June 9, 2023 • 50 mins
Josh is out this week but he wanted to make sure you heard one more time the story of how he was robbed in 2022 ON CHRISTMAS DAY! What a weird story this is!
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This is Strange Things with Joshua Warren. I am Joshua
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This is my first new recording of the year twenty
twenty three. This is January and last Christmas Day, December
twenty fifth of twenty twenty two, as Lauren and I
were sitting at home enjoying the festivities, talking about peace
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on earth and goodwill towards all and love and generosity
and all these wonderful things, somebody at the same time
was robbing my storeage unit. Talk about some granchy stuff,
Isn't that It's so sad. I'm going to tell you
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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 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, I'm fine,
Lauren's fine, everybody's okay. But it's just really unfortunate when
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something like this happens on Christmas Day. So we're going
to dig into all of that and a lot more.
But first, most of my holiday break, because you know,
I took off quite quite a while for the holidays,
had a lot of care up to do here at
my new house in Las Vegas. Most of my holiday
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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, the latter part of twenty
twenty two was taken up in large part by media
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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 I just recently realized that
that murder spree took place on November the thirteenth, and
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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 the thirteenth is the
anniversary of Asheville's largest mass murder killing spree, the Will
Harris murders, and those happened in nineteen oh six. So
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now there are at least in my world, two famous
kind of murder sprees that happened on November the thirteenth.
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,
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so before I 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 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
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and he invited me to go see a John Fogerty
concert with him at the Win and he had these
primo seats. Now, of course, John Fogerty he created basically,
you know, Credence Clearwater Revival CCR, and he more or
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less wrote and performed all those famous songs. And he
is 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 he's a lot older
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than I am. And Tom and I had such a
blast because one of the things that is impressive is
that you don't realize it until you sit there and
you listen to this guy perform 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
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guy had, and it's just kind of mind boggling to
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 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, they'll
tell a story about their lives that stands out in
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my mind, and I like to pass those stories along
to you. I did that recently with Wayne Newton and
so John Fogerty at one point he was standing there
on stage and he was pausing for a moment and
he said, you know, I played Woodstock. You know, he
was at Woodstock, and he was a lot of big
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events in the nineteen sixties. And as a matter of fact,
he said, Woodstock was just so muddy and rainy that
you know, he wrote one of his songs about the
wind will the rain end? I can't remember what the
song is called. He wrote a number of songs about rain.
But anyway, so he said that when he was there
on stage at Woodstock. You know, he was playing this
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favorite guitar of his and he used this guitar all
over the country, if not the world, for many many
years in his performances. And he said one day, he goes,
he didn't get into details, but he goes, I met
this like little boy who wanted to be a rock
star and he was trying to learn guitar and he
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didn't have a guitar. And he goes, I don't know,
I got overcome, and he said, I gave this kid
my prize guitar. You know, I just gifted it Tim
And he didn't say at that time. 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, the guitar he played
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at Woodstock he gave to some random kid. Now, I
bet you think the end of this story is going
to be like and that kid became Eddie Venner, right,
you know that would be a 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 so he always yeah, he was
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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 knew how much he loved that guitar, and
she'd spent all this time like tracking that thing down
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and bringing it back into his life. And 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 strange stories about synchronicity and the twist
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and turns the life takes and how things like that
can come 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.
And let me let me just tell you, if you've
never been to a John Fogerty concert, you get a
chance to do it, you should do it. But you're
not gonna hear anything in your head for like the
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next week or two. Except John Fogerty songs, It drives
you crazy. So that was awesome. Speaking of music, you
know I've talked. I had been calling him Jim Kalanna,
the composer, but it's Jim Cologna. He's from Italian descent,
Jim Colonna. He never corrected me. That's what a nice
guy he is. Jim Colonna. He is the guy who
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was so inspired by the work that I've done over
the years that he composed this work of music called
Joshua's Shop of Miracles and Curiosities, and it was performed
recently near Washington, d C. And it's a fantastic piece
of music. I played part of it for you on
this show not too long ago. And after all these
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years of corresponding with Jim, I'd never gotten to meet
him in person. He was in Las Vegas, and so
Laarne and I got together with him for an evening,
and boy did we hit it off. As soon as
we sat down and started to talking. Well, you know,
we embraced as soon as we met each other, and
then it was just like we were old friends. We'd
known each other forever. He's such a warm and just
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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,
you know, just talking about everything under the sun, exactly
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as if we were just old buddies. And if you
have not gotten a chance to hear this piece of
music that he composed, go to his website, Jim Cologne,
Jim Coloonna, Jim Colonna, Jim Coloonna Cologne, It's a time
Jim Cologna. It's j I am O l o n
A j I M c O l o n a
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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 piece he composed called Joshua's
Shop of Miracles and Curiosities. And then also we went
to Murray the Magician's party at his house. It was awesome.
He's got a beautiful, big, beautiful new house and property,
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and 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'd never been to before, and
then something really creepy that I found out about that
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Before I continue, 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 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
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one that he said he wrote when he got back
to his motel room after playing Woodstock. But anyway, let
me tell you about this trip that I took that
turned out to lead me down an interesting road of thought. So,
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being from the East Coast, growing up in the mountains
of western North Carolina, I was always used to Christmas
feeling very christmasy. You know, you've got trees everywhere and
snowfall and all kinds of kind of like European decorations
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everywhere seems like, you know, 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 fills Christmasy out here. And for one thing, you're
almost certainly not going to get any snow. But yeah,
the desert. And it's ironic because you know, well the
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whole Christmas story is based in the Middle East, so
so the desert is really a more Christmasy and like
an authentic Christmas environment than what we think of. Is
this whole like European Bavarian Saint Nicholas kind of you know.
But anyway, look, it's just about what you are exposed
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to when you grow up. So since we've lived here
in Vegas for several years, we always you know, if
we don't travel somewhere else, if we kind of stick
around here, we're like that 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
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could take to go somewhere that's a little more Christmas seat.
And if you drive a few hours 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
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to a place called Big Bear Lake. And Big Bear
Lake is named 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 disagreed. Nonetheless, it's really weird because, you know, to
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get there, and it takes you if you're going to
stop and get gas and eat, you know, it's like
a four hour drive from Las Vegas to Big Bear Lake.
And 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 Majave Desert and it's like
desert up until like the last forty five minutes, and
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all of a sudden, there's this dramatic change where you
just drive up this big, long, super steep winding road
up and all of a sudden there's there are forests
everywhere and streams, and there's the lake. And then finally
you get to the village and Big Bear Lake and
it looks like a little village in a snow globe
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and everything is all like rustic hunting lodge style and old,
like old old European and Bavarian, and it looks like
a little Christmas town. I used to tell people when
I first found it, it looks like a town in a
Hallmark movie. And then I got there and realized, like, oh,
they actually do shoot Hallmark movies on this town. And
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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 y place
that you're going to get to that's within a reasonable
period of driving from Las Vegas to my knowledge, Big
Bear Lake, California. And I'll tell you a little bit
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more about the lake in a minute. So we ended
up going there, had a great Christmas, like a couple
of days as always spent, but you know, we'd never
been there before. It's really small. We walked everywhere 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 drank a
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little too much of it. And then also it's just
like lots of just quirky, little little themed gift shops.
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 you are like, ah,
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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
is you get to say hah a little pansy to
people like me when I complain about it being thirteen.
Other than that, everything else about it probably sucks really bad.
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But anyhow, so it was a cool place to visit,
and all these celebrities have had houses there. But here
is kind of the creepy thing I wanted to share
with you. So I before 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,
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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 I can see why in retrospect. I
only found it because I was digging deep, like I
was going within like layers and a footnote level, and
I was like, okay, so, okay, here's a story. My wife,
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Lauren is probably the luckiest lady in the world, whether
she or realizes it or not, because 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
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wants to hear them or not. So I'm like having
your own living podcast there that's giving you, you know,
breaking news and stories. It's like it's like being married
to this podcast twenty four to seven. I'm always that's
you know, you're getting the real me minus the cursing.
And so so we get in the car and she's
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doing the driving, which is great because she's a much
better driver than I have ever been. And so we're
heading off to California and I go, okay, Lauren, listen
to this. So here's the story. In the early nineteen eighties,
Steven Spielberg was on a movie set and one of
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the young ladies who was acting 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, and the little sister's
like five years old, having lunch, and Spielberg sees this
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little kid, this five year old, and he's like, that
kid's got it, you know, talk about this is like
hitting the lot of when Steven Spielberg looks at you
and it was like, boom, you've got and he goes up
and he just like starts talking to him, and it
turns out this little girl is Heather o' rourke. And
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at this point Spielberg is looking to cast Poultergeist, which
of course is this super famous horror movie that came
out in nineteen eighty two, and in fact, they just
they just re released it this past October. You know,
it was an anniversary thing where Lauren and I went
and watched it on the big screen again, and yeah,
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it was a fun movie to watch again, but not
nearly as impressive as it was in you know, the
nineteen eighties. One thing that I always thought was interesting
about Poultergeist is you've got the special effects, but also
you have It was one of the earliest or one
of the first movies that showed like the modern day
esque paranormal investigators going in to do the job. And
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I'm sure you know, watching stuff like that probably inspired
and affected me. 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 turned in.
I'm sure Drew Barrymore's people were very upset, but then
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she went on to be an Et, which was a
much bigger, better role, so it worked out. Don't feel
sorry for Drew Barrymore on this one. So so, Heather
O'Rourke became famous as the little girl in the Poltergeist
movie who is just entranced by the television with a
static on it, and then of course he basically gets
kind of sucked into the TV and then they're trying
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to rescue her from this other dimension the whole time,
very eerie concept combining spirituality and electronics and all that stuff,
which was very very precient 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
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her family was relatively poor. They were from southern California.
And instantly they like, they signed her up for sequels
and it's just money like they they've never seen and
their family starts pouring in, and so this little five
year old becomes this cash cow. And once the money
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starts pouring in, well, the parents decide that, hey, it's
time to buy another house somewhere. I don't know if
it was a vacation home or if it was they
considered it 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
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little hallmark town, Big bear Lake, California. So they buy
this nice house there and she starts attending class there.
I think they said she was even like a class
president or something in when she was in the fifth grade.
I know, things seem to be going well for this family,
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but when we come back from this break, things take
a terrible twist, and it has to do with them
living in Big Barre Lake, I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're
listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast,
a paranormal podcast network, and I'll be right back after
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these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things on the
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iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal 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
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and 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, was named Daniel Pearl. And when I was
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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 the set
to you wherever. I got seated next to this guy
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and I didn't know who he was, and I started
chatting and it was Daniel Pearl. So 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's like six degrees of separation from
Kevin Bacon. But anyway, look back to the story. So
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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 she keeps pulling in money and
then finally she's like twelve years old and one day
she gets really sick. They don't know what's wrong with her,
and they started taking her in for all this testing,
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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 it led to her dying
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from some kind of septic shock that set in 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 that movie Poultrygeist. All
these different people who were involved with that movie had
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or many of these people had bad things that happened
to them, tragic endings. It's like the Curse of King Tid.
Documentaries have been made about it, but she is one
of the central figures there. So that was just an
eerie thing. And I wondered when I got to Big
Bear Lake if anybody would talk about it, and nobody
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did it 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 good things occurring throughout my Christmas season. Also,
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you know what, one thing about Big Bear Lake before
I continue into you know what happened with the robbery,
is that the Big Bear Lake, like so many other
of these bodies of water, is shrinking tremendously. And you
know how bad lake meat is getting here. And so
I told you that once it becomes the snowy season,
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I want all of us listening to this podcast to
start trying to manifest historic snowfall and the Rocky Mountains.
And I had doctor Molder on a while back and
talked to him about it. He he flexes his muscles
all the time by creating snowfall in places where it's
not supposed to snow, like the Middle East. You know,
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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 US.
And here is why you might just think, 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
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other reservoirs, and it's rainfall is not going to do it.
It's the vast majority of it is based upon snowfall
in the Rocky Mountains. If we don't have enough water
here in Lake Mead and the surrounding lakes, and that
means we have less vegetation, less vegetables, and that means
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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 they go
up for everybody all over the country. And when the
price is for everybody goes up in the country, when
we're already having this inflation period, it starts creating this
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chain reaction where everybody starts paying more for everything, the
whole economy gets worse. And obviously whatever's happening in the
US affects the economy dramatically and the rest of the world.
And so everybody in the world has an interest in
there being a major snowfall this winter in the Rocky Mountains.
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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 laws Fit, I have
storage units all over the country, but I have one
of my most prize possessions. I had some of my
most prize possessions and two storage units here in Las Vegas.
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So last year I bought this new house, which I'm
still getting in order. I've accomplished about fifty percent of
what I intended to over the Christmas break, but still
fifty fifty percent. So I had two storage units here
with a bunch of goodies from my museums. Actually, well
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it's I could say museum, but I have owned different
incarnations of the museum. So we're talking like Crystal Skull,
UFO crash stuff, stuff from Transylvania, signed artifacts, I mean,
just all kinds of really interesting things. And so I
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had them in two storage units where they have been
for five years without any problems. But when I got
this new house, Laaren and I moved to the other
side of town, which is like thirty minutes away. So
I decided it was time to consolidate what I had
in those other two storage units where we used to
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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 the other side
of town. And then Laaren and I got together with
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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 that I have plans
for to put back on display. And here's one of
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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 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
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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 other customers.
It was kind of like early on a weekday. And
the first odd thing that happened was when we went
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up to our storage unit and we were first looking
at it, out of this whole place, a woman 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. Of
this whole place, we just got this storage unit, and
you just happened to have this storage unit next to ours,
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And we were like, what a coincidence. And so we're
kind of laughing and having a little friendly banter. But
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, we get together with Jason.
We were in a U haul and we consolidated everything.
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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 the storage
unit and lo and behold, guess who appears this woman
who has the storage unit right beside ours. And we're like,
what are the chances of that? And she goes, the
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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
I'm like, are you with the CIA? You know? And
I started just like joking around with this woman. We
peek into her storage unit. She has a giant telescope
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in there and some pretty interesting things, and so I say, well,
I guess we're friends now, you know. 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 ended 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,
maybe you need to come out and do Nfara skywatches
or something, you know, vegasufos dot com. So anyway, we
left that whole situation after transferring everything into the new
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storage unit, and and I was having this conversation with
Lauren and Jason like isn't that amazing? Like what again,
Like that's just it. It's almost like that coming on
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 weird
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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 going
to go by too fast. When we come back from
this break, I'm going to tell you this story and
then it's going to be the end of the show.
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I'm gonna squeeze in something about the Blue Bunny. Also
I'm Joshua Pete Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on
the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast. I am Pariinormal Podcast Network.
I will be here right back. Welcome back to the
(38:26):
final segment of this edition of Strange Things on the
iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast. I am pamer Normal Podcast Network.
I am your host, Joshua P. Warren, and I have
so many cool, interesting, wild shows lined up for you
over the next few weeks months. I mean, I've been
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You wouldn't believe the list of things that I have
to share with you. But anyway, everything was going well
for Lauren to myself up until right around like that
week leading up to Christmas of twenty twenty two, and
all of a sudden, like both of us started having
health problems. I know, a lot of people around the
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world were having sicknesses, and you know, it's like my
sister was sick in Ashville, and then we were having
problems here, and my poor old mom and dad for
the first time ever had to have Christmas with that
either one of their kids present. And then of course,
you know, the weather was terrible in many places and
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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 of twenty
twenty two. So anyway, but you know, again, we're fine
now in terms of all that stuff, but so here
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we go. It's like, I think the day after Christmas,
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,
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and they said, well, there's been a break in, and
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.
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We went over to our unit, which was on one
of the higher floors, and we thought, how weird that
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 going to be okay. We
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opened the lock, We slide up door and all of
our boxes are in disarray, and I go, oh, oh,
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 drone because that is where I kept
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my one and only drone that I owned. And I'm
looking around and I couldn't find any evidence. I mean,
like they shuffled stuff around, but 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,
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I don't know, but somebody obviously had to have got
in here, and from what I could tell, they just
stole my drone. So the next day we went back
over there and we went with one of the employees
and I said, is it possible that somebody could have
gotten in here without opening that door? I mean, it
has to be. And it turns out in these internal
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storage units there's a little opening. It's not much, It's
only probably like a foot wide at the very top
of the door. You'd have to be really slim to
get up there. And slip through that.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Well.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
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 not break the
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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 fortunately nothing
else was missing, just in dis right. And let me
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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 Las Vegas and
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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 was pretty darned interesting
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that the only thing that was taken was that drone
and 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 conspiratorial side of me says, is
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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,
buy a piece of property not far from Area fifty
one in Rachel, Nevada. And I have never attempted to
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take that drone out there, 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 it was really interesting that of all the
things that were taken, it was my drone. So that
put a really soured amper on things. But you know what,
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here's the good part of that. I wrote about this
in my book. Used the force sometimes when something happens,
it seems bad, and retrospect you look back and it
was 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
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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 it out. And I'm not going to 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
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you are, you know you're gonna have bad luck and
weird bad things that happened to you. I wrote about
my book Used the Force, which you can actually read
for free right now if you go to Joshua Warren
dot com and just click the link to the book cover.
I wrote about the fact that you know, when you
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align yourself with goodness, you're actually polarizing yourself and in
doing that, you're becoming a target for bad stuff as well.
So you have to expect some bad things to happen
in your life because you're becoming like the North or
the south pole of the magnet, and you're attracting the
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other pole. And so this actually is an inspirational story
because I feel like that 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
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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 cared about and put it in
a more secure location. And so that's why I say, look,
it was it was bad, but it actually turned out
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to be inspirational. And I will tell you this though,
and I had so much more than 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 to I'm not a whistleblower.
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But in episode seventy two of this podcast, I talked
about the 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
(47:59):
of this thing. And if you want to see this illustration,
I have it posted right now for you. Go to
joshuapwarren 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
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you want to see what he said it looks like,
go to Joshua pewarren dot com Curiosity Shop, scroll 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
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This is my first new recording of the year twenty
twenty three. This is January and last Christmas Day, December
twenty fifth of twenty twenty two, as Lauren and I
were sitting at home enjoying the festivities, talking about peace
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on earth and goodwill towards all and love and generosity
and all these wonderful things, somebody at the same time
was robbing my storeage unit. Talk about some granchy stuff,
Isn't that It's so sad. I'm going to tell you
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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 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, I'm fine,
Lauren's fine, everybody's okay. But it's just really unfortunate when
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something like this happens on Christmas Day. So we're going
to dig into all of that and a lot more.
But first, most of my holiday break, because you know,
I took off quite quite a while for the holidays,
had a lot of care up to do here at
my new house in Las Vegas. Most of my holiday
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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, the latter part of twenty
twenty two was taken up in large part by media
(03:28):
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 I just recently realized that
that murder spree took place on November the thirteenth, and
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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 the thirteenth is the
anniversary of Asheville's largest mass murder killing spree, the Will
Harris murders, and those happened in nineteen oh six. So
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now there are at least in my world, two famous
kind of murder sprees that happened on November the thirteenth.
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,
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so before I 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 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
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and he invited me to go see a John Fogerty
concert with him at the Win and he had these
primo seats. Now, of course, John Fogerty he created basically,
you know, Credence Clearwater Revival CCR, and he more or
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less wrote and performed all those famous songs. And he
is 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 he's a lot older
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than I am. And Tom and I had such a
blast because one of the things that is impressive is
that you don't realize it until you sit there and
you listen to this guy perform 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
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guy had, and it's just kind of mind boggling to
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 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, they'll
tell a story about their lives that stands out in
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my mind, and I like to pass those stories along
to you. I did that recently with Wayne Newton and
so John Fogerty at one point he was standing there
on stage and he was pausing for a moment and
he said, you know, I played Woodstock. You know, he
was at Woodstock, and he was a lot of big
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events in the nineteen sixties. And as a matter of fact,
he said, Woodstock was just so muddy and rainy that
you know, he wrote one of his songs about the
wind will the rain end? I can't remember what the
song is called. He wrote a number of songs about rain.
But anyway, so he said that when he was there
on stage at Woodstock. You know, he was playing this
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favorite guitar of his and he used this guitar all
over the country, if not the world, for many many
years in his performances. And he said one day, he goes,
he didn't get into details, but he goes, I met
this like little boy who wanted to be a rock
star and he was trying to learn guitar and he
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didn't have a guitar. And he goes, I don't know,
I got overcome, and he said, I gave this kid
my prize guitar. You know, I just gifted it Tim
And he didn't say at that time. 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, the guitar he played
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at Woodstock he gave to some random kid. Now, I
bet you think the end of this story is going
to be like and that kid became Eddie Venner, right,
you know that would be a 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 so he always yeah, he was
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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 knew how much he loved that guitar, and
she'd spent all this time like tracking that thing down
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and bringing it back into his life. And 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 strange stories about synchronicity and the twist
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and turns the life takes and how things like that
can come 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.
And let me let me just tell you, if you've
never been to a John Fogerty concert, you get a
chance to do it, you should do it. But you're
not gonna hear anything in your head for like the
(09:20):
next week or two. Except John Fogerty songs, It drives
you crazy. So that was awesome. Speaking of music, you
know I've talked. I had been calling him Jim Kalanna,
the composer, but it's Jim Cologna. He's from Italian descent,
Jim Colonna. He never corrected me. That's what a nice
guy he is. Jim Colonna. He is the guy who
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was so inspired by the work that I've done over
the years that he composed this work of music called
Joshua's Shop of Miracles and Curiosities, and it was performed
recently near Washington, d C. And it's a fantastic piece
of music. I played part of it for you on
this show not too long ago. And after all these
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years of corresponding with Jim, I'd never gotten to meet
him in person. He was in Las Vegas, and so
Laarne and I got together with him for an evening,
and boy did we hit it off. As soon as
we sat down and started to talking. Well, you know,
we embraced as soon as we met each other, and
then it was just like we were old friends. We'd
known each other forever. He's such a warm and just
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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,
you know, just talking about everything under the sun, exactly
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as if we were just old buddies. And if you
have not gotten a chance to hear this piece of
music that he composed, go to his website, Jim Cologne,
Jim Coloonna, Jim Colonna, Jim Coloonna Cologne, It's a time
Jim Cologna. It's j I am O l o n
A j I M c O l o n a
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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 piece he composed called Joshua's
Shop of Miracles and Curiosities. And then also we went
to Murray the Magician's party at his house. It was awesome.
He's got a beautiful, big, beautiful new house and property,
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and 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'd never been to before, and
then something really creepy that I found out about that
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Before I continue, 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 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
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one that he said he wrote when he got back
to his motel room after playing Woodstock. But anyway, let
me tell you about this trip that I took that
turned out to lead me down an interesting road of thought. So,
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being from the East Coast, growing up in the mountains
of western North Carolina, I was always used to Christmas
feeling very christmasy. You know, you've got trees everywhere and
snowfall and all kinds of kind of like European decorations
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everywhere seems like, you know, 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 fills Christmasy out here. And for one thing, you're
almost certainly not going to get any snow. But yeah,
the desert. And it's ironic because you know, well the
(15:38):
whole Christmas story is based in the Middle East, so
so the desert is really a more Christmasy and like
an authentic Christmas environment than what we think of. Is
this whole like European Bavarian Saint Nicholas kind of you know.
But anyway, look, it's just about what you are exposed
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to when you grow up. So since we've lived here
in Vegas for several years, we always you know, if
we don't travel somewhere else, if we kind of stick
around here, we're like that 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
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could take to go somewhere that's a little more Christmas seat.
And if you drive a few hours 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
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to a place called Big Bear Lake. And Big Bear
Lake is named 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 disagreed. Nonetheless, it's really weird because, you know, to
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get there, and it takes you if you're going to
stop and get gas and eat, you know, it's like
a four hour drive from Las Vegas to Big Bear Lake.
And 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 Majave Desert and it's like
desert up until like the last forty five minutes, and
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all of a sudden, there's this dramatic change where you
just drive up this big, long, super steep winding road
up and all of a sudden there's there are forests
everywhere and streams, and there's the lake. And then finally
you get to the village and Big Bear Lake and
it looks like a little village in a snow globe
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and everything is all like rustic hunting lodge style and old,
like old old European and Bavarian, and it looks like
a little Christmas town. I used to tell people when
I first found it, it looks like a town in a
Hallmark movie. And then I got there and realized, like, oh,
they actually do shoot Hallmark movies on this town. And
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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 y place
that you're going to get to that's within a reasonable
period of driving from Las Vegas to my knowledge, Big
Bear Lake, California. And I'll tell you a little bit
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more about the lake in a minute. So we ended
up going there, had a great Christmas, like a couple
of days as always spent, but you know, we'd never
been there before. It's really small. We walked everywhere 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 drank a
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little too much of it. And then also it's just
like lots of just quirky, little little themed gift shops.
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 you are like, ah,
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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
is you get to say hah a little pansy to
people like me when I complain about it being thirteen.
Other than that, everything else about it probably sucks really bad.
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But anyhow, so it was a cool place to visit,
and all these celebrities have had houses there. But here
is kind of the creepy thing I wanted to share
with you. So I before 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,
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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 I can see why in retrospect. I
only found it because I was digging deep, like I
was going within like layers and a footnote level, and
I was like, okay, so, okay, here's a story. My wife,
(20:18):
Lauren is probably the luckiest lady in the world, whether
she or realizes it or not, because 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
(20:41):
wants to hear them or not. So I'm like having
your own living podcast there that's giving you, you know,
breaking news and stories. It's like it's like being married
to this podcast twenty four to seven. I'm always that's
you know, you're getting the real me minus the cursing.
And so so we get in the car and she's
(21:05):
doing the driving, which is great because she's a much
better driver than I have ever been. And so we're
heading off to California and I go, okay, Lauren, listen
to this. So here's the story. In the early nineteen eighties,
Steven Spielberg was on a movie set and one of
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the young ladies who was acting 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, and the little sister's
like five years old, having lunch, and Spielberg sees this
(21:53):
little kid, this five year old, and he's like, that
kid's got it, you know, talk about this is like
hitting the lot of when Steven Spielberg looks at you
and it was like, boom, you've got and he goes up
and he just like starts talking to him, and it
turns out this little girl is Heather o' rourke. And
(22:13):
at this point Spielberg is looking to cast Poultergeist, which
of course is this super famous horror movie that came
out in nineteen eighty two, and in fact, they just
they just re released it this past October. You know,
it was an anniversary thing where Lauren and I went
and watched it on the big screen again, and yeah,
(22:34):
it was a fun movie to watch again, but not
nearly as impressive as it was in you know, the
nineteen eighties. One thing that I always thought was interesting
about Poultergeist is you've got the special effects, but also
you have It was one of the earliest or one
of the first movies that showed like the modern day
esque paranormal investigators going in to do the job. And
(22:55):
I'm sure you know, watching stuff like that probably inspired
and affected me. 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 turned in.
I'm sure Drew Barrymore's people were very upset, but then
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she went on to be an Et, which was a
much bigger, better role, so it worked out. Don't feel
sorry for Drew Barrymore on this one. So so, Heather
O'Rourke became famous as the little girl in the Poltergeist
movie who is just entranced by the television with a
static on it, and then of course he basically gets
kind of sucked into the TV and then they're trying
(23:36):
to rescue her from this other dimension the whole time,
very eerie concept combining spirituality and electronics and all that stuff,
which was very very precient 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
(23:59):
her family was relatively poor. They were from southern California.
And instantly they like, they signed her up for sequels
and it's just money like they they've never seen and
their family starts pouring in, and so this little five
year old becomes this cash cow. And once the money
(24:20):
starts pouring in, well, the parents decide that, hey, it's
time to buy another house somewhere. I don't know if
it was a vacation home or if it was they
considered it 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
(24:41):
little hallmark town, Big bear Lake, California. So they buy
this nice house there and she starts attending class there.
I think they said she was even like a class
president or something in when she was in the fifth grade.
I know, things seem to be going well for this family,
(25:03):
but when we come back from this break, things take
a terrible twist, and it has to do with them
living in Big Barre Lake, I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're
listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast,
a paranormal podcast network, and I'll be right back after
(25:26):
these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things on the
(26:03):
iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal 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
(26:24):
and 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, was named Daniel Pearl. And when I was
(26:49):
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 the set
to you wherever. I got seated next to this guy
(27:11):
and I didn't know who he was, and I started
chatting and it was Daniel Pearl. So 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's like six degrees of separation from
Kevin Bacon. But anyway, look back to the story. So
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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 she keeps pulling in money and
then finally she's like twelve years old and one day
she gets really sick. They don't know what's wrong with her,
and they started taking her in for all this testing,
(27:53):
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 it led to her dying
(28:18):
from some kind of septic shock that set in 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 that movie Poultrygeist. All
these different people who were involved with that movie had
(28:41):
or many of these people had bad things that happened
to them, tragic endings. It's like the Curse of King Tid.
Documentaries have been made about it, but she is one
of the central figures there. So that was just an
eerie thing. And I wondered when I got to Big
Bear Lake if anybody would talk about it, and nobody
(29:03):
did it 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 good things occurring throughout my Christmas season. Also,
(29:28):
you know what, one thing about Big Bear Lake before
I continue into you know what happened with the robbery,
is that the Big Bear Lake, like so many other
of these bodies of water, is shrinking tremendously. And you
know how bad lake meat is getting here. And so
I told you that once it becomes the snowy season,
(29:51):
I want all of us listening to this podcast to
start trying to manifest historic snowfall and the Rocky Mountains.
And I had doctor Molder on a while back and
talked to him about it. He he flexes his muscles
all the time by creating snowfall in places where it's
not supposed to snow, like the Middle East. You know,
(30:13):
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 US.
And here is why you might just think, 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
(30:36):
other reservoirs, and it's rainfall is not going to do it.
It's the vast majority of it is based upon snowfall
in the Rocky Mountains. If we don't have enough water
here in Lake Mead and the surrounding lakes, and that
means we have less vegetation, less vegetables, and that means
(31:01):
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 they go
up for everybody all over the country. And when the
price is for everybody goes up in the country, when
we're already having this inflation period, it starts creating this
(31:23):
chain reaction where everybody starts paying more for everything, the
whole economy gets worse. And obviously whatever's happening in the
US affects the economy dramatically and the rest of the world.
And so everybody in the world has an interest in
there being a major snowfall this winter in the Rocky Mountains.
(31:45):
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 laws Fit, I have
storage units all over the country, but I have one
of my most prize possessions. I had some of my
most prize possessions and two storage units here in Las Vegas.
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So last year I bought this new house, which I'm
still getting in order. I've accomplished about fifty percent of
what I intended to over the Christmas break, but still
fifty fifty percent. So I had two storage units here
with a bunch of goodies from my museums. Actually, well
(32:29):
it's I could say museum, but I have owned different
incarnations of the museum. So we're talking like Crystal Skull,
UFO crash stuff, stuff from Transylvania, signed artifacts, I mean,
just all kinds of really interesting things. And so I
(32:51):
had them in two storage units where they have been
for five years without any problems. But when I got
this new house, Laaren and I moved to the other
side of town, which is like thirty minutes away. So
I decided it was time to consolidate what I had
in those other two storage units where we used to
(33:14):
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 the other side
of town. And then Laaren and I got together with
(33:36):
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 that I have plans
for to put back on display. And here's one of
(33:58):
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 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
(34:21):
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 other customers.
It was kind of like early on a weekday. And
the first odd thing that happened was when we went
(34:42):
up to our storage unit and we were first looking
at it, out of this whole place, a woman 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. Of
this whole place, we just got this storage unit, and
you just happened to have this storage unit next to ours,
(35:04):
And we were like, what a coincidence. And so we're
kind of laughing and having a little friendly banter. But
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, we get together with Jason.
We were in a U haul and we consolidated everything.
(35:27):
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 the storage
unit and lo and behold, guess who appears this woman
who has the storage unit right beside ours. And we're like,
what are the chances of that? And she goes, the
(35:49):
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
I'm like, are you with the CIA? You know? And
I started just like joking around with this woman. We
peek into her storage unit. She has a giant telescope
(36:09):
in there and some pretty interesting things, and so I say, well,
I guess we're friends now, you know. 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 ended 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,
maybe you need to come out and do Nfara skywatches
or something, you know, vegasufos dot com. So anyway, we
left that whole situation after transferring everything into the new
(36:50):
storage unit, and and I was having this conversation with
Lauren and Jason like isn't that amazing? Like what again,
Like that's just it. It's almost like that coming on
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 weird
(37:13):
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 going
to go by too fast. When we come back from
this break, I'm going to tell you this story and
then it's going to be the end of the show.
(37:35):
I'm gonna squeeze in something about the Blue Bunny. Also
I'm Joshua Pete Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on
the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast. I am Pariinormal Podcast Network.
I will be here right back. Welcome back to the
(38:26):
final segment of this edition of Strange Things on the
iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast. I am pamer Normal Podcast Network.
I am your host, Joshua P. Warren, and I have
so many cool, interesting, wild shows lined up for you
over the next few weeks months. I mean, I've been
(38:50):
You wouldn't believe the list of things that I have
to share with you. But anyway, everything was going well
for Lauren to myself up until right around like that
week leading up to Christmas of twenty twenty two, and
all of a sudden, like both of us started having
health problems. I know, a lot of people around the
(39:12):
world were having sicknesses, and you know, it's like my
sister was sick in Ashville, and then we were having
problems here, and my poor old mom and dad for
the first time ever had to have Christmas with that
either one of their kids present. And then of course,
you know, the weather was terrible in many places and
(39:35):
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 of twenty
twenty two. So anyway, but you know, again, we're fine
now in terms of all that stuff, but so here
(39:55):
we go. It's like, I think the day after Christmas,
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,
(40:16):
and they said, well, there's been a break in, and
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.
(40:36):
We went over to our unit, which was on one
of the higher floors, and we thought, how weird that
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 going to be okay. We
(40:58):
opened the lock, We slide up door and all of
our boxes are in disarray, and I go, oh, oh,
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 drone because that is where I kept
(41:20):
my one and only drone that I owned. And I'm
looking around and I couldn't find any evidence. I mean,
like they shuffled stuff around, but 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,
(41:41):
I don't know, but somebody obviously had to have got
in here, and from what I could tell, they just
stole my drone. So the next day we went back
over there and we went with one of the employees
and I said, is it possible that somebody could have
gotten in here without opening that door? I mean, it
has to be. And it turns out in these internal
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storage units there's a little opening. It's not much, It's
only probably like a foot wide at the very top
of the door. You'd have to be really slim to
get up there. And slip through that.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Well.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
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 not break the
(42:42):
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 fortunately nothing
else was missing, just in dis right. And let me
(43:02):
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 Las Vegas and
(43:24):
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 was pretty darned interesting
(43:49):
that the only thing that was taken was that drone
and 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 conspiratorial side of me says, is
(44:12):
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,
buy a piece of property not far from Area fifty
one in Rachel, Nevada. And I have never attempted to
(44:38):
take that drone out there, 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 it was really interesting that of all the
things that were taken, it was my drone. So that
put a really soured amper on things. But you know what,
(45:03):
here's the good part of that. I wrote about this
in my book. Used the force sometimes when something happens,
it seems bad, and retrospect you look back and it
was 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
(45:23):
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 it out. And I'm not going to 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
(45:47):
you are, you know you're gonna have bad luck and
weird bad things that happened to you. I wrote about
my book Used the Force, which you can actually read
for free right now if you go to Joshua Warren
dot com and just click the link to the book cover.
I wrote about the fact that you know, when you
(46:09):
align yourself with goodness, you're actually polarizing yourself and in
doing that, you're becoming a target for bad stuff as well.
So you have to expect some bad things to happen
in your life because you're becoming like the North or
the south pole of the magnet, and you're attracting the
(46:30):
other pole. And so this actually is an inspirational story
because I feel like that 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
(46:51):
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 cared about and put it in
a more secure location. And so that's why I say, look,
it was it was bad, but it actually turned out
(47:16):
to be inspirational. And I will tell you this though,
and I had so much more than 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 to I'm not a whistleblower.
(47:38):
But in episode seventy two of this podcast, I talked
about the 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
(47:59):
of this thing. And if you want to see this illustration,
I have it posted right now for you. Go to
joshuapwarren 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
(48:21):
you want to see what he said it looks like,
go to Joshua pewarren dot com Curiosity Shop, scroll 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
(48:42):
time for us all to listen to the Good Fortune
Tone together. Okay, let's set that stage. Take a deep breath,
if you can, close your eyes, relax, resonate with this
the good Fortune Tone. That's it for this edition of
(49:23):
the show. Follow me on Twitter at Joshua p Warren.
Plus visit joshuapwarren dot com to sign up for my
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always remember the Golden Rule. Thank you for listening, thank
you for your interest and support, Thank you for staying curious,
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