Strange Historical Facts About US States

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  • Опубликовано: 18 янв 2025

Комментарии • 467

  • @charleslivisay3276
    @charleslivisay3276 Год назад +61

    OG narrator's voice and delivery are unmatched

  • @foxqueen6214
    @foxqueen6214 Год назад +13

    As a South Dakotan, that hot springs joke killed me i had to pause the video

  • @michaelgryboski1
    @michaelgryboski1 Год назад +13

    I hate to say it, but I was disappointed by this list.
    Most of the entries seemed more like random facts in general, rather than strange facts about the states. I was expecting more stuff like Kentucky being the only state to have two people serving as president at the same time (Davis and Lincoln) or Texas having a provision in its constitution allowing it to split into five states. Stuff like that.

  • @holly6912
    @holly6912 Год назад +118

    Where's the regular narrator? Love that guy! Not complaining, just saying...

    • @Sniperboy5551
      @Sniperboy5551 Год назад +42

      If you’re not complaining, I am. I only like the normal guy, he’s hilarious and his voice is perfect.

    • @MikeyLikesIt619
      @MikeyLikesIt619 Год назад +9

      Hes just off for the holidays guys.

    • @blondie9293
      @blondie9293 Год назад +9

      Not trying to be negative this guy is great. But the other guy could make me laugh with the tone of his voice.

    • @jenniferlonnes7420
      @jenniferlonnes7420 Год назад +2

      You are complaining.

    • @jenniferlonnes7420
      @jenniferlonnes7420 Год назад +3

      How do you know he's regular?

  • @gregdiamond6023
    @gregdiamond6023 Год назад +19

    If only the voice inflection was there on the snarky parts. The script writing is top notch. The delivery and humor is lost.

  • @guzrahman3014
    @guzrahman3014 Год назад +73

    the new guy is the perfect example of 'be yourself'. Don't try to be the OG narrator, I am sure the new guy has his style that he needs to bring out instead of just trying to be the OG narrator.

    • @EricGranata
      @EricGranata Год назад

      See the new guys’s old work by searching “Cracked Does Not Compute.” so funny.

    • @MirzaAhmed89
      @MirzaAhmed89 Год назад +1

      Maybe he should learn the correct pronunciation of Conch (konk).

    • @Jay_one
      @Jay_one Год назад +4

      @@MirzaAhmed89both pronunciations are acceptable.

    • @danam0228
      @danam0228 Год назад +1

      Reminds me of Dan Levy and his father Eugene Levy

    • @Kryynism
      @Kryynism Год назад +3

      All of it is written content. Dude is just reading the script.

  • @TDK360
    @TDK360 Год назад +29

    Well, as far as I can tell it’s been every Thursday new guy has done the narration
    I appreciate the consistency

  • @williamjohnson8608
    @williamjohnson8608 Год назад +10

    Yeah, Swaim narration! Love it! 🎉

  • @Mlaprades
    @Mlaprades Год назад +30

    Yeah I know. Little buddy's probably on vacation but the voice and the enunciation* and in humor are definitely unique and missed..

  • @otysb209
    @otysb209 Год назад +6

    Awwww, it’s been real nice to see the comments go from one side to the other about the new narrator! Good for you, Weird History 😂👍🏻

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney Год назад +1

      They aren't on the other side yet. The vast majority are still against him. Or it's not that they're against him, but they are just for the guy we all came to love. Without him it's just not the same channel at all. That voice was such a big part of it but I don't listen to the new ones. I think it should be a spin off channel.

  • @wei3819
    @wei3819 Год назад +23

    Thank you for the pretty much daily content. Love all of the new voiceover people. Not easy to make these info channels run with one person reading alone.

  • @kevinstinson4853
    @kevinstinson4853 Год назад +41

    I feel like the reg. Dude has a calm way of telling the stories. Instead of like he's reading it to us. But the new guys will get there! Thanks for your hard work! Love the vids.👍

    • @anonymousYTviewer69
      @anonymousYTviewer69 Год назад

      his voice is so boring im falling asleep
      and i just woke after 9 hours of sleep

  • @ManDryver
    @ManDryver Год назад +33

    Nice to see the Conch Republic story told - even to this day there are still Conch Republic signs here and there - you used to be able to get a Conch Republic Passport at certain times of the year.
    Visitors from the US mainland can get the 'unofficial' title of Fresh-Water Conch if they live in Key West for long enough.

    • @brj_han
      @brj_han Год назад +2

      Here and there? Go into any gift shop on the island, and you'll find Conch merch. Coffee cups, t-shirts, key chains, placemats... I'll bet you can even find a Conch Republic mousepad, lol....
      They're right next to the Key Lime Pies... 😁

    • @DS-re4vs
      @DS-re4vs Год назад +3

      Also it’s pronounced “konk” not “conCH”

    • @ryanoc333
      @ryanoc333 Год назад

      @@DS-re4vs that's how we determine the non-natives!

  • @tinas_hotdog_sophie
    @tinas_hotdog_sophie Год назад +5

    1:43 it was definitly a different time, when you had a smoking soldier in bed in a Penecilin ad. 🤣

  • @roberw1912
    @roberw1912 Год назад +4

    The Camel idea in the desert is not outrageous. Australia introduced camels in the 19th century and there still is 1 million camels there.

  • @jesusdelangel1402
    @jesusdelangel1402 Год назад +18

    New Guy Is Good, and Also this allows for the OG Guy to rest a bit and be happier and better for the other videos.
    And we as audience win because we'll get more and better videos!

    • @The.One.True.B
      @The.One.True.B Год назад +7

      I’d rather the videos came out less often but had the true voice. It’s part of the channel. Imagine if Hell’s Kitchen did a season without Gordon Ramsay. The views would absolutely plummet.

    • @jenniferlonnes7420
      @jenniferlonnes7420 Год назад +5

      Variety is the spice of life.

    • @singleflow
      @singleflow Год назад +2

      Tell us you work for the channel without telling us you work for the channel. I see this same comment on every video from the new guy

    • @astawolfe
      @astawolfe Год назад

      Nah, I'd rather they be less frequent with the og guy than this schmuck.

  • @PolaPolooza
    @PolaPolooza Год назад +9

    I can almost hear the other guy’s voice when the sarcastic phrases are said. I only imagine him saying them and makes the video more enjoyable

  • @dafttool
    @dafttool Год назад +10

    Conch is pronounced Conk.

  • @auntvesuvi3872
    @auntvesuvi3872 Год назад +9

    Thanks for this! 🗽 My maternal grandfather would always call margarine "oleo", no matter the brand.

  • @seekertosecrets
    @seekertosecrets Год назад +2

    4:51 Hey! It's Reginald Val Johnson!
    5:48 So somewhere of the coast of Georgia, there's a undetonated nuke sitting on the ocean floor?
    7:12 NOW, I remember this!

  • @erobinson55
    @erobinson55 Год назад +12

    For future reference, conch is pronounced "konk".

  • @SwiftPlayzlive
    @SwiftPlayzlive Год назад +13

    There’s nothing wrong with the other people who do your voiceovers, but it makes me want to click off an otherwise very interesting sounding video simply because the main voice over guy is THAT GOOD

    • @Ashley-wf7qi
      @Ashley-wf7qi Год назад

      waaaaah!!! waaaah waaaaaaaaaah

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney Год назад

      I'm having fun scouring the comments to see how many times you left this exact reply@@Ashley-wf7qi

  • @emom358
    @emom358 Год назад +3

    Very interesting, great narrator

  • @falvoa
    @falvoa Год назад +10

    I luv that I'm not the only one thinking, "who's this?😡😂

  • @DaneGilly
    @DaneGilly Год назад +13

    New guy won my heart with the Illinois joke. I like horrible puns

  • @The7Reaper
    @The7Reaper Год назад +5

    I'm a North Carolinian and I had no idea about that river or that it's one of the world's oldest, that's actually pretty interesting

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Год назад +1

    A+ video!
    LOVE IT! What fascinating facts!

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Год назад +4

    1:30 Just incredible!
    It is crazy how much antibiotics are used today in health care facilities...and to think penicillin was the "first true antibiotic"! (American Chemical Society)

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Год назад +5

    10:14 Reminds me of the tv series Longmire, which is set in Wyoming.
    Fantastic series!

  • @makainwiginton5967
    @makainwiginton5967 Год назад +13

    If you go far enough back in Weird History's catalog, there were 2 different narrators before Tom Blank, a man and woman voice. I think this was the first guy. See their video about the radioactive boy scout.

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney Год назад +1

      When people think of Van Halen, they think of David Lee Roth because he became the iconic voice. Nobody thinks of Sam Hagar. That's like a whole different band.

    • @makainwiginton5967
      @makainwiginton5967 Год назад +1

      @jasondashney agreed. Tom is THE WH narrator to me. Just like Roth is THE VH frontman (even though i always skip over 1984 like i skipped over the Weird History food videos lol). And definitely not badmouthing this narrator. He's great, just different than what we've all come to know. Theres people out there who love the Van Hagar years too haha.

  • @Killem-Dafoe
    @Killem-Dafoe Год назад +4

    This narrator has a perfect voice for silent movies.

    • @Ashley-wf7qi
      @Ashley-wf7qi Год назад +1

      waaaaah!!! waaaah waaaaaaaaaah

    • @Killem-Dafoe
      @Killem-Dafoe Год назад

      @@Ashley-wf7qi Aren't you a joy to be around

    • @Ashley-wf7qi
      @Ashley-wf7qi Год назад

      ​@@Killem-Dafoefree content!!!!!! waaaaaah!!!!!!

    • @Killem-Dafoe
      @Killem-Dafoe Год назад

      @@Ashley-wf7qi 👌

  • @Yorubapraises
    @Yorubapraises Год назад +12

    My husband's family hail from The Conch Republic. I love it here! We are locals and enjoyed ringing in the New Year on Duval Street and partying with ourfolks in Bahama Village 🐓🐚 🇨🇺 🇧🇸 🌴 for it to be one way in, one way out, we really should be our own republic 😀

  • @vexvoltage6456
    @vexvoltage6456 Год назад +5

    Historically important and distinct voices: David Attenborough, Morgan Freeman, Weird History narrator that we all like

  • @joshgreen2164
    @joshgreen2164 Год назад +2

    I know that voice!!!!! Im subbed to your channel as well

  • @tremorsfan
    @tremorsfan Год назад +2

    A mnemonic device to learn some of the Mississippi river states is MIMAL the chef. His hat is in Minnesota, his head is in Iowa, his body is in Missouri, his legs are in Arkansas and his boots are in Louisiana. Some people add to the device by saying that he's cooking Kentucky Fried Chicken in a Tennessee frying pan.

    • @prosolokid7796
      @prosolokid7796 Год назад +1

      Cool..I'm in Missouri about 30 min from the Mississippi and have never heard of that..thanks😊

    • @tremorsfan
      @tremorsfan Год назад +1

      @@prosolokid7796 You live in his stomach.

    • @prosolokid7796
      @prosolokid7796 Год назад

      @@tremorsfan him being a chef, that's perfect! Lol

  • @Southlander1000
    @Southlander1000 Год назад +1

    Descendants of Jefferson Davis' camels were still running wild well into the mid-20th century in Arizona after the originals were set loose in the Sonoran Desert.

  • @rincandrepeat.999
    @rincandrepeat.999 Год назад +4

    Love these new vids! Spread that wierd history!

  • @spacescout87
    @spacescout87 Год назад +3

    These aren't so much facts about states as they are just random facts that happened to occur in some particular named state. Could have been any state.

  • @Lostzero917
    @Lostzero917 Год назад

    Lets gooo new guy keep doing awesome

  • @OldDemonTooth
    @OldDemonTooth Год назад +2

    Is Michael Swaim doing the VO?

  • @clintballard521
    @clintballard521 Год назад +1

    Stopped by for about 6 seconds and left. See y’all when the good narrator is back.

  • @adriand2895
    @adriand2895 11 месяцев назад

    I have to say that i enjoyed the video! I learned something new, and the channel kept his funny side of telling weird stories! And narration was perfect understandable by non- Americans English speakers!

  • @adrianb3701
    @adrianb3701 Год назад +3

    Everyone is so tough on the new narrator. I listen to weird history either when I'm working or in bed to fall asleep, the new guy scratches the same itch the usual narrators voice gives (to me at least) 😊. Of course, everyone is warranted their own opinion. I think if he added more emotion to his voice he'd be a lot better recieved. Great video as always!

  • @adriannamarie32
    @adriannamarie32 Год назад +1

    Did I miss a video or an update on the next timeline decade? I love those videos and haven’t seen anything for quite a while.

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer Год назад +1

      I don't think you have missed anything. I haven't seen or heard anything about those in a while, either. I personally think those were the worst videos this channel makes and skipped most of them.

  • @harnesshouse
    @harnesshouse Год назад +1

    When Tennessee seceded from the Union, Scott Couinty seceded from Tennessee. And wasn't fully readmitted to the state until the 1980s.

  • @maddydog
    @maddydog Год назад +2

    Please do a video on the country of Malta, by grandparents are from there would love to hear the history, thanks 😎✌🏻

  • @Sandman2007
    @Sandman2007 Год назад +7

    I think the alternate narrators are AI, because their jokes never land right.

    • @Ashley-wf7qi
      @Ashley-wf7qi Год назад +1

      waaaaah!!! waaaah waaaaaaaaaah

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer Год назад +1

      That is an absolutely moronic take. I don't like most of these terrible jokes, either, but that doesn't mean they were written/spoken by AI! Most people, in fact, suck at writing and/or telling jokes.

    • @Sandman2007
      @Sandman2007 Год назад

      @@MatthewTheWanderer it was my theory based on the piss poor delivery.

  • @ryannevermanmusic
    @ryannevermanmusic Год назад +1

    I think the new guy has a pretty good cadence and a good timbre for broadcasting

  • @ryanmiller8273
    @ryanmiller8273 Год назад +9

    Heck yeah, Michael Swaim. I like the other guy just fine but I love when Michael does lists.

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer Год назад +1

      How'd you figure that out!? I don't see any credits. I remember Michael Swaim from Cracked and after reading your comment, I recognized his voice. Never would have expected him to end up here.

    • @OldDemonTooth
      @OldDemonTooth Год назад

      So it IS him? The tone and comedic timing are dead on with Swaim. Is it really him? It damn well sounds like him.

    • @chef541
      @chef541 Год назад

      Michael Swaim sucks he’s not funny
      @@MatthewTheWanderer

  • @gangstermoon143
    @gangstermoon143 Месяц назад

    Charlie making a surprise appearance was great!! 🦅

  • @chuck9380
    @chuck9380 19 дней назад

    I love the humor in this video alongside the facts

  • @MariaMartinez-researcher
    @MariaMartinez-researcher Год назад +2

    This narrator sounds like he just grabs the script and reads it without rehearsing, without annotating it, improvising; that's why his reading sounds so flat. The Illinois joke fell like a lead balloon.
    Anyone here who has performed music (choir singer here) knows that you don't just go on stage and play. You need to rehearse, and annotate the score: the composer may have put some pp, mf, fff here and there, or some < >, or maybe an "andante" or a "vivace," but even then you need to annotate the score to develop your own interpretation, or the conductor's.
    It appears this narrator doesn't do anything of that. When I listen to him, I invariably start to repeat the words with emphasis and expression - like, questioning, doubtful, mumbling, surprised, scornful, skeptical ... - and cannot but think that when even I and my Spanish accent could do it better, something is lacking here.
    That's the difference with the main narrator. He gives expression, emotion and variety to the script. This gentleman only reads it.

  • @leonardticsay8046
    @leonardticsay8046 Год назад +4

    I remember a few years ago when there was a sewer main leak in Asheville that made tubing in that French Broad River a little funky. Good times.

  • @taramackey9208
    @taramackey9208 Год назад +1

    These new guys sound like they should be doing Mazda commercials (no offense). The deep, older sounding man is where it’s at. David Attenborough spoiled us, sorry

  • @Newellgk
    @Newellgk Год назад +5

    Um, who the heck is this guy?

    • @MatthewNewman
      @MatthewNewman Год назад

      Michael Swaim from the sound of it, internet comedy OG. ruclips.net/video/D3GNOHQuTI0/видео.html

    • @Ashley-wf7qi
      @Ashley-wf7qi Год назад

      waaaaah!!! waaah waaaaaaaaaah

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Год назад +1

    6:02 I watched the four Jaws films in a daily sequence, ending with the last one (Jaws Revenge) on my birthday on December 7th.
    I watched Jaws Revenge again on New Year's Eve.

  • @bwy553
    @bwy553 Год назад +2

    Ahhhhh…recovering from my bacterial pneumonia thanks to this new mold medicine! Now let’s celebrate with a cigarette!

  • @karinagomescruz
    @karinagomescruz Год назад +3

    Who in the hell narrator is this???

  • @ridureyu
    @ridureyu Год назад +3

    Poor Petey:(

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Год назад

    7:34 "Impulse Control Hall of Fame" - LOVE IT!

  • @rainyrainold
    @rainyrainold 2 месяца назад

    I feel like with a simple title change, a lot more people would be happier with this list.

  • @RandomDeforge
    @RandomDeforge Год назад +1

    very interesting and insightful video.
    still downvoting you for all the awful attempts at humor.
    no worries, though. you're still get to benefit from the viewer engagement

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 Год назад +3

    That Eagle tried every hair tonic on the market and it’s still a bald eagle. 😢

  • @___Steinn___
    @___Steinn___ Год назад

    Das Poster von dem Wagen hing auch in meinem Kinderzimmer 😅
    Schön dass der Wagen noch da ist und weiter gepflegt wird.

  • @Guillermo-d7c
    @Guillermo-d7c Год назад +1

    I thought penicillin was invented in Canada also insulin was invented in Canada..

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 Год назад +2

    10:04 you talk about Mississippi but what about Mistersippi? 😮

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Год назад +1

    9:44 I was a DJ at KDNE ("The Kidney") at Doane University for a semester and would always play "Come Original" by 311.
    Also on the show, there was always a song from the album Version 2.0 by Garbage, it is my favorite college album.

  • @garycarpenter2980
    @garycarpenter2980 Год назад +2

    Never heard of 3/11 but that's my birthday 🎂 I was born in 67 raised in NC never been that far up north only to NY

    • @admiralyen
      @admiralyen Год назад

      Hello, fellow 3/11 birthday sharer! Hope we both have continued good health in 2024! 🎉

    • @garycarpenter2980
      @garycarpenter2980 Год назад +1

      @@admiralyen TY...We also share a birthday 🎂🎉 with Kim Novak if you're not a TV person like I am or with movies she was on Bewitched as Sheila Sommers Darrins ex girlfriend and one of her first movies was Jason and the Argonauts as Medea the temple dancer

  • @dad3fun
    @dad3fun 11 месяцев назад

    The new guy rules...keep it going weird history!

  • @speakstheobvious5769
    @speakstheobvious5769 Год назад +3

    It's pronounced "Conk" republic.

  • @Shortbiz
    @Shortbiz Год назад +3

    Micheal Swaim? Nice.

  • @thcusandsunny
    @thcusandsunny Год назад +1

    Bird lawyer? You mean Legal Eagle?

    • @GotTheBestLigma
      @GotTheBestLigma Год назад +1

      No..... Charlie Kelly, he's well versed in bird law.

  • @donhillsmanii5906
    @donhillsmanii5906 Год назад

    I LIKE THE NEW GUY!!! He is awkwardly awesome like the rest of me😂😂😂😂

  • @LucasWanner
    @LucasWanner Год назад +3

    Is that Michael Swaim narrating?

  • @shaunreinert5202
    @shaunreinert5202 3 месяца назад

    Seeing your tax bill in Illinois will make you sick

  • @LouieRides
    @LouieRides Год назад

    “Camel-lateral damage” 😂

  • @gitgeronimo9375
    @gitgeronimo9375 Год назад +1

    I’m sure new guy is a very nice man. I still want old guy back

  • @DiscourseMinis
    @DiscourseMinis 11 месяцев назад

    I'm here for the Swaim. Hoping for a video on pimps in the 1920s.

  • @1893unknownuser
    @1893unknownuser Год назад +3

    Salute to the Idahoan Empire!!!
    The most powerfull empire of the world!!!
    🥔🥔🥔🥔 ✋🏻👨🏻 X 🦅

  • @remingtongraves912
    @remingtongraves912 Год назад

    Who else jusg immediately x's out of these videos without finishing them as soon as they hear a different voice narrating them?

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 Год назад

    Butterine butterine let’s get some fine butterine. 😅

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Год назад

    8:22 Adam Sandler's was raised in New Hampshire, his hometown is Manchester.
    He was the #1 most popular comedian at my high school...though Jim Carrey came in at second place.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Год назад

    3:30 Colonel Fitts was played by Chris Cooper, the Academy-Award winning actor that graduate college from the University of Missouri.
    I am also an alumni from that school.

  • @katsanes
    @katsanes Год назад +2

    I'm going to stop watching episodes this guy narrates. I think he hasn't yet found his calling...

  • @IcanDodgeaWrench
    @IcanDodgeaWrench 11 месяцев назад

    Ya’ll need to give more to respect to Michael Swaim. His work at Cracked paved the way for so much of the content that is now watched on here and other sites.

  • @Kevin_Lazar
    @Kevin_Lazar Год назад +1

    Took 4 seconds before turned it off! NOT MY NARRATOR!!

    • @bprz99
      @bprz99 Год назад

      I mustard the strength to view it in its entirety… the most difficult 12 minutes of awful puns & monotone voice I had to ever endure

    • @Ashley-wf7qi
      @Ashley-wf7qi Год назад

      waaaaah!!! waaah waaaaaaaaaaah

  • @-Thauma-
    @-Thauma- Год назад +11

    My name is not Karen.
    I want to speak to the manager of this channel though! 😠

    • @Ashley-wf7qi
      @Ashley-wf7qi Год назад

      waaaaah!!! waaaah waaaaaaaaaah

    • @-Thauma-
      @-Thauma- Год назад

      @@Ashley-wf7qi Huh??

  • @lilitharam44
    @lilitharam44 Год назад +1

    That's the best you could come up with for Mississippi? Should have just left it off the list.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Год назад

    9:22 311 was the most popular band from Nebraska when I went to college at Doane University.

  • @mchrome3366
    @mchrome3366 Год назад

    I really wish the new guy like the last narrator wouldn’t be a distraction to the subject matter. The best narrators keep viewers focused on the videos while keeping their voices low key and detached and not play an active part in it.

  • @thewhitewolf58
    @thewhitewolf58 Год назад

    Original guy sounds like a comedic radio dj while this guy is a slightly goofy historian.

  • @marcelobeholder
    @marcelobeholder Год назад +4

    This video uses the joke "Where is a bird lawyer when you need one?" and does not show Harvey Birdman as it does. Shame on you!

  • @texx1017
    @texx1017 Год назад +1

    a wild Swaim appeared !

  • @patrickmball
    @patrickmball Год назад

    I subscribe to this channel solely for history narrated by OG.

  • @ManaShay
    @ManaShay 8 месяцев назад

    The Great Chicago Fire didn't happen in Michigan, that was Illinois.

  • @robertjames-life4768
    @robertjames-life4768 Год назад

    Eagles don’t eat seeds. 😂😉

  • @DoctorEw220
    @DoctorEw220 Год назад

    Might as well do Canada next.

  • @Hidemyname78
    @Hidemyname78 Год назад

    People are too hard on this new narrator. 😊
    😂I said hard on.

  • @Hillers62
    @Hillers62 5 месяцев назад

    At 11:25 ...to get a full story of this, watch the 1976 movie "Hawmps!"...and wait until the very end for a great joke...if you are old enough to remember cigarette advertising...

  • @lucrativesoundsent.1274
    @lucrativesoundsent.1274 Год назад +1

    Narrator jr! 😀👍