"There are too many states in America! We need to get rid of ten!!" with Hari Kondabolu
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What does the podcast discuss about the number of states in America?
What's up, everyone? I'm here with Hari Kondabolu, comedian you may know who joined us on Subway Takes a couple of months ago, maybe a couple weeks ago, whose take was very, very, very, very, very, very popular. I call it a triple-decker, which means it hit over a million on Instagram, on TikTok, and on YouTube Shorts. That rarely happens. I'd say it happens once every... hundred episodes we get a triple decker so he's he's a very very limited club of people his take his take was that there are too many states in america we need to get we need to cut 10 what the hell is up harry how are you i'm good man is that right i'm a triple decker you're a triple decker it never ever literally i i think you're probably one in three total so what's your take too many states in america we need to cut 10 oh
100% agree. All right, we start out with Dakota. We don't need two Dakotas. South and North Dakota are one Dakota now. And still, that's me being nice.
Okay.
That's still barely a state, but fine. One Carolina.
One Virginia. Okay.
Three gone right there. Number four, Rhode Island. It's a vestigial organ off of Massachusetts. You're going to cut it off? It has to go back to Massachusetts. Oh, it's being absorbed. Yep. Alabama, Mississippi, one state.
You can't combine those two. Why not? Because they're two distinct places. Since what? I'm afraid to go to either of them. Bill Clinton's from Alabama. No, he's from Arkansas. Same thing. So we've taken out five. Five. Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, one state. Okay, that's six.
Vermont, New Hampshire, one state. I don't know why they're two states. It's one piece of land. We're not in a Hispaniola situation. Okay, one state. Washington and Oregon, one state. Okay, one state. Okay, this gets a little tricky now. We sell Alaska to Canada. in exchange for British Columbia, which expands the Northwest, right? And then we get a little bit of Ontario that has Toronto in it. So we're conquering all of a sudden? We're not conquering, we're trading. It's Drake for oil. Now we're up to 41 states. We still got one more to go. Which one? We let Hawaii choose whether it wants to be independent or not.
They're going to say we want to be independent.
If they choose to stay in the union, then we make Connecticut a highway.
Connecticut's beautiful. Yeah, it's great in the car when you're driving through.
Wow.
Yeah. Cool. Did you know? Did you know that that was going to happen?
Oh, that it was going to go that viral? No. I don't assume anything I'm going to do is going to be successful. It was a nice surprise.
Yeah, I knew it was going to do well. I knew when we were doing it that it was going to do well.
It felt good.
It felt really good. It was exactly what a great subway take needs to be, which is smart but dumb.
Yeah.
and completely digestible in the initial take. No further explanation needed. You get 100% agree or 100% disagree off the bat.
Yeah, I think if that's your goal, it definitely had that. And also, it was so compelling, a random stranger decided to jump into the video not thinking it was a video, which is just, that's an unexpected home run right there. Who would have thought that would have happened?
Well, not only did he join to... Or actually, not only did he interrupt, he actually hopped in with some additional context and advice. Like, the guy was eagerly listening to our conversation for... whatever 15 minutes and then was like you know what i gotta say something i gotta say something smart actually because didn't he so he started talking about the senate yeah he's talking about how you gotta change the number of senators then if you're gonna have less states and maybe three which i didn't quite understand but i said oh yeah
I was more surprised that, I mean, first of all, when he said, why are you talking into your MetroCards? It was very bizarre. Like these two weirdos are talking into their MetroCards and you decided to interrupt two weirdos talking into their MetroCards. He had no idea it was being recorded, but.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What does the podcast discuss about the number of states in America?
0:23–15:50
2
Why do we not need two Dakotas?
15:50–18:04
3
What happens to Rhode Island in the state reduction proposal?
18:04–23:19
4
How do they propose to handle Alaska and Hawaii?
23:19–33:37
5
What does the term 'America's dick' refer to?
33:37–36:28
6
Why is Florida compared to a colonial mindset?
36:28–1:03:42
Speakers
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