GMMore 2641: Can We Draw These Countries From Memory?

Welcome to Good Mythical More, where we’re gonna test our illustration skills. We got this. when it comes to geography. We know every country. Or is it our geography skills when it comes to illustration? Can we draw countries and states by memory? Yes. From memory. Yes. But first, let’s tell a ten word story. Olympics. Crank. My. Dial. When. They. Move. Into. The. Contention. For. Gold. Medals. In. France. Or America. Because. They. Land. On. My. Bottom. What. Is. Did you have that? Did anybody write that down? What was it? Let’s see it. Let’s see it. They’re all very important. All right. The specific word choice is very precise. When we do a 10 word story. Very important. Olympics crank my dial when they move into the contention for gold medals in France or America because they land on my. Bottom. – Bottom. – Bottom. Not item. Bottom. Item? You thought he said item? Bottom. You had faith in me. You should not have. Because they land on my bottom. Bottom. Because they land on my bottom. All right. Are you intimidated by this prospect? Especially with Chase here, you know? He’s not only a world class Eat-lympian, but he’s also a cartographer. Look, Florida. You see, I’m all over it. Oh, wow. Is this a race? Because that’s rather hasty. It’s like a overripe banana. Yeah, I’ll take my time for the real thing. Don’t take your time. I’ll take my time. It’s gotta be done in ten seconds or less. Yeah, we gotta do it. Well, that was two seconds. We gotta do it. I’ll take a little more time. Well, take your time for accuracy. Four. Let’s do five seconds. Five seconds? Yeah, I don’t, I don’t think we should go. Dude. Nobody wants to see us do this. – Colorado. – Whatever. Hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey. We’ll do it reasonably fast, but. Okay. We’re starting easy. North Carolina. Okay. I don’t know. Oh, wow. That’s better than me. You did Virginia’s. Yeah, I didn’t. Yeah, yeah. I did Virginia. Yeah. Yours is a really good one. Mine wasn’t that good. What’s the, what is it? Yeah, you’re kind of missing the like, point situation. Let’s see. Hey, wow, home state. Yeah, I, mine is, mine really sucks, y’all. I gotta do better. That’s horrible. I thought you would be much better at this than me. Well, this is only the first round. Well, I went fast because you kept saying go fast. It’s only the first round. It’s only the first round. I’m gonna, yeah, I’m gonna try harder. You’re right, Stevie, should’ve listened to you. Idaho. Are you? Okay. Back in the negative. Idaho. What? All right. Idaho and Ohio. I can do Ohio I think. Idaho. What is Idaho like? I think Idaho is like. Is that Idaho? Okay, there’s an interesting, Link, what? It’s like an hourglass. It looks like a Pikachu. Interesting. It’s like, there’s, you know, there’s like, there’s a thing of, you know, there’s a thing of, it’s. And what is in the top part of your Idaho? Like, what state is cradled in that? What’s in this? Yeah. I don’t know. I don’t, I really don’t. I think it might be, I think it might be Michigan. No. No, no. Yeah, I don’t believe in Idaho. I thought that. Idaho’s way over there in the west. You don’t believe in Idaho? Is that what you said? I, yeah. I thought that Montana’s nestled in here and that Idaho went all the way to Canada. Reached up and touched, kissed cananica. Okay, let’s bring the. I don’t know, let’s see for real what it is. Dang, son. Oh, I’m backy. You’re backwards. I’m backwards. And look at me. Am I right, it reaches up and kisses Canada? I think so. Yep. Well, I gotta, you know, I’ll know, I’ll know something. He’ll know something. Just stay tuned. He’s gonna know something before this is over. I mean, I was completely backwards. Yeah, when you said Montana was there with your orientation, I was like, well, that’s not. It’s on the other side, so yeah. Other side, yeah. I mean, I haven’t looked at a U.S. map since I drove out here. Well, that one More that we did. Where you had to name everything. We were good at that. You were good at that. I was good at that. I’m good at the capitals. You’re good at the capitals. He’s a capitals guy, I’m a shapes guy, okay? Wisconsin. Wisconsin. I know there’s some Dells in it. Wisconsin. I’ve been there once. But I flew in. But I wasn’t high enough to see the outline of the state. Wiscan. You gotta get real high to see that. What? What? It’s kinda like watching a football game. They do superimpose it through some of the flight windows. Like they do the first down marker. Why’d you look at me? I’m not confident, but why’d you look at mine? It didn’t help me at all. Wisconsin. I’m going off of only one thing I know about Wisconsin. Oh, yeah? That I dated a girl from there? I mean, she moved, she moved to North Carolina, but. Who? Anna! She was from Wisconsin? That makes sense. Yeah, she’s from Wisconsin, that’s why she. That’s why she talked that way. That’s why she, that’s why they talk weird. That’s why they talk so fun. And that’s why she was so smart. Yep. The corn, corn brain they call it. Let me come up with something. You didn’t have corn and you grow gray matter. Okay, so, Wisconsin. I can’t picture anything, I’m just. Yep. That’s a good call. I like what you did there. Did you? Okay. Yep. It looks just like a bird. It kinda looks like a, this is how I remember Wisconsin. Like, I picture, like, some arms here, and some legs here, and it’s kinda like a bird. And the dells, the dells are up here. All I know is that there’s a lake over here. – Lakes, and, lakes and hills. – So, I drew like a lakeshore and then I just kind of drew what it felt like it needed to be, Wisconsin. Okay, let’s see the printout. Oh my goodness, look at this. There is a, there’s a, there’s a thing over there. It’s not a memorable shape, sorry Wisconsin. There’s a peninsula. It’s not a memorable shape. Oh, it’s supposed to be a mitten, that’s how you’re supposed to remember it. That can’t, that’s Michigan. “Machigan”. “Machigan”. That’s what? – “Machigan”. – “Machigan”. Okay, well, we have a Wisconsinite who And I guess Wisconsin is also a hand. It’s also a hand. But the thumb is really janked. That’s a pointy thumb. I mean, if you do this, closer. Oh, we got a Michigan Wisconsin fight back here. Yeah, bring them out! Michigan is the, is the mitten. I mean, it’s, give me a break. That’s, this thing right here is just. They’re both holding up their hands. – Wisconsin. – That’s not a thumb. If, like, a cat got a hold of Michigan. And played with it for a couple weeks. Yeah, yeah. A giant, continent sized cat. Yes. West Virginia. Okay. All right, West Virginia. All right. We know this one. I know this one. Trying it with my eyes closed. Actually. Cause then you’ve got Why did I just make a chicken nugget? Maybe that’s what it’s supposed to look like. Oh, no. I learned something about this. I learned something about this recently. Okay. The dotted line is Virginia. So, did I get this? Interesting. Yep, look. It reaches. It reaches. See that, Link? I actually, well. I didn’t know about this part. Coming up here, the little poppy part. My poppy part. My pointy part was really big and it shouldn’t have been. I wonder why there’s, the, the poppy part is obviously like some kind of historic carve out that they needed that as part of the, cause that seems, that’s not. If you live in the top part of that part of West Virginia, you’re like, I am in West Virginia, but I’m in that part. I’m in the part that probably shouldn’t be West Virginia. See, I made my big, I made that too big. And then I made that way too small, but I, for once I had the right idea. Right idea. It nestles. I had a better idea. It nestles onto Virginia. Well, yeah, cause it’s to the west of it. West of it. Yep. But like, it must be, cause if you live in that part, you’re surrounded by. Ohio and Pennsylvania, like, right next to you. Yeah, I think you’re more of a, you have more friends that are from those other states than your own state, probably. Probably. That’s how it works. It’s probably a one city block. How thin does it get, you know? One city block. I wanna see if there’s a. Can you spit across it? There’s a part of West Virginia you can spit right across. Could Pennsylvania spit on Ohio and just skip West Virginia entirely? I started searching, why West Virginia, and the top searches are, why West Virginia poor? Why West Virginia is the worst state? And you know what, it’s a beautiful state. It is a beautiful state. It’s a beautiful state, except for the places where there’s trash piled up. It’s very mountainous. It’s almost all mountains. Yeah, it is beautiful. I did see some trash piled up. They needed something other than mountains, and that really, it really held them back that they didn’t have something other than mountains. Okay, it has to do with the Ohio River. That’s why it like, went up. So the river’s on this side. River’s on this side. And then that’s straight. Some claiming of that. And that’s like New York coming in there and getting some? Or Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. Italy. Oh gosh. We’re into countries. And I know it’s a boot. Which way does it go? Do you know which way it goes? I will say this is the easiest country on the list. And mine’s a witch boot. We both booted in the same direction. – Okay. – Okay, let’s see the boot. I’ll boot it. Oh gosh. Wow, we’re really lacking. Totally wrong direction. There’s a lot more at the top. What is this thing right there? Sicily, right? It’s kicking Sicily. Oh, shoot. This is painful. We’re horrible at this. Yours looks like a seal. Oh, yeah, it does. That just got attacked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mine just looks like a fashionable men’s boot. Let’s go with that. He’s got a ball on his. We should travel more. Where’s his arm? And pay attention. Madagascar. Madagascar. Okay, so we got Wow. Why are you drawing so much other stuff? Isn’t it on the other side of Africa? Look at that, inset. It’s on the east side of Africa, isn’t it? I think it just looks like a big egg. But where is it? On the east side of Africa, right? It’s around the cape on the west side. It’s on the west side. No, it’s on the other side. It’s on the other side. What? Yeah. Bro, what’s happening to you? I’ve been looking at my maps in a mirror this whole time. Oh, yes. I knew it. You only look at maps while getting ready in the morning. I don’t like to look directly at a map. Alright, let’s see it. Oh, wow. It’s, you know. You got the bottom half right. I just didn’t know what happened on top. I’ve never looked at the top. That’s not bad. I’ve never looked at the top. I would like to visit this, this land. It is supposed to be incredible. Some of the craziest wildlife. It’s got an independent ecosystem. That’s right, island ecosystem. And it’s a very large island. And it has three, four words in it. Mad, a, gas, and car. That’s cool, never thought about that. Now I’m gonna think about that every time I see it. There’s four words in it. Mad, a, gas, car. That’s how you spell it, in the spelling bee. – Okay. – Can we make this a spelling bee? You should know this one, I think. Thailand. All right, Link. You gotta beat me on this one. I know that there’s ocean on this side. It’s like, I know that it kinda does something like this. And then it, it goes. How about that? See, I think, I think there’s a hard line over here. I think, this, I’ve been to this point. Somehow we both did this. Yeah, we were guessing, but you didn’t draw any islands. There’s, there’s definitely islands. Well, I’m implying that, but. Well, you can’t imply islands by drawing nothing. Et cetera. Et cetera. That’s not how it works. Oddly U.S.-y. Rhett’s. I didn’t think about it. Thailand is. Yeah, it’s like a cat got ahold of the U.S. All right. All right, is this my? Is this my one time to shine? Yep. Well, again. Not really. What did, tell me about this hard line. I thought that, I thought that it, well it’s a, it’s a river, but I thought the river was pretty dang straight by the time it got over there. I was wrong. Thailand looks like, like a squirrel jumping with a, with a long, with a long back leg. Where’s the head? You see that? – So, like, this is the? – The head, and that top part’s the tail. That’s the tail? And that’s the front leg. That’s the head? The head is right here? That’s the head of the squirrel. Yeah. That’s the tail of the squirrel. And this is. It has one big long leg. One big long leg. I’m just trying to, gor next time, we gotta do this. I want us to be ready. Yeah. Okay. And, another one Link should know. New Zealand. Okay. Alright. When I was in New Zealand, I would, I’d pull up the Google map when I was sitting down in places. I would zoom out. I’d be like, where am I on this land? And I would zoom out. Okay, so I know that. I’m gonna do something. Okay, and then something happens down here. How about that? I mean, I, you missed, you missed this. It gets very thin here, I do know that. It gets thin in the middle? Like it’s been pinched by a cat? Yep. This is, this is where Hobbiton is. And this is, this is where you can go scuba diving. And then this is. I hope you’re right, for your sake. And I think Queenstown is right here. Queenstown is down here. But don’t you appreciate how much mine just looks like a country? It does look like. I’ve gotten better at the lines. – You’re drawing like. – I’m like just kinda squiggling the whole time. Like, I’m getting better at making up countries. Bull [BLEEP] maps, basically. It could be like, I’m like Tolkien, basically. I’m just making up countries. Just, I gotta build my world. Let’s see it. Did I get it? Did I get it? Not really. Not really. See, I knew that there were like, island-y things, but I didn’t know there was that much island. I kind of got them backwards. The bigger ones below. I did get. I mean, if you do it like that, it’s not that bad. Kind of. – Kind of. – It’s not that bad. So you got Auckland, and then you got Queenstown. That’s what I know. Beautiful country. And then the way that I look at it. I heard it from Link. I look at it this way, but you can’t see it through the board. Because I was looking on a mirror. I was also driving on the wrong side of the road. That was it. There you have it. That was it. Boy, that one guy that I almost killed. And then the other guy that I almost totaled his car. They remember me better than I remember their map, I’ll tell you that. Is that an out? Yes. Because I wasn’t paying attention, but it sounded like the conversation ended. It dwindled. Great. Yeah, that’s good. That’s the mayo right there. That’s beautiful. Look at, oh, look at that. Okay. That’s the pump you want, Lily. That’s what gets you out of bed in the morning when you’re making the mayonnaise.

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