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  • Опубліковано 18 лис 2024
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  • @brainblaze6526
    @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +84

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    • @brianjrichman
      @brianjrichman 4 роки тому +12

      Meme Accountant Here... A Giro was a kind of cheque used by the British Government to distribute benefits (like unemployment). People would wait for them to arrive so they could buy ciggies and beer before complaining that they never had any money. Bloody commies... ;-)

    • @barbarianbob7155
      @barbarianbob7155 4 роки тому +2

      I disliked your comment come get me bro

    • @davudlastname2545
      @davudlastname2545 4 роки тому +2

      @Brian Richman HE'S STILL ALIVE. BRIAN, BREATHE IF SIMON HAS YOU TRAPPED IN THE BASEMENT

    • @Fashionable-Liver69
      @Fashionable-Liver69 4 роки тому +6

      A gyro is pronounced yur-oh, and it's a greek dish consisting of mutton, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, and a sauce of something. Simon you ignorant cyka.

    • @algomi9280
      @algomi9280 4 роки тому

      Simon, since I’m no longer on the automotive airbag industry. I can say this, being a Quality Engineer for Airbag is Stressful........................

  • @Varizen87
    @Varizen87 4 роки тому +553

    The fact Simon doesn't get straight to the point is 100% why Business Blaze is my favorite of all his channels. It just feels like I'm hanging out with a friend, and that has kept me sane in all this isolation.

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +113

      legend.

    • @7-ten
      @7-ten 4 роки тому +84

      If somebody wants Simon to get to the point on business Blaze, they have already missed the point of business Blaze💯 🔥🔥🔥

    • @DAD5447
      @DAD5447 4 роки тому +8

      I like to have a nice strong drink while watching these. Makes them even better

    • @orm11videos26
      @orm11videos26 4 роки тому +6

      @@DAD5447 I wonder of simon does the same thing (some of my family act a little like this when drunk)

    • @A_Haunted_Pancake
      @A_Haunted_Pancake 3 роки тому +13

      I think he should quit Stalin'

  • @wayneschiller5985
    @wayneschiller5985 4 роки тому +1915

    Danny's life is incredible, do a biographics on Danny

    • @vexedemperor5588
      @vexedemperor5588 4 роки тому +60

      He lives in the basement

    • @alissaholiday3724
      @alissaholiday3724 4 роки тому +9

      Hell yeah!

    • @onepiecepedia
      @onepiecepedia 4 роки тому +85

      @@vexedemperor5588 "lives" is a big word.....
      also "allegedly"!

    • @onepiecepedia
      @onepiecepedia 4 роки тому +104

      @@TheRatsintheWalls He could it here, but shot/edited the same way as a Biographics video, just with more humour 🙄🤯

    • @paulroberts7620
      @paulroberts7620 4 роки тому +21

      Maybe get a sneaky pic of Danny in there

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 4 роки тому +776

    Come on, we did sponsor this. Stop talking about a fake sponsor smh. And you called us a piece of what? Don't make me press it

    • @williamclarke8732
      @williamclarke8732 4 роки тому +23

      I think its only so the CIA does not assassinate Simon.

    • @n0madfernan257
      @n0madfernan257 4 роки тому +26

      calm down great leader, calm down.

    • @foxdeleon
      @foxdeleon 4 роки тому +12

      Supreme Leader, chill. Let's see what your sister has to say about it first.

    • @stevejester5658
      @stevejester5658 4 роки тому +13

      Fucking legend

    • @asahearts1
      @asahearts1 4 роки тому +2

      C'mon, man.

  • @edwardphilibin3151
    @edwardphilibin3151 4 роки тому +261

    Simon: "What are you going to do, seize the means of production?"
    Danny writes the scripts. He IS the means of production.

    • @iainballas
      @iainballas 3 роки тому

      @Belagerungsmörser the Sheep Oh? Woah.

    • @oumardiop1
      @oumardiop1 3 роки тому

      @Belagerungsmörser the Sheep lol

    • @oumardiop1
      @oumardiop1 3 роки тому +2

      @@iainballas letter spotted.

    • @swards47
      @swards47 3 роки тому

      Oh damn

    • @ZMB-on5ub
      @ZMB-on5ub Рік тому +2

      So it's not kidnapping. He has just seized the means of production and chosen to keep those means in his basement.

  • @jeremymiller4280
    @jeremymiller4280 4 роки тому +48

    I can't tell if youtube is trolling me. I got 3 ads for credit cards during this video.

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +19

      lol epic

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 3 роки тому +1

      I never get adds on UA-cam, I don't understand.

    • @theboyoofoly
      @theboyoofoly 3 роки тому +2

      @@kindlin me either...but I pay 10 bucks a month so I don't have to lol

  • @4077Disc
    @4077Disc 4 роки тому +384

    “All Dannys are equal, but some Dannys are more equal than others”

    • @ManiSRao-bt3xw
      @ManiSRao-bt3xw 4 роки тому +2

      @@itsjustme5222 great way to bring down the mood CCP.

    • @nunyobidniz
      @nunyobidniz 4 роки тому +8

      *Oh, Snowball! Why!!?*

    • @nunyobidniz
      @nunyobidniz 4 роки тому +1

      @@itsjustme5222 dude, I'm not interested in either of your comments. I was adding my 2 cents to the original post, same as you. I do like your username though👍

    • @GeneralNickles
      @GeneralNickles 4 роки тому +5

      Judging by the state of the average youth these days, I'm guessing they removed that particular novel from the literature class rotations.
      I had to read it twice in school, and I have an appropriate hatred of communism as a direct result.

    • @medes5597
      @medes5597 4 роки тому +1

      @@GeneralNickles nope. They just teach that it's a critique of Stalinism rather than general communism and point people towards Orwells work like *The Road to Wigan Pier* a book by the writer of 1984 and Animal Farm that pushes for socialism and declares communism an inevitable state.
      It's almost like they actually understood what Orwell was saying when they read it and you didn't.

  • @aguaarch
    @aguaarch 4 роки тому +379

    Host : capitalist pig
    Writer : closet communist
    Editor : David Hasselhoff
    Legend

  • @MrXdeDEdex
    @MrXdeDEdex 4 роки тому +237

    It finally happened, Danny got his way. This may end up being the most legendary Blaze ever right after the Cocaine blaze. Allegedly.

    • @alissaholiday3724
      @alissaholiday3724 4 роки тому +10

      Communism while Simon is on cocaine? Legendary x2

    • @shootthemoon6072
      @shootthemoon6072 4 роки тому +11

      @@alissaholiday3724 So, plain old communism then. 😂

    • @ArtworksByEden
      @ArtworksByEden 4 роки тому +3

      SMASH THAT DISLIKE BUTTON.

  • @pjnolan7989
    @pjnolan7989 4 роки тому +44

    Have to agree. "The Death Of Stalin" is one of the best Movies ever made. Just absolutely brilliant.
    Stalin with a Cockney accent alone is worth watching it for. And Steve Buscemi's as Khrushchev with a New York accent is great. Nothing worse than Actors putting on bad accents. So this was perfect.
    "The Death Of Stalin" and " Jo Jo Rabbit" are two of the best Movies in recent years. Both were completely underrated and never got the Recognition they deserved.
    Years from now they will be held for the genius they are.

    • @phantomechelon3628
      @phantomechelon3628 Рік тому +7

      The fact it annoyed the Russians (who banned it) just makes it even more of a must-watch. 😆

    • @pjnolan7989
      @pjnolan7989 Рік тому +2

      @Phantom Echelon
      Exactly. That's a bonus.
      They actually Raided the only Cinema that showed it in Russia. Lol.
      Even though its based on a Comic book, it's actually all fact based.
      The only changes they made were that they made it appear that it all happened over a few days, when it was a few months. But other than that its all real. And just so absurd. Just such a funny movie.
      The son being an absolute idiot, and everybody clapping for ages after he spoke because everyone was afraid to be the first one to stop.
      Even the Guards hearing him having a stroke, but being afraid to go help him in case it was a test.
      What a cluster fcuk.
      If you've never watched it please do.
      And Jo Jo Rabbit is just fantastic. Such a great story.

    • @laughingoutloud5742
      @laughingoutloud5742 Рік тому +1

      I truly thought "The Death of Stalin" was a full on parody, but was absolutely delighted to find out the movie is 80% true as far as events went. I had to rewatch it asap and pissed myself laughing - woke my kids up 💀💀💀💀🤣

    • @pjnolan7989
      @pjnolan7989 Рік тому +2

      @laughingoutloud5742
      Its amazing. One of my favourite movies ever.
      Personally I think keeping the English/American Accent makes it all the funnier. Like Stalin having a rough Cockney English accent. But yes, it is mostly all true. It's just the timeliness that's off. So what we see take place over a day actually happened over a few weeks or months. But the general story is factual.
      Like the female pianist did really write Stalin that letter. I think her brother was killed or sent to a Gulag for no reason.
      Stalin's son was exactly as portrayed. A Grade A moron. And the National Hockey Team's plane crash did happen and he tried to hide it.
      Stalin did make his inner circle stay up to watch cowboy movies. And Khrushtrev (Steve Buscemi) would memorise his jokes for the night, before getting his wife to transcribe
      them so he knew what Stalin found funny and always stayed on his good side.
      I knew it was based on a book. But it turns out it was a Comic Book. No joke.
      Overall its extremely accurate. Its just appears to take place over a day or so, when in reality it's a few months. But its pretty accurate.
      "The Great Terror" was as scary as it looked. Over 1.5 million people were either killed or sent to Gulags. The idea was just to imprison or kill people at random, guilty of innocent. So that nobody trusted anyone. If you don't know who to trust, then you're hardly going to organise a coup.
      The worst was Beria, who they kill out back. He was supposedly the most evil sadistic monster ever. And into very young girls. Also think he headed up the KGB.
      But he was just a remorseless sociopath, way worse than he is portrayed in the Movie.
      It was banned from Cinemas in Russisa.
      A Cimema that did show it was raided by police.
      It's just pure class. I'd recommend to everyone.

    • @pjnolan7989
      @pjnolan7989 Рік тому

      @laughingoutloud5742
      Another thing I always found funny, and you'll still see it in present-day Russia & North Korea, is the clapping.
      After Putin or Kim Jong Un make a speech, there is endless applause.
      It's for the same reason as Stalin & Mussolini in Italy. Because nobody wants to be the first to stop clapping in case they appear to be unfaithful. So they all just keep clapping like Seals.
      Absolute madness.
      The KGB just killed & imprisoned people at random, so as to keep you guessing who the spies were, without ever finding out.
      But the Stasi in East Germany claimed to have had a third of East Germany spying. So 33% of the population were actually spies.
      An old relative of mine was in the Automobile trade and they had to travel there regularly to make deals for Skoda cars, which were made in Eastern Europe.
      So every meeting had real Company representatives, and also Stasi plants.
      If there was only 3 Skoda Reps, they'd have to figure out who the businessmen were, and who the plant was.
      Sounds grim.
      When the Berlin Wall finally fell the Stasi also claimed to have the records of every single vehicle to have ever passed through to the Eastern side of the Checkpoint. And to have known exactly who the passengers were, and what they were doing at all times while in East Germany. Which is crazy with the lack of Tech available back then.
      They didn't mess around. They were meticulous at record keeping.

  • @Moeren588
    @Moeren588 4 роки тому +146

    Simon: A stressfull job like ...
    Me: Solider in a warzone, hostage negotiater, bomb defuser
    Simon: ... an investment banker

    • @zer0nix
      @zer0nix 4 роки тому +19

      Yeah, he is disgustingly sycophantic to moneyed interests here and strangely blind to the actual arguments of their opposition.
      But of course, moneyed interests pay his bills..

    • @theboyoofoly
      @theboyoofoly 3 роки тому +1

      I thought soldier too lol

    • @WillowTDog
      @WillowTDog 3 роки тому +2

      @@zer0nix Yeah, his understanding of "communism" that isn't taking place in a tyranny is pretty stuck in the 1950s. He does understand that he's a dick, though, and he's really funny. Like that funny a**hole friend I think most people have. He may be an a**hole, but he's our a**hole. Lol.

    • @bluejaguar3226
      @bluejaguar3226 3 роки тому +8

      Air-traffic controller?

    • @d.leesheppard7607
      @d.leesheppard7607 2 роки тому +3

      @@bluejaguar3226 ATC ftw

  • @johnfrerichmann651
    @johnfrerichmann651 4 роки тому +232

    I love when simon says “there’s no way they’ll let me put this in the video” and then it’s in the video. These sponsors are the best haha

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +103

      I get so few notes it's wild... But once some unnamed sponsor did request that I removed that.
      Another requested that I remove, "sponsorship time: because I like money"

    • @Finallyfree423
      @Finallyfree423 4 роки тому +36

      @@brainblaze6526 it's true tho, if you didn't like money, there would be no reason for sponsors

    • @--enyo--
      @--enyo-- 4 роки тому +13

      @@brainblaze6526 Are you allowed to one day do a Business Blaze talking about how you manage deciding stuff like what channels will be popular/profitable, getting sponsors, making the ads etc? Like the business side of your UA-cam empire.

    • @Zyo117
      @Zyo117 4 роки тому +15

      A Business Blaze that's actually about Business...interesting concept there

  • @XopheAdethri
    @XopheAdethri 4 роки тому +523

    The communism video has a paid sponsor. rofl.

    • @TheEDFLegacy
      @TheEDFLegacy 4 роки тому +29

      Even Communists have to sell out sometimes. Don't forget Pepsi! 😁

    • @richardaubrecht2822
      @richardaubrecht2822 4 роки тому +12

      Same as his video about Karl Marx was sponsored by a expensive watches company...

    • @nicolainielsen7700
      @nicolainielsen7700 4 роки тому +11

      @@richardaubrecht2822 Vincero watches aren't expensive. They're cheap Chinese watches sold at a 200% mark-up. Patek Philippe, Rolex, and Breitling watches are expensive.

    • @Sebastian-gb3hs
      @Sebastian-gb3hs 4 роки тому +12

      @@nicolainielsen7700 Ahh selling cheap stuff expensive just because it works, capitalism in its best

    • @Locutus
      @Locutus 4 роки тому +2

      Xophe, yes, that's god damn funny that a video about communism was sponsored. It was so funny, I think I pooed and peed my pants.
      It was so funny I ROTFLMFAOPAPMP.

  • @retsz
    @retsz 4 роки тому +660

    In Soviet Russia, dislike button smashes you

  • @ipsissimus7378
    @ipsissimus7378 4 роки тому +11

    When I was a young child my dad used to take me with him to the dole office on giro day; isn't it wonderful how parents pass on their life-skills to their children.

  • @Mogijup
    @Mogijup 4 роки тому +32

    Id just like to point out that around the 7 min mark when Simon says “Danny” the CC says “daddy” LMAOOO

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 роки тому +371

    Simon built a mini gulag in the basement for Danny
    _Allegedly_

    • @wolfenwingsable
      @wolfenwingsable 4 роки тому +5

      A sex gulag?

    • @mnichols1979
      @mnichols1979 4 роки тому +10

      @@wolfenwingsable no, it's a cocaine processing one.... Allegedly

    • @nitroustommy3668
      @nitroustommy3668 4 роки тому +11

      I hear it's the other way around. Danny has Simon locked in the basement and has him pumping out tons of UA-cam content for small rations of goulash and cocaine.
      Allegedly

    • @wolfenwingsable
      @wolfenwingsable 4 роки тому +4

      Maybe they are both subjects of the UA-cam gulag? Allegedly

    • @wolfenwingsable
      @wolfenwingsable 4 роки тому +1

      Subject tp the whims of the capitalist sponsors.

  • @camdenharper7244
    @camdenharper7244 4 роки тому +162

    'Get to the point. Have you considered reading a book, you knob."
    Gold

  • @LaylaSpellwind
    @LaylaSpellwind 4 роки тому +98

    Hunted down and shot everyone who smashed the dislike button.
    Poor Peter, you will be fondly remembered.
    Not the plant.

    • @azuregriffin1116
      @azuregriffin1116 4 роки тому +7

      These Peter jokes make me slightly uncomfortable.
      - signed, Peter

    • @outcast170
      @outcast170 4 роки тому +6

      "No! Really! My phone was upside down when I clicked! I swear the thumb was up when I clicked it!"
      No excuse...

    • @howellgreenland2506
      @howellgreenland2506 4 роки тому +5

      ...and Brian the Meme Accountant + ETA

    • @nunyobidniz
      @nunyobidniz 4 роки тому +4

      More worried about the plant, tbh

    • @skyden24195
      @skyden24195 4 роки тому +3

      Plants get tossed.

  • @whorror_punx
    @whorror_punx 4 роки тому +5

    Simon, I love you and this channel both. Not just my favorite of your millions of channels, but quite possibly my favorite channel on the entire platform. Allegedly.
    Please never stop, comrad.

  • @IoEstasCedonta
    @IoEstasCedonta 4 роки тому +14

    "The Fonz might not have even been in Dallas, that might've been Cheers, which I also haven't seen..."
    ...I... can't... breathe...

    • @trevoncowen9198
      @trevoncowen9198 4 роки тому

      IoEstasCedonta George?

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 3 роки тому +1

      I knew it was neither of those, but I had to Google find out it was Happy Days. Haven't watched any of the three shows.I haven't even watched Trek:TOS....

  • @Fade2GrayOG
    @Fade2GrayOG 4 роки тому +98

    The ultimate business blaze video would be a 30 minute into followed by a single word to answer the question in the title. "Yes. This has been business blaze..."

  • @bearfindsbigfoot5630
    @bearfindsbigfoot5630 4 роки тому +182

    Do a BIOGRAPHICS on DANNY but post it on THIS CHANNEL please

    • @NorthOntarian
      @NorthOntarian 4 роки тому +6

      everyone who sees this comment should copy and paste it into every business blaze video until its made... think ill start now

    • @TheEDFLegacy
      @TheEDFLegacy 4 роки тому +6

      Would be great for April 1st.

    • @macdaddie79
      @macdaddie79 4 роки тому +3

      The thing is that Danny doesn't exist. Danny is Brad Pitt and Simon is Edward Norton. The meme guy is Meatloaf

    • @NorthOntarian
      @NorthOntarian 4 роки тому +2

      @@macdaddie79 and i look forward to learning that in a danny biographics

    • @macdaddie79
      @macdaddie79 4 роки тому +2

      @@NorthOntarian you've just asked for pandora's box to be opened my friend

  • @merphul
    @merphul 4 роки тому +66

    there are like a dozen (maybe 2 dozen at this point?) Whistler brand channels that get "right to the point".
    We ain't about that life on Business Blaze.

  • @Its-Just-Gizmo
    @Its-Just-Gizmo 4 роки тому +8

    "what's a Giro? Is it a knock off Biro? I dunno."
    Holy fuck.

  • @mirthenary
    @mirthenary 4 роки тому +14

    I am reminded of what Jeremy Clarkson said, "Communism crept like an itchy blanket across the shop floor"

  • @graylinshowell7051
    @graylinshowell7051 4 роки тому +122

    Unless he's saying I got away with it, I hope that nothing I'm significantly involved with ends up on this channel. Out of all his channels, Business Blaze and Simon's OnlyFans are the only two I never want to appear on.

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +75

      Allegedly

    • @Bzuhl
      @Bzuhl 4 роки тому +24

      *Our channels

    • @wolfenwingsable
      @wolfenwingsable 4 роки тому +16

      Simon has an OblyFans? I need this!

    • @jorge23483
      @jorge23483 4 роки тому +8

      @@wolfenwingsable Yes, but we pay Simon for do nothing instead🤣

  • @MagicNateball
    @MagicNateball 4 роки тому +114

    Finimize marketing execs watching this video to see what they've paid for: "We've made a terrible mistake."

  • @PoeRacing
    @PoeRacing 4 роки тому +54

    All the years I've spent becoming fluent in speaking, reading, and writing Russian just payed off when I saw the intro to this video...

    • @telituby
      @telituby 4 роки тому +4

      What did it say?

    • @PoeRacing
      @PoeRacing 4 роки тому +24

      @@telituby It doesn't really have a direct translation when the words are used together but its a common curse phrase that is on the higher end of the vulgarity level which is saying something. Working class Russian speech is crazy vulgar.
      - сука блять (sounds like: suka blyat) means "bitch whore" but is more equivalent to saying "fucking shit" or even "fucking cunt" in American English. It's something you use as an exclamation, like when you smash your thumb with a hammer or get blatantly cut off in traffic.

    • @telituby
      @telituby 4 роки тому +6

      @@PoeRacing ah, Sam is very cultured then

  • @blondangel79
    @blondangel79 4 роки тому +16

    How are people complaining about Simon not getting to the point? The waffling tends to be my favorite part. 😂

  • @starbomber
    @starbomber 3 роки тому +11

    22:56 "Hey, make sure you tell, whoever I put in charge of giving people jobs, not to give that madman Stalin a job. With anything. He's crazy.
    ....who did I put in charge of giving people jobs?"
    "....Stalin, sir."
    "....bleh~" ~Over Simplified Lenin

  • @thepresence365
    @thepresence365 4 роки тому +126

    "There's probably going to be communism in it"
    A fair preview of any of Danny's scripts 😄

    • @TheEDFLegacy
      @TheEDFLegacy 4 роки тому +7

      Hence why Danny doesn't get paid but rather lives in the basement.

  • @eugenics_gone_wrong1939
    @eugenics_gone_wrong1939 4 роки тому +54

    9 min. Intro: golden
    Memes: golden
    There should be a Oscar for comical education

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +16

      I'm waiting for my call from the Academy.

  • @fs10inator
    @fs10inator 4 роки тому +72

    "It's not often we say this, but thank God for the USSR."
    - Simon Whistler, 2016

    • @OddZodd
      @OddZodd 4 роки тому

      @@kimberlyk2530 oof.

  • @thebearwitch
    @thebearwitch 4 роки тому +7

    I must say, the memeology in the episode was *chefs kiss*

  • @laurawillits176
    @laurawillits176 4 роки тому +10

    "Proper knob jockeys like Joseph Stalin." I like that phrase very much indeed. Thank you.

  • @Somedude317
    @Somedude317 4 роки тому +84

    Danny has done everything but alligator wrestling at this point.

    • @zeusathena26
      @zeusathena26 4 роки тому +10

      Just wait till next week. Lol

    • @zachyoung5598
      @zachyoung5598 4 роки тому +4

      "This reminds me of when I was working in the bayou west of Rotherham..." - Danny, 2021

    • @Elysia_Fields
      @Elysia_Fields 4 роки тому

      Petition for Danny to wrestle alligators.

  • @alissaholiday3724
    @alissaholiday3724 4 роки тому +89

    You've never been more Capitalist than when you talk about communism. Ironic

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +59

      Well it makes sense. Given that communism is so shit.

    • @dalinsdomain2542
      @dalinsdomain2542 4 роки тому +3

      69 likes! No one ruin this

    • @josephrobinson6171
      @josephrobinson6171 4 роки тому

      @@brainblaze6526 based as fuck

    • @shebbs1
      @shebbs1 4 роки тому +1

      @@josephrobinson6171 but communism is shit, but feel free to bugger off to a real comminist country to show your committed.

  • @FINNSTIGAT0R
    @FINNSTIGAT0R 4 роки тому +87

    We need a video of Danny's personal history from his dating agency all the way to Simon's basement

    • @StefanMedici
      @StefanMedici 3 роки тому +7

      There was one but it was quickly pulled from UA-cam for national security reasons.

    • @DayZeroChannel
      @DayZeroChannel 3 роки тому +3

      @@StefanMedici same with the north Korean video

    • @phantomechelon3628
      @phantomechelon3628 Рік тому +2

      A one-off episode called Basement Blaze!

  • @blakejones4087
    @blakejones4087 4 роки тому +17

    We need a t-shirt in the merch store that reads "it's a bit shit" ! 🤣

    • @Herm.Q-92
      @Herm.Q-92 3 роки тому

      With the Business Blaze symbol replacing the “I” in shit.

  • @xijin_pooh5158
    @xijin_pooh5158 4 роки тому +17

    Listening to business blaze while getting ready for my wedding Life is good

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +8

      Congratulations :)

    • @Aal-2447
      @Aal-2447 3 роки тому +3

      Married legend

    • @StefanMedici
      @StefanMedici 3 роки тому +3

      Standing, while watching the love of your life walk down the aisle, and bursting out laughing as you remember what Simon said. Edit: You got married so congrats. Edit2: picturing your soon to be wife bursting out laughing too because she's in on the joke, while everyone else stares at the two of you dumbfounded.

  • @syntaxerror9994
    @syntaxerror9994 4 роки тому +82

    I get the feeling your sponsor saw your channel name but didn't actually watch your content. Legendary.

  • @renaissanceredneck73
    @renaissanceredneck73 4 роки тому +50

    Since your "Biographics" audience wouldn't have a clue who Danny is, you should do a Business Blaze biography on Danny for us allegedly legendary legends!

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 4 роки тому +1

      Noooo! That's only for corporate company corporations

    • @neilmackay5655
      @neilmackay5655 2 роки тому +1

      In the course of working though BB I'm beginning to think it *is* Danny's biographic just a snippet an episode tbh.

  • @thomasmoeller3446
    @thomasmoeller3446 4 роки тому +49

    Q: May I bum a cigarette?
    A: You live, you die. You smoke, you buy.

  • @foxtailedcritter
    @foxtailedcritter 4 роки тому +5

    "The benifit of them is they're not a POS." Love your new advertising, very effective and having me in stitches.

  • @andrewgriffin4528
    @andrewgriffin4528 4 роки тому +11

    "I can't go because I'd be tortured to death"
    Meanwhile Danny in the basement "no, go! Get a taste of your own medicine Simon!"

  • @stevejester5658
    @stevejester5658 4 роки тому +26

    I really want to see an episode where Simon has to just speculate the plots of famous movies and shows that he has never seen based on the title alone.

    • @KyleCotton1
      @KyleCotton1 4 роки тому +6

      Absolutely zero "business", yet I support this idea lol

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +22

      The Godfather:
      A crime-drama about a misanthropic man who takes in his best friends children after their parents are killed in a car wreck, and while he is supposed to teach them, they end up teaching him... how to love life.
      THIS SUMMER.

    • @stevejester5658
      @stevejester5658 4 роки тому +1

      @@brainblaze6526 Hahaha YES!

    • @KyleCotton1
      @KyleCotton1 4 роки тому +2

      @@brainblaze6526 WE NEED MORE NOW DAMN YOU!!!

  • @capnstewy55
    @capnstewy55 4 роки тому +44

    Simon's kid breaking his glasses has humanized him, I thought he was just a robot who blazed.

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +29

      Its just a story I made up to make me sound human

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 3 роки тому +2

      And a wife? I'm legitimately confused. The 4th wall (5th wall?) is destroyed!

    • @StefanMedici
      @StefanMedici 3 роки тому +3

      @@kindlin I'm not sure they exist, and if they do they're locked up in the basement with Danny and Sam.

    • @futeramonfuturamet4830
      @futeramonfuturamet4830 2 роки тому

      Spoiler alert, Simon needs his glasses to see!

  • @greendragonreprised6885
    @greendragonreprised6885 4 роки тому +36

    I think we need a Business Blaze on the history of the Giro, if only for Simon's benefit. Allegedly.

    • @crispoman
      @crispoman 4 роки тому +2

      Giro... benefit... I see what you did there! 😃

  • @justpressstart
    @justpressstart Рік тому +1

    A Giro is a benifit payment, refering to the system used to pay unemployment benifits back in the day. Giros are like checks for people that don't have bank accounts. I don't think Giros are used for this anymore, but the name has stuck.

  • @TerryTheNewsGirl
    @TerryTheNewsGirl 3 роки тому +3

    My husband's mail career nearly ended when he was severly bitten by a dog, so yes it is. And yes you have to work in all weathers including hail storms. Giro = a unemployment check.

    • @prophetsam
      @prophetsam 3 роки тому

      Thank you, VERY Much! I had to scroll FOREVER through pointless Comments, & Demands for a Biographics on Danny, for this Singularly Informative comment!

    • @TerryTheNewsGirl
      @TerryTheNewsGirl 3 роки тому

      @@prophetsamYou're welcome.

  • @mattd832
    @mattd832 4 роки тому +55

    Simon makes fun of Danny for not knowing how to whistle
    Moments later...
    “what’s a gyro??”

    • @nekomasteryoutube3232
      @nekomasteryoutube3232 4 роки тому +2

      I've never even seen a Gryo in person and I know what they are.

    • @Paldasan
      @Paldasan 4 роки тому +3

      It's a cylindrical sandwich.

    • @axolotllan
      @axolotllan 4 роки тому +4

      Danny knows that there's only room for one Whistler.

    • @DMJoeBing
      @DMJoeBing 4 роки тому +5

      It's a sandwich, made on pita, usually consisting of lamb (but traditionally pork), lettuce, tomato, onion, feta, and tzatziki sauce on pita, folded like a taco. Greek origin, pronounced "yeer-oh".
      I used to work on a gyro shop. The owners were first-generation born US citizens. Their dad was old-school.

    • @ritual64
      @ritual64 4 роки тому +4

      @@DMJoeBing in the UK a Giro is the cheque you used to get from the government for unemployment benefits.

  • @greenhowie
    @greenhowie 4 роки тому +51

    "Unions aren't Communist enough"
    - Simon Whistler, 2020

    • @GarrettMoffitt
      @GarrettMoffitt 4 роки тому +6

      The idea that unions are communist is a laisse faire capitalism lie.
      A group of people coming together to ahve a voice is not communism.
      Only in the 21st century would idiots think wanting a seat at the table is the same as wanting to control the table.

    • @oddjam
      @oddjam 4 роки тому

      @@GarrettMoffitt GOVERNMENT IS COMMUNISM.

    • @yuvalsela4482
      @yuvalsela4482 4 роки тому +4

      @@oddjam communism is when goverment do things i dont like. the more things i dont like the more communistier it is

    • @corneliusmcmuffin3256
      @corneliusmcmuffin3256 4 роки тому +2

      @@GarrettMoffitt unions only replace where money goes, they are parasitic businesses. Why do you think teachers are so cripplingly underpaid despite so many funds donating to the educational system? because that money goes to the union heads first and the teachers last. You want to know why your bad teachers never are fired? Unions trying to maintain their staff for as long as possible, this applies to police unions as well. I think unions work exactly like mini soviet governments, except where the Stalin’s hide in the background making tons of money and the bureaucracy stops and progress and change from upsetting the power balance of the union so the rich stay richer and the poor members forced into a union have no choice but to stay poor, to them it looks like a great deal and the propaganda of the union tells them that.

    • @corneliusmcmuffin3256
      @corneliusmcmuffin3256 4 роки тому

      @@GarrettMoffitt just like communism unions are a lie designed to entice the workers into throwing away what little amount of power they hold left into the hands of a few rich power loving individuals who are willing to manipulate them even further if they weren’t already being manipulated by money hungry businesses... some unions are better than others but some soviet satellites where better than others.

  • @xavieralvarado3053
    @xavieralvarado3053 4 роки тому +16

    Any job dealing with the general public is subject to extreme stress

  • @torbayfruitsandjackpots1678
    @torbayfruitsandjackpots1678 4 роки тому +3

    "what's a Giro???" Oh my god how old have you just made me feel???🤣

  • @jerrywood4508
    @jerrywood4508 4 роки тому +151

    George Orwell was a leftie, but not a communist. Whenever he argued with communists and pointed out the abuses of the Soviet system, they would say, 'you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.' To which he would respond, 'well, where's the omelet?'

    • @almitrahopkins1873
      @almitrahopkins1873 4 роки тому +16

      Orwell was a Socialist seeing the exploitation in so-called socialist and communist nations.

    • @almitrahopkins1873
      @almitrahopkins1873 4 роки тому +12

      @Arkady I am a libertarian socialist. I draw a specific line in what industries can or cannot be part of the free market. That allows many of the controls in the free market to be removed and allows the market to crash without jeopardizing the nation. I also advocate taxing the free market heavily and subsidizing the consumer through a basic income in addition to anything they earn as wages.

    • @andrewharper1609
      @andrewharper1609 4 роки тому +4

      @@almitrahopkins1873 It was tried. The free market shifted production to lower tax jurisdictions like Ireland or lower wage jurisdictions like Indonesia most of which also have less regulation. We used to have national monopolies owned by the State and we had exactly the same problems only because of domestic monopolies and a lack of competition we wound up with worse products sold at a higher price than a free market would have provided. Personally I would fire all clergy since they're committing fraud seize the assets of all religions and sell them off to cancel the debts of the poor. I would also cancel any recourse of these parasites to the state to pay off their student debt because divinity studies and seminary education is crap. I certainly wouldn't pay those scum a pension or redundancy because I never wanted those arseholes employed in the first place.

    • @stephhhie17
      @stephhhie17 4 роки тому

      @@almitrahopkins1873 Wouldn't that just be a capitalist system with a welfare state though?

    • @almitrahopkins1873
      @almitrahopkins1873 4 роки тому +6

      @@stephhhie17 I prefer to think of it as a government-issue of currency to citizens to ensure that the primary resource required for capitalism to function is always there in abundance.
      If done right, it guarantees that the free market always has consumers with money.

  • @c187rocks
    @c187rocks 4 роки тому +24

    I'm convinced that Danny is either 16 or 86. Until he comes out of the basement he'll always be both.

  • @robertkerr4199
    @robertkerr4199 4 роки тому +22

    Don't Cry Stalin sounds like it should be the title of a top 40 easy listening jazz classic.

  • @kotahitt9563
    @kotahitt9563 4 роки тому +4

    Simon not even being able to convince of a stressful job makes me happy for him

  • @cruzmartinez2297
    @cruzmartinez2297 4 роки тому +4

    I love that Simon is still going through those solo cups.

  • @neathizar9743
    @neathizar9743 4 роки тому +112

    Simon trashing communism? This, this is quality content, especially with all the top tier memes

  • @alexm.6148
    @alexm.6148 4 роки тому +44

    Did Danny use all his Whistlers Bucks to squeak this script in? He could have used those to finally get a thin blanket to sleep under by the radiator.

    • @cliffordsherman7702
      @cliffordsherman7702 4 роки тому +5

      Alex M. Only productive citizens get to huddle by the radiator.

    • @ericgranberg7971
      @ericgranberg7971 4 роки тому +2

      I'm sure ETA and Danny are comfy in the basement wearing all the murch

    • @zachyoung5598
      @zachyoung5598 4 роки тому

      Why buy a thin blanket when you have ETA and the skin of Brian the meme accountant?

  • @SiliconGoose
    @SiliconGoose 4 роки тому +46

    "Let's just be somewhere in the middle"
    Thousands of Americans probably just got miffed by this statement.

    • @barneymiller7894
      @barneymiller7894 4 роки тому +15

      I am somewhere in the middle, and in America this is roughly analogous to waking up and deciding "I'm going to make my best effort to make every person I meet hate me!" 😂

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +19

      *hundreds of millions.

    • @mattd832
      @mattd832 4 роки тому +3

      @@brainblaze6526 **all of them. You’ve upset all of the Americans

    • @markchristensen8925
      @markchristensen8925 4 роки тому

      @@mattd832 Well my friend , US citizens have upset and baffled billions of others over the years .
      Maybe a little payback is fair ?
      @Business Blaze Fantastic video comrade

    • @ethanlorenzo702
      @ethanlorenzo702 4 роки тому +4

      @@markchristensen8925 US Citizens are at the mercy of their Gov just like anyone else

  • @TheSalamander_
    @TheSalamander_ 4 роки тому +1

    Keep it up mate! UA-cam might think long-format videos are bad but it's fucking wrong. I don't care if you or Drachinfel or Lindybeige are filling my ears with rambling it's soothing and occasionally I learn things of interest so genuinely thank you for the floods of information.

  • @ajolleyduck2933
    @ajolleyduck2933 Рік тому +2

    It gets me how so many people don't look at Stalin with the same disgust, if not more than Hitler.
    I've had people tell me that Lenin was an alright guy.... like, yo, his 2nd in command wad Joseph Stalin. That's what the children call a red flag, my guy.

  • @t.jaygivens9075
    @t.jaygivens9075 4 роки тому +32

    I once had a communist friend tell me that Karl Marx didn’t really understand communism like she did while she was working at a pretzel stand in Louisiana.

    • @slcpunk2740
      @slcpunk2740 4 роки тому

      Sounds like your friend is a poser.

    • @barneymiller7894
      @barneymiller7894 4 роки тому

      @@slcpunk2740 Shut up Stevo you became a lawyer at the end!

    • @Skraeling1000
      @Skraeling1000 4 роки тому

      Yeah, working at a pretzel stand all day every day will tend to make your mind wander.

    • @MagnaFire39
      @MagnaFire39 4 роки тому

      I'm sure he did have different thoughts about it than your friend. I don't see what your point is though, that people who work at pretzel stands can't have opinions or that they should'nt be taken seriously no matter what their opinion is?
      Pretzels are gross and that's coming from someone who's unemployed so take it with a grain of salt.

    • @Stettafire
      @Stettafire 4 роки тому +1

      @@MagnaFire39 I like pretzels. I don't work at a pretzel stand though. I am employed though

  • @ButWhyWasTaken
    @ButWhyWasTaken 4 роки тому +66

    >a Hitler clip with correct subtitles?
    >is this still the internet?

  • @Jimizacx
    @Jimizacx 4 роки тому +26

    If you're looking for a stressful job try literally *anything* to do with food preparation.

  • @mrkristovs
    @mrkristovs 3 роки тому

    This channel is my favourite SW channel. Take your time getting to the point, your procrastinations are really enjoyable. Plus, the fact that you have so many gaps in your popular culture knowledge makes it un-put-downable!! Thanks to you all for this highly entertaining channel.

  • @walterw8310
    @walterw8310 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you to everyone involved with production of Business Blaze. Please never go away.

  • @stevenotto1456
    @stevenotto1456 4 роки тому +156

    "Communism seems to attract leaders who are corruptible, deranged and willing to kill millions of their own people"
    -Winnie the Pooh has left the chat

    • @--enyo--
      @--enyo-- 4 роки тому +11

      To be fair they've been authoritarian capitalist for a fair while now.

    • @GarrettMoffitt
      @GarrettMoffitt 4 роки тому +14

      As does capitalisms. Almost like it's about power and not the specific economic system.

    • @stevenotto1456
      @stevenotto1456 4 роки тому +13

      @@GarrettMoffitt yes, but in China, the State can suddenly arrest you and seize all of your assets, if they decide they want to. This has actually happened with that Chinese millionaire in this past week. All of a sudden, he's been arrested and the government took all his businesses and properties. Maybe Marx should have included a bit about a separation of government and the court systems. Or trying to tone down the genocide a tad.

    • @stevenotto1456
      @stevenotto1456 4 роки тому +14

      @@d.c.8828 I do not, although I was living in China until july this year. But, I have heard of them. There is a specific legal framework involved, and as I understand it, the officials involved do not financially gain from these. If you look into it, this has been on the rise, most recently in Beijing. The occupants had all their legal paperwork, but were evicted because the dwellings were "illegal".
      No matter how corrupt you believe the west is, the CCP is so much worse. It’s an institutionalised part of the system, that Hong Baos(red packs) and connections mean more than any laws.
      Technically, their constitution dictates religious freedom. Got to the concentration camps in Xinjiang and see how that goes.
      The west has rule of law, China has rule BY law.

    • @corneliusmcmuffin3256
      @corneliusmcmuffin3256 4 роки тому +6

      @@d.c.8828 the CCP or more accurately Chinese nazi party (which they are) have more security cameras then the population of the United States, they literally have concentration camps like nazi Germany, their economic system is a variety of half communism just like the nazi version... China are nazis!

  • @FFSteveEMT
    @FFSteveEMT 4 роки тому +14

    Whenever a new video starts with part of Danny’s life I actually love hearing it. Danny needs to make an autobiography.

    • @macdaddie79
      @macdaddie79 4 роки тому +1

      Danny is actually Simon's alter ego. Like Edward Norton and Brad Pitt

    • @badluck5647
      @badluck5647 4 роки тому

      @@macdaddie79 First rule of Business Blaze: Don't talk about the basement
      Second rule of Business Blaze: Don't talk about the basement
      Third rule: No shirts?

    • @macdaddie79
      @macdaddie79 4 роки тому

      @@badluck5647 what happens in the basement stays in the basement.

  • @terryenby2304
    @terryenby2304 4 роки тому +21

    I was gonna cry if Sam didn’t put his favourite Russian song in!!

  • @Darkflowerchyld718
    @Darkflowerchyld718 3 роки тому +1

    I feel like Danny is my British kindred spirit. I too can't whistle, don't drive, and have a million and one life stories that make normal people cock their head at an angle in horror. Keep being awesome Danny.

  • @joerobertson795
    @joerobertson795 4 роки тому +1

    +1000 Internets Points for the closing credits slide.
    Rock On Simon!
    (and yes, BB TOTALLY needs Hasselhoff Endorsed Thrnanos Merch of every kind)

  • @scabbynack
    @scabbynack 4 роки тому +6

    The Fonz is the character who jumped a shark on a surfboard in the show Happy Days, marking a big shift in the show to being focused on his character. It's the origination of the term "jumping the shark." Maybe also Surf Shark :)

  • @hippomormor
    @hippomormor 4 роки тому +20

    Having English as a second language, yet Simon always having just as many doubts about pronunciations.. Makes me feel better

    • @crashed6510
      @crashed6510 4 роки тому +3

      Dude i always doubt my pronunciations as well and I'm native learner this language just doesn't follow its own rules

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +4

      Anyone making videos on the internet is in your club too :)

    • @Stettafire
      @Stettafire 4 роки тому +1

      Everyone struggles with English. Just do you're best and if anyone is a dick about it they're an arsehole 👍

    • @michaelnoyola7971
      @michaelnoyola7971 4 роки тому +1

      Dude, you prbly speekee the Engrish better than our boy Simon. As an Englishman, Simon speaks English-as-a-Second-Language...anyone visiting the Ol' Blighty for a day or so will realize most of the English don't speak anything remotely recognizable as English.
      For anyone getting bitchy, 'Muricans don't even pretend to speak English.
      Just sayin'...

  • @isaacwilson5284
    @isaacwilson5284 4 роки тому +6

    This is my favorite business Blaze of all time, and I feel it has always been building to this glorious moment. Allegedly

  • @michelledavis7413
    @michelledavis7413 3 роки тому +1

    When I lived in Warsaw in the late 80's, we managed to get a cassette tape of Rick Astley from the black market, and other things....

  • @caseyflynn666
    @caseyflynn666 3 роки тому +1

    i want to share this comic book quote from suicide squad issue 11 from march 1988 Nightshade said "Commies for cocaine? c'mon"

  • @MCFingland
    @MCFingland 4 роки тому +7

    Got to love a Business Blaze that is literally about the opposite of Business. Stay principled Simon.

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +2

      Noted. Will stay principled.

    • @NathanCassidy721
      @NathanCassidy721 4 роки тому

      I dunno.
      Communism was an idea that was born from business exploding during the Industrial Revolution. So it’s kinda related.

    • @badluck5647
      @badluck5647 4 роки тому +2

      Most business blaze episodes are typically the opposite of business.

    • @coopy6425
      @coopy6425 4 роки тому

      Less business more blaze

  • @Zombie_Problem
    @Zombie_Problem 4 роки тому +23

    Simon has not heard of Dallas! Alas, he will never know "who shot JR?".
    God, I feel old......

    • @slcpunk2740
      @slcpunk2740 4 роки тому +2

      Yeah most people who watch this video will not get this reference and sorry to say but you are old. So am I though so don't feel too bad.

    • @Zombie_Problem
      @Zombie_Problem 4 роки тому

      @@slcpunk2740 The only thing I don't miss is shoulder pads and Jimmy Savile.

    • @ImTheJoker4u
      @ImTheJoker4u 4 роки тому +4

      I was like 8 when JR got shot. My mother was into Dallas, Fantasy Island, and Knots Landing - and only 1 tv in the house🙄

    • @gueswho1968
      @gueswho1968 4 роки тому +1

      I vaguely remember JR being shot back in the day, but have no idea who shot him. Google says: "Kristin Shepard, J.R.'s wife's sister and his former mistress"

  • @roybibby2351
    @roybibby2351 4 роки тому +6

    I actually like the bits at the beginning of Business Blaze when there’s nothing about the subject and just on about Danny’s life 🤣

  • @mcmoose64
    @mcmoose64 3 роки тому +4

    I can't believe I haven't seen the MAO/LMAO meme before.
    LMFAO !

  • @mrmarecki1
    @mrmarecki1 3 роки тому +7

    "You will own nothing, and you will be happy"
    Sounds familiar?

    • @nocensorship8092
      @nocensorship8092 3 роки тому

      people who want a communism lifestyle can just go to a capitalist country and then refuse to work and live on welfare its by far a better experience than communism but they also don't really own anything, so its time closest thing

  • @Sean-ne3gx
    @Sean-ne3gx 4 роки тому +8

    "What are ya gonna do Danny, seize the means of production!?" Anyway, back to reading this script produced by Danny.
    I know Simon was joking, I am too.

  • @Tiberon098
    @Tiberon098 4 роки тому +5

    Dude, I love the opening “waffling” from Danny & your presentation of it.

  • @-n3v-
    @-n3v- 4 роки тому +10

    I remember the old joke. What's green & white and gets you pissed? A Giro cheque.

  • @robertgoodberry
    @robertgoodberry 4 роки тому +27

    "I don't want to share my opinion on unions because it'll encourage people to smash the dislike button"
    *wearing smash the dislike button shirt*

  • @epowell4211
    @epowell4211 4 роки тому +1

    I love the style of Business Blaze - I don't watch for information, I watch for entertainment. These vids are like going to a high class bar near a university where all the profs go: all drunk AF, letting all their bitterness out, yet still trying to teach lol

  • @bososmark
    @bososmark 4 роки тому +11

    I always have mad respekt for sponsors that let Simon use the clip where he say he need to redue them

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  4 роки тому +5

      they are really good to me. Its not for effect when I say it. I really expected this to come back for edits.

    • @bososmark
      @bososmark 4 роки тому

      @@brainblaze6526 I know that's why it is so awesome, also like the sponsor for that cereal! I was so funny and awesome that they let you do it like you do!
      Continue as the legendary, boy with the blaze!

  • @bateman2112
    @bateman2112 4 роки тому +8

    I want a half hour plus long Blaze that has a thirty second "It sucks!" conclusion. All filler no killer Danny!

  • @tnsocialist1257
    @tnsocialist1257 4 роки тому +43

    Union membership declined and so have wages and benefits.

    • @chrisdixon3945
      @chrisdixon3945 4 роки тому +14

      Because a couple generations got high wages, huge benefits, and pension packages! This bankrupted quite a few businesses. When the big 3 failed GM was paying out $380 million/ monthly, just on pensions! Absolutely unsustainable! Wasn't any persons fault, individually. just the unions got to strong.
      If a equalibrium could be found then it could work! But greed will always prevail. I know people that just worked on assembly lines, and got $4,000+ a month at 49-50yrs. Old. So that's a lot of money to pay out. And for a job that requires very little training, or higher education!
      My generation (39yrs. old) only dream of finding a job that will last 30yrs. And make $20-30/hr. Plus huge pensions! My friend retired from GM at 49yrs. old. He get $4,800/ month and medical insurance! That's insane! He wasn't a plant manager or supervisor. Just working on the line! It's not his fault. In my profession our contracts with utility companies last about 4 years. Then a different contractor typically replaces us. So we quit and go to new company! We call it changing shirt's! Unless your willing to travel you cannot build seniority! I had 5 years In when we lost contract we got out bid. Company said go to tennessee or Michigan. Or good by!
      Anyways a combination of greed from all parties and political pressure caused this fake or unrealistic wage increase that those few generations have/ or got!
      Theirs a book by a rich/ powerful lawyer- lobbyist!
      I think it's called How our generation robbed the future!

    • @raitchison
      @raitchison 4 роки тому +6

      A big part of that is the drastic decline of manufacturing in the U.S. Unions have since made some gains in the service sector but not remotely enough to make up for all those lost manufacturing jobs.

    • @chrisdixon3945
      @chrisdixon3945 4 роки тому

      @@raitchison correct and we need as many high paying jobs good paying jobs as we can for a good stable economy! If it never if NAFTA never happened plus the other stupid/detrimental trade agreements, I would say that us manufacturing and the big three and other companies would still be doing pretty damn good!!!!!!
      Again it's the politicians, we should always put America first just like I put my household ahead of everybody else's household or family however you would like to say that! That's how every other country on the face of the planet works.
      just like the Paris accords for the environment of course France wants that because the cost of electricity will go up they get 98% of their electricity from nuclear reactors so they don't have to worry about emissions or standards and they export it's one of their biggest exports electricity and power to surrounding countries. So look how much it benefits them but hurts larger countries that are bigger and have a lot larger population base. Our government, it's just a joke!!!🤣🤔🙄😒

    • @chrisdixon3945
      @chrisdixon3945 4 роки тому +3

      @@raitchison also immigration we cannot have people coming into the country in such vast amounts. While concurrently, we have lots of jobs going overseas!
      The unemployment numbers they show on news are fake as hell and being so for a long time.
      I'm pro immigration, but in the proper way, you know legally! It's very wrong and disheartening to the people in other countries that wait years or a decade to do so legally! when other people can just cross the line, wait a few years, then they're a citizen that can vote!!!
      As soon as they cross the border they're eligible for $750 food stamps, $200+/- a few bucks in cash, housing, medical insurance, help with utilities Plus all other welfare options.
      In the 70s 80s and 90s you had Mexican women that would come up to America and have their baby and it was born in America so it would get its birth certificate and then they would go home to Mexico and then when the kid was 18 he could go to America.
      In the 90's this bankrupted 38 hospitals in one year in the state of California! (Article in readers digest I remember) that's not counting, all the other 30+ yrs. it was being done. Nor is it counting New Mexico or Texas. Think about that for a moment!
      Then again the legal immigrants for the most part have good jobs and actually pay money to taxes in the IRS every year! The majority DO NOT receive a tax check at the end of the year! VS illegal immigrants! Who on average make $36k/ yr. But 67% of those receive welfare. At an average cost of $30k plus/ yr.! You do the research and math, and think how this will hurt us catastrophically long term.
      It's almost as if the government is taking the country apart piece by piece.
      Anyways I'm done ranting, peace I'm out

    • @tigercap100
      @tigercap100 4 роки тому

      Unions suck, they're a trap.

  • @kevinnaber790
    @kevinnaber790 3 роки тому +1

    Gyro- a Greek or south eastern European wrap commonly using thin shavings of lamb, shredded lettuce or other leafy green, and a spiced sour cream dressing similar to Ranch.

  • @beanbrewer
    @beanbrewer 4 роки тому +3

    "Don't cry Stalin" sounds like a sequel to "the producers"

  • @bigmeek4705
    @bigmeek4705 4 роки тому +15

    I never understood the "In a communist society everyone will be an artist". It just doesn't track. All the people who think that communism will let them be an artist and do whatever they want will be forced to work in a factory assembly line.

    • @kateajurors8640
      @kateajurors8640 4 роки тому +6

      Well saying people will work jobs they don't want too is a bad argument as people no matter what economic set up you have, There are always class systems people wealthier or more influence than others and people who are forced to work horrible and dangerous jobs. Also using China as an example is bad as China has LESS social laws, support, and programs, than the USA a capitalist society. The issue is NO system of economic or government is perfect capitalism has laws to stop monopolies yet lobbing still can corrupt the system. there are taxes on capitalism though we do not actively mindfully and willingly pay into taxes or even get to choose where our specific tax dollar goes. If capitalisms was perfect we wouldn't need these laws. Every government and economics are just as mortal as we are and just as susceptible to corruption and cancers as we are. What rules and laws work for one society will not work for another.

    • @SelectHawk
      @SelectHawk 4 роки тому +6

      You might understand more if you read any socialist theory, but for some reason people feel like they can talk about this topic with less than no knowledge about it. First, we work more than necessary, and overproduce. Capitalist economists of the 19th and 20th century thought we would have 4 hour work days because of increased productivity. Instead, that productivity is taken by the people at the top. Second, reducing alienation and giving workers more creative control over their work would allow more artistic expression in normal work. If you think China or the USSR was communist, you are wrong. They aren't even socialist, although that is what they call themselves. Communist societies don't have governments.

    • @lunyssa353
      @lunyssa353 4 роки тому +1

      Exactly, people are much less inclined to do frivelious things when they have to work hard all the time and struggle so much. Historically arts and advancement of societies happen when people are able to specialize their time working for money in what they r best at, in order to later spend it on gaining free time to do what they enjoy like arts.
      That's one of the biggest caveats to communism, poorer people believe that the redistribution of wealth will magically make everyone middle class or better, but the reality is that it simply makes EVERYONE share in poverty, not success. This of course stagnates culture, it does not help it flourish.

    • @cyborgchicken3502
      @cyborgchicken3502 4 роки тому +3

      @@SelectHawk and real communism I think only works in smaller and closer knit communities, I think the biggest reason it failed was because they tried to implement it on a countrywide scale with millions of people, when this won't work because the differences between individuals would be far too great

    • @bigmeek4705
      @bigmeek4705 4 роки тому

      @@SelectHawk By that logic we have never had a true capitalist society, because REAL capitalism requires no government control or intervention. Marxist communism requires massive authoritarian government control. The idea being we take over everything, force the laws on people, and then the government slowly fades away. Marxism requires authoritarianism.

  • @scottryals3191
    @scottryals3191 4 роки тому +20

    The starvation in Ukraine was exacerbated by a ruthless government that confiscated what little grain that was available during the transition caused famine and sold it foreign for hard currency.

  • @viktorw2322
    @viktorw2322 4 роки тому +5

    I love how proud Simon is, everytime he teaches us a little bit about this business stuff.

  • @JustinSmith-mh7mi
    @JustinSmith-mh7mi 4 роки тому +2

    The relaxed, casual feel of these videos makes this my favorite of Simon's channels. TIFO and Megaprojects tie for second. (:

  • @welshdragon99
    @welshdragon99 4 роки тому +6

    Comrade, it would be wonderful if you tried to get the DPRK to redistribute some of their great wealth to you and published the result 😂