How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret
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HAI will stand strong as long as “That Wikipedia List” is still online
GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! I want to cut my toenails... NEVER! I am the feet CZcamsr. Thanks for being a fan, dear pha
@@AxxLAfriku no
@just do it it's cool to express your religion but maybe don't spam it to unrelated comment section.
unusual articles?
@@korn6657 Bruv it isnt a chant nor a song.
In case anyone is interested, "Parliamentary Privilege" means that anything said during a meeting of either of the houses of Parliament, or of their committees, is exempt from all laws restricting free speech such as Libel, Slander, Official Secret's act, and so on...
This sounds like a Tom Scott video
Edit for clarification: a Tom Scott, non midlife crisis video
Or a HAI one
@@NashvilleUK true, this subject matter just feels more in Tom's wheelhouse to me
Laws restricting free speech ironic isn't
@Suddenly is a bot. The link is an islam chant song.
Next on Wendover Productions:
The Incredible Logistics of keeping the Tallest Tower in London a State Secret!
That was good but that was my thing, I am going to file a copyright infringement against you for using it. I have a copyright to it lmao 😂
@Suddenly is a bot. The link is an islam chant song.
@@korn6657 it's not a chant song, it's Al Qur'an
@@technicalamanullah7019 same crap, different name
@@sshender3773 Thats like saying all songs in english Are Christian Chanting songs
For the next corrections video: "Coaxial" is pronounced like "co-axial" (as in, there's an inner conductive wire sharing the same axis as the outer shielding. They are co-axial) not like "coax ial"
Hey, thanks. Now I know why they're called this way.
But I wonder... in which cables with an inner conductive wire and outer shielding do those two not share the same axis?
@@lonestarr1490 Off the top of my head, UTP (i.e., Unshielded Twisted Pair) has, as the name implies, pairs of conducting wires that twist around each other without shielding. Usually multiple pairs. It's used for things like modern Ethernet cable and landline telephone wires (at least from the wall to the phone).
I was just angrily typing this exact thing! thanks for saving me the time! :)
Snip open the cord on an old broken pair of headphones or earbuds...
Usually one non-insulated wire running alongside an insulated one.
Thank you so much. I came here to make this comment but couldn't find a way to say it without feeling like a jerk
Calling them coax-ial instead of co-axial gave me a light chuckle, as if you were trying to sweet-talk the cable into doing what you want
He's just making content for the upcoming Mistakes Video V.
A coax-ial cable is just a lasso.
3:49 the letter “y” in old English was used as the modern “th” sound therefore “ye” and “the” are pronounced the same. I hope this makes it into hai mistakes 4 :))
5* whoops
I think it's just find itself into modern culture as 'yee', and nobody cares
@Suddenly don’t worry I already disliked that video. No one click that link it’s just spam
Which sound did that stylistic sort-of;looks-like-an-elongated-s character represent? I used to know, but apparently those neurons are on strike.
@@bsadewitz Long . It functions the same as a regular .
I’m curious about these coke-zeal cables, I’ve only ever seen co-axial cables
This better make it into their error video
I guess Skill Share doesn't teach people how to pronounce the names of EXTREMELY COMMON technology.
Common mistake, they're actually used to coax eels.
I was hoping someone made this comment 💀😂
Be nice, HAI is probably American, so actual English would be a second language.
4:45 Sam desperately trying not to laugh at his own joke. Honestly, Sam at Wendover would never laugh at his own jokes. HAI Sam needs to learn from him.
Why would anyone tell a joke that they didn't think was funny?
Hearing him almost crack up is so out of character, I love itb
Honestly that slight corpsing was really cute
Bold of you to assume British "people" will go to heaven and not hell, or what they call Slough
I thought it was Milton Keynes
"Mom, I've made a mistake. I'm in Slough" - Tom Scott
@Suddenly is a bot. The link is an islam chant song.
Nah Larne is hell.
as long as david brent isnt in charge id be fine
others have already beaten “coax-ial” to death, so here are my other 2 favorite sam-isms from this episode: “ellegal”; “kapt” under wraps
The static at the end actually scared me
I was getting DDLC flashbacks
Timestamp?
FUCKING SAME
@@latl089er “Timestamp?”
Dude it’s a 5 minute video not a 2 hour long one, watch the video it ain’t that hard to find
@@SplicerOtter im too lazy for my own sake
“Whatever the British equivalent of heaven is” is way too funny of a line for quickly it was moved over
The pub that has no closing time and no price list.
The BT Tower was declassified in 1993. It was also the main location in 1966's Doctor Who serial, "The War Machines", starring the original Doctor, William Hartnell. Granted, it had a malevolent machine intelligence running the place, which as we all know wasn't implemented until last year, but given that the UK's state broadcaster was legally able to SET A CHILDREN'S TV SHOW ON IT the nature of the place's secrecy was even weirder than this video states.
In the 1980s, I had a model of the building!
"Tiny island nation" will upset the Daily Mail crowd.
"Tiny island with three nations." will upset them even more. Still true, though.
Good.
@@QemeH 👍
@@QemeH Technically, it's neither an island nor a nation. Certainly not an 'island nation' after 1922.
@@dcarbs2979 Okay, if you want to be that nit-picky... There are four sovereign nations (only one of them an independant republic), one occupied territory and a few crown dependencies that claim the multiple islands that are _The British Isles_ ... happy? ;)
4:38 this scared the shit out of me lmao
Literally for me bro, I was watching in the bathroom haha
same
@@lordhater2 its 2am here and i came for knowledge, not to shit my pants
So did the entire cast and crew of the 1966 Doctor Who story “The War Machines” actually break the law, then? I mean, they did literally name the Post Office Tower (as it was then) in the story, and set a significant part of it there!
Except the insane experiments weren't conducted in the basement, but towards the top of the tower!
I think the deal is that information about the tower, including it's address, was the actual secret, its existence at all was technically not.
@@MudakTheMultiplier Hmmm…🤔🤔🤔🤔
Maybe, but they do make the address fairly easily gettable, since they have people literally get a taxi there!
Not to mention all the scenes of a War Machine driving towards the GPO Tower, including some very distinctive famous streets! 🤣
If any TV show could get away with it it would be Britains darling Dr Who
Remarkably, even before it was finished, it appeared as one of the buildings of future London in the pre-Who puppet science-fiction series "Space Patrol" ...
Who else is twitching from Sam's pronunciation of 'coaxial' as coax-ial, rather than co-axial (the later being what thee cable is)?
OMG yes!
I'm still trying to figure out if this was intentional or not (either way, he's 110% gonna roll with trolling the nerds, and may never pronounce it properly ever again).
He is coaxing me to rip off my ears and fill the holes with hot glue.
@Suddenly is a bot. The link is an islam chant song.
I just asked about this. I thought it was some regional thing ("cokes-ial" vs "co-axe-ial"). I have heard the former often to the point that it doesn't really register anymore, but use the "co-axe-ial" version myself.
You missed the part about the secret nuclear bunkers underneath BT Tower and BT Tower (yes there's 2 of them) - which were played as extensions to the Tube in London and a new Underground in Birmingham. They were an official secret until the end of the cold war (Anchor and Kingsway exchanges respectively).
@@anon3431 Yes, because they have a function and are owned by BT.
100% not true lol… believe me I know.
He was hinting about them (maybe accidentally?) at the end there.
The insane logistics of London's tallest tower
@Suddenly is a bot. The link is an islam chant song.
@@korn6657 he isn't a bot. He only made 1 reply
at 4:50 sam laughed, which is an absurdity as, thus proving that sam was replaced by a stunt double after attempting to spill beans about what horrible experiments they're doing with beans in the BT tower basement.
“My sponsors have been bribing me to endorse them”
“This video has been sponsored by Skillshare”
The way you say Coaxial is possibly the most curious sound I have ever heard.
Also, you know that when we say 'Cable network' that's literally what we mean, a network. of cables. Not a television network. We don't call TV cable.
My school has started using this channel in some topics and I who watch al his videos who already knows everything just sits there smiling
I'm just wondering if Sam would ever run out of jokes
In about four months.
Coaxial -> co-axial 🤦♂️
_About 4 months_ huh? We'll be here to find out. Also the coax in coaxial cable rhymes with "crow snacks."
@Suddenly is a bot. The link is an islam chant song.
More like Bojacks
I love the brief character break as you couldn't stop yourself entirely from laughing at the sponsorship
Love your videos man, keep it up!
i mean this is the same country that has signs that say "secret nuclear bunker" and then offer tours of said bunkers. i don't think us brits really understood the words secret or tourist attraction
I think that it’s meant as ‘This way to the “Secret” Nuclear Bunker’ like a trademark name, hence it’s on a tourism direction brown-backed sign.
The UK publishes the locations of most active nuclear bunkers. There are a few, 3 or 4 I think. 1 for the PM, others are military bunkers. The nuclear bunker sign is a museum.
@@tomx641 I'm aware. It does still make me childishly happy to see a sign directing you towards a 'secret'
@@sprint955st I'm aware. It does still make me childishly happy to see a sign directing you towards a 'secret' though.
Whenever I go to London, I always tell people that the BT Tower means “Big Ting Tower”.
Bloody Terrible? Not the tower, I mean the stock price. It's the same price as it was in 1988.
That last bit about basement experiments caught me by surprise and made me chuckle. Kudos.
Unfortunately for me, I was watch at night in the dark so it made me jump.
4:46 love that you actually kept that in.
You should have started the video with a segment about british bricks
BT tower? What tower, I don't see any tower in that image and the queen didn't pay me to say this
1:35 Swear its pronounced Co-axe-e-al cable but I could be wrong
Good job, videos regarding UK are really good, do more if possible
Sam never stop making bad jokes. No other channel makes me giggle for the whole video.
You nearly lost it going into the ad segment ahaha, I love it
04:40 “.... you know who else doesn’t harbour evil secrets....”. ... oh, this is bound to be a VPN advert coming up, ... ah yes, of course not! My mistake. 😀
Bruh I love this channel. The jokes get me everytime. Keep it up HAI
I need to correct you on this, the 60's version of Google Maps was the Swinging Maps. Followed closely by their main competitor, the Groovy Maps.
Good corrections, thanks. And I was thinking maybe it was Go-Go-ogle Maps
@@larsjorgensen2911 Nah, just 'maps';
I just want to say I appreciate the work the animator or editor did for the Skeleton Cable Network joke
That was very funny! I was working at BT Tower in 2021 as a contractor during the pandemic. It was very strange place particularly as it was empty of people and has these vast equipment rooms full of redundant telecoms equipment. But it remains a core part of the UK telecoms network. PS; the basement which I never entered, goes down a very long way below street level and was off limits.
2:56 HE SAID MY CZcams NAME!!!!
coaxial is pronounced "co-axial" not "cokes-ial"
Coke-seal
Coca cola trying to compete with flex seal.
This is how a presentation should be.
Me: **Mentions BT Tower**
Bri'ish person: "OI, YOU GOT A LOICENSE FOR THAT?!"
@just do it is a bot. The link is an islam chant song.
As a kid, whenever I saw that building, I just regarded it as "the lightsabre tower"
Love your content! But couldn't help myself: for one of your future blooper videos, "coaxial" is pronounced "co-axe-ial" due to the geometric origin of the work. I.e. "co" as in "together" and "axial" as in "axis", in reference to the inner wire and outer conductor of coaxial cables sharing the same axis.
I love this story!
Love the channel!
Love $This.Vid
But ...
Co-Axel vs Co-Axi-Al???
4:40 why did that actually spook me
Just when I thought I would stop hearing terrible jokes, and there was an out…. HAI, goes and messes it up all over again!!
Great video as always.
BT used to have Goonhilly Satellite earth station as well. It closed in 2008. It had public access, so was probably one of secret locations as well!!
Kate Hoey was highlighting meaningless secret information.
Anybody else catch that Sam from Wendover was subbed in for the ad read after the Brits took out HAI guy?
I feel like it would make much more sense to have the radio transmitters in the tower be classified than the tower itself
4:41 wait, did Sam break character for a second with a giggle?
I like how this just sounds like some villain making his “secret” hideout the most notable building in the city
Does anyone know where HAI gets those vids and pics interspersed in his videos? I always thought their corniness stood out. I'm assuming they're purchased and not filmed for these videos. Just curious
Thanks for triggering assitant on my phone with "ye old google maps" :D
Ah. Now I've got a new place to visit when I FINALLY go to London next summer!
We have one of those towers near where I live. The Purdown BT tower 👍
1:36 'Coaxial' isn't supposed to sound like 'coax'. Think of it as 'co-axial', meaning 'having the same axis'.
I think it would be much better for you and us if you make 10 min videos cuz your content is next level
I remember looking for it on a map of London and of course it was missing :)
Growing up in London i always wondered where that tower was.
Every video your voice becomes nicer I swear
2:32 are you pronouncing co-axial cables as coax-ial cables because you want my brain to explode
Haha the hugh Laurie joke was very funny
Sorry to be pedantic (not really) but the BT Tower, which was originally called the Post Office tower was second in London in height to the Crystal Palace TV mast on a hill in South London. There are now many buildings in London of similar height or taller.
bt tower was the tallest *building*, since crystal tower had no habitable space.
In the UK in Kelveden Hatch there is a “secret nuclear bunker”…..a fascinating place to visit
Not terribly surprised, there's literally a "secret nuclear bunker" sign directing you to a (former) secret nuclear bunker in Essex.
@Suddenly is a bot. The link is an islam chant song.
Fun Fact: workers(Cleaners, Butlers, Cooks, Chauffeur, etc) at Buckingham Palace can't disclose dirty little secrets about the Royal Family or else they will be charged under the Official Secrets Act.
"You know who doesn't harbor evil secrets? Our sponsor, skillshare." Uh, haven't there been reports of skillshare forcibly charging people's credit cards after they tried to leave skillshare? Also, how do skillshare teachers get paid? Their royalty system seems confusing enough to sound like an evil secret.
Super interesting video as always!! I'm so sorry but I think it's pronounced like "co-axe", not coax. Used to work in telecom and tech consulting so I felt the urge to apply my useless knowledge somewhere. Anyway thank you!!
Remember, you can't be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act if you DIDNT SIGN THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT
Can't wait for Mistakes Video V when we hear about how bizarrely he is saying "coaxial"
UK flat earthers are obsessed with this tower. They believe they have demonstrated that line-of-sight microwave transmissions between this tower and others prove flat earth. Needless to say, their arguments are ... not very robust ...
What's the excus for the CN Tower in Toronto then?
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This one had jokes that actually landed. Well done! :-)
Great video.
Australia 2? Hang on, that one really is still a secret Sam!!
Is the background audio Free Rider? Sounds a lot like it...
im pretty sure the british version of heavin is just britian but with good weather
Doesn't seem right that London's TALLEST building doesn't have a cool unofficial nickname like the "Cheese Grater", the "Gherkin", or "The Shard." Come to think of it, doesn't it look like a giant sonic screwdriver?
Doctor Who even set a story in it in 1966! That was about a year before the sonic screwdriver first appeared, however...
I will NEVER refer to this tower as 'BT tower', it will always been known as the 'post office tower', f BT.
there is a 1966 doctor who episode in which a computer uses this tower to try and take over the world :)
Wait… Hugh Laurie is British! Thanks for the video!
Where ever the British version of heaven is, I'm sure Britannia rules the seas there.
3:48 Ordnance Survey Maps!
I live in west London and I see the bt tower better than I see the shard (tallest building in the uk) so it's not that secret
Coax-ial better be in the next rectification video ;-)
Are coaxial cables the same as coaxial cables? Maybe the Wendover guy could do a video about that (The Logistics of Coaxial Cables). LOL!!!
"Jay Foreman viewers also watch this channel"
Who also spitter its food with that jumpscare?
Please, TELL ME IM NOT THE ONLY ONE D:
It was meant to be funny.
lol that transition to the ad
imagine if it had been for a VPN : wanna hide your own evil secrets...
Bt Tower: Exists
Me: [looks at it].... yah, thats a servaliance tower
4:39 omg I almost fell out of my bed
I'm waiting for the way he said "coaxial" to be discussed in a later video.
“I will run out of content in four months”
The end… is near