The Island Invented to Scam a Rich Guy
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Episode written by Adam Chase
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@Gaby5011wastaken
4 жыл бұрын
Oh dear
@Zach-xk9gq
4 жыл бұрын
Why
@thomas.02
4 жыл бұрын
what is this
@dotdankory
4 жыл бұрын
so, do you mind having your island exploded by me?
@grangermontag1824
4 жыл бұрын
So do you and Mean_commenter hang out and watch Anime all day?
The island does exist. It’s just that it’s invisible at all times, making it difficult to spot
@laurenpinschannels
4 жыл бұрын
it's also permeable to flour
@illdeletethismusic
4 жыл бұрын
just crash enough ships into it to make its outline visible
@Havron
4 жыл бұрын
And always teleporting
@vilius5910
4 жыл бұрын
@@Havron hmmmmmmm.......
@bradcfg7585
3 жыл бұрын
u need to buy the dlc to unlock that area
Now you gotta make “The rich guy invented to scam an Island”
@conradmcdougall3629
4 жыл бұрын
Hillary Clinton and Haiti.
@xanpenguin754
4 жыл бұрын
@@conradmcdougall3629 savage
@MatheusTorezani
4 жыл бұрын
The Castro’s in Cuba.
@ToddKeck98
4 жыл бұрын
KnoxMLG Internet Historian did a video like that though
@LordHeadcheez
4 жыл бұрын
In the spirit of non-partisanship, Donald Trump and Puerto Rico.
Damn, Crocker was actually a really nice rich dude. He funded exploration trips and used most his wealth to rebuild San Francisco.
@enotsnavdier6867
2 жыл бұрын
That's a rare breed, incredibly rare.
@aminadabbrulle8252
2 жыл бұрын
He must have found fairly oddparents.
@gamin9wizard945
2 жыл бұрын
@@aminadabbrulle8252 That was Denzel Crocker and not George Crocker °°]
@aminadabbrulle8252
2 жыл бұрын
@@gamin9wizard945 Congratulations, you get the joke.
@gamin9wizard945
2 жыл бұрын
@@aminadabbrulle8252 I am sorry I am bad at reacting in a fitting funny way. I didn't mean to break the joke or to offend you or anything.
That transition to the sponsor is smooth. Smooth as butter, as if he is trying to butter up some rich dude!
@bentoth9555
4 жыл бұрын
Smoothest ad transition I've seen except, maybe, for LegalEagle.
@freds_chess
2 жыл бұрын
Check put kento bento
@ecave3435
2 жыл бұрын
@@freds_chess that guy is smooth like butter
5:22 "In other words, Crocker's Land was a load of crock." What's this channel now, MinuteEarth?
@NoodleErik
4 жыл бұрын
"E"
@drdoog0783
4 жыл бұрын
I want to know what this meanS
@macaroon_nuggets8008
3 жыл бұрын
@@drdoog0783 Minute Earth always makes a -bad- pun at the end of their videos.
@drdoog0783
3 жыл бұрын
@@macaroon_nuggets8008 This comment was posted a year ago I have no clue what context this is in
“This vidéo was made possible by -CuriosityStream- Brilliant” I feel a disturbance in the force
@DemeDemetre
2 жыл бұрын
haha
@TS_Mind_Swept
2 жыл бұрын
How do you do the strike through text on here..
2:41 Hmmmm this could be the work of *F A I R Y G O D P A R E N T S*
@plumiticus7571
4 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@bavarianmapper4566
4 жыл бұрын
It took me a while to get it
@elliez.3561
4 жыл бұрын
You FAIL! F!
@thanos4959
4 жыл бұрын
Arnold James Garcia lol
@radosawjarosiewicz2540
4 жыл бұрын
OR AN ENEMY STAND
No Planes? Who are you?
@grangermontag1824
4 жыл бұрын
This guy is less real than New Zealand
@GamersTrue
4 жыл бұрын
It's ok. There's boats.
@AC-gb7do
4 жыл бұрын
I’ve not watched every one of these, but I’ve noticed planes a lot in the comments, is there a reason?
@Hfrill
4 жыл бұрын
@@AC-gb7do It's because HAI is Wendover and he always put planes in his videos even if its unrelated to planes
@AC-gb7do
4 жыл бұрын
Ralph the Toyota birdman Thanks, I was wondering what the plane comments could mean.
It's true, New Zealand isn't real. That's why it's so often left out of maps. That second part is actually true, by the way; it's hillarious.
@andymadden8183
4 жыл бұрын
The NZ government website's HTTP 404 error page shows a map with no New Zealand, and the text: "Something's missing...".
@pickles3128
4 жыл бұрын
I just noticed that on Vox's new video about tornadoes... New Zealand: Cropped but not forgotten!
@Huntracony
4 жыл бұрын
@@andymadden8183 Not anymore, unfortunately.
@abandonedchannel281
4 жыл бұрын
Why does your profile picture look like a Gay Onion
@korakys
4 жыл бұрын
I'm actually starting to find it quite annoying. The prevalence of video in the 16:9 ratio means a lot of data maps in these videos don't show New Zealand as a proper world map can't fit in NZ without letterboxing.
Technically we don't know Friedrich Cook wasn't lying. We just know he's good at calling bluffs.
@marissinka9775
4 жыл бұрын
Technically we know that he was lying as he invented Bradley land (named after the sponsor of his expedition) and never reached the North Pole himself
@MatanuskaHIGH
3 жыл бұрын
He’s probably a good poker player
@criticato8916
10 ай бұрын
@@marissinka9775 takes one to know one, it seems
Excuse you. As a new zealander...... I find that joke about cook ....pretty funny. Chur
@arrgghh1555
4 жыл бұрын
But Tasman found NZ
@James_Gowan
4 жыл бұрын
As a fellow kiwi, go the f*** to sleep
@jaidr1267
4 жыл бұрын
@@James_Gowan lmao probs should
@akai4942
4 жыл бұрын
@@arrgghh1555 yeah it might be like 2 AM rn in new zealand
@juzoli
4 жыл бұрын
Richard Robertson As someone who lives in Atlantis, I find it funny too...
Such a good deal! Where are you getting your text books from?
@dikaardi5902
4 жыл бұрын
Obiously from brilliant.org, didn't you watched the video?
@JYT256
4 жыл бұрын
Textbook is a steal
@sujimtangerines
4 жыл бұрын
Only 50K? Must have been the previous edition, used, sold on eBay.
@greenaum
4 жыл бұрын
Required textbooks are a scam. A student has no choice but to buy the required books. There's been cases where publishers have bribed professors to require their very expensive books. They sell for way, way, more than the price of a normal book on the same subject, and often require the very latest edition, second-hand editions from a couple of years ago are apparently not suitable. Because, I dunno, archaeology changes that fast.
@satyris410
4 жыл бұрын
All from Wikipedia
Guys! He is being held as hostage!!! Not a single plane was mentioned in the video.
I as a New Zealander tell you "you're arrested for leaking government secrets"
@Reenloveslana
4 жыл бұрын
Lol
In the future, Sam will be the CEO of Boeing, because of his enthusiasm and love for aeroplanes.
@mateusvin
4 жыл бұрын
That's actually the first video that I know of on HAI that does not include any sort of reference for airplanes.
@davidneuhoff5455
4 жыл бұрын
Boeing would sure as hell need him right now
@abandonedchannel281
4 жыл бұрын
Sam saves Boeing
@Am-Not-Jarvis
4 жыл бұрын
There won't be a Boeing by then
@stormbob
4 жыл бұрын
If you want to be the CEO of Boeing you need to learn a lot of business and physics, like the business and physics they teach at brilliant.org.
THEY PLAYED US LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE
@aviationcenter2779
4 жыл бұрын
Otemachi 👏👏👏
@KokoroKatsura
4 жыл бұрын
A N I M E N I M E
If I had the money I would name my island, "No-Man". That way I can honestly say, "No-Man IS an island."
@6.28
2 жыл бұрын
Gnome Ann is an island
@thegnosticalien
2 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment
@LRM12o8
2 жыл бұрын
"No Man is-land" sounds quite funny. However, I'd go a step further and call it "No Land is-land" (or "Kein Land Eiland" in German) because I love puns and paradoxa. XD
@ericredbear425
2 жыл бұрын
I'm calling Homer and telling him you stole his Odysseus joke.
@tron3entertainment
2 жыл бұрын
@@ericredbear425 - I do not recall Homer's joke. Besides, you know how much Family Guy (and others) stole from me? That is a story for another time. It's too unbelievable to even repeat.
Put a prize tag on something, you'll find someone willing to buy it.
@CuongNguyen-le5ic
4 жыл бұрын
Saw this with puppies. When given out free, nobody want to adopt them. However, when those same puppies got a price tag of 10 dollars each, they were sold within an hour.
@darshilmashru8479
4 жыл бұрын
Price tag*
@chrisholland1504
3 жыл бұрын
Like Bitcon. The ultimate fool's gold.
0:41 little did we know it actually wouldn't work for anyone
H.A.I: *upload a video * fans: "WHERE'S THE BRICK, WHERE'S THE BRICK?!"
Bob from Microsoft Tech Support: You people need an island to scam rich people?
What are u talking about, someone already sold me three islands with the exact same words!
I am true 100% king selling island for za cheap cheap $$$
@archdukefranzferdinand567
4 жыл бұрын
Is that adrien arcand?
@imaxix7779
4 жыл бұрын
Hite. Go back ruling Unitary Canada.
@lewismcclean6008
4 жыл бұрын
Hoi4 intensifies
@brbw
4 жыл бұрын
Hite. Is your profile pic canadian hitler?
@awddfg
4 жыл бұрын
*_I sell 100 king island for cheep_*
still waiting for the brick- episode
@Game_Hero
2 жыл бұрын
It already exists here : kzread.info/dash/bejne/hmyrp7luh8izqMo.html It was a really fun episode by the way
Anyone else thought this would be about Gregor MacGregor and Poyais?
@pacman10182
4 жыл бұрын
I was thinking fyre island
@smashbrother8696
4 жыл бұрын
TheGamingParadise I heard about that story on the Revolutions podcast and thought “this would make for a great HAI episode”
A fool and his money are soon parted. Great video mate really enjoyed this fun little story!
Wow... That sponsor intro was smooth af... Almost as smooth as Linus
@not3oF
4 жыл бұрын
Yes. The virgin with computers
@srikrishna_97
4 жыл бұрын
@@not3oF even computer nerds get girls ... Unlike you
Enjoyed the use of Super Smash Bros. "Failure"
Half as interesting now has uploaded 101 videos. *_LOL_*
@richellebrittain2127
4 жыл бұрын
And not a one about Dalmatians? :(
@chairmanmeow3884
4 жыл бұрын
@@richellebrittain2127 sad :(
@FranticErrors
4 жыл бұрын
Wh?
This guy only wanted to travel around and he knew that his whole "discoveries" didn't actually matter. He was like, well fuck it who cares if there's an island somewhere, where nobody is going to be! Guess i just found out how I'm going to finance my next trip! 🤔
3:39 "ummm, I was there like a year ago." Frederic Cook, 1909
3:00 Bradley land - the other non-existent land mass was made-up by Frederick Cook (3:35) who also, probably, never reached the North Pole. This was only one of the things he cooked up and later in life landed in prison. This episode needs a follow-up.
@PrimroseParadox
4 жыл бұрын
"Cooked" up. I see what you did there
When your segues are smoother than Linus
This guy has the smoothest ways of putting in sponsors
5:46 "geromertry"
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, i appreciate you.
@adog3129
Жыл бұрын
bro he's not gonna fuck you
He's like "You can visit it next year" what he doesn't know is about corona.
You forgot to mention that the Crocker Land Expedition featured the murder of their Inuit guide over which direction to go next (they later told the other Inuits that he had died in an avalanche).
3:09 ah, the imaginary landmass I live on
I'm pretty sure the image you used as a background at 54 seconds is my hometown in 1907 wtf.
I recently read about all this, you failed to mention Bradley Land as well, made up by Cook. I've got a book that I'd recommend everybody called "The Phantom Atlas", it is all about fake islands and sea monsters etc. that have accidentally madr it on maps.
I have a school geography textbook from about 1900. It has some weird ideas about land in the Arctic (it shows Baffin Island as several islands, for example), but that was due to imperfect mapping, not scams.
“February 2020...oh that date doesn’t work for you?” How did he know.
So is this the origin of the phrase "a load of crock" then?
3:06 nz crys Australia yes.
"No, lol"- Crocker
Half as interesting videos are just so good. Keep up the good work.
3:08 So where did they shoot Lord of the Rings then? On the moon?
Did any one notice that there was grant land, RIP Grant Thompson
Love the sarcasm and the narration
Wow. The Crocker family was full of super succesful people. I live near the Crocker art museum, and that was founded by Edwin B Crocker, the uncle of the George Crocker mentioned in the video. The whole family is full of Railroad tycoons, California supreme court judges, bankers, and more railroad tycoons.
That profile picture is fanart of Miyamizu Mitsuha from the movie "Your Name" (Kimi no Na wa) by the artist "ezoshika gg." You're welcome.
We all wonder why the end of February 2020 isn't a good time to go on a vacation...
I really want to shake that first guy's hand. So much enthusiasm.
3:08 as someone who lives in nz i can confirm that nz exits
I’m still waiting for you to start hall as interesting.
@alexfuller7655
4 жыл бұрын
Woo a hallway!
Never been this early b4
@somebody1439
4 жыл бұрын
same
@Auscan_Octrice
4 жыл бұрын
C6, you sunk my battleship
@thealexhunter1688
4 жыл бұрын
No one cares
That segue was smooth as hell.
❤Congrats on 1 Million Subs!❤
I see you have a sense of when to be vague in order to cash in on current events and twist the narrative on them, no matter how important they may be.
@gc4397
4 жыл бұрын
That reminds me of someone. Hm...
The man who first climbed Everest claimed to be from 'New Zealand'.This cast doubt on his credibility.
The segues into ads towards the end are sooooooo smooooth, half the time i barely register they've gone into an ad!
"but he had a problem" ... He was a lion.
Wait, does the saying"that is a load of crock" come from him? Guess i learn every day something. oh no, That`s an other channel isn`t?
February 31st doesn't work indeed, we've got a whole thing going on a few months in the future, but nothing to worry about... JK stay tf inside.
Damn, a new Half as Intersting? Good shit fam
Why hasn't this been in a fictional work yet (to my knowledge)?! Perfect material for a short story!
@zergreenone8111
4 жыл бұрын
You presume to know an awful number of fictional works
But can you drive there in a Toyota Corolla
Hi HAI love your videos from Maldives ❤💙💚💛🧡💜🖤💖💕💓💘💞💟❣💌💝 Ok ok enough hearts
@ayle1312
4 жыл бұрын
You probably made up that country
@santerimyl
4 жыл бұрын
@@ayle1312 lmao wtf
@nhuthien198
4 жыл бұрын
Damn you haven’t sink yet?
@hashtag__7475
4 жыл бұрын
@@ayle1312 🤦🏻♂️
I just found your channel from Wendover Productions, and I must admit I found you, dare I say it, funny! 😁
Great video like always! 😁
The New Zealand islands do not exist, they're comprised of continental crust and is thus the smallest continent on earth. Fite me bro.
Hi HAI. Your videos are interesting. I subbed, just know I love you and if you reply, I will give you reasons on why you should date me.
@m1lkweed
4 жыл бұрын
welp, I also want to know the reasons he should date you.
@welp4576
4 жыл бұрын
M1lkweed 761 I am very quirky. That is just one of the reasons.
@welp4576
4 жыл бұрын
I am waiting for his response.
@krokodyl1927
4 жыл бұрын
welp LOL, do you have an island for sale or ru in looking to buy one.
@welp4576
4 жыл бұрын
@@krokodyl1927 I am also looking to buy an island.
I love how you'd told your Hudson Bay Story and I'd like to see the Glacier Pack loss that caused "Gravity Falls" be restored in the future. Ingenious stories.
Lester Crest: "Hell yeah economic justice!"
3 things I hate: 1. Peopl woh cnat spel 3. People who can’t count 2. People who edit there comments
@Sora_Halomon
4 жыл бұрын
are you 8 years old
5:45 that segue is blowing my mind
2:10 that hair style tho 🔥
Considering the world right now I think I'd like to visit my island away from litteraly all infected human contact now XD
I love that map of New Zealand by Cook. We have it up on the wall. Banks Peninsula is an island on it and Stewart Island is joined to the South Island.
"If I know anything about boats..." Well - instead let me talk about aircraft then, because it's been over 5 minutes.
Killed me with that ad transition!
You are the only educational channel that i like
Interesting, but quite different than what I had read about this infamous mirage. An article I have on the topic has quite a different take on it; that it was actually named Crocker Land 100 years earlier than Peary by Commander John Ross of the Royal Navy who had reported seeing a 1000 foot mountain in the area Peary saw his. Ross was never taken seriously by the scientific community. Search parties never found the land and concluded that it must have been a mirage Ross had seen. In 1913, about seven years after Peary, Macmillan went in search of the mountains and he too saw them in the same spot but that they shifted and changed as he approached them until they finally disappeared as he reached the spot from measurements that he knew they must be if they were real. He returned to his starting point and again saw the same mountains and concluded that Crocker Land was a huge mirage.
Gregor McGregor: our battle will be Legendary
Also... That New Zealand joke was just too good.
the segways at the end are getting better and better
4:34 Wait- you're just gonna gloss over that amazing feat?!
Oh darn, I put it on my calendar to visit this new Island on February 31 of next year. Then I realize that that date doesn't actually exist and that I had been bamboozled. HAI is just a jokester. lol
Congratulations on one million subs HAI.
This is the most HAI video HAI has ever made
Smooth plug at the end.
1:36 George Crocker was the son of Charles Crocker who started Crocker Bank which was acquired by Wells Fargo Bank in 1986.
You could have booked the guy a flight a month or two later and they might have fallen for it
Beautiful idea
what makes this extra funny is how much stuff in San Francisco and Sacramento is named after this guy.
“When $50,000 bought you more than a bucket of popcorn and a calculus textbook” I’ve never felt anything so hard
“Boring causes”.
0:41 me: “Nooooo! You’re going to get sand inside your laptop! “