things right now and okay so the first thing I typically don't do this typically I ask for a very specific person but you're so lucky because this really thin man just stepped forward he's older and he's thin and I feel like if this is not your dad it was um a relative of it's from it's from the father side of your family that the paternal paternal side of your family um this guy is very thin he may not have been very thin throughout his life but end of life because he's showing me like usually when they show up in a suit that's like how they looked at end of life because they get like their final viewing in in their best best clothes I will I so want to cry girl oh my gosh I'm so sorry there's a lot of heaviness with his energy whomever this is they had a very um whoo they had a very very very very hard life a very difficult life um I'm not going to tell you everything they're telling me right now what I am going to say is their energy on this earth on this plane when they were here it was very heavy but it was very heavy mostly because of the things that they saw the things that they experienced and um this might not be the person you were hoping was going to come through okay there's they're acknowledging I'm probably the last person she wants to hear from but what they are also saying is that I'm the exact person she needs to hear from and maybe because of all of the struggles that this person went through is why this person is the one to talk to you now I'm assuming this person is older but it might have been somebody who aged very quickly in this life and just looked very old when they passed I'm going to tell you why I'm saying that is because the song there's singing for you oh they know music is not one of my gifts um you got to keep your head up I think it's by Tupac I know Tupac does not sing like that if Tupac heard that he would be like girl do you never sing my song again um no no no you don't find you know but you know what song I'm talking about right that I wish I could rap I wish I wish music was one of my gifts but I don't complain because girl I got I got mad skills from the other side so I'm all good with that I'm down 100% so it's me and my gifts right I don't need to sing and I'm sorry for what I put people listening to me to me through but okay so here's a thing right this is he's showing me a corner and it's like a street on New York and it's this big skyscraper building and he's saying you're gonna you're you're so freaking close that's not the word he's using you're so freaking close to go in around this corner and then like everything up to the corner is all gray and then as soon as you hit this corner and you round this corner it all turns full color and vibrancy now I'm gonna tell you you have some serious hardcore blocks and this comes from ancestral lineage blocks so what I'm going to do is uh we have ancestral and lineage blocks I get a yes on that I'm gonna clear them oh and I'm gonna say by mid month you're gonna have some of the answers you're looking for and now there are four women four women four women from the other side and I I'm running I'm I'm I'm actually over my 30 minutes but I'm gonna finish you not finish you but finish for you there are four women that just stepped in with this man and they all have their hands on him and they're saying um they are all working together oh god girl oh I'm gonna cry I just have the goosebumps all over and there's so much love coming through you are about to get I'm so happy I'm finishing this because you're about to give up hope you're about to say I'm done I'm I'm calling this quits I just I don't know what to do anymore and they want you to know oh girl I'm so sorry okay so they're letting you know do not do not just like wake up like you woke up and I whatever that means for you wake up like you woke up like you know like you know like you know this world is yours it belongs to you there is no oh Jesus there is no no no excuses you everything is at your feet is the way they're saying it and even though things are a little bit difficult right now you are just going to wake up in the morning and you're going to fly through the day they are coming to you in your dreams and there's a total of five of them and they are just letting you know that it's it's it's all right there just turn that corner just take one more step and you're going to you're going to turn that corner and you're going to be there and it's going to be solid and you're going to be so excited for what comes next so I want you like for the rest of the day and the rest of the week and the rest of the month I just want you to say I deserve better I know better show me what comes next show me what's next give me what's next I'm I'm ready okay that's it that's it oh thank goodness that's your mantra I'm ready bring it I'm ready bring it that's what they want to say to you okay love oh okay okay you are thank you you are so you're so welcome and remember listen um you also I know I'm so far over my time right now girl uh you also have a business in you so they want you to start thinking about your side thing and start developing that because you know what I've said it in every show and I'm saying it again if if there ain't a job make a job if there ain't a business hire in you you make a business and you hire people don't I don't care if you just become a manager of one person or uh but you start writing articles whatever it is that's inside of you and you already know what it is girl let it out because the world needs more of that the right now the world needs more of what you have inside of you to come out and shine okay okay thank you so much and thank you for the conduit and thank you for feeling what you feel and I also want to thank my ancestors who came through and I especially want to thank like I love them all and I want to thank them all and I thank the gentleman who came through because I don't know my dad so I have a representative from his baddest family show up is a really big deal so I'm grateful yeah even if you don't know them they know you and they want you to know that they are solid and true for you and they're not going anywhere um I mean you have great great great great aunties on the other side that are fighting for you and they're just saying you gotta keep your head up you gotta keep your head up okay I'm done singing that's it that's it but you it's absolutely my pleasure and I'm so happy that I could come through and I could give you whatever guidance they wanted to and I'm gonna um she's moving forward I'm gonna clear do a clearing one last clearing for everybody listening relistening of moving forward and um clear that and I and I cannot wait please keep me posted and get that business from inside you to outside you okay well thank you love you are welcome okay I'm gonna come over here to my youtube folks hi thank you so much for hanging in there youtube I just want to quick go down the line and say um thank you to some of the people and thank you uh please help clear all blockages if there are any okay so we are blocked oh yeah and you know em when I'm clearing we are stuck that's the same thing as clearing we are blocked okay and then um I'm gonna go down Jackie oh thank you you're amazing too girl I love you so much um Eddie hey Eddie what's up um I need to know with my father talking to him I can't read this but let me move my screen over a little bit Eddie to see what you're saying here oh yeah okay so Eddie real quick I'm gonna answer your question um the show is only supposed to be 30 minutes but clearly I can not track time to save my life but Eddie I'm gonna tell you yes uh all the time all the time all the time um don't ever doubt it don't ever doubt it every last word what I'm hearing is every last word every last word every last word I'm gonna scroll up a little bit on my list just to be able to see if there are any other questions or that I can answer for anyone hopefully everybody's still hanging on I'm sorry it took me a moment to get to you but my priority is the callers um and then I I come over here and I'll do what I can on this side um oh encouragement on how to get my life back together champagne girl okay so here's a thing champagne I want you to re-listen to the show and get all those clearings again because um you know getting our life together okay really quick how getting our life together according to whom according and this is so relevant for everyone is this the way who thinks your life should look because here's the struggle when we're trying to like put our life together for the way other people think it should look or the way it's always looked listen when we fall apart it's not to be put back together again that's an opportunity to build a whole new freaking you okay a whole new freaking life a whole new existence not to go back to where you were because where you were caused your life to break apart right yeah so don't put your life back together again build a new life think about what do I really want who do I really want to be where do I really want to be what do I want this to look like how do I want to move forward what's going to give me the greatest amount of joy and forget unless you've got babies forget everybody else and everything else like listen when I'm creating my life I if I have a man in my life I don't think about that man I don't go well what does my man want what does this want what does that one uh oh no oh no do you know what I think what is the most solid thing for my future this is what I want this is where I want to be let's do this let's go this way anybody who's supposed to be with me they will be with me I don't need to worry about that if somebody doesn't love or like what I'm doing how I'm doing it well okay let's not talk about that but here I go here I grow here I glow I you have to build champagne anybody listening re-listening whatever you have to build your life for your tomorrow because nobody is sitting back on their couch saying huh how does champagne want me to live my life girl that's not happening so you have to say you know what and this is what I do okay I'm going to give you one of my little manifestation law of attraction things that I do I don't think about how many clients I want I don't think about certain things I just say this is this is at the end of the day this is what I want in at the end of the month this is what I want in however the universe wants to bring that to me is how they want to bring it to me okay um and the biggest thing champagne that I'm getting for you is stop loving people more than they love you stop loving people more giving more to people than they give to you stop thinking this is what love looks like just push people out for a minute and work on loving you and on that and I hope people are still listening because I'm going to do um anybody listening re-listening and I really even if you just fast forward it to this point um 40 minutes and 59 41 minutes um and replay this over and over and over again until it's there we're going to clear unconditional self-love we unconditionally love ourselves I'm getting a no let's clear that now people think loving yourself and liking yourself is egoic it's quite the opposite it is completely the opposite because not loving yourself comes from fear and fear comes from the ego yeah go ahead argue with the angels don't argue with me I say this all the time if you don't like something I say look up and start arguing don't argue with me because I don't really care I'm just a messenger yo just a messenger um we have to love ourselves unconditionally because most of us are are out here walking around going I just want someone that's gonna love me okay well love your damn self because anything anybody gives you when they turn and pout and walk their little butt out your door guess what they're taking all that they gave you with them they sure are so you need to fill you up with you you need to love you unconditionally you need to be so solid in who you are in what you are and that you belong here and you have a purpose here and you're you are the reason for you to create a life and not for that man that sits on the couch next to you not for your sister not for your whatever maybe they're gonna see it and maybe it will help them but you don't know who's watching you that you're going to influence you don't know like in your day to day the things you do who's going to be seeing this that's going to learn and grow from it I've said this before I will say it again we are supposed to shine so brightly as stars down here meaning our soul being on fire being so lit up with passion for who we are and what we're doing that the heavens can see us it is not our job to be meek or to fall it is not our job in any way shape or form to concede so we don't hurt somebody else's feelings so we don't outshine those who came before us it is our job to shine so brightly that we teach those around us and those coming after us to shine like they've never seen anyone shine before to live that life that exceeds that breathes light in others and believe me you know as somebody walked away rejection is protection which everybody says for a better selection now if you're in a situation where you're trying to put your life back together or get back to that spot in your relationship or just get something back stop and as who says this snoop dog sorry I'm going to sing again folks I'm so sorry drop it like it's hot drop it like it's hot if whatever tries to whatever at you if you're trying to get your life back that didn't even work out drop it like it's hot park it like it's hot walk your booty away and don't stop okay I changed some snoop dog lyrics there sorry snoop not like he's ever gonna watch this okay folks so not too worried about that but the point is you don't want that back because that is what puts you where your butt is today think better of and for yourself you don't want to go back to what you had you don't want to go back to what it was why would you want to do that if it can't come better push it close the door and lock it don't let it in because who wants to keep repeating bad kermit didn't work out life cycles if you can't be in a place where you are already willing and able to say I'm done with that I'm going here then go back and listen to every single one of my shows until you get enough clearing from every area of wealth and abundance and relationship and self-love that you can say oh my god I can't believe I ever put up with that from myself because it all starts in here it all starts in our heart it all starts with the amount of love that we have for ourselves and if we don't have that love for ourselves guess what nobody else is going to be able to show that to us because it'll be foreign to us so we where we are right where we are as far as love for ourselves is what people show up that's the energy that we are bringing into our life that's the that's what's mirroring back to us and not as a punishment that's the whole thing people say well this is your karma no it's it's your reflection showing you this is where you are fix it this is what's going on in this little minute this little minute of your life don't make it an hour don't make it a year this is a minute of a lack of self-love now take that minute and change it change it level up go up love yourself and how do you love yourself if you've never been shown self-love if you've never had people that you felt like love you you just start with that little let's and again we have unconditional self-love let's clear that and you might have to listen and replay this at the 41 and 48 minute mark a number of times till you get rid of that but stop judging yourself who cares about the past there's no perfect person walking this earth there is no person walking this earth that has not made a mistake that has not done something that they thought was wrong but there's nothing that you can do that's wrong it's just something that's teaching you what do I like what don't I like what do I want what don't I want that's it if there's something that happens that you didn't like you say okay I don't I don't do that again and the next time we can't be so desperate that the next time this job that treats us like crap or this person that doesn't isn't good to us shows up that we say well maybe it will get better well maybe this is like the test they keep talking about maybe this is the thing where we go okay I'm done with this I deserve better we were put here to create and co-create amazing beautiful abundant lives these lives that flourish beyond what anybody before us has done and we're here to do that not only for us but for those that are watching us and maybe maybe our immediate family isn't the one who's going to look at it like we think we're here to show our immediate family who cares if we're not somebody somewhere is going to be watching you and going that's what I want that's what I want to do that's how I want to shine you were put here to be this brilliant amazing light for yourself first because if you're not doing it you sure can't show anybody else how to you sure won't show anybody else how to so your job is not to put a broken life back together to get back to where you were your job like if you if you drop a glass on the kitchen floor you don't pick it up and start getting the whatever glue gorilla crazy whatever glue and trying to put it back together and put water in it to just to watch that water fly out of it or fall apart again or get caught by the glass you sweep it up you throw that in the garbage and you don't think about it again the next like a month later you're not like oh my god that glass that broke no no mm-hmm you buy you get a new glass a better glass or you just drink out of plastic I don't know don't hate on me because I said plastic who cares okay the point it's the point the point is a drink out of a bowl or a cup I don't know I don't care the idea is you don't try to put something that's broke back together again you say I deserve so much better than that the reason that fell apart is because it wasn't supposed to be it was never ever supposed to be you didn't take the cues of okay this isn't serving my highest good this isn't bringing me the joy and the love that I deserve so if I'm not strong enough to change this if I'm not strong enough to walk away guess what my angels my ancestors my guides they're going to tear these walls down they're going to break this house apart and they're going to help me build better thank you guys so much for joining me remember it's your job to create the miracles in your life love you


And welcome back beatbox fam. It's Kao here and today we're gonna be learning the crab scratch As always if you gain anything from the tutorial would help the channel a lot If you would hit that subscribe button right there and turn on the little notification bell and as always smash that like button, baby Yeah guys the crab scratch right So how do we do it right? It was one of the the first sounds that got me into beatboxing There were some buddies of mine and we were at camp. They were doing it this way, right? I'd never really got it this way But they're like yeah, you can also do it this way And so that's the way I learned it. So how do we learn this sound? So what you want to do is you want to vocalize tuka tuka and you want to do it inwards So you're just sucking in air, right? You're sucking in air on the T and the K basically So you see that that's the T and then the K and it's it's really that simple guys The T and the K you go inward tuka and then you can do it on any surface So like what so what my phone right here?  All right. Thank you so much


The land of Barovia. A dark and somber place. Its inhabitants are lifeless, struggling to find a means to survive. Previously a prosperous country, now it lays in shackles of a tyrannical ruler. One may attempt to liberate the Binds that hold the land, but be warned, this land is unkind to outsiders. Curse of Strahd is a campaign designed to emulate the classic horror genre of the late 20th century. It is filled with death at every turn and conflict everywhere you go. Here we will explore the story that occurs in Curse of Strahd and hopefully understand the adventure of this famous campaign module. In a tavern you are approached by a mysterious figure dressed in brightly colored clothing. He hands you a letter and tells you that his master, Burgomaster Indirovich, is in need of aid. He says, If you be creatures of honor, you will come to my master's aid at first light. It is not advisable to travel the woods at night. The man takes his leave, paying for your drinks along the way out. As you travel deep into the woods, a dense mist engulfs the surrounding behind you. Standing tall in the path ahead is a towering gate flanked by two large statues. The gate creeps open, beckoning you to enter through the rusted doors. You take your first steps into the land, hearing a creaking noise as the gates close behind you. The Burgomaster needs your help, and there's little time to waste. Traveling deeper into the lands, you come across tall shapes in the far distance, jutting out of the fog. Approaching the figures, you are able to make them out to be buildings belonging to a small town but in a dire condition. The sight of decrepit structures in gray lands greet you, for it will become a familiar tone throughout your journey. Overlooking the village from a cliff far away is a grim castle, almost as if it's watching the small town. In the tavern of the village, you meet a man named Ismar Kolyanovich. As the son of the Burgomaster, he welcomes you to the land of Barovia. Confusingly enough, he also welcomes you to the town you see before you, the village of Barovia. You hand Ismar the letter that you have received from the man earlier, which confuses him greatly. The letter claims to be written by his father, Kolyanovich, but he identifies that the handwriting does not match that of his father. Additionally, his father has passed away three days ago. Someone is setting you up to something. Acknowledging that the contents of the letter are strange, Ismar requests that you guide his adopted sister, Irina, to the town of Vlaki. The castle in the far distance is known as Castle Ravenloft and belongs to an evil tyrant named Strahd von Zarovich. Strahd has been searching for Irina and, for some unknown reason, desires her above all else. Agreeing to help Ismar, he takes you to his manor. Entering the manor, you meet a striking young woman with auburn hair. She introduces herself as Irina. Irina gestures towards a coffin in the room, hoping you would help her carry it to the local chapel to bury her recently deceased father. It is her last wish before embarking on the journey to Vlaki. Transporting the coffin to the chapel, you see a mad priest in prayer. From beneath the chapel, you hear a voice cry out, Father, I'm starving! The mad priest spots you. He explains that his son has been turned by the bite of a vampire. With the boy locked in the cellar of the chapel, he prays day and night for the gods to release his son from the curse without killing him. You request his help in burying the coffin in which he obliged. During the burial, the priest expresses his sympathy for Koleon, the deceased burgomaster. Koleon had adopted Irina when he found her in the edge of the woods. She was a mere child at the time, with no memory of her past. Regardless, the burgomaster loved her dearly. Thanking the priest for his aid, you set forth towards Vlaki, leaving the unfortunate man praying endlessly for the cure to his son. On the road to Vlaki, you encounter a camp containing people dressed in brightly colored clothing. They welcome you with open arms and drink with you by fire. They usher you to enter a camp where you meet an elderly woman sat behind a table.  You may address her as Madam Ava and claims that there is nothing more enlightening than having your fortune told, gesturing to her deck of cards. Feeling a bit curious, you ask her to tell your fortune when she gladly does so. She reveals each of the following cards from the top of the deck and narrates as such. This card tells of history. Knowledge of the ancient will better help you understand the enemy. Look for a wizard's tower on a lake. This card tells of a powerful force of good and protection, a holy symbol of great hope. The treasure you seek is hidden beneath the sun in the house of the saint. This is a card of power and strength. It tells of a weapon of vengeance, a sword of sunlight. I see a faceless god. He awaits at the end of a long and winding road, deep in the mountains. And with that, she grows silent, eyeing the door and back to you. Taking her gesture, you exit the tent and rest a bit at the camp before embarking back on your journey to Valaki. Upon entering the town, you find it fairly joyous at first glance. Soon enough, however, you uncover that it is only a false pretense in which the burgomaster of the town has conjured. Speaking to the residents of the town, you uncover that the burgomaster, Varun Vargas Valakavich, believes keeping the town in a perpetual state of bliss, deters Strahd from its grounds. This could further be from the truth. Traveling to the Blue Mist Inn for a night's rest, you meet a man named Rectavio. Rectavio claims to be a carnival ringmaster from a distant land. Although the odd fellow suspiciously eyes you, he seems friendly enough and shares some unbelievable tales to pass time. You pay the innkeeper for a room and take a night's rest hoping to gather more information on the following morning. The next day, you set forth into the town, stumbling upon the local chapel known as St. Andrew's Church. You meet Father Lucian, who seems to be lost in deep thought. Recently, the bones of St. Andrew has been stolen off the crypt beneath the church. The hollowed bones have been protecting the grounds from Strahd's grasp, and now, with the bones missing, the church is liable to being attacked by the tyrant himself. He requests that you find the remains and return them to protect the lands once more. You agree and keep the search for the bones in the back of your mind. Traveling to the northern end of the town, you come across a lake with a fishing boat on it. The man on the boat seems frustrated and reaches below to produce a burlap bag formed in the shape of a small childlike body. He tosses it overboard, waits a few moments, then casts a fishing line. Alarmed with these actions, you leap into a boat and row out to save the body. Recovering the bag, you find a little girl inside, mostly unharmed. Unfazed by the event that unfolded, she thanks you for your rescue and introduces herself as Arabelle. The little girl requests to be returned to her family's camp just outside of Valaki. Pitying the poor girl, you row back to shore and search for her family. Upon finding her family's camp, you notice the inhabitants to be dressed in brightly colored clothing. The residents seem foreign compared to those in the land of Barovia. They immediately pick up their arms when spotting you, but lower their guard upon seeing Arabelle. She rushes to the people and introduces them to you as the Vestani. The Vestani embrace Arabelle and give you much gratitude for rescuing her. You explore the camp to find some Vestani arguing and complaining. It appears that the wine supply of the area has been depleted and there has not been any shipment as of late. You empathize with them and keep the troubles in mind, for it would be unimaginable to live in the land of Barovia without the aid of alcohol. Finally, you travel back into the town of Valaki to be greeted with a terrible sight. You arrive to the town to find a completely overrun by vampire spawns. From the path of destruction, you pinpoint the source of the activity to be St. Andrew's Church. Rushing into the building, you witness a sinister site. Bodies layer the floor, sucks dry of any fluids by the vampire spawn. Blood speckled a wall in flooring, showing signs of a powerless struggle. In the center of the altar is the lifeless body of Father Lucian. These were merely backdrop details, for the most frightening view of all was that of a tall, well-groomed man. Fear strikes you as his eyes meet yours. The blood of Father Lucian trickles down his lips. A moment's pause before he politely introduces himself. Count Strahd Von Zarovich. A pleasure to finally meet you and many thanks for coming to the land of Barovia. Paralyzed in place, either by the magical gaze of Strahd, or that of fear, you are helpless as he plays with you. He tells you that he instructed Vistani to exit the land of Barovia to hand you the letter and lure you into his domain. Strahd is tired of ruling the lands and wishes to find a successor once he marries his beloved Tatiana. He gestures to Irina. A reincarnation of his former love, he declares that they will be wed in a few weeks time at Castle Ravenloft. Strahd then abducts Irina and informs you that when the wedding comes, he expects your appearance. The vampire and his spawns take off into the night sky, leaving you to deal with the mess in the church. You retire back to the inn, hoping to rest after a brutal defeat and encounter Rectavia once again. He encourages you to pick your head up and stride forward, for Irina has limited time before she is turned into a vampire. Additionally, he mentions to meet him in a tower nearby Lake Baratok, where he can discuss important matters with you. Suspiciously, Victavio leaves the inn, saying not another word. You take a night's rest, waking up from your blissful sleep, back to the horrific reality. Setting forth out of the town and towards Lake Baratok, you embark on a journey to save a bride to be. A day's trek brings you to Lake Baratok, where you find a large and mighty tower. Approaching the tower, it is clear that the building has seen better days. You enter the building, where you find an old yet fit man waiting patiently. Rectavia reintroduces himself as Rudolf van Richten. Van Richten is a legendary monster hunter and has his sights set for the greatest vampire of all, Strahd von Zarovich. He produces a book that he claims is the Tome of Strahd, and contains his secrets within it. Reading through its pages, he learned that Strahd was once a man who lived in Brovia. His former lover, Tatiana, had fallen in love with his brother, Sergei. Strahd had killed his brother in order to turn himself into a vampire, and his brother's sword of light harmed him immensely. Van Richten informs you that he knows of the blade that is mentioned in the tomb. It is located in a temple far off in the southern region, referred to as the Amber Temple. As you discuss the contents of the Tome, you hear the rattling of horse steps approaching from the outside until it comes to an abrupt stop at the door. You draw your weapons, and van Richten prepares himself for a confrontation. As the door opens, a single Vistani woman enters the building, gravely wounded. To your surprise, van Richten frantically rushes over to the woman and helps her recover. You overhear conversations of endearment and argument between the two, bickering and reminiscing, friends with the history it seems. After gathering himself, you are introduced to van Richten's protege, Esmeralda. She has just arrived from a brutal battle in Castle Ravenloft, and came to the tower to recover herself. Surprised to find Esmeralda in Barovia, van Richten scraps any previous conversation he had with you in favor of the new one. Keep Esmeralda safe. A letter slips through the cracks of the door and lands with a seal facing upright, the seal of Strahd. Opening the letter, it reads, My friends, know that it is I who have brought you to this land, my home, and know that I alone can release you from it. I bid you dine at my castle so that we can meet in civilized surroundings. Your passage here will be a safe one. I await your arrival. Your host, Strahd van Zarovich. He knows you are here. He knows van Richten and Esmeralda is here. Agreeing to separate from the castle, it is time to investigate for more information from the land. Esmeralda leaves with you as van Richten leaves on his own. Perhaps investigating the winery nearby would lead to some clues as to the defeat of Strahd. Whatever the case may be, here is not safe. As you exit van Richten's tower, you decide to explore the winery's situation. Something must be going on, and alcohol is the only escape from reality that these inhabitants have. Hearing rumors of the lack of produce from the winery, you travel the roads eastward to the location and find a robed figure in the distance. He introduces himself as Davian Martikov and requests that you rid the winery of the druids and vine blights that plague the building. After doing so, he expresses gratitude and tells you that the vineyard is dying due to the lack of the magic seed.  Agreeing to take the cargo to the town, you give your word that you would retrieve the seeds if you encounter them. As you reach the village of Kresk, guards patrolling the entrance stops you. You show them that you are here to deliver wine and they reluctantly allow you to pass. Once inside, you deliver the cart and investigate the safe haven. You stumble across the Abbey of Saint Markovia where you meet a handsome young man. He is known to the town as the Abbot. A long sign tab is a woman who strangely resembles Irina. The Abbot has been creating brides for Strahd, but nothing has seemed to captivate what the vampire desires so far. The inhabitants in the rest of the compound seems to be amalgamations of humans in various animal parts. Hidden behind a golden sun disc above a fireplace, you find a platinum amulet shaped like a sun. You take it with you as you leave the town, identifying it as the holy symbol of Ravenkind, a holy object with radiant magic.  Strangely enough, just as his letter said, the path towards Castle Ravenloft was void of any danger. Before you sits a castle on top a high mountain. Stark against the sky, the towering fortress emanates a menacing aura. Thick fogs surround the courtyard. Sporadic instances of lightning strikes in the background. Between you and the castle is a long ravine. A drawbridge lowers from the castle landing right before your feet alluring you into its grasp. At the opposite end of the bridge stands an elf. He introduces himself as Rahadin, a servant to his beloved master. His master is expecting you. Rahadin guides you across the bridge through the tall ornate doors of the building and into the compound in which Strahd resides. Cobwebs stretch across the pillars that hold this great dusty hall dimly lit by torches. The torches cast odd shadows across the face of eight stone gargoyles squatting motionlessly on the rim of the doom ceiling. Cracked and faded ceiling frescoes are covered by decay. In the distance, you hear a soft organ playing, sad yet majestic tones. Hearing the music, Rahadin explains that his master's in a joyous state. Guiding you to the dining hall, he seats you at one end of the mast of table before retreating into the hallways. Shortly afterwards, three beautifully dressed women enter the room, panning out around the table. Following them is the murderous lord of the castle himself. Strahd seats himself at the other end of the table, and the other woman flank his sides. The vampire politely thanks you for accepting his invitation into the castle, even if it was a bit delayed. He introduces the woman before you as his brides and they each give you an unsettling smile. Strahd gestures towards the food. There is a plentiful array of culinary delights, and you are invited to eat to your heart's content. He raises a glass and offers a toast to the adventurer who graciously reunited the beloved Tatiana to her rightful husband. He hesitantly eye your glass, suspicious of its content. This infuriate Strahd, his irritated outburst shocks you as his voice expresses the clear annoyance. Strahd would never resort to such obvious tactics as to try to poison you. You are his guest. You will be treated as such. No more, no less.  Believe that it's just wine. Afterwards, you enjoy a wonderful dinner and finish your meal. Once the plates were cleared, it was time to have a discussion with Strahd. Through your dialogue with him, you discover that he has been closely watching every step you take.   He makes a small request of you. Bring him his brother's sword on the day of the wedding. It would make a marvelous gift for the magnificent day. Satisfied with the outcome of the dinner, Strahd takes his lead from the table and allows you to see your way out.  Left with nowhere else to go, you leave for a temple located far off in the distance, recalling that the Amber Temple is where the blade must reside.  He asks if he knows you. The lich seems to be missing his memories and is unable to recall anything of the past. Casting greater restoration on the lich, he now greets you as Exanther. He gestures to the doors lining the room and gives you the passphrase that unlocks each door. Within each door contains a dark entity granting you sinister powers. Lastly, while exploring the building, you find a hidden hilt. As you activate the hilt, a surge of light emanates from it, forming a blade to the sword. This must be the legendary sword that could defeat Strahd. Armed with your new abilities, you exit the temple in hopes to re-confront Strahd. Unfortunately, waiting for you outside is Rahadin, along with the Horde of Empire spawn. Rahadin thanks you for finding the sword. It demands that you hand over the artifact. Unwilling to do so, a battle breaks loose and you test out your new acquisitions. Slaying the elf's servant, you embark on the path towards the castle once more, this time prepared to slay the horrific vampire. On the day of the wedding, you reach the castle's gates. The bridge has already been lowered for you, clearly inviting you as a wedding guest. As you enter, you find through a multitude of monsters ranging from vampires to gargoyles. On reaching the chapel room, you find Irina in the clutches of Strahd Von Zarovich. When Strahd spots you wielding the sword of his brother, he cries out in frustration. Strahd claims that the curse of the land will never allow him to be reunited with his lover, but today is the day that changes. Strahd lunges forward and striking you with all of his might.  With one final slash, you press the sword across his body where he vanishes into the mist. You rescue Irina and return her back to her brother, who is overjoyed at the outcome of Strahd's demise. Leaving the land of Barovia liberated, you can't help but feel that this is not the end, but merely a small interruption. Hello everybody! If you guys enjoyed the story of Curse of Strahd, please subscribe and give me a like. Would really help me out. Thanks!


The results of this study suggest that the Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the Italian population's lifestyle, eating habits and adherence to the Mediterranean diet pattern. Specifically, the majority of people reported experiencing weight gain, with 48.6% of respondents reporting this symptom. Additionally, 3.3% of respondents decided to quit smoking due to the pandemic. Furthermore, a slight increase in physical activity was observed, particularly for body weight training, in 38.3% of respondents. Finally, the population group aged 18 to 30 years showed a higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet than both the younger and older age groups. This article was authored by Laura Di Renzo, Palabaltieri, Francesca Pavari, and others.


Item number SCP-2662. Object Class, Euclid. Post-Edit, Keter. Special Containment Procedures. Containment of SCP-2662 is primarily focused on preventing unauthorized entry into its containment unit. For this purpose, on-site Task Force Town 9, Bulladurant Body Guards, has been organized to guard SCP-2662's containment unit and keep track of new religious followings focusing on the worship of SCP-2662. Task Force Town 9 is to use non-lethal methods when dealing with an attempt of unauthorized entry. Post-Edit. Authorize to use lethal force if necessary. All members of Task Force Town 9 are to be tested biannually for Cognito Hazardous Influence. As containment of SCP-2662 is completely voluntary, it is currently contained in an enlarged humanoid containment unit with standard safety issues for low-risk humanoids as detailed in Document 0998-KA. Additionally, SCP-2662 is allowed one copy of a daily newspaper of its choice, a computer and requested computer games totaling no more than 50 US dollars every month. Description. SCP-2662 is a Cognito Hazardous entity approximately four meters in height and 200 kilograms in weight. SCP-2662 appears to be in vaguely humanoid shape, with approximately 20 additional muscular hydrostats in similar structure to cephalopod limbs attached to its back. These limbs are fully functional and allow SCP-2662 to perform up to 10 different tasks at once. SCP-2662's primary anomalous effect only occurs after long-term repeated exposure, usually by being in the same room as or interacting daily with SCP-2662. Subjects exposed to SCP-2662 for a period of six months or longer are at risk of becoming acutely aware of SCP-2662's wants or needs and are compelled to fulfill them. They may also suffer from quasi-psychotic episodes when under stress. SCP-2662 is unable to affect humans that have a two or higher Mind-Effecting Resistance Scale score. SCP-2662's secondary anomalous effect is the spontaneous generation of religious followings at an approximate rate of at least once a month. This generation is involuntary and causes SCP-2662 notable distress. Religious groups generated by SCP-2662 usually focus on attempting to break into its containment unit in order to perform various rituals that are violent and or sexual in nature. These groups tend to be highly organized and appear to adapt to each failed attempt despite there being generally no contact between different generated religious followings. Below is an incomplete log of incidents relating to SCP-2662. A full list can be found in document 2662-i. Incident 2662-7 On 2003, a religious group known as Towards Him successfully broken to SCP-2662's containment. Log excerpt, SCP-2662 is seen taking a shower in preparation for sleep. There is a loud noise as previously undiscovered explosives are detonated underneath the center of SCP-2662's containment unit. Five injured civilians climb out of the hole left by the detonation. SCP-2662 leaves the shower to investigate the noise. Agents and notify Task Force Town 9 of a breach into containment. They attempt to suppress the initial five civilians unsuccessfully as five more arrive with weapons. After a brief struggle, agents are pinned down and tied with a rope by the civilians. The injured civilians approach SCP-2662.  SCP-2662 appears to gag upon witnessing the symbols. The injured civilians successfully corner SCP-2662 in the shower stall. The injured civilians are seen squeezing blood out of their wounds and rubbing it onto SCP-2662 while singing. Task Force Town 9 arrived to SCP-2662's containment unit. Task Force Town 9 managed to suppress all civilians successfully and proceed to move SCP-2662 to a temporary unit until repairs can be completed. Incident 2662-13 On 2005, a religious group known as The Betrothed successfully broke into SCP-2662's containment. Log excerpt SCP-2662 is seen eating breakfast and reading a newspaper. Security officers stationed at SCP-2662's containment unit enter with a researcher. The researcher can be seen carrying a piglet. Can I help you? Oh, our lord, please accept this innocent, suckling swine, freshly orphaned from slaughter of both mother and father. May its soul of loss fuel you.  Um, no thanks, I'm full.  Your lord is pleased with the offering. Task Force Town 9 is notified of a breach into containment. SCP-2662 attempts to read its newspaper. Researcher bzzz slits the piglet's neck and throws it onto the table. Blood splatters the newspaper. Uh, what? Look, can you go read a Bible or something? You really, really need it. SCP-2662 puts the newspaper down. The accompanying security officer's execute researcher bzzz via gunshot to the head. They then begin consuming her. SCP-2662 leaves the scene to vomit in a toilet. Task Force Town 9 arrived to move SCP-2662 to a temporary containment unit and detain the guards. After further investigation, all involved personnel were civilians posing as personnel. It is unknown as to the whereabouts of the actual researcher and security officers. Incident 2662-78 On bzzz 2014, an unnamed religious group consisting of D-class personnel and two members of Task Force Town 9 successfully broke into SCP-2662's containment. SCP-2662 was redesignated as Ketter upon further review of incident 2662-78. Log excerpt SCP-2662 can be seen sleeping in its bed. The entirety of Task Force Town 9 is called for an off-site mission. Against orders, Task Force Town 9 chooses to leave four of its members behind to keep watch on SCP-2662. Two of the remaining members tackle and lock the other two in an unused containment unit. A cargo truck arrives on site where SCP-2662 is being kept. The two remaining members unload the cargo of D-class personnel. They lead the D-class personnel to Task Force Town 9's armory. The D-class and the remaining members arm themselves from the armory and break into SCP-2662's containment unit. SCP-2662 is roused. Several D-class personnel guard the exit to the containment unit as well as the corresponding hallway. Are we moving? I'm not scheduled until next week. Agents and the two remaining available members of Task Force Town 9 begin undressing the D-class personnel that are not guarding. SCP-2662 attempts to alert Task Force Town 9 to no response. Agents begin carving symbols into the buttocks and thighs of the undressed D-class personnel. The D-class personnel begin to engage in group sex after being carved.  Seriously? Now? Look, seriously, can you go find another God? I hear Buddhism is all arranged. D-class 99304 attempts to pull SCP-2662 into the group. The fuck? Stop! Seriously?  All D-class personnel currently engaged in the sex cease their movements. They all turn to stare at SCP-2662. Task Force Town 9 arrive at the offsite meeting point only to be told no such mission exists. Task Force Town 9 begin moving back to site. Oh, thank God! I can control you guys now, kind of. Maturity is happening right on time. Good to know.  After the blood-birthing ritual, we're going to take you to your sacred chambers where we and our families and our lineage will remain in service for you for all eternity. The people here cage you. With us, you may go where you please. You must be kidding me. I can leave whatever I want. I just have to ask. Besides, I... The D-class personnel begin to continue engaging in group sex. Seriously, stop!  I'm not ready to settle down with cold yet. I'm only like 200 years old. I'm barely legal. Do you really think the Foundation will let you go if you ask? Well, you can certainly ask. You'll be sorely disappointed, my Lord. Yeah, well, if it turns out to be the case, I could just wait until I'm strong enough to break out. In the meantime, I'm... I'm going to go sit in the bathroom and wait.  SCP-2662 moves to the shower stall and turns on the water. It sits in the shower stall for the remainder of the incident.


We're back. We're live. I'm Jay Fiedel. This is Climate Change Beyond Outrage here on Think Tech on a given Thursday morning. And we have the original progenitor of Climate Change Beyond Outrage, Anu Hiddle. Hi Anu, how are you? Thank you for coming back and talking to us about climate change. Hi Jay. How are you? I'm good, but I'm disturbed. I'm disturbed about so many things in the world that are existential threats. I mean, you think about it. We have COVID. That's an existential threat. We have the government. It used to be the government was a positive force now. It's an existential threat, including especially our president. We have social disturbance of huge magnitude in this country and with reverberation all over the world. And of course, let us not forget we have climate change all the while. And all the other existential threats are secondary to climate change. Am I right? Well, it's interesting you would say so. Of course, I'm a climate change groupie, so I would say that is the primary threat that underlies everything else. And I'm delighted to hear that you think so as well. I hope and wish all our policymakers would feel that way. Of course, there's a pandemic going on and people are losing livelihoods and jobs and lives. So that's obviously the fire we need to put out right now. But at the same time, there's that other fire that's burning and it's like, what do we do about that? So how do we seize the pandemic to move on? As I told you before the show, we are fiddling while Rome is burning, while Rome is burning, while Rome is burning, it's all kind of burning. And it's all connected. Not necessarily in this sequence, but the sequence that comes to mind is government fails to do anything about climate change. Climate change has an effect on COVID. COVID has an effect on the economy. The economy has an effect on social rest or unrest. All connected, it's all connected. No, I'm not saying solving one solves them all, but they all have to be dealt with. So today I'd like to talk to you about the connection, if you will, between climate change, your favorite thing and COVID. It was quite interesting to find that after the shutdown, all of a sudden carbon emissions were substantially, I mean substantially reduced all around the world. And what's interesting about that is it proves to me beyond the shadow that the human experience has a direct and almost immediate effect on climate change, doesn't it? Yeah, well that's been established a while ago that there's a direct connection. I think the larger question for someone who's been working on climate change issues for a while and for all of us, I think the rest of us, is how does that, how can we make that kind of emissions target, but also without this disaster going on, which is without losing our livelihoods, without losing our lives, carrying on the way we'd like to, which is we'd like to go out to restaurants and bars, we would like to go travel to other countries. So how do we do those things without emitting all the greenhouse gases and changing the world's climate? And how do we adapt to that change in climate? So that's the bigger issue for me, it's not the fact that we've had a decrease in emissions. So when we had our last sort of recession, if you will, emissions did go down, but then they came back up again and so it was just really a blip in time and in fact they came back stronger. So how do we sustain this kind of emissions, level of emissions without losing our lives, our livelihoods and the things we like to do like travel or whatever it is we like to do. So how do we do that? And that's been the essential question all along. So that question has not gone away. Let me throw a wrench at you. Our chief scientist came on Mike Dewart a few days ago and he had researched mortality and life expectancy globally, maybe nationally, but what he found was that during periods of recession and depression, there was less mortality and life expectancy of people born in those periods was substantially longer. And what this tells us is that the normal economy is hard on people. It's stress and it kills them and it makes them either too soft or too hard to live a sustainable life. And so you go back to Andrew Yang, one of the presidential candidates who said, look, we're a prosperous country. Let's be prosperous to a point and give everybody a universal income and they won't stress out.  What this suggests is we need to reevaluate our quality of life, our quality of economic aspiration, our quality of demand and supply. What do you think about that? I mean, if we did that, Mike's figures would show that we'd have a longer, better life and we would have less of an economy, I suppose, but that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. And if we had less of an economy, we'd do better with climate change. What do you think? That's revolutionary. What do you think? Yeah, I think that's one way of looking at it. But I still maintain like, why can't we have the level that we want, the economy that we want with fewer emissions? We can. It's just how we direct our resources and our research and implementation. So I mean, decoupling that economic growth and emissions, I mean, I think that's, that's what we've been trying to do. And we can do it. And we proved that after the 2009 Recovery Reinvestment Act, our after that stimulus, we actually had a significant investment in renewable energy. It leveraged, it was about $95 billion in a $840 or $50 billion of stimulus. So, you know, there was quite a bit in renewable energies. Now it leveraged in turn about $150 billion in private and non-federal funds. So, and then, then when you look out a few years after ARA, after 2009, then you start seeing in 2014-15, you start seeing a drop in emissions. So it just shows that an economic recovery can happen and a green one can happen. And in fact, there are, you know, all the sort of Nobel Prize Club, that Club of Economists, Nick Stern and Joseph Stiglitz and those guys.  And they looked at about 700 policies and they basically, they looked at speed of implementation, economic multiplier, so that's your economic recovery, and climate impact potential for these 700 policies. Okay. And their findings basically suggest that even if you look at it in economic terms, a green stimulus is better than a brown one. So I think we can do it. You know, I don't think we need to like give up too many things, but I think what we need to do is redirect our resources and our research and our implementation. So I mean, we can do this, you know, we're talking about- We've known that a long time, haven't we? Right, right. So the question is, how do you seize this pandemic? You know, how do you carpe pandemicas to bring this about, right? Well, the question has always been, you know, can you, can you get people together on it? Can you galvanize the, you know, public and thus also political will to do something, you know, to grasp this thing? Carpe, what do you call it? Carpe climate change. Carpe pandemicas who grab the climate. Yeah. Second question is, once everybody is decided, you know, that gee, we better do something about this. It's nuanced. How much are we willing to spend? How much are we willing to commit? Are we willing to put our whole day in all of us? We're just a little bit. And then, of course, with those resources, what's the best course of action? And can you motivate people? Take that action. Can you motivate nation states to take that action? And I submit to you and you can argue with me. I want you to argue with me. I submit to you, we're not doing anything right now. We're not even sure we want to continue COP 21, 2345. We're not even sure we want to do that. Everybody has been distracted by so many other issues that they think are existential and more immediate, more important. And they have forgotten, they've moved on. The fickle finger of media attention, have governmental attention that's moved on. Yeah, you know, the COP 24, 25, etc., those cops for people who are listening in and may not know about cops, aside from them as, you know, police officers, which is another issue. So that's the, you know, the conference of the parties and the parties are countries that have agreed to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. So we sort of call that the UNFCCC, right? And so that's the COP. There's my teacher in me coming out, right? So climate change beyond beyond outrage. If you remember, the title came from my students who were always outraged about climate change. And I wanted to show them, you know, there are things we're doing that you can go beyond that outrage to actually implement climate action, right? So, so, so the cops, you know, the cops are an interesting phenomenon. They've been going 25, 25 years because that's COP 25 that just finished in Madrid. And, you know, they are, they are sort of at the very, very high level of negotiations.  I had to deal with two governments when I was adopting one of my children from India, and that was a nightmare, you know. So I can't imagine dealing with, you know, 200 governments, right? So these are governments moving slowly. And slowly, they're plotting along. But when an elephant moves, everything moves out of the way, right? So even if it takes one step, versus an ant that's like moving really fast but can't do much else, right? So governments can leverage a lot. And I think that COP process, that's what it does. It helps to leverage action in, at the national, at the subnational, at the local levels, you can always hang something on that national and supranational level and say, okay, all the governments got together and they said, we need to keep warming under two degrees. So why the heck aren't we, you know, right? You can say that to your local government, to your neighborhood board. You can say the reality is we're not, we're not doing anything. Oh, I don't think that's the reality. I think we're doing a lot. It's just that are we keeping up with it? Of course, we're not keeping up with it. If we were keeping up with it, we'd have solved the problem all done finished. So we're definitely not keeping up. I mean, that's, and that's the problem, right?  And, and that's where we need to start speeding up. And that's, that's what we've always been saying, right?  Let's hurry up. And then something else comes along and they're, oh, look at, you know, we've got this problem. And of course, now we're coming up on hurricane season. So we'll have another problem.  There's always going to be a problem. In fact, one of the things that the UN says, they say that it's one of their numerous bodies, you know, that's dealing with this, they say that about 75% of new diseases are zoonotic, right? They come from animals, born of pathogens that are, that are zoological in nature. So, so that means that, you know, that's a problem because we're, this is not going to be the only pandemic. This wasn't the first, it's not going to be the last. And as we, and this is one of the things about a green recovery as well is that we keep the green green. We keep the wild wild. So we need to keep those green spaces. We need to keep those forested areas because it's at that intersection as we humans encroach on those forested areas, right? That, that we're starting to hang on. I know you're going to cut in with another question. So hang on a second. I just, just wait for it. So it's those green areas that it's that intersection that's creating so many more diseases and our interaction with those animals and those viromes that we wouldn't have come in contact with otherwise, right? So it's, I mean, there is also this stuff about the wildlife markets. And yes, they need to be regulated. And in fact, you know, whatever, whatever we need to do with that, but that's a different issue. But I think that, you know, just the fact that we're a naive being when it comes to these viruses, they can just sort of take over, right? So, so, and that's what it's doing. That's what this current virus is doing. It's just taking over. We have no immunity to it. We've never seen it before, because it resided in a bat, and that bat never interacted with us until we started to decrease its habitat. And then it started hanging out under our, I know this one was, you know, not exactly like this, but I'm just, you know, taking a little liberty here. But imagine, you know, there are all these different bats now hanging out under the eaves of different houses that are near the forest, right? That never happened before. They had their own niche and so on. So, so that's one of the things about a green recovery is we keep, we keep ourselves, we need to keep it green. We need to keep the wild, wild, you know, and that's one thing we could be doing. So I know I took us off in another little bit of no, no, no, no, that's exactly what I wanted to cover here on this show. Exactly right on your spot on. On the one hand, you know, climate change is affected by COVID. COVID, you know, declines our economy and the decline of our economy improves the situation worldwide for climate change. Okay, that's pretty clear. We knew that. We knew that reduced economic activity reduces the, you know, the on the oncoming climate change. But the other thing is much more interesting because we haven't really been thinking about it. And it's that humanity lives in a world of viruses and a world of pathogens, actually, any, any, any of those potential pathogens could be a viral pathogen, very disruptive, and could affect our existence. And so, you know, we can come up with therapeutics and vaccines, that's nice. But we're still going to have another, another epidemic, another pandemic going forward. How do we really deal with this? We have to understand the relationship of human kind and virus kind, and how we have to live, you know, in the same world. And we have to respect, you can quote me on this, we have to respect the virus. We have to understand our relationship with the virus. And that means, and the further thing, which I think you'll probably agree with me is that it's not just that we have to appreciate climate change, we have to appreciate humankind's position is placed in the permanent of our natural world. It's environmentalism, you know, up and down and across. And so, we have to appreciate our relationship with animals and pathogens and the weather and the environment. We have ignored that. We have steamed ahead in the industrial revolution. We have steamed ahead in the 20th century and now that the 21st century, without even thinking about that, and it is catching up and it will continue to catch up because of all the people in the world and all the damage we've already done to the environment. So, I mean, it's not just that we have to deal with climate change. That's one part of the problem. We have to deal with the entire environmental ecology. It's that human nature balance, right? And that's what's very precarious. And this has highlighted that precariousness, right? And because we are out of balance, because we are out of balance with our environment and with the natural forces, this is one of the symptoms, one of the effects, right? And it's a very immediate and very obvious one and it's hitting us all, right? So, and climate change is more sort of insidious in some ways because it's there, but you can't quite see it all the time. And when you talk about say sea level rise, you're talking about, oh, you know, two centimeters. I mean, oh, I don't really care about that, you know, those kinds of things. It's been, I think that fire has been smoldering rather than roaring. And so that's the issue, right? Because there is, we are sort of on that kind of, you know how Yellowstone is sort of on this thin sort of crust of lava, basically, ready to blow. I mean, I kind of think of climate change like that. We're on this very thin crust.  This is one of the times, hurricanes will be one of the times, different things, wildfires and so on, different things in different places, right? So there are these eruptions of disaster events versus the ongoing march of what's going on. So that I think that balance and that's where we really need to be thinking. Another thing I think is that it's highlighted, this pandemic has highlighted the cracks in our social structures and so on. And climate change too has those issues. So you cannot go ahead on climate, making progress on climate action without making some progress on equity and action on equity, you know. So it's going to get hotter. Who are the people that will be affected? I mean, you and I could probably turn on our air conditioning, right? When it gets hotter. Well, maybe not you. I know I've got an air conditioning unit. It's a rented house. I wouldn't have had it otherwise. Just a disclaimer. Someone in India who's got or even here in Hawaii, if you are a certain income level or may not, I mean, electricity costs a lot here. So if you're going to air condition your house using electricity that we are using, you know, that we're generating from fossil fuels here, that's three times the price of anywhere else in the nation on average, right? So someone that's lower income level, those are the people that are going to suffer. It's going to be hotter for them. It's going to be harder for them to just turn on the air, think of other nations. I mean, so equity has a huge issue, has a huge impact on how we move forward. And I think that's the other thing with the green recovery is that we have to address those equity issues, whether we like it or not. And I think we should like it because we're looking at, you know, you think about, I think it highlighted, you think about the people who are sort of stacking our shelves on the, you know, on the grocery stores and all of the jobs where we've just sort of let people, let people, you know, stay in those jobs for various reasons because it it obviously benefits some of us, benefits all of us, but some of us more than others. I mean, what if those are people who are traveling by bus and what if buses aren't safe anymore for them to travel by? Or what if we need to make buses safe, you know, shouldn't we be thinking about things like that? Well, I think I think there's two sides to this problem. You've touched on both of them and touching on, you know, the social side of things. We have defects and these existential threats have revealed our defects. They seem more visible now. And our inability or unwillingness to address them and solve them seem more obvious now.  And being a mammal is a special situation because it's flawed. It's driven by some kind of biological motivation that isn't always rational. We are not always rational because we are mammals. Okay, so that's one thing. We have to manage our mammalian instincts, if you will. And the other side of it, you knew this already. On the other side of it, okay, is science. And we try so hard to learn about science. And, you know, the body of science, which is, you know, not all of it, but a lot of it is indisputable. This is the 21st century. We've learned and we know how to learn. And we have systems where the world can enjoy what the, you know, the peer-reviewed science has been. So what we don't follow it. We don't we ignore it. Okay. The social side, the mammalian side ignores it. And so we have a real defective system. And where it comes together, where it should come together, is in leadership. Because, you know, I would say that the mammalian experience teaches us that we do respect leaders. If a person somehow emerges to a leader for good or bad, we're going to listen. And he's going to, or she's going to take us to a better place or a worse place because we're going to follow in large part. And so what we have now in the world, and we've seen this in the 20th century a lot, we have leaders that are not so good. They don't respect the science from one thing. But ideally, if we had a way to select leaders who were positive, who respected the science, who understood this global ecology we've been talking about, we'd be much better off. And we would, as a species, we would be able, we'd have a much better chance of surviving. So I don't know how you fix that, but I think those are the, that is the one primary thing is leadership. It's picking a leader who respects the science and is able to deal with the, what do you call it, mammalian, mammalian biology. Right. I mean, I see where you're going with that. But I also wanted to say that the reason I brought up the social cracks and so on was that I think that those can, those go, you know, hand in hand, like the pandemic, they go hand in hand with climate change action. And that if we can address some of those issues, we'll get further along on our climate goals and vice versa, that they both affect each other and can affect each other positively. Well, I thought we were making pretty good progress there until Trump. And Trump has had a negative effect not only on the United States, but the whole world, in terms of the initiative to have climate action, don't you think? So well, I don't want to go into federal politics. There seems to be only one side to it, basically. So, you know, there isn't a controversy there. So, you know, I think though that the more productive side of this is to look at, you know, what would a recovery look like? What would a green recovery look like? You know? And why do we need to get, I sort of resist trying to say back to normal because we didn't like that normal. I mean, maybe some of us liked it, but it wasn't going in the right direction. We need to flatten that curve too, that bigger greenhouse gas emissions curve. In fact, we don't even know where the flattening of that curve is right now. We have not peaked in our emissions, right? So we are still emitting, and it's still on an upward trajectory. So it's like we're still having new cases, like a lot of cases. That's how it would be for the pandemic. So, you know, a green recovery would be addressing some of these issues like it would be looking at putting investments into our green infrastructure because we want to not get back to normal. Not even a new normal, I feel like, but a better normal. So, you know, because a new normal could just be a bad one. Well, I agree with you. I think most right-thinking people that I know call it the remnants of the liberal world order, as we used to know it, those people, they would totally agree with you on this. Where we get stuck and where I would like you to go for the last couple of minutes of our discussion is, what do we do now? What do we do now to get on the track? What do we do now to make this an important priority? Well, I think we need to focus on what some of our leaders are saying. So some of our leading economists are saying, make it a green recovery. Okay, put your mind to do it. If you're going to do infrastructure, do all these two furs, you know, put in your ventilation systems that will help your workers with their health and will help us with our greenhouse gas emissions. You know, so a two-fer or a three-fer or a many-fer or something. I don't know, Jennifer, I don't know, whatever. So you've got a green recovery that incorporates green infrastructure for buildings, for transportation, for whatever. All right? So if there's monies coming down, use it for that, I would say. A second thing I would do is looking at to address some of these inequalities, looking at green jobs, higher quality, better jobs that are green jobs, and for people who didn't have those kinds of jobs, perhaps. So that's the second part of it. And what I first, I'll come back to the beginning, which is keeping the wild wild. So keep our green, green. So it's all green, green, green. That's my, to seize that. You're talking about a revolution from where we are now. How do we conduct the revolution? I always love that song. I know you're a hippie, I know that. But how do you conduct the revolution? Is it a political revolution? Is it an educational revolution? Is it a leadership revolution? Is it crowds in the street?  I mean, that seems appropriate to me. How do we conduct this? How do we re-energize, and that's maybe the perfect word for it, re-energize our climate change initiative so that we actually get together on it. We all agree that science has to be respected and B, we actually do stuff. We could do a lot.  But if we all gave half of our day to advancing various initiatives and to deal with climate change, we'd have this licked. But we're not doing that. We're chasing other dreams and being distracted with other existential problems. And so the question I leave you with, I might have asked you this before, is what do we do now? Anu Hiddle, what do we do now? I think we take the lead of some of the folks who are already there, and we do what they're saying. And I don't think that every one of us has to give up and do climate action. I think we just need a few key people. Not everybody went and said, let's invent an iPhone, and here it is, taking over our lives. Not everyone went and said, hey, how about an Uber or a Lyft? And that cloud technology brought it together. So I don't think that we need everyone to be on board, but I think we do need the key few people to be on board and the leadership. So all those protests out there, if you can do that, I'd say that's great. Our climate strike youth, those Greta Thunbergs in Hawaii, go for it. And the rest of us, do what you can. Think about what's the twofer that you're doing. But I really think it's not just all of us, but it is those few key people that will light that fire and then keep it going. So I really don't think it needs to be everybody. I think it just needs a few. And I think it also needs to be more of a market-driven approach and incentives, and you just provide the incentives, and people will find ways of taking advantage of those. You know what I'm hoping? I'm hoping that that millennial energy that we see in the streets around the country now, and there is a lot of legitimate, constructive, clear-thinking, moral millennial energy. We don't fully understand it. Not on the streets, Jay. I don't think millennials are on the streets anymore. They're in offices now. They're in their 30s. Okay, wherever they are. They're the generation. I think it's the generation after that, the Gen Xers or whatever they are, or Gen Z, I don't know. It's those guys. It's the 17, 18 high school age kids who are out there, Greta Thunbergs, who are out there. There's a lot of energy to be harnessed, but I also think that we could be doing more than only protesting. We need those key leaders to follow the people that are saying this is the way. We need that. You know what else we need? We need shows like this. Yes. We have to show the community this is something they cannot forget. And we have to have it back on. We'll do it again. We have to do it again. You're on. Always. We have to do it again and again. Anu Hiddle. A half hour goes by quickly.  Thank you, Anu. Thank you. Nice to see you. Namaste. Namaskar.


It is 1952 and the British Railway is in turmoil. One train has crashed into another in a thick October morning fog leading to a third collision. Even after over 100 years of industry development such disasters are unstoppable in poor visibility. Safety is ensured by the driver being relied upon to modify their operation of their train for the prevailing conditions. Surely this kind of tragedy can be designed out of the industry. The disaster will hasten the implementation of an automatic type of warning system that will advise the driver of the state of the signals ahead even in poor visibility and if ignored would intervene bringing the train safely to a stand. These echoes within the industry would be a mirror from the past 48 years later in the wake of the elaborate growth disaster but instead of praising the system criticism of its shortcomings would be the focus of the industry. Today we're looking at the Harron Wilson disaster the UK's second deadliest rail accident. As such I'm going to rate this subject here six on my disaster scale but here eight on my legacy scale as the historical significance of this event can't be underestimated as it would influence railway safety across the world. Harron Wilson is a train station 11 miles and 30 chains from London placed in modern day Harrow London borough but in the 1950s it has yet to become absorbed by the UK's capital and as such is firmly within Middlesex. It is a busy interchange between intercity, suburban and metro services. As a side note in case you're wondering a chain is a form of length measurement and 80 of them make up a mile. The station serves the west coast mainline with its fast services to Scotland as well as the Watford DC with its trundling London transport Bakerloo Line trains and their British Rail DC counterparts. Because of this during the morning peaks a large number of passengers using the interchange keeps trains and platforms busy a site that continues to this very day. Harron Wilson in the 1950s had seven platforms one and two for the north and south DC and three and four for the north and south fast and five and six for the north and south slow. I will say though as this is a British rail station and infrastructure compass directions aren't usually used to describe the line direction instead we'll use the standard nomenclature up the London directions so that will mean south is up and down is for away from London so north is down so just to clarify one is down DC two is up DC three is down fast four is up fast five is down slow six is up slow and seven is for the eventually abandoned Stanmore branch line. The fast slow and BRDC services on the London end terminate at London Euston. London transport Bakerloo Line trains leave the DC at Queens Park where they continue underground to Elephant and Castle. Train movements around the station are controlled by two signal boxes Harron Wilson box one and box two the latter is for the DC lines and won't really play much of a part until later on box one controls both the fast and slow lines in and out of the station and this takes the form of semiform mechanical signals with colour light distance signals and this leads us to the part of my railway videos that I think I enjoy making more than some of you enjoy watching British Railway Signalling Principles. The method of working in use at this time was that of absolute block signaling like most railway signal concepts it uses one train in one block at one time but unlike track circuit block signaling used in most UK railway lines today it relies much more on multiple signals and signal boxes to safely signal a train along the line and to communicate with one another the location of each train as the working principle was invented before proper train detection its safe operation depends on the strict observance of rules rather than relying on continuous train detection equipment but before we go deep into its working practices let's look at what the signals do and what they mean to the driver this is a semaphore signal it has on the west coast mainline two positions which is shown like this as horizontal and off shown here as diagonal on is the same as a red signal and therefore is a stop indication to the driver do not go past it as there's potentially a train ahead off means the same as green or a proceed signal to give advance warning of the state of the stop signal ahead a distant signal will be provided this semaphore is similar but yellow and when on it tells the driver that the next signal could be showing danger and that they must be prepared to stop when in the off position it means that all the signals in the next block section are clear because the distant signal is only an indication of the next signal there is no requirement to stop it instead of a semaphore style distant signal a color light can be provided this can show green for the next signal is at green or off and yellow for the next signal is on or at danger all distant signals are placed at a braking distance from the next stop signal there are other signals for junctions and shunting but for the purpose of this video we won't delve into that let's look at how the basic operation of absolute block signaling works a line is split up into block sections and each section is under the control of its own signal box each signal box will have at least one distant one home and a starting signal the section of the line between the outermost home and outermost starter is called station limits and a signaler can move trains within this area without having to see if the section to the rear or advance is clear let's draw here two signal boxes and two running lines for an up and down line if a train is to travel on the up towards signal box a from signal box b the signaler in b must contact signal box a this is done via a bell code if the block for box a is clear then they will set an indication on a machine called a block instrument to tell the signal in box b that the line is clear in reality the process is much more complicated using various bell codes and indications that the line is normal that there is a train on the line or clear but for this video i'll try not to get too carried away okay so if box a's block is clear they will then accept a train from box b by indicating line clear and then box b will clear its starting signal allowing the train into the block section in our case on the up once the train has fully passed the starting signal the starter will be replaced to danger the train would approach the distance signal for box a's home signal if all the signals for this block controlled by box a are showing a proceed then the distance signal will be in its off position and in our example you can see it is once the train is past the home signal for box a and the signaler has observed the full length of the train past the signal box and they have seen the train's tail lamp indicating that no part of the train remains in the section to the rear the signaler will then replace the home signal to danger and indicate to box b that the train is out of the section then b can accept another train and the process can carry on harron wilson is a little more complex as it has multiple home and starting signals but the signaler has total authoritative control over the trains within the furthest home signal here and the most advanced signal here this allows trains to stack up outside stations safely by allowing the train up to the home signal if there is a train on the platform the distance signals a colour light style on a gantry over the fast and slow lines the signals in the area are interlocked using track circuits stopping the signaler from clearing the distance signals or any main signals if the associated circuit is occupied but with all this processes you may have noticed one thing lacking the actual means of stopping a train as this system relies on the driver being on the ball and following the rules an incident could happen not maliciously on the part of the driver but by loss of concentration or lack of root knowledge which could result in a collision especially in the case of poor visibility as the signaling indications are purely visual well there was a system in place to tell drivers of dangerous signals in poor visibility and that was detonators basically a very small explosive device attached to the running rails that would be set off if a train went over it creating a very noticeable bank obviously not strong enough to damage the railhead or the train wheel though but if the driver hears detonators go off and they haven't been told otherwise for instance in the case of assisting a train with authority already given they must immediately stop and this leads us on to a foggy morning on the 8th of October 1952 the morning of the 8th was like any other albeit with many late running trains due to the thick fog that had descended upon the area a train berthed in the upfast platform 4 at 8 17 a.m seven minutes late it was the 7 31 a.m Tring to Euston local passenger train consisting of nine carriages carrying approximately 800 passengers this was hauled by LMS Fowler 264T class steam locomotive there around 800 passengers on board more than normal but this was due to cancellations of other services the service from Tring had travelled towards Harrow on the up slow lines but had been routed onto the upfast to allow for empty stock movements on the slow line local services during the morning peak have priority over the sleeper express trains and as such it was well known by drivers that if trains are running late the fast services will mount up further delays as the local service concluded its platform duties the starter and advanced starter signals were cleared for the train to continue its journey and this was at approximately 8 18 a.m but due to the train still occupying the platform the upfast outer and home signals were kept at danger and due to the track circuit interlocking system they cannot be cleared by the signaler until the local train is departed thus offering signal protection to the rear the 8 15 p.m perf to Euston night express was an 11 carriage sleeper train carrying approximately 85 passengers and was hauled by LMS coronation class locomotive called the city of Glasgow the locomotive was one of the most powerful at the time in the country and was making easy work of its mix of wooden and steel constructed coaches the perf express arrived at crew at 402 a.m 13 minutes late it was booked to stand for 16 minutes to load off passengers and luggage the train left crew at 4 37 a.m 32 minutes late and 19 minutes after the 10 20 p.m express from Glasgow which had passed it while standing in the station the driver of the perf train made up time gradually catching up to the ex-glasgow train until whatford north box the perf train was held due to the glasgow train negotiating the 15 mile an hour restriction through the whatford tunnel it restarted roughly at 803 a.m seven minutes after the glasgow train had passed the tunnel the perf train made slow progress through the tunnel itself again due to the speed restriction meanwhile the local service on the slow passed through the tunnel and stopped at whatford at around 804 a.m the local departed at 806 a.m and headed towards harrow and wilson stopping at hatch end en route on the slow whilst this was happening harrow box one set up the route for the local train to travel across to the up fast platform which then held the outer home and home signals at danger stop as i said earlier the local train birthed in the up fast platform at harrow at 8 17 a.m as the local moved onto the fast line the perf train was trying to make up time further north also on the fast it passed hatch end at 8 17 a.m at which time the latter had just arrived in the up fast platform at harrow as the train approached a colour like distance for harrow and wilson showing caution yellow the driver did not react this meant that the fast outer home signals were at danger the train was traveling between 40 and 48 miles per hour the perf train passed the outer home danger stop signal and then carried on past the home signal also at danger this was the signal that was protecting the local service on platform 2 it ran over and damaged the points that had been set from the movement of the local from the slow to the fast line seeing that the train was not going to stop the signal at harrow number one placed detonators on the rail but the disaster was unavoidable a minimal emergency brake application was made on the perf train just seconds before it went into the rear of the local train the local train was pushed forward around 20 yards with its rear three carriages being obliterated this was due to the last two being made of wood and were subsequently shattered and the next steel body carriage ends up being crumpled like a tin can the leading two vans and three coaches of the perf train smashed up behind and above the locomotive obstructing the down fast line the 0800 Liverpool express service was delayed leaving euston this was due to a minor vacuum leak which was quickly remedied five minutes after its book departure time the service was formed of two locomotives at lms jubilee class called winwood islands and an lms princess royal class called princess and the two locomotives were pulling a rake of 15 carriages carrying approximately 200 passengers due to a large gap in headway in front of it the Liverpool bound train was making good time on the north bound down fast line with clear signals it was heading at line speed towards harrow but the inner home signal on the down fast was put to danger by the signal but there's no way for the Liverpool train to stop in time the leading locomotive plowed into the perf locomotive at 60 miles an hour the leading seven coaches plus a kitchen car from the Liverpool train shot forward by the momentum overriding the existing wreckage and piling up above and around it several coaches hit the underside of the station footbridge tearing away a steel girder with it the perf locomotive was completely buried under the 45-yard long wreckage some carriages were pushed across the dc line shorting out the up traction current was subsequently switched off and both harrow signal boxes sent out an obstruction message to signal boxes on the up and down dc and west coast mainlines an emergency call was sent out to local fire brigades and the first responders reached a scene at 8 22 a.m the wreckage was a mangled combination of wood metal and the dead and injured many doctors in the area upon hearing the collision attended to offer assistance along with many other locals nearby assistance was provided by doctors and a medical unit of the united states air force based five miles away at ref south ryslip including the soon to be named angel of platform six abbey sweet wine who helped to triage the wounded before they were put onto an ambulance all lines were shut including the relatively unaffected slow as the wounded were evacuated via the good yard once the living were extracted the slow lines were reopened on the 9th of october and to assist with wreckage removal the electric lines were used to transport cranes the dc itself would in turn be returned into service on the 11th of october the wreckage of all three trains were recovered in an impressively fast time with the fast lines opening on the 12th of october the death toll from the crash would be the highest on the railway in peacetime at 112 102 of whom died on the scene with 10 later on in hospital both the firemen and the driver of the perth train were killed as well as the driver of the liverpool trains lead locomotive but that wasn't the total human cost 340 people were reported as injured of which 183 people were given treatment for shock and minor injury at the station and 157 were taken to hospital with 88 being hospitalized after the lines were reopened swiftly and the dead were buried the cause of the disaster could be officially investigated what caused the perth train to miss the indications of danger ahead with it being held by a train at whatford north box the knowledge of delayed express trains taking a lower priority to local trains and three signals of which pointed to a train ahead sadly due to the era the trains didn't have black boxes and with both firemen and driver killed we can only speculate but this was the same brick wall presented to the accident investigators for the lieutenant colonel grs wilson ministry of transport report investigators scoured the wrecked locomotives and found the vacuum brake valve on the perth train was in emergency and combined with eyewitness testimony hinted towards the brakes being applied not long before impact around the same time the inner home signal or the local train could be visible this was further exacerbated by the fog which although at the signal box was further than the minimum distance required for normal working was actually quite patchy near the distance and outer home signals investigators tested the signaling and points equipment at harrow box number one and it was found to be in working order apart from the points that were smashed up in the accident a standard post mortem was carried out on the perth driver and nothing medical was highlighted and at his earlier medical when he passed out as driver in 1946 saw no problems with his sight and general health the report written by lieutenant colonel grs wilson pointed the blame on the driver blame on the signal was squashed when timing showed that the signal couldn't have been put back on the perth train this was because if the distant signal was showing green then the line ahead is clear hence being able to proceed at line speed which could have explained why the perth train did not slow down but this couldn't have happened in the time between the approach to the distant and the local train getting the signal on to the up fast what was strange that was from the guard's eyewitness account that the perth driver had been working cautiously all the way from crew and he adhered to the dangerous signal at whatford north and followed the correct speed restriction through the whatford tunnel the only suggestion was that in the fog he had relaxed his concentration and missed the distant signal whilst looking for it in the fog he was looking at the wrong height as a distant and outer home signals were at different elevations in doing so he then missed the outer home signal and thus ended up going past the point of no return clearly from the driver's record and comments about him that he was indeed a conscientious driver who didn't set out to cause the free train collision and this brings us onto the inherent issues with the british railways of the mid 20th century that is preventing an accident mechanically or electrically which would mitigate the shortcomings of human train operation the event brought around the question of automatic train protection systems which even though wasn't installed on the trains in question wasn't a completely alien concept in 1952 you see a system called automatic train control was in operation on the great western mainline as early as 1905 and this made use of a ramp that moved a spring loaded current shoe under the locomotive this was set off a warning in the driving cab that had to be cancelled otherwise the emergency brakes would be applied if the signal was clear the ramp would be de-energized and the warning would be replaced by a bell and the driver wouldn't have to acknowledge this this system would thus tell the driver via an audible warning of the state of the distant signal in response to the harrow crash this system was developed further through a nationwide rollout a non-contact method was employed based on magnetic induction and was renamed aws or automatic warning system a visual warning was also added to the system and rollouts began in 1956 we'll never know for sure if aws would have prevented the disaster but it is likely it would have alerted the perth train driver of the danger ahead this is a plain difficult production all videos on the channel were creative common attribution share alike licensed plain difficult videos are produced by me john in a 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