June 26, 2026 • 50 mins
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Yet ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird.
This is Strange with Joshua. He wore I am Joshua
if he weren't. And each week on this show, I'll
be bringing up brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises,
and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
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lot more. On this edition of the show, Samurai Magic
and the Men who Stare at Goats? Do you know
what that really means? I am, I'm just not getting
my voice back. You may or may not know that.
When I was traveling recently, I picked up a bug
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in Texas and it was hard, hard on the lungs.
You know, I had to take a bunch of antibiotics
and everything, and so just now feeling like I could
talk properly again. And it's good timing because I have
so much stuff to talk about. Yes, yes, I saw
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the movie Disclosure day. I even talked to the general
manager at the Imax theater where I saw it. And
you know, I'm just going to tell you a spoiler alert.
I thought it sucked. I will tell you more about
why that is the case later on. I know that
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by the time you hear this, it'll probably be old news.
But I didn't so and you might be like, oh
my gosh, Josh, you just said a Steven Spielberg movie sucked,
which is pretty profound for me because he made my
favorite movie, which is Raiders of the Lost Arc. But
the day that I stopped being honest with you is
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the day when I will take this microphone and put
it in a drawer and never open it again. Did
I cut off all my Steven Spielberg sponsorship right now? Probably?
But you know it's okay. Look, he's fine, don't worry
about him. I'm just given my opinion, and I now
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know for a fact who created the haunted ventriloquist doll.
You're not supposed to call him a dummy. But you know,
whatever named Kennedy that I have, this has been years
in the making. And one guy told me that he
thought he knew who made it, and turns out he
was wrong. And I now have a man who has
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gone on the record and said, we made this at
our shop. I'm and I'm going to tell you as
much as I know now about how this amazing haunted
doll named Kennedy, this ventriloical figure, you know, ended up
in my living room. But you know, it's funny because
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when I was going through this respiratory infection or whatever
the heck is going on here, you know, I'm laying
there taking all these pills and stuff, trying to get
this take care of, watching TV, feeling feeling pretty terrible.
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I mean, how are you feeling today? I bet I
bet some of you listening right now are feeling terrible
or at least not one hundred percent. And I was
watching the History Channel. I love the History Channel. They
are they have maintained some very high quality content all
these years. So always happy to watch the History Channel.
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And there's a show called History's Greatest Warriors. So they
go through and they talk about well, like it could
be the Spartans, or it could be uh, what was
it still Team six. Sorry, my mind's still a little
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bit foggy here, you know. And so I was watching
this one about the Samurai and this expert comes on
and he starts talking about the here's what we know
about the Samurai warriors of Japan. There were basically like
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manuals that were kind of written for the samurais are
going all the way back, you know, hundreds of years ago.
One of them was by a man named Musashi, and
basically Musashi said, look, before you go into battle, it's
very important for you to meditate and for you to
think about the fact that all you have to do
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is kill the man in front of you. If you
think about the fact that you're going into a battle
and there are all these other people, if there's all
this other stuff to do, you're gonna get overwhelmed and
you're gonna freak out. There's no way around it. So
part of the training is to just focus on the
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single obstacle that you have in front of you. Find
that guy who's in front of you and cut his
head off focus, and it kind of reminds me of
what we talked about often when it comes to law
of attraction, that energy flows where attention goes. And I
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was thinking about that in terms of battle, because life
really is a battle, isn't it. I mean, we all
know how the story ends. Hopefully we all end up
in heaven, but one way or another, you know, we
move on. This is a temporary experience, and so I
was thinking about the fact, like, you know, no matter
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what you're up against in life, that the Samurai code,
which worked for them for a long long time and
even to this day, is it that's pretty much the
way you should live your life. Because you know a
lot of people they talk about having anxiety issues an ADHD,
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and they're taking drugs, and all I can tell you
is that, yeah, there's a lot going on out there
and it's overwhelming, and it doesn't matter. Everybody has a
different experience. But think about the way of the Samurai.
Just don't think if you think about everything all at once,
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it's too much. And then what you really have to
do is start like breaking it down into little pieces
and you deal with one little piece at a time.
Whether it's like me right now, we're getting over this
respiratory infection I've had. Or maybe you're having a financial problem,
maybe you have an addiction of some kind, maybe you
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have a relationship problem. The only thing you can do
is break it down into one little piece and try
to deal with that. And it's funny because I was
born October twenty fifth of nineteen seventy six, so I'm
going to be fifty coming up this October twenty fifth,
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and I'm reflecting on my life and I'm thinking about
sort of how I want to proceed from here, because
it's weird. I was in a restaurant recently and I
was talking to the owner and he had just opened
the restaurant, and he was a middle aged man, and
I said something about being, you know, middle aged, and
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he said, well, what is that? And I said huh,
And he goes, what is middle aged? And I go, well,
I don't know, probably like forty five or something. I
don't know what the average age of a person is.
But you know what's weird. If you look back throughout
all of human history, all of human history, the average
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age is about thirty thirty years old. So if you've
made it past thirty you've beaten the odds in all
of human history, and you always hear about the exceptions.
But I was thinking about, like this code that the
samurai lived by, and how that may help you in life.
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When I was a kid, there was this magazine called
Ninja Magazine. I love that magazine. I would go to
the local grocery store. It was called well it's still there.
It's huge. It's called Ingles there in western North Carolina
where I grew up, and you would find on the
shelves when I was a kid, Ninja Magazine. I just
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looked it up and it says that it ran from
nineteen eighty three to nineteen ninety five. I'm surprised it
made it to nineteen ninety five. And I read that
thing because I am a ninja, and I'm the best
ninja you've ever met, because I do not look like
a ninja. If I put on the ninja outfit, you'd
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be like, oh, man, we are screwed this guy. We
got a big ninja coming here. But no, no, I'm
I'm totally in disguise. You would look at me and
I look like Frosty the Snowman walking down the street.
And that's what ninjas are supposed to do. And I
started thinking, however, about like ninjas, samurais and all that
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kind of stuff, and then I thought, you know what,
maybe I should talk about something that I don't think
I've ever really talked about before on this show, and
that is an army manual that was written that inspired
The Men Who Hysteric Goats. I've got it right here,
actual reproduction in my hand. It's called the First Earth
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Battalion Operations Manual Evolutionary Tactics. This is by Jim Channon.
He's no longer with us. I love that movie, The
Men Who Stare At Goats, and I actually have some
weird connections to that movie that I'll tell you about
you in a minute. But uh so I bought a
copy of this thing, and I was like, all right,
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let's look at the weirdest warrior manual that has been produced.
Possibly I don't know, not that I've seen them all,
because I've never been in the military, but this has
got to be one of the weirdest warrior manuals that
has ever been produced. On your dime, if you're a
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taxpayer here in the US for the military, the First
Earth Battalion Operations Manual, What inspired the men who stare
at goats? And what is that even really mean? Even
if you know what it means? Well, look, I've got
some stuff to tell you about. If you like this show,
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dot com. And I keep saying I'm gonna stop inventing stuff,
but I kind of have something that I might be
announcing soon. If you're a subscriber, I have Joshua P. Warren,
and you're listening to Range Things on the iHeartRadio and
Coast to Coast AM parah Normal Podcast Network, and I
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will be right back. Welcome back to Scrange Things on
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the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
I am your host, a wizard of Weird, Joshua P.
Warren beaming into your wormhole. Brain from my studio in
Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden
and every night is silver as yatato zumi. No, it's sume,
isn't it. You know how dogs get the zuomies? Did
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we have a little Chiuaha? She gets the zuomies, So
maybe I should make it zoomis instead of zoos. But
oh man, something something frightening happened during the break. During
the break, I turned around and Colin Firth was in
the corner of my studio and my blood ran cold
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because he had teleported here. And he said, we have
heard what you said about the new movie, and you
will no longer be receiving checks from us. And then
he vanished, and I was like, wait, wait, come back,
because they never gave me any checks to begin with.
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I just wanted my money back from the ticket I
bought for the Imax show. For those of you who
have not seen the movie, Disclosure Day, you don't know
what I'm talking about. If you see it, you'll get
you'll get that joke. But yeah, it was. It was
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one of those movies where and again, I gosh, it
hurts me. It hurts me to say such a thing.
Spielberg used to make magical films and this is not one.
I'll tell you a little bit more about it later,
but hey, you know, you should ever believe anything that
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I tell you because I am a ninja, and I
know that you're thinking like, well, no, you're not exactly.
That's the point. You would never think I'm a ninja,
which is why I'm the perfect ninja. And I started
reading some of these military manuals. You know, it's interesting.
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You may or may not know this, but if you're
hard up for buddy right now, you can get a
ride to your local library if you remember what those are,
and you can go to the section where they have
old military manuals and you can check one of those out,
like a US military manual of any kind, because it's
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public domain, it's government funded public domain. And then you
can take that and then you can put it on
a scanner and scan the whole thing in and then maybe,
if you want to, you write a little commentary or whatever,
upload that to Amazon and hit publish, and now you
can sit there and make money as a publisher off
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of an old military manual. And that's what I have
in front of me. The first Earth Battalion Operations Manual.
You know, it's funny how that the the Samurai before
I get into this the Samurai, because they talk about
the Samurai and this manual. The Samurai operated off of
a code called Bushido Samurai Moral Code concerning Samurai attitudes,
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behavior and lifestyle. HM. Let's see if we can find
what some of their basic beliefs were. Nope, it's not
coming up very easily. I'm going to type this in
right now. See, you can have a podcast. All I
have to do is just give me bousheto talking points
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and uh, okay. The first one is honest, be honest
and sincere hmm. The second one is to be righteous.
The third one has to do a strength forth as leadership. Okay,
well that just sounds like some kind of generic stuff,
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doesn't it. So that's why I was curious about the
first Earth Battalion. You know, by the way, that Ninja
magazine that I used to read when I was a kid,
that was the first there was a There was an
ad in there about chi or key or prana, and
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it was like buy this kit, and you could buy
the kit and they would teach you how to basically
move stuff with your mind, you know, and I'm talking
about now we know it is kind of like the
energy wheel or pin will kind of stuff, but they
were really playing up the Jedi thing. And it was
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one of those deals where you would buy it and
then when the postman arrived, he would come and knock
on your door and you would pay him for it.
Do you remember those days of postal service? Are you
old enough to remember when a postman actually would take
that level of care where he would bring your product
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to your door, knock on it, and then you would
write him a check. And so that was one of
the ways that I got introduced to this whole concept
of like Chi and Praana and all that. So here
we have the first Earth Battalion operations man. And this
was the inspiration of the for the movie called The
Men Who Steric Goats. If you've never seen The Men
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Who Stare It Goats, go watch it. It's a good movie.
And it was written by a man named Well the
It's based on a book written by a man named
John Ronson. And it's funny because John Ronson contacted me
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years ago and asked me if I would be interested
in working with him on taking a celebrity on a
ghost hunt. I used to take celebrities on ghost hunts sometimes,
and I don't like just throwing out celebrity names. You
can look it up if you want. But so John Ronson,
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he's a he's a British American journalist and he wrote
The Men. He published The Men Who Steric Goats in
two thousand and four, so it says he's fifty nine now.
But basically, The Men whoyster At Goats is based upon
this manual that was written by Jim Channon. And you know, nowadays,
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I got to be real careful about what I say
here because we're talking about US military stuff here. So
okay says that movie came out in two thousand and nine.
It's considered a satirical black comedy war film based on
the book by John Ronson. It stars George Clooney, Ewan McGregor,
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Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey. And it's about actual operations
that the US military did in order to incorporate paranormal
topics and to and to practice. So it's called The
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Men Who Stare At Goats because that Okay, now again
I want to make sure I got this. I got
this right here. It's I mean, I know what I know,
but you know, I'm I'm I'm on the radio here. Okay.
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It's called that because apparently there was an operation that
was done by the US military in Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
and I'm from North Carolina. And they would they would
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stare at animals and they would kill them. They would
kill them. Well, I've got I mean, I have all
the information in front of me about the experiment, but
I just you know, again, there's certain things I don't
want to talk about. They get together, these guys, they
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get together and they would look at animals and they
would use psychic power ESP. And they would direct their
psychic power and they would try to kill animals, and
they like to use goats. Now is this true or not? Well,
we're never going to know, but I guess there was something.
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There was enough to it that it broke out of
the cage, so to speak, and it became a topic
of pop culture. So this guy, John Ronson became interested
in that. And what's funny is that I know Colonel
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John Alexander. I actually hired him to do a speaking
engagement for me one time here in Las Vegas. I
think he prefers to be called doctor John Alexander. But
it was funny because he was telling me that in
this movie The Men Who Stare At Goats, that the
George Clooney character was a consolidation of a lot of
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different real people, and he was one of them. So
I bought the thing, the manual that was the impetus
behind all of this, The First Earth Battalion Operations Manual
by Jim Chennon, And well, here's what I can tell
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you about it right off the bat. I'm going to
give you a little more information here in a second,
but this was the name, and he was a lieutenant
colonel who served in Vietnam. Vietnam, he came up with
this idea for a new military of super soldiers he
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called warrior monks. And that kind of sounds cool, doesn't it,
because it's the best of both worlds. You get to
be a monk, but then if you tick if you
get ticked off, you get to kill people. And so
according to this book The Men Who Stare At Goats,
this guy who was this lieutenant Colonel Channon. He spent
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time in the nineteen seventies with a lot of people
who are with what they call the Human Potential Movement,
and he thought to himself, maybe maybe the military is
not about breaking stuff and killing people. Maybe the military
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should be used for a greater peacekeeping, kind of like philosophy.
All right, when we come back, I'm gonna read to
you some stuff from this First Earth Battalion Operations Man,
see what you think about it. Then I'm gonna tell
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you the update I have on other stuff. I'm Joshua P. Warren.
You're listening the Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and
Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I'll be
back after these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things
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on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal
Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua B. Warren, and this
is the show where the unusual becomes usual. I try
to stay positive, but I don't know this is this
is kind of a negative show because I read this
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Army manual and it sucks. I mean, I'm telling you,
if you listen to me, I'm not always going to
try to put you in a good mood. I'm just
gonna try to be as honest as I can with you,
because you hear enough false stuff out there. There's AI everywhere,
and you can't believe anything anymore. And I was a
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guy who was born in the old Smoky Mountains there,
the old Blue Ridge Mountains, and I just grew up
being a regular old dude. And now I have a
microphone and I just kind of tell you the truth
about things. First Earth Battalion operations Manuel when I well,
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my first impression is when I opened this thing up.
I was amazed because I was like, this doesn't look
like any other Army manual I've ever seen, because it
is very highly illustrated, with actually some really cool images.
And I believe that Lauren, my wife, who went through
this and made some notations for me, I think she
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said that the guy who wrote it, Jim Channon, also
illustrated it. If that's the case, then this is a
very very talented man. It looks really cool. It looks
like an old catalog from the nineteen seventies, just the
kind of stuff that I like. But I started trying
to read it, and I'm like, I can't even read
this because a lot of the writing is in I
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don't know. It's like he's it's not typeset, it's just
like he or somebody took a pen and wrote it
as if you were writing a love letter to somebody.
And I find that difficult to read. It's really, really weird.
And I'll just tell you right off the bat, there's
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some stuff in it that I'm not even going to
read because I think that it would be offensive to
certain people nowadays, even though it was meant to not
be offensive. But so here are some of the like
the basic tenets. Okay, I have the capacity and therefore
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the duty to contribute to the development of myself, my associates,
and our planet simultaneously. Right now, I will organize self
supporting high commando groups that will create and perform evolutionary
breakthrough actions on behalf of people and planet one people,
one planet. I will await the time when my group
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can connect naturally with others at higher and higher levels
of awareness and performance. Okay, And it's like, there's a
chart here, states of success What is this? Warren put
a sticky note over it. States of successive successive How
do you say that word? Successive? Expansion, infinitizing, which is
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becoming all things, multiplexing, which is changing characters, navigating, which
is choosing our future, reasoning, sorting our options, belonging, working
to fit in, and functioning, which is using our equipment.
And you're like, okay, well when do we get to
that part? And and and then there's a I'm reading
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I'm actually reading from an army manual. Folks says here
a new class of humans is emerging who refuse to
submit to the ever pervasive cultural trance. A cultural trance
is a collection of perceptions that cause the sleeping human
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to believe they have no power to change themselves or
the world around them. Okay, another section with a big,
weird looking chart with like a naked man in the
middle of it. Yeah. One area is body work. So
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level one is you can take a fall. Level two
is you can take a blow. Level three, Level three
is you can do a ten kilometer under an hour.
Level four is has a belt in a martial art.
Level five is has a black belt in the martial art,
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and level six it has two black belts. Good lord,
So I'm flipping through this thing and this is like,
you know, one hundred and twenty five pages or something,
and I mean, and it looks cool, it really does.
I mean, this looks like it looks like a catalog
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that Tim Beckley, my old pal Tim Beckley, or you
know somebody like that, would have produced to sell you
something so artistically. I like it. But I you know,
Lauren read through this thing and she she got to
kick out of it. And I've been flipping through it
and reading here and there, and I'm telling you, guys,
I think that this is just a bunch of crap.
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Now I don't, but I don't say that in a
mean way, but I know that it sounded mean when
I just said it. I'm thinking about this in terms
of being a soldier, all right, a person who has
to go out and you know, break things and kill people.
So you need to know. Just tell me exactly the
specific directions of you know, how I keep my water sterile,
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you know what, what how if I have to forage
what mushrooms may or may not be safe? Uh? You know,
how do I properly skin and you know, gut creatures
before I eat them? And you know, like really practical stuff.
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And I don't see any of that in here. And
I don't know how much to the US, excuse me,
the US military budget. I don't know how much the
Pentagon or whatever paid this guy to write this, But
it's cool, it's interesting, and it's weird. But to me,
if I were lost in the woods, you know that
movie The Edge. Have you ever seen that movie with
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Anthony Hopkins? Great movie. I love that movie. If you're
if you're crashed in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness,
you would use this as kindle for your fire. All right,
there's no actual useful information in here, and and you
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may or may not find interesting. But I bet you
that there are a lot of people listening to me
right now who have seen that movie The Men who
Stare at Goats, And I do recommend that you watch
the movie, but you've never looked deeper into it to
sort of see why that it was created and why
it was considered a satire. And now you know, we've
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come from Samurais who were told, like, meditate on cutting
the guy's head off in front of you. That's your goal.
Your goal is to find any way you can to
cut this guy's head off. And if you fail, then
you're dead, you know, because one of y'all are getting
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your head cut off or you have to commit sepucha
or whatever. We've come from that to this and this
is an example of how that the paranormal and the
metaphysical has a great place in the world for civilian
But I don't think that, you know, we should be
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incorporating stuff like that into survival manuals. But you know,
like Jeff said, I'm just an idiot with a microphone.
The men who stare at go do you think that
they could do that? Do you think you could stare
at a creature? I mean, think about that. If I
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put a hamster in front of you right now. Do
you think that you're powerful in those that you could
sit there and stare at that thing until it dropped
over dead. Well, I'm not asking anybody to do it,
but it would be interesting if some of you email
me and say, yeah, I've done it. Yeah, kill a hamster.
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I stared that thing to death. Well, anyway, the show's
called Strange Things. That's what I talk about, Strange things.
And you know, recently I got a new doll. I
talked about that before. We called her Delia, and right
after after Lauren and I got her, we thought maybe
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she needed a better name, and I love Lauren, and
so we decided to call Delia Laurel and give her
a loving name. And so we have switched the name
of the pig doll from Delia to Laurel. And she actually,
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Lauren bought this pig doll its own little chair. It's amazing,
it's own little chair. It looks like it was made
for for the doll. And she looks absolutely a home there.
And so we are we're reversing the energy. Like it
may it may be that there was maybe she didn't
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like being called Delia, right, But in the meantime, I
have made some real progress regarding my haunted doll. Kennedy
of ventrilloical figure as they call him, and this doll,
very very well made, very very handsome, little ventriloquist dummy
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was sent to the offices at well at Premiere Radio
Networks there in Los Angeles. You know, this show is
part of Coast to Coast AM and Coast to Coast
AM is is sent out there by Premiere Radio Networks
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and they have an office in Los Angeles. And so
George Nori and Tom dan Heiser they got set this
doll to the office by somebody who said it was haunted. Now,
unfortunately I don't have the act original letter, but dan
Heiser turned around and sent it to me, and I've
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been studying it and it's taken me years to finally
figure out where the heck this dog actually came from.
When we come back from the break, i'll tell you
about that, and then yeah, I'll give you a few
thoughts on the Disclosure Day movie if you need a
little bit more insight. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening
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to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
A and Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back.
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Welcome back to the final seven of this edition of
Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast
AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Lauren,
And I know I've been talking about some negative stuff.
That's okay. You know, I'm getting over a cold or
a sinus infection or whatever it is. And I watched
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a movie that sucked, and I read a book that sucks.
But I got some positive news for you. Here's what's positive.
So I have been looking for years into the mystery
of the origin of Kennedy, the haunted ventriloqual figure as
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they call them. You know, they don't like to be
called dummies, so I don't call him that, and I'll
do a more thorough follow up on this in the future.
But here's what I can tell you. I had originally
gotten in touch with an elderly Englishman who used to
be a puppeteer for Jim Henson because I thought that
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maybe he had created Kennedy. And no, he uh, well, well,
he said he wasn't sure. He wasn't even in a
position to receive an email with the picture of it.
But he referred me to an American ventriloquist puppeteer and said,
(39:42):
this guy knows everything. So I got in touch with
the American guy and he said, oh, it came from
this Indian puppeteer named Gody. But then I got in
touch with Godi and his son and and they're like, no,
we didn't make this, So that wasn't right. But then
(40:07):
I was sent the American puppeteer sent me a picture
of a lady using a very similar doll in one
of her routines and said, you know, this is probably
from the same mold. So I contacted her. Now you
have to understand, this is a very weird thing, and
(40:29):
I'm a total stranger. And you know how it is
these days, you get an email from somebody you don't
know if it's a scam or what it is. I
emailed this puppeteer. Well, I'll just I'm just gonna say
puppeteer to keep this simple, Okay, I'm tired of saying
Ventrilla wist and Ventriillac will. And her name is in
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Dustry I N d U s h r Ee Ravendra
r A v e E N d r A Industry
Ravenda and she was on India's Got Talent and she
was using a puppet very similar to Kennedy. And so
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I contacted her and said, would you mind telling me
if you can identify this? And she was just fantastic
and got right back to me. She now lives here
in the US. She's from India and she she lives
here and she goes, yep, you know, I know exactly
who made this, and she was right. She told me
that it came from a shop in Mumbai, India. And
(41:37):
I have no idea if I'm pronouncing any of this
stuff right, owned by a man named Anand Tayada A
n A N d t A y A d E
Anand Tayati. I'm looking at his email right now. He
sent me He is, says, magician and mentalist, and he
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also has kind of a motivational speaking a program that
I believe he does. You should if you're if you're
in the let me tell you something. Industry. Let's see
here the ventriloquist. I was telling you about this lady
Industry Ravendra. I think she lives here in the US
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right now. And if you're looking for an amazing ventriloquist
for a show, she's your She's your Huckleberry. Okay, you
should contact her. And this guy a non Toya Day.
He wrote me back and he says, yes, yes, we
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made this. We made this. He says. The doll is
made of paper mache, has five movements, raising eyebrows, moving eyeballs,
linking left eye, blinking right eye, moving jaw. The jaw
is made of leather, hence it looks real, so it's
not a cut jaw. You can creatively change the looks
(43:07):
of the doll by making it wear spectacles or attach
a mustache or a cap, et cetera. But he doesn't
say anything about you know, mystical stuff, which is fine.
So I can now tell you that I have solved
the mystery once and for all. This was Kennedy. The
haunted doll came from this shop in Mumbai, India run
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by a man named anand Teyade t A Yade who
is a magician and mentalist. Now there's no way at
this point for us to know how that doll made
that travel from Mumbai, India to my living room. Tom
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dan Heiser told me, you know, he came with a letter.
But right after that they had to move their offices
in Los Angeles and that this letter just vanished. I mean,
it probably ended up in the garbage. So we may
never know what that letter said. But he said the
letter wasn't that important anyway. So there's a there's a
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big update for you if you follow my work on
this haunted you know ventriloical figure that I have named Kennedy.
So okay, the last thing is, here's all right, let's
talk let's talk about the movie, all right. Here's I
love Steven Spielberg and his works, and I mean I
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have displays in my house that are based upon his work.
And I mean, you know, Close Encounters was unbelievable. Everybody
loves draws et I mean, we can get into even
more modern stuff. I mean, I mean, to me, even
Jurassic Park doesn't seem like it was that. I guess
(44:59):
it was like ninety three. I loved for the Worlds
and uh, you know, I even loved his stuff that
it's not like popcorn material like Schindler's List. I mean,
like I he is. I think he is definitely the
greatest filmmaker of all time. And maybe that's the problem.
Maybe my expectations were way too high because I had
(45:24):
read some people's reviews who said, like, uh, yeah, this
movie is lackluster to say the least. And I bought
you know, Imax, like the Primo Imax seats here in
Las Vegas, Nevada, and I think after the first two
(45:47):
minutes I turned to Lauren and I said, this movie
sucks and I'm sorry, yeah, and uh, you know, the
whole rest of the time, it was I thought that
it was boring. In most cases. I did like one
(46:11):
of the things like, okay, so I'll just tell you this,
and I guess it's a little bit of a spoiler,
but I mean, like one of the things is that
when aliens come to abduct you, that they don't just
come and drag you out, kicking and screaming and probing you.
I could bring up some names here, but I want that,
(46:33):
you know, they come to you in a nice, soft,
comforting way, supposedly and keep you calm, and that's how
they abduct you. So that's an interesting way of portraying
that that I've never really seen in a movie before.
So I liked I did like that, but ultimately like
(46:56):
it seemed like this should have this is a movie
that should have come out twenty years ago, and it just, uh,
it seemed uninspired to me, and it's it's it seemed like,
you know, there was just nothing creative there that for me,
that that made me think differently about about the world.
(47:17):
And so afterward, Lauren and I we ended up talking
to the general manager of the theater, and who is
quite a bit younger than me, but I was asking
him like, so, what's the what's the reaction been like?
And he goes, eh, you know, he says, it's been
real mixed. Uh huh. Some people liked it. Some people well,
(47:44):
so I'm not afraid to give you my opinion. If
you disagree with me, so be it. And I have
read that there are people out there who were deeply
touched by this movie, and that is it is reawaken
some of their memories when I'm about being abducted and whatnot,
(48:06):
and they're having conversations about it. And maybe that was
what the whole point of the movie was, but it
just as a movie. He could have started from scratch
and told the whole story of how where the aliens
came from, the whole backstory and how this shape civilization,
and that would have been an awesome movie. But there's
(48:30):
my my review for you. All right, my friends, enough
of that. If you can close your eyes, take a
deep breath, let's meditate together on what I call the
good Fortune tone. That's it for this edition of the show.
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lot more. On this edition of the show, Samurai Magic
and the Men who Stare at Goats? Do you know
what that really means? I am, I'm just not getting
my voice back. You may or may not know that.
When I was traveling recently, I picked up a bug
(01:41):
in Texas and it was hard, hard on the lungs.
You know, I had to take a bunch of antibiotics
and everything, and so just now feeling like I could
talk properly again. And it's good timing because I have
so much stuff to talk about. Yes, yes, I saw
(02:04):
the movie Disclosure day. I even talked to the general
manager at the Imax theater where I saw it. And
you know, I'm just going to tell you a spoiler alert.
I thought it sucked. I will tell you more about
why that is the case later on. I know that
(02:24):
by the time you hear this, it'll probably be old news.
But I didn't so and you might be like, oh
my gosh, Josh, you just said a Steven Spielberg movie sucked,
which is pretty profound for me because he made my
favorite movie, which is Raiders of the Lost Arc. But
the day that I stopped being honest with you is
(02:46):
the day when I will take this microphone and put
it in a drawer and never open it again. Did
I cut off all my Steven Spielberg sponsorship right now? Probably?
But you know it's okay. Look, he's fine, don't worry
about him. I'm just given my opinion, and I now
(03:08):
know for a fact who created the haunted ventriloquist doll.
You're not supposed to call him a dummy. But you know,
whatever named Kennedy that I have, this has been years
in the making. And one guy told me that he
thought he knew who made it, and turns out he
was wrong. And I now have a man who has
(03:29):
gone on the record and said, we made this at
our shop. I'm and I'm going to tell you as
much as I know now about how this amazing haunted
doll named Kennedy, this ventriloical figure, you know, ended up
in my living room. But you know, it's funny because
(03:49):
when I was going through this respiratory infection or whatever
the heck is going on here, you know, I'm laying
there taking all these pills and stuff, trying to get
this take care of, watching TV, feeling feeling pretty terrible.
(04:09):
I mean, how are you feeling today? I bet I
bet some of you listening right now are feeling terrible
or at least not one hundred percent. And I was
watching the History Channel. I love the History Channel. They
are they have maintained some very high quality content all
these years. So always happy to watch the History Channel.
(04:33):
And there's a show called History's Greatest Warriors. So they
go through and they talk about well, like it could
be the Spartans, or it could be uh, what was
it still Team six. Sorry, my mind's still a little
(04:57):
bit foggy here, you know. And so I was watching
this one about the Samurai and this expert comes on
and he starts talking about the here's what we know
about the Samurai warriors of Japan. There were basically like
(05:20):
manuals that were kind of written for the samurais are
going all the way back, you know, hundreds of years ago.
One of them was by a man named Musashi, and
basically Musashi said, look, before you go into battle, it's
very important for you to meditate and for you to
think about the fact that all you have to do
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is kill the man in front of you. If you
think about the fact that you're going into a battle
and there are all these other people, if there's all
this other stuff to do, you're gonna get overwhelmed and
you're gonna freak out. There's no way around it. So
part of the training is to just focus on the
(06:07):
single obstacle that you have in front of you. Find
that guy who's in front of you and cut his
head off focus, and it kind of reminds me of
what we talked about often when it comes to law
of attraction, that energy flows where attention goes. And I
(06:30):
was thinking about that in terms of battle, because life
really is a battle, isn't it. I mean, we all
know how the story ends. Hopefully we all end up
in heaven, but one way or another, you know, we
move on. This is a temporary experience, and so I
was thinking about the fact, like, you know, no matter
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what you're up against in life, that the Samurai code,
which worked for them for a long long time and
even to this day, is it that's pretty much the
way you should live your life. Because you know a
lot of people they talk about having anxiety issues an ADHD,
(07:13):
and they're taking drugs, and all I can tell you
is that, yeah, there's a lot going on out there
and it's overwhelming, and it doesn't matter. Everybody has a
different experience. But think about the way of the Samurai.
Just don't think if you think about everything all at once,
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it's too much. And then what you really have to
do is start like breaking it down into little pieces
and you deal with one little piece at a time.
Whether it's like me right now, we're getting over this
respiratory infection I've had. Or maybe you're having a financial problem,
maybe you have an addiction of some kind, maybe you
(07:56):
have a relationship problem. The only thing you can do
is break it down into one little piece and try
to deal with that. And it's funny because I was
born October twenty fifth of nineteen seventy six, so I'm
going to be fifty coming up this October twenty fifth,
(08:21):
and I'm reflecting on my life and I'm thinking about
sort of how I want to proceed from here, because
it's weird. I was in a restaurant recently and I
was talking to the owner and he had just opened
the restaurant, and he was a middle aged man, and
I said something about being, you know, middle aged, and
(08:43):
he said, well, what is that? And I said huh,
And he goes, what is middle aged? And I go, well,
I don't know, probably like forty five or something. I
don't know what the average age of a person is.
But you know what's weird. If you look back throughout
all of human history, all of human history, the average
(09:07):
age is about thirty thirty years old. So if you've
made it past thirty you've beaten the odds in all
of human history, and you always hear about the exceptions.
But I was thinking about, like this code that the
samurai lived by, and how that may help you in life.
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When I was a kid, there was this magazine called
Ninja Magazine. I love that magazine. I would go to
the local grocery store. It was called well it's still there.
It's huge. It's called Ingles there in western North Carolina
where I grew up, and you would find on the
shelves when I was a kid, Ninja Magazine. I just
(09:52):
looked it up and it says that it ran from
nineteen eighty three to nineteen ninety five. I'm surprised it
made it to nineteen ninety five. And I read that
thing because I am a ninja, and I'm the best
ninja you've ever met, because I do not look like
a ninja. If I put on the ninja outfit, you'd
(10:18):
be like, oh, man, we are screwed this guy. We
got a big ninja coming here. But no, no, I'm
I'm totally in disguise. You would look at me and
I look like Frosty the Snowman walking down the street.
And that's what ninjas are supposed to do. And I
started thinking, however, about like ninjas, samurais and all that
(10:42):
kind of stuff, and then I thought, you know what,
maybe I should talk about something that I don't think
I've ever really talked about before on this show, and
that is an army manual that was written that inspired
The Men Who Hysteric Goats. I've got it right here,
actual reproduction in my hand. It's called the First Earth
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Battalion Operations Manual Evolutionary Tactics. This is by Jim Channon.
He's no longer with us. I love that movie, The
Men Who Stare At Goats, and I actually have some
weird connections to that movie that I'll tell you about
you in a minute. But uh so I bought a
copy of this thing, and I was like, all right,
(11:26):
let's look at the weirdest warrior manual that has been produced.
Possibly I don't know, not that I've seen them all,
because I've never been in the military, but this has
got to be one of the weirdest warrior manuals that
has ever been produced. On your dime, if you're a
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taxpayer here in the US for the military, the First
Earth Battalion Operations Manual, What inspired the men who stare
at goats? And what is that even really mean? Even
if you know what it means? Well, look, I've got
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I am your host, a wizard of Weird, Joshua P.
Warren beaming into your wormhole. Brain from my studio in
Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden
and every night is silver as yatato zumi. No, it's sume,
isn't it. You know how dogs get the zuomies? Did
(13:51):
we have a little Chiuaha? She gets the zuomies, So
maybe I should make it zoomis instead of zoos. But
oh man, something something frightening happened during the break. During
the break, I turned around and Colin Firth was in
the corner of my studio and my blood ran cold
(14:15):
because he had teleported here. And he said, we have
heard what you said about the new movie, and you
will no longer be receiving checks from us. And then
he vanished, and I was like, wait, wait, come back,
because they never gave me any checks to begin with.
(14:35):
I just wanted my money back from the ticket I
bought for the Imax show. For those of you who
have not seen the movie, Disclosure Day, you don't know
what I'm talking about. If you see it, you'll get
you'll get that joke. But yeah, it was. It was
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one of those movies where and again, I gosh, it
hurts me. It hurts me to say such a thing.
Spielberg used to make magical films and this is not one.
I'll tell you a little bit more about it later,
but hey, you know, you should ever believe anything that
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I tell you because I am a ninja, and I
know that you're thinking like, well, no, you're not exactly.
That's the point. You would never think I'm a ninja,
which is why I'm the perfect ninja. And I started
reading some of these military manuals. You know, it's interesting.
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You may or may not know this, but if you're
hard up for buddy right now, you can get a
ride to your local library if you remember what those are,
and you can go to the section where they have
old military manuals and you can check one of those out,
like a US military manual of any kind, because it's
(16:03):
public domain, it's government funded public domain. And then you
can take that and then you can put it on
a scanner and scan the whole thing in and then maybe,
if you want to, you write a little commentary or whatever,
upload that to Amazon and hit publish, and now you
can sit there and make money as a publisher off
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of an old military manual. And that's what I have
in front of me. The first Earth Battalion Operations Manual.
You know, it's funny how that the the Samurai before
I get into this the Samurai, because they talk about
the Samurai and this manual. The Samurai operated off of
a code called Bushido Samurai Moral Code concerning Samurai attitudes,
(16:54):
behavior and lifestyle. HM. Let's see if we can find
what some of their basic beliefs were. Nope, it's not
coming up very easily. I'm going to type this in
right now. See, you can have a podcast. All I
have to do is just give me bousheto talking points
(17:20):
and uh, okay. The first one is honest, be honest
and sincere hmm. The second one is to be righteous.
The third one has to do a strength forth as leadership. Okay,
well that just sounds like some kind of generic stuff,
(17:40):
doesn't it. So that's why I was curious about the
first Earth Battalion. You know, by the way, that Ninja
magazine that I used to read when I was a kid,
that was the first there was a There was an
ad in there about chi or key or prana, and
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it was like buy this kit, and you could buy
the kit and they would teach you how to basically
move stuff with your mind, you know, and I'm talking
about now we know it is kind of like the
energy wheel or pin will kind of stuff, but they
were really playing up the Jedi thing. And it was
(18:22):
one of those deals where you would buy it and
then when the postman arrived, he would come and knock
on your door and you would pay him for it.
Do you remember those days of postal service? Are you
old enough to remember when a postman actually would take
that level of care where he would bring your product
(18:44):
to your door, knock on it, and then you would
write him a check. And so that was one of
the ways that I got introduced to this whole concept
of like Chi and Praana and all that. So here
we have the first Earth Battalion operations man. And this
was the inspiration of the for the movie called The
Men Who Steric Goats. If you've never seen The Men
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Who Stare It Goats, go watch it. It's a good movie.
And it was written by a man named Well the
It's based on a book written by a man named
John Ronson. And it's funny because John Ronson contacted me
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years ago and asked me if I would be interested
in working with him on taking a celebrity on a
ghost hunt. I used to take celebrities on ghost hunts sometimes,
and I don't like just throwing out celebrity names. You
can look it up if you want. But so John Ronson,
(19:46):
he's a he's a British American journalist and he wrote
The Men. He published The Men Who Steric Goats in
two thousand and four, so it says he's fifty nine now.
But basically, The Men whoyster At Goats is based upon
this manual that was written by Jim Channon. And you know, nowadays,
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I got to be real careful about what I say
here because we're talking about US military stuff here. So
okay says that movie came out in two thousand and nine.
It's considered a satirical black comedy war film based on
the book by John Ronson. It stars George Clooney, Ewan McGregor,
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Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey. And it's about actual operations
that the US military did in order to incorporate paranormal
topics and to and to practice. So it's called The
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Men Who Stare At Goats because that Okay, now again
I want to make sure I got this. I got
this right here. It's I mean, I know what I know,
but you know, I'm I'm I'm on the radio here. Okay.
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It's called that because apparently there was an operation that
was done by the US military in Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
and I'm from North Carolina. And they would they would
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stare at animals and they would kill them. They would
kill them. Well, I've got I mean, I have all
the information in front of me about the experiment, but
I just you know, again, there's certain things I don't
want to talk about. They get together, these guys, they
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get together and they would look at animals and they
would use psychic power ESP. And they would direct their
psychic power and they would try to kill animals, and
they like to use goats. Now is this true or not? Well,
we're never going to know, but I guess there was something.
(22:29):
There was enough to it that it broke out of
the cage, so to speak, and it became a topic
of pop culture. So this guy, John Ronson became interested
in that. And what's funny is that I know Colonel
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John Alexander. I actually hired him to do a speaking
engagement for me one time here in Las Vegas. I
think he prefers to be called doctor John Alexander. But
it was funny because he was telling me that in
this movie The Men Who Stare At Goats, that the
George Clooney character was a consolidation of a lot of
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different real people, and he was one of them. So
I bought the thing, the manual that was the impetus
behind all of this, The First Earth Battalion Operations Manual
by Jim Chennon, And well, here's what I can tell
(23:35):
you about it right off the bat. I'm going to
give you a little more information here in a second,
but this was the name, and he was a lieutenant
colonel who served in Vietnam. Vietnam, he came up with
this idea for a new military of super soldiers he
(24:00):
called warrior monks. And that kind of sounds cool, doesn't it,
because it's the best of both worlds. You get to
be a monk, but then if you tick if you
get ticked off, you get to kill people. And so
according to this book The Men Who Stare At Goats,
this guy who was this lieutenant Colonel Channon. He spent
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time in the nineteen seventies with a lot of people
who are with what they call the Human Potential Movement,
and he thought to himself, maybe maybe the military is
not about breaking stuff and killing people. Maybe the military
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should be used for a greater peacekeeping, kind of like philosophy.
All right, when we come back, I'm gonna read to
you some stuff from this First Earth Battalion Operations Man,
see what you think about it. Then I'm gonna tell
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you the update I have on other stuff. I'm Joshua P. Warren.
You're listening the Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and
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back after these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things
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on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal
Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua B. Warren, and this
is the show where the unusual becomes usual. I try
to stay positive, but I don't know this is this
is kind of a negative show because I read this
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Army manual and it sucks. I mean, I'm telling you,
if you listen to me, I'm not always going to
try to put you in a good mood. I'm just
gonna try to be as honest as I can with you,
because you hear enough false stuff out there. There's AI everywhere,
and you can't believe anything anymore. And I was a
(26:34):
guy who was born in the old Smoky Mountains there,
the old Blue Ridge Mountains, and I just grew up
being a regular old dude. And now I have a
microphone and I just kind of tell you the truth
about things. First Earth Battalion operations Manuel when I well,
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my first impression is when I opened this thing up.
I was amazed because I was like, this doesn't look
like any other Army manual I've ever seen, because it
is very highly illustrated, with actually some really cool images.
And I believe that Lauren, my wife, who went through
this and made some notations for me, I think she
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said that the guy who wrote it, Jim Channon, also
illustrated it. If that's the case, then this is a
very very talented man. It looks really cool. It looks
like an old catalog from the nineteen seventies, just the
kind of stuff that I like. But I started trying
to read it, and I'm like, I can't even read
this because a lot of the writing is in I
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don't know. It's like he's it's not typeset, it's just
like he or somebody took a pen and wrote it
as if you were writing a love letter to somebody.
And I find that difficult to read. It's really, really weird.
And I'll just tell you right off the bat, there's
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some stuff in it that I'm not even going to
read because I think that it would be offensive to
certain people nowadays, even though it was meant to not
be offensive. But so here are some of the like
the basic tenets. Okay, I have the capacity and therefore
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the duty to contribute to the development of myself, my associates,
and our planet simultaneously. Right now, I will organize self
supporting high commando groups that will create and perform evolutionary
breakthrough actions on behalf of people and planet one people,
one planet. I will await the time when my group
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can connect naturally with others at higher and higher levels
of awareness and performance. Okay, And it's like, there's a
chart here, states of success What is this? Warren put
a sticky note over it. States of successive successive How
do you say that word? Successive? Expansion, infinitizing, which is
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becoming all things, multiplexing, which is changing characters, navigating, which
is choosing our future, reasoning, sorting our options, belonging, working
to fit in, and functioning, which is using our equipment.
And you're like, okay, well when do we get to
that part? And and and then there's a I'm reading
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I'm actually reading from an army manual. Folks says here
a new class of humans is emerging who refuse to
submit to the ever pervasive cultural trance. A cultural trance
is a collection of perceptions that cause the sleeping human
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to believe they have no power to change themselves or
the world around them. Okay, another section with a big,
weird looking chart with like a naked man in the
middle of it. Yeah. One area is body work. So
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level one is you can take a fall. Level two
is you can take a blow. Level three, Level three
is you can do a ten kilometer under an hour.
Level four is has a belt in a martial art.
Level five is has a black belt in the martial art,
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and level six it has two black belts. Good lord,
So I'm flipping through this thing and this is like,
you know, one hundred and twenty five pages or something,
and I mean, and it looks cool, it really does.
I mean, this looks like it looks like a catalog
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that Tim Beckley, my old pal Tim Beckley, or you
know somebody like that, would have produced to sell you
something so artistically. I like it. But I you know,
Lauren read through this thing and she she got to
kick out of it. And I've been flipping through it
and reading here and there, and I'm telling you, guys,
I think that this is just a bunch of crap.
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Now I don't, but I don't say that in a
mean way, but I know that it sounded mean when
I just said it. I'm thinking about this in terms
of being a soldier, all right, a person who has
to go out and you know, break things and kill people.
So you need to know. Just tell me exactly the
specific directions of you know, how I keep my water sterile,
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you know what, what how if I have to forage
what mushrooms may or may not be safe? Uh? You know,
how do I properly skin and you know, gut creatures
before I eat them? And you know, like really practical stuff.
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And I don't see any of that in here. And
I don't know how much to the US, excuse me,
the US military budget. I don't know how much the
Pentagon or whatever paid this guy to write this, But
it's cool, it's interesting, and it's weird. But to me,
if I were lost in the woods, you know that
movie The Edge. Have you ever seen that movie with
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Anthony Hopkins? Great movie. I love that movie. If you're
if you're crashed in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness,
you would use this as kindle for your fire. All right,
there's no actual useful information in here, and and you
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may or may not find interesting. But I bet you
that there are a lot of people listening to me
right now who have seen that movie The Men who
Stare at Goats, And I do recommend that you watch
the movie, but you've never looked deeper into it to
sort of see why that it was created and why
it was considered a satire. And now you know, we've
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come from Samurais who were told, like, meditate on cutting
the guy's head off in front of you. That's your goal.
Your goal is to find any way you can to
cut this guy's head off. And if you fail, then
you're dead, you know, because one of y'all are getting
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your head cut off or you have to commit sepucha
or whatever. We've come from that to this and this
is an example of how that the paranormal and the
metaphysical has a great place in the world for civilian
But I don't think that, you know, we should be
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incorporating stuff like that into survival manuals. But you know,
like Jeff said, I'm just an idiot with a microphone.
The men who stare at go do you think that
they could do that? Do you think you could stare
at a creature? I mean, think about that. If I
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put a hamster in front of you right now. Do
you think that you're powerful in those that you could
sit there and stare at that thing until it dropped
over dead. Well, I'm not asking anybody to do it,
but it would be interesting if some of you email
me and say, yeah, I've done it. Yeah, kill a hamster.
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I stared that thing to death. Well, anyway, the show's
called Strange Things. That's what I talk about, Strange things.
And you know, recently I got a new doll. I
talked about that before. We called her Delia, and right
after after Lauren and I got her, we thought maybe
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she needed a better name, and I love Lauren, and
so we decided to call Delia Laurel and give her
a loving name. And so we have switched the name
of the pig doll from Delia to Laurel. And she actually,
(35:38):
Lauren bought this pig doll its own little chair. It's amazing,
it's own little chair. It looks like it was made
for for the doll. And she looks absolutely a home there.
And so we are we're reversing the energy. Like it
may it may be that there was maybe she didn't
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like being called Delia, right, But in the meantime, I
have made some real progress regarding my haunted doll. Kennedy
of ventrilloical figure as they call him, and this doll,
very very well made, very very handsome, little ventriloquist dummy
(36:25):
was sent to the offices at well at Premiere Radio
Networks there in Los Angeles. You know, this show is
part of Coast to Coast AM and Coast to Coast
AM is is sent out there by Premiere Radio Networks
(36:45):
and they have an office in Los Angeles. And so
George Nori and Tom dan Heiser they got set this
doll to the office by somebody who said it was haunted. Now,
unfortunately I don't have the act original letter, but dan
Heiser turned around and sent it to me, and I've
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been studying it and it's taken me years to finally
figure out where the heck this dog actually came from.
When we come back from the break, i'll tell you
about that, and then yeah, I'll give you a few
thoughts on the Disclosure Day movie if you need a
little bit more insight. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening
(37:30):
to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
A and Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back.
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Welcome back to the final seven of this edition of
Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast
AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Lauren,
And I know I've been talking about some negative stuff.
That's okay. You know, I'm getting over a cold or
a sinus infection or whatever it is. And I watched
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a movie that sucked, and I read a book that sucks.
But I got some positive news for you. Here's what's positive.
So I have been looking for years into the mystery
of the origin of Kennedy, the haunted ventriloqual figure as
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they call them. You know, they don't like to be
called dummies, so I don't call him that, and I'll
do a more thorough follow up on this in the future.
But here's what I can tell you. I had originally
gotten in touch with an elderly Englishman who used to
be a puppeteer for Jim Henson because I thought that
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maybe he had created Kennedy. And no, he uh, well, well,
he said he wasn't sure. He wasn't even in a
position to receive an email with the picture of it.
But he referred me to an American ventriloquist puppeteer and said,
(39:42):
this guy knows everything. So I got in touch with
the American guy and he said, oh, it came from
this Indian puppeteer named Gody. But then I got in
touch with Godi and his son and and they're like, no,
we didn't make this, So that wasn't right. But then
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I was sent the American puppeteer sent me a picture
of a lady using a very similar doll in one
of her routines and said, you know, this is probably
from the same mold. So I contacted her. Now you
have to understand, this is a very weird thing, and
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I'm a total stranger. And you know how it is
these days, you get an email from somebody you don't
know if it's a scam or what it is. I
emailed this puppeteer. Well, I'll just I'm just gonna say
puppeteer to keep this simple, Okay, I'm tired of saying
Ventrilla wist and Ventriillac will. And her name is in
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Dustry I N d U s h r Ee Ravendra
r A v e E N d r A Industry
Ravenda and she was on India's Got Talent and she
was using a puppet very similar to Kennedy. And so
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I contacted her and said, would you mind telling me
if you can identify this? And she was just fantastic
and got right back to me. She now lives here
in the US. She's from India and she she lives
here and she goes, yep, you know, I know exactly
who made this, and she was right. She told me
that it came from a shop in Mumbai, India. And
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I have no idea if I'm pronouncing any of this
stuff right, owned by a man named Anand Tayada A
n A N d t A y A d E
Anand Tayati. I'm looking at his email right now. He
sent me He is, says, magician and mentalist, and he
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also has kind of a motivational speaking a program that
I believe he does. You should if you're if you're
in the let me tell you something. Industry. Let's see
here the ventriloquist. I was telling you about this lady
Industry Ravendra. I think she lives here in the US
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right now. And if you're looking for an amazing ventriloquist
for a show, she's your She's your Huckleberry. Okay, you
should contact her. And this guy a non Toya Day.
He wrote me back and he says, yes, yes, we
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made this. We made this. He says. The doll is
made of paper mache, has five movements, raising eyebrows, moving eyeballs,
linking left eye, blinking right eye, moving jaw. The jaw
is made of leather, hence it looks real, so it's
not a cut jaw. You can creatively change the looks
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of the doll by making it wear spectacles or attach
a mustache or a cap, et cetera. But he doesn't
say anything about you know, mystical stuff, which is fine.
So I can now tell you that I have solved
the mystery once and for all. This was Kennedy. The
haunted doll came from this shop in Mumbai, India run
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by a man named anand Teyade t A Yade who
is a magician and mentalist. Now there's no way at
this point for us to know how that doll made
that travel from Mumbai, India to my living room. Tom
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dan Heiser told me, you know, he came with a letter.
But right after that they had to move their offices
in Los Angeles and that this letter just vanished. I mean,
it probably ended up in the garbage. So we may
never know what that letter said. But he said the
letter wasn't that important anyway. So there's a there's a
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big update for you if you follow my work on
this haunted you know ventriloical figure that I have named Kennedy.
So okay, the last thing is, here's all right, let's
talk let's talk about the movie, all right. Here's I
love Steven Spielberg and his works, and I mean I
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have displays in my house that are based upon his work.
And I mean, you know, Close Encounters was unbelievable. Everybody
loves draws et I mean, we can get into even
more modern stuff. I mean, I mean, to me, even
Jurassic Park doesn't seem like it was that. I guess
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it was like ninety three. I loved for the Worlds
and uh, you know, I even loved his stuff that
it's not like popcorn material like Schindler's List. I mean,
like I he is. I think he is definitely the
greatest filmmaker of all time. And maybe that's the problem.
Maybe my expectations were way too high because I had
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read some people's reviews who said, like, uh, yeah, this
movie is lackluster to say the least. And I bought
you know, Imax, like the Primo Imax seats here in
Las Vegas, Nevada, and I think after the first two
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minutes I turned to Lauren and I said, this movie
sucks and I'm sorry, yeah, and uh, you know, the
whole rest of the time, it was I thought that
it was boring. In most cases. I did like one
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of the things like, okay, so I'll just tell you this,
and I guess it's a little bit of a spoiler,
but I mean, like one of the things is that
when aliens come to abduct you, that they don't just
come and drag you out, kicking and screaming and probing you.
I could bring up some names here, but I want that,
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you know, they come to you in a nice, soft,
comforting way, supposedly and keep you calm, and that's how
they abduct you. So that's an interesting way of portraying
that that I've never really seen in a movie before.
So I liked I did like that, but ultimately like
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it seemed like this should have this is a movie
that should have come out twenty years ago, and it just, uh,
it seemed uninspired to me, and it's it's it seemed like,
you know, there was just nothing creative there that for me,
that that made me think differently about about the world.
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And so afterward, Lauren and I we ended up talking
to the general manager of the theater, and who is
quite a bit younger than me, but I was asking
him like, so, what's the what's the reaction been like?
And he goes, eh, you know, he says, it's been
real mixed. Uh huh. Some people liked it. Some people well,
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so I'm not afraid to give you my opinion. If
you disagree with me, so be it. And I have
read that there are people out there who were deeply
touched by this movie, and that is it is reawaken
some of their memories when I'm about being abducted and whatnot,
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and they're having conversations about it. And maybe that was
what the whole point of the movie was, but it
just as a movie. He could have started from scratch
and told the whole story of how where the aliens
came from, the whole backstory and how this shape civilization,
and that would have been an awesome movie. But there's
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my my review for you. All right, my friends, enough
of that. If you can close your eyes, take a
deep breath, let's meditate together on what I call the
good Fortune tone. That's it for this edition of the show.
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