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Get Weird. This is Strange Thing. I am JOSHUAP Warren.
At Each week on this show, I'll be bringing you
brand new mind blowing content, news exercises, and weird experiments
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you can do at home, and a lot more. This
is my first new recording of the year three. This
is January and last Christmas Day, December two. As Lauren
and I were sitting at home enjoying the festivities, talking
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about peace on earth and goodwill, tours all and love
and generosity and all these wonderful things. Somebody at the
same time was robbing my store of JUnit talk about
some granchy stuff. Mean, isn't that It's so sad. I'm
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going to tell you what was stolen. But the thing is,
there's some really weird stuff here surrounding this whole story,
and so I will get into that. And uh, you know,
I sent out a newsletter recently and I said, you know,
I got some bad news I'll tell you about. So look,
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I'm fine, Lauren's fine, everybody's okay. But um, it's just
really unfortunate when something like this happens on Christmas Day.
So we're gonna dig into all of that and a
lot more. But first, most of my holiday break, because
you know, I took off quite a quite a while
for the holidays, had a lot of kids up to
do here at my new house in Las Vegas. Um,
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most of my holiday experience was wonderful, and I want
to tell you first about some of the great things
that happened before I get to that. Though, I just
made a note of this. This is pretty random, but
I wanted to mention this before I forgot. Of course, um,
the latter part of was taken up in large part
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by media coverage of the terrible murder of these four
college students in Idaho who were all stabbed to death
in the middle of the night. And uh, I I
just recently realized that that murder spree took place on November,
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and instantly I was like, that's a familiar date, because
of course I am from Asheville, North Carolina. That's where
I was born and raised, and November is the anniversary
of Asheville's largest mass murder killing spree, the Will Harris murders,
and those happened in nineteen oh six. So now there are,
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at least in my world to famous kind of murder
sprees that happened on November. So maybe that's another one
of those bad luck dates that we have to start
paying attention to from here on out. So again, kind
of random, but thought provoking, nonetheless. Okay, So before I
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get into this weird story about what happened to me
on Christmas, and I trust me, I know a lot
of you had a rough time this past holiday season,
I'm going to talk about all all that as well.
But first I'll tell you about some of the good
things and really interesting things that happened to me. Producer
Tom dan Heiser, he came here to Las Vegas and
he invited me to go see a John Fogerty concert
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with him at the Win and he had these premost seats. Now,
of course, John Fogerty, he he created basically, you know, Credence,
Clearwater Revival c c R. And he more or less
wrote and performed all those famous songs. And he is
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I think seventy seven years old, yeah, seventy seven, and
he still gets up on stage and dances and sings
and plays like you wouldn't believe. It's just like, you know,
you never I couldn't get up there and perform like
this guy does. And and he's a lot older than
I am. And Tom and I had such a blast
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because one of the things that is impressive is that, uh,
you don't realize it until you sit there and you
listen to this guy performed for you know, an hour
and forty five minutes. You don't realize like every single
one of his songs was a hit, you know them all.
I don't even know how many hits the guy had.
Um and that's it's just kind of mind boggling to
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sit there and have this guy packed, you know, two
hours with hits and he could have kept going. I'm sure.
So what a talented a songwriter. But I do want
to mention this because sometimes, since I live here at Vegas,
when I get to go see people in person, um,
they'll tell a story about about their lives that stands
out in my mind, and I like to pass those
stories along to you. I did that recently with Wayne
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Newton and so John Folgretty at one point he was
standing there on stage and he was pausing for a
moment and he said, you know, um, I uh, I
played Woodstock. You know, he was at Woodstock and uh
he was a lot of big events in the nineteen sixties.
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And as a matter of fact, he said much Woodstock
was just so muddy and rainy that you know, he
wrote one of his songs about the when when will
the rain? And I can't remember what the song was called.
He wrote a number of songs about rain. But anyway,
so he said that, Uh, when he was there on
stage at Woodstock, you know, he was playing this favorite
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guitar of his and uh, he used his guitar all
over the country, if not the world, for many many years,
and his performances, and he said one day, he goes,
he didn't get into details, but he goes, I met
this like the little boy who wanted to be a
rock star and he was trying to learn guitar and
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he didn't have a guitar. And he goes, I don't know,
I got overcome, and he said, I I gave this
kid my prize guitar. You know, I just gifted it
time and uh he didn't say at that time, he
John Fogerty did not say if he was in the
right state of mind, but he certainly said that he
regretted it. The next day he missed that guitar. Right,
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the guitar he played at Woodstock he gave to some
random kid. Now, I bet you think the end of
this story is gonna be like and that kid became
Eddie Venner, Right, you know that would be But no,
it doesn't end like that at all. As a matter
of fact, this kid apparently did nothing with this guitar
and it was just lost. And uh so he always, yeah,
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he he was always like missing this guitar. And then
a few years ago. On Christmas morning, he goes over
to the tree at his house and there's a big
box there and he opens it and guess what. It's
this guitar. His wife. His wife, and I knew how
much he loved that guitar, and she'd spent all this
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time like tracking that thing down and bringing it back
into his life. And he he said it was like
the best Christmas present ever. And he says, and this
is that guitar, and he lifts it up and he's
holding that guitar and then he starts playing songs on it.
So I mean, like, I love these kind of like
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strange stories about synchronicity and the twist and turns the
life takes and how things like that can I'm back
to you, so you know, it was just it was
an awesome time and Tom and I just had a
wonderful evening in Las Vegas. And yeah, thank you so much,
Tom for inviting me to do that. Uh And let
me let me just tell you, if you've never been
to a John Fogerty concert, you get a chance to
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do it, you should do it. But you're not gonna
hear anything in your head for like the next week
or two except John Fogerty songs that drives you crazy.
So that was awesome. Speaking of music, you know I've
talked I. I have been calling him Jim Colonna, the composer,
but it's Jim Cologna. He's he's he's from Italian descent,
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Jim Cologna. He never corrected me. That's what a nice
guy he is. Jim Cologna. He is the guy who
was so inspired by the work that I've done over
the years that he composed this work of music called
Joshua Shop of Miracles and Curiosities, and it was performed
recently near Washington, d C. And um, it's a fantastic
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piece of music. I played part of it for you
on this show. Not too long a go. And after
all these years of corresponding with Jim, I'd never gotten
to meet him in person. He was in Las Vegas,
and so Lauren and I got together with him for
an evening, and boy did we hit it off. As
soon as we sat down and started talk. Well, you know,
we embraced as soon as we met each other, and
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then it was just like we were old friends. We've
known each other forever. He's such a warm and and
just like cheerful and just just a cool, interesting, funny
just just a great person. But like he's one of
those guys that I would want to hang out with
on a regular basis if he lived close to me.
And so that was fantastic. We got to just spend hours,
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you know, just talking about everything under the sun, exactly
as if we were just old buddies. And if you
have not gotten a chance to hear this piece of
music that he composed, uh, go to his website, Jim Cologne,
Jim Cologna, Jim Cologna, Jim Cologna, Cologna. It's Italian Jim Cologna.
It's it's j I M see O l o n
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n A j I M c O l O n
a dot com. And there's a section called music for
Orchestra And right now, if you click there for free,
you can just listen to his PC composed called Joshua's
Shop of Miracles and Curiosities. And then um, also we
we went to Murray the Magician's party at his house.
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It was awesome. He's got a beautiful, big, beautiful new
house and property and a hundreds of people were there
and he was so generous and just paid for amy.
It was like open bar catering of everything you can imagine.
I had a great, great time. In fact, when I
come back from this break, I want to tell you
about a trip that we took to a place I've
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never been to before. And then something really creepy that
I found out about that I'm leading up, of course,
to the bad thing that happened. But that's okay. Hey, listen,
you know what um I have been updating and Joshua
p Warn dot com and transferring it over to a
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I will be right back. Welcome back to Strange Things
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on the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast to
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Joshua pe Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain from my
student took in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every
day is golden and every night is silver. Before I continue,
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I did look it up during the break and the
John Fogerty song that I was referring to is called
Who'll Stop the Rain? And uh, I know if I
leave stuff like that hanging, It's gonna drive some of
you insane. Who Stop the Rain? But he made another
song or two about rain, but that was the one
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that he said he wrote when he got back to
his his motel room after playing Woodstock. But anyway, let
me tell you about this trip that I took that
turned out to um lead me down an interesting road
of thought. So um, being from the East Coast, growing
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up in the mountains of western North Carolina, I was
always is used to Christmas feeling very Christmas e. You know,
you've got trees everywhere and snowfall and all kinds of um,
kind of like European decorations everywhere. It seemed like, you know,
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the Old Country. But out here in the desert when
you live in Las Vegas, no matter what they do
to decorate, it just never quite feels Christmas E out here.
And for one thing, you're almost certainly not going to
get any snow. But yeah, the the desert. And it's
ironic because you know, well the whole Christmas story is
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based in the Middle East, so so the desert is
really a more Christmas e and I like an authentic
Christmas environment. Then what we think of is this whole
like European Bavarian st Nicholas kind of you know. But anyway, look,
it's just about what you are exposed to when you
grow up. But so since we've lived here in Vegas
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for several years, um, we we always uh, you know,
if we don't travel somewhere else, if we kind of
stick around here, we're like it just doesn't quite feel,
you know, like Christmas time. And so I was wondering about, like,
what would a relatively easy road trip be that we
could take to go somewhere that's a little more Christmas eve.
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And if you drive a few hours uh from here
into California, then you eventually can wind your way up
this huge mountainous region that's like over seven thousand feet
in elevation to a place called Big Bear Lake. And
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Big Bear Lake is named after after the grizzly bears
that used to live there. There are no more wild
grizzlies in California. I consider that a good thing, but
you know, some people disagree. Uh. Nonetheless, it's really weird
because you know, to get there, and it takes you
if you if you're gonna stop and get gas and eat,
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you know, it's like a four hour drive from Las
Vegas the Big Bear Lake, and I was I did
a lot of research on it, and it turns out
that it was exactly like I was expecting because you
go through the Mojave Desert and it's like desert up
until like the last forty five minutes, and all of
a sudden there's just dramatic change where you just drive
up this big, long, super steep winding road up and
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all of a sudden there's their forests everywhere and streams
and there's the lake. And then finally get to the
village and Big Bear Lake and it looks like a
little village in a snow globe and everything is all
like rustic hunting lodge style and old, like old old
European and Bavarian, and uh, it looks like a little
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Christmas town. I used to tell people when I first
found it, it it looks like a town in a Hallmark movie.
And then I got there and I realized, oh, they
actually do shoot Hallmark movies in this town. And it
gets a ton of snowfall. It's very, very isolated. So
it really was exactly what I was looking for in
terms of this is the most Christmas ee place that
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you're gonna get to. Uh that's within a reasonable period
of driving from from Las Vegas to my knowledge, Big
Bear Lake, California. And I'll tell you a little bit
more about the lake in a minute. So we ended
up going there. Had had a great Christmas, Uh, like
a couple of days. It's always spent, but you know,
we've never been there before. It's it's really small. We
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walked every where we went, and we hit up all
the shops and the bars, and I was exposed to
cookie dough whiskey, which actually is really really good, but
I think I drink a little too much of it,
and then um, also, uh, it's just like lots of
of just quirky, little little themed gift shops. It was.
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It was cool. It was really cool, but it was
also quite cold. It was thirteen degrees while we were there,
which I know some of you listening are like, ah,
but that's always gonna happen because some of you live
where it's like negative thirty fahrenheit. And if you do that,
you're just I guess the only good thing about that
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is you get to say ha ha, you know, a
little a little pansy too people like me when I
complain about being thirteen. Other than that, everything else about
it probably sucks really bad. But anyhow so, it was
a cool place to to visit, and all these celebrities
have headhouses there, But here is kind of the creepy
thing I wanted to share with you. So I before
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I go to a new place, I do all this
research and I learned everything I can about it, and
I read all the tourist stuff and watched all the
videos about Big Bear Lake, California, and I thought I
knew everything about it. But it turns out there's something
that they don't promote about Big Bear Lake, and uh,
I can see why in retrospect. I only found it
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because I was digging deep, like I was going within
like layers and a footnote level, and I was like,
oh wait, so okay, here's the story. Um. My wife,
Lauren is probably the luckiest lady in the world. Um,
whether she realized it or realizes it or not, because
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I am her husband. She's married to me, and that
means that she is always being told amazing stories about
the world, whether she wants to hear them or not.
So I'm like having your own living podcasts there that's
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giving you, you know, breaking news and stories. It's like
it's like being married to this podcast. I'm always that's
you know, you're getting the real me, um, minus the curse.
And so uh So we get in the car and
she's doing the driving, which is great because she's a
much better driver than I have ever been. And so
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we're we're heading off to California, and I go, Okay, Lauren,
listen to this. So here's the story. Um. In in
the early nineteen eighties, Steven Spielberg was on a movie
set and one of the young ladies who was acting
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on that set had her mother and her little sister
on the set also, And at one point Spielberg looks
over and he sees the mother and the little sister
at the little sisters like five years old, having lunch,
and Spielberg sees this little kid, this five year old,
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and he's like, that kid's got it, you know, talk
about this is like hitting the Loto when Steve and
Spielberg looks at you and it was like, boom, you've
got And he goes up and he and he just
like starts talking to him, and it turns out this
little girl is Heather oh Rourke. At this point, Spielberg
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is looking to cast Poltergeist, which of course is the
super famous horror movie that came out in nineteen two,
and uh, in fact, they just um, they just re
released it this past October. You know, it was an
anniversary thing. Where Lauren and I went and watched on
the big screen again, and you know, it was a
fun movie to watch again, but not nearly as impressive
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as it was. And you know, the nineteen eighties. One
thing that I always thought was interesting about Poltergeist as
you've got the special effects, but also you have uh
it was one of the earliest or one of the
first movies that showed like the modern day esque paranormal
investigators going in to to do the job. And I'm sure,
you know, watching stuff like that probably inspired and affected me.
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So anyway, he was gonna Spielberg was thinking about casting
Drew Barrymore, but instead he was like, Nope, you're the one,
and he cast Heather O. Rourke. Uh turn, and I'm
sure Drew Barrymore's people were very upset. But then she
went on to be an Et, which was a much bigger,
better role, so it worked out. Don't feel sorry for
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Drew Barrymore on this one. So um So, Heather Rourke
became famous as the little girl and the poulter Geist
movie who is just entranced by the television with the
static on it, and then of course she basically gets
kind of sucked into the TV and then they're trying
to rescue her from this other dimension the whole time.
Very eerie concept combining spirituality and electronics and all that stuff,
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which was very uh, very prescient in retrospect. So anyway,
this movie becomes a huge hit. So this little five
year old girl, Heather o. Rourke, she's like an overnight sensation.
And her family was relatively poor. They were from southern California.
And instantly they like, they signed her up for sequels,
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and it's just money like they've they've never seen their
and their family starts pouring in and so this little
five year old becomes this cash cow. And once the
money starts pouring in, well, the parents decide that, hey,
it's time to buy another house somewhere. I don't know
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if it was a vacation home or if it was
they considered a primary residency, but they chose to buy
a house and Big bear Lake, California, this place that
Lauren and I were on our way to visit, this
little hallmark town, Big bear Lake, California. So they buy
this nice house there and she starts attending class there.
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I think they said she was even like a class
president or something, and when she was in the fifth grade.
I don't know. Things seem to be going well for
this family, but when we come back from this brig
things take a terrible twist, and it has to do
with them living in Big Bear Lake. I'm Joshua pe Warren.
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You're listening to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
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Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and Coast to
Coast to m PIR on normal podcast network. I am
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where the unusual becomes usual. You know, Steven Spielberg did
not direct the movie poulter Geist. He produced it and
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he has a screen writing credit, But the director was
Toby Hooper, who was most famous for creating the Texas
Chainsaw Massacre. You know, he wrote and directed that and
the guy he hired to shoot that, the director of photography,
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was named Daniel Pearl. And when I was I've talked
about this on the podcast before. When I was working
for Warner Brothers movie The Apparition, I was on the
set in California one evening and it was really late
and everybody was tired, and they were shuttling the cast
and crew back and forth from uh the set to
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you know wherever um. I got seated next to this
guy and I didn't know who he was, and I
started chatting and it was Daniel Pearl. So I I
got like fifteen or twenty minutes to have this conversation
with the guy who who actually shot the Texas Chainsaw massacre.
So that was cool that that's like six degrees of
separation from Kevin Bacon. But anyway, look back to the story.
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So Heather O. Rourke's family, they buy this house in
Big Bear Lake and that's where they start living a
good chunk of the time. And uh, she keeps pulling
in money and then finally she's like twelve years old
and uh, one day she gets really sick. They don't
know what's wrong with her, and they started taking her
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in for all this testing, and long story short, turns
out that she had been drinking the well water there
in Big Bear Lake, California, and there was some kind
of parasite in it that got into her system and
she had some kind of super sensitive system and ultimately
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it led to her dying from some kind of septic shock.
That said, then when she was twelve years old. Isn't
that horrible? And you may or may not know that.
There is this whole phenomenon regarding like the Curse of
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that movie poultr Geist. All these different people who were
involved with that movie had or many of these people
had had bad things that happened to them, tragic endings.
It's like the Curse of King Tutt. Documentaries have been
made about it. But but she is one of the
central figures there. So that was just an eerie thing.
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And I wondered, and I got the Big Bear Lake
if anybody would talk about it, and nobody did either
they didn't know or pretended that they didn't know. So
that's just a quirky little thing about Big Bear Lake, California.
But we, on the other hand, we had a fine time.
And again I've been having all kinds of of good
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things occurring throughout my Christmas season all Also, uh, you
know what one thing about Big Bear Lake before I
continue into you know what happened with the robbery, uh,
is that, Uh, the Big Bear Lake, like so many
other of these bodies of water, is shrinking tremendously, and
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you know how bad lake meat is getting here. And
so I told you that once it becomes the snowy season,
I want all of us listening to this podcast to
start trying to manifest historic snowfall and the Rocky Mountains.
And I had Dr Molder on a while back and
talked to him about it. He he flexes his muscles
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all the time by creating snowfall in places where it's
not supposed to snow, like, uh, the Middle East. You know,
he's always sending me stories about like look what I did.
And you have to realize that we need a lot
of snowfall this year in the Rocky Mountains, in the
in the US. And here is why you might just think,
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like when you live out west, I don't who cares, no, no, no.
The snowfall from the Rocky Mountains makes up the bulk
of the water that goes into Lake Mead and these
other reservoirs, and it's rainfall is not gonna do it.
It's the vast majority of it is based upon snowfall
on the Rocky Mountains. If we don't have enough water
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here in Lake Mead and the surrounding lakes, and that
means we have less vegetation, less vegetables, and that means
less feed for livestock. So when there's less vegetables and
less feed for livestock, and therefore less livestock, well, then
the prices for those things go up. And when the
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and they go up for everybody all over the country,
And when the prices for everybody goes up in the country,
when we're already having this inflation period, it starts creating
this chain reaction where everybody starts paying more for everything.
The whole economy gets worse. And obviously whatever is happening
in the US affects the economy dramatically and the rest
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of the world. And so everybody in the world has
an interest in there being a major snowfall this winter
in the Rocky Mountains. Start doing whatever you do to
manifest right now and start making that happen. All right,
So let's get to this strange story. Well, here in
last I I have storage units all over the country,
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but I have some of my most prized possessions. I
had some of my most prized possessions and two storage
units here in Las Vegas. So last year I bought
this new house, which I'm still getting an order. I've
accomplished about fift of what I intended to over the
Christmas break, but still fift So I had two storage
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units here with a bunch of goodies from my museums. Actually,
well it's I could say museum, but I have owned
different incarnations of a museum, so we're talking like Crystal
skull um, UFO crash stuff, uh, stuff from Transylvania, signed artifacts,
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I mean, just all kinds of really interesting things. And
so I had them in two storage units where they
have been for five years without any problems one. But
when I got this new house, Lauren and I moved
to the other side of town, which is like thirty
minutes away. So I decided it was time to consolidate
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what I had in those other two storage units where
we used to live into one new storage unit here
close to my new house. So we went and we
got a new storage unit, a third storage unit, a
bigger storage unit, which it actually turns out is more
more cost effective than having two smaller storage units on
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the other side of town. And then Lauren and I
got together with our friend Jason Sarachi, the famous UFO
videographer who lives nearby, and Jason helped us move everything
from those two storage units across town to this one
new storage unit. So I have all these goodies there
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that I have plans for to put back on display.
And here's one of the weird things though, and I
have talked about this in various places. You may have
heard this. When Lauren and I got this new storage unit.
It's like, this is the building is huge, and this
is an internal storage unit. And this building that's like
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three or four stories tall. I don't know how big
it is, but it's fairly new. It's gigantic. So you
go in there and it's like going through a maze
until you get up to your internal storage unit. There's
no telling how many hundreds of storage units there are
in this place. When we went there for the first time,
we were like the only people there. There were no
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other customers. It was kind of like early on a weekday.
And the first odd thing that happened was when we
went up to our storage unit and we were first
looking at it out of this whole place, a woman, uh,
just kind of a you know, normal looking lady. She
comes walking up and she opens up the storage unit
right next to ours, and we were like, that's amazing
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of this whole place. We just got this storage unit,
and you just happened to have this storage unit next
to ours, and we were like, what a coincidence. And
so we're kind of laughing and having a little friendly banter.
But I thought I just thought, like that's just one
of those odd things in life. So then fast forward
a few weeks later, which was last month in December,
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we get together with Jason. We rent a U haul
and we we we consolidate everything. We go back to
this big storage unit building where once again there's like
nobody there except for us. We go in, we haul
all this stuff into into the storage unit and lo
and behold, guess who appears this woman who has the
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storage unit right beside ours, And were like, what are
the chances of that? And she goes, the last time
I was here was when you were here, and we
go that's the only time we've ever been here. So
at this point our mind is blown and and and
I'm like, are you with the CIA, you know? And
I started just like joking around with this woman. We
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peek into her storage unit. She has a giant telescope
in there and some pretty interesting things, and so I say, well,
I guess we're friends now, you know. It's it's just like, so,
what are the literally, what are the chances I've been
to this place twice? At both times there's practically nobody
else in the building except for this woman who shows
up at the storage unit right next to ours. Okay,
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so I end up I talked to her for a
little bit and I'm like, well, you know what, maybe
you need to come out and you got a telescope
and she goes, oh, I love the stars, and I said,
you maybe you need to come out and do one
f O skywatches or something, you know, Vegas UFOs dot com.
So anyway, we left that whole situation after transferring everything
into the new storage unit, and and I was having
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this conversation with Lauren and Jason like isn't that amazing?
Like what again, Like, that's just it's it's almost like
phenomenon where every time you park your car, somebody is
parking next to you or they're coming to get out
of that space next to you at the same time.
I don't know. So we knew there was already something
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weird about the situation. Okay, So now now we're getting
into what happened around Christmas time, and man, I wish
I had more time. I knew that this show was
gonna go by too fast. When we come back from
this break, I'm gonna tell you this story, and then
it's gonna be the end of the show. I'm gonna
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squeeze in something about the Blue Bunny. Also, I'm Joshua
Pete Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the I
Heart Radio and Coast to Coast. Stay am perin normal
podcast network. I will be right back. Welcome back to
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the final segment of this edition of Strange Things on
the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast. I am
our normal podcast network. I'm your host, Joshua Pete Warren,
and I have so many cool, interesting, wild shows lined
up for you over the next few weeks months. I mean,
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I've been he wouldn't believe the list of things that
I have to share with you. But anyway, everything was
going well for Lauren and myself up until right around
like that week leading up to Christmas of two and uh,
all of a sudden, like both of us started having
helped problems. I know, a lot of people around the
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world we're having uh sicknesses, and you know, it's like
my sister was sick in Asheville, and then we were
having problems here and my my poor old mom and
dad for the first time I ever had to have
Christmas with that either one of their kids present. And
then of course, you know, the weather was terrible in
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many places, and people were being delayed or having their
flights canceled or stranded and literally freezing to death. I mean,
it was like it was just a hard Christmas holiday.
So anyway, but you know, again we're fine now and
in terms of all that stuff, but so here we go. Um,
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It's like I think the day after Christmas. Uh, Lauren,
she was the one who got the phone call from
the storage unit place saying, like, we have a very
important matter. Can you please call us back? And it
was the next day before she was able to connect,
and they said, well, there's been a break in and
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we don't think they went into your unit, but out
of an abundance of caution, we would like for you
to come here because they broke into the units like
right around yours. So Lauren and I this was after hours.
We went over to our unit, which was on one
of the higher floors, and we thought, how weird that
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of all this, of this whole place, they broke into
units that are around ours. And we walked up to
the storage unit and the door was closed tightly and
the lock was on it, and everything looked fine, so
we assumed, like, hey, everything's gonna be okay. We opened
the lock, we slide up the door, and all of
our boxes are in this array, and I go, oh,
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this does not look good. And we walked over and
the first thing I saw was that one of my
boxes was opened and it was partially empty, and it
was labeled Drone d R O n E. Because that
is where I kept my one and only drone that
I owned. And I'm looking around and I couldn't find
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like any evidence. I mean, like they shuffled stuff around,
but it it looked like that nothing else has been taken.
And Lauren goes, how is it possible nobody could have
gotten in here? The door was closed, the lock was
on there, and I go, I don't know, but somebody
obviously hadn't have got in here. And from what I
could tell, they just stole my drone. So the next
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day we went back over there, and we went with
one of the employees and I said, is it is
it possible that somebody could have gotten in here without
opening that door? I mean, it has to be. And
it turns out and these internal storage units there's a
little opening. It's not much. It's probably probably like a
foot wide at the very top of the door. You'd
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have to be really slim to get up there and
slip through that. Well, we went back into the storage
unit and over on the walls of the storage unit
are these like metal rails that you can hang things on.
And those metal rails were dusty, and we looked over
and guess what, there were footprints on the metal rails.
So sure enough, somebody had gone to the effort to
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not break the lock or anything, but to climb up
and go over and slip through that little space and
go down into our storage unit. And still that drone
and it turned unfortunately nothing else was missing, just in disarray.
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And let me tell you why that is so weird
that drone is it's the only drone I've ever owned.
It's not a very expensive one, and the only time
I've ever used it was when I first got it.
I took it way out into the desert on the
way to California, and I just put it up in
the air and took it down just to see if
it worked, and that was it. And this area around
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Las Vegas and Nevada in general is so restrictive when
it comes to drones that you hear stories about people
having their drones and stuff confiscated all the time because
people are going out there and recklessly flying them around
military bases and stuff. And I have never done that,
nor would I ever do that, But I thought it
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was pretty darned interesting that the only thing that was
taken was that drone and the able there was nothing
on it. Again, I took it out almost to the
California border around prem put it up in the air,
and took it down, and that was it. So the
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conspiratorial side of me says, is it possible that somebody,
the men in black, wanted to make sure that I
wasn't using that drone for some bad purposes? Because I
did last year, as you know, by a piece of
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property not far from Area fifty one and Rachel, Nevada.
And I have never attempted to take that drone out
there uh, nor would I ever do that. As a
matter of fact, I've never even tried to get close
to the area fifty one boundary because I know that's
a real top secret military base that I just thought
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it was really interesting that of all the things that
were taken, it was my drum. So that put a
really sour damper on things. But you know what, here's
the good part of that. I wrote about this in
my book, used the force. Sometimes when something happens that
seems bad and retrospect you look back and it was
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actually good. Things can't change, things can't improve unless something
destructive happens. And that was an opportunity for me to say,
you know what, let me take the stuff out of
this storage unit that I really care about, and it
was all there. I'm proud to say, I'm happy to
say all my cool stuff was there and I got
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it out, and I'm not gonna tell you where I
put it, but I got out all my cool stuff
and it's in a much more secure area now, so
it's better protected. So no matter who you are, you
know you're gonna have bad luck and weird bad things
that happened to you. I I wrote about in my
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book Used The Force, which you can actually read for
free right now if you go to Joshua pe Warren
dot com and just click the link to the book cover.
I wrote about the fact that you know, um, when
you align yourself with goodness, you're actually polarizing yourself and
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and doing that, you're becoming a target for bad stuff
as well. So you have to expect some some some
bad things to happen in your life because you're you're
becoming like the north or the south pole of a magnet,
and you're attracting the other pole. And so this actually
is an inspirational story because I feel like that this
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have this happening to me gave me an opportunity to
go in and become more responsible with what I'm putting
into storage units, and to give a warning to all
of you who may have a storage unit about how
vulnerable your stuff may be, that somebody can break in
without even going through the door. And it gave me
an opportunity to take out the stuff that I really
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cared about and put it in a more secure your location.
And so that's why I say like it was it
was bad, but it actually turned out to be inspirational
and I will tell you this though, and I had
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so much more that I had planned to tell you
in this show. But that's why I do this every week.
I'll have it for you next time. Speaking of secrets
that are being kept in this state. Look, I don't know.
I'm not here too. I'm not a whistleblower. But in
episode seventy two of this podcast, I talked about the
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blue Bunny, this weird blue bunny like plasma creature that
is sometimes seen running around this state. And I got
contacted by a listener who said that he believes he
had seen it, and he produced an illustration of this thing.
And if you want to see this illustration haven't posted
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right now for you, go to Joshua P. Warren dot com.
Click the link to the Curiosity Shop, scroll down and
you will see his illustration of what the bunny looked like.
And he said it was more electric blue and it
had a weird pattern. But if you want to see
what he said it looks like, go to Joshua P.
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Warren dot com Curiosity Shop, scrolled down and look at
the illustration that he made of the blue bunny. I
have got so much to tell you about I can't
wait for the next show. But for now, let's kick
off the new year the right way. It's time for
us all to listen to the Good Fortune tone together. Okay,
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let's set that stage. Take a deep breath, if you can,
close your eyes, relax, resonate with this the Good Fortune Tom.
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you can do at home, and a lot more. This
is my first new recording of the year three. This
is January and last Christmas Day, December two. As Lauren
and I were sitting at home enjoying the festivities, talking
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about peace on earth and goodwill, tours all and love
and generosity and all these wonderful things. Somebody at the
same time was robbing my store of JUnit talk about
some granchy stuff. Mean, isn't that It's so sad. I'm
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going to tell you what was stolen. But the thing is,
there's some really weird stuff here surrounding this whole story,
and so I will get into that. And uh, you know,
I sent out a newsletter recently and I said, you know,
I got some bad news I'll tell you about. So look,
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I'm fine, Lauren's fine, everybody's okay. But um, it's just
really unfortunate when something like this happens on Christmas Day.
So we're gonna dig into all of that and a
lot more. But first, most of my holiday break, because
you know, I took off quite a quite a while
for the holidays, had a lot of kids up to
do here at my new house in Las Vegas. Um,
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most of my holiday experience was wonderful, and I want
to tell you first about some of the great things
that happened before I get to that. Though, I just
made a note of this. This is pretty random, but
I wanted to mention this before I forgot. Of course, um,
the latter part of was taken up in large part
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by media coverage of the terrible murder of these four
college students in Idaho who were all stabbed to death
in the middle of the night. And uh, I I
just recently realized that that murder spree took place on November,
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and instantly I was like, that's a familiar date, because
of course I am from Asheville, North Carolina. That's where
I was born and raised, and November is the anniversary
of Asheville's largest mass murder killing spree, the Will Harris murders,
and those happened in nineteen oh six. So now there are,
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at least in my world to famous kind of murder
sprees that happened on November. So maybe that's another one
of those bad luck dates that we have to start
paying attention to from here on out. So again, kind
of random, but thought provoking, nonetheless. Okay, So before I
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get into this weird story about what happened to me
on Christmas, and I trust me, I know a lot
of you had a rough time this past holiday season,
I'm going to talk about all all that as well.
But first I'll tell you about some of the good
things and really interesting things that happened to me. Producer
Tom dan Heiser, he came here to Las Vegas and
he invited me to go see a John Fogerty concert
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with him at the Win and he had these premost seats. Now,
of course, John Fogerty, he he created basically, you know, Credence,
Clearwater Revival c c R. And he more or less
wrote and performed all those famous songs. And he is
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I think seventy seven years old, yeah, seventy seven, and
he still gets up on stage and dances and sings
and plays like you wouldn't believe. It's just like, you know,
you never I couldn't get up there and perform like
this guy does. And and he's a lot older than
I am. And Tom and I had such a blast
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because one of the things that is impressive is that, uh,
you don't realize it until you sit there and you
listen to this guy performed for you know, an hour
and forty five minutes. You don't realize like every single
one of his songs was a hit, you know them all.
I don't even know how many hits the guy had.
Um and that's it's just kind of mind boggling to
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sit there and have this guy packed, you know, two
hours with hits and he could have kept going. I'm sure.
So what a talented a songwriter. But I do want
to mention this because sometimes, since I live here at Vegas,
when I get to go see people in person, um,
they'll tell a story about about their lives that stands
out in my mind, and I like to pass those
stories along to you. I did that recently with Wayne
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Newton and so John Folgretty at one point he was
standing there on stage and he was pausing for a
moment and he said, you know, um, I uh, I
played Woodstock. You know, he was at Woodstock and uh
he was a lot of big events in the nineteen sixties.
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And as a matter of fact, he said much Woodstock
was just so muddy and rainy that you know, he
wrote one of his songs about the when when will
the rain? And I can't remember what the song was called.
He wrote a number of songs about rain. But anyway,
so he said that, Uh, when he was there on
stage at Woodstock, you know, he was playing this favorite
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guitar of his and uh, he used his guitar all
over the country, if not the world, for many many years,
and his performances, and he said one day, he goes,
he didn't get into details, but he goes, I met
this like the little boy who wanted to be a
rock star and he was trying to learn guitar and
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he didn't have a guitar. And he goes, I don't know,
I got overcome, and he said, I I gave this
kid my prize guitar. You know, I just gifted it
time and uh he didn't say at that time, he
John Fogerty did not say if he was in the
right state of mind, but he certainly said that he
regretted it. The next day he missed that guitar. Right,
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the guitar he played at Woodstock he gave to some
random kid. Now, I bet you think the end of
this story is gonna be like and that kid became
Eddie Venner, Right, you know that would be But no,
it doesn't end like that at all. As a matter
of fact, this kid apparently did nothing with this guitar
and it was just lost. And uh so he always, yeah,
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he he was always like missing this guitar. And then
a few years ago. On Christmas morning, he goes over
to the tree at his house and there's a big
box there and he opens it and guess what. It's
this guitar. His wife. His wife, and I knew how
much he loved that guitar, and she'd spent all this
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time like tracking that thing down and bringing it back
into his life. And he he said it was like
the best Christmas present ever. And he says, and this
is that guitar, and he lifts it up and he's
holding that guitar and then he starts playing songs on it.
So I mean, like, I love these kind of like
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strange stories about synchronicity and the twist and turns the
life takes and how things like that can I'm back
to you, so you know, it was just it was
an awesome time and Tom and I just had a
wonderful evening in Las Vegas. And yeah, thank you so much,
Tom for inviting me to do that. Uh And let
me let me just tell you, if you've never been
to a John Fogerty concert, you get a chance to
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do it, you should do it. But you're not gonna
hear anything in your head for like the next week
or two except John Fogerty songs that drives you crazy.
So that was awesome. Speaking of music, you know I've
talked I. I have been calling him Jim Colonna, the composer,
but it's Jim Cologna. He's he's he's from Italian descent,
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Jim Cologna. He never corrected me. That's what a nice
guy he is. Jim Cologna. He is the guy who
was so inspired by the work that I've done over
the years that he composed this work of music called
Joshua Shop of Miracles and Curiosities, and it was performed
recently near Washington, d C. And um, it's a fantastic
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piece of music. I played part of it for you
on this show. Not too long a go. And after
all these years of corresponding with Jim, I'd never gotten
to meet him in person. He was in Las Vegas,
and so Lauren and I got together with him for
an evening, and boy did we hit it off. As
soon as we sat down and started talk. Well, you know,
we embraced as soon as we met each other, and
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then it was just like we were old friends. We've
known each other forever. He's such a warm and and
just like cheerful and just just a cool, interesting, funny
just just a great person. But like he's one of
those guys that I would want to hang out with
on a regular basis if he lived close to me.
And so that was fantastic. We got to just spend hours,
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you know, just talking about everything under the sun, exactly
as if we were just old buddies. And if you
have not gotten a chance to hear this piece of
music that he composed, uh, go to his website, Jim Cologne,
Jim Cologna, Jim Cologna, Jim Cologna, Cologna. It's Italian Jim Cologna.
It's it's j I M see O l o n
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n A j I M c O l O n
a dot com. And there's a section called music for
Orchestra And right now, if you click there for free,
you can just listen to his PC composed called Joshua's
Shop of Miracles and Curiosities. And then um, also we
we went to Murray the Magician's party at his house.
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It was awesome. He's got a beautiful, big, beautiful new
house and property and a hundreds of people were there
and he was so generous and just paid for amy.
It was like open bar catering of everything you can imagine.
I had a great, great time. In fact, when I
come back from this break, I want to tell you
about a trip that we took to a place I've
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never been to before. And then something really creepy that
I found out about that I'm leading up, of course,
to the bad thing that happened. But that's okay. Hey, listen,
you know what um I have been updating and Joshua
p Warn dot com and transferring it over to a
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I will be right back. Welcome back to Strange Things
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Joshua pe Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain from my
student took in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every
day is golden and every night is silver. Before I continue,
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I did look it up during the break and the
John Fogerty song that I was referring to is called
Who'll Stop the Rain? And uh, I know if I
leave stuff like that hanging, It's gonna drive some of
you insane. Who Stop the Rain? But he made another
song or two about rain, but that was the one
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that he said he wrote when he got back to
his his motel room after playing Woodstock. But anyway, let
me tell you about this trip that I took that
turned out to um lead me down an interesting road
of thought. So um, being from the East Coast, growing
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up in the mountains of western North Carolina, I was
always is used to Christmas feeling very Christmas e. You know,
you've got trees everywhere and snowfall and all kinds of um,
kind of like European decorations everywhere. It seemed like, you know,
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the Old Country. But out here in the desert when
you live in Las Vegas, no matter what they do
to decorate, it just never quite feels Christmas E out here.
And for one thing, you're almost certainly not going to
get any snow. But yeah, the the desert. And it's
ironic because you know, well the whole Christmas story is
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based in the Middle East, so so the desert is
really a more Christmas e and I like an authentic
Christmas environment. Then what we think of is this whole
like European Bavarian st Nicholas kind of you know. But anyway, look,
it's just about what you are exposed to when you
grow up. But so since we've lived here in Vegas
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for several years, um, we we always uh, you know,
if we don't travel somewhere else, if we kind of
stick around here, we're like it just doesn't quite feel,
you know, like Christmas time. And so I was wondering about, like,
what would a relatively easy road trip be that we
could take to go somewhere that's a little more Christmas eve.
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And if you drive a few hours uh from here
into California, then you eventually can wind your way up
this huge mountainous region that's like over seven thousand feet
in elevation to a place called Big Bear Lake. And
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Big Bear Lake is named after after the grizzly bears
that used to live there. There are no more wild
grizzlies in California. I consider that a good thing, but
you know, some people disagree. Uh. Nonetheless, it's really weird
because you know, to get there, and it takes you
if you if you're gonna stop and get gas and eat,
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you know, it's like a four hour drive from Las
Vegas the Big Bear Lake, and I was I did
a lot of research on it, and it turns out
that it was exactly like I was expecting because you
go through the Mojave Desert and it's like desert up
until like the last forty five minutes, and all of
a sudden there's just dramatic change where you just drive
up this big, long, super steep winding road up and
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all of a sudden there's their forests everywhere and streams
and there's the lake. And then finally get to the
village and Big Bear Lake and it looks like a
little village in a snow globe and everything is all
like rustic hunting lodge style and old, like old old
European and Bavarian, and uh, it looks like a little
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Christmas town. I used to tell people when I first
found it, it it looks like a town in a Hallmark movie.
And then I got there and I realized, oh, they
actually do shoot Hallmark movies in this town. And it
gets a ton of snowfall. It's very, very isolated. So
it really was exactly what I was looking for in
terms of this is the most Christmas ee place that
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you're gonna get to. Uh that's within a reasonable period
of driving from from Las Vegas to my knowledge, Big
Bear Lake, California. And I'll tell you a little bit
more about the lake in a minute. So we ended
up going there. Had had a great Christmas, Uh, like
a couple of days. It's always spent, but you know,
we've never been there before. It's it's really small. We
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walked every where we went, and we hit up all
the shops and the bars, and I was exposed to
cookie dough whiskey, which actually is really really good, but
I think I drink a little too much of it,
and then um, also, uh, it's just like lots of
of just quirky, little little themed gift shops. It was.
(18:59):
It was cool. It was really cool, but it was
also quite cold. It was thirteen degrees while we were there,
which I know some of you listening are like, ah,
but that's always gonna happen because some of you live
where it's like negative thirty fahrenheit. And if you do that,
you're just I guess the only good thing about that
(19:20):
is you get to say ha ha, you know, a
little a little pansy too people like me when I
complain about being thirteen. Other than that, everything else about
it probably sucks really bad. But anyhow so, it was
a cool place to to visit, and all these celebrities
have headhouses there, But here is kind of the creepy
thing I wanted to share with you. So I before
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I go to a new place, I do all this
research and I learned everything I can about it, and
I read all the tourist stuff and watched all the
videos about Big Bear Lake, California, and I thought I
knew everything about it. But it turns out there's something
that they don't promote about Big Bear Lake, and uh,
I can see why in retrospect. I only found it
(20:04):
because I was digging deep, like I was going within
like layers and a footnote level, and I was like,
oh wait, so okay, here's the story. Um. My wife,
Lauren is probably the luckiest lady in the world. Um,
whether she realized it or realizes it or not, because
(20:26):
I am her husband. She's married to me, and that
means that she is always being told amazing stories about
the world, whether she wants to hear them or not.
So I'm like having your own living podcasts there that's
(20:48):
giving you, you know, breaking news and stories. It's like
it's like being married to this podcast. I'm always that's
you know, you're getting the real me, um, minus the curse.
And so uh So we get in the car and
she's doing the driving, which is great because she's a
much better driver than I have ever been. And so
(21:10):
we're we're heading off to California, and I go, Okay, Lauren,
listen to this. So here's the story. Um. In in
the early nineteen eighties, Steven Spielberg was on a movie
set and one of the young ladies who was acting
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on that set had her mother and her little sister
on the set also, And at one point Spielberg looks
over and he sees the mother and the little sister
at the little sisters like five years old, having lunch,
and Spielberg sees this little kid, this five year old,
(21:54):
and he's like, that kid's got it, you know, talk
about this is like hitting the Loto when Steve and
Spielberg looks at you and it was like, boom, you've
got And he goes up and he and he just
like starts talking to him, and it turns out this
little girl is Heather oh Rourke. At this point, Spielberg
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is looking to cast Poltergeist, which of course is the
super famous horror movie that came out in nineteen two,
and uh, in fact, they just um, they just re
released it this past October. You know, it was an
anniversary thing. Where Lauren and I went and watched on
the big screen again, and you know, it was a
fun movie to watch again, but not nearly as impressive
(22:36):
as it was. And you know, the nineteen eighties. One
thing that I always thought was interesting about Poltergeist as
you've got the special effects, but also you have uh
it was one of the earliest or one of the
first movies that showed like the modern day esque paranormal
investigators going in to to do the job. And I'm sure,
you know, watching stuff like that probably inspired and affected me.
(23:00):
So anyway, he was gonna Spielberg was thinking about casting
Drew Barrymore, but instead he was like, Nope, you're the one,
and he cast Heather O. Rourke. Uh turn, and I'm
sure Drew Barrymore's people were very upset. But then she
went on to be an Et, which was a much bigger,
better role, so it worked out. Don't feel sorry for
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Drew Barrymore on this one. So um So, Heather Rourke
became famous as the little girl and the poulter Geist
movie who is just entranced by the television with the
static on it, and then of course she basically gets
kind of sucked into the TV and then they're trying
to rescue her from this other dimension the whole time.
Very eerie concept combining spirituality and electronics and all that stuff,
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which was very uh, very prescient in retrospect. So anyway,
this movie becomes a huge hit. So this little five
year old girl, Heather o. Rourke, she's like an overnight sensation.
And her family was relatively poor. They were from southern California.
And instantly they like, they signed her up for sequels,
(24:07):
and it's just money like they've they've never seen their
and their family starts pouring in and so this little
five year old becomes this cash cow. And once the
money starts pouring in, well, the parents decide that, hey,
it's time to buy another house somewhere. I don't know
(24:28):
if it was a vacation home or if it was
they considered a primary residency, but they chose to buy
a house and Big bear Lake, California, this place that
Lauren and I were on our way to visit, this
little hallmark town, Big bear Lake, California. So they buy
this nice house there and she starts attending class there.
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I think they said she was even like a class
president or something, and when she was in the fifth grade.
I don't know. Things seem to be going well for
this family, but when we come back from this brig
things take a terrible twist, and it has to do
with them living in Big Bear Lake. I'm Joshua pe Warren.
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You're listening to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
and Coast to Coast, a paranormal podcast network that I'll
be right back after these important messages. Welcome back to
(26:01):
Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and Coast to
Coast to m PIR on normal podcast network. I am
your host, Joshua P. Warren, And this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. You know, Steven Spielberg did
not direct the movie poulter Geist. He produced it and
(26:24):
he has a screen writing credit, But the director was
Toby Hooper, who was most famous for creating the Texas
Chainsaw Massacre. You know, he wrote and directed that and
the guy he hired to shoot that, the director of photography,
(26:45):
was named Daniel Pearl. And when I was I've talked
about this on the podcast before. When I was working
for Warner Brothers movie The Apparition, I was on the
set in California one evening and it was really late
and everybody was tired, and they were shuttling the cast
and crew back and forth from uh the set to
(27:08):
you know wherever um. I got seated next to this
guy and I didn't know who he was, and I
started chatting and it was Daniel Pearl. So I I
got like fifteen or twenty minutes to have this conversation
with the guy who who actually shot the Texas Chainsaw massacre.
So that was cool that that's like six degrees of
separation from Kevin Bacon. But anyway, look back to the story.
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So Heather O. Rourke's family, they buy this house in
Big Bear Lake and that's where they start living a
good chunk of the time. And uh, she keeps pulling
in money and then finally she's like twelve years old
and uh, one day she gets really sick. They don't
know what's wrong with her, and they started taking her
(27:52):
in for all this testing, and long story short, turns
out that she had been drinking the well water there
in Big Bear Lake, California, and there was some kind
of parasite in it that got into her system and
she had some kind of super sensitive system and ultimately
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it led to her dying from some kind of septic shock.
That said, then when she was twelve years old. Isn't
that horrible? And you may or may not know that.
There is this whole phenomenon regarding like the Curse of
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that movie poultr Geist. All these different people who were
involved with that movie had or many of these people
had had bad things that happened to them, tragic endings.
It's like the Curse of King Tutt. Documentaries have been
made about it. But but she is one of the
central figures there. So that was just an eerie thing.
(28:59):
And I wondered, and I got the Big Bear Lake
if anybody would talk about it, and nobody did either
they didn't know or pretended that they didn't know. So
that's just a quirky little thing about Big Bear Lake, California.
But we, on the other hand, we had a fine time.
And again I've been having all kinds of of good
(29:21):
things occurring throughout my Christmas season all Also, uh, you
know what one thing about Big Bear Lake before I
continue into you know what happened with the robbery, uh,
is that, Uh, the Big Bear Lake, like so many
other of these bodies of water, is shrinking tremendously, and
(29:43):
you know how bad lake meat is getting here. And
so I told you that once it becomes the snowy season,
I want all of us listening to this podcast to
start trying to manifest historic snowfall and the Rocky Mountains.
And I had Dr Molder on a while back and
talked to him about it. He he flexes his muscles
(30:05):
all the time by creating snowfall in places where it's
not supposed to snow, like, uh, the Middle East. You know,
he's always sending me stories about like look what I did.
And you have to realize that we need a lot
of snowfall this year in the Rocky Mountains, in the
in the US. And here is why you might just think,
(30:26):
like when you live out west, I don't who cares, no, no, no.
The snowfall from the Rocky Mountains makes up the bulk
of the water that goes into Lake Mead and these
other reservoirs, and it's rainfall is not gonna do it.
It's the vast majority of it is based upon snowfall
on the Rocky Mountains. If we don't have enough water
(30:50):
here in Lake Mead and the surrounding lakes, and that
means we have less vegetation, less vegetables, and that means
less feed for livestock. So when there's less vegetables and
less feed for livestock, and therefore less livestock, well, then
the prices for those things go up. And when the
(31:13):
and they go up for everybody all over the country,
And when the prices for everybody goes up in the country,
when we're already having this inflation period, it starts creating
this chain reaction where everybody starts paying more for everything.
The whole economy gets worse. And obviously whatever is happening
in the US affects the economy dramatically and the rest
(31:35):
of the world. And so everybody in the world has
an interest in there being a major snowfall this winter
in the Rocky Mountains. Start doing whatever you do to
manifest right now and start making that happen. All right,
So let's get to this strange story. Well, here in
last I I have storage units all over the country,
(31:59):
but I have some of my most prized possessions. I
had some of my most prized possessions and two storage
units here in Las Vegas. So last year I bought
this new house, which I'm still getting an order. I've
accomplished about fift of what I intended to over the
Christmas break, but still fift So I had two storage
(32:23):
units here with a bunch of goodies from my museums. Actually,
well it's I could say museum, but I have owned
different incarnations of a museum, so we're talking like Crystal
skull um, UFO crash stuff, uh, stuff from Transylvania, signed artifacts,
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I mean, just all kinds of really interesting things. And
so I had them in two storage units where they
have been for five years without any problems one. But
when I got this new house, Lauren and I moved
to the other side of town, which is like thirty
minutes away. So I decided it was time to consolidate
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what I had in those other two storage units where
we used to live into one new storage unit here
close to my new house. So we went and we
got a new storage unit, a third storage unit, a
bigger storage unit, which it actually turns out is more
more cost effective than having two smaller storage units on
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the other side of town. And then Lauren and I
got together with our friend Jason Sarachi, the famous UFO
videographer who lives nearby, and Jason helped us move everything
from those two storage units across town to this one
new storage unit. So I have all these goodies there
(33:53):
that I have plans for to put back on display.
And here's one of the weird things though, and I
have talked about this in various places. You may have
heard this. When Lauren and I got this new storage unit.
It's like, this is the building is huge, and this
is an internal storage unit. And this building that's like
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three or four stories tall. I don't know how big
it is, but it's fairly new. It's gigantic. So you
go in there and it's like going through a maze
until you get up to your internal storage unit. There's
no telling how many hundreds of storage units there are
in this place. When we went there for the first time,
we were like the only people there. There were no
(34:36):
other customers. It was kind of like early on a weekday.
And the first odd thing that happened was when we
went up to our storage unit and we were first
looking at it out of this whole place, a woman, uh,
just kind of a you know, normal looking lady. She
comes walking up and she opens up the storage unit
right next to ours, and we were like, that's amazing
(34:58):
of this whole place. We just got this storage unit,
and you just happened to have this storage unit next
to ours, and we were like, what a coincidence. And
so we're kind of laughing and having a little friendly banter.
But I thought I just thought, like that's just one
of those odd things in life. So then fast forward
a few weeks later, which was last month in December,
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we get together with Jason. We rent a U haul
and we we we consolidate everything. We go back to
this big storage unit building where once again there's like
nobody there except for us. We go in, we haul
all this stuff into into the storage unit and lo
and behold, guess who appears this woman who has the
(35:43):
storage unit right beside ours, And were like, what are
the chances of that? And she goes, the last time
I was here was when you were here, and we
go that's the only time we've ever been here. So
at this point our mind is blown and and and
I'm like, are you with the CIA, you know? And
I started just like joking around with this woman. We
(36:07):
peek into her storage unit. She has a giant telescope
in there and some pretty interesting things, and so I say, well,
I guess we're friends now, you know. It's it's just like, so,
what are the literally, what are the chances I've been
to this place twice? At both times there's practically nobody
else in the building except for this woman who shows
up at the storage unit right next to ours. Okay,
(36:30):
so I end up I talked to her for a
little bit and I'm like, well, you know what, maybe
you need to come out and you got a telescope
and she goes, oh, I love the stars, and I said,
you maybe you need to come out and do one
f O skywatches or something, you know, Vegas UFOs dot com.
So anyway, we left that whole situation after transferring everything
into the new storage unit, and and I was having
(36:53):
this conversation with Lauren and Jason like isn't that amazing?
Like what again, Like, that's just it's it's almost like
phenomenon where every time you park your car, somebody is
parking next to you or they're coming to get out
of that space next to you at the same time.
I don't know. So we knew there was already something
(37:13):
weird about the situation. Okay, So now now we're getting
into what happened around Christmas time, and man, I wish
I had more time. I knew that this show was
gonna go by too fast. When we come back from
this break, I'm gonna tell you this story, and then
it's gonna be the end of the show. I'm gonna
(37:36):
squeeze in something about the Blue Bunny. Also, I'm Joshua
Pete Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the I
Heart Radio and Coast to Coast. Stay am perin normal
podcast network. I will be right back. Welcome back to
(38:23):
the final segment of this edition of Strange Things on
the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast. I am
our normal podcast network. I'm your host, Joshua Pete Warren,
and I have so many cool, interesting, wild shows lined
up for you over the next few weeks months. I mean,
(38:46):
I've been he wouldn't believe the list of things that
I have to share with you. But anyway, everything was
going well for Lauren and myself up until right around
like that week leading up to Christmas of two and uh,
all of a sudden, like both of us started having
helped problems. I know, a lot of people around the
(39:10):
world we're having uh sicknesses, and you know, it's like
my sister was sick in Asheville, and then we were
having problems here and my my poor old mom and
dad for the first time I ever had to have
Christmas with that either one of their kids present. And
then of course, you know, the weather was terrible in
(39:31):
many places, and people were being delayed or having their
flights canceled or stranded and literally freezing to death. I mean,
it was like it was just a hard Christmas holiday.
So anyway, but you know, again we're fine now and
in terms of all that stuff, but so here we go. Um,
(39:56):
It's like I think the day after Christmas. Uh, Lauren,
she was the one who got the phone call from
the storage unit place saying, like, we have a very
important matter. Can you please call us back? And it
was the next day before she was able to connect,
and they said, well, there's been a break in and
(40:18):
we don't think they went into your unit, but out
of an abundance of caution, we would like for you
to come here because they broke into the units like
right around yours. So Lauren and I this was after hours.
We went over to our unit, which was on one
of the higher floors, and we thought, how weird that
(40:40):
of all this, of this whole place, they broke into
units that are around ours. And we walked up to
the storage unit and the door was closed tightly and
the lock was on it, and everything looked fine, so
we assumed, like, hey, everything's gonna be okay. We opened
the lock, we slide up the door, and all of
our boxes are in this array, and I go, oh,
(41:02):
this does not look good. And we walked over and
the first thing I saw was that one of my
boxes was opened and it was partially empty, and it
was labeled Drone d R O n E. Because that
is where I kept my one and only drone that
I owned. And I'm looking around and I couldn't find
(41:25):
like any evidence. I mean, like they shuffled stuff around,
but it it looked like that nothing else has been taken.
And Lauren goes, how is it possible nobody could have
gotten in here? The door was closed, the lock was
on there, and I go, I don't know, but somebody
obviously hadn't have got in here. And from what I
could tell, they just stole my drone. So the next
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day we went back over there, and we went with
one of the employees and I said, is it is
it possible that somebody could have gotten in here without
opening that door? I mean, it has to be. And
it turns out and these internal storage units there's a
little opening. It's not much. It's probably probably like a
foot wide at the very top of the door. You'd
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have to be really slim to get up there and
slip through that. Well, we went back into the storage
unit and over on the walls of the storage unit
are these like metal rails that you can hang things on.
And those metal rails were dusty, and we looked over
and guess what, there were footprints on the metal rails.
So sure enough, somebody had gone to the effort to
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not break the lock or anything, but to climb up
and go over and slip through that little space and
go down into our storage unit. And still that drone
and it turned unfortunately nothing else was missing, just in disarray.
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And let me tell you why that is so weird
that drone is it's the only drone I've ever owned.
It's not a very expensive one, and the only time
I've ever used it was when I first got it.
I took it way out into the desert on the
way to California, and I just put it up in
the air and took it down just to see if
it worked, and that was it. And this area around
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Las Vegas and Nevada in general is so restrictive when
it comes to drones that you hear stories about people
having their drones and stuff confiscated all the time because
people are going out there and recklessly flying them around
military bases and stuff. And I have never done that,
nor would I ever do that, But I thought it
(43:44):
was pretty darned interesting that the only thing that was
taken was that drone and the able there was nothing
on it. Again, I took it out almost to the
California border around prem put it up in the air,
and took it down, and that was it. So the
(44:07):
conspiratorial side of me says, is it possible that somebody,
the men in black, wanted to make sure that I
wasn't using that drone for some bad purposes? Because I
did last year, as you know, by a piece of
(44:27):
property not far from Area fifty one and Rachel, Nevada.
And I have never attempted to take that drone out
there uh, nor would I ever do that. As a
matter of fact, I've never even tried to get close
to the area fifty one boundary because I know that's
a real top secret military base that I just thought
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it was really interesting that of all the things that
were taken, it was my drum. So that put a
really sour damper on things. But you know what, here's
the good part of that. I wrote about this in
my book, used the force. Sometimes when something happens that
seems bad and retrospect you look back and it was
(45:10):
actually good. Things can't change, things can't improve unless something
destructive happens. And that was an opportunity for me to say,
you know what, let me take the stuff out of
this storage unit that I really care about, and it
was all there. I'm proud to say, I'm happy to
say all my cool stuff was there and I got
(45:31):
it out, and I'm not gonna tell you where I
put it, but I got out all my cool stuff
and it's in a much more secure area now, so
it's better protected. So no matter who you are, you
know you're gonna have bad luck and weird bad things
that happened to you. I I wrote about in my
(45:52):
book Used The Force, which you can actually read for
free right now if you go to Joshua pe Warren
dot com and just click the link to the book cover.
I wrote about the fact that you know, um, when
you align yourself with goodness, you're actually polarizing yourself and
(46:13):
and doing that, you're becoming a target for bad stuff
as well. So you have to expect some some some
bad things to happen in your life because you're you're
becoming like the north or the south pole of a magnet,
and you're attracting the other pole. And so this actually
is an inspirational story because I feel like that this
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have this happening to me gave me an opportunity to
go in and become more responsible with what I'm putting
into storage units, and to give a warning to all
of you who may have a storage unit about how
vulnerable your stuff may be, that somebody can break in
without even going through the door. And it gave me
an opportunity to take out the stuff that I really
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cared about and put it in a more secure your location.
And so that's why I say like it was it
was bad, but it actually turned out to be inspirational
and I will tell you this though, and I had
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so much more that I had planned to tell you
in this show. But that's why I do this every week.
I'll have it for you next time. Speaking of secrets
that are being kept in this state. Look, I don't know.
I'm not here too. I'm not a whistleblower. But in
episode seventy two of this podcast, I talked about the
(47:40):
blue Bunny, this weird blue bunny like plasma creature that
is sometimes seen running around this state. And I got
contacted by a listener who said that he believes he
had seen it, and he produced an illustration of this thing.
And if you want to see this illustration haven't posted
(48:00):
right now for you, go to Joshua P. Warren dot com.
Click the link to the Curiosity Shop, scroll down and
you will see his illustration of what the bunny looked like.
And he said it was more electric blue and it
had a weird pattern. But if you want to see
what he said it looks like, go to Joshua P.
(48:22):
Warren dot com Curiosity Shop, scrolled down and look at
the illustration that he made of the blue bunny. I
have got so much to tell you about I can't
wait for the next show. But for now, let's kick
off the new year the right way. It's time for
us all to listen to the Good Fortune tone together. Okay,
(48:43):
let's set that stage. Take a deep breath, if you can,
close your eyes, relax, resonate with this the Good Fortune Tom.
(49:18):
That's it for this edition of the show. Follow me
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(49:40):
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always remember the Golden Rule. Thank you for listening, thank
you for your interest in support, thank you for staying curious,
and I we'll talk to you again soon. You've been
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