The Lost City of Z: Solving the Mystery of a Vanished Civilization

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[@decodingtheunknown2373]

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[@SirNecro]

Keen as Mustard is an advertising campaign, and a play on words. Yes, very very British. Keens is a large well known brand of dried mustard powder.

[@Zackaria_sMax]

2:33 Is this "Sneak Preek" legal?

[@AnimeShinigami13]

if they sent me live oysters, it better come with a fishbowl and instructions on how to keep them alive. Because having oysters in a fish bowl would be AWESOME!

[@samwamm85]

I've heard an almost identical story to Percy Faucet's life, but this was my grandpa Harry Wamm. I also have an uncle Brian and a cousin Percy. The odd thing is that Harry died in World War II in France, not got lost in the jungle.

[@bengowers6365]

Ooo

[@grimdarkgeek]

I’m an archaeologist and have done extensive work in Central America with the Maya civilization. I can tell you with 100% that we are still finding cities lost in the jungle. I am not even talking about LIDAR, I mean actual boots on the ground exploring.

[@NoMatureContent]

I wish there was more footage. It seems the same places are recorded over and over again and while they're cool. I've sen and heard about all of them a dozen times now. lol

[@AnnaKeppa]

So....SHOW US!

[@RECTALBURRITO]

Who do you work for?

[@EvotrekORIGINAL]

I'm not going to lie I didn't believe you at first, I thought you were a kid making stuff up. I checked out your channel and you obviously were not lying. Sorry I misjudged you and will not jump to conclusions any more. Take care man.

[@jdc0617]

Are yall hiring??

[@Chord_]

I just want to say, in case anyone's curious after watching this video, the movie "Lost City of Z" is simply incredible, and should be watched. Its ending is the most beautifully haunting thing I've ever seen.

[@sisterhoney61]

I read David Grann's book that the movie is based on. The book was published in 2009. It was very well written.

[@SabrinasWorkshop]

That is a great film, one of my favorites.

[@JaneTaylor-jd2qq]

youre right

[@ErikaKassen]

Absolutely love that movie

[@mailmanwilly]

Agreed. A slow burn but an excellent movie overall.

[@ForbiddenMagic]

The saddest part of the story is that his wife believed til her death he and her son were still alive, had found the city, were there soaking up the knowledge, and would return any day.

[@roetheboat1]

It may just be a matter of personal preference, but I honestly think it would be better to have that kind of hope/belief.

[@PandaNFriends23]

Being able to live in reality is something worth striving for.

[@randyvfromtheperch]

Indeed. The book The Lost City of Z (much better and more detailed than the movie) goes into much detail about how his wife died a pauper. Percy as well was extremely poor upon his final; expedition into the jungle.

[@squamish4244]

@@roetheboat1 It is - or was, before modern therapy - common for people to hold those beliefs about missing loved ones. I think it would be better for people like that to move on with their lives.

[@ifv2089]

Anyone watch the movies where she moves on and he comes back 😂

[@kevingluys3063]

With the birds pecking through stone, parrots chip clay off of clifffaces and eat it for vitamins, he may have been describing that and wasn't close enough to see that it was just the softer clay built up on the exterior of the cliffs rather than the solid stone that gave the cliffs their structure

[@hdtripp6218]

There is also a bird that uses a certain leaf and mixes it with its saliva to make it acidic and places it on some stone cliffs and the acid breaks down the stone and allows it to peck into it and allows it to make a nest

[@kevingluys3063]

@@hdtripp6218 ooo! I never heard of that before! That also could be it

[@pmgn8444]

Very good video. Agree with the conclusion. And LIDAR mapping is showing all sorts of interesting stuff hidden in the Amazon.

[@ssfbob456]

Oh yeah, I think it was in 2016 that while using it they found out that what they thought was a small mountain was actually a massive pyramid

[@teeguy100]

Fawcett is the inspiration for Indiana Jones. I first read the New Yorker article on the book and then I got the book and read it. A great story of blind ambition and a cultural inability to see what was right in front of them . Fawcett had found the “City” but it was not paved with Gold & Marble so he couldn’t see it- even though he stood on its ground.

[@ostlandr]

Roy Chapman Andrews (after whom Protoceratops Andrewsi is named) is another candidate for the model for Indiana Jones.

[@murunbuchstanzangur]

John blashford-snell as well

[@doctorlolchicken7478]

This is about the 10th guy who is claimed to be the inspiration for Indiana Jones. Let’s face it, there were a ton of explorer types up until WW2, so he’s mostly likely inspired by all of them.

[@brandonmaynard9507]

​@@doctorlolchicken7478kinda like which serial killer Hannibal Lecter was based off of. Lol

[@garymaidman625]

Not necessarily, there are multiple explorers that Indiana Jones could be based off. Fawcett. Other candidates include Hiram Bingham, famous for being the first explorer to 'discover' Machu Picchu, Langdon Warner, an explorer and archaeologist that studied in East Asia, Roy Chapman Andrews, an explorer that travelled the globe under the employ of the New York Museum of Natural History and William Henry McGovern, an explorer and spy.

[@ZAV1944]

The First World War could easily be described as history's deadliest family feud as King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicolas II were all grandsons of Queen Victoria.

[@raquellofstedt9713]

Damn. Family. You could describe the mess in the middle East in the same way, albeit more theoretically. My own is no less volatile.

[@tamlandipper29]

While humourously meant and received, I recommend watching the Western Front Association talking about these sort of myths. It really does come down to the militarist obsession of old Germany, which took two world wars to extinguish. I feel that the deaths involved warrant keeping one hand on the truth, even if we joke. I'm not criticising you so much as the generation of historians who made ww1 out to be a pointless exercise for the Entente.

[@stephanieclark8327]

Erm Tsar Nicolas II was not a grandson of Queen Victoria. He was married to her granddaughter and was the maternal cousin another of her grandsons - King George V. He looked like King George V's twin because they both took after their maternal family.

[@OhSkyeLanta]

When the family you love is also starting wars with you ☠️ also ditching the Hapsburg last name in favor of Windsor to be less “German sounding” lol

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

And the ironic thing is, Victoria nudged her children and grandchildren into those positions to prevent war. Because who would attack their own cousin?

[@marcwhittle9810]

It is quite possible that Percy was held in captivity by Indigenous peoples in the Xingu area. This happened in my Amazonensis extended family. My father in law's cousin Helena Valero, both from Maribitana Rio Negro Brasil, was captured and held by the Yanomami for 25 years before she was eventually able to escape. There is a semi autobiography as well as a Wikipedia page on her life.

[@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752]

Dang...

[@pioneercynthia1]

Those Yanomami... I first read Chagnon's work in 1983. I'm so glad they're more well understood now.

[@Genesh12]

I JUST READ HELENA VALERO'S WIKIPEDIA PAGE. DO YOU KNOW IF SHE IS BURIED WITH THE YANOMAMI? DO YOU KNOW WHEN SHE DIED(I PRESUME SHE HAS DIED)?

[@marcwhittle9810]

@@Genesh12 I know she has died some number of years ago. Let me ask my wife and father in law (they are in Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira Rio Negro right now) and I'll see if I can get an answer for you.

[@wingerding]

​@@Genesh12 Relax

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:45 - Mid roll ads 3:45 - Back to the video 4:35 - Chapter 1 - Who was percy fawcett 10:30 - Chapter 2 - Fawcett lost city 22:10 - Chapter 3 - Into the jungle never to be seen again 38:20 - Chapter 4 - Did we decode the mysteries 39:30 - Conclusion

[@ARabidPie]

There have been some recent discoveries of ancient civilizations in the amazon that could substantiate this whole theory at least in spirit. It's very early in the research, but it's currently an exciting time to be an archeologist specializing in South America.

[@randallbesch2424]

White cities and use of Pteranotorns are engineered Teratorn giant birds with Pteranodon heads.

[@touchstoneaf]

The book on which they based the movie was frankly one of the most riveting reads I've ever experieced in my life. It's a nonfiction exploration of the subject, and it also agrees that Fawcett most likely walked right over the remains of the civilization he sought without ever seeing it because as it was not stone and it was not European in cast; instead it was like nothing he would expect to indicate vast habitation / the necessary tech. Recent remains of metropolises that are interconnected by causeways built on mounds above the water table are being found all the time in the Amazon, in a model similar to modern-day Los Angeles crossed with the way Mexico City's past Native iteration was built on damp ground.... along with proof that they'd developed a very unique kind of horticulture based specifically on Amazonian ecology/geography by creating their own fertile loam using terracotta pottery and a number of other items in the middens for fertilizer in a method we can't replicate today, but which essentially creates a large portion of potting soil. Scientists believe if we can rediscover the method, it might vastly alter how we use & manage that portion of the earth today, it being an worksble alternative to destructive slash-and-burn agriculture, which only causes erosion of the very thin topsoil. If you wish to read a book which is really frankly one of the most eye-opening and paradigm-shifting books I've ever read, "1491, New Revelations from Before Columbus", I think is the title, you'll learn that basically all of these cities probably were depopulated shortly before all of these figures started exploring around, because Columbus and others like him had come along and dropped off their plague bombs and then left, and in the interim a good 2/3 or more of Native American populations, especially ones that might have coalesced into cities, quickly succumbed because essentially these explorers had dropped off unaware biological warfare on them. Which then in turn played into the manifest destiny thing, because when people got here from Europe they were firmly convinced that since there were like hardly any people in these areas, the area was a depopulated "wilderness" perfect for settlement by these "better people". The reality being they were in no way empty; the locals just been decimated and were really just refugees living raggedly trying to survive, and they'd lost quite a bit of their technology in the struggle, which of course made it easier to discredit them as "savages". Evidence now shows that areas like the Eastern seaboard of the US were pretty much a managed parkland on the level with the King's wood when they were at their full population, but the maintenance of these areas had fallen down completely because of the plague that hit them. Same with the Amazon. By the time anybody found any of these ruins,they were largely reclaimed by the jungle as it does, and all you see are bare mounds and the remains of causeways in straight lines here and there, but of course no structures anymore because they would have been wooden ones. So of course it follows that Fawcett was looking for the wrong thing, as people tend to do when they have preconceived notions, which is pretty sad considering he probably just walked right past the ruins and didn't even see them, and in the process likely killed his son and his son's young friend because of his hubris. Really, that exploratory era bookended in a nutshell.

[@desmofan1864]

Speaking of dollar stores... I once had a dream of opening one in Canada and calling it "The Loonie Bin."

[@achillesrage5573]

Myself I believe those in the UK missed the mark pound land so easily could have been pound town

[@Narangarath]

I wonder how many people think you're just dissing Canadians? 😂

[@thanosallfather3006]

Is the term "loonie" a type of currency in Canada? Loonie Bin is just golden though 🤣😂

[@Juggler6987]

Gotta spend those loonies and toonies somewhere lmao

[@valolafson6035]

​@@thanosallfather3006 Loonies are the dollar coin.

[@CliffCutterActual]

If anyone else had told me the British version of Dollar Tree was Poundland I wouldn't have believed them

[@woofbarkyap]

why not?

[@charisanna4914]

Don't forget Poundstretcher

[@liamevans7661]

​@@woofbarkyapbecause it sounds like a sex joke

[@TJay05]

@@liamevans7661 Kinda does, yeah... Weird choice xD

[@nigelfisher7344]

My favorite story of poundland is the woman who was arrested for shoplifting, to make matters worse and even more entertaining the only police car available to pick her up was the armed response unit

[@overworkedcna412]

I've always been fascinated by this story. I love the idea of this fantastic mythical, deserted, ruinous city hiding in the jungle out there somewhere.

[@bewilderedbytheworld]

As much as I enjoy the Decoding the Unknown stories, I admit I initially clicked on this to hear how Simon pronounced Z. But once again an interesting story, with great tangents. Amazing how well Simon can handle a cold read. I would love to see a future story about one of Canada's strange stories. We have at least two versions of Nessie, called Ogopogo and Manipogo. And there is also the story of Flintabity Flonatin. (I would love to hear Simon cold read those names) And those are just three examples.

[@starrywizdom]

*Flintabbatey Flonatin. Wholeheartedly agree with your comment.

[@jlbay1]

Funnily, when my young niece and nephews (12,9, & 7) were recently asked what they thought the outline of Nessie on my Jeep Compass was, they all confidently replied “Ogopogo!” 😂

[@oxylepy2]

Simon is super experienced with cold reads. Top Tenz was probably generally a cold read because after a while Simon just stopped giving a fuck

[@alexsetterington3142]

I absolutely despise the tangents and won't watch anything with Simon because of them. I made this exception for a reminder of the Fawcett stort

[@randallcraft4071]

Anacondas can get up to about 30 feet long, but if i am encountering a giant snake 30 feet and 60 feet sure as hell might look the same to me

[@Curiosity-NZ]

I have a copy of the book called Exploration Fawcett written by his son Brian Fawcett using his fathers notes. A very interesting book and well worth getting a copy of this for those who are interested his work.

[@jakbparish]

As a kid , late 80'S, did anyone else watch the cartoon Mysterious Cities Of Gold? Spanish conquistador's, Aztecs, Mayans, Olmecs, golden condors, proper high adventure and then the mini fact based documentary at the end. Blew my little mind. Great stuff. So was this episode.

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

Now that is nostalgic. I watched that as a kid

[@tehfiredog]

God yes... and I've been fascinated by all of it ever since.

[@sabrinafurlano9767]

Hey! There’s a whole English speaking nation across the pond that pronounces it “Zed”….. everyone just forgets Canada 🤪

[@mp51998]

Who?

[@wingerding]

​​@@mp51998 they said who...

[@ku8721]

"Sir Percy Fawcett sounds like the least equipped person to go into the jungle" *Percy Jackson has entered the chat*

[@willdornan9929]

1:24 it’s crazy to me that they used a photo of a ruin that’s local to me in Scotland, in a video about a lost Brazilian city 😅

[@michaelmayhem350]

I know this city never existed but using lidar on a plane explorers have found lost cities and temples in central America so finding one in brasil is entirely possible.

[@johnmatthews4717]

read 1421

[@jlbay1]

@@johnmatthews4717 1421 is a fascinating book, but it’s pseudohistory. Menzies had no real back-up for his claims in any of his books which puts him in the realm of von Dan ïken minus the aliens. Though, it would make for an interesting DTU video topic!

[@roetheboat1]

@@jlbay1 Holy crap, I decided to look the book up on Google since I wasn't familiar with it. Here's the little blurb Wikipedia shows for the Google result: "His book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, is a work of sheer fiction presented as revisionist history."

[@jlbay1]

@@roetheboat1 when it was published, it was basically presented as new research and caused quite a stir. It’s lovely to read and imagine as true, but a fantasy nonetheless.

[@alexsetterington3142]

No sources just " ancient Chinese documents"

[@LeoDomitrix]

"Brazil is massive, there's a lot of forest in Brazil" ----- Simon, and me at age 5

[@retriever19golden55]

David Grann's book is an amazing read. He also wrote Killers of the Flower Moon.

[@PeachM0de]

Thank you Ilze and team for putting this together

[@starrywizdom]

"How are they domesticating mines?"

[@mygoldenwitch]

Not even one minute in and we're already off on a tangent. Never change, Simon

[@mariakelly90210]

We love you, Tangent Boi!

[@zombiemanjosh]

The birds burrowing in rock actually has some basis, it's some plant that has a chemical in it that softens the stone and makes it crumbly.

[@luckyspurs]

23:35 "Jack's letters were optimistic and perhaps naive. He was on a big adventure with his dad and it appears that the young man didn't quite realise the dangers they would be facing". Well, we know Simon recorded this before the Titan submersible story, because that would have almost certainly got a mention.

[@Lodrik18]

Wasnt that the other way around? The son didnt want to go but it was fathersday or something?

[@bechaupt865]

I am suprised that Simon, as British born, is unaware of Keen's mustard. Keen's opened the first mustard factory in London.

[@frankshailes3205]

Unfortunately not the origin of the phrase. The phrase 'as keen as mustard' is known from 1672, the century before the company was formed. As it says on their early tins - "Keen's Mustard - First manufactured in the reign of George 2nd AD 1742." The 1672 citation comes from the pen of the English schoolmaster William Walker in his Paroemiologie Anglo-Latina: As keen as mustard

[@SaraLittleWren]

I love learning about how/ where phrases originate

[@woofbarkyap]

Although that isn't the original of the phrase, I am also British and constantly astonished by the gaps in his awareness, even allowing for his age. On one vid he joked he was raised in a cult and whilst it's not really something we have here in the same way as the US, I could believe it. He reminds me sometimes of my mother's cousin who was brought up in a convent and emerged aged 18 with zero experience of popular culture, music of any sort beyond hymns and even local geography let alone global. She was elderly when I was a child but the gaps in her knowledge were still glaring.

[@luanaclee2521]

I know you don't care, Simon, but you pretty much nailed the Portuguese pronunciations

[@nightwishlover8913]

Makes a change from screwing up English pronunciation...

[@dannahbanana11235]

I love that he got that right but pronounced encephalitis the way he did 😂

[@strachanjohnston2858]

i strongly disagree, joaõ de silva guimaraes... he butchered the poor mans name.

[@SugarandSarcasm]

@@strachanjohnston2858it was rather irritating when he did that tbh

[@JuvyThaKid]

It's always exciting to find a Simon channel I didn't know about! Also, I know this isn't Biographics, but I'm surprised you haven't done a video about Anders Lassen. Would be cool to see that one day!

[@OhSkyeLanta]

“Sir Percy sounds like the least prepared person to go into the jungle that I have ever heard of” Simon accidentally echoing the thought process of everyone not in Sir Percy’s class to ever study this story ever 😂😂😂❤❤❤ Edit: pointing this out bc of Simon’s change in tune of “wait he’s explored lots of places! He sounds like the perfect guy to do this!!” The difference was, in Sri Lanka and the other places he visited, those were mostly tamed and under British or other friendly country rule, and he never really went out so far that he couldn’t circle back to some form of shelter or friendly territory. When Percy went searching for Z, he was heading into completely unmapped and uncharted territory, well out of control of even local governments, forget about the European countries that pretended to own them. And even if disaster struck when they were still within returning distance to their last port of safety, the topography of the jungle can change in moments with mudslides, flooding from either the river or a flash flood from a sudden storm, storms knocking over trees, even large migrations of animals such as capybaras being scared due to a flood or storm or earthquake, have left swaths of the jungle completely unrecognizable. They may have turned around on the path only to find the path no longer there, or blocked by something insurmountable like a mudslide or flooded river. Their only choices would have been to stay and see if conditions improved there, or strike out dangerously into the jungle in hopes of finding a new way through. The Amazon Rainforest also doesn’t have a steady history of magnetism, so their compasses may have become massively unreliable in a short space of time, simply due to the geology they traveled over. I’m sure Ilze will cover most of this and probably much more, but Percy Fawcet was not really prepared, no matter what he or his contemporaries thought.

[@randallbesch2424]

Maybe there are deposits of magnetite near the surface.

[@OhSkyeLanta]

@@randallbesch2424 there have been heavy deposits found like that, yes! Something about when South America was being formed way back in Pangea time left the geology different from most places on the planet. There are theories, but as with most science it’s just guessing with lots of evidence. But the end result has been rare minerals being found much closer to the surface - or sometimes *on* the surface - than found anywhere else on the planet. The continent itself is fascinating and terrifying.

[@pentalarclikesit822]

Always reminds me of a Dollar Tree ripoff that was near where I used to live where the sign said, "All items 99 cents and up or less." So, in other words, any price possible.

[@1sophierachel1]

Commander George Dyott was my neighbor on Long Island. I never saw him, but his wife let us play roost all and baseball in her back yard. They lived in what was the converted barn of an old estate. She used to invite us in and show us all the artifacts he sent home. I remember lots of pictures and a stool made from an elephant foot. Commander Dyott was also an early aviation pioneer, his wife was apparently a north shore debutante, though to us she was just a strange old woman.

[@SugarandSarcasm]

That sounds pretty damn awesome

[@bradlevantis913]

Ilza’s scripts are always so well written

[@Aggiebrettman]

Really lovely final statement-- nicely done.

[@RIlianP]

The LiDAR scans are quite promising, so far at least 60,000 Hidden Maya Structures were discovered in Guatemala, thanks to it. Nothing so ludicrously bombastic as "lost civilization" but the jungle hides so much undiscovered abandoned cities.

[@randallbesch2424]

And they all have to be visited on the ground too.

[@meowtheap2483]

took a lil break from casual criminalist/decoding the unknown so i would have enough to binge! let’s go!

[@clairekortbawi5659]

I had to pull over and laugh snort after the Anchorman reference. Brilliant? 😂😂😂

[@Angry_Toe]

You must have been born in 1984-5

[@clairekortbawi5659]

@@Angry_Toe Earlier than that... but if anyone asks, sure!

[@mtvdvm4940]

Alright Simon here’s some advice on handling ticks form a rural Texan. First good pair of lace up hiking boots you can tuck your trousers into and then lace up snug, Long sleeve shirts tucked into trousers, broad brimmed hat. A good good bug spray focused around the neck, belt line and top of boots to keep bugs from entering where cloths meet.

[@pakde8002]

I guess Texans never have sex in the forest 😅

[@RileyRunsWithScissors]

As a rural Oklahoman, I second all of this advice. 👍

[@jennanail]

Y’all forgot the duct tape around the ankles and wrists.

[@ErikaKassen]

I was so excited for this episode! Percy Fawcett led quite an interesting life. Excellently written script as well.

[@charisanna4914]

"You're a cartographer, Percy!" Same as those British cartographers who got bored and drew an elephant-shaped altitude line in west Africa

[@whiteumbrella9344]

Totally on board with you Simon. WWI was horrible. I have studied history and the trench warfare wounds like hell. I think I would have deserted and not cared about the dishonorable discharge. It was that horrible.

[@frankshailes3205]

More likely a firing squad for desertion.

[@whiteumbrella9344]

@@frankshailes3205 Still better. Trench warfare was that messed up. Also, plenty of people deserted and got away.

[@Bluesit32]

It would be difficult just to do that. It was called "No-Man's Land" for a reason. Popping up out of the trench was a good way to get shot.

[@matthewlawlis2421]

Dishonarable discharge was not a thing. You stay for your agreed upon term, or you get charged for cowardice and desertion. Those charges typically lead to execution.

[@whiteumbrella9344]

@@matthewlawlis2421 You guys all need to lighten up. The main point is that WWI was horrible, and I was agreeing with Simon. I think we can all agree it was on of the most miserable conditions in warfare we have ever seen.

[@colosine]

We have a lot of "dollar stores" like 99c only, dollar tree etc, but none of them are a dollar anymore

[@pakde8002]

You can't even buy a dollar for a dollar anymore 😅

[@EonEsper-Kriz]

OMG if there was a store in Britain called, "Pound Town," that would be... just perfect, heheheh. 🤭

[@eadweard.]

Well there is, essentially: Pound Land.

[@woofbarkyap]

Lots of Americans saying that on this thread. UK here, not getting the joke...?

[@superbaby0339]

Lol right at 23:20 when Simon finished saying “yeah these dogs are the best” I seamlessly got an ad for dogs and I was like why did Simon just randomly change his voice?😂

[@pakde8002]

I remember some really funny random ads like that back before I realized how awesome KZbin Premium is. Actually last month I thought, hey this is just wasting money so I stopped it...for a whole thirty minutes. Ads are even worse where I live in Indonesia as anyone who's ever watched broadcast tv in Indonesia knows. They're obnoxiously relentless.

[@semaj_5022]

Great episode! I always love Ilse's scripts and this story is a really interesting one. Sir Percy Fawcett is a complex and fascinating figure. Personally, I'm of the belief that they just...died. No murder or intrigue. The elements and illness likely got the better of the younger members of the group and Percy wasn't able to survive for long on on his own before also succumbing to dehydration(most likely imo,) hunger or disease.

[@sisterhoney61]

After reading the book on the Lost City of Z, I'm in the "they died of disease" camp. Fawcett was always a lot more healthy than the others who went into the jungle with him. But when he went on his last expedition he was pushing 60. It's very easy to succumb to a lot of diseases. Gann's description of James Murray's deterioration from illness while on the expedition just made me say, "Eww, eww, eww!"

[@Smithy1991]

You say that makes the past the worst. It really makes it better.

[@luizagrillo668]

I love listening to you talking about my country. It's adorable!

[@fractaljack210]

Great episodde. One thing: shards for glass , sherds for pottery.

[@yankaclementi1935]

Such great writing. This one seemed so fun

[@piperjaycie]

I’m going to take a shot every time Simon says Percy!!!🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🥴🥴🤢😳🤢🥴

[@rudra62]

El Dorado is a real place. In fact, there are several of them. There is El Dorado, Kansas; El Dorado, Arkansas; El Dorado, New Mexico.

[@wingerding]

That's like saying Atlantis is a real place because there is a town called Atlantis somewhere. No one talking about El Dorado in the mythical city sense is speaking of any place you mentioned and that's so obviously clear...come on man.

[@randallbesch2424]

@@wingerding the Eye of Africa fits Atlantis to a tee.

[@JamesThompson-zk1ht]

@wingerding I'm trying to decide which is more likely to have come first: (1) The empty place in one's psyche where a sense of humor should have been, leading this dingbat to assume that the OP was serious, and therefore seriously stupid; or (2) The hubris required for one's starting assumption to be that OP must be too stupid to have been joking, thus the failure to even consider the possibility. "That's like saying Atlantis is a real place because there is a town called Atlantis somewhere." Yes, that's exactly what this is like. I sincerely hope that it was not too much of a strain to come up with this analogy. You know what else that is like? That's like saying the Fountain Of Youth is a real place because there is a town called Fountain Of Youth somewhere. Etc, etc. Your complaint doesn't even make sense as written. "That's like saying Atlantis is a real place..." Well, assuming that there is in fact a town called Atlantis somewhere, Atlantis IS a real place, and saying so is a simple statement of fact. "No one talking about El Dorado in the mythical city sense is speaking of any place [OP] mentioned and that's so obviously clear." Apparently neither of these two statements are quite true. YOU, dingbat, are probably the only person to have read the OP to whom it was NOT clear, and who thought that OP was really referring strictly to the mythical city. The fact is that OP was implying a device that is a classic comedic technique, of exploiting the potential for ambiguity in some particular word or phrase. This depends for its effect on all concerned being aware of the fact that the speaker is deliberately mixing together the different meanings, in a form of play. This play, in turn, is fun, and when successful, the fun becomes funNY. Apologies for the pedantry, but all of this is so clear and obvious to those of us with a sense of humor that if some dingbat is so totally not getting it, we have to actually spell it out. What WAS obvious and clear to me was (1) that OP was making a joke (not a howler, but it did get a chuckle out of me), and (2) that the response from the resident dingbat indicated a personality so devoid of humor and so smug in its deficiency as to be absolutely insufferable to be around. If I may - "Come on, man" right back atcha.

[@krymsonuchiha14]

As someone living here and from America, technically poundland would be more like dollar general. Dollar tree usually only has one price for everything in the store. Dollar general has things more than a dollar all over the store like Poundland has.

[@lawrencedewan9838]

Beyond Machu Piicchu is Yauna Picchu...staggering!!

[@btetschner]

A+ video! Great writing, images, and analysis! Such a fantastic video!

[@glenncalderwood8945]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. These explorers were not charlatans but doing their very best in the circumstances.

[@shawnnoyes2776]

"His name is Percy, and he's a knight... Sir Percy." -Simon... yeah, like Percival from King Arthur's Court, right? -Shawn

[@CZOM027]

I'm always amazed at the pronunciations you come up with for portuguese words and names.

[@GIBBO4182]

Anyone else just watched the Casual Criminalist video?

[@Mama-eu1ss]

Wasn't that tapper's whittling skills exceptional!

[@Infodumptruck]

​@@Mama-eu1ssI heard he was a great shot as well

[@personzorz]

​@@InfodumptruckHE MURDERED AND CRIPPLED THEIR FRIENDS

[@that1wiki]

​@@personzorzbut he sure could whittle that wood!

[@terryenby2304]

Yup, lovely to have two of my favourites one after the other!

[@alexandercorey850]

Today I learned that Brazil is foresty. Thank you factboi. Never change😂

[@hackbeen7507]

When u just finish watching the mad trapper video and see the blue dot on another simon channel😂

[@Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay]

Can we have better audio compression on these please, so that when we're gently falling asleep to one we don't get suddenly jerked awake when Simon gets excited ?

[@sgxthach]

I had to turn the volume up so high, even while using headphones. Or is it just my headphones?

[@harleyjo4875]

@1:36 : “So…tiny brain” @Meg video earlier this year : “Jason Statham was in this, right?? Siri: ‘The Meg 2008’ (Simon still hasn’t realized it was 2018 at this point) YES, IT WAS, BIG BRAIN!!” Gotta love presenters, so easily amused, even easier to amuse the audience.

[@jamaljay8870]

Being from America shopping at Pound Town would be wild lol

[@ladylight545]

I love how Simon couldn’t even get through the FIRST SENTENCE OF THE SCRIPT without a ✨tangent✨

[@JohnKay79]

You had me at "City of Zed sounds weird, and I'm British" lol

[@bettyswallocks6411]

At the rate at which the Amazon Rain Forest is being converted to grazing land, it won’t be too long before we find it.

[@davidjackson9426]

The best friend was his Son’s best friend not Percy’s. The Son’s best friend was also starting crack by the time they reached dead horse camp (source letters he sent home to his Mum).

[@mikeharris5681]

So... starting crack... Seems like an odd thing to write home to mum about but hey, the past, where leaving your gin soaked wife dipping the baby's dummy in opium while you wander off on a crack fuelled jungle trek was the choice of every upstanding English man

[@wingerding]

Starting to crack? Or starting to use crack?

[@EgaoKage]

I remember reading a blurb about this guy (Sir Percy) in a book-report on snakes. Funny the things that stick with you for decades. I remember it said he measured the dead snake (his crew having killed it, after it overturned their canoe-like boat) with their regimental rifles set end-to-end. So, it would in theory, be a fairly accurate measurement.

[@MattCatt09]

Everybody knows that the worlds biggest anaconda was killed by Ice Cube back in 1997. Thanks, Cube

[@tjm11015]

"There's a lot of forest in Brazil" ..."Congratulations Simon, you've earned an ice cream cone🍦. There you go, who's a big brain? Yes you are, who's my big brain boy 🧠?"

[@RockismyAir]

Again listening to Simons voice slowed down to 0,25. It always works. And it helps me to sleep.

[@JoeBuk724]

14:20 what does Simon say here, the close captioning says "birds able to peek through stone after special leaf" the bleep really throws me for loop

[@frankiemillcarek6976]

Thank you! There were a few erroneous bleeps that I also could not understand.

[@JoeBuk724]

@@frankiemillcarek6976 lol glad I'm not the only one. I actually tried to google things about him and his memoirs but didn't find an answer. The bleep just seems out of place. Even if I impose the normal bleeped words list it still doesn't make sense. If there is a bird that can hump a hole into stone, it's definitely something! lol

[@Just4FC]

Sorry to say, but 60 feet anaconda sounds pretty realistic to me. I spent 2 years in the Amazon, and over 40 feet snakes wasn't uncommon, so not a far throw from 60 feet

[@davefuellhart8262]

I don't know what's more impressive: the amount of content you put out or the clean cut bald/beard look. I have the same combo but you keep it clean! Keep it up my bald brother

[@AdamOBrien29]

Kevin sent me, thank you Ilsa :)

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

So would you say youre _Kevin sent?_

[@AdamOBrien29]

@@Im-Not-a-Dog Kevin is a place on Earth with his scripts

[@brendakrieger7000]

When I hear the name Percy,I can't help but think of Thomas the Tank Engine🚂🤣

[@mtvdvm4940]

As a veterinarian I’ll give you some comfort Simon… most tick borne illnesses reside in the mid or hind gut of a tick and this means the tick must be attached for 12-24 hours or more in order to have a real risk of pathogen transmission. Not sure what ticks or tick born diseases y’all have in the Cezck Republic but that is knowledge we use here in Texas and we have more ticks and tick diseases than you can imagine. So far I have avoided severe disease growing up in rural Texas. Brown recluses (not sure if y’all have those) on the other hand I have fallen prey to. Not a fun hospitalization.

[@squamish4244]

I wish the movie had included the crazy paranormal stuff...it wasn't a bad film, but this definitely would have made it more interesting.

[@BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz]

Did your buttler ever invite the doctor over for pancakes?

[@wonky_shoebox7514]

I so want some merch saying "The Past was the Worst" ❤

[@jennanail]

There are Tshirts on one of his other channels. Brain blaze maybe.

[@JoeBuk724]

18:20 lol at "pound-land" definitely better than dollar tree 😄

[@Dizzle93]

"I'm Ron Burgundy?" 🤣🤣🤣

[@LloxieFox]

Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Family Dollar... we have multiple versions of our "Pound Land" here, heh.

[@christopherfesmire2457]

In Arthurian legend, Percival is the knight who found the holy grail...

[@twistanturnu529]

Simon makes anything sounds so wholesome and charming

[@IcecoldLulu]

David and Alex's Schloshed Adventures!!

[@steve3291]

Exploring a wilderness like this has so many risks including illness, hunger/dehydration, dangerous wildlife and then at the very lowest end hostile tribes.

[@mariakelly90210]

Not to mention possibly running into Lara Croft Tomb Raider (the Angelina Jolie version).

[@asicdathens]

I have read his book in 1981. Based on what he wrote he appeared to be rather equipped to handle the jungle

[@ajkleipass]

Whatever happened to them, I hope they died doing what they loved and were passionate about. And I hope that the family they left behind were able to take some solace in that knowledge.

[@gilgamesh101]

hmmm, well I love knocking one off now and again, but I sure hope it doesn't kill me one day! Would be kinda awkward too for any family member if they were the first to find me in that condition 😵‍💫 (pun intended)!

[@TrueLife..]

Ehhh whether they died of starvation and disease or were murdered by a tribe using melee weapons, one thing is highly likely; it was horrific and terrifying to the very end.

[@oxylepy2]

Simon pulling out Dollar Tree. Surprising, I thought Dollar General was more well known. And the Dollar Store is also the generic term which is even more widely used

[@TK0921]

Personally I believe the account of the tribe saying they saw smoke from the campfire for five days and then nothing on the sixth. Whether that means they died of sickness, starvation, or at the hands of a less hospitable tribe we'll probably never know.

[@johnr797]

So I'm not the only one who's already watched this movie way before today right?

[@kellyhamilton8272]

Hello I love all of your videos. You should consider making videos on mining disasters you should look at upper big branch. And the truth About it. And how one big wheel took the lives of 29 men, and everyone knew how he was operated

[@LemurDreamer87]

..Yes, Simon, there is a lot of rainforest in THE AMAZON.

[@Haileyjays]

Lol love it when Simon said “Not like he said he saw the Loch Ness monster” right after he said the guy claimed to find the tracks of a diplodocus 🤪

[@deborahbranham-taylor6682]

This reminds me of the English explorer character in Penny Dreadful.

[@mariakelly90210]

My boy Timothy "Was A Great James Bond" Dalton!