The Hunt for the Unabomber
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I’d love to see a mega project or geographic about “Picher, Oklahoma” -The most toxic city in the United States and additionally the largest Superfund site in the US. The EPA has declared it uninhabitable. The history behind what happened to the town and the people that lived in it is insane. “Years of extracting ore from the earth lead to large piles of toxic waste from the mines scattered about the city. These contaminated mine tailings, tons of mill sand known as chat, have a severe impact on the environment and human health. The Picher area became a toxic place, the residents were exposed to the harmful toxins every time they stepped outside their door. But they had no idea of the hazards. Kids would ride their bikes up and down the chat piles. Some parents even used chat to fill their kids' sandboxes.” Additionally the town was hit by a massive EF 4 tornado recently, spreading the contamination. The leas and zinc toxins have polluted the groundwater and drinking water supplies within the town and it is not known how well contained it is. The clean up effort is incredibly intense and difficult to maneuver but absolutely fascinating.
I support this vid idea
That sounds rly interesting
Good idea
Hmm I'll the the 1/4 who says no.
Just kidding, I'm in.
yeah, or that city that has burning waste in the sewers to this day
Speaking of rabbit holes. He included a note saying "call Nathan R wed 7 pm" the FBI spoke with over 12000 Nathan Rs in response including my Dad.
Yeah, it's January, but with how slow the mail at the moment is hopefully it will be here for Christmas 2021
was about to say that
Yikes that’s hopeful right now
... did it get there?
I would love an episode on the Event Horizon Telescope. It took a picture of a black hole after all.
I still don't get that. A black hole is so called since it traps the light so you can't actually see the "hole" itself. Therefore all they can have imaged is, surely due to physics or whatever, the ecretion disk at the most with the "un-seeable" void in the center. See what I'm getting at?
me to
@@pegasusted2504 And that is exactly what the event horizon telescope captured. The reason why this is big, is because this is the first time in human history that we have directly "seen" a black hole. Before this, all our observation of a blackhole was indirect.
@@Icarus1234 That is exactly the problem though. All they took an image of was the void not the actual black hole itself as no light escapes from it so there is no light to impact whatever imager you use to enable you to "see" it. Yes there is a "black hole" in the center caused by the lack of light information in that specific location but that is not the same as "seeing" the black hole itself. The very physics of the phenomena itself preclude the ability to see it. To see the black hole itself you would need to breach the barrier of the effect and go "inside" it which going by the fact it traps all light in reach I would think it would be insanely bright inside the black hole.
@@pegasusted2504 using radio signals and xray etc, obviously wasn't done capturing visible light waveforms
Did we just get an “Allegedly” and a “Smash that dislike button” in a Megaprojects vid?
Simon is spoiling us now.
Business Blaze is seeping into everything he does now more and more. Allegedly.
Booo
Blaze Simon is taking FULL CONTROL!! We were warned and took no measures!!
I cackle at his dislike for megaprojects which he says in barely disguised snarkiness
@@reggiep75 whoever is the producer or owner of Mega projects is probably drinking heavily by this time as Simon bad mouth this series every chance he gets. I can only imagine Simon is contractually obligated
Simon is really D.B. Cooper
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No he's not. Simon is too young and virile, D.B. was a washed up middle-aged guy...
Actually, it was Loki
@@c.l.7525 couldn't have been to washed up, he parachuted from a plane and was never seen again lol 🍻 love the picture by your name!!!
I don't see the similarity... What are they?
watching simon come into his own persona over the past couple of years is the best arc
Take a look at business blaze
Simon has a new channel? Everyone needs to take a drink.
I'm wasted
Two drinks when he says “penis”
@@bringyouragame6395 and "allegedly"
@@thusspokechris Oh hell no. The death count of the Unabomber would pale in comparison to the TH-cam viewer souls lost to alcohol poisoning. Men
Can't help but think back to the movie Shoot 'Em Up:
"I can't go to the police."
-"Why not?"
"I'm the Unabomber."
-"They caught the Unabomber."
"That's what they think."
~150 person task force with many experts in various investigative fields and $50M, solved by one guy going "Hey, FBI, That kind of sounds like my brother."
Only after reading the manifesto. If he had kept his mouth shut, no one would've ever known who was behind it. But then, his anti-tech message would never have been heard. (and without the bombings, no one would've ever listened.)
@@jfbeam We have DNA analysis today that Ted had no idea about would come many years in the future. Maybe he therefore didn't take steps against drops of saliva in the package and that he could have been identified by DNA when that technology was invented. But then again, maybe not if his DNA was not in any register and they had no other clues like DNA from his relatives or such.
Imagine being a traitor to your own family.
@@adolfwasrite7009, I voted for the winner in a MAGA family. Doesn't take much imagination for me.
@@skunkjobb "Ted" Kaczynski wasn't always a woodland recluse. He was very much a man of STEM and science earlier, a pretty stellar mathematics professor. While he left that work in '69-70, he was certainly not oblivious or ignorant to the scientific, technological and social development of the world around him - he was still quite involved with society, working jobs and keeping up with developments, even though he made his _home_ in the woods.
DNA profiling was already in infantile stages before his first bomb. And it was in active forensic use just a couple of years later, leading to criminal convictions as early as 1983. He kept on doing his "thing" for another decade and a half beyond that point.
Yes, we have DNA profiling in forensics now - but we also had it during most of his "bombing days". It's been in investigstive forensic use for almost 40 years now. The challenge with DNA profiling then, and to an extent still today - is that it's only a tiny bit more useful than a full fingerprint if you do not have a solid pool of suspects to compare it to. And you get a court approval for DNA sampling that group. And there's a match in that sample group.
Looks like Simon is losing grip on his personalities
Some of the cocaine is slipping out... Allegedly
Allegedly
@@havierlango2621 Or things slipping out from other areas.
@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 Ah "smuggling". So that is what they call it these days, perhaps he shouldnt have set it to vibrate on command.
This alleged cocaine meme wont die... Allegedly.
Idea for a Mega-project : Simon Whistler's TH-cam career.
Yeah! That's a good one.
He has 10 active channels!
@@JokubasVas - All hail the glorious dome of knowledge!
DANNY SALTER! :)
The new Megaprojects Simon, same as before, just with a dash of cocaine.
Or its Business Blaze Simon with half a Xanax? I cant keep track of them all.
Allegedly...
Just a smidgeon of apehtamines here and there. Perhaps a dab of LSD just to spice things up.
They only "found" him, when his own brother went to the authorities.
Yeah, nice family.
His brothers wife recognised his writing or something didn't she then it was just a normal tip off so yhea hardly great detection.
Can't believe anyone wouldn't give up their brother if he was killing people and planning to kill. Many more.
What do you mean "found"? I'm still on the loose...
@@dungeonsanddobbers2683 considering it was a $1 million reward... @FBI I FOUND HIM. MONEY PLZ!!
#SnitchesGetStitches
He was totally primed for some business blazing but had a mega projects script. Hell yeah 🤣
Im guessing he does them fairly close together and the espresso shot was still rockin lol
@@jonnyjohnjon9779 "espresso shot" everyone knows Simon lives on cocaine mixed with Danny's tears
@@ericstamps4717 I almost feel that Danny enjoys the basement now
@ 2:50 "By the late 1970's the phrase 'Domestic Terrorism' was 📈 *rarely* 📉 used in the United States."
TH-cam ads and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
good take
That's a mega project of it self.
oversanitized vids drive me fucking nuts
You're right. But dont go planting bombs to spread that manifesto
Facebook is worst.
Dr. Theodore Kaczynski is an interesting character.
He is actually an incredibly smart man, and many of the ideas laid out in his manifesto have come to show significance in today's day and age. We are, unfortunately, living under the control of "big tech" and their censorship, manipulation, and control.
I've always been intrigued by the story; and the man behind the story.
Unfortunately, he went about things in a very, VERY wrong way.
Bingo! My thoughts exactly.
It seems Professor Uncle Ted was totally right about his theories.
How so?
I often wonder if he would have gone about things the way he did. If he hadn't gone through the mk ultra testing at Havard when he was 16.
Was about to make the same point. You said it better. One thing I would have changed is from "incredibly smart" to "tested IQ on the same level as Einstein and Tesla". Which BTW, is a true fact.
Slowly all of Simon's channels are becoming more and more like Business Blaze. I love it
Simon i like how you are starting this year please keep this rate of video uploads :) You legend :)
Hey Simon. Want a new Megaproject. Look at Mt Newman iron ore mine in Western Australia. 100 000 000 000 tonnes a year of ore a year and is heading towards a 500m deep hole. A Mt to a one of the biggest man made holes. Mega.
oh,men,47ºC ambient on December,perfect for work smelting iron.
Thank you for mentioning the hate crimes as terrorism.
I'm sure he didn't include all the Leftist hate crimes as terrorism because that would take too many episodes to cover.
Slavery, lynching blacks, the KKK, Jim Crow and segregation, all were 100% Democrat/Leftist groups and actions. Oops, my bad, as their actions have so clearly demonstrated, Democrats aren't actually against violence or hate(without hate, the Left would deflate and disappear) they are just against ANYONE ELSE doing anything they don't like and label other's actions and values with the emotion they, themselves feel toward anyone who is not them. IE, hate and it's partner action, violence.
@@mattobermiller5041 I'm kind of curious as to how you consider racial segregation a leftist concept?
@@naughtiusmaximus1811 Black slavery in the US was, of course, a Democratic party core tenant. Slavery is billed as a North/South issue but that's not true. If you were a Democrat, whether in the North or South, you supported slavery and the voting records, both of the electorate and the congress record this very clearly. If you were a Republican (the Republican party was founded solely for the purpose of abolishing slavery) either in the North or South, you opposed slavery and, again, the historic voting rolls (which are open and searchable to the public) record this very clearly. Same voting patterns applied to Jim Crow and segregation. Republicans(both electorate and congressmen) almost unanimously voted against Jim Crow and segregation and Democrats usually unanimously voted for both. And then there's Democrat LBJ and his "Great Society" programs in '68. They were the start of all the welfare and social programs you see today. LBJ's comment after signing the bill into law was "with this law we're (Democrats) going to own the n..... vote for 200 years." It was both a bribe for black votes and a way to destroy them. Prior to '68, black people had been leaving poverty and entering the middle class at a rate of about 1% per year. Black unemployment was low, the black family was quite strong, in the '50's blacks had a lower fatherless rate than whites. Blacks, in spite of 100 years of segregation, Jim Crow, the KKK, all the obstacles and barriers, were succeeding and thriving in many regards. And then came the Democrat's "Great Society" welfare programs and the social workers going door to door in the early '70's telling black women they could get this much welfare per child for every child but only if there wasn't a man in the house. (nodnodwinkwink) And black people have been sliding out of the middle class and back into poverty at a little less than 1% per year ever since. Prior to Trump's economic miracle that led to not just blacks but ALL minorities having the lowest unemployment rates, in some cases in all of history, that is. And blacks now have a fatherless rate of 80%. Do you know what the leading predictor of ending up in prison is? Fatherlessness. 85% of prison inmates were raised by a single mother.
But there's more. Are you aware that more black babies are aborted every year than are allowed to be born? By far the most dangerous place for a black person to be is in their mother's womb. Black Lives won't tell you that, they are too busy hating on police for shooting black people for attacking the police. In 2019 there were 13 black people armed with weapons other than guns who were shot and killed while attacking police but over 250,000 black babies were murdered. What is BLM doing about this racist genocide? Crickets. Just crickets. Neither BLM or Democrats care about black people beyond their political usefulness. And lots of black people have wised up and stopped voting for their oppressors. Record numbers in 2016 and 2020. Democrats have promised to reverse Trump's measures that have been so uplifting for black people but I suspect they are going to continue to refuse to stay on the Democrat plantation and will instead vote Conservative.
@@mattobermiller5041 Ok, didn't really answer the question because a) the democratic party of today is nothing like the party of 100 years ago i.e. the party of Jefferson & Jackson. Why not call modern day Republicans liberals (in the modern sense)? They created the freedmen's bureau, right? b) the concept of having social programs for the poor run by the govt is not exactly a radical idea, it's been done since governments have existed.
Hate to quibble on definitions but LBJ was hardly a leftist. Generally leftists by definition advocate for equitable distribution of power and end to hierarchy (i.e. Marxism/Communism/Anarchism), which is kind of the opposite of slavery and segregation and not really exemplified in today's democratic party based on your own argument. Got the talking points in though.
Oh and thanks for caring so much about the Blacks.
@@mattobermiller5041 you’re correct that the Democrats and Republicans were pretty much flip flopped back in the day. But think of it like this through time the Democrats grew farther left and the republican right. Left and right are ideologies. Democrats and Republicans are political parties and parties evolve. An example of political parties ideas evolving are Democrats not backing labor. A good way to think of left and right is to know the extreme extreme left is anarchism extreme right nationalist
So merry Christmas Simon!
Love it!! Keep doing these!!
So, Simon didn't cover the making of Ted Kaczynski, which is even more interesting.
*That shirt is phallic* !!!
I love how you always say, “ smash that dislike button” cracks me up every time 😂
I recently took a class in college which covered the use and effects technology has on society and the many ways technology has altered our world, rather then the other way around, and the Unabomber's ideology really falls right in line with some of the concepts covered. The big difference stems from his actions; to invoke change, there needs to be cooperative dialog, not some nutter in a cabin somewhere blowing people up.
Can you do a video on the Killdozer?
12 Months til christmas, hope it would arrive in time
Great video. Love your work mate.
I attended California State University in Sacramento (CSUS) and one of my professors who had taught there for decades told us that after two of the 90s bombs were mailed with the return address CSUS, the US Secret Service quietly took over the campus' mail room for years and x-rayed every package until the Unabomber was finally caught.
Do a side project on greatest expeditions like Lewis and Clark.
He should do literally a mega projects episode on the biggest housing projects in the inner cities full of thugs, hoes, pimps, and b*****s 😆
Idea for a megaproject: something local to me, the Dreher Shoals Dam in South Carolina. At the time it was first made, it was the world's largest earthen dam and created the world's largest man-made lake. The lake is the site of some historic occurrences as well, including the bombing training grounds for the Doolittle raiders. There's cemeteries and whole towns underwater and even a WWII bomber that crashed to the bottom
Here's a link: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saluda_Dam
Please, more like this. This was fascinating and definitely some kind of mega project!
Excellent Simon, very worthy of a Megaproject video!
So why haven't they found the guy who was mailing anthrax back in 2001 yet?
They did. He just killed himself before it was definitive.
For $50 million, I'd make up an imaginary brother to sell out.
Great loved it more of these like this on here please
This video just BOMBED!
Explosive details!
Moral of the tale - "Study more Maths kids, and end up famous!"
And so the facade that is smart Simon cracks away to expose more Blazed Simon
Business Blaze is creeping more and more into his "serious" videos
The blaze clone is growing in power ...
I hope not
Very interesting topic. Thanks for compiling this info.
Great video, man. Great!
Vid suggestion:
The hunt for Bismarck
He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas
Big Dawg, can you do a megaproject about something from the Australian outback?
Yes about the mega bridge they built over the Nullarbor Plains that was pulled down due to too many Aussie fishing off it
Nicely put together Simon. Carry on! ☺
That was fantastic, very interesting, thanks.
If people thought that intro was long they should try business blaze
How do you not mention what they did to him at Harvard? O.o
Ooo I almost forgot about that!
Honestly those are some very important info.
@@UberKobi right??? Idk if what happened even would have had it not been for that stuff. I mean maybe I guess but that stuff was enough for anyone to snap :(
Thank you, I've been waiting awhile for this one should be good.
This is a new spin on megaprojects & I like it!!
Update: Christmas did pass
Update : Today in 11 months is Christmas. Get your merch now
I knew someone once at U of M who told a story of how someone they knew would sit in this one seat WAY in the back of the lecture hall and one day the the professor said “there’s only one other student I ever had that insisted on sitting in that seat every class and he was the unabomber.”
Incredibly odd since most people LOVE and live by repetition and consistency.
Definitely out of the box mega project video. Love it. Good scripts and behind the scenes work boys. Simon you're cool in my book bud.
in time for....not christmas LMAO! Love it
An intelligent person, just went down the wrong path into infamy...
"smash that dislike button"
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Every now and then blaze Simon takes over for a few seconds. It’s a sign of things to come. Soon Blaze Simon will have killed off the other Simons and reign supreme.
What a great and fresh video! This format and subject matter, I believe, is a wonderful addition to the show! You could even do a spin off “Mega-Minds” to profile prolific masterminds from crime to business. I’d subscribe to that channel in a instant!
Caught by his brother and sister in law. There's an awesome documentary about it here on TH-cam.
2021: Turns out the Unibomber was right
Your comment will receive backlash, but I agree wholeheartedly.
Well he has some good points about the effects of modern society but he missttributes them to industrialization rather than Capitalist methods of production
Ultimately its not a worthwhile ideology since any degree of implementation mean be at best the implicit genocide of anyone who depends on modern medicine to survive, and would drop quality of life dramatically
Kaczynski's overt focus on industrialization was misguided and his call for anarcho-primitivism is untenable. Technology is inherently neutral and only becomes good or bad based on use cases. When greedy corporations push a product meant to occupy your time in order to obtain ad revenue and data for sale, or the state implements excessive surveillance systems, it can be argued that those are poor use cases and bad. When a biomedical engineer creates a life saving medical device that is generally considered a good thing. There is no implicit evil in tech only bad actors and misuse. The issue is that products are designed for monetary purpose based on what is popular and marketable not what is beneficial. The state invests in technology that allows for better control and the ability to be more successful in combat encounters. There is no ability for standard workers or people to decide what technology would benefit them outside of selective consumerism driving the market. Anarcho-primitivism will never be viable as people will always attempt to develop and adapt; societies with resources never stay inert. When the singularity comes and A.I wipes out mankind then we can say he was right haha.
As a British man living three miles south of Evanston, this was a very eye opening subject on a matter I knew fairly little of.
Very refreshing change. Love this episode.
Simon is the Unibomber!
idea for a mega project, "trying to get a girlfriend to pic a restaurant"
Great eposide!
Sorry, life with her was NEVER dull.
No matter what you think of Kaczynski, everything he wrote was correct.
Heh, The man should have never harmed anyone, but damn, the older I get, and with the crap show that 2020 was, and 2021 is turning out to be, I find his Manifesto making much more sense.
In time for Christmas 2021!
Everyone has that one family member in the verge of going full crackpot. Don't stop sending them Christmas cards.
Anarchism has nothing to do with terrorist bombers. Anarchism is a philosophy of challenging unjust hierarchies and mutual aid, often coupled today as Anarcho-Communism (rejecting the need for a centralized state, and workers controlling the means of production). None of this requires random acts of chaos that kills people.
Like any ideology also anarchism includes terrorists and other extremists. The only major leftist group that commits extreme violence here in germany are for example anarchists. Reject the state and government always leads to violence, only rational people can resist against this outcome.
@@derunfassbarebielecki Except he wasn't an Anarchist, because he didn't believe in mutual aid or direct democracy. He was anti-technology. There was no effective critique of unjust hierarchies in his philosophy.
Im doing what i was told and smashed that dislike button
Lone soldier doing good work.
I knew I wasent crazy
You can tell Simon had just recorded a few blazes before this. He’s never more than 3 seconds away from a few f bombs with that cheeky business blaze grin
Great video!!
Great episode Simon & team! Would love to see more like this. Have you done anything on the French Foreign Legion yet?
I find it crazy when he took 6 YEARS off when the infamous, yet pretty anonymous sketch of him was nationally broadcast
MEGAEXCELLENT Sir! Thank you. 🖖
Simon:" Who says that large projects have to be composed of concrete and steel? ..." Simon is a mega-project.
Enjoyed that video.
Pretty soon there will be a podcast recapping all the the Simon podcasts of the week. "Simon's Week in Review" with your host Danny, yes i'm not just writing scripts anymore!
Great vid! IIRC, the famous sketch wasn't even of the Unabomber, but of a previous sketch artist who had spoken to the witness.
Excellent episode Simon! Would love to see more true crime Mega Projects.
I will follow Simon all the way to the record for most active TH-cam channels.
Well researched, well presented, succinct.
This was the best video you've released yet.
perfect timing lol
Yes, this is plenty on time for Christmas 🎄
The typewriter’s name! 😂 with “the end” across the top of the screen.
Simon, I love your offerings like this one when you don't candy up. Thanks.
So who would have thought the unabomber looked like some guy who was pushing a shooing cart full of empty beer cans down the side of the street.
Mega project merch with the unabombers face on it ready for Valentine’s Day!
Love the solemn tone and beautiful writing. This was not only straightforward but insightful by attempting to dispel the belief this was the work of a deranged mad man.
Don't worry Simon. This video gives me PLENTY of time to shop for Christmas 2021. If you meant in time for 2020 though... Umm... Well... I guess the timing is like the rest of 2020.
0:10 There goes Simon, telling me to go catch the Unabomber again
My wife’s fiancé was once suspected of being the Unabomber. After dating in High School and the first two years of College, my future Wife fell in love with another boy. Eventually, I moved on. Their huge wedding was canceled only a week before the big day. Years later after College, we reconnected and eventually married. I lost her to cancer in 2019 after 42 years of marriage and one fantastic son.
Over the years of the Unabomber case, she would say the clues reminded her of her fiancé. I would always say, “what are the odds your fiancé was the Unabomber?” Well, after the Mosser killing in New Jersey, Newsweek ran a huge article on the Unabomber. The famous sketch was on the magazine’s cover. The article listed all of the accumulated clues. She told me how every single clue applied to her fiancé. And the sketch was a dead ringer of her fiancé. I had only met him once and had forgotten his face. She then pulls out of a Polaroid photo of the two. My first question was what the hell was she doing keeping this ducking photo. She ignored my question and said for me to compare the photo to the cover. When I did, I went cold. He was a dead ringer for the Unabomber. Hoodie. Mustache. Aviator glasses. Face.
Neighbor across the street was an FBI agent. She had him come over and repeated what she told me and showed him the photo. Turns out that the neighbor had once been on the Unabomber task force. He said that he wanted to file a pin official report on her fiancé. Funny part. When he came back over with the FBI forms, he was out of his shorts and t-shirt and was now wearing a suit. We all laughed. But he said that he was now on the job and had to dress appropriately. After he left, I told her that if her fiancé is not the Unabomber, he will still have an FBI file forever. It may bite him in the future. She didn’t flinch. I told her that her efforts to expose her fiancé as the Unabomber offset the fact she kept that photo of the two of them. I never mentioned the photo again.
A week later, our neighbor said the FBI was enthusiastic about my wife’s tip. He did match all the clues. Born in Chicago, lived in Utah and San Francisco, etc. However, it was just an amazing series of coincidences. Amazing.
I’ve always wondered if her fiancé ever discovered he was once a fairly serious suspect in the Unabomber case. Life with her was dull.
Moooore like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
he brought out some more of that blaze in this video :)
That deer hoof glue used to make one of the bombs would have made me think he was living in the forest or something, oddly specific