The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries

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[@MsJubjubbird]

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]

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

[@hamgil]

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

[@MsJubjubbird]

​@@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]

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

[@rollerskdude]

@@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.

[@BiggestPLANTS]

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]

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

[@bababababababa6124]

Imagine your country being the size of a neighbourhood

[@No1karez]

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]

Liechtenstein Supremacy

[@__skillz]

Sam's gotta get 5 minutes of content somehow

[@Learn_Something_New]

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]

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

[@JuneNafziger]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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]

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

[@conorcrowley6256]

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]

@just i c e *NO*

[@elenidemos]

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]

@@elenidemos honestly sounds a lot like homeschooling!

[@rvoight92]

@@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]

@@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]

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]

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

[@memethat...2822]

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

[@furiouspunkboy]

Came here to make sure someone corrected this

[@RK-cj4oc]

@@memethat...2822 thanks man.

[@danielfp5253]

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

[@adrielsebastian5216]

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

[@BiggestPLANTS]

Yup, that was years ago too

[@alexburnette2526]

I remember it but don't remember what episode

[@elygolden]

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]

bro the whole thing is disputed territory

[@D0cSwiss]

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

[@gg3675]

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

[@cl9615]

@@catipolX Not the entire thing

[@jonahs92]

@@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 🙄

[@MarieInnes]

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]

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

[@MarieInnes]

@@jonatanrullman LOL I know, right

[@adamschofield1887]

Impressive title

[@svanimation8969]

​@@MarieInneswtf 😂

[@dalane5196]

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

[@thestig747]

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]

Decent attempt at pronouncing it, too

[@DavidRosstheawesome]

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

[@jakenum30]

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

[@dataisbrilliant]

“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]

yes

[@dataisbrilliant]

@beyond your imagination You Rick Rolled me, again.

[@BiggestPLANTS]

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[@dataisbrilliant]

@@BiggestPLANTS Bruh, seriously 😐 lol 😂

[@BiggestPLANTS]

@@dataisbrilliantwhat can i say, it was obligatory

[@welshduckman8562]

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

[@Axman6]

Accurate but pronounced nearly completely incorrectly.

[@alyoshamikhaylov7651]

So you are one of those 11 people?

[@welshduckman8562]

@@Axman6 Very fair😆😆

[@welshduckman8562]

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

[@10sDPR]

Username does not check out.

[@bababababababa6124]

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]

@Patrick Hudson came here to say this.

[@meee_5155]

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

[@MarieInnes]

Probably the correct population for … A FARM, though.

[@MrKelsomatic]

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

[@Frexuz]

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

[@bartholomewdan]

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

[@malvarezv97]

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

[@chriswoolley6951]

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

[@five-toedslothbear4051]

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.

[@adithyamenon8517]

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]

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

[@adithyamenon8517]

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

[@alexkoch8716]

@@adithyamenon8517 one of the best episodes I recon 👍

[@br-sb6vu]

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

[@philip4846]

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]

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.

[@samstudios9908]

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]

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]

Wahroonga station has some great cafés

[@TheKazragore]

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

[@samstudios9908]

@@epicbeardface2981 I like how on every KZbin 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

[@jakereynolds4259]

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]

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]

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

[@uselessgeneral1299]

@@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__]

Medium rare isn't cooked. :D

[@jakethesnake23a]

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.

[@GameKing298]

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

[@LuxrayIsEpic]

Glad it wasn't just me who noticed the audio

[@Labestiol74]

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

[@himanbam]

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

[@soundscape26]

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

[@TicketToKnow]

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]

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

[@daphnefleurrr]

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

[@Goatcha_M]

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.

[@aidenburgess217]

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.

[@Blo55]

Why does the audio quality suck?

[@Swissstuff]

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

[@WizardAngst]

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.

[@griffinsimpson-tuckey9832]

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

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

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

[@shrimpshrubbery7664]

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

[@griffinsimpson-tuckey9832]

@@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]

@@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]

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

[@Itsundiscovered]

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]

oldest living population!

[@MashLimit]

Centuries is still correct though.

[@Ccirgrg]

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

[@DevinSloan]

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]

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

[@Alex632]

@@DZ477 lmao

[@DevinSloan]

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

[@bartholomewdan]

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

[@Fizzrabble]

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]

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

[@Sundjer_Bob_Kockalone]

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

[@lexicron]

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

[@Sundjer_Bob_Kockalone]

@@lexicron lol

[@h-Films]

What was it

[@h-Films]

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[@h-Films]

What was it

[@equestathon9618]

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.

[@intrepid1160]

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

[@alozzola]

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!

[@DsiPro1000]

what type of 4x4 was it

[@SamanthaShaw314]

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

[@kaan-kaant]

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.

[@mathewblanc9936]

"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]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

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

[@GarethKing1]

@@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.

[@danii8307]

Excellent subtitles they are so informative

[@CallanKilderry]

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]

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".

[@timn6864]

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

[@mixe]

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..?

[@BenWeaver0]

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

[@grahamjacob97]

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.

[@durhamdownsschoolroom8628]

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.

[@bababababababa6124]

0:10 WTF is that map of Wales 😂😂😂

[@dankjae]

Wales with maritime sea borders.

[@VitalVampyr]

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

[@jpaior]

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

[@Maxyy40]

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

[@geolawie]

It was a perfect joke.

[@tncorgi92]

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.

[@benwilson9150]

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]

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]

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]

someone caught a shark in Lake Eyre!

[@moduleapothem6446]

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

[@marvindebot3264]

He mispronounced almost everything, LOL.

[@gardnep]

That was an outstanding presentation that moved at the jumped about and moved at the speed of a big red.

[@jurjenbos228]

Your segue to the ad at the end was very satisfying.

[@YeloPartyHat]

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

[@silverXnoise]

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]

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]

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

[@blumoogle2901]

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

[@silverXnoise]

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

[@silverXnoise]

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

[@alirazi9198]

0:18 your sarcasm is unmatched

[@thomaswright1229]

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

[@jimsvideos7201]

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

[@Wint910]

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)

[@peterk2455]

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.

[@masonsmall1740]

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

[@longdaysandhardworkatramra8260]

guess you could say it drew your ire

[@Yo-ItsYo]

@@longdaysandhardworkatramra8260 Who's drew?

[@longdaysandhardworkatramra8260]

@@Yo-ItsYo a popular youtuber

[@Yo-ItsYo]

@@longdaysandhardworkatramra8260 Drew "air" Binsky?

[@longdaysandhardworkatramra8260]

@@Yo-ItsYo close, I was thinking Drew Gooden, jokes aside did I get the past tense for draw wrong? Please don't tell me it's "drawed", that sounds awful

[@BiggestPLANTS]

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

[@BiggestPLANTS]

@@KL-jt9er i wish haha

[@AustralianBigot]

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

[@someguy5035]

We'll call it whatever we want.

[@Dingo4440]

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.🙄

[@AustralianBigot]

@@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.

[@scottmcnaughton539]

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

[@Gray84117]

Stations mate.

[@ldnwholesale8552]

They are stations,,, hence Anna Creek Station.

[@durhamdownsschoolroom8628]

bro they are called stations bro

[@paulmarynissen]

I do get a chuckle out of your pronunciation of our aussie place names

[@1mezion]

Don't think I ever came across this channel before but I like it 👍

[@TobaT3]

the subtitles are for a different video but ok

[@Nidera2DX]

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

[@Sundjer_Bob_Kockalone]

not just you

[@reamick]

It's not as if the narration is much better.

[@WhyForWhatNow]

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

[@asphyxiafeeling]

The City of Ember shout out was cool. I enjoyed reading that book as a teen

[@plasticbleach4004]

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

[@alexkoch8716]

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

[@axelfoley133]

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

[@tenillenoja8925]

Haha yes !

[@himabimdimwim]

The reference to the city of ember book was a wild surprise!

[@michaelsmith4904]

I got the City of Ember reference because that movie recap popped up in my feed near this video!

[@platinum7482]

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_]

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

[@ducati_red9162]

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

[@ducati_red9162]

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

[@ducati_red9162]

@@iykury yeah it was funny tho

[@trj1442]

Excellent episode. Love from Australia.

[@sirstevo]

Love you videos. Just to let you know Lake Eyre is pronounced Lake "air" (just like the stuff we breath). Keep up the great work

[@TriMs1]

Nice audio!

[@BoraCM]

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

[@goosedoesvideogames]

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

[@romulusnr]

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

[@TheHylianBatman]

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

[@mollymuch2808]

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

[@ringtone_rhythm]

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

[@cellboi]

It sure is

[@zorohibiki]

as soon as i heard the number of people and the size i started to think about how it sound like the plot of a horror movie where everyone is killed one by one and they cant ask for outside help because everyone else are really far away

[@loafes1352]

That’s literally just wolf creek. It’s exactly that in the same location

[@mrgray5576]

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

[@SpiffoGaming]

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

[@escomz]

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.

[@MattThrum]

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

[@jaewardtattoo]

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

[@js24765]

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

[@krashd]

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!

[@mitchellfriesen4795]

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

[@Madtrack]

I mean like that's the beauty of this place. Y'all can hike for a month and still end up in WA.

[@samv.7594]

Holy crap, the mid-2000s YAA dystopia reference activated a part of my brain which has been dormant for over a decade

[@davidmolin8944]

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

[@s0659651]

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

[@s0659651]

It looks like they fixed it.

[@crowonthepowerlines]

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

[@xnadave]

Your "engagement" shot is putting the ring on the wrong hand. :) (Loved the video, as always.)

[@jamescogswell9297]

Ooh, the city of ember! I remember reading that as a kid.

[@RamanSharma-zk1bj]

Yo what's with these subtitles 😂

[@aaronleverton4221]

"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]

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]

@@111jacare Got off the Ghan at Chandler.

[@oicmapper]

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

[@oksowhat]

subtitles are amazing. run intern run