Geography Is Everything

📝 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 franchises, then you'll enjoy some extra content and details around the LA Rams and Las Vegas Raiders movements, as well as additional details on the NWSL and WNBA and how they've handled movements.

📝 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 States and Canada. By operating under a unique system of governance, leagues can artificially inflate the values of their major league teams and convince cities and taxpayers to spend millions and billions of dollars on amenities. So when a team moves, what happens? What happens to the culture, the economy, and the very sense of place of the cities feeling the sting of relocation? Join Geoff and Hunter as they explore the crazy world of relocating sports franchises.

📝 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! In this episode, Hunter and Geoff explore the strange geographic history of beer as well as what the beer world and industry look like today.

📝 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 should come as no surprise that there's a unique geography attached to them as well! In this episode, Geoff and Hunter tackle the global world of skyscrapers, what it means to be a skyscraper, the impacts of skyscrapers, and where skyscrapers are built today.

📝 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 its origins deep in the Andes mountains of South America. Welcome back to the exciting conclusion where we explore how the potato spread around the world! And we start today's episode with the Irish Famine.

📝 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 its origins deep in the Andes mountains of South America. Here's the first of a two part story on how the potato came to dominate the world.

📝 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 lot of geographic implications when any new country comes into existence. For New York City, however, things are especially interesting! There are already so few city-states in the world and New York City would instantly become the most powerful of them all!

📝 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 need to have wild what if speculation tacked on to the end. Watch the full video to learn more about where we're taking this podcast!

🌐 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, even pollutes your body right now. But if we didn't have plastic, society would look much different than it does today. In the conclusion of our two part episode, Hunter and Geoff take a look at the geography of the plastic recycling industry before launching into some fun what if speculation!

🌐 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, even pollutes your body right now. But if we didn't have plastic, society would look much different than it does today. In part 1 of our two-part episode on plastic, Geoff and Hunter explore the history of how and why plastic was even invented and some of the uses of plastic in our everyday lives.