GMMore 2993: How Well Do We Know The United States?

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Channel: Good Mythical More

YouTube Video ID: Cr_fdOxMy1o

Episode Post Date: March 4, 2026

Episode Number: 2993

Transcript

Can we find cities on a blank map?
Welcome to Good Mythical
More, geography edition.
Yes.
We got these blank maps.
And Stevie, you're gonna just say a city.
Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna give you cities,
you're gonna draw 'em.
I gonna tell you, uh, how close you got.
How confident are we feeling today, fellows?
Well, it depends on if
you're gonna say Los Angeles.
I'm gonna start you off easy and
then I'm gonna go all over the place.
Okay?
Right.
This is gonna be embarrassing.
First I have to know what
state the city's in, kind of.
Yeah, that's true.
But they're not even states on this map.
Yep.
I'm gonna draw all the states right now.
No, you're not.
Okay.
We're starting easy with uh, Los Angeles.
Okay.
Alright.
I think.
Let's see.
Okay, I'm looking at the coastline.
So where, where did I put it?
Uh, mine is very, very small.
Is really little, very small.
Well, that's Florida.
Very small.
So you put it below, below that divot,
I put it just above the, the divot.
Okay.
Let's see.
It's just below the divot.
Oh, it's, it's, it's, oh yeah.
No, it's just above that little divot.
But is it this divot?
It's exactly where I drew it.
Right at the intersection of the,
the, that right angle and then that
thing, oh crap, where did I draw it?
What did, where, where, where
did I, where, where is that?
You drew it.
That's the biggest point up there.
Too far north.
Is that Malibu?
What is that?
You're getting out there
into, I mean, almost Ventura.
So this, this is, this is it Right here.
Right there.
Yeah.
Because not right here in la.
If you're in one part, if you're in
Malibu and you're on the beach and
you're looking towards the ocean.
You're looking south, right?
But if you're in Santa Monica and you're
looking towards the beach, you're looking,
uh, west because of the way that the
land goes, whoop Malibu looking south.
Santa Monica.
Oh, so that you're saying that's Malibu.
So that's how you find where LA is.
Okay.
Is that little crack?
I busted that one.
Okay.
Of course, the city that follows Los
Angeles every single time, Buies Creek.
Oh, all right.
See, this is, this is our hometown, so
we kind of gotta draw North Carolina
in, I'm a, I'm a freehand map drawer.
Okay.
Now I see that you're.
You're going, you're going slow now.
Where's it?
Put the dock right there.
I think that's too, I think
you went too far east.
I think.
I mean, you're both pretty close.
I think we're so much in the right place.
Look at that.
Right in the middle.
Where you guys from?
North Carolina.
Whereabouts?
Um, 40 miles south of Raleigh.
Right in the middle.
So like Asheville?
Like No, that's the, that's West,
that's the Mount Wilmington.
What?
No, no.
I will say, I think you're slightly.
Closer on the latitude.
'cause I'm a little too far north.
If you look at mm-hmm.
The nub, I'm like right here.
And you're more, you tilt your
board down right here, your map.
Do that.
We can't see it.
Your, your, your state was drawn too far.
Very, it was elevated.
It was, it was.
It was.
North Carolina doing a wheelie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You lost it.
You lost it before you even started.
Oh, your North Carolina looks
like Elon Musk designed it.
Oh yeah.
You got cyber nc.
Well, hold on.
But you got a cyber nc.
The, the fact of the matter is he did.
Oh, yes.
Elon Musk designed all the states.
Okay.
New Orleans.
Oh gosh.
We've been there together.
Oh, okay.
We've been kicked out of a reprimanded
at a, on a tour together there.
Um, what were you reprimanded for?
It really fair.
Wasn't inebriation.
I mean, we were drinking, but we were,
were we fighting also being respectful?
Oh, that was shy buffet.
They, they, they didn't appreciate any
of our personalities, I don't think.
I don't know.
Oh, we were laughing.
Well, I mean, yeah, we were snickering
You talking about the ghost tour?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I feel bad about that.
I feel better, but she should
have done a better job.
Did Shreveport?
No.
New Orleans.
She said New Orleans, Shreveport.
What you trying to throw out
your Louisiana knowledge?
Uh uh.
Is it down here on this peninsula?
I don't think it is.
We also went to Buies
Creek together, I think.
Yeah.
We weren't kicked out of anything.
I gotta make my, make your circle bigger.
I did a double circle.
Well, here, here's what I'm gonna do.
I'm doing a arrow.
Alright, well, so you're close
to me, but I actually did it
right at the inlet, don't you?
Thank God, Brad.
I did it right at the inlet.
So you went up in there
and I went above that.
See?
Yeah.
See it right in the inlet.
Oh, snap.
You nailed it.
Yeah, buddy.
Okay, so now you're in the lead.
But you're both doing really well.
Nashville.
Nashville.
Okay.
So I guess we've been there together too.
I guess I should keep my state
strong so I don't have to do this.
We've been there twice together.
Okay.
And I know, I know, I know where it is.
When we did the week Long Tennessee GMM tour.
Oh yes.
And once when we did the actual GMM tour.
The week long GMM tour, the, when we went
to, we did the ducks at the hotel in Memphis.
Oh, Memphis and Nashville.
When we went to Nashville for something.
I just don't think that
North Carolina's that big.
I think I've drawn North Carolina too big.
So let me do this again.
I just think you're taking too long.
Nope.
I want to get this right
because if we get this wrong.
Yeah, I think I've drawn it too big too.
See what you did is you just
made me move everything east so.
Yeah, that's just how it's gonna be.
Oh, you've gone west though.
West relative to the state.
So you're, if you look at Vertically.
Vertically, but Nashville's on the other side
of Tennessee, you're more towards Knoxville.
No, it's right in, I think
it's kind of in the middle.
Let's see.
Oh, it's a little higher.
Oh, but look, but not as far, far as you.
No, but you for other reasons
are in the right place.
Because I went too far west.
You went past the Great Lake.
'cause it's all about the GR Great Lake.
Pointing down.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, North Carolina is way
smaller than I've drawn.
Like Tennessee makes it out to that lake.
And I had the other side of
Tennessee making it out to that lake.
Okay.
Washington dc.
Washington DC.
Been there together is a whole thing.
Waited.
Waited in a lobby for a car for two
hours, and then wound up running in
the streets with all of our luggage.
These are the things that happen.
Mm-hmm.
And Washington, DC but where are
you at Washington, DC Um, okay.
You are gonna have to zoom in on that.
See the difference?
Yeah.
What's the.
What are the key differences
between your placements?
I am,
what am I looking at?
So you got that little thumb coming down.
Those are really in the,
basically the same place.
Yeah, I'm in the I'm I'm
before, I'm beyond the thumb.
How are you at the thumb is
Washington, DC That's what I'm saying.
That thumb thing coming down.
Well, let's look, let's see.
Oh yeah, right on the inside of that thumb.
I think I got it, bro.
So is the thumb also Washington
DC or is that Maryland?
The thumb is Maryland.
Yeah, the thumb is Maryland.
Oh, and that's where Carney's from.
Um, so I circled it.
I was a little, I mean, I wasn't completely
centered on it, but I was pretty close.
So Maryland comes down over the front of
dc, Maryland, protects DC down that thumb.
The thumb is all Maryland.
And then, and then it extends.
There's a little bit of
strip of land heading west.
Yeah.
At the top.
And then like you said, you
DC something underneath.
Interesting.
So it's, huh?
Okay.
Well
I'm embarrassed Vegas.
Okay, now we're just there together.
Crap.
Multiple times.
Crap.
Shoot.
Crapshoot, no drawing states anymore.
Okay.
We went there and linked, totaled
a car that hadn't come out yet.
Yes.
Um, okay, here it is.
We went there, we had Fireball one time.
We went there, uh, with the big
car race and couldn't get anywhere,
and that was really frustrating.
And we hung out with Gordon Ramsey.
Yes, I made a sandwich for Ramsey.
I think.
Yeah, you're too high.
You're too high.
I think I'm too far west.
You're too far north and too far west.
I think.
Let see.
Yep.
It's, it's dang right.
I think I'm pretty dang on it.
I'm really, really close.
Yeah, because it's like the intersection
of thi this thing, God, this rather
lean forward, be cooperative.
We all gotta move the lights.
Move the lights.
Or, or, or take the lenses outta his glasses.
All right.
So you won that one.
You won that one.
Dude, you obliterated me.
Oh.
We have not been here together.
Roswell.
Roswell, New Mexico.
Now we're getting into more difficult
'cause you got California, Nevada.
Yeah.
Say it.
Say it out loud.
New Mexico and Arizona.
I don't know which is which, but
Roswell, it's gotta be more over here.
Okay.
I drew a little UFO.
Oh, we're, I'm way west of you.
'cause I think it's, well
you're in Arizona, bro.
No, I'm not.
New Mexico, Arizona, right?
Arizona?
Or is it Arizona?
The Border's California.
Ah, blasted.
Let see.
Okay.
Why am I put it there then?
Oh, it's way over there.
Okay.
I should have gone even further.
It, it's, it's in the
corner of, outside of Texas.
I was in New Mexico.
I just picked the wrong side
'cause I don't know where it's at.
Oh my gosh.
Okay.
Well you got that one too.
Jackson, Wyoming.
Oh no, have not been.
I've heard mixed reviews.
So is the hole inside of Jackson, Wyoming?
Mm. So you've got like Jackson Hole.
Jackson is Jackson a donut, and
then the hole is Jackson Hole.
And that's why they call it Jackson Hole.
It's crazy, dude.
Idaho.
Okay.
Jackson is the town, and Jackson
Hole is the entire 60 mile Long
Valley encompassing that town.
So the Jackson is inside of the hole.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's backwards.
This part of the United States
is, uh, unfamiliar to me and
not many people have been there.
So I think it's, it's not
familiar to, to many people.
It's not familiar to many.
Not familiar to many.
Only familiar to I'm Way again, I
I've gone a lot more west than you.
I don't You're in Idaho
or maybe even Oregon Tip.
Okay, but see now we, this is
sort of splitting the difference
between the two of us here.
I think it's more here, right
on the edge of the state.
I mean, what's that next state over.
Nobody knows why.
Colorado Jackson Hole is almost
not in Wyoming trying to get out,
just trying to get into Colorado.
Well, that sucks.
We are going to, we're gonna
call a draw on that one.
Call a draw.
I'm okay with that.
Columbus, Ohio.
We've been there together.
Okay.
Okay.
But of course the most memorable
part of Columbus, Ohio and our tour
was when Chase and I kayaked for an
hour in between being on the tour bus
and going to rehearse for the show.
Everyone remembers that.
Everyone was jealous that we made
that choice and we had so much fun.
Yeah.
What was I doing?
Sleeping.
You were sleeping?
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
I was not, I, I mean, capable
of jealousy while sleeping.
Yep.
Is why I've discovered the beauty of it.
Well, you know, they say that,
uh, gen Z would rather have a
good night's sleep than sex.
That's how I read that recently.
The entire generation,
the, the entire generation.
You, you pick a random Z-er and
you ask them, would you rather be
sleeping or screwing right now?
And they say, sleeping.
Is that because they're oversexed.
So when they say, I want to
sleep with you, they mean it.
Ha Hey, I like when you
laugh at me like that.
I that, that was good, dude.
It woody's a little Woody woodpecker.
He gave me the pecker laugh.
All right.
I've turned around.
I think I'm right there to
the west of the Great Lake.
Ooh, okay.
So I Ooh, you are.
I'm always west.
Well, you might be right 'cause I know
that Cleveland is on a great lake, and
then Columbus is south of Cleveland, but
I thought it was on, is that not a lake?
That's just a Canada I can.
I thought that was a lake.
Maybe.
I'm in Iowa, not Ohio.
Common thing I do.
Oh yeah.
Oh dang.
Holy moly.
Look at you.
I might as well be in Columbus.
What, what, what have you been doing?
Looking at maps?
Yeah.
I'm a map guy.
I'm a map guy.
Wait, you just like, you get bored and you
just pull up the US map and just look at it.
I, I have a mapo graphic memory.
When I look at maps, they just,
they slink in there and stick.
I really don't know how you're doing that.
I know, I really do.
Uh, geography is, I don't know, it just like
I can look at a map for a really long time.
And enjoy every second of it.
Uhhuh, I don't know.
I mean, in your office at the creative
house, you have a couple of maps.
Had a couple of maps, yeah.
California and North Carolina, but
they're just Kapo graphic maps.
Mm-hmm.
But you stare at 'em for quite a while.
I do.
And I'm like, man, that that
Central Valley is so big.
Mm-hmm.
It looks like somebody took a ice cream scoop
out of the middle of California and it's
went, and then everybody planted crops there.
Farm.
See, we come back to farm.
Mm-hmm.
You know what I'm really good at?
Um, first person recognition
of places that I've been.
You are good at that.
So, like Stevie, when you're talking
about Oh, have, we've been there.
We've been there and I'm
kind of like, have we?
But if you dropped me there,
I'd be like, I've been here.
Yeah.
You, you will, he will recognize if
he's been in a certain part of the
city, you need to find a clean restroom.
Do you want to, you want to get a, you want
to, do you want to get, um, some fries?
I, I know where to take you.
That's true.
I've been around the, I've
been around this block.
Uh, you've also been to Philadelphia.
Ooh, this is a tough one, man.
All of us together, all that New
England crap, new England's overrated.
Their tastes are too small.
Like when we first started making the US.
We thought we were gonna have
hundreds of states, you know?
Yeah.
Uhhuh.
And then we were like, let's
just get this over with.
That's a state.
Yeah.
Right.
That is what they did.
Well, you know what?
Okay, we'll just make all, uh, five states.
We went to the oldest bar in Philadelphia,
enjoyed some karaoke, Pennsylvania, some
sticky tables where this stuff is like.
Philly is, it's over here.
I don't know.
Philly crowd was loud.
Okay.
We're pretty much the same spot.
But you're further west.
I don't know.
Of course.
What part of the state is it?
I'm always west.
Let's see.
Oh, it's east.
Whoa, dude.
Oh, I'm pretty close.
But not that is coastal dude, almost.
I didn't realize it was
almost not in the state.
You could throw some thinly sliced beef
into the ocean from the edge of the state.
That probably, I probably, it's probably
a lot further than the map makes it
seem, and beef, when thinly sliced,
tends to get caught in the wind.
It does.
And it's blowing the other way.
Yeah.
I've embarrassed myself many times trying
to hit people with thinly sliced beef, and
it just fluttered right in front of me.
I'm a, I'm such a loser at this.
Yeah.
You're not doing great.
Let's keep going, but
with our powers combined.
Mm-hmm.
Me getting us there and you getting
us around when we get there.
Yep.
Yep.
That's, we'll never get lost.
That's okay.
Shall we go Orlando, Florida.
Orlando, Florida.
So you've got Miami, you've got Tampa,
you've got Tallahassee, and then right here.
Have we been to Orlando together?
Yeah, there's a, there's a big Oh yeah.
Playlist Live.
Remember that?
I think maybe more than once actually, we've
been to Orlando together more than once.
I thought We've tour, been to Miami together.
I don't think, think we've been to Orlando
was playlist live where, um, the fans
were running on the, um, hotel floors
and then the security guards were running
around chasing them and it was a absolute.
Yeah, show it was mayhem.
Okay.
And, and Ben and I shared a room,
hotel room, and we opened up
our curtains to greet the day.
And there were hundreds of fans outside
that when we opened up the curtains.
They were all like, yeah.
They're like, ah, uh, let's see.
See I drew the, um, oh,
dang, buddy, I'm close.
It's just a little bit south of that point.
And where, where did it, what?
Hold on, you might.
I am you.
I'm too far west as usual.
I know you're too far east.
I'm also too far.
You're too far east.
You're closer.
No, the, the circle is what
I thought was the lake.
The.
The arrow is, is, uh, Orlando.
So I put the, I put the lake way too high.
Well, I can't, who's closer?
I can't tell 'cause I can't reconcile all
these things I think we're basically insane.
There's disagreements back here.
Remember we went to Waffle House
and we poured beer into the
Waffle House cups and had it.
Yes, that was well, we were really cool.
That was pretty cool.
That was desperate.
I mean, we were desperate to
drink beer in a waffle house.
Desperate for beer.
Yeah, I remember doing that.
Pouring, be pouring beer into
a. Thing in the parking lot.
Now I will just drop this onto the map, okay.
And I will tell you this is Topeka.
And I think it's a little north.
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