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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
Ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird. This
is Strange with josh Warren. I am Joshua WIP Warren,
and each week on this show, I'll be bringing you
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, my recent painful robot experience.
This is going to be one of those shows where
I am kind of just going to ramble for a
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while and tell you a story about something that happened
to me. I want to begin, as I sometimes do,
by saying, forgive me if I sound a little more
exhausted than usual. I am tired because I'm recording this
in the fall, which is the busiest time of the
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year for me because of well, not only not only
the Halloween business, because you know, only the ghost tours
and uh, you know, I'm mister paranormale, but also I mean,
it seems like almost everybody I know has a birthday
in the fall, and there's just like a lot of
social interaction. And I'm definitely not getting any younger. I
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don't know how that these some of these people, like
you know, like these politicians, they're like the energizer bunny
when they're you know, seventy eighty years old, must be
the baby blood. But I'm not one of those people.
I've been I've been working well, you know, I started
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publishing books when I was in my mid teens, and
so I haven't really stopped. So I get tired sometimes,
and I'll just let you know. I am planning to
take off sometime soon for the holidays, so I don't
be alarmed by that, so I will have an opportunity
to catch up on some rest. But I'm telling you
this because it relates to the story. So one thing
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about living in Las Vegas is you get access to
a lot of weird things that a lot of places
don't get access to, and you know, it's considered the
entertainment capital of the world. There are people who come
here from all over the world constantly, and you just
never know what you're going to see, and people come
here to get a little crazy sometimes enjoy themselves, even
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though that's certainly not necessary to live here. So I
got to experience something the other day that I bet
most of you have not experienced, let's put it that way. Well,
So when I go through these periods of time where
you know, I'm keeping really rough hours up all night
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working and then trying to get up also during the
daytime and do normal people stuff, you know, I get
to where my muscles get sore and sometimes I could
really use a professional massage. Now, I want to preface
this by saying, I I'm going to try to keep
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this show as family friendly as possible, but I have
never visited a Lady of the Night, and I've never
gone to a massage in which there may be a
questionable ending. However, when you're living in Las Vegas, sometimes
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that is a little bit of a concern because even
though you might be surprised. Adult services like that are
not legal in Las Vegas. A lot of people think
that they are. There's a lot of other stuff that
is legal here, but that's not legal in Las Vegas.
It is legal in other parts of the state of Nevada,
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but don't come to Vegas expecting that to be as
prevalent as one might expect from mere legends. But having
said that, it is a bit worrisome. Sometimes, you know,
if I go to get a massage, I do wonder, like,
you know, what is the reputation of this place, and
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am I going to end up being put into maybe
some kind of an uncomfortable situation. And that is why,
for one reason I was I was excited to learn
that only about ten minutes from my house, at this
big gym, big nice fancy gem that all the rich
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people go to, they have a room that is dedicated
to a robot massager. Now I'm not talking about like
a an automated massage chair. I mean this is something
straight out of the future where you go into this
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room and there are there's a table you lay down on,
and there are these two gigantic, gigantic metal arms that
could crush you like a bug, and I'd kind of
been thinking that for a while. Maybe, you know, I'd
like to go try that out because it's just you
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and the robot. Well, recently, my right shoulder has gotten
what they call a stitch a lot, very very painful.
It's like around the rhomboids or something, and I don't
know what to do about it. I've tried putting cream
on it and everything, and actually I've used a wishing
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machine a couple times and that has helped. But still,
I mean, I went to my wife, Lawlauren, and I said,
you know, gosh, I've been working all these weird hours
and my shoulders killing me and I'm having trouble sleeping.
And so Lauren says, well, let's try this out. So again,
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keeping this as family friendly as possible. Here in Las Vegas,
there are certain shops all over the place where you
can buy some very special candy. And so so Lauren
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she went out shopping for me, and she brought back
some very special candy for me to eat. And let
me just tell you, in less than an hour, and
this is not a joke, in less than an hour,
I was sitting upside down on my couch like Robin
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Williams auditioning to play Mark if you've ever seen that.
And I was not all there and I didn't really
like that feeling, and so I said, well, this is
also not helping me. So it finally a couple of
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days later, I go, all right, I'm going to try
out this robot massage thing. And I don't want to
give the name of it. I mean, there are a
number of locations strewn across North America, but I don't
want to get into naming any names. So I got
online and I made an appointment and the appointment was
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for it was only like, you know, an hour away,
but that was no problem. I decided I would take
an uber because there's also a casino near there where
I like to go and play a little bit and
sometimes I drink, and I don't drink and drive, of course,
and Lauren was still asleep, so I kind of like
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got up early and said, you know, let her sleep.
We again, our schedules are not always don't always overlap
very well. And so I made this appointment for a
thirty minute massage with this robot and it was only
going to be sixty dollars, which you know, if you're
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going to go have a massage in this town, you
know you're gonna pay a lot more than that, certainly
well over one hundred dollars, and then you have to
leave a tip. And then also there's all this kind
of like small talk that you have to do where
you're and it's sometimes it's just nice to not have
to interact with another person in a setting like that.
You know, now they've got these automated cars driving around,
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and everybody likes it because you don't have to get
there and talk to the driver. You don't have to
I guess you don't have to tip anybody. I haven't
been in one of those yet, so I made the reservation.
It was easy, peasy, thirty minute massage. I was like,
no problem. They said, you know, wear loose clothing because
when you get to this massage place, you have to
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undress and then put on a special outfit which I
don't know what's made out of. To me, it looks
like Spandex or something, so that this robot can more
easily slide its steely fingers all around your back. And
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so I go, all right, that's fine. I was actually
really I had high hopes for this experience. So I
got my uber everything was running right on time. I
arrived at this Really, I mean, this is what like
a really really big nice gym spa kind of place
where I mean they have you know, they have like
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restaurants and tennis courts and you know, this huge swimming pool,
and I think people pay thousands of dollars a year
for a like a basic membership to this gem of
that tells you, you know, sort of what I'm talking about.
And I've never been in there before, but you don't
have to be a member to go do this. So
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I walk into the front door. I go up to
the young man at the front desk and I said, yeah,
I have an appointment for the robot massage, and he goes, oh,
really yeah. That was kind of my first sign that
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maybe something odd was happening. Okay, we got to take
a break. Of course, when we come back from this break,
I'm going to con tell you the story. You know,
I didn't really plan out how to tell this story,
to be honest with you. You can probably tell, but
I just think it's one of those things that you
would find interesting because to me, you know, this show
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is called Strange Things and this is a strange experience.
I've never had an like this before, and I certainly
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Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal
Podcast Network. At I will be right back. Welcome back
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to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
to HIM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, the
Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole
brain from my studio in Sancity, Las Vegas, Nevada, where
every day is golden and every night is silver. Agiatato zuome.
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And before I get back back to the story, I
do want to point out, you know, I was born
and raised in Ashville, North Carolina, and last year the
flooding that hit there was was just terrible. I'm sure
you saw it in the news, and a lot of
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businesses are still, you know, struggling to recover. And I
am extremely grateful because I own the Haunted Ashville Ghost Tours.
I created them twenty something years ago. I owned them,
I managed them, and you know, there was like the
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tour business just dropped off for a little while because
the roads were closed. But we have had a great,
great season, and that Haunted Asheville Tour runs year round.
It never stops literally in the dead of winter when
there's you know, knee deep snow on the ground. If
you are the type of person who wants to get
out and take a tour, we'll give it to you.
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And I want to give a shout out there to
a man who has really been a big supporter of
this show for a long time. He buys a lot
of my products. He's always writing me and saying really
nice things, give me ideas, and he said, I can
use his name, so here you go. His name is
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Lee Mambuca and I believe he lives in Florida, and
he came to Ashville recently and he took one of
the Haunted Ashville tours. He took the Supernatural Tour hosted
by Tad mcdivott. And you may have heard me interview
Tad on this show earlier shows. I guess and Lee
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said that I'm welcome to read this. He said, Joshua,
I took the Supernatural tour last night with Tad was
and is amazing, so entertaining, so knowledgeable, so inviting, so accommodied,
so open to everyone, so on top of his game.
He is truly a gym, the best crystal in your collection.
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Don't ever lose him. I will be posting reviews and
trip Advisor and others later today. He says. Also, I
took my wife to Helen's Bridge, and do I have
a story for you, freaky. I will send that in
a separate email. And then he says, thanks so much
for all the both of you do. And then he
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again he said I could read this and say, well,
how do you like that? Thank you? Lee? I knew
you were going to be impressed, but it really is.
It means a lot to have you write something that's
that heartfelt and detailed. And so I'm just telling you
all this because again the tourist run year round. Go
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to Haunted Ashville dot com if you are if you're
near Asheville, North Carolina, and if you're not, if you
happen to be closer to the West coast, well here.
I also own the Haunted Boulder City Ghost Tour, which
is right outside of Las Vegas. So that to the story,
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all right, So I get in the car the uber guy. Okay,
I've already said this, all right, I forgot where I
was with the story. So the guy at the front desk,
he's kind of looking at me like he's given me
this weird reaction like, well, good luck with that kind
of thing. And so I he pointed down the hallway
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and to the right and everything. And so I went
into this little special spa area and there was a
young lady there and at the front desk, and she
said you're Joshua and I said yeah. She goes, okay,
well do you know what to expect here? And I
said nope. I said, I've never been here before, I
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have no idea what to expect. So she took me
into this smaller room that was again just devoted to
this robot. And when you walk into the room, like
like I was saying, you see like a typical kind
of massage table that you lay lay down on, face down,
and it has these two gigantic thick arms on either
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side of it that come down. It's like you feel
like you're at the GM factory where they're putting the
cars together, I guess. And right off the bat, it
was really really hot and stuffy in this room, so
I was I was uncomfortable, but at the same time
I didn't really say anything about that because I was
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sort of like distracted by all the other unknowns that
were going on. She hands me again, like a really
she hands me a shirt and a pair of pants.
I don't know if you remember Deeter, the German character
played by Mike Myers back in the day on its
Saturday Night Live, but it reminds me of that again,
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like a real dark spandex kind of thing. And she goes, basically,
you know, you just take off all your clothes and jewelry,
put this stuff on, lay down. There's a touch pad
right there in front of you. Excuse me. You just
say the areas where you want some work done, and
you know you'll be guided through the selection and then
you know when time is up, and that's fine, and
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you know, you take your time, get dressed, and I go, okay,
where is the kill button on this thing? That's the
most important question is where's the emergency stop button? And
she told me where it was, so she left, and
of course I stripped down and for right off the bat.
I mean, like, I am a big dude. Okay, I'm
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six foot two and well over two hundred pounds, and
I'm stretching the pants and the shirt. I could hear
the stitches crackling, and I can hear this, the stitch
just kind of like bursting, like Loo Forarigno turning into
the incredible hul. So I'm squeezed into this thing, squeezed
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into it like some kind of a burrito or something.
And so again now it's even less comfortable. Uh. And
I'm sure they had the largest outfit there for me,
and I'm I would I would imagine that a small
group of people invented this technology. So fine, you know,
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let's I just wanted to get to it. So I
lay down, face down, and uh, you know, it basically
said what part do you want to work on? And
it wasn't like super specific. I think I just was
like shoulder area or lower back area or whatever. So
I said, well, the shoulder area, and it said, well,
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what's your level of firmness? And I was like, you
know what, the shoulder is killing me. Let's put it
to the maximum level of firmness. Maybe that was my
biggest mistake, but I figure, like, I say, I'm a
big guy, and if I can't handle the maximum level
of firmness, well then who can you know? So I
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had no problem and I go, I'm just gonna hit
this thing and let's see what happens. Let me tell
you what. Once this thing kicked in and those big
metal arms got a hold of me, I it took
me about two minutes if that, to realize that I
thought I'd made a mistake. And basically, but I was
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so now at this point that I'm committed. I'm like,
I'm not gonna whist out here and I'm not gonna
turn this the firmness level down, and I'm not gonna
stop early I'm gonna have this experience because maybe you
know that's what it's gonna take to work out this
little kink in my shoulder that's given me prompts. Over
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the next thirty minutes, that thing beat the tar out
of me. Let me tell you what AI. One thing
I can tell you about AI is it's gotten really
really good at pinpointing the exact spot on your body
that is the most painful, and just digging in it was.
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I mean, I was almost like my eyes were tearing
up at certain points and all of a sudden, I
mean like basically, let me put it this way, I
don't know how sound proof that room is, but I'm
a pretty vocal guy, which I guess is why I have,
you know, a podcast, and anybody who happened to be
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outside of that room for that thirty minutes heard this constantly.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Ah ah a.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Thirty minutes of this me screaming my head off. I'm
not ashamed. I'm not ashamed to tell you the truth.
That's what happened. When that thirty minutes was over, I
felt like I was going to throw up. The room
was hotter than ever. Again, I'd been squeezed into this
outfit that didn't fit me, and I had just had
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these inhuman hands just cramming into the most painful parts
of my body. And when I got up, I mean
I needed a cigarette. You know I don't smoke cigarettes,
but I'm just telling you. I got up sweating, I
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I got dressed. I opened the door. The young lady
was standing there, and she had this look in her
eye like she had been hearing me scream for thirty minutes.
I guess you know. She was like, are these screams
of pain? Or is this just like a twisted guy
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like the character in Little Shop of Horrors who enjoys
this a massochist? I guess well, Okay, I hear the music.
We're up on a break. When we come back, yeah,
I'll tell you how I responded to that, and then
how the rest of my day went. And then you know,
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I have some new thoughts I want to share with
you about one of my favorite subjects in the whole
wide world, the Hawaiian philosophy of ho. I want to
toss this out there, see what you think of it.
I'm Joshua wa Pe Warren. You're listening to strange things
on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal
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Podcast Network, and I'll be back after these important messages.
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Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and
Coast to Coast AM para normal pod cast Network. I'm
your host, Joshua Pete Warren, and this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. And I gotta tell you,
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when I walked out of that that massage room, I
was thinking, you know, if I had a time machine,
I believe I would go back and instead I would
get a massage from one of those ladies I was
talking about earlier. Anyway, So yeah, the girl working there,
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she says, so, how was it? And I said it
was terrible. It was extremely painful, and her face just dropped.
But I was like, but I wasn't, you know. I
didn't want to cause any problems. I didn't want her
to feel like it was her fault or anything. So
I very quickly was like, everything's cool, though, that's fine.
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I wanted to have this experience, and now I know,
so in other words, like everything's okay. I'm not gonna
sue you. I don't want my money back. You know.
I was not complaining. I was just letting her know,
like I said, have you done this? And she goes yeah,
and I go, all right, well there you go. I
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think I think you you understand where I'm coming from.
And that was the vibe I got from the staff there.
But again I reassured her, everything's okay. This is actually
an interesting story that I can talk about. So I
waddled on out of there, and as soon as I
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got out, I really did start filming like I was
gonna faint, which is unusual for me. I don't know
that I've ever actually fainted in my entire life. As
a matter of fact, I've been in a wrestling choke
hold and passed out for a second or two. But
I was like, I guess it was that combo of
the heat and just being squeezed into that suit and
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the pain. I was like, I'm heading straight to this
cafe they've got and I went in there and got
like an electro like drink and a sandwich. But yeah,
I was full of woozy, and at that point I
actually started to just be like, you know what, I'm
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not even going to go to this casino next door.
I'm just going to go home because I need to
go back to sleep. However, I had some keynote numbers
that I needed to check, which were possibly worth over
one hundred thousand dollars, and so I go, oh, I'm
right here, I'll go. So then I take an uber
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over to this casino and I go in there and yeah, yeah,
I checked my numbers. And I'm not going to tell
you exactly how that worked out, but at that point
I was I was thinking, like, I don't even feel
like playing here right now. I mean, I was really
feeling that bad, and I was concerned about like how
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I was feeling. And then I looked over and they
had a Margherita special going on. And I love margarita's,
but I don't usually drink them anymore because of the calories.
You know, I'm always trying to lose weight. But I
was like, you know what, let me do this. So
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I sit down at the bar where there's a machine
where I'm gambling a little bit, and the bartender says,
I said to bartender, I'll take one of those margarita's.
Shall I make it a double? And I go, yeah, sure. Well,
next thing you know, I've had two of these double Margerita's. Now, granted,
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I did feel a heck of a lot better, but
I don't think I was in any clearer state of mind,
and so I was just like, I'm going home now.
So I went home, and my shoulder still hurt, and
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you know, for days I got no relief. But you
know what, here's the good news. I bought a new
mattress and that has helped it. Also, I you know,
it occurred to me that maybe one of my problems
was that I'd gotten into a kind of a habit
where I sleep on my side and a lot of
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times I'll double up the pillow underneath my head and
I think that I've been stretching my neck out too
much or something like that. So there has been improvement,
but no thanks to the robot. Now, look, I don't
want to just ruin robot messuses for you the rest
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of your life, because I'm sure this technology is still
in its infancy and very soon you're probably gonna go
in there and have the most delicate fingers of C
three po working out every little sore spot on your body.
But just so you know, for now, in my opinion,
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it really really not at all something I would recommend.
You know, what's funny, I was talking about how I
like these margaritas, and you can you can get margarita's now,
or at least margarita mixes that are like zero calorie,
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and you know, obviously they don't usually taste as good
as a real margarita. But you know, if you're trying
to watch your waist or your health or whatever, I mean,
it is an option for you. You could even make
a little virgin margarita where you don't even have to
put any alcohol in it. Of course, Vegas is a
big drink in town. Everybody everywhere you go, there's twenty
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four seven. There's drinks available. Not good for your health
if you're into that. But earlier this year, Lauren and
I we decided to get one of these shaved ice
machines and I bought it off of Amazon, and I
don't remember how much I paid for it, but it
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wasn't that much. I mean, I think it was what
it was, less than one hundred dollars. I think it's
safe to say, and I've never really had a lot
of experience with shaved ice, but this machine works just great.
You take it and you put the ice in there,
and it just you can either you can put your
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own ice in, or it'll make ice for you if
you've got I guess the patience, and then yeah, it
just chops it all up and then you can get
all these different flavors. You know how shaved ice works,
and you square them in there, and there are some
that are like sugar free, low calorie, and it's a
really it's a really good treat. It's a nice kind
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of healthy alternative if you're the type of person who
just wants to have that type of dessert experience. And
it's funny because I've not been to Hawaii, but I've
always known that they talk about how popular shaved ice
is as a treat in Hawaii, and I looked that
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up and here's why. It says shaved ice became popular
in Hawaii because Japanese immigrants brought the tradition of shaved ice,
which they called khaki gory. They brought that in the
late nineteenth century, so we're talking about the late eighteen hundreds,
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and it evolved into a local specialty using Hawaii's tropical fruits.
The hot climate made it a welcome treat, and the
unique texture created by shaving ice instead of crushing it
allowed for better syrup absorption. The name was localized from
shaved ice to shave ice in a Hawaiian pigeon, further
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solidifying its status as a local classic. So maybe you
call it shave ice instead of shaved ice. Yeah, it
says here Japanese influence. Japanese immigrants brought the dessert there
and they were working on sugar plantations, and so you know,
there's shaved ice all over the world. I was reading
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about some culture that makes shaved ice and they put
cream and you know, sweet and condensed milk, and you
could put anything in it, really and it's going to
be tasty. But that's a tip for you. I bring
that up because I said I had something to say
to you about ho apono and if you don't know
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what I'm talking about, that that's a Hawaiian word. And
instead of me trying to explain it to you, let's
just see what the definition of poet hoon is. Okay.
It is a traditional Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness.
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The Hawaiian word translates into English simply as the word correction,
and it says similar forgiveness practices are performed on islands
throughout the South Pacific. Traditional is practiced by indigenous Hawaiian healers,
often within the extended family, by a family member. And
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if you would like for me to really explain a
lot more about this, it's it could be a life
changing thing for you. If you don't know what I'm
talking about, go back listen to episode eighteen of this
podcast called Strange Things, and that's going to be the
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most thorough explanation that I can give you. And then
also I recently or more recently, I talked about it
on episode two forty two. That episode was actually about whuna,
but I didn't mention pono in that. So I was
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thinking the other day about haponopono. And traditionally, it really
begins with you saying four phrases. Either you can think
of it as saying it to yourself or think of
it as saying it to the universe or to God.
It doesn't really matter, and it doesn't really matter the order.
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But the phrases are I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you,
I love you, I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you,
I love you. And supposedly, if you just sort of
repeat those phrases over and over as often as possible.
It's almost like you're humbling yourself and you're going through
and you're clearing out mental garbage and baggage that may
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be building up inside you. Well, when we come back,
I want to suggest a variation of that I came
up with, and it's sort of based upon feedback that
I've gotten since I started talking about this. I'm Joshua
pe Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
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and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I'll
be right back. Welcome back to the final segment of
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this edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren.
And as I was explaining best I could, the traditional
consists in large part of repeating some version of these phrases,
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I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.
But some people have contacted me over the years and
have made a good point. You could argue that the
most important part of PONO is saying I'm sorry, please
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forgive me, because you know that is where you sort
of try to remove your ego from the situation and
like I say, you humble yourself, and that's supposed to
clear out some baggage that will reconnect you with the
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positive flow of energy when you say thank you, I
love you. But the issue is that every time you
say I'm sorry, please forgive me, you're actually thinking about
something that you feel guilty about, something that is negative
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that you've done in your past, at least to some degree.
And that uh might not be such a great thing
for everyon, buddy, because if you are constantly obsessing with
the negative things that you've done, it may be harder
to move past that and to start manifesting more positive things.
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So if you start by saying I'm sorry, please forgive
me again every single time you're it almost sounds like
that you're I don't know, you're fixating too much on
negative things in the past that cannot be necessarily corrected.
So let me just toss this out as a possible
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variation of ponopono that you can experiment with and see
what you like best. So in this version, you can
start out by saying, well, whatever works for you, God,
the universe, the great architect. You don't have to give
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it a name, but maybe you know whatever your belief
system is, it might be powerful to use it. So
let's just say, for example, say God, please help me
to blank less today. So you're not putting some like
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super harsh restriction on going cold turkey or something like that.
But let's say it's God, please help me to smoke
less today. Please help me to curse less today. Please
help me to have fewer negative thoughts today, or be
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judgmental today, or just fill in the blank. And then
after that you say thank you, I love you. So
here I live in Las Vegas, and you might say, God,
please help me to gamble less today, thank you, I
love you, Or God please help me to drink less today,
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thank you, I love you. And I think that you know,
that might be a spin on the wording that is
easier for some people to start working with in order
to make small improvements in their lives without reminding themselves
of all the big, bad things that they may have done.
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I don't know. I just came up with this on
my own. This is about the show has a lot
of experiments. It's in an interactive show. So now you
can try that out and see for yourself what you think,
and send me an email and let me know if
it's effective for you. God, please help me to blank
less today. Thank you, I love you, and say that
as often as possible every single day. Just try it
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out for a week, make a note on a calendar,
and see what happens. You know, this is one of
those things it's very difficult to talk about, hard to
wrap your head around it. But scientists say that they
believe they've got the math and everything, the physics down
pat the astrophysics you name it, to say that all
time is kind of happening at once. The future already
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exists in some predetermined form, at least some avenue of
the future, and that we're just sort of experiencing it
little by little. And our experience is that cause leads
to effect, And so what happens if instead of thinking
about it that way, you think about focusing on the
effect flowing backward to create the cause. I know this
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could be kind of deep. Hopefully you have been eating
some of that candy I was talking about, or maybe
it will help you. But time flows both ways, and
it can flow both ways from the human perspective, and
if you are trying self improvement type stuff and it
hasn't been working for you. Maybe you're just too distracted.
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You have to find one thing at a time and
focus on it and work on that, focus on the effect,
and it will retroactively create the cause that you experience. Now, look,
this does not come naturally to me. Just like you,
I struggle, and that's why I'm into it. I'm always
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trying to self improve. You know, I'm not a guru.
I'm not a minister, I'm not a prophet. I'm just
somebody who's telling you. Like I'm a mortal and I
have my own problems, and this is the kind of
stuff that I used to work with. And it's kind
of fun to see if it works, how it works
out for other people, because we know this may be
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a sort of just a different way of looking at
the so called law of attraction, because that we know
that there are forces in the universe that are attracted,
like gravity attracting you to the Earth. Or I was
watching a YouTube video the other day about how you
can take certain types of food coloring and a glass
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microscope slide and you can drop these little droplets of
food coloring on the slide and they look like they
come alive and they are attracted to each other, and
they slide toward each other, and you can even have
they're even able to sort themselves out like a blue color.
(45:25):
If you had like a drop of blue and red
and green, and then you put a drop of blue
on it would go and find the other blue drop.
I know that sounds insane, but I don't have time
to go to that right now. I think it's the
Action Lab is one of the videos on YouTube that
or I saw that. But things are attracted to each
other in universe in very, very weird ways, So let
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me know how that goes. I think I have time
to squeeze in one more listener email. Let's see. Ah, Yes,
this is something that it's a bit of a shift
of gears. This fella, I don't know where he lives,
but he also says you can use my name all right. Well,
his name is Jim Gossage. And at one point I
(46:12):
think I'd done a show I don't know if it
was this show Strange Things or the podcast I used
to do called Joshua Pee Warren Daily, where I brought
up the question of like, what can you imagine would
be the scariest possible costume? It's not just for Halloween,
but especially Halloween, Like, what is this? What would scare
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you the most? And I haven't heard from anybody in
a long time about this, but so he's obviously going
back and listening to stuff from a while back, and
he wrote a costume that covers only the chest area,
appearing to be a sweatshirt with the area over the
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heart torn away. There is an embedded computer monitor showing
a beating heart, a portion of a lung, along with
pulsing arteries, and whatever else can be included. Surrounding the
(47:14):
monitor should be tangles of bloody cloth hanging down partially
covering the screen. To be most startling, a person can
wear an outer covering that can be opened after the
victim sees a normal person standing there. On second thought,
(47:35):
a face mask may be a good idea, since there
may be fainting or nausea involved. All right, what do
you think that's not too shabby? Right? That would be
a scary costume. It's kind of surprised. Maybe that's out
there somewhere already, or you know, maybe instead of a
(47:58):
computer display, which might obvious, you could have something a
little more practical, like a practical effect. I don't know,
all right, Well, I hope you've enjoyed this rambling podcast
because the clock has got us finally. I have some
other cool stuff I want to talk about, but I
don't want to have to rush through it. So now
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we've been thinking about a lot together. So let's end
the show as we usually do, and let's imagine that
you and I and everybody else listening we're gonna have
We're gonna have the best at least next week. Ever,
let's all send to each other good positive healing vibes.
If you can close your eyes, take a deep breath,
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Ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird. This
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you can do at home, and a lot more. On
this edition of the show, my recent painful robot experience.
This is going to be one of those shows where
I am kind of just going to ramble for a
(01:40):
while and tell you a story about something that happened
to me. I want to begin, as I sometimes do,
by saying, forgive me if I sound a little more
exhausted than usual. I am tired because I'm recording this
in the fall, which is the busiest time of the
(02:00):
year for me because of well, not only not only
the Halloween business, because you know, only the ghost tours
and uh, you know, I'm mister paranormale, but also I mean,
it seems like almost everybody I know has a birthday
in the fall, and there's just like a lot of
social interaction. And I'm definitely not getting any younger. I
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don't know how that these some of these people, like
you know, like these politicians, they're like the energizer bunny
when they're you know, seventy eighty years old, must be
the baby blood. But I'm not one of those people.
I've been I've been working well, you know, I started
(02:45):
publishing books when I was in my mid teens, and
so I haven't really stopped. So I get tired sometimes,
and I'll just let you know. I am planning to
take off sometime soon for the holidays, so I don't
be alarmed by that, so I will have an opportunity
to catch up on some rest. But I'm telling you
this because it relates to the story. So one thing
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about living in Las Vegas is you get access to
a lot of weird things that a lot of places
don't get access to, and you know, it's considered the
entertainment capital of the world. There are people who come
here from all over the world constantly, and you just
never know what you're going to see, and people come
here to get a little crazy sometimes enjoy themselves, even
(03:34):
though that's certainly not necessary to live here. So I
got to experience something the other day that I bet
most of you have not experienced, let's put it that way. Well,
So when I go through these periods of time where
you know, I'm keeping really rough hours up all night
(03:55):
working and then trying to get up also during the
daytime and do normal people stuff, you know, I get
to where my muscles get sore and sometimes I could
really use a professional massage. Now, I want to preface
this by saying, I I'm going to try to keep
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this show as family friendly as possible, but I have
never visited a Lady of the Night, and I've never
gone to a massage in which there may be a
questionable ending. However, when you're living in Las Vegas, sometimes
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that is a little bit of a concern because even
though you might be surprised. Adult services like that are
not legal in Las Vegas. A lot of people think
that they are. There's a lot of other stuff that
is legal here, but that's not legal in Las Vegas.
It is legal in other parts of the state of Nevada,
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but don't come to Vegas expecting that to be as
prevalent as one might expect from mere legends. But having
said that, it is a bit worrisome. Sometimes, you know,
if I go to get a massage, I do wonder, like,
you know, what is the reputation of this place, and
(05:27):
am I going to end up being put into maybe
some kind of an uncomfortable situation. And that is why,
for one reason I was I was excited to learn
that only about ten minutes from my house, at this
big gym, big nice fancy gem that all the rich
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people go to, they have a room that is dedicated
to a robot massager. Now I'm not talking about like
a an automated massage chair. I mean this is something
straight out of the future where you go into this
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room and there are there's a table you lay down on,
and there are these two gigantic, gigantic metal arms that
could crush you like a bug, and I'd kind of
been thinking that for a while. Maybe, you know, I'd
like to go try that out because it's just you
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and the robot. Well, recently, my right shoulder has gotten
what they call a stitch a lot, very very painful.
It's like around the rhomboids or something, and I don't
know what to do about it. I've tried putting cream
on it and everything, and actually I've used a wishing
(06:52):
machine a couple times and that has helped. But still,
I mean, I went to my wife, Lawlauren, and I said,
you know, gosh, I've been working all these weird hours
and my shoulders killing me and I'm having trouble sleeping.
And so Lauren says, well, let's try this out. So again,
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keeping this as family friendly as possible. Here in Las Vegas,
there are certain shops all over the place where you
can buy some very special candy. And so so Lauren
(07:37):
she went out shopping for me, and she brought back
some very special candy for me to eat. And let
me just tell you, in less than an hour, and
this is not a joke, in less than an hour,
I was sitting upside down on my couch like Robin
(08:00):
Williams auditioning to play Mark if you've ever seen that.
And I was not all there and I didn't really
like that feeling, and so I said, well, this is
also not helping me. So it finally a couple of
(08:20):
days later, I go, all right, I'm going to try
out this robot massage thing. And I don't want to
give the name of it. I mean, there are a
number of locations strewn across North America, but I don't
want to get into naming any names. So I got
online and I made an appointment and the appointment was
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for it was only like, you know, an hour away,
but that was no problem. I decided I would take
an uber because there's also a casino near there where
I like to go and play a little bit and
sometimes I drink, and I don't drink and drive, of course,
and Lauren was still asleep, so I kind of like
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got up early and said, you know, let her sleep.
We again, our schedules are not always don't always overlap
very well. And so I made this appointment for a
thirty minute massage with this robot and it was only
going to be sixty dollars, which you know, if you're
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going to go have a massage in this town, you
know you're gonna pay a lot more than that, certainly
well over one hundred dollars, and then you have to
leave a tip. And then also there's all this kind
of like small talk that you have to do where
you're and it's sometimes it's just nice to not have
to interact with another person in a setting like that.
You know, now they've got these automated cars driving around,
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and everybody likes it because you don't have to get
there and talk to the driver. You don't have to
I guess you don't have to tip anybody. I haven't
been in one of those yet, so I made the reservation.
It was easy, peasy, thirty minute massage. I was like,
no problem. They said, you know, wear loose clothing because
when you get to this massage place, you have to
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undress and then put on a special outfit which I
don't know what's made out of. To me, it looks
like Spandex or something, so that this robot can more
easily slide its steely fingers all around your back. And
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so I go, all right, that's fine. I was actually
really I had high hopes for this experience. So I
got my uber everything was running right on time. I
arrived at this Really, I mean, this is what like
a really really big nice gym spa kind of place
where I mean they have you know, they have like
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restaurants and tennis courts and you know, this huge swimming pool,
and I think people pay thousands of dollars a year
for a like a basic membership to this gem of
that tells you, you know, sort of what I'm talking about.
And I've never been in there before, but you don't
have to be a member to go do this. So
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I walk into the front door. I go up to
the young man at the front desk and I said, yeah,
I have an appointment for the robot massage, and he goes, oh,
really yeah. That was kind of my first sign that
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maybe something odd was happening. Okay, we got to take
a break. Of course, when we come back from this break,
I'm going to con tell you the story. You know,
I didn't really plan out how to tell this story,
to be honest with you. You can probably tell, but
I just think it's one of those things that you
would find interesting because to me, you know, this show
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is called Strange Things and this is a strange experience.
I've never had an like this before, and I certainly
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to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
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Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole
brain from my studio in Sancity, Las Vegas, Nevada, where
every day is golden and every night is silver. Agiatato zuome.
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And before I get back back to the story, I
do want to point out, you know, I was born
and raised in Ashville, North Carolina, and last year the
flooding that hit there was was just terrible. I'm sure
you saw it in the news, and a lot of
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businesses are still, you know, struggling to recover. And I
am extremely grateful because I own the Haunted Ashville Ghost Tours.
I created them twenty something years ago. I owned them,
I managed them, and you know, there was like the
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tour business just dropped off for a little while because
the roads were closed. But we have had a great,
great season, and that Haunted Asheville Tour runs year round.
It never stops literally in the dead of winter when
there's you know, knee deep snow on the ground. If
you are the type of person who wants to get
out and take a tour, we'll give it to you.
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And I want to give a shout out there to
a man who has really been a big supporter of
this show for a long time. He buys a lot
of my products. He's always writing me and saying really
nice things, give me ideas, and he said, I can
use his name, so here you go. His name is
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Lee Mambuca and I believe he lives in Florida, and
he came to Ashville recently and he took one of
the Haunted Ashville tours. He took the Supernatural Tour hosted
by Tad mcdivott. And you may have heard me interview
Tad on this show earlier shows. I guess and Lee
(15:46):
said that I'm welcome to read this. He said, Joshua,
I took the Supernatural tour last night with Tad was
and is amazing, so entertaining, so knowledgeable, so inviting, so accommodied,
so open to everyone, so on top of his game.
He is truly a gym, the best crystal in your collection.
(16:09):
Don't ever lose him. I will be posting reviews and
trip Advisor and others later today. He says. Also, I
took my wife to Helen's Bridge, and do I have
a story for you, freaky. I will send that in
a separate email. And then he says, thanks so much
for all the both of you do. And then he
(16:32):
again he said I could read this and say, well,
how do you like that? Thank you? Lee? I knew
you were going to be impressed, but it really is.
It means a lot to have you write something that's
that heartfelt and detailed. And so I'm just telling you
all this because again the tourist run year round. Go
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to Haunted Ashville dot com if you are if you're
near Asheville, North Carolina, and if you're not, if you
happen to be closer to the West coast, well here.
I also own the Haunted Boulder City Ghost Tour, which
is right outside of Las Vegas. So that to the story,
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all right, So I get in the car the uber guy. Okay,
I've already said this, all right, I forgot where I
was with the story. So the guy at the front desk,
he's kind of looking at me like he's given me
this weird reaction like, well, good luck with that kind
of thing. And so I he pointed down the hallway
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and to the right and everything. And so I went
into this little special spa area and there was a
young lady there and at the front desk, and she
said you're Joshua and I said yeah. She goes, okay,
well do you know what to expect here? And I
said nope. I said, I've never been here before, I
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have no idea what to expect. So she took me
into this smaller room that was again just devoted to
this robot. And when you walk into the room, like
like I was saying, you see like a typical kind
of massage table that you lay lay down on, face down,
and it has these two gigantic thick arms on either
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side of it that come down. It's like you feel
like you're at the GM factory where they're putting the
cars together, I guess. And right off the bat, it
was really really hot and stuffy in this room, so
I was I was uncomfortable, but at the same time
I didn't really say anything about that because I was
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sort of like distracted by all the other unknowns that
were going on. She hands me again, like a really
she hands me a shirt and a pair of pants.
I don't know if you remember Deeter, the German character
played by Mike Myers back in the day on its
Saturday Night Live, but it reminds me of that again,
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like a real dark spandex kind of thing. And she goes, basically,
you know, you just take off all your clothes and jewelry,
put this stuff on, lay down. There's a touch pad
right there in front of you. Excuse me. You just
say the areas where you want some work done, and
you know you'll be guided through the selection and then
you know when time is up, and that's fine, and
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you know, you take your time, get dressed, and I go, okay,
where is the kill button on this thing? That's the
most important question is where's the emergency stop button? And
she told me where it was, so she left, and
of course I stripped down and for right off the bat.
I mean, like, I am a big dude. Okay, I'm
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six foot two and well over two hundred pounds, and
I'm stretching the pants and the shirt. I could hear
the stitches crackling, and I can hear this, the stitch
just kind of like bursting, like Loo Forarigno turning into
the incredible hul. So I'm squeezed into this thing, squeezed
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into it like some kind of a burrito or something.
And so again now it's even less comfortable. Uh. And
I'm sure they had the largest outfit there for me,
and I'm I would I would imagine that a small
group of people invented this technology. So fine, you know,
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let's I just wanted to get to it. So I
lay down, face down, and uh, you know, it basically
said what part do you want to work on? And
it wasn't like super specific. I think I just was
like shoulder area or lower back area or whatever. So
I said, well, the shoulder area, and it said, well,
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what's your level of firmness? And I was like, you
know what, the shoulder is killing me. Let's put it
to the maximum level of firmness. Maybe that was my
biggest mistake, but I figure, like, I say, I'm a
big guy, and if I can't handle the maximum level
of firmness, well then who can you know? So I
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had no problem and I go, I'm just gonna hit
this thing and let's see what happens. Let me tell
you what. Once this thing kicked in and those big
metal arms got a hold of me, I it took
me about two minutes if that, to realize that I
thought I'd made a mistake. And basically, but I was
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so now at this point that I'm committed. I'm like,
I'm not gonna whist out here and I'm not gonna
turn this the firmness level down, and I'm not gonna
stop early I'm gonna have this experience because maybe you
know that's what it's gonna take to work out this
little kink in my shoulder that's given me prompts. Over
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the next thirty minutes, that thing beat the tar out
of me. Let me tell you what AI. One thing
I can tell you about AI is it's gotten really
really good at pinpointing the exact spot on your body
that is the most painful, and just digging in it was.
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I mean, I was almost like my eyes were tearing
up at certain points and all of a sudden, I
mean like basically, let me put it this way, I
don't know how sound proof that room is, but I'm
a pretty vocal guy, which I guess is why I have,
you know, a podcast, and anybody who happened to be
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outside of that room for that thirty minutes heard this constantly.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Ah ah a.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Thirty minutes of this me screaming my head off. I'm
not ashamed. I'm not ashamed to tell you the truth.
That's what happened. When that thirty minutes was over, I
felt like I was going to throw up. The room
was hotter than ever. Again, I'd been squeezed into this
outfit that didn't fit me, and I had just had
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these inhuman hands just cramming into the most painful parts
of my body. And when I got up, I mean
I needed a cigarette. You know I don't smoke cigarettes,
but I'm just telling you. I got up sweating, I
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I got dressed. I opened the door. The young lady
was standing there, and she had this look in her
eye like she had been hearing me scream for thirty minutes.
I guess you know. She was like, are these screams
of pain? Or is this just like a twisted guy
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like the character in Little Shop of Horrors who enjoys
this a massochist? I guess well, Okay, I hear the music.
We're up on a break. When we come back, yeah,
I'll tell you how I responded to that, and then
how the rest of my day went. And then you know,
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I have some new thoughts I want to share with
you about one of my favorite subjects in the whole
wide world, the Hawaiian philosophy of ho. I want to
toss this out there, see what you think of it.
I'm Joshua wa Pe Warren. You're listening to strange things
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Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and
Coast to Coast AM para normal pod cast Network. I'm
your host, Joshua Pete Warren, and this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. And I gotta tell you,
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when I walked out of that that massage room, I
was thinking, you know, if I had a time machine,
I believe I would go back and instead I would
get a massage from one of those ladies I was
talking about earlier. Anyway, So yeah, the girl working there,
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she says, so, how was it? And I said it
was terrible. It was extremely painful, and her face just dropped.
But I was like, but I wasn't, you know. I
didn't want to cause any problems. I didn't want her
to feel like it was her fault or anything. So
I very quickly was like, everything's cool, though, that's fine.
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I wanted to have this experience, and now I know,
so in other words, like everything's okay. I'm not gonna
sue you. I don't want my money back. You know.
I was not complaining. I was just letting her know,
like I said, have you done this? And she goes yeah,
and I go, all right, well there you go. I
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think I think you you understand where I'm coming from.
And that was the vibe I got from the staff there.
But again I reassured her, everything's okay. This is actually
an interesting story that I can talk about. So I
waddled on out of there, and as soon as I
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got out, I really did start filming like I was
gonna faint, which is unusual for me. I don't know
that I've ever actually fainted in my entire life. As
a matter of fact, I've been in a wrestling choke
hold and passed out for a second or two. But
I was like, I guess it was that combo of
the heat and just being squeezed into that suit and
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the pain. I was like, I'm heading straight to this
cafe they've got and I went in there and got
like an electro like drink and a sandwich. But yeah,
I was full of woozy, and at that point I
actually started to just be like, you know what, I'm
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not even going to go to this casino next door.
I'm just going to go home because I need to
go back to sleep. However, I had some keynote numbers
that I needed to check, which were possibly worth over
one hundred thousand dollars, and so I go, oh, I'm
right here, I'll go. So then I take an uber
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over to this casino and I go in there and yeah, yeah,
I checked my numbers. And I'm not going to tell
you exactly how that worked out, but at that point
I was I was thinking, like, I don't even feel
like playing here right now. I mean, I was really
feeling that bad, and I was concerned about like how
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I was feeling. And then I looked over and they
had a Margherita special going on. And I love margarita's,
but I don't usually drink them anymore because of the calories.
You know, I'm always trying to lose weight. But I
was like, you know what, let me do this. So
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I sit down at the bar where there's a machine
where I'm gambling a little bit, and the bartender says,
I said to bartender, I'll take one of those margarita's.
Shall I make it a double? And I go, yeah, sure. Well,
next thing you know, I've had two of these double Margerita's. Now, granted,
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I did feel a heck of a lot better, but
I don't think I was in any clearer state of mind,
and so I was just like, I'm going home now.
So I went home, and my shoulder still hurt, and
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you know, for days I got no relief. But you
know what, here's the good news. I bought a new
mattress and that has helped it. Also, I you know,
it occurred to me that maybe one of my problems
was that I'd gotten into a kind of a habit
where I sleep on my side and a lot of
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times I'll double up the pillow underneath my head and
I think that I've been stretching my neck out too
much or something like that. So there has been improvement,
but no thanks to the robot. Now, look, I don't
want to just ruin robot messuses for you the rest
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of your life, because I'm sure this technology is still
in its infancy and very soon you're probably gonna go
in there and have the most delicate fingers of C
three po working out every little sore spot on your body.
But just so you know, for now, in my opinion,
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it really really not at all something I would recommend.
You know, what's funny, I was talking about how I
like these margaritas, and you can you can get margarita's now,
or at least margarita mixes that are like zero calorie,
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and you know, obviously they don't usually taste as good
as a real margarita. But you know, if you're trying
to watch your waist or your health or whatever, I mean,
it is an option for you. You could even make
a little virgin margarita where you don't even have to
put any alcohol in it. Of course, Vegas is a
big drink in town. Everybody everywhere you go, there's twenty
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four seven. There's drinks available. Not good for your health
if you're into that. But earlier this year, Lauren and
I we decided to get one of these shaved ice
machines and I bought it off of Amazon, and I
don't remember how much I paid for it, but it
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wasn't that much. I mean, I think it was what
it was, less than one hundred dollars. I think it's
safe to say, and I've never really had a lot
of experience with shaved ice, but this machine works just great.
You take it and you put the ice in there,
and it just you can either you can put your
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own ice in, or it'll make ice for you if
you've got I guess the patience, and then yeah, it
just chops it all up and then you can get
all these different flavors. You know how shaved ice works,
and you square them in there, and there are some
that are like sugar free, low calorie, and it's a
really it's a really good treat. It's a nice kind
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of healthy alternative if you're the type of person who
just wants to have that type of dessert experience. And
it's funny because I've not been to Hawaii, but I've
always known that they talk about how popular shaved ice
is as a treat in Hawaii, and I looked that
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up and here's why. It says shaved ice became popular
in Hawaii because Japanese immigrants brought the tradition of shaved ice,
which they called khaki gory. They brought that in the
late nineteenth century, so we're talking about the late eighteen hundreds,
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and it evolved into a local specialty using Hawaii's tropical fruits.
The hot climate made it a welcome treat, and the
unique texture created by shaving ice instead of crushing it
allowed for better syrup absorption. The name was localized from
shaved ice to shave ice in a Hawaiian pigeon, further
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solidifying its status as a local classic. So maybe you
call it shave ice instead of shaved ice. Yeah, it
says here Japanese influence. Japanese immigrants brought the dessert there
and they were working on sugar plantations, and so you know,
there's shaved ice all over the world. I was reading
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about some culture that makes shaved ice and they put
cream and you know, sweet and condensed milk, and you
could put anything in it, really and it's going to
be tasty. But that's a tip for you. I bring
that up because I said I had something to say
to you about ho apono and if you don't know
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what I'm talking about, that that's a Hawaiian word. And
instead of me trying to explain it to you, let's
just see what the definition of poet hoon is. Okay.
It is a traditional Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness.
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The Hawaiian word translates into English simply as the word correction,
and it says similar forgiveness practices are performed on islands
throughout the South Pacific. Traditional is practiced by indigenous Hawaiian healers,
often within the extended family, by a family member. And
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if you would like for me to really explain a
lot more about this, it's it could be a life
changing thing for you. If you don't know what I'm
talking about, go back listen to episode eighteen of this
podcast called Strange Things, and that's going to be the
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most thorough explanation that I can give you. And then
also I recently or more recently, I talked about it
on episode two forty two. That episode was actually about whuna,
but I didn't mention pono in that. So I was
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thinking the other day about haponopono. And traditionally, it really
begins with you saying four phrases. Either you can think
of it as saying it to yourself or think of
it as saying it to the universe or to God.
It doesn't really matter, and it doesn't really matter the order.
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But the phrases are I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you,
I love you, I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you,
I love you. And supposedly, if you just sort of
repeat those phrases over and over as often as possible.
It's almost like you're humbling yourself and you're going through
and you're clearing out mental garbage and baggage that may
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be building up inside you. Well, when we come back,
I want to suggest a variation of that I came
up with, and it's sort of based upon feedback that
I've gotten since I started talking about this. I'm Joshua
pe Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
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and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I'll
be right back. Welcome back to the final segment of
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this edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren.
And as I was explaining best I could, the traditional
consists in large part of repeating some version of these phrases,
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I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.
But some people have contacted me over the years and
have made a good point. You could argue that the
most important part of PONO is saying I'm sorry, please
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forgive me, because you know that is where you sort
of try to remove your ego from the situation and
like I say, you humble yourself, and that's supposed to
clear out some baggage that will reconnect you with the
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positive flow of energy when you say thank you, I
love you. But the issue is that every time you
say I'm sorry, please forgive me, you're actually thinking about
something that you feel guilty about, something that is negative
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that you've done in your past, at least to some degree.
And that uh might not be such a great thing
for everyon, buddy, because if you are constantly obsessing with
the negative things that you've done, it may be harder
to move past that and to start manifesting more positive things.
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So if you start by saying I'm sorry, please forgive
me again every single time you're it almost sounds like
that you're I don't know, you're fixating too much on
negative things in the past that cannot be necessarily corrected.
So let me just toss this out as a possible
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variation of ponopono that you can experiment with and see
what you like best. So in this version, you can
start out by saying, well, whatever works for you, God,
the universe, the great architect. You don't have to give
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it a name, but maybe you know whatever your belief
system is, it might be powerful to use it. So
let's just say, for example, say God, please help me
to blank less today. So you're not putting some like
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super harsh restriction on going cold turkey or something like that.
But let's say it's God, please help me to smoke
less today. Please help me to curse less today. Please
help me to have fewer negative thoughts today, or be
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judgmental today, or just fill in the blank. And then
after that you say thank you, I love you. So
here I live in Las Vegas, and you might say, God,
please help me to gamble less today, thank you, I
love you, Or God please help me to drink less today,
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thank you, I love you. And I think that you know,
that might be a spin on the wording that is
easier for some people to start working with in order
to make small improvements in their lives without reminding themselves
of all the big, bad things that they may have done.
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I don't know. I just came up with this on
my own. This is about the show has a lot
of experiments. It's in an interactive show. So now you
can try that out and see for yourself what you think,
and send me an email and let me know if
it's effective for you. God, please help me to blank
less today. Thank you, I love you, and say that
as often as possible every single day. Just try it
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out for a week, make a note on a calendar,
and see what happens. You know, this is one of
those things it's very difficult to talk about, hard to
wrap your head around it. But scientists say that they
believe they've got the math and everything, the physics down
pat the astrophysics you name it, to say that all
time is kind of happening at once. The future already
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exists in some predetermined form, at least some avenue of
the future, and that we're just sort of experiencing it
little by little. And our experience is that cause leads
to effect, And so what happens if instead of thinking
about it that way, you think about focusing on the
effect flowing backward to create the cause. I know this
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could be kind of deep. Hopefully you have been eating
some of that candy I was talking about, or maybe
it will help you. But time flows both ways, and
it can flow both ways from the human perspective, and
if you are trying self improvement type stuff and it
hasn't been working for you. Maybe you're just too distracted.
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You have to find one thing at a time and
focus on it and work on that, focus on the effect,
and it will retroactively create the cause that you experience. Now, look,
this does not come naturally to me. Just like you,
I struggle, and that's why I'm into it. I'm always
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trying to self improve. You know, I'm not a guru.
I'm not a minister, I'm not a prophet. I'm just
somebody who's telling you. Like I'm a mortal and I
have my own problems, and this is the kind of
stuff that I used to work with. And it's kind
of fun to see if it works, how it works
out for other people, because we know this may be
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a sort of just a different way of looking at
the so called law of attraction, because that we know
that there are forces in the universe that are attracted,
like gravity attracting you to the Earth. Or I was
watching a YouTube video the other day about how you
can take certain types of food coloring and a glass
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microscope slide and you can drop these little droplets of
food coloring on the slide and they look like they
come alive and they are attracted to each other, and
they slide toward each other, and you can even have
they're even able to sort themselves out like a blue color.
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If you had like a drop of blue and red
and green, and then you put a drop of blue
on it would go and find the other blue drop.
I know that sounds insane, but I don't have time
to go to that right now. I think it's the
Action Lab is one of the videos on YouTube that
or I saw that. But things are attracted to each
other in universe in very, very weird ways, So let
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me know how that goes. I think I have time
to squeeze in one more listener email. Let's see. Ah, Yes,
this is something that it's a bit of a shift
of gears. This fella, I don't know where he lives,
but he also says you can use my name all right. Well,
his name is Jim Gossage. And at one point I
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think I'd done a show I don't know if it
was this show Strange Things or the podcast I used
to do called Joshua Pee Warren Daily, where I brought
up the question of like, what can you imagine would
be the scariest possible costume? It's not just for Halloween,
but especially Halloween, Like, what is this? What would scare
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you the most? And I haven't heard from anybody in
a long time about this, but so he's obviously going
back and listening to stuff from a while back, and
he wrote a costume that covers only the chest area,
appearing to be a sweatshirt with the area over the
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heart torn away. There is an embedded computer monitor showing
a beating heart, a portion of a lung, along with
pulsing arteries, and whatever else can be included. Surrounding the
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monitor should be tangles of bloody cloth hanging down partially
covering the screen. To be most startling, a person can
wear an outer covering that can be opened after the
victim sees a normal person standing there. On second thought,
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a face mask may be a good idea, since there
may be fainting or nausea involved. All right, what do
you think that's not too shabby? Right? That would be
a scary costume. It's kind of surprised. Maybe that's out
there somewhere already, or you know, maybe instead of a
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computer display, which might obvious, you could have something a
little more practical, like a practical effect. I don't know,
all right, Well, I hope you've enjoyed this rambling podcast
because the clock has got us finally. I have some
other cool stuff I want to talk about, but I
don't want to have to rush through it. So now
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we've been thinking about a lot together. So let's end
the show as we usually do, and let's imagine that
you and I and everybody else listening we're gonna have
We're gonna have the best at least next week. Ever,
let's all send to each other good positive healing vibes.
If you can close your eyes, take a deep breath,
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and let's listen together to the one, the only, the
world famous good fortune tone. That's it for this edition
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of the show. Follow me at Joshua P. Warren, Plus
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