Hey, everybody could see you again. So two things number one. We are filming the next few country episodes
So I gotta give you a filler week topic second of all very quickly
A lot of you have been asking me what am I gonna do about?
Swati me, you know the name that Swaziland's just changed their name to and to answer that question
I'm going to see what the UN does in terms of their
methodology for standard country codes and names right now the country still stands under
Swaziland under the ISO alpha-3 code of
swz
if they change this for the first time I will nullify the
Alphabetical rule and we will do in a SWAT teeny episode if they do not change it then I will have to follow the UN
standard list and it will have to go under s for
Swaziland so it's up to the UN. All right, but let's get into the video
So for this video I chose a topic that many of you guys suggested a long time ago
I summarized all of the 50 states of the United States
however, a lot of you guys asked me to summarize the biggest cities in each state of the United States
I've actually been to a lot of these cities
So I feel like I have a better
insight to some of them but for some of these cities my knowledge is pretty limited because I've never even been to the state let
Alone this city
So for those cities
I'm just gonna try my best to improvise and
summarize it how I feel like that city would be like based off of whatever little knowledge I have and I might add a little
Bit of research in there as well. Alright, so here we go, Birmingham, Alabama
This place is like Atlanta's little brother and it was like a huge Center for the civil rights movement
And like it really doesn't matter if you're black or white everybody cheers for the same team
They all scream roll tide and they love Alabama style barbecue. Oh my gosh so much sauce, Anchorage, Alaska
Now you guys know that Ken and I were recently there for the second geography
There's the thing the city of Anchorage was like built by survivors if you thought Texans were tough
You have not met Alaskans practically everybody in that city knows how to either hunt fish or like just generally not die
Literally when I was at that school, this girl came up to me and she showed me this picture
She's like hey, look at this
I shot this moose when I was only eight years old
Speaking of which the city actually does have like I think fourteen hundred wild moose just roaming around randomly
No, but seriously, it's like an incredibly charming City. Lots of like Pioneer themed bars and pubs and restaurants very charming
totally recommend you visit, Phoenix, Arizona
They're like the opposite of Anchorage in which instead of thriving off of the cold thrived off of the heat
The City of Phoenix is really interesting because it's like they have these big massive
Boulder Hill things all over that the highway passes through there's a lot of native tribes there
Like I think the Apache and the old dam, you know instead of green grass and their front lawns they have cacti
These people are very smart when it comes to like water conservation
And yeah, I mean if you just really want to see like a desert metropolis, Phoenix
Go there Little Rock Arkansas. Now, I drove past here one time and my first impression was wow
There's a lot more black people here than I thought there were I always thought Little Rock would be kind of like, you know
Predominantly white, you know country-ish type of city
But no like literally half of the population is black and it's really interesting because the city kind of like fuses
Country and black culture like there's black people there playing country music. That's the thing like this city surprises you at every turn
So I like if you like surprises go to Little Rock, Los Angeles, California my hometown the second largest city in the u.s
Basically when it comes to California, there's two titans Los Angeles and San Francisco LA makes billions off of entertainment
San Francisco makes billions off of tech now LA is like a double-edged sword because on the surface, you know, you have beaches
skiing perfect weather most of the year good-looking people
But the problem is you have lots of smog
Traffic scams broken dreams and everything is like crazy expensive especially if you're north of the 10 freeway
But other than that whether you love it or hate it, there's just something about this city that just sparkles Denver
Colorado Denver is like our healthiest city people here
You know, they all go hiking they all go kayaking they all actually go outdoors
I'm pretty sure half of everybody has like a stash of trail mix in their cars just for emergencies
It's a little deceptive though. The airport is like 20 miles away in the middle of some cornfields
But yeah I imagine Denver is probably a beautiful city where they eat a lot of elk
Because elk is like a big thing out in the Rockies
I know if you're from Denver, let me know if that was right, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Now I have never been to Connecticut
but I knew a guy that lived close by and he said it's actually a little bit kind of like
depressing and creepy because there's like a lot of power plants and factories and
Industrial areas along the coast and one of them is haunted
I think it's called like the Remington Arms Factory and there's also that like abandoned haunted cursed Savoy Hotel
Which was like built on an Indian burial mound and my people were murdered there or something
The fact Connecticut has like a lot of creepy stuff now that think about it
But the funny thing is Connecticut is also known for being like very clean and proper and like suburban II
So, I don't know maybe it's like clean and proper but with like a creepy undertone
Maybe it's like the the Stepford Wives that type of thing going on. I don't know how you describe yourselves
Kinetic Hetty kinetic kid, Ian's what do you call it? What do you call yourself? Kinetic Asian's kinetic Kees kinetic energy
I don't know Wilmington Delaware now
I've never been there but I did a little bit of research Wilmington is actually the site of Fort Christina the first Swedish
settlement in North America
Yeah I remember the Swedish actually took a stab at
Colonialism that one time and they tried to make an empire didn't really work out that well
but they tried now today there's a tons of Italians and Greeks the city slogan is it's a place to be
Somebody I'm not completely sure what that means, but maybe if you think you're a big shot
Wilmington is your place to go Miami, Florida
now when I think of Miami I think of like dudes wearing
you know buttoned beige shirts with matching slacks and like
Sandals and maybe slicked back hair or like a Panama hat and for them that's considered business casual
Miami is like two things the cruise ship capital of the world and the Latin American capital with a huge
Cuban population, you will always hear like some kind of Latin music playing in the background and you'll smell something spicy in the air
unfortunately
They do get kind of hit hard with extreme storms and hurricanes and they do kind of have to worry about
Flooding with you know rising sea levels, but hey worry about that later the Mambo just started playing let's dance, Miami
Wow, this is the worst continuity error I've ever made in a video but nothing I can do about it
Got to keep moving on Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta is kind of like birmingham's older brother
You know, it's uh, it's the home of Martin Luther King lots of civil rights stuff happened here, too
but uh The interesting thing is that they are now becoming like the new Hollywood
Of the East Coast tons of TV and movie production companies are moving out to Atlanta now partially because number one the scenery
To the weather 3 it's cheaper for the tax rates and 5 generally
It's just like a nice convenient City when it has like the busiest airport in our entire country, Atlanta
It's kind of like an up-and-coming city in America. Check it out and back to the previous footage, Honolulu, Hawaii
I've been to this place and I will say this be careful of the rocks
Underneath the water on some of the beaches
I personally think Honolulu is kind of like what all Polynesian States should strive after you know
Like a culturally intact place that moves forward into the 21st century with an advanced infrastructure and diversified economy. What's really cool though?
I would say is the Hawaiian language revival a couple decades ago
The language almost went completely extinct, but then they started like immersion programs in schools
And now like half the population can speak it mostly the younger people, you know
You got all the touristy stuff from the beautiful beaches and whatever
But to me that is like one of the most beautiful things about Honolulu, Boise, Idaho
Now this is a difficult one because I've never been to Idaho let alone Boise
So I'm just gonna kind of say what I guess the city would probably be like to me
I feel like Boise is the type of city where nobody
Would bother you like seriously
I feel like half of their population must be part of the witness protection program because not even serial killers would they'd be like
Oh, I have to go to Idaho
Forget it. I did some research and let's see one of the largest Basque communities in America lives here
What else they have a centre for birds of prey which helped the peregrine falcons from being taken off the endangered species list
Oh, that's pretty cool. I guess. Yeah Boise. I port will be the bird or the Falcon capital of the USA, Chicago, Illinois
Now I wasn't born in the city, but I did spend a lot of years growing up here
So I feel like I have a somewhat extended knowledge base Chicago is the comedy capital of America
There are more comedy clubs here per capita than in any other city in America
Some of our most famous comedians were either born or trained here
They also have like the slow lowest metro system in the country
but that's actually part of the charm you're riding a train in these like
Elevated platforms to get so close to the buildings like you feel you're gonna hit them
Oh and never ever put ketchup on your hot dogs
Indianapolis, Indiana I passed by this city a few times and that's kind of like what the city is known for the city that you
Pass by and not just kidding
The biggest thing that they're famous for is the Indy 500 one of the largest motorsport venues in our country
I feel like the people in Indianapolis like it's like a city where you could probably still be a farmer and live in an apartment
Like the guy down the hallway in apartment 305 a you know
He actually probably has like a tractor in some field 40 miles away, Des Moines, Iowa
I went here for Caleb's wedding you guys remember Caleb? Yeah, he's from Iowa
my impression of Des Moines was like
Oh, just maybe this little guy he's trying to be a city out in the middle of the country, you know
But seriously Des Moines is kind of like this secret little weapon that America hides in the middle of nowhere for one
It's like one of the most important cities for presidential campaigns because the first caucuses are held here and second. It is our insurance
capital city
So yeah
If you want like financial services
Or like logistics specialists come out here. These people really know how to do their math and wrestle they're famous for wrestling as well
So it's like they're smart and strong go figure, Iowa, Wichita, Kansas
now this place has two nicknames cow town and the air capital of the world the first one because they have a
Prominent cattle industry go figure the second because they are famous for being very prominent figures in the aeronautical engineering industry
Thanks to the perfect setting of flat land and unobstructed skies. They also host the McConnell Air Force Base
But yeah, if you want to fly high
Wichita's skies or where you might want to arise
Yeah, I got the flow. No, I don't, Louisville, Kentucky. Its
Louisville not Louisville, Louisville, no, Louisville
I've been here a few times and I gotta say it is a nice little sleepy River town scooter. You remember scooter
Yeah, my buddy scooter. Sure. He's from there. And yeah, I stayed at his family's place very walkable city for them
It's all about baseball bourbon and horse racing. They put bourbon in everything
They put it in like their cakes their pies if you're not all bourbon pie. Oh, that is good stuff
What's really weird though? Is they have like a theme park right neck to the airport? Okay, New Orleans or
Nollans now, there's the one city in the US that I have not been to that
I am dying to go to the food is spicy. The music is unique
The buildings have that Janousek quoi
Appeal that brings you back to the era when the French controlled this place and just like, Hawaii
There is a resurgence of people that are now starting to learn Cajun French
Louisiana
In general is the largest francophone community in the US and it's really cool when they speak it and even if they just have that
Cajun accent it's like oh yeah keep talking Portland, Maine now again, this is difficult because I've never been to Maine my buddy
Jason is kind of from that general area. He's told me a little bit about it
I feel like Portland is kind of like if you took all the stereotypes of Maine and jammed it into one
Concentrated semi metropolitan area, that's what it would be like, you know
Huge maritime culture a lot of people there go sailing and fishing
I'm sure like, a lot of the houses and buildings are like decorated with you know, maritime ornaments like anchors or like harpoons
there's probably a guy with like an eyepatch and he lives in a lighthouse and he's like I once caught this whale but it got
away
Baltimore Maryland where you can get crabs
Like softshell Blue Maryland crabs cooked right or crab cakes that it's a really cool city
I've been there a few times they got a great little Italy
They got like historic wooden sea vessels on the coast where you can just kind of visit and check them out
It's just like a really cool place to have a lunch, you know, yeah, that's what I'd say
Baltimore is like a good lunch city, Boston, Massachusetts. I've known a lot of people from Boston and according to them
Boston is better than New York in every possible way. You cannot refute that
No, but seriously Boston is interesting because it's kind of like an intellectual based city
It's one of those cities that was built before like the modern era
So a lot of the streets don't make sense and they're kind of like twisty and windy
But yeah, Boston, I mean you got to give it to them
I mean, you meet a lot of people from Boston who are proud of being from Boston, Detroit, Michigan
Here's the thing Detroit did go through a lot of bad years
But now they are really starting to see a rebound
Property values go down and then a ton of people move in and then they start Hill I kinda boost up the economy all over
Again, that's kind of what's happening in Detroit
Now I if you love urban spelunking Detroit is actually the perfect place because they have a lot of like interestingly
Abandoned buildings, you can kind of sneak into and check out but a lot of the buildings are being bought out now. I'm refurbished
So you got to kind of hurry up before you know, big companies. Come in, Minneapolis
I was actually born nearby here Minneapolis is like this city of lakes
I'd say it's a nice calm, you know kind of safe town. It's got some cool art sculptures
Like there's just big spoon with a cherry that's like a cool thing
You can find if you go there winters in Minnesota are very beautiful
Lots of hills to go down for sledding and all the ponds freeze over and you can skate on them, Jackson, Mississippi
now
I've said it before Mississippi is kind of like the most truest deepest like Southern Southern y'all put some hot sauce on my collard greens
State and Jackson is like the epicenter Jackson's nickname is the city with soul some very prominent
gospel folk blues and jazz musicians came from this place
The food is fattening and good the people are fattening and good
If you ask for tea
It's gonna have like 40 grams of sugar in it, and the accents are just deep and thick
It's like just true gritty deep South Kansas City
Missouri yeah, that's right. The biggest part of the city is actually in, Missouri not in, Kansas
Although some of it is in, Kansas
Now when I pass by here, there was one thing I learned Kansas City is famous for Kansas City barbecue
We got quite a few variations
but the one I was introduced to was like pulled pork with the
Sauce all over it and you put it in a sandwich and it's just like oh, it's so good. Just so good
Also, I believe it is the city with the most fountains per capita
I could be wrong when I'm pretty sure it has the most fountains
But yeah, I would say it is definitely a barbecue type of city. So if you like food
Kansas City go there. So that's what I'm gonna end this off the first 25 cities of America
I'll finish it off the next time we do a filler week
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