How an Australian Prime Minister Disappeared Without a Trace
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Bro are you alright, your voice was a little bit weird
I thought you get the topics from "That Wikipedia List"
2:10 fuck you
FFS, NEVER EVER say "Mates". Say G'Day Mate... Singular. Cheers bloke !
Imagine drowning and having a swimming pool named after you.
underrated
Yep, as a kid I always thought that the pool in Malvern that was named after him was a joke!!
Ironic
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?
@@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.
They could have found him but his location was kept secret using nord vpn
Zachary Mohammadi Or Quarry 😂😂😂😂
Zachary Mohammadi Or Quarry I was the 420 like *insert mega lmao*
Nice 👍. Here have a cake 🎂
Donald Trump while listening to a book on audible
I bet he found out how to use NordVPN with Brilliant
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!
He will be back when the world needs him the most
Agtra boy
When will that be?
『Surp Nurp』 when he’s skilled enough to be on skillshare
• Abigail Faith 아비갤 •
Damn, I hope it’s soon. My guy always kept it real on the streets 😔 ✊
Rumor also has it that Jeffery Epstein didn’t kill himself
"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"
Gearhead I think he was having health problems.
@@tallaganda83 A lot of drownings, especially in Australia, are young/middle aged males. Because they like to overestimate themselves.
Gearhead it was the mini sharks.
No, he fell into the sky. Australia is upside down world :/
@@Abcwhatever nah america is Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia...are less upside down
The Australian government should have used skill share to save him
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
Damn straight
*skillshare
@@robertmills3830 Yikes
@@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
When you drown but people blame you for being a life-long Chinese spy...
… and then eventually settle on naming a public pool after you. Aussies are some tough muffins.
"He doesn't even like Chinese food" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Probably using some Chinese equipment so he drowned
probably a double agent working for the emus
Emu spy*
"He probably used Skillshar-... ohhh I'm sorry"
Skillshare needs to award you for that🤣
Was looking for this
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. 😄
2:08
This killed me😂
LOL that joke was too good
He looks like a young Gorbachev with hair. Wait a minute . . .
dugroz he was Gorbachev all the time!
\*Soviet anthem plays in the distance\*
*CYKA BL-*
This is the stupidest and most beautiful conspiracy theory I have ever seen.
That would explain why Gorby fucked up USSR so badly, he was actually Australian spy!
*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.*
I forgor
@@5eptt 💀
@@5eptt u rember yet?
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
Deathnotefan97 he wandered into the ocean and never came back
This is the southern Australian equivalent.
I know, that restaurant is scary.
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.
Na mate, not interesting, happens all the time
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
don't you mean a dead holt?
OOOOOOO9OOOOOOH
@@itshawck you’re fucking stupid
@@itshawck how did he miss the joke? if anything, it got better
Actually it was TV reporter Geoff Raymond.
televisionau.com/2011/01/obituary-geoff-raymond.html
"What happened to your PM?"
Australia:
"Gone, reduced to atoms"
Thanos
@@masonkoller8962 bro we just gotta wait five years
Call the Avengers
It's more like "we don't fuckin know, we didn't nor ever cared ya thick cunt"
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?"
Once upon a time, an Aussie set the world record for sinking a beer..... That man then became Prime Minister
Wait... that's not a requirement to become PM in the land down-under?
He chugged the beer 20 years after he was prime minister
@@kabochaVA No, but it's better than the weird one we had that ate a raw onion.
@@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.
One time, an American had a TV show where he fired people, and....aw crap....
Wait... but this is Australia
He was probably attacked by a poisonous sea kangaroo or something
Or an amphibian drop bear.
CheeseTruffles lol
Manbearshark!
Maybe a Emu vengence for 1932
😂
I truly thought this video was going to be about Morrisson's disappearing act in the bushfires
Nick181194 same...
I AM SO ANGRY I AM ONLY SEEING THIS NOW, *THE MEMES THAT COULD OF BEEN*
If only...
@@robertveerman8022 there's still hope
Same honestly
Our Prime Minister died while swimming, so we named a swimming pool after him.
A shrine to drowning prevention. Indoor swimming pools have lifeguards after all.
I live in Australia and there’s a saying ‘they’ve done a holt’ if you get stood up on a date
jenifer cronin did you watch the video???
@jenifer cronin Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia
oh yikes hahaha
Amelia P - seriously? That’s *_awesome !!_*
I am seriously understanding nothing
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."
Yep
@@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.
Hahah sounds about right
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.
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.
Did you know that in Australia if someone is missing or lost they would say “ Yep they pulled a Harold Holt”
Really??
@@furqaanilahi8078 yes it’s true I’m from Australia btw
@d R what but I am from Australia don’t know what your talking about mate
@d R I’m so confused
I wish just about every politician in Australia would pull a Harold Holt.
He hold his breath until now that's why he never found.
Ah, yes, let us name a swim centre after someone who probably drowned. That will definitely make us look good
Aussie sense of humour. Master level Trolls 😜
lots of great naming things, check out the naming in 1960s of a grandstand in Toowoomba's main football stadium, the Toowoomba Sports Ground.
Well he always was keen on swimming throughout his life.
Aussies, kings of perverse
@@duncandrummond726 As an American I checked and... where's the punch line in naming something the "N-word grandstand?" How is that funny?
*He probably just fell out of Earth*
You are encouraging the flat-earthers
Clipped through the ground.
I mean australia is pretty close to the edge
He prob got eaten by the earth
In this universe, my plan was successful
I've actually been to point Nepean twice, it's a nice area
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
@@OfficialGamingNetwork i went there yesterday
@@ag7830 nice :)
@@ag7830 did you find any skeletons
@@malarbutton1606 nah but there was a fence to keep people from landmines
4:36
Only the sharp-eyed will notice “I thought this video was about death in Australia” - The Animator
in the bottom left corder
when a prime minister suddenly dissapeared
world: "oh no"
australian: "Goddamn emu"
Australia: *declares war on fertile cats*
Me: HEY I REMEMBER THIS!
Emus: god damn it now the government still being like this
Europe: [blames their problems on EU.]
Australia: [blames their problems on EMU.]
don't underestimate emus, they're deadly, even more deadly than the spider the size of houses we have here
Dormm-emu, I've come to bargain.
@@TotoDG Australian government finds something. It's not an EMU though, it's an E...MO
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.
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.
@@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.
@@FuryanJedi13A politician with dignity. If only more of them were like that...
Why was this recommended to me right after Scott Morrison “disappeared” to Hawaii during the Australian bush fires
You mean Scotty the Marketing Guy?
Steven Zhou betoota is fucking god
@@CTSimp260 You mean Scovid?
You answered yourself in your own question
I remember going with my family to the Melbourne Cemetery and unknowingly sitting on his spherical memorial statue, good times.
R.I.P. Bob Hawke
1929-2019
He's chugging pints with Harold in Heaven now.
*Ⅎ*
That *Ⅎ* killed me😅
90
Perhaps the finest PM Australia has yet had too.
He didnt die in 2019
@my mom never knew they let 3 year olds on youtube
Thank you for the sponsor humor. It makes it a lot better
Wellhe does have a good cents of humour
@@xdolphin7337 cents😂💀
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.
I know "He died doing what he loved" is a cliché but wow, he really died doing what he loved.
Wait until they open the Steve Irwin Stingray Sanctuary. Australia loves some dark humor.
NIN10DOXD we talk shit about pollies... not Steve. Absolute hero that bloke
Tbf that's probably something Irwin would have been all for. Dude just loved animals.
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.
@@LuckyBird551 Dude, that is a brilliant idea. Best place for it would be right in front of parliament.
@@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
His Earth-tether probably broke, and he most likely fell into the sun
The Earth is flat. Period.😂
Don’t make me try to prove you wrong. Besides, the shape of the Earth has nothing to do with the meme.
@@blaze4109 Are you saying the Earth is flat?
No. Nobody ever said anything about it but you.
@@blaze4109 I meant it as a joke. I'm not a flat earther.
But I'm always interested in arguing with a flat earther.
"Death in Ab-sen-tee-ah" Might want to look up the proper pronunciation on that one.
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).
@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.
technically, he has got it
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.
He might want to look up proper pronunciations on Skillshare. lol
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
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
I want to see a transition from a skillshare advert into an audible advert.
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.
@@fruze8478 I thought the joke in this one was going to be that he accidentally mentions skillshare, but then the sponsor is something else.
_This video is sponsored by _*_Raid Skill Audible_*
That's what LinusTechTips did for April Fools this year
There’s a “Harold Holt Swim Centre” down the road from me in Melbourne, how savage!
My local pool. Love the name. My school also had a drinking fountain named after a student who drowned.
That’s what the video mentioned right.
@@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.
yeah my untie is one of the instructors
Omg that skillshare plug killed me 😂😂😂😂😂😂👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I like how even the SCP Foundation touched on this
2:11 "he probably used Skillshare"
😂 made my day!
I was about to say the same thing... glad I looked
I spat my coffee all over the place hahaha
Yeah hahaha
uhhh im sorry... im sory
yeah lol
Calling it now - one of those freaky insects or animals that can only live in Australia.
Probably a box jellyfish that stung him and then he ended up dead at sea
D'accord ;-)
@@staticsight or a salty. or a great white shark. or an emu that learned to swim
@@rakaman27 actually Sharks don't normally kill people
no
they are coming to a backyard near you
THE MAGPIES ARE DIVEBOMBING US
He took a holiday to Hawaii... During a deadly bushfire crisis
I nearly spilled an entire mug of tea at 2:30 - the suffocating in Parliament joke was legendary!!
*HALF* as interesting
*VANISHED* into thin air
All signs of Thanos confirmed
Here’s what happened :
1 - Swim
2 - Drown
3 - Gets Eaten
4 - Grabbed a search party member after holding his breath for a couple of days and resurfaced in their swim gear
Yeah, he was nabbed by a shark, that’s why there are shark nets !!
5 - Emus hold him hostage
69th like
Shouldn't 2- be heart attack or stroke or something like that?
Here in aus there's a saying "to do the Harold Holt". I think it explains itself
*"Oi Mate, I Aint feelin' so goody.."*
*Mr PM?*
Mr kangaroo i don't feel so good.
Gustaf Lindewald this is the comment i was looking for lmao
@@WickedPhase same
Ey Bazza, I don't feel so jolly.
Kangaroo would probably knocked his beard off
Kidnapped by the Emus for sure
Swimming Emus, god help us now.
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
Thank you for doing this topic!!! As an Aussie I've always been so intrigued by the harold Holt case!
He didnt like chinese food!? Oh yeah he was a spy 😂😂💀
Bloody hell, you even used the old parliament building.
+1 for historical accuracy ya flaming galah.
World: Wow, Australia finally elected a normal PM.
Australia: You just wait.
There’s a swimming pool named after him near my house. You can’t make this stuff up!
yeah because he loved swimming all his life
Found the Malvernian
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
“He probably used skillsh- I’m sorry“ 😂😂😂😂 I’m dead
Just like the prime minister
@@manlikemb6226 *Presumed.
@@anthonyeaton9049 no he's 100% dead
@@fruitella196 you mean 50% dead
@@Anonymity55 nope
yo dude that guy looks just like my neighbor paul
Just wait until he goes swimming
finally proof that Holt is alive! He just changed his name and started a new life.
hol up
Roosevelt Brentwood yeah but he’d be like a hundred and odd so he’d look nothing like he did
JustSomeCringyKid holt up
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.
"He probably used Skillshare" xD
Are you not going to do a video on how he drank 2.5 pints in 11 damn seconds?
He used skill share
That would be a really short video though, about 11 seconds
piewars nah I need the physics and biology of that explaining
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.
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
HAI: *no plane things*
Netizens: wait that's illegal
Wendover is the one obsessed with planes and trains. HAI is just a bunch of history trivia basically.
Diego Sanchez isnt it the same dude behind both channels..?
@@flexelsson1625 ikr
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.
MRS OBAMA GET DOWN
This kind of stuff really gives me *chills*
2:13 Best product placement ever
Gravity pushed him away, he couldn't handle standing upside down
Avery The Cuban-American really Avery
i saw you on another video
can confirm that 56% of deaths in australia (i live here) are caused by people just randomly falling into the sky
Taken by the Emus
Peter Zwegert The emu is not here he can‘t hurt you
Peter Zwegert Those damn movies. They got it in for me. They’re bullies.
This is so sad Alexa play Advance Australia Fair
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.
so no one thought to look into the only witnesses he was alone with?
"ya... he just walked off into the ocean. idk man."
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
The Skillshare joke has earned you even more of my respect.
Skillshare should teach you how to pronounce absentia
Easy there Cameron :O
Savage
Ab-sen-cha
also Nepean
Yeah, I have to admit that pronunciation made me cringe. Twice!
On point Wendall. Again well researched
Love your vids. The sense of humor is on spot.
he went swimming without his tether and fell off the bottom of the planet
"this video was made possible by SkillShare"
Dumboes: Then just arrest SkillShare
Rolling Rocky360 Dumbos: “Dumboes”
@@ohno-cz6jb you can't even correct someone right 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😈😈😈
Xtryhardxx Pop oppz I wasn’t correcting them. Merely mocking them. Are you fucking stupid? Go off with your emojis.
Oh no your so dumb you couldn’t even correct him😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🖕😙👉😃👌🏻😌😌👌🏻👌🏻😃
Everyone here should just commit me rope
Some say he fake his death to be one of the 6 undergrounds
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".
I am wondering if there is a class at skillshare on how to find a missing persons.
interesting question my friend :D
Someone should look it up
Check out this book: Lost Person Behavior
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Prime minister: "Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good..."
Still too soon. Even though it’s been a year...
@Splatoon is the worst game of all time. Infinity war memes are still not dead goddamnit
@Splatoon is the worst game of all time. it was dead but hulk bring it back to life
@Splatoon is the worst game of all time. Umm no.
You know it said in the Australian the day before he disappeared “PM advised to swim less”
Surely that's a photo of Mary Wilson with her husband, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson, at 3:11 rather than Zara Holt .... ???
Death in Absentia
“I thought it was about death in Australia” - the animator
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.
Give them a few years, and they'll start calling every unknown drownee after him... _and_ a medal for "fastest swimmer".
Australlia, the country where: spiders are as big as babies, wars against birds always come out as a loss and where they named a swimming pool after someone who drowned
“The truth is often more simple than you’d think” - Alfred Kirantin.
"Don't believe everything you hear on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln
@@WildBluntHickok ?
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.
Tianamen square massacre
@@eduardopupucon hilarious.
@@eduardopupucon nothing to see my fellow comrade, keep going...
@RATO that was tragic but it has absolutely nothing to do with the topic
RATO hah. Not creative
"What are the odds of an Australian prime minister drowning?" Apparently, about 1 in 30.
These meta ad reads gave me a good chuckle
In my opinion, he only swam for so long that he found himself in the middle of the ocean and died from lack of food etc... Or maybe he had a sudden illness that caused him to drown
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"
W.O.G.G was on the back of their uniforms worker on government grant.
Thanos: "Snap"
Prime minister: Australians I don't feel so good.
Well.. Whoops
What?
the *EXACT* moment the word "skillshare" was introduced i actually reached for my mouse
PM dieing and a pool being named after you is exactly the kind of humour I’d expect from down under
Before Thanos Snap: Interesting
After Thanos Snap: Half as Interesting
#underrated
Get.
Out.
NOW.
1968 - Harold Holt disappears
*Since 2010 - 4 prime ministers have disappeared since then.
Is this real?
@@zakiyamauchi9106 its a joke because of the constant changes in prime ministers.
🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭 embarrassingly funny lol
Is there some corruption what's going on?
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.
Absolutely love the humor on this channel😉
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.
And in the 50 years since, we have not managed to persuade any more of the bastards to go swimming there. Pity.
I'm apparently related to Harold Halt, my Father told me he shows up as a distant relative on our family tree. Funnily enough my family are all good swimmers.
Because I'm relates I can say:
"I'm gonna do the Harry" or
"I'm gonna do the Halt"
Imagine if he just suddenly pops back up on that beach and is just like "Hey guys, what did I miss?"
Read my comment. It’ll be one of the first if you make the comments to be newest first