25 GIU 2024 · 🎙️ Listen on other apps: https://linktr.ee/geographyiseverything 📝 Support us on 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 Summer is here! And with summer comes all the travel plans and vacationing that you've been dreaming of all year long. This is a time of year when most of the world's population will factor some form of travel into their plans. Because of this, we decided to make a whole podcast episode all about the summer vacation! How did it become a thing in the first place? Where are people coming and going from mostly? And why is Iceland such a relatively huge destination every year for trans-Atlantic travelers? All answered on today's podcast episode!

20 GIU 2024 · Watch Jesse's channels: https://www.youtube.com/@thegreatwar https://www.youtube.com/@realtimehistory 📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC7-Z34pbJ0ZAOJRmUCEz0Cg 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe We're back and this time... we've brought an expert! Join us as we interview and discuss World War 1 with Jesse Alexander of The Great War and Real Time History YouTube channels! He brings the much needed expertise that we simply don't have!

18 GIU 2024 · 📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC7-Z34pbJ0ZAOJRmUCEz0Cg 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe World War II gets all the attention as far as major conflicts go, but World War I (also known as the Great War) truly reshaped the world in some incredible ways. In this episode, we dive deep into the geography of World War I, how it all got started and where it ended, and what some of those global changes were as the world emerged from its first truly global conflict.

11 GIU 2024 · 📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC7-Z34pbJ0ZAOJRmUCEz0Cg 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui by the locals, is a far flung island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. But while it's very far away and very small, it actually has a fascinating geography and history attached to it. In this episode, Hunter and Geoff dive into how Easter Island was settled in the first place, how it was colonized, and why Chile owns it today.

4 GIU 2024 · 📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC7-Z34pbJ0ZAOJRmUCEz0Cg 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Trains are an incredibly important piece of transportation technology. But while the United States is not often considered to be a train country overall, it actually kind of is! It's just not one for passengers. Still, the U.S. has more active track than any other single country and hauls much of our goods from city to city. Join us as we tackle the global geography of trains including who carries the most passengers, what the longest rail line is, and what the United States', Canada's and Mexico's rail infrastructure looks like.

28 MAG 2024 · 📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC7-Z34pbJ0ZAOJRmUCEz0Cg 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Pizza has really become one of the most global dishes. From its humble beginnings as a street food in Italy, to becoming localized in various ways all around the world. This has lead to some of the most contentious debates: Does pineapple belong on pizza? Does New York or Chicago have better pizza? Should Pizza be cut into squares? Everyone has an opinion! In this episode, Geoff and Hunter explore how pizza traveled the world, and dive deep into a few of the more popular styles of pizza in the United States.

21 MAG 2024 · 📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC7-Z34pbJ0ZAOJRmUCEz0Cg 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe The Nile River is an incredible geographic feature on our planet. But despite being so closely associated with Egypt, it actually runs through many other countries making it equally important to hundreds of millions of people. Despite this importance, one dam being constructed in Ethiopia could upend how and where water goes throughout much of the Nile River basin. And this is leaving some really large geopolitical questions hanging out in the open.

14 MAG 2024 · 📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC7-Z34pbJ0ZAOJRmUCEz0Cg 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe More than anything else, petroleum (or gasoline) truly makes the world go round. It powers our personal vehicles, freight trucks, train, and ships and even our large passenger jets. Because of this it's extremely valuable! So much so that oil is being extracted from the ground on every continent except Antarctica. In this episode, we run through the geography of oil production, how oil became a staple fuel, and what "peak oil" even means anymore.

7 MAG 2024 · 📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC7-Z34pbJ0ZAOJRmUCEz0Cg 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe The U.S. Postal Service is a foundational part of the United States. And during it's nearly 250 year existence it's delivered a lot of mail! One way in which it's been able to be so effectvie is by carving up the country into ZIP codes, which have since spread far and wide to become a defacto geographic unit for things well beyond carrying mail. Here's the incredibly geography of the U.S. Postal Service!

30 APR 2024 · 📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/ 📽️ YouTube: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC7-Z34pbJ0ZAOJRmUCEz0Cg 📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobe Whales are incredible creatures who's ability to travel long distances is surpassed by their ability to communicate over thousands of miles! In today's podcast episode, Hunter and Geoff explore the oceanic geography that underpins the way whales do everything that they do.