November 1, 2024 • 50 mins
The Wizard has seen many things, and this week’s episode brings you movies, Tim Burton, and Vegas…..and yes it makes sense!!!!
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Ready to be amazed by the wizard of Weird This
with Joshua Warren. I am Joshua pe Warren, and each
week on this show, I'll be bringing you brand new
mind blowing content, news exercises, and weird in experiments you
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can do at home, and a lot more. On this
edition of the show. Mars Attacks Watching a building implosion
in Las Vegas. Yes days ago, I had a front
row seat to a demolition of a big building here
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in Vegas via implosion. That's where they put all these
explosives in these particular areas around a structure, and when
they set the explosives off the building doesn't fly out
all over the place. It crumbles in on itself, and
it's a very dramatic sign. Obviously, probably the biggest explosion
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or the biggest explosive event that you can see without
going to war or maybe to some kind of mining operation.
And what's especially interesting about this is some of my
favorite movies are Pee Wee's Big Adventure or nineteen eighty
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nine's Batman with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, or ed
Wood with Johnny Depp, or The Nightmare Before Christmas. Do
you see a pattern here? These are all movies that
were directed by Tim Burton, and Tim Burton is currently
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sixty six years old. He spent a lot of time
when he was young, apparently visiting Las Vegas. He was
born in California, and as the young man, he was
always coming to Vegas and he liked to stay at
this hotel casino called the Landmark, and he was upset
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when they announced in nineteen ninety five they were going
to demolish the Landmark by way of implosion. And the Landmark,
by the way, if you've never seen it, it looks
a lot like the Strat looks today. It's a very
similar design. So he was upset that they were going
to destroy it, but you know, being a resourceful man,
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Tim Burton said, well, I want to send a film
crew there to properly document the implosion of this building
so I can use it in my upcoming film called
Mars Attacks. And that's exactly what happened. He had a
professional film crew from I guess it was probably Warner Brothers.
I want to say, yep, Warner Brothers that went there
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and filmed the Landmark being imploded. And then if you've
ever seen Mars Attacks, that's in nineteen ninety six. They
call it a black comedy science fiction film. It had
Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Binning, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito,
Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox. I mean,
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the list goes on, and it's been a long time
since I've seen that movie, but there is a scene
where there's some kind of a meeting happening inside of
what appears to be the Landmark Hotel and then it
gets zapped by aliens and it crumbles, and that's real footage.
And the Landmark was actually used in a variety of
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other movies that that implosion footage popped up in other
films as well. But one reason that that's especially interesting
to me is because if you come to my house
in Las Vegas, even when it's not Halloween time, there
is an alien. It's the alien from Mars Attacks standing
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there with the clear dome over its head and the
ray gun. It's in the corner of my living room.
It's taller than I am, and it's an animatronic. So
at least subconsciously, I think about Mars Attacks every day.
And frankly, the movie was not that great. I just
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must say. It's not one of my favorite Tim Burton films,
but it is interesting that it was filmed all around
Las Vegas. So there's this connection between building demolitions and
Tim Burton, one of my favorite directors, in this thing
in my living room, and the course the whole alien stuff.
But what it's even odder about this perhaps is that
you know, Lauren and I have been together for twenty
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seven years, and for some reason, I don't know why,
when I met her, she told me early on someday,
you know what I'd love to see? What's that I'd
love to see one of those big buildings being demolished
by implosion in Las Vegas, and I thought that's an
odd thing for a person to want to see. But okay.
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She later told me that she thinks maybe she and
her brother watched some documentary about implosions when there were
kids or something, and she has some fascination with it.
So I just cut me obviously. I thought, well, maybe
someday that will that opportunity will present itself. Well, sure enough,
just recently they announced that this giant hotel casino in
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Las Vegas called The Tropicana was to be destroyed by implosion.
The Tropicana it was originally built there, let's see, nineteen
fifty seven. By the time it closed down, it occupied
thirty five acres and had one four hundred and sixty
seven rooms. Big old place, I mean, a classic legendary place.
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There's a road called Tropicana Avenue that runs right cross Vegas,
and people use Tropicana as a reference point for their directions.
But if you've listened to the show for a while,
you may have heard me talk about how that Vegas
is becoming a big sports destination. For example, the loss
let's see the Los Angeles Raiders, the LA Raiders, the
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football team. They moved to Vegas. So they are now
the Las Vegas Raiders. And here's the next thing. The
Oakland A's in Oakland, California. That's a major League baseball team.
They have decided to leave Oakland, California and move to Vegas.
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If you've ever seen that movie Moneyball with Brad Pitt,
it's about the Oakland A's. That's a very good movie,
by the way. So sure enough, Oakland A's are moving here,
and they decided that they wanted to build a stadium
on that property where the Tropicana was sitting. And there
was a lot of wheeling and dilling, and sure enough
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they made a deal to get the property, and so
the tropicanic closed down. The experts went in there, they
gutted it. They took out all the asbestos and all
that kind of stuff, and then all that was remaining
was that the concrete skeleton of this thing. And so
days ago they decided to blow it up. Now, one
of my friends here in Vegas is a famous magician
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named Murray Salchuk, And I mean he's the kind of
guy like when you're driving down the Vegas Strip, you
look up and there's a billboard and there's Murray there.
He's got this big shock of bleach blonde hair and
he wears thick black glasses. He's very memorable looking guy.
He was on America's Got Talent. He's been all over TV.
He's been doing this a long time. He's in his
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fifties now, been doing this stuff since he was a kid.
As a matter of fact, the podcast that I used
to do was called Joshua Pee Warren Day. I still
occasionally will post little special things on that feed. But
if you go to if you just go to Google
and you look up Joshua P. Warren Daily and you
find there's hundreds of episodes. I interviewed Murray on an
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episode that let's see was posted on June fifth of
twenty eighteen. It's called I Interviewed Murray the Magician. I
met Murray probably in twenty eighteen because we were working
on a television project together and I won't get to
the details of that, but we shot a sizzle for
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a TV show and the show didn't get picked up.
But anyway, since then, you know, we've remained friends. And
Murray is one of those guys who just has this
endless supply of energy he's a huge socialite. He travels
the world performing and then he comes home and he
throws these big parties and invites you know, all the
the who's who in Vegas to these parties. And I
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just so happened to be on I think it was Facebook,
and this is a few months ago, and Murray the
Magician he posted that he was thinking about throwing a
demolition party. And that's because when I met Murray, he
was performing at Planet Hollywood on the Strip, but then
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they changed things around there and Murray switched to the Tropicana.
So Murray did this nightly show at the Tropicana for years,
all the way up to the end. So he's very
intimately connected with his property. So he wanted to see
it go down in style, and he said, I'm thinking
about throwing this party called drop the trop And the
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idea was that right next to the Tropicana is the
MGM Grand and he was going to rent this big
what they call a patio suite and we would all
chip in if we were invited. And then basically the
idea was we throw a big, you know, just a
big party. We go out there on the patio and
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we watched this building collapse right before our eyes as
a big dramatic special treat. And so I immediately told Murray,
I said, count me in. And I just knew that
Lauren was gonna be thrilled, just tickled, because you know,
it's I figured it was gonna be kind of hard
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to get good access to something like that, and I
figured if anybody would know how to do it, to
be Murray the Magician. Okay, when we come back, I'm
gonna tell you what happened that night. It was a
little more interesting and odd and in some ways bizarre
than you might be thinking to watch something to watch
history unfold like that, explosively and implosively right before your eyes. Hey,
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Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am Paranormal
Podcast Network. I am your host, a wizard of weird,
Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain from my
studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day
is golden and every unit is silver. Gietato Zume. It
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is amazing how quickly this city grows. It just it
grows at light speed. There are more and more people
here every year. They make more money every year. I
have lived here going on seven years now, and of
course a little over two and a half years ago
I finally bought a house I was renting up until then.
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I bought a house and very nice neighborhood, but there
really wasn't much around here when I bought the house.
And now two and a half years later, there is
this huge, luxurious casino which is basically on one side
of me. I could practically walk to it. And now
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on the other side of me, they're building a big,
fancy church. And so I'm between a casino and a church.
It's like having the devil on one shoulder and the
angel on the other. Let me tell you something, though,
this better be a really fun church, because over here
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I got bars and food and gambling, even the Ladies'
night if you know what I mean, guys, I mean,
if you're not married or you can go to church.
And honestly, they're already off to a bad start because
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the church isn't even built, and yet they have people
running around the neighborhood putting these little tags on people's
door knobs of their cars and houses announcing the church.
It's like, so you're already off to a bad start,
leaving trash on my doorstep. I don't want to say
what kind of church it is, but it's not a
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Catholic Church. I actually kind of wish that it was
a Catholic church because Catholics are just so creepy and cool.
You can go to a Catholic church and you can
get holy water there that you can square on vampires
and werewolves. Yeah, you can confess all your sins leave
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there with a clean conscience. I think the Catholic Church
is kind of like the Marvel expanded universe of US religions,
don't you think. I mean, there's these they have all
these saints that are like superheroes. This is the Saint
of chefs, this is the Saint of comedians. I wonder
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if there's a Saint of broadcasters. I bet there is.
I here's the extent of my exposure to the Catholic Church.
When I was a teenager, I dated a girl who
was Catholic for a while, and I'm by Catholic, I
mean like really Catholic. She was from South America, and
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so that's where I kind of got my first real
taste of what you know, mass and all that kind
of stuff like in the Catholic Church. And then over
the years I've had like, well, for what one time,
when I was I was a young man, and I
was about to go investigate this house that was where
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supposedly demonic activity was taking place, and the woman there
claimed that she would get possessed and this sort of thing.
So one of my friends took me to this big,
grand Catholic church and we actually went into this little
house next door where the priest lived, like the head priest,
and we sat down in his office and he was
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telling us about how to handle demonic stuff, and he
gave us some holy water, and so so we went
to this woman's house and we threw it on her
and it really ticked her off, so she must have
had a demon. And then then when I was in
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Puerto Rico, there was an you might have heard me
talk about, this guy named Michael Rivera who said there
was a presence living in his house. And so he
and I went to his priest at the Catholic church
and he gave us all kinds of tips. It's very
interesting when you sit down in an office with a
priest and they start talking very clinically about demons. You know,
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it's like you're in a doctor's office talking about medicine,
except they're talking very factually about demons. Anyway, let's get
back to the story. So we're gonna do this demolition party.
It's called Drop the trop And of course access to
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the Tropicana is pretty limited. But Murray the Magician, he
he's the man about town here in Vegas. So I
knew if anybody was going to get us a front
row seat, it would be Murray the Magician. Of course,
they had the engineers on the news talking about how that,
how they're going to arrange this, and I guess the
head engineer he said, at the moment when these explosives
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go off, it's going to fire these pins or whatever
into these sensitive joints on this structure at five miles
per second. Five miles per second. So this is dangerous
business here, right, And it did cross my mind, Well,
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what if these guys kind of screw up here and
I'm sitting right there and I get a bolt through
the skull at five miles per second. Hey, at least
it'd be instantaneous death. That you know, I can think
of worse ways to die. I just don't want to
get like nicked in the elbow or something. Well, Murray,
sure enough, he follows through and he gets this room
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and he says, we're a go. It's a green light.
So the day rolls around, they're going to demolish this
building at two thirty seven am, So yeah, am in
the middle of the night. On October the ninth of
twenty twenty four, the news said that there were going
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to be road closures at some point around the hotel,
and we didn't want to get, of course, like stuck
in some weird traffic situations. So Lauren and I decided
that we would go to the MGM Grand about eight
o'clock because they were saying they weren't going to start
closing the roads down till maybe eleven or twelve, so
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we could we went there and we would go there
at eight, have dinner, gamble a little bit because Murray
said the party would start at ten thirty pm, and
so that's what we did. We went there. We had
a really nice dinner at this bar, I think it
was called Tap Sports Bar, and then we gambled a
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little bit. We were doing well, and then when ten
thirty rolled around, if you were part of the party,
you had to meet Murray at the bottom of this
elevator because he had this swipe. You can't go up
to room the guest rooms here in Vegas unless you
swipe your key on the elevator to activate it. So
we met Murray there about ten thirty and he swiped
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the thing and led us all up there. But he
also said, listen, there's been a change of plans because
the original idea was that he was going to have
this big patio room. And he said he'd hired a
two piece band and there was going to be a
bartender there with an open bar and we were and
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some catering, you know, like like food and snacks, I mean,
a really nice layout. But he said that okay. So
the idea was we were going to have that with
a big patio and we would all just kind of
be mingling going in and out. But at the last minute,
like three days before this demolition was to take place,
Clark County, the county here within which we are told
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all the hotels you cannot have patios open, you cannot
have balconies open. Everybody has to be inside. It's too dangerous.
So Murray said, he gets up there on the fifteenth
floor of the MGM Grand and he goes into the
patio room and he looks out and he's like oh
my god, we can't even see the Tropicana. It was
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like on the north end. This is going to be
a disaster. And Murray is a very detail oriented man,
as all professional magicians are, so here he has I mean,
I'm sure he laid an egg when he saw this.
So he goes down he starts talking to the staff saying,
you know what's going on here. We have to see
the buildings to drop the trop on it. So they
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ended up saying, here's a second room that we're going
to give you on the twelfth floor, which is literally
right there, directly facing the Tropicana. So, in other words,
the party with the booze and the food and the
band and all that is going to be on four fifteen.
But when it comes time for the demolition, everybody goes
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down to floor twelve, where we go into this room
where we get to pile around and look out these windows,
and we're all hoping that we actually have a good
view because now we're indoors and they're going to be
reflections and we're not sure what's going to happen. So
we go up to the original party room and it's
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really nice. It's two stories and I was surprised how
many people were there because Murray said, you can bring
two people with you, and I only it was just
I just brought Lauren. It was just Lauren and myself,
but he said they were about seventy five people altogether.
So we go into this room and even though it's
a big, two story room, it is quite hot and
claustrophobic because this is Vegas, and I really wish that
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we can open that patio up and gone outside. But
the band was fantastic. The bartender, she had everything you
could ever want, super nice. There was I mean, a
really impressive display of food and very snacks all over
the place. He couldn't have done a better job. And
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not surprisingly, there were celebrities there. Okay, we're up on
a break. When we come back, I'm going to I'm
going to tell you a little bit more about what
happened at these parties. I had kind of an odd
experience with a celebrity. And then I actually have audio
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that I recorded just for you of the moment when
this building that was right across the street, this historic building,
blew all to pieces. You're gonna hear the reaction inside
the room. I did have to do a little bit
of bleeping though. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to
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Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
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Art Radio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren, And this is the
show where the unusual becomes usual. The party is Rarin Murray,
the magician and his wife, showgirl Danny, have quite the
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menagerie of individuals from all around Vegas and beyond. You know,
people traveled from Afar for this event. As you can imagine,
everybody's having a great time. And then yeah, there's celebrities there.
I don't want to get into who they were, you know,
that's that's crass, that's taboo. At a certain point, we
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moved down to the twelfth floor, which is the viewing room,
and we walked in there and let me just tell you,
we were just right there, dead on, looking across this
exactly at the Tropicana, which is actually two towers, two
big tall towers. Was too big tall towers. But again,
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are there are seventy five of us or so, so,
I mean, space is really tight. And there was this
one guy who was just sprawled out pretty as you
please on this couch taking a nap. In the middle
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of this, there's a DJ in there playing all kinds
of hardcore music. This guy's taking a nap and he
had like a hand towel over his face. Well anyway,
he had a pretty good position though, so I kind
of sat down on this stool that was next to
his cowboy boots, and his cowboy boots kept kicking me
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in the elbow, and I'm just like, woss this guy,
you know, And then finally I look over and the
somebody takes the towel off. It's a very famous man,
and I know that. I it sucks for me to
tell you that and then not tell you who it is.
But you would know who it was if I told you.
And I thought, huh, interesting. Well, everybody's getting psyched up
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as it's getting closer to the time two thirty seven am.
They have this big fireworks display. They have this drone
show that they say has it's using technology and techniques
that have never been used before. Just big, glorious, amazing
I mean, this is a celebration of magnificent Vegas proportions.
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And so then finally it came time for and I mean,
I don't know why two thirty seven am. And that
is interesting how specific it is. And I mean, you're
talking about a situation where they have to halt airplanes
flying over and all kinds of stuff, so who knows
what they take into consideration to come up with that.
So the excite. So at this point, everybody's been drinking.
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I mean there's been an open bar for like three
three and a half hours or something, I don't know,
and so people are drinking, people are acting kind of
kind of crazy. But everybody was cool, you know, everybody
was fun and nice. And then here is the big
moment and the excitement you're talking about building for months.
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So I brought a little audio recorder with me and
I'm going to play for you right now the audio
of the moment when the building that we were looking
at came down. Because what we're talking about here is
it's the middle of the night, you're looking out a window,
you've just seen fireworks. Everybody psyched, and then you start hearing.
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And first we heard the other tower, Uh, coming down,
and then the one right in front of us came down.
Here's here's the audio from from what uh, Here's here's
the audio from that moment. Okay, Oh, and I did
have to bleep out at least one word because people
have a tendency to curse when this kind of thing happens.
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You can imagine how powerful the percussion was from that.
And actually, afterward, I thought to myself, it's probably a
good thing that we weren't out on a patio, because
as soon as that thing collapsed in on itself, there
was this gigantic, boiling, roiling, thick, dark gray cloud of
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dust that just came seething out from it and just
slowly moved up to the window like a big fog.
And yeah, if you'd been outside, you would have been
covered covered with dust and breathing in who knows what
and getting that in your eyes. So yeah, I can
see why when you're that close to it, it's not
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a good idea to be out on the patio. And also,
I mean, we didn't have to use earplugs or anything,
which who knows that maybe if you were standing out
on a patio that close you maybe you could damage
your ears, I guess so, but it was. It was
definitely a p and the thing that that stood out
the most for me was that. And you've probably seen
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these videos before, and so you know what I'm talking about.
It's a gigantic structure right there before your eyes and
then within seconds it just looks like it melts. It's
not like it goes pop. I mean you could see
little little lights here and there because it was dark,
but basically all together because it just gives the impression
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that this giant building just melts. And then when finally
the dust clear is there's just a big clump. It's
like a like a hill of debris there. And if
you follow me on social media then you've probably seen
some of the footage. Laren got just news like TV
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news quality footage of this. Uh. If if you follow
my social media on Facebook or Twitter, we may or
may not have an my Instagram page. There's an Instagram
page just for this show called Joshua P. Warren Podcast,
And if it's not there, we'll get something up there
for you. But I mean, it just it's so weird
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to watch something gigantic like that and melt in a
matter of seconds and right off the bat. There were
people saying, doesn't this remind you of how Building seven
looked nine to eleven when the World Trade Center was attacked,
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And it really does. You know, one of my best
friends was Jim Mars, the greatest conspiracy theorist who ever lived.
And of course we know that planes hit the two towers,
but there was this other building called seven World Trade Center,
and there are lots of people who say that if
you look at that footage of that thing collapsing, a
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plane did not hit it. And there are people who
say it was a controlled demolition, that this forty seven
story skyscraper that stood across Vesey Street, north of the
main part of the World Trade Center site was intentionally
destroyed with explosives. As I said, Unlike the Twin Towers,
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seven World Trade Center was not hit by a plane,
although it was hit by debris from the Twin Towers
and was damaged by fires which burned for seven hours
until it collapsed completely at about five to twenty pm
on the evening of September eleventh. Proponents typically say the
collapse of seven World Trade Center was not mentioned in
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the nine to eleven Commission report, and that the federal
body charged with investigating the event required seven years to
conduct its investigation and issue a report. Apparently, some people
say that it was it was demolished because it may
have served as an operational center for the demolition of
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the twin towers, while others suggest the government may have
had insiders that wanted to destroy some key files in
the building pertaining to fraud. This building housed dozens of federal, state,
and local government agencies. Look, I don't know, I really
don't know. I've heard people say this for the longest time,
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and I honestly do not know. But what I can
tell you is that when I go back and I
look at footage of Building seven, I don't see the
little sparks of light like we saw when the Tropicana
was demolished. But Tropicana was demolished at night, and so
it's maybe in the daytime you wouldn't see that, you
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wouldn't see those sparks, or maybe a totally different type
of explosive technology was used that would not create those
kinds of sparks. I really I can't tell you, but
it does look. I mean, when you when you watch
that footage, I'm telling you it looks like a demolition.
I'm not saying it is. I'm not saying it was,
but it does look like it. After the demolition, they
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told us that we could not leave until six in
the morning because the roads were closed off. Like, oh,
you kidding me. You know, we've been here since eight o'clock.
We don't want to stay till six in the morning.
The party ended at I think three thirty am, so
we set our goodbyes. We went down into the lobby
of the MGM Grand and the lobby was hazy with dust.
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There were people wearing masks in the lobby of the
MGM Grand, So that was I mean, I guess that
shouldn't be totally unexpected, but that was kind of weird,
you know that. You see you see Lauren took pictures
of of you know, the hazy lobby. So we thought, well,
are we going to be wrapped here or can we
actually get out of here and start working our way
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back home. So we decided to go outside, hit the
strip and start walking and get outside of the demolition zone.
When we come back from this break, I'm going to
tell you about something rather magnificent that happened after this.
And then also I believe I will have time to
tell you about a new concept in using radionics and
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wishing machines. A great tip for you that I've been
saving up for a while. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're
listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back.
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Welcome back to the final segments of this edition of
Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren,
and I definitely want to make sure that I think
Murray Sawchuck Murray the magician and his wife Danny Elizabeth
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the showgirl. I guess she's Danny Sawchuk now because she
was Danny Elizabeth and now they're married. Thank them for
having me and Lauren. And I want to also reiterate
that if you go to Google and type in Joshua P.
Warren Daily, you will find the podcast that I used
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to do I still occasionally will do, like Special Reports,
but it's an R rated, uncensored podcast, and I interviewed
both of them on it. I interviewed Murray. If you
find the one from June fifth, twenty eighteen. It's called
I Interviewed Murray the Magician, and then I interviewed Danny
the Showgirl on August fifteenth of twenty eighteen, and that
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is called My Call with Top Vegas Showgirl Danny Elizabeth
Danny spelled d A N I. And you can learn
about their life stories and they're just really warm, kind,
generous people, and I guess that's why that they liked
us throw these kinds of parties and socialize. Well, Lauren
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and I we didn't want to stick around all six
o'clock in the morning, so yeah, we hit the road
and finally we ended up going into another hotel casino
where we could catch a taxi. And at this point
it's like four o'clock in the morning. We knew we
were going to be up all night, of course, and
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so we decided to stop at a bar, because there
are lots of twenty four hour bars here in Vegas.
Of course, stop at a bar and pick up some
food to take back to the house to eat and
then go to bed. And we just so happened to
be near this bar that we were at, oh maybe
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a couple months ago, when Lauren sat down and hit
a delt royal flush. And if you know anything about
video poker, I mean, that's the holy grail. A lot
of people never hit a royal flush in their entire lives.
She goes in there wearing her electrom ring, she sat down,
she didn't even put that much money in. It might
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have been twenty bucks, and next thing you know, she
hits a delt royal and wins at least a thousand dollar.
We went back to that same bar that night. So
we go in, sit down, we order our food. While
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we're waiting for the food, we start playing the video
poker and guess what, it's my turn this time. I'm
wearing the electrom ring, I'm wearing the real gold chain,
and boom, I hit a royal flush. And I was
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betting more than she was, so I went even more money.
And I just can't believe that both of us went
there and hit royal flushes. And no, I'm not going
to tell you what bar this is. This is our
this is our our our little secrets here, all right.
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But if you're interested in the electrom ring, go to
joshuap Warren dot com. You can right now, I believe
you can get one made for you an electrom ring,
or if you want, if you really want to go hardcore,
get the gold chain. Go to the Real gold Chain
dot com the Real gold Chain dot Com and you'll
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see why these are such special items, you know. I honestly,
I felt kind of bad because we're just having a blast.
We're having the time of our lives. We're in these
luxurious hotels, we're eating the best food, we're having these parties,
we're winning money. I mean like we're having a good time.
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And yet while this was happening, all of these storms
and hurricanes we're hitting the southeast North Carolina, my hometown
in Florida, and people are suffering and there's nothing I
can do about it at this point. But let me
just I want to state this as plainly as I can.
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It's not like that these things happen and you're never
gonna have to go through them again. I have a
Sunshine Simple solar generator, so I don't need gas, and
that's what I use when I have a disaster situation,
and it is the world's most powerful solar generator for
the price period. I created the company many years ago
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and then I sold it to Mobius because he's the
engineer who actually puts them together. So I'm just going
to tell you I'm not being paid to say this.
Go to Sunshine Simple dot com. Just watch the video
and think about how much better your life would have
been if you went through those things if you had
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had the Sunshine Simple generator. Sunshine Simple dot com. Okay,
now I want to before we run out of time,
I want to tell you something that I've been thinking
about that I believe that you will find of interest.
Years ago, when I was first learning about wishing machines
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and radionics and psionics, and I mean we were talking about,
you know, when I was a teenager. I think I
was sixteen when I first started maybe yeah, probably sixteen
when I started learning about this stuff. I started reading
some of these books by radionics pioneers like Charles Costomano.
Of course, his work was also based on Abrams, doctor Abrams,
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who were going back to the nineteen twenties in that case,
and often the instructions would say, set your machine for
whatever intention that you want. You put whatever you want
on the input plate. Here's how you tune it. There
are different variations, but when you're done, you put this
machine away and you forget about it, and it's going
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to sit there and start working for you even though
you're not thinking about it. Maybe it's a subconscious thing.
I don't know. And over the years I have done that,
I'll set the machine, I'll put it somewhere where I
don't even notice it, I won't even see it. But
recently I have been testing this theory so that instead
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of putting my machine with a wish on it out
of the way, I put it in a very inconvenient place,
like right in the middle of a walkway that I
know I'm going to go through every day, so that
I have to notice it every single time. And at
this point, to my surprise, I am finding that I
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seem to be having better luck if I actually see
the machine every day while it's working. And I think
this may have to do with reverse psychology. If you
go to Wikipedia, it says reverse psychology is a technique
involving the assertion of a belief or a behavior opposite
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to the one desired, with the expectation that this approach
will encourage the subject of the persuasion to do what
is actually desired. Okay, so basically what that means is
you're kind of trying to manipulate a person. So if
I say don't think of a pink elephant, boom, you
thought of a pink elephant. Now that works for everybody.
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But if I say, don't believe this wish is gonna
come true, it may not work that way because I
think it depends on whether or not you are overtly
susceptible to reverse psychology. And what I have found is
that maybe I'm a little too literal in how I
(46:51):
view the world, but reverse psychology does, generally speaking, not
work on me. So there are people that it works on.
I guess like a charm, which is why it exists.
You tell somebody the opposite, like no drink, drink, drink,
(47:11):
and they're going to want to stop drinking. Smoke smoke, smoke,
and they're going to want to stop smoking. I guess
that works, but for me it doesn't. So if you
have been using a manifestation tool, whether it's a wishing
machine or something else, and you find that you are
the type of person that is not usually sensitive to
reverse psychology, try doing the opposite of what the old
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school told you to do. So what I'm saying is
instead of setting the machine and then putting it away
so you don't see it and you don't notice it,
you don't think about it, which is what all the
original texts said, try doing the opposite. Try placing it
very prominently in an inconvenient spot where you are forced
to notice it. You're practically stumbling over it, so that
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you're thinking about it every day. And that might be
the magic bullet there that makes this thing actually work
for you. If you have struggled and you hear all
these stories, these success stories about people using wishing machines,
and maybe you're like, ah, I don't get it, it's
not working for me. Try that out. Try doing what's
against the grain, against the tradition. Put it in a
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place where you do notice it, and see if that
changes things for you. All right, well the clock has
got us, So now it's time to end the show.
And well, my favorite way I'm about to play for
you a tone that people say has improved their lives dramatically.
So take some deep breaths, if you can close your eyes,
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I want you to take twenty seconds to focus on
the positive. Now Here is the original, the world famous,
the one and only good fortune tone. That's it for
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can do at home, and a lot more. On this
edition of the show. Mars Attacks Watching a building implosion
in Las Vegas. Yes days ago, I had a front
row seat to a demolition of a big building here
(01:40):
in Vegas via implosion. That's where they put all these
explosives in these particular areas around a structure, and when
they set the explosives off the building doesn't fly out
all over the place. It crumbles in on itself, and
it's a very dramatic sign. Obviously, probably the biggest explosion
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or the biggest explosive event that you can see without
going to war or maybe to some kind of mining operation.
And what's especially interesting about this is some of my
favorite movies are Pee Wee's Big Adventure or nineteen eighty
(02:28):
nine's Batman with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, or ed
Wood with Johnny Depp, or The Nightmare Before Christmas. Do
you see a pattern here? These are all movies that
were directed by Tim Burton, and Tim Burton is currently
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sixty six years old. He spent a lot of time
when he was young, apparently visiting Las Vegas. He was
born in California, and as the young man, he was
always coming to Vegas and he liked to stay at
this hotel casino called the Landmark, and he was upset
(03:12):
when they announced in nineteen ninety five they were going
to demolish the Landmark by way of implosion. And the Landmark,
by the way, if you've never seen it, it looks
a lot like the Strat looks today. It's a very
similar design. So he was upset that they were going
to destroy it, but you know, being a resourceful man,
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Tim Burton said, well, I want to send a film
crew there to properly document the implosion of this building
so I can use it in my upcoming film called
Mars Attacks. And that's exactly what happened. He had a
professional film crew from I guess it was probably Warner Brothers.
I want to say, yep, Warner Brothers that went there
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and filmed the Landmark being imploded. And then if you've
ever seen Mars Attacks, that's in nineteen ninety six. They
call it a black comedy science fiction film. It had
Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Binning, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito,
Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox. I mean,
(04:18):
the list goes on, and it's been a long time
since I've seen that movie, but there is a scene
where there's some kind of a meeting happening inside of
what appears to be the Landmark Hotel and then it
gets zapped by aliens and it crumbles, and that's real footage.
And the Landmark was actually used in a variety of
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other movies that that implosion footage popped up in other
films as well. But one reason that that's especially interesting
to me is because if you come to my house
in Las Vegas, even when it's not Halloween time, there
is an alien. It's the alien from Mars Attacks standing
(05:03):
there with the clear dome over its head and the
ray gun. It's in the corner of my living room.
It's taller than I am, and it's an animatronic. So
at least subconsciously, I think about Mars Attacks every day.
And frankly, the movie was not that great. I just
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must say. It's not one of my favorite Tim Burton films,
but it is interesting that it was filmed all around
Las Vegas. So there's this connection between building demolitions and
Tim Burton, one of my favorite directors, in this thing
in my living room, and the course the whole alien stuff.
But what it's even odder about this perhaps is that
you know, Lauren and I have been together for twenty
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seven years, and for some reason, I don't know why,
when I met her, she told me early on someday,
you know what I'd love to see? What's that I'd
love to see one of those big buildings being demolished
by implosion in Las Vegas, and I thought that's an
odd thing for a person to want to see. But okay.
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She later told me that she thinks maybe she and
her brother watched some documentary about implosions when there were
kids or something, and she has some fascination with it.
So I just cut me obviously. I thought, well, maybe
someday that will that opportunity will present itself. Well, sure enough,
just recently they announced that this giant hotel casino in
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Las Vegas called The Tropicana was to be destroyed by implosion.
The Tropicana it was originally built there, let's see, nineteen
fifty seven. By the time it closed down, it occupied
thirty five acres and had one four hundred and sixty
seven rooms. Big old place, I mean, a classic legendary place.
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There's a road called Tropicana Avenue that runs right cross Vegas,
and people use Tropicana as a reference point for their directions.
But if you've listened to the show for a while,
you may have heard me talk about how that Vegas
is becoming a big sports destination. For example, the loss
let's see the Los Angeles Raiders, the LA Raiders, the
(07:18):
football team. They moved to Vegas. So they are now
the Las Vegas Raiders. And here's the next thing. The
Oakland A's in Oakland, California. That's a major League baseball team.
They have decided to leave Oakland, California and move to Vegas.
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If you've ever seen that movie Moneyball with Brad Pitt,
it's about the Oakland A's. That's a very good movie,
by the way. So sure enough, Oakland A's are moving here,
and they decided that they wanted to build a stadium
on that property where the Tropicana was sitting. And there
was a lot of wheeling and dilling, and sure enough
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they made a deal to get the property, and so
the tropicanic closed down. The experts went in there, they
gutted it. They took out all the asbestos and all
that kind of stuff, and then all that was remaining
was that the concrete skeleton of this thing. And so
days ago they decided to blow it up. Now, one
of my friends here in Vegas is a famous magician
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named Murray Salchuk, And I mean he's the kind of
guy like when you're driving down the Vegas Strip, you
look up and there's a billboard and there's Murray there.
He's got this big shock of bleach blonde hair and
he wears thick black glasses. He's very memorable looking guy.
He was on America's Got Talent. He's been all over TV.
He's been doing this a long time. He's in his
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fifties now, been doing this stuff since he was a kid.
As a matter of fact, the podcast that I used
to do was called Joshua Pee Warren Day. I still
occasionally will post little special things on that feed. But
if you go to if you just go to Google
and you look up Joshua P. Warren Daily and you
find there's hundreds of episodes. I interviewed Murray on an
(09:09):
episode that let's see was posted on June fifth of
twenty eighteen. It's called I Interviewed Murray the Magician. I
met Murray probably in twenty eighteen because we were working
on a television project together and I won't get to
the details of that, but we shot a sizzle for
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a TV show and the show didn't get picked up.
But anyway, since then, you know, we've remained friends. And
Murray is one of those guys who just has this
endless supply of energy he's a huge socialite. He travels
the world performing and then he comes home and he
throws these big parties and invites you know, all the
the who's who in Vegas to these parties. And I
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just so happened to be on I think it was Facebook,
and this is a few months ago, and Murray the
Magician he posted that he was thinking about throwing a
demolition party. And that's because when I met Murray, he
was performing at Planet Hollywood on the Strip, but then
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they changed things around there and Murray switched to the Tropicana.
So Murray did this nightly show at the Tropicana for years,
all the way up to the end. So he's very
intimately connected with his property. So he wanted to see
it go down in style, and he said, I'm thinking
about throwing this party called drop the trop And the
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idea was that right next to the Tropicana is the
MGM Grand and he was going to rent this big
what they call a patio suite and we would all
chip in if we were invited. And then basically the
idea was we throw a big, you know, just a
big party. We go out there on the patio and
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we watched this building collapse right before our eyes as
a big dramatic special treat. And so I immediately told Murray,
I said, count me in. And I just knew that
Lauren was gonna be thrilled, just tickled, because you know,
it's I figured it was gonna be kind of hard
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to get good access to something like that, and I
figured if anybody would know how to do it, to
be Murray the Magician. Okay, when we come back, I'm
gonna tell you what happened that night. It was a
little more interesting and odd and in some ways bizarre
than you might be thinking to watch something to watch
history unfold like that, explosively and implosively right before your eyes. Hey,
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Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am Paranormal
Podcast Network. I am your host, a wizard of weird,
Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain from my
studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day
is golden and every unit is silver. Gietato Zume. It
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is amazing how quickly this city grows. It just it
grows at light speed. There are more and more people
here every year. They make more money every year. I
have lived here going on seven years now, and of
course a little over two and a half years ago
I finally bought a house I was renting up until then.
(14:17):
I bought a house and very nice neighborhood, but there
really wasn't much around here when I bought the house.
And now two and a half years later, there is
this huge, luxurious casino which is basically on one side
of me. I could practically walk to it. And now
(14:42):
on the other side of me, they're building a big,
fancy church. And so I'm between a casino and a church.
It's like having the devil on one shoulder and the
angel on the other. Let me tell you something, though,
this better be a really fun church, because over here
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I got bars and food and gambling, even the Ladies'
night if you know what I mean, guys, I mean,
if you're not married or you can go to church.
And honestly, they're already off to a bad start because
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the church isn't even built, and yet they have people
running around the neighborhood putting these little tags on people's
door knobs of their cars and houses announcing the church.
It's like, so you're already off to a bad start,
leaving trash on my doorstep. I don't want to say
what kind of church it is, but it's not a
(15:44):
Catholic Church. I actually kind of wish that it was
a Catholic church because Catholics are just so creepy and cool.
You can go to a Catholic church and you can
get holy water there that you can square on vampires
and werewolves. Yeah, you can confess all your sins leave
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there with a clean conscience. I think the Catholic Church
is kind of like the Marvel expanded universe of US religions,
don't you think. I mean, there's these they have all
these saints that are like superheroes. This is the Saint
of chefs, this is the Saint of comedians. I wonder
(16:31):
if there's a Saint of broadcasters. I bet there is.
I here's the extent of my exposure to the Catholic Church.
When I was a teenager, I dated a girl who
was Catholic for a while, and I'm by Catholic, I
mean like really Catholic. She was from South America, and
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so that's where I kind of got my first real
taste of what you know, mass and all that kind
of stuff like in the Catholic Church. And then over
the years I've had like, well, for what one time,
when I was I was a young man, and I
was about to go investigate this house that was where
(17:17):
supposedly demonic activity was taking place, and the woman there
claimed that she would get possessed and this sort of thing.
So one of my friends took me to this big,
grand Catholic church and we actually went into this little
house next door where the priest lived, like the head priest,
and we sat down in his office and he was
(17:40):
telling us about how to handle demonic stuff, and he
gave us some holy water, and so so we went
to this woman's house and we threw it on her
and it really ticked her off, so she must have
had a demon. And then then when I was in
(18:03):
Puerto Rico, there was an you might have heard me
talk about, this guy named Michael Rivera who said there
was a presence living in his house. And so he
and I went to his priest at the Catholic church
and he gave us all kinds of tips. It's very
interesting when you sit down in an office with a
priest and they start talking very clinically about demons. You know,
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it's like you're in a doctor's office talking about medicine,
except they're talking very factually about demons. Anyway, let's get
back to the story. So we're gonna do this demolition party.
It's called Drop the trop And of course access to
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the Tropicana is pretty limited. But Murray the Magician, he
he's the man about town here in Vegas. So I
knew if anybody was going to get us a front
row seat, it would be Murray the Magician. Of course,
they had the engineers on the news talking about how that,
how they're going to arrange this, and I guess the
head engineer he said, at the moment when these explosives
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go off, it's going to fire these pins or whatever
into these sensitive joints on this structure at five miles
per second. Five miles per second. So this is dangerous
business here, right, And it did cross my mind, Well,
(19:33):
what if these guys kind of screw up here and
I'm sitting right there and I get a bolt through
the skull at five miles per second. Hey, at least
it'd be instantaneous death. That you know, I can think
of worse ways to die. I just don't want to
get like nicked in the elbow or something. Well, Murray,
sure enough, he follows through and he gets this room
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and he says, we're a go. It's a green light.
So the day rolls around, they're going to demolish this
building at two thirty seven am, So yeah, am in
the middle of the night. On October the ninth of
twenty twenty four, the news said that there were going
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to be road closures at some point around the hotel,
and we didn't want to get, of course, like stuck
in some weird traffic situations. So Lauren and I decided
that we would go to the MGM Grand about eight
o'clock because they were saying they weren't going to start
closing the roads down till maybe eleven or twelve, so
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we could we went there and we would go there
at eight, have dinner, gamble a little bit because Murray
said the party would start at ten thirty pm, and
so that's what we did. We went there. We had
a really nice dinner at this bar, I think it
was called Tap Sports Bar, and then we gambled a
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little bit. We were doing well, and then when ten
thirty rolled around, if you were part of the party,
you had to meet Murray at the bottom of this
elevator because he had this swipe. You can't go up
to room the guest rooms here in Vegas unless you
swipe your key on the elevator to activate it. So
we met Murray there about ten thirty and he swiped
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the thing and led us all up there. But he
also said, listen, there's been a change of plans because
the original idea was that he was going to have
this big patio room. And he said he'd hired a
two piece band and there was going to be a
bartender there with an open bar and we were and
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some catering, you know, like like food and snacks, I mean,
a really nice layout. But he said that okay. So
the idea was we were going to have that with
a big patio and we would all just kind of
be mingling going in and out. But at the last minute,
like three days before this demolition was to take place,
Clark County, the county here within which we are told
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all the hotels you cannot have patios open, you cannot
have balconies open. Everybody has to be inside. It's too dangerous.
So Murray said, he gets up there on the fifteenth
floor of the MGM Grand and he goes into the
patio room and he looks out and he's like oh
my god, we can't even see the Tropicana. It was
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like on the north end. This is going to be
a disaster. And Murray is a very detail oriented man,
as all professional magicians are, so here he has I mean,
I'm sure he laid an egg when he saw this.
So he goes down he starts talking to the staff saying,
you know what's going on here. We have to see
the buildings to drop the trop on it. So they
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ended up saying, here's a second room that we're going
to give you on the twelfth floor, which is literally
right there, directly facing the Tropicana. So, in other words,
the party with the booze and the food and the
band and all that is going to be on four fifteen.
But when it comes time for the demolition, everybody goes
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down to floor twelve, where we go into this room
where we get to pile around and look out these windows,
and we're all hoping that we actually have a good
view because now we're indoors and they're going to be
reflections and we're not sure what's going to happen. So
we go up to the original party room and it's
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really nice. It's two stories and I was surprised how
many people were there because Murray said, you can bring
two people with you, and I only it was just
I just brought Lauren. It was just Lauren and myself,
but he said they were about seventy five people altogether.
So we go into this room and even though it's
a big, two story room, it is quite hot and
claustrophobic because this is Vegas, and I really wish that
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we can open that patio up and gone outside. But
the band was fantastic. The bartender, she had everything you
could ever want, super nice. There was I mean, a
really impressive display of food and very snacks all over
the place. He couldn't have done a better job. And
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not surprisingly, there were celebrities there. Okay, we're up on
a break. When we come back, I'm going to I'm
going to tell you a little bit more about what
happened at these parties. I had kind of an odd
experience with a celebrity. And then I actually have audio
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that I recorded just for you of the moment when
this building that was right across the street, this historic building,
blew all to pieces. You're gonna hear the reaction inside
the room. I did have to do a little bit
of bleeping though. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to
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Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be back after these
important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things well the Eye
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Art Radio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren, And this is the
show where the unusual becomes usual. The party is Rarin Murray,
the magician and his wife, showgirl Danny, have quite the
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menagerie of individuals from all around Vegas and beyond. You know,
people traveled from Afar for this event. As you can imagine,
everybody's having a great time. And then yeah, there's celebrities there.
I don't want to get into who they were, you know,
that's that's crass, that's taboo. At a certain point, we
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moved down to the twelfth floor, which is the viewing room,
and we walked in there and let me just tell you,
we were just right there, dead on, looking across this
exactly at the Tropicana, which is actually two towers, two
big tall towers. Was too big tall towers. But again,
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are there are seventy five of us or so, so,
I mean, space is really tight. And there was this
one guy who was just sprawled out pretty as you
please on this couch taking a nap. In the middle
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of this, there's a DJ in there playing all kinds
of hardcore music. This guy's taking a nap and he
had like a hand towel over his face. Well anyway,
he had a pretty good position though, so I kind
of sat down on this stool that was next to
his cowboy boots, and his cowboy boots kept kicking me
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in the elbow, and I'm just like, woss this guy,
you know, And then finally I look over and the
somebody takes the towel off. It's a very famous man,
and I know that. I it sucks for me to
tell you that and then not tell you who it is.
But you would know who it was if I told you.
And I thought, huh, interesting. Well, everybody's getting psyched up
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as it's getting closer to the time two thirty seven am.
They have this big fireworks display. They have this drone
show that they say has it's using technology and techniques
that have never been used before. Just big, glorious, amazing
I mean, this is a celebration of magnificent Vegas proportions.
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And so then finally it came time for and I mean,
I don't know why two thirty seven am. And that
is interesting how specific it is. And I mean, you're
talking about a situation where they have to halt airplanes
flying over and all kinds of stuff, so who knows
what they take into consideration to come up with that.
So the excite. So at this point, everybody's been drinking.
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I mean there's been an open bar for like three
three and a half hours or something, I don't know,
and so people are drinking, people are acting kind of
kind of crazy. But everybody was cool, you know, everybody
was fun and nice. And then here is the big
moment and the excitement you're talking about building for months.
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So I brought a little audio recorder with me and
I'm going to play for you right now the audio
of the moment when the building that we were looking
at came down. Because what we're talking about here is
it's the middle of the night, you're looking out a window,
you've just seen fireworks. Everybody psyched, and then you start hearing.
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And first we heard the other tower, Uh, coming down,
and then the one right in front of us came down.
Here's here's the audio from from what uh, Here's here's
the audio from that moment. Okay, Oh, and I did
have to bleep out at least one word because people
have a tendency to curse when this kind of thing happens.
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You can imagine how powerful the percussion was from that.
And actually, afterward, I thought to myself, it's probably a
good thing that we weren't out on a patio, because
as soon as that thing collapsed in on itself, there
was this gigantic, boiling, roiling, thick, dark gray cloud of
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dust that just came seething out from it and just
slowly moved up to the window like a big fog.
And yeah, if you'd been outside, you would have been
covered covered with dust and breathing in who knows what
and getting that in your eyes. So yeah, I can
see why when you're that close to it, it's not
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a good idea to be out on the patio. And also,
I mean, we didn't have to use earplugs or anything,
which who knows that maybe if you were standing out
on a patio that close you maybe you could damage
your ears, I guess so, but it was. It was
definitely a p and the thing that that stood out
the most for me was that. And you've probably seen
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these videos before, and so you know what I'm talking about.
It's a gigantic structure right there before your eyes and
then within seconds it just looks like it melts. It's
not like it goes pop. I mean you could see
little little lights here and there because it was dark,
but basically all together because it just gives the impression
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that this giant building just melts. And then when finally
the dust clear is there's just a big clump. It's
like a like a hill of debris there. And if
you follow me on social media then you've probably seen
some of the footage. Laren got just news like TV
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news quality footage of this. Uh. If if you follow
my social media on Facebook or Twitter, we may or
may not have an my Instagram page. There's an Instagram
page just for this show called Joshua P. Warren Podcast,
And if it's not there, we'll get something up there
for you. But I mean, it just it's so weird
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to watch something gigantic like that and melt in a
matter of seconds and right off the bat. There were
people saying, doesn't this remind you of how Building seven
looked nine to eleven when the World Trade Center was attacked,
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And it really does. You know, one of my best
friends was Jim Mars, the greatest conspiracy theorist who ever lived.
And of course we know that planes hit the two towers,
but there was this other building called seven World Trade Center,
and there are lots of people who say that if
you look at that footage of that thing collapsing, a
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plane did not hit it. And there are people who
say it was a controlled demolition, that this forty seven
story skyscraper that stood across Vesey Street, north of the
main part of the World Trade Center site was intentionally
destroyed with explosives. As I said, Unlike the Twin Towers,
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seven World Trade Center was not hit by a plane,
although it was hit by debris from the Twin Towers
and was damaged by fires which burned for seven hours
until it collapsed completely at about five to twenty pm
on the evening of September eleventh. Proponents typically say the
collapse of seven World Trade Center was not mentioned in
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the nine to eleven Commission report, and that the federal
body charged with investigating the event required seven years to
conduct its investigation and issue a report. Apparently, some people
say that it was it was demolished because it may
have served as an operational center for the demolition of
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the twin towers, while others suggest the government may have
had insiders that wanted to destroy some key files in
the building pertaining to fraud. This building housed dozens of federal, state,
and local government agencies. Look, I don't know, I really
don't know. I've heard people say this for the longest time,
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and I honestly do not know. But what I can
tell you is that when I go back and I
look at footage of Building seven, I don't see the
little sparks of light like we saw when the Tropicana
was demolished. But Tropicana was demolished at night, and so
it's maybe in the daytime you wouldn't see that, you
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wouldn't see those sparks, or maybe a totally different type
of explosive technology was used that would not create those
kinds of sparks. I really I can't tell you, but
it does look. I mean, when you when you watch
that footage, I'm telling you it looks like a demolition.
I'm not saying it is. I'm not saying it was,
but it does look like it. After the demolition, they
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told us that we could not leave until six in
the morning because the roads were closed off. Like, oh,
you kidding me. You know, we've been here since eight o'clock.
We don't want to stay till six in the morning.
The party ended at I think three thirty am, so
we set our goodbyes. We went down into the lobby
of the MGM Grand and the lobby was hazy with dust.
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There were people wearing masks in the lobby of the
MGM Grand, So that was I mean, I guess that
shouldn't be totally unexpected, but that was kind of weird,
you know that. You see you see Lauren took pictures
of of you know, the hazy lobby. So we thought, well,
are we going to be wrapped here or can we
actually get out of here and start working our way
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back home. So we decided to go outside, hit the
strip and start walking and get outside of the demolition zone.
When we come back from this break, I'm going to
tell you about something rather magnificent that happened after this.
And then also I believe I will have time to
tell you about a new concept in using radionics and
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wishing machines. A great tip for you that I've been
saving up for a while. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're
listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back.
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Welcome back to the final segments of this edition of
Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren,
and I definitely want to make sure that I think
Murray Sawchuck Murray the magician and his wife Danny Elizabeth
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the showgirl. I guess she's Danny Sawchuk now because she
was Danny Elizabeth and now they're married. Thank them for
having me and Lauren. And I want to also reiterate
that if you go to Google and type in Joshua P.
Warren Daily, you will find the podcast that I used
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to do I still occasionally will do, like Special Reports,
but it's an R rated, uncensored podcast, and I interviewed
both of them on it. I interviewed Murray. If you
find the one from June fifth, twenty eighteen. It's called
I Interviewed Murray the Magician, and then I interviewed Danny
the Showgirl on August fifteenth of twenty eighteen, and that
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is called My Call with Top Vegas Showgirl Danny Elizabeth
Danny spelled d A N I. And you can learn
about their life stories and they're just really warm, kind,
generous people, and I guess that's why that they liked
us throw these kinds of parties and socialize. Well, Lauren
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and I we didn't want to stick around all six
o'clock in the morning, so yeah, we hit the road
and finally we ended up going into another hotel casino
where we could catch a taxi. And at this point
it's like four o'clock in the morning. We knew we
were going to be up all night, of course, and
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so we decided to stop at a bar, because there
are lots of twenty four hour bars here in Vegas.
Of course, stop at a bar and pick up some
food to take back to the house to eat and
then go to bed. And we just so happened to
be near this bar that we were at, oh maybe
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a couple months ago, when Lauren sat down and hit
a delt royal flush. And if you know anything about
video poker, I mean, that's the holy grail. A lot
of people never hit a royal flush in their entire lives.
She goes in there wearing her electrom ring, she sat down,
she didn't even put that much money in. It might
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have been twenty bucks, and next thing you know, she
hits a delt royal and wins at least a thousand dollar.
We went back to that same bar that night. So
we go in, sit down, we order our food. While
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we're waiting for the food, we start playing the video
poker and guess what, it's my turn this time. I'm
wearing the electrom ring, I'm wearing the real gold chain,
and boom, I hit a royal flush. And I was
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betting more than she was, so I went even more money.
And I just can't believe that both of us went
there and hit royal flushes. And no, I'm not going
to tell you what bar this is. This is our
this is our our our little secrets here, all right.
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But if you're interested in the electrom ring, go to
joshuap Warren dot com. You can right now, I believe
you can get one made for you an electrom ring,
or if you want, if you really want to go hardcore,
get the gold chain. Go to the Real gold Chain
dot com the Real gold Chain dot Com and you'll
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see why these are such special items, you know. I honestly,
I felt kind of bad because we're just having a blast.
We're having the time of our lives. We're in these
luxurious hotels, we're eating the best food, we're having these parties,
we're winning money. I mean like we're having a good time.
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And yet while this was happening, all of these storms
and hurricanes we're hitting the southeast North Carolina, my hometown
in Florida, and people are suffering and there's nothing I
can do about it at this point. But let me
just I want to state this as plainly as I can.
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It's not like that these things happen and you're never
gonna have to go through them again. I have a
Sunshine Simple solar generator, so I don't need gas, and
that's what I use when I have a disaster situation,
and it is the world's most powerful solar generator for
the price period. I created the company many years ago
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and then I sold it to Mobius because he's the
engineer who actually puts them together. So I'm just going
to tell you I'm not being paid to say this.
Go to Sunshine Simple dot com. Just watch the video
and think about how much better your life would have
been if you went through those things if you had
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had the Sunshine Simple generator. Sunshine Simple dot com. Okay,
now I want to before we run out of time,
I want to tell you something that I've been thinking
about that I believe that you will find of interest.
Years ago, when I was first learning about wishing machines
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and radionics and psionics, and I mean we were talking about,
you know, when I was a teenager. I think I
was sixteen when I first started maybe yeah, probably sixteen
when I started learning about this stuff. I started reading
some of these books by radionics pioneers like Charles Costomano.
Of course, his work was also based on Abrams, doctor Abrams,
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who were going back to the nineteen twenties in that case,
and often the instructions would say, set your machine for
whatever intention that you want. You put whatever you want
on the input plate. Here's how you tune it. There
are different variations, but when you're done, you put this
machine away and you forget about it, and it's going
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to sit there and start working for you even though
you're not thinking about it. Maybe it's a subconscious thing.
I don't know. And over the years I have done that,
I'll set the machine, I'll put it somewhere where I
don't even notice it, I won't even see it. But
recently I have been testing this theory so that instead
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of putting my machine with a wish on it out
of the way, I put it in a very inconvenient place,
like right in the middle of a walkway that I
know I'm going to go through every day, so that
I have to notice it every single time. And at
this point, to my surprise, I am finding that I
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seem to be having better luck if I actually see
the machine every day while it's working. And I think
this may have to do with reverse psychology. If you
go to Wikipedia, it says reverse psychology is a technique
involving the assertion of a belief or a behavior opposite
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to the one desired, with the expectation that this approach
will encourage the subject of the persuasion to do what
is actually desired. Okay, so basically what that means is
you're kind of trying to manipulate a person. So if
I say don't think of a pink elephant, boom, you
thought of a pink elephant. Now that works for everybody.
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But if I say, don't believe this wish is gonna
come true, it may not work that way because I
think it depends on whether or not you are overtly
susceptible to reverse psychology. And what I have found is
that maybe I'm a little too literal in how I
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view the world, but reverse psychology does, generally speaking, not
work on me. So there are people that it works on.
I guess like a charm, which is why it exists.
You tell somebody the opposite, like no drink, drink, drink,
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and they're going to want to stop drinking. Smoke smoke, smoke,
and they're going to want to stop smoking. I guess
that works, but for me it doesn't. So if you
have been using a manifestation tool, whether it's a wishing
machine or something else, and you find that you are
the type of person that is not usually sensitive to
reverse psychology, try doing the opposite of what the old
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school told you to do. So what I'm saying is
instead of setting the machine and then putting it away
so you don't see it and you don't notice it,
you don't think about it, which is what all the
original texts said, try doing the opposite. Try placing it
very prominently in an inconvenient spot where you are forced
to notice it. You're practically stumbling over it, so that
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you're thinking about it every day. And that might be
the magic bullet there that makes this thing actually work
for you. If you have struggled and you hear all
these stories, these success stories about people using wishing machines,
and maybe you're like, ah, I don't get it, it's
not working for me. Try that out. Try doing what's
against the grain, against the tradition. Put it in a
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place where you do notice it, and see if that
changes things for you. All right, well the clock has
got us, So now it's time to end the show.
And well, my favorite way I'm about to play for
you a tone that people say has improved their lives dramatically.
So take some deep breaths, if you can close your eyes,
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I want you to take twenty seconds to focus on
the positive. Now Here is the original, the world famous,
the one and only good fortune tone. That's it for
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