Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists

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  • @gmet12915
    @gmet12915 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4090

    I can't think of something that would be more annoying that having your house demolished to make way for a new road. Other than accidentally uploading a video to the wrong TH-cam channel.

    • @peterbellek1791
      @peterbellek1791 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Omfg lmao had me in the first half

    • @ireplytoeverything3122
      @ireplytoeverything3122 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Just put balloons on your house and have it fly away

    • @oriserban3590
      @oriserban3590 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      twice
      in a day

    • @1.4142
      @1.4142 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Or... Having your home planet demolished in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project for a hyperspace express route.

    • @jur4x
      @jur4x 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      OR loosing your luggage in Newark International airport

  • @jenroses
    @jenroses 2 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    A survey error meant that when my dad sold property once, the county kept billing him for an amount less than the cost of a stamp for a tiny sliver of land, for YEARS. Like they lost money sending out the billing notice.

    • @GunSpyEnthusiast
      @GunSpyEnthusiast 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      It's not about the money
      It's about the foney

    • @crazeelazee7524
      @crazeelazee7524 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      ​@GunSpyEnthusiast"It's not about the money z it's about making your life hell"
      ~Average city council

  • @interestedyt
    @interestedyt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1408

    For those confused with them comments: This video was uploaded to Wendover Productions first, leading many of us confused with a notification followed by unavailable private video

  • @joecary3586
    @joecary3586 4 ปีที่แล้ว +564

    9 out of 10 dentists agree that you can't have buildings on roads. The 10th dentist has has heard of the Gate Tower Building. It's a 16 story building in Japan that has a road running directly through it.

    • @catherinecat6182
      @catherinecat6182 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      the 10th dentist has also heard of the historic london bridge which was like 90% buildings with roads running through them

    • @1oldskoolluvr
      @1oldskoolluvr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ah, but you see Joe, that is incorrect. The building is not ON the road, the road is in the building.

    • @mhudzinski1
      @mhudzinski1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      However the railroad can run through the middle of the house according to a popular song of the 60's or maybe it was the late 50's, it runs together in my mind.

    • @FrozenBusChannel
      @FrozenBusChannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There was also a building with a trunk road going through in Hong Kong, sadly it was recently demolished

    • @GhostSamaritan
      @GhostSamaritan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_structures_built_on_top_of_freeways

  • @greentoadboy
    @greentoadboy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4343

    Heroes were here first, but legends watched this on Wendover.

    • @Nighthawk1000
      @Nighthawk1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      I'm happy I wasn't the only one to start watching it over there.

    • @valenAJP
      @valenAJP 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      He took it down but we are the legend xD

    • @flareon9371
      @flareon9371 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      True

    • @ftwtech
      @ftwtech 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      That’s what I was gonna say lol, even though I didn’t make it to the Wendover one in time. I did get the notification though.

    • @GrasshopperWithoutGrass
      @GrasshopperWithoutGrass 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I got the notif but it was private

  • @pepe20129
    @pepe20129 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2606

    This video was accidentally brought to you by Wendover Productions

    • @benjaminphelps561
      @benjaminphelps561 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Hes clearly stealing Wendovers content! I CANT BELIEVE THIS!

    • @Twebs12
      @Twebs12 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/KfZ45Z9P_Wc/w-d-xo.html

    • @shirlintan2791
      @shirlintan2791 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He made it private.
      Edit: Half As Interesting uploaded a Wendover Productions Vid but he also made it private.

    • @LevelCLC
      @LevelCLC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I noticed that too lol

    • @SKAOG21
      @SKAOG21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@saulg00dman_ yea dont watch this guy he literally uploaded the same video

  • @JustinY.
    @JustinY. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4423

    That moment when this video was uploaded by Wendover Productions first

    • @helpinee
      @helpinee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      sup justin

    • @aspacenerdfromflorida1134
      @aspacenerdfromflorida1134 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      hi justin, ur really early lol

    • @jankomann8728
      @jankomann8728 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      justin and Hai? weird

    • @smol_yote
      @smol_yote 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was just about to say

    • @MaximNightFury
      @MaximNightFury 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Watch him upload a Wendover video on here lol

  • @wilyriley_
    @wilyriley_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +992

    Anyone remember when this was on Wendover Productions?

    • @justsomepersononyoutube9271
      @justsomepersononyoutube9271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      He's just the nerd from wendover productions,great engineering and polly matter

    • @singh_z_king7350
      @singh_z_king7350 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I did

    • @JohnD201
      @JohnD201 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thought he could just sneak that by us...tsk tsk

    • @ArniSPeturs
      @ArniSPeturs 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ahhh so this wasn't déjà vu, it just wasn't him

    • @gangstascout3593
      @gangstascout3593 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      now he accidentally uploaded the new wendover video on hai lol

  • @mikaxms
    @mikaxms 4 ปีที่แล้ว +686

    When the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC is so interesting that it was uploaded by Wendover Productions, but then quickly taken down and uploaded by Half as Interesting.

    • @rvoight92
      @rvoight92 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      If only it had been titled the "Logistics of the Smallest Lot in NYC"

    • @Mr.HowardEatsPants
      @Mr.HowardEatsPants 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It was 3/4 as Interesting

  • @theknownsurvivor
    @theknownsurvivor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +582

    This man is gonna have so many stories to tell when he's a grandfather...

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The real question is- will he even marry to have a child in order to have a grandchild?

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@pulkitmohta8964 can you mary a aircraft?

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@sirBrouwer I think Sam would, given his love for planes

    • @kabochaVA
      @kabochaVA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      And if he gets Alzheimer's, his grandchildren will still find his stories on TH-cam...
      And if TH-cam removes his videos out of spite, they'll still find them on Nebula...

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kabochaVA What if they're taken out of Nebula too?

  • @AlienValkyrie
    @AlienValkyrie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +616

    Short answer: Because of the well-ordering principle; if there are any pieces of land and no two pieces of land are _exactly_ the same size, there has to be a smallest piece.

    • @OrangeShellGaming
      @OrangeShellGaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      That's not the whole story. You also implied that the set of pieces of land is finite (which it however is in this case). The set of all integers is well-ordered, yet no "smallest integer" exists. (Or maybe that's the well-ordering theorem, people including me seem to mix those two up)

    • @AlienValkyrie
      @AlienValkyrie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@OrangeShellGaming I think the well-ordering principle usually talks about natural numbers; something like "every nonempty set of natural numbers has a minimum". But you're right of course, we need to ensure that there cannot be an infinite sequence of pieces of land that are strictly monotonously falling in size.

    • @QuackersMcCrackers
      @QuackersMcCrackers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AlienValkyrie I like ducks:)

    • @Lysergic_
      @Lysergic_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@QuackersMcCrackers das crazy, any specific ducks?

    • @QuackersMcCrackers
      @QuackersMcCrackers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Lysergic_ Call ducks are nice, because they're soft and squishy and they're like white pieces of loaf c:

  • @kwowka
    @kwowka 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    In Perth, Australia there's a similar story. Except, the house that was supposed to be run over was a politician's mums, and she really cared about her rose garden. So, to this day, 100 years later, there is a distinct curve in the main road of the city that ruins the traffic flow.

    • @willd1790
      @willd1790 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Reminds me a bit of the story of how the BART train line through Oakland, California has an unusually tight turn in it because the mayor at the time of its construction had a friend who owned a hardware store that would've been along the path of the original plan for the line. Ever since, thousands of Bay Area denizens have to deal with their train slamming on the brakes to go around this corner, in an already congested part of the network and causing all sorts of slowdown and generally bad times.
      The hardware store closed less than a year after the line opened anyway.

  • @mkptrsn
    @mkptrsn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    He was minding his own business then had his land taken, I wouldn’t call him petty.

  • @joeym5243
    @joeym5243 4 ปีที่แล้ว +206

    Quite possibly the only place I could afford to live in Manhattan. With roommates. And rent control. Plus some "tax reorganization" Also would need a raise at work.

    • @andyjay729
      @andyjay729 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe the city of Portland, Oregon should consider a similar arrangement for Mill Ends Park. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Ends_Park

    • @fionam3554
      @fionam3554 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rent control alone could do it.... a woman died about 4 years ago. She had a cold water flat in Greenwich Village not far from here. Her rent? $28

    • @nikolnolastname4473
      @nikolnolastname4473 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fionam3554 what?!

    • @fionam3554
      @fionam3554 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nikolnolastname4473 showing the odd rent laws. She had been in there... 50 years or so? and her rent was locked in

    • @nikolnolastname4473
      @nikolnolastname4473 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fionam3554 28 still seems real low. I know someone thats been living in the same place for close to 30 years and the rent is low but $28 sounds insane.

  • @FlyingMozzarella
    @FlyingMozzarella 4 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    HAI:**shows "The Dimmsdale Dimmadome"**
    Also HAI:**pronounces it as "Dimmadrone"**

  • @frederickanderson6746
    @frederickanderson6746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +388

    Ever found it strange how most of these general knowledge channels have the same voice actor and upload around the same time? Not to mention that this was also previously uploaded on Wendover Productions an hour ago?

    • @peterbellek1791
      @peterbellek1791 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Wendover productions and Hai are run by the same person he doesn’t run any other channels that anyone knows about

    • @Ren_1090
      @Ren_1090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Wendover and HAI are run and narrated by the same person. He just has two channels that have similar content types but cover different topics.

    • @MarkAlcarezBoston
      @MarkAlcarezBoston 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@peterbellek1791 dude it’s a joke

    • @insightfultoaster2965
      @insightfultoaster2965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Half as Interesting steals videos from Wendover Productions. Unsubbed. Smh

    • @eustache_dauger
      @eustache_dauger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's the illuminati & the NWO for sure

  • @dalethepalemale6855
    @dalethepalemale6855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    - Government removes a man's private property against his will
    "Spiteful pettiness"

    • @RyanTosh
      @RyanTosh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      It's more of a Sale, Dale the Pale Male. It's a fun Tale, but to build the Trail they must be fair in their compensation, paying for every plank of Shale and iron Nail (better that than have it blow away in a Gale). While you might call it a Fail in terms of freedom, they don't just bulldoze it and Bail. If they did, they'd get sent to Jail. It might make him want to Wail, but to Impale his house makes it faster for them to Unveil a road to make it easier to Hail a cab. I'm going to stop now, as this is rather Stale.

    • @dalethepalemale6855
      @dalethepalemale6855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@RyanTosh Bravo, you deserve an Ale

    • @RyanTosh
      @RyanTosh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@dalethepalemale6855 I'd prefer Quail and a side of Kale

    • @RSAgility
      @RSAgility 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Zoinks! 🤣

  • @1brianm7
    @1brianm7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    This is a great Wendo--Half As Interesting video.

  • @economicsinaction
    @economicsinaction 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Disappointed the mosaic didn't read *"Hey!... I'm walking here"* in true NYC fashion

  • @AshLilburne
    @AshLilburne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    You guys are making me Wendover backwards for these videos

    • @844SteamFan
      @844SteamFan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lol

    • @leonhill8447
      @leonhill8447 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Best one yet.

    • @Very_Angry_Citizen
      @Very_Angry_Citizen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You win the internet today.

    • @RyanTosh
      @RyanTosh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Please stop, we've gone far enough.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    "starting with the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam-"
    *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*

  • @TheBlackRangerPL
    @TheBlackRangerPL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    That moment when you work hard on a new video but all everyone is talking about is that you uploaded it to the wrong channel :P

  • @dustin6804
    @dustin6804 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I walk by this all the time and once decided to look at the inscription and look it up. It is a very interesting hidden piece of history and showcases a great deal of integrity by David Hess not to loss his land for subway construction

  • @davebeach2343
    @davebeach2343 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I love this refusal to give in to a city that used emminent domain to take someone's property.

  • @LoganMeyers03
    @LoganMeyers03 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    "...Because 9/10 dentists agree you can't have houses on roads..." XD

    • @SuperBobKing
      @SuperBobKing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The 10th dentist has an RV.

    • @froglover4203
      @froglover4203 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Chinese disagree

    • @StewartLucrative
      @StewartLucrative 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You actually laughed at that joke?

    • @joecary3586
      @joecary3586 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The 10th dentist has heard of the Gates Tower Building in Japan.

  • @noahk258
    @noahk258 4 ปีที่แล้ว +281

    This video is brought to you by the overly-logistical people at Wendover Productions!

    • @Thomas0918273645
      @Thomas0918273645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The logistics of uploading a video to the correct channel

  • @randomnessrules4971
    @randomnessrules4971 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "Why the smallest piece of land in NYC exists"
    Plate tectonics, I assume.

  • @jomiar309
    @jomiar309 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The lead-in to Nebula was maybe the best segway in history.

  • @sigmoidbread430
    @sigmoidbread430 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    love how all the general knowlege ytbers all upload within a few hours of each other

    • @KingBossBob
      @KingBossBob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      wendover uploaded a similarly titled video a few minutes ago too

    • @Bryzerse
      @Bryzerse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@KingBossBob I know right, what a coincidence!

    • @amboss5072
      @amboss5072 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@KingBossBob he uploaded this video to wendover by mistake

    • @sigmoidbread430
      @sigmoidbread430 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yea I was watching the Chile one and then this one popped up in my recommended

  • @MarsCBG
    @MarsCBG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the real reason HAI videos have their logo in the thumbnail is so that they don't get uploaded to the wrong chanel

  • @1zero8dragon
    @1zero8dragon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    4:04 You said a man who followed the and lost in court to keep his own property was "A sign of New York pettiness." That's a bit of an unfair characterization, since the city took the property and failed to use the total property properly. Your critical of the bureaucratic laziness. Hess is a testament to pointing out the overreach of eminent domain and the waste of resources that city government can be guilty of causing.

  • @riliryrimaddyvia9630
    @riliryrimaddyvia9630 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    How I love that the narrator doesn't sound like his reading form a script.

    • @Homer-OJ-Simpson
      @Homer-OJ-Simpson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I love how he sounds nothing like the guy from wendover productions

    • @jaarya7
      @jaarya7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Even though he is

    • @mansoorahmed1256
      @mansoorahmed1256 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jaarya7 ReAlLy No I nEvEr KnEw

  • @Sriram-fd8fx
    @Sriram-fd8fx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Half as Interesting and RLL upload on the same day... this is heaven

  • @angryadrien
    @angryadrien 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This channel has the best writers ever.

  • @Flint_Inferno
    @Flint_Inferno 4 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    2:10
    "9 out of 10 dentists agree you can't have buildings on roads."
    Dentists prefer canals anyways. ROOT canals that is!

  • @zacksargent
    @zacksargent 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This man lived the plot to the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

  • @godsofgravity1171
    @godsofgravity1171 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    When ur waiting for it come on nebula but the first ad that appears is nebula

  • @cedricye1767
    @cedricye1767 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    *Uploads a HAI vid on Wendover
    *Uploads a Wendover video on HAI

  • @SuperPlayz
    @SuperPlayz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    When you forget what channel it was twice in a day.

    • @nuclearfox210
      @nuclearfox210 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was just looking for this comment

  • @runandsnipe
    @runandsnipe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    At 2:00 you said “The dimmsdale DimmaDROME” but on the screen it says The Dimmsdale Dimmadome”

    • @talkalexis
      @talkalexis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      1:58

    • @Sinberg
      @Sinberg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@talkalexis 1 minute 58 seconds 300 miliseconds*

    • @SraTacoMal
      @SraTacoMal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I prefer the Dimmsdale Dimmadromedary. That camel can hang 🐪

    • @ethanhayes7038
      @ethanhayes7038 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's going on the error video.

    • @insightfultoaster2965
      @insightfultoaster2965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      See. I told you guys. Half as Interesting is the worst youtuber ever!! I can't believe people compare him to my favourite, beautiful Wendover Productions.

  • @HAA0603
    @HAA0603 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love how he called LaGuardia Airport a dumpster fire, but doesn’t realize that Newark is nearby.

  • @superdestrier9160
    @superdestrier9160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love it when these videos come out at the same time as my break between classes.

  • @rogersledz6793
    @rogersledz6793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

  • @jamesvick59
    @jamesvick59 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    *insert unoriginal comment about the video being on Wendover first here*

  • @chris_cookies
    @chris_cookies 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I see what you did there Sam! Using a decimal format for square feet and a fractional format for square meters! 2:58

  • @kennywang1707
    @kennywang1707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Man, this guy seems like the kind of person who wouldn't loan you one of his seven pencils in class on test day, just because.

    • @cramer4506
      @cramer4506 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      His property was taken against his will, hard to imagine why he might be upset.

  • @DJdoppIer
    @DJdoppIer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I bet a similar sized plot of _"land"_ in Manhattan would sell today for about $50,000. And the realtor would tell you how it has "great potential". *XD*

  • @Hunterofalltrades
    @Hunterofalltrades 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Guy has his property in New York City stolen except for less than 4 square feet and writes a cynical sign about it
    Half as interesting: “spiteful pettiness”

  • @darknessblades
    @darknessblades 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Depending on the zoning regulations {if its for food/restaurants}
    You can technically set up a hotdog stand there.
    and nobody could ban it

    • @darknessblades
      @darknessblades 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Albert D A small cart then?

  • @Jason-se2xd
    @Jason-se2xd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Videos like these just make you go "hmm that's cool"

  • @sirswagger21
    @sirswagger21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    Actually, HAI's jokes are a handful of wet spaghetti, not the grid.

    • @honorarymancunian7433
      @honorarymancunian7433 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Seriously, Sam if you're reading this, please cool it with the cringey jokes. I'd much rather watch a video that's two minutes shorter but 100% less embarrassing.
      (Sorry for the shade.)

    • @ulaq
      @ulaq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@honorarymancunian7433 It's not even embarassing, they're meant to be sarcasms and word plays but he does it sooo much that it's like hitting a dead horse. Not special, not fun anymore. Almost schizophrenic even.

  • @andybrinegar8861
    @andybrinegar8861 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    “Yo. Make this farmland.”

  • @NightDocs
    @NightDocs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was there when Sam uploaded this to the wrong channel

  • @vtron9832
    @vtron9832 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how you quickly corrected your mistake.

  • @revmedia8108
    @revmedia8108 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Because it’s New York.
    Much love, your friends at Rev Media!!

  • @treelife365
    @treelife365 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The subtle jokes are so low-key, yet I find myself subtly laughing throughout!

  • @hannesgroesslinger
    @hannesgroesslinger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    the Hess triangle: *exists*
    David Hess: It's NOT free real estate!

  • @captainironbat8193
    @captainironbat8193 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's not petty. The guy just didn't want his house that he worked for to get destroyed because they wanted to build another road.

    • @RyanTosh
      @RyanTosh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's not like you don't receive fair compensation, though. He could just build it somewhere else. It's not very fun for him, but I guess it's better for everyone overall :/

    • @captainironbat8193
      @captainironbat8193 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RyanTosh I'm sorry, you don't get it.

    • @RyanTosh
      @RyanTosh 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@captainironbat8193 I understand where you're coming from, I agree it's not "petty" to not want your house destroyed for a road, but I think it's necessary and (from an economic standpoint) not too unfair to them

    • @captainironbat8193
      @captainironbat8193 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RyanTosh you don't need roads to get to places. Roads just make things easier. The wants of the many do not out way the few. When you brake that principal you end up with atrocities like The Trail of Tears, slavery, the Holocaust, ect... Just because people want something doesn't mean you have to strip someone of their rights because of it. That at the worst is theft. At the least bullying. And over all wrong.

    • @RyanTosh
      @RyanTosh 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@captainironbat8193 Our rights are only what we define them to be. In your eyes it might be a right to keep one's house, but I would disagree. I think it's a right to receive just compensation if something is to be done to the house, but if the losses are purely economic (rather than actual lives or suffering), I think it's more of a gray area.

  • @asaxthegamer5655
    @asaxthegamer5655 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    So, you uploaded to Wendover, and then took it down and uploaded it here. Nice job Sam

    • @HeenaPatel253
      @HeenaPatel253 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      They only care about money

    • @Sauce_E9
      @Sauce_E9 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HeenaPatel253 I’m confused why this is a problem, they’re both free to access TH-cam channels.

    • @Sauce_E9
      @Sauce_E9 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Albert D and he took it down immediately

  • @jakob7722
    @jakob7722 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For Real Life Lore fans, the triangle is 2% the size of a Toyota Corolla

  • @seanwilkinson8696
    @seanwilkinson8696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love stuff of this ilk. I want to purchase that triangle, plant a flagpole and erect a tiny embassy (maybe an old, refurbished public phone booth with a small stool), issue currency and passports/citizenship, and name it "New Western Bir Tawil", after the chunk of desert neither Egypt nor Sudan want, nor can anyone pay up, show up, and claim as a micronation because tons of international reasons.
    Either that, or dub it "Minerva Extra Dry", after the filled-in reef in the Pacific that was briefly a libertari-tax dodge by a guy from Las Vegas and some cronies, until word got round to Tonga, who set out with a crack expeditionary force in a Polynesian sailboat to remove the flagpole and warning flasher. (I love this tale, and you might even be able to find a Minervan $35 gold coin for sale online...)

  • @roscoechance5155
    @roscoechance5155 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do this series in a wendover voiceover style and you’ve got a winner

  • @jamessummers5946
    @jamessummers5946 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    last time I was this early, this video was on Wendover Productions

  • @gohmingyi4792
    @gohmingyi4792 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Petition to cover that mosaic with something that says "The mosaic below is covered both to preserve it and to use this land for public purposes."

  • @TheAtb85
    @TheAtb85 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Question: would owning a piece of property in NY allow for some weird law/tax shenanigans? has anybody tried anything in this regard?

    • @jamesshaw3500
      @jamesshaw3500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      It actually works against you... most business try not to be in new York.

    • @BalderOdinson
      @BalderOdinson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Malachai Carter Alot of businesses are incorporated elsewhere and just have offices in NY. It's like commuting, but for taxes.

  • @secondlieutenan
    @secondlieutenan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why would a university want that? I mean, it’s just a tiny triangle.

  • @jdu7729
    @jdu7729 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I first read "Property of the Hesse state" and got excited...
    Now I'm
    disappointed that we don't own a tiny part of NY :(

  • @TheInselaffen
    @TheInselaffen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yoink, not Yeet, Sam.

  • @_AvaGlass
    @_AvaGlass 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    2:17 Glad to see the subtitles spell “thicc” correctly.

  • @Zaid1780
    @Zaid1780 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now Hai uploaded a Wendover video, but it was taken down in seconds

  • @calpmaar9520
    @calpmaar9520 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This video is sponsored by Wendover Productions

  • @toast6494
    @toast6494 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Imagine accidentally walking over the triangle and getting arrested for trespassing

  • @debated8358
    @debated8358 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    So are we getting the other video that got set to private today or not?

  • @pkj6684
    @pkj6684 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    that moment when you realize that 2 videos from this guy today was set as private

  • @CPL02Victor
    @CPL02Victor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    7 mins late and I already missed the new 5 mins funnier than usual wendover production video

  • @900108Chale
    @900108Chale 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd say *Nebula* should buy the NYC infamous triangle and replace the message now saying:
    *NEVER beaten by TH-cam's Algorythm.*

  • @caleb.z
    @caleb.z 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    HAI: "You can't have buildings on roads."
    You just gave everyone who makes cursed images an idea.

  • @2020davidg
    @2020davidg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am struggling over who does the best video voice-overs... you or the Webflow guy. Either way... great job!

  • @LinksSpaceProgram
    @LinksSpaceProgram 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Tfw you upload the video on the wrong channel and quickly make it private and hope people don't notice

  • @scottsloop1402
    @scottsloop1402 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This has the best HAI chuckles I have seen so far

  • @Tim.Stotelmeyer
    @Tim.Stotelmeyer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A thumbs up for 'The Dimmsday Dimmadome" at 1:57

  • @alastairhewitt380
    @alastairhewitt380 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The sold for $100 literally gave me chills.

  • @scottwarwick7514
    @scottwarwick7514 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:22 - wow!

  • @MosheKatz
    @MosheKatz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Technically it wasn't sold to Yeshiva University. When the property owner died, it (along with lots of other property) was left to YU in her will. They had no use for it so they sold it.

  • @cowboymooman8776
    @cowboymooman8776 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1:06 this joke is incredibly complicated

    • @alarikaguilar7543
      @alarikaguilar7543 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      😂😂😂 shout out Silicon Valley!!

  • @alarikaguilar7543
    @alarikaguilar7543 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    1:07 😂😂😂 shout out Silicon Valley!!!

  • @NeoZondix
    @NeoZondix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:30 small hands. Omg that's a good one.

  • @aesculetum
    @aesculetum 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Disliking having one's property stolen is now pettiness.

  • @LonelyRacoon
    @LonelyRacoon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Only OG fans know this was first uploaded on Wendover Productions

  • @OzyTTv
    @OzyTTv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’ve watched this 2 times now, once on wendover, and one on hai lol

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    NY: *I’m walkin’ oveh he’e!*
    Hess: *No, I’m walkin’ oveh he’e!*
    NY: *No, I’m walkin’ he’e!*
    Hess: *No, I’m walkin’ he’e!*
    NY: *No, I’m walkin’ oveh he’e!*
    The rest is history.

  • @Deadlyish
    @Deadlyish 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The other 1/10 dentists remembered that mobile homes are a thing.

  • @adrielsebastian5216
    @adrielsebastian5216 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Small apartments, small bodegas, small ex-mayor, _small hands_
    Oof, that burn

  • @howardhouse8936
    @howardhouse8936 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude your comedy this episode was on point

  • @AK_.
    @AK_. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Wait, I've seen this one"

    • @The360MlgNoscoper
      @The360MlgNoscoper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What do you mean you’ve seen this one, it’s brand new!

    • @mansoorahmed1256
      @mansoorahmed1256 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s an old classic

  • @ChakatNightspark
    @ChakatNightspark 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Problem with Nebula. If you want to make it a Streaming Service. It would be Free like youtube is. Have ad space in front of videos or let Content creators Put Ads into their videos.
    That is the problem. Why spend like 15 a year or more a year. when TH-cam is Free.

  • @leslieferrao269
    @leslieferrao269 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How I wish I owned that piece of priceless Triangle in the middle of New York City.

  • @zakiducky
    @zakiducky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember combing through those pink city surveys/ maps back in college for some of my projects. Good/bad times.

  • @JamesXYWang
    @JamesXYWang 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    “Big dumpster fire”
    surprised they didn’t show a picture of MetLife stadium

  • @williamhalsted4
    @williamhalsted4 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    3:29 My favorite HAI joke ever.