Speaker 1: Welcome to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM paranormal
Speaker 1: podcast network. Now get ready for us Strange Things with
Speaker 1: Joshua P. Warren.
Speaker 2: Welcome to our podcast. Please be aware the thoughts and
Speaker 2: opinions expressed by the host are their thoughts and opinions
Speaker 2: only and do not reflect those of iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, Coast
Speaker 2: to Coast AM, employees of Premiere Networks, or their sponsors
Speaker 2: and associates. We would like to encourage you to do
Speaker 2: your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself.
Speaker 1: Ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird. This
Speaker 1: is Strange Joshua. I am JOSHUAE Warren, and each week
Speaker 1: on this show, I'll be bringing it brand new mind
Speaker 1: blowing content, news exercises, and weird experiments you can do
Speaker 1: at home, and a lot more on this edition of
Speaker 1: the show. Hoonah, And do you know about this secret lab?
Speaker 1: I bet you don't, because it's a kind of a
Speaker 1: secret lab. Two different topics but somehow oddly related. You
Speaker 1: may or may not know that. I live here in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Nevada, and I probably sound a little stuffy
Speaker 1: today because the sandstorms have been kicking up again. That's
Speaker 1: that's the thing when you live out in the desert.
Speaker 1: There are pros and cons. I love the fact that
Speaker 1: almost every day is sunny and it almost never rains,
Speaker 1: but when those winds kick in, boy, you get a
Speaker 1: lot of particulates in the air. But here is something
Speaker 1: I bet that you don't know about Las Vegas. Many
Speaker 1: people call this city the Ninth Island, the Ninth Island. Well,
Speaker 1: why is that? If you if you know anything about Hawaii,
Speaker 1: you know Hawaii is actually made up of, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: over one hundred little islands, but there are eight big
Speaker 1: islands there, and so many people over the years have
Speaker 1: traveled from Hawaii to Las Vegas even moved here that
Speaker 1: now there is this huge community of Hawaiians and Hawaiian
Speaker 1: culture here in Las Vegas. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: Google says that the largest number of Hawaiian culture, I
Speaker 1: guess the largest amount of Hawaiian culture outside of Hawaii
Speaker 1: exists here in Las Vegas. That's pretty wild, isn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Ninth Island. And so you know, you always ride
Speaker 1: around here and drive around here, and you see all
Speaker 1: these signs for Hawaiian barbecue and various types of Hawaiian dishes,
Speaker 1: and you know, I have never been to Hawaii. It's
Speaker 1: on my list of things to do. Here's my problem,
Speaker 1: because you know, I'm pretty close to it being here
Speaker 1: in Vegas. You can get on an airplane here and
Speaker 1: you can fly to Hawaii in about six and a
Speaker 1: half hours. And to many people that's just nothing, but
Speaker 1: to me, that's a long flight. I kind of have
Speaker 1: a problem being on airplanes for like more than a
Speaker 1: couple hours at a time. If I can help it. Now,
Speaker 1: I have done it before. I've flown to Europe and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But if I'm going to travel within the US, I'll
Speaker 1: usually helped. I'll fly two or three times. I'll fly
Speaker 1: a couple hours to when city, hang out for a day,
Speaker 1: then fly to another city hanging out. That's so to me,
Speaker 1: I just haven't sort of taken the time to to
Speaker 1: prepare for a flight like that. But you know what,
Speaker 1: there is occasionally a cruise that you can take from
Speaker 1: Hawaii or excuse me, it's it's from Los Angeles to
Speaker 1: Hawaii and you explore all the islands and back over
Speaker 1: seventeen days. A Viking cruise. I would love to do that.
Speaker 1: So that's one of these days, I'm probably going to
Speaker 1: try to do that. Maybe I'll even be able to
Speaker 1: record podcasts and stuff while I'm in the middle of it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. So even though I haven't been to
Speaker 1: Hawaii yet, I am again I'm fascinated with Well, I've
Speaker 1: always been fascinated with the Hawaiian culture. And if you've
Speaker 1: been listening to this show for a while, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you've heard me talk about what is called hopono pono.
Speaker 1: Hopon pono. It is a traditional Hawaiian practice of reconciliation
Speaker 1: and forgiveness. And if you don't know, if you've never
Speaker 1: heard about this, go back. Do yourself a favor. This
Speaker 1: could change your life. I'm serious, and I don't say
Speaker 1: that about many things that I talk about, but this
Speaker 1: really could. Go back and listen to episode eighteen of
Speaker 1: this podcast called Strange Things. Episode eighteen is called hopon
Speaker 1: Pono and synchronicity. Now, don't even try to spellon, but
Speaker 1: the word translates into English simply as correction. And if
Speaker 1: you want to get more detailed, if you go to
Speaker 1: the Hawaiian dictionary, the term is quote to put to rights,
Speaker 1: to put in order or shape, to correct, revise, a
Speaker 1: just men, to regulate, rectify, tidy up. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of other words here, but here regardless, a lot
Speaker 1: of adjectives, but the methodology of Hypono Pono is very,
Speaker 1: very simple. It's a system of thought and sort of
Speaker 1: the modern practice of revolves around these terms, I'm sorry, please,
Speaker 1: forgive me, thank you, I love you, And if you
Speaker 1: listen to episode eighteen of the show, you'll understand why
Speaker 1: that repetition of those phrases appears to have a cleansing
Speaker 1: effect on the mind, the body, of the spirit. And
Speaker 1: once I did that podcast, you would not believe to
Speaker 1: this day the amount of people who listen, who contact
Speaker 1: me and say, I use the method that you talked
Speaker 1: about in that podcast, the Pono method, And it literally
Speaker 1: changed my life, and it changed the lives of everybody
Speaker 1: around me. I'll never forget. There was one woman who said,
Speaker 1: I had I have a son who was just helplessly
Speaker 1: addicted to a terrible drug, and we tried everything and
Speaker 1: we couldn't get him off of it. And so I
Speaker 1: tried Theono method, and it's a miracle. You know, he's
Speaker 1: no longer hooked on this drug. I mean powerful stuff
Speaker 1: like that was coming to me, and so I always
Speaker 1: love exploring new approaches to thought and manifestation, making your
Speaker 1: life somehow better by exploring different ways of looking at life.
Speaker 1: And different things work more or less for different people.
Speaker 1: So that's why we look at all the different varieties
Speaker 1: on this show that I can find and maybe if
Speaker 1: I one day, you might hear me talk about something
Speaker 1: and it doesn't connect, and the next day you go, wow,
Speaker 1: now that makes sense to me, and that is the
Speaker 1: thing that works for me. Well. I got an email
Speaker 1: recently from a man in the Netherlands named Peter, and
Speaker 1: he said that he wanted to recommend a book he
Speaker 1: thought I would enjoy by William R. Glover, and it's
Speaker 1: called simply Enough Hoonah. He says in it is an
Speaker 1: easy exercise to connect with your higher self. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: I love. And this is actually kind of an obscure book.
Speaker 1: It turns out. It was sort of hard for me
Speaker 1: to find a copy online, but I got one. It's
Speaker 1: in my hands here called Honah, the ancient religion of
Speaker 1: positive thinking. Now you know, again, having never been to Hawaii,
Speaker 1: I've never I mean, I've heard the term Hounah, but
Speaker 1: I don't really know what it means do you. So
Speaker 1: I decided to look into it and I thought, I
Speaker 1: wonder if hounah is similar to pono. And of course
Speaker 1: you've we've all heard the term like the big Kahunah,
Speaker 1: like this guy's the big Cahunah. And apparently in Hawaii
Speaker 1: that simply means a wise man or a shaman. So
Speaker 1: that's interesting. So I'm not sure if the word Let's
Speaker 1: see if the word hoonah comes directly from from that. Okay,
Speaker 1: now here we go. Here's what we get from the
Speaker 1: almighty Internet. Tuonah. It's that word itself. It says it's
Speaker 1: a Hawaiian word for secret. M Now we're back to
Speaker 1: this idea that there are certain certain jewels of thought
Speaker 1: that some people have mastered and captured. And you might think, well,
Speaker 1: why would you keep the ability to manifest positive things
Speaker 1: a secret? Well that I think it's because that Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: if you become a great manifestor, you can also use
Speaker 1: that to manifest evil things sometimes, if that's what you
Speaker 1: want to do. It all goes back to look the
Speaker 1: Star Wars mythos. You can be you know, you can
Speaker 1: be Darth Vader or you can be Yoda. They're both
Speaker 1: using the force, and so sometimes you got to be
Speaker 1: careful with who you give access to this kind of information.
Speaker 1: But anyway, here's what it says here. Historically, hunah is
Speaker 1: the word adopted by the New Age author Max freedom
Speaker 1: Long in nineteen thirty six to describe his theory of metaphysics. Now,
Speaker 1: you see that surprises me because I would just assume,
Speaker 1: I know, like pono goes back to supposedly like the
Speaker 1: ancient roots of the people of the Hawaiian Islands, and
Speaker 1: so I kind of assumed that huno would be one
Speaker 1: of those things like, oh, yes, this has been around
Speaker 1: for thousands of years. But no, it says, you know,
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty six, And it reminds me of what I
Speaker 1: learned when I started studying reiki. Sure, there are people
Speaker 1: who say that reiki as a practice goes back thousands
Speaker 1: of years in Japan, and yet reiki as we know
Speaker 1: it today was sort of codified in the eighteen hundreds
Speaker 1: and didn't even make it here into the United States.
Speaker 1: Let's see, the first reiki clinic in the US was
Speaker 1: started in nineteen seventy. So some of these things that
Speaker 1: sound and are presented as very very ancient are really
Speaker 1: a little bit more recent when it comes to how
Speaker 1: we look at them in the modern era. But okay,
Speaker 1: so what is this thing called Hounah? Exactly? What is
Speaker 1: this theory of metaphysics? Okay, when we come back from
Speaker 1: this break, I'm going to tell you a little bit
Speaker 1: about how this man developed it, and then I'm going
Speaker 1: to explain some things from this book I have called Honah,
Speaker 1: including the Honah prayer format, which is supposed to be
Speaker 1: able to tell you exactly what to do if you
Speaker 1: want to use the Hounah method of manifestation. And it
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with looking at yourself, maybe
Speaker 1: in a way that you've never looked at yourself before. Hey,
Speaker 1: do you like this show? It's a show. If you
Speaker 1: want me to keep doing it, you gotta support it.
Speaker 1: You can do that by going to my website, Joshua
Speaker 1: Pwarren dot com. There, please visit the Curiosity Shop, and
Speaker 1: please consider buying something cool for yourself or a loved one.
Speaker 1: You don't have to, but just look at the stuff
Speaker 1: that's there, stuff you won't find anywhere else in most cases,
Speaker 1: and on the homepage, do yourself a big favorite. Sign
Speaker 1: up for my free and spam free e newsletter takes
Speaker 1: you two seconds to put your email address in the
Speaker 1: box submit. When you do that, you'll get an instant
Speaker 1: automated email from me with some free online goodies and
Speaker 1: you're going to love them, I promise you. Joshua P.
Speaker 1: Warren dot com. That's me. You're listening to Strange Things
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network,
Speaker 1: and I'll be right back. Welcome back to Strange Things
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast a m paranormal
Speaker 1: podcast Network. I am your host, the Wizard of Weird,
Speaker 1: beaming into your wormhole brain from my studio in Sin City,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden and every
Speaker 1: night is silver. I gietato zoom. Here are some unusual
Speaker 1: facts about Hawaii, the fiftieth US state. It's the only
Speaker 1: US state with two official languages, English and Hawaiian. The
Speaker 1: Hawaiian alphabet also has only twelve letters. It's the only
Speaker 1: state where you can visit eleven out of thirteen different
Speaker 1: climate zones in one day on the Big Island. But
Speaker 1: this one I think would be my wife Lauren's favorite.
Speaker 1: It's illegal to own or bring snakes into the islands.
Speaker 1: Fascinating place, all the more reason to go there. I look,
Speaker 1: I'm a lover of all animals, but I've had a
Speaker 1: snake or two slither into my bedroom back in the day,
Speaker 1: and I prefer not to have those encounters, all right.
Speaker 1: So this fella, Max Freedom Long was an American novelist
Speaker 1: and New Age mystic, and he went to Hawaii in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventeen to work as an elementary school teacher. Became
Speaker 1: interested in the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient
Speaker 1: Cahunas and modern practitioners of the traditional indigenous Hawaiian religion.
Speaker 1: But none of these ceremonial people talked to him, so
Speaker 1: he was kind of unable to penetrate into the inner workings. Now.
Speaker 1: Even though hunah means secret in the Hawaiian language, the
Speaker 1: term cahuna is used for any expert, so this could
Speaker 1: be an expert diagnosing an illness, herbal medicine, canoe building,
Speaker 1: temple building, wood carving, stargazing. You get the picture, and
Speaker 1: this fella along. He left Hawaii in nineteen thirty one,
Speaker 1: convinced he would never learn all the secrets, but in
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four he woke with a revelation that the
Speaker 1: secrets were encoded into the Hawaiian language itself, and this
Speaker 1: is what he developed into the system known as Hoonah,
Speaker 1: and wrote his first book in nineteen thirty six to
Speaker 1: chronicle his beliefs. So I got this email from this
Speaker 1: fella who says, hey, if you want to read the
Speaker 1: best book, you know he's a listener. You want to
Speaker 1: read a good book about who? Go to read this
Speaker 1: one called Hoonah, The Ancient Religion of Positive Thinking and
Speaker 1: by William R. Glover. This particular book was published in
Speaker 1: nineteen and eighty three. In the preface, it says Max
Speaker 1: freedom Long called Hoonah a psycho religious system because it
Speaker 1: contains elements of both psychology and religion. As psychology, it
Speaker 1: is practical and effective, and as religion it is a
Speaker 1: simple yet complete way of life. All right, let's see
Speaker 1: what this is all about. So here are some portions
Speaker 1: that I found interesting, says here on page twelve. One
Speaker 1: of the most important techniques in the Huna concept is
Speaker 1: understanding the lines of communication between the three minds or selves,
Speaker 1: as the Kahunahs called them. A unique concept in the
Speaker 1: Hunah technique of prayer is that the subconscious, and not
Speaker 1: the conscious mind, has the telephone line to the higher self.
Speaker 1: So if we wish to pray to the higher self
Speaker 1: or God to make a request, we have to go
Speaker 1: through the subconscious. It is not possible to pray directly
Speaker 1: to the high self. The most important part of the
Speaker 1: mechanism of this kind of positive thinking is learning to
Speaker 1: work through the subconscious to get through to the super conscious. Okay,
Speaker 1: now that may have said a bit confusing, but think
Speaker 1: of yourself as a house that has three levels. We're
Speaker 1: all like this. There's even an illustration of a guy
Speaker 1: in a three story house, and it's the same guy,
Speaker 1: but he's on different levels. And here's what the book says.
Speaker 1: Try to think of the three sells of man as
Speaker 1: a house with a basement, a first floor, and an attic.
Speaker 1: The middle selves live on the first floor. It can
Speaker 1: see out the windows and get a glimpse of the world.
Speaker 1: There are trees and shrubs to block the view, however,
Speaker 1: and the information gathered by the middle self may not
Speaker 1: always be correct. The low self lives in the basement.
Speaker 1: There are no windows. The only facts given to the
Speaker 1: low self are pictures sent through a telepathic telephone line
Speaker 1: from the middle self on the first floor. Conscious does
Speaker 1: not question these facts. It simply accepts them as presented
Speaker 1: and files them away as memory. Now, the super conscious
Speaker 1: lives in the attic. The high self can see all
Speaker 1: around through its windows, no shrubbery blocks to view. It
Speaker 1: sees pure truth. However, and this is extremely important, the
Speaker 1: high self's telephone line goes only to the low self
Speaker 1: in the basement. It cannot communicate directly to the middle
Speaker 1: self or the conscious mind. And this is the reason
Speaker 1: why we must pray through the subconscious in order to
Speaker 1: reach the high self. There is no direct telephone line
Speaker 1: from the conscious to the super conscious. Now, I think
Speaker 1: that's pretty clear. You should have understood that. So again,
Speaker 1: you have the subconscious level down here, and you have
Speaker 1: this super conscious attic up here, and you're observing things
Speaker 1: in the middle and the information that you're giving is
Speaker 1: going down to the subconscious, and that's what goes up
Speaker 1: to the guy in the attic who makes things happen.
Speaker 1: All right, fine, so how do we get things done
Speaker 1: this way? Let's see here. Later in the book it
Speaker 1: says here is a the Hoonah prayer format. Okay, so
Speaker 1: the perfect prayer along with suggested affirmations. Number one, decide
Speaker 1: exactly what is to be asked in prayer. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying, by the way, that I agree with all
Speaker 1: these things. Sometimes I think that we don't know exactly
Speaker 1: what we want, and sometimes we might limit ourselves by
Speaker 1: asking for exactly what we want. Which is why a
Speaker 1: lot of times, if you're gonna pray, you might ask
Speaker 1: for this or something better, because there might be something
Speaker 1: even better than you can imagine. But regardless, this is
Speaker 1: not about me. This is about what this man says
Speaker 1: in this book about Hunah. He says, deciding exactly what
Speaker 1: is to be asked in prayer. Number two obtain the
Speaker 1: cooperation of the three selves, and this requires complete relaxation
Speaker 1: of the body, the low self, and the conscious mind,
Speaker 1: followed by meditation. Okay, So number three generate a surplus
Speaker 1: of manna, the life force. You do this by breathing deeply,
Speaker 1: drawing in more oxygen. You relax, he says, I ask
Speaker 1: my low self to assist me in generating and storing
Speaker 1: this force. My will is being made strong and enduring
Speaker 1: so that I am filled with the determination to accomplish
Speaker 1: these things. So you take deep breaths, and he talks
Speaker 1: about continuing this breathing until you feel fully charged. A
Speaker 1: lot of people do the breathing exercises before they try
Speaker 1: to seriously manifest something. Doctor Mulder even talks about using
Speaker 1: that she building exercise a lot before he does anything
Speaker 1: on the wishing machine. Number four, Contact with your high self,
Speaker 1: the parental spirit who dwells in the realm of light.
Speaker 1: And that's what you're trying to reach, that higher self.
Speaker 1: And you ask that higher self to lead you and
Speaker 1: guide you. And then let's see Number five. Make the
Speaker 1: mental picture thought form of the desired condition, and you
Speaker 1: figure out what you want. You feel this deep emotional
Speaker 1: need for it, and then you repeat your request three
Speaker 1: times with as much emotion as possible, and then see
Speaker 1: yourself as already obtaining it. Boy, this sounds familiar, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Number six, Send the thought form to your low self
Speaker 1: to present telepathically to your high self. So you hold
Speaker 1: a picture for a mirror, you reflect it down to
Speaker 1: the low self. Okay. Number seven, strengthen the thought form
Speaker 1: with manna and send it up to the high self.
Speaker 1: And then number eight in the prayer, with the feeling
Speaker 1: of faith and confidence, and then you in by saying,
Speaker 1: my prayer has taken flight, let the light of my
Speaker 1: high self shine back to me. So be it. Now.
Speaker 1: You may hear that and say, well, that sounds great, Joshua,
Speaker 1: But how do I how exactly do I do that?
Speaker 1: How do I send this thought down to my lower
Speaker 1: self and tell it to send it up to my highers? Look,
Speaker 1: this is just a podcast. I'm giving you an overview.
Speaker 1: If you care that much about it, if you really
Speaker 1: want to know, you got to go do your own research.
Speaker 1: This is not an instructional program. I'm just giving you, Like, Hey,
Speaker 1: if this sounds like something you want to explore, then
Speaker 1: go for it. But you know what, now that gives
Speaker 1: you an idea of what people mean. I guess when
Speaker 1: they talk about huna. Maybe I'm sure I'll learn a
Speaker 1: lot more when I go to Hawaii at some point,
Speaker 1: But it doesn't it all sound like the typical forms
Speaker 1: of manifestation exercises that you hear in one way or another.
Speaker 1: And that's fine because we live in a universe, and
Speaker 1: in a universe then everything should be more or less
Speaker 1: the same at some level. And if there's a way
Speaker 1: to manifest, then there's a way to manifest, and there
Speaker 1: are different approaches to it, and the key is to
Speaker 1: find the approach that works for you. It's like learning
Speaker 1: to play an instrument. You go to one guitar teacher
Speaker 1: and he sucks and you don't learn. But you go
Speaker 1: to another guitarist teacher he's great, and the next thing
Speaker 1: you know, you're playing stuff you could not imagine you
Speaker 1: could play before. Find what works for you, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna there's a tie. Ind this it's an odd tie end,
Speaker 1: but hey, the show is called Strange Things about a
Speaker 1: secret lab that I just recently learned about. And I say,
Speaker 1: see kind of in quotations because obviously if you know something, well, look,
Speaker 1: I'll explain when we come back. I'm Joshua P. Warren.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
Speaker 1: to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I'll be back
Speaker 1: after these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things. Oh
Speaker 1: the iHeart Reggio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren, And this is the
Speaker 1: show where the unusual becomes usual. Yeah, who knew that
Speaker 1: Las Vegas is known by many as the Ninth Island
Speaker 1: because of the Hawaiian influence. But you know, the funny
Speaker 1: thing is Vegas is a very special place, and that
Speaker 1: is because it's really built on this concept of luck.
Speaker 1: How do you come here and get lucky? And so
Speaker 1: there are lots and lots of practically every philosophy that
Speaker 1: you can think of on how to increase good luck
Speaker 1: and manifest good things. Happens here because the sky's the
Speaker 1: limit and yes, it can go either way. And a
Speaker 1: lot of people, of course, you know, they have this
Speaker 1: sort of honestly, it's an outdated view that Las Vegas
Speaker 1: is just this crass place where it's just a bunch
Speaker 1: of you know, drunks and degenerates. And you know, the
Speaker 1: thing is that is a small part actually. I mean
Speaker 1: if you go around the strip and you go to
Speaker 1: certain places, you can find some of that, but you
Speaker 1: really have to go looking for it these days. I mean,
Speaker 1: having lived here now for about eight years or something
Speaker 1: like that, I can tell you that I have had much, much,
Speaker 1: much easier access to seed things in some of these
Speaker 1: smaller towns where everybody pretends to be good folk. So
Speaker 1: it's not as bad as you think. Here, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of interesting a lot of interesting ways to test
Speaker 1: out your your manifestation and your philosophies. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like it's a big laboratory. That's how
Speaker 1: I look at it. And I was recently watching an
Speaker 1: Inner You with an author named Michael Easter and he
Speaker 1: is a New York Times best selling author and a
Speaker 1: professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas un LV.
Speaker 1: And he's known for his books The Comfort Crisis and
Speaker 1: the one I'm going to talk about here called Scarcity Brain.
Speaker 1: And it says, fix your craving mindset and rewire your
Speaker 1: habits to thrive with enough. What fix your craving mindset
Speaker 1: and rewire your habits to thrive with enough? And as
Speaker 1: he started talking, he was telling me about something that
Speaker 1: I'd never heard of before being here in Vegas. I'll
Speaker 1: give you a little section from his book Scarcity Brain.
Speaker 1: He's talking about particularly here like Caesar's, which of course
Speaker 1: owns a bunch of casinos and properties. He says he
Speaker 1: was talking about how they were looking into different types
Speaker 1: of technology, and he says Caesars would have no clue
Speaker 1: if the new technology worked until they had spent millions
Speaker 1: of dollars putting it to use. It was the casino's
Speaker 1: own kind of gamble, and in this case, the house
Speaker 1: was losing. So what if somebody proposed there Caesar's partnered
Speaker 1: up with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where scientists
Speaker 1: study technology and how it affects human behavior. UNLV and
Speaker 1: its various research wings are like Harvard meets Cambridge meets
Speaker 1: Area fifty one for shaping human decisions on the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas stript and beyond. They know what works and it
Speaker 1: has little to do with geometry or musical notes. What
Speaker 1: if they created a casino laboratory, built a casino but
Speaker 1: used it entirely for research, create a real casino that
Speaker 1: fill it with a bunch of PhDs, brilliant tech minds
Speaker 1: and study participants. It could be a place to test
Speaker 1: games or how people after various subliminal cues, or investigate
Speaker 1: how the tiniest tweaks to a slot machine trigger us
Speaker 1: to do one thing or another. Well it I'm skipping
Speaker 1: around here, you know, But he says. The result is
Speaker 1: a place called black Fire Innovation, a sort of twilight
Speaker 1: zone of casinos. Quote says one scientist where a giant
Speaker 1: lab that emulates a casino resort on the Las Vegas Strip,
Speaker 1: a place where we can explore new technologies, behavioral changes,
Speaker 1: and more, from hotel rooms to food and beveraged entertainment
Speaker 1: to gambling, retail signage. So this author says that they
Speaker 1: walked into basically, it's a full casino that is owned
Speaker 1: here by this partnership between and it's the casinos and
Speaker 1: the university they've teamed up here. He goes on to
Speaker 1: say one of the biggest differences here, he says, this
Speaker 1: is effectively a casino, except there's no smoking and more
Speaker 1: scientific devices and people with advanced degrees. Quote, this area
Speaker 1: emulates a sports book, he said, sportsbook, and then he
Speaker 1: goes a walk toward a lineup of greenfelt tables encased
Speaker 1: in dark hardwood and leather. These are traditional table games
Speaker 1: where we can test new games technologies and track behaviors.
Speaker 1: Then they pointed to a electronic table games blah blah blah. Okay,
Speaker 1: So anyway, he's describing in detail here how that they
Speaker 1: have created their own little casino, and he says we
Speaker 1: can get some insight into how behavior changes as we
Speaker 1: advance technology. He says Caesar's is the leading partner, but
Speaker 1: tech and gaming giants like Adobe, Intel, LG, Hewlett Packard, Panasonic,
Speaker 1: Zoom blah blah blah, DraftKings all are financially vested. He
Speaker 1: kind of summarizes this section by saying, Las Vegas casinos
Speaker 1: are not the mob run joints they once were. They
Speaker 1: are now living research labs and testing sites, vast human
Speaker 1: behavior data banks. This is why before the builders brought craps,
Speaker 1: tables and roulette whels into this place, they installed its brain,
Speaker 1: a super computing data mainframe, you know. And this this
Speaker 1: little casino that they've created, I mean, it's more than
Speaker 1: just the gaming area. It also has hotel rooms and
Speaker 1: restaurants and like representations of all these things. So yes,
Speaker 1: it's certainly a scaled down version from what you would
Speaker 1: experience in a full you know, like a full size
Speaker 1: place like Bellagio or Caesar's Pouse, but all the elements
Speaker 1: are there, and every day they study this stuff with
Speaker 1: computers and AI now and they're trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how to make you do what they want you to do.
Speaker 1: And that may seem so intimidating because you might hear
Speaker 1: that and say, oh, well, that is why should stay
Speaker 1: away from vegas and gambling, because there's no way you
Speaker 1: can win. They are using all this psychological manipulation on you.
Speaker 1: Scarcity Brain very very good book, and he gets into
Speaker 1: some interesting examples of how even animals like pigeons can
Speaker 1: be influenced and taught to gamble in a certain way.
Speaker 1: I know that sounds really weird, but you know, I'm
Speaker 1: sure this dude would not like it if I read
Speaker 1: his whole book to you, So Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter.
Speaker 1: But here's what I thought was intriguing about this. I
Speaker 1: read this, and it's not at all surprising to me
Speaker 1: that a place like that exists. I'm sure it's they
Speaker 1: probably are other ones that are truly secret that we
Speaker 1: don't even know about at all. What makes this weird
Speaker 1: for me is that just about anybody who knows me
Speaker 1: personally and has gone to casinos with me will tell
Speaker 1: you that I usually overcome the odds and win money
Speaker 1: or at least break even. Very very seldom do I lose.
Speaker 1: There's no guaranteed way of winning and gambling. Uh. And
Speaker 1: that is because that you know, it's like it's it's
Speaker 1: at that's part of the fun. It's gambling. There's no guarantee,
Speaker 1: guaranteed way of winning. But I believe that I'm a
Speaker 1: living proof that you can You're not gonna go to
Speaker 1: the casino and walk out a millionaire, but you can
Speaker 1: go to a casino and you can usually either walk
Speaker 1: out with what you came in with, which is just
Speaker 1: free entertainment basically, or you know, plus you get comps
Speaker 1: and things like that. But most of the time I
Speaker 1: leave with a profit, and I can even prove that
Speaker 1: if I needed to, because if you use your player's card,
Speaker 1: then these casinos will keep track of your profit and
Speaker 1: losses and they will tell you for the at the
Speaker 1: end of the year what you're you know, how it
Speaker 1: turned out, and so you know, I'm sharing this with
Speaker 1: you because as a person who studies manifestation, I am
Speaker 1: certainly not some divine being who can make anything happen.
Speaker 1: But I do believe that when you go to a
Speaker 1: casino and you're viewing it as a fun experience, and
Speaker 1: you have a certain type of attitude and you have
Speaker 1: a a certain understanding of the game and all that
Speaker 1: you can overcome some of these extraordinary odds and at
Speaker 1: least walk out of there not feeling like that, you know,
Speaker 1: you've blown all your money, and I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of for me, some personal proof that it can be done.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was interesting something I didn't know
Speaker 1: that you would also find intriguing. We're almost up on
Speaker 1: our last break. When we come back, I have kind
Speaker 1: of a miracle story or two that I want to
Speaker 1: read to you that I came across recently, and it's
Speaker 1: actually something reported by George Nori, host of Coast to
Speaker 1: Coast AM. I want to share that with you, and
Speaker 1: then I think I have time to maybe squeeze in
Speaker 1: at least one or two listener emails, including one from
Speaker 1: a lady who told me that one of her relatives
Speaker 1: was struck by lightning, and because I recently did a
Speaker 1: show about lightning and other plasmas, and she said that
Speaker 1: what happened to this guy afterward is one of the
Speaker 1: weirdest things. I've never heard of this before, and is
Speaker 1: this true? Well, it got national attention, so I'm going
Speaker 1: to try to dig into that and as much else
Speaker 1: as I can for the last segment of the show.
Speaker 1: It's fine to just kind of jump around and see
Speaker 1: where it goes, all right, My friends. I'm Joshua Pee one.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
Speaker 1: to Coast AM para normal podcast network, and I will
Speaker 1: be right back. Welcome back to the final segment of
Speaker 1: this edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
Speaker 1: to Coast AM paranormal podcast network. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Joshua P. Warren, and George Nori, the host of Coast
Speaker 1: to Coast AM, has been a great friend and a
Speaker 1: big supporter of my work for over twenty years. I
Speaker 1: owe him a lot. We've done TV shows together. I
Speaker 1: don't even know how many radio broadcasts, podcasts, stage shows.
Speaker 1: I mean, like whatever you can do in the show business.
Speaker 1: And I just recently I came across this short essay
Speaker 1: that George wrote called Miracles, and it's located on a
Speaker 1: website called my Elevator Pitch for Good dot com. Interesting,
Speaker 1: he writes, my grandparents built a multi level apartment complex
Speaker 1: on top of the furniture store that they owned in
Speaker 1: the Fitchburg area west of Boston and lived there with
Speaker 1: about ten other families. Late one night, when my family
Speaker 1: was visiting one summer, a fire broke out in the store.
Speaker 1: While they were sleeping. Opaque black spoke quickly engulfed the building,
Speaker 1: seeping into the upstairs apartments. All of my family would
Speaker 1: have died had an been for a fireman in full
Speaker 1: body protective clothing and gear who woke me out of
Speaker 1: a sound sleep. I frantically got everyone else up, and
Speaker 1: we sprinted down the stairs and out the front doors
Speaker 1: to safety. We even made the front page of the
Speaker 1: Fitchburg Sentinel newspaper with a picture showing us fleeing a
Speaker 1: building engulfed in flames. While standing outside the smoldering building,
Speaker 1: that night, my parents walked up to the fire chief
Speaker 1: to thank him for his team member who had bravely
Speaker 1: woken me. The chief stopped them mid sentence. I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. We never entered the complex.
Speaker 1: Your family came running out before we had a chance
Speaker 1: to enter. To this day, we have no idea who
Speaker 1: or what woke me up. I believe God or one
Speaker 1: of God's angels saved our lives that night. It's one
Speaker 1: of those stories kind of gives you goosebumps. He also
Speaker 1: goes on to say, you know he obviously he's received
Speaker 1: innumerable reports about miraculous and amazing things over all the
Speaker 1: years he's been hosting radio and so George also includes
Speaker 1: this as a part of his essay. Once a police
Speaker 1: officer called with another worldly story. He said that he
Speaker 1: and his partner had responded to a nine to one
Speaker 1: to one call about a person who is dying of
Speaker 1: a heart attack. The officers got to the house before
Speaker 1: the EMTs arrived. They knocked on the door and an
Speaker 1: old man let them in. They saw a man lying
Speaker 1: on his stomach on the floor. They rolled him over,
Speaker 1: but he was already dead. The miracle was that the
Speaker 1: dead man was the same person who had just opened
Speaker 1: the door. Now, I know you might be thinking like, hmm, interesting,
Speaker 1: but how is that a miracle because the guy was dead.
Speaker 1: I think that that is a miracle because it shows
Speaker 1: that the guy actually wasn't dead. You see that his
Speaker 1: body may have died, but this was proof that his spirit,
Speaker 1: almost immediately was still there and interactive. And it gives
Speaker 1: you some sense of an afterlife, right, and we are
Speaker 1: usually hopeful about that. I think that the only people
Speaker 1: who are truly terrified of an afterlife are people who
Speaker 1: have a very guilty conscience and think that they're going
Speaker 1: to be punished because they know they've done some terrible things,
Speaker 1: which is why we may have bad ghosts more often
Speaker 1: than not that stick around because they don't want to
Speaker 1: go to some other dimension, go to the light or whatever,
Speaker 1: because they're afraid that when they do that that they
Speaker 1: might face some terrible judgment and they're trying to delay
Speaker 1: that process. But the great, great stories and there's more
Speaker 1: to this essay my elevator pitch for good dot com
Speaker 1: George Nori Miracles. Okay, let's go to some listener emails.
Speaker 1: I did a podcast, let's see episode two thirty seven
Speaker 1: of this program called Strange Things, and that program, that
Speaker 1: episode was titled Listen Earth's Heartbeat, Human Resonances, and in
Speaker 1: that I talked about lightning and how that light often
Speaker 1: has a well, lightning is pounding the earth and playing
Speaker 1: it like a drum. And I got an email from
Speaker 1: a woman named Suzanne and she says, listen, says Hi, Joshua.
Speaker 1: Interesting fact, My grandfather was in Ripley's Believe it or not,
Speaker 1: He was struck by lightning and then he grew twelve
Speaker 1: inches in height over the next sixteen months. He was
Speaker 1: a young man at the time and stepped off the
Speaker 1: porch during a storm to check on the livestock. He
Speaker 1: had nails in his pocket, was struck from head to toe.
Speaker 1: His shoes were blown off. They thought he was dead.
Speaker 1: His obituary was in the local paper. But he came
Speaker 1: around in a couple of days, and then he started
Speaker 1: to grow. And to prove this, she sent me a
Speaker 1: picture of her grandfather grown man, standing there illustrated in
Speaker 1: one of the Ripley's publications. And she also sent me
Speaker 1: a three page document which is basically like an affidavit
Speaker 1: attesting to this with a signature. Wow, you ever heard
Speaker 1: of such a thing? She says, By the way, I
Speaker 1: am five eleven. Well, thank you, Suzanne. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to explain. I've never heard of
Speaker 1: somebody growing twelve inches once, she says, sixteen months after
Speaker 1: being struck by lightning. Maybe there's something we should look
Speaker 1: into there when it comes to promoting human health or something.
Speaker 1: But that's I don't email me and let me know
Speaker 1: what you think about that if you have any ideas.
Speaker 1: But thank you again, Suzanne. It's so how cool would
Speaker 1: it be to see your grandfather at a Ripley's publication
Speaker 1: like I'm looking at right now. I think I got
Speaker 1: time for one more. I recently did a show where
Speaker 1: I talked about the missing four one one phenomenon and
Speaker 1: how that like, there was this one story David Politis
Speaker 1: talked about where a boy was missing for days or
Speaker 1: something and then they finally found him, and he said
Speaker 1: that he had been in a cave with a talking
Speaker 1: bear the whole time, and people thought that maybe that
Speaker 1: was some kind of a reference to a Bigfoot. Anyway,
Speaker 1: listener named Jason emailed me. He says, Joshua, I was
Speaker 1: just binge listening to your show, lol, and you mentioned
Speaker 1: the kid with a talking bear that was two miles
Speaker 1: from my house. It was wild Man. He was missing
Speaker 1: for four or five days in the woods with what
Speaker 1: he said was a talking bear that fed and helped
Speaker 1: keep him warm at night. There were sixty to one
Speaker 1: hundred volunteers searching every one of those and had just
Speaker 1: shown up and have a person stopped on the roadside
Speaker 1: two miles from the house and heard whimpers coming from
Speaker 1: the woods, sixty feet into the woods and not a
Speaker 1: scratch on him. Firefighter said they'd walked into that area
Speaker 1: of woods at least ten times and it says, and
Speaker 1: so if it's and so, it's as if his foot
Speaker 1: had not touched every square foot of that land at
Speaker 1: least three times. You could get him a pink toutu
Speaker 1: to wear and call him sally. Okay, I guess that's
Speaker 1: a turn a phrase eye I hadn't heard before. He says, anyway, peace, brother,
Speaker 1: and thank you very much. And I wrote him back
Speaker 1: and I said, man, this is really interesting. I'm going
Speaker 1: to read that in the podcast. And he goes, let
Speaker 1: me go back and get even more facts and make
Speaker 1: sure everything is correct. But he says, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: the kid there was gone for days. He says the
Speaker 1: bear was purple. Kind of pictured it like blue from
Speaker 1: the Jungle Book. I think blue was blue. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so anyway, but he gives me more information about this,
Speaker 1: and he's verifying that, like, yeah, this is something that
Speaker 1: you know that actually this is a real thing. Well
Speaker 1: I know about it happened near my house. Cool, Thank you, Jason. See,
Speaker 1: that's why we we do this show called Strange Things.
Speaker 1: Many years ago, I once told a program director I
Speaker 1: wanted to make a show about strange phenomenon. He goes,
Speaker 1: there's not enough to talk about it won't last Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: all right, my friends, it's time to wrap this one up,
Speaker 1: so you know how we like to do it. I
Speaker 1: want you, if you can, to close your eyes take
Speaker 1: some deep breaths. We want to make this next week
Speaker 1: the best week ever for you and everybody listening as
Speaker 1: we all meditate together on the one, the only, the
Speaker 1: original good Fortune Tongue. That's it for this edition of
Speaker 1: the show. Follow me at Joshua P. Warren, Plus visit
Speaker 1: Joshua Pwarren dot com to sign up for my free
Speaker 1: e newsletter to receive a free instant gift, and check
Speaker 1: out the cool stuff in the Curiosity Shop. All at
Speaker 1: Joshuapwarren dot com. I have a fun one lined up
Speaker 1: for you next time, I promise. So please tell all
Speaker 1: your friends to subscribe to this show and to always
Speaker 1: remember the Golden Rule. Thank you for listening, thank you
Speaker 1: for your interest and support, Thank you for staying curious,
Speaker 1: and I We'll talk to you again soon. You've been
Speaker 1: listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Speaker 1: Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
Speaker 2: Well, if you like this episode of Strange Things, wait
Speaker 2: till you hear the next one. Thank you for listening
Speaker 2: to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.