Geoff Gibson and Hunter Shobe

Geography Is Everything

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Geography is everything and in this podcast you'll gain a better understanding of topics such as regional dialects, beer, cities, food, and everything else, just with a geographic lens! Join Geoff Gibson (host of the YouTube channel: Geography by Geoff) and Professor Hunter Shobe of Portland State University as they tackle different topics and discuss them to ridiculous lengths! New episodes published weekly every Tuesday.

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Geoff Gibson and Hunter Shobe

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Mini Episode: Lego's Very Own Ebay 12.05.2023 10:00

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Enjoy an extra special episode from our mainline episode on Lego. In this cut-for-time content, Hunter and Geoff cover Bricklink, Lego's very own Ebay-type website where peop...

Geography Is Lego: The Largest Toy Company In The World 10.05.2023 1:04:48

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Lego is a massive toy company. Its relatively simple bricks have become an incredibly popular toy amongst children and adults alike. But despite its massive reach, the compan...

Geography Is Wind Energy: Modern Power, Old Technology 03.05.2023 57:22

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Wind energy has been used for millenia all around the world to perform specific tasks and functions, such as milling grain. But today, the wind has been put to task on a much...

Geography is the Golf Cart: The transportation mode you didn't know you needed 26.04.2023 1:14:16

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Sorry for the poor audio quality in today's episode. My primary audio file got corrupted. Whomp! The gold cart is perhaps one of the most under-utilized pieces of transportat...

Geography is the English language: How the language spread and changed over time 19.04.2023 1:04:54

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe The English language has become very dominant around the world. And while there are multiple reasons for that, in this episode, Hunter and Geoff explore a little bit about th...

Mini Episode: The LA Rams, Las Vegas Raiders, NWSL and WNBA Relocations 14.04.2023 13:24

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Our episode on Wednesday went over time, so I recut the additional content into a little mini-episode! If you enjoyed hearing about the geography of relocated sports franchis...

Geography Is Relocated Sports Franchises: The Economics And Heartbreak 12.04.2023 1:08:11

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe The SmartAssets study can be found here: https://smartasset.com/mortgage/cities-with-too-many-too-few-sports-teams Professional sports teams move all the time in the United S...

Geography Is Beer: The Ancient Beverage That Everyone Loves 05.04.2023 1:07:59

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: @GeographyByGeoff 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Beer has been around for a long, long time. And not only has it been around for a long time, but it has seemingly popped up everywhere independent from any originating source...

Geography Is The Skyscraper: How Building Up Changed The World 29.03.2023 1:05:11

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@geographypod 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Skyscrapers dominate our cities in ways few other things truly do. They loom large, projecting wealth, power and nationalistic pride and symbolism. So it...

Geography Is The Potato: How The Spud Came To Dominate The World (Part 2) 22.03.2023 59:54

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@geographypod 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe The humble potato is one of the world's most diverse agricultural products. But despite its connotation with specific regions of the world, the potato has...

Geography Is The Potato: How The Spud Came To Dominate The World (Part 1) 15.03.2023 56:04

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@geographypod 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe The humble potato is one of the world's most diverse agricultural products. But despite its connotation with specific regions of the world, the potato has...

What If New York City Was A Country? 08.03.2023 1:21:15

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@geographypod 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe The final "What If" branded episode sees us heading to New York City to envision what it might look like if it became its own country! There are always a...

Rebrand! What If Geography is now Geography is Everything! 06.03.2023 20:55

📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@geographypod 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe We've rebranded! What was formerly called 'What If Geography' is now 'Geography is Everything'! The content will largely be the same, just without the nee...

Part 2: What If Plastic Was Never Invented? 01.03.2023 1:05:04

🌐 Website: https://whatifgeography.com/ 📝 Substack: https://geographybygeoff.substack.com/ 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 🎧 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WiGPod 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Plastic is overwhelmingly prevalent in today's society. It's in basically everything you use and, by some accounts...

Part 1: What If Plastic Was Never Invented? 22.02.2023 56:20

The Really Big One: What If The Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake Hits Today? 15.02.2023 1:02:41

🌐 Website: https://whatifgeography.com/ 📝 Substack: https://geographybygeoff.substack.com/ 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 🎧 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WiGPod 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe The Cascadia Subduction Zone lies about 200 miles off the coast of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia and, at...

Part 2: What If The United States Had A National High Speed Rail Network? 08.02.2023 1:21:44

🌐 Website: https://whatifgeography.com/ 📝 Substack: https://geographybygeoff.substack.com/ 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 🎧 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WiGPod 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe High speed rail is an incredibly efficient way of moving people around a country. The amount of energy it takes is...

Part 1: What If The United States Had A National High Speed Rail Network? 01.02.2023 1:17:38

🌐 Website: https://whatifgeography.com/ 📝 Substack: https://geographybygeoff.substack.com/ 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geographybygeoff/ 🎧 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WiGPod 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe High speed rail is an incredibly efficient way of moving people around a country. The amount of energy...

Housing Crisis: What If Housing In The United States Wasn't So Expensive? (Part 2) 25.01.2023 1:25:29

📝 Substack: https://geographybygeoff.substack.com/ 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geographybygeoff/ 🎧 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WiGPod 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Housing, a fundamental human needs, has gotten incredibly expensive over the last few years. Regardless if you're in the market to buy a home or...

Housing Crisis: What If Housing In The United States Wasn't So Expensive? (Part 1) 18.01.2023 1:17:24

What If Cascadia Was A Country? A Pacific Northwest Ecotopia 11.01.2023 1:20:35

📝 Substack: https://geographybygeoff.substack.com/ 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geographybygeoff/ 🎧 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WiGPod 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe The Pacific Northwest is a unique area within the United States and Canada and it has an interesting history of being governed at the same time...

What If Honeybees Die Out Completely? The Impact Of Colony Collapse Disorder 04.01.2023 1:07:07

📝 Substack: https://geographybygeoff.substack.com/ 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geographybygeoff/ 🎧 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WiGPod Honeybees provide the planet with an incredible and necessary super power: pollination. The small, buzzy insect moves from plant to plant allowing for the polliination of flowers which then allow fruits, vegetables, and nuts to grow for...

What If Washington D.C. Was A Full State? 28.12.2022 1:28:24

Over 700,000 people live within the city of Washington D.C. and none of those people have representation in either the U.S. House of Representatives or U.S. Senate. Because of this, there hvae been renewed calls for Washington D.C. to be granted statehood. But while it seems like an ovious choice for a country that famously got its start by claiming "No Taxation Without Representation," there's cu...

What If The United States And Europe Were Powered Entirely By Nuclear Energy? (Part 2) 21.12.2022 56:35

~~ QUICK SHOUT OUT ~~ This is our 10th episode! What a milestone. A small one, but still one we're quite proud of! 📝 Substack: https://geographybygeoff.substack.com/ 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geographybygeoff/ 🎧 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WiGPod Nuclear energy has powered millions of homes around the globe since the middle part of the 1900s. However, in recent year...

What If The United States And Europe Were Powered Entirely By Nuclear Energy? (Part 1) 14.12.2022 1:08:08

Nuclear energy has powered millions of homes around the globe since the middle part of the 1900s. However, in recent years, its become much less popular due to a number of highly visible disasters. Still, despite its faults, nuclear energy could help supply a hungry world's desire for cleaner, less carbon intensive energy. So what if the United States and Europe were powered entirely by nuclear en...