The Most Impenetrable Building in the World

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@dawnpalmby5100
@dawnpalmby5100 2 жыл бұрын
Side note, try to avoid the black shirt on such a dark background, it's too blended u need to pop out from the background
@engineeringvision9507
@engineeringvision9507 2 жыл бұрын
There are much harder buildings to get into. Toilets at a festival anyone?
@nrwiederhold
@nrwiederhold 2 жыл бұрын
bought a wallet. they're cool af
@timfriday9106
@timfriday9106 2 жыл бұрын
i've seen so many ridge wallet commercials/ads and this is by far the best I've seen. lolol
@jonarific8504
@jonarific8504 2 жыл бұрын
Highlights for me: - Who needs that many cards? - RFID? Whatever that does. - Dirty cash. If you still use that for some inexplicable reason. Think Simon needs to work on his sales patter.
@JoeyBaby47
@JoeyBaby47 2 жыл бұрын
Now I'm just hearing a certain voice during this video, "This is the Lock Picking Lawyer and today I'll be picking this vault door."
@michaelpipkin9942
@michaelpipkin9942 2 жыл бұрын
Or, "Hi! This is Mr. Puzzle."
@draketungsten74
@draketungsten74 2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelpipkin9942 A sequential discovery puzzle! Oh look! Machine guns! 😂
@captainfunktastic2255
@captainfunktastic2255 Жыл бұрын
"Click out of one. Two is binding. False set on four. ...and we're in. Now, let's do that once again to prove it wasn't a fluke."
@jaysdood
@jaysdood 8 ай бұрын
"Click on three" 😂😂😂
@mattwilliams4222
@mattwilliams4222 2 жыл бұрын
"Fort Knox.. is for tourists!" -- Simon (not Whistler)
@AbdielQuezada
@AbdielQuezada 2 жыл бұрын
Die hard with a vengeance
@lonemaus562
@lonemaus562 2 жыл бұрын
Haha remember that line
@stephenhammond6962
@stephenhammond6962 2 жыл бұрын
“Nomis” 👌
@j.a.weishaupt1748
@j.a.weishaupt1748 2 жыл бұрын
Okay you win
@duncancurtis1758
@duncancurtis1758 2 жыл бұрын
Hook line and sinkah!
@lyfandeth
@lyfandeth 2 жыл бұрын
You missed one defense. There are medieval style "murder holes" where guards with fully automatic weapons can shoot intruders, but intruders can't reach the guards.
@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t
@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t 2 жыл бұрын
What, they're magic one-way portals?
@shibasurfing
@shibasurfing 2 жыл бұрын
If the hole is small it would be really tough to hit it
@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t
@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t 2 жыл бұрын
@@shibasurfing Mace/tear gas doesn't need pinpoint accuracy, and I kind of doubt the guards will be cutting about with gas masks.
@blarfroer8066
@blarfroer8066 2 жыл бұрын
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t they might be sealed holders for firearms, like they would use on old bombers. Insert a machine gun, lock it in place and you can shoot while being fully protected.
@kurtilein3
@kurtilein3 2 жыл бұрын
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t Spraying mace or tear gas into a tiny hole spewing rifle bullets sounds like fun.
@jvin248
@jvin248 2 жыл бұрын
By the sparkle of all that immovable NYC gold: Do a follow up episode on the pacific islanders with the huge wheel-like money rocks that never move but do change ownership over time for internal trade. Apparently there is one at the bottom of a lagoon someone attempted to transport to another island but the boat sunk, and that money wheel still retains its usefulness on the tribal ledger. Everyone knows where it is located.
@heyitsjoe8446
@heyitsjoe8446 Жыл бұрын
I wish I could like this multiple times, sounds extremely interesting
@wikilcontainments
@wikilcontainments 2 жыл бұрын
A long time ago an F-4 tornado touched down and made a 100 yard wide path through part of my city. There was a bank in its path. The bank was gone except a slab with a big vault on top of it. Was weird and made me realize how extremely tough we can make things that need to be kept safe.
@josephreagan9545
@josephreagan9545 2 жыл бұрын
After the fall of civilization, this building will be a great dungeon to explore.
@alien9279
@alien9279 2 жыл бұрын
Was wondering what it might be like to explore it in the fallout universe xD
@kc510
@kc510 2 жыл бұрын
I was working at the Riggs Bank in DC as they were tearing a vault out in the basement. I’d say the walls were about 4ft thick of concrete and steel mesh every 2 or so inches. Took them forever to tear it all out. Pretty amazing.
@dcsteve7869
@dcsteve7869 2 жыл бұрын
Man thats a name I haven't heard in a very long time. I remember their commercials from when I was a kid. This city has changed a lot since then
@wyskass861
@wyskass861 2 жыл бұрын
Even this goes to show that any vault is physically penetrable. The purpose of a vault is actually to delay entry, until human action can be taken to take out the intruder. Fort Knox for example sits at an Army base
@blakegebauer76
@blakegebauer76 2 жыл бұрын
@@wyskass861 knox is also where they train tankers, so there's a sizeable amount of armor there.
@engineeringvision9507
@engineeringvision9507 2 жыл бұрын
@@blakegebauer76 Tankers aren't exactly sat in their tanks ready to go. Also they are probably watch closely in case they get any bright ideas with those tanks! Besides Fort Knox is rumoured to be mostly empty anyway, just loads of gold plated tungsten blanks.
@wyskass861
@wyskass861 2 жыл бұрын
@@blakegebauer76 True. Goldfinger managed to break in after Pussy Galore sprayed the base with sleeping gas, though. Only a British secret agent could save American gold.
@jackalbright4599
@jackalbright4599 2 жыл бұрын
2:24 you can’t tell me NOT to break into places while wearing a tactical turtleneck Simon!
@sciencerscientifico310
@sciencerscientifico310 2 жыл бұрын
Archer reference!
@Redacted2898
@Redacted2898 Жыл бұрын
A TACTICAL NECK
@amb163
@amb163 2 жыл бұрын
I worked at a gold mine when I was a teenager, and had the opportunity to watch the process of molten ore being poured into rough bars. It's a crazy thing to witness first hand. I was allowed to handle one of the bars as well, and those things are HEAVY.
@rockets4kids
@rockets4kids 2 жыл бұрын
You've really got to lol at clips like 5:04...
@dionh70
@dionh70 2 жыл бұрын
I worked for a security company in Salt Lake in the 1990s, and we visited the Johnson-Matthey refinery that purifies the gold that comes from the Kennecott mine to provide an estimate for security system upgrades. Their metal detectors found the surgical staples IN MY KNEE, and I had to take off my pants to display the scar to prove that I wasn't stealing anything from them.
@brolohalflemming7042
@brolohalflemming7042 2 жыл бұрын
The Bank of England has a fascinating museum in one side of it. They had an exhibit with a gold (or maybe tungsten) bar inside a perspex pyramid. You could put your hand in and lift the bar. Movies that show robbers dumping lots of bars into bags and running off with them aren't exactly realistic. Which I guess is one of the big drawbacks to heists, the stuff is just soo damn heavy.
@StoneInMySandal
@StoneInMySandal 2 жыл бұрын
Any military historian will tell you, the easiest way to penetrate a building is to remove the walls of the building then pickup whatever you are after. The US showed us how at the Central Bank of Iraq.
@ignitionfrn2223
@ignitionfrn2223 2 жыл бұрын
2:35 - Chapter 1 - The gold 6:15 - Chapter 2 - The defenses 10:40 - Chapter 3 - The conspiracy 12:10 - Chapter 4 - The bomb 13:10 - Chapter 5 - The heist
@spacewarpphotography1667
@spacewarpphotography1667 2 жыл бұрын
It's a good thing that the bank vault with its 100 year old vault was impenetrable to cyber attacks, or a cyber attack could have successfully pulled $81 million out of there.
@Ashannon888
@Ashannon888 2 жыл бұрын
Well, they didn;t hack the Federal Reserve or the gold, they hacked the Bangladeshi bank. The Reserve was just doing what it thought was legit business (and they caught a lot of it to boot)
@henrygustavekrausse7459
@henrygustavekrausse7459 2 жыл бұрын
Identity theft is not bank robbery.
@Rhov9
@Rhov9 2 жыл бұрын
@@Ashannon888 true. When they were trying for $1 Billion but “only” came out with $81 million (but technically $65 million since they caught that one guy with $16 million). So they only really got 6.5% of their goal. Still a lot of money - but nowhere near what they were trying for.
@markmiller6402
@markmiller6402 Жыл бұрын
I caught that too 😂😂👍
@robertslater8293
@robertslater8293 2 жыл бұрын
Do the Cleveland fed building next. Their vault stores mostly cash but moving it around is pretty much completely automated with robot couriers. Not to mention, when they were done building it they gave the construction crew a few days to try to break in with whatever they wanted and they only made a 1 foot dent in the concrete
@DavidLinn
@DavidLinn 2 жыл бұрын
when you do your job so well that you can't destroy something you built despite knowing all the materials and dimensions
@Rhov9
@Rhov9 2 жыл бұрын
@@DavidLinn honestly they were probably so proud of their own work when they could barely make a dent 😂
@DavidLinn
@DavidLinn Жыл бұрын
@@Rhov9 true that!
@yt.personal.identification
@yt.personal.identification 2 жыл бұрын
In the middle of no where in the Australia outback is Pine Gap. A secure research facility for Australia and the USA. Armed guards and totally fenced. Inside that facility, is a higher security section. With guards, with higher security clearance. In that section is a building that not even Australian citizens can get in, guarded by US soldiers. Seems fairly secure to me.
@engineeringvision9507
@engineeringvision9507 2 жыл бұрын
It's just a comms site nothing particularly special, there are partner sites for ECHELON in US and UK. Not very high security, just a few feds with rifles. Some Australian cleaner probably goes in there all the time. It may be US data but they will need locals to do much of the support. It's main weakness is its remoteness because after the first few guards are down a counterattack is hundreds of miles away, and they are in the middle of nowhere alone!
@yt.personal.identification
@yt.personal.identification 2 жыл бұрын
@@engineeringvision9507 Yes, comes and monitoring - in the middle of no where. They will see you coming a mile away. That's what they do.
@engineeringvision9507
@engineeringvision9507 Жыл бұрын
@KoalaAteMySnack American security teams on bases here in the UK don't even seem to leave their bases. All they do is call the local police who will send one or two unarmed officers to do the actual policing.
@TheSilmarillian
@TheSilmarillian Жыл бұрын
Hear you its ultra sec access only at certain levels its built inside a 60 thousand foot deep natural bore bore and decades ago had the largest IBM super blue computer system floating on a concrete floor at the bottom of it or so a friend of a friends friend once mentioned ...its also a natural antenna....Its not as important as it once was but still in use.
@EchoTangoSuitcase
@EchoTangoSuitcase 2 жыл бұрын
He's right. Holding real .9999 Fine Gold (or Silver) bullion in your hands is much different than seeing images of it; though how much of that is purely psychological is hard to say.
@lazygamerz
@lazygamerz 2 жыл бұрын
Aluminium used to give the same feeling, it used to be so expensive emperors ate from aluminium plates whilst visiting kings ate from gold plates.
@michaelphillips1267
@michaelphillips1267 2 жыл бұрын
$150 for a wallet? I wouldn't have anything to put in it.
@carlgreen4222
@carlgreen4222 2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Simon finds people tuning him out for the first two minutes in real life too out of habit.
@limlim1630
@limlim1630 2 жыл бұрын
I bet everyone goes to make a quick cuppa when he starts talking
@orangegalen
@orangegalen 2 жыл бұрын
I'm admittedly a x2 playback speed person...
@michaelgallagher3640
@michaelgallagher3640 2 жыл бұрын
6 to 8 taps to the right cure all, I meet Simon once & I just taped his shoulder several times to get to the good stuff.
@G-Mastah-Fash
@G-Mastah-Fash 2 жыл бұрын
There is a browser add on that detects and automatically skips sponsor spots on youtube videos.
@foobar6345
@foobar6345 2 жыл бұрын
@@G-Mastah-Fash Indeed, spnsrblck (vowels removed since I'm not sure how YT feels about advertising such a thing in comments).
@torbayfruitsandjackpots1678
@torbayfruitsandjackpots1678 2 жыл бұрын
Really nailed the ‘puppet master’ look today Simon,well done ✅👏👏
@wozza77able
@wozza77able 2 жыл бұрын
🤪
@davidcooper4119
@davidcooper4119 2 жыл бұрын
Invisible torso
@twocvbloke
@twocvbloke 2 жыл бұрын
I'm too distracted by the fact that Simon's outfit is so dark within a dark office that he almost looks like Holly from Red Dwarf... :P
@DJL78
@DJL78 2 жыл бұрын
Odd how it looks like Simon’s head is just floating there and his hands are controlled by puppeteers.
@stonewolf7850
@stonewolf7850 2 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣 Too right!
@onemoreguyonline7878
@onemoreguyonline7878 2 жыл бұрын
They are, the puppet master is named Google
@DJL78
@DJL78 2 жыл бұрын
@@onemoreguyonline7878 I think you need to get outside for some fresh air
@smbramer
@smbramer 2 жыл бұрын
I was just checking the comments to see if anyone else noticed 😂
@DJL78
@DJL78 2 жыл бұрын
@@smbramer how could you not? LOL.
@Big_Tex
@Big_Tex 2 жыл бұрын
Little known fact: one of the vault chambers is used to store all the original film of Fact Boi’s KZbin episodes. *UPDATE: now expanded into a second chamber.
@s10meb95
@s10meb95 2 жыл бұрын
Planning permission is needed to expand it each time he makes a new channel.
@danielbloresingersongwriter
@danielbloresingersongwriter 2 жыл бұрын
It's where the North Korea BB episode is kept😂
@nickdaveNDM
@nickdaveNDM 2 жыл бұрын
"The banks firing range." Wow, my kind of financial industry/ banking job!! I just may have to apply lmao
@firesurfer
@firesurfer Жыл бұрын
I did some work for a bank on a Sunday. The only way in or out was a ramp to the basement. We were waiting for the elevator at lunch, and an armored truck drove in. They unloaded a flat cart with gold bars. They went right next to us waiting for the elevator. I was inches from the gold bars. It was unpleasant standing there with several guards watching us with machine guns.
@rlwoltzable
@rlwoltzable 2 жыл бұрын
Die hard 3 is a great documentary with Samuel L Jackson, high recommendation to watch. You mentioned the motion sensors but in that movie the bomb in the subway next to the vault was meant to trip all those sensors so the staff would turn them off.
@plasenticusfeeticus9422
@plasenticusfeeticus9422 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Simon for using American standards of measurement such as a small goat and two bowling balls. Metrics make our smol brains hurty
@badluck5647
@badluck5647 2 жыл бұрын
There is only one reason Americans knows how much a kilo is
@esburnside
@esburnside 2 жыл бұрын
@@badluck5647 🤣😂
@BornIn1500
@BornIn1500 2 жыл бұрын
"Smol brains". TIL smol brains created the most powerful nation in the world. Try again, kid.
@Berkeloid0
@Berkeloid0 2 жыл бұрын
It's ironic because the US was one of the original group of inventors of the metric system and was one of the first countries in the world to legislate a switch to metric, yet few Americans are interested in their own invention, they'd rather use British feet and pounds instead.
@jmchez
@jmchez 2 жыл бұрын
It's ironic that the Brits invented three devices, microwave resonance chamber, atomic clock and Watt balance and the USA perfected all three and used them to redefine the meter, second and Kg precisely and officially. The metric system runs on American technology. LOL!
@KingOfTheJuice666
@KingOfTheJuice666 6 ай бұрын
“And *definitely* not the US capitol in D.C.” Simon was alluding to Jan 6th, in a rather subtle and hilarious way. Simply add in the word “definitely” for that particular example, and it instantly is set apart from the rest and triggers the viewer’s memory of why the US Capitol building may be seen as especially vulnerable. Fantastic humor like this is sprinkled throughout every video Simon makes, as well as apt analogy and poignant critique. He’s a superb narrator for any and all content, he knows precisely how to make a video. Bravo
@rsr789
@rsr789 Жыл бұрын
You forgot to mention that the US Department of the Treasury is in charge of the US Secret Service and one of the entire floors of the NY Fed Reserve office building is a Secret Service office, including the shooting range. So, on top of all of the 'regular' armed guards, there are over 100 Secret Service agents in the building...
@privacyvalued4134
@privacyvalued4134 2 жыл бұрын
I'd argue that Fort Knox is a lot more impenetrable than the Federal Reserve. You'll just get shot at the Federal Reserve for the attempted heist but you'll get destroyed at Fort Knox and won't even get to the point of seeing the main building let alone get anywhere close to the vault door. Fort Knox is a military base. The vault is underground behind one of the most insane vault doors ever constructed. The building leading to the vault sits in the middle of a piece of land containing landmines (one of the few areas of the U.S. that has active landmines). The building itself is deep inside the military base. There are Apache helicopters on standby at all times. Access to the base entrance is a highway/freeway off-ramp.
@jamesmcdaniel9601
@jamesmcdaniel9601 Жыл бұрын
Simon is fast becoming my 2nd favorite KZbin personality. Always look forward to more content.
@wombatwilly1002
@wombatwilly1002 2 жыл бұрын
The generators four stories below Union Station in NY.Fort Knox is a building within a building and the rooms fill with water to drown intruders.Liked this one too😊
@christophermoyer6103
@christophermoyer6103 2 жыл бұрын
The Lock Picking Lawyer could find a weakness and exploit it
@joewilson8701
@joewilson8701 2 жыл бұрын
Do a video on Mount Athos! Come on simon, aren't you interested in a men's only orthodox peninsula club Edit*
@nrsrymj
@nrsrymj 2 жыл бұрын
Eastern orthodox *
@CaptDave-md6ft
@CaptDave-md6ft 2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful idea. Secretive, exotic, beautiful and way of life.
@joewilson8701
@joewilson8701 2 жыл бұрын
@@nrsrymj my bad, you are correct
@NullStaticVoid
@NullStaticVoid 2 жыл бұрын
You know whats funny, I used to work a couple blocks from there. And when I saw the title that place came immediately to mind. There are always a lot of armed guards around, and the tiny windows in the massive walls have bars on them that could stop a truck.
@PeterShipley1
@PeterShipley1 Жыл бұрын
you forgot to mention the 3 or 4-in thick Teal Wood doors that close down over the doors along Wall Street if there's an alarm (also all the elevators automatically return to the 1st floor, and remain closed) by the way: there's also a great restaurant on the upper floors
@doilyhead
@doilyhead 2 жыл бұрын
Walked past it for years to my various jobs when I lived in NYC.
@marianchicago4002
@marianchicago4002 2 жыл бұрын
I remember reading about germany and their gold in the newspapers, german goverment officials claimed some bar had different numbers on them than the ones in their records, believe they said they appeared new too. At the end of the day, they took their gold and were content with what they got.
@shinkicker404
@shinkicker404 9 ай бұрын
On Gold looking different irl, can confirm. Saw the Crown Jewels in England and it was the same. So damn shiny and sparkly. Pretty damn mesmerising to see in person, TV doesn’t do it justice in the least.
@samwise4me903
@samwise4me903 2 жыл бұрын
The commercial for the Ridge wallet was the best part of the video.
@antonsimmons8519
@antonsimmons8519 Жыл бұрын
Expert-grade marksman. I am one of those, per the U.S. Army. The minimum for that is 36/40, and the ranges are 50m 150m and 300m, and from three shooting positions as well, so it's not easy. You need great focus and tight control on breathing. An expert shot misses sometimes...but it's honestly not at all common. One-shotting targets is, conversely, quite common, especially at short range.
@Demmrir
@Demmrir Жыл бұрын
I suspect this is handgun marksmanship rather than US Army Marksmanship, since they're inside a building and likely to be using handguns and SMGs. Not to mention that they qualify in the bank's own shooting range, which isn't going to support 300m target ranges.
@FluffyEmmy1116
@FluffyEmmy1116 2 жыл бұрын
0:50 Simon's ad reads are always the best.
@harrycallahan9733
@harrycallahan9733 10 ай бұрын
10:24 "Two months", that's the key word/phrase I'm looking for. From the movie it only took Jeremy Irons a couple minutes. If he knew it'd take that long he probably would have given up :)
@bbmw9029
@bbmw9029 Жыл бұрын
While the NY Fed gold vault is pretty impenetrable, I can thing of other facilities that are moreso. Some of these are widely known. Ft Knox has most of the same internal security features, but unlike the NY Fed, no one who isn't on staff can get anywhere physically near the building, which has a deep perimeter guarded by machine gun nests. And it sits on an army base who's troops and tanks are available for it's defense. Then there's the Cheyanne Mountain complex. I's dug into a mountain, and designed to take a direct hit from a multimegaton nuclear weapon. Then there's the bunker complex at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico where the military stores its undeployed nuclear weapons. Again no one except authorized personnel can get anywhere near the bunker, and the bunker has all the security features the NY Fed has, and more, and without the niceities necessary to deal with the public in close proximity.
@theloverlyladylo9158
@theloverlyladylo9158 2 жыл бұрын
Finally, weight given in a logical comparison: small goats!
@randomperson6433
@randomperson6433 2 жыл бұрын
Right? The next time the doctor asks my weight I will give it in goats.
@GlenHunt
@GlenHunt 2 жыл бұрын
Do one on the most frequently robbed banks in the US and Europe.
@pamelamays4186
@pamelamays4186 2 жыл бұрын
Another CasCrim Rule: Don't spell out your crimes in a movie script.🤫🤫🤫🤫
@alecbrown66
@alecbrown66 2 жыл бұрын
Ah gold. Spend a fortune digging it out of the earth, then spend a fortune basically hiding it back under the ground again. One of the dumbest things humans do with a pretty but virtually useless chunk of metal.
@WaddedBliss
@WaddedBliss 2 жыл бұрын
Precisely.
@chimarleywai
@chimarleywai 2 жыл бұрын
If you define “a fortune” as a whole stack of gold it all makes sense.
@KonradTheWizzard
@KonradTheWizzard 2 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't exactly call gold useless. Its resistance to corrosion makes it an ideal coating for electrical connectors. The ductility would make it nice as a sealant - it's just a bit expensive for this, so we tend to use copper instead. Alloys of it are ductile enough to be formed into virtually any shape with relative ease and hard enough to not be bent out of shape by normal every day forces - for example making it excellent for capping teeth. It's a metal with lots and lots of interesting engineering applications - why we waste it as a money store is beyond me...
@weiSane
@weiSane Жыл бұрын
@@KonradTheWizzard blame our ancestors. They are the ones who started the culture of gold as a store of wealth
@drebk
@drebk Жыл бұрын
Gold is actually quite useful in electronics... but the reason why average everyday humans want gold? Same reason they want diamonds. Very. Good. Marketing.
@alien9279
@alien9279 2 жыл бұрын
"Def not the capitol building" oh man too soon 😂
@kev3d
@kev3d 2 жыл бұрын
More secure than Cheyenne Mountain? I'm skeptical.
@tokyosmash
@tokyosmash 2 жыл бұрын
Safer than Knox? The fortress surrounded by an Army garrison that’s 45 minutes by air from not only one of the Army’s largest combat divisions which also happens to be the worlds ONLY Air Assault division? Forgot how there has been an HBO mini series about the federal reserve 😂
@Redacted2898
@Redacted2898 Жыл бұрын
Not impenetrable though Auric Goldfinger managed it with ease. They even caught it all on camera.
@markbothum4338
@markbothum4338 2 жыл бұрын
Being a dork I did the math and that works out to 24 pounds per bar. Thought they'd be heavier.
@kev3d
@kev3d 2 жыл бұрын
Can't make them too big because they have to stack. Even then, you can't stack too many because the weight of the bars on top will smash the ones on the bottom because gold is so soft.
@AD-df5tm
@AD-df5tm 2 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who just see's a floating head with a beard and a pair of hands. 🤣
@stonewolf7850
@stonewolf7850 2 жыл бұрын
Nope!🤣🤣🤣
@artdonovandesign
@artdonovandesign Жыл бұрын
Hi, Simon. LOVE the turtleneck! Great look!
@angelitabecerra
@angelitabecerra 7 ай бұрын
2:05 As an American speaking; shade warranted. NFT shade also warranted. That shit was insanity
@dirtrider88
@dirtrider88 2 жыл бұрын
2:46 for anybody wondering thats over 300 billion dollars worth of gold. actually using the value of each bar stated at 5:50 thats $318,080,000,000 worth
@timfriday9106
@timfriday9106 2 жыл бұрын
i've seen so many ridge wallet commercials/ad's and this is by far the best i've seen. lolol
@Apater6076
@Apater6076 2 жыл бұрын
A video on that NK hacking group please Simon!
@johndododoe1411
@johndododoe1411 2 жыл бұрын
For the conspiracy theory, it seems slightly suspect that any inspections would be delayed for enough time to restock the vault with supplies from other locations.
@Tian.S
@Tian.S 2 жыл бұрын
Gotta say: this was the best ad for Ridge I've seen. Not being coi. Haven't even started the video proper, so not bashing anything. Legit good sponsorship ad thingy McWhatnot that he did.
@siggy6044
@siggy6044 2 жыл бұрын
Simon, you gotta ditch the black sweater for dark videos lol. On oled screens even on full brightness you're a floating head and hands 🤣. Still a great video lol
@brianellison3525
@brianellison3525 2 жыл бұрын
It's a new twist on the green screen issue.
@michaelpipkin9942
@michaelpipkin9942 2 жыл бұрын
Yesterday. We were an army without a country. Today, we have to decide what county we want to buy.
@kev3d
@kev3d 2 жыл бұрын
To our fallen comrades!
@spacewarpphotography1667
@spacewarpphotography1667 2 жыл бұрын
You know stormtroopers only have bad aim when they've been ordered to let the rebels escape so they can be tracked back to their base, right?
@mipmipmipmipmip
@mipmipmipmipmip 2 жыл бұрын
I think it goes like this: the first stormtroopers that were instructed to miss were told this logical explanation, but as the "bad aim" policy entered protocols for upcoming recruits, the reasoning behind it got lost over time, until new stormtroopers would just miss because they wouldn't know any better.
@aukryptik8212
@aukryptik8212 Жыл бұрын
Normal Simon in the ad. And now it's like super clean trimmed and dark beard. If he put on a ball cap I would think he's about to do a bank heist
@caiusofglantri5513
@caiusofglantri5513 6 ай бұрын
Congratulations on getting another sponsor!
@heydeedoubleyou8881
@heydeedoubleyou8881 2 жыл бұрын
Unrelated to the video but we bought a ridge wallet for my husband Christmas before last and it's really good. He loves it
@hanglee5586
@hanglee5586 2 жыл бұрын
This is an excellent narrative.
@gordonwallin2368
@gordonwallin2368 2 жыл бұрын
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
@scumteet
@scumteet 2 жыл бұрын
Nice flex with that insurance card.
@Orthosonic
@Orthosonic 2 жыл бұрын
5:40 Safety shoes are made of manganese steel, not magnesium...
@dirtrider88
@dirtrider88 2 жыл бұрын
8:31 you severely over estimate how much gold i would be satisfied with taking. i would be happy with as many bars as i could carry, that being 2 or if i was really motivated maybe 3 . 1.2 million dollars is plenty for me.
@natchaos5604
@natchaos5604 2 жыл бұрын
A 2 minutes advertisement... YES, I will thank you now rather than later for continuing to waste my time and life. Cheers Simon!
@phillhuddleston9445
@phillhuddleston9445 2 жыл бұрын
IDK, Fort Knox may not have as much gold but the fact that they do not allow tourists in and that it is a fort with many of the worlds best tanks on it would make it a top contender for being impenetrable.
@michaellawrence588
@michaellawrence588 2 жыл бұрын
Was interested in a girl from Sweden 32 years ago and took her and her friend on a tour of the FRB-NY and NYSE. Didn't help to win her heart but at least I enjoyed it and all of us are still friends.
@andymcneil7085
@andymcneil7085 Жыл бұрын
Side projects is just as good as your main channel Simon. Loving your stuff still
@wildshadowstar
@wildshadowstar 2 жыл бұрын
What makes Fort Knox impenetrable, aside from the physical buildings, is the human security involved.
@engineeringvision9507
@engineeringvision9507 2 жыл бұрын
And that everyone knows there isn't anything worth stealing in there
@Redacted2898
@Redacted2898 Жыл бұрын
@@engineeringvision9507 not since Auric Goldfinger got in and nearly irradiated the entire US Reserve meaning it would be useless for at least 50 years and near on banktupting the States economically.
@ethancntower8850
@ethancntower8850 Жыл бұрын
Its not there anymore. I saw this documentary starring Bruce Willis and Sam L Jackson where Jeremy Irons stole all the gold and sunk it in the Hudson..
@rjspires
@rjspires 2 жыл бұрын
5:17 A had a gold like that. The chocolate was lovely.
@cetkat
@cetkat Жыл бұрын
RFID is the chip in your credit cards. A brush pass with a reader can steal the information pretty easily. Same principle as card skimmers that copy the magnetic strip info, but this is wireless. A Faraday cage is how you block it. Aluminum foil works in a pinch, but companies are putting other signal blockers in wallets now pretty regularly. Even cheap $20 ones can have it.
@HeyMJ.
@HeyMJ. 2 жыл бұрын
🙌🏼 Seinfeld. Jerry carries a ‘Euro Bag’ to hold stuff. George insists that his “fat wallet” has a sys, until it’s too full, won’t close & fails. Ends w/George on NYC street corner in flurry of his papers. 😂😂😂
@alexroge6495
@alexroge6495 2 жыл бұрын
$1.75 to have your gold bricks safely moved around is a bloody good deal. Come’on NY FED you can up those fees.
@q3aryoko
@q3aryoko Жыл бұрын
Die hard with a Vengeance...loved that movie lol. that what this reminded me of.
@GarryOzols
@GarryOzols Жыл бұрын
Nice "head and hands" outfit today Simon :-)
@bjdon99
@bjdon99 Жыл бұрын
I believe most of the floating 'traded' depository gold is held either in the basement of the NY Fed, the basement of the Bank of England, or one of the larger Swiss banks, which specializes in that line of business. A few countries, like Germany (as mentioned) and now Russia and the PRC (for obvious reasons) have begun housing a lot of their bullion in their own vaults, but that makes it hard to sell/trade, if that ever becomes necessary. Much easier to pay the NY Fed $1.25 to take a bar from one vault cage and move it 65 ft down the isle to a different country's cage, with the cash settling via SWIFT.
@meligoth
@meligoth 2 жыл бұрын
The U.S.: our gold is real China: wanna buy some of our plentiful gold?
@harjutapa
@harjutapa 2 жыл бұрын
Anyone else enjoy the floating head and forearms look for this video?
@davynhainstock7503
@davynhainstock7503 2 жыл бұрын
I have an unexpected urge to steal all that golf now
@davynhainstock7503
@davynhainstock7503 2 жыл бұрын
Gold
@rob1tnt
@rob1tnt 2 жыл бұрын
Great content and frankly great sponsor, I've had a ridge wallet since there Kickstarter campaign. Free review there great! I actaully have 2 of them.
@dirtrider88
@dirtrider88 2 жыл бұрын
i have a friend with one. to me they are dumb and impractical.
@biocybernaught3512
@biocybernaught3512 2 жыл бұрын
Comercial ends at 1:54
@wazkangz955
@wazkangz955 Жыл бұрын
The Jacques Stosskopf WWII naval base during its heyday was, arguably, more impenetrable than the federal reserve with 40 feet of reinforced concrete protection. But now yeah, the federal reserve and Fort Knox are the most impenetrable buildings still in use.
@johnlynch575
@johnlynch575 Жыл бұрын
0:27 Got one, thanks.
@matthewsecord7641
@matthewsecord7641 2 жыл бұрын
If I had more than 27 middle names, pretty sure I'd want to attack many things.
@dmacpher
@dmacpher 2 жыл бұрын
I would have said the DMV
@tjwendel4676
@tjwendel4676 2 жыл бұрын
The DMV easy to get in, impossible to get out
@elviolette
@elviolette 2 жыл бұрын
SWEAR TO GOD. I've had a ridge wallet for like 3 years now. Perfectly fine. It truly doesn't seem like something would hold up as well as it has, but I used to go through a wallet every couple years and this'n aint going nowhere, plus it is small enough to slip in my jacket pocket.
@paulluce2557
@paulluce2557 Жыл бұрын
The Next Bond Movie.. James Bond Takes On Dr Siric Whilstlerfeldt.. A Man who seeks to control Facts.. The mission to destroy him is complicated by the 'Fact' that unlike most Bond Villains, he doesnt have a Single Underground Lair .. he has MANY MANY UNDERGROUND LAIRS...
@nicklinn3033
@nicklinn3033 Жыл бұрын
"definetly not the capitol building" lol😂😂😂
@spiritofthetime
@spiritofthetime 2 жыл бұрын
Marty Byrd disapproves of Fact Boi's dismissal of cash.
@lvdriver4
@lvdriver4 2 жыл бұрын
Dude the black sweater makes your head looks like it's floating in space
@bigdubya001
@bigdubya001 2 жыл бұрын
Impenetrable? Mr. Gruber laughed at that. 🤣
@augiegirl1
@augiegirl1 5 ай бұрын
I saw on another video that not even employees know which country owns each specific box within the vault.
@oxcart4172
@oxcart4172 2 жыл бұрын
A car park in Derby is right up there. Absolutely nothing has been stolen or vandalised there!
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