Everybody forced here ripping the sports card Almanac ultra high-end multi-sport volume 10 case break number six live hit draft Give me just a sec. We'll go over some rules Let's make sure I have this cool So do two randoms in a second here the first random is you determine which case number that we're gonna open cases left are Two eight one ten and five those are the case numbers that we have left and then the second is gonna determine draft order It's two minutes for pick in the live hit draft. I've got time on my phone I'll be talking verbally, of course, and I'll also be typing in chat I'll be looking at YouTube and Twitch like I was saying earlier if you're making a pick tonight, and you haven't done so yet I would test your chat to make sure that we can see it So there's no there's no issues at all And if you need to get ahold of us Emails and chat link sports card to gmail.com. There's two big rules here for just everybody watching or in the in the break No discussing card values and no influence in the draft in any way We'll just ban you at this point did five of these last night went pretty well. So hopefully we can keep that going tonight. Thanks again, everybody Let's see What else if someone is not here, which I think is gonna be the case for some people that are in it We'll have to pick for them We're not responsible for picking the perfect card for you But we'll do our best to pick the best available card for you if you're not here to pick Thanks again, everybody. Another thing is when you're making your pick and the only people that are picking Includes your zip code. That's with the order or the order number so that we can verify that you are you Thanks again, everybody for joining and good luck. Let's do these randoms We're gonna random ten times here a couple of fives So ten times This is for the case number here whichever ones up top is the one will open one two three four five six seven eight nine and Ten case number ten Case number ten Thanks, and then a draft order here. Good luck everybody ten times on the draft order after ten top to bottom right there It'll be one through ten. That's the order There it is ten of ten right there Bring it in. Yes, that'd be good ten times here and again one through ten after ten is the draft order. Good luck everybody one two three four five six seven eight Nine and ten Richard K with the first pick and then it's William L second third is Garrett L four June Z five Gabriel C six John H seven Gideon S eight Gabriel C nine Richard K and ten John a Let me move those over again. That is your draft order. All right all servers Here we go everybody ten of ten Cards in memory all here we go Strange Ten of ten. Good luck everybody. There's still a few spots left for tonight guys Just a few Yeah, still three to go on number nine and two to go on number ten Hopefully some Harold minor. I hear there's a subway gift card in one of the boxes Okay, here we go And again everybody Just follow rules and we're all good to go. Let's have some fun Yeah, I'm excited to see what memorabilia is in this case. Okay, here we go. We're starting off Wow, we got a shirt color match breakers shirt color match on this one of a 2019 Panini select Justin Jefferson 2020 XRC prism tie-dye PSA 10 Serial number two of 25 What a start I knew I should have worn the tie-dye shirt tonight. What a start J Jetta's tie-dye. Yeah, that's sick.  Jim Minton on that one Someone have to eat so wait for meal every day. They would die lots of nice colors in this case so far 2018 Bowman Louise Robert first Bowman auto purple PSA Jim Minton and the auto is a 10 What a hit that is numbered 41 of 250 Lou Bob Pull one of these out of a tops chrome silver pack a few weeks ago Man, what a nice card. Okay. Let's see. Let's see Other PSA slab. I believe That guy's pretty good at baseball 2019 tops gypsy queen Mike trout Jackie Robinson day auto So he's got the 42 jersey the Jackie Robinson day patch PSA nine numbered nine of ten That is a really sick truck. I love the Jackie Robinson day gypsy Queens. Although. I like gypsy Queen a lot. Oh The Rick cucumber. Oh, you'd have to be an almanac to pick the Rick cucumber And you could only pick that you can't get that anacard. You can only pick that nine of ten On the Mike trout. Oh, actually riches texting me. I cannot under any circumstances give away The the pickle Rick. Okay. Sorry Sorry, sorry rich rich just texted me that. Oh, there's actually a price now Pickle Rick is 50k. That's a deal guys. That's a deal. Oh 2021 prism red Anthony Edwards BGS nine five gem mint Corners of nine Centering nine five edges nine five and surface nine five Beautiful and Edwards Three of two ninety nine. Wow, man. You cannot fit that many rolled pennies in someone's car It's a steal. It's not for the buyer Sweet Edwards. Yeah, lots of great color on this one so far. This is awesome God, oh, we've got a instant memorabilia redemption. I don't want to spoil it. I'll show you guys in a second Make sure Okay, so this is a jersey I'll show that a second You got a jersey here First memorabilia piece of the night you guys Bag is okay the bags open, but it's not like flash Signed jersey Dwayne Wade And it is an authentic jersey fanatics with the certification Nice flash jersey D. Wade, baby.  I don't work for now sick Wade Sick Wade Yeah What about that Or that's Let's keep going It is dummy thick 2011 upper deck all-time greats signature silver Michael Jordan how this card gems is crazy. This is such a thick card 9 5 10 on the auto Corners a 9 surface and edges both 9 5 and centering a 10 Upper deck basketball man 1 of 10. Yep. That's a good basketball player.  Yeah, that comes with a letter of authenticity as well hologram verification all that good stuff. Okay What else we got What else we got? Oh, that's filthy. Oh My god. Oh my god ultimate auto patch Wayne Gretzky Look at the patch though 46 of 50 from 05 upper deck ultimate.  Oh my god, man On card Gretzky 46 of 50 Back to back to back goats. Oh here we go the gym talking about MVPs and all those other stuff. Oh That's that's disgusting as well an impeccable numbers auto Kevin Durant 27 of 35 from 1617 impeccable as a warrior and this one was a redemption has not been out of this mag That is such a nasty design beautiful Kevin Durant Lane's boy right there All right Last box and then we draft Man, I love these two. This is from a love this set twenty twenty one bowman's best heat wave die cut Lava refractor auto of Shohei Otani and that is on card PSA 9 42 of 50 I Love these heat waves one of the more ambitious car designs in a bowman's best for sure. Yeah, that's nasty Beautiful Otani crazy. Okay Let's get ready to draft here So again, everybody know influence in the draft no discussing card values or memorabilia values for them I think that should work now that Now that is awesome. Sorry John. All right. Let's start the draft here Richard K Richard K pick number one two minutes While it is your pick if you want to see something again, please let me know Yeah, you couldn't see all the cards because the camera wasn't picked up yet Richard is that you and twitch chat? No, she's going with the Brady helmet Yeah, you can only ask to see a card if you're in the if you're in the drafts you confirmed Cool Richard's going with the Brady helmet. That's crazy, man Yeah, first off the word, how can you blame him? so nice William L congrats again or Richard that's I mean that was the The big men piece right that was the big chase for memorabilia William L pick number two two minutes for you You got the Wade jersey for the memorabilia left and then you still have eight cards Edwards Lubeb Jefferson trout and Otani KD Gretzky and MJ Yes, it's just such a wild helmet. It's so cool. It's all good Sam Quick one from William Cool, thank you again William congrats on this Jordan 2011 upper deck all-time greats just an extra crazy great on that card. I Wonder if there's a pop count on that or if that's it. I don't know Lane might know Good looking up. What a card. What a card great back-to-back picks there. Thank you guys Garrett L pick number three now Yep, Garrett L pick number three. Thank you very much for joining.  That's awesome. Yeah, all men acts a good place to try to find one of those, right? I'll show the front row here that I have set up Gretzky Otani and KD Again the KD was a redemption. It's been has a pinning sticker over it So it's been in that mag since it was put in the circulation basically and then we have Some really nice cards back here as well prism ant-man first bowman Lubeb Mike trout gypsy Queen Jackie Robinson day It's hide I X RC Jefferson, and then you have the D Wade Jersey as well little under a minute William. Oh, it's going with the Gretzky going to order number on this one one one two 74 perfect Williams going with the great one. I can't get over that patch That's so sick Again from 2005 right 2005 upper deck ultimate Yeah, congrats Garrett. Thank you again. I can't I can't get over that card. That's so cool That's a that's the sea from the captain patch, right? No, that's part of it. That's part of their logo That was an LA that's an LA Kingsworn play the Kings towards the end of his career next up is June Z Pick number four congrats. Congrats. All right Takes just don't get any easier do they Unless yeah, unless you have your sights set on something it could have been like on a little logo. Yeah Cannot go wrong here Again guys no influencing the draft no discussing card values much appreciated If you're enjoying watching, please hit the like button on YouTube. We appreciate it the hit number Yeah, we could we go over the card again real quick to 2021 bowman's best show how tiny heat wave die-cut auto lava refractor it's a PSA nine Just kind of crazy considering the shape of this card It's honestly, I don't know how you create a card like that, but it got a nine Which is awesome, and it's on card and it's numbered 42 of 50 That's so good. It's like 17 edges on this card for 15 corners per side 42 of 50 on the Otani PSA nine corners are a little burnt It looks like the card may have caught on fire at some point. Hey, that's always that's all the jokes You do here really I don't know if there's a PSA 10 of those I'd be kind of wild June's going with the Otani order number one one two four seven four nine One two seven four nine. Yep. There we go. Confirmed. Thank you June. Congrats on that Go with the oh Oh, oh, Tony So Gabriel see is up now. I'm not sure if Gabriel will be here Wasn't here last night I'll give him some time here. I didn't see an email from him today about his spots tonight. So let's see Gabriel see pick number four. Yep case number nine is breaking tonight Still has spots left guys. I'll drop you a link for that. Yeah, that's a really cool one Tim. I love those die cuts Alright, yeah, I don't think Gabriel will be here, but I'm gonna give him time I don't remember seeing an email about today's spots We're on case break number six 30 seconds Gabriel Of course sniff. All right, again, we still have the glare off these team bag or the grady card bags edwards trout lubeb Jefferson Kevin Durant and the Wade jersey Okay, that'll do it for the time. So I guess I'm gonna have to pick for Gabriel again, and I know He prefers baseball and basketball Um, so the best available out of those Best available out of those is gonna be the Kevin Durant Yeah, so I'm picking for Gabriel Gabriel is gonna get the Kevin Durant Again 16 17 impeccable it's been in the magia was a redemption And it's number 27 to 35 There you go Gabriel. Congrats on that I'm sure he'll enjoy that one Gideon S or no, sorry John H. John H John H pick number six John H pick number six Then Gideon will be seven Hey nice a pc card for you Thank you for confirming congrats John right to the pc for the Jefferson happy for a great pick tie-dye xrc So now we're on to Gideon Gideon s number seven two minutes Yeah, I love love tie-dye I hope they only keep that in select. I don't want to see that in other products You know, I just want there to be I wanted to be special I feel like that they we're gonna do it the prior we've done it right now. So hopefully you're right Hopefully it stays in select From yesterday. I think it was as either the Steph or the Jordan and dr. J Dual auto it was one of those two that was the bigger one Gideon wants to see the trout and the robert So we'll start with the trout 2019 gypsy queen Jackie robinson day auto so you can see the variation with the The number and the patch PSA nine and it's numbered nine of ten Really cool card there. Good grade for a gypsy queen card too a 2018 bowman louise robert First bowman auto purple It's a 10 10. So auto and card got a 10. It's numbered 41 of 250 30 seconds now Gideon Camo imprisonment tie-dye in select. I agree with that. I think I think that certain Like yeah, gold's overlapping is cool and stuff like that, but I I agree with that for the most part be filled of those two That's so close That's so close Um lubeb back Stratur crack. Um, I don't think so We'll see anything. That's a tough one Let's see I'm I'm gonna say the lubeb. I'm gonna say the lubeb first bowman, you know is bowman. So I'm gonna go with that one for Gideon. Congrats on that one Gideon It's the way to go here bowman bowman is king Gabriel c is up again. So I don't think He'll be here I'll give him a shorter timer this time I know that's against the rules, but if he wasn't here for the other one And he wasn't here last night. So we'll give him a little time to respond. But yeah Not in this time zone Gabriel c so it's something with um Something happened when we did a uh The twitch giveaway it's through stream elements. So I'll talk to will on monday and see what's up So we we we messed with something and then yeah, all right. I'm gonna go ahead and pick for Gabriel Um, he says he prefers baseball or basketball Uh, I have to make a tough choice again here All the tough choices. Yeah, this one's tough Um It's between these two Yeah, he did get basketball last week. That's that's true. I don't think that really matters Oh, he just feels like some both I'm going with a Jackie Robinson day trout Yeah, we're gonna go with that one for Gabriel It is kind of like an iny meeny mighty moe Because they're both pretty different cards too. But yeah, I'm gonna go with the trout on a 10 ps a nine. I mean That's a great card Jackie Robinson day patch Jackie Robinson day variation Man, I I took a long time to pick on that That was on me. All right, richard k Once again, thanks everybody for joining. So it's down to the uh Lots of red up here Anthony Edwards and Dwayne Wade Edwards Richard's going with the Edwards. Thanks again, Richard for joining congrats on the Edwards red Presum such a nice card. Good design that year too. I think Edward's in the Brady helmet crazy And then John A is getting the Dwayne Wade autographed authentic jersey Nice And that's gonna do it everybody. We've got another case coming up next


Hi everybody welcome back In the in the waiting room where we're in the lobby waiting just beautiful So up next something that has been waiting for Gabber Matei retired physician and you know many of you know this but for 20 years Gabber Was a family physician, you know had a family practice and had kind of care experience But then he worked for decades in the downtown Eastside With patients who were challenged with drug addicting and mental illness and from all of that experience He he began to write and he is the author of four books published in 30 languages So many people talk about those books, especially in the field that you all work in Internationally renowned speaker just mentioned to me a moment ago He's going to be doing an international gig coming up very soon That's that's interesting after the couple of years. We've had And he's highly sought after to talk about addictions trauma childhood development and relation the relationship between stress and health And today he's going to focus on mental health in schools and what's going to happen here is that Dr. Matei is going to come on and do make a few opening comments And then I will join him and mostly I facilitate questions from you so when I come back after Gabber has spoken to for I'll explain more about exactly how that's going to work how we'll take questions from you So without any further ado, please welcome Dr. Gabber Matei Thank you, Maria. It's always a pleasure to work with you and It's a pleasure for me to speak to teachers. Just one quick note if you anybody knows my right eye being very red today Nobody beat me up. I seem to have birth of blood vessel swimming this morning. So that's all that happened It's especially a pleasure for me to speak with teachers for two reasons One is that I used to be a high school teacher myself. Some of you don't know this but I thought high school for three years and I Decided working with kids is way too stressful. So I went to medical school instead and The other reason is is that In our society Kids spend more time in school Then they do with their parents Which is completely unnatural It's completely unnatural from the point of view of human development Because we evolved over hundreds of thousands in fact millions of years in small-band hunter-gatherer groups where Children were with their parents the whole day And it was completely different and that's what we evolved. That was our evolutionary niche now When civilization came in the scene what we call civilization Or 12,000 years ago that started to change so that The environment and with the rise of industrial capitalism has changed even more so that the Situation where kids are away from their parents the whole day and there with other adults who? are Every year strangers to them Is both unnatural and unprecedented now The press the prevalence of I'm not saying it's wrong by the way I just said it's unnatural and unprecedented and we have to be aware of its implications and what that means now Within the last three weeks. There's been two major articles one in the New Yorker magazine. The other is in your own times about the increasing suicide rate amongst children and Both the articles say that this is a mysterious trend We don't understand it But to my mind there's nothing mysterious about it because the mental health of children has been increasingly Unbalanced for over the last several decades more and more children are being diagnosed with all manner of disorders from ADHD attention deficit high-practice disorder oppositional defined disorder Conduct disorders reactive attachment disorders anxiety depression and so on and The medical model that I was trained in and that most physicians still follows that what we're dealing with here are disorders of the brain and Significantly genetically determined That cannot be the case Because if it was the case the numbers wouldn't be going up because genes don't change in a population over 10 20 30 50 or 100 years So if we're seeing something in greater preponderance, what it cannot be due to is genetics Now some people may argue that nothing is actually changing. We're just better at diagnosing things Or we might be too keen to diagnose things Well, that may be some truth to that but it doesn't explain what's going on It doesn't explain the increasing number of visits For suicide attempts to emergency wards And it doesn't explain much of the trends that i'm describing So If it's not genes, we're going to find the answer Then we're going to find the answer now unfortunately The parenting literature and The school systems in general When they look at kids with these problems, they see behavior issues So bullying is a behavior issue and so they Answer has been in many school boards zero tolerance now once in preparation for a book that I didn't get to write because I didn't have time on bullying with my friend Gordon newfield I looked at the literature On the impact of zero tolerance policies on bullying, you know what the There was an article that summed up all the research, you know what it said zero tolerance zero evidence So there's zero evidence that trying to change kids behaviors either through positive incentives Or particularly through punishment and social isolation does any good whatsoever in fact predictably they create more problems So I want to set aside any idea that we're dealing with behavioral issues here Because those what we have to look at is what's happening to kids When kids act out, why did they behave the way they do and I've often said this Take that phase acting out when I say acting out the natural tendencies for your mind to imagine a kid who's being obstreperous oppositional rude aggressive disobedient But consider the I used to be an English teacher. So I pay a lot of attention to language So consider the actual meaning of the phase acting out. What does it actually mean? It means that we portray in behavior something that hadn't we haven't got the language to say in words So in a game of charades Where you're by rule not allowed to speak what do you have to do to convey the message you have to act it out Or if you land in a country where nobody spoke your language and you had to portray hunger You'd have to make some gestures indicating a desire to eat So acting out then is Representing in behavior something you haven't got the language for We can respond by trying to Inhibit the the form of the message was just the behavior or we can get the message What are the kids actually acting out? What kids are actually acting out I will maintain and I say so backed by A lot of scientific literature What kids are acting out are the emotional psychological dynamics So bullies acting out his or her or their lack of self-esteem And their need to dominate others You know to feel better about themselves Is the solution then to punish the boeing and you know zero tolerance was it to Provide that kid with a sense of self-esteem What it all comes down to and how did the child lose the self-esteem? Why did they not develop in the first place? Well, here's the thing the human child And the brain of the human child Develops an interaction with the environment So even if we're to look at these various conditions like ADHD and anxiety or depression or oppositional defiant disorder As brain problems we still have to ask ourselves. How does the human brain develop? Now I will quote you Two lines or two sentences from an article From the harvard center on the developing child. This is the world's foremost child developmental study institute at harvard university and the article appeared In a journal pediatrics ten years ago now Pediatrics the journal is the official journal of the american pediatric academy I'm going to give you two sentences on brain development The architecture of the brain is constructed to an ongoing process that begins before birth Continues into adulthood And establishes either a sturdy or a fragile foundation for all the health learning and behavior that follow I'll go through that again The architecture of the brain is constructed to an ongoing process that begins before birth You know what that means that means that already The child's experiences in utero have an impact on their brain development And the most stressed mothers are the most stressed hormones Get transferred to the baby through the placenta of the umbilical cord that interferes with brain development So if we're going to start looking at why so many kids are having problems Let's look at the stress on pregnant women in this society Okay ongoing process that begins before birth Continues into adulthood. I'd like you to consider the Implications of that statement continues into adulthood It means that the schools Whether they realize it or not Are not in the business of teaching mathematics Or what year the battle of water who takes to place Or who are the fathers of confederation. They're in the business of constructing brains Because if you construct brains That are good The child will very easily learn mathematics Very easily Have a curiosity about history It will be a joy to teach But fundamentally What we want is our healthy brains They're engaged with the world That's your main job I maintain Especially since as I said in the beginning kids spend so much of their time in the schools So to finish that sentence Continues into adulthood And establishes either a sturdy or fragile foundation For all the health learning and behavior that follow not some of the health Not some of the learning all the health learning and behavior of all So the template for healthy learning and behavior And health itself Is a brain that develops optimally That's the first sentence Rich in implications The second sentence is The interactions of genes and experiences Literally shapes the circuitry of the developing brain Not genes The interactions of genes and experiences Experiences turn genes on and off It's experiences acting on a genetic potential That actually determines brain development And you can have two kids with exactly the same set of genes Give them different experiences. There'll be two very different people So the interaction of genes and experiences literally shapes the circuitry of the developing brain And is critically influenced by the mutual responsiveness of adult child relationships Particularly in the early childhood years In other words, the biggest influence On the development of healthy brain circuits of incentive and motivation and curiosity The capacity to acquire information Impulse regulation Empathy Compassion Connection with others The biggest influence is the quality of adult child relationships Now again By that they largely mean parents But again given that kids spend so much time away from their parents from daycare onwards to their 18 years of age Graduated from high school. We're talking about the quality of adult child relationships. And what I'm saying therefore Is that the biggest Contribution Teachers can make To the healthy development of the of the children Is not just how good they are at the subject matter that they're trying to convey But the quality of their relationships with the child Because when the child feels connected with and safe What happens is that the prefrontal cortex the part of the brain that learns And can make decisions opens up and is available When a child doesn't feel understood and seen and validated and safe that shuts down And that child is not able to learn No teachers cannot be responsible for the original template of how kids develop because that happens in a family of origin, but you have to understand That these kids with mental health issues and behavior problems They're challenged Because they haven't had the necessary conditions for healthy brain development All right, I mentioned oppositional defined disorder. I'm going to tell you how meaningless these diagnoses are Diagnoses don't explain anything. Now, I myself have been diagnosed with ADHD attention deficit hyperactive disorder That happened in my 50s and my first book was about that subject In which I pointed out that this is not an inherited brain disease that the tuning out and the absent mindedness are actually Nature given coping mechanisms when there's too much stress So if I'm stressed and I can't change the situation or escape it my mind will tune out But what happens when the parenting environment is stressed in the child's early years when the brain is developing? in the first year of life There are times when every minute billions of connections are being made in the brain under the impact of the environment So the more stressed parents are The more stressed the infant is the more stressed the infant is the more they need to tune out When their brain is developing So i'm not dealing with the disease here. We're dealing with that. We have sponsored the environment. If you want to help that child We have to make them feel safe. So they don't have to tune out oppositional defined disorder Another one of these so-called diagnosis Now by the way, ADHD doesn't explain anything. So you might say Gabor has ADHD How do we know that Gabor has ADHD? Because he has tune because he tends he has a tendency to be absent minded and he's got poor impulse control Which has been historically true about me by the way I've grown out of it, but i'm 78, you know Uh, so Gabor has ADHD. Well, how do we know he's got ADHD? Because he tunes out and he's got poor impulse control Why does he have poor impulse control and why does he tune out? He's got ADHD How do we know he's got ADHD because he tunes out and says poor impulse control Why does he you know, in other words, we haven't explained the thing. Have we we've described it But we haven't explained it The explanation is in a child's relationship with the environment oppositional defined disorder That's the diagnosis that's increasingly being made We've got this disease or this condition called oppositional defined disorder That's the stupidest diagnosis in the whole world. It doesn't even exist Not only doesn't exist in real life It can't even exist in theory Because it assumes that the child has a disorder Now think about it oppositionality Can I be oppositional to somebody that i'm not in relationship with? If you know what i'm talking about Tonight when you go home or if you're at home right now Go into a room by yourself Shut the door Make sure there's nobody under the bed or behind the curtains and or post somebody when you're by yourself And if you succeed in doing so for god's sake, explore it on youtube because we all want to see how it works Oppositionality by definition implies a relationship, doesn't it? And if oppositionality finds By definition implies a relationship. Why aren't we diagnosing the child's relationship with the adult world? Rather than diagnosing the child So these kids who Have the odd traits which describes how they behave They behave that way because they don't have a good enough relationship with the adult world They may not even trust the adult world and maybe they've been pushed on too much By the adults with expectations and demands. So they're pushing back That doesn't mean we don't have a real problem to deal with But it means that we're barking up the wrong tree if we're trying to diagnose the child with this disorder So I could Explain anxiety or depression along similar lines. These are all responses to the environment Now teachers have an unenviable or a very challenging job because On the one hand, you are tasked with delivering certain information to kids But on the other hand, a lot of these kids are challenged. So they have difficulty Absorbing that information even following the rules What are you supposed to do now? Here's what the problem in I can tell you lots of problems in medical education Most physicians wouldn't know what I'm talking about Even though the science is not even controversial But I'm afraid that that As far as I understand it Pedagogical information pedagogical education also leaves out any kind of psychological developmental understanding of the child Which is rather strange when you think about it, isn't it? You're dealing with these young creatures and we don't learn about how they emotionally develop Now, why do I emphasize emotionally developed? Because the intellect Is not in the lead was in the lead of most of our lives and particularly children's lives are their emotions As a matter of fact, if you look at brain development itself The right side of the brain, which is the holistic emotional side of the brain develops faster and earlier than the intellectual left side of the brain Now most of education is designed to appeal to the left side intellectual side of the brain But in fact, the right side is the template and the edifice of Intellectual learning and knowledge and awareness is built on a foundation of emotional balance That's how human beings developed. We were emotional creatures long before we were intellectual creatures And that's how a young human being also develops That the emotional creatures before they're intellectual creatures So that schools need to pay a lot more attention to the emotional needs of children As opposed to simply through their intellectual concerns that we have By taking care of the emotions of children, we are ensuring that the intellect opens up And can absorb information and this is especially true Of the kids that are challenged by these so-called mental health diagnoses Which actually are not diseases at all They're problems in human development Because Development is everything See an acorn if I had an acorn in my hand right now That acorn has the potential to become a huge beautiful Leafy oak tree But it doesn't happen automatically I'd have to plant it in ground that can support it irrigation sunlight minerals Earth to dig its roots into Same with children. They need to the right conditions to develop This society Deprives them for all kinds of reasons of their developmental needs I'll be bold enough to mention my new book which will be out in the fall It's called the myth of normal trauma illness and healing in a toxic culture And the case I'm making is that this culture is toxic to human development The fundamental emotional needs of children Are fourfold number one the attachment relationship with the nurturing adults secure attachment relationships and given that Teachers are in an in local parentis position in you know in a place of parents. It also means secure attachment to the teachers But the child feels safe and understood and seen And heard and validated number one number two Rest from having to work to make that relationship work So the child's acceptance Should not depend on How pretty they are or smart they are Even how compliant they are They shouldn't have to work to be accepted and understood that doesn't let me tolerate behaviors That are disruptive. We have to address them. But the question is with what spirit? With what tone with what emotion? Do we do we address those behaviors? Believe me When I was in family practice I'd have adults in their 40s cry tears About something that a certain teacher said to them in a classroom The teacher had no idea what impact Their words had on that child They just said something offhandedly sarcastic 40 30 years later That person is crying in my office remember we call that I'm just telling you you have more power than you realize Because children are so vulnerable And even the hardened teenager is very vulnerable. So those are the first two needs The third need is for children to be able to experience all their emotions All their emotions Whether it's Joy or anger Sadness or grief And the fourth need is free play out there in nature Free play out there in nature Play actually is essential for healthy brain development There should be lots of play in the schools lots of play All animals play We have circuits in the brain that are designated for play. You know why because we need them for a healthy development cats play Lion cubs play bear cubs play dogs puppies play Human children need to play In our society, we've deprived them of play by burdening them with intellectual expectations before they're ready for it and also through the gadgetry This is designed to make kids addicted And I can't emphasize for you the already available scientific literature I can't emphasize it. I can't overemphasize it that shows that gadgetry Miss wires the brain So this is the daunting challenge because these are social trends that us teachers are not responsible for But you're made responsible for dealing with their impact With that challenge, I better stop talking because you only have 20 minutes or so left but even less I do wish I had more time to speak with you and answer your questions, but That's modern life So Maria, I'll stop here and let's take it from here. You can blame it on me. Okay. It's your fault Lots of comments coming in gabber uh people Picking up things that you're saying and appreciate appreciating them and um So just for a minute, I'll do a little bit of directions here What we're going to do in this session is take Questions gabber likes to see your face hear your voice And so if you have a question just go I think you probably all know this you've been on zoom a bit go down to reactions the bottom of the screen And just click on Any reaction I'll do it, but it's the hand raise reactions I don't see a hand raise in line, but let's just see it. Oh, there it is raise hand. See just like that Your hand and we'll try to watch and when that happens that the powers that be the Will will unmute you so you can ask your question I'll be watching I mean one comment only. This is may seem self-serving, but it isn't Those of you that are dealing with kids with attention problems. You should really read my book scattered minds Which will explain do you like you won't find anywhere else? I say that Advocately But all of you there's a book that I co-wrote called hold on to your kids Why parents need to matter more than peers now? That's not my work I helped to do with the writing, but it's a brilliant work for my friend and mentor dr Gordon Jungfeld who's the leading developmental psychologist in the whole world as far as I'm concerned He lives here in Vancouver. I say that totally advisedly and He lives here in Vancouver And Gordon understand children and children how children learn like nobody does So his website and that book and his dvds Are an unparalleled resource for anybody dealing with troubled kids I hope you'll listen to him. I hope you invite him to speak to you and I hope you'll do so many times because he's a Bottomless font of knowledge and information On chelby. Well, just we'll just I agree. We'll just ask For that link to Gordon new fell just Google no Gordon new fell, but maybe do you put in the chat here? Um, thanks for that Gabber all right, so um, I'm going to start from I think it comes in order of people asking the question So monique more has a question and money. Just wait for a minute. Well, and you can take you you monique can take your hand down now Okay, great. Thank you a few steps here unmute and We're good. We can hear you lower hand Hi, Gabor. Thanks so much For for sharing your wisdom this morning and we sure look forward to reading your your new book this fall um Many if not most of us are working with children that are are profiling With the complex concerns that you shared and um, could you give us some advice how to have those? Uh, or some recommendations how we can have those delicate conversations with our families on how to reduce the stress level of the home environment um, of course, we have those conversations around devices, but any um Recommendations how to have those conversations with the families we work with Yeah, thank you. So um Just a quick word about devices I would not all I would not allow a cell phone in the school I just wouldn't allow a cell phone. I think it's insane that kids carry their cell phones in their schools They need to relate to each other and to adults not the machines If I was advising parents, I tell them not to let them near these things for years and years and years Any more than you let them drink this is more addictive than drink is you know You have to realize that they're designed to be addictive By a neuroscientist It's called neuro marketing. They call it Now in terms of the conversation with the families What we have to realize here is that parents are doing their best They're doing their best But their best just like I did my best But my best was limited by the trauma in myself that I hadn't resolved So I was passing on my child to my kids without meaning to So are these parents But they're not bad parents. They're the best parents they can be So we have to approach them with a lot of compassion A lot of understanding of the challenge they're facing and they don't understand their kids and they they live in a culture Which is behavior oriented So they think the kid's got a behavior problem or they're glad to get a diagnosis because oh this explains why my kid is that way We have to really come alongside the challenges that the parents are facing and say like this is difficult for you What consider that the biggest influence on the child is the emotional environment in a home For which the parents have to take Responsibility So how can I help you Understand the child's emotional needs and what are your needs that need to be met? So you have to I'm giving a general approach that that that has to be understanding of the parents dilemmas and their likely traumatization That doesn't blame the parent that that delivers the information of the child's needs without making the parents feel blamed That's delicate because parents are very defensive And they very quickly believe that they're being criticized when there's no critical intent So the approach has to be very gentle Very compassionate that the more you can deliver that to the parents the more they will Approach the children that way. That's my general response One of the somebody just put into chat when people know better And have the resources and supports to do better They generally will yeah Yeah I have this conversation And just to complete that answer I'd begin in such conversation not by talking to the parents but by listening to the parents Say, what's it like for you? You know I start with that The parent needs to feel that you're there on their side And the thing is that that so many of people online with us now are teachers. They're not counselors. They're not therapists Yeah, well and That's okay, you know, look I've talked to a lot of teachers and and and I've seen it Some teachers Not because they heard this information from me or some any other code expert But because they intuitively connect with kids That I want to do a great job They don't even realize why they're doing a great job But they're doing a great job because they know how to smile at a kid how to get onto the kids level and say Hello, how are you today or just some little gesture of understanding and connection? You don't need to be a therapist You just need to be even being that no sort of connect with uh with the child Yeah, I wanted to say that Let me tell you about my my nephew or my grand uh my nephew in law. He's a teacher and um He's he told me once when he was a student teacher um Kids would sometimes come up to me and say hey mommy And he was it was a bit confused by that I said sam they're giving you the biggest possible compliment because they're talking They're they're regarding you as a nurturing figure He wasn't doing anything deliberately that's just his nature And they are so embarrassed when the children do that. I know that but they need not be embarrassed either No Yeah, Cindy um, and I was wrong about Removing your hand Just keep your hand even up until they remove it for you. If you know what I'm saying just come on screen, Cindy Thank you. I think I'm on mute um boy I always appreciate having a chance to listen to you go and when you said Zero tolerance zero evidence, you know, I I was like yes. Yes. Yes. And yet, you know If you look at some common practice in our schools We tend not to practice that very well And I guess I am thinking here and and certainly there's a very strong interrelationship between mental health and substance use and you you've spoken a lot on related to mental health and and Mental illness, but I'm I'm curious if you can just make some some comments That you think are helpful for folks and how we approach substance use as a you know And in substance misuse as an opportunity to to listen to pull kids closer and not You know, not further marginalize and or well, maybe I'll be quiet and I'll I'll turn it over to you if that's okay fair enough so All addictions whether they're substance related or not Are attempts to regulate the person's internal emotional states in other words, I'm experiencing distress and I'm going to engage in some behavior Which could include taking the substance to not to feel the distress that I'm experiencing So addictions and substance use problems are not Isolated problems. They're the manifestations Of a problem in that human being so when I work in the downtown east side all those years Every single one of my female patients. It means sexually abused as a child They had a lot of pain to escape from There's a reason Why our first nations communities suffer so much addictions because they're the most traumatized segment of the population I don't think I have to tell you why There's a reason why 30% of the people in jail in this country are origin or originals Indigenous people that make up 4% of the population 50% of the women in jail in this country are indigenous. They make up 4% of the population Why because they have the most pain of any other group in this society? so the My response to addiction is don't ask why the addiction ask why the pain So these kids that are engaged in substance use They're using it Either feel more alive Or to feel less pain Or to connect with their peers Why do they need that connection with the peers because they don't have the healthy connection with their adults? so in a very small nutshell Substance use is always an attempt to soothe internal distress So rather than blaming the kid or you know, this business of preventing drug use by telling kids that drugs are bad for them You might as well give it up the reason you might as well give it up because the kids who are listening to you Don't need the advice Because they're connected to you and the people who kids who need the advice they're not connected to they don't listen to you That's why they're using So the thing is to come alongside again and understand their emotional states and to appreciate what the drug is actually doing for them connection numbing peace of mind Who doesn't want that? You need to validate what they're looking for and help them other ways to find it That's it in a nutshell And people are saying cindy. They love that you said pull children in close. It's not time out. It's time in That's right. Yeah There's a canadian psychologist no longer alive. Unfortunately auto when Weninger wrote a book called time in parenting Ken can of supper He'll be unmuted in just a second and we'd love you to ask a question Thank you. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah Hi gabor. Thanks for uh your contributions Always great to hear your perspective. Um, I was going to follow it was something related to what cindy was asking but uh, you know for a long time The concern about sending the right message to youth about drugs and drug use has been a preoccupation And i'm wondering with the changes that have been happening in the past number of years with respect to dealing with the toxic drug crisis things like decriminalization safer supply Other initiatives that might be perceived as sending the wrong message I just wonder if you have thoughts on how school-based professionals can Sort of interface with youth to help them understand the kinds of shifts that are Taking place in the context of this of this drug crisis So you mean it might be confusing for a child to see drugs being decriminalized or made available to drug users Understand, is that what you mean? That's certainly been Assertions by some people that that these kinds of changes are sending the wrong message to youth Those are the assertions by people that don't know what the heck they're talking about They just haven't done the research. That's all. What can I help? I can't help them because I show them to the research literature The kids don't use drugs because there's a supervised injection site on these tastings Nobody says hey, hey, I'm at a party and I can start injecting heroin because in downtown east side Or or take crystal math or whatever because downtown east side. There's some facilities. No, that's not why kids get addicted or or or get Uh recruited into substance use. It's for the reasons that I talked about so the message that we give to kids I said it's useless The kids that listen to you They get it. They don't need the advice But I'm not saying don't talk about them But don't expect that giving the right advice will save the kids at risk The kids who are risk for drug use are the ones who are traumatized and troubled and and ill at ease in their own skins Giving them advice is not going to make any difference Nor will it make it more likely that they use drugs because We have some sane Relatively sane policies in the downtown east side. So there's no correlation between the two And I know can ask that they some people make that argument But the only people that make that argument that really haven't looked at the research thank you and we have um I'm just a few minutes left, but there are two people of question suki. Do you want to take it away? You need to unmute yourself. Yeah, I think heather has to unmute her either. Could you unmute suki? Just one minute suki. Sorry Um Thank you so much. I'm so grateful to hear you today again And I really would like you to to tell us more about healthy play across the ages in my belief adults need play as well Would you talk more about what you see is healthy play? Well, healthy play is Play that has no consequence For one thing. It has no agenda except the process of engagement So that it's not a question of who wins or who loses is the question of the fun that we're having So there's no agenda there healthy play is also Physical interaction without threat healthy play is simply Giving free play if you like to imagination Without evaluation healthy play is The sheer enjoyment of the other being that you're interacting with without wanting anything from them Those are the qualities of healthy play Now if you want more resources on play, I can again recommend Dr. Gordon Neufeldt And there's a late and great neuroscientist called yak panksep p and k s e p p We're actually distinguished That I mentioned earlier. There's a play circuit in our brain and he said brilliant writings on play But those are the qualities of of healthy play And I have to emphasize again as human beings be evolved out there in nature. We didn't involve in school rooms We didn't involve inside buildings. We evolved out there in nature. Healthy play is built into our DNA healthy play in nature So we should give kids lots of our opportunity to be out there interacting with nature Thanks, suki. Janet. We don't have time for another question. Maybe you could put your question in chat and and maybe Dr. Matic can respond to I'm sorry that we didn't have enough time for that again blame me and Gabber as always this is really I've been very helpful been watching the chat throughout people are picking up on what you're saying and for me It conjured up a teacher that I had who made a difference. It wasn't a counselor He was a literature teacher in grade 12 grade 10 Who said something one thing that made me feel seen and it actually changed my life So um, those are the people I hope everyone is thinking about right now and know that you are those people And maybe you don't know that you are but you are those people No, if I if I'm the same every once in a while every once in a while some guy with gray hair A woman with gray hair comes up to me and says you don't remember me But I was your student way back then and but and and and and just something you said made all the difference in the world and I'm sure that a lot of you who've been in the game old and long enough Well, I've had those kind of experiences. You have no idea how powerful you are And that goes both ways Depending on how you deploy that power Thank you. That's that's a really powerful connection to make. Gabber. We'll see you soon. Yes. Take care. Thank you. Bye.


Yellow fever is a virus that is typically found in tropical areas around the world. It comes from the mosquito, a lot like malaria. Yellow fever has the name yellow fever because the virus attacks the liver. Now, when the liver is having problems, the skin tends to turn yellow. For most of Savannah's life since its founding in 1733, yellow fever was a deadly virus. Nowadays, we do have a vaccine for yellow fever and our doctors are better equipped to deal with the devastation that the virus causes a human. And since this disease is caused by a mosquito and typically spreads in tropical areas, Savannah is the perfect place for this virus to spread. Now, yellow fever, as I said earlier, affects your liver. It damages your liver, hence why your skin will turn to a yellowish color. But that's not all the damage that the virus does. Like most viruses, it will give you a really gnarly fever. It can cause people to hallucinate and to get the chills. It can also cause internal bleeding and issues with your kidneys.  You have to have a working liver and at least one working kidney in order to stay alive. Between the years 1807 and 1820, it is estimated that about 4,000 people died in Savannah, Georgia of yellow fever. At one point, the deaths were so overwhelming that the city basically dug a mass grave in a local cemetery in order to pile up the dead bodies. Now, funny, if you were lucky, you were put into this mass grave because you see sometimes with yellow fever, a person may appear to be dead when they're not actually dead. For the people in Savannah that they presume dead that they put into coffins, it is now known that some of those people were buried alive. They know this because when they pulled up some old graves, there were marks on the top of the casket showing how the victim had tried to claw their way out of the grave. Now, of course, if your body was thrown into a mass grave, you probably had a better chance of getting out of your situation. But before we go any further, remember to hit that subscribe button and give us a like. Welcome to esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce and today we're going to be talking about Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. To look at this cemetery, but this cemetery got started off in a pretty peculiar way. And to understand that, we have to look back at Puritan times when the colony of Georgia was being settled. So as we've said in other videos, General Oglethorpe settled Savannah in 1733 when it was still under British rule. Now, within the Puritan belief system, when a person died, it was superstition. It was belief. It was religious doctrine to make sure that their body was buried on hollowed ground. Now, what this means is that this ground needed to be blessed or be attached to a church. The local church at this point was the Christ Church. However, General Oglethorpe did not put the first cemetery in Savannah near or on Christ Church property. Now, we don't know why this is. Again, as I just said, this was a really big deal for the Puritan beliefs of afterlife. Kind of like how we know that the Puritans buried their bodies facing east, facing the rising of the sun, so that when the resurrection happened, their loved ones would be able to rise up out of the grave. Now, this point in history to our ancestors, if you're Western of Western descent, did not view death the same way that we view death. If you remember back to our Oakwood Cemetery episode here in Atlanta, we talked about how it became a park and a social place. I mean, most cemeteries today have landscaping.  But during Puritan times, this was not the case. In Puritan times, death was kept far away. It was attached to the church. It was something that we didn't talk about. In fact, during Puritan times, things like art wasn't really accepted. The only time you would ever see art would be on somebody's tombstone. And so when Colonial Park Cemetery was founded, it was founded under Puritan beliefs. A lot of the older graves were not manicured and kept up with in the way that we monitor, manicure, and take care of graves and cemeteries today. In fact, our relationship with death changed around the Victorian era, which was the mid to late 1800s when Queen Victoria was the monarch reigning over England. This all happened when her husband, Albert, passed away. There was a deep mourning in almost what we now call a celebration of life. Now, what's pretty incredible about this particular cemetery as you can see the evolution of our perception of death from the Puritan views of it being a little bit more taboo to the Victorian ideas of celebrating and visiting the dead. Now today, Colonial Park Cemetery is absolutely packed solid. There is no place in the ground that you can step where you're not going to be stepping on a dead body. So the first part of the cemetery, as I said, was settled in 1733 by General Oglethorpe. The cemetery didn't become an actual cemetery until 1750. Now, as more and more people started immigrating into the new world, of course, that meant more and more deaths were occurring. So it wasn't long until they had to expand the cemetery yet again. And so the new land was added soon after it was established in 1750. Now, the third part of land was established in 1763 and this third section backs up to Abercorn Street, which is again our video with the demonic house of Abercorn Street. And that's the section of Colonial Park Cemetery that I have seen is the one that backs up to Abercorn Street. Now, again, they had to expand. So the fourth plot was added in 1770. And then once more, 1812 came around and they added the very last part of land to the cemetery. This cemetery, when it was founded, was considered to be outside of the city. If you're familiar with the city of Savannah, you know that this cemetery is right smack dab in the middle of the city. Very similar to our Oakwood Cemetery here in Atlanta, which again, that cemetery was also supposed to be outside of the city, but now is right in the middle of Atlanta. So just how many people are buried at Colonial Park Cemetery? Well, that's a good question. Again, as I said in the opening with the Yellow Fever outbreak in 1820, they just dumped a mass grave in the cemetery and put a bunch of bodies in there. Now, here's a little thing too that I found quite interesting seeing that my heritage is the low country as well. The ground in the low country is very different. It's got a lot of sand. So if your ancestor has a tombstone is one of the lucky ones to have a marker and you go to dig him or her up, chances are they might not be there anymore. You see, something really weird happens with the sand based ground and it tends to move the coffins. Now, a few years back, an archaeological group decided that they were going to try to figure out exactly how many bodies were in this cemetery. And again, bodies have been buried on top of each other. So what they figured out was there were about 550 marked graves and 8078 unmarked graves. That's a lot of damn bodies down there that have no identity attached to them. But you have to remember, like I said earlier, some of these bodies were buried during Puritan times. And because they were buried during Puritan times, the customs were very, very different than the customs that we started to see in the Victorian age and of course in our modern time as well. The idea of death was very different. So even though some of these graves are unmarked, it does not mean that these people were not loved or were just tossed aside. They could have very well been loved, honored, cherished people in their family. It's just that their interpretation of death was very different than ours today. But nonetheless, in 1924, the city of Savannah started to try to revamp this cemetery. And they first started by taking a man named Sam, Sam Elbert, who died in 1788. Now, he and his wife had been buried on his plantation. But the city decided to remove his body and bring it to this cemetery. And of course there is a marker on his grave site if you want to see Sam Elbert's grave. Now, Sam Elbert's grave is what we call a tabletop grave. And you'll see a lot of these in older cemeteries where they actually look like a tabletop. This does not mean that the body is inside. The body is under the ground. It was just the style of death back in those days. Now, of course, by today there are a ton of very famous and big names buried in Colonial Park. But I'm going to give you one more name. If you want to learn the rest of the people buried there, there are so many videos up about the people in the cemetery that you can refer back to. There's also tours in Savannah that you can go on specifically just for this cemetery. But the last big person we're going to talk about is someone we've already spoken about. If you can remember back into our first Evergola episode, we talked about a man named Archibald Bullock. I loved that name. Well, if you remember correctly, Archibald was the first ever governor of the state of Georgia. Now, again, he was born in Charleston, my family's hometown. And he ended up moving to Savannah to marry the woman that would become his wife. Now, Archibald is also the great, great grandfather of our late President Theodore Roosevelt. Another fascinating thing about Archibald Bullock is that even though he ended up spending most of his life in Georgia, he was not a loyalist. He was a patriot. He fought for our freedom. Now, in our last episode, we talked about this American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence. And we talked about how Thomas Jefferson wrote out the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. And there were 56 delegates from all of the different colonies who signed this Declaration of Independence, declaring the colonies to be a separate and independent country from Great Britain.  Now, Archibald Bullock was the one man in Savannah who stood and read out the Declaration to all of the citizens in Savannah. Now, you have to also remember that Savannah was the first capital of Georgia. So it makes sense that Archibald would have been living in Savannah as the state's first ever governor. So if you do find yourself in Savannah and you do go to the cemetery, I would suggest going and visiting all Archibald's place of burial. Now, you can't have a big cemetery like Colonial Park Cemetery without having a few ghost stories. We have talked about a few cemeteries over the course of this channel, and I still stand by my belief that most cemeteries are not haunted, except for the ones that we've talked about. And Colonial Park is one of the cemeteries that is definitely very, very haunted. Now, among the hauntings at this cemetery, there are a lot of children. This makes sense. It's kind of like Gracie Watson from Bonaventure Cemetery. I would imagine that most children who die probably are more confused about what's happening than the average adult. And with all the bodies from Yellow Fever, I definitely know that there are a lot of children in the mix. And of course, if children have passed away together and they're all in this cemetery together, they probably are having just a grand old time playing together in their new found home. However, before we move on to our main ghost of this cemetery, I do want to also reference that this cemetery is very, very, very much used by the local Gullah culture for their root doctors. Again, we spoke about this in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, where the root doctors refer to cemeteries as gardens, and they go there to do their root magic. Again, practicing magic from 11.30 to midnight is for the good. Practicing magic from 12 to 12.30 is for the evil, hence Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Now, if you are interested in this side of Southern culture, especially I should actually probably rephrase that Southern low country culture, I would definitely walk by the cemetery at night. I believe in this stuff. I very much respect the Gullah people and their way of life, their faith has very much affected the way that I view the world in general. So if you do see this going on the cemetery again, please, please, please, please, please be respectful to the practitioners. Most people are pretty comfortable nowadays talking about this side of the low country. A lot of people who are native to Savannah, regardless of their race, will be able to kind of give you more information on what's actually happening during these ceremonies. Alright, so let's move on to our main ghost, the main attraction of Colonial Park Cemetery. Over the years, many people have claimed to see a very large spirit walking through the cemetery. This spirit is of a man named Renee. Now, he does have a last name. I'm not going to give it because there is speculation on whether this story is true or not. Who knows? You know, a lot of people need hard, fast evidence to believe something is true. However, if you are a child of the South like I am, you know that sometimes, especially if you come from a very prominent family, the little mishaps might just get pushed under the rug and there's no way to really trace through paperwork what actually happened. Now, Renee was supposedly a very, very tall young man. He was close to what I've heard, seven feet. Now, again, that part of the story could be urban legend. There could be a lot of parts to this story that are just strictly urban legend. Now, they also say that he might not have been completely there mentally. I don't know what was wrong with him, but he obviously didn't quite have the intellect of an average person that would be able to go on and take care of his or herself. Now, in life, Renee was known to kind of roam around the city. You know, like I said, people just kind of let him be because, again, he didn't seem to really be all there.  Again, there is no paperwork to trace back these murders, but then again, this is the past. You know, we didn't really keep up with every single person back then, so who knows? Well, the town got really angry about this, and it was thought that maybe Renee had something to do with these murders. I don't know. From what I, how the story was originally told to me, it sounded like he, Renee, just became a scapegoat because he wasn't all there, and he was kind of a giant compared to people's the average height of... I mean, seven feet tall is tall for us even now, but as we know over time, over evolution we have gotten taller as a society. So, vigilante justice at its best. Renee was hung from the hanging tree in Colonial Park Cemetery. Now, sad but true, I don't think this is just a Southern thing or an American thing. I believe that throughout most countries, especially in the Western world, there were hanging trees. I know Salem, Massachusetts during the witch trials had hanging trees where people were hung. Granted, it does, there is a lot of like physics and just science behind killing someone via the hangman. It has a lot to do with their weight, how high they go and needed to break their neck. Anyway, I'm not an executioner. I don't want to be an executioner, so I don't really know the full physics behind that, but I'm sure you can look that up. So, people will go into the park and they will actually see the shadow image of a giant man hanging from the hanging tree. They also see Renee roaming about the cemetery, this big glute of a ghost. Now, some people do explain that his ghost seems to be quite sinister. From my own experience of people telling me this story, they have said the exact opposite. That even in death, this person still isn't quite with it and doesn't necessarily know where he is or what happened. But confusion is another theme and commonplace in Colonial Park Cemetery. If you're in the cemetery and you go behind the back wall, you're going to see a lot of tomb markers stacked on top of each other. If you go to read the tombstones, they're not going to make sense.  So, what happened? Well, during the Civil War, again, when Sherman came through Savannah, it is believed that his troops went through the cemetery and knocked down a bunch of tombstones. Now, some people say that Sherman's troops actually stayed in the cemetery. That was where they were hunkered down. I don't know if that's true or not. So, when they went to go clean up the cemetery after the Civil War, they tried to put as many tombstones back together as they possibly could. But because they had been broken down and pulled up, they didn't know where the bodies that belonged to these markers were. So, they just lined them up along the back wall. I know that all is fair in love and war, and I understand that there was a lot of conflict happening in the United States during the Civil War.  I mean, he came through, maybe it's because I grew up in the South that I hear all these stories. He came through and brutalized people that really had nothing to do with the war. They were just citizens. You can read a lot of William Faulkner books, like The Unvanquished talks about how aggressive the Union troops were to people. Women and children who were just, at this point, women and children really didn't have any rights anyway. It didn't matter the race you were. It didn't matter your socioeconomic background. If you were a woman or a child during the Civil War, you were beholden to your husband or your father. So, to take out any aggression on the women and the children in the South was just rude and was not good.  And I mean, to be so disrespectful to graves into the lives that were buried in this cemetery, I don't know anybody in my personal life who would ever venture into a cemetery, regardless of where it was, whether it was in their own home country or another country, or a country that maybe was in conflict with the United States. I don't know anybody who would be disrespectful to the bodies that were buried in the cemetery. And for those Union troops to pull up those tombstones, Lord have mercy. That is some heavy karma that you were building up for yourself. So, sometimes I don't know if maybe the dark spirit they think is Renee is actually maybe some confused people that know their place of rest have been tampered with. Who knows? And by the way, I have ancestors that fought for both the South, the Confederate, and the North, the Union. So, don't come at me with that me being from the South and all. I do have ancestors that are from Philadelphia, the Stafford line, and they were Union soldiers in the Civil War. So, I got both people here. Now, with all this conflict, all this grand history in Colonial Park Cemetery, again, Renee is our most famous ghost. And as I said, there's no paperwork to really put back to this story. However, he is the spirit that people see the most. I've never seen him myself. I know people who have seen him and he is, according to them, a giant spirit. My question is, and I've said this before, why hasn't anybody gone there and tried to move him over? If he is confused, if anybody in that cemetery is confused, regardless of whether it's Renee or a person mad because of what happened to their burial plot during the Civil War, or whether it's a child that died of yellow fever and doesn't know it's dead, why the hell hasn't somebody gone in there and tried to move them over to the other side? It's one thing if a spirit is hanging around because it's decided to hang around. It's another thing entirely if the spirit is there because it's trapped. Or maybe, just maybe, because of all the people that are stuck in that cemetery. Just maybe, that's why the Gullah people of Savannah use the cemetery to do most of their magic. Maybe they are the ones taking on the responsibility to help move these citizens of Yorne over to the other side. And the more that this group of people, the Gullah, the Gheechi, the more they come up in our stories, the more I want to emphasize that these, this group of people, they're not the Hollywood idea of voodoo. Yes, of course, in any faith, they're going to be people that use the faith for negative. Again, midnight to twelve thirty, that's for evil. But there's also a side of this faith that is used for the positive. They use the elements of nature to assist. I love the Gullah people. I love the fact that there is connection to all this root work from the low country. And I choose to believe that that is probably why this cemetery is used a lot. A, there's a lot of energy there. And B, there's an opportunity to help your fellow man. All right, guys, thanks for sitting through another story. I've gotten a lot of inquiries about the Gullah and the Gheechi people. And I will say that even in the south, there are different pockets of culture. I think most people are aware of that. Any place you go, you're going to have an overall culture, then you're going to have little subcultures. And even though I grew up in western Georgia, yes, my family was very much a low country family. And I do have a couple of ideas. I do actually work with a two, a Baba, an African priest and a female as well. I adore them. They are fantastic. And I do plan on bringing them onto the channel to talk more about what this form of faith looks like, especially in modern times. And the more you guys want to know about this, the more I will show that side of the low country. I think, again, as I said a long, many videos back most of the time when we think of this type of stuff, we do think of New Orleans.  But that this culture is also very, very, very much alive in the low country of South Carolina and Georgia. We just don't make a market off of it like New Orleans does. No offense.  And I don't think it, I think Midnight in the Garden of Good Evil is what kind of exposed this side of the low country as well to a greater audience. But if that's something you guys do want to know more about as I've been getting questions, I will be more than happy to do some more stories on that. So anyway, thank you guys again. Thank you to Josh McKay as always for doing our music. Thank you to Todd Roderick for being our editor and I will talk to you guys soon. Bye.


Soil erosion is a global threat. Each year 75 billion tons of fertile soil is lost from world agricultural systems. Nuclear testing in the 1950s and the 60s released radionuclides, such as cesium-137 into the atmosphere, in extremely low but measurable quantities. Over time, through precipitation, cesium fallout was deposited worldwide on the soil's surface. Because it bound strongly to fine soil particles, it became possible to use the presence of the cesium as a tracer, which provided science with a way to measure soil erosion. In the 1970s, scientists clarified the relationship between cesium and soil erosion, and from the 80s and 90s until now, they have refined this nuclear technique, creating a method to gather reliable and comprehensive data on the magnitude and rate of soil erosion. What is this cesium-137 method? How does it work? The cesium-137 method uses gamma spectrometry measurements to compare the total cesium-137 content in eroding or depositing sites with the cesium-137 content at undisturbed, stable areas known as reference sites. If the cesium-137 content is lower than the reference site value, it means that soil has been lost to erosion. While if the content is higher than the reference site level, it indicates that soil has been deposited there. This information provided by the cesium-137 method identifies areas with high erosion and sediment transfer, and enables better targeting of soil conservation measures, increasing our ability to control and mitigate soil losses caused by erosion and to reduce its environmental impact.


You'll hear folks in the raw food community waxing poetic about enzymes, important of preserving the activities of plant enzymes which are destroyed by cooking. Skeptics, on the other hand, indignantly assert that we have no use for plant enzymes since we're animals and make all the enzymes we need. Well, both sides are wrong. There are two known examples of plant enzymes serving physiologically useful functions and the production of sulforaphane is one of them. One of our most powerful phytonutrients, it is formed by an enzyme in broccoli. You cut or chew or chop up broccoli or broccoli sprouts and the enzyme is released and it gets to work making us a big batch of phytonutrient goodness. Cooking inactivates the enzymes though, so steamed broccoli doesn't have any. So why have experiments shown detectable sulforaphane levels in the blood and urine of people eating only cooked broccoli? Now I'm really confused. Were they sneaking raw broccoli on the side? No. How cool is this? Good bacteria that reside in our gut have the raw broccoli enzyme, too. So as soon as the cooked broccoli gets down there, the bacteria make sulforaphane for us. And the way they figure this out is that you incubate cooked vegetable juice with fresh human feces and voila! Sulforaphane is born. Not as much, though. To get the same amount of benefit in a cup of raw broccoli, you'd have to eat 10 cups of cooked broccoli. So I encourage people to try to eat their broccoli raw or alternatively chop the raw broccoli up first, wait 40 minutes for the enzyme to do its business, and then you can cook the heck out of it because the enzyme's job is already done. So the next time you want to make broccoli soup, put it in the blender raw, blend, wait, then cook. Safe for two, since you're not trying to blend hot liquids at the end. Or if you don't want to wait, you can, you know, those pre-packaged bags of pre-chopped broccoli in the produce aisle, more expensive, but more convenient and maybe even healthier because it's been building up anti-carcinogens the whole time in the store. For more on raw food controversies, I encourage everyone to go to their local library and check out Davis and Molina's Becoming Raw, which does the best job to date, summarizing the available evidence.


A new season of American Horror Story is right around the corner and this time they're transporting us to New York City. After a long year of little to no promo on the season, FX and Ryan Murphy have finally begun the promotional campaign and we've got a teaser, cast portraits, episode titles, leaks from the set and so much more, so make sure you stay tuned. But before I jump into all things American Horror Story, let me tell you a little bit about our sponsor for today's video, AtlasVPN. On Halloween, everyone is entitled to a good scare, but the real horror story this October is online insecurity. So if you're browsing the web without a VPN, that means your IP address is exposed to tracking and you might be exposing yourself to malicious malware as well. Lucky for you, AtlasVPN is offering you the best deal in the market and there are no limits on how many devices you can connect. 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But now let's start with the basics. American Horror Story NYC, like you may have guessed, takes place in New York City, and it will largely be a period piece set in the 80s. And there have been rumors about plot points potentially taking place in the 70s as well as present day. However, as of right now, the only time period I can confidently confirm is the decade of the 1980s. And after American Horror Story 1984, it will be interesting to see what tone they go for and which classic horror films from the decade of the 80s they may reference this time. Alright, let's continue this AHS news bonanza with some brand new character posters for the main cast of season 11, New York City. I'll take these one by one, giving you some stats about the actor and what little tidbits of info we have gathered about their character this season. First up, we have a character named Sam, played by Zachary Quinto. You know him from all the way back in Murder House where he played Chad, and in Asylum where he memorably played the villainous Dr. Oliver Threadson. Notably, he has not appeared for the past 8 consecutive seasons of American Horror Story, meaning his return in NYC will be his first appearance in the series in 10 years. I was definitely surprised to see his inclusion in the cast, and I'm very happy to see that he's going to be a main cast member this year as well. As for his character of Sam, we don't really know much about him yet. His character portrait seems to depict him tangled up in a whip and surrounded by leather tassels, so I think it's safe to say that the BDSM vibes of the promotional campaign will definitely leak into the season as well. And perhaps Sam is at the center of those plot points. The next character portrait FX released was Adam, played by Charlie Carver. This is Charlie's first AHS role, but you may recognize him from this year's The Batman Movie, or his role in Ryan Murphy's Netflix series Ratchet. As for Adam, we know some small details based on a couple of set leaks. In leaked footage that a fan took of Charlie Carver filming a scene for the season in New York City, we see him walking with Isaac Powell's character into a psychics office. The pair share some ice cream cones as well, and a kiss in some more footage from that same shoot. In a different scene that they filmed on the same day, Charlie Carver's Adam is shown walking Billy Lord's character into that same psychics office. Adam gets pretty close to Billy's character as well, so maybe there's something to Adam potentially seeking out many different relationships at once, perhaps in connection, whatever is going down inside of this psychics office. More on Billy Lord and Isaac Powell's characters in just a bit, but this is all I can gather about Charlie Carver's character named Adam right now. But his relationship with Isaac's character and this psychic is something to watch out for definitely. Next up, we got a look at Russell Tovey's character, and his name is Patrick. You probably know Russell from a lot of things, but to refresh your memory, he's had roles in Doctor Who, Quantico, and Sherlock to name a few, but this will be his first foray into a Ryan Murphy production as far as I know. His character, Patrick, seems to work for the NYPD based on his attire and his badge. I'd assume some sort of detective, but there's definitely a lot left to be learned about this character. Next, we have a character poster for Henry, played by American Horror Story veteran Dennis O'Hare. You know him from his eight appearances across the franchise, including Murder House, Coven, and most recently Double Feature in the second installment of American Horror Stories. As for Henry, he seems to be a wealthy elite type character based on his wardrobe and styling choices in the poster. He's been seen filming scenes on Fire Island with Zachary Quinto, so definitely expect Henry and Sam to be affiliated. Patty Lupone makes her glamorous return to AHS as a character named Kathy. This marks Patty's second appearance in the series, but it's been nine years since her last appearance as Joan, the neighbor who lived next door to Miss Robichos Academy in Coven. You may also know Patty from her status as a Broadway legend, as well as numerous roles in film and television, including Pose and Glee. As far as her character, Kathy, we don't know anything solid, but I would guess based on her wardrobe as well that she may be some sort of socialite, maybe a performer who hangs around the similar circles as Dennis O'Hare's character Henry. This is pure speculation, but nonetheless I'm very excited to see how they utilize Patty's many talents in this season. I also think we should note the amount of actors from Broadway that are in this season. There may be a Broadway related plot point. Maybe some of these characters are Broadway actors themselves. Definitely something to look for in the season. Billy Lord plays Hannah, a doctor according to her recent Instagram post. Dr. Hannah is also presumably pregnant for at least a portion of the season. As stated earlier, Hannah shares at least one scene with Adam, played by Charlie Carver, where he is rubbing her stomach as if she's pregnant. So whether or not Adam is the father or he's just a close friend of Hannah's is yet to be seen, of course. As well as what type of doctor Hannah is, all I know is I'm hoping Hannah has more screen time than Billy's last character, Lark. But next we got Sandra Bernhardt returning with a character named Fran. You know her from AHS Apocalypse and from Pose, and she's back for more with NYC. As for Fran, we know very little about her aside from her knack for grocery shopping, as well as a connection to the psychics reader's office as well. She was seen walking out of that filming location. Isaac Powell is back as a character named Theo. You know him from the Death Valley part of Double Feature or for his career on Broadway. As for his character Theo, well we already know he's romantically entangled with Charlie Carver's Adam, and based on his two character posters that were released, I think Theo is a cinematographer of sorts, most likely working in the pornography industry. It would be interesting to see if AHS NYC will take influence from this year's X, which follows a group of amateur filmmakers filming a porno in 1979. Aside from Theo's filmmaking career, we know he is also connected to the psychics office in that he is brought there by Adam, just like Hannah was as well. Leslie Grossman continues her hot streak with her fifth American Horror Story season in a row, this time playing a character called Barbara. But unfortunately we do not know any damning details about Barbara, so let's just move on to Cal Penn, who's playing an NYPD detective named Mack Marzara. You may know of Cal for his roles on House or Designated Survivor, or from the 2022 horror film that is now playing called Smile. His character Mack is one of the characters that we didn't know existed until his character poster was revealed. So aside from his affiliation with the NYPD, this one is a big question mark. Next we have another AHS newbie on our hands, Sis will be playing a character named Dunaway. From what I can tell, AHS NYC will be Sis's first major role. She previously had a small role on the TVS show The Last OG with Tracy Morgan. She also played a leading role in a national tour of the Broadway show Oklahoma, as well as organizing the trans march on Broadway to demand visibility and respect for trans performers. We know next to nothing about her character as like with Cal Penn's character. We did not know she was in this season until her poster was released. But based on her wardrobe and her very fancy cigarette holder, I would guess that she too has a connection to the psychics office, and maybe she is even the psychic reader herself. And the last poster we're going to look at today is for Rebecca Diane's character, Alana. You know Rebecca Diane from Death Valley and the facelift episode of American Horror Stories. As for her character Alana, we know next to nothing other than this additional look we got at her when she was spotted filming scenes for the season in New York City earlier this summer. Now AHS is still releasing character posters little by little, so check their social media to see if I missed any. But soon enough it will all come into fruition as American Horror Story NYC premieres its first two episodes next week on October 19th. There's a rumor that FX may release the entire season two episodes at a time, but only time will tell if that turns out to be true. They haven't made any official announcement at the time of me recording this video. Last season Double Feature premiered its first two episodes at once, just like NYC, but then of course as you know they released it one week at a time for the remainder of the season. So I have no reason to believe that they're going to stray away from that, but maybe. Now let's move on to some leaked episode titles that we've gotten for the season. At this point we allegedly know every single episode title of AHS NYC. So let's take it one at a time. Episode one is called Something Is Coming. Episode two is called Thank You For Your Service. Episode three is called Smoke Signals. Episode four is called Blackout. Episode five is called Bad Fortune. Episode six is called The Body. Episode seven is called The Sentinel. Episode eight is called Fire Island. Episode nine is called Requiem 1981-1987 Part 1, which means episode 10 is called Requiem 1981-1987 Part 2. Try saying that three times fast. So there's a handful of things that I want to point out about these titles. Let's first talk about episode four entitled Blackout. This episode could be a reference to the 1977 NYC Blackout, or it could potentially even take place during that Blackout. Mary Girl Moody did a very informative video about what went down on the night of that 1977 Blackout. So I recommend checking out her video if you want to theorize on how it could connect to AHS NYC. The next episode I want to talk about is episode five entitled Bad Fortune. This is when a lot of the psychic reader scenes are rumored to take place. So either those plot points begin or come to some sort of dramatic head in this episode. So expect those scenes with Charlie Carver, Isaac Powell, Sarah Bernhard, and Billy Lord to be a part of this episode. Fire Island is a reference to the real island off the shore of New York City, where the cast and crew were recently spotted shooting scenes for the season and probably for this episode. And then of course the two-part season finale entitled Requiem 1981-1987 is our first concrete indication of a time period. This title hints towards two separate storylines, or maybe one long storyline spanning from the year 1981 to the year 1987. So let me know all of your theories about these characters and these episode titles in the comments below, and there you have it. That is my roundup of all of the things that I can gather about this fast approaching season. Make sure you are subscribed as I'll be here every week with coverage of AHS NYC once it starts airing a week from today, or probably even less than that if you're watching this anytime after the day I post it. I want to give another big thank you to AtlasVPN for sponsoring this video. Be sure to check out that link in the description for three years of their service for just $1.99 a month. Thank you guys for watching and I will see you next time.