Episode 281: How Some Strange Toys Became SERIOUS Business!

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can do at home, and a lot more on this
edition of the show. How some strange toys became serious business. Now,
what I mean by that is, in some cases throughout history,
something created as a toy ends up serving a very serious,

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unexpected purpose. And then sometimes something created for a serious problem,
a tool or something like that, it ends up becoming
much more successful as a toy I've always been intrigued
by toys because, in my opinion, the best toys throughout

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history have been the weirdest ones. And there are always
some great stories about how things become toys and how
toys get used in odd ways. And so I'm going
to tell you about some of my favorite stories regarding that.
And you know, I, even though I'm almost fifty years old,

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I still will go into a toy store if I
have the opportunity, and these days, I must be honest
with you, most of the time, when I go in
most of the toy stores, I'm disappointed. And that's because that, frankly,
a lot of what you find these days is a

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bunch of really cheap, homogenized stuff. It doesn't seem very
creative to me. Everything has to attach to your to
a phone app and a lot of the stuff in
these stores is just collectibles. And I'm fine with that.
I love collectibles. I have plenty of myself, but to me,

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that's not the same as toys. I think a toy
store should should mainly consist of things you can interact
with kinetically, as opposed to just figures in there. And
then there are some popular like collectible figures these days
out there that I just don't care for at all.
But look, I'm not gonna sit here and bad mouth

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toy stores as a fifty year old man. What I
am going to explain, though, is I tend to like
some of the older, simpler, but I think more creative toys,
maybe stuff that kids played with the eighteen hundreds or something,
or the or you know, the early nineteen hundred. I
mean that kind of thing. I was in a toy

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store the other day, and by the way, okay, like
there are these stores that you'll you'll, if you're lucky,
you can be in some town, maybe in a rural
area out in the mountains, and you might find some
independently owned toy store and you'll find some good, old fashioned,
traditional things. I was in a store recently and I
found some game and basically it's something like a wooden

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tube and it came with the styrofoam ball. And so
what you do is blow on the tube and the
ball it's sitting on top of a hole. And when
you blow on the tube, the ball hovers magically in
the air. It just holds its place there. And so
if you're playing with this by yourself. Well, you know,

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you can see how high you can get this ball
without losing control of it, or you can just see
how long you can keep it floating. You can of
course challenge other people and make a game out of
it that way. Now, look, I know that sounds really
really boring, and it makes me sound like I'm probably
a lot older than I even am. But I mean
I like little goofy things like that that are they

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look unusual, they do something that's interactive, they're simple, and
I can just sit in my living room and and
mindlessly play with it. And you don't find a lot
of stuff like that these days, but you know, there
are people who are trying to bring back that kind

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of thing. For example, you may or may not know
that my father, Danny Warren, is a professional wood carver,
and he also does other things. You know, he writes
some books from time to time. He recently wrote a
book about them around Mountain Lights, and he has a
book out called Ridge Hoppers. But he is best known
for carving, hand carving these classic Appalachian walking sticks, and

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they are famous. Actually. I've been to some high end
shops in western North Carolina where you know there's a
premium price on some of these walking sticks. But he
has recently started making a toy that I guess nobody
else really makes anymore. The tradition kind of fell out,
but boy, there's a booming demand for it. He makes

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these things called g hal wimy diddles. You know what
a wimy diddle is? I bet most of you don't.
Let me try to explain this, okay, So basically, so
this is a traditional Appalachian folk toy and it's made
from two small sticks. I think they say often mountain

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laurel or a rhododendron. And basically, okay, one of the sticks,
Let's say you have one stick in your left hand.
That stick has some notches carved into it, and then
on the end of that stick is a little propeller,
like a little wooden airplane propeller. And what happens is

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if you take the other stick, which is just smooth,
and let's say you put it in your right hand,
and then you stroke it back and forth, you slide
it over those notches. If you get the vibration just right,
then you can get that propeller to start spinning. And
some people have a hard time even getting it to spin.

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I'm a natural at that. But here's where it gets
really tricky. Once you get that down pat then you
can sort of sort of adjust your hands and the
pressure you use to either make the propellers spin clockwise
or counterclockwise. You can make it switch directions. That's why
it's called a g hall wimy diddle. As a matter

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of fact, G like back in the day when farmers
would plow fields with their mules, they would say G
and that would tell the mule to go to the right,
and they would say haw and that was to the left.
And so they call these things a g hall wimy diddle.

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And you know, I actually looked it up. I was like,
where did that come from? And all I could find
is that it says G and hall are traditional voice
commands used for steering oxen horses and mules, originating from
seventeenth cent English farming and logging to guide draft animals
while the driver operated equipment behind them. But I didn't

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find anything particular about like YG or hall. But anyway,
so this is like it's a simple little toy, but
it's actually difficult to craft and it's really fun to
play with if you want to see a video of
me actually using one of my dad's wimmy diddles Gehull
Wimmy Diddles, Go to Ridgehoppers dot com. That's my dad's website,

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and I recently put a video up there of me
playing with one of these, and you can see what
I mean. Well, anyway, I tell you all that because again,
I like kind of old fashioned toys, and what I've
found is that sometimes these toys end up having very
surprising uses. For example, when the United States was in

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the Iraq War and you had soldiers constantly going into
buildings one by one and clearing them out, one of
the biggest problems they encountered was these trip wires, little
wires attached to explosives, could be a grenade or something
like that. And you know, you hear you are a

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lot of times in the dark, you got all this
gear on. These guys would walk through a doorway and
they'd hit one of these wires and kaboom. This would
happened all the time, and they couldn't figure out the
best way to detect these trip wires. So all these
military men they got together with all these scientists and

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they started brainstorming and trying to figure out what to do,
and they finally realized that the simplest solution was to
have every soldier carry a little can of silly string.
Now silly string, you know, it's this little aerosol can.

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Surely you all, I mean people listen to the show
all over the world, so maybe it's called different things
at different places, but it's like a little can aerosol
kind of can, and you push the button and it
squirts out this big, long, lightweight plastic string. And these

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things are used all the time for parties, weddings, birthday parties, carnivals.
And the soldiers found that when they would take out
the silly string and squirt it around a room, that
if if there was a trip wire, then that silly
string would land on hang off of that trip wire

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without setting it off. And that silly string saved so
many lives. Isn't that amazing to think that something that
simple could do that? And they say that this was
invented originally because the people, I guess was invented in
nineteen seventy two. The main guy was a chemist named

(11:07):
Robert P. Cox. He wanted to create some kind of
a substance that could be shot out of an aerosol
can that you could spray on a broken or spraying
leg or arm and use as an instant cast. And
the invention eventually worked. But they had to test all
kinds of different stuff, and one of them ended up

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being what we now know is silly String. I'll tell
you something else funny about how silly string moved from
something serious to a toy to something serious, and then
well there's much more where that comes from. The next
thing I'm gonna tell you about is something that was

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a toy that was used in the Vietnam War that
probably saved a lot of lives as well. Okay, my friends,
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I'd zetato zume the guys who invented what became silly
String in nineteen seventy two. The one was named last
named Fish, the other cocks and once they realized they
may have had a potential toy on their hands, well,

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they didn't know how to sell toys, but they made
an appointment with the Whammo Toy Company. I bet those
are hard to come by, And one of the guys
said that during that meeting, During that meeting, he pulls
out a can of this stuff and he just squirts
it all over the person at Whammo and all over

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the office. And the person at Whammo did not like that,
became very upset and told him to lead. That was
probably not a good sales strategy. But guess what. One
day later, Fish, the guy named Fish, he received a
telegram asking him to send twenty four cans of this

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stuff for a market test immediately, and it was signed
by the same person who had kicked him out at Wammo.
And they got on the phone and talked, and apparently
it turned out that after this guy at Whamo had
finished cleaning up his office, apparently he had missed some
of this, and the two owners of Whammo had come

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to talk to him, and one noticed a piece of
the silly string on a lamp shade that the guy
had overlooked and said, what is this And after he
explained it to them, they said, uh, huh okay, And
so guess what. Two weeks later they had signed this
contract and the rest is history. Interesting huh okay? How

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about this one? As I think we all know, the
Vietnam War was an absolute mess. The United States was
drafting young men and sending them over to the Jungles,
some of the most treacherous land out there, full of threats,

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very difficult to see each other, very difficult to communicate. Obviously,
communication is important in any type of war, but especially
in that case where I mean everything was just covered
vegetation and everybody was wasted deep in water half the time.
I mean, it was just really it was really important
to have good antennas for your radios, but that those

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guys were way down to all kinds of bulky equipment,
and the antennas on the radios, the typical traditional antennas,
they didn't work very well. They were getting broken all
the time, they were getting lost. Sometimes if you'd pop
an antenna up, well, the enemy would see it and
that would show you exactly where you were, so you
could get targeted. And they were like, we need a

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better solution. So they got engineers working on this. How
can we get an improved antenna And they found out
that there happens to be a coiled antenna out there
that resonates between seven and eight megahertz, called a slinky. Yes,

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they started realizing that they could carry slinkies metal slinkies
around and use these as portable antennas for local HF communication.
And I mean it was actually very good, and it
was used to extend the ranges of handheld radios. You
could take a slinky, you could stretch it all over
the place, toss it up in the trees and bushes

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and get it. They use slinkies to solve this problem.
The slinky was created by a naval engineer in nineteen
forty three. You know, it's kind of funny because he
was just messing around with springs that could be used
for the navy, and he created one spring and he

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said he noticed it, quote stepping downwards after it was
accidentally knocked off a shelf and then coming to rest
in a vertical position. And his wife said later that
he came home and said, I think if I got
this just right, the right kind of steel intention, I
think I could almost make this thing walk. So for
a year he experimented with different types of steel wire

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and finally got one that would walk. And so they
started manufacturing these things to sell, and nobody wanted them.
I mean, it was just a very very difficult sell
for some reason. But they worked their magic and they
got a deal to put an inclined plane a ramp

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of some kind in a toy section at Gimbal's department
store in Philadelphia where they could actually demonstrate it. And
they demonstrated this thing on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It
was an instant hit. The first four hundred units were
sold in ninety minutes, and then after that it was

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introduced to the toy fair and so but who knew that?
A guy? Again? You know, it's funny because like with
a silly string, a guy was trying to do something
serious for cast for broken bones, and it turned into
a toy, and then it got used as something serious
to locate trip wires in war. And this is a

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case of a naval guy who's trying to create some
kind of a spring that would have some some role
to play in the navy stuff. It ends up becoming
a toy, but then later also gets used as an
antenna in Vietnam. You see, like why these stories are
strange and why they fascinate me. And I won't spend
that much time talking about each one of these. It's like,

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for example, at nineteen seventy four, there was a company
in Japan and somebody there was some kind of a
policy about trying to create clean room environments, especially classrooms,
because apparently, I don't know, the Japanese are very particular

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about things. They were concerned that a classroom was going
to be contaminated with too much dust from chalks, from chalkboards,
you know, And so they said, we need to create
a sterile, clean room environment. And so they started working

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on this magnetic board where you could you could draw
using a stylus on a magnetic board and it would
create an image and then you could wipe it clean
by sliding a magnet and start all over again. We

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know it as the Magna Doodle magnetic drawing toy. And
they said, you know, over forty million of these have
been sold. And so this started with a need to
solve what they believed was a serious problem. They didn't
want chalk contaminating the air in the chalk in the classroom,

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all right. So how about this one. During World War Two,
Japan started invading rubber producing countries as it expanded its
sphere of influence. Going back to Japan again here, and
you know, obviously everybody wanted rubber because it was vital

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for the production of rafts, tires, various parts for vehicles, aircraft,
gas masks, boots. In the US, all rubber products were rationed.
Citizens were encouraged to make their rubber products last until
the end of the war and to donate spare time
and boots and coats. The US government was spending lots

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of money funding research into synthetic rubber compounds to try
to solve this shortage, and they contacted a variety of
companies and guess what, some scientists got together. They started
mixing up things and they discovered what we now know
as this weird gooey doe thing called silly putty. And

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they found that it had some unique properties that even
though it was gooey, that you could also bounce it.
It could stretch farther than regular rubber, it would not
go moldy, had a very high melting temperature, but it
didn't have all the properties needed to replace rubber. So

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everybody knew they had something weird here, but they it's
something that you know, was possibly useful, but they didn't
know what to do with it. And so, guess what.
You can imagine, somebody at a toy store came across
this putty and well, they said, this is fun to
play with, and now we have silly putty, direct product
of World War two. Also, you know, before World War two,

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a lot of people were using coal fire in their
homes for heat and cooking and whatnot. That was quite
common to use coal. But the problem is that coal
would often produce this nasty kind of residue on your

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walls and your wallpaper. And so there was a guy
out there who made soap, and he was selling soap
to Kroger Grocery and somebody at Kroger said, we need
to come up with something that will clean They'll easily

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clean this residue off of walls and wallpaper without causing
any kind of other part mite damage. And they asked
him if he could figure out how to do that,
and so he ended up doing a lot of research
and he came up with this gooey, little pliable putty

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and it was actually perfect. You could take this little putty,
it wouldn't really stick to anything permanently. You could put
it on the wall and you could clean that right off.
But after World War Two, the demand for wallpaper cleaning
putty shrank because natural gas started becoming popular. So he

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said I got to figure out what to do with this. Well,
it turns out there was a teacher who was using
this putty to do some artwork with her kids, and
he heard about it and how much the kids liked it.
We got to take a break. When we come back,
what do you think this product is? I bet you know?

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And then I'm going to tell you about well some
more stories like this. I'm Joshua Whipe Warren. You're listening
to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I'll be back after these
important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeart

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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. So what do you think
I was talking about before the break? Yes, it became Plato.

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And you know, it's all kind of thanks to the
fact that this teacher apparently saw the potential and taking
this old wall paper cleaner and having the kids, you know,
make creative things with it. And as soon as the
Adventure of Plato realized that, then he started promoting it.

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And now we have Plato, how about this one. In
the late nineteen seventies and early nineteen eighties, the United
States Army was looking for new efficient ways to train
and do simulations of close quarter combat, you know, role

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play kind of things that would be safe but also
efficient without wasting a bunch of ammo. And but you know,
safety was I guess of paramount concern. So they got
all their scientists together and said, you know, come up
with some ideas, and they created something that was at
first called the MILES system m I l e S.

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That stands for multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System. And basically,
the soldiers would carry guns that would have a little
basically like a laser pointer on them, but they would
also have little sensors scattered over their bodies, and those

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sensors would detect when the soldier had been illuminated by
a firearms laser. So every time somebody fired his laser
gun and it hit a censor on another soldier, well
then a medic could go and look and see, you know,

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what area was hit, what kind of first aid would
be necessary, et cetera. They came out with different versions
of this. Early on. It was pretty rough because it
didn't really like keep long term track of things, and
it didn't really like cut off. For example, like you
might have been hit, but you didn't know it, and

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so you could continue firing your laser, which wouldn't happen
in real life anyway. This became very popular and other
armed forces around the world started training with these until finally,
guess what, somebody said this, this could be actually a
really interesting type of game, and they say that. In

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nineteen seventy nine, a toy came out that was called
the Star Trek Electronic Phaser electronic phaser gun, and they
released it to a company the release of Star Trek
the motion picture, and it was so popular that this
continued to develop until finally it became what we now

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know as laser tag. Yes, laser tag, and these stories
they go on and on as a matter of fact,
and you see how offer the military is involved. It's like,
for example, in around nineteen eighty two, there was a

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NASA engineer named Lonnie Johnson, and he was trying to
invent some kind of an environmentally friendly heat pump and
cooling system. He was in his bathroom at his house
messing around with pumping up high pressure water and squirting
it around the bathroom, and then he took it out

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into his yard and was playing around with it, and
he realized he created a pretty powerful water gun, and
then that became what we now know is the super Soaker.
So this started with a NASA guy trying to work
on some kind of a heat pump or cooling system,
presumably for spacecraft. These are just great stories, and that's why,

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you know, I say that this this show, this particular
show is called How some Strange Toys Became Serious Business
or vice versa. But you know, it's funny because when
I read this stuff and again, I kind of reflect
upon some of the things that I grew up with

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as toys. And I'm not going to bore you with
stories of my toys, but here's something that's kind of
funny that I thought. This shocked me when I found
this out the other day, and it's really really weird
and deep and profound if you think about it. So, Okay,
I was born in nineteen seventy six, and I remember

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like one of the most fun things back then was
to go to the grocery store. And where I grew
up in Ashville, North Carolina, the big grocery store is
called Ingles, and I go to the grocery store and
see what new goodies were in the vending machines, and
then of course see if I could convince my mom

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or somebody to give me the money to It's so
I remember at one point I was in Ingles and
I walked over to the machine, and back then it
was like youugs did not know what you're gonna get.
Nowadays again it's like, I'm disappointed. I still buy some

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of the crap out of these vending machines nowadays, but
it's always boring. It's like, oh, you get a sticker
or you get some eraser basically that looks like some
Pokemon care. They had a vending machine and you could
buy one glittery kind of like a milar glove, and

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it was called the Michael Jackson glove. So I'm sure
if you're old enough, you remember that Michael Jackson was
famous for wearing often wearing a single white sequin glove
and everybody thought he looked so cool. And next thing,
a knew kids running around wearing like a glove on

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one hand, one shiny glove. Turns out they say that
he actually was doing that to conceal the early stages
of videligo, which is the skin condition which causes loss
of pigmentation, and it began on his hand and early
nineteen eighties. But he was very innovative so that he

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turned that glove into a fashion statement. The next thing,
you know, there's kids like me buying this thing for
a quarter of fifty cents at the grocery store. And
you know, you'd see kids wearing this mile arc glove
on one handed school. But what's what's interesting, though, is
the other day I was I was watching some documentary

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or I saw something about Michael Jackson, and you know
his life, and you know Michael Jackson. One of the
things that was big in the news is that he
was filming a Pepsi commercial on January twenty seventh of
nineteen eighty four, and they were using some kind of
like pyrotechnics for this commercial and at some point his

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hair caught on fire. I think I don't remember all
the details. I think he was walking down some steps
or something and they were setting off some some pirotechnics
behind him, and apparently there was something flammable in his hair,
and I mean it was a pretty serious incident, you know.
I mean, he got some very serious burns from that.

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I believe he was so determined to finish the commercial though,
that he just kind of kept going after that, and
the Leaves got that done before they took him into
the hospital and treated his scalp. But that was really
big in the news when that happened. And the thing
that I found remarkable is that it turns out that

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that day, when that significant event happened in his life,
January twenty seventh, nineteen eighty four, amazingly, right down to
the day, was the exact midpoint of his life. He
was twenty five years, four months and twenty nine days

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old at the time of that accident, and he passed
away exactly twenty five years, four months, and twenty nine
days later on June twenty fifth of two thousand and nine. Now, look,
when I see stuff like that, it just reinforces to

(35:18):
me this idea that there is some kind of design
in the universe. There are cycles that you go through,
and there are moments where things are just destined to happen.
There's nothing you can do about it. I mean, we
have a lot more choice and a lot more free
will than we think we do. But there are some

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things that I believe are just meant to happen. They
have to happen at a certain time, under certain circumstances
in order to shape the outcome of who you are
and how you affect the world. Isn't that crazy? Do
you find that as crazy as I do? Tell you
something else that was kind of funny. Also, I remember, uh,

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when I was a kid, right next to Ingles, there
was a right aid and you could go into the
right aid and you could I bought a uh that's
a little kid, cheap little kid. It was a It
was a Rambo play set. Yeah, you know Rambo, Sylvester

(36:25):
Stallone's character. It was a little Rambo playset, and I
guess Rambo two had had recently come out because it
had the little necklace in it that he wore in
Rambo two. And then it also had the like headband
thing that Rambo wears. And then it also had a

(36:47):
plastic survival knife. And so I wonder if you can find,
I bet somebody out there, I should get on eBay
and see if you have an eye opened Rambo playkit
from the nineteen eighties. How much does that worth? Anyway, Look,
we're up on a break. When we come back, guess

(37:08):
what Popular Mechanics has said. They just released that there
is new information from scientists about consciousness. WHOA How often
does that happen? Not very often? Consciousness. It doesn't get
much more complex than that. We'll talk about it. I'll

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talk about it when we come back. I'm josh Waope Warren.
You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be
right back. Welcome back to the final segment of this

(38:19):
edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
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and yes, I have been talking for many years about
how that consciousness is really the root of everything. What
do you know about the world other than what you

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are conscious of? I think therefore, I am and I
think that's why that manifestation and mind machines work, because
that these are tools that are helping you to fine
tune your consciousness. Before I get to this new research
about consciousness, here's an example of this. Uh, Doctor Moulder

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just received this email from a man named Jim who
is he has been using wishing machines, which I considered
to be mind powered, consciousness powered devices. And he said,
doctor Moulder, here's the short version. After many months, multiple

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attempts and several one hundred dollars wasted to discover the
problem with my car's flashing engine light and have it fixed,
I finally put it on my wishing machine e Lux
and spectrophone, and this time it got fixed. And then
he said, here's the long version. All right, Well, let's
let's get the long version in here. Let's see the details,

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because maybe we can learn from how this guy did this.
He said, my twenty thirteen Infinity G three seven had
a problem with the engine light flash at high RPMs
forty five hundred RPMs and above. I had the local
Nissan Diller service department to do a diagnostic on it

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almost two hundred dollars, and they said it needed a
new upper manifold. I bought a used one and had
the old one replaced and that was three hundred dollars. Well,
he got it completely wrong. My mechanic discovered that the
Nissan service tech missed what was a bad fuel injector
ring gasket, but the light still flashed. He goes on

(40:35):
to say months later, because this was expensive and I
had to gather the money to get this done, I
had to. I had another shop do a diagnostic on it,
and it said, well, it might be the timing chain
or the solenoids that adjust the variable valve timing, and
those could be out of timing, but he'd have to

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tear it apart to figure out which one. Another two
hundred dollars diagnostic, He says, I couldn't afford the engine
being torn apart. This was getting expensive for nothing. A
few months later, I chose a different automotive repair shop
with great reviews, and he did a diagnostic on it,
and he came up with several very different causes. I

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decided to go with him all parts and labor. Two thousand,
two hundred and thirty dollars. Yeah, that's two thousand, two
hundred and thirty dollars. When done, I took the car
out for a drive and the light still flashed. But

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he also warranted his work, so he said bring it
in and he'll look deeper. I gave him my car
on Tuesday, February seventeenth. I decided to put my car
on my wishing machine, radio radiotic boxes, the Elux and
the spectrophone combo. He also added in some organite pyramids.

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He said. The guy had my car for two days,
conferred with another mechanic friend, and together they finally figured
it out. No extra charge for all that labor and
extra parts. Got the car Thursday, took it out and
raced the engine. No flashing engine light. After a year
and a half of this, I finally have a whole car,

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And as far as I'm concerned, it was money well
spent with that mechanic and on my wishing machine radiotic boxes.
Did the boxes make a difference, Well, who can know
for sure, but I believe so because that's when it
finally got fixed. Should have done that a long time, Agohl, Well, Shane,

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I'm happy you got that problem. So I think we
can all relate to that. If you have a car,
and most of us do, and you're not into cars,
then yeah, you get this run around all the time,
especially nowadays, because you know, most people can't even work
on a modern car. You know, there's a guy I

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watch on YouTube who fix up fixes up cars, and
he said, you know a couple decades ago, you went
and got your socket set from Seers or whatever, and
you could do most of what you needed to do
on a car. Now you gotta have computers and everything's
hard to get to and it's just, you know, it's
like everything else, everything's gotten too complicated. But yeah, thanks,

(43:26):
thanks Jim for sending that to me and sending that
to doctor Mulder see consciousness. So here's the news. This
comes to us from Okay. Well. I first saw this
on the Coast to Coast AM website. It started, however,
with a popular mechanics article that recently came out. And

(43:50):
the popular mechanics article is called your consciousness can Connect
with the whole universe, groundbreaking research suggests, and on the
Coast to Coast Day website, it says new research from
Wellesley College that is in Massachusetts suggests that microscopic brain

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structures called micro tubules may play a key role in
generating consciousness, potentially operating through quantum level processes. The findings
lend support to a theory first proposed in nineteen ninety
by a Nobel Prize winning physicist named Roger Penrose, who

(44:39):
argued that moments of conscious experience arise from quantum wave
function collapses in the brain. If true, this could imply
that consciousness is rooted in quantum physics and may even
be interconnected across individuals, forming a vast and tangled web

(45:00):
of awareness throughout the universe. While the theory remains unproven,
it stands as one of the more compelling scientific attempts
to explain how consciousness might emerge. I agree entirely. This
is what I have been talking about when I mentioned
what I call the worm whole brain. That's a term

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that I invented because I absolutely believe that this is
what's happening. That quantum phenomena are are ever present, they're omnipresence,
and they're at the root of your experience. I wrote
about this in my book The Secret Wisdom of Kucko Khan,

(45:44):
which I believe is available on my website. I'm not
sure it probably is, but here's just, you know, a
little refreshers. The book starts out, if I took a
mighty hand and squashed every bit of water and empty
space from your body, you would be the size of
a pee I can roll between my fingers. Most of
you is nothing. That is why so much will pass

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through your empty spaces. Radio waves, X rays, magnetic fields
and so on slip right through you. So what are you?
You are one infinitely tiny pinpoint of awareness surrounded by
an ever changing energy field, and yet that quantum speck,
that is you, can funnel and channel vast information from

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the sprawling cosmos and from unimaginable dimensions. The seat of
your being, consciousness and awareness is an infinitesqly small wormhole,
and what you know is the information that flows through it,
in and out, connecting the energy fields flowing and standing
around it. You are a faucet and a drain, pouring

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forth data and receiving it. That is, the permanent you
that has always been, will always be, and anything else
extending from you as temporary, fluctuating, and bound to perpetual
cycles of growth and decay. In many various forms. This
tube of information exchange, the dynamic seat of your consciousness

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we will call the worm whole brain, or WHB. Though
all are similar, no two are alike. Some are larger
or smaller than others, able to transfer more or less.
The way in which the information is ultimately processed includes
the filters of your physical brain, or lack thereof, as

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in single celled organisms, though the worm whole brains of you,
an egle, a bear, and a shark are equally impressive.
The physical brain determines how that initial flow of cosmic
information should be used, what is relevant to that particular
creature's survival at a particular time, etc. So I think

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we're saying the same thing micro tubules. I bet it
all boils down to one micro tube though, what do
you think? Oh? Well, the clock has got us. So
let's end the show as I often do. Let us
all use our collective consciousness and let's try to manifest

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the best next week ever for all of us, part
of this family. Okay, if you can close your eyes,
but certainly take some deep breaths and let us meditate
together on this twenty second tone. It's a meditation tone
that I created, and it's called the Good Fortune Tone.

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