty are the are the no i've got to go no but but you you two are the ones who keep everything together pay the bills do whatever you need to do right i take betty's store take and pay their bills and all that yeah you know i'm right here all the time yeah you know then i got my older secretary she called want me to take her start you know all that and i tell your store to walmart you know you know i've been pretty busy you know yeah you guys stay busy tell me something about lorraine i know very little about lorraine she's the mystery member of the family she doesn't require she won't say nobody she wouldn't talk to the doctor yeah lorraine you look healthy you guys ready for summer you ready for summer i'm ready for summer mark all right nice seeing you guys again nice i'll see you again sometime this summer i'm sure i'll be back we'll come visit you all right thanks everybody ray we'll see you later come on bye bye thanks everybody okay all right bye bye you

Channel: Soft White Underbelly

Views: 5,480,099

Keywords: soft white underbelly, swu

Id: WnzMPF6vFJk

Length: 32min 36sec (1956 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 23 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/Useful_Wishbone9317]

Watched this last night! They seem to be doing better in their own way! It’s nice to see Mark back in Appalachia.

[u/chllnvlln]

This video really touched me the other day, and it made me go back and watch the original video with The Whittakers. it was amazing to see how much they have all grown and prospered. It’s truly amazing to watch them interact with Mark now and see that they genuinely trust this man.

[u/Oakvilleresident]

I was so happy when Ray rode the bike !

It's so heart warming that so many people donated money to help them improve their lives.

[u/Rbake4]

I'm glad to see that Mark returned to check on the Whittaker family. They seem to be doing well. Betty looked good and Ray seemed happy.

Has anyone noticed that Mark often asks about Jason, I think that's the name, who's been in jail during all of the videos? I'm trying to figure out what happened to him. I'm pretty sure he was a brother living in the Whittaker family home until his arrest. It sounds like he may be going to prison. I can't imagine prison would be a safe environment for someone who has developmental delays but I don't know the extent of his medical or mental health.

If anyone knows, please do share. It'd be greatly appreciated.

[u/leopardlampshade]

I don't know why people hate on Mark, when he literally gave this family the roof over their heads.

He's not perfect, then again who is, but he really tries to help people out. I'm so happy to see them doing well.

[u/Ethical_Slutt]

Omgosh I just love Ray!

[u/Josh_McClain]

I got a update from some people who know the family, and Ray is fine!

The rumor of him passing from a stroke was not correct.

[u/crybabek]

I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE THEM!!!!