A good fact for Colorado would've been that Trinidad (that they literally drove through) was originally called the Sex-Change Capital of the world. Trinidad, Colorado was a pioneer in gender-reassignment back in the day. Now it's mostly a truckstop for people passing though to/from New Mexico on I25. Also this was great, thank you for your work in editing this!
That is a good one! I guess it would make sense to try and look for more "queer-based" facts next year 😅 And thanks very much! It was a long edit, but I'm happy with how it turned out 😁
i was eating almonds while watching this (i live in cali) and then julia said "califorrnians are nuts for almonds" and i froze like a deer in headlights
35:30 also, for clarification - when the mormons first settled here they were struggling to stay alive because there was a shit ton of bugs eating all of their crops and food. mainly crickets and locusts. But all of those bugs are the natural prey of the Californian seagull, which fly over utah when they are migrating. So the settlers learned to farm during the seagulls migration to rid away the bugs, and were able to stick around and make utah (after failing to make their own country but thats a story for another day).
Utah history is very goofy Fun Utah fact! We fought a war against the US, which only lasted a couple of months and ended up having no military casualties at all (civilian casualties are another story, though..) It ended after a gigachad negotiator braved the rockies back and forth to convince the currently freezing-to-death army group to not massacre everyone they saw
@@derpcade Utah history is so funny. Especially the entire history of deseret. We literally tried to make our own alphabet at one point lmao. 𐑁𐐱𐑉𐑀𐐯𐐻 𐑅𐐱𐐳𐐻𐐸𐐯𐑉𐑌 𐐸𐐯𐑉𐐮𐐻𐐰𐑀𐐯, 𐐮𐐻𐑅 𐐻𐐮𐑋𐐯 𐑁𐐱𐑉 𐐶𐐯𐑅𐐻𐐯𐑉𐑌 𐐸𐐯𐑉𐐮𐐻𐐰𐑀𐐯!
I find Julia slipping up on pronouncing Brigham Young as "BringThem" a but funny since then his name would be named "Bring them Young" and considering he married a 13, 15, two 16, and 17 yr olds and several 18 to 24 yr olds while in his 40s and 50s. I cant believe we missed a chance for them to absolutely roast and dunk on Brigham Young for being a major creep
@@M.DaturaYeah, Mormons sucked major ass back then. Still do, to an extent. My ancestor, Anson Call, married two 17 year old British immigrants after saving them from a mountain pass and basically going "damn, I think God wants me to bed these girls" The amount of kids the mormon leadership had back then has caused some *major* genetic issues here to the point where I'm pretty sure every Utah "native" (people born here, not the actual natives) is very distantly related to each other
38:00 fun story: When I visited Vegas for the first time, I saw the uncovered outdoor escalators on the strip and was so shocked that I asked, "what do they do when it rains?!" And everyone who was with me at the time laughed at me. I obviously did not know this fact about Nevada🤦♀️ (for context, I am from Michigan, where it rains A LOT😂)
That is crazy! As someone who lives in Ireland, I cannot imagine having something like that set up outside. It would be rusted away to nothing in weeks 😂
If they keep doing this for more years in a row, someone should do a supercut of the most repeated state facts cause I swear I've heard some of those WA ones before 😂
34:54 as your resident utahn, god no. We do not need more people. We are literally in a constant drought and about to get arsenic bombed by a dying lake, we have enough people.
i love that you added the state flags cuz i'm not from the US so i never saw most of them and it was very interenting to learn what they are and the zoom ins for every sign saying they wew entering a new state made the whole thing a lot funnier lol great vid!!!
22:45 Oklahoma Fun Fact: Oklahoma is the first state to have an official state cartoon! Named Gusty, he was created by Don Woods (who was also the first weatherman in Oklahoma to hold to a degree in meteorology) in 1954, and was used to demonstrate safe weather practices. Bonus Fun Fact: Our state vegetable is the watermelon... for some reason 😅
You could probably find compounds or metals that have helium in their structure (same way you can isolate hydrogen from water, even though on its own it's lighter than air), but I don't know for sure 😅
@@kirbykins69As a noble gas, Helium never bonds with elements other than itself (not actually never but the exceptions aren't worth talking about, the only one I know of is in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. On earth, helium is created as a result of nuclear decay, but this process is incredibly slow on a human timescale.
Good to know. I chemistry isn't my area, so I'm glad someone else knew more 😅 It's only 5ppm in the atmosphere, and can be up to a few percents in natural gas deposits, so yeah, underground extraction is by far the easiest way to do it.
God, so many of the state flags are terrible because they’re just the state seal, and then Wyoming was almost cute, just a buffalo silhouette, two colors….and then they shoved the state seal inside the buffalo!!! NO
@@kirbykins69Washington is at least a different colour. But it's bonus awful considering Washington D.C. actually used Washington's family crest as its city flag and that one is kickass. A variation on his family crest would work way better.
30:00 Fun thing, that fact is out of date. Not because there's a higher paved road, we still get that award, but because the mountain and related features (including the Scenic Road) have been renamed from Mt. Evans to Mt. Blue Sky.
@@dboone7670 not from Texas but from Brazil, AKA the country with most trans people murdered per year. Trying to escape this place and live my truth safely somewhere else. Good luck out there.
it’s an understandable mispronunciation, and Julia is Julia, but hearing her say it as Lake Chell-in instead of Shell-anne still dealt me a psychic blow
21:40 - a fun question from Jacob about where helium comes from! Most helium is effectively mined from the ground. Helium is produced from nuclear decay of some radioactive elements in the ground (alpha decay). The helium gas that results gathers in large measure in the same "pockets" where natural gas collects. When natural gas is mined, a fraction of it will be helium, and that can be separated out.
44:00 as a Portlander, I actually have a fun little mnemonic that I learned in third grade about that coin-flip! Pettigrove wanted Portland, and Lovejoy lost!
34:10 - the Utah state bird being th California Gull is based on an old Mormon legend. Grasshoppers were eating up new crops from the early Mormon settlers/colonizers. In answer to their prayers, they say god sent seagulls to eat up all the grasshoppers.
@@kirbykins69 doc holiday says to ringo "im your huckleberry" in reference to the book huckleberry finn. Ive never read the book so I never knew if any of the characters actually said ill be your huckleberry
@@kirbykins69 tombstone is a good watch, but im not gonna go looking for the adventures of huckleberry Fin. Ive read n words too many times already for that
A good fact for Colorado would've been that Trinidad (that they literally drove through) was originally called the Sex-Change Capital of the world. Trinidad, Colorado was a pioneer in gender-reassignment back in the day. Now it's mostly a truckstop for people passing though to/from New Mexico on I25.
Also this was great, thank you for your work in editing this!
That is a good one! I guess it would make sense to try and look for more "queer-based" facts next year 😅
And thanks very much! It was a long edit, but I'm happy with how it turned out 😁
I know what location to visit if I every travel through Colorado
_>"for people passing though to/from New Mexico"_
New Mexico is a gender, Confirmed?
Considering that one of Drawfee’s longest supporters on Twitch literally goes by TheStateOfArizona I expect a RUclipsr apology forthwith
Given Drawfees long history of doing apology videos I'm sure this one has been thrown on the hopper.
@@kirbykins69 I still haven’t forgiven them for Fartgate 2022
Many of us never will...
i was eating almonds while watching this (i live in cali) and then julia said "califorrnians are nuts for almonds" and i froze like a deer in headlights
😂 I guess they were right.
35:30 also, for clarification - when the mormons first settled here they were struggling to stay alive because there was a shit ton of bugs eating all of their crops and food. mainly crickets and locusts. But all of those bugs are the natural prey of the Californian seagull, which fly over utah when they are migrating. So the settlers learned to farm during the seagulls migration to rid away the bugs, and were able to stick around and make utah (after failing to make their own country but thats a story for another day).
That begins to make sense of what at first seems like a very strange choice 😅
and “mormon crickets” is actually another name for hard backed cicadas!
Utah history is very goofy
Fun Utah fact!
We fought a war against the US, which only lasted a couple of months and ended up having no military casualties at all (civilian casualties are another story, though..)
It ended after a gigachad negotiator braved the rockies back and forth to convince the currently freezing-to-death army group to not massacre everyone they saw
@@derpcade Utah history is so funny. Especially the entire history of deseret. We literally tried to make our own alphabet at one point lmao.
𐑁𐐱𐑉𐑀𐐯𐐻 𐑅𐐱𐐳𐐻𐐸𐐯𐑉𐑌 𐐸𐐯𐑉𐐮𐐻𐐰𐑀𐐯, 𐐮𐐻𐑅 𐐻𐐮𐑋𐐯 𐑁𐐱𐑉 𐐶𐐯𐑅𐐻𐐯𐑉𐑌 𐐸𐐯𐑉𐐮𐐻𐐰𐑀𐐯!
@@opheliarosewood7847 We really did try to make our own country, huh.
Strange to think what kind of weird bullshit would've happened had we succeeded
I find Julia slipping up on pronouncing Brigham Young as "BringThem" a but funny since then his name would be named "Bring them Young" and considering he married a 13, 15, two 16, and 17 yr olds and several 18 to 24 yr olds while in his 40s and 50s. I cant believe we missed a chance for them to absolutely roast and dunk on Brigham Young for being a major creep
Yeah, there's a deep well of Brigham Young lore that could be dived into, and little of it is good 😬
I wish I did not know this.
@@M.DaturaYeah, Mormons sucked major ass back then. Still do, to an extent.
My ancestor, Anson Call, married two 17 year old British immigrants after saving them from a mountain pass and basically going "damn, I think God wants me to bed these girls"
The amount of kids the mormon leadership had back then has caused some *major* genetic issues here to the point where I'm pretty sure every Utah "native" (people born here, not the actual natives) is very distantly related to each other
Let's assume our kinsmen in those days had wit too, and called him "Bring'em Young" behind his back.
Surely they must have?
Y'all went past my hometown! It was surreal watching the scenery go by and thinking, "Hey, I was there yesterday."
Did you see the trans rigs tho?
Same! My home town isn't small, but it often gets overlooked. This time they went right through it! I literally saw my high school!
38:00 fun story: When I visited Vegas for the first time, I saw the uncovered outdoor escalators on the strip and was so shocked that I asked, "what do they do when it rains?!" And everyone who was with me at the time laughed at me. I obviously did not know this fact about Nevada🤦♀️
(for context, I am from Michigan, where it rains A LOT😂)
That is crazy! As someone who lives in Ireland, I cannot imagine having something like that set up outside. It would be rusted away to nothing in weeks 😂
big fan of the flag switching animation, very cute
Thank you ☺️
Yea. Very nice touch
If they keep doing this for more years in a row, someone should do a supercut of the most repeated state facts cause I swear I've heard some of those WA ones before 😂
Oh absolutely, like 50% of all the facts, were in fact, mentioned last year 💀
I am planning on doing a comp of last years facts too, so I'm sure I'll notice the repeats then 😂
Just having Julia say the same fact over and over again in quick succession sounds like it'd be such a funny effect for that one.
The frustration for seeing their Brights on for almost all the states...
The other drivers don't need to be able to see...
34:54 as your resident utahn, god no. We do not need more people. We are literally in a constant drought and about to get arsenic bombed by a dying lake, we have enough people.
Also fitting that arizona facts were told while in utah. utah is basically just an extension of arizona, and vice versa.
@@opheliarosewood7847 I DO practically live there too. (but the vice versa part.)
i love that you added the state flags cuz i'm not from the US so i never saw most of them and it was very interenting to learn what they are
and the zoom ins for every sign saying they wew entering a new state made the whole thing a lot funnier lol
great vid!!!
Thank you! I'm also not American, so I wanted to look them up to see what they were anyway :-)
22:45 Oklahoma Fun Fact: Oklahoma is the first state to have an official state cartoon! Named Gusty, he was created by Don Woods (who was also the first weatherman in Oklahoma to hold to a degree in meteorology) in 1954, and was used to demonstrate safe weather practices.
Bonus Fun Fact: Our state vegetable is the watermelon... for some reason 😅
The watermelon one is weird 😂 Good facts for Trans Rigs 2025?
Oh man, Eastern Washington residents are just going to have to get used to me calling it "Lake Chillin'"
Non Washingtonians have it rough trying to pronounce names from the state 😓 we must give them grace
Thank you Julia for the Whose Line reference. “🎶It’s Butte, not Butt, Montanaaaaa🎵”
Didn't catch the reference!
As someone who's made the drive from Portland to Seattle many many times, it was almost a jumpscare to see that bridge on the state border :P
Internet content colliding with the real world can be jarring alright 😅
They’re lucky other cars don’t honk at you in that game
We wouldn't be able to hear them talk for 90% of the stream if that was a feature 😂
so mad they haven’t posted the vod for this yet/lh
It'll go up eventually, I'm sure 😅
Yeah 😔 I was so upset trying to make a twitch account to watch the vod on there
It’s up now on Drawfee Extra
fascinated by the move karina does at 40:33
I didn't notice it when I was editing, but that was an IMPRESSIVELY loud crack 😳
Unless I'm mistaken, Helium is light enough to escape the atmosphere into space, so the only place to get it is trapped underground
You could probably find compounds or metals that have helium in their structure (same way you can isolate hydrogen from water, even though on its own it's lighter than air), but I don't know for sure 😅
@@kirbykins69As a noble gas, Helium never bonds with elements other than itself (not actually never but the exceptions aren't worth talking about, the only one I know of is in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. On earth, helium is created as a result of nuclear decay, but this process is incredibly slow on a human timescale.
Good to know. I chemistry isn't my area, so I'm glad someone else knew more 😅 It's only 5ppm in the atmosphere, and can be up to a few percents in natural gas deposits, so yeah, underground extraction is by far the easiest way to do it.
as someone from moses lake (it sucks btw
I imagine it sounds wild. I won't know the feeling unless they do Eurotruck Sim next year :'(
cannot fucking believe the washington flag is just washington. what the fuck.
It is absurd 😂
FUN FACT iw as the one who donated with the burkley pit fact
I appreciate your contribution to the facts list, and the donation goal 💜
God, so many of the state flags are terrible because they’re just the state seal, and then Wyoming was almost cute, just a buffalo silhouette, two colors….and then they shoved the state seal inside the buffalo!!! NO
I still think Washington is the weirdest 😂
@@kirbykins69Washington is at least a different colour. But it's bonus awful considering Washington D.C. actually used Washington's family crest as its city flag and that one is kickass. A variation on his family crest would work way better.
I just looked it up and it does look more flag-like at least. Neither of them are awe-inspiring, though 😅
Just be glad Virginia isn’t in the game because the flag absolutely sucks as a flag.
I mean, it looks cool, but it’s a bad flag
30:00 Fun thing, that fact is out of date. Not because there's a higher paved road, we still get that award, but because the mountain and related features (including the Scenic Road) have been renamed from Mt. Evans to Mt. Blue Sky.
We can make a note for the 2025 trans rigs stream 😊
Seeing my town's name on one of the road signs terrifies me
If they do a Eurotruck Simulator drive next year, I might get the experience 😂
I wish Hannah Montana would become USA president, seem like the most sane option 😔
She is the hero we need, but not the one we deserve 🥲
Despite Nebraska being called the porn state, we grow almost as much soy and beefs as porn, which is what we'd prefer tourists to focus on.
I think more people would be excited to focus on the porn, though...
Texas fact: it sucks so damn hard
I feel sorry for you if you have to live there 💜
@@kirbykins69 I appreciate the concern, but I broke free from that wretched place a few years back. You ain't never gonna catch me in Texas again
@@dboone7670 not from Texas but from Brazil, AKA the country with most trans people murdered per year. Trying to escape this place and live my truth safely somewhere else. Good luck out there.
Can verify firsthand, its an abysmal hellhole
Wish you the best and I hope you get somewhere safe soon 💜
it’s an understandable mispronunciation, and Julia is Julia, but hearing her say it as Lake Chell-in instead of Shell-anne still dealt me a psychic blow
Just another reason to want them to go to Europe next time. I want to see them try to pronounce Irish place names 😂
Im guessing they meant the most glaciers in the contigous United States rather than all of the United States
Oh, probably, yeah. It's mostly their reaction of "well it says the most on this website, so it must be more than Alaska" that got me chuckling 😂
17:19 the sidemirror image is so funny here
Yeah, they really tried to squeeze in there 😅
Maybe that white car shouldn't have been going so fast, and he wouldn't have gotten hit 😤
They really weren't driving safely. They could take a lesson or 2 from Karina, Queen of the Road.
21:40 - a fun question from Jacob about where helium comes from! Most helium is effectively mined from the ground. Helium is produced from nuclear decay of some radioactive elements in the ground (alpha decay).
The helium gas that results gathers in large measure in the same "pockets" where natural gas collects. When natural gas is mined, a fraction of it will be helium, and that can be separated out.
It's wild how many of the basic building blocks of modern manufacturing that I have no idea how to make/find 😅
... Fuck, I totally forgot to watch the stream.
The vod is up on their twitch channel if you want to watch it, and I'm sure they'll upload it to RUclips soon 😊
44:00 as a Portlander, I actually have a fun little mnemonic that I learned in third grade about that coin-flip!
Pettigrove wanted Portland, and Lovejoy lost!
Nice! It is a wild way to name a place, but I think they picked a pretty good one 😅
@@kirbykins69 I definitely agree!
i was looking away and the John Wick audio jumpscared me 😂 10/10
Then it has done it's job 😂
Holy shit I'm from Moses Lake
I'm voting for President Duncan Idaho
I cannot think of a better candidate right now. Particularly this election cycle 😂
34:10 - the Utah state bird being th California Gull is based on an old Mormon legend. Grasshoppers were eating up new crops from the early Mormon settlers/colonizers. In answer to their prayers, they say god sent seagulls to eat up all the grasshoppers.
As good a reason as any to pick a state animal, I guess? 😂
Where's the vod?
Also this video makes me realize how much I hate all state flags except New Mexico and Utah
Not up yet. I had to screen capture the clips from the Twitch vod for this 😅
Fr, all the flags are just kinda boring
New Mexico has the best state flag and the coolest license plate (but also the ugliest license plate)
Oregon Fact: Oregon's state flag is two-sided, and has a beaver on the back
That's actually kinda cool. I don't know about any other two-sided flags 🤔
Jumped to arizona to see if there was any places I could recognize. There was not :(
Next time
less than 30 seconds into the video and "lake chillin" takes me out back and shoots me in the head wtf was that
I'm not a local, but I have gathered from the comments that it's a pretty bad mispronunciation? 😂
I hope they add my state soon so I can do my state facts.
It’ll probably be a while though because I’m from Virginia
That's up to the American Truck Simulator devs unfortunately 😅 They don't have all of the states in the game yet.
@@kirbykins69 yeah and they seem to just be going from west to east so east coast states like Virginia will be the last
They've git a whole year, though! So maybe 🤞
25:49 we don't talk about the 6th flag
Mentioning the 6th flag has triggered a S.W.A.T. team being sent to your location. We will send condolences to your family.
Arizona fact: It's too damn HOT
I KNOW RIGHT!?
What happened to Nathan? Did he get left at a rest stop?
He had to leap out of the truck for a while to lay some eggs, but hopped on Jacob Horse and caught back up again after a while.
Watching this on my second week on testosterone!
OMG CONGRATS! I hope everything goes well for you, and that you live somewhere where it isn't as hard to be queer as it is in so many places
Anyone wanna swing by the Dream Burger?
More than anything
Is the full stream out anywhere yet?
Yes! It was uploaded to Drawfee Extra a little while ago 😊
Why have we all seen tombstone?
Tombstone?
@@kirbykins69 doc holiday says to ringo "im your huckleberry" in reference to the book huckleberry finn.
Ive never read the book so I never knew if any of the characters actually said ill be your huckleberry
Ah, I see! I haven't read it either 😅
@@kirbykins69 tombstone is a good watch, but im not gonna go looking for the adventures of huckleberry Fin.
Ive read n words too many times already for that
Yeah, I have enough experience of that from english class in secondary school 😅
28:36 the youth of the nation?
Which steam is this from?
The 2024 Trans Rigs stream is up on the Drawfee Extra channel! It's called Driving a Digital Truck for 6 Straight Hours for CHARITY
Shh-Lan Chelan
Trans rigs 🩵🩷🩵
yassss
Latest trans rig stream highlights video just dropped? Thank you for your service 🫡
It's the least I can do o7