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Fun fact: in the state of Idaho all the 69 and 420 mile marker road signs were replaced with 68.9 and 419.9 respectively. This was not because the state government found them inappropriate or taboo but because people kept stealing them.
Same thing has happened down in Wilmington, NC. There’s a mile 420 sign on I-40 not even 10 minutes from a big college campus. You can imagine how often it had to get replaced.
New Hampshirite here - The Granite State is the nickname, Live Free or Die is the slogan. Also, we've got several welcome signs, and some of them do have the slogan and a little more style. Not sure I've seen the one in the video, but it's probably the worst of all the current ones.
Fun fact about Utah: Each Welcome To Utah sign has a different background depending on which part of the state you enter in. They show the nearest "cool" thing haha
Despite being full of Mormons and other weirdos, y’all have some *_beautiful_* natural parks and stuff. Like you know damn well Arizona’s probably got it under some sort of NDA so that they can keep their tourists. Otherwise, all of them would visit Utah instead lol.
fun fact about the wyoming sign: that's the old one (but the new one is just as fun in my opinion). when they were replaced, a bunch of the old ones were auctioned off for like $35,000 or something like that and all the money was put into the road improvement fund. also the bucking horse's name is Steamboat :) as someone from wyoming, I sat through this whole video expecting a short and sweet "fuck you" and I was not expecting that much of a fanfare for our state sign. I am delighted
@@thelonepilot8495 Ah a fellow oregonian. Want to winge about how technically idaho and washington were oregon territories when realizing that washington is basically just us but with a more memorable big city?
I love how every time someone is ranking states and they get to Utah they're like "beautiful state, beautiful art, beautiful highway signs, beautiful name, beautiful welcome sign, beautiful people, 10/10... still would not want to be caught dead in this state"
As a former Utahn and former Mormon, I fled the state as fast as I could and the thought of going back gives me literal PTSD nightmares… but man did I feel absolute pride in the welcome sign’s rating. Utah is gorgeous without the religion.
This man has the ability to take the most random of subjects and turn them into the most entertaining topics on the planet. Edit: insert “wHy iS tHiS cOmMeNt aT (X) mAnY LiKeS lOlOlolL” remark here also anyone gonna mention that added “now get out” to all of the welcome signs in the thumbnail 💀
i'm convinced he can make anything entertaining. hugbees please do a parody of *cue hugbees trademark embellishing tone:* AN ENTIRE FUCKING COLLEDGE MATH COURSE
Now here i was thinking "theres no fucking way the Alaska highway is actually in Alaska! It must be in Wyoming" but that sign changed my worldview for the rest of time. Thank you Alaskan state sign.
Alaska does have two highways and two welcome signs: one on the Alaska Highway, and the other on the Top of the World Highway. If you enter Alaska by the Top of the World, you're probably very lost.
As an Oregonian, you are so right who the heck decided to make a poop colored sign in the shape of Oregon and put it on a stone shaped boarder that blends with the sign!! It literally does look like someone smeard their diarrhea over a stack of rocks and put fridge magnet letters to spell out Oregon on it!! God, what is wrong with my state.
Mmmhmmm I ask the same question actually they have a newer sighn now and some of its older sighns actually used to say Georgia - Host of the 1996 Olympic Games until around late 2015
As a Minnesotan, I can confirm that the glorious splendor of our exceptionally well-designed state welcome sign is the only thing that keeps me warm as I trudge through seven feet of snow to get from my living room to my kitchen, where I promptly get attacked by the local pack of roaming wolves. As I wait for the reindeer-drawn ambulance sled to arrive, I dream of the day when I may have the honor of being crushed to death by the 18-ton stone monolith that we are proud to call our state welcome sign. Once the ambulance sled arrives, I am informed that the nearest hospital is 20 miles down the river. Rather than paying the $72,500 ambulance fee, I opt to instead stuff myself into a barrel and float downstream. It's been about nine hours now, and I'm fairly certain I've overshot the hospital and contracted sepsis from the heavily contaminated river water entering my wounds. I'd leave the barrel if I could, but my legs have been frozen in a large block of ice. I fear that the DNR will find me, and have me publicly executed for operating an unlicensed barrel. Even worse, I may never see our positively breathtaking state welcome sign ever again. At least I won't have to pay off my mortgage.
As a Minnesotan, I too love the great and glorious grandeur of our welcome sign. It, alongside our 31 ft tall statue of a logger and his Agyria riddled Ox form the center of our culture. Every year we make the harrowing journey through snow higher than our heads to visit these monuments of the ancients, every step hounded by the wild deer who hunt us every waking hour of every day. I cannot recall when last I saw home, but I care not, for I stand before our state welcome sign.
It's even funnier when Virginia is named after Queen Elizabeth I, on account of calling her a virgin. Saying the state is "for lovers" is just kind of weird...
As a resident of Minnesota, I feel great that you have complimented our sign. I dislike it when states and towns make their signs look corporate instead of getting the actual feel of the place.
Fun fact: Before the death of Princess Diana, Indiana's welcome sign used to include the cheerful synchronization of word play and structural design mentioned by Andrew. However post-mortem, the queen herself requested the state to change their welcome sign as to not allude to the idea visitors were entering the now deceased princess.
As a Michigander, one of my favorite things about entering the state northbound on 75 (other than no longer being in Ohio) is that literally the INSTANT you pass below the “Pure Michigan” billboard spread across the highway, the road turns to absolute unadulterated g a r b a g e. You could close your eyes, not even see the sign, and know without a shadow of a doubt the exact second you entered the state based solely the road suddenly feeling like a proverbial father gone to the corner store for milk, I.e. absent.
As a Texan, I busted my ass laughing as well when I saw our sign. I was expecting maybe something like the classic Don’t Mess With Texas slogan or something but no, they had to choose literally the WORST aspect about this state and then blatantly lie. Or maybe it’s actually reverse psychology, basically saying “Hey outsider! You best drive safe here for your own sake, cause we sure as hell won’t!”
One of my parents' biggest takeaways from living in Texas literally was the insane driving. They haven't been there in over 30 years and it's still embedded.
Thank you for recognizing the superiority of the Minnesotan sign over all signs! I've always taken pride in how our sign has more effort than we'll ever put into maintaining our state.
I'm a Utah based trucker and love your state. Well, except in the winter. Spent a week in Rawlins with a faulty truck heater last January due to a pileup on Elk Mountain. I wasn't the biggest fan in that moment, I'll be honest
@@SmoothTurtle840 It isn't just the motto for Kansas, it's just a random Latin phrase. I know because it was the motto for one of the high schools I went to, and I'm in Australia lmao
As a Kentucky resident, the horse design is cool and all, until you realize that every business in Kentucky has a horse as their logo. There is even a TRAIN Themed restaurant in my town that uses a freaking HORSE as its logo.
@@Ongbruh It could varry depending on where you live, and I’m not just referring to the logo, but rather how often horse imagery is found around the state. The Bluegrass area in particular seems to be the worst about this.
as a wyoming resident, I can say that I am proud we have something good in our state. Even if it is just a metal sign with a couple of bullet holes in it.
You’re telling me that the national anthem of the United States isn’t just a brain trick that plays whenever I gaze upon such magnificance as the Wyoming welcome sign?
As someone from Jersey, I appreciate the naked contempt for effort of our old sign. You could practically feel the entire population telling you to fuck right off
"Whoever has made this sign was probably high and whoever complained about it was probably too high to care." As an individual who lives in Colorado I couldn't agree more. Personally I don't smoke or eat edibles (or take any drugs outside of prescription) but I truly don't give a shit about our state's welcome signs despite how funnily ironic they are. If I could change the signs then instead of an actual sign I would put replicas of our demonic blue horse statue (glowing red eyes included) in their place and have them freak out every person who comes across them just like the real one freaks out every individual in our airport.
I don't believe in any conspiracy theories, but the 2 that I find the most believable are the Titanic/Olympic theory and that your guys' airport is hiding something. seriously, that horse 100% comes to life and kills people at night.
@@DeathDealer_1021 Fun fact about the statue is that it actually killed it's creator before it was finished and placed in it's current spot when the head of it fell onto the poor sculptor while he was working on the piece.
@@llmkursk8254 As entertaining as that would be I know for sure the government here wouldn't care enough to do it, plus this state is already expensive to live in and I'm afraid that adding in the statues now would cause inflation to sky rocket just for making them alone.
@Ugandan knuckles we got Muhammad Ali, Lincoln, one of the few places to be called a horse capital of the world plus the derby, and the world's longest cave system, that’s still only like 4 to 5 things, and even then we still just get called a bunch of hillbillies
I live in Rhode Island, so I find the incongruity of our state being referred to as "The Ocean State" somewhat overwhelming. I mean, during any given week in an average Rhode Island summer, at least one out of every three state-run beaches are closed to swimming due to either water pollution levels or fecal coliform bacteria levels.
I too am from Illinois and go up to Wisconsin once or twice a year. I've noticed that Wisconsin sign more than the Illinois sign when driving back home.
As a South Carolinian, I’m disappointed that there’s nothing on our sign about the fact that we owe our whole identity to Palmetto trees being relatively good at deflecting late 18th century gunfire.
Y’alls entire identity consists equal parts of abusing some looney tunes ass physics with your trees and Myrtle Beach, which can barely be considered part of the state with how much it’s desperately trying to cross the border to NC.
I drive across the Nevada - Utah border more than I'd ever like to and i just want to say: Nevada has a "thanks for visiting ✨️Nevada✨️" sign that is better than the welcome sign
What's even worse is that they don't correctly crop out some of the state signs, leaving the border with the corner with sharp corner instead of the curved intended sign
@@chipbowdrie171 make it the most garish, ugly, obtrusive sticker possible. Make people _REALLY_ not want to visit. You and I can be on the same team here
Because Wyoming actually is kinda a cool state. It just isn’t very populous (which makes it even better in my book). They have stuff to do but it’s basically all outdoors stuff or history stuff. So if those aren’t your thing you probably aren’t interested.
Wyoming’s state sign is the most beautiful thing I ever seen I could literally stare at that thing for 10 minutes straight it just looks amazing Ggs Wyoming congrats on the best sign ever
It was really funny how you dissected Mississippi for all it's flaws as a state, but did you really have to completely eviscerate Louisiana like that by simply saying "Pfft, French"? We in Louisiana will surely never recover from this
That isn't even the only Indiana welcome sign. Normally the sign I see coming from IL or MI is "Crossroads of America" - admitting that nobody really wants to live in Indiana, they just pass through it going to better states.
I too agree, having lived here my whole life, Indiana is not worth moving too. Driving through it, from one end to the other, is like: Beans, town, corn, town, beans, mediocre city, corn, town, beans, town, corn.
@@daroachdoggjr5799 We're called Hoosiers. It is spelled "concur". Please go tie two barrels together, hop in the river, and float down to Mississippi where you'll fit right in.
@@SiriusSphynx You forgot Gary, Indiana and for some reason you see either a fire works shop or adult videos shop followed by a road sign for a church when you're not taking the major highways.
I've been living in WI for at least 99% of my life and can confirm that "open for business" fits the state a bit too well, considering many businesses worship the private business law as if it's a bill of rights amendment more vital than freedom of speech and right to bear arms while consumers can do nothing about it but get paved on by these businesses edit: I did not at all expect this to blow up! the support from yall is music to my self esteem! thank you fellow, like-minded and cultured intellectuals! ^^
@@monkeydoespride that's very true too, it's like flipping a coin almost, some employers will treat you like the scum of the earth and others you could shoot up a school and they still wouldn't fire you
As a Utahn, I'll gladly take second place. Seeing as how the mountains are the only beautiful sight in this state, it's a good thing they chose to spruce up the sign with them.
Utah is a great state....if you really like outdoor stuff. There are some very beautiful landscapes for sure, it's a good thing that's what they decide to focus on in advertisement.
Bold move of YOU to think "Andrew" wasn't a construct of your mind created to block out your memory of the car crash on the Alaskan highway. Wake up, John.
As someone born and raised in Tennessee I didn’t even know welcome signs could be decorative or designed. I mean I’ve been to other state but I’ve never really paid attention to the signs
@Gamer 😐 I bet your the same sorta person to go “TheY Are rEScrItIng oUr FreEedOm!” When someone says you probably should own a firearm capable of mowing down hundreds of people
I've always been amused by the custody battle of Lincoln between Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana. I suggest each state has to offer up signs sharing their relation with Lincoln.
1:27 the saddest thing is that half the people in Arkansas don't know what a seatbelt is, and the other half think putting one on will send you straight to hell.
As a maryland native i am beyond offended at the insult to our state flag, which we legitimately worship and hang next to the american flag outside of our schools
Embrace the visual trainwreck that is the Calvert & Crossland. Cherish it, as all good Marylanders must. Rejoice in its unique design and be forever grateful that it's not a state seal on a blue bedsheet, like 20+ other states' flags.
North Carolina may be the nation's most "military-friendly" state, but their state insurance still doesn't accept treatment for psychiatric conditions in soldiers or veterans caused by doing their jobs in battle.
I appreciate the diversity of style and quality. If every state had an epic sign it’d feel cliché. We can the Minnesota sign because there’s signs like North Carolina’s.
I audibly cried out loud listening to you roast the Maryland flag lmaooo. I've never heard such an opposite opinion of the design compared to how us locals treat it.
It is the worst flag in the world (I literally have studied flags for over a year) and it is the WORST flag, Barcelona, Spain does the same thing but isn’t AS BAD AS THIS HEADACHE
Maryland is proud of it because it’s the only state that actually put effort into their state flag design. Better to be proud of a flag than be proud of your general bad attitude *cough* New Jersey *cough*
To quote my friend "Indiana is so flat, you can see the Welcome and Now Leaving signs at the same time". She roasted my home state and I couldn't have been prouder of her lol
@@beyondobscure literally the entire earth is flatter than a pancake, as proven by scientists. The highest point and lowest point are just a few miles apart, which when put to the scale of a pancakes highest and lowest points, the earth is technically flatter than a pancake. As said by Neil Degrass Tyson, the earth would feel as smooth as a cue ball to a celestial giant
Former New Mexican here. Land of Enchiladas is totally accurate. The red and green chiles on that sign is for their signature state question: “Red or Green?” With the state answer being “Christmas” which is putting both red and green chile on said enchiladas.
Yeah I'm from New Mex too, I live in Atlanta currently. Nobody understands our love of chili's... "You mean jalapenos?" is what I get all the time. I have my brother send me some fresh hatch green chilis pretty regularly and when I share them with people they get it. Most don't realize peppers can have flavor, around here we just have tasteless jalapenos or serranos.
@@Scarethelocals Do you also have your heart broken a bit when you see “chile/salsa verde” because you know it’s tomatillo-based and not actual hatch green chile?
@@TestHandlePleaseIgnore Definitely! That and "w/ chili" or "add chili" means something completely different.. you're getting tasteless beans and meat instead of Chile/salsa. I bet all your friends or coworkers also have a Mexican place that's "authentic" that you have to try! And it never is lol
19:12 as a texan, i can confirm that is the lamest shit they could have put on the sign. "drive friendly?" bro nobody drive friendly for shit just put the lone star state like fr
@@KamyOwO Northern Mainers on tar roads. Seriously, there isn't traffic on the interstates here, people will stop and wave you on at intersections, people will swap to the left lane so it's nice and easy to merge onto the interstate, and people dont honk unless you really fuck up. The worst people do is speed a bit but the interstate speed limit is 75 up here. Most people are only doin 80-85. Get us out on the dirt roads with a case of bud light and a few buddies tho and you better hold the *fuck* on and roll up the windows. Get south of Bangor and everyone drives like they're in Massachusetts, so it balances out.
Ya. We got the most agro druvers. He'll Houston was voted worst in the country. Of all the cool slogans we have in and about texas... we went with the big lie xp
As an Illinoisan, we really have made Abraham Lincoln our whole personality. My little town has signs and statues dedicated to him in multiple places, and he only visited my area for a couple days during his presidential campaign. Hell, I was even in a play where I played one of his exes. Illinoisans really do have *such* a hard-on for Lincoln.
@@soap9277 No, thankfully not. 😅 I basically gave a ton of biographical exposition about my character and her time with Lincoln, and which didn't amount to very much in romantic terms. I also didn't actually interact with the guy, for some reason. It's nowhere near as bad as that sounded, I can assure you. Your idea would have probably been more interesting to watch. 🤣 ETA: I love your word choice. Very illustrative, and an absolute joy to read. 😂
@@jayschafer1760 It appears as though there are a lot of other places where similar coins are used, but they are inferior to the higher value coins we have. I also think there would be more than just Illinois in the fight to keep Lincoln on the penny. As much as we love him here in Illinois, he's a national icon, and many Americans look up to him. Lots of people love Lincoln, but you are right about one thing. *NOBODY* loves Lincoln more than the collective state of Illinois.
@@o3o930 I'll be honest, you're giving me too much credit. It was 1 AM when I saw your comment, and I misread "exes" as "axes." Edit: I still would've preferred to watch Lincoln's ex headbutt his political opponents over having her give the audience an exposition dump.
You roast the state flag of Maryland but I can tell you as a marylander our state is probably more obsessed with our state flag than any other state The amount of "Maryland" themed gift shops we have here with our flag PLASTERED over everything is absolutely absurd. You cannot go a single day in Maryland without seeing somebody wearing something that has our state flag on it
Maryland's flag is so iconic that the entirety of Northern Virginia is also bombarded with that flag. I see cars with Virginia plates and crab bumper stickers with the MD flag. I'm willing to bet NOVA is going to be a colony of MD by 2150.
I thought we Texans replaced that damned sign.... I distinctly recall literal giant stone Texas shapes inside stone rings.... though that might be on either side of the border rest stop slash welcome center and not actually at the state line
90% sure that the picture in the wyoming sign was taken in colorado, which makes sense because wyoming loves to cosplay our landscape and pretend like they arent a big flat mad max wasteland
Utah and Wyoming may have beat Minnesota in the sign rankings, but let it be known that Minnesota was the only state not to get roasted, and that’s worth something lol Side note, if you go up the shore of lake superior in Minnesota, right before you get to two harbors, there is a giant lumberjack statue who’s eyes glow red at night.
0:00 Sweet Home - Alabama 0:24 Alaska - Highway, 49th state 1:09 Arizona - The Grand Canyon 1:26 Arkansas - The Natural State 2:00 California - Welcome To 2:35 Colorado - We Are High 2:51 Conneticut - 0/10 3:18 Delaware - How did I get here? 3:20 Florida - Alligators, Crime, and Hurricanes. Publix 4:00 Georgia 4:10 Hawaii 4:38 Idaho 5:24 Illinois - lied 6:02 Indiana - So close to greatness 6:45 Corn Typo - Iowa 6:55 Kansas 7:16 Kentucky - W 7:34 Louisiana - French 7:36 Maine - Dull Uninspired 7:56 MARYLAND 8:53 Massachusetts - Boring 9:18 Michigan - G 9:52 Minnesota Masterpiece 10:10 Mississippi roasted 11:08 Missouri - Plagiarism 11:38 Montana - (beer label) 12:00 Nebraska - Arbor Day is NOT JUST FOR YOU 12:36 Nevada - LAME 13:03 New Hampshire - Basic AF 13:28 New Jersey - LOL LOL LOL 14:11 JK 14:23 New Mexico - Land of Enchiladas 14:46 New York - Do it once, don't improve it 15:18 North Carolina - Military Friendly 15:44 North Dakota - Concerts 16:08 Ohio - IHOPOH 16:23 Oklahoma - Excellence 16:40 Pennsylvania 17:18 Rhode Island 17:41 South Carolina and South Dakota - Smiling Faces and Mt Rushmore 18:37 Volunteer State - Times New Roman Ripoff 19:11 Texas - funniest joke of all 19:34 UTAH IS AMAZING 20:02 Vermont - Green Mountains, average 20:24 Virginia - Lovers 20:48 Washington 21:10 West Virginia - Average 21:55 Wyoming - a joke in Huggbees eyes 22:41 EPIC FIX BEAUTY
Michigan's sign was so well made Hugsbee had to use the specific detroit highway entrance one. All other Michigan welcome signs don't have that on it. But much like the state, no one remembers the rest of the state exists outside of detroit
Michigan really deserved two shots here considering it's divided in half by a lake, and the cultures of the two peninsulas differ GREATLY (and y'know, have their own welcome signs)
6:54 As an Iowan... I gotta say, you're absolutely correct. Something like half the state is just corn. Or corn. Or soybeans. Or corn. Aside from a few largeish cities, nearly everything here is either farmland, a rural area, farmland, a national park, farmland, or farmland.
As a Louisiana native, the Louisiana welcome sign gets a pass from me for being the reassuring symbol telling me I'm no longer trapped in Texas or Mississippi. It may be French, but it's not Texas.
6:53 As an Iowan, I can confirm. The only appeal this state has is to farmers… can anyone, and I mean anyone, even if you don’t live in the US, try to give me another community Iowa appeals to. I beg of you. Please!
nobody uses their turn signal, everyone honks, and nobody. goes. the goddamn. speed limit. i hate living here for so many reasons, but i have a specific pettiness about driving here
Marylanders will fight you over our flag. We put that shit on EVERYTHING. Idk where we get this strange sense of flag-pride, but it is VERY common to see people with tattoos that include the Maryland flag or its colors lmao
