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This week, we take a look at the happiest states in the good ol’ USA. What makes for a happy state? Who’s the happiest? Who’s the unhappiest? Also, we look at some famous people who hail from these happy places.
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This week, it's the happiest states. Welcome to Subpar Talks. Hey everybody. Welcome to Subpar Talks, where we have conversations about everything. I'm Jeff.
Chris:And I'm Chris.
Jeff:Thank you so much for joining us for another episode here. And you know what's coming, our standard disclaimer, listener discretion advised. There will, will be, god dammit, there will be profanity from time to time, perhaps a lot of it. And we will touch on some mature subject matter, and we will inject our humor into all of this stuff. And if that doesn't set well with you, that's OK, but for the rest of you, here we go with this week's topics. So back in episode 11, we talked about the happiest countries and then that made me wonder, hey, is there any study that's been done on the happiest states? And sure enough there is. This information is from our friends at wallethub.com, and I'll just read a little bit of what they have and then we'll get into these states. Uh, we'll do the top 10 happiest states and we'll do the bottom. I won't go into a lot of detail about the bottom, the least happy states, but it'll be kind of fun to poke fun at them. OK, so. In this study, wallet hub drew upon the findings of happiness research to determine which environmental factors are linked to a person's overall wellbeing and satisfaction with life. Previous studies have found that good economic, emotional, physical, and social health are all key to a well-balanced and fulfilled life. To determine where Americans exhibit the best combination of these factors, we examine the 50 states across 30 key metrics ranging from the depression rate and the share of adults feeling productive to income growth and the unemployment rate. So this is based on 30 different criteria. And so we'll just start off with number 10 and then work our way up to number one. Does that sound good? Let's go. And I tell you what, so with all these states, well, lemme say it this way. No state gets shit on more than Texas does with stereotypes. Would you agree with that That's gotta be about right. Yeah. People think we, uh, all ride horses and listen to country music and wear cowboy boots and are stupid We do have a lot of stupid people here, so there might be some truth to that one. You might not argue with that Yeah. Right, right. I like, so I do like whenever people, whenever I talk to people that are in other areas of the country too and stereotypes come out. I do like to defend Dallas though. Yeah. And, and I, I, I wonder how different Dallas was, say, back in the, I, I don't know, up until maybe the seventies or eighties, but I definitely know since then it has just increased in his, in its, uh, Cosmopolitan nest. Yeah, yeah. You know, stature kind of, and, and I think a lot of that's due to so many places, relo. So, so many companies relocating here, which brought people from all around the country. Yeah. A lot of the other parts of Texas may be more native Texans, whereas Dallas has really brought in people from everywhere. I remember, uh, a quote from Dan Rather, so he's from Houston, and he said to become bigger and better. Dallas always looked to the east and Houston always looked to the west, and they are two very, very different places. I would say Houston is more of what, I mean Houston is a cosmopolitan area, obviously, but it's more in line with what people think of Texas. Kind of like Fort Worth is. Dallas and Fort Worth are separated by 30 miles, but they are worlds apart. Very
Chris:different. That's a good point. I, I would say Houston is more similar. And you know what, part of that is because Houston is so entrenched in oil and gas. True. Yeah. And Fort Worth obviously has that in its history too. That's an interesting way to put it, because Dallas has gone so much more toward financial technology, things like that. And yeah, that's definitely more, more Eastern. I mean obviously you got Silicon Valley, but
Jeff:Right. OK. So I figured this is an opportunity to give some stereotypes about these states. So we'll get into this. Number 10, the 10th happiest state in the country is Connecticut. Have you ever been to Connecticut? I've been through there.
Chris:I can't really tell you anything about it. And it was long, long ago.
Jeff:I've never been there. I tend to think of Connecticut. I know it's not this way, but I tend to think of the whole state as a suburb of New York City, cuz I know so many people commute from Connecticut, rich people, Yeah. I think of that too. So there you go. That's the stereotype I have. It's just a bunch of rich white people who, you know, like Greenwich, I, I know about Greenwich, Connecticut, like it's one of the most expensive places in the country and Yeah.
Chris:Yeah. Stanford. Yeah. Stanford's on that path. Not too far out. There are people that will commute in from there. Right. I guess. Um, as much as it costs to live there, it's out of their price range or don't want to live in Manhattan. Yeah,
Jeff:true. 3.6 million people in Connecticut. That's good enough to rank at 29th in the country. Famous people from uh, Connecticut. The Bushes are from Connecticut, so h w and George W OK. George w was raised, he was raised in Texas, but he was born in Connecticut. Yeah. But then, wasn't there, wasn't
Chris:there a time where George h w said
Jeff:he was from Texas? Yeah. He always tried to claim Texas for votes. Uh, yeah. But he was Connecticut through and through and remember Kennebunkport? That was like the Bush place in Maine. Yeah. Like they're, you know, I mean, they were well off and they're one of those families who would use summer as a verb. We're gonna summer in, we're gonna summer in Maine, in Kennebunkport, but yeah, they're from Connecticut. Texas. I just like to summer inside right? Yes. I'm gonna summer in front of my air conditioner. Yeah. Who else? Oh, Norman Leer. So you know who that is? Oh, really? Eastern Connecticut. Yeah. So,
Chris:you know, he just had his hundredth birthday. Oh, he's
Jeff:a hundred. I was gonna say he's 90 something, but he's a hundred and he's still kicking. Yeah. Wow. Still kicking. So he did what all he do, he did it all in the family. The Jeffersons Good times. Um, good times. I think Sanford and Sun. Yes. And I'm sure I'm missing quite a few. One day at a time. Oh, wow. Yeah. OK. Yeah. Oh, Valerie Burton. Elli. Yeah.
Chris:Yeah. And we
Jeff:talked before about Mackenzie Phillips Yeah. Before we knew about her. Troubled past Yeah. And her,
Chris:her, uh, what do we want to call
Jeff:it? Understandable drug use. Yo. Yes. Yes. Warranted. Warrenton Drug There you go. Yeah. Uh, Jackie Robinson was from Connecticut. OK. Here's a Seinfeld tie in kind of Meryl Streep is from Connecticut. Oh yeah. Yeah. And uh, this recently came up, this might've been off the air, but you were trying to say Eli Lilly and you said Eli Whitney Eli
Chris:Whitney. Eli
Jeff:Whitney's from Connecticut. Eli Whitney was from Connecticut. Yes. Well, that's kind of ironic, isn't it,
Chris:that he is known for the cotton gen and
Jeff:cotton was a southern thing. I know. Go figure. And nobody knows anything about Eli Whitney other than OK. He invented the cotton gin and it was in 1793. I just remember that from school, but I don't know. Whoa. I mean, I know the cotton gin separates seeds from the, the cotton from the plant, but I don't know how or what don't know. I always think about after that was invented. You know how older generations, they always think the younger generation is softer. Right. You know, back in my day we had to whatever. Don't you imagine? The slaves were like, back in my day, we had to hand pick the seeds out of the cotton and now you got it easier.
Chris:Yeah. Yep.
Jeff:Could you live in Connecticut? I imagine I could. I think I could too.
Chris:Yeah. I mean, I, I, I honestly don't know that much about it, but I, I don't know a reason not to, I'll put it that way.
Jeff:Yeah. Well, you're close to New York City, so that's a bonus for me for sure. That's a huge thing for me. And you're gonna get good weather. I mean, it's gonna be cold, but you're gonna get seasons. And it won't be hot as fuck like it is here.
Chris:I would still not wanna live in a place like where it snows and is there for, you know, six months. But, and I don't know if that's the case there. I don't either. New England seasons, you think through even summer and fall. I think that could be really nice.
Jeff:Yeah, buddy. OK, number nine. I will say there are some states on here that surprised me and this is one of them. And number nine is Nebraska Really? Yeah. What do they have going for'em? Uh, nothing like, OK, here we go. Stereotypes, I think of flat land. Wheat. Wheat, it's very white. There's a lot of white people there. And just bland, like, I don't know, corn. There's a ton of corn. Corn, yeah. OK. But other than that, like what's going on there? I have no idea.
Chris:For some reason that's where Saul Goodman thought he was going to end up at the end of Breaking Bad and then that's where he did end up. Yeah. In better call Saul's
Jeff:Omaha. Omaha, yeah. Huh. OK. Well I know Omaha and Lincoln and I couldn't tell you any other city in Nebraska. at all. Yeah, probably about it. Nebraska has all of, uh, 2 million people in the whole goddamn state. Wow. And yeah, isn't that amazing? 2 million people in an entire state and look at big cities around the country. And it's multiple times that like, it's crazy. Crazy. Well, Manhattan alone has a million people in it. That's just. One Island Yeah. Is that all? Yeah. A million people. Yeah. Live there. That is not counting people who work there or whatever, but it's amazing that, yeah. Warren Buffet is from Nebraska. Oh yeah. And
Chris:Omaha, that's where his headquarters is. Berkshire
Jeff:Hathaway. Uh, Hillary Swank is from Nebraska. OK. I couldn't tell you the last movie I saw with her in it. No. Did you ever see Million Dollar Baby? I never saw that. No. No, I didn't see it. I know she was in that. Nick Nolte is from Nebraska and I'm, he's had some rough times. I'm laughing. Yeah, I'm laughing. That's why I'm laughing. Have you ever seen his mugshot? It's glorious. Yeah. I think I'll, I'll link that in the episode notes. It's too good not to, but Oh, it's so good. and I don't know where that was or what it was for, but doesn't he have like a Hawaiian shirt on and his hair is going about? Yeah. I don't
Chris:remember about his shirt, but his hair while I think it was a
Jeff:dwi. Well, that would make sense.
Chris:Yeah, I think that's what it was. Or what we would now say D U I, because then that could just cover a whole
Jeff:multitude of things. Yeah. Yeah. Larry, the cable guy is from Nebraska. OK.
Chris:Now that guy and I, I don't know a lot about him personally. He comes off to me as a nice guy. I, I think people really like him. I, I think he's probably a nice guy, but you can also tell, I've seen him in like other interviews that is a character. Oh,
Jeff:no doubt. On stage. Yes. Because he doesn't really sound like that. He doesn't talk like that at
Chris:all. Yeah, no. And he's obviously telling a lot of things that aren't true. They just happen to be funny. So I, I wonder what he is really like, but he comes off as a, a cool
Jeff:guy. Me. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was gonna point out. When I first saw him interviewed, I was like, oh my God, he doesn't sound anything like he does on stage. So yeah, he found his, his niche and ran with it. Sure did. Dick Cheney, big Dick Cheney OK. Is from Nebraska and El Ron Hubbard. Do you know who El Ron Hubbard is? Oh yes, I do. Church of Scientology? Yes. Started Scientology. You should watch if you haven't. And our listeners as well watch, um, I think it's called Going Clear, maybe, I can't remember. It's a documentary on the Scientology Church. I think it's on h b o max. But it was really good and eye-opening. OK. Yeah. Yeah. Could you live in Nebraska? I don't think so. I couldn't either. I, I don't think I
Chris:could handle that too much nothingness, and I really don't know about the people there, but yeah. Too much nothingness. And
Jeff:it's cold as fuck. Like I'm sure it gets hot in the summer, just cuz it's, I mean, it's a plain state, but gets cold.
Chris:Yeah, that's true. I forgot about that. Well, and then there's nothing to stop it, Right, right.
Jeff:It's like, yeah. Just keeps on. So I haven't been
Chris:in Nebraska in a long time. I've been in Kansas and specifically Wichita. Yeah, a few times over the last few years. And I tell you what, you just think about Wizard of Oz. OK. And a tornado coming across nothing. That's exactly what it's like because you get out in Wichita and that wind is strong. Yeah, absolutely. Nothing to stop it
Jeff:anywhere. Yeah. Yeah. I've been to Kansas, I've never been to Nebraska, but Kansas was just flat. Did you just see forever where I was anyway. Yeah, I know they do have trees somewhere in Kansas, but I didn't see any OK. Uh, number eight is Illinois. OK. I don't know
Chris:much about Illinois besides
Jeff:Chicago. No, I don't really either. Uh, there's a lot of people there. 13 million people in the state. Of course, like 10 million I think are in the whole Chicago area. Yeah. Um, so they ranked sixth in the country and population. Do you have any stereotypes of people in Illinois? I really don't. Other than Chicago? Like, I don't know. No, I really don't either. But again, we don't really know anything about it. And, and
Chris:even to say that I can't really think of much of a stereotype for Chicago. No. Well, for, for the people. I mean, one thing I would think about Chicago, if I really go too far, it's like the mafia.
Jeff:Yeah. See, I think of that. Yeah. Like Al Capone.
Chris:Yeah. Yeah. So you got that. But not, not really beyond that, I think of, OK. I think of cold. I mean, they're well known for. The horribly frigid winters now being there in the summer. That was a little eye-opening too, of how hot
Jeff:it felt. Yeah, it can get hot. I
Chris:didn't know it would feel that hot
Jeff:in the summer. Yeah,
Chris:it was crazy hot. But I, I liked being in the city. One thing that I, about it, and, well, this is the, the downtown area, and again, I can't speak too much for a lot of the rest of the city, but it has a New York feel to it. Yeah. And I love New York, so that's a nice kind of second right. To New
Jeff:York. Yeah. So, uh, let's see, who's from Illinois And these people might all be from Chicago. Who knows? Uh, Betty White was from Chicago. I feel like with Betty White. I didn't fully appreciate her until her final years, you know what I mean? Like, it seemed like she was all over the place, social media and all that. But I didn't. I didn't know that much about her till just the past few years.
Chris:I really didn't either. I didn't know that she had done as much as she had. Right. She, she was in a whole lot of things, and particularly, yeah. The last what, 15, 20
Jeff:years? Yeah, she did a whole lot. She's
Chris:funny. I didn't remember. I guess maybe I knew it at one time. She was on like Mary Tyler Moore. Yes. In the seventies. Yeah. I don't know if that's where she got her start, but I
Jeff:forgot that she was on that. I think she was doing stuff. I saw people posting stuff from like the fifties that she was on, fifties and sixties. I can't remember what it was, but yeah,
Chris:whenever I would think about her. Years and years ago, the first thing I would, that would come to mind is Golden Girls. Yeah. But I had forgotten that she was on Mary Tyler Moore, which really predates Golden
Jeff:Girls. Did you watch Golden Girls?
Chris:No, I couldn't do it anytime that I, any environment or whatever that I was ever in, it was coming on. It just seemed horribly depressing. I can see that, and I'll say this too, I, I do not like B Arthur. Really? Yeah. Never have liked her. Yeah. And, and the thing that I always associated her with was mod. And that came, you know, she was mod only like two episodes, I think of all in the family. Uhhuh but then got her spin off.
Jeff:Yeah. Oh, that was another Norman Leer. Norman
Chris:Leer. Yeah, he did that one too. Uhhuh Uh, but I just, I did not like B Arthur and so, You know, maybe if you could have taken her out of it, I would've felt better about the show but I just couldn't take it. I, I'm sure that there's funny stuff that I, I mean, that I would like,
Jeff:but I just couldn't do it. Yeah. I've, um, I watched it a little bit, but it, it was one of those shows I, I would watch some, but then it just kind of, it kept going and I, whatever the term is, got tired of it. Outgrew it. Well, I don't know what, but yeah, I didn't, I didn't watch it a ton. I would
Chris:imagine now that I could be wrong, but I would think that would show, could seem kind of dated now. Yeah. Even more than some other sitcoms. Maybe
Jeff:not. I don't know. Um, Robin Williams was from Illinois. Really? Yeah. Uh, I d I pretty sure he was from Chicago. Yeah. Walt Disney. Oh, I didn't know that. Well,
Chris:I didn't know any of these people, but
Jeff:I definitely didn't know that Harrison Ford is from Illinois. All
Chris:right. The, the only person that I could have known for sure was from Illinois is Abraham Lincoln.
Jeff:I think you're right. I think I would've been the same way. Like I had no idea. So, you know, he's a pilot, right? Harrison Ford.
Chris:thought you were talking about Abraham Lincoln
Jeff:Yes. Abraham Lincoln was a pilot.
Chris:The Wright Brothers didn't know what they were doing. Um, no, I didn't
Jeff:know Harrison Ford was a pilot. Yeah, he's a pilot. And this has been, oh, I don't know when this was three or four years ago. He crashed his plane on a golf course. He was OK. I mean, I think he was, he had minor injuries, but he was all right. but I remember somebody photoshopped the Millennium Falcon on a golf course. That's all cracked me up. Yeah. Uh, Richard Pryor was from Illinois. And again, I'm assuming Chicago and I know we've talked a little bit about standup comedians. We need to do more on that, but I still have not watched enough. Richard Pryor, everybody says he is great, but I gotta get on that.
Chris:I saw Silver Streak. I actually saw that in the theater. Yeah. And that was, um, what's
Jeff:his name? Gene Wilder. Yes.
Chris:Gene Wilder with Richard Pryor. That may actually be the only movie I ever saw him in. I mean, I know he did others, but I wouldn't have been allowed to see
Jeff:those. Well OK. Along those lines. So he, he and Gene Wilder did at least a few movies together. I know. And one was, I couldn't tell you when this was. It was something like, I'll have to look this up. See no evil. Hear no evil. Yes. Something like that. And I think my, I'm pretty sure, well, I wouldn't have been able to do it, but my mom rented it and I made sure and watched that because a woman took her top off That's really the only thing I remember about the movie. Yeah.
Chris:Well at that age, that's what
Jeff:it's all about. That's right. Reminds me of Seinfeld. Elaine said, men will sit through the most boring movie. If there's a chance a woman will take her top off. And George said, so what's your point, Yep. OK. Uh, Ray Crock is from Illinois. All right. I don't know if I
Chris:knew that now the founder. It's a great movie. I love that. I, I've watched it more than once over, let a little time pass and then watched it again. I, it was just, it was so good.
Jeff:It is, it's a really interesting story. And Michael Keaton is phenomenal actor, but Yeah. And man, he's a bit of an asshole, right? The real ray Crock asshole.
Chris:Yeah. So as a kid, I always just heard, oh, Ray Crock started, you know, whatever word was used, started, founded McDonald's. It wasn't until I was much older that I learned, oh, he didn't really start it. He bought this and then turned it into what it was. But it wasn't until I watched that movie that I really knew, OK, what did that mean of him buying Yeah. It and turning it into that. Holy shit man. I, I just, I felt sorry
Jeff:for those people. I did too. They got fucked over. Yeah, they did. Grabbed their ankles and then some Yeah. Cindy Crawford is from Illinois. All right. I remember a, I'll have to look this up. Maybe I'll post this in the episode notes. It was a Pepsi commercial. I'm pretty sure it ran during the Super Bowl. Mm-hmm. and young me at whatever I was. 13, 14, 15. That was all right. Did you sit and watch for
Chris:sit and watch the commercials? I'd
Jeff:say yes. Yes. And hoping it would come on again. Yeah. Yeah. And then, uh, last but not least, the pride of Illinois. John Wayne. Gacy. Oh, So there you go. Besides Abraham Lincoln, of course, right there. I guess we'll put John Wayne Gacy at number two. Abraham Lincoln, the pilot. Yes. All right. Could you live in Illinois? I'm guessing you'll say yes if you're in Chicago. Yeah, I could
Chris:live in Chicago. I, I, I don't think I could even answer about the rest of the state, just because I don't know enough, but I also feel like there'd have to be enough where I was to make it worth it, like to endure the winter, all that kind of stuff. Cuz that's, that's serious stuff.
Jeff:I think once you get pretty far south of Chicago, you might as well just kind of be in the south. I mean, just, I, I'm sure like the culture and just stuff I've seen is like there's, you know, Chicago is not Illinois. Mm-hmm. And I think that probably a lot of people in Illinois don't really want to claim Chicago and vice versa. number seven. California. All right. The seventh happiest state coming in at number one in population 40 million. What are your California stereotypes?
Chris:Well, I guess this would be, I don't know if I really had any, like growing up so much. Well, yeah, I, OK. Growing up, I think of the Valley girl
Jeff:type. Yeah,
Chris:same. But that was a big deal at the time. You would hear stuff like that. Um, as time goes by, it's just become more about how liberal California is compared to other parts of the country. Things like that. I don't know that there's a lot, a lot more
Jeff:I always think of, of, uh, surfer people. Yeah. Blonde people. Yeah. Valley Girl stuff. I think of uh, Sean Penn's character in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Mm-hmm. Jeff Spicoli, you know, he is always smoking weed and just kind of zoned out. And that's, that's what I think of with California. But yeah, that's true. That's a strong stereotype. And uh, they've got a lot of, like, I was thinking about climate, we were talking about Connecticut's climate or Illinois climate or whatever. There's so much variation in California. I mean, it's a big state, but just within that area there's tons, like they've got desert, it's gonna get over a hundred degrees. Mm-hmm. But then you, up north you've got mountains and tons of snow and, and then of course you got the ocean. Well, and
Chris:you can even get into snow outside of Los Angeles and San Diego cuz there are mountains. Mountains just east of there. And yeah, you get up a little north and east, you can get up in the, into snow right there.
Jeff:Well, lake Tahoe, isn't that right? On the California Nevada border? I think it is. Yeah. Yeah. So you wanna hear something wild? Hmm. Reno, Nevada. I think they say Nevada, but whatever. Reno is farther west than LA is. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, it is. Stuff kind of blows my mind. It does blow my mind.
Chris:And you feel like then you have to look at a map to convince yourself
Jeff:I know, I know. Yes. Wait, are you sure? Oh, come on, You're right. Um, OK. We could have done tons of people, obviously with these, I'm all, I'm picking and choosing who's from, you know, these states for most of'em. But California, my god, it's a huge state. So who's not from California? Leonardo DiCaprio is from California, and I'm assuming a lot of these people, I mean they're actors, so from the LA area at least, do you like Wolf of Wall Street? It
Chris:was entertaining. There were parts of it that were just kind of Well, so here's the thing I was gonna say. There were parts of it that just, just kind of seemed over the top, but I've seen that guy. Yes, the the real guy interviews and things like that. He's an ass. He is. And so that makes me wonder, maybe the movie wasn't so over the talk
Jeff:Well, I'll tell you, I got done watching that movie, and you're right, I was entertained. So Martin Scorsese directed that movie and with his films. you end up, we talked about this with, with like mob movies, but you end up liking the characters even though they're horrible people. They're likable characters. Mm-hmm. that's the only movie of Scorsese that I watched where I did not like that character. Like he portrayed it really well, but he was an asshole through and through and DiCaprio. I think he nailed it cuz I, yeah. I've seen interviews with that guy and he is a great, a asshole. Yeah.
Chris:I mean, yeah. He absolutely did a good job in the role. Yeah. That guy is something else. And after going to prison getting out, he's, he pretty much just defends
Jeff:his position. Yeah, he does. Yeah.
Chris:He's not apologetic
Jeff:about anything. No. Arrogant as fuck. Yeah. Uh, Steve Jobs. Did you know, I didn't know this till after he died. He was, and I didn't even know this was a thing, a fruit I think it's what you call it, A fruitarian. Have you ever heard of that? He would just eat fruit. I
Chris:have heard that. I don't think I knew that
Jeff:about him. Yeah. Well, but that didn't go very well. No. I would
Chris:think not. I mean, isn't that kind of the reason that you would do anything like that is a health benefit? Because otherwise I'd like to just eat anything I
Jeff:want to. Anything you want. Yeah. So yeah. Backfired on him. Yeah. I like fruit, but Jesus Christ, I gotta eat other stuff besides that,
Chris:I like fruit a lot, but I wouldn't, no, I wouldn't want it all the time. Of course there are things that get classified as a fruit that I wouldn't think of so
Jeff:much, but still like it's tomato still. Well,
Chris:Yeah, but I mean, well, you know, people leak. I don't know, dates, raisins, and obviously they are
Jeff:fruit. That's gross.
Chris:It's not a fruit like other fruits I would think about. So yeah. I just don't understand. How do you make meal after meal?
Jeff:On fruit? Yeah. What do you do? I don't know. just start eating a watermelon. Like, I don't know how that works. I dunno. Jennifer Aniston from California. OK. Uh, Tom Hanks. These are some good people. Eastwood? Yeah. Good actors. Clint Eastwood. Yeah. Uh, Jake Gillen Hall. I put Jake Gillen Hall on the list because I wanted to remind you to watch a movie. It's called Prisoners. Have you seen that? No. It's got Jake Gillen Hall in it. Uh, Hugh Jackman is in. Yeah, it's a really good movie. You should check that out. I don't know what it's on now. I think it was on Netflix, but um, it's got an 8.1 on IMDb. Whoa, that's good. So, yeah. So yeah, definitely check that one out. And Cameron Diaz. OK. She's all, she's alright. Yeah. Well,
Chris:I'm not sure, I don't know that I could like her personality too much. I don't know a lot about her personality, but I get the idea that she's really stuck on herself and that's not, that's not
Jeff:cool. You should watch. OK. I know this has a terrible rating on IMDb, but Bad teacher. Bad teacher's. A funny movie. OK.
Chris:I've not seen it. I thought about that.
Jeff:OK, check that out. Justin Timberlake is in it and he does a good, does a good job. Could you live in California? I could. Depending on where. Yes. Yeah. Where would you wanna live?
Chris:Well, I mean, OK, so that's interesting. I'm just thinking coastal and so that could be San Francisco, la, you know, San Diego, like anywhere up and down the coast are the places that I would know more. I really don't know that much about anything that's inland.
Jeff:No, I don't either. Yeah. And I don't really know anything north of the Bay Area. Like I know you start getting up there in the mountains and cold and all that, but I don't, I don't really know. And I haven't, I've been to California once and that was in the Bay Area, so San Francisco. And I remember thinking at the time, yeah, I could live here. Now that's assuming I have a lot of money, which I don't Yeah, I mean, it's crazy expensive. You'd need
Chris:that. And then so I just happened to have been. In San Francisco when it was decent weather. Yeah. And I heard so much about the, you know, foggy this, that like all the non good weather I would say. Yeah. Like, uh, I don't know if I want to be in something like that. So maybe factor that in. I don't know if San Francisco's a place I'd wanna live. And now that you say it, la Holy shit. They get hot. I mean, they're right next to the desert. They get as hot. They can get as hot as we can here. Right? Like, well I don't want that No
Jeff:No. I think San Francisco does get quite a bit of sunshine, but yeah, it can get foggy and misty and all that. We were there, it was at the beginning of September, and maybe this is part of the reason why I was like, yeah, I could live here. Uh, we had to have like long sleeved shirts on early September. Yeah. Yeah. So that was nice. See, that sounds really nice. Yeah, buddy. Alright, number six. Surprising. We have another surprising entry on the list. Idaho Really? Yes. 1.9 million people, for some reason call Idaho home That's good enough to rank 38th in the country. What do you think of when you think of Idaho besides potatoes? Oh, that's
Chris:all I had.
Jeff:that's, I ruined your one answer. Yep. I think of potatoes, white people, militias. I feel like there's a lot of militias up there. OK. A lot of gun nuts.
Chris:Yeah. I think I, I don't know this, I'm thinking that may be like farther north. I've heard, yeah. I've heard of places. Much farther north can be that way. I just don't know if they're also that way in the south as well. Yeah, and Boise's pretty far south. Boise is the only place, I think is the only place I've been in Idaho. And from what I saw and talking to some people there, I thought I could maybe do this. And it kind of surprised me because I really didn't know much about it.
Jeff:Yeah. Yeah. I've heard good things about Boise. Mm-hmm. I remember you saying that, but, but since then I've heard good things about it. Like it's not Idaho, it's, you know, it's a college town, there's stuff to do. Mm-hmm. Aaron Paul is from Idaho. Oh. Yeah. Do you have any idea? You probably don't, but I'm gonna ask anyway. Do you have any idea who Mark Felt is or was Mark felt? Mark felt F E L T I do not. He was Deep Throat. Oh really? Nixon? Yeah. Wow. OK.
Chris:I'm sure I've heard that name, but I did not remember
Jeff:it for sure. Yeah, he finally, I don't know why he finally decided to let his identity be known. I don't remember why that was, but that's been out of 10, 15 years ago. I don't remember.
Chris:Was he about to
Jeff:die? Well, he was up in his nineties, but I don't think he died for a few years after, after that. So I'm not sure. What played a role in his decision? Um, oh, Jesus Christ. Sarah Palin is from Idaho. Oh, OK.
Chris:Guess I thought she
Jeff:was from Alaska. right? Yeah, you'd think so. And last but not least, our good friend bathroom. Larry Craig. All right. I
Chris:do remember you
Jeff:saying that. Yeah. OK. So you could live in Idaho maybe if it was in Boise. At
Chris:least from my brief experience. I could see Boise then from some other things I've heard about Idaho. It would have to be a no. Right. Like other areas in Idaho. So yeah,
Jeff:same here.
Chris:But then, you know, we've talked about Kentucky, you know, what's Louisville like compared to the other parts of Kentucky? You know, we're talking about Dallas. I wouldn't wanna live in some other areas of Texas and tell you
Jeff:that way. That's the goddamn truth. Barely hanging on here. I always feel like with Texas, if we could just, and I'm not saying I would live in any area east of this, but if we could just chop off everything pretty much west of the Metroplex, I guess we'll take in San Antonio, in Austin and then curve it around and we'll take in Houston and all that like that. Is gonna be a lot better than what you're gonna find out west. For sure. Just gerrymander the whole state. Yes. Give it to somebody else. Somebody else would want it. Some other state like, Hey, don't you wanna be bigger than you are? Well, here you go, Oklahoma. They don't have anything going for them. There you go. There's nothing going on there. Number five is New Jersey. Kind of surprises me.
Chris:Really? Yeah.
Jeff:Surprises me too. 9.4 million people that ranks 11th in the country. What do you think of when you think of New Jersey? Stereotypes? I think of mafia stuff. OK.
Chris:I'm thinking accent. Like just a New Jersey accent.
Jeff:Yes. Which is, that is annoying as
Chris:hell. Yes, it is. Yeah. And And distinct from even New York. Mm-hmm. I mean, they're so close together, but you can tell a
Jeff:difference. and I never watched this show. I never watched any iteration of these, but Jersey Shore, you ever watch any of that? Real Housewives in New Jersey, all that stuff. I never watched any of that, but anytime I came across that and somebody's talking, I'm like, I can't listen to that person for more than five minutes. No, it's rough. Yeah. Uh, Frank Sinatra was from New Jersey. All right. Whitney Houston. OK. We'll get to some people who are still alive in a second. Well, you saw the Mafia. There's Frank Sinatra. Well, yeah, there you go. Yeah. Mafia ties for sure. Yeah. Uh, Michael Douglas. Oh yeah. From New Jersey. Yeah. You know, the older he gets, the more he's looking like a twin of his dad. Oh my
Chris:goodness. He sure does. Yeah. Well, and you look at his dad when he was a lot younger. Looks a lot like Michael Douglas did when he was younger too, right? Yeah. They're just gone right down the same path.
Jeff:I think he's the same age as the father. Danny DeVito is from New Jersey. OK. Did you ever watch Taxi or was that depressing? It was depressing.
Chris:I, I mean, I've seen it. I, I've seen scenes, that's probably all I could say. I don't, I'm sure I've never sat down to watch an entire episode.
Jeff:My parents would watch it. I barely remember when it was on the air, but my parents would watch it. And I've watched rerun since and it's pretty funny. Uh, Jack Nicholson is from New Jersey. Joe Pesci Mafia. Yeah. died in a cornfield. Yeah. In his own grave. Yep. The most overrated artists of all time. Bruce Springsteen is from New Jersey Mercy. I never liked him. No, there are, I mean, a handful of songs that I'm like, yeah, that's pretty good. Or It's OK. But other stuff, Uhuh, and I've tried, I've tried, I've made a good concerted effort because people talk about, oh, how? How great he is. So I went through and listened to some of those songs and I don't know what people see and it don't. I have no idea.
Chris:Well, and his voice just always irritated me. He sounded so strained, hoarse, all of that. Like, this is not somebody that needs to be
Jeff:singing the episode with, when we talked about Christmas songs that Santa Claus is coming to town. I told you he sounds like he's constipated. He sounds like he's on the toilet trying to drop a turd. Yes. And he can't Yep.
Chris:So I'll, so I'll say this like, do you know, did he write his songs?
Jeff:I think that's, uh, the appeal that a lot of people, uh, see is that Yeah, he writes all of his songs and he's supposedly a great lyricist, I guess kinda like Bob Dylan now. You know, people respect him for that.
Chris:OK, so then I'll say this, I've never listened to his songs for their artistic merit. Maybe if somebody else was singing them, they might be OK. But I can't stand what he sounds like, so I pay no attention to the song.
Jeff:Right. Just turn it off. Yeah. John Travolta. All right. From New Jersey. Paul Rudd. I like Paul Rudd. I like, he's funny. Yep. And Martha Stewart. Former felon. Martha Stewart. Well, once a felon. Yeah. Right.
Chris:I um, see, you know, I would've pictured her as a Connecticut
Jeff:type. Yeah, exactly. Maybe she put some of those New Jersey smarts to work when she was in prison. maybe the figure if you're growing up in New Jersey, you just automatically know how to make a shiv. Yep. Just shank. Somebody
Chris:right in the shower.
Jeff:OK. Number four.
Chris:Is there a difference between a shank and a
Jeff:shiv? Oh, I don't know. All right. You can edit that out, I mean No, it's fine. Do you, I know you shank somebody, so that's a verb too. I don't think you shive somebody. I think shiv is the noun, but I think a shank is a thing, but I'm not sure. Well, I don't know. I don't know.
Chris:I'll tune in next week, Right?
Jeff:If only there was something that our listeners could turn to to find out the answer to that. But sorry, there's not, we'll just have to provide it next week. Right. There's a, uh, in Huntsville, Texas, there's the prison museum. I've never been there, but I've heard one of the things they have is weapons that have been confiscated for the past century or whatever. And I did go there. Oh, you did? Yeah. There's a lo I did go there. There's a load of it. It's crazy. Yeah. All the stuff they can come up with. And they have
Chris:old Sparky. Do you know I have hol I have heard old Sparky on movies and things, and they're not even referring to Texas specifically. It's just something that's caught on. Yeah, from the, but it was like the original electric chair.
Jeff:That's what Florida called theirs and Yeah. Yeah. I don't know where that started though.
Chris:There you're in the museum and looking at that thing, how many people died in
Jeff:there? Oh, man. That's rough. Yeah. All right. Number four is Utah. Well, does that surprise you? They've got a Mormon or two Boy, that's the damn truth.
Chris:I really don't know much about Utah. That that's the, that's the thing that obviously comes to mind. That and skiing Salt Lake, I don't know much else about it.
Jeff:It seems like there'd be a lot to do, like if you're an outdoorsy type. Yeah, there'd be a lot to do in Utah. Yeah. You should watch, uh, it's on Netflix. It's called Keep Sweet Prey and Obey, and it's about the fundamentalist Mormon church. They still practice polygamy and all that and well, yeah, it's really good. It's disturbing. Like really disturbing. But Warren, Jeffs was the leader. His dad had been the leader before that, and. It's a cult is what it is. But it's really messed up, but fascinating to watch. So I remember Warren, Jeffs, he was accused of and did molest kids. Mm-hmm. like a lot of them. Yeah. And when the authorities were cracking down and looking for him, he decided that he was going to have a new location in Texas. And so they moved to, I don't remember where it was, it was somewhere out in the western part of the state. Mm-hmm. But once that happened, like it made a, it made the news cuz this guy who's accused of molesting kids, he's trying to start this new place in Texas and somebody in Texas and the legislature discovered that it was not illegal to marry your cousin in Texas at the time. So, The legislature jumped on that fast and passed a law that said, no more marrying your cousin. So, wow. Yeah. When was this? Like last year? This would've been, well, it would've been like the early two thousands, like, yeah. Yeah. Texas also recently passed a law against bestiality. That wasn't a law in the state either. So you were legally allowed to, you know, seduce your dog and go to town,
Chris:Well, that could be a whole show right there.
Jeff:no doubt. But they passed a law against it. So if anybody's thinking of doing that in Texas, sorry. You're gonna have to find another state. Go somewhere else. Louisiana's right next door.
Chris:Sure. They're open for business on that one.
Jeff:Right? They probably encourage it, like, yeah. OK. Number. Oh, I didn't tell you. Who's from Utah. Hardly anybody's from Utah. The Osmonds. That's not surprising. They're all Mormons, right? And there's like 20 of them or whatever. Uh, jewel. Jewel. The singer unheard from her in a long time. No, Wilford Brinley. Oh, was from Utah. Was, yeah, yeah. Was, yes. So I had to look this up. Do you know how old he was when he was in Cocoon? This blows my goddamn mind. Crazy
Chris:young. I don't
Jeff:remember 49 when he was in Cocoon.
Chris:Damn it. That is so
Jeff:upsetting. It is. It's amazing. Like, what the hell?
Chris:What was that? Yeah, 86 5.
Jeff:85 I think is when Cocoon is. OK.
Chris:Yeah. Damn. So I did not see that when it came out, but one of the probably earlier movies in that timeframe, I think of as the firm that he was in. That was 92 or 93. But he seemed so old
Jeff:then. I know. But he was in his mid fifties. Yeah. Wow. And it was
Chris:before that. OK. It was before that, before the firm when he was doing all the oatmeal commercials. Like an old person. Yeah.
Jeff:Yes. The right thing to do and the tasty way to do it. I still think of Wilford Brimley when I get my Quakers oatmeal. Yeah.
Chris:Well, and, and when, uh, in the firm, you know, when Tom Cruise beat the shit
Jeff:out of him? Yeah, he did. And I said,
Chris:I said he got the oatmeal kicked outta him.
Jeff:he did. And then some. Yeah. That's funny.
Chris:I enjoyed
Jeff:that scene though. Yeah, he deserved, he sure as hell did. He is also the postmaster general Henry Atkins. Yeah. From Seinfeld. Now we got a stack of mail out there that belongs to you. Now you want that mail, don't you, Mr. Kramer? I sure do. So great. That's when Newman walks in with a bucket on his head. Yes, Tell the world my story. All right, number three is Minnesota home to 5.8 million people. Ranks 22nd in the country. What do you think of when you think of Minnesota? Cold Freezing. Very cold. Cold as fuck. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris:So I traveled there multiple times over a few years, a few years ago. Pretty much through all the seasons. Um mm-hmm. but a couple stand out in particular. One, well, maybe I'll, I'll blow through these real quick. So, one time was in October and um, it was like, I wanna say 50 something degrees. And to me coming from here where it could still be in the nineties, in October. Yeah. I thought it was amazing. Mm-hmm. and one of the guys there that lives there, he was complaining about it. And I said, but y'all have such cold weather, how can this be bad? And he said, because
Jeff:I know what's coming, I know what's coming. Yeah. That's like us in March
Chris:Yeah. Um, and then I also flew in there in, it was April, possibly the beginning of May, but definitely not earlier than April. And the lakes were still frozen over. Wow. Frozen
Jeff:over. Yeah. Wow. So there's that. That's amazing. there's that. Yeah. I've only, I've flown into the airport there. But I remember, um, so this would've been around Christmas time, maybe early part of January, but we were about to land and flew over the Mississippi River there, and it was just frozen. Solid white. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Just white. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris:That's, that's when I looked out the window in the April or May, and I was seeing this white, like, what am I looking at? And then realized like, you've got to be kidding me, just by the way we needed to say this. That's the bathroom, Larry
Jeff:Airport, Oh, yes, yes. That is the bathroom, Larry Airport. Yeah. Yeah. So watch your, uh, watch your wide stance. Watch your feet. The land of 10,000 lakes, but they're frozen over for eight months out of the year. Right.
Chris:10,000
Jeff:ice cubes. Yeah. OK. Who's from Minnesota? Uh, prince, this from Minnesota. Was, was, sorry. Uh, Bob Dylan from Minnesota. Again, he's kind of along the lines of Bruce Springsteen. Don't really like his music that much, but no, he did influence a lot of people lyrics wise and all that. Uh, why Nona Rider is from Minnesota. She went nuts. What happened with that?
Chris:I don't know. I, I remember, you know, her shoplifting stuff and Yeah, of course. I think that was still, I think that was a long time ago and I feel like she just, Disappeared. Maybe that was intentional.
Jeff:I haven't seen her in anything in a long time. Well, she's in Stranger
Chris:Things now.
Jeff:Oh, OK. Well, I don't, I haven't.
Chris:And I watched, so I watched one season of that and it was OK to me and I started watching the, I actually lost interest in the first season before I got through all 10 episodes. Then I kept hearing people who had gotten up to, you know, season two, three. Oh, now they've released season four. Everybody's all excited about it and I thought, OK, I gotta give it another chance. So I went back through season one, finished it. OK, let me continue on with season two. I don't know where I left off, but it was early in season two. I just couldn't do it. I don't get it. Yeah,
Jeff:I don't either. I hear people raving about it, but I heard like the premise of it and like, yeah, that doesn't interest me.
Chris:Well, she's a whack job in it. I mean, she's supposed to be like a normal person, but she's having to deal with all of these, you know? Yeah. Stranger things. Mm-hmm. And so she's always
Jeff:off the rails. Yeah. Jessica Beal is from Minnesota. OK. She's all right. She's all right. Um, she was in, the most recent thing I've seen her in is Candy on Hulu, and it's amazing. They could make Jessica Beal look that bad but whoa. She looked very much like her. Yes. Yeah. They did a good job. Yeah. And the Cohen brothers, the directors are from Minnesota. Right. So tons of movies. I don't know if you like them or not, but puts'em just down the road from Fargo then It sure does. Yeah. Fargo, no country for old men. Uh, the Big Lebowski. There's a bunch of them. There's a lot of good movies there. OK. Number two, Maryland. Does that surprise you? No, I could see that. Yeah. Oh, I forgot to ask, could you live in Minnesota? Minnesota?
Chris:I don't, I don't think so. I like cold weather, but there's a limit to everything. And that's on a whole other level. Yeah. I mean, I like warm weather too. I don't wanna live in the desert. I like cold weather. I don't wanna live in the Arctic and Seriously, they've got negative temperatures a lot. Yeah. And that's just
Jeff:excessive sometimes the negative temperature is the. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. We're gonna get up to negative one today. Right? Maryland has 6.3 million people in it that ranks 18th in the country. I don't really have any stereotypes as Maryland. I just, I think of Baltimore and I think of all the crime in Baltimore. Yeah. But I don't know. Crabs, people eat crabs. Crabs, yeah. Or they catch crabs.
Chris:mult. Multiple ways. Yeah. I feel like some of that area runs together a little bit. Cause you've got Maryland, Delaware. Virginia. Then obviously DC sits right in the middle of all of it. Yeah. And like it all just kind of blends.
Jeff:So Yeah. That's kind of how I think of it. It just kind of all runs together. Yeah. Right. Frederick Douglas was from Maryland. Now he escaped slavery, so I'm guessing it wasn't originally in Maryland, but he was on the list. do you remember, uh, Trump was saying something and he was, he said, Fred Frederick Douglass's name, and he, it, he said it as if he thought Frederick Douglass was still alive. He said, he is a great person or great man or something. He's a great man, or something like that. And I fully believe Trump has no idea who Frederick Douglass was. I mean, wouldn't surprise me, but, well then when he said,
Chris:what was it? Was it the Revolutionary War when we were bombing the airports
Jeff:so, yeah, that's right. Uh, Thurgood Marshall. Yeah. Former Supreme Court Justice from Maryland. Tom Clancy, the author. I've never read any of his books. I've watched some of the movies that were, yeah. Adapted. Do you know who Penn Badgley is? No. He is the killer on the series You. Oh really? Yeah. OK. Nope. Didn't know his name. Which is a good series that needs to be coming back soon. That is, I don't think it is. I think it is.
Chris:Well, I know they're doing another season. I don't know when it's coming out.
Jeff:David Hasselhoff is from Maryland. OK. And, uh, speaking of Abraham Lincoln, the pride and Joy of Maryland, John Wilkes Booth was from Oh yeah. OK. Number one. Do you have any, do you have any guesses as to what number one might be? Tell you who it. It's not us Well, I got that right. Spoiler alert, Texas is not number one. I,
Chris:I mean, given who some of these others are on the list and getting higher on the list, I really
Jeff:couldn't say no. Yeah, I'm not sure I would've guessed that either. Number one is Hawaii never would've thought that home to only 1.5 million people, so that ranks 40th in the country. Oh, I forgot to ask you, could you live in Maryland? I hear so many bad things about Baltimore. I don't know if I would,
Chris:yeah, I don't know that there's anything that would really draw me to it. I mean, could I, I suppose if I needed to, but it's not like I would just choose to go
Jeff:there. And it's a small state geographically, but there are 6.3 million people living there, so I figure it's gotta be a pretty crowded place. And as you said, DC is close. So yeah,
Chris:there's probably a lot happening, I'm sure. No, I'm sure. And I'll say about Maryland as a state, a state as a whole, like many of the others, I honestly don't know that much about it. And also, like I said, it just seems to blend with all of it. So I don't know what's distinct between those, those areas. Right. Well, I'm sure I could do it. It'd be the right area of the state and yeah, Baltimore probably wouldn't be it.
Jeff:Right. OK, so, uh, who's from Hawaii? Not a whole lot of people. Uh, Barack Obama. Mm-hmm. that's an obvious one. Uh, Bruno Mars. That's from Hawaii. Kelly Preston. Oh yeah. That's from Hawaii. Yeah. Haven't seen her in anything in a while. She died. Kelly Preston died. Yeah. Well that would explain it. Yeah. I forgot about that. Yeah. How'd she die? Um,
Chris:cancer.
Jeff:Oh my God. I can't, I totally forgot about
Chris:that. Yeah. And, and, uh, really, I mean, this is a OK. I don't know what to do about this. It's not, I just felt like cheer about Newman Right. I mean OK. Obviously it's not funny, but No, what really struck me when she died that I did not know, this is back in the seventies sometime, John Travolta was dating this girl for some time. She got cancer and died. Wow. And then I think he, I don't think this is a rumor, I think it was true that he and Olivia Newton John, didn't, they at least briefly have a relationship.
Jeff:I don't know. She got cancer. Yes. And
Chris:died now.
Jeff:OK. Well they need to start looking at a John Travolta Yeah, exactly. There's a common denominator here. Yeah.
Chris:And I think, wait a minute, something was wrong
Jeff:with his son too. Yeah. His son, didn't his son die? I remember that.
Chris:Um, he Wow. Did die. That's right. But I, yeah. Now he had some kind of seizure and I don't think he had cancer. OK. Well, he had to have, he had to have somebody in there that takes the attention away,
Jeff:you know, it's like, man. Yes. Yeah. Throw him off the rocky trail, off the scent.
Chris:But yeah, that, that's
Jeff:not a good run. Wow. Bette Midler is from Hawaii Bet. Midler. Yes. I can't, I can't say the name without thinking of Seinfeld. And the CD that Elaine gives Jerry is the collected works of Bette Midler. Well, that's right. Yeah. OK. If you know who this person is, I'm gonna be really, really impressed. Let me see what I can do. Yeah, yeah. Without Googling. Do you know who Erin Gray is? No. She was the, well, did they get married eventually? She was the woman on Silver spoons. The, oh, stepmother girlfriend, whatever. Yeah.
Chris:I could not have I, that's weird. I must be picturing it in as credits because, I do remember that that is her name, but I could not have told you that at all. Yeah, she was. All right.
Jeff:Well, OK. I have a little story. Erin Gray, I saw that name and then I saw her face and it clicked. I was like, oh, from Silver Spoons. But fast forward to the 1990s, CBS used to have these late night shows on and they were pretty risque for Network tv, and I don't remember some of the other titles, but one was Silk Stockings, do you remember that show? Or those types of shows or whatever. So you're gonna be guaranteed to see like bra and panties and bikinis and you know, stuff that a teenager wants to see late at night. Right. In one of those episodes, Erin Gray was in it and she was playing like the hot seductive mom or whatever, and then she's standing around in skimpy clothes. And I was like, all right, all right. I always knew something good was lurking beneath her clothes on silver spoons. And then that show confirmed it.
Chris:So, and the mill was born Yeah, there you go. In the nineties,
Jeff:Right. So Texas ranks 36th. Does that surprise you? Uh,
Chris:maybe not. When we find out who the other 14 are, because, um, I can think of several, that wouldn't surprise me that they're below.
Jeff:Yeah. OK. So I have the bottom 10. So I'm gonna start at 41 and we'll just, we'll just work our way down to 50. I'm just gonna read this. I don't think any of these will surprise you. Missouri, number 41. Mm-hmm. 42 is New Mexico. 43 is Tennessee and, oh boy, here we go. 44 is Oklahoma, 45, Mississippi 46, Alabama 47. Kentucky 48, Arkansas, 49, Louisiana. And last and definitely least is West Virginia, coming at a number 50.
Chris:OK. See, when you said Mississippi, what were they? 46?
Jeff:Mississippi was
Chris:45. Yeah. OK. I would've thought they would be 50, but now that you throw West Virginia in there, it all makes sense.
Jeff:right? Yeah. Once you remember West Virginia is like, oh, obviously. Yeah. So there you go. Those are the happiest states.
Chris:I wonder what it'd be like to live in a happier state. See, I've always been here.
Jeff:I know, right? Well, I've lived in Michigan, but Michigan doesn't make the top 10. Didn't make the bottom 10, but it wasn't in the top 10 either. Yeah. All right, so there you go. That is the happiest states to live in if anybody's thinking of relocating or maybe you already live there so you're already happy, OK. If you like this kind of stuff, then you should definitely follow us on whatever platform you're listening to this on. Uh, that way you'll get new episodes delivered to you automatically. You never even have to do anything. And while you're there, go ahead and make a comment. Doesn't matter what you say, just say something. That way it makes it easier for people to discover this show. So we would appreciate any comments you give. If you want to go to our website, we would like that as well. Our website is Subpar Talks dot com. You can email us there. You can leave us a voicemail. If you have a suggestion for topics we should cover in future episodes, please do that. You can follow us on social media on Twitter. We are at Subpar Talks on Facebook. We are Subpar Talks. If you wanna follow our personal Twitter accounts, we would welcome that as well. On there, I am at@independentjeff
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