I'm gen z and it wasn't until I was an adult that I realize a lot of older generations do understand our slang, they just don't use it because it's stupid 😂
My sister is a an ambulance driver in Philadelphia. The stories are INSANE! Disproportionate number of calls where people need to have a cockroach removed from their ear.
I’m such a map geek. I can sit and look at a map forever. I pull up my maps everyday and look up every place I hear about that interests me! I always find myself exploring all the areas around my point of origin. My oldest grandson shares my map geekiness and that just makes me smile. I’m also known as the family navigator. Whenever we head out on a road trip, i’m the route coordinator! Sadly, with gas prices being so high, I may have to take my vacation in my recliner exploring my country via maps.
ME TOO. I have loved maps my whole adult life. Sit and ponder them. It started off with never going on a trip when I was a kid and daydreaming about other places. I joined AAA almost fifty years ago and kept an updated set of maps in my home and vehicle. I just called for some new maps and they are not printing on paper but doing something digital now. Very sad news for me. I am now old and retired but love to play around with Google Maps and the Satellite Maps. Hear about an island or a city and must research it and read about it and look at all the photos. So much easier than packing luggage and dealing with airports :-) Lucy HSV AR
@@GeographyKing there's something wrong with your data. There are about 700 million chickens in Australia. Maybe it's because we call them chooks instead of chickens.
...geography was my best subject from 1st grade through my senior year of high school...sometimes I'll take out an atlas & scan through it rather then a book ..Ha! ...intersting maps...as always! ...enjoy your YT channel! ...keep up the good work! ...Best of Luck From Ames, Iowa!
1:25 this is depressing. East Texas is still forest but of course a lot has been cut down for crappy suburbia and lumber. We need those when it’s super hot 🥵 🌲
There are plenty of pine plantations across East Texas. Most are located where the crappy soils aren't any good for anything else. Many old forested areas were logged then allowed to go back to nature. Up here in Longview, those are being turned into upscale housing developments where they selectively cut down the trees so the finished homes have mature trees on the lots. Looks alot better than the urban sprawl being thrown up on pastureland.
The ducks in France are not only, or probably even not mainly, because of foie gras (pronounced "fwah", not "foy"), but because of magret de canard, duck breast, which is a popular item you will find on the menu of many French restaurants.
Duck is actually something of a staple in French cuisine. For example the "Canard à l'orange" and "Confit de Canard" and of course "Foie gras de Canard" which is the fattened duck liver, instead of goose liver. Keep up the good work, Kyle!
Kyle, I live in central ND and am excited about the permanent DST. Yes in the winter it wont get light till later in the day but we will keep our glorious very late summer sunsets at around 1015pm. I was more afraid they would make us stay permanent standard time which would have our sun come up waaaaay early in the morning, and then go down at only 9pm. On balance I'll trade the dark winter mornings for more evening daylight when people are off work to enjoy it
I'm just looking forward to not having to change the clocks and reacclimate twice a year anymore. I wouldn't care if half the day was dark and half the night was light as long as I don't have to struggle to get out of bet an hour early every day during the summer.
I’m from North Dakota too and I would gladly take the sun rising later in the winter. Specifically I’m from western North Dakota and the sun sets there a little after 4pm in December.
@@iboKirby exactly. In winter I don't need sun going down at 4pm just to have it rise very early. Plus summer you get longer working evenings. I understand people don't like switching back and forth, neither do I. But the solution is year round dst, not year round standard time.
Yeah, that “Ticket to Ride” map is painful! It’s been so long since I pulled it out of the closet, but have you seen the map for the game “Rail Baron”? As I recall, it’s a bit stretched east-west and somewhat cartoonish, but as a “kid” I loved all the small towns it showed.
Yes, the "Ticket to Ride" maps are all 'interesting' (there's more than just this one). We Kansans declare automatic victory - Kansas City on that map is ENTIRELY in Kansas (in reality about 80% is in Missouri), though it seems to be a bit north of Leavenworth...
I think the map has to accommodate the size of the train pieces so the connection cities had to be inaccurate to keep the board a certain size (aka, keep costs down).
Man, I'm so glad you mentioned the Ticket to Ride board! My brother just bought it last Christmas for his family, and we almost had more fun squabbling over which city was the worst than we did actually playing the game. Fun game, but that map is ROUGH
Good job! I laughed when you said you were kinda nerdy. I guess we all are, since we sit and watch your videos with enjoyment. The elevation relief looks amazing.
Another great installment of the Interesting Maps series Kyle! Being from (and still living in) The Dis-Contiguous Zero I was not at all surprised to see our state is almost 40 percent covered in forest, although the Pine Barrens take up much of that. Very few out-of-staters know how rural the northern half of our state is, so those who only know "Dirty Jerz" are missing a lot of beauty. And we're OK with that. The "Ticket To Ride" map was awful and hard to even look at!
Always a good day when you upload, Kyle. I enjoyed a rewatch of your natural disasters videos earlier today in anticipation of severe weather in my area.
I always enjoy these map videos - along with your other videos - because it's fascinating to see different ways of looking at our country. BTW, Benefit is my favorite Jethro Tull album!
Thanks, Kyle G. King! Best of the MAPS series so far. Loved the first one, the finale cracked me up! Just where ARE those trains going? Next stop: the bottom of Lake Mead.
Also Arizona - I think we'd be better off on Mountain Time. The Navajo Nation would otherwise be split up along time zone lines, OR would needlessly be 1hr off from Phoenix and Flagstaff. And we would be constantly an hour off from Utah and Sonora to our immediate north and south.
Can’t believe you popped up again on my feed. I don’t know why, but something with algorithm, but you channel the past month has been completely removed from my feed. Glad to see your stuff again.
Time zones in the US are pretty strange. I live not far from the western edge of Central time and the sun doesn't set until about 9:30 in June. I remember going on a summer trip to Chicago (on the eastern edge of Central time) and waking up at 6 am to broad daylight. Quite a surreal experience.
I've certainly enjoyed moving back to Arizona and not changing the clocks. But we're way south and in the summer, we prefer the sunset to be an earlier clock time so that we can venture out into the cooler night air before it's too late.
I hate changing the clocks twice a year. Ca passed a proposition to set CA on permanent daylight savings time a couple of years ago but the bill is stalled in congress. Do we really need the sun to rise at 7am in December?
UK gets sunsets after 10pm in June, and still some visible sunlight after 11. Could be worse. Some Nordic regions get 6 months of sun followed by 6 months of dark - it doesn't set at all in summer.
I I am so grateful for people like you, Kyle! You really make geography interesting… I can only imagine what the world would be like if there were people like you teaching in our school system. Thank you so much!
can please link to maps or at least tell us where we can find them. In particular i find the first map to be the most interesting and one i would like to take a closer look at.
I’m on the northwestern side of my timezone and I’m still very happy about the permanent shift away from daylight savings. I’m rarely awake that early, and it’s even longer before I’m ready to do anything with my day. The extra hour in the evening is really significant for my seasonal depression.
@@cyberinsecuregaming2890 I think a significantly higher proportion of the population would consider themselves night owls than 50 years ago, so I feel like it will stick... Or at least I badly hope lol
Laborers that work outdoors in northern locations will have issues with this time thing surely. Unless the company I work for changes the starting time from 7:30 to something later we might be painting the outside of your house with spotlights and that's not very practical. Personally, I think it was a bad move based on people complaining about losing 1hr. once a year which to me isn't a big deal... plus you'll never get that extra 1hr. break again. Yin Yang turned gray blurXD
@@protoolpat1 I would think industries like that could just start an hour later. If you need the sun to do your work then wouldn’t you operate based on that rather than what the clock says? I work nights, so it’ll be dark for me regardless.
I enjoy these videos so much! I have some ideas that could be included on future videos, like where in the U.S. the nighttime speed limit is different from the daytime speed limit, the habitat of cactus in the U.S. (including a variety that grows near the Wright Brothers Monument in Kitty Hawk, NC), and where counties of the same name border each other in bordering states (like Escambia County, AL, borders Escambia County, FL). Also, here's a geographic oddity: The WZRH radio mast in Vacherie, LA (near the Mississippi River) is higher in elevation at the top than the source of the Mississippi River.
The last one reminds me of a map in my college's cafeteria. It is a map of where the food from the cafeteria is sourced from, all in Alabama (as that's where the college is), but the dots to represent the locations are almost hilariously far off. Like Birmingham is a good 40 miles west of where is should be, Fairhope, AL is inland, etc. I can take a picture of it and send it to you if you're interested in looking at it. Me and my friends make fun of it every time we are waiting in line
02:30 yes yes yes!! Standard time is what people need, NOT Daylight Savings!! The days get longer in the summer no matter if we change the clocks or not..but you can't get the sun to rise earlier!
You definitely are the Geo King ! Thanks for a great video! I love watching and see if something involves my state I live in now of NC or my original home state of PA. I find the facts quite rather informative. Thanks again, keep up the awesome work!
With Los Alamos National Laboratory north of Albuquerque and NASA at the White Sands Test Facility east of Las Cruces, it makes sense that New Mexico has a lot of physicists. That included my dad when he was stationed at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque working on weapons testing in the 50s.
Re your remarks about permanent daylight savings time.... I have to agree - late sunrises in winter time would be awful. I can't see such legislation lasting either.
Better idea is ditch daylight savings time altogether. Apparently there's evidence that people do better with this. Some states live without it, including most of Arizona.
We have what I call “fake spring” in Houston in February when my flowers and bushes bloom 🌸 then it goes back to 30’s a bit, those die, and it blooms again in early March for “real spring” remember our crazy freezes/snow ❄️ always happen in February 😂😂
That reminds me of meme i saw about the seasons in upstate NY, basically its 12 because of fools summer, hells front porch (obviously not as hot as TX), spring of deception, and my favorite the Pollening. (When every tree and grass releases it pollen at once cars turn green 1 day after getting washed) my house has a crabapple tree and a bunch of spruce trees, the crabapple turns completely pink for a week and you can hear all the bees buzzing in it. Nature likes to fake out on committing to it being a given season and will swing 10-20 degrees on average away from typical so you get a cold snap for a week and wonder why is it snowing in April when it rained amd hit 60 in early March. (Its probably just the Jetstream)
Interesting. Up here in Western WA we also have a "false Spring" in February for sometimes a couple of weeks. Sun comes out, blue sky and temp is in the 50's. Just gorgeous weather and you hope it'll stay that way until May. It doesn't!
@@jasonreed7522 Lol! I briefly went to SUNY Brockport and yes that was my first real snow. How dare y’all laugh at us but not warn me the brakes would hibernate 😂😂 btw currently 82 so I’ll gladly trade 🥵
@@deirdre108 I lucked out and caught the 4 days of sun y’all get every august lol. And highs of 88. Everyone in Seattle was screaming HEAT WAVE and I had on jeans. We sure are a big country eh lol
@@jaya.d-gauthier1644 Last summer we had the record official high for WA---120 degrees in Central WA on the eastern side of the mountains. Had many 100+ degrees before and after that high. Those temps might compare with West TX, don't you think? And the Seattle area at the same time hit 106, again with about a week of 100+. Problem here is that there is little or no air conditioning. LOL But you're right. Temp hits 80 and folks are crying HEAT WAVE! But Houston has that humidity!!
Since I was very young, I have always enjoyed looking at maps. Your videos are great. They move along at a good pace and present some really interesting Information. I also like the Benefit LP in your introduction/closing section. Thanks for everything.
I have the exact opposite feeling about daylight saving. I grew up in Wisconsin, and strongly disliked the early sunset (being on the eastern end of Central time). I now live on the western edge of Eastern time, and I absolutely prefer later morning sun and later evening daylight in the winter. I also like the idea of permanent daylight saving time, as that adds even more evening light in the winter. As an outdoorsy person, it's hard to enjoy the snowy season if it's dark when I leave work.
Iowan here, yup, pigs everywhere! Can’t see them but sure can smell them. I grew up working on pig farms and hate pigs so much I don’t eat pork to this day.
If your not smelling a pig farm, your smelling the manure being used as fertilizer somewhere else, you can smell that for miles ahead in the car, and it takes miles to realize you passed it enough. This is how they make the governor's cologne.. after all we jumped on the put lipstick on a pig and call her governor bandwagon.
Chicago became known as The Windy City due to the hog and cattle stockyards on the southwest side of town. The prevailing winds sent the stench across the city to make it smell like a fart.
As far as I've always known, a roustabout is a circus worker. After looking it up, I see that it can refer to many different things: circus workers, deckhands, longshoremen, oil workers, etc. The common theme seems to be unskilled/somewhat skilled laborers.
Definitely agree completely on your take for DST, imagine students having to go to school in what is basically the middle of the night in order to get to school on time. Getting to school at about sunrise is bad enough, but an hour before? Well, let's just say no amount of "enjoying the outdoors in winter" would make that anything but miserable.
Another amazing set of maps!! Aside from the last one, which admittedly had decent precision with poor accuracy. (relatively correct?) I must say though that to a Canadian, maps like the first one you showed are moreso abominations because for a map, they totally lack global context and instead show the USA floating alone, by itself unattached to any other land mass. Weather maps on TV often showcase similar lack of continental context and as a geospatial expert (and teacher) these are always missed passive learning opportunities. Thanks for all you do and you really inspire me to do something similar for NS/Canada!
Given that we have several brutally hot months here in most of Arizona, it makes sense to invest in a good home entertainment setup, since we're cooped up all summer. Speaking of the maps of rivers, I did see one somewhere (but unfortunately don't remember where) that redrew the states in the west based on watersheds. In some respects, that makes a ton of sense, especially compared to the arbitrary borders that were drawn. All the various states fighting over the Colorado River's declining water supply would have been one entity instead (or maybe a pair, such as upper & lower).
It could have been from Atlas Pro, he has a video where he redrew all the US state borders to group based on water sheds/resources. Making the great basin amd olgana aquafir controled by 1 or 2 entities because of resource concerns. I believe some other factors were involve like mountain ranges and some respect for minimizing "border gore" (a term borrowed from 4X games)
Still rather surprising given we have 300 days a year of sunlight in the valley . There’s no shortage of outdoor activities in this beautiful state and people still choose to stay inside and be sedentary
I've liked, watched, and subscribed (a long time ago), but the heck if i'm gonna give in to the man and comment for his dang nabbed algorithm. Thanks, Kyle. I even pause the ad blocker for you.
Really hate daylight time and I'm in the southeast of the central zone where it shouldn't be too bad. Can't imagine dealing with daylight time if you're in the northwest part of a time zone. Permanent standard time would be better imo
In your shaded relief map it appears to show the US divided between the humid, lushly vegetated east and the arid desert west. I live on the dividing line between these two halves in San Antonio, TX. It is quite interesting to be able to drive a couple hundred miles east or west and be clearly in either region. Our weather reflects our being on this border too. We can have humid rainy days and we can have very dry days - like what happening right now with humidity below 20%. Never a dull moment here and I love it.
I know that when I was introduced to Ticket to Ride, I was pleased, as it was the first board game I ever played that was as much fun as it looked like on the box. They admit the map is not accurate in order to make everything fit.
9:50 AS a graduate of Los Alamos HS in New Mexico, I had to laugh at physicists being the most out of proportion job. Yep, about half of the kids in our HS had Physicists or engineers for parents. We love the channel. Keep it up.
I really don't understand why people are so averse to late sunrises. Like to me losing an hour of sunlight in the morning is so much better than losing an hour of sunlight in the afternoon when you might actually get to enjoy it!
Because waking up with the sun is most natural and health problems are already associated with living on the western edge of a timezone because you are waking up before the sun. Nothing feels better than leaving the windows amd curtains open in the sumer and waking up to sunlight and birds. Waking up to am alarmclock in the dark just sucks. Somewhat related is you want the sun away from the horizon while driving, not everyone has the luxury of living east of their place of work and driving into the sun when its on/near the horizon just sucks. Late sunrise is problematic, especially in the north where sunlight hours are limited already. So forgive us Northerners for not wanting to wake up in total darkness and then get blinded on our morning commute.
@@jasonreed7522 "Nothing feels better than leaving the windows and curtains open in the summer and waking up to sunlight and birds" Dude, we have very VERY different perspectives about that. I literally tape my blackout curtains to the wall so that that does not happen. Like I know some people can just fall asleep whenever they want and then wake up at the crack of dawn perfectly well-rested. For those of us who cannot fall asleep on command and are light sleepers, that light wakes us up after like 4 hours of sleep. It's awful. If I could design a house, the bedroom literally would not have windows. That's how much I specifically hate being woken up by the sun. To me nothing feels better than going home from work in the winter and having it still be light out, or at least having it not get dark with hours left in the work day. Back in the day I taught a 5-8 PM lab course in the winter quarter. It literally started an hour and a half after it got dark and went on for three hours after that. It was horrible. Unbelievably depressing. That's why I think permanent daylight time is best *specifically* for people who live in the north. Because for as long as I've lived in the northernmost major city in the continental US, I've always said that the single worst thing about it is how early it gets dark in the winter. Never noticed or cared when the sun rose in the morning.
I love your videos but I have one recommendation. Could you zoom in in different parts of the map like you did your the Ticket to Ride one? On some of them it’s hard to see some of the detail especially when watching on a phone. Thanks for the good content.
I loved that you put the Ticket to Ride map in this video. Love the game, but I rant and rail every time about the flaws of the map and some of the city and route choices. Add Reno as an additional junction, damn it, and you change the whole dynamic for controlling the west. Alas, I’m not a game maker though.
While seeing the "last name" map, I note how prolific is the name "Smith," which is my mother's maiden name. I read somewhere that when the immigration influx at Ellis Island was so overwhelming, the agents, trying to keep up administratively with long lines, when they could not understand what a person was saying in response to the question of their last name, would simply say, "okay, your American last name is 'Smith.'" And so we have a large population with the last name of Smith here in the US. Has anyone else heard or read of such a phenomenon from that era?
I've certainly heard of names being "Americanized" when people went through Ellis Island, but mostly just changes in spelling and rarely changes in pronunciation. I've never heard of a name being changed entirely. It honestly wouldn't surprise me though.
When I first watched one of your videos, I thought, "This guy is boring." Lol Now I find myself clicking on almost every video that pops up in my feed and I've subscribed too. You're maybe not the most exciting TH-camr, but your videos are super interesting and I hope you continue to make more!!
Just discovered this video, new subscriber. I've always been a geography nut and thoroughly enjoyed this. Cheers from L.A., and to be geographically precise, that's Lower Alabama for you.
This is a great series, but I miss road-trip related videos from you too! I would love a video talking about how you strike a balance between distance driven per day and actually doing things in the states you're driving through
I've got more road trip stuff coming up. I'll be on a road trip in May and will have videos about the trip. I'll likely also redo my first couple of videos that were about road trip ideas and tips. Those are pretty old (2017) and are awful videos, although the info itself is still pretty good.
I heard a petroleum geologist state that the petroleum fields follow a gradient. Most all wells have NG then wells , but heavier petroleum well are lower pressures NG. Besides looking for the natural gas wells having higher pressure, they also look for wetter wells that have propanes and butanes also.
And MO is coatroom attendants!! Explains the low-brain activity reflected in their choices for state and national “leadership”. They’’ also be blood red in any map that depicts degrees of white supremacy and racism.
I aint from Texas but that first map (love it!) has the Panhandle and Brownsville in the same hypothetical state. That dont seem right. Maybe that North-South orientation works for Western Montana down to Northern New Mexico cuz of the whole Rocky Mt thing, but the Southwest shoulda been more East-West oriented hypothetical states. Just saying. Eastern New Mexico is correctly shown as part of West Texas. Of course, I know Kyle has nothing to do with the design of the map, etc. I just feel like chatting tonite. Thanks for listening.
You hard reset my brain when you described the Best Korean voting map as "kinda sus"
Among us
That's what the " whipper snappers " call it
Gen z brainrot moment
I'm gen z and it wasn't until I was an adult that I realize a lot of older generations do understand our slang, they just don't use it because it's stupid 😂
Sus existed before amogus 😭
So glad you mentioned the ticket to ride game board. That has always pained me to look at every time I play!! Great video as always.
the problem with the ticket to ride length is the actual physical length of the train pieces that wouldn't let you space them geographically correct.
@@MrWinnyRoe i came here looking for this comment. The length of the train squares dictates where they can put the dot representing the cities.
Does the classic Risk board give you a stroke?
@@nickmartin123456 Yes, I was thinking the same about Risk.
King: What's happenining in Pennsylvania? Bad roads? A lot of deer? A lot of car accidents?
Me, a Pennsylvanian: *Yes*
dated an overnight 911 operator from there for a while, so I can confirm.
My sister is a an ambulance driver in Philadelphia. The stories are INSANE! Disproportionate number of calls where people need to have a cockroach removed from their ear.
Philly. That's why
true
LOTS of rural people, LOTS of deer, LOTS of bad drivers, LOTS of bad roads. Welcome to PA!
I’m such a map geek. I can sit and look at a map forever. I pull up my maps everyday and look up every place I hear about that interests me! I always find myself exploring all the areas around my point of origin. My oldest grandson shares my map geekiness and that just makes me smile. I’m also known as the family navigator. Whenever we head out on a road trip, i’m the route coordinator! Sadly, with gas prices being so high, I may have to take my vacation in my recliner exploring my country via maps.
ME TOO. I have loved maps my whole adult life. Sit and ponder them. It started off with never going on a trip when I was a kid and daydreaming about other places. I joined AAA almost
fifty years ago and kept an updated set of maps in my home and vehicle. I just called for some new maps and they are not printing on paper but doing something digital now. Very sad news for me. I am now old and retired but love to play around with Google Maps and the Satellite Maps. Hear about an island or a city and must research it and read about it and look at all the photos. So much easier than packing luggage and dealing with airports :-) Lucy HSV AR
i misread that as map greek
@@chayo9146ify LOL!
The part when you said, "You can't make this stuff up" when referring to Florida was hilarious
its exactly what you would expect and never say
I was rolling 😆
I was thinking it... then he said it!
I always wondered how Florida Child lived long enough to become Florida Man/Woman.
yeah... my state is... special
One of my favorite series on TH-cam. Thanks for another interesting video, Kyle.
What up Kyle, your videos are amazing i love to watch them when im high lol thanks for everything!
Haha you're not the only one! The national park ones always hit harder when you're high 🤣
Maps make me high! Just ask my map case full of NatGeo maps from as far back as 1922.
Brings a new meaning to elevation, but I’m right there with ya
8:31 😌🍁💨
Yes I love ALL of Kyle's videos....he is awesome. Thank you so much
This channel is popular, but still so underrated. Incredible content and commentary on literally every video.
Thank you very much!
Let’s help, then. Comments help, I’ve been told. Engagement.
@@GeographyKing there's something wrong with your data. There are about 700 million chickens in Australia. Maybe it's because we call them chooks instead of chickens.
Greetings from England, another great vid with some amazing content. Keep up the good works. Thanks.
...geography was my best subject from 1st grade through my senior year of high school...sometimes I'll take out an atlas & scan through it rather then a book ..Ha!
...intersting maps...as always!
...enjoy your YT channel!
...keep up the good work!
...Best of Luck From Ames, Iowa!
1:25 this is depressing. East Texas is still forest but of course a lot has been cut down for crappy suburbia and lumber. We need those when it’s super hot 🥵 🌲
There are plenty of pine plantations across East Texas. Most are located where the crappy soils aren't any good for anything else. Many old forested areas were logged then allowed to go back to nature. Up here in Longview, those are being turned into upscale housing developments where they selectively cut down the trees so the finished homes have mature trees on the lots. Looks alot better than the urban sprawl being thrown up on pastureland.
That colored elevation map is absolutely gorgeous. Would love to have a large one of that on my wall!
I really liked the anti click bait message at 0:28.
Can't wait for part 7
The ducks in France are not only, or probably even not mainly, because of foie gras (pronounced "fwah", not "foy"), but because of magret de canard, duck breast, which is a popular item you will find on the menu of many French restaurants.
I paused watching after his pronunciation there.
I love ducks, but man their meat just isn't for me. Their eggs are alright, a lot more fatty.
Duck is actually something of a staple in French cuisine. For example the "Canard à l'orange" and "Confit de Canard" and of course "Foie gras de Canard" which is the fattened duck liver, instead of goose liver.
Keep up the good work, Kyle!
Sometimes, I'm not sure if these videos are intentionally funny, but either way they make me laugh. I love them so much. They're such a joy
These are always great. Looking forward to more of them!
I could watch these interesting map videos all day. Your pacing is perfect, plus i can just pause when i want to stare at the map a little longer
Not sure how I found your channel, but glad I did. I always enjoy your content. I wish you increased success inf the future, you deserve it.
Thank you!
Kyle, I live in central ND and am excited about the permanent DST. Yes in the winter it wont get light till later in the day but we will keep our glorious very late summer sunsets at around 1015pm. I was more afraid they would make us stay permanent standard time which would have our sun come up waaaaay early in the morning, and then go down at only 9pm. On balance I'll trade the dark winter mornings for more evening daylight when people are off work to enjoy it
I'm just looking forward to not having to change the clocks and reacclimate twice a year anymore. I wouldn't care if half the day was dark and half the night was light as long as I don't have to struggle to get out of bet an hour early every day during the summer.
I’m from North Dakota too and I would gladly take the sun rising later in the winter. Specifically I’m from western North Dakota and the sun sets there a little after 4pm in December.
@@iboKirby exactly. In winter I don't need sun going down at 4pm just to have it rise very early. Plus summer you get longer working evenings.
I understand people don't like switching back and forth, neither do I. But the solution is year round dst, not year round standard time.
As much as I love Daylight Savings times, the thought of kids standing at the bus stop in the dark every morning worries me.
Without dst, it would be light here in the morning by 4am
Thank you for another incredibly interesting video, Geography King! I always enjoy watching your videos. 🙂
Home from work to find a new video from Kyle= awesome day
New subscriber , absolutely love your content. I’m a total nerd for this stuff. Keep up the good work!
Thank you. Welcome to the channel!
Old subscriber , absolutely love your content. I’m a total nerd for this stuff. Keep up the good work!
Yet another old subscriber, absolutely love your content. I'm a total nerd for this stuff. Keep up the good work!
6:47 Never thought I would hear a "Looks kinda sus" drop on this channel🤣
Yeah, that “Ticket to Ride” map is painful!
It’s been so long since I pulled it out of the closet, but have you seen the map for the game “Rail Baron”? As I recall, it’s a bit stretched east-west and somewhat cartoonish, but as a “kid” I loved all the small towns it showed.
Yes, the "Ticket to Ride" maps are all 'interesting' (there's more than just this one).
We Kansans declare automatic victory - Kansas City on that map is ENTIRELY in Kansas (in reality about 80% is in Missouri), though it seems to be a bit north of Leavenworth...
I have Europe it has an 1800s interpretation of place names which look weird.
I think the map has to accommodate the size of the train pieces so the connection cities had to be inaccurate to keep the board a certain size (aka, keep costs down).
@@joermnyc True enough!
Rail Baron put Tucumcari, Pocatello and Shreveport on the map! 😁
Man, I'm so glad you mentioned the Ticket to Ride board! My brother just bought it last Christmas for his family, and we almost had more fun squabbling over which city was the worst than we did actually playing the game. Fun game, but that map is ROUGH
crazy idea, but i would LOVE to see a more in-depth overview of the first map!!
Good job! I laughed when you said you were kinda nerdy. I guess we all are, since we sit and watch your videos with enjoyment.
The elevation relief looks amazing.
On the eastern side of time zones in the north, the daylight ends too soon in the winter, perhaps move the UP into the central times zone
Another great installment of the Interesting Maps series Kyle! Being from (and still living in) The Dis-Contiguous Zero I was not at all surprised to see our state is almost 40 percent covered in forest, although the Pine Barrens take up much of that. Very few out-of-staters know how rural the northern half of our state is, so those who only know "Dirty Jerz" are missing a lot of beauty. And we're OK with that. The "Ticket To Ride" map was awful and hard to even look at!
awesome vid kyle!
Always a good day when you upload, Kyle. I enjoyed a rewatch of your natural disasters videos earlier today in anticipation of severe weather in my area.
Kyle, you are undoubtedly the best. Please keep producing content👍🏼
I always enjoy these map videos - along with your other videos - because it's fascinating to see different ways of looking at our country. BTW, Benefit is my favorite Jethro Tull album!
Thanks Kyle, been watching for a long time, and always am treated with consistent great content. Word up to you man.
Thanks, Kyle G. King! Best of the MAPS series so far. Loved the first one, the finale cracked me up! Just where ARE those trains going? Next stop: the bottom of Lake Mead.
I live in Arizona where we got rid of daylight savings long ago and it’s fabulous…I am happy we will stay on Pacific Time. ❤️
For real, thinking it's short sighted to get rid of daylight savings time is one of the dumbest takes in a long while.
Yep, we should be on standard time, all the time.
@@brocklastname6682 adding each of you to my enemies list
Also Arizona - I think we'd be better off on Mountain Time. The Navajo Nation would otherwise be split up along time zone lines, OR would needlessly be 1hr off from Phoenix and Flagstaff. And we would be constantly an hour off from Utah and Sonora to our immediate north and south.
Can’t believe you popped up again on my feed. I don’t know why, but something with algorithm, but you channel the past month has been completely removed from my feed. Glad to see your stuff again.
Time zones in the US are pretty strange. I live not far from the western edge of Central time and the sun doesn't set until about 9:30 in June. I remember going on a summer trip to Chicago (on the eastern edge of Central time) and waking up at 6 am to broad daylight. Quite a surreal experience.
I've certainly enjoyed moving back to Arizona and not changing the clocks. But we're way south and in the summer, we prefer the sunset to be an earlier clock time so that we can venture out into the cooler night air before it's too late.
I hate changing the clocks twice a year. Ca passed a proposition to set CA on permanent daylight savings time a couple of years ago but the bill is stalled in congress. Do we really need the sun to rise at 7am in December?
UK gets sunsets after 10pm in June, and still some visible sunlight after 11. Could be worse. Some Nordic regions get 6 months of sun followed by 6 months of dark - it doesn't set at all in summer.
Come to Nortwestern Europe, where in June the sun doesn't set until 10.30 and it's broad daylight by 5.30 in the morning
The sun doesn't set until almost 10:30 to 11:00pm in the summer where I live
I I am so grateful for people like you, Kyle! You really make geography interesting… I can only imagine what the world would be like if there were people like you teaching in our school system. Thank you so much!
can please link to maps or at least tell us where we can find them. In particular i find the first map to be the most interesting and one i would like to take a closer look at.
Like the Jethro Tull Benefit album in the background. One of my favorite albums when I was a kid.
I’m on the northwestern side of my timezone and I’m still very happy about the permanent shift away from daylight savings. I’m rarely awake that early, and it’s even longer before I’m ready to do anything with my day. The extra hour in the evening is really significant for my seasonal depression.
agree. i wonder why he believes it wont stay for long. for me its a no brainer and i love the change
I'm from southern Maine and I find it interesting that folks in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan will be in the same time zone as us.
@@cyberinsecuregaming2890 I think a significantly higher proportion of the population would consider themselves night owls than 50 years ago, so I feel like it will stick... Or at least I badly hope lol
Laborers that work outdoors in northern locations will have issues with this time thing surely. Unless the company I work for changes the starting time from 7:30 to something later we might be painting the outside of your house with spotlights and that's not very practical. Personally, I think it was a bad move based on people complaining about losing 1hr. once a year which to me isn't a big deal... plus you'll never get that extra 1hr. break again. Yin Yang turned gray blurXD
@@protoolpat1 I would think industries like that could just start an hour later. If you need the sun to do your work then wouldn’t you operate based on that rather than what the clock says? I work nights, so it’ll be dark for me regardless.
I enjoy these videos so much! I have some ideas that could be included on future videos, like where in the U.S. the nighttime speed limit is different from the daytime speed limit, the habitat of cactus in the U.S. (including a variety that grows near the Wright Brothers Monument in Kitty Hawk, NC), and where counties of the same name border each other in bordering states (like Escambia County, AL, borders Escambia County, FL). Also, here's a geographic oddity: The WZRH radio mast in Vacherie, LA (near the Mississippi River) is higher in elevation at the top than the source of the Mississippi River.
The last one reminds me of a map in my college's cafeteria. It is a map of where the food from the cafeteria is sourced from, all in Alabama (as that's where the college is), but the dots to represent the locations are almost hilariously far off. Like Birmingham is a good 40 miles west of where is should be, Fairhope, AL is inland, etc. I can take a picture of it and send it to you if you're interested in looking at it. Me and my friends make fun of it every time we are waiting in line
Always look forward to the maps you post. Thanks man!! -Ft Wayne, IN
02:30 yes yes yes!! Standard time is what people need, NOT Daylight Savings!! The days get longer in the summer no matter if we change the clocks or not..but you can't get the sun to rise earlier!
I don't care as long as they stop changing back and forth.
In the south, daylight time is generally preferred.
year round daylight time is objectively the correct solution
You definitely are the Geo King ! Thanks for a great video! I love watching and see if something involves my state I live in now of NC or my original home state of PA. I find the facts quite rather informative. Thanks again, keep up the awesome work!
They could’ve just labeled “Duluth” as Minneapolis instead, would’ve made way more sense
Neither Duluth nor Minneapolis are the capital. That goes to St. Paul in Minnesota. Kyle missed that one?
The game just names cities. Some happen to be capitals, but not all. What they all have in common though is being marked in the wrong spot!
@@isabelledrolet4297 surprised Kyle didn’t mention how New York City made its way all the way to the Delaware River between PA and NJ
The cities aren't necessarily the state capitols, but big railroading towns.
duluth also moved inland, and ate the twin cities
With Los Alamos National Laboratory north of Albuquerque and NASA at the White Sands Test Facility east of Las Cruces, it makes sense that New Mexico has a lot of physicists. That included my dad when he was stationed at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque working on weapons testing in the 50s.
Re your remarks about permanent daylight savings time.... I have to agree - late sunrises in winter time would be awful. I can't see such legislation lasting either.
But early sunsets are even worse!
Better idea is ditch daylight savings time altogether. Apparently there's evidence that people do better with this. Some states live without it, including most of Arizona.
Yes, we in Arizona do fine without daylight savings time. The rest of the world would too if they tried it. It’s time to end this ludicrous practice.
@@SWLinPHX I like how AZ is still going to be on Standard time.
@@brocklastname6682 As they say, you can't cut off one end of a blanket and sew it on the other end to make it longer. That's Daylight Savings Time.
Love these. Thank you Kyle.
We have what I call “fake spring” in Houston in February when my flowers and bushes bloom 🌸 then it goes back to 30’s a bit, those die, and it blooms again in early March for “real spring” remember our crazy freezes/snow ❄️ always happen in February 😂😂
That reminds me of meme i saw about the seasons in upstate NY, basically its 12 because of fools summer, hells front porch (obviously not as hot as TX), spring of deception, and my favorite the Pollening. (When every tree and grass releases it pollen at once cars turn green 1 day after getting washed) my house has a crabapple tree and a bunch of spruce trees, the crabapple turns completely pink for a week and you can hear all the bees buzzing in it.
Nature likes to fake out on committing to it being a given season and will swing 10-20 degrees on average away from typical so you get a cold snap for a week and wonder why is it snowing in April when it rained amd hit 60 in early March. (Its probably just the Jetstream)
Interesting. Up here in Western WA we also have a "false Spring" in February for sometimes a couple of weeks. Sun comes out, blue sky and temp is in the 50's. Just gorgeous weather and you hope it'll stay that way until May. It doesn't!
@@jasonreed7522 Lol! I briefly went to SUNY Brockport and yes that was my first real snow. How dare y’all laugh at us but not warn me the brakes would hibernate 😂😂 btw currently 82 so I’ll gladly trade 🥵
@@deirdre108 I lucked out and caught the 4 days of sun y’all get every august lol. And highs of 88. Everyone in Seattle was screaming HEAT WAVE and I had on jeans. We sure are a big country eh lol
@@jaya.d-gauthier1644 Last summer we had the record official high for WA---120 degrees in Central WA on the eastern side of the mountains. Had many 100+ degrees before and after that high. Those temps might compare with West TX, don't you think? And the Seattle area at the same time hit 106, again with about a week of 100+. Problem here is that there is little or no air conditioning. LOL But you're right. Temp hits 80 and folks are crying HEAT WAVE! But Houston has that humidity!!
Since I was very young, I have always enjoyed looking at maps. Your videos are great. They move along at a good pace and present some really interesting Information. I also like the Benefit LP in your introduction/closing section. Thanks for everything.
I have the exact opposite feeling about daylight saving. I grew up in Wisconsin, and strongly disliked the early sunset (being on the eastern end of Central time). I now live on the western edge of Eastern time, and I absolutely prefer later morning sun and later evening daylight in the winter. I also like the idea of permanent daylight saving time, as that adds even more evening light in the winter. As an outdoorsy person, it's hard to enjoy the snowy season if it's dark when I leave work.
Great stuff Kyle!
Iowan here, yup, pigs everywhere! Can’t see them but sure can smell them. I grew up working on pig farms and hate pigs so much I don’t eat pork to this day.
If your not smelling a pig farm, your smelling the manure being used as fertilizer somewhere else, you can smell that for miles ahead in the car, and it takes miles to realize you passed it enough. This is how they make the governor's cologne.. after all we jumped on the put lipstick on a pig and call her governor bandwagon.
Chicago became known as The Windy City due to the hog and cattle stockyards on the southwest side of town. The prevailing winds sent the stench across the city to make it smell like a fart.
Got my geo-geek on once again! Thanks Kyle!!!
Floridumb continues to astound!
As far as I've always known, a roustabout is a circus worker. After looking it up, I see that it can refer to many different things: circus workers, deckhands, longshoremen, oil workers, etc. The common theme seems to be unskilled/somewhat skilled laborers.
Thanks for this.
Yeah! Like the Elvis movie.
I live in California oil country, and roustabout has been around forever. It even popped in right now in my predictive text. LOL
Definitely agree completely on your take for DST, imagine students having to go to school in what is basically the middle of the night in order to get to school on time. Getting to school at about sunrise is bad enough, but an hour before? Well, let's just say no amount of "enjoying the outdoors in winter" would make that anything but miserable.
Great Video Kyle, love this series and your channel
Thank you!
Another amazing set of maps!! Aside from the last one, which admittedly had decent precision with poor accuracy. (relatively correct?)
I must say though that to a Canadian, maps like the first one you showed are moreso abominations because for a map, they totally lack global context and instead show the USA floating alone, by itself unattached to any other land mass. Weather maps on TV often showcase similar lack of continental context and as a geospatial expert (and teacher) these are always missed passive learning opportunities. Thanks for all you do and you really inspire me to do something similar for NS/Canada!
Given that we have several brutally hot months here in most of Arizona, it makes sense to invest in a good home entertainment setup, since we're cooped up all summer.
Speaking of the maps of rivers, I did see one somewhere (but unfortunately don't remember where) that redrew the states in the west based on watersheds. In some respects, that makes a ton of sense, especially compared to the arbitrary borders that were drawn. All the various states fighting over the Colorado River's declining water supply would have been one entity instead (or maybe a pair, such as upper & lower).
It could have been from Atlas Pro, he has a video where he redrew all the US state borders to group based on water sheds/resources. Making the great basin amd olgana aquafir controled by 1 or 2 entities because of resource concerns. I believe some other factors were involve like mountain ranges and some respect for minimizing "border gore" (a term borrowed from 4X games)
Still rather surprising given we have 300 days a year of sunlight in the valley . There’s no shortage of outdoor activities in this beautiful state and people still choose to stay inside and be sedentary
John Wesley Powell, who mapped the Colorado River, had the idea to draw borders by watersheds. Congress did not agree.
I've liked, watched, and subscribed (a long time ago), but the heck if i'm gonna give in to the man and comment for his dang nabbed algorithm.
Thanks, Kyle. I even pause the ad blocker for you.
Really hate daylight time and I'm in the southeast of the central zone where it shouldn't be too bad. Can't imagine dealing with daylight time if you're in the northwest part of a time zone.
Permanent standard time would be better imo
Agreed, 12 noon should always be when the sun is at its highest point. Period. You can’t fake that.
I'm on a western edge and want year-round daylight time, so those are fighting words
Great job as always
Things I never thought I’d hear: Kyle saying Sus
In your shaded relief map it appears to show the US divided between the humid, lushly vegetated east and the arid desert west. I live on the dividing line between these two halves in San Antonio, TX. It is quite interesting to be able to drive a couple hundred miles east or west and be clearly in either region. Our weather reflects our being on this border too. We can have humid rainy days and we can have very dry days - like what happening right now with humidity below 20%. Never a dull moment here and I love it.
10:47 New York on the PA and NJ border. I’m sure that won’t stir up an argument
great video Mr. Kyle!
Do you have sources for the maps you featured? They are all so fascinating I would like to observe them further.
Always a good day when Kyle posts a new video! Howdy!!
Congratulations 🎉 on 140k
I joined you around 40k or so
Thank you very much!
I know that when I was introduced to Ticket to Ride, I was pleased, as it was the first board game I ever played that was as much fun as it looked like on the box. They admit the map is not accurate in order to make everything fit.
9:50 AS a graduate of Los Alamos HS in New Mexico, I had to laugh at physicists being the most out of proportion job. Yep, about half of the kids in our HS had Physicists or engineers for parents.
We love the channel. Keep it up.
I really don't understand why people are so averse to late sunrises. Like to me losing an hour of sunlight in the morning is so much better than losing an hour of sunlight in the afternoon when you might actually get to enjoy it!
I agree. The sun is up too early....in general.
Because waking up with the sun is most natural and health problems are already associated with living on the western edge of a timezone because you are waking up before the sun.
Nothing feels better than leaving the windows amd curtains open in the sumer and waking up to sunlight and birds. Waking up to am alarmclock in the dark just sucks.
Somewhat related is you want the sun away from the horizon while driving, not everyone has the luxury of living east of their place of work and driving into the sun when its on/near the horizon just sucks.
Late sunrise is problematic, especially in the north where sunlight hours are limited already. So forgive us Northerners for not wanting to wake up in total darkness and then get blinded on our morning commute.
@@jasonreed7522 Thanks for explaining how people with your point of view see it....but the sun rises before 5 am in summer, and I don't like it. Lol
@@jasonreed7522 "Nothing feels better than leaving the windows and curtains open in the summer and waking up to sunlight and birds"
Dude, we have very VERY different perspectives about that. I literally tape my blackout curtains to the wall so that that does not happen. Like I know some people can just fall asleep whenever they want and then wake up at the crack of dawn perfectly well-rested. For those of us who cannot fall asleep on command and are light sleepers, that light wakes us up after like 4 hours of sleep. It's awful. If I could design a house, the bedroom literally would not have windows. That's how much I specifically hate being woken up by the sun.
To me nothing feels better than going home from work in the winter and having it still be light out, or at least having it not get dark with hours left in the work day. Back in the day I taught a 5-8 PM lab course in the winter quarter. It literally started an hour and a half after it got dark and went on for three hours after that. It was horrible. Unbelievably depressing. That's why I think permanent daylight time is best *specifically* for people who live in the north. Because for as long as I've lived in the northernmost major city in the continental US, I've always said that the single worst thing about it is how early it gets dark in the winter. Never noticed or cared when the sun rose in the morning.
@@abard124 I could not agree more.
I love your videos but I have one recommendation. Could you zoom in in different parts of the map like you did your the Ticket to Ride one? On some of them it’s hard to see some of the detail especially when watching on a phone. Thanks for the good content.
"and then there's Florida" 😂😂
I loved that you put the Ticket to Ride map in this video. Love the game, but I rant and rail every time about the flaws of the map and some of the city and route choices. Add Reno as an additional junction, damn it, and you change the whole dynamic for controlling the west. Alas, I’m not a game maker though.
While seeing the "last name" map, I note how prolific is the name "Smith," which is my mother's maiden name. I read somewhere that when the immigration influx at Ellis Island was so overwhelming, the agents, trying to keep up administratively with long lines, when they could not understand what a person was saying in response to the question of their last name, would simply say, "okay, your American last name is 'Smith.'" And so we have a large population with the last name of Smith here in the US. Has anyone else heard or read of such a phenomenon from that era?
I've certainly heard of names being "Americanized" when people went through Ellis Island, but mostly just changes in spelling and rarely changes in pronunciation. I've never heard of a name being changed entirely. It honestly wouldn't surprise me though.
When I first watched one of your videos, I thought, "This guy is boring." Lol
Now I find myself clicking on almost every video that pops up in my feed and I've subscribed too.
You're maybe not the most exciting TH-camr, but your videos are super interesting and I hope you continue to make more!!
Thank you and welcome to the channel! Exciting I am not, but I try to it least make the info useful
The Florida comment on the weird jobs map was hilarious, lol. What a savage
Just discovered this video, new subscriber. I've always been a geography nut and thoroughly enjoyed this. Cheers from L.A., and to be geographically precise, that's Lower Alabama for you.
I would LOVE to see a map that breaks the ZIP codes down one more digit. (100 zones instead of 10)
And thank you for calling out that abomination of a map! I, too, enjoy the game, but YEESH!
Thanks King. Love your content.
This is a great series, but I miss road-trip related videos from you too! I would love a video talking about how you strike a balance between distance driven per day and actually doing things in the states you're driving through
I've got more road trip stuff coming up. I'll be on a road trip in May and will have videos about the trip. I'll likely also redo my first couple of videos that were about road trip ideas and tips. Those are pretty old (2017) and are awful videos, although the info itself is still pretty good.
@@GeographyKing I'm looking forward to it! Cheers
The more I watch u the more I enjoy you. Luv your stuff!! Thanx so much!!!
The Duluth, MN was worst one in the last map 🤣
The sustained sarcasm describing the Ticket to Ride maps is priceless. Great stuff.
Ungulates, ungulates, ungulates... you're right, that IS fun to say.
Wonderful video, as always. And thanks for including Jethro Tull's 1970 album "Benefit" as an Easter egg. :)
yay kyle!!!
I heard a petroleum geologist state that the petroleum fields follow a gradient. Most all wells have NG then wells , but heavier petroleum well are lower pressures NG. Besides looking for the natural gas wells having higher pressure, they also look for wetter wells that have propanes and butanes also.
Florida: Special Ed teachers.
New Jersey: Shampooers.
LOL.
And MO is coatroom attendants!! Explains the low-brain activity reflected in their choices for state and national “leadership”. They’’ also be blood red in any map that depicts degrees of white supremacy and racism.
Thanks again for your consistently entertaining and informative presentation!
I would’ve thought Arizona would be air conditioning techs instead of home entertainment installers. I wonder what led to that.
I would think people prefer to be entertained at home than to head out somewhere in the abominable heat.
Love the videos AND love seeing Benefit sitting behind you 🤗
I aint from Texas but that first map (love it!) has the Panhandle and Brownsville in the same hypothetical state. That dont seem right. Maybe that North-South orientation works for Western Montana down to Northern New Mexico cuz of the whole Rocky Mt thing, but the Southwest shoulda been more East-West oriented hypothetical states. Just saying. Eastern New Mexico is correctly shown as part of West Texas. Of course, I know Kyle has nothing to do with the design of the map, etc. I just feel like chatting tonite. Thanks for listening.
So glad you keep making these!
Geo King: uploads
Me: click and watch
Interesting maps is my favorite series from your channel.