It is interesting, but it is, yeah, these issues of work are complex and people mix up a lot of different things with it, a lot of different things. Maybe we'll talk about some of them as we go through the show. All right, so let's jump in. So one of the things this article illustrates or brings to forward, which is absolutely true, or I think it's true, is that PayPal, like Twitter, like to some extent Facebook, like many businesses, including MasterCard and Visa and certain banks and many other institutions out there. The argument is that Disney and others, are heavily influenced by the philosophy, by the moral perspective of the people who are engaged in the business. And as a consequence, many of their decisions are based on their moral political views rather than on what you'll call, quote, pure business arguments, so even as opposed to what seems to be their explicit mission statement. I have a problem with mission statements because I think that they tend to be, they tend to be, what do you call it, ambiguous and general and not always tied to reality, not always tied to the reality of the business and they ignore certain features. But so the idea is that PayPal, for example, has become what people consider today woke. That is, there are certain ideas, there are certain people, therefore, that are just unacceptable and therefore it is unacceptable to deal with them. It is unacceptable to trade with them. It's unacceptable to do business with them. And as a consequence, as a consequence, they drop them from the platform. So for example, if you are an advocate for a particular view of gender and not any advocate, but you're loud and maybe a little obnoxious, there is a chance, I don't know how much the chance is. I don't know that anybody's really done the research and really figured it out that somebody like PayPal will say, look, we don't wanna do business with you and as a consequence of that, we are pulling you off the platform and suddenly, if you're somebody like me who relies on PayPal for income, right?  I would, they would stop collecting money from you. They would stop and as a consequence of my, it would be very, very difficult to do my business. I mean, the reality is, if I told you all, okay, everybody go to Patreon, I'd lose about 50% because 50% would drop off just out of inertia and it would really, really hurt my business, right? So businesses, we know that businesses are doing this. We know anecdotally, we know from articles and studies and newspapers and the media, we can see it. There was definitely an ideological bent to who businesses are willing to deal with and who are not and sometimes like in PayPal, that seems to go against their mission, PayPal's mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone regardless of background and economic standing has access to affordable, convenient and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives. And, you know, it's, it says, it literally says everyone and yet we know that's not true. Everyone doesn't necessarily hold. Everyone doesn't include the people that for a variety of reasons, not because they're doing illegal activities necessarily, but for a variety of reasons, PayPal had decided that it is just not right for them to do business with these people.  And as a consequence, we're laying them off, we're firing them, we're boycotting them, whatever the case would be. And of course, Toyota taking them off their platform because of the opinions that they hold, because of the views that they hold. And we can see that in over and over and over again in a variety of different countries, you know. And of course, this imbuing of the values, the morality, the moral values of the people who work at a company and how the company is run or how the company deals with its customer, I think is inevitable. It's, how do you function otherwise? I mean, so Disney makes movies. Disney movies have a particular point of view that reflects the point of view of the creators and probably reflects the point of view of the creator's bosses, the people that they had. But how could it be otherwise? I mean, could Disney basically say, because every movie, for example, has a point of view, it doesn't have to be a political point of view, but it has a view about if it's any good, it has a view about life, the world, morality, it has a view about the world. It's, you know, if it's art, then it's a recreation of the metaphysical value judgments, which is a view of the world. You can't escape that. So every business has this. The idea that you can somehow separate the moral views about anything, really, and the way a business is run, the moral views of management, at the very least, of senior management, and the way the business is run is ludicrous. It's, and those moral views should be reflected in the mission statement, but they're typically not, because they don't want to, it seems exclusionary, even if they're going to be exclusionary. So the woke phenomena is a phenomenon which the moral views of a group of far out there leftists are being reflected in business decisions that are being made. And those business decisions, you don't have to do in PayPal's case and in Twitter's case in the, with regard to the opinions of the people they're dealing with. Is that in and of itself? Is that in and of itself wrong that they have opinions that, I mean, I don't think so. I mean, if you were running PayPal, would there be people you would not want to deal with? As a business, right?  Trying to be profitable, trying to maximize shareholder wealth, but you're trying to maximize shareholder wealth in the context of what? What is the context in which we're trying to maximize profit, we're trying to maximize shareholder wealth? If you hold a proper morality, what's the context for that? What the context of that is the creation of values, values that enhance human life. So context of any business is the creation of values. Indeed, the problem with a, let's say drugs were legal and you were selling, you were manufacturing, selling cocaine and to anybody who wanted it and willing to pay for it. I would phone upon you as a CEO of a cocaine company and you'd say, but wait a minute, I'm maximizing shareholder wealth. Everything is fine. No, it's not. You're not creating values, not in a pro-life sense, maybe in the sense of somebody wants it, yes. But in the sense of somebody wants it because they believe it will enhance their lives, no.  And therefore your profit is, you know, it's not quite exploitative in the sense that people are still choosing to engage with you, but it is destructive.  And therefore it is immoral, it shouldn't be illegal, it should be legal, but I think it would be immoral to work for the business that produces cocaine and sells it to people. So when we say profit maximization is the purpose of business, I don't take it as devoid of context. There's a context there and the context there is the profit made by the creation of values that are pro-human life. And what values those are, what your mission statement articulates, it articulates the particular values that you are producing that will create profit. And the particular values are what motivate the CEO to get into a particular business. He's passionate about media, so he starts a media company, but that media company makes money. That is the principle that guides most of its decisions in the context of creating values that enhance human life. So, but that context does create situations in which you would say, huh, so I'm running PayPal, it's time to see your people. And I discovered that there's a whole network of Islamists, people who advocate for the overthrow of Western governments in the establishment of a Islamic Caliphate. Maybe they're not tied directly to terrorists, but we know that Islamists, those ideas are often the inspiration, are the inspiration for many terrorists around the world that even though we don't know that they're tight to terrorists, they certainly might be tight to terrorists, we didn't know that these ideas inspire the terrorists.  Well, no, I wouldn't. I mean, if one of my employees, I run a hedge fund, if I discovered one of my employees was a communist, I try to convince him to change his mind, but if I couldn't, I would fire them. If I discovered one of them was a Nazi, I would fire them, I would cancel them. So, and even though that employee might be super productive, even though that employee might be very difficult to replace, since communism and Nazism, I consider enemies, not just of me, but of human life, human progress, supporting communism and Nazism, and by employing somebody of those views, I think you're supporting it by allowing somebody of those views to have an account with you, you're supporting it if you trade with people like that. If I had a store and I knew somebody was a, I mean, a card member, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, I wouldn't want them in my store.   Well, we really disagree with when it comes to woke, when it comes to cancel culture, it's not the canceling, it's not the dropping people eliminating their accounts, blocking them from Twitter, it's the lack of any kind of standards, it's the lack of objective standards, and it's the application of a wrong morality, a morality that views as threatening and bad and the wrong people, and a morality that doesn't take into account human life, it takes into account the prevailing fashion of views, the prevailing stereo about certain threats, but it's not actually attuned to any moral principles. I mean, moral principles that are pro-life, that they reject the life standard. The problem is that we disagree about the standards, we disagree about the principles, we disagree about who not, but we don't necessarily disagree about whether we should have that power or whether we should exercise that power. The other thing we disagree about is we disagree about the nature of profit, and this is why I added corporate social responsibility. And I still view the purpose of a business, I think what makes a business a business versus any other kind of enterprise versus any other kind of corporate endeavor is that a business makes money, that a business is in business to make money. By creating and trading values that enhance human life in one way or another. And that would ultimately guide my criteria for who I do business with and who I don't do business with. It's the standard of is this good for human life or isn't it good for human life? Is it good for this customer to thrive because me dealing with them will cause them to thrive, they're better off, not thrive, but it would cause them to be better than they would otherwise be. Or is it really horrific for human life for this particular customer to do well? And therefore ultimately, not the way I want to make money, want to be profitable. But the view today is the profit is at best a model and it was immoral. That the actual seeking a profit is something to be, there's something you have to do, there's no option, but what a business is really about, really about is some kind of model ideal above and beyond. You know how they say, you need a cause greater than yourself, you need something bigger, something outside. And there's a sense in which that's right, right? There's a sense in which our lives are not just about some kind of momentary satisfaction, right? Which is the caricature of self interest. We need something greater than that. We need something of a perspective on the whole of life. But we also value things like liberty and freedom and free speech and we value these things that are, but they're not greater than ourselves, they're not outside there. They're part of who we are, part of what we are to be self interested properly is to value really, really abstract things, really, really abstract ideas. Because that's what it means to live a conceptual life, that's what it means to be a human being. That's what it means to really value your life.  So I'm willing to fight for capitalism. Is that an idea greater than myself? No. It's an idea, I don't know how to use that language. It's an idea of me, it's part of me, it's part of who I am, it's part of what my life constitutes. I understand the value of capitalism, to me I understand the value of liberty, to me I understand the value of all these things, all these abstract ideas to me. They're not greater than me, they are me. They are part of who I am.  It's part of what makes you who you are, it's part of what building and making a soul for yourself is, it's the choice of those values. So what though most people in business today demand is the equivalent of something greater than yourself. Something, the equivalent of something greater than profits which I, you know, profit to me is, I don't know, it's something like what self interest is to the individual, profit is to the business. Pursuit of profit, pursuit of self interest. You could even say pursuit of happiness. So they're looking for something beyond that, something greater than that, something external to that. And they view that as morality, right? Pursuit of profit just like pursuit of self interest. Well that's stuff you just do. That's, well you have to pursue your self interest to survive. But there has to be something greater than yourself, there has to be a moral, noble ideal.  The moral, noble ideas I view is the pursuit of profit correctly understood, right? In the right context as I just explained. But the look of something beyond that and corporate social responsibility I think is that. That is, yes you have to make a profit, we understand that, you have to, you know, you can't run up, you can't survive as a business, you've got contract, you have to pay people, you've got to make money, right? But what's really important is something else. It's some utilitarian function, it's some common good, it's some public interest, it's something. And of course those things are always amorphous, hard to put your fingers on, hard to actually explain. And therefore easily manipulative, manipulatable, easy to manipulate. What is the common good? What is in the public interest? What is social responsibility? What is the socially responsible thing to do?  It's what politically we deem as acceptable, morally and politically deem as acceptable. Today it's woke. To be woke is to be socially responsible. It's to eliminate those point of views that you find that a world finds supposedly offensive and bad and doing harm to people. And that's an expansive set of views. It's not just the communists and the Nazis. It's a lot of views. So they take on this mantle of corporate social responsibility which wasn't created for this. It was created to provide businesses with something greater than themselves. The whole notion was to provide corporations with a moral mission with something more important than mere profit. And as a consequence, it opened business up to saying, okay, well, what should we do? What is the right goal we should pursue? Profit is not enough. We know that. So what moral goals should we pursue? Profit is a moral. Profit is just makes it possible for us to exist but then we have to pursue a moral purpose. And you know, then you can fill it in with different things. I think every decade, every decade, different things are gonna come in. Different things will fill it, depending on what's the particular views in the culture around us. And some businesses are most susceptible to this and others less susceptible to it but almost all of them are susceptible to it to some extent because how many of them are willing to stand up and say, I don't know, what was Microsoft mission? Microsoft mission was to put a computer on every desktop running Windows, right? So ultimately, you could say the purpose of Microsoft is maximize shareholder wealth by putting a computer on every desktop that running Windows because putting a computer on every desktop that runs Apple would not have served the profit maximization demand. So you don't say the maximize shareholder wealth and Microsoft was run with that as its intent. It was run to maximize shareholder wealth within that context of the pro-life values that entailed putting a computer on every desktop, believing that putting a computer on every desktop was good for people, was a value, was something that would promote human life, would further human life. And Microsoft I think is a good example of a company that later on probably gave lip service to the idea of corporate social responsibility, stakeholder capitalism, but never actually really did it. It did what it was required to do by law, but basically ran the company to make money, I think to a large extent, many of the companies, most of the companies in America today do that. But there are few where they take it seriously. They take it seriously partially because management, senior management would guide these companies and ultimately determines their direction, and take it seriously. They went to business schools, they got MBAs, they took classes in business ethics, they took classes and all this stuff, and they are serious about being ethical, being moral, running a company in a way that's consistent with ethics and morality. And what is ethics and morality? Well, right now it's woke. It's following the prescriptions of the intellectuals of the time. So none of this should be surprising. It's scary to someone like me because I could easily be categorized as one of the people that are doing, from their perspective, doing harm to the world and therefore they should drop me from PayPal and drop me from YouTube and drop me for whatever. So far, interestingly enough, that has not happened. Not because I'm careful about what I say I'm not, but because maybe because I'm not big enough, maybe because my views are not the kind of views and are certainly not presented in the kind of way that would offend to the extent that they would act. I think the latter is, I think it's a combination of both. I'm not big enough and my views and the way I present them is not offensive enough, right, from their perspective. But clearly, so what happens in business if you separate profit from morality, there are two possibilities that can happen. One is you become a total pragmatist and therefore morality is out the window and you just do what you need to do. And almost, not always, but often that leads to criminality. It leads to fraud. It's what happened in Enron and WorldCom and what happened. FTX is a little bit more complex, but it's ultimately pragmatism. Whatever, whatever works. I'm supposed to make money, whatever happens. You know, I need to make money. I'll just make money. I'll cut corners, I'll be short-term. Morality has nothing to do with profit. Everybody agrees on that. Sheldor's maximization is amoral. So morality's out and therefore I will become a pragmatist. The alternative is to say, Sheldor's maximization is amoral, but morality's still important. So I will guide how I run the company within certain boundaries as to not to affect making money too much but affect it somewhat. I will run the company in a way that expresses that morality. You see that, again, probably at Disney. You see that at PayPal. You see that, you saw that at Twitter. You're seeing it now in Twitter. I mean, what is it, learn, must do it. And you know, profit is okay. We'll keep the profit, but we'll try to apply morality. And then what you're doing is you're applying conventional morality to the circumstances and that's the mess you get. And then the other approach, which I think American business to a large extent has held in the past implicitly without knowing it, is to say, no. If I'm in a business that is enhancing human life, that is producing values to enhance human life, then profit is more. And indeed, pursuing profit is more. Pursuing life is more, is the context for morality, right? And I will then guide my company to maximize profit and what I want to make sure, and I will do it morally, that is I apply morality in how I run my business. I will treat people justly. I will treat with all my customers fairly.   I'm gonna think about how to produce these values in a way that will maximize wealth, but also that doesn't undermine the essence of the value creation. And yes, I will take action against threats, against people, organizations, entities that I believe undermine human life, human values, human progress, because that's what I'm about. I'm about human life. I often say that businessmen, the billionaires make the world a better place. Yes, and that's not altruistic. They make the world a better place because, because there's huge egoistic reason to do that, but it's in the very nature of productive activity. What is productive activity? It's producing for, it's creating values for, not just you, but it's creating values for other people so you can trade with them and you make yourself better and you make them better and you're making the world a better place. So, if PayPal was run by, so I think American business implicitly for a long time ran that way, but look, American business has been a mishmash from the beginning, they were always pragmatists. And look, sometimes the pragmatists committed fraud. For many, many decades, the pragmatists basically built themselves empires at the expense of shareholders usually, but there were no mechanisms to really fix that and no mechanisms to adjust for that. So, a lot of them, you know, there was a huge conglomeration boom in the 1950s and 1960s, the errors that the left admired so much and yet these are the errors that created conglomates. They were super inefficient, but they produced vast wealth for management because management got compensated on things like sales and revenue growth and things like that, but not on profit, not on shareholder wealth. It's an innovation to tie managers incentives to shareholders, which I think they were in the old days under G. Now, part of this is caused by regulations and I could go, I could talk hours for the regulations that brought about the mismanagement of America. And part of this is also, so for example, we just saw this with Twitter. So Twitter is, Twitter does a bunch of things that do not make sense economically, do not make sense from business perspectives. They don't make money, they don't make significant money. And as a consequence of not making significant money, their share price drops. Let's say they make less money that they could potentially do because of business decisions that they make and some because of moderating decisions that they make. I don't know if that's the case, but let's assume that's the case. Fred Hopper, thank you, Len, thank you, theme master, thank you all supporting without actually asking a question. That's why I'm thanking them separately. So let's say, Twitter wasn't making money or didn't seem that it was on a path to make a lot of money for shareholders. It was involved in a lot of controversy, it was involved in a lot of moderation issues that caused people to leave and caused competition to rise and caused people generally to not exactly know what was going on in platform advertisers who were never really comfortable with it and it couldn't really make money. It didn't have a business model to really make money to be profitable. And the beauty of free markets is that if you're in a sideline and you see this and you say, I could do a better job. I could do a better job by what criteria? The criteria of maximizing shareholder well. And by that criteria also improving the way Twitter's run, improving whatever it is that is required to generate revenue by providing real values. So you buy the company, this is what Elon Musk did. Elon Musk took advantage of the fact that Twitter, now he overpaid because of when he made the bid, he made the bid before the NASDAQ collapsed, but Twitter stock was not doing well. So he could offer a premium to it and shareholders would say and management said, yeah, we have to sell it to him because he's offering a premium. That's in shareholders' interest and they sold it to him. She get this major shift. Why? Because somebody believed that they could do better than what current management was and current management had to go along with it because that was what was in shareholders' best interest. Now we'll see if Elon Musk has the solution. If he has, great, he'll make Twitter more profitable. He is now the shareholders, he'll make more money for himself. He'll probably take it public at some point and he will make Twitter more productive. He will make Twitter more usable. If Twitter becomes more profitable, I think Twitter will also, that will be a reflection of the fact that Twitter is better. We'll see if that actually happens. We'll see if that actually happens. All right. So I guess a couple of things and then we'll go on. This whole idea, the whole idea now of, the whole idea of everybody being, of the resentment towards canceling and cutting people off from PayPal and so on. I think it's important to understand that every business does that. The question is not whether you do that or not. The question is what are the criteria and those criteria are ultimately gonna be determined by your morality and by the morality of those running the business. And I think that a rational morality guiding a business in one in which we maximize, you maximize shareholder wealth in pursuit of human life enhancing values using justice, reason and justice as the virtues guiding in honesty. And I think the objective is virtues are very good when it comes to business. Using those virtues to guide your actions as a business. Because I think using those virtues to guide you will maximize shareholder wealth, certainly maximize shareholder wealth in the context of human flourishing. 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On our last episode in the country of Scotland, we talked about Burke and Hare, the murderous pair who were finding bodies to bring to the medical school for cadaver work. We spoke about the phenomenon of resurrection men. Resurrection men in this time in Edinburgh were people, men who would go into graveyards and dig up dead bodies in order to again sell them to the medical schools. In that episode, we spoke about all the things the people of Edinburgh were doing to prevent these resurrection men from digging up their dead grandma or family member. One of the practices that the people of Edinburgh would do during this time in the 1800s would, they would build like a cage over the burial plot so that you couldn't get through to dig granny up. Well, there is one cemetery in particular that we're going to talk about today that you can find some of these cages, and this is the Grey Friars Kirkyard. However, the focus of our story today is not going to be on the resurrection men or these particular burial plots that have cages around them. Instead, we're going to talk about a really dark period of Edinburgh's history where Grey Friars Kirkyard was used as a prison. But before we go any further, you know what to do, hit that subscribe button and give us a like. Also again, as always, awesome shout out to our producer, Tiffany Monroe. She is a Reiki master here in Atlanta. If you would like to get in touch with Tiffany, her email address is listed down below. I also want to give a very special thank you to all of our patrons for helping us support this channel. We could not do this without you. So thank you very, very much. Welcome to us with Tara Atlanta. My name is Bryce, and today we're going to talk about Bloody Mackenzie. Ken of European descent. The Protestant Reformation is something that's very important to me. A lot of us can trace our ancestry back to certain communities in Europe that we're going through a Reformation. Now, because our ancestors were pulling away from the traditions of the Catholic Church, they were persecuted. A lot of our ancestors came over to the New World, America, in this time period in order to have religious freedom. Now, I've spoken about on this channel how I do have an ancestor that was born into the English royal family. But like everybody, we have multiple ancestors. And I have another group of ancestors that came over here to the New World to America in 1648 from Northern Germany. They were Protestant. And they were escaping Germany again to seek a new life. They landed in what was then Charles Town, South Carolina. It's now Charleston today because it was a Protestant stronghold. They felt safe going there. Now, it is written that my German line that came over in 1648 was not originally taken in the senses in Charleston because they did not speak English. They were poor peasants who really just wanted a new life and a new shot at freedom. This German line is the Strom family. This was my maternal grandmother's family. She was born Maxine Strom. Her cousin is the late Strom Thurman. You see in the South, it's common for people to get their mother's maiden name. Again, Bryce is my mother's maiden name. So Strom Thurman carried a maiden name. Now Strom Thurman is the United States longest running senator. So you can see this true story of the American dream, a poor German family giving all they could to come to the New World to have some taste of freedom. And about 300 years after they settled here, one of their descendants became a senator. So you see, the Protestant Reformation, everything that happened holds a lot of weight to us Americans. I know it does for Europeans as well. But again, for us Americans, this is what determined our future. And as an American kid, I know that if one person did not get on the boat when he or she did, I would not be here today. I am the culmination of all of my ancestors dreams. My ancestors who gave up everything, again, for that small taste of freedom or so that their descendants, me, could have freedom. So this story of Gray Friars Kirkyard in the prison that happened there during the Reformation is a really important story that needs to be told. Again, Gray Friars Kirkyard is located in Edinburgh, Scotland. Now we say Kirkyard because Kirk is the Scottish word for church. So a church yard. Originally, this property was that of a monastery. And at first in the year 1561, the town of Edinburgh was in need for more land for their burials. Honestly, this reminds me a lot of Oakland Cemetery here in Atlanta. And if you've missed that video in Oakland Cemetery, it was one of our first, I will put a link to it in the description box below. And in 1562, Mary Queen of Scots allowed the city to use this church, this Kirk for the city burials. Now again, this also coincides with the Scottish Reformation. Mary Queen of Scots was a staunch Catholic. She herself deserves her own story because her life was truly very interesting. And I am actually one of her descendants. And those that are well versed in their history of the United Kingdom know that Mary Queen of Scots was part of the English royal family through Margaret Tudor. Margaret Tudor was Henry VIII's sister. Now Henry VIII, as we all know, was famously the English king who had a lot of wives, killed a few of them, and broke away from the Catholic church so that he could marry his second wife Anne Boilene. There was a lot of strife within the Tudor dynasty. And with his children first, it was his son Edward, who was a staunch Protestant, who died young. He then bequeathed his crown to his cousin, Lady Jane Gray, because she was a Protestant. And then his older sister, Mary came in and executed them and became the queen. And she became Bloody Mary because she wanted to bring the English throne back to the Catholic church. And then she died. And Elizabeth I then became the monarch. And she brought England back to a Protestant realm. The pendulum was just basically swinging back and forth. Well, Mary Queen of Scots was Queen of Scotland while Elizabeth I was on the throne. And there was a lot of competition between the two because a lot of people believed that Mary Queen of Scots was the proper monarch and should have been on the English throne because Elizabeth I, mother was Anne Boilene, and people didn't recognize Anne Boilene as a legitimate wife of Henry VIII. Anyway, it would come to pass that Mary Queen of Scots would eventually end up being executed by Queen Elizabeth, her cousin. It was her son, James VI of Scotland, who would then take the throne of England becoming James I after Elizabeth I died, leaving no heirs. Now, the steward line, again, that's where my ancestry comes through in the English family as well as the royal family that's on the throne now. King James I is also the person responsible for the King James Bible. Now, there's almost like a second Reformation, again, happening in Scotland. So not only is there this huge massive split between diehard Catholics and people who want to experiment with this new Protestant faith, but once James is on the throne and his son Charles is born, there becomes this need for the people of Scotland to now fall in line, not only with King Charles I of England swearing loyalty to him, but to also follow the Church of England, which King Charles was the head of. This all came to a head by 1638 when there was the signing of the National Covenant. However, a year before in 1637, Alexander Henderson became the leader of the Covenant movement.  So again, there's all this turmoil between the people and the government. In 1679, we begun the wars of the Covenant in Scotland. Now, two years prior to 1679 and 1677, a man named George McKenzie became Lord Advocate to serve King Charles II. George McKenzie's main job was to punish anybody in Scotland who went against loyalty to the King of England and loyalty to the Church of England. And by the time the War of the Covenant was in full force, George McKenzie had rounded up 1200 Presbyterians and imprisoned them. Now, unfortunately for the prisoners, there was not enough room in the prisons to hold them all. And so Grey Friars' Kirkyard became a temporary prison for 400 people. These are men, women, and children, all who just want to worship God in their own Presbyterian way. Grey Friars' Kirkyard, the temporary prison, became called Covenor's Prison. And the people who were put into Grey Friars were treated extremely inhumane. It seems that George McKenzie really liked torture people. We know that winters in Scotland can be brutal. Scotland is quite up there in the Northern Hemisphere. And so during these cold winter months, George McKenzie would force the prisoners to be exposed to the conditions and the elements of the winter. He would also practice starvation tactics and just general torture. Some of these prisoners were lucky enough to deported. I know that sounds weird to say lucky enough to be deported. Basically they were sent over either to the New World, America, or eventually that would turn into criminals, prisoners being sent down to Australia once America wanted independence. So for a lot of people watching who are of Scottish descent to live here in America, it could be that maybe one of your ancestors was deported over here from Scotland just for being a Presbyterian. Now for the prisoners who were not deported and did not die in starvation or any of the torture tactics, they were eventually executed and buried at Grey Friars. All in all, while George McKenzie was Lord Advocate of Scotland, he was responsible for the death of around 18,000 people. The Scottish people refer to this time as the killing time. Now in Grey Friars Kirkyard today, there is a monument dedicated to all the martyrs who were a part of Covenant's prison. However, when George McKenzie himself passed away, this is where he was buried too.  And in the Kirkyard, he has his own mausoleum. Now about 300 years after the death of George McKenzie, a homeless man made his way into George McKenzie's mausoleum either looking for shelter from the cold or perhaps grave robbing. Regardless of why he ended up in the mausoleum, it seemed to have woken up Bloody McKenzie's poltergeist. And Bloody McKenzie's or George McKenzie's poltergeist has now made Grey Friars Kirkyard one of the most famous attractions in Edinburgh. Since the homeless man broke into the mausoleum, there have been reports of at least 500 people being brutally and aggressively attacked by this ghost. And I'm talking physically attacked. There was one story of a woman who was found unconscious by the mausoleum with bruises around her neck. She could not remember what had happened. Other people experienced scratches and burns. They walk out bleeding from this horrific poltergeist still living in the Kirkyard. It appears that George McKenzie's poltergeist is even more vicious in death where there are no boundaries than he was in life.  In the year 2000, a man named Colin Grant tried to do an exorcism on the mausoleum. He said that he experienced over 100 souls that were trapped within the Kirkyard as well as one very evil spirit. Unfortunately, Colin Grant was unable to exercise the Kirkyard. And again, unfortunately, about a week after he attempted to exercise the Kirkyard, he himself died of a heart attack. Now, if you're in Edinburgh and you go to Greyfriars Kirkyard, yes, of course, the main attraction is the poltergeist of George McKenzie or Bloody McKenzie. There are some other famous graves as well. One happens to be my favorite, which is the grave of Bobby. Bobby is a dog who died on the 14th of January in 1872. He got a special place in the cemetery because it appears that his owner died of tuberculosis about 12 years prior to Bobby's own death. Legend has it that Bobby would go over to his owner's grave every day within loyalty to be with his owner. There's also the grave of James Douglas. Now, James Douglas was a nobleman from Scotland from the 1500s.  Now, they say after his beheading that his body was buried, but they left his head on a spike until they actually asked for it to be taken down, and they ended up burying the head with the body. Humanity was a lot more gruesome back then. You also have the grave of George Buchanan, who was one of Scottish historians. Legend also has it that J.K. Rowling herself wrote the Harry Potter series in a cafe very close to the cemetery. Now, I'm not a Harry Potter fan. I've never read any of Harry Potter's books, but apparently a lot of the names that she used for her characters are names that can be found in the cemetery. Grave Ryer's Courtyard is definitely another location on my list of things to see when I'm able to get back to Scotland. I would love to know if you yourself have been to Grave Ryer's or if you've experienced any of this poltergeist activity while you were there, or in any other famous cemetery around the world. I would also love to know if you are a descendant of any of the prisoners who were held in Grave Ryer's, whether you're an American and you know you have an ancestor that was sent over here, or whether your ancestors survived or went elsewhere. Let me know because that is a very important story. Now, coming up next week, I am going to try to give you a couple more videos for the Christmas holiday. There is some whispering about the possibility of something happening this weekend that might delay our videos. I have to be careful about what I say because of the algorithms on YouTube. We have a huge eclipse coming up on the 21st. Apparently, we're going to be able to see the Star of Bethlehem, which is pretty much the alignment of these planets like Saturn and Jupiter. Now, again, this did happen in like 7 BC at zero degrees Pisces. And again, that was the Star of Bethlehem. And now we're going to be at zero degrees Aquarius, which is pretty cool because that means we're really going into the Golden Age or the Age of Aquarius. So please, please, please make sure you take care of yourself and you take care of your family and your neighbors and your friends. And hopefully I will see you back here on Monday. I am going to go ahead and film Monday's episode and next week's episodes today and tomorrow with the hopes that they will be released to you. But if for some reason they're not, just know you'll have some videos waiting for you when all of this is over. All right, guys, I hope you have a wonderful day. If you would like to purchase our opening song, there's a link in the description box below. Again, thank you so much to Todd Roderick for helping me get this video out once again, have a wonderful day. And thank you guys all for being here. Bye.


Item number SCP-2598 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-2598 is to be contained in a standard insectoid containment cell at Site-19. This cell is to be fitted with a food supply capable of sustaining SCP-2598 indefinitely, as well as a hanging light source. People who wish to interview SCP-2598 must first complete 20 hours of training in American Morse code.  Apart from this and its behavior, no other anomalous characteristics are discernible. SCP-2598 is able to communicate with humans by colliding with their heads in a pattern consistent with American Morse code. While SCP-2598 is apparently able to hear and understand English, it is only able to communicate a return message in this manner. Despite having been offered specially designed automatic translation pads with which it could collide, SCP-2598 has thus far seemed either unable or unwilling to use any such device. During conversation, SCP-2598 will invariably attempt to redirect the conversation towards a sales pitch for, specifically, a helmet designed for moths. Interview 2598-1 The following interview was conducted by Dr. Richard Eads, who initially discovered SCP-2598 while on location in ████. Dr. Eads was chosen as the research team leader because of his efforts in containing SCP-2598 and its fluency with Morse code. During this interview, Dr. Eads remained seated in SCP-2598's containment cell while SCP-2598 communicated to him via its preferred method. All replies were transcribed by Dr. Eads. Can you hear and understand me alright SCP-2598? Yes, hello, Dr. I can hear you just fine, thanks to the sound amplifying technology of Mothhelm. Excellent. Now, SCP-2598, could you tell me anything about where you originated from? I was once like you, Dr., and like everybody else out there with no purpose in my life until I discovered the beauty of Mothhelm also safe for children no chance of getting stuck in throats. I see, so you're saying that you were unable to comprehend spoken language or communicate as you can now before you came into possession of the helmet? It was like a door being opened before me, Dr., and I could see the light. It was all possible because of Mothhelm, which you yourself can own today as for as little as three easy payments of $19.99. You're aware, of course, that I could not possibly wear such a helmet. It's far too small. SCP-2598 pauses for 20 seconds, is observed spinning counterclockwise around its containment cell light. Yes, but perhaps you have some Moth friends who could benefit from the transcendent power of Mothhelm also is a great stocking stuffer. End transcript


What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video I wanted to talk about something that I saw for one of the Ravens reporters Jeff Zerbie And since he's a Ravens reporter he works directly with the Raven so he's always around the Ravens and he always has Everything that's up-to-date accurate information on Baltimore And you of course every week the coordinators coaches some of the different players They'll have interviews they'll give their two cents on whatever's going on Currently and I guess the office of coordinator Marty moan Hague was up there and he was speaking and he was saying that Flacco's been moving around a lot more now Being a little more mobile and that's because his that's because his back has been healthier That's because his back has been healthier. Everybody. What's going on man? I didn't think it was gonna be fairy people in here at this time of the day, but I appreciate all y'all being in here Thank you. Um, they said he's been he's been moving around more and playing better because his back has been better Is that true? It's a false. I'm gonna give my opinion on it. I know y'all will give yours and that's why I pre That's what I appreciate it So anyway before we get into it, it's not gonna be too long Let me introduce myself me.    I remember and everybody that's coming through I appreciate y'all man What's going on man?  I'm starting to start. I'm starting to feel the the nerves kicking Because another Ravens reporter Sarah Sarah Ellison who I follow on Twitter too. She she put out a poll earlier today about Ravens and Steelers she said if Steelers win they get the division if Ravens win they control there They continue to control their playoff fate and they play off seeding So of course we want Ravens to win Do we think Ravens are gonna win? We'll see we talked about that in the Ravens Steelers preview video You can go back and check that if you like so But with Flacco his back his back Before when I would talk about Flacco's play and I do y'all know I talk about it not afraid to talk about it ever When I talk about Flacco's play When I talked about his poor play especially throughout the beginning of the season in most of the games Some people would be like oh in Raven. Um, that's cuz he's that's cuz he's suspend I mean not suspended. Oh Ravens analysis threw me off when he's talking about juju suspension. That's because He's injured. That's because that that's that's because he's been injured. That's why he's not playing so good Cuz his back is injured. I ain't believe it not for one second. I didn't buy that I felt like me personally if his back was that bad Then he shouldn't be playing at all if his back is that bad then he shouldn't have been playing at all think about it If you're having a back problems, you know back problems.  So with Joe Flacco with his back Of course if they if they will if they were able to diagnose The neck injury the spine injury whatever it was with Zachary or who was a linebacker unrestricted restricted free agent guy I'm not saying one person's life is more important than the other but with it is a business So if you are willing to diagnose somebody who's making under a million dollars a year You can diagnose them and figure out that they can't play football anymore Then of course somebody that's making over a hundred times that over a hundred million dollars You're gonna be able to diagnose them and and and be able to assess if they should be playing football or not with a bad With a good or bad back You're gonna be able to know that so I of I love him playing better love him playing better He hasn't been turning the ball over much.  What are you doing? Nothing's wrong with your back some stuff could be wrong with your head But in the the following game after that we played the Texans. He didn't throw any interceptions in that one So he's been holding on to the ball and then of course in the Lions game He didn't throw any except any interceptions, but then he also threw two touchdowns. So yeah And we saw and but but he was scrambling before that. That's the thing That's why I say I think his back is just fine. I think his back is just fine. I think I think this could be the offensive coordinator trying to save his job think about it because Our offense has been sucky for forever now And I think it's it's it's some of him I know Flacco's been a problem offensive coordinator has been a problem, too I but I think this whole thing about Flacco's back I think it's the offensive coordinator trying to shoot some of the blame off of himself and try to put it on Flacco I think he's trying to take some of the blame off himself for some some bad play calling and try to put it on Flacco Reason I say that is because offense has obviously been a problem all year The problem all year up until besides the Dolphins game and besides the Lions game offense has been a problem all year so if When people with some people when they do bad at their job They look for excuses on why they're doing bad at their job They may be like oh, it's cuz it is it's cuz of that it's cuz it is cuz of that That's the reason I can't do it.  So why not be like oh, you know what since our offense has been picking it up a Little bit more Let me just throw that in there and try to let me just let me just throw that in there and try to try to save My job and also make it look like I've been I've been doing what I'm supposed to be doing this whole year Let me blame that on Flacco back. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's healthier now So that's the reason why our offense has been playing better now because he's healthier He's moving around. He's moving around better because the thing about me Marty.  He should have just kept that to itself She just kept that to itself. Okay, I don't buy it It seems like a lot of y'all ain't buying it either Flacco doesn't look for excuses He always takes the blame Marty on the other hand. Good point. Good point Like Flacco has said in post game interviews. We sucked. I sucked. I sucked. I need to get better I need to play better. We need to attack da-da-da and and it seems like I don't know if you notice But shout out to me to bring it out that point. It seems like Marty and Flacco they have like this This this awkward relationship Where they they're only business partners, but they're not friends if y'all get what I'm saying and the reason I say that is because Your quarterback if a quarterback comes out even after a win and says Yeah, we won, but I want us to be more aggressive If a quarterback's in this After the Texans game wasn't the first time he said that that wasn't that wasn't the first time he said that So if your quarterback is saying that in a post game interview saying I want to be aggressive And it's like Flacco was throwing shots at Marty But now I feel like this him saying oh, yeah The reason that him saying that Flacco is moving around better blah blah blah. It seems like Marty's now throwing shots at Flacco So we may have a little disagreeing here We may have a little these guys may just be business partners and that's it not friends Not buddies just business partners, but hey who knows So let me see that's because I worked money through Thursday I was watching Undisputed with skipping Shannon Sharpe and they had Ray Lewis talking about the game He thinks that the Ravens offense. He thinks that the Ravens offense not enough to win It got to be more it got to be more what they did against the Lions. That was nice But they the thing about me. I loved it, but we need Consistency now we need them to continue to do that. We need more out of them. We need more That's not gonna be enough we play Steelers that defense is a lot better than the Lions The defense is a lot better than the Lions and even Pittsburgh with with them not gonna not having juju this weekend Still a tough game because like I always say Steelers are the best team one of the best teams if not the best I would have to think about it, but um They are One of the best teams at drafting and developing wide receivers.   I'm Less I'm more worried about my Tavius Bryant than Antonio Brown Because my Tavius Bryant he got that height He got that height and I'm not saying I'm not worried about Antonio Brown I definitely am but Steelers have so many weapons. Yeah Why I just mentioned Jesse James Levy on bail they got Antonio Brown They're gonna have Eli Rodgers playing a lot more since juju is out They got so many weapons they can't get it done so many ways But what I was saying I'm more worried about my Tavius Bryant because he has that height and I remember when Marlon Brown was going I mean I'm all in brown not minding your favorite receiver where Marlon Humphrey was going against my Tavius Bryant in the first deal This game that's when that's when that's the worst. I've seen him look That's the worst. I've seen him look in this entire season.  It wasn't that many plays he went against him But it also wasn't against that many plays he went against my Tavius Bryant, but my Tavius was killing him but Hey, it's this is time man. It's just time to shine brand of car Kennedy webby Jalen Hill, this is the time man. Yes, because Jimmy always claims they be you right Brandon This is the time man Grayson say Ravens deal get tied if the offense can't produce Ravens rely too much on defense to carry them They have been that's why it they can't they the deep they got to let the defense do their thing Of course, but offense got to pick it up. So we need consistency. We need consistency Cowboy said Marlon Humphrey had a step up for Ravens to win of course. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, definitely But we need everybody to just be on point Yeah, she's there definitely gonna be miss me by us too Because me I know some there's some fans that don't Some fans don't mind when one of the best players is out Because it helps their team win and why that can be true about the same. I miss I love good great competition I love great competition.  I see y'all later on man I'm about to head back in to work now. And yeah, why are you right? But Ben and Baltimore always bring out the best of each other. So I appreciate y'all. Yes, this is a this game is This game is it's hype man. It's hype. It's starting to kick in today is the first day Like it really kicked in and just looking at all the stuff on Twitter all the polls We think of the win this and that it's starting to get hype man So I appreciate y'all see y'all later on and y'all have a great day and I talk to you when I see you I don't know when that's gonna be I get off in an hour and a half though. Love y'all. Bye


The narcissist will steal your things. They will take away your things. Things that rightfully belong to you. They are envious of the things you own. They desire to have what belongs to you. Especially if it's something that is an expression of who you are. They are envious of your qualities and abilities. They are envious of who you are as a person. So they want to take away the things that they believe make you who you are.  Because it reflects on them and everything that they are not. Everything that they wish they could be. Everything that they are pretending to be.  As though it's always in the way. As though you don't really need it. They will say that you never use it. So you need to get rid of it. They will always pressure you to move your things or to get rid of your things. They will always let you know that your things are not safe around them. They treat your things with contempt. As though it's worthless and beneath their consideration. When really the opposite is true. They're envious of you and they're envious of everything you have.   They will let you know that their things are better than yours. And they will expect you to treat their things better than they treat yours. They might just throw your things around without any care. But when it comes to their things. They expect you to treat them with respect. You might have things that have sentimental value. Things that are important to you. Things that mean something to you. These are the types of things that narcissists will target. They will break those things. Or they will randomly disappear. They're not going to have any care or consideration for your property. Just as they have no care or consideration for you. Your things are constantly in danger. They will use it to hurt you. They will use it to gain an advantage over you. But their things will always be protected. They write the rules. But they are also protected against their own rules. Their rules cannot be used against them. Because they're afraid that you might do the same thing to them. You're never going to feel comfortable around the narcissist. You're never going to feel settled in a warm and secure refuge. You're never going to feel safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger or trouble. Because it's an environment that lacks any imagination, creativity and excitement. Where you're just supposed to deal with them and serve them. There's nothing else there. It all has to be about them. There can't be any other way. And although it makes you feel really uncomfortable. You're drawn into it because you're afraid. But they make you believe that being around them is the safest option. When they're the ones who are making this undesirable situation continue. They will do anything to keep you under their control. They will exploit everything at their disposal. To cause as much emotional damage to you as possible. They need to have all of these things that they can use on you. So that they can manipulate you. Your things are the basic underlying framework and features of the system that they have created. It's essential for that to be there. So that they can threaten you with it. So that they can use it to put you in a state of fear. So that they can get supply and then make you do what they want. But they don't want you going near their things. They don't want you to know how much they've got. While they need to know every little thing that you have. They always have a problem with your things. They're always trying to take your things away from you. They're always judging you based on what you have. Your things are always a target for the narcissist. It's always something they're going to use against you. Nothing is safe around a narcissist. You cannot trust them with anything of value. Because they're not going to take any responsibility. They have no regard for you. Or for anything you own. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonates with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching inquiries. You can email me at coachingatnarksurvivor.co.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.