Isn't that just Nevada?

It's also noteworthy that in addition to having no people, no buildings, and no roads, Bullfrog County also had no bullfrogs. With the possible exception of an as of yet undisclosed terrarium population.

It's so cool seeing my home state talked about in a video that isn't about Las Vegas! My dad is actually a geologist specializing in precious metals based here in Nevada. At the time when Yucca mountain was being considered to be the nation's nuclear toilet, my dad took a look at it. He concluded that it was in fact the best place to be the nation's nuclear toilet (not his exact words). While it is understandable to not want glowy-glowy-boom-juice in our backyard, the nation still needs a nuclear toilet. Just wanted to give another perspective on the subject. Love your videos!

Federal Government: "It's free real estate." Nevada: "It's property taxes for the state." Nye County: "It's property taxes for the county."

"Not even a random Subway entirely staffed by a single high-schooler"

FYI: The average American reactor is almost 40 years old. Newer fast breeder reactors are more effective and can use fuel made from the spent stuff that was to be stored in Nevada.

>federal land >CGP HAS BEEN SUMMONED

"Not even a random Subway staffed by a single high schooler." As a former Subway employee, I say that statement is so true it hurts.

"Middle-of-nowhere Nevada" NOOOOO COOURAAGE oh wait that's why he's purple

Hold up a minute! Is that screw at 2:17 being screwed in counterclockwise?? Edit: I guess he mirrored the video just to screw with us. There's a mirrored clip at 4:28

Being someone from out west. I can tell you virtually everyone who is willing to take 5 seconds to understand why so much land is government owned, calms down about it. But there are so many arrogant, self-righteous people who won't listen to anything that disagrees with their perceptions. Almost all of the land is either beautiful park land set aside for all people to enjoy. Or it's desolate wasteland that no one wants. Most of the land in Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, idaho, Utah...etc is desert. And it takes a lot of different pressures for desert land to be developed. California for example has developed a lot of inhospitable regions due to population and agriculture needs. Those pressures simply don't exist in most of the other western states.

You: Hey, Sam, Can I call you Sam? Sam: No. You: ok, Sam

Seriously, missed opportunity on your part by not waiting 2 days to put this out on Nevada Day. The best part of growing up there was getting Halloween off from school every year. Great video!

1:54 the "Deaf" in Deaf Smith County is pronounced like "Deef." Sorry to be that guy but I gotta get in the yearly mistakes video somehow 😏

Sam: The mountain is filled with mountain. Me: I also noticed that the floor is made of floor.

Gotta get me some *"glowy-glowy-boom-juice"*

While attempting to adjust the quality settings, I accidentally set the speed to 0.25x and I highly, highly recommend doing the same if you wish to hear what Sam would sound like when extremely, extremely drunk.

When you know what the entire rest of the video is going to talk about the second he says Yucca Mountain...

“Though, still technically, the nation’s only nuclear waste depository…” Uh… The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is not only a national nuclear waste depository, it’s _actually_ housing nuclear waste right now. Of course, it’s only accepting nuclear waste from the Department of Energy, and thus pretty much isolated to materials related to nuclear weapons, and is not taking any waste from private nuclear power plants… but that’s still nuclear waste depository-ing.

Nevada: Sooo, this is all my land? US Government: Yesn't

Bullfrog County, Nevada is the second shortest-lived county in US history. The shortest (Beckham County, Kentucky, which lasted less than three months) was also dissolved due to a county tax issue.

Why isn't there a Bill Nye the Science Guy joke when he said "Nye County"

1:10 I genuinely LOL'd at "glowy glowy boom juice"

“It turned out, despite what comic books say, the only super power it ACTUALLY gives you is bone cancer.”

2:23 Got really distracted by that reverse threaded screw, until I realized you guys probably just mirrored the video. Why you gotta confuse me like that...

HAI's scripts have reached their final evolution, truly incredible video essays. One of the few YT channels that still makes me laugh out loud. GJ my dude

Correction: This is as opposite to "Country Roads" as you can get while also being as "Country Roads" as you can get

I live in Nevada (not in Nye County, though) and would be glad to see Yucca Mountain open. We need a place to put the waste. There's nobody even near Yucca Mountain, it's in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by other federal lands (like the Nevada Test Site) where you can't go, and it would be definitely safer than all of the 'temporary' storage sites. Furthermore, most of the waste would be transported by train, in containers so safe that you can drop them off a cliff and set them on fire for hours and they still won't leak. I live right next to the railroad, and it wouldn't bother me at all to have nuclear waste trains coming through or even being parked on the siding across from my house. It's much safer than many of the hazardous things transported by rail like propane gas, oil, etc.

Nevada right now: *Hold on I gotta count Bullfrog County's ballots yet!*

One small, tiny and maybe a little important information was missing from the video: the temporary storage are LONG over the "best before" date. The are often made with wood, material that does not hold well against radiation. They were planned to decommissioned and replaced by proper storage decades ago. But same as with expertise of epidemiologists, expertise of nuclear engineers is not as interesting for politicians as stonks and AR-15.

Interesting tid bit according to a local about the bullfrog name. In Nevada somewhat near this area, there used to be the Bullfrog mining district. They called it that because the first gold they found was in a rock that look like a bullfrog.

Thank you for pronouncing Nevada correctly

2:17 LEFTY-TIGHTY, RIGHTY-LOOSY?!

The "boom juice" analogy is incorrect. Yucca Mountain was to receive spent uranium fuel from nuclear power plants. Not weapons grade uranium....which isn't in the form of a suitable decommissioned weapon.

hey sam the new background music is pretty lit, but not as lit as the glowy-glowy-boom-juice.

I was OK with it - we already pay low taxes and if they had kept it - we would be paying no taxes. The property tax was just a small amount we would have received - All nuke waste is owned by the people who would have stored it there and responsible "cradle to grave" and would have been "Paying Rent" to store it there. Nevada would have been the wealthiest state in the union. It's still there - I hope someday they reopen it. Nuclear power is the best option for power over coal, gas and oil. Just my $0.02 worth.

I wanna find that magic screwdriver which seems to tighten when moving both clockwise and counter-clockwise.

"Amateurs." Australia: "AMATEURS!"

@Half as Interesting, What about the WIPP site outside Carlsbad NM? It is a fully operational low level nuclear waste dump that has bin operational for over 20 years! Why is it that so many people talk about Yucca mountain but they never seem to get to WIPP and the fact that it is actually doing the job?

This is the county with the fastest mail-in ballot counting in all of Nevada.

Hey I live in the deadly dump Hanford! Finally some recognition

"Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads" Because area 51, why else?

So much Snark. I love it. and your talking about my county (Nye).

Your videos genuinely cheer me up

Ahh yes. Even when it comes to radioactive waste, it seems a temporary solution is the permanent solution.

At 2:15 you can see a magical screw that goes into wood when turned counterclockwise. But don't worry. By 4:29 the screw goes the correct direction again.

“Much like my writing sessions....” has me crying😭😭😭

Damn your content is getting lit day by day!!!🔥🔥

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Being a Nevadan, I'm proud of your pronunciation hehe

This man really said Nevada properly for a whole video. Props.

Kalawao county, Hawaii is an interesting story. It was created in response to the Hansen’s disease (aka leprosy) colony on Molokai. The only residents are the former Hansen disease colonists and the only government official is a sheriff.

I was wondering just about this channel and it pop out

Meanwhile the Russians are building gen 4 fast neutron reactors that can burn nuclear waste.

Can someone please calculate how many hours of sponsored segments there are on the Half as Interesting channel? Thanks :)

Yukka is a type of plant that grows in the dessert... Many species also bear edible parts, including fruits, seeds, flowers, flowering stems, and more rarely roots.

Nevada in 1864: "We don't want to become a state because we don't want to be responsible for policing all the uninhabited land." US: "No worries, we'll make the uninhabited parts become federal land and we'll take care of it." Nevada: "Cool." *150 years later* Nevada: "WHY IS THIS ALL FEDERAL LAND?!?!?!?! MY FREEDOMS!!!"

Button to skip the sponsor ad ---> 0:12

The humor was on point this vid

Love this videos!

I think it would be a great idea to just fill it with planes and Toyota Corollas

Does it bother anyone else when he says “legislator” instead of “legislature”? It BOTHERS me

"Mountains are GROSS" got me harder than I thought it would lol.

Very interesting, as always!

5:36 "and wear a god**mn mask"

The real question is why the US created a state with no people, buildings, or roads in the shape of a rectangle.

I live in (near, but if anyone knows the area, they know what specifically I mean by that) Hanford, Washington (briefly mentioned as one of the other places considered to put the waste) and I'm fairly surprised we were ever in the running. I mean, we're actually one of the largest metropolitan areas in the state...

I always wonder where do you get all these diverse stock video footage of people's expressions and gestures. Do you have access to all the high quality video camera feeds of the world? Or do you have an endless supply of disposable models doing silly things in front of the camera all day?

I'm a nuclear engineer, and honestly, the nuclear waste (or "used fuel" as we call it) still has most of the fuel in it, and a long-term storage solution is remarkably profitable. I'm surprised more places aren't lining up to grab that business opportunity. But then I remember that so little of the general public understands even the most fundamental things about radiation and are so irrationally terrified of it that it leads to dumb decisions. I think your discussion here further obfuscated the pertinent facts and, while entertaining, was not particularly informative.

Nevada we need you to be blue!

That Cop Rock reference hit me hard

5:37 These reminders are going top pop up for years and remind us of being grounded for 2 years

That's a lot of work. We just give up and call them 'Unorganized Districts'. Which - fun fact - might just be where'd you'd find a big lake where they tried to put our glowy-glowy-boom-juice..

Wait HAI had dignity?

"just like my writing sessions, this created trash" i fucking love you, half as interesting man

The good old left-handed screw makes its appearance at @2:17

How convenient. Just finished Real Life Lore's video.

at least they have no covid cases

New subscriber good video

SAM :People say, Sam[...]I already have friends like that. People say, Sam... KUMAIL:It's amazing. It's the same material. SAM:What do people say? AUDIENCE: Sam! SAM : People say what? AUDIENCE : Sam! SAM : I'm Sam Highsmith. Thank you very much!

Everyone gangsta till you can't see the comments

Hey Half As Interesting, love your work. I'm from Reno, Nevada. THANK YOU FOR SAYING NEVDADA THE WAY WE NAVADIANS SAY IT!!

No buildings No roads. Only madness.

Glowy glowy boom juice sounds like it could either be an indie band name or an energy drink name.

0 views, 45 likes. We're a loyal army I guess

epic

BTW, nuclear waste is NOT stored in ordinary drums or barrels. There are several videos on KZfaq, as to how nuclear waste is stored.

Thanks very much for this one. Not enough people know about the problem of where to store nuclear waste

"a county with no people, buildings, or roads." Ah, So Nevada made a mini Wyoming

But seriously, if we (the United States of America) want to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions (even though we are not the biggest contributor), we _need_ more nuclear power plants. That waste _needs_ a long-term repository. Yucca Mountain _seems_ to me like a good place.

"Blow stuff up, blow people up, and blow stuff with people in it," This is why I love this channel

The first time the screw going into wood stock footage is used, you can tell it's reversed left/right because the screwdriver is going backwards. The second time it looks normal.

sam mentioning cop rock took all the breath out of me. i tried to watch it and it is easily the worst show i have ever seen. it’s like glee for the blue lives matter crowd

That social distancing and mask advice is going to age really well once this pandemic thing blows over. Should have left that out.

few people know that the actual nuclear waste that is uranium is stored at nuclear power plant sites until the radioactive decay allows for legal regulated travel to its final resting place. yucca mountain would eventually store this but a vast majority of waste is low radioactive waste, like uniforms, cleaning supplies and anything for regular cleanup and maintenance of those facilities... people were just super ignorant in what nuclear waste entails and were kept in the dark as to the true meaning of what nuclear waste means.

just one note, because I know a lot of people that don't know this; nuclear waste is usually not glowy boom-boom juice like the green barrels in the Simpsons, it's most commonly contaminated protective equipment, other contaminated stuff and of course either contaminated or radioactive materials, which are usually solid

"glowy glowy boom juice" damn Sam, didn't realize you were British

Another entree from “Wikipedia: Unusual Articles”

0:40 That would make a dope TheOdd1sOut cartoon.

Love the vid, Samuel