1 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal 2 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: podcast network. This is the place to be if you're 3 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: ready for the best podcasts of the paranormal, curious. 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 2: And sometimes unexplained. 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:18,240 Speaker 1: Now listen to this. 6 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 3: Welcome to our podcast. Please be aware the thoughts and 7 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 3: opinions expressed by the host are their thoughts and opinions 8 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 3: only and do not reflect those of iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, Coast 9 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 3: to Coast AM, employees of Premiere Networks, or their sponsors 10 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 3: and associates. We would like to encourage you to do 11 00:00:46,000 --> 00:01:09,479 Speaker 3: your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. 12 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:16,839 Speaker 2: By the Wizard of Weird Strange Things with Joshua. 13 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: Warren, I am Joshua Warren, and each week on this show, 14 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: I'll be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises, 15 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: and weird experiments you can do at home, and a 16 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: lot more. On this edition of the program, Secrets to 17 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: Unlock Your Inner Genius. How good does that sound? Now? 18 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: This is one of those topics that actually can can 19 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: become quite complex and deep, so it's a challenge to 20 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: talk about it. But I like a challenge, So here 21 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: we go. What do you think of when you hear 22 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: the word genius, do you just think of an intelligent 23 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: person who makes good decisions, or do you think of 24 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: maybe an almost supernaturally intelligent person, someone who has an 25 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: encyclopedic brain, lots of data stordinary that kind of thing. 26 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: Or do you think of a genius as being a 27 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: person who is almost like a channel who sometimes receives 28 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: a flash of insight, you know what they call like 29 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: a flash of genius, insight beyond everyone else that just 30 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 1: seems to come out of nowhere. Well, if we go 31 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: we just look at the basic definition of genius at 32 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: the Almighty Wikipedia. It says genius is a characteristic of 33 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: original and exceptional insight in the performance of some art 34 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: or endeavor that surpasses expectations, sets new standards for the future, 35 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: establishes better methods of operation, or remains outside the capabilities 36 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: of competitors. And then it basically goes on to say 37 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: there is no scientifically precise definition of genius. They talk 38 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: about some experts who have studied this, and according to 39 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 1: one expert, it says, the most common trait that actually 40 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: defines a genius maybe the extraordinary ability to apply creativity 41 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: and imaginative thinking to almost any situation. Wow, so it's 42 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: kind of rough around the edges. I think we might 43 00:03:54,800 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: overuse the word genius, though I've always since that people say, oh, 44 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: look at this, you know this. I don't want to 45 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: point anybody out, but like an actor or a singer, 46 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: whether they or a songwriter, or some even people who 47 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: work with you know, very technical engineering things. Oh, this 48 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: is a genius. But is it is a genius really? 49 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 2: Uh? 50 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,239 Speaker 1: Somebody who comes up directly with his or her own material, 51 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: or somebody who can go out and organize a team 52 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 1: of people to come up with I mean, like, there 53 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: are all kinds of different ways to look at this. 54 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: So you might be surprised to find that if you 55 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: go back to some of the earliest thoughts and earliest 56 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 1: references to genius, that there are almost like two very 57 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 1: different versions. Because what I just gave you here is 58 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: something that's sort of related to what we think of 59 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: in the modern days, the modern time as as as 60 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: what a genius might be. But if if you go 61 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: back thousands of years the ancient Romans, they use the 62 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: word genius in a similar way, but a very different way, 63 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: at least different compared to how we feel about that word. Now, 64 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: I mean what I'm about to share with you. If 65 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: you don't know this, I mean, it seems really weird 66 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: these days. In the Roman religion, the genius is the 67 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: individual instance of a general divine nature that is present 68 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: in every individual person, place, or thing. Now, that's kind 69 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: of interesting right off the bat, because before I continued, 70 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: I was just saying that in the modern day, we 71 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: use the word genius and sometimes you're like, well, come on, 72 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: that person's not a genius because maybe this person didn't 73 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: live up to this expectation. But the Romans, they actually 74 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: felt that every person had a genius. But what exactly 75 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: does that mean. Well, it goes on to say here 76 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: that much like a guardian angel, the genius would follow 77 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: each man and man woman. You know how it goes 78 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: from the hour of birth until the day of death. Okay, 79 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 1: so now we're talking about something that seems almost like 80 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 1: a companion's spirit, and this companion's spirit is there to 81 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: sort of guide you and help you in certain ways. 82 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: But it gets weirder than that. If we go back 83 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: and we look at the origin of this word. They 84 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: say that the Latin origin goes back to household guard 85 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 1: ardian spirit also innate power of a clan or a 86 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: tribe or a people. And as I mentioned, the Romans 87 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: felt that not only people had a genius, but a 88 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: location has a genius. They called it a genius. Loci 89 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: are low key. I don't know how you pronounce it, 90 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: but let me try to give you an example of 91 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: how the Romans felt about this. They're in an early 92 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: Roman literature. There was this writer named Plautus, and he's 93 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: describing how one character is making fun of another character, 94 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: and he says, your father is so greedy that he 95 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: uses cheap wares and goods and sacrifices to his own 96 00:07:55,720 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: genius so as not to tempt the genius to steal it. Okay, 97 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: So that was their idea of how to incorporate this 98 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: concept into a joke. And it says in that passage 99 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: you can see the genius is not identical to the person, 100 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: because that joke wouldn't make sense. However, the genius has 101 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: the same character as the person, the implication being like 102 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: person like genius. See this is really this is really 103 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 1: weird stuff. So it's kind of like that you have again, 104 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: maybe some kind of of a guardian angel type figure 105 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: there that's connected with you for a life, and it 106 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: has a lot of your characteristics, but it actually is 107 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: its own separate being as well. And so there are 108 00:08:54,880 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: certain powers that you can get from the genius, which 109 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 1: are you know, sort of supernatural moments because you're I 110 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: guess you're kind of channeling the genius through you, which 111 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: is why you kind of behave like the genius. So 112 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: in this case, it's like, well, you know, your dad's 113 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: so greedy. I guess his genius is greedy, and so 114 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: he's you know, hiding stuff from his own genius, so 115 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: his genius wants steal it. I told you this was 116 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 1: going to get kind of weird and complicated, So hopefully 117 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 1: you find this interesting because it's one of those things 118 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,559 Speaker 1: you have to just sort of try to envision as 119 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: some kind of a model, Like here's how I was 120 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: thinking of it. I've talked before on the show about 121 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: the idea of creating something like a minion, and a 122 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: minion is where you create a character that you project 123 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: from your mind that's sort of like a tulpa, and 124 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: you give it a job to do, and you envision 125 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,839 Speaker 1: that it is a separate, independent being. A servitor is 126 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: what some people would also, and then once you do that, 127 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: you treat it as if it's a different being that's 128 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 1: doing a task, and it's working with you, and you're 129 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 1: helping each other, and you do make sacrifices to it 130 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. And even though it's separate 131 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 1: from you, you did create it, so it is an essence, 132 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: a part of you as well. So think if you 133 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: are kind of like this, you are one half of 134 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: this being. And the half that we see is what 135 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 1: we call the human that your twin here next to 136 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: you that we can't see is your genius that's following 137 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 1: you around all the time. And so the genius has 138 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: a lot of your qualities and vice versa. And so 139 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: we each have the ability to tap into the power 140 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: of that genius and channel it. And this is a 141 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 1: whole other way of envisioning something like a soul or 142 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: a spirit and how that that thing can enhance your 143 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: intelligence and your ability to succeed or fail in the world. Now, 144 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: when we come back from our break here, I'm going 145 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: to share with you this really I think obscure bit 146 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: of knowledge. It's a technique that I learned when I 147 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:24,119 Speaker 1: was a kid that will allow you to tap into 148 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: a part of your brain, and I think pull off 149 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: some really surprising feats, things that surprise people so much. 150 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: I used to get up in front of class at 151 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: school and perform this like I was performing a magic trick, 152 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: and people will just be an awe. 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Warren, beaming into your 195 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: wormhole brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, 196 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: where every day is golden and every night is silver. 197 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: Ge those Zume and this technique that I'm about to 198 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 1: share with you that I learned when I was a kid, 199 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: it's it's pretty weird, and I don't I'm not sure 200 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: how well this is going to come across in a podcast. 201 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: I've never tried to talk about this before, so we'll 202 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: see how it goes, all right, But first I want 203 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: to mention this briefly. Yesterday I was talking to a 204 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: friend of mine who is also a podcaster, but he 205 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: works for a different company, and he was telling me 206 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: that he is always on his podcast telling his listeners please, 207 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: if you like the show, don't binge listen. And I said, 208 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: what exactly are you talking about? And he said, Well, 209 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: he said, when a show comes out, if you don't 210 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: listen to it right then, and you just wait like 211 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: a month and then you say I'm going to listen 212 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: to a bunch of them all at once, he says, 213 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: you know, that's a bingeless And he said that the 214 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: algorithms that determine the success of the show in his case, 215 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: give him like thirty days, and so basically, if something 216 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: isn't listened to within thirty days, it doesn't count. It's 217 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 1: like that the listen didn't happen. That's my understanding. And 218 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: so he's telling people like, please, if you like this show, 219 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: don't binge listen. Listen to each one as it comes out. 220 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: And also there may be information in there that's, you know, 221 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: a valid for a limited time that you'll want to 222 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: take advantage of, et cetera. And I never really thought 223 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: about all that because I do this show and then 224 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: I hand it over to the smart people and they 225 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: do all the advertising and promotion, and I just, you know, 226 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about how the algorithms work, so 227 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if that applies to this show, but 228 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: I figure. He says, you better tell your listeners because 229 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: if the algorithm says that you're not meeting certain you 230 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: know standards. He says, you know, some day, boom, your 231 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 1: show is gone. AI is kicking in, and so you 232 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 1: might lose your favorite podcast if you don't listen as 233 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: the podcast come out, if you decide to save them 234 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: all up for a rainy day and binge listen. So 235 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: no binge listening. All right, now, let's get back to 236 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: the topic at hand. Okay, when I was a kid, 237 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: I was introduced to this interesting course. My father has 238 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: always loved to read, and his father always loved to read. 239 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: And my father is Danny Warren. My grandfather was Frank Warren. 240 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: And one day, of course, they would trade books back 241 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 1: and forth. And so one day my dad came home 242 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: and he had this little box set that was obviously 243 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:54,959 Speaker 1: made long before I was born, and it was like 244 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: it was like a seven booklet course and it was 245 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 1: about how to have superhuman memory skills. And my dad 246 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,439 Speaker 1: read through it, but he was like mildly interested, and 247 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 1: then he gave it to me and said, maybe you'll 248 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: enjoy this. And I really enjoyed it, and I picked 249 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 1: right up on it, and I thought it was the 250 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 1: coolest thing, and I'm about to tell you the technique 251 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: that I learned from this, because you know, sometimes you 252 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: see people who who do these feats of memory that 253 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 1: are just incredible, and you go that that's inhuman, that 254 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: must be some kind of genius there, right. And I'll 255 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: tell you in a minute why I'm talking about, you know, 256 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: like memory as being related to the modern version of 257 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: genius as opposed to like what the ancient Romans were 258 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 1: talking about. And so, uh, my dad, so he gave 259 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: me these books to read. And the fun here's the 260 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: funny thing this is. I hate to say this. I'm 261 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 1: about to tell you this technique I learned from this 262 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: course on memory, but I don't I'm not sure if 263 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 1: I can remember the name of the course. I think 264 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 1: it was called you can remember by a man named Bruno. 265 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: First I think that's what it was, but I'm not 266 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 1: one hundred percent of sure. I'd like to go back 267 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: and find that course. But here's what this course taught. 268 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: And this is again, this is really weird. To try 269 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 1: to stay with me here through your ears on this. 270 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: He would portray in this booklet a picture like a 271 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:35,360 Speaker 1: little cartoon associated with a word and a number, and 272 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 1: he said I want you to remember this as a 273 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: reference point. So we're going to do this together right now. Okay, 274 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: try to remember what I'm about to tell you. Number 275 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: one is t t Ea and that is all you 276 00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: need to remember. Okay, number one since tea like a 277 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:10,640 Speaker 1: cup of tea, all right. Number two has a word 278 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: associated with it, and that is Noah. Okay, like Noah's arc. 279 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:22,239 Speaker 1: There's a picture of Noah's arc in your brain. So 280 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: what was number one? Number one was tea like a 281 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: cup of tea. And what was number two? It's Noah. 282 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: We all know who Noah was. Number three is may 283 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: m a y And I guess the guy who wrote 284 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: this is European because he had a picture there of 285 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 1: a may pole, which I never really messed around with 286 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: may poles growing up here in the US. But basically, 287 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: you know, a may pole is like this painted pole 288 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 1: decorated with flowers around which people kind of traditionally dance 289 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 1: on May Day and they're holding these big long ribbons 290 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 1: that are attached to the top of the poll. I 291 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: don't understand it, Like I said, I never did that. 292 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: So what was the first one? What was number one? 293 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:20,199 Speaker 1: It was t What was number two? Noah, and what 294 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: was number three? May? All right, so now you have 295 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: we have a list of three things right there. So 296 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 1: now I want you to remember three words that I 297 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 1: give you. Here's word number one, and this could be 298 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: anything in the world, any object, any concept. We'll just 299 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: we'll just keep it like I know, physical things. Here's 300 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 1: here's the the t Noah and May are our reference words. 301 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: But now I'm going to give you a new set 302 00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: of words, car, basketball, and Santa Claus. And that's the list. 303 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: I want you to remember his car, basketball and Santa Claus. 304 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,919 Speaker 1: And so here's how you remember car basketball in Santa Claus. 305 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: Our first word is tea. So if I want you 306 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: to remember the word car, you have to have this 307 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: image in your head of something like a man in 308 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: a car drinking a cup of tea. So just envision 309 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 1: that like a man in a car drinking a cup 310 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 1: of tea. And then number two. Our number two word 311 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 1: is noah. So if I tell you I want you 312 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: to remember the word basketball as your second word, well, 313 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,880 Speaker 1: now you just have a little cartoon in your head 314 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 1: of like Noah running around playing basketball on the arc 315 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: or something like that. We know that our reference word 316 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: number three is may like a maypole. And I told you, well, 317 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: I want you to remember the word Santa Claus. So 318 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,440 Speaker 1: how do you remember Santa Claus? Okay, well, picture something 319 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: like Santa Claus running around swinging presents around the maypole. 320 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: So now I can come to you and I can 321 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: say to you, all right, uh, what was your second word? 322 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 1: And you might say, uh, well, let's see, my reference 323 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: word is Noah, and Noah, oh yeah, Noah was playing 324 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: basketball on the arc, so my word is basketball, okay, 325 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: Or then I'm Then I might say okay, well what 326 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: what uh? What was your first word? And you go, well, 327 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 1: let's see, my reference word is tea. Oh yeah, uh 328 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 1: it's car because there's a man in a car drinking 329 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: a cup of tea. Okay, and so you start that. 330 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 1: I can go on and on, but these are examples 331 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: of how you have. If you have a set of 332 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: reference words in your mind that you you memorized however 333 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 1: you need to, then anytime you need to memorize something new, 334 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: you associate with that reference word. So instead of me 335 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: asking you for you know the word, now, I could 336 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 1: turn it around and I could be like, okay, what 337 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: was your first word? And you go that I wanted 338 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: you to remember, and you say it, well, what was car? 339 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: Because you remember that it's the guy in the car 340 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 1: drinking the tea. 341 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:17,880 Speaker 2: All right. 342 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: I know this may sound very confusing on a podcast, 343 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: but believe it or not. If you have a set 344 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 1: of reference words that you memorize and you can associate 345 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: things with that set of references, you can list off 346 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: up to well, I did it for one hundred words. Okay. 347 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: I I memorized a list of one hundred reference words. 348 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: And after that I could stand up in front of 349 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 1: a classroom and you could give me. This would take 350 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,879 Speaker 1: a whole class. You could give me one hundred words. 351 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: Every kid would give me a word. I'd just go 352 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: around and they'd give me the word, and I'd associated 353 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: in my head with that reference word. And when they 354 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: were done, I could sit down and then I could 355 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 1: say tell me which number and they say what was word? 356 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: Number sixty five? And I tell them the word. Or 357 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: they could say, well, what number was baseball? And I go, 358 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: that was number four. And it was just like and 359 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: it was almost like a supernatural ability. Okay. By the way, 360 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: you may hear a dog barking, that's because my pool 361 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: boy is here and there's a dog excited. He's actually 362 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: he's a pool man, really, but my wife calls him 363 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 1: the pool boy. I don't know if that's good or not. Okay, 364 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: I know that sounded a little confusing, but I promise 365 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 1: you I'm getting somewhere with this, and when we come 366 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 1: back from this break, all these things will just tie 367 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: in together beautifully and you're going to have some light 368 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: bulbs go off and you're going to begin to understand 369 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: something about unlocking the secrets to your inner genius. There 370 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: are different approaches to it, and some are more complicated 371 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 1: than others. But stick around you'll see what I mean. 372 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: I'm Joshua pe Warren. 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Please make sure and check out my 382 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 3: show Shades of the Afterlife, heard right here on the 383 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 3: iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. 384 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast 385 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren, 386 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 1: and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual. 387 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,919 Speaker 1: I know that was tricky to keep up with on 388 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 1: a podcast, me explaining this tech nique that I learned 389 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 1: so that I could memorize this long list of random 390 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,439 Speaker 1: words and then wipe the slate clean and do it 391 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: all again and mystify people. I guarantee you though, if 392 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,719 Speaker 1: you were sitting next to me and we had a 393 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 1: pen and a piece of paper, I could I could 394 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: teach this to you and you go, oh, okay, I 395 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: get it. Yeah, that's I understand. But right now you're 396 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 1: probably thinking, well, that's really interesting, Joshua, But what did 397 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,959 Speaker 1: you memorizing a big long list of words have to 398 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: do with me unlocking my ener genius? Well, just hang on, 399 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: I promise you I'm going to explain that. I'm going 400 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: to get to it. I'm slowly, I'm slowly building my 401 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 1: case here. Of course, what I'm talking about when I 402 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: gave you that example with lists is what a one 403 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 1: of you know is mnemonic aids or something like that. 404 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 1: A mnemonic device, some just call it a memory device 405 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval 406 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: in the human memory, often by associating the information with 407 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: something else that is easier to remember. So there are 408 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: all kinds of examples of this, like, for example, if 409 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: you're a science geek like i am, roygbiv, is something 410 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: that you may have learned and that is a name 411 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: in your mind, roygbiv, But who is roygbiv? Well, that 412 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: allows you to remember the order of the colors in 413 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: the spectrum red, orange, yellow, green, blue and to go violet. 414 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: Stuff like that would be considered a numonic aid or 415 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: a nemonic device. And when it comes to this idea 416 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: of the nemonic, well, for one thing, everything in life 417 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: can be proved can be in improved with some form 418 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 1: of pneumonics because you will be able to recite more 419 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: information that will help you make better decisions, and you 420 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 1: will be able to possibly connect simple concepts to larger 421 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: concepts so that you can manage them and use them 422 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: more strategically in your life. So, for example, going back 423 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 1: to ROYGBIV, if I am doing an experiment and I 424 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 1: am trying to figure out if I need a higher 425 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: frequency or a lower frequency, and I remember that you 426 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: know the order goes from red being on the low 427 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: end and violet being on the high end. Well, then 428 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: that's something I can put into practice. So does this 429 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: kind of thinking that we call modern intelligence and or 430 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: genius in this modern time really have more to do 431 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 1: with mnemonics than you would possibly imagine. This is the 432 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 1: big point that I'm working my way toward, because yes, 433 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, you can associate things that you remember, 434 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 1: things that are familiar to you with things that are unfamiliar, 435 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 1: and that gives you a gateway to start learning about 436 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: those things that are unfamiliar. Here's what I mean by that. 437 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: Let's take Albert Einstein. Everybody says Albert Einstein was one 438 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 1: of the greatest geniuses ever. I don't think anybody. Actually 439 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,479 Speaker 1: I did watch one guy with a YouTube video who 440 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: said he disagreed. There's always that one guy. But I 441 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: think everybody agrees Einstein was a genius. But he was 442 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: still just a human being. So how is he supposed 443 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: to understand what relativity is when it's not something that 444 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 1: we directly experience the way that he was describing it. Well, Instead, 445 00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 1: he started imagining something he could relate to on a train. 446 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,800 Speaker 1: So he said, you know, if I'm on a train 447 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 1: and I'm going down the track in one direction, and 448 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: then next to me is another train that's parallel to 449 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 1: my train, and I look out the window and I 450 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: see this guy sitting in the window of the other train, 451 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: and we're moving at the same rate where we look 452 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: like we're standing still. But if he starts to pull 453 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: ahead or whatever, that then now we're changing the relationship. 454 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: So he started working it out that way, and he 455 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: was able to take it so far to like, who 456 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: can imagine really what a beam of light is? I 457 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 1: don't think we can imagine that. So for him to 458 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 1: understand all of these equations, instead of him trying to 459 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 1: take light and look at it and sit there and 460 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: like figure out what light is, he would sit there 461 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: and sometimes for days with his eyes closed, and he 462 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: would imagine that he was riding on a beam of light, 463 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 1: much like a cowboy on a horse or something like that, 464 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: what that experience would be like, and what the relationship 465 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 1: to the things around him would be. And so he 466 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 1: started taking these big concepts that nobody could understand. But 467 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: he was able to get a handle on them and 468 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 1: start understanding them because he associated them with things that 469 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 1: he was already familiar with. And when he did that, 470 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 1: everybody's like, cow, could you possibly be such a genius? 471 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 1: It's because he was able to find that connection or 472 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: the idea of Newton's apple, you know, helping figure out 473 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 1: what gravity is. What you can't see gravity. You don't 474 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 1: feel this force pulling you down on the earth like 475 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 1: a magnet, but there is a force like that. And 476 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 1: I know that the Newton's Apple thing is exaggerated. He 477 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 1: was actually studying the motion of comments like Haley's comment. 478 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: But still, you know he this idea of connecting it 479 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 1: to something simpler goes all the way back, of course, 480 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 1: thousands of years, not just a scientific thinking of genius, 481 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: but also the genius that we associate with a masters 482 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 1: like Jesus who would teach advanced spiritual concepts using parables 483 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:13,359 Speaker 1: and campfire stories like the Good Samaritan or the Prodigal Son. 484 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: And when you start digging into how that we can 485 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,719 Speaker 1: start to connect with these much larger almost you know, 486 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 1: shocking levels of understanding by associating them with something that 487 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: we can grasp. It falls I think into this realm 488 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,320 Speaker 1: of what is called ontology. And I've talked about this before. 489 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,319 Speaker 1: If you really want to dig into some deep thought 490 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:47,320 Speaker 1: provoking stuff, look up ontology and in information science, ontology 491 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 1: is about the representation, the formal naming and definitions of categories, properties, 492 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:04,040 Speaker 1: relationships between concepts and data or entities that pertain to one, 493 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: mini or all domains of conversation. In fact, in metaphysics 494 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 1: the word is used a little bit differently. It's the 495 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: philosophical study of what entities exist, and how they're grouped 496 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,800 Speaker 1: into categories, and how they relate to one another and 497 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:25,360 Speaker 1: the most fundamental connections. And we're not talking necessarily about 498 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,120 Speaker 1: having to be a certain physical thing. I'm talking about 499 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,400 Speaker 1: abstract concepts and thought forms that you can group together 500 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,719 Speaker 1: and manage them as if they are physical objects in 501 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 1: order to start making progress. And if you want to 502 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:47,760 Speaker 1: unlock your energenius, if there's something you don't understand, find 503 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,880 Speaker 1: a way of associating it with something that you do understand. 504 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 1: The brain tends to function better in most people when 505 00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:03,600 Speaker 1: concepts are turned into mental images, and often the more outrageous, 506 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 1: the connections the better kind of like with you know, 507 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:12,719 Speaker 1: the Noah playing basketball on the arc. You know, I'm 508 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,279 Speaker 1: sure you can still probably remember what number was that 509 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,720 Speaker 1: on the list? What number was basketball on the list? 510 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:22,760 Speaker 1: It was number two because number two is the Noah 511 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:28,040 Speaker 1: reference and youth to saw Noah playing basketball. That's how 512 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,560 Speaker 1: it works. And you know what, now listen to this 513 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:36,280 Speaker 1: if you think that I I'm giving you flawed information. 514 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:44,799 Speaker 1: According to NPR, the current world record holder for reciting 515 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,319 Speaker 1: the digits of pie, which you know, pie is an 516 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:54,319 Speaker 1: infinite number, is a guy named Sharesh Kumar Sharma and 517 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 1: he is a former vegetable seller from India. Okay, this 518 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,320 Speaker 1: is not a guy who is teaches at some big college. 519 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:06,080 Speaker 1: A guy who sells sold vegetables in India. He was 520 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:10,200 Speaker 1: able to recite get a load of this. Here's how 521 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:15,719 Speaker 1: many digits he got correct reciting pie. Seventy thousand and 522 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:20,759 Speaker 1: thirty digits of pie in seventeen hours. And they ask 523 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,640 Speaker 1: him how did you do this to win this record? 524 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:30,880 Speaker 1: And he said, by associating each number with an image. So, 525 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,719 Speaker 1: whether you think of the genius as the Romans did, 526 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,520 Speaker 1: as an advanced spirit that is connected to you, but 527 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 1: also acting separately something you can channel, or as a 528 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:48,440 Speaker 1: way to train your brain to be better at retaining 529 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,319 Speaker 1: and processing information. There are different ways you can do this. 530 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 1: The Roman way involves perhaps invocation, like speaking with a 531 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:59,160 Speaker 1: guardian angel, or even as if you are attempting to 532 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,560 Speaker 1: create your own minion, as I talked about in episode 533 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:07,520 Speaker 1: one of this Whole Strange Things podcast back in the day, 534 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,239 Speaker 1: asking this minion to grant you gifts that make you 535 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:16,600 Speaker 1: seem more advanced than others, even if it's temporarily. And 536 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,239 Speaker 1: the modern way, I think has to do with your 537 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 1: ability to associate things you don't understand with things that 538 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,759 Speaker 1: you do understand in a way that makes them both 539 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,360 Speaker 1: more aligned. Now, look, I could sit here and I 540 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,719 Speaker 1: could give you tons of lessons on this. We could 541 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,720 Speaker 1: talk all day and be like an eight hour course. 542 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,319 Speaker 1: But this is a podcast, so hopefully I have wet 543 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,120 Speaker 1: your beak on this and you can see how this 544 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:43,120 Speaker 1: will lead you down the path of tapping into different 545 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,960 Speaker 1: concepts of your ener genius. We're up on a break. 546 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,960 Speaker 1: When we come back, I have a story I want 547 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,040 Speaker 1: to share with you, speaking of like guardian angels and 548 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,040 Speaker 1: all that, I have a story about an encounter with 549 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,960 Speaker 1: an angel, but I bet it's not going to be 550 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:04,799 Speaker 1: the kind of angel that you have in mind most 551 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,480 Speaker 1: of the time. This is one of my favorite little 552 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:12,359 Speaker 1: stories that and more. 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Warren, 572 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,360 Speaker 1: and yes it is official. My new compilation book is out. 573 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,200 Speaker 1: It took over two years to get stories and put 574 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:20,239 Speaker 1: it together. It's called Amazing, Happy Endings, True Stories to 575 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,360 Speaker 1: make you smile. And here's what the back of the 576 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,840 Speaker 1: book says, need a smile today well. As an international podcaster, 577 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,839 Speaker 1: Warren asked his listeners to send him stories. There were 578 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:36,279 Speaker 1: only four rules. Number one, your story must be true. 579 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:40,239 Speaker 1: Number two, your story must be short, ideally no more 580 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,719 Speaker 1: than a few paragraphs. Number three, your story must be amazing. 581 00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,920 Speaker 1: And number four, your story must have a happy ending. 582 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:53,759 Speaker 1: Here is what he has received so far. And I 583 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,120 Speaker 1: figure now that I'm holding a finished copy in my hands, 584 00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,680 Speaker 1: because it's available on Amazon as a print book, as 585 00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,160 Speaker 1: a hardback, it's you can get it as a kindle. 586 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,600 Speaker 1: I even read the whole thing as an audio book, 587 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,160 Speaker 1: and you can get that at Audible. I think you 588 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,600 Speaker 1: could even get it for free if you're new to Audible. 589 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,600 Speaker 1: I figure, you know, I'll read you just a couple 590 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,960 Speaker 1: of short tales that I love from this book, because 591 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,920 Speaker 1: I read some early on back before this book. We 592 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,920 Speaker 1: don't like pretty much. When I was putting it together, 593 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,960 Speaker 1: I read some of the submissions. But this gives you 594 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,320 Speaker 1: an idea of the kinds of stories in this compilation book. 595 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,440 Speaker 1: This was sent to me by Tim Watson, who is 596 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:40,960 Speaker 1: a printer living in Pennsylvania here in the USA, and 597 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,520 Speaker 1: this occurred in twenty fifteen. He said, I live in 598 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:49,320 Speaker 1: a quiet, peaceful neighborhood. We allowed our dog, an eighty 599 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,839 Speaker 1: five pound collie, free reign of our yard. She knew 600 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,879 Speaker 1: her boundaries and stayed within our property. One summer night, 601 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:03,520 Speaker 1: our neighbor and elterly woman living alone, heard noise coming 602 00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,279 Speaker 1: from outside. She looked out the window and saw a 603 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:12,839 Speaker 1: man with a screwdriver trying to pry open the door. Terrified, 604 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,480 Speaker 1: she ran to her basement and barricaded herself in a room. 605 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,920 Speaker 1: Quaking with fear, she dropped to her knees and prayed 606 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:28,719 Speaker 1: for an angel to save her. Within minutes, my dog ran, 607 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:33,440 Speaker 1: barking and snarling at the intruder, who quickly dropped the 608 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:38,839 Speaker 1: screwdriver and ran off, never to return. By the way, 609 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:48,480 Speaker 1: my dog's name is Angel. Isn't that great? This is 610 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:53,319 Speaker 1: the kind of story that is in this book. Some 611 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,799 Speaker 1: of them are like really weird. But here's another one 612 00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,120 Speaker 1: I'll share with you because it's short. All right. This 613 00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:03,360 Speaker 1: is a This is from Brenda Hartman. Brenda Hartman. She 614 00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:07,600 Speaker 1: is retired. She's in Oley, Pennsylvania here in the USA, 615 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:12,000 Speaker 1: and this occurred in twenty twenty three. She said, in 616 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,320 Speaker 1: line at the pharmacy, I felt around in my pants 617 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,680 Speaker 1: pockets to get my credit card in hand because I 618 00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:22,440 Speaker 1: was next in line. Oddly, I could not feel it 619 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,720 Speaker 1: in any of my pockets, so I stepped out of line, 620 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,399 Speaker 1: figuring I had to go back out to my car 621 00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,640 Speaker 1: to retrieve it. As soon as I got out of line, 622 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,320 Speaker 1: I felt it in my pocket. I'm strange, I thought. 623 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:40,600 Speaker 1: In the meantime, a very aged gentleman who is behind 624 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,440 Speaker 1: me got my place in line and was now at 625 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:48,600 Speaker 1: the counter. I stepped back in line. As the cashier 626 00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,000 Speaker 1: got ready to ring up the man's order, he said 627 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:55,240 Speaker 1: to her quote, I hope it doesn't cost anything, because 628 00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,120 Speaker 1: I forgot my wallet and I've got to get to 629 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:00,640 Speaker 1: the hospital to se my wife. 630 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:01,240 Speaker 2: Quote. 631 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,520 Speaker 1: The cashier of then informed him that his bill was 632 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:10,640 Speaker 1: five dollars and some cents. I knew then why this 633 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,400 Speaker 1: had happened. That I had to step out of line 634 00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:19,279 Speaker 1: so that gentleman could go next, and I paid for 635 00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:24,440 Speaker 1: his meds. I tell everyone that not to brag on 636 00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:29,920 Speaker 1: myself just telling it because of the way it happened. 637 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,960 Speaker 1: And one of the reasons that I loved that story 638 00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,359 Speaker 1: is because you know, people sent me stories of just 639 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:42,200 Speaker 1: like simple moments in life like that. It's like, yes, 640 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,960 Speaker 1: there are stories where big, grandiose things happen, you know, 641 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:49,640 Speaker 1: like one person won a car and or you know, 642 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,480 Speaker 1: one person got this dream job working at Disneyland. You know, 643 00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,160 Speaker 1: big things are in this book as well, But there 644 00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,040 Speaker 1: are all these little moments like that. And there's some 645 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,560 Speaker 1: weird stories that just make you scratch your head. And yes, 646 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,000 Speaker 1: there's some link interdimensional stuff and alien stuff and a 647 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,759 Speaker 1: lot of you know, there's there's some cryptid stuff. And 648 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just really happy with how this turned out, 649 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,759 Speaker 1: and I want this to become a series. So go 650 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:20,439 Speaker 1: to Amaze Amazinghappy Endings dot com Amazing Happy Endings dot 651 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,120 Speaker 1: com at the top of the page. There you'll see 652 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,879 Speaker 1: links that'll make it easy for you. Links to the 653 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:30,759 Speaker 1: Amazon page that has the printed book, the hardbeck or 654 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,120 Speaker 1: the kindle or there's also a link to the audible 655 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,480 Speaker 1: audiobook where you can hear me read the whole thing. 656 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,000 Speaker 1: To you, it's like listening to a big, long podcast, 657 00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,920 Speaker 1: but no commercials. So if you like listening to the show, 658 00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,960 Speaker 1: why would you not go and do that. And I 659 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,680 Speaker 1: made the price on this so cheap that I'm making 660 00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,239 Speaker 1: less than a dollar per book on these, and I'm 661 00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,480 Speaker 1: giving a good chunk of that to some of my 662 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,839 Speaker 1: favorite charities. And so this is not like a big 663 00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,719 Speaker 1: money making thing. This is stuff to just make us 664 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,600 Speaker 1: all feel good. And I want to turn it into 665 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,240 Speaker 1: a series, and I'm if you like this, please also 666 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:11,600 Speaker 1: leave a five star review there at Amazon or at Audible, 667 00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,400 Speaker 1: or it might also be available in some other places. 668 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's on iTunes, I'm just not sure. 669 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,919 Speaker 1: But leave us a five star review if you want 670 00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:23,080 Speaker 1: the series to continue. So I'm happy to have that out, 671 00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,520 Speaker 1: and I think so much every single person who contributed 672 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:28,800 Speaker 1: to this book, all of them get a free copy 673 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,759 Speaker 1: of the book, and we're sending those out as as 674 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,920 Speaker 1: soon as you know. Amazon gets everything printed. So happy 675 00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:39,960 Speaker 1: to tell you that you now can listen to or 676 00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:45,520 Speaker 1: read Amazing Happy Endings. Amazing Happy Endings dot com. You know, 677 00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:49,279 Speaker 1: before we wrap up here, I have this story that 678 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,719 Speaker 1: I want to share with you. Once in a while, 679 00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,719 Speaker 1: I just share some kind of like wacky, off the 680 00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,920 Speaker 1: wall story from my life that I think that you 681 00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:02,960 Speaker 1: might find interesting. And I call this seg mental manna. Now, 682 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,279 Speaker 1: of course, living here in Las Vegas, occasionally I will 683 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:09,200 Speaker 1: go to a casino. And I've never gone to a 684 00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:13,520 Speaker 1: casino and been like ridiculous and lost all my money. 685 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,040 Speaker 1: I mean, I go in and you know, if I can, 686 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,399 Speaker 1: I start with like a twenty dollars bill and try 687 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,560 Speaker 1: to work my way up from there. And sometimes you 688 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,319 Speaker 1: get really lucky. I mean, you put in a twenty 689 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,000 Speaker 1: dollars bill and you win thousands of dollars. So I 690 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:26,799 Speaker 1: don't go crazy. But I like to sit down and 691 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,080 Speaker 1: play at the Roulett wheel. If you don't know really 692 00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,280 Speaker 1: much about the Roulett will, well look a roulette will. 693 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,239 Speaker 1: You know you can bet on numbers or colors or 694 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:43,480 Speaker 1: different zones of the will. But a lot of people 695 00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:46,520 Speaker 1: just bet on colors. There's only three colors on a roulette. Well, 696 00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:51,760 Speaker 1: there's green. There are only two spaces that are green 697 00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:56,839 Speaker 1: on a normal US roulette. Will and all the other 698 00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,680 Speaker 1: spaces are either red or black, so if you bet 699 00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:01,600 Speaker 1: on red or black, it's almost like a fifty to 700 00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,520 Speaker 1: fifty bet, right, but then there's always that possibility it 701 00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:07,600 Speaker 1: can be green. So a lot of people sit down 702 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,120 Speaker 1: and I do this all the time, and you'll bet 703 00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,160 Speaker 1: on red or black, so you have an almost fifty 704 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,640 Speaker 1: to fifty chance, and you double your money if you 705 00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,719 Speaker 1: get that right. Everybody hates it though, if you hit green, 706 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,920 Speaker 1: because then you lose everything. So back when I was 707 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,400 Speaker 1: living in Puerto Rico, I was hanging out with my 708 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,960 Speaker 1: buddy Ellis and yes that's his real name, and I 709 00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:26,920 Speaker 1: don't think it would hurt his feelings for me to 710 00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:29,400 Speaker 1: tell this story. So I was like, I love Ellis, 711 00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,279 Speaker 1: he's a super intelligent guy, but I got to make 712 00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,000 Speaker 1: fun of him a little bit here. So Ellis and 713 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,680 Speaker 1: I and we'd been to the casino before and we 714 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,480 Speaker 1: gamble together. So we go and we sit down at 715 00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,520 Speaker 1: a roulette wheel, and you know, things seem to be 716 00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:45,120 Speaker 1: going okay, and at one point, so he takes out 717 00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:50,080 Speaker 1: two chips. Each ship is worth a dollar, and he 718 00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:53,799 Speaker 1: puts one dollar. He puts one dollar on red and 719 00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,200 Speaker 1: one dollar on black. Okay, Now, when you do that, 720 00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:02,359 Speaker 1: it's impossible to gain anything because there are only three colors, red, black, 721 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,680 Speaker 1: and green. So if it's green, he loses both of them. 722 00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,080 Speaker 1: If it's red, well, he loses one and gets one, 723 00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,879 Speaker 1: and if it's black, he loses one and gets one. 724 00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:17,319 Speaker 1: So in the best case scenario, nothing happens. In the 725 00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,680 Speaker 1: only other possible scenario, you just lose both of your dollars. 726 00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,600 Speaker 1: So anyway, Ellis does this, he sits down. It's the 727 00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:26,839 Speaker 1: only time in my life I've ever seen anybody do this. 728 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:28,520 Speaker 1: I don't even think a three year old will do that. 729 00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:31,640 Speaker 1: He puts one on red and one on black, and 730 00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:36,480 Speaker 1: the dealer looks and says, you're not accomplishing anything here, 731 00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:42,000 Speaker 1: and Ellis just blows him off with a smirk and says, 732 00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:44,640 Speaker 1: this is just the way I like to do things. 733 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:49,640 Speaker 1: And the dealer just looked at me and I shrugged. 734 00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,000 Speaker 1: So he spun the wheel and says, okay, it hit red. 735 00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:57,920 Speaker 1: So he took one dollar from black for Ellis and 736 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:04,880 Speaker 1: gave Ellis one dollar for red. What is the meaning 737 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:11,000 Speaker 1: of this story? I have never figured it out. And 738 00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,480 Speaker 1: I thought of that the other day when I was 739 00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:17,839 Speaker 1: sitting at the rough. Let will all right, enough fun 740 00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:21,880 Speaker 1: for now. Time to relax, take a deep breath, envision 741 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:48,960 Speaker 1: positive things. Here is the good Fortune tone. That's it 742 00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,840 Speaker 1: for this edition of the show. Follow me on Twitter 743 00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:57,560 Speaker 1: at Joshua P. Warren, Plus visit Joshuapwarren dot com to 744 00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,920 Speaker 1: sign up for my free e newsletter to receive a 745 00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:04,719 Speaker 1: free instant gift, and check out the cool stuff in 746 00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:09,239 Speaker 1: the Curiosity Shop. All at joshuap Warren dot com. 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