WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:04.639 The music. 2 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:13.160 It is necessary for the recording of sound to convert 3 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:17.399 the sound waves to corresponding changes in light. The sound 4 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:21.079 waves produced by my voice are transmitted through the air 5 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:24.879 to the microphone, where these sound waves are converted to 6 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:28.600 changes in an electric current. These variations in the electric 7 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:31.760 current are then amplified and used to control the light. 8 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:37.719 This varying beam of light falling on the photoelectric cells 9 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:42.320 produces variations in the electric current which are directly proportional 10 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:44.039 to the variations in the light. 11 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:47.039 Themes the crack. 12 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:52.920 As the varying electrical current in the photoelectric cell is small, 13 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:57.320 a ventuum tube amplifier is required to increase it to 14 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:58.240 the point where. 15 00:00:58.039 --> 00:00:59.960 It will operate a loud Speakers. 16 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:01.920 Contract. 17 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:22.599 Welcome to the Occult Rejects. So we're continuing off of 18 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:28.040 Maxwell's Medical Monopoly Part one. Will be continuing off of that, 19 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:31.519 hopefully should be dropping this early. It won't be a 20 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:37.120 regular episode. And I think where we had left off 21 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:40.079 last is that I was going to be going into 22 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:43.319 some of the interesting stuff when you saw looking up 23 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:46.560 these companies with like business wise and start looking at 24 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:49.359 them on Bizipedia. I think I had even mentioned in 25 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:52.519 the last episode to start seeing some of some interesting 26 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:55.760 names that I had seen looking at plenty of other 27 00:01:55.959 --> 00:02:00.400 weird companies in the past. I guess to get into it, 28 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:04.560 I'll bring up the first one, which will be a Springer. 29 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:09.280 I know we kind of talked about it lightly in 30 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:11.560 the last episode. I know Lisa had brought it up, 31 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:14.599 and I will go into them more. But Lisa, if 32 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:16.680 you want, if you don't mind, do you want to 33 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:18.879 just kind of like reiterate maybe what you mentioned the 34 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:21.400 last episode, and then I'll go into the sluds. 35 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:23.520 Mm hmm, just kind of like a bridge between two. 36 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:27.000 So remember last in the last episode, we talked about 37 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:30.400 how some of the British scientists like Fleming and Darwin's 38 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:35.360 grandson were talking. You know, basically they had all this 39 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:38.400 world renowned research coming out, yet they weren't able to 40 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:41.439 publish it because the publishing industry in Britain was lacking, 41 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:45.639 and so in order for the government to rectify this situation, 42 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:52.080 they called in another publishing company called Springer out of 43 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:55.680 Germany who was doing very well in the publishing industry, 44 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:59.199 and the person at the helm of Springer was Robert Maxwell. 45 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:03.639 He basically was bringing in a lot of the journals 46 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:07.000 into Britain from Germany, and he was stationed in Berlin 47 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.599 at the time because he was working with intelligence prior 48 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:12.479 to they had him there stationed. I believe he had 49 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:16.560 been doing integragations for the intelligence as well. And then 50 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:20.919 as he was working at Springer, the other company that 51 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:25.120 was wanting to merge with, which was Butterworths, was also 52 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:29.800 owned by intelligence people, so they knew him from, you know, 53 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:33.919 working intelligence prior to and then the merger took place, 54 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:37.560 and so that's how Springer comes onto the stage and 55 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:41.719 basically Springer teaches Butterworths, you know, how to get all 56 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:44.000 of these journals up and going, how to publish the 57 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:48.439 scientific data and get it up to speed the way 58 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:49.879 that Germany was doing it at the time. 59 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:53.919 Thank you for that, I appreciate mm hm not bad 60 00:03:54.039 --> 00:04:00.560 for the All right, So we'll get into some of 61 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:03.560 the stuff that I had on this, and here we 62 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:09.159 have Springer Verlag. I was founded May tenth, eighteen forty two. 63 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:14.439 It was Julius Springer. Country of origin Germany. The headquarters 64 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:21.360 location was Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany. Their non fiction topics 65 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:31.959 was science, technology, medicine, business, transport and architecture. Springer Science 66 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:35.800 and business media, commonly known as Springer, is a German 67 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:41.160 multinational publishing company of books ebooks in peer revered reviewed 68 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:48.399 journals in science, humanities, technical and medical publishing again. It 69 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:52.120 was originally founded in eighteen forty two in Berlin. It 70 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:56.439 expanded internationally in the nineteen sixties and through mergers in 71 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:00.680 the nineteen nineties and a sale to venture capitalists. It 72 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:07.199 fused with Walter's Clure with somebody that we have mentioned 73 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:09.360 when we covered the Moose Lodge, and I will get 74 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:13.399 to them with the slides. And I think I even 75 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:16.279 had if I remember correctly, I do think I even 76 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:21.160 had Janet from de Plorable Nation even at some point 77 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:24.560 I think we added a snippet. She has even like 78 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:28.399 come across this company in the medical field in the 79 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:31.240 past at work, and I think she said that like 80 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:34.040 they used some sort of like messaging thing or there 81 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:37.319 was some sort of platform that they used that I 82 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:40.800 think would like let you even go of like communicate 83 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:43.800 from hospital hospital and you can look at stuff. And 84 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.839 it was like it was a program from Walter's Clure. 85 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:52.879 So I even found that very interesting. Yeah, that is yeah. 86 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.240 But to get back to this, it eventually became part 87 00:05:56.319 --> 00:06:01.079 of Springer Nature in twenty fifteen. Springer has major offices 88 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:05.600 in Berlin, Heidelberg, some other place I can't say, I 89 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:08.399 have no idea, and New York City. The other one 90 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:13.600 was like Dort Dort Dretch, something like that. Julius Springer 91 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:17.279 founded Springer Verlac and Berlin in eighteen forty two, and 92 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.360 his son Ferdinand Springer grew it from a small firm 93 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:26.160 with for employees into Germany's then second largest academic publisher 94 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:31.319 with sixty five staff in eighteen seventy two. In nineteen 95 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:35.879 sixty four, x Springer expanded its business internationally, opening an 96 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:40.079 office in New York City, then eventually Tokyo, Paris, Milan, 97 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:46.959 Hong Kong and Delhi soon followed. In nineteen ninety nine, 98 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:53.319 the academic publishing company Artelsmann Springer was formed, and after 99 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:57.399 the media and entertainment company Bartelsman bought a majority stake 100 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:02.240 in Springer Verlac in two thousand and three, the British 101 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:09.120 investment groups Sinnvin and Candover bought Bartlesman Springer from Bartlesman. 102 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:13.199 He emerged the company in two thousand and four with 103 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:18.680 the Dutch publisher Clure Academic Publishers which they bought from 104 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:22.240 in two thousand and two to form Springer Science and 105 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:28.120 Business Media. That just all like sounds very weird to me. Yeah, 106 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:30.040 it just sounds like a circle of like. 107 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.439 Yeah, like they're kind of evading things or change it 108 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:37.720 or it's all the same name, but it's all the same, 109 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:42.040 it's all different, so almost to avoid something. I don't know, 110 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:43.120 that's kind of how it sounds to me. 111 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:49.399 The Bertlesman s and the Company, commonly known as Bertlesman, 112 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:55.759 is a German private, multi national conglomerate corporation based in 113 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:03.399 god these words, Girderslaw, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. It is 114 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:06.240 one of the world's largest media conglomerates, and it is 115 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:12.639 also active in the service sector and education. Bartlesman was 116 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:15.839 founded as a publishing house by CARLS. Bottoman in eighteen 117 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:19.879 thirty five. After World War II, Bottlesman, under the leadership 118 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:24.480 of Reinhard Mohn, went from being a medium sized enterprise 119 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:30.240 to a major conglomerate offering books but also television, radio, music, 120 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:37.039 magazine and services. Its principal divisions include the RTL Group, Penguin, 121 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:43.279 Random House, BMG, Arvado, the Bartlesmann Printing Group, the Bartlesman 122 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:49.039 Education Group and Bartlesman Investments. Bartlesman is an unlisted and 123 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:54.840 capital market oriented company which remains primarily controlled by the 124 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:59.600 Mohn family. In Nazi Germany, the publishing house gained a 125 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:06.440 prom position with its affordable Bottlesmen Vokes whatever People's edition. 126 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:10.960 Heinrich belonged to the patron circle of the SS and 127 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:16.279 sought to turn his company into a national Socialist model enterprise. 128 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:21.679 During World War Two, the Sea Bottlesman Verlog became a 129 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:27.519 leading supplier to the Wrmacht, the central publishing house of 130 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:33.399 the Nazi Party. It's pretty interesting. Yeah, in the years 131 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:36.679 between nineteen thirty nine and nineteen forty one, the revenues 132 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:41.919 of the Sea Bottlesman Verlog skyrock. Jeez, I wonder how. 133 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:45.600 Yeah, it seemed like the Germans had their shit together 134 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:48.840 with the publishing, with the science and then you know, 135 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:53.080 obviously we recruit a bunch of them. They had their 136 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:57.960 stuff together. It seemed like, oh, yeah, I mean more 137 00:09:58.000 --> 00:09:59.879 so than the Britain and the US. I will say 138 00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:01.279 that for sure. Britain. 139 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:03.519 Yeah, that's why I think, like sometimes it's just like 140 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:06.360 there a lot of a lot of I think, a 141 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:08.559 lot of places kind of like run off of this stuff. 142 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:12.080 It's hought to explain, but it's almost like it's like, 143 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:14.679 you know, they just allowed to be doing these things, 144 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:18.240 and it's like we come up with these stories about 145 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:19.840 I don't know, it's have to explain when I want 146 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:23.720 to get at but it just seems weird. In two 147 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:27.519 thousand and six, Springer acquired who amount of press. Springer 148 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:31.159 acquired the open access publisher BioMed Central and October two 149 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:35.120 thousand and eight for an undisclosed them out. Two thousand 150 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:38.759 and nine, Sinvin and Candover sold Springer to two private 151 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:44.600 equity firms, EQT Partners and Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. 152 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:51.120 Twenty eleven, Springer acquired Farmer marketing and publishing services from 153 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:55.039 Walter's Klure. In twenty and thirteen, the London based private 154 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:59.919 equity firm BC Partners acquired a majority stake in spring 155 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:06.519 Are from EQT and CIG for four point four billion dollars. 156 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:11.320 There's a lot of money, ye that I liked that, Yeah, 157 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:17.279 that four four yea. In January twenty fifteen, hold Spring 158 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:21.360 Publishing Group, Nature Publishing Group and Springer Science and Business 159 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:26.360 Media announced the merger. In May twenty fifteen, they concluded 160 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:31.039 the transaction and formed a new joint venture company, Spring 161 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:37.080 of Nature with hold Spring. So what I did want 162 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.720 to show here is that I have up this again 163 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:45.279 does go back to companies that I've come across multiple 164 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:52.360 and multiple times with secret societies, publishing companies. I think 165 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:54.879 Randall Nordica just like a lot of things that like 166 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:57.879 when we started looking at like in the first year 167 00:11:57.879 --> 00:11:59.639 of the Occult Rejects, where we did like a lot 168 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:03.080 of deep dive on secret societies or topics when we 169 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:06.559 would look into the business aspect, these were common names 170 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:11.320 that came up, and I can at least add to 171 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:14.080 a little bit more of an understanding maybe what we're 172 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:19.759 seeing here because of my own personal experience. Now you know, 173 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:23.120 the Occult Rejects, it is an LLC no. So like 174 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:25.000 I when I went to go get it, like I 175 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:27.480 was like, you know, I actually had to understand what 176 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:30.279 the hell is a registered agent? You know, I really 177 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:34.480 wasn't actually too sure about that to begin with. If 178 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:36.480 you're in a call look cup of the Occult Rejects, 179 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:38.240 it's going to have a registered agent, it's gonna be 180 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:41.759 zen business. That's because I actually don't feel like having 181 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:45.000 my personal address actually on that. So you can use 182 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:50.159 a registered agent for an AM to be anonymous. And 183 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:54.600 they also not that I needed it for this reason. 184 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:56.840 But like, depending on what type of company you have, 185 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:00.519 the registered agent will also make sure you're incomplet wianes 186 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.519 with that like field or whatever, or you know, whatever 187 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:06.200 business you're running. You know, if you're being specific with them, 188 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.759 they will make sure that they you know, this business 189 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:12.759 is going to be in compliance. So like these registered agents, 190 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.039 I mean in some sense or even a way just 191 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.879 to you have no idea really who actually owns these 192 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:23.519 these companies. Famous people could actually be owning some of 193 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:27.039 these companies, but we'd have no idea. Because they're using 194 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:29.480 a registered agent, they don't have to disclose themselves. 195 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:37.519 Right, almost like a virtual address, Yeah exactly. 196 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.360 It Yeah, and then and then if you think about that, 197 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:46.519 more than likely these places are going to be in 198 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:51.279 every single state because there's different LLCs for every state, 199 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:54.360 you know, different laws like that you have to like 200 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:57.279 in New York to get an LLC, you're gonna have 201 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:02.519 to actually advertise somewhere that this LLC is being formed. 202 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.320 I like, I think in Texas you don't have to 203 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:08.279 worry about that. So that's like a five hundred dollars 204 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:11.919 chunk right there. It's almost half the LLC cost, honestly, 205 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:15.120 is the publishing part. And then if you don't take 206 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.639 a registered ation, it's even cheaper as shit, right, So 207 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:24.600 uh like yeah, So, I mean I would assume that 208 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:26.840 if they're offering to do this, they must be in 209 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.600 every single state as well to be over to be 210 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:33.639 able to offer that service, because you could be any 211 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:37.080 of these states, anybody, you know, Oh sorry, we only 212 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.639 do ten states out of the fifteen. No I'm sure 213 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:40.399 you know. 214 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:42.559 Yeah, no, no no, And they want to make it 215 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:45.279 as easy and as convenient as possible so that they 216 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:47.320 keep getting the business coming their way. 217 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:51.440 So I when I actually it was like as a 218 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:53.240 joke and I was like, no, I don't want to 219 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:55.519 do it, because you know, some people would be like, 220 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:57.320 oh no, what the fuck is up with that? I 221 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.279 always even look thinking about, like, oh, I wonder how 222 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:01.480 much you would be. Once I realized what a registered 223 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:04.639 agent was, I was like, oh, that's that shit that 224 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:06.799 I was always seeing CT CORP do. And I was 225 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:08.279 like I wonder how much it would cost to go 226 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:10.399 through them? And like I went to this site and 227 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:12.399 I was like, I can't even do it, but like 228 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:15.200 I actually had like the thought of it. I was 229 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:17.799 just like, no, but like I'm sure, Like I don't 230 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:19.360 know how expensive it would have been. Maybe it would 231 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:22.840 have been more because you know the company, but I mean, 232 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:27.519 I'm sure they have the option, right, I don't know, sure, sure, yeah, 233 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:30.039 but uh, you know, I just did want to drop 234 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:33.320 that tidbit about like the whole registered agent thing though. 235 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:35.919 But I do find it really interesting how you will 236 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:41.080 see CT Corporation pop up for a lot of shady 237 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:45.399 companies that we have looked into. And this other one 238 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:47.759 too that you will see with spring of our Lag. 239 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:53.600 You have corporation service company. That is another one that 240 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:56.399 me and Lux had come up with a lot in 241 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:58.720 the past. And I think one or two other ones 242 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:01.039 that will get into is wells are going forward in 243 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:03.279 the notes in my notes. But I mean I was 244 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:08.440 seeing the usual suspects that I had seen before. Uh, 245 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:12.200 and then say that again, so that's weird, No, h 246 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:13.120 It definitely. 247 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:17.720 Was that they're using the same not shady at all. 248 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:24.000 This one's Springer Verlag registered agent. Corporation service company that 249 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:28.080 I have up is Springer Nature. It was privately held. 250 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:31.200 Oh god, I'm not even gonna try to read off 251 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:35.159 those words. It's the headquarters is in London, the corporate 252 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:38.480 place is in Berlin. There's a salesplace in New York City. 253 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:44.200 They supposedly offer worldwide service. One of the key people 254 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:49.000 is Frank rankin Peters CEO. Anybody who's heard that day before, 255 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:53.120 I haven't. Revenue was two zero point one billion in 256 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:57.559 twenty twenty two owners fifty three percent is whol Spring 257 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:00.960 Publishing Group, and then forty seven percent is PC Partners, 258 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:06.960 and the number of employees in twenty nineteen supposedly ten thousand. 259 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:11.519 Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German 260 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:15.680 British academic publishing company created by the May twenty and 261 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:19.759 fifteen mergerer of Springer Science and Business Media and hold 262 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:26.480 Spring Publishing Groups, Nature Publishing Group and this is interesting, 263 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:34.519 Paul Grave, mcmillion and Macmillian Education very interesting. The company 264 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:38.680 originates from a number of journals and publishing houses, notably 265 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:41.799 Spring of Our Lag which was founded in eighteen forty 266 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:46.720 two by Julius Springer, and Berlin the Nature Publishing Group 267 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:51.440 in Macmillion Education, which goes back to Macmillion publishers founded 268 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:56.200 in eighteen fifty eighteen forty three. Now these macmillion books 269 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.000 we're talking about the ones that odds are we've all 270 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:00.799 probably seen in school. 271 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:02.200 Mm hmm. 272 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:05.039 There's that. And I think one other one that's like 273 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:08.440 really well known. I can't remember the name of it 274 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:09.920 for the life of me right now, but I know 275 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:16.680 mcmillion for sure. It was all of my schools. Spring 276 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:19.319 of Nature was formed in twenty fifteen by the merger 277 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:25.720 of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave, mcmillion and mcmillion Education held 278 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.480 by Holtzburg Publishing Group, with Spring of Science and Business 279 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:33.279 Media held by the BC Partners. So I was even 280 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:34.680 more of a way of like showing you how it 281 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:38.480 was broken down which company had which ones under them. 282 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:42.279 But again that was that is a publishing company for 283 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:43.440 schools for sure. 284 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:46.240 Yeah, I think was it Prentice Hill or something. 285 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:52.480 Was whole That's a yes, And that's we actually looked 286 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:54.440 into them at one point. They might even that might 287 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:56.680 even pop up on here. I could I could be forgetting, 288 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:59.079 but I do know that is another one that has 289 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:02.519 come up, and that he even covered a book that 290 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:07.160 was under the DEVI was, you know, from them technically, Yeah, 291 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:11.519 in the past with me and looks uh, I'll go 292 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:13.799 on to the next one. Here's Wolter's Clere that I 293 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:18.160 had mentioned before, as you can see here registered ag 294 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:21.160 CT Corporation again. And you got a bunch of them 295 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.160 up on the screen. You know, a whole bunch of 296 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:26.200 different states. Some of them are active, some of them 297 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:30.839 merged withdrawn dead active. But uh, there's a bunch of 298 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:36.079 them here and a little bit about them. Walter's Clre 299 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:40.319 registered Agent CT Corp. In nineteen ninety nine. The academic 300 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:43.640 publishing company Bartlesman Springer was formed after the media and 301 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:48.720 entertainment company Bartlesman bought a majority stake in Spring of Verlac. 302 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:52.519 In two thousand and three, the British investment groups Siven 303 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:56.680 and Candover bought Bartlsman Springer from Bartlesman. They e merged 304 00:19:56.680 --> 00:19:58.920 the company in two thousand and four with the Dutch 305 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:03.720 publisher Chlora Academic Publishers, which they bought from in two 306 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:08.400 thousand and two to form Springer Science and Business Media. 307 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:13.279 In twenty eleven, Springer acquired Farmer marketing and publishing services 308 00:20:13.319 --> 00:20:17.240 from Walter's Color. I know some of this I said earlier, 309 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:20.319 but I'm just saying it again, so people have a 310 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:24.240 really good understanding of what I'm showing here, and then 311 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:26.319 we have huh. 312 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:29.319 It shows the connection for sure, how they all tie 313 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:31.480 into each other. You're seeing evidence of it on the screen. 314 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:35.200 And then we have here the whold Spring Publishing Group 315 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:38.559 when you look them up there, registered agent is the 316 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:47.200 Printics Hole and Corporation System, Inc. In Holtspurt Publishing Group 317 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:51.119 Ayeah the Printings holl Is the registered agent is A 318 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:55.960 publishing group is a privately held Germany company headquartered in 319 00:20:56.119 --> 00:21:01.880 Stuttgart that owns publishing companies worldwide through mcmillion Publishers. Is 320 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:08.079 one of the big five English language publishing companies. In 321 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:12.839 twenty fifteen emerged most of its macmillion Science and Education unit, 322 00:21:13.400 --> 00:21:17.880 including Nature Publishing Group, with Springer Science and Business Media, 323 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:22.480 creating the company Springer Nature. Hold Spring owns fifty three 324 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:27.000 percent of the combined company. The history of Greg Vaughan 325 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:32.039 holdspring publishing activities during the Nazi years nineteen thirty three 326 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:37.279 and nineteen forty five has been controversial. After World War II, 327 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:42.079 George Vaughan Holdspring, a former member of the Nazi Party, 328 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:46.480 re established the group in nineteen forty eight, beginning as 329 00:21:46.519 --> 00:21:51.319 a German book club. In the nineteen sixties, it purchased 330 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:59.960 the German publishing companies Dromer, Kindler, Rohwaldt and s Fischer vers. 331 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:05.319 In nineteen eighty five, it acquired the retail book division 332 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:10.839 of Holt, Ryan Hart and Winston, naming it the Henry 333 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:16.039 Holt Book Company. One year later, the company acquired Scientific 334 00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:21.480 American Magazine for fifty two point six million. In nineteen 335 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:26.799 ninety four, purchased a majority interest in Ferrara, Strauss and 336 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:32.799 Guiro from a retiring Roger W. Strauss junior. A year later, 337 00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:38.480 it purchased a seventy percent majority interest in mcmillion Publishers, 338 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:43.720 and then the remaining shares in nineteen ninety nine. In 339 00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:47.519 two thousand and one, Pearson sold the mcmillion trademark in 340 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:51.519 the United States, gained with the acquisition of Simon and 341 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:56.440 Schuster Educational and Professional Division, which included the assets of 342 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:02.519 form of the former mcmillion, Inc. So I'm sure a 343 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:05.119 lot of this is probably like, what the Hell's very confusing, 344 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:08.359 but I mean literally, it's like you're just watching publishing 345 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:11.400 companies devour each other and just get bigger and bigger, 346 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:14.799 and I think control more and more of just what's 347 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:19.200 getting put out there. In two thousand and one, Spring 348 00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:24.079 of Nature acquired Atlantis Press, an open access publisher founded 349 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:27.519 two thousand founded in two thousand and six in Paris, 350 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:33.440 focusing on scientific, technical, and medical content and publication for 351 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:40.200 conference proceedings Real Quick. Simon and Shuster is an American 352 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:45.079 publishing company owned by owned by Colberg Cravis Roberts. It 353 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:48.039 was founded in New York City on January two, nineteen 354 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:52.720 twenty four, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. 355 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:59.960 Along with Penguin, Random House, Hatchet, Harper Collins, and mcmillion published. 356 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:04.039 Simon and Schuster is considered one of the Big five 357 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:09.319 English language publishers. As of twenty seventeen, Simon and Schuster 358 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:13.839 was the third largest publisher in the United States, publishing 359 00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:20.640 two thousand titles annually under thirty five different imprints. Colbird, 360 00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:24.680 Cravis Roberts and Company is an American global investment company 361 00:24:24.680 --> 00:24:32.039 that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, 362 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:36.720 real estate, credit, and through its strategic partners, head funds 363 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:42.039 hedge funds. As of December thirty first, twenty twenty two, 364 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:45.559 the firm had completed more than six hundred and ninety 365 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:52.200 private equity investments in portfolio companies with approximately seven hundred 366 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:58.160 billion of total enterprise value. As of December thirty one, 367 00:24:58.279 --> 00:25:03.960 twenty twenty two, assets under AUM under management and fee 368 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:09.039 paying assets under and under management, we're five hundred and 369 00:25:09.079 --> 00:25:11.680 four billion and four hundred and twelve billion. 370 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:18.279 These aren't no small companies, like they're just making handover fist. 371 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:24.559 Yeah, that's beyond Moose Lodge money. Nobody gets that. When 372 00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:26.559 we covered the Moose Lodge, we just thought it was interesting, 373 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:29.440 how like you know, if some people don't know this too, 374 00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:31.079 you can go to Guide Star and like if there's 375 00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:34.799 any place that's like kind of using a religious exemption 376 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:36.799 for taxes or whatever, you can go look up and 377 00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:40.519 they have to actually show proof of like how much 378 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:45.240 they're making and where their money's going. And like the Shriners, 379 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:47.039 I mean, you know, everybody thinks of them. I was 380 00:25:47.079 --> 00:25:49.960 like all these rich motherfuckers. I mean, yeah, they did 381 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:51.880 have a little bit of money when you started looking 382 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:54.119 them up on there, But like when me and Lux 383 00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:55.920 went and looked up like the Moose Lodge, it was 384 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:59.920 like ridiculous amounts of money, and I was like, nobody 385 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:03.200 even knows who the hell these people are. It was 386 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:07.279 like billions, yeah, and I was like, yo, I was like, 387 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:09.519 sometimes I wonder is this even like money laundering from 388 00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:12.559 like one set of like the Mason's, like funneling their 389 00:26:12.599 --> 00:26:13.799 money into a different. 390 00:26:13.480 --> 00:26:16.240 Area and then getting the break because. 391 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:22.119 It's because yeah, yeah, I mean you'll keep getting deductions, 392 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:29.039 you'll keep saving money. Uh, all right, mcmillion education. I 393 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:34.200 think that is the next line, mcmillion education. And here 394 00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:37.880 you go. The registered agent is Corporation Service Company and 395 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:43.960 United States Corporation Company. I was not going to dig 396 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:48.000 into it as much with the United States Corporation Company 397 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:52.039 as much as that lux had spent in it could 398 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:54.640 have been the Moose Lodge. I don't remember exactly what series, 399 00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:58.519 but we started to come across that United States Corporation 400 00:26:58.599 --> 00:27:00.720 Company and we're like, yo, what is up with this? 401 00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:04.200