Episode 259: Here's What Happens When You Wear REAL Turquoise!

Josh explains the results of his experiment and divulges some fun information.

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Yeah, ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird.
This is Strange Things with Joshua Warren. I am Joshua Warren,
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brand new, my blowing content, news exercises, and weird experiments

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you can do at home, and a lot more. On
this edition of the show. Here's what happens when you
wear real turquoise. This is a show I have been
looking forward to for a long time. I have a
lot of fascinating and exciting information. I'm gonna try to

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stay on track here and jump right into this story.
First off, let me say, however, I am holding something
in my left hand. Hmm, what could it be? How
psychic are you now? I bet you you're thinking, could

(02:04):
it be turquoise? Nope, I didn't make it quite that
simple for you, but I'm glad you're paying attention. It's
related to the story you're about to hear, and I'll
let you just keep keep that at the back of
your mind. Let's see. I'll tell you a little bit
later what it actually is. Let's see if you can,

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if you can guess it, if you can figure it out.
All right, where do I begin? You probably know that
I live here in Las Vegas, Nevada. And by the way,
we've been having some pretty brutal sandstorms here lately, so
my allergies are messing with me today. Forgive me if

(02:47):
I if I sound a little stuffy. I try not
to clear my throat in the microphone and all that.
But that's how it is when you when you record
in this climate. Well, whether or not you've ever been
to Las Vegas, you probably know that right there on
the strip is a gigantic, shiny black pyramid and it

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is a resort and hotel that I think open to
nineteen ninety three. It's called the Luxor and this thing,
I mean, it's it's gigantic. It's three hundred and fifty
feet tall, which is one hundred and seven meters, and
I believe that is around seventy five percent the size

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of the original Great Pyramid there in Egypt. So it's
not not quite as big as the real Great Pyramid,
but it's the closest that you're probably gonna find if
you don't go to Egypt. And what's I think most
notable of course about that pyramid is that on top
of it is this incredible beam of light. At every

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night you can walk outside and see this beam of
light shooting st into the sky. It's the strongest beam
of light in the world, known as the Luxor Skybeam.
And they say it's so powerful that people can see
it as far away as Los Angeles sometimes when airline

(04:18):
pilots are cruising at altitude. Very impressive and next to it.
I'll tell you this little funny story. One time I
was on the strip by myself, bouncing around, getting into mischief,
and I decided to go over to the Luxwow for
some reason and deal a little gambling. And so I

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got out of the uber and I looked up and
the beam that was shooting from the top of the
luxwer looked like nothing I'd ever seen before. It looked
it was sparkling and glittery. And you know how when
you get a snow globe and shake it up, how
you see all these little silvery sparkles inside. That's what

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the beam looked like. The beam looked like it was alive,
and I was like, what is going on here? It
turns out, certain times of year there are just millions
and millions of moths that are attracted moths and other
insects flying insects that are attracted to that beam. And

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as a matter of fact, once you know what you're
looking at, you can see bats swooping down. There's tons
of bats that fly around this light and feed off
of those insects certain times of year. It's crazy. Well, anyway,
there's also a reproduction of the sphinx sitting next to it,

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and the Vegas sphinx is actually larger than the sphinx
in Egypt. Let's see, I believe the Vegas thing is
one hundred and ten feet tall, which is about thirty
three meters, whereas the original in Egypt is sixty six
feet tall about twenty meters, so the Sphinx in Vegas

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is apparently almost twice as tall as the sphinx in Egypt.
So that's kind of interesting that the pyramids a little smaller,
but the Sphinx is significantly bigger. So occasionally they have
this King tot exhibit that's there. There's also one at
the Vegas Natural History Museum, and I'm not sure if

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they switch them back and forth, like it's the same
exhibit or I'm not certain, but I've been to both
of them basically, you know, the first time I went
to the one at the Natural History Museum, it was
amazing because they had reproduced King Tut's tomb just as
Howard Carter found it. And so you walk through this
little tunnel and you see all the artifacts around and

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the various different chambers, and then finally, of course the
big grand finale. You go up and you see you
see the burial mask and the coffin I guess you'd
say of King Tut there, and it is incredible when
you look at that thing. They say it's I've never

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been to Egypt, and honestly, I've never felt a gigantic
drawl to have to go to Egypt. I mean, that's
pretty close here advance. But they say that it's amazingly realistic,
and it sure seems so to me. The actual body

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and that famous you know, burial coffin with the head
dress and all that that is now housed at the
Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, which is a fairly new
state of the art museum, and I believe that they
have the entire collection of King Tut's mere. Well, what

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I have in my hand right now, my left hand,
is a small model of King Tut's burial mask, is
burial headdress, his burial helmet. I guess they call it
a head dress. And this thing is about the size

(08:24):
of my left hand, so it's pretty big and it's heavy,
So I mean it basically is sort of like a paperweight.
And so when you look at this and you really
start studying the makeup, and you might want to jump
online and bring up a picture of King Tut's mask
if it helps you while I talk about this. Obviously

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it's made of gold, there's all kinds of ornate stuff
on it. But right there at the top of the
mask there are two prominent creatures that are protruding from
his forehead. One is a vulture and the other one,
which is the most prominent one is a cobra. And

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I don't want to get into all the symbology behind
everything on this, but like I said, the cobra is
the dominant one. And it turns out that cobra represents
a goddess named Wadget. I suppose it's spelled wa d
j Et Wadget. Wadget is the protector of the country

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of pharaohs and even other deities. She was popular with
all the pharaohs. They say that she was a always
a fierce protector of the person who wore her symbol
rising up to scare away all evil and dangers and
only allow protection and fertility and abundance to pass through.

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So historians say almost all the pharaohs wore her for
protection on a daily basis, going back to the very
beginning of ancient Egypt. But you know what, as I
look at this thing and again, you might want to
bring up a picture on the internet. Right there at
the base of this cobra, the base of Waget on

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King Tut's sacred burial headdress, right where she connects with
the king. You'll see two bluish stripes, and you know
what they are made of turquoise. That's how significant turquoise
was to them. In fact, there's turquoise all over the

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collar of King Tut's golden burial mask, even on the
back of the mask. There's turquoise all around the collar.
Like I say, it's a very prominent part of this
most sacred piece. And it turns out that turquoise has

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been the protection and stone not just of Egyptian pharaohs,
but many of the greatest rulers since the dawn of time, Mesopotamians, Aztecs,
Asians of course Native Americans. They have all considered it
to be a stone that deflects negativity and attracts the

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positive energy of God. It has the color of the
sky and the water. We got to take a break,
will we come back. I'm going to tell you a
little bit more about why that this thing called turquoise
has been considered so sacred and how powerful is it. Well,
I decided to start experimenting, and I'll tell you what

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happened to me, and I'll tell you how you can
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magic word right there. Because you don't know what I mean,
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I'm not going to explain it. Uh, Okay, back to
the story, because I started really digging into the sacred
and magical and mystical and even miraculous tradition of wearing

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turquoise to protect yourself from negative forces and to allow
only positive things and fortunate and healthy things to come
your way. And I mentioned that, let's start with the color.
Turquoise comes in different colors, but essentially most turquoise has
the color of the sky, of the heavens, and of

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the oceans, of the earth, the water. One Encyclopedia entry says,
turquoise the robin's egg blue gemstone, worn by pharaohs and
Aztec kings, is probably one of the oldest gemston known
yet only its prized blue color, a color so distinctive

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that its name is used to describe any color that
resembles it, results in it being used as a gemstone.
It's the color. I could go on and on here
telling you about the history a powerful, wealthy, and perhaps
most importantly healthy people throughout history who have prominently worn

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turquoise on an almost daily basis, if not an outright
daily basis. But trust me, you can look into all
that on your own. I'm just here to guide you
in a direction to do your own research. But when
I started digging into it, I found something that surprised me.
I did a search for the place where the most

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valuable specimen of turquoise in history was found. And guess
what it was right here where I live in Nevada
in the USA. It's called lander turquoise, worth more than
gold or diamonds in its weight, well over one million

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dollars per pound. Look it up. So I said, dang,
I got to start looking into turquoise asap. I'm in
this turquoise state, and I'd never really spent that much
time looking into turquoise. I'd see people wearing it a
lot here in the Southwest, especially if you go over
to Arizona. So, okay, so what exactly is turquoise? Let's

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talk about this for a minute. Is turquoise a crystal? Well,
it actually is, as a matter of fact, I just
went to Google and I said, is turquoise crystal? Says, yes,
Turquoise can be considered a crystal because it is a
mineral that forms with a triclinical or excuse me, triclinic

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crystal system. It is composed of countless microscopic crystals rather
than a single solid, transparent crystal like a diamond. They
call that a crypto crystalline rock. I say, it's often

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referred to as a turquoise crystal in mineralogy and gemology.
So my understanding is like if you have a big
quartz crystal or a diamond, which is one big crystal,
then you can kind of see the thing. But it's
the turquoise is a cluster of just millions of tiny crystals,

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and so that that brings an energy, an interesting property
to what makes it special. I guess I think I
read somewhere that it was even compared somewhat to forming
very gradually under very rare circumstances and maybe similar to
like stalactites and caves and that sort of thing. Yeah,

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crypto crypto crystalline. And uh, if you go and look
up the history of use, let's see here this is
kind of this I found this particularly intriguing. Like I say,
you gotta bear with me. I have a lot of

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a lot of information here. I'm going through here so
that it goes back as this is a little redundant.
The pastel shades of turquoise have endeared it to many
great cultures, Ancient Egypt, the Aztecs, et cetera, et cetera. Okay,
I'm not going to go over all that stuff again,
but they do talk about a lot of examples of
this being used all over the world in all kinds

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of mystical ways. And I think you know, you probably
know how I feel about about crystals. So they say
it's a common belief shared by many of these civilizations
that turquoise possessed certain prophylactic qualities, so it protects you

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from things. It was thought to change color with the
wearer's health and protect him or her from untoward forces.
That's interesting, isn't it. And not only is it prominent
here in Nevada, but turns out it actually is the

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official state semi precious gemstone of Nevada. Nevada turquoise was
recognized as the official state semi precious gemstone in nineteen
eighty seven and the Blackfire Opal was designated in Nevada's

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state Precious gemstone the same year. How about that the
Jewel of the Desert. So it's that prominent here, and
I was like, I just never realized that it was.
I was right in the middle of like this kingdom
of turquoise that has this incredible history, and it's so expensive.

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I don't know if you've ever gone to a jewelry
store and you've looked at turquoise jewelry and you, good lord,
that's expensive. It's expensive because there's a huge demand for
it when it's actually quite rare. They say that on
a worldwide basis, turquoise is not a very common mineral.
It requires five very specific conditions, and I've got them

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all here. I don't want to give you a chemistry lesson,
but you have to have like faults at a certain
place and its sole. They say that the unusual combination
of the geologic conditions and all that stuff, it just
has produced some small deposits around the world, and most
of the time when they are mined, they're mind by

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very small, homemade minds. Basically, you know that it's not
like they bring out a lot of machinery and do
some major operation. A lot of it is literally just
people getting out there and digging it out by hand.
But it also turns out that Nevada turquoise is some

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of the finest turquoise in the world, and probably they
say it has the planet's whitest diversity of colors and
matrix patterns. You can actually find some here that have
shades of blue, blue, green, green, blue, green. All those
are considered valuable. But something else that I thought was
especially intriguing is that most of the turquoise in the

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world is rather soft and porous, but Nevada has some
of the hardest in the entire world. Let's see here
I even was asking questions of AI says certain types

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of Nevada turquoise are known for being harder than many
other varieties. And it goes on to say, if this
matters to you, that like the most hardness range for
turquoise is five point five to six point five. Higher
grade natural Nevada turquoise can achieve hardness of six or
seven or more. And basically here's why that's important. They

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say that the turquoise that comes from here is usually
so hard that it does not require any type of artificial,
man made treatment because most of the time when you
see turquoise out there, it has gone through a process
called stabilization. So what that means is that you're not

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actually seeing the original turquoise as Mother Nature created it.
And so when they go through this process called stabilization,
people will take this sort of softer kind of turquoise
and then they'll they'll polish it, and then they'll pour

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resin on it, you know, on plastics and things like that,
and then they'll polish it, and then they'll put dye
on it and they'll color it, and you end up
with something that maybe there's some turquoise there, but it's
highly highly shaped and influenced by human beings. And I
was like, I don't want that. Maybe it looks a
little more beautiful when you know, when you when you

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polish something up and die it like an easter egg.
I said, I want to get some real, raw, authentic
Nevada turquoise directly from a mine, so that I know
I'm getting the real thing. It's dense, it's legit. I'm
not gonna shape it, I'm not going to pour anything
on it. I'm not going to paint it. I'm going

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to take it out of the ground just as Mother
and nature made it, and I'm going to start wearing
this and I'm going to see what happens. And because
you know, my big problem is whenever it comes to
like jewelry or any of this kind of stuff, there
are fakes like you wouldn't believe. And turquoise is one
of the most faked minerals or gemstones out there. As

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a matter of fact, most of the turquoise that you
have probably seen in your life is fake. And so
you know, you can see why a lot of people
will take it and they'll treat it because they can
make a good profit. And most people don't know, they
don't know how to identify real turquoise. But I went
on a mission and I got some raw, genuine Nevada turquoise,

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just as it was created by the Earth after millions
of years. When we come back, I'm going to tell
you exactly what I did with this and what happened
to me, and how you can experiment with this as well.
And I can't wait to see if your results are

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similar to what happened to me. I'm Joshua P. Warren,
and you're listening to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio
and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. And I
will be back after these important messages. Welcome back to

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Strange Things on the iHeart Radio Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
I'm your host, Joshua Pete Warren, and this is the
show where the unusual becomes usual. I have been doing
some experiments lately with one of the simplest but most

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mysterious things in the world, mirrors. I talk about mirrors
a lot on this show. And you know that I
was the guy who came up with the Devil's Toy
Box and all that. I've talked about that before. Here's
what's interesting about a mirror. You know. I have found
that when you move about during the day, just as

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an example, when you go out into the world and
you interact with people, the people tend to be much
more reactive than active. What I mean by that is,
if a person sees you and you have a frown,
then that person is more likely to frown or scal

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back at you, and the person almost acts like a mirror.
If you go out and you have a big smile
on your face, even if it's for no reason, then
people are more apt to smile back at you and
be nice to you. So it's almost like that you're surrounded.
The whole world is a giant mirror, and to a

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certain extent, not an absolute extent, but on a day
to day basis, most of the time, if you go
out and you project a positive attitude, then people will
react that way. So I have been experimenting a lot
lately with taking mirrors and if I have, say something

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that's got maybe a spiritual quality, a gemstone or something
that I like, instead of just wearing it to see
what happens, I started getting these little circular mirrors that
are made independents appendent p E, N, D, A and

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T a necklace okay, and then I'll put whatever I'm
experimenting with on the nay, I'll glue it onto the
little mirror. So now when I'm walking around, I, yes,
I've got the thing on me. But because the thing

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is glued to a mirror, then the theory is that
it is literally projecting that energy, that positive energy out
to everyone and everything around me as well. That's the idea.
So I went to one of the old authentic minds

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here and Nevada, and I got a of I mean,
the real deal, the real raw Nevada turquoise, the good
old stuff that if you got the access to the land,
you can just pluck a nugget out of there. And boy,
I wish I had a piece of land that had

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that was covered turquoise. The land that I own up
north is covered in scorpions. By the way, if anybody
knows how to make money off the scorpion business, talk
to me. So anyway, look, I got some of this turquoise,

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and I got one of these mirror pendants that I
like because I've experimented with different kinds and this is
the one that I like the best. And I glueded
on there. And the timing was very, very interesting because
it's you know, I've had kind of a tough year,
to be honest with you. You know, I had a surgery.

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I've never had a I mean, I had a hernia
and I had to have hernia surgery this year, and
that's the most extensive surgery I've ever had in my
entire life. I've been very lucky. When I was a kid,
you know, like eight years old. They think they talked.
They took my tonsiles out, but you know, that was it.
So I've made it to I'm forty eight. Now I've
made it this far without having a significant surgery. But
you know, so that that sucked to go through that

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and kind of put me in a bad mood. And
then right after that, Lauren and I we started having
a string of bad luck here at the house. We
had three major appliances that broke down within the same week.
One in the kitchen. One was an air conditioner, which
is a big deal here in Vegas. One was a

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part of the swimming pool. I know, boohoo oh Joshua
was swimming pool had a part. I get it, I
get it, but still, you see what the point is.
It's like all this stuff started breaking down. And then
I had, on top of the surgery, I had another
medical condition issue that made me very sick for a while.
And Lauren was having some bad stuff hathen and we

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were like, we need to do something about this. I
was being distracted by the negative stuff. So this all
kind of dove telled and I said, okay, well I'm
experimenting with the mirror stuff, and now I've got these
pieces of raw natural Nevada turquoise. So I put the

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turquoise on the little mirror pendant and made one for
both of us. And because Lauren said, we need to
deflect whatever's going on here, and that's exactly what turquoise
is supposed to do. You put it on, it protects you,
just like it protects the pharaohs with the cobra. And
then and then also you know, you're you're you're not

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just protecting yourself defensively because it has a mirror on it,
You're projecting that same thing out to those around you,
so that it's sort of like good karma, you know,
it creates a positive reaction. That was the idea. So
we started wearing this turquoise pendent. Day one, nothing notable happened,

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which at that time was good. I was like, that's
a good result because we were used to like something
breaking down every day. Day two, nothing happened, which again
I was fine with that. But then on day three,
at one point, I put my hand over it and

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it kind of hangs a little bit over my heart,
my solar plexus area, and I put my hand over it,
and I asked for a wish to come true, and
this was a very personal thing, so I don't want
to come right out and say it, but it did
have something to do with the health issues that I

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was experiencing at the time. And it came true. And
not only did it come true, but within the next
I would say forty eight hours, all kinds of good
stuff started happening. I discovered a new supplement that started
working miracles for me. I got two unexpected checks in

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the mill that were sizeable, and that's always a surprise,
you know. It's a nice surprise when you get a
check out of the blue. It's like, all this good
stuff started happening. And I said to lauren this, I
can see why people for thousands of years have said
that this works. And so Laurence said, you should tell

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all your listeners about it, and we should make a
batch for them. So I said, fine, let's do that.
So I bought some more of this turquoise and we
made a hundred of these pendants. And I don't know
the time you hear this, if I'll have any left.
If you go to Joshua Pewarren dot com right there

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on in the Curiosity Shop, you'll see the menu has
a Curiosity Shop it says Joshua Pee Warren's True Nevada
Turquoise manifesting pendant. But at the same time, I thought,
you know, let's juice it up a little bit. Let's
sweeten the deal since I'm playing with the mirror stuff.

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I've always been a big fan of scrying. You know,
Scrying is when you stare into a somewhat reflective object,
could be a crystal ball. I know Nostradamus used to
use a bowl of water. It's similar to what happens
when people use a psychomantium to see the other side.

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And I was experimenting with what are called scrying pendants.
So basically it's a black mirror that you wear, and
what happens is if you need information of any kind
through throughout your day, you take the black mirror and

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you just stare at it and meditate on it for
about thirty seconds until the answer flashes in your mind.
You get some kind of a vision. And I found
a lady here in the United States who crafts these
absolutely beautiful, original handmade scrying mirrors as pendants, scrying mirror pendance,

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and so I said, you know what, I wonder if
she would make that as a bonus at least for
you know, a while, And so right now I've got
If you get the turquoise pendit, you can also get
this bonus scrying pendant, and so you know, basically, look
the turquoise, it's intended to protect you from all negative

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energy and only allow positivity, love, and abundance to reach you.
Wear it as often as you like. And if you
want to manifest something in particular as you wear it,
just place your hand over it like I did, close
your eyes, form a mental wish, think about it for
a few seconds, and then move along with your day
in peace and serenity. And even if you don't get

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one of these from me, at least if you do
get one of these from me, you'll know it's real.
It's not fake. It's the genuine article. You know, if
you have a piece of turquoise that you trust and
try that. But this black scrying penda, it's just like
this is next level. You could wear this out at
everything from a classy dinner to you know, a crazy party.

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It's intended to give you psychic information when needed. So
whenever you have a question about anything where you just
want to make a guess, you look at this black
mirror for a few seconds and think about your question. Uh,
and you stare into it for up to thirty seconds
until this flash of intuition gives you the answer. So
it's a reflection of your inner psychic skill, and the

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more you practice it over time, the more accurate your
results will be. And when we come back, I'll tell
you what happened to me when I was using the
scrying pendant the other day. And then a couple of
things I want to hit before we have to wrap
up the show. One of them, you know what a
damn bow troll is? A damn bow troll. I'm Joshua P. Warren.

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this edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
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Joshua P. Warren. And here's what I've been doing with
my scrying mirror pendant. It's a you know, this is

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actually kind of an old trick and it works in
the casino so often and so basically, you know, you
can go to casinos and there are games where you
you know, you get to make a decision about what

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you think the outcome is going to be. It's not
like a slot machine where you're just sitting there like
a rat, hitting the button, hoping, hope, hoping that something
will happen. So it's like, for example, you can go
up to a roulette will and you can put some
money down and you can bet on red or black,
and you have an almost fifty to fifty chance of

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doubling your money when you do that. I say almost
because there are a couple of green spaces and that's
where the house gets its edge. But you still can
go there, and I mean you can have some amazing
runs of red or black, and you know, you can
turn a dollar into two dollars, and two dollars into
four dollars, and four into eight and eight into sixteen
and it starts, you know, adding up pretty quickly. Or

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you can play keno where you sit down and you
pick numbers. It's like a little miniature lottery and then
you hit the button and the balls drop. Or you know,
even in poker, you make decisions about what cards to
hold and that kind of thing, and so it is.
It has always been an old trick. I've heard of
gamblers to use scrying. A lot of them will wear

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a ring or something like that that has a little
crystal ball on it or something along those lines, and
when it comes time for a tough decision, they sit
there and they stare at the at the ring or whatever.
You know, some people just carry it in their pocket.
There's no rule against that, you know. And then you
get this flash in your mind. If you practice this

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enough and it increases your odds of winning, I'm pretty
sure that there's if you put this under scientific scrutiny,
you could actually prove this. That's what I believe because
I have been doing it. I have been taking this
black scrying pindit with me and I don't gamble that often,
believe it or not. I know it sounds like it

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because I talk about it all the time. But you
also have to realize that everywhere you go in this
town there's a gambling machine. They're at the grocery store,
they're at the gas station. I mean like every time
you go into a restaurant. Just about it's like, so
it's no big deal for me to stop and put five, ten,
twenty dollars into a machine like that's not a big deal.

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And I have been using the scrying pendant, and if
there's an opportunity for me to play a game where
there's a decision to be made, I will sit there
and I'll stare at that Scrying Mirror pendant for again,
you know, thirty seconds. And actually I've gotten to the
point now where I don't even have to do it
for thirty seconds. For me, it's almost like two or

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three seconds and I see a flash, and I find
that increases my odds of success. So anyway, just to
reiterate to you, look, people always email me and they say,
oh my gosh, they're gone because I only made one
hundred of these things, and I don't even know if
all hundred right now, if you get one of these,

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if you can get one, you'll get the turquoise pindit
and you'll get the black scrying the black mirror scrying pendit. Uh.
If these well, I should say when these sell out,
I mean, I might consider doing another batch at some
point down the road, but I don't know when. I'm

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very busy. This year is winding down for me. And
so anyway, go to Joshua P. Warren dot com and
if you click the link to the Curiosity Shop there
you will find out whether or not any of these
are left. So I guess you know, my point is,
even if you're not able to get one of these

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that are made by me that I know work one
for me, I've given you information. I've given you knowledge.
You can go out and you can start experimenting with
these kinds of items yourself and these techniques yourself. And uh,
I really believe that it's no Let me put it

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this way. For thousands of years, the most powerful and
successful and in many cases healthy and wealthy people have
been using turquoise. And you know, maybe sometimes all you
need is maybe you don't need good luck as much
as you think you do. You just need something to

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help you deflect bad luck. And maybe that's what the
turquoise does. And you know, I grew up in western
North Carolina and it was a very mineral rich area.
But you know, we didn't have turquoise. I don't know,

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as far as I know. And here in Nevada we
have this you know thing. It's the Nevada Triangle, which
goes from Las Vegas up to Reno and then over
to Fresno, California, and all kinds of mystical crazy stuff
happens in that in that triangle, and I wonder if
the turquoise may play a role in it somehow. Here

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in this state, the state that produces more gold than
any other state, even though they call it the Silver State.
But there are things that I definitely miss about being
back in my old stomping ground, Western North Carolina. And
I figured i'd tell you about this because a lot
of people listen to the show who are from western
North Carolina, because you know, friends and whatnot. And I

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learn not too long ago, maybe a couple of years ago,
about this phenomenon called the Dambo Trolls. There's a guy
named Jacob the Carpetbagger who has a great YouTube channel
where he travels all over the country documenting roadside attractions
and theme parks and haunted houses and just you know, curiosities.

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As a matter of fact, he now lives in western
North carol And I was watching his one of his
videos one time, and he was the one who kind
of introduced me to the idea, or I guess the
the phenomenon of Thomas Dambo d Ambo just like Rambo.

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He's forty six years old. He's a Danish artist and
he travels all over the world creating these gigantic sculptures
of trolls made entirely out of recycled materials, and he
usually puts them out in these really obscure places. And

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when I say, uh, gosh, how many of these, it's
probably over one hundred. How many Dambo trolls are there?
Let's see, Yeah, more than one hundred and fifty of
these giant recycled wood Dambo trolls. And he said that
he likes to travel around and build these things because

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it reminds people of a connection with nature and that
they are they're not permanent, but you know, they're made
of woods, so they will eventually disintegrate and go back
into the earth. And he's real big on promoting the
idea of like thinking about recycling and living organically in
harmony with the earth and not you know, gabbing everything

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up with plastic and stuff. And the guy, if you've
never seen a Dambo troll, just type it in d
Ambo troll. Some of these trolls are forty feet tall,
that's twelve meters and I've never seen one in person. Unfortunately.

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The closest one to me as in California, and it's
a long drive from here. I think it's like eight
hours or whatever. So I've never seen a Dambo troll.
But he goes around the world and he builds these things.
There's one in Puerto Rico, where I used to live,
but that was built after I moved, and it's just
like a mystical experience for people. It's almost like an

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ancient tribal experience. And it turns out he's building a
bunch of these things in Asheville, North Carolina, where I'm from,
and it's called it's actually an exhibition, and I don't
know how often he does this sort of thing. Trolls
a field study by Thomas Dambo. It's going to premiere

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at the US. Okay, the US premiere will be at
the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, North Carolina, from November fifteenth,
twenty twenty five, to February seventeenth of twenty twenty six.
And this is going to be an exhibition that features

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twelve of these gigantic interactive troll sculptures. Made from reclaim
materials that will be placed throughout the arboretums, gardens and trails. Wow.
I don't know if I can make it to Asheville
during that period of time, but folks, if you can,
if you can, you gotta do it. Do it. Write

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that down Thomas Dambo Dambo, North Carolina Arboretum starting November fifteenth,
twenty twenty five to February seventeenth, twenty twenty six. Really cool,
really strange, and h one way or another. I'm sure
I'll get to meet a Dambo troll someday. All right,

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my friends, the clock has got us. I hope you've
enjoyed this mind bending and eclectic journey. So as usual,
we're going to end the show hoping that well, your
next week is the best week ever. If you can
close your eyes, take a deep breath, and let's all
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