Inventions That Made Life Much Worse
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Before I even open up the video, my brain answered "The Internet"
Gosh darnit your ad-reads are *so* freakin funny I basically _have_ to get Keeps now!
I'm gonna let it grow back from normal length to my old metal-headbanging hair and then start rubbin' it in, y'know... =D =D =D
*Simon reading the script*
"...Keeps!"
"Oh, I've got to do an ad read. What's up Keeps?"
Give us pre-shave Simon pictures!!! Show us before and after whithout keeps!
Free Danny and Brittany!
The Eli story reminds me of a saying of my Father:
"Back in the days a lumberjack could cut down 5 trees in a day. Then someone invented the chainsaw and the lumberjack could cut down 5 trees in an hour. The problem was that they kept cutting down trees all day."
When I was about thirteen years old, my mother got so annoyed by spam calls that she answered one by saying, "City Morgue, how may I help you?"
I could hear the guy on the other end said, "oh god, I'm so sorry", before hanging up.
My favorite is, Pete's mortuary, you stab em we slab em. =)
I later adopted one I had read in the MAD magazine in the late '70s (I'm not even American): "Tony's morgue, you stab them we slab them!"
Adelaide City Morgue,
You kill em,
We chill em!
That's how I answer blocked numbers, have for about 10 years
I always like “Hello, you have reached the society for forsaken time travellers, when are you from?
I do the "You stab 'em. We slab 'em." bit too, but I also mix the line up a bit.
Stab/slab
Shoot/loot
Kill/chill
Hang/bang
I love that Simon complains about the lengh of the script, says he wont rant and then proceeds to rant 😂👏
Blaze, baby!
He was ranting before he even started reading the script
True. And I’m a OGBB.
He extends the videos to rant about how long it is. Classic Buisness Boi
And then the next video posted to BB is an Epic Blaze almost 1.5 hours long 😂
Simon: I'll add less rants
Blaze fans: we watch it for your rants and hearing Danny's life stories
"52 billion robo calls a year, a billion a day"
its ok, we still love you
Are you trying to tell me there’s more than 52 days in a year?
Started scrolling through the comments as soon as he said that to find this post and like it lol.
@@emmas3367 Maybe he was thinking of another planet. Mercury has 88 day orbital year, maybe there's one with a shorter one out there. We'll probably never know.
@@christinebenson518 Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done. That will teach you do deconstruct a joke.
@@UlshaRS But how will that teach her about deconstructing anything? A corner doesn't have a lot of complexity to take apart, maybe a doorframe would work better.
:P
All my calls are about my cars extended warranty about to expire, meanwhile both my vehicles qualify as "classic cars."
Same here but I only over to USA 2 months ago and have not boughta car yet
I get calls about the truck I totaled three years ago I get junk mail about it too. It just never stops.
Go along with it. The speed they hang up when you say "196x" is hilarious
That's quite a warranty period 😂
@@studibakre ha! 196k, my geo tracker has 333k and my honda del sol has 280k lol! That being said there's a few issues I would definitely turn into for an extended warranty claim 😂😂
Simon, I spoke to Peter and he says "You're absolutely fucking right"
Fun fact: If you go back to Nov you discover that "Peter" is the name of the (apparently totally sexist) plant on the shelf directly to the right of the dead sign.
@@StfuFFS legend
@@StfuFFS Thank you! I remembered the Peter reveal but couldnt recall when the episode was...now I can find it!
@@MRHG126 pretty sure it was in the second week. Nov 9th sticks out in my memory for some reason.
@@StfuFFS does the dead sign bother anyone else as much as it does me?
I feellike a petition should be started...
there are three bald eagle nests within a mile of my childhood home. the appeared about five years after the ddt ban. they are still there and their fledglings fly all about my hometown.
That's Awesome, majestic animals
That is majestic
Yaaaa now we’ve got 10 billion pigeons gangbanging the bald eagle chicks into oblivion
God damn pigeons just piled up and died all over the eagle’s nests until the eagles had to move just to get clear of the feathers and poop AND THE PIGEONS JUST KEEP COMING
they never stop
Every septembre there is a bunch of magpies in a tree and they shout and fight about something. Just down the road. Love it.
I've only ever seen one wild bird of prey up close. I heard thud one day when a was smoking out of the front door of my house. I looked around the corner to see a sparrow hawk deliver the killing blow on a, well, sparrow after it pile drove it into the Earth.
The hawk looked at me with a "What of it?" look and flew of with it's meal. Probably the coolest encounter with a wild animal I'll ever have.
I’m still convinced Simon films these after a long day of being serious while recording the other channels.
...and after a good blaze.
Actually, he said he wanted to record it before lunch at the beginning.
I like to think that he does the cut aways when he is recording other channels too, but his improvs get cut off on the serious channels
I heard him mention in one video how he likes to record them first thing in the morning, when he has the most energy. I like your idea, though!
Honestly, he could use 1 of these to clear the trauma after a day of Shadows or Cas Crim... like Pedro Lopez, thats still giving him nightmares many months later.
@@nobodyfamousXthat's how I imagined it
When I was a kid I would answer the phone "Chatfield Funeral Home, you stab them, we slab them".... it was funny until my uncle was on the other end
There is always someone in the family without a sense of humor. And they always think they have the greatest sense of humor.
You mean your uncle was on the other end of the knife...?
We also would answer with "Chatfield funeral home... if you are not dead yet we can arrange it"... we were really sick
"Billy Bob's Roadkill, you kill'em, we grill'em"
Joe’s Abortion Clinic. You rape ‘em, we scrape ‘em. The 70s was a vile decade.
Not yet reached the end but 3 mins in but Simon, where's the "what happens here is, Danny has written me a script, I shall read the script and sam would add some fine VINTAGE Memes."
Fact boi had to hurry up for lunch
At this point, I think Simon has given up on new subscribers and he’s talking to the OGs.
I knew about the horrible effects of the cotton gin, so listening to Simon talk about how it's a good idea in total ignorance was like "WAIT FOR IT....."
Exactly.
Slavery was dying out because the cost of feeding/housing them was higher than the pro-rated price of the fruits of their labor.
If I remember my American history (learned in 1971) correctly.
😎Cotton Gin my foot! Who wants a fluffy martini?
To be fair, it was a technology that had massive benefits outside of slavery as well. Slaves or no, cotton was still a valuable commodity, and production demands needed to be met. Unfortunately, the south had always been heavily reliant on slavery, such that North Carolina actually successfully negotiated for a guarantee that, if they signed the Constitution, the federal government would not have the right to ban the importation of slaves for 20 years. By the time that date came, the federal government was more sympathetic to slave owners, and remained as such until Lincoln's inauguration. That had far more to do with the growth of slavery than anything else, the fact that the government supported it and many presidents were even slave owners themselves. Andrew Jackson was particularly pro slavery
Every American listener was cringing while he was wondering how amazing the cotton gin would be 😂
I know! I was thinking "please, somebody stop him!" And when he kept going on about it, I was like "dear lord, nobody going to stop him..." 😳😆
Cher used Auto-Tune in "Believe" as a colour enhancement - by choice for a singer talented and voice trained in pitch placement. Countless others use it as a crutch, 'limping' to an in-tune standard not manageable on their own.
Rappers are the worst. They have no actual singing talent and sound like robots when they try.
@@Lessk69 At least they aren't using it to lie to us like the other singers OP was referring to.
@@NintendoSunnyDee They are though. They have no actual singing talent so they cover it up by sounding like a robot.
@@Lessk69 You must not have heard any of T-Pains actual songs where he sung then.
@@Lessk69 the sounding like a robot thing is mostly a style choice. Meanwhike, the average autotune user is indistinguishable from a well trained singer.
Simon advertising Keeps is like my fat ass advertising weight loss schemes xD "take hydroxycut so you don't have to look like me!" Allegedly.
Lol
Get yourself someone to help work it off 🥳🙈
ALLEGEDLY
Would still work as an advertisement. Or PSA. "Go to your training and watch what you eat so you won't end up looking like me."
My daughter at times answers her phone with "queens crematorium, you kill em we grill em" 😆
It's about time we get a fresh blaze, keep em coming fact boy!
Go to his Twitter.. It's gonna be slow for a bit. He broke his collarbone recently
@@phomo561 most people aren't on Twitter. Hell it's only 7% of the American population and 3% active. I'd imagine it's higher in the UK cos yall still locked down and have sex bans. Lol
@@JohnGalt916 lol I'm in South Africa bro..
@@JohnGalt916 we been out off lock down for a second now my guy
We really want a Danny biographics xD
I agree that’s a great idea, you’ll need to post the comment several times before Simon sees it and responds, you can also post it on Twitter, and Facebook. Danny Salter also has a Twitter account so you can go directly to him and I’m sure the writer for biographics has a Twitter account as well, I don’t know his name. But good luck with your endeavor maybe you can make this happen.
Oh yes.
Take this comment to the top
@PhilosoShy’s Game Channel, I looked up the info you need for the Bio channel, the writer or author is Radu Alexander, the producer’s are Jennifer Da Silva, Alita Bemporad, and the executive producer is Shannon Harris, I hope this helps.
We got one for Sherlock Holmes, so why not Danny? Naturally, it should be written by Danny.
I think we have it wrong guys. I think Danny has Simon locked up.
It makes sense.
Danny- C'mon fact-boi, you wanna eat? THEN RECORD THE SCRIPT!
Simon- But this is the 12th video today! Why do I (we) have to have 75 different channels?
Danny- Because business daddy needs a new Ferrari, that's why
Holy crap.... you're right
Hashtag free Mr. Blaze
That's pretty obvious!
Smashed the like button when I heard how long the script was.
oops. Your finger must have slipped.
Simon, you need to record yourself watching one of these Blazes for the first time after Simon does his magic so we can see yourself react to everything. Than you can upload that video itself for double revenue!
"I'm not familiar with this meme"x58 times
Business blaze: the channel you give a like for all videos even while the ads at the start are running!
This is the greatest show on the web.
100%
Do people still say “net”?
I love Danny's responses to sales and fraud calls. I previously tried to convince a guy at a call centre that I died in a car crash. we were going around in circles for about twenty minutes. 😂
I just make it sound like everything the say turns me on.
One of my favorite movies is Office Space and one of the best scenes in it was when they took the copy machine out into the field and whooped on it something fierce. People aren't meant to live like that indeed. Good job Sam.
The funny thing is, two of the guys in that group went straight back to an office job. Not even working for a different company or anything, just moving to a different branch of the same company
Here in Wisconsin, I have been robo called by my own phone number. Was easier to not answer, but was more annoying because the phone system did not auto reject a phone call calling itself. From two different points of the network
Here's how I stopped getting the calls.
You don't hang up, and if there's a person who asks for information you say "hold on, let me get to my office" and put your phone quietly in your pocket. They will hang up in a few minutes.
Waste their time and they will get the hint and stop wasting yours
Please, Simon, don't even joke about messing with Johnny Cash's voice. His imperfect vocals have the paradoxical effect of giving his performances more heart than a perfect delivery ever could. I can take a joke, but the thought of auto-tuning Johnny Cash makes me cringe too hard to laugh.
All of his music has been autotuned because it's been re-released. Like no one even notices 😂
@@Fizzypopization there's a big difference between auto-tuning and remastering.
Auto tuning doesn't mean hard correction just slight adjustment
@@Fizzypopization , that wouldn't surprise me, but I've been listening to Mr. Cash since the late '60s and got to see him live in concert twice, so I know his unaltered voice is what I love. That's also why the idea of tampering with his vocals -- even slightly -- upsets me so much. I appreciate the attempt, though. God bless you.
I got a robocall the other day that just said "stay safe, stay home"... that's it! and I don't know if it was a safety message about the pandemic or a threat
27:00 Eli Whitney's inventions must have had the two most polar opposite effects in history with his cotton gin causing a massive boom to the slave industry, and interchangeable parts helping the North end it.
Isn't that (loosely) the plot to Star Wars VIII? Fat Cats getting rich producing goods for both sides of a war.
With respect to the cotton gin and the result that resource efficiency led to an expansion of consumption, it's called "Jevon's Paradox". It's named after a fellow of that name who noted that increased coal efficiency meant a greater number of industries could afford to harness that source of power and remain competitive. The result was a massive increase in coal consumption as all those industries expanded production.
The fact that I can't stand Simon and still watch videos he hosts is a testament to the quality of the writer here.
I dunno, you might be able to count cows, since we bred them to not be aurochs anymore.
i worked for a public school in FL, and from time to time they would send a mass message to all parents like "reminder, we have monday off for this holiday so stay home" and so these messages would be a 'robo call' as it is just a prerecorded message of the principle talking. The number was blocked and reported by so many people that my caller id would say potential spam call every time i would receive a very important call from the school. So a parent might miss a call saying that we are having a fire drill and then panic when their kid texts them saying the fire alarms are going off for no reason.
Almost an an Epic Blaze. We were so close to perfection, yet so far. My disappointment is immeasurable.
When i was a kid they took us on a field trip to the eli whitney museun in hamden ct where he invented his cotton gin. NEVER HEARD THIS SIDE OF THE STORY TILL TODAY. HE was portrayed as a hero that jump steted the industrial revolution
And he was. The businesses after are the ones who perverted it's use.
I love it that Simon still can't remember to say "Brain Blaze"
I get spam calls almost daily. I never answer them. If they want to leave a message, they can, and I might listen to them.
Two recent ones with id's were: 1. Mesquite Police Department: someone I don't know got arrested and was calling someone who either gave them a fake number (mine), or they misdialed. They left a desperate message, but Too Bad, So Sad for them.
2. Costco Pharmacy: I have never used them but just in case, called them after ignoring the two fake calls, and was told they never make calls like that.
Danny's definitely looking to break some kind of intro length record, that probably doesn't exist.
Yet. For the right price Guiness will make it happen. OGBB
@@andiward7068 hahaha true! If you got the $$ you got the record.
When I get a call from someone I don't know I answer the phone with. "Ming chan's crematorium. U kill em we grill em." Noone says much after that
I noticed I get a lot less spam phone calls once I started answering my phone "Abandon all hope ye who call this number"
Life with out social media would be nice. I miss those days.
#MakeMyspaceGreatAgain
Seriously.social media is a plague
@@mikeferro7879 Then avoid it like the plague?
I don't have social media unless you count SueTube. I also don't have friends, family, or a life lol
what is socialmedia? ;)
Loved it how simon panicked after talking about agreeing with assassinations to then let out a flurry of legal lingo in the hopes that at least one of them will cover him XD
…who’s gonna tell Simon that literally every currently recording artist uses some form of pitch correction?
David Draiman actually got pissed when he found out the producers put slight autotune on a live performance when he was getting over a cold. That's the first and only time he's ever used autotune. Still a great performance, imo
I'm sure there are Punk Rockers that dont, because, ya'know... Punk Aesthetics
7:23 My dad used to answer the phone, "County morgue, you kill 'em, we chill 'em, used coffins half peice. How can I help you?"
Answering Robocalls with "operations room duty officer" gets them flustered too
Robo calls about your cars extended warranty.... just push the button and when a person gets on to get your information, tell them you are excited about getting the extended warranty. When they ask you about your car, tell them you have a 1998 Ford Festiva. They hang up and remove you from the call list. Mainly because they cant warranty a car that old.
Simon needs a Robocall from a hair company called Gets, lets hope he doesn't hang up on that one.
Have you seen the pic of factboy with hair on his head?!? It’s not a pretty sight.
Full disclosure- there is no pic of me that is a pretty sight.
Or maybe AutoToupée
I do the same thing with purposefully answering in English when anyone calls me in the Netherlands! I rarely get any calls now. It's awesome.
I got a call telling me my social security number was suspended because of suspicious activity found on it.
FUCK!
Now I'm anti-social.
>I don't think cows are an invention
Well, they are. Cows didn't exist in the wild, they are man-made - we domesticated wild cattle ancestors of the cow and altered it significantly through selective breeding to the point where it's a different species, just like we domesticated wolves and turned them into dogs
I live in Southport where that lawnmower museum is… yet to go in and have my mind blown, saving it for a special day.
I’ve heard Lee Mack talk about it on Would I Lie To You?.
@@insertname1014 there’s not much else worthy of noting, except maybe the mossy beach.
The only legit robocall I've ever gotten was an emergency broadcast
please imagine {in ANGRY VOICE!}AM I RIGHT PETER!
This is why I am no inventor. I was heading towards studying physics to learn and discover more about matter. But then, I realised any technological advance would eventually contibute to either exploitation, slavery or mass murder; so I just trashed the idea. Didn't want my discoveries to contribute to that.
(In the USA) All my family regularly checks that they are on the government "do not call" list, and I even paid a fee to be removed from credit card company call lists, and still, we get at least a call a day during the week and 3-5 per day on the weekend. I researched what the DNC was supposed to stop, and came to the conclusion it's useless. The registry "stops sales calls from real companies." Political calls, charitable organizations, debt collectors, purely informational calls, and surveys are still allowed. I briefly worked for a company that did survey calls, and that last fact explains why some surveys sound more like one on one marketing! Reporting calls is a pain - they expect the phone number and the time of each call, which means consumers must either keep a log or get online each time to report. Also, many that we receive block the number or somehow show the number of someone we know - my mom received one from my phone number! What is really annoying me lately is spam texts to my cell phone that I can't "block number" because they are sent from an email address.
Pretty sure the selfie stick should be given as a gold plated darwin award.
Simon, have you met Colin Furze? he does exactly what you described....
I've answered the phone as "Final Destination Funeral Home - Burial or Cremation?" .... LOVED the reactions!!!!
ABBA double-tracked everything in the studio - even the drums!
Note on CO alarms: last winter we lost electricity for several days when the weather was 0 degrees F. We live in the mountains, so when the electric is out (happens pretty regularly) we don’t have water, heat, or anything. We had just purchased a generator the year prior, but…… it has CO sensor that failed and….. THERE IS NO WAY TO OVERRIDE IT! IT WOULD NOT ALLOW ME TO TURN ON MY NEW GENERATOR! The generator is outside, far enough from the building and under a protective roof. I couldn’t even manually pull start it without it turning itself off after 15 seconds. This could have frozen our pipes and caused major damage to our home, or even frozen us to death in that cold! Fortunately I could light a wood fire in the old coal stove to make it through the outage (also not really safe, but desperation to live and save our home…) When idiot protection goes so far as to put my home and my life in danger, it’s way too far.
Yep! There is indeed a lawnmower museum in Merseyside. It's in Southport. That's just North of Liverpool. (Which, for southerners is "somewhere north of the Watford Gap")
The lawnmower museum is in Southport. I’ve been and it’s better than doing nothing at least.
They should put that on the commercials.
"Your window are expiring" is one of my favorite scam calls. Are they? What happens? Does all the caulking dry out and the glass falls out, or what?
I do something similar to Danny as answering the phone. I answer with, "Did you get the dope yet?... Oy! What about the girls?... Hello? Did you get the girls? The Cubans will be here soon!" They usually hang up quickly and I block and delete it! 😁😁😁
I feel like Cher deserves some scorn for making auto-tune super popular. But I think she did it just as self-consciously as Radiohead. She was totally using that as an effect and not a way to pretend that she was a better singer than she is.
You shouldn't be able to use autotune/alternatives until you can sell X albums/X seats in a concert out first. Prove you have taalent first.
I'm also bald and have a beard but something I don't have is something absurdly long.... I love that Simon shares that with me.
Simon, at least you can still recycle stuff. In my area they have canned most recyclables…. Pun intended
that damn neon sign still mocking me on that back wall yelling, no SCREAMING "FIX ME"
My phone has a call screener, where when a number I don't recognize calls I hit a button and my phone tells them that I'm screening calls and they should state their business. If it's important, I'll see 'hi this is blahblah from your doctor's office' or whatever, and if it's a robocall I can hang up.
It's pretty great.
Stockings full of "cheap, but deadly" toys sounds about right 🤣
Richard Arkwright invented the spinning jenny. He built mills in Matlock where I grew up. He also built himself a massive house that looks like a castle 🏰
The great thing about living in a country where English is a foreign (but common) language is that you can separate the things that matter from the things that don’t matter by language. If it’s an emergency alert, the text is likely to be translated and local advertising calls won’t be in English.
4:45 Yeah, we have a carton mountain that we have to deal with every month. Quite crazy how much paper packaging there is to deal with.
I've known for ages that you live in Prague, but I guess I never considered; Simon, do you speak Czech?? I didn't mean to underestimate your big brain, if you do!
I also need to know this information
I had a Czech friend and apparently the grammar is very complex.
he said at one point that he does but not as well as he wants to.
Okay, due to Simon's comments about hair, I formally request ONE Buisness Blaze with Simon wearing a Mullet, a Patrick Swayzestyle Road House mullet. Either through CGI or by wearing a wig.
THEN we'll know, for a fact, if Simon actually looks better bald or "with hair". We only need one episode like this or else the beard might get jealous and take over, specially after being suped up on all that Blaze Oil. It could take over the world, course with the way we're headed that might actually be a good thing.
I laugh at the "your vehicle's extended warranty" calls. My car is 22 years old and has 376,000 + miles on it. That's more miles than from the surface of the Earth to the surface of the moon, 1 way, for you number crunchers out there.
Only way I could get an extended warranty on my vehicle would be to buy a new car.
Simon hope you and your wife are doing well with your second pregnancy I wish her a quick & easy birth & recovery when it’s time. best wishes to your growing family!
11:41 I receive robotic calls from my doctor's office reminding me a day before an appt. I think that kind of robo-call is perfectly fine.
Okay so the pic of the bag of sex toys when Simon was talking about recycling made me spit out my coffee 🤣🤣🤣
Regarding high end instruments being easily tunable and you saying not automatically tunable... Gibson does make a line of guitars that automatically tunes itself, and can go to all sorts of alternate tunings at the click of a button and a stum. It really isn't all that difficult of a technology to figure out how to do, and I'm sure other companies are doing it these days as well. But tuning is a fairly basic skill for most instruments, and you still have to know how to play the damned thing at a high level to make it worth the buy lol. It really isn't analogous to singing, in which the ability to sing is the talent that's comparable to knowing how to play whatever instrument well. Autotune is like if you had a computer program override whatever incorrect notes you played and inserted the correct sound.
Love that Simon and I use the same method for avoiding robo-calls, except that I answer in Korean (and I'm in the US). Down to 1-3 robo-calls per MONTH
My solution when I get spam calls is just to hurl so many obscenities that they hang up. Of course, it doesn't work with the robocalls, but it got the extended warranty people off my back
If you have an interest in inventing things, I highly recommend looking into a futurist. They are people who analyze hard and soft trends to predict what people will need in the future. My company consults a futurist for its needs. Just reading a good futurist's book made me think of several things I would like to invent. I have no time in my career and it's lucrative, so I don't really have the motivation right now, but if you get there after you're done with TH-cam (you do so freaking much! You legend!), this is definitely the way to go.
35:10 look up the Beatles song "Because" covered by a fellow who breaks apart the melodies for you. It's displayed in a tic tac toe grid because each of the three parts are overlapped by three takes to give a richer, smoother sound. I can't remember his name. Just look for the 3x3 grid.
So lets get to it, read it faster, save time and get that lunch... But first ima tell y'all about my recycling... Off on a tangent Simon is the best Simon👌
34:30 Some bands DO record as a group. Specifically, I'm thinking of Tool where the actual track is laid down as a set piece. I'm not sure it's a universal for their entire catalog but a lot of it...
Mosquito Greta is the funniest thing I have seen all day. Keep up your excellent work Sam, Simon needs all the memes you can give him.
Just recently, after getting robo calls every 45mins for about 8 hours, I actually answered and tested my smoke detector alarm into the phone. the calls stopped.
Robo calls are a pita - 'congratulations, candidate number 77, you've won the CHANCE to partake...' - (drops the phone and enters the number into the blocked list of Fritz!Box)
I would always answer cold /scam callers with "Australian federal police ,detective Wilson speaking " had one dude from Mumbai so nonplussed he ended up asking if he could be my friend ......
Here, in Canada, _and_ our US friends to the south, we have a "Do Not Call List" where you can add your number and don't have to suffer from robocalls, etc. There are some exceptions, but by and large, it works very well. I only get 2 or 3 a year nowadays. Thanks again for another excellent video! Cheers!
That only works if the company is based in Canada/America. If it's foreign, they actually start calling more.
Re: call authentication, it's a requirement for the carrier, not the company calling. Has to do with phone number spoofing. The carrier has to basically verify the phone number before the system sends it to the recipient. It's kind of like caller ID on steroids
I love it when you pick up the phone and there's some Indian guy who has been assigned an English name to make him seem more accessible. What gets me is that little pause in his speech as he gets to the name and tries to remember how it's pronounced. "Hello there, my name is... Colin?" You gotta love them for trying to get their victims to validate their attempts...
When someone calls you about an 'accident that you were in' and you break down over the death of your entire family... pretty dark but gets them every time and they deserve it 😠
Sam - I LOVED the Gretta mosquito. Perfect!
I remember back in history class 15ish years ago that they were teaching us that Eli Whitney almost single handedly solved the slavery problem by inventing the cotton gin. I also remember telling my classmates that all usa textbooks are published in texas, so for all we know it's all biased. Man, I love how easy it is to find relatively more accurate history nowadays.
Gotta love how ironic it is that they still taught us how he saved the slaves, but turns out he increased demand for slavery, planting the seeds to start a Civil War, and then invented how to mass produce guns to improve the death rate of said war. I honestly don't think he felt any remorse
Danny ya finally did it… Simon is one of the only you tubers I don’t speed up the video for…. But this episode is just too long so I’m at 1.5 times the speed lol
The amusement of knowing American history and the story of Eli Whitney while listening to Simon praise the invention of the Cotton Gin.... Yep, the playoff of him figuring out the horror that came with the invention he had just been praising was really good.
This is like the person who invented rope getting upset that other people get hanged by them.