Misconceptions About Florida
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Do Florida Man stories really happen all that often in Florida?
In this episode of Misconceptions, Justin Dodd, a born and raised Floridian, debunks several myths about the Sunshine State, from the Fountain of Youth to the Florida Man.
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0:00 Intro
1:02 It’s the state with the most alligators
1:38 The southernmost point in the U.S. is in Florida
2:41 The weather is always warm
3:08 The real Fountain of Youth is there
4:35 Florida was the first choice for Walt Disney World
5:30 Florida has the largest crop of oranges in the U.S.
6:16 The Eccentric “Florida Man” is a normal occurrence
9:02 Outro
Florida man makes video for youtube defending Florida. I see what this was.
☝️This guy gets it 😂
I'd actually love to see a series on this for every state!
Even Nebraska.
Does AI do all this guys scripts? The ape video makes so many terrible mistakes and contradictions is special!
Would ppl from Nebraska even be interested in Nebraska?
How about New Jersey? 😅
As a native Floridian who lived (suffered?) there for 42 years, I think back to an incident that occurred one night close to my home. A not so gentleman had a slight disagreement with his girlfriend and cut her head off. He was later reported to be making a disturbance at a Metro Station and a police officer was dispatched to investigate. Upon stepping onto the platform, the former boyfriend attacked the officer by throwing the severed head at him. Now, every time I read something about the Florida Man, my mind always reminds me of that night. Love your show, please keep doing these interesting broadcasts.
Hello, from Tallahassee! I also want say that it is 40 degrees in the morning and 70 in the afternoon… It’s ridiculous.
Tony Joe White song Poke Salad Annie. Talks about how the alligators grow so mean in Louisiana.
There are no misconceptions about Delaware, because there is almost no _conception_ of Delaware.
Florida Panhandle denizen here. Temps dip below freezing between December and February once or twice each year.
This year has been wack though.
An Idaho video that’s about anything besides potatoes would be nice 😭 but a lot of the stereotypes here are true, so it might not be a very long video
Ir'd be interesting to hear misconceptions about Alaska because I must have a lot of them. So is it really an eternal frozen abyss where people live in ice huts.
Not in the summer… it’s very pleasant then.
I love whow they even capaltize the first letter in the praise The Florida Man.
Grammatical rule.
A+ video!
Very interesting and helpful!
One on Pennsylvania - I live near Pittsburgh and it’s actually NOT covered in smoke from factories
Illinois and not just Chicago. There’s more to Illinois than just Chicago. Just like there’s more to New York than just New York City.
I was and breed in Florida and proud of it
Many of the central Florida properties that used to be orange groves are being turned into housing developments.
ALL of them are.
Great video. Thank you.
Wisconsin doesn't have THAT many serial killers! We just had two very prolific ones which is kinda weird that it happened twice, but still!
That said, we do actually take cheese very seriously, so that's an accurate stereotype
Gein and Dahmer.
Iowa is more than just corn and soybeans.
I stopped when I was 1-0 but I totally guessed the state with the most Gators correctly😅
was there last month its true about tempeture
As a Floridian for the past 15 years (but a native of the Northeast), I'll admit, the first few years I was here, the Florida Man jokes were funny.
But considering the events of the past five years, it's no joke anymore.
Would bathe in the fountain of youth if it meant you’d look and feel 10 years younger but you’d die 10 years earlier?
x Had no idea Disney World was almost in St. Louis, Missouri!
Florida would be better off without it.
Can confirm- the Fountain of Youth water is bleh 😅
I would've guessed the host is from FL.
We're certainly not all rich here in Connecticut
Florida Man is right up there with killers having the middle name of'Wayne.' (Like John Wayne Gacy.)
Not everyone in Texas owns a gun ( I know right!) or a horse. Although I live in a small town and we have a few guys that ride their horse into town. Nothing out of the ordinary to see a horse tied off at the grocery store.
The Florida Man. The first and last line of defense of the US.
New Jersey please. We're so often on the defensive because people thought a road was smelly when they got off a plane.
I was born in Jersey and grew up in Florida and both are definitely unfairly maligned. I never understood New Jersey jokes because I was from South Jersey and it was just... nothing like what is commonly portrayed.
See, now I used to think there were more teeth than people in Florida. Then I went there and I realized that just wasn’t true at all! It seemed like a lot of people had a whole tooth deficit thing going on.
I’d never seen someone with negative teeth before.
Now, I’m NOT saying it’s a trash state. I’m just saying that when sea levels rise about 6 inches and the whole state vanishes, the collective national IQ will rise significantly.
Everyone in Florida is from somewhere else.
The marker literally said Continental US…
Are those migraine glasses?
If you haven’t already, you need to do one on Rhode Island people don’t even realize it’s it’s own state sometimes how many times have I have going on vacation to other states and they don’t realize Rhode Island is this old state and that’s some Pop Long Island or whatever even when they have heard that they don’t fully understand basic information about it Who is people who have even deserve it don’t even realize they put a critical role in the formation of the US see if it was one of the 13 original colonies. It is a lot of lot of misconceptions about it. That’s the gist of people who have heard about it, but I’ve also heard people think that’s part of California because I guess this a region in California with the same name most people think it’s Papa Long Island for a few people think it’s part of California been stolen state which smack dab south of Massachusetts and white stacked up north of Connecticut if you’re driving interstate 95 from Connecticut to Massachusetts vice versa you gotta go right through it Please please cover a Rhode Island
Fun fact. I played Ponce de Leon in a play in 4th grade.
I definitely didn't miss Floriduh
Maine please, it's the Florida of the North east.
Mississippi. I am a Florida man now, but I grew up in Mississippi, and the misconceptions about the state are incredible.
FLORIDA!!! \m/ (>o
Yay, another Floridian talking about our awesome state!
As always, another great video!
Since you suggested it, I would like to set the record straight regarding my home state of Oklahoma (in case anyone who has never been there thinks they know everything about it):
No, it is not all cowboys and native americans and horses and miles and miles of desert and "yee-hah, etc." Appearance-wise it is somewhere between Texas and Kansas. We wear t-shirts, jeans, and sneakers. And we are not surrounded by bison 24/7 (though there are some bison, and lots of deer).
I remember a teacher in middle school telling us about a family he became friends with while in California, and they decided to come and visit Oklahoma. Apparently the first thing the Californian family said when they arrived was "where are the indians?" They also dressed their children in cowboy costumes.
I don't remember how long ago this silliness occurred, and is thus not a reflection of California now, but if you ever plan on coming to Oklahoma, don't dress your kids in cowboy costumes.
Thank you for reading, and goodnight.
Fountain of youth? I'm still looking for the fountain of middle-age.
HIGH FIVE to my fellow Florida born and raised! And I agree, we are a little bit weird. :D
I constantly have to correct people that it doesn't always rain in Washington, as we have experienced heat domes in recent memory.
It also rains more in FL than WA. The difference is in FL you get a quick, heavy tropical down pour vs the steady but light rain of the Pacific Northwest. I learned this when planning a trip to Seattle and searching for months with the least rain. FL has a dry winter and wet summer where WA was the opposite.
Cover Utah, we are more than just the LDS church
Love hearing my crim law professor cited here.
Walt ruined Florida. It's undeniable.
Walt Disney’s parents were married and Paisley, Florida in Lake County. Walt oldest brother Robert was born in Florida. Walt’s mom’s maiden name was Call. The family had a joint piece of property called Disney-Call parcel Walt aunt lived there too and inspired a young Walt Disney to become an artist when he spent his summers in Florida. Walt’s Grandparents on his mom side are buried in a cemetery in Paisley, Florida. Paisley Florida is 40 miles from Walt Disney World in a straight line. So Walt was very much familiar with Central Florida as a young age
Like Washington, it doesn't always rain in Oregon.
We gonna talk about the four-fingered man at 5:57 ?
Nah
People online have asked me an uncomfortable amount of times if there's a lot of racism in New Hampshire. The first time I brushed it off as people were looking for racism everywhere during that time but I've been asked at least twice since then, putting the total amount to at least 3 in a 2 year span. It got me thinking, "Is that what people think of us?" There's is not much racism here, to clear the air
a lot of these strawman misconceptions that you are saying people say are "we think florida has the most of this crazy thing." when in actuality people are merely saying "Florida has A LOT of this crazy thing" ... which you are not really debunking if you say that florida is in second out of 50 states or just close to the top in general...
California > Florida
All the Florida Man memes I see check out. My parents live in SE Florida and trust me, there's a lot of MAGAnutters there for sure.
🏳️🌈 So I'm not inclined to go to Florida.
That’s another misconception. We don’t hate The LGBTQ community. Come on down. Enjoy the sunshine.
You ought to try living here…😮
Another misconception: Tallahassee is in Florida. The whole panhandle and Tallahassee should be part of Georgia.
If you’re gonna get technical , we can say the panhandle is Alabama and Jacksonville is Georgia, but it’s in Florida. Don’t be ignorant.
@omgitswicks 👍🏾