Between The States

Why do Americans measure everything in football fields, school buses, blue whales, and Olympic-sized swimming pools instead of just using actual units of measurement? This week on Between the States, we dive into the weirdest ways people describe size, distance, weight, and volume, and attempt to make all of them even more useful by converting them into the internet’s greatest unit of measurement: bananas for scale. How many bananas long is a school bus? How many bananas tall is the Empire St...

Season 4 of Between the States is here, and the guys are kicking things off from their glamorous new location: a cramped garage that may or may not look suspiciously like a basement. Dan, Noel, and Jared catch up on everything from Connecticut flooding, broken lawnmowers, lawn envy, school pickup lines, Facebook Marketplace, and the bizarre idea of renting a stranger’s swimming pool through Swimply. Then things take a technological turn when Dan tries the Apple Vision Pro, leading to a discus...

What exactly is the manosphere, and how do people end up falling down the red-pill rabbit hole? This week on Between the States, Dan, Noel, and Jared dive into the strange, toxic, and sometimes completely absurd world of manosphere culture. We break down terms like alpha males, beta males, incels, red pill, hypergamy, MGTOW, looksmaxxing, softmaxxing, hardmaxxing, mewing, bone smashing, pheromone maxxing, semen retention, and more, while asking why these ideas have become so appealing to some...

What happens when the world’s most famous cryptids go head-to-head with creatures from fantasy and folklore? This week on Between the States, we’re settling the matchups nobody asked for but everyone deserves to see. Bigfoot takes on a Forest Troll, the Chupacabra battles a Red Cap Goblin, Dogman faces a Werewolf, Mokele-mbembe goes up against a Swamp Ogre, the Mongolian Death Worm meets a Sand Worm, and the Jersey Devil fights a Harpy. We break down each monster’s strengths, weaknesses, weap...

Bigfoot may be famous, but can he survive a cryptid power ranking against the Chupacabra, Dogman, Mokele-mbembe, the Mongolian Death Worm, Mapinguari, and the Jersey Devil? In this episode of Between the States, Dan, Jared, and Noel dive into cryptozoology, legendary creature sightings, folklore, footprints, physical evidence, and the blurry photos that supposedly prove these monsters exist. Each cryptid is rated on strength, speed, durability, intelligence, aggression, special abilities, and...