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?

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@coolguy3848]

I dont understand please explain it

[@MustraOrdo]

@@coolguy3848 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....

[@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

[@tconlon251]

@@algotkristoffersson15 Because printing one sign that says “Welcome to…use these units for a while” is probably cheaper than multiple signs with double the information

[@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?

[@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 🤷

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@EranBuhbut]

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

[@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

[@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

[@theoncomingdork]

Dude...... so uncool

[@TheFoxofKnowledge]

There's a tax for that :p

[@lizstiscool5574]

This annoyed UK who punished them severely.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

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

[@anzahanifathallah]

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

[@nickvangeel]

Yes, yes, I do remember things and outside

[@tomkingston8886]

When's the Brick video coming

[@MudakTheMultiplier]

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

[@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

[@the8thgemmer467]

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

[@Kyabetsuu]

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

[@deodex2067]

2x playback, easy

[@stratis722]

lol tru

[@theoncomingdork]

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

[@oliverm1255]

happy bernie sanders noises

[@FakeCrowP5R]

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!

[@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!

[@bartho4483]

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

[@sam08g16]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@ryanku468]

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

[@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

[@kowalskidiazdegeras9190]

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

[@youforia5314]

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

[@captainufo4587]

Good job explaining the joke for posterity.

[@GFmanaic]

thatsthejoke.jpg

[@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 😂

[@cannedbaef]

Spain: My road France: NO my road War ensues

[@asmrpillow457]

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

[@mayrln]

🗿

[@techtricity1341]

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

[@evalig871]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@maazkhan4762]

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

[@propadanda]

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

[@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 😉 )

[@bananamanasaur]

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

[@JJLiu-xc3kg]

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

[@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.

[@ahsanrahman5168]

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

[@oxsc]

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

[@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".

[@JessicaRainbow]

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

[@fluffwarrior]

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

[@fluffwarrior]

@@roquesales_ Francpañol

[@brianprice5220]

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

[@BreeHammerTime]

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

[@OnkelJajusBahn]

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

[@hamzaaamir1157]

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

[@PaulPaulPaulson]

1:12 Dude, that sounds awesome!

[@lasfierbinticraciun]

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

[@matejbanovec1224]

You could do a similar video for the Slovenian 402 road connecting Goriška brda and Nova Gorica through Italian territory, built when Yugoslavia was still a thing

[@squeaksquawk4255]

Or the road through the Saatse boot, connecting Estonia and Estonia through Russia.

[@walgreenz2932]

Like the island that switches countries every 6 months

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@harshdharpawar3183]

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

[@user-tk2lf1dv3s]

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

[@davidmagyar6093]

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

[@GeographyWorld]

Llivia, such an interesting town!

[@rachelellebye5203]

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

[@nathanmiske231]

That water before the cereal joke is incredible!

[@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

[@Nardiumms]

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

[@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

[@Froschvampir]

We also have a strip that is (kind of) shared between Switzerland and Germany here where I'm from, it's called Tägermoos. If you're searching for more topics like this, give it a try. The English Wikipedia is pretty exhaustive.

[@coolguy4989]

dislike: the episode was not about bricks

[@YoloMenace001]

3:47 I would say the dumbest but most helpful war is the 'English Bus Wars of the 1980s and that one bus war in Nottingham,UK that actually still exists' Yes that's the title I am giving it

[@uwu_senpai]

War of the cow in Belgium. 10k death for a stolen cow. I think this win hands down.

[@jhon__1940]

You should do a topic on "WHO OWNS THE SOUTH CHINA SEA" Now that's more interesting than roads.

[@joermnyc]

Lithira Atapathu easy, the fish... or Atlantis.

[@rhsdinful]

“Remember outside?” Wow this really hits home

[@harshdharpawar3183]

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

[@juanvaldivia8001]

0:08 : so, you remember outside? Me: wow wow, slowdown egghead

[@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

[@wastelandimperialist5067]

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

[@Aeturnalis]

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

[@mariorcanales]

That Air Bud joke was really funny 🤣

[@lachlanrussell18]

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

[@true_perplexeus]

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

[@SiVlog1989]

Great video Sam, small thing though, as far as I've heard, when there's a word beginning with "LL" in Spanish, it's pronounced like a Y.

[@fakinyamo]

Not entirely true. In castilian spanish, there is a phonetic difference between LL and Y . And then you have to consider that Llivia is a catalan name and in Catalan there is only the sound.

[@ylcard]

Yes, except that the name Llívia is Catalan and not Spanish

[@cvlen]

@@fakinyamo Well, that used to be the case, but nowadays most Spanish speakers are "yeístas": we pronounce "ll", that used to be pronounced /ʎ/, as a "y", which is pronounced /ɟ/. Thus, we don't distinguish anymore between "rallar" and "rayar", for instance.

[@HoliestDoughnut]

The insane level of jokes kill these videos... love Wendover though.

[@gabrielzak.7942]

They have to adapt this road to a movie

[@fabianmichaelgockner5988]

Moral of the story: Never put a STOP SIGN as an government on a road from your neighbor that you had 150+ years earlier. Or the "War of Stop signs" gonna happen.