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  • @TheAlexSchmidt
    @TheAlexSchmidt 2 роки тому +20424

    If by "England" the submitter meant England, Arkansas, and if by "Australia" the submitter meant the ghost town of Australia, Mississippi, than it is indeed possible to drive from England to Australia in about 2 hours 26 minutes.

    • @FrozenBusChannel
      @FrozenBusChannel 2 роки тому +1310

      HAI needs to hire you

    • @JenniferinIllinois
      @JenniferinIllinois 2 роки тому +443

      Ok Sam, we know it's you! 🤣

    • @iavagabond124
      @iavagabond124 2 роки тому +121

      Or London Minnesota maybe

    • @randomperson4349
      @randomperson4349 2 роки тому +155

      @bruh Peru, Massachusetts

    • @ts-wo6pp
      @ts-wo6pp 2 роки тому +201

      @@randomperson4349 peru, vermont. we even got a jamaica, vermont, which was ironically a center of kkk activity in the state.

  • @davidguthary8147
    @davidguthary8147 2 роки тому +10314

    Regarding the Statue of Liberty thing, this is actually not as terrible a question as it first seems. Long story short, Ellis Island and Liberty Island were initially defined as New York land in New Jersey waters. For some not fully understood reason, these islands then became larger. The Supreme Court ruled that the expanded portion of Ellis Island belonged to New Jersey, but there has been no such ruling regarding Liberty Island. Interestingly, if the Ellis Island decision were expanded to Liberty Island, then the statue would be in New York, but the gift shop would be in New Jersey.

    • @njdevilku1340
      @njdevilku1340 2 роки тому +814

      Perfect. We don't have to pay for upkeep but get all the tax revenue from the gift shop.

    • @jacobh.4719
      @jacobh.4719 2 роки тому +844

      CGP Grey made a video on that

    • @clomino3
      @clomino3 2 роки тому +43

      I was thinking this too!

    • @TimBryan
      @TimBryan 2 роки тому +388

      CGP Grey did an excellent video on the subject: ua-cam.com/video/SgZ1f4ACZBQ/v-deo.html

    • @aaaaa-mw4bi
      @aaaaa-mw4bi 2 роки тому +104

      I think the terribleness stems from there already being a popular video on the topic

  • @Rich-gd4fc
    @Rich-gd4fc 2 роки тому +6512

    "What state is the statue of liberty in?"
    HAI, you dropped the ball on the absolute best possible answer, which is that the statue of liberty is in a solid state.

    • @extrahourinthepit
      @extrahourinthepit 2 роки тому +99

      And if you map the route from it to lovely Australia by car and save it on your pc you'll have a solid state to solid state drive in a solid state drive!

    • @Someone-cd7yi
      @Someone-cd7yi 2 роки тому +38

      Except the inside, which is gaseous.

    • @ekvedrek
      @ekvedrek 2 роки тому +25

      @@Someone-cd7yi and the surroundings in liquid state

    • @hoichingwong4267
      @hoichingwong4267 Рік тому

      @@Someone-cd7yi Really?!

    • @legalwaterdrinker3286
      @legalwaterdrinker3286 Рік тому +9

      ​@@hoichingwong4267Well, it's hollow

  • @PsychoSavager289
    @PsychoSavager289 2 роки тому +6236

    "What state is the Statue of Liberty in?"
    Generally a good one. It has a layer of copper rust on it from years of being exposed to the elements, but this has now become part of its iconic look and has not substantially affected its structural integrity. It did undergo extensive restoration from 1984-1986 and was closed to the public during that time, but has generally been accessible since then.

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2 роки тому +2145

    This mysterious "Robert" must be so excited to finally be in the spotlight. All of their hard work copy-and-pasting the code for that bot and then letting it run idly for a couple of hours... it's all been worth it.

    • @oddishhonor
      @oddishhonor 2 роки тому +30

      I am validated.

    • @robfila5046
      @robfila5046 2 роки тому +21

      I’m not this Robert but I’m still honored

    • @twigwick
      @twigwick Рік тому +12

      We see you, Robert, you're not fooling anyone.

    • @reagandevore273
      @reagandevore273 Рік тому +7

      Why do you think this unknown "Robert" was so interested in bricks?

    • @robert-rv8lo
      @robert-rv8lo Рік тому +52

      @@reagandevore273 It was a while back when I did that, I think must have been around 2020 or 2021 or so. The funny thing is, I didn't even see this video until like a year after he posted it, and mostly it was just something I did with a little bash script that I ran on my laptop because I was a college freshmen stuck during the lockdown with nothing better to do. To be honest, I'm not even sure how my name got into it.

  • @marchcross9851
    @marchcross9851 2 роки тому +4944

    Glad Robert got the respect he deserves. He should get his own HAI video

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому +36

      @we will do it no

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому +19

      @ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому +1

      @@giselle8924 bo

    • @rjfaber1991
      @rjfaber1991 2 роки тому +13

      I can only apologise on behalf of all people called Robert...

    • @robertr11
      @robertr11 2 роки тому +22

      @@rjfaber1991 why would you apologise this is great

  • @epicsamurai5
    @epicsamurai5 2 роки тому +8851

    CGP Grey proved that the Statue of Liberty question has nuance.

    • @bwaco7004
      @bwaco7004 2 роки тому +99

      Fact.

    • @hajfksdl
      @hajfksdl 2 роки тому +357

      But the statue itself is in New York, no nuance there

    • @lilpokey3969
      @lilpokey3969 2 роки тому +19

      Exactly what I was going to comment

    • @avirajsinghmehta1857
      @avirajsinghmehta1857 2 роки тому +323

      @@hajfksdl but it's on federal land which is in new york which is in Jersey

    • @viewer-of-content
      @viewer-of-content 2 роки тому +138

      But if H.A.I. gave us nuance how could he get through so many questions. Also the Real question he failed at is, "Has anyone ever Driven from Australia to the U.K.?" The Correct answer of which would be, "Yes. Dozens. Parking lot Ships Have surely carried Hundreds of crappy brittish cars to Australia when Britian still made cars. And you get the boats on and off the ship by driving." The Better Question I'd Ask is, "Who's driven to the most countries?", because sifting through wrong answers, ferry routes, and captain's logs of boat car transports would surely give opertunities for either funny jokes or talking about Top Gear/Grand Tour.

  • @madams
    @madams 2 роки тому +3704

    "Let's face it, if you like this channel you like knowing stuff..." i mean personally, I like this channel for the brick jokes, the wiki summaries are just extra mustard

    • @vrclckd-zz3pv
      @vrclckd-zz3pv 2 роки тому +3

      @purple X No it's here ua-cam.com/video/yrO5PKhDQI8/v-deo.html

    • @aubreamber
      @aubreamber 2 роки тому +3

      @purple X ok

    • @tomstravels520
      @tomstravels520 2 роки тому +31

      Don't forget the hating of Newark airport

    • @BluescreenLKE
      @BluescreenLKE 2 роки тому +7

      His jokes have gotten better

    • @jannestiemes4328
      @jannestiemes4328 2 роки тому +6

      My favorite, bricks with mustard

  • @stefanwalicord2512
    @stefanwalicord2512 2 роки тому +1221

    "Half as Interesting, the show that asks the question 'what if Vox was worse?'"
    Made me burst into screeching laughter

    • @danilincks5809
      @danilincks5809 2 роки тому +9

      I had water blowing out my nose with that gem too 😂😂😂

    • @airworks7809
      @airworks7809 2 роки тому +36

      Actually, even before this video i was used to think about Vox as "Bad HAI"

    • @ScottWallace5
      @ScottWallace5 2 роки тому

      My favorite line 😂

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Рік тому

      E‎ ‎ ‎

  • @Roxor128
    @Roxor128 2 роки тому +205

    If you allow putting the car on a boat, you _can_ drive to Australia. One Dutch guy did it a couple of years back, staying overnight with whoever volunteered to host him and getting power to charge his car from them. At the time I found out about it, he was looking for places in Australia to host him for the last couple of thousand kilometres of his journey.

    • @smalltime0
      @smalltime0 10 місяців тому +11

      you use to be able to catch a bus from london to sydney
      the journey took 92 days

    • @philemonzz
      @philemonzz Місяць тому +1

      In 1968 there was a rally marathon from London to Sydney, crossing through Europe, the middle East, South Asia and eventually through Australia

  • @cyankoopa8111
    @cyankoopa8111 2 роки тому +6067

    Bricks are incredible, you should make a third video. Perhaps it should be about what happens if you snort crushed up brick powder?

    • @remouladenbaron4903
      @remouladenbaron4903 2 роки тому +196

      Bricks contain iron oxide so it might even help with iron deficiency!

    • @yourownnfidel6207
      @yourownnfidel6207 2 роки тому +69

      Crushed brick powder and cocaine is called busco and is very common in my country

    • @daveharrison84
      @daveharrison84 2 роки тому +34

      Everyone who works construction breathes brick dust.

    • @idiosamantic1928
      @idiosamantic1928 2 роки тому +6

      @@yourownnfidel6207 where?

    • @TubboDaKittyCat
      @TubboDaKittyCat 2 роки тому +39

      I tried it. You shit brick dust for days

  • @Vekcrazah
    @Vekcrazah 2 роки тому +2043

    them keeping the grammatical error of 'what's the most a animal can lift' absolutely SENT me

    • @ctyoung0271
      @ctyoung0271 2 роки тому +38

      I'm glad someone else noticed it lmao

    • @rjfaber1991
      @rjfaber1991 2 роки тому +37

      It's like Jeremy Clarkson asked that particular question...

    • @fvrlit
      @fvrlit 2 роки тому +113

      Wikepida

    • @b8IIin
      @b8IIin 2 роки тому +9

      Sent you where?

    • @drew899
      @drew899 2 роки тому +1

      I want to like this but it’s at 669 so I’m leaving a comment instead

  • @OmnipresentPotato
    @OmnipresentPotato 2 роки тому +890

    The statue of liberty one actually fits the content of this channel because it's a disputed topic. CGP Grey did a video on it once.

    • @OmnipresentPotato
      @OmnipresentPotato 2 роки тому +20

      @purple X what is it that's finally here? That's not the CGP Grey video

    • @chuchipang
      @chuchipang 2 роки тому +40

      @@OmnipresentPotato It's a spam bot, just ignore it, or report it if that makes you feel better.

    • @SydSquid-uw5ng
      @SydSquid-uw5ng 4 місяці тому

      Wiith 12 million views so jokes on them ig hehe

    • @OmnipresentPotato
      @OmnipresentPotato 4 місяці тому

      @@SydSquid-uw5ng but again, he did a reupload of himself rating Canadian provinces' flags and got over 2M views so… not the best measure of good ideas you know?

  • @cakesjay3064
    @cakesjay3064 Рік тому +155

    3:00 bruh thats wrong.
    The statue of liberty is obviously solid, thats its state

  • @Ajc-ni3xn
    @Ajc-ni3xn 2 роки тому +66

    3:27 I love that they kept the grammar error in

  • @avenged277693
    @avenged277693 2 роки тому +908

    As a New Jersey native, the Statue of Liberty one cut me deep.

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому +7

      @ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому +2

      @we will do it no

    • @FrostDeino
      @FrostDeino 2 роки тому +21

      As a New York native, the Statue of Liberty one didn't cut at all

    • @zack9777
      @zack9777 2 роки тому +5

      Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty in both of their entirely belong to Jersey City,NJ, Ellis island has a bridge connected to Liberty State park in Jersey City,New Jersey, and my great great grandparents documents said Jersey City NJ, not New York,New York

    • @TheGamesReal
      @TheGamesReal 2 роки тому +1

      As a New York native, I hate New Jersey.

  • @EebstertheGreat
    @EebstertheGreat 2 роки тому +137

    "Why do so many people live in Greenland?" might be the funniest suggestion of them all.

    • @northernsines
      @northernsines 10 місяців тому +6

      There’s just so many !!!

  • @Odisher7
    @Odisher7 2 роки тому +757

    I mean, the statue of liberty one is an interesting topic, cgp grey has a whole video on it. Then again, cgp grey already has a whole video on it

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 2 роки тому +104

      But there's the rub. If there's a whole video and it's interesting, then it's Whole As Interesting and twice as much as this channel can handle.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 2 роки тому +11

      @Biglyp I dunno, HAI guy says that bendover narrator burns babies. Before he eats them. While kicking puppies.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 2 роки тому +6

      @Biglyp Well, it may be a _bit_ biased. Any civilized person eats their babies medium rare, never burnt.

  • @Mo_Mauve
    @Mo_Mauve 2 роки тому +30

    It technically is possible to drive from England to Australia, some of the ways of doing so are (sorted by most likely):
    •Drive an amphibious car.
    •Drive underwater.
    •Drive a flying car.
    •Expand England or Australia so that part of 1 of them is on the same continent as the other.
    •Freeze the ocean.

  • @Bitgedon
    @Bitgedon 2 роки тому +8

    “What state is the Statue of Liberty in”
    CGP Grey: *frustration noises*

  • @littlerusty7987
    @littlerusty7987 2 роки тому +1134

    This is not "Half as Interesting"
    This is "Half as General Knowledge"

  • @randomobserver8168
    @randomobserver8168 2 роки тому +292

    Also, the blue whale technically could carry that much on its back if something else loaded the whale and stabilized the cargo, but the whale couldn't "lift" jack squat because it has no limbs designed to pick stuff up or move it around, and has not developed that particular set of motor skills.

    • @fhudufin
      @fhudufin 2 роки тому +12

      im guessing it means "how much can a whale carry on its back before it gets crushed"

    • @fjordling
      @fjordling 2 роки тому +37

      You could argue that putting something in the whales mouth and then having it raise its head counts as 'lifting', but good luck explaining that to a blue whale

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2 роки тому +19

      @@fjordling Good luck getting a blue whale on the moon. I don't think a spacesuit would fit.

    • @tessjuel
      @tessjuel 2 роки тому +4

      Even more important, a blue whale can't survive on the moon and a dead blue whale has even less lifitng power than one that is alive.

    • @bobdinitto
      @bobdinitto 2 роки тому +1

      Did you have to go and get technical? 🙄

  • @ronanmurphy98
    @ronanmurphy98 2 роки тому +185

    2:50 I was expecting an illuminating insight into how New Jersey owns the waters surrounding Liberty Island, as well as the statutes gift shop. Left devastated. Shout out to CGP Grey ✌️

    • @morbidsearch
      @morbidsearch 9 місяців тому

      CGP "We need to give handouts to the royal family so tourists will see the castles even though the ones in France get more visitors" Grey

    • @ronanmurphy98
      @ronanmurphy98 9 місяців тому +1

      @@morbidsearch That's so 2011.

  • @TheWeatherLightCafe
    @TheWeatherLightCafe 2 роки тому +24

    Thank you! My wife literally spit out her coffee when you said “spank that like button…” priceless.

  • @LugborG
    @LugborG 2 роки тому +13

    I feel I should mention that a guy I knew back in high school was working on plans to turn a Winnebago into an amphibious RV so he could take a road trip to Hawaii. England to Australia could’ve been possible, but he died before he finished the project.

  • @JustARandomMexican
    @JustARandomMexican 2 роки тому +143

    "Curb stomp that subscribe button, straight to the pavement" was so brutal it made my Nebula-subscribing butt pop over just to comment.

    • @Decipher13
      @Decipher13 2 роки тому +10

      Yeah this video really did get quite violent toward the subscribe button, eh?

    • @theboxygenie
      @theboxygenie 2 роки тому +3

      Poor subscribe button, man.

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 2 роки тому +1

      The subscribe button is just really kinky and into it all

  • @OptimusSubPr1me
    @OptimusSubPr1me 2 роки тому +472

    Technically speaking, if you drove from England to a car carrier and slowly drove around the deck (in circles most likely) the entire time you were in the boat and drove off the boat in Australia that would still count, no?

    • @ImperatorTom
      @ImperatorTom 2 роки тому +88

      yep, but honestly you wouldnt even need to keep driving, since for pretty much all long car rides you stop at some point, especially for really long rides, where you need to sleep at some point for example and have to stop because of that.

    • @ammarkassam6747
      @ammarkassam6747 2 роки тому +58

      You wouldn't have driven to Australia then, you would've driven while going to Australia.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2 роки тому +63

      It still counts as a driving route, it's just that there'd be a message on Google Maps saying "this route includes a ferry."

    • @bmac4
      @bmac4 2 роки тому +34

      Ferries don't exist from Indonesia to Australia. You can drive from England as far as Singapore via road and tunnel, and can ferry to Java, but most islands east of Java in Indonesia are comparatively sparsely populated and none of the lands that get relatively close such as East Timor or Papua New Guinea (or any of Indonesia's islands for that matter) have ferries to Australia. The infrastructure isn't there, nor is the demand.

    • @thomasrinschler6783
      @thomasrinschler6783 2 роки тому +8

      @@bmac4 Actually, you can ferry to Bali from Java. Still not to Australia, but at least minimally closer...

  • @Inderastein
    @Inderastein 2 роки тому +138

    I wish there was a Half as Interesting video where all 124,882 safe topic ideas are answered

  • @SonofTuscon99
    @SonofTuscon99 2 роки тому +7

    I can't believe I just stumbled onto your channel a few days ago, this stuff is amazing! Love how you combine two of the best things ever: history and humor!

  • @wilsonanderson1415
    @wilsonanderson1415 2 роки тому +11

    1:33 technically you can *almost* made it to Australia from England.
    If we are talking about direct land drive alone, the closest you ever got to Australia is Singapore.
    but if we include Roll On/Roll Off transfer, I could wrongly assume that there's a RoRo journey from east coast of Peninsular Malaysia to Sarawak, but the closest place you ever got to Australia if you include RoRo journey is Merauke, Indonesia, which may also wrong since i did not know if there is a RoRo service to Merauke or not.

    • @Farimira
      @Farimira 2 роки тому

      With enough money I'm sure you can hire a RoRo vessel

    • @fredfred2363
      @fredfred2363 2 роки тому +3

      @farimira Yup. I did it... The paperwork was the most difficult bit. Not that expensive either. 👍🏻🇬🇧😀

    • @Croga
      @Croga Місяць тому +1

      @@Farimira With enough money you can build a car that will drive on the bottom of the ocean.
      Then again; with enough money you can have all of Australia transported to the UK. Or the other way around.

  • @sleepercities5987
    @sleepercities5987 2 роки тому +151

    As someone who was given balls of fury for the WII as a Christmas gift from well meaning relatives this video hit close to home

    • @jeffbenton6183
      @jeffbenton6183 2 роки тому +7

      What was the worst part of it?

    • @bobdinitto
      @bobdinitto 2 роки тому +11

      My condolences.

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 2 роки тому

      How could they.

    • @_wija
      @_wija 2 роки тому

      have your grandma pull the car around

    • @OtakuUnitedStudio
      @OtakuUnitedStudio 2 роки тому +2

      "Tell you grandma to pull the car around."

  • @yehonatanduek8705
    @yehonatanduek8705 2 роки тому +99

    I love how all of us worked together as a community to do what we do best and corrected poor Sam, Adam, and rest of the HAI team about the statue of liberty thing at least a few dozen times already XD

    • @bobdinitto
      @bobdinitto 2 роки тому +11

      This is the Internet. Humiliation is a requirement.

    • @jcxz983
      @jcxz983 2 роки тому +3

      And yet it still stands in New York.

  • @sitarama2410
    @sitarama2410 2 роки тому +67

    Fact Check: The Statue of Liberty is in solid state

    • @Lovuschka
      @Lovuschka 2 роки тому +5

      I heard it is in a broken state and still needs to be fixed.

    • @dangerouslytalented
      @dangerouslytalented 2 роки тому

      @@Lovuschka ever since that ammunition ship was sabotaged by Germans in World War I and the arm was hit by shrapnel

    • @Lovuschka
      @Lovuschka 2 роки тому

      @@dangerouslytalented Black Tom is the name

    • @B.Ies_T.Nduhey
      @B.Ies_T.Nduhey 2 роки тому +1

      I believe its not solid but hollow though

    • @otturs
      @otturs 2 роки тому

      @@B.Ies_T.Nduhey hollow is not a state of matter

  • @herzogsbuick
    @herzogsbuick 2 роки тому +10

    I usually laugh out loud at your videos. But this exceeded all 124,882 of my expectations. Here's to another eighth of a million suggestions

  • @Aerysun
    @Aerysun Рік тому +2

    A friend actually gifted me Balls of Fury for my birthday. The last achievement is playing the game for 10 hours. Truly an impossible task

  • @rickson50
    @rickson50 2 роки тому +68

    The statue of Liberty One is actually based on an interesting thing most people don't know... it's actually in New jersey, but kind of New york owned... or not. It's complicated

  • @Ka0sNinja117
    @Ka0sNinja117 2 роки тому +63

    Episode 300 of Half as Interesting, or simplify the math and watch the 150th episode of Fully Interesting.
    Great content. Love it!

  • @FrostDeino
    @FrostDeino 2 роки тому +335

    For the Statue of Liberty one, if you're confused as to why it's open to debate, there's a good CPG grey video regarding it, and It has to do with who owns the water vs the island
    Also 300 HAI videos that's pretty cool

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому +1

      @heavy duty no

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому +2

      @ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no

    • @FrostDeino
      @FrostDeino 2 роки тому +9

      Ew bots

    • @Empwuznal
      @Empwuznal 2 роки тому

      Bro give the link in the comment

    • @FrostDeino
      @FrostDeino 2 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/SgZ1f4ACZBQ/v-deo.html

  • @amypotter8519
    @amypotter8519 2 місяці тому +8

    5:18 WHAT DID HE JUST SAY!?!? WHAT DID HE SAY!?!? *HEAVY BREATHING* Any one else who watched that one video by Wubzzy get the reference?

  • @kd5ptm
    @kd5ptm 2 роки тому +38

    Can we do more of these? Honestly, this video was hilarious, which was actually painful because I have the flu, but whatever. I liked it.

  • @happyelephant5384
    @happyelephant5384 2 роки тому +27

    3:05 cgp grey enters the chat

  • @geoffreychadwick9229
    @geoffreychadwick9229 2 роки тому +81

    My wife loves penguins and wants a video on 10,474 because it has a penguin doing something "incredibly awesome looking".
    So I guess whatever that idea was, it gets another suggestion? I'm just here for brick facts.

    • @kf10147
      @kf10147 2 роки тому +4

      Wait what is 10474?

    • @nefwaenre
      @nefwaenre 2 роки тому +3

      Aww but that's a puffin, though! Maybe HAI can do a video on why do so many puffins live in Iceland, Greenland etc or something, that'll be cool. 👍

    • @duck966
      @duck966 2 роки тому +1

      @@nefwaenre i think it's a penguin lifting weights on the moon

    • @kakahass8845
      @kakahass8845 2 роки тому +1

      @@nefwaenre After extensive research I've determined it's probably because those places have the most amount of resources and least amount of predators.

    • @zuglymonster
      @zuglymonster 2 роки тому +1

      That's actually why I watched the whole video just to see why that penguin was lifting

  • @petruska111
    @petruska111 2 роки тому +90

    One Minute for the writers that had to read all the Suggestions

    • @zyansheep
      @zyansheep 2 роки тому +9

      They need a raise... and human rights

    • @WHATSAHANDLEIDKIDK
      @WHATSAHANDLEIDKIDK 2 роки тому +1

      frog meme

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому +1

      @ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no

    • @petruska111
      @petruska111 2 роки тому +2

      @@zyansheep either Raise or rights you cant get both

    • @bobidou23
      @bobidou23 2 роки тому +1

      BRICKS

  • @DrivingGod21
    @DrivingGod21 2 роки тому +1

    "Curb stomp that subscribe button" is my new favorite way to end UA-cam videos

  • @FrozenBusChannel
    @FrozenBusChannel 2 роки тому +2

    Respect to the person named "BRICKS BRICKS"

  • @bassett_green
    @bassett_green 2 роки тому +148

    that Statue of Liberty thing actually isn't quite as straightforward as you'd think

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому +3

      @ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no

    • @Robert-nl4iq
      @Robert-nl4iq 2 роки тому +4

      exactly it’s an exclave, technically in ny but surrounded by nj

    • @WHATSAHANDLEIDKIDK
      @WHATSAHANDLEIDKIDK 2 роки тому +1

      frog meme

    • @unscenegamers
      @unscenegamers 2 роки тому +7

      yeah good ol CGP Grey has a video on it.

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому +1

      @we will do it no

  • @Vincevon95
    @Vincevon95 2 роки тому +11

    “#1 in number of Mount Rushmores.” The channel is too funny.

  • @alexlin8328
    @alexlin8328 2 роки тому +22

    you missed an opportunity to tag the end of the wii episode with “don’t forget to throw that subscribe button straight into the television screen!”

  • @nitehawk86
    @nitehawk86 2 роки тому +1

    0:06 The best flame was "Named because each video on this channel is half as interesting as the previous one." :)

  • @ScottWallace5
    @ScottWallace5 2 роки тому

    SO GOOD!! I still remember when you started this channel, love the random fun facts and humor that goes along with it.

  • @the_steamtrain1642
    @the_steamtrain1642 2 роки тому +50

    Some of the topics are actually pretty interesting since they do have quite good backstories

  • @bestofkings4103
    @bestofkings4103 2 роки тому +37

    I was here from day 1 wow I can’t believe it’s been that long

  • @EconomicalUnicorn
    @EconomicalUnicorn 2 роки тому +45

    I would recommend revisiting “Is it possible to drive from England to Australia” - Francis Birtles was the first person to complete that journey by car in 1928 (given some of it was by boat).
    From Wikipedia: “In an era when there were few roads and gasoline supplies sparse, the epic eight-month journey carried him across mountains, deserts and through tropical jungles and included a number of sea voyages - the last being from Singapore to Darwin. He travelled via Europe, Egypt, Persia (now Iran), India, Burma and Malaya.”

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 2 роки тому +2

      That is so cool. I love those gems of knowledge on the comments.

  • @michaelkelleypoetry
    @michaelkelleypoetry 10 місяців тому +2

    There is actually a bit of controversy between New York and New Jersey regarding Lady Liberty's location, so the question is not as bad as HAI made out. It actually would make a pretty good HAI video exploring the controversy.

  • @I-Teee
    @I-Teee 2 роки тому +1

    You can’t drive from England to Australia.
    Travis Patrana: “dude, hold my Red Bull!”

  • @xeladas
    @xeladas 2 роки тому +45

    I think the "Can you drive from England to Australia?" has some merit: it's possible to drive from England to Eurasia via the Chunnel, and there are plenty of bridges, tunnels and other infrastructure that could get you across some islands; there is also the question of ferries, does taking a ferry mean you didn't drive to your destination? What constitutes a ferry? etc.
    Even if the answer is still no, knowing how close you could get, or odd cases where two parts of the world that one would expect should be connected by road technically aren't (like how the Darién Gap exists in the Americas) are still interesting.

    • @BadIdeasBureau
      @BadIdeasBureau 2 роки тому +5

      Even the channel tunnel probably doesn't count as driving - there are trains which go through it which carry cars, rather than the cars driving directly, so it's more analogous to a ferry than to a road bridge.
      If we count ferries, then google maps will show then if you zoom in - and nothing is shown which would get you closer than Singapore. This could be from incomplete data, but I've still put more effort into research than Sam's writers, so we'll call it a win. (If Indonesia does in fact have international car ferries both North to Asia and South to Australia, then sure, I guess, if you count ferries as driving then go for it)
      Though at that point, you could just frieght your car over and call it a win, and it's about as valid.

    • @minaDesuDesu
      @minaDesuDesu 2 роки тому +7

      @@BadIdeasBureau in the channel you are told to remain in your car, so perhaps the question should be 'how far would you get without having to leave your car'.

    • @EvanAviator
      @EvanAviator 2 роки тому

      You can not drive from England to Australia.

    • @the_clawing_chaos
      @the_clawing_chaos 2 роки тому +2

      No circular ferry between Indonesia and oz. So we fail there

    • @primemeow
      @primemeow 2 роки тому +2

      With the right visas and ferries, you can theoretically get to Vanimo, Papua New Guinea. Google maps won’t let you drive across the India-Pakistan border, but there is a legal crossing between them.

  • @YouAreBreathing
    @YouAreBreathing 2 роки тому +14

    I think this is the first "Half As Interesting" video that really is half as interesting.

  • @AltAccount-vt8pi
    @AltAccount-vt8pi 2 роки тому +17

    Gotta give a shout-out in the comments for Robert for building an actual bot that just says bricks. Respekt

  • @camerasweets1591
    @camerasweets1591 2 роки тому +1

    The Statue of Liberty is now considered to be in NJ. It used to be owned by NY. However NJ petitioned that and now owner it. NJ was happy to get the revenue and New York was happy to stop paying to maintain it and taxes, etc. This is why NYS license plates changed a while back and were no longer able to have the Statue of Liberty on it.

  • @wraithgames
    @wraithgames 2 роки тому +2

    I don't think the Statue of Liberty one should be considered one of the worst topic ideas. CGP Grey did a pretty amazing video on just that!

  • @ferretappreciator
    @ferretappreciator 2 роки тому +4

    Glad they decided to finally start featuring all my ideas

  • @Number1Irishlad
    @Number1Irishlad 2 роки тому +10

    thought this was gonna be a generic video, ended up loving it because of how aggressively passive aggressive the narrator is. love it, im subbing lol

  • @tofu3789
    @tofu3789 2 роки тому +43

    I cannot believe he pronouced "Anubis" the way he did at 2:09

    • @FrostDeino
      @FrostDeino 2 роки тому +6

      I just kinda chose to ignore it

    • @rasmusazu
      @rasmusazu 2 роки тому +9

      Anubis the Cannabis hound.

    • @Giblet12
      @Giblet12 2 роки тому

      Can’t wait to see this is next years errors video!

    • @Lovuschka
      @Lovuschka 2 роки тому

      The correct pronounciation would be more like "Yinepu"

  • @malphone7940
    @malphone7940 2 роки тому +1

    The Statue of Liberty question is actually one that I think warrants a video. For years the state of New York in the state of New Jersey have both claimed ownership of Liberty Island.

  • @petergray7576
    @petergray7576 2 роки тому

    Driving from the UK to Australia is doable. In 1950-52 an Australian Army veteran named Frederick Ben Carlin (and his first wife) accomplished a Transatlantic crossing using a Ford GPA (amphibious jeep). The longest leg was crossing from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Flores, the westernmost of the Azores, which took roughly 32 days. This was a distance of 2,715 km (1687 miles). The shortest distance by sea between the UK and Australia would be between Falmouth, Cornwall and Port Walcott, Western Australia, a distance of 19,434 km (12,076 miles). Now assuming the same pace as Halifax-Flores, it would take around 229 days to "drive".

    • @petergray7576
      @petergray7576 2 роки тому

      A direct, non stop flight between London Heathrow and Perth International takes 16 hours and 35 minutes. If the jet lag didn't physically kill you, and you're a sociopath that doesn't care about their carbon footprint, you could fly the round trip leg 165.7085 times, not counting transfer time or take off and landing duration, in 229 days.

    • @petergray7576
      @petergray7576 2 роки тому

      Now, nobody could accomplish a UK-Australia journey completely by sea. Even the Carlins barely made it across the Atlantic. A more plausible journey is to break this up into land and sea legs: crossing the English Channel by water, driving from Calais, France to Singapore, then by water to Port Walcott, Western Australia.
      Edit: I broke Google Maps trying to find a Calais to Singapore route🤣
      Edit 2: Using another online calculator the distance would be 14,781 km (9184.5 miles) for a duration of 295.6 hours. Assuming an approximate average speed of 50 km/h (31 mph).
      Edit 3: The sea legs would total 3898.47 km (2484.53 miles). Or 47.128 days by the Carlin's 1951 pace.
      Edit 4: Adding 2 and 3 gives a result of 59.45 days as the quickest drive time between the UK and Australia by an amphibious jeep. To whatever masochistic idiot suggested this topic, you're welcome.

  • @ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641
    @ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 2 роки тому +7

    The weight on the moon question is a trick question. You can't lift more weight on the moon, you can just lift more stuff because it weighs less. The amount of weight you can lift is identical. That question is like asking which weighs more, a one pound bag of rocks or a one pound bag of feathers?

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 2 роки тому +3

      I know this one! It's the rocks. Right?

    • @karl0ssus1
      @karl0ssus1 2 роки тому

      ​@@johnladuke6475 Close, it's actually your mum

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 2 роки тому +1

      @@karl0ssus1 No, she's just ashes now, can't weigh much at all. Dad says he left her on a beach somewhere.

    • @karl0ssus1
      @karl0ssus1 2 роки тому

      @@johnladuke6475 oh, in that case then it's definitely the rocks

    • @bgdgdgdf4488
      @bgdgdgdf4488 12 днів тому

      Nobody said the word "weight". The question was "on the moon, what is the most an animal could lift".

  • @BurnBird1
    @BurnBird1 2 роки тому +28

    Funnily enough, Ninja bread man was the first Wii game I ever owned and played (aside from Wii sports, but that's a given seeing as it came with the console)

    • @shapular
      @shapular 2 роки тому

      So how was it?

    • @BurnBird1
      @BurnBird1 2 роки тому +1

      @@shapular I remember the controls being quite bad and not always responsive. The actual game was just a bland platformer where you'd encounter the same easy enemies over and over.
      I also think it just sort of ends, without any final boss or anything of the sort. I might just not have finished the game and misremember though.
      I definitely wouldn't classify it as a good game, but I really can't imagine that it's the *worst* game on the console. If it really is, then that says lot about Nintendo's seal of quality.

    • @Nifirin
      @Nifirin 2 роки тому +3

      The reason it is considered one of the worst is because they reskinned it 3 times to release it as 4 separate games.
      Ninjabreadman
      Anubus II
      Myth Makers: Trixie in Toyland
      Rock 'n' Roll Adventures
      This angered many people that bought what was essentially the same game multiple times, which is why it is remembered with such hatred.

  • @SylviaRustyFae
    @SylviaRustyFae 2 роки тому +8

    1:03 I love how even without that bot, a majority of suggestions at that time wudve been for a bricks video xD

  • @evandonovan9239
    @evandonovan9239 2 роки тому +1

    I can't remember the last time I laughed this much at a video. I was literally weeping. Thanks so much!
    I especially loved that you found an academic paper to answer that one question. (I won't say which so as not to spoil the surprise.)

  • @ryanparrott6866
    @ryanparrott6866 2 роки тому +6

    Though this show is always very funny, this episode made me laugh out loud much more than I expected. Thank you and keep up the great work!

  • @affinityforanime
    @affinityforanime 2 роки тому +8

    "What state is the statue of liberty in?" Hello and welcome to Half as Interesting. The UA-cam channel that says things much more succinctly than CGP Grey. The statue of liberty is in New York.

  • @oatlord
    @oatlord 2 роки тому +4

    South Dakota did seem nice when I drove through it that one year, to be honest.

  • @mr.crazyshadow
    @mr.crazyshadow 2 роки тому +26

    I feel like the Greenland one, if rephrase to "why people choose to live in Greenland" could be an interesting topic

    • @cjeam9199
      @cjeam9199 2 роки тому +8

      Mostly because they were born there.
      Smash that subscribe button!

    • @leahsmilezzzzzzz
      @leahsmilezzzzzzz 2 роки тому +1

      @@cjeam9199 but why would anyone choose to give birth there? (And if you repeat your comment, I will repeat mine, and we’ll go forever, which would honestly be peak internet)

    • @cjeam9199
      @cjeam9199 2 роки тому +1

      @@leahsmilezzzzzzz because they live there, enjoying fucking, birth control isn’t 100% effective, and despite most of the people in Greenland who get pregnant deciding to have an abortion, some don’t want one for whatever reason. Happy little accident, boom more Greenlanders.

    • @jeffbenton6183
      @jeffbenton6183 2 роки тому

      Didn't Sam do a Wendover video like that for Point Barrow, Alaska, or was that a different UA-camr?

    • @cjeam9199
      @cjeam9199 2 роки тому

      @@jeffbenton6183 This one? ua-cam.com/video/MP1OAm7Pzps/v-deo.html

  • @bluey-next777
    @bluey-next777 5 місяців тому +1

    3:17
    "The show that's run out of clever introductions"
    *L O L*

  • @woosh7
    @woosh7 5 місяців тому +1

    2:51 "Welcome back to Half as Interesting. Today, we're answering questions you could have easily googled"

  • @dannypipewrench533
    @dannypipewrench533 2 роки тому +8

    0:33 This whole sequence is hilarious. Robert's bot spamming about bricks is about as funny as me spamming MatPat about doing a video about the (real world) Unknown 2 Highway. Arizona showed me a picture, and I want to know what it is of.

  • @justsomerandombirdwithinte5896
    @justsomerandombirdwithinte5896 2 роки тому +5

    I love the amount of wacky zany ways you guys make destroy the subscribe button jokes

  • @Mainline421
    @Mainline421 2 роки тому +15

    1:23 Driving from England to Australia is sort of possible, someone made a timelaspse of it on UA-cam, you do need to ship the car from the last bit of Asia to Australia though. Could actually have been an interesting video

    • @LilJollyJoker
      @LilJollyJoker 2 роки тому +1

      "ship the car" that is not DRIVING...

    • @Mainline421
      @Mainline421 2 роки тому +1

      @@LilJollyJoker Technically no but you can drive 95%+ of the way there, and if you accompany the car on the ship, it's a little bit of a grey area.
      E.G You can drive to anywhere in Europe from the UK but you would accompany your car on a ferry or train to cross The Channel, I don't think anyone would argue that doesn't count as driving to your destination.

    • @ipadair7345
      @ipadair7345 2 роки тому +1

      @@LilJollyJoker you can drive while being on multiple ships.
      Put atleast two ships, or platforms of same height back-to-back,
      and when the car drives from one ship to another,
      let the back ship move at a greater velocity around the ship the car is on, and come back at the front.
      By doing this you can technically drive to Australia to England.

  • @Squato
    @Squato 2 роки тому

    On the question about driving from England to Australia, this actually is worth a video from you guys. Actual answer is yes, but more as a kinda.
    Short version is that people have pulled off the trip, many times in fact. Either they did it as a competition (such as the London-Sydney Marathon, or the older races going back to the 1920's), because they wanted to keep their car when they moved over to Australia, or for fun/sake of doing it (see the hippie trail). Even doing the same in the other direction as well.
    I think it is worth a video since there is some crazy stories from those who did the trip back in the day. Either due to lack of supplies in some remote part of the world, issues in crossing places where the "road" was something not even the maps could agree on if it existed or not, or the stories that came out of the races from different times (mostly the cheating).
    That, and the fact the route has had to change many times over the years. Early years having nothing to do with the USSR, so having to cross Iran/Afghanistan. To, well...you get the issues there.

  • @gabekaye6773
    @gabekaye6773 2 роки тому +1

    Hahahaha that Vox joke was actually gold I burst out laughing

  • @BigBrezzy
    @BigBrezzy 2 роки тому +4

    1:58 And somewhere, Scott The Woz is screaming and he doesn't know why.

  • @MusTelOJ
    @MusTelOJ 2 роки тому +34

    5:08 - Suejsjiwiwisisimxmaiaom, explained with very good detail, thank you so much. I had been searching for this topic for a while now.

  • @matthewmccallion3311
    @matthewmccallion3311 2 роки тому +38

    The Statue of Liberty question is actually quite interesting and would fit the channel very well. CGP Grey did a video on it

    • @loganbuckley2010
      @loganbuckley2010 2 роки тому +1

      CGP Grey is an idiot who sounds smart but his ideas are only good on paper

  • @wade2112
    @wade2112 2 роки тому

    I lived in South Dakota, not a fan. The people are friendly, but there's a ton of government corruption:
    1. Ravnsborg, the SD attorney general killed a man, lied about it, only recieved 2 misdemeanors, and used his position to regularly get out of tickets.
    2. Kristi Noem, the SD governor wasn't in favor of marijuana legalization and had a state judge (that she appointed) reject the 54% yes vote to legalize it in 2020 as being unconstitutional.
    3. My uncle was a cop and was passed up for a promotion that was easily his after he gave the mayor a ticket.
    4. My neighbor on the city council who had a dirt road to her house that was right next to a public road and allocated city funds to build a road to her house and increase her own home value.
    5. Policing for profit is heavily present in most of the state.

  • @prohakerofficial
    @prohakerofficial 20 днів тому +1

    we need to dethrone these as the worst ones

  • @KerriEverlasting
    @KerriEverlasting 2 роки тому +4

    Excellent quality as usual 😂💖

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому

      @ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no

  • @radarau4864
    @radarau4864 2 роки тому +24

    I think this should’ve went on the 1/3 as interesting Channel….

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому

      @ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no

    • @treyspiller3931
      @treyspiller3931 2 роки тому +2

      Honestly though he should make like a 1/4th as interesting or 1/8th as interesting channel for shorts or something

    • @radarau4864
      @radarau4864 2 роки тому +1

      @@treyspiller3931 that would be a great idea

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2 роки тому

      He did a video for the topics that weren't long enough to be full videos, and that one was 1/4 as Interesting. So this video is more like 0.1% as Interesting.

  • @brakosjacob8019
    @brakosjacob8019 2 роки тому +4

    4:18 Fortunately, Oregon is nowhere near the moon [citation needed]

  • @sonicwaveinfinitymiddwelle8555

    5:09 Now i wonder if there was anyone else who had a stroke while writing their topic idea

  • @Kayla-wg7gt
    @Kayla-wg7gt 2 роки тому

    Real life South Dakotan here, thanks for the shoutout. It is a nice place to live! :) We are also #1 in Crazy Horse Memorial statues. And mispronouncing French names as our capital city.

  • @rubenlarochelle1881
    @rubenlarochelle1881 2 роки тому +9

    2:58 I love how he wanted to make it so short he just gives the obvious answer without even talking about the reason the question exists ahah
    (long story short: the island with the statue is in the waters between New Jersey and New York, but happens to be closer to NJ so it should be NJ territory, but since it is a famous symbol of NYC they decided to make the island an exclave of NY, althoug surrounded by NJ waters)

  • @PhenixKnight434
    @PhenixKnight434 2 роки тому +4

    Yay it's my favorite stock footage channel

    • @dinglebees
      @dinglebees 2 роки тому

      @ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no

  • @AFAndersen
    @AFAndersen 2 роки тому +4

    4:25 - Today I learned Antarctica is more densly populated then Greenland..!

  • @allisond.46
    @allisond.46 Рік тому +1

    “What would happen if all animals went extinct?”
    “The stock market would crash.”
    Reminds me of a Kurzgesagt video where he said and apocalypse would be bad for the stock market.

  • @xndo808
    @xndo808 Рік тому

    That whale on the moon one was actually pretty interesting, not enough for its own vid, but def something I'm glad I now know

  • @xezo4494
    @xezo4494 2 роки тому +22

    I've never been so excited to watch bad ideas.

  • @Kraang
    @Kraang 2 роки тому +4

    1:28
    Wrong, it is possible to drive from the UK to Australia, all you need is a large enough boat to drive around on as it sails to Australia.

  • @kianlong8777
    @kianlong8777 2 роки тому +14

    he woke up and chose violence 0:10

  • @paigebradbury6746
    @paigebradbury6746 2 роки тому

    1:22 “what if Vox was worse” 😭😭 bye I love this channel

  • @abhayrathore5953
    @abhayrathore5953 Місяць тому +2

    BRICKS
    -Robert