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@peterwelsh1932

8 ай бұрын

Such crazy hatred / racism towards America in the opening of the Ponzi story: " A truly American Dream" - RIGHT AFTER SAYING THE GUY WASN'T AMERICAN! USING SLAVE LAVOR EARNINGS!! OLDEST STORY IN HISTORY!!! I can hate America too, butt, you need better examples ... LOL "A Pyramid Scheme = SOOOO American " wtf!?!?! Pyramids are Egyptian, DUNCE😹

The BBC’s Spaghetti tree and a year later, the American tourists who were hunting the wild Haggis in the Highlands of Scotland. Both were fantastic modern hoaxes in times when people should have known differently.

Maria Theresa was not a queen of Romania and Bulgaria. She was a HRE empress. Maybe Transylvania could be a connection to todays Romania, but I would say Austria, North Italy and Bohemia were a bit more important.

@12345.......

Жыл бұрын

Who worries about small details like accurate facts? 🙃

@Sasheenka

2 ай бұрын

Yeah I was totally baffled by this. Wtf.

The mechanical turk is a strikingly clever machine. If Kempelen or Mälzel had marketed it as a magician's illusion for entertainment purposes, I think they'd have made a fortune. Maybe Kempelen thought that kind of presentation would tarnish his image as an inventor, or cast a dim light on members of royalty who already fell for the trick.

@pottyputter05

Жыл бұрын

Insightful thoughts on why it wasn't done, I can see both being equally probable

Simon is one of the original KZread LEGENDS!! He may not write much of his material, but his delivery is the very definition of EPIC. Full Kudos to this guy and the teams of writers and researchers behind him.

@theawesomeman9821

Жыл бұрын

He's the David Attenborough of KZread.

@nobiazcustomsinc5030

8 ай бұрын

performing is just as important as writing!

In the 1980s when I was at uni studying anthropology among other things, my brother shared this interest so I pranked him. I told him that a hominin ancestor had been discovered in a bog in northern Europe and that it had an adaptation to the cold which was preserved by the acidic peat. It appears the creature was completely covered in a very soft, fine white feathery material. After registering his astonishment I delivered the punchline. Yep, they're calling it Quilt down man. He still brings it up. In fact, I think he's used it on a few people😂.

Even if it was a hoax, the Turk sounds like a very impressive feat of engineering for what it really did.

@Sk1m_Beeble

Жыл бұрын

No more impressive than R2D2

@LickTheShaft

Жыл бұрын

Hearing William's last name, which is the same name as my previous employer, definitely perked my ears up. That was pretty hilarious to me, even if there's no potential relation.

@caodesignworks2407

Жыл бұрын

@@Sk1m_Beeble It was far more technical than R2D2 and also came 200 years before

@Sk1m_Beeble

Жыл бұрын

@@caodesignworks2407 it was a man in a contraption, GROUNDBREAKING

@JessicaClare623

Жыл бұрын

@@caodesignworks2407 Get your facts straight! R2D2 is from a long time ago and a galaxy far far away. Duh!

I still love Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast. I don't know if it was intended as a hoax, but the reaction it caused was certainly akin to what a hoaxer would hope to achieve.

@Kyle-vb3fz

Жыл бұрын

I don’t believe people thought that was a hoax. Makes for a great story though, doesn’t it?

@keags1018

14 күн бұрын

People were fooled by it and yes, it was a hoax

poe's unmasking of the chess hoax was basically "hey, how come we never see superman and clark kent innthe same room together?"

@stephenanderle5422

5 ай бұрын

I don't know. How come?

Charles Dawson sounds like the Wario of Charles Darwin

@shuruff904

Жыл бұрын

Lmao

@The_Blazement

Жыл бұрын

who are Luigi and Waluigi then

@DILFDylF

Ай бұрын

ChatGPT: If we're drawing parallels between Mario and Charles Darwin, Luigi could be someone like Alfred Russel Wallace. Both Luigi and Wallace played significant roles alongside their more well-known counterparts, contributing to their respective fields of study (biology and evolution) in important ways.

Ah, so there's a tiny man inside my computer and that's why I never win at Chessmaster. Thanks for the clarity.

@Moondog-wc4vm

Жыл бұрын

it must be true! Bill Gates uses his fortune to employ innumerable tiny men of immense brain size to defeat me at any computer game I ever tried to play. it makes so much sense. Also my irony detector is in full working order and the readout is set to 'laughter' (it wobbles occasionally towards applause) ;-)

In elementary school a kid believed penguins could fly and used this one photoshopped image of a penguin flying as evidence, and the teacher punished me for telling him he was too gullible.

@margaretwordnerd5210

6 ай бұрын

How unjust and anti-intellectual! What happened to "facts don't care about feelings"?

1:30 - Chapter 1 - Piltdown man 7:25 - Mid roll ads 8:40 - Chapter 2 - The original mechanical turk 16:50 - Chapter 3 - The original ponzi scheme

We demand an episode on Simon Whistler! Preferably not on "into the shadows" or "casual criminalist".

Ponzi sounds EERILY similar to SBF & FTX right now 😅

@mattm7798

Жыл бұрын

Probably a better name for it is a pyramid scheme. I highly doubt Ponzi was the first to have employed it. It plays on the constant human emotion of greed and "easy" money. The cryptocurrency craze reeked of it and while a good number of people did make money with it, at the end of the day...what is it literally worth and what backs it up?

@amyherringshaw1151

Жыл бұрын

Add in a little bit of manic Elon too

@aftersexhighfives

Жыл бұрын

Other way around. Lol ponzi happened first. And no we don't learn.

@RAININGBLOOD09

Жыл бұрын

@@aftersexhighfives yes ofc I know ponzi happened first🤣 that’s the point of my comment is that decades later we have yet *another* ponzi. We will continue to never learn I’m convinced 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@dfuher968

Жыл бұрын

Im an accountant, Ive said right from the start of crypto, thats its a classic Ponzi scheme. Been shouted down by believers all along, coz they made money, some of them a lot of money. Just like Ponzi's original investors. And incredibly, ppl still are so myopic, that they think, just coz they got in (and important got out) early and made money, then it cant possibly be a Ponzi scheme.

The Mechanical Turks would be a great name for a band.

@shuruff904

Жыл бұрын

Chuck e Cheese band but they're all Turks

@omind1

Жыл бұрын

They could be a New Bomb Turks tribute band.

This video in 2223: “But these hoaxes all pale in relation to the greatest scam of all time… the stock market “

@anotheryoutubeaccount5259

Жыл бұрын

No.

@vulcanfeline

8 күн бұрын

even better hoax is trickle down economics

On the edge of my seat, eager to learn whether this episode will include the Great Bathtub Hoax floated by H.L. Mencken.

Didn't know Ponzi was on School Street in Boston. There's a Walgreens there now, with an old bank vault roped off in the back. I walk past it so much I've never bothered to see if there's a plaque or something. Now I'm curious to see if it dates back to his time and if he possibly owned it at some point.

@The_Other_Ghost

Жыл бұрын

Lucky, I work on a street where HH Holmes is connected to.

@meryamdjeghri7737

3 ай бұрын

@@The_Other_Ghostthat’s kinda creepy and cool at the same time!

@The_Other_Ghost

3 ай бұрын

@@meryamdjeghri7737 A weird large amount of us at my work are vegans or vegetarians.

@izziemays

6 күн бұрын

he actually conned by grandfather and we lost our bank. the boston hanover trust, henry chmielinski is my great grandfather.

It's absurdly funny to me that someone named Charles Dawson ended up being being a fake Charles Darwin. I guess Dawson is legally distinct from Darwin LOL kind of like how they have to call fake cheese, "cheez".

@tisjester

Жыл бұрын

No no no the call fake cheez, "cheese"

@Krullmatic

Жыл бұрын

Charles Darwin himself, was a fake as well.

@phantomechelon3628

Жыл бұрын

@@tisjester Or "I Can't Believe Its Not Cheese".

@meryamdjeghri7737

3 ай бұрын

“We have Charles Darwin at home”

Francois Philidor was not the French emperor... he was a composer and chess player according to Wikipedia

@vivianbeckford3084

Жыл бұрын

The Simon has Spoken! All must correct their history books to show the new truth, the reign of Francois-Andre the first of France.

@dlxmarks

Жыл бұрын

Like calling Maria Theresa queen of Bulgaria (which was under Ottoman control) and Romania (only Transylvania since Romania as a state didn't exist yet). And not Archduchess of Austria, the Holy Roman Empress, and ruler of several other much bigger and more populous countries.

JOHN CENA PHONE PRANK…. Look it up as it puts me in tears every single time

@vulcanfeline

8 күн бұрын

what a horrible thing to do to someone

Happy holidays everybody, and stay warm and safe, those in North America who have been hit by the arctic blast.

@AidanPatko

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated! We were hitting -70 wind chills last night and the night before!

@andrewbenbow9257

Жыл бұрын

Report the spam! And thank you, I'm trying to stay warm and fuzzy despite the cold! Happiness to you and yours!

@Jake_20011

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family and loved ones✌♥️

I love evil mastermind Whistler. And this angle. You need a cat or stuffed dragon. Lol

Regurgitation of already reviewed and reviewed topics. Lacks inspiration.

An example of legal arbitrage happened in Brazil in the 1980s during a period of very high inflation. People would purchase gold and then resell it in the US at a profit. The way it worked was they would place an order for a gold transaction and the price would be fixed at the contract date. It would take a couple of weeks to months for the order to be processed and in that time inflation was significant enough that the currency exchange guaranteed a healthy profit. People were wiling to take a loss on the gold because it meant they got stable US dollars.

@bomt6259

Жыл бұрын

@@SIDEPROJECTS_1144 urgh another d!ck in a box?

@andrewbenbow9257

Жыл бұрын

Report the spam! Also, do you think exchanging a standard index in a country with a stable dollar might effect the inflationary trend of the country you are supplying with a gain outside your countries foreign exchange? By exchanging a precious metal with an exchange commision that was willing to pay you twice the value of your economy's value, wouldn't it create a surplus of your currency(fiat) with finite valued goods? Maybe legal, but certainly helped the inflation market. Loves!

@shuruff904

Жыл бұрын

That's just smart investing.

Another factor in the Piltdown Man was the discovery of Neanderthal's in Germany in the 1850's. Naturally certain members of British society decided that obviously we should have our own human ancestor whether real or not. This of course, all played into the eugenics, colonialism and racism still rife in the period.

Any computer can be rendered mechanically, so the mechanical turk isn't totally outlandish, especially for the Era. Though the engineering of even a simple chess program in clockwork would be stunning

@ABW941

Жыл бұрын

The whole thing would have to be extremly large. Babbage's more simple calculators were the size of wardrobes. Engineering from the 1800s would have needed vastly more space for something like that then the first vacuum tube computers, however what a sight it would have been.

That's one hell of a quote at the end!

5:12 Ah, yes. Academics.

I LOVE Piltdown Man!

Simon and team, love your work

Poe's essay argues "of course it's a hoax. If it were a machine, it would play perfectly and never lose. Whereas we know it does lose from time to time."

Human-like canine teeth…. Biological proof werewolves are our common ancestor with dogs.

@andrewbenbow9257

Жыл бұрын

Report the spam... also humans have a set of upper teeth called canines. They are the sharp pointy ones for tearing into flesh and ripping fibrous vegetable matter before is is gnashed (sp?)[i stand by it] by the molars!

@Caleb1874ya

Жыл бұрын

Yes exactly left over from a common werewolf ancestor

@rummyz6412

Жыл бұрын

I rlly hope ur joking

@SkunkApe407

Жыл бұрын

Literally, every omnivorous and carnivorous mammal has canine teeth. That includes bears, cats, and bats. The term "human-like" implies that the creature was a hominid, not a canid. I get that you were trying to be funny, but jokes tend to work better when they're properly researched and based in some element of fact.

@GrifoStelle

2 ай бұрын

.... drat. We thought noone would connect canines with werewolves if we clipped off your tailbuds early enough.

Isn’t Binance shifting money around the way Ponzi did to calm nervous investors? Paying some money back and freezing transactions when withdrawals exceed a limit?

Imagine the greatest hoaxes that have never come to light

Simon Whistler that was (12:45) a nice jab at ElonMusk. It was so slick that I nearly missed it altogether.

Currently fulltime addicted to your content as I just found you out.

As you were going through the intro i was thinking "Piltdown Man had better be on this list." Then #1 is Piltdown Man, my life is complete lol

Charles Dawson might have been the inspiration behind Stan Pines from Gravity Falls

@rummyz6412

Жыл бұрын

Where tf did u see that

meanwhile the label “a fabulist” sounds pretty cool

I was wondering where the ORIGINAL “Greatest Hoaxes” video was lol.

Simon must make some serious bread. Dude is in everything.

Turing didn’t break Enigma, the Poles did, with pencil and paper… what Turing did was automate it, speeding up and parallelizing the work the Poles and others had already done. He gave us imperative programming and a lot of the basis of computer science, but credit where credit’s due.

This reminds me of watching the Madoff series on Netflix. I find it hard to feel bad when so many of the interviewees who said "it seemed impossible to continually make profit when the market would fail....but we kept our money with him." Your greed is what cost you and think of the how many people who made millions during the decades of scheming.

my great great grandfather started the hanover trust bank. his name was henry chmielinski, polish immigrant. he did deny ponzi at first but when he came back my great great grandfather relented sadly. we lost our bank lol.

Greed. Trace all our problems back to this. Everytime.

15:32 Poe published in 1936? Wow! He lived a record long life...

At first, when you got to the subject of covering Ponzi, stating: "The scheme that consists of taking on new investors for the express purpose of paying off earlier investors, until there are no more gullible investors to con at which point, the entire scheme collapses." I thought you were going to use that to expose Bitcoin. . .

i could watch these videos all day, and i am

Surprised I never heard of The Bexhill Boat, I lived there for 16 years

Hoaxes - watching this Christmas eve :D

Mike oldfield. Piltdown man. Great track. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

as a money lover.. ponzi got what he deserved as half of us probably do. But and also; I LOVE THAT QUOTE THAT IT WAS WORTH FIFTHTEEN BECAUSE I HAD EM BY THE BALLS.. i gotta say i feel the hell outta that. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!

magnus carlson was in the robot

Um, 11:04 Maria Theresa was the Empress of Austria, not the "Queen of Bulgaria and Romania", lol, what a strange mistake!

@dlxmarks

Жыл бұрын

That was a lazy mistake given the Maria Theresa is a major figure in European history and not some minor monarch. Of the many lands she ruled, he named Bulgaria which was under Ottoman control and Romania which didn't exist as a country yet. Transylvania was part of her realm. Then he referred to François-André Danican Philidor as emperor instead of composer.

Many scammers do that, too... Saw it on kitboga... As he did the fake telephone machine 👍 But sad story in it, with a rather good ending?

From what I heard, what actually happened was that von Kempelen scoffed at François Pelletier's illusion act and told his patron, Maria Theresa, that he could do better. He then created the Turk and wound up stuck keeping up the show when he'd rather have gone back to his usual work as, more or less, court inventor.

I had no idea Ponzu was Boston history 😂

If the lie is told often enough, people will believe it, pretty much like religion...

@anotheryoutubeaccount5259

Жыл бұрын

No.

Elon Musk taking credit for other people's inventions? You should add Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison as #1 and #2 on that list...

@rickpartlow534

Ай бұрын

It's a slander based in political bias rather than objectivity.

Maria Theresa was the emperess of the Austro-Hungarian dominon: She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Galicia and Lodomeria, the Austrian Netherlands, and Parma. Romania and Bulgaria did not even exist at that time...

Is Scientology #1?

I think this is Simon's longest side projects video

You missed the biggest scam of all time, but I guess crypto deserves is own video 😂

@alexmcd378

Жыл бұрын

Bring it 😁

@MrPleers

Жыл бұрын

Pay me loads of money for money that excist online only. You can't see or touch it. But it's yours, promised. You can sell it to other people later with the same promise.

@petrpokorny7768

Жыл бұрын

@@MrPleers almost like normal currency ,,this piece of paper has numbers on it, give me what I want, cuz you want my paper"

@MrPleers

Жыл бұрын

@@petrpokorny7768 Eccept that with normal currency I can pay everywhere I want. Try paying with bitcoin in the supermarket. Or any other normal shop for that matter. I don´t know of any shop that accepts bitcoin.

@L3onking

Жыл бұрын

Crypto bros don't come to educational videos. Only hype ones lol

I’m sure each of these topics have been covered in previous videos on one of Simon’s many other channels 🤔

@griffinmckenzie7203

Жыл бұрын

Probably. Not like it matters either way.

@Sk1m_Beeble

Жыл бұрын

First Simon double up eh?

Would have been funny if "Established Titles" was your sponsor on this video.

@12:13 One of the best stories about an important historical figure is _The Legend of Ben "Diggler" Franklin._

I've never heard of the Ponzi scheme, but in the UK we just call it a pyramid scheme.

@David_K_Booth

7 ай бұрын

In a pyramid scheme, every victim who joins has to recruit several more victims before they can make any money. Ponzi schemes don't have that feature.

If Ponzi had been a born and bred American, we'd all be studying Ponzenomics in 2023

The Enigma code was cracked before the beginning of WW2 by Polish mathematicians, which were able to work with the first copies of the Enigma and who then informed the British (who were regarded as Poland's protecting power at the time). Poles and Germans share a long history in what are now Polish territories. The Poles can rightly be proud of what they have achieved. At around the same time, Konrad Zuse developed the first electronic calculating machine in Berlin (in his parents' living room in Berlin Kreuzberg using telephone equipment, relays, etc.). Programmability was added over time and Zuse's computers remained the most important calculating machines in Europe for a long time. Zuse had only carried out a few calculations for the Nazis, but they did not yet recognize the potential. In any case, much of the widespread Enigma-Turing story is a cover-up.

I use the advertisement breaks to grind my weed and pack my bowl

@GrifoStelle

2 ай бұрын

I believe you

The parallels between Ponzi and a certain ubiquitous political figure of the teens and twenties of this century are pretty darn amazing!!!

@jacobq.2204

Жыл бұрын

Joe Biden with his corrupt son filtering money to him? "The Big Guy". Or maybe Nancy Pelosi somehow always pulling in record profits on her stocks? Or maybe Maxine Waters giving her family members giant paychecks for obscure useless jobs? Or maybe even the Clintons with their pay to play fund the Clinton Foundation that laundered millions for them? The list goes on...

@anotheryoutubeaccount5259

Жыл бұрын

No.

stone henge was built with diesel powered cranes, There are photos readily available online. They took everything apart and then rebuilt it with modern equipment so stone henge is not original and is not an actual ancient megalith anymore.

"The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art." -- Kevin Young

I was expecting the Hitler Diaries, and Bernie Madoff. I did not know the original Ponzi was as big or bigger than Madoff was for his day. Interesting.

*YEEEEES! I love the Elon Musk reference!*

Okay. Ponzi was a mad pimp and I will always love him. This video just gave me extra details to justify my application of the man. Hey? Ya got $20? 😂

You ever watch an informational video, or the news, about something you know inside and out, and they begin to talk out of their ass and make completely false claims? Then you wonder if everything they say is all horseshit? That was my reaction to this video.

@breno855

8 ай бұрын

So why don't you illuminate the public about what's wrong?

@CleanupKrew7

6 ай бұрын

​@@breno855Well first, he said Maria Theresa was the Queen of Bulgaria and Romania, she wasn't lmao. She was the Queen of the Holy Roman Empire. The only territory of modern Romania she controlled was Transylvania. Also, the Holy Roman Empire never controlled any territory of Bulgaria. I'd love to know where his writers got that information from lol

@15:33 I am presuming that you meant to say Poe published his paper in 1836 not 1936 considering he died in 1849...😅

Woohoo more content!!

@scottm.

Жыл бұрын

I LOVE CONTENT!

Maria Theresa, Habsburg Queen of Bulgaria and Romania xD Simon who is writing these

Should have had Corona on that list Corona is definitely one of the top 3....

Maria Theresa wasn't the queen of Bulgaria and Romania lol She was the Queen of the Holy Roman Empire and ruled from Vienna Austria. The Habsburgs never even controlled Bulgaria or all of Romania so I'm not sure where your writer got that information?

The mechanical Turk was the Alice In Chains song Man in a Box

@SkunkApe407

Жыл бұрын

Man in the Box was a metaphor for censorship. It had nothing to do with the Turk.

Maria Theresa was Queen of BOHEMIA and HUNGARY, and Archduchess of AUSTRIA!

I liked the radio one where they where telling the story end of the world ends and people thought it was real and happend

You need to talk with your hands more, it's great.

Man, Mechanical Turk was not a hoax, but *Machine Learning*.

15:32 Edgar Allan Poe wrote that essay in *1836!!* Obviously *NOT* in 1936, as Poe would've been *127 Years old* in *1936!* LoL!!

12:24 _The French emperor François- André Danican Philidor ..._ What? There were only 2 French emperors, and both were named Napoleon Bonaparte. And this was the 1780s when king Louis XVI was still in charge. Or did you mean "entrepreneur"? This would make more sense.

ANOMALY: How could EA Poe publish a story in 1936? 15:32

I know at least a Miller or two.

And it all started with a slick-talking serpent pulling a fast one on an unsuspecting innocent woman for something she didn't even need. (tell 'em what their itching ears want to hear)

This is literally the US economy.

0:36. Technically witches do exist. Anyone who practices Wicca is considered a witch.

@MrPleers

Жыл бұрын

By themselves mostly.

@j.p.6932

Жыл бұрын

@@MrPleers I think there are some covens or something. I really don’t know how it works - only met one.

@MrPleers

Жыл бұрын

@@j.p.6932 I know they like to call themselves witches. Probable because it sounds more interesting than paganism.

@j.p.6932

Жыл бұрын

@@MrPleers I actually think there’s a difference between pagan and Wiccan, even though Wicca does qualify as pagan. I know they (I’ve only known one personally) emphasize being a WHITE witch and only worship nature, but….

@MrPleers

Жыл бұрын

@@j.p.6932 They can call themselves whatever they want. But the point is that only wiccam's call themselves witches. Outsiders don't consider them as witches. In fact if someone would tell me he or she is a witch, I would most likely just laugh. Or roll my eyes.

so Ponzi still had more skill than the people at FTX.

thnx

How many of Simo's channels have yet to reference Mary Toft?

7:51 Brilliant debunks the Brittish hoax that the shortened form of mathematics is "maths"

@craigstoner2632

4 ай бұрын

British has a single T.