Mark going all the way to Bermuda just to take a selfie in front of a random person's house is a dedication to the bit that I don't think will ever be surpassed
I guess you have to know and/or remember whilst panicking that Tromsø is a place name and not not a place name as they may have done. Or not seen the signs.
When he looks at the giant billboard in Brazil and sees the phone number saying if only he knew where it was. When on that same billboard was the word COPACABANA!😂
the funniest thing is how he's completely incorrect about the bus stops, at least in Brazil. i WISH they had maps and stuff. But the bus routes and times change often, so I guess it would be unfeasible.
in his defense, it's not easy to distinguish proper nouns from normal nouns. as an Indonesian I instinctively thought of "kebab stock exchange" (bursa, from dutch beurs) which would be an excellent name for a shop!
@@azmyadzkiansyah279 Yeah, but when you see Bursa written seven or eight times in the same general area, then you know it's at least a neighborhood. Same thing for the Rio guess where he was looking at the bus stop where there was a shop sign that said Rio de Janeiro a few times.
To be fair to that one, I kinda just assumed that a lot of bus stops in brazil have a sign that says "rio de janeiro" on it. it's knowing that that means where it is and not where the bus is going that is the key bit of knowledge to have.
When Mark stated "Oh no Google, you haven't mapped out the road I'm going down!". That was a clue he was trying to cross the border into Liechtenstein. Also, their adventures on Bermuda are one of the funniest things I've ever seen on Geoguesser!
@@charcuteri Both Liechtenstein and North Korea refused Google permission to do street view. Liechtenstein because they have very strict privacy laws protecting the people. North Korea because their leaders have very strict rules on not letting the world see the mess the country is in.
Their discussion about this not being a place that feels the need to put up flags all over while instead several buildings & the taxis have the place written on them. You don't need to be from Tromsø to be in pain.
I am quite impressed by Mark's dedication to the bit of going to Bermuda for a selfie in front of a random house and absolutely nothing else. I firmly believe that there was no editing going on, and that when he came back, Jay was absolutely standing in front of the computer ready for round 2.
actually, knowing Map Men, there is a low chance they did indeed pause the recording between the games for Mark to travel for their own psychological immersion
gentlemen, this video confirms that 1: you are naturally funny and lovely people and 2: you apply a lot of polish to your normal humor. This is relaxed and pleasant, while your usual presentations are pleasant, but extremely well scripted. Makes me appreciate both styles more. Thanks for this!
Those kind of people are really insecure and are only able projecting their own incapability on others around them. Avoid them like the plague. With these kind of people it's impossible to build up a world and improve on stuff, only able to break down everything around them. Entitled piece of sh*ts.
@@eloytoroIs that prohibited or something? If you look on only a piece of road or a widely spread tree or generic building it's impossible to find out where it's from. Grasping at straws here.
@@eloytoro And even if they only got their information from wikipedia or other sources. What's wrong with that? They're still educating people here on youtube in a enjoyable video format with nice editing work and solid presentation.
@@liamness For me, it's learning geography from Europe Universalis 4. "Bursa is the city in the Hudavendigar province" *places marker in Kocaeli province* "You're so close! How did you not see Bursa while zooming in?"
If you're curious why the URL on that truck in Norway said .as, it's because in Norwegian, "as" is an abbreviation for "aksjeselskap" meaning "stock company". It's the Norwegian version of companies going by "& co" or "inc."
it looked like he panicked and just clicked wherever just to be in time, so I don't blame him for that one too much. Tromso and Bursa, on the other hand...
@@maciejbala477 Indeed, I was practically screaming "TROMSØ" at them both between chuckling at how far off they were. But if you don't remember that Tromsø is a town in Norway in the heat and pressure of the moment... (One of the largest cities/towns in the Arctic, for that matter.)
Same! I was screaming, _and then in the next round Jay is staring at Bursa and saying "oh, they seem to have blurred out the name of the place"_ Him then scrolling past the stornoway high church on the map in the last round was....... faintly painful lol
You looking at the signs for. Tromso and clicking in southern Norway was priceless. Always lovely to feel proud for a random piece of knowledge someone else happens not to have, ignoring all the things the other person knows that you don't.
Spoilers for game 2 round 4: The African Rennaissance Monument (Monument de la Renaissance Africaine) is the tallest statue in Africa, and was built by a North Korean construction company. Yes I did just read that on wikipedia, I don't hold myself to the same standards as Map Men (unless you want to pay for my trip to Bermuda).
@@lillii9119 I remembered exactly where it is in Africa, but totally forgot it was built by a North Korean company. It's funny how different people retain different details.
That's very funny, because at first glance, looking at the style of the statue, I thought it had to be Lenin. It's got that unmistakable Soviet type of style.
@@lillii9119 In fairness they built loads, even if this one is quite distinctive and recognisable (though not as recognisable as Dakar which is, like, an insanely distinctively shaped city). The DPRK also built the mausoleum of Laurent Desiré Kabila in Kinshasa if I recall correctly.
4:30 A Springfield sign? Congratulations, you've narrowed it down to only 67 possible locations in 34 different states that you could be in! Edit: Guys, I _know_ the actual useful bit of the sign is that it's I-44. You don't need to keep commenting it
Jay doesn't know where Bermuda is, neither knows where Tromsø is, but both of them immediately know a small town on a random island off of Scotland. How very British of them.
Mark becoming quite adorable and wholesome without the script while Jay staying true to his scripted persona makes me think Jay writes all the scripts 😂
Not only did I enjoy playing along with both rounds as well as the special bonus round, I love how the music from Chip's Challenge was used as background music. That was one of my favorite computer games. "Bummer!"
Interesting fact regarding that giant statue around 23:00 in the video, it was built by North Korean sculptors brought in from the Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang, who are famous for making similar gigantic monuments across North Korea. This is why this statue has a similar bombastic and larger-than-life appearance as the propaganda monuments you see in North Korea! Note for those still guessing: this particular statue is far outside of North Korea which makes it interesting.
Surely all monuments are propaganda monuments, because why else would you make a monument? "Today we unveil our giant statue of Some Bloke. We have no opinion on him, and we don't care if you do either. Come see the monument, or don't, we don't care."
@@roserichardson9480 I suppose it depends on how broad a definition of propaganda you accept. Quite a few monuments are of the form "Something terrible happened here. It was very sad. We are still grieving, and building this thing was our way of coping". Arguably, such a monument is still propaganda since it serves to establish the consensus that the thing that happened was indeed terrible, even if doing so was not its purpose of construction. Under the broadest definition, any public communication is propaganda. In this sense the tombstone of a dead relative that only members of your family are ever meant to visit is a propaganda monument, even if it conveys no information beyond being a grave marker. Perhaps, say, a tree planted as a grave marker in an already dense forest would meet the definition of a monument but not that of propaganda if you never told anyone as it would not carry any discernible message to an unwitting observer.
17:18 In case anyone was wondering like me. ".as" belongs to American Samoa. That company uses this domain probably because their company name is "Breeze AS". AS stands for “aksjeselskap”, which seems to be a privately owned limited liability companies. So probably main companies in that region uses this domain
I'm from Bermuda!! It's so cool that you "committed" and actually went there! (I honestly forget sometimes that people don't know it's not in the Carribean)🌺🌺
The street names, mostly in Gaelic, are the same thing. Sràid na h-Eaglaise is literally translated as "Church Street", but he's bouncing around trying to find the street name, and doesn't realize he has it because he doesn't know how to read Gaelic, haha.
Is Tromso a famous town? even if they noticed that that word was written in a few places it's not immediately identifiable as a town name and the rules stated they can't google anything
I loved this episode so much. Especially Bermuda. My grandmother was from Bermuda, so I recognised it fairly quickly, and I’m talking to you through the screen saying, “Bermuda. That’s Bermuda.” Then you’re searching down in the Caribbean and I’m shouting, “NO, THAT’S NOT WHERE BERMUDA IS!” I hope you enjoyed your visit, Mark.
Gotta say, I absolutely love seeing these two in a much more casual setting, they have great chemistry on camera and they are just geniunely entertaining to watch, would love to see more GeoGuessr from you two!
@@tomslastname5560 still a commitment or time, money, and potential risk in several ways depending on what you get just for a joke. The money is obviously the smallest problem, everybody knows that and that wasn’t the point
When I was 17 years old my girlfriend who I met in the Capital of Turkey was from Bursa. I wrote dozens of letters and mailed them to Bursa, Turkey when I was in my late teens. I haven't thought of that place in years. It was so nice to be reminded of the place. It strange to think that that young girl I knew in the 1980s is now likely a 55 year old elementary school teacher getting closer to retirement.
Love that you picked a very British school hymn for the outro. In case anyone's wondering, it's called "One more step along the world I go." (No idea why it was along and not around as around seems to make more sense?) Major throwback wow. Aaaaand it's stuck in my head. One more step along the world I go One more step along the world I go From the old things to the new Keep me travelling along with you
As a graduate of the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology), it kinda blew my mind to see the Steak & Shake I used to go to show up on Map Men. If they'd turned around, they'd have shown the building I used to live in.
I spent a few months in Missouri earlier this year in the vicinity of Rolla. I was completely astonished to see it show up in this video of all places.
At 15:08, you can see Mark trying to contain his laughter as he walks off-screen and for a split second you hear him bust out laughing before the clip cuts lol
Thai watcher here! Easy way to tell the difference between Thai, Khmer and Laos Script- Khmer is the pointiest and most angular, Laos is the most swirly and rounded, and thai is somewhere in between!
Woah, this is the first time I've heard Jay and Mark talk unscripted for such a long time! (this is what I would say if I didn't know that you make up videos on the spot all the time and you are just really really good at it :-)
We have big American school buses in Canada too. The reason you can tell it's the US is at 4:00 where you can see a US-style railroad crossing sign. The Canadian one is completely different
Do something about all the catfishing bot comments especially under trending videos, there's a bunch of them under this video and practically every other video.
I love the idea that you went to those places, spent 30 seconds at the location to take the photo then went straight home again. Also I love the idea that the button actually does nothing at all and everything is done in post
I love the Norway part. So many missed clues. 16:01 "Tromsø Taxi" 16:03 "Tromsø Outdoor Sjøgata 14" 16:14 "Røde Kors Tromsø" 16:43 "Tromsø Havn Prostneset" Plus a couple more small ones not worth mentioning.
This video had no business being this enjoyable. It's, after all, a 30-minute-long product placement. But you guys make everything fun! Thanks for doing what you do, and please don't stop!
I know right, them at the beginning being like ‘I hope people like us now we’re acting like ourselves’ like they aren’t naturally witty and entertaining. Absolutely loved this
That's like saying that pro geoguessr channels are nothing but product placement channels. This video is simply a case of a geography-themed entertainment channel making content that aligns with the interests of their audience.
Passport Officer: What is the reason for your visit to our country? Mapmen: I lost a game of geoguessr and the rules say I have to take a selfie in front of the place that I had to guess where it was from. Passport Officer: Rejected Mapmen: Passport Officer: Approved!
Only just started watching but already loving this video. Love playing Geoguessr and great to see Mark and Jay testing each others knowledge. Also great just to see how Mark and Jay naturally interact with each other
My family once bamboozled an estate agent with "Torquay" vs "Turkey" confusion, as it happens. We were trying to convince them to let us view a house in Surrey, and said we'd travelled all the way from Torquay (the one in Devon). However, since we're a bit melanin-ated, the estate agent assumed we'd come all the way from Turkey, took pity on us, and let us view the extra house. You've got to get some benefits from stereotypes sometimes :)
@@hrmmmmmm Since you clearly don't want to go, please let me know if you ever come into possession of a plane ticket to Dakar, because I'd love to go there one day.
"I should have game played it!" hahah yeah, once it became clear he had the town I would have just guessed antarctic. Scotland is a much easier trip than Senegal. But hey, at least you can say you've been to Senegal now. Huge props for actually going to the locations, that's crazy! Awesome video!
5:17 Hey Jay! I’m a Kansas citian. There’s actually two. Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. The city straddles the state border, I’m from the Missouri side, which is more touristy.
Thank you for this video, always look forward to them coming out and this was no exception. I loved ❤ this and the fact it was a little different but just as hilarious 😂. You should have a second Map Men channel just for Geoguesser! You guys always make me laugh and your natural comedic chemistry is quite special, keep it up both of you. 😊❤
I've been to Tromsø, and it's definitely true; on every single street in Tromsø city centre you'll find multiple signs mentioning you're in Tromsø. Almost as if the locals are proud of living in one of the most gorgeous bits of Norway or anything. 😂
As a Bermudian I think I was the real winner. I take that road every single day to work and it was mind boggling seeing you two try and figure out where it is....and even more when Mark actually did a selfie there. Cheers for making my day
The one in Rio is right where my highschool used to be. Anyone from Caxias will immediately know where that is due to that awful looking building in the background, which people dubbed "White Elephant" because of how much it stands out.
Mark going all the way to Bermuda just to take a selfie in front of a random person's house is a dedication to the bit that I don't think will ever be surpassed
Two whole trips summarized in a few shots of him sitting in vehicles
Even more dedication: Mark bought some Bermudas, just to add a short to this channel. 🙂
At least he got to see a massive statue in Senegal
Yeah, because fuck the planet right, let's just fly to Bermuda and Senegal for a joke
This whole thing was SUCH a good bit
16:00 "Tromsø taxi"
16:03 "Tromsø outdoor"
16:14 "Red Cross Tromsø"
16:24 Jay: "Oh hello, a recognizable body of water"
16:43 "TROMSØ HARBOUR!"
16:44 Mark: "Mhmm... This is quite tricky, isn't it"
I can't even.
I was sure they were just pretending. :D
That was baffling.
😂
I guess you have to know and/or remember whilst panicking that Tromsø is a place name and not not a place name as they may have done. Or not seen the signs.
and right after "they blurred out the name of the town" as you can clearly read Bursa everywhere.
Welcome to the new episode of "Mark dupes Jay into letting him visit tropical islands on corporate account"
Pretty sure there used to be a famous Monument one too... oh no
Well, off to see the Terracotta army
My job needs this policy. "Well, you fucked up and lost us a major account, costing the company millions. As punishment we're sending you to Bermuda."
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks it’s suspicious that he messed up the tropical island round
Turns out Geoguesser did not sponsor the travel costs
Spoilers lol
15:33 Looks like the owners knew he was coming...they built the fence.
Dakar also knew he was coming; they built the famous monument specifically for him to visit.
My like on this comment was 666 am I gonna die?
20:44 the irony in jay mentioning bus stops having information and missing the giant 'government of rio de janeiro' sign
It also has the name of the city on it, just like the trash bins
When he looks at the giant billboard in Brazil and sees the phone number saying if only he knew where it was. When on that same billboard was the word COPACABANA!😂
He said he didn't zoom in at the map. But in other hand, the game rewards precision and he didn't zoom in.
god bless brazillian public works
the funniest thing is how he's completely incorrect about the bus stops, at least in Brazil. i WISH they had maps and stuff. But the bus routes and times change often, so I guess it would be unfeasible.
*Stares at "Bursa Kebap" sign (and a number of other signs with "Bursa" on them)
*Hovers over Bursa on the map
*Chooses different city
There's an "Istanbul Kebab" takeaway where I live and it's quite a long way from Istanbul.
in his defense, it's not easy to distinguish proper nouns from normal nouns. as an Indonesian I instinctively thought of "kebab stock exchange" (bursa, from dutch beurs) which would be an excellent name for a shop!
@@azmyadzkiansyah279 Yeah, but when you see Bursa written seven or eight times in the same general area, then you know it's at least a neighborhood.
Same thing for the Rio guess where he was looking at the bus stop where there was a shop sign that said Rio de Janeiro a few times.
Isn't that where the ayatollah was exiled to?
chooses izmit, kocaeli to be exact. to be even more exact, he chose the neighbourhood that i live in. that was weird and scary
Jay: "Bus stop often has a map of the place you're in"
The bus stop: "RIO DE JANEIRO"
20:44 it even says the exact city they're in (Duque de Caxias, which is a little bit north of Rio city)
@@soulguma there was also a sign of Duque de Caxias at the UBA Jay passed by
I only saw that it said Brazil
To be fair to that one, I kinda just assumed that a lot of bus stops in brazil have a sign that says "rio de janeiro" on it. it's knowing that that means where it is and not where the bus is going that is the key bit of knowledge to have.
Brazil is huge, and most places are really far from Rio. You really only have buses going to Rio on major bus terminals.
When Mark stated "Oh no Google, you haven't mapped out the road I'm going down!". That was a clue he was trying to cross the border into Liechtenstein.
Also, their adventures on Bermuda are one of the funniest things I've ever seen on Geoguesser!
That's about the only thing Liechtenstein has in common with North Korea, no google pictures road mapping :-)
@@JAmediaUKdid they just got added or I don’t get the joke ?? 😂
@@charcuteri Both Liechtenstein and North Korea refused Google permission to do street view. Liechtenstein because they have very strict privacy laws protecting the people. North Korea because their leaders have very strict rules on not letting the world see the mess the country is in.
Living in Norway, and seeing "Tromsø" come up in huuuge letters and no one registering it... That was a bit painful.
It was painful even *not* living in Norway!
I only know that place because of the ice road rescue program
Their discussion about this not being a place that feels the need to put up flags all over while instead several buildings & the taxis have the place written on them. You don't need to be from Tromsø to be in pain.
same. the winning strategy is always to look for words
I immediately noticed the sign.
Good to see Mark looking increasingly like a french philosopher forced to go on holiday by his mum.
Jay is not my Mum
@@markcooper-jones7494 Then why is he making you go on holiday? Check and MATE.
@@markcooper-jones7494 Map Mum, Map Mum, Map Map Map Mum, Mum.
I am quite impressed by Mark's dedication to the bit of going to Bermuda for a selfie in front of a random house and absolutely nothing else. I firmly believe that there was no editing going on, and that when he came back, Jay was absolutely standing in front of the computer ready for round 2.
Jay kinda just goes on standby mode when this thing happens.
actually, knowing Map Men, there is a low chance they did indeed pause the recording between the games for Mark to travel for their own psychological immersion
@@music-zv6je he actually mentions still being jetlagged during the final game
@@gabrielravier8114 Though the question is if it was a bit for the sketch.
I was hoping for "Right then, ready for round 3?"
gentlemen, this video confirms that 1: you are naturally funny and lovely people and 2: you apply a lot of polish to your normal humor. This is relaxed and pleasant, while your usual presentations are pleasant, but extremely well scripted. Makes me appreciate both styles more.
Thanks for this!
Mrs. Spoon been really quiet since this dropped
Those kind of people are really insecure and are only able projecting their own incapability on others around them. Avoid them like the plague. With these kind of people it's impossible to build up a world and improve on stuff, only able to break down everything around them. Entitled piece of sh*ts.
Because they got all of the answers from signs and flags?
@@eloytoroIs that prohibited or something? If you look on only a piece of road or a widely spread tree or generic building it's impossible to find out where it's from. Grasping at straws here.
@@eloytoro And even if they only got their information from wikipedia or other sources. What's wrong with that? They're still educating people here on youtube in a enjoyable video format with nice editing work and solid presentation.
She's gone back to Button moon for Christmas.
Was skeptical at first, but now I just want a second channel of map men playing geo-guesser!
Why were you skeptical at first?
I second the motion.
Travel costs ballooning until they consume the entire budget. I'm here for it
For that matter I'd pay good money to watch Jay do a straight line mission with GW.
Delightful place
"Street view keeps blurring the name of the place on this sign"
*Bursa being completely readable from every angle*
And that was like the fifth time it was written on something, too. I was screaming
This was a good example of football teaching the masses geography as I instantly thought of Bursaspor and thought "oh aren't they near Istanbul"?
@@liamness For me, it's learning geography from Europe Universalis 4. "Bursa is the city in the Hudavendigar province" *places marker in Kocaeli province*
"You're so close! How did you not see Bursa while zooming in?"
Indeed.
I thought he was finessing, knew Bursa was the place and was trying to throw Mark off
This was actually a really great change of pace and you guys should do more things like this! You're both naturally funny so it works well.
If you're curious why the URL on that truck in Norway said .as, it's because in Norwegian, "as" is an abbreviation for "aksjeselskap" meaning "stock company". It's the Norwegian version of companies going by "& co" or "inc."
i had no idea, thanks for sharing!
"aksjeselskap"
Bless you
Makes hella lot sense than American Samoa which actually owns it :D
As we learned in the Map Men episode on country code top level domains, countries can sell the rights to those if they so choose.
Thanks for the explanation, I was curious about that actually :D
I love how Jay identifies signs in French, figures it must be a former French colony, and picks... Liberia
Probably thinking of Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso next door, then adjusting for the coastline
it looked like he panicked and just clicked wherever just to be in time, so I don't blame him for that one too much. Tromso and Bursa, on the other hand...
@@maciejbala477 Indeed, I was practically screaming "TROMSØ" at them both between chuckling at how far off they were. But if you don't remember that Tromsø is a town in Norway in the heat and pressure of the moment... (One of the largest cities/towns in the Arctic, for that matter.)
I love how in the Tromso round both of them looked at several buildings that had large signs saying Tromso on them and then didn’t get it
Same! I was screaming, _and then in the next round Jay is staring at Bursa and saying "oh, they seem to have blurred out the name of the place"_
Him then scrolling past the stornoway high church on the map in the last round was....... faintly painful lol
It was right at the start as well 😆
I recognised the arctic cathedral right away 😅
I'm only saddened they didn't go for the `.as` domain - American Samoa xDDD
I had no idea Tromso is the name of a city😂
You looking at the signs for. Tromso and clicking in southern Norway was priceless. Always lovely to feel proud for a random piece of knowledge someone else happens not to have, ignoring all the things the other person knows that you don't.
3:52 "Antarctica has more extreme seasons than anywhere else in the world"
Now that is a good Geography Teacher's Fact, that is.
The seasons are winter, severe winter, even more severe winter and ye gods.
I love that literally the one thing everybody remembers about Geography from school is oxbow lakes. Love a good oxbow lake.
@@BrianM_3rd That and swash/backwash.
Exactly what I thought while watching!
@@BrianM_3rd Not true. I also remember the phrase "terminal moraine" and that it has something to do with glaciers.
Spoilers for game 2 round 4:
The African Rennaissance Monument (Monument de la Renaissance Africaine) is the tallest statue in Africa, and was built by a North Korean construction company. Yes I did just read that on wikipedia, I don't hold myself to the same standards as Map Men (unless you want to pay for my trip to Bermuda).
I knew the statue was built by North Korea but I couldn't remember where it was in Africa
@@lillii9119 I remembered exactly where it is in Africa, but totally forgot it was built by a North Korean company. It's funny how different people retain different details.
That's very funny, because at first glance, looking at the style of the statue, I thought it had to be Lenin. It's got that unmistakable Soviet type of style.
I was thinking something about screamed "North Korea"
@@lillii9119 In fairness they built loads, even if this one is quite distinctive and recognisable (though not as recognisable as Dakar which is, like, an insanely distinctively shaped city). The DPRK also built the mausoleum of Laurent Desiré Kabila in Kinshasa if I recall correctly.
4:30 A Springfield sign? Congratulations, you've narrowed it down to only 67 possible locations in 34 different states that you could be in!
Edit: Guys, I _know_ the actual useful bit of the sign is that it's I-44. You don't need to keep commenting it
And somehow both guessed the right Springfield
Well it also had a I44 sign right next to it which means it actually narrows it down alot!
there are states that have more than 1 springfield? like, how? why?
@@rosmary3461 because why the hell not.
Someone definitely watched Game Theory
Insane. Y'all have solidified yourselves as my favorite UA-cam channel. Insane commitment to he bit. Keep it up y'all
Jay doesn't know where Bermuda is, neither knows where Tromsø is, but both of them immediately know a small town on a random island off of Scotland. How very British of them.
Why would knowing a town in their own country be noteworthy? 🤷♂️
@@Stoggler The British stole so much of the rest of the world that we have to get our revenge by mocking them at every opportunity.
@@Stoggler Neither of them are Scots though.
@@silverutopia and?
Stornoway is quite well known despite its size because it often appears on UK weather maps (e.g. from the Met Office).
Mark becoming quite adorable and wholesome without the script while Jay staying true to his scripted persona makes me think Jay writes all the scripts 😂
I was trying not to be adorable but ometimes it's hard.
For the record, I do most of the writing, Jay does all the editing.
@@markcooper-jones7494
Ah. That's how he does it.
Cheeky
Well, all he wants is for people to like him.
“Wangs” is the Chinese part of Switzerland. It’s where they speak Swiss Canton-ese.
👏 👏 👏 👏
@@JayForeman 🙇🏻♂️
As a Cantonese speaker I got the joke but the Cantonese version of Wang is Wong haha
@@vatnidd Well if Wang is Wong I don’t want to be wight
@@robotempire I'll just take a trip so Sandown then.
I'm telling myself it has to be great editing because no one would be insane enough to actually travel to those places but WHY DOES IT LOOK SO REAL
I can confirm that both Mark’s journeys were completely real and there were no VFX.
“Can I phone a friend?”
“You don’t have any.”
Jay recovering from the biggest betrayal he’s ever felt in his life rn.
It's strictly a business relation
Was not expecting a Jay Foreman geoguessr video
Same
It's the best thing since sliced bread!!
neither was I vanmanyo
I was expecting it.
No one did
You can tell when Mark is on the right track as he says less and less the closer he gets
I only noticed that weeks later when editing this video and saw his game for the first time. Furious!
@@JayForeman Hi
@@JayForeman when you talked about the American School Bus, it still could have been Canada since we have... almost the exact same school buses
Not only did I enjoy playing along with both rounds as well as the special bonus round, I love how the music from Chip's Challenge was used as background music. That was one of my favorite computer games. "Bummer!"
Interesting fact regarding that giant statue around 23:00 in the video, it was built by North Korean sculptors brought in from the Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang, who are famous for making similar gigantic monuments across North Korea. This is why this statue has a similar bombastic and larger-than-life appearance as the propaganda monuments you see in North Korea!
Note for those still guessing: this particular statue is far outside of North Korea which makes it interesting.
I feel less stupid for thinking it was North korea at first
No kidding, that was also the first thing that came to my mind
@@kaysas9686 🤣 I had the same reaction "is this North Korea? Since when has North Korea streetview?"
Surely all monuments are propaganda monuments, because why else would you make a monument? "Today we unveil our giant statue of Some Bloke. We have no opinion on him, and we don't care if you do either. Come see the monument, or don't, we don't care."
@@roserichardson9480 I suppose it depends on how broad a definition of propaganda you accept. Quite a few monuments are of the form "Something terrible happened here. It was very sad. We are still grieving, and building this thing was our way of coping". Arguably, such a monument is still propaganda since it serves to establish the consensus that the thing that happened was indeed terrible, even if doing so was not its purpose of construction. Under the broadest definition, any public communication is propaganda. In this sense the tombstone of a dead relative that only members of your family are ever meant to visit is a propaganda monument, even if it conveys no information beyond being a grave marker. Perhaps, say, a tree planted as a grave marker in an already dense forest would meet the definition of a monument but not that of propaganda if you never told anyone as it would not carry any discernible message to an unwitting observer.
17:18 In case anyone was wondering like me.
".as" belongs to American Samoa. That company uses this domain probably because their company name is "Breeze AS". AS stands for “aksjeselskap”, which seems to be a privately owned limited liability companies. So probably main companies in that region uses this domain
Didn’t the guys mention this on a previous video?
@@nickdunne7673that was for .tv
That’s cool AS
there’s a very good Map Men episode about internet domains
Is that what AS stands for or did you just smash your head against the keyboard?
Jay not understanding a basic premise on several occasions was very entertaining.
I'd love to see more of these.
Jay seems to know many things. How games work is, apparently, not among them.
Wow. You’d love my life 🙄
I'm from Bermuda!! It's so cool that you "committed" and actually went there! (I honestly forget sometimes that people don't know it's not in the Carribean)🌺🌺
>Tromso written everywhere
>"You would expect some kind of big clue here"
Never change :')
The street names, mostly in Gaelic, are the same thing. Sràid na h-Eaglaise is literally translated as "Church Street", but he's bouncing around trying to find the street name, and doesn't realize he has it because he doesn't know how to read Gaelic, haha.
@@OhhCrapGuy It actually says Church Street in tiny letters underneath, too.
Is Tromso a famous town? even if they noticed that that word was written in a few places it's not immediately identifiable as a town name and the rules stated they can't google anything
@@janTasita oh, couldn't see that, must be my eyes
@@VaultConI would expect two geography-interested Brits to have heard of the place, yes. It's quite a common tourist destination for British people.
I loved this episode so much.
Especially Bermuda. My grandmother was from Bermuda, so I recognised it fairly quickly, and I’m talking to you through the screen saying, “Bermuda. That’s Bermuda.” Then you’re searching down in the Caribbean and I’m shouting, “NO, THAT’S NOT WHERE BERMUDA IS!”
I hope you enjoyed your visit, Mark.
And I'm like "You lost but you get to go to Bermuda." Like it's a very beautiful place.
Me too! I'm not from Bermuda but being North American we know that Bermuda is much farther north than the Caribbean. lol
Gotta say, I absolutely love seeing these two in a much more casual setting, they have great chemistry on camera and they are just geniunely entertaining to watch, would love to see more GeoGuessr from you two!
this is fantastic. watching you guys be yourselves after all these years (I've never seen Jay live) - superb! I'm in for more games!!!
The way Jay always sends Mark to random countries to record short segments haha
The fact he actually went to the locations is beyond insane imo, and I'm surprised nobodys really talking about it haha
I know! The effort they put in for a tiny bit is so ridiculously funny 😂
That's just a place, we're focusing on what's important. Which is games and spelling
I don't think it's *that* insane. Totally doable with the budget a successful youtube channel probably has.
What's insane is that the _loser_ gets to go to these places. As a "punishment."
@@tomslastname5560 still a commitment or time, money, and potential risk in several ways depending on what you get just for a joke. The money is obviously the smallest problem, everybody knows that and that wasn’t the point
When I was 17 years old my girlfriend who I met in the Capital of Turkey was from Bursa. I wrote dozens of letters and mailed them to Bursa, Turkey when I was in my late teens. I haven't thought of that place in years. It was so nice to be reminded of the place. It strange to think that that young girl I knew in the 1980s is now likely a 55 year old elementary school teacher getting closer to retirement.
What a beautiful story
I know it's a long shot, but how cool would it be if you wrote her a letter now and she actually got it and responded?
Crazy stuff, man. But hella cool!
As someone with a Turkish girlfriend, whose face lit up when the distinctly-Turkish roadsigns and markings turned up, I can relate!
Love that you picked a very British school hymn for the outro.
In case anyone's wondering, it's called "One more step along the world I go." (No idea why it was along and not around as around seems to make more sense?)
Major throwback wow. Aaaaand it's stuck in my head.
One more step along the world I go
One more step along the world I go
From the old things to the new
Keep me travelling along with you
Map Men playing GeoGuessr, my life is complete
Yall should collab
RIGHT
As a graduate of the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology), it kinda blew my mind to see the Steak & Shake I used to go to show up on Map Men. If they'd turned around, they'd have shown the building I used to live in.
I guessed it because I visited the city on my way to St. Louis and I had a friend who became a professor there.
Same! I was like, "That looks like Ber Juan and the softball fields. Wait....that IS Ber Juan and the softball fields!"
I spent a few months in Missouri earlier this year in the vicinity of Rolla. I was completely astonished to see it show up in this video of all places.
I'm about to go to fort Leonard Wood for basic training 😭 wish me luck neighbor
😂😅 Yep, daughter is also a graduate. . . was shocked to see Rolla as well.
Yes, Mark, we like you being yourselves
For real, they're quite endearing!
I really love this format. Less formal, less structured, more cozy. I wouldn’t be upset if more videos like this were uploaded every so often
i cant believe map men are a gaming channel now, looking forward to the minecraft letsplay next week.
Nope nope nope nope nope nope!
They should rename to Gaming Men since they're so bad at GeoGussr
At 15:08, you can see Mark trying to contain his laughter as he walks off-screen and for a split second you hear him bust out laughing before the clip cuts lol
@@JayForemanI’m now hearing this comment sung to the Map Men tune.
I can’t get it out of my head. Damn it.
@@JayForeman trying to throw us off the trail... how dastardly
Thai watcher here! Easy way to tell the difference between Thai, Khmer and Laos Script- Khmer is the pointiest and most angular, Laos is the most swirly and rounded, and thai is somewhere in between!
thanks for helping me out on future geoguessr games!
Non thai guy here! If I had to describe the Thai script, I'd say "It's a bunch of branches." Straight lines with curly bits (leaves) at the ends!
ผมขำเลยตอนรอบนั้น 555
I was puzzled by Beeline sign at 6:41 Isn't it a mobile telecom or internet provider by any chance?
What pointed me out was the hammer and sickle flag. There is only 1 place.
2:36
Because the map of France was made by triangles!
nice
nice
Nice
wrong city guys the answer was actually clermont-ferrand
( joke)
- "Hey Mark, what country am I supposed to be: Hon hon hon hon hon hon hon hon hon hon hon hon"
- "Offensive France?"
2:28 don’t worry we’ll still like you both. Unless you lose the game. 🤷♀️
Tour guide: So what is your reason for visiting this monument?
Mark: I lost a Geoguessr bet to my friend and he made me to go here
No Mark has no friend. 😂
Several signs saying Tromsø
Mapmen: Oslo? Bergen?
Missed all the "Bursa" signs too.
Loved that one too. At least 3 signs directly saying Tromsø within the first 20 seconds of the round and they went entirely unnoticed.
I was thinking the same thing!
They're mapmen not signmen
Me looking at the bridge: is that Tromsø? Big TROMSØ HAVN sign: yeeeees it is.
I can’t have been the only one thinking the ‘trip to Bermuda’ was going to be a surfshark ad
100%! 😂
I was so sure I had already skipped thirty seconds
Definitely need more episodes of this, highly entertaining.
Woah, this is the first time I've heard Jay and Mark talk unscripted for such a long time! (this is what I would say if I didn't know that you make up videos on the spot all the time and you are just really really good at it :-)
I think this is the first time on a video.
We have big American school buses in Canada too. The reason you can tell it's the US is at 4:00 where you can see a US-style railroad crossing sign. The Canadian one is completely different
Also the interstate sign obviously but they hadn't found that yet
i wanted to leave a comment about our school busses too but clearly OntarioTrafficMan is a much better authority than i so i'll let you handle it :3
Cuba has those buses for public transport, or at least they had them in 2006 when we were there. They do not get a lot of snow though.
@@kellydalstok8900 In school bus yellow?
Huh. Guess I didn't cross many railroads in Canada. Never knew there was a difference.
Please do more of these, they're incredible.
They'll need more sponsors to afford all those random trips
dying at the rio de janeiro bus stop 🤣
Do something about all the catfishing bot comments especially under trending videos, there's a bunch of them under this video and practically every other video.
There are many who do!
@@UA-cam yt
@@UA-cam only 4 replies
@@UA-cam which employee is finding an excuse to watch map men
I love the idea that you went to those places, spent 30 seconds at the location to take the photo then went straight home again.
Also I love the idea that the button actually does nothing at all and everything is done in post
Flying thousands of miles for a joke is hilarious, I really love climate change too!
@@lptomtom Do you shit at night with your lights turned off?
@@lptomtom Answer me.
@@lptomtomthe plane flies there whether or not you buy the ticket, same with how the cow to make beef dies before you buy it at the store.
I love the Norway part. So many missed clues.
16:01 "Tromsø Taxi"
16:03 "Tromsø Outdoor Sjøgata 14"
16:14 "Røde Kors Tromsø"
16:43 "Tromsø Havn Prostneset"
Plus a couple more small ones not worth mentioning.
yeah no i was mentally screaming
They probably just assumed that Tromsø was just the common name for "hard to identify little town with a good sized body of water nearby".
I as well wouldn't be able to place Tromsø on a map without help. Before this video.
I did not think they would actually go to Bermuda, you guys are the best for little gags.
Map Men, off script?! Somehow, still witty and charming. Very nice video lads.
The Chips Challenge music tells me your editor has wonderful taste
This video had no business being this enjoyable. It's, after all, a 30-minute-long product placement. But you guys make everything fun! Thanks for doing what you do, and please don't stop!
The Lego Movie is also an enjoyable product placement, 100 minutes of it.
I know right, them at the beginning being like ‘I hope people like us now we’re acting like ourselves’ like they aren’t naturally witty and entertaining. Absolutely loved this
That's like saying that pro geoguessr channels are nothing but product placement channels. This video is simply a case of a geography-themed entertainment channel making content that aligns with the interests of their audience.
A map men video thats 28 MINUTES LONG?????
This made my day
Me too!
Please do more of these, it was so fun to watch!
Passport Officer: What is the reason for your visit to our country?
Mapmen: I lost a game of geoguessr and the rules say I have to take a selfie in front of the place that I had to guess where it was from.
Passport Officer: Rejected
Mapmen:
Passport Officer: Approved!
For some reason "all the shops have got plausible names" really got me 🤣🤣🤣
Only just started watching but already loving this video. Love playing Geoguessr and great to see Mark and Jay testing each others knowledge. Also great just to see how Mark and Jay naturally interact with each other
This is my favourite video that you've ever done. Brilliant.
27:30 how dare they
By far the most egregious problem
Certified, "the worst".
16:01 Mark and Jay go past a taxi and a shop respectively in the same two seconds that both say Tromso on them
If they didn't know that Tromso is a city then it's understandable
19:27 exect spot you placed is where ı lived most of my life and it feels weirdly excating to see it in my favorite UA-cam chanel
This is an absolutely class video and I hope there's more on the way in the future.
Wonderful! Fun to watch!
The chuckle from Jay at 9:40 is exactly why I watch Map Men.
It's a small thing, but the dry "witty" in-sync honhonhon at 20:26 was hilarious
I feel there might be a lot of practice behind this
have you ever had close friends?
@@mowvu appreciating a moment doesn't mean they've never experienced it 🙄
@@silverandexact but it might
First sign he saw: Stornoway High Church
Jay: let's go one crossing further, might've been the sign for the next church.
this is like watching a your parents who dont love each other anymore play mario kart with your little brother and i love it
My family once bamboozled an estate agent with "Torquay" vs "Turkey" confusion, as it happens.
We were trying to convince them to let us view a house in Surrey, and said we'd travelled all the way from Torquay (the one in Devon). However, since we're a bit melanin-ated, the estate agent assumed we'd come all the way from Turkey, took pity on us, and let us view the extra house. You've got to get some benefits from stereotypes sometimes :)
Bonus points if your melanin-ation comes from nowhere near Turkey, like the Philippines
every time a british person hears my american accent, they ask where I am from, I am british so I say "Surrey," they always think I said "Syria."
Bonus points if your melanin-ation comes from someplace nowhere near Turkey, like the Philippines.
Bonus points if you're ethnically Chinese or someplace else not even close to Turkey.
@@JordanDooling You're saying it wrong if that's the case
Crazy how “going to bermuda” = loss
1st world problems eh?
I wonder what the winner is getting. 🤔
In fairness it was swiftly followed by going to Senegal
@@hrmmmmmm Senegal is nice, would love to go there
@@hrmmmmmm Since you clearly don't want to go, please let me know if you ever come into possession of a plane ticket to Dakar, because I'd love to go there one day.
3:39
"Can you see snow?"
"Snes!"
"Snes?"
"Yes I can see snow."
I love that Mark got shy about saying combining snow and yes.
phenomenal video. the dedication to the bit is truly unparalleled.
I love seeing them be themselves. It's so lovely to have this almost behind-the-scenes feeling of a video
1:02 no wonder why Jay Foreman can be scrambled to *Ear* Jay Fomn
And Mark Cooper-Jones can be scrambled to Mark Jooper-Cones
5:34
"YOU CAN SEE" Killed me
Hahaha same!! ‘YOU CANNOT BE THIS STUPID!’ 😂
"I should have game played it!" hahah yeah, once it became clear he had the town I would have just guessed antarctic. Scotland is a much easier trip than Senegal. But hey, at least you can say you've been to Senegal now. Huge props for actually going to the locations, that's crazy! Awesome video!
Such a good premise for this channel. Wouldn't mind a less-brief tour of the destination/punishment location!
Definitely 💯.
You'd like Geowiz
"hey honey, how was your day?"
"I lost a bet and now I have to fly to Bermuda!"
- Mark, probably
I like going along with the fantasy that he really did go immediately. "Hi, honey, where have you been?!"
5:17 Hey Jay! I’m a Kansas citian. There’s actually two. Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. The city straddles the state border, I’m from the Missouri side, which is more touristy.
The Chiefs might be moving to KC KS!
@@billtooke6642And Missouri will have a riot like the 1994 Stanley Cup Riots
@@TheBandit025Novanot to be confused with the 2011 Stanley Cup Riots
Vancouver, what is your deal?
Kansas City got mentioned!! Missouri!!
im sorry but you gotta petition your governors to shake hands, join forces, and kiss to unite the two kansas cities
Thank you for this video, always look forward to them coming out and this was no exception. I loved ❤ this and the fact it was a little different but just as hilarious 😂. You should have a second Map Men channel just for Geoguesser! You guys always make me laugh and your natural comedic chemistry is quite special, keep it up both of you. 😊❤
25:17 jay just making a wild ace of base reference, massive respect
This is genuinely a chill vid, make more of this kind of content. Getting to know you two lads is very enjoyable
Tromsø putting its name literally everywhere - "WHERE ARE THE FLAGS?!?!?!"
I've been to Tromsø, and it's definitely true; on every single street in Tromsø city centre you'll find multiple signs mentioning you're in Tromsø. Almost as if the locals are proud of living in one of the most gorgeous bits of Norway or anything. 😂
I still managed to see a Norway flag so 🥴
I live in Tromsø and I was dying in this part. Almost everywhere you look here you see a sign saying Tromsø or Arctic 😂
Might as well title "Mark and Jay Broke Their Character" 😂
This is quite simply one of the finest Map Men episodes in history
As a Bermudian I think I was the real winner. I take that road every single day to work and it was mind boggling seeing you two try and figure out where it is....and even more when Mark actually did a selfie there. Cheers for making my day
The one in Rio is right where my highschool used to be. Anyone from Caxias will immediately know where that is due to that awful looking building in the background, which people dubbed "White Elephant" because of how much it stands out.
Me toooo! That was literally the last thing I was expecting to see, but as soon as I saw that oleander hedge 🤯. What a treat 😅
That passive-aggressive way Mark said Antarctica has the most extreme seasons in the world is soooooo like a teacher
I find you both to be so fun. It is always a joy to watch your videos. As silly as it sounds, I found this to be quite entertaining. Good for you!
Good lord I love this channel