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Welcome to the 50th episode of Ill-Equipped History. They will be covering the 50 U.S. states. They will provide information about each state, including nicknames, slogans, animals, and fun facts. They start with Alabama, known as the heart of Dixie, and share a fact about bear wrestling. They continue with Alaska, the last frontier, and mention its purchase from Russia. They then discuss Arizona, the Grand Canyon State, and its famous London Bridge. The episode goes on to cover Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, and Florida. Welcome to Ill-Equipped History Special Episode 50th! Oh my god, 50! Like 5-0! Oh my god, how have you been allowed to make 50 of these things? Listen, again, no one's telling us to do this. We're just doing it. And allowing us to do that. No one's stopping us. I thought by sure someone would be like, please, this is enough. Stop it! But no, here we are, and we appreciate all of you. And we have, we're changing up the format, just a hair for the day. You want to explain what we're doing? Yeah, so we thought it would be brilliant, because we're geniuses, that for our 50th episode, we would cover the 50 U.S. states. United States. States, states. So, that's what we're going to do. Yeah. And I hope you like it. We're going to bypass the skit for today, because how do you write a skit about the 50 U.S. states? I keep doing that. 50 United States states. The 50 United States. We're just going to go back. Just call it the states, maybe. Sure. We'll just call it the states. Y'all know what we're talking about at this point. Save Morgan from having to say the United States states. Y'all, it was my first day back at work after a week off. And my brain is like, what? Mush. Your brain's mush. Listen, I've never been more clear. It was my kids' first day back at school after a week off. And you're like, salvation. Yeah. Hallelujah. Y'all, summer break's going to be rough. We're going to go to the Y pool. Y'all go play. I'll see you all in a few hours. I'll be here reading a book and watching you play. So yeah, we're going to go through each state. We're going to tell you a little bit about each state. And we'll just go ahead and get started. Yeah. See, this is where we normally would have like the intro music to a skit. And it's not there. So we could sing you a little tune if you want. I went straight to Jeopardy. Okay. State number one, Alabama. We're going alphabetical order, by the way. So that's the Ryman reason. So we're going to tell you the nickname, slogan, animal, and a fact. So we're going to start off strong with Alabama. So its nickname is the heart of Dixie. Its slogan is in a language I'm not going to try to pronounce, but I will give you the translation. And it is, we dare defend our rights. Oh, boy. And that sounds like Alabama. Yeah. They do be daring to defend their rights. The animal is the black bear. Not surprisingly, if you know the area. And speaking of black bear, Alabama had a bear wrestling problem in the 1990s. Like bears wrestling each other kind of problem or people wrestling bears kind of problem. One on one, WWE style, people wrestling bears. But it was made illegal in 1996. Because, as you would imagine, the bears were not being treated very well. Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, but a bear wrestling problem. That is a fact. That is a fact. Right. Next up is Alaska, known as the last frontier. Its motto is north to the future. Okay. It's a national animal national, it's state animal is the moose. It would be it would be the moose. And the fun fact that I found for it was Alaska was first, quote, discovered by Vitus Johansson Bering in 1741 on his way to Siberia. It was settled by Russians and eventually bought in 1867 by the US Secretary of State William H. Seward for $7.2 million, or two cents per acre. All of Alaska? Yeah. Good Lord. Nice. And it's the largest US state. So I keep fucking doing that. US state. United States states. Okay. Next up is Arizona couldn't be any more different than Alaska. Right. So the nickname is the Grand Canyon State. Guess what's in it? A Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon. Its slogan is God enriches. And let's see it's animal is the ring tail. And if you don't know what a ring tail is, imagine a lemur. It looks like a lemur. Why is a lemur or monkey Arizona's? I didn't think animals or lemurs were in North America. I think it's more like a marsupial kind of vibe. It just straight up looks like a lemur. Like imagine Madagascar. Yeah, I didn't think they were. I thought they were in from Madagascar, not Arizona. I mean, I believe what you're saying. I just I know. I don't understand why you need to look up a ring tail in Arizona. Just Google it real quick. Okay, we can cut this. But they look like a lemur kind of mixed with a squirrel cat. Oh, cute. Oh, they are so cute. So cute. Oh, they're like, um, they're like a cat raccoon thing. I want to own it. Oh, that's really cute. It's so cute. And you're ready for the fun fact of Arizona. Yeah. You know, London Bridge is falling down. Yeah, well, it was falling down. And it was purchased by Robert McCullough. I don't know how to say his name for $2.5 million. And in the 1960s was moved to Havasu City, Arizona, and is operating you can drive over the London Bridge in Arizona. Yeah. That's really fun. That is a very fun fact. They did strengthen it. So it is safe to drive on. Good. It's not going to fall down. No, no, it is no longer falling. Good. Good. Next is Arkansas. Its nickname is the natural state. I know every time I see Arkansas, I think of that vine. It's like I am confusion. Why? Why not Arkansas? I love that one. Yeah. Its motto is regnat populis, or, which is Latin for the people rule. Its animal is the white tailed deer. There are a lot of states with that as their state animal. I was about to say that there's so many. We don't have any other animals. So I guess the white tailed deer. Not going to lie. Tennessee is my favorite, by the way. Mine too. I know you have it coming up, but we'll get to it. Arizona is pretty close, though. Apparently, I know the ringtail is in the raccoon family. Oh, it would be. It's no wonder I like it so much. It's just so cute. Oh, my goodness. Adorable. Anyway, so I have two little, little fun facts about Arkansas. So the name of the state is based off the Sioux word, Atenza. And Arkansas is like a French interpretation of that, which means downstream place. Oh, they just went downstream. Yeah. And Arkansas is home to six national parks and 50 state parks. Damn. That's a lot of parks. So many parks. It's probably more parks than people. Probably. There's like when I was scrolling through the all the different facts about Arkansas, a lot of it was about like its natural geography. Yeah, the Midwest states, I feel like we got a lot into like its geography and less into like other things that happened, events or stuff like that. Yeah. All right. We're ready for California. California. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, nickname is the Golden State. Its slogan is Eureka. It's a smart state. And the animal is the California grizzly bear. And little fun fact, it's more specific to San Francisco, but I had to say it. It's been illegal to bury your dead in San Francisco since 1901. The dead typically get buried in the nearby town of Colma, California, because it was just too many people living. I'm just imagining people from Colma going, bring out your dead, bring out your dead. Well, the dead outnumber the living a thousand to one in Colma now. Yeah. Because it's all the people dying in San Francisco. Oh, my goodness. The most haunted town in the world. Yeah. Seriously. Every all real estate just says haunted at the top. Just so you know what you're getting into. Yeah, you have to know. All right. Next is Colorado, known as the Centennial State. And shout out to Druncera. Yay. And it's called a Centennial State because it was founded on the centennial of the U.S. Okay. Its motto is Nelsinae Numenae, which is Latin for nothing without providence. Okay. Its animal is the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. Okay. And the fun fact I found is in, I don't know if it's Fruta or Fruita, Colorado, locals celebrate Mike the Headless Chicken Day after a chicken that was meant to be eaten had its head cut off and it lived for another four years back in 1945. I know this story. They had to feed it through a hole in its neck because it had no head. So I think it died because it choked on water. I think I've heard that story I lived four years. So now locals in this little town celebrate Mike the Headless Chicken Day. Amazing. Amazing. So Connecticut is nicknamed the Constitution State. Its slogan is, nope, still not attempting that. He who transplanted still sustains. So I guess whoever moves there, you're going to be successful. What an interesting slogan. Yeah. Even more interesting is the animal. From what I found, the animal is the sperm whale, which is not even common in that state's waters. Okay. But sure, buddy. And fun fact, it has a rich history in the printing industry. Okay. So it is home to the oldest cookbook, which was published in 1796, called American Cookery. We have mentioned this book in the Thanksgiving episode. The oldest phone book in 1878 in New Haven, Connecticut. Oldest newspaper, the Hartford Courant. And then it was called the Connecticut Courant, so it has had a name change since. Okay. But that's been open since 1777. And that newspaper also had the first female publisher. Cool. Yeah. So get it, Connecticut, even though you have a weird animal. Yeah. Yeah. Next up is Delaware. Its nickname is the First State. It will let you know. It was the first. Its motto is liberty and independence. Okay. Its animal is the gray fox. Okay. Love that. Yeah. And so I have two little fun facts. It was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Okay. And it's home to a very large population of horseshoe crabs that you can go visit. Such weird facts. I love all these little weird facts that we've found. Literally, I love fun facts. I do too. I'm going to be so full of fun facts after this episode. I know. Okay. Next state is Florida. I feel like there's so many things that's happened in Florida. Just if you Google Florida man or Florida woman, you're welcome. But so its nickname is the Sunshine State. Its slogan is in God we trust. The animal is the Florida panther. And they also mentioned manatees. So they kind of have two. Which makes sense. Yeah. And fun fact, I don't know why I kept getting like dead people. But Florida, I have two fun facts about this one. It is illegal to dump your ashes in Disney World even though people try all the time. Yeah. Please stop. Yeah. That makes sense. Don't do that. Don't do that. And also Florida is the only place in the world where you can find alligators and crocodiles cohabitating in the wild. Oh, that's neat. I did not know that. Yep. All right. Next up is Georgia. It is the Peach State. Georgia. Georgia. Sorry. It's okay. Its motto is wisdom, justice, moderation. It's just really funny. Like wisdom, justice, moderation. I feel like there's very few people in the South that do moderation. It's either all or nothing. Yeah. It has two animals that the white-tailed deer and the right whale. Right whale? Not a left whale, a right whale. The correct one. I love that. I don't know what a right whale is. And I don't know of whales. I don't know about any whales that come around like the Eastern US. I only know in like the Western US. Well, you should have done more research. Right. It was your porpoise. This is a mammoth task. I don't see mammoth. My brain said mammal and then shifted to mammoth. And I don't know why. I just imagined a woolly mammoth trying to swim in the ocean. See, this is why I'm not good at puns, you guys. Oh, God. I'm not with you. It was a killer joke. Okay, you sure? Anyway, the fun fact I have for Georgia is that Blackbeard, the pirate, had like a home base on an island off the coast of Georgia. And in 1975, the US Congress designated the island as Blackbeard Island Wilderness Area. Nice. I thought that was me. That was not a man of moderation. No, absolutely. Absolutely not. All right, Hawaii, nicknamed the Aloha State. And its slogan is the life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. Wow. And, of course, it's in the language that they speak, and I'm not going to try that. So the animal is the Hawaiian monk seal and the humpback whale. Lots of whales. Yeah. What more? Like humpback whale makes sense for Hawaii. I've seen humpback whales in Hawaii. Yeah. It's the only one where it makes sense. Um, so the fact is, Lulani, Lulani Palace is America's only royal palace. It was home to the Hawaiian monarchy in the 19th century. And then when the United States took over Hawaii, it's still there. Very cool. It is very cool. Not the fact that the monarchy is now dissolved, but the fact that it's still there. That's cool. Yeah, it should still be there. But anyway, Idaho, you're a what? I knew it. I was trying to come up with something. And I was not fast enough. I should have been proud of that one. I am, okay. Anyway, it's known as the gem state. Its motto is esto perpetua, or let it be perpetual. Okay. Its animal is the Appaloosa, which is a breed of horse. Yeah. And I have two little fun facts for Idaho. The first one is there is an Idahoan law that forbids someone to give someone else a box of candy weighing more than 50 pounds. That's too much candy. That's a lot of candy. So much candy. And it's home to the tree that is more than 18 feet wide, 177 feet tall, and is more than 3000 years old. Jesus Christ. What kind of tree is that? I think it's some kind of oak or sequoia. Oh, damn. I didn't write down what kind of tree it was. There's a lot of facts about trees that I stumble across, like in looking at all the different states, like a lot of random tree facts. So they're all kind of blending together. That's a big ass tree. Okay. Illinois. Its nickname is Land of Lincoln. Slogan is State Sovereignty National Union. Okay. So be together but separate, which is basically the United States. Animal is the white-tailed deer, of course. Two little fun facts. It was the first state to abolish slavery, and it has the world's largest bottle of ketchup. And that's a big ass bottle of ketchup. It's like a tourist attraction. Is this film with actual ketchup? I think so. I was not expecting ketchup at the end of that sentence. I was like, bottle of, okay, cool, I'll correct myself. They spell it catsup. Okay. So C-A-T-S-U-P. That's ketchup. That's ketchup. Yeah. Okay. I know. Sorry, Illinois. That was the two most interesting things I could find. You seem great. All right. Next is Indiana or the Hoosier State. Yeah, Hoosiers. Why are they called the Hoosiers? Or is it Hoosier? I don't know what it is. I think it's Hoosier, but why? What does that mean? It never came up. Tell us what that means. Yeah. If you're from Indiana, tell us what a Hoosier is. The motto is the crossroads of America. Okay. Animal is the northern cardinal. Cool, cool. And a fun fact that I found, it has some of the best limestone found anywhere on earth. The Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the Pentagon, the U.S. Treasury, and over two dozen other buildings in D.C. and other state capitals are built from this specific limestone. Damn. That's really cool. I thought that was neat. Limestone. Yeah. Iowa. I can't say that with a southern accent. I'm so sorry. Iowa. Iowa is the Hawkeye State and its slogan is our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain. All right. A lot of the ones that I got are like- Very patriotic. They're very we will kill you over our rights. Yeah. Yeah. Very, yeah, hardcore about it. The animal, it said it had no specific animal, but the state bird is the eastern goldfinch. Okay. And the state had the first female lawyer. Her name was Arabella Mansfield, and she also was a professor and administrator. And this was probably, I think, late 1800s, early 1900s. I didn't get the specific dates, but she was pioneering. Very awesome. Yeah. Okay. I've already told Emily the story, but I have a little bit of backstory for this next state we're going to cover, which is Kansas. When I was younger, everyone has to do a project on the stage where you research. Emily's already starting to laugh. Okay. If you hear me laughing, ignore me. I can see her laughing at me. I'm trying to hide. That doesn't help. I know you're laughing. So like most kids in the US have to do a project on the states and they research like the state, how it was founded, its nickname. Well, when I was in fourth grade, for some reason, I didn't know what it meant for a state to have a nickname. And I had Kansas, and I thought that that meant we had to come up with a nickname for this state instead of researching what its nickname was. So I remember like turning in, it was like these huge posters where we're writing all the facts about the states. And I see all the kids and their posters are up and I see like the garden state and the volunteer state. And I was like, oh no, I misunderstood the assignment because in bright blue, all caps marker for Kansas, I wrote, I wrote crappie. Because I was like, there's crops that grow in Kansas. It was so embarrassing and it's crappie. Crappie, Kansas. It stayed up for so long, for like months. It stayed up longer than any other school project that hung up on the wall. Why would you let you like put something over it and be like, hey, I misunderstood. The worst thing about it was that I don't think the teacher liked me very much because she put my poster eye level, like straight as you're coming out of the classroom. So it was the first thing I thought any time I walked out of our classroom. She was like, no, I'm going to embarrass this little 10 year old in my classroom that didn't know what a state nickname was. Anyway, crappie, in all caps, it's burned into my memory forever. Anyway, the actual nickname for Kansas is the sunflower state, which I think is a lot better than crappie. I like crappie better because when we went and bought the truck, we flew into Colorado and we drove home, which was 24 hours of driving. And we did Kansas in one day. And it's very flat and very crappie. And I got tired of looking at corn and sorghum and windmills. And we unprompted, we found one hill on the interstate, the only hill in the entire state. And both of us, without even like planning this, we both went, whee! I like crappie better. Oh, well, thank you. I appreciate that. Its motto is ad astra per aspera, which is Latin for to the stars through difficulties, which I really like. I like that. That seems poetic. Yeah. Its animal is the American buffalo. And I have three little fun facts about Kansas. The first one is that Hattie McDaniel, who we've mentioned before, she was the first Black woman to win an Academy Award was born in Kansas. Get it, Hattie. Get it. Number two, there used to be a law where it was illegal to serve ice cream on cherry pie. That's the best way to have it. Don't mess with the cherry pie. Do they hate joy that much? Just to the point where it was a law. What happened? I don't know. Was there like a cherry pie catastrophe of 1922? Like what happened? Probably. Miss Sally Mae got in a right tizzy that someone dared to put ice cream on her cherry pie. Yeah, seriously. Melted, it got soggy, didn't eat it fast enough. That was a perfect crust that you ruined. No soggy bottoms. I had to throw a little Great British bagel. Oh, yeah. And then the third little fun fact I have is that the first female mayor in the U.S. was Susan Medora Salter, who was elected in 1887 in Argonia, Kansas. Get it, girl. Yeah. Get it. All right. On to Kentucky. So, shout out to my family. Yeah. What's up, y'all? Hey, my mom is from there. So, nickname is the Bluegrass State. Slogan is United We Stand, Divided We Fall. Another hard hitter. Slogan. The animal is the gray squirrel. Cute little squirrel. And fun fact, if y'all don't know, Kentucky is where you get bourbon. And there are more barrels of bourbon than there are people in the state by two million. Oh, my God. And that, think about it. Kentucky is not a completely wet state. No, it's not. A third of the counties are dry counties, completely dry. You cannot sell alcohol in these counties or liquor. Forty-nine of those counties are moist counties. Sorry for that word. Where you can only buy it in select places. So, only 32 counties in the entire state is fully legal. And there are two million more barrels of bourbon than there are people. That's crazy. And it's weird how that happens because, sorry to get off track again, but the county that the Jack Daniels Distillery is in, in Tennessee, it's also, I guess, a moist county, you could say, because you can buy Jack Daniels at the distillery, but you cannot buy it anywhere else in town. Yeah. That's very interesting. I have no idea how that works. I don't know either. It wouldn't surprise me if there was some kind of lobby where there is a distillery, you can only limit sales to that distillery, so they continue to make money directly in the distillery instead of just like... Maybe. I don't know. I don't know how it works. It wouldn't surprise me. It's just a guess. It wouldn't surprise me either. Yeah. All right. Louisiana. Louisiana. The Pelican State. Nice. Pelicans. Pelican. Its motto is union, justice, and confidence. Confidence. You want to know what its animal is? A pelican? No, it's a black bear. It's a pelican state though. With black bears. I don't know. With black bears. Okay. And I have another interesting law. So there is a law in Louisiana that states that if you bite someone with your natural teeth, it is a simple assault, but if you bite them with false teeth, it's aggravated assault. Someone sat down and made that distinction and wrote it into law. That's crazy to me. I feel like if you bite anyone at any point in time, unless you're like a baby with just gums, it's aggravated assault. Teeth hurt. Teeth hurt. And teeth hurt. The human jaw has enough bite force to like crunch a finger like a carrot. Like bites are no joke. And they're more deadly bacterial-wise than dog bites. Ew, really? Mm-hmm. Oh. It's all to do with like our microbiome. And we're not really good at sending off other people's microbiomes, especially if they get in our bloodstream. We're not good about a lot of things, to be honest. Humans are... A mess. We're smart. But that's... Most of... Some of us are. Okay. On to the next. Are we ready? Let's do it. Okay. Maine. So its nickname is the pine tree state. Its slogan is... I think I can handle this one. Deerigo, which means I lead. Its animal is the moose. And it is the only state that has one... A one-syllable name. And they think the name came from sailors referring to it as the mainland. Oh. Okay. Cool. That makes sense, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Maryland. Known as the old line state. Line? Line. L-I-N-E. Line. Why? Its motto... I'm going to attempt this. Okay. Satie masci parole femine. Which is Italian. Okay. For strong deeds, gentle words. Okay. I like it. Strong deeds, gentle words. I like that. I do too. Its animal is the thoroughbred. All right. Got another horse here. And in 1813, the residents of St. Michael's in Maryland hung up lanterns in trees and on ship masts as the oncoming British Navy approached. This tactic caused the British to miss almost the entire town. They like overshot the entire town because they thought it was like higher up than it actually was. And cannon fire only hit one house, which is now known as the Cannonball House. Nice. Good job, Maryland. Yeah. You sneaky, sneaky people. I like it. All right. Massachusetts. Oh! Shout out Boston. Salem and all the other places in Massachusetts. Yes. Uh, I want to go back. Okay. So the nickname is the Bay State. And its slogan, I'm going to try, is Inse Petite Placidum Sub Libertate Quietem, which means by the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty. It's like a more poetic hard hitter. Yeah. Yeah. It's animal is the Boston Terrier. Dog. I know. And there is a lake known as Webster Lake. And it has the third longest place name in the world and the longest in the United States because Webster Lake is a nickname. Please hold on to your buckle in. Okay. It is known. It is called. Wow. Yeah. I would call it Webster Lake too. It's Webster. And they did shout out to whatever like store did this, but there was like a store. It looks like one of those like cute old like lake bait and tackle stores. And it had the entire name above. It took up the entire length of the building. It was like Chicago Lake Bait and Tackle or whatever. That's really funny. Michigan. The Great Lake State. Okay. Yeah. It's motto. I'm going to attempt this. This one's a long one. Which is Latin for if you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you. Look around. We are like the entire state of Michigan. Both parts is peninsulas. Do you come for a peninsula? Because I got a pretty nice one right here. Look about you. This animal is the white-tailed deer. And the University of Michigan was the first state university in the U.S. founded in 1817. And its original name was Kefla Pistonian before being renamed to the University of Michigan in 1821. So that only lasted like four years. Yeah. Well, when your students can't say it, they need to change the name. Yeah. Yeah. Minnesota. Minnesota. Minnesota. Minnesota. So its nickname is the Land of a Thousand Lakes. Even though there's more like 12 to 15,000 lakes. Oh, shit. Oh, so many lakes. Its slogan is the North Star. Oh. Yeah. And it doesn't really have an official animal, but the bird is the common loon. Loony. So, of course, the Land of a Thousand Lakes would be the place that in 1922, Ralph Samuelson invented water skis. Makes sense. He steam bent two eight foot long pine boards and just made skis. And then he took them out on like in a motorboat in Lake City. You know what? Like everything about this story makes sense. Like you got a guy from Minnesota. Like I'm assuming like this all just this guy. He's like, you know, it'll be a good idea. Hold my beer. I'm going to steam these two pine boards. I'm going to stand on them behind a boat and then they're just going to go. It had to have been like a hold my beer and watch this moment. Like they can do it on the snow, but I could do this on the water. And we thank you. Yeah. I have sets of skis behind me. Yeah. Mississippi. M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P. I was about to say it's the most fun state to spell. It is. It is the Magnolia State. Okay. Motto is Virtute et Armis or by Valor and Arms. All right. Very intense. Wow. Animals, the white-tailed deer. Okay. It's the home of the world's largest cactus plantation. Jesus. I know. I was not expecting that. And it's also where Teddy Roosevelt famously refused to shoot a captured bear, which resulted in the teddy bear being created. Oh, thanks, Mississippi. Yeah. Yeah. Now we got Missouri or Mizzou. It's the football team that they go by. Mizzou. Right. Can someone please tell me why? I've always wondered. Maybe because it's short for Missouri. I think I've been to Mizzou before. I think we went there for a... Or maybe we played against them in a... I used to play Quidditch, you guys, because I'm a super nerd. I think we either went there or we played against them at a tournament for Quidditch. Okay. Well, it's called the Show Me State. Oh. What you going to show me? I don't know what we're showing. We've already established Idaho, so... So you will. Is that what you're saying? Okay. Okay. The slogan is... I'm just going to tell you the translation. The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law. Get it, Missouri. The animal is the Missouri mule. And the first successful parachute jump from a moving plane, which is what we now call skydiving, was completed in 1912. Note it said successful. Yeah. I don't know what happened before that. I don't know what happened before that, but I think I can put it together. Yeah, me too. Yeah. Okay. Right. Montana. Montana. It's known as the Treasure State. Its motto is Oro y Plata, which is Spanish for gold and silver. The animal is the grizzly bear. Okay. And I have three little fun facts about Montana. One, it has more species of mammals than any other state. Wow. Number two, it's home of Yellowstone National Park, which is the first national park in the U.S. Cool, cool. And number three, Jack Horner, who's the chief paleontologist of the Museum of the Rockies, was the inspiration for Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. No way. Yeah. That's cool. I thought that was neat. I love that. Ready to go to Nebraska? Nebraska. Nebraska. Nicknamed the Cornhusker State. Slogan is equality before the law. So I guess it's like we don't care what your law says. We're all going to be equal. Yeah. Okay. I could definitely see that in like during slavery, that being a thing for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's animal is the white-tailed deer. And I have a couple food facts for you. Food facts? It is the birthplace, birthplace of Kool-Aid. And that's their official soft drink of the state. That's the big thing. But Kool-Aid isn't, isn't, I think of a soft drink, I think of like a Coke. I mean, I guess a soft drink is just a drink that doesn't have alcohol in it. Oh, okay. Because those are hard drinks. I always thought that they were just Cokes, so. No, it's any non-alcoholic drinks because alcoholic drinks are hard. Mm-hmm. Damn, that makes a lot of sense. I've literally never thought about it. Never thought about it. Not once. I didn't until it was like way late in my career as a waitress. Okay, so at least I'm not alone. Yeah, I was never a waitress, so. Okay, also in this tract for being the Cornhusker state, they consume more popcorn than any other state. I love that. 68 billion cups. Oh, shit. A year, which is enough to fill the Empire State Building 18 times. Oh, shit. And then I put a little asterisk that said Americans will use anything to measure except the metric system. Yeah. Because 18 Empire State Buildings. Sure, sure. All right, we have Nevada, the Silver State. Its motto is, all for our country. Its animal is the desert bighorn sheep. And I have two little fun facts about Nevada. I've heard it's technically pronounced Nevada, not Nevada. So, one, it is the second highest producer of gold in the world behind South Africa. And two, camels were used to traverse the Nevada desert until 1870. That wasn't that long ago. I know, camels in the United States in Nevada. What a camel. They're very stinky. I don't want a camel. They smell really bad. I want a farm. Apparently, I want to own a zoo. Yeah. You should just do that. I should. You think Nick would still be married to me? As long as, like, you didn't live at the zoo. I think so. All right, fair enough. All right, speaking of Nick and his family, New Hampshire. Hey. Okay, so it is known as the Granite State. And it has literally the best slogan on this planet. Are you ready for it? I'm ready. Live free or die. America. I'm a live free or I'm a die. Damn it. I can hear the bald eagles, like, crying, soaring in the air. One of us should edit that in there. Live free or die. Come! America. Okay, so the animal is the white-tailed deer. And super cool. It is home to possibly the oldest man-made construction in America. It is a 4,000 year old complex known as America's Stonehenge. And it serves as an astronomical calendar. And they also call it Mystery Hill because they don't really know. Yeah, that's the app. It's a mystery. It's on a hill. It's a mystery up yonder. Got New Jersey. New Jersey? New Jersey, where Cory is. Hey, Cory. It's the Garden State. Its motto is liberty and prosperity. See, that seems nicer. Than live free or die. This is live free and have a good life. Yeah. Its animal is the horse. Not any kind of horse. Just horse. Okay. It's considered the diner capital of the world. Has the highest percentage of an urban population in the U.S. So, like, there's a higher percentage of its population being urban than anywhere else in the U.S. Wow. Okay. And it is the car theft capital of the world. Oh, no. Specifically, North New Jersey. The website I was looking on said it had more car thefts than New York and Los Angeles combined. Jesus Christ. Maybe they should just take a camel. This is New Jersey, not Nevada. Okay, fine. All right. Are you ready for New Mexico? New Mexico. Its nickname is, I'm going to say it two ways, Land of the Enchantment or Tierra del Encanto. Oh. Doesn't that sound just... Love that. Wonderful. It makes me want to sing. We don't talk about Bruno. I love the song at the end of the movie where it's, like, Columbia, my enchantment. Oh, yeah. I can't sing. I can only sing it, like, when I'm listening to it. I just love the whole movie. I do, too. Its slogan is, Crecite. Crecite, window, you window, which is, it grows as it goes. Okay. That's what she said. And the animal is the black bear. And fact, it is the only state with an official state question. Do you know what that question might be? No. Red or green? And it refers to the chili pepper industry. So if you go to a restaurant and someone asks you red or green, you say you want green chili sauce or the red, like, I'm talking about... Salsa? Almost like, not salsa, like, you roll them up and then you pour sauce on top. Enchilada? Yes, kind of like enchilada sauce. You've got the red sauce or the green sauce. And if you say Christmas, they'll bring you both. Okay. Yeah, I like that national question because I love chilies and I love chili sauce and salsa. I love enchilada. I made enchilada with everything. Oh, God. We're really good. We should live closer together so we can eat together. We can make each other food. I'm so fat. I'd be so fat. All right, next is New York. New York? New York, the Empire State. New York. It's motto is not, I'm walking, I'm walking you, it's excelsior, with an exclamation point. Are we in Harry Potter? It's Latin for ever upward. I love it. It's animals the beaver. Okay. And the New York Post is the oldest running newspaper in the U.S. founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1803. And it is also home to the first capital of the U.S., New York City. Nice. Nice. Noice. Noice. Noice. Noice. Noice. Noice. Noice. Noice. Noice. Okay. North Carolina. The Tar Heel State. Oh, yeah. It's slogan is essa quam videre. And this one, it means to be rather than to seem. How many drugs do you think they were on? Because that, does that make sense to you? I guess it means like being authentic versus like seeming a certain way. To be rather than to seem. That's my cursory thought of what that might mean, but I don't know. I mean, I'm just imagining like partaking in something and then just sitting there thinking about that and it getting worse the more you think about it. Okay, it's animal is the Eastern Gray Squirrel, and fact is the first English colony in North America, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina, was located on Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina. Mysteriously, all the colonists disappeared without a trace, and they had one word which was Croatoan carved into the tree as a clue. Roanoke has since been named the Lost Colony. They never really found them. I think they've made some strides in recent history, recent years in finding like artifacts and stuff that literally they went to Croatoan, but something happened and they couldn't go find them. Something happened and they couldn't go find them. That's one of the mysteries that I'm like, what happened? And I think about it. I wouldn't say it's my Roman Empire, but I definitely think about it more than probably most people do. And I'm just like, what happened? I want to know. I feel like every time it comes up, I obsess about it for a couple weeks and then it kind of fades, but then something reminds me of it again. And then I'm like, where are they? Is there anything new that's come out about it? Yeah. Okay. North Dakota. North Dakota. The Peace Garden State. Okay. Maybe because the Garden State was already taken. So they're like the Peace Garden State. I don't know. Peace Garden. Its motto is liberty and union now and forever one and inseparable. Okay. That's lovely. Its animal is the Nakoda horse. Okay. Dakota is sued for friends or allies and it has tried to drop the North from its name and just be called Dakota twice. Once in 1947 and again in 1989. Both have failed. Nick was alive then. It just wants to be Dakota. And poor South Dakota is like, what about us? They'd just be Dakota and South Dakota. Well, it's like Virginia and West Virginia, you know. True. It's like we were here first. I don't know if it actually was or not, but. Oh, that's so funny. Bless them. Ohio. Oh, gosh. My stepdad's from Ohio and I can't hear Ohio without hearing him say, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH. Oh, it's embedded into my genes at this point. He would do that. Everywhere we go, if he sees someone with even a hint of like Ohio State red, he will scream across a restaurant. He will scream across a parking lot, like anywhere at any point in time. Could you imagine Tennessee having like a call out, but you have to spell all of Tennessee? Like Ohio's four letters. T-E-N-N-E-S-S-E-E. In a restaurant. You have too many B's, you're all of a sudden putting too many E's, not enough S's. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. S-S-I-P-P-I. 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So, Sooner actually, I didn't write it down as the fun fact, but there My fun fact is related to the amount of Native Americans living in Oklahoma, and back when the Gold Rush and Manifest Destiny and all that was going on, after Oklahoma was like, okay, it's going to be mostly Native American reservations after the exodus of Native Americans from the eastern U.S., it was opened up to, like, pioneers and stuff to, like, find gold and whatever, but there are people that went before the allowed date, and they are called Sooners. Because they went too soon. They got their sooner. Funny, okay. Its motto is Labor Omnia Vincent, which is hard work conquers all things. I bet they did put some hard work in. I bet they did. Its animal is the buffalo. And Oklahoma has the largest population of Native Americans in the U.S., with 67 tribes represented within Oklahoma, and with 39 tribes having Oklahoma as their headquarters. And they have a population of 250,000 Native Americans. Wow. That's a lot. Not as many as I thought, though. How many is that? 250. In the whole state? And it's the highest, it's the largest population of Native Americans in the U.S., within one state. Yeah. You're right, that's not a whole lot. And that's a big state. Oklahoma's huge. Not so much a fun fact, but I thought it was really important to talk about. Yeah. Because there are reasons. And they all suck. Okay, so Oregon. The beaver state. And Alice Volat Properis means she flies with her own wings. Oh, no one else's wings. Her own. No one else's wings. Just mine. They're mine. And the animal is the beaver. I think it's the only one so far that's matched. Yeah. It's like nicknamed. And Portland, Oregon is home to more breweries than any other city in the world. But Colorado is more statewide. That's not a fun fact about Colorado that I wrote down, but it's one I came across. It does. Yeah, I can see statewide for sure. But Portland makes sense, yeah. In one city, yeah. That's where everyone goes. Everyone goes to Portland so they can open a brewery. Yeah. You want to move to Portland? All right. Next is Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. The Keystone State. Okay. I don't know. I didn't see anything about keystones. It's motto is Virtue, Liberty, and Independence. Which makes sense because Philadelphia and all that. The animal's a white-tailed deer. And I thought this was very interesting. So the first medical application of oxygen was completed by Dr. George Holtzapfel in 1885 saving his 16-year-old patient from pneumonia. Cool. Do you want to know a fun little fact about my pet ball? What? I don't know why, but he could not breathe very well. I forgot what he had. He passed when I was 14, so it's been a while. But he was also a blacksmith. And when he got to where he couldn't breathe, he would get just a huff of the oxygen tank from the welder. Well. I don't think that's what you're supposed to do. I've never got a chance to meet your pet ball, but from what stories you've told me about him, that's yeah. He was the best. Okay. On to Rhode Island. Which is not an island. It's not. It is called the Ocean State, though. They're trying really hard to be an island. We're going to manifest that we're an island. And their slogan is hope. Just hope. The shortest slogan for the smallest state. Yes. And the animal is the Rhode Island red chicken and the harbor seal. I love both of those. A chicken. So it is believed that it is home to the oldest tavern building. It was established in 1673 by William Mays, Sr. And passed down through the family. Passed down to his son who was a pirate and is still believed to haunt the building. It then served as accommodation for loyalists during the occupation of Newport in the Revolution and today it's best known for its clam chowder. So we should go eat some clam chowder. Well, you can't eat the clam chowder. I'll eat the clam chowder. I'll tell you how it is and we can look for ghosts. That sounds great. Let's do that. I love that. Okay. All right. Next is South Carolina. Where is our tile from? It's the Palmetto State. It's motto is Boom Spira Spiro, which is Latin for while I breathe, I hope. Animal is the white-tailed deer. And I have two little fun facts about South Carolina. One, it produces and ships more peaches than Georgia. It's like the number one producer and shipper of peaches in the U.S. But Georgia's the peach city. I know. I think when it's talking about Georgia, it's the highest quality of peaches. Oh. But South Carolina produces more. More. That makes sense. They're shitty peaches. They're shit-ass peaches. The second little fun fact that I just found delightful, you can view the very first boll weevil found in South Carolina at the Pendleton District Agricultural Museum. They caught it? They caught it and they saved it, and you can look at it in the museum. Have you ever heard, have you ever heard mom talk about Enterprise, Alabama? No. It's an entire town obsessed with the boll weevil. They have statues of this bug all over all over and boots and snoots and boots and snoots. And it's so weird. Y'all look up Enterprise. On to South Dakota. The southern one of Dakota. It is known as the Mount Rushmore State. Again, what do you think's in there? Not Mount Rushmore. Obviously not. The slogan is, the people rule. Animal is a coyote. And Belle Forche, it's F-O-U-R-C-H-E, so if I say that wrong I'm so sorry. Belle Forche, South Dakota, claims to be the center of the United States and has a monument saying it is. Alright. But they're not the center. The center's actually about 30 miles away. They're close. Just let them have this one, Emily. I think they said, they're like, yeah, we're not trying to lie. We know we're not the center. We're just providing a convenience. Okay. You know what's next, Emily? Tennessee, Rocky Top, you'll always be. Home sweet home to me. Home sweet home to me. Go Rocky Top. Woo! So the website that I used, which was like 50states.com, had a lot of information about Tennessee that I was not prepared for. And it was really hard to choose. I narrowed it down to four. And I was like, well, it's a state we're from, so I'm going to expand a little bit upon it. It had a lot of really cool facts. It had one of the... Also, each state had a list of their songs, their state songs. Tennessee has a lot. There's like six. Tennessee, it's the volunteer state. It's motto is agriculture and commerce. So boring. Just work, work, work, work. I know. Farm, farm, farm, farm, farm. It's animals, the raccoon. Raccoon, my baby! Yay! So I have four fun facts about Tennessee. And I kind of divided it up into regions. So the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville is the longest running live radio program on earth. It is broadcast every Friday and Saturday since 1925. Wow. Yep. Number two, Oak Ridge, Tennessee is where the atomic bomb was developed. It's only about an hour from us. Well, from where we grew up. And number three, the National Civil Rights Museum is located in Memphis, Tennessee at the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. I did not know that. And the last one, Tennessee comes from the Yuchi word tanasi, which means the meeting place. The meeting place. It is like right in the middle of the United States if you're going like north to south. Yeah, and like east of the Mississippi. For a while that was the, like before people started crossing the Mississippi, that was the United States. So, we're the buckle. We are the buckle. Yep. That's what I got for Tennessee. Yay. Go Tennessee. Go Vols. Okay, Texas. Its nickname is the Lone Star State. Its slogan is friendship. And the animal is the nine-banded armadillo and the Texas long horn. Two completely opposite things. And the fact is it is larger. The state of Texas is larger than Europe. Just Europe. The continent of Europe. And it is legal to shoot and tag a Bigfoot. They are not considered endangered. The fact that you followed up with that you can shoot and tag Bigfoot but they're not considered endangered. That's what they said. You can't even prove they said I think the calf is being endangered. That's all I had on Texas. All right. Next is Utah. Utah. The Beehive State. Okay. Its motto is industry. That's it. They're working too. They're busy bees over in Utah. We're farming. They're farming. They're working. We're farming. They're industrial. This animal is a Rocky Mountain elk. Okay. Utah is home to many wonderful natural rock formations including the Rainbow Bridge. It is the world's largest natural rock span at 278 feet wide and 309 feet high made of complete sandstone. Damn. That's cool. Vermont. The Green Mountain State and its slogan is Vermont Freedom and Unity. I think that's the only slogan that references itself. Its animal is the Morgan horse. Y'all. I am named after the Morgan horse. My mom. That's her favorite kind of horse. My mom was a crazy horse girl. She named me after her favorite breed of horse. That's why my name is Morgan. No. I'm going to move on from that. I love your mom so much. Vermont produces more than 1.9 million gallons of maple syrup every year which is double any other state that produces maple syrup. I can't imagine there's that many that do. I think it's more the super north eastern northeastern ones that do. All the other ones are less than a million gallons and they're like 1.9 million. That's a lot of maple syrup. So much. Next one. Virginia. Virginia. Dominion State. Its motto is Sic Semper Tyrannis or Thus Always to Tyrants. I know. What always to tyrants? Thus always. Thus always to tyrants. I don't know what thus means. I know what it means but not like in this context. Yeah. Its animal is the American foxhound. Okay. I have two little fun facts about Virginia. One, this boggled my mind. About half of the entire U.S. population lives within a 500 mile radius of Richmond, Virginia. How many? About half. What? How? New York City is only 150 miles away. I figured that probably has a lot to do with it. And just the east coast has a lot of people. According to this website, about half of the entire U.S. population lives within the 500 mile radius of Richmond, Virginia. And, eight U.S. presidents were born in Virginia. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, and Wilson. Huh. All right. That's Virginia. Cool. Washington. It is known as the evergreen state. Its slogan is alky or by and by. Just by and by. They're just vibing out there. The animal is the Olympic marmot and the orca or the killer whale. I think marmots are cute. They're like little weasels, I think. They're cute. I want to look it up real quick. I saw the ring tail pulled up. It's so cute. Me, too. Oh, yeah. They look like a prairie dog. Oh, cute. Cutie. They do look like prairie dogs. Washington operates the largest ferry fleet in the United States. Ferries as in boats that move people. I had to make sure they didn't mean like the say. The fleet of Oh, no. Now I think about all the like acatar, the cord of thorns and roses and all those like fantasy romance, the fleet of the fey. Okay, so the fleet of 21 ferries serves residents and visitors of the Puget Sound. Okay. San Juan Islands. 21 ferries. Neat. Okay, on to the next. Next is West Virginia. Mountain mama. Take me home. Country road. It is the mountain state. Of course. Its motto is Montani Semper Liberi or mountaineers are always free. Of course. I can get behind. Yeah, I can get behind that. Its animal is the black bear. And the first women only federal prison was opened in West Virginia in 1926. Wow. And that was everything else is about like mountains and coal mines and trees. Mix in there with an impact gun. If y'all hear anything wonky in the background, it's because I'm in the basement today. I've officially come out of the closet in a podcast capacity. I'm in the basement now and my husband is working on something. So if I can't edit that out, sorry. Wisconsin. Wisconsin. That's where I have family living. Really? Like some of my mom's family, like cousins and aunts and stuff. Nick's mom and dad used to live there for a while when we first started dating. Yeah. In Sheboygan. But it's known as the badger state. Its slogan is forward. Just forward. Going that way. Not that way. Not backwards. Oh, it also has a state that matches. The animal is the badger. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They've been doing some weird stuff up there. So Wisconsin has a state cow chip throw festival. They throw cow shit. These people were just touching it with their bare hands. And they were dry. It smelled like old cow chips. Oh, like discuses, but it's cow patties. Yes. I straight up thought they were some weird rock and I was like, oh, no. Dry cow shit. Wisconsin, why? I don't know. Look. Don't be touching the cheese and the cow with the same hand. No, don't do that. No, no. Okay. Next is Wyoming. Wyoming. The equality state. Okay. Its motto, equal rights. Nice. Its animal is the buffalo. And I have two little fun facts about Wyoming. One, it was the first state to get, well, it was a territory at the time, but it was the first to give women the right to vote. Good for them. And two, the Wyoming license plate has a bucking bronco on it. Its name is Old Steamboat. And it was an unbreakable horse that could not be ridden. Old Steamboat. Who named that horse? I love it. Cool, cool. Okay. On to, we are done with the official 50, but we're going to do two honorable mentions. I'm going to start off with Washington, D.C. Its nickname is The District. For y'all who are not in America, Washington, D.C. is basically a territory kind of within Virginia. It's like Virginia and Maryland. And Maryland area, yeah. It's kind of its own thing. But its nickname is The District. It is a district of Columbia, is what D.C. stands for. Its slogan is Justitia Omnibus, meaning justice for all. And the animal is the big brown bat. I love that. Big brown bat. And Washington, D.C.'s statehood is prohibited by the Constitution. Article 1 of the United States Constitution empowered Congress to establish a federal capital district, quote, not exceeding 10 miles square, where it should, quote, exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever. So basically this is just neutral ground for them to figure things out. But the people writing said Constitution didn't really anticipate the district's population growing. And since it's not considered a state, the people that live in the D.C. area don't have Congress representation. And the statehood was almost granted in 1979, but not enough states ratified it. All right. My last honorable mention is Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico. Its nickname is La Isla del Encanto, or the Island of Enchantment. Its motto is Joannes es Nomen Iuis. I hope I did that right. It's Latin for John is his name. And when I was, I saw this on, I think, like, Wikipedia, there was a few Johns that were referenced. I don't know which John it's referring to. John the Baptist was referenced. A couple other Johns. So John is his name is the slogan of Puerto Rico. Its animal is the coqui, which is a little frog. Cute. And it's called the coqui because that's the sound it makes. Coqui. Aww. I know. And like Washington, D.C., it is not a U.S. state. It is a U.S. territory. Citizens can travel back and forth between the two without the need for passports. It has its own government and its own Senate and House of Representatives. They do not vote in U.S. elections. Instead, they elect a resident commissioner who participates in U.S. Congress and speaks on behalf of Puerto Rico. Cool. So it sounds like they have more involvement than even Washington, D.C. does. They don't have a voice in what kind of U.S. policies are instilled onto them as far as voting does. But they have someone who can speak on their behalf. Who can be in Senate committees or Congress committees and stuff like that. But it sounds like D.C. doesn't even have that kind of representation. Question. If someone moves here from Puerto Rico, I guess they could just start voting without needing anything special. They would just have to set up a permanent address. I guess. That's what I'm saying. Something very minimum that says they live in this area now. Yeah. Because they're still U.S. citizens. Yeah. Cool. So they don't need to file for immigration or anything. They can just move here if they want to. I assume. I have no idea. I've never looked at the process of moving to and from Puerto Rico. I just know you can go there without a passport. Yeah. That makes sense. That you would just be able to just go plop on over here. Start voting. Cool. Well, this was fun. So we did a little bit over 50, but D.C. and Puerto Rico are still part of us. Yeah. So hey, if you liked this and you want us to do some more, let us know. Comment. If you have any ideas for what we can do for our 100th episode, please let us know, because I currently have no idea, and I'm already panicking about it. Don't panic. That'll be next year. Next year's panic. So we've got 50 more to go. I know. Still, though. Yeah, still. But what are we going to do? I know. And I guess we should do our socials. Yeah. How long have we been doing this? An hour and a half, not too bad. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So you can find us on Facebook. IllEquippedHistory podcast group and page. Instagram. At IllEquippedHistory. Gmail. IllEquippedHistory at gmail.com. The spaces are dashes. Please send us your comments. Go ahead. TikTok. TikTok. At IllEquippedHistory. I need to check out the one that Emily just released today, which will be weeks ago for you guys. Yeah. It was the creepy thing that I sent you earlier. Oh. Yeah. And last but not least, Patreon. Patreon.com slash IllEquippedHistory where you can check out bonus episodes for $5 a month every month. We're actually about to record April. Woo! I can't believe we're already recording April. We started in October. I know. We need to start thinking about what we're doing for this next October. Yeah. So we can plan ahead. We have decided, y'all. Spoiler. We're going to go do something spooky again. It's so much fun. And there's so many spooky things to do. Just everywhere. So, yeah. We're going to go start planning that. We're going to do that. So, I guess we should let these people go. Yeah, let's let them go. Thanks for tuning in. Yeah, if you are in a state, or if you're doing a state slogan, don't do drugs before you do it. That's good advice. That's very good advice. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I don't have any follow-up to that. Cool. Okay, bye! Bye!