Vermont Joins the Table
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มี.ค. 2021
- Maple syrup, mud season, sugar on snow, UVM, white people, "flatlanders," George Bush, lake monsters, billboards, indecent exposure, and Rut Vegas. What more could you ask for? (Honorable mention: Bernie Sanders and Ben & Jerry's)
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The fact that he asked how many generations when determining whether someone is a real Vermonter shows the man did his research.
Regrettably, I don’t have many generations of Vermont in me. All my grandparents came from out of state, but they raised my parents in Vermont, so would that make me 2nd or 3rd gen?
@@ethans9379 Good question. I would think most of the old timers would say 2nd. I joke that as someone who was the first generation born in the state, my great-great grandchildren will finally be considered true Vermonters.
I was waiting for a how many generations removed joke.
im gunna have to steal that for Nevada. So many Californians...
He did
As a Vermonter,
Yes this is 100% correct. Also fun fact: Vermont won that case against McDonald’s because we have a law that requires all products advertised as ‘Maple’ to be used with real maple syrup 😂
Heck yeah.
Can confirm, being a Rut-Vegas resident I remember there being a court case, and we won lol.
Glottal stop baby
@@michellericketts8538 egh rut vegas
I cant complain Springfields getting that bad too
@@demonwaker22 yep we're infamous smdh,lmao...
I am surprised Vemont didn't tell Florida that the Green Mountain State has some of the loosest gun laws in the country. Wait FL would just ask for homicides, VT would say they have none and FL would ask "How do you make guns Boring?"
As the saying goes, "An armed society is a polite society".
@@genericusername7959 Except Texas disproves that saying. As does the UK.
I was coming to comment that lol. Though our homicide rate is very low, sucide rates are pretty high. The lack of sunshine or human contact for 9 months a year might have something to do with that. Plus 6 month waitlists for psychiatrists
@@123penrose dang no wonder VT is willing to pay so much for healthcare professionals
@@123penrose 20th highest suicide rate in the country. per capita. Our homicide rate is so low though that our gun violence stats are some of the lowest in the country, even though we have more guns than people.
"How did you make public nudity boring?"
That's the best question I've heard from Florida so far.
[Blinks in Midwest Confusion]
“You can BE naked, but you just can’t ACT like it.”
HOW does one “Act naked!?” Is it one of those things where you know it when you see it?
OMG AM I DOING IT RIGHT NOW!?
Now I am from Ohio so my interpretation might be incorrect but what I think that means don’t go shaking your wing wang at other people
@@xymorm No wang shaking. Check.
@@xymorm lol I was thinking that. No twerking either.
Its super true though. At UVM every end of semester theres a thing called Naked Bike Ride where everyone just runs around campus naked cause ya know... groovy uv
@@xymorm my twiddly-doo tends to be tucked away, but I worry about my bazoombas. Do I just not point them at people and sort of let them do their own thing, orrr?
The Vermont not pronouncing t’s part is very accurate.
It's our accen.
Vermon has a t?
@@erinbovat but you dont say it
Yes Julian, that was the joke
yep lol
As a Vermonter, I can say that I saw my first billboard a few years ago. It was like a person from Florida seeing snow for the first time!
"Have you seen sugar on snow?"
"Have you seen Scarface?"
*Chef's kiss*
The funniest part is the high rate of drug use in Vermont means that Florida wasn’t wrong
SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND
As a Vermonter, I'm really sad he didn't mention "Mass-Holes" when he was talking about flatlanders.
I thought the vitoil aimed at them was mostly from New Hampshirites, because their invading along their shared border?
If Vermont ever makes another appearance in sure it'll turn up.
We also share a border with Mass
You say mass-hole I say ass-hole
Or the Quebecers
I’m a native Vermonter and I was today days old when I learned what UVM stands for.
"Vermont" is actually just an abbreviated form of Veridias Montis, the original name of the state.
Also "montagne verte" is green mountain in French, so I also attributed it to something like that, considering our proximity to Quebec. LOL
@@epsilon-eleven nah it has french origin, as Brittany C said
@@epsilon-eleven No, it’s not.
As someone who is from Vermont this was great. I go to school near rutland and I was very surprised that Rut Vagas would be mentioned. When I think of what others think of Vermont, I was definitely thinking Ben and jerry's Icecream, Bernie Sander. But even without them great. Going off on flatlanders, leaf peepers is another term we use when tourist some to Vermont to see the leaves when they are changing color. But the whole we don't say our t's is 100% accurate. Thank you for the representation.
They really should have touched on all four seasons of Vermont: Foliage (full of leaf peepers), Stick Season, Mud Season, & Road Work
@@GregSchoppe oh I've heard that one before 😂 my mom's a Vermonter and she always says that.
I live in Rutland, and i was more shocked than ever when he said Rut Vegas
@@meghanrussell1958 right? I've never heard of anyone outside of vt calling it rutvegas lmao
I'm just outside town in Clarendon and it surprised me.
As someone who has lived in Vermont their whole life, I feel extremely called out. I was laughing so hard it hurt omgg. X3
I am from Vermont and in my freshman year of high school we literally had two weeks talking about how maple syrup works and how whether affects it. In the end we had real maple syrup to take “shots” of and we’re told that pickles and maple syrup was an excellent combination.
Grew up in Vermont and in elementary school we would have a big field trip to a local farm where they had a sugar shack and rhey would teach us how it was made
in my freshman year now and we are doing something like that too
I seriously thought that Florida calling Vermont New Hampshire would end up calling New Hampshire to this meeting
I thought it would start a fight
@@isabelgrant9893 it should of, thats a massive insult.....
@@karn33333 At least he didn't call us New York.
So, Vermont understands the difference between Naked (which is legal) and Nekkid (which isn't) (and which is usually more fun).
You can be naked.... but you just can't touch yourself!
There are two major problems with being Nekkid outside in Vermont. Half the year, it is (well) below 50 degrees F. And the other half has black flies and skeeters.
I’ve never clicked on a video so quickly. From one Vermonter to y’all, have a great day
And a happy mud season
Same here!
Hey neighbor (from New Hampshire) why y’all sound like such a boring state ?
@@lost_neverland at least we are not a bunch of bathsalt junkies.
@@Chris-sv7xq ya know that wasn’t ment in a bad way but pretty sure u mean Florida and if u mean is where did you get this statistic
My country: (has very little snow)
Vermont: (is visibly confused)
We understand that some flatlanders live in cat boxes, we just don't understand WHY.
As a Vermonter, I appreciated this immensely! Missed Ben & Jerry’s opportunity though.
I stayed in Vermont back from august to October and the lines at Ben and Jerry’s were always ridiculously long. What’s up with that?? Yall actin like it’s thriftcon or sum 😩
And creeemees!
@@breannaledbetter6864 It's the smell of the fresh cones.
@@osmosis_ with sprinkles
@@asatowne5234 ahhh. I don’t really like ice cream so I definitely wasn’t gonna stand in a 30+ min line for something I don’t even like 😩
You actually mentioned Champ! I got so excited that you used that. 😂😂
As a canadian I have decided to adopt Vermont it has joined Alaska in being actually parts of canada
Oh my gosh, the fourth wall breaks at the end SENT ME 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I never heard of that
Same
i just have the image of Vermont straight /chugging/ a bottle of maple syrup now
Have you never heard of maple milk?
It's allot better when it's still warm after boiling.
@@noahgracealexander I literally have chugged a bottle of maple syrup, and I thought I invented maple milk for the longest time.
Ummmmm doesn't everybody
@@fzj8022 *wait people actually do that?*
i mean i would too but 🧍♀️
You need to bring Kris back so she can trade stories with Vermont about various maple syrup shenanigans. Like that time we got a whole buttload stolen. Or that OTHER time we got a whole buttload stolen! ...Or maybe that was just a failed attempt the second time. I can't remember.
New Hampshire would get in on that, too. We love our maple syrup here! We have sugar shack restuarants where you can go and learn how to make maple syrup and then have pancakes with fresh syrup on time. Not to mention maple syrup hard candies, maple surgar candy, maple cotton candy, maple ice cream - one of our local county fairs in the fall even has maple milk!
The Maple Syrup Mafia here is watching you- always.
I legit paused when I head 'RutVegas' Im just waiting for another part where they have a New England council and Vermont goes off on Mass "Listen here you Masshole"
Yes!!!!
Omg I use Masshole all the time as a Vermonter 🤣
As a Vermonter (or vermon’er lol) I laughed way to hard at this. I also moved to Rutland 8 years ago and yeah………it sucks. We also call soft serve ice cream cremies
If I don’t get Rhode Island soon imma make Florida look like a preschool
i petition that every other character sits on a phonebook or something to make rhode island shorter
Oh no RI should go last. We might be too much to handle😂
How are you going to make Florida look like a preschool, when there are probably preschools in Florida the size of your state?
psssh rhode island doesn't exist. the only thing between mass and connecticut is a cheaper alternative to logan airport and some highways
@@callistified Well this would explain why some guy at a Red Sox game actually asked me what ocean Rhode Island was in😳 At first I thought he was joking but no he serious.
When I lived in NY, I got close to Vermonters and they are very nice and very into syrup. And now I truly hate fake syrup and have to spend the extra $$$ for the real deal. I might also order maple candy sometimes. You ruined me Vermont 😆
You're welcome
Happy to oblige!
No problem!
Very Welcome :)
You’re welcome!
Now I’m curious how Vermont will react to New Hampshire
I'm from Vermont, my brother is from New Hampshire (his mom is my stepmom) and he now lives in VT with us. But trust me, the majority of my family makes fun of New Hampshire for looking like an upside down Vermont and my brother would always say that Vermont is upside down New Hampshire, so uhhhh...
Yeah its a vermonter thing, most people will never understand lmfao
As someone from mass, my favorite thing to do is tell them i call upper new england "New Vermaine". it pisses them off to no end 😌
@@callistified hahahahahaha thats epic
@@callistified I got kinda mad just reading that but it's also fair
Just casually breaks the four wall more than once
I do like that New England is finally starting to get more recognition in these videos...although I’ve gone to Vermont on vacation many times in my life and I’ve yet to see a public streaker, I feel like I’m missing out.
😂 it honestly doesn’t happen very often. I’ve lived in VT my whole life and I’ve only seen it twice
@@maryhathaway4242 YOUVE SEEN IT TWICE?
@@lilyatkins6966 yes in Montpelier there used to be a guy who would ride their bike all around naked 😂
I saw a guy sunbathing naked outside my mom’s office in Burlington but that’s about it aside from the Naked Bike Ride at UVM
It’s never the one you want to do it. Trust me. The naked lady on a bike going down past UVM is an image I’ll never get out of my head. **flashback**
There's a billboard here in Bradenton with a man knelt down with his head in his hands and it just says SURRENDER TO JESUS. The one before it had a close-up of beautiful baby's face and it said "I Had Eyes". Florida billboards are somethin else
facts though! it's like that one near 75 and 10 that has the seal and the baby on it right in front of a trailer park. Classy Florida.
Florida billboards look like they were pulled right out of Judge Dredd or something.
ABORTION ON DEMAND FOREVER!!!!
From a Vermonter to everyone, this is pretty damn accurate.
With Vermont calling everyone not from Vermont a flatlander, you absolutely NEED to have Colorado, New Mexico, and Vermont at the table together.
And Montana
Rut Vegas! Omg. I thought that was a local thing. That made my green mountain heart so happy.
Oh my God! You got it so right I am absolutely shocked. I hardly have the words. You even got Rut-Vegas you made TH-cam have to write Rut-Vegas. Sir I love you, never change.
I’m from Vermont and my driveway is currently mud and when it’s breakfast for lunch at school some kids bring jars of maple syrup with them so they don’t use the schools fake stuff. One time our teacher made sugaring a part of class and we spent the hole block talking about it.
My school had a project where they made maple syrup in the forest out back during winter.
why would your school have fake syrup 😳
@@Tornnnado it's probably from the gov
My Uncle is making real Vermont Maple Syrup right now. The trees be flowin'
The fourth wall shattering at the end there was absolutely beautiful
As a Vermonter I confirm that anyone from Vermont is summoned by the saying “maple syrup”
omg. the description of champ had me busting a rib. going to rewatch this when NOT at work so i can enjoy the 'inflections' of the vermonter.
I lived on Vermont 37 yrs 4 generations.
I am now in Maine, but love and miss the green mountains.
I am one of the lucky ones who saw Champ, great description of him.
Who else saw this being filmed on Tik Tok a few days ago? (Especially when Ben had to stop to figure out how Vermont says, 'Syrup' and how to pronounce the Latin words lol.)
This video did *not* feel like it was almost 6 minutes long, but hey would you look at that it is. We love fourth wall breaks.
Guess I wasn't paying attention when I was in Vermont years ago because I didn't notice the lack of billboards.
It was put into law in the '60s, no billboards
Oh, we are square in the middle of mud season right now! This was pretty spot on. Have to say I loved the Rutvegas part the most.
Wait, Vermont is a state? No wonder I failed my geography class.
Well hello, the entirety of the US
@@gabbyfelicetti3186 are you from Vermont? If you are I am so sorry I genuinely thought it was the capital of New Hampshire
@@lacrossestick132 yeah I’m from Vermont.....and no worries we get that A LOT. Once I went over the border to New York, I said I was from Vermont and they looked at me like I was insane and said “where is that?”
@@gabbyfelicetti3186 Don't Worry Mass knows you exist. Can we have more maple syrup and Bernie Sanders we need it for some special projects involving Robert Craft's plane.
🧐 I know it's a state & it's over by New York.. 🤔 How close idk but it's part of the smushed area of states 😊
Loved this! As a Native Vermonter and UVM grad thought the video was quite funny. At UVM we have a naked bike ride tradition that happens every semester on the last day of classes!
Dc: says anything
Florida : And I took that personally
*chefs kiss* you did Vermont Well! I lived there the last 3 years and I can say this is super accurate!
Fun fact: Springfield VT, if I remember correctly, was awarded to be the Springfield of the Simpsons. They held a video contest to help promote the Simpsons movie, and VT won! a huge 10-12 foot statue of Homer's hand holding a doughnut, was placed outside springfeilds cinema and stood there for years. I'm not sure where that statue is now, or what happened to it. :')
As a Vermonter...... Man, great video. Had a lot of fun watching this one!
Without billboards - how do you know the distance to South of the Border???
We’re south of the Canadian border so actually it’d be a sign telling us where North of the Border is
@@osmosis_ South of the Border is a theme park on the NC/SC border. There are signs on I-95 advertising how far you are from it. Was very popular in the 70’s, but the billboards are still up.
@@klskin lmao I had no clue 😂 native Vermonter here never been down south and I can’t stand billboards
No talk about how it’s the only state Capitol without a mcdonalds?
(There is one right down the road. 5 minutes away.)
Yup. It’s better to eat at the Wayside on the Barre-Montpelier Rd anyway.
All I’m saying is that Florida has seasons.. Snow bird season, string ray season, hurricane season, satans armpit season, and about 2 or 3 weeks of winter (just not in a row)
Yeah, this is what most people forget about Florida. We do get 2-3 weeks worth of winter, just not all at once. The seasons I usually remember are Hurricane, Snowbird, Summer, Too damn Hot, and Lovebug (though that hasn't been a big deal in a while). I am curious what you mean by Sting Ray season though.
the only white Christmas I ever had was in Florida, so, there's that.
@@NilZed1 ?
When did that happen? Or is this some kind of joke/pun?
@@Zander2212 "You ever seen Scarface?"
Vermont jumps back and forth between summer and winter for a couple weeks out of the year.
You know you are in Vermont when the moose walks in front of the car and past to look at a wooden sign saying wood for sale.
My mom wanted to see a moose so bad when we went to Vermont
Couple weeks ago a moose ran right by my RV window in the backwoods of Cabot, followed by a young man on a 4-wheeler saying, "wtf?!"
I laughed my ass off!
When you live in Vermont and you could never make something so accurate 😂
I can't believe that the annual naked bike race in Montpelier, VT did not make this.
BRO I KNOW 😫😫😫
He did tease it tho
Everything you need to know about Vermont is right there in Super Troopers.
As a Vermonter, I confirm all of this is true. This guy did his research.
Your clips are always so fun!! Thank You so much for putting these out there!!
Vermonter here. Thank you so much for making me laugh, Ben! This was awesome and accurate!
FL - “Can I have some of those air quotes you both keep using? I feel left out...”
There used to be a billboard in new hampshire that said "people reading billboards cause accidents" granted they also used to have one that said "I pooted" so 🤷🤣
Please keep Alabama in your prayers. We just got through a tornado that did damage in the Birmingham area.
“Who do you think I am? Maine?” Absolutely accurate 😂😅
The funny thing is, according to the last census, Vermont is the whitest state in the Union. Maine comes in at #2.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Americans
Thoroughly enjoyed that mud season was included, only thing better would have been the fact we just got snow 😂😂
Ah yes, the scenic Florida Billboards.
Nothing like seeing the ads from Idiocracy in real life.
Lol he does a pretty good job of hitting all the Vermont points lol
Other than the utter joy of Cremees
I was waiting for VT! Agreed missed opp on Ben and Jerry's and Cabot cheese.
This is making me miss enticement ally. $5 and you can sample Ben & Jerry’s, lake Champlain chocolate, Cabot cheese, cider, and a wine tasting
He did ask for Vermont info. Maybe nobody mentioned Ben and Jerry's
@@pattisharick8191 I just checked the original post where he asked for info. Ben and Jerry's is mentioned multiple times. He's probably saving it for a quick shout-out moment in one of those videos where several states are involved.
As a native Vermonter, I stand behind this video.
You forgot to mention that sugar on snow is so sweet that you have to chase it with a sour pickle
That sounds delightfully weird.
Yes! Maple dumplings, sap eggs and sap hit dogs all need a pickle!
If you ever want an actual Vermonter to come be Vermont...I'll do it...I was born and raised...also, I always wondered why we never had billboards...also, I live in Rutland County, so like- Rut Vegas is literally where I do most of my shopping. And maple syrup is literally something every Vermont has. Especially the REAL stuff. My friend from Florida has never had REAL maple syrup and I'm honestly so disappointed...anyway, what was the point of this comment again..? Oh yeah, just read the first line again-
Rutland has like??? No stores??? I grew up in both Burlington and Rutland and I go to New York for shopping???
Well we used to have a mall, but then it turned into a hockey rink, with an old navy and a bar as the only two other store fronts- pretty sure its JUST a hockey rink now. But there are a few chain stores like Dicks, Petco, and a teeny tiny TJMaxx? The only real place to shop is Walmart, but its the heart of "Rutvegas" so lock your doors and don't go there at night!! (To be fair, I haven't lived in VT in over 10 years, but my family still does so this is all stuff I experience whenever I come up to visit). But I feel like Ben really nailed this! I was so proud of the dropped T's, the "real maple syrup", and the "mud season" comments - good job on the research!!!
@@KatieG2634 Yeah no we don’t have a mall at all anymore. If you really want close with ANY diversity? You gotta go to New York or maybe Burlington
@@gabbyfelicetti3186 I used to do my school shopping at CrossGates mall in NY - so I totally agree! Diamond Run lasted for maybe 10 years before all the stores started leaving and it became absolutely dead? I feel like Walmart is more Rutland's speed - Ben made a comment further down about Rutland having a "people of Walmart" feel, and that just feels so accurate 😂
@@gabbyfelicetti3186 clothes diversity? Vt literally is it’s own clothing style we don’t need malls in the mountains
This sounds like a conversation between me (a native floridian) and my husband (a native vermonter). Spot on. Haha.
Born and raised in the beautiful Vermont love it!
Yeah... the nudity laws are weird, especially when you work in a clothing store and you have to tell French Canadian customers to put their clothes back on when they leave the changing rooms, leading to the term 'Frenchibitionists'.
You really said lets shatter the fourth wall
I live in Rutland and the “you definitely belong in Rut Vegas” “you’ll just have to go and find out for yourself” SENT ME
Wow, I love the subtitles on this one, it's so helpful to have the joke translated into the CC's as well!
A fellow Vermont friend sent me the clip mentioning Rutvegas and I died! I thought only us locals referred to it as such 😆 PS, if you can't tell the difference, you really are a dummy lol. PPS, I've been in Florida for over 20 years and the billboards are straight up shenanigans. I've seen that 18 day heartbeat one for sure!
Damn, mud season is wicked this year!
Omfg as a vermonter this is the first accurate depiction of Vermont on the internet. Stories shall be told of this video around the diner booth between swigs of syrup dear sir.
"Everyone needs a good syrup dealer." Agreed. I didn't know I needed one until now, never thought about it. Though it really does make sense. :)
Only someone from Vermont would think it's an insult to not be from there.
Can't expect a flatlander to understand.
So you can be naked, but you cant act like youre flashing or trying to show off.
Leave the house naked? Thats fine.
Leave thr house clothed then drop your pants? Nope
I finally saw this video, now Vermont's comment on walking in on us changing makes sense.
Please keep making these! They make me so happy. :)
"Flatlander?" Haha that's big talk from a state that calls hills "Mountains".
Rockies 70-isjh million years old 14k ft at highest. Green Mountains 400-ish million years old 4k feet at highest. Not the Rockies, yet hardly hills.
Can you please do New Jersey next 🙏
Without the New York accent please
@@pattisharick8191 lmao XD
I'm so glad this randomly popped up on my TH-cam. I cramped laughing so hard that was so good!
This was gold, and the comments on "Rutvegas!" I've stayed there a bunch of times while skiing up at Killington and Okemo.
Can you add Colorado?
From VT, can attest. "Maple syrup" not from a maple tree is a straight lie, everything else is just corn syrup. Stay woke
Did you know they make Maple syrup outside Vermont. It must be used for animal feed or something.
Oh my god I love this!!! I was born and raised in Rutland Vermont… and didn’t move far lol now live in Clarendon VT. But this was soo good! Love your videos!!
I'm from Florida and Florida is my spirit guide 😁
Even though I disagree with some of Ben's politics sometimes he's still one of the funniest comedians on TH-cam...scratch that ANYWHERE. The writing, regardless of one's political persuasion, is priceless. My favorite states are Florida (obviously), Louisiana, Texas, and New York. I'm from Maryland myself and we're every bit as bland and unobtrusive (as opposed to boring and dull) as Ben portrays. Ben you are meant for greater things with the whole table of states thing. I'd support, seriously, financially support a crowd funded movie or even TV show regardless of his politics so long as it wasn't too preachy or Heaven forfend...WOKE. Lad you're onto something great, run with it.
finally another state put florida in his place
Dear Ben,
I love this valuable and highly educational video series that has inspired me to move to Florida...
...or it would have if it weren't so far away from (Western) Washington State.
Nailed it! This cracks me up. I’ve lived in VT my whole life these are all Facts.
But I got an idea you colabrate with other people who do those kind of skits and make videos like countries of the world
The finer nuances of exposure well explained 👍
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!! THANIK YOU!
This takes me back to my Long Trail thru-hike, and I love it
As a person who was Born in Burlington Vermont and lives in South West New Hampshire love the references all of them!