Geniuses Who Were Also Dickheads
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You said Business Blaze ;)
We need a Brain Blaze discord server.
Thanks to magic spoon for creating some truly awful cereal. I mean, good god, that shit is vile. They must be really paying the big bucks!!
$5 off the price of shit still leaves you paying for shit....
Is the cereal milk from Magic Spoon as good as it is from other cereals? Most keto friendly low carb cereals are not.
Simon eats Second Breakfast? I knew he was a secret Lord of the Rings fan!
I hope this gets upvoted just to annoy him. 😂
Bump to annoy our fact boi.
He protests too much, he probably LARPs as an elf.
Simon LARPS as a wizard and throws bean bags around, loudly vocalizing the sound effects.
Whenever someone doesn’t yield he starts jumping up and down while sulking.
That was last weekend.
Lol
I'm genuinely surprised that Simon hasn't started a channel called "The Past Was the Worst" and making videos that demonstrates that fact.
Pretty sure that's just biographics and geographics and a couple of his others slammed into one
@@thespacedpirate You are right there, but considering his addiction to new channels and catchphrases, it would still be opportunistic lol
Into the Shadows might be what you are looking for.
@@evilredbutton oh, I’m already subbed to that channel. I should clarify; I understand that he already does that type of content, I am just saying that I’m surprised he hasn’t consolidated it into a channel called “The Past Was The Worst” purely based on the meme that Simon likes to create new channels.
Maybe that's gonna be number 12😂. Although into the shadows is pretty dark so that's a bit of the past is the worst
I love how Sam is also communicating his opinion the only way he can; via memes.
And yet, somehow, so eloquently... This one goes out to you, Mr Sam.
I can't get over the one he made himself for this episode. The Freddie Mercury during the John Lennon bit is *inspired.*
“You WHAT” is my favorite new addition
[40:45]
Sam’s meme for “Danny and I are not in the same page on this” is truly a master stroke
I'm obsessed with his original Freddie Mercury meme during the Lennon segment.
The "Danny and I are not on the same page" would have made a great cliffhanger for the next episode of Brain Blaze.
... and now Callum has to write the ending.
Just show that clip and then show Simon storming off screen while rolling up the script to beat Danny with!
Are our two dads going to split up? What’ll happen to us……..?
@@williebauld1007 Im going to move in with uncle Callum and Aunt Jen
Creating canon lore with every episode!
One of my favorite Elvis Costello lyrics: "Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine no possessions'?"
Well, yeah. Imagine it. Because that ain't how it is.
@@themoviedealers That is how it is, it's costello commenting on the hypocrisy of Lennon.
I love Simon's rage towards Lennon in this episode. A total bell being called out for the utter piece of rat shit that he was. Love it, so much.
There's a comedian who makes the joke: Of all the women in the world you pick that one? Referring to Yoko Ono.
@Peters6221 unfortunately, most of these rich and powerful people are total peices of garbage. I don't understand by we worship all these damn loser in film/tv, sports, music, ect anyways.
I don't worship Lennon by any means. He was a complicated artist and person with a difficult childhood. He could be a dickhead and a misogynist but also tried to be a better person and a good father. He was a well rounded person with many bad and good points. And a fantastic songwriter and performer.
@@themoviedealers he tried to be a good father... to his second child. While remaining an utter and total piece of shit to his first. Those two negate pretty hard, with treating his other son like shit overriding how he treated the second
@@RealSkoolmaster Plus: "Give this man a gold star! He tried to be a good parent! What a hero!" Not being a complete failure of a parent twice over hardly seems like something to congratulate someone for -- seems like a minimum of human decency to me.
Simon: "I can't remember who the playwright is."
Simon later: "I'm going to get sued by the Lloyd Webber estate."
You just stumbled onto it without even knowing.
Right?!?! I was yelling at the screen at that point! 🤣
I was about to comment this, lol. Couldn't stop laughing when that happened
this
I was looking for this very comment
Simon: Just don't beat your wife!
John: I'm married to Yono Oko
Simon: [This application has stopped. Send crash report?]
Savage.
Simon, even my 76 year old mother knows who you are. I was talking about a topic you covered and my mom says, "Oh, I love Simon Whisler." Apparently, you appeal to many different demographics.
yeah - I'm 73!
@@vampthat youre a treasure 🖤🖤🖤
After Elton John visited John and Yoko at the Dakota, he allegedly sent Lennon a mocking note:
'Imagine six apartments/
It isn't hard to do;
One is full of fur coats/
Another's just for shoes.'
Thank you for that bit of context, sir. Hilarious.
Legend
It wouldn't surprised me if it was true. Elton John comes off as pretty blunt in interviews. A put up or shut up type of person.
Ha. Elton John was his friend, but that's a pretty good burn.
I don't get it and yes I get the re-wording of the song but what's the meaning? Unless there was more or maybe I'm a small brain! I think that could be the reason very small, tiny!
Julian deserved better. I had no idea John was such a bell.
End. Sam is copletely wrong.
I knew Julian had a special connection to Paul, based on the way I've had "Hey, Jude" explained to me; I just thought it was the trauma of this parents splitting up, and being a child in that spotlight.
It's far more heartbreaking now that I know more of the story. 💔
He did Julien wrong, and when his first wife, Cynthia, got home one day, John, and Yoko One, were undressed, except they were wearing the Lennon's, "His and Hers" bathrobes...I love his music, but that was a dick move.
For all those who're confused: In British slang a "gong" is a trophy or medal.
Yes, I know Simon is British but obviously he's been living in UA-cam land for a long time now, it changes a man. In another year or two the transformation will be complete - he'll have adopted a vaguely north American accent, and will be running 20 different reaction and mukbang channels, all sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends. It's probably already too late.
If Simon starts a mukbang channel sponsored by raid shadow legends its to warm his cold, capitalist heart.
I'm okay with that, its what he's about.
At this point he may as well do raid ads on this channel because we all know the truth and wanna see Simon make that DOLLLAAAAAAAAA
Living in UA-cam land aka being alone at the office all day (apart from the Blazement slaves) and living outside the UK for years must change his accent
@@stephjovi the blazement 😂😂😂
What part of the UK are you from cause I've never heard this either XD
@@TheHaniverse the Midlands, but I don't think it's just a Midlands thing - I've lived in a bunch of places and I work with people from all over, so usually I'm aware if something is super regional.
Unpaid internships where you pay the school for the privilege of working for someone else are a big thing in the US still, and it *sucks*.
Since these internships can only be taken by people with independent sources of income (like wealthy parents), it reinforces a stratification of the workforce. You can only get a 'leg up' if you don't really need one.
I remember being out, riding the subway, the night that John Lennon died. There were all these girls, burning candles and weeping. When I asked them what was happening, one of them yelled at me for not knowing that lennon was dead. Not only was he a total jerk, but so were many of his fans.
He was...though he wrote some great songs.
His music, and his actions, were out of synch.
I think Simon is confused about Elia Kazan because there is more context to what was going on in Hollywood.
First, It was actually fairly common for well-off and educated people, including those in Hollywood to be part of communist societies in the 1930s, due to the great depression. These societies had largely disappeared by the end of the 1940s because of WWII followed by rising prosperity and the escalating cold war. While Kazan's views had changed, the views of everyone he indicted had largely changed as well. They had been members of these groups in the 1930s but most no longer held those beliefs.
Second, during the red scare in Hollywood many were blacklisted despite having no explicit communist beliefs. There was a ridiculous amount of censorship rules introduced and breaking any of them made you a communist. You were a communist if you ever made a film critical of the US government or capitalism, even if it was released decades earlier. Some were blacklisted because they had rivals claim they were communist. The only way to defend yourself was to comply and act as patriotic as possible.
Kazan's actions greatly escalated a witch hunt which destroyed the careers of hundreds more actors, directors, and especially screenwriters. The vast majority of these people had no communist sympathies, and people like Orson Wells, Arthur Miller, and Charlie Chaplin watched their careers be destroyed. This was despite the significant lack of evidence that Hollywood was pushing any pro-communist propaganda in the first place. The resulting drain of talent and enforcement of draconian censorship rules, along with the rise of TV, and the breakup of the studio system lead to a decades long decline in Hollywood, from which it has never truly recovered.
TLDR: He destroyed the careers of eight people who had similar beliefs and background to himself, and perpetuated a crises that deeply harmed Hollywood, all so he would not have to return to Broadway. That is why he is disliked.
Thank you for that history. Also, civil rights leaders were labeled as "communists" and I'm not sure Simon realizes how the US labels everything remotely progressive as communist and uses it and socialism interchangeably.
Kazan gave names to keep his career he's a snitch cuz those ppl weren't anymore commies than he was
This is this first time I think we've seen genuine anger from Simon 😅
Simon has covered genocide and serial killers on his other channels, but the new father was more worked up about the constant abuse of one's own child.
It was kinda heartwarming in a way.
People sending him kinder joy pictures saying they are kinder eggs got him pretty angry 😆
He was so mad he didn't finish the section! 🤭
On casual criminalist I've seen him get pretty mad. Honestly I've watched him start the channel not knowing where he stood. But kinda being against the death penalty, to being pretty much completely pro death penalty, because of the dickheads he covers on it.
Although sometimes it's a reaction more of disappointment (in humanity as a whole I would say), and sadness than flat out rage.
I don't think I'm selling the channel very well...
The instant Simon said "What the fuck John Lennon, you prick" an ad for The Beatles started playing, and I thought it was part of the video for far longer than I'd like to admit.
Elia Kazan (pronounced Elle-ee-uh Kuh zan, just FYI) did snitch to save his own skin. He named names instead of answering, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?"
Those who he named or those who refused to answer the question or who answered "Yes..." to any degree were blacklisted, hounded, threatened, assaulted, and lost their jobs as actors, directors, writers, cinematographers, editors, stage managers, set designers, publicists.
There were many who could not find work ANYWHERE! Not as dishwashers, ditch diggers, landscapers, and most certainly not in the profession they trained for and were experienced. Many died young from health issues brought on, clearly, from the stress and ensuing deprivation; there were suicides; and lots of bankruptcies and divorces.
All the while, Mr. Kazan continued to work in film; others who named names continued to work in the stage, TV, film, or other creative arts.
What he did, Simon could NOT be rationalized or justified as you, frankly with compassion he did not show his comrades, as a change in political, social, or creative ideals or beliefs.
He did it almost literally to save his own skin.
I'm 100% with you. The intentional, purposeful ways John Lennon treated his kids so very differently is just disgusting on any human level.
2 things:
1) Frank Loyd Wright once got upset at his brother when he was showing him around one of the houses he built. The reason Frank was upset? Because he desiged all his homes in relation to his 5'-9" stature which ended up great for him. However due to his brother's height Frank complained that he was throwing off the scale of the room...
2) Fortunately the hatred of Julian Lennon didn't get any further than his parents as he's good friends with his half brother Sean Lennon.
People hate Julian Lennon? I kinda think it's more like they don't care either way.
O.o is that why I love his architecture? It was perfectly designed for me 🤯
Makes you wonder what kind o psychiatric diagnosis he would receive today - "you are out of scale for my world, f*off" seems beyond normal narcissism lol
Simon, you may need to look up John McCarthy. It’s not so much that the guy snitched them out, it’s more about that he knew what would happen to them.
Or Joe McCarthy...and they attended a few meetings, and "Tail-gunner Joe" and ROY COHN (According that scumbag, he taught tRump "everything he knows" about being a scumbag) picked the names, leaving THEIR friends out. Kazan, lowest of the low...
HUAC was a fraud.
Simon? "I know McCarthyism was bad, BUT..."
Exactly. I'm surprised at Simons standpoint.
Referees cage fights on weekends.
Sure but the point Simon is making is that Danny kept going on as if the guy was selling out friends to keep working himself.
Simon's point is that the guy thought he was helping America by stamping out communism.
We can agree he's a moron, but Danny's script kept attacking him for the wrong thing.
44:18 I get so much joy from Simon taking the piss out of John and Yoko with such fervor. Well done!
The Beatles song "Hey Jude" was written for Julian Lennon by Paul, because he was such a sad little boy. The lyrics are so heartbreaking with that context. It was originally "Hey Jules".
And I thought my dad was a clueless, narcissistic, hypocritical piece of shit 😳
John Lennon is next level.
Actually, Jude was a common nickname for someone named Julian.
The only thing that matters on Brain Blaze: off topic rants
I have no idea what this channel is about, I'm just here for the cynical commentary 😁
And memes. And editing. And writing.
On topic rants are also nice
Don't forget the cocaine. Without out there would be no rants
Fact boy's brain was grasping for Andrew Lloyd Weber.
that's the badger.
Got there for a moment at 19:52
@@brainblaze6526 Ironic since you've mentioned several times that you loathe musicals
Sam flashing up INTERNSHIP repeatedly just at the moment I was beginning to scream it in my head to Simon was kinda spooky… that being said, nothing Simon said was wrong….
There's a building/tourist trap in Wisconsin called "House on the Rock" which is designed to be an anti-Frank Lloyd Wright building by being as disharmonous with its surroundings as possible. It also contains the world's largest collection of self playing musical instruments. Neil Gaiman put into his book American Gods.
Heh, interesting coincidence, I just listened to that bit on the audiobook. Wednesday even makes a Frank Lloyd Wrong joke there.
I bet it has the most waterproof roof ever.
And probably a functional kitchen.
I had visited House on the Rock as a kid. It was a lot of fun to see all the collection.
I think the playwright you're thinking of is Andrew Lloyd Webber, Simon.
Also both the Paul brothers are massive bellends, but Logan's the one who did the Suicide Forest bullshit
At the end he snuck in that he's worried about being sued by the Lloyd Weber estate....
That’s what I was thinking
I'm betting he's thinking of Douglas Wright... a name you might not 'know'...but you've probably seen...I mean, Simon too...
Wright wrote The Little Mermaid, War Paint, I Am My Own Wife(Pulitzer Prize)... Not often credited with his middle name...but he should. Douglas Glendenning Wright...
*edit...I wrote this before continuing the video...still think he might be mixing up a few people though...
umm… he said so
Yup thought the same thing!
Simon: "you can't have someone working for you for free that's slavery." or here in the USA it's called Internship, as Sam pointed out. For example, in order for me to become a licensed addiction counselor, we have to go through a 6-month internship, which I don't get paid for and will most likely have to move to attend while paying my own room & board and whatever bills from my current housing. The university/state's answer to this? "We have created a specific loan just for you students." Only available from 1 bank that is state-owned, they decide the interest and everything - completely separate from school loans. they "strongly discourage" having a second part time job during this internship, as it will take away from the studying and learning needed during off-hours, all the stuff our classes didn't teach us (about 70% of the licensing exam is not learned in class) Why yes, I am salty about all this.
Ok, that is seriously fucked up. I thought "only" higher education like university was so expensive that you have to take a loan. But that you're even encouraged to get debts for that, when they almost leave you no other choice...
@@FreyasArts About 5 years ago they switched it from 9 months to 6 months, so at least there is that small mercy. LOL Or I can just move states, this isn't nationwide and other states don't require anything to start in this career it's all on-the-job training. my state requires a degree, internship, and licensing exam. (which I appreciate them wanting a person to know shit before starting to counsel people with addiction)
For certain fields, an internship is almost required to get a good job out of college. Few companies will offer entry level jobs anymore, so the only way to get a good job after graduating is if you already had experience from an unpaid internship.
At least the intern doesn't have to pay the company (for now).
@@FreyasArts Only higher education huh? Well whichever education administrator came up with this idea was clearly high, does that count?
@@slcpunk2740 if only they had been high. A stoner wouldn't come up with something like that 😂
Kazan was a opportunistic hustler. He sold out people who trusted him and profited from it.
As did John Wayne.
Yeah, some people caught up by McCarthy I felt bad for. Some people literally had to choose, hurt my friends or lose everything and that has to be tough. But Kazan was just unmtter spineless gutter trash. I understand Simon's points in this episode, but also, Simon admits he isn't fully aware of everything that many of us in the US understand.
@@UnrepentantWolf Allegedly!
And Americans have no idea about comunism. Watch the Pol Pot video, even if Mr Stalin is a nice man in your book, no mustache small or bushy can match Pot.
The thing about Elia Kazan’s ideals changing is even if it’s slightly better than just being a coward trying to save his own skin, it’s still entirely possible for Danny (and whoever else) to see Kazan’s actions as wrong. It’s like you can do whatever you want and we can still judge you for it.
It's not even really about anyone's opinion. "Blacklisted individuals" were very often imprisoned and tortured, and there's basically no real records of who all was and wasn't. When something totalitarian starts happening, regardless of your other opinions, you have a moral obligation to oppose it. Willingly feeding innocent people to it (former friends, no less) is morally reprehensible.
@@storkbomb7417the best comparison would be: being a german in 1940’s germany and knowingly turning your jewish friends over to the ss.
I've long believed Lennon to be a complete d-bag, but had no idea the full extent of his d-baggedness.. I don't want to say that he deserved what he got in the end...
...but I don't know how to finish that statement.
I see where you're coming from but now everybody thinks he "died a hero" 😒 or some bs....like, he couldn't have just faded into obscurity and died some pitiful death??
hell, if he lived long enough , maybe he could've been cancelled 🤷 that would be fitting
@@juliec5151 cancelling people is for communists
Here's the way I like to think of it.
Garbage like that, with no compassion or humanity to offer, tend to not make real friends. Rather they get followers who stay with them for something else they can provide, (in Lennon's case, fame, fortune and musical talent). People put up with John for what he could offer their benefit.
His fame carried him through life. In the end, it brought his death too. Not necessarily deserved, but certainly fitting.
You can get those slaves that pay you... It's legal. They call them interns.
Or writer and memologist 😇
Yeah, during that part I just mumbled "interns" over and over, as someone who's spent literal years of my life working hard for free I'm all too familiar with the concept.
Jack Palance was about two meters tall (6'6"). So more like two Tom Cruises in a raincoat, one on the shoulders of the other.
He was closer to 6'2 - 6'3 ish, but your point is still valid 😁
9:55 - Chapter 1 - Frank llyod wright
26:05 - Chapter 2 - Elia kazan
36:25 - Chapter 3 - John Lennon
In retrospect, yes, McCarthyism was absurd. It was also absurd at the time. All it took was for one journalist to call McCarthy out, and the whole thing fell apart.
McCarthy believed that if you had said before WWII that you didn't like Fascism you must have been a Communist sympathiser
@@UnrepentantWolf I remember that when Bertold Brecht appeared before the committee, he was asked whether he wrote revolutionary texts and ever called for the overthrow of a government.
And he “admitted” that he called for the overthrow of the German government while he was in exile.
So absurd.
That’s basically like “So, you agitated for antifascist movement?” - “Yeah, I’m not in exile in Argentina right now for a reason, right?”
And Edward R. Murrow called McCarthy out like a bingo number at a Moose Lodge. Deservedly.
I mean. The Crucible was a year before McCarthyism crumbled.
Absolutely loving how you just gave up on the name confusion and never looked it up to find out the playwright you were thinking of was Andrew Lloyd Weber, and then several minutes later accidentally called the architect Lloyd Weber instead of Lloyd Wright, when suggesting his estate might sue you, and still didn't realize it until a few minutes after that.
I was cheering him on the whole time. “C’mon, Big Brain, you can do it!” I mean, he did get there in the end, so good on ‘im?
Aren't internships what Americans do for a few years after spending $100K on a college degree before graduating to minimum wage while living out of your car?
Usually it is during rather than after if you do it at all
Usually the summers between classes.. other than that, 100% correct.
Yeah, I was gonna say; Simon, you're describing unpaid internships. Because sometimes the present is the worst too
About half the college grads I knew had to be slaves... ahem, I mean unpaid interns, for at least a couple summers.
Wright also had problems taking advise. A number of the homes he built later developed problems with cracked beams, leaks in the roofing from poor drainage, and large floor to ceiling winds that kept cracking and breaking. Several have been abandoned.
What if Yoko music is just recordings of her ptsd flash backs to John's abuse?
you've cracked the code
Well, if so, it was still BRUTAL, when she and John teamed up...."Don't Worry, Kyoko, Mommy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow", or "Who Has Seen The Wind"...
The director was like "to hell with the anti Communist laws!" And then they gave all a year in prison. As soon as he saw the prison bathroom he ratted them out. Giant dig head !
Simon: “Why am I having to explain this several times?”
Because you subconsciously know it’s a shit take and you’re trying to justify it to yourself.
It's a good take.
@@brainblaze6526 I mean, not really? You seemed to think that ruining someone’s life is okay because they have different political views? That isn’t illegal… but it does make the man an absolute dick. It doesn’t matter what his politics were the point is he destroyed their livelihoods and that’s a dickish thing to do.
Team Danny
Communofascism (national socialism = international socialism) can only be ended by free speech, not censorship - it's amazing how many mistakes seemed like good ideas at the time
What do you guys not understand? If someone is made to feel as though they are forced between saving their friendships or saving their country, how is choosing their country immoral? The point being made is that he wasn't "snitching" to better his own life, he was following what his governing authority told him was necessary to protect his country against an impending threat. The consequences of his actions, in hindsight, are not what we should scrutinize, but rather his motivations that brought him down this path.
I could feel Simon’s pain at having to mention Yoko Ono so much at the end… it was tangible! Also, I think John Lennon being so shitty enraged him a bit.
I think with the director, the thing is that he didn't start snitching until his Hollywood career was brought into question. Quite a large jump if based on ideological views
Even if it was based on his ideological views, it's still a pretty shit thing to do.
I've also heard it said that he's looked at badly now is because Mcarthy was the one he was snitching to. But that was from my history teacher in HS more than 10 years ago, so who knows?
Also, Simon keeps saying his views may have changed, but in the script it says something about leftists in Hollywood... Not just Communists. Which are two different (if overlapping) things. And if it was just about ideological changes, I doubt he would have paused before being encouraged to give up names. Just saying.
Edit: a word.
Let’s keep in mind that SENATOR Joe McCarthy had, literally, nothing to do with the HOUSE Unamericsn Activities Committee. He stayed focused on government officials and did not seem to care about Hollywood.
Also, the Blacklist were no better than Nazis. Both supported mass murdering regimes.
HUAC destroyed so many lives. Gay people exposed. Leftists targeted. Speaking to them made you a terrible human.
If Simon starts a school, he can name the school "The Basement"
Come to the basement Kids, we got Magic Spoon
@@piermariobarozzi 😅🎈😅🎈😅🎈We all float down here.
Danny and Sam aren't slaves.
They are just unpaid interns.
@@badluck5647 who never go home after work, allegedly 😂
@@zeusathena26 😅😅😅
I love when Simon subconsciously answers his own confusion.
6:30 - Frank Lloyd Wright is a composer or something?
19:50 - l’m going to get sued by the Lloyd Webber estate. (Andrew Lloyd Webber).
Most times I agree with ya Simon but agree with Dani on this one. The director may have had opinions but instead of keeping his opinions to himself, he turned his coworkers in just because he disagreed with their view. Just disagreeing with a point of view is a debatable issue. Not turning their lives inside out and destroying the rest of their lives
He doesn't understand that someone can be doing the wrong thing while believing they're doing the right thing. He seems to think we should judge people by what they believe they're doing, rather than what they're actually doing. That director destroyed the lives of many of his former close friends for no good reason.
@@Pushing_Pixels This. Lots of people have done terrible things with the best intentions. They don’t all deserve a pass just because it was due to their personal beliefs, especially if they knew the consequences would ruin the lives of people who may have been doing nothing wrong.
Sounds like some commie bs
Blain braze!!! Simon, you have struck so much gold with Danny and Sam, please give into their demands for more sunlight. They deserve as much as minuets more.
This one seems especially random and erratic. Chefs kiss :)
The reason why leaving his first wife with $23,000 of debt was such a big deal is bc:
1) They didn’t have debt back then like we do now. They didn’t have amortization and monthly payments. If you didn’t pay your bills, you were thrown in debtors prison. So a wildly different way of looking at debt back then, and what would seem like a cheap car payment to us could have landed her in debtors prison for life.
2) She was a woman with six children with no discernible means of making money. Women weren’t allowed to work back then if they had six children, except in very manual jobs like washing laundry. Which, good luck trying to sustain yourself on a wash woman’s salary when you have six mouths to feed.
She most likely had no education, and if she was “educated,” it was in things like how to fold napkins or how to create a vase of flowers.
Bc the past was the worst, this kind of abandonment back then is WWAAAYYYY worse than a similar abandonment today.
Simon, I know that you are a busy man, but if you make a channel called, "The Past Was the Worst", it will move like poop through a goose.
Make it about war, famine, plagues... just general bad things that happened throughout history. .. but with the "Brain Blaze" entertaining delivery.
Yes. Yes! This
Oh man. I just completely lost it at 24:42 with "that's slavery". I was literally in tears laughing.
Simon, even if he had never been a communist and had always hated them, it doesn’t make him any less of a horrible person for ratting out his colleagues to McCarthy. He knew perfectly well that he was ruining these peoples’ lives, in a country that granted them freedom of beliefs and speech in its constitution but not in reality, during the red scare. I don’t understand why you seem to care whether he changed his ideology, it makes him no less culpable. What was done to the communists (suspected or otherwise) was an authoritarian crime and nightmare, and he chose to help ruin lives and suspend democracy just to make himself look better to the fascists.
This ^
John Lennon allegedly put out a cigarette on a painting in Andy Warhols' apartment. Classic Bellend.
Simon: “that’s slavery!”
Mr: *cries in unpaid internships needed to graduate*
"The coffee is free. Just like me"
Ya, I was coming to the comments to see if someone else was saying "we call that an internship!"
I also really hope that Julian is living his best life. Poor guy didn’t deserve such horrible treatment!
Totally with you Simon, My kids can drive me up the wall, but then we have a moment to calm down (very valuable tool for kids to learn too btw! Time out cards or having a saying to use) and I am just brimming with love for them again!
I can’t even imagine being mean to other people’s kids, and some of them irritate me so badly!! But they are kids! They deserve a fair chance at life, and a good life, and we are all little 💩s at times lol
I never understood the Julian hate. Most narcissistic people (john) absolutely adore the kids that most resemble them and Julian looks and sounds most like his daddy.
@@rachelwitherspoon4394 he likely didn't want to be reminded of his failures, either that or he was using this as revenge to Cynthia
@@slcpunk2740 Yeah, I tend to agree. I think he hated Cynthia for "trapping" him, and poor Julian paid the price. At least, thats the only thing I can think of that would explain John being such a huge prick.
@@slcpunk2740 Revenge for his terrible and abusive behavior of her?
@@whalt wait, did we watch the same video? you did notice he was a prick right? I didn't say she actually did anything wrong or deserved it
I don't know whether I should be flattered or insulted but I was watching this with my dad and he commented that Simon's ADHD-riddled tangents reminded him of me and my ADHD-riddled tangents. This coming from a 75 year old man who's ADHD has him sorting his change one second after making the comment to chasing my cat through the house the next second. Lol.
I'm with Danny, you don't turncoat on people that bring you into their confidence and then flip-flop on them years later when it *just happens* to be profitable.
What if you really came to disagree with them? Like what if someone leaves a dangerous gang to be a witness against them?
@@williamrosenbloom215 lol what kind of example is that
@@asmonet a pretty similar one to a communist leaving the communist gang and informing against them
Exactly. It wasn't that his ideology changed, it was that he used his old friends to make himself known as a noncommittal so he wouldn't be black listed. He did it to save his own skin
Yeah, like he didn’t need to go out of his way to do it either. He could very easily gone back to broadway and would have been fine
Kazan ratted out his friends to save his own neck.
No quarter given.
In the US, depending on the position, interns may or may not be paid. Unpaid internships are common, especially when the internship counts as academic credit toward graduation. For an internship to qualify as unpaid, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, both the employer and intern must agree upfront that the internship will be unpaid.
Man Simon finished the first story and I thought the video was over. Then he hops into a new one, this is practically an epic blaze right here
Frank Lloyd Wright is forever immortalised in Terry Pratchett's discworld as the architect "Bloody Stupid Johnson"
5:39 Simon refers to his channel as "Business Blaze"
Don't worry this channel will always be Business Blaze to us
I think this was one of the best honest and most heartfelt episodes I’ve ever seen.
John Lennon deserves to be in the sub sub sub sub sub sub basement!
Wait isn't that a promotion?
I get your argument Simon. But I think that the real problem is that by cooperating with HUAC he was endorsing their existence, and endorsing the black list. While that might agree with his personal code, anyone with that code must be an asshole.
Yep, let’s exaggerate:
Mussolini acted according to his own ideology and morals.
True…well…but still quite a dickhead, right? (not so allegedly)
Yeah, I mean if your government starts a fascist witch hunt against people with differing political beliefs in order to ruin their lives even though they haven't done anything, giving them any name at all makes you an arsehole, more so if you're profiting.
Yep. That's why I don't quite get Simon's reaction here. Like...yes, he was acting in accordance with his own beliefs, but he was willfully aiding in the destruction of the careers of people who hadn't actually done anything wrong.
Simon is wrong here. It's one thing to say "I dislike communism and I disagree with anyone who believes in communism." It's quite another to openly work toward the destruction of the careers and livelihoods of those people that you disagree with. And I'm not sure how Simon misses that. I'll give him the benefit of doubt and assume it's because he's doing this on the fly with very little time to sort out his thoughts on the subject. But he definitely needs to give it some more thought.
On the face of it, maybe he was acting on his current beliefs by giving HUAC the names. But if you truly believe in American ideals, you believe that people have the freedom to express their political opinions without oppression from the gov't and you wouldn't turn them over to a closet fascist.
The greatest irony of the House Un-American Activities Committee is it acted in a truly Un-American way. The proper response to detestable speech is opposing speech, not censorship.
@@jacksonlynch1731 Exactly! He did it to make sure he had no competition in the industry. Which is probably worse than changing your ideology and being a rat. Just because your beliefs change doesn't mean you have to ruin people's lives and livelihoods because you don't agree with them. Either way is horrible but if he didn't have to sell them out to save his skin but did it anyway shows he just didn't want the competition.
Really, I don't think screwing over other people because of a change in you beliefs is any better than doing it to save your own skin, possibly even worse, at least self preservation is a natural instinct.
You need to do a Business Blaze segment or a Mega Projects/Side Projects episode about House on the Rock, which was basically built just to one-up Frank Lloyd Wright.
It is the fabled beginning of the end times. Foretold for thousands of years, the holy trinity not being on the same page.
Danny and sam appear to be... this actually could be the start of the communist revolution.
@@Hunting4knowledge that's what they have to do to get out of the basement. They may need to recruit Calum too.
That explains it. Positive vibes from New Hampshire, remember to be kind to each other and yourself during this pandemic and social crisis
Art Garfunkel sang most of the leads. Paul Simon played guitar, and was usually the harmony. Since they're both tenors, the harmony was always close. I believe both of them composed.
Art Garfunkel was the soloist on "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
The two started in school as teenagers. They were part of the 60s soundtrack.
Music was changing when they stopped performing together. Paul Simon continued to write and perform.
Art Garfunkel had a few hits in the 70s. I believe he was a family man, and was able to focus on that. I believe he also got into producing music
"gluten-free, low-carb..." - mad props for NOT using "GMO-free" this time around! This unironically made the ad read way better.
Yeah, not sure I did it on purpose, but I totally get it. So much BS around GMO.
Simon: 'I am very self-involved!'
Also Simon: Can't grasp that destroying someone's livelihood to protect yours and (allegedly) disagree with their private politics is a fairly d-bag thing to do.
Hmmm.... there is a link here, I just can't work out what it might be...
Omg I thought I was the only one seeing it!!!!
I had myself thinking "Simon, when did you decide to turn into a dick saying " he followed his morals"..."
At any rate sure way to justify a lot of things 100% with Dany on this
I think he was arguing that it is a dick move but not explicitly' snitching. Basically being pedantic
Its both Paul brothers. They are both raging bell ends.
“…We can only IMAGINE.” LEGEND!!!
Jack Palance is the guy who did one-armed push-ups on stage at the Oscars at the age of 73
Wow, that just terrible for Julian. It's one thing to have a absentee parent but to see that same person treat someone else better and say all that shit. I would imagine that hurt him way more than the neglect maybe
Of course Danny found a way to talk about Communism.
It’s been a lil while but I’m glad Danny’s still talking about it
@@Greg-TC It is good to support ones comrad against the peril of capitalism.
McCarthy was right and Hollywood is still full of commies. In fact 5 of the biggest studios are owned by China.
@@A_Black_Sheep94 Citation needed.
@@ajstevens1652 UA-cam doesn't allow links but Razorfist has about an hour long video that goes into the subject pretty in depth. When it comes to the studios that's just a blatant fact.
Frank Lyod Wright is the Howard Hughes of architecture. Another eccentric that was completely engulfed in his work.
I want Simon to film a blaze wearing magic spoon boxes
“And all the doors are the right size for people”
Simon really doesn’t know who Frank Lloyd Wright was…
Let's go Sam, bless us with the holy meme supply
Twenty three thousand dollars when you haven't worked, you have six kids, they put people in workhouses, & living expenses was usually higher than income. At least income you don't earn on your back.
In the USA the whole “people working for you for free and sort of learning” thing is called an unpaid internship and it’s actually extremely common
I need an edit of that Peanut Butter Magic Spoon box that shows Simon on it instead of that super ripped person
Ask the sub reddit, the legends there will likely hook you up. #FlogDannyForLongerIntros
Jack Palance was... _not_ the Tom Cruise of his day. He was a nice guy, who played a lot of villains. Also, hosted the tv series, Ripley's Believe it or not in his later years. He was a creepy old dude, though people who knew him said he was very personable.
Wasn't he Paladin Have Gun Will Travel?
He did one handed push ups at the Oscars when he won best supporting actor for City Slickers.
Tom Cruise was a Pretty Boy,
Jack Palance was a scary dude, and Danny deserves better
@@vampthat no, that was Richard Boone.
@@cister30328 Ah, yes. Thanks for the memories!
"this is the longest introduction ever"
Cue the "well that's a fucking lie" meme
"You will work for free, and live in my basement... also, I have a sandwich for you." *Danny and Sam crying for help while chained to his radiator* "ITS NOT WORTH IT! RUN!!!" 🤣
Apparently Danny and Sam are both against Simon in this video... maybe it's time to let them out of the basement and feed them a supple meal for once 🤣 Their feelings are showing.
Sam's memeing and editing skills are getting better every video
To appreciate the Beatles I think you needed to be born in that era because it’s what they did at that time that was so clever. It’s more from a historical perspective.
The production techniques, styling and variety were game changing. They didn't rest on their laurels and went out, still on top. It only takes listening to what came out before, during and after The Beatles. I suggest listening to 50's era Elvis, The Beach Boys and ELO as a rough baseline and context at what happened, if you weren't around in the era. ua-cam.com/video/yR2lgxy-htU/v-deo.html It is, what it is!
The Beatles were as innovative in their time as Beethoven was in his time.
I've been in 3 of Frank Lloyd Wrights homes, 2 in Illinois, 1 in Arizona. All were beautiful houses, still in good repair, owned and lived in. They are opulent, all built with natural stone, granite and exotic rare woods that melded with the natural flora and landscape. He would also build patios, paths, fountains, paths and low walls to perpetuate the entire outdoor experience. He truly was a visionary.
Sadly a lot of geniuses are also huge narcissists and extremely egotistical.
Frank Lloyd Wright - amazing architect - look up the houses he designed at the turn of the 19th century and try to keep in mind the bizarre fact that most people at the time still travelled by horse and buggy and it's seemingly impossible (this transcendence of design is why his clients would never fire him); however, quite possibly the most egotistical human being ever born.
I’m Canadian, we , as a nation, have disavowed, all connections with JB , and “ alleged “ have a hit out on Drake “ 😂 we are very sorry to the world for there music . 😓😓
First; I love your open mindedness about the director doing what HE thought was right. *Allegedly*
Also, want to add -
I'm a musician/singer/songwriter. Granted I'm not famous, buuuut..... I never cheated on my wife. It WAS my wife that cheated, had the affair and left me for another married guy. So.... it DOES happen. Just so we're clear it IS plausible.
Edited to add about the "absentee dads". What happens psychologically; is that men boys with absent fathers are typically raised that way because the mother drove him away. Then, desperate for affection, the son gravitated towards women that subconsciously bare resemblance to their own mother. In other words, she's like to drive him away from his own children. Obviously I'm not saying this is EVERY case, but it is documented and has been studied. Before anyone argues with me, put it in different gender roles. A woman abused by her father is more likely to end up and stay with a partner that abuses her.
Round and round our cycles go.
Simon needs to do a Biographics on Yoko Ono. 😝
"Danny and I are not on the same page with this."
Is this the end of Brain Blaze?
“You can’t make people work for free by saying they’re learning!! That’s slavery!!”
….have you…..have you not heard of internships?? Bc idk how things work in Europe, but unless you’re in the tech field, they are 100% definitely not paid. In fact, MANY college degrees (which themselves cost upwards of $150,000) require you to have an internship for a credit, meaning you’re paying your school per credit to do labor for free 😂
Hello Simon! Thought you'd like to know:
Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect who designed over 1000 structures, and more than 500 were actually built, of every type imaginable. I didn't know who he was so I googled him. Lots of interesting buildings. Innovated a lot. Apparently changed the course of architecture. His style was "organic", supposedly interconnecting the building, landscape, and activity the building was meant for. He popularized open floor plans that are big in the US still today.
Simon, sitting at a construction site watching a Frank Lloyd Wright-style home being built. "I don't understand the plot, Peter!"