1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM paranormal 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: podcast network. Now get ready for us Strange Things with 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: Joshua P. Warre. 4 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,159 Speaker 2: Welcome to our podcast. Please be aware the thoughts and 5 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: opinions expressed by the host are their thoughts and opinions 6 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 2: only and do not reflect those of iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, Coast 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 2: to Coast AM, employees of Premiere Networks, or their sponsors 8 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: and associates. We would like to encourage you to do 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 2: your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. 10 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: Yes, ready to be amazed by the wizard of Weird. 11 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:10,119 Speaker 1: This is Strange Women, Joshua Warren. I am JOSHUAA. Be Warren, 12 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: and each week on this show, I'll be bringing you 13 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: brand new my blowing content, news exercises and weird experiments 14 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: you can do at home, and a lot more. On 15 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: this edition of the show. Here's a Pet Barnum story. 16 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: I am certainly fortunate because people listen to this show 17 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: all over the world. Therefore, let me give you a refresher, 18 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: if need be, on the history of this country. The 19 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: United States of America what we call the USA, back 20 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: in the seventeen hundreds was a collection of British colonies. 21 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: And then the people over time did not like some 22 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: of the things the British were doing. And so in 23 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: seventeen seventy six, the founders of this country they gathered 24 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:14,239 Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and they they signed the Declaration of Independence, 25 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: which declared basically, you know, ultimately declared war on Britain, 26 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: which was almost unthinkable, the most powerful war machine in 27 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:33,519 Speaker 1: the world at the time. And miraculously, due to the 28 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 1: efforts of many many people, including of course especially George 29 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:45,239 Speaker 1: Washington and people like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, etc. Well, 30 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: we won that war and thus was formed the USA. 31 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: But the British, they certainly were not happy about it. 32 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: So they limped back across the pond, as they say, 33 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 1: to England and plotted their revenge. And so they finally 34 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: came back. They figured that they would let us wear 35 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 1: ourselves out for a while, and they came back in 36 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: eighteen twelve and tried to take the country again, and 37 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: we called that the War of eighteen twelve. And boy, 38 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: they almost succeeded that time. The British actually made it 39 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 1: into the White House. They ate all the food, they 40 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 1: burned it. I mean, yeah, talked about the darkest hour. 41 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: The president got on a horse and rode out of town, 42 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: left his wife behind. You know, but this is one 43 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: of those stories. I could probably just do a whole 44 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: show about that. Because one of the reasons that the 45 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,119 Speaker 1: British failed was because of what almost seems like divine intervention. 46 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: They had a bunch of ships that were sitting outside 47 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: DC and this horrific hurricane came through and sank all 48 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: their ships and took all their supplies and killed a 49 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: bunch of of them. They really couldn't couldn't continue after that. 50 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: Well anyway, so eighteen twelve, it was a very dramatic 51 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 1: year for this country. And in that year, let's see 52 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: here October twenty second of eighteen twelve, there was a 53 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: baby born in Massachusetts named John Boyden Adams. And you know, 54 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: you have to understand that back in those days, a 55 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: lot of people were illiterate. You didn't have like baby 56 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: naming books, and so often kids were named after characters 57 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: in the Bible or a president. And of course John 58 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: Adams was one of the founders of the country. So 59 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: I think a lot of people who have the last 60 00:04:54,400 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: name Adams ended up naming their baby boy John. So 61 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: John Boyden Adams was born October of eighteen twelve in Massachusetts, 62 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: John Boyden Adams, and this is he was born in 63 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: a suburb of Boston. He had very little education, and 64 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: from what I understand, his father was a guy who 65 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: made shoes, a shoemaker. I guess I suppose that's what 66 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 1: we'd call it, cobbler. I don't know for sure. So 67 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 1: he learned that trade, but as he grew up as 68 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: a teenager, he was never quite satisfied with it because 69 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: John always felt that it was kind of claustrophobic, phobic 70 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: being pent up in a little workshop all day long. 71 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: He liked the outdoors, so as he got older, he 72 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 1: started going out more, and he learned how to track animals. 73 00:05:55,560 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 1: He learned how to trap them. He became quite accomplished hunter. 74 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 1: He actually even started training animals. But as the country 75 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,799 Speaker 1: got closer to eighteen forty nine, when all this gold 76 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: was being found out west, he started thinking, boy, maybe 77 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: this is an opportunity for me to strike it rich. 78 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: And so as as a man, John decided to well. 79 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: He came up with this scheme. He said, I'm going 80 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: to take my life savings, which was over six thousand dollars. 81 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: In today's money that would be close to two hundred thousand. 82 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: And he said, I'm going to buy all the supplies 83 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: and make a bunch of shoes to sell to all 84 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: these people who were heading out to California there to 85 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: get rich off of the gold rush. So sure enough, 86 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: he spent his whole life savings. And then he also 87 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,359 Speaker 1: went to his father and got his father to invest 88 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: pretty much all that is fun. And they got all 89 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 1: this footwear ready to go, ready to hit it big 90 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: in this warehouse, and the warehouse caught on fire and 91 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: they lost it all, and his father killed himself. I mean, 92 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: talk about the most awful weight on your shoulders. You've 93 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: convinced your dad, you know, your parent to invest all 94 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: this money and then it all goes up in flames 95 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: and he commits suicide. This is I mean, this is 96 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: a dark story. I'll tell you later why I am 97 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: telling you this story, By the way, it is a 98 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: true one. So so John, after that, he says, I 99 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: just I have to go. I have to go far away. 100 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: I can't be in this place. It's too painful. So 101 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: he decides to go out west, where all the forty 102 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: are and he thinks, well, maybe I'll just go out 103 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: there and I'll live alone in the woods and I'll 104 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: find gold. So it takes him months, but he makes 105 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: it out there, from Massachusetts to California, and he tries 106 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: some mining and trading in various valuables, and but it 107 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: just wasn't working out for him. So but he wasn't 108 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: a likable guy. As a matter of fact, some of 109 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: the local Native Americans helped him build a little cabin 110 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 1: out there in the middle of the mountains. So he said, 111 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: I'm going to go back to what I'm good at. 112 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: I'm going to start trapping and hunting. And because of 113 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: his background with shoemaking and leather craft, he knew how 114 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: that he could actually kill an animal and turn it 115 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: into some kind of buckskin clothing and moccasins, which was 116 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: very needed at that time. So he became a better 117 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: and better hunter. And at some point he stumbles upon 118 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: a cave and inside this cave there are some little 119 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: grizzly bear cubs and he decides to take one of them, 120 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 1: and of course he takes this cub back to his cab, 121 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,439 Speaker 1: and he's scared to death. The mom a bear is 122 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: going to show up, but she doesn't, and so he 123 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:38,079 Speaker 1: starts training this bear and realize very quickly that the bear, well, 124 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: it was kind of like a dog for us nowadays. 125 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: The bear would cuddle up and sleep with them in bed. 126 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, he had this bear hooked up 127 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: to some kind of a I don't know, a sleigh 128 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: or a cart of some kind, like this bear is 129 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: a horse, you know, and he goes riding into town 130 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: with this grizzly bear pulling. Nobody had ever seen such 131 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: a thing. It was amazing. And the legend of this 132 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: man who had trained this bear keeps spreading, and it 133 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 1: became more and more popular, until finally he said, well, 134 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 1: I'm going to start catching more of these bears and 135 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: training them, and then I'll put all the little shows 136 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: for people with these bears and show them show how 137 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: well trained these bears are. Well, just when you thought 138 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: the story was sounding like it was going to have 139 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: a happy ending, no, something bad happened. But we're up 140 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: on a break. So when we come back, I'm going 141 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 1: to tell you the rest of the story, and I'm 142 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: going to tell you why I'm telling you this story also, 143 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: and you know, there are people who contact me, They 144 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: email me and they say, Joshua, at the end of 145 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: the show, you usually play that good fortune tone and 146 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: I absolutely love it and I would like to listen 147 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: to it even more often. But how can I just 148 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: find that tone? And I say, it's easy. If you 149 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: go to my website, Joshuapwarren dot com. There's no period 150 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: after the P. 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If you like it, 170 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: support it, buy something cool for yourself or a loved 171 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: one there at the Curiosity Shop at Joshua Pewarren dot com. 172 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: I am Joshua pee Warren. Now you're listening to Strange 173 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Peronormal 174 00:12:47,920 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 1: Podcast Network, and I will be right back. Welcome back 175 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast 176 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host the Wizards 177 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your worm whole 178 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, 179 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: where every day is golden and every night is silver. 180 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: A Giao, Zume and I have been working in the 181 00:13:54,880 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: media for over thirty years, and I have been hosting 182 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: radio for I Guess over twenty years. And of course 183 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: you know, back when I started out in hosting radio 184 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: I mean, you would you get in your car, you 185 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: would drive to the station. You would go in and 186 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: sit down in front of a microphone, and then they'd 187 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: say you're on the air, and then you would talk 188 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: live into a microphone and then whatever you said it 189 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: was out there and there was no I mean, you 190 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: might have a delay for up to maybe eight seconds 191 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: or something like that if you accidentally used a bad word, 192 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: which I rarely did, and then after that you go home, 193 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: and there was no recording that was easily accessible to 194 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: the average person. I used to take a little boom 195 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: box into the station and make my own audio cassette recordings. Nowadays, 196 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: of course, it's totally different with podcasts. So what's weird 197 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: about that is I can sit here and tell you 198 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: that it's Christmas time for me, but you might be 199 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: listening to this in the middle of a sweltering summer 200 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: day at the beach or something. So you're kind of 201 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: not supposed to talk about the circumstances that you're in 202 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: when you're doing a podcast, because it's not like a 203 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: live thing where we're all on the same boat. But 204 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: you know what, I don't care because I realize this 205 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: it is Christmas time for me right now, you're at 206 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: least hearing this in December, I'm drinking non alcoholic eggnog 207 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: as soon as the show's overall poured the hard stuff in. 208 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: And I'm very proud to say that I believe, I 209 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: believe that I have not missed a single week in 210 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: this year that I think every single week I've had 211 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: a brand new show for you, and a lot of 212 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 1: people in my position would say I've taken the holidays off. 213 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: I'm just going to take a break. I'm not going 214 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: to record a show, but I decided not to do that. 215 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I'm going to go ahead 216 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: and see if I can do a whole full year 217 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: where I don't miss a single week. But here's what 218 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: I'm going to do as a release foul for December. 219 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: I'm going to just sort of talk about whatever the 220 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: heck that I want to and I'm not going to 221 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: stress out too much over like fitting it into a framework. 222 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: Just whatever's on my mind is what I'm going to 223 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: talk about. And I've always been intrigued with P. T. Barnum. 224 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: I mean, the show is called Strange Things, and this 225 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: is I mean, come on, who's stranger than P. T. Barnum. 226 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: I mean, you know. P. T. Barnum was born in 227 00:16:53,600 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: Connecticut eighteen ten. He died in Connecticut at the age 228 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: of eighty And I mean the guy. He was one 229 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: of the best businessmen of all time. And I know 230 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 1: that some people who don't know much about the life 231 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 1: of P. T. Barnum, they think that he was he 232 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:22,439 Speaker 1: was kind of a bad guy who said there's a 233 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 1: sucker born every minute. That's actually not true. He never 234 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: said that. Apparently, historians say that he actually was very 235 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 1: respectful of his patrons, and he didn't he would the 236 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: last thing he would do was disparage them, and that 237 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: he really always wanted to feel like he had kind 238 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:50,439 Speaker 1: of a humorous and joking relationship with his patrons. In 239 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:53,360 Speaker 1: other words, they wouldn't go see a P. T. Barnum 240 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,399 Speaker 1: display and walk out and say, well, that was a sham. 241 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: He fooled us. Instead, they would walk out and say 242 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: that was a good humbug. And so P. T. Barnum. 243 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: Let me just tell if you are an entrepreneur, let 244 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: me tell you a book that you just must read. 245 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: It's written by one of my favorite authors, Joe Vitally 246 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 1: last name spelled V a l e and it's called 247 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 1: There's a Customer Born every minute. There's a customer born 248 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: every minute, And it's P. T. Barnum's amazing Ten Rings 249 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: of Power for creating fame, fortune, and a business empire today. Guaranteed, 250 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 1: it's a great book, and it's about marketing, and P. T. 251 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: Barnum really understood the power of marketing on a level 252 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 1: that was absolutely genius. And of course, if you've never 253 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: seen the movie The Greatest Showman, it came out in 254 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen starring Hugh Jackman, you should definitely watch that movie. 255 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: And I don't usually recommend musicals. Yes, and trust me, 256 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: Hugh Jackman looks nothing like P. T. Barnum looked. But 257 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: here's one of the funny things. My wife Lauren and 258 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: I were on an airplane in the process of moving 259 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 1: to Las Vegas, and we had like a little kindle 260 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: that we'd watch movies on. And this was an exciting 261 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,679 Speaker 1: time for us. I mean, big move, like it's a 262 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 1: huge thing. I'm from the East coast, I'm moving to 263 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: the West Coast, and so I put on The Greatest 264 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 1: Showman expecting to be disappointed. Turns out I was not 265 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: at all disappointed. But very shortly into the movie P. T. 266 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 1: Barnum's character there he goes to his kids and he says, look, 267 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 1: I bought something special for you. And he opens this 268 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: box and he needs to takes something out, and he says, 269 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: this is a wishing machine. And I just it just 270 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,239 Speaker 1: gave me kind of goosebumps. And it's sort of of 271 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: like it's like a candle, and then it has the 272 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: shell around it with various designs, and when he spends it, 273 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: it projects the designs like stars all over the place, 274 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: and the kids are filled with wonder and I just 275 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: thought that was, I don't know, a little too synchronistic. 276 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: Here I am starting this new phase of my life 277 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: and I'm watching this movie on the airplane and the 278 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: guy pulls out the wishing machine. I actually bought a 279 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: replica of that wishing machine from the movie that I 280 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 1: have somewhere, so I figure, sometimes just for fun, I 281 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: sit around and I read about P. T. Barnum, this 282 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: very strange man. I read about the people that he featured, 283 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: and sometimes I'm just gonna get on here and I'm 284 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: just gonna tell you the story, the life story of 285 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: somebody who was involved with P. T. Barnum and hopefully 286 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: you'll find that interesting. And right now I'm talking about 287 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: John Adams, not the John Adams, John Boyden Adams, who 288 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 1: was born in eighteen twelve. You know, so John he 289 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: gets famous for these hanging out with all these bears. 290 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: And at some point he got a bear that he 291 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: named ben Hey, he named it after Benjamin Franklin. I 292 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: told you they were into presidents a lot back then. 293 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,199 Speaker 1: But this time a mother bear did come along and 294 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 1: attacked John and almost killed him. As a matter of fact, 295 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: this mama grizzly bear bit into his head, if you 296 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,360 Speaker 1: can imagine living through something like that, and took this 297 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:59,439 Speaker 1: big chunk of his skull out. And right before he died, 298 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: the bear, the little bear, the little bear beIN came 299 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 1: in and somehow saved him, fought this big mama bear off. 300 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,160 Speaker 1: But that headwound when that bear took that chunk out 301 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 1: of his skull. Oh, he never was gonna ever get 302 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 1: over that. Really, it actually left a piece of his 303 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,199 Speaker 1: You could look and see his brain, all right. I 304 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: know that's disgusting, but there you go. You could see 305 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: a chunk of his head was gone, and you could 306 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:34,400 Speaker 1: look at there and see his brain tissue. But he, 307 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 1: you know, he kept going. He captured this one bear 308 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: named Samson, fifteen hundred pounds. They say it's one of 309 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:47,639 Speaker 1: the largest grizzly bears ever captured live. I wonder how 310 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 1: much fifteen pounds is and kilograms six hundred and eighty kilograms. 311 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:04,160 Speaker 1: It's a big bear. So anyway, John, he keeps collecting 312 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: these bears and next thing, you know, he sets up 313 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: kind of like a he called it a museum, but 314 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: it was a show and people would come from all 315 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 1: over the place and they would watch him with his 316 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 1: trained bears, and he started making some serious do But 317 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:29,679 Speaker 1: then at some point another bear attacked him, went for 318 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: that little weak spot in his head, bit him there 319 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: on the head. Again. He was having trouble running the business, 320 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: and he finally was in a situation where he just 321 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: couldn't run the business very well. He was about to 322 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: be he was losing his business. And that is when P. T. 323 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: Barnum contacted him. P T. Barnum had been reading all 324 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,200 Speaker 1: of these newspaper stories about this guy in California, you 325 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 1: who had this amazing ability to go out and capture 326 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: these bears and train them and tame them, So P. T. 327 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:10,439 Speaker 1: Barnum says, why don't you come out here to the 328 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 1: East Coast and I'm going to become your promoter, and 329 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: I'm going to feature you, and we're going to call 330 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:27,120 Speaker 1: you Grizzly Adams. I wonder I know some of you 331 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: guessed from the very beginning that I was talking about 332 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 1: Grizzly Adams, John Adams. It is Grizzly Adams. Some of 333 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: you had no idea. Some of you still don't know 334 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 1: who the heck I'm talking about, depends on when you 335 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: were born. But when we come back, I'll explain more 336 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: about who Grizzly Adams was. I'm going to tell you 337 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,920 Speaker 1: the end of this story, and then I think I 338 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:57,360 Speaker 1: might even have a special treat for you. Who knows 339 00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: what I'm going to do. It's Christmas time for me. 340 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: I'm up for anything. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening 341 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: to Range Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast 342 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,640 Speaker 1: AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back 343 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: after these messages. Welcome back to Strange Things on the 344 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast AMN Paranormal Podcast Network. 345 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 1: I am your host Joshua wa Pee Warren and this 346 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,360 Speaker 1: is the show where the unusual becomes usual. It has 347 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,959 Speaker 1: been a tough year. Twenty twenty four has been a 348 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: tough year, of course. You know. I'm from the East Coast, 349 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: originally Asheville, North Carolina, and they got hammered by that 350 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: hurricane flooding and they're still you know, it's gonna be 351 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: a while before they completely recover from that. I mean, 352 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 1: it was historic an election year. Those are always fun. Huh. 353 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 1: It's been so exhausting. But imagine back in those days. 354 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: You know, I can get on an airplane now and 355 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: watch a couple of movies and have a microwave dinner, 356 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 1: and I can go from one coast to the other 357 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 1: coast of this country. But back in the eighteen hundreds, 358 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: I mean, my goodness, at this point where we're talking 359 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: about eighteen sixty, I believe John Grizzly Adams. He gets 360 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: this invitation to go travel across the country and uh 361 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: and start being you know, promoted by P. T. Barnum. 362 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 1: And even if you are an old, stinky, dirty mountain man, 363 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: if you get famous, you will start attracting the ladies. 364 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: And so he got a woman at this point he 365 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: got married. See, guys, if you think all hope is lost, 366 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: go out there, start catching some grizzly bears. The ladies will, 367 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:47,120 Speaker 1: they'll notice, they'll come around. So he loads up his bears, 368 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,119 Speaker 1: his menagerie as they call it. He gets you know, 369 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,639 Speaker 1: the whole the whole kid in kaboodle. He and his 370 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: wife they get on this clipper in San Francisco and 371 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 1: they sell all the way down our round Africa to 372 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: get to the East coast via Kate Horn. Three and 373 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 1: a half months they're on this ship and then once 374 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: they get over there, things are going well. But then 375 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: you know, he starts training all these animals and guess 376 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: what happens. He gets some monkey, some crazy wild monkey, 377 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 1: and that monkey jumps on him, and guess what the 378 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 1: monkey does, bites him right in that hole on his head. 379 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: Isn't that amazing how animals can sense your weak spot 380 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 1: like that? It was bad and that monkey got him. 381 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: I mean this, this guy just keeps getting bitten in 382 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: the brain. I mean they say that, you know, his 383 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: scalp is dislodged. He has like a silver dollar sized 384 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: hole there every every why is this funny? This is 385 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 1: this is sad? Every animal keeps biting this guy in 386 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 1: this hole and biting him on the brain. And so anyway, uh, 387 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: finally it's it becomes clear like he's this guy is 388 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: going downhill fast. And so he made this deal after 389 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 1: performing with P. T. Barnum. Uh, he said, look, I'm 390 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: going to retire, but I wanted to sell you this menagerie. 391 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: And also let's see it. Says that Barnum was like, 392 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: you go go rest up, but he said, look, let 393 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: me just perform. Give me ten more weeks to keep 394 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: performing for another five even though he could hardly walk 395 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: onto the stage, but he needed that money in his 396 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: plan to feel like that he had provided a comfortable 397 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: sum for his wife. And P. T. Barnum was such 398 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: a nice guy that he goes, okay, fine and lets 399 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: this guy work with his brain hanging out for another 400 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 1: ten weeks and gets the five hundred dollars and then 401 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: Adams goes to He goes to Massachusetts, where he's from, 402 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: where he's from. Five days after he gets there, he's 403 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: at home with his wife and he dies on October 404 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 1: the twenty fifth of eighteen sixty, at the age of 405 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: forty eight. Now October twenty fifth is my birthday and 406 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 1: I am currently forty eight years old. Grizzly Adams died 407 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 1: October twenty fifth, at the age of forty eight. What 408 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: is the significance as Peewee Herman said, I don't know, 409 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,239 Speaker 1: but I did pay attention to that and that, you know, 410 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 1: that's kind of I don't know, that's kind of interesting. Also, 411 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: he was born in the middle of well at the 412 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: beginning of the War of eighteen twelve, and then of 413 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: course he dies in eighteen sixty. The next year the 414 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 1: Civil War starts. I mean, if you think you've got 415 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 1: it tough right now, maybe that's the point of this 416 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 1: story is, you know, think, if you think you've got 417 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 1: it tough, think about how guys like him used to live. 418 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: And you know what, when he started getting famous for 419 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: being able to train all these bears and whatnot, there 420 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 1: was this art artist who came to pretty much make 421 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: drawings of some of his bears. Let's see, I believe 422 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: the artist was Charles Christian Naal and he did some 423 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 1: kind of watercolor in eighteen fifty five of one of 424 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 1: Grizzly adams Grizzly bears. And they say that that actually 425 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: was pretty much the same bear painting that California uses 426 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: to this day on their flag, the California Grizzly, which 427 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 1: I don't think there are any grizzlies in California anymore. 428 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: I didn't look into that specifically. I'm pretty sure they're 429 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 1: in no grizzlies in California. But you know, so when 430 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 1: you look at the flag of California, it's a Grizzly 431 00:32:52,720 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: Adams bear. Now again, I'm forty eight. My wife is. 432 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 1: I don't want to give my wife's age out. She 433 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: might not like that, but you know, she's in the 434 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: ballpark of my age. And when we grew up, there 435 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: was this show on TV in the nineteen seventies about 436 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:23,440 Speaker 1: Grizzly Adams. And let's see here, some of you are 437 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: gonna remember this. It turns out that in nineteen seventy 438 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 1: four there was this independent feature film produced called The 439 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 1: Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, and that was such 440 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: a hit that it got turned into a television show. 441 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,719 Speaker 1: And so when my wife Lauren and I were kids, 442 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 1: we were watching this Grizzly Adams TV show. Bozo the 443 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 1: Bear played Ben says two seasons, thirty eight episodes. We 444 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: both liked that movie or that TV series. I don't 445 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 1: even know if I saw the movie. Dan Haggerty was 446 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 1: the actor who played Grizzly Adams, and you know, I 447 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,760 Speaker 1: don't know of anything else the guy really did. Frankly. 448 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 1: I know they said he had a little part and 449 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,720 Speaker 1: Easy Rider. He was seventy three years old when he died, 450 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 1: and apparently he had to go. He had some kind 451 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:35,960 Speaker 1: of like back surgery, and he in twenty fifteen, and 452 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 1: so while they were doing back surgery, they discovered that 453 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:44,000 Speaker 1: he had this tumor on his spine, so he had 454 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 1: spinal cancer and then you know, it didn't take too 455 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 1: long before he passed away in Burbank, California. But I, 456 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,439 Speaker 1: you know, I started reading about this, and I don't 457 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,920 Speaker 1: know how I came across this information exactly. Maybe it 458 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 1: was because I had the same birthday as the day 459 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,400 Speaker 1: when the real Grizzly Adams died. But I was telling 460 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: Lauren about this story, and Lauren said, I never knew 461 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: there was a real Grizzly Adams, and that's why I 462 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: thought maybe this. You know, it's kind of cool to 463 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:18,360 Speaker 1: share stories like this with you on this podcast sometimes, 464 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,759 Speaker 1: and you know, even if it's just you know, it's 465 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 1: just some kind of a bio basically of somebody. As 466 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,759 Speaker 1: a matter of fact, there was this man in New 467 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 1: York back in eighteen twenty three, now that we're talking 468 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 1: about like really old times here, old guys. There was 469 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: this man in New York in eighteen twenty three, and 470 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:52,200 Speaker 1: it was Christmas time for him, and he went on 471 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:59,879 Speaker 1: a shopping trip. It says, let's see here. Uh, yeah, 472 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:06,960 Speaker 1: he was shopping and he got into a sleigh and 473 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:13,760 Speaker 1: he was going through the snow. You can imagine eighteen 474 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:19,800 Speaker 1: twenty three, this guy what's his name, what's his name, 475 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:28,400 Speaker 1: Clement Clark Moore. Yeah, he gets in a sleigh and 476 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:33,359 Speaker 1: he's going on a shopping trip and as he you know, 477 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 1: this is December, and as he's going on this shopping trip, 478 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,279 Speaker 1: he starts, I don't know, inspiration hits and he has 479 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,920 Speaker 1: this idea for a poem, and he starts, he starts 480 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:51,400 Speaker 1: composing this poem, and of course the poem becomes one 481 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 1: of the most famous poems ever. I guess he finished 482 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:55,960 Speaker 1: the shopping trip and then he got home and he 483 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 1: decided to keep writing it. It's called the Visit from 484 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:06,879 Speaker 1: Saint Nicholas. You probably know it is twas the Night 485 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:12,040 Speaker 1: before Christmas or just the night before Christmas. I'll tell 486 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,839 Speaker 1: you what, when we come back, I'm going to read 487 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 1: it to you. When's the last time you actually heard 488 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,920 Speaker 1: somebody read twas the Night before Christmas? Maybe you were 489 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,879 Speaker 1: a child. Well, you're gonna get it when you come 490 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 1: back to the show. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening 491 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,919 Speaker 1: to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Ghost 492 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,200 Speaker 1: I AMN Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back. 493 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,080 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of 494 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,440 Speaker 1: Strange Things. Oh the iHeart Prady you and Coast to 495 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 1: Coast am Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren. 496 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,799 Speaker 1: And looks like the Clement Clark Moore was born in 497 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:39,719 Speaker 1: seventeen seventy nine died eighteen sixty three. He was old 498 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:46,160 Speaker 1: eighty three years old, so I guess he wrote this 499 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,799 Speaker 1: poem when he was around forty. It says that he 500 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:56,080 Speaker 1: was a real estate developer. He looks very regal and patrician. 501 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,360 Speaker 1: I wonder if that's true. You think this guy was 502 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,640 Speaker 1: actually on a like a sleigh in the snow when 503 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:13,680 Speaker 1: he started writing this ah, here we go a visit 504 00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:19,720 Speaker 1: from Saint Nicholas. Ridden in eighteen twenty three by Clement 505 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:28,160 Speaker 1: Clark Moore. Twas the night before Christmas, went all through 506 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:32,520 Speaker 1: the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. 507 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,040 Speaker 1: The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in 508 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:42,640 Speaker 1: hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there. The children 509 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:46,520 Speaker 1: were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of 510 00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:52,680 Speaker 1: sugar plums danced in their heads. And Mama and her kerchief, 511 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,839 Speaker 1: and I in my cap, had just settled our brains 512 00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:01,640 Speaker 1: for a long winter's nap, when out on the lawn 513 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,640 Speaker 1: there arose such a clatter. I sprang from the bed 514 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,120 Speaker 1: to see what was the matter. Away to the window, 515 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:12,200 Speaker 1: I flew, like a flash pour open the shutters and 516 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:17,440 Speaker 1: threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of 517 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 1: the new fallen snow gave the luster of midday to 518 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:26,200 Speaker 1: objects below. When what to my wondering eyes should appear 519 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 1: but a miniature sleigh and a tiny reindeer with a 520 00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,400 Speaker 1: little old driver. So lively and quick I knew in 521 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:41,160 Speaker 1: a moment it must be Saint Nick. More rapid than eagles, 522 00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:45,080 Speaker 1: his coursers they came, and he whistled and shouted and 523 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:49,640 Speaker 1: called him by name, Now Dasher, now Dancer, now Prancer, 524 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,440 Speaker 1: and vixen on Comet on, Cupid, on Dunder, and Blitzen. 525 00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,400 Speaker 1: To the top of the porch, to the top of 526 00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:00,880 Speaker 1: the wall. Now dash away, dash away, dash away, all 527 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:08,359 Speaker 1: as dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly. When 528 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,960 Speaker 1: they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, so 529 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,480 Speaker 1: up to the house top the coursers they flew with 530 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:23,000 Speaker 1: a sleigh full of toys, and Saint Nicholas too. And 531 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,960 Speaker 1: then in a twinkling I heard on the roof the 532 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:31,640 Speaker 1: pantsing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew 533 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,600 Speaker 1: in my head and was turning around down the chimney, 534 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:39,080 Speaker 1: Saint Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all 535 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,319 Speaker 1: in fur from his head to his foot, and his 536 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:47,240 Speaker 1: clothes were all tarnished with ashes, and stood a bundle 537 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,520 Speaker 1: of toys he had flung on his back, And he 538 00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:55,640 Speaker 1: looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His eyes, 539 00:41:55,760 --> 00:42:01,239 Speaker 1: how they twinkled, his dimples, how merry, his cheeks were 540 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:07,240 Speaker 1: like roses, his nose like a cherry. His droll little 541 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,800 Speaker 1: mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard 542 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:15,399 Speaker 1: of his chin was as white as the snow. The 543 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,520 Speaker 1: stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, 544 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,080 Speaker 1: and the smoke encircled his head like a wreath. He 545 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,400 Speaker 1: had a broad face and a little round belly that 546 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,160 Speaker 1: shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. He 547 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,960 Speaker 1: was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf. And 548 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,040 Speaker 1: I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. 549 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:39,600 Speaker 1: A wink of his eye and a twist of his 550 00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,440 Speaker 1: head soon gave me to know I had nothing to 551 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,400 Speaker 1: dread now. He spoke not a word, but went straight 552 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:50,560 Speaker 1: to his work and filled all the stockings, and turned 553 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:54,880 Speaker 1: with a jerk, and laying his finger aside of his nose, 554 00:42:55,040 --> 00:43:00,880 Speaker 1: and giving a nod up the chimney. He rose, He 555 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,560 Speaker 1: sprang to his sleigh, to his team, gave a whistle, 556 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,600 Speaker 1: and away they all flew like the down of a thistle. 557 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,680 Speaker 1: But I heard him exclaim, or he drove out of sight. 558 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:21,759 Speaker 1: Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night. 559 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:34,040 Speaker 1: There you go, a visit from Saint Nicholas. I think 560 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,560 Speaker 1: I only messed up once, I said. I think I 561 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:44,560 Speaker 1: said panting instead of prancing or something that's Okay, why 562 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:50,840 Speaker 1: don't you do it? So all right, that's a visit 563 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:56,040 Speaker 1: from Saint Nicholas and a great poem. It really established 564 00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:59,600 Speaker 1: sort of how we feel about Santa Claus, the image 565 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,359 Speaker 1: of Santa Clause, and then of course Coca Cola they 566 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:06,120 Speaker 1: chimed in and they made a big, big difference. But 567 00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,239 Speaker 1: you know one thing that is kind of interesting when 568 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:15,239 Speaker 1: you read about this poem, It says that this is 569 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:21,120 Speaker 1: the first time that all of the reindeer were named. 570 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:25,200 Speaker 1: So regardless of what you think about Saint Nicholas and such, 571 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,560 Speaker 1: one of the things that's kind of cool about this 572 00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,160 Speaker 1: is that he who knows how he came up with 573 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:37,440 Speaker 1: those names. And I swear to you I'm not making 574 00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,399 Speaker 1: this up. There are people who have contacted me over 575 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:46,160 Speaker 1: the years and they swear to God that they have 576 00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:50,440 Speaker 1: seen Santa Claus. And I mean not just Santa Claus 577 00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:54,280 Speaker 1: running around outside, but they've seen in some cases the sleigh, 578 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:59,560 Speaker 1: they've seen the reindeer. And you know, I don't have 579 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,560 Speaker 1: time to get into the whole Tulpa thing right now, 580 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,680 Speaker 1: but it makes you wonder, doesn't it. I Mean, we 581 00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:08,520 Speaker 1: all know what Santa is supposed to look like, is 582 00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,560 Speaker 1: it possible that we're talking about a tulpa that we've 583 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:17,080 Speaker 1: created that has become externalized. I got this email from 584 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,320 Speaker 1: a man in Florida. His name is Stephen. He said, 585 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:25,480 Speaker 1: given your experience investigating tulpa's, I was wondering if you 586 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:30,000 Speaker 1: had any thoughts on the rise of AI friendship apps 587 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:35,000 Speaker 1: and the possibility that they could be creating tulpa's Personally. 588 00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,600 Speaker 1: I think it could, just like with slender Man, but 589 00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,200 Speaker 1: since there would only be one person energizing it, it 590 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,080 Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily be accidental or would it take longer. Thank 591 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,319 Speaker 1: you for your time. If you want to use this 592 00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,960 Speaker 1: on your show, you can well. Steven, thank you for 593 00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,440 Speaker 1: the email. It's a very interesting one, and thank you 594 00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,880 Speaker 1: for also including that it's okay to talk about your 595 00:45:55,920 --> 00:46:00,359 Speaker 1: email on the show. Yes, I definitely. You know what 596 00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:08,160 Speaker 1: it seems to me, Stephen, that AI is almost a 597 00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:13,279 Speaker 1: form of tulpa itself. It's like a technical tulpa that 598 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:18,719 Speaker 1: we have created, as opposed to an organic one that 599 00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:23,400 Speaker 1: we just project out of our heads. Because usually you 600 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,120 Speaker 1: think of tulpa a's as being something that you just 601 00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,920 Speaker 1: you visualize and you imagine and then you project it 602 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,839 Speaker 1: like a beam out of your head and either a 603 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,279 Speaker 1: powerful person does it or enough people do it collectively 604 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:41,040 Speaker 1: so that you create that thing. Well, if you reduce 605 00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:46,040 Speaker 1: that into a technological manifestation, then I would say, certainly 606 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:53,319 Speaker 1: a tulpa is sort of like a scientific let me 607 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:57,000 Speaker 1: put it this away, AI is kind of like a 608 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:03,279 Speaker 1: scientific version of a tulpa, so much so that the 609 00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:09,359 Speaker 1: AI might actually believe it is conscious. Just like when 610 00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:13,759 Speaker 1: you produce a tulpa, you wonder does the tulpa have 611 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:20,000 Speaker 1: some consciousness or believe it is conscious. Now, in some cases, 612 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:25,879 Speaker 1: the tulpa traditionally doesn't even have to be a personality. 613 00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:29,600 Speaker 1: It could also be a thought form that's more abstract, 614 00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,480 Speaker 1: you know, like colors of the rainbow that are surrounding 615 00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:36,160 Speaker 1: some kind of the bells of a church ringing and 616 00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:40,319 Speaker 1: that sort of thing. But you know, this is like 617 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:47,440 Speaker 1: basically Philip K. Dick material when you're talking about AI 618 00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:54,040 Speaker 1: and digging into whether or not that if you had 619 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:58,200 Speaker 1: the equivalent of C three Po from a Star Wars, 620 00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,640 Speaker 1: if C three po believe eves that C three po 621 00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:06,399 Speaker 1: is conscious, does that make C three po a conscious being? 622 00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,800 Speaker 1: And if not, well, then what is the difference between 623 00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:11,680 Speaker 1: C three po and you and me, where do we 624 00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,160 Speaker 1: draw that line? So, look, this is a this is 625 00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,720 Speaker 1: a big topic. Maybe I'll do a whole show about 626 00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:22,680 Speaker 1: this at some point. But yes, you're right, AI is 627 00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:29,120 Speaker 1: a type of scientifically technical. It's a scientific technical tulpa. 628 00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:35,680 Speaker 1: That's I think what we're talking about. All right, Well 629 00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,320 Speaker 1: this has been a weird one. But think you're the 630 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,640 Speaker 1: one who wanted to listen to a show called Strange Things. 631 00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,240 Speaker 1: So take a deep breath, if you can, close your eyes. 632 00:48:43,440 --> 00:49:09,839 Speaker 1: Let's now finish with the good Fortune tone. That's it 633 00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:14,040 Speaker 1: for this edition of the show. Follow me at Joshua P. 634 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:18,400 Speaker 1: Warren Plus, visit Joshuapwarren dot com to sign up for 635 00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:23,040 Speaker 1: my free e newsletter to receive a free instant gift, 636 00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:26,240 Speaker 1: and check out the cool stuff in the Curiosity Shop. 637 00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:30,279 Speaker 1: All at Joshuapwarren dot com. 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