Fordlandia: The Suburb Henry Ford Built in the Amazon Rainforest
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2019
- As most of you know, Henry Ford was the automotive genius that founded the Ford motor company. He was a mastermind of production efficiency and pretty much revolutionized the way we build cars on a mass scale. What you probably don't know about Henry, is his failed attempt to build his very own town in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. He called it “Fordlandia”
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Misread this as Florlandia thought it was a town of the most extreme Florida men.
😂😅🤣 so I'm not alone in that? lol.. would make one hell of an episode though 😆😄
@@sumdewd okay who's the guy that's going to make comments I understand? It's Sum Dewd... More funny comments dammit
I'd watch!
Can you make this? Probably better than most reality shows.
That's the whole reason Simon named it this way he knows we won't be interested in Ford, but FLORIDA? oh, hell yes
Rewatching old blazes to see where this train got derailed
Same! Others watch cheesy Christmas movies, I watch Business Blaze, trying to figure out when the decent into madness happened and when Simon announced that now that Danny had to work for KFC leftovers and the luxery of being allowed to use the bathroom once a day. Even the comment section was so normal at the beginning
Thumbs up if you're addicted to Simon Whistler.
Totally.
Totally.
past addicted! right into crazy about him 😍😘
@@phyllisdevries5734 does that mean you think Simon's a serial killer??? :-0
I’m starting to love the new business blaze format
9:47 Henry Ford II wasn’t Henry Ford’s son, he was his grandson. Edsel Ford was Henry Ford’s son.
Apologies. Yes, you are totally right, my mistake.
No problem, I just figured I would point that out. I really enjoy your videos! Keep up the good work.
*TinLizzie 1927* Yes, Ford's son, Edsel, who was actually pretty sharp, but wasn't a cutthroat like his father. Ford fought his every decision, belittled him, treated him so badly that Edsel developed ulcers and stomach cancer, of which he died in 1943 at the age of 49. Henry Ford was a genius, but a hidebound SOB and always thought he and his ways were right. Fordlandia is a good example of this. Stay safe.
@@TinLizzie-uc1jw I always like Professor McGonagall's comment about Neville Longbottom's grandmother's expectations: "It’s high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she’s got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have---" Henry Ford was such a megalomaniac that Edsel could never come up to his expectations, no matter how hard he tried. As I said, Henry always thought he was right and nobody else's opinion counted. Edsel's son, "The Deuce," had the advantage of having Edsel as a father. Stay safe.
@@TinLizzie-uc1jw What a sad life Edsel led. I really feel for him. My own mother can find no redeeming value in me, and so I know how hard that is to live with. In fact, in 2012 or 2013 I went to bed one night because I felt queasy and didn't want to throw up. When I woke up the next morning I was still queasy. As I voided my bladder there was no stopping the vomit. I grabbed the (plastic lined) bathroom waste basket and let 'er rip! To my horror I threw up a quart of blood and blood clots-- no food! I told my son to get his clothes on, that I needed to go to the hospital NOW. It was a horrible time and the only reason I survived it is because they resuscitated me when my heart stopped. Then they gave me three units of other people's blood. But, they said it wasn't stress or H. pylori (the typical ulcer causing microbe) that caused it, it was actually ibuprofen that caused my bleeding ulcer. Or at least, it's what they found lying packed together in the hole in my stomach lining when they did the procedure to cauterize the ulcers. Sadly, my entire body is a monument to stress. Ulcers, chronic bronchitis, fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel, restless _limb_ syndrome (I have it in my arms sometimes, too,) irritable bowel syndrome and neuropathy from the knees down are the worst of my illnesses, diseases or conditions. I just hope I'm never exposed to COVID-19 because I don't think I'd survive it.
Mandatory poetry readings and singalongs? Fordlandia sounded like a low key cult.
Yeah. I was in for a while thinking "yeah, sounds alright". Then it got a all weird and culty/religiousy.
More like San Francisco
2viewbosque how’s it looking now?
Allegedly
@@eval_is_evil The new motto of the leftists... Resistance is futile you will be assimilated or else.
Get out of line you will be doxed, stalked, harassed, beaten, flogged and fired from your job. If they don’t fire you the company will be destroyed, burned etc.
They will call it mostly peaceful because that makes it okay.
Simon Whistler. The hardest working man on TH-cam!😎
I try :).
Yay how maney channels is he in
@@wyattbarmann3573 500
@@ericstamps4717 WOW!!! He is excellent in everything he does.
Let's not forget the people doing the research and writing the scripts (the hardest part)
Now that place is a touristic attraction, like a Pripyat here in Brazil and with the proximity to Santarém (a reasonable big city in the Amazon) it's very easy to visit
Um ano atrasada mas eu sempre quis visitar Fordlanda ahuahaua nunca tive apoio de amigo nenhum
British East India Company would be an awesome video, and I’m guessing no one could do a British company like You Simon.
Simon is British!
@@tarionmarsden157 No he's East Indian!
@@tarionmarsden157 that's the idea, genius.
This would be great
TH-cam just randomly suggested this video to me, which made me laugh. This is so long ago. Danny is free, ETA isn’t a twinkle in anyone’s eye, and Simon actually wants business topics to talk about on Business Blaze.
How far we’ve come since then...
I feel like I missed my calling in life. At almost 40 years old I feel like the time has passed for me to go to school to be a treeist.
I love how happy you are in this video!
One of my favourite subjects.
Business Blaze: omg! I can’t believe you are replying. This is the best! Thank you for taking the time for your fans! It’s amazing what a small comment will do ...
I feel kind of sorry all these other authors have been sidelined by Danny, but at the same time the Danny/Simon chemistry is amazing.
Don’t worry Lawrence, this was one of my favourite episodes. Sam: editing still on point in the early days. Legend.
I need to get a life & stop rewatching these, but it doesn’t look like that will happen until COVID is over.
I would like to see videos on the Onedia Community, the Battle Creek (Kellogg) Sanitarium, and Celebration, Florida. Love this new channel!
Simon needs his own show on Netflix. With a fabulous budget.
Nah, give him a nice salary but a low budget for sets/props/costumes/camera work. Simon breaking the fourth wall to rip on the production values would add to the fun!
Yes! I would totally watch that! An extended show like those documentaries he did in Lichtenstein and Seattle.
I prefer not having his content being hidden behind a pay wall.
@@garethbaus5471 it's already behind a pay wall, your paying by allowing Google to track and collect your data. There's always a cost, it's just a matter of what it's worth to you.
If it's free, you're the product.
Correction: Etsel was Henry Ford's son. Henry Ford the second was his grandson.
Edsel.
I thoroughly enjoy your work up to this point, and could not love this more! You already have fantastic writers, add your table read type format and terrific wit ...perfection! Great subject! I love being in on this channel so early except I can’t binge! Thank you for this
Thank you. I know this is really different, so I’m glad you are enjoying it :). Its fun to do.
American: let's do some utopia stuff in the rainforst
Rainforest: laughs in malaria
Jason Womack or cool aid. Too soon?
@Jason Womack underrated comment. Hilarious!
Simon, love the format. It's nice to see you letting your hair down, well metaphorically anyway.
Simon is going to end up monopolizing he youtube market the man needs to chill
Probably do ;).
Arborist, Simon. 🌳
The word is arborist. 🌳 😂
Hahahaha yes that’s it!!
Wrong. Arborists cut trees down. Dendrologist is what you're looking for.
An arborist, tree surgeon, or arboriculturist, is a professional in the practice of arboriculture, which is the cultivation, management, and study of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants in dendrology and horticulture. Wikipedia
@@custos3249 it's everything to do with tress. All hail the tree masters
@@ashleybowles7732 ok. Point? Farmers babble in biology, but that doesn't qualify them as biologists.
I am subbing to all of Simon channels
ALL SEVEN? It's rare! (Thank you).
Mostly people are like: "I subscribe to all four of Simon's channel's"
(because apparently I'm shit at cross promotion ;) )
I love Simon, and have for sometime now. Hes very good at creating interesting videos, has a fantastic personality in videos, and his narration is beyond wonderful. However, I didnt know there were 7 channels. Guess I have to go searching. I am subbed to five, I think. Be well all...
Business Blaze seven???? I thought that there was nine well who the hell is the other two Simons I sub too lol
Could you list them please Simon? I know I am subbed to some but don't know all of them. Thanks Simon, you're awesome!
@@GillianCranston
They are in the info box below the video. I didnt know either but, the are listed in the information section below the video. Have a good day! Hope that helps.
So, I'm doing the "Quarantine Catch-up" binge video watching while myself and _all_ Californians are under orders to stay home and self-quarantine until further notice. Strangely enough, the grandfather of my high school BFF was Shanghaied to Fordlandia when my friends' father was very young. It took him two or three years to earn enough money to pay back his passage on a ship to get TO Fordlandia (even though he'd been kidnapped!) and a couple more years to earn enough to pay for his passage BACK to San Francisco! After all, he was dealing with owing the "company store," and in a foreign country where he had virtually no rights, too! The entire family hated anything Ford for generations! Then Ford heavy duty trucks came out with Cummings diesel engines, and being in the trucking industry and owning a fleet of big rig trucks-- all with diesel Cummings engines-- my friends' Dad just couldn't pass up the chance to own a regular pickup with that Cummings diesel engine that rattled the windows and the dishes in the cupboard!
Show idea: How soap companies started making margarine and vise versa because the ingredients were almost identical.
Gave rise to Unilever
I’d I’ve to see a Business Blaze on Hershey, particularly the insane school foundation he left behind that keeps making more money than it can ever spend, and can’t be broken up.
I hope that we can find more topics that you are so passionate about. It’s really a lot of fun!
Me too, lots of stuff in the pipeline that is this fun :)
I'm doing a second round of BB, my choice topic was Enron, my favourite moment had nothing to do with business though - when Simon spoke about his friend and him throwing (name i will not say) books at eachother. Here's hoping he asks for topic suggestions again these days
You need to do one on Hershey Pennsylvania founded by Milton Hershey of the Hershey Company
Did you know they planned to have fountains on every corner. They were to be called Hershey squirts....check it out Simon
What about a video about how the Dutch East India Company became so massive?
Interesting new channel.... If you want to do another, why not consider a channel about weird and wonderful science. The mistakes, the accidental advancement, the crazy future we're heading in to, could be fun!
Fordlandia was founded in the middle of the US Prohibition, hence the "American Values" coming with no booze.
He should have brought whiskey and hookers, the employees would have been much happier.
Those weren't american values though, they were religious values. If booze wasn't an American value, we wouldn't have had such a propensity for bootleggers, mafia acquired booze, and the speakeasy
@@Demonslayre This response is a perfect example of a straw-man argument. This counterexample does not negate the statement. Prohibition was driven by the political Progressives of the day (the contemporary equivalent of the social justice warriors of today) attempting to eradicate violence and health issues associated with alcohol abuse. It passed as a Constitutional Amendment which requires a supermajority of both houses of Congress and ratification by 3/4 of states. It did. It was far from being a religious imperative. It was a case championed by liberals in the 1910's.
@@eggsngritstn by liberals? Um, no. By the conservatives who wanted to control what people did with their own bodies on their own own time - sort of *just like today,* in fact. And when a law is enforced by the KKK (literally - look it up), that is NOT a liberal movement, LOL!
@@MaryAnnNytowl Look it up. These were progressives trying to save humanity. Both sides control, by the way. Liberals are controlling many things right now.
Simon you madlad please keep it up, cheers!
Always.
Standard Oil's monopoly, how it came to be, and how it made changed the laws surrounding large companies would be a neat video. Love the new channel Simon!
Loved this video!
As a diehard Ford enthusiast it’s always interesting to see the crazy early years and ideas of Henry Ford
Oh yeah, while I laugh a bit at this, Ford was an absolute weapon.
Love watching Simon let loose on top of the great work and research behind the scenes.
Thanks for the video
I have Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime but the only thing I watch is all of Simon's channels. I am on my third repeat of Business Blaze and I have almost completely consumed all his other channels. I really appreciate the format of this channel, Simon. Seems we get to see more of your personality and wit.
"I'll add a link to it in the bottom" --- things Simon has never done
You're the best. Keep up the good work.
Henry, what have you done? LOL. This is your best video ever, Simon.
Gosh, Danny writes intros longer than this whole video. We’ve come a long way
Ah, back when Brain Blaze as Business Blaze, and they actually talked about the stuff I signed up for. Keep up the good work Whistler, I do like the random stuff you cover nowadays, but it's sometime easier for my ears to go back in time.
Hands down the best Simon video I've seen so far. I laughed because he laughed . . . And when he swore. How many more channels is this guy on anyways? I've found 6 so far
Amanda Billingsley I think it’s just 6 channels at the moment and the podcast 🤔
@@AHJ789 There are seven! (And a podcast). Well technically 3 podcasts because Bio and TopTenz also go out as podcasts... The bio one is actually getting pretty popular as a pod :)
Business Blaze do you ever sleep? 😂 ironically actually listening to the podcast right now
I follow all your channels. Love it. Keep it up. And I love how happy you are when you enjoy a subject. ❤
Ha! Simon is so flippin excited in this video. Dudes damn near giddy and shit! Hilarious. We need more of these videos, yo!
:). Thanks. Whole point of this channel was so that I can let loose a bit. Poke some fun. Have a laugh. Banter with myself.
I'm here from the future, and I can't wait 'til you're here too and see what has become of you. This channel is bleeding just a little into the very serious Simon of the other channels. It's great. Oh, and you h@ve 2 kids. And 2 fully grown men locked in the basement. Love you bye!
For those interested in reading/learning more about this, I recommend the book Fordlandia by Greg Grandin.
I read it a few years ago, and I agree. It's cool how the book covers some similar efforts by others to carve out a bit of the US in the Amazon.
Bob Stewart It was one of the books that I needed for class, but I found it very fascinating so I’m keeping it and one other.
This is a side of Simon I've never seen before....I like it!
Yeah!!! Your initial lights are on in the back I love that🥰😂
It’s good to see him having read the script beforehand at least once. Nice!!!
I enjoyed this! Honestly, I never heard about this about Ford. What a mess. Yeah, I laughed too!
Simonnnnnnnnnn I love how excited you are 🤩🤩🤩🤩
I love to watch Simon lol I love to see how he pronounces the words. I couldn't hit the subscribe button fast enough lol
This was very enjoyable. Love your more casual side.
Thanks :)
Tract housing is a style of housing popular in post ww2 rebuilding. A construction company would strip alot of land down to dirt and build the same set of four to six houses repeated throughout the plot. The very definition of suburbia with front lawns and back yards swathed in green green grass and swimming pools.
So much more cheeky than your other shows. I’m in! 👍🏻
That amount of land is a little smaller than the country of Montenegro.
Yellowstone is fuckin huge. I went there in my teen years, absolutely insane how actually big it is. Like you can take your car on a small road through the park, and even if you drive all day you're still only half way through the park. Insanely big. Love that place so much though. I tried buffalo burgers and alligator meat there for the first time. I prefer beef, but they're soooooo good
Subscribed and excited!
Glad to hear it :)
I watch Simon all the time on what I thought was all the channels he was on, until last night. OMG this channel is amaz-balls! Why didn't I have this in my life before? Carry on Simon, carry on.
Thanks :). Glad you like it!!
Loving the expansion into these new channels and the topics getting covered, thank you for the education! I'd love to see a video on IBM's involvement in the Holocaust. It's a bit grim but would definitely make for interesting learning.
Yay! Im in the top 500 subscriber club to this channel #495! Simmon you're awesome and i always enjoy watching your content across all your channels! Thank you and all the staff for always bringing top notch content and laughs!!!!
I haven’t watched this one in so long I reflexively undid my like
Hell yeah just saw your post, From Biographics, needed more content from Simon 👌😂
Happy to oblige :)
One has to learn from there mistakes no matter what the price. Excellent vid Simon.
Lmfao Treeist is amazing, I found my calling today. Thank you Simon & co. Goodbye world, I'm going to legally defend rubber trees now, I think...
General Motors attempt to sell Nova cars in Mexico, the name in Spanish means "no go".
Bill Champer that’s a bit of a myth. “No va” does mean “it doesn’t go” but the word “Nova” means the same in Spanish as in English. And yes before you say it, I’m fun at parties.
@@austinkilpatrick7809 It would be funny if it were true; sort of the opposite of Volvo, which means "I roll" in Latin. Stay safe.
@@oldenweery7510 In Spanish Pajero means in slang "guy who masturbate"
This is Mitsubishi error.
Tract houses are like an Estate in Britain with all similar houses. My uncle worked in
Fordlandia as an accountant and he married a Brazilian woman so I have a half Brazilian cousin. Just bought a book about it because I saw that my uncle’s name was mentioned. Looking forward to learning more about it all.
Watching all episodes I missed along the way ever since since this channel Blazed into existence
... and beginning to realise that Sam is not only an honoured graduate of Memology, but has attained his doctorate
Cheers to Sam, the OG BB alLegendary MemeLegend- Brilliant work since Day 1 mate!
Many people don't know that he also came to my neck of the woods here in North Alabama . With him came a Ford plant..
There’s a town in Cuba called Hershey which was built by Milton Hershey as a sister town to Hershey, PA. Visited there once and this video reminded me of it since it was also built in a very American style
I love this "by the seat of your pants" approach to the content and I'd love to see it on some of the other channels
Just found this channel I thought I was subscribed to all of yours I enjoyed it as much as I do the others
I've heard of this adventure by ford great video looks like its gonna b another great channel lol I kinda like the idea of the paper to read off of .feels more maybe old school
Going back to the start to watch ya beard grow 😁👍🏼
I've arrived to do the same
One thing you didn't mention about Ford, which I think is significant, and very unlike business practices today... When they were able to streamline the Model A factory, and therefore produce the same cars for much less, Ford passed this savings onto the American people. He stated that everyone had a right to a car... pretty amazing. No one does this today, now if they make it cheaper they then jack up the price ... People had been buying the Model A for $1100, they then dropped the price to around $440.00 - Ford chose not to pocket all this extra profit, and shared the wealth to make America a better place for everyone. This is the main difference between say a Rockefeller ("Competition is bad for business") to a Ford ("All Americans deserve to drive my cars")...
Ford was smarter than just being greedy on the surface he was thinking with a much bigger vision than monopoly people. Cuz if you cut the price In half you’ll sell much more vehicles and his gamble was that he would sell more than double making more profit cuz more people could afford it
He definitely made more money based on the fact he was selling more cars, tho. Let's say he made $100 for every car he sold at $1100 (I don't know the exact figure, the logic works regardless of what it was). Now he's selling them for $440 and still only making $100/car. But he's selling 10 times as many cars at that affordable price, so he's making 10 times as much money.
It's nice to think he believed everyone had the "right" to a car but the reality is he wanted more people to be able to afford them because he knew that was good for his bottom line.
You may want to look a little more deeply into who Henry Ford was before you go around touting him like some kind of hero. His racism and anti-semitism was off the charts, even for that day and age. There's a reason he's a hero to neo-[redacted].
Fordlandia sounds like a 40s FIRE Festival... ha ha ha ha
Oooooh I remember watching a documentary on this when I was at university studying geography.
I've officially watched all the Business Blaze videos. So now I'll just be sitting in a corner feeling sorry for myself while waiting for a new video
Henry Ford gets a ghost town in Brazil named after him. And some cars. Simon gets a . . .a Swan? Oh, and a mountain in BC. Come on Whistler, raise your game.
Still my favorite video on the channel.
There have been many company towns over the years in the US such as Summit Hill, Pa (LN&C mining) and Hershey, pa. That being said, Fordlândia was on a whole other level.
Btw, Simon, tract housing basically means that all houses are more or less the same. More commonly known as cookie cutter housing
Hey Simon, love the channel (or all of them really lol) I had an idea for an episode of the blaze, if you haven't done so already I think a video of the Monday night wars (between then the world wrestling federation and WCW) you could look into the common thread between those fabulous companies aka the crappy writer both companies employed by the name of Vince Russo
Could you make a vid on how the us dollar stopped being backed by gold, silver etc... And how that ended up affecting places like fort Knox?
I almost forgot Business Blaze covered business related material until this popped back up. I could've swore I saw this on another channel.
I love this format!! Please do one on Disney. Seriously they make money off of everyone. From college interns, employees and park visitors. That's just their parks!! It would be long but super interesting!!
Tract housing: take a look at Levittown and other post WWII suburban housing. Would be a good episode.
I know this is some OG business blaze because it's actually about business :)
5:20 forgot the bleep ;)
I actually really f@#$ing like this new channel!
It's called vertical integration. Ford owned large hardwood forests in No. Michigan to build wooden station wagons and pickup truck beds. He also owned iron mines and steel mills. Tract housing is a group of similar homes built en masse. British rubber planters would have been good people to consult, or French ones. Henry Ford embraced a lot of cranky fads of his times. He was a descendant of Irish protestants, which might clue you in as a Britisher. There is quite a lot of literature about U.S. company towns & their lifestyle. Listen to "Sixteen tons"an old song by Tennesee Ernie Ford (coincidental name ).
I swear Simon is taking over TH-cam one channel at a time.
It's a work in progress ;)
@@brainblaze6526 In all seriousness, how do you do it? I hope you still have some semblance of a work/life balance. I would hate to think that you burn yourself out because you've spread yourself too thin. I think many other folks would agree with me here!
I don't really know. Maybe once a year, I feel work get to me, but then I just dial it back a bit for a while, and then I'm totally fine. I find it all very exciting. If things weren't going great it would probably be more of a grind, but right now I'm like "shit, better make some hay while the sun shines!!"
This makes me think of RCA and the early days of commercial radio! (hint: this would be a good topic!)
Subbed to all 7 channels 🙂
Awh He still tried back then 😂. Vintage blaze, before he ever trapped Danny.
Henry Ford the 2nd was actually Henry ford grandson. His son Edsel Died of stomach Cancer.
Yes, sorry, that was a screw up.
@@brainblaze6526 no problem , I don't mean to be picky but i just went to the Henry ford in Dearborn Michigan and it was amazing.
And now you know where the name of the Ford Edsel automobile comes from. That Ford was a creative fuck, huh?
First.. "pretty f*ckin' big!" Best line ever from your show!
Second: 2,500,000 acres² is 3904.25 miles². So yeah. Pretty f*ckin' big lol.
For another example of a town like this check out New Harmony Indiana
this would either be a long video or one you would have to do in two parts but you guys should do a video on Bell Telephone company(AT&T)
Lawrence (writer) is awesome!!!
I feel like Simon knows some sort of multi-form technique with all the channels he has.
Perhaps he has a TARDIS, or a time-turner?
Yellowstone Park is in Wyoming it may barely spill over a mile or two over the border to Idaho or Montana.