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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:56):
Ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird. This
is Strange Warren. I am Josha Whoope Warren, and each
week on this show, I'll be bringing you up brand new,
my blowing content, news exercises and weird experiments you can
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do at home, and a lot more. On this edition
of the show, Pascals Wager and New Money Magic. Do
you know what Pascal's Wager is? I bet you don't,
But if you do, you'll still find this interesting because well,
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I guess you already know what's interesting this. I swear
to you this might be the most important show that
you have ever listened to in your entire life. I'm
not saying it is, but it might be. And I
know you're thinking, well, that's very profound, but yeah, I
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mean on you. And I decided it was time to
bring this up because you know, I'm still worn out.
I'm recovering from a surgery. Last time you heard me
was I guess a week ago. But I decided to
kind of get caught up, and so I've recorded like
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two shows within a couple of days. So I'm still
worn out. I know. I know you say, well, good lord,
you're only forty eight. Indiana Jones said, it's not the years,
it's the mileage. And I have put a lot of
miles on these bonds. And you know, it's funny because
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sometimes people think that I don't know if you've ever
seen like the nineteen eighties version of Little Shop of
Horrors where John Candy plays like, oh I'm the weird
and he's banging on bells. And I don't feel like
I always have to, you know, give you some kind
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of a gimmick and be like mister energy. I mean,
you've been sticking with me all these years, so you
know what I try to do is provide things that
you will find interesting. And you know, I try to
be upbeat, I try to be positive, but at the
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same time, I'm you know, I'm realistic. And when you
go to the hospital and I've never had a real
surgery before, when you go to the hospital, you know,
you start thinking about your mortality. And it started reminding
me of Postcal's wager. I guess that's how you pronounce it.
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Poscal was a Frenchman, and you know, the hardest words.
I'm an excellent speller. I always won the spelling bees.
But you know it's always those friends swords to get you.
So all right, well, let me look this up for you. No,
you could do this on your own, but you know
you're listening to me, and I'm getting paid, So here
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we go. There was a guy named I guess his
name was Blase Posco. How would you like any of
your parents' name? You Blase b Laise. I don't speak
French again, so I mean, I'm not sure if I'm
pronouncing any of this stuff right. But this guy, Blosse Pascal.
He was born on June nineteenth of sixteen, twenty three. Yeah,
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a long time ago, and he died in let's see
August nineteenth of sixteen sixty two. He was only thirty
nine when he died. He was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher,
and a Catholic writer. Now I have heard of Pascal's
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wager for a while, and of course most of you
probably know that I live in Las Vegas, and I
go out and I gamble once in a while for fun.
And he was talking about the idea of gambling, but
on a much much more serious, deep level. You'll see
what I mean. He was talking about gambling with your soul.
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Says here. Pascal was a child prodigy born in a
place called Claremont Ferrand, France. His father was a tax collector,
and he was a prodigy, especially when it came to
geometry and mathematics, and he wrote some kind of like
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significant treatise on the subject at age sixteen. I'm just
looking over this thing, and I mean, this guy was obviously,
you know, one of those You're like, hmm, maybe there
was a little alien gene involved here, but especially because
it says in sixteen forty two he started some pioneering
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work on calculating machines leaders called see later called Pascal's calculators,
establishing him as one of the first two inventors of
the mechanical calculator. How'd you like to have that on
your resume? This guy was one of the inventors of
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the darn calculator, says like his contemporary, Renee des Car
de Car. You know, when I was in college, they
always I took philosophy, and they're like the car. He
always said, I think, therefore I am it, says like
his contemporary, Renee des Car. Pascal was also a pioneer
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in the natural and applied sciences. He wrote in defense
of the scientific method, produced several controversial results. He made
contributions to the study of fluids pressure vacuum. All right,
very smart dude. Well why am I bringing him up?
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Why is he? Why is he the topic of this show?
I guess I will tell you this before I get
into it. Just I mean some I for some reason,
it's kind of interesting to talk about how people were
born and got educated and whatnot, and then how they died.
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He says here that he when he died, that he
just got ill for some reason. I mean, again, you're
talking to sixteen hundreds. They don't know exactly what happened,
said he just got ill and became unstable. His last
words were, may God never abandon me. And there was
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an autopsy performed and they said that they revealed grave
stomach let's see, grave problems with his stomach and other
organs of his abdomen, along with damage to his brain.
They're not sure what happened to him. Might be Tuberculosi's
stomach cancer or a combination of the two. All right, fine,
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so again, why am I bringing this up? Well, I'm
bringing it up because that he he raised a question
that I bet, I just bet you have thought about
in your life. And it's incredibly simple, but it's also
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incredibly profound. It might be the most complicated, simple question
ever asked. Let that sink in for a minute. Pascal's wager.
So this guy, again, very smart gambler, looking at risks,
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looking at rewards, and here was his wager. His argument was,
here's something we need to really, you know, really think
about in depth. He said that the potential of the
infinite gain of believing in God outweighs the potential finite
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losses if God does not exist, making belief the more
rational choice. According to these academic sources. So he's basic saying,
like right now, if I just go onto Google and
I type in like Pascal's Wager, it says. Pascal's Wager
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is a philosophical argument formulated by Blaise Pascal, suggesting it
is more rational to believe in God's existence even without proof,
because the potential benefits of belief, meaning eternal happiness, outweigh
the potential losses, that is, the minor inconveniences of religious practice. Conversely,
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on the other hand, the potential gains of disbelief, which
are minor pleasures, are vastly outweighed by the potential losses
meaning eternal damnation if God exists. I bet you've thought
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about this before, but you never thought about it in
this way as Pascal's wager. Okay, we're up on a break.
When we come back, I'm going to tell you where
I fall on this for those of you who obviously
you mean you care enough to listen to the show,
so I guess, and then I want to give you.
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I want to give you some updates about other things
that are happening very very soon, and including a manifestation
technique that I mean I've been using it and you
know I've been kind of down to the dumps because
of this surgery and recovering and everything. Man, I've been
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manifesting stuff like you wouldn't believe, and I'm going to
tell you all about it when I come back. I
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Podcast Network, and I will be right back. Welcome back
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to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
AM Paranormal Podcast Network I have your host, a wizard
of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, Beam Meg into your worm
whole brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada,
where every day is golden and every night is silver.
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Getato zoomte. You know, the executive producer of this iHeart
Coast to Coast am Paranormal podcast program is Tom dan Heiser,
and I've known him for a long time. He's always
been just a great guy, you know, I mean, and
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we were talking the other day and he said, Josh,
take as much time off as you need. You know,
We're fine, and so I I really appreciate that, but
I'm you know, I wanted to get back in the
swing of things here. And I mentioned on my last
podcast that in addition to having this surgery, I got
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a SEAPAP machine, and a lot of people don't really
understand that much about seapap, and listen, I'm not being
paid a dime to promote seapap. But SEAPAP stands for
continuous positive airway pressure. And so if you have sleep apnea,
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meaning that you don't breathe well, if you stop breathing
a certain amount of times in an hour, then they say, Okay,
you know you you have sleep apnea, and look sleeping
with a seatpat machine sucks, but it's better than not
being able to breathe. And I got one of these
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masks that has a hose that comes off the top
of my head so that when I I flip from
left to right or whatever. I mean. It's it's it's
not a big issue, but I just figured that you
might find this interesting. I was, I was kind of joking.
Oh I was, I was joking, but it's it's serious.
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On my last show about how that you have a
lot of bad dreams and frustrating dreams and stuff if
you have sleep apnea, and then now that I have
a seapat machine, my dreams are much more neutral and
just psychologically, I have a better experience. But I just
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wanted to share with you because you will probably never
look this up on your own. It appears the seapap
was invented by an Australian doctor in the nineteen seventies.
And I don't have all the literature in front of me,
but yeah, doctor Colin Sullivan, Australian physician and professor, actually
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I'm sorry, he invented it in nineteen eighty. It says
you're applying seapat for use on adult patients with sleep
apnea at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. And
I just it just makes sure that you get enough air.
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And I believe, I believe that if you have like
the next level, like a really bad problem, they have
something called like a BYPAP machine. I didn't I didn't
prepare a lot for this show. But yeah, BYPAP by
level positive airwave pressure. And this is like a SEAPEP
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provides continuous air that goes into your into your your
nose and your lungs in one way or another, I guess.
And then a BYPAP is more like I guess, like
a real Darth Vader machine, and like a ventilator. It
blows air in when you inhale and then sucks air
out when you excel. I don't know. I'll give you
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my disclaimer. I don't know anything about anything. I'm not
a doctor. But what I can tell you is I've
been using my SEAPAP machine for over two weeks now,
and yes, it sucks to sleep with something on your face, yes,
but my dreams are so much much better. And that's weird,
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isn't it? Because it makes you think like why why
would you have bad dreams just because that you're not
breathing in enough oxygen? Like what's the relationship there? And
it makes you think of the human body as being
some kind of a robot. And when you get back
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to Pascal's Wager, where he is basically saying, all right,
you don't know what's going on here, let's see I
read something that was very interesting that he said, By
the way, folks, if you're relying on politicians to save you,
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good luck, They're not gonna politicians are I don't think
saying people become politicians. You might think that's out at
I feel, but I'm just telling you you kind of
have to look after yourself. And when you look at
yourself and you have to make judgments for yourself. It
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basically talks about how in Pascal's Wager, that you have
the option to take a risk, to take a gamble,
and to say, either there is a god and I'm
going to try to believe that there is a god
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and live as if there is a god. And if not,
then if I believed in a god, then what have
I got to lose? If there's no God. But if
there is a God and I don't believe in a God,
well I have a lot to lose. And I decided
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a long time ago to believe that there is a God,
and I'm not. I have no way of comprehending what
God is. I mean, I think, honestly, I think it's impossible.
I mean, how many of you have ever gone out
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on a fishing expedition and you catch a fish. You
think that fish knows anything about how to get to
the moon or get to Mars. I mean, you can't
comprehend these things. So to a certain extent, you have
to say that, you know, like, we're never going to
be able to comprehend what God is. God equals the universe.
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But one of the reasons that I believe that God
exists is because of the extraordinary design that I see
all around me every single day, very fact that I
exist and you exist, So that to me is I
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guess that's about the best piece of evidence that I have.
Is that I look around and I go, I don't
know how this holds randomly, randomly fell into place. I mean, well, yeah,
well you take a box full of parts and shake
it up and sit at there for a million years,
and it's something going to appear. And you know, recently
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I mentioned this. I got a VR headset Medaquest three s.
And when you put on a VR headset and you're literally,
you know, like sitting there in a virtual world where
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you look up, down, left, right behind you, you know,
and it's all three D reality for that moment, I mean,
you're not here anymore. You're in that reality. And there
was some program that I bought. I can't remember what
it was called right now, but uh, it was a
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it was like a nature program. So you could click
this button and it would say one minute like, oh, well,
you're in you're in the middle of a snowstorm, you know,
in Montana, or you're you're you're in the middle of
uh you're that you're in a beautiful crystal lake in Sweden,
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umber whatever, you and uh so you look around and
you pick the place where you want to go, virtually,
and one of them was Jurassic World, where you you
picked that and the next thing you know, you're sitting
there and you can move around to a certain exteent,
but you're sitting in the world as it was sixty
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some million years ago supposedly. So when you click this,
you're sitting there in like a little tent and you
see the silhouette. It's very realistic because there's not like
dinosaurs were all up in your face roaring at you
and some crazy stuff like that. No, it's like very
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really realistic. I guess, you know, why do I know?
But I mean, you see the silhouette of like a
I don't know, brought the saurus walking around up there
on the woods, and then you look up and you
see terra dectyls flying over. So I was sitting there
and I was using my imagination and I was really
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getting into this mindset that I have traveled back in
time and I'm the only person alive right now. All
elks that exist are just dinosaurs and crap like that.
And all of a sudden, I was amazed to find
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this sense of peace wash over me. There was a
sense of peacefulness that I wasn't expecting, just imagining that
humans are not out there, that many of our biggest
problems whatever, I mean, think about your biggest problems right now,
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and think about how many of your problems are connected
to the fact that humans exist, And think about how
much better your life would be if you lived in
the dinosaur days. Perhaps, I know you think I've been
taking all kinds of drugs. I haven't. That's probably my problem.
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They gave me some medication, but I was like, no,
I'm not doing that. Hey, when we come back, money Magic,
I got something new I've been doing and I'm going
to tell you about that. And uh oh yeah, I
have another weird story for you. Whey do you hear
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this one? I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening to Strange
Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast a
M Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be here right
back after these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things
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all the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast a I
AM Paranormal podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua Pete Warren,
and this is the show will the unusual Becomes Usual? Yeah.
A long time ago, Art Bell invited me to be
his guest. I was a very young man. He invited
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me to be interviewed by him on Coast to Coast
AM and I've had just a wonderful relationship with everybody
at Premiere and iHeart since then. And I can't even
tell you how many things that I've done with Tom
dan Heiser and George Nori. But there was a time
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where I also wanted to be involved in TV. And
I honestly, you know, I don't have a big desire
to be on TV anymore. I guess there's a number
of reasons for that. I just I just I really
don't care about people seeing me. But there was a
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time when I did and I wanted to be on TV.
And I you know, I started as a teenager and
I did a lot of TV shows. Then eventually I
met people like Dave Schrader and Zach Begans, and they
really did a lot to put me on, like the
Travel Channel, and I got to do a lot of
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cool TV stuff and make some dreams come true. And
I think that one of the last times I did
something with Zach Begans, one of the last times, I
believe it was twenty I want to say twenty eighteen,
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a Halloween night. He had a special, a live Halloween
special at his Haunted Museum here in Las Vegas, and
it was I don't know, I want to say it
was probably like four hours or something, and so he
had me there to go in and set up a
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tesla coil and do some crazy experiments in this haunted place.
And let me tell you something, that house where he
has his haunted museum, it's truly haunted. Yeah, I mean
it really is. My friend Forrest Connor, my old partner
in crime. He was my assistant on that shoot, and
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he helped me set up the tesla coil in the building,
I guess a day prior to shooting, and when it
was just the two of us there taking pictures. I mean,
he and I were taking pictures and we were just
getting like crazy looking like orbs and weird ghostly anomalies
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left and right. So it's a truly haunted place. But
I bring this up because it was on that shoot
when I was in I don't know, I guess you'd
call it the green room, like the waiting area with
other talent, and I met Patty Negri, known as the
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Good Witch. And as a matter of fact, I guess
that's probably just her website. I'm looking it up right now. Again,
I didn't do a lot of preparation here for this show. Sorry.
Fil Yeah, Patty Negrew p A T T I N
E g R. I it says Hollywood psychic medium the
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Good Witch. I'm pretty sure that's when I met her
for the first time. And she's one of those people
that when you meet her, she's just like a ray
of sunshine. Just everybody's just a big smile, and everybody
loves her and she makes everybody feel great, and it's
you know, it's all all fun and smiles. And so
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since then, I've hung out with her at least, you know,
another time or two. She came to Vegas at some
point when I was doing my Creepy Vegas show or
Paranormal Vegas show and hung out. And she's just always
been wonderful. I mean, she's interviewed me, and I've interviewed her,
and I bring her up because just recently, Patty negri Well,
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I recently discovered that she had some new money magic spells,
and so I hope she doesn't mind that I'm going
to share at least a couple of these with you.
But you know, I think it'd be interesting if you
tried it out, and I just I decided today I
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was going to try it out. See what happened. You'd
ever know, you can never have enough money, I guess,
so One thing that she said to do was take
some dollars and kind of fold them up into something
that looks like a cigar and takes something like a
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red ribbon and tie them up and put them in
your refrigerator on the left side, back in the corner.
And I don't remember why she said that that was important,
but like, all right, fine, take take some dollar bills,
put the red ribbon, tie them up, put them back
in the corner on one of your shelves in your refrigerator.
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Another thing that she's said to do was, uh, take
a coin that's valuable to you, which in my case,
I picked a silver dollar, like a Morgan silver dollar,
and put it at the base of a plant that's growing.
And as that plant grows, the idea is that as
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it's it's expanding, it's also growing your money, because you know,
plant is green, and we often in this country associate
green with money and so on, and so you want
to envision that plant growing and as it grows, it's
going to expand and grow your wealth. So I don't
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want to give away, you know, anymore for her tips,
but I think that you should try that, and you
should let me know. You should let me know if
there is anything that you know happens to you, if
you get a good result from it, I say, you know,
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it's all about the way the mind interacts. I mean,
I've told you that when you mess around with virtual reality,
you get to the point where you go, well, it's
all virtual reality. You take off the VR headset and
you look around and you go, this is just another
VR headset. There is no AI, there was only there
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is only intelligence. There is only this thing called God,
and it's the designer, and you can hack into it.
In fact, it's funny because a lot of people, especially
young people now, are starting to get the memo and
learn that if you want a movie, you had better
buy it on DVD, because when you buy stuff streaming,
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it's not really yours. There's always a cove out there
that at some point that just won't be there anymore.
So the closest thing you're going to get to physical
ownership is to have a physical thing. And that's why
that now books and DVDs and CDs and even VHS
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tapes are ridiculously expensive because we've finally reached the point
where we go, well, at least this is something that's
more tangible. But one of these days, I bet, you know,
probably I wouldn't doubt it. By the time you hear
this show, there's going to be I bet there's going
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to be the first real a I superstar. I don't
know if it's going to be a man or a
woman or something in between, but there's gonna be some
kind of a superstar that's going to be at the
level of Pom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba.
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I mean, like a list star, but it's gonna be AI's.
It's gonna be a totally completely invented character. And there
was a movie. If you've never seen it. I like documentaries.
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I'm pretty sure I know what it's called. It's Me Again, Marlin,
I think, or something like that. Marlin, it's a Marlin.
Listen to me Marlin, that's what it's called. Yeah, I
guess I was getting that confused with Margaret Listen to
Me Marlin. It's a documentary that came out in twenty fifteen. Geez,
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that's been ten years ago, good lord. And it's kind
of about this concept. Well, I was talking earlier about
the past about Pascal's wager and now I'm talking about
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the future, but sometimes I think that it's helpful for
us to go back to the past. And I remember
that when I was in high school, one of my
teachers made me read this poem called The Tiger, and
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it's spelled Tyger by the English poet William Blake, and
it was published in seventeen ninety four. And some people
say that this is the greatest poem ever written. So fortunately,
since it was written in seventeen ninety four, I can
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read it to you. I don't need anybody's permission. It's
copyright free. And I don't know. I just remember this
the other day and I thought, I'm going to bring
this up and I'm going to read I'm going to
read it for me, but I'm also going to read
it for you, and I want you to see if
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you think this poem is possibly the greatest poem ever written.
The Tiger Tyger by William seventeen ninety four. He published
a lot of stuff. It's not that long. And you know,
when I read it, I thought to myself, yeah, I
mean it's well, look you'll see when we come back.
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Time for a break. I'm Joshua Pee, Warren. You're listening
to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
a M Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back.
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Welcome back to the final second of this edition of
Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
Palaonormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren.
And uh, what were we talking about? I just took
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a ten minute. Oh yeah, okay, okay, I'm back. Don't worry. Yeah,
I remember what we were talking about. You know what,
when I was in uh, when I was in high school,
I'm sure that you probably can say the same thing.
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I just I found it also absurd. And I was
not the most easy student to have, I mean an
algebra class. You know. I was always like, why do
I need to know this? And she tried to explain why.
And it turns out that I was right. I didn't
need to know any of that crap. But when I
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was in English class, one of my English teachers said,
you have to read this poem. It's called the Tiger
ty Ger by William Blake, published in seventeen ninety four
as part of his Songs of Experienced collection and rising
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to prominence in the Romantic period. The poem is one
of the most anthology guys in the English literary canon,
so it says, and has been the subject of both
literary criticism and many adaptations, including various musical versions. This
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is getting more and more exciting by the word, isn't it.
The poem explores and questions Christian religious paradigms prevalent in
the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century England, discussing
God's intention and motivation for creating both the lamb and
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the eponymous tiger girl. Okay, let's read this thing. Let's
see if it's that if it's that kick you know what?
You know, it's that great? By the way, I you know,
I have this this show called Strange Things is going
to be family friendly, but I used to do a
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show called Joshua P. Warren Daily where it was R rated,
and so if you want to hear me talk, you know,
uncensored about certain things, then go to jp W Daily
dot com. I think there's like five hundred of those
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darn things I did. Yeah, JPW Daily dot Com. All right,
are you ready? Here's the here's the poem. Uh, Okay,
it's called the tiger. Okay, here we go. Tiger tiger
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burning bright in the forests of the night. What immortal
hand or I could for thy fearful symmetry? In what
distant deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes? On?
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What dings? Oh? I gotta start that. In what distant
deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes? On?
What wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare sees
the fire? And what shoulder? And what art could twist
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the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began
to beat? What dreadhand? And what dread feet? What the hammer?
What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What
the anvil? What did what the anvil? What dread grasp?
Dare its deadly terror's clasp? When the stars threw down
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their spears and watered heaven with their tears? Did he
smile his work to see? Did he who made the
lamb make thee tiger? Tiger burning bright in the forest
of the night? What immortal hand or I dare frame
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thy fearful symmetry? M hmm, all right, well that's it.
It says the tiger is six stanzas in length, with
each stanza containing four lines trochaic tatraumater, and then they
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go into iambic to traumater. This is the kind of
thing that they teach you when you're in school, folks.
So look, if you enjoyed that, great, did I need
to be assigned that to read? Nope, did not, absolutely not.
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Didn't need to be assigned. Most of the stuff I
was assigned didn't need to be assigned. Algebra, certainly, not trigonometry.
Most of the stuff that I was taught in class
growing up was a bunch of bologney, and you know,
we knew it, and yet everybody just put up with it.
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I'm not saying that's a bad poem. I mean it's fine,
it's fine, but it's just you know, I guess if
you lived in the seventeen hundreds, you would be like, oh,
I'm I'm a clamped, I'm flushed, all right. Figured i'd
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just read that to you. I'm just a redneck from
western North Carolina, Okay, I do not pretend to be
something that I'm not. I was surprised the other day
I went to a restaurant and they had cheerwine. You
know about that cheer wine. Well it was, I guess
(45:21):
from what I can see right here. They made it
in nineteen seventeen cherry flavored soft drink by the California
Beverage Corporation of Salisbury, North Carolina, claiming to be the
quote oldest continuing soft drink company still operated by the
same family end quote You ever had a cheerwine? And
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you know, I mean it's I'm not here again, I'm
not being paid. I'm not like promoting cheerwine. But I
was actually kind of surprised when I saw that cheer
wine was on the on the menu at some restaurant
that I went to, and that my my redneck roots
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from western North Carolina are are expanding all the way
out here to the west. Okay, what else? What I
want to talk about? God? Oh, how about this? People
email me a lot and they say, Joshua pe Warren,
(46:35):
you're the wizard of weird. What do you think is
the most amazing thing in the world? And uh, I
it always surprises people when I when I tell them
the truth. It's kind of like, you know, when people
say to me, what is the scariest experience you have?
I get I've been asked that there's no telling how
many times, and I know that everybody wants to hear
(46:58):
me talk about like facing off with a demon or something,
but that's not true. I've never faced off of the demon.
I mean, I've had paranormal experiences that have been spooky,
but you know, the scariest thing I've ever experienced has
been with bears in the woods, walking up on bears
because you know they're going to eat you, and like demons,
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I've never had a demon try to eat me. But
people say, what is the most amazing thing that You've
ever seen? Because you know, I've made the cover of
a science journal, and you know, I really put a
lot of thought into life, for better or for worse.
And let me just tell you the answer to that.
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Probably the most amazing thing that I've ever seen in
my life has been a helicopter. And I know that's
disappointing to some of you, but a helicopter is a miracle.
I mean, there's that's just it. It's the most it's amazing. Honestly,
it's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.
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And so if you see a helicopter and you take
it for granted. You just remember what your buddy, the
Great and Terrible Joshua be Warned told you, because a
helicopter is absolutely amazing. All right, there you go. There's
your entertainment for tonight. Thanks for all your well wishes.
I appreciate it. And now let's all meditate together and
(48:29):
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over the next seven days. Take a deep breath if
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Ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird. This
is Strange Warren. I am Josha Whoope Warren, and each
week on this show, I'll be bringing you up brand new,
my blowing content, news exercises and weird experiments you can
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do at home, and a lot more. On this edition
of the show, Pascals Wager and New Money Magic. Do
you know what Pascal's Wager is? I bet you don't,
But if you do, you'll still find this interesting because well,
(01:39):
I guess you already know what's interesting this. I swear
to you this might be the most important show that
you have ever listened to in your entire life. I'm
not saying it is, but it might be. And I
know you're thinking, well, that's very profound, but yeah, I
(01:59):
mean on you. And I decided it was time to
bring this up because you know, I'm still worn out.
I'm recovering from a surgery. Last time you heard me
was I guess a week ago. But I decided to
kind of get caught up, and so I've recorded like
(02:19):
two shows within a couple of days. So I'm still
worn out. I know. I know you say, well, good lord,
you're only forty eight. Indiana Jones said, it's not the years,
it's the mileage. And I have put a lot of
miles on these bonds. And you know, it's funny because
(02:42):
sometimes people think that I don't know if you've ever
seen like the nineteen eighties version of Little Shop of
Horrors where John Candy plays like, oh I'm the weird
and he's banging on bells. And I don't feel like
I always have to, you know, give you some kind
(03:04):
of a gimmick and be like mister energy. I mean,
you've been sticking with me all these years, so you
know what I try to do is provide things that
you will find interesting. And you know, I try to
be upbeat, I try to be positive, but at the
(03:25):
same time, I'm you know, I'm realistic. And when you
go to the hospital and I've never had a real
surgery before, when you go to the hospital, you know,
you start thinking about your mortality. And it started reminding
me of Postcal's wager. I guess that's how you pronounce it.
(03:50):
Poscal was a Frenchman, and you know, the hardest words.
I'm an excellent speller. I always won the spelling bees.
But you know it's always those friends swords to get you.
So all right, well, let me look this up for you. No,
you could do this on your own, but you know
you're listening to me, and I'm getting paid, So here
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we go. There was a guy named I guess his
name was Blase Posco. How would you like any of
your parents' name? You Blase b Laise. I don't speak
French again, so I mean, I'm not sure if I'm
pronouncing any of this stuff right. But this guy, Blosse Pascal.
He was born on June nineteenth of sixteen, twenty three. Yeah,
(04:38):
a long time ago, and he died in let's see
August nineteenth of sixteen sixty two. He was only thirty
nine when he died. He was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher,
and a Catholic writer. Now I have heard of Pascal's
(05:04):
wager for a while, and of course most of you
probably know that I live in Las Vegas, and I
go out and I gamble once in a while for fun.
And he was talking about the idea of gambling, but
on a much much more serious, deep level. You'll see
what I mean. He was talking about gambling with your soul.
(05:27):
Says here. Pascal was a child prodigy born in a
place called Claremont Ferrand, France. His father was a tax collector,
and he was a prodigy, especially when it came to
geometry and mathematics, and he wrote some kind of like
(05:49):
significant treatise on the subject at age sixteen. I'm just
looking over this thing, and I mean, this guy was obviously,
you know, one of those You're like, hmm, maybe there
was a little alien gene involved here, but especially because
it says in sixteen forty two he started some pioneering
(06:10):
work on calculating machines leaders called see later called Pascal's calculators,
establishing him as one of the first two inventors of
the mechanical calculator. How'd you like to have that on
your resume? This guy was one of the inventors of
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the darn calculator, says like his contemporary, Renee des Car
de Car. You know, when I was in college, they
always I took philosophy, and they're like the car. He
always said, I think, therefore I am it, says like
his contemporary, Renee des Car. Pascal was also a pioneer
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in the natural and applied sciences. He wrote in defense
of the scientific method, produced several controversial results. He made
contributions to the study of fluids pressure vacuum. All right,
very smart dude. Well why am I bringing him up?
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Why is he? Why is he the topic of this show?
I guess I will tell you this before I get
into it. Just I mean some I for some reason,
it's kind of interesting to talk about how people were
born and got educated and whatnot, and then how they died.
(07:42):
He says here that he when he died, that he
just got ill for some reason. I mean, again, you're
talking to sixteen hundreds. They don't know exactly what happened,
said he just got ill and became unstable. His last
words were, may God never abandon me. And there was
(08:07):
an autopsy performed and they said that they revealed grave
stomach let's see, grave problems with his stomach and other
organs of his abdomen, along with damage to his brain.
They're not sure what happened to him. Might be Tuberculosi's
stomach cancer or a combination of the two. All right, fine,
(08:31):
so again, why am I bringing this up? Well, I'm
bringing it up because that he he raised a question
that I bet, I just bet you have thought about
in your life. And it's incredibly simple, but it's also
(08:55):
incredibly profound. It might be the most complicated, simple question
ever asked. Let that sink in for a minute. Pascal's wager.
So this guy, again, very smart gambler, looking at risks,
(09:19):
looking at rewards, and here was his wager. His argument was,
here's something we need to really, you know, really think
about in depth. He said that the potential of the
infinite gain of believing in God outweighs the potential finite
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losses if God does not exist, making belief the more
rational choice. According to these academic sources. So he's basic saying,
like right now, if I just go onto Google and
I type in like Pascal's Wager, it says. Pascal's Wager
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is a philosophical argument formulated by Blaise Pascal, suggesting it
is more rational to believe in God's existence even without proof,
because the potential benefits of belief, meaning eternal happiness, outweigh
the potential losses, that is, the minor inconveniences of religious practice. Conversely,
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on the other hand, the potential gains of disbelief, which
are minor pleasures, are vastly outweighed by the potential losses
meaning eternal damnation if God exists. I bet you've thought
(11:01):
about this before, but you never thought about it in
this way as Pascal's wager. Okay, we're up on a break.
When we come back, I'm going to tell you where
I fall on this for those of you who obviously
you mean you care enough to listen to the show,
so I guess, and then I want to give you.
(11:24):
I want to give you some updates about other things
that are happening very very soon, and including a manifestation
technique that I mean I've been using it and you
know I've been kind of down to the dumps because
of this surgery and recovering and everything. Man, I've been
(11:46):
manifesting stuff like you wouldn't believe, and I'm going to
tell you all about it when I come back. I
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(13:31):
to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
AM Paranormal Podcast Network I have your host, a wizard
of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, Beam Meg into your worm
whole brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada,
where every day is golden and every night is silver.
(13:53):
Getato zoomte. You know, the executive producer of this iHeart
Coast to Coast am Paranormal podcast program is Tom dan Heiser,
and I've known him for a long time. He's always
been just a great guy, you know, I mean, and
(14:14):
we were talking the other day and he said, Josh,
take as much time off as you need. You know,
We're fine, and so I I really appreciate that, but
I'm you know, I wanted to get back in the
swing of things here. And I mentioned on my last
podcast that in addition to having this surgery, I got
(14:40):
a SEAPAP machine, and a lot of people don't really
understand that much about seapap, and listen, I'm not being
paid a dime to promote seapap. But SEAPAP stands for
continuous positive airway pressure. And so if you have sleep apnea,
(15:02):
meaning that you don't breathe well, if you stop breathing
a certain amount of times in an hour, then they say, Okay,
you know you you have sleep apnea, and look sleeping
with a seatpat machine sucks, but it's better than not
being able to breathe. And I got one of these
(15:25):
masks that has a hose that comes off the top
of my head so that when I I flip from
left to right or whatever. I mean. It's it's it's
not a big issue, but I just figured that you
might find this interesting. I was, I was kind of joking.
Oh I was, I was joking, but it's it's serious.
(15:47):
On my last show about how that you have a
lot of bad dreams and frustrating dreams and stuff if
you have sleep apnea, and then now that I have
a seapat machine, my dreams are much more neutral and
just psychologically, I have a better experience. But I just
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wanted to share with you because you will probably never
look this up on your own. It appears the seapap
was invented by an Australian doctor in the nineteen seventies.
And I don't have all the literature in front of me,
but yeah, doctor Colin Sullivan, Australian physician and professor, actually
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I'm sorry, he invented it in nineteen eighty. It says
you're applying seapat for use on adult patients with sleep
apnea at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. And
I just it just makes sure that you get enough air.
(16:55):
And I believe, I believe that if you have like
the next level, like a really bad problem, they have
something called like a BYPAP machine. I didn't I didn't
prepare a lot for this show. But yeah, BYPAP by
level positive airwave pressure. And this is like a SEAPEP
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provides continuous air that goes into your into your your
nose and your lungs in one way or another, I guess.
And then a BYPAP is more like I guess, like
a real Darth Vader machine, and like a ventilator. It
blows air in when you inhale and then sucks air
out when you excel. I don't know. I'll give you
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my disclaimer. I don't know anything about anything. I'm not
a doctor. But what I can tell you is I've
been using my SEAPAP machine for over two weeks now,
and yes, it sucks to sleep with something on your face, yes,
but my dreams are so much much better. And that's weird,
(18:02):
isn't it? Because it makes you think like why why
would you have bad dreams just because that you're not
breathing in enough oxygen? Like what's the relationship there? And
it makes you think of the human body as being
some kind of a robot. And when you get back
(18:25):
to Pascal's Wager, where he is basically saying, all right,
you don't know what's going on here, let's see I
read something that was very interesting that he said, By
the way, folks, if you're relying on politicians to save you,
(18:50):
good luck, They're not gonna politicians are I don't think
saying people become politicians. You might think that's out at
I feel, but I'm just telling you you kind of
have to look after yourself. And when you look at
yourself and you have to make judgments for yourself. It
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basically talks about how in Pascal's Wager, that you have
the option to take a risk, to take a gamble,
and to say, either there is a god and I'm
going to try to believe that there is a god
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and live as if there is a god. And if not,
then if I believed in a god, then what have
I got to lose? If there's no God. But if
there is a God and I don't believe in a God,
well I have a lot to lose. And I decided
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a long time ago to believe that there is a God,
and I'm not. I have no way of comprehending what
God is. I mean, I think, honestly, I think it's impossible.
I mean, how many of you have ever gone out
(20:25):
on a fishing expedition and you catch a fish. You
think that fish knows anything about how to get to
the moon or get to Mars. I mean, you can't
comprehend these things. So to a certain extent, you have
to say that, you know, like, we're never going to
be able to comprehend what God is. God equals the universe.
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But one of the reasons that I believe that God
exists is because of the extraordinary design that I see
all around me every single day, very fact that I
exist and you exist, So that to me is I
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guess that's about the best piece of evidence that I have.
Is that I look around and I go, I don't
know how this holds randomly, randomly fell into place. I mean, well, yeah,
well you take a box full of parts and shake
it up and sit at there for a million years,
and it's something going to appear. And you know, recently
(21:30):
I mentioned this. I got a VR headset Medaquest three s.
And when you put on a VR headset and you're literally,
you know, like sitting there in a virtual world where
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you look up, down, left, right behind you, you know,
and it's all three D reality for that moment, I mean,
you're not here anymore. You're in that reality. And there
was some program that I bought. I can't remember what
it was called right now, but uh, it was a
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it was like a nature program. So you could click
this button and it would say one minute like, oh, well,
you're in you're in the middle of a snowstorm, you know,
in Montana, or you're you're you're in the middle of
uh you're that you're in a beautiful crystal lake in Sweden,
(22:33):
umber whatever, you and uh so you look around and
you pick the place where you want to go, virtually,
and one of them was Jurassic World, where you you
picked that and the next thing you know, you're sitting
there and you can move around to a certain exteent,
but you're sitting in the world as it was sixty
(22:56):
some million years ago supposedly. So when you click this,
you're sitting there in like a little tent and you
see the silhouette. It's very realistic because there's not like
dinosaurs were all up in your face roaring at you
and some crazy stuff like that. No, it's like very
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really realistic. I guess, you know, why do I know?
But I mean, you see the silhouette of like a
I don't know, brought the saurus walking around up there
on the woods, and then you look up and you
see terra dectyls flying over. So I was sitting there
and I was using my imagination and I was really
(23:38):
getting into this mindset that I have traveled back in
time and I'm the only person alive right now. All
elks that exist are just dinosaurs and crap like that.
And all of a sudden, I was amazed to find
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this sense of peace wash over me. There was a
sense of peacefulness that I wasn't expecting, just imagining that
humans are not out there, that many of our biggest
problems whatever, I mean, think about your biggest problems right now,
(24:24):
and think about how many of your problems are connected
to the fact that humans exist, And think about how
much better your life would be if you lived in
the dinosaur days. Perhaps, I know you think I've been
taking all kinds of drugs. I haven't. That's probably my problem.
(24:45):
They gave me some medication, but I was like, no,
I'm not doing that. Hey, when we come back, money Magic,
I got something new I've been doing and I'm going
to tell you about that. And uh oh yeah, I
have another weird story for you. Whey do you hear
(25:07):
this one? I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening to Strange
Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast a
M Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be here right
back after these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things
(25:57):
all the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast a I
AM Paranormal podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua Pete Warren,
and this is the show will the unusual Becomes Usual? Yeah.
A long time ago, Art Bell invited me to be
his guest. I was a very young man. He invited
(26:20):
me to be interviewed by him on Coast to Coast
AM and I've had just a wonderful relationship with everybody
at Premiere and iHeart since then. And I can't even
tell you how many things that I've done with Tom
dan Heiser and George Nori. But there was a time
(26:40):
where I also wanted to be involved in TV. And
I honestly, you know, I don't have a big desire
to be on TV anymore. I guess there's a number
of reasons for that. I just I just I really
don't care about people seeing me. But there was a
(27:03):
time when I did and I wanted to be on TV.
And I you know, I started as a teenager and
I did a lot of TV shows. Then eventually I
met people like Dave Schrader and Zach Begans, and they
really did a lot to put me on, like the
Travel Channel, and I got to do a lot of
(27:23):
cool TV stuff and make some dreams come true. And
I think that one of the last times I did
something with Zach Begans, one of the last times, I
believe it was twenty I want to say twenty eighteen,
(27:45):
a Halloween night. He had a special, a live Halloween
special at his Haunted Museum here in Las Vegas, and
it was I don't know, I want to say it
was probably like four hours or something, and so he
had me there to go in and set up a
(28:06):
tesla coil and do some crazy experiments in this haunted place.
And let me tell you something, that house where he
has his haunted museum, it's truly haunted. Yeah, I mean
it really is. My friend Forrest Connor, my old partner
in crime. He was my assistant on that shoot, and
(28:26):
he helped me set up the tesla coil in the building,
I guess a day prior to shooting, and when it
was just the two of us there taking pictures. I mean,
he and I were taking pictures and we were just
getting like crazy looking like orbs and weird ghostly anomalies
(28:47):
left and right. So it's a truly haunted place. But
I bring this up because it was on that shoot
when I was in I don't know, I guess you'd
call it the green room, like the waiting area with
other talent, and I met Patty Negri, known as the
(29:08):
Good Witch. And as a matter of fact, I guess
that's probably just her website. I'm looking it up right now. Again,
I didn't do a lot of preparation here for this show. Sorry.
Fil Yeah, Patty Negrew p A T T I N
E g R. I it says Hollywood psychic medium the
(29:31):
Good Witch. I'm pretty sure that's when I met her
for the first time. And she's one of those people
that when you meet her, she's just like a ray
of sunshine. Just everybody's just a big smile, and everybody
loves her and she makes everybody feel great, and it's
you know, it's all all fun and smiles. And so
(29:56):
since then, I've hung out with her at least, you know,
another time or two. She came to Vegas at some
point when I was doing my Creepy Vegas show or
Paranormal Vegas show and hung out. And she's just always
been wonderful. I mean, she's interviewed me, and I've interviewed her,
and I bring her up because just recently, Patty negri Well,
(30:25):
I recently discovered that she had some new money magic spells,
and so I hope she doesn't mind that I'm going
to share at least a couple of these with you.
But you know, I think it'd be interesting if you
tried it out, and I just I decided today I
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was going to try it out. See what happened. You'd
ever know, you can never have enough money, I guess,
so One thing that she said to do was take
some dollars and kind of fold them up into something
that looks like a cigar and takes something like a
(31:07):
red ribbon and tie them up and put them in
your refrigerator on the left side, back in the corner.
And I don't remember why she said that that was important,
but like, all right, fine, take take some dollar bills,
put the red ribbon, tie them up, put them back
in the corner on one of your shelves in your refrigerator.
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Another thing that she's said to do was, uh, take
a coin that's valuable to you, which in my case,
I picked a silver dollar, like a Morgan silver dollar,
and put it at the base of a plant that's growing.
And as that plant grows, the idea is that as
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it's it's expanding, it's also growing your money, because you know,
plant is green, and we often in this country associate
green with money and so on, and so you want
to envision that plant growing and as it grows, it's
going to expand and grow your wealth. So I don't
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want to give away, you know, anymore for her tips,
but I think that you should try that, and you
should let me know. You should let me know if
there is anything that you know happens to you, if
you get a good result from it, I say, you know,
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it's all about the way the mind interacts. I mean,
I've told you that when you mess around with virtual reality,
you get to the point where you go, well, it's
all virtual reality. You take off the VR headset and
you look around and you go, this is just another
VR headset. There is no AI, there was only there
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is only intelligence. There is only this thing called God,
and it's the designer, and you can hack into it.
In fact, it's funny because a lot of people, especially
young people now, are starting to get the memo and
learn that if you want a movie, you had better
buy it on DVD, because when you buy stuff streaming,
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it's not really yours. There's always a cove out there
that at some point that just won't be there anymore.
So the closest thing you're going to get to physical
ownership is to have a physical thing. And that's why
that now books and DVDs and CDs and even VHS
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tapes are ridiculously expensive because we've finally reached the point
where we go, well, at least this is something that's
more tangible. But one of these days, I bet, you know,
probably I wouldn't doubt it. By the time you hear
this show, there's going to be I bet there's going
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to be the first real a I superstar. I don't
know if it's going to be a man or a
woman or something in between, but there's gonna be some
kind of a superstar that's going to be at the
level of Pom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba.
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I mean, like a list star, but it's gonna be AI's.
It's gonna be a totally completely invented character. And there
was a movie. If you've never seen it. I like documentaries.
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I'm pretty sure I know what it's called. It's Me Again, Marlin,
I think, or something like that. Marlin, it's a Marlin.
Listen to me Marlin, that's what it's called. Yeah, I
guess I was getting that confused with Margaret Listen to
Me Marlin. It's a documentary that came out in twenty fifteen. Geez,
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that's been ten years ago, good lord. And it's kind
of about this concept. Well, I was talking earlier about
the past about Pascal's wager and now I'm talking about
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the future, but sometimes I think that it's helpful for
us to go back to the past. And I remember
that when I was in high school, one of my
teachers made me read this poem called The Tiger, and
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it's spelled Tyger by the English poet William Blake, and
it was published in seventeen ninety four. And some people
say that this is the greatest poem ever written. So fortunately,
since it was written in seventeen ninety four, I can
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read it to you. I don't need anybody's permission. It's
copyright free. And I don't know. I just remember this
the other day and I thought, I'm going to bring
this up and I'm going to read I'm going to
read it for me, but I'm also going to read
it for you, and I want you to see if
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you think this poem is possibly the greatest poem ever written.
The Tiger Tyger by William seventeen ninety four. He published
a lot of stuff. It's not that long. And you know,
when I read it, I thought to myself, yeah, I
mean it's well, look you'll see when we come back.
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Time for a break. I'm Joshua Pee, Warren. You're listening
to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
a M Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back.
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Welcome back to the final second of this edition of
Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
Palaonormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren.
And uh, what were we talking about? I just took
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a ten minute. Oh yeah, okay, okay, I'm back. Don't worry. Yeah,
I remember what we were talking about. You know what,
when I was in uh, when I was in high school,
I'm sure that you probably can say the same thing.
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I just I found it also absurd. And I was
not the most easy student to have, I mean an
algebra class. You know. I was always like, why do
I need to know this? And she tried to explain why.
And it turns out that I was right. I didn't
need to know any of that crap. But when I
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was in English class, one of my English teachers said,
you have to read this poem. It's called the Tiger
ty Ger by William Blake, published in seventeen ninety four
as part of his Songs of Experienced collection and rising
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to prominence in the Romantic period. The poem is one
of the most anthology guys in the English literary canon,
so it says, and has been the subject of both
literary criticism and many adaptations, including various musical versions. This
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is getting more and more exciting by the word, isn't it.
The poem explores and questions Christian religious paradigms prevalent in
the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century England, discussing
God's intention and motivation for creating both the lamb and
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the eponymous tiger girl. Okay, let's read this thing. Let's
see if it's that if it's that kick you know what?
You know, it's that great? By the way, I you know,
I have this this show called Strange Things is going
to be family friendly, but I used to do a
(40:59):
show called Joshua P. Warren Daily where it was R rated,
and so if you want to hear me talk, you know,
uncensored about certain things, then go to jp W Daily
dot com. I think there's like five hundred of those
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darn things I did. Yeah, JPW Daily dot Com. All right,
are you ready? Here's the here's the poem. Uh, Okay,
it's called the tiger. Okay, here we go. Tiger tiger
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burning bright in the forests of the night. What immortal
hand or I could for thy fearful symmetry? In what
distant deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes? On?
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What dings? Oh? I gotta start that. In what distant
deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes? On?
What wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare sees
the fire? And what shoulder? And what art could twist
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the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began
to beat? What dreadhand? And what dread feet? What the hammer?
What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What
the anvil? What did what the anvil? What dread grasp?
Dare its deadly terror's clasp? When the stars threw down
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their spears and watered heaven with their tears? Did he
smile his work to see? Did he who made the
lamb make thee tiger? Tiger burning bright in the forest
of the night? What immortal hand or I dare frame
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thy fearful symmetry? M hmm, all right, well that's it.
It says the tiger is six stanzas in length, with
each stanza containing four lines trochaic tatraumater, and then they
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go into iambic to traumater. This is the kind of
thing that they teach you when you're in school, folks.
So look, if you enjoyed that, great, did I need
to be assigned that to read? Nope, did not, absolutely not.
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Didn't need to be assigned. Most of the stuff I
was assigned didn't need to be assigned. Algebra, certainly, not trigonometry.
Most of the stuff that I was taught in class
growing up was a bunch of bologney, and you know,
we knew it, and yet everybody just put up with it.
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I'm not saying that's a bad poem. I mean it's fine,
it's fine, but it's just you know, I guess if
you lived in the seventeen hundreds, you would be like, oh,
I'm I'm a clamped, I'm flushed, all right. Figured i'd
(44:58):
just read that to you. I'm just a redneck from
western North Carolina, Okay, I do not pretend to be
something that I'm not. I was surprised the other day
I went to a restaurant and they had cheerwine. You
know about that cheer wine. Well it was, I guess
(45:21):
from what I can see right here. They made it
in nineteen seventeen cherry flavored soft drink by the California
Beverage Corporation of Salisbury, North Carolina, claiming to be the
quote oldest continuing soft drink company still operated by the
same family end quote You ever had a cheerwine? And
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you know, I mean it's I'm not here again, I'm
not being paid. I'm not like promoting cheerwine. But I
was actually kind of surprised when I saw that cheer
wine was on the on the menu at some restaurant
that I went to, and that my my redneck roots
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from western North Carolina are are expanding all the way
out here to the west. Okay, what else? What I
want to talk about? God? Oh, how about this? People
email me a lot and they say, Joshua pe Warren,
(46:35):
you're the wizard of weird. What do you think is
the most amazing thing in the world? And uh, I
it always surprises people when I when I tell them
the truth. It's kind of like, you know, when people
say to me, what is the scariest experience you have?
I get I've been asked that there's no telling how
many times, and I know that everybody wants to hear
(46:58):
me talk about like facing off with a demon or something,
but that's not true. I've never faced off of the demon.
I mean, I've had paranormal experiences that have been spooky,
but you know, the scariest thing I've ever experienced has
been with bears in the woods, walking up on bears
because you know they're going to eat you, and like demons,
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I've never had a demon try to eat me. But
people say, what is the most amazing thing that You've
ever seen? Because you know, I've made the cover of
a science journal, and you know, I really put a
lot of thought into life, for better or for worse.
And let me just tell you the answer to that.
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Probably the most amazing thing that I've ever seen in
my life has been a helicopter. And I know that's
disappointing to some of you, but a helicopter is a miracle.
I mean, there's that's just it. It's the most it's amazing. Honestly,
it's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.
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And so if you see a helicopter and you take
it for granted. You just remember what your buddy, the
Great and Terrible Joshua be Warned told you, because a
helicopter is absolutely amazing. All right, there you go. There's
your entertainment for tonight. Thanks for all your well wishes.
I appreciate it. And now let's all meditate together and
(48:29):
let's wish for everybody to have the best week ever
over the next seven days. Take a deep breath if
you can close your eyes. Here it is the original,
the one, the only, It's the real deal, folks, It's
the good Fortune Calm. That's it for this edition of
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the show. Follow me at Joshua P. Warren Plus, visit
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friends to subscribe to this show and to always remember
the Golden Rule. Thank you for listening, Thank you for
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