Comedian John Crist's Flight-Home Post Listing American Inventions Drew More Than 100,000 Likes in Under 24 Hours
American comedian John Crist, flying home from a two-week trip to Asia and the Middle East, posted a long Instagram post listing the American brands and inventions he had seen in everyday life everywhere he went. According to a November 10 report by Crosswalk, the post drew more than 100,000 likes and 3,500 comments in barely 24 hours. Actress Candace Cameron Bure commented below the post, and singer Colton Dixon was among those who replied.
Crist wrote that in the Sri Lankan countryside he saw a man on a John Deere tractor, and he looked up the company: founded in 1837 in Grand Detour, Illinois, by John Deere, and now the largest agricultural equipment manufacturer on Earth, as he put it. He went on: get on an airplane almost anywhere and it is likely a Boeing, founded by William Boeing in Seattle in 1916; cafes around the world serve Coca-Cola, created by John Pemberton in Atlanta in 1886; and many people communicate on WhatsApp, founded in Mountain View, California, in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum.
He also listed Google Maps, Pfizer and its medicines distributed worldwide, Amazon and Facebook. A Qatar Airways flight attendant told him she could not wait to get to Dallas to go to Walmart for vitamins for her family, and Crist followed that with Walmart's founder, Sam Walton, who started the company in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962.
Crist closed by saying the list could go on for days and should fill every American with pride in the country, its founders, its people, its opportunities and its contributions to the planet. He said the country has its flaws, but he could not wait to get back to America, stop drinking sparkling water, stop using kilometers and Celsius, and eat a Chick-fil-A sandwich, ending with God Bless America. One commenter who said she lives in Texas used the thread to profess her love for Willis Carrier, who invented air conditioning, in a reply that was widely repeated below the post.
Crist is a Georgia comedian known for sketch videos about church life and for touring across the United States. Crosswalk reported that the post drew a wave of proud replies and additions, with commenters adding American inventions and brands of their own.
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Photo: 图：John Crist 2017年资料图（Matt Johnson 摄，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons），原图为竖幅，已置入16:9横幅画布、人物完整保留，非本次发帖画面。/ John Crist in a 2017 file photo (by Matt Johnson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons); the vertical original has been placed on a 16:9 canvas with the subject kept whole, and is not from this post.
