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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:56):
Ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird. This
is Strange JOA.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Warren.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I am Joshua B. Warren, and each week on this show,
I'll be bringing up brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises,
and weird in experiments you can do at home, and
a lot more on this edition of the show. Lucid
Dreams from this simple Tech. Really, I actually just woke
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up from a nap not too long ago, and uh,
you know it's funny because I always have this dream
I'm in some kind of a gigantic building that seems
like a shopping mall, and people have told me that
I am projecting into a spaceship or something, but the
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people don't seem like aliens there. Do you ever have
those kinds of dreams, like a recurring dream, like a
setting that's that's fictional, but you just keep coming back
to it. For me, it's like this giant shopping mall
with a big escalators. I don't know, maybe I am
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transporting to some other place a spaceship. Of course. You
know at this point, oh boy, you know I'm I'm
gonna be fifty this year, so you know, now, when
I sleep, I have one of these massage chairs that
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is similar to what you might find in a mall
or an airport. And I sit in that massage chair
and I strap on my seapap mask, and then I
put on my virtual reality headset and I go and
I'm Darth Vader on my throne. And I got that
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like stinky, musty old man's smell. No, that's not true.
I do have all those things. I do have the
massage chair and the sea pat mask and the virtual
reality headset, but I do not wear them all at
the same time. I joke about it, though. However, you
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know I've said this before, and you know I guess
I've never really dug right into it. But I'm a
very vivid dreamer, and so a lot of times when
I'm having a dream, it becomes a lucid dream. And
when you have a lucid dream, well that means that
all of a sudden, you become aware of the fact
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that you're dreaming, and now you can go and have
fun with it and do like you know, grand theft,
auto things, mischief and all that. And uh, it's spring
cleaning time for me. And I was going through my
collection and I came across this, uh sleep mask. I
have it in my hands right now, nice soft sleep
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mask that is designed to help you lucid dream. And
if you've never really loose, if you've never had a
lucid dream, I mean, I'm telling you, it's a heck
of a lot of fun. But you know, the idea
is that you know you you literally you feel like
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that you're in the real world. But then all of
a sudden you become aware of this is a dream
and there are no consequences and you can just go
do whatever the heck you want to. And so this
mask is made by a company and I had I
bought this years ago. I just forgot about it. It's
made by a company that says that, okay, if you
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put this mask on it, And what by mask I mean,
you know how like a lot of people they'll put
on just like maybe uh a satin eye mask or
something when they go to sleep, so that it blocks
out the light. Well, that's pretty much what this is.
And I'm holding it in my hands right now. I
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probably shouldn't tell you the name of the actual company
because I'm an extremely powerful man, and if I say
something good or bad, it might it might shake the
stock market here on this thing. But what I can
tell you is that when you have this mask, what
you do you open the top of it and there's
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a little there's a little computer circuit here, and then
there's a switch. And then what you do is, right
before you're going to go to bed, you turn the
thing on and it has some little some little red
LEDs that light up and show show you that it's working.
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And then you go to sleep wearing this thing, and
occasionally in the middle of your sleep, some kind of
an led will we'll pop on here. And the idea
is that you are in a dream state, so you
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don't know that you know that this is not reality.
But at the same time, if if one of these
lights pops on, then it will remind you that you're
in a dream state without totally waking you up, and
that gives you the opportunity to then take advantage of
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your dream state and have have fun with your lucid
dreaming experience. And I remember using this years ago, and
here I believe my problem was that I lucid dream
all the time anyway, so I couldn't really tell the
difference between putting this thing on and having it trigger
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a lucid dream versus my normal lucid dreams. So the
other night I gave it to Lauren and I said, Lauren,
I want you to wear it, and she goes, no,
I don't want to put an I said, Lauren, it's
for the show, for the love of God, And so
I had to convince her to do that. Let's see here,
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by the way, says, A lucid dream is a state
of consciousness where the dreamer becomes aware they are dreaming
while an r em sleep, often enabling them to control
the dream's narrative environment or actions. It is described as
a hybrid state between being asleep and awake, allowing for
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self aware during the dream experience. Isn't it nice? Nice
to have me read stuff off the internet to you.
Let's see, in the psychology subfield of oenurology, what oenerrology
is the Okay, that's the study of dreams. I guess
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did you know that n E I R O l
O G Y. A lucid dream is a type of
dream wherein the dreamer knows they are dreaming while in
their dream. The capacity to have and sustain lucid dreams
is a trainable cognitive skill. Hm says during a lucid dream,
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the dreamer may gain some amount of volitional control over
the dream characters, narrative, and environment. Although this control of
dream content is not the salient feature of lucid dreaming.
An important distinction is lucid dreaming is a distinct type
of dream from other types of dreams. Okay, look, I
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think we know what we're talking about here, don't we.
So I put this thing on a few years ago,
and yeah, I mean I had some lucid dreams, but
I already lucid dream so I couldn't tell the difference.
But Lauren doesn't lucid dream. That's my wife, And I said, Lauren,
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let's see what happens to you, and she puts this
on when you put this on, So she agreed. And
when we come back from this break, I'm gonna tell you.
I'm gonna tell you what happened to Lauren. I'll also
tell you I decided, what the heck, I'll do it
again myself as well. This is a big year for me,
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a life altering year, and that is because in the
near future, I'm going to be traveling to another country
that I've never been to before to have a medical
procedure done. And you know, one thing about this show
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is that you know, I produce the show and recorded
or whatever, and then I send it to the folks
at iHeart and sometimes it's you know, a week or
two before the show comes out. But I've decided that
I don't know. Yeah, I'm just gonna tell you what's
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going on. I'm going to another country and I'm getting
stem cells, and I mean like the real ones, like
the good ones, the serious ones. And if you are
interested in that journey and you want to know the
reality of that, this is not a sponsorship thing. I've
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specifically kept it legit, you know, so that like, I'm
not asking for any favors. I'm not pulling any promos here.
I mean, I'm not doing any sponsorship. I'm paying full
blown out of pocket to do this, And I think
that what I might do is try to keep you
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informed on a day to day basis to some degree
about what this is like, because I think this applies
to everybody, and posting pictures, maybe some video clips, all
that kind of stuff on almost a daily basis. So
if you're interested in that and you want to see
what my upcoming journey is like, this life altering journey
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that is going to cost me a heck of a
lot of money, go to Joshua P. Warren and sign
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major journey coming up this year. And also when you
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joshuap Warren dot com. When we come back from the break,
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we'll get into more of this whole thing about, you know,
lucid dreaming and what happened to Lauren and what happened
to me when I tried it again? Do you lucid
dream I'm Joshua PEE Warren. You're listening to Strange Things
all the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network,
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and I will be right back. Welcome back to Strange
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Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast AM
Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, a wizard of weird,
Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your worm whole brain from
my studio in sen City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every
day is golden and every night is silver. Zietato zoomte.
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I know you're you're probably thinking like, well, why are
you getting stem cells? Well, I have rheumatoid arthritis, and
most people don't even know what that is. You know, arthritis,
and they think they hear arthritis and they think that
it's just like your joints getting old. That's called osteo arthritis.
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Rheumatoid arthritis is it's an autoimmune disease that affects your
whole body and you get all kinds of inflammation. So
it sucks. You can look it up and it just
gets worse and worse as time goes on. So I go, well,
you know what, I'm gonna try out this stem cell
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thing and like you know, go for the good stuff.
It's it's too bad that I have to leave my
country to go get a treatment. But like I say,
I'll keep you informed if you actually care. Through my
e newsletter. I might be sending out some daily notices.
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Oh look, my little chihuahuah came into the room. This
is a little This is little Dolly. Come here, Dolly, man,
she's heavy. Hey Dolly, this is the sweetest dog. Dolly
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say say hi to everybody. Come on, say something. Come on, Dolly,
say say hello, Dolly say something. Everybody's waiting to hear
Dolly say something. All right, this dog is an idiot.
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Get out of here. H That was a joke. By
the way, the dog was never in here. I was
just pulling your leg. I wanted to see. I'm not
pulling I swear I'm not pulling your leg. When it
comes to the stem cell thing, but I did think
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I would pull your leg on that one. No, Dolly
is the sweetest little dog ever. And she was in
here the other day and I was just playing around
and saying, like I should put you on the radio.
Oh man, where was I? Oh yeah, lucid dreaming. So
all right, So here's what happened. Lauren, my wife. You know,
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I convinced her to put on this mask. I don't
know why. She was all against it, you know, but
so she put it on. And then the next morning
I said, well, did you have a lucid dream? And
she said no, I did not work. I knew she
was going to say that, so, uh, I go, well,
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I guess I'll try it one more time. And so
that I put this thing on the same or that night,
and you know, here here's the thing. I mean, like again,
this is this is troubling to me. I can't really
explain properly how you know whether or not this works,
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because I just I lucid dream all the time. I
did have a moment when I became cognizant of the
fact that in the middle of my sleep, uh, there
was a light that appeared in front of me. And
so at that point, I mean, it kind of worked.
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It kind of worked, but I don't know, I would say, nah,
I give it a negative review at this point. Sorry,
lucid dream. You know they say the word lucid originates
from the Latin adjective lucidness light, right and clear. It's just,
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you know, it's just coming to light understanding things. So
here's what I think. And you can you can definitely
tell me, and I'm sure you will because I get
so many emails now that it's just insane. You can
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tell me whether or not you think this is crazy.
But I kind of feel like that maybe your everyday
reality is a dream and that that that basically I mean,
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I don't know how to distinguish exactly between you know,
the the dreaming state of sleep and the everyday reality.
And so it may be that the goal of your
life is to become lucid in your every day reality.
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In other words, like you you you got, you get
kind of like lolled into a routine every day and
then once in a while you kind of snap out
of that and you go, oh, wait a second, like
I can control this to some extent, and and and
and believe me, I believe there's a lot of stuff
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you cannot control, so you know, don't beat yourself up
over everything that you can't control. But it may be
that every day has the potential to be more of
a lucid dream. And that's why I think that manifestation
devices can work, you know, whether it's wishing machines or
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other tools. You know, I've told you before that I, uh,
I dig into all that stuff not because that I
am a master. It's because I'm not a master really.
I mean, I'm just I'm looking for tools. You know,
I need help. And that's why when you go to
my curiosity shop. I mean I only put stuff in
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the curiosity Shop that have helped me.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I'm if I was automatically just a natural Jedi, then
I wouldn't need tools, but I'm not, and so that's
why I explore all this stuff. You know. It's funny.
I I was telling you, I was I'm going to
go to this other country and get they're going to
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put millions of stem cells in me, and I'm going
to uh one of the places that I believe Tony
Robbins goes to here, you know, Tony Robbins motivational speaker.
He says, no problem is permanent, only your soul is permanent.
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No problem is permanent, only your soul is permanent. What
do you think about that? No, well, that's true, no
problem is permanent. You know, it's funny because I've only
told some of my closest friends and family that I'm
going to go do this, and I mean, I'm telling
you this costs you know, significant chunk of money, and
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everybody is just like, man, I can't wait to see
what happens here because I'll let you be the guinea pig.
And so you really do want to follow along. I'm
sure with this, with this journey. But you know, it's
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funny like when you're anticipating something, it kind of brings
you back to this whole thing. Like you know, you've
heard people everybody has adages and stuff that they you know,
old old timers. They say things like a watched pot
never boils, A watched pot never boils. What does that mean? Right?
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You know, It's almost like that when you're really paying
attention to something, it just takes forever. I don't you know,
I'm just off the top of my head. I believe
that somebody once asked Einstein what is relativity, and he
said something like, well, you know, when you're sitting next
to a pretty girl, a minute seems like ten seconds.
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Or when you're sitting on a hot pot, you know,
ten seconds seems like a minute. I mean that kind
of thing. But uh, watchpot never oils. Sometimes you just
have to go for that Gordian not though you know
that that legend the Gordian knot. Uh, it's the legend
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of an impossibly intricate knot tied by King Gordias in
Gordian an oracle prophesied that whoever untied it would rule Asia.
And in the year three hundred and thirty three BC,
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Alexander the Great he was unable to untie it, so
he just pulled out his sword and he just sliced
it in half, and then he went on to conquer Asia.
Sometimes you just have to say, look, things are too complicated,
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Like you're not gonna figure it out. I don't care
how smart you are. You can be a great genius.
I can be a great genius. It doesn't matter. Sometimes
you just can't figure things out and you don't have
the time and the patience, and you just got to
slice that Gordian Nott looks like we're up on a
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break here, So okay, when we come back, though, here's
something that I want to bring up. Did you know
I just recently learned this. This is almost like some
mental manner. I think there's only one poisonous bird in
the world. You ever heard this before? You know Lauren,
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she's all into animals and she was surprised to hear
about this. I'm gonna tell you when we come back
about you know what I've learned about this bird.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
That uh.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, found in New Guinea, first documented poisonous bird. That's
some strange stuff. Well, that's why this show is called
Strange Things. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to Strange
Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast a M
paranormal podcast network. And I'll be back after these important messages.
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Welcome back to Strange Things. Oh the iHeart Radio and
Coast to Coast AM Paranormal podcast Network. I'm your host,
Joshua P. Warren, And this is the show where the
unusual becomes usual. Yeah, sometimes I get a little goofy.
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I mean, you know, I work all night on all
these projects. And then I got to get up during
the day and do normal people stuff. But I'm not
going to leave you hang in here on the lucid
dreaming thing like look, basically again, I don't want to
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name any names, but you can try it out for yourself.
Just look up lucid Dreaming sleep tech. And all I
know is Lauren said it didn't work for her. And
I can't give you a conclusion on it because that
I already kind of lucid dream all the time. But
I mean, I don't know. Maybe it's time for me
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to sell this thing. Maybe I'll put this up for
sale as part of my part of my collection. I've
been selling a lot of stuff recently, and I have
three storage unit's, yeah, packed from top to bottom, all
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screwn across this country. And does that make me a hoarder? Maybe?
Oh what were we talking about again? Oh? Yeah, the
only venomous bird. It's called the it's called the hooded
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PITOUI found in New Guinea. As a matter of fact,
I'm you know, Lauren, she's like I say, she's the
animal person and I think she wanted to make sure
that I pronounced this correctly. But I can't find her
email right now. So anyway, we're gonna call this the
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p I t O h u I. The hooded Batui
found in New Guinea is recognized as the world's first
documented poisonous bird. It carries a potent neurotoxin called Batra
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shoko toxin. You know what these scientists, You know, they
must have some really small egos because they come up
with some big words Batrachoa toxin in its skin and feathers.
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This toxin, also found in poison dart frogs, causes numbness
and paralysis, likely acquired from its diet, particularly the chracine beetle.
Oh what do you think about that New Guinea? Well
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that figures, isn't it uh? Peitui is a genus of
birds endemic to New Guinea. The birds, formerly lumped together
as Pitoui's, were found by a two thousand and eight
study that examined their evolutionary history on the basis of
the genetic sequences to have included birds that were quite
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unrelated to each other. They have since been separated into
other genera. And you know, sometimes don't you think, Like
sometimes you read stuff and you're like, who wrote this this?
Just you know, this is way too convoluted. There are
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a lot of poor writers out there, in my opinion.
But anyway, Yeah, there's a poisonous bird. Which it actually
is kind of funny because it coincides with a purchase
that I recently made. When I was a kid, one
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of my favorite things was this. I guess you almost
call it a desktop toy called a drinking bird or
a dunking bird. Do you remember this? Some call it
a dipping bird. So this is a toy that is
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technically called a heat engine, and basically it's, uh, it's
kind of a glass vial that is balanced on a
little pivot. And what happens is that they dressed it
up to look like a bird, and so the bird
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will dip forward and dip its beak into a glass
of water, which cools a substance inside of it, and
then that makes the substance like a liquid sink. And
then the bird lifts up and bobs around, and then
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it warms up naturally, and the liquid rises up the
tube and the bird leans over and dunks its beak
again in the liquid, and then you know, and this
goes on forever. Now, if you I mean, if you're
close to my age, you know what I'm talking about.
But you know, there are people who listen to the
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show who are very young, and they're like, what is
this guy saying? Look it up. It's called the drinking bird,
the dunking bird, and it is one of the coolest
things ever created because it kind of looks like a
perpetual emotion machine. It's not exactly. I'm not going to
get into all the details of what perpetual motion is
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because this is a podcast, and you know this is
not this is not a physics physics classroom. But basically,
you know, you have this thing that looks like a bird,
and you put a glass of water in front of it,
and the bird leans forward and dips its beak in
the water.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
And then it leans back and bobs around and this
goes on until the end of time as long as
there is water in that glass.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
And so I bought one of these, uh maybe like
a couple of weeks ago because I remembered like how
how cool I thought they were, and they are just
I find them even cooler now than I than I
used to. But you know what, I started looking into
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this and I was like, well, I mean, I understand
this is not technically perpetual motion, even though like the
bird that we have will like, well, it'll be working probably,
you know, one hundred years after Lauren and I are dead.
I mean, as long as there's a glass of water
in front of it. And I was like, I wonder
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if you can scale this up, you know, if you
can get a giant version of this. It turns out
yes you can. There is a man and there's not
a lot out there about him, but I found some
videos and there's a guy from I want to say,
the nineteen nineties. I mean, you know, I don't have
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all this show prep in front of me right now.
But this guy he built like some gigantic versions of
that drinking dunking bird. And by gigantic, I mean probably
like almost ten feet tall, that's what I would say.
And he had an exhibit like an art exhibit. And
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it turns out that it scales up. It actually scales
up when you you I mean like, because you wonder, like, okay,
if I have a little one of these, does it
only work on a little scale. H turns out it
appears to work on any scale. And I'm thinking that
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maybe there is some real energy potential here. You know,
this could be a very lucrative energy alternative. But I
don't know, man, I mean, like, because all you need
is water. I mean there's I mean, there is water everywhere.
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So this is I'm probably giving everybody a billion dollar
idea right now. Oh well, go ahead and see what
you think about that. Sometimes toys like you learn things
from weird you know, I recently did a show about toys.
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I have this teapot in front of me, and it's
called the Assassin's teapot. And this is kind of a toy.
But do you know what you I mean, some of
you immediately know what I'm talking about. This is made
of porcelain, it's very well made, and it's green, so
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it kind of has an uh I guess an onyx
or no, Jade, I'm sorry, And Jade looked to it,
and uh. It's shaped like a like an ancient Chinese
master turn into a teapot. And it's called an assassin's
teapot because it's got two holes on it. It's kind
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of like a magic trick. There's a hole on the
top and a hole on the bottom. And what you
can do is put two different liquids in here, and
if you plug one hole, then one of the liquids
comes out, and if you plug the other hole, then
the other liquid comes out. So you could put tea
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in it and poison in it, and then you could
pour a couple of little cups of tea for you
and your buddy that you're about to kill. Reminds me
of the Rambo place that like comes with a survival knife,
so you can kill your buddies. So but yeah, youah, like,
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you plug one hole and it's just tea, and so
you know your buddy trusts you because you're both drinking tea.
But then you plug the other hole and guess what,
Now it's poison time. Okay, I hear the music. When
we come back, I want to tell you a story,
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some mental manner, about what happened to me at the casino.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
The other day.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
You're I think you're gonna find this one well, I
hope you find it funny. I'm Josh Whipe Warren. You're
listening to strange things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast damn hair a normal podcast network, and I'll be
here right back. Welcome back to the final segment of
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this edition. Of strange things. Oh the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast. I am Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host,
Joshua pe Warren. And as a guy who lives in
Las Vegas, I believe in streaks, you know, gambling streaks.
It just seems like, you know, sometimes you're on a roll.
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And I was on a roll about three nights ago.
I already hit two jackpots in a row. And however,
Lauren said, I am worring out. You know, I want
to go to sleep. And so we came back home
and she goes, well, you know you're on such a
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role if you want to keep going and gambling like
I don't, you know, I'm not holding it against you.
And so I go, fine, I've been drinking. So I
took an uber over to the casino not far from
my house. So I here, I am sitting at this bar,
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at this at this casino, and it was it was crazy.
It was a Saturday night, and I was the oldest
guy in there. And again I'm only forty nine. So
that tells you something, I guess. And so but I'm
sitting there and you know, I'm the guy who knows
what I'm doing, and I heard a bunch of ladies
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talking next to me, and they were talking about, like, well,
I'm thirty eight, and I'm thirty seven, and I'm thirty five,
and like they were talking about like what life was
like in their thirties, and so obviously I turned around
to see and I don't know if there was a
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birthday party or what, but I just kind of like,
I just became aware of this group of ladies who
were talking about age, and standing immediately next to me
was this woman that was I guess she was in
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her thirties, and she was dressed quite scantily. I mean
you could tell that she was she was out for
a night in Las Vegas, and there was this dude
next to her, and so I mean, you know, you know,
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she was pretty. I mean she had you know, she
had long, long brown hair, and she was really done
up nicely. And so she said to the guy next
to her, she goes act act act. I'm like, what
(41:26):
what the heck is happening right now? Now. I don't
know if you've seen the movie Mars Attacks, but in
that movie, that is what the aliens say. Yeah, And
I was sitting there, like looking at this lady talk
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to this guy and he's just trying to make sense
of it as well. And I was thinking to myself,
was did Tim Burton have some advanced knowledge on the
you know, like the disc closure thing, like, because this
is eerily this is eerily realistic. Yeah, It's like I
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was looking at her and I was like, did they
put a suit on this alien so that she would
look appealing to a man, but they can't perfect the
whole speech thing? Yeah. I don't know. Maybe I'm just
(42:39):
too hard on people. But I after that, I was like, check, please,
I'm out of here. I mean that maybe some kind
of you know, disclosure heads up Vegas though, you know.
See that's the thing. It's like, I've been talking a
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lot lately about Elvis. I've always thought that Elvis was
was interesting for a number of reasons. I mean, like
years ago, I went to I went to a show
here in Vegas with Priscilla Presley and she sat there
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on stage. It was at the South Point and it
was maybe an hour and a half, two hours, and
she was just talking about her relationship with Elvis, and
what she said was, you know, Elvis was a great guy.
I mean, like she didn't that mouth the dude at all.
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But you know, she was just talking about how that
when when he came to Vegas, that is when their
relationship started really suffering because that he he you know,
he he had other other women, you know, he had
he was unfaithful, he had he had all kinds of affairs,
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and it got to a point where she she just
couldn't take it anymore. And you know what's what's interesting
also about that is I mean, if you've seen the
new Elvis documentary, I mean, you know, you see he's
he just kisses women randomly, and uh, Vegas, you know,
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there there are some strange women in this town. Uh
you know Elvis. Uh. I was watching this show called
Autopsy and they were talking about how and why that
Elvis actually died, and they said that that all the
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he was they work. You know, he was being worked
so hard to make money that he was having to
take drugs basically to keep him awake, to keep him active,
because he was only forty two when he died. And
you know, I'm not talking about like he didn't drink
or smoke or all. I mean, he would just take
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drugs his doctors would give him so that he could
just like, have a stimulant and perform. But those things
they slowed down your metabolism apparently, And this is not
a pleasant thing to think about, but what my understanding
(45:36):
is is that it slowed his metabolism down so much
that Elvis actually started becoming extremely constipated. And you might
not think that's a big deal, but I mean it
is a big deal. And so what like, the best
(45:57):
evidence we have is that these drugs made him so
constipated that he was on the toilet trying to you know,
relieve himself, and then he strained so hard that he
had a heart attack. And that seems to be the
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reality of how Elvis died in this town because he
was taking those dad gum drugs to help him, you know,
perform and keep up that crazy schedule he had. Oh well,
(46:39):
Vegas is a weird place. Vegas is weird, you know.
I was talking to Laurene the other night about how
the I mean, I understand what people say when they say,
like there's no real culture here. It's so artificial, it's
so man made, and they just tear things down and
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you know, build them right back up. But if you're right,
if you're struggling right now and you're in debt or
something like that, Well just just remember this. I don't
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know if you believe in the Bible or not, but
the Bible says that everything belongs to the Lord. You
don't own anything, and Deuteronomy ten fourteen scripture states the
heavens and the earth belong to God. Everything in creation
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is made for and sustained by God. So you really
don't own anything. So just kind of forget about that
and accept the fact that this is an experience that
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should be a fun experience and should be interesting. It
doesn't last forever, but don't be yourself up so bad
if you feel like you're messing up. All right, my friends,
the clock has got us, so let's end the show.
Let's all focus on helping everybody listening right now to
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have the best next week ever. Okay, if you can
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Warren.
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I am Joshua B. Warren, and each week on this show,
I'll be bringing up brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises,
and weird in experiments you can do at home, and
a lot more on this edition of the show. Lucid
Dreams from this simple Tech. Really, I actually just woke
(01:33):
up from a nap not too long ago, and uh,
you know it's funny because I always have this dream
I'm in some kind of a gigantic building that seems
like a shopping mall, and people have told me that
I am projecting into a spaceship or something, but the
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people don't seem like aliens there. Do you ever have
those kinds of dreams, like a recurring dream, like a
setting that's that's fictional, but you just keep coming back
to it. For me, it's like this giant shopping mall
with a big escalators. I don't know, maybe I am
(02:17):
transporting to some other place a spaceship. Of course. You
know at this point, oh boy, you know I'm I'm
gonna be fifty this year, so you know, now, when
I sleep, I have one of these massage chairs that
(02:37):
is similar to what you might find in a mall
or an airport. And I sit in that massage chair
and I strap on my seapap mask, and then I
put on my virtual reality headset and I go and
I'm Darth Vader on my throne. And I got that
(03:01):
like stinky, musty old man's smell. No, that's not true.
I do have all those things. I do have the
massage chair and the sea pat mask and the virtual
reality headset, but I do not wear them all at
the same time. I joke about it, though. However, you
(03:26):
know I've said this before, and you know I guess
I've never really dug right into it. But I'm a
very vivid dreamer, and so a lot of times when
I'm having a dream, it becomes a lucid dream. And
when you have a lucid dream, well that means that
all of a sudden, you become aware of the fact
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that you're dreaming, and now you can go and have
fun with it and do like you know, grand theft,
auto things, mischief and all that. And uh, it's spring
cleaning time for me. And I was going through my
collection and I came across this, uh sleep mask. I
have it in my hands right now, nice soft sleep
(04:09):
mask that is designed to help you lucid dream. And
if you've never really loose, if you've never had a
lucid dream, I mean, I'm telling you, it's a heck
of a lot of fun. But you know, the idea
is that you know you you literally you feel like
(04:30):
that you're in the real world. But then all of
a sudden you become aware of this is a dream
and there are no consequences and you can just go
do whatever the heck you want to. And so this
mask is made by a company and I had I
bought this years ago. I just forgot about it. It's
made by a company that says that, okay, if you
(04:51):
put this mask on it, And what by mask I mean,
you know how like a lot of people they'll put
on just like maybe uh a satin eye mask or
something when they go to sleep, so that it blocks
out the light. Well, that's pretty much what this is.
And I'm holding it in my hands right now. I
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probably shouldn't tell you the name of the actual company
because I'm an extremely powerful man, and if I say
something good or bad, it might it might shake the
stock market here on this thing. But what I can
tell you is that when you have this mask, what
you do you open the top of it and there's
(05:39):
a little there's a little computer circuit here, and then
there's a switch. And then what you do is, right
before you're going to go to bed, you turn the
thing on and it has some little some little red
LEDs that light up and show show you that it's working.
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And then you go to sleep wearing this thing, and
occasionally in the middle of your sleep, some kind of
an led will we'll pop on here. And the idea
is that you are in a dream state, so you
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don't know that you know that this is not reality.
But at the same time, if if one of these
lights pops on, then it will remind you that you're
in a dream state without totally waking you up, and
that gives you the opportunity to then take advantage of
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your dream state and have have fun with your lucid
dreaming experience. And I remember using this years ago, and
here I believe my problem was that I lucid dream
all the time anyway, so I couldn't really tell the
difference between putting this thing on and having it trigger
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a lucid dream versus my normal lucid dreams. So the
other night I gave it to Lauren and I said, Lauren,
I want you to wear it, and she goes, no,
I don't want to put an I said, Lauren, it's
for the show, for the love of God, And so
I had to convince her to do that. Let's see here,
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by the way, says, A lucid dream is a state
of consciousness where the dreamer becomes aware they are dreaming
while an r em sleep, often enabling them to control
the dream's narrative environment or actions. It is described as
a hybrid state between being asleep and awake, allowing for
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self aware during the dream experience. Isn't it nice? Nice
to have me read stuff off the internet to you.
Let's see, in the psychology subfield of oenurology, what oenerrology
is the Okay, that's the study of dreams. I guess
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did you know that n E I R O l
O G Y. A lucid dream is a type of
dream wherein the dreamer knows they are dreaming while in
their dream. The capacity to have and sustain lucid dreams
is a trainable cognitive skill. Hm says during a lucid dream,
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the dreamer may gain some amount of volitional control over
the dream characters, narrative, and environment. Although this control of
dream content is not the salient feature of lucid dreaming.
An important distinction is lucid dreaming is a distinct type
of dream from other types of dreams. Okay, look, I
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think we know what we're talking about here, don't we.
So I put this thing on a few years ago,
and yeah, I mean I had some lucid dreams, but
I already lucid dream so I couldn't tell the difference.
But Lauren doesn't lucid dream. That's my wife, And I said, Lauren,
(09:30):
let's see what happens to you, and she puts this
on when you put this on, So she agreed. And
when we come back from this break, I'm gonna tell you.
I'm gonna tell you what happened to Lauren. I'll also
tell you I decided, what the heck, I'll do it
again myself as well. This is a big year for me,
(09:51):
a life altering year, and that is because in the
near future, I'm going to be traveling to another country
that I've never been to before to have a medical
procedure done. And you know, one thing about this show
(10:12):
is that you know, I produce the show and recorded
or whatever, and then I send it to the folks
at iHeart and sometimes it's you know, a week or
two before the show comes out. But I've decided that
I don't know. Yeah, I'm just gonna tell you what's
(10:34):
going on. I'm going to another country and I'm getting
stem cells, and I mean like the real ones, like
the good ones, the serious ones. And if you are
interested in that journey and you want to know the
reality of that, this is not a sponsorship thing. I've
(10:57):
specifically kept it legit, you know, so that like, I'm
not asking for any favors. I'm not pulling any promos here.
I mean, I'm not doing any sponsorship. I'm paying full
blown out of pocket to do this, And I think
that what I might do is try to keep you
(11:19):
informed on a day to day basis to some degree
about what this is like, because I think this applies
to everybody, and posting pictures, maybe some video clips, all
that kind of stuff on almost a daily basis. So
if you're interested in that and you want to see
what my upcoming journey is like, this life altering journey
(11:42):
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joshuap Warren dot com. When we come back from the break,
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we'll get into more of this whole thing about, you know,
lucid dreaming and what happened to Lauren and what happened
to me when I tried it again? Do you lucid
dream I'm Joshua PEE Warren. You're listening to Strange Things
all the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network,
(12:52):
and I will be right back. Welcome back to Strange
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Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast AM
Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, a wizard of weird,
Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your worm whole brain from
my studio in sen City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every
day is golden and every night is silver. Zietato zoomte.
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I know you're you're probably thinking like, well, why are
you getting stem cells? Well, I have rheumatoid arthritis, and
most people don't even know what that is. You know, arthritis,
and they think they hear arthritis and they think that
it's just like your joints getting old. That's called osteo arthritis.
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Rheumatoid arthritis is it's an autoimmune disease that affects your
whole body and you get all kinds of inflammation. So
it sucks. You can look it up and it just
gets worse and worse as time goes on. So I go, well,
you know what, I'm gonna try out this stem cell
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thing and like you know, go for the good stuff.
It's it's too bad that I have to leave my
country to go get a treatment. But like I say,
I'll keep you informed if you actually care. Through my
e newsletter. I might be sending out some daily notices.
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Oh look, my little chihuahuah came into the room. This
is a little This is little Dolly. Come here, Dolly, man,
she's heavy. Hey Dolly, this is the sweetest dog. Dolly
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say say hi to everybody. Come on, say something. Come on, Dolly,
say say hello, Dolly say something. Everybody's waiting to hear
Dolly say something. All right, this dog is an idiot.
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Get out of here. H That was a joke. By
the way, the dog was never in here. I was
just pulling your leg. I wanted to see. I'm not
pulling I swear I'm not pulling your leg. When it
comes to the stem cell thing, but I did think
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I would pull your leg on that one. No, Dolly
is the sweetest little dog ever. And she was in
here the other day and I was just playing around
and saying, like I should put you on the radio.
Oh man, where was I? Oh yeah, lucid dreaming. So
all right, So here's what happened. Lauren, my wife. You know,
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I convinced her to put on this mask. I don't
know why. She was all against it, you know, but
so she put it on. And then the next morning
I said, well, did you have a lucid dream? And
she said no, I did not work. I knew she
was going to say that, so, uh, I go, well,
(16:58):
I guess I'll try it one more time. And so
that I put this thing on the same or that night,
and you know, here here's the thing. I mean, like again,
this is this is troubling to me. I can't really
explain properly how you know whether or not this works,
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because I just I lucid dream all the time. I
did have a moment when I became cognizant of the
fact that in the middle of my sleep, uh, there
was a light that appeared in front of me. And
so at that point, I mean, it kind of worked.
(17:43):
It kind of worked, but I don't know, I would say, nah,
I give it a negative review at this point. Sorry,
lucid dream. You know they say the word lucid originates
from the Latin adjective lucidness light, right and clear. It's just,
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you know, it's just coming to light understanding things. So
here's what I think. And you can you can definitely
tell me, and I'm sure you will because I get
so many emails now that it's just insane. You can
(18:30):
tell me whether or not you think this is crazy.
But I kind of feel like that maybe your everyday
reality is a dream and that that that basically I mean,
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I don't know how to distinguish exactly between you know,
the the dreaming state of sleep and the everyday reality.
And so it may be that the goal of your
life is to become lucid in your every day reality.
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In other words, like you you you got, you get
kind of like lolled into a routine every day and
then once in a while you kind of snap out
of that and you go, oh, wait a second, like
I can control this to some extent, and and and
and believe me, I believe there's a lot of stuff
(19:32):
you cannot control, so you know, don't beat yourself up
over everything that you can't control. But it may be
that every day has the potential to be more of
a lucid dream. And that's why I think that manifestation
devices can work, you know, whether it's wishing machines or
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other tools. You know, I've told you before that I, uh,
I dig into all that stuff not because that I
am a master. It's because I'm not a master really.
I mean, I'm just I'm looking for tools. You know,
I need help. And that's why when you go to
my curiosity shop. I mean I only put stuff in
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the curiosity Shop that have helped me.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I'm if I was automatically just a natural Jedi, then
I wouldn't need tools, but I'm not, and so that's
why I explore all this stuff. You know. It's funny.
I I was telling you, I was I'm going to
go to this other country and get they're going to
(20:41):
put millions of stem cells in me, and I'm going
to uh one of the places that I believe Tony
Robbins goes to here, you know, Tony Robbins motivational speaker.
He says, no problem is permanent, only your soul is permanent.
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No problem is permanent, only your soul is permanent. What
do you think about that? No, well, that's true, no
problem is permanent. You know, it's funny because I've only
told some of my closest friends and family that I'm
going to go do this, and I mean, I'm telling
you this costs you know, significant chunk of money, and
(21:30):
everybody is just like, man, I can't wait to see
what happens here because I'll let you be the guinea pig.
And so you really do want to follow along. I'm
sure with this, with this journey. But you know, it's
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funny like when you're anticipating something, it kind of brings
you back to this whole thing. Like you know, you've
heard people everybody has adages and stuff that they you know,
old old timers. They say things like a watched pot
never boils, A watched pot never boils. What does that mean? Right?
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You know, It's almost like that when you're really paying
attention to something, it just takes forever. I don't you know,
I'm just off the top of my head. I believe
that somebody once asked Einstein what is relativity, and he
said something like, well, you know, when you're sitting next
to a pretty girl, a minute seems like ten seconds.
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Or when you're sitting on a hot pot, you know,
ten seconds seems like a minute. I mean that kind
of thing. But uh, watchpot never oils. Sometimes you just
have to go for that Gordian not though you know
that that legend the Gordian knot. Uh, it's the legend
(23:17):
of an impossibly intricate knot tied by King Gordias in
Gordian an oracle prophesied that whoever untied it would rule Asia.
And in the year three hundred and thirty three BC,
(23:39):
Alexander the Great he was unable to untie it, so
he just pulled out his sword and he just sliced
it in half, and then he went on to conquer Asia.
Sometimes you just have to say, look, things are too complicated,
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Like you're not gonna figure it out. I don't care
how smart you are. You can be a great genius.
I can be a great genius. It doesn't matter. Sometimes
you just can't figure things out and you don't have
the time and the patience, and you just got to
slice that Gordian Nott looks like we're up on a
(24:21):
break here, So okay, when we come back, though, here's
something that I want to bring up. Did you know
I just recently learned this. This is almost like some
mental manner. I think there's only one poisonous bird in
the world. You ever heard this before? You know Lauren,
(24:45):
she's all into animals and she was surprised to hear
about this. I'm gonna tell you when we come back
about you know what I've learned about this bird.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
That uh.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, found in New Guinea, first documented poisonous bird. That's
some strange stuff. Well, that's why this show is called
Strange Things. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to Strange
Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast a M
paranormal podcast network. And I'll be back after these important messages.
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Welcome back to Strange Things. Oh the iHeart Radio and
Coast to Coast AM Paranormal podcast Network. I'm your host,
Joshua P. Warren, And this is the show where the
unusual becomes usual. Yeah, sometimes I get a little goofy.
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I mean, you know, I work all night on all
these projects. And then I got to get up during
the day and do normal people stuff. But I'm not
going to leave you hang in here on the lucid
dreaming thing like look, basically again, I don't want to
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name any names, but you can try it out for yourself.
Just look up lucid Dreaming sleep tech. And all I
know is Lauren said it didn't work for her. And
I can't give you a conclusion on it because that
I already kind of lucid dream all the time. But
I mean, I don't know. Maybe it's time for me
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to sell this thing. Maybe I'll put this up for
sale as part of my part of my collection. I've
been selling a lot of stuff recently, and I have
three storage unit's, yeah, packed from top to bottom, all
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screwn across this country. And does that make me a hoarder? Maybe?
Oh what were we talking about again? Oh? Yeah, the
only venomous bird. It's called the it's called the hooded
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PITOUI found in New Guinea. As a matter of fact,
I'm you know, Lauren, she's like I say, she's the
animal person and I think she wanted to make sure
that I pronounced this correctly. But I can't find her
email right now. So anyway, we're gonna call this the
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p I t O h u I. The hooded Batui
found in New Guinea is recognized as the world's first
documented poisonous bird. It carries a potent neurotoxin called Batra
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shoko toxin. You know what these scientists, You know, they
must have some really small egos because they come up
with some big words Batrachoa toxin in its skin and feathers.
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This toxin, also found in poison dart frogs, causes numbness
and paralysis, likely acquired from its diet, particularly the chracine beetle.
Oh what do you think about that New Guinea? Well
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that figures, isn't it uh? Peitui is a genus of
birds endemic to New Guinea. The birds, formerly lumped together
as Pitoui's, were found by a two thousand and eight
study that examined their evolutionary history on the basis of
the genetic sequences to have included birds that were quite
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unrelated to each other. They have since been separated into
other genera. And you know, sometimes don't you think, Like
sometimes you read stuff and you're like, who wrote this this?
Just you know, this is way too convoluted. There are
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a lot of poor writers out there, in my opinion.
But anyway, Yeah, there's a poisonous bird. Which it actually
is kind of funny because it coincides with a purchase
that I recently made. When I was a kid, one
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of my favorite things was this. I guess you almost
call it a desktop toy called a drinking bird or
a dunking bird. Do you remember this? Some call it
a dipping bird. So this is a toy that is
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technically called a heat engine, and basically it's, uh, it's
kind of a glass vial that is balanced on a
little pivot. And what happens is that they dressed it
up to look like a bird, and so the bird
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will dip forward and dip its beak into a glass
of water, which cools a substance inside of it, and
then that makes the substance like a liquid sink. And
then the bird lifts up and bobs around, and then
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it warms up naturally, and the liquid rises up the
tube and the bird leans over and dunks its beak
again in the liquid, and then you know, and this
goes on forever. Now, if you I mean, if you're
close to my age, you know what I'm talking about.
But you know, there are people who listen to the
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show who are very young, and they're like, what is
this guy saying? Look it up. It's called the drinking bird,
the dunking bird, and it is one of the coolest
things ever created because it kind of looks like a
perpetual emotion machine. It's not exactly. I'm not going to
get into all the details of what perpetual motion is
(32:11):
because this is a podcast, and you know this is
not this is not a physics physics classroom. But basically,
you know, you have this thing that looks like a bird,
and you put a glass of water in front of it,
and the bird leans forward and dips its beak in
the water.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
And then it leans back and bobs around and this
goes on until the end of time as long as
there is water in that glass.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
And so I bought one of these, uh maybe like
a couple of weeks ago because I remembered like how
how cool I thought they were, and they are just
I find them even cooler now than I than I
used to. But you know what, I started looking into
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this and I was like, well, I mean, I understand
this is not technically perpetual motion, even though like the
bird that we have will like, well, it'll be working probably,
you know, one hundred years after Lauren and I are dead.
I mean, as long as there's a glass of water
in front of it. And I was like, I wonder
(33:24):
if you can scale this up, you know, if you
can get a giant version of this. It turns out
yes you can. There is a man and there's not
a lot out there about him, but I found some
videos and there's a guy from I want to say,
the nineteen nineties. I mean, you know, I don't have
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all this show prep in front of me right now.
But this guy he built like some gigantic versions of
that drinking dunking bird. And by gigantic, I mean probably
like almost ten feet tall, that's what I would say.
And he had an exhibit like an art exhibit. And
(34:12):
it turns out that it scales up. It actually scales
up when you you I mean like, because you wonder, like, okay,
if I have a little one of these, does it
only work on a little scale. H turns out it
appears to work on any scale. And I'm thinking that
(34:35):
maybe there is some real energy potential here. You know,
this could be a very lucrative energy alternative. But I
don't know, man, I mean, like, because all you need
is water. I mean there's I mean, there is water everywhere.
(34:57):
So this is I'm probably giving everybody a billion dollar
idea right now. Oh well, go ahead and see what
you think about that. Sometimes toys like you learn things
from weird you know, I recently did a show about toys.
(35:19):
I have this teapot in front of me, and it's
called the Assassin's teapot. And this is kind of a toy.
But do you know what you I mean, some of
you immediately know what I'm talking about. This is made
of porcelain, it's very well made, and it's green, so
(35:45):
it kind of has an uh I guess an onyx
or no, Jade, I'm sorry, And Jade looked to it,
and uh. It's shaped like a like an ancient Chinese
master turn into a teapot. And it's called an assassin's
teapot because it's got two holes on it. It's kind
(36:11):
of like a magic trick. There's a hole on the
top and a hole on the bottom. And what you
can do is put two different liquids in here, and
if you plug one hole, then one of the liquids
comes out, and if you plug the other hole, then
the other liquid comes out. So you could put tea
(36:34):
in it and poison in it, and then you could
pour a couple of little cups of tea for you
and your buddy that you're about to kill. Reminds me
of the Rambo place that like comes with a survival knife,
so you can kill your buddies. So but yeah, youah, like,
(36:58):
you plug one hole and it's just tea, and so
you know your buddy trusts you because you're both drinking tea.
But then you plug the other hole and guess what,
Now it's poison time. Okay, I hear the music. When
we come back, I want to tell you a story,
(37:18):
some mental manner, about what happened to me at the casino.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
The other day.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
You're I think you're gonna find this one well, I
hope you find it funny. I'm Josh Whipe Warren. You're
listening to strange things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast damn hair a normal podcast network, and I'll be
here right back. Welcome back to the final segment of
(38:23):
this edition. Of strange things. Oh the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast. I am Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host,
Joshua pe Warren. And as a guy who lives in
Las Vegas, I believe in streaks, you know, gambling streaks.
It just seems like, you know, sometimes you're on a roll.
(38:49):
And I was on a roll about three nights ago.
I already hit two jackpots in a row. And however,
Lauren said, I am worring out. You know, I want
to go to sleep. And so we came back home
and she goes, well, you know you're on such a
(39:11):
role if you want to keep going and gambling like
I don't, you know, I'm not holding it against you.
And so I go, fine, I've been drinking. So I
took an uber over to the casino not far from
my house. So I here, I am sitting at this bar,
(39:32):
at this at this casino, and it was it was crazy.
It was a Saturday night, and I was the oldest
guy in there. And again I'm only forty nine. So
that tells you something, I guess. And so but I'm
sitting there and you know, I'm the guy who knows
what I'm doing, and I heard a bunch of ladies
(39:58):
talking next to me, and they were talking about, like, well,
I'm thirty eight, and I'm thirty seven, and I'm thirty five,
and like they were talking about like what life was
like in their thirties, and so obviously I turned around
to see and I don't know if there was a
(40:19):
birthday party or what, but I just kind of like,
I just became aware of this group of ladies who
were talking about age, and standing immediately next to me
was this woman that was I guess she was in
(40:39):
her thirties, and she was dressed quite scantily. I mean
you could tell that she was she was out for
a night in Las Vegas, and there was this dude
next to her, and so I mean, you know, you know,
(41:01):
she was pretty. I mean she had you know, she
had long, long brown hair, and she was really done
up nicely. And so she said to the guy next
to her, she goes act act act. I'm like, what
(41:26):
what the heck is happening right now? Now. I don't
know if you've seen the movie Mars Attacks, but in
that movie, that is what the aliens say. Yeah, And
I was sitting there, like looking at this lady talk
(41:48):
to this guy and he's just trying to make sense
of it as well. And I was thinking to myself,
was did Tim Burton have some advanced knowledge on the
you know, like the disc closure thing, like, because this
is eerily this is eerily realistic. Yeah, It's like I
(42:15):
was looking at her and I was like, did they
put a suit on this alien so that she would
look appealing to a man, but they can't perfect the
whole speech thing? Yeah. I don't know. Maybe I'm just
(42:39):
too hard on people. But I after that, I was like, check, please,
I'm out of here. I mean that maybe some kind
of you know, disclosure heads up Vegas though, you know.
See that's the thing. It's like, I've been talking a
(43:02):
lot lately about Elvis. I've always thought that Elvis was
was interesting for a number of reasons. I mean, like
years ago, I went to I went to a show
here in Vegas with Priscilla Presley and she sat there
(43:22):
on stage. It was at the South Point and it
was maybe an hour and a half, two hours, and
she was just talking about her relationship with Elvis, and
what she said was, you know, Elvis was a great guy.
I mean, like she didn't that mouth the dude at all.
(43:46):
But you know, she was just talking about how that
when when he came to Vegas, that is when their
relationship started really suffering because that he he you know,
he he had other other women, you know, he had
he was unfaithful, he had he had all kinds of affairs,
(44:08):
and it got to a point where she she just
couldn't take it anymore. And you know what's what's interesting
also about that is I mean, if you've seen the
new Elvis documentary, I mean, you know, you see he's
he just kisses women randomly, and uh, Vegas, you know,
(44:31):
there there are some strange women in this town. Uh
you know Elvis. Uh. I was watching this show called
Autopsy and they were talking about how and why that
Elvis actually died, and they said that that all the
(44:51):
he was they work. You know, he was being worked
so hard to make money that he was having to
take drugs basically to keep him awake, to keep him active,
because he was only forty two when he died. And
you know, I'm not talking about like he didn't drink
or smoke or all. I mean, he would just take
(45:14):
drugs his doctors would give him so that he could
just like, have a stimulant and perform. But those things
they slowed down your metabolism apparently, And this is not
a pleasant thing to think about, but what my understanding
(45:36):
is is that it slowed his metabolism down so much
that Elvis actually started becoming extremely constipated. And you might
not think that's a big deal, but I mean it
is a big deal. And so what like, the best
(45:57):
evidence we have is that these drugs made him so
constipated that he was on the toilet trying to you know,
relieve himself, and then he strained so hard that he
had a heart attack. And that seems to be the
(46:18):
reality of how Elvis died in this town because he
was taking those dad gum drugs to help him, you know,
perform and keep up that crazy schedule he had. Oh well,
(46:39):
Vegas is a weird place. Vegas is weird, you know.
I was talking to Laurene the other night about how
the I mean, I understand what people say when they say,
like there's no real culture here. It's so artificial, it's
so man made, and they just tear things down and
(47:01):
you know, build them right back up. But if you're right,
if you're struggling right now and you're in debt or
something like that, Well just just remember this. I don't
(47:22):
know if you believe in the Bible or not, but
the Bible says that everything belongs to the Lord. You
don't own anything, and Deuteronomy ten fourteen scripture states the
heavens and the earth belong to God. Everything in creation
(47:45):
is made for and sustained by God. So you really
don't own anything. So just kind of forget about that
and accept the fact that this is an experience that
(48:08):
should be a fun experience and should be interesting. It
doesn't last forever, but don't be yourself up so bad
if you feel like you're messing up. All right, my friends,
the clock has got us, so let's end the show.
Let's all focus on helping everybody listening right now to
(48:33):
have the best next week ever. Okay, if you can
close your eyes, take some deep breaths, and let us
all focus on the original, the world famous, the one
and only good Fortune tone. Here we go. That's it
(49:19):
for this edition of the show. Follow me at Joshua P.
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thank you for your interest and support. Thank you for
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You've been listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and
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Speaker 2 (50:24):
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