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Hello everyone and welcome back to another Jurassic World Edition 2 Battle Arena! And today, there we go, there we go, thank you, thank you, thank you. We are showcasing, well I'll showcase, and we showcased in the last video, I haven't seen it, all of the new Cretaceous Predator DLC dinos we saw showcased. And now, of course, we're going to do a massive battle royale with everything, including the new DLC dinosaur, sorry, I almost took to my own saliva dead, starving. Before we get into it, I just want to have a look at the new creatures in comparison to their modded counterparts. So this is the new concavenator, and that was the modded concavenator. Very similar, although the hump on the modded creature is far sharper than the one on this. So they've obviously smoothened out that way. No, no, it's a very smooth version. This is the Giganto Raptor that is in the DLC, and this was the modded one. I can kind of see why they sort of toned down this one. This one's more fluffier, it's cuter, where's this one? What is that? Maybe it's a bit more realistic, because it kind of looks a little bit ugly. I don't know, for me anyway, I read that as, that's probably what it might have looked like, and this is, this is like Netflix original, something like that. Like, can't do any version. And then, we also have the Tabasaurus. So we have this guy. This is, of course, the Camp Cretaceous Tabasaur that we've seen in the Netflix series. However, this is the Tabasaur that is a mod, inspired very heavily, I think, especially with the colourings of, not Planet Dinosaur, life on our planet, or, I don't know, dinosaur planet, something like that. You can't really compare these two, because one was based on like a cartoon show, and one was based on a documentary. So they're going, one's going for realism, one's going for gardeni. And the other creature that should be hiding in here. There you are. Oh, you're in shadow. Okay, the Utahraptor, which actually, I don't have any mods for. So, that's new. So, we also have our original winner, which is the Stegoceratops, which is over here just having a lovely bask and rest. If you haven't watched the previous Battle Royale, well, there you go. Hopefully, now we shouldn't have any issues. Every winner from Battle Royale will go in there, and eventually, we'll do some sort of cups and challenges. Fingers crossed, touch wood. We'll be able to do it this time. So, without further ado, let's click the spacebar and hope. Love of God, this works. And if we don't, crash. Oh, okay. Okay, did not expect it to be like times a one million speed. There we are. Look at them all go. All the herbivores are absolutely sprinting away. Look at them go. And the ones that aren't scared of just slowly walked. I haven't included every dinosaur in this, because there's a lot of them that just don't do anything. So, all the Turandons... Oh! Did it just whack you with the... Okay, Interaptor, our front runner is gone. It's been completely killed. Okay, that's interesting. That was our first freaking death above golem. Oh, there's the Raptor from Peter Jackson's King Kong. I don't know what it's called. Vestata Raptor, probably. Nope. What else? We've got any more deaths? We had a lot of... Oh, no. The Mirageye, I think this is against the Cosmos Saratops. We've got Toast against a Kaka, the two Mibosaurus. Oh, Toast might be winning this one. Mirageye, I don't know what's really doing there. We've got Dimetrodon here. Of course, about to be stepped on by... Ah! By a Spinosaur. Absolutely blaring. Daphosaurus, I think this is. Or it's the other kind of one. Gotta remember. We've got a lot of herbivores for our carnivores to chew through. I've gotta be honest. And how did you make it up here? Damn, it's got four-wheel drive or something. I've got canvassos also fleed. What we've got going on over here, we've got the V-Rex, which has been hurt by something.  That's a five for so long normally. Bam! Not too sure what any of these guys are, but they look incredibly ferocious. Sukko and Gojira- Oh, Sukko Mimus, killed by Gojira-saurus. What do you look like again? Oh yes, that's right.  Never mind. Death is approaching. Proseratosaurus dead. Concavenate, is it the modern one? No, it's the modern one. It was killed by Velociraptor. Hold on, hold on. No, we do have a Utah Raptor. This apparently is a Utah Raptor. And when we compare it to, you know, the one we got from the DLC, yes. DLC is far better. We've got Scorpius-Rex against a Eupocephalus. Scorpius-Rex is probably going to win that. Ultima Saw taking on, well, something died there. That was poor Megalania. Blessed. Oh! Oh, Scorpius-Rex going from straight away killing Eupocephalus to killing Alora. Tight in there. No chill one, might say. The Medridon falls flat on its arse against what? Iocachisaurus or something. Oh no, Scorpius-Rex killing Sticky Moloch. It's a bloodbath behind the mountain. We've got Monalophosaurus taking on Adylophosaurus. Monoviedi. And it seems to be... I don't know. Oh! We've got the Bulldog going for... Oh, about to be trampled, if only it could by the Alamosaurus, but it's taken from the Ventusaur there. We've got... Oh, the... What's it called? Shantumosaurus taking on! My God! Taking on the Tyrannot Titan, a monocreech. Two monocreeches going out of there. Interesting. Ultima Saw is going strong. Killed its biggest competition straight away. And that's... Oh, yep, that's killed the sloth. And it's a look... Oh, it's, you know, Kairos against Therizinosaurus, the two clawed creatures taking each other on. And it's not looking too good for Therizinosaurus then. Scorpius-Rex going for the other one now. The Alango, whatever it's called. Carnotaur survived its scrap with Karka. And it's now... Oh! Absolutely crushing it against the Mega Raptor. Well done. Tarbasaur. The modded Tarbasaur. Against the Changesaurus. Hold on. We've got some cool little camera effects that I didn't even mean to do going on. But they apparently ran away so it doesn't really matter. Velociraptor taking off. Oh! What's this guy? The Lages-Venator. Don't you love me just commentating on all the names. Getting them all wrong and annoying some paleontologists. A little slap from the Giga Spinosaur on the Kasmasaur. And Indominus-Rex is coming to help take down the Kamarasaur. Nom, nom, nom, nom. And then gives it a little roar. Haven't seen any of the Giganto Raptors yet. They are still alive. I have seen the Unmodded One. Oh!  Oh! We got NoDisaur killed Krytanusaur. Why would you do that? Scorpus-Rex taking on... I don't know. I think that wasn't the Laura Titan. Don't know what he's trying to take on next but quickly rattling through them. Oh! Oh! What are you going for? Dryasaur? Oh! Yeah! There it goes. Thor, through! Wait, went it through it. Oh! Through the hedge! So forceful! And it actually went through the hedge. Oh dear! That was not a fun time for it. That's for sure. Ultimosaurus. Don't know what it's going for. Something. God knows what. Kryolophosaurus is dead there. That's a shame. The Stato is alive. Where's T-Rex? I haven't even seen... Oh! There's a Spino still alive. The Thera is also still alive. I'm not exactly too sure. How or why that's happening. Oh! Dolophosaurus against the Utah Raptor. I wonder if it'll survive that one. Well, they're calling it off. Interesting. Scorpius Rex tried to hunt something and I think it aided straight away. So that's that one. Stegosaurus, a previous favorite against... Oh! There's the T-Rex. Against... Oh! It does get hurt by it. T-Rex running around, missing sand even though it's rough and coarse and gets everywhere. But hey-ho! I'm not one to judge. Oh! Okay, that's another kill. Oh! What a Utah-Rano... The other T-Rano time. We've got a big one and a small one. This one facing off against Carnotaurus. The Indominus Rex just, you know, take another chunk out of the Kamara-saurus. We have... Oh! Whoa! Thryptherosaurus versus Parrot. Oh, I hope they attack each other. That would be hilarious. Oh, come on. You know you want to. We've got all these carnivores. You two... Ah, it was just a threat to Spade. But I think they might actually attack each other. Oh! We've got Ultima-Saurus just... I know the... What's this? The Dreadnortis. Bless it. It's gonna do some weird voodoo magic on it. Changesaurus against Alberta-Saurus. I think these are both DLC dinos. One's from the Claire Sanctuary DLC. Another one's from... I don't know. Another DLC. We've got Nodesaur against Sorapelta? Oh, they just don't like each other.  You hate to see it. They should be forming together. Oh, Scorby's Rex against... Oh, Stegoceratops! Oh, no. We're gonna get another win for Stegoceratops. Ah, no. Galamimus killed by Indominus Rex. I don't even know. I don't even know what that was. He's doing a little dance. Taking on this sky. Sinoceratops taking on the Allosaurus. Allosaurus still in it. Another favorite. Majungasaur against Verstatoraptor. And then we've got... I don't even know what this is. It's a Pingonmiosaurus against the Titanolothosaurus. And then Indominus Rex taking the chunk out of the Diplodocus. Woo-hoo, Sorus! Taking on... Oh, what are you? You strep... You strep to Spondylitis. God knows whatever. It has the high ground. We should probably not have a fight. Megalosaur wins. Allosaurus wins. We're all winners. Except for the losers, which are dead. Kaka taking on... Oh, you put your cold point. What? Minus 369 and Frick... Okay. And then we've got the Monolophosaurus fighting against a Delophosaurus. Again, obviously an unfinished grudge match between those two. Acrocanthosaurus taking on the Torano Titanotarbo. That's a Tarbasaur Batar. Still hanging in there. Ultimaso going to... I don't know. Do something to something there. Lord knows. Oh, there it goes. It went for the tippity-tip of the Diplodocus to stale before killing it. Stegosaur taking on the Splatosaur, which looks strangely a lot like an... an alberdosaur with those eyebrows. But it did kill Stegosaur. Interesting Torosaur against Taranotitan, the big one. Saratosaurus making its debut here against T-Rex. Oh, and actually lands a hit. Well done. We've got the Atrociraptor here. Don't even know... Oh, no. I don't even know if it's been in any battles. I think maybe one, but it's definitely recovered from it. In contrast to the very tranquil setting that the winners get to enjoy. One only, so far. Oh, my God. And Donut-Rex just tearing apart a triceratops there. Maybe it's just trying to, you know, make up for the lost ground of the Interaptor, which died straight away. Uh, whoa! Australoponator killing the Trotor. No! Little Baba's dead. Whoa, Velociraptor taking on the Ben-Accessities of Succus. I don't know how this one's going to end. Oh! Oh! Velociraptor down and Ben-Accessities killed it. Gigantoraptor kills the Kendra-saur. No! This Degasaur it with spikes. Where's the other Gigantor, though? I haven't seen that. Ooh, source against... Oh, no, yep. It died against the Ultima-saurus. We got Spider-aptor killing Majungasaur and the Vistato-Raptor taking on Megalosaurus. Well, it's just so much going on everywhere. We've got the Maip! One of the giant Megaloraptor it's taking on a Titan yet. Eeeeh! Titanolophosaurus! I'm sorry! It's just so much going on. And the Parasaur, would you believe it, has lasted longer than an Indoraptor. At this point, we only have 64 dinosaurs left out of, I don't know, like hundreds? I think there was definitely like 150 or something. We're approaching the halfway point and so far I haven't seen Spinosaur throw a single punch, let alone a claw. Oh, Albert against the Tarbo, the modded Tarbo there. Looks like that's going to go to a fair fight, I think. Really, he does have the high ground, but never can tell. Cosmoserotops against the... What's it called? I don't know. Euphoriosaurus, that one. Oh! Goes for a nibble. Ultima-saur, I was... Oh wait, it's not Ultima-saur. It's U-Taraptor, the modded U-Taraptor. Hold on. Where's the normal U-Taraptor? Now I'm curious, we've got Spino-Raptor over there, Majungasaur. Well, so far our front runners are the Ultima-saur. Spino and T-Rex have both made it this far so far, so that's quite impressive. And Ultima-saur has began to hunt down something, meaning that it's probably going to kill it instantly. And this is having a fight against Midmi! And of all the dinosaurs, why no Pyro, run! Run, Pyro! You got this! Ah! The way it just crumples. Oh, Therysinosaurus! Showing a Seratosaur. Who's boss here? We've got the modded Tarbasaur against the... Is it Albertosaur? Or is it Albertosaur? Oh, okay. Well, they're all fully healed. That's fine. We've got a Kendrasaur smote on the mountain side. And Thera has killed the Seratosaurus as well. And we've got a Capybaras still here. No. No! No! A Youngamunga! No! Instantly killed. We're in Dominus Rex. Oh! Take it out by Kaka! Damn! Who's all that coming? Not me. The Statoraptor? Oh, the Statosaurus. Oh, the Natasaurus. Oh, my God. The Natasaur. Not the Nataraptor, whatever I called you. The Lothosaurus alive! It's made it! I don't know if it's one yet, though. There's still a lot of small animals around. Oh, it's the Pychmiasaurus. T-Rex isn't very happy with it. Neither is Akron. Oh, you were against the Alasaur. And then the Pychmiasaur. Oh, they did have a fight. Oh, T-Rex taking a hit first? What? Oh, my God. This thing's going to kill it. All right. Where else we go? Oh, no! The Pupacars. Don't do it. Why? Why must you do it? No. It's really taking no prisoners that, guys. And what we've got going on here? The Natosaurus against the Sinoceratops. Something else came up there. Another one. Tarana Titan versus Stegoceratops. Oh, is it dead? Oh, my God. It killed it. Well, we're going to see another victory by the Stegoceratops. Oh, my God. If it is, damn, that thing's OP. We never, ever have the same thing win all the time. Ha! Ooh, 90% health. Ooh. Ooh. Oh, Delofaso having another fight against the weirdly-modded Utahraptor. Hello! It's eyes, man. It's the eyes. The eyes look so weird. Oh, Delofaso, you got this. Is it going to dance? Is it going to do dance? Looks like it's- Oh, no! Oh, there it is! Oh, it attacked it. It went first. And then we've got the- Are you Cosmo? You are Cosmo Ceratops against Chunkingosaurus. Even the herbivores are having their own little fights. And we've got Tarbo against Changesaurus again. Whoa! What a hit! Oh, Gigantus Spino against Acrocanthusaur. Acrocanthusaur gets the first hit, and it does- Whoa! If that's from 100%, 52, that killer. 45 is- Yeah, two hits, you're dead. But 52? Could be the end. Thank God they saw a glitch down. Didn't work. No! Oh, Gigantosaurus killed by the ultimateosaurus, whatever you want to call it. Oh, Spino Raptor against Australovanator. Don't know why. Spino Raptor never got much love. And even if it did, it dies within two days. And I have no idea why. It's just like, it always has all the stars, but dies really quick to battle the coming cold. Ooh, T-Rex against the Pygmiosaurus. Now, size isn't everything. Whoa! It goes for the first hit again. It's on 100% health. T-Rex, this could be the end for you. Oh, it does get a hit, but we'll see. Ultimateosaurus going to hunt something. Oh, it'll be a Draco Rex or something like that. So we don't really need to watch that. It's an instant kill. Allosaurus against the Albertosaurus. Albertosaurus gets the first hit off. And T-Rex, whoa, still standing. It's ground. Amazing. Oh, Dynonicus against our Trosseraptor. Brains slightly processing, but we're pulling through and doing good. We got the bane of your Titanolophosaurus against minus three, six, one, whatever it's called. Idafosaurus, that's it. Oh!  And it went for a first hit. Got it to 54. Titanolophosaurus killed by Ultimasaur. Got it to 8%. Look at that. Whoa! It levitated to get hit by the tail. Got to love it. Got to love it. We've got Acrocanosaurus against Chmyosaurus. I think it's cool. And then, no, there is anosaurus kill. No. That's the one that killed Ceratosaurus. There's not really much of a kill to brag home about. I'm not going to lie. Mirror guy against the Karkar. Karkar has made some kills in the past. And, ooh, 41. Oh, that, yeah, it's going to kill it. It's going to kill it, I would say. If I was a betting man, one more hit from Karkar. And, yeah, there you go. Lovely jubbly. I think that might actually be a murder creature. Well done. You did it. Yes. Oh, it's like the little cup. Cosmo against chunking again. You know what? If you guys are constantly fighting each other, then nothing can fight you. I appreciate that.   Spino raptor. Oh, clips through the freaking floor for a second and then dies. We've got Spinosaurus against Sinoceratops. Sinos still alive. What is going on? Usually, the ones to fall first are Sinon or Zudo. You know, all the ones normally in the game, you unlock first. But it's still kicking. Oh, lovely. The ultimate against Polycanthus. Well, we can only see which way that's going to go and it's going to end with you falling to the floor. Yes, thought so. Oh, Tarbo. You have been through the wars in this one.  Yeah, feels like, yeah, you're definitely dead. Oh, no. Even the modern Tarbo didn't start a chance in this battle arena. Oh, T-Rex against Stegoceratops. No, T-Rex. Don't do it. Oh, instant kill. This thing, I don't even think it's been hurt once. Dealercars also falling to the ultimus all there. We're seeing the makings of our freaking last battle, I'm pretty sure. They just need to go up against each other. That's what these two need to do. And I think they know it. It's the Triceratops DNA in these things. I don't know what it is. Something about it just makes amazing fighters. Maybe it's the crest. Or the frill. Sorry, I got corrected on that. Told Jeff it was a crest. When he was right, it was a frill. Bite the tozies. Oh, yes. What we got going on over here? Sora Pelt against Minmi. Oh, can you stop picking on your little cousins? Oh, and Kyla Sota against Shang Tungasaurus, really? I thought it was holding no punches. I think it's killed it. Straight away, one hit and it's taken it to like 45% and killed it. Wow. The armored tank that isn't Kyla Sota bested by a giant cow. Oh, what a lovely roar. That was very pleasant to witness. I don't think I've ever seen this thing get so far. I'm pretty sure it's not going to last too much longer because, well, usually whatever it fights, it fights again straight after. And unfortunately, that's the Spinosaur. And the Spinosaur's looking pretty good. The Cabby Bar is still alive, getting. He's got sleepies in his eyes. Oh, Ultima Saur against Kikanto Raptor and Instant Death. These guys are unstoppable. Right, what's this one? Oh, the Godzilla Saur against the Adaptele of the War. No! Oh, it was always such fun seeing that thing's big sail wobble around. And now we've got Alberta Saur, so now Alberta Saur. You're Alberta Saur. I think you are Alberta Saur. Call measaurus. And we've got what? Ultima Saur against Uncle Bungle. Oh, it's trying to chase it down. No, come on. It's got the stamp. Do you have the stamp? Oh, yeah, I think it's going to do it. Ah! Blah! It just sort of glitches around. Oh, bless it. It's like one of the last things that the big carnivores could actively hunt down and it wouldn't put up a fight. Oh, the bear necessities again against a Utah Raptor. The Utah Raptor and the Lothar Saur just constantly having fights, never resolving their issues like a married couple. One will not give up on the other one. Actually, they both won't give up on each other, but they're as toxic as the other. And the bear necessities wins that one. And then Chungingasaurus against, I don't know, Kazma Saur. Who really cares about that fight, though, if we're going to be others? Oh, Ultima Saur against Aloe and just like the rest, instantly killed. My God, there's no end in sight for those two.  Interesting. Spino against the Ultima Saur. The two blue heads against each other. And I think the Spino just, they just die. Oh my God, that's T-Rex and Spino out of it now. It really is Ultima Saur against Stegoceratops, it feels. There is no way. I highly doubt that anything else can win. And that is another victory against or for Shantungasaur is fighting off a Karka and almost killing it. Good Lord. Cosmo against Australovanita. Cosmo, I've seen a lot of. It's been giving some good licks, but not anymore. That's the first hit for the Australovanita. And numbers down to 29 now. Oh, Ultima Saur against... Oh God, James says that whatever that one was, the Kamei Aloe Sauras. Made short work of that, though.   Not putting up with that. Die, Chunkingosaurus. Maybe that thing could take on the Ultima Saur. God, who knows at this rate. Karka against Taurusaur, I think it is. Don't know. I mean, Karka is looking a bit beat up here, so maybe this could be the end for it. Although, maybe not. Maybe Taurusaur is just in a bad of pickle. 66% against 81%. Maybe if Karka was on 100%, it might have been able to kill it instantly. But with the way things are, yeah, it's gonna end that. Okay, interesting. Saurapelta. Oh no, this didn't go well when it was Nundasaurus or whatever, against Chunking. Oh, okay. Oh my God, it killed it. Whoa, maybe we're gonna see a finale against Gigantus Spinosaur and Nodasaur. That was like one hit. This has got one of the vital... What are they called? The Big Veins. Artery, that's the one. Oh, Cosmosaur, yeah. That's definitely not gonna stand a chance against it, as it slowly slides down there. Oh, ah, stinky. Ultimusaur against Cavibara. No, the Cavibara didn't win. Who didn't see that coming? I know I definitely didn't see that coming. Or Maip against... Pykmiosaurus, and Maip is winning, but does it really matter when we know for a fact that Ultimusaur is going to kill everything? Or Arrasaur against the bear necessities, and the bear necessities kills it? Whoa, maybe we're seeing an upset. Oh, Pyraptor against Lothasaur. Looks like it's gonna be a close one, yep. Nope, none of them kill each other. Oh, a victory there. Gigantus Spinosaur's killed Styrakusaur. Oh, and the Banatosaurus finally goes down to Displatosaurus. Oh, Ultimusaur against Karkar. Karkar, just don't fall down. It goes again. Another easy kill for the Ultimusaurus. Now, I haven't seen Stegoceratops do a battle in a long time, so maybe this is gonna be one where the Ultimusaur might actually win, because it's just got way more kills and way more experience. But Stegoceratops is still hanging about. Oh, Taurusaur against Sino. Oh, no! Sino just, like, not putting up with that at all. But Pyraptor against... God, what was that thing? Lagesvenator. Oh, no, it's happening! An Ultimusaur killed it again. No! Impossible. How many kills do you have? 21 fights and no losses. Stegoceratops against Gojira, Saurus. And... Oh, my God! Hold! Hold that phone. I was expecting an instant death there, but it's not. Stegoceratops on 83%. And Gojira, although not faring too hot, is actually standing its own on 43% and Stegoceratops wins barely. There was 66% left. Now, I've never seen Ultimusaur take hits, but now that's the first time I'm seeing Stegoceratops take hits. We're seeing the cream of the crop coming to the surface. Oh, a little Cosmoseratops against Ulti... Yeah. I was kind of hoping that maybe just we would have an upset, but no. Oh, the Ultimusaur taking on Gojira. Oh! Oh, wow! It goes for hit and doesn't kill it instantly. And... Oh, it gets a hit back! But the only dinosaur... I gotta give credit where credit is due. The only dinosaur to take on the top dogs, Gojira, Saurus, handing it out.  And maybe then, something like this could actually win. That's not gonna end very well for you, is it? Let's be honest. A Gronadon versus Ultimusaur? Yep, there you have it. Oh, no, Gojira against the Stegoceratops. This guy has no chill. He doesn't even fully heal. And he's gone from one to the other. One to the other. It might stand a chance if it would just be a little bit tactical because now he's got like two losses or something. Although saying that, actually, all he did was get hit and then run away. So I don't even know if that counts as a loss. No, I don't even think it does. Ultimusaur against Albert Yeah, did not belong here. Only gotten two kills. And does that count as a loss? Yes, it does. One death, would you believe? Maipasaur against the might of the Stegoceratops. And will it win? I can't, no. No, it definitely doesn't. You see it fall through the floor? Yeah, you can't know which way it's gonna go. And I hadn't actually seen that thing face off against many other things, so yeah. I mean, oh! The bad necessities are going to go Jira! Oh no, baseball! No! And then, oh no, Shang! Shang, no! My fan favorites are disappearing now. Shang Tungosaurus. The bad necessities. Oh no.  The arena is looking very bad right now. Ultimusaur choosing to have a very quick and easy fight against a node. Yep, well, there goes that. Ooh, a fully healed Goji against Ultimusaur now. And Ultimusaur does get the first hit off. And if that Stegoceratops is fighting something else, but maybe these guys, now there's so much space, can actually get a full-on battle in. Or maybe they won't. And they'll just do that. Yep, I think that counts as a win. I don't even know. He's only lost one so far. Alright, the Pykmiosaurus. Oh, yep, yep, there it is. Pykmiosaurus against the Ultimusaur. I don't know why I expected anything else to happen. Oh my God, guys, it's happening. It's happening. Stegoceratops taking on Ultimusaur. This is it. Place your bets. Who do you think's gonna win? Oh, Stegoceratops gets the first hit off. But can they even finish it? Ooh, fighting with their cacti. Oh, prickly fellows here. So the first hit goes to Stegoceratops. And that's it. Oh, so how much damage did he do? 74. Ooh, interesting. Oh, Ultimusaur deciding to take on the Goji now. Was not happy with that loss before. But these guys never finished their fight. So, oh my God, are they? Oh, oh my God, 60%. 60% against 51%. They actually finished an entire battle. And that's two losses now for Goji. That's actually gonna affect him now in the next fight. Oh, has that done it? Has that secured the victory for the Stegoceratops? Or has it pipped the Ultimusaur's fighting record just above the Stegoceratops?  Is it going to lose and give the Stegoceratops this well needed victory? Oh, apparently not. Interesting, but yeah, that is not... Oh, I think that's it. Oh, he did fight Stegoceratops. Oh my God, while the Ultimusaur went off to Lichid's wounds, the Stegoceratops did what it does best and took advantage of the situation. That's it. I don't know, man. I think Stegoceratops is gonna win again. I was placing this guy in, right? And he was like, ah, it's lonely. I'm like, well, you're never gonna have a friend, but actually, I think you might. Oh, boy. We're gonna have to do something different with the next arena if you guys are always gonna win, but I think that was luck. If the Ultimusaur and the Gojiroaur hadn't fought each other, then this would have turned out completely different. Maybe something else could have taken on an advantage if the Stegoceratops was slightly wounded. Ultimusaur just gaining another victory on the Sinoceratops. That makes it, what, 30 victories? Damn. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Looks like he's finally discovered it. Yep. Yep. There you go. Oh, not happy now. Not as you did. What? Excuse me. That was my freaking kill. And let's see how this goes. Ooh. Who's gonna get the first hit? It's the decider. Oh, it's the Stegoceratops gets the first hit. No. No, they're not. How much does 70% now? That's even more than last time. They thought they were safe. They thought. And Gigantus Spinosaur loses to Ultimusaur. It's not your fault.  I apologize in advance. That is, I think, the second last herbivore. Leaving Stegoceratops by itself. Apparently, all the Ultimusaur was doing was going round, getting terrain, or sorry, territory. So I decided to cut in half. They're all here.  Oh, just like that. Boom. Like, nope, not happy with this.  And Delofaso died. No, that's just a fanata. And there's only Celia fighters now. And then those two are having their fight if they can even have a fight. I think they can. And then Ultimusaur and Stegoceratops. And we might have two winners. Can Ultimusaur go first? Is it possible? Oh. Oh, the high ground. Time to close it in even further. There we go. Even smaller now. All right, that's it. That's your lot. Oh, you really, you're calling him for a fight when you're not even healed yet, man. All right. I've caged him in here now. Celia fighters will get disqualified because it has not killed a single thing. However, this guy has killed three. Or at least had three victories and two losses. So it's participated somewhat. Whereas if you haven't participated, I don't think you deserve to win. All right, let's see. Ultimusaur against Stegoceratops. Oh. Oh, just killed them in one hit this time. Damn. Okay. Stegoceratops, our winner for a second time. And then second is that lad used the fanata thing. Whatever that one was. But anyway, guys, that's gonna wrap it up twice now. It's ending Ultimusaur and Stegoceratops and Stegoceratops is won each time. So it tells me we need to do something different. Maybe we just disqualify Stegoceratops. Once you win it twice, no longer can take part. I don't know. Something that could be quite interesting. But anyway, guys, if you enjoyed the video, leave a like and until next time, I'll see you guys later. Oh, bye-bye.


Remember that in that great program of cutting or spending cuts and tax cuts that we put through in 1981, there were two authors' names on that bill. One was a congressman from Texas, Phil Graham, and the other one was your Del Lada. But I thank all of you two for a heartwarming reception. It is great to be in Ottawa. And when President Harry Truman spoke to the people of Ottawa during his whistle-stop tour in 1948 in this same car, he spoke these words. We are in a campaign which will go down as one of the most important in the history of our country, and it's your campaign, it's your welfare that's at stake. Well, today we once again face an historic election, and once again it's your welfare that's at stake. We're now three and a half weeks from election day, and the American people are getting the full flavor of the very clear choice that is facing them. It's a choice between two fundamentally different ways of governing and two distinct ways of looking at America. My opponent, Mr. Mondale, offers a future of pessimism, fear, and limits compared to hours of hope, confidence, and growth. Now I know that his intentions are good, I know that he's sincere in that and in what he believes, but he sees government as an end in itself, and we see government as something belonging to the people and only a junior partner in our lives. My opponents and his allies live in the past, celebrating the old and failed policies of an era that has passed them by, and if history had skipped over, it's as if history had skipped over those Carter Mondale years. On the other hand, millions of Americans join us in boldly charting a new course for the future. Now it's fitting that we're campaigning today on Harry Truman's train. Taking the same route that he took 36 years and one day ago, he was the last Democrat I voted for. Indeed, indeed in 1948 I campaigned for him. Mr. Truman could make very plain the differences between himself and his opponent, and my friends, that's just what I'm here to do today. Let us start with the record, the record of the administration in which Mr. Mondale carried a full partnership. In those four years, they took the strongest economy in the world and pushed it to the brink of collapse. They created a calamity of such proportions that we're still suffering the consequences of those economic time bombs. That was no fresh-faced, well-fed baby that they left on our doorstep in January of 1981. It was a snarling economic wolf with sharp teeth. The suffering of America, the deep and painful recession, and the outrageous and frightening inflation, these things didn't start by accidental ignition or spontaneous combustion. They came about through the concerted mismanagement of the administration of which Mr. Mondale was a part and his liberal friends who controlled the Congress. They gave us five in little more than a year. They gave us five different anti-inflation programs and then managed with them to give us the worst four-year record of inflation in nearly 40 years. While it took them five plans to nearly triple in inflation, it's only taken us one to cut it by two-thirds. Senior citizens were driven into panic by higher rents, exorbitant fuel costs, dramatically increasing food prices, and a federal health care cost which went up a massive 87 percent in just those four years. And they called that fairness. They punished the poor and the young who struggled as prices of necessity shot up faster than the others. Prices of Americans led a life of daily economic terror fueled by these unrelenting costs. Let's look at interest rates. My opponent has referred to something now that he calls the real interest rate and it concerns him greatly. Well, I don't think people pay interest rates on some abstract smokescreen or academic or foggy economic theory. What they know is that when Jerry Ford left office in 1976, the prime rate was six and a quarter percent. When Mr. Mondale left office, it was twenty-one and a half percent. The highest in 120 years, average monthly mortgage payments more than doubled, car loans were hard to get and expensive, the automobile and home-building industries were brought to their knees. And after all this economic punishment, our opponents blamed you because you lived too well. They told you you'd have to learn to sacrifice more and live with less and within economic limits. Well, I found that it's not so much that our opponents have a poor memory of this ruinous past. They've just got a darn good forgettory. And one of the things they like most to forget is the Misry Index, where they added the unemployment rate and the inflation rates together. And then they did this in 1976 in that election campaign. And the Misry Index then was 12.6. And they said that Jerry Ford, as the incumbent president, had no right to seek re-election with that kind of a Misry Index. Well, then came the 1980 election, and they never mentioned the Misry Index. And I don't think my opponent will mention it in this campaign, possibly because it was over 20 when he left the vice presidency and is now down to 11.6. You know, he's done a pretty good job of slipping, sliding, and ducking away from this record. But here in Ohio, during the primaries, Senator Gary Hart got his message through by reminding the Ohio voters of the true record. And I quote, Walter Mondale said Senator Hart may pledge stable prices, but Carter Mondale could not cure 12 percent inflation. And then he added, Walter Mondale has come to Ohio to talk about jobs, but Carter Mondale watched helpless as 180,000 jobs disappeared in the period between 1976 and 1980. Now, those are Gary Hart's words. And those disastrous consequences didn't come about by accident. They came through the implementation of the very policies of out-of-control spending, the very unfair taxation and the worship of big government that my opponent still supports. His philosophy can be summed up in four sentences. If it's income, tax it. If it's revenue, spend it. If it's a budget, break it. And if it's a promise, make it. All this year, he has lavished his campaign with promises that staggered even his Democratic opponents. But of course, there is a predictable answer by one who makes so many promises. And the answer to his promises is higher taxes. And massive new tax increases are precisely what he proposes. A few weeks back, he called his new plan, pay as you go. But what it is, of course, is nothing but the old plan. You pay and he goes. Those tax increases to pay for his promises add up to the equivalent of $1,890 per household in this country. If Harry Truman had to apply a motto to this radical taxing scheme, he would have to say that your buck never stops. When the centerpiece of his economic program is backbreaking tax hikes, you can see why my opponent spends so much time using outrageous scare tactics. Now that's not my opponent's only tax extravaganza. He came up with still another one in our debate. He said, and I quote, as soon as we get the economy on a sound ground as well, I would like to see the total repeal of indexing. Now this tax is even worse, because this would be a dagger at the heart of every low and middle income taxpayer in America. It would mean bone-crushing new levies against those who can least afford them. Indexing was a reform that we passed to protect you from the cruel hidden tax when government uses inflation to force you into higher tax brackets when you get a cost of living pay raise. Under the Mondale plan, here's what would happen to a family struggling on $10,000 per year. By 1989, they would be paying over 73 percent more income taxes. Now we're told, since he said that on Sunday night, that he misspoke and that he actually meant to say just the opposite. But on several occasions since 1982, he has expressly proposed the repeal of indexing, and he's done this quite often. And politics, you call this a flip-flop. But forgive me, I've decided to call it a fritz-flop. Indexing is one example, but there are many others. Yesterday he wanted to give a $200 tax break to every family dependent, and today he wants to raise taxes, the equivalent of $1,890 per household. Several tight days now, out on the campaign trail, he's talked about me as a new Reagan and an old Reagan. Now that has nothing to do with my age, because the old Reagan was when I was much younger, and the new Reagan is now. But I decided to do some old and new mandaling. The old Mondale said that tightening the budget, reducing government spending, and reducing deficits could worsen a recession and cause unemployment. The new Mondale thinks higher taxes lead to a healthy economy. The old Mondale publicly supported Jimmy Carter's wrong-headed grain embargo, and the new Mondale claims that he opposed it privately, very privately. The old Mondale sponsored National Bible Week in the U.S. Senate, I can go along with that. And the new Walter Mondale, though, says there's too much religion in politics. The old Mondale called the space shuttle a horrible waste, a space extravaganza, and he personally led the fight in the United States Senate to try and kill the entire shuttle program before it even started. The new Mondale praises American technological achievement. Well, I just thought that was appropriate today when probably right now, or possibly right now, I should say I don't know where they are. But while we're riding across Ohio on this train, those young heroes of ours, male and female, are circling this earth several times in that shuttle which will land tomorrow. And God bless them for what they did. With all this old and new Mondale, just when you're beginning to lose faith, finally you do find there is some constancy. The old Mondale increased your taxes, and the new Mondale will do it again.  Then I caught myself. Why should I give him another idea? That's the only tax he hasn't thought of. From now until November 6th, we're going to make sure that the American people know about this choice on which their future depends. We have two roads to tomorrow. We have the road of fear and envy that Mr. Mondale proposes. On his roads, you frighten the elderly with false statements. And speaking of that, let me interrupt myself for a moment and say, one of the things that I think is most shameful in the line of political demagoguery. We saw it in the congressional campaigns of 1982, and we're seeing it in this campaign. And that is when, for purely political advantage, falsely, their candidates go around telling our senior citizens who are dependent on social security that we somehow have a secret plot in which we're either going to reduce their payments or take them away from them entirely. Well, I want you to know that if there was anyone in my administration that even had secretly such an idea, he'd be long gone. We are not going to do anything to double-cross the people dependent on social security or those anticipating social security when they come to their non-earning years. Their benefits are going to remain with them. He strives to divide Americans against each other seeking to promote envy and portray greed. Franklin Delano Roosevelt warned that the only thing we have to fear in this country is fear itself. Sadly, and tragically, the only thing my opponent has to offer is fear itself. Well, that's the difference between us. We see America's best days ahead. We see ourselves in a springtime of hope, ready to fire up our courage and determination to reach high and achieve all the best. We see a life where our children can enjoy at last prosperity without inflation. We see a life where they can enjoy the highest of creativity and go for the stars and not have their hopes and dreams crushed or taxed away by greedy governmentalists. The American people are walking into tomorrow unashamed and unafraid.  All of my generation, and of several generations between mine and yours, we grew up in America where for the most part. We just grew up automatically knowing that there was no limit to what we could accomplish. There was no ceiling beyond which we couldn't go. That the hope, the opportunity, the golden dreams were there for all of us and depended on us and we could fly as high and far as our energy and our talent and ability would take us. Then we've come to a period in recent years in which limits were placed and that hope we were told was kind of shut off, that we were to expect something less. Well, I'm glad you're here, all you young people, because I want to tell you the responsibility that the rest of us have and we're going to meet is to see that we turn over to you the same kind of America that our parents turned over to us, where there is hope and hope that you, the American people, young and old, are ready for this great new era of opportunity and I know this may gall our opponents, but I think the people, all of you agree with us when we tell you, you ain't seen nothing yet. Thank you very much. Now they tell me the train's going to whistle and I'm going to have to leave and move on to the next stop. On behalf of not only Ottawa and Glendorf, but everyone present, the Ottawa-Glendorf High School Titan is presenting a gift to the president. It's a shirt that says Reagan number one.


Azerbaijan starts providing public services to Karabakh Armenians as the first step of reintegration. Azerbaijan's provision of services to the Armenian population of Karabakh is the first step towards establishing trust and beginning the reintegration of the Karabakh Armenians into Azerbaijan's society, which also underscores the country's commitment to protecting the rights of the entire population on its territory, reads an article by BNN Breaking. This action, which follows the successful execution of counter-terrorism operation, may signal a stride towards better relations between Azerbaijan and the Armenian population in Karabakh. It also underscores Azerbaijan's commitment to safeguarding the welfare and rights of all populations within its territories irrespective of their ethnic origins, the article noted. The author wrote that many ethnic Armenians, however, are fleeing the region due to fears that Azerbaijani authorities will not guarantee their language, religion and culture or treat them fairly and humanely. The government's pledge to respect the rights of ethnic Armenians in Karabakh may be a step towards mitigating the fears of the Armenian population and fostering better relations between the two groups.


Okay, the skyscraper curse is something that came to my attention in 1999, when Andrew Lawrence, a financial analyst, wrote about it and it was reported on in all the major financial media. And the financial media was kind of skeptical of this notion that somehow the building of a world record-setting skyscraper would cause a world economic crisis. It sounds really far-fetched and it actually is pretty far-fetched in a very specific regard. But I was fascinated by it because I could see through Mr. Lawrence's report and see Austrian economics at work to see the Austrian business cycle theory at work. So I could in a sense see through the workings of this strange correlation that he was reporting on. He didn't really have any reason for it. He considered it, you know, might be just random luck. It could be something in financial markets. But he didn't come to any conclusion. So I started working on this and developing a theory of connecting the building of the world's tallest building to world economic crises using Austrian business cycle theory, using Kantione effects named after Richard Cantillon, who I was also working on as a history of economic thought project. So it was just these two projects sort of coinciding. And I eventually published, I tried to publish this paper in some mainstream economic journals, but there were no equations, there were no regressions or anything like that. So they didn't really want to have anything to do with it. So I eventually published it in the quarterly journal of Austrian economics in 2005 in the spring issue. And I'd encourage you to take a look at that particular paper because it will have most of what I'm going to be talking about here today in it. So what is this skyscraper curse? First of all, it's focused in on world record-setting high skyscrapers in terms of livable space. And that's important for driving this model. The record-setters are begun during a boom, an extended boom period of artificially low interest rates. And the buildings that represent the curse typically are completed and open to the general public during a period of economic crises. So these are special cases. This doesn't happen very often. So we've had just a small subset of these economic crises related to buildings, although real estate is typically involved in all business cycles. So there's always real estate problems in the economic bust, but these are significant economic crises. So we have around the turn of the century, the Singer building. The Singer company made sewing machines. The MetLife building sold insurance. They were begun in 1905 and 1906. And there was a panic of 1907 just as these buildings were setting new records. And then they opened in 1908 and 1909. And there was the Woolworth building in 1913. And this was a case that Lawrence said was the exception to the rule because there was no economic crisis. And does anybody know, not you, but does anybody else know why there was no economic crises with the Woolworth building setting a new record in 1913? Yes, sir. World War I. I've asked that question in the past and no one's actually come up with the answer. So good job. Prior to the completion of the Woolworth building, the American economy went into one of the worst recessions that it had ever experienced. But very quickly, because Europe was at war with itself, all the major European powers began a war in 1914. So they were buying military equipment, metal, weapons, and so forth. And that dragged the U.S. economy out of that very bad recession. So it really wasn't an exception to the skyscraper curse. And then we had the Great Depression, 40 Wall Street, which is now the Trump building, the Chrysler building, which is now part of Columbia University, and the Empire State Building were all begun prior to the stock market crash in 1929. And they were finished in late 1929, 1930 and early 1931. So there was another grouping or cluster of record setting buildings. In the early 1970s, you have the World Trade Towers and the Sears building in Chicago. Those were begun in the late 1960s. They set the new records in the early 1970s, and they opened in 72 to 73. And of course, that was the beginning of a more than decade-long economic crisis in the United States and elsewhere. It's often referred to the stagflation of the 1970s. But it's something that saw, well, for example, there was a severe recession in early 1970s. It was so bad that we actually went off the gold standard because of it. Asian price controls were imposed in 1971. There was all sorts of economic problems in the 1970s, and that continued on until the early 1980s when unemployment was over 10%. Interest rates were over 15%. And then, again, there's more record buildings here in Asia, the Asian financial crisis and the Patronus Towers, the tech stock bubble in Taipei 101 in Taiwan, the housing bubble and the financial crisis in 2007, 2008. The Bush-Khalifi Tower was opened in Dubai, setting a world record. And the record was set in 2007 right before the onset of the world financial crisis. We have a European record in the shard building in London, and it set the record, started in 2009, when everything was just fine, of course, in the European economy. But when it set the record in 2012, of course, you had the European debt crisis, the pigs crisis, where you have a third of the countries of Western Europe facing a very severe debt crisis. And of course, unemployment rates exceeding 10%. In some cases, as high as 25%. So today, they're building a new world record-setting skyscraper in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom Tower is projected to be an entire kilometer tall. However, the top 400 feet is just for show, basically. So it's only going to exceed the Bush-Khalifi Tower by about less than a dozen stories. But it will set a new world's record. So in anticipation of that, it's scheduled to open in 2020. So it should be setting the record maybe in 2017-18 range. So how do we get the linkage from the skyscraper curse to the Austrian theory of the business cycle? Well, the Austrian theory of the business cycle is dependent upon low interest rates, artificially reduced interest rates. That's the driving force that fools entrepreneurs into making the wrong kind of investments in the economy or male investments in the economy. So that's the engine that's driving this whole phenomenon. And in the skyscraper curse, the only difference between the skyscraper curse and the normal business cycle is that interest rates are held low for an extended period of time and well below what would be market-determined interest rates. So the central bank-determined interest rate is lower than what would occur if it was completely market-driven. So these artificial interest rates have three influences on business and entrepreneurs, and ultimately this is going to create the skyscraper curse. The first effect is on interest rates and land prices. When interest rates are artificially low, this has the effect of raising the price of land in the economy, particularly in large metropolitan areas. So why is that the case? Well, say to yourself, if you had a property that you think is worth about $100,000 and interest rates are one half of 1% or in the case of my savings account, 100%. So when interest rates are very low, the idea of selling your property and then putting the money in the bank is not a really great alternative. So you're more reluctant to sell than if interest rates were 10% so that if you put the money in the bank, you would be earning an income of $10,000 a year. So all of a sudden with high interest rates, you're more willing to sell. And so that puts a downward pressure on land prices. When the interest rates are very, very low, people are reluctant to sell their land, and so the price of land goes up. What does that have? What kind of effect does that have? Well, if land prices are very high, then developers, whether you're building skyscrapers or whatever, if you're building houses, it doesn't matter what you're building. If land prices are higher, you're going to want to put, you're going to have to put more square feet of usable space onto that property in order to make it profitable.  So any new developer would have an incentive to build not just one story, but maybe three or four stories on that piece of property. And if you look around Auburn right now, what you'll notice is a lot of construction. And all the new construction is all higher in terms of being taller than the old construction. There's one building in downtown Auburn on College Street. It's, I think, five stories high, and it's a white building, and there's retail on the first floor, and then there's apartments on the remaining floors. That was built in 2007 during the housing bubble, and that's really the tallest building outside of the university in this area. But now they're building multiple four- and five-story buildings throughout the downtown Auburn area. So interest rates are low, developers want to develop, but because the price of land is so high, they're building taller. The second effect is the effect of the interest rate, and in this case a low interest rate, on the size of firms in an economy. When interest rates are very low, what you see on Wall Street is lots of mergers and acquisitions of small companies becoming larger companies, through mergers, acquisitions, or simply just expanding the firm itself through investment. So what does that do? Well, larger companies require more centralized services. So if you look at an old-fashioned dairy farm from a century ago, you'd see a farmer in his family, a small plot of land, and a small number of cows milked, sent to a dairy. There's no need for HR. There's no need for marketing. There's no need for payroll. You don't have those functions in a small firm. But all of a sudden, if you go to a modern dairy, you're going to find a massive operation in multiple locations, and that kind of dairy does need accounting. It does need management. It does need someone to do the payroll. It does need marketing services. So with larger firms, you have more need for headquarters, and headquarters increases the demand for larger buildings in urban areas. The third effect is that lower interest rates in terms of causing these taller buildings, these record-setting buildings, means that you need all kinds of new technology. You can't just use the old existing technology. Some things have to be invented brand new in order to make these record-setting skyscrapers work. So you need new kinds of elevators. So in recent years, with the Bush-Kalafi Tower, they have three-story elevators. So there's like three cabs, one on top of one another. So that if you're going to the 67th floor, you get on a special elevator 4 that's going to go to the 63rd, 64th, and 65th story. So you've got a new technology there. They've just recently invented a new cable to pull the elevator up. If you use the old standard steel cable for the Bush-Kalafi Tower, the cable itself would weigh 40,000 pounds. So that would obviously create an enormous need for a tremendous amount of power to get that cable up and down just itself. So somebody in Finland invented a new cable that only weighs about 2,000 pounds. The Japanese have invented a new form of air conditioner that doesn't require duck work throughout the building. So for example, in this room right here, there's a large space between the ceiling and the next floor. I think it's about 18 inches to two feet so that the duck work can be run throughout the building. With the Japanese system, they don't need that. All they have is a little hose that goes from room to room and it brings the freon itself, not cold air, not cold water, not hot air or hot water, which is the traditional technology. They're just pumping the freon from room to room so that there's no need for that space to run the duck work. And of course, if you're talking about 200-story building and you have to run this much space just for the air conditioning system, obviously it's going to cost a lot more. So firms have to innovate, they have to produce new technologies ahead of their time, so to speak, and those new technologies require new factories, new delivery systems. So the economy, in other words, is getting advanced technology that otherwise wouldn't be needed because of these new, taller buildings. And so we're not looking just at the skyscrapers themselves, we're looking at what's happening throughout the entire economy. This is some of the articles that I wrote regarding the housing bubble. I started with, actually I had one before that, before the 2004 Mises Daily article, but I've been asked a lot of questions this week about the Austrian theory of the business cycle and can you know a bubble is out there? Can you know there's trouble coming? And the scientific answer is that we cannot know for sure something is coming. But if you know Austrian theory of the business cycle, you can observe telltale signs and hints of what's coming forth in the economy. And in early June of 2004, at the beginning of the week on Sunday, I went walking around my neighborhood and a friend of mine, colleague of mine at Auburn University owned a rental house on one of the streets that I walk on and it had a for sale sign and then sold on it. I knew I was there the day before walking and there was no for sale sign so I was kind of curious and I went to my colleague on Monday morning and I said, you know, what's up with your house over there? He said, well, on Sunday, which is the day I went walking, a friend of ours who was a real estate agent convinced us to sell the house and by the end of the day on Sunday they had three offers on the house and it sold for above their asking price. So I knew that that's not that's atypical in real estate markets. You don't decide to put your house up for sale on a Sunday, get three offers and sell it by Sunday evening. And then a couple days later I was talking to my brother who had just become an agent for a mortgage lending company in California and he told me about his first day that he was able to offer his clients new financing on their houses, give them a lower payment and hand them over $50,000 of equity out of their houses. He said, Mark, it's too good to be true. I said, you're darn right it is too good to be true. And that's when I started writing the article. Now in 2010, early 2010 CNN contacted me about the opening of the Bush-Kalafi Tower and so I sent him my work on the subject and they pointed out that I wasn't surprised about the whole thing happening. And since then there's been a pretty good amount of literature that's come out on the skyscraper curse trying to figure it out by mainstream economists as well as Austrian economists. Greg Kaza who is an Austrian economist and regularly publishes in the quarterly journal of Austrian economics, he regularly comes to our research conference. He did the skyscraper curse for the state of Arkansas and the state of Michigan. So Razorbacks is the team name for the University of Arkansas and Wolverines are the team names for University of Michigan. So he was doing Michigan and Arkansas looking at the tallest buildings in those states and comparing them to the business cycle and he found a very good correlation between the two. Gunter Lufler looked at skyscrapers and stock market returns. Jason Barr has written the most on this subject. He's written several papers from a mainstream econometric perspective and he keeps on getting different answers using different data sets. He finds different reasons for the correlation between tower building and the economy. And I'll just highlight the last one that he did with a couple of colleagues, Ms. Rack and Munda from Rutgers University in New Jersey. Their paper, Skyscraper height and the business cycle separating myth from reality. That didn't sound too good. And indeed he basically attacks my 2005 paper and says that if you put the skyscraper curse to an empirical test that it turns out skyscrapers do not cause business cycles. They looked at announcement dates and opening dates and those were not correlated with gross domestic product. So they turned their attention to tall buildings in four countries and compared them with changes in real GDP per capita and noticed that none of these things, I mean he's just looking at an ordinary business cycle, not economic crises type business cycles. And they found that using co-integration tests that show that GDP and height are co-integrated and share a common pattern. Therefore they conclude that height does not predict cycles, they move together with temporary deviations due to builder competition near the peaks in the business cycle. And Lucas's paper here on why skyscrapers a spatial economic approach shows that lower interest rates increase land prices and wages, the higher opportunity cost of commuting leads to taller buildings and this supports my original paper in 2005. Barr and his colleagues seem to draw the most opposing stance against the curse because he first showed that record setting skyscrapers were the result in part of psychological factors such as builder competition, social status and ego. Second he showed that the date of the announcements and openings for record setting skyscrapers does not fit the empirical pattern. In 30 shows empirically that skyscrapers do not curse or cause but that some third factor or factors cause both site skyscrapers and curses. And then the economist magazine after reading Barr's paper decided that the skyscraper curse does not exist based on their evidence. Unfortunately their evidence actually supports the skyscraper curse. We would never think to suggest that building a skyscraper would cause an economic crisis in and of itself. As a matter of fact I spend most of the paper in 2005 detailing that the third factor is interest rates that are causing both the building of world record setting skyscrapers and eventually an economic crisis. So apparently they didn't really read the paper in the first place. But we've had a devil of a time trying to correct this record because I sent a letter to the editor to the economist and they didn't print it. Three months later they wrote me and said that they had misplaced my letter to the editor. So why would you write somebody three months later to say that you had misplaced something? Sounds a little fishy but that didn't work. So Lucas and I sent a comment to the original journal where Barr's paper first came out and we said, you know, they've made a little mistake here and here's why. And we, you know, drew out a very logical story about why they were wrong but the journal didn't want to print that either. I guess it would have made them look bad to publish a fundamentally flawed paper in the first place. And even the economist, it's kind of surprising, they had this graphic produced and published in the Economist magazine and, you know, they sided with Barr at all that there is no skyscraper curse and yet their graphic sort of lays it down for him. And the economist had actually looked on the skyscraper curse favorably until they read this paper by Barr and his two colleagues. So essentially that's where we stand today is I think the evidence is pretty clear that record-setting skyscrapers correlate very well with large boom-bust periods that end up in economic crises and we're also at the point where we're living in an economy where yet another world record skyscraper is being built. Right now I think it's probably up to about 60 or 70 stories high right now. So it's in the works, there's nothing to say that it's going to actually be a world record-setting skyscraper because Saudi Arabia is in terrible shape right now. They have their war, they have terrorist problems, they have domestic problems, their economy is not in good shape. It never was very particularly productive outside of pumping oil and gas out of the ground and even that's kind of troublesome because of the fall and the price of oil and gas. When that project was started in Saudi Arabia, the price of oil was well over $100 a barrel and today it's down close to $40 a barrel. So there's nothing to guarantee that it's going to be built to a record-setting height but that's what is in the works. Okay, well I'll take some questions here if you have any. Yes sir. Yeah, as a matter of fact, when I said I was getting lots of questions about the business cycle, actually he gave them all to me so. I think my question is like, is this just like various correlations and like share thinking of it in the business because obviously you only have so many record-setting skyscrapers and I think the second thing to question is like, how big is the relationship really? Like, so for the Middle East and kind of who's always been building the world on oil which doesn't always correlate to the business cycle, like the sharp power, isn't really connected to the big countries in any meaningful way? I guess it's really because I get that. Well, spurious correlation just means that they just happen randomly and there's nothing connecting them and that's the main reason why nobody really took Mr. Lawrence's skyscraper index very seriously because most of these financial indicators that you might hear about do not really fundamentally determine the economy of the stock market. There's things like the January effect where if stocks are up in January then they'll be up for the year and for a while that held pretty much true in a large majority of the cases but there's nothing real about that and we expect that those kind of indicators peter out over time. The Super Bowl index, another spurious indicator, when they discovered it, when it was discovered by financial journalists in the late 1970s, it was almost perfect that if a NFL team, NFC team won then it'd be a good market, a good year in the stock market. If the AFC team won the Super Bowl it would be a bad year in the economy. So you've got to be skeptical of the skyscraper indicator because so many of these other indicators just never made people money consistently. And so that's a possibility but I think the connections of interest rates to how it transforms the economy, those are very well established connections in the fields of finance and real estate and mergers and acquisitions. So those are all pretty straightforward causal factors that play a role in this model. Now I have gone back into the 19th century and have shown that earlier record-setting skyscrapers also coincided with business panics, economic crises and those kind of things. So we've actually been able to take the skyscraper indicator which started with the panic of 1907, the depression, the stagflation of the 1970s and the Asian financial crisis and we've been able to bring it forward in time to more recent records. We've corrected the record on the Woolworth building and we've gone back into the late 19th century and found other correlations. So the number of skyscraper curse events has actually increased and we haven't been running into the same sort of problem like the Super Bowl has where its reliability continues to go down over time. But the randomness of building a world record-setting skyscraper, I think it makes you uneasy about these sort of things because it's not a mechanical thing and it's more of a unique, these are more like unique independent events. Yes, sir? With New York rebuilding or doing the Freedom Tower, do you think based upon your research that could possibly happen, the crash or business? The Freedom Tower, or I think it's called just simply the World Trade Center now, set a new record in North America. But in order to get the record for North America, they included a 400-foot television transmission tower on top of it. And that's not livable space. It doesn't require any new technology. And so I never expected the Freedom Tower, as it was called back then, to ignite a world economic crisis because it wasn't a genuine world record. Yes, sir? So it looked like there were a couple of aspects to what you said. Obviously, there's specifically world record super skyscrapers, but then we're also talking about sort of more local level, about five levels to our building instead of two or three is difficult. You think it'd be possible to just expand this argument out. I mean, as long as it's just world record skyscrapers, there's always going to be some skepticism of, well, maybe you're kind of just going to walk into it. But if you expand that to a larger format, you say, now, wherever there's low interest rates, buildings increase by 9% or something like that. Do you think there's the future rate of sort of expected argument in general? Yeah, I think so. I think Greg Kaza's work on at the state level is a good example of that. And I think we've seen a number of continental records like the shard coincide with more localized economic crises. So within a nation, within a state, within a continent, you're likely to see record buildings and more localized economic troubles. And also, people have speculated, well, how about corporate headquarters? When some company like the Singer-Sowy machine decided to build their headquarters, it's usually grand and lavish during these periods. So like right now, Apple, Google, and Facebook are all building enormous and elaborate headquarters out in Silicon Valley. And so that would suggest to me, based on this kind of anecdotal evidence that we're in for between now and a couple of years, in for a major problem in that area of the stock market or that area of the economy right now as they're building these elaborate headquarters, Google and Apple and Facebook have been at record high stock prices, record revenue. I just read yesterday that Apple has $181 billion in cash in overseas banks. $181 billion in cash outside the US banking system. And it's not alone, it's just the company with the most cash in that form. So I think it does bleed over into things other than just world record setting skyscrapers. So it's a good question. I will talk about the course, which is obviously a metaphor. How it can combine with our praxeological framework, because we believe there is no historical loss. So how would you replace the word course with some other word to explain it in terms of science, scientific, for example? That's a great question. Andrew Lawrence used the word curse because he couldn't figure out the real connection between one and the other. So he left it in kind of a mystical fashion curse, like a witch doctor can curse you. And I haven't come up with anything specific other than referring to the skyscraper index as a historical data. And the curse is an economic crisis. Do you have any suggestions? I think that we observe some kind of tendency, but it doesn't tell us anything about the future that it's not always. Maybe there are some other, there can be some other. Can you hear what they're called this? Yeah, we, for example, normal economic development, normal economic growth and development in the absence of artificial interest rates would eventually get us to new records. But under normal economic times, without any monetary stimulus, businesses don't find it attractive to build new records because of the requirements. It gets more and more costly as you go higher. And all of a sudden, if your input suppliers are not coming up with innovations, then it's very expensive to build taller. Yes. So what you're saying about your brother with real estate going crazy, and then that's how you find a new one, two out of four and five, that's just going to happen. My brother's girlfriend is a real estate market person and cannot hold on to property right now in the north of New Jersey. So property values are in all time high and they're regularly high because of this. And you're saying the New Tower of Sox is going to be 2017, 2018 position, but 2020 opening, is 2017 the prime time to get rid of your property that has returned or what would like before it dates back to it, or will it be 2018 or 2020? Well, you know, I don't really know, obviously. And that's one of the things that Austrian theory makes us well aware of is that we cannot know such things with certainty. We can't know that we're in a bubble. We can be pretty clear that we're in a bubble. We can't know it. And I remember very vividly in from June of 2004. For the next couple of years, people were asking me, what do I do? I mean, total strangers would call up and say, you know, my wife is desperate to get into a house with, you know, enough room for washer and dryer and he's talking real low on the phone like someone's might might hear him. And I'm like, you know, what can I tell you? I mean, I can't tell you when it's going to go down, how much it's going to go down. If it's going to go down, there are a lot of factors which might mitigate the ultimate effect. And I would say, you know, real estate is continuing to go higher right now in most markets. And there's not a lot of reports at all that real estate is slowing down or going down throughout the economy. So it doesn't look like it's eminent, which is a good thing because I'm working on a book on all this stuff and it's not done yet. But I'm working feverishly on this book. It's going to be called The Skyscraper Curse and why Austrian economists have been getting the business cycle right for one century. Might have to shorten that title a little bit, but that's my working title. Thank you very much for your attention.


Alright, so hey guys, so we on a new segment, Talk of the Town, today we have a special guest, Nick Bucks. So, what's up? Nick Bucks wasn't feeling talk of the town for a little while. Yeah, we had beef, we had smoke. We had smoke though. We had smoke. It was smoke though? We had smoke. Okay, so, why was it smoke though? Nah, let me tell you, you know why it was smoke though? Because I felt like, like your platform, your platform, y'all supported me a lot. You know what I'm saying? Right.   Yeah.  I just felt like I jumped on it first. But, it's my full fulfillment type of way, cause like, we ain't got a personal relationship. So you don't really know my heart. You know what I mean? You don't know like what I'm on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm on to nobody. Nah, not for sure.  Nah, not for sure. Nah, but I did it. Every time y'all post me, I would post fast, you know what I'm saying? No, I ain't know some, in some way. Nah, nah, y'all just was one of the blogs. Posting a lot. No, y'all was one of the blogs I had love for, though. For real, cause y'all supported me.   But come on, man. I don't really hold up in the bar, man. That's what? So like, remember a lot of upcoming artists do follow us, too. So when that story came about, everybody tried to hit us with, oh, we got a similar story now. It's like, no, like, you know what I mean? Like it's on from like, if it's really true, man, you would say something. You wouldn't hit us up to say something, you feel me? Nah, nah, nah, look, no, so look, like you said a lot of upcoming artists, watch out. You say something for anybody who's in that predicament, though. When you reach out to somebody for a future or whatever, right? Especially if they, you know, they're showing love. Cause that was a situation that I would've never gained from. Neither way, financially or musically. I think it's an offer to pay, though. What? Be paid. Yeah, yeah, but I would've never gained from it financially. So my part of it, let me tell you what my mistake was. My mistake was me looking at the money like it was nothing. Like I'ma get to it, I'ma do it. Give me a second, I'ma do it. Not knowing that other people was not as financially stable as who they paid or who they gave it to. So that was my fault. That was the only thing I was mad about.  Cause it wasn't, yeah, and I was mad at y'all for, you know, y'all got a platform that people watch. And it was kind of like I tried to make an example. Out of me. And I'm not that example type, though I don't be into it with nobody though. Like. It wasn't really trying to make an example. It was more so that like a lot of artists do do that to other artists. No, that's true. Like I'm talking to you and other people, right? That's true, that's true. So what artists would try to do is they'll try to hit us up like, oh, such and such is getting paid. But they won't post about it. They'll just tell us and expect us to air it out. It's like, no, if he really did that, then you say something first and then we'll say something. Yeah. So he was one of the first to ever do that. People try to make it seem like you was doing that to them. But for us, it was more so like. People try to make it seem like I did it to them. Yeah. Well, not you per se. It's like it's happened regularly. So for us, it's more so we're just reporting, like, you know what's going on. So it wasn't really nothing towards you. It was more so like, I really wanted you to respond to it in the sense that, you know, we be busy.  You know what I'm trying to say? Nah. It wasn't really, it wasn't really that.  It was just like, nah, not that. It wasn't, it was just, I was more surprised because I thought that we had a little, I thought y'all supported me. Y'all supported the. We still do. Nah, for sure. But I didn't think y'all would want to do anything to put like a dent in it or, because I'm not that type. I don't be into with nobody, with nobody. I'm not really the. I don't be like heavy. You get what I'm trying to say? So when that came, I didn't really know how to handle that. Cause I, it was like, I don't. That was the first time it was ever some mixy publicity bond. For sure. For sure. I get that.  Yeah, nah, nah. To every artist. But you don't know what it is? It was like, not even, let's move on from after I say this. Yeah. I did a lot of, at that time I did a lot of features. So I was like, I was doing like this little special thing. I had, I was doing. A special thing? I forgot. Yeah, I was doing some special for the features. I had knocked out a bunch of them and I was, I was overwhelmed with doing that and doing neighborhood hold at the same time. So, you know, it just took a while and whatever. Yeah. I'm gonna get into the project. For sure. Appreciate you for still coming up, still showing up and still supporting us and things like that. Yeah. So moving on from that though. So, you know, how long would you say you've been doing music? Because, you know, people have been seeing you constantly. I feel like you've been super consistent over the years.  Since like full flesh, it was like 2013. So would that be like eight years? Eight years, personally, you know. Yeah. Like, like me really dropping videos and yeah, eight years. So how did you find your love for music? Or what would you say your earliest memory of music was?  So he used to take me with him while he's selling music. So I think that was like my first knowledge of music. You know what I'm saying? And then 50 came out and 50 the reason why I started rapping. So 50 is definitely one of the inspirations? Yeah, for sure. Who else has he listened to grown up? Dipset and 50. Mainly. Mainly, yeah. You wasn't really into the commercial of rap? I wasn't a lot of commercial rap. I'm not like the early 2000s. Hell no. I was already, I was already probably like, yeah, yeah, I was already over. Yeah. I was never doing or crank that Soul De Bois. I never would never make one of that. Yes, you've always been pretty lyrical. So how did like, how would you say you go about writing? I haven't wrote a rap in probably like, since like 2015. So I just freestyle.  Okay. You know what I mean? So you wouldn't go to the studio if you wasn't in the mood to record? No, I go. Sometimes I go to the studio and don't record. I just want to beat it. You know what I mean? The whole studio vibe, you put an inspire or something. However I'm feeling, you know, what I was around, the vibe, what I went through earlier, it was like what I probably went through with the female in my life or, you know, stuff like that. The drugs. Are you still smoking? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Well, does weed help with the music process? Yeah, a lot, a whole lot. But I could record sober too. Okay, okay. Okay, so let's get into your latest project, Neighborhood Holds. I know you dropped projects before that, though. Yeah. You want to speak a little about those projects? I mean, I feel like all those projects was like kind of like warm-ups, leading up to, you know, Neighborhood Holds and who I'm becoming.  I'm still like, you know, keeping up with it. So what inspired the title, Neighborhood Holds? I just feel like Holds Grant, his grind, how he came up, how he couldn't get a deal early on.   And that's what I mean in my block too. I'm like, you know, Holds, like, sure. Do you feel like you're getting overlooked? I feel like I get credit where I'm supposed to get it, as far as like people who love rap, who love real music. I think people acknowledge it. It's a whole new wave of music now. But I feel like the wave of music that's coming up now, when it was coming up, it was watching me. So that's why it's not hard for me to get, you know, features from up and coming artists and stuff like that. So this new sound and wave of music, they're not as lyrical as you, it's more so commercial and TikTok based kind of now. So do you feel like that's like a burden or you feel like that's a plus or do you feel like, what do you feel? It's a plus to somebody who could adapt, you know what I mean? You feel like you could adapt?  Cause a lot of some, like people like to say that. Nah, I could do it. I love it. I love how it sounds. I love the way it's going. I'm not upset about it. So what's one of your favorite songs on they put Hope? Tom's. Tom's is my favorite song. Okay. I feel like I touched on my life in a melodic way. I like the way the song fell. It's not too rapy. It's not too, you know what I mean? It's a balance. It's a balance. It's a balance. So what song do you feel like it's slept on on they put Hope? What's the song you feel like they need to really like listen or it might hit later on? The feel. When I got with G-EVIL. Okay. I feel like it was my least favorite and became my favorite. And a lot of people told me that too. Why was it your least favorite? Because it took me a long time to record. It was like one of them verses that took me like a month a month and a half to record. Yeah. But it was organic though. The things I was saying I felt like I wasn't trying to really rap. I was more of like telling the story or poetry kind of. Yeah. So then you also got the song with Benny Butchers and surf. So like how did some of those collabs come about? Well, like Beams relationships, you know what I mean?   So people love the corner gospel songs. Yeah. People love those tracks. What inspires those tracks? Or do you feel like you have to keep that going because so many people love them? Yeah. I was thinking about retiring it, but I can't. I gotta keep going. I can't. Yeah, I gotta keep going. No, you can't. I mean corner gospel music is one of those it's like whenever I'm in full rap mode whenever I go in and I rap straight through it's a corner gospel. OK.  No, I don't never plan it. Whatever vibe it is. Yep. So from where you was at when you first started music to where you are now, how do you feel like you improved musically? I feel like I see more. I've been around a lot. So it's different for me being 17, 18, stuck in the hood, not going nowhere, to now where I'm meeting millionaires. I mean, I'm around a lot of different things. And I feel like I just be lyrically and stuff like that. Lyrically for the most part. Yeah, cadence-wise, I know how to make a song. OK. You were just freestyling before? Yeah, I didn't really know how to format songs. I didn't really know how to do a hook and stuff like that. So are you really closer to producers and engineers or you check out different studios? Yeah, I'm pretty close with my engineers and my producers. I got producers that I could call when I needed certain things. OK. So you're definitely specific on when you go about recording. Right, when it's time to go in, it's time to go in. That's when I make my phone call. Yeah. So you speak that you've been through a lot of things. A lot of people don't know you definitely survived the shooting a while back. Yeah, yeah, years ago. So how has that empowered you to keep going? I mean, when you get another chance at life, you got to do something with it. Like, you can't really feel what God's playing. God's got a plan for you, you've got to figure out what you're going to do with it and just capitalize. So that's what I've been doing, just capitalizing and not taking life for granted. OK. So what's something on your bucket list? Like, what's something you want to accomplish as a music artist, especially being from New York? Call him to be exact? I got to do a song with Jay-Z, you know? Like before you like pack it up. Because I know the time probably getting there. I got to do one with him before he pack it up. Jay-Z? A lot of people say platinum plaques, a gold plaques. I mean, that's going to come. That's going to come, you know what I mean? But long as you like him and Jay-Z, you good? Yeah, because if I do a song with hope, I'm definitely going to get a plaque, though. You don't think so? Yeah. For me? Yeah, but I also feel like when Jay-Z do a song, it's just more so a stamp. It's like this artist really worked for this year. But you got to look at who you do songs with. Anybody who do songs with got their own success.  I got to get my weight up before I... So what is it, do you feel like you're lacking, if anything? I don't really think I'm lacking nothing. Probably my personality. Maybe I'm like real standoffish, though. You know what I'm saying? Anti-social? Yeah, anti-social standoffish. I'm not going over a relationship.    You feel me? I mean... It won't be organic. It won't be like, you know what I mean? People be wanting you to... So you got based on energy? Yeah, like all them features I got on my project, that's organic energy. That's nothing forced there, you know what I mean? That's why I was able to get them cleared and dropped. Okay. So you also did a song with little Dirk, too? Yeah. Was y'all energy or what? That was organic. Dirk came to the Bronx to do that. He ain't do that in Jungle City or Quad. You know what I mean? He came and pushed up. Okay. And then in the song, Voices with Stunna, right? You say it's like, you trying to talk to a guy, but they ain't hearing it. Explain what does that mean? It's like when I try to like, when I pray or whatever about on certain situations, and then fall through, like, you know what I mean? Like, if I'm praying for me and my nigga's safety and I lose one of them, you know what I mean? It's like, I'm talking to God, but he ain't really hearing. Or if I'm trying to pray, I'm praying for a better situation. Okay. You know what I'm saying? I mean, the homie is very specific. I feel like, you don't know what he's going through or so, but I get what you're trying to say. So do you feel like, so you definitely pray a lot? Yeah, absolutely. I pray every day. And is it for success? Is it for safety? Is it for like, I pray for, I pray for safety. I pray for success. I never pray, what I never pray for is money though. I don't pray for money. I pray for the opportunities, you know, to make it. With like, whatever happens. I think if you pray for money, you kind of ask it for too much, you know what I'm saying? I agree. So, what's one of your proudest moments so far? Like you did a lot in your career so far. Or something, like I did that. I feel like, I don't know. You got one, don't do that. No, I can't think about it. I really can't think about it because I don't really be happy with nothing though. Or one happy moment, like. I don't really be happy, I'm really satisfied. If it happened when Dirk pulled up on me to do that. Nah, yeah, that was tough. Yeah, yeah, when Dirk pulled up, that was tough. That was tough, I appreciate it. I feel like a lot of people when posting your project. Yeah, yeah, J.D.Kiss, J.D.Kiss, yeah, J.D.Kiss posted. Thank you. That was a proud moment, yeah, for sure. Okay, all right. And then some people say that you're underrated. What do you feel about that? I agree, I agree. I think I'm underrated. What does the term underrated mean to you though? Like why is it, what does the underrated term mean?   And they still don't acknowledge it. Like, you feel me, that's underrated. So you feel underrated? I feel like your songs go over what people had. Nah, for sure, but it's not, it's like, it's not for kids, one. It's not, I'm not really talking to it. If you didn't go through it, you're not really gonna understand. You're not really gonna feel.  Nah, for sure, for sure. So, so yeah, so what's your, you say your favorite song on the tape is, favorites? Let me ask you a question. What you think, what you think about my music though? Like, what you think?  My opinion? Yeah, your opinion. I feel like, I told you, I feel like, I feel like you should definitely interact with more people though. Nah, I'm talking about musically, not personally. Oh, musically, your music is dope. Okay. Your music is dope, it's not the music to me. To me, it's the, it's the personality, it's the footwork, I feel like, you should be on certain events, support other people, Nah, I'll be doing that though. I'll be doing that. I've never seen him. Nah, you know what it is?  It's just hard for me, cause I'm like, I'm like a person, I got like a good heart though. My heart's solid.  You can't save it for like music. Music, yes.  So it was like, if it's not genuine, if I can't really, if we, I can't really, from me listening to music, I see that you're definitely a music lover. I feel like you can't take music personally though. This music industry is like, 10% music, 90% business. So they only want to talk business. Nah, for sure.    Yeah, for sure. But you just have to, you don't have to, but make it work to, make it work for you. Don't make it work for them. Yeah. Like, people want to use you, use them. Nah, you right.   I'm not saying do songs with people that be lying. Nah, nah, nah, nah, I'm not saying lying.  Like boy, like he, he seemed like a solid nigga. You know what I'm saying? And when you, and our energy, not that though. You get what I'm saying?  That's why I don't go to- I feel like it's also timing too though. You think so? I feel like when you're meeting somebody at a bad time, it will put a bad taste in your mouth. Like, if you met somebody for the first time and they give you a wet vibe, you wouldn't want to meet them again. You'll be off that, you know what I mean? So I also feel like it's timing. Cause I've met people for the first time, it was bad vibes, see them again, it was okay, but you have to still not try to see them again, but you know, if it happens, it happens. Yeah, yeah. I'm not saying force anything, I'm definitely saying just- Nah, you're right though. I'm taking everything you're saying into consideration. It's not going through one head, not the other. I'm listening.  They often talk about you, you're not one that's left out when it comes to New York City artists. Shout out to your platform too, cause y'all definitely show love though, from, from, from, you know, whenever like the beginning when y'all started. Years ago. You know what I mean? So I definitely want to give a shout out to y'all and thank y'all publicly, you know what I'm saying? No problem, I definitely appreciate that. I feel like a lot of artists don't really see the worth in this now, but you'll see it like later on. Yeah, yeah, for sure. But yeah, tell the people where to find you, where to find your music. If you haven't listened to Neighborhood Holds. Make sure y'all go get it. On all platforms. Follow me at knickbuck, so on Instagram, Twitter at knickbuck, so everything knickbuck. Subscribe on YouTube too, I need like a, I need a hundred thousand subscribers. You just have 30k. I gotta help my viewers go up. You know what I'm saying? Let's start with y'all.