Rhode Island Joins the Table
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 เม.ย. 2021
- We invite the smallest state in the union, Rhode Island, to the table and learn a whole lot about the Ocean State. The coastline, attitude, drivers, hot wieners, Del's, coffee milk, awful awfuls, Nibbles Woodaway, and the 2-time mayor of Providence: Buddy Cianci. Did I miss anything?
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RD: it’s Hawaii?
DC: She won’t give me her number 😔
Native Hawaiians: Gee, I wonder why!
Ya um... you got some history their bud?
@@mr.factoid105 I don't have the whole ordeal memorized but basically, Hawaii became a state partially against their will. The American Government basically wouldn't stop harassing them until they forfeited their identity as independent people. At one point the American government straight up dethroned the queen and just set themselves up as the local leaders. And of course general racism causes a lot of problems for Native Hawaiians a lot
@@robertchaney2704 oh I know I was just being sarcastic and maybe a bit condescending. Like that guy that was just standing there while you argue with your wife at the bar.
@@mr.factoid105 Gotcha
@@robertchaney2704 Alaska was actually kind of similar. Russia had attempted and failed to claim and control it but couldn't hold the land particularly well because the various Inuit wouldn't let them do their hostile takeover. Russia was hemorrhaging money trying to keep Alaska, so Russia basically sold that land they effectively neither owned or controlled to the US before they lost it to their British rivals who had begun poking about the region. At the time they sold it, Russia had less than a thousand people there.
Florida is that bad kid that is in the office so much that they leave him in charge when they have a staff meeting.
You should work in our schools 🤣
I named a chair in my office after a kid because he was there so much. Welcome to Florida!
@@m00tw00t @Sue Lance when my son was in the first grade one of his classmates stayed in the office. He was a sweet kids just couldn’t stay still. (I called him preposition because he we be under, over, with his seat. Never in his seat😆). One day I was in the office and the kid was answering the phones, giving directions, and the secretary was like “Yeah, sometimes he’s a really big help.”
@@Oonagh72 Sounds like a kid with ADHD
@@arthurschamne9804 yeah. Total ADHD.
"you put a hat on a platypus and called him perry" nice Phineas and Ferb reference
Had me cracking up
Loved that reference. The theme song popped into my head when he said that.
You beat me to the Phineas and Ferb reference.
why did i think the tri state area was between California, arizona and nevada this entire time
@@belannawalker2164 wait, what
As an Alaskan, I fully approve of the way we are represented. It is genuinely how many people here behave.
As a Floridian, yeah...us too.
@@FloridaGirl000 Haha! Good to have accurate representation.
@@eboyer1960 Same as an Arizonian. we are basically a state of f*** you
@@revanda85 I feel so represented as an asshole Zoni lol
I was born in alaska but moved to north Dakota
As a native Floridian who moved to Rhode Island, I am utterly impressed with how spot on this was.
I am just the opposite. I was born there and was raised in Florida. But I understood every reference
I’m half Floridian and visit both a lot. All I gotta say is Here’s Rhode Island bragging about a big blue bug that while big by bug standards isn’t really that big, to Florida who has Pegasus and Dragon, the Shockingly obscure second largest statue in america that is of a Pegasus fighting a dragon. Rhode Island has a 50s B Movie, Florida has a Kaiju movie
Why did you move to RI. I’m from there. I would never go back. That place is fucking horrible my guy.
@@Kal-El207 O3O I feel compelled to answer despite the question not being directed to me. It’s Beautiful Dawg!!! And they have a really nice zoo and it’s the home of HASBRO! RI IS THE HOME OF OPTIMUS PRIME, POTATOHEAD, MY LITTLE PONY AND GI JOE!!! You want horrible, go to Atlantic City NJ. It’s like Mos Isley from star wars only on the beach, crumbling and its what Monopoly is based on
@@willku9000 Bruh that’s funny you say that cuz I actually lived in Atlantic City NJ and it’s just as shitty as Prov. I live in Texas now and I’m not leaving. Lol
this series has taught me more than geography at school
Periodt
I think this is more of a human geography subject than a map kind of geography
Teachers should show this to kids in school
Yep
I thought geography would be fun, but it really just taught me a bunch about rocks, not impressed
RI: I have the most coastline!
Hawaii: Ha! *you puny adorable mortal*
Michigan has the second longest after Alaska with over 3000 miles of coastline! That's with both peninsulas
@@emilywest1116 ocean, not lakes, sorry
We literally do have the most coast line per capita mile
@@tinafrancoeur4871 Fair enough
@@jackcoderre5789 Maryland has more coastline per square mile.
As Native Rhode Islander, I really appreciate this FINE work of art!
Cranston girl here 🙋♀️
@@amandaadrienne837 lol try Woonsocket
@@huzaifahikram2835
I worked in Woonsocket at one point
From Pawtucket I now live in warwick
Does Westerly count as Rhode Island? I'd rather identify as Rhode Island than Connecticut.
My home state represented perfectly all it needed was a iggys doughboy and clam chowder reference and it would have been perfect
Or aunt Carrie’s and mr lemon since it’s better than Del’s
@@qpg16 don’t know about better then Dels part.
@@qpg16 I prefer Mr Lemon
Uh,that’s Chowda....
Iggy's is overrated Carries ALLLLL DAY!
I’m trying really hard to suspend my disbelief, but... there’s a door?? I thought the states just kind of, uh, dropped in.
So they aren’t magical🧐 Hmmm
The door’s name is Doorothy and she has a brother named Dave. The chair is Chairiott.
And Charlotte
It's a trap door
@@angiect3791 This is the only acceptable explanation!
This is the first time Rhode Island was portrayed correctly 😂😂
Accent needs work though
@@LindaC616 no one ever gets the RI accident right. Not MA not NY... Unless you’re from here you just won’t understand. 😆
@@jenjor1098 I live here. But it could be closer. For my first 10 years, it would take me half an hour of sitting at the bar to distinguish between Rhody and MA accents
@@LindaC616 they’re definitely different, but you’ve got to be a native to know. If you’ve lived here long enough you pick up the nuances. 😆
Disagree. He wasn't angry enough. 🤣 We're always so attitude-y. Also agree about the accent. You have to be here to understand. My BF lives just over the border 30 minutes away in MA and we can totally hear each other's accents
as a Rhode Islander, the "No school Foster-Gloucester" joke took me OUUUUUUTTTT. Shit happened so often that in 2012, on the day the world was supposed to end, I'd made the joke to my dad that they got the day off, and HE DIDN'T REALIZE I WAS JOKING UNTIL HE THOUGHT ABOUT IT. They've gotta be the dumbest kids in the state, I swear!!!
hey not all of us are dumb now they dont cancel shiii like the entire state got the day off except us 🥲
with remote learning available now, this might change a bit, lol.
At least us Rhode Islanders know are countries of the world.
My dad's girlfriend is from Rhode Island and I've never seen something so perfectly encapsulate her. She only drinks coffee milk, the former mayor of her hometown was being investigated by the FBI for fraud while he was in office, she's one of the smartest people I've ever met, she's crude as hell, and she's short.
Unless it was a reference to Buddy
one of the smatest
i live in rhode island, theres nothing to do though. just swim. look at leaf.
I'm from mass, but very close to the RI border, and coffee milk is big in my part of mass too. We had it for lunch at school. Rhode Island has a very distinct culture. Where I'm from is a bit of a mix of RI and Boston. But if you go 45 minutes deeper into mass from me, people have never even heard of coffee milk. Its weird.
@@mattymatt6970 isn't it more...."wasp-y" toward the interior? I feel like coffee milk is big in areas where there are lots of Italian and Portuguese people, and the Portuguese communities werethe fishi g communities, Fall River, New Bedford, etc
As a Rhode Islander - this was freakin hysterical. You hit almost everything but the potholes 😂😂😂😂thanks 😂😂😂
one can't avoid but hitting the friggin potholes.
Yeah we still gotta fix that.
The accent, the references…. He clearly knows his stuff. This is a masterpiece.
The pure amount of time that has to go into actually understanding all of the little details is crazy, dude deserves every dollar made from these vids.
When mentioned "The Balls", I just screamed YESSSS as loud as I could
That the mascot or team name of the university or...?
Edit: nvm he explained it and either these sport teams were named decades ago OR Rhode Island has no fucks to give
@@Heavenlyhounds96 they are older but RISD the rhode school of design is known for being a little…out there. Technically the school doesn’t recognize scrottie officially though lol
@@qpg16 yeah I mean RISD is where The Talking Heads really got there start also.
@@groton27 The name of the band is Talking Heads
Love the Miss Congeniality quote 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ditto. Long live Ms. United States
That's great! Rhode island is Small But Mighty! Love Hawaii's laughing at the " island " situation!🤣🥰👍
i was lied to my whole life until last year. turns out we are just land.
Rhode Island is an Island ...It's the island that holds Portsmouth, Middletown, and Newport
as a native this is scarily accurate. when i heard “no school fosta-glosta” i died laughing
I lived in Mass as a kid. Fosta-Glostaaaa was the sure thing for every district
🇦🇺 Australia calling: Ok so WTF does "No school fosta-glosta" mean? Here 'Fosta' is slang for Foster's Beer - a disgusting beer that only tourists drink. & 'Glosta' is slang for Gloucestershire a county in England.
Fosta-Glosta are 2 towns in the Rhode Island Highlands. If it snowed, the radio stations broadcast what towns cancelled school if it was too deep. If Fosta glosta we're on the list, most towns were too.
And it is Foster and Gloucester, I was attempting the accent
@@hossri2000 As a Rhode Islander I can't speak for what no school foster glocester meant for you, but for Rhode Island those two towns were always the first to get school canceled, the reason it became a meme is because they canceled more than any other town.
As a born and raised Little Rhody, I absolutely approve this video!!! I am 5 feet tall and fit in perfectly here!!! I love this guy!! Water fires are awesome, Dels Lemonade is a staple and coffee milk has been sent by me to California, Wyoming, Ohio, Florida, and Alaska, and all my friends are now hooked and order it all the time. Autocrat coffee Milk!!!
Man the pandemic really made me appreciate the art events that Providence provides during the summer .. even corny ass water fire 🥺
Did they do it last summer? (I'm on the island, so I didn't make it up there last summer)
lmao why don't you like the water fire? i haven't been in like 5 years but i dont remember it being that bad
ive lived here all my life and i have never seen the water fire
That was so funny. I'm from RI. When I was young and there was a big snow storm. We would listen to the radio to see if we has school. The first city they would say was no school Fosta Glosta. You did a good job.
Honestly should have uploaded this on April 25th
We don't talk about that
@@hidhshsj123 Why? No seriously why? (Australian & I got no idea what you're referring to)
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 this was a year ago I honestly don't remember anymore
Sometimes a 20 min drive is a half mile. The years...yes years of roadwork. Half the time no one is working🤦🏻♀️ This is why we bring lunch😂😂😂
I think most people will miss that joke....
But floridians know.
We know.
I feel like anybody who lived in Massachusetts at the time of the big dig would also identify
and sleep on the road. oh and almost get into car accidents because we hit a pot hole on I-95
Glad you mentioned Del's lemonade. It feels like everyone knows about coffee milk but almost no one thinks about the REAL most popular drink.
You can buy Del’s mix online! I give it to my RI native dad for Christmas and he loves it. Not quite the same without RI water but still darn good
Search the mascot at your own risk. Aka: Private browsing. 😂
Also neat a Hawaii cameo nice, good for her. 👍🏻
This was just Rhode Island getting roasted by everyone wasn't it? Cause that was fun. 😂
Ct and Mass stayed out of the way lol 😂 but that’s because secretly they like there little brother.
An ad for Rhode Island literally preceded this video for me.
I see ads for Warwick sometimes and I'm like... why.
I moved to Rhode Island 5 years ago. I was today years old when I learned about the risd sports teams. And it’s absolutely wonderful.
I've lived here my whole life and didn't know it🤷🏼♀️
@@beautybycrystalmckenna966 same. Can't say I'm surprised though 😂😂
yep. the more u know
0:12
Nobody:
Inclusive crosswalks:
Ok this made me cackle
That was a good one😂
I live about 10 minutes away from Nibbles! He’s wearing a mask right now- and during the winter he’s got an antler head band!
As a born and bred Rhode Islander,
You got us down.
Where r u from in ri?
Rhode Island is like a baby version of Florida with that mascot...
You should see him when the holidays come up here. They give him antlers and a red light up nose.
The big bug is the best !!
Rhode Island. The state that proves the rest of the country doesn't know all the 50 States of the US. We get cofused with Long Island. They think we are part of New York. Like, do you really not know all 50 states?
@@michaelday6987 gotta confess, it’s only because of Family Guy I know of Rhode Island - I blame being Australian for my ignorance though
@@elyneda This was a general statement. It wasn't supposed to be a response on your post. Not sure how that happened. Sorry.
The Miss Congeniality joke just makes it for me. 😂
I'd like to see some more regionalized round tables.... a New England one could be great
As a Floridian, I fully agree that we are ALWAYS getting stuff started; and we be trolling while we're there
Should I be proud to have understood the last reference... Or concerned that I know that as a French person? 🤔😅
As always thank you Ben for the laughs! 😂🤣
Well at least Rhode Island is happy a lot it seems
What’s the light jacket thing?
@@Itsbuckjames th-cam.com/video/r3w0eACxtoc/w-d-xo.html
@@Itsbuckjames Miss Congeniality
i grew up just over the border of little Rhodie and this was ridiculously spot on. The Salty Brine drop was win.
As a Rhode Islander, you hit this out of the pawsox park. AMAZING JOB!!!
I love the part where you added the whole "You can fit in Houston" because a few friends and I got bored and looked up the size of RI and noticed this comparison
Houston cheats, though. It eats all its suburbs, so now they're all Houston, just neighborhoods.
Literally the entire state is smaller than my county 😂 and 6x smaller than the neighboring one...
Houston is only like 665 square miles RI is almost double that...
@@Makota1995 Houston itself yes but Houston Metro is about 10,000 square miles and down here we include the houston metro as one big cluster of a city
I feel like we need Florida, Louie and Rhode Island to get together
Florida and Louie are best ❤️
No that to much chaos the world will destroy it self
I’m from Rhode Island, and I’m proud of it! I’ve lived away from the state when I was 18 but still return annually mostly in July!
GOV being ghosted by Hawaii 💀
And they have every reason. At least they have Islands
As an outsider living in RI, this is scarily accurate.
I love it! And calling Massachusetts Dad... just perfect
Alaska, laughing at Rhode Island. We're so big that we can fit Rhode Island AND Delaware into the City and Borough of Juneau alone. :D
Then tossing in Hawaii laughing over the phone? LOL. Priceless! XD
As a Rhody in FL I truly loved all of this
You pretty much nailed it, also some of the subtleties of the accent.
Last one would have been a good opportunity to work in the failed State Motto "Cooler / Warmer".
Oh, and "bubblers" -- I taught at a high school in Connecticut and I referenced a bubbler and my students had no idea what I was talking about. Most of the country calls them water fountains but we gotta be weird apparently.
This totally describes all of RI at it’s best
I’m a bit disappointed that the fact that Rhode Island has the longest official name wasn’t mentioned
I watched this video, as it came up recommended on TH-cam. I liked it soooooooo much that I literally watched all the other videos of your The Table and Statehouse series that you have thus far! I have family from across the US and grew up learning about many states and even got to visit some of them. Also have family that has lived in the populated territories for a bit as well (Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands). I LOVE these videos!!!!!!!! They’re absolutely genius!!! And also a clever way to briefly cover news stories or current events happening in the many states at any given moment! Keep up the great work!
As a Rhode Islander this is perfect 10/10 for accuracy
As a native Rhode Islander, this is perfect. 😂
As a "Rouge islander" I highly approve! Shared this with everyone I know!
Florida: You’ve got a lotta spunk kid
I see what you did there
As a native Rhode islander this is very spot on. More than 20 minutes is a long drive.
Yes, after 20 minutes,
it's a day trip! lol
That's half way
to the beach!!🙃
@@joyannkjb4l250
I live in Newport county. We ARE the beach 😆
As someone who lives in RI thank you this was amazing
As a person who is born and raised in RI, this was pretty spot on lmao
Coming from someone who’s lived in Rhode Island their entire life, I feel like you somehow know more about the state than I do
I lived in RI for a year and had a thirty minute commute for my job. Since my previous commute was more like 45 minutes, I thought that was pretty good. Every Rhode Islander I talked to acted like I’d told them I was a long haul trucker.
The only place I’ve been where interstate exits aren’t for cities but STATES
Coming from someone who has lived in several states and currently lives in RI… I absolutely approve of this 😂 this should be a pre-Rec for anyone moving here 😂😂
You forgot to make fun of Block Island!!!
RI born and raised, I was laughing the whole time.
As someone who’s lived in Rhode island her entire life, same with her family being here, this was funny accurate and I loved it
As someone who lives less than a mile from the Cuyahoga River... I’m glad we don’t set it on fire anymore 😂
Gov: What is an Awful Awful?
Me, quoting my giant cup: It's A Drink(TM)
Thanks I was a bit lost
Yes, it's a milkshake from
Newport Creamery! 🙃
@@joyannkjb4l250 Still, this is the one place where they didn't get it right. A real RI native would've called it a cabinet, not a milkshake.
I’m just hoping Dan Povenmire comments on the Perry the Platypus comment 😂
"it's a room temperature breadstick with tomato paste" LMAO accurate
It's a painful, delicious truth.
this is very accurate to little rhodey, and the fact that these skits are so accurate to all the states I've lived in is rather impressive. (btw you can buy Autocrat coffee syrup from amazon now, its very worth it).
And Del’s mix!
"Congrats. You put a hat on a platypus and named it Perry."
That had me laughing so hard. XD
my family found out my great uncle was a bookie for buddy when he died and we found a little booklet with names and addresses,a wooden club with wire, and a bunch of money in a plastic bag :)
YOU WRONG BUT YOU CUTE. 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
I lost it at florida 20 min drive is a half mile. I live near disney. Thats 100000% accurate 🤣🤣🤣
Rhode Islander here! I love your channel. You're wicked funny.
This made my little Rhode Island heart so happy!!! Our food is weird but so good!
(Vibing with the video) "The big blue bug: Nibbles Woodaway" The bug has a name!
I live in Rhode Island and I have to say I was rolling at this. You realistically got just about all major things that we are known for great job.
I was born and spent the first 35 years of my life in CT, my first husband grew up in RI and both Del’s frozen lemonade- which, oddly, cannot be found anywhere else- AND the Water Fires are both amazing. We went all the time. Good to hear they still do them. When I was pregnant in 2003 I’d drive over an hour JUST to get the Del’s. Been divorced 15 years but Rock on, Rhode Island!! I’ll never forget you 💖🍋
Always my favorite part of a day seeing a new video from you. And now my brother has his state at the table!
Imma going to have to Google some stuff. Lol. Thanks for the RI homework. 😀😀😀
This was on point. I'm a Philly native but have lived in RI since 2000. My wife was born here as well as all 4 kids. "Wicked" Nice job, man!
"You can't beat our Balls" is arguably the funniest line in this series
Is it just me or is DC extra grumpy in this one?? 🙈
Another great new state video - thanks Ben!
I admit I was feeling pretty defensive for the first few minutes of this, but once we got into the second-half I became very happy. Go Rhody!
Holy JEEZE that was a deep Salty Brine cut!! Well done!
I haven’t lived in RI since I was 10, but I still got most of this. ❤
Rhode Island “I have more coastline than all of you”
Alaska and Florida having the number 1 and 2 spots for most coastline
like he said per square mile of land............. We got it
Ive been asking for this for so long and i absolutely love it.
As a life long Rhode Island resident, I approve of this video. Buddy was the best! Pizza from Caserta is the way to go, unless you go by the slice from Antonio's on Thayer st. I went to school is Foster so that reference hit home. The accent was almost there, I give you credit for hitting it as close as you did. NY can keep their Coney dogs, you gotta get a gagger all the way from the NY system in onleyville. Guy Fieri did an episode of dinner, drive-ins and dives Here! If you want pretty RI go south coast RI. West is woods, east is city, north is more woods and a bunch of massholes. Takes me 20 minutes to go anywhere and it feels like forever, I have to pack snacks for my kids. And every trip starts with Dunkin donuts ice coffee...even in the winter!
I sent this to my friend who was born in Rhode Island. This was great!
I really love how you bury the jokes and hit us with another one because Florida saying that it takes 20 mins to go a half mile came by so quickly I almost missed it 😂
These are amazing, i love it, and cant wait for the next
as someone who was born in Rhode Island thank you so much for this lol I lost it when he said he heard salty brine no school fosta glosta OMG it brought me back to my childhood thank you thank you thank you.
I am learning so much about my birth State--mind you, I was "raised" in Mass & now live in NY
As a 14th gen. Rhode Islander and descendent of Roger Williams, I endorse this video.
The spit take was great 👏👏👏👏
Didn’t even mention the fires in RI’s night clubs or that their Roto Rooter plumbers are Ghost Hunters in their spare time.
As a RI native, you got it! Nice job!!!
I want “those are awful big words for a child who doesn’t know how to make a pizza” on a t-shirt!!
Can we get more of Vermont, we’re left out of everything lol
"You're wrong but you're cute!" 😂😂😂
I loved this one!!! Lol I live in Florida, my sons mother/Ex of 13 years is from Providence RI and I am originally from NY and this is the exactly our back and forth sometimes of how funny Rhode Island is lol.