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Happy Birthday to me!
I’m now two years old.
Not me, as in, Sam, the person doing the voiceover, but me, as in, the sentient media conglomerate
commonly referred to as Half as Interesting.
Now, as a bit of behind the scenes, thing have changed a lot in the last two years and
in our office, our US office that is, we now have a team of about 180 working on each of
our weekly videos.
There’s the topic creation team, the writing team, the good joke writing team, bad joke
writing team, animation team, audio editing team, music team, body-double team, stunt-double
team, barometric pressure forecasting team, makeup team, pyrotechnics team, south-east
Mongolian regional syndication team, passive-aggressive commenting on Brightside copies of our videos
team, and of course, the factchecking team.
The dirty truth, though, is that they kinda suck.
It’s just Arnold and his 2nd generation kindle.
I honestly don’t know how he expects to look anything up on that, but because of the
things he didn’t catch, we get more content.
This is episode two of our now annual mistakes correction series because, let’s be honest,
we’re not getting through a whole year without making more.
Alright lets pull up the first video with a mista—ohhh that’s embarrassing.
Yeah, so, in the Dashlane ad at the end of last year’s mistake correction video, I
said that this password was more secure than this one which, counterintuitively, is false.
There’s a whole xkcd on it if you want to learn why but I’d rather learn why these
islands are part of the UK?
Good thing there’s a whole video on it but be warned, if you use the subtitles, they
say that the UK’s motivation for claiming these was partially for killing Wales.
Now, this, clearly, is the spelling of the country Wales, not the intended nautical whales.
Speaking of human-eating animals, do you remember watching the HAI video about, “How Polar
Bears Ruined Halloween in Northern Canada.”
No?
Oh, well, don’t worry, nobody else does either.
There’s no mistake in that video, the mistake was making the video in the first place because
it’s the least viewed HAI video of all time.
What was not a mistake, though, was NASA’s decision to not launch Big Bird into space…
for a lot of reasons.
One keen commenter pointed out that the Space Shuttle Challenger didn’t technically, “explode,”
as our video said.
Basically, an o-ring seal on one of the rocket boosters failed and so the escaped gasses
burnt up the booster and created a cloud of gas and fire that looked like an explosion.
The space shuttle then broke up due to aerodynamic forces as it fell back to earth.
But now for some slightly more cheery news: it turns out that the sun has not yet set
on the British Empire as our video mistakingly said.
It turns out that there is always a piece of British territory in daylight but there
wouldn’t be if not for this—the tiny 50 person, south-Pacific, Pitcairn Island.
Sounds like a pretty interesting place, yeah?
If only there was a six-part, well-produced, critically-acclaimed podcast about it by a
very great and cool YouTuber… oh wait there is, it’s by me, and it’s available at
ExtremitiesPodcast.com.
As good as that segue was this one will be, um, it will, the segue, um… in the video
about Centralia I talked about Centralia—the town that’s been on fire since 1962.
I referenced the Lehigh Valley Coal Company—the very one nice enough to grace this town with
free heating by leaving their coal mine on fire for decades—but I show this building.
It turns out though, that this building is not, in fact, the Lehigh Valley Coal Company
headquarters, as suggested, but rather the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Building.
Don’t worry, you’re safe now.
You no longer have to live in a world where you think this is the Lehigh Valley Coal Company
headquarters building like some pleb.
It’s ok.
Who’s not safe, though, is the HAI animation department because, in the video about the
super, completely, 100% real $100,000 bill, the country of El Salvador is shown on the
map but this isn’t even remotely close to where El Salvador is.
Like, 0% of El Salvador is here.
At least in this video, 33.3% of the word one is spelled correctly You see, at the end
of the video I put a secret code in but it turns out I misspelled the word, “one,”
which is about as unsurprising as Germany violating the terms of the treaty of versailles.
Spelling is just hard… as evidenced in the video about Ireland’s accidental two-day
drug legalization where unconstitutional is misspelled not once, but twice.
You see the problem is that after effects doesn’t have spell-check and then the animators
copy and paste to save time and they’re all Dutch and don’t know how to use Google
and…oh, you don’t care?
Well, guess what?
I don’t care about all your comments about how I mispronounced, “absentia,” in the
video about the disappearing Australian Prime Minister.
Language is fluid, buddy.
What’s also fluid is the Guinness World Record’s definition of what China is because,
on the page of the record we showed for the video on the World's Fastest Elevator, they
apparently thought that Shanghai was in Japan.
They’ve since corrected the webpage though.
I guess I really am an influencer.
What I’m not, though, is a mathist, mathernator, mathintist?
That’s why I got wrong that 7-bit counters can represent any number between zero and
127 rather than one and 127.
If you represented how many American cruise ships there are with a 7-bit counter, though,
it would look like this because there’s only one.
In the video on that, I referenced the Jones Act a few times as the reason for the laws
the video is about while it was in fact the Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886.
Also, one of the normal restrictions these laws have that I talked about is how the crew
has to be 100% American on American-flagged ships, but it turns out that the cruise ship
talked about was granted a special exemption to have only a majority of its crew as American.
To be fair, that was probably our worst mistake of the year.
What there’s also only one of is UAE license plates that look like this—which sold for
$14.3 million and made for a great video.
In it, the head animator for some reason put some Japanese up.
I really don’t know why.
What’s worse, he got it wrong.
It was supposed to say, “the first state,” but instead it said, “the first state.”
Oh, well, hmm, to be clear, this means state, as in state of matter, where it should be
state, as in state of Delaware.
It’s a different character in Japanese.
In the Quarter as Interesting episode, I was in a state of denial that emu is pronounced
emu instead of emu, and I still am.
Language is fluid, remember?
Kinda like a convection current which, as it turns out, should look more like this rather
than the way it was shown in the video about Canada’s missing gravity.
Now, we’re done.
Those were all our mistakes from the last year, probably, I don’t really know.
Although, I wonder what happens if we make a mistake in this video?
Layer 1: Anyway, it doesn’t matter because there’s more important things to focus on,
like the fantastic deal that dashlane.com is.
*cross chatter*
Technology has gone too far.
I’m sorry.
We were doing this AI scriptwriting experiment and I think our evil competitors got into
the back end.
I knew I shouldn’t have made my password, “haiaipassword.”
It’s just, I always have such a hard time remembering passwords that are any more complex…
unless… what if there was one central place where I could store all my passwords behind
one, super-secure password that I, a mere mortal, could remember.
And then what if it filled super-secure passwords in on my devices when I go to login to websites.
And then, what if it also had plenty of other included features like secure autofill for
payment info, breach alerts when an account is compromised, a VPN with country selection,
and dark web monitoring to see if your data is being bought and sold on the dark web.
And then what if this was all for a ridiculously low monthly price.
And then what if it were called Dashlane and you could get a 30-day free trial at https://www.dashlane.com/hai
and then, if you like it, you could use the coupon code, “HAI” to get 10% off when
you upgrade to premium.
That could be cool.
And then, wait how am I supposed to end this?