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Speaker 1: Ghosts and Government Cover. History is writtled with unexplained events.

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Speaker 1: You can turn back now or learn the stuff they

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Speaker 1: don't want you to now. Hello, and welcome back to

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Speaker 1: uh No sleep till Brooklyn Boland here with our super

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Speaker 1: there's certain actions one can take to slow that loss.

425
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: But there's another type of CHI there that's just as important. Yes,

426
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 1: once you are postnatal, you get the postnatal she, and

427
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: this is she that's acquired or derived from food you're eating.

428
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: The stuff you're drinking, the air you're breathing. This, when

429
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: combined with prenatal CHI, forms the totality of the body's

430
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,400
Speaker 1: power to perform all of these things. We're talking about,

431
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: all the vital functions of your body. And then there's

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00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: lung cheese, spleen she true she, which is the totality

433
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: of CHI, the results from the combination of the prenatal

434
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: and the postnatal stuff. This is responsible for all the

435
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 1: functions of the body. Takes different forms. Uh, there's there's

436
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: also uh nutritive she. You can hear about these different

437
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: types of CHI. But what what I would like to

438
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: get to is, uh, the the claims attributed to these

439
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: she too young masters, right, so called sometimes self professed,

440
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 1: let's be honest, sometimes self professed. And we're you know,

441
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: we're not here in any way to denigrate serious practitioners

442
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: of something that people believe in, but we will tell

443
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: you that there are quite a few claims made by

444
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: people who also claim to be ch Gong masters. And uh,

445
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: all these claims are not created equal. I mean, you

446
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: can start with stuff like someone is an acupuncturist, right, Uh,

447
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: that's that's believable. People around the world again engage in acupuncture,

448
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: and I know some people think it's utter bunk, some

449
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: people swear by it, but this is not an acupuncture

450
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: episode because we're going further afield, right, We're going to

451
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: the people who claim that they have superpowers. Essentially, I'm

452
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: very I'm very as you know, I'm very interest in

453
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: having superpowers. So we're aware, right, So I looked into this, uh,

454
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: and I just I don't want to spoil this surprise

455
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: for anybody, but let's take a closer look at some

456
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,239
Speaker 1: of these, right, So, so checking can the idea that

457
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 1: it can give you superhuman abilities, particularly when it comes

458
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: to a standing pain. You'll see people being beaten with. Uh.

459
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: Once you hear the air quotes here, iron bars, you'll

460
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: see and and they may indeed be iron you know.

461
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to test it out, That's all I'm saying. Right, Yeah,

462
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: you definitely have to train, you know. It's like the

463
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: whole thing with when people say wrestling is fake, it's

464
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: there's still trained professionals. It's those athletes. Watch yourself, right,

465
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: and then and then it is true that there are

466
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: people who are trained to take massive amounts of damage

467
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: that would seriously injure another person. Right, absolutely, but maybe

468
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: not to a superhuman degree. You'll often here's skeptics, Darren

469
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: Brown's one who attribute these sorts of performances to just

470
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: that performances stage magic. Right. But there's another bigger one

471
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: that that goes back to our friend Noel the iron

472
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: Fist Brown. Oh, yes, Ben, that would be the no

473
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: punch knockout. You may have seen videos of guys who

474
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Speaker 1: are wearing like the Master belts in some kind of

475
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: martial arts garb, and there are a bunch of people

476
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: running up to them and they're just knocking them over.

477
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: You may have seen this. I watched a video like

478
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,959
Speaker 1: that recently because I would. I somehow was watching an

479
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: mm A video and then it was on one of

480
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: the you know, on the right rail. Uh. It was

481
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: kind of kind of upsetting. Actually. It was one of

482
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: these practitioners who it's a video of the Master and

483
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: his students and he's just demonstrating how he can knock

484
00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: out all of his students without touching them. And then yes,

485
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: and then he challenges and m M a fighter and

486
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: wagers lots of money and says that he can beat

487
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: him up without touching him, and the m M. A

488
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: fighter proceeds to break the guy's nose and hurt him

489
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: really badly. Is this one where the um it's old?

490
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: Is this the one where the guy says he'll put

491
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: up a force field? Yeah? I totally remember so this. Yeah,

492
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: this is a thing that's unfortunately fairly common to see

493
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: online now. And it is true that people can break

494
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: wood or cinder blocks with their bare hands. They're doing it.

495
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: They used to do it as a kid. What as

496
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: like martial arts. We're angry? Yeah, it was both. Oh okay,

497
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: did you did you break a center block? Really? No,

498
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: I've never got a center block. Buddy Scott did though. Wow? Man, right,

499
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: And that's completely possible for someone to break cinder blocks

500
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: with their bare hands. Listeners, If you train yourself right,

501
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: and you are safe, and you are assiduous, and you

502
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: practice and practice practice, then you too can eventually break

503
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: cinder blocks, but in a very specific way. You you

504
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: will probably still injure yourself if you go up to

505
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: a wall of cinder blocks and say, hey, guys, watch this,

506
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go and guarantee that that will happen. Yeah,

507
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: it's gotta be. There's there's a science to it. But

508
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: when it comes to the idea of knocking someone to

509
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: the ground without touching them, there is a glaring commonality

510
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: for all of the people supposedly affected by these no

511
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: touch super punches, and it is this, they are true believers.

512
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: They believe this stuff really works. That's and that's not

513
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: saying Ben and I aren't saying that these videos you

514
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: were watching they're just a bunch of people faking it

515
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: and acting as though they're getting punched out. They believe

516
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: so wholeheartedly that this this master has these abilities or

517
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: even they perhaps have the abilities that it makes it

518
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: true for them. Right. Yeah, it's the power of suggestions,

519
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: similar to hypnosis, there being sincere. It's kind of like

520
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: gloss aalia, which is the five dollar word for speaking

521
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: in tongues, right, and what happens during that If you've

522
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: ever seen footage of this, and Matt, you and I

523
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: have watched some documentary stuff with this. I have seen

524
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: people do it in Tennessee. Uh. People do it in

525
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: churches as well. Yeah, And what this speaking in tongues

526
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: uh thing is is supposed to be in in various

527
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: belief systems, is a direct touch of the divine right.

528
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: Perhaps speaking or assumed to be speaking uh in in

529
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: a coherent manner, in a language that the human I

530
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: guess medium for this, right, the human vessel for this

531
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: has has no knowledge of Uh. We've seen some great

532
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 1: research on glass Alelia that that proves it is a

533
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: real thing. And the people who are undergoing this, just

534
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: like the people who are falling to a no touch

535
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: knockout punch, believe that it is happening. They're sincere. They're

536
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 1: not trying to, you know, be cool or something. It's

537
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: not like Craig is saying, all I better fall down

538
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: so I get promoted in this thing or whatever. It's

539
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 1: it's a real thing. They believe on some level that

540
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: this is the way they're supposed to act. So every

541
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe I would be so excited if

542
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: I found somebody could really do this, And if you

543
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: know someone, please send them our way. Yeah, we'd love

544
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,760
Speaker 1: to we'd love to see what happen in real life.

545
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: But in the fact of the manner is, at this point,

546
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: we haven't found anything like that. Uh. Let's go to

547
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: and oh, yeah, yeah, you've seen this, and you know

548
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: what's coming up. Yeah, there's another one. You've probably seen

549
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: videos of now, thank goodness for YouTube, Thank you YouTube,

550
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: where where someone can use their cheap hours to ignite

551
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: a orld piece of paper, a newspaper, some form of

552
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: flammable substance. And okay, so I we just have to

553
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: get started and say there are several of these that

554
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: are obvious hoaxes that we have seen him been proven

555
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: to be hoaxes. Um this, there's this chemical reaction that

556
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: you can obtain. I think Darren Brown didn't turn around

557
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 1: cover this scam school or something like that. The chemical

558
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: reaction is, here's what happens that the person the claiming

559
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 1: to have these amazing supernatural abilities holds up a newspaper.

560
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: Behind the newspaper, there's a little plastic baggy and in

561
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: that bag there there's glide, glycerol I believe, and potassium

562
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: main unite seven And when they crumple it up, they

563
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: combine the two elements, which creates a combustion, right reaction,

564
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: And it will take a second for the newspaper to

565
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: catch a fire. But newspaper, of course, being highly combustible,

566
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 1: does catch a fire. And then the people just sort

567
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: of sort of stick for you de roy around it,

568
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: you know. Uh, David Copperfield stage magic stuff. You can

569
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 1: check out that video for free online to see how

570
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: that happens. What these are just a few examples of

571
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: the outlandish stuff. And yeah, can I just take a

572
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: second to say though at this point, that I think

573
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: it is so profoundly offensive to consciously misinformed people about

574
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: something that is thousands and thousands year old tradition. You know,

575
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: this idea that breathing, exercising, being mindful of what you

576
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: eat and how you live. Like, who could argue with that?

577
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: That's a great idea. Call it, call it what you want,

578
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But don't don't uh, don't

579
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 1: try to swindle people by telling them that you will

580
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: have superpowers. That's very Yeah, I completely agree, it's very

581
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: scientology to me. They're also claims about the health benefits

582
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: of g gong, right, Yes, Ben, Like we said, acupuncture,

583
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: people swear that that acupuncture works not only to relieve pain,

584
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: but to relieve other symptoms of problems that they're having.

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00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: But currently, unfortunately, the scientifically scientifically sound studies like pure reviews,

586
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: the ones that you could point to and say, okay,

587
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 1: well I really understand this, and then other people in

588
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 1: the field understand that this is what is happening. They

589
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: they're severely lacking currently, at least by the standards of

590
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: Western medicine and research well and also by the standards

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00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: of some members of the Chinese scientific community. There's a

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00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: thing called the China Association of Science and Technology or

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00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: CASTE that has been conducting that had conducted wide ranging

594
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: studies of various che going practices or practitioners, and we're

595
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: trying to eliminate the fake ones. And they found that

596
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: there was a wide variance of stuff. There's a guy

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00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: named Dr Stephen Barrett who noted that many practice practitioners

598
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: of traditional Chinese medicine will separately see the same patient

599
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: presenting the same symptoms or or you know, telling them

600
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 1: the same symptoms and have well why widely varying diagnoses.

601
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 1: Um far beyond what you would call a second opinion,

602
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: just just very different stuff. And at this point, you know,

603
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: I have to ask, I have to ask you, man,

604
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,439
Speaker 1: what do you think about she? It's a tough one.

605
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,240
Speaker 1: I currently this is the way I'm going to couch this, Okay.

606
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: I currently have no evidence to believe that she is

607
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: anything outside of the elements, the chemicals and biological functions

608
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: of the natural world and my body. Okay, well that's

609
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: that's what the text of Ancient China say she is anyway.

610
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 1: Oh sure, I mean they just they just call all

611
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: of these things together g and that's and that's cool.

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00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: I'm down with that. It's just I don't believe that

613
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: it is a separate thing. I guess, right, I I see,

614
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: I see what you're what you're saying. Um, I definitely

615
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: think it has been just woefully misrepresented in at least

616
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: here in the West. You know, it's it's gotta be surprising.

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00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear um from from some of our

618
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: other listeners here. It's gotta be surprising sometimes, especially if

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Speaker 1: you yourself. If we have anybody who practices alternative medicine

620
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: or is an authority on it, I'd love to hear

621
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Speaker 1: from you, because I'd love to hear the misconceptions that

622
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: you feel people in the West have. Yeah, I might

623
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: have this completely wrong in my viewpoint of it. Well, well,

624
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: it's just like while we were looking at this, and

625
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: when I was looking through Western research about she, one

626
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: thing that got me that I started wondering, you know,

627
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: was is this sort of like the old Chinese restaurant problem.

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00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: You know, when I was at when I was in college,

629
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: I would hang out with some of my friends were

630
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: four nationals right there from China, and we went to

631
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: a Chinese restaurant one time, and their reaction was very

632
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: much like what the hell is this? It was so

633
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: it was like, this is not Chinese food? Yeah, what

634
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,439
Speaker 1: why are you pouring sugar on everything? You know? Which

635
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Speaker 1: is actually common reaction for people outside the stakes and anything.

636
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: But I wonder how much of it is misinterpreted. As

637
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: for the question of whether it is real, then it

638
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: has to go back to um double blind studies that

639
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 1: can prove a statistically significant thing. But of course you're

640
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: listening to this show. You want to know. If there's

641
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: stuff they don't want you to know, then what could

642
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: it be. We found two possibilities, ladies and gentlemen. One

643
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 1: possibility being that, uh that it's bunk. That the thing

644
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: that the they and the stuff they don't want you

645
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: to know are the self professed uh cheong masters who

646
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: will charge you money to listen to the air quotes

647
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: here teach you the no knockout punch. Yeah, well, or

648
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: anyone who profits off of it being a real thing,

649
00:41:55,960 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: right right. That's that's one. That's one option. Another is

650
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: that they would be uh the A m A or

651
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: other Western medical institutions who repress alternative therapies in hopes

652
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: of continuing the great, um, the great and brutal cycle

653
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:22,879
Speaker 1: of profiting from people's health or lack thereof, right up? Uh,

654
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: that one hurts just the way you said it, even

655
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,760
Speaker 1: I mean I can I can clearly see some validity

656
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: and in that at least in that the brutal cycle

657
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: does exist. Right. Maybe somebody doesn't want you to know

658
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: that we're all interconnected with this energy, Ben, and we

659
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: all are have powerful keygong masters inside of us, don't

660
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: avatary man. Okay, sorry, it's uh, I'm joking. That's that's possible.

661
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: But then why would somebody want to repress something like

662
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: that so they can control us, Ben through through that

663
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: common connection, through that zeitgeist. Maybe there's a film there

664
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: for sure, we could definitely do that before before we

665
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: go into this thing, I wanted to want to go

666
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: back to the stuff we've mentioned at the top, Uh,

667
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: the idea that people could control magnetism, right or project heat. Yes,

668
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: so these things are partially true. These are real superpowers, Asterix.

669
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: And you already know some of this, right because one

670
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: of the things that intense meditation teaches people to do.

671
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 1: And this is just this is amazing. I would be

672
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: cursing up a storm if this were not in all

673
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:51,359
Speaker 1: ages show, because I am just really very excited. Yes,

674
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: Matt sees me almost cursing here across this. Uh. What

675
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: what we find is it is possible to gain control

676
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: for your normally involuntary bodily functions if you meditate frequently,

677
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:12,720
Speaker 1: and and they're they're numerous monks of varying different religions

678
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: who are capable of doing this. You can raise and

679
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: lower your body temperature, you can uh increase and decrease

680
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: your heartbeat, right, and you can see this stuff and

681
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: this is this is real. This is not any kind

682
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: of um stage magic. You can see footage of monks,

683
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 1: for instance, who practice the thing called I think Troumo

684
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 1: or Tomo where they're they're having ice cold, wet sheets

685
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: thrown on them and they just start meditating. Yeah, and

686
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 1: they steam them dry, they steam dry the stuff or

687
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: and there was I think there's one European who learned

688
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 1: to do that and now he just jogs around. I

689
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,800
Speaker 1: swear this is this guy was just jogging around, uh

690
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 1: in like show yeah, and then just antarctic weather and

691
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: whether that would have given other people frost bite and

692
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: his extremities were not suffering frostbite because he had this

693
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:14,240
Speaker 1: control over his body. You also see people getting buried

694
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: alive with their their hands in the in the praying

695
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: position and just lowering their body responses almost like they're

696
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: in hibernation. That's real. That's spooky to be able to

697
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: do that. So okay, okay, sorry, uh the other thing,

698
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: I've got to go on a rant here. The other

699
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:35,839
Speaker 1: the other thing is the ability, the magnetic ability. When

700
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: I was looking at various possible real superpowers, there's this

701
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: there's this friction thing that's actually happening. You remember, do

702
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 1: you read about this. Yeah, it's a it's a not

703
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: a magnetism. It's a stickiness, which is so much a grosser. Yeah, yeah,

704
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: it really is, and it's genetic, so it's kind of cool.

705
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: You might see the the videos of a person putting

706
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: a spoon or other metal objects on the body, on

707
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: their face, on their nose, on their chests, all over,

708
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh man, this guy is a magnet.

709
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 1: Holy Moldy and his children have the same power. What

710
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: race of mutants, Well kind of, Well, it's just a

711
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 1: genetic condition that alters your skin. Yeah, and they have

712
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: a higher have a higher frictive ability. I believe things.

713
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: Things are just more likely to stick to them. They

714
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: are stickier people. That is, that is the actual thing

715
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: that's happening. There, the the other, the other thing. And

716
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: I think perhaps one of the most important takeaways from

717
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: this because I know we spend a lot of time

718
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: today talking about how untrue a lot of the claims

719
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:57,919
Speaker 1: might be right and how unfair it might be too.

720
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: You know, someone who knows nothing about this stuff too

721
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: to hear these outrageous things first and then be inevitably disappointed.

722
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: Here here's the amazing thing. And I think you and

723
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 1: I have talked about this on the show, but I'll

724
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: just wave the flag again because Uh, it's fascinating. There

725
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: really is such a thing as mind over matter. It

726
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: is literal the way you think, just by the virtue

727
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: of the thought alone changes the physical world in the

728
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: most direct, amazing and terrifying way, which is, it changes

729
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: the structure or the ratios of areas of your brain.

730
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: We we've talked before about studies of London cab drivers, right, uh,

731
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,760
Speaker 1: London cab driver's background have to take a test called

732
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 1: the Knowledge, and the knowledge is super ridiculously hard. People

733
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: are expected to fail at several times. But and the

734
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: reason so hard is because you you cannot use the GPS, etcetera.

735
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: You have to memorize all these different routes in the

736
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: way they interconnect, and a your people have become lending

737
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 1: cavies for you know, decades. The area of their brain

738
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: that's associated with spatial memory is larger than an average person.

739
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: The same thing happens with I think there was a

740
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: study of Buddhist monks who were meditating for for the

741
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: same time, right, and the area of their brain with

742
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 1: associated with compassion or empathy was larger, not like a

743
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: little bit, like noticeably the way that you would look

744
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: at someone who only worked out their left arm and

745
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,399
Speaker 1: notice how much bigger their left arm is. And now,

746
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: just to clarify, we're not talking about the secret style

747
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: positive thinking getting a lot of money because you think

748
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: possibly you're finding that's not at all what we're saying here. Yeah,

749
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: we're talking about the kind of thoughts you have literally

750
00:48:54,920 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: changing the way your brain grows are changing um m mm,

751
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: brain grows very slowly, changing the the function perhaps is

752
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 1: more fair way to say it. But still that that

753
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: isn't that is an amazing thing. And if the techniques

754
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 1: of various forms of cheng can help you achieve that

755
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: kind of thing, or if they help you overall in

756
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: your life and your wellness and they uh lengthen your

757
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 1: lifespan or at least length in the good parts of

758
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: its right? Was it like Dennis Leary who used to say,

759
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to live till I'm ninety

760
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 1: or whatever, because the last few years are gonna suck.

761
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: I think Dennis Leary said that, but I it always

762
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: makes you nervous quoting him because I always feel like

763
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: somebody else said it first. Whoa way is that an? Yeah?

764
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: A little too much of the Louis c k. You

765
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:54,800
Speaker 1: used your cheek to burn him, his skin his sizzling,

766
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,800
Speaker 1: he got a burn? Notice had a pop culture reference?

767
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: Really nice. By the way, have you seen the show

768
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: this is Apropo Nothing? Have you seen the show Mr

769
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,959
Speaker 1: Robot on USA Network? I have not, No, I don't.

770
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: I don't watch a lot of dude, they made that

771
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 1: show for us and our listeners, and I'm not getting

772
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: paid to promote the show. Just I'm saying give it

773
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: a chance because it's it's basically like Fight Club and

774
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 1: the Matrix smash them together, plus uh the illuminatis in there.

775
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I love it all right, I'm gonna check

776
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: out Mr Robot and and Christians later. By the way,

777
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:46,320
Speaker 1: who's Christians later on sea? Did you hear that sound cute?

778
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: That can only mean one thing. Hey, it's our moment

779
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:54,479
Speaker 1: with no So. I watched the trailer for Mr. Robot

780
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 1: the other day and it looks looks really good. I

781
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet, but like there's like an Anonymous

782
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: esque Oh yeah, anymously about it really with a slightly

783
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 1: different masks, more of a mustache because they didn't want

784
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:12,320
Speaker 1: to get sued. Can you imagine Anonymous taking someone to court? Guys,

785
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: I wanted and I'm glad we're all here. I wanted

786
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: to read a couple of tweets from our from our

787
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: last podcast because we had some people talk remember our

788
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: podcast that we were trying to figure out which animals, Well,

789
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 1: we had some people right to us with their choices.

790
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: Do you guys want to hear them, yes please, Okay,

791
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: let's see there's one rather strange one. They Uh, somebody

792
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: wanted to eat be a small animal and eat coffee. Yeah.

793
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: Shout out to a baby lion cub who said the

794
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: baby lion cub chose to be an Asian palm civet

795
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: because eating and pooping out coffee beans all day is

796
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,240
Speaker 1: the ultimate dream job in now? Is that the coffee

797
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: that's really expensive? Yes, supposed what's good about it? Is

798
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:10,359
Speaker 1: it and give you animal powers? It's just like it's

799
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 1: supposed to taste really good. It's got of it's kind

800
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: a certain new mommy, Yes, certain a certain you mommy.

801
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: Uh and then uh then uh kelsey Eto writes to us, says,

802
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: if I could be any animal, I would turn into

803
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: ter topsus dorney and be immortal. That's a little jellyfish, right.

804
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: The immortal fish turns into a baby continually. And then

805
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 1: we had we had some folks right in. Uh say,

806
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: don't be a cow. Uh. Jake Collins road In says,

807
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 1: I know it sounds weird, but I'd love to be

808
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: a duck skin walker, able to fly, swim and be

809
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: cute beyond reason. So sort of a one upping of mine.

810
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't think about that. But it's like,

811
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: if you're a duck, then you can fly and you

812
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:04,880
Speaker 1: can swim, and the whole corkscrew thing. I don't know

813
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: about that. We're family show, look up duck cork screw. Uh. Yeah,

814
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: ducks are horrible people. If ducks were people, they would

815
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: be bad people. Um, I just based on their behavior

816
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: and like they would mainly just swim in giant pools

817
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: of golden coins. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Did you know

818
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: that you will be seriously injured if you attempt to

819
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: do that? Yeah. For some reason, there was a study

820
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 1: whereas the one said, how would this work? Just just

821
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 1: in case I've wasted all my time on paper? But

822
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: it would be less of a splash and more of

823
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 1: like a yeah, yeah, well no, I'm sorry. I just

824
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: I was excited to uh talk more about the kind

825
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 1: of animals who we would be, because I clearly have

826
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: my priorities aligned. But but what's on your mind with this,

827
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: with this whole cheese stuff? Oh I don't know, man,

828
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: I was too busy playing the new Fallout Shelter iPhone game.

829
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: What have you guys seen this? You guys familiar with

830
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: the Fallout games. I mean, I know Fallout. Yeah, so

831
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: there's a there's an iPhone Fallout game that's sort of

832
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 1: like a Fallout version of the SIMS where you have

833
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,399
Speaker 1: your little vault dwellers and you organize them in these

834
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:17,439
Speaker 1: various underground Fallout Shelter compartments. And it sounds really cool,

835
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 1: though it's really but are are you admitting to just

836
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: sitting there and playing a game while we Ben and

837
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: I are having this philosophical discussion about the energy inside

838
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: all of us? I'm half admitting it, but I'm not

839
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 1: fully admitting it. Listen, I know I actually I've got

840
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: a thing. You want to hear my thing? I want

841
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: to hear you. Yeah, I haven't. I literally have not slept. Man,

842
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: give me something. No, you got it, and you got

843
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: This isn't very good, But you know the band Tool

844
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: You guys familiar with the band? So their singer Maynard

845
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Speaker 1: James Keenan, who I think mainly just makes wine. Now

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Speaker 1: I don't think he actually sings anymore. That's not sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I think still refuses to wear a shirt

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Speaker 1: that well. Yeah. Um, but a friend of mine a

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Speaker 1: long time ago who lived in Los Angeles told me

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Speaker 1: the story about um being with somebody and running into

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Speaker 1: Maynard James Keenan on the street, and for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: like you do, his friend decided he'd shoot a bottle

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Speaker 1: rocket at him. He just happened to have one, and

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Speaker 1: maybe it wasn't a bottle rocket, it was a it

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Speaker 1: was a firecracker. Let's let's let's just it's pretty fat.

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Speaker 1: But here's what happened. So he throws the firecracker at

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Speaker 1: James Maynard James Keenan's feet, and Maynard kind of looks

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Speaker 1: at it and it goes out, and the guy's like, WHOA,

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Speaker 1: what do you happened there? And Mayard goes I put

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Speaker 1: it out with my mind, man, So I think Maynard's

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Speaker 1: got some serious That's great, as long as he can't

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Speaker 1: ignite the firecrackers. I'm I don't know, but I also

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Speaker 1: don't throw firecrackers at strangers. No, it's an odd story.

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Speaker 1: It almost sounds made up, but I like to tell it.

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Speaker 1: That's a fun story. It's like that getting tackled by

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Speaker 1: Bill Murray in the hallway of the hotel. Story, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're whispers is like in your ear, like no one's

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Speaker 1: going to believe you. Oh yeah, I'll believe you. I

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Speaker 1: often wonder how many of those stories are true. Um,

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Speaker 1: we didn't get to everybody who rode in to say

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Speaker 1: which animals they would transform to, but we got some.

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Speaker 1: We got some fantastic suggestions. They made me. Uh, they

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Speaker 1: made me rethink you guys, I I really, um, I

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Speaker 1: really think. Well, I well, I think we ended on

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Speaker 1: an octopus. I don't know, I think we really. I

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Speaker 1: kind of screwed us when I said no fictional animals.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, there's so many of those though, it

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Speaker 1: would have taken me a week to really narrow down

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Speaker 1: what I wanted to be. Yeah, well, let's keep thinking

880
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 1: like the octopus. Things seem cool because you know, there

881
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Speaker 1: are certain types of octopus that can transform into different

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Speaker 1: thing as a try sera corn, because there should be

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Speaker 1: try seric. Oh man, yeah, wait is it a dinosaur horse?

884
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Speaker 1: Well that's all up to your imagination, isn't. Yeah, it's

885
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Speaker 1: a three horned unicorn U dinosaur like creature, so all

886
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:05,239
Speaker 1: the powers of those creatures combined. I love it. Uh

887
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 1: that that's that's fantastic. I hope it doesn't have scales,

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00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: but that is that is fantastic. All right, so let

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Speaker 1: us know what you think about ch and thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for listening. We mentioned a couple of different

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Speaker 1: articles that are on our website or parent website, how

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Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com if you want to learn more

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Speaker 1: about this, if you haven't checked out the video we

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Speaker 1: had that came out earlier this week, our our classic

895
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Speaker 1: video on the alleged Dragon family. And you like to

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Speaker 1: hear about big brother type world domination, conspiracies, money printing

897
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Speaker 1: and laundering, World War two lost treasures, or counterfeiting, uh,

898
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Speaker 1: then check it out. I think the best teaser for that,

899
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Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it is that, oh, several years

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Speaker 1: back and you and I think it already started the show.

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Speaker 1: But several years back, two thousand nine exactly, uh, several

902
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: several different foreign nationals were arrested on their way to

903
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Speaker 1: Switzerland or yeah, what was the rest in Switzerland? Want

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Speaker 1: to rest in Italy attempting to smuggle what the Treasury

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Speaker 1: Department says were clearly counterfeit uh billion and billion dollar notes,

906
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Speaker 1: but they were either professionally aged or they really were

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Speaker 1: old counterfeit notes. They were spelling errors. There were spelling errors,

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00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: which isn't head giveaway uh or this is absolutelyunk, but

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Speaker 1: this is a fascinating story. Do check it out. Let

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Speaker 1: us know what you think. You can find us on

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Speaker 1: Facebook and Twitter, where you can see a lot of

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Speaker 1: stories that don't make it to the air for one

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Speaker 1: reason or another. But do check it out. We're active

914
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Speaker 1: on their own conspiracy stuff at both of those. You

915
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: can visit our websites. Stuff they Don't want you to

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Speaker 1: o dot com. And that's the end of this classic episode.

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