Fordlandia

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🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Fordlândia is a district and adjacent area of 14,268 square kilometres (5,509 sq mi) in the city of Aveiro, in the Brazilian state of Pará. It is located on the east banks of the Tapajós river roughly 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of the city of Santarém. It was established by American industrialist Henry Ford in the Amazon Rainforest in 1928 as a prefabricated industrial town intended to be inhabited by 10,000 people to secure a source of cultivated rubber for the automobile manufacturing operations of the Ford Motor Company in the United States. Ford had negotiated a deal with the Brazilian government granting him a concession of 10,000 km² (3,900 sq mi) of land on the banks of the Rio Tapajós near the city of Santarém, Brazil, in exchange for a 9% share in the profits generated.^[2] Ford's project failed, and the city was abandoned in 1934.

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0:00.0	And then Loki says it's adorable that you think you could possibly manipulate me.
0:07.4	Eli, I genuinely couldn't care less about these superhero shows.
0:11.0	I don't take this from me Tom.
0:12.2	I have so little joy left to me in my life.
0:16.2	I just want to talk about this fucking what's happening here.
0:20.2	Oh hey Cecil, what did you do?
0:22.5	Well, you know how today's episode's about Ford Landia?
0:25.7	Yeah, that's sitting in the jungle that Henry Ford made.
0:28.9	Yeah, so I thought it'd be a perfect time to redo our production based on the Henry Ford model.
0:33.2	Okay, uh, why all the new rooms?
0:35.7	I have each room for each stage of production.
0:38.6	We have a writing room, a joke room, a pre-production room, a recording room, a post-production room,
0:43.4	and finally a posting room.
0:45.1	Yeah, and each section has its own specific function, perfectly tailored to each phase of production
0:51.1	completely optimized.
0:52.7	Okay, why are half of these just bathrooms with like ever-glade fan boat fans?
0:58.6	Just in the ceiling?
0:59.8	Well, most of our production hinges on Eli's potty breaks.
1:02.6	It's true, it does.
1:04.1	Well, I mean, it is efficient and all, but why all the anti-Semitic posters?
1:08.9	We know Ford is an anti-Semite.
1:10.9	Did you get to deal on all the original Ford Landia stuff in Brazil?
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