People say Americans are not cultured because we don't travel BUT I will never have time to see all of America in my lifetime!
@DamonNomad82
11 ай бұрын
That's true! You could fit three Western Europes into the USA in terms of area. Most Europeans who say that Americans should travel more to other countries are oblivious to this fact.
@Killswitch1411
11 ай бұрын
@@DamonNomad82that requires lots of time off and $$.. Most Americans are short on both.
@derred723
11 ай бұрын
Because you have to cross an ocean travel is just expensive and the cost of the US means lots of Americans don't have much disposable income. I'd love to travel. I can't afford it. every year all my vactation money goes to flying to see my parents for xmas. Thus i never have traveled far. I like to read about other places and their cultures too. And youtube allows me to see lots of content on what places are really like.
@danielm4436
11 ай бұрын
@@derred723 exactly. we have a blessing and a curse with the oceans. We are not easily infiltrated because sea or air invasion would require such massive dedication that almost no nation is capable of but that also means leaving is an expensive undertaking that most citizens are not willing to go through.
@donaldstewart8342
11 ай бұрын
I am 77 years old and still only managed to visit 16 states!
@kevananne
11 ай бұрын
Mum is right! Arnold was the governor of California.
@ChoiceEnvironments
11 ай бұрын
I think you mean the gubinator of California.
@trishlarocca
11 ай бұрын
Govenator
@raunchers1889
11 ай бұрын
The Governator. ;)
@Big_Tex
11 ай бұрын
Everybody beat me too it
@kcgunesq
11 ай бұрын
As well as Ronald Regan.
@eileenderheim3768
11 ай бұрын
Your Mum is correct. Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor of California from Nov. 2003- Jan. 2011. He had reached his term limit at that time.
@Mkproduction2
11 ай бұрын
Prayers for the Beesleys and the little one to come. Your life is going to change in so, so many wonderful ways. Rick, Angela and our 27 year old son, Morgan. Charleston SC
@pieceofmymind360
11 ай бұрын
Amen
@h.wagner
11 ай бұрын
One story to help compare sizes. A rancher from Texas visited the UK, where he met a local farmer while visiting a pub. They got to talking about the sizes of their respective operations. The Texan told the UK farmer about his ranch, where he could get into his pickup truck at sunup, drive all day,and still be on his own land by nightfall. "That's OK, mate, said the UK farmer. I once had a truck like that meself".
@crs7937
11 ай бұрын
giggles
@rickpedia6724
11 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Hey_Jamie
11 ай бұрын
It might be a bit late, but I don’t get it.
@h.wagner
11 ай бұрын
@@Hey_Jamie Quick explanation- Teas is huge. Some of the ranches out there are huge (10's of thousands of acres. Texans are larger than life and exaggerate further. In England, farmsteads are, compared to the US, rather tiny. The English farmer was completely missing the bragging of the Texan and interpreting it in his own cultural context.
@ThunderPants13
11 ай бұрын
@@Hey_Jamie The Englishman thought the reason the rancher could drive all day and still be on his own land was that his truck was really slow. What the rancher actually meant, is that is ranch was so huge that even if you drove all day long, you'd still be on the ranch.
@mimiv3088
11 ай бұрын
I'm really enjoying Mum on the reactions. She really seems like an amazing and intelligent person. And very nonjudgmental. An easy going personality. Such a sweet lady. And like her open opinions about the United States. She's going to be a wonderful grandmother. 😊 Great video today. ❤ from Texas.
@lyricalalchemist4091
11 ай бұрын
Millie, your Mom (Mum) is so charming. What a pleasant addition, her presence is, to your videos. Keeping you and James in my prayers. May your pending parenthood bring countless blessings and joy beyond compare.
@davidhardy5656
11 ай бұрын
It's a blessing to be parents. Time will go by so fast. Enjoy every minute. Congratulations to the grandparent's as well. We will keep y'all in our prayers. We can't wait to see baby Beesley.
@kcgunesq
11 ай бұрын
90% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US.
@Cricket2731
11 ай бұрын
The joke is that the reason that Nunavut got its name is that the Anglos wanted None Of It! (It was made from a section of Northwest Territories.)
@mryan22
11 ай бұрын
The straight line (great circle) flying distance from Seattle to Miami is just slightly greater than the flying distance from London to Baghdad.
@joshuawiedenbeck6944
11 ай бұрын
A fun thing to do is to go search Alaska overlayed on top of the continental United States. Alaska is ridiculously large. And it's 1 of 50 states in the US.
@shanegraham2500
11 ай бұрын
There's a joke about a Texan in a bar boasting about how great Texas was, and an Alaskan says, "Quiet down over there or we'll split Alaska in two and make Texas the THIRD largest state." Because it's literally OVER twice the size of Texas! And four times the size of California (the second largest state).
@CassandrasCreativeConcoctions
11 ай бұрын
California is the 3rd largest state. Alaska 1st Texas 2nd California 3rd
@jace76ful
11 ай бұрын
Also, on the insurance, the job you have in america dictates your insurance as well. Some jobs have better health coverage than others.
@KrisFlicks
11 ай бұрын
@@wvrspencewestvirginiarebel3581yeah but our insurance still sucks booty cheeks
@TheEclecticBeard
11 ай бұрын
@@wvrspencewestvirginiarebel3581 The key words being IF you qualify. You make 5 dollars more a month than the cutoff and you're SOL. I wonder how much more folks here would enjoy life if a full 30% of their income didn't go to health care coverage? 560 a month for most folks just for them to still have to pay a co pay and a multi thousand dollar deductible before that insurance pays 100% of the medical cost. A full 62% of Americans that declare bankruptcy do so due to medical bills. Yeah, our coverage here is so awesome that a full 40% are under insured.
@Hey_Jamie
11 ай бұрын
But most jobs have none.
@joannegerrard9414
11 ай бұрын
and Medicaid (5 years ago when I was still in the medical billing arena) you might have to travel a great distance to see said doctor and the providers did not always provide that same standard of care...@@wvrspencewestvirginiarebel3581
@rickwiles8835
11 ай бұрын
Many jobs have no health insurance benefits. We can buy insurance though an exchange and the cost is based on your income, but for many the cost is prohibitive. Health insurance is only half the battle even with insurance, drug prices can bankrupt you. I'm prescribed one medication that cost $1800/month which my insurance company refuses to pay and I cannot afford. To me its criminal that a doctor says this is the medicine you need and the insurance company can turn around and say no I'm not feeling it.. There are some serious problems with the American medical system.
@DamonNomad82
11 ай бұрын
Arnold Schwarzenegger was in fact the Governor of California for a time in the early 2000s. In the US, the joke was that he was the "Governator"! Canada has a larger overall area than the USA, but much of that area is frozen wasteland. That's why all but one of Canada's major cities are in the far south of the country (the exception being Edmonton, Alberta). As I like to say, there are essentially two parts to Canada: the part along the US border where everyone lives, and the "Siberia of the Western Hemisphere"!
@joannegerrard9414
11 ай бұрын
I owned a medical billing company in the states. A person pays a monthly premium (5 years ago mine was 1300.00 dollars a month for just me) then if you go to a doctor you pay a copay. Copays range from roughly 30.00 to up to about 100.00 depending on the type of doctor you see. Then the insurance company pays their portion. This portion depends on the type of policy you have. So 20% paid by the patient and 80% by the insurance company. Or 30/70 or 35/65. The same basically applies for hospital visits or medical testing like CT scans etc. Then there is a deductible that must be met every year before the insurance company will even start paying on hospital/tests. These deductibles can range from 3500 to 10,000. Thats every year and in some policies each and every person on the policy. THAT is why you don't want private insurance to replace NHS. Insurance companies are greedy and always come out on top.
@juliayoung537
11 ай бұрын
Love y'all! ❤ Millie you're going to be a wonderful momma and your mother is going to be a wonderful grandma😊
@jimgreen5788
11 ай бұрын
Interesting point here: Canada is slightly bigger than the USA, but if the vast amount of water between the arctic islands is removed, we're a % or 2 larger.
@protorhinocerator142
11 ай бұрын
I'm ready to pass a formal act that if Alberta breaks away from Canada, we can fast-track it into being a US state within 5 years, should they choose to join the Union. Alberta is the one province that's in the best overall shape. If Alberta became part of the USA, then the USA would have a solid 2nd place spot behind Russia.
@Msfelixthecatz
11 ай бұрын
We live in the States. One of my in-laws' relatives visited from England, and had a list of places she wished to see. She had no idea the locations were so far away from each other. The Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Death Valley, who knows what else. I think perhaps Yellowstone was on that list.
@protorhinocerator142
11 ай бұрын
Those are all "out west" but she didn't realize that out west is staggeringly huge. Might as well throw in Mount Rushmore.
@Msfelixthecatz
11 ай бұрын
@@protorhinocerator142 My in-laws live in Ca, so that helped, lol. BUT I don't know every location on her list. They probably were spread out more.
@MaryofMayberry
11 ай бұрын
Your Mum is so nice. Best wishes to Y'all and the 🍼
@RicardoRamirez-us7hf
11 ай бұрын
Show your mom the national parks.
@donveldman8850
11 ай бұрын
Love both of you, mum you rock, appreciate your input. Love your reactions. Husband wife & mum have an amazing honesty & humbleness. Rare qualities in this day & age
@MJ19438
11 ай бұрын
If it helps, the driving distance from New York to Los Angeles is about the same distance as London to Beirut.
@alflyover4413
11 ай бұрын
I drove three days to get from where I was to where I am. I didn't come any closer to a border than 120 miles/200 km. I did not cross the Mississippi River. And I drove 1800 miles/3000 km. That is slightly more than the distance from London to Moscow.
@patrioticz2858
11 ай бұрын
7:33 we also have most medical innovations, either directly or indirectly. Best specialty doctors and hospitals. That is why rich people usually come here for medical or fly an American doctor. Also two children died in the UK because of their system wouldn't let them come to America for treatment even tho we had the facilities, the doctors said they would do it and the families of those kids say they would pay for it.
@claregale9011
11 ай бұрын
Child mortality in the u.s. is higher I the u.s. you need to be careful of your facts
@rickwiles8835
11 ай бұрын
And according to the AMA roughly as many as 44,789 Americans of working age die each year because they cannot afford American health care.
@patrioticz2858
11 ай бұрын
@rickwiles8835 lol that is utter bullshit, no hospital can turn poor people away like the illegals abusing our system who often can't pay
@patrioticz2858
11 ай бұрын
@rickwiles8835 also for it being so expensive you can blame the left like forcing insurance, Obamacare, not allowing completing hospitals to lower prices and many more. Unlike you have have had long talks with doctors and have seen many videos on it. I am a nerd that goes to class on by Leadership Institute and Young Americans for Liberty. Anyway you sound like the people who talk Gun Control but don't understand Guns or the statistics or say that police targets blacks but don't want to dig further. Look you Steven Crowder and his Change My Mind videos, or Tomas Sowell who is a genius or Dinesh D'Souza who explains explains in simple terms
@DirtyCiv
11 ай бұрын
@@rickwiles8835 every job i've ever worked has had ample insurance options. some people just don't prioritize their health and finances.
@josephheitzmann7745
11 ай бұрын
Recommend reacting to either of the following videos 1: The Florida Keys 200 years of history. 2: the Florida keys; what you need to know before you visit. I think if you and James ever plan another trip to the U.S you both might enjoy this tropical paradise, keeping in mind timing is everything the winter months are more busy as northerners tend to come to escape winters making prices higher, ( however renting an RV, there are lots of places you can get a spot to camp in as long as you reserve in advance but cheaper than hotels, Summer a bit warmer, but the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico is awesome temperatures (not to say it’s too cold in winter especially if your from cooler climates because you don’t really notice the water temperature)
@crs7937
11 ай бұрын
and why the Brits were responsible for SLAVERY!
@aspenrebel
11 ай бұрын
Paradise? Hardly. 2 temps warm and hot. Only 1 thing u need to know abput Key West- drink Margharitas.
@NVKyleBrown
11 ай бұрын
Water area contributes to Canada being larger. If you count only actual land area, the US is larger. They aren't way off in size either way though. Australia and China are also both roughly the size of the US as well. India is about 1/3rd of the size of the US. It's a handy kind of rough comparison.
@DamonNomad82
11 ай бұрын
The overall area vs land area does some interesting things to the rankings of countries. Russia is #1 regardless, but in total area, Canada is #2 and China is #4, while in land area, China is #2 and Canada is #4. The USA is #3 in both, Brazil is #5, and Australia is #6. The 5 countries after Russia are very close to each other in size. After that it's a big dropoff to the next countries of India, Kazakhstan and Argentina, which are also very close to each other in size (though India has a population that dwarfs that of any other country on the list except China).
@aspenrebel
11 ай бұрын
Of course, it depends if u are counting Akaska and HawIi or just Continental US. I think Oz is 95% size of latter.
@theylied1776
11 ай бұрын
The square mileage of Canada is larger than the United States but only about twenty-eight to thirty percent of Canada is habitable. And 90% of the Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the United States border.
@allensanders5535
11 ай бұрын
should have used (lost in the ponds) version of how big is the US.
@lazygardens
11 ай бұрын
Yes! We often get asked by tourists if it's possible to see Disneyland in the morning, and the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone national parks in the afternoon. Or they want a 1-week trip that sees New York, Washington DC, Graceland, New Orleans, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Disneyland. FUN FACT: One of the city parks in Phoenix Arizona is about the same size as the Republic of San Marino in Italy.
@sueosborne533
11 ай бұрын
The NHS isn’t free you pay in based on your income.
@fireheart6267
11 ай бұрын
It's remarkable how little they understand their own Healthcare system let alone the misinformation they believe about ours.
@claregale9011
11 ай бұрын
Yes but we do not get a huge bill after treatment etc I pay roughly £30 a mnth , the difference in the u.s. and u.k. we are geared more towards the collective as a society rather than the individual.
@fireheart6267
11 ай бұрын
@@claregale9011 we don't get a huge bill after either
@claregale9011
11 ай бұрын
@@fireheart6267 why is it we hear of people getting into debt over medical bills etc ? Do you not pay a huge amount for prescriptions ?
@TheEclecticBeard
11 ай бұрын
@@fireheart6267 Yes. Yes we do. Unless you're on Medicare or Medicaid (which doesn't cover things 100%), paying the insurance company 100+ a week for single coverage and 150+ for family coverage, then 4500-7, 8, or 9,000 deductible per person coverage (which can get pricey if you have a spouse and a kid or two), not including the co-pays for your in network doctors plus the extra for specialists. You get an MRI, your insurance covers 70-80% of it and then you have to pay a deductible (200+ dollars). Yeah, you do still get huge bills. A year we pay way more for "amazing" healthcare that many people need so they aren't bankrupt because let's not gloss over the fact that those without insurance, a good many fall into the income bracket where not only can they not afford to pay for insurance but also don't qualify for government assistance. Love how many of those would enjoy the benefits of healthcare where they're covered and they would be paying in, same way they do now for things they can't get help with and I'm pretty sure that's still contributing to society without riding coat tails or anyone else paying their way since under national health care everyone pays. The only difference between now and actually having it would be more people are covered cause how many folks you reckon are on medicaid or medicare that have went to quack docs to get put on SSI and disability who can actually work and how many already don't work but should? Yeah, the health care system here needs a major overhaul cause there's no reason anyone should go bankrupt over medical bills whether or not they're working or as in the case of a few people I know that worked 25, 30+ years, they have to clean out their 401k to pay for medical after they've retired because they wind up with cancer and either wind up having to move in with family, or beat it and have to get a job before the treatment ends only to have it reoccur and leave medical bills the family has to fight the hospitals to not pay.
@srshani
11 ай бұрын
I think the state I live in (Michigan) is as big landwise as South Korea, it boggles my mind when for us its a day trip to go from the west side to the east side which can take roughly about 4-5 hrs. Insurance is a nightmare here if you have an employer that offers insurance, typically this is the cheaper route to go as they can either insure themselves or get it at a bulk discount, as an employee you choose what you want to pay comparing costs, but also if you need to visit the doctor or specialists you have a copay of a fixed amount and insurance covers the rest, things like deductibles you need to take into account as well if you need to have any kind of hospital or procedure done you'll prob have to pay X amount out of pocket until your deductible is met, then the insurance kicks in and typically pays either all of it or 80% for the rest of the year. Dental and Vision are usually either included or a few dollars per paycheck. and this is typical for a single person, not a parent w/ a child or spouse
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman
11 ай бұрын
When I was living near Miami, Florida, I once made a road trip to Mobile, Alabama. It took me _two days_ to drive there {one way}. I COULD have done it in one day, but I am NOT fan of driving until totally exhausted. I currently live in N.E. North Carolina. To drive to Asheville, NC -- which is in the westernmost part of the state -- takes a full day. *EDIT →* Reading through the comments reminded me of something: I was born & raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, but BOTH my parents were from southern-ish Indiana. {Most of both sides of my family were from Indiana.} For summer vacation, my parents -- with me {their only child} in tow -- would drive to southern Indiana and stay with relatives. That drive took _two days,_ even with much {or most?} of it on Interstate Highways.
@aspenrebel
11 ай бұрын
I've been to Asheville, saw the mansion. Drive from Boston to Miami is usually 2 m 1/2 - 3 days. I drove from Boston to Rocky Mount North Carolina in the 1st day. When you hit Florida, you think you're almost there to Miami. But you still have a long, long way to go..
@Wiley_Coyote
11 ай бұрын
Show your Mum some of Eva Zu Beck's videos. They're a much more entertaining way to learn about America than a dry data dump like this video. Also, of course, more Laurence Lost in the Pond videos. Maybe also Shaun, that Scot who tours America a lot. And Jolly videos, I guess, too.
@themeg1540
11 ай бұрын
Just to give a scale to the size of the states, I live in the 11th biggest state (Michigan) and we as a state are larger in square miles than the UK with much larger states still above us. It will take you about 7 hours to drive through from the bottom to the top, but even longer if you want to actually get out of the upper peninsula as straight up hits Lake Superior (the lake is massive at 32,000 square miles or 82,000 squared km) so it is not an easy drive around. You either have to go into Canada or into Wisconsin unless you want to turn around to go back down through Michigan again.
@jamesigorreilly979
11 ай бұрын
If you drive straight thru Ocean to Ocean it takes 6 days non stop driving at the speed limit and highway construction in various conditions ❤ but we travel 6 am to Dusk stopping as needed for bathroom and fuel and sites … took a two week vacation round trip 😂❤
@rickwiles8835
11 ай бұрын
yep, it takes a day and a half or maybe two days just to drive across Texas.
@NoneYaBidness762
11 ай бұрын
To people in the US, 200 years is a long time. To people in the UK, 200 miles is a long way.
@chouseification
11 ай бұрын
true... and the funny part is in the US, people in more rural areas, they often will just randomly go visit a classmate from school - who may live 40 miles away - each way... well those consolidated school districts out in farm country are like that. One of my college buddies grew up on a dairy/hay farm up past Brainerd, MN and his stories on that subject are truly funny. We'd casually drive some afternoon from Duluth to his parents place to pick up some random thing he needed... going almost 2 hours each way... meh, gave us time to listen to some great CDs and have fun chats. Still go up there annually to shoot rifles - breakfast is often a 20+ mile drive into the nearest town to the "Roadstop Cafe" or something like that we affectionately call "Roadkill Cafe"... food is excellent Americana the kind best served in some diner. The nearest gas (petrol) station is across the street from that diner. Don't run out unless you want to hike a ways. Of course, you could always order a tanker to bring fuel oil, diesel, gasoline, or any other manner of things you may have a tank to store it in at your place; many do... and if you're going to use it for farm vehicles can get the special reduced tax stuff with the dye in it. :P
@NoneYaBidness762
11 ай бұрын
@@chouseification sounds a lot like eastern Oregon.
@chouseification
11 ай бұрын
@@NoneYaBidness762 I believe it... have only flown over there, and all WA trips have been around Seattle, to Vancouver, to old forts out by the ocean, etc... sadly never dipped into OR. One Seattle cousin went to WSU in Pullman, and her stories were similar. Sort of along those lines was a cousin who went between Twin Cities and Fargo for college and back on breaks, etc. For me, Duluth was much better... ~2 hours each way on I-35 wasn't too bad, even during/after snowstorms. lol
@kindGSL
11 ай бұрын
Well I have seen plenty of UK roads in various British movies and TV shows, they look shockingly inadequate to me; dangerous and very slow.
@k.chriscaldwell4141
11 ай бұрын
In 80s Germany. I was overheard one night in a bar trying to explain the vast distances to my German friends. The eavesdropping German asked that I use distances instead of driving times between places. I told him that I can’t, as the distances are so vast, we Americans use driving times for distance. That I only know the drive times. My German friends were floored by the 17 to 18-hours (at the time) from Chicago to Denver. That Bryce Canyon, there destination, was another 10 to 12-hours. They thought they could visit Bryce over the course of two days. Nope. A minimum of 3-days round trip drive time. Just drive time. Even on family roadtrips, distances on maps were always converted to drive time-3-hours to go, etc. That’s its 4.5 hours from my city to my dad’s place. Miles?! No idea.
@aspenrebel
11 ай бұрын
But drive time depends on traffic, conztruction, etc. Whereas distsnces stay the same.
@aspenrebel
11 ай бұрын
I remember one time on the TV show "X factor USA" several years ago. A contestant said he and his mother drove 7-8 hours from Columbus, Ohio, to Chicago, I think it was, for the audition. The British judge Cheryl Cole gasped at that. She couldn't imagine driving 7-8 hours to get anywhere. I think in England you can cover the whole country in half that time.
@k.chriscaldwell4141
11 ай бұрын
@@aspenrebel Yup.
@k.chriscaldwell4141
11 ай бұрын
I remembered more. The eavesdropping German was frustrated with my use of time not distance, but most of all, my use of DAYS between cities. I was stating the need for a day (or much of) from NYC to DC. then a day to Chicago, a day to Denver, a day to Bryce. Etc. All reasonable estimates. Where I lived in Germany, it was possible to do a day trip to Paris: Drive there, see it, drive home, and climb in your bed about 12-1 in the morning. Many Germans thought Chicago was that close to NYC. Nope. The Germans I was speaking to thought 16 days was enough to drive and visit: NYC, DC, Chicago, Bryce, Dallas, New Orleans, the Smoky Mountains, and Miami. Nope. They did NYC, Chicago, New Orleans, the Smokies, and Miami instead.
@Sunset553
11 ай бұрын
I’m from California and lived there until I was in my early fifties. Since it was described as a top agricultural producer, top entertainment, and all added up as if it were in line with other countries, it gave me a sense of how productive and large my state was . Now that I’ve moved, I have no idea about where I live now lol.
@LJBSullivan
11 ай бұрын
Where do you live now?
@fixpacifica
11 ай бұрын
California was recently the fifth biggest economy in the world, and now I'm reading that it's the fourth biggest economy. Only the US, China and Japan have bigger economies.
@jackfrank303
11 ай бұрын
I drove from New Hampshire to Southern California. New Hampshire is in the Northeast on the Atlantic Ocean. Driving 10+ hours a day at 65 + MPH (105 Kph), it took me 5 full days.
@gdhaney136
11 ай бұрын
I've driven across the US twice, up and down the east coast, and still have only been to/through/in 32 states and the USVI. I have been to Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico, but it's so expensive for us to travel to Europe. I would love to, but I'd need a windfall.
@aspenrebel
11 ай бұрын
I live in Boston. I think I have been in or through 25 states. If you count a stop over at Dallas airport.
@seattleogre
11 ай бұрын
While we may only have 1.3 mil active duty personnel in the military, we have many reserves, National Guard units and well over 100 million armed citizens for any potential invader to contend with. I know we appear divided but I reference 9/12/2001. When it's America in the crosshairs we are all Americans.
@katw3070
11 ай бұрын
9/11
@jaxkommish
11 ай бұрын
My hometown of Jacksonville FL is 848 square miles. Driving from the beach on the east to the western edge is a 45 minute drive without any traffic delays
@dbarnes544
11 ай бұрын
It will take you 5 or 6 days to travel coast to coast at 10 hours a day. Texas ia over 900 miles east to west.
@shanegraham2500
11 ай бұрын
Not including Alaska or Hawai'i, the United States is 2,800 miles (4500 km) West to East and 1,659 miles (2660 km) North to South. The longest road trip goes from Key West Florida (bottom Southeast) to Cape Flattery Washington (Pacific Northwest) - 3,689 miles (4, 654 km). From New York City to Los Angeles is 2778 miles (4470 km). You can literally drive for days in a straight line in the U.S. At 60 miles an hour, ten hours a day, the trip from Florida to Washington is about a week!
@Berts-pets
11 ай бұрын
🌟 That's a gold star for your mum.
@scottfrench4139
11 ай бұрын
Note: Los Angeles has several hundred cities surrounding it. Greater L.A. has about 20 million people.
@raymondclark1785
10 ай бұрын
I was at a USAF school in Beloxi Ms and some students from Austria brought their climbing gear. Their plan was over the 2 day weekend was to climb the Rockies 😮
@4rkain3
11 ай бұрын
Our government spends its defense budget fairly inefficiently, so any claims about its budget meaning that we have the “best-equipped” military in the world need to be taken with a grain of salt. There’s a lot of info unavailable to civilians that would be needed for someone to do a fair comparison. I doubt any country would divulge all the information needed to do that.
@chrissauter7501
11 ай бұрын
"Military grade" doesn't mean what most people think it means. It actually means that the item is the cheapest made item to meet the government mandated requirements
@4rkain3
11 ай бұрын
@@chrissauter7501 True, but I’m talking more about stuff most people in our military won’t be handling. Especially new tech and research that are known to be dead-ends or already failures, but have to keep being funded due to contracts (and sometimes because of pride and refusal to acknowledge failure).
@SweetBabyBry
11 ай бұрын
We got our problems but I’m proud to be American still❤️❤️❤️
@neutrino78x
11 ай бұрын
4:50 Silicon Valley (where I'm from!) and Hollywood 🙂....and we have some of the busiest deep water ports as well, such as the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Oakland. 🙂
@floydhill9265
11 ай бұрын
May I suggest once more that you watch Fried Green Tomatoes with Mum?
@johnjdumas
11 ай бұрын
Only about 18% of US healthcare dollars go to doctors. 25% goes to administration!
@anthonymalovrh2912
11 ай бұрын
Lived in Wisconsin most of my life, but moved to Arizona 7 years ago. Still visit Wisconsin every other year, but it is a 4 day, 1850 mile drive. Only 3-3.5 hour flight though.
@jlongino51823
11 ай бұрын
Millie, you’d be surprised how much your labor, delivery and hospital stay would cost over here. Healthcare costs, and insurance costs, are outrageously expensive.
@jdbroders64
11 ай бұрын
Just a slight insight (US Navy veteran). Per capita the US military is the largest in the world. India and China are not even close, again per population.
@frankscarborough1428
11 ай бұрын
Enjoyed listening to you and your mum discussing the video thanks Frank from Texas
@protorhinocerator142
11 ай бұрын
Alabama is about the same size as England. Not the whole UK but England alone. Americans are used to driving everywhere to get stuff, see stuff, or do stuff. But then gasoline is much cheaper than in the UK. In the USA 100 years is a long time. In the UK 100 miles is a long distance.
@sallyjopatriot
11 ай бұрын
no.. the uk does NOT have free health care.. people pay thru taxes.
@raphaelpaz8476
11 ай бұрын
Yes Arnold was Governor of Cali from 2010-2018 2 terms
@karlsmith2570
11 ай бұрын
4:59 Mum was correct, Arnold was governor of California
@3DJapan
11 ай бұрын
I'm sort of one of the lucky ones with healthcare. Due to my income and a medical condition I have I'm on Medicaid from the government and I don't pay anything for prescriptions or doctor visits, I've even been to the ER a couple of times and paid nothing. I do have to pay for dental but I get a huge discount, like 50% off. My regular eye doctor visits are free and I get a free pair of glasses per year.
@lemm59
11 ай бұрын
yes Arnie was the Govenator as we called him.
@CRUSHFACTORPC
11 ай бұрын
In the last 2 yrs we have encountered over 6 million people surging across the US/ Mexican Border.
@jimcherry685
10 ай бұрын
30 years ago, or so, I met two German couples at a local motorcycle dealer. They had just taken possession of a pair of Honda Goldwings and were planning their trip. I asked their plans, and they said they would ride to Los Angeles tomorrow. We were in Minneapolis. I quickly asked them to get their maps out, and pointed out that Los Angeles is just about 2000 miles from Mpls, and that they might, if they ride like the wind, get to Denver the next day. Scale, between European maps and U.S. maps, isn't really addressed. Europeans have no idea of the distances involved in American travel
@oleeb
11 ай бұрын
Yeah, we're big and bad ass in the USA. It's just the way we are.
@justicar2747
11 ай бұрын
And THIS is why the "public transportation" argument from Europeans doesn't work here.
@marshalljones3341
11 ай бұрын
Why is it so hard to imagine fastrail service in the US? We put people on the moon and folks say public transportation doesn't work here. Please make your comment make sense.
@peensteen
11 ай бұрын
@@marshalljones3341This reminds me of the study done in the UK back in the early 2000s about how trains used more fuel per person than cars. More importantly, where do you put the rails? Do you "eminent domain" people out of their land? Do we allow the government to steal more land from private citizens, like when Trump's cronies rammed their border wall through wildlife habitats, a butterfly sanctuary, and anyone else who wouldn't surrender their right to own property?
@justicar2747
11 ай бұрын
@marshalljones3341 it's obvious...distance and infrastructure. It's easy to put together infrastructure across a smaller distance over time, through existing inhabitants. The UK is a perfect example. The entirety of the UK can fit inside the state of Georgia...one state, and the UK has had dense population build up within that same space for about 1000 years. So you have denser population over a small size, specifically the entire population of the UK is 58.1 million, while Georgia has 9.7 million. To make that work you're going to have to build infrastructure into rural and suburban areas to service less dense population centers. It's not cost effective. Economics 101 shows this isn't sustainable.
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman
11 ай бұрын
@@marshalljones3341>>> SOMEONE has to _cough up_ all the *$$$$$* to do it....
@Heatwave9000
10 ай бұрын
@@justicar2747 67 million people...
@Chas0967
11 ай бұрын
Lawrence from Lost in the Pond breaks it down to the size of the US to UK
@marcom6089
11 ай бұрын
Our population has grown since this video was released. I believe there are 340 million of us Americans not 327 million.
@crs7937
11 ай бұрын
Americans do not react to how small Britain is..but we appreciate where we came from... AND you speak ENGLISH! LOL
@drakeswarchannel2530
11 ай бұрын
ARETHA FRANKLIN - I NEVER LOVED A MAN (THE WAY I LOVE YOU). Thank you for your opinions Ladies!
@babyfry4775
11 ай бұрын
When my husband and I worked we got health insurance through our companies. It usually paid for 80% of the cost and we paid 20%. We’re retired now and we have Medicare. Usually our prescriptions are free or aren’t too expensive and we’re generally pretty healthy but it can be tough on people with poor health. The people who are uninsured can go to the hospital and won’t be turned away. We can get in to see a specialist pretty quickly. I would say this video needs to be updated. Under Biden our immigrants are way more than 900K. We are over 2 million this year already and it’s becoming a problem with housing, education - it’s straining out systems.
@rickwiles8835
11 ай бұрын
While they are not turned away they are given the barest minimum medical treatment and at least in my state of Alabama if they don't pay their medical bills they can go to jail. To see a general practitioner may take months but yes once your in the system seeing a specialist is pretty quick. Also its been my experience insurance companies pay 80/75/65% customary usual fee for a medical treatment. And the insurance companies are the ones that set the CUF so they pay whatever they want and you are responsible for the rest or go to jail. Lets not even mention drug coverage.. Which in and of itself is hit and miss and drugs can cost thousands of dollars out of your own pocket.
@c1ph3rpunk
11 ай бұрын
Europeans, in general, don’t understand how large the US is, we travel to other states like you travel to other counties. The other part misunderstood is the diversity of geography, we can go from desert, to sub-tropics, to frozen by just driving (a lot) and be in the same country. Was in a pub in London, bartender says something like “you Americans, you don’t travel to other countries much”. My answer: ever been to Louisiana? The cultural differences between somewhere like New York, Louisiana and say, Michigan, can be huge. Then there’s Texas, technically it is another country. And of course California, it has an economy larger than a huge swath of the rest of the countries on the planet.
@HBC423
11 ай бұрын
Florida and Hawaii are tropical.. idk why they say subtropical in the video.. Tennessee is subtropical rainforest
@MatrixGodfather
11 ай бұрын
The insurance thing is crazy. I spend about $250 a paycheck on health insurance for my family. When my daughter was born, we got a $250 dollar bill. In fact, thats the only bill we've had to pay. Thing is, that kind of coverage is almost unheard of.
@sacthel-pt1fc
11 ай бұрын
I am from Eastern Kentucky i would love to see the world America is my home the whole world is everyone's
@bigplanett
11 ай бұрын
NHS isn't exactly "free". 9% of your total income is steep.
@SgtSteel1
11 ай бұрын
The comment about the NHS being free, of course it is not, that's what national insurance payments are for.
@slickbillwilly
11 ай бұрын
The thing is, the price you pay without insurance is typically MUCH less than what insurance pays, at least for common things like doctor's visits and such. The problem is that without insurance, not only can you be wiped out financially, but many places won't treat you because they don't want to find a problem with your health, treat it, and then be stuck with the bill. Obamacare, or somewhat-health-care, is geared mainly to low-income people (i.s. "Medicaid"), which misses people too "rich" to not be covered but not rich enough to be able to afford healthcare premiums, and not have a job with healthcare.
@GulsCult
3 ай бұрын
I can get in my car outside my building here in New York City, and start driving north for 7 hours, and I'd still be in New York State.
@Bellymeatman
11 ай бұрын
The overwhelming population (92%) of Canada lives within 200 miles of the USA/Canada border
@kdm71291
11 ай бұрын
Yes...Arnold was governor of Ca in the early 2,000s.
@lilsuzq32
11 ай бұрын
You spelled Ahnahld wrong...
@kdm71291
11 ай бұрын
@@lilsuzq32 Haha!
@Artuor.Morgan
11 ай бұрын
So weird how many people including infographcis thinks the USA is subtropical when it has fully tropical areas in south Florida and Hawaii, same climates you would find in the amazon and congo.
@Hey_Jamie
11 ай бұрын
Yep, Arnold was indeed our governor once. I miss him, to be honest.
@thatguyinelnorte
11 ай бұрын
One of the reasons that US healthcare is so expensive is the horrific expenses of malpractice insurance and having too many under-employed lawyers willing to file lawsuits over literally anything. They know some juries are either gullible or biased against corporations. Sad fact of life. It is balanced by having many of the best hospitals, though---like MD Anderson, for example. They treat people from all around the world. As for immigration, I think the 900,000 only included the legal immigrants, not the flood of "document-challenged guest-workers" we've seen in the 21st Century. Our laws in that area need more than a small tuneup. We currently have between 11 and 40 million unlawful immigrants (depending on who is reporting), many of whom are really great people, as well as many who are not.
@paulayala4816
11 ай бұрын
I hope you and your family get a chance to come visit the USA, it's hard to get a real feel of the US unless you are on the ground and out on the road. I think most Americans love a good road trip, it's a chance to see different places, try different foods, see how others live, purchase tacky souvenirs.... explore. And finally you haven't lived until you have experienced having to go to the restroom and the blue sign on the side of the highway says "Next Services 100 miles Ahead".
@rickwiles8835
11 ай бұрын
I remember a rest stop about 100 miles north of Roswell, New Mexico that consisted of two porta potties and a sign saying beware of rattlesnakes.
@rohan1970b
11 ай бұрын
You mom was correct about Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was the governor of California. Well done!!!
@NathanMalnaa
11 ай бұрын
One thing they didn't mention was the US has the biggest unofficial army in the world, the gun owners of America all 100+ million of us lol
@stargazer-elite
11 ай бұрын
Fun fact all 8 billion people could live comfortably in a place the size of Texas alone and the video I got that from (I forgot the title) is over a few years old when the world wasn’t 8 billion but 7.8 or .9 billion
@phoenixmichaels
11 ай бұрын
Germany is about the size of my state Oregon. Yet we have only 3.5 million people here.
@cinb3448
11 ай бұрын
I read 80% of Canada is uninhabited. Thats a lot of land no one lives in. 😮
@hardtackbeans9790
11 ай бұрын
Arnie was 'da Gov' in Glitterland. Your mom is very sharp. I have a head for a lot of useless facts too. Medical is hard to say. No matter how you add it up the US is expensive. I have sought treatment with & without insurance. With it is cheap (I get free meds). Without it isn't a bank breaker but major medical is. The free or reduced pay medical you wait around endlessly & I would say not that great.
@pigs18
11 ай бұрын
It's been said that a Brit thinks 100 miles is a very long distance while an American thinks 100 years is a very long time.
@DashRiprock513
11 ай бұрын
The healthcare situation is better than they make it sound... Anyone can get insurance, if you're having trouble with the cost they have Medicare and Medicaid. we also have "emtala" Rules governing health care state that if you show up At and emergency room or casualty as you would say they have to treat you if you have insurance, money, or not... I worked at the hospital and for those who had no coverage... we would get it for them... because we wanted to get paid... You can send bills to people with no money everyday.. it's not gonna put money on the books. So we got them coverage for their own good, and for our accountants happiness.
@tahliasgoddaddy
11 ай бұрын
True. I'm retired, on Medicare. I have an Advantage plan plus I qualify for my states MPS (Medicare Payment Savings), so the state pays the Social Security Medicare Payment for me. It doesn't come out of my benefit check. But, I still get peanuts in SS funds. But without MPS it would be a lot worse. I would be homeless.
@crs7937
11 ай бұрын
sad , you who built this damn country treated worse than the homeless meth heads !
@jamesphillips2961
11 ай бұрын
Actually the US GDP at the end of 2022 was $25.5T.
@maxmcgraw3571
11 ай бұрын
Great video ladies. Just one correction... Alaska is the largest state in the United States.
@supercoffeemug1921
11 ай бұрын
The US citizens are the most armed citizens in the world with 102.5 guns per person. As for Arnold he was Governor of Ca nicknamed “the Govenator”
@ddki9094
11 ай бұрын
New York City alone has a population that is nearly twice as much as the state of Wisconsin's total population where I live.
@beeaye7944
11 ай бұрын
The funny thing about Canada is that something like 95% of its population lives in the Southernmost 5% of its landmass. The true North strong and free--Of people, mostly. :)
@crs7937
11 ай бұрын
And that would be...because it is a private resort...or too cold to support life?
@beeaye7944
11 ай бұрын
@@crs7937 I imagine because most of it is too cold to support major cities. My uncle was a Pastor for a little town up in the Canadian rockies of Alberta. I remember taking a LONG road trip with my grandparents just to visit my cousin when I was 9. He was 8 and didn't really have many local boys his own age to play with, so I was kind of sent along as an ambassador. 😂 I don't remember a ton of things about the trip, but I do remember how ENORMOUS the Rocky mountains were, and how remote that little community (I don't remember the name of the town) was.
@mbourque
10 ай бұрын
7:38 there are differing insurance situations in the U.S. first there is Medicare for everyone over 65. the government puts you on health insurance and it will pay for parts of health care and some prescriptions. there are different levels and types and they each cover more or less than each other. you have to be really careful on which one you get depending on your medical needs. Then there is Medicaid for people that are under the poverty line. it is similar to Medicare, but there is no age restriction, but there is a income restriction and you can't get it if you make too much money (above poverty line). it covers many things but not everything or very expensive things. Like Medicare, there are many different types and you have to chose one base on your medical needs. Add to that, anyone above the poverty line has to get their own health insurance that they pay for themselves. you usually pay monthly, but there are some that you pay quarterly and some yearly. how much and what it covers depends on what you decide to choose. each company has multiple plans and each plan covers different things and amounts ($ the policy covers) and are each priced differently depending on how much and what they cover. the more it covers, the more expensive it will be. in each of these there will always be an "out of pocket" payment the person will have to pay for service. like an office visit, or an ER visit, or a certain amount of shared cost until they reach a 'cap' (the limit that the person has to share payment until it's the responsibility of the insurance company totally). it can be as low as $10 or much higher (like an ER visit might be hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on what services were done) Now, Medicare and Medicaid are both paid for through citizens' taxes so you WILL be taxed on your income for other people to have this insurance AND you will still have to pay for your own insurance if you make above the poverty line. Additionally, though most of the world thinks this all is crazy and why not have universal health care, just think about all the medical advances that have come out of America. I guarantee that nearly all medical advances made in the last 2 centuries came from America. That would not have been possible with a universal health care system as they stagnate and have unending wait lists. AND for those that doubt that our system is the preferred system, ask yourself, where in the world do those that are rich go when they need medical attention??? the UK? Canada? France?... no, they come straight to the U.S.
@lesterroberts4787
10 ай бұрын
I live in north Texas and when I drive to California almost exactly half of my drive is in Texas and it's a 26 hour drive
@jhamptonjr
11 ай бұрын
If you are poor enough in America your health care is free. I myself am 64 years old and cannot work and I am currently on Medicaid which pays for every prescription every doctor's visit and will even pay for my transportation there. So, we do have avenues where poorer people can get the health care they need.
@marydavis5234
11 ай бұрын
I’m on SSD and they take $190.00 a month out of my disability check ,before it’s even automatically deposited, so I don’t really miss it.
@jhamptonjr
11 ай бұрын
@@marydavis5234 Yeah I'm 64 right now and I have to wait until I'm 65 to apply for my disability. Hopefully by then money will won't be so tight.
@marydavis5234
11 ай бұрын
@@jhamptonjr I applied for disability at age 57, due to major joint issues in both knees and ankles and a bad right shoulder.
@jhamptonjr
11 ай бұрын
@@marydavis5234 My back is what puts me out the most. But no doctor yet has actually gone to bat for me as being disabled because of it and I can't stand for more than 10 minutes at a time.
@marydavis5234
11 ай бұрын
@@jhamptonjr I can’t stand or walk more than ten minutes either, I don’t know the medical name for it, the jelly like stuff that is between your joints that provides cushion so your bones don’t hit bone to bone, I have none left in both knees and the rotator cuff in right shoulder is bad.
@lindae2524
11 ай бұрын
Now it's Gaven Newsom. (spelling?) but yes, Arnold was the gov. of California while I lived there. The state is very diverse population wise and geographically/climate wise. It's drier in the southern part & in the northern plains. They call that high desert. Lava rocks were common by some inactive volcano's. Shasta & Lassen. Mountain ranges separate that from the coastal areas that are lusher and have the coastal redwoods. At least up where I was. In the southern half is Yosemite NP. It is gorgeous & sequoias (bigger than redwoods but not taller) If you ever see the original (part 3) Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, that tall forest where they have the speeder chase & the Ewoks living in the tall trees... that's where I lived. Some locals got to be extra's like Storm Troopers. By the Jedidiah Smith Redwoods. (state forest I think) Gorgeous area, coastline etc but no jobs. I had to drive for almost 3 hrs to get to my Dr's appointments at the VA in Oregon. Each way. Pretty ride though. Very green. Mt ranges, etc. Not far from Crater Lake. Bluest water ever. Anyway, I only lived there about 16 years after my son graduated & we left New Hampshire. I love NH best but can't afford it anymore. I moved back to NJ where I lived until the Navy. (southern coastal part close to Atlantic City) Unfortunately, I am living up north now, about 15 miles from NYC. There's always positive & negative aspects of everywhere you live. Glad to be back in the land of Pork Roll 😋 even if they do call it Taylor Ham up here. 🤭
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