WEBVTT - Episode 219: Here’s a Wild Grab Bag of Stuff to PONDER: Mental Manna! 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.200 Welcome to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM paranormal 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.520 podcast network. Now get ready for us Strange Things with 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:08.680 Joshua P. Warren. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:17.159 Welcome to our podcast. Please be aware the thoughts and 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.200 opinions expressed by the host are their thoughts and opinions 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:26.440 only and do not reflect those of iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, Coast 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.880 to Coast AM, employees of Premiere Networks, or their sponsors 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.120 and associates. We would like to encourage you to do 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:53.960 your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.280 Yes, ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird. 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:09.200 This is strange when JOA Warren, I am Joshua You 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.880 warren't And each week on this show, I'll be bringing 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:16.200 you brand new mind blowing content, news exercises, and weird 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.000 experiments you can do at home, and a lot more. 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.679 On this edition of the show, here's a wild grab 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:30.640 bag of stuff to ponder. Mental manner. Now, this is 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.920 an unusual edition of the show because it's gonna be 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.759 kind of all over the place. That is, because when 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:44.680 you do a show like this professionally on a regular basis, 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.760 it really is a job that never ends. I mean, 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.680 I spend every waking hour of every day sort of 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:56.560 scanning the world around me, looking for ideas, topics to 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.520 talk about and explore experiments that I can do or 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.680 that you can do. I'm always thinking about something that 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.720 can come across well on the show, and especially because 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.520 as you know, this is not really an interview show. 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.320 I mean, occasionally, rarely I'll interview somebody, but for the 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.160 most part, I don't do interviews on this show because 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.799 everybody else does that I'm doing something different, and honestly, 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:23.680 I can say that for me, this job is kind 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.919 of a twenty four to seven job because even when 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.760 I'm sleeping, I'm vividly dreaming, and those dreams sometimes make 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.840 it into the show. So here's what I end up with. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:38.680 I end up with thousands of notes all around me 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.600 all the time, whether they're on the phone or scribbled 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:45.320 on pieces of paper, just things that I think of 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:50.080 that are interesting to me, that I jot down and 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.000 say maybe at some point I'll find an opportunity to 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.680 talk about this on the show. And I sat down 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:57.720 just the other day and I was looking at a 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.600 bunch of these and I thought, you know, I'm not 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:05.560 sure that anything could tie all this stuff together. There's 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.960 no common thread that I can see other than the 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:10.800 fact that these are all things that I'm interested in. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.080 So I said, you know what, let me just do 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.160 a show where I just take some of these things 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.400 that I have thought about that I think are interesting 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.880 and just toss it out there to you and get 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:25.600 your feedback. This is what I call mental manna, similar 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:30.200 to just those things that make you go hmm. And 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.040 so I'm not even sure where we're going to go 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.040 on the show, but let's just dive right into it 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.040 see what happens. One thing I believe we can all 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:44.320 relate to is something that was brought up recently and 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:48.840 a conversation that Bill Maher had on his podcast with 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:53.160 the actor Malcolm McDowell, who, of course is most famous 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.160 for playing the lead role in the Stanley Kubrick movie 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:00.280 at Clockwork Orange. They were talking about the way that 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.840 technology has developed, because both of these guys are up 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:08.160 there in years, and I believe it was Malcolm McDowell, 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.160 I'm not sure it may have been Bill Maher. One 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.160 of them said that, you know, television was the Internet 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.800 of its time, and now you see how things have 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:24.960 changed and how we've not only gotten into this you know, 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:31.560 internet age, but we also have this attention span that's 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:36.120 getting shorter and shorter because of how quickly information travels. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.800 I mean, we're now sort of in I mean, look 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.480 in a text. Some people don't even write a full sentence. 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:46.000 They just basically put some symbols down there and some 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.680 leaps speak to get points across. It's almost like the 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.880 old days of telegraph even faster though, or the whole 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.160 Twitter mentality that's just you know, get it out there 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.359 in a line or two. Because you're so bombarded with information. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.440 The attention span is so short that you know, I 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.480 remember when I was a kid, you would order something 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.960 and you knew that maybe it was going to show 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.960 up in a couple of weeks. Now you order something 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.120 from Amazon and it might be there the same day 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.000 or the next day. And so people get frustrated if 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.640 they have to wait a couple of weeks for something 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:22.560 because they order it from a normal person. And you know, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.440 I was talking about the experiment that I've been doing 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.160 with the time camera and how that and this again 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.120 is probably a little more relevant to people who are 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.640 maybe forty years old or older. But you know, back 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.640 when you were younger, when people were still using polaroid cameras. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.160 You know, you'd push the button this was would pop out, 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.520 and it was like a miracle because you could develop 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.320 your own film right there on the spot. And so 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.159 I've recently started working with polaroid again and I asked people, so, 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.200 how long has it been since you developed the polaroid photo? 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:02.080 They say, well, probably been twenty years, thirty years. And 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.880 I say, how long do you think it takes for 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.480 a polaroid picture to develop? And they usually say, like, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.360 I don't know, two or three minutes. It turns out 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:15.000 it's ten or fifteen minutes. And when you wait for 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.240 a polaroid to develop now for ten or fifteen minutes, 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.560 it takes it seems like it takes forever. This is 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:25.880 just an example of how again I think art Belt 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:30.159 called this the quickening, this increase and the frequency of 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:34.120 all action and information and everything that you're thinking about 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.560 and interacting with and everything that you're expecting to come 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.800 to you. And it's getting faster and faster. Even in 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.680 the Internet. You may remember dial up internet. I mean, 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.680 if you had to wait around for internet that's that 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.839 slow these days, you would throw your computer out the window. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.120 We expect things instantaneous, and you know what, we are 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:58.360 almost going to have instantaneous computing. You know, right now 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:04.000 they're working on quantum caning, and that should be basically instantaneous. 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.040 At some point there will be no delay whatsoever. Look 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:12.520 at the history of aircraft. How that aircraft, I mean, 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.520 it just keeps getting faster and faster. I don't know 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.840 how fast the Wright Brothers plane could go, but you 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.840 know now we're shooting off rockets into outer space to 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.200 go twenty five thousand miles per hour. I mean. And 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.840 if you follow that train of thought and you start 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:37.080 imagining that as civilizations evolve and develop, that things happen 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:42.200 faster and faster and faster, and then you imagine that 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.160 some of these UFOs that we see flying around are 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:52.760 from extremely advanced civilizations of some kind, then it would 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:58.360 kind of make sense that their aircraft could travel at 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:04.840 rates that are are mind boggling to us, almost instantaneous. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.240 And you know that we think sometimes about like, well, 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:14.040 it's but there are still physical laws. There's no way 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.800 that a UFO could just teleport itself from here to 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:22.200 there or travel, you know, a thousand miles per hour, 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.920 accelerating from one to two seconds and all this kind 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.560 of stuff. It's it's physically impossible. Well, you know what, 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.840 a lot of scientists used to believe that breaking the 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:38.080 sound barrier was impossible as well. Have you ever seen 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.040 the movie The Right Stuff They dig into that. There 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.800 were people who thought that if you were in an 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.640 aircraft and you could somehow go faster than the speed 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.240 of sound, that it would just destroy everything. It was. 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.720 It was it was a wall that could not be broken, 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:54.280 and it seemed that way for years until finally Chuck 0:08:54.360 --> 0:09:01.840 Yeger did it. So I'm thinking that maybe our understanding 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:06.199 of the laws of physics is not complete and that 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.760 these advanced craft can travel at these high rates of 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.880 speed because that it is part of the natural progression 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:19.000 of the evolution of civilization. And that's also why that 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.040 I've captured some of my most interesting UFOs by going 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:26.200 outside and using a high speed camera which shoots at 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.280 least one thousand frames per second, so that you can 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:33.800 actually capture things that are otherwise moving too fast for 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.320 the human eye to see the naked human eye. It 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:44.520 slows things down as you're actually videotaping it. And when 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:49.920 you consider however, that we have all these amazing tools. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.800 It's like I saw some meme the other day, and 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.240 I can't remember exactly how it was set up, but 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.560 there was a sort of a googly eyed school teacher 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:05.680 there and the caption was teachers in the nineties, and 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.520 the teacher was saying, you're not always gonna have a 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:12.240 calculator on you, ha ha. Little did they know, right, 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.600 we pretty much always have a calculator. And that's probably 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:20.120 why people are, I would imagine, worse at math than 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.680 ever now, because I mean, how was the last time 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.840 you had to really read an old fashioned map and 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.400 memorize a route from A to B to C when 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.080 you're driving your car? I mean, you know, you just 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.480 punch it in and follow the Google the Google instructions 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:40.200 or whatever you use. So are humans, despite the fact 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:45.920 that we're becoming more and more advanced, are we individually 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:51.160 becoming smarter or dumber? And I guess you could say 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.880 the same thing collectively in a way, I mean, the 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.800 collection is made up of the individual. So are humans 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:00.800 becoming smarter or dumber? Look at what the ancient people knew, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:08.400 and look at the things that they accomplished, the things 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:13.360 that they understood the time that they took to observe 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.040 the sky and memorize things and look for patterns, And now, 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.679 like I say, people can barely do math anymore. When 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.840 we come back from this break, I want to tell 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.360 you a story that's kind of funny, but it's about 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.640 something that annoyed me the other day when I went 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.880 to a restaurant and it kind of leads into something 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.920 you've probably heard about before, called the Peter principle. And 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.480 you know, the longer I live, the more I believe 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:41.440 in this thing called the Peter principle. 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Welcome back 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:30.880 to Strange Things, Oh the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast, 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.000 a m paranormal podcast network. I am your host, the 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.280 Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:44.040 brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.720 where every day is golden and every night is silver. 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:57.480 Agiatato Zoom. And here in Vegas, out west, there is 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:05.080 a chain of restaurants in a few states I was 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.000 going to I thought about telling you the name of 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.920 the restaurant, and I've just decided not to do it 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.880 because I don't think this is worth causing any problems 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.840 for a business. You know, I say something on a 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.200 forum like this and a lot of people are going 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.040 to hear about it. But it's a chain, it's small chain. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.360 There are fifty eight locations of this restaurant out west, 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:31.040 and I'm not even going to tell you the type 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:32.760 of food that they serve. That would give it away 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.520 in a heartbeat. But here's here's what's kind of interesting 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.960 about this type of restaurant. And you know, gosh, there 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.240 are thousands of restaurants in Las Vegas, a lot of 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:45.280 places to pick and choose from this particular place. It's 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.720 one of those establishments that's it's set up kind of 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:53.440 like a high class fast food restaurant. So what I 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.160 mean by that is when you walk in, you know, 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.680 it has the counter just like at McDonald's, where you 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:02.400 go up and you place your order, but then it 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.000 takes a long time for them to make the food. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.320 You sit there with your number, and they also have 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.920 beer and wine, so you see what I mean. It's 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:15.920 like a little step up in some regards from like 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:21.360 your traditional fast food establishment. So I went in there 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.840 recently with my wife Lauren, and here was my plan. 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:27.720 Knowing that I was going to have to wait for 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.520 them to prepare the food a bit, I figured, well, 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.760 while I'm waiting, I will sit down and drink a beer. 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.520 So I walked in. I was going to go up 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.680 to the counter to order, and this young lady who 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.800 works there sort of rushed up and says, oh, you 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.560 can use the kiosk. Oh go okay. I said, well, 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.280 because you know how it is these days. I'm sure 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.320 you've seen the fast food kiosk with the touchscreens, even 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.280 though you're standing inside there and I'm talking to an employee. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.320 Use the computer here, okay. And I said, well, but 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.400 here's what i'd like to do. I would like to 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:07.720 place my order and then sit down and drink a 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.360 beer while I'm waiting for the food to be prepared. 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.040 And she goes, yeah, okay, you could just just order 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.760 on the kiosk. And I said, so I can order 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.640 a beer through the kiosk, and she says, yeah yeah. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.840 I was like, huh, that's surprising, because you know, I 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.720 usually it's I'm sure at some point I'm gonna have 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.840 to show an ID to somebody. I guess but and 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:28.720 I go, all right, fine, So I go over to 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:33.480 the kiosk. I order everything, get to the beverages. There's 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:38.880 no alcohol listed there, so I order everything except the alcohol, 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.280 and I say to her, excuse me, excuse me, there's 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.000 no place to order a beer, and she goes, yeah, 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:45.760 there isn't know there. So she comes over and she 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.000 looks and she goes, huh, okay, well you'll have to 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.000 go over there and order at the counter. Then okay, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.840 that's what I was going to do. So then I 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.600 finish up my order on the on the kiosk for 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.360 everything else. Now I have to stay and in the 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:04.160 line behind some other people. And then when I get 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.800 up there in line, I say I would like just 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.760 to order a beer, you know, and they're like, okay, thanks, 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.919 have a seat, we'll bring it out to you. So 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:19.440 then I go and I sit down, and oh, I 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:24.600 would say, about eight minutes later my food came out, 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.600 and then like nine minutes later my beer comes out, 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:37.439 and I'm like, this makes no sense. I actually have 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:38.639 just been able to walk in there and be like, 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.440 I'll take the beer right now, here's my order. I'll 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.080 be over here, let me know when the food's done, 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.000 and I'm done with that beer by the time. Now look, 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.959 I know you're thinking, Josh, you're making a mountain out 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.800 of a mole hill here, But it's just an example 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:58.760 of the way that we are substituting technology for common 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.320 sense these days. It reminds me of this time I 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:07.880 was at an airport and I can't remember where I was, 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.040 but I same kind of thing. I went into a 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:14.000 bar and I ordered some you know, glass of wine 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.240 or something like that while I was waiting for a flight. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.400 And then after I sat down, there was this man 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.200 behind me and he was every bit of ninety five 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.240 years old. Okay, this is one of the oldest looking 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:30.200 men I've ever seen. And he orders a beer and 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.760 the guy, who's like twenty five years old, says, I 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:34.520 got to see your ID. And the old man just 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.640 looks at him for a second goes, are you serious 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.400 and he says yeah, and he goes, well, it's in 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:44.240 it's in my in my suitcase. He's like sorry. He 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.399 makes this old man get down on his hands and 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.200 knees and open unzip his suitcase and pull through all 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.720 of his clothes to get just like, this is not 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.120 a rubber mask. And I know they're like, well, I'm 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:01.119 on camera. I'm on camera, and I have to do this. Okay, Fine, 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:06.119 that's probably what the Nazis said, that the guarding the 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.879 camps just following orders. I don't know. I think that 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.240 there should be a little more common sense used in 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.800 some of these occasions, on some of these occasions nowadays. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:22.880 But when you start looking at the quality of businesses 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.760 these days, and you start thinking about the fact that 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.080 you know, there are people who are like my parents' age, 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.960 and maybe I'm just becoming a grumpy old man. You know, 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:39.040 I'm getting closer to fifty and so. And you might think, well, Josh, 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.960 you are always just mister optimist. You're always talking about 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.119 the power positive thinking. It's like, yeah, because that doesn't 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.199 come natural to me. I have to work on it. 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.560 That's why I need tools and I need techniques, and 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.800 why I share stuff with you that helps me, because 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.320 I'm not naturally the most optimistic person. I'll get back 0:19:56.359 --> 0:20:00.480 to that a little bit later, actually, but it anyway, 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.640 when you consider that like people my parents' age, they 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.520 used to they'd get a job somewhere and they'd make 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.040 a career out of it. They'd be there for who 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.080 knows how long, maybe they'd be there for thirty years 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.680 or something like that, and they would retire and then 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.600 go off and maybe they can travel and make some 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.960 of their dreams come true. Now, people just they come 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.880 and go from like you go to a business, head 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.639 back to that business six months later, totally different group 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.280 of people. And all this reminds me of this thing 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:36.480 you probably heard of called the Peter principle, But do 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.000 you know what that really means and where that really 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:44.119 comes from. The Peter principle is a concept in management 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:48.000 that was developed by a man named Lawrence J. Peter. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.320 That makes sense right, and he died in nineteen ninety. 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:58.040 He was a Canadian educator and he was sort of 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.399 a I guess you could say a bit of a 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:10.639 psychologist who studied how people organized their thinking. And he 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:16.760 developed this concept which observes that people in any kind 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:21.879 of a hierarchy tend to rise to quote a level 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:27.840 of respective incompetence. So what that means is that employees 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:32.640 are promoted based upon their success and previous jobs until 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.439 they reach a level at which they are no longer 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:40.639 competent as skills in one job do not necessarily translate 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:45.359 to another, and then they stay there. And he wrote 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:48.000 this book, the Peter Principle, along with another man named 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:52.119 Raymond Hole, and they kind of at first intended this 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:56.159 to be satire, but it rang so true that it 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:59.840 became really popular because it made a very serious point 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:04.440 about the shortcomings of how people are promoted within organizations. 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.720 So here's a nice little summary of exactly what it is. 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:11.679 Now think about this. The Peter principal states that a 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:15.359 person who is competent at their job will earn a 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:21.800 promotion to a position that requires different skills. If the 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:25.760 promoted person lacks the skills required for the new role, 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:29.879 they will be incompetent at the new level and will 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:34.280 not be promoted again. If the person is competent in 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:37.560 the new role, they will be promoted again and will 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:41.800 continue to be promoted until reaching a level at which 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:48.040 they are incompetent. Being incompetent, the individual will not qualify 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:52.439 for promotion again and so will remain stuck at this 0:22:52.880 --> 0:23:02.720 final placement, or what they call Peter's plateau. So you 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:06.119 could also just say, in a hierarchy, every employee tends 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:13.280 to rise to his level of incompetence. How many people 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:16.399 do you know out there who have reached Peter's plateau? 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:21.520 Is it possible that most of the people that you 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:27.600 encounter in this day and age are at Peter's plateau? 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:31.120 I kind of feel like that that makes perfect sense 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:35.560 to me. And because you know, the right thing to do, 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:38.399 I guess would be to go to this person and 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:42.240 be honest and say, instead of firing them or just 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:46.560 keeping them where they are, say you were doing a 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:51.480 much better job where you were before. So I know 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:55.000 that that's you know, it hurts people and it even 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:57.680 destroys them sometimes to think they're going to get a demotion. 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:02.080 But I think if you are demoted back to where 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:07.160 you were performing well, well, for one thing, you're gonna 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:12.160 be happier, You're probably gonna have more job security, and 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:16.439 you might even make yourself so valuable that you end 0:24:16.560 --> 0:24:21.960 up getting more money for doing that position. So look, 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:24.000 I'm just tossing all this stuff out there as a 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:25.919 guy who has hired a lot of people for various 0:24:26.000 --> 0:24:28.600 roles over the years. But when we come back from 0:24:28.640 --> 0:24:32.119 this break, but also when it comes to leadership, you know, 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:34.800 where do you think this term comes from the Head 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:40.240 Haun Show. This guy's the head Haunt Show. I want 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:43.320 you to think about this during the break. What language 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:46.879 do you think that word honchho comes from. It's got 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:49.640 a really interesting story behind it. I'm going to tell 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.000 you that when we return. And then also I have 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:55.639 a tell a historic tale for you about something that 0:24:55.680 --> 0:24:59.600 happened to the great Benjamin Franklin. They call it the 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:05.480 Cockpit Incident. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:09.560 Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:13.520 Podcast Network, and I'll be back after these important messages. 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:53.240 Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast 0:25:53.240 --> 0:25:58.600 to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:02.040 Pee Warren, and this is the show where the unusual 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:06.960 becomes usual. Hey, here's another story for you real quick. 0:26:08.520 --> 0:26:10.879 So there's this movie theater I like to go to 0:26:10.960 --> 0:26:15.879 here in Vegas and it has a bar, and uh, 0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:19.679 I think I just found one of the one of 0:26:19.680 --> 0:26:24.440 the common threads in these stories. It's about me going 0:26:24.480 --> 0:26:30.199 to bars and drinking. It's Las Vegas, and you know 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:32.919 they don't call it sin city for nothing. Everywhere you 0:26:32.960 --> 0:26:39.000 go around here, you can drink and gamble twenty four 0:26:39.000 --> 0:26:43.480 to seven. I mean the grocery store, the I mean 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:48.040 gas stations, and and if you're a smoker, I mean, 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:51.040