British Marine Reacts To Every State in the US

[@RyanForrest1664]

Anyone else love the states?

[@mystikarain]

Also I know I am late to the party but I must remind people of the The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg as well.

[@countrytownify]

You should watch a video on the fire burning since the 60s. It started because the town was burning trash in an old coal mine, which caught a vein of coal on fire.

[@mystikarain]

@@countrytownify Agreed! Some coal veins are on the surface or very near it here in Pennsylvania!

[@tdub102]

yes. since i live in one (va)

[@negativeiamameatpopsicle1303]

What the hell are we supposed to do with you?

[@daemeonx]

Alaska doesn't have billboards as they are eyesores and we would rather tourists and vacationers see the natural beauty that is around.

[@TheBasher-_-]

TBF I love a good billboard 😂 especially the Chic-Fil-A cow ones! 😂 Hilarious.

[@blackbaxter1]

Billboards really threw me when I left Alaska. Having never really seen them, they were really distracting haha.

[@raysprad404]

@@blackbaxter1 Stay out of Georgia then lol

[@SeanShimamoto]

@Lady Seashell Bikini Hey, my fellow Kama’āina already represented us! Good job, LSB! 😘🤙🏽 And yeah, I used to live in Lon Angeles, and there were so many instances where the light would turn green, and the person in front of me would be looking at all of the billboards. I used to lived off of Sunset Blvd.

[@blackbaxter1]

@@raysprad404 been there. Was stationed in Alabama for awhile. Beautiful state, Georgia.

[@sabriellelunin9291]

Are you kidding me, they didn't even tell you the best part about the tiny park in Portland Oregon, it is literally just that tree and a square foot around it and it is owned by the tree!

[@finnoneal432]

right?? I was so disappointed

[@ramborittenhouse1stblood876]

[@driftingdruid]

the Junimos approve of that tree's rights to own its own land !!

[@fightingfalconfan]

As usual...us Oregonians only get a two second blip. But we are huge in culture/art. Oh and the Trail Blazers!

[@brycegaudette5916]

“New Mexico is typically the last state to vote in elections” Bruh what about our #1 Vehicle Thefts in the nation?!

[@julianruiz456]

Watching a foreigner watch stuff about the U.S.A makes me appreciate and love this country more thanks commando

[@aniketsharma6766]

Bro u are living in USA.....what else you want in life🙃🙃??? Don't you feel lucky??

[@thelegacyshow4248]

@@aniketsharma6766 well, idk but it is nice to se a foreigner appreciate our nation much more than some who were born in the place. Ya get me?

[@aauwhatitdo1582]

@@aniketsharma6766 yeah, it also makes me respect my brothers in Britain more. I've been trying to reciprocate and learn about the UK. I served with commandos while in MARSOC and they were a hoot and Haller to be around, no one more fun and relatable.

[@junipertoby1812]

@@thelegacyshow4248 I have to agree !

[@michaelo5665]

This is why I laugh inside whenever anyone tries to make a generalized statement about Americans. I think it also explains a lot about our worldview. We can live our entire lives traveling more than most Europeans and never visit another country.

[@rexmann1984]

And that's also why we have the lowest per Capita passport issuance of any country

[@johnsaia9739]

@@rexmann1984 Correct, while I have gone to other countries with a passport, except for ancient ruins or 1000 year old castles, we have every type of climate and scenery here in the United States. If it is too cold, drive down to Florida, if it is too hot, drive up to Maine. Want to go skiing in the snow, go to Colorado. Want to dive on a coral reef, go to Hawaii or Florida.....others are in the US territories. We even have American Samoa that is under the equator and closer to Australia than to the mainland US.

[@mikemcmullin149]

@@johnsaia9739 Before 9/11 You could travel into Canada with just your birth certificate.

[@matthewestrada407]

@@mikemcmullin149 or state I.D same with Mexico.

[@bs4real]

Goddess Bless the USA!!!

[@snugglyhugs8698]

As an Alaskan, we banned billboards because we like our pristine scenery to remain pristine.

[@JboBakey]

God bless

[@BlindRambler]

As an atheist: God bless you.

[@williammoran4898]

I wish Alabama would

[@toomanyhobbies8351]

Smart move

[@murphmurph2124]

The only thing they are good for is targets Lol

[@johnnycroger9851]

The coal mine caught fire and no way to put it out so it will burn till the vein of coal is consumed

[@paratrooper7340]

Very many people know that the Fire Department started the fire for a training exercise at the town dump but the brains in charge either didn't know or didn't care that the dump was right over a coal vain so as bad luck would have it the coal started burning and aside from rerouting a large river to run through it 0 the coal mine that is, how would one go about putting out a fire that's basically inaccessible?

[@tractorsold1]

It's not the only one. There are a few old coal mines slowly burning underground in Pennsilvania. I've visited home situated over one, a little smoke coming out of the ground here and there.

[@darthmaul216]

The people who live there don’t actually pay any property tax. Because the government technically owns all the property there

[@m4x927]

How big is the coal vein

[@Proditum-dt4vz]

Which is also the method in which people make charcoal from coal you just put a bunch of branches and wood and dirt over it with no holes and wait but yeah Pennsylvania coal mone been on fire forever tho

[@dragonseatcheese8727]

The US. We're a cluster f***, but we're proud of it.

[@CanadianAmericans4Trump]

Lol 😂

[@nero3837]

Well we all hate cali and were proud of it

[@scythelord]

The US, a country so large it has more cultures than most countries that claim the US is cultureless.

[@jesseterrell9354]

Merica

[@TheNuts1225]

Appaterently most countries are like this though. America is just way bigger. Germany has several states that each have their own quirky state laws.

[@robertoneal1022]

America is blessed to have a guy like you fighting next to us💪🏽💪🏽🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@Sludgedump]

"I'm confused as hell guys" Me too man, and I live here

[@reneed6954]

lol

[@derrickowen8162]

Same.

[@bryanleon-cruz3280]

It be like that.

[@docop8926]

Yup

[@cat__f1shstick]

I live in Nebraska and I had no clue that there was a town that had only one resident, and I LIVE HERE and I had no clue

[@ryanholmes1970]

The "Get away with murder area" is kind of true. You can't commit any crimes if you don't have any victims or infrastructure nearby. And any victims you brought to that area would involve many serious felonies already and wouldn't save you any time off your "life term" jail sentence anyway.

[@Jonls]

Which this is mostly true... this would become a federal case as local law wouldn't be able to cover it and would fall to the federal branch to take over.

[@artifactman660]

So I guess if I want to hunt a elk without a tag I can just go out there in no man's land hunt anything I want?

[@orionpark2652]

There was a real case where a guy killed an elk in Yellowstone and brought the head back and cited that particular part of the Constitution dealing with Yellowstone saying he had the right to a jury by the Montana residents of Yellowstone. That was actually possible, though, as there are Montana residents there, but rather than trying to get the few of them together for a jury, they just ignored the Constitution entirely, because they didn't want to admit to a Zone of Death. He could have appealed to the Court of Appeals and would have won probably, but he took a plea deal instead and there was a clause in the deal forbidding him from killing anything else in that zone. Law still hasn't been amended and wouldn't be hard, but the state governments say they're just too busy with other stuff.

[@1985ThePedro]

One of those issues where it really exists, but there is no feasible way to capitalize on it. If you go there with the "intent" to commit murder, then you've committed a felony, and are under Federal Jurisdiction, because you have crossed state lines with intent to carry out a crime. Even if you don't cross state lines, and just cross from the Montana side into the park jurisdiction, you'll be subject to the State Courts, having crossed a jurisdiction line with "intent", and therefore being guilty of a State level crime rather than merely a County or Local level. Often, murders are dealt with within the specific County or Jurisdiction that the murder took place in, but almost always under the Authority of the State Courts, so essentially just acting as a proxy. This is because most murders in the modern age involve people fleeing across County lines, etc. As for hunting Elk, or other illegal hunting, that would fall under DNR Jurisdiction, which would actually ALL fall within the specific jurisdiction of the DNR Zone of the Park. So, you will still be prosecuted for illegal hunting, in Wyoming, regardless of which side of the State Line you are on. That's because it is a Federally Chartered Park, which means it's the U.S.D.N.R. and not the Montana or Wyoming DNR that takes the lead, and the zone is specifically under the authority of the Yellowstone DNR Agency, which covers the jurisdiction of the entire park according to its charter.

[@jwrosenbury]

@@Jonls As I understand it, in order to be convicted of a Federal crime the federal government needs to empanel a jury from the federal district where the crime took place. That's the point of this factoid. The problem with committing a murder there is the lack of people to kill, plus the Federal government's willingness to ignore the law when it decides to go after a person. Just ask Gen. Flynn how that works.

[@walterarresse6598]

That burning mine town is what the Silent Hill film is based on. There are coal deposits, under the town that were ignited by accident and it will only stop burning, when it all get’s used.

[@jcgardner5852]

Coal deposits

[@walterarresse6598]

@@jcgardner5852 Yes. mineral charcoal = Coal. What a tragic event in more than one sense. People still live there and their health is very affected. Plus, the pollution, the loss of profit, work, etc.

[@jcgardner5852]

Charcoal and coal are quite different coal is not mineral charcoal

[@kimudo]

Anthracite... mmmm mmmm good. But yheah, the place is almost like the setting for a Lovecraftian level horror story. The roads warp and fall away, holes open up from time to time, things simply disappear as they fall through the skin of earth, and there's this fog-like smoke that just seems to show up out of nowhere. Oh... and the entire place is effectively abandoned since the government has declared it uninhabitable, cut the roads, removed it from maps, and has repeatedly tried to evacuate anyone who remains. People are tenacious, but Centralia is a nightmare even if it's been mostly reclaimed by nature.

[@johnzenthegrey]

I went to visit it once and we hiked about 5 minutes in along a long abandoned road. We heard about the toxic fume clouds that can pop up in a second and literally saw a spew of some kind of vapor about 50 feet ahead of us out of road. We didn't go any further.

[@nxtsoaveragejoe6644]

This was honestly the funniest thing ever 🤣 seeing somebody so bewildered at all of America's geographical nonsense was hilarious. When you grow up here and learn some of this stuff in school and the rest you pick up in your travels, you don't really think about it as being as crazy as it really is 🤣🤣🤣

[@willkittwk]

Thing is most young Americans don't know Jack shit about our own geography. Our parents were delighted when us kids knew where places on the map are. We had the puzzles where you put the states in and when we knew where they all fit we thought we where pretty good. Some of the kids now wouldn't know if Florida was next to Georgia or Louisiana.

[@Adam.Rushing]

@@willkittwk Speaking of maps - I'm Alaskan and I have been asked why it is so cold in this state when it is right next to Hawaii. I KID YOU NOT!

[@panamajack3174]

His mind blown-ness def gave me a good laugh. & This video didn't even cover half of the weird stuff tbh.

[@johnsavage8031]

Just pay attention to Texas. Only state that really matters 😂

[@RodRoz707]

The shortest tallest building reminds me of the joke..... The world's tallest midgets... they stand 5'8" tall...😂

[@tlheingrunst]

The narrator's seemless segways into each state is absolutely great

[@kimberlymartar9368]

It's like degrees of separation

[@berrivine9246]

I live in Louisiana, and yes, the bridge over Lake Pontchartrain is very long. I’ve crossed over it countless times, and I’d say the coolest part about it is that when you’re in the middle of it, you can look in any direction and not see land

[@0lderSch00l]

I love these videos because it reminds me of the classic "difference" between The UK and America: "American's think 100 years is a long time, and Brits think 100 miles is a long drive." That gives me so much perspective when I'm watching your vids. BTW, hello from a US Navy vet!

[@bobbyjackson6495]

Great comment

[@downbytheriver501]

I live in montana and often go for weekend road trips that are between 500-1000 miles. A "quick commute" to the neighboring towns is between 30 and 100 miles. My current truck has 96k on the clock and I bought it 1.75 years ago with 30k

[@0lderSch00l]

@@downbytheriver501 I live in Portland, Oregon. We take day trips to the beach out at Lincoln City; that's about 90 miles each way and over a mountain range. It's some gorgeous country along the way.

[@downbytheriver501]

@@0lderSch00l indeed, oregon is one of the most beautiful states in our nation.

[@0lderSch00l]

@@downbytheriver501 I lived in Montana for a year or so, and the reason I don't any more is because it's such an extreme climate. The spring and summer months are beautiful, the fall is breathtaking, but I was unprepared for how harsh the winters are. I can walk in pouring rain and not be the least bit bothered; but the ludicrous amounts of snow the state gets was too much for me (and, according to my friend who still lives in Hamilton, that was a light winter). Having said that, some of the best nature pictures I ever took were in Montana during that one winter.

[@Roushlamn]

The “Zone of Death” is a real thing in Yellowstone. The only known issue thus far was a poacher, and a Federal judge overruled the 6th Amendment in his case. He later made a plea deal. Thus far no one has taken advantage of the loophole and it is unclear if anyone could successfully get away with it even if they tried as it is all under Federal jurisdiction. As for Texas… it is huge! Texas is about 20% larger than France. Texas also houses Ft. Hood, the former largest military base in the world at 335 square miles (Joint Base Lewis-McChord topped it when they combined to reach a total of 647 square miles).

[@shvrdavid]

If someone did in that area, chances of anyone knowing it even happened would be slim to none....

[@gabeprice2706]

And Alaska is bigger still...

[@jamiethompson3851]

Forgot Louisiana

[@williamk52]

nah they just take the person back to that zone and shoot him :D

[@kristend344]

So that's why the traffic on I5 going anywhere near JBLM is so awful. . .

[@gungy_vt]

"People keep building piles of rocks on the summits to make one mountain higher than the other" Honestly, this sounds like something that would "only happen because of the internet", but I wouldn't be surprised if people started this before then.

[@rathersane]

In Colorado, the towns of Leadville and Alma have been fighting over which one’s the highest since the 19th century. Coloradans are damn serious about their altitudes!

[@lukehrovat8699]

@@rathersane we are very serious about our altitudes

[@danyheatleyall-star3677]

@@rathersane there’s a weed joke in there somewhere

[@mikegreene2235]

Been happening back and forth for yrs. Matter of local bragging rights

[@lukehrovat8699]

@@danyheatleyall-star3677 we also like being very high

[@03Forrest]

Yep centralia is real. Been there when I was a kid and the cemetery smokes and certain holes you can actually see a glow from underneath.

[@RyanForrest1664]

Wow man that's crazy mate

[@03Forrest]

@@RyanForrest1664 what's actually crazy is that even though the town was abandoned decades ago, when I went in the early 2000s there were still like two houses standing there with people living there, even though the foundations of the rest of the town stood bare.

[@dgunnerj]

I live about 5 minutes away of Centralia.

[@timmybunz2628]

Centralia is a ghost town! I live about 30mins from there. It's really a site to see

[@davidbutler9798]

@@RyanForrest1664 Centralia is an interesting story. It's in the coal region of PA which is what is burning underground. There is some debate as to how the fire originally started with the careless burning of trash near an open mine shaft being the most popular/likely cause. I was there in the early 90's and it was more of a ghost town then, with smoke coming from manmade holes for ventilation. I would assume the majority, if not all buildings have been demolished by now. But until the coal burns itself out there isn't really any way to extinguish the slowburn.

[@taraschumacker]

I love how Jersey gets “longest traffic light” Figures..

[@jeannied1081]

👊 former Jersey Girl here, but I AM Florida Woman, don't mess us, we ain't from the shore...

[@LaughingLiftingGaming]

@@jeannied1081 I love how your statement is characteristic of the stereotypical Jersey Shore attitude 🤣😂.

[@texasred2702]

I laughed for about 5 minutes at that.

[@kaldogorath]

Maybe if y'all pumped your own gas

[@Genghis-Jon]

My brother lives a few minutes from Clinton road. Fortunately, I don't need to actually drive on Clinton to get to his house. That light would kill me.

[@suet6950]

I love this, my dad was in the Navy, shot in Vietnam made it home . He passed away in 2012, I miss him so much, I have so much respect for our military men and women, thank you for protecting us...much love and respect from South Carolina ❤🇺🇸

[@trevawnpresidential7335]

I appreciate you're Daddy for his service!!! I'm from Charleston sc. Where are you from?

[@dalehood1846]

Suet6950, May your father rest in peace. My brother and I were both in the Navy during Vietnam. He went twice at his own request! He made it back, lost him to cancer due to Agent Orange. Miss him a lot. I was NOT in Vietnam. GOD bless you and your family.

[@jeremybiwer8756]

The reason they know there are only 2 escalators in the state is that Escalators are licensed with the state like elevators.

[@kickass465]

Yes Centralia has been burning since the 60s. The town was evacuated and abandon because the ground has become unstable. About 6 or so people refused to leave so you'll still find people there.

[@wittyshark1826]

Are they from Florida originally

[@richardmetzger7825]

@@wittyshark1826 There's a movie called Nothing But Trouble, with Dan Ackroyd, Demi Moore, Humpty Hump, and several comedians that takes place in Centralia, but, I don't recall if they name it.

[@brooksysdead]

Ita the real life silent hill

[@Anon21486]

@@brooksysdead Silent Hill was based off Centralia... Anyway, from what I heard, the fire started at a dumping site. Basically, people dumped into a hole and lit it on fire. This was next to an old coal tunnel, which eventually caught on fire.

[@zaneinsane9578]

I have been to Centrailia, several times, it is very eerie, I get completely why people call it the real life Silent Hill...and I was last there on a clear sunny day.

[@SixString_J5]

The shear size of the USA makes for more diverse factual outliers than your average person can fathom. Our country is huge, it's an array of some of the most heavily populated areas all the way to some of the least populated areas in the world. Rhode Island, the smallest state, is itself bigger than 29 different countries, yet 220 times smaller than Texas.

[@WVHillbilly-yw6qv]

WV is without question my home and always will be, there is no doubt in my mind that it is one of the most gorgeous states in the US. Just seeing the vast and beautiful Appalachian Mountains in the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter Seasons is literally breath taking. It will always be my home and I'm very proud and lucky to be blessed to live in this land! Awsome video!!! 👍👍👍

[@Crispyy0_0]

There is nothing in the world like the West Virginian deep country. So quiet and peaceful with a sense of pure natural beauty. Will forever be home

[@buck546]

Mountaineers are always free. God bless our beautiful lady West Virginia.

[@charleshiggens6306]

God bless WV my home state for 68 years.

[@stormwatch7245]

Amen. I've lived in WV my entire life and it is indeed a gorgeous state. 😍

[@dalehood1846]

Love to visit W. Virginia. Haven't been in some time. Wonderful people, wonderful place. Awe inspiring those "hills and hollows." God bless you.

[@sparkmed]

In Texas we don't judge things by miles away, we judge it by how long it takes to get there.. It'll take you 2 hours to get there or that's only 15 minutes away.

[@Cavemanheartrock]

That's how we do it here in TN.

[@michaelash4851]

Im pretty sure it isnt a texas thing. Thats just an American thing.

[@crwilliams4597]

True. We also can drive all day at 75 mph and still be in the state.

[@firsttofi8471]

Yea we do that in Cali too tho, like I'm from salinas n when I go to Sacramento or LA I just think oh it's 3 hours away or 5-6 hours for LA

[@Ergo8152]

Oh god yes i thought took forever east 2 west Montana then i drove across Texas

[@TheGrantGuy]

Centralia being on fire is true, it’s actually the city silent hill “the movie/game” is based in, and I am not sure but I think the movie may have even been filmed there even tho travel is very restricted as I understand

[@joshsherman595]

It inspired the games and movie but their was never really a city there it was a small mining town. Government bought out most of the residents, I want to say their was 6 that refused and still live in the area but when they pass their property goes to the government they can't leave it to their family.

[@zubbworks]

@@joshsherman595 Tyranny.

[@SGTJDerek]

@@zubbworks probably but it's a safety issue. The entire area is full of toxic gas. From my understanding, the only reason they could stay was they were far enough away to not be affected. The fire is also supposedly still spreading.

[@averyslimp4928]

It may be restricted now but in 2019 we walked on the graffiti highway, and drove around the town. Most of the houses were gone it was just foundations.

[@digitalnikos]

@@joshsherman595 This is correct (roughly 6 homes/families still live there). additionally, and ironically, a close friend of mine's mother lives near here and stated that one of the only remaining functioning structures in Centralia is their Fire Department....go figure.

[@LightGesture]

I can tell you, that long ass stretch between gas stations is sometimes the most frightening drive cause you don't know if you're hitting that last gas station yet... but at the same time, speed limit is 80mph, so its a really great and fun drive. Mountains, canyons, cliffs, great drive.

[@LeatherSoup-c5j]

What happens if you go 20 miles over the speed limit?

[@wolfmanrebel874]

@@LeatherSoup-c5j you run out of gas

[@wittyshark1826]

@@LeatherSoup-c5j you got to jail for speeding if you get that one cop

[@vedritmathias9193]

@@wittyshark1826 20 over the limit on a Utah highway? No officer would pull you over for that. 80mph in some stretched of highway is considered the minimum, rather than maximum.

[@wittyshark1826]

I know someone who did he spent the night in jail

[@russellwhaley3728]

I’m a retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant. I think it’s pretty damn cool that you do these videos! Semper Fidelis brother!!

[@evanhainey2101]

Thank you for your service brother!! Appreciate you!

[@kennethmckinney2088]

Semper Fi Gunny

[@charlesmaggard9393]

The U.S. loves you too. Such a positive channel from our brothers across the sea!!

[@brockmitchell3989]

There is a city called Kennesaw in Georgia that requires all households to own a gun in their city. Last I heard their crime rate was almost 0.

[@insertdisc2175]

I'm for that being the case everywhere honestly.

[@_feniccfire_2723]

Well you gonna rob someone when you KNOW they also have a gun?

[@tmoe6674]

Nice

[@factbeaglesarebest]

there isn’t even 40,000 people in it... the law is NOT enforced, and 2% is just referring to violent crime. They actually have a major property crime issue. It’s estimated the town has less guns than its neigh... Don’t falsify information skewing it’s meaning...

[@Threebs-]

Wrong. They have major property and gun theft crimes there.

[@HandburglarPro]

The fact that I enjoy most about my home state of California is that in the lower 48, we have the lowest point, Death Valley, and the highest point, Mt. Whitney, and you can drive between the two in about 2 hours.

[@Blondie42]

And let's not forget that Death Valley is also the driest and hottest place on Earth. Your state holds many a natural record.

[@larryyeadeke2953]

The ground isn't actually on fire. The coal under the ground is. There are coal mines under ground and a fire started in one of them. There is really no way to get at it to put it out. So it has to burn out by itself. But they figure there is enough coal to keep the fire burning for another 200 years.

[@RyanForrest1664]

Yeah I was thinking there has to be something else going on here lol

[@kingwacky184]

That have to be the town that got the idea for the game and movie Silent Hill?

[@returntonature8773]

At least one in Colorado too.

[@SpearM3064]

@@kingwacky184 Well... the _game_ was inspired by "concepts of a small town in America as depicted by various media from various countries of origin". The heavy fog was really just a way to keep the framerate up, so that the Playstation didn't have to render stuff that was more than a few feet away. The _movie,_ on the other hand, _was_ inspired by Centralia.

[@blackbaxter1]

@@kingwacky184 definitely has that vibe.

[@Scott-tn5vn]

I live 20 minutes from Centrailia, Pennsylvania. A volunteer fireman lit the fire and because of coal underground, they cannot put it out. You’re actually not allowed to live there but there are a few original residents who live there before the start of the fire. Once they die, they’re houses cannot be sold to anyone else.

[@JackTheTrucker1]

Can confirm, the original burger king is in mattoon il, about 3 miles off interstate 57, and is 100 times better than the other burger king. I highly suggest trying it if you are passing through.

[@maximumgas9448]

Almost all local restaurants are better than fast food

[@evanhainey2101]

Might have to make a trip up that way next time I'm there I usually go to Fast Eddie's in Alton. How far is it from there?

[@JackTheTrucker1]

@@evanhainey2101 its 135 miles from alton. Ive been wanting to try fast eddies. Got a couple friends that go there all that time!

[@evanhainey2101]

@@JackTheTrucker1 it's a really cool bar!

[@boatsie511]

He said “THATS STUPID” 🤣🤣🤣 that literally had me dying laughing! It is stupid to be honest! I’m from Denver Colorado where we are a mile high above sea level. Much love and respect to you brotha! 👍

[@Reid0225]

There is a Kansas City in both Kansas and Missouri..... just sayin.

[@zacharykelso6681]

even better is its the same city

[@treyRfifteen]

They both suck bad.

[@Whiskey5_]

Yeah, that was the first thing he got wrong, and he placed it by Springfield Hahahaha instead of on the border where Kansas City Missouri and Kansas City Kansas rub each other’s peckers.

[@jricherts99]

@@treyRfifteen best BBQ in the states though and no I'm not from there but have been to every state except for north Dakota. And I try BBQ

[@Evan_Case]

Yeah, Kansas City, KS formed after Kansas City, MO. Then, it tried to convince MO to give the city to it. KC MO is far more prosperous. Was a lul moment.

[@ericcarney3121]

The flag they showed for tennessee as the confederate flag, is not the confederate flag. The flag they showed is a battle flag and was never officially recognized as the official flag of the confederate states.

[@Wandering_Vet]

The battle flag is widely recognized to represent the CSA, ergo it’s easier to use.

[@zubbworks]

Yeah, but the easy wrong answer is better than the hard right answer. Lol. I kinda like the bonnie blue flag. The one that looks like the Somalia flag. It's a good flag. Simple.

[@karenbartlett1307]

@@Wandering_Vet The CSA had four flags: the Bonnie Blue, the Stars and Bars, the Stainless Banner and finally the Bloodstained Banner. The Battle Flag was simply the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, Gen. Lee's command. [>

[@garythompson5316]

@@karenbartlett1307 right Karen!

[@lenturzo8350]

Centrailia PA was the inspiration for Silent Hill. In the 1960s, the cities garbage dump and where they burnt trash was so close to an anthracite deposit that they started a fire that spread to all the coal under ground and it’s been burning ever since. I actually rode my Harley out to what was left of this area and to this day you can still see the steam rising up from the cracks of what’s left of the town, it was condemned by the government and now it’s basically a burning waste land. I’m from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania originally and people that like to explore always end up in Centralia at one point or another although the state has made it a lot more difficult to explore it now. But yes Centralia PA does have an underground coal fire that will burn for probably another hundred years before it extinguishers itself.

[@josephcernansky1794]

Centralia is a TRIP!!! In the valley below in January it was 10 degrees up the side of the hill, while there was still an asphalt road...blue flames flickered out of the hillside....on top the hill where there the town once stood and only a couple houses stood back 30 years ago when I was there...the outside temp was so hot, the AC needed to be on and I stood outside in my T-shirt , sweating!! What snow was falling outside the area was just a mist that was evaporating as it hit the ground! Eventually all the asphalt streets and roads around the area caught on fire and burned. A new concrete highway was built around the mountain where most of the coal seams that are burning are. I had driven through the area at night and had no idea I was driving thru Centralia...but you can't miss it once you drive near it! They had greenhouses there and tried growing tomatoes, but it got too hot and killed all the plants!

[@katyhornsey8142]

Didn't the EPA start the fire because they did not like the way they were doing the land fill? That is what I heard anyway.

[@zToggled]

Yea, the game Silent Hill was inspired by Centralia

[@Daksys-]

The surface of the ground isn't on fire, the mine under the town is. It's slowly burning through the coal seam and the smoke cloaks the town under the right conditions. Silent Hill's smoke was a way to hide the low render distance of hardware at the time. The game is not inspired by Centralia.

[@TheUnplanted]

@@Daksys- Definitely was though

[@jacobharrison-unsell2777]

The game? Do you mean the movie?

[@justanotherdayinthelife9841]

The town is evacuated permanently

[@zachburskey8868]

@@Daksys- The devs have directly claimed the game was based on Centralia.

[@Helios8170]

"I'm confused as hell" Just wait til he hears about Paris, Sparta, and I think even Georgia all being in Tennessee.

[@JamesTaylor-vw4wq]

Yeah Maine has some confusing town names, like... Norway Paris Denmark Naples Sweden Poland Mexico Peru China Madrid Rome

[@rogu3four]

Ohio has Berlin, Toledo, Medina, East Sparta, Canton, Parma, Poland, Cambridge, Athens, etc, etc!

[@goodmorning8172]

I used to live in Cuba Missouri, not too far from Japan Missouri,...there is also a Paris Missouri.

[@stuckonaslide]

i live a little bit away from both poland and norway. but also mexico, and albany.

[@dragonnx2843]

Doesn't Texas have a Dublin

[@trucknlifewithladybelle5557]

One thing they didn’t mention about Louisiana they don’t have counties like the rest of the United States they actually have parishes

[@bilcarter]

And Alaska has boroughs instead of counties.

[@JustANervousWreck]

2 other weird sub-State oddities: 1. Virginia has 39 cities, and these cities are independent from the other counties in Virginia, which are made up of Towns. There are only 2 independent cities outside of Virginia, Baltimore in Maryland and St. Louis in Missouri. 2. Delaware is made has 3 sub-State entities, unlike all other states which have 2 (County and Municipalities). Delaware has 3 Counties, 33 Hundreds, and 57 Municipalities. Hundreds were important subdivisions during the colonial days, but now seem to only serve as add-ons to addresses and are mentioned in the Real Estate circle.

[@seannelson2370]

True

[@sigma74205]

@@JustANervousWreck You mean St Louis, Missouri. It is not part of the county of the same name. Kansas City is in Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties.

[@JustANervousWreck]

@@sigma74205 oh yes, St. Louis. Sorry.

[@tommywilliamson2103]

Here is another interesting fact that few people know. When the Appalachian Mountain chain of the eastern United States was formed it was contested to what is now Scotland and Norway. So the coastal mountains of Norway, the Scottish Highlands and the Appalachian Mountains of the United States are actual all part of the same mountain range.

[@ryannewland5572]

what happened with the ground being on fire since the 1960's, is someone either purposely lit or accidentally lit the coal mine on fire. coal is combustible and the fire spread in the mine causing it to forever burn until the coal is gone. moreover they cant put it out either or cover it, and the area near it is to be cleared at all times due to the heat. if I remember correctly (again) there is more than just one in the US as well.

[@kinotheidiot]

The Centralia coal mine fire was an accident. In late 1959, they tried to burn trash than extingush it (fd on scene controlling fire) but they were not careful enough and not saw that the fire spreaded into the coal mine underground. Hope i was a good help! - Csaba, a fellow Sovet Hungarian

[@mussy9387]

Centralia was on accident, however the people there didn't put it out on purpose

[@FastForwardPlans]

There were 3 attempts to put out that fire when it first happened, one with dirt, one with water, and one with concrete, if I recall correctly. They thought they put it out but kept finding new fires. Now its pretty much impossible to put it out because of how wide spread it is.

[@GlockMan70]

Fire Down Below is about the one in KY

[@kcnichols8968]

Shoutout to Oklahoma having a fruit as our state vegetable. If I remember correctly until recently our state flower was also a rock.

[@OldLadyRocker]

😂😂😂 that’s awesome!

[@arrowjay355]

In 1992, I transferred to North Dakota with the Air Force. The morning after we arrived on the base there was a news paper in the lobby of the temporary lodging facility. On the cover of the newspaper, was a picture with the title "North Dakota State Forest". It was a photo of a row of telephone poles.

[@harrymiller3986]

one neat thing i learned in my travels is sand mountain Ala is the most densely populated rural area in the country.just one farm after another for 90 miles is honest estimate

[@TankGunBullet]

Man, I’ve been driving across America For years.(touring with rock bands). It’s always fun to get a British band on their first tour. They’d always be shocked at the distance between the cities we were playing in, and how much it changes.

[@ronclark9724]

Ditto with Canada as well. The flight from London to Tel Aviv is five hours. The flight from New York City to Los Angeles is five and a half hours, six hours from Boston to Los Angeles. Notice I didn't mention Alaska or Hawaii. The flight from Inverness to London is one hour and forty minutes.

[@thrakkorzog75002]

Reminds me of a family member dealing with a Japanese coworker who just came over. "So what do you want to do this weekend?" "Oh, I plan on visiting the Grand Canyon on Saturday."

[@scotcoon1186]

Someone from the east coast telling someone from Crawford to run down to Lincoln for a hydraulic hose or engine part. You realize that's a 16 hour round trip, right? The west end of Florida is in the central time zone. The east end of Oregon is in mountain. So Oregon is only an hour behind Florida.

[@lancednalrevah9223]

Sedona Arizona has the only McDonalds with green arches. The “golden arches” are too bright and drowned out the stars at night.

[@voxveritas333]

it's hard to see at night there, it's so dark.

[@100GTAGUY]

I take it that it had something to do with being in a dark sky certified community ?

[@AsylumET]

@@100GTAGUY that's correct. A great place for astrophotography.

[@MochaDoodleDoo]

Arizona was also home to the 1st McDonald's ever to have the golden arches. It was in Phoenix.

[@rebeccawilson4036]

Are big and bright!

[@008Birdman]

Kansas City is in Kansas and Missouri. It strides over the two states.

[@deegibb6368]

Yeah, but it is not much on the Kansas side. The major of downtown is Missouri. One main reason why I refused to consider jobs in KCMO but not KCK.

[@rowdy7480]

KC, Kansas is in the poorest county in the nation and KC, Missouri is in the richest county in the nation

[@SpeedyCashRegister]

I heard him say that too. I was like "the hell it ain't" lol

[@kaldogorath]

@@rowdy7480 KCMO is the richest country? By what metric?

[@russelshackleford8169]

There's a joke about promiscuity in there somewhere. [Same with prior sentence]

[@52ponybike]

I live in Iowa. Our farmers literally feed the world. In 2015 and currently, I'm selling parts motorcycles to the largest motorcycle 'spares' company in all of Europe, based in the UK, DK Spares. So, all of you Brits who end up with my motorcycles and parts, enjoy them! BTW, I live only 4 miles from Iowa's western 'water' border, the Big Sioux River, with South Dakota. I've visited (1976) England, Wales and Ireland and thoroughly enjoyed their breathtaking beauty. And... their beer.

[@doriandundas4177]

In Alaska we get tornado winds and the rain blow sideways so things always go flying off and there’s always power outages constantly it’s literally a hazard to have them

[@thereaper2762]

I'm American and there's alot of stuff here that blows my mind!

[@dennisyarbrough7284]

Yeah you and me both

[@MarcoHernandez-xg6ez]

Yup same it’s crazy

[@comment2009]

Point Roberts, WA is another US town requiring travel through Canada unless one owns a boat.

[@aliciachristensen4418]

The car-less highway in Michigan is on the island of Mackinac. It’s been a resort since late 1800’s. Mackinac island has a year round population of 400, has horses during the warm months and some of the most beautiful Victorian houses. Somewhere in Time was filmed there; staring Christopher reeve and Jane Seymour.

[@ohtehlolz]

Didn't touch on AZ and one of the 7 natural wonders of the world we have... or that it gets up to 118 degrees F here in the summer regularly.

[@Skel1001]

Yeah I live there and they didn’t bring up the petrified forest or the Grand Canyon (which everyone should go to it makes the Mona Lesa look ugly, and jackson polloc paintings depressing)

[@rogermurph101]

Yeah they did. Right before New Mexico, and they mentioned the four corners monument.

[@starcrafter13terran]

I was there when it was 120 F and nothing could make you feel cooler. You just wait for nightfall to drive then you get afraid you will breakdown in the dark far from everything. The best place to stop in arizona is dairy queen, where the temp is always kept quite cool.

[@Skel1001]

@@starcrafter13terran yah but to bad they can’t do the flippy thing with the blizzards

[@lonestars1158]

Or that our water infrastructure is easily the best in the entire USA (despite the current drought), we litteraly have super massive cave systems under phoenix which we fill with water, and just so much infrastructure!!!

[@babyfry4775]

My son lives in Seattle Washington. He loves to travel and decided one weekend to travel to Alaska. He flew into the Juneau airport and had to walk to the town. To get there he walked through woods. I said weren’t you afraid of bears? Yeah, I didn’t really think about that he said. Next time he would take bear repellent. Sheesh! The US is pretty big and I would say that people should drive it to see all the states and topography. I’ve seen all but 4 states. You can’t appreciate how big it is until you drive it. I can’t even imagine driving in Russia. This is a good video but a little confusing. Can’t imagine what it is like for you, a Brit. Good reaction.

[@asea5130]

Thank you Brave Marine, love your shows and great commentary!

[@nobodyimportant1858]

On the alabama florida line there's a town literally called floribamma

[@PacketWrangler]

There's a city in the borders of Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana called Texarkana.

[@catupthetree23]

I think you're referring to a bar that's called "Flora-Bama" that's on the state line. Florala is a town located on the state line that I normally pass through on Hwy 331 on our way to the beach lol.

[@nobodyimportant1858]

@@catupthetree23 It may have been florala but I think it's was floribamma

[@cjhadley82]

@@nobodyimportant1858 Flora-Bama is a bar in that straddles the Alabama/Florida stat line in Baldwin county.

[@aic9612]

Goin to get that Coors from Texarkana to bring it back to Atlanta..Got to get that diesel truckin we'll get it back no matter what it takes

[@green0004]

Yes that under ground is still on fire I been there on one of my music tours years back. It was incredibly strange. The town is abandoned there and looks like woods at this point but you can make out streets etc, there's one part where you can see the smoke come out of the ground if the temperature is right. Otherwise it could be hard to spot, but once you do find the cracks, you can literally feel the heat coming from the ground, very surreal. The story is crazy, I don't remember too much but the mine that used to be there was intentionally set on fire.

[@davidcycyk9625]

Silent Hill games based here?

[@americanpatriot7247]

Hey, Friend- You are welcome to come stateside anytime. We'd be honored to have you! I salute the service you gave Britain! You have to be one tough bloke!

[@Llyrin]

I live in Maryland and the anti-firearm nuts here are so crazy that they had sheriff deputies arrest a 6yo schoolboy for chewing a pop tart into the shape of a gun. Imagine that, the state that looks like a gun arrested a little boy for eating a snack into the shape of a gun. I argued that the boy really just chewed a map of his home state. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@noneofyourbusiness4032]

Yeah maryland is fuvked. Baltimore is a trash heap just one step from anarchy. Edgewood is a powder keg and no one in this state seams to want to do anything about the shattered 20 year old remains of a prospering economy... god I need to get put of this state. On the bright side I hear that 695 will be finished in 2060. Just in time for apophis to wipe out all life on earth in 2069.

[@Llyrin]

@@noneofyourbusiness4032 for years, I’ve been trying to get my wife to move, but her family goes all the way back to the Ark and Dove. 🤦🏼‍♂️ Can you believe PG County was #1 in the nation in 86 and 87? It was probably just in one category, but they had signs on every road into the county. I don’t know what the democrats are thinking. It must be power-anything for power. Even destroying the state, just as long as they get to lord over everyone still left in it.

[@adamking4246]

Don't like Maryland much but I worked on its water's most of my life, besides the water I don't like much, but no matter what state I move to, and i lived in every state from Md to Fl I always come back because of the water, it's like it's in my blood. All the crabbing, fishing, conching, oystering has me stuck here.

[@adamking4246]

Also I found it so funny when year's ago they called the Eastern Shore the shithouse of Maryland yet now all the rich that said that are now living here. It was just farmer's and watermen now every one from Donald Rumsfeld to Dick Cheney have places here, it's becoming a big tourist location also.

[@Llyrin]

@@adamking4246 Maryland is a beautiful state geographically and historically, from the Atlantic, across the Chesapeake, to the Blue Ridge. If only 2/3 of the people who never vote again. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@dakodagarner8439]

The fire in Pennsylvania is underground. He just explained it bad.

[@ruthwellington4454]

Yep. And is what inspired the game silent hill.

[@michaelkellow629]

To bad they didn’t mention the graffiti highway that’s there too.

[@ruthwellington4454]

Two years ago the people that own the graffiti highway land had all the graffiti removed despite a lot of protest and petitions.

[@XanthosAcanthus]

@@ruthwellington4454 I did not know that. Nice.

[@dcricket1]

Texas, my home state has slightly different accents in each section. The area I’m from is considered the largest cotton producing region in the world. Cotton is harvested at night so you will see literally massive cotton strippers with lights bright enough for a runway running off any Interstate or Highway in the region. This is the part of the state where a man driving an old junker truck wearing dirty overalls and boots will walk into a car dealer and stupid salesmen go hide. Smart ones introduce themselves and find out he wants a $100,000 car and pays cash. I know, it happened to me. No only did I get a big bonus but I got a giant tip from the farmer when I delivered it to his wife! Never judge a book by its cover in Texas. If it’s not cotton money it’s oil money.

[@dreamwolf7302]

Here in Maine, a large part of the reason behind large outdoor billboards, is because of storm winds in the winter. I've personally seen one of the interstate exit signs get blown off and embed itself in the pavement. Another is because they look horrific.

[@fishinwidow35]

Since when? I remember when they took them all down because they were eyesores and they distracted from our beauty

[@lylechipperson3407]

that's bullshit it's solely because they distract from natural beauty, distract drivers, and cause car accidents. it's written in the law clearly

[@dreamwolf7302]

@@lylechipperson3407 When they passed it, it was pushed under the claim the billboards were 'giant storm hazards that could topple over in a bad wind'. whatever the contents of the law, when they proposed it, the reasons they gave were safety hazards from high winds.

[@Stealth_Gamer92]

Dude I live in a southern state that has nearly annual hurricanes and we have billboards. Yes they can be dangers in high winds, but so can a vehicle(personal experience talking) or any large solid object so there is that excuse gone. It was likely due to thinking it was good PR to emphasize the natural beauty of your state, like how some swamps and bayou down here are protected from trash and stuff being dumped there via huge fines with a zealotrous fervor.

[@dreamwolf7302]

@@Stealth_Gamer92 honestly? in Maine? It could have been something as stupid as a business owner who was on the state legislature trying to keep his opponents from being able to advertise along the highway, because he was too cheap to pay for a billboard himself.

[@mostlyjoe]

You can't get away with crimes inside that section of Yellowstone because it's still technically a national park and at that point you would come under a federal prosecutor and jury.

[@GwendolynGrant19]

That doesn't override the Constitution. It doesn't matter if it was a national park or not or under a federal prosecutor or not. Every US citizen is guaranteed the right to a trial by peers under the Constitution. Because you cannot get peers from that section of Idaho you cannot form a jury and you can't have a trial for a criminal offense without a jury not without violating that person's constitutional rights. Just because it's a national park does not mean that you waive any at all constitutional rights those are guaranteed. If they try to prosecute somebody under these circumstances it would be thrown out of court for constitutional rights violations and then that person could sue because of the very attempt

[@tylerturner8070]

Most likely you'd have to commit a crime to get someone else there to commit that crime... so you'd get got lol

[@burnttoast9162]

I think Yellowstone has special protection laws for it anyways besides it being a national park because it’s a wildlife preserve with some endangered species, which is still federal law

[@mostlyjoe]

@@GwendolynGrant19 your peers do not have to come from the state. This happens in the cases of foreign Nationals of who are abroad. Can also include individuals from such as military service, or from municipalities and other things like that there are ways to get around this it has come up before.

[@ThaneSton]

This is a real problem, but no one knew about it until Brian Kalt, a law professor at Michigan State University, found this loophole and published a paper on it in 2005. He has tried to get federal legislators to close the loophole, but has had little success. The loophole was put to the test when a poacher named Michael Belderrain was tried for poaching in a similar part of Yellowstone on the Montana side. The case was tried in the Wyoming District, but Belderrain objected based on Kalt's paper. He was convicted, but afterward was offered a plea deal of he didn't appeal to higher court based on his objection.

[@keithfrank88]

I live in Wyoming and that small strip where you can murder someone is 100% true

[@TheDreadedRaider]

Yeah I'm in Idaho. Wanna duel?

[@therapywithisabel]

That's scary AF

[@pattigreen9448]

But ya have to get them there first lmao

[@hotdropknockdndc681]

Who wants to go camping?

[@gregorysalazar8370]

Yellowstone national park is a federal park means that any crime committed in this national park is a federal crime. The FBI and the federal park police has jurisdiction on it.

[@benkempf]

Boston tea party occurred 12/16/1773. In June of 1772, a British navy ship ran aground and became stranded in one of providences harbors. Rhode Islanders, lead by John Brown (brown university), paddled out to the stranded ship and burnt it down. It is the much less popular beginning of the revolution that even a lot of Americans dont know about.

[@benkempf]

@@raychristy5027 no. It wasn't. Hms gaspee was a British Navy ship. Most famous for capturing and transporting Ethan Allen. Had nothing to do with slaves.

[@benkempf]

@@raychristy5027 John Brown was heavily involved in the slave/rum trade however.

[@beanz9568]

“With the country’s longest red light, standing longer than five minutes” Our red lights: *i s t h a t a c h a l l e n g e*

[@wittyshark1826]

Pretty much

[@cjpietropinto9293]

You nailed why many in America have been fighting the electric car crazy. Many of the places I drive are an hour plus away. And you can't guarentee you'll need to stop there for the length of recharging. When they can create a car, that charges itself using it's own momentum...then we can talk seriously about their use in america. People I know with an ele car, also have a gas vehicle. For this exact reason.

[@brownjatt21]

Yea it needs to be at least 500 mile range on one charge id say. Right now most electrics are at 200-300 range. They'll be at the 500 soon enough.

[@deejayimm]

That and because we like our independence. It's not much of a stretch of the imagination to see a dystopian future where if you say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing, your car charging ability is throttled or turned off.

[@MIngalls]

​@@deejayimm Couldnt they already turn off your house electricity? lol c'mon.

[@deejayimm]

@@MIngalls sure. But imagine your only means of transportation being at the same mercy. You laugh now, but so did every other human being who walked blindly into totalitarianism. Is that what's going to happen? I have no idea, but just look at how power hungry they already are, and I wouldn't trust them.

[@MIngalls]

@@deejayimm Your only means of transportation now is at their mercy. Gas prices could be $20 a galon tomorrow. I get the point your making, its just weird to see this government facism conspiracy thing being tied to electric cars lol.

[@johnmagill3072]

I am from the US. This video was even confusing to me..lol

[@ronclark9724]

Well when you have fifty states in a nation as large as the USA, there are bound to be a few flukes...

[@EchthelionII]

I was unaware of most of the facts in this video.

[@kierancook6004]

@@ronclark9724 Not just flukes, some nukes as well. I mean there are like 5 nukes that have been lost in US soil and have not been recovered so sleep well tonight.

[@CarnivoreRonin]

I've watched tons of your videos and just got to this one. This video was awesome, I love it as a historian and geek!

[@scavenger6268]

One of the best rules in understanding the crazy differences and naming structure is: Whoever claims the land first. First come, First Serve. Everything afterwards is either a lack of imagination, paperwork, or land transfers via purchase and eminent domain.

[@thedman454]

As someone from LA, the fact I'm east of the capitol of Nevada is astonishing

[@CanadianAmericans4Trump]

I’m Canadian living in Nevada USA and thank you for your service 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@RyanForrest1664]

I appreciate you mate

[@namath1235]

I like your pfp and name!

[@nathanwishart4327]

Glad to have you, from CA.

[@CanadianAmericans4Trump]

@Thirty-Three 33 nice I’m in Elko county and my sister and younger brother live in Reno

[@josephcernansky1794]

Centralia is a TRIP!!! In the valley below in January it was 10 degrees up the side of the hill, while there was still an asphalt road...blue flames flickered out of the hillside....on top the hill where there the town once stood and only a couple houses stood back 30 years ago when I was there...the outside temp was so hot, the AC needed to be on and I stood outside in my T-shirt , sweating!! What snow was falling outside the area was just a mist that was evaporating as it hit the ground! Eventually all the asphalt streets and roads around the area caught on fire and burned. A new concrete highway was built around the mountain where most of the coal seams that are burning are. I had driven through the area at night and had no idea I was driving thru Centralia...but you can't miss it once you drive near it! They had greenhouses there and tried growing tomatoes, but it got too hot and killed all the plants!

[@Rebel9668]

When he say's the ground has been on fire, he should have clarified that the fire is underground in seams of coal. The fire started above ground at a dump site but that ignited a seam of coal that was next to it on a hillside. Oh, and Indiana had more than one battle in the war between the states. The Mississippi river may have flowed backwards for 24 hours in 2012, but it flowed backwards for days in 1812 during the earthquakes on the New Madrid fault line which also created Reelfoot lake in Western Tennessee.

[@TXRBL]

Each State is unique. I love being West Highland Scottish, a Texian (the correct spelling) and a native Tennessean, as well as a United States Marine!

[@radiofreak66]

if you're a Texian you're essentially Tennesseean and vice versa

[@yorktown2203]

SEMPER FI

[@kevinraney2935]

Go Vols

[@kaldogorath]

Wow, you lived in Mexican Texas? You're more than 184 years old? Damn.

[@KGBBooks]

If a Wyoming resident tells you that something is “just down the road,” the drive could be up to two hours.

[@boydmerriman]

Same thing in Atlanta

[@stevenstrother7129]

I heard many facts that I had no clue about. Great review. Loved it.

[@thearmoredgeorgian2736]

The peachtree city one is true! Everywhere you go in the city there are very specific parking spots and roads for golf carts! and sometimes you almost die because of reckless kids

[@ΒΞΔΝ]

The best part of the vid. I learned there is a crazy woman in Nebraska living her life like an episode of a sitcom. She is the mayor, sheriff, fire, local doctor, bartender, ect. 😂🤣 Everywhere you go in that town, there she is wearing a new hat to fit the job.

[@andrewthies1828]

People can make fun of the ol gal out in the lil town by herself.the place has a freakin liquor license for a reason,ya bunch of city weirdos,the town supports locals that Do Not live in the town.local agriculture,most likely family farms utilize the place frequently,cause driving to the city might be expensive."cool I can get a beer and don't have to drive 50plus miles to get it."

[@firefightingguy9427]

Makes you think of that episode in the avatar where they stop at a fire nation village on a river. That old crazy dude who keeps changing his hats and calling himself a different brother.

[@ΒΞΔΝ]

@@andrewthies1828 Just jokes, in all honesty I admire, and respect what she is doing. She has a sense of freedom most of us will never know.

[@CB-hw7iu]

When she mows her yard she is the towns only landscaper, when she makes dinner she is the towns only cook........

[@lewiswhite95]

Thats right andy Griffith spun off of a lucy ball sketch. Thats the sitcom reference.

[@quinlanz92]

You could do an entire 12 hour video like this on Texas alone. Several other states as well.

[@krocket17]

Colorado also has a mine fire still burning. It’s in New Castle, Colorado and I’m the winter you can see the snow melting around it.

[@Roonasaur]

"You can get away with murder here." Yeah, something tells me that's not going to work out for you, lol

[@peterking2651]

I live in Denver, Colorado and my daughter in Houston, Texas. It would take about a week with an electric car, even if they had charge stations.

[@spawnkeeper999]

Have you ever heard of a Tesla?

[@scotcoon1186]

@@justinp6839 I know someone who had to bobtail east a couple exits to pick up a trailer in Houston. Figured out he went the wrong way when he hit New Mexico.

[@Tigoolook]

“I’m confused as hell guys” best line in the video🤣

[@ericfox88]

from the area I live, near Corpus Christi, TX...a drive to El Paso Texas is over halfway to the Pacific Ocean. And you're still in Texas. Also think that a drive from Brownsville, TX to the North Texas Panhandle border is almost but not quite halfway from there to Canada. Texas is huge and varied, culturally as well as the scenery. Often the first blizzards in the year are in far North Texas, and where I live down here in South Texas the climate is more like Okinawa, Japan. Hot and humid, sub-tropical; it literally is like a whole other country.

[@cruc1fye]

I love how you can see him not react to the heights and lengths until it displays their equivalent in km XD

[@kimberlymartar9368]

It's the same way with me when I hear km I need it changed to miles

[@mfcamillus211]

Kind of odd considering the UK commonly uses imperial length measurements.

[@docbearmb]

He’s kind of wrong about Kansas City. While the more famous one is indeed on the western border of Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas is just about 3 miles west of there.

[@sebastianjoseph2828]

@Lady Seashell Bikini The video is intentionally deceptive. It placed the red dot to take about the geographic center of US population two sentences early while talking about Kansas City.

[@kavemann-145]

Kansas City, Missouri had the name before Kansas was a state. It was named after the Kansas Indian Tribe.

[@ronclark9724]

Don't forget the Kansas River meets the Missouri River basically at the border as well separating the two cities... America grew west, not all of the states entered the union at the same time...

[@drmachinewerke1]

@John Larson Arthur Meyer is responsible for many of the city boundaries south However people seem to forget that it is his home at the KC art institute not Vanderslice

[@jasonj4865]

Truth and last I was there a couple days ago you could still go to the bar to have a beer. Even on Sunday when they stop selling alcohol after 8PM everywhere except bars and restaurants.

[@claynors7958]

Fun fact: The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island!

[@ronclark9724]

And the Waggoner Ranch is the largest ranch of one continuous property. Not too far away to the west of the Waggoner Ranch is the 6666 Ranch of the Burkburnett family. These are large ranches...

[@lestermount3287]

@@ronclark9724 the XIT Ranch was the largest completely fenced ranch there are larger ranches in Australia but they are not completely fenced.

[@scotcoon1186]

I was thinking they split up and auctioned one of those ranches.

[@jlwolf29]

Some of the states in America have a fire season where it can lead to one if not several states up in flames. There's flood season for other states that can end up under water. Hurricane season. Tornado alley which runs through Kansas and Kentucky that have spontaneous tornadoes during a certain season, Kentucky has a spider season, mouse season and snake season that coincide most times where spiders, snakes and mice get in almost every building in some places

[@KiboCae]

The issue with Centralia, Pennsylvania is that back in the 60's a mining company was incredibly lax with their safety standards and a fire broke out inside the mine, which also happens to be right under the town itself. Originally they had sent people there to try and put the fire out but the massive amount of coal inside the mine made it impossible to safely fight off the fire so they closed the mine off and evacuated the town. Over the next 60 years the few remaining residents either died off or moved away and there is currently 1 resident still living there despite the State and Local governments trying to get them out. The fire itself is still burning beneath the ground and is expected to continue for at least another century minimum. Centralia is actually the inspiration behind the Silent Hill games as well as, prior to 2020, a neat little tourist spot to visit. A section of the old Route 61 remains where they closed it off after a partial cave in caused a portion of the road to collapse and created a massive crack down the center of it. They rerouted the new road away from the area and it became a place where many who visited would tag it with paint, known as Graffiti Highway. As of 2020, a company had purchased the land from the state and began covering the old Route 61 with piles of dirt. The State still owns a majority of the land and it is still actively used as a popular ATV spot. The actual risk of injury from being there is moderate given the toxic gasses in lower areas and the potential for cave ins, but depending on the day and how windy it is you can see small plumes of smoke rising up from the ground where the fire is still raging on. People are still allowed to visit and check it out but it's an "at your own risk" type thing and so long as you stay out of any areas that are marked No Trespassing then you are fine.

[@rmccaslin92]

They miswall change the name of the city to hell on earth. Think how hot it must be there during the winter with a fire blazin under ground. My smoker burns a temperatures of 1000 degrees Fahrenheit and that just 10 lbs of coal smoldering on average

[@Captain-Awesome]

It seems like since the coal is so valuable that they would dig a fire wall to block off the fire to additional coal fuel. That are dump a lake of water down the shaft but I am sure I am late to the part with my bright ideas. They would have thought of the same things already and decided it’s a better idea to let it burn. It will make for a cool cave in a thousand years from now, if Jesus hasn’t come back for us by then.

[@EXISTENTIALization]

@@Captain-Awesome I believe they tried a number of things, but they just couldn't get it under control. I imagine the California wildfires as something similar, but with a much stronger accelerant

[@veteranmaddox5333]

The fire didn't actually start inside the mine. It was caused by burning trash at a dump which incidentally caught the coal on fire. The government bought the town but 6 people refused to sell their property and still reside there. The only reason I know this is because I get bored and watch documentaries... So if that's wrong, don't shoot the messenger lol

[@aodfr]

The other interesting thing about that city is that it was the inspiration for a small game series called "silent hill."

[@Dragonwolf920]

5 minutes for a stop light is literally hell

[@Couldnt_let_J.Marston_die]

The red light is only a suggestions. If no cop is around to see you go through a "red" light was it even red to begin with?

[@fubar55676]

@@Couldnt_let_J.Marston_die no cop no stop or as we call it here the Oklahoma roll through

[@evanmcgillicutty3808]

@@fubar55676 they say no cop no stop everywhere here lol

[@DeusRex6006]

Thank you for showing the U.S. a little love we appreciate you , i hope you keep doing these kind of videos. I'd love to get your thoughts and reactions on a break down of Texas

[@thomasayer7511]

Good on ya mate.

[@nuajbo4693]

theres a 5 minute light in california too the "baker-barry tunnel", i have used it to go to a surf spot. the tunnel is over a mile long and is a single lane but has traffic for both directions, making the light very long as you have to wait long enough for all cars bicycles to clear through before your side may enter.

[@pieheadthemainiac5480]

Yea ground on fire in Pennsylvania I’ve been there (we had to sneak in) there’s a whole town that was abandoned.

[@danielmorton9956]

It's literally the coal veins in the ground that are on fire. The town was straight evacuated. There are cracks opening where steam and smoke vent. Carbon monoxide levels are quite high (esp with lower oxygen) and the area prone to collapse.

[@wittyshark1826]

It’s a sneak peek for the apocalypse

[@thecrazylifeandtimesofacra2629]

ah centralia yes its absolutely burning under the ground ive lived in Pa my whole life

[@DrunknRuckus]

sneak in? didn't know it was illegal. The big mounds of dirt they piled on rt61 makes it impossible to drive into, but always thought you were allowed to walk in (at your own risk, of course). Been quite a few years since I've been there though, so things may be different now. If it is illegal to enter, it's probably because of all of the ridiculous amounts of graffiti, and not for health or safety reasons.

[@danielmorton9956]

@@DrunknRuckus Nah, its illegal because of the evacuation and subsequent liability. Nobody cares about graffiti on condemned areas (well maybe some cops will). Definitely an area that is unsafe an prone to collapse.

[@beverlysoto9476]

I was on the 70 in Utah recently and lucked out when I finally found a gas station over 100 miles later... nearing Moab.

[@ronclark9724]

Texas has a long stretch of highway as well through the King Ranch without a gas/petro station...

[@shawnredshaw6663]

I have lived in Idaho for around 26 years, and that is the first I ever heard of that 50-mile stretch. There certainly isn't a whole swath of people in or around Idaho who are making their way to the 'forever purge' part of the state. So yeah...if you commit a major felony in that stretch and one of the states is going to prosecute you. Furthermore, there is a simple legal precedent in the US called "change of venue" when there is a jurisdictional problem that impeds on proceedings. ie. 'there is no court or residents in this district, so we are going to try you in another district.'

[@halycon404]

Way way way late on this. It's a federal court which causes a whole slew, of well, problems with that. I'm sure there would be a change of venue, but it'd probably have to go up the ladder to SCOTUS to rule on a federal court changing venue because that specific weird thing isn't in the law which governs federal courts. Federal courts exist to supersede this type of problem in the first place. Unfortunately here there's a weird interaction between two sections of the constitution, the organic act, and the change of venue law. The base interaction is this. 1406 only allows the federal court to change venue to anyplace the case COULD have been brought, nowhere else... for very good reasons. Unfortunately The Organic Act specifically puts a limit on where a case may be brought inside land it controls.. also for very good reasons. It's interaction with 6th Amendment means the 9th district court which Idaho is part of can't kick it to the 10th district court Wyoming is part of since any change of venue has to stay inside the 9th district... also also for very good reasons. 1406 also says specifically that one district court can't kick to another district court, it's just superseded by the 6th Amendment. There's more but those are the basics, it's in how several federal laws interact and there's no precedent for this specific interaction. The only time the Zone of Death has ever came up they gave the defendant one hell of a plea bargain just so they wouldn't have to spend years sorting it out. There's no roads leading in or out. It's so remote and the terrain to get there is so bad this issue has only come up one time in history. There's an entire book just on this one small little piece of land and the legal problems it causes that noone will fix until they absolutely have to because it's such a headache for something that pretty much never comes up. The absolute easiest fix is reassigning Idaho from the 9th district court to the 10th district, which is still a migraine inducing. Yellowstone in particular is a huge legal nightmare. It predates The Organic Act and parts of the law which govern National Parks do not apply because it's covered by the earlier laws which created Yellowstone; when America was a very different place. Most of those interactions means Yellowstone can do whatever it wants to a stupid degree. There's lots of national laws where Yellowstone can just say, "F that, I'm not doing it.". It's exempt in some ways even military bases aren't, and noone feels like fixing it.

[@RodRoz707]

I really appreciate your content Ryan. Absolutely love your take on things.. I laugh along with you and just have a blast brother

[@RyanForrest1664]

I appreciate that!

[@nathanlong624]

Gotta love these reactions man😂 I'm sure 95% of us didnt know a lot of this either