British Guy Reacting to Every State in The US

[@lavluka6210]

I did another reaction similar to this where I reacted to The dumbest laws from every US state, you can watch here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4WwZWmwrdV7h6c

[@richardalbrecht5702]

I enjoyed the states video! Can't wait to see your reaction to our legal system LOL

[@andre.moonlight]

Lmaooo your reactions made my day😭🤣

[@Morristown337]

Felony crimes are done at the state level and where the crime was committed will take precedent. Misdameanors or lesser crimes are done at the county level. An example is Knox County has decriminalized Marijuana, however it is still illegal under state law. So if all I get caught with is simple posession marijuana in small amounts then I either won't be charges or if I am cited then they will dismiss it in court. However if I get caught with Marijuana at the same time I get another felony or if I carry large amounts that would be felony then the state law takes president and I will be charged for it. If I live in Tennessee and commit a crime in Arkansas then Arkansas will charge me.

[@gregwilde1119]

I live in Wisconsin where marijuana is illegal. I can drive about 50 miles and buy marijuana in Illinois. I smoke it in Illinois no problem if I smoke it in Wisconsin I can get arrested. There is also a lot of federal land in the US. If you commit a crime on federal land within a states border you will get charged federally under federal law which has seriously harsh penalties. Indian reservations while within a state are all federal and simple drunk driving can be 3 years while you might get probation for 1st offense.

[@tino4769]

If you cross state lines and break the law, that can be an additional charge and they can extradite you, and if you bring a gun or weapon across state lines that that weapon is not registered in that can be very big trouble for people.

[@aimeemarie5462]

This is why they always say Americans dont leave the US as often as Europeans. Because most of us havent even see the rest of our country. So a lot of us spend our lives seeing the US 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@chingchilla6777]

That’s so true lol

[@nachgeben]

That, and it's much more expensive for us to do so. Hell, it's more expensive for us to go to Europe than for most Europeans to come here.

[@arianapitre]

True

[@ji3194]

Especially us in the southwest. Here in Albuquerque, a drive to Denver or Phoenix is 6 or 7 hours. My drive to Florida in 2017 took a few days

[@Bayougirl78]

Exactly. Someone who lives in Europe can visit other countries the way we visit other states.

[@iceeee1245]

Europeans: drive for 3 hours goes through three countries Americans: “I’ve been driving for 7 hours and I’m still in my home state”

[@chitlitlah]

The struggle of a Texan... My hometown is closer to Pensacola, FL (four states away) than El Paso.

[@blue-eyesblackdragon3138]

I live in a part of Florida where I'm closer to Cuba than to another state, but it still takes me 5 hours to drive to the southernmost part

[@Mon_55]

My grandma stays in Mississippi and the rest of our family stays in Illinois. Takes 14 hours to get there

[@overdose956]

I live near the southernmost city in Texas just to get to el paso it would take about 12 hours lmao

[@momzillainnova]

as a Virginian I feel this.....

[@robertdysonn]

In the United States you don’t even really realize you’re going from one state to another. You’ll just be driving down the highway and there will be a sign saying welcome to Colorado or whatever the case may be.

[@chickennuggies7159]

Whenever my family goes on a road trip and we see a state border sign, all of us yell the state. Guys look, there’s the border sign to Texas, “TEEEEEXXXXAAASSS”.

[@kylefarr3655]

@@chickennuggies7159 15 hours later NEW MEXICO!!!

[@caiawren6100]

unless you're on a toll road

[@corvus1374]

The exception being California, which has agricultural checkpoints near the state line to keep out nasty bugs.

[@garyballard179]

Nah, it's Europe where you're suddenly at the border of a new country in just a few miles that you don't realize you were that close. In the US, it can take hours to cross a state. In a number of European countries, making a wrong turn can put you in a new country. I once mentioned to a Brit that I lived 90 miles from Dallas, TX. He then asked what state I lived in.

[@emilialeonard1133]

I'm from Alaska, born and raised. Fun fact: Talkeetna, Alaska had a Cat as their mayor from 1997-2017.

[@matthewcollins4157]

I'm guessing that was the best run 20 year period in Talkeetna's history?

[@testiestwolf9219]

What happened to Mayor Kitty?

[@cosmari245]

@@testiestwolf9219 He passed away at the age of 20

[@jessicamiller3788]

Bro what is wrong with our country lol. I love learning more about our states why do they not teach us more in school about this 😂

[@meredithr9824]

Long live emporer Stubbs!

[@kohakuhime7887]

It boggles my mind that non Americans can drive to another country in just a few hours and back before dark

[@TheAwsomeKilaShow]

It’s awesome for us because when we travel we get to travel from country to country quickly. I paid 60$ for a flight to France from Germany. 🤤

[@kohakuhime7887]

@@TheAwsomeKilaShow We have to pay in the thousands to just get a ticket to France 😭

[@songrae3]

Americans who live near a border can too. Canadians and Americans living near the border routinely (in non-pandemic times) go across for day trips.

[@globalfamily8172]

@@kohakuhime7887 And spend 8 hours in an airplane! yuck.

[@KaminoROBB]

In Niagara Falls in the summer we used to walk to Canada for the day and then walk back at night 😂

[@Skullkidjynx]

Listening to this guys reaction makes me realize how small European countries are

[@LexusFox]

Right? Like damn, we think it’s all so normal. 😂

[@rageriustheoverlord7086]

America is the third largest country by population and size. A lot of people dont realize how big america is. One persons life can be entirely different from town to town

[@keliikoamiller8173]

@Catharsis crazier is the fact that California has almost 40million residents and isnt a country.

[@lauralee5722]

Yeah, we huge bro.

[@lauralee5722]

@@keliikoamiller8173 702,000 ppl live in the capitol, Washington D.C. which isn't a state nor does it belong to a state, it's just a city in purgatory, lol. That's like 1.5 Wyomings They should definitely become a state.

[@ebraden09]

Me (an American) sitting here watching this pretending like I’m not learning just as much as the British guy. 😅

[@yamahaguy1732]

I feel you lol

[@MinekaC]

Same

[@JL-ix8or]

Exactly lolol

[@Monsteretrope]

If i watched a similar video about my country....I'd learn a lot too :P

[@slygeek7499]

Deadass

[@uniique_xo]

Me being American and not knowing 90% of these things

[@loganhunter5734]

Me being American and not knowing 100% of these things

[@emilicious8273]

same lol

[@justinnagy9206]

Ditto!

[@yalewerner2732]

Hats off to America's education system.

[@10unnecessary01]

well the Wendover Productions video would be pretty boring if he just stated facts everyone knew lol

[@ohyeah6628]

This guy literally just told us where to commit murder

[@tylermech66]

state law does not apply. Federal law still does, and federal law has murder as illegal.

[@beckycrownover6014]

But as the law reads, you couldn’t be judged by a jury of your peers, as nobody resides in that area of Yellowstone park that is in Idaho. However, the asterisk to this is that you can be tried for murder if it’s proven that you plotted the crime in another state. So if I plan on killing my hubs within that 50 square mile area, and planned it out here at home, then I would be tried in my home state.

[@spol]

@@beckycrownover6014 only if they can prove that >:)

[@beckycrownover6014]

@@spol ha!ha! I guess I should stop threatening my hubs! Lol!

[@KarmasAB123]

Yeah, but it's far...

[@VeryBerryJuiceLPS]

Can we just appreciate how nicely the guy who made the 50 states video transitions flowed from state to state? He got skill

[@ALittleBitTrash]

was looking for this comment. it was truly beautiful

[@ivi122]

He did amazingly well. Love all the facts. I didn’t know most of them

[@kwhitewinter7088]

Kansas city is not where they said it is, its on the border on Missouri and Kansas, and its split into two, its on the west on the straight on Missouri and Kansas what he pointed to was Jefferson City, our state capital in Missouri. So they probably got a lot more wrong so they didnt use accurate information. So its not all correct. We also have a state spelt as Nevada but is actually pronounced NevAda, I got all the facts lol

[@judethaddeus9856]

I really like that too

[@olliewollie7844]

@@kwhitewinter7088 I think that red point on the map was the average human location in the U.S. so it’s central in terms of where other humans are. It was a little confusing though

[@kamopulls2880]

POV: you’re an American waiting to see what a Brit thinks about your state 😂

[@musicmeister5544]

True XD

[@mneugent7658]

Nailed it

[@bluefamily3937]

Yup

[@jenniferskorczewski3573]

That park. 🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@otteroperator3822]

The bridge in Arizona, over saguaro lake is were I cliff dived off illegally last year.

[@matthewcollins4157]

As an American, I sometimes miss the ""Leaving XX, Please Come Again" and the following "Welcome to XX" signs, so sometimes the only way I know I've crossed a State line is by the change in the condition of roads due to how each State prioritizes regular road maintenance.

[@SDPennington]

This is true. You can tell when crossing borders from state to state by road conditions.

[@Jesuslover2004]

or speed limits 😂

[@lizzylambardo8103]

Lol going from Michigan to Ohio or vice versa. Horrible roads in Michigan to beautiful smooth roads in Ohio 🤣

[@johnmurkwater1064]

When you're driving along and the new black top suddenly turns to broken down asphalt, "I'm awake!"

[@miajeong2204]

@@lizzylambardo8103 I’m firing michigan and whenever i go on a road trip i’m amazed how good everyone’s roads are. especially considering detroit is literally known as the motor city

[@rowena835]

europeans: drives through countries with ease. me: why have i been in illinois for 6 hours?

[@naturegame8624]

Depends on where your driving through it. My family tends to go to the southern part of the state when we drive though it.

[@naturegame8624]

Road trips really had me learning the meaning of patience

[@zinex486]

Here in aus it takes 3 days to travel from one side of a state to another

[@digitalworldaway3291]

@@zinex486 wtf do you consider a state😂you mean country😂

[@mermazing1672]

Not to mention the roads in Illinois are terrible. When my fam went on a road trip to Colrado, we noticed how different the roads were. They just don't put good work into roads that will last.

[@bignol4037]

KZbin is getting real comfortable putting these two unskippable ads

[@manvirtoor2644]

Ikr💩

[@Red_Eyed]

Pay for premium?

[@MyWORDisntGospel]

They snuck that in a couple months back. I hate it.

[@abisspassenger]

Extremely annoying.

[@dublethetruble4620]

I don’t mean to be the bearer of bad news but... stolen?

[@MrThankman360]

Just so you know, bc our nation is so huge, most of us Americans don’t know the things in this video.

[@chloegosdin7961]

So true. I'm an American and I didn't know a lot of these facts.

[@siegelink9549]

Its because each state is so Different that each state feels like its own country. Like Europe and the EU.

[@veronicawo3033]

Don’t you learn about the different states in school?

[@spronga3305]

@@veronicawo3033 Yeah but this a fun facts video. You don't learn fun facts about states in school. Idk if maybe your school had a history lesson for each state, but to my knowledge we only get taught about the state we live in. Which for me is Florida so I have some fun fact knowledge about Florida's history that others will likely not know.

[@MrThankman360]

@@veronicawo3033 yes, we learn things about each state, but there are 50. We learn state capitals, state birds, state trees, how different states fit into historical events, etc. But there are so many states and so many different things to remember about each, there’s no way...

[@ASH-dj4om]

I live in Louisiana, where the longest bridge over water is. Driving over lake ponchatrain on that bridge at night is TERRIFYING. It’s literally black, there’s no streetlights, just your headlights, over water for 20-25 minutes straight. I definitely try to avoid it and take another route if I can

[@Anon-f7f]

@Josh Kale mane all I can say is what the fuck . That ain’t normal

[@Jesuslover2004]

i’m from michigan but my fam and i drove over it once when it was foggy and it was so weird

[@LordCowbxyRDR]

Go to the bay bridge In Maryland

[@inseongmingi]

i had to drive over it a few months ago and it was so foggy like

[@laurenmccommon9623]

THANK YOU for helping me. I visited Louisiana twice when I was 11, we drove over that bridge. I’ve seen that bridge in my nightmares and I could not place it.

[@isitedible7121]

All you get when you cross states is “Welcome to so and so state.” On a sign. Then when you leave you get the same sign on the back saying. “Come back soon.”

[@FERGahDsSAK]

I enjoy the threatening billboards from law enforcement entering a state. "You're Going to Fucking Jail if you break the law in ____". Paraphrasing there.

[@LegacyFTW]

The difference between the US and the UK: The US thinks 100 years is a long time while the UK thinks 100 miles is a long way.

[@TheAngryXenite]

Meanwhile, China, which is both extremely old and very large.

[@michellesands6950]

@@TheAngryXenite Not talking about China right now. Who cares anyway, everyone needs to hate the CCP for their crimes against HUMANITY!! CHEERS!

[@TheAngryXenite]

@@michellesands6950 It's relevant to the conversation rn, and whatever I feel about the PRC doesn't mean I should just not care about the country or its people. What a weird point.

[@Risankun]

True I live in a German city which is around 2025 years old and one time the American exchange students refused to believe that our city is that old until we showed them the wikipedia article 😂 when we visited them on the other hand they proudly showed us an "ancient German theatre" (at least ancient for them) from around 1920 😂😂

[@NoOne-td4vg]

@@TheAngryXenite May I ask when he brought the people of China up? I am only reading that the CCP should be held accountable for their crimes against Humanity. Why are you changing his point to make some argument up? Cheers

[@junk7969]

"The U.S. is nuts man." Me, an American, thinking Tallahassee was in Tennessee: "Ikr." 😎

[@Chachmo78]

And lest we forget, Florida is in two timeszones!

[@shadowfoxspirit9]

@@Chachmo78 same with texas

[@demibaguette]

@@Chachmo78 we are?

[@fogtheghost]

@@Chachmo78 Oregon, Idaho, North Dakoda, South Dakoda, Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana, Texas, Detroit, Kentucky, and Tennessee are all in two time zones.

[@maximumgas9448]

Me in iowa thinking what we have: we have corn or meth take your pick

[@lindsaypeters5667]

If he’s amazed by kids driving golf carts to school, wait till he hears about “drive your tractor to school day” in the Midwest😂

[@nahte-]

would you by any chance happen to be from ohio

[@lindsaypeters5667]

@@nahte- Nah I’m from Illinois but I have lots of Iowa friends that told me they had one of these days at school

[@laptv2144]

lol that’s not a thing in the Midwest, that’s a thing in rural places in general. Last time I checked Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit doesn’t have bring your tractor to school day

[@lindsaypeters5667]

@@laptv2144 I didn’t mean big cities, I obviously meant like rural Illinois and Iowa which are Midwest states

[@laptv2144]

Lindsay Peters yeah I get it, but far too often people try to make “‘Midwest” and “rural” synonymous which I find strange so that’s what I meant.

[@lordsceptile6181]

There isn’t actually anything stopping you from just driving or walking into a different state. No walls or passport checks, as long as you say in the US no passport is needed

[@beckah119]

For now. They are going to start requiring 'traveling ID's' or a passport. Or at least those from Arizona do. We now need them to fly(who knows when we will need them from State to state. The Government doesn't look at our Drivers license/ID as a Government form of ID. I believe a few other states need them to fly as well.

[@andrewgiorgi3504]

@@beckah119 You don't need these things to enter the state, just to stay in a hotel room. There isn't a checkpoint at the border stopping you from crossing state lines without ID. And many of the restrictions for hotel rooms are only in place for the duration of COVID.

[@TheDoctorsDancer]

We do, however, often have some sort of road sign on major road-ways saying you are entering or exiting a state. These are often celebratory in nature and say things like "Welcome to Ohio!" or "Thank you for visiting". Some places are proud of their borders like those that make up the Four Corners and others that sort of make fun of it. There is a bar called Patrick’s Pub And Grill that is on the border between Tennessee and Georgia, which have different regulations on alcohol. You can buy it and drink it on the Tennessee side, but the county on the Georgia side is a dry county, meaning no alcohol, so the bar has a sign posted and a line painted on the ground on the border so people know if they are 'legal' or not... They also very conveniently provide a table at the border in case you need to cross the border to use the restroom! lol.

[@hayleybartek8643]

@@andrewgiorgi3504 "Only for the duration of Covid" means "forever." Covid isn't going away, like the common cold isn't going away.

[@user-zt4lp7fn1q]

@@hayleybartek8643 I think by duration they meant more until covid has a vaccine/is more preventable and under control

[@stphilomena911]

Alaska is not only the biggest state, it is also the most eastern and western state of the USA as it crosses the 180 meridian.

[@AlleyWolf123]

I love surprising people with that fact

[@MiamiManiac]

Please explain further

[@jimmyjohn6504]

@@MiamiManiac Its so west its east.

[@AlleyWolf123]

LibertyMinded I think they mean the 180th meridian

[@ktiemz]

At the hundredth meridian

[@FlanylShirtman]

I've always found it funny how British people, and Europeans in general, are completely stunned by the size of the US. Yes, we can drive for several hours, and not cross a state border.

[@itsmxtwist]

I can drive 9 miles north and not go out of my state yet less than 2 hours east I’m in another state capital

[@FlanylShirtman]

@@itsmxtwist I can drive 5 miles south, and cross a state border, but obviously I live on the border. Hell, I work in that state, so I... well, not for a while since I now work from home, but if not for 2020, I'd be driving across every day. But all northern compass directions, 5hrs easy, and still have room to go.

[@kylaluv8453]

It can take 1.5 hours, not during rush hour, just to drive across metro Phoenix, AZ.

[@MaskedSongbird]

@@kylaluv8453 Depends on which direction you're going. I find that it's a bit faster going southeast towards Tempe/Mesa/Chandler than it is to go northwest towards Glendale/Peoria/Deer Valley--unless you're taking the I-10 for any major stretch of time or only driving off the freeway, in which case, yeah, it's gonna take forever.

[@kylaluv8453]

@@MaskedSongbird Suprise to queen Creak is what I was basing my timing on.

[@michellerichardson3090]

Tourist: what's this bush? Oregon: its a park Tourist: It looks like... Oregon: IT'S A PARK!!!

[@2mexpesos]

😂😂😂

[@datrat3238]

XD

[@bstef420]

imagine if there was fences between every state

[@Suisyo]

Omg that would be ridiculous XD

[@codyofathens3397]

Oregon is gonna build a wall, and california is gonna pay for it!

[@vonbarnaby3153]

As someone who lives like 45 min from the missouri kansas border (we live near kc Missouri) I cross states a lot

[@fabled-rabate1859]

expensive lmao

[@shithead7841]

Imagine, not us

[@scottstewart5784]

there are no borders between states, just a sign on the roadway saying "entering _____".

[@alquinn8576]

that's not true; i was once strip-searched while entering Pennsylvania. though come to think of it, i'm not sure that was a governmental checkpoint...

[@Grantday07]

Usually there are "checkpoints" but it depends in what state and they dont check for is or anything. I live in California and we have border checkpoints that check for things like guns or mainly food and fruit it only takes 10 minutes max to get through

[@scottstewart5784]

@@Grantday07 I forgot about California and the fruit/vegetable verbal check. "Do you have any fruits or veg in the car?" No. "Ok - have a day." We do have immigration checkpoints randomly on roads, where they stop everybody and say "are you a citizen?" If you say yes they let you go. If you want, you can refuse to answer, and get hassled, but they'll let you go eventually.

[@jaymarquis3482]

@@alquinn8576 I live in Pennsylvania and have never been searched. Drove through PA, to West Virginia, Through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas...didn't see any checkpoints. Only PA turnpike and Kansas Turnpike (tolls).

[@alquinn8576]

@@jaymarquis3482 you are lucky because this checkpoint didn't even use lube...ouch!

[@stevenmiller2820]

“this country is nuts in so many ways” You should try living here. 🤣🤣🤣

[@pinkfeet518]

haha my exact thoughts!

[@saro9909]

sometimes i think, how the fuck is it holding it together.

[@KM-gj7bj]

You know Saro, sometimes I wonder how we hold it together as well, but I guess that’s America for you. We don’t make sense to others and we don’t make sense to ourselves. We’ll find a way to make sense sooner or later.

[@stevenmiller2820]

@@saro9909 it’s not that bad in reality.

[@youtubemanswagroy212]

Not really its not chiraq at every corner

[@desdes5622]

Building rock mounds to make your mountain higher in some sort of mountain battle somehow just feels so very American 😂😂😂

[@ballerbonnie1159]

I’m an American and I didn’t know most of these things.

[@emilynicole121170]

Same

[@addison8426]

Same

[@brendanfragale1621]

Same

[@weinhard961]

Same

[@emmajepsen6802]

Me too

[@coyotelong4349]

To Americans, 100 years is a long time To Brits, 100 miles is a long way

[@mikegnk4994]

And now imagine that in European terms, the UK is pretty big. They are the 11th biggest out of the 51 European nations if you go by geographical area

[@kylefarr3655]

@@mikegnk4994 let me guess the 10 that are bigger....France, Germany, Greece, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Ukraine?

[@keandric2765]

@@kylefarr3655 DEF not Switzerland. Switzerland is tiny. I don't think Greece is bigger either.

[@newgrl]

@@mikegnk4994 Countries with an asterisk (*) are not completely located within Europe. Raking determined by only that area of the countries within Europe: 1 Russia* 2 Ukraine 3 France* 4 Spain* 5 Sweden 6 Norway 7 Germany 8 Finland 9 Poland 10 Italy 11 UK

[@duckielover151]

Very well said.

[@SirTomFoolery]

British Guy: Dang the US is crazy Me an American: Dang were crazy

[@lyndsay369]

it's cool to see someone actually saying nice things about the US. We may be a shit show but there is a lot of beauty here too🥺

[@odgykins]

Me after every fact even as a full fledged born and raised American: well shit I didn't know that either

[@bcaye]

Time to hit the internet.

[@lightningphoenix7155]

School doesn't teach anything new.

[@Lady.B0420]

It makes me sad so many citizens don't know a lot of this info....here is a fun fact not state related but may still help people, dolphins are the only other mammal that has sex for pleasure. You do need to be careful when swimming with dolphins.

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

@@Lady.B0420 Another dolphin-related fun fact for you: a number of dolphins have been observed pricking themselves on puffer fish intentionally for psychedelic pleasure.

[@zebraskin]

@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 And dolphins closest relatives are pigs.

[@coyotelong4349]

The borders between states are just like the “borders” between counties in England- There’s no fences or anything, just a sign by the road welcoming you to the next state

[@randlebrowne2048]

The "Don't Mess with Texas" slogan actually started as an anti-littering campaign; and is also written on the welcome signs at the state border crossings.

[@Courdorygirl]

Yep, although where he was looking, the border between Arkansas and Tennessee would be hard pressed to drive across in a lot of places, as it's the Mississippi River XD.

[@fiftycentbrandkillmonger7060]

@@Courdorygirl right! I’ve crossed it so many times and my cousin for some odd reason didn’t know

[@insertcolorherehawk3761]

Though, with a little more power

[@rfmerrill]

California has agricultural inspection stations on major highways near its borders, but you can get around them. I don't think they require ID or even ask who you are, they just make sure you're not bringing in firewood that might have invasive pests in it, or that your boat doesn't have barnacles on it which could become a problem if you use that boat in a California lake.

[@jukihiw]

FYI: usually there is no real border between states. It’s a bit like borders between EU countries. There’s just a sign beside the road that says “Welcome to XX!”

[@lizz5393]

And the occasional tole thing or whatever its called

[@motherlessgoat72]

24 mile bridge, how does it keep standing? Good ole' American engineering and duct tape...mostly duct tape.

[@motherlessgoat72]

@Lucky Luice Heck yeah. Everything's a non issue when you've got duct tape on hand

[@zachary1008]

*duck tape......😂😂😂

[@motherlessgoat72]

@@zachary1008 Oh...LOL!

[@Sinstar33]

Seems legit.

[@PeteAlexander]

Flex seal lol

[@dylanholman3]

The smallest park in the world, “Mills End Park”, is just two feet wide. The park was dedicated in 1948 as “the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland” 😂

[@jasonmcdaniel345]

Fun fact, the US has a larger population of people with Irish ancestry than Ireland does.

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

@@jasonmcdaniel345 Because of the potato famine, right? What’s the primary racial makeup of Ireland then?

[@fx4d]

@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged It's still Irish, it's just a much smaller country.

[@aimeemarie5462]

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while 😂😂😂

[@bugvswindshield]

live here...seen it...well not the leprechauns.

[@siennahartle9069]

Oregonian here: the park is real, and it’s adorable

[@luciusg5928]

What if someone just took out the little plant and destroyed everything, would it still be a park

[@cttrn]

@@luciusg5928 I’m pretty sure the put a new tree frequently because it’s placed on a median right on an intersection and crosswalk so if it grew any bigger it would start brushing against cars. Also it’s right in downtown Portland so I’m sure people take the tree all the time. I’ve seen people skate over it lol.

[@drakeo2746]

@@cttrn bruh trees don't grow that fast... they takes like 10 years and r still super small lmfao

[@cttrn]

@@drakeo2746 you are right but the parks been there for way longer than 10 years I’m not saying like Christmas tree big lol like I said it’s in the middle of an intersection if the tree grew out a foot or 2 it would be a problem. But I looked it up people steal it often to where it gets replaced.

[@willowdarcy]

@@drakeo2746 the park is so small and so awkwardly placed that a year of growth will make the tree too big. Especially in this climate, things grow really fast. It just has to grow like an extra foot lol. The park is 2 feet across. So it doesn't have to get big.

[@lsuperior]

"I don't know what these two states are, I've already forgot" So have we all

[@coyotelong4349]

Lmao

[@majesticdonuts0038]

@Chicky. Nuggys 😂😂😂😂😂 i agree 😂😂😂😂😭

[@cptmiller132]

I must have missed that part... when was that?

[@lilrunner4512]

@@cptmiller132 3:14

[@huntercwhite]

Good, we like it that way. Move along now - Tennessee

[@marcopolo2418]

In my experience the only thing separating states is road signs.

[@thepossum7055]

As an Alaskan I’m just happy to even be included in anything regarding the US....😂

[@baconatoromg6062]

Montana was just used as a plug for his merch :(

[@Llyrdriel]

Awwww 💖 We love Alaska!!

[@nicolas2229]

I’m from ak too hiiii

[@Yumevixen]

Hello my Alaskan peeps

[@paradoxxproductions4784]

@@baconatoromg6062 feels bad man /:

[@Hipster_Saturn]

I love when Europeans react to American positively. We need it right now.

[@Flayne009]

Truth. I wish we all had the attitude, objectiveness, and eagerness to learn as this guy.

[@Lilyjem39]

Yeah, it’s so annoying when Europeans go “haha Americans dumb and fat”. Neither areas deserve to be hated and generalize, I mean there are over 330 million Americans, you can’t say we’re ALL bad If you are a nice European, thanks, you’re appreciated :) If you are a generalizing European, please stop, it’s not funny :(

[@BigOleMatty]

why wouldn't they? we're fucking great

[@kirancox6123]

@@BigOleMatty so are they tho :)

[@mimii694]

I'm from the UK and I don't mind most Americans, but there are just some typical things some Americans do that bug some Europeans (e.g. the stereotypical American tourist, American humour). Otherwise, you guys are super chill, and I have a ton of American online friends who I've known for ages :)

[@2006glg]

He's making me interested in the country of my birth in a *positive* way again. I feel like I'm 10 years old again. This man is precious. Protect him at all costs.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

That reminds me of when Turning Point USA’s (Conservative, Inc.) scumbag RINO founder/president Charlie Kirk said: _“When these people say ‘America,’ they’re talking about something different than I’m talking about when I say ‘America.’ I have loyalty to ideas. Of course I love the Grand Canyon. I love the Rocky Mountains. And I love Boston. And I love Chicago. But if all that disappeared, if all I had was ideas, and we were on an island, that’s America. That’s lsræI. And that’s what people have to realize. America is just a placeholder for timeless ideas. And if you fall too in love with, oh, the specific place, and all this… that's not what it is.”_ He said right after that _”lsræI would be the exception. There is a holy connection to this land.”_ Pretty gross, eh? Can you imagine not being attached to our precious, most gorgeous _LAND!_ lsræIis are allowed to feel that it’s impossible to separate the Iand from it’s peopIe - they are allowed to think that it would be ludicrous for lsræI to exist anywhere else in the world outside of where exactly it is right now... but having the same type of thinking for us Americans is just absurd/ridiculous/preposterous to Charlie... God I hate him. I really do.

[@alyssas7751]

your name has 2006 in it... aren’t you only 13/14? 10 wasn’t that long ago 😂

[@Emerald-Fluffie]

I know, its so rare that I am actually made happy to live here, since everything else just focuses on the stereotypes and the government

[@spideyoclock]

alyssa s during 2020, everything feels like so long ago so i don’t blame him ahahah

[@Unknown_101_]

If you commit a crime while crossing states lines it automatically becomes a federal offense no matter what the state law is and each state doesn’t have any borders

[@westside4085]

The smallest park in the world part actually had me crying tears laughing dude

[@taylorholverson9704]

It’s for real. I live in Oregon and that’s 110% real. Love this crazy state!

[@fennelson5737]

Is it the itty bitty island in the middle of a road....with a tree?

[@brandontellis]

I live in Portland

[@iyokuzade]

I KEEP REPLAYING IT ITS MY FAVORITE BIT

[@mrcrazyvid1]

@@taylorholverson9704 nah oregon is trash

[@PhantomSavage]

Think of the United States less like a solitary superpower like Russia and more Europe, but twice the size, everyone speaks mostly one language, and everyone has kind of agreed to yield power to one governing body.... mostly... under the understanding they won't misbehave.... again..

[@DDChorror]

The US isn't twice the size of Europe

[@zhoncinema]

@Crow Jackson yes it is tho

[@goombah_]

@@zhoncinema US - 3.797 million square mi Europe - 3.931 million square mi

[@huggie74]

@@goombah_ That European figure includes Russia

[@alquinn8576]

@@goombah_ Europe - Russia = 2.4M mi^2

[@tysquii1914]

As an American. I actually learned a lot from this.

[@inujosha]

I actually live in Louisiana and have travel that long ass bridge many many many times. Before you go over it you had better make sure that there are no problems with your car and you have plenty of gas because there are often wrecks on the bridge which will keep you idle in your car for no less than 2 hours.

[@LegoCT_]

One time I was on the bridge and a car completely flew off the bridge and the people in it died, it took the cops a while to get there though because it was halfway through the bridge

[@inujosha]

@@LegoCT_ That's sad to hear but yeah that's why its bad because emergency services can't get by

[@spid3rmike117]

I live in Baton Rouge and I can attest that bridge fucking sucks

[@ImGazu]

Texas is so goddamn massive that you can drive for 3 days straight and still be in Texas

[@SynnJynn]

Hmmm. We've done it in less. From McAllen TX to Idaho... 1 day and a half ^-^but yes it takes hours to get anywhere.

[@lidsss]

@@SynnJynn it was a joke.

[@echo5226]

Definitely. Drove from Flagstaff AZ to Houston TX one time. Seemed like it went on forever. It's huge! Had to spend the night in Austin, kept going the next day.

[@ddot879]

Sounds like Cali to me

[@leahgarcia]

driving from austin to austin feels like forever

[@seeing8spots]

As an American even i forget jsut how big the USA is compared to Europe so seeing it through fresh eyes is fun lol. I live in Oklahoma where apparently we have the longest us mail route lol. As for the laws by the way, you're both right and wrong. There are crimes that are pursued on a federal level and crimes that you kinda.. escape if you leave the state. And there's crimes that become federal if you do it in multiple states. Moving from state to state is nothing of now, its basically a sign on the highway that says "now entering X state" lol

[@crazy4orlando2]

Those signs are only on major highways. There are plenty of places you can cross state lines and have no idea if you're not familiar with the area.

[@maxbennett2596]

i live in oklahoma too and it is such a beautiful state

[@ImplacableInsanity]

Hello fellow Okie!

[@saran.4001]

The pot handle state!

[@shahjahanmatin9340]

The US is actually slightly smaller than Europe but just shows how big the US actually is.

[@KurtAnderson812]

People don’t really realize how big America is. The distance from San Francisco (where I live) to Maine is 4,400 kilometers. Basically the same as from London to Nairobi

[@Subiwu]

Well from london to nairobi kenya, its 4400 miles, the length of the us is 2700 miles, a more accurate comparison would be from london to southeast canada/northeast US

[@tomk4484]

Alaska by itself is another 2500 miles west to east... so including Alaska’s size you get to 5200 miles

[@Kylesb]

I live in the middle of the US; driving down to the tip of Louisiana or over to Cape Cod takes roughly 24 hours if you drive straight with no breaks in between. Suffice to say, the US is big

[@artsysabs]

@@Kylesb yep my closest journey to that is NY to FL... ugh sitting the car for so long sucks

[@emPtysp4ce]

In Ocean City, MD where Route 50 starts on the eastern terminus at the Atlantic Ocean, there's a sign as you start driving west that says "Sacramento 3073." Likewise, at Baltimore where I-70 starts, there's a sign that reads "Columbus 420, St Louis 845, Denver 1700, Cove Fort 2200" and Cove Fort isn't even in California. That's why we measure distance in units of time here

[@colinmeyer3678]

the fact that he is so interested in the video makes it so much better

[@Oddity2994]

I like how burger king basically got a restraining order on Burger King

[@davidkaminski615]

In the neighboring town to Burger King is the first store for Jimmy Johns.

[@MyNameIsBucket]

@@davidkaminski615 Who tried to sue a hot dog shack near where I live, but again, our Jimmy John's came first.

[@derdin8]

@Floofy Chill - The same situation happened where I live in New Mexico. We already had a restaurant called "The Cheesecake Factory", and it sued to keep the national chain out for years. The original owners finally settled and we got our new installment about 4 years ago - I hope they made out like bandits!

[@k-leb4671]

Burger King had it easy in Illinois. Over in Australia, they were forced to change their name before they could operate, rather than just stay over away from one restaurant. Apparently "Burger King" was already bloody trademarked across the country by a single store.

[@k-leb4671]

@@derdin8 Well hopefully they were offered more than $10,000 at least, which is the laughable amount that Burger King Corp once offered to the Hoots' to open a store near their Burger King.

[@buttercup141312]

I’m American and didn’t know like 92% of this shit. Our country is more wild than I thought.

[@itsbeyondme5560]

same

[@kendallcadence2163]

@@wolfpack8643 No American knows even half of these facts

[@billybob4159]

@@wolfpack8643 that’s true Lmao I learned more here than all of history class last year

[@RedYankee45]

@@wolfpack8643 so... all of these are just fun facts and don’t really matter if you know them and don’t have really any reason to be taught in school and what I’m about to say, you can complain, argue and let the salt flow but I know for a FACT that you don’t know everything about your country so... yeah, deal with it 😊

[@buttercup141312]

@@wolfpack8643 These are literally a bunch of “fun facts” that don’t need to be taught in school. It’s some shit you would say at a party to impress your friends or something. It’s interesting but not essential to American education. There are fair more important thing that we failed to learn in school besides “Alaska, Hawaii, and Vermont are the only states that ban outdoor billboards.” Lmao who cares? It’s not enhancing my life nor increasing my ability to get a job by knowing any of this. Plus most of us will forget majority of this info anyway.

[@ZOKKYBOI]

"that's like half of England" Texas: laughs in 'Merican

[@randlebrowne2048]

More like: American laughs in Texan :o)

[@darknessofevil117]

Alaska: Laughs in Russian and Eskimo

[@Tirryna]

@@darknessofevil117 *Inuit. Only until my mom moved to Alaska that we found out the Natives are the Inuit and take the term "Eskimo" as being derogatory...I need to look into why

[@ihavenocommonsensebut2008]

@@darknessofevil117 Texas: laughs in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio😂💀

[@thesanfranciscoseahorse473]

To your question about laws in different states, think of the U.S. as like all of Europe as one country with different European countries being different U.S. states with different laws. Whats legal in Germany might not be legal in France or Romania, but they have roughly similar laws all around. With a few bigger exceptions here and there. If its road laws for things like car regulations, they tend to be more lenient on people just traveling through of you're from another state but not living there.

[@lydiamarie9855]

The reason Alaska isn't the least populated is because it's HUGE you can fit the least populated state Wyoming into Alaska 7 times

[@cowboycurtis2229]

As a Brit, you may appreciate this: In Virginia, there is a full-scale replica of Stonehenge... made entirely out of styrofoam. It's called Foamhenge.

[@Brimstone-Gaming]

there's one in Washington too, next to Oregon. you can see it from I-84 in Oregon

[@TXejas19]

that's entirely too cute. I just looked it up and it's been moved.

[@Y2k2454]

There's one made out of old cars in Nebraska called Carhenge.

[@emiliarendrag105]

@@Brimstone-Gaming Yes I've been there! It made realize just how huge stone henge is lol

[@Brimstone-Gaming]

@@Y2k2454 Texas has one too

[@yaboi_LGK]

There is absolutely a "Kansas City, Kansas and a "Kansas City, Missouri" and they are separated by the state line. There is a point where you can stand both in Missouri and Kansas at the same time while never leaving Kansas City lmao

[@shithead7841]

Isnt that a part in 2 lanes in a road?

[@ghostlaboratory1683]

Yes, but technically Missouri still owns both KCK and KCMO. Weird, but that’s just how it is.

[@matthewcollins4157]

There is also St. Louis on the other side that is mostly in Missouri and partly in Illinois. Missouri can't seem to keep their cities within their own State for some reason.

[@bmasonia7634]

Don’t forget the 4 corners where you can have a hand/foot in 4 different states at once!

[@angelasands1643]

And this video showed Kansas City in the wrong spot.

[@Melissanartie]

Popped up in my recommendeds and made my day, as an American seeing positivity about our country right now was fantastic thank you

[@wandas-wand3966]

ikr like sometimes i’m like “being an american is cool! oh wait 😃 this sucks! 😃”

[@wildmoonchild8210]

americans: stressed and sad americans when we see this vid: 🥺❤

[@v06261]

Literally same lmfao. The US sucks because of the people leading it but I can’t deny that it has beautiful places

[@charlottefaye86]

There are so many amazing sights I want to see one day. I’m British so there isn’t as many amazing things. The monuments in America sound amazing

[@livorourke2369]

ikr his attitude towards the US reminds me of how amazing it can be when you remove the toxic politics

[@cadenchase3112]

if you're in NJ and are driving the speed limit... speed up you're going too slow

[@Raine_Water]

exactly, its just a suggestion at this point

[@jamesedwards2483]

The Statement About Kansas City Is WRONG. There Are TWO Kansas City's: Kansas City, Kansas; And Kansas City Missouri.

[@cripwalker665]

The poison for kuzco, kuzco's poison

[@3beltwesty]

And beer was buyable at age 18 in Kansas city Kansas but 21 In Kansas city Missouri when I went to Park College in Parkville Missouri

[@Anthony_Marquis]

Pretty sure we have a Kansas City, Montana... Or was it Virginia City?

[@neolithiumproduction]

To be honest...a LOT of states have some really strange named towns and cities. xD Like Why, Arizona...Accident, Maryland...etc... xD

[@scotthersey4380]

Kansas City, Kansas is a myth. Some people claim to have been there, but their stories always fall apart.

[@TheGLORY13]

Capitals of States aren't typically the most "famous" city. Most people when they think Pennsylvania go for Pittsburgh/Philadelphia as the first city they think of, the capital however is Harrisburg (basically in the middle of the country) I'd say probably half the state capitals aren't the "famous or even biggest" city of a state that most people would know if they happened to have heard of the state.

[@thewitchbasket]

Yep. Same in Maine. Capital is Augusta but everyone knows Portland.

[@dylan-tc9sg]

@@thewitchbasket nah bro nobody knows portland maine....

[@coyotelong4349]

@@thewitchbasket Actually as an Arizonan, growing up I was always familiar with Augusta as your state capital... I’d never heard of Portland, ME actually 😂

[@The0Minecraftian]

Yeah it might come as a surprise to some that Detroit isn't actually the capital of Michigan. It's Lansing.

[@ianrotheroe2540]

Olympia Washington isn’t in the center as well, not Seattle

[@0wenboss753]

In your borders question you would just be sentenced and trailed in the state you committed the crime in and you don’t need a passport to go to another state

[@Fatblue246]

that is gonna change tho with Real ID, at least on planes. You will be required to bring a passport to take domestic flights now if you don't have an upgraded driver's license.

[@malcolmdrake6137]

Unless you went back across and failed to appear in court. They aren't likely to extradite someone for a misdemeanor, courts can't afford it.

[@matthewflesher3438]

The issue is the mississippi river, which is the border, has moved. So what state would u be in?

[@solomongabert6776]

The cops from both states flip a coin and whoever loses has to do the paperwork and investigate the crime 😂

[@maurer3d]

And our boarders are unmarked, with the exception of signs on roads and natural barriers (with the exception of ones that have moved dew to erosion)

[@lucasevans2167]

To Answer your question. no there are not fences between states. Usually just a Sign saying Welcome to whatever state you are entering. But There are different laws in different states. and If you commit a crime that is ill-legal in one state but not in the state you are living in it is still ill=legal. But plenty of the sillier laws aren't commonly enforced.

[@WJones-jf8mf]

People really underestimate how large the US is. Every single state is like it’s own country. Regional foods, accents, laws, terrain, weather, homes, ethnicities. That’s why it’s so offensive when people categorize us as one. We’re so vastly different.

[@Kylesb]

*Europe has entered the chat*

[@mysonandme8424]

@@Kylesb Europe isn't a country.

[@Kylesb]

@@mysonandme8424 Yep, I’m aware. By comparison, Europe, though not a country, is a bit the same on a base level-some people do conflate Europe as “a big country”, so I’m sure citizens from their respective countries in Europe would think along the same lines-“we have different foods, laws, terrain, weather, etc.”-is what I was trying to get at 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@xheralt]

But....but... _E Pluribus, Unum!_

[@hoepatrol3361]

This is so true! I live in the Midwest and was surprised to find tht toasted ravs wasnt a thing all over the country. Edit: for clarification i meant toasted ravioli and its a dish mainly in the Missouri/Illinois area since it was created in St. Louis. I'm pretty sure u can find it throughout the Midwest tho, but don't quote me on tht.

[@Standingcrown]

"golf carts? that's so sick!" me: A European being envious of America. This is a new feeling.

[@malikes4591]

Don’t worry, tbh if kids drive other kids in golf carts they’d probably run each other over. So I’m not sure that would be too exciting.

[@DelaHorror]

Trust me dude its cool but my cousins live in Georgia and they be sending me snaps of them running into each other golf carts its like giving a baby a new toy😂

[@alyssaramirez1024]

I'm an American and I'm envious too. 😂 I'm not from Georgia so I can't drive a golf cart to school.

[@tim6454]

The grass is always greener on the other side

[@ranasiaclark8030]

@@alyssaramirez1024 I’m from Georgia and I never drove to school using a golf cart. 😯 never knew that

[@ajm5007]

American attorney here: Determining the location where a crime took place is sometimes a major issue in court cases in the U.S. for exactly the reason you highlight. For example, some States have the death penalty and others don't, so if someone from a death penalty state were to be murdered, and the remains found in a non-death penalty state, it's very important to know in which state the actual murder was committed because that can seriously affect the defendant's possible punishments. Also, every criminal defendant has a right to tried IN THE STATE where the alleged crime was committed, and so that must be determined in order for a trial to proceed. There have been cases in which it took hours of legal arguments over the course of weeks or months just to decide this kind of jurisdictional issue.

[@memesterjohnson1402]

Wow. 😯

[@danielmulyadi8237]

In these sorts of cases, do the litigants and defendant get tried in a federal court since it involves more than one state?

[@ajm5007]

@@danielmulyadi8237 It depends. Criminal cases are pretty much only heard in federal court if the law broken was uniquely a federal law (like counterfeiting or espionage), or if the crime took place on federal land (like a National Park). In the example I gave, where a murder victim from one state is found in another, that would likely be handled in state court. Probably the charges would be filed in the state where the body was found, but if evidence indicated the murder had actually taken place elsewhere, then the case would be removed to that jurisdiction. In the case of civil suits, yes, if the parties are from different states, that's handled in federal court.

[@keepinmahprivacy9754]

It was also common practice back in the days of dueling to hold a duel on a state border, since dueling was illegal, to make it more difficult for anyone to be prosecuted for doing it. If a river was designated as a border between states, then you might hold a duel on an island in the middle of the river. After the duel your lawyer had a ready made argument that whichever state tried to charge you with murder was the wrong jurisdiction.

[@noneya6000]

Correct me if I’m wrong but they can only extradite you from another state if you commit a felony. For example I live in Kentucky right next to the Kentucky/Ohio border. If I commit a class d Misdemeanour in Ohio like loitering then left. Ohio can’t come across state lines to get me. I was going to to college for criminal just and have a couple of classes under my belt. I remember it was something to that effect. Because its a petty crime.

[@juliazackary8244]

I love how respectful and genuinely interested this guy is, while remaining funny!

[@jacksonbeyer8093]

So Kansas City is actually in both Kansas and Missouri but all the sports teams in the city are in Missouri

[@M_u_t_e96024]

as someone from Missouri its clearly the better part of KC 2

[@bryanmyers5620]

Sporting Kansas City (soccer) is in both. Administration in KCMO and the stadium in KCK.

[@zachstory4708]

Basically KCMO is half-city half-neighborhoods while KCK is half-neighborhoods half-factories.

[@MidnightHedgehog365]

To be more precise KCMO is all the big businesses and entertainment hub with power and light district, Sprint Center, country club plaza, ect. KCK is mostly residential with small business and fairfax industrial district. KCMO has the two big sporting arenas for the Chief's (football) and Royal's (MLB). KCK has the arenas for Sporting KC (soccer), the speedway (NASCAR), and T-bones (hometown baseball team). Most people live in Kansas and work in Missouri. Most government statements are handled by county and not state. Yes Missouri has different laws that apply to only the Missouri half as the same for Kansas but locally all mandates are handled on the county level that encapsulates the 5 counties that make up the metropolitan area.

[@johncary4302]

@@M_u_t_e96024 But the KCK suburbs are better.

[@mattbarnett7985]

As an American this makes me realize how much we look right over these things haha

[@theangelface999]

And ever since, Washington State residents have had to specify "No, the state, not D.C."

[@kenzij]

Yeah. I, despite being a person on the other side of the country, find it so unfair that Washington state residents have to qualify their home that I insist anyone talking to me qualify that they're referring to the capital. Put simply, if someone says "I was in Washington" I say "You were on the west coast?" (or something like that) if I feel like being smart; or I say "State or D.C.?". If we're going to make the people talking about the state say extra we're going to make people talking about the district say extra too. (My family in particular think I'm annoying)

[@ShanaLawson]

I spent one year in Washington and it’s f*cking amazing! I think the fact people “forget about Washington” is a plus. Keeps people out lol

[@MK-hu7zk]

@@kenzij like why did DC have to make their nickname Washington why not Columbia? I’ll never understand it. My cousins even forget it sometimes (they live in CT)

[@isaiah4600]

@@ShanaLawson I have relatives there and wanted to visit but it was cold season and they like to hunt and camp.

[@Dezbome]

So im from the west coast and we just call washington. And DC is dc. I came to the east and everyone kept saying washington state??... and i was like yeah what other one do you know of?

[@calebwaller730]

I love how genuine and curious this man is. I love to watch him

[@megbarry9808]

I love how I thought this was going to be like regular fun facts about each state but turned out to be random strange shit that I knew nothing about but loved learning 😂

[@randommindz6782]

British Guy: This is insane! American : IKR?

[@technicaldifficulties8648]

America has three levels of law: local, state, and federal. Yes states have different laws from each other but the federal law is the whole country. So for example if I followed the law of the state but not of federal, I would be sent to federal court and vice versa. Local law is law that is in the local town or city that u live in.

[@victorious0001]

In other words you have to look up the law state v state because saying you didn't know isn't an excuse.

[@kaspeezook2675]

To top it off, federal and state laws often contradict each other 😎

[@victorious0001]

@@kaspeezook2675 "I'm confused to be an American, but at least I know I'm free.... "

[@Xaevierr44]

When he rewinded back to see the park again I died laughing wit him. I’m American and I didn’t even know that

[@jamesstewart9975]

To answer the question about breaking the law along the river: let’s say a crime was committed and a body was found. Whoever finds the body will need to determine jurisdiction. Jurisdiction is an area of which you are responsible for. City police have jurisdiction over the city, while county sheriff’s deputies have jurisdiction over the county, to include every city inside the county, while state police have jurisdiction over the entire state, and every county within the state. Federal police have jurisdiction anywhere on federal land. Now, if a body was found, first they determine which state the body was found in. Let’s say it’s found on the Kentucky side of the river. Since it’s not in a city, the police that will investigate will be the county sheriffs office. The county sheriffs can always call in the FBI for assistance. If the criminal lives in another state, then the federal police (FBI) will be granted a warrant which is permission signed by a judge who has jurisdiction over both states who allows the federal police to execute a warrant which means they will send police to go arrest the criminal even if they are in another state. America is a country that has 50 states, but all the states work very well with each other. Each state is divided so to simply represent the people who live there. As people from around the world know, people like to live different lifestyles. It’s the same in America. People enjoy different things. So creating states makes more sense because the people in each state can have their own laws which allow them to live the lifestyle they want to live. For example, in California, you can’t have guns outside your home. But in Tennessee, people like guns. People in Tennessee carry guns to the store just because it’s cool. While many People in California have never even seen a gun.

[@patriotgrandma7970]

Yup that pretty much sums it up LOL

[@Treniti]

Dang you published by New York Times or something?

[@rawyin]

It should be noted federal authorities do have authority outside of federal lands where a federal crime has been committed. This is the case for Yellowstone. You can't actually get away with murder there. It would be prosecuted as a federal crime if the state couldn't handle it.

[@kylaluv8453]

Also, we have Federal Laws which encompass the whole of the US. Then State laws which are state specific, county laws and then city laws. So minimum wage is set at the Federal level. But each state can set a higher minimum wage. And even some cities set an even higher wage. My state voted in allowing fireworks but most cities banned them. Alcohol is legal at the federal level but you can still find dry counties on cities. My favorite is day light savings. I live in the only State that doesnt observe it, but the Navajo Reservation in our State does. Which brings up the fact Native Americab Reservations make their own laws. But I would say 90-95% of all laws are the same everywhere. It isnt like, you cross the boarder and suddenly it is legal to run people over with your car. The differences are small. Like 5 yrs for stealing vs 8 yrs, or at what level is considered too drunk to drive. My state is a u-turn all you want unless there is a no u-turn sign. Another state would be u-turn only where designated.

[@rawyin]

@@kylaluv8453 Oh dear god you want to explode his head lets talk Native American legal system. The reservations are sovereign territory but they are also subject to US federal law based on treaties. Very messy. But county and city "laws" (usually called ordinances) are subject to state law, and some state law is subject to federal law. But yeah this is constitutional law in the US where the constitution determines what control the federal government has over the states but all other laws are deferred to the states to decide. I once asked a woman on the res who was a lawyer about some of the nuances of reservation law. She told me about a situation where the local PD pursuit ended at the res. They had the plate and the reservation cops came out, met them, and then escorted them to the house. When they got there, they walked up to the front door, kicked it in, walked in and grabbed the guy, threw him in their car, drove him off the res and handed him over to the local PD. No warrant. No nonsense. Law on the reservation is different.

[@kennanleis9093]

13:55 I've been on this bridge. It's legitimately scary when you're in the middle. It's like being in a boat, out at seas with only water around you, except you're in a car on a bridge. Such a weird feeling.

[@Wyattjohnson13]

Same. I live in Baton Rouge and every time I go to New Orleans I go over it. It’s pretty cool.

[@scabbedwings6548]

Yes. You have to be careful going over the bridge. Don't want to be one of the misfortunate people whose car goes over the railing. I've never been scared to drive/ride over bridges until I had to go over two bridges in Louisiana. One is the one in the video (Causeway Bridge) and the other was the Huey P. Long bridge until it was renovated.

[@Wyattjohnson13]

@@scabbedwings6548 yeah the original Huey p long bridge was scary. My 6th grade English teachers dad got in an accident on the bridge and his car was literally hanging halfway off of the bridge. Terrifying stuff.

[@sarahcoleman5269]

I used to live just north of New Orleans. I've been going over that bridge since I was a wee tot. I never really thought about how easy it would be to accidentally go over the rails until I was a grown person visiting family there.

[@missingnola3823]

@@scabbedwings6548 I grew up in Metairie, know both of these bridges well (at least, the pre-renovation version of the Huey). The Causeway is kind of cool and fun, provided the traffic is light and the weather is nice. They actually close the bridge for bad weather or heavy fog, and I recall times where the cops would caravan cars across in groups. The bridge has it's own police detail. The Huey was another thing entirely - way high up, no shoulder, two narrow lanes, and a thin steel grill separating you from the edge. Not only that, there is a train bridge in the middle. Those rare times being stopped on top of the Huey in traffic while a loaded freight train comes through - now that is scary - you're sitting in a car way above the Mississippi river on a bridge that is shaking like mad... white knuckle time!

[@heatherjasper97]

When your state is so boring, the only interesting fact about it is that it has the geographical center for the continental states.

[@enchantedgamer9428]

Dw, our river just flew backwards here

[@funwithakthechannelwherean4510]

Dw, all we're known for is that we have a point where were farthest from a mcdonalds lmao

[@sbond7510]

Try being from Maryland. We never get any love

[@sayonara288]

@@sbond7510 facts,atleast there's another marylander here

[@Vy-gu6nh]

@@sbond7510 bro same it's actually so depressing 😔😔✋

[@annapowell9203]

The "border" between Wyoming and Montana is literally a sign on a road. Also, for crime, you can be arrested across state lines, however, I'm not entirely sure of the workings. I believe there is somewhat of a threshold to the level of crime committed. I am not as well informed as I should be. Also, as a Wyoming resident, I wanted to throw out there that there are only about 570,000 residents here as of the time of this comment. Also, I know of multiple towns of 3 people in Wyoming, so not sure about that smallest town fact...

[@tucker5993]

the border between most states is a sign on the highway

[@ell.ieliii]

Here is a fun fact: The U.S doesn't technically have a national language (for example French is France's national language and Spanish is Spain's national language. Though most people speak english, the country is so diverse that there is no one assigned language in the country and some states have bilingual laws.

[@vos1329]

i recently learned that there are more spanish speakers here than english speakers and i thought it was interesting :) i don’t know the numbers, but english isn’t the most popular (for lack of a better word) language in the us and i think that’s pretty cool.

[@ell.ieliii]

@Tom it actually isn't, I wouldn't have wrote it and added it as a comment if it weren't true...

[@promontorium]

Diversity and the fact that we're a federation and the U.S. government was never supposed to dictate minutiae like that. Though as our federal government has grown more centralized, the nation has grown with more languages. At the founding there were German speakers, French speakers, and a few others but English was pretty much universal and the concept of an "official language" was moot. To be sure there were hundreds of native and introduced languages being spoken, America just didn't recognize those people as citizens or people.

[@crazysanta6641]

@@vos1329 that’s not true

[@Mel_ForReal]

Just a side note... there is a Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Same City split by the state lines.

[@matthewcall3961]

They’re separate cities, not one.

[@bigred3164]

Or Texarkana?

[@tmac731]

Springfield, Illinois Springfield, Mo

[@KB-ke3fi]

@@bigred3164 ...3 states, lol. Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana

[@thatguy8515]

@@matthewcall3961 That all depends on how you define "city." If you mean a municipality, then of course it's two separate cities as they lie within two separate states. If you mean metropolitan area, it's one big city. If you want to fly to KC, MO, you land at the KC airport in Kansas, then drive across the bridge into Missouri.

[@Squirrel1521]

You would probably really enjoy the show "How the States Got Their Shapes" it's a show that was on the History Channel.

[@10thletter40]

Yeah I liked watching that so much

[@clcarroll08]

My husband i loved watching that! Great show to react to

[@MyNameIsBucket]

Stephen Fry also did a great series touring the US. Another one to react to.

[@JoshMorgantheNinja]

Does anyone else here wish that the History Channel would show actual history again instead of the reality shows that is on the channel nowadays?

[@10thletter40]

@@JoshMorgantheNinja 100% I wish a lot more TV was as good as that.

[@linisnotreal1120]

this guy is super charismatic. like most reaction videos are so subpar but he truly made this video his own

[@lilypolzin6162]

I live in Wisconsin and I have been on the waiting list for Packers season tickets since I was born. I’m 15 and I still have a couple hundred thousand people in front of me

[@chichan4461]

👁👄👁 wh- im from California and my library gives away free Raiders tickets when you do a summer reading challenge.

[@lilypolzin6162]

@@chichan4461 wow yeah here you have a better chance inheriting your parent’s tickets when they die than actually getting your own

[@MustacheDLuffy]

I find that insane, i thought it’d take a decade or two but this makes it seem like it’s going to happen never As a bears fan I don’t care as much lol

[@MustacheDLuffy]

@@chichan4461 aren’t they in Las Vegas now? Btw those are tickets. Being a season ticket holder means you have access to every Home raiders game and can sell the tickets if you’ve reserved extra

[@chichan4461]

@@MustacheDLuffy ohhhh thats what season tickets mean? Thats crazyyy. Yeah the free Raiders ones I got were just for a Raiders game.

[@kiearnhorne9382]

Main reason Alaska has a decent population is because our government will literally pay you to live there

[@scarymanatees]

Lmao as a life long Alaskan... that’s not at all how it works

[@kiearnhorne9382]

@@scarymanatees Alaska runs a program called the Alaska Permanent Fund, which, per the state website, allots an equal amount of the state's oil royalties to every resident through an annual dividend. In 2018, that dividend came out to $1,600 per person

[@egghead3812]

I lived there for five years and received dividends💪 I want to go back though, it’s beautiful.

[@kellinnormal1286]

and there's lots of oil/fishing jobs

[@scarymanatees]

@@kiearnhorne9382 exactly, it’s not “the government paying you to live here” and you have to be a resident for more then 2 years to even qualify

[@musicalcrazedunicorn1460]

I can’t believe they left out that one cat that was mayor of Alaska, such a waste

[@what.are.you.doing.stepbro]

Whaat? I need to know more please reply

[@v06261]

WHAT ABOUT THE DOG THAT BECAME MAYOR OF CORMORANT, MINNESOTA?

[@v06261]

@@what.are.you.doing.stepbro A dog also ran in an election and became mayor of a city called Cormorant in Minnesota

[@musicalcrazedunicorn1460]

@@what.are.you.doing.stepbro there was a cat who was mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska from 1997 until 2017 when it died, and its name was Mayor Stubbs... I honestly don’t know how they let that happen but it’s freaking amazing

[@da.bean.dory2]

Again I'm from the US why didn't I know this ?!?!? :D

[@kc_oriordan44]

Lol he’s so amazed but like most of us Americans only knew like 1% of info from the video

[@bobbodaskank]

1%, meaning everyone knew half of one fact about their own state. Sounds about right.

[@HotRod-imus]

“It just makes the England seem so boring...so boring” Everyone in the US: “I want to go to visit England” Lol

[@spiderhedge9884]

New England chillin

[@k-leb4671]

I miss the UK...

[@chandlerwhite8302]

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, right? 😀😀😀

[@HotRod-imus]

@@chandlerwhite8302 That is very true lol. I would love to visit. its on my bucket list. I want to do a big trip of Scotland Ireland and England

[@HotRod-imus]

@Idk Idk a lot of people i know do

[@Emma88178]

I like that we have different accents depending on the state. Lol

[@TombRaiderSyd]

In the UK our accent changes every 20 mins drive.

[@sylviayoung1901]

I'm pretty darn good at recognizing each state's accent. So funny how each are indeed different and the accents even differ from within different area's of the state itself! I so love my country and so hate our government...both sides suck...period.

[@KB-ke3fi]

@@TombRaiderSyd this is true.

[@sylviayoung1901]

@@TombRaiderSyd giggle!

[@nwcoastlife]

Sometimes within states! People in Eastern Washington sound a lot like people from Montana (Western accent with a slight twang). People in the Puget Sound region almost sound like people from Western Canada.

[@TheDoctorfat]

Fun fact, Arizona is home to the London Bridge! The one in London today is a copy, because the originally was sinking, and so someone bought it, and brought it to Arizona

[@malorie8557]

His name was McCulloch. Not going to lie, when I went to Lake Havasu I was underwhelmed by not only the bridge (still cool to ride/boat underneath it) but also the city. To me, it just seemed lost in the 90's. Lake Havasu could be amazing IMO. So much potential. I even stayed on the water. I will say though Pirates Cove was pretty cool. But I believe that crosses the California border.

[@kylaluv8453]

And you can still see the bullet holes from the WW2 blitz bombing in London.

[@TheRiehlThing42]

Fun fact, there have been multiple London Bridges at that location. The one bought by McCulloch was probably at least the 7th or later bridge built at that location.

[@marindebolt5934]

I’m from texas and it’s so huge driving across just my town takes like 2 hours and it’s just a subsection of Houston.

[@terryrodriguez6209]

I lived in Houston in the 80’s and it took me 35 mins to drive 4 miles on the freeway to get to work.

[@1145223bena]

Can confirm the Packers thing, my grandpa had to wait 32 years and now my mom and her siblings share two tickets

[@zipjay]

3:35 There's no physical barriers between states. Some have rivers separating them though.

[@ATinyWaffle]

There's actually two cities called Kansas City. Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. They are connected, but straddle the Kansas-Missouri border. Kansas City, Missouri is the larger city with most of the downtown buildings and night life.

[@thuylinhlam8841]

That’s why people call it KCMO(Kansas city, Missouri) or KCK (Kansas city, Kansas)

[@sarahmorris4575]

Yeah a bunch of my family lives there it was cool to see it mentioned

[@lilmyster1]

Just recently found your channel, going back and watching all of these. Fun fact in Wisconsin, there's part of a highway listed in the US that is only available in the winter...HWY 13 Ice Road to Madeline Island.

[@anthonylong9067]

Im american and each state is essentially like its own country. Im from California but i’ve been to other states like Tennessee. It’s a culture shock

[@anthonylong9067]

@Maiden Minnesota i have lived in germany and spent time in spain as well. Tfym

[@AmbyJeans]

I’m from California and had a culture shock in Tennessee too 😂

[@AmbyJeans]

@Maiden Minnesota Honestly, I felt more at home in the UK than I did in Kentucky or Tennessee. I went to the UK before those states and it really didn’t feel like that much of a culture shock compared to the other side of my own country.

[@feliciabull6838]

@@AmbyJeans l live in Tennessee, what part did you visit?

[@amandagiannini3503]

I am from Ohio and now live in Washington the culture shock is real

[@Becky.Ray14]

Commuting a crime across state lines immediately makes it a federal case, and can kick your crime over to the FBI and then youre in a WHOOOOLLLE lot more trouble. "... when that crime crosses state lines, it becomes a multi-state matter. ... This typically elevates it to a federal crime instead of the same crime being tried in both states. However, if you commit separate crimes in different states, it will usually remain on a state level." Also...from Alaska here, its quite hot in the summers there because the sun doesnt set so its not just only cold, its also hot.

[@obake6290]

That's actually an interesting tidbit about Alaska. Would've figured it was cold all year round. Define hot though... relative terms like that vary a lot between people and locations. Some seem to think 70 is hot for example, while most people around Kansas would call that a moderate, comfortable temperature.

[@Becky.Ray14]

Thats true. This year Alaska had a record breaking summer and was very hot. Some cities reporting temperatures well into the 90s. On top of that the sun doesnt set...so youre just in it, but the air is cooler, its not humid. lol. I like to tell people to think of Alaska like Norway/Canada. Im from south east Alaska where the weather on both sides of the specturm is a lot more moderate and is comparable to Seattle weather. more rain based.

[@TheGLORY13]

In terms of "borders" You can drive/walk what have you into any state you so desire nothing is stopping you. There's a few places where borders are a bit weird but that's more of an issue for Drivers Licenses/Mail etc. I believe there is one town in which part of it surrounded by another town/county for some reason and they have 1 registration while living the middle of another area.

[@imweakfordeaky]

In Ohio, the City of Norwood is completely surrounded on all sides by the City of Cincinnati .

[@chingchilla6777]

You talking about Washington DC & Maryland/Virginia?

[@VeritasMiles]

@@imweakfordeaky The problem with Norwood is that everything goes wide to the right. HA.

[@destinycircle8192]

Well, the city of Hamtramk, Michigan is completely surrounded by the city of Detroit.