That Time Pyramid Schemes Caused a Civil War
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- Опубліковано 21 січ 2020
- Or did it?
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It’s not a business blaze episode without Simon saying “I really should read these before” and proceeds to not read any before
Hannah Margaret it’s a tradition
If he starts pre-reading them I will be heartbroken. It’s what gives these their charm!
It's also not complete until he says "smash that like button".
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It's great that he can read the scripts "cold" so well, ad libbing as he wades through.
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It’s not a pyramid. It’s a triangle to success!
-Shifty Steve
Damn, that's shifty.
Shifty Steve later retreated into the mob life under a new name and later got married to Fat Tony from the Simpsons. The end.
Classic !
it's an inverse funnel that puts your capital on the path to financial success.
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My favorite part of this channel is that Simon's personality really shines through
Hahah, I read that as "least" for some reason at first.
Clearly I have great self-esteem.
Absolutely agree with you! I’m actually watching all these videos to the end bcos simons roasts are just incredible 😂😂😂
that annoys me
Simon, you're clearly having fun with this channel. I hope so anyway, because this stuff is both informative and hilarious. I hope the artistic license eases the drudgery that may come with conventional reads.
That's why it sucks.
Just kidding you seem like a good guy
I legit thought you were calling Danny "Daddy" 😂😂😂
Family business
Stop it step bro
Even though you are the business daddy
Simon genuinely sounds like a very fun person to hang out with
I wish I was. Then I would have friends.
@@brainblaze6526 but I've already heard you say you're going to go have some beers with some friends... busted
Dammit ;)
I would gladly have a beer with you. but you're buying mr.whistler for trying to swindle me
I keep hearing "Danny" as "Daddy".
"I'm sorry, Daddy."
"When are we getting into the war, Daddy?"
"SHUT UP, AND WRITE THE SCRIPT, DADDY!"
* insert the "Daddy, chill." clip *
Great I read this and started hearing daddy instead of Danny. Tihi
Same here. It took me multiple episodes to realize "business daddy" wasn't the same as "danny/daddy"
Oh, great. Now I can't not hear that!
I am deceased 😆😵
Simon, I appreciate that you shared that you need us, your followers, to watching all the way to the end of the videos and that it is more important than the likes etc. It truly makes a difference that we know how to work the algorithm. I enjoy the time you spend making these videos as well as the production staff/s. I know it probably was not intentional to share that but I am grateful you did. Thank you.
Thanks :). I don't really want to 'work the algorithm' though, but I do want to make content that is good enough for you to want to watch to the end. That's how I'll win in the end :)
This is one of the best UA-cam channels online. Simon takes the “business” news and makes it extremely entertaining especially when he’s ripping on the fools he’s reading about.
:) :) thanks!!
Can Danny read something Simon writes, that would be a good video!
@meaturama the dude who writes pretty much every script for this channel
I was just thinking how I too would like to know more about this Danny, and a Simon writen/Danny read episode sounds great!
meaturama Danny has another channel. I have to go double check which one it is
hudson campbell Top5s I think
meaturama Yo, I’ve watched two videos and I know who Danny is. Pay more attention 😆🤣
I was genuinely disappointed there was no link to Simon's scheme......
cutco knives could be one. i tried getting a job there and last day of training "yeah we need $300"
Gilgalore Games Hey those are really good knives!
You know... I actually got a job there one year and it was freaking awesome. Looking back on it (this was a pretty long time ago), it was pretty shady, but I stand by the fact that they made great knives. Like... really great knives. I'm glad I'm not doing it anymore, and it seems like they've become far more shady, but man. Good knives.
Oh- I got my money back when I returned my set. I'm going to guess that they don't do that anymore?
LOL. I'm in sales, and last summer I was on the job market, this Cutco place called me and I looked them up. . . .what a bunch of criminals!
@Robert Brown Hah! It's the exact same time I sold! But you didn't think the knives were awesome? A woman I sold a set to had one kid get something like 12 stitches on one hand from one knife and her daughter threatened (thankfully it was a hollow threat) suicide. When the cops got there, she was holding a Cutco knife. It was confiscated. What's funny is that they were both the steak knives. The unassuming looking ones. Those things ruined everybody. (I promise her daughter was ok. i wouldn't make light of it if it was otherwise. she ended up getting some help she needed from then still undiagnosed mental health issues)
I worked with cutco for a minute and didn't pay anything. I was given loaner knives. When I went a week or more without selling anything they said give us back our knives. So #1 they have a product and #2 didnt pay to join and #3 been around forever, so not a scheme. They just promise easy money.
Kept a friend from falling for one of those scemes. She told me about these 'awesome totally natural cosmetics' that she's gonna sell. And that she's gonna earn so much and I should do it too. I asked : do you have to buy the products in advance ? - yes! Do you have to try to get others to sell it too? - Yes! Girl it's a pyramid scheme don't drag me into that better yet of you haven't signed up yet don't do it. She never mentioned that shit again
Yeah, these companies are really good at sucking people in. Predatory.
Time for a new friend.
@@Whatismusic123 I barely see her anyways. She really tried to convince me even when I said girl you're falling for pyramid scheme
@@stephjovi So wait... did she end up falling into it or did you manage to keep her outta it? Which one btw?
@@Melanie16040 idk which one I forgot the name. She never mentioned it again and hadn't yet bought inventory so I think she wouldn't admit it but she listened to the advice to get away from it.
You pronounced Sali Berisha perfectly. By the way, he was a relatively poor man until getting into government and becoming a very wealthy man. You know what Eisenhower said about men who become rich in government.
Kind of mad that the website Simon gave us didn’t go anywhere:p
Simon..... stop winding the youngsters up. lol
Same. I was hoping that he created a fake pyramid scheme page just for this video.
Same so disappointed but thinking about buying it to get rich quick😂
I was hoping to get in at the top of the pyramid for a change.
Simon should do a video on that crypto coin that was advertised as a pyramid scam, looked like it may actually work then promptly got hacked and had all they pyramid dollars stolen.
My trolling only can extend so far. I have limited resources.
Ironically, there actually is a concrete pyramid in the centre of Tirana, Albania.
The former Enver Hoxha museum, built by his daughter following his death in 1985.
Little known fact: all the lizard people are afraid of pyramid schemes. Lol
AHA! YET ANOTHER PROOF THAT THE REAL SIMON WHISTLER HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A LIZARDMAN CLONE!
For some reason this is my favorite of all the 'Simon Channels'. It might be the no prep, of the cuff 'Simoness' (Simonness?). Or it might just be Danny's scripts. Or a mix of the two. Either way, the unmeasured, random, and the relatable personality captures my attention.
I mean yeah he Madoff with a lot of money, but Bernie ended up getting caught.
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@@brainblaze6526 he dead...?...yea, he deeeaad dead
I never comments on UA-cam.
I just want you to know that some random guy in Tulsa, Oklahoma plays your videos all day in the background 4 days a week for 6 hours.
It's the 2nd time you've mentioned how playing these videos all the way is actually good for you on the business channel and makes me feel good that I'm somehow contributing as I don't want you to stop anytime soon.
It does, and thank you :)
Some guy in Tulsa is blazing 6 hours a day 4 days a week?
Tulsan here. Also play nonstop in the background all day while I'm at work lol legend
Can we get Danny in a video? I want to see this guy
I agree, but the logistics would be a nightmare. Danny lives in Cornwall, UK and Simon lives in Prague.
I don't think Danny exists, I think he's been made up by Simon so we don't know just how much he does
Same!
It's like fight club.....Danny is the sexy Tyler Durden to Simon's corporate drone...that's why we never see them together and Simon knows what will be in the scripts before he reads them. Also explains Simon's love of IKEA, sweaters and watches.
@Stephen Hill Whaaaaaaaat? What is this thing called "the internet"?
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"....my comments may be funny."
YOU STOP DOUBTING YOURSELF.
Aww thanks :)
A Whistler Pyramid Scheme is the only pyramid scheme I'd get onboard with !
#whistleyourwaytosuccess
"I would like to make you an offer you cannot refuse."
"Does that sound like something you might be interested in?"
I have some jewelry you might like. High price low quality 💎
*cough* *Amway* *cough*. Oh geeze sorry just clearing my throat.
😂😂😂 Amway is SUCH a pyramid scheme... excuse me... "multi level marketing company"
Haha, years ago, a lady I met by chance tried to recruit me to Amway. She was so secretive and hush hush about what kind of company she worked for, I legit thought it was sex work or an escort service or something :'D I was a little curious, but they required you to buy a starter kit for like 200 bucks, with no returns guaranteed. Heh, no.
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@@AlexielRaziel Yeah. It made the DeVos family so much money they were able to buy a seat in Trump's cabinet.
@@thelastremainingmoderate1997 just throwing this out there, she resigned yesterday along with Elaine Chao
Who doesn't watch to the end??? Please tell me I'm not the only one who finds Bernie's last name rather appropriate for what he did! Thanks all! Love this channel love this community!!
Same here about Bernie. Feel like investing with Madoff is like hiring M. Bezzler to do your accounting.
I’m watching to the end on topics I have literally no interest in...simons voice and his cackles are ever so soothing 😂
It's the sweet irony of life. Same with the officer who killed George Floyd. The name Chauvin (at least in French) is very appropriate for the type of personality that would do such a horrible thing.
how to identify if a company is a pyramid: their most profitable department is basically their HR department.
Hahah well said
Simon the U.S equivalent would be writing your congressmen
Good to know we're not the only country who wastes our time with this.
Another channel I just came across with Simon. I’ve lost count 😀
Legit.. this is the funniest channel of them all. 😁😁😁
"Join my team." 😂😂😂
Can never fall for a pyramid scheme I don't know 10 people be smart don't play yourself stay inside it's safe
If someone from my school came up to me and asked me to sell something, for at least 2/3 of them it probably wouldn't be a pyramid scheme. I would also be wondering why they were out of jail.
Simon I’m a business major in college currently and did a macroecon project on the South Seas Bubble. This is ludicrously insane and your government is still paying the interest on it 300 years later. You ought to do a video on this subject
When Simon (quite reasonably) asked us to watch to the end, I started imagining a pyramid scheme involving video watch time.
Love this channel, by the way.
It would be interesting to hear about some other types of business scams. Everybody knows about pyramid schemes. I mean who hasn't conned all of their friends into glorified money laundering?
There's two types of cons long term and
short term video idea is prepped.
Why is Simon's voice and face like a warm blanket wrapped around me on a winter's day?
Omg yes! Soooo soothing when you’ve had a hard day at work and finished dealing with some screaming bratty children! 😅
@@jennyli7749 I have a 4 week old so I know!
I was an insurance agent for a brief period in college and there are some similarities to a pyramid scheme. You are expected to run through your contacts and gain new potential clients through them. The day you run out of people to call is the day you start to fall out of the industry.i was basically a licensed telemarketer and I hated every minute of it.
Simon, just discovered this channel a few days ago and I have to admit, I like this, keep it up, it feels so authentic and entertaining and earnest. Good work guys.
Love Simon always encouraging us to watch until the end. Don’t worry, Simon. I’m an army, I know how to stream.
I have really come to love these different videos and channels that you guys do as they fill up a lot of my work time (electrician), where I just wander around alone and do my work, so it's great company and learning 🙂
About a year ago I bumped into an old friend with a similar result. At first, the way he described it it sounded legit, like a startup internet company (which looking back now, I realize he was just parroting what his guy said to him). I had my suspicions, sure, but I've known this guy for just over twenty years. He's a little gullible and naive, really the perfect target for a pyramid scheme, but not someone that would try to trick you into something.
The biggest red flag was when he gave me a copy of "The Business of the 21st Century," a relatively small book outlining how the economy really sucks and the only way to succeed is to go into business for yourself.
I let him down easy.
Hey Simon - Would you consider doing a video on "The economics of drug dealing" which Steven Levitt covered in Freakanomics. I love the fact if you factor in the risk of being killed or imprisoned as a drug dealer vs the money you could make, that you would be better off earning minimum wage at MacDonalds on a risk return basis. Its a really great story. Please consider making a video on this.
Simon, entirely sincere, in 2020: "How long have we been going, 15 minutes? Gee, thanks, Danny."
Simon in 2022: "Danny's scripts never END!"
You should do an episode on the time that Facebook caused a genocide
If this is real then yes I'd watch it
@@kingfuzzy2 Look up "facebook myanmar"
Possibly.
Writing your MP can be directly equated in the US to writing your congressperson. Checks all the same boxes too: It's one of the few options you have that the government actually tries to encourage you to exercise, they promise somebody will listen if you write, it sounds to you like it might actually work since you know the government loves paperwork, you go "eh, guess it's worth a shot" and do it, and you get a form letter (or nothing) back, and nothing actually changes.
One of my friends got caught up in some Multi level Marketing BS in high school (cutco knives). They made him buy about 200 kitchen knives from them at pretty low prices and if he sold them all at a profit (the sales money went to the company, of course) he'd get a bounty. Of course nobody can find 200 friends who want an expensive knives.
Maybe if you are scamming people, giving them a bunch of knives would be a bad idea.
If Simon could just curl the ends of his mustache....
I'm growing a Dali style moustache.
Not really ;)
Business Blaze Maybe just do it though.
These are getting better and better!
Yo, appreciate your work! Great team!
Great video!
Love love love your channel
I listen to business blaze like a podcast. Great video Simon
Just say no. . . to catching up with old friends over coffee.
I hadn't realised until just now that this was all invented by the bubble of the south sea company.
Thank you Danny for the great script!!
Extra points for including shots of the panda commercial. 🐼
Your bluntness is awesome! 😂
I love this channel Idk why or how it hasn't taken off like your other channels! The writing is good and simon is a fricken gem!
Apparently my phone doesnt think Simon is important enough to capitalize so I had to correct that for you keep making interesting content
Thank you Danny
Bit-Conneeeeeeeeeeeect!!
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Oh yeah, it is indeed another episode of Business Blaze. Lets do this.
Hahaha, poor Danny.
i have a high school friend who is a psychology major and is involved in an MLM and im just so suspicious that she may be using her degree to reel people in 🤨
I think I've watched every one on the majority of your channels. I use them to fall asleep and they keep playing. So I end up going back and watching them again 😂😂
I appreciate these videos ^_^
Epic! Thanks guys.
I was 7 years old at the rime in Albania and I remember the "civil war": at 2 am my neighbor (i lived in an apartment near the center of the city of Elbasan) would get up and fire at the sky 2 to 3 rounds with his AK-47, which he stole from one of the army warehouses (as everybody else did). And I and my family would get up scared as s**t. And soon at least 10 more people would do the same (shooting at the sky for no reason). It was the scariest time of my life. At least i got a good laugh with your video so I got that going for me, which is nice! Ps: everything I wrote is true.
I remember in the late 70's it was a suburban yuppie type thing to do at a low level like 1 dollar investments. People understood the scam but viewed as fun. The person at the top would get 10 people to invest a dollar then have them recruit 10 people to give him another dollar paying the recruiter like 25 cents for every dollar they brought in and likewise down the line until it collapsed. They had a variation of it like the airplane game when the cops got involved. I was just a kid at the time and viewed it as stupid but the adults in my town were playing it regularly for awhile even some teachers. Yet I got in trouble at school for gambling shooting marbles for dimes.
It's actually a good economic lesson
Not gonna lie... if Shifty Simon started a pyramid scheme, I'd probably sign up. ✋🏻
Sweet
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Simon, Danny, & crew- I always watch the Buis.Blaze videos to the end...
ALLEGEDLY-
Also, a good front shirt/back of shirt idea
Write to the MP is like the British version of asking for the manager
Yes. But at least the manager might be able to do something.
“Just keep watching till the end, that would be awesome.” I watch the videos all the way through when they come out and relisten to some of them when I can’t sleep
Not a civil war, but I did have a pyramid scheme end a four year relationship. My boyfriend was a firefighter/paramedic and one of the other medics invited him to an Amway presentation. I already knew about about Amway's crap, but he asked me to go with him. I'm like, "Alright, let's see what this shit-show's about." The meeting was like a cult or like going to one of those evangelical sermons; I thought it was unbelievably transparent, and couldn't believe how many people were actually buying into this crap. The thing was, my bf was a very intelligent person- well educated, traveled, spoke multiple languages. I couldn't believe he walked out of that place wanting to be a part of it, and he did! He bought a whole bunch of their garbage. I asked him why would people want to buy inferior, non-brand name products for five times the price of what they cost at a store (the prices on their merchandise are exorbitant, and it's just everyday stuff like detergent, energy drinks, shampoo- just grocery store stuff with no quality), then have to wait for the stuff to be delivered. I told him this is so transparently a pyramid scheme, and he screamed at me that I didn't believe in him. Okay, then. It really got to me that he just had to prove me wrong about this sham that he dug in his heels harder. It didn't help that the girl who got him into this just happened to be this chick that bullied me mercilessly in high school. We fought incessantly about it, and it made me see him as a different person that he could so easily be pulled into this cult-like atmosphere. When I saw him a couple years later I asked how his Amway sales were going, and he just looked down at his feet and said, "Aw, ya know...". Yeah, I did know, but he still wouldn't admit it was a pyramid scheme. 🙄
When I was in my late teens, the parents of a friend sold Amway. You're right, the way they talked about it was like someone talking about a religion or a cult. From my point of view, it was just selling stuff, but they were preaching about how it made them better people and made their lives better in all these non-financial ways.
They tried to recruit me, and even as a pretty naive 18 year old, I knew something was seriously wrong. I called them a couple days later and politely declined, telling them that my parents didn't want me to do it. If course, then they wanted to talk to my parents, so I waited another couple of days and called them again and told them that my parents weren't interested.
The way they talked about the business was just weird and creepy.
@@Terri_MacKay Yes, totally! It was so strange seeing this person I knew so intimately become that type of person; it really freaked me out. Like you said, it felt "off" and immediately uncomfortable. I was about 22 when all this happened, but yeah, you just know. Good on you. 👍
just to "one up" your "friend I haven't seen in years" comment, I was once the "victim" of a hot chick that set up "dates" on a dating site to then push her Pyramid scheme crap on people she met that way....
But did u get laid first
@@barrybritcher nope, she jumped right into her bullshit sales pitch
At least she was honest about just wanting your money?
@@stevenschnepp576 well technically no she wasn't, she got me there under false pretense and then told me she only wanted my money
Our church (when I believed in things like that) was overrun with pyramid schemes. I made me sick and led to arguments with my ex and led to us leaving the church because I couldn't stop him for falling for all the additional pyramid schemes -- religion is bad enough, but he wanted to join everything (he likes get rich schemes).
Awesome cheers thank you ☺️🍻
Yeah this channel's more lax tone is refreshing. Simon's a very talented presenter, be it serious or not. Good stuff.
Thanks :)
Albania was, amongst a lot of things, very militaristic during the Cold War. They stockpiled massive amounts of armaments, and it was said that the ratio for every citizen was 3 AK-47s. When the unrest broke out, mobs looted the army depots and the coutry was flooded with military grade weaponry. Many of the casualties were children mucking about with assault rifles, machine guns and grenades. They even offered T-34 tanks for sale at 3000$, if you could get them across the border...
probably the only videos i watch all the way to the end are simons :)
15:57 the studio lights makes it look like Simon has a killer eye shadow
Writing a strongly worded letter to your local MP is also a middle class Australian pastime 😂
Oh God that meme.... Mostly all of my stay at home mom friends have tried to get me into a pyramid scheme. Thank God I have a career. The only time I almost fell for one was back in the early 2000s when I was in college and thought about doing it once just for extra money but as soon as they said I had to pay for my starter kit...I was like "ummmmm no....."
One time while working retail I had a married couple talk to me about coming to a business conference and every time I asked what the company did or what they sold they immediately skirted the question or told me that they couldn't explain it as well as those at the conference could. Then they told me with a small investment I could make extraordinary amounts of money. Pretty sure they were trying to screw me.
Shady Steve didn't change his name and run off to Hawaii. He changed his name and ran off to Prague.
DAMMIT. Finally caught.
Europol and Interpol want to know your location.
Kim Jong Yang said you are wanted for questioning in connection with a DVD player theft scheme and the bribery of Meng Hongwei.
Simon and Danny, what a golden group
My 1st business blaze video. Glad to see Simon isn't a staid and stodgy elderly Edwardian Brit in real life, he just sounds like one.
"It's MLM! It's not a pyramid scheme!" I got that exact line from a former coworker who bought a lifetime supply of soap.
Avon, Mary Kay, Herbalife, Cutco, Amway, etc.
I had a friend pull this pyramid crap on me, too. Hadn't seen her in years, but kept up chatting. She came to visit and just haaaad to tell me about this great business opportunity... 🙄 I got mad and kicked them out of my house.
I fell into uncontrollable fits of laughter at the writing to your local MP part. It's just as popular with the oldies here in Australia (similar govt structure I suppose).
example: My grandfather last year wrote something in the vacinity of 10 letters to his MP about the angle of a gutter near his house..
LOL.. OMG.. thank you. As an Aussie myself, when Simon said that I went "yep.. aussies be doing that" 😅🤣
I love Simon's humour!
I would like to see a video on the breakup of the Bell Telephone Company in America in the early 1980's.
I once worked at a conference that was a coffee selling pyramid scheme. They were like, buy this coffee, show it to your friends and get them to resell it for you.
A pyramid is a multi-level edifice.
"But then it's like, if someone's really dumb, is it their fault? Shouldn't we protect those dumb people?"
- Simon Whistler, 2020
Simon your beard is looking absolutely fantastic! Like suddenly it’s a little longer, really lush & thick, lookin good my friend.
haha, I just didn't trim it for a couple of weeks over Christmas and New Year :) Thanks!
Simon looking like Shakespeare in that shirt/sweater combo, lol
Someone tried to recruit me into a pyramid scheme and it did sound really good, until I had to pay for a subscription to an app. When it was all free, I was like, cool. But then I was told about the expensive app that really just fed you daily propaganda, I noped the hell out of there.
I find this video just after seeing my sister-in-law is posting on facebook about her launch party for the MLM she just joined.
Sigh
John Oliver's MLM (aka pyramid scheme) episode is one of the best videos on the internet. He's lucky he has fantastic lawyers and HBO funds to pay them.
I like that most of the funny parts are Simon adding stuff to the script trying to be cleaver only to find Danny already thought of it.
If a friend from school wants to go out for coffee, just say no. Nice to see my life motto is catching on!
Love your work Simon, and the fact that you give due credit constantly, however I agree with a bunch of the comments that Danny should at least appear at some point so we can get an idea of who the fella writing this content for you to play off of is
Does Danny not realize Hawaii is an ordinary US state that the FBI can totally interact with?
The FBI obviously doesn't care about borders or states. It is definitely easier to operate on US soil, and in particular, Hawaii!
I just meant that Hawaii was a nice place to retire. Shady Steve's location didn't really matter by then.
He'd changed his identity to Shifty Stephanie and dropped off the FBI's radar.
So you want me to like and share this video with other people I want to like and share my videos.
Sounds like a pyramid scheme.
Well you don't have to, but you should check out and recommend some of Simon's other channels like "Today I Found Out", "Top Tenz", "Biographics", "Geograpics", and the new one I just found yesterday "Megastructures".... totally not a pyramid scheme. It says so in the contract of subscribing to all of them, "I agree to be part of this Simon-scheme..." :P