Ranking The BEST and WORST States in America | Who's On Top?
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Jun 25, 2025
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If you don't have New York, you don't have the New York accent
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And if you don't have the New York accent... That is a big one. Margot Robbie literally has no roles to play
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She has no career! Because that's the only accent she can do. Hey guys, I'm Jack O'Shea
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And I'm Mikaela Pascal. And this is Who's on Top, the show where we rank our top 5 favorite things about an exciting topic
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and then you tell us who made the best list. Or... Who's on top
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Who's on top? Today we will be ranking our top 5 favorite states
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Out of the 50. The nifty 50 of them. There actually isn't this exact list over at renker.com
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So we will be comparing our answers with the best states to vacation list
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We're doing this in honor of the 4th of July. Yes, because America
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Okay, so my number five is renkers number 42. And this might surprise some people
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New Jersey? New Jersey? I love Jersey too. I love any place that's infested with Italians, first of all
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Yeah, we do love the Italian-Americans. We're both Italian. Yes, it's close enough to like big city that it's really not that much of a trek
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They're known for not pumping their own gas. How fun. What a fun thing to not be allowed to do
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They're the only new state like New Hampshire, New York, New Mexico
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People refer to it just as like, oh yeah, I'm going to Jersey. Jersey. Nobody's like, I'm going to Hampshire
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I'm going to York. I'm going to Mexico. Yeah. I guess you really can't do that with New Mexico
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We always all on New Jersey and I thought I need to give her a little bit credit. Yeah
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Well, that's very big of you. New Jersey, thanks you. What's your number five
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My number five is Ranker.com's number eight. Another new, it's New York. Okay
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The contrarian to me wanted to not put New York on the list, but I had to because one, I was born there
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and all my family lives there, so I am a little bit biased. I will come forward and say that
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and I love Long Island, New York. I like their medium, Teresa. Oh yeah
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I'm just kidding. Teresa Caputo. There is actually, in that little 13 mile island
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so much to do and so many different cultures And obviously New York is a whole state It touching Canada Does it Really Yeah I was in my geography beat and I did lose and they asked me the oceans and I got nervous
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and I said the Atlantic twice. It should count twice, because it's near New York
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It's a fast city, it's a fast culture, and it's a lot of like a kind of a culture
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You can have the line at the end of Spider-Man, where it's like, this is New York
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You can't say like, this is Idaho. Sure you can. This is Idaho. We know potatoes
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That's what they got. No offenses. Idahoans, all six of you. My number four is record number 24
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Nevada. Not Nevada. Nevada. I am a big heat girl. I love the heat
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You're a lizard person. I am a lizard person. So the fact that it's like, oh yeah, it was 115 last week
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I'm like, sign me up. I love that. I hate it. We think of Vegas as such a like adult town, but do you know how many trips I took as a kid to Vegas
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And how much fun you still had? Yeah, I love Nevada. Hoover Dam
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Hoover Dam. Don't get me started on the Hoover Dam. Of all the dams, this girl loves the Hoover Dam
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Might be my number one dam. Probably the biggest dam dam I can think of. Yeah. Love it
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My number four is ranker.com's number 40, Ohio. Now, this is similar to New Jersey, I think
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because Ohio gets a lot of crud, as the Midwest would say
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Ohio created football. Did they? Mm-hmm. What a fun fact. You can go to the Canton National Football League Hall of Fame
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They can't have any other Hall of Fames, right? Roll. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame also win Ohio
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They get two Hall of Fame? They have two halls of fame. That's the plural. Everywhere you are, it feels like a suburb
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Clearly, we kind of love the suburbs. We do kind of love the burbs. Another fun thing about Ohio, though, is Ohio basically decides every presidential election
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Yes. Whoever Ohio wants to be president becomes president. That's a lot of power, and that's why they're my number four
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How about Ohio? What's your number three? My number three is Raker number eight which is New York New York I put New York higher on my list Cause I a city girl I love cities Best food ever too I forgot to mention that Yes that was going to be my next point Italian infested Italian infested You got the pizza and then bagels like hot dogs
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If you haven't had a bagel from New York, you have no idea what you're talking about. You don't even like bagels. You're about to like bagels a lot more. Yeah, we've actually had an
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argument before about who likes bagels more. It's me. I conceded pretty quickly because I could just
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tell from her eyes that she was going to die on that hill. I do have to say they're not higher on
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the list because New York City is the city that doesn't sleep. I have a bedtime. You do have a
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bedtime. Yeah, I can't do that. Okay, my number three is Rekordark.com's number four, Colorado
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If we were ranking by the best vibes, I'd say Colorado. Colorado is the chillest place on earth
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It's very outdoorsy. You're the first to legalize weed, right? First to legalize weed. It's pretty
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chill. They know what's up. I would also say the best views in the country are in Colorado. There's
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always a massive mountain near you and they're beautiful. There's one thing this
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guy loves. It's a good mountain. I love mountains. I love hills. There is nothing more fun than going
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into Colorado putting on wide open spaces by the Dixie Chicks and just embracing the vast
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landscape surrounded by mountains as you go up and have no service on your phone
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It's fantastic. My number two was Riker's number one which is Hawaii because that was a vacation list
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My bias is my family is from there and I still have family living there and stuff
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So it's just like you got the best people there and it's just beautiful and perfect. It's paradise
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Like I wonder what it's like being a Hawaiian local and landing and getting a leg over your neck
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Because you always do it has a legit culture still I literally didn't put them higher because I was like it just is too good to be a state
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It feels weird to be like this is the best state because it's like do you count? Yes or no
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Okay, my number two is Ranker's number 19 and there absolutely no bias here it Virginia What And I am from Virginia sure I mean yes But I would have picked it regardless Virginia is where the North meets the South
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Just like the feel of it. The historical impact of Virginia. Basically the entire Civil War was fought there
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Eight out of 46 presidents were born there. Oops. Oops. That's a pretty good average
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Arlington Cemetery. You want to f****** cry? Well, go to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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You can in Virginia, nowhere else. So, yeah. Virginia is my number two
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I'm surprised it's not your number one. What's your number one? My number one is Rankers number two, which is California
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Sorry, that's my loyalty. Born and raised here. I can live here forever
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I would be happy living here forever. It's hot. It's so damn big
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You can fit like a hundred Virginias in California. You can't, but I get your point. Probably
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Virginia's bigger than you think. I mean, there's no Rhode Island, you know? It's not like a Delaware
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We have all the regions, you know? The saying that in California you can surf and ski in like the span of three hours
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It really is true. It is pretty crazy. We have mountains, the desert. Yeah. There's everything here
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California does feel a little bit like a cheat code because it is basically like if you took the entire northeast
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It's like, well, of course. It's the corner piece of the cake is what it is. It really is
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It's got all the frosting on it. My number one is Ranker's number 14. Can you guess it
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Texas? Texas. It is so big. there are so many different cultures and massive cities
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Reasons why Texas is number one. The cowboy thing is real. If you are walking down just a random street
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you will see somebody wearing both cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. A very large number of people do that on a daily basis
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That's real. Texas is the lone star state. They consider themselves really kind of their own country
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And in many ways, they really are. If Texas seceded from this country
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I'm pretty sure everybody in Texas would be like, nothing changed. They have everything
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They sent our boys to space. Houston, we got a problem. Houston fixes it. Texas
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What's a Texas
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