Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads

Isn't that just Nevada?

It's also noteworthy that in addition to having no people, no buildings, and no roads, Bullfrog County also had no bullfrogs. With the possible exception of an as of yet undisclosed terrarium population.

It's so cool seeing my home state talked about in a video that isn't about Las Vegas! My dad is actually a geologist specializing in precious metals based here in Nevada. At the time when Yucca mountain was being considered to be the nation's nuclear toilet, my dad took a look at it. He concluded that it was in fact the best place to be the nation's nuclear toilet (not his exact words). While it is understandable to not want glowy-glowy-boom-juice in our backyard, the nation still needs a nuclear toilet. Just wanted to give another perspective on the subject. Love your videos!

Federal Government: "It's free real estate." Nevada: "It's property taxes for the state." Nye County: "It's property taxes for the county."

"Not even a random Subway entirely staffed by a single high-schooler"

FYI: The average American reactor is almost 40 years old. Newer fast breeder reactors are more effective and can use fuel made from the spent stuff that was to be stored in Nevada.

>federal land >CGP HAS BEEN SUMMONED

"Not even a random Subway staffed by a single high schooler." As a former Subway employee, I say that statement is so true it hurts.

"Middle-of-nowhere Nevada" NOOOOO COOURAAGE oh wait that's why he's purple

Hold up a minute! Is that screw at 2:17 being screwed in counterclockwise?? Edit: I guess he mirrored the video just to screw with us. There's a mirrored clip at 4:28

Being someone from out west. I can tell you virtually everyone who is willing to take 5 seconds to understand why so much land is government owned, calms down about it. But there are so many arrogant, self-righteous people who won't listen to anything that disagrees with their perceptions. Almost all of the land is either beautiful park land set aside for all people to enjoy. Or it's desolate wasteland that no one wants. Most of the land in Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, idaho, Utah...etc is desert. And it takes a lot of different pressures for desert land to be developed. California for example has developed a lot of inhospitable regions due to population and agriculture needs. Those pressures simply don't exist in most of the other western states.

You: Hey, Sam, Can I call you Sam? Sam: No. You: ok, Sam

Seriously, missed opportunity on your part by not waiting 2 days to put this out on Nevada Day. The best part of growing up there was getting Halloween off from school every year. Great video!

1:54 the "Deaf" in Deaf Smith County is pronounced like "Deef." Sorry to be that guy but I gotta get in the yearly mistakes video somehow 😏

Sam: The mountain is filled with mountain. Me: I also noticed that the floor is made of floor.

Gotta get me some "glowy-glowy-boom-juice"

While attempting to adjust the quality settings, I accidentally set the speed to 0.25x and I highly, highly recommend doing the same if you wish to hear what Sam would sound like when extremely, extremely drunk.

When you know what the entire rest of the video is going to talk about the second he says Yucca Mountain...

“Though, still technically, the nation’s only nuclear waste depository…” Uh… The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is not only a national nuclear waste depository, it’s actually housing nuclear waste right now. Of course, it’s only accepting nuclear waste from the Department of Energy, and thus pretty much isolated to materials related to nuclear weapons, and is not taking any waste from private nuclear power plants… but that’s still nuclear waste depository-ing.

Nevada: Sooo, this is all my land? US Government: Yesn't