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Speaker 1: Things with Joshua Warren.
Speaker 2: I am Joshua pe Warren. At each week on this show,
Speaker 2: I'll be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises,
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Speaker 2: lot more on this edition of the show Strange New
Speaker 2: Tourist Tech in Vegas. Yes, I'm talking about Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: That's where I have been for the past oh around
Speaker 2: six years now, and I'm calling it tourist Tech because
Speaker 2: this is stuff that you you could visit if you
Speaker 2: came here. It's open to everybody. And of course, one
Speaker 2: of the fun things about being in Las Vegas is
Speaker 2: that you do get opportunities to see some of the latest, greatest,
Speaker 2: most groundbreaking tech out there in the entertainment business. And
Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure there are a number of places
Speaker 2: like that around the world. I imagine Tokyo is like that,
Speaker 2: but here in the US, it's pretty hard to compete
Speaker 2: with Las Vegas. And also, you know, a lot of
Speaker 2: people they think of coming to Vegas as just being
Speaker 2: on the strip, and for those who live here, you
Speaker 2: do everything you can to avoid the strip most of
Speaker 2: the time because it's just too busy, it's too expensive.
Speaker 2: There's a ton of great stuff to do all around
Speaker 2: the outskirts of Las Vegas, and not just gambling. I
Speaker 2: mean a lot of hiking and beautiful scenery. I mean
Speaker 2: they're shooting movies around here. You would be amazed if
Speaker 2: you've never really looked into what is available on the
Speaker 2: outskirts of Vegas. But anyway, for this show, I figured
Speaker 2: I I found myself kind of wrapped up in a
Speaker 2: situation where I was on the strip for days recently,
Speaker 2: and I want to tell you what the latest greatest
Speaker 2: stuff is. First off, some are calling this the eighth
Speaker 2: Wonder of the world. Have you heard of the Sphere
Speaker 2: and Las Vegas. It just opened this month October of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, and basically, if you are driving anywhere
Speaker 2: near the Vegas Strip, you can look out twenty four
Speaker 2: to seven and see this gigantic ball. It's a building. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's a huge building, but it's shaped like a ball,
Speaker 2: and it's sitting off the side of the strip next
Speaker 2: to the Venetian and the entire outside of it is
Speaker 2: covered with LEDs and so it is. It's I think
Speaker 2: it's the largest LED screen in the world. And they
Speaker 2: are always putting weird and interesting images on the outside
Speaker 2: of this ball. So just in terms of a visual spectacle,
Speaker 2: anywhere you are in Vegas, you'll look over there and
Speaker 2: at first you'd think you're seeing the sun rising or
Speaker 2: the moon or something like that, but then they have
Speaker 2: all these like abstract designs that they'll put on it,
Speaker 2: and it's just a magnificent looking thing. But when you
Speaker 2: go inside there, it actually has a theater within with
Speaker 2: eighteen thousand, six hundred seats and there's a lobby that's
Speaker 2: got robots that have AI and holograms. And I'm going
Speaker 2: to tell you about all that stuff in a second,
Speaker 2: because I was one of the first people in the
Speaker 2: world to get to go into the Sphere. This was
Speaker 2: just like a couple days ago. And see what the
Speaker 2: big deal is because they've spent the company that built
Speaker 2: it spent around two and a half billion dollars with
Speaker 2: a billion with a B, around two and a half
Speaker 2: billion dollars over the past few years to create this
Speaker 2: one of the largest, most amazing venues in the world.
Speaker 2: It's so big that the statue of Liberty can fit
Speaker 2: inside with the pedestal. Okay, so the statue of Liberty
Speaker 2: with the pedestal can go inside this thing and with
Speaker 2: room to spare with with like another fifty feet or whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm going to bring up the stats and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: h U two has been playing there. They debuted it
Speaker 2: this month with U two playing, and it's sold out,
Speaker 2: like you know you can imagine. So all right, let
Speaker 2: me just tell you real quick some of the basic
Speaker 2: stats on this thing called Sphere. Look this up on
Speaker 2: the internet. It says here it is an eighteen thousand,
Speaker 2: six hundred c auditorium marketed for its immersive video and
Speaker 2: audio capabilities, which include a sixteen K Yeah, you think
Speaker 2: four K is impressive, sixteen K resolution, wrap around interior
Speaker 2: led screen speakers with beam forming and wave filled synthesis technologies,
Speaker 2: and four D physical effects. I'll get back to the
Speaker 2: speaker thing in a minute. But the sphere is three
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty six feet high. That's one hundred and
Speaker 2: twelve meters and five hundred and sixteen feet wide at
Speaker 2: its broadest point, that's one hundred and fifty seven meters.
Speaker 2: And this thing, I mean like they're all these all
Speaker 2: these like fact sheets out there that tell you about
Speaker 2: just how big it is and how amazing it is.
Speaker 2: And it says that they used the fourth largest crawler
Speaker 2: crane in the world to build this thing. They had
Speaker 2: to get cranes to build the crane, and it took
Speaker 2: eighteen days to assemble it. The clarity of the screen
Speaker 2: on the outside and inside of this thing is one
Speaker 2: hundred times clearer than today's best HDTVs. The screen inside
Speaker 2: let's see. I'm not sure if it's the inside one
Speaker 2: or the outside, but it says the screen covers an
Speaker 2: area larger than three football fields. Everything is programmable. Here's
Speaker 2: what's interesting about this beam forming audio technology. Basically, they
Speaker 2: have something like one hundred and fifty thousand speakers inside
Speaker 2: the auditorium within the sphere, and these speakers are so
Speaker 2: advanced that they can target your actual individual seat, so
Speaker 2: that if you have got an audience full of people
Speaker 2: from all over the world, then it if you're watching
Speaker 2: a movie of some kind in there, it can beam
Speaker 2: the language that you speak to your seat and only
Speaker 2: you will hear that. So one guy could be sitting
Speaker 2: there in his seat listening to the dialogue in English,
Speaker 2: the person to his left is listening to it in
Speaker 2: Mandarin Chinese, the person to the right is listening to
Speaker 2: it in Spanish, and each person only hears the language
Speaker 2: that that person understands. There's no cross. It's absolutely astounding
Speaker 2: how they have been able to do all this. This
Speaker 2: is the sphere, and you know the thing is everything
Speaker 2: is so busy in Vegas right now. They have the
Speaker 2: Formula One race coming up, The Super Bowl is going
Speaker 2: to be here in February. There are all these new
Speaker 2: big hotels opening, the Fountain Blue with the MSG Sphere,
Speaker 2: the Durango, all this new stuff is opening. People who
Speaker 2: live around here only complaint. They're like, this is bad.
Speaker 2: The traffic is just terrible, atrocious. The road construction is insane.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like all you hear is complaints about how busy
Speaker 2: Vegas is getting. But I therefore probably would not have
Speaker 2: actually gone down this soon to the Sphere to be
Speaker 2: one of the first people inside if I did not
Speaker 2: have another reason. And it turns out, before I tell
Speaker 2: you what it was like being inside the sphere and
Speaker 2: what I saw when I was talking to robots and
Speaker 2: holograms and all that stuff, let me tell you why
Speaker 2: I went down there. Of course, here in Las Vegas,
Speaker 2: one of the biggest companies that owns a bunch of
Speaker 2: the casinos is Caesar's Entertainment, the current incarnation of Caesar's.
Speaker 2: They not only owned Caesar's Palace, but they own Hera's,
Speaker 2: the Link, the Paris Planet, Hollywood, the Flamingo. I mean,
Speaker 2: they own a bunch of stuff. And earlier this year,
Speaker 2: I was at Caesar's Palace and I was doing some gambling,
Speaker 2: and I guess they liked what they saw for one
Speaker 2: reason or another, and they sent me an offer, and
Speaker 2: they said, mister Warren, we are inviting you to participate
Speaker 2: in a slot tournament is Caesar's slot tournament? Do you
Speaker 2: know how a slot tournament works? I'd never been invited
Speaker 2: to participate and one before. Well, okay, we're gonna come
Speaker 2: up on a break here soon. When we come back,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you what a slot tournament is, and
Speaker 2: what it was like for me to go through a
Speaker 2: slot tournament experience, and what all the little catches and
Speaker 2: stuff are that you might want to know about. But
Speaker 2: then I'm going to get back to this strange and
Speaker 2: amazing glimpse of the future, the technology inside the sphere.
Speaker 2: But that's not all. Once I got on a roll,
Speaker 2: I was just like, I want to just go see
Speaker 2: what all the new futuristic tech is in Vegas. And
Speaker 2: so I ended up going to a movie prop museum,
Speaker 2: and yes, I bought something. What do you think I bought?
Speaker 2: What do you think is a part of my collection
Speaker 2: in my living room right now? I swear I could
Speaker 2: sell tickets to my living room. I'll tell you all
Speaker 2: about that here shortly. Goodness, it's one of those shows.
Speaker 2: Too much to talk about so little time. By the way, amazingly, miraculously,
Speaker 2: our little dog is still alive, and I'm telling you
Speaker 2: it's absolutely amazing, but I'm sorry to say that I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'll be able to report that the
Speaker 2: next time I record this podcast. She wants to be
Speaker 2: with us, and we want her to be with us
Speaker 2: for at least a few more years, but this cancer
Speaker 2: she has is very, very aggressive, and I just want
Speaker 2: to thank you again for all of your prayers and
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
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Speaker 2: the Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. A. Warren, Beaming into
Speaker 2: your wormhole brain from my studio in Sin's City, Las Vegas, Nevada,
Speaker 2: where every day is golden and every night is silver.
Speaker 2: Gietatos zoume. And you know, if you go to casinos
Speaker 2: sometimes and gamble, it really doesn't matter if you win
Speaker 2: a lot or you lose a lot. They want you
Speaker 2: to keep coming back because the people who designed the
Speaker 2: casino are mathematicians, and all they believe is if you
Speaker 2: keep playing long enough, you're eventually going to lose. It
Speaker 2: never crosses their mind, well, this person might come back
Speaker 2: and win so much money they clean us out because
Speaker 2: they don't believe in anything but statistics and the law
Speaker 2: of averages, and so you never know when you're going
Speaker 2: to get an invite to be part of a special
Speaker 2: promotion because you either win too much or you lose
Speaker 2: too much, whatever it is. But you know, Caesarus decided
Speaker 2: to invite me to do this tournament. They said, we
Speaker 2: will give you a free room for three nights. The
Speaker 2: tournament was actually going to be at Planet Hollywood, but
Speaker 2: they said that I couldn't stay at Planet Hollywood, so
Speaker 2: I had to pick another hotel. So I picked the Link,
Speaker 2: which is not too far away. I just because I'd
Speaker 2: never been to the Link, so it kind of sucked
Speaker 2: right off the bat that you couldn't stay at the
Speaker 2: place where the tournament was going to be. And I
Speaker 2: guess before I continue, I should clarify again if you
Speaker 2: have no idea what a slot tournament is, because it
Speaker 2: sounds like one of the dumbest, silliest concepts ever, and
Speaker 2: it really kind of is. Basically, what they do is
Speaker 2: they assign you a time to show up and register
Speaker 2: and then they say, okay, we have this big bank
Speaker 2: of slot machines here and they are all turned to
Speaker 2: tournament mode, meaning that it cost you nothing to participate.
Speaker 2: You do not spend one penny. The machines only sit
Speaker 2: there and rack up points instead of dollars, And so
Speaker 2: they assign you a machine along with a bunch of
Speaker 2: other people, and they might give you a round which
Speaker 2: lasts anywhere from three minutes up to ten minutes, depending
Speaker 2: on the type of machine, And in my case, it
Speaker 2: was a ten minute round, and all you do is
Speaker 2: just pound the spin button as many times as you
Speaker 2: can in that ten minute period. Now, I've seen other
Speaker 2: slot tournaments where they have some extra stuff, like they
Speaker 2: may have some symbols on the screen that you have
Speaker 2: to touch to get bonuses and stuff, but in this
Speaker 2: particular case, these were like old school double diamond machines.
Speaker 2: You sit down, you get ten minutes, and you just
Speaker 2: pound that button, and at the end of that ten minutes,
Speaker 2: whoever it gets the most points wins. And this was
Speaker 2: a one hundred and fifty thousand dollars slot tournament, meaning
Speaker 2: that whoever won the tournament, whoever got the most points
Speaker 2: during the tournament, would get one hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars or or something big. Maybe it was. They might
Speaker 2: not get the whole hundred and fifty on it, but
Speaker 2: they would get like at least fifty thousand dollars in
Speaker 2: free play put on their player's card, meaning that you
Speaker 2: could go into the casino and you basically get to
Speaker 2: gamble fifty thousand dollars or whatever for free, you know,
Speaker 2: on the house for seventy two hours. So that's how
Speaker 2: that that's how it works. They pay you in player points.
Speaker 2: I will tell you right off the bat that, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's true. They did give me three free nights stay,
Speaker 2: and it was a good deal. If I didn't live
Speaker 2: in Vegas, it would have been a really good deal.
Speaker 2: But I just came back to my house every night.
Speaker 2: You know, we're dealing with a sick dog here, and
Speaker 2: I didn't feel like packing your bag. But it was
Speaker 2: kind of cool to have a base camp on the strip.
Speaker 2: Still had to pay a resort fee, but it wasn't
Speaker 2: that bad. I mean, it was still you know, it
Speaker 2: was a good deal to have a free room for
Speaker 2: three nights. But I felt that was a little bit
Speaker 2: misled because it turns out that I thought, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe I could just like show up one day and
Speaker 2: register and then come back the next day and play,
Speaker 2: and that would be in it. This turned into a
Speaker 2: three day thing. So I had to show up one
Speaker 2: morning and register, and then show show up the next
Speaker 2: morning and do and then show up the third morning
Speaker 2: and do round two, and then wait around all day
Speaker 2: until nine o'clock on that last night to go to
Speaker 2: a kiosk and pop my card in and see if
Speaker 2: I had won anything. So if I had known in advance, again,
Speaker 2: I'd never done one of these before. If I'd known
Speaker 2: it was going to be that time consuming it was
Speaker 2: going to eat up three days of my time on
Speaker 2: the strip, I would not have done it. I would
Speaker 2: go do a slot tournament again if everything could be
Speaker 2: done one day, because it was pretty fun. And look,
Speaker 2: so you go there, you sit down, they say on
Speaker 2: your marks, get set, go, and you know it's ultimately
Speaker 2: about how lucky you are on the machine, I guess.
Speaker 2: But so I did this for three days, and then
Speaker 2: I went that night and I popped my player's card
Speaker 2: in to see how much money I won. And I'm
Speaker 2: going to tell you how much money I won from
Speaker 2: this slot turn at the end of the show. Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make you wait on that. But there also
Speaker 2: is a twist ending that comes after that. I've had
Speaker 2: a lot of twist endings lately. I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: do that. It just that's just the way my life goes.
Speaker 2: So anyway, that's why that I was. I was even
Speaker 2: down there around the strip right now, and so that's
Speaker 2: why I said to Lauren, you know what, we're gonna
Speaker 2: be there doing this slot tournament, so we may as
Speaker 2: well go see the sphere. All right, So let's get
Speaker 2: back to the sphere. Uh. For one thing, the whole
Speaker 2: area around the outside of the Sphere is a cluster,
Speaker 2: you know what. Okay, the parking and all that. They
Speaker 2: can't taxis can't even drop you off properly. If you're
Speaker 2: gonna go to the Sphere, your best bet is to
Speaker 2: go to the Venetian and then walk over these like
Speaker 2: skywalks and stuff from the Venetian to the Sphere, and
Speaker 2: it takes for It's very very long. It's actually quite strenuous.
Speaker 2: It's very uncomfortable. And then finally when you get to
Speaker 2: outside the lobby where you have to go through security,
Speaker 2: I think we stood there for a good forty five
Speaker 2: minutes before they would let us in. So right off
Speaker 2: the bat, it was it was a pain just to
Speaker 2: get into the Sphere, and we actually showed up like
Speaker 2: an hour early to see if maybe we could get
Speaker 2: an advantage to kind of get in ahead of the crowds,
Speaker 2: and they're like, nope, you gotta wait, you know. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: if you're gonna go, that's my advice to you go
Speaker 2: to the Venetian and start really early and walk through there,
Speaker 2: and then you're going to stand in the line for
Speaker 2: forty five minutes and it sucks, all right. So then
Speaker 2: once you get into the lobby, the lobby has this huge, big,
Speaker 2: soaring ceiling and there are all these escalators that take
Speaker 2: you up to whatever level you're gonna be at. You
Speaker 2: watch the show and it turns out that like right now, yes,
Speaker 2: U two is performing live some nights, but the other
Speaker 2: nights they just have a movie that they show there
Speaker 2: and it's called Postcard from Earth. And this was a
Speaker 2: movie that was shot specifically for the sphere by filmmaker
Speaker 2: Darren Aronofsky. And he's done movies in Hollywood like Pie,
Speaker 2: Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan,
Speaker 2: most recently The Well. He's a very highly regarded filmmaker
Speaker 2: and so they sent him around the world to shoot
Speaker 2: this amazing fifty minute kind of documentary thing using technology
Speaker 2: that could actually be presented properly inside the sphere, because
Speaker 2: when you go into the sphere, it's the screen. There
Speaker 2: is one of a I'll get back to them, all right,
Speaker 2: So in the lobby, because they make you hang out
Speaker 2: in the lobby for like I don't know, an hour
Speaker 2: or maybe almost an hour before they start letting you
Speaker 2: be seated in the theater for the show that you
Speaker 2: came for. And this cost us for we didn't get
Speaker 2: the best seats. The best seats in the house were
Speaker 2: like two hundred and fifty dollars a person, and I
Speaker 2: was like, I can't pay two hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 2: to watch a fifty minute movie. I mean, I just
Speaker 2: couldn't bring myself to do that. But I got some
Speaker 2: pretty good seats for like eighty nine dollars a person
Speaker 2: and right on the end of a rope because I
Speaker 2: don't want to sit in the middle of her roads.
Speaker 2: I'm a kind of a big guy. It's too claustrophobic.
Speaker 2: So we got some good I thought we got some
Speaker 2: excellent seats, but still, you know, you're talking two hundred
Speaker 2: bucks for two people to sit there and watch a
Speaker 2: movie for fifty minutes. Uh so when you get into
Speaker 2: the lobby, all the drinks in food cost a fortune.
Speaker 2: Of course, the first thing you notice is the holograms,
Speaker 2: and Laren and I started laughing because they spent two
Speaker 2: and a half billion dollars making this thing, and the
Speaker 2: holograms were just those holograms that you can buy on
Speaker 2: the internet that are fans. They're literally fans. They have
Speaker 2: spinning blades with LEDs. Now. Look, they're still cool. I
Speaker 2: own some of those and we even use them in
Speaker 2: the Creepy Vegas Show. But it's a fan that has
Speaker 2: LEDs on it and it spins and it kind of
Speaker 2: looks like an image is floating in air. Now, yes
Speaker 2: they had a lot of them, and yes it was impressive,
Speaker 2: but Lauren and I were laughing about the fact that
Speaker 2: you can go to a Paranormal Vegas or Creepy Vegas
Speaker 2: show produced by the great and Terrible Joshua P. Warren
Speaker 2: and have the same level of technology that you get
Speaker 2: looking at the holograms at the two and a half
Speaker 2: billion dollar Sphere. I swear I'm not trying to leave
Speaker 2: a negative review for the Sphere. I'm just saying I
Speaker 2: thought maybe we would see some more advanced form of
Speaker 2: holograph or hologram. And then they have a handful of
Speaker 2: robots that are strewn around there. But the robots, you know,
Speaker 2: their life size, kind of like female android looking robots.
Speaker 2: They have AI and some of them will talk to you.
Speaker 2: But the problem is they're they're on ground level and
Speaker 2: everybody just like crowds around them, and you can't even
Speaker 2: really get up next to them so easily. Wow, I
Speaker 2: didn't realize this review was going to sound so uh.
Speaker 2: I'm not a negative Nancy here. I'm just telling you
Speaker 2: all right, when we come back, I'm going to tell
Speaker 2: you what it's actually like to go sit down inside
Speaker 2: the Magnificent Sphere in Las Vegas. Oh, and then I
Speaker 2: have a premonition of a disaster. I'm Joshua P. Warren,
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Speaker 2: Joshua P. Warren, and this is the show where the
Speaker 2: unusual becomes usual. You know, when you live here in Vegas,
Speaker 2: sometimes you get these updates on the water situation, the
Speaker 2: drought from the Southern Nevada Water Authority. And they just
Speaker 2: sent one out. It's just a flyer you get in
Speaker 2: the mill and it said, and of course you remember
Speaker 2: we did this experiment last year to increase the water
Speaker 2: levels at Lake Mead, and it says here a Tier
Speaker 2: one shortage is projected for twenty twenty four, which is
Speaker 2: an ongoing improvement over this year's Tier two shortage, Gaining
Speaker 2: southern Nevada access to an additional four thousand acre feet
Speaker 2: of Colorado River water, or about one point three billion gallons.
Speaker 2: A wet winter, combined with lower water demands, have raised
Speaker 2: Lake Mead water levels this year. I told you, I
Speaker 2: told you we were going to do it, and we
Speaker 2: did it. Now are we going to do it again
Speaker 2: this winter? No, We're going to hold off this winter.
Speaker 2: I have my reasons for trying to keep things in
Speaker 2: balance by holding off. So I think you will see
Speaker 2: that this winter will not produce as much snow as
Speaker 2: last winter until we all decide to manifest snow again. Okay,
Speaker 2: So here's the thing about going into the sphere. When
Speaker 2: you finally walk into this theater, look, I don't know,
Speaker 2: to me, it looked bigger than any Imax screen I've
Speaker 2: ever seen. The stadium seating there with eighteen thousand, six
Speaker 2: hundred seats, It's it's incredibly steep, incredibly steep, and when
Speaker 2: you sit down, you're you're just facing this interior of
Speaker 2: this gigantic dome. So it just looks like a huge
Speaker 2: concave screen and when the movie starts and it really
Speaker 2: the movie really gets gone. It was impressive. Now let
Speaker 2: me just tell you these the robots and the lobby,
Speaker 2: Like I said, it was kind of hard to get
Speaker 2: close to them, and if you could, they would just
Speaker 2: mainly talk about how great the sphere was, or if
Speaker 2: you ask one of question that had AI, they would
Speaker 2: give you some kind of like politically correct answer. Here's
Speaker 2: the thing about this movie, and I'm not gonna spoil
Speaker 2: it for anybody. I could have done without the moral
Speaker 2: lesson of the movie. Okay, we go to these things
Speaker 2: to enjoy ourselves and try to forget about our problems,
Speaker 2: and there was this whole big lesson like, oh, here's
Speaker 2: how bad people are, you know, for the for the
Speaker 2: we're ruining the world kind of thing. But in terms
Speaker 2: of technology itself, the the image was it was crystal clear.
Speaker 2: It was amazing. It was it wrapped around you. It
Speaker 2: covered your entire field division. It was like being there.
Speaker 2: Every scene that you were shown, you felt like you
Speaker 2: were there, and it was it was realistic, And to me,
Speaker 2: the coolest part was that when you watch an image
Speaker 2: project on a concave screen like that, it does have
Speaker 2: a three D effect, but it's a very natural, realistic
Speaker 2: looking three D, as opposed to the type of three
Speaker 2: D that you are used to seeing in theaters where
Speaker 2: everything pops so much that it looks cool, but it
Speaker 2: doesn't actually look that way in reality. Reality is much
Speaker 2: more subtle. This captures the more realistic three D effect
Speaker 2: that you get viewing reality. So it was very much
Speaker 2: worth it to see that. Now whether or not it's
Speaker 2: worth you paying fifty dollars or one hundred dollars or
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty dollars, well you have to figure
Speaker 2: that out for yourself, even with inflation. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to tell you know what you should or should not
Speaker 2: be paying it, just you know, it depends on what
Speaker 2: you what you're into, how much value this experience would
Speaker 2: have to you. But it was, it was. I really
Speaker 2: enjoyed it. In fact, I wish all movies were fifty minutes.
Speaker 2: But if you're on a budget and you can't make
Speaker 2: it to Las Vegas and you don't want to pay
Speaker 2: that kind of money for a ticket, if you go
Speaker 2: to my website and order my Tibetan emos for like
Speaker 2: twenty four to ninety five that are little domes that
Speaker 2: go over your eyes. For that price and for not
Speaker 2: leaving your house, it's a pretty it'll give you a
Speaker 2: pretty good idea of what the sphere is like. So
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the experience. It was a pain to get
Speaker 2: in there, and I'm glad I did it, and it
Speaker 2: was too expensive in my opinion, but it was really cool.
Speaker 2: So now here is my premonition. And I hate to
Speaker 2: say this because I don't want to manifest it, but
Speaker 2: I figure I may as well make a prediction here
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. Everybody knows if you spend any time
Speaker 2: here that there are a lot of people who come
Speaker 2: here and they wear it stream high hill shoes and
Speaker 2: they're drinking and they're tipsy. And I cannot tell you.
Speaker 2: As Lauren and I were sitting there watching or getting
Speaker 2: ready for this movie to start in the sphere, I
Speaker 2: cannot tell you how many how many people, especially you know,
Speaker 2: young ladies who obviously were tipsy wearing these high hills,
Speaker 2: were struggling to walk up those extremely steep stairs. And
Speaker 2: some of them are not as fit as they might
Speaker 2: think they are. And I saw people look like they
Speaker 2: were about to pass out, and so I just you know,
Speaker 2: I would not want to have the insurance policy on
Speaker 2: that place because I think in Vegas with stairs that
Speaker 2: are that steep and people running around drinking wearing high
Speaker 2: hills like that, I think very soon somebody is going
Speaker 2: to absolutely and lose it and have a horrific tumble
Speaker 2: down those stairs. That's going to make the stairs scene
Speaker 2: from The Exorcist look like a kindergarten playground. That's just
Speaker 2: what I see happening. I'm kind of surprised and hasn't
Speaker 2: happened already, So be very very very careful if you
Speaker 2: visit the sphere as you go up and down those stairs.
Speaker 2: So so, anyway, had a good time, and I guess
Speaker 2: that's the best I can capture it for you right
Speaker 2: now now. As I was running around the strip during
Speaker 2: those few days, I did go somewhere that I thought,
Speaker 2: actually to me, was more impressive in terms of just
Speaker 2: like the level of quality. It's called the Paradox Museum,
Speaker 2: and when you go to there, and I don't know
Speaker 2: how long it's going to be there, if it's one
Speaker 2: of those things they just set up for a little while,
Speaker 2: it kind of looked cheesy when I saw the advertisements
Speaker 2: for it because it just looked like a place for
Speaker 2: people to go and take selfies. And it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm pushing fifty years old at this point. I'm
Speaker 2: not real big on running around and taking selfies. Actually,
Speaker 2: i'll be forty seven, so I guess I better not
Speaker 2: use the Big five oh yet. But you know what,
Speaker 2: when I got there, it was so cool because the
Speaker 2: people who report on the Paradox Museum they just show
Speaker 2: themselves with their selfies because they are you know, they're narcissists.
Speaker 2: But they actually had real holograms there that were extremely cool.
Speaker 2: They had a hall of mirrors that was amazing. I
Speaker 2: took a picture of myself. They had a real cool
Speaker 2: setup where you're sitting at a poker table and it
Speaker 2: looks like you're playing poker with five life size versions
Speaker 2: of yourself, life size clones all using mirrors. That was
Speaker 2: pretty neat. They even had what kind of was like
Speaker 2: a life sized Devil's toy box that was partial. And
Speaker 2: the weird thing is I started taking pictures when I
Speaker 2: was in there by myself, and I thought, well, this
Speaker 2: will be neat. I can post this stuff online and
Speaker 2: tell everybody, look here, I am in a big Devil's
Speaker 2: toy box. None of those pictures turned out, none of
Speaker 2: I must have taken five or six pictures. All my
Speaker 2: other pictures turned out. None of them turned out in
Speaker 2: the Devil's the Devil's Toy box. But they also had
Speaker 2: this robotic hand there that I thought was impressive because
Speaker 2: unlike you know, the whole AI thing which everybody and
Speaker 2: anybody can access now, they had a robotic hand there
Speaker 2: that was large. It was like maybe three or four
Speaker 2: times the size of a normal human hand. And on
Speaker 2: one fingertip there was a magic wand balanced and they said, uh,
Speaker 2: go ahead, mess with that wand and that hand will
Speaker 2: automatically rebalance it. And so you can. You could hit
Speaker 2: that wand and because it was you know, it was
Speaker 2: attached by a little pivot point, you could hit that
Speaker 2: wand and swing it in any kind of crazy direction.
Speaker 2: And that hand had gyroscopes and would automatically adjust and
Speaker 2: keep that wand perfectly balanced upright. That was cool. So
Speaker 2: I like the Paradox Museum, and I found another really
Speaker 2: cool place you should visit if you are going to
Speaker 2: be around Vegas, around Fremont Street. It's called the Movie
Speaker 2: Prop Experience. And when you go in there, not only
Speaker 2: do they have a bunch of props from famous movies,
Speaker 2: but the coolest thing is that they have a gift
Speaker 2: shop where you can buy you could actually purchase some
Speaker 2: real movie props from your favorite films. And so, you know,
Speaker 2: I went in there and they had well, they had
Speaker 2: a cool statue from the movie Batman with Michael Keathon,
Speaker 2: and then they had a Chucky doll from one of
Speaker 2: the movies. And speaking of the Devil's Toy Box, they
Speaker 2: had one of the actual hell razor boxes used in
Speaker 2: that movie. They had one of the original production photographs
Speaker 2: made for The Shining you know, the Stanley Kubrick movie
Speaker 2: with Jack Nicholson, where at the end of the movie
Speaker 2: they show that picture of Jack Nicholson standing in a
Speaker 2: ballroom in the nineteen twenties with all the people behind him.
Speaker 2: And they had one of those actual production pictures and
Speaker 2: that was cool to be able to see all the
Speaker 2: detail in that. And boy, they did a good job
Speaker 2: making that realistic. But I saw something in the gift
Speaker 2: shop and I go, Okay, I'm buying that. I'm buying that.
Speaker 2: When we come back from this break, I'll tell you
Speaker 2: what I bought from my own private collection. I'm going
Speaker 2: to tell you how much money that I won in
Speaker 2: the slot tournament, and I may even have time to
Speaker 2: play a new audio recording for you related to Bigfoot.
Speaker 2: I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network,
Speaker 2: and I will be right back. Hang on, josh will
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Speaker 2: Hi, it's doctor Sky. Keep it right here on the
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of
Speaker 2: strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast Paranormal
Speaker 2: podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren. And
Speaker 2: when I walked into the gift shop at the Movie
Speaker 2: Prop Experience on Fremont Street there in Las Vegas, I
Speaker 2: saw they had a piece of actual kryptonite from the
Speaker 2: movie Superman Returns starring Brandon Routh from two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: Now that is not one of my favorite Superman movies,
Speaker 2: but it is so hard to find actual kryptonite from
Speaker 2: a movie like that, a real big, mainstream Superman movie.
Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, that that's going to my collection.
Speaker 2: And it comes on a little stand that has a
Speaker 2: light under it that it looks like moldovite. Love it.
Speaker 2: So I talked to the fella there and then the
Speaker 2: lady there, and we worked out a good price. And
Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, I can't say enough good
Speaker 2: things because they even ended up throwing in some extra
Speaker 2: kryptonite for me as well. So I now have in
Speaker 2: my living room among my other things that are from movies,
Speaker 2: for example, like I have a piece of the set
Speaker 2: from Plan Now Plan nine from Outer Space. I mean
Speaker 2: that's pretty rare. I have a piece of Kryptonite from
Speaker 2: a Superman movie? Hey, how much would you pay if
Speaker 2: I were to sell a ticket for you to come
Speaker 2: to my house and hang out with me for an
Speaker 2: evening in Las Vegas and let me just show you
Speaker 2: my collection and all my weird stuff. I'm just curious.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I would ever do that, but I
Speaker 2: always say, like I could sell tickets to my house.
Speaker 2: I wonder how much you would pay for that? But anyway,
Speaker 2: you know what, go and check out the website for
Speaker 2: this place, heroprop dot com h E R O p
Speaker 2: r OP heroprop dot com and look at some of
Speaker 2: the cool movie props that they're selling. Okay, the clock
Speaker 2: is ticking. Here's what happened. I spent three days based
Speaker 2: around Planet Hollywood on the strip doing this slot tournament,
Speaker 2: and I think I scored some pretty high points. And
Speaker 2: then on the last night, I went to the Kiosk
Speaker 2: and I popped my card in to see how much
Speaker 2: I won, and I won one hundred dollars in free play.
Speaker 2: Now that is what we call in Vegas asando. And
Speaker 2: if you don't know what that means, go to YouTube
Speaker 2: and watch a guy named Vegas Matt. It's disappointing, so
Speaker 2: I would not devote that much time to a slot
Speaker 2: tournament again just for one hundred dollars. And I thought
Speaker 2: it was kind of interesting because there were seven hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty people who participated in that slot tournament, and
Speaker 2: I wonder like, well, how would we know that anybody
Speaker 2: got more than one hundred dollars. I'm not casting doubt
Speaker 2: on the good people at Caesar's, but I will tell
Speaker 2: you this. The gambling that we did at Caesars, you know,
Speaker 2: it was okay. But at a certain point, Lauren and
Speaker 2: I we crossed the street and we ended up over
Speaker 2: at the Mirage, which is owned by different company. The
Speaker 2: Mirage will soon be the hard Rock, And we started
Speaker 2: winning a lot over there, and we were there for
Speaker 2: a few hours, and right when we were about to leave,
Speaker 2: I realized that I had a ticket. You know how
Speaker 2: you get these gambling tickets that have yeah, So I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, I got a ticket with a dollar
Speaker 2: on it. So right, literally the last thing we did
Speaker 2: as we were about to walk out the door, as
Speaker 2: I put this dollar in an old school slot machine
Speaker 2: that had one pay line, hit the button and won
Speaker 2: four hundred dollars. So that's the amazing thing. It's like
Speaker 2: my slot tournament experiment gave me one hundred dollars in
Speaker 2: free play, which actually did not end up producing anything
Speaker 2: for me. But I crossed the street and I go
Speaker 2: to the Mirage and I put a dollar in a
Speaker 2: machine and hit the button, and that one dollar gives
Speaker 2: me four hundred dollars of tangible money that I cash
Speaker 2: out and put in my wallet. So that's gambling for you, right, Oh,
Speaker 2: I have I have more stories for you about Okay,
Speaker 2: let me leave you with this because it's new. A
Speaker 2: few nights ago, my good friend, Missy Hill, who we've
Speaker 2: done each other a long time. She hosts the Haunted
Speaker 2: Built more village tour than we do through Haunted Ashville.
Speaker 2: She contacted me and she said that she and a
Speaker 2: friend were coming back from chero Keen, North Carolina. This
Speaker 2: is just a few nights ago, and they were going
Speaker 2: through an area where a lot of people have seen Bigfoot.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if she pulled over, or if
Speaker 2: she had her window open or what, but she said
Speaker 2: she heard a sound that could only be a bigfoot,
Speaker 2: and she made a recording of herself trying to reproduce
Speaker 2: this sound, and she sent it to me and I said, Missy,
Speaker 2: you've got to let me play this on the podcast.
Speaker 2: Here is what Missy Hill sent me that she said
Speaker 2: she believes is the sound of a bigfoot in the
Speaker 2: mountains of western North Carolina. Are you ready? Here we go.
Speaker 5: To me, it sounds like a screen talking, maybe singing
Speaker 5: some kind of call. All at once, here we go.
Speaker 5: But this is a higher version because it was definitely masculine.
Speaker 2: Now I laughed so hard hearing Missy do her best
Speaker 2: to reproduce this bigfoot sound that I said, Okay, I
Speaker 2: gotta play this on the podcast. But furthermore, you said
Speaker 2: it was it was deeper, it was. It was a
Speaker 2: more masculine sounding version. Let me see if I can
Speaker 2: jump onto my audio editor here and bring down the levels,
Speaker 2: bring down the pitch, and let's see if I can
Speaker 2: create something more like what you heard. And I created this.
Speaker 2: I'm about to play it for you, and I sent
Speaker 2: it to her and she goes, yes, that's it all right.
Speaker 2: So as far as I'm concerned, she has verified what
Speaker 2: you were about to hear now is what she actually
Speaker 2: heard and believes maybe a bigfoot. Well, what do you
Speaker 2: think it sounds pretty beastly to me. Missy, thank you
Speaker 2: for sending that to us. And now that you know
Speaker 2: where this guy may hang out, hopefully next time you
Speaker 2: can bring an audio recorder for you and get something
Speaker 2: directly from the wilderness. But I wanted to make sure
Speaker 2: we got that in there tonight since it's new, and hey,
Speaker 2: I'm doing well. I still have a couple of minutes
Speaker 2: left before it's time to officially end the show, So
Speaker 2: let me just tell you a couple of things. Since
Speaker 2: the show has been primarily about Las Vegas. After I
Speaker 2: got back recently from my trip to Colorado with my family,
Speaker 2: it became my wife, Lauren's birthday, so her birthday September
Speaker 2: twenty fourth, and so we went out and we ran
Speaker 2: around and we we're back, you know, in the strip vicinity.
Speaker 2: We went to hofbrow House, which is a German, you know,
Speaker 2: Bavarian restaurant here in the Vegas area. You can look
Speaker 2: it up. It's a reproduction of an old beer hall
Speaker 2: from Munich, Germany that goes back hundreds of years. But
Speaker 2: the funny thing about that day that I've been meaning
Speaker 2: to tell you for a little while is that we
Speaker 2: ended up going into a casino, where Lauren did very well.
Speaker 2: And at one point she and I were sitting there
Speaker 2: in a machine and I looked over and to my
Speaker 2: left near the lobby was we Man from the Jackass series,
Speaker 2: you know it started on MTV all those years ago
Speaker 2: and all the movies, you know, we Man. We Man
Speaker 2: was standing there and it was undeniably him. I mean,
Speaker 2: we knew immediately. Let's see what is his actual name?
Speaker 2: It is Jason Akuna. And uh so a lot of
Speaker 2: times when I see celebrities, I don't go up and
Speaker 2: say anything, but this time I was like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: going to go say hi, do we Man? And Lauren
Speaker 2: wouldn't though, uh she she gets too embarrassed. So I
Speaker 2: went up to we Men. He had a big dude
Speaker 2: there hanging out with him, just you know, I guess
Speaker 2: guarding him. He's a celeb, so and I was I
Speaker 2: wasn't sure, like, are you here for promotional purposes or
Speaker 2: just I wasn't sure what to think. But I also
Speaker 2: didn't want to, you know, go up and just start
Speaker 2: you know, probing him. I just went I All I
Speaker 2: did was I walked up and I said, are you
Speaker 2: cool with selfies? And he said yeah, sure, so I
Speaker 2: took a selfie with me with we men. He was
Speaker 2: really nice. And you never know when you go up
Speaker 2: to like a celebrity out of the blue, what their
Speaker 2: reaction is going to be. But he was cool. So
Speaker 2: that's just one of the nice little bonuses. I guess
Speaker 2: living in a famous, a world famous town like Las Vegas,
Speaker 2: sometimes you run into people out of the blue like
Speaker 2: that that you would just never expect. All right, my friends,
Speaker 2: hope you've enjoyed my ramblings and now sit back, relax,
Speaker 2: take a deep breath, and enjoy the good fortune tone.
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