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matter for yourself. This is Strange Thing With I Am
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Joshua BE Warren, and each week on this show, I'll
be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news exercises,
and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
lot more on this edition of the program, A new
magic word. Let me just tell you that this topic
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is so weird that I have been struggling for days
trying to figure out whether or not I even wanted
to do this show. I think you'll see why. It's
it's a very very complex subject. But then I'm always
reminded by that quote by John F. Kennedy. We choose
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to go to the moon not because it is easy,
but because it is hard. So here we go. I'm
I'm gonna do something that's hard. Abracadabra, presto, al kazam,
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bibbity bobbidy boo, hocus pocus, shazam. These are what you
might consider magical words magical sounds. And you know what's
funny is that some of them maybe what most people
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would consider nonsense, but other people would have some kind
of meaning attached to the word. For example, the word presto,
you might hear a magician used that, you might hear
a cook use that presto is just an Italian word
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for fast or you know, quick, or let's say, like
a shazam. Well, that actually is a word that comes
from the fictional world of comics. There are characters that
are related to the word shazam in the comic world.
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As a matter of fact, I really like the word shazam.
I mean, who doesn't, And I thought this was kind
of a cool thing. I would share with you, apparently
from what I have found. The word shazam, as many say,
was coined by a comic book writer named Bill Parker,
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using the first letters of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles,
and mercury. Okay, so sometimes one of these words again
they sound like ridiculous and crazy and another. At other
times they they have some relevance to your own life experience,
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but that doesn't really matter, because all that really counts
is the way that these things make you actually feel.
And in fact, you know, I wasn't going to do this,
but I think this, you know what, I think this
is a good opportunity for this. I am holding in
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my in my hand right now, the tail of a rattlesnake.
I believe this is a diamondback rattle rat Atler, Yeah,
a diamondback rattlesnake from Texas, and it's got the rattle
on it. And hopefully you've never heard this sound in person,
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but I can. I'm gonna try to shake it right
now in front of my microphone and let's see if
you can hear this. Are you ready? This is a
real rattlesnake rattle I have in my hand, and I
actually have two. I have another one from I don't
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think this one's from Texas. I don't know. Oh yeah,
good lord. This box has two rattlesnake rattles in it.
Let's see how they sound. Here's the first one in
the second box and the second one in the second box.
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But these are harder to rattle because they're just actually
the rattlers. And the first one was the tail attached
to the rattler, and it's a much bigger snake. So okay,
the reason I thought to to give you that sound
is because this goes to show that, like, this is
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not a word, that's that's a vibration. But when you
hear that vibration, when when you experience that vibration, you know, uh,
get away, get away. Something is warning me something bad
is happening here. And I'm sure there are plenty of
animals out there that certainly do not speak English, that
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are very well aware of what that sound means. So
the point is, uh, there are sounds that are the
product of vibration that you're able to understand without having
to sort of intellectualize it and reduce it into some
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kind of a clear language. I bet you that almost
everybody in the entire world, no matter where that person is,
from what language that person speaks, would hear that sound
and be like, Oh, I think we need to go
in the other direction right now. That that's to me
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just a very basic example of the power of sounds
that don't necessarily represent accepted words in a particular language.
This is sort of what magical words are about, in
my opinion. So they mean different things to different people
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and in different cultures, in different kinds of animals. But
there's there's some thing about the way something sounds that
represents a certain vibration that you can kind of intuitively appreciate.
I'm trying to set the stage here for where we're
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going because I have what I believe maybe an experiment
here that we can all do together. I am going
in this podcast to give you a new magical word,
and we as an audience are going to start using
this word to see if it does anything in our lives.
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All right. Before I get to that, though, let's, you know,
let's cover our bases here. So if you if you
go to the almighty Wikipedia and you look up magic word,
it says magic words are often nonsense phrases used in
fantasy fiction or by stage magicians. Frequently, such words are
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presented as part of being a divine divine a damic.
Oh boy, now I got to look up. What is
a dammit? I thought? I said, academic. Okay, well that's it,
says a language spoken by Adam in the Garden of Eden.
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Maybe I'll I might have to do a whole other
show on that anyway, or other secret or empowered language.
Certain comic book heroes use magic words to act fate
their powers. Magic words are also used as easter eggs
or cheats and computer games. All right, and right off
the bat when it comes to magic words, I guess,
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like the Granddaddy, here is abra cadabra, and I you know,
I think I should point out before I continue. I
believe you can also see the relationship between um, these
magic words and the idea of like scymatics, which I
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have turned into parasimatics, the idea that when there's an
actual vibration, that that vibration is connected to a sound.
So if you had you know, there may be a
vibration that we hear as a sound, and then you
can express that physically through particles of sand or a
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body of water and you can see form evolved from that.
And then there's this whole thing that I talked about
an episode seventy of this podcast called anamatapilla, and that
is this whole concept, this universal concept that we have
certain words that represent things that we all understand, like
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a cat goes me ow, pig goes oink, a burgoes chirp,
or something explodes and goes boom, or you know, something
falls and it goes splat. That's called atamatopea when we
try to take the vibration that something creates that we
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perceive as a sound and then turn it into a
word to express it. It's a lot like what happens
in comic books when or you know the old Batman
show where your boom pal playing. This is leading somewhere,
I promise you. But first off, we're up on a
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Mice Studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every
day is golden and every night is silver. Abra cadabra,
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Abra cadabra. What does that mean? Well, you know, I
remember when I was a kid, I was reading magic
books and they made a big deal out of abra cadabra.
It is a magical word, historically used as an incantation
on amulets. And when it comes to the entomology, that is,
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you know, the word origin. It says that abra cadabra
is of unknown origin. But according to the Oxford English Dictionary,
its first known occurrence is in the second censory works
of Serenus Salmonikus. Okay, Serenus Salmonikus. You know Serenus Samonicus, right,
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who doesn't, Well I didn't, So here is who he was.
Died in the year two twelve. He was a Roman
savant and tutor, and uh, you know, he just he
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was a very popular, smart guy back in the day.
And it says here that the first known mention of
the word abracadabra was in this book that he wrote,
and he was functioning at that time as a physician
to the Roman emperor Caracalla, and he said in chapter
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fifty two that malarious sufferers should wear an amulet containing
this word abra cadabra in the form of a triangle,
and that when you do this it makes lethal diseases
go away. So here's what that means. So try to
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imagine this, or you can look it up. The word
abracadabra is spelled A b R A c A D
A b r A. So imagine you see that word
written in front of you, and then on the line
below it, you see it written again, except this time
it's missing the last letter, and then the line below
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it is missing the last letter from the line above it,
and this keeps going on until finally, you know, you
end up with like a b r A and then
a b r and then ab and then a. So
at the top you have the word abracadabra, and then
it keeps getting shorter and shorter and shorter until finally
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it ends with the word a. And so it looks
like a triangle that's pointing downward. And so apparently nobody
knows the origin of that actual word to begin with.
But the idea is that if you take this the
well you, if you take these letters and you fashion
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them in this manner and you wear it on an amulet,
it's going to cure you of things. And there are
all these uh, you know, references talking about like supposedly
Daniel Dafoe wrote about it warding off sickness during the
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Great Leg of London. The religion of Thalma has has
a similar belief in this, and that's you know, Alistir
Crowley stuff, and it was used as a magical formula
by the Gnostics in certain cases. So look, I don't know,
I've never done that. I've never actually going I've never
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taken like the word abracadabra and whittled it down like
they're describing. And if you can't imagine what I'm talking
about right now, and just like listening to this, just
go to Wikipedia and look up abracadabra and you'll see
a picture of it. But you know what, I'm going
to try it. I Am going to try wearing this.
I bet you you can just jump online. I haven't
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done this, and I bet you can just find like
some pendant somewhere that's that's made with the abercadabra thing.
But when when it comes to this whole topic of
like magical words again, like the idea is there is
something about transmitting vibrations, and vibrations are the root of
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all well reality, but especially physical reality. And it reminds
me a lot of the conversation that I had with
Dale Alan Hoffman not too long ago on this show
where we were talking about you know, toning, and I've
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told you before that you know, people talk about like
a magical book of spells being called a grimoire, and
that word comes from the word grammar. So it's all
about language being used. So you know, when you have
like bibbity bobbity boo and alec azam and all this
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kind of stuff, you wonder, you know, what is it
going to the mind? In some cases, it's it's freeing
the mind. It's distracting the mind from the critical self.
So it's taking you away from your logical thinking to
open up the creative side. And I have looked at
different letters in the whole English alphabet, and I have
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looked at them as they appear, and then you know phonetically,
and some words are composed with Well, let me put
it this way. I guess I should say some letters
have a certain energy attached to them that is magical,
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but it can be kind of good or bad. For example,
my friend Darren Evans, he always talks about the letters
Z and how that in many cases throughout history, the
letters Z has been associated with something evil. And he said,
he told me that a lot of ancient people said
that when somebody died, you would look at the face
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of the corpse and the lips would draw back into
this grimace as if it were pronouncing the letters or
you know, the sounds Z like when you say Z,
do it right now, Like whatever you're doing, I don't
care what you're doing, do it right now out loud.
Go Z. You see how your your mouth forms when
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you go as ze. It looks like apparently the grimace
of a corpse. And so you have a lot of
like evil and deathly and morbid things associated with that,
like Pazoozu, the demon Bazoozu in The Exorcist or um. Yeah,
of course he talks about this. Uh, this demon named zozo.
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Z is a weird word, but it's not always a
you know, not always an evil word, but people have
been afraid of it, and they've taken it that way.
As a matter of fact, Narin named one of his
sons zach And look at the word. I think one
of the most powerful words you could do at the
end of of some kind of a spell, like if
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you just you know, and you shouldn't do this because
there's too much baggage attached to it. But if there
were no baggage, it feels very satisfying to say, shah zam.
You know, it's got that z right in the middle, zam.
If that were not associated with a comic book or
or a cartoon or a movie or whatever I mean,
you would be like, ah, that sounds like an awesome
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magic word shazam. And you know, HP Lovecraft, he was
always trying to come up with words that he thought
matched sort of uncomfortable vibes that could be associated with
aliens and interdimensional beings like Cthulu. He liked to take
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like he knew that from and our culture. You could
take um like two or three consonants and put them
together and that would throw us off. So like Cthulhu,
I believe it's spelled like ct H's. It starts with
like cth We're not used to that. Usually we have
a consonant and a vow or a vow and a
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consonant to to start most words. So if you have
cth that you're like, oh, this sounds totally like a
total something from a different world, right cthulhu. You know
it sounds alien. So here, here's here's what I did. Okay. Um.
I took all this information, all this stuff I've been
thinking about, and I said, you know what, let me
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see if I can come up with a new magical word.
And at first I thought, well, maybe it should be simple,
and then I thought, well, maybe it should should be complex.
And then I thought, well, it's somehow it should be
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easy to remember. There should be some kind of I
don't know, alliteration there. Um. And I sat around and
I studied, and I just I couldn't quite come up
with anything that sounded magical. And so I put the
request out there to the universe. I asked the spirits.
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I said, give me some inspiration. Here have an angel
whisper a new magical word in my ear. And about
an hour ago I got this word. And I don't
think it's a great word, but I think it's a
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starting point. This word may suck, okay, but I figure
we're going to do an experiment here, a mass experiment,
and we're going to try it out. When we come back.
I'm going to give you this new magical word and
we are going to start using it, and then we
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are going to see what does or does not happen.
And from there we will start refining this process until
we work together to come up with the new mac
Daddy magical word. This is one of the fun things
about having a podcast that people listen to all over
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the world. You can do crazy experiments like this. I'll
tell you the word when we come back. I'm Joshua
Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast. Stay in PAMA Normal Podcast Network.
I'll be back after these important messages. Welcome back to
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Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast. I
am Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua pe Warren,
and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual.
I kind of broke some of my own rules here
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with this because I was thinking like it should be
simple and I should not have a connection to it.
It should, it should almost be like nonsense. But then
I kind of realized that this is this is a
harder mission than than you'd think, just like, come up
with a magical word that doesn't have a connection to
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to know anything that you know, it's it's almost impossible
because you associate every thing already. You know, human beings
have been around for a long time, and it's hard
to be like, all right, I've just manifested something brand
new and original. So here's here's the plan. Okay, So
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I am, I'm going to tell you this magical word
and how we're gonna experiment with it, all of us.
But I was going to do something simple like szam,
But it turns out we're gonna start with a very
complicated word, a word that has seven syllables. And I
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bet if I ask you right now to tell me
a word with seven syllables, you'd have to think about
that for a while. We're gonna start here, and we're
gonna see what happens, and then eventually all of you
will experiment and I'll get that feedback and we'll keep
going and keep going, and one day we're going to
come up with a new super powerful magical work and
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hopefully it'll only be like two syllables. But okay, are
you ready? Here we go. You might want to take
out a piece of paper and write this down. This
is going to scare the heck out of you as
soon as you hear it. But then I'm gonna spell it.
Or you know, I said a piece of paper. But
if you're able to take notes on your phone, fine, okay, here,
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here we are. I'm just gonna say it, agia tata zume,
agia tata zume. Now here is how that is spelled.
A G I A t A t o z o
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O m A y. So the idea is you finished
your manifestation work and then you go ogia tata zume.
Or let's say that you're at a fancy restaurant and
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the chef or the bartender comes over and puts the
finishing touch on the magnificent cocktail or dish, and you
go agiam ojia tata zume. Now you see, some of
you are just gonna be like, okay, I can't do this.
I'm out. I'm out. That's okay. We're starting with the
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people who can participate at this level. Okay agia tatazume,
ajia tata zume. Now let me explain to you how
that inspiration came to me earlier before you know, I
was outside under the bright moon, and um, this is
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still what I'm about to tell you is still too
literal for me that I'm taking baby steps because this
is hard. Uh okay. So I started playing the piano
when I was a very young man, and one of
my favorite pieces was the Moonlight Sonata and the most
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challenge and everybody knows the Doo Doo Doo Doo doo
doo dude, like the beginning with where it's all slow
and but there's this section in the middle called the
presto agatato, the presto agatato where where it's super fast
and so difficult, like I can't even imagine being able
to play that. And so the first part of this
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is agiatato. This word is it's it's not agatato or ajatato,
it's agiatato. I've I've mixed it up a little bit,
agiatato agiatatos which means agitation. Because when you're manifesting something
you're not happy with how things are, you're trying to
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agitate them. You're trying to mix them up. Agiatato and
then zoom, meaning like I'm shooting this thing out there,
and then a is just like that one final punch
Agia tato zume, agia tato zume. And there is a
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lot of Italian inflection. But that's okay. Who cares you
can't come up with the word that will not be
interpreted a certain way. Let me just tell you. Beethoven,
I believe, was a true wizard. You know. He was
born in seventeen seventy. He died in eighteen twenty seven
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when he was fifty six years old. Born in Bonn,
died in Vienna. If you don't know much about him,
it doesn't hurt to watch the movie Immortal Beloved. That
will give you. I mean, it's a very romanticized version
of his life, but it's a great movie. And he
was a man who was tortured and yet he has
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become well immortal through his talent to manipulate tones and vibrations.
He was a man who was a great composer who
became deaf, yet achieved the impossible, creating powerful, world famous
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music even after he was deaf. It's been almost two
hundred years since he died. He was fifty six when
he died. As I said, around the age of twenty eight,
he started having difficulty hearing, and he was stone deaf
by age forty four or forty five. And you've probably
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heard the Ode to Joy from Symphony number nine that
he composed just a few years before he died. And
you know, it is said that he had some kind
of an abdominal element. Nobody's sure what happened to him,
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but he was suffering a lot before he died. And
according to one of the witnesses there, they say he
died about five PM, and there was a flash of
lightning and a clap of thunder, and then quote, Beethoven
opened his eyes, lifted his right hand and looked up
for several seconds with his fists clenched, and then not
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another breath, not a heartbeat more end quote. And then
all these people came in and sort of like cutting
the locks of his hair off. And so anyway, this
guy was deaf, but he was still so in touch
with music that he created the Symphony number nine, which
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included the Ode to Joy, with is one of the
greatest masterpieces of music in all of known human history,
and that shows you how in touch he was with
this relationship between vibrations and music and just you know,
sounds and the whole thing we're talking about here. So again,
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this is a little bit too literal. I'm still trying
to separate myself from from the literal part of this,
but I really can't at this point. And so therefore
there you go. I there's a there's a bit of
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that in this word. Agia tatazume. Try it out. Anytime
you need a little umph, a little extra help, a
little luck, a little something over the next for over
the foreseeable future, just say it out loud, Agia tatazume,
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Agia tato zume, and let me know what happens. Anytime
you need something to boost what's going on in your life,
Agia tatazume. We're going to start there with the experiment,
and we're gonna take it from there, and we're gonna
see what happens. Now. I'm sorry if that is disappointing
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to you, because it's not, you know, like a super
easy word, but I think you understand the point of
the experiment. And now for something completely different, I've had
a really interesting evening. And that is because earlier today,
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earlier this evening here in Las Vegas, I told Lauren
before we went out to dinner that I wanted to
go to this relatively new shop I think they've been
around about a year called Cemetery Pulp, and it's an
oddity shop in Las Vegas. And they have like all
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the typical weird oddity stuff that oddity stores have, you know,
things in jars and skulls and taxidermy and just you know,
morbid and all that. All that stuff I love. But
they also combine it with like a comic book shop,
so it's kind of like a freaks and geeks heaven there.
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And so we went over there tonight and we were
walking around and I wasn't I mean, I have so
much stuff. It's just like I don't need to buy
anything else. I mean, it takes a lot to impress me.
But they had this section with basically mystery boxes, and
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they call them box of Weirdness, so it's a it's
a box. They had one for twenty dollars and then
one for seventy dollars, and I've never been there before,
so I said, okay, I'll take one of these twenty
dollars mystery boxes box of weirdness, And then I thought
to myself, why don't I open this while I'm doing
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my podcast? And I have no idea what's going to
be in here? If it's gonna be like really cheesy
or if it's gonna be amazing. What are you going
to get out of a twenty dollar mystery box at
an oddity shop in Las Vegas. Well, when we come back,
you're gonna hear live so to speak, as I opened
this thing and tell you what is inside. I'm Joshua
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Peane Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast am PARMA Normal Podcast Network, and
I will be right back. Welcome back to the final
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segment of this edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast am PARA Normal Podcast Network. I'm
your host, Joshua Pee Warren, Ajia Tata Zome Bojia Tata Zume.
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How many of you are gonna master that one for
the experiment? Well, we'll see. So, yes, I was at
Cemetery Pulp, and I do not know the folks who
own this place. They don't know me. I was just
a stranger that walked in there with Lauren. I'm not
being paid. There's like no relationship there whatsoever. And but
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I will tell you that the shop was really cool.
Everybody was super nice. The only thing that I honestly
didn't really care for was that they have a gigantic
albino Boa constrictor that I guess one of the owners
took out of the case and was sort of sharing
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it around the shop with people. And yeah, a beautiful,
a magnificent, amazing creature, but I'm just not a big
fan of snakes. And at one point I was just
like looking into a display case and then I turned
around and there's this huge snake next to me, and
I maybe, I guess I'm just a pansy, but I
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just don't care for having a Boa constrictor like that,
just kind of floating around the shop. And then there
was a second boa constrictor in the back of the shop,
but that one was in a case. And this is
all despite the fact that I shook a rattlesnake rattler
for you at the beginning of this podcast. But so anyway, look,
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I'm telling you that because you're going to get an
honest review of what's in this box. I have a
ruler here. I measured it. It's a glossy black gift
box and it is six inches tall and look about
four inches wide. It's a really nice looking box, and
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it's got a top that slips right off, and there's
kind of like a broad black ribbon around it that
has gold trim and these gold skull faces all over it.
So I'm just gonna I think I can just slip
this off. Yep. I didn't even have to untie it.
And it says on the top box, oh weirdness, really
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cool looking sticker. So okay, I know my time here
is limited in the show. I am opening it now.
I've never done this before. The first thing I see
is black tissue paper, so I'm gonna okay, so I'm
getting the swif of like I don't know, kind of
like a patruly kind of kind of smell. And the
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very first thing that I see. Okay, So I'm looking
in here right now, and there's actually a bunch of
stuff in this twenty dollar box. The first thing I
see is a big bone, so I'm gonna take this
out and this okay, So this bone oh, where'd my
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ruler go? This looks like a jawbone of some kind
about seven inch is long, and it's got a bunch
of spaces for teeth one, two, three, four, five, six,
set like fifteen. I don't know. I have no idea.
It's uh, it's bleached, and I get kind of a
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fishy vibe off of it, like this might be part
of a fish jaw. It's got some little like pores
in it. Already, this is this is looking really cool,
I mean, like for twenty bucks. Yeah, this is awesome.
I have no idea what this is, but I have
a jaw of some kind of creature here, and this
is cool enough that I will display this. Okay, next
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thing in the mystery Box of Weirdness from cemetery pulp.
Let's see. Uh oh, okay, this is uh. I've never
seen this before. A it's a pencil, but it's called
a plantable pencil. So this is like a very very
thin pencil and it's got the little green recycle emblem
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on it. And on one end I can see the
lead because it has not been sharpened. On the other end,
there's like a little plastic bubble with so I guess
it looks like it says sesame, So I guess there's
sesame seeds in here. That's pretty cool. So I guess
what you would do is use this pencil all the
way down to until you get to the sesame seeds
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and then you just throw it out in the in
the yard and maybe you'll grow some some more sesame seeds.
All right, that's cool, All right, Well, what's next? We
have here? Oh, here is a pin. Oh this is cool.
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It's like, you know, it's a metal pin. Like it's
in a blast in a plastic bag. So I'm not
sure it's metal and I don't have time to open
it here it might be. I think it's about yeah,
I'm it looks like a metal pin and it's a
black cat with a white skull on top of it.
All right, cool, all right? Next we have whoa, Here
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is a bracelet in a little baggy. And this bracelet
looks like, um, I don't know if it is hemat tight,
but it kind of looks like that. It's like a
bunch of little, uh, dark silver beads. And like I said,
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I don't I don't know exactly what it's made out of,
but it's it's it's got some weight to it, so
that's really nice. I think Lauren might like that. All right, cool,
a little bracelet there. Next we have a little box
inside what is this? Okay, So this is a box
that is um kind of like a box of matches.
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And there is a picture of a man on the
front and it says Kate in Satium setti and uh
there there is some writing on here I don't recognize. Okay,
I think this is incense. Let's see. You've got to
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cut it open here, gonna good knife here? Ah, come on, Yeah,
it definitely smells like incense. Um, and I think it's
gonna be oh god, see this is you know, people
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usually do these kinds of things like on YouTube or whatever.
But I'm the idiot. He's going on on a on
a podcast. Yep. Uh. This is a little box that
has those kind of little conge shaped uh instance things.
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So I guess that that's what I was smelling when
I said I smelled something that was similar to pajuli.
I'm not a big fan of that smell, by the way. Uh. Okay.
Next we have here a sucker. Oh man, okay, so
this sucker, uh, this is a sucker that has like
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a it's a chocolate sucker on a stick and the
the chocolate is shaped like, um, um, how do how
do I phrase this? It's it's well, I couldn't put
it on TV, and uh, it's it's it's kind of
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let me put it this way. It looks like a
man's best friend. That that sounded stupid. Also, all right, um,
what do we have next? There's like three more things
in here. The next thing we have is a stone
of some kind. All right, let me look at this
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under my light and this m I don't know exactly
what this stone is off the top of my head.
It kind of looks like a piece of flint or
something like that, but it is striated, it has it
has actually kind of the pinkish color, and then there
is sort of a gray stripe that runs around the
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middle of it. So I'm just not sure off the
top of my head what that is. But imagine like
a little chunk of flint that looks like that. Okay,
the next thing is a really cool die. You know
you always hear of dice, Well, if you only have one,
that's a die. So we have a die here, which
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is you know what people would use for role playing games.
And let's see how many sides have one, two, three,
four or five. Okay, so it's got ten faces on it.
That's gonna be really helpful for me because I'm always
doing you know, like experiments and stuff with gambling. And
the last thing I thought I knew what this was. Yep,
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oh boy. The last thing I have here is so
it's about four inches long. This is a bone, and
this is it's a very skinny arct bone, and it's
the kind of bone that certain male animals have in
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their most precious places. I guess I think you know
what I'm talking about. I know some people use them
as toothpicks. Well, that was pretty cool for twenty bucks.
I'm impressed. All Right, there you go, Mystery Bucks, the
Claucus Goddess. Here it is the good Fortune Tom. That's
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Joshua BE Warren, and each week on this show, I'll
be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news exercises,
and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
lot more on this edition of the program, A new
magic word. Let me just tell you that this topic
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is so weird that I have been struggling for days
trying to figure out whether or not I even wanted
to do this show. I think you'll see why. It's
it's a very very complex subject. But then I'm always
reminded by that quote by John F. Kennedy. We choose
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to go to the moon not because it is easy,
but because it is hard. So here we go. I'm
I'm gonna do something that's hard. Abracadabra, presto, al kazam,
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bibbity bobbidy boo, hocus pocus, shazam. These are what you
might consider magical words magical sounds. And you know what's
funny is that some of them maybe what most people
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would consider nonsense, but other people would have some kind
of meaning attached to the word. For example, the word presto,
you might hear a magician used that, you might hear
a cook use that presto is just an Italian word
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for fast or you know, quick, or let's say, like
a shazam. Well, that actually is a word that comes
from the fictional world of comics. There are characters that
are related to the word shazam in the comic world.
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As a matter of fact, I really like the word shazam.
I mean, who doesn't, And I thought this was kind
of a cool thing. I would share with you, apparently
from what I have found. The word shazam, as many say,
was coined by a comic book writer named Bill Parker,
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using the first letters of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles,
and mercury. Okay, so sometimes one of these words again
they sound like ridiculous and crazy and another. At other
times they they have some relevance to your own life experience,
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but that doesn't really matter, because all that really counts
is the way that these things make you actually feel.
And in fact, you know, I wasn't going to do this,
but I think this, you know what, I think this
is a good opportunity for this. I am holding in
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my in my hand right now, the tail of a rattlesnake.
I believe this is a diamondback rattle rat Atler, Yeah,
a diamondback rattlesnake from Texas, and it's got the rattle
on it. And hopefully you've never heard this sound in person,
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but I can. I'm gonna try to shake it right
now in front of my microphone and let's see if
you can hear this. Are you ready? This is a
real rattlesnake rattle I have in my hand, and I
actually have two. I have another one from I don't
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think this one's from Texas. I don't know. Oh yeah,
good lord. This box has two rattlesnake rattles in it.
Let's see how they sound. Here's the first one in
the second box and the second one in the second box.
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But these are harder to rattle because they're just actually
the rattlers. And the first one was the tail attached
to the rattler, and it's a much bigger snake. So okay,
the reason I thought to to give you that sound
is because this goes to show that, like, this is
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not a word, that's that's a vibration. But when you
hear that vibration, when when you experience that vibration, you know, uh,
get away, get away. Something is warning me something bad
is happening here. And I'm sure there are plenty of
animals out there that certainly do not speak English, that
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are very well aware of what that sound means. So
the point is, uh, there are sounds that are the
product of vibration that you're able to understand without having
to sort of intellectualize it and reduce it into some
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kind of a clear language. I bet you that almost
everybody in the entire world, no matter where that person is,
from what language that person speaks, would hear that sound
and be like, Oh, I think we need to go
in the other direction right now. That that's to me
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just a very basic example of the power of sounds
that don't necessarily represent accepted words in a particular language.
This is sort of what magical words are about, in
my opinion. So they mean different things to different people
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and in different cultures, in different kinds of animals. But
there's there's some thing about the way something sounds that
represents a certain vibration that you can kind of intuitively appreciate.
I'm trying to set the stage here for where we're
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going because I have what I believe maybe an experiment
here that we can all do together. I am going
in this podcast to give you a new magical word,
and we as an audience are going to start using
this word to see if it does anything in our lives.
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All right. Before I get to that, though, let's, you know,
let's cover our bases here. So if you if you
go to the almighty Wikipedia and you look up magic word,
it says magic words are often nonsense phrases used in
fantasy fiction or by stage magicians. Frequently, such words are
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presented as part of being a divine divine a damic.
Oh boy, now I got to look up. What is
a dammit? I thought? I said, academic. Okay, well that's it,
says a language spoken by Adam in the Garden of Eden.
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Maybe I'll I might have to do a whole other
show on that anyway, or other secret or empowered language.
Certain comic book heroes use magic words to act fate
their powers. Magic words are also used as easter eggs
or cheats and computer games. All right, and right off
the bat when it comes to magic words, I guess,
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like the Granddaddy, here is abra cadabra, and I you know,
I think I should point out before I continue. I
believe you can also see the relationship between um, these
magic words and the idea of like scymatics, which I
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have turned into parasimatics, the idea that when there's an
actual vibration, that that vibration is connected to a sound.
So if you had you know, there may be a
vibration that we hear as a sound, and then you
can express that physically through particles of sand or a
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body of water and you can see form evolved from that.
And then there's this whole thing that I talked about
an episode seventy of this podcast called anamatapilla, and that
is this whole concept, this universal concept that we have
certain words that represent things that we all understand, like
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a cat goes me ow, pig goes oink, a burgoes chirp,
or something explodes and goes boom, or you know, something
falls and it goes splat. That's called atamatopea when we
try to take the vibration that something creates that we
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perceive as a sound and then turn it into a
word to express it. It's a lot like what happens
in comic books when or you know the old Batman
show where your boom pal playing. This is leading somewhere,
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day is golden and every night is silver. Abra cadabra,
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Abra cadabra. What does that mean? Well, you know, I
remember when I was a kid, I was reading magic
books and they made a big deal out of abra cadabra.
It is a magical word, historically used as an incantation
on amulets. And when it comes to the entomology, that is,
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you know, the word origin. It says that abra cadabra
is of unknown origin. But according to the Oxford English Dictionary,
its first known occurrence is in the second censory works
of Serenus Salmonikus. Okay, Serenus Salmonikus. You know Serenus Samonicus, right,
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who doesn't, Well I didn't, So here is who he was.
Died in the year two twelve. He was a Roman
savant and tutor, and uh, you know, he just he
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was a very popular, smart guy back in the day.
And it says here that the first known mention of
the word abracadabra was in this book that he wrote,
and he was functioning at that time as a physician
to the Roman emperor Caracalla, and he said in chapter
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fifty two that malarious sufferers should wear an amulet containing
this word abra cadabra in the form of a triangle,
and that when you do this it makes lethal diseases
go away. So here's what that means. So try to
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imagine this, or you can look it up. The word
abracadabra is spelled A b R A c A D
A b r A. So imagine you see that word
written in front of you, and then on the line
below it, you see it written again, except this time
it's missing the last letter, and then the line below
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it is missing the last letter from the line above it,
and this keeps going on until finally, you know, you
end up with like a b r A and then
a b r and then ab and then a. So
at the top you have the word abracadabra, and then
it keeps getting shorter and shorter and shorter until finally
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it ends with the word a. And so it looks
like a triangle that's pointing downward. And so apparently nobody
knows the origin of that actual word to begin with.
But the idea is that if you take this the
well you, if you take these letters and you fashion
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them in this manner and you wear it on an amulet,
it's going to cure you of things. And there are
all these uh, you know, references talking about like supposedly
Daniel Dafoe wrote about it warding off sickness during the
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Great Leg of London. The religion of Thalma has has
a similar belief in this, and that's you know, Alistir
Crowley stuff, and it was used as a magical formula
by the Gnostics in certain cases. So look, I don't know,
I've never done that. I've never actually going I've never
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taken like the word abracadabra and whittled it down like
they're describing. And if you can't imagine what I'm talking
about right now, and just like listening to this, just
go to Wikipedia and look up abracadabra and you'll see
a picture of it. But you know what, I'm going
to try it. I Am going to try wearing this.
I bet you you can just jump online. I haven't
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done this, and I bet you can just find like
some pendant somewhere that's that's made with the abercadabra thing.
But when when it comes to this whole topic of
like magical words again, like the idea is there is
something about transmitting vibrations, and vibrations are the root of
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all well reality, but especially physical reality. And it reminds
me a lot of the conversation that I had with
Dale Alan Hoffman not too long ago on this show
where we were talking about you know, toning, and I've
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told you before that you know, people talk about like
a magical book of spells being called a grimoire, and
that word comes from the word grammar. So it's all
about language being used. So you know, when you have
like bibbity bobbity boo and alec azam and all this
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kind of stuff, you wonder, you know, what is it
going to the mind? In some cases, it's it's freeing
the mind. It's distracting the mind from the critical self.
So it's taking you away from your logical thinking to
open up the creative side. And I have looked at
different letters in the whole English alphabet, and I have
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looked at them as they appear, and then you know phonetically,
and some words are composed with Well, let me put
it this way. I guess I should say some letters
have a certain energy attached to them that is magical,
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but it can be kind of good or bad. For example,
my friend Darren Evans, he always talks about the letters
Z and how that in many cases throughout history, the
letters Z has been associated with something evil. And he said,
he told me that a lot of ancient people said
that when somebody died, you would look at the face
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of the corpse and the lips would draw back into
this grimace as if it were pronouncing the letters or
you know, the sounds Z like when you say Z,
do it right now, Like whatever you're doing, I don't
care what you're doing, do it right now out loud.
Go Z. You see how your your mouth forms when
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you go as ze. It looks like apparently the grimace
of a corpse. And so you have a lot of
like evil and deathly and morbid things associated with that,
like Pazoozu, the demon Bazoozu in The Exorcist or um. Yeah,
of course he talks about this. Uh, this demon named zozo.
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Z is a weird word, but it's not always a
you know, not always an evil word, but people have
been afraid of it, and they've taken it that way.
As a matter of fact, Narin named one of his
sons zach And look at the word. I think one
of the most powerful words you could do at the
end of of some kind of a spell, like if
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you just you know, and you shouldn't do this because
there's too much baggage attached to it. But if there
were no baggage, it feels very satisfying to say, shah zam.
You know, it's got that z right in the middle, zam.
If that were not associated with a comic book or
or a cartoon or a movie or whatever I mean,
you would be like, ah, that sounds like an awesome
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magic word shazam. And you know, HP Lovecraft, he was
always trying to come up with words that he thought
matched sort of uncomfortable vibes that could be associated with
aliens and interdimensional beings like Cthulu. He liked to take
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like he knew that from and our culture. You could
take um like two or three consonants and put them
together and that would throw us off. So like Cthulhu,
I believe it's spelled like ct H's. It starts with
like cth We're not used to that. Usually we have
a consonant and a vow or a vow and a
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consonant to to start most words. So if you have
cth that you're like, oh, this sounds totally like a
total something from a different world, right cthulhu. You know
it sounds alien. So here, here's here's what I did. Okay. Um.
I took all this information, all this stuff I've been
thinking about, and I said, you know what, let me
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see if I can come up with a new magical word.
And at first I thought, well, maybe it should be simple,
and then I thought, well, maybe it should should be complex.
And then I thought, well, it's somehow it should be
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easy to remember. There should be some kind of I
don't know, alliteration there. Um. And I sat around and
I studied, and I just I couldn't quite come up
with anything that sounded magical. And so I put the
request out there to the universe. I asked the spirits.
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I said, give me some inspiration. Here have an angel
whisper a new magical word in my ear. And about
an hour ago I got this word. And I don't
think it's a great word, but I think it's a
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starting point. This word may suck, okay, but I figure
we're going to do an experiment here, a mass experiment,
and we're going to try it out. When we come back.
I'm going to give you this new magical word and
we are going to start using it, and then we
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are going to see what does or does not happen.
And from there we will start refining this process until
we work together to come up with the new mac
Daddy magical word. This is one of the fun things
about having a podcast that people listen to all over
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the world. You can do crazy experiments like this. I'll
tell you the word when we come back. I'm Joshua
Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
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I'll be back after these important messages. Welcome back to
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Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast. I
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and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual.
I kind of broke some of my own rules here
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with this because I was thinking like it should be
simple and I should not have a connection to it.
It should, it should almost be like nonsense. But then
I kind of realized that this is this is a
harder mission than than you'd think, just like, come up
with a magical word that doesn't have a connection to
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to know anything that you know, it's it's almost impossible
because you associate every thing already. You know, human beings
have been around for a long time, and it's hard
to be like, all right, I've just manifested something brand
new and original. So here's here's the plan. Okay, So
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I am, I'm going to tell you this magical word
and how we're gonna experiment with it, all of us.
But I was going to do something simple like szam,
But it turns out we're gonna start with a very
complicated word, a word that has seven syllables. And I
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bet if I ask you right now to tell me
a word with seven syllables, you'd have to think about
that for a while. We're gonna start here, and we're
gonna see what happens, and then eventually all of you
will experiment and I'll get that feedback and we'll keep
going and keep going, and one day we're going to
come up with a new super powerful magical work and
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hopefully it'll only be like two syllables. But okay, are
you ready? Here we go. You might want to take
out a piece of paper and write this down. This
is going to scare the heck out of you as
soon as you hear it. But then I'm gonna spell it.
Or you know, I said a piece of paper. But
if you're able to take notes on your phone, fine, okay, here,
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here we are. I'm just gonna say it, agia tata zume,
agia tata zume. Now here is how that is spelled.
A G I A t A t o z o
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O m A y. So the idea is you finished
your manifestation work and then you go ogia tata zume.
Or let's say that you're at a fancy restaurant and
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the chef or the bartender comes over and puts the
finishing touch on the magnificent cocktail or dish, and you
go agiam ojia tata zume. Now you see, some of
you are just gonna be like, okay, I can't do this.
I'm out. I'm out. That's okay. We're starting with the
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people who can participate at this level. Okay agia tatazume,
ajia tata zume. Now let me explain to you how
that inspiration came to me earlier before you know, I
was outside under the bright moon, and um, this is
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still what I'm about to tell you is still too
literal for me that I'm taking baby steps because this
is hard. Uh okay. So I started playing the piano
when I was a very young man, and one of
my favorite pieces was the Moonlight Sonata and the most
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challenge and everybody knows the Doo Doo Doo Doo doo
doo dude, like the beginning with where it's all slow
and but there's this section in the middle called the
presto agatato, the presto agatato where where it's super fast
and so difficult, like I can't even imagine being able
to play that. And so the first part of this
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is agiatato. This word is it's it's not agatato or ajatato,
it's agiatato. I've I've mixed it up a little bit,
agiatato agiatatos which means agitation. Because when you're manifesting something
you're not happy with how things are, you're trying to
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agitate them. You're trying to mix them up. Agiatato and
then zoom, meaning like I'm shooting this thing out there,
and then a is just like that one final punch
Agia tato zume, agia tato zume. And there is a
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lot of Italian inflection. But that's okay. Who cares you
can't come up with the word that will not be
interpreted a certain way. Let me just tell you. Beethoven,
I believe, was a true wizard. You know. He was
born in seventeen seventy. He died in eighteen twenty seven
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when he was fifty six years old. Born in Bonn,
died in Vienna. If you don't know much about him,
it doesn't hurt to watch the movie Immortal Beloved. That
will give you. I mean, it's a very romanticized version
of his life, but it's a great movie. And he
was a man who was tortured and yet he has
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become well immortal through his talent to manipulate tones and vibrations.
He was a man who was a great composer who
became deaf, yet achieved the impossible, creating powerful, world famous
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music even after he was deaf. It's been almost two
hundred years since he died. He was fifty six when
he died. As I said, around the age of twenty eight,
he started having difficulty hearing, and he was stone deaf
by age forty four or forty five. And you've probably
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heard the Ode to Joy from Symphony number nine that
he composed just a few years before he died. And
you know, it is said that he had some kind
of an abdominal element. Nobody's sure what happened to him,
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but he was suffering a lot before he died. And
according to one of the witnesses there, they say he
died about five PM, and there was a flash of
lightning and a clap of thunder, and then quote, Beethoven
opened his eyes, lifted his right hand and looked up
for several seconds with his fists clenched, and then not
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another breath, not a heartbeat more end quote. And then
all these people came in and sort of like cutting
the locks of his hair off. And so anyway, this
guy was deaf, but he was still so in touch
with music that he created the Symphony number nine, which
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included the Ode to Joy, with is one of the
greatest masterpieces of music in all of known human history,
and that shows you how in touch he was with
this relationship between vibrations and music and just you know,
sounds and the whole thing we're talking about here. So again,
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this is a little bit too literal. I'm still trying
to separate myself from from the literal part of this,
but I really can't at this point. And so therefore
there you go. I there's a there's a bit of
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that in this word. Agia tatazume. Try it out. Anytime
you need a little umph, a little extra help, a
little luck, a little something over the next for over
the foreseeable future, just say it out loud, Agia tatazume,
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Agia tato zume, and let me know what happens. Anytime
you need something to boost what's going on in your life,
Agia tatazume. We're going to start there with the experiment,
and we're gonna take it from there, and we're gonna
see what happens. Now. I'm sorry if that is disappointing
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to you, because it's not, you know, like a super
easy word, but I think you understand the point of
the experiment. And now for something completely different, I've had
a really interesting evening. And that is because earlier today,
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earlier this evening here in Las Vegas, I told Lauren
before we went out to dinner that I wanted to
go to this relatively new shop I think they've been
around about a year called Cemetery Pulp, and it's an
oddity shop in Las Vegas. And they have like all
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the typical weird oddity stuff that oddity stores have, you know,
things in jars and skulls and taxidermy and just you know,
morbid and all that. All that stuff I love. But
they also combine it with like a comic book shop,
so it's kind of like a freaks and geeks heaven there.
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And so we went over there tonight and we were
walking around and I wasn't I mean, I have so
much stuff. It's just like I don't need to buy
anything else. I mean, it takes a lot to impress me.
But they had this section with basically mystery boxes, and
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they call them box of Weirdness, so it's a it's
a box. They had one for twenty dollars and then
one for seventy dollars, and I've never been there before,
so I said, okay, I'll take one of these twenty
dollars mystery boxes box of weirdness, And then I thought
to myself, why don't I open this while I'm doing
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my podcast? And I have no idea what's going to
be in here? If it's gonna be like really cheesy
or if it's gonna be amazing. What are you going
to get out of a twenty dollar mystery box at
an oddity shop in Las Vegas. Well, when we come back,
you're gonna hear live so to speak, as I opened
this thing and tell you what is inside. I'm Joshua
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Peane Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast am PARMA Normal Podcast Network, and
I will be right back. Welcome back to the final
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segment of this edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast am PARA Normal Podcast Network. I'm
your host, Joshua Pee Warren, Ajia Tata Zome Bojia Tata Zume.
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How many of you are gonna master that one for
the experiment? Well, we'll see. So, yes, I was at
Cemetery Pulp, and I do not know the folks who
own this place. They don't know me. I was just
a stranger that walked in there with Lauren. I'm not
being paid. There's like no relationship there whatsoever. And but
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I will tell you that the shop was really cool.
Everybody was super nice. The only thing that I honestly
didn't really care for was that they have a gigantic
albino Boa constrictor that I guess one of the owners
took out of the case and was sort of sharing
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it around the shop with people. And yeah, a beautiful,
a magnificent, amazing creature, but I'm just not a big
fan of snakes. And at one point I was just
like looking into a display case and then I turned
around and there's this huge snake next to me, and
I maybe, I guess I'm just a pansy, but I
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just don't care for having a Boa constrictor like that,
just kind of floating around the shop. And then there
was a second boa constrictor in the back of the shop,
but that one was in a case. And this is
all despite the fact that I shook a rattlesnake rattler
for you at the beginning of this podcast. But so anyway, look,
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I'm telling you that because you're going to get an
honest review of what's in this box. I have a
ruler here. I measured it. It's a glossy black gift
box and it is six inches tall and look about
four inches wide. It's a really nice looking box, and
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it's got a top that slips right off, and there's
kind of like a broad black ribbon around it that
has gold trim and these gold skull faces all over it.
So I'm just gonna I think I can just slip
this off. Yep. I didn't even have to untie it.
And it says on the top box, oh weirdness, really
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cool looking sticker. So okay, I know my time here
is limited in the show. I am opening it now.
I've never done this before. The first thing I see
is black tissue paper, so I'm gonna okay, so I'm
getting the swif of like I don't know, kind of
like a patruly kind of kind of smell. And the
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very first thing that I see. Okay, So I'm looking
in here right now, and there's actually a bunch of
stuff in this twenty dollar box. The first thing I
see is a big bone, so I'm gonna take this
out and this okay, So this bone oh, where'd my
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ruler go? This looks like a jawbone of some kind
about seven inch is long, and it's got a bunch
of spaces for teeth one, two, three, four, five, six,
set like fifteen. I don't know. I have no idea.
It's uh, it's bleached, and I get kind of a
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fishy vibe off of it, like this might be part
of a fish jaw. It's got some little like pores
in it. Already, this is this is looking really cool,
I mean, like for twenty bucks. Yeah, this is awesome.
I have no idea what this is, but I have
a jaw of some kind of creature here, and this
is cool enough that I will display this. Okay, next
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thing in the mystery Box of Weirdness from cemetery pulp.
Let's see. Uh oh, okay, this is uh. I've never
seen this before. A it's a pencil, but it's called
a plantable pencil. So this is like a very very
thin pencil and it's got the little green recycle emblem
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on it. And on one end I can see the
lead because it has not been sharpened. On the other end,
there's like a little plastic bubble with so I guess
it looks like it says sesame, So I guess there's
sesame seeds in here. That's pretty cool. So I guess
what you would do is use this pencil all the
way down to until you get to the sesame seeds
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and then you just throw it out in the in
the yard and maybe you'll grow some some more sesame seeds.
All right, that's cool, All right, Well, what's next? We
have here? Oh, here is a pin. Oh this is cool.
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It's like, you know, it's a metal pin. Like it's
in a blast in a plastic bag. So I'm not
sure it's metal and I don't have time to open
it here it might be. I think it's about yeah,
I'm it looks like a metal pin and it's a
black cat with a white skull on top of it.
All right, cool, all right? Next we have whoa, Here
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is a bracelet in a little baggy. And this bracelet
looks like, um, I don't know if it is hemat tight,
but it kind of looks like that. It's like a
bunch of little, uh, dark silver beads. And like I said,
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I don't I don't know exactly what it's made out of,
but it's it's it's got some weight to it, so
that's really nice. I think Lauren might like that. All right, cool,
a little bracelet there. Next we have a little box
inside what is this? Okay, So this is a box
that is um kind of like a box of matches.
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And there is a picture of a man on the
front and it says Kate in Satium setti and uh
there there is some writing on here I don't recognize. Okay,
I think this is incense. Let's see. You've got to
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cut it open here, gonna good knife here? Ah, come on, Yeah,
it definitely smells like incense. Um, and I think it's
gonna be oh god, see this is you know, people
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usually do these kinds of things like on YouTube or whatever.
But I'm the idiot. He's going on on a on
a podcast. Yep. Uh. This is a little box that
has those kind of little conge shaped uh instance things.
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So I guess that that's what I was smelling when
I said I smelled something that was similar to pajuli.
I'm not a big fan of that smell, by the way. Uh. Okay.
Next we have here a sucker. Oh man, okay, so
this sucker, uh, this is a sucker that has like
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a it's a chocolate sucker on a stick and the
the chocolate is shaped like, um, um, how do how
do I phrase this? It's it's well, I couldn't put
it on TV, and uh, it's it's it's kind of
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let me put it this way. It looks like a
man's best friend. That that sounded stupid. Also, all right, um,
what do we have next? There's like three more things
in here. The next thing we have is a stone
of some kind. All right, let me look at this
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under my light and this m I don't know exactly
what this stone is off the top of my head.
It kind of looks like a piece of flint or
something like that, but it is striated, it has it
has actually kind of the pinkish color, and then there
is sort of a gray stripe that runs around the
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middle of it. So I'm just not sure off the
top of my head what that is. But imagine like
a little chunk of flint that looks like that. Okay,
the next thing is a really cool die. You know
you always hear of dice, Well, if you only have one,
that's a die. So we have a die here, which
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is you know what people would use for role playing games.
And let's see how many sides have one, two, three,
four or five. Okay, so it's got ten faces on it.
That's gonna be really helpful for me because I'm always
doing you know, like experiments and stuff with gambling. And
the last thing I thought I knew what this was. Yep,
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oh boy. The last thing I have here is so
it's about four inches long. This is a bone, and
this is it's a very skinny arct bone, and it's
the kind of bone that certain male animals have in
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their most precious places. I guess I think you know
what I'm talking about. I know some people use them
as toothpicks. Well, that was pretty cool for twenty bucks.
I'm impressed. All Right, there you go, Mystery Bucks, the
Claucus Goddess. Here it is the good Fortune Tom. That's
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it for this edition of the show. Follow me on
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