Geography is Everything: The Podcast
Geography is Everything: The Podcast
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Does A.I. Know Geography?
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Artificial intelligence, particularly generative A.I., is everywhere these days. And because of that, there's an inherent geography underlying this technology. In today's episode, we cover the geographic biases of A.I., the extractive resources required to run A.I. and then we ask A.I. a bunch of questions about geography to see if it understands what geography is.
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How Nestle Expanded From Switzerland To Everywhere Else
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe Nestle is a truly dominant food company in the world. But its origins are actually fairly humble. In today's podcast episode, we'...
Why The United States Gets SO MANY Tornadoes And Is Tornado Alley Moving?
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe Tornadoes are not unique to the United States. But they do occur within the United States with greater frequency and strength tha...
The Olympics Have Always Been Geopolitical
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe The summer Olympics are upon us! Which is time for fun and revelry and politics? Well as far as the IOC is concerned, no the Olym...
The Moon With Trevor Kjorlien of Plateau Astro
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe Enjoy this special guest episode where we talk in even MORE detail about how the Moon impacts the geography of our planet! Specia...
The Moon Impacts Our Planet More Than You Might Think
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe The Moon is not just some celestial object in the sky that peers down on us nightly. It's an integral part of the way our planet ...
Why Belize Speaks English And Not Spanish
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe Belize is one pof the more fascinating places in Central America. While it's bordered by Mexico and Guatemala, and shares a geopo...
The Geography Of YOUR Summer Vacation
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe Summer is here! And with summer comes all the travel plans and vacationing that you've been dreaming of all year long. This is a ...
World War 1 With Jesse Alexander Of The Great War
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Find Jesse's channel over on @TheGreatWar and @realtimehistory! 🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe Hot off our episode all about the geography of World War 1 comes ...
How The Geography Of World War 1 Changed The World
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe World War II gets all the attention as far as major conflicts go, but World War I (also known as the Great War) truly reshaped th...
How Easter Island Was Settled And Why Chile Owns It Today
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui by the locals, is a far flung island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. But while it's ver...
The United States Is A Train Country! Just Not A Passenger Train Country...
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe Trains are an incredibly important piece of transportation technology. But while the United States is not often considered to be ...
How Pizza Spread From Italy To Every Corner Of The World
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe Pizza has really become one of the most global dishes. From its humble beginnings as a street food in Italy, to becoming localize...
The Nile River And The Dam That Could Kill It
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe The Nile River is an incredible geographic feature on our planet. But despite being so closely associated with Egypt, it actually...
The Incredible Geography Of Oil
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🎙️ Listen on other apps: linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on Substack: geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ UA-cam: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: linktr.ee/geographybygeoff Check out Hunter's atlas' here: www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter shobe More than anything else, petroleum (or gasoline) truly makes the world go round. It powers our personal vehicles, freight trucks,...
Why The USPS's ZIP Code Dominates So Much Of Our Lives
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Why The USPS's ZIP Code Dominates So Much Of Our Lives
Water World: How Whales Move Around Our Planet
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Water World: How Whales Move Around Our Planet
How National Parks Get Chosen And Why So Many Are Located In The West
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How National Parks Get Chosen And Why So Many Are Located In The West
Taylor Swift's Incredible Geography
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Taylor Swift's Incredible Geography
How A Single Solar Eclipse Impacts The Whole World
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How A Single Solar Eclipse Impacts The Whole World
Why The United States Never Should Have Annexed Hawaii
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Why The United States Never Should Have Annexed Hawaii
Why Alaska Is The MOST IMPORTANT State
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Why Alaska Is The MOST IMPORTANT State
How Saint Patrick's Day Spread From Ireland Around The Globe
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How Saint Patrick's Day Spread From Ireland Around The Globe
Why Time Zones Exist And What Came Before They Were Established
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Why Time Zones Exist And What Came Before They Were Established
How Air Travel Changed The World: From Big Balloons To Passenger Jets
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How Air Travel Changed The World: From Big Balloons To Passenger Jets
The MEGACONTINENT: What Pangea Was And Why It Split Apart
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The MEGACONTINENT: What Pangea Was And Why It Split Apart
Why World Fairs Seem To Have Disappeared Entirely
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Why World Fairs Seem To Have Disappeared Entirely
Antipodes: What's On The Opposite Side Of The Planet From You Right Now
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Antipodes: What's On The Opposite Side Of The Planet From You Right Now
How Maps Distort Our World And Mess Everything Up
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How Maps Distort Our World And Mess Everything Up
Why Catalonia Wants To Be Free From Spain
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Why Catalonia Wants To Be Free From Spain

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  • @xxtimbo420
    @xxtimbo420 2 дні тому

    Geography is blockchain is needed.

  • @tyronetb3
    @tyronetb3 2 дні тому

    another good1!

  • @Atlantis1
    @Atlantis1 2 дні тому

    Great podcasts. As a historian / geographer these podcasts and videos really open up the studies and bring a huge dimension to research and understanding, I'm learning so much from you both. Thanks! My daily drive to work includes y'alls podcasts 👍

  • @themp1ck247
    @themp1ck247 2 дні тому

    guys, I literally just found your youtube channel today and... You`re amazing and have one of the best geography content in the world! p.s. Greetings from the russian national geography team 👋

  • @adrianharies9849
    @adrianharies9849 5 днів тому

    Gonna say Alabama

  • @cedarharbor
    @cedarharbor 7 днів тому

    Re: Kit Kat comments/question at the 0:24 marker: UK’s Roundtree candy company invented the original concept of the Kit Kat bar, originally named the Wafer Crisp, as the Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp in 1935. Canada had its own version named the Coffee Crisp still popular today, and not available in the U.S. After manufacturing and distributing Kit Kat for decades, the British company entered into a deal with Hershey, giving it control over US Kit Kat distribution in 1970. Hershey started making Kit Kats in its own plant in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 1973. Nestlé acquired Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988, as Rowntree’s was called after a merger, and with it Kit Kat’s global distribution. Hershey maintains the US license, thus, the ‘different’ tasting Kit Kat in the United States.

  • @cielrobinson
    @cielrobinson 11 днів тому

    Great video! Ties together two of my big interests. New subsciber here. :) This may be political to some, but- the increased prevalence of lower income housing, particularly mobile home parks, is a BIG contributor to tornado casualties and devastation in the South, as well as states like KY where I'm from. Impoverished areas are less likely to have infrastructure such as community storm shelters, or personal weather radios or shelters. Residents trying to flee unsafe housing like mobile homes can lead to traffic getting jammed to a standstill and leaving them without any shelter at all. Sometimes they end up trapped right in the tornado's path while their home remains untouched. In addition to the greater number of nighttime tornadoes, most of the tornadoes in the Southeast are higher precipitation storms. It can be very hard to identify a high precipitation tornado, even when it's almost on top of you, since visibility is severely reduced. Particlarly factoring the hills and the tree cover, it is often unclear if a tornado is even on the ground at all or is just an ominous cloud. All the best photogenic tornado videos tend to be from the more arid states because they're much easier to see, during the day, with a higher cloud base and a distinct condensation funnel. They frequently can be watched from a safe distance by experienced chasers. However, many storm chasers don't risk it going after storms in areas with lots of trees and hills because it can be very difficult (and thus dangerous) to keep track of a tornado and its behaviour.

  • @WizardToby
    @WizardToby 14 днів тому

    As a meteorologist, this was a pretty accurate video. And I already saw the new Twisters movie. Definitely a cool movie for weather nerd types of people XD

  • @Emanuel_carey
    @Emanuel_carey 14 днів тому

    20:41 technically speaking, there could be an EF5 in a field.. but if there’s no damage; then that’s what gives it, its EF-u

  • @Emanuel_carey
    @Emanuel_carey 14 днів тому

    11:08 not true. Joplin was multiple vortex tornado. Jerrell Texas tornado was a multiple vortex as well. They are often referred to as the “deadman walk”, in the weather community. It’s said that if you see one, death is near

  • @friendoengus
    @friendoengus 15 днів тому

    let's keep in mind that the word _unique_ is an 'absolute term' this means it can have no qualifiers like 'really' unique' or 'more' unique or 'not so' unique absolute terms are black or white as unique literally means 'one of a kind' so a thing either is one of a kind or it is not, but for sure a thing can not be 'really' one of a kind once one realizes this, it is amazing to hear that the word is nearly universally mis-applied perhaps folks thing it means 'special' which can have degrees, 'really special' makes sense one then sees that the word is a tell, indicating the speaker is not well-educated (it is different than the pronunciation of _antipodes_ which we know has at least two proper pronunciations with _unique,_ one is either using the word correctly or using it incorrectly)

    • @friendoengus
      @friendoengus 15 днів тому

      and now, back to tornadoes please forgive the digression

    • @statikcitten9
      @statikcitten9 14 днів тому

      ​@@friendoengusNo, no- please go on, I'm here for the lessons!

  • @sandie1166
    @sandie1166 16 днів тому

    Where we live we have two tornado seasons. Spring and fall.

  • @theblacklexluthor11
    @theblacklexluthor11 16 днів тому

    Before I hear the answer I say Missouri or Texas

  • @Roberto-gb9il
    @Roberto-gb9il 18 днів тому

    I believe that humans have been around for millions of years and have experienced catastrophe many times and that the continents broke apart during the flood period...hence the megalithic culture worldwide need not travel by sea but alas...all they may have had to do is walk

  • @robdiesel2876
    @robdiesel2876 19 днів тому

    Dont tell tte flat earthers that the planet is a ball.😆😆😆😆

  • @pissingspeedrun
    @pissingspeedrun 19 днів тому

    The Midwest has never been moister

  • @iwilsonjr
    @iwilsonjr 23 дні тому

    Another controversy with hosting the Olympics came with the Winter Games of 1976. Denver was scheduled to host but declined due to local political pressure - it was given to Innsbruck, which had it before in 1964.

  • @tyronetb3
    @tyronetb3 23 дні тому

    Thank you for gloin over an hour this episode, it’s appreciated!

  • @cometsmom8943
    @cometsmom8943 23 дні тому

    I think you can get an inside TV antenna for NBC.

  • @paulsullivan3154
    @paulsullivan3154 27 днів тому

    Please change the description to.... "a DISCUSSION about the moon's impacts." You are misleading people to think this an infomentary. This is a discussion. It's misleading. Thank you.

  • @lordalex8342
    @lordalex8342 29 днів тому

    From Spain. Nice videos. Catalunia is spain always has always will. The independence is the way the automomic government puts presure on the central government tho give them more competence. Historically its, absolut lie, as they never been independent. The only valid argument they have is that they feel catalan and not spanish. Most of population dosent want independence.

  • @tyronetb3
    @tyronetb3 Місяць тому

    I shall be back Thursday. And yeah bring guests whenever yall can, the extra insight on WW1 episode was dope. Keep the pod gloin, I enjoy watching these!

  • @CandaceAustin-bv2wo
    @CandaceAustin-bv2wo Місяць тому

    I was in Alaska and went thru a 7.2, 6.8, 4.0 And in Montana 4.0

  • @GIUL7301
    @GIUL7301 Місяць тому

    It could be 10 minutes, or it could be 100 years or more. Im a 30 year structural framing forman from California. I'm retired in the cascades, i built my home and I did build it to Californa seismic standards. It's good to be ready. But not frightened. I fear our volcanoes more then the Cascadia quake.

  • @sercewzoo
    @sercewzoo Місяць тому

    I am experiencing at the moment Brazilian winter ! : )

  • @lewisusher3379
    @lewisusher3379 Місяць тому

    Belize its name from Elizabeth, Queen of England, Belize, land of the gods Jahover all ⚽️❤️🙏🏿🙏🏿🚀🎸🇲🇱🎶🐝🌈🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿

  • @patrickpribble-pi4op
    @patrickpribble-pi4op Місяць тому

    I felt one in Reno Nev. in 2016? And was in a blizard. Patrick P.

  • @jasontempest4233
    @jasontempest4233 Місяць тому

    Belize is interesting to me geographically because I live in Cairns, Queensland, which is on the same latitude, but in the Southern Hemisphere, so similar climate. For tourists who compare Northern Queensland to South Florida, we are much closer to the equator than South Florida. Also interesting are the Amish people of Belize, yes, they have Amish.

  • @user-sp8ni3ld6u
    @user-sp8ni3ld6u Місяць тому

    I usually listen on Spotify, but just came here to comment - Your podcast is my fav to listen to on days when I just want to relax at home. It's 2 guys, having a yarn, about something reasonably intelligent (& it's not a debate that gets heated & controversial). Please don't even add in annoying sound effects, or sound bites, or people with loud laughter. Tnx!

  • @lizlee5052
    @lizlee5052 Місяць тому

    It sounds as though saying Mayan is like saying European.

  • @mjz16
    @mjz16 Місяць тому

    Wrong - Mesoamerica was a whole half of Mexico and half of Central America, plus part of Chile. There are different maps but reliable source on the history of Mexico used in university courses includes the majority of it as it is now was actually also the majority of what was Mesoamerica.

    • @PlaneJaneCars
      @PlaneJaneCars Місяць тому

      What exactly is a “whole half?”

    • @steverichardson7417
      @steverichardson7417 Місяць тому

      Source: "Trust me bro"

    • @mjz16
      @mjz16 Місяць тому

      @@PlaneJaneCars from north of Sinaloa to all the way south into Central America. The most well know civilizations were in central Mexico and parts of south Mexico. But if you include the Maya, might as well include all of the Yucatán peninsula. They didn’t stay put in those times either. They traded into what is now the US and into South America.

    • @PlaneJaneCars
      @PlaneJaneCars Місяць тому

      @@mjz16 my point was, it’s a whole or a half. Saying a whole half could be better said as an “entire fifty percent”, but your point is well taken.

    • @mjz16
      @mjz16 Місяць тому

      @@PlaneJaneCars k. I guess I could’ve waits a full half, or a literal half, or a couple others. Same-same.

  • @tyronetb3
    @tyronetb3 Місяць тому

    Bring em back for WW2! Good episode! Thank yall

  • @tyronetb3
    @tyronetb3 Місяць тому

    Great episode!

  • @NBADaBlaza
    @NBADaBlaza Місяць тому

    There's also a pretty large film industry from what I've heard in Belize lot of people go there to make movies I had a friend fly down in the winter time as you said a lot of Americans go there for vacation in the winter but he went down there to make a movie and his whole little vacation was basically paid for just for him to be an extra in the movie

  • @AndrewWhite-g8l
    @AndrewWhite-g8l Місяць тому

    You bang on so much I can't listen to you.

  • @GM-id9nu
    @GM-id9nu Місяць тому

    Always love your work. Western Canadian here. We call the BC coastal region, the West Coast. Greater Vancouver is called the Lower Mainland. Vancouver Island is just called the island. We may use Pacific Norrhwest to explain to an American but for most people it is just West Coast. Cascadia is hardly ever used.

  • @brianhamel493
    @brianhamel493 Місяць тому

    you two do a great job with these. holding someone's attention for an hour takes skill!

    • @sercewzoo
      @sercewzoo Місяць тому

      especially when nowadays its almost impossible !

  • @IsabelJones69
    @IsabelJones69 Місяць тому

    I just started going on vacation (or on holiday as we say here in the UK) in August to a different country last year. I usually went away in the middle of February. Here in the UK school usually breaks up at the end of July and resumes again at the beginning of September so most children get around 6 weeks off. Year 11 (Sophomore or 10th grade) and year 13 (senior or 12 grade) break up at the end of May like you do in the US. But year 12 (junior or 11th grade) doesn't. Students in that year stay in school until the end of July. So we get 1 week off in February, 2 weeks for Easter, 1 week at the end of May/beginning of June, 6 weeks for summer in late July and August, 1 week at the end of October and 2 weeks for Christmas and the New Year. So we only get one month free of school - August and you get 2 - June and July.

  • @christinebraaten9960
    @christinebraaten9960 Місяць тому

    Could make a drinking game for every time you say "broadly"

  • @friedmanbrock
    @friedmanbrock Місяць тому

    I went to my army basic training in 98 and learned to drive the M113. We needed to go west for training so they taught me how to rail load these 13 ton vehicles,essentially driving the long way down the whole length of the train. These are your modern "military" trains in America-commercial freight going to military train sidings. All bases have these.

  • @veraxiana9993
    @veraxiana9993 Місяць тому

    Oh hell yea, 2 of my favorite channels doing a collab!

  • @dcinput7645
    @dcinput7645 Місяць тому

    Meantions usa but not Serbia and Montenegro,or Greece... I got a brain damage... How much Americanocentric you can be? Since we talk about geography I thought it would be about connection of Ottomans and Germany - Central powers corridor, Balkan states that came in and out of the conflict (Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece) and Italy, battle of Galipoli, Adriatics stand off etc... While western and Eastern fronts were on the sides, Germany meant to reach Azerbaijan oil depots... Battle of caucasus between ottomans and Russia, local nationalist forces - Armenians, Assyrians, Arabs... Occupation of Persia and such... You can see a geographical pattern here - corridor from Germany to Baku. But since minut one I feel like you missed it...

  • @Mr.Septon
    @Mr.Septon Місяць тому

    Oh man, I watch your other channel every single time an episode comes out, and I also follow you on Threads. I love your content, and this falls more directly in my wheel house of obsession. The World Wars, but specifically the Great War has become one of my highest focuses of study in life as it is single most defining conflict since the French Revolutionary and subsequent Napoleonic Wars and we have been living in the shadow of the Great War to this day. How the war was handled, how the defeat of nations was handled, how the splitting and creating of a slew of new nations occurred, the end of four massive European empires - Austro-Hungarian Empire, German Empire, Ottoman Empire, and the Russian Empire. The war and end result left quite the delicate financial situation on the global stage, and once things started to sour in the United States, the loans that the US was providing to Germany and the other former Central Powers, which was how Germany and others were able to "afford" paying back their debt payments to the United Kingdom and France, which in turn were utilizing payments from Germany and the others to in part be able to pay back their debts to the United States. I long argued that the two World Wars were less of actually two separate wars, and in many ways were one war with a pause just long enough to raise a new generation of boys to be sent off to resolve the conflict. Then I eventually would stumble across the Winston Churchill quote used at the beginning of the History Channel miniseries the World Wars, focusing from 1914 until 1945 "One must regard these 30 years of strife in Europe as part of one story...one story of a 30 years' war." When the series came out, in addition to the quote, I felt far more validated for my view of the conflict, especially when you consider conflicts such as the Hundred Years War, lasting 117 years, but at many points there were years of relative peace, and it is more with hindsight that we can see that the series of wars were ultimately part of a much great war and conflict. The 20th century could easily be split into two main chunks: the World Wars and the Cold War, and even that could arguably be considered the slow conclusion of the World Wars playing out, spanning a period of 1914-1991. In the years prior to 1914. you have less of the 20th century, and more of the building of pressures built over centuries of strife, while after 1991 pretty much until September 11, 2001, was the false sense of security that came from a false sense of victory, when in reality what has been left in its wake is far messier and more complicated than ever before, and a complicated web of "western" powers that have aligned to try and maintain the order ever since but we have gone as far as these systems of alliance can take us. The 21st century cannot rely on alliances built on 20th century design. While NATO is absolutely critical, and western powers do need to work together - not to do anything against other powers of the world, but to ensure that at least among nations who wish to take part, can maintain that economic and military security necessary, at bare minimum. In which, the concept of a truly global alliance is necessary. Not just a North Atlantic alliance, but one that includes our other critical allies such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, etc. But it cannot just be that dozens of nations are willing to fight together. Our military power has to become indistinguishable from one another, merging the forces into a singular force, able to defend against any collection of potential foes. The economies have to become so intertwined that one cannot separate from the other, any more than trying to have California and Texas be their own economic and military powers. Connected, no needing a 100% approval from dozens of nations, giving nations the ability to abuse that in times of crises, with Hungary and Turkiye being examples when it came to expanding NATO to include Finland and Sweden. If it was more a matter of majority vote, and inseparable forces, then war becomes both easier and more difficult. The nations involved would no longer possess the power to launch a unilateral invasion against another nation, as their forces would be merged, and it would require approval beyond the whims of a singular power. Alternatively, it is also easier to get changes passed as individual nations wouldn't have the same power over the rest of the alliance and so democratic majority would decide how the new alliance would operate, who would be included, how to expand or change, and what conflicts to be involved in and how much they support or get involved. Sorry to just ramble, if I don't stop now I'll just keep going and is anyone going to even read this far? lol

  • @waxman96
    @waxman96 2 місяці тому

    Chile doesn't own Rapa Nui lets be clear about this, it is part of Chile at this now and in future they might be independent. as a Chilean i can say hand on heart they are their own people, culture of Polynesian ancestry, Chileans are generally proud of this because it is unique and beautiful. There is a connection between the indigenous people of south central Chile and Polynesians to this day sharing tools, totems, words, stories, rituals and chickens which some historians deny, but we all know and agree that the Polynesian explored and settled the Pacific Ocean way before Europeans did. if Chile didn't colonise Rapa Nui it probably would have been a European country such as France or Netherlands or US and as history shows they likely would have used areas nearby testing pacific to detonate nuclear bombs at least with Chile that was prevented and in the now our Navy protect the waters from fisheries over fishing.

  • @queenofwater8783
    @queenofwater8783 2 місяці тому

    The predicted number of deaths for Oregon is 13,000. The tsunami will cause the greater portion of that number. Unreinforced masonry and bridges will cause much of the rest. Infrastructure damage means help is not coming anytime soon. Food, water, fuel, medical supplies for a few months is needed to survive the aftermath. Buy a generator. Have batteries and flashlights. Prepare yourself emotionally, as communication with loved ones won’t be able to happen for awhile.

  • @queenofwater8783
    @queenofwater8783 2 місяці тому

    I was born in 1959 in Oregon. As a child I observed that we had no consistent weather events such as tornadoes. I would say, “We live in the safest place on earth!” Yeah, joke’s on me. I am a retired high-school English and Theatre teacher. I would have all my kids read about the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and it’s concomitant Megathrust earthquake and how to be prepared. They had to a write one-page summary. I would grade for Grammar to make it relevant to the English Department; however, my true intention was to prepare generations for what IS to come.

  • @mountainman6549
    @mountainman6549 2 місяці тому

    I was a 414 area code but moved to a 608 but kept the 414 which helps with identifying scam calls lol. I have had persistent problems with the post office recognizing my rural address. I’ve been told repeatedly by the post office that my address doesn’t exist and it’s causing me problems.

  • @mountainman6549
    @mountainman6549 2 місяці тому

    One big impact trains have had on people in the USA is the rail road companies snuck laws in states making it unlawful to walk across the tracks anywhere but a official crossing blocking huge areas of public lands and waters from people who used to cross to harvest fish and game for many years. The railroads have their own police who can issue a state fine, in my state it’s 3 hundred dollars. I think this is a terrible thing they are doing to the people. I live near the Mississippi river and there are rr tracks on both sides of the river bottoms.

  • @Yormsane
    @Yormsane 2 місяці тому

    The USA's twin addictions to car ownership and low-density, single-unit housing developments mitigate against the mass adoption of passenger rail. How ya gonna get from that McMansion deep in the sprawling suburbs, to the downtown railroad station? You're gonna drive, right? So instead, they'll drive to the airport, or take a road trip, and any available rail travel options simply aren't on their radar.

  • @stevens1041
    @stevens1041 2 місяці тому

    I keep trying to tell everyone this, but they don't want to hear it. People are addicted to saying "USA is bad". Its true, USA's passenger system is terrible. Its freight system is without peer in terms of technology, standards (good size gauge, not too narrow), and pricing. Even legendary nations such as Japan have significantly higher freight rail cost/km, according to an article I read in the Economist several years back that compared freight cost/km in all the major industrial nations.