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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast
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of Strange Things with Joshua P. Warren. Welcome to our podcast.
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You're ready to be amazing Weird Strange Things. I am
Joshua pe Warren, and each week on this show, I'll
be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises,
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and weird experiments that you can do at home, and
a lot more. On this edition of the show, I
interviewed the Amazing Kreskin. I have been a fan of
late night television my entire life, and the Amazing Kreskin,
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the most famous mentalists of modern times, was on The
Tonight Show mainly with Johnny Carson eight times. His most
famous stunt is having someone hide his paychecks somewhere within
the audience, and if he can't find it, he doesn't
get paid. And he's he's done this thousands of times,
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but he has not found it every time, around a
dozen times. In fact, one time he said that he
lost twenty two thousand dollars because of this. Well, he
is now eighty six years old and still performing. But
here's something you might not know. He was apparently banned
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from Coast to Coast a m Here is what the
Almighty Wikipedia has to say about that. In two thousand two,
Kareskin made a prediction that there would be a mass
UFO sighting over Las Vegas on June six, between the
hours of ninety pm and midnight that would be witnessed
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by thousands of people. He also stated that if there
were no sighting, he would donate fifty thousand dollars to charity. Well,
hundreds of people camped out that evening, yet no sighting occurred.
On June eight, Kreskin appeared in the opening segment of
the Coast to Coast AM radio show hosted by Art
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Bell to explain what had happened. Bell read Kreskin's press
release over the air to the effect that quote the
siding prediction was a total fabrication in order to prove
people's susceptibility to suggestion Post nine eleven. In quote now,
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Kreskin claimed that he was concerned and I'm still reading
from Wikipedia here, okay, that these are not my words.
Kress conclaimed he was concerned that a terrorist with the
skills of a mentalist such as himself could pull a
similar stunt involving something much worse, and he stated that
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the prediction the siding there was only an experiment, and
when asked about the fifty thousand dollar donation he had
previously promoted Kriskin, Kreskin claimed there was indeed a siding
that night, since he said glowing green orbs were supposedly
spotted in the sky just before midnight and reported by
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witnesses after news camera crews had already left the scene.
Wikipedia continues to say because of this one reported siding,
Kreskin said his prediction came true anyway, and therefore he
did not have to pay the money he previously announced.
This statement offended art Bell, who opined that this was
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merely a publicity stunt on Kreskin's part and officially banned
Kreskin from his show. The Wikipedia article goes on to say,
as far back as January of nineteen seventy three, a
magazine carried an interview with Kreskin in which he alluded
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to the possible ability of this stunt and to the
dangers of the madness of crowds in general. And there's
an excerpt here. It says Kreskin is aware of both
the benefits and dangers of hypnotism and claims that given
an audience of two people, quote, I'll have them seeing
flying saucers. Take the same crowd to Times Square on
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a hot evening, and you can have them screaming fire
in quote. So that's just some of the controversy here
surrounding the amazing Kriskin. Well, look, when this whole incident
happened in Las Vegas, well that was around twenty years ago,
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and I have never talked to Kreskin, so I figured
it was time for me to get his side of
the story. Plus, I recently watched a movie, kind of
a dark comedy produced by Tom Hanks back in two
thousand and eight and starring John Malkovich that was inspired
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by the Amazing Kreskin. It's called The Great Buck Howard,
and uh, it was kind of hard to find, actually,
but Lauren and I enjoyed watching it. And I will
tell you that interviewing the Amazing Kreskin, and this was
over the telephone, it was kind of tricky. He definitely
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knows the Jedi mind tricks. So often I would ask
a question and he would sort of answer it in
around about way. So editing this was a bit of
a chore. And if it sounds somewhat choppy, well you
know why. But let's listen. We had a warm, friendly conversation. Uh.
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He is a true legend and I think you will
be surprised by some of the things that he had
to say. He was born in New Jersey and nineteen
thirty five. And here is my first converse nation ever
with one of history's most successful entertainers, a man famous
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for his mental stunts and stage hypnotism, the Amazing Kreskin.
His website is Amazing Kreskin dot com. That is k
R E s k i n dot com the legendary
Amazing Kreskin. Welcome, sir to the show. Josh. I have
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to tell you, and this is the first time we
have spoken. The listeners wore should really know this. Uh,
I'm very excited that you have a program of this
nature and that you're you have an enthusiasm about the program.
The program is alive, by the way, folks, in the
best of case, I promise you, I will dare not
read Josh's thoughts on the air. I'm only joking, Josha.
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That's the That's the other thing, Joshua. You know, we're
afraid today because I I travel a great to all
have flown so far. It was announced, by the way,
before the pandemic, so it's two years ago when the
industry announced it. But they have figured out that I
have flown in my career a little over three and
one half million miles. That's under am I'm told by
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pilots that many of them have never flown that many miles.
But and the and the incidents and the experience I've had,
I mean, you know, it's been five and a half
years off and on in Saudi Arabia and and in
China and and and in Russia. And but I have
a great look for this country. And I'll tell you that.
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And I can I can tell when you chuckle, because
you have an enthusiastic laugh about a laugh about you. Uh.
We are losing. And I'm very concerned about this. And
you know this, and you've you've sensed it and probably
even converse about we're losing our sense of humor in
the United States today. And we better not listen to me, folks,
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because I've traveled the world when I was a little kid,
and I'm i am now eighties six years old, and
my career, I it goes on and on and on.
If you know my schedule said, this is almost an
incredible But when I was a kid, the Second World War,
Bob Hope was on the radio and on the air,
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joking about everything I would see in the news, in
the in the news reels, in the in the theaters. Uh,
President Roosevelt. Sometimes you didn't always hear, but you could
see him slapping his leg laughing because Hope was mocking
everything in sight. If we cannot laugh at ourselves, we
have lost one of the most powerful weapons to keep
our country going. And it's a very important factor. But
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here's the most boring question I'm gonna ask you, Okay,
why are you called kriskin? Okay, I'm going to pause
the interview right there, and we have to take a break.
When we come back. Of course, Well he's going to
address some of the these big questions. You know, what
what happened when art Bell supposedly banned you from coast
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to coast AM and what do you really think about
UFOs and all that kind of stuff. Um, And I
also want to point out that this particular show is
my sixtie Strange Things, and that's that's a lot of
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shows to produce. Um. I initially signed on to do
fifty two of these things, and so I just signed
up to do more of them. And I really wanted
my sixtie show to be I don't know, a little
more significant, I suppose. And I don't interview a lot
of people. Uh. One of the reasons I don't interview
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people a lot is because when you do that, you
kind of hand over the mood of your show to
another person and you're not sure how it's gonna turn out.
But also it's actually a lot of a lot of
extra work because I'm a one man band, Okay, I
I do this whole show myself. I composed all but
one piece of the bumper music, So when I interview somebody,
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I have to you know, talk to the person and
then edit everything and uh and and then you know,
put it all together. It's very time consuming and I
think I might have to take a break pretty soon.
I think i'm because I haven't missed a week and
sixties shows. I'm gonna have to talk to Tom dan
Heiser and maybe I need a little vacation. But I
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just want you to know that I can't talk about
everything on the show. There's not enough time. That is why.
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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. And now let's get back
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to my interview, the first one ever with the amazing Kreskin.
But here's the most boring question I'm gonna ask you. Okay,
why are you called Kreskin? I got to tell you
the story by and because a lot of people don't
know this, I knew what I wanted to do when
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I was five years old. And people are fascinating because
there's now four different groups in want to a movie
based on my work or different areas of my work.
When I say on my work or different areas of
my work, aside from my entertainment, which is of course
a passion of my life, I have been involved over
three hundred fifth crime cases in the Western world, working
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with law enforcement to help solve crimes, and those very
few of those stories are known. As said my God, Christian,
we could build a movie just around the experiences when
I was nearly murdered in a in a in a
crime case and brought in on and and I never
sought to do this to gain publicity because I had
my my following through the entertainment world, and so over
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what they say, people would like to hear about this
and understand what is going on. Why are you calling Well,
for one thing, you just blew okay, but for for
one thing, you just blew my mind. Because I had
I figured you were going to say, oh, I'm an entertainer.
You're telling me you've been solving crimes. Yes, yes, yes,
uh and and some of some some are would be
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recognized by people because they were major, major incidents. I
can tell you. Let me tell you things that people
don't know about me and find absolutely as they say,
Christian Kent. And I'm trying to do this. I'm trying
to set aside every week or so an evening where
I'm not performing, or during a performance which usually runs
two hours or over two hours, but in which I'm
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meeting with a vast audience and they are asking me
questions about my career. Because people said, Preston, how did
this unfull? Well? When I was five years old, like
I couldn't read, but my my my mother, uh would
read me comic books. I collected a lot of comic books,
but I'm an avid reader. Now when I'm home, I
read four books at night. No, I don't speed read.
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I don't I read. I read through, but I can.
I can grasp a paragraph in in a few seconds.
I have over eight thousand books my my libraries and
filmed by the BBC in Canada. But at the same
time she'll be reading comics. And it was a comic
being read to me. A few people will know about.
It was popular in the nineteen fourties, fifties, sixties, seventies,
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and it was called Man Drake the Magician, and it
was written by Lee Fawk and he was He was
not a magician. He had hypnotic ability, he had telepassic abilities.
He fought crime and so forth. And while when we
went out and played Cops and Robertson when have you,
I played instead of a policeman or whatever have you?
I played Man Drake in the imaginary fantasy world and
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so forth. And it became a passion in my life.
I started doing this in in school. I started doing
experiments on Fridays for about a half an hour. The
teachers would set aside a half an hour in fourth
this in sixth grade, and I would attempt to read
the thoughts in my audience. I remember in one case,
I said, Jane Hamilton's. She was in the back of
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the room. It was the sixth grade. I said, you're
thinking I told you to think of a movie, but
you're you're thinking of a movie you saw a year ago.
She said, was right, and I said, yeah, it was
around Christmas time, and I gave her the name of
the movie. All right, So why are you called Kreskin
because my original name was Kresgy. I'm a Polish I'm
Polish R S G. But I didn't want to have
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a name that I didn't want to create anything because
they were department stores all over town in New Jersey
when I was a kid, Christy Promise. So I wanted
to create my own name. So I took the K
R E S dropped at G E out of the
letter K, who was a famous show business mystery worker
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in a century or two before before I was ever born.
So I added the K and I added I end now,
as I was saying earlier, I thought I was going
to talk to you and you would say, I'm an
entertainer and E S P. May or may not exist
all this, but you're telling me that you actually believe
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that ESP is real and you have been using this
for practical purposes? Is that correct? I feel to a degree,
I don't claim to be a psychic. I I respect
people who who I feel that there's psychics what have you.
But I feel that I have a natural gift. I
don't understand everything I do, but that does not make
it mysterious or a cult or what have you. So okay,
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so what where is the line here between an entertainer
and actually being someone who understands that e SP exists?
And you said you've been solving crimes for good lords,
I mean, help help us all understand that, because that's
going to be confusing for most people. Yes, yes, it
could be. The point of the matter is one of
the one of the great secrets of my life is
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I've learned to listen and hear and tune into people
to a tremendous depth. Uh. And I don't mean mystically
that I'm using a crystal ball or what have you.
But if I talk to people, I can you can
ask people who work for me and people in television.
If I picked up a phone and someone has called in,
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I can tell you within twenty seconds to upset there
something's happening with the family, or they're happy, or they're
within the sound of their voice, something gets to me
and I can I can really zero in on how
they're thinking and what they're thinking. I don't know the
answers to everything. I don't meet it in that way.
But that's part of the key to what I do.
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We hear this term suggestion a lot, but but how
we do? But how does a term practically apply in
the real world on a day to day basis? The
power suggestion is a very formidable force. It's being abused
right now by and some of the news broadcasts that
have to sudden news and what have you. And I
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will tell you a story now which I think has
to be told so the people can understand. We all
know of a famous legion. I knew him very well.
We gave him very close, a legendary actor. By they
have Orson Wills, a great actor who played the world
the world and did the radio thing the ward the world,
what have you. You know, there's a famous story in
the in the early late night eighteen nineteen thirties where
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panic hit the nation because by his radio show he
created a panic of of of outside the forces coming
into the world, and what have UFOs and powers and
what have you? And and and it was so dramatic
that he became a legend. And just that one show
dealing with the war of the world, that's not the
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true story. The true story. Now, folks, hear this. If
you talk about this in college or in high school
and in psychology classes, know the full picture of this.
Orson Wells was a great actor, a brilliant, brilliant man.
He was a fan of mine and I always admired him.
But when the when the Orson Wells was going to
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do h G. Wells were the world's You have to
understand that there were many, many rumors of possibility, influences
of outside countries coming into this country. Uh inevitably Japan,
the Japanese attacks, and Germany attacked and what have you.
And we had we had a breakout of war outside
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of the nation. But then it covered the whole world.
But this hadn't happened yet, nothing had happened. There was
no attack, nothing like at but there were rumors, and
the rumors were getting stronger and stronger and stronger. Then
something happened Orson Wells decided to do the War of
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the worlds where UFOs and other factors were coming into
the country and influencing our country. But he decided to
do it in a different way. He decided to do
it like a news broadcast. So when the War of
the World went on, they introduced his his Orsen Wells
The War the World's based on it, and you heard
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the story. But there was another problem. The biggest radio
show at that time at that hour was Edgar Burke
and Charlotte McCarthy eventrela quist brilliant and must be loved men,
And that night the guests on the show was going
to be an opera singer because he had a lot
of people from the movies that came on the show.
And a lot of the public got turned off by
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the idea of an opera singer. She was going to
sing opera, but she was appearing on the show, and
they got turned off, and they turned the station and
they moved to CBS, where you now heard Orson Welles
not introducing a radio show, but already in the middle
of the show broadcasting in their New Jersey, there are
landings taking place there. Happy this is happening, and this
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is happening, and the public heard this in the middle
of the station, with this with the setting already hinting
that we could be attacked in some way, and believe
it or not, that's what caused the panic. The combination
of rumor of miss news being given out and what
have you, and it it could changed our whole society
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at that point. I've written twenty two books and uh A.
In the movie The Great Buck Howard with Sean Malkovich
plays me in the movie. It's not a biography about that?
Is that a source subject? Because that's not a very
flowering portrayal? How did that? That's it's a character A
thinity did an excellent job. He did an excellent job
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where there was a really but it wasn't my my
life story in any way, shape or form. Now let
me tell you. Let me tell you what is more exciting.
And you are the first to hear this nationally, But
it's going to be talked about scores and scores of shows.
The character and I'm not in there, I'm not in
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the movie. I'm a tree in the movie. But the
person's voice you're hearing, who's playing the magic tree? It's
the amazing Kristin, except that it has just been announced
it is coming to television and will be an animated series.
Isn't that wild? That's fantastic. I'm so well, thank you
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very much for announcing that here. And boy, yeah, that's
I can't wait. And you know, I want to ask
you this because again, you know, I do work for
Coast to Coast s a UM at this point, and
I understand and I I read that the late Gray
art Bell banned you from Coast to Coast AM because
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I live in Las Vegas, you know. And I read
on Wikipedia that he banned you in two thousand two
because of a prediction you made about UFO in Las Vegas.
What's the real story there? Time for a break. You're
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welcome back to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
and Coast to Coast I AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm
your host, Joshua P. Warren, and this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. Now back to my I
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interview with the amazing Kreskin. I read that the the
late great Art Bell banned you from Coast Coast a
AM because I live in Las Vegas, you know. And
I read on Wikipedia that he banned you in two
thousand two because of a prediction you made about the
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UFO in Las Vegas. What's the real story there? The
real story there? Yeah, the real story there is and
and there are the thousands of people that were there.
I made a prediction. I made a prediction because I
wanted to show how powerful h an idea can be.
And I reiterated this on many many shows, Cars and
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everybody else. You know that there would be a sighting
and I could. I named the night that it would
take place in Las Vegas, California. Now let's let's let's
get to art Bell because I think he may have
regretted this later. We won't go into this anyway anyway.
So I made that prediction, and then the police came
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to me because I was going to be there in person,
and said, Christin, we better do something about this. We're
not getting hundreds of people, were getting thousands of people.
This is this is the desert is going to be crowded,
and we're going to have to get secured your mind
if we have police or and I said no, no,
I'd left them to be there. So let's put this together.
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There I was, and there are thousands of people in
front of me, and I said, yeah, it's getting close
to that time, it's nighttime and so forth. I said
look and I put it upward and hundreds of people,
not thousands because the data all respond but hundreds of
people started pointing out UFOs in the sky. One lady
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was crying. She said, Oh my god, it looks like
it's filled land. And it be. And what I demonstrated
was what the power of suggestion can do. At when
I was all at the end of the ten twenty minutes,
I erased the image so that they would not be
confused what they had experienced their scene. But there were
no UFOs there. So Mr Bell decides to UH to announce, Well,
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I have betrayed the integrity now I happened to believe
in UFOs. I I've I've flown with some of the
most responsible people I've ever known, and that's Arthur Godfrey's
one of them who said he found a UFO that
he thought was flying right next to his plane and
what have you? So, so the it was gone and
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what have you? And I went back to the hotel
to be changing my clothes and then started getting cold
by some of the press that was still there. Yes, yes,
and I'm very proud to say this throughout Vegas that night.
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An hour and a half later were UFOs citing machinal
and they were not by suggestion, they machine by pilots
said what have you? So? I had a prediction that
came true but also had to listen to it. It
would be idiotic and slightly limited if we thought that
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we were the only intelligence in the universe. God forbid
that'd be the case. I think that is all I'm
going to play for you. We talked for about an hour,
but those are the most significant highlights. Again, his website
is amazing Kreskin dot com, k R E s k
i N dot com. And so what do you think?
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What do you think about the conflict that he apparently
had around twenty years ago with Art Bell? You know,
as a host on the Coast to Coast a M
paranormal podcast network, you should not be surprised for me
to explain that Art Bell made a big impact on
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my life. And uh, because Art Bell created Coast to
Coast a M. And George Nor has also had a
big impact on my life. And one thing I will
tell you about being interviewed by Art Bell because he
started interviewing me when many many years ago, when I
was quite a young man and I knew him for years.
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In as you probably realize, in my living room, I
have got Art Bell's wooden alien statue standing there and
it's one of my most prized possessions. When Art Bell
was interviewing you, Uh, there was no doubt that he
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was an absolute control of the conversation. He had these
very strict guidelines about how he wanted that show to
be presented. And I can understand why that it would
be easy. Uh at that time, it would have been
easy to take him off off. Uh. In fact, I
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got into a debate with Art Beil one time about
e VP Electronic voice phenomenon. I actually was more doubtful
about the legitimacy of much of it than Art Bell.
So you know, now that you you've heard what I
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read you about the conflict, and you've heard what Kreskin
had to say, you can just sort of make up
your own mind. I guess as to how you feel
about that. But nonetheless, as I said, Kris Skin was
very friendly to me. Uh. We had, as you can tell,
a really interesting conversation and one thing that it's kind
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of outstanding, you know. I I was born and raised
in Asheville, North Carolina, and I have tours there, the
Haunted Actual Ghost Tours, which are very popular. I also
have tours out here in the Las Vegas area, the
Haunted Boulder City Tours, and for over ten years I
had a museum in Asheville called the Asheville Mystery Museum,
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and my wife Lauren bought me one of the coolest
things I think, I think anybody's ever given me. She
bought me the amazing Kreskin E SP Kit, which I
think was created in the nineteen sixties. He Kreskin teamed
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up with Milton Bradley. And the problem is, I I
just I love the artwork and I loved everything about it.
But the reason I don't have a museum anymore is
that it was in the basement of the Asheville Masonic
Temple and it would regularly get flooded down there because
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it sits at the bottom of a hill and it's
a really old building. And so the Kreskin ESP kit UH,
it ended up being severely damaged by by water. So
I don't know if it might have gotten trashed. I'm
afraid to I'm sorry to say, but um, most of
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the cool stuff that I had in my museum UH
was transferred is in storage and someday, hopefully it will
it will be on display again. But I don't remember
exactly what was in the Crescin ESP kit. I believe
that it had a pendulum and some cards, and you know,
it was just it was the kind of product that
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reminded you of Awigia board. And he said that Milton
Bradley sold over one million of those things and even
honored him by giving him like this fine wooden version
of the game which he has at his house, which
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I'm trying to get him to sell me. Like I
don't have enough stuff already. People are always contacting me,
you know, and they're asking me if I want to
buy crazy things, and I say, my house is packed.
I have, uh, at least two storage units on the
west coast that are packed, at least two or three
(36:23):
on the East coast that are packing. It's like, that's
what you see when you have a museum. You you
get to be a professional hoarder. I guess so. Um
eventually again, when the time is right, all that will
be on display and we'll see how the world unfolds
in the near future. But you know, when when Kreskin
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was talking about believing in UFOs, I was actually talking
to him the day that this story came out. And
I'm gonna try to at least start talking about this
before we hit our next break. This is actually a
Coast to Coast a m story that was posted by
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Tim Bannal and the headline is China's lunar rover to
investigate mystery hut spotted on the far side of the Moon.
And it's interesting talking to Chris Skin thinking about what
he was saying about war of the world's and and
people freaking out, and his own belief in the power
(37:34):
of suggestion and how people would react to this sort
of thing, And of course, you know, I want to
thank him very much for being on this show. And
I thought it was really interesting that this new story
came out, and it's sort of coincided with some of
the things that we were talking about. Um gosh, let's see. Okay,
(37:55):
I'm gonna I'll start reading this. China's You two and
that's spelled why You Tu. China's You Tube to lunar
rover is on route to investigate a curious cube like
anomaly that has been dubbed the mystery Hut spotted on
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the far side of the moon. Word of the weird
observation reportedly came about by way of the Chinese National
Space Administrations are Space website in a post that says.
The blog recounts how scientists were admiring the horizon as
seen by the rover when quote suddenly, an obtrusive cube
(38:44):
on the northern skyline attracted their attention as it piers
through the winding of the skyline like a mysterious hut
that appeared out of thin air. Uh do you remember
the movie two thousand one, A Space Odyssey? More thoughts
on this when we come back. And also, I don't
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I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren. And it's definitely bizarre
to think there is a dark side of the Moon.
What that means is there is a hemisphere of the
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Moon that is always facing away from Earth due to
a phenomenon known as title locking. Now, look, I know
that you're probably if you've never watched the animation of that,
it's not gonna make much sense, and I'm not going
to even try to explain this on a podcast, but
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it is amazing, amazing to think there's a whole side
of the Moon we just never get to see from
our earthbounds. Tell Us copes. We just have to take
the word from these governments. They go up there and
look around, and now we have this story again. This
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is coast to coast a m Yeah, there is, according
to the Chinese, some kind of a big cube shaped
object on the surface of the Moon. And in the
movie two thousand one is Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick,
who you know, there is this obelisk that's discovered on
the Moon and it somehow holds the key to us
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comprehending that we are not alone, that there are other
intelligent forces in the universe. The article goes on to say,
let's see the The report went on to note that
there was a sizeable impact crater near the object, and
then fantastically wondered if the oddity is quote a home
(43:00):
by aliens after crash landing, or quote a pioneer spacecraft
of the predecessors to explore the Moon end quote. A
less imaginative explanation put forward by scientists is that the
anomaly is merely a boulder that came to rest upon
the surface of the Moon by whatever created the crater
(43:22):
next to it. But that, as it uh says, be
that as it may. The team behind the rover are
understandably intrigued by the peculiar observation, and in an admirable
display of scientific inquiry, have now directed the craft to
head towards the mystery hut um. This is especially interesting
(43:48):
to me because you've heard me talk before about the
fact that I worked for years as an apprentice to
a NASA Hall of Fame scientist named Charles Yost, and
he was always amazed by this piece of footage that
appears to show something like a smoke stack, some kind
of a rectangular looking object jetting from the surface of
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the Moon, and a piece of NASA footage. And if
you've never seen this, go to Joshua P. Warren dot
com and click the link there in the menu to
the Gallery of the Strange, and you'll see a heading
there that says a smoke stack on the Moon. And
(44:34):
when you click that, you can see this footage and
you get some more thoughts on that. In fact, I
was on a program that aired on the Sci Fi Channel.
I think it was two hours back in I think
let's see yeah, okay, yeah, called Aliens on the Moon.
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Aliens on the Moon. I have Amazon Prime, and so
if you go to Amazon Prime right now. You can
watch this, Okay, this this is a ninety minute documentary.
You can watch this for free, uh in some locations
and anyway, Aliens on the Moon, the truth exposed and
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that mystery is addressed, as well as as many others.
And you know, I was talking on a recent show
about self fulfilling prophecies. You have to be very careful
because if you tell people that something bad is about
(45:43):
to happen, then they might make decisions that create that
bad outcome. So I avoid fearmongering and doom and gloom
stuff as much as I can. But look, the reality
is we we're all living in the same world right now,
and this is I'm recording this in early December of
two thousand twenty one, and the world is pretty messed
(46:08):
up still. I mean it's I think any history and
would be like, yeah, this is a pretty messed up
period for human history. And when you try to look
at the future and figure out what's going to happen,
often it seems cloudy, it seems unclear. Even Yoda I remember,
(46:29):
would say once in a while, like he could he
he wasn't certain what was going to happen. So I'm
just gonna go ahead and say it. Um. I know
a lot of people all around the world who call
themselves psychics, and not all of them, but almost all
(46:55):
of them have been contacting me and telling me that
they're freaking out that something big is about to happen.
And I don't want to make any claims about whether
it's something good or something bad. It's just something big
and kind of shocking, and there's a there's a tremor.
(47:19):
I mean, yes, a lot of them are saying it's
going to be bad, but that could be a relative situation.
I mean, everything is kind of relative. So let's say
that the Chinese have discovered on the moon. Sure enough,
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there's proof that they're going to reveal that of other
intelligence is out there, which that to me, that's like
a Doe thing. That's that would not be surprising to
me at all. Um. But what if, like Kreskin was saying,
it's true, like if that's revealed, people will flip out.
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They will panic, and they will start doing a bunch
of crazy stuff because they panic. I don't know. I
figured I I need to toss it out there though,
So there you go. I've done it. Uh, Okay, before
we end the show. How about a more positive story.
This is a story from Fox News. And by the way,
(48:28):
I watch Fox and CNN and ABC. Nowadays the media
is so biased. Everybody assumes, uh, they know what your
political beliefs are because of what news sources you look at,
and I look at all of it. Here's the story,
what's the okay, here's the headline. What's the story with eggnog?
(48:49):
Where it came from and how it served? Eggnog has
been a popular Christmas drink so long even George Washington
had a recipe for it. See nice holiday story. Right.
There's no denying that the month of December is peak
eggnog time. The sweetened spicy beverage has been a holiday
staple for hundreds of years. But not everyone knows what
(49:11):
it's uh knows what it's made of. I guess there's
a type of here where it comes from or why
we drink it? Uh? Anyway, So they go on to
say eggnog, which is actually a drinkable form of custard,
originated in medieval Britain, where locals created a hot, creamy
(49:32):
ale like drink. The name eggnog is a combination of nogging,
which is a wooden cup and grog a strong beer.
And one of the experts here says that early colonists
traveling to America helped the drink become popular during the holidays,
(49:53):
as locally farmed eggs and milk, in addition to locally
made rum and whiskey, was readily available. So anyway, they
give all kinds of different tips on how you can
enjoy eggnog. You know, here's the thing about my personal opinion.
I eggnog is one of those things. It's like, yeah,
(50:15):
I can handle it at at Christmas time. I wouldn't
want to drink it every day. I'm not a huge
fan of it. Yeah, okay, I can do it. It
says if homemade eggnog isn't something that sounds appealing to you,
they're countless dairy and egg manufacturers who have packaged they're
tried and true recipes. Alright, blah blah blass. So anyway, yeah,
(50:38):
do you like? Um? Do you like eggnog year round?
Or yeah once a year? We can handle it, all right,
my friends. Well, I hope that everything turns out well
for you as our year is winding down. Um, keep
(50:59):
it positive mindset and take a deep breath. That's what
you have to do. Sometimes, you know, you can't let
the world determine how you feel. You have to brainwash yourself.
And that's why I like to play the good Fortune
tone for you as often as I can. It's a
(51:19):
vibration that will help you out if you can close
your eyes, relax and let's see if we can make
your next week fantastic. Here is the Good Fortune Tom.
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and weird experiments that you can do at home, and
a lot more. On this edition of the show, I
interviewed the Amazing Kreskin. I have been a fan of
late night television my entire life, and the Amazing Kreskin,
(01:42):
the most famous mentalists of modern times, was on The
Tonight Show mainly with Johnny Carson eight times. His most
famous stunt is having someone hide his paychecks somewhere within
the audience, and if he can't find it, he doesn't
get paid. And he's he's done this thousands of times,
(02:04):
but he has not found it every time, around a
dozen times. In fact, one time he said that he
lost twenty two thousand dollars because of this. Well, he
is now eighty six years old and still performing. But
here's something you might not know. He was apparently banned
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from Coast to Coast a m Here is what the
Almighty Wikipedia has to say about that. In two thousand two,
Kareskin made a prediction that there would be a mass
UFO sighting over Las Vegas on June six, between the
hours of ninety pm and midnight that would be witnessed
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by thousands of people. He also stated that if there
were no sighting, he would donate fifty thousand dollars to charity. Well,
hundreds of people camped out that evening, yet no sighting occurred.
On June eight, Kreskin appeared in the opening segment of
the Coast to Coast AM radio show hosted by Art
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Bell to explain what had happened. Bell read Kreskin's press
release over the air to the effect that quote the
siding prediction was a total fabrication in order to prove
people's susceptibility to suggestion Post nine eleven. In quote now,
(03:33):
Kreskin claimed that he was concerned and I'm still reading
from Wikipedia here, okay, that these are not my words.
Kress conclaimed he was concerned that a terrorist with the
skills of a mentalist such as himself could pull a
similar stunt involving something much worse, and he stated that
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the prediction the siding there was only an experiment, and
when asked about the fifty thousand dollar donation he had
previously promoted Kriskin, Kreskin claimed there was indeed a siding
that night, since he said glowing green orbs were supposedly
spotted in the sky just before midnight and reported by
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witnesses after news camera crews had already left the scene.
Wikipedia continues to say because of this one reported siding,
Kreskin said his prediction came true anyway, and therefore he
did not have to pay the money he previously announced.
This statement offended art Bell, who opined that this was
(04:39):
merely a publicity stunt on Kreskin's part and officially banned
Kreskin from his show. The Wikipedia article goes on to say,
as far back as January of nineteen seventy three, a
magazine carried an interview with Kreskin in which he alluded
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to the possible ability of this stunt and to the
dangers of the madness of crowds in general. And there's
an excerpt here. It says Kreskin is aware of both
the benefits and dangers of hypnotism and claims that given
an audience of two people, quote, I'll have them seeing
flying saucers. Take the same crowd to Times Square on
(05:22):
a hot evening, and you can have them screaming fire
in quote. So that's just some of the controversy here
surrounding the amazing Kriskin. Well, look, when this whole incident
happened in Las Vegas, well that was around twenty years ago,
(05:42):
and I have never talked to Kreskin, so I figured
it was time for me to get his side of
the story. Plus, I recently watched a movie, kind of
a dark comedy produced by Tom Hanks back in two
thousand and eight and starring John Malkovich that was inspired
(06:04):
by the Amazing Kreskin. It's called The Great Buck Howard,
and uh, it was kind of hard to find, actually,
but Lauren and I enjoyed watching it. And I will
tell you that interviewing the Amazing Kreskin, and this was
over the telephone, it was kind of tricky. He definitely
(06:24):
knows the Jedi mind tricks. So often I would ask
a question and he would sort of answer it in
around about way. So editing this was a bit of
a chore. And if it sounds somewhat choppy, well you
know why. But let's listen. We had a warm, friendly conversation. Uh.
(06:44):
He is a true legend and I think you will
be surprised by some of the things that he had
to say. He was born in New Jersey and nineteen
thirty five. And here is my first converse nation ever
with one of history's most successful entertainers, a man famous
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for his mental stunts and stage hypnotism, the Amazing Kreskin.
His website is Amazing Kreskin dot com. That is k
R E s k i n dot com the legendary
Amazing Kreskin. Welcome, sir to the show. Josh. I have
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to tell you, and this is the first time we
have spoken. The listeners wore should really know this. Uh,
I'm very excited that you have a program of this
nature and that you're you have an enthusiasm about the program.
The program is alive, by the way, folks, in the
best of case, I promise you, I will dare not
read Josh's thoughts on the air. I'm only joking, Josha.
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That's the That's the other thing, Joshua. You know, we're
afraid today because I I travel a great to all
have flown so far. It was announced, by the way,
before the pandemic, so it's two years ago when the
industry announced it. But they have figured out that I
have flown in my career a little over three and
one half million miles. That's under am I'm told by
(08:17):
pilots that many of them have never flown that many miles.
But and the and the incidents and the experience I've had,
I mean, you know, it's been five and a half
years off and on in Saudi Arabia and and in
China and and and in Russia. And but I have
a great look for this country. And I'll tell you that.
(08:38):
And I can I can tell when you chuckle, because
you have an enthusiastic laugh about a laugh about you. Uh.
We are losing. And I'm very concerned about this. And
you know this, and you've you've sensed it and probably
even converse about we're losing our sense of humor in
the United States today. And we better not listen to me, folks,
(08:58):
because I've traveled the world when I was a little kid,
and I'm i am now eighties six years old, and
my career, I it goes on and on and on.
If you know my schedule said, this is almost an
incredible But when I was a kid, the Second World War,
Bob Hope was on the radio and on the air,
(09:21):
joking about everything I would see in the news, in
the in the news reels, in the in the theaters. Uh,
President Roosevelt. Sometimes you didn't always hear, but you could
see him slapping his leg laughing because Hope was mocking
everything in sight. If we cannot laugh at ourselves, we
have lost one of the most powerful weapons to keep
our country going. And it's a very important factor. But
(09:43):
here's the most boring question I'm gonna ask you, Okay,
why are you called kriskin? Okay, I'm going to pause
the interview right there, and we have to take a break.
When we come back. Of course, Well he's going to
address some of the these big questions. You know, what
what happened when art Bell supposedly banned you from coast
(10:06):
to coast AM and what do you really think about
UFOs and all that kind of stuff. Um, And I
also want to point out that this particular show is
my sixtie Strange Things, and that's that's a lot of
(10:28):
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fifty two of these things, and so I just signed
up to do more of them. And I really wanted
my sixtie show to be I don't know, a little
more significant, I suppose. And I don't interview a lot
of people. Uh. One of the reasons I don't interview
(10:50):
people a lot is because when you do that, you
kind of hand over the mood of your show to
another person and you're not sure how it's gonna turn out.
But also it's actually a lot of a lot of
extra work because I'm a one man band, Okay, I
I do this whole show myself. I composed all but
one piece of the bumper music, So when I interview somebody,
(11:12):
I have to you know, talk to the person and
then edit everything and uh and and then you know,
put it all together. It's very time consuming and I
think I might have to take a break pretty soon.
I think i'm because I haven't missed a week and
sixties shows. I'm gonna have to talk to Tom dan
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and every night is silver. And now let's get back
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to my interview, the first one ever with the amazing Kreskin.
But here's the most boring question I'm gonna ask you. Okay,
why are you called Kreskin? I got to tell you
the story by and because a lot of people don't
know this, I knew what I wanted to do when
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I was five years old. And people are fascinating because
there's now four different groups in want to a movie
based on my work or different areas of my work.
When I say on my work or different areas of
my work, aside from my entertainment, which is of course
a passion of my life, I have been involved over
three hundred fifth crime cases in the Western world, working
(15:47):
with law enforcement to help solve crimes, and those very
few of those stories are known. As said my God, Christian,
we could build a movie just around the experiences when
I was nearly murdered in a in a in a
crime case and brought in on and and I never
sought to do this to gain publicity because I had
my my following through the entertainment world, and so over
(16:09):
what they say, people would like to hear about this
and understand what is going on. Why are you calling Well,
for one thing, you just blew okay, but for for
one thing, you just blew my mind. Because I had
I figured you were going to say, oh, I'm an entertainer.
You're telling me you've been solving crimes. Yes, yes, yes,
uh and and some of some some are would be
(16:32):
recognized by people because they were major, major incidents. I
can tell you. Let me tell you things that people
don't know about me and find absolutely as they say,
Christian Kent. And I'm trying to do this. I'm trying
to set aside every week or so an evening where
I'm not performing, or during a performance which usually runs
two hours or over two hours, but in which I'm
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meeting with a vast audience and they are asking me
questions about my career. Because people said, Preston, how did
this unfull? Well? When I was five years old, like
I couldn't read, but my my my mother, uh would
read me comic books. I collected a lot of comic books,
but I'm an avid reader. Now when I'm home, I
read four books at night. No, I don't speed read.
(17:15):
I don't I read. I read through, but I can.
I can grasp a paragraph in in a few seconds.
I have over eight thousand books my my libraries and
filmed by the BBC in Canada. But at the same
time she'll be reading comics. And it was a comic
being read to me. A few people will know about.
It was popular in the nineteen fourties, fifties, sixties, seventies,
(17:38):
and it was called Man Drake the Magician, and it
was written by Lee Fawk and he was He was
not a magician. He had hypnotic ability, he had telepassic abilities.
He fought crime and so forth. And while when we
went out and played Cops and Robertson when have you,
I played instead of a policeman or whatever have you?
I played Man Drake in the imaginary fantasy world and
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so forth. And it became a passion in my life.
I started doing this in in school. I started doing
experiments on Fridays for about a half an hour. The
teachers would set aside a half an hour in fourth
this in sixth grade, and I would attempt to read
the thoughts in my audience. I remember in one case,
I said, Jane Hamilton's. She was in the back of
(18:22):
the room. It was the sixth grade. I said, you're
thinking I told you to think of a movie, but
you're you're thinking of a movie you saw a year ago.
She said, was right, and I said, yeah, it was
around Christmas time, and I gave her the name of
the movie. All right, So why are you called Kreskin
because my original name was Kresgy. I'm a Polish I'm
Polish R S G. But I didn't want to have
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a name that I didn't want to create anything because
they were department stores all over town in New Jersey
when I was a kid, Christy Promise. So I wanted
to create my own name. So I took the K
R E S dropped at G E out of the
letter K, who was a famous show business mystery worker
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in a century or two before before I was ever born.
So I added the K and I added I end now,
as I was saying earlier, I thought I was going
to talk to you and you would say, I'm an
entertainer and E S P. May or may not exist
all this, but you're telling me that you actually believe
(19:26):
that ESP is real and you have been using this
for practical purposes? Is that correct? I feel to a degree,
I don't claim to be a psychic. I I respect
people who who I feel that there's psychics what have you.
But I feel that I have a natural gift. I
don't understand everything I do, but that does not make
it mysterious or a cult or what have you. So okay,
(19:48):
so what where is the line here between an entertainer
and actually being someone who understands that e SP exists?
And you said you've been solving crimes for good lords,
I mean, help help us all understand that, because that's
going to be confusing for most people. Yes, yes, it
could be. The point of the matter is one of
the one of the great secrets of my life is
(20:10):
I've learned to listen and hear and tune into people
to a tremendous depth. Uh. And I don't mean mystically
that I'm using a crystal ball or what have you.
But if I talk to people, I can you can
ask people who work for me and people in television.
If I picked up a phone and someone has called in,
(20:32):
I can tell you within twenty seconds to upset there
something's happening with the family, or they're happy, or they're
within the sound of their voice, something gets to me
and I can I can really zero in on how
they're thinking and what they're thinking. I don't know the
answers to everything. I don't meet it in that way.
But that's part of the key to what I do.
(20:54):
We hear this term suggestion a lot, but but how
we do? But how does a term practically apply in
the real world on a day to day basis? The
power suggestion is a very formidable force. It's being abused
right now by and some of the news broadcasts that
have to sudden news and what have you. And I
(21:17):
will tell you a story now which I think has
to be told so the people can understand. We all
know of a famous legion. I knew him very well.
We gave him very close, a legendary actor. By they
have Orson Wills, a great actor who played the world
the world and did the radio thing the ward the world,
what have you. You know, there's a famous story in
the in the early late night eighteen nineteen thirties where
(21:43):
panic hit the nation because by his radio show he
created a panic of of of outside the forces coming
into the world, and what have UFOs and powers and
what have you? And and and it was so dramatic
that he became a legend. And just that one show
dealing with the war of the world, that's not the
(22:05):
true story. The true story. Now, folks, hear this. If
you talk about this in college or in high school
and in psychology classes, know the full picture of this.
Orson Wells was a great actor, a brilliant, brilliant man.
He was a fan of mine and I always admired him.
But when the when the Orson Wells was going to
(22:28):
do h G. Wells were the world's You have to
understand that there were many, many rumors of possibility, influences
of outside countries coming into this country. Uh inevitably Japan,
the Japanese attacks, and Germany attacked and what have you.
And we had we had a breakout of war outside
(22:51):
of the nation. But then it covered the whole world.
But this hadn't happened yet, nothing had happened. There was
no attack, nothing like at but there were rumors, and
the rumors were getting stronger and stronger and stronger. Then
something happened Orson Wells decided to do the War of
(23:12):
the worlds where UFOs and other factors were coming into
the country and influencing our country. But he decided to
do it in a different way. He decided to do
it like a news broadcast. So when the War of
the World went on, they introduced his his Orsen Wells
The War the World's based on it, and you heard
(23:32):
the story. But there was another problem. The biggest radio
show at that time at that hour was Edgar Burke
and Charlotte McCarthy eventrela quist brilliant and must be loved men,
And that night the guests on the show was going
to be an opera singer because he had a lot
of people from the movies that came on the show.
And a lot of the public got turned off by
(23:54):
the idea of an opera singer. She was going to
sing opera, but she was appearing on the show, and
they got turned off, and they turned the station and
they moved to CBS, where you now heard Orson Welles
not introducing a radio show, but already in the middle
of the show broadcasting in their New Jersey, there are
landings taking place there. Happy this is happening, and this
(24:15):
is happening, and the public heard this in the middle
of the station, with this with the setting already hinting
that we could be attacked in some way, and believe
it or not, that's what caused the panic. The combination
of rumor of miss news being given out and what
have you, and it it could changed our whole society
(24:38):
at that point. I've written twenty two books and uh A.
In the movie The Great Buck Howard with Sean Malkovich
plays me in the movie. It's not a biography about that?
Is that a source subject? Because that's not a very
flowering portrayal? How did that? That's it's a character A
thinity did an excellent job. He did an excellent job
(24:59):
where there was a really but it wasn't my my
life story in any way, shape or form. Now let
me tell you. Let me tell you what is more exciting.
And you are the first to hear this nationally, But
it's going to be talked about scores and scores of shows.
The character and I'm not in there, I'm not in
(25:20):
the movie. I'm a tree in the movie. But the
person's voice you're hearing, who's playing the magic tree? It's
the amazing Kristin, except that it has just been announced
it is coming to television and will be an animated series.
Isn't that wild? That's fantastic. I'm so well, thank you
(25:42):
very much for announcing that here. And boy, yeah, that's
I can't wait. And you know, I want to ask
you this because again, you know, I do work for
Coast to Coast s a UM at this point, and
I understand and I I read that the late Gray
art Bell banned you from Coast to Coast AM because
(26:04):
I live in Las Vegas, you know. And I read
on Wikipedia that he banned you in two thousand two
because of a prediction you made about UFO in Las Vegas.
What's the real story there? Time for a break. You're
listening to strange things on the I Heart Radio and
Coast to Coast AM paranormal podcast network. I'll be right back,
(26:30):
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the Heart Radio and Coast to Coast DAUM Paranormal Podcast. Now,
(27:39):
welcome back to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
and Coast to Coast I AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm
your host, Joshua P. Warren, and this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. Now back to my I
(28:00):
interview with the amazing Kreskin. I read that the the
late great Art Bell banned you from Coast Coast a
AM because I live in Las Vegas, you know. And
I read on Wikipedia that he banned you in two
thousand two because of a prediction you made about the
(28:21):
UFO in Las Vegas. What's the real story there? The
real story there? Yeah, the real story there is and
and there are the thousands of people that were there.
I made a prediction. I made a prediction because I
wanted to show how powerful h an idea can be.
And I reiterated this on many many shows, Cars and
(28:42):
everybody else. You know that there would be a sighting
and I could. I named the night that it would
take place in Las Vegas, California. Now let's let's let's
get to art Bell because I think he may have
regretted this later. We won't go into this anyway anyway.
So I made that prediction, and then the police came
(29:03):
to me because I was going to be there in person,
and said, Christin, we better do something about this. We're
not getting hundreds of people, were getting thousands of people.
This is this is the desert is going to be crowded,
and we're going to have to get secured your mind
if we have police or and I said no, no,
I'd left them to be there. So let's put this together.
(29:23):
There I was, and there are thousands of people in
front of me, and I said, yeah, it's getting close
to that time, it's nighttime and so forth. I said
look and I put it upward and hundreds of people,
not thousands because the data all respond but hundreds of
people started pointing out UFOs in the sky. One lady
(29:44):
was crying. She said, Oh my god, it looks like
it's filled land. And it be. And what I demonstrated
was what the power of suggestion can do. At when
I was all at the end of the ten twenty minutes,
I erased the image so that they would not be
confused what they had experienced their scene. But there were
no UFOs there. So Mr Bell decides to UH to announce, Well,
(30:10):
I have betrayed the integrity now I happened to believe
in UFOs. I I've I've flown with some of the
most responsible people I've ever known, and that's Arthur Godfrey's
one of them who said he found a UFO that
he thought was flying right next to his plane and
what have you? So, so the it was gone and
(30:30):
what have you? And I went back to the hotel
to be changing my clothes and then started getting cold
by some of the press that was still there. Yes, yes,
and I'm very proud to say this throughout Vegas that night.
(30:52):
An hour and a half later were UFOs citing machinal
and they were not by suggestion, they machine by pilots
said what have you? So? I had a prediction that
came true but also had to listen to it. It
would be idiotic and slightly limited if we thought that
(31:14):
we were the only intelligence in the universe. God forbid
that'd be the case. I think that is all I'm
going to play for you. We talked for about an hour,
but those are the most significant highlights. Again, his website
is amazing Kreskin dot com, k R E s k
i N dot com. And so what do you think?
(31:36):
What do you think about the conflict that he apparently
had around twenty years ago with Art Bell? You know,
as a host on the Coast to Coast a M
paranormal podcast network, you should not be surprised for me
to explain that Art Bell made a big impact on
(31:58):
my life. And uh, because Art Bell created Coast to
Coast a M. And George Nor has also had a
big impact on my life. And one thing I will
tell you about being interviewed by Art Bell because he
started interviewing me when many many years ago, when I
was quite a young man and I knew him for years.
(32:20):
In as you probably realize, in my living room, I
have got Art Bell's wooden alien statue standing there and
it's one of my most prized possessions. When Art Bell
was interviewing you, Uh, there was no doubt that he
(32:41):
was an absolute control of the conversation. He had these
very strict guidelines about how he wanted that show to
be presented. And I can understand why that it would
be easy. Uh at that time, it would have been
easy to take him off off. Uh. In fact, I
(33:02):
got into a debate with Art Beil one time about
e VP Electronic voice phenomenon. I actually was more doubtful
about the legitimacy of much of it than Art Bell.
So you know, now that you you've heard what I
(33:22):
read you about the conflict, and you've heard what Kreskin
had to say, you can just sort of make up
your own mind. I guess as to how you feel
about that. But nonetheless, as I said, Kris Skin was
very friendly to me. Uh. We had, as you can tell,
a really interesting conversation and one thing that it's kind
(33:49):
of outstanding, you know. I I was born and raised
in Asheville, North Carolina, and I have tours there, the
Haunted Actual Ghost Tours, which are very popular. I also
have tours out here in the Las Vegas area, the
Haunted Boulder City Tours, and for over ten years I
had a museum in Asheville called the Asheville Mystery Museum,
(34:12):
and my wife Lauren bought me one of the coolest
things I think, I think anybody's ever given me. She
bought me the amazing Kreskin E SP Kit, which I
think was created in the nineteen sixties. He Kreskin teamed
(34:34):
up with Milton Bradley. And the problem is, I I
just I love the artwork and I loved everything about it.
But the reason I don't have a museum anymore is
that it was in the basement of the Asheville Masonic
Temple and it would regularly get flooded down there because
(34:55):
it sits at the bottom of a hill and it's
a really old building. And so the Kreskin ESP kit UH,
it ended up being severely damaged by by water. So
I don't know if it might have gotten trashed. I'm
afraid to I'm sorry to say, but um, most of
(35:17):
the cool stuff that I had in my museum UH
was transferred is in storage and someday, hopefully it will
it will be on display again. But I don't remember
exactly what was in the Crescin ESP kit. I believe
that it had a pendulum and some cards, and you know,
it was just it was the kind of product that
(35:39):
reminded you of Awigia board. And he said that Milton
Bradley sold over one million of those things and even
honored him by giving him like this fine wooden version
of the game which he has at his house, which
(36:00):
I'm trying to get him to sell me. Like I
don't have enough stuff already. People are always contacting me,
you know, and they're asking me if I want to
buy crazy things, and I say, my house is packed.
I have, uh, at least two storage units on the
west coast that are packed, at least two or three
(36:23):
on the East coast that are packing. It's like, that's
what you see when you have a museum. You you
get to be a professional hoarder. I guess so. Um
eventually again, when the time is right, all that will
be on display and we'll see how the world unfolds
in the near future. But you know, when when Kreskin
(36:47):
was talking about believing in UFOs, I was actually talking
to him the day that this story came out. And
I'm gonna try to at least start talking about this
before we hit our next break. This is actually a
Coast to Coast a m story that was posted by
(37:09):
Tim Bannal and the headline is China's lunar rover to
investigate mystery hut spotted on the far side of the Moon.
And it's interesting talking to Chris Skin thinking about what
he was saying about war of the world's and and
people freaking out, and his own belief in the power
(37:34):
of suggestion and how people would react to this sort
of thing, And of course, you know, I want to
thank him very much for being on this show. And
I thought it was really interesting that this new story
came out, and it's sort of coincided with some of
the things that we were talking about. Um gosh, let's see. Okay,
(37:55):
I'm gonna I'll start reading this. China's You two and
that's spelled why You Tu. China's You Tube to lunar
rover is on route to investigate a curious cube like
anomaly that has been dubbed the mystery Hut spotted on
(38:20):
the far side of the moon. Word of the weird
observation reportedly came about by way of the Chinese National
Space Administrations are Space website in a post that says.
The blog recounts how scientists were admiring the horizon as
seen by the rover when quote suddenly, an obtrusive cube
(38:44):
on the northern skyline attracted their attention as it piers
through the winding of the skyline like a mysterious hut
that appeared out of thin air. Uh do you remember
the movie two thousand one, A Space Odyssey? More thoughts
on this when we come back. And also, I don't
(39:06):
mean to be a fearmongerer. Here are my friends, but
it's true. It's true all the psychics. I know we're
freaking out right now. I'll explain. I'm Joshua P. Warren
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(41:03):
of this addition of Strange Things on the I Heart
Radio and Coast to Coast. I am Paranormal podcast Network.
I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren. And it's definitely bizarre
to think there is a dark side of the Moon.
What that means is there is a hemisphere of the
(41:27):
Moon that is always facing away from Earth due to
a phenomenon known as title locking. Now, look, I know
that you're probably if you've never watched the animation of that,
it's not gonna make much sense, and I'm not going
to even try to explain this on a podcast, but
(41:50):
it is amazing, amazing to think there's a whole side
of the Moon we just never get to see from
our earthbounds. Tell Us copes. We just have to take
the word from these governments. They go up there and
look around, and now we have this story again. This
(42:11):
is coast to coast a m Yeah, there is, according
to the Chinese, some kind of a big cube shaped
object on the surface of the Moon. And in the
movie two thousand one is Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick,
who you know, there is this obelisk that's discovered on
the Moon and it somehow holds the key to us
(42:35):
comprehending that we are not alone, that there are other
intelligent forces in the universe. The article goes on to say,
let's see the The report went on to note that
there was a sizeable impact crater near the object, and
then fantastically wondered if the oddity is quote a home
(43:00):
by aliens after crash landing, or quote a pioneer spacecraft
of the predecessors to explore the Moon end quote. A
less imaginative explanation put forward by scientists is that the
anomaly is merely a boulder that came to rest upon
the surface of the Moon by whatever created the crater
(43:22):
next to it. But that, as it uh says, be
that as it may. The team behind the rover are
understandably intrigued by the peculiar observation, and in an admirable
display of scientific inquiry, have now directed the craft to
head towards the mystery hut um. This is especially interesting
(43:48):
to me because you've heard me talk before about the
fact that I worked for years as an apprentice to
a NASA Hall of Fame scientist named Charles Yost, and
he was always amazed by this piece of footage that
appears to show something like a smoke stack, some kind
of a rectangular looking object jetting from the surface of
(44:13):
the Moon, and a piece of NASA footage. And if
you've never seen this, go to Joshua P. Warren dot
com and click the link there in the menu to
the Gallery of the Strange, and you'll see a heading
there that says a smoke stack on the Moon. And
(44:34):
when you click that, you can see this footage and
you get some more thoughts on that. In fact, I
was on a program that aired on the Sci Fi Channel.
I think it was two hours back in I think
let's see yeah, okay, yeah, called Aliens on the Moon.
(44:58):
Aliens on the Moon. I have Amazon Prime, and so
if you go to Amazon Prime right now. You can
watch this, Okay, this this is a ninety minute documentary.
You can watch this for free, uh in some locations
and anyway, Aliens on the Moon, the truth exposed and
(45:21):
that mystery is addressed, as well as as many others.
And you know, I was talking on a recent show
about self fulfilling prophecies. You have to be very careful
because if you tell people that something bad is about
(45:43):
to happen, then they might make decisions that create that
bad outcome. So I avoid fearmongering and doom and gloom
stuff as much as I can. But look, the reality
is we we're all living in the same world right now,
and this is I'm recording this in early December of
two thousand twenty one, and the world is pretty messed
(46:08):
up still. I mean it's I think any history and
would be like, yeah, this is a pretty messed up
period for human history. And when you try to look
at the future and figure out what's going to happen,
often it seems cloudy, it seems unclear. Even Yoda I remember,
(46:29):
would say once in a while, like he could he
he wasn't certain what was going to happen. So I'm
just gonna go ahead and say it. Um. I know
a lot of people all around the world who call
themselves psychics, and not all of them, but almost all
(46:55):
of them have been contacting me and telling me that
they're freaking out that something big is about to happen.
And I don't want to make any claims about whether
it's something good or something bad. It's just something big
and kind of shocking, and there's a there's a tremor.
(47:19):
I mean, yes, a lot of them are saying it's
going to be bad, but that could be a relative situation.
I mean, everything is kind of relative. So let's say
that the Chinese have discovered on the moon. Sure enough,
(47:42):
there's proof that they're going to reveal that of other
intelligence is out there, which that to me, that's like
a Doe thing. That's that would not be surprising to
me at all. Um. But what if, like Kreskin was saying,
it's true, like if that's revealed, people will flip out.
(48:07):
They will panic, and they will start doing a bunch
of crazy stuff because they panic. I don't know. I
figured I I need to toss it out there though,
So there you go. I've done it. Uh, Okay, before
we end the show. How about a more positive story.
This is a story from Fox News. And by the way,
(48:28):
I watch Fox and CNN and ABC. Nowadays the media
is so biased. Everybody assumes, uh, they know what your
political beliefs are because of what news sources you look at,
and I look at all of it. Here's the story,
what's the okay, here's the headline. What's the story with eggnog?
(48:49):
Where it came from and how it served? Eggnog has
been a popular Christmas drink so long even George Washington
had a recipe for it. See nice holiday story. Right.
There's no denying that the month of December is peak
eggnog time. The sweetened spicy beverage has been a holiday
staple for hundreds of years. But not everyone knows what
(49:11):
it's uh knows what it's made of. I guess there's
a type of here where it comes from or why
we drink it? Uh? Anyway, So they go on to
say eggnog, which is actually a drinkable form of custard,
originated in medieval Britain, where locals created a hot, creamy
(49:32):
ale like drink. The name eggnog is a combination of nogging,
which is a wooden cup and grog a strong beer.
And one of the experts here says that early colonists
traveling to America helped the drink become popular during the holidays,
(49:53):
as locally farmed eggs and milk, in addition to locally
made rum and whiskey, was readily available. So anyway, they
give all kinds of different tips on how you can
enjoy eggnog. You know, here's the thing about my personal opinion.
I eggnog is one of those things. It's like, yeah,
(50:15):
I can handle it at at Christmas time. I wouldn't
want to drink it every day. I'm not a huge
fan of it. Yeah, okay, I can do it. It
says if homemade eggnog isn't something that sounds appealing to you,
they're countless dairy and egg manufacturers who have packaged they're
tried and true recipes. Alright, blah blah blass. So anyway, yeah,
(50:38):
do you like? Um? Do you like eggnog year round?
Or yeah once a year? We can handle it, all right,
my friends. Well, I hope that everything turns out well
for you as our year is winding down. Um, keep
(50:59):
it positive mindset and take a deep breath. That's what
you have to do. Sometimes, you know, you can't let
the world determine how you feel. You have to brainwash yourself.
And that's why I like to play the good Fortune
tone for you as often as I can. It's a
(51:19):
vibration that will help you out if you can close
your eyes, relax and let's see if we can make
your next week fantastic. Here is the Good Fortune Tom.
(51:55):
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