I don’t like the intrusive music, it’s unnecessary and gains nothing, it stifles my own practice on guitar and other conversations. It is oppressive as you are effectively enforcing us to struggle to listen through it in order to hear your actual words, just to assert your claim over our attention. Your best effort of trying to grab us by the ears. It’s a domination trip. 🤮I’m turning the sound off. No on second thought i’m off, this is like being trapped in a lift.
You know, one of the main reasons I love this channel. No AI presenter. I am sick and tired of generic channels with the same generic AI fronting it. That's why I love this channel and watch every episode. Thank you for all your hard work. It is really appreciated.
I too appreciate no AI. But the background music in many videos is killing the narration. I am putting more and more channels in my do not recommend list because of background music levels. 😢
In the 70s , before they had planes ,DHL would hand out free flight tickets to anyone who called them . I did it a couple of times from London to the USA . You went through a special courier customs gate and handed the documents to their rep. It was great .
@@istudios225 The 'couriers' weren't paid it was just a free ticket . The one thing you didn't do was tell a lot of people , corporate businesses would not have been happy if they knew their vital documents were travelling in a Hippie's hand luggage Lol . The best thing was the you didn't have to queue with the other passengers....just straight through the courier checkpoint and then out . Quicker than first class .
I absolutely love the format, tone and approach to storytelling. I'm so sick of AI clips devoid of human storytelling hitting my feed. You have a new subscriber in me, looking forward to your next post!!
@@PeakedInterestI think the same it’s so nice to watch someone who is telling the story themselves, not an interview or podcast a real one on one feeling. I’ve one other favourite person who is like you but I found your video better because of the visuals and she doesn’t do that much. But it’s so annoying hearing the A.I. and the mistakes that are made with the videos as well is so frustrating. But I’m happy that I found your channel. Thank you for this.
@Natasha-2483 thanks for the compliment. I will make mistakes too sometimes I'm a one man operation 90% of the time. Occasionally I hire musicians and artists when the budget allows but I will never ever hire or use AI. On principle I wouldn't because I don't want other creative people to lose their jobs
I agree. I have had so many AI voice videos come up on my recommended but I simply click “do not recommend channel”. If they don’t care more about my time as to give me crappy videos to watch, I don’t care about their wallets. Happily subscribed and bet your channel grows. People are getting seriously sick of AI mispronunciation and cadence.
Wow ! I started working for DHL right out of High School, 1984 - 2010 at JFK airport. Nobody knew how DHL got it’s name except for the recluse Mr. “H” ,. DHL had great *travel benefits* . Employees could sign up to be an International Courier. We literally thought we were bringing important documents to other DHL offices, all over the world. Free flight, a few days in a foreign Country, hanging out with other DHL employees. It was great. I honeymooned in a DHL owned house in Maui, it was not a luxury house, it was a quaint, little beach house, right on the beach. Beautiful. The cost to stay there was a gift for the house like blankets, dishes, utensils, etc. I bought bath and beach towels…. This video about Mr. H is so interesting. No one knew about him, or talked about him. Who knew that being a Courier for DHL was a crime. I’m guilty. 😂 Great documentary, and very interesting. Thank you.
@ lyn, my summer of 84 DHL courier adventure dropped me in JFK for 72 hours. Going around and around the terminal was my only plan! Stopping of at DHL office for a break, an employee came up and asked me if I was the kid from Honolulu and did I have a plan. He called his wife and they decided to bring me home and show me NY. I lost there numbers and now their names. In 72 hours I visited their old neighborhood on 125th street, went to Greenwich village, the Village Vanguard for live jazz, stayed up til daylight at a club talking, played basketball, and literally saw NY with New Yorkers! So much aloha! Thank you. I lost their names and on numbers and always wanted to say thank you
@ lyn, my 72 hour DHL courier layover at JFK was scary. I decided to go and around the terminal in the bus for 2 -3 days was the safest bet. Stopping at the DHL office for water, an employee came up and said to me, Was I the kid from Honolulu?. I said yeah, and he called his wife and they decided to bring my home to his house in Queens. The took me all around NY, old neighborhood 125th st. Village Vanguard, live jazz and I played a basketball game in a park somewhere in Queen's. I lost their phone numbers, but I'm so grateful to this day for the hospitality shown to me!
Fascinating and mostly accurate documentary on the life of DHL founder, controlling owner of United Micronesian Development Association, and Air Micronesia. I was a 20 year Continental Airlines Pilot from 1985 to 2005. I flew for the majority of my career in the Pacific route structure, based in Honolulu and for Air Micronesia/Continental Micronesia out of Guam. I never met Larry personally, but knew several people who hung out with him, air traffic controllers and old time Air Mike pilots, who partied with him, and had plenty of stories to tell. One thing that was a little obscure in the documentary was the fact that Larry eventually sold out his controlling interest in Air Mike to Continental Airlines during my time on Guam in the early '90s, which definitely pushed him over the billionaire threshold. He was a very interesting but extremely eccentric guy with highly questionable morals when it came to sexually interacting with underage girls. The kids in Palau, the Philippines, and Vietnam whom he fathered and who ended up inheriting most of his estate, went from poverty one day, to unimaginable wealth the next. Maybe there's some sort of poetic justice in that! I just hope that their vulnerable young mothers didn't squander the windfall or have the money stolen from them by unscrupulous lawyers or government officials. 👍🐻🇺🇲
There were a few things which I didn't go into too much detail because of the videos run time, a few legal cases and events which were mostly related to him becoming even richer, like the sale to continental for example but you're absolutely right that is what happened
@@PeakedInterest You never mentioned whether the longterm girlfriend ever got any compensation after his death. If she stayed with him for 10 years even after all his philandering she deserved better than to be kicked out onto the curb.
Fascinating stuff. My first job out of high school was working for Adrian Dalsey and his wife at the San Francisco DHL hub in 1974. I can attest to the company being critically cash poor. Paychecks for our meager minimum wage were almost always delayed and the "trucks" we drove were mostly aging VW squarebacks that parts fell off of regularly. You do have it right that a new employee was told they would get to be the courier on the plane to Honolulu every once in a while. You soon found out it was Mr. Dalsey's friends who flew - they needed employees to stick around and hump those bigass rubberized canvas duffle bags full of documents to and from the airport and do the pickups and deliveries. There was a certain paranoia about the contents because of the regulations in some countries. At one point a customer was trying to smuggle Playboy and Hustler mags into Singapore as I recall. That one really freaked out management. And I vaguely remember being told to tell customers to take anything in a paper envelope out of it and just put it in the courier bag. In the plus column, Mr. Dalsey didn't drive that crappy car you're showing him standing by. He had a sweet little Mazda rotary pickup that I got to use once in a while when too many of the VWs were broken. Never met Hillblom, I was out of there by the end of summer.
I worked for DHL working on their system for capturing parcel information. Sending stuff is so much more complicated than you could imagine. > will it fit in an ISO container > can it fit in an aircraft container > is it flammable / toxic / radioactive etc. > do we have to "fudge" the origin labels because we are going through the middle east? and so so so much more. things mysteriously vanishing was a "thing" and we didn't ask too many questions when some agencies told us not too.
My first job was a a courier for DHL in South America. I would pick the packages, deliver and, in between parcels, sell DHL services to banks. Thanks for the amazing story telling!
Dude. We need more calm people like you. And please more more more of stories like this. Amazing job you have done. Big hug from Germany from a new Croatian (born) subscriber
I knew Larry Hillblom. I worked at DHL for 18 years. He actually told me his origin story, while doing cocaine and drinking Southern Comfort (that Larry stole from the bar at B of A building) So I’m watching this closely…because I know how DHL started.
@@llamamama2910 It's overall good. But there are some errors. This is petty, but it's Pat "Donna See" not Don Ni Chee. Adrian and Larry met at the Coop Grocery store in Berkeley. Larry had, I believe it was $6000. The original idea was to simply get free flights to Hawaii. The first customers were Matson, Bank of America and could have been SeaTran but he never mentioned them. He told B of A, that if you let me take your checks in Hawaii and deliver to the Federal Reserve, they could start earning interest 3 days faster. At the SF Christmas party, Larry's main concern was getting laid. He asked me directly, can you get me laid? I laughed...Larry, get in line. I liked him a lot. He apparently trusted me...because he gave me his black Saipan AMEX card and asked me to get anyone a room at Holiday Inn at Union Square. I think I got 10 rooms...one of them..was a suite. I took that one haha...even though I already had a room. I had to be at work at 7AM...so I just stayed up till I left...that was easy given the activities we did in the bathroom. 19:50. That is Marilyn Corral. She was employee #1. When DHL needed an office, they chose Honolulu as their first office. Larry couldn't afford electricity or employees, so he used an answering service. Marilyn was his favorite. They rented an old lawyers office that burned in a fire and the burnt law books were still there. Without any electricity, he ran a cord and mechanic's light and hung it from the ceiling. When he asked Marilyn to work for him , they didn't have a desk...so they used plywood and saw horse for a desk. When the lawsuit came, Larry used those burned law books. The part that is wrong, DHL was a franchise. Each DHL area is owned by someone. Hong Kong, was Po Chung, Philippines was another family....In Middle East, DHL is known as SNAS and it's owned by the royal family....DHL when I left had 98% of the shipping business in the Middle East haha. Larry was no dummy. One of their favorite things, was Larry owned a ranch in Half Moon Bay, and he and Saudi Prince would shoot down Radio Control airplanes with shotguns. He invited me to come shoot them down (I just asked if I could fly them), but alas that never happened. He was desperate for money due to all the legal matters, so that's why he franchised them. I've met Po Chung, the owner of DHL HKG when he came to visit. Larry always wore flip flops, shorts and hawaiian shorts and he often slepted on a cot in the men's room at our 865 Hinkley address. When I asked him why he wore those clothes...he said ...Ken, I have no one to impress. Larry was cheap...REALLY CHEAP. He wore a suit that looked like he got it at JC Penney for our Christmas parties. When he asked to come to my room to party, he reached over the bar when the bartender wasn't looking and he stole a bottle of Southern Comfort. Yes..A billionaire stole booze from the bar. While at the party sitting on a bed, he proceeded to tell me and my friend why he wouldn't sell DHL to UPS when they made him an offer...."Ken, I have a ton of money and I just didn't like them." BTW...the car that Adrian Dalsey is standing next to, was the very first delivery vehicle. It was a Plymouth Duster if I recall. One of the early DHL Corp offices after they found Hawaii timezone too difficult to work with East Coast was on Cherry Drive. I'm pretty sure it was TH-cam's first office....now they're in the Gap's old building across the street. By the way...Robert Lynn was a Lawyer and he did leave very early on....and Marilyn went on to become the Senior Vice President of HR and she was a great lady.
Story's been told many times but this is the best detailed production, great work. I like how he narrates it while drinking tea, unraveling dark mysteries. 🎉❤🇿🇦
@@iridium8341 - Don't feel that you have to ridicule this Larry.... nobody will find you...... they're all convinced that you're dead! Your secret is safe!
Very well done young man , I like your presentation style, I like that you don't include lots of vid that is not really related to you story, Subbed and liked !
I lived in Palau for several years & my “local mom” there was the lady who had a son with Hillblom - he ended up the sole heir for Hillblom’s fortune - a super chill islander guy that rarely wore more than boardshorts & didn’t let his wealth change him - ended up hanging out, drinking, fishing & fruit bat hunting with him quite often @Peaked Interest Great & interesting video ✅
Unfortunately imeong is locked up abroad somewhere in the USA due to drug abuse. Dude could've made alot a positive change but guess he wanted to be another statistic
Well, him and 3 other kids each got $90 million each. The boy from Palau got in trouble for shipping massive amounts of meth for distribution. It's crazy to me to have $90 million and risk it by becoming a drug lord.
Just want to say, I found your channel like a few hours ago and have been bingeing! Your retelling is awesome and respectful. Keep it up, it’s totally an injustice how you don’t have more subs.
I'm just a few minutes into this and can already tell you got a great channel. The intro alone is as high quality as any major television production if not better. Edit: just read some of the other comments. Looks like I'm not alone in this sentiment.
This reminds me of this one time when I faked my own death, scrubbed my house for any trace of DNA, changed my identity, and took off to part unknown with billions of dollars in an offshore bank account.
A strange thing happened to me once, I was stumbling back home from the pub minding my own business when I decided to take a short cut through the park, when I woke up I had no trousers on and ectoplasm on my back, It happened again in a public toilet, They get me when l'm drunk, bloody alien experiments.
I like this laid back storytelling. Calm and not too flashy, and long format. It’s perfect for people like me who watch while I work. Perfect amount of engaging.
I worked at DHL for 36 years…. I partied with Larry at the San Francisco DHL Christmas parties…. There are so many more stories about Larry that never got published. He would roll up in a limo to the SFO Gateway office in a limo and a bunch of young Asian girls would get out after him . He ad a ranch in Half Moon Bay where all kinds of crazy parties would take place. Joe Wecter was his best friend and became VP of DHL. Joe knows more than anyone about Larry. I could go on and on……
That was mostly just because I had a slightly chest infection at the time and needed something to stop my throat drying up while I was talking 🤣 happy accidents eh
Yeah i do too. This video is thr type that utube was designed for. Made by an individual or member of the public, with a not necessarily corporate polished presentation or finish. Its also done in a normal voice, too many other videos on utube have a very annoying type of voice on them. I hope you see what I mean.
@chrisboyslimuk5186 I just try to talk as naturally as possible really. The trick is to imagine someone you're really familiar with where the camera is.
Thanks. I try to find new stories since older ones usually have been covered extensively already. Not easy to find interesting old stories that are interesting
@PeakedInterest the murdered owner of fountain blue, the Algonquin hotel kid, the kid that fled to I think Tortuga and got caught meeting his pparent.
I worked at a DHL Warehouse in Southern California in my early twenties. I've always wondered how payroll checks for a multinational corporation could bounce regularly.. sometimes the payroll accounts were so tight they would cut a whole area's hours in half and then say it was an accounting mistake. I guess I'll finally be finding out.
Now you know, despite being worth millions it was often cash negative as part of a tax management strategy particularly prior to the Deutsche post takeover
I'm really glad at least one person laughed. I don't even know why I wrote that joke, i was messing about while I was writing it and just thought it was really funny 🤣
Very interesting, well paced and well researched video with a intriguing topic that hasn’t been covered by every documentary channel on TH-cam. Lost complete track of time and only realised afterwards I watched for over an hour. Keep up the great work, that’s the kind of content we need more of on TH-cam. ❤️
Thank you for delivering the stories in a calm manner! I have severe anxiety and most channels now talk so fast with no pauses and I just can't handle it!
Well done, mate. Excellent presentation. I clicked on this by chance and man am I glad I did. Subscribed already after watching the intro. I don't know how many subscribers or views you're getting from Vietnam but here's one.
Really? That's awesome. I added Vietnamese subtitles (though they're probably not great) especially for this video. I think you might be the first from Vietnam
Very well researched. In fact I think your documentary about Hillblom is among the best. I felt you could have mentioned his counter-intuitive belief on statistics. He became even more careless regarding his personal planes following his first crash because be believed he beat the odds. I'm confident he didn't survive the second crash.
Really great formatting and your cadence is colloquial without being too casual. It really feels like you're talking to me, the viewer, in my lounge, as if you're telling me this story "off the cuff". Looking forward to watching your other videos mate.
Rare comment, the bit marked credits in the beginning was unusually good. You managed to deliver important info in a dynamic way such that your audience can acknowledge authors and patrons without feeling obligatory or disengaging. That's ethos and craftskill coming together.
Great documentary! I heard about Larrry's disappearance a couple of years ago when I was watching some other YT video. Not much else was said than pretty much the last thing you said. In many ways Larry and John McAfee is very similar as individuals, both having strange deaths / disappearance / possibly fake death.
I've never heard any of this story before either and it's fascinating. As soon as he said dude lived on those Islands I figured thats what he was into.
@ShawnCrigger I was same, as soon as I heard "billionaire living in south east Asia" I thought the same. I even lived there for a while during research and it's extremely common to see foreign men, usually European or American with questionably young girls out there.
@@PeakedInterest that sucks, I've always wanted to visit seems like such a beautiful area with so much interesting culture to explore, Asia is a really interesting area for me probably because there really wasn't much taught about it in school unlike say Ancient Greek or Egypt. But anyway thanks for telling a very interesting story. Good luck on your channel I'll check out some more of your vids for certain
Instead of the big bang, I thought you were going to say "I grew up a middle-class kid. I was raised by a hardworking mother, who like so many people across our nation..."
Algorithm pushed me here, and this is the first video of your's I've watched. I haven't even finished it yet but I'm compelled to comment that the depth of reaearch, approachable presentation of information, editing, and tone are all superb. Subbed and looking forward to more.
Thank you. Nice to know the algorithm is pushing me for a change. If you sort the videos on my channel by popularity you might like some of those videos too. Anatoly bugorsky, hishahi ouchi might be of interest. Welcome aboard !
Congratulations friends. Your efforts were successful because I found this through the algorithm. Thank you for your efforts, I have subrscribed and now have a new channel to watch.
… the day he died his later became the head of the bank?!! And the executor of his will, the lawyer also got a tray 9% per year??? Wow. A definite set up
Absolutely fascinating story. In the early 90s the computer game Leisure suit Larry was quite famous or rather quite infamous. Made me laugh when I seen your reference to that game. Very lucky to have found your channel ... I subscribed. Around ten years ago I heard from a few American expats that lots were essentially forced out of business and owning property in Saipan by Uncle Sam. There’s a story to investigate as well. Seems like the wild legacy of Larry was part of reason why.
I remember back in the 70s hearing about free airplane tickets provided to people who carried business papers in a second piece of luggage (back then American-based flights allowed two 80lb bags).
@@82jp also more deaths and more plane crashes also more people getting drunk and getting into fights on planes also more planes not taken off because there’s not enough planes to takeoff in the 70s yeah that was a great time to be in flying when you guys were the guinea pigs of possibly dying in the situations that today would never happen😂
Great documentary! Just a bit of feedback: when transitioning between cuts that show images or videos and then return to your living room, it would help to maintain continuity to enhance the storytelling effect. For example, if you’re sitting back with a mug in your hand, it’s better to return in the same position (unless it’s a deliberate subchapter cut) to create a seamless flow. This avoids breaking the immersion, such as by appearing in a different posture or without the mug, as an example.
Hi, your videos are incredibly well put together, the intro effects and editing are amazing! Not sure how you aren't getting far bigger views as some tv series aren't as good as this!
That's very flattering, thank you. I can only hope. The TH-cam audience is a fickle one and thanks to shorts and Mr beast the attention span is so small now that long video don't get promoted by the algorithm as much
@@PeakedInterest Yep defo agree the 3 sec cut theme gets annoying but holds short attention spans. i try not cut too often in my little review vids...but i like your documentary style and depth! The intro scenes or one of them i think could be a better thumbnail though, as personally when i saw that intro i actually forgot what the thumbnail was. I hope u get to a million subs soon!
I have joined DHL in '96 and they gave us induction training and a bit of the history of the company. The official version was that he crashed and died and of course they did not say anything about his dark sides. The company's shares were already owned by 3 companies: Japan Airlines, Lufthansa and Nissho Iwai. I worked 8 years in the IT department. Before 2000 it was heaven :) DHL owned more than 50% of the market and there were no domestic courier companies. So the financial status was quite good, the company spent a lot of money on social events (like free pub day every week, 2 days long company days on every summer with free food&drink&bed). I literally grew up in the company :) I was 22 only when I joined and 30 when I left. Just a fun fact: DHL is present in more countries than CocaCola (at least it was by that time).
I'll bet I know you. I started at netexpress in 87 and dhl twin dolphin drive in 89, I Landed the day of the quake, we had to pickup all the tapes in data center and used the network to connect to the teletype in east coast customer support and had them call random people to tell them they were okay since the phones were out all over the sfo area. I stayed at hotel sofitel for 1.5 years until they decided to keep me I was on expense the whole time. Dinners at chart house and luxury cars not to mention trips to reno and vegas while keeping the redwood city hotel. Nobody will ever do that again. Actually my boss sent me to Mexico city to do repairs, it was actually a repair and a vacation with a tour it coincided with office politics so one very bad manager couldn't use me for questions. The manager who sent me was the best guy ever i miss working for him. People nowadays will never know how awesome the early 90s IT was. I miss Sun gear personally and to extent sgi..
Your documentaries are becoming better and better each time!!! I never knew anything about this topic at all and I love learning about new topics - so I'm here to stay haha:) The intro graphics were sooooo good!
I worked for DHL in the US for 27 years starting in 1985. Larry was a legendary figure; the stories ranged from humorous to downright disturbing. My favorite theory about his disappearance involved Larry faking his death and moving into a property that he came to own (illegally) in Da Nang, Vietnam.
For me the narrator's voice is everything. Great job on video. Although I did not mind the music I wish you would turn it down a little bit I'd rather hear you than the music
@@PeakedInterest Also on the subject of music, are you aware of where the music you use at 43:38 ish is from? (Just checking in case you didn't realize.)
Only listened on the workshop speaker system and never once lost track (didn’t need to rewind 100 times) to many similar channels babble on way too much and I lose interest very fast. Well done, great doco vid 👍
Thank you, I try to keep in mind that a lot of TH-cam viewers (myself included) listen far more than they watch so I try to design videos with that in mind so that visual references reflect the dialogue and don't necessarily *need* to be seen they
Subscribed in the first minutes. I like documentaries and this looks well done. Thank you! My spirits are in a very bad place. I’m blessed in many ways but not in others. Any relief is much appreciated.
Great storytelling. I have worked in Air Cargo most of my adult life, flying for one company or another including DHL. Very sad and tragic end...true visionary in my line of work.
Lets be honest he didn't break the government, the government was more than willing due to it's rich donors, made nice loopholes for the rich and pretend like they didn't know and that there is nothing that can be done.
Hi, tuning in from the West of Scotland. This was an interesting story told really well. I’ve never heard of it before so i enjoyed watching it. Take care 😘🏴
FYI, Saipan is part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas; a group of islands in the Marianas archipelago. Guam, a U.S. Territory, is the Southern most and largest island of the archipelago. The islands are in Micronesia, however, we are no where near SEAsia. The Marianas are in the Western Pacific.
I’m from Saipan. I remember being able to see Hillbloom’s castle from the main road, seemingly suspended by the greenery that surrounded it. Being one of the poorer locals on the island, Hillbloom’s home resembled something out of a fantasy movie or a fairy tale to me. When he died, there was this crazy power struggle for his money; women coming out of the woodwork claiming to be mothers of his illegitimate children. I was a kid when all that went down but I remember my family saying, aside from his home, you’d never know he was from money. He dressed casually with shorts and flip flops. For someone who had so much, he was practically invisible.
That's interesting, thanks for sharing. Are your family members' opinions of him positive? Did any of them ever meet him or interact with him in any way? Also, do you think he had a positive impact on the island overall or not? I'm curious what the result of his death was for the locals living there at the time and since then.
@ I had to ask my older sister to see if my memory was right, she corrected me on the home. The mansion I knew to be his was another wealthy white man’s on the island lol. She said that that’s how lowkey he was on the island, even his home was of modest means. My sister, born in ‘72 (I was born in ‘87), said that he was a majority shareholder in Continental Air Micronesia, which was our main means of travel and was bought by United. He was a businessman, a lawyer, and a judge. From the way she speaks of him, it sounds like he was more of a community servant than a multi millionaire. I had to ask her seeing as I was only 6 when all that went down lol.
@@tsuobachi no problem! I’d fact check that though because we saw how reliable my own memory was lol! I haven’t been home in decades, couldn’t tell you what the place looks like now.
As an owner and pilot myself, please note that the wings stalled and not the engine (as you state at 50:50). Airplanes are not helicopters so when you pull back too far (increase the angle of attack too much), you stall the airplane. Even with full engine power, the craft will fall to the ground.
When I worked at DHL Houston I went into a delivery van for a ridealong and a bum was asleep in the back. We woke him up and told him we'd have him arrested he said he wanted to see the station manager. When the manager came out the dirty smelly bum introduced himself as Hillbloom, it turned out he was, he made the manager give him all the money in the safe and then asked us to drive him around in the van, he sat in back, the driver was told where to go and then larry got out and after a few minutes he returned. After he got back in the van he ordered the driver to drive around while Larry smoked crack. You may think I'm making this up but i swear it's true. It was about 7 months later his plane crashed, everyone thought he got assassinated because he was a Junkie and he brought peoples opinion down by doing drugs and getting prostitutes.
Hello Peaked! This was great. You are so down to earth and just come across as a regular friend type person. Very easy listen too! Thanks for this deep dive. I had no clue about the company’s beginnings and government struggles. You have a new subscriber. Thanks
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@Marzipan_Magnat thanks 😊
I don’t like the intrusive music, it’s unnecessary and gains nothing, it stifles my own practice on guitar and other conversations. It is oppressive as you are effectively enforcing us to struggle to listen through it in order to hear your actual words, just to assert your claim over our attention. Your best effort of trying to grab us by the ears. It’s a domination trip. 🤮I’m turning the sound off. No on second thought i’m off, this is like being trapped in a lift.
I remember all those yellow DHL trucks & vans driving around ....
@@mygreatbigfoot1679bye Felicia 👋🏻🙄
You know, one of the main reasons I love this channel. No AI presenter. I am sick and tired of generic channels with the same generic AI fronting it. That's why I love this channel and watch every episode. Thank you for all your hard work. It is really appreciated.
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Yes exactly what I was thinking when watching ❤❤❤
Another 100%!
Grow the F up.
I too appreciate no AI. But the background music in many videos is killing the narration. I am putting more and more channels in my do not recommend list because of background music levels. 😢
In the 70s , before they had planes ,DHL would hand out free flight tickets to anyone who called them . I did it a couple of times from London to the USA . You went through a special courier customs gate and handed the documents to their rep.
It was great .
How was the plane ride? Any good?
@@SuacyFUG it was a normal passenger liner
I actually met a couple of people who were doing this. Called themselves 'couriers". I thought, what a cool job!
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It was a normal economy seat .
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The 'couriers' weren't paid it was just a free ticket . The one thing you didn't do was tell a lot of people , corporate businesses would not have been happy if they knew their vital documents were travelling in a Hippie's hand luggage Lol .
The best thing was the you didn't have to queue with the other passengers....just straight through the courier checkpoint and then out . Quicker than first class .
I absolutely love the format, tone and approach to storytelling. I'm so sick of AI clips devoid of human storytelling hitting my feed. You have a new subscriber in me, looking forward to your next post!!
Thank you. You could try my videos on ; Dave Shaw, hisashi ouchi and omaira Sanchez while you wait. They're also human interest stories
@@PeakedInterestI think the same it’s so nice to watch someone who is telling the story themselves, not an interview or podcast a real one on one feeling. I’ve one other favourite person who is like you but I found your video better because of the visuals and she doesn’t do that much. But it’s so annoying hearing the A.I. and the mistakes that are made with the videos as well is so frustrating.
But I’m happy that I found your channel. Thank you for this.
@Natasha-2483 thanks for the compliment. I will make mistakes too sometimes I'm a one man operation 90% of the time. Occasionally I hire musicians and artists when the budget allows but I will never ever hire or use AI. On principle I wouldn't because I don't want other creative people to lose their jobs
I agree. I have had so many AI voice videos come up on my recommended but I simply click “do not recommend channel”. If they don’t care more about my time as to give me crappy videos to watch, I don’t care about their wallets. Happily subscribed and bet your channel grows. People are getting seriously sick of AI mispronunciation and cadence.
The instant I hear those robot A.I voices or thumbnails,I’m gone.
So yes I agree,this was refreshing.
Wow ! I started working for DHL right out of High School, 1984 - 2010 at JFK airport. Nobody knew how DHL got it’s name except for the recluse Mr. “H” ,. DHL had great *travel benefits* . Employees could sign up to be an International Courier. We literally thought we were bringing important documents to other DHL offices, all over the world. Free flight, a few days in a foreign Country, hanging out with other DHL employees. It was great. I honeymooned in a DHL owned house in Maui, it was not a luxury house, it was a quaint, little beach house, right on the beach. Beautiful. The cost to stay there was a gift for the house like blankets, dishes, utensils, etc. I bought bath and beach towels…. This video about Mr. H is so interesting. No one knew about him, or talked about him. Who knew that being a Courier for DHL was a crime. I’m guilty. 😂 Great documentary, and very interesting. Thank you.
@ lyn, my summer of 84 DHL courier adventure dropped me in JFK for 72 hours. Going around and around the terminal was my only plan! Stopping of at DHL office for a break, an employee came up and asked me if I was the kid from Honolulu and did I have a plan. He called his wife and they decided to bring me home and show me NY. I lost there numbers and now their names. In 72 hours I visited their old neighborhood on 125th street, went to Greenwich village, the Village Vanguard for live jazz, stayed up til daylight at a club talking, played basketball, and literally saw NY with New Yorkers! So much aloha! Thank you. I lost their names and on numbers and always wanted to say thank you
@ lyn, my 72 hour DHL courier layover at JFK was scary. I decided to go and around the terminal in the bus for 2 -3 days was the safest bet. Stopping at the DHL office for water, an employee came up and said to me, Was I the kid from Honolulu?. I said yeah, and he called his wife and they decided to bring my home to his house in Queens. The took me all around NY, old neighborhood 125th st. Village Vanguard, live jazz and I played a basketball game in a park somewhere in Queen's. I lost their phone numbers, but I'm so grateful to this day for the hospitality shown to me!
@@MarkFranklin-ws5jf Nice ! 🤙🏼
Thanks for sharing
Finally a premium vid worthy of being called a documentary. Well done mate, very informative!
Oooh look at the algorithm actually suggesting interesting content.
Subbed.
Thanks very much, welcome aboard
Same!
Same!
@@PeakedInterest Am so impressed, I have been binge watching your content.
Bloody hooked 👍🏾😆😉
@@krasje28 makes a change doesn't it.
Fascinating and mostly accurate documentary on the life of DHL founder, controlling owner of United Micronesian Development Association, and Air Micronesia. I was a 20 year Continental Airlines Pilot from 1985 to 2005. I flew for the majority of my career in the Pacific route structure, based in Honolulu and for Air Micronesia/Continental Micronesia out of Guam. I never met Larry personally, but knew several people who hung out with him, air traffic controllers and old time Air Mike pilots, who partied with him, and had plenty of stories to tell. One thing that was a little obscure in the documentary was the fact that Larry eventually sold out his controlling interest in Air Mike to Continental Airlines during my time on Guam in the early '90s, which definitely pushed him over the billionaire threshold. He was a very interesting but extremely eccentric guy with highly questionable morals when it came to sexually interacting with underage girls. The kids in Palau, the Philippines, and Vietnam whom he fathered and who ended up inheriting most of his estate, went from poverty one day, to unimaginable wealth the next. Maybe there's some sort of poetic justice in that! I just hope that their vulnerable young mothers didn't squander the windfall or have the money stolen from them by unscrupulous lawyers or government officials. 👍🐻🇺🇲
There were a few things which I didn't go into too much detail because of the videos run time, a few legal cases and events which were mostly related to him becoming even richer, like the sale to continental for example but you're absolutely right that is what happened
You don’t even know what you’re talking about. First of all, he used to be my neighbor so I know everything about him!!!! He’s in my freezer right now
@@PeakedInterest You never mentioned whether the longterm girlfriend ever got any compensation after his death. If she stayed with him for 10 years even after all his philandering she deserved better than to be kicked out onto the curb.
Bro!
An interesting story, good production, and very well narrated.
Fascinating stuff. My first job out of high school was working for Adrian Dalsey and his wife at the San Francisco DHL hub in 1974. I can attest to the company being critically cash poor. Paychecks for our meager minimum wage were almost always delayed and the "trucks" we drove were mostly aging VW squarebacks that parts fell off of regularly. You do have it right that a new employee was told they would get to be the courier on the plane to Honolulu every once in a while. You soon found out it was Mr. Dalsey's friends who flew - they needed employees to stick around and hump those bigass rubberized canvas duffle bags full of documents to and from the airport and do the pickups and deliveries. There was a certain paranoia about the contents because of the regulations in some countries. At one point a customer was trying to smuggle Playboy and Hustler mags into Singapore as I recall. That one really freaked out management. And I vaguely remember being told to tell customers to take anything in a paper envelope out of it and just put it in the courier bag. In the plus column, Mr. Dalsey didn't drive that crappy car you're showing him standing by. He had a sweet little Mazda rotary pickup that I got to use once in a while when too many of the VWs were broken. Never met Hillblom, I was out of there by the end of summer.
I worked for DHL working on their system for capturing parcel information. Sending stuff is so much more complicated than you could imagine.
> will it fit in an ISO container
> can it fit in an aircraft container
> is it flammable / toxic / radioactive etc.
> do we have to "fudge" the origin labels because we are going through the middle east?
and so so so much more. things mysteriously vanishing was a "thing" and we didn't ask too many questions when some agencies told us not too.
I think he recklessly killed 2 people with him, otherwise he'd have done it alone.
TH-cam has been trying to get me to watch this the last few weeks, i finally gave in, loved it, subbed and cant wait for more!
I'm floored by this intro! Sooooo good!! Better than the majority of docs from mainstream production houses. Good job!
I've been working on this for a very long time so I wanted to make sure it was a really good video
@@PeakedInterestyou did good sir, very good.
Definitely has that Narcos intro vibe inspiration
My first job was a a courier for DHL in South America. I would pick the packages, deliver and, in between parcels, sell DHL services to banks. Thanks for the amazing story telling!
Thanks for stopping by to watch ☺️
What did you end up doing?
Hey, just stumbled across this video and your excellent channel. Subbed of course.👍
Prove it.
I went to college with Larry and the word was he had a micro P E N I S. I'm guessing that is why he liked sound virgins so much.
the algorithm occasionally suggests great content like this. Love it when it does
Dude. We need more calm people like you. And please more more more of stories like this. Amazing job you have done. Big hug from Germany from a new Croatian (born) subscriber
I knew Larry Hillblom. I worked at DHL for 18 years. He actually told me his origin story, while doing cocaine and drinking Southern Comfort (that Larry stole from the bar at B of A building) So I’m watching this closely…because I know how DHL started.
Tell us the origin story
@@llamamama2910 It's overall good. But there are some errors. This is petty, but it's Pat "Donna See" not Don Ni Chee. Adrian and Larry met at the Coop Grocery store in Berkeley. Larry had, I believe it was $6000. The original idea was to simply get free flights to Hawaii. The first customers were Matson, Bank of America and could have been SeaTran but he never mentioned them. He told B of A, that if you let me take your checks in Hawaii and deliver to the Federal Reserve, they could start earning interest 3 days faster. At the SF Christmas party, Larry's main concern was getting laid. He asked me directly, can you get me laid? I laughed...Larry, get in line. I liked him a lot. He apparently trusted me...because he gave me his black Saipan AMEX card and asked me to get anyone a room at Holiday Inn at Union Square. I think I got 10 rooms...one of them..was a suite. I took that one haha...even though I already had a room. I had to be at work at 7AM...so I just stayed up till I left...that was easy given the activities we did in the bathroom. 19:50. That is Marilyn Corral. She was employee #1. When DHL needed an office, they chose Honolulu as their first office. Larry couldn't afford electricity or employees, so he used an answering service. Marilyn was his favorite. They rented an old lawyers office that burned in a fire and the burnt law books were still there. Without any electricity, he ran a cord and mechanic's light and hung it from the ceiling. When he asked Marilyn to work for him , they didn't have a desk...so they used plywood and saw horse for a desk. When the lawsuit came, Larry used those burned law books. The part that is wrong, DHL was a franchise. Each DHL area is owned by someone. Hong Kong, was Po Chung, Philippines was another family....In Middle East, DHL is known as SNAS and it's owned by the royal family....DHL when I left had 98% of the shipping business in the Middle East haha. Larry was no dummy. One of their favorite things, was Larry owned a ranch in Half Moon Bay, and he and Saudi Prince would shoot down Radio Control airplanes with shotguns. He invited me to come shoot them down (I just asked if I could fly them), but alas that never happened. He was desperate for money due to all the legal matters, so that's why he franchised them. I've met Po Chung, the owner of DHL HKG when he came to visit. Larry always wore flip flops, shorts and hawaiian shorts and he often slepted on a cot in the men's room at our 865 Hinkley address. When I asked him why he wore those clothes...he said ...Ken, I have no one to impress. Larry was cheap...REALLY CHEAP. He wore a suit that looked like he got it at JC Penney for our Christmas parties. When he asked to come to my room to party, he reached over the bar when the bartender wasn't looking and he stole a bottle of Southern Comfort. Yes..A billionaire stole booze from the bar. While at the party sitting on a bed, he proceeded to tell me and my friend why he wouldn't sell DHL to UPS when they made him an offer...."Ken, I have a ton of money and I just didn't like them." BTW...the car that Adrian Dalsey is standing next to, was the very first delivery vehicle. It was a Plymouth Duster if I recall. One of the early DHL Corp offices after they found Hawaii timezone too difficult to work with East Coast was on Cherry Drive. I'm pretty sure it was TH-cam's first office....now they're in the Gap's old building across the street. By the way...Robert Lynn was a Lawyer and he did leave very early on....and Marilyn went on to become the Senior Vice President of HR and she was a great lady.
Liar
@@Jankybro I posted a very long reply yesterday and it's gone. I will post again. Maybe TH-cam deleted it due to content?? I don't know.
@@llamamama2910 I posted a reply yesterday...I don't know what happened to it. I will re-write ish.
Story's been told many times but this is the best detailed production, great work. I like how he narrates it while drinking tea, unraveling dark mysteries. 🎉❤🇿🇦
Thanks, I worked pretty hard on it so this comment is very vindicating
It's great if you like BS. It uses the same tricks as most MSM outlets.
how do you know that it is tea??
@@iridium8341 - Don't feel that you have to ridicule this Larry.... nobody will find you...... they're all convinced that you're dead! Your secret is safe!
Very well done young man , I like your presentation style, I like that you don't include lots of vid that is not really related to you story, Subbed and liked !
Thanks very much, I try to just tell interesting stories in an engaging way
The guy is sorta like John McAfee before John McAfee
SOB Mcafee?
@@SPlRlT1antivirus guy
No not the same John...John McAfee invented the first anti virus if you haven't heard his story you gotta look it up!! @@SPlRlT1
I thought the EXACT same thing! This story is EERILY similar to McAfees!
@lee6704 rigggghgjjjjjttttt
Great delivery and format, subbed less than a minute in. Quality storytelling is in such short supply.
I lived in Palau for several years & my “local mom” there was the lady who had a son with Hillblom - he ended up the sole heir for Hillblom’s fortune - a super chill islander guy that rarely wore more than boardshorts & didn’t let his wealth change him - ended up hanging out, drinking, fishing & fruit bat hunting with him quite often @Peaked Interest Great & interesting video ✅
Unfortunately imeong is locked up abroad somewhere in the USA due to drug abuse. Dude could've made alot a positive change but guess he wanted to be another statistic
@ damn, unfortunate to hear… appreciate the update
Wait - in the video it sounded like the numerous different kids would all get some piece. Why did only one kid become the sole heir?
@ his main baby mama + how he structured it (what they told me)
Well, him and 3 other kids each got $90 million each. The boy from Palau got in trouble for shipping massive amounts of meth for distribution. It's crazy to me to have $90 million and risk it by becoming a drug lord.
Just want to say, I found your channel like a few hours ago and have been bingeing! Your retelling is awesome and respectful. Keep it up, it’s totally an injustice how you don’t have more subs.
I found it a mere two hours ago. I should just go away.
I'm just a few minutes into this and can already tell you got a great channel. The intro alone is as high quality as any major television production if not better.
Edit: just read some of the other comments. Looks like I'm not alone in this sentiment.
People have been very kind and complimentary, I just try to find an interesting way to tell an informative story. Appreciate the kind words
This reminds me of this one time when I faked my own death, scrubbed my house for any trace of DNA, changed my identity, and took off to part unknown with billions of dollars in an offshore bank account.
A strange thing happened to me once, I was stumbling back home from the pub minding my own business when I decided to take a short cut through the park, when I woke up I had no trousers on and ectoplasm on my back, It happened again in a public toilet, They get me when l'm drunk, bloody alien experiments.
Lol.
Is that you Larry?
Diddy did it?
@@recommens-comedy-central9761
Darn...You Used Your Real Photo 😅
I like this laid back storytelling. Calm and not too flashy, and long format. It’s perfect for people like me who watch while I work. Perfect amount of engaging.
I worked at DHL for 36 years…. I partied with Larry at the San Francisco DHL Christmas parties…. There are so many more stories about Larry that never got published. He would roll up in a limo to the SFO Gateway office in a limo and a bunch of young Asian girls would get out after him .
He ad a ranch in Half Moon Bay where all kinds of crazy parties would take place.
Joe Wecter was his best friend and became VP of DHL. Joe knows more than anyone about Larry. I could go on and on……
I’m not even mad…when you have that kind of money and time on your hand, you HAVE to amuse yourself somehow!? 😅
You could write one more book about the guy and his company, given the interest.
"and a bunch of young Asian girls would get out after him ."
Giggity GIggity
Tell the stories before they are lost to time
Um please do go on and on. Be one with your keyboard! We’re waiting 🧘 😂
I really dig the comfy vibe! Telling a nice long story like we’re chatting over a coffee table ✨
That was mostly just because I had a slightly chest infection at the time and needed something to stop my throat drying up while I was talking 🤣 happy accidents eh
A really good story teller and I was on the edge all the time.... Knew a little about this guy but it was thrilling to follow it thru.....
Yeah i do too. This video is thr type that utube was designed for. Made by an individual or member of the public, with a not necessarily corporate polished presentation or finish. Its also done in a normal voice, too many other videos on utube have a very annoying type of voice on them. I hope you see what I mean.
@chrisboyslimuk5186 I just try to talk as naturally as possible really. The trick is to imagine someone you're really familiar with where the camera is.
Cool story. So much better than when the biggest channels all jump on the bandwagon of the subject du jour. New subscriber.
Thanks. I try to find new stories since older ones usually have been covered extensively already. Not easy to find interesting old stories that are interesting
@PeakedInterest the murdered owner of fountain blue, the Algonquin hotel kid, the kid that fled to I think Tortuga and got caught meeting his pparent.
I worked at a DHL Warehouse in Southern California in my early twenties. I've always wondered how payroll checks for a multinational corporation could bounce regularly.. sometimes the payroll accounts were so tight they would cut a whole area's hours in half and then say it was an accounting mistake. I guess I'll finally be finding out.
Now you know, despite being worth millions it was often cash negative as part of a tax management strategy particularly prior to the Deutsche post takeover
Larry’s personally taking your pay checks 😅
I went to college with Lsrry, and word is he had a micro P E N I S. I think that's why he was so angry.
Really good production and great story telling. You've gained yourself a new subscriber!
I haven't subscribed to a channel in months, props for the superb production and fun narrative. Cheers.
You actually made me laugh out loud at work with “4.4 BILLION YEARS AGO…”
I'm really glad at least one person laughed. I don't even know why I wrote that joke, i was messing about while I was writing it and just thought it was really funny 🤣
Wow... just wow.
Laffy Taffy and knock knock jokes you can see coming from a mile away must make you absolutely lose you mind.
@ do you get something out of being an elitist to strangers?
@@Toy_Tombthey probably do 😂
Bet the manager came thru and thought someone having a good time’here comes a write up or they made u work harder😂 just to make the manager laugh
Quality documentary making, done personally, whatever the subject, is good. Appreciated, liked, subscribed.
I've never heard of this, really interesting. And I love the visual shift here, no stock footage, your sit down sharing of the story, great stuff!
Well someone said recently (maybe you im not sure) they preferred no stock footage so I tried to take that on board
Very interesting, well paced and well researched video with a intriguing topic that hasn’t been covered by every documentary channel on TH-cam. Lost complete track of time and only realised afterwards I watched for over an hour. Keep up the great work, that’s the kind of content we need more of on TH-cam. ❤️
Thank you for delivering the stories in a calm manner! I have severe anxiety and most channels now talk so fast with no pauses and I just can't handle it!
The shady methods of Loomis disgust me so much that I will never use them for cash transport services for my business!
Sadly I think this type of thing is pretty common in a lot of businesses
Very common in the big business arena .....not a fun time when you have huge competition jealous and greedy
some of your best editing work ! this video is great
Thank you. I am always trying new things, I don't want to every video to be formulaic
Well done, mate. Excellent presentation. I clicked on this by chance and man am I glad I did. Subscribed already after watching the intro. I don't know how many subscribers or views you're getting from Vietnam but here's one.
Really? That's awesome. I added Vietnamese subtitles (though they're probably not great) especially for this video. I think you might be the first from Vietnam
How is this not already a Netflix limited series???
Unreal output now mate! Love it!
How have I not heard of this one before!? :O Thanks for sharing this!!
I was the same when I stumbled across the story two years ago, I was shocked I'd never heard the story especially with how ubiquitous DHL is.
Very well researched. In fact I think your documentary about Hillblom is among the best. I felt you could have mentioned his counter-intuitive belief on statistics. He became even more careless regarding his personal planes following his first crash because be believed he beat the odds. I'm confident he didn't survive the second crash.
Thats true, such an unusual mentality
@@PeakedInterest a unique example of survivorship bias for sure
Agreed
Best thing I've watched on TH-cam all year. Well done make some more
Really great formatting and your cadence is colloquial without being too casual. It really feels like you're talking to me, the viewer, in my lounge, as if you're telling me this story "off the cuff". Looking forward to watching your other videos mate.
Rare comment, the bit marked credits in the beginning was unusually good. You managed to deliver important info in a dynamic way such that your audience can acknowledge authors and patrons without feeling obligatory or disengaging. That's ethos and craftskill coming together.
That's extremely kind praise, thank you. I try to think about it from the viewers perspective, I watch a lot of TH-cam myself
You, sir, are an amazing storyteller! Love that format and quality. Subscribed for sure!
Thanks very much, I try to my best.
Great job on both the subject / story and delivery, look forward to watching more of your work.
Thanks very much. Hopefully you won't be disappointed
That was a deep dive into an obscure story that I wasn't expecting to sit down and watch in one sitting. Thanks. That was quite interesting.
Good job man you're doing great! Keep it up and please don't change too much this documentary is chef's kiss.
Great documentary! I heard about Larrry's disappearance a couple of years ago when I was watching some other YT video. Not much else was said than pretty much the last thing you said.
In many ways Larry and John McAfee is very similar as individuals, both having strange deaths / disappearance / possibly fake death.
I drew the same parallel between those two as well. Macafee is a wild story himself.
I was thinking about McAfee while watching this too, what a strange unit of a man 😅
Fascinating story. I never heard of any of this before.
I stumbled across it two years ago and have been working on it ever since
I've never heard any of this story before either and it's fascinating. As soon as he said dude lived on those Islands I figured thats what he was into.
@ShawnCrigger I was same, as soon as I heard "billionaire living in south east Asia" I thought the same. I even lived there for a while during research and it's extremely common to see foreign men, usually European or American with questionably young girls out there.
@@PeakedInterest that sucks, I've always wanted to visit seems like such a beautiful area with so much interesting culture to explore, Asia is a really interesting area for me probably because there really wasn't much taught about it in school unlike say Ancient Greek or Egypt. But anyway thanks for telling a very interesting story. Good luck on your channel I'll check out some more of your vids for certain
@ShawnCrigger it is still very much worth visiting. Beautiful place, great food and people are really friendly
Instead of the big bang, I thought you were going to say "I grew up a middle-class kid. I was raised by a hardworking mother, who like so many people across our nation..."
Just a bit of levity for a moment.
1st time viewer, The DHL is a story I’ve not heard before. Keep up the good work 👍.
Very good channel. You guys are making quality level TV shows on a TH-cam Budget. You guys are doing great!
I think you did an incredible job investigating and retelling the story.
Olé!
Thank you, that's very high praise
Algorithm pushed me here, and this is the first video of your's I've watched. I haven't even finished it yet but I'm compelled to comment that the depth of reaearch, approachable presentation of information, editing, and tone are all superb. Subbed and looking forward to more.
Thank you. Nice to know the algorithm is pushing me for a change. If you sort the videos on my channel by popularity you might like some of those videos too. Anatoly bugorsky, hishahi ouchi might be of interest.
Welcome aboard !
also, just noticing your body language cues are really spot on. they really give the effect of having something explained to you by a friend.
Algorithm Booster ❤
Thanks mate 🙂
❤
I'm doing my part
@@jcrazzi me too
Congratulations friends. Your efforts were successful because I found this through the algorithm. Thank you for your efforts, I have subrscribed and now have a new channel to watch.
I just stumbled across your channel, and wow, your videos are absolutely riveting. Can't wait to binge the rest of them!
Best documentary on YT!! Great job....had never heard of this guy!!
Thank you for always putting great effort into your content, it shows and is always greatly appreciated! Very interesting and well made video🙌
Thank you, a good story is only a good story if it's told well
… the day he died his later became the head of the bank?!! And the executor of his will, the lawyer also got a tray 9% per year??? Wow. A definite set up
This is extremely well put together 👏🏽 subbed
Thank you, maximum effort is my motto. Especially when it's a big hour long video that's been two years in the making
Same, hooked and I'm only halfway thru my first video
The algorithm suggested this to me. I like it. Keep it up!
Awesome work buddy! 💪🏻
Really enjoyed it!
Absolutely fascinating story. In the early 90s the computer game Leisure suit Larry was quite famous or rather quite infamous. Made me laugh when I seen your reference to that game. Very lucky to have found your channel ... I subscribed. Around ten years ago I heard from a few American expats that lots were essentially forced out of business and owning property in Saipan by Uncle Sam. There’s a story to investigate as well. Seems like the wild legacy of Larry was part of reason why.
I remember back in the 70s hearing about free airplane tickets provided to people who carried business papers in a second piece of luggage (back then American-based flights allowed two 80lb bags).
Man those were the days. Flying is like riding a bus in the sky now. Packed in like sardines, no meals, no extra baggage without paying...
@@82jp also more deaths and more plane crashes also more people getting drunk and getting into fights on planes also more planes not taken off because there’s not enough planes to takeoff in the 70s yeah that was a great time to be in flying when you guys were the guinea pigs of possibly dying in the situations that today would never happen😂
Wow, thanks for the great history and how well you have put this together! Great work! I’m subscribing!
Thank you, welcome aboard!
Wow. Great job. I think this is one of the best documentaries i have seen in years! Everytime i see a dhl van or jet i will be reminded of this.
I saw one the other day and Immediately thought of this story. Thanks for the kind words 😊
not often i watch a whole documentary in one sitting. brilliant story telling.
Nice recommendation, algorithm. My interest peaked!
Nice to hear some are finding this via the algorithm
Great video!! Thanks for starting it immediately. Think the algorithm likes that 😊
Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. Algo likes that too
Your videos are always fascinating and well made
Thank you. I try to put maximum effort in each time
Okay the intro is really slick, you're really good too. Good work
Subbed
Great documentary! Just a bit of feedback: when transitioning between cuts that show images or videos and then return to your living room, it would help to maintain continuity to enhance the storytelling effect. For example, if you’re sitting back with a mug in your hand, it’s better to return in the same position (unless it’s a deliberate subchapter cut) to create a seamless flow. This avoids breaking the immersion, such as by appearing in a different posture or without the mug, as an example.
Hi, your videos are incredibly well put together, the intro effects and editing are amazing! Not sure how you aren't getting far bigger views as some tv series aren't as good as this!
That's very flattering, thank you. I can only hope. The TH-cam audience is a fickle one and thanks to shorts and Mr beast the attention span is so small now that long video don't get promoted by the algorithm as much
@@PeakedInterest Yep defo agree the 3 sec cut theme gets annoying but holds short attention spans. i try not cut too often in my little review vids...but i like your documentary style and depth! The intro scenes or one of them i think could be a better thumbnail though, as personally when i saw that intro i actually forgot what the thumbnail was. I hope u get to a million subs soon!
I have joined DHL in '96 and they gave us induction training and a bit of the history of the company. The official version was that he crashed and died and of course they did not say anything about his dark sides. The company's shares were already owned by 3 companies: Japan Airlines, Lufthansa and Nissho Iwai.
I worked 8 years in the IT department. Before 2000 it was heaven :) DHL owned more than 50% of the market and there were no domestic courier companies. So the financial status was quite good, the company spent a lot of money on social events (like free pub day every week, 2 days long company days on every summer with free food&drink&bed). I literally grew up in the company :) I was 22 only when I joined and 30 when I left. Just a fun fact: DHL is present in more countries than CocaCola (at least it was by that time).
Supposedly DHL has operated in North Korea so no wonder :P
@@rkan2 What the heck does anyone need 'expedient' comms with NK for??? Takeout for Kim? 🤣
I'll bet I know you. I started at netexpress in 87 and dhl twin dolphin drive in 89, I Landed the day of the quake, we had to pickup all the tapes in data center and used the network to connect to the teletype in east coast customer support and had them call random people to tell them they were okay since the phones were out all over the sfo area. I stayed at hotel sofitel for 1.5 years until they decided to keep me I was on expense the whole time. Dinners at chart house and luxury cars not to mention trips to reno and vegas while keeping the redwood city hotel. Nobody will ever do that again. Actually my boss sent me to Mexico city to do repairs, it was actually a repair and a vacation with a tour it coincided with office politics so one very bad manager couldn't use me for questions. The manager who sent me was the best guy ever i miss working for him. People nowadays will never know how awesome the early 90s IT was. I miss Sun gear personally and to extent sgi..
@@dereksollows9783 Embassies, basically
Your best video yet, hands down!
Thank you. Took me two years so it should be the best 🤣
Your documentaries are becoming better and better each time!!! I never knew anything about this topic at all and I love learning about new topics - so I'm here to stay haha:) The intro graphics were sooooo good!
I worked for DHL in the US for 27 years starting in 1985. Larry was a legendary figure; the stories ranged from humorous to downright disturbing. My favorite theory about his disappearance involved Larry faking his death and moving into a property that he came to own (illegally) in Da Nang, Vietnam.
How does a billionaire just disappear like this and I've never even heard of him before?
That is exactly why I chose this story 😁
This was VERY interesting & unique, and very well researched. Thank you !
For me the narrator's voice is everything. Great job on video. Although I did not mind the music I wish you would turn it down a little bit I'd rather hear you than the music
Noted for the future. And thank you for the compliment
@@PeakedInterest Also on the subject of music, are you aware of where the music you use at 43:38 ish is from? (Just checking in case you didn't realize.)
What a great story and amazing video documentary. Thanks. Loved the final fantasy music in the background. A man of taste.
I appreciate your ability to tell this story in such a chill way. It’s entertaining, educating, and I like the soundtrack
Thanks!
I love your relaxed style of story telling. Lots of TH-camrs seem to shout.
If it's a one hour video I want it to feel like a friendly chat rather than a lecture . Appreciate the compliment ☺️
Only listened on the workshop speaker system and never once lost track (didn’t need to rewind 100 times) to many similar channels babble on way too much and I lose interest very fast. Well done, great doco vid 👍
Thank you, I try to keep in mind that a lot of TH-cam viewers (myself included) listen far more than they watch so I try to design videos with that in mind so that visual references reflect the dialogue and don't necessarily *need* to be seen they
Omg is youtube showing me great original content! Saturday made. Subbed
Subscribed in the first minutes. I like documentaries and this looks well done. Thank you! My spirits are in a very bad place. I’m blessed in many ways but not in others. Any relief is much appreciated.
Great storytelling. I have worked in Air Cargo most of my adult life, flying for one company or another including DHL. Very sad and tragic end...true visionary in my line of work.
Lets be honest he didn't break the government, the government was more than willing due to it's rich donors, made nice loopholes for the rich and pretend like they didn't know and that there is nothing that can be done.
Actually he took them on in court and won so it's technically true
Yeah because their government is corrupt and brown
Hi, tuning in from the West of Scotland. This was an interesting story told really well. I’ve never heard of it before so i enjoyed watching it. Take care 😘🏴
Thanks Alison, hello from north west England. It was such an interesting story to me, I'm so glad others agree, I almost didn't make it 🤣
FYI, Saipan is part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas; a group of islands in the Marianas archipelago. Guam, a U.S. Territory, is the Southern most and largest island of the archipelago. The islands are in Micronesia, however, we are no where near SEAsia. The Marianas are in the Western Pacific.
I’m from Saipan. I remember being able to see Hillbloom’s castle from the main road, seemingly suspended by the greenery that surrounded it. Being one of the poorer locals on the island, Hillbloom’s home resembled something out of a fantasy movie or a fairy tale to me. When he died, there was this crazy power struggle for his money; women coming out of the woodwork claiming to be mothers of his illegitimate children. I was a kid when all that went down but I remember my family saying, aside from his home, you’d never know he was from money. He dressed casually with shorts and flip flops. For someone who had so much, he was practically invisible.
That's interesting, thanks for sharing. Are your family members' opinions of him positive? Did any of them ever meet him or interact with him in any way? Also, do you think he had a positive impact on the island overall or not? I'm curious what the result of his death was for the locals living there at the time and since then.
@ I had to ask my older sister to see if my memory was right, she corrected me on the home. The mansion I knew to be his was another wealthy white man’s on the island lol. She said that that’s how lowkey he was on the island, even his home was of modest means. My sister, born in ‘72 (I was born in ‘87), said that he was a majority shareholder in Continental Air Micronesia, which was our main means of travel and was bought by United. He was a businessman, a lawyer, and a judge. From the way she speaks of him, it sounds like he was more of a community servant than a multi millionaire. I had to ask her seeing as I was only 6 when all that went down lol.
@@DaniRhaePhantomXX Thanks again, it's nice to learn more about this from you and your sister.
@@tsuobachi no problem! I’d fact check that though because we saw how reliable my own memory was lol! I haven’t been home in decades, couldn’t tell you what the place looks like now.
Just found this channel and I already know that I will binge all of his content
As an owner and pilot myself, please note that the wings stalled and not the engine (as you state at 50:50). Airplanes are not helicopters so when you pull back too far (increase the angle of attack too much), you stall the airplane. Even with full engine power, the craft will fall to the ground.
When I worked at DHL Houston I went into a delivery van for a ridealong and a bum was asleep in the back. We woke him up and told him we'd have him arrested he said he wanted to see the station manager. When the manager came out the dirty smelly bum introduced himself as Hillbloom, it turned out he was, he made the manager give him all the money in the safe and then asked us to drive him around in the van, he sat in back, the driver was told where to go and then larry got out and after a few minutes he returned. After he got back in the van he ordered the driver to drive around while Larry smoked crack. You may think I'm making this up but i swear it's true. It was about 7 months later his plane crashed, everyone thought he got assassinated because he was a Junkie and he brought peoples opinion down by doing drugs and getting prostitutes.
Did you do the crack with him?
Holy smokes!!
Wow.. that’s fucked
Hello Peaked! This was great. You are so down to earth and just come across as a regular friend type person. Very easy listen too! Thanks for this deep dive. I had no clue about the company’s beginnings and government struggles. You have a new subscriber. Thanks
Thank you, that's such a kind thing to say. I like to think I'm just an average guy
I think she likes you
I like everyone so we are all good
@@PeakedInterest Dumb question. Do you get the comments on your older videos? I’ve always wondered this. Thanks. And I like most people too!
i do not find often an documentary of this quality on youtube, thanks and my highest recommendation!
Why thank you, that's very kind