Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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Saudi Arabia’s plan to build a 170km long, 500m tall, mirrored city in the desert as one of their megaprojects filled with 9 million people has now been curtailed to 2.4km long.
According to Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia’s government has “scaled back its medium-term ambitions” for Neom, of which The Line is the most significant sub-project.
The Saudi government had hoped to have 9 million residents living in "The Line" by 2030, but this has been scaled back to fewer than 300,000, according to the new report.
This curtailment of plans comes as Saudi Arabia has not yet approved the 2024 budget for Neom, according to Bloomberg sources.
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patrick do you think SolanaBra and the BlockHashish crew will defeat NFIce-T in this years crytorapcon?
I'm a little leery, signing up for a plan called Delete Me... I mean, what if they're successful!?... 😯
You should've chosen a better sponsor name for this video.
Do you think musk will propose rockets for public transport instead of hyperloop?
He has presented rockets as replacement for normal airliners.
please blart my paul
Regarding the transportation problem of making 412 stops in 20 minutes, the obvious person they should consult is Santa Claus, who has been doing this sort of thing for many, many years now.
Unfortunately, I believe Santa is banned in that Kingdom.
Well Santa isn’t futuristic so nah, it won’t do them any good.
Math intervenes.
I have on good info that they have in fact secured a contract with Santa for him to pull the train with his sled.
Killer comment
“Location isn’t everything in real estate, I’ve been told it’s only one of three factors.”
Brilliant phrase
I was rolling
In this case, the 3 factors are all broken
location location location
What are the other two?
@@nidhishragav location. and location again
"The city would then naturally form a line, as it tries to get away from itself" 🤣
At least it has the courtesy to queue.
😂😂👍
I lost it here too 😂
Best line in the whole vid 😂
Hjhhuhhhhhbbhhhhhhhbhhhhbbbhhhhhhjh7jjhssî@@esterhudson5104
This sounds like the setting of a YA dystopian novel from the early 2000's.
"Welcome to the Line, a hot and dry place where robots rule, and humans seek their fortune by abusing the underliners like us. Here's your duffel bag and key to everything."
Definitely a good setting for a Judge Dredd story.
Written by an author with a hyphenated last name and two very sad eyes
@@AngryBoozerDredd didn't have giant walls people lived in as far as I know, and people in there live in any weird nook they find.
Bedouin tribes on the horizon would be fun in a YA novel.
To be able maintain such a high level of sarcasm for 32 mins has to be respected.
Clever!
Maintain is a good word in this context, just think about the maintenance costs for this kind of project. Not easily accessible if your walls start crumbling after 10 or 20 years or some minor stuff like quick window cleaning.
it takes a line of coke in the sand.
The people of his island are known for their dryness, probably to make up for being wet all the time.
I suspect that the prince is maintaining his sarcasm for years, because all these over-the-top things, these fighting AI robot hologram dinosaur teacher NFTs, cannot possibly be anything but a satire of western techno-optimism.
With six times the population density of Manila, "I feel there would be a real sense of community there"
😂
🤌🏽
😂😂😂😂😂
Yea, a real good sense of "smell"
and don''t forget all the robot "people"
having a sponsor called delete me while critisizing saudi is peak comedy
Didn’t you listen to 1 word he said? He is totally in for the project. If you believe that line wouldn’t work, you are probably a pessimist. Get a life man 😂 /s (means I was being sarcastic)
@@davranbekrozmetov9425 yeah, this project is 100% reasonable and achievable. anyone who says otherwise is just scared of the future
"Black-bag and dismember your private data! It will never be seen again or else somebody's getting dissolved in a barrel of acid!"
@@adamh1228 the line is the future! maybe as we get more advanced we'll be able to make our cities in more advanced shapes than a line! maybe we can build a city in a circular shape one day!
I just laughed out loud! I really did, not just the usual nose exhale, a full guffaw of a laugh.
"the city will naturally form a line as it tries to get away from myself" I AM DECEASED
In a video full of winning lines, that was the winningest
"if the first builiding is in a questionable location, it makes sense for the one next to it to be a bit away from that location."
Swift-level satire unlocked. Brilliant line.
I'm still laughing at that line.
OMG, PB just KILLING IT. He should do a nightly show. This is funnier than Comedy Central.
yep
no, it will make him boring. He needs time and topic.
Yep, you just need to be dry enough to catch all of his jabs.. He is literally only financial guy I still watch. Humor being one of the reasons..
Why tf do you want to ruin him? Nightly shows are terrible b/c they are nightly, the turnaround is too quick for quality stuff to have any chance of being produced.
It's the lack of forced studio audience reactions that make it work for me. He isn't getting interrupted every few seconds because the network has to tell you which bits are the funny ones.
I think DeleteMe was the perfect sponsor for this
😂😂😂
I have no doubt whatsoever that Patrick thought it too and would not be surprised if he gave them the spot just because.
Who thinks Patrick contacted them instead of the usual other way around ?
MBS would agree
DeleteMe sounds like it could have been an old Twilight Zone episode - "Be careful that you don't check the wrong box"
'It makes sense that the city would form a line as it tries to get away from itself". Brilliant.
The sarcasm with this is on another level.
@@personzorz oops 😬
The ironic bit is Saudi sensors would let this slide even knowing he's mocking them.
Location is only one criterium, the other two escape me right now.
Perfect.
No idea what you are talking about.
No way.
That was the most sarcastic half-hour I ever spent in my life.
Brilliant! I am starting to watch for a second time ;)
And it was GLORIOUS!
The script writes itself. I swear its not that hard.
Yes, in terms of sarcastic content, I think Patrick even outdid himself with this one.
It was so tongue-in-cheek, he looked lopsided.
The only thing dryer than the Arabian desert is Patrick Boyle's humor
I think he is neck to neck with Sabine Hossenfelder. It might be a tie!
😂😂😂
'Drier' is an adjective that describes something that has been dried. 2. 'Dryer' is a noun that refers to a machine used to reduce the amount of moisture in fabric or other material.
It's so dry, Saudi Arabia tried to build a city on him.
@@freemanz4051 Thank you for the reminder. And you must be the town crier I suppose. ;-)
An often overlooked advantage of constant video surveillance is how you won't lose your keys anymore, you can just go back and watch your own video feed to see exactly where they dropped
Be quick though, not all surveillance operators are of the honest type and could get there before you.
Patrick is low-key the funniest RUclipsr. Rap and rapping is the best gag ever
I wish he'd concentrate on the rap and not get distracted by this stuff on finances and very positive reviews of the Great Idea of the Saudi Crown Prince
He’s the norm Macdonald of investment
It is delivered in such a way that I cant stop laughing
Gang Gang!
I would listen to him rap about finance and the Saudi Crown Prince's great ideas.
So happy you did NOT criticise anybody, and avoided ANY sarcasm!
You mean avoiding the sarcasm of bringing in a sponsor called "delete me" while talking about a guy that was dissolved in a bathtub?
@@carlbenz9807 Absolutely correct!
Yes, very dry, and much appreciated for its complete lack of any criticism or sarcasm.
Sarcasm was actually so unbearable that I couldn't watch more than few minutes
@@inemanjathis is certainly not the channel for you then, the deadpan delivery and sarcasm overdose is half of patricks brand
"NEOM aims to have zero work or stress-related diseases with residents all working at start-ups." I've never burst out laughing that loud in a while.
Yes, startups. Each more upstart than the last. I'm tellin' ya, the internet won't know what hit 'em!
"technology"
I did the same the the farmers traveling line 😂
They plan to fund the startups from the little pots of gold at the end of rainbows. Cynics might point out that they don't have any rain, but they simply don't understand the vision!
Is the joke that startups are actually super stressful to work at, or is it that employees at start ups do nothing?
It's wonderful to hear that the universities of Saudi Arabia can educate all those people to work in all those startups.
LMFAO good one
OK, I've never seen this channel before; I'm definitely not a financial person. I clicked the video because I'm fascinated by how big of a fantasy this project is. Kinda a modern update of the "House of the Future" I saw at the '64 Worlds Fair, but gone horribly wrong. I was promised flying cars back then, and now I'm 70 and still waiting. However, it didn't take long for me to realize that this straight-laced typical CPA-type boring dude was, in reality, a totally deadpan comedian. Fantastic vid got me smiling all through. Thanks!
I had a lot more fun when was a twentys child living in the seventies than I do living as a seventies child living in the twenties
You might be disappointed by his library of videos then, they're mostly about his rap.
@@raymillard6457 Don't get nostalgic for the past. You miss being young, not living in the 70's. I lived through the very end of the disco era. It sucked. I miss being young too but I'd rather be young now.
WHERE'S MY ROCKET PACK??
Patrick is telling us that this is insane and a big fat lie. Sort of like Elon Musk and Mars.
"Getting on and off the hyper loop is a young man's game." This man is freaking hilarious.
That one KILLED ME!!!
I cried...😂😂😂
@@camillaholst7321 RAAAHAHAHA!
Rather than constant acceleration and deceleration, maybe you'll be fired from the train like a Helldiver:
ruclips.net/video/tYd4ll76ACE/видео.htmlsi=b1MUsIFmve2oQ7jn
Best advertisement video ever! After watching, I immediately cancelled my Space X Rocketship Mars booking and bought a flat at NEOM!
Me too😂
That would make Elmo sad but can you consider buying a weekend house on mars for exiting adventures?
We could be neighbors?
I'm going one better and will be living full time in the metaverse version of Neom thanks to my Neuralink implant. my body will be somewhere cheap, being looked after by lackeys
I’m waiting for Neom to be built on Mars out of repurposed Starship rockets.
This is peak RUclips. Cannot be topped, and is what creators aspire to produce.
Patrick is transcending RUclips genres now. Categories like "Finance" and "Comedy" can no longer accurately describe his content; he's in a category of his own now.
Rap Music
fin com!!! aloha fr hawaii!
@@seansillah2703 rofl, ty, well played good sir
CryptoRapNews, as he likes to put it
...finanomedy?
Hats off to whomever sold the original concept. Definitely a better salesperson than your average monorail seller.
Its easy to sell the concept, esp when the buyer has only money but no brain
Or Hyper loop...😂
You do know where the sand for the "Palm Jumeirah" came from, right?
'the North Sea'. apparently those grains are better for sustaning 'Island' structure..
- said the dutch engineer to the man living in a desert.
Well they got the "N" and "O" in there from "North Haverbrook" and "Ogedenville". The plot thickens...
Now I have The Simpsons monorail song in my head.
When I first heard about this project, I thought it was a scam or a joke.
After seeing them put more than zero effort into building this, my faith in humanity is restored... never underestimate the incompetence of humans, especially rich ones.
No, they already start to build
@@LH1xx - Yes I know, I said that in my comment. Perhaps you could work on your comprehension.
I know rich can build everything,but only smart 🤓 rich can put everything right.😂
He knows nothing he's a paid bot. If you review the comment section replies, you'll find him in each and every comment disagreeing with the project@@warpeace8891
never underestimate the power of a lie. They are obviously lying to us, so I revert to my question above, "What are they actually building out there?"
😂 This whole video can be a Netflix comedy special. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant!
I like how you offended Saudi Arabia's royalty and then did an ad for "Delete Me."
Makes this a 'high risk' video for him . . .
He had me on the bitcoin gangsta rapper aspiration.😂😂😂
To be fair, "sunlight and access to salt water" are pretty good amenities compared to a Mars colony.
The presence of air would also be comforting.
😂😂🤣🤣👍👍
and donuts are better eatin than human shit. What in the fuck kind of comparison is that? 🤡
"sunlight and access to salt water" = desalination plant? 🤔
The "Visitors"😅 Disney Land😅
There are many things that science cannot explain in this video, but by far the most unexplainable is how Patrick managed the entire video without breaking in histerical laughter.
A ton of practice and multiple takes, no doubt. The result is definitely worth it!
Years of practice!!!
He is a hedge fund manager so this goes with the turf.
Deadpan is killer.
It’s all in the editing.
You know, I was pretty dubious about Neom, but you've explained it so beautifully, all I can say is 'SIGN ME UP!!' 😃😃
Patrick just made a joke using an assassinated journalist then sold an ad spot for a software company called "Delete me" without batting an eye. Absolute Legend.
Notice how nobody, who promised to avenge Kashoggi, did anything for this? They had berated idiot Trump for years, and yet have done exactly nothing.
MBS is busy right now looking for an app called "Delete Patrick". It is really sad this was probably his last really positive, not in the least critical video.
Not batting eyes seems a core competence of his
Dude, this is some championship professional-grade sarcasm, right here.
It's impressive that someone could speak so clearly, for so long, with his tongue in his cheek the whole time.
.... and with minimal blinking... 👁️👁️
But he’s from Dublin ..it’s second nature 😂😂
They can put all the so called refugees in there.
And with no information
Google Professor Irwin Corey
This guy cracks me up.
He always sounds like he's just blown up the house and is now relating the fact that unbeknownst to his, TNT really is finicky about being around fire.
the wit of the host is astounding. I love the deadpan delivery. In thirty minutes, he managed to dismantle the "pipe dream". The arrogance, avarice, and hubris of this project and its "consultants" exposed in less than one hour without smiling one time. Pure genius. Kudos to you Mr. Boyle.
A literal pipe dream
I. Agree the comment so witty!
Tribal religious people living in an extreme tech city is pure madness
This is taller than Empire State building. One building costs $50-150M. You'd fit around 90 Empire State in 1.5 miles. Do the math. This will cost Trillions to tens of trillions of dollars. I hope the prince got that much money.
Read a book
@@veronicanicholls7132- Or David Niven's Ringworld
"Saudi Arabia hosting the Asian Winter Games" is the single best description of our current distipia.
It's spelled Dystopia.
Also, I would love to hear about how the Saudis managed to convince people to host Winter games (games that typically involve snow/ice or otherwise cold environments) in the middle of a scorching desert
@@dx-ek4vr
Their embassy staff are very persuasive.
@@dx-ek4vrBecause simply put, you guys keep ignoring the climate of Saudi Arabia. The “scorching heat” is in the middle and east part of Saudi. Not the Northern/Northern Mountain part where it does get really cold and it snows in there. There is where they will do the winter games.
@Salman-pq5bq hey bud I got a bridge to sell ya!!!
There are some parts which have snow.
I lost it when he was describing how the trains would have to run in order to meet their promise of traveling the whole city in 20 min. Pure comedy gold! 😂😂😂
They could just run a whole heap of separate lines you could just catch a train to the nearest major station take the lift to whatever train line you need to go to to get to where you need to go and then catch that train, they could have a maglev vacuum train for the longer runs, if they all stop at one end or the other they could just put some breake away glass or something for if there was a leak at the other end so any pods pushed out at the speed of sound by the inrushing air could shoot harmlessly off into the desert, it would save on having all the emergency hatches etc which would inevitably leak and require a lot of energy to continuously pump down the vacuum.
It is the most hilarious thing I watched in a while
"It would take 206 minutes, which is *a bit* more than 20" I lost it at that 🤣
"Getting on and off the hyperloop within that two second window is a young man's game. You have to be in the prime of life to be able to handle the G forces as it accelerates to Mach 3 and then slows to a full halt 412 times in a single 20-minute journey. It's not really for me either." 🤣🤣🤣
Extreme over-thinking 😅
The driest, most sarcastic, witty, Ironic and satyrical doccie ever. May i suggest applying for the space x martian mission...will be the only place you are safe 😂😂😂😂😂. LOVE YOUR WORK!!!!!!
"2 seconds to get on and off the train before the train goes roughly 3 times the speed of sound" holy shit I nearly pissed myself laughing.
Come on now, follow through: keep a straight face.
😂😂
It’s really insane how a RUclips video is more thought out than a project by an actual government
Musk managed to get California HSR cancelled just by proposing a totally flawed and unworkable idea
A government where a king is head of state and uses religion to dictate laws. So there’s that ….
They no government man ... They have nothing but oil? To sell ex ex ...
Well said!!
that because you weren't invited to the embassy...for some ferrors...
Oscar Wilde once said: “Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor, but the highest form of intelligence.” Sometimes there is nothing to add.
Wit*
It's what undermines the power of tyrants from within, it helped take down the Soviet Union, it also brought an end to the Victorian Era.
It's also what will take down the Marxists/Zionist in control of the Western World today, why do you think they attack comedians and censor the internet/social media for?.
This would be that time
Can you please quote from someone more important to the rest of the world than your western poets???
@@villageboy3316
Unlike Western Philosophy, Eastern Philosophy never reached the point of Epistemology. You're using Western Technology speaking a Western Language. Move to the east if you love it so much (you won't).
The diagram at 12:17 shows a metro line and a separate express line. The bigger issue is that the freight line is the same size as the metro line. Suppling millions of people with one train line could have some problems
The train speed explanation is just pure comedy gold!
I almost died laughing! 😂😂😂
@@jimmyjames7809 I wasn't far off... Lost my breath for a moment!
Too be fair, if they ran 8 trains simultaneously, they could run 4 each way and stagger the stops so each train stopped every 4 stops. Or, they could have 2 express lines that only stop a handful of times on the route and then slower trains that handle transport between stops.
@@EcnalKcingood point, then they only have to hit Mach 1
Dear Boyle,
It is pleasure to host you as guest of honor at the Saudi Royal Embassy.
Be sure to provide a substantial supply of Ferrero Rocher
😂😂😂
I mean, it's been a while with no post, no?
No a joke… already happened.
Always some so called Arab trying to take a dig. Nothing new
To accelerate to 3 times the speed of sound in 1 second then decelerate to 0 in 1 second requires +95.6G for 1 second followed by -95.6G for 1 second (times 412 if one wished to travel from one end to the other).
A young man’s game indeed
I’d much rather get caught in the door
i mean... there is evidence people CAN survive that... i think there was a F1 (or other high end racing) driver that survived a crash and maxed out his accelerometer in his helmet at like 100g, guy went from 200 mph to 0 in like 6 feet.
@@adamh1228but that was an extreme circumstance of a major crash in a high intensity professional sport and a one-off event. Imagine ordinary people experiencing that 412 times in a 20 minute train journey.
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 but patrick DID list that there would be genetic engineering to make people stronger. maybe thats how that will all work. gotta be optimistic here guys! its going to cost 100 trillion, everyones going to have to take one for the team
@@adamh1228 *412 for the team
Maths has never been MBS strong suit.
This city is what happens if you give a five year old crayons.
I absolutely disagree. No child ever would come up with a straight line. You need well educated people to come up with something that stupid.
@davidzoller9617 as someone else once said, they're not well educated, just expensively educated.
@velvet1865Trump is a sensational idea…and Musk’s Starlink is epic..
Or a spoiled Prince access to pharma grade recreational drugs
often they do draw more circles or squares, youger kids do draw lots of lines
The train math is one of the funniest things on the Internet 😂
It would work if they pivot into VR.
Too funny 😂, his funniest vid for a while
Yep I started laughing at that point. They never said that the 30 min journey would be a train ride from hell.
I almost drowned while drinking beer
I literally started crying. Best laugh I've had in a long while!
I don’t understand the negativity so many people have about this project. I was enthralled by the positivity of this obviously factual news report. Thank you!
It's only humans that don't like the project
@@El_Nombre-e3x darn those pesky humans!!
@@LeafSoulsSarcasm.
@@psychokitty7268 sorry didn't notice "obviously factual news"
@flaror3496 Yeah. We all do that occasionally. I like the /s to clarify your intent..
It's the 200m wide that gets me...every time...just imagine the daily commute to work...
This place could really give the phrase "I live on the other side of town" a whole new meaning.
😂
Or: On the wrong side of the tracks.
😂😂
In China, there's one, but it sits along a small river, and it's in the midst of a canyon, probably the Middle East case got the inspiration from that one, taken " on sqyare" technologically. Take a look at Chongqing to learn more.
I can’t be the only one who initially thought the sponsor was a joke about what’s definitely not gonna happen to Patrick since he’s such a staunch advocate for this incredible project
Make sure they don't Riyadh your data to their lists
+1
Finally, someone who sees the full potential of this glorious future for humanity
Only for the rich
Saudi bot?
Lmao
Exactly. Got to love the visions of them Saudi princes. Enlighted ones.
I almost spilled my cofee reading this 🤣
Your videos are getting funnier and funnier each time! I used to had a bit of trouble to fully see your videos, however this ironic and sarcastic tone that you have adopted makes them really entertaining! Great job!
As someone who employs deadpan humor as part of my normal communication, I can only tell you that this is humbling and wonderful.
Yeah he is a bastard to follow. Peace amigo
Same here. I was crying because I had to laugh so hard, while shaving. Patrick was literally about to kill me.
So dry I need Chapstick
"Forming a line to get away from itself" is possibly the most hilarious burn yet. "You got Boyled!" is my new thing I yell at the screen
Brilliant his name,his sponsor really matches today's video just perfection 😂
Imagine if his surname was 'Bowle' instead.
Raise your hand if you knew upfront that this thing was never gonna happen.
I'm too lazy, I raised my thumb! :)
Personally I was hoping they would sink more money into it
The high paid architectural and engineering design consultants knew from day 1. LOL
I was hoping they would really go all out and make it happen.. that being said, the amount of resources required is probably mind boggling.
I think it was obvious it would fail but I was hoping they’d at least try it just to give the world a perfect capitalist science fiction dystopian city to watch from afar.
That is my favourite RUclips video ever 😂 thank you
I really enjoy Patrick's enthusiasm towards the project. You can really tell his heart and soul is in it.
Hahahahhaa... ❤
👍👍👍🤣🤣😂
Describing how the train would work had me in tears 😂
What was it again. Twice the speed of light. 2 seconds to jump on and off the train.
@@ofusowre7620 no, a mere three times the speed of sound
It's a bit silly; express stations are a thing. But the whole project is so ridiculous I'm fine with mocking it.
@@benoithudson7235 express stations may be a thing but physics might object to the 20 minute claim from start to finish.
I love the idea.... This is a acid induced hallucination rite?
Or can I actually get laid to say this can be built?
I have an awesome bridge for sale that'll work very good for this place.
Literally 2 seconds to get on or off a Mach 3 train is the best part of this video and a GREAT IDEA.
You could add razor-sharp edges to the doors to stop people clagging them up ;)
It is actually the DUMBEST argument against the line, I’m afraid.
Clearly the script written by someone who has never seen a functioning rail network. New York City subway launched local and express trains along the same route in 1939. And Shanghai-Beijing line sometimes makes only 2 stops over a 1300km distance. Actually building a 170km straight line train with pre-existing right of way is shockingly cheap.
yeah... and the problem is so easy to see and to calculate. Says a lot about the quality of our leadership nowadays. Total degeneration.
Reminds me of a machine-gun...
His humor is drier than the land Neom is supposed to be built on.
This man is amazing. His ability to do this video with a straight face and not having a video cut every three seconds is amazing.
Hahaha yea
I just found this channel and am blown away it’s the first time seeing him. he’s so fucking funny and well spoken and I actually learned something??? sold
My husband do the same..talk and talk and talk🤣
his ability to not blink even though his eyes are forcefully wide open is also impressive
lol right?
To keep that level of sarcasm up for the full 32 minutes deserves 100 upvotes! I have watched it several times now. Great job !!!
Very englisch like
He is a legend ❤
I was waiting for him to get real
"Getting on and off the hyperloop in that two second window is a young man's game" LOL!!
Actually this system already exists between Beijing and Tianjin for 20 years. The fastest train is 20min end to end, but there are hundreds of slower trains that stop more or less often along the way.
@@DominikPlaylistsThey only stop for 2 seconds? Sounds safe
@@ansatsusha8660 for the people who have never heard of Europe, China, Japan, or Korea. You take the high speed train to travel 130km in 20min, then you transfer to a mid speed train to travel 15km in 10 min, then 5min metro to your apartment above the subway station. Yes the trains do depart every 10min so you will have 5min transfer on average. And yes, Egypt is also building high speed rail along its 1100km linear city, the Nile, right now.
@@DominikPlaylists So the system described by Saudi Arabia does not exist. They state they're going to build a train going faster than all other current trains, even if you assume no stops. I understand how there are local, slower trains and high speed trains for long distances.
@@DominikPlaylists and if there say even 5 stops, this would take up probably 2 min and require extra time for acceleration, making it even more infeasible. Remember, this is supposedly over 170 km, not just 130.
Imagine living in a city where, no matter where you are, you're never more than a hundred meters away from a high speed rail line that's running at high capacity 24 hours a day.
The only thing longer than this city is the unbroken length of sarcasm for 32 minutes.
I wanna know how many takes it took for Patrick to film this video without smirking
@@idriveastationwagon1534It really is the delivery that makes it so good.
You can watch it on the travel to the other end and will not complain if travel is delayed.
Bloopers reel please
I love when Patrick starts talking like a dad that's fed up with his kids
"Crown Prince. Your 9-years old son seems to be a smart boy."
"Great. I'll make him design a new city on the desert"
and a cyber-truck.
with the amount of ferro roche offered, i might not be able to resist the invitation
I, like Patrick, see absolutely zero issues with this construction plan and agree this is in no way a terrible use of government money 👍
Agree. It’s visionary. The kind of vision I had in ‘71 when someone spiked my drink with acid.
Actually the Chinese built a 23 million people startup city of Shenzhen in 20 years and it was the best investment in the history of China :)
In oil states "yet to approve the budget" is code for "we don't have the money."
Doesn't anyone notice that this Neom is designed to be a prison? Trying to escape this dystopian nightmare will require you to walk miles through the most heated desert imaginable
So dystopic
I guess that's the most obvious part of it. But don't worry. You can escape via Matr..., uh, I mean, Meta. And there's another escape they actually would ❤ you to take. It's forced on ppl on EVERY SINGLE movie and EVERY SINGLE series.
Eh, a camel can travel 25 miles per day. So only 2 days either way from the center of the city.
I was thinking more like human farming on an industrial level. Industrial farming with a prison twist.
@@C17HNO Assuming you keep camels and know how to approach and ride them. Otherwise it is a nightmare waiting to happen. I am not living anywhere that's landlocked and away from water and trees and birds and bees.
Somebody said "Neom" is the sound your toy plane makes 😂
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In 1999 I met a former RAF officer who was working at a British Aerospace maintenance facility in Saudi Arabia. He held their military pilots in high regard, but his employees at the facility were another matter. As he put it “Everyone there wants to be a manager. And when you become a manager, what does that mean? You sit in your office most of the day and drink tea with your friends”.
C'est une façon très britannique de dire que ces gens sont des crétins paresseux.
To be fair, that is a good incentive for employees to rise to management
Do you think managers in the US do all the work?! 😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
What a difference education for all and a competitive market would do.
It's the city equivalent of Homer Simpson designing a car.
Brilliant analogy
You have no idea!
Homer's creation was a masterpiece,...
Far ahead of his time!
Bro, the Homer was a far superior project compared to this dumpster fire.
When he said it was being scaled back Patti and Selma clipping coupons came to mind
And even homer’s car was 100x better than the Cybertruck 😂
So grateful to Patrick for cutting through the negativity to praise this Saudi vision of the future. Thank you on behalf of the True Believers in the Future!
Only for the rich
Haha I hope this comment is just as sarcastic as this whole video was😂
It's a prison
13:14 “206 minutes is a bit more than 20 minutes”. World class sarcasm.
Dear Mr. Patrick Boyle
On behalf of the Saudi Consulate in London, we are delighted to extend to you an invitation to a dinner event hosted by our consulate.
The occasion will provide an opportunity for esteemed guests such as yourself to engage in
meaningful dialogue and foster stronger ties between our communities.
We eagerly anticipate your presence and look forward to an evening of enriching conversation and camaraderie.
Yours sincerely,
CEO, Chief Execution Officer.
MBS
Will you serve Ferraro Rocher chocolates?
Much BS?
Chief of execution huh 😂
Seems legit 👍🏾
“Best to leave your wife in the car.”
Finally someone who knows what a great idea such a city is and calls it out as such, a new wonder of the world.
The train speed/stop calculations, delivered with the most serious face, had me literally laughing out loud. Literally. This video is priceless.
I laugh so much that I cry...
I shed a bucket of tears laughing at "getting in the hyperloop in just 2 seconds to be accelerated to mach 3 speed before it slams the brakes for the next stop is a young mans game..."🤣
@@udoherrmann178 Sounds like a little to stressfull for me
11:47 Maybe my favorite line of the whole video
The sarcasm is next level. I looked like a weirdo laughing out loud in traffic.
So you were watching this while you were driving? 😂
@NemeanLion- listening
@@smithiega sure 👌
“I’m not sure how far the farmers will have to travel” 😂😂😂😂 stop it, you’re killing me
But it only would take them 20 minutes!
Listening to PB while picking up my son from school, my boy doesn't get why I'm constantly cracking up, what a good life!
The algorithm brought me here but I stayed for the humour 😅😅😅 I'm deceased ☠️☠️☠️
I love that clip of Elon saying "I swear it's not that hard."
For anyone who doesn't know.........it was indeed that hard.
a general rule for EM - if he says something, veer toward believing the opposite
@@GuyJamesI agree, he's a completely laughable toole !
@@GuyJamesActually Elon Musk has accomplished more than most people even dream of.
@@GuyJames sure genius. You know better! Go play with water-propelled rockets now.
@@thegroovypatriot True, but he is still often full of shit, or least loves to exagerate. Hyperloop is just one very good example.
I have to say, your slow trend towards unbridled unhinged comedy is just absolute chef's kiss. I love it! It lightens up my day!
The crown prince would watch this and say to his friends "See! I told you it would work and this guy proves it!"
Okay tried to keep a straight face and just lost it at 2:48
Absolutely perfect delivery on what is a very flawed project
I also like how nobody is talking about the maitenance costs and the gigantic workforce that would be required to just keep such infrastructure not collapsing after just a decade of existence. High temperature variation in a desert (night and day) and metallic structures, sand and wind, is going to age that thing like fine milk.
"Gigantic workforce" they have plenty of slaves...
They will have robots take care of maintenance, including maintaining the robots.
@@BarryHolsinger It's robots all the way down
Non muslims would be expendable (read slave) labor. No cost, really.
Ia and robots can do maintenance.
To avoid dilatation you just need to heat structures at night. Its already done in many industries.
This is comedic gem! I love it… I love how the whole thing is delivered with such a straight face. Especially the part about when ‘one goes on holiday, naturally, of course they would seek out the most authoritative dictatorship, with cameras & 24/7 surveillance’
It is astonishing to see that so many people in comment section have misunderstood the intention of the video, and assign it some comic value, even though Patrick clearly states that he absolutely loves the idea and recognizes its magnificence.
That's just the cynical world we live in It's attitudes lack that, that stopped Space X getting to Mars already and X becoming the "everything app". We could have such a ric h future if we could free ourselves from all this rationality and let our fevered imaginations go free. Would you like to buy some of my new crypto coin btw.
I love how there's a business module. So people can go and do business at the module. That's how people will make money at the business module, where business is conducted.
Also the fact that they want foreign investment. Investment in what? Like what business is going on that an investor would say, hey I wanna get on the ground floor of that. These words business and investment are just strange concepts to these princes, they know business is good but they don't know what a business is. It would be adorable if they weren't such brutal animals.
I would love a Blackmirror episode where it’s just Patrick Boyle stuck in Saudi Arabia and having to livestream 24/7
😂
Fuck! I'd watch that!
It could be created with Sora, live at any moment you want it.
there’ll probably be an ai where you could just enter that comment as a prompt before neom is ever built
😂while constantly hiding from the cameras and drones
Just caught this video. That, Was the funniest half hour I've seen in a long time, and I'm still catching the Family Guy compilations. Thank you Patrick, you should be a government spokesman for.... anything! 🤣🤣
...I know that when I think of a good place to go on holiday, I always search for the most authoritarian, theocratic dictatorship in the world... This is comedy gold! Kudos Patrick.
Don't forget about the constant surveillance, always something I prize in my decisions to choose a vacation spot.
Nothing gets your holiday off to the perfect start quite like having to surrender your passport at the airport when you arrive. It is so considerate that they look after it for you like that!
@@GorgeDawes If they left your passport with you, you might lose it! (And maybe one of their enslaved migrant workers might find it and....)
The humor in this video is drier than Saudi Arabia
Drier then the hole dessert their building it in mwahahahahahahaha❤😂
It’s drier than the desiccated remains of the last guy who told MBS “No!”
😂😂😂