I want to welcome everybody back to the Independent Investor Channel. We're looking at the decision between Nicolo or Hylian or neither one. If you're interested in the emerging space, the Class 8 long haul to try to clean up the environment and get rid of some of this NOx and SOx emissions and lower the carbon footprint. A lot of companies are looking for the opportunity to do that. And there's a couple of companies that are in the divide for that business. Very competitive landscape, no doubt about it. In this video, I'm going to cross compare Hylian and Nicola. Super important to draw a distinction between these two companies. I think altogether the stock market is linking them together. I think that's a big mistake. I've done a deep dive on both of these companies. I've done due diligence on Hylian. I have not done due diligence on Nicola. I was kind of turned away right away on Nicola. Some of the initial information that was turned out and then rolled back on. And I think that was very, very unfair to early investors in Nicola. I'm rooting for both of these companies. I hope they both make good on the roadmap that they put themselves on. But the purpose of this video is really to define how different each of those approaches are. We're going to jump in and do a cross comparison on five metrics. The first being fuel cost. The second being fuel availability. The third being the performance factor. We're going to take a look into the each investor presentation and really look at the numbers and the performance and seeing what is going to be the best option for industry. The next is going to be the inevitable maintenance requirement. You can't put something into industrial service and expect that the maintenance element is going to be non-existent. It's going to be there and both companies are going to have to respond to injects on this front. And finally, the proof of concept approach. Hylian is taking an approach. Nicola is taking an approach as well. I'm going to do a deep dive and provide you my insights from my perspective on each of these companies as we do the cross comparison. With that, we're going to jump in and engage in the cross comparison. Please enjoy. When I went in and evaluated and really looked to do a cross comparison between Hylian and Nicola, it was interesting to me when I was trying to differentiate between the two companies and their objectives. I obviously as a fan of moving in a better direction as far as the shipping. Are there technologies out there in sciences that can be initiated and pushed out to the fleets? Absolutely. I think at the end of the day, when you're looking to deliberate and you're looking to identify the difference between these two companies, I think you're going to find that they are drastically different between their two approaches. And the first thing that stuck out to my mind as we go through here and we want to draw a comparison between Nicola and Hylian is the actual price of the fuel that they're going after to provide to the fleets. This cannot be understated. It cannot be breezed over. It cannot be shuffled under the table. It cannot be overshadowed with loud music. And it's amazing to me how this very factor right here gets breezed over. Now right now in the industry or in the stock market, Nicola seems to have the favor. Honestly, it's got momentum. I cannot for the life of me tell you why I've been doing stock market investing a long, long time. This is not the first time that a company will be provided a favor for a certain undetermined amount of time in the market and it will not be the last. There's no doubt. And I can't for the life of me understand with the capex spending that's going on with Nicola, with all of their problems with orders getting either canceled or revised down to anemic numbers with no real chance that they're even going to meet those numbers, that the stock should be going up at all, let alone multiple percents per day. And I know there's going to be schools of thought out there that say Ryan, you're completely wrong on that. I bring you back to the facts. The fact of the matter is right now the cost to produce the hydrogen, which is the sole direction that Nicola is taking in the class eight space, they are rethinking the entire industry altogether and looking to abandon the old ways of doing things will get to that. But the cost of hydrogen to the current cost of diesel here estimates at about $3 and 19 cents the cost of hydrogen at about $12. That's insane. And if you're putting your money into Nicola, you're basically saying that businesses are going to be so excited to take on the product and so excited to accept the three times fuel cost almost four times the fuel cost to go green, then that's your bet. And that's one of the major reasons here why the cost of fuel is so worth looking at the cost of fuel. When you're looking to compare Nicola to Hylian is one of those key elements to the cross comparison. So the second cross comparison element that I want to bring to everybody's attention is in fueling infrastructure. And this is huge. And you're going to place your bets where you will. I'd like to see both of these companies survive. I really would the unfortunate part about it when I look at Nicola and I cross scrutinize it with the facts. The facts just don't align with how excited the executive board is in selling the concept of Nicola to shareholders. And maybe it's just me, I could be completely wrong on this thing. I could be completely wrong. But here are the facts as they're laid out. The second element of why Hylian takes not only the nod in a cross comparison, there there is no comparison at all. One is a concept business. The other is looking for proof of concept right now, completely different approach in exploiting existing infrastructure as opposed to reinventing infrastructure. And if you look here in North America at the 729 fueling stations, there's probably over 800 now. We're actually not the leaders in this South America CNG and RNG fueling stations is above 5500. In Russia alone, they have over 20,000. In Eastern Europe, we're talking about over 5,000. And then finally behind the US and North America Africa at over 200 fueling stations. The infrastructure that exists for Nicola, 10. There are 10. Furthermore, when we go on to talk about the long haul electric market for class eight, you have Tesla. There are 10. So when you want to talk about integrating into existing infrastructure, or going with what appears to be the route of Nicola in establishing an infrastructure from ground up, there needs to be some discretion put into whether or not they are going to be physically capable of generating this infrastructure from scratch. And I think it falls into the number two reason why I think Hylian absolutely has the nod over Nicola.  So the number one number three reason that I wanted to draw a cross comparison really this is for anybody out there that is looking at these two companies and me, I'm a fan of both of them. In certain elements, I really like hydrogen fuel cell, I like the fact that Hylian is in advanced stage talks, if not already solidified that opportunity down the line when that happens, I have no idea when that's going to be. But if we want to talk in a cross comparison of performance and performance alone, I really want to earmark a couple things here that are super, super important. Now, these are on the books. Okay, these are not real world performance. I'm going to talk about that in just a second. But when we want to talk about range, okay, range here is really, really important. Tesla, I don't believe is a legitimate competitor in the space, especially the class eight space. If you want to talk about the class fives to sevens, lower routes, lighter loads, things like that in the full electric space, then we can talk Tesla. But I don't think it holds a candle to what Nikola and Hylian are doing, because a 750 mile range from Nikola is actually very, very impressive. I've seen the latest tests off their investor website, as well as read through their profile. The problem that I have is that once that 750 miles is burned up, where are you going to fuel your truck? That is always the comeback here. Now, in a head to head comparison, the results just do not compare. When you're talking about a hyper truck ERX, according to this investor presentation was rolled out at 1300. I'm a little bit disappointed to see that that revision has been rolled back a little bit. So I don't know how valid that 1300 is. I would put the same scrutiny on Hylian that I put on Nikola in saying, can this actually be achieved? Okay, now, the methods to go about finding out proof of concept and making sure that these are accurate range estimates is part of my reasons why I would cross compare these two companies and try to differentiate between the two. The stark differences really come in the performance piece. Okay, but on paper, you can kind of see here the cross comparison and both fairly impressive. I look at the payload capacity and I saw an internal test on the Nikola website that actually showed them pulling an 80,000 pound payload. Okay, now there are some issues with regard to trust with Nikola. Okay, and any type of internal test that they're running, they've given no indication to show that they are on the uppity up. Now, Hylian on the other hand has given us no reason to doubt what it is that they're pushing out through their numbers. So 53,000 on the payload capacity shows on par with the Nikola product for sure and then the Nikola, according to their investor website and their information that they've pushed out have actually tested and been successful in an 80,000 pound payload test. Now, make no mistake about it, that test was done on a racetrack. Okay, this is flat ground. This is a truck that was filmed with existing momentum not taking off and then stopping. Okay, which again, makes me want to question the actual integrity of the test itself being conducted internally and not by a third party. Okay, now the fuel charge time is on par 10 minutes, which is where I find that Tesla is really going to have a hard time competing in the market. There's no way that truckers are going to pull over at limited infrastructure or non existent really is probably more accurate at this point and wait 30 minutes plus to charge their truck when in fact the top end of the range is 500. In other words, they're only going to get to go a couple hundred miles where they're going to need to start to identify where the next opportunity to charge the electric vehicle is. And again, I want to footstomp the unavailability of resources at this particular juncture, right? So Nicola boasts a 10 minute charging time and the highly on boasts a 10 minute refueling time. The problem is that Nicola through conceptual doesn't have fueling stations to actually fuel their vehicle. So when you talk about the concept and the reality of the situation, a 10 minute refueling is absolutely in line with what you could realistically expect when fueling your truck with either diesel or CNG RNG when you pull over to get your fuel. And then with Nicola the 10 minute refueling from a conceptual perspective, because I will not give Nicola credit for existing infrastructure. It does. It doesn't exist, right? So I will conceptually give the nod here to Nicola on the 10 minutes, but I will absolutely give the nod in reality to Hylian's hyper truck ERX on par for the 10 minute refueling and actually being able to realize that fueling opportunity. Okay. The performance of payload at 20 seconds have accelerated from zero to 60. That's great. That just speaks to the power that's generated by the hyper truck. The Nicola is also fairly impressive with some of the internal tests that I've been able to see that are available for public disclosure. But on paper, the performance here is really what speaks volumes for me and really helps to cut through some of the hype and really put the performance to paper. So the number four reason when I'm cross-comparing these two companies, it just blows my mind away. The first thing that sticks out, this is directly from the Nicola newest investor presentation is the white space. I just want you guys to take just a quick look at this. This is supposed to be the maintenance and sales network of Nicola. A couple things on this, and I'm trying to look at this objectively. Really, I see a few blue dots and a lot of white space. I see that there is lovely in Kansas, some stations, and then the east coast of the United States is certainly represented here. I'm not really sure if I understand that we're just not in the long haul business in the western United States and in the Rocky Mountain States. I would feel a little bit left out if I was Texas, perhaps maybe, and even into the Dakotas in Wisconsin and into Wisconsin as well in Minnesota. I see a lot of white space here. All of Florida is left out except for the upper panhandle, and then the entire northeast is left out of the equation here. So I'm trying to understand a little bit what Nicola is trying to communicate here. They thought that it was important enough to put these 360 service centers in the slide presentation to put investors at ease to make them maybe accept that there are going to be specific locations where service and maintenance can take place. I want you to sit back for just a second and acknowledge for just a minute that Nicola, remember, is building this truck from the ground up, okay? Ground up. There is going to be either one of two scenarios. Either this truck is a complete success, and it is turned out on the road to be put under rigorous service and incur zero problems going forward. The other scenario is that there are foreseeable problems, and it is put into the rigors of Class 8 service, and there are problems. The issue becomes who is going to be available to service this technology? Who is going to be trained? Who are the mechanics that are going to be working with this? This slide really bothered me in that it was very, very vague in that if the customers that are going to buy all of these 100 trucks that are supposed to be turned out in 2021, which was a drastic revision from the speculation number that was thrown out by the previous Superman, Trevor Milton, who is no longer with the company anymore, and then reality shook in, and they said basically to save face that they were going to deliver 100 trucks. My question to not only who is going to buy these trucks, but if there are problems with said trucks, which the margins on these trucks are not that great guys, here's the thing, if cost to produce is so high that they're turning these trucks out and the margins are so tight on the initial onset of delivering these 100 trucks to said customers, how much profit do you honestly think Nicola is going to make off of these 100 trucks? Now you could make the same argument for Hylian, but remember Hylian is not looking to build the ground, the truck from ground up, right? They've already announced that Peter built, who's got decades of Class 8 service under him, are going to be the chassis of choice to be turned out with the hyper truck ERX.  Now Thomas Healy has talked about the maintenance aspect on the Hylian side of the side, which is going to be move away from the service center type of network that's declared here that's going to be absolutely necessary for the highly technical and highly advanced Nicola product that customers are supposed to buy, okay, as opposed to more of a plug and play application to where if there's a problem with the battery system on board a Hylian unit that it's going to be more of a replacement type of maintenance as opposed to the truck breaks down and it is unavailable until it goes to a service center as declared here by Nicola to be fixed, okay? So I wanted to bring this attention across comparison on the maintenance side of the house, something for you guys to think about when you're looking at these two companies side by side. And the last and final element, this is kind of the fifth cross comparison metric that I used is the actual testing method or proof of concept approach from both Nicola and Hylian. I found this to be extremely attractive and it was really cool. It was really cool. I was able to review some videos that were posted on the Nicola website that were entertaining to say the least. The approaches are very simple. Here are some of the notes here I've provided for you. This is right out of the newest Nicola presentation. They've sent it to strategic locations, some cold weather locations, etc. to do some testing. What's interesting to me is that these seem to me and all the videos that I reviewed to be in-house concept type of validations, okay? And you might say, well, you know, what's wrong with that Ryan? Well, in a cross comparison between these two companies, I'm not looking outside of Hylian and Nicola. Hylian is aligning with industry and the rigors of industry train validation and putting these trucks in the hands of the drivers and actually putting real service and road miles on the specific products that Hylian has with the HyperTruck ERX Council as opposed to doing simulation training or validation proof of concept where they basically film these trucks in a way that is conducive to what they want to portray. In other words, this is all in-house proof of concept whereas Hylian is all third-party proof of concept testing. And I think when we're looking at a cross comparison between these two companies, again, I don't invest in Nicola. If I can't trust what a company, and I'm not saying that the new regime isn't trustworthy, but what I am saying is Nicola has been built on a precedence of distrust with investors. And if I was an investor in Nicola and rode this thing all the way up into the 90s based on hype, I'd be pissed.  So it makes it very, very difficult for me to consume information here as a would-be investor in Nicola when I don't trust the company. So what is the neutralizer in the situation? Well, the neutralizer is to allow your product to be subject to third-party validation, third-party testing, where you get an impartial, unbiased opinion about your product, okay? And I found it really interesting how some of the validation in some of these testing parameters were done in somewhat of a controlled environment. And I think the test was set up a little bit in that these weren't true testing mechanisms. These were established by Nicola and it seemed like they were in-house testings that were rolled out to a would-be investor to say, look, because we've conducted these in-house testings, it should adopt large-scale adoption by Class 8 freight line companies, right? And I just don't buy that. I don't. So when we want to talk about who is doing diligence on the proof of concept, really, I'm not here to say which one is doing a better job. What I'm trying to do is really allow the numbers and what each company's approach is rendering. And then you can make a more informed decision as to who you feel more comfortable putting your money with if, in fact, you look to take a position in any of these companies. So with that, we'll kick you back to YouTube and we'll conclude the video. All right, guys, so we've come out of the cross comparison of both of these companies. Hope you appreciate each of these videos that are turned out through YouTube, provide a unique perspective on what I'm extrapolating from the publicly available data that's out there on both companies. Just for full disclosure, I am a shareholder in Hylion and I'm not a shareholder in Nicola. Some of those reasons I was trying to put at bay and offer a neutral interpretation of the information that's publicly available to any would be investor out there that is interested in the space. If you choose to invest in the company or not, please understand I'm not a financial advisor. This is for entertainment purposes only, but I do want to earmark and stress that the information is out there for you to review if you're looking to deliberate on which of these companies, both neither one, maybe one or the other is going to succeed in the long-haul Class 8 space. Man, the verdict is way too young to be called here in the race to the market share here in the Class 8 space, valued at just around $800 billion a year. So it's going to be huge to see how these opportunities ramp up. They make progress on each of their designed roadmaps, but I wanted to draw a distinction between the two in the making of this video because I think unfortunately the stock market has this wrong. They really do. I think they're aligning these two companies together, and I think hopefully through the cross comparison in this video, you can understand as I do how drastically different these two companies are. If you enjoy the content coming through the Independent Investor Channel, I would invite you to subscribe to the message at the notification bell. Leave your comments at the bottom of this video. If I've missed something, especially on the Nicholas side, I tried to look at this from a neutral perspective, but it's very, very difficult when I'm bullish on one company and actually very bearish on the other, but I tried to deliver and stick close to what is being turned out through publicly discernible information. It's available to all investors, but please leave your comments. I'll do my best to try to comment back to you and let you know. 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What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical over here, so this will be another video for Jeepers Creepers 4 Jeepers Creepers are born so One of you guys reached out to horror hound shout out to you know who you are one of the Jeepers Creepers Brazil pages that Messaged me shout out to you for sending me some screenshots of you reaching out to horror hound to get them the comment on Anything about this movie, and I just want to share this with you guys in this video today Of course since I know a lot of you are still waiting for this movie I kind of am at a point now. I'm like if it comes it comes if it doesn't it doesn't But basically going off of the responses horror hound had to say it looks like they were asking them about the lawsuit and then went on to also ask them about maybe potentially showing the movie later this year like I've talked about or Speculated about in another video at their convention coming up in September So in the first response I see here in this screenshot. It says we don't know much about it This again is coming from horror hound support We don't know much about it But we do know the production company is planning a release date so it sounds like they're close to a resolution Now we know that Timo himself who is the director of Jeepers Creepers 4 has already told us that there is a release date for the movie but he has yet to reveal it and Honestly my whole thing there again. I don't think that there is a release date I think what he was doing was because of the fact that the lawsuit was exposed and brought to light and Much more people were talking about it. He was getting bombarded with questions that That resulted in him coming out making that comment or putting out that tweet with no real Substantial stuff behind now it could be that there is truth to it. It's just that with everything else going on Why should I believe that so? The fact that horror hound says that they are planning they know that the production company is planning a release date So it sounds like they're close to a resolution Again, it sounds like they're talking about the lawsuit the problem is the lawsuit itself from what I can see Doesn't like there's going to be any resolution potentially coming until September which I guess would be in time for the horror hound event If that's what they want to do But the next thing that's on this schedule as far as I what's known to the public for this lawsuit is a conference A court conference is gonna take place by what's assumed between both parties involved Deciding what actions they want to take or not take and if they can come to a resolution any other way before the trial in 2024 Just a long big drawn-out mess that leads me to further believe that we're not gonna get this movie This movie is not gonna come out and everyone involved in it. They just want to simply make a movie I know they might be the most frustrated with this because all they want to do is again be part of something That was a known IP something that could potentially help launch their careers There's something that would at least draw more attention to them so they could come home and say look I was in the fourth Jeepers Creepers movie and We're probably never gonna see any of those performances that were brought to life because again I feel like a lot of the cast they didn't know anything about this the other comment that horror hound had to say was that they were Hoping to have stuff for our September horror hound weekend event They don't have anything to announce yet because they're still waiting to see what they'll have available at that time Now that's what I was told when I was asking about footage potentially being shown or trailer being shown at Their last convention that I recall I reached out to them about and they said the same exact thing Honestly, I believe what's gonna happen is the same exact thing that happened last time September's gonna come and go You're not gonna get anything regarding Jeepers Creepers.  You're born talked about from anyone involved with this movie Teemo himself from what I recall it has completely gone silent on the movie once again. There's no mention of it There's no hype around it. I'm still blocked on Twitter cuz so I can't actually see any tweets I just know that people are tweeting to the guy and it seems like there's still no responses Nothing to say can't make any comments can't even promote your own movie Can't reassure people that the movie still coming out, you know, and didn't wonder why everyone has all this doubt. Well, that's why There's all this negativity that's surrounding this project and behaviors like that It's not gonna do anything but to a lot of people only reinforce their doubt that they have and again at this point all In all with Jeepers Creepers 4 when it got announced that it was happening in 2021 There were some things that I was questioning only because back in 2020 I know I did a video in that year saying that Kirk D'Amico had made a comment saying that there was no truth to the movie being in Development and then all this time later months later in March of 2021 Here's the announcement that Jeepers Creepers 4 has been shot is gonna release late 2021 No mention of Kirk D'Amico myriad pictures or anything like that. So in my mind I'm like, there's something strange going on here. Maybe it's something. Maybe it's nothing But now of course with the lawsuit being brought to like making that video and then other outlets picking up on it because I shared it with them and the fact that there's an ongoing trial over breach of rights to Distribution all this other stuff Making the movie without myriads knowledge, I guess There's a lot of things that just sound like okay, maybe There was again a lot of truth to what Kirk was saying because myriad was out of the loop on a lot of stuff going on with this project They found out when the reports came out Wasted no time getting that getting that movie in court with that lawsuit like literally no time But I think it was actually announced in February of 2021 and then a month later According to how long they've been dealing with this lawsuit. They're in court over it It's like they wasted no time going after the people responsible for this movie This movie probably has no business coming out. It really probably doesn't the quality of it Probably has no business being seen by anyone and I'm not saying there aren't good performances mixed in with whatever other bad aspects are in it But the movie as a whole Probably doesn't need to be seen by anyone probably doesn't need to exist Probably doesn't need to be added to this Already messy controversial series So many different other things, you know the whole idea that maybe there's a potential tax rebate scam going on here You know, it's like okay This this is honestly just very I know frustrating for a lot of Jeepers Creepers fans because I know a lot of you like myself since 2003 been waiting You've been hearing about these movies and the plans for the creeper to get off the book get off the barn wall and Trisha and Jack senior teaming up and Trisha's son and we know we had cathedral that was Supposed to happen and ultimately got scrapped for what we got for the third movie The director is a piece of crap off from the from the other movies And now we have this guy here and this other team that are doing what they're trying to do with the IP To gain their own advantages from it. I don't believe they have any attention or release in this movie That's again just my own belief. I don't believe they're going to release this movie I believe what they might do is just drag this on as long as they can if the movie comes and it just comes And I'll do my review on the channel. I'm at the boat now where I'm like this movie is gonna come out Everything has been a waste of time. I know you guys enjoy my video. So that part has been a waste of time at least being able to Make someone's day better if you watch my videos and just brightens your day That's not a waste of time. The waste of time has been properly waiting for this movie That's not gonna come out let me know what you think about this down the comment section below if you haven't already Of course, make sure you subscribe turn on post location never miss a video in the description I have links to social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can message me there, of course To let me know is any movies news or reviews let me to cover in the future with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


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to pry but this looks more like a giant mass of ravenous living tissue than a special surprise oh where's gonna storm into the hobbit were dangled over the edge of the flesh bit your surprise is early retirement and subsequent absorption into the glorious mass you'll be happier this way i think we all will dang bro calmly tongues was pushed all the way over the edge and descended into the creature no oh poor thomas dang bro that's why i don't like sir tophand bro that's why he's bald that's why he got no hair because he's evil all right next we got thomas piece by ttte guy i was only going 27 over thomas you run over a child oh what that was oh it's like thomas wasn't aware and he might have been going a little too fast right next is enterprise engine of course i use thomas slow motion crash test all right look pretty cool in slow motion oh look at that boom that's cool he ran like actual rocks on the carts oh this who's that smudger yeah this is pretty cool look at this like the scenery everything oh he derailed oh no man is going too quick bro okay so the sound effects are spot on it makes it seem like it's so real let's see what we got here oh my leg i ain't got no legs where what you're talking about oh is that gordon oh no he fell into the water of course only the wood engines fell in okay so i came across this deer from ohio guy he he's basically remaking skibbity toilet but he's making his own version which is skibbity thomas so let's go ahead and react to skibbity thomas one i have seen it all skibbity thomas too oh what barnie what is barnie doing there oh there's more oh no oh okay so i guess he's gonna turn it this into a series so we might see more of skibbity thomas in the near future now we're on the bogey boy a part of me stayed behind just claiming this video is created for a general audience that means anyone in the ages can enjoy this video for the more bad a bad a bad a bad a lot of nonsense man just just enjoy the video dang bro early one morning gordon woke with a start he felt strange but could not explain why what's going on gordon who come to clean him before work began we assured him it's the ditch water he said to gordon he can get into your mechanical workings and make you feel sick oh gordon was satisfied with that explanation but what was odd is that he couldn't remember falling into the ditch even though it happened recently what was fuzzy at best what do you mean by that i'm just exhausted from pulling express so well he chuckled himself and fell back and during uneasy sleep he dreamt of vague images please don't use of a mind bow and a ditch in these images he felt apart from himself as if viewing the events from above he couldn't see anything clearly but he felt strongly that these memories did not belong to him later that morning gordon sleeply brought his train to the junction oh look at thomas she seems so worked up dude thomas who looked equally tired greeted him with a smile oh a little smile long night thomas asked yes they had some very strange dreams gordon replied me too it it was like we were at the minor game but when i woke i i couldn't actually remember being there at all gordon's eyes widened tomten strange is going on here come to think of it i can't actually remember falling into the ditch much less rescuing you from the mine what does it mean thomas asked i don't know we only just came back what does it mean i remember bringing you to the yard just before james dumbest i remember that too but i can't remember actually being at the mine why don't you keep talking about those ditch and this mine bro the two ends have decided to find out for themselves oh okay they're gonna investigate they're in detective mode the two of them popped up the line which led from the big station now y'all don't get yourselves into trouble and led to the mines but we're met with cautionary science which read danger collapsed mine ahead we'll have to investigate from here said their crews they walked past the signs and towards the collapsed mineshafts they came back a short while later what are you doing back so soon thomas asked nothing to see let's head back nice cap bro there's something to see you didn't even take a flashlight with you how could you see in anything their crew is insisted but thomas resisted oh he's sped through the cautionary science and stopped at the edge of a large gate when he looked down inside he shrieked oh what is it Gordon what is it bro show us tears welling in his eyes it's gotta be something serious bro thomas is crying maybe he's crying he ain't lying bro oh he's all shaky looking at him oh what is this in the pit where two mangled engines one looked exactly like Gordon oh what is thomas and Gordon bro what the who who are these engines Gordon lost a terribly feeling began stewing deep in his boiler oh what is this is this their top ham it has to be because he's always the evil one that fat bald evil man i can explain to the familiar voice the fat controller stood next to his car you can never trust this guy bro it hope this day would never come but less here we are these were you he continued solemnly what what do you mean were arx thomas the stress in his voice oh flashback when he fell into the mine thomas he didn't just fall the mine collapsed beneath you swelling you hole oh no it's a hundred Gordon my strongest engine to lift you out with the pulley system we misjudged how shallow the shaft was below and he too fell into the growing chasm beneath the ground but how can we be here it were down there exactly it's a gruesome tale to the fat controller we had a major scandal due to our lack of judgment and to save face we we saved your faces there was a talented engineer from who moved your identities to new shares the man there's always a mad scientist the engines you see below were former cells were prototypes thomas and Gordon didn't know what to say or surgeon in the confusion that began to cry that that doesn't change who you are now the fat controller said you're still two of my most useful engines bro i would have flipped out second chance and avoided a scandal we understand said thomas i'll do you now soon after this is pretty crazy slunker buffer to buffer everything felt familiar and foreign at the same time it didn't feel holding know that the part of it was rotting away in the bowels of the mines that's crazy bro the only hope at one day many years from now these memories will become fuzzy too the end dude that was crazy i did not expect that and it's and it's crazy to think that i've never even heard of the story because it's like a remake of the original i believe i don't know where it comes from specifically but i do know it's like a remake and this was pretty cool like the animation and all that pretty solid remake all right you guys well there you have it thomas thursday if y'all have any videos you guys want to submit down below comment the links i can react to them thank y'all for watching and i'll see you guys in the next one the next one well it was going to be the last one is this monster story skibbity toilet and curse thomas street magic the train challenge all right in the minecraft animation sometimes these are really and let's see look i said i'm gonna watch every thing all right so we got skibbity toilet hey that kind of looks like june when he gets a hair cut low key oh this is one of them little kid animations with the noises okay so it makes sense that i'm watching this because it is october it's the spooky monster so oh that car got some good brakes any other car would have probably crashed you know is that god what is this oh so they're fighting for some for some money now why do these guys need money like what's curse thomas gonna buy with money that he can't just and skibbity toilet he don't even got hands huh oh damn there's thomas he got some hops i still don't understand why they need money but let's see let's see what this great story has his store for us oh he's balancing my bad all right what's he gonna win what is this i would go left left uh you see he went on the wrong one i said the other one you gotta want what do you need the one for bro uh see it's over bro you've been changed by some yo what is this all right so what what is that happening this is a this is a long animation all right all right let's get to the cool parts i thought they were gonna oh wait you all you about to get some legs i think i don't know what the name is but now see like i was saying earlier he doesn't have any hands and then like i was proven wrong he does have some hands congratulations how you get dizzy bro all right i see what happens at the end because i don't think i can watch any more of this i just really wanted to watch that first one that first one was cool all right what happens all right he just keeps going oh oh he died oh they killed him i still don't know who that guy is that zoos i mean they're gonna be friends now they're gonna be friends what is going on in the story that was the most random story i've ever seen and that's why kids nowadays they can't even concentrate in the classroom because they got dumb stories like this and i'm watching them that's why i'm getting number two that's it for today i'm only gonna react to those two today if you guys find some more chris thomas stuff let me know we'll try to watch it man if it's i know it's weird it's weird some of it's creepy some of it's spooky some of it's weird but we're watching it okay we have to watch every single curse times video on the internet all right but that's it for today make sure you guys click like subscribe come back tomorrow and wednesday we're going live stream right so i'll see you guys later peace


Let's go to the sage of advice when it comes to the importance of having a team as an artist. If you miss this point, then you're missing out on life. Let's listen to this quote. It's a group effort, man. It's a team, man. If you don't have a team, your hustle is isolated, man. It's only what you can bring to the table. Most deals that come about, other people can go get those deals. You don't have to be the only one to go get those deals, man. You got to have a team with people who can put on a suit and go talk to people. Everybody can't put on a suit and go talk to people and make them believe. You got to have an old guy. You got to have old guys to protect you from all this madness in the street. That's just reality. If you don't, if you think you can do it by yourself, you just came, bro. You'll fall. Wise words. Wise words, man. They might not always be wise, but those are clearly wise. What I like about this so much is the way that he talked about it. We can talk about one topic a million times over, but if it's introduced in different perspectives with a different point, may I still find a lot of value in it? I don't hear people say it from that angle a lot, where, of course, we know you want more people on your team because you can only do so much work in terms of the time that you have. All right, cool. We get that. But just the ability to say, no, some people just can't do some things and others can. I might not be able to put on a suit and convince these folks, right? Because I might not speak the language of the board room or I might not have a look. You know, call it discrimination or whatever you will, but I might not have a look. That's as convincing. They might think, hey, man, this rapper guy don't really know what he talked about.  Everybody believes that guy. And that's also the value in a lot of times of a manager, right? Because people see conversations with managers different. It's hard to completely explain, but you know, artists get a stem of being maybe over since or they just know that you are the one who's being impacted because you look, you are the product in many ways, right? So let's just say it's before a show and there's some bad news to deliver, better delivered to the manager than the artists because the artist still has to go before him right after that, right? So I give it to the manager. The manager handles everything and now the artist isn't distracted from doing whatever they need to do, right? So there's a lot of angles and reasons why it's best to have team members, but that idea literally, hey, some people can do this and some people can't do that. I can't do everything is not from a legitimate, legitimate capacities to that point, but from a straight up, hey, man, different strokes from different folks, some people got talents and some people just have a different energy that speaks to other people in a different way and make certain things happen. Like that's a true part of it as well. So some artists and managers are just waiting for lucky moments when the ones who are killing it have systems to consistently take artists to another level over and over again. And if you want to see what that looks like, we just did a collab where we not only show the system that we use that's resulted in Billboard hit some of the biggest viral moments on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, but also we got JR McKee to break down how he took an artist from zero to one of the biggest hit songs of 2022 and getting a Grammy in January of 2023. This is recent stuff, not old tactics. If you want to check it out, go to www.brandmannetwork.com slash Grammy. Don't forget the www or it won't work because JR gets into the details of looking at the data decisions that got made, how much content got created, and how they adjusted the content over time for different parts of the campaign. This is real behind the curtains type of stuff. So again, go to www.brandmannetwork.com slash Grammy. If you want to check this out and apply it to yourself, back to the video. Yeah, yeah. And that to me was my favorite part was that he didn't touch on it from the typical music industry positions right like you need a manager, you need this. Because I think on one side of an artist I used to hear that, right, you need the business side of it. And then two, there's always going to be an artist out there who was anomaly where it's like, hey, I didn't need a manager to make it or I didn't need to let, I didn't need these different business entities. But he just could, like you said, basically saying is like, hey, that golden team member for you may not be a specific position that you used to hang about. It might just be someone who fits the mold of your business that you can't do for everybody. Even if you are doing it, right? And I've seen that coming going many ways, you know, from the artists that we're doing their own cover arts and, you know, they were cool when they were doing it. And they got a graphic designer and they're better, right? It's like, you know, you could do it, but this person could do it better than you and if it speaks their language and do things that you couldn't. So yeah, I think that's important. And then, you know, it's one of those things where I think that it's hard to explain to artists and to, they get into the fold and start realizing like, what exact team members do you need? You know, even tied to security, you need someone to protect you from, well, I'm, we're just going to say he's talking about security, right? Tied to security, right? You need to use someone that even something as simple as just having someone to protect you from the lifestyle you're building for yourself. He is a team member that most artists probably wouldn't even think about until they get to the point to where their success has created a problem for them, right?  You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm the motherfuckers got back here too quick. You know, like, there was no real resistance between them and back here where I was at. Maybe I should think about getting secure. That now I see that that's that guy or girl is important for my operation. So, you know, some of it is just growing pains. I think like, I would tell artists like a lot of times building your team is just you experiencing your growing pains and then thinking really critically about who to find. That's all this problem. Damn, I keep having this issue. I try to fix it five different ways. Two of them were terrible. Three, I just didn't enjoy doing. I need a person for this. You know what I'm saying? Like, this is I need to find a lot of stuff that's wrong for me. Right. Right. And the caption on this one was without a team, your hustle is isolated, which is something that I feel like a lot of indie artists don't realize they create. And there's levels to it. There's the indie artists trying to DIY do everything literally themselves. They have some that have some friends. They get a few more people on our team, but there's still this ego that's keeping them from being in legitimate partnerships or letting go of some things. They have to do everything themselves and figure out everything. Not because necessarily the best long run for any legitimate reason, but sometimes they're just that ego I have to do with myself. And that's one thing that the indie side is is breeding in a negative way. It's just something to be aware of, because part of that blood, that energy is what allows you to accomplish things as an indie, right? But then this becomes a level of it where you have to realize I didn't ego, right? Because I don't even want to maximize in this area. Right. I want to, I don't know. Let's just say the Russell did like a pay to, what is it? Pay what you want. Pay what you want. Restaurant experience, right? Yeah. Imagine when the Russell was like, well, shoot, I'm going to have to create a restaurant, be in a legitimate restaurant, you know what I mean? And run a restaurant just so I can do this experience versus, hey, the restaurant that already exists. And then I partner with them to create an experience, right? It's a different type of thing because it doesn't make any sense, but maybe going around up and owning everything makes more sense. If you truly say, hey, I'm trying to build an investment and have my own restaurant brand, and you're building something long-term, that's different. So you have to pick and choose when you do, like lean in and take control of more or be your partner. If I just try to run up the money, a lot of times it doesn't make sense to like own everything and do everything for grounds zero, right? Because I'm just trying to maximize, get as much money, visibility, maybe flip the visibility and all that, but I don't need to own this thing because I'm only doing it for this isolated experience. So that's something that comes to mind when you think about teams and how you go about partnership. Well,