hiya i'm bruce for me and this is
scotland history tours
if you've seen me before then you know
that i always say if you're interested
in the people places and events and
scottish history
then click the subscribe button at the
bottom right in the meantime
let me tell you a story today i thought
i'd tell you a story of this
channel what to expect from the scotland
history tours channel
what not to expect how it came about why
it's here
i'm also going to tell you a little bit
about me
my team and ask what you want from me
going forward
so if you like scotland history tours or
if you're interested in those people
places and events
then the next few minutes will be worth
a watch
if not i'm sorry i've wasted your time
have a great life drink whiskey and eat
square sausage
if i'm right then by the time this video
is uploaded i'll just about
reached 10 000 subscribers
thank you i love you all not you water
strand
you're a dick it's an in joke
i'll leave a link to the relevant video
at the end okay
so what should you expect from this
channel
what i try to do each video is to tell
you a story from scotland's history
if i can i take you to a relevant
interest or beautiful place to tell you
the story
now sometimes the location is relevant
but not beautiful
sometimes it's interesting but not
relevant sometimes
it's beaut you get the picture
where possible i choose a location that
fits all criteria
and it's close enough for me to get to
now if anyone
with a hotel chain wants to sponsor me
so i can go further afield
what are you waiting for
sometimes our history is grim and
depressing but where i can
i try to tell the story what smile on my
face occasionally
there's even a really funny joke but
normally we manage to edit those out
so don't worry what prompted me make
this video
was that a lady asked in the comment
section if i was a history lecturer
how the family laughed not a lady
very much at me this leads us to what
not to expect now i've often said that
i'm just a ball bag with a smartphone
and a tripod
that's not quite true because people
have bought me coffee
link in the description below or joined
as patreon members
click the white tab up there i've been
able to buy a camera and other gear
improve the production values
so feel free to support in that way if
you can the point is
that the production quality should be
gradually improving
which makes me a ball bag with a camera
a gimbal and video editing software
but i have no qualifications in history
whatsoever so don't treat my videos as
an academic lecturer
there's no point in complaining that
i've left out your favorite factoid
i'm going to leave things out i'll gloss
over things
i don't start each video saying let me
give you an in-depth academic analysis
i say let me tell you a story sometimes
i give links to books
so that people can go they can find
proper historians
sometimes i forget that which is bad
because when you click through
buy a book use my amazon link i get a
wee commission
sometimes i get caught on the story and
i forget to do that so
before i forget this let me give you a
wee advert
i currently have a shop at www dot
scotland history tours dot co dot uk
forward slash shop you can buy t-shirts
hoodies
mugs where hammy and doc is gonna be
lamar live on it all that kind of stuff
there are other designs as well there's
one that's coming up
with a picture of me a scottish chinese
mate
a scottish asian pal and a white
scottish pal with a saltire
and the caption jock thompson's burns
i don't know if it'll sell but i'll piss
off the races which is a good thing
you can also get videos of full-length
theater shows that i've done in that
shop
there's also that link to amazon now
when you use that to buy
anything on amazon i get a wee
commission
and it doesn't cost you a penny so don't
buy
anything from amazon unless it's through
my shop
www dot scotland history tours dot co
dot uk
forward slash shop now before i tell you
a bit about my background i should point
out that i meant to respond to the
ladies question
earlier but i also forgot that
and when i finally got around to
searching for an original comment
i discovered that the lady's name was in
fact
oscar spence now this may present issues
for her
but what does it mean for you it means
i honestly try to respond to comments
apart from when they're
walkers but things get busier right and
things get more difficult
so please just be patient with me when i
get a spare minute i try to respond if i
can
sometimes i'll read your comment but by
the time i get round to responding
you've had a sex change now obviously
if you've had a sex change or whatever
is the appropriate term right
i'm cool with that i'm essentially
a woke woman inside a frivolous man's
body
that's why i look like this i mean some
people think i'm just fat but
no when i was searching for oscar's
comment i found lots of other
you guys he'd had like a debate amongst
yourself
some of it was spicy some of it was
great
as i said some things that missed in the
comment section so
if you have a specific request for me to
cover a specific topic in the future
best send it to
requests at scotland history tours dot
com uk
that way they're all in the same place
and i may get round to them eventually
no promises also please
only send this email address if there's
a request for a future topic
so what's my background in answer to the
ladies question i
was a teacher but a physics teacher
my first proper job was as a physics
teacher in britain high school in 1987.
i actually met my now wife when i was
working as a physics teacher
she was working as a physiotherapist in
a local hospital and we met
as a result of a groin strain from
playing rugby
now she doesn't play rugby anymore but
she's put up with me
through a variety of career changes
when i started doing a little computer
graphics to help with the stories that i
told the kids
that's when i ended up getting a job in
computer-based training with an
insurance company
and that is how i ended up being a
financial advisor
at the age of 39 i realized that i hated
that and life was too short
and i listened to motivational tape to
remember tapes
right this is this is probably only
history in this bit
anyway the guy asked what would you do
if you never got paid for it if you do
that
then it doesn't matter where you get
paid and that's when it became a
stand-up comic
now every year at the edinburgh fringe i
did comedy shows about scottish history
and in 2017 i did one called macbeth
without the shakespeare box
it was at that point that i realized
that i could take
people to places i knew were locations
in the life of the real king macbeth
and so i started offering tours by 2019
i was a tour guide by day and a stand-up
comic by night
i had the best job in the world and
the second best job in the world what
are the chances
the other benefit was that if one income
reduces then the other one would
compensate
and then in 2020 a virus called rona
decided that both incomes would
disappear and i'd be locked in the house
order again so i started making youtube
videos
that was a year ago now i have no idea
when you're watching this
but i never imagined for a minute that
i'd have 10 000 subscribers a year later
this is going to be really embarrassing
if everyone's unsubscribed and you're
watching this thinking
that fat fan he's only got 150
subscribers what's he talking about
the youtube algorithm giveth and the
youtube algorithm
take it away now obviously i don't do
all this myself
so let me tell you about the team
sometimes
my wife comes out and she helps me
filming videos right
if i don't have to hold on to the camera
then i can talk with my hands
i can't help it now my patreon members
know her as mrs colombo but you can call
her fiona
the thumbnails that you see in any other
designs and hopefully click on the
thumbnails by the way
they are designed by my son zach he's a
talented lady
my sister paula takes an
incomprehensible gobbledygook that is
youtube's attempt to translate a
scottish accent in its subtitles
and she fixes them now if you're
watching a video from before she's
starting to do that then
dastardly sometimes my daughter zoe does
my makeup
the camera loves you really important
also
are the drone operators who have given
their services for free
nori foster of earview scotland liam
mcnamara from
his house and uh douglas at the flying
artisan
uh ian the three which is tearing oh
there you go
go there for a nice scone and there was
a random guy that i met in auburn once
from sky
to sea thanks to him whoever he was
now at 10 000 subscribers i should now
get a merchandise shelf
on the youtube channel so if you want to
buy t-shirts mugs
hoodies and all that kind of stuff with
designs i'm a closing words
or alexander graham bell here you might
now be able to do that below the video
or
become a patreon member or buy me a
coffee all the links
are below now that video where i talk
about water strand is coming up
on screen now i mean doc is going to be
a llama ally
tyrion drastic
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