How an Australian Prime Minister Disappeared Without a Trace

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  • @halfasinteresting
    @halfasinteresting  5 лет назад +1662

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    • @Kyabetsuu
      @Kyabetsuu 5 лет назад +7

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    • @zaferbeyazova8484
      @zaferbeyazova8484 5 лет назад +12

      Bro are you alright, your voice was a little bit weird

    • @surjo8095
      @surjo8095 5 лет назад +5

      I thought you get the topics from "That Wikipedia List"

    • @saksham01
      @saksham01 5 лет назад +7

      2:10 fuck you

    • @DumbSkippy
      @DumbSkippy 5 лет назад +14

      FFS, NEVER EVER say "Mates". Say G'Day Mate... Singular. Cheers bloke !

  • @carnotv6136
    @carnotv6136 4 года назад +4753

    Imagine drowning and having a swimming pool named after you.

    • @kashif2309
      @kashif2309 4 года назад +67

      underrated

    • @lavielemond
      @lavielemond 4 года назад +89

      Yep, as a kid I always thought that the pool in Malvern that was named after him was a joke!!

    • @kadenyung3653
      @kadenyung3653 3 года назад +14

      Ironic

    • @shamefulfox5744
      @shamefulfox5744 3 года назад +91

      Carno TV i can understand people may find it bad/disrespectful but when you think about it he did seem to like swimming, maybe he got a pool named after him because of his love for swimming?

    • @WildBluntHickok
      @WildBluntHickok 3 года назад +51

      @@shamefulfox5744 Also, indoor swimming pools have lifeguards on duty. So if you think about it the pool named after him is a daily tribute to the subject of drowning prevention.

  • @zacharymohammadi
    @zacharymohammadi 5 лет назад +14553

    They could have found him but his location was kept secret using nord vpn

    • @MyFriendsWithMe1
      @MyFriendsWithMe1 5 лет назад +38

      Zachary Mohammadi Or Quarry 😂😂😂😂

    • @retardo2384
      @retardo2384 5 лет назад +43

      Zachary Mohammadi Or Quarry I was the 420 like *insert mega lmao*

    • @zacharymohammadi
      @zacharymohammadi 5 лет назад +35

      Nice 👍. Here have a cake 🎂

    • @zacharymohammadi
      @zacharymohammadi 5 лет назад +29

      Donald Trump while listening to a book on audible

    • @Cabalex
      @Cabalex 5 лет назад +60

      I bet he found out how to use NordVPN with Brilliant

  • @warbledurbler7905
    @warbledurbler7905 4 года назад +4851

    Harold Holt actually staged his own death so that he could fully devote himself to Skillshare. Rumour has it he's still learning new skills to this day!

    • @ariavachier-lagravech.6910
      @ariavachier-lagravech.6910 4 года назад +69

      He will be back when the world needs him the most

    • @T2G-DJT
      @T2G-DJT 4 года назад +16

      Agtra boy
      When will that be?

    • @abigailfaith576
      @abigailfaith576 4 года назад +18

      『Surp Nurp』 when he’s skilled enough to be on skillshare

    • @T2G-DJT
      @T2G-DJT 4 года назад +8

      • Abigail Faith 아비갤 •
      Damn, I hope it’s soon. My guy always kept it real on the streets 😔 ✊

    • @holasoyalejandro9822
      @holasoyalejandro9822 3 года назад +8

      Rumor also has it that Jeffery Epstein didn’t kill himself

  • @SHENGEsiyabonga
    @SHENGEsiyabonga 4 года назад +3457

    "He probably used Skillshar-... ohhh I'm sorry"
    Skillshare needs to award you for that🤣

    • @wisevoice5393
      @wisevoice5393 4 года назад +18

      Was looking for this

    • @bot8.1
      @bot8.1 4 года назад +74

      That's the best part of the video. Also he's mocking this new trend of explainer videos(including himself) selling Nord VPN, Skill Share etc. 😄

    • @error-xq2zc
      @error-xq2zc 4 года назад +17

      2:08

    • @ffhhffh
      @ffhhffh 4 года назад +6

      This killed me😂

    • @leonardoo6150
      @leonardoo6150 4 года назад +4

      LOL that joke was too good

  • @podcuts406
    @podcuts406 5 лет назад +5685

    The Australian government should have used skill share to save him

    • @CancerGaming56
      @CancerGaming56 5 лет назад +68

      When they will find his body there will be a 10% off for the first 400 people on a course named How to NOT LOSE A PRIME MINISTER

    • @ivanf3973
      @ivanf3973 5 лет назад +2

      Damn straight

    • @guitarhill9003
      @guitarhill9003 5 лет назад +4

      *skillshare

    • @chunkycheeks9101
      @chunkycheeks9101 5 лет назад +6

      @@robertmills3830 Yikes

    • @podcuts406
      @podcuts406 5 лет назад +21

      @@robertmills3830 you now that if I have a Arab name that's doesn't mean I am Muslim all tho I am Muslim butt I forgive you

  • @pegeonpera
    @pegeonpera 5 лет назад +2648

    When you drown but people blame you for being a life-long Chinese spy...

    • @Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer
      @Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer 5 лет назад +128

      … and then eventually settle on naming a public pool after you. Aussies are some tough muffins.

    • @123fourfive5
      @123fourfive5 5 лет назад +80

      "He doesn't even like Chinese food" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @user-vl8bv5jt9m
      @user-vl8bv5jt9m 5 лет назад +34

      Probably using some Chinese equipment so he drowned

    • @dndboy13
      @dndboy13 5 лет назад +51

      probably a double agent working for the emus

    • @abandonedchannel281
      @abandonedchannel281 5 лет назад +21

      Emu spy*

  • @BrotherSergeantFlynn
    @BrotherSergeantFlynn 4 года назад +1452

    "It seemed unlikely that he drowned because he was a very proficient swimmer"
    "His drowning was a long time coming because he'd nearly drowned before"

    • @tallaganda83
      @tallaganda83 4 года назад +22

      Gearhead I think he was having health problems.

    • @szhou2513
      @szhou2513 4 года назад +141

      @@tallaganda83 A lot of drownings, especially in Australia, are young/middle aged males. Because they like to overestimate themselves.

    • @mystii8134
      @mystii8134 4 года назад +5

      Gearhead it was the mini sharks.

    • @Abcwhatever
      @Abcwhatever 4 года назад +46

      No, he fell into the sky. Australia is upside down world :/

    • @itismethatguy
      @itismethatguy 3 года назад +2

      @@Abcwhatever nah america is Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia...are less upside down

  • @dugroz
    @dugroz 4 года назад +2385

    He looks like a young Gorbachev with hair. Wait a minute . . .

    • @therektproduction6922
      @therektproduction6922 4 года назад +252

      dugroz he was Gorbachev all the time!

    • @yoymate6316
      @yoymate6316 4 года назад +148

      \*Soviet anthem plays in the distance\*

    • @jstar7262
      @jstar7262 4 года назад +64

      *CYKA BL-*

    • @yiyi3926
      @yiyi3926 4 года назад +157

      This is the stupidest and most beautiful conspiracy theory I have ever seen.

    • @A_B_1917
      @A_B_1917 4 года назад +101

      That would explain why Gorby fucked up USSR so badly, he was actually Australian spy!

  • @CheeseTruffles
    @CheeseTruffles 5 лет назад +4745

    Wait... but this is Australia
    He was probably attacked by a poisonous sea kangaroo or something

  • @grannyedna2862
    @grannyedna2862 5 лет назад +627

    *After 51 Years of being lost, Harold emerges from the water as people are shocked to see him alive. He then only says "i forgot something" and Sinks back into the water.*

  • @thechief1298
    @thechief1298 4 года назад +664

    "What happened to your PM?"
    Australia:
    "Gone, reduced to atoms"

    • @masonkoller8962
      @masonkoller8962 3 года назад +1

      Thanos

    • @ars0n765
      @ars0n765 3 года назад

      @@masonkoller8962 bro we just gotta wait five years

    • @kamladevi4500
      @kamladevi4500 3 года назад

      Call the Avengers

    • @lutriss
      @lutriss 2 года назад

      It's more like "we don't fuckin know, we didn't nor ever cared ya thick cunt"

    • @sharonjensen3016
      @sharonjensen3016 2 года назад

      I'm sure the Vietnam conscripts didn't care. My dad certainly didn't. But at least his birthdate was valid. Normie Rowe's wasn't. February 1 wasn't a birthdate that was supposed to be drawn out. Normie only found out when he got pulled over by a copper who had the same birthdate (February 1, 1947) and asked: "How come you had to serve and I didn't?"

  • @QueueWithACapitalQ
    @QueueWithACapitalQ 4 года назад +552

    You didn’t even mention the best part, after the search was called off the police chief said the investigation came to a dead halt

    • @erased2673
      @erased2673 3 года назад +47

      don't you mean a dead holt?

    • @guacnpp6636
      @guacnpp6636 3 года назад +4

      OOOOOOO9OOOOOOH

    • @skeletonjanitor
      @skeletonjanitor 3 года назад +2

      @@itshawck you’re fucking stupid

    • @JYNCST3R
      @JYNCST3R 3 года назад +5

      @@itshawck how did he miss the joke? if anything, it got better

    • @BobHutton
      @BobHutton 2 года назад

      Actually it was TV reporter Geoff Raymond.
      televisionau.com/2011/01/obituary-geoff-raymond.html

  • @TheRealBlkButterfly
    @TheRealBlkButterfly 5 лет назад +2124

    You know you're Australian when someone in a video says Scott Morrison is the PM and your only reaction is "Oh, so thats who is in charge this week."

    • @ZeroRelevance
      @ZeroRelevance 5 лет назад +19

      Yep

    • @TheRealBlkButterfly
      @TheRealBlkButterfly 5 лет назад +166

      @@ExtractoDeTomates let's be real here, we haven't had a single PM sit their full term since John Howard... Which is really freaking depressing when you think about it. We have had six PM's in 11 years.

    • @buchanan9000
      @buchanan9000 5 лет назад +1

      Hahah sounds about right

    • @elleeeish407
      @elleeeish407 5 лет назад +26

      If you didn't know that bigot was PM then you need to tell me where your rock is, because I want to hide there too.

    • @krieger2077
      @krieger2077 5 лет назад +24

      I fucking know right. I legitimately thought that Malcolm Turnbull was still PM until we recently had our NSW State Elections. Hell, maybe there were some PM's in between that I didn't catch before Morrison.

  • @BobMcCoy
    @BobMcCoy 5 лет назад +3410

    *He probably just fell out of Earth*

    • @pegeonpera
      @pegeonpera 5 лет назад +130

      You are encouraging the flat-earthers

    • @camwoodstock
      @camwoodstock 5 лет назад +143

      Clipped through the ground.

    • @DumbArse
      @DumbArse 5 лет назад +195

      I mean australia is pretty close to the edge

    • @maybewellok
      @maybewellok 5 лет назад +28

      He prob got eaten by the earth

    • @ernestbr9786
      @ernestbr9786 5 лет назад +22

      In this universe, my plan was successful

  • @Nick181194
    @Nick181194 4 года назад +1496

    I truly thought this video was going to be about Morrisson's disappearing act in the bushfires

  • @Bedside_table
    @Bedside_table 3 года назад +163

    Did you know that in Australia if someone is missing or lost they would say “ Yep they pulled a Harold Holt”

    • @furqaanilahi8078
      @furqaanilahi8078 3 года назад +7

      Really??

    • @Bedside_table
      @Bedside_table 3 года назад +15

      @@furqaanilahi8078 yes it’s true I’m from Australia btw

    • @Bedside_table
      @Bedside_table 2 года назад +1

      @d R what but I am from Australia don’t know what your talking about mate

    • @Bedside_table
      @Bedside_table 2 года назад +1

      @d R I’m so confused

    • @sharonjensen3016
      @sharonjensen3016 2 года назад +6

      I wish just about every politician in Australia would pull a Harold Holt.

  • @H00L3y
    @H00L3y 5 лет назад +1955

    Once upon a time, an Aussie set the world record for sinking a beer..... That man then became Prime Minister

    • @kabochaVA
      @kabochaVA 5 лет назад +73

      Wait... that's not a requirement to become PM in the land down-under?

    • @TimmyJamesDafunnyMan
      @TimmyJamesDafunnyMan 5 лет назад +40

      He chugged the beer 20 years after he was prime minister

    • @FuddButter
      @FuddButter 5 лет назад +21

      @@kabochaVA No, but it's better than the weird one we had that ate a raw onion.

    • @duncandrummond726
      @duncandrummond726 5 лет назад +12

      @@TimmyJamesDafunnyMan, he set the yard glass drinking record while at uni in England. then went on to be Prime Minister.
      they showed a picture of Bob in the video.

    • @marcusturner27
      @marcusturner27 5 лет назад +24

      One time, an American had a TV show where he fired people, and....aw crap....

  • @Deathnotefan97
    @Deathnotefan97 5 лет назад +1782

    When I saw "Australian" and "disappeared without a trace" in the title, I was half expecting him to have just wandered into the outback and never came back

    • @QueueWithACapitalQ
      @QueueWithACapitalQ 4 года назад +61

      Deathnotefan97 he wandered into the ocean and never came back

    • @bluewren65
      @bluewren65 4 года назад +33

      This is the southern Australian equivalent.

    • @alizeica519
      @alizeica519 4 года назад +22

      I know, that restaurant is scary.

    • @SondreGrneng
      @SondreGrneng 3 года назад +14

      I figured he probably just moved to Britain or something. don't think Australian prime ministers are well known enough to where they can't just disappear in a major city. Him swinning off, mostly disproves that theory though, unless it was vastly understated how good he was at swimming and he swam to London.

    • @splva1362
      @splva1362 3 года назад +1

      Na mate, not interesting, happens all the time

  • @dwj77
    @dwj77 4 года назад +204

    Our Prime Minister died while swimming, so we named a swimming pool after him.

    • @WildBluntHickok
      @WildBluntHickok 3 года назад +15

      A shrine to drowning prevention. Indoor swimming pools have lifeguards after all.

  • @capito4585
    @capito4585 4 года назад +98

    I've actually been to point Nepean twice, it's a nice area

    • @OfficialGamingNetwork
      @OfficialGamingNetwork 3 года назад +2

      Went there a few months back before the second wave, it was a lovely walk but unfortunately you couldn’t go to the very end since it was blocked. Gotta go back sometime

    • @ag7830
      @ag7830 3 года назад

      @@OfficialGamingNetwork i went there yesterday

    • @OfficialGamingNetwork
      @OfficialGamingNetwork 3 года назад +1

      @@ag7830 nice :)

    • @malarbutton1606
      @malarbutton1606 3 года назад

      @@ag7830 did you find any skeletons

    • @ag7830
      @ag7830 3 года назад +1

      @@malarbutton1606 nah but there was a fence to keep people from landmines

  • @auroreo777
    @auroreo777 5 лет назад +1685

    Ah, yes, let us name a swim centre after someone who probably drowned. That will definitely make us look good

    • @TheMichaelStott
      @TheMichaelStott 5 лет назад +91

      Aussie sense of humour. Master level Trolls 😜

    • @duncandrummond726
      @duncandrummond726 5 лет назад +5

      lots of great naming things, check out the naming in 1960s of a grandstand in Toowoomba's main football stadium, the Toowoomba Sports Ground.

    • @sforbesgocka
      @sforbesgocka 5 лет назад +14

      Well he always was keen on swimming throughout his life.

    • @ibec69
      @ibec69 5 лет назад +1

      Aussies, kings of perverse

    • @iluvcamaros1912
      @iluvcamaros1912 5 лет назад

      @@duncandrummond726 As an American I checked and... where's the punch line in naming something the "N-word grandstand?" How is that funny?

  • @ameliap6839
    @ameliap6839 5 лет назад +827

    I live in Australia and there’s a saying ‘they’ve done a holt’ if you get stood up on a date

    • @SoSmileable
      @SoSmileable 5 лет назад +156

      jenifer cronin did you watch the video???

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng 5 лет назад +11

      @jenifer cronin Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia

    • @CalvinLimuel
      @CalvinLimuel 5 лет назад +6

      oh yikes hahaha

    • @grendelum
      @grendelum 5 лет назад +5

      Amelia P - seriously? That’s *_awesome !!_*

    • @victorhugofranciscon7899
      @victorhugofranciscon7899 5 лет назад +2

      I am seriously understanding nothing

  • @xelzeus3009
    @xelzeus3009 4 года назад +70

    He hold his breath until now that's why he never found.

  • @bullet4346
    @bullet4346 3 года назад +16

    4:36
    Only the sharp-eyed will notice “I thought this video was about death in Australia” - The Animator
    in the bottom left corder

  • @castsmith6783
    @castsmith6783 5 лет назад +642

    when a prime minister suddenly dissapeared
    world: "oh no"
    australian: "Goddamn emu"

    • @bavarianmapper4566
      @bavarianmapper4566 5 лет назад +18

      Australia: *declares war on fertile cats*
      Me: HEY I REMEMBER THIS!
      Emus: god damn it now the government still being like this

    • @TotoDG
      @TotoDG 5 лет назад +17

      Europe: [blames their problems on EU.]
      Australia: [blames their problems on EMU.]

    • @Endlessninja-ug5zy
      @Endlessninja-ug5zy 5 лет назад +2

      don't underestimate emus, they're deadly, even more deadly than the spider the size of houses we have here

    • @user-gb5pp2ii4k
      @user-gb5pp2ii4k 5 лет назад +3

      Dormm-emu, I've come to bargain.

    • @GalluZ
      @GalluZ 5 лет назад +1

      @@TotoDG Australian government finds something. It's not an EMU though, it's an E...MO

  • @yalelingoz6346
    @yalelingoz6346 5 лет назад +476

    And a fun fact about John Gorton the replacement Prime Minister: he became the first PM to vote himself out of office.
    He didn't resign. Any chump can do that. He deliberately voted himself out of the job.

    • @OriginalPiMan
      @OriginalPiMan 4 года назад +44

      Had he not swung the vote against himself, he would have been leading something of a lame duck government, given half of his colleagues in his party voted against him without having a single clear alternative.

    • @FuryanJedi13
      @FuryanJedi13 Год назад +1

      ​@@OriginalPiMan Sounds like he made the right choice. He knew he wasn't the right man for the job, so he arranged his own exit.

    • @carltonleboss
      @carltonleboss 9 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@FuryanJedi13A politician with dignity. If only more of them were like that...

  • @dame8195
    @dame8195 4 года назад +288

    Why was this recommended to me right after Scott Morrison “disappeared” to Hawaii during the Australian bush fires

    • @szhou2513
      @szhou2513 4 года назад +4

      You mean Scotty the Marketing Guy?

    • @gusrobertson5967
      @gusrobertson5967 4 года назад +1

      Steven Zhou betoota is fucking god

    • @carebear1470
      @carebear1470 4 года назад +3

      @@szhou2513 You mean Scovid?

    • @Blurriy
      @Blurriy 2 года назад

      You answered yourself in your own question

  • @EchoBravo370
    @EchoBravo370 3 года назад +26

    For years afterwards, people would say "don't do a Harold Holt', which meant not to go missing. So especially in the years before cellphones, if you were at say a shopping mall and your friend wanted to go one way and you wanted to go another for a minute, you might say 'don't do a Harold Holt'. True story. Genuine late 20th Century Australian saying.

  • @fishbulb3926
    @fishbulb3926 5 лет назад +2051

    R.I.P. Bob Hawke
    1929-2019
    He's chugging pints with Harold in Heaven now.
    *Ⅎ*

    • @damomguy2801
      @damomguy2801 5 лет назад +77

      That *Ⅎ* killed me😅

    • @suwinkhamchaiwong8382
      @suwinkhamchaiwong8382 4 года назад +2

      90

    • @Deathmastertx
      @Deathmastertx 4 года назад +19

      Perhaps the finest PM Australia has yet had too.

    • @pafcafl6373
      @pafcafl6373 4 года назад +5

      He didnt die in 2019

    • @tron7_
      @tron7_ 4 года назад +5

      @my mom never knew they let 3 year olds on youtube

  • @Arthur_da_dog
    @Arthur_da_dog 5 лет назад +568

    Thank you for the sponsor humor. It makes it a lot better

    • @xdolphin7337
      @xdolphin7337 5 лет назад +5

      Wellhe does have a good cents of humour

    • @Bwana_mademm
      @Bwana_mademm 5 лет назад +2

      @@xdolphin7337 cents😂💀

  • @spookaj6261
    @spookaj6261 3 года назад +13

    I remember going with my family to the Melbourne Cemetery and unknowingly sitting on his spherical memorial statue, good times.

  • @richmcgee434
    @richmcgee434 4 года назад +92

    "Death in Ab-sen-tee-ah" Might want to look up the proper pronunciation on that one.

    • @WildBluntHickok
      @WildBluntHickok 3 года назад +1

      I remember how to pronounce it from whatever you call it when someone flees the country to escape trial so they just have the trial without them (Judgement in Absentia I think).

    • @richmcgee434
      @richmcgee434 3 года назад +3

      @Alan West Close enough, yeah. There's a hint of a "t" sound in there at the start of the "chia" part. Same sound as the end of "dementia" if that helps.

    • @ellenorbjornsdottir1166
      @ellenorbjornsdottir1166 3 года назад

      technically, he has got it

    • @casper14301
      @casper14301 3 года назад

      Well, he was close since you can also pronounce it as "æbˈsen.ti.ə". He just stretched the vocal at the end a bit too much.

    • @barcelonachair6487
      @barcelonachair6487 3 года назад

      He might want to look up proper pronunciations on Skillshare. lol

  • @flashbash2
    @flashbash2 5 лет назад +791

    On April Fools Day, you should start a video with an interesting topic like any other, but just keep smoothly transitioning to more and more ads

    • @klobiforpresident2254
      @klobiforpresident2254 4 года назад +30

      I want to see a transition from a skillshare advert into an audible advert.

    • @fruze8478
      @fruze8478 4 года назад +12

      Or have a video where continues to allude to the fact that he's about to mention his sponsor but never does. Like keep building up to it but never follow through lol.

    • @Jivvi
      @Jivvi 4 года назад +2

      @@fruze8478 I thought the joke in this one was going to be that he accidentally mentions skillshare, but then the sponsor is something else.

    • @biliminsrlar5752
      @biliminsrlar5752 4 года назад +6

      _This video is sponsored by _*_Raid Skill Audible_*

    • @christopherjr7189
      @christopherjr7189 2 года назад +7

      That's what LinusTechTips did for April Fools this year

  • @John8000
    @John8000 5 лет назад +743

    2:11 "he probably used Skillshare"
    😂 made my day!

    • @freudianslip2534
      @freudianslip2534 5 лет назад +7

      I was about to say the same thing... glad I looked

    • @WonderfulPears
      @WonderfulPears 5 лет назад +12

      I spat my coffee all over the place hahaha

    • @cyka4075
      @cyka4075 5 лет назад +1

      Yeah hahaha

    • @iisaac
      @iisaac 5 лет назад +4

      uhhh im sorry... im sory

    • @2003andre100
      @2003andre100 5 лет назад

      yeah lol

  • @ArtemisScribe
    @ArtemisScribe 3 года назад +16

    I know "He died doing what he loved" is a cliché but wow, he really died doing what he loved.

  • @AsbestosMuffins
    @AsbestosMuffins 4 года назад +4

    While him being a spy is a really really silly idea, it'd be a great idea for a movie where the PM keeps trying to escape from his own country but through forces of circumstances he keeps getting rescued

  • @NIN10DOXD
    @NIN10DOXD 5 лет назад +867

    Wait until they open the Steve Irwin Stingray Sanctuary. Australia loves some dark humor.

    • @H00L3y
      @H00L3y 5 лет назад +74

      NIN10DOXD we talk shit about pollies... not Steve. Absolute hero that bloke

    • @keiyakins
      @keiyakins 5 лет назад +66

      Tbf that's probably something Irwin would have been all for. Dude just loved animals.

    • @LuckyBird551
      @LuckyBird551 5 лет назад +49

      When they build a staue of an Australian General bowing down to an Emu with the words "Emus are better than me" inscribed at the base, then I'll be impressed.

    • @steampunknord
      @steampunknord 5 лет назад +25

      @@LuckyBird551 Dude, that is a brilliant idea. Best place for it would be right in front of parliament.

    • @DarkShroom
      @DarkShroom 4 года назад +2

      @@H00L3y yeah like most western nations but especially in Australia, politicians are automatically evil scum, TV stars are legends, Ned Kelly and outlaws they're basically like demigods
      that said Australia is not a very liberal place, so it's not without reason

  • @chook2148
    @chook2148 5 лет назад +540

    There’s a “Harold Holt Swim Centre” down the road from me in Melbourne, how savage!

    • @jackgarrix4150
      @jackgarrix4150 5 лет назад +62

      My local pool. Love the name. My school also had a drinking fountain named after a student who drowned.

    • @changyang1230
      @changyang1230 5 лет назад +1

      That’s what the video mentioned right.

    • @BJGvideos
      @BJGvideos 5 лет назад +4

      @@jackgarrix4150 I went to a summer camp that named its high dive after a kid who died falling off of it. This was in the US too.

    • @troymark2298
      @troymark2298 4 года назад

      yeah my untie is one of the instructors

  • @tanitank
    @tanitank 4 года назад +5

    Omg that skillshare plug killed me 😂😂😂😂😂😂👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @evilhellokittie
    @evilhellokittie 3 года назад

    Thank you for doing this topic!!! As an Aussie I've always been so intrigued by the harold Holt case!

  • @Jfatland86
    @Jfatland86 5 лет назад +288

    Here’s what happened :
    1 - Swim
    2 - Drown
    3 - Gets Eaten

    • @kierancalder8573
      @kierancalder8573 5 лет назад +28

      4 - Grabbed a search party member after holding his breath for a couple of days and resurfaced in their swim gear

    • @grendelum
      @grendelum 5 лет назад

      Yeah, he was nabbed by a shark, that’s why there are shark nets !!

    • @ahs7869
      @ahs7869 5 лет назад +14

      5 - Emus hold him hostage

    • @kayseek1248
      @kayseek1248 5 лет назад +4

      69th like

    • @GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou
      @GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou 5 лет назад +1

      Shouldn't 2- be heart attack or stroke or something like that?

  • @dominic5386
    @dominic5386 5 лет назад +252

    His Earth-tether probably broke, and he most likely fell into the sun

    • @misanthropickryptonian2626
      @misanthropickryptonian2626 5 лет назад +1

      The Earth is flat. Period.😂

    • @blaze4109
      @blaze4109 5 лет назад

      Don’t make me try to prove you wrong. Besides, the shape of the Earth has nothing to do with the meme.

    • @misanthropickryptonian2626
      @misanthropickryptonian2626 5 лет назад +1

      @@blaze4109 Are you saying the Earth is flat?

    • @blaze4109
      @blaze4109 5 лет назад

      No. Nobody ever said anything about it but you.

    • @misanthropickryptonian2626
      @misanthropickryptonian2626 5 лет назад

      @@blaze4109 I meant it as a joke. I'm not a flat earther.
      But I'm always interested in arguing with a flat earther.

  • @autooctavia133
    @autooctavia133 3 года назад +8

    I like how even the SCP Foundation touched on this

  • @danielbailey2764
    @danielbailey2764 4 года назад +3

    I nearly spilled an entire mug of tea at 2:30 - the suffocating in Parliament joke was legendary!!

  • @FOLIPE
    @FOLIPE 5 лет назад +233

    World: Wow, Australia finally elected a normal PM.
    Australia: You just wait.

  • @mattstirling7494
    @mattstirling7494 5 лет назад +569

    Bloody hell, you even used the old parliament building.
    +1 for historical accuracy ya flaming galah.

  • @c8Lorraine1
    @c8Lorraine1 3 года назад +1

    On point Wendall. Again well researched

  • @ErkanMehmedali
    @ErkanMehmedali 4 года назад

    Love your vids. The sense of humor is on spot.

  • @ThisisBarris
    @ThisisBarris 5 лет назад +807

    Calling it now - one of those freaky insects or animals that can only live in Australia.

    • @staticsight
      @staticsight 5 лет назад +20

      Probably a box jellyfish that stung him and then he ended up dead at sea

    • @DumbSkippy
      @DumbSkippy 5 лет назад +2

      D'accord ;-)

    • @rakaman27
      @rakaman27 5 лет назад +6

      @@staticsight or a salty. or a great white shark. or an emu that learned to swim

    • @sethleoric2598
      @sethleoric2598 5 лет назад +1

      @@rakaman27 actually Sharks don't normally kill people

    • @VincentGonzalezVeg
      @VincentGonzalezVeg 5 лет назад +3

      no
      they are coming to a backyard near you
      THE MAGPIES ARE DIVEBOMBING US

  • @GustafMedF
    @GustafMedF 5 лет назад +502

    Mr kangaroo i don't feel so good.

    • @WickedPhase
      @WickedPhase 5 лет назад +15

      Gustaf Lindewald this is the comment i was looking for lmao

    • @killercreep1384
      @killercreep1384 5 лет назад +1

      @@WickedPhase same

    • @MagnificentBirb
      @MagnificentBirb 5 лет назад +3

      Ey Bazza, I don't feel so jolly.

    • @user-vl8bv5jt9m
      @user-vl8bv5jt9m 5 лет назад

      Kangaroo would probably knocked his beard off

  • @julez2106
    @julez2106 4 года назад +1

    Absolutely love the humor on this channel😉

  • @bryce2038
    @bryce2038 4 года назад +6

    Here in aus there's a saying "to do the Harold Holt". I think it explains itself

  • @c.p.7426
    @c.p.7426 5 лет назад +364

    “He probably used skillsh- I’m sorry“ 😂😂😂😂 I’m dead

  • @richardlazarus1738
    @richardlazarus1738 5 лет назад +339

    Kidnapped by the Emus for sure

    • @vanguardtrainer924
      @vanguardtrainer924 5 лет назад +4

      Swimming Emus, god help us now.

    • @CitizenSnips69
      @CitizenSnips69 5 лет назад +3

      Let’s wage a war on the emus. What’s the worst that could happen, they win? It’ll be like shooting off brand ostriches in a really large barrel

  • @TheBasher-_-
    @TheBasher-_- 4 года назад +36

    He didnt like chinese food!? Oh yeah he was a spy 😂😂💀

  • @MichaelWheatland
    @MichaelWheatland 4 года назад +5

    He took a holiday to Hawaii... During a deadly bushfire crisis

  • @HypnoticOcelot
    @HypnoticOcelot 5 лет назад +606

    *HALF* as interesting
    *VANISHED* into thin air
    All signs of Thanos confirmed

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 5 лет назад +155

    Gravity pushed him away, he couldn't handle standing upside down

    • @Mark50x
      @Mark50x 5 лет назад

      Avery The Cuban-American really Avery

    • @iisaac
      @iisaac 5 лет назад

      i saw you on another video

    • @inari.28
      @inari.28 5 лет назад +1

      can confirm that 56% of deaths in australia (i live here) are caused by people just randomly falling into the sky

  • @JordyValentine
    @JordyValentine 3 года назад +3

    The missing body has never quite sat right with me, I'm sure it was just washed out into the bay, but I learnt to swim and dive in the same area as a kid, the visibility underwater is mostly very good. You would think with how many people searching someone would have found something. That said he certainly wouldn't be the only one swept out to sea in the area, usually its tourists or drunk fisherman though

  • @Hillers62
    @Hillers62 3 года назад +1

    Australian humor..."the PM is dead by drowning...we should name a building or something after him" "I dunno... there aren't any new buildings" "I got it! How about a new school!" "Nah, something that more people go to in order to remember him" "Well...there is this swim center" ... "OK...no problem with that!"...

  • @_Silenceman
    @_Silenceman 5 лет назад +626

    yo dude that guy looks just like my neighbor paul

    • @wil.delaney
      @wil.delaney 4 года назад +89

      Just wait until he goes swimming

    • @rooseveltbrentwood9654
      @rooseveltbrentwood9654 4 года назад +42

      finally proof that Holt is alive! He just changed his name and started a new life.

    • @tron7_
      @tron7_ 4 года назад +23

      hol up

    • @idk-ch7hj
      @idk-ch7hj 4 года назад +4

      Roosevelt Brentwood yeah but he’d be like a hundred and odd so he’d look nothing like he did

    • @alyshamcalpine2238
      @alyshamcalpine2238 4 года назад +12

      JustSomeCringyKid holt up

  • @idndyzgaming
    @idndyzgaming 5 лет назад +506

    HAI: *no plane things*
    Netizens: wait that's illegal

    • @diegosanchez894
      @diegosanchez894 5 лет назад +6

      Wendover is the one obsessed with planes and trains. HAI is just a bunch of history trivia basically.

    • @flexelsson1625
      @flexelsson1625 5 лет назад +7

      Diego Sanchez isnt it the same dude behind both channels..?

    • @kalazakan
      @kalazakan 5 лет назад

      @@flexelsson1625 ikr

    • @diegosanchez894
      @diegosanchez894 5 лет назад

      Yes, I know he's the same guy, but his addiction seems to stay on the other channel, as here the topics vary quite a lot.

    • @WJames-nq2df
      @WJames-nq2df 5 лет назад

      MRS OBAMA GET DOWN

  • @flyingdiamonds8492
    @flyingdiamonds8492 3 года назад

    This kind of stuff really gives me *chills*

  • @silvagni97
    @silvagni97 3 года назад

    He went to the same school I went to for several years and I’ve also been to that beach. It’s pretty full on and from those pictures imagine those rocks but with waves crashing everywhere around you.

  • @darraghtate440
    @darraghtate440 5 лет назад +117

    The Skillshare joke has earned you even more of my respect.

  • @connorhobson6293
    @connorhobson6293 5 лет назад +260

    he went swimming without his tether and fell off the bottom of the planet

  • @JasonAyalaSpare
    @JasonAyalaSpare 3 года назад

    This is where we use the sayings "done a Harold Holt" (meaning bolt) and "Waiting for ___ is like leaving the leaving the porch light on for Harold Holt".

  • @dampaul13
    @dampaul13 4 года назад

    The stretch of beaches from Point Nepean to Cape Schank are considered to be phenomenally dangerous as they face out on to Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean. Huge swells and massive rips. So many drownings.

  • @rollingrocky3608
    @rollingrocky3608 5 лет назад +396

    "this video was made possible by SkillShare"
    Dumboes: Then just arrest SkillShare

    • @ohno-cz6jb
      @ohno-cz6jb 5 лет назад +3

      Rolling Rocky360 Dumbos: “Dumboes”

    • @xtryhardxxpopoppz5851
      @xtryhardxxpopoppz5851 5 лет назад +2

      @@ohno-cz6jb you can't even correct someone right 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😈😈😈

    • @ohno-cz6jb
      @ohno-cz6jb 5 лет назад +2

      Xtryhardxx Pop oppz I wasn’t correcting them. Merely mocking them. Are you fucking stupid? Go off with your emojis.

    • @yipmanfrog722
      @yipmanfrog722 4 года назад +1

      Oh no your so dumb you couldn’t even correct him😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🖕😙👉😃👌🏻😌😌👌🏻👌🏻😃

    • @Jin-di9zv
      @Jin-di9zv 4 года назад

      Everyone here should just commit me rope

  • @roadrunner6224
    @roadrunner6224 5 лет назад +252

    Taken by the Emus

    • @irgendsoeintyp6137
      @irgendsoeintyp6137 5 лет назад

      Peter Zwegert The emu is not here he can‘t hurt you

    • @DiracComb.7585
      @DiracComb.7585 5 лет назад

      Peter Zwegert Those damn movies. They got it in for me. They’re bullies.

    • @zacharymohammadi
      @zacharymohammadi 5 лет назад +4

      This is so sad Alexa play Advance Australia Fair

    • @Henchman_Holding_Wrench
      @Henchman_Holding_Wrench 5 лет назад

      I was scrolling down when I saw this comment and I thought 'was that a title of a book or a band name?' I looked back at it and thought it was a song called "Taken". I was so confused for a moment.

  • @imtrappedinabasementthisis5963
    @imtrappedinabasementthisis5963 4 года назад +8

    *"Oi Mate, I Aint feelin' so goody.."*

  • @jackhehir1493
    @jackhehir1493 4 года назад

    I live about 30 minutes from where he got lost and there is a plaque their about him along with a warning about possibly active sea mines.

  • @harveyholmes9533
    @harveyholmes9533 5 лет назад +668

    Are you not going to do a video on how he drank 2.5 pints in 11 damn seconds?

    • @ethancooper3946
      @ethancooper3946 5 лет назад +133

      He used skill share

    • @piewars
      @piewars 5 лет назад +46

      That would be a really short video though, about 11 seconds

    • @harveyholmes9533
      @harveyholmes9533 5 лет назад +11

      piewars nah I need the physics and biology of that explaining

    • @paigeconnelly4244
      @paigeconnelly4244 5 лет назад +15

      I saw the captain of the women's rugby team at my uni chug a pint of beer in legit 2 or less seconds. The key is to use a plastic pint glass and lift your head so your throat is a straight line. Psychologically disable your gag reflex and keep your throat open. Pour the cup and squeeze suddenly. That pint is GONE.

    • @harveyholmes9533
      @harveyholmes9533 5 лет назад +5

      Paige Connelly that makes sense I think you’d need the beer to be pretty flat otherwise the fizz would fuck you up, still though 2.5 pints in 11 seconds just sounds painful

  • @Xperian13
    @Xperian13 5 лет назад +191

    I am wondering if there is a class at skillshare on how to find a missing persons.

    • @PixelSheep
      @PixelSheep 5 лет назад

      interesting question my friend :D

    • @huebothedog665
      @huebothedog665 5 лет назад

      Someone should look it up

    • @P3arlJang
      @P3arlJang 5 лет назад

      Check out this book: Lost Person Behavior

    • @Gabrong
      @Gabrong 5 лет назад

      Ask alexa

  • @LostsTVandRadio
    @LostsTVandRadio 2 года назад +2

    Surely that's a photo of Mary Wilson with her husband, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson, at 3:11 rather than Zara Holt .... ???

  • @TheHermesfrancisco
    @TheHermesfrancisco 4 года назад +1

    Since I am Brazilian, when I saw the tumbnail I thought the video was about a police officer - because in Brazil we use "PM" to refer to "Policia Militar" - which is one of the types of police we have here

  • @user-tv9bp2dh4c
    @user-tv9bp2dh4c 5 лет назад +311

    First thing first, as a Chinese, I do not even believe our navy could sail a submarine all the way to Australia in the 70s. I think that's the biggest error in the conspiracy theory lmao.

    • @eduardopupucon
      @eduardopupucon 5 лет назад +63

      Tianamen square massacre

    • @mwu365
      @mwu365 5 лет назад +13

      @@eduardopupucon hilarious.

    • @adl805
      @adl805 5 лет назад +18

      @@eduardopupucon nothing to see my fellow comrade, keep going...

    • @theyoshi202
      @theyoshi202 5 лет назад +59

      @RATO that was tragic but it has absolutely nothing to do with the topic

    • @jdsce
      @jdsce 5 лет назад +5

      RATO hah. Not creative

  • @samuelfischman6949
    @samuelfischman6949 5 лет назад +151

    Prime minister: "Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good..."

    • @alexxd2398
      @alexxd2398 5 лет назад +1

      Still too soon. Even though it’s been a year...

    • @isaacsim5193
      @isaacsim5193 5 лет назад +3

      @Splatoon is the worst game of all time. Infinity war memes are still not dead goddamnit

    • @kamranbashir4842
      @kamranbashir4842 5 лет назад +1

      @Splatoon is the worst game of all time. it was dead but hulk bring it back to life

    • @renapeppers20
      @renapeppers20 5 лет назад +3

      @Splatoon is the worst game of all time. Umm no.

  • @ammarraz.8090
    @ammarraz.8090 4 года назад +2

    Laughed out loud with the skillshare joke 🤣

  • @anitaanil6333
    @anitaanil6333 4 года назад +10

    "He probably used Skillshare" xD

  • @csours
    @csours 5 лет назад +491

    Skillshare should teach you how to pronounce absentia

  • @NotSal
    @NotSal 5 лет назад +196

    Thanos: "Snap"
    Prime minister: Australians I don't feel so good.

  • @At-kc1rc
    @At-kc1rc 4 года назад +3

    “The truth is often more simple than you’d think” - Alfred Kirantin.

    • @WildBluntHickok
      @WildBluntHickok 3 года назад

      "Don't believe everything you hear on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln

    • @wigglebot2368
      @wigglebot2368 3 года назад

      @@WildBluntHickok ?

  • @VOZmonsoon
    @VOZmonsoon 4 года назад

    These meta ad reads gave me a good chuckle

  • @xck
    @xck 5 лет назад +178

    Death in Absentia
    “I thought it was about death in Australia” - the animator

  • @ama-kado
    @ama-kado 5 лет назад +137

    Before Thanos Snap: Interesting
    After Thanos Snap: Half as Interesting

  • @iampeaking
    @iampeaking 4 года назад +22

    There’s a swimming pool named after him near my house. You can’t make this stuff up!

    • @sforbesgocka
      @sforbesgocka 3 года назад

      yeah because he loved swimming all his life

    • @thinhnonyt
      @thinhnonyt 3 года назад

      Found the Malvernian

  • @stephen4757
    @stephen4757 4 года назад

    2:09 hahahahaha I laughed way too hard at this. I can’t be the only one? Comedy gold 😂😂😂

  • @mattr8750
    @mattr8750 5 лет назад +54

    They also named one of the worlds few Extremely Low Frequency radio stations after him. A device used to communicate with things (usually submarines) deep within the ocean.

    • @absalomdraconis
      @absalomdraconis 5 лет назад +6

      Give them a few years, and they'll start calling every unknown drownee after him... _and_ a medal for "fastest swimmer".

  • @troodon1096
    @troodon1096 4 года назад +83

    "What are the odds of an Australian prime minister drowning?" Apparently, about 1 in 30.

  • @dragonofepics7324
    @dragonofepics7324 3 года назад +2

    Anyone remember that 90s/2000s movie about the 13 year old boy who finds out he’s a mermaid? Maybe Harold Holt was just a late bloomer.

  • @RiskofRuin
    @RiskofRuin 4 года назад

    I grew up down there, can tell you theres a powerful rip at the mouth of the bay located near portsea, if he swam out far enough he would of been pulled out to sea.

  • @olkasbrix
    @olkasbrix 5 лет назад +39

    and to this day we honour old harold with the phrase "he done the harry holt", every time someone leaves the party without saying goodbye... also rhymes with "done the bolt"

    • @ariadneschild8460
      @ariadneschild8460 3 года назад

      W.O.G.G was on the back of their uniforms worker on government grant.

  • @callangray126
    @callangray126 5 лет назад +341

    1968 - Harold Holt disappears
    *Since 2010 - 4 prime ministers have disappeared since then.

    • @zakiyamauchi9106
      @zakiyamauchi9106 5 лет назад +2

      Is this real?

    • @oliverrice4344
      @oliverrice4344 5 лет назад +84

      @@zakiyamauchi9106 its a joke because of the constant changes in prime ministers.

    • @jessiimamii5113
      @jessiimamii5113 4 года назад +1

      🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭 embarrassingly funny lol

    • @strider029
      @strider029 4 года назад

      Is there some corruption what's going on?

    • @thinhnonyt
      @thinhnonyt 4 года назад +14

      Argon
      In Australia, the way government works is the leader of the political party that wins becomes prime minster. e.g If Scott Morrison was the leader of the liberal party and said party won the election, Scott Morrison becomes leader. If the liberal party decided to change their leader, they would become prime minster.
      This has happened so often it’s practically become a meme in Australia.

  • @myotiswii
    @myotiswii 2 года назад

    So. Im a salvage diver. I get bodys out of thewater and do other things. I vividly remeber this one case. It was a river, a guy fell in, couldn't swim, his friend jumped after him to help, and couldn't swim either. The first guy was quickly pulled out by the water rescue team that responded from a boat nearby, but the second guy was nowhere to be seen. The river was about 30 meters wide.
    We had 4 divers in the water (all searching a different area), 5 teams on boats, 2 flow rescue teams searching the side of the rivers and one helicopter looking for heat signatures. There was a barrier about 100 meters down the river, where the body wouldn't have been able to go down the river further. We were there 10 minutes after he fell in, which seems like a lot, but the river wasn't technically an official swimming spot and salvage divers are rare. At 20 min all people that I just told you arrived.
    We found the body after 45 min, and because of the cold that would still be survivable (my longest surviving guy was 34 min, but 45 min is rare but realistic), but reanimation failed.
    About 30 highly trained people searching (per diver 2 - or 3 if diving from a diveboat - out of the water, 1 for each flow rescue out of the water normally in teams of 4 or 6, heli crew is 2 people, boatcrew normally 3, and a bunch of people telling us what to do, additionally there is a lot of police, 2 medics and a doctor, but I didn't count them), 300 m², 45 min. It was pretty unlucky, he was too cold for the heli, too deep for the boats, too far from the side of the river to be in the flow rescuers search area and in the last area we got to with the divers (because it seemed more likely for the current to get him elsewhere. But it happens, we didn't make mistakes, people do just die sometimes.
    You don't find a body that has been lost to the ocean. It's gone. The amount of water being moved is insane, and even with better visibility there is no chance. It might decide to resurface at some point, but that is just RNG.
    Also: "He was a good swimmer". Those drown all of the time. ALL of the time. First of all, you wouldn't believe how many people just randomly black out or have seizures etc. In the water, that is very deadly. Secondly, there is not much that has to happen for a good swimmer to drown, especially spearfishers who like to dive down a bit. Breath in a bit of water because you thought the surface was too close, get deoriented, start paniking, get a bad cramp, drown. People never want to believe that, but there is a reason you should never swim alone.

  • @archived-iron2343
    @archived-iron2343 4 года назад +2

    the *EXACT* moment the word "skillshare" was introduced i actually reached for my mouse

  • @snarkfinder2621
    @snarkfinder2621 5 лет назад +91

    And in the 50 years since, we have not managed to persuade any more of the bastards to go swimming there. Pity.

  • @battlemore
    @battlemore 5 лет назад +259

    I found him! He is in the picture!

    • @rozcrip
      @rozcrip 5 лет назад +7

      😎👍

    • @chungusmogus8832
      @chungusmogus8832 5 лет назад +25

      You did it, you saved Australia. *Congratulations*

    • @jackgrey3540
      @jackgrey3540 5 лет назад +2

      Elvis isn't dead because I heard him on the radio

    • @battlemore
      @battlemore 5 лет назад

      @@jackgrey3540 YES YOU GET IT

  • @kingjames4886
    @kingjames4886 3 года назад +1

    so no one thought to look into the only witnesses he was alone with?
    "ya... he just walked off into the ocean. idk man."