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  • @BiggestPLANTS
    @BiggestPLANTS 2 роки тому +2836

    This quickly got off track from talking about Anna Creek Station, and instead about the entire giant-Australian-cattle-farm business, and I loved every second of it

    • @spiritofthewoods3013
      @spiritofthewoods3013 2 роки тому +61

      Don't forget that land is also 147 times the sizes of your profile picture

    • @bababababababa6124
      @bababababababa6124 2 роки тому +7

      Imagine your country being the size of a neighbourhood

    • @No1karez
      @No1karez 2 роки тому +6

      Me too 😁
      But I'm Australian so pretty much anything to do with my country I watch and or listen.. doesn't everybody? And it's always great to see people from other countries loving our beautiful sunburnt land.

    • @heyvsauce8444
      @heyvsauce8444 2 роки тому

      Liechtenstein Supremacy

    • @__skillz
      @__skillz 2 роки тому +6

      Sam's gotta get 5 minutes of content somehow

  • @MsJubjubbird
    @MsJubjubbird 2 роки тому +772

    I went to school with a girl who lived on a sheep station that was many times larger than some European countries. Prior to boarding in the city, she was picked up in the morning and dropped off in the afternoon at her front gate by the school bus from the nearest town. However, the front gate was about 10 km from the homestead. So, as soon as she was tall enough to reach the pedals, she was taught to drive herself to the front gate in one of the station's cars and then drive herself home. Perfectly legal as she was on private property.

    • @hassanjamal6094
      @hassanjamal6094 2 роки тому +8

      Where was this...the bus went to her home?

    • @hamgil
      @hamgil 2 роки тому +20

      I went to school with this family that owned a gigantic property as well, it ran over a state border

    • @MsJubjubbird
      @MsJubjubbird 2 роки тому +41

      ​@@hassanjamal6094 the bus went to the front gate of the property. However, the property was so big that the actual house was 10 km from the front gate. So she had to be driven/drive (I think she even mentioned riding a horse there sometimes and leaving it in a paddock near the gate). But she learnt to drive when she was about 9 years old

    • @Th3Sc4ndym4n
      @Th3Sc4ndym4n 2 роки тому +5

      In this situation it would also be legal for kids to drive themselves on public roads.

    • @rollerskdude
      @rollerskdude 2 роки тому +23

      @@Th3Sc4ndym4n Not in Australia. Only on private property as the commenter said.
      My dad learnt to drive a tractor at around 7, he grew up on a farm which is thanks to private property, perfectly legal.

  • @Learn_Something_New
    @Learn_Something_New 2 роки тому +1690

    In terms of crazy high figures for land ownership, the Roman Catholic Church is up there. The commonly agreed upon estimate is around 716,000 square kilometers (~276,000 square miles) of land around the world, including land in very expensive places like NYC. So while Vatican City is technically the world's smallest country, they own a lot more land abroad

    • @jeremysmith7176
      @jeremysmith7176 2 роки тому +2

      Hard to say the Vatican owns as most of the land belongs to individual churches, dioceses, monasteries, etc.

    • @JuneNafziger
      @JuneNafziger 2 роки тому +43

      @@jeremysmith7176 does the Vatican not own most of those churches? I’m genuinely curious I don’t know the legal structure of the Catholic Church

    • @user-xb9yv2ci4c
      @user-xb9yv2ci4c 2 роки тому +70

      @@JuneNafziger afai know, most of the churches property belongs to the dioceses (that is the area of one bishop). I know, that the diocese of Köln (Cologne in English), which is one of 27 dioceses in Germany, has property of 3.4 billion €.

    • @Hadar1991
      @Hadar1991 2 роки тому

      @@JuneNafziger No, Vatican does not own them, only some very few. From legal stand point of view every parish is separate entity and if parson goes rogue then bishop nor Pope cannot call police to remove him. Whole Catholic structure is build on believe that clergyman must be obedient to Pope but aside of Vatican it is not enforceable if somebody says no. So when in 1870s some clergymen rejected authority of Pope then all the wealth they administered was transferred to new organisation called "Old Catholic Church" :P

    • @EpicWolverine
      @EpicWolverine 2 роки тому

      Except the Vatican doesn’t. Parish land is usually owned by the diocese.

  • @conorcrowley6256
    @conorcrowley6256 2 роки тому +706

    The size of these Australian Cattle stations meant that they were one of the early precursors to zoom classes back in the day, using a single teacher with radios communicating with them.

    • @dimanyak373
      @dimanyak373 2 роки тому +33

      @just i c e *NO*

    • @elenidemos
      @elenidemos 2 роки тому +70

      Ah I remember "school of the air".
      No we were NOT on the radio from 9am to 3pm. Most of the time it was doing the work required, as we can, then asking questions at specific time periods to get questions answered or the teacher going over certain items. Total radio time would be more like 2 hrs over the school day. Most teachers had multiple classes (usually different grades/years), which was the main reason for the specific time period for questions and teaching.

    • @yyaksok5039
      @yyaksok5039 2 роки тому +5

      @@elenidemos honestly sounds a lot like homeschooling!

    • @rvoight92
      @rvoight92 2 роки тому +18

      @@yyaksok5039 It sounds better than being homeschooled to me. Because you at least have a professional available to ask questions to. Being home schooled pre high speed internet days, if your parents didn't know something or didn't have the time to explain things, you were out of luck.

    • @yyaksok5039
      @yyaksok5039 2 роки тому +9

      @@rvoight92 definitely agree with you for those pre-internet! I guess I was lucky enough to be homeschooled during the age of the internet, and also lucky that my parents hired tutors for stuff they couldn’t teach… so I have a fairly positive view of homeschooling (besides the social aspect lol) :)

  • @jotdog9357
    @jotdog9357 2 роки тому +864

    Fun fact, Lake Eyre is pronounced like "air" rather than "ire". Don't know if the colonist's name was pronounced that way but it's what we've run with 😅 Also has an Indigenous name as part of the official name, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre.

    • @RK-cj4oc
      @RK-cj4oc 2 роки тому +43

      " colonist" nah. Australians are the natives now. Deal with it.

    • @memethat...2822
      @memethat...2822 2 роки тому +8

      @@RK-cj4oc 🤓 actually it's with not woth🤓

    • @furiouspunkboy
      @furiouspunkboy 2 роки тому +29

      Came here to make sure someone corrected this

    • @RK-cj4oc
      @RK-cj4oc 2 роки тому +1

      @@memethat...2822 thanks man.

    • @danielfp5253
      @danielfp5253 2 роки тому +39

      *Mispronounces lake eyre… “now that I haven’t said anything to upset people”😂

  • @elygolden
    @elygolden 2 роки тому +786

    I think the reason the press uses Israel is because, even excluding disputed territory, it is the largest country not larger than the ranch that they can be reasonably sure that their readers to have heard of

    • @catipolX
      @catipolX 2 роки тому +113

      bro the whole thing is disputed territory

    • @D0cSwiss
      @D0cSwiss 2 роки тому +29

      @@catipolX Yes, but most people have heard of it, which is more than you can say about a lot of other smallish countries

    • @gg3675
      @gg3675 2 роки тому +20

      Sure, if you leave out Belize, El Salvador, and Djibouti.

    • @cl9615
      @cl9615 2 роки тому +4

      @@catipolX Not the entire thing

    • @jonahs92
      @jonahs92 2 роки тому +33

      @@catipolX "The whole thing is disputed territory"
      Yeah, if you're a racist who thinks Jews don't deserve the right to self-determination in their homeland 🙄

  • @thestig747
    @thestig747 2 роки тому +76

    Never did I think that a cafe in the Sydney suburb in which I grew up in, Wahroonga, would somehow end up in a HAI video. This channel continues to amaze (and baffle).

    • @AidenHowlett
      @AidenHowlett 2 роки тому +2

      Decent attempt at pronouncing it, too

    • @DavidRosstheawesome
      @DavidRosstheawesome 2 роки тому +2

      Agreed - I've had many breakfasts and brunches at that very cafe.
      Not what I was expecting

  • @MarieInnes
    @MarieInnes 2 роки тому +142

    My great-grandfather was a stockman for Sir Sidney Kidman at Longreach cattle up in Queensland and is in the Australian Stockmans Hall Of Fame.

    • @jonatanrullman
      @jonatanrullman 2 роки тому +16

      Stockman hall of fame must be one if the most australian things I've herd.

    • @MarieInnes
      @MarieInnes 2 роки тому +4

      @@jonatanrullman LOL I know, right

    • @adamschofield1887
      @adamschofield1887 2 роки тому

      Impressive title

    • @svanimation8969
      @svanimation8969 5 місяців тому

      ​@@MarieInneswtf 😂

    • @dalane5196
      @dalane5196 3 місяці тому

      A Kidman stockman makes a Vesty’s Manager, or so they said.

  • @adrielsebastian5216
    @adrielsebastian5216 2 роки тому +192

    Real HAI fans will remember that he mentioned this in passing in another HAI episode 👀
    Edit: it's the dingo fence episode

  • @dataisbrilliant
    @dataisbrilliant 2 роки тому +341

    “How does a farm the size of 147 Liechtensteins manage to operate?
    That’s a very good question, I think the aliens are helping them.

    • @WolfandCatUnite
      @WolfandCatUnite 2 роки тому

      yes

    • @dataisbrilliant
      @dataisbrilliant 2 роки тому

      @beyond your imagination You Rick Rolled me, again.

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      @BiggestPLANTS 2 роки тому +5

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    • @dataisbrilliant
      @dataisbrilliant 2 роки тому +1

      @@BiggestPLANTS Bruh, seriously 😐
      lol 😂

    • @BiggestPLANTS
      @BiggestPLANTS 2 роки тому +2

      @@dataisbrilliantwhat can i say, it was obligatory

  • @jakenum30
    @jakenum30 2 роки тому +40

    As someone that's recently driven the Oodnadatta track and driven through William creek and Anna creek station, words do not do justice to the absolute vast emptiness of the land up there

  • @bartholomewdan
    @bartholomewdan 2 роки тому +145

    I like how you can tell the animators got bored of drawing Wales about 5 minutes in.

    • @malvarezv97
      @malvarezv97 2 роки тому +12

      I think that was Wales with sea borders hence why it looks so chunky

    • @chriswoolley6951
      @chriswoolley6951 2 роки тому +4

      Abit inconsistent drawing wales with sea borders and the rest without, felt like wales was being victimised

  • @bababababababa6124
    @bababababababa6124 2 роки тому +410

    Bigger than 49 countries but probably with a smaller population than an apartment block in China
    Edit: damn wait 11 people? More like a single floor of an apartment block in China… or literally any apartment block ever

    • @rotciv808
      @rotciv808 2 роки тому +5

      @Patrick Hudson came here to say this.

    • @meee_5155
      @meee_5155 2 роки тому +3

      Pretty sure it has something like 8 people
      Correction:11
      Close enough

    • @MarieInnes
      @MarieInnes 2 роки тому

      Probably the correct population for … A FARM, though.

    • @KelsomaticPDX
      @KelsomaticPDX 2 роки тому

      Could’ve just said “one story apartment building” an apartment block in China is way more than 11 people.

    • @Frexuz
      @Frexuz 2 роки тому +2

      Theres over 1000 people in my apartment complex 😂 (hong kong)

  • @welshduckman8562
    @welshduckman8562 2 роки тому +177

    As a member of the giant Austrailian Cattle Station busisness, this was very accurate, thank you!

    • @Axman6
      @Axman6 2 роки тому +8

      Accurate but pronounced nearly completely incorrectly.

    • @alyoshamikhaylov7651
      @alyoshamikhaylov7651 2 роки тому +1

      So you are one of those 11 people?

    • @welshduckman8562
      @welshduckman8562 2 роки тому +1

      @@Axman6 Very fair😆😆

    • @welshduckman8562
      @welshduckman8562 2 роки тому +19

      @@alyoshamikhaylov7651 No ours is only the size of three Lichtensteins!

    • @10sDPR
      @10sDPR 2 роки тому +3

      Username does not check out.

  • @jakereynolds4259
    @jakereynolds4259 2 роки тому +67

    Something that really weirded me out was when you said that the temperature regularly hits 55c on a cattle farm … that’s the temperature that we will cook a joint of beef at the restaurant I work at so it’s a nice rosy rare-medium rare, so I can only assume that these cows are walking around basically precooked

    • @User31129
      @User31129 2 роки тому +11

      Can hit. Not regularly hits. It can hit -20 in winter here in Michigan. But I think that's literally happened like 4 days in my 36 years of life.

    • @drcgaming4195
      @drcgaming4195 2 роки тому +21

      @@User31129 american man trying to comprehend australian temperatures be like

    • @uselessgeneral1299
      @uselessgeneral1299 2 роки тому

      @@drcgaming4195 does it better than most, half the cunts go and say that every day its 50C here, or that anything above 30C is blisteringly hot, no inbetween.

    • @Alan_Hans__
      @Alan_Hans__ 2 роки тому +7

      Medium rare isn't cooked. :D

    • @jakethesnake23a
      @jakethesnake23a 2 роки тому +16

      If it's any consolation, the record temperature ever recorded in Australia is slightly under 51 degrees.
      I've gone higher with thermometers in my car, but it's irrelevant. Point is, don't leave anything in enclosed spaces.

  • @philip4846
    @philip4846 2 роки тому +9

    Kidman, who created the largest cattle station started at 15 with nothing.
    He gradually built his holdings with a brilliant concept in mind.
    If the station was large enough in the north south direction, no matter what time of the year there would be water somewhere on the property. It worked.

    • @dalane5196
      @dalane5196 6 місяців тому

      He also sold a 25% stake in BHP for 1200 quid, when he died it was worth far mare than his total wealth, far more.

  • @adithyamenon8517
    @adithyamenon8517 2 роки тому +61

    Remember this from the Top Gear Episode. The numbers thrown at me back then boggled my mind. Still does. That and the fact that they use helicopters to herd their thousands of cattle.

    • @alexkoch8716
      @alexkoch8716 2 роки тому +1

      That one was wave hill/ cattle creek station in the NT

    • @adithyamenon8517
      @adithyamenon8517 2 роки тому

      @@alexkoch8716 you're right. I remember that now.

    • @alexkoch8716
      @alexkoch8716 2 роки тому

      @@adithyamenon8517 one of the best episodes I recon 👍

    • @br-sb6vu
      @br-sb6vu 11 місяців тому

      The majority of cattle stations in Australia use helicopters to muster cattle

  • @samstudios9908
    @samstudios9908 2 роки тому +28

    As an Australian I must fulfil my constitutional duty and explain the ‘oo’ in Wahroonga is pronounced as a short vowel sound (like you’re saying on and in at the same time). In any case, if you are passing Wahroonga I recommend the butchers block just down the road instead!

    • @epicbeardface2981
      @epicbeardface2981 2 роки тому +1

      It used to be a butcher shop owned by Percy Bergen I worked there about 30 years ago also Bonjour Patisserie (great pies and cherry danish) was a Lanes Meats butchery as well, I worked there for about 3 years.

    • @vlada-jo6md
      @vlada-jo6md 2 роки тому +3

      Wahroonga station has some great cafés

    • @TheKazragore
      @TheKazragore 2 роки тому +1

      Also the pronunciation of Woomera was a little triggering. "Woo-meh-rah"? Really? :P

    • @samstudios9908
      @samstudios9908 2 роки тому +1

      @@epicbeardface2981 I like how on every UA-cam video about Australia, there is always the Aussie meet and greet in the comments! Thanks for the tip about the cherry danish, next time I’m down in Sydney I’ll have to try one

  • @five-toedslothbear4051
    @five-toedslothbear4051 2 роки тому +28

    That S. Kidman logo you used has an amazing coincidence. In telegraphy, SK with an overbar would mean it's the SK prosign, transmitted in Morse Code like an S and a K run together. It means "End of Contact/End of Work" It's also commonly used in Amateur Radio circles to mean "Silent Key", indicating an operator whose "key" will never be heard again, because they're deceased, as Sir Sidney Kidman is. Their website uses a different logo, probably because some smart aleck like me pointed that out.

  • @Itsundiscovered
    @Itsundiscovered 2 роки тому +36

    Amazing video, really informative and engaging! Just be careful, at 1:20 you said the indigenous Australians (Aboriginals) had lived on this land for centuries. The actual number is closer to 50,000 to 60,000 years, making it correct to say millennia instead of centuries.

    • @gummo1830
      @gummo1830 2 роки тому +4

      oldest living population!

    • @MashLimit
      @MashLimit 2 роки тому +2

      Centuries is still correct though.

    • @Ccirgrg
      @Ccirgrg 2 роки тому +1

      @@MashLimit you could say seconds too and be correct but context is important

  • @WizardAngst
    @WizardAngst 2 роки тому +8

    Woomera- Woom-erah not Woo-MEra
    Eyre - Air but like you're Australian
    Port Augsta - Pordagudda
    Ooodnadatta - Oodanadada. There are no emphasises, this is Australia, we only put emphasis on drinking.
    THANK YOU THAT IS ALL.

  • @GameKing298
    @GameKing298 2 роки тому +41

    Good video, the audio mastering was a bit odd on this one, you sounded rather distant for some reason.

    • @LuxrayIsEpic
      @LuxrayIsEpic 2 роки тому +1

      Glad it wasn't just me who noticed the audio

    • @Labestiol74
      @Labestiol74 2 роки тому

      Damn thanks, I had to scroll down for this comment, the audio is so weird, the start really put me off

    • @himanbam
      @himanbam 2 роки тому +3

      Obviously he sounded distant. He was all the way in Australia

    • @soundscape26
      @soundscape26 2 роки тому

      It started like that but got progressively back to normal as the video run. Some EQ problem or something.

  • @mathewblanc9936
    @mathewblanc9936 2 роки тому +68

    "Overlooking the fact that Indigenous people had managed to live off that land for c̶e̶n̶t̶u̶r̶i̶e̶s̶ millennia" FTFY
    Also, it seems that your average MPV (mispronunciation per video) goes way up with Australian content, might be worth getting an Australian in to run through the script with you whenever you're talking about us (happy to provide that help if you don't know any Australians).

    • @byrongsmith
      @byrongsmith 2 роки тому +5

      I second both of these. Also, no part of the Australian continent has ever been ceded by the First Peoples who lived here for tens of millennia. So if we're going to talk ownership, then "Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal land".

    • @thekrakenrises9040
      @thekrakenrises9040 2 роки тому +6

      @@byrongsmith Look I have no skin in this game, but land doesn't need to be ceded in a treaty for you to lose ownership of it. If you can't defend your land with military strength, then the land belongs to whatever stronger power that wants it. That's how land has shifted ownership over millennia in our planet. Conquest and Resettlement are not unique to Australia or even in the context of European settler colonies. Look at present-day Ukraine for example, the land is only Ukrainian if they can defend it with blood sweat and tears. If they lose the war, then Russia will roll in and then the land shifts ownership irrespective of anyone "ceding" any land.

    • @byrongsmith
      @byrongsmith 2 роки тому +1

      @@thekrakenrises9040 There are more forms of strength than lethal violence. And more ways to belong to land than killing anyone who questions your right to have stolen it.

    • @MsJubjubbird
      @MsJubjubbird 2 роки тому +1

      nah it's cute seeing overseas people try and not always get it right. At least they are trying

    • @GarethKing1
      @GarethKing1 2 роки тому

      @@thekrakenrises9040 observing the way megalomaniac, oppressive leaders abused the peaceful historically is absolutely not a justification for it. That's like saying a victim of abuses body belongs, in the time of abuse, to the overpowering party. Yes, it happens, no it's not right.

  • @TicketToKnow
    @TicketToKnow 2 роки тому +18

    Always nice to see Southern Hemisphere content! Also, if you need an Australian place-name accent coach please hmu 😅 Woomera, Oodnadatta, and Lake Eyre send their regards

    • @AidenHowlett
      @AidenHowlett 2 роки тому

      And Wahroonga, close, but not quite on the money.

  • @griffinsimpson-tuckey9832
    @griffinsimpson-tuckey9832 2 роки тому +14

    please show measurements in metric as well. most of the world has no idea how big square footage is when in miles

    • @AlphaGeekgirl
      @AlphaGeekgirl 2 роки тому

      Especially when less than 5% of the world knows “square footage”

    • @shrimpshrubbery7664
      @shrimpshrubbery7664 2 роки тому

      Cry about it. Most of his viewers are probably American.

    • @griffinsimpson-tuckey9832
      @griffinsimpson-tuckey9832 2 роки тому +2

      @@shrimpshrubbery7664 assuming that’s true, it still takes two seconds to add both units of measurement in. a reminder that you’re the only country to use the imperial system, a system that only makes sense to you because you’ve grown up with it

    • @shrimpshrubbery7664
      @shrimpshrubbery7664 2 роки тому

      @@griffinsimpson-tuckey9832 Oh I wish we could change but it would take wayy to huge of an effort and would be pretty expensive.

    • @griffinsimpson-tuckey9832
      @griffinsimpson-tuckey9832 2 роки тому

      @@shrimpshrubbery7664 you’re right. those kind of changes can’t just happen overnight, and the world has bigger issues at hand

  • @aidenburgess217
    @aidenburgess217 2 роки тому +11

    The Coober Pedy butcher's the best smash patties in south Australia, go there if you ever get the chance. Oh and also check out the big winch or something idk.

  • @daphnefleurrr
    @daphnefleurrr 2 роки тому +8

    As someone who lives on the North Shore and has been to Wahroonga station many times, the mention caught me so off guard.

  • @Blo55
    @Blo55 2 роки тому +17

    Why does the audio quality suck?

    • @Swissstuff
      @Swissstuff 2 роки тому +1

      Maybe he’s on a trip and doesn’t have the best mic

  • @Sundjer_Bob_Kockalone
    @Sundjer_Bob_Kockalone 2 роки тому +24

    the subtitles aren’t right, but is hilarious
    (he removed it now sadly)

    • @lexicron
      @lexicron 2 роки тому +4

      right?? I thought Pizza Hut was subliminally conditioning me 😄

    • @Sundjer_Bob_Kockalone
      @Sundjer_Bob_Kockalone 2 роки тому +1

      @@lexicron lol

    • @h-Films
      @h-Films 2 роки тому

      What was it

    • @h-Films
      @h-Films 2 роки тому

      What was it

    • @h-Films
      @h-Films 2 роки тому

      What was it

  • @Goatcha_M
    @Goatcha_M 2 роки тому +8

    My dad once worked as a stockman at Alexandria Station which at the time was even bigger, biggest farm in the world. 11,000 Square miles.
    But a law was passed limiting how much Australian land could be owned by overseas parties and half the station got sold off. Its still the 3rd biggest station in Australia, but not what it used to be.

  • @DevinSloan
    @DevinSloan 2 роки тому +23

    I love Sam, and I think pretty much everything about him is amazing, except for watching him run up that hill in Amsterdam with Joseph. That was painful.

    • @DZ477
      @DZ477 2 роки тому +4

      Wait can you give a link to that video? My day is awful already so a little cringe wont hurt... I think.

    • @Alex632
      @Alex632 2 роки тому +1

      @@DZ477 lmao

    • @DevinSloan
      @DevinSloan 2 роки тому +3

      @@DZ477 it’s the most recent jet lag video.

    • @bartholomewdan
      @bartholomewdan 2 роки тому +1

      "Hill in Amsterdam" is a bit of an oxymoron.

  • @Fizzrabble
    @Fizzrabble 2 роки тому +16

    Dude, I absolutely love your videos, but I need to give you this feedback…As an Australian, this video was hard to watch, with the gross mispronunciations of almost every place name. I’ve heard this in your other Australian-based videos too, which was also grinding my gears. I can only assume this is true for all your videos of foreign places. It might be worth checking with a local on how to pronounce local places or words, I think it will increase the quality/impact of your videos so much more. Keep up the great content, thank you!

    • @Fizzrabble
      @Fizzrabble 2 роки тому +2

      P.s. I’m happy to be your Aussie word pronunciation coach if you want, just hit me up.

  • @jpaior
    @jpaior 2 роки тому +16

    You should have asked an Aussie how to pronounce literally all of that. LOL :)

  • @bababababababa6124
    @bababababababa6124 2 роки тому +11

    0:10 WTF is that map of Wales 😂😂😂

    • @dankjae
      @dankjae 2 роки тому +1

      Wales with maritime sea borders.

    • @VitalVampyr
      @VitalVampyr 2 роки тому +2

      The artist wasn't sure whether to draw Wales or a whale, so they tried to do both.

  • @silverXnoise
    @silverXnoise 2 роки тому +6

    Coober Pedy has a population of 1765 people, and yet as a resident of Charlotte, NC I’ve totally heard of it. I think it’s got opal mines?

    • @marvindebot3264
      @marvindebot3264 2 роки тому +3

      Indeed it does, a lot of them and lots of the underground houses he mentioned, why roast above ground, it's a constant 23c underground.

    • @silverXnoise
      @silverXnoise 2 роки тому +2

      That’s right. Thanks to Tom Scott, who else?

    • @blumoogle2901
      @blumoogle2901 2 роки тому +1

      Yup, I learned about the opal mines in Harry Potter fanfiction.

    • @silverXnoise
      @silverXnoise 2 роки тому

      @@marvindebot3264 (Insert mildly offensive joke about Aussie hobbits here)

    • @silverXnoise
      @silverXnoise 2 роки тому

      @@blumoogle2901 I always thought the Sorcerer’s Stone came from the bloody Congolese mines of Leopold II…

  • @CallanKilderry
    @CallanKilderry 2 роки тому +7

    3:25 Lake Eyre is pronounced like air (yeah I don't know how that spelling makes that pronunciation), normally it's empty but it does have a yacht club.

    • @VitalVampyr
      @VitalVampyr 2 роки тому +1

      My completely uniformed guess is:
      "Ey" is pronounced like the letter A
      British English thinks "-re" should be pronounced like "er" for some reason.
      Slur those together and it's basically pronounced the same as "air".

  • @peterk2455
    @peterk2455 2 роки тому +3

    You pronounce Australian names with the same accuracy that a Bantu tribesman would pronounce Massachusetts. Oh, The Station on Coonanbarra Road, Wahroongah, is a good feed.

  • @Maxyy40
    @Maxyy40 2 роки тому +5

    To answer Sam from HAIs question. Yes I did love your joke regarding the world famous Antonia Kidman.

    • @geolawie
      @geolawie 2 роки тому

      It was a perfect joke.

  • @SamanthaShaw314
    @SamanthaShaw314 Місяць тому

    You are seriously one of the best, most engaging, wittiest and funniest narrators I have come across. Thanks for making learning fun again!

  • @moduleapothem6446
    @moduleapothem6446 2 роки тому +5

    For the annual mistakes video: At 0:56, misspelled “bovine” as “bovin”

  • @benwilson9150
    @benwilson9150 2 роки тому +16

    Oh Sam, Sam, Sam you disappoint me and make me laugh at the same time! You need to come to the land down under and learn how words are pronounced. Lake Eyre is a good example, Eyre is pronounced like the word air. We do have very harsh and unforgiving environment especially the further inland you go. It is amazing how these station work with so few people and very few resources. The stations also really do highlight the size of our island nation that people from Europe and even the Americas just don’t understand.

    • @jakethesnake23a
      @jakethesnake23a 2 роки тому +2

      Honestly, just call someone here. I felt like the first half of the video was just trying to annoy us with that (I know it's his thing, but my god does it trigger me).

    • @MsJubjubbird
      @MsJubjubbird 2 роки тому

      i think they contract extra hands during things like musters. Station owners can contract aviation companies to help with herding. Then the pilots work for another station a few days later when the job is done.
      But they also have dogs, which really reduces their need for people. Dogs can do a huge amount of work for almost free.

    • @DsiPro1000
      @DsiPro1000 Рік тому

      someone caught a shark in Lake Eyre!

  • @equestathon9618
    @equestathon9618 2 роки тому +3

    It was so weird hearing you talk about the way we run properties, have mail delivered, and small rural town economies like it was something incredible, but it's exactly the same arrangement as my grandparent's 270,000acres in western NSW and my close friend's 480,000acres (though it's technically 8 properties) in central QLD.

  • @YeloPartyHat
    @YeloPartyHat 2 роки тому +8

    But yet land where I live still in Australia manages to be $1m+ per 400m2

  • @masonsmall1740
    @masonsmall1740 2 роки тому +10

    As an Australian, calling it lake "ire", not "air" almost killed me.

  • @platinum7482
    @platinum7482 2 роки тому +17

    Is it just me or does the audio sound a bit off for this video? like it is at a lower bit rate compared to previous videos on this channel

    • @acerebral_
      @acerebral_ 2 роки тому

      sounds like noise suppression, probably was just recorded somewhere else than usual and the editor had to make do. sometimes it almost sounds sped up or ai generated though which is really weird

  • @alozzola
    @alozzola 2 роки тому +3

    I remember driving through this property on a drive to see Lake Eyre, I remember seeing a cow that was bigger than our 4x4. This cow was absolutely massive!

  • @timn6864
    @timn6864 2 роки тому +2

    Fun fact... Coober Pedy sits on top of the Arckaringa Basin which is an oil reserve some estimates say is arguably larger than Saudi . It went suspiciously quiet after the study though

  • @grahamjacob97
    @grahamjacob97 5 місяців тому +1

    I went to Darwin High School, the "Tank" at the school provided water for the abattoirs (obviously before it was a school). One of the stations that provided cattle for the abattoir was the VRD, which about 100 years ago was about 50% bigger than Anna Creek.
    I also recall when in Geraldton my kids talking to another child at a BBQ and the child saying they got the beef from their station at it was 1000 acres and then the mother mentioned actually it was 1000km2. Just a small one.

  • @BenWeaver0
    @BenWeaver0 2 роки тому +8

    Me: "im not a nerd"
    Also me: *has watched every Hai and wendover video*

  • @intrepid1160
    @intrepid1160 2 роки тому +3

    Surprised to see City of Ember. One of my favorite book series, even got to meet the author when I was younger.

  • @Popito84
    @Popito84 2 роки тому +7

    Lake Eyre is pronounced "air" and it is no longer called that. It has gone back to it's indigenous name.

    • @someguy5035
      @someguy5035 Рік тому +1

      We'll call it whatever we want.

    • @Dingo4440
      @Dingo4440 Рік тому

      Too most of us it is still Lake Eyre. Until the ABC and Labor make everyone learn the over 400 Indigenous languages to supposedly unashamedly feel 'Australian' in their eyes.🙄

    • @Popito84
      @Popito84 Рік тому

      @@Dingo4440 and why not embrace Aboriginal culture? It was part of my world growing up and likely yours unless you're some inner city hipster that has never left your suburb.

  • @BiggestPLANTS
    @BiggestPLANTS 2 роки тому +4

    147 Liechtensteins is not enough. There can never be enough Liechtensteins

  • @scottmcnaughton539
    @scottmcnaughton539 2 роки тому +6

    Literally no one in Australia would ever describe any of these properties as a Ranch. They are farms.

  • @Nidera2DX
    @Nidera2DX 2 роки тому +6

    Is it me, or are the closed captions completely incorrect?

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 2 роки тому +6

    How does it go? Anything less than 50000 acres is a hobby farm?

    • @Wint910
      @Wint910 2 роки тому

      lol, but in all seriousness, the average farm here in australia is just above 10,000 acres (funnily enough mines exactly 10,000 acres) and hobby farms are normally under 500 acres (unless your on the coast)

  • @danii8307
    @danii8307 2 роки тому +3

    Excellent subtitles they are so informative

  • @TobaT3
    @TobaT3 2 роки тому +7

    the subtitles are for a different video but ok

  • @axelfoley133
    @axelfoley133 2 роки тому +4

    HAI: Why is Australia full of these bovine micronations?
    Me, an Australian: We will fight for bovine freedom
    And hold our large heads high
    We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
    Cows with guns

  • @aaronleverton4221
    @aaronleverton4221 2 роки тому +5

    "As big as Texas..."
    "Yeah, nah, but good try mate."
    I grew up for a time on Granite Downs Station and the idea that Texas is "big" is just, well, amusing.
    Yeah, I see what you did about the relative.

    • @111jacare
      @111jacare Рік тому +2

      Granite Downs? Let me think... Chandler siding on the Darwin line in the area?
      Yes, Texans are going to have to come down under and discover that Australia is bigger than Texas! Our stations, road trains and a few other things....

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 Рік тому

      @@111jacare Got off the Ghan at Chandler.

  • @erichtomanek4739
    @erichtomanek4739 5 місяців тому +1

    Once upon a time, Victoria River Downs was the size of Denmark.
    After WW1 the Australian government thought it too large and divided it into 4 for Soldier Settlers to run.

  • @mixe
    @mixe 2 роки тому +3

    I read the book mentioned at 3:03 years ago and was never able to remember the name. Now all of a sudden it's mentioned in a HAI video and holy shit!! I did not expect this at all so thank you..?

  • @plasticbleach4004
    @plasticbleach4004 2 роки тому +5

    This is the farm that uses a Bentley, a Nissan GT-R, and a BMW, right?

    • @alexkoch8716
      @alexkoch8716 2 роки тому

      Same type different station. Top gear went to a station in the NT named wave hill. Same concept though. Just 2500km or so north of this station

  • @goosedoesvideogames
    @goosedoesvideogames 2 роки тому +1

    I’ve been to William Creek and Coober Pedy and the drive between the 2 is about 4 hours

  • @alirazi9198
    @alirazi9198 2 роки тому +1

    0:18 your sarcasm is unmatched

  • @escomz
    @escomz 2 роки тому +4

    Actually there is a Ranch in Australia called "Kidman & Co" that was literally half the size of the UK before it got sold (it was over 100,000 sq/km) it's literally bigger than Belgium, Neatherlands Israel etc... it's much bigger than Anna Creek Station.
    Oh and also Nicole Kidman is related to Sidney Kidman, the historic founder of the massive ranch!
    Oh and also, Anna Creek Station used to be part of Kidman & Co Ranch! Before it was sold and separated.

  • @TriMs1
    @TriMs1 2 роки тому +3

    Nice audio!

  • @tncorgi92
    @tncorgi92 2 роки тому +1

    Coober Pedy seems like a fascinating place, there are some good videos out there. You build your dwelling underground and you may run across an opal bonanza. I couldn't handle the heat though.

  • @TopFix
    @TopFix 2 роки тому +1

    I am not a nerd. My food was getting cold and had to find something to watch in time.

  • @chakra6666
    @chakra6666 2 роки тому +593

    Congratulations on pronouncing practically every name wrong :) The Australian language can be hard for foreigners to learn, so I'll forgive you.

    • @bidoof367
      @bidoof367 2 роки тому +122

      g'day mate wallaby kangaroo emu

    • @sirapple589
      @sirapple589 2 роки тому +63

      Australian as a dialect changes based on accent and the amount of illicit substances pumping through the speaker’s veins.

    • @AcbTyson
      @AcbTyson 2 роки тому +3

      I was about to say the same thing. This video was comedic for the wrong reasons.

    • @MarieInnes
      @MarieInnes 2 роки тому +8

      Oodna”data” lol

    • @photografiq_presents
      @photografiq_presents 2 роки тому +13

      Lets hear more about this "Australian Language".

  • @TheHylianBatman
    @TheHylianBatman 2 роки тому +3

    Ah, Australia: It's bigger than Texas, and so is everything inside it.

    • @mollymuch2808
      @mollymuch2808 3 місяці тому

      Australia is almost same size as US but 95% empty
      Different climate
      46 % tropical and some equatorial a whole lot of subtropical
      Arid and Mediterranean

  • @jaewardtattoo
    @jaewardtattoo Рік тому +1

    Now I want a video about the worlds largest land weapons testing range

  • @MattThrum
    @MattThrum 2 роки тому +2

    It was a solid attempt pronouncing Wahroonga (“War-un-gar”) but not quite there - did not expect to get a shout out!

  • @SpiffoGaming
    @SpiffoGaming 2 роки тому +3

    2:59 listing an actual readable number is so out of character for HAI. Should have said that it has a population 1.4x that of Muldraugh Kentucky in 1990

  • @ducati_red9162
    @ducati_red9162 2 роки тому +4

    The subtitles tho 😂 I thought I was hearing it wrong at first

    • @ducati_red9162
      @ducati_red9162 2 роки тому

      @@iykury it was a completely unrelated video about Russian McDonald’s

    • @ducati_red9162
      @ducati_red9162 2 роки тому

      @@iykury yeah it was funny tho

  • @durhamdownsschoolroom8628
    @durhamdownsschoolroom8628 Рік тому

    Hi, I used to live there back when SK owned it in the early 2010s. I was only five when we left it to go to the neighboring station Innamicka but that's also sold to we are one of the remaining few cattle stations left under the original SK brand. I lived on its outstation the Peak, my Dad used to run it. Its owned by teh Willaims cattle company now and we are really great friends with them they are really nice people. It is truly the end of an era.

  • @kaan-kaant
    @kaan-kaant 2 роки тому

    Actually just came back from a holiday where we stopped at Coober Pedy, it's wild that the town exists. There's a decent amount of opal there, but it's also the only town on the way to Alice Springs once you're past port Augusta. No phone reception most of the way there, and even the Roadhouses along the way are spaced out hundreds of kilometres apart from each other.

  • @ringtone_rhythm
    @ringtone_rhythm 2 роки тому +3

    At 0:30 is that... Is that DankPods.

    • @cellboi
      @cellboi 2 роки тому

      It sure is

  • @BoraCM
    @BoraCM 2 роки тому +3

    0:10. That map includes the Welsh maritime borders, which makes it look weird.

  • @thomaswright1229
    @thomaswright1229 2 роки тому +1

    Im from Sydney and I literally had lunch at 'The Station' in Wahroongah last week. That was hilarious haha

  • @WhyForWhatNow
    @WhyForWhatNow 2 роки тому +1

    I turned off Close Captions to see the full Kidman joke, only to be pleasantly surprised by it's positioning
    Whoever edits these videos is an angel

  • @js24765
    @js24765 2 роки тому +6

    Cheers for poking fun at the Murdoch press's deluded bias. Very good video!

    • @krashd
      @krashd 2 роки тому +1

      Australia really needs to get rid of Sky News Aus, that cancer is a killer - I had no idea Australia had it's own mini FOX News!

  • @davidmolin8944
    @davidmolin8944 2 роки тому +5

    The audio feels off in the beginning, I thought my audio was going bad

  • @bennypika4976
    @bennypika4976 2 роки тому +2

    as soon it mention about 11 people include a cook. I had to check size of isreal to Colorado and Isreal is like 11x smaller than the state that I can drive across with ease.

    • @IdoDekel-do7hh
      @IdoDekel-do7hh 2 роки тому +2

      yeah ikr, a lot of tourists who come here are surprised at how small israel actually is. you can drive from the northern most tip of israel to the southern most tip in like 6 hours.

    • @sambros2
      @sambros2 2 роки тому

      @@IdoDekel-do7hh thats why you need to make israel bigger haha

  • @romulusnr
    @romulusnr 2 роки тому +1

    2:38 while it's true 3G and 4G signals are in the UHF band, the UHF signals the staion uses are probably not the same range as cell phone towers

  • @mitchellfriesen4795
    @mitchellfriesen4795 2 роки тому +3

    Hey a suggestion for another gigantic farm would be Monette farms in Saskatchewan. They have a very interesting story and own land all over North America

  • @geoofficial1
    @geoofficial1 2 роки тому +7

    I’m Australian and this is really scared, the richest person in our country, Gina Rhinehart, privately owns 1.2% of all land in australia.

  • @oicmapper
    @oicmapper 5 місяців тому

    The lake beside it is called British Anna Creek Station or Bewize

  • @adam872
    @adam872 5 місяців тому

    People who aren't from Australia (particularly Western Australia), Russia or Canada find it difficult to grasp how unbelievably vast, empty and remote these countries are. The cattle stations are absolutely enormous here, to the point where helicopters are often used for mustering.

  • @rommelpetez368
    @rommelpetez368 2 роки тому +3

    What I been told, most stations or Cattle stations in Australia, are like the size of the State of Israel. 22,000 kilometres per square. But most of them, are located at the Australian outback. Most of that land it's desert. But still amazing, terrain.

    • @foxboy6662
      @foxboy6662 2 роки тому +1

      Well Israel is approximately 60% desert so it's not far off.

  • @RamanSharma-zk1bj
    @RamanSharma-zk1bj 2 роки тому +3

    Yo what's with these subtitles 😂

  • @mrgray5576
    @mrgray5576 2 роки тому

    Hey, i worked on Anna creek station doing flora and fauna surveys.

  • @fyukfy2366
    @fyukfy2366 2 роки тому

    @ 0:57 what the hell is a bovin? Is it like a Vin diesel that shoots arrows?

  • @s0659651
    @s0659651 2 роки тому +3

    I need to watch it twice. Once for the video and once for the closed captions!

    • @s0659651
      @s0659651 2 роки тому +1

      It looks like they fixed it.

    • @crowonthepowerlines
      @crowonthepowerlines 2 роки тому

      @@s0659651 Keyboaard Warrriorrr!!1!!!!111!!11!!!1!

  • @rubiconnn
    @rubiconnn 2 роки тому +3

    "Motorcycles typically don't suffer from heat stroke"
    I see you've never ridden an air cooled bike off road.

  • @OrbitSloth
    @OrbitSloth Рік тому

    I’m working on a farm currently not too far from Anna creek. The closest town is coober pedy (40 min drive). Fuck me is it hard work

  • @oksowhat
    @oksowhat 2 роки тому +1

    subtitles are amazing. run intern run

  • @subhams902
    @subhams902 2 роки тому +12

    Whoever disliked this video clearly needs to get a covid test, because one the major symtoms is lack of taste.

    • @bidoof367
      @bidoof367 2 роки тому

      it only has DISLIKE dislikes

  • @thepaddockengineer
    @thepaddockengineer 2 роки тому +3

    I love how the first SI unit given was rainfall... in cm.

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 4 місяці тому

    I remember this about "Ona-bloody-datta".....when I travelled there myself in 1985....
    Oodna-bloody-datta
    The bloody town’s a bloody cuss,
    No bloody trams, no bloody bus.
    And no-one cares for bloody us
    In Oodna-bloody-datta.
    Just bloody heat and bloody flies,
    The bloody sweat runs in your eyes.
    And if it rains, what a surprise
    In Oodna-bloody-datta.
    No bloody fun, no bloody games,
    No bloody sport, no bloody dames.
    Won’t even give their bloody names
    In Oodna-bloody-datta.
    No bloody clouds or bloody rain.
    No bloody curbs no bloody drains.
    The bloody council’s got no brains
    In Oodna-bloody-datta.
    The bloody goods are bloody dear’
    A bloody buck for a bloody beer.
    But is it good, no bloody fear
    In Oodna-bloody-datta.
    The bloody dances make you smile,
    The bloody band is bloody vile,
    They only cramp your bloody style
    In Oodna-bloody-datta.
    The best place is in bloody bed
    With bloody ice upon your head,
    You might as well be bloody dead
    In Oodna-bloody-datta.

  • @zicklane
    @zicklane 2 роки тому

    This feels like an old HAI video, his voice doesn't feel as excited and shouty as it has been in recent years