When Henry Ford Tried to Build a City in the Amazon - Past Gas #12

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In the early 1900s, Henry Ford devised a plan: buy a swath of Amazonian rainforest, build the ultimate utopian factory, and grow some rubber, basically a rubber plantation. Unfortunately, that would be a lot easier said than done. Join James and Nolan as they recount the wild and ill-fated story of Fordlandia.
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КОМЕНТАРІ: 229
@bigpapieddie
@bigpapieddie 4 роки тому
That green DELL logo tho 😂😂
@kurtbarrett6785
@kurtbarrett6785 4 роки тому
Talk about a brilliant move, having a dude named Leupold scope out locations...
@McCormicMusicStudios
@McCormicMusicStudios 3 роки тому
Nice!
@jonintheredZ06
@jonintheredZ06 3 роки тому
And it is fitting that a man named Barrett would recognize a Leupold...
@TheRealWarriorPoet
@TheRealWarriorPoet 2 роки тому
I’ve used a Leupold on an xm107.
@ivanbirch5855
@ivanbirch5855 4 роки тому
29:48 "Front-line amazon workers were uncared-for and viewed as disposable." Whoah
@artnull13
@artnull13 3 роки тому
Today: Amazon workers are uncared-for and viewed as disposable - Jeff Bezos
@Drerex
@Drerex Рік тому
One piece of that history to add to this story. My Great Great Great Grandfather (Willard Brandenburg), was in real estate up in Detroit and was sent to South America by Henry Ford to find land for his rubber plant. On his journey back via boat, he ended up catching Yellow Fever which in result ended up dying from the illness. He was the first guy to die from Yellow Fever in Detroit. Found out he had to be buried in a glass style coffin because back then they were worried the virus would spread threw the soil or something. Weird.
@dustyrhodes1655
@dustyrhodes1655 9 місяців тому
Not impressed pal.
@MrScotty5877304
@MrScotty5877304 4 роки тому
"I am Henry Ford now behold my Jew flattening machine! Simply get behind the wheel point it at a jew and flatten em!"....." Couldnt we just use it to get places?"......." Well yeah...yeah you could and you could also use the Mona lisa as a place mat, Jesus christ!" Got to love family guy 🤣
@marajade2932
@marajade2932 4 роки тому
Mustang drivers that hit people going 20 and run away... 'They're just in the way, cant you see... its built for that, I wasnt even aiming at them'...ect. X_X
@jchrizzy6995
@jchrizzy6995 3 роки тому
The crew laughing in the back sometimes is great
@tmaua
@tmaua 4 роки тому
I'm from Brazil, it would be a pleasure to visit Fordlândia with you guys 😂
@juanmanuelpenaloza9264
@juanmanuelpenaloza9264 4 роки тому
Apparently Henry Ford and Walt Disney were ASEEBFLs (Anti-Semitic Eccentric Entrepreneurial Besties for Life)
@aldoagnellini756
@aldoagnellini756 3 роки тому
ford, disney & hitler.
@rustedratchetgarage6788
@rustedratchetgarage6788 3 роки тому
Lol family guys clip of Henry Ford Jew flattening machine comes to mind
@James-May
@James-May 2 роки тому
Heh.
@gtx-808
@gtx-808 2 роки тому
Just like Trump & Epstein both are weirdos wait a minute they were really friends 😂
@brianingle7535
@brianingle7535 Рік тому
Donut is such a fantastic channel. From Money Pit and B2B to the podcast. Excellent production and "fit and finish". Thank you for what you do!! You guys are all awesome!
@eurosonly
@eurosonly 4 роки тому
It's so good to have James back on these podcasts.
@flamcheeseful
@flamcheeseful 4 роки тому
The anti-Semitism drenched in sarcasm was hilarious. Tough to make that a funny subject but you guy did well.
@keithdosik
@keithdosik 4 роки тому
Henry ford didn’t invent the assembly line, he popularized it
@thesquiddy2273
@thesquiddy2273 3 роки тому
not even true, Ford pioneered a modified version of it, which was much more efficient than the method Ransom E. Olds invented. That modification being the moving(Ford) vs. stationary(Olds) assembly lines. And, of course, when a better version of an idea is out there, of course manufacturers are going to choose it over the latter.
@Ted_Stryker
@Ted_Stryker Рік тому
​@@thesquiddy2273 Actually, just one of many little known facts about Ford is that he didn't pioneer the moving assembly line himself. He was given the idea as part of a deal to make parts in Germany c1912. They had already been testing the process at a factory there. Ford himself claimed he was astonished by the efficiency of the process as he wrote about it in a little known note to himself, which he had apparently once intended to include in his memoirs.
@michaelmace924
@michaelmace924 3 роки тому
This is the 1st documentary I've seen you make, I can't wait to watch it. Lol
@bayareanewman1566
@bayareanewman1566 4 роки тому
TIL That Donut 🍩 podcasts are a thing! I had no idea! New subscriber!!!
@fabi6560
@fabi6560 4 роки тому
UNCLE JAMES IS BACK!!! 😍😍💪
@thejuice_2273
@thejuice_2273 4 роки тому
Thank god jimmy pumps is back
@montyrobins
@montyrobins 2 роки тому
Tries doing a Churchill impression. ends up doing a pretty solid Boris Johnson impression
@dangervybz7522
@dangervybz7522 День тому
Not you literally diving into Winston Churchill’s supposed voice 😂 levels!
@jg5733
@jg5733 4 роки тому
More Renault/Citroen/Peugeot please; we need more french cars in the states. I only really know of them from rally games and top gear. Those new Clios w/ aggressive af headlights. Will buy tmrw, will do unspeakable things if necessary.
@jeromespiteri1801
@jeromespiteri1801 Рік тому
You guys are amazing. This was the first of the donut podcast I listened to, and it's still my favourite one that you guys have recorded.
@personwithaname5569
@personwithaname5569 4 роки тому
Yall outta do a up to speed about donut media
@medevilmonkey
@medevilmonkey 4 роки тому
Favorite video on Sundays, keep it up guys
@iswitis
@iswitis 4 роки тому
JAMES IS BACKKK!!! HECK YESSSSS!!! glad you see you're okay and up and going James!
@dremoore9436
@dremoore9436 4 роки тому
I want Nolan to read me a book 🤣
@sirachasauce2482
@sirachasauce2482 4 роки тому
My Grandfather from Vietnam has a rubber farm, where the trees are carved where it’s will still be alive but slowly bleeds out the Latex. This increases the amount of rubber and he exports them to various companies and has became an extremely rich dude. With money comes power... that power is 7 wife’s. Yes he has 7 wife’s
@randallmason9687
@randallmason9687 Рік тому
Your Grandfather is a Legend!!
@RannoRannikmaa
@RannoRannikmaa 4 роки тому
sounds like you mix Churchill with Nixon
@jabbafo
@jabbafo 3 роки тому
This feels like I'm class and the two kids have been asked to read out loud
@kylegoodman3463
@kylegoodman3463 2 роки тому
Listening to this episode on a slow morning at work with my coffee! 😂👌🏽
@eaubfelangy8132
@eaubfelangy8132 4 роки тому
Welcome back James!!!
@chasespeer251
@chasespeer251 4 роки тому
a couple minutes in and I am impressed by James' Winston Churchill
@HazaraMasih
@HazaraMasih 3 роки тому
Hello from Pakistan. Working my way through all your podcasts. Thanks for your great content.
@derrickstorm6976
@derrickstorm6976 4 роки тому
It's great to hear someone at times laughing with these two
@ninjabongtoker1
@ninjabongtoker1 4 роки тому
I like the way james explains climate change everyone is usually so polarized by the topic. It's kind of like he said yea don't pollute stuff. Which is really supposed to be the whole point of climate change.
@Optiganone
@Optiganone 4 роки тому
I'm a climate change denier so go on and boo-hoo me, but it's not like i believe that combustion engines do not produce emissions, or smog is good for your lungs, it's just i don't think that climate is changing and it's man-caused. You can be both environmentalist and climate change denier.
@_triplj9982
@_triplj9982 4 роки тому
@@Optiganone so a man-made engine gives off emissions but humans don't contribute to climate change?
@Optiganone
@Optiganone 4 роки тому
@@_triplj9982 it's is debatable if "climate change" is even a thing that actually happens right now, and if it is indeed, then to what extent it is caused by co2 emissions. And i'm not going to do that, because i would have to rewatch few hours of conspiracy documentaries i saw bazillion years ago in order to at least give impression that i don't talk out of my ass, lol. I'm only into this issue because i see how it is exploited politically
@ElliWoelfin
@ElliWoelfin 3 роки тому
@voist magina I love seeing someone express it in a way I can't (I believe [controversial thing] but I can't give specifics because it'll take forever to relearn). It's pretty funny how well people accept something if someone with a huge stake and a lot to gain/lose says a thing (especially if it's on the very controllable TV), but when an unaffilliated third-party says opposite it's an insane idiotic schitzophrenic conspiracy.
@cstrutherskgs
@cstrutherskgs 2 роки тому
@@Optiganone no it’s not really debatable you just don’t want to accept it. It’s literally called the greenhouse effect to so how simple of a concept it is.
@Miklosrobi
@Miklosrobi 4 роки тому
I love these guys :) I mean James and Nolan
@davidbouey4022
@davidbouey4022 3 роки тому
you guys need to show example pics of the thing you’re mentioning pleaseeee!!
@technom3598
@technom3598 4 роки тому
Please either do an up to speed or a pod cast on E.L cord. The guy was a riot. Kinda the countries first corporate conman. Seriously the story is fascinating. Make sure you go through the car business but then on to la real estate and air lines. It's great
@ContrarianConcervativePNW
@ContrarianConcervativePNW 2 роки тому
Bombas donates mass amounts of their comfy AF socks to the youth shelters here in Seattle
@leonardosouza6290
@leonardosouza6290 4 роки тому
Thumbs up! Is in Brasil(Brazil)...is a phantom city now! Sad....it could be fantastic...
@jaime3974
@jaime3974 4 роки тому
You ever read a comment and say dang I wish I said that
@help_is_bail
@help_is_bail 4 роки тому
Jaime I wish I wrote that
@galacticgamer850
@galacticgamer850 3 роки тому
Lol relatable
@rustedratchetgarage6788
@rustedratchetgarage6788 3 роки тому
Nope they're mine.
@joemosselli65
@joemosselli65 4 роки тому
This was so interesting
@MaziEmdi
@MaziEmdi 3 роки тому
Past Gas Podcast!... Mo pawa tu’ya baybay!!
@PontiacFan68
@PontiacFan68 2 роки тому
You should do these podcasts live on UKposts.
@87isbmw
@87isbmw 2 роки тому
These podcasts are literally saving my lige thank you guya so fucking much.
@sidneybrierly2315
@sidneybrierly2315 2 роки тому
i love how it says "dell" on the back of his macbook!!!
@B_I_G_Tasty
@B_I_G_Tasty 2 роки тому
Out here binging a year later
@shawncarrone6580
@shawncarrone6580 4 роки тому
Dude you have a Dell!🤯🤯
@brianargo9306
@brianargo9306 3 роки тому
A lot of your military bases are like that just like the military base or should I say Air Force Base in Montgomery here in Alabama it has its own stores, Malls, shopping centers, movie theaters, golf courses, you name it they have it just like a small city behind a fence. It's wild to think and know that they have places like that
@djkatss1
@djkatss1 4 роки тому
DAD YOUR BACK!!!!
@TaylorMade4Zero
@TaylorMade4Zero 2 роки тому
2 HOURS FOR TO GO 20 MILES!!! I knew LA traffic was bad but fuck that I would die.
@motormusic7622
@motormusic7622 3 роки тому
Great Churchill impression tbh
@bradleyjaynes4277
@bradleyjaynes4277 2 роки тому
He also had a second one in Brazil called belterra
@briandavis577
@briandavis577 2 роки тому
Just a slight correction. Ford didn’t invent the assembly line, but he invented the “moving” assembly line.
@XMG3
@XMG3 4 роки тому
So when are you guys doing Ayrton Senna ??? ??? That's another certified legend for past gas fur sho !
@RubenGonzalez-bs5rh
@RubenGonzalez-bs5rh 3 роки тому
Tucker Motors and Hunts Catchup used asembly lines before Ol Henry... Henry Stole a lot of ideas and called them their own!!!
@PaButters
@PaButters 3 роки тому
I fckn love this podcast
@Scott-S-
@Scott-S- 3 роки тому
Amsoil has a testing facility as well
@debknow8441
@debknow8441 4 роки тому
Do a podcast about Japanese midnight club group
@mikeskidmore6754
@mikeskidmore6754 3 роки тому
Fordlandia .... Seems I read a lot about it in Robert Leturnea Book on his Construction Equiptment manufacuring CO
@franciscopissaco7532
@franciscopissaco7532 4 роки тому
SULTAN OF BRUNEI CAR COLLECTION PLEASE!!!
@rat_king-
@rat_king- 4 роки тому
Ever see the 1960's Aldous Huzley a brave new world?..... it'd look like that @Donut Podcasts
@debknow8441
@debknow8441 4 роки тому
Do a podcast about Firestone
@josephjones5552
@josephjones5552 3 роки тому
Did he really say Churchill said I am not a crook, and not Nixon?!?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@cstrutherskgs
@cstrutherskgs 2 роки тому
Yes yes he did
@christianteddy
@christianteddy 4 роки тому
I know Harvey Firestone's great or great great grandson. I used to work with him at Hibdons. Will not give his first name, as it is personal, although I'm sure i could take a picture with him and you could compare the looks because they look very similar. (obviously they'd look alike)
@PrinceofPwnage
@PrinceofPwnage 3 роки тому
I'm trying to find the episode where they talk about "think tanks"
@marajade2932
@marajade2932 4 роки тому
What a title... No more Nos James^_^👍
@ItsYaBoiTurbo
@ItsYaBoiTurbo 3 роки тому
6:02 so western cherchhill is now a I guess
@joshshelby7322
@joshshelby7322 4 роки тому
Do one about all the auto industrys strikes
@graysonparker9266
@graysonparker9266 3 роки тому
The Subaru cult never had cool jumpsuits, but it is still going strong to this day.
@jacobhammer3205
@jacobhammer3205 4 роки тому
Is this podcast on Spotify?
@DEDRNFUK
@DEDRNFUK 3 роки тому
Yes
@TheMNrailfan227
@TheMNrailfan227 2 роки тому
I’m watching this while driving a Ferrari F40 in Assetto Corsa
@KarlDeets
@KarlDeets 4 роки тому
Assembly line wasn't Ford's invention. Oldsmobile had an assembly line for engines, Ford was the first to use one for the whole car.
@x-calibergaming2341
@x-calibergaming2341 2 роки тому
nice hat, lov it
@medeirosbrendon
@medeirosbrendon 2 роки тому
Pra quem quer uma versão em português, tem um podcast chamado Geopizza, que fez um ep. enorme falando sobre a Fordlândia.
@monsterkj2
@monsterkj2 4 роки тому
I live in iron mountain and those buildings are still standing mostly abandoned tho
@rustedratchetgarage6788
@rustedratchetgarage6788 3 роки тому
Grow spots!
@VencedorGamer
@VencedorGamer 3 роки тому
Stupid UKposts, you didn't need to put 2 minute ads in the video, Donut Media already did their own 2 minute and 30 second ads!
@codyhannigan6322
@codyhannigan6322 3 роки тому
I love the podcast and starting it out with the four-part Ford vs Ferrari was amazing but it seems like the jump from those episodes to this episode are drastically different in one major regard, amount of advertisements that 1 this episode it felt like I spent more time listening to ads than do history
@elioutdoors8119
@elioutdoors8119 3 роки тому
It wasn’t Winston Churchill it was Neville Chamberlain Prime Minister at the time
@MLblackout
@MLblackout 4 роки тому
oh i like this
@marckmoraes
@marckmoraes 4 роки тому
uhh , i live in brazil. and i've never heard about henry ford trying to build an utopia in the amazon rain forest. lol
@MrScotty5877304
@MrScotty5877304 4 роки тому
Is james back or was this pre recorded?
@chefdon21
@chefdon21 4 роки тому
scott matthews pre recorded
@davidleroth8644
@davidleroth8644 3 роки тому
35:44 James picks his nose
@thatcanadian3240
@thatcanadian3240 3 роки тому
Lol I saw it
@scoobydoodandy4296
@scoobydoodandy4296 4 роки тому
Can't remember where it came from but I'm pretty sure HJF "adapted" assembly line principle from another industry. He was the first to use for automotive industry.
@thesquiddy2273
@thesquiddy2273 3 роки тому
sort of, yes. Ransom E. Olds, founder of Oldsmobile, was the first to use the assembly line in the automotive industry, but it was the stationary assembly line. Henry Ford adapted it to make the moving assembly line, which was much more efficient, and it was a first for any industry and is the assembly line known and loved today.
@scoobydoodandy4296
@scoobydoodandy4296 3 роки тому
@@thesquiddy2273 Cool, thanks for the info. I believe the Terracotta Army of China was made on a production line of sorts too so maybe this was the earliest example of such. Wouldn't have been moving line either.
@DeltaBird2269
@DeltaBird2269 4 роки тому
Yo... who's packin a lip xD I see the tin on the ground
@mattmatthews5414
@mattmatthews5414 3 роки тому
Ew.
@javierarmandocruzsantos2152
@javierarmandocruzsantos2152 2 роки тому
Why do the condition of the Amazon workers sound like the conditions of Amazon workers
@prodbybobby
@prodbybobby 2 роки тому
Crazy how 20 miles in cali is a 2hr drive, but in ny its like 40 min or less lmao 😭
@glauria
@glauria 2 роки тому
Donut Brasil would be a great idea😏🇧🇷
@elioutdoors8119
@elioutdoors8119 3 роки тому
Infamy was Roosevelt and Winston Churchill was not prime mister until 1940
@NovocainTV
@NovocainTV 3 роки тому
20:35 to be fare to Fords thought of small town america, Detroit was the largest city in the world at that time.
@aaronreeve7374
@aaronreeve7374 4 роки тому
29:47 cant tell if hes talking about the 1920s or today
@Justogr
@Justogr 4 роки тому
Please consider doing a Camel Trophy podcast!!!!!
@michaelsimoneau8364
@michaelsimoneau8364 4 роки тому
LOL balls to the walls XD
@Agueroooo
@Agueroooo 2 роки тому
“He envisioned a place where his workers would never have to leave the workplace” so slavery, he reinvented slavery.
@nathgibs03
@nathgibs03 6 місяців тому
Reminds me of amazon
@hotstankygarbage788
@hotstankygarbage788 3 роки тому
Ford the OG soiboi
@rodrigonogueiramota4433
@rodrigonogueiramota4433 2 роки тому
"trying to implement the american way of life in the middle of the Amazon jungle in Brazil" clearly Mr.Ford never understood how Brazilians can be stubborn
@peterinbrat
@peterinbrat 2 роки тому
Rubber process not even close, lol. They scored the trees to draw the latex then slowly drizzle into rubber kegs over a slow fire.
@vandgre
@vandgre 4 роки тому
19:54 -add slow zoom here
@thatcanadian3240
@thatcanadian3240 3 роки тому
I don’t get it
@vandgre
@vandgre 3 роки тому
@@thatcanadian3240 because unicorns eat ice cream
@thatcanadian3240
@thatcanadian3240 3 роки тому
@@vandgre I still dont get it
@vandgre
@vandgre 3 роки тому
@@thatcanadian3240 potato salad?
@thatcanadian3240
@thatcanadian3240 3 роки тому
@Greg Vanderveen wtf
@ChrisonJoseph
@ChrisonJoseph 4 роки тому
Recorded previously or Did he get healthy and come back for work?
@mwalker9401
@mwalker9401 2 роки тому
This is not nearly as much fun without all the animation and graphics
@Cooe.
@Cooe. 2 роки тому
3:55 _facepalm_ That wasn't Churchill. That was Richard Nixon... -_-
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