That trailer clip prompted me to respond with this video where I looked at the reality of radar guns coming to the conclusion that no gun would be able to reach a speed that high and that the radar would instead cap out around 200 miles per hour.

And wouldn't you know it?

The scene was changed in the final movie or Sonics.

New speed clocks in around 2 50 to 300 miles an hour.

Coincidence?

Maybe.

But then, how do you explain the scene when Robot Nick out of the blue just encourages Sonic to slow down, telling him that a speed is dangerous for his joints?

They proved it, you know, is exactly what he says.

Now Who is this they egg man?

Could it be us?

I mean, we did dedicate entire episode whether Sonics body could survive his own extreme speeds, concluding that it's ultimately bad for his joint center stand.

There were more than a few parallels to our past sonic episodes, and I'm not mad by any means.

In fact, I'm kind of flattered.

But next time you could at least invite me to the premier.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to feed my sadness with this never ending possible from Olive Garden Ever Hello, Internet welcomes a film theory where I'm here to remind you Sonic turned his life around in one year.

You can to today I'd like to start by congratulating the team working on the sonic well done, guys.

You manage to do the impossible, like three times over by my calculations in one movie, managed to one.

Create a good video game movie to take the criticism of the Internet rage machine and use it to better your film.

And three make a kid's movie with a minimal amount of cringe.

I mean, haven't sonic flaws not just once but twice was starting to push your luck a bit there.

But you know what?

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

I like to think of it as a call back to the days when Sonic had to maintain his weird little humanlike teeth mean wife loss when you can flog us.

But seriously, I had a lot of fun with this movie.

It was a perfect balance of original story telling and fan service.

The subtle references to chaos, emeralds, Cygnus, Saturn, the theme music from the game, some of Sonics iconic pose is the fact that his punches about as effective as being slapped across the face with a flash and noodle.

I mean, you even managed to keep some of the big cameo reveals secret, including what was to be the highlight of movie, the guest appearance of sanity.

I mean, how'd you pull that one out of your exact big man?

But don't let that comedically oversized head get any bigger their sonic team, because today can't be all about praise God for some things.

First off, blatant product placement for a Zillo.

Come on, we'll know that truly is where it's at.

FAM.

What?

What's actually to be fair, any smart apartment shopper would be wise to use all the major resource is available to them.

So not really.

That was then.

There's long called the Hour.

Let me get this straight.

You made up a new character for this movie.

This is a franchise where there's more throwing characters than game of Thrones, and you just added to the pile instead of taking an established one.

I mean, I guess it follows in the great tradition of the phantoms.

OSI's the only thing missing with long claw was a watermark overhead reading.

Do not steal in all caps, but it's the last.

See, we've seen it pick.

I have that I want to focus on for today's episode, you know a small, teeny, tiny little problem I have with the entire premise of the movie.

Sonic drops his rings through a magic portal, and they end up in San Francisco, so he and his human buddy, Tom, need to get him back via a road trip.

You took the video game character known for running real fast, and you put him in a truck for a road trip, going like 65 miles an hour.

Oh, sure, you make the excuse that Sonic can't find San Francisco, and yeah, I get that.

The entire road trip was a veiled excuse for Simon to connect with humans in a way that he always long to, but was unable to because his self imposed isolation.

I get it, but I just don't care.

As I crashed into the cold, dark water of the Pacific, I realized a few things.

I have no idea where I'm going, and clearly I'm not gonna be able to do this on my own.

Don't sell yourself too short there, Sonic.

I have a pretty good feeling that you would have been just fine left on your own.

So today we're putting that movie's premise to the test with Sonics Road trip with Tom.

Faster way of them getting San Francisco than Sonic Just running there by himself, knowing what we know about Sonic Speed, as well as his apparent inability to use a basic map with sonic blindly running across the country.

Ultimately get him to San Francisco faster than hopping in the old Chevy Silverado and driving their human style.

So let's start off with what we know in the movie.

Their entire road trip takes roughly two days.

First night a Sonics big night out eating chili dogs at the local biker bar by the late afternoon of the next day, there in San Francisco, eating clam chowder and fighting off robot Nick.

But I want to double check that figure.

Seems like it's a bit too short.

We know that their journey begins in Green Hills, Montana, a fictional city that apparently isn't all that far off from the world's largest rubber band ball, a clue that you think might help us identify the real world location of Green Hills.

But it doesn't.

The largest rubber band ball in the world was made in Lauderhill, Florida, and now lives in a museum just a couple of states away from Montana.

Mean Sonic could be seeing a sign for the world's second largest rubber band Ball, a 175 1000 band behemoth that lives in Eugene, Oregon.

But it's still too early in the road trip for them to be all the way over here when they started somewhere in Montana.

So you know what?

Maybe we're better locating Green Hills using another method, according to the welcome sign for Green Hills.

The city has a population of 1981 at an elevation of 3445 feet, now finding a place in western Montana that fits both of those criteria is surprisingly challenging.

Because the Rocky Mountains are going right through that part of the country.

Elevations tend to be higher on average.

There 4500 feet enough.

But by cross referencing Montana elevation maps with Montana population maps, I was able to roughly pick out Howell County and specifically the city of Deer Lodge, as our prime candidate for the real world equivalent of Green Hills, with an elevation of 5 4067 and a population of just under 3000.

Yeah, it isn't exact, but it's pretty darn close and about as close as you're gonna find in this part of Montana.

What also help me settle on Deer Lodge was this moment in the movie.

When robotic is tracking Tom and Sonic down, we see red dots marked out on the map, presumably key areas that they visited along the trip.

And the starting dot is roughly here, right where Idaho has that first little chunk in the states.

So track that over and boom, we're back in Powell County, so citizens of Deer Lodge all 3000 of you who are clearly watching the show no longer will your city just be known as the home for the Montana State Prison.

Really cheese.

That is a bummer of a thing to be known for.

Well, all of you watching from your little prison TV's warrior stamping out license plates take pride knowing that you are now the featured city of a pretty okay videogame movie.

Anyway, using Google Maps to calculate the length of the road trip from Deer Lodge to San Francisco, we see that there are two possible routes the northern route going up through Washington and down through Oregon.

Another, more direct route headed down through Idaho and Nevada, again going back to robot next map that I mentioned earlier.

It seems like Tom took the northern and longer routes.

We see red dots in both of those Northwest states, plus one robot.

Nick zooms in on map.

He's looking at Southern Oregon, which again isn't anywhere close to the Southern route.

So knowing this, we see that it's an 18 and 1/2 hour road trip from Deer Lodge to San Francisco, pretty aggressive for a two day road trip.

But it's certainly not impossible.

It's actually a lot faster than I expected.

So now the question is what Sonic have been able to blindly find San Francisco in that same 18 and 1/2 our time?

Or was the road trip unbelievably, a more efficient way of getting into his final goal?

We know for a fact that Sonic can read in the opening montage of his life on Earth.

We see him reading stacks of flash comic books.

He also knows that his rings wound up in San Francisco because he read it on Tom's skin tight T shirt.

So it's less of an issue of Sonic not knowing where San Francisco is when he sees it, but more of him just needing help finding the city out right in the first place.

Now I'm gonna assume that he isn't reading road signs to follow directions or mile markers were just gonna assume that once he reaches the city, if he manages to reach San Francisco, he'll be able to visually see the Transamerica building where his rings landed because it's just such a recognizable piece of architecture.

So now how do we calculate the odds of him finding San Francisco in the first place?

Well, I propose that we do it by working on the assumption that he's just gonna run every street in America until he finds it.

Just a bunch of trial and error.

Brute force his way around the country until he finally sees a sign that says, Welcome to San Francisco, or even better, just winds up at the foot of the tower.

Which, of course, as any Sonic episode does, leads us to the inevitable question of Sonics speed Now.

Last time I covered the Sonic movie, we calculated that Sonic was running near the speed of light.

It's the only way he'd be able to emit an electromagnetic discharge capable of shutting off power grids and interrupting satellite flight.

But let's not go to that extreme of a speed just yet.

Let's give the movie the best chance it has at winning this little road race right at the start of their adventure.

Shortly after Tom and Sonic escape Greenhill, Tom kick Sonic out of the truck, telling him to find San Francisco on his own, prompting the scene that I played earlier.

Sonic runs west just like Tom tells him and crashes into the Pacific Ocean and then runs back with a fish on his head now, timing this scene out.

Yes, I actually had to stop watching the feeder.

So not only was I the weird single guy in a room full of families and small Children, but I was also the weird single guy in a room full of families and small Children carrying a stopwatch and using it during the movie.

But from the moment he takes off to the moment he returns to the truck, it takes exactly 3.9 seconds.

I'm just gonna round this to four just to make the calculations bit more simple.

Stick four seconds.

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One with if he took Tom's advice literally Sonic Ram straight west to the Pacific and then back in that amount of time, drawing a straight line from Deer Lodge out to Pacific.

You see that at this point they're about 550 miles, or 885 kilometers away from the ocean.

That means in four seconds Sonic traveled 1100 miles, or 1770 kilometers.

That's 275 miles or 4 42 kilometres a second, or our final number of 990,000 miles an hour.

One 0.6 million kilometers an hour now, huh?

Give Sonic the instructions of Head West.

So let's do that.

Let's assume that Sonic explorers every roadway west of where he currently is in Green Hills, Montana.

That's mostly gonna be the states of political Washington, Oregon, California, A bit more of Montana and Nevada.

So I added up all of the roadways well paved and unpaved for all of those states, and found that we're dealing with about 1,083,000 miles worth of roadway, 1.7 million kilometres.

Sonic would be able to cover all of that in a little over an hour.

But okay, Maybe Sonic doesn't know what direction West is.

Maybe he goes the wrong way.

Well, across all 50 states, the U.

S.

Has 4,092,729 miles of roadway, 6.58 million kilometers.

It is far and away the best, longest, most robust road system in the world.

And Sonic would be able to cover it all in four hours, giving it more than enough time to get lost double, back and stop for every giant rubber band ball that he sees along the way.

Well, still making it to the Transamerica building three times over before Tom's truck would.

And remember, That's still me assuming the worst case scenario that sonic not traveling at light speed, not reading road signs that sonic traveling all the roads in America before finally stumbling across San Francisco as his very last destination cause, you know, one of the nation's largest cities might be hard to miss.

But you know what?

Call me Angelica Skylar, cause I am still not satisfied.

What if Sonic got really, really lost?

Took a roadway that went south of the border or up to Canada.

Or maybe he just wanted to enjoy a nice huevos rancheros near the NASCAR line.

So I tallied up all the roadways in all the countries and territories of both North and South America because I didn't feel like separating out the island nation's be honest.

So I went the whole nine yards and I got myself 7,029,306 miles of roadway, 11.3 million kilometres, seven hours and six minutes worth of sonic to run every street, every roadway, bull paved and unpaved in every piece of land in all of North and South America.

And still still, he is taking up less than half the time it would require for Tom to drive in that 18 and 1/2 hour road trip.

So, yeah, I went there because I'd already come this far.

Why not go the final step?

I went to see a world back book and added up all 215 entries they had for the roadways around the world, paying attention to every last number even to lose.