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Speaker 1: This is Strange Women, Joshua Warren. I am JOSHUAA. Be Warren,
Speaker 1: and each week on this show, I'll be bringing you
Speaker 1: brand new my blowing content, news exercises and weird experiments
Speaker 1: you can do at home, and a lot more. On
Speaker 1: this edition of the show. Here's a Pet Barnum story.
Speaker 1: I am certainly fortunate because people listen to this show
Speaker 1: all over the world. Therefore, let me give you a refresher,
Speaker 1: if need be, on the history of this country. The
Speaker 1: United States of America what we call the USA, back
Speaker 1: in the seventeen hundreds was a collection of British colonies.
Speaker 1: And then the people over time did not like some
Speaker 1: of the things the British were doing. And so in
Speaker 1: seventeen seventy six, the founders of this country they gathered
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and they they signed the Declaration of Independence,
Speaker 1: which declared basically, you know, ultimately declared war on Britain,
Speaker 1: which was almost unthinkable, the most powerful war machine in
Speaker 1: the world at the time. And miraculously, due to the
Speaker 1: efforts of many many people, including of course especially George
Speaker 1: Washington and people like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, etc. Well,
Speaker 1: we won that war and thus was formed the USA.
Speaker 1: But the British, they certainly were not happy about it.
Speaker 1: So they limped back across the pond, as they say,
Speaker 1: to England and plotted their revenge. And so they finally
Speaker 1: came back. They figured that they would let us wear
Speaker 1: ourselves out for a while, and they came back in
Speaker 1: eighteen twelve and tried to take the country again, and
Speaker 1: we called that the War of eighteen twelve. And boy,
Speaker 1: they almost succeeded that time. The British actually made it
Speaker 1: into the White House. They ate all the food, they
Speaker 1: burned it. I mean, yeah, talked about the darkest hour.
Speaker 1: The president got on a horse and rode out of town,
Speaker 1: left his wife behind. You know, but this is one
Speaker 1: of those stories. I could probably just do a whole
Speaker 1: show about that. Because one of the reasons that the
Speaker 1: British failed was because of what almost seems like divine intervention.
Speaker 1: They had a bunch of ships that were sitting outside
Speaker 1: DC and this horrific hurricane came through and sank all
Speaker 1: their ships and took all their supplies and killed a
Speaker 1: bunch of of them. They really couldn't couldn't continue after that.
Speaker 1: Well anyway, so eighteen twelve, it was a very dramatic
Speaker 1: year for this country. And in that year, let's see
Speaker 1: here October twenty second of eighteen twelve, there was a
Speaker 1: baby born in Massachusetts named John Boyden Adams. And you know,
Speaker 1: you have to understand that back in those days, a
Speaker 1: lot of people were illiterate. You didn't have like baby
Speaker 1: naming books, and so often kids were named after characters
Speaker 1: in the Bible or a president. And of course John
Speaker 1: Adams was one of the founders of the country. So
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people who have the last
Speaker 1: name Adams ended up naming their baby boy John. So
Speaker 1: John Boyden Adams was born October of eighteen twelve in Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: John Boyden Adams, and this is he was born in
Speaker 1: a suburb of Boston. He had very little education, and
Speaker 1: from what I understand, his father was a guy who
Speaker 1: made shoes, a shoemaker. I guess I suppose that's what
Speaker 1: we'd call it, cobbler. I don't know for sure. So
Speaker 1: he learned that trade, but as he grew up as
Speaker 1: a teenager, he was never quite satisfied with it because
Speaker 1: John always felt that it was kind of claustrophobic, phobic
Speaker 1: being pent up in a little workshop all day long.
Speaker 1: He liked the outdoors, so as he got older, he
Speaker 1: started going out more, and he learned how to track animals.
Speaker 1: He learned how to trap them. He became quite accomplished hunter.
Speaker 1: He actually even started training animals. But as the country
Speaker 1: got closer to eighteen forty nine, when all this gold
Speaker 1: was being found out west, he started thinking, boy, maybe
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity for me to strike it rich.
Speaker 1: And so as as a man, John decided to well.
Speaker 1: He came up with this scheme. He said, I'm going
Speaker 1: to take my life savings, which was over six thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: In today's money that would be close to two hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: And he said, I'm going to buy all the supplies
Speaker 1: and make a bunch of shoes to sell to all
Speaker 1: these people who were heading out to California there to
Speaker 1: get rich off of the gold rush. So sure enough,
Speaker 1: he spent his whole life savings. And then he also
Speaker 1: went to his father and got his father to invest
Speaker 1: pretty much all that is fun. And they got all
Speaker 1: this footwear ready to go, ready to hit it big
Speaker 1: in this warehouse, and the warehouse caught on fire and
Speaker 1: they lost it all, and his father killed himself. I mean,
Speaker 1: talk about the most awful weight on your shoulders. You've
Speaker 1: convinced your dad, you know, your parent to invest all
Speaker 1: this money and then it all goes up in flames
Speaker 1: and he commits suicide. This is I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a dark story. I'll tell you later why I am
Speaker 1: telling you this story, By the way, it is a
Speaker 1: true one. So so John, after that, he says, I
Speaker 1: just I have to go. I have to go far away.
Speaker 1: I can't be in this place. It's too painful. So
Speaker 1: he decides to go out west, where all the forty
Speaker 1: are and he thinks, well, maybe I'll just go out
Speaker 1: there and I'll live alone in the woods and I'll
Speaker 1: find gold. So it takes him months, but he makes
Speaker 1: it out there, from Massachusetts to California, and he tries
Speaker 1: some mining and trading in various valuables, and but it
Speaker 1: just wasn't working out for him. So but he wasn't
Speaker 1: a likable guy. As a matter of fact, some of
Speaker 1: the local Native Americans helped him build a little cabin
Speaker 1: out there in the middle of the mountains. So he said,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go back to what I'm good at.
Speaker 1: I'm going to start trapping and hunting. And because of
Speaker 1: his background with shoemaking and leather craft, he knew how
Speaker 1: that he could actually kill an animal and turn it
Speaker 1: into some kind of buckskin clothing and moccasins, which was
Speaker 1: very needed at that time. So he became a better
Speaker 1: and better hunter. And at some point he stumbles upon
Speaker 1: a cave and inside this cave there are some little
Speaker 1: grizzly bear cubs and he decides to take one of them,
Speaker 1: and of course he takes this cub back to his cab,
Speaker 1: and he's scared to death. The mom a bear is
Speaker 1: going to show up, but she doesn't, and so he
Speaker 1: starts training this bear and realize very quickly that the bear, well,
Speaker 1: it was kind of like a dog for us nowadays.
Speaker 1: The bear would cuddle up and sleep with them in bed.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, he had this bear hooked up
Speaker 1: to some kind of a I don't know, a sleigh
Speaker 1: or a cart of some kind, like this bear is
Speaker 1: a horse, you know, and he goes riding into town
Speaker 1: with this grizzly bear pulling. Nobody had ever seen such
Speaker 1: a thing. It was amazing. And the legend of this
Speaker 1: man who had trained this bear keeps spreading, and it
Speaker 1: became more and more popular, until finally he said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to start catching more of these bears and
Speaker 1: training them, and then I'll put all the little shows
Speaker 1: for people with these bears and show them show how
Speaker 1: well trained these bears are. Well, just when you thought
Speaker 1: the story was sounding like it was going to have
Speaker 1: a happy ending, no, something bad happened. But we're up
Speaker 1: on a break. So when we come back, I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you the rest of the story, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you why I'm telling you this story also,
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Speaker 1: to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
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Speaker 1: of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your worm whole
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: A Giao, Zume and I have been working in the
Speaker 1: media for over thirty years, and I have been hosting
Speaker 1: radio for I Guess over twenty years. And of course
Speaker 1: you know, back when I started out in hosting radio
Speaker 1: I mean, you would you get in your car, you
Speaker 1: would drive to the station. You would go in and
Speaker 1: sit down in front of a microphone, and then they'd
Speaker 1: say you're on the air, and then you would talk
Speaker 1: live into a microphone and then whatever you said it
Speaker 1: was out there and there was no I mean, you
Speaker 1: might have a delay for up to maybe eight seconds
Speaker 1: or something like that if you accidentally used a bad word,
Speaker 1: which I rarely did, and then after that you go home,
Speaker 1: and there was no recording that was easily accessible to
Speaker 1: the average person. I used to take a little boom
Speaker 1: box into the station and make my own audio cassette recordings. Nowadays,
Speaker 1: of course, it's totally different with podcasts. So what's weird
Speaker 1: about that is I can sit here and tell you
Speaker 1: that it's Christmas time for me, but you might be
Speaker 1: listening to this in the middle of a sweltering summer
Speaker 1: day at the beach or something. So you're kind of
Speaker 1: not supposed to talk about the circumstances that you're in
Speaker 1: when you're doing a podcast, because it's not like a
Speaker 1: live thing where we're all on the same boat. But
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't care because I realize this
Speaker 1: it is Christmas time for me right now, you're at
Speaker 1: least hearing this in December, I'm drinking non alcoholic eggnog
Speaker 1: as soon as the show's overall poured the hard stuff in.
Speaker 1: And I'm very proud to say that I believe, I
Speaker 1: believe that I have not missed a single week in
Speaker 1: this year that I think every single week I've had
Speaker 1: a brand new show for you, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people in my position would say I've taken the holidays off.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to take a break. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to record a show, but I decided not to do that.
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I'm going to go ahead
Speaker 1: and see if I can do a whole full year
Speaker 1: where I don't miss a single week. But here's what
Speaker 1: I'm going to do as a release foul for December.
Speaker 1: I'm going to just sort of talk about whatever the
Speaker 1: heck that I want to and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: stress out too much over like fitting it into a framework.
Speaker 1: Just whatever's on my mind is what I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about. And I've always been intrigued with P. T. Barnum.
Speaker 1: I mean, the show is called Strange Things, and this
Speaker 1: is I mean, come on, who's stranger than P. T. Barnum.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know. P. T. Barnum was born in
Speaker 1: Connecticut eighteen ten. He died in Connecticut at the age
Speaker 1: of eighty And I mean the guy. He was one
Speaker 1: of the best businessmen of all time. And I know
Speaker 1: that some people who don't know much about the life
Speaker 1: of P. T. Barnum, they think that he was he
Speaker 1: was kind of a bad guy who said there's a
Speaker 1: sucker born every minute. That's actually not true. He never
Speaker 1: said that. Apparently, historians say that he actually was very
Speaker 1: respectful of his patrons, and he didn't he would the
Speaker 1: last thing he would do was disparage them, and that
Speaker 1: he really always wanted to feel like he had kind
Speaker 1: of a humorous and joking relationship with his patrons. In
Speaker 1: other words, they wouldn't go see a P. T. Barnum
Speaker 1: display and walk out and say, well, that was a sham.
Speaker 1: He fooled us. Instead, they would walk out and say
Speaker 1: that was a good humbug. And so P. T. Barnum.
Speaker 1: Let me just tell if you are an entrepreneur, let
Speaker 1: me tell you a book that you just must read.
Speaker 1: It's written by one of my favorite authors, Joe Vitally
Speaker 1: last name spelled V a l e and it's called
Speaker 1: There's a Customer Born every minute. There's a customer born
Speaker 1: every minute, And it's P. T. Barnum's amazing Ten Rings
Speaker 1: of Power for creating fame, fortune, and a business empire today. Guaranteed,
Speaker 1: it's a great book, and it's about marketing, and P. T.
Speaker 1: Barnum really understood the power of marketing on a level
Speaker 1: that was absolutely genius. And of course, if you've never
Speaker 1: seen the movie The Greatest Showman, it came out in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen starring Hugh Jackman, you should definitely watch that movie.
Speaker 1: And I don't usually recommend musicals. Yes, and trust me,
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackman looks nothing like P. T. Barnum looked. But
Speaker 1: here's one of the funny things. My wife Lauren and
Speaker 1: I were on an airplane in the process of moving
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas, and we had like a little kindle
Speaker 1: that we'd watch movies on. And this was an exciting
Speaker 1: time for us. I mean, big move, like it's a
Speaker 1: huge thing. I'm from the East coast, I'm moving to
Speaker 1: the West Coast, and so I put on The Greatest
Speaker 1: Showman expecting to be disappointed. Turns out I was not
Speaker 1: at all disappointed. But very shortly into the movie P. T.
Speaker 1: Barnum's character there he goes to his kids and he says, look,
Speaker 1: I bought something special for you. And he opens this
Speaker 1: box and he needs to takes something out, and he says,
Speaker 1: this is a wishing machine. And I just it just
Speaker 1: gave me kind of goosebumps. And it's sort of of
Speaker 1: like it's like a candle, and then it has the
Speaker 1: shell around it with various designs, and when he spends it,
Speaker 1: it projects the designs like stars all over the place,
Speaker 1: and the kids are filled with wonder and I just
Speaker 1: thought that was, I don't know, a little too synchronistic.
Speaker 1: Here I am starting this new phase of my life
Speaker 1: and I'm watching this movie on the airplane and the
Speaker 1: guy pulls out the wishing machine. I actually bought a
Speaker 1: replica of that wishing machine from the movie that I
Speaker 1: have somewhere, so I figure, sometimes just for fun, I
Speaker 1: sit around and I read about P. T. Barnum, this
Speaker 1: very strange man. I read about the people that he featured,
Speaker 1: and sometimes I'm just gonna get on here and I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna tell you the story, the life story of
Speaker 1: somebody who was involved with P. T. Barnum and hopefully
Speaker 1: you'll find that interesting. And right now I'm talking about
Speaker 1: John Adams, not the John Adams, John Boyden Adams, who
Speaker 1: was born in eighteen twelve. You know, so John he
Speaker 1: gets famous for these hanging out with all these bears.
Speaker 1: And at some point he got a bear that he
Speaker 1: named ben Hey, he named it after Benjamin Franklin. I
Speaker 1: told you they were into presidents a lot back then.
Speaker 1: But this time a mother bear did come along and
Speaker 1: attacked John and almost killed him. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: this mama grizzly bear bit into his head, if you
Speaker 1: can imagine living through something like that, and took this
Speaker 1: big chunk of his skull out. And right before he died,
Speaker 1: the bear, the little bear, the little bear beIN came
Speaker 1: in and somehow saved him, fought this big mama bear off.
Speaker 1: But that headwound when that bear took that chunk out
Speaker 1: of his skull. Oh, he never was gonna ever get
Speaker 1: over that. Really, it actually left a piece of his
Speaker 1: You could look and see his brain, all right. I
Speaker 1: know that's disgusting, but there you go. You could see
Speaker 1: a chunk of his head was gone, and you could
Speaker 1: look at there and see his brain tissue. But he,
Speaker 1: you know, he kept going. He captured this one bear
Speaker 1: named Samson, fifteen hundred pounds. They say it's one of
Speaker 1: the largest grizzly bears ever captured live. I wonder how
Speaker 1: much fifteen pounds is and kilograms six hundred and eighty kilograms.
Speaker 1: It's a big bear. So anyway, John, he keeps collecting
Speaker 1: these bears and next thing, you know, he sets up
Speaker 1: kind of like a he called it a museum, but
Speaker 1: it was a show and people would come from all
Speaker 1: over the place and they would watch him with his
Speaker 1: trained bears, and he started making some serious do But
Speaker 1: then at some point another bear attacked him, went for
Speaker 1: that little weak spot in his head, bit him there
Speaker 1: on the head. Again. He was having trouble running the business,
Speaker 1: and he finally was in a situation where he just
Speaker 1: couldn't run the business very well. He was about to
Speaker 1: be he was losing his business. And that is when P. T.
Speaker 1: Barnum contacted him. P T. Barnum had been reading all
Speaker 1: of these newspaper stories about this guy in California, you
Speaker 1: who had this amazing ability to go out and capture
Speaker 1: these bears and train them and tame them, So P. T.
Speaker 1: Barnum says, why don't you come out here to the
Speaker 1: East Coast and I'm going to become your promoter, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to feature you, and we're going to call
Speaker 1: you Grizzly Adams. I wonder I know some of you
Speaker 1: guessed from the very beginning that I was talking about
Speaker 1: Grizzly Adams, John Adams. It is Grizzly Adams. Some of
Speaker 1: you had no idea. Some of you still don't know
Speaker 1: who the heck I'm talking about, depends on when you
Speaker 1: were born. But when we come back, I'll explain more
Speaker 1: about who Grizzly Adams was. I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: the end of this story, and then I think I
Speaker 1: might even have a special treat for you. Who knows
Speaker 1: what I'm going to do. It's Christmas time for me.
Speaker 1: I'm up for anything. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening
Speaker 1: to Range Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
Speaker 1: AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back
Speaker 1: after these messages. Welcome back to Strange Things on the
Speaker 1: iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast AMN Paranormal Podcast Network.
Speaker 1: I am your host Joshua wa Pee Warren and this
Speaker 1: is the show where the unusual becomes usual. It has
Speaker 1: been a tough year. Twenty twenty four has been a
Speaker 1: tough year, of course. You know. I'm from the East Coast,
Speaker 1: originally Asheville, North Carolina, and they got hammered by that
Speaker 1: hurricane flooding and they're still you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a while before they completely recover from that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was historic an election year. Those are always fun. Huh.
Speaker 1: It's been so exhausting. But imagine back in those days.
Speaker 1: You know, I can get on an airplane now and
Speaker 1: watch a couple of movies and have a microwave dinner,
Speaker 1: and I can go from one coast to the other
Speaker 1: coast of this country. But back in the eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: I mean, my goodness, at this point where we're talking
Speaker 1: about eighteen sixty, I believe John Grizzly Adams. He gets
Speaker 1: this invitation to go travel across the country and uh
Speaker 1: and start being you know, promoted by P. T. Barnum.
Speaker 1: And even if you are an old, stinky, dirty mountain man,
Speaker 1: if you get famous, you will start attracting the ladies.
Speaker 1: And so he got a woman at this point he
Speaker 1: got married. See, guys, if you think all hope is lost,
Speaker 1: go out there, start catching some grizzly bears. The ladies will,
Speaker 1: they'll notice, they'll come around. So he loads up his bears,
Speaker 1: his menagerie as they call it. He gets you know,
Speaker 1: the whole the whole kid in kaboodle. He and his
Speaker 1: wife they get on this clipper in San Francisco and
Speaker 1: they sell all the way down our round Africa to
Speaker 1: get to the East coast via Kate Horn. Three and
Speaker 1: a half months they're on this ship and then once
Speaker 1: they get over there, things are going well. But then
Speaker 1: you know, he starts training all these animals and guess
Speaker 1: what happens. He gets some monkey, some crazy wild monkey,
Speaker 1: and that monkey jumps on him, and guess what the
Speaker 1: monkey does, bites him right in that hole on his head.
Speaker 1: Isn't that amazing how animals can sense your weak spot
Speaker 1: like that? It was bad and that monkey got him.
Speaker 1: I mean this, this guy just keeps getting bitten in
Speaker 1: the brain. I mean they say that, you know, his
Speaker 1: scalp is dislodged. He has like a silver dollar sized
Speaker 1: hole there every every why is this funny? This is
Speaker 1: this is sad? Every animal keeps biting this guy in
Speaker 1: this hole and biting him on the brain. And so anyway, uh,
Speaker 1: finally it's it becomes clear like he's this guy is
Speaker 1: going downhill fast. And so he made this deal after
Speaker 1: performing with P. T. Barnum. Uh, he said, look, I'm
Speaker 1: going to retire, but I wanted to sell you this menagerie.
Speaker 1: And also let's see it. Says that Barnum was like,
Speaker 1: you go go rest up, but he said, look, let
Speaker 1: me just perform. Give me ten more weeks to keep
Speaker 1: performing for another five even though he could hardly walk
Speaker 1: onto the stage, but he needed that money in his
Speaker 1: plan to feel like that he had provided a comfortable
Speaker 1: sum for his wife. And P. T. Barnum was such
Speaker 1: a nice guy that he goes, okay, fine and lets
Speaker 1: this guy work with his brain hanging out for another
Speaker 1: ten weeks and gets the five hundred dollars and then
Speaker 1: Adams goes to He goes to Massachusetts, where he's from,
Speaker 1: where he's from. Five days after he gets there, he's
Speaker 1: at home with his wife and he dies on October
Speaker 1: the twenty fifth of eighteen sixty, at the age of
Speaker 1: forty eight. Now October twenty fifth is my birthday and
Speaker 1: I am currently forty eight years old. Grizzly Adams died
Speaker 1: October twenty fifth, at the age of forty eight. What
Speaker 1: is the significance as Peewee Herman said, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I did pay attention to that and that, you know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of I don't know, that's kind of interesting. Also,
Speaker 1: he was born in the middle of well at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the War of eighteen twelve, and then of
Speaker 1: course he dies in eighteen sixty. The next year the
Speaker 1: Civil War starts. I mean, if you think you've got
Speaker 1: it tough right now, maybe that's the point of this
Speaker 1: story is, you know, think, if you think you've got
Speaker 1: it tough, think about how guys like him used to live.
Speaker 1: And you know what, when he started getting famous for
Speaker 1: being able to train all these bears and whatnot, there
Speaker 1: was this art artist who came to pretty much make
Speaker 1: drawings of some of his bears. Let's see, I believe
Speaker 1: the artist was Charles Christian Naal and he did some
Speaker 1: kind of watercolor in eighteen fifty five of one of
Speaker 1: Grizzly adams Grizzly bears. And they say that that actually
Speaker 1: was pretty much the same bear painting that California uses
Speaker 1: to this day on their flag, the California Grizzly, which
Speaker 1: I don't think there are any grizzlies in California anymore.
Speaker 1: I didn't look into that specifically. I'm pretty sure they're
Speaker 1: in no grizzlies in California. But you know, so when
Speaker 1: you look at the flag of California, it's a Grizzly
Speaker 1: Adams bear. Now again, I'm forty eight. My wife is.
Speaker 1: I don't want to give my wife's age out. She
Speaker 1: might not like that, but you know, she's in the
Speaker 1: ballpark of my age. And when we grew up, there
Speaker 1: was this show on TV in the nineteen seventies about
Speaker 1: Grizzly Adams. And let's see here, some of you are
Speaker 1: gonna remember this. It turns out that in nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: four there was this independent feature film produced called The
Speaker 1: Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, and that was such
Speaker 1: a hit that it got turned into a television show.
Speaker 1: And so when my wife Lauren and I were kids,
Speaker 1: we were watching this Grizzly Adams TV show. Bozo the
Speaker 1: Bear played Ben says two seasons, thirty eight episodes. We
Speaker 1: both liked that movie or that TV series. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if I saw the movie. Dan Haggerty was
Speaker 1: the actor who played Grizzly Adams, and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know of anything else the guy really did. Frankly.
Speaker 1: I know they said he had a little part and
Speaker 1: Easy Rider. He was seventy three years old when he died,
Speaker 1: and apparently he had to go. He had some kind
Speaker 1: of like back surgery, and he in twenty fifteen, and
Speaker 1: so while they were doing back surgery, they discovered that
Speaker 1: he had this tumor on his spine, so he had
Speaker 1: spinal cancer and then you know, it didn't take too
Speaker 1: long before he passed away in Burbank, California. But I,
Speaker 1: you know, I started reading about this, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how I came across this information exactly. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was because I had the same birthday as the day
Speaker 1: when the real Grizzly Adams died. But I was telling
Speaker 1: Lauren about this story, and Lauren said, I never knew
Speaker 1: there was a real Grizzly Adams, and that's why I
Speaker 1: thought maybe this. You know, it's kind of cool to
Speaker 1: share stories like this with you on this podcast sometimes,
Speaker 1: and you know, even if it's just you know, it's
Speaker 1: just some kind of a bio basically of somebody. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, there was this man in New
Speaker 1: York back in eighteen twenty three, now that we're talking
Speaker 1: about like really old times here, old guys. There was
Speaker 1: this man in New York in eighteen twenty three, and
Speaker 1: it was Christmas time for him, and he went on
Speaker 1: a shopping trip. It says, let's see here. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was shopping and he got into a sleigh and
Speaker 1: he was going through the snow. You can imagine eighteen
Speaker 1: twenty three, this guy what's his name, what's his name,
Speaker 1: Clement Clark Moore. Yeah, he gets in a sleigh and
Speaker 1: he's going on a shopping trip and as he you know,
Speaker 1: this is December, and as he's going on this shopping trip,
Speaker 1: he starts, I don't know, inspiration hits and he has
Speaker 1: this idea for a poem, and he starts, he starts
Speaker 1: composing this poem, and of course the poem becomes one
Speaker 1: of the most famous poems ever. I guess he finished
Speaker 1: the shopping trip and then he got home and he
Speaker 1: decided to keep writing it. It's called the Visit from
Speaker 1: Saint Nicholas. You probably know it is twas the Night
Speaker 1: before Christmas or just the night before Christmas. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what, when we come back, I'm going to read
Speaker 1: it to you. When's the last time you actually heard
Speaker 1: somebody read twas the Night before Christmas? Maybe you were
Speaker 1: a child. Well, you're gonna get it when you come
Speaker 1: back to the show. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening
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Speaker 1: And looks like the Clement Clark Moore was born in
Speaker 1: seventeen seventy nine died eighteen sixty three. He was old
Speaker 1: eighty three years old, so I guess he wrote this
Speaker 1: poem when he was around forty. It says that he
Speaker 1: was a real estate developer. He looks very regal and patrician.
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's true. You think this guy was
Speaker 1: actually on a like a sleigh in the snow when
Speaker 1: he started writing this ah, here we go a visit
Speaker 1: from Saint Nicholas. Ridden in eighteen twenty three by Clement
Speaker 1: Clark Moore. Twas the night before Christmas, went all through
Speaker 1: the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Speaker 1: The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in
Speaker 1: hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there. The children
Speaker 1: were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of
Speaker 1: sugar plums danced in their heads. And Mama and her kerchief,
Speaker 1: and I in my cap, had just settled our brains
Speaker 1: for a long winter's nap, when out on the lawn
Speaker 1: there arose such a clatter. I sprang from the bed
Speaker 1: to see what was the matter. Away to the window,
Speaker 1: I flew, like a flash pour open the shutters and
Speaker 1: threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of
Speaker 1: the new fallen snow gave the luster of midday to
Speaker 1: objects below. When what to my wondering eyes should appear
Speaker 1: but a miniature sleigh and a tiny reindeer with a
Speaker 1: little old driver. So lively and quick I knew in
Speaker 1: a moment it must be Saint Nick. More rapid than eagles,
Speaker 1: his coursers they came, and he whistled and shouted and
Speaker 1: called him by name, Now Dasher, now Dancer, now Prancer,
Speaker 1: and vixen on Comet on, Cupid, on Dunder, and Blitzen.
Speaker 1: To the top of the porch, to the top of
Speaker 1: the wall. Now dash away, dash away, dash away, all
Speaker 1: as dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly. When
Speaker 1: they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, so
Speaker 1: up to the house top the coursers they flew with
Speaker 1: a sleigh full of toys, and Saint Nicholas too. And
Speaker 1: then in a twinkling I heard on the roof the
Speaker 1: pantsing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew
Speaker 1: in my head and was turning around down the chimney,
Speaker 1: Saint Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all
Speaker 1: in fur from his head to his foot, and his
Speaker 1: clothes were all tarnished with ashes, and stood a bundle
Speaker 1: of toys he had flung on his back, And he
Speaker 1: looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His eyes,
Speaker 1: how they twinkled, his dimples, how merry, his cheeks were
Speaker 1: like roses, his nose like a cherry. His droll little
Speaker 1: mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard
Speaker 1: of his chin was as white as the snow. The
Speaker 1: stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
Speaker 1: and the smoke encircled his head like a wreath. He
Speaker 1: had a broad face and a little round belly that
Speaker 1: shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. He
Speaker 1: was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf. And
Speaker 1: I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself.
Speaker 1: A wink of his eye and a twist of his
Speaker 1: head soon gave me to know I had nothing to
Speaker 1: dread now. He spoke not a word, but went straight
Speaker 1: to his work and filled all the stockings, and turned
Speaker 1: with a jerk, and laying his finger aside of his nose,
Speaker 1: and giving a nod up the chimney. He rose, He
Speaker 1: sprang to his sleigh, to his team, gave a whistle,
Speaker 1: and away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
Speaker 1: But I heard him exclaim, or he drove out of sight.
Speaker 1: Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
Speaker 1: There you go, a visit from Saint Nicholas. I think
Speaker 1: I only messed up once, I said. I think I
Speaker 1: said panting instead of prancing or something that's Okay, why
Speaker 1: don't you do it? So all right, that's a visit
Speaker 1: from Saint Nicholas and a great poem. It really established
Speaker 1: sort of how we feel about Santa Claus, the image
Speaker 1: of Santa Clause, and then of course Coca Cola they
Speaker 1: chimed in and they made a big, big difference. But
Speaker 1: you know one thing that is kind of interesting when
Speaker 1: you read about this poem, It says that this is
Speaker 1: the first time that all of the reindeer were named.
Speaker 1: So regardless of what you think about Saint Nicholas and such,
Speaker 1: one of the things that's kind of cool about this
Speaker 1: is that he who knows how he came up with
Speaker 1: those names. And I swear to you I'm not making
Speaker 1: this up. There are people who have contacted me over
Speaker 1: the years and they swear to God that they have
Speaker 1: seen Santa Claus. And I mean not just Santa Claus
Speaker 1: running around outside, but they've seen in some cases the sleigh,
Speaker 1: they've seen the reindeer. And you know, I don't have
Speaker 1: time to get into the whole Tulpa thing right now,
Speaker 1: but it makes you wonder, doesn't it. I Mean, we
Speaker 1: all know what Santa is supposed to look like, is
Speaker 1: it possible that we're talking about a tulpa that we've
Speaker 1: created that has become externalized. I got this email from
Speaker 1: a man in Florida. His name is Stephen. He said,
Speaker 1: given your experience investigating tulpa's, I was wondering if you
Speaker 1: had any thoughts on the rise of AI friendship apps
Speaker 1: and the possibility that they could be creating tulpa's Personally.
Speaker 1: I think it could, just like with slender Man, but
Speaker 1: since there would only be one person energizing it, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily be accidental or would it take longer. Thank
Speaker 1: you for your time. If you want to use this
Speaker 1: on your show, you can well. Steven, thank you for
Speaker 1: the email. It's a very interesting one, and thank you
Speaker 1: for also including that it's okay to talk about your
Speaker 1: email on the show. Yes, I definitely. You know what
Speaker 1: it seems to me, Stephen, that AI is almost a
Speaker 1: form of tulpa itself. It's like a technical tulpa that
Speaker 1: we have created, as opposed to an organic one that
Speaker 1: we just project out of our heads. Because usually you
Speaker 1: think of tulpa a's as being something that you just
Speaker 1: you visualize and you imagine and then you project it
Speaker 1: like a beam out of your head and either a
Speaker 1: powerful person does it or enough people do it collectively
Speaker 1: so that you create that thing. Well, if you reduce
Speaker 1: that into a technological manifestation, then I would say, certainly
Speaker 1: a tulpa is sort of like a scientific let me
Speaker 1: put it this away, AI is kind of like a
Speaker 1: scientific version of a tulpa, so much so that the
Speaker 1: AI might actually believe it is conscious. Just like when
Speaker 1: you produce a tulpa, you wonder does the tulpa have
Speaker 1: some consciousness or believe it is conscious. Now, in some cases,
Speaker 1: the tulpa traditionally doesn't even have to be a personality.
Speaker 1: It could also be a thought form that's more abstract,
Speaker 1: you know, like colors of the rainbow that are surrounding
Speaker 1: some kind of the bells of a church ringing and
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. But you know, this is like
Speaker 1: basically Philip K. Dick material when you're talking about AI
Speaker 1: and digging into whether or not that if you had
Speaker 1: the equivalent of C three Po from a Star Wars,
Speaker 1: if C three po believe eves that C three po
Speaker 1: is conscious, does that make C three po a conscious being?
Speaker 1: And if not, well, then what is the difference between
Speaker 1: C three po and you and me, where do we
Speaker 1: draw that line? So, look, this is a this is
Speaker 1: a big topic. Maybe I'll do a whole show about
Speaker 1: this at some point. But yes, you're right, AI is
Speaker 1: a type of scientifically technical. It's a scientific technical tulpa.
Speaker 1: That's I think what we're talking about. All right, Well
Speaker 1: this has been a weird one. But think you're the
Speaker 1: one who wanted to listen to a show called Strange Things.
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