Do Americans Know Geography?

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]I wanted to beat geography. [laughter] Oh my god, Taylor sent me that link the other day. How many of the countries did you label correctly with no guide, Taylor?

[00:00:08]Uh one, either 145 or 147 out of 195 because I couldn't get the [ __ ] system to accept my Democratic People's Republic of the Congo over and over. You didn't spell it right. I couldn't.

[00:00:25]It's easy to spell. It's just they didn't have it. Apparently, I needed to do Rep of the Congo. I checked after a while. Not, you know, Democratic People's Republic.

[00:00:36]>> have gotten half that many. I really wouldn't have. Like when I saw you got all the 'stans' correctly, like you don't have a I can't, no. I don't know all the 'stans' correctly. I know Afghanistan.

[00:00:46]>> The secret is cheating. There's There's seven 'stans', right?

[00:00:51]>> I think I would do pretty well with this. Other than like the little mini islands that are on thing, I wouldn't get those, but I think I'd do pretty good at this. I I'm ashamed at my miss of Vatican City and Libya and uh Taiwan Taiwan and Qatar.

[00:01:06]And Cambodia I got everything else, but I I didn't get these one and all these island countries >> red ones are the ones you missed.

[00:01:15]>> Yeah, these are all the ones I didn't Missing Liechtenstein's understandable for a non-European. And you didn't get Andorra or did you get Andorra?

[00:01:23]Uh I believe I got Andorra, but This is incredibly impressive. And what's what's interesting about like your second go, you you knock out four more at least. Like you wouldn't forget things like Taiwan and the Vatican next time.

[00:01:37]Missing Palestine is a choice of yours?

[00:01:40]We talked about this on the show and in my heart of hearts, I was like, I'm not saying I can beat Taylor, but I'm not willing to lay down without trying.

[00:01:49]Dude, I'd have missed Malta and I've been there.

[00:01:53]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, I I can't hang. It was fun. I was just sitting there for I guess it's >> a list of countries? No. No, you just type it. You So, I just went top to bottom in both where I was like, I know obviously the whole North and South American continent and [snorts] then I know uh all of Eastern Asia and then I know most of Southeast Asia and then uh Central Europe gets a little tough with some things, but it's Africa that it really really gets seedy and and difficult. Yeah. I will say this, Americans get a lot of [ __ ] for geography. But you Europeans do not know countries in the EU like you guys know states in the US and it's borderline the same thing.

[00:02:44]That's something that you guys don't get credit for. There's so many states in the US, I'm sure you guys can name them or at least like 90 something percent of them. A lot of English people like the common English person would have no idea what's going on in the Slavic area of Europe. States are a joke. I could name all the states from the top of my head, no matter.

[00:03:02]>> Wait, do you know the capital of Missouri?

[00:03:04]Uh I will get it. Missouri Uh Why do I think it's here? Missouri has two major cities in it and they're both trying to escape and I bet it's [laughter] either of them.

[00:03:16]The capital of Missouri.

[00:03:20]I don't know what the capital of Missouri is for [ __ ] sake. I don't know.

[00:03:25]I don't know.

[00:03:27]Here's a hint, it's not Kansas City and it's not St. Louis. No. Those are the ones I was referring to.

[00:03:33]>> [laughter] >> Those are the only ones I can name.

[00:03:36]Springfield Springfield, Missouri?

[00:03:39]No.

[00:03:40]Jefferson City.

[00:03:42]Jefferson City? I would never have Yeah.

[00:03:45]Not a great not a great place.

[00:03:48]>> Say Wait, wait, wait, hang on a second.

[00:03:49]You I I thinking Kansas City. That is not the capital city of Kansas. No, Kansas City is in Missouri. Yeah. You guys need to really Yeah, we need [laughter] to fix that.

[00:04:01]That's an absolute joke.

[00:04:03]It It really is absurd when you learn that and you're cuz if you don't live there like I don't like you just assume that Kansas City is in [ __ ] Kansas. Isn't it a little bit in Kansas or something like it A couple of the suburbs spill out into Kansas but it's the city itself and most of the suburbs are in Missouri. The only reason I know state and city names in the US is from UFC Fight Night cards basically.

[00:04:27]Like Germantown, Idaho, Idaho, Des Moines or whatever it is, yeah, Stockton, California.

[00:04:33]>> reason I know countries is cuz we bomb them.

[00:04:37]>> [laughter] >> Yeah.

[00:04:38]Yeah.

[00:04:39]I know if I can find that now.

[00:04:41]Oh, what did Iraq's capital used to be before we erased it?

[00:04:46]>> [laughter] >> Now rubble.

[00:04:48]Mhm. Kansas and Arkansas are not pronounced the same. There you go, that's some Yeah, that's a fun thing.

[00:04:53]I mean That's a good point.

[00:04:57]How wacky. Kansas Yeah, what is the pronunciation guideline for Arkansas?

[00:05:03]Like why is it that way? Is that French?

[00:05:06]Is that Yeah, probably.

[00:05:08]Wasn't the US split up between the English, the French and the Spanish and that's why they all have different names? San Francisco, Los Angeles Yeah.

[00:05:15]compared to Missouri and like Mississippi and all of these places.

[00:05:19]Yeah. And then all of these first states are Native American Indian named.

[00:05:24]Idaho In the Southeast a lot of them are. Oh, Idaho apparently is a totally made up name.

[00:05:31]Like a guy just said there were the Idaho Indians and that it wasn't a thing. He just named it Idaho for for no reason. Sometimes you'll hear about like >> [laughter] >> They'll be a river named the Wa- Watchahatchee or something and they're like, "What does it mean?" And well, they asked the Indian what what the river's called, but he thought they were asking where's the river and he said over there. So, Chattahoochee means over there.

[00:05:54]>> [laughter] >> It'll be some [ __ ] like that. Like I grew up around the Tugaloo River and all that stuff. There's no way that's how the Indians pronounce that [ __ ] There's a There's tons of that stuff in Georgia.

[00:06:05]That's another one that's [ __ ] totally different. Remember you guys had your own Stonehenge and it got vandalized or destroyed or something?

[00:06:11]>> Yeah, they blew it up with Tannerite or like What they do with it? Did Is it better? That was years ago.

[00:06:17]So, it was a mystery as to who had put that there. So, it wasn't like a public thing. So, I don't think they replaced it with anything.

[00:06:25]Um so, it was great.

[00:06:27]It was in Elberton, Georgia, I believe or in that area thereabouts. I've been there before because it's right off the side of the road The Guidestones, right?

[00:06:34]Yeah, the Georgia Guidestones. It was right up beside of the road near an area we hunted in. There was a lot of public land and we'd go out and we'd go bow hunting for deer in there. And so, we stopped and like walked around and looked at the thing one time. I think that it had in multiple languages the instructions on how to like rebuild society after an apocalypse and no one knew who put it there and it was this big expensive thing. And then some loon blew it up >> [laughter] >> for for no reason, but it happened kind of around the pandemic. So, it was a conspiracies were were big, you know?

[00:07:07]So, you know, "They got us locked up indoors and then they blew up the Guidestones. How will we rebuild now?"

[00:07:13]You know, it was >> [laughter] >> I imagine some Georgia vandals driving around and they're like, "You know what?

[00:07:18]Mailboxes just don't do it for me anymore." [laughter] It's probably a younger version of you.

[00:07:24]Yeah, just >> I wouldn't have done anything like that.

[00:07:27]Like the The craziest thing we did was putting like big fireworks in mailboxes and stuff like that. But [snorts] the idea like they get It's hard to tell from a video, but it looked a lot like when I used to blow up cars and I put 10 or 20 lb worth of Tannerite on something and shot it with a gun. Like it was a big pop.

[00:07:43]Speaking of COVID, do you think they'd be able to pull off another lockdown?

[00:07:47]With the way people's minds are now since the first one?

[00:07:51]Yeah, most people are [ __ ] They could easily >> Yeah, they'd start locking people up again, you know, they'd start dragging soccer moms off of fields for not wearing masks and locking up couples on beaches for sitting next to each other all alone, and people would snap to again. Especially if it were an exotic-sounding dangerous virus that wasn't just a super flu or a bad flu. If it made you bleed out your [ __ ] and die, like, we'd we'd hunker we'd hunker down. Wait, everyone doesn't do that?

[00:08:20]No, Woody, everyone doesn't do that. For the last time, stop sending me those pictures. [laughter] Yeah, like the hentai virus.

[00:08:28]And why do you have to be IN IT NAKED?

[00:08:30]>> [laughter] [laughter] >> THEY SEND BACK A CRYING EMOJI every time. [laughter] Oh.

[00:08:45]Yeah, no. Guru, 100% they could get away with it again.

[00:08:49]Yeah, you think so? I don't know. I I have to show some respect for Americans not tolerating that [ __ ] I know the UK would be locked down immediately.