The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France

[@halfasinteresting]

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[@Doc_Fartens]

You eat your cereal with WATER?!

[@bookwormneverforgetbricks605]

I give death

[@albinzuber2806]

You should have said that they STOPPED the stop sign war

[@novemberseventh1917]

Change the name of Wendover Productions to Quarter as Interesting

[@sakariaskarlsson634]

This can end up in 2 ways, eighter the countries will compete in maintaining the road, to boast about having the best part of it, this will lead to a excellent road, or neighter of countries want to be the one to fix the road, and it becomes a hot potato, this will lead to a very shitty hot potato road as both countries are pretty stubborn

[@kgw72]

France: "All your Cerdaña are belong to us" Spain: "All right, but you didn't say anything about towns".

[@x-ray-oh3134]

It's an old meme, but it checks out

[@AndreaZzzXXX]

make your time :-)

[@ferranmateo4803]

Catalonia: "It's all our land".

[@edgelord8337]

This is all supposed to distract you from the fact that half as interesting was supposed to do a video on bricks.

[@JamesBond-xx1lv]

I'm STILL wanting to watch the rest of that video... Lol

[@CRT.v]

I desire a History of Bricks à la Bill Wurtz's History of Japan. I am completely serious. I need it.

[@JodenPaoloPeroy]

Same here.

[@the_christopher]

He did it! A 35 minute video, but its a nebula exclusive

[@corrinking96]

"a guy with a tiny mustache" The King of France was not the first European leader i thought of upon hearing this description.

[@spaceshipearth481]

69th like nice

[@Mika-85]

Yeah I also had to think of Charlie Chaplin

[@austinm.9832]

Yeah, in 1659.

[@General_Ace]

Lmaoo, Hitler!

[@kirbygriffin1]

Ihatequests Dev Why do people want to hit Ler? What did he do?

[@DigitalImpostor]

"If you're bored of stealing stop signs and starting international incidents..." Those are both things that I'll never get bored of doing.

[@radianzero]

Spain: *Has the road* France: "Mom said it's my turn on the road."

[@ascanioscarpati8538]

Drew Durnil will not tell himself to open a discord server, man

[@fzafg]

i have seen you on another comment section where someone asks you what meme is in your pfp and you tell them the meme and also tell them not to use it as your pfp.

[@XyzzTooCold]

Radian who is the mom???

[@king_random.chris_tucker507]

Puspa Sahoo good ole British

[@mohammedsarker5756]

Giorbo The Fisherman I love ur username it’s perfect

[@TheGlob420]

0:38 "i pour the water before the cereal" i think he broke my mind

[@kasenratliff1832]

That's the joke

[@liamr3989]

Lil Bean youre gonna get over 40 likes

[@maruftim]

he pour... water... I wanna fight him

[@glorpinn8844]

Something ain’t right chief

[@ishaand92]

Please don't try this. you will get diarrhea. trust me

[@officerbeenadd]

HAI: *''Saying that I pour the *water before the cereal''** Me: Hold up

[@jacobclements3652]

You have to do cereal first so you know how much water you need

[@mb-yc6wh]

@@jacobclements3652 exactly

[@Dr.Kornelius]

@@jacobclements3652 not if water is the main ingredient ☝

[@claytonjohnson3025]

@@jacobclements3652 why do you use water with your cereal?

[@bigsmoke4357]

Who tf eats cereals with water

[@yaboi7773]

I guess we have to talk about roads when no one is using planes anymore.

[@Oceanic2409]

Covid 19: "Where were going, we don't need roads"

[@richmcgee434]

Just think, we can use spare roads to park unused planes on.

[@vladutcornel]

Math teachers still do.

[@richmcgee434]

@@vladutcornel If we're playing word games, so do woodworkers and some spiritualists and mediums.

[@knuxhunter7592]

There will be alot more cargo flights so you'll be seeing more cargo planes which is good i guess? I mean, you dont get to see them everyday back then

[@malaysiaairlinesflight3706]

"The dumbest war since the one with emus" Me: "hahah" "And dumbest since the one in Iraq" Me: "oh ouch"

[@PotatoGawds]

if i was drinking water i would have spat! was laughing so hard

[@coolguy.sixty-nine]

I dont understand please explain it

[@MustraOrdo]

@@coolguy.sixty-nine here, this would explain the emu war: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eInTpmmql6t2qas

[@KavinK1]

@@MustraOrdo good boi

[@edgelord8337]

France: this is my road Spain: this is my road not your's France: this is definitely your road Spain: *no it's your road!* France: ok

[@rocker56_]

edge lord hi

[@AxxLAfriku]

I have a big... BIG... BIIIIGGGGG... muscles!!! HAHAHA!!! What did you think I was going for? That's so DIRTY of you! GAGAGAGA!!! I am the funniest KZbinr ever! Maybe that's the reason why I have TWO (!!!) HOT (!) GIRLFRIENDS. Thanks for being alive, dear edge

[@rampadmanabhan4258]

@@AxxLAfriku Ummm, what?

[@Derpsii]

@@AxxLAfriku uhhhhh sure dude

[@fstech987]

@@AxxLAfriku ok....

[@Fleetato]

can we talk about how he pronounced spanish tho???? “spain-ish”

[@MjikThize]

Can we talk about him putting water in his cereal???

[@kgw72]

Can we talk about the lack of bricks in this episode, too??

[@mysteryman7877]

And how he pronounced Llivia?

[@cdl0]

And how he pronounced Puigcerdà? Also, you have to drive through Bourg-Madame to get to Llívia!

[@hectoralvarado7010]

And then Americans get salty when people mispronounce their name

[@JJLiu-xc3kg]

Imagine pouring your water before your cereal-us cool kids pour cereal before water.

[@Floedekage]

Wait... why do you use water? Why not soy milk?

[@alek488]

Only normies pour cereal before milk

[@fxhdtchjfrytjyj]

i pour dr pepper on my cereal

[@JJLiu-xc3kg]

AmpPlayz As God intended, of course.

[@tvdeskis6521]

@@alek488 nah, you're evil if you pour milk before cereal. the real order is spoon, cereal, milk, bowl

[@veetvoojagig389]

Reminder to people who get this in their recommended 5 years from now: This video was released during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

[@acat3772]

10 years later

[@Justin-ee1mv]

YEP

[@cristian-ionutapostol8018]

Oh, you mean the Early 21st Century Coronavirus Pandemic?

[@karlgiese6100]

Implying there will be a 5 years from now

[@elfabrip]

People who got this in their recommended, did he make a video about bricks?

[@DanuProductions]

There's a motorway that keeps running in and out Ireland and northern Ireland, so if you're driving along the road the signs keep switching from metric to imperial

[@wintrwunderland]

Of course this isn’t a political problem because no border does exist, but it is incredibly inconvenient if you’re driving past.

[@algotkristoffersson15]

@@wintrwunderland why not just use both systems on all of them

[@JJLiu-xc3kg]

If you don’t start wars over the size of your moustaches, are your wars really justified?

[@RyuuTenno]

Well, England had one over roses 🤷

[@danwar2489]

the only valid casus belli

[@sp3ss]

HAI: remember the outside? Me: A what?

[@Constabruity]

It’s the inside, but out.

[@sp3ss]

Smiling Cat I don’t really look at comments I honestly didn’t know

[@WH1T3_No1SE]

0:38 wait a second, WATER?!

[@traficantededolly9922]

How he said "CONTROVERSIAL"

[@kasenratliff1832]

That's the joke

[@letsmakearobot]

Thank you!!! for a minute I was like... is that the correct liquid?

[@ahmadalkhateeb1180]

I mean water is just unsweetened, unflavored orange juice. I know some people who are on a diet and choose to eat cereal with water rather than orange juice.

[@lonestarr1490]

@@ahmadalkhateeb1180 Orange juice?! Dafuq man. Da-bloody-fuq.

[@jonasstuke528]

"controversial would be saying that I pour the water before the cereal" The.. WHAT?

[@ibnyahud]

lol it's like a double controversy

[@jamaicaboy68102]

Wait isn't a double negative a positive?

[@Tivis7]

my exact thoughts

[@paulmorales1607]

Last time I was this early this was known as That Wikipedia List

[@EranBuhbut]

Someone: How much stock footage do you need? HAI: Yes.

[@Oceanic2409]

"After some squabbling, The war of stop signs came to a stop" This would have been So... Much... Better!

[@MAYONNAISEMOOSE]

how??

[@alexhngu]

France:its my road Spain: NO It's mine! (France takes it anyways) (Spain retakes it) France: uncool

[@theoncomingdork1]

Dude...... so uncool

[@TheFoxofKnowledge]

There's a tax for that :p

[@lizstiscool5574]

This annoyed UK who punished them severely.

[@MudakTheMultiplier]

"Putting the water before the cereal" I see that you're perfecting the art of getting comments.

[@robot4jarvis836]

I'm from Spain, and I have never been so afraid as in 2:16 when I've seen the ""'" paella""""

[@bandvitromania9642]

@@_blank-_ y e s

[@joaquincimas500]

@@bandvitromania9642 Nice troll. Now go back to your quarentine

[@Blast-Forward]

@@_blank-_ Probably "valenciano".

[@javierba8826]

@@Blast-Forward which is part of Spain

[@Blast-Forward]

@@javierba8826 Not for everybody.

[@PauPRiba]

Very well explained! I have the pleasure of living very close to this site and I use this particular road a lot. Nowadays we and the french even share a hospital in the vicinity of that border.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Spain: It's my road France: It's my road Soviet Union: Correction, it's OUR road.

[@the8thgemmer467]

“The greatest war since that one with the Emus and the one with Iraq” I died🤣😂🤣😂

[@marcosmatilla4123]

In spanish and catalan "ll" is pronounced similar to the y in "you" Llivia isn't pronounced like Lybia ;)

[@hayamohammad2530]

Marcos Matilla so uvia?

[@markuss9229]

@@hayamohammad2530 more like "yee-via"

[@arraklan-0366]

Creía que en catalán era se pronunciaba livia

[@qwertyuiopzxcfgh]

Why do Spanish people have a habit of using letters in a completely different way from the rest of the world?

[@williamhutton1752]

qwertyuiopzxcfgh says the guy who is speaking english

[@anzahanifathallah]

"War of the Stop Signs, the dumbest war since the ones with the emus and that other one in Iraq." PREACH

[@bhv9819]

Omg I love your sense of humor. Such an entertaining intro & video. I lost it at the water with cereal

[@gustavorego5640]

Cereal water and marshmallow pizza, this man needs to be stopped!

[@joostvanrens]

He is a monster

[@Oceanic2409]

With a stop sign :)

[@oenrn]

Worse, he mentioned paella in a baguette!

[@adelinhome]

One of the best souvenirs of my life were driving in this road and hiking between France and Livia. Great memories.

[@novacentorium4943]

Did you see a stop sign getting stolen?

[@adelinhome]

@@novacentorium4943 no xD the new crossing road was already there

[@novacentorium4943]

amcic-aberkan ok lol

[@Kyabetsuu]

The video is 5 minutes long, none of you commented had even started watching the video...

[@deodex2067]

2x playback, easy

[@stratis722]

lol tru

[@ryanku468]

3:53 you missed the chance to say "they should probably put a STOP to this street fight"

[@kowalskidiazdegeras9190]

Hey, I've been to Llivia AND drove on that road! Thanks a lot, HAI, and greetings from Spain!

[@bartho4483]

French: *It's my road!* Spanish: *No, it's my road!* Stalin: *No dear comrades, it is now OUR road!*

[@maxberry6780]

Me: *trying to sleep at 1:30am* Half as interesting: allow me to introduce myself.

[@tacticalfall4505]

Max Berry it’s 07:33 here for me, so timezones.

[@sockichan]

Haha time zones lol

[@jonathan.t.]

In Western Europe it's 4:36PM lol

[@martenkats6915]

I drove on this road a few years ago to go from a Catalan village to a French one just north of Llivia where I stayed for a few weeks. I knew the oddity of Llivia but never knew this about this road!

[@nickvangeel]

Yes, yes, I do remember things and outside

[@evalig871]

Oh thank god. Finally something semi-interesting semi-educational comedic to watch

[@bananamanasaur]

0:34 "I put the water before the cereal" I love these ever so slightly disorienting tidbits in HAI videos

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Reminds me of the Vennbahn. A long string-shaped piece of Belgium that juts into Germany. It's like that because of an abandoned railway. The railway line was built partly across what was then German territory by the Prussian state railways. It is now entirely in Belgium because the track bed as well as the stations were made provisional Belgian territory in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles. This resulted in the creation of six small German exclaves (five remain to this day). It also created one small Belgian enclave.

[@oxsc]

Wow! Thank you HAI for using my topic, thought It was too boring/didn’t qualify for a video. Thanks!

[@theoncomingdork1]

"the dumbest war since the one with the emus, and that other one in Iraq" *angry american imperialist noises*

[@oliverm1255]

happy bernie sanders noises

[@Persona1996]

Hannah Ni it’s even dumber then the one back in 1914

[@virginiansupremacy]

@@salsaandbrwx1449 Iraq was in a better state when saddam ruled than now.

[@joermnyc]

Salsa and bRWX Saddam may have been a brutal dictator, but removing him was like removing the cork off of the bottle of crazy terrorists, and then breaking the bottle to let them all run wild.

[@bandvitromania9642]

@WiZZard God bless the United States of America!

[@David-qj2ze]

Getting a 4 Year old video recommended always shows how far a creator has developed in that time. Not that I did not like this video, but highest praises to the development in video quality over the years!

[@orioljuhe3236]

It's amazing that i'm learning a thing from where I go on holidays and my country in an other language, btw amazing video

[@propadanda]

I'm glad that HAI is finally addressing the Great French and Spanish Mustache Wars

[@phoenixsr_]

Aren't we going to talk about the fact that he eats his cereal with water?

[@bruhmoment2262]

you dont?

[@Oceanic2409]

Dammit, I've been using orange juice!

[@pearson9594]

@@Oceanic2409 you guys are so weird. I use lime juice

[@edipires15]

He run out of milk 😂

[@CityWhisperer]

The overpass had to have some sort of brick/structure to support it, so as far as I'm concerned, the video is about bricks. Approved.

[@sam08g16]

2:58 that could've easily led to an all out war between the two countries

[@maazkhan4762]

Half As Interesting ur vids are legendary thank you for keeping me entertained during quarantine 😃 keep up the great content.

[@youforia5314]

"So you remember outside? and things?" People in quaratine: Huh

[@captainufo4587]

Good job explaining the joke for posterity.

[@JBP.3D]

thatsthejoke.jpg

[@cannedbaef]

Spain: My road France: NO my road War ensues

[@tomkingston8886]

When's the Brick video coming

[@brianprice5220]

I pour the water before the cereal. I’m dying😂😂😂

[@hamzaaamir1157]

When he didn't say 'stop this streetfight' I physically cringed

[@Aeturnalis]

The water before the cereal was such a silly, off-the-wall joke, that you have earned a like.

[@elton1981]

4:30 is me or did he say 'Sop' sign? Perhaps an homage to the scene in the Simpsons where Homer painted 'Sop' and 'Yeld' signs.

[@Oceanic2409]

It does sound like it

[@lachlanrussell18]

“They’re kinda like hallways, but outside.” I was NOT ready for that hot take.

[@asmrpillow457]

4:34 he's beautiful, i'm gay, that is all

[@mayrln]

🗿

[@C104-k5m]

That`s one of the fascinating things about Europe, there are a lot of really old nations in a very small space I mean how cool is it that a 400 year old treaty is used to fight against a stop sign with the reason given that it is against said treaty to build fortifications against travel

[@techtricity1341]

When he said outside I felt that......

[@rhsdinful]

“Remember outside?” Wow this really hits home

[@TheAllMightyGodofCod]

HAI: "you can now travel freely between countries in the Schengen Zone".... Coronavirus: I am going to end this man's career.

[@sirBrouwer]

no, you are allowed to travel just don't leave your home. It's only a bit difficult to get them moving.

[@jonathanmaes4311]

sirBrouwer well no 😉 Here in Belgium people can go as far as they want to (by bike) (and some can also use their car, etc) as long as they’re only with their family members they live with. However, you can’t cross the border without a valid reason. (And going out to take fresh air is not one of them 😉 )

[@JessicaRainbow]

I've been to Llívia and driven on that road, but I had no idea of it's history! Very interesting :)

[@lasfierbinticraciun]

HAI is simultaneously owned by the dude from Wendover Productions and the dude from Sam from Wendover.

[@zachuza]

how have i never seen this video before i literally autoplay all hai videos every night to fall asleep to im not even kidding

[@ahsanrahman5168]

Countries: *has to share roads* Me: *has to share a hallway with my sister* Indeed, life ain’t fair

[@wastelandimperialist5067]

We need an entire video on what outside is we all have forgotten

[@walgreenz2932]

Like the island that switches countries every 6 months

[@cocoloco6825]

What I love about the intro is that at another time in history people would just think he is calling us lazy. But right now we ALL know what he is talking about

[@BreeHammerTime]

I spent the first 30 seconds laughing because he found it necessary to define roads 😂

[@FAKETV96]

I love how you slip humor into these

[@JJLiu-xc3kg]

This land really is O U R L A N D.

[@Nardiumms]

The first 23 seconds of this video hit home. hit home hard.

[@jacobmorris1400]

3:47 (pour water on burned area)

[@OnkelJajusBahn]

Very interresting video. I knew about Llívia but not about the road issue. Also I love your jokes about Covid and US-wars.

[@mochawatte]

*”Did you know, the last Roman Emperor Constantine IX’s nephew, who was heir to the Roman throne, gave his title to the King of Spain, making Spain the Legitimate Successor to the Roman Empire”*

[@syrialak101]

Wasn't Romulus Augustulus the last Roman emperor?

[@kgw72]

Western, maybe. But the "Byzantine" Empire called itself "Roman Empire".

[@nathanmiske231]

That water before the cereal joke is incredible!

[@davidmagyar6093]

Spain: Why are you the part of France? Llivia: I like baguette

[@LTNye]

I love your sarcasm!

[@fluffwarrior]

The Frain road or the Sprance road? or maybe its the Sprain road

[@fluffwarrior]

@@roquesales_ Francpañol

[@true_perplexeus]

Half as interesting, the King of stock photos (or rather videos)

[@NotAmira_]

Roads: Something that the United States has a weird obsession on. For example: Destroying entire neighbourhoods in favour of a massive stack interchange.

[@filipinordabest]

*laughs in Skylines*

[@NotAmira_]

@SandboxArrow www.google.com/maps/@51.2627054,-0.1284369,15z Here's an example of one

[@LockwoodE3]

Another war that always shocks me is the Egg War, there was an island off of California that people started fighting over. There was eggs on the island and this was a time before they knew how to raise chickens successfully

[@harshdharpawar3183]

Sam: Lets talk about Roads when nobody is using planes as Aviation Industry is ruined.

[@johnvilyer4340]

"If you're bored of stealing stop signs and causing international incidents." You underestimate my commitment to both those things.

[@tetenric]

Ah, my refined catalan ears hurt every time I hear a catalan word pronounced in an english speaking sentence

[@ylcard]

Now you know how I feel when you guys say Spider-Man. xD

[@mariorcanales]

That Air Bud joke was really funny 🤣

[@coolguy4989]

dislike: the episode was not about bricks

[@SpiralPegasus]

That was your best intro ever. Period.

[@topper007style]

It's pronounced "YEE-vee-a". In Spanish, double L's are pronounced as "y".

[@komino5455]

Not always, like in this case

[@komino5455]

Wait nvm i read written instead of pronounced

[@lphaetaamma291]

South of Aachen there is a simular road: a road with a german number (B258, B="Bundesstraße"="federal road") going from Germany to Germany through Belgium although this road was not as controversial. But close to this road there is the Vennbahn, wich has been a german railway track in Germany until the end of WW2 when Belgium got more Land and the railway went from Belgium to Belgium through Germany. So they made the ground under the railway belgian too and the railway became a belgian strip through Germany. Today the railway is teared down and the track became a belgian cycle path in between Germany.

[@rachelellebye5203]

So... where is our brick video? That is literally all we're asking for

[@gabrielzak.7942]

They have to adapt this road to a movie

[@pepevinkin3020]

1:08 Llívia is a SPANISH 🇪🇸 town because Catalonia is part of Spain. Suggesting otherwise is a dangerous move that might cause a bloodbath in the comments section. Never underestimate 45 Million Spaniards currently confined to their homes with plenty of time to defend their political views 😉

[@violin3394]

Haha, a typical Spanish "freedom" of speech

[@jaumemoreno6732]

Ask Llivians. In the last elections, not a single councilor was pro-Spain. All of them were pro-independence of Catalonia. Therefore, it's not really Spain, because what matters is what people feel and think of their own land. It's only dominated by force by Spain without local consent. www.naciodigital.cat/municipals2019/municipi/17094/llivia

[@patrickracer43]

At least the Stop Sign War didn't end with a DECISIVE STOP SIGN VICTORY

[@harshdharpawar3183]

Coronavirus: I am going to spread in France and Spain like a disaster... HAI: Let me talk about dispute about road between

[@PaulPaulPaulson]

1:12 Dude, that sounds awesome!