Episode 283: Apotheosis, Brothers Grimm & Mother Goose!

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You guys ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird.
This is Strange with Warren. I am Joshua Warren. At
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can do at home, and a lot more. On this
edition of the show Apotheosis you know what that is.
Plus the brother is Grim and mother Goose. How does
it all tie together? We'll see. And by the way, I,

(01:42):
if I have time, I might just go ahead and
debut a new short segment on this particular episode. I
like to keep things positive, as you probably know, However,
it might be nice to get a little steam off
once in a while, so I think I might entroduce
there's a new segment called things that Suck. But let's

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go with apotheosis, shall we. When I was a kid,
my family took us on our first family vacation to Washington, DC,
the capital of the USA, And since then I've been
back many times throughout my life. But it was certainly

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an impressive introduction to our nation's capital, and a lot
stood out in my mind, but one thing that definitely
stood out was our trip to the Capitol Building. And
when you go to the US Capitol Building there in DC,

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you walk at one point underneath the big dome in
the rotunda, and if you crane your neck back and
you look straight up, you see a glorious painting way
up there, a fresco. It's one hundred and eighty feet

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above the rotunda floor that's fifty five meters, and the
figures that are painted are up to fifteen feet tall
that is four point six meters, so they're very visible
from the floor far below. This dome was completed in
eighteen sixty three by a Greek Italian artist named Constantino

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Brumidi and The thing that's sort of astounding about it
is that, well, by the way, this is always kind
of interesting. He was paid forty thousand dollars to do
this job. And let's see, that would be eight hundred
and forty one thousand, three hundred four in today's money.

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But this guy had this artist he had worked for
three years in the Vatican, he had served several aristocrats
as an artist for palaces and phyllis, and he had,
you know, quite obviously an amazing background, which is why
he got hired to do this. But here's what you see.
If you've never actually looked into this or been to

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DC or whatever. This painting depicts George Washington, and he's
sitting there among the heavens swirling all around him in
an exalted manner, more or less becoming a godlike being. Now,

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of course, George Washington was the first US President and
commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American
Revolutionary War. So when you look up, he is sitting
there draped in purple, which was worn by generals of
the ancient Roman Republic when during their triumphs. There's a

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sort of a rainbow arch at his feet, and he's
flanked by goddesses and gods and various figures from class
school mythology. I won't go into all the little details
because you know, it would take me a lot of
time to do that. And you can go and look

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this up for yourself if you're interested. But he's sitting
up there looking very much like a you know, sort
of a godlike being. I'm actually looking at a close
up of it right now, and yeah, it's impressive. This
is called this painting. It's called the Apotheosis of Washington.

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And as I stood there staring at this and thinking
about it, and I've always been a big fan of
American history, fascinated by all of it, I actually have
a I guess it's a death mask. Maybe it's a
life mask. I don't recall if it's a life mask
or a death mask of George Washington hanging on one

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of my walls. And I had never heard this word
apotheosis before. That was the very first time. Do you
know what apotheosis means? Well, Apotheosis refers to the highest
point of development culmination, perfect example, the elevation of a

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person to divine status or deification. So what we're talking
about here is the glorification of a subject to divine
levels and the treatment of a human being or any
other living thing, or an abstract idea in the likeness

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of a deity, and it's been used in art pretty
much since the beginning of time. A lot of religions
actually have this kind of imagery being used. Not surprisingly
in religion, apotheosis is a feature of these religions that

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believe that there's a possibility of newly created gods, a
polytheistic belief system, and of course, you know, the Abrahamic
religions of Islam and Judaism don't allow for this, though
many recognized minor sacred categories such as saints in Christian
theology as being somewhat like that. Through canonization, you find

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it in all kinds of other you know, various forms
in religion, Hinduism. But yeah, it shows up a lot
in art, and so again, without digging too deeply into
examples of this, I think you kind of get the idea.
It's fascinating to me because what we're really talking about

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here is this question about whether or not, if whether
or not it is possible, but for a human being,
because that's just what George Washington was a human being
to become some kind of a divine like being, and

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you know, it's I've always thought that maybe this is
why we have this happening with our modern day superheroes,
because like, for example, one of my favorite movies is
called Watchmen. Let's see what year did that come out?
That came out in two thousand and nine. It's based

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on a comic book. Actually I guess it's more like
a graphic novel. But anyway, so in this story, this
epic story, there is a scientist, he's a human physicist
or a lab technician of some kind, and he gets
trapped in a chamber and hit with an amazing amount

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of radiation and it basically it destroys his body and
then reassembles it with all these blue lightning bolts and sparks,
and after that, he gradually starts to appear around the property.
He appears first as sort of like a circulatory system,

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and then he appears like a few days later with muscles,
and then and then eventually he ends up being this huge, majestic,
glowing blue guy who is an example of perfection with
amazing blue body parts. And he has called Doctor Manhattan.

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And so doctor Manhattan is now he has basically got
the power to do whatever he wants, and it's kind
of fascinating to see how that even though he has
this power, he still has a lot of sort of
like petty human like emotions and feelings. And he finally
just gets fed up with humans altogether and decides to

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teleport himself to Mars where he can live all by
himself on this planet. That would be an example of apotheosis.
I guess you could say that. I mean, I don't
think that Superman would necessarily be a potheosis, because that
Superman he was already born with these powers. But maybe
you have like Green Lantern, he was a regular man

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who obtained this magical green ring that gave him certain powers,
not absolute power, or like maybe the Flash. I think
there's a story where the Flash he turns into a
divine sort of being who has these godlike powers. Wolverine

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and the X Men series and all that. Wolverine he
was already born with some freakish abilities, but he was
put into a laboratory treated with this special process where
they put this metal I think it was called adamantium
or something on him and turned him into a much
more superior being. You have examples of this, and maybe

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I'm not doing the best job of digging into it,
but I started thinking about this, Is there any way
that apotheosis is a literal thing? Can it be a
literal thing? And then I started really letting my mind
soar and it led me to the theory of art

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and artists. And you'll see how that ties into well,
things that we all find kind of interesting. I imagine
things like the Bread's grim and mother Goose, who do
you think was around first? Well, I'll tie all this
together somehow, I always do. I think, Hey, listen, it's

(12:10):
that time of year. I'm doing spring cleaning, and I
have a collection of crazy, amazing things like you would
not believe, and I'm going to be selling some of
them off that are already some of them should already
be selling by the time you hear this, And I
mean stuff from my storage units. I hate to let
them go, but I need the space. Go to Joshua

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And I will be right back. Welcome back to Strange

(13:29):
Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal
Podcast Network. I am your host, the Wizard of Weird,
Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain from my
studio and sensity, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is
golden and every night is silver. Giitato zoom a. I'm

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a little stuffy. I should have taken my allergy pill
before this show. You know the Greek word, well, the
word apotheosis. It comes from a Greek word that means
to deify or make a god. And I was thinking

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about that, and it's really interesting because soon there is
a major motion picture coming out called The Odyssey by
Christopher Nolan, and it is based on an epic poem
that was written by an ancient Greek writer named Homer,

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and Homer wrote that about twenty seven hundred to twenty
eight hundred years ago, and think about the idea that
there was some guy had not a not a superhero,
a not a superhuman, just a man who could write,

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who wrote this story twenty seven hundred, twenty eight hundred
years ago, and it has been passed along all this
time to now be a major motion picture in this era.
Does that seem like maybe a form of apotheosis that

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I don't know, if somebody liked even as great as
George Washington could literally be elevated up and then transform
into a divine being and he and even if he
could be he and he probably wouldn't be like a
human anymore. Who knows what he would be like. But
it's uh so, it's kind of paradoxical to think about

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it that way. But if you look at it more realistically,
humans do create art that can live on insane amounts
of time and affect the world in profound ways. I mean,
just look for example, at say the old composers like

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Beethoven or Mozart. They would be totally forgotten if they
weren't great composers, and yet today we listen to their
music all the time. And I believe it was Beethoven
that said the point of music is to put the
listener into the mind of the composer. Do you see

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what I mean? It almost seems like that whatever your
form of art is, if you are a successful artist,
that maybe that is a way in which apotheosis can
actually exist. It's some form of war. And I mean,
think about things that have influenced most of you listening

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to the show right now, like, for example, the stories
and the rhymes from Mother Goose or the Brother's Grim. Now,
I'm assuming that just about everybody has heard at least
one story from these old collections of stories the Mother
Goose tells and the brothers Grim. But what do you

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think came first? Who was first Mother Goose or Brother's Grim?
I bet most people have no idea. Well, it was
by far Mother Goose. Mother Goose is this She's a
fictional character. She's a mythical, archetypal figure behind traditional English

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nursery rhymes and fairy tales, often depicted as an elderly
woman or some kind of a bird, like an anthropomorphized bird.
And that she has you know, she originated as a
folk tale figure. But the first person to really write

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down the Mother Goose tales was a French author named
Charles Perrault, and he published the Mother Goose Tales. Let's
see they believe those tales go back to Oh my gosh,
it's something something crazy, the sixteen hundreds. Let's she what executing?

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What year was Mother Goose published? I know I looked
this up, but you know, I have too many facts
in front of me. So it was first published in
sixteen ninety seven by this French author, and I believe
he didn't even start writing this kind of stuff until

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he was in his sixties. Interesting story behind that guy,
But I don't have time to tell everybody's everybody's story,
you know, to me in a podcast. One of the
cool things is I can just sort of like plant
ideas in your head, and if you find something that's
interesting to you, well, now you can just jump on
the internet and do your own research. Brothers Grim did

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not start publishing until the eighteen hundreds. And I'll see
Mother Goose was again a fictional character, and so Mother
Goose she was telling stories all the time to kids

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and nursery rhymes, and so the Brother's Grim they came
along and let's see they started publishing these Grims. Tells
I think the they published their first tales and oh gosh, again,

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let's see, I get when were the first Brothers Grim
tales published? So why don't you just love being able
to look up random stuff like that? Oh my goodness,
it says eighteen twelve, eighteen twelve. So it was a
long time afterward. And you know the brothers Grim, they

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were they're fascinating guys, Jacob and Wilhem. They were German academics,
cultural researchers, and when they started publishing their tales in
eighteen twelve, they were just trying to preserve a lot
of German oral traditions. The many tales were of broader
European origin. And what I didn't realize also when I

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started looking into this, is that a lot of the
stories that were mother Goose tells were actually used pretty
directly by the Brothers Grim, but the Brothers Grim would
do a different version of it. So like, for example,

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in the classic fairy tells the mother Goose stories, we
have story of Cinderella, we have Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,
we have Little Red riding Hood, we have Puss and Boots.
And the Brothers Grim also wrote their own versions of

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these types of stories as well. They did their versions
of those same things of Cinderella of Little Red riding Hood.
But you know, again there are different is like, in
one version the story ends with the wolf eating the girl.

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In another version the huntsman saves everybody, and so you
just don't know exactly how it's going to end. But
what you find is that, you know, the Brothers Grim,
they had more of more of a tendency to retell
those Mother Goose stories with you know, a darker spin.

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I mean, some of the the stories that are unique
to the Brothers Grim were Rumpelstiltskin, that's a creepy one,
the musicians of Bremen, the Frog King. So the Brothers Grim,
they didn't really do nursery rhymes at all. And you know,

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here's one of my favorite Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Let
me see here. I'll give you some examples of Mother
Goose nursery rhymes, because I doubt you've ever heard of
this one, and for some reason I remember it. So
some of her famous rhymes. Uh, let's see Humpty Dumpty,

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hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle Hickory dickery
doc by Bob black sheep. Jack and Jill went up
the hill little bo peep Mary Mary. Quite contrary, twinkled, twinkle,
little star. But have you heard this one? It's called

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Robin the bobbin, the big belly bin. Robin the bobbin,
the big bellied bin. He ate more meat than four
score men. He ate a cow, he ate a calf,
he ate a butcher and a half, he ate a church,
he ate a steeple, he ate the priest and all
the people, a cow and a calf, an ox into

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half a church and a steeple, and all the good people.
And yet he complained that his stomach was not fool
says four score there. You know what that means. You
know Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address, he said four
score and seven years ago. Four score is eighty years,

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So four score and seven years will be eighty seven
years ago. Well, look, these are things that I believe
have become an immortal subject matter, at least in terms
of the human experience. Before we go to this break though,
I want to ask you, going back to the Greek stuff,
if you can come up with the answer to this

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famous riddle. It's called the riddle of the sphinx? What
walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon,
and three in the evening. This is a famous one,
the riddle of the Sphinx. Think about it, What walks

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on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon,
and three in the evening? And Greek mythology. If you
did not get that right, if you are in big,
big trouble. I'll explain that and I may even get
into things that suck. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening
to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast

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AM Paranormal podcast Network, and I'll be back after these
important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeart

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Radio and Coast to Coast AM para normal pod cast network.
I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren, and this is the
show where the unusual becomes usual. Yes, the Riddle of
the Sphinx. In Greek mythology, this monster called the Sphinx,

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a monster that had a woman's head, a lion's body,
and eagle's wings, guarded the entrance to a city called Thebes,
and if you wanted to get in, she would pose
this riddle to every traveler who wished to pass, and

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those who could not answer correctly were immediately strangled and eaten.
And that happened to countless people for many, many years.
But then finally the hero comes along, Oedipus, and I
know it looks like Otopus, but I think it's Oedipus.

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If only Alex Trebec were still around, he knew how
to pronounce everything. I'm gonna say, Oedipus. Oedipus was the
first to solve the riddle, and upon to solve the riddle,
and upon hearing the correct answer, the sphinx was so
distraught that she killed herself by throwing herself from a
cliff or into the sea. As a reward for freeing

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the city, Oedipus was made king of thieves. Well, I
won't tell you the rest of that story because this
is a family friendly show, but Oedipus goes on to
do some things that are highly frowned upon. Here's the
answer to the riddle, though, what walks on four legs
in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in

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the evening. The answer is man could just be a
human being, but basically man, because it represents the three
stages of a person's life. The morning, which is infancy
when a baby crawls on all fours, afternoon which is maturity,

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when an adult walks upright on two legs, and then
evening old age when an elderly person uses a cane
or a walking stick which acts as a third leg.
So anyway, now you can you can ask your friends

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if they can solve the riddle of the sphinx. See
how many of them know that one? All right, let's
what do you say we try out this new segment
called things that Suck. I don't know if you're gonna
like this or not, but let me just you know
I am not again. I try to keep this show positive,

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and I am I'm not just trying to be a
grumpy old man. A lot of people listen to this show,
and I'm very fortunate, and so sometimes I figure it,
maybe it's okay for me to give my opinion on

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some things that I believe should change, because there are
a lot of young people who listen to this show,
and they they don't think about things the same way
that some of us folks do who are a little
bit older. Maybe they need some advice. So I'm trying
to make the world a slightly better place by just
airing some complaints. And I promise I'll only do this

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once in a while, so we'll see how you like this. Okay,
First on my list of things that suck onions on salads. Now,
I actually like onions, but they don't belong on a salad.
In my opinion, I'm sick of people putting onions on

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a salad. A lot of people don't even know how
to make a good sound anymore. In my opinion, I
don't know if I make a salad as a salad
bar and they're hard to find. You got your lettuce,
you got your uh, you got your cheese, you got
your cucumbers, you got your bacon bits, you got some
some eggs in there. You know, I'm talking like a

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nice chef salad. Some people, you know, sometimes you order
a salad, they bring you like a wedge of lettuce
and with a cherry tomato or something. It's just like,
that's not what I'm talking about. I mean, like a
good chef salad hard to find, but they ruin it
when they put the onions in there. So, in my opinion,

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and maybe it's just because you know I'm a I'm
an old redneck from western North Carolina. I just think
that people need to stop putting onions on salads because
I don't remember that being the case when I was
growing up. You know what, I'll just throw this in
here when it comes to a culinary stuff as well.
I'm talking a lot about food lately, Robin the Bob

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and the Big Bellied Bin. I guess it's because, like
I say, I'm always I'm always trying to eat healthier
and lose weight and all that. I was watching sixty
Minutes one time and they interviewed this guy in Italy
who is supposed to be like they say that he's
won more awards than anybody and he's like the top

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chef of the world. And so the reporter, I think
it was Leslie Stall, asked him, well, what's an example
of the best thing to eat, like the most delicious thing.
And he goes, Oh, that's easy. Let me share with
you the tastiest thing in the world. So he goes
and he gets one of these little cherry tomatoes and

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I for some reason, I want to say it was green.
I'm not one hundred percent sure, but he I think
he sliced it in half. It's been a while since
I've seen this. And then he takes some fine Italian
balsamic vinegar and he drizzles that over it, and he says, now,

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taste that, and and she tasted, and he's just sitting
there with baited breath and he's like, yeah, ye, our rider,
and she's like, oh yeah, yeah, that's really good. And
so I he was using some balsamic vinegar that was
like very expensive. Expect this bottle costs two hundred dollars

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or something. But I was like, fine, I gotta try
this out. I'm a sucker for a lot of stuff,
I guess, so I so I buy this expensive balsamic
vinegar and I pour it on like one of these
little tomatoes, and I eat it, and let me tell you,
it is pretty dad gum good. But I've done it
since then with like the regular stuff you can buy

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at the grocery store. You don't have to spend a
fortune them. But that I thought that was interesting. I
would share that tidbit with you. Also, I got to
meet one of the top chefs here in Las Vegas
a few years ago. I was actually invited to be
a guest on one of these like YouTube channels that's

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food and travel. So here, I was sitting in this
fancy restaurant at this five star hotel, the over a
high flute hotel, I mean big enough for that's where
Lady Gaga hangs out and performs and everything. And actually,
I guess it was like I'll just say it. I
guess it was Park MGM or something. So anyway, we

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got to sit down on camera and this chef was
giving me his finest dishes, and everything was exquisite. It
was all fantastic. But so at some point I chime
in here and I said to this chef, so let
me ask you this. If you were stranded on a
desert island and you could only have, you know, a

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few items to season your food to perfection, like what
would it be? What would be the secret ingredients? And
he just looks at me for a second and he said, oh,
just salt and pepper. And I have a cabinet with
about fifty seasonings in it. And I don't know, I

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love seasonings and sauces and I could just I can
dress up anything with seasonings and sauces. But I guess,
like he's right, I mean, if you just if you're
on a desert island, a desert island, and you can
just have two things, good old fashioned salt and pepper.
Second thing that sucks is pop ups on websites. If

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you put a pop up on your website, I may
never visit your site again. Okay, that's pop ups should
be a thing of the past. So I don't care.
If I go to a website and I'm about to
check out your subject matter and boom, there's a pop
up please subscribe to right, I'm immediately angry, So no
pop ups any kind. The last thing that I'll include

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here is long YouTube videos. I know, if you're a YouTuber,
that's the thing to do because you get paid to
make a long video because you get paid more the
longer people watch it. So I get it, but it
sucks in my opinion most of the time. Not all

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the time. Maybe I'm just too busy of a guy.
But I prefer to go to watch a video if
I just need some basic information, you know, I prefer
to watch a video that's, you know, no more than
a few minutes long. I'm much more attracted to that now.
Trust me. I'm a guy who has put out some
pretty long videos, so it's almost like do as I say,

(35:47):
not as I do. But I just think it depends
on the context. But most of the time, if you're
just sitting around there looking at YouTube content, please keep
it at ten minutes if you can, no more than ten,
but three to five is golden. So that's it. That's
all I have to gripe about for now. You let
me know if you if you like, Actually, I tell

(36:09):
you what when it comes to experiences that I've had
here in Vegas. I don't think that I've brought this
up on the show before, but I just think it's
kind of a funny story. And when we come back
for this break, i'll tell it to you. I was
standing in line at a drug store here not too

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long ago, and something happened that kind of ticked everybody off.
But it has sort of an unexpected ending. I guess
I don't know mental man, all right. Also, I believe
that I may have time to get into some listener emails.
We'll see what some of your latest thoughts are. And you,

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I don't know, if you're old enough, do you remember
these movies that used to starve this this famous dog
called Ren ten Ten, you know, kind of like he
wasn't I guess as famous as Lassie necessarily at least
in terms of today's pop culture. But Ren ten Ten
was a very famous dog movie star. And just recently, Lauren,

(37:15):
she goes listen to this. I looked up why he
was called Ren ten ten and it actually has kind
of a strange supernatural origin. Well, hopefully I can get
into that as well when we come back. I'm Joshua
Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast AM para normal podcast network, and

(37:39):
I will be right back. Welcome back to the final

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segment of this edition of Strange Things the iHeartRadio and
Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host,
Joshua P. Warren. And yes, I was recently standing in
line at the pharmacy at a pharmacy, I don't want
to use any names, and I was the fifth person

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in line, and the guy at the front of the line,
he was probably like a sixty year old man wearing
a ball cap, rob being very patient as usual. And
then when the person who's actually at the window walks away,
there's this old lady, all hunched over with long, stringy hair,

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and she clearly sees that there's a line of five
people there, and she just walks right up in front
of the guy and in front of everybody in the line,
and she walks up to the window and then turns
around and says thank you. And so the guy who

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is at the front of the line, and we've all
been waiting for a long time, he turns around and
looks at us, and we're all like, what the hell, so,
but you know what you gonna do. So this woman,
this old lady, she says a few words to the

(39:49):
pharmacist there at the window, and apparently her prescription wasn't
ready or something like that. So then she turns around
to the guy at the front of the line, and
this old crone says thanks for nothing, and then storms
off like it was his fault somehow. You. I mean,

(40:13):
I don't know, man, I see, I'm getting too old.
I don't understand. Even though she's a lot, she was
a lot older than me. I don't understand how the
world works anymore. It reminds me of the time I
was standing in line and I this guy was talking
too loud on his cell phone, and he was saying
to his friend, it wasn't a crime of passion. I've

(40:36):
known her for twenty years. Yeah you I bet, I
bet all of you have stories like that. You could
tell anyway, here's the thing about Lake. Mine didn't know
about ren ten Ten. The name ren ten ten originates
from World War One era France. It comes from a

(40:59):
poppy French good luck charm, small knitted or fabric dolls
or puppets which French children and sometimes women made and
gave to Allied soldiers, particularly Americans, as tokens of good
fortune and protection during the war. And these are lucky figures.

(41:22):
A lot of times it was a pair of them
known as Nanette and ren ten ten, I believe um.
But anyway, it was these little you know, these little
good luck charms were so prominent that in nineteen eighteen,
this American soldier named Lee Duncan rescued a litter of

(41:45):
German shepherd puppies from a bombed out kennel in France
near the end of the war. He kept two pupps
and named the male ren ten ten and the female Nnette,
after the symbolic good luck charms, seeing them as emblems
of his own four amid the warst devastation, and that
original dog became the famous Hollywood star of silent films

(42:06):
in the nineteen twenties, nicknamed Renti, launching a long legacy
of ren ten ten dogs in movies. The name itself
does not appear to have a deeper literal translation, but
it's an anamatipeia or a playful repetition, possibly evoking the

(42:28):
sound of a bell ten ten mimicking a chime in
French like ding ding, which added to its cute, memorable
appeal as a charm name. So I was like, well,
what do these look like? And they kind of look
like cute little raggedy voodoo dolls. And again they're usually

(42:49):
solded pears, and uh, I'd never heard of that before,
but Lauren shared that with me, and so I guess
I need to get me some ren ten ten good
luck charm dogs and our dolls and play with them
and see see what happens. Let me know if you
have some of those and what your experience has been.

(43:11):
That's that's cool. Maybe somebody listening in France will send
me some some rin tin tin and a net good
luck dolls. All right, let's see if we can squeeze
in some listener emails. I keep getting so many of
these emails about the sealth portable handheld tepophone that we

(43:33):
have right now on uh in my curiosity shop. This
is a manifestation device that you carry with you in
your pocket. Uh. Doctor Moulder is still making them, but
the price is going to go up soon. Here's one
email I got, uh, Hey, Joshua, I'm I don't want
to use his name, but I think he'd be okay
with it, but anyway, he says. I got my first

(43:57):
stealth tepaphone a few days ago and started using it
for driving and green traffic lights with great results. I
went to a local hiking area overlooking the city at
night to rehearse a few songs I do with my drum.
Around ten thirty pm. There was a few people. I
didn't have the spot to myself, so I held by
device and pressed the button and kindly asked to make

(44:19):
the others go elsewhere so I could have personal time.
Oddly enough, a few minutes later they left without a sound.
I looked and I thought, Wow, that's cool. Lol, I'm
not repelling humans with this mind you. I'm still learning
this thing and had quite a good time playing my
drum and singing out loud at night sitting above the

(44:42):
lights of Tempe, Arizona. The insides of this thing are
well made, and I was wondering if it creates a
bubble of energy around you or like a radius of
a certain length. I hope I explained that, right. I
love what you do, man Agiatato Zuome, Well, thank you,
and you know what, heck, I'm just gonna give his
name's erin Aaron, thank you. And you know, I don't

(45:08):
know if it creates a bubble or just you know,
I kind of envisioned it as just sort of shooting
out a beam of light that sends ripples around it
because it does have an infrared light. Uh, but I
don't know exactly. There may be ways to experiment with
it though and find out. I know some people who've

(45:29):
been having a heck of a lot of success drawing
down UFOs with it. Well, but a lot of people
just use it for the simplest daily stuff. Here is
another email that I got, and it says tepaphone pizza
test was a success, and the guy sent this to me,

(45:49):
says the past two days, I ordered pizza from and
he gave me the name of the restaurant, but I
won't bring it. I ordered pizza from this place where
pizza is never consistent. I did it once at eight
pm yesterday and then at eleven thirty this morning. Best
pizzas I've ever had from this place. I held that

(46:10):
button down during the entire order. I ate the whole
pizza last night, and now it wasn't just how it looked,
how it tasted even more. I'll be doing this for
the next five days, at different times a day, so
I never have the same person making the same pizza.
If it's already worked in, it's already worked I'm in

(46:32):
for a great week of pizza. I think ordering pizza
is a good test because I'm not in control of
anything but the order and time of order. I'll try
it with a crappier place or some restaurant that's not
always good. Normally, whenever I order a pizza, there's maybe
two slices that look edible. Not in the past two days.

(46:53):
I attached a photo, and sure enough I have a
photo of the pizza, and I'm familiar with the guy
who routes this And when I say he is picky
about his pizza, that is no overstatement. Yeah, overstatement or understatement,

(47:14):
I'm not sure. It's just it's one of those things.
It's true anyway. Thank you for that message, you know.
That's the thing. It's like, I don't know, it's you
put it in your pocket and you can use it
for whatever you want. And so I'm going to try

(47:37):
that the next time I order a pizza as well.
Thank you for sending me these emails though, Guys, it
really means a lot to me to get these reports
coming in. And you know, like I say, if you
go to the Curiosity Shop, you don't have to buy anything.
Just take a look and maybe you'll get some ideas.
There are things that you can also just make for yourself.

(48:00):
There are things you can do for free. I have
all kinds of free content out there all over my website.
But one thing that we all get to do for
free because you listen to this show is we all
get to usually not always because I don't always do it,
but we get to end the show by taking time
to use our collective consciousness and reach out through the

(48:25):
ether to everybody listening. Mentally and try to think about
all of us having the best next week ever. And
I know you can't have that all the time, but
maybe you can more often if we all sort of
take a deep breath, if you can close your eyes
and let us focus together on the good fortune.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Tone.

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(49:32):
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(49:52):
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