Yeah, I know, this topic sucks, but if you want better topics you're going to have to suggest them... here... in our suggestion bin: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUdlvw6YgU44J8AnM2U_ZvRMyvh_CUM51LYSqF5nYJB9d1-w/viewform?usp=sf_link We'll even send you a free t-shirt if we use your suggestion (but it takes forever to ship them out so don't get too excited)

@re57k

4 жыл бұрын

your pun sucks

@NotAmira_

4 жыл бұрын

WE NEED MORE PLANES!

@aswd45-mk14

4 жыл бұрын

Bricks!!!

@d9zirable

4 жыл бұрын

bricks

@amorag59

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, I thought it was interesting considering I have nothing else to do in quarantine. If you're going to keep a crappy attitude, all you're going to get is a channel that sucks.

0:00 This video is also made possible by Hoover, although not intentionally so.

@syxepop

4 жыл бұрын

zakiducky - well, one consequence of it was that Hoover (an American-based company) had to be sold IN ITS' ENTIRETY, first to Maytag and years later, with another merger to Whirpool, where it resides nowadays (Candy has to pay royalties to Whirpool to use the name).

@ImSquiggs

4 жыл бұрын

Wicked funny hahaha

@happyfacefries

2 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there

Sooooo... "We're losing £570 per sale!" "Don't worry, we'll make it up on volume!"

@TheSecondVersion

3 жыл бұрын

This was MoviePass's mistake, along with believing that people would treat a movie theater subscription like a *gym membership.*

@adrianbutitsjustapseudonym8681

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSecondVersion really? 🤣

@SacreligousTurkey

3 жыл бұрын

Great logic on their end. It’s almost as if they didn’t use a calculator or even basic math.

@ruslannabioullin3664

3 жыл бұрын

@@SacreligousTurkey What do you expect, they're low-IQ businesspeople, not mathematicians.

@traplover6357

3 жыл бұрын

@@ruslannabioullin3664 they're probably so rich, they don't understand what the average person does as a consumer

This is that story every British marketing student had to study at one point!

@g-man3785

4 жыл бұрын

In the US, all business students have to study about Enron.

@sams3015

4 жыл бұрын

G-Man I think we did too!

@tristanmoller9498

4 жыл бұрын

What’s that?

@brazeiar9672

4 жыл бұрын

One student will skip that class. I call this student my favourite, because one day I'm going to be getting a free flight to the US!

@tomkingston8886

4 жыл бұрын

999 likes

Well at least everyone had a vacuum at the end of it

@stormbob

4 жыл бұрын

No wonder Britain sucks. --The Colonies

@duncangilpatric987

4 жыл бұрын

@@stormbob LMAO

@neelparmar6690

4 жыл бұрын

That sucks

@2hotflavored666

4 жыл бұрын

@@stormbob xD

@brazeiar9672

4 жыл бұрын

Today: Everything is made in China. MAGA.

Of course it’s plane-related.

@WilburLin

4 жыл бұрын

@Henry Wijaya Not bricks?!

@airwipe1639

4 жыл бұрын

Micheal Thatcher, bruhhh he’s been doing planes since he started the channel

@loganreuter6072

4 жыл бұрын

Thankfully

@Arthur-nd8jt

4 жыл бұрын

that's a good thing

@lachry4019

4 жыл бұрын

Of course, planes are cool.

"business strategy" more like a scam.

@TheLikeys

4 жыл бұрын

But a reverse scam right?

@libratyanjhon3959

4 жыл бұрын

"legal" scam to be precise

@cybersquire

4 жыл бұрын

The secret ingredient is CRIME

@pedronunes3063

4 жыл бұрын

@@libratyanjhon3959 Legal?

@Aetherius21

4 жыл бұрын

scam, business, they're synonymous

My grandma brought a vacuum during this promo and that meant she took my mum on her first and only trans-atlantic trip to see New York! Very interesting to hear a familiar story! Brilliant vid as always!!

@PlanetaryFacts

4 жыл бұрын

This is such a nice and wholesome comment.

@Inseut

4 жыл бұрын

@@PlanetaryFacts yeah! I love this comment

@beanreeses4364

4 жыл бұрын

Yes you don’t get many of these here on KZread

@hades7650

4 жыл бұрын

*spits*

@xxxndsboy

4 жыл бұрын

@@PlanetaryFacts Yeah

There’s a massive closed down hoover factory a mile from where I live and I never knew why it closed down. Thanks

@thereal_morxy49

4 жыл бұрын

HAI: Teaches people why their local vacuum cleaner factories are closed down.

@das3610

4 жыл бұрын

Caleb OKAY could be near Wembley. I was in Wembley a while ago and I think there was one there.

@mikerhop9

4 жыл бұрын

Pentrebach in Merthyr Tydfil is where they were made

@tylerbaker7761

4 жыл бұрын

DAS the one in Wembley that is a big Art Deco building I think used to be the head offices though maybe it was also a factory. It’s now a Tesco and if anyone’s looking for it it’s just next to the A40 road near Perivale tube station

@tylerbaker7761

4 жыл бұрын

Caleb OKAY off the A40 in north west London near Perivale tube station

Vacuum company: noo you can't just buy a £120 vacuum to fly to America All of Europe: haha airplane go woosh

@martinzanazzi9025

4 жыл бұрын

This comment is suspiciously similar to the one on real engineering’s sr71 video

@guy_th18

4 жыл бұрын

all of Europe? you sure about that?

@franciscorivera1559

4 жыл бұрын

Tbh I really hate comments are like Gamer: stupid game Me: ugly (I know the example doesn't make any sense) But this is the only comment I love with that kind of format

@extraemontamontes3618

4 жыл бұрын

@@guy_th18 for amuricans Europe=uk or something

@chunguslover

4 жыл бұрын

I don't even care about the joke itself I just appreciate being reminded of money printer go brrr

R.I.P 6 raccoons in a suit 😢

@duckonaroll1913

3 жыл бұрын

they were spending too much on raccoons in a human suit so they had to say he died and call it a day 😥

my uncle actually owned the company who supplied hover with the weights for the washing machines in this offer they may a substantial profit because they just used Slag from a nearby Iron Refinery that payed them to dispose of it so they may profit from both sides of the endevor

@jwrfd

4 жыл бұрын

I live near the factory It looks really nice but then it changed to a tesco and now I don't know it has an art deco tesco sign and a giant hover logo

@armchairrocketscientist4934

4 жыл бұрын

Now that is one profitable business venture.

@edwardnygma8533

4 жыл бұрын

@densch123 They briefly mentioned they were also trying to sell washers, so they would try to upsell customers after the initial vacuum sale.

@radiofrog

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that’s a businessman’s wet dream right there

@tigerfun8644

3 жыл бұрын

Sure he does

oh wow, my parents went to florida with this promotion, I remember my dad nearly sued them to get the tickets, he was mad about it for months!

@Arri7979

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry they had to go through all of that just to end up in Florida. Deepest condolences.

@IceBlueLugia

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve lived in Florida my whole life, it’s nothing special. Your dad got scammed

@davidp2537

3 жыл бұрын

@@IceBlueLugia same here, they should have went to New York or California instead

@IceBlueLugia

2 жыл бұрын

@@bryceingelsby Beaches suck in general. Sand is a pain in the ass to clean and I always have more fun swimming in pools. So not really a draw for me

@cucuawe465

2 жыл бұрын

If you live in rainy and wet place like Britain, Florida is a good choice for new experience

My mum had one of those £119.99 Hoovers. She gave the receipt to my Grannie, who got return flights to/from Italy. Never give a oldie a offer like this, they will take you on, and win!!

@nathan._.h

4 жыл бұрын

Andrew Kerr granny*

@Croz89

4 жыл бұрын

They've got plenty of time to occupy themselves with the bureaucracy, and have pretty much no restrictions on when they can travel.

@gavinkibodeaux9789

4 жыл бұрын

@@nathan._.h u rly gonna tell someone how to spell a name they gave to someone? U rly got nothing to do huh

@eddiemate

4 жыл бұрын

An Cúl Tóna Níos Mór Imagine correcting a made up name lmao

@jonjohnson2844

4 жыл бұрын

Especially back then as mail was pretty much the standard form of communication.

Sounds like Michael Scott’s Golden Ticket promotion

@Josh-ck9bv

4 жыл бұрын

Karl Tanner of Gin Alley I think you mean Dwight’s haha

@piguy9225

4 жыл бұрын

Except that actually worked

@reddysetgo1341

4 жыл бұрын

@densch123 michael scott put 5 golden tickets in 5 boxes of paper. he did not realize that he didn't restrict one ticket per person and all 5 tickets were sent to their biggest client, giving them 50 percent off their entire order

@PretentiousStuff

3 жыл бұрын

what the hell is a pallette?

At one point a car dealership bought up a load of hoovers and offered customers a free hoover with each car bought. This was a brilliant idea because people bought cheap second hand cars they didn't really want just to get the hoover so that they could get the plane tickets.

That CEO single handedly destroyed the company with one shocking business decision.

@pranavshinde4472

5 ай бұрын

Tit for a tat

R.I.P. Six raccoons in an unconvincing human costume

@DNGNDriver

6 ай бұрын

The comment above yours also says "RIP six raccoons in an unconvincing human costume," and I think it's funny as hell that at least two people saw Prince Phillip croak and said "I should comment on that HAI vid"

Well the Brits have officially stopped pretending that 6 raccoons in a human suit is Prince Phillip. They’ve put it to rest

1 Vacuum = 1 Free flight HAI: *Buys a trillion vacuum cleaners*

@pakwarrior1112

4 жыл бұрын

just to fly to newark airport so he has more reasons to roast it XD

@mikerhop9

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@brazeiar9672

4 жыл бұрын

Brandenberg to Newark

@whythehecknot5038

4 жыл бұрын

@@pakwarrior1112 more like to avoid it

@coffeemakerbottomcracked

3 жыл бұрын

HAI... BYE

Hence, the British phrase, "You're as dumb as a Hoover vacuum salesman", was born.

as a brit, I can confirm that it really is several racoons in a human suit.

@ememem2952

3 жыл бұрын

oh definitely

@melodiclogic9904

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you don’t hit a lady with a car and break her collarbone and get away with it without being a number of raccoons 🦝

@DavidLoveMore

3 жыл бұрын

The racoons escaped.

@upincominggigachad9955

2 жыл бұрын

Not anymore :)

@enjolraswaters7491

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidLoveMore they got bored

This episode was double as interesting

@Jack-vb4qy

4 жыл бұрын

Jetlite this video was posted 7 minutes ago and this video is 6 minutes long. Now your comment was posted 3 minutes ago. You have LIED sir

@harrisonofcolorado8886

4 жыл бұрын

More like Triple as interesting

@syrialak101

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jack-vb4qy I don't see how that's lying.

@Alexander-hi8bo

4 жыл бұрын

Jack, jetlite has broke time and space itself

@thereal_morxy49

4 жыл бұрын

So it was one interesting

Lmao I remember my uncle told me how he made 9 of my family members to but the vacuum and ended up with 20 tickets. They used 15 and sold the rest for like half of what they went for. He would laugh saying how he basically got payed to fly to America (sold the tickets and the vacuum).

3:50 - A joke about Moviepass: Board of Directors - "This company is losing money on every ticket sale" CEO: "That's okay, we'll make it up in volume."

Free Flight u say ? Wendover Productions: heavy sweating

@wigglebot2368

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe I missed the joke but he is Wendover Productions

Just for the record “crumpet muncher” is something very different in the u.k

@flavoursofsound

4 жыл бұрын

It takes quite the cunning linguist to understand

@bencarpendale

4 жыл бұрын

wow

@toxicrain9915

4 жыл бұрын

I’m so happy I’m not the only one to notice this 😂

@cjeam9199

4 жыл бұрын

Ya know I have always preferred muffins myself.

@Inseut

4 жыл бұрын

Can someone explain? I'm curious

5:48 "There's another epic business blunder going on right now" Person in the background: 🥳🎉

@vnyggi621

4 жыл бұрын

Party like its 2020

My parents got in at the end, after Hoover had cleaned up their act and the process was smoother. They got two return flights to New York for themselves, and paid for we three kids (all pre-teens, so not too pricey).

I went to Florida on this deal. Still can’t believe it. Good times

for a sec i thought it's about hover - the occasional sponsor

@FrostyLava

2 жыл бұрын

same

Math Exam : 30 - 600 My mind : subtract, square root, math words...

@realcanadian96

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to divide the pi!

@MarloSoBalJr

4 жыл бұрын

What's an adjective?... wait wrong scenario

@geo3172

4 жыл бұрын

@Biess lol

0:39 The racoons ran away

rip six raccons in a human suit.

Wait this isn’t Wendover why are we discussing planes

@mrsoundso4897

4 жыл бұрын

Is it not?

@asneecrabbier3900

4 жыл бұрын

_do we tell him_

@syxepop

4 жыл бұрын

Nathan09786 - this is the SNARKIER VERSION of Wendover. And it is the same Sam that LIKES PLANES TOO MUCH...

@eddiemate

4 жыл бұрын

Because Sam is a big Wendover fan. It’s so bad that he even acts like he’s Wendover.

@syxepop

4 жыл бұрын

Eddiemate - NO, NO, NO... It is Sam's 2nd account (Extremities podcasts is his 3rd)...

That Prince Phillip joke didn’t age well Just like Prince Phillip

In czech the verb for "hoovering" is "luxovat," derived from vacuums brand Electrolux.

F for the 6 racoons in a suit. U will be remembered prince phillip

@raglebagle6822

3 жыл бұрын

Rip

Those first analogies got to me especially as someone who has lived both in UK and usa. ‘Hoovering’ is more akin to calling bandages ‘band-aids’ and kitchen storage containers’Tupperware’ than cookies being called another generic name and same as ‘potato fries’ as they are called here in Japan.

Last time I was this early, the queen was still the only life on earth.

@jjc5475

4 жыл бұрын

that is disgusting. i love it.

RIP the 6 racoons in the suit 🪦

Six reaccons. RIP phillip

There was another promotion like this in the UK about 15 years ago. This was "book a cruise for £10" promoted by the Daily Express newspaper.Of course the real price of this cruise would have been several hundred pounds, but the thinking behind this promotion was that the person taking up this offer would also book a second cruise for a partner. This would be at full price and the travel company should have made a small profit. Unfortunately many people just booked the £10 cruise with no second ticket. The travel company went bankrupt and the newspaper had to compensate over 2.500 readers

RIP 6 raccoons in an unconvincing human suit

It's always a good time when Half As Interesting makes a video talking about planes

@Saberfanboy

4 жыл бұрын

Obligatory "your everywhere" statement

Rip six raccoons in an unconvincing Hooman suit

This has been the earliest to an HAI video I've been. shoot, my zoom meeting.

Well that Prince Phillip joke came a shock today 😂😂

And this is how I got to go to Disney World as a little kid. Thank you Hoover

that Prince Phillip joke 1 year later :(

rip 6 racoons

I like how you repeated the word “planes” twice in the intro.

@kulturfreund6631

3 жыл бұрын

Twice? - There’s only one repetition.

If only I could trade in my Dyson Vaccum for a first class ticket on Qatar airways

@jimsvideos7201

4 жыл бұрын

They're about the same price 😂

@airplanewhat5316

4 жыл бұрын

@@jimsvideos7201 haahah yes they are

@syxepop

4 жыл бұрын

Jim's videos - they're like 3-5x as much, that's why he's asking for those....

0:39 has not aged well

Something very similar to this actually happened again in Italy in April 2019. The electronics company "Unieuro" gave out a free flight to anywhere in Europe as long as you spent more than 300 euros. At first it seemed to work, but around Easter they just stopped paying for the flights just day before they departed, which forced many people to pay thousands of euros on flights because it was holiday season.

@Holland1994D

4 жыл бұрын

300 euros is a lot right for EU flights? Or did people want to fly during very busy periods?

@okok72277

2 жыл бұрын

@@Holland1994D a last minute round trip flight can cost that during school holidays

Company : *makes some weird business choice* Consumer : "I'm about to end this company's entire career"

RIP, six raccoons.

This video starts out being labelled as "the best internet video ever" yet doesn’t mention bricks. I’m disappointed airplane man.

R.I.P. several raccoons in a suit

0:40 that aged well…

So if there’s one thing I’ve learned being in a corporate job for 15 years, it’s that while the executives often do stupid things, they aren’t actually stupid and are acting rationally based on some dumb rules and/or incentives. I would love to know what the real reasons were that the Hoover execs made such stupid decisions.

@mipmipmipmipmip

2 жыл бұрын

I bet management made revenue growth the only KPI and left out profit. Isn't that anyway what every venture capitalist is doing these days?

@infiniteplanes5775

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@trevormillar1576

2 жыл бұрын

This is the best argument in favour of Socialism that I have ever heard!

@justins8802

2 жыл бұрын

@@trevormillar1576 No, politicians do even dumber things. Basically whenever humans are involved, stupidity isn’t too far away. It’s really an argument for an AI dictatorship.

Ok, you finally got me. $12 for a year of documentaries is too hard to pass up.

People in the UK call it hoover? I've been calling it a vacuum cleaner the whole time I live in the UK 😳

@DanCooper404

2 жыл бұрын

I first ran into this when I was in Ireland. The lady that owned the castle we were staying at called it hoovering.

Those poor raccoons !!

this got recommended to me after prince phillip died *wait*

Rip 6 raccoons in a human costume

What I learned: Six raccoons in a business suit is called prince phillip LMAO

*"This video was made possible by Hover"* Oh, not this time...

@syxepop

4 жыл бұрын

Tecker - ...almost. (Hoover, no one does lot like you...)

*"Legend says, one day Sam will make a video about bricks..."*

The Hoover Holidays Pressure Group were so mad that a bunch of them pooled in money to buy a lot of stocks in the parent company, just so they could talk to the executives

Dyson should do this. They are overpricing their vacuums. Plus their vacuums are great.

RIP 6 raccoons

Wow, this guy posts a lot of aviation related videos. I know someone who goes by the name of Wendover Productions who also does a lot of aviation videos. Almost as if HAI and Wendover are the same person!

@rozafisheikh7968

4 жыл бұрын

My word, this is riveting news :0

@AVeryRandomPerson

4 жыл бұрын

It's so creepy. It really seems that HAI and Wendover are the same person!

@syxepop

4 жыл бұрын

Random Anime Girl - if you haven't found it yet, it is "Sam from Wendover". Same chap, but TWICE AS SNARKY in HALF THE TIME.

@geo3172

4 жыл бұрын

*illuminati inntenseifies*

@K10_Productions

4 жыл бұрын

Someone is going to get wooooshed

Basically you bought the price of a plane ticket for the price of a vacuum

What in the world did Prince Phillip do to you? Hahaha.

Hoover could also be the name of an airplane company. *But Hoover isn’t good at doing either*

@cjeam9199

4 жыл бұрын

alexxxth No I don’t know either. I don’t think he meant “Hover” because that still wouldn’t make sense.

@stuartd9741

4 жыл бұрын

I do believe one of the major carriers will have to rename themselves after going broke during flight detention .. As a new company it can "suck up" all existing pax just waiting around for a plane seat...

I used to sell Hoover products when this was going on, people queued up and bought vacuums as gifts even for their family members,

0:41 One year later, Prince Philip is no more

Sound out HAI and it sounds like Hi I now call it "Hi"

@obiwac

4 жыл бұрын

@Jaakko Lauronen ikr, crazy. Who would've guessed

@avanikavya

4 жыл бұрын

I always see it too, but I can't do that, or I'll forever confuse it with mine.

What about those lovely bricks? :c

Last time I was this early, Sam still had TWL going on.

@michaelnelson2976

4 жыл бұрын

I miss TWL dearly...

@aidin_alimsyah

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelnelson2976 this channel is TWL

The line "Hoover had to clean up it's act" alone made this whole video worth it. 😆

Omg. This explains why I, a British guy born in 1991, have seen an oddly large number of Turbo Power Total System hoovers in my life. If you are helping at a village hall, scout group, community centre or local church you will look in a cupboard and quite often see one of these.

'' this video has everything " *Doesn't talk about bricks*

Rip the six Raccoons in a suit.

You guys are honestly my fav youtube channel. Love HAI, Wendover Productions, Extremities... If I'm missing any, please let me know so I can consume more content

Honestly, There was a simple change that Hoover could have made to prevent this issue Make the promotion tied to flyers

Their vacuums didn't just suck dust off carpets, they also sucked at MATH 😂

"Here is an idea: What if we capped the price of a flight at 119$/€?" - apparently someone at Dyson.

I have a really old Hoover canister vacuum. It still works and just does what it was built to do.... vacuum.

@howardbaxter2514

4 жыл бұрын

Not provide you tickets to America or random locations in Europe? Damn, that sucks (ba dum tsss).

Even during times of a pandemic ravaging the world, Sam still puts out videos relating to aviation.

Hoover : The risk I took was calculated, but man am I bad at math. *Very much so*

Hah. I remember that. It wasn't like everybody didn't know what was going on and, yes, Hoover DID double down. I remember their PR people being interviewed on national TV and radio and absolutely INSISTING that the whole scheme was under control and would work out well for everybody. 'Hoover' is absolutely embedded in Brit culture as both the verb 'to vacuum' and as the noun for a vacuum cleaner. Even people who know nothing about the company, my kids for example, use the term. If you're really old, like me, you may also remember a time when no home had a washing machine and the laundromat devices were made by the (US) Bendix company. For years 'Bendix' meant any kind of washing machine.

I've honestly been waiting for you to cover this Thank you

When you're an avgeek and HAI uploads about planes: *_cha cha real smooth_*

After hearing a countless number of sponsor spots for CuriosityStream, a year being cheaper than 1 month of Netflix was too good to resist. You've finally won! I'll be watching your documentary and Tom Scott's series on Nebula soon.

It's funny because Americans are usually the ones that like to call products based off their brand names. They say Kleenex instead of tissues, Jell-O instead of jelly, Jacuzzi instead of hot tubs, ChapStick instead of lip balm, Queue Tips instead of cotton buds, Rollerblades instead of inline skates, Band-Aids instead of plasters and loads of others. Only ones I'm aware of in the UK are hoovers and sellotape (and Tipp-Ex but that's such a niche rare word.) Oh and Sellotape has a brand name equivalent used there too, Scotch tape, used in the same way. So hoovers are really the only ones I can think of that are unique.

The phrases “Hurry! Limited time only” or “Limited for the first XXXX number of customers” had not been translated into English at that time

If you’re lost in New York, you should ask my friend Donald in a hotel for help

Wowww, I wonder who came up with that idea....they were quite smart. 🤔😂