The Blackmarket… For Sand
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Instead of being a light hearted episode about people stealing a super abundant resource, instead this ends up being pretty much just about mafia murders. If you LOVE murder, this one is worth a watch. And who doesn't LOVE murder?
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This explains so much about Simon's pronunciation of "Padawan" and "Qui Gon."
The good ole “kwee gone gin”
Shoddy cast! Good to see you!
Woa. I didn't realize Austin watched Simon. Neat.
Also: you made this comment at the time of your last video on Shoddycast. Just been busy working on the next Devil's Advocate while keeping The Science going on Game Theory? You make amazing content so I'd love to see you keep it up on Shoddy too. Hopefully you can get the next one out sometime soon. I think I recall you saying the last Devil's Advocate took like 6 months to make.
ShoddyCast that moment when shoddycast dies after they give it to austin
Sand Mafia... Sounds like some rather abrasive folks.
I'll see myself out...
😂😂😂
Thank you, internet stranger.
Some rough customers.
I would say they sound more coarse, rough and irritating than abrasive.
@David Reads I didn't realize the planet Arrakis had its own mafia.
When I cry, I’m only cleaning my eyes too.
Sad movies & my dying dog just are very filthy affairs.
Mr. Whistler and team,
You've got to be the hardest working crew on TH-cam. You upload so much content that I could spend all my free time on any given day watching nothing but your videos, and there's many days that I do exactly that.
Thank you :)
@@brainblaze6526 I DO SPEND MOST OF MY DAYS WATCHING SIMON! I actually get bummed out if I have seen all the videos on the 'up next' list!
Ya.. I'll watch a quick vid before bed and then it's 3am.. but it's fun learning stuff..
@@jdwilliams518 couldn't agree more
100%
I dare y'all to do a Business Blaze on the history of the sex toy industry. I want to see Simon blush
Yes! I'm curious if his entire head will turn red.
He will stare into the camera with bitter regret.
sounds like a sticky situation
Doubt he will blush
Obviously you’ve not gone very deep into TFIO because he can deliver the most uncomfortable reproductive facts like he’s reading a news paper. I’m forever impressed how tactfully things are written & how flawless his delivery of said material is! He’s consistently the most technical professional & I respect the hell out of that. Which is exactly why this channel is extra fabulous, it’s fun to see him let loose.
I have to say that my favorite parts of all Simon's videos are when he cracks himself up... so I really love this channel! MORE!
Simon slowly takes over TH-cam with ALL knowledge...loving all the "side" channels
Thanks :). It’s all part of my master plan
This is my new favorite TH-cam channel. I like getting a little bit of Simon hilarious banter. Still like the other one too. But this one lets Simon go on his little tangents which makes it fun like the brain food show. 👍
Thanks :). That was the goal with the channel, glad its working for you :)
I consider Biographics to be "Simon does BBC news/history better than the BBC" and Business Blaze to be "Simon does his own Graham Norton show without all the drinking".
Christian Carier “the other ONE“? You know he has like 5 other active channels?
This is so toned down from what it is now. LOL
This production brought to you by sand. It's everywhere. Get used to it.
~ Genie, Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Watching this in 2022, it's amazing how serious this channel used to be. Also the legendary neon sign actually works. Wow.
Can we conclude that mister Sandman is in fact a criminal? Stealing sand to throw in children’s eyes, horrible.
When the Sand Mafia is after you and the ominous music plays...
DUNE DUNE DUNE!!!
Actually, the backing track is
ENTER SANDMAN!
7:12 You missed one. 'Gritty' underworld.
BA DA BOOM.
Simon doesn’t realize how much him and his multitude of channels are a big part of my day... cheers mate
Only Simon could make what would be a boring subject interesting. You're the best!
We are NOT the only animals who cry from sadness.
You looked so happy talking about the memory of walking in the park with your Gran, would love to see more of these fond little memories, and do take time to make new ones! Best wishes!
Back in the day I worked in a jewelry store, we were just a ma and pa shop nothing to big but I enjoyed the job.
To make a long story short I had become the senior sales associate (aka the only sales associate) and my boss allowed me to help the more wealthy customers. For a few years this older gentleman would come into the store around September and order a bunch of pocket watches with us and have us engrave initials on them for people retiring from the company he owns.
Finally after about the third time he came into the store I finally asked him what kind of company it was he owned.
“Sand boy, I deal in sand.”
And I was astonished this man who had spent a good amount of money in that store made all of his money owning a large sand supply company.
Here in the States, my nephew works for a company that mines sand from former river channels (created when a river meanders around a river valley, leaving behind channels that were cut off from the main river as it moved around. Many of these have large deposits of sand which are mined for various construction projects).
The chemistry of Simon and Danny is magic. Steve is alright but he's no Danny.
You should do a video about Lego and like how it's essentially currency and frequently stolen. My kids were telling me about this and I'm confused and intrigued!
"Buying firewood in Minnesota is like buying sand in the desert..."
Yes this is true.
Ok I’m curious. Isn’t Minnesota just one big Forrest/ lake. How is firewood expensive?
@@davidwhitlock5625 the northern half is. Over 11 thousand lakes and LOTS of woodlands. Firewood is about $5 a bundle where i am. We have to buy firewood in the county we are having our campfires that we are in, due to certain diseases in trees. Youre asking the right question though, exactly.
Why are we BUYING firewood, when anyone can practically walk 500 feet in any direction and usually find a grove of trees with dead wood and kindling strewn everywhere. It literally makes as much sense as buying sand in the desert. Or buying snow in the arctic. Or buying air...
Why.. 😂
Sage Sheahan I had no idea. My mother just moved from California to Crosslake MN. She loves it there compared to the hell of a state that I’m in. She says she just uses the pellet stove and her small gas fireplace. Just curious what happens if you burn tree branches from the forest?
@@davidwhitlock5625 If not dried properly it will be smokey and crackle...may lead to creosote build up in flues.
I JUST DON'T EXPECT ALL THESE JOKES FROM YOU WHICH JUST MAKES THEM EVEN MORE FUNNY
:D
don't :D us at least give us a UwU
I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
I loved Anakin for saying that. It is so true!
Hannah Brennan nice
This is the perfect time for that quote.
Hannah Brennan it’s silky in the Desert.
Was looking for this comment. Was not disappointed. 👍
I’ve worked in QC in the concrete industry for a decade. Unless there’s an issue with alkali-silica reactivity, which is an issue in places like NJ and can reduce the functional lifespan of concrete by 30-50%, jobs often use manufactured fine aggregate. It’s essentially the same limestone used as coarse aggregates in concrete, but processed to pass the fine gradation test standards for sand.
In my country, a whole mountain or two was flattened to mine "black sand", sands that have traces of iron inside them.
I know it sounds crazy, but when I deployed to Iraq the first time, I was so surprised by the texture of the sand. It was like baby powder. The only reason I noticed it so quickly was probably because of how much I'd been told about it beforehand. That's right folks, the US military is talking about sand texture behind closed doors.
Isn't ground texture actually a rather important thing to discuss in a military way like how easy one can you cross a spot of land with heavy armored vehicles for example?
@@hawlitakerful Yes, when you're going to be going on convoys, that's something that's somewhat addressed. But even with that, it's basically telling you to stay in the middle of the road and away from the shoulder. Sadly, too many people are lucky enough to avoid injuries from IEDs and gunfights, to be severely injured or killed because the driver is overworked and exhausted, then loses focus for a few seconds and there's a rollover. Unless everyone else in the vehicle is on point and remembers rollover drills, a gunner likely won't walk away. But the people who receive that training are those who will be doing convoys. A great deal of people (probably the majority) never leave the base until they go home and will never convoy. But anyone who has ever been to Iraq can tell you about how powdery the sand is. It's that much different than anywhere most have ever seen.
@@ColeyDuncan thanks for this interesting point... Never been a service man so i really don't know how to imagine deployment
Most building concrete is made with: Portland cement, sand, aggregate, additives, and water. You can swop sand with crushed stone, if need be. Thin veneer concrete is made without aggregate and as such can have a higher per portion of sand. Cement tends to be the lowest proportion of concrete with, depending on the mix, aggregate typically being the highest percentage as the aggregate are is what gives the strength. Sand, or stone dust, fills the voids and thins the mix allowing it to be made less expensive. Additives or add mix are things that can be added for strength, like fiberglass, Kevlar, or stainless steel fibers or chemicals like accelerators and bonding agents to help setting time and adhesion. You can also add lime to the mix which can add flexibility; lime, cement, and sand along with water makes mortar with the sand functioning as the aggregate.
Desert sand grains are too smooth thereby making it worthless for cement. Sand created by water is irregular shaped making it better for cement because it wouldn't crumble like desert sand would. It's similar to when you get a tooth crowned the dentist will make the tooth to be crowned really jagged so the adhesive will hold on a lot longer.
This is your most low key channel I think and it's prob my favorite lol
Work in progress, hopefully it will grow with time :)
I’ll try to keep it simple, crushed sand vs eroded sand. A bucket of blocks vs a bucket of marbles. You can push your hand to the bottom of only one bucket. Crushed aggregate makes a better material.
Bonus fact: Ancient Rome had a stronger concrete that was better underwater than modern concrete. We have not been able to replicate their formula, but make up for our lack of such strength with rebar reinforcements. -Btw, this is yet another incident where an advanced technology existed in the past, that has been lost. This is seen a lot in ancient megalithic constructions, where counterintuitively the older technology is more sophisticated than the later technology, such as in Mayan constructions
Cough cough Damascus steel
We have reproduced both with the concrete it was fairly recently they got it totally right and it was the sand etc they used from volcanos in the correct amounts and with Demascus steel its not that we can't do it, it's that we don't understand how they could with the technology they had at the time and we cant do it using the same tech.
@@itarry4 That's what I meant. We are unable to reproduce it in an authentic way, of course with our knowledge of steel crystallization we have been able to make it, but with ancient tech, another problem altogheder.
Re expanding coastlines, I'd recommend the film "The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain" .🍀
Simon is absolutely unhinged. I fucking love this channel now
A buddy of mine made a small fortune selling sand for fracking when oil prices were high. He literally got rich making phone calls. He’s get sand at one price, tack on a few dollars per ton, and sell it. He made crazy money.
I love this video format. I love seeing you be you and not just a narrator (not that you aren't an outrageously amazing narrator) and it's just so entertaining. Its very relaxed and fun but with the same quality information from all your other channels. Amazing stuff guys!!
Thanks :) :)
@@brainblaze6526 My pleasure! :D
46 minutes in, and a dislike. Must be a sand black marketer.
Classic mafia move. They’ve got those dislike farms.
@@brainblaze6526 I'm surprised there aren't more dislikes than likes after that Star Wars comment...people get passionate about their star wars.
@@rachelb4398 Well, it was "Return of the Jedi" instead of "A New Hope" or "Empire Strikes Back"
Or a Star Wars fan...
@@jonnunn4196 all 3 are better than the prequels, and all of the prequels are better than the last jedi.
HEY SIMON! Concrete works by mixing in heavy sand and small rocks and lime. Water is the reaction chemical and heats it into rock more water when solid the better less cracking and such. Silly sand runs through the rock and doesn't hold. While heavy sand is better. Hope that helps out!
rough sand has more, less polished surfaces to bond with, smooth sand also dries faster
You should do a video series of you watching the Star Wars movies for the first time, edited obviously for brevity. It would really get the nerd demographic which would be a large component that watches various combinations of your many channels.
Simon’s review or Star Wars: “IT’S SHITE! SMASH THE DISLIKE BUTTON”! The End.
best channel format ever!
I like his adlibs.
@@Wistful77 , that's what I meant
Early BB is so civilized. Almost innocent. No cocaine, no shouting, no inorisoned employees.
right? wish they gave them to you in order, so you could watch Simons decent into madness in proper order. ;)
To say that Jamaica is corrupt is an understatement. Last time I was visiting family there, I saw my uncle pay off the traffic cop because a bribe is cheaper than a speeding ticket. It's literally standard practice there.
Anyone else here 10 months later wondering who the hell is steve
Hard to beat our Danny Boy!
He probably died in the basement
3-4 buckets of sand+1 bucket of cement+1 bucket of water is a basic concrete mix
If plan to make a path you can use 2 bucket mix just add some river stone to give it a bit of a bling
Also if you plan to cast you own statue you would need a 1+1+1 mix so it can be super smooth
Basic, more sand for weaker and rough concrete and more cement will give you a smoother and stronger mix
Add some rebar for more strength but it mast not stick out
My new favorite channel
Jezus dude! Ya can't just mention you haven't seen star wars like that!
You're gonna be drowning in sheit for that :p
That's what I was thinking but the comment sections seems pretty positive thus far.
Meh, if people want to have a go at me for an opinion, they can go for it. My number of fucks is low.
@@brainblaze6526 Hahaha I'm dying... To early here in the states for that kinda comment
@@brainblaze6526 AS BIG AS A STAR WARS AS I AM!!!.....
nah, its okay Simon. XD Some just arent into star wars. No judgement at all from this geek. And yes, your "I give a fuck" meter is starkly low. Which is frankly very refreshing. Just be you, keep being chill. 👍
Business Blaze but having ‘never watched Star Wars’ is a fact, NOT an opinion. But, meh, I’ve no issue with that. I have a suggestion though, please before you die, please watch the very first one (Episode 4). It won’t change your life, but you may suddenly ‘get it’
Dear Mr. Assistant of Simon Whistler,
Make Simon watch all of Star Wars.
This is all.
Sincerely,
Randy
Bottled water, would be a good one, maybe why energy drinks cost double a soda dose?
Finally an explanation as to why desert sand is unsuitable for use in concrete. I could have looked it up on Google. I have wondered about it in the past.
Love Business Blaze anyway, but the like went in once I read the description of the video... "Who doesn't LOVE murder?" This sentence speaks to me on so many levels.
I came back just to see Simon standing and beating up his paper script.... And the neon sign still worked!!!
How about doing one about the middle east and far east island building? And how that is changing international shipping lanes and things?
The very idea is just mind-blowing, in my opinion. A massive flex in my books. o.o
Telling the sand mafia to go pound sand... Next thing you know, you've slipped through the sands of time. 🤔 That was lame, I need a sandwich.
When concrete is made it is as strong as its bonding agents so hard rocks make stronger concrete and sand is the stuff that the concrete binds to the recipe being 6 shovels sand, 4 shovels rock and 2 shovels concrete mix. From this we can see that sand is the primary grit of concrete and the most prevalent agent showing the importance of it, rounded rounded objects are easier dislodged from binding like trying to make a brick wall of rounded bricks or like trying to pull a ball out of the mud instead of a root. By this we can visualize why sharp angled uneven grains are preferred to soft rounded grains.
For mixing concrete, one can also use crushed rocks. (aka gravel. (downside, it isn't as small particles as sand, but just crush it some more...))
Sand isn't really "needed". And technically, one could just stuff a bunch of desert sand and sinter it together before breaking it up again, giving one a far coarser material.
Though, downside with sintering desert sand is that it takes a fair bit of energy, and crushing rocks isn't really hassle free either...
For glass production, one needs a clean source of silica on the other hand, so desert sand isn't a good option, since cleaning out the impurities is expensive as hell...
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere."
and today we learned that desert sand is less coarse than beach or ocean sand. I would have assumed the opposite, that the tides would be a constant smoothing rock tumbler, while the desert was more gritty with less wearing wind/sandstorms.
I fell for Anakin when he said that! I hate sand.
Sand is also used for making computers. Specifically sand is silicon dioxide which is reduced to impure silicon, then grown into a huge crystal, then zone refined before being turned into wafers to turn into chips.
Thats different sand though, and with proper purification you could use other types as well
These oldier videos looked so much nicer than the new ones. The new ones look like deep fried memes.
Simon 2021 on da Blaze: is Singapore a city-state?
Simon 2020 on geographics: Singapore; worlds last ciy-state.
😑🤨😕😮😬😁😂🤣😂
Love you, Simon!
I think Mythbusters did a thing on pykrete
So...a BB actually about business ? OG BB Indeed !
Woo OG business blaze. No idea how I ended up on this channel, but can't stop won't stop.
"Ill put my sources below?" Hahahaha!
Has anyone heard of making houses out of bales, especially rice bales. It can make for surprisingly stable, well insulated environmentally friendly construction material.
Love your channels Simon, you make great content.
After watching business blaze and hearing how Simon really talks casually & drops the persona is a “you can never go back” life experience. :)
It's disconcerting to find out that I'm not just a robot right? ;D
@@brainblaze6526 😂😅🤣
The UK had a famous employment law case that highlighted how Uber operate
If anything, the situation is much worse than how you describe it. Several poor countries are seeing mass excavation, for example Cambodia and Vietnam are experiencing massive dredges working up and down the Mekong, removing vast quantities of sand, ruining the local ecosystem for the fishing industry, causing riverbanks to collapse with losses of life in the cities etc. It is utterly illegal in both countries, but due to how economics works, the government institutions suposed to watch and monitor such events are easily payed off and, the end result being that this just goes on and on.
The last ten years or so China is the largest purchaser of sand, in just ten years they made more concrete than what was used in the US for the entire 20th century and as you say, concrete is mostly sand...
I’m still hoping that you do a video on the Tucker 48 story and/or a video on buying a car/car ownership in the Soviet Union/Eastern Bloc eventually. Regardless, keep up the good work.
This phenomena gives more credence to Scrooge McDuck talking about selling sand in the Sahara. :D
Actually, reptiles such as tortoises and lizards cry out of emotion like humans do. That was a gut punch to me because I have three tortoises and one of them regularly has watery eyes! Now I show him lots of Midwestern Love (Overfeed him.)
Hurricanes wash the shoreline away. Those with beachfront property end up purchasing new sand, to replace the dunes to protect their homes
Chuck Norris’ tears cure cancer. The problem is he NEVER cries!
I can’t keep a straight face watching this 😂😂😂
Watching this for the first time. Simon was so mellow! Glad that didn't last! 😂
The sand must flow!
This is so crazy. Here in Nebraska USA we have so much sand. The whole state is sand!
sand is such a minor reason for housing price increases, it is far more dependent on Regulation and Housing Availability then on the amount of sand they can get.
less "round" course sand means less (portland) concrete required to fill the gaps between grains of sand. The best is the leftovers from crushing rocks at a gravel pit.
Keep up the great work Simon, I’ve been laughing at these videos and it’s been improving my mood along the way. I support all your channels but this is the real cheer up channel 😁
Another channel? Simon, you’re like the face of educational TH-cam these days.
It's my masterplan ;)
No joke. There is a huge market for it. In Northern Michigan, the summer people will pay big money for sand from the local beaches to make their own private beaches at their summer homes, for example making their "beachfront" larger because technically no beach is private if it is between the water and high water mark, but rather is public. So they can have a private beach, these people will pay hundreds of thousands for sand to be illegally hauled and installed above the natural shoreline to have a private beach.
The joke is on them, though, as much of the natural beach will erode, and their private beach will become the public access within a decade or two.
Please do a video on Star Wars franchise. Thank you.
Hahaha, oh man, that would be a nightmare.
Agreed! I think it would be hilarious.
@@brainblaze6526 I vote yes! Just for the chaos in the comments section! Does that make me a bit of an anarchist....hmmm?
I'm pretty shure that would be full of "SMASH THAT DISLIKE BUTTON!!"
I normally hate Twitch, but a Twitch stream of Simon watching Star Wars would get me on the site.
Elephants cry out of sadness, and they mourn their dead.
the reason gritty sand and smooth sand is different is like trying to stack dice or marbles
In Alaska (Anchorage), if you want white or yellow nice sand, you have to buy 40lb bags of it. They have to ship it in.
3000 a year per boat.
3million for a machine (not including maintenance).
That's why there aren't machines doing it Simon.
The white sands of New Mexico are a beautiful blue on a full moon night.
As a Jamaican I can guarantee you that corruption is yes a problem so I do believe that
I don't know if you'll see this, but I think doing a video on how all the cable/internet companies in the USA have carved up the country between themselves and those of us in the sticks get stuck with crap at crazy prices because we're in an area under a monopoly.
top ten biggest lies:
3. 'no you dont look fat
2.'bush did 911'
1. Simon saying 'I will link it below'
The Sand Mafia.....I never even thought about the possibility of such an organization! Wicked good video.
Thanks :)
Concrete production is also threatened by the shutting down of Coal Fired power plants. Potash is a necessary ingredient in concrete, and is only produced in Coal Fired power plants.
Perhaps it's time to return to cut stone to build buildings.
Elephants cry. They showed it on NatGeo. The mom elephant cries when she and her sick baby got left behind and her baby finally died. It was actually very sad to watch.
Making the idea of being put to sleep by the Sandman seem so much more sinister
You guys should a video on the U.S. Financial Crisis of 2008 or The Enron Scandal
Fun fact: The US military shipped WHITE BEACH SAND to the DESERT of Iraq after the invasion in 2005. Why? Because the higher up military members wanted to play Volleyball and needed better sand to do so. They also shipped in 500 LaZboy's to sit in so they could watch the Volleyball games... American Tax Dollars in Action. Thank you Pentagon.
Also you mentioned deserts, the Sahara is like 90% barren rock, there's only sand dunes in a few parts of it.
Dogs, Orchas, Dolphins and Elephants all cry as an emotional response
I think that actually an myth, might have made a TodayIFoundOut video about it, but not sure.
@@brainblaze6526 too many channels Simon, there are only so many hours in a day lol