I'm Sam Vaknin, and I'm the author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited. We can divide the spouses, mates, and intimate partners of narcissists into two categories. Those who persist, insist, try to maintain their relationship, preserve it, enhance it, and create intimacy. And those who, upon discovering the true face of the narcissist, withdraw, detach, and if they are married to the narcissist, divorce him. On the face of it, there is no typical partner or mate who binds with the narcissist. They come in all shapes and sizes. The initial phases of attraction, infatuation, and falling in love are pretty normal. The narcissist puts his best face on, and the other party is blinded by budding love. The natural selection process occurs only much later, as the relationship develops, and is put to the test, and as the narcissist's tires of maintaining the facade let the mask sleeps, discovers, and covers his true face. Living with a narcissist can be exhilarating, but it is always onerous and often harrowing. Surviving a relationship with a narcissist, maintaining a relationship, preserving it, insisting on remaining with the narcissist indicates, therefore, the parameters of the personality of the victim, of the partner, of the spouse. The partner, the spouse and the mate of a narcissist who insists on remaining in the relationship and preserving it, is molded by it into the typical narcissistic mate, spouse, or partner. First and foremost, the narcissist's partner or spouse must have a deficient or a distorted grasp of herself and of reality. Otherwise, she or he is bound to abandon the narcissist she early on. The cognitive distortion is likely to consist of belittling and demeaning herself, while aggrandizing and adoring the narcissist. The partner is thus placing herself in the position of the eternal victim. Undeserving, punishable, scapegoat. Sometimes, it is very important to the partner to appear moral, sacrificial, and victimized. At other times, she is not even aware of this predicament. The narcissist is perceived by her to be a person in position to demand these sacrifices from her, because he is superior in many ways, intellectually, emotionally, morally, professionally, or financially. The status of professional victim sits well with the partner's tendency to punish herself this way. She feels comfortable in abusive situations. She has, in other words, a masochistic streak. The tormented life with the narcissist is just what she is after, and, to her mind, just what she deserves. In this respect, the partner is the mirror image of the narcissist, by maintaining a symbolic relationship with him, by being totally dependent upon her source of masochistic supply, which a narcissist most reliably constitutes and most amply provides. The partner espouses, enhances certain traits and encourages certain behaviors, which are at the very core of abusive narcissism. The narcissist is never whole without an adoring, submissive, available, self-denigrating, self-deprecating partner. His very sense of superiority, omnipotence, omniscience, indeed, is false self, depend on it. His sadistic super ego switches its attentions from himself, from the narcissist, in whom it provokes suicidal ideation, to the partner, thus finally obtaining an alternative source of sadistic satisfaction. So we have a sadist and a masochist in a diet. It is through self-denial that the partner survives. She denies her wishes, hopes, dreams, aspirations, sexual, psychological, and material needs, choices, preferences, values, and much else besides. She perceives her needs as threatening because they might engender the wrath of the narcissist's godlike supreme figure. The narcissist is rendered in such a spouse's eyes even more superior. Through and because of this self-denial, self-denial undertaken to facilitate and is the life of a great man, is more palatable, and by the way, more socially acceptable. The greater the man, in other words, the narcissist, the easier it is for the partner to ignore her own self, to dwindle, to degenerate, to turn into an appendix of the narcissist, an extension of him, and finally to become nothing but an extension to merge with the narcissist to the point of oblivion and of merely deep memories of herself. The two, the narcissist and his spouse, collaborate in this dance macabre. The narcissist is formed by his partner in as much as he forms her. Submission breeds superiority. Masochism breeds sadism. The relationships are characterized by emergentism. Role's are allocated almost from the very start, and any deviation from the prescribed roles meets with an aggressive, even violent reaction. The predominant state of the partner's mind is utter confusion. Even the most basic relationships, with husband, children, or parents, remain bafflingly obscured by the giant shadow cast by the intensive interaction with the narcissist. A suspension of judgment is part and parcel of a suspension of individuality, which is both a prerequisite to and a result of living with the narcissist. The partner no longer knows what is true and right, what is wrong and forbidden, who should she associate with, and who should she avoid. The narcissist recreates for the partner and in the partner the sort of emotional ambience that led to his own formation in the first place.  The world becomes hostile and ominous, and the partner has only one thing left to cling to, and that is a stable rock of the narcissist. And cling she does. If there is anything which can safely be said about those who emotionally team up with narcissists is that they are overtly and overly dependent. They are known in psychological jargon as co-dependence. The partner doesn't know what to do, and this is only too natural in the mayhem that is a relationship with the narcissist.  These unanswered questions hamper the partner's ability to go to reality. Their primordial scene is that she fell in love with an image, not with a real person. It is the voiding of the image that is mourned when the relationship ends. The breakup of a relationship with a narcissist is therefore very emotionally charged for such victims. It is the culmination of a long chain of humiliations, subjugation, self-delusion and self-deceit. It is the rebellion of the functioning and healthy parts of the partner's personality against the tyranny of the narcissist and his collaboration with the pathological parts, psychological parts, in the victim. The partner is likely to have totally misread, totally misinterpreted the whole interaction. I hesitate to call it a relationship, so I stick to the word interaction. This lack of proper interface with reality might be erroneously labeled pathological, but it is actually a form of self-denial. Why is it that the partner seeks to prolong her pain? What is the source and purpose of this masochistic streak? Upon the breakup of the relationship, the partner, but not the narcissist who usually refuses to provide closure, engages, the partner engages in torturous and drawn-out post-mortem soul-searching. I discuss this issue of Dansma Cabre, the pathology in a decor and underline the relationship, in a video titled Dansma Cabre of the narcissist and his partner. Stay tuned and be sure to watch it.


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ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice or placed by third-party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. Welcome Weirdos, I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. Coming up in this episode... Sightings of a strange flying creature have been reported in Maryland since back in the 1700s, but even stranger is the unfortunate name this creature has been tagged with.  They say it's actually safer to fly than to drive on our country's highways, and seeing how Chicagoans drive, I might tend to believe it. But when something goes wrong in your car, you don't plunge 30,000 feet to your demise. And while it may be safer than driving, there are still a lot of things that cannot go as planned and leave you screaming towards your doom. Of course, more can go wrong on a flight than just you dying, although that probably should be at the top of the list of things to avoid when traveling by air. But some other strange and bizarre things have also happened in the skies that might make you re-book your next vacation on a train instead. And in many cultures, there are stories of screaming skulls haunting and terrorizing people. What could this phenomenon be? And are all the incidents related? Plus, you can visit the Hope in the Darkness page if you're struggling with depression or dark thoughts. You can find all of that and a whole lot more at WeirdDarkness.com.  For centuries, a large winged beast known as the Snallygaster is said to have terrified the people of Frederick County, Maryland. The dragon-like beast is described as being a half reptile and half bird that lives deep in the caves of South Mountain. The mysterious creature is said to swoop silently down from the sky, stealing farm animals and children from the unsuspecting farmfolk. Some say it's real. The area was settled by German immigrants beginning in the 1730s who called the creature a Schnellergeist, meaning quick spirit in German. The earliest folklore mixes the half-bird features with nightmarish features of demons and ghouls. Other descriptions describe the beast as half-reptile, half-bird, with a metallic-like beak lined with razor-sharp teeth. Sometimes it's described as having octopus-like tentacles. The earliest stories claim that this monster sucked the blood of its victims. The Snallygaster has one widely-known enemy called Dweyo. The Dweyo is reported to be a mammalian biped with features similar to a wolf, but the stance and stature of a human. Sounds like a werewolf to me. The Dweyo and the Snallygaster have reportedly had vicious encounters dating back to the early settlement of the Middletown Valley. For years, the Snallygaster lived only on the pages of folklore until 1909 when stories of the beast began to appear in newspapers. Encounters between local residents and the winged creature in February and March of 1909 described it as having enormous wings, a long pointed bill, claws like steel hooks, and an eye in the center of its forehead. Further, it was said to make screeches like a locomotive whistle. A February 1909 article claimed that a man had been seized by the winged creature, which proceeded to sink its teeth into its jugular and drain the body of blood before dropping it along a hillside. The story was carried prominently in Middletown, Maryland's Valley Register, and soon spread far and wide, so much so that the Smithsonian Institution offered a reward for the hide and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt reportedly considered postponing an international trip to personally hunt the beast. In the early issues, the flying beast seemed to be everywhere at once. In New Jersey, it was reported that its footprints were first discovered in the snow. In West Virginia, it was said that the flying beast almost caught a woman near Scrabble, was found roosting in a farmer's barn and laid an egg the size of a barrel near Sharpsburg. A man in Castown, Ohio, wrote a letter to the Valley Register, telling of a strange creature that flew over his area, making terrible screeching noises. He described it as having two huge wings, a large, horny head, and a tail 20 feet long. In Maryland, it was sighted by a man who operated a brick burning kiln near Cumberland. Spied near the kiln, sleeping, when it awoke, it emitted a blood curdling scream and angrily flew away. It was only sighted near Hagerstown, south of Middletown, at Lover's Leap, and seen flying over the mountains between Gapland and Brookettsville, where it was reported to have laid another very large egg. The last sighting in Frederick County occurred in March, 1909, where three men fought the creature outside a railroad station for nearly an hour and a half before chasing it into the woods of Carroll County. Afterward, there were no more sightings of the mysterious creature for the next 23 years, at which time it once again appeared in Frederick County, Maryland. The first reports said the bird was seen just below South Mountain in Washington County. It was surmised at the time that, as the life expectancy of a snoutly gaster was estimated at about 20 years – not sure how they came up with that – the new sightings were from the offspring of the 1909 creature. At this time, the Middletown Valley Register requested that local residents who spied the creature should provide as accurate and detailed a description as possible for scientific purposes. Two residents soon reported having seen it just east of Braddock Heights, flying about 25 feet overhead, confirming the descriptions published the previous week. The next thing heard of the snoutly gaster is that it had died in Washington County when it was overcome by the fumes of a moonshine still and fell from the sky into the 2,500-gallon vat of alcohol. According to the story, revenue agents soon arrived and destroyed both the vat and the carcass of the beast. No appearances have been reported since. They say it's actually safer to fly than to drive on our country's highways. And seeing how Chicagoans drive, I might tend to believe that. But when something goes wrong in your car, you don't plunge 30,000 feet to your demise. 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Well, yeah, unless he doesn't de-ice the wings before takeoff, or gets disoriented and thinks the ocean is the horizon, or misses the runway at landing, or, well, here are a few ways that your pilot might kill everybody on board. Brace for Impact It takes a special pilot to get passengers killed before even attempting a takeoff. On December 3, 1990, at Detroit's Wayne County Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482, piloted by Captain William Lovelace and First Officer James Schifferns, was set to depart from Pittsburgh with 40 passengers. The day was notable for its dense, low-hanging fog, but nothing the DC-9 couldn't quickly out-climb. Departing its gate, Flight 1482 headed for runway 3C, but instead turned onto another taxiway. To correct the error, they were instructed to make a right to double back. Apparently not satisfied with one dumb mistake, Lovelace and Schifferns instead somehow managed to turn directly onto the active runway. They realized the mistake and contacted Air Traffic Control, who, duh, told them to leave the runway immediately. Five seconds later, Northwest Flight 299, a Boeing 727 taking off and route to Memphis, came barreling toward them. The 727's wing sliced through the right side of Flight 1482, cutting through the fuselage just below the windows. It then chopped off the DC-9's right engine. Flight 299's pilot, who it must be said performed phenomenally, initiated a rejected takeoff and stopped the aircraft safely. Its 146 passengers and eight crew were all unhurt. The DC-9 caught fire and was destroyed. Seven passengers and one flight attendant died, with another ten seriously injured. In addition to Lovelace's culpability, the ensuing investigation criticized the airport's control tower for failure to use progressive taxi instructions in low visibility. Making sure that ice is not accumulated on an airplane's wings is such a crucial and common occurrence that even back in the comparably cowboyish 1980s, commercial cockpits contained clearly marked ice protection systems. Unfortunately, Captain Larry M. Wheaton managed to overlook this standard pre-flight checklist item, despite more than 8,000 hours of airtime under his belt, and despite the fact that it was snowing. On the afternoon of January 13, 1982, Washington D.C.'s National Airport was just reopening after a deluge of the same white stuff currently accruing on the wings of Wheaton's Air Florida Flight 90 bound for Fort Lauderdale with 74 passengers. The experienced pilot he was, Wheaton recognized his error shortly after leaving the gate, but instead of returning for proper de-icing, he and First Officer Roger Pettit had a novel idea to use the exhaust from the plane ahead of them in the takeoff queue to defrost their wings. How resourceful. The shockingly unsound judgment didn't stop there. Wheaton decided to proceed with takeoff even after his impromptu de-icing attempt predictably failed, and after detecting a power problem while taxiing. Flight 90 took off and began climbing to about 350 feet. Then it lost lift. The Boeing 737 dropped from the sky and slammed into an overpass before plunging into the Potomac River. 70 passengers and four crew members died, including both pilots. Four motorists on the ground were also killed. Only five survivors were plucked by helicopter from the Frigid River, though as many as 19 likely survived the initial crash. On August 20, 2008, Captain Antonio García Luna and First Officer Francisco Javier Mollet did everything right, then did everything wrong. Unfortunately, the latter was irredeemable. Span Air Flight 5022 was a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying 166 passengers and six crew from Barcelona to Madrid. It was scheduled to leave an hour earlier than it did, as the pilots had wisely abandoned a departure due to an excessive reading from the Ram Air Temperature, RAT probe. The aircraft was taken to a parking area where maintenance workers deactivated the RAT probe's heater, which was fine since no ice buildup would occur on a fair weather August day in Spain. Then Luna and Mollet both forgot to deploy the flaps and slats required for takeoff. Without these high-lift devices, the wings could not generate enough lift to keep the aircraft airborne. It didn't help that the warning system malfunctioned, failing to alert the crew of their mission critical mistake. Flight 5022 left the ground momentarily, rolled sharply to the right and smashed into the ground beside the runway. The wings separated and the fuselage snapped into two parts, the larger of which was engulfed by fire. The Asinine accident killed 154 people. Only 18 survived. On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 took off from Brazil's Rio de Janeiro airport en route to Paris. The Airbus A330 was carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew, including three flight-trained officers rather than the typical two. The flight comprised 13 hours of duty and Air France's policy was that pilots can serve no more than 10 hours before taking a break. The extra first officer allowed for two qualified personnel to fly the plane at all times. Captain Marc Dubois took the mid-flight break shift while the plane was over the Atlantic Ocean. Just 15 minutes later, First Officer David Robert summoned him back. During his brief absence, the plane had entered turbulent airspace and was also accruing ice on the wings. The plane had begun to stall and the two pilots, neither of whom were captains, reacted incorrectly. Just before Dubois re-entered the cockpit, co-first officer Pierre-Cedric Bonin exclaimed, expletive, I don't have control of the airplane anymore now. Dubois' first words upon returning were not encouraging. Noticing the various alarms going off, he asked, what are you doing? The aircraft had its nose above the horizon, but was descending steeply. Soon after this, Robert said, climb four consecutive times. Bonin replied, but I've been at maximum nose up for a while. When Captain Dubois heard this, he realized Bonin was causing the stall and shouted, no, don't climb, no, no, no. Flight 447 crashed into the ocean, killing everyone aboard. Had a captain-level pilot been in the cockpit, it never would have happened. It should be far harder to kill 264 people than 26-year-old First Officer Wang Mengjiang's simple error. On April 26, 1994, he and Captain Wang Loqi were in the home stretch of China Airlines Flight 140 from Taipei, Taiwan to Nagoya, Japan. The flight had been uneventful, and the Airbus A300 was descending into Nagoya on time and at a safe angle. That all changed just three miles from the runway. At an altitude of 1,000 feet, First Officer Mengjiang inadvertently selected the takeoff-slash-go-around setting, which at that height is instructing the plane's aircraft autopilot to increase the throttles for a second pass at a landing. The crew reacted by manually reducing the throttles and pushing the yoke forward. But the autopilot, acting on the inadvertent go-around command, countered by increasing its own efforts to overcome the pilot's actions. It moved the horizontal stabilizer to a full nose-up position. Still unaware of the autopilot's go-around command, the crew then independently decided to go around. The result was a compounded action that raised the plane's nose far too high. The steep pitch caused an aerodynamic stall, and Flight 140 dropped like a brick. Only seven of the plane's 271 occupants lived, crashing into another bad pilot in mid-air. What are the chances, right? Well, apparently, up until the mid-1950s, those chances were quite good. Then one collision led to much needed changes. On June 30, 1956, a TWA Super Constellation and a United DC-7 carrying a combined 128 people collided over the Grand Canyon in Arizona at 21,000 feet. The TWA plane's tail was sheared off while most of the United Flight's left wing was severed. The TWA Super Constellation plunged in a near vertical dive, crashing onto a plateau 300 feet above the Colorado River. The United DC-7 sputtered another mile or so before slamming into a butt and careening into a rugged gulch. Everyone perished. It doesn't seem difficult for two planes to avoid each other in the air, especially in the less crowded skies of the mid-20th century, but such mid-air massacres had become a trend. A 1956 Aviation Week article noted that between 1948 and 1955, there were 127 mid-air collisions in the U.S., 30 of which involved commercial airliners. In the aftermath of the TWA United disaster, investigators determined that although the pilots had simply failed to see each other, not really sure how, America's antiquated air traffic control system was also a factor. Fallout from the accident led directly to the 1957 formation of the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board. It's a bit harsh to call the crew of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 dim bulbs, but this might be the flat-out stupidest reason a commercial airliner ever crashed. On December 29, 1972, Flight 401, a Lockheed tri-star carrying 163 passengers and 13 crew members from New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport, was beginning its approach into Miami. Upon lowering the landing gear, First Officer Albert Stockstill noticed that the gear indicator, a green light confirming the nose gear is locked in place, had not illuminated. There were three trained commercial aviators on the flight, First Officer Stockstill, Flight Engineer Donald Repo, and Captain Robert Loft, a 32-year veteran. Loft told the Miami Flight Tower about the landing gear situation and received permission to go into a holding pattern at 2000 feet. He sent Repo down to the avionics bay to report on the landing gear's position, then told Stockstill to engage the autopilot while they removed the light assembly. Only the autopilot was on the wrong setting. Instead of circling at a steady altitude, it descended so gradually that no one noticed until the plane crashed into the Everglades. Loft's final words, recorded 10 seconds before the crash were, Hey, what's happening here? Oh, nothing, Captain.  The landing gear indicator issue was later determined to be a simple burned-out bulb. And even if it wasn't, the gear could have been lowered manually. Despite the comparative complexity of the landing process, modern cockpit instruments significantly simplify its execution, making both approach and touchdown as automated as possible. Such tools have helped make air travel the safest means of transportation, unless of course the pilot misuses that technology. On February 9, 2009, Captain Marvin Renslow and a scarily young first officer 24-year-old Rebecca Shaw were beginning their descent into Buffalo, New York on Colgan Air Flight 3407 from Newark, New Jersey. The Bombardier-8 was carrying 49 passengers, a packed flight for the relatively small commercial aircraft. Upstate New York is frigid in winter and the airline's policy called for landings to be performed manually in conditions likely to cause ice accumulation on the wings. Despite this, Renslow kept the plane on autopilot as it slowed for landing. And slowed. And slowed. Until the shaker stick, a warning system intended to jolt the pilot to attention, warned of an impending mid-air stall. Renslow, who should have already been manually guiding the aircraft, responded by abruptly pulling back on the control column and increasing thrust to 75% power, neither of which was the right thing to do. The proper stall recovery technique is lowering the nose and applying full power. Flight 3407 pitched up, down, left, and then rolled violently right. It crashed into a house and burst into flames, killing everyone on board and one on the ground. Notably, the flight became a rallying call for pilots to receive more rest between flights, as fatigue was among the factors blamed for Renslow's deadly mistakes. Nearly half of all fatal crashes happened during final descent and landing, by far the most dangerous leg. As the plane descends, the most important job for a pilot is to ensure the aircraft's angle and alignment head directly onto the runway. On September 27, 1977, the captain of Japan Airline Flight 715 was attempting to do just as the plane approached Malaysia's Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah airport. The weather was poor, so Flight 715 was on a VOR approach, which provides lateral guidance until the plane reaches its MDA or Minimum Descent Altitude. From there, pilots are instructed to maintain that altitude until the runway comes into view. The idea is to get below the cloud cover, but not so far below that the aircraft is endangered. Flight 715's MDA was 750 feet. Landing gear down and flaps extended, the DC-8 jet dropped to 750 feet. Then it kept dropping. At 300 feet, it crashed into a hill four miles from the airport. The plane broke apart and burst into flames. Incredibly, only 34 of the 79 people aboard perished. The cause of the crash was simple. The pilot descended below his Minimum Descent Altitude without having the runway in sight. Instead of aborting the approach and circling back, the pilot took the plane to a height of a medium-sized Manhattan office building. Investigators also blamed the first officer for doing nothing to stop this flagrant procedural violation. And finally, plenty of deadly crashes occur just as planes touch down, typically because they over or undershoot the runway. However, a deadly landing accident in 2020 occurred for an especially unusual reason. On May 22, 2020, Pakistani International Airlines Flight 8303 was descending into Karachi from Lahore, carrying 91 passengers and eight crew members. The Airbus A320's descent was abnormally abrupt, unnerving air traffic controllers as the plane approached the runway. Then, unnerved, turned to mortified. Captain Sajad Ghul and First Officer Usman Azam were about to land without landing gear, despite the multitude of procedures and warnings designed to prevent exactly that. It is unbelievable to me that an airline crew on a jet like an Airbus with all the warning systems would attempt to land the plane without the gear extended, said John Cox, an aviation safety consultant. The plane's two engines grinded along the runway at speeds exceeding 200 miles per hour, 40 miles per hour faster than an Airbus should land with or without wheels. Amazingly, the pilots were able to re-ascend away from the airport, but only briefly. The plane lost power, maybe it was that whole engines grinding the pavement at high speeds thing, and crashed into a nearby neighborhood, killing one person on the ground. Only two passengers lived. Of course, more can go wrong on a flight than you just dying, although that probably should be at the top of the list of things to avoid when traveling by air. But some other strange and bizarre things have also happened in the skies that might make you re-book your next vacation on a train instead. I'll share some of those incidents when Weird Darkness returns. New technology isn't just for the living anymore. When the dead want to make contact, they will use any means. Radio, TV, mobile phones, cars, you name it. The other side just won't be quiet, and technology often helps make their presence felt. Whether it's a last goodbye from a loved one, a warning from beyond the veil, or just making sure we know they are still there, Ghosts in the Machines, Scary True Stories of the Paranormal by G. Michael Vasey tells how ghosts, demons, and the dead use our own technology to communicate with us, using true and often creepy stories from people just like you. Ghosts in the Machines, Scary True Stories of the Paranormal by G. Michael Vasey, narrated by Darren Marlar. Here are a free sample of this audiobook on the audiobooks page at WeirdDarkness.com. Anyone who travels often enough will eventually run into a bad experience when they fly, even if it doesn't end in your death. Annoying passengers and grumpy employees are two of the usual suspects. Such hassles are as much a part of flying as pat-downs and those pre-flight safety demonstrations that very few passengers pay any mind to. However, as the next few stories will show us, putting over a hundred people in a confined space for an extended period of time can sometimes lead to some truly strange and awful circumstances. Even as the experience of flying continues to decline, incidents like these stand out from the crowd. In 2016, a man was taking a flight from Algiers to Paris and he tried to smoke a cigarette on board. Despite the fact that smoking on planes has been banned for years, he believed he was above the rules. He was told by employees that smoking was not allowed and was asked to stop. He wasn't allowed to have alcohol either. That made him angry. So how did this man express his anger? He unzipped his pants and urinated on a fellow passenger. The victim stood up and punched the man and they began to fight. Passengers took photos on their phones of the man who started all the trouble being held down by employees. For some reason, the unruly passenger also took his shirt off before letting loose, so to speak. The airplane had to land early in Lyon so that the man could be detained by authorities. A 20-year-old college student was on a flight from Malaysia in March 2018 when he pulled up his laptop to watch a movie. That's perfectly normal, except that he was watching porn. Also, he stripped naked. An employee quietly asked him to stop so he quickly put his clothes back on. It's possible that this man felt like he could get away with almost anything on this flight because he didn't exactly get in trouble for the porn. Later, he tried to hug a stewardess and grope her. She pushed him away and when he was rejected, he began attacking her. The other employees grabbed him and detained him until they landed. He was handed over to police custody.  In many cases, these pet owners have very little regard for fellow passengers and pigs, ducks, turkeys and other exotic pets on planes have become an issue. In January 2018, United Airlines finally decided to put their foot down when a performance artist tried to bring a peacock on the flight, claiming that she desperately needed the bird sitting next to her for her emotional well-being. She was denied a seat on the flight and asked to leave. Not even traditional pets are safe to fly without a kennel anymore. In June 2017, a large dog that was brought on a flight as an emotional support animal bit another passenger. Delta Airlines now requires a 48-hour notice before bringing an animal on board, as well as documentation from a licensed medical professional with a true reason for why the animal should be on the flight. The support animal also must be up-to-date with vaccinations and have received training certifications for actual medical issues like blindness. In March 2018, employees of United Airlines spotted passengers holding a 10-month-old French bulldog puppy inside a carrying kennel. It's not against the rules to carry a small dog in a carrier, and nothing has changed about that, even with the new regulations about support animals. However, a United Airlines employee took it upon themselves to insist that they needed to put the kennel in the overhead luggage area so that it was far away from other passengers. When the flight was over, the dog's owner stood up to take down the carrier and the dog was dead. She collapsed on the aisle floor, sobbing. United Airlines issued an apology, saying that they never told their employees that pets should be in overhead bins, and they are just as shocked as everyone else. They also said they'll make sure it never happens again. Everybody poops. But as was the case on one British Airways flight in 2015, some stink far more than others. Very early into a seven-hour flight from Heathrow to Dubai, a passenger went number two in the airplane toilets. The appropriate place to do it, of course. Before long, the pilot made an announcement, asking for the managing employees to come to the cockpit to talk. After a few minutes of discussion, the pilot made the announcement that the smell of someone's liquid, fecal excrement was so pungent that it could already be smelled at the front of the plane because of the recycled air. Considering that they were in the beginning of a seven-hour flight, he felt that for the personal health and safety of the passengers, they needed to turn around and go back to Heathrow Airport. They'd only been in the air for 30 minutes. Everyone was asked to leave the plane and the passengers were given free hotel rooms for the night, before boarding a new and less pungent flight the next day.  In 2017, a passenger filmed a toddler who was climbing on seats, running up and down the aisles, grabbing the ceiling air vents, and screaming nonstop for almost all of the eight-hour flight. According to witnesses who described a child's screams as demonic, the mother quietly asked the boy to be quiet and sit down without being forceful or stern. When the stewardess asked the mother to please control her child, she replied that he had behavioral issues, and countered that they should turn the in-flight Wi-Fi on so that he could play games on the iPad to distract him. This incident has sparked a debate over whether families with children should be placed in a separate section of airplanes from other passengers. When the campy thriller Snakes on a Plane premiered in 2006, Samuel L. Jackson fans loved how funny and over-the-top this idea was, and quotes from the movie are well-known, even to those who never saw it. However, in 2016, that nightmare's scenario became all too real, when passengers on a Mexican flight spotted a green snake dangling from the overhead baggage compartment. One of the passengers pulled out his phone to capture the moment, though when the snake began to drop, he unbuckled his seatbelt and got away from it as quickly as he could. Thankfully, everybody kept their distance from the snake and no one was bitten. The plane had to make an emergency priority landing in Mexico City. The employees tried to investigate how the snake got onto the plane in the first place, but it's still a bit of a mystery. In March 2018, the cargo on a flight taking off from Yakutsk, Russia, was possibly too heavy for the latch of the plane's door to handle, because it suddenly began flying out onto the runway. But this wasn't just any cargo. It was gold bars, gems, and precious metals. Altogether, the items that fell off the plane were valued at $368 million. It all belonged to a Canadian mining company which had paid to transport their goods. An airline employee took a video on his phone showing an entire runway littered with valuables. Considering that the plane flew a few miles from the airport before landing, it's possible that some of that money fell onto some random person's land and they thanked God for their good fortune. Let's just hope they needed that money more than the mining company did. On a jet blue flight from California to Florida, passengers began to smell an unknown odor coming from the cockpit. The smell continued to circulate throughout the plane to the point where people began coughing and choking. It was so bad that they had to make an emergency stop in Oklahoma City where two passengers and three crew members had to be taken to the hospital. Several more people needed to be given oxygen. The rest of the passengers had to wait to be put on a new flight, and the source of the odor could not be determined. And I have saved the most infamous for last. The story most all of you have heard of, but it has to be mentioned. In 2017, United Airlines Flight 3411 needed to make room for employees who had to make it to Louisville, the plane's destination. The airline offered reimbursement in the form of vouchers as well as a free hotel room and a seat on a later flight for any who volunteered to get off, but there were no takers. Ultimately, they randomly chose four people to kick off the flight. One of them was Dr. David Dow, a single passenger who was already in his seat. He was told by employees to leave to make room for someone else. He rightly refused to leave his seat and tried calling United Airlines' customer service on the phone. He told them that he could not leave the flight, saying he was a doctor who had to see his patients at the clinic the next morning. Ultimately, three Chicago Department of Aviation security officers approached him, physically yanking him out of his seat. During the altercation, Dow's head was smashed against the armrest. He screamed, and the employees ignored his cries that he was bleeding. Passengers were outraged, pulling out their phones to capture the moment on film. Dow was left with a broken nose, two front teeth knocked out and a concussion. After the incident, United Airlines' stock price plummeted. Dow sued the airline, and they settled for an undisclosed amount of money. When Weird Darkness returns, in many cultures, there are stories of screaming skulls haunting and terrorizing people. What could this phenomenon be? And are all the incidents related? That's up next.  If that feeling transfers to your taste buds as well, I've got some great news for you. Weird Dark Roast Nutty Mummy Coffee. Wrap your taste buds around this medium dark roast blend with shrouds of almond, honey, and chocolate.  Intomb your old coffee and bring your taste buds back from the dead with Weird Dark Roast Nutty Mummy at WeirdDarkness.com slash coffee. That's WeirdDarkness.com slash coffee. For thousands of years across many different cultures across the world, people have believed that the head or a skull has held the soul. Some tribes would preserve the skulls of their fallen enemies, and the Celts would decorate their shrines with skulls. In Britain, they have a strange folklore of skulls that scream if taken from the location where they were held. At Wardley Hall in Lancashire, the skull of 16th century Catholic martyr Father Ambrose Barlow is on view at the head of the staircase with the legend that if anybody removes the skull, it will emit a blood-curdling scream. The screaming skull of Burton Agnes Hall. According to legend, Burton Agnes Hall in Yorkshire has another screaming skull legend, this one belonging to Anne Griffiths. After being attacked and beaten by robbers, Anne, in her dying breaths, expressed the wish that her head should be buried in the home that she so much loved. Nevertheless, her family buried her in the village churchyard. After the funeral, terrifying groans and poltergeist activities such as doors slamming and crashes were heard around the house. The dead girl's body was exhumed and her skull was exhumed and bricked up in a wall off the staircase. Although at recent times, the skull has been on display without any side effects. The Screaming Skull of Betiscombe Manor. Betiscombe Manor in Dorset probably has the most famous screaming skull legend in Britain. The Betiscombe Skull story starts in the 18th century when a member of the Pinney family returned from living in the West Indies and returned with a black slave. Shortly after returning, the slave died after making his master swear that he would be buried in his homeland. The squire broke his promise and the slave was buried in the local churchyard instead. Similar to that of the Burton Agnes Skull, the skull of the slave began to make agonizing screams that so much disturbed passers by, they asked the squire to make amends. Since the skull has remained on show at Betiscombe Manor, as with many legends, the truth is often very different from the legend. Analysis during the 1960s confirmed that the skull was in fact 2000 years old and was that of a girl. The legend however remains intact that if the skull is ever removed from the Manor, the person who moves it will die within a year. Then there is the Celtic tradition of the Death's Head. The power of the Death's Head certainly dates back to prehistory and when our ancestors believed that the skull contained the soul, but also the skull is very important in magic. In Papua New Guinea, widows would impale their dead husband's skulls on poles to ward away spirits and unwanted attention. In England, the Trail of the Witch and Chatex, head of a family of Lancashire witches, was accused of digging up three skulls from a churchyard to use in some ritual or demonic recipe. For this, she was hanged. The Celts often took the heads of enemies killed in battle and kept those both as trophies and as offerings to the gods. The Great Stone Shrine at Roka Patus had skull niches in the wall, some filled with representations of heads and others filled with actual skulls. Throughout the years, the skull has been seen as a mascot, trophy or charm, and this is represented within the screaming skull's legends that still linger on in England today. And we'll end with a story from one of our Weirdo family members. Travis Heckel sent this one in. He titled it Our Angels Reel. Hey, Darren, I've been debating on sending this or not, since it's not dark or weird but deals with angels. I was on the patio the other night listening to an episode of Weird Darkness when my 14-year-old daughter came out to ask what I was listening to. It was the episode about the beast of the land between the lakes since we had just returned home from a lake in Kentucky and thought it'd be fun listening while sitting outside in the dark. She listened to the story with me and said, you should send them my angel story. While I've told several people, friends and family, I never thought about sharing it to a nationwide audience, but after thinking it over, maybe it can give some relief to those that might question their faith or just may be curious about the afterlife. When our daughter was two, I had to take her to the eye doctor with me to pick up my new contact lenses.  They have a large waiting area with around seven rows of chairs with about ten chairs in each row. Since it was just opening, they had it on Disney, so we sat in the front row so I could keep her occupied for a few moments while I finished up some paperwork. While doing my paperwork, the door opened and in walked two men. I curiously turned to see who was walking in and saw a normally dressed man accompanied by another man that looked disheveled, possibly homeless but otherwise didn't pay attention and continued with my paperwork. Just then my daughter stood up in the chair and turned around and started staring at the disheveled man. She then bent down and whispered in my ear, Dad, that man right there is an angel. It took me my surprise and I asked her what she said. She repeated, that man right there is an angel. So she did say that. It gave me a bit of a chill and I didn't really want to turn around to stare, although she kept wanting to keep looking at him. I don't have a fabulous ending to this story like this angel miraculously cured everyone's eyesight to 2020 vision, but I sometimes look back at that moment. While I'm not an overly religious person, I still consider myself a Christian, but at the time we had yet to take my daughter to church. She obviously knew of God as we prayed and such before meals, but they say the innocent see things that us sinners look over. So for those out there that might be questioning their religion or faith, maybe this story will help. That maybe we do have a guardian angel out there looking over us, after all. Thanks for listening and be sure to stick around for the bloopers at the end. If you like the show, please share it with someone you know who loves the paranormal or strange stories, true crime, monsters or unsolved mysteries like you do. You can email me any time with your questions or comments at Darren at WeirdDarkness.com. Darren is D-A-R-R-E-N. WeirdDarkness.com is also where you can find information on any of the sponsors you heard about during the show, find all of my social media, listen to audiobooks that I've narrated, sign up for the email newsletter, find other podcasts that I host, including Retro Radio, Old Time Radio in the Dark, Church of the Undead and a classic 1950s sci-fi style podcast called Auditory Anthology. Also on the site, you can visit the store for Weird Darkness t-shirts, mugs and other merchandise. Plus, it's where you can find the Hope in the Darkness page if you or someone you know is struggling with depression or dark thoughts. And if you have a true paranormal or creepy tale to tell, you can click on Tell Your Story. You can find all of that and more at WeirdDarkness.com. All stories on Weird Darkness are purported to be true unless stated otherwise, and you can find links to the stories or the authors in the show notes. What the heck is a snaggaster was written by Cathy Weiser Alexander for Legends of America.com. Scares in the Skies is by Christopher Dale for a List Verse. It happened mid-flight is by Shannon Quinn, also a List Verse, and The Screaming Skulls is from MJWayland.com. Weird Darkness is a registered trademark. Copyright, Weird Darkness. And now that we're coming out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light. Psalm 91, verses 1 and 2. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust. And a final thought. The goal isn't to get rid of all your negative thoughts, feelings, and life situations. That's impossible. The goal is to change your response to them, to grow so strong on the inside that nothing on the outside can affect your well-being without you giving it permission to do so. I'm Darren Marlar. Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness. Bone and replied, but I've been at maximum nose up for a while. However, a deadly landing accident occurred in 2021. However, a deadly landing accident in the year 2020. However, a deadly landing accident in 2020 occurred for an especially unusual reason. In Papa New Guinea, widows would impale their dead husband's skulls on poles to ward away spirits and unwanted attention. The Great Stone Shrine at Roke Pertus. There is a word for you. Let's start. Rekwepertus. Rekwep. Yo. Thanks for watching this channel. So, right now I will show how to pronounce this word. Let's start. Rekwepertus. And I will repeat again. The Great Stone Shrine at Roke Pertus had skull niches in the wall. I curiously turned to see who was walking in and saw a normally dressed man accompanied by another man that looked disheveled. Hey, Weirdos! Our next Weirdo Watch Party is coming up fast. It's Friday, February 9th. A gruesome to some of Graveyard Cinema, Horrible Henry and Mad Marty are presenting 1950s Quick Sand, starring Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre. In the film, a man takes $20 from his employer to go on a date, planning to replace the money the next day, but he falls increasingly into more disastrous circumstances and further in need of more money, and it spirals out of control. Join us Friday, February 9th for Quick Sand. It's free to watch online, and you can chat along with the rest of us Weirdos as we watch the movie together. The show begins at 8pm Eastern, 7pm Central, 6pm Mountain, and 5pm Pacific. You can watch a trailer for the film and watch horror hosts and schlocky B-movies anytime, day or night, on the Weirdo Watch Party page at WeirdDarkness.com. 1950s Quick Sand, starring Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre. Friday, February 9th, on the Weirdo Watch Party page.


Inside the last 13 minutes of the Sports Max on for this Monday, switching to cricket, the conversation about the future of existence of the game's longest format has been ongoing with many legends and current players contributing and now a former Weston is captain is leading his voice into or lending his voice into the debate. The Jason Holder says he's worried about test cricket's future. Being there is not enough financial support across the board. Here's what he said to Hindustan Times in the ILT 20 post-match interview. You've got the big three India, England and Australia who practical command all the revenue regarding the disbursement of ICC funds and it's difficult for smaller territories such as the Weston is to compete. We just don't have the financial resources that they do. We're struggling to even stay afloat in terms of cash flow and it's hard to develop our facilities and structures the way they're meant to be and with the little finances that we have pretty much all the money we get go straight back into covering expenses and debt. The 32-year-old says there needs to be restructuring of the format. If we could come up he says with a model where you can have a minimum wage where you can't fall below a particular threshold it would actually incentivize players to say well look this is the benefit of me or to the benefit of me playing test cricket. I think maybe cricket may go on in the football model where you have an international window and you've got the franchise window maybe that might be a model going forward but who knows. Now the talk of payment as the main reason for players opting out of international cricket was addressed by cricket Weston's chief executive officer Johnny Grave the CWI boss debunked the myth that Weston and cricketers in particular aren't paid well as a guest he was on the SkySports cricket podcast. It's very very well I think there's a perception in the world that we pay them pittance you know I think most of our top international players when you include and factor in Caribbean Premier League contracts are probably earning half a million US dollars a year so it's not like they're playing for us for free. Well this has been a topic that has been making the rounds generally because there is a genuine feeling that test cricket is at the moment in jeopardy based on its attractiveness outside of India Australia and England of course as Jason Holder referenced as the as the big three but there is a clear case here of a threat to test cricket because of the growth of T20 cricket franchise cricket globally and the sort of monetary returns available for players who get involved. Yeah I'll start by saying the fact that the comment and of course the view came from the former Weston East test captain Jason Holder speaks volumes because this is somebody who would have been captain of the Weston East team at a very very young age and the thing is Lance and Ricardo when I think about it and the way Jason Holder put it in this interview you can never and we can never sit here and blame a cricketer for deciding of course how they want to of course play their trade and how they're going to go about earning their money because as much as we love cricket and you play the sport because of the passion there comes a financial return with it and of course it's a job they're working right and I think based on history and the fact that you know and the players have spoken up about this that you know these T20 leagues or these franchise crickets cricket has been able to help them earn a lot more in a shorter period of time it is very enticing and again I'm saying you can't blame them. In this same interview Jason Holder went on to say that you know if the monies that they were playing for in test cricket was a bit more enticing or you know would have done the same thing that these T20 franchises would do then maybe they would consider so to me I'm just looking at it from the cricketers point of view but then I you all hit me with this podcast and I'm hearing Johnny Graves saying well you know it's not like if because based on what people around the world think we're paying the players like almost nothing to play so because we had an international player also Ricardo and Lance coming out and saying that you know they need to do better they need to pay the players better we lost Nicholas Puran well of course he was wrong in quoting that but you know speaking about Jason Holder as well so for me I'm just going with what we have right now T20 cricket is exciting for the players they're making a lot of money so I understand. Yeah everything is relative right so I understand what Johnny Graves is saying in terms of the fact that he feels that the players are paid well but that is relative to what they stand to earn by by playing in franchise leagues around the world and the fact is even if you are paying them well franchise leagues around the world are paying them better and that is something that Johnny Graves and any other administrator at that level cannot get around what I'll say though is this is where it would help to have a governing body that can take charge of the sport because the truth is and we've spoken about this with Fazir Muhammad at Nauseam the ICC as Faz would put it is not a real governing body because a real governing body would take charge of the sport now Jason Holder I thought came up with a very good idea it is something that I thought long time ago before Faz made me realize that the ICC is not a real governing body I thought that we would have been going to the football model in cricket where you have international windows that do not clash with what is happening in these franchise tournaments and you structure the calendar in such a way that you can have international series happening at a particular time and then you have the franchise cricket happening at particular times I know there can be potential issues with that the Australian New Zealand summer is different from the summer in the Caribbean or whatever the case might be but I think those are things you can work around but as it is now you are going to continue to have the issue especially with players from countries outside of the top three that once they produce any sort of quality the lore of the T20 franchise money is going to be so much that they will have absolutely no choice but to play the T20 franchise leagues Faz has already started sounding out about Shamar Joseph because if he continues in the way that he has started down under it is only a matter of time that he is performing and that he's gone to play a lot of T20 franchise leagues and what's in this cricket will suffer like and boards like that as well will continue to suffer whenever because they won't be able to match the financial power of the franchise leagues well thinking about financial power we have to pay some bills so let's take that break and come right back we're going to make all money we could just use your money


which have gone to the ground zero, the real Bharat, what I can say, be it in villages, be it in urban areas, people live by these brands. So I think the discussion which we had in the jury was, are these brands, are the real brands because these are being used by the masses and the real in real Bharat. So I would say some of the brands which have been successful in this category are really fortunate ones, which are because they are touching the lives of each and every Indian. We have four brands to be acknowledged here. Let's find out who the first trophy goes to. Ashdak Vindi. And we have Mr. Ashish Baka in the house. Loud round of applause for Ashdak as being a judge, the first brand in the bottom of the pyramid category. Four more to go. Let's find out who the next trophy winner is. Bottom of the pyramid category 2017 is. We also have one last brand to be acknowledged in this particular category. Let's find out who that is. Congratulations, Tata Global Beverages. Mr. Sada himself.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's casebreaks.com coming at you with the 2020-2021 Mosaic basketball cereal box. Random team break number 359 of those hit paraded basketball dual case break spots being given away. First, the break itself. Big thanks to this group. They're the teams. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it three into six, nine times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, nine times for the team. And dice roll for the giveaway part as always. Two, three, nine final time. All right, no trade ones in this here. So there's the first half of the list. There's the second half of the list right over there. Let's just print in. Now remember, we're going to do one more of these filler boxes. And then we're in breaksville on that, um, that dual case hit paraded basketball break. Is it here? Poor guy. I don't know where they're going to be here, but I told them they can't be here that late. They have to beat me back soon. I was like, yeah. I was like, maybe we're late. Yeah. I don't know what would have happened if we all closed at six. I don't know. I guess, I guess he would have just Ubered home. He would have left the car here. We closed the gate and he said, come back tomorrow morning. Yeah. Come back tomorrow morning. We'll deal with it. All right. Nothing too crazy here, but let's give away those hit paraded spots. And it's going to be the top nine after seven, two and a five, seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. So from 10 on down, sorry, Raymond, quite close, but not quite. I appreciate you trying. Thanks for 10 through 30. Thanks everyone for trying. Top nine. Happy times. You're in the hit parade break. Happy. So is Steve, Anthony, Jeremy, Chad, Roedl, Corey, Nick, and Steve Birch. Congrats to the top nine. Thanks for everyone else taking the risk. Appreciate it. I'll see you next time for the next one. Jasper'scasebricks.com.


Hello, spinny chairs. First video of 2020 is gonna be a quick recap of my content creation 2019. What did I do? How much should I create? And of course people ask, how much I make? And because I like being very open about how I run my business and how I run my channel. And I like to disclose all that. Yes, I make money at YouTube videos. Yes, it also brings in leads and we booked almost 200 businesses that found us on YouTube and booked us for different varied projects. Some big, some small and everything in between. So that was a lot of fun. That is still probably where the majority of all my money comes from. Besides my regular business, but my online content. Yes, a legion that comes from YouTube is amazing. I won't lie. I'm not saying this is for everyone. I'm not saying for you two or not to do it. I'll let that completely be your own decision. Take a look at my channel. I have entire videos of how I make my videos, how we built our studio. Now I started in 2015 and I was doing public speaking before that. So I never had a problem being in front of people or being in front of a camera or coming up with content ideas. I love what I do.  The disappointing part about YouTube is in the very beginning, how much time and effort you put in and then see nobody watching the thing you created that is very difficult. That is the hardest part I probably say have to work through is going, I made all these videos and nobody watched them. That's like the first few years you're on YouTube. Not like the first video, the first couple years you're on YouTube is probably gonna be like that. I'm smiling, I'm excited. After five years of creating videos, and two years ago we got serious and built the studio that you see behind me. That's when things started to take off is when we really started putting a lot of videos out there. And of course focusing on the content. My content from four or five years ago was terrible. My content I think has gotten better. At least the views got better or maybe I'm lured into the false sense that it's better but I feel as though I've gotten better with the content and have a lot more focus. I have a lot of tutorials on there but some of my older tutorials, I can go back and watch them and not cringe too bad because they're well at least they're technically accurate and that's an important aspect of it. I do know that audio and video quality has gotten a little bit better but I still do a lot of recordings on a pretty basic setup in my office to do tutorials. It's not like you need to go spend some incredible fortune and I do have plenty of videos on all the gear I use for the studio and how my workflow is and all that's covered on there. But how much did you make Tom? Yes, let's talk about how much Tom made on there and how many views I got. So for 2019, we have eight million views just for 2019. That part blows me away. I did not realize the demand was as high as it is for technical content but then again, I'm really, really small in the bucket because some people have eight million views on each video they release when they're doing bigger video contents for four mainstream things. Was still eight million for a guy talking about firewalls? I'm pretty happy. 49,000 subscribers. That is how many gained subscribers I had just for 2019 and YouTube ad revenue paid out was $31,000 and $38. Yeah, $31,000 and $38. Now that is the YouTube ad split between the advertisers that want to buy ads on YouTube and then the content matching system, they go, hey, Tom has a technical audience. We have an ad that we feel as though it fit that audience and that's negotiated between YouTube and there's an ad buy rate and that buy rate is dependent on the demand for that particular content and that is why it's hard to put a number on how much you get per view. That varies greatly. They tried to do a content alignment all the time. So when people think YouTube is biased politically or any other way, a lot of times they aren't as much biased. They are biased towards making the advertisers happy in which content they want to promote because YouTube does take money to operate. Therefore ads are placed on these videos based on the alignment they have. So some brands don't want association with one thing or another. Therefore that content may be labeled controversial and then people start blaming YouTube for the bias when YouTube is like, we're biased to the green, the money that we make from ads. So I'm throwing it out there. A lot of people ask you, why don't you put your content somewhere else?  But I'm like, no, it was probably just not able to put things on there. And I'm not saying YouTube is always in the right and YouTube is correct about the way they do it and they can always be cleaner. But I will, for those that always ask that question about my feelings on YouTube, I believe they're more beholden to ad revenue but they can always do a better job than the way they police the system. Now we make money a bunch of affiliate links through a lot of affiliate links. So that is the second way we make a lot of money on YouTube. I can summarize Amazon's because it has a nice dashboard. A lot of the other ones that we have signed up for just don't have dashboards. One of them, they just send me checks and generalized reports in an email that is not, I didn't feel like dumping all this into a series of spreadsheets. But to give you an idea like just the Amazon revenue in summary for 2019, we got $21,595 in ad revenue from Amazon based on $682,850 in orders. Now the way an affiliate links works on Amazon is I put an affiliate link for a product I reviewed and people are able to cook that link and right now tech pays roughly 2.5% but that being said, it doesn't cost you anything. It doesn't cost you 2.5% more to buy it through my affiliate link. It's just Amazon knowing who recommended that product and that recommendation paying back to us. So it's kind of cool. It's crazy to think that there was like $680,000 worth of stuff ordered off my affiliate links. It's kind of like, wow, but it's pretty cool that it was. So there's something you need to think about. And all the other affiliate links that we have, so that's $21,000 in Amazon revenue. There's probably another 20 or 30,000 roughly that came in in 2019. I have to look at a bunch of individual emails and some different affiliate links to even give you a summary on that. But that does at least give you an idea of the money we're making on there. And it's a much different number to quantify those over 200 companies that booked us to hire us for projects.  I wanna talk more directly about how the YouTube system works. And yeah, it's been a fun year. I'm looking a lot forward to 2020. Now some of the other side effects of YouTube. I went on a couple trips. I don't do any paid videos. First we'll stop that. Of all the videos I have on my channel, zero of them are or will be paid videos. No one pays me to create them. But after I create videos, frequently I get the attention of companies and they want to bring me to their events or send me their products. I do disclose if a product was given to me. I do review those products and I'm always as honest but from some people who think it made me biased because the product was given to me, that's fine and that's why I disclose it right at the beginning of the video. If that turns you off about my video, no problem, don't watch the rest of it. It's in the very beginning of the video. When I am flown out to places, I even mentioned it in a video, hey, this company brought me to this place and let's talk about their product. Like they want to give me behind the scenes on our product or just go hang out with them sometimes. That's happened a few times. Just to sit down and discuss products. They go, wow, you seem to have some insight on this and those connections are amazing. They are people I met and then turned into friendships and people I talk to on the regular which is pretty awesome to get this level of interaction via YouTube. Same thing, I built some forums. I wanted to build some community in 2019 and that goal went really well. So my forums have become a very active place for people to further discuss any of the topics that I have on the channel because there's one thing that YouTube is bad at. It's trying to sort out all the comments in a more intelligent way. The comments aren't negative really on my channel but they're not threaded very well so they're easy to read and it's harder to have more in-depth discussions so the forums was another piece of 2019 kind of directly related to my YouTube channel but it's that place we further discuss things. The last thing I'm gonna mention is I met so many awesome people that just had come up to me from hacking events to just tech events I went to that recognized me. Even someone at a paintball place so if you're watching, hi, I went to drop myself a paintball and they were like, hey, I'm in college and your technical video helped me a lot with this particular course. I was like, that's awesome. I love hearing that. I heard this from a number of people and it really makes me happy because I really think with these newer platforms it makes education on technical topics because the majority of the videos I do are tutorials so much more accessible and for watching a couple ads in trade for being able to watch some content which I always see people complain about the ads.   You can force, I think 30 second ads, I think they have an option. I just let the ad algorithm work its magic however YouTube inserts them. I don't try to overdo it so I don't overburden people with ads just so I can make that couple extra dollars. I really like that a lot of my videos are accessible because a few people ask me if I do special paid tutorials. I'm like, I like when I hear from someone in another country I actually have a few people that in countries much less affluent than the US tell me that this really helped them because they were able to understand they were able to use some of the open source products I talk about and it really helped them in a local way that they just didn't have easy access to this particular knowledge or textbooks or really anything but YouTube for them they can watch it on their phone they can kind of get some concepts and start putting things together and those are really things that meant a lot to me that in 2019 all the people that sent me messages and talked to my forums about that you know things I don't even think about is they talked about wattage efficiency and I'm like yeah we don't think about that much in the US because electricity is relatively inexpensive but when you talk about some of the other countries they just have a higher price they pay for power therefore those fees mean a lot and a Microsoft licensing fees compared to an open source license is a dramatic difference because well what doesn't sound like much here in the US could be a substantial amount of money in other countries. So meeting those people online and chatting with them and working with them has been pretty awesome 2019 and quite a few people like that and I was just excited to hear that my video has helped them out because my tutorials are start to finish top to bottom I don't leave anything out or I don't have to do a tutorial and say hire me or donate to me or give me money for the rest and I'm not selling any books or anything on this topic I'm putting together all the video content YouTube is the medium of the system by which I post it on and then it can be delivered just with a few ads so I think that's a pretty cool way and it's a cool trade well I'm not before I sound like to some YouTube fanboy it's not the most perfect system I think someone could come up with something better but until they do it's the best system we have right now here and going into 2020. So I just want to leave this quick summary about content creation, what I did in 2019 and feel free to discuss this with me if you have questions like I said I have a lot of videos on my channel if you want to know how my workflow is or how my studio is set up and all that all the gear I use to film this but if you're interested in content creation I encourage people to think about that get into doing it it's awesome if you say Tom this seems like way more work than I want to do then don't do it, cool, thanks. 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Personal notice. Stanges my stock and trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you got a job for me, George Valentine. Write full details. Standard Oil Company of California, on behalf of independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the west, invites you to let George do it. High card. Another adventure of George Valentine. Well, it's 10 o'clock already, gentlemen. Shouldn't we... I mean, my watch says 10. Chester has the cards and... Sure, what are we waiting for? We're going to do it, let's get... No! No! Ames, Falto, this is crazy. It's insane. Was your idea, wasn't it, Norton? Yes, but a man's guilt is no more to be bandied about. Well, get off the word. There's the good name of the man to be thought of afterwards. Let's get it over with now, now! It's all right! How about you, Chester? What? He's had a good many, Mr. Norton. I'm not sure that he... Oh, I'm all right. Yes, I'm all right. Okay, give me those cards. Spread them out to the table. I know what I'm doing. Well, hurry up, huh? Get it over with, the four of us. We'll need a piece of paper envelope here in your jacket. Do you mind? Of course I do. It's got my name on it. Valentine. George Valentine. What? Oh, your wife's letter from somebody named Valentine. Ah, if I'd know her friends. Here, here's a blank sheet, club stationery. Couldn't we get on with the... Dear Mrs. Ames, I am so sorry to hear of your concern over your husband. Naturally, I will do whatever I can to help. Sincerely, George Valentine. Give me that. Concern. How do you like it? What's the stalling, both of you? All right, all right, draw one.  Me? Go out, Salto. All right, nine of diamonds. Yeah. Norton. Heh. Nine of clubs. Nine again? Give me one of those. Jack, diamonds. All right, Chester. Chester. Huh? Your turn. Draw. Oh, I'm all right. Draw. Oh, yes. King, King of Hearts. Look, Chester drew the King of Hearts.  You understand, Chester. High card. Yes. Yes, the paper. Here, here. You can use the pen. I'm all right. Hi, Jeffrey Chester. Hereby confess, one year ago to this date, it was I who murdered Miss Dorothy Pullman. After 10 o'clock now, Chester. I'd like to have a drink or two. I'll have to run down to my boarding house. There's a bill I should pay. The watchman's spare gun is in the locker room, and it would look better if you did it at the same place that... Leave him alone, Salto. I'm all right. I could run downtown first, then come back, have the drinks if I could borrow your car, Mr. Ames. Sure, Chester. Let's go over and get you my car. Sure. Thank you. You don't have to worry any of you. I'll be back. The club bar, drinks. We always had two, she and I. But I'm all right. You can mail my confession of guilt to the police. I got the high card. I'll be dead by midnight. Are you Sylvia? The big idea that led her in my coat pocket. Miss Valentine, who is he? Oh, there you are. So sorry to hear of your concern over your husband. All the meddling... This is Mr. Valentine. Miss Brooks, my husband, Mr. Ames. How do you do, Mr. Ames? My foot and my mouth. Just who are you? Did you have a nice time, darling? Where have you been? Oh, over to the club. Yeah, they let me in, just playing a little card. Look, Mr. Ames, I had a letter from your wife. My wife is leaving me. What difference does it make? Go on, get out. She's hired snoopers before, my friend. Wait till you come.  Listen to me. You were beaten up the other night. Come out of here. Get yourself out of here. Oh, no, you won't. Stop it. No, listen. What's the matter with you, friend? Victor, that was your car, wasn't it? Driving away? Yes. That's a loan to do. Somebody needs it for a while tonight. It's got some things to do. Mr. Ames, I know I'm budding in, but your wife has been worried and I'm over here. Please. I'm going. Back over to the club. There's nothing anybody can do now except to make things worse. What? Darling! Send him home, Sylvia. I'll take care of myself. I put your letter in his pocket on purpose, Mr. Valentine. He'll never listen to me or believe me. It was certainly an understatement when you said he was upset. Yes. But you haven't said why yet. Now, just what's going on tonight, Mrs. Ames? Where's your husband really been? I don't know. Playing cards, I guess. He doesn't generally, but no harm could come out of that, could it? Maybe not. You said he'd been beaten up. Oh yes, I know he's in danger.  Your husband's a lawyer, isn't he? He was until a year ago. His practice disappeared on him. What do you mean? Suspicion? Distrust? Whispers? This is a small town, Mr. Valentine. A very nice town. My husband used to be a very nice person. What happened? Have you ever heard of the Dorothy Fullman murder case? Well, yes, yes. I think so only. I don't remember. It was never solved. She was murdered, beaten up. It was horrible. They never even found the weapon. Police, experts, everyone's been over a million times. It was a whole year ago. They'll never get a confession from anyone. Mrs. Ames, was your husband... My husband was very nearly tried for that murder. Oh, I see. But then if he weren't tried then... There are people in this town who believe, who really believe that he killed her. Who will always believe it. There wasn't any actual evidence. But the circumstances... Horrible, sordid, awful. Now look, Mrs. Ames... Mr. Valentine, we have children. I'm taking them away. I have to. He won't leave. He... He's so mixed up, bitter. I don't know what he'll do. It keeps getting worse and worse. All right, all right. Now just take it easy. I'll go after him, see if there is anything I can do. You'll never listen to me. Bruxy, stay here, will you? Get her off to the train. Mrs. Ames, just tell me one thing, will you? Do, uh...  Mr. Valentine, I don't want anything worse to happen. I... I say, excuse me. You're Mr. Valentine, aren't you? George Valentine? Uh, yeah, yeah. I was looking for the club dormant. My name is Norton. This is quite a pleasure. I've heard of you. I've seen your name here and there. Oh, is that so? Uh, see here. Join me on the veranda for a cup of coffee, will you? Hospitality of our little club. I'm sorry, Mr. Norton. I'm looking for a man named Ames. Oh, yes. Victor Ames, splendid chap. Haven't seen him in some time. Might be here later. We can wait together. I said I'm sorry, Mr. Norton. Well, I certainly don't intend to be pushy. Or wait a moment. Perhaps I should be a bit more honest and say there's a little matter I'd like your advice on. I'd still go looking for Mr. Ames. Even if I said the little matter concerned, Mr. Ames? You twist my arm. Then we can do better than the veranda, I think. People there. There's a lounge in the locker room. All right. Through here? To your left. Generally closed at night. But there we are. Okay. Now, what's the story? Nothing so very important, but, uh, sit down. Sit down. How'd you know who I was out there? Well, Ames had mentioned you were coming. You said you haven't seen him lately. Try again. Really, Mr. Norton? What was that? Hey, anybody in here?  Blue shirt. Private police? Just a moment. Yes, yes, he is, uh, Mr. Valentine. Let go of me? Well, what are you doing here? Ah, what do you mean? Stop it. Who are you? Hey, hey, what is it? Jimmy. Jimmy, I found this man. Break it up, break it up. Break what up, John? I found him in here. I left my wallet in my locker. All right, all right. Oh, it's you, Mr. Norton. He was snooping Jimmy. Now my wallet's gone. He took it. He must have. Oh, brother. What am I supposed to do? Search him. Oh, but he won't have it, will he? That's not the way they work. But, uh, he's trespassing. You can lock him up for that. I'll see the steward for charges. I'm sorry, Mr. Norton. What? I said I'm sorry. You're not going to prefer anything. Good night. Jimmy, my father was the founder of this club. When I issue an order to one of the painting boys, I expect that. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Issue away. Only someplace else, huh? I'll handle this end. Good night, Mr. Norton. Jimmy, I am never in my life in shoes. Good night. Yes. Good night. Well, that was something. Okay, bud. Hand it over. What? Oh, now, wait a minute. You don't mean you believe that old school ties gag about... and still you boot him out? The wallet, bud. Oh, sure. Mine. Here. Credentials. The works. Good enough. Well, I didn't exactly figure. Valentine, huh? Yeah, that's right. Only look, Buster. Why? Why'd you treat him like that? Will him like lettuce before you even know what he had to say? Because I have no use for the high and mighty Mr. Norton. And don't worry, I won't get in trouble, either. He may be down now. But he's being eased out the side door of this club anyway. All four of them are. All four. Would you clear that up? You ever hear the Dorothy Fulman murder? Well, that nice dignified man there, that Norton. For my money, he's the one that killed it. All right, so you've got your opinions, Jimmy. It's just an opinion. I'll stick to it, Mr. Valentine. There wasn't any concrete evidence against either him or Victor Ames. And what did you mean all four of them? And why did Norton want to stall me like that? That's all he was trying to do. Keep me away from something. Yeah, the detective, mister. Oh, excuse me. Huh? Hello, Mr. Chester. Oh, Jimmy. Just standing here, having a couple of drinks. I was downtown. Yes, that's done. Looks like you've had enough. Oh, no, no, no. I'm all right. I'm fine. I'm all right. Sure, sure, Mr. Chester. See him? Hmm. Oh, that guy? He's one of them. Say it faster, will you? One of the four.  Yeah. They never got enough evidence. They never will. But the police did prove that it couldn't be anybody else. It had to be one of the four men mixed up with it. Who are they? Mr. Norton, Ames, big fool always in trouble. Another man named Salto. He asked me he couldn't have got the first base with it. And Chester there. Oh, I get it. Not much left of Chester, is there? All of them have changed. But he don't even know what he's doing anymore. Hmm. Nobody will confess? No evidence. Oh, Jimmy. Jimmy, come here. No, no, no. I'm right behind you. Hmm? That's Victor Reigns with him, isn't it? With the Stuart Shortes. Valentine. Yeah, we catch up again, friend. It's a busy night. Excuse me, gentlemen. Jimmy, there's trouble in here. What? The card room. The one with the back entrance. I put those cards in there myself just this evening. Valentine, I've got to see you all night. Hold on, hold on. Would you? Go on, Stuart. This deck of cards. Some men have been playing in there, apparently, or drawing high man or something. What is it? What's the matter? Well, sir, it's more puzzling than anything else at a club like this. Someone was being dishonest. 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Now, back to tonight's adventure of George Valentine. Nine of diamonds. Nine of clubs. Jack diamonds. Your turn, Chester. Draw. Yes, I'm king of hearts. I hereby confess one year ago it was I who murdered Miss Dorothy Fullman. I got the high card. I'll be dead by midnight. Only if your name is George Valentine, all you know is that Dorothy Fullman murder case has never been solved. There were four suspects, but the police have disbared of ever finding out who her murderer was. Yes, all you know is that Mrs. Ames was worried about the strange behavior of her husband and more recently that four men have been playing cards in the back card room of the local club and that the steward says the deck of cards is marked. No, no, they can't be given help. Hey, take it easy, Mr. Ames. Let's see, Stuart. They're not marked. What's bothering you so much, Mr. Ames? It's a crude job. Yes, Jimmy, a little tix in the edges like this. The person who did it could tell the cards, all right. Get out of here, both of you. Jimmy, Stuart. Hey, hey, slow down, Buster. Look, I've got to see you, Valentine. I've got to see you along.  What's so important about Chester? Chester. Hey, where you going, Miss Ames? He was downtown. He's back now. Buster, will you please? The bar is here and the bar is having those last two drinks. Wow, there you are. Oh, hello, Angel. Oh, Mr. Ames, I saw your wife to the station. She said to tell you... Yes, yes. Of course. Where is he? What? Little guy, Brooksy. He was in here a few minutes ago. He was having a couple of drinks. Yeah, he's gone now. Well, I did see somebody leaving just when I came in. He looked like he could use a little sleep. It's five minutes to 12. Time for you to clear it up, friend. Where's Chester going? What's happening tonight? Could have been any one of us. I mean, the cards, marking them. But I didn't try to save my own skin. I would have gone through it if I'd been a high man. What on earth? I tried to remember. The watchman's spare gun, that was it. Quit pulling bust at what? Yeah, the closet, the back hall. Come on, hurry. Will you, the watchman's gun, that was it. Only the cupboard was bare. He's taken it already. Chester. Certainly no gun in here. We drew. High man. He had the King of Hearts. Little Chester, the weakest one in the whole bunch. Didn't even seem to react. What are you... I know I'm talking wildly. I'll explain later. We've got to find him first. We're with you, all right. But who's he going to use this gun on? Who's he? Oh, isn't it perfectly obvious, Mr. Valentine? On himself. It's just like Jimmy said. I'll sell her by the bluffs across the golf course. He certainly deserted looking for sale, for leave. Chester must be here. It's where he'd come. Dorothy Fullman's house, huh? Where she was killed? Yes, in the living room. Found her body there. Beat me to death. Doors open, you see? Chester. Honey's not here. The fall guy. Well, we're a long way on the outside of that old crime now, aren't we? Perhaps we beat him here, missed him in the dark. Chester! What do you mean, George? Ames here knows what I mean. This is where it happened. It wasn't a pleasant crime. And inside a man, a terrible thing like that can get bigger in a year, huh? Mr.  Sure, sure. That's what they all say. But Buster, I'm just finally beginning to understand.  Wait a minute, George, listen. Upstairs. Come on. Chester? Where are you, Chester? It's me, Victor Ames. Salto. Salto, what are you doing here? Mr. Valentine's all right, Salto. He knows the whole story now. But I didn't mark any cards. It wasn't me. Then what are you doing here, Salto, hiding from me? Leave him alone, Ames. Leave him alone. And never mind who marked the cards. Well, what do you think, Bruxy? Four men actually drawing to see which one would be a fall guy. Which one would confess to a murder? I don't believe it. Oh, yes. It's very easy for the two of you to talk like that. I told them it was a ridiculous... Same as Russian roulette. Spin the cartridge wheel. See who gets the bullet. Yeah, they couldn't stand to be pointed at. The suspicion, the shadow of guilt. The crime that would never be solved otherwise. Yes, I told them that. But Ames and Norton kept saying... You were willing enough, Salto. Or you didn't have any solution anywhere to keep yourself from going insane. Maybe you can't believe it, Miss Brooks. Why should you?  I don't think that's exactly what she meant, Ames. Sure, I know it's not like in books where people just forget about murder, but to try to dig yourself out of a swamp by drawing, taking one chance and four of being tapped for guilt, just to lay all the ghosts for the others. If we did it so what, we did it. We've nearly killed each other trying to make each other confess anyway. I was thinking about the second part of the bargain. Suicide for the elected guilty one. Yeah, to make sure the police would accept that confession. Mr. Ames, you might have gone through with it. You're that kind. But I just don't believe that most men would... Shake, Angel. All right, how about it, Salto? That's why you're here, isn't it? To see if Chester would go through with something that you wouldn't do yourself. That I? I'm sorry, Victor. I wouldn't have. I couldn't have. I went along with it, of course I did. If I'd been a high card, I don't know what I would have done, but... Okay, there's one down. Wet feet. By this time, Chester must be aboard the nearest freight train, headed for parts unknown. Chester, he signed the confession. But he wouldn't do it. I know he'd been drinking, but... The last moment is a little hard to pull a trigger. Is that so? You're so sure, aren't you? Moonlight out there. Window, come in. Look. It's him. It's Chester. But he's not coming toward the house. He's just walking. That's the path runs up by the bluffs. Yes, and if anything happens to him, it's our fault, Salto. Come on, step on it. Run! Chester! Chester! What's the matter with him? He doesn't even listen. Don't look out, George. Yeah, these bluffs are pretty steep, aren't they? Chester! I'm going to climb up this way, too. Come on, Buster.  Valentine! There's another way this whole thing tonight can work. But I'm going to see that it doesn't. George, stay still! What a... Norton! Get out of here, leave him alone. Norton, wouldn't you now? Stay still! I'm warning you, I have a gun. Oh, yeah, sure. The one from the Watchman's Locking. He didn't take you, Chester didn't take you. What's all this? So you did. Sure, sure.  You'd get him to write a confession and murder him. He killed her. He killed the other woman. He confessed. George is up on the edge. Look at him. Leave him alone. He'll jump. I tell you, look at the way he's acting. I just followed him. Forgive him. The gun he didn't take. Listen to me. It will all be over for all of us. Are you inhuman? Let it happen. If you don't, it'll be the same thing over and over again. George! Yeah, look. We can't stop him from here. And he does look like he wants to jump. Okay, so I've been wrong, so I... Get out of the way with that gun! Okay, now you're all right. Stay there. All of you. Chester! Mr. Chester! Yes? Mr. Chester, now you listen to me. I can't reach you. But get away now. There's something I'm going to do. Yeah, I know. I know. Kill yourself. But you were supposed to do it where she died, weren't you? Wasn't that the agreement, Chester, to make it look good? Can you understand me, Mr. Chester? I'm all right. That's it. That's it. Just keep looking at me. It should have been the living room, though. Or were they always wrong? She was beaten, bruised. I remember they said they never found a weapon. Was it really up here that she died? Did she dump? Was she thrown? It would have looked the same if somebody then carried her body back to her house. I'm going to jump, you know. Get back! No, you're not. You're too curious, Chester.  Don't you think so, Mr. Chester? What? What do you mean? What admitting it is worse. Some people can't ever do that. They'd rather die than do that. I'm going to jump. You can't stop me.  Well, they gave you a chance, the little card drawing. You know the masked deck. The marked one would be found sooner or later. You deliberately left it behind. No, no, go away now. The world would say your confession was a fraud.  Well, any of them could have marked the cards Norton, Salter, and... The high man marked him. The guilty man, Chester. All I've said is built on that. When there's a drawing, a man can't make another man take a certain card. So if he marks them, he only marks them for himself. Check. Yes, yes, I understand, but... To pick his own card. But the lowest card picked tonight was a nine. If a man wanted a low card, that's not very safe, is it, with 52 cards in the deck? You know it baffled me for a while, until I saw that you really did want to die. She was faceless. She was bad. Get out of my way! Oh, no, you don't! Now, Chester, hang on!   George, it did work out that way, didn't it? Yeah, yeah, Bruxy. They pieced it together again. That's why Chester went up to the bluffs instead of taking the gun. That's how he had killed Dorothy, a woman a year back. And if the first confession had gone through, if he'd shot himself, nobody ever would have believed it. Well, the other three would have always thought they railroaded the poor little punchy. Yeah, trade their private little hells for new ones. Mrs. Ames went still in love with her husband and called you here. George, isn't it? Remarkable what a woman will do for the man she loves. Remarkable. Forgive? Forget? Protect? I'll remember that. Darling. The very next time I'm suspected of murder. Oh! Good night, Bruxy. 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