Alabama Joins The Table
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2023
- War Tide! Roll Eagle! It's Sweet Home Alabama finally pulling up a chair at the Table! Come with me on a tour of the state that starts at Krout Mountain and finishes down at the Peanut Capital of the World!
PS. Days of Thunder is the better movie. I'm not biased at all.
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Wearing a Crimson Tide shirt AND an Auburn Hat and didn't explode is a miracle
That's just asking to be ripped apart limb from limb.
Pick 1 side of the Iron Bowl, Ben. Can't have both.
@@Duane_Grabert or just go with UAB lol
UAB wins the mascot war. Tigers and Elephants are no match for Dragons.
That’s been a thing from the beginning lol
"a real bad peanut season in 2020"
That's definitely a polite way to describe the problems of 2020
It's reminiscent of England and their use of "The troubles"
@@abm5119 I mean...kinda? We use "the troubles" to refer to an extremely bloody and violent period of English and Irish history. Don't get me wrong, America is bad, but if you guys have something like The Troubles on an America scale, god help you😅
Certainly a way
@@apjtv2540 probably closest we'll (hopefully) get is the American Civil War being called "the War of Northern Aggression" by certain demographics south of the Mason-Dixon line
The problems were self inflicted.
I’m impressed that you learned the Sweet Home Alabama riff that fast! Way to commit to the bit!!
15 minutes ain't that fast for that one. It's one of the easiest around.
According to my old art teacher. "It's the easiest in the world. No way you can mess it up."
EDIT : Somehow my other comments are gone. I wonder how that could have happened?..
Anyway, as some people have failed to see the obvious, I was quoting a joke my professor said.
@@6th_Army Clearly your old art teacher never met me.
@@6th_Army I hope this comment made you feel a bit better about yourself. You probably need it more than I do.
@@Ben_Brainard PFFF OML I'M FROM ALABAMA AND YEA IT NOT THAT EASY DUDE💀💀😭✋
@@Ben_Brainard And that kids is how u win an argument
I can not use words to describe the joy I felt when I heard you mention Vulcan's mighty asscheeks gracing Iron Mountain. I thank you dear sir from the bottom of my heart.
Yes!! Same here!
Friend of mine was in Birmingham and asked for directions to Vulcan. The clerk at the hotel had never heard of it...
Those are the REAL Iron mountains.
I'm ild enough to remember when he had the giant neon torch too, with the world's most absurd purpose, to be green or red if there were traffic accidents that day, and then was yellow the whole time of Gulf War I
@@Banana_Pony This is THE most underrated comment EVER
God the Alexander shunnerah reference just sneaks in at the end. HE IS EVERY BILLBOARD ON ALL THE HIGHWAYS. Deserves more than a footnote smh
my family and i drive to mobile (from ga) multiple times a year, i see it multiple times every drive, the alexander shunnerah reference should’ve lasted way more than a second
CALL ME ALABAMA!
He has like 6 of them in Dothan, all put up this year within the last 2 months
Look, all I'm going to say about him is that he got arrested for a DUI, and successfully fought it. If that ain't successful marketing, I don't know what the fuck is.
@@roetemeteor dang
To explain to people from out of state, James Spann is a weatherman who is super involved in the community. I just moved here so I asked around and apparently the suspenders thing is so that way he can show the adults how severe the situation is without scaring children. He's pretty awesome and I would absolutely throw hands with anyone who disrespects the polygon.
As someone who grew up in "lower Alabama", I can testify that this was 100% accurate and I haven't laughed that hard in a while, mostly because my roommate came over to tell me to shut up.
That last line 100% tells me you're Floridian. As if nothing else did lol. For those who don't know Alexander Shunarah did this weird thing a few years back where half the damn billboards in the state, hell half the damned south, were purchased to advertise his law practice despite not being licensed in the state of Florida.
Couldn't drive 5 minutes down the road without seeing that jackass's face 10 times and the small print under the face saying that he's not licensed to practice in Florida and somebody else was handling cases came off as kind of funny if you ask me
Definitely. There was even a Facebook page devoted to the billboards and their crazy places.
Alabama had them everywhere too. 🤣 Running joke was he was always watching.
He sponsered the first anime convention I went to in Birmingham. He even attended. He even does panels. They're up on youtube
@@kiwithekiki234 Wuuuut!? XD Lol. I guess he's an anime nerd? What did he cover in his panels?
@Kiwi the Kiki Hold on let me explain I know the story of behind the Anime convention. It's started as a joke no one thought he was actually going to come. They asked them he agreed only because his kids are big Anime nerds. He came had a blast. And I think every so often still get a booth. He really had no idea when anime is.
As an AL native, i can tell you that you pronounced "dothan" and "shunnarah" wrong 😅 but otherwise very accurate
Yes
And conechuh
Have been stationed in Alabama for 8 years, and I was going to comment the same thing about "Dothan" and "Shunnarah."
Although to be fair, mispronouncing Shunnarah is hilarious. And I can only hope he one day hears it and his tiny heart breaks.
I was just shocked he knew the devil sign!?
My granddad worked on the Vulcan statue as it was being built. Can confirm that butt is well sculpted. It's like a modern day renaissance statue.
You better bring up Mardi Gras in the same room as Alabama & Lousiana.
Actually he did that in an older video during the pandemic briefly.
Or just one of Louie at and Alabama beefing about football. I grew up saying f bama when hearing roll tide. It's literally involuntary at this point
@@veanell Wait are ya a LSU fan? We have more in common than I thought. As a Auburn fan we say f bama or to hell with em whenever we hear that curse word.
@@beybladerkid5489 Gotta agree with you there, and it sucks for me cause I’m an Auburn fan but most of my family are Alabama fans
@@susane5480do you recall which one?
The "five feet away" joke is great. Would only be better if Alabama and DC were chillin' in a hot tub
"This is definitely going to get us cancelled, but: What's an Alabama White?"
"Whatever you're picturing, that's what it is." 😂
A sauce created mainly for chicken. It's mayo/vinegar based. If it's not refrigerated, it's trash. Most chain BBQ places sauce is trash.
@@angelawestbrook9768 Huh. I actually love mayo on my chicken sandwiches. Now I need to look up a recipe.
@@suteceternal8498 save you the trouble here. 1 ¼ cups mayonnaise (Duke's, of course)
¾ cup distilled white or Apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon of your favorite BBQ rub
1 ¼ teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
1teaspoon fresh lemon juice (from 1 small lemon)
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1teaspoon hot sauce
@@VIPERFREAK16 Thank you! I was despairing at the variety I was finding. This sounds simpler than most.
Finally a new state joins
Finally bought an Alabama shirt
I was waiting to see if he would the streak alive on mentioning Covid.
I was hoping Louisiana would make an appearance to argue over the history of Mardi Gras but otherwise very accurate!
Same!
I don’t know if it notifies you of dislikes but my disliking it was an accident
We all know Mobile had it first. We were founded first and our societies helped New Orleans set theirs up.
I was kind of hoping for the argument as well. Mobile had it first, but New Orleans definitely stepped it up tenfold.
But if you want the real orignal historically first American Mardi Gras, you come on down to Mobile baby, everyone that likes Mardi Gras should probably do that at some point or another
As a Floridian married to an Alabamian, I loved this! Thanks for the chuckle.
Congrats on the marriage. How many years?
@@thesterlingstudies 13 years
Omg I died at the Alexander shunnarah part also I love the Huntsville representation
I thought of an idea for a video (obviously you don’t have to do this because I don’t know how complicated it would be) but what if you did the states taking a personality quiz? I mostly thought of that because I knew certain states (*cough cough* Texas and California) might take the results WAY too literally.
But that sounds pretty hard to me at least so I don’t know if you’d want to.
Omg that would be so cool I hope he sees this comment and does this 💓
@@PizzaMadeMeFat thanks! I rarely share ideas like this so I’m glad someone likes it.
an easy way to do it is to just google like "most common Myers-Briggs by state" which he could use as a quick way to get the idea for the script so he doesn't need to take a bunch of test himself as long as those personalities actual fits his characters and i'm not sure if they do or don't
This would be such a cool idea!
Only if he can have some stares ‘fail’ the test.
"Sweet Home Alabama" -- created and made legend by a rock group from Jacksonville, Florida.
I’m not even from Alabama but I’m horrified at the pronunciation of Dothan😂😂😂
I mean being from Dothan I'm sort of just glad it got mentioned. I knew folks in Bham when I was in school that had no idea it even existed 😂
Dough-then.
I'm not from Dothan but my grandparents live over in Blakely which is about an 40 minute drive North and East from Dothan. So I've been to Dothan all my life. I visibly cringed at the sound of Doth-AN.
@@dexter111344 is that dough like thought, cough, though, or tough?
@@TheFlappening It's 'dough' as in 'nut'. :)
Oh! I know about the ibis thing! The ibis, in hurricane season, is the last bird to leave and the first to come back.
As an alabamian, this made me so happy 😭
I still find it funny as hell that you have an Auburn hat on when explaining our mess of college teams... also a Meet the State that I can finally understand! Well done Ben!
I'm convinced this man is a genius. The production on these videos, the costumes, the research, the accents, and spot on comedic timing, is amazing. Pair that with the number he puts out, the current events, and his own comedy show--kudos x 10.
As someone who grew up close to Dothan, it is true and funny how everyone treats it as a big city lol. Also Milo's Sweet Tea is definitely a big part of the culture. So good
For one wild second I expected to see John C. Reilly. Nice job as usual. War Damn!
My brother lived in Alabama for the better part of a year. Spent Christmas there and it snowed. Very little snow, but it snowed. Alabama is the reason my nephew became obsessed with NASA.
NASA, not NASCAR?
Space and rocket center in Huntsville we have a lot of science museums I was born and raised in Alabama 😅
@@mbyerly9680 Huntsville is where a lot of NASA stuff happened. It’s a big tech city
What year? I have lived here for 23 years as I was born here and we get snow like...once every 5 years. I remember it snowing in florida before alabama once
@@mbyerly9680 There is Space and Rocket center in Huntsville.
I audibly screamed when I saw this on my feed. Roll tide!
I’m from Vestavia here in Alabama and I feel well represented! 😂
I grew up in Dothan before moving to Vestavia! I'm not used to being this amused at being so called out 😂
As a geek Georgian (a state for some reason always in a competition with Alabama), I'm kind of sad the space center in Huntsville wasn't mentioned! It's really the only reason I GO to Alabama
He mentioned the Germans in there...so kinda indirectly. I love when people (who have never been here, normally sent for a work trip to Redstone or Marshal) come into Huntsville expecting cotton fields and see a giant rocket and a space shuttle instead.
YES! and OWA and Orange Beach and Dauphin island!
I lived in Alabama for a little bit, and I was also sad when he didn't mention the Space Museum
He did say rocket city so I'll give it a passm
Even with the internet, SO MUCH research had to go into all these individual State videos to pick out all the peculiarities and then make it funny. I commend you and your team for the hard work.
We are at the table, bois we've made it
You pronounced Mobile correctly. Well done sir.
But he messed up Dothan 😮
And a few other words. But its definitely an A for effort. I was thrilled he added the Crichton leprechaun into it.
But not Dothan, bright side is at least he didn't say it like google maps lol
Waited so long for this one. 😂
IKR
RIGHT!!😂😂😂 Let's not forget how we call our governor meemaw
I missed this series! Always a day-maker
I'm... unsettled by the hat and shirt.
It's Mobeeal.
When shit gets real on the weather, Spann rolls his sleeves up. Tie coming off just meant it might get bad enough that it'll be a long night.
War Damn.
i will never be able to unsee Ronald McWeevil!
Ok I’m from gulf shores and I’m so honored to be mentioned in a video and we would love to have one of your shows down here
I died at shunuhruh 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Sha Nar Rah 😂😂😂😂😂
THAT'S how you pronounce his name?? I was saying it wrong too. Learn something new everyday. 🤣🤣🤣
Much love to our Alabama cousins.
Too right about the Milo's tea. So glad we have it in Atlanta.
Missed the battleship in Mobile. One of the best places to go as a kid.
I went in high school. I live in New Orleans.
Dothan, Conecuh, and Alexander Shunnarah. I said “bless your heart” so many times lol. Gotta love Bama! 😂😂😂
The fact he mentioned milos sweet tea made me happy since im absolutely addicted to it
the pronunciation of Dothan and Conecuh actually killed me
Gotta agree with this one
Despite a few mispernunciations he did well. Glad Mobtown got a shout out
"Everything goes in the Square hole with you" Legendary refrence
I only lived in alabama for.. a year? And even I know how painfully true this is.
I giggled at the square hole reference. That being said, I thought Alabama's been at the table for months now? o_O Though I do enjoy being able to see more of The Table.
"Go to Church or the Devil will get you" is a literal sign outside of Montgomery next to the highway.
I just googled ronald mcweevil and im laughing my ass off
Out of all the states that show up on the table I forgot about alabama
Roll Tide! Used to live in Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida. This is the first time that I saw someone say conecuh sausage differently. In the past, Florida used to extend all the way to Louisiana. The whole coast in the panhandle up to LA. Could you imagine that? To me when I was living in that area, it didn't seem that much different going from Florida to Alabama. But going down the eastern coast of Florida was like going down to another country. Miami is totally different from Pensacola.
The 8 parishes north of Lake Pontchartrain and east of the River are actually called the Florida Parishes because Florida used to extend that far. I used to cross the old French/Spanish border every day for work when I lived in Baton Rouge, it's now just the border between EBR and Ascension Parishes.
But that was after the British took that area from the French and the Spanish took it from the English. The whole story is on display at Fort Conde in Mobile.
Gotta love Florida as a native of the state it's spot on especially the panhandle LoL. And congratulations on learning sweet home Alabama in 15 minutes
As a resident of Birmingham and a fan of Ben, I can’t believe I didn’t see this video when it came out 10 months ago. War Eagle.
I've been to the Big Five. Also, I did Google image serve Ronald McWeevil and laughed for five minutes straight. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Its pronounced 'Dothen', 'cu-neck-uh', and 'shunarruh' but otherwise amazing 😂
Love this good to see Florida not trying to cuse choas but in fact to see him get defensive
Funny story about the Talladega speedway...
For the first race there in 1969, the NYT sent a couple of reporters down. At the time, Talladega was small enough that it didn't even show on most maps, so they hit upon a bright idea-drive down until they got a little way into the state and then ask someone.
They stopped at a little coffee shop not far over the line and asked the waitress if she could give them directions to the track.
"Sugar, you can't miss it", she said. "It's half-way between Anniston and Pell City."
Love the Lower Alabama shoutout!!
For some reason I thought Alabama had been at the table already lmao
Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama … it’s all the same.
He has, as have all the states, but Alabama has not had his formal introduction episode!
@@ThreeRunHomer nah we got the US to the moon and invented the windshield wiper, Wikipedia, Mardi Gras, and the first submarine.
Al has some things going for it
@@obi-juantacobi8552 Kinda bummed he missed the Battleship
@@DrRussian true, I'm a bit bummed he pretty much skipped over Northern bama and mostly focused on central and lower
Alexander shunara. Counting his billboards is a real way to pass the time while traveling.
OMFG YES. I have been waiting for this for a long time. It's time to see how well you got it.
I've been binging Ben's videos from years ago since I discovered his channel last week. I'm so glad there's a new one! I love all the southern states in this series.
Loved this. You did a good job on pronouncing most of the things. The only thing that made me cringe was the conecuh. CU-NECK-AH said almost like one syllable. But again loved this. So glad we finally joined
Came here to say the same thing.
Came to same the same also, but Dothan made my head turn also
Yep, I cringed at how he said Dothan
Yeah my family's from Geneva. I noticed Dothan too
Dothan and Conecuh were the worst
Thank you for everything you do!
I’m not even American, but when he said the peg leg I immediately thought of a map of America and the states, and I knew what he meant and it gave me a little chuckle
You released it on my birthday 🥳
Happy Birthday. 🎂
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 thank you!!
Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳
finally we made it to the table. lol ROLL TIDE
I’ve waited so long for this one
I have waited too long for this to happen!!!
Been so excited for this video and you knocked it out of the park! Great job and roll tide
Thanks for the awesome content and great video!!!
As someone from Indy, and living within spitting distance of Speedway (the REAL racing capital of the world), I wanna see Indiana and Alabama have a fight about racing.
Time to find and ask him which one is better 😁
Greetings from Alabama! I was super excited to get this notification, I’m glad my home state’s number finally came up!
It's about time, I been wondering when you was going to do stuff with Alabama. Loved it. Roll tide 😂
roll tide
Go dogs
War Eagle!
War Eagle
A tide doesn't roll...it PODS!!!😂😂😂
As an Alabama resident, i approve of all of this
i actually visited huntsville recently and it’s one of the most amazing places i’ve ever been. that includes miami and dallas. maybe a bit below miami, but i absolutely love huntsville.
Bwahahaha 😂😂😂 I can't breathe, I'm laughing so hard!!
Charlie Brown & Tide Pods jokes😂😂
This brings back memories. Dad was stationed on Maxwell AFB in the 1980s. War eagle!
War Eagle!
yall offend me, roll tide
The way you pronounce Dothan, bless your heart 😂
I hope this is a new series about every state telling us what they have and their meanings! Would love it!
I’ve been waiting for this
I am so glad you didn’t go for an overused incest cliche. Thanks for doing your homework. I am a bit sad you skimmed over Rocket City’s contribution to modern space exploration.
And the Rocket City Trash Pandas minor league baseball team.
@Phoenix Cierebiej skipped over most of Northern Alabama as a whole tbh.
No mention of Hellen Keller birthplace, the place in Scottsboro where they sell all the unclaimed Baggage, the professional televised fishing tournament in Guntersville, the speed boat championship racing on Guntersville, and the biggest is The Muscle Shoals Sound Studio who recorded artists including The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Duane Allman, George Michael, Wilson Pickett, Willie Nelson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Joe Cocker, Levon Helm, Paul Simon, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Tamiko Jones, Cher and Cat Stevens.
Kind of felt like a central and lower bama video tbh.
Was anyone else expecting a jump cut after the J C Reilly joke that show Reilly sitting down "sorry I'm late"? 😅
As an Australian, I hear "its an ibis" and immediately yelled "its a bin chicken!"
I Googled Ronald McWeevil. I saw. Now I can’t un-see. Thanks Alabama. 🤪
I’d love to know about Rocket City and that Kraut Mountain
Huntsville Alabama is rocket city where the designed and tested the Saturn V and other NASA rockets.
Operation paperclip brought a bunch of formerly German military rocket scientists to Huntsville Alabama to work for Nasa, and made huge efforts to make them feel at home. We still have quite a lot of german restaurants, microbreweries, and descendants of Nazi's here.
@@waka2007 that makes sense now what about Kraut Mountain
@@Smith559
That's where the Nazis lived. They all built houses there when they were moved here. Operation paperclip.
You forgot about the US Space and Rocket center in Huntsville. For something like 60 years the base there was the source of a lot of rocket launches and manufacturing of propulsion systems. Both super cool and not something most associated with Alabama.
Ben was not lying about that Ronald McWeevil statue. I googled it, and it is nightmare fuel.😂
I was excited to see this video but I wasn’t expecting to hear my hometown.
Day one of asking for South Carolina joins the table but good vids as always
"Google image that one. I dare you." Oh my god... What did I just see? I can never go to sleep again...
Heard roll tide, and all I could imagine is Tim and Terry
I saw you in Huntsville and got to meet you!! So happy Alabama finally got a video 😆
Montgomery native, the crimson tide comes from when the Alabama team moves across the field, it looked like a crimson wave crashing over the enemy, and the name kind of stuck. And as for fun, you make your own fun here. Roll Tide
Nice to see my home state get some love. Cant wait for the roast.