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Speaker 1: Yes, ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird.
Speaker 1: This is strange when JOA Warren, I am Joshua You
Speaker 1: warren't And each week on this show, I'll be bringing
Speaker 1: you brand new mind blowing content, news exercises, and weird
Speaker 1: experiments you can do at home, and a lot more.
Speaker 1: On this edition of the show, here's a wild grab
Speaker 1: bag of stuff to ponder. Mental manner. Now, this is
Speaker 1: an unusual edition of the show because it's gonna be
Speaker 1: kind of all over the place. That is, because when
Speaker 1: you do a show like this professionally on a regular basis,
Speaker 1: it really is a job that never ends. I mean,
Speaker 1: I spend every waking hour of every day sort of
Speaker 1: scanning the world around me, looking for ideas, topics to
Speaker 1: talk about and explore experiments that I can do or
Speaker 1: that you can do. I'm always thinking about something that
Speaker 1: can come across well on the show, and especially because
Speaker 1: as you know, this is not really an interview show.
Speaker 1: I mean, occasionally, rarely I'll interview somebody, but for the
Speaker 1: most part, I don't do interviews on this show because
Speaker 1: everybody else does that I'm doing something different, and honestly,
Speaker 1: I can say that for me, this job is kind
Speaker 1: of a twenty four to seven job because even when
Speaker 1: I'm sleeping, I'm vividly dreaming, and those dreams sometimes make
Speaker 1: it into the show. So here's what I end up with.
Speaker 1: I end up with thousands of notes all around me
Speaker 1: all the time, whether they're on the phone or scribbled
Speaker 1: on pieces of paper, just things that I think of
Speaker 1: that are interesting to me, that I jot down and
Speaker 1: say maybe at some point I'll find an opportunity to
Speaker 1: talk about this on the show. And I sat down
Speaker 1: just the other day and I was looking at a
Speaker 1: bunch of these and I thought, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that anything could tie all this stuff together. There's
Speaker 1: no common thread that I can see other than the
Speaker 1: fact that these are all things that I'm interested in.
Speaker 1: So I said, you know what, let me just do
Speaker 1: a show where I just take some of these things
Speaker 1: that I have thought about that I think are interesting
Speaker 1: and just toss it out there to you and get
Speaker 1: your feedback. This is what I call mental manna, similar
Speaker 1: to just those things that make you go hmm. And
Speaker 1: so I'm not even sure where we're going to go
Speaker 1: on the show, but let's just dive right into it
Speaker 1: see what happens. One thing I believe we can all
Speaker 1: relate to is something that was brought up recently and
Speaker 1: a conversation that Bill Maher had on his podcast with
Speaker 1: the actor Malcolm McDowell, who, of course is most famous
Speaker 1: for playing the lead role in the Stanley Kubrick movie
Speaker 1: at Clockwork Orange. They were talking about the way that
Speaker 1: technology has developed, because both of these guys are up
Speaker 1: there in years, and I believe it was Malcolm McDowell,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it may have been Bill Maher. One
Speaker 1: of them said that, you know, television was the Internet
Speaker 1: of its time, and now you see how things have
Speaker 1: changed and how we've not only gotten into this you know,
Speaker 1: internet age, but we also have this attention span that's
Speaker 1: getting shorter and shorter because of how quickly information travels.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're now sort of in I mean, look
Speaker 1: in a text. Some people don't even write a full sentence.
Speaker 1: They just basically put some symbols down there and some
Speaker 1: leaps speak to get points across. It's almost like the
Speaker 1: old days of telegraph even faster though, or the whole
Speaker 1: Twitter mentality that's just you know, get it out there
Speaker 1: in a line or two. Because you're so bombarded with information.
Speaker 1: The attention span is so short that you know, I
Speaker 1: remember when I was a kid, you would order something
Speaker 1: and you knew that maybe it was going to show
Speaker 1: up in a couple of weeks. Now you order something
Speaker 1: from Amazon and it might be there the same day
Speaker 1: or the next day. And so people get frustrated if
Speaker 1: they have to wait a couple of weeks for something
Speaker 1: because they order it from a normal person. And you know,
Speaker 1: I was talking about the experiment that I've been doing
Speaker 1: with the time camera and how that and this again
Speaker 1: is probably a little more relevant to people who are
Speaker 1: maybe forty years old or older. But you know, back
Speaker 1: when you were younger, when people were still using polaroid cameras.
Speaker 1: You know, you'd push the button this was would pop out,
Speaker 1: and it was like a miracle because you could develop
Speaker 1: your own film right there on the spot. And so
Speaker 1: I've recently started working with polaroid again and I asked people, so,
Speaker 1: how long has it been since you developed the polaroid photo?
Speaker 1: They say, well, probably been twenty years, thirty years. And
Speaker 1: I say, how long do you think it takes for
Speaker 1: a polaroid picture to develop? And they usually say, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, two or three minutes. It turns out
Speaker 1: it's ten or fifteen minutes. And when you wait for
Speaker 1: a polaroid to develop now for ten or fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: it takes it seems like it takes forever. This is
Speaker 1: just an example of how again I think art Belt
Speaker 1: called this the quickening, this increase and the frequency of
Speaker 1: all action and information and everything that you're thinking about
Speaker 1: and interacting with and everything that you're expecting to come
Speaker 1: to you. And it's getting faster and faster. Even in
Speaker 1: the Internet. You may remember dial up internet. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you had to wait around for internet that's that
Speaker 1: slow these days, you would throw your computer out the window.
Speaker 1: We expect things instantaneous, and you know what, we are
Speaker 1: almost going to have instantaneous computing. You know, right now
Speaker 1: they're working on quantum caning, and that should be basically instantaneous.
Speaker 1: At some point there will be no delay whatsoever. Look
Speaker 1: at the history of aircraft. How that aircraft, I mean,
Speaker 1: it just keeps getting faster and faster. I don't know
Speaker 1: how fast the Wright Brothers plane could go, but you
Speaker 1: know now we're shooting off rockets into outer space to
Speaker 1: go twenty five thousand miles per hour. I mean. And
Speaker 1: if you follow that train of thought and you start
Speaker 1: imagining that as civilizations evolve and develop, that things happen
Speaker 1: faster and faster and faster, and then you imagine that
Speaker 1: some of these UFOs that we see flying around are
Speaker 1: from extremely advanced civilizations of some kind, then it would
Speaker 1: kind of make sense that their aircraft could travel at
Speaker 1: rates that are are mind boggling to us, almost instantaneous.
Speaker 1: And you know that we think sometimes about like, well,
Speaker 1: it's but there are still physical laws. There's no way
Speaker 1: that a UFO could just teleport itself from here to
Speaker 1: there or travel, you know, a thousand miles per hour,
Speaker 1: accelerating from one to two seconds and all this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. It's it's physically impossible. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: a lot of scientists used to believe that breaking the
Speaker 1: sound barrier was impossible as well. Have you ever seen
Speaker 1: the movie The Right Stuff They dig into that. There
Speaker 1: were people who thought that if you were in an
Speaker 1: aircraft and you could somehow go faster than the speed
Speaker 1: of sound, that it would just destroy everything. It was.
Speaker 1: It was it was a wall that could not be broken,
Speaker 1: and it seemed that way for years until finally Chuck
Speaker 1: Yeger did it. So I'm thinking that maybe our understanding
Speaker 1: of the laws of physics is not complete and that
Speaker 1: these advanced craft can travel at these high rates of
Speaker 1: speed because that it is part of the natural progression
Speaker 1: of the evolution of civilization. And that's also why that
Speaker 1: I've captured some of my most interesting UFOs by going
Speaker 1: outside and using a high speed camera which shoots at
Speaker 1: least one thousand frames per second, so that you can
Speaker 1: actually capture things that are otherwise moving too fast for
Speaker 1: the human eye to see the naked human eye. It
Speaker 1: slows things down as you're actually videotaping it. And when
Speaker 1: you consider however, that we have all these amazing tools.
Speaker 1: It's like I saw some meme the other day, and
Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly how it was set up, but
Speaker 1: there was a sort of a googly eyed school teacher
Speaker 1: there and the caption was teachers in the nineties, and
Speaker 1: the teacher was saying, you're not always gonna have a
Speaker 1: calculator on you, ha ha. Little did they know, right,
Speaker 1: we pretty much always have a calculator. And that's probably
Speaker 1: why people are, I would imagine, worse at math than
Speaker 1: ever now, because I mean, how was the last time
Speaker 1: you had to really read an old fashioned map and
Speaker 1: memorize a route from A to B to C when
Speaker 1: you're driving your car? I mean, you know, you just
Speaker 1: punch it in and follow the Google the Google instructions
Speaker 1: or whatever you use. So are humans, despite the fact
Speaker 1: that we're becoming more and more advanced, are we individually
Speaker 1: becoming smarter or dumber? And I guess you could say
Speaker 1: the same thing collectively in a way, I mean, the
Speaker 1: collection is made up of the individual. So are humans
Speaker 1: becoming smarter or dumber? Look at what the ancient people knew,
Speaker 1: and look at the things that they accomplished, the things
Speaker 1: that they understood the time that they took to observe
Speaker 1: the sky and memorize things and look for patterns, And now,
Speaker 1: like I say, people can barely do math anymore. When
Speaker 1: we come back from this break, I want to tell
Speaker 1: you a story that's kind of funny, but it's about
Speaker 1: something that annoyed me the other day when I went
Speaker 1: to a restaurant and it kind of leads into something
Speaker 1: you've probably heard about before, called the Peter principle. And
Speaker 1: you know, the longer I live, the more I believe
Speaker 1: in this thing called the Peter principle. Who knows what
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Speaker 1: brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada,
Speaker 1: where every day is golden and every night is silver.
Speaker 1: Agiatato Zoom. And here in Vegas, out west, there is
Speaker 1: a chain of restaurants in a few states I was
Speaker 1: going to I thought about telling you the name of
Speaker 1: the restaurant, and I've just decided not to do it
Speaker 1: because I don't think this is worth causing any problems
Speaker 1: for a business. You know, I say something on a
Speaker 1: forum like this and a lot of people are going
Speaker 1: to hear about it. But it's a chain, it's small chain.
Speaker 1: There are fifty eight locations of this restaurant out west,
Speaker 1: and I'm not even going to tell you the type
Speaker 1: of food that they serve. That would give it away
Speaker 1: in a heartbeat. But here's here's what's kind of interesting
Speaker 1: about this type of restaurant. And you know, gosh, there
Speaker 1: are thousands of restaurants in Las Vegas, a lot of
Speaker 1: places to pick and choose from this particular place. It's
Speaker 1: one of those establishments that's it's set up kind of
Speaker 1: like a high class fast food restaurant. So what I
Speaker 1: mean by that is when you walk in, you know,
Speaker 1: it has the counter just like at McDonald's, where you
Speaker 1: go up and you place your order, but then it
Speaker 1: takes a long time for them to make the food.
Speaker 1: You sit there with your number, and they also have
Speaker 1: beer and wine, so you see what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: like a little step up in some regards from like
Speaker 1: your traditional fast food establishment. So I went in there
Speaker 1: recently with my wife Lauren, and here was my plan.
Speaker 1: Knowing that I was going to have to wait for
Speaker 1: them to prepare the food a bit, I figured, well,
Speaker 1: while I'm waiting, I will sit down and drink a beer.
Speaker 1: So I walked in. I was going to go up
Speaker 1: to the counter to order, and this young lady who
Speaker 1: works there sort of rushed up and says, oh, you
Speaker 1: can use the kiosk. Oh go okay. I said, well,
Speaker 1: because you know how it is these days. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you've seen the fast food kiosk with the touchscreens, even
Speaker 1: though you're standing inside there and I'm talking to an employee.
Speaker 1: Use the computer here, okay. And I said, well, but
Speaker 1: here's what i'd like to do. I would like to
Speaker 1: place my order and then sit down and drink a
Speaker 1: beer while I'm waiting for the food to be prepared.
Speaker 1: And she goes, yeah, okay, you could just just order
Speaker 1: on the kiosk. And I said, so I can order
Speaker 1: a beer through the kiosk, and she says, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, huh, that's surprising, because you know, I
Speaker 1: usually it's I'm sure at some point I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to show an ID to somebody. I guess but and
Speaker 1: I go, all right, fine, So I go over to
Speaker 1: the kiosk. I order everything, get to the beverages. There's
Speaker 1: no alcohol listed there, so I order everything except the alcohol,
Speaker 1: and I say to her, excuse me, excuse me, there's
Speaker 1: no place to order a beer, and she goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: there isn't know there. So she comes over and she
Speaker 1: looks and she goes, huh, okay, well you'll have to
Speaker 1: go over there and order at the counter. Then okay,
Speaker 1: that's what I was going to do. So then I
Speaker 1: finish up my order on the on the kiosk for
Speaker 1: everything else. Now I have to stay and in the
Speaker 1: line behind some other people. And then when I get
Speaker 1: up there in line, I say I would like just
Speaker 1: to order a beer, you know, and they're like, okay, thanks,
Speaker 1: have a seat, we'll bring it out to you. So
Speaker 1: then I go and I sit down, and oh, I
Speaker 1: would say, about eight minutes later my food came out,
Speaker 1: and then like nine minutes later my beer comes out,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this makes no sense. I actually have
Speaker 1: just been able to walk in there and be like,
Speaker 1: I'll take the beer right now, here's my order. I'll
Speaker 1: be over here, let me know when the food's done,
Speaker 1: and I'm done with that beer by the time. Now look,
Speaker 1: I know you're thinking, Josh, you're making a mountain out
Speaker 1: of a mole hill here, But it's just an example
Speaker 1: of the way that we are substituting technology for common
Speaker 1: sense these days. It reminds me of this time I
Speaker 1: was at an airport and I can't remember where I was,
Speaker 1: but I same kind of thing. I went into a
Speaker 1: bar and I ordered some you know, glass of wine
Speaker 1: or something like that while I was waiting for a flight.
Speaker 1: And then after I sat down, there was this man
Speaker 1: behind me and he was every bit of ninety five
Speaker 1: years old. Okay, this is one of the oldest looking
Speaker 1: men I've ever seen. And he orders a beer and
Speaker 1: the guy, who's like twenty five years old, says, I
Speaker 1: got to see your ID. And the old man just
Speaker 1: looks at him for a second goes, are you serious
Speaker 1: and he says yeah, and he goes, well, it's in
Speaker 1: it's in my in my suitcase. He's like sorry. He
Speaker 1: makes this old man get down on his hands and
Speaker 1: knees and open unzip his suitcase and pull through all
Speaker 1: of his clothes to get just like, this is not
Speaker 1: a rubber mask. And I know they're like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: on camera. I'm on camera, and I have to do this. Okay, Fine,
Speaker 1: that's probably what the Nazis said, that the guarding the
Speaker 1: camps just following orders. I don't know. I think that
Speaker 1: there should be a little more common sense used in
Speaker 1: some of these occasions, on some of these occasions nowadays.
Speaker 1: But when you start looking at the quality of businesses
Speaker 1: these days, and you start thinking about the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, there are people who are like my parents' age,
Speaker 1: and maybe I'm just becoming a grumpy old man. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm getting closer to fifty and so. And you might think, well, Josh,
Speaker 1: you are always just mister optimist. You're always talking about
Speaker 1: the power positive thinking. It's like, yeah, because that doesn't
Speaker 1: come natural to me. I have to work on it.
Speaker 1: That's why I need tools and I need techniques, and
Speaker 1: why I share stuff with you that helps me, because
Speaker 1: I'm not naturally the most optimistic person. I'll get back
Speaker 1: to that a little bit later, actually, but it anyway,
Speaker 1: when you consider that like people my parents' age, they
Speaker 1: used to they'd get a job somewhere and they'd make
Speaker 1: a career out of it. They'd be there for who
Speaker 1: knows how long, maybe they'd be there for thirty years
Speaker 1: or something like that, and they would retire and then
Speaker 1: go off and maybe they can travel and make some
Speaker 1: of their dreams come true. Now, people just they come
Speaker 1: and go from like you go to a business, head
Speaker 1: back to that business six months later, totally different group
Speaker 1: of people. And all this reminds me of this thing
Speaker 1: you probably heard of called the Peter principle, But do
Speaker 1: you know what that really means and where that really
Speaker 1: comes from. The Peter principle is a concept in management
Speaker 1: that was developed by a man named Lawrence J. Peter.
Speaker 1: That makes sense right, and he died in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1: He was a Canadian educator and he was sort of
Speaker 1: a I guess you could say a bit of a
Speaker 1: psychologist who studied how people organized their thinking. And he
Speaker 1: developed this concept which observes that people in any kind
Speaker 1: of a hierarchy tend to rise to quote a level
Speaker 1: of respective incompetence. So what that means is that employees
Speaker 1: are promoted based upon their success and previous jobs until
Speaker 1: they reach a level at which they are no longer
Speaker 1: competent as skills in one job do not necessarily translate
Speaker 1: to another, and then they stay there. And he wrote
Speaker 1: this book, the Peter Principle, along with another man named
Speaker 1: Raymond Hole, and they kind of at first intended this
Speaker 1: to be satire, but it rang so true that it
Speaker 1: became really popular because it made a very serious point
Speaker 1: about the shortcomings of how people are promoted within organizations.
Speaker 1: So here's a nice little summary of exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: Now think about this. The Peter principal states that a
Speaker 1: person who is competent at their job will earn a
Speaker 1: promotion to a position that requires different skills. If the
Speaker 1: promoted person lacks the skills required for the new role,
Speaker 1: they will be incompetent at the new level and will
Speaker 1: not be promoted again. If the person is competent in
Speaker 1: the new role, they will be promoted again and will
Speaker 1: continue to be promoted until reaching a level at which
Speaker 1: they are incompetent. Being incompetent, the individual will not qualify
Speaker 1: for promotion again and so will remain stuck at this
Speaker 1: final placement, or what they call Peter's plateau. So you
Speaker 1: could also just say, in a hierarchy, every employee tends
Speaker 1: to rise to his level of incompetence. How many people
Speaker 1: do you know out there who have reached Peter's plateau?
Speaker 1: Is it possible that most of the people that you
Speaker 1: encounter in this day and age are at Peter's plateau?
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like that that makes perfect sense
Speaker 1: to me. And because you know, the right thing to do,
Speaker 1: I guess would be to go to this person and
Speaker 1: be honest and say, instead of firing them or just
Speaker 1: keeping them where they are, say you were doing a
Speaker 1: much better job where you were before. So I know
Speaker 1: that that's you know, it hurts people and it even
Speaker 1: destroys them sometimes to think they're going to get a demotion.
Speaker 1: But I think if you are demoted back to where
Speaker 1: you were performing well, well, for one thing, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be happier, You're probably gonna have more job security, and
Speaker 1: you might even make yourself so valuable that you end
Speaker 1: up getting more money for doing that position. So look,
Speaker 1: I'm just tossing all this stuff out there as a
Speaker 1: guy who has hired a lot of people for various
Speaker 1: roles over the years. But when we come back from
Speaker 1: this break, but also when it comes to leadership, you know,
Speaker 1: where do you think this term comes from the Head
Speaker 1: Haun Show. This guy's the head Haunt Show. I want
Speaker 1: you to think about this during the break. What language
Speaker 1: do you think that word honchho comes from. It's got
Speaker 1: a really interesting story behind it. I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you that when we return. And then also I have
Speaker 1: a tell a historic tale for you about something that
Speaker 1: happened to the great Benjamin Franklin. They call it the
Speaker 1: Cockpit Incident. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange
Speaker 1: Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal
Speaker 1: Podcast Network, and I'll be back after these important messages.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
Speaker 1: to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua
Speaker 1: Pee Warren, and this is the show where the unusual
Speaker 1: becomes usual. Hey, here's another story for you real quick.
Speaker 1: So there's this movie theater I like to go to
Speaker 1: here in Vegas and it has a bar, and uh,
Speaker 1: I think I just found one of the one of
Speaker 1: the common threads in these stories. It's about me going
Speaker 1: to bars and drinking. It's Las Vegas, and you know
Speaker 1: they don't call it sin city for nothing. Everywhere you
Speaker 1: go around here, you can drink and gamble twenty four
Speaker 1: to seven. I mean the grocery store, the I mean
Speaker 1: gas stations, and and if you're a smoker, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's almost unheard of these days in our country,
Speaker 1: but you can go into tons of bars and casinos
Speaker 1: and smoke indoors to your heart's content. And I am
Speaker 1: not a smoker, but I'm just letting you know that.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the most free place, perhaps you'd
Speaker 1: say the freest place in the country. And yet at
Speaker 1: this particular movie theater, a lot of times when I
Speaker 1: go to see a movie, I will go to the
Speaker 1: bar if they have one, and I will order a drink,
Speaker 1: an alcoholic drink to take into the movie theater. So
Speaker 1: there is at this one bar I walked up the
Speaker 1: very first time. Actually, let me just put it this way.
Speaker 1: There's this lady there. She's always the bartender at this bar.
Speaker 1: So the first time I met her, I walked up
Speaker 1: to her and I told her that I wanted to
Speaker 1: get I think it was a glass of wine. So anyway,
Speaker 1: so she gives me a glass of wine after she
Speaker 1: cards me. And that's not common in Vegas to get carted,
Speaker 1: so she looks at my ID and then then I
Speaker 1: go to the movie. And then it was a long movie,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of a boring movie, and I think,
Speaker 1: like Lauren wanted to watch the rest of the movie,
Speaker 1: and I didn't really care that much. So I go,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get another glass of wine. So I
Speaker 1: go back to the bar and I order from her
Speaker 1: another glass of wine. She asked for my ID again
Speaker 1: and I said, well, and we had just I had
Speaker 1: like a long conversation with her. By the way, I
Speaker 1: was like the only customer at the bar, and I said,
Speaker 1: you got to see my idea again, and she goes yeah,
Speaker 1: And I goes, what do you what do you think
Speaker 1: I have an identical twin and even if I did,
Speaker 1: he would still be my age. She goes, oh, sorry,
Speaker 1: I gotta do it. The camera is watching me, all right.
Speaker 1: So I had to take my ID out and show
Speaker 1: it to her for my second drink. And since then,
Speaker 1: over the years, I've gone back to this theater and
Speaker 1: every time I go in, this woman always wants to
Speaker 1: see my ID, even if I order, you know, two
Speaker 1: drinks during one movie. Anyway, Yeah, common sense, I wish
Speaker 1: do we just let computers and cameras rule every decision
Speaker 1: that we make these days. So what language do you
Speaker 1: think the word honcho comes from? Well, it actually is Japanese.
Speaker 1: And from what I've found, during World War Two, when
Speaker 1: a lot of Americans were serving in the Pacific, they
Speaker 1: became aware that hancho was the Japanese word for leader.
Speaker 1: And so if somebody were let's say a group of
Speaker 1: guys were taken captive, then they would want to know
Speaker 1: who the head honchho was. Who's the head leader in
Speaker 1: charge of this group? You know, which may sound a
Speaker 1: little redundant, but you know, there's different levels of hierarchy.
Speaker 1: So this word made it back into the US. It
Speaker 1: continued to become popular. So the head hot show is
Speaker 1: just the top leader, and that's a Japanese I always
Speaker 1: I love those kinds of stories where you dig into
Speaker 1: the word origins. Well, let's move on to something else, now,
Speaker 1: shall we. Now it's time for something completely different, maybe
Speaker 1: not actually, you know, I'm talking about leadership and the
Speaker 1: way that organizations are set up. And I don't, as
Speaker 1: you know, I do my darnness to avoid talking about
Speaker 1: politics on this show. You don't need to hear that here,
Speaker 1: you get it everywhere else. But it is interesting to
Speaker 1: think about the role that our government's played and why
Speaker 1: that these governments are here, and what it says about
Speaker 1: the world that we live in, because you know, there
Speaker 1: was a one of the I guess one of the
Speaker 1: popular writers back during the period of the American Revolution
Speaker 1: was Thomas Paine, and he said that government is a
Speaker 1: necessary evil. Government is a necessary evil. I've always thought
Speaker 1: that was fascinating to think about that because there are
Speaker 1: lots of people out there who believe that we are
Speaker 1: actually living in a rung of hell. And that may
Speaker 1: sound pretty extreme, but you have to realize, like, even
Speaker 1: if your life is great, that doesn't mean there aren't
Speaker 1: people out there who are not having a horrible experience
Speaker 1: right now. But the one thing we all have in
Speaker 1: common is that life is full of suffering, whether it's fntal,
Speaker 1: physical or mental or emotional. I mean, like your body
Speaker 1: he breaks down. Eventually, everybody that you know and love
Speaker 1: is going to perish. They're going to be they're going
Speaker 1: to be in the ground, or who knows what. And
Speaker 1: it's sad. It's said, so is is this actually a
Speaker 1: rung of of hell? And there. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: passage from the Federalist Papers attributed to James Madison, and
Speaker 1: he wrote, if angels were to govern men, neither external
Speaker 1: nor internal controls on government would be necessary. Let me
Speaker 1: read that again. He said, quote, if angels were to
Speaker 1: govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would
Speaker 1: be necessary. End quote, the implication being, well, but angels
Speaker 1: are not governing governing men, and so we need some controls.
Speaker 1: That this is the fact that we need government to
Speaker 1: prevent humans, in theory from doing bad things. Means that
Speaker 1: that is the tendency of humans, which kind of goes
Speaker 1: back to the idea of original sin, that we all
Speaker 1: are here because that we have something to learn. You know,
Speaker 1: we have some bad baggage in our spirits and we
Speaker 1: are here to learn to be better beings. And part
Speaker 1: of that is it is dealing with suffering without flipping
Speaker 1: out and doing something crazy, being able to handle it
Speaker 1: and learn from it. I guess that's the idea. And
Speaker 1: this reminds me a lot, for some reason, of this
Speaker 1: incident that happened in the life of Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin,
Speaker 1: of course, was just one of the greatest geniuses who
Speaker 1: ever lived. He was a beloved figure among the Americans
Speaker 1: and the founding fathers. Benjamin Franklin he lived from seventeen
Speaker 1: oh six to seventeen ninety, and you know, long life,
Speaker 1: and so during that period of time he was extremely famous.
Speaker 1: He was beloved. And you also have to understand that
Speaker 1: during that period of time, America was one of the
Speaker 1: British colonies. And so what that means is that people
Speaker 1: who lived here, who grew up in most of the
Speaker 1: seventeen hundreds, they thought of themselves as being a type
Speaker 1: of Englishmen. They weren't because they were born here in
Speaker 1: many cases, but because it was a British colony, they
Speaker 1: thought of themselves as an extension of that. And Ben
Speaker 1: Franklin he kind of idolized the English culture. He went
Speaker 1: to England when he was a very young man, and
Speaker 1: he ingratiated himself with the people there, and as he
Speaker 1: got older, he was spending in many cases just as
Speaker 1: much time in England as he was America. And when
Speaker 1: tensions started to rise between America and Britain, which of
Speaker 1: course would eventually culminate in the Revolutionary War, he was
Speaker 1: doing whatever he could to try to alleviate some of
Speaker 1: the pressure. He thought war would be a horrible idea,
Speaker 1: because he was smart. By seventeen seventy four, though, there
Speaker 1: was so much dissatisfaction with the British rule in America,
Speaker 1: sort of growing that Franklin, who was then Postmaster of
Speaker 1: the Colonies, he was in England and he was doing
Speaker 1: everything he could to try to urge some compromise there.
Speaker 1: And there was this one guy who just did not
Speaker 1: like him, this Englishman named Alexander Wedderburn, and he disagreed. Well,
Speaker 1: he didn't like Franklin's celebrity. He looked down upon Franklin
Speaker 1: for being an American. He thought of him as being
Speaker 1: kind of a redneck. And so he asked Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 1: to show up for a meeting in front of all
Speaker 1: these distinguished British politicians at this place they called the
Speaker 1: cockpit because back in the day they used to have
Speaker 1: cock fights there. So Franklin thought he was walking into
Speaker 1: this room full of Englishmen just so that they could
Speaker 1: talk about compromise instead that he got kind of ambushed,
Speaker 1: and this guy, Alexander Wedderburn gets up on a pulpit
Speaker 1: there and he just spends an hour talking about how
Speaker 1: he does not like Benjamin Franklin. What a disgrace Benjamin
Speaker 1: Franklin is. He literally says that, Okay, we got to
Speaker 1: take a break. We come back. I'm gonna explain to
Speaker 1: you why that I'm telling you this story. It's very
Speaker 1: meaningful and it's kind of inspirational in a way. And
Speaker 1: then also trivia question for you, where do you think
Speaker 1: is the only place in the world where you might
Speaker 1: find a wild red wolf. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're
Speaker 1: listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Speaker 1: Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of
Speaker 1: Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
Speaker 1: Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren.
Speaker 1: And never forget what comedian Stephen Wright said, half of
Speaker 1: the people you know are below average. That is true.
Speaker 1: That is true. Maybe maybe I shouldn't say half the
Speaker 1: people you know, but half the people out there are
Speaker 1: below average. Probably half the people you know. Hey, here's
Speaker 1: some here's a quick mental manna tip. I found that
Speaker 1: if you want your doctor to do a better job
Speaker 1: and be very careful with you. They they do a
Speaker 1: better job if when they start doing whatever they're gonna do,
Speaker 1: you just scream really loud like ah. Now they're used
Speaker 1: to hearing regular screaming, so you've got to take it
Speaker 1: to eleven. And then they go, whoa, we got a
Speaker 1: screamer here. And then they kind of wake up and
Speaker 1: they start telling the rest of the staff, and everybody
Speaker 1: takes really good care with you. Know, they're very careful
Speaker 1: with you, So don't forget that lesson. Benjamin Franklin was
Speaker 1: standing in this arena, so to speak, called the cockpit,
Speaker 1: with this Englishman just absolutely telling him he was a disgrace.
Speaker 1: The englishman said, quote, Franklin has forfeited all of the
Speaker 1: respect of societies and of men, end quote. Throughout this
Speaker 1: whole hour, they say that Franklin just stood there still.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he was in shock. He was showing no emotion,
Speaker 1: said he was conspicuously erect, without the smallest movement of
Speaker 1: any part of his body, his unchanging expression tranquil, placid.
Speaker 1: And when this was over, Franklin, they asked Franklin if
Speaker 1: he wanted to be cross examined and Franklin just said nope,
Speaker 1: and he turns around and walks out the door. There's
Speaker 1: no telling how damaging and this was to Franklin because
Speaker 1: he had such admiration for the English and he thought
Speaker 1: he'd sort of been adopted by them, and this just
Speaker 1: hurt him to the very core because he admired the
Speaker 1: English culture so much. But historians say that terrible experience
Speaker 1: for him. That was the day when Benjamin Franklin became
Speaker 1: a true American and that's when he left and he
Speaker 1: went out and he started raising money left and right
Speaker 1: and inspiring people and organizing things that would help to
Speaker 1: create the American Revolution. And if Franklin had stuck with
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, create some compromise with the English,
Speaker 1: there may have never been a war. A lot of
Speaker 1: people say, this guy, Alexander Wedderburn is possibly the man
Speaker 1: who cost England America because of this one jerk. And
Speaker 1: you know, Benjamin Franklin was never a president. Some people.
Speaker 1: You know, I talked about Benjamin Franklin a while back,
Speaker 1: and I said that, you know, Grizzly Adams named his
Speaker 1: bear Ben after Benjamin Franklin because people were really into
Speaker 1: the presidents. I wasn't insinuating that Benjamin Franklin was a president,
Speaker 1: just that he hung out with all of the first
Speaker 1: presidents and he was part of that culture. He very
Speaker 1: easily could have been a president, and he probably only
Speaker 1: was not a president just because he was too old
Speaker 1: by the time all of that went down. My point
Speaker 1: is that this terrible experience for this great man was
Speaker 1: what was necessary in order for him to go out
Speaker 1: and do something that was very, very difficult, but ended
Speaker 1: up creating this wonderful country that I live in and
Speaker 1: the freedom that I enjoy here. And this is again
Speaker 1: the mystery of optimism, that you can't always just take
Speaker 1: something bad at face value and just allow yourself to
Speaker 1: stay down on the dumps. You have to look at
Speaker 1: it as motivation for you to go out and do
Speaker 1: something pausive. As they say, when one door closes, another opens,
Speaker 1: no matter how bad it is. And that's how you
Speaker 1: also kind of have to think about even dying. I mean,
Speaker 1: even if this is some rung of hell or whatever,
Speaker 1: we know we're going to die, and I suppose that
Speaker 1: you have to be optimistic by having faith in a
Speaker 1: rewarding afterlife. But you know what, even if you don't
Speaker 1: even if you're an atheist and you don't believe in anything.
Speaker 1: Mark Twain said, quote, I do not fear death. I
Speaker 1: had been dead for billions and billions of years before
Speaker 1: I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience
Speaker 1: from it. End quote. So, hey, I guess whether you
Speaker 1: believe in nothingness or in afterlife, there's the potential for
Speaker 1: it to be positive when you move on. There is
Speaker 1: also the potential that you've been a bad person and
Speaker 1: you're not gonna like what happens to you next, which
Speaker 1: is why you better avoid that and do the best
Speaker 1: you can to be a good person. The mystery of
Speaker 1: optimism isn't that funny? Again? It's like a big classroom.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to maintain that mindset. I ask you a
Speaker 1: trivia question before the break. Where do you think is
Speaker 1: the only place in the wild where red wolves are found?
Speaker 1: You know what a red wolf is. Let me just
Speaker 1: tell you a red wolf. Its size is intermediate between
Speaker 1: the coyote and the gray wolf. I'm looking at a
Speaker 1: picture of one right now. Yep, looks pretty wolfy. And
Speaker 1: you know it's even though they call it a red wolf.
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of a mix of kind of
Speaker 1: reddish and grayish, maybe a little orangition there. Well, here's
Speaker 1: the thing this surprised me. The only place where you
Speaker 1: can find I'm looking right now at the official Wildlife
Speaker 1: Federation site, the only place you can find confirmed wild
Speaker 1: red wolves in existence is North Carolina, where I'm from.
Speaker 1: I said, red wolves used to roam throughout the Eastern
Speaker 1: Seaboard from Pennsylvania to Florida and as far west as Texas,
Speaker 1: but today North Carolina's Albemarle Peninsula is home to the
Speaker 1: only confirmed wild red wolves in existence. But listen to
Speaker 1: this says that in uh, let's see here, in the
Speaker 1: last decade, they have declined so much from one point
Speaker 1: thirty down to fifteen wolves. There are only fifteen wolves
Speaker 1: left there. If you look at the chart of extinction,
Speaker 1: like I guess, conservation status status they are they are
Speaker 1: one wrung before you start getting into the extinct territory.
Speaker 1: So that's I guess that's not good unless they eat people.
Speaker 1: I doubt that. So I just thought that was fascinating.
Speaker 1: Who would have I'd never even heard of wolves in
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Well, okay, I guess before the clock has
Speaker 1: got us, uh, since I've had a little bit of
Speaker 1: a drinking theme going on here. You know what a
Speaker 1: mich alata is. Some people call it a mich aalata,
Speaker 1: some people call it mik a lotta. They're very popular
Speaker 1: in the American Southwest. It's a refreshing, low alcohol drink,
Speaker 1: often called a Mexican bloody marry. It's made with tomato juice,
Speaker 1: some spices, usually some hot sauce and savory seas seasonings.
Speaker 1: But instead of vodka, it uses a cold Mexican style
Speaker 1: beer and they are absolutely delicious in my opinion, And
Speaker 1: usually they have some kind of salt or chili chili
Speaker 1: pepper kind of stuff around the rim. Michlatta's. If you've
Speaker 1: never had to meetch a lotta, go out there and
Speaker 1: find a good bartender somewhere and say make me a
Speaker 1: met you a lota, especially if you like, you know,
Speaker 1: bloody Mary's. I was always wondering where did this come from, though,
Speaker 1: like again, go back to word origins. The most popular
Speaker 1: theory is that it was invented by a man named
Speaker 1: Mikhail Esper. He was a member of this club called
Speaker 1: the Club Deportivou Potosino in San Luis Potosi and Mexico
Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties. It said that he liked to
Speaker 1: have his beer with limes, salt, ice, and a straw,
Speaker 1: which resembled lemonade, and some club members began calling it
Speaker 1: Michel's lemonade, which eventually became shortened to mikilada. Of course,
Speaker 1: they say it also may have been doubly named because
Speaker 1: in Spanish michela helata means my ice cold beer, So
Speaker 1: I guess it may have worked on two fronts. But
Speaker 1: I guess this guy, Michel espere uh, he was the
Speaker 1: inspiration for the Mikilada. Well, I hope you've enjoyed that
Speaker 1: selection of mental manna. Kind of all over the place,
Speaker 1: but also sort of fun to go through and check
Speaker 1: some of the things off I've been wanting to talk
Speaker 1: about for one reason or another. All Right, my friends,
Speaker 1: let's end the show on a positive note. Take a
Speaker 1: deep breath if you can close your eyes. Here is
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