1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: From UFOs two, ghosts and government cover ups. History is 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: learn the stuff they don't want you to now. Hello, 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: and welcome back to the show. My name is Matt 5 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: and I am Ben. Uh No sleep till Brooklyn Boland 6 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: here with our super producer, Noel the Iron Fist Brown. 7 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: Oh I knew that was you. Oh and there's Jason. Hey, 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: that's up Jason? All right? Yeah, are what one of 9 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: our bosses is named? Jason? That is true. We're not 10 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: just making that up. So listeners, as you know, usually 11 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: we have some hints about the show embedded in our 12 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: super producer's nickname. But some of you might be wondering, Hey, wait, Ben, 13 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: why did you give yourself a nickname in this Well there, 14 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: it was quite literal. Yes, it was quite literal and 15 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: remains so. First, of course, guys, we uh we we 16 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 1: may have been born yesterday, but we've been awake all night, 17 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:16,839 Speaker 1: as the old joke goes, uh So we know you guys, 18 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: we know you're not supposed to give yourself your own nickname. 19 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 1: That's that's a crap move. I was going to do 20 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: it if you didn't. Yeah, I am coming to you 21 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: uh semi live depending on when you hear this, uh 22 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,759 Speaker 1: without having had any sleep. I've been awake for about 23 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: uh thirty six hours met you actually caught me trying 24 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: to sleep in my car in the parking deck. So 25 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: this might be a little bit of a weird podcast 26 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: on my end. That's why I have a nickname. Today 27 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. That's how I like it. When 28 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: it gets nice and weird up in here. Send the 29 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: weird waves through these these chords and out into your ears. 30 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: So there you know we're today We're going to talk 31 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: about something that is a little out there. Some of 32 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: you might not really I don't know you. You might 33 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: be thinking, oh gosh, why why would they even talk 34 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 1: about this sub right right? But then others are are 35 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: going to are gonna go, oh man, they're finally talking 36 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: about this. Well, that happens pretty often that let's face 37 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: and then also we will have a contention of people 38 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 1: who will say, this is just terrible. You're doing a 39 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: terrible job. But but let's let's ease into it. Here's 40 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: one for the fans of comic books, okay, and I'm 41 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 1: gonna be very careful not to spoil too much of 42 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: this because if you're a fan of comic books, it 43 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: might come up in your life a few years from now. 44 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: But there is a character in Marvel Comics whose name 45 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: is iron Fist and Nol today iron Fist is your namesake. 46 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: Iron Fist has the has pretty much martial arts superpowers, 47 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: and he can focus this energy that he has to 48 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: give himself, uh slightly enhanced strength, but also you know, 49 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: superhuman reflexes, agility, the whole nine better senses, but not 50 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: as good as Daredevil, which is important. And he has 51 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: this this one big move. The power of it changes 52 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: depending on who's writing the story at that time, where 53 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: he can focus all of this energy into one punch 54 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: and this punch is amazing, and when it first started, 55 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: he can only do it once a day and he 56 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: was just garbage after that, so she had to be 57 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: very selective, like a smart bomb in um, you know, 58 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: in an old Atari game or something. But what was 59 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: but when he focused this thing, uh, it had a name? 60 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: What what was this energy he was focusing? Well, it 61 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: has a lot of different names depending on where you're 62 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: born and what culture surrounds you, but the most common 63 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: is ch Yes spelled with a Q I or c 64 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: h I. Uh, here's the deal. Today we are talking 65 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: about g is she real? What is she? What is real? Now? 66 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: I'm kidding, We're not. That's a lot for one episode. Yeah, 67 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 1: so let's just start here. The human body is an 68 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: astonishing thing. And the more we learn about the human body, 69 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: not just the brain, but the more we learn about 70 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 1: the human body in general, it seems the more questions 71 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 1: we have. So we were gonna do a little bit 72 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: of backstory, Matt, You and I were gonna do two 73 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 1: videos this week, one with our classic format and one 74 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: with the vlog, but I was in New York on 75 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: some completely non shady business, as you may have heard 76 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: me allude to on Facebook. So we're sticking with one 77 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: this week. And Uh, I'd like to talk to you 78 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: a little bit about, uh, the video that we actually 79 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: didn't make, so we can at least get some of 80 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 1: that story out here in the audio podcast. And then 81 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: when you're talking to other people who just watched the videos, 82 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: you can say, oh, well, if you listen to the 83 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: audio show, then you would you would know, you know, 84 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,359 Speaker 1: you would be on like my level of noatude, the 85 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 1: noatude of knowing that the human body is crazy. Like 86 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 1: Ben said, there are things we're learning about it that 87 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 1: I never would have believed. Uh, I don't know, even recently. 88 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: It's tough for me to believe this stuff. But it 89 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 1: is true that the human body produces energies. Um. There 90 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: are a couple of different ones. Uh. One of the 91 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: first ones that we want to talk about is electricity. Yes, 92 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. Without electricity, 93 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: your your brain wouldn't work. Yeah, and that's something that 94 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: we weaving the human species have known for a little while. 95 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: You know that electricity is the great impetus that makes 96 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: all the things happen, right, all the matt things, all 97 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: the null things, listener you, all the u things happen. 98 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: And there's there's a pretty good article about this on 99 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: the how Stuff Works website too. Yeah, it's called how 100 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: does the body make electricity and how does it use it? 101 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: And that's by one of the writers here, Julia Layton. Yeah, 102 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: and we've got a great quotation here from the article, 103 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: just to just to put into context electricity's role in 104 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: the body and the brain. When we talk about the 105 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: nervous system sending signals to the brain or synapses firing, 106 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: or the brain telling our hands to contract around a 107 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 1: door handle. What we're really talking about is electricity carrying 108 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: messages between point A and point B. It's sort of 109 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: like the digital cable signals that carry ones and zeros 110 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: that deliver true detective to your eyeballs, except in our bodies, 111 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: electrons aren't flowing along a wire. Instead, an electrical charge 112 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: is jumping from one cell to the next until it 113 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: reaches its destination. Right, yeah, I think that's a pretty 114 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: good explanation. Here's one of the things that the body 115 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: also produces that tripped you and I at this was 116 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: unexpected light. Uh. To paraphrase Rihanna, you do indeed shine 117 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: bright like a diamond. Well not not quite that right, right, 118 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: absolutely not that right. But we said, like so we 119 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: actually a little Here's the deal. The human body produces 120 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: a small amount of light. In two thousand nine, Life 121 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: Science and The Guardian both reported a study that showed 122 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: all human beings, in fact, virtually all living creatures emit 123 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: visible light, at least in small amounts. What. Yeah, it 124 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but stick with me here. We're not talking 125 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: about light that you and I could just see with 126 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: our naked eye when you're walking around. We don't glow 127 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: in the dark. We're talking about Uh, I'm so sorry 128 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: to what was that song with my naked eye? I 129 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: saw with my naked eye eyes land Rain coming down? 130 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, who is who is that? Say? It 131 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: was Luscious Jackson. Luscious Jackson, bam so Luscious. I guess Luscious? Yeah, yeah, 132 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: she she understood? Is it? Is it she? Or is 133 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: it he is? It's like a group of people, a 134 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: group of ladies, a band, if you would, I apologize 135 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: for not being on my Luscious Jackson knowledge. I apologize 136 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: for interrupting you. Was this with his ramply thing? It's 137 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: been a it's been a long couple of days. But 138 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: good save No, I'm sorry, but back. I'm not saying 139 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: we go in the dark. What I'm saying is that, uh, 140 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: living things emit light that is roughly a thousand times 141 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: less intense than what we could detect with our eye. 142 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: It is detectable, right, Okay, I see what you're saying. 143 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: Similar to the way that some stars are visible only 144 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: through the aid of a telescope or something like that, 145 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: or or if you if you leave a lens open 146 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: for long enough Okay, that makes sense. This stuff also 147 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: showed that the light that people admitted varied throughout the day. 148 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: It was lowest that around ten am, and it was 149 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,680 Speaker 1: peaking around four pm T when it gradually declined. Uh. 150 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: Your face, by the way, assuming you're human, as you 151 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: hear this, uh, will probably clobe brighter than the rest 152 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: of your body, according to this one study we have. 153 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,079 Speaker 1: I have to say that just because this hasn't been 154 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: you know, studied a lot, but it was really interesting. Yeah, 155 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: it is interesting, and I can already foresee some of 156 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: the questions here, the question of like, well ten am 157 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: ware right, we can cranish meantime, it appears to be 158 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: tied to an individual's body clock, this slow rise and 159 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: fall of your your light source. So if you are 160 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: doing anything extremely important, try and time it somewhere around 161 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: four because maybe that light is having an effect that 162 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: you're not aware of. Wow, you know what, that would 163 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: be an interesting study to to see if it if 164 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: it mattered whatsoever, if there were animals that could sense 165 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: that light. Now, of course we're not talking about infrared, 166 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: and there are some animals whose vision verges into the 167 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: infrared spectrum. Right, But anyway, that's interesting because it shows 168 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: that human beings emit things like electricity and light. And 169 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: there are other examples of course, heat, electromagnetic force, etcetera, 170 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: etcetera at all. But we started looking at this because 171 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: we wanted to ask a different, somewhat related question. But 172 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: what what is? What is cheat? But we've heard about it. 173 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: I've heard about it since I was a kid or 174 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: stories and just you know, you see all the like 175 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 1: acupuncture and other things that make use of this energy, 176 00:10:55,559 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: like energy redirection, healing without the stuff. But we hadn't 177 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: really delved very deeply into this. So get ready, folks, 178 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: we're on the diving board. Here we go, right, Okay, Yeah, 179 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,559 Speaker 1: it's true. Matt, you've you've heard it before. I've heard 180 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: it before, Nol, you've heard it before. Listeners, you have to. 181 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 1: It's often mentioned in the context of traditional Chinese medicine 182 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 1: maybe martial arts. It's also been used in fiction, and 183 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: it's been heavily exploited by Hollywood. It's been cited as 184 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: this miraculous curative force and more. It has also been 185 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: dismissed by critics as a scam or flim flam, a superstition, 186 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: a sham, so what what is the definition of this? What? 187 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: What gives? What would we call it? Well, in Chinese 188 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 1: philosophy and Chinese medicine, she is this vital thing that 189 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: exists in everything in the universe. It's it's invisible, and 190 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: it's this unique form that's often interpreted as some sort 191 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 1: of energy of let's see, Well, we'll get to the 192 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: whole idea of what the energy is in a in 193 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: a moment, but for now, let's take it as let's 194 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: take this as a fact, at least for the sake 195 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: of argument, agreed that this g is energy. So the 196 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: belief in this sort of ubiquitous energy isn't unique. It's 197 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: not unique to Chinese tradition or any of the other 198 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: places that you may have heard that it is unique to. 199 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: It's uh, it's known as in general vitalism. It's the 200 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: vital energy that runs all things, This belief in in 201 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 1: some kind of ubiquitous energies. Yes, okay, so okay, So 202 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,319 Speaker 1: that would be kind of like prawna in Hinduism or 203 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: numa in Greek or even in physics. Right, even even 204 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: in even in physics, we we could also say, what 205 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: I'm thinking of another one, Oh, the Nazis real, real 206 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: energy real would be one. That's uh, that's a deep 207 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 1: cut for the people who would listen to our earlier 208 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: Nazi stuff that that quit quintestants. I think is the 209 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: name of it. The the fifth uh, the fifth element, 210 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: the element of the heavens was present in all nature 211 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: and the stuff of which celestial bodies was made. I 212 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: feel like dark energy. It's a hypotheti hypothetical version or 213 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: idea of what dark energy would be. So basically the Force, Yes, 214 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: if we want to if we want to go full 215 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: into full fiction references, then chi and this and this 216 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: is not meant in a derogatory way at all. This 217 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 1: is just meant to show, if anything, the the kind 218 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: of concept, that the kind of concept that the Force 219 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 1: was building upon real life. So so g would be 220 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 1: in some ways like the like a real life version 221 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: of the Force. And as we know, real life is 222 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: not like a film. So yeah, So I apologize to 223 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 1: everybody who expected they would get a lightsaber once they 224 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: completed their practice, once they become a Chee Gong master. 225 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: Chee Gong is the is the name for UH set 226 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:07,679 Speaker 1: of practices that involves postures, exercises, a clear slow circular movements, 227 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: regulated breathing, focused meditation, things like that. There are three 228 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 1: different styles. They're classified as martial, medical, or spiritual. Uh. 229 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: Some cheong styles are gentler like tai chi and can 230 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: be adapted. Others are more vigorous. But one one of 231 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: the unique features of this is uh, the ability to 232 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: train the mind to direct the body's energy or che 233 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: to any part of the body. But uh, that's that's 234 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: just to explain what che gong is. So when we 235 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: say that we're talking about people, we're talking about the 236 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: practice of using chi consciously. But maybe maybe I'm getting 237 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: a little ahead of our Wait, I can't get ahead 238 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: of ourselves. Maybe I'm just messing up the show. What 239 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: what does she even mean? In English? Yeah? In so 240 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: she in English? If it's translated is air. That's what 241 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 1: it means. Literally. While this is often seen as an energy, 242 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: as we said before, authors like Chris Kessner argue that 243 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: it's best interpreted as oxygen rather than energy, a an 244 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: essential element. Almost right. Yeah. No, Chris Kesser we found 245 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: because he's a bit contrarian. When he talks about some 246 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: of this. He claims that there are a lot of 247 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: mistranslations or misconceptions, rather mistranslations of Chinese culture and language 248 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: that led to misconceptions in the West. And for the record, 249 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: I completely agree with him in principle. I don't know how, 250 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 1: I don't know how absolutely I would agree with his specifics, 251 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: but he claims this mistranslation of of chi as energy 252 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: instead of oxygen was single handedly created by a French 253 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: fellow named Suli de moron Uh. In traditional Chinese medicine, 254 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: she is thought to travel both through these channels called 255 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: meridians getting Kesser disputes this, calling them notes. Let's just 256 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: go ahead and assume for the rest of the show 257 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: that when we're talking about g and we're and we're 258 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: just touching on some of the high level stuff, that 259 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: that the that Chris Kesser is the person you would 260 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: go to to read about if you think this is 261 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: I don't want to say bunk, but if you think 262 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: this is a vast misconception, this is something different than 263 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: what's on the surface, right, right, So, if we talked 264 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: about acupuncture, acupuncture is insertion of needles in two points 265 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: along these channels or nodes, and this is done to 266 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: adjust the positive negative aspects of G. The the yang 267 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: being the positive, the end being the negative, to help 268 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: maintain a balance of such of sorts and other things 269 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: can affect this balance to right. Have you ever done acupuncture? 270 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: I have not. You know, I have huge have huge 271 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: issues with touching metal. Yeah, if they were like stone 272 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: or wooden needles, even if it Okay, so when the 273 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:09,919 Speaker 1: metal thing, is it just your hands touching metal or 274 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: is it metal just touching your skin? No, it's it's 275 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: a body wide experience, like my sensory um inputs her 276 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: crossed and the associations are unpleasant. Okay. So, so my 277 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 1: wife tried acupuncture for the first time not long ago. 278 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: Oh no way, Yeah, she she said she felt great afterwards, 279 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: but she attributed that to just being in a relaxed 280 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: state for a long period of time. Very she had 281 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: a very stressful job for quite a while there, and 282 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: then just going into a room with quiet music and 283 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: someone gently touching you, even if they're shoving a needle 284 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,359 Speaker 1: in you, just a little bit, just meditating him. Yeah, 285 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: so she felt great afterwards, and but that's what she Okay, 286 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: you know what, that's kind of cool, man, That's that's amazing. 287 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:59,439 Speaker 1: I'd love to hear more about her. Her experience, because, 288 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 1: as you know, people have used acupuncture for very long time, 289 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,880 Speaker 1: and it's popular across the world now and people swear 290 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: by it maw uh. And we know also that our 291 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: friends over at Stuff you Should Know have a great 292 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: podcast on acupuncture if you want to learn more about it. 293 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,120 Speaker 1: So here's where we start to get into some of 294 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: the more divisive stuff. I know a lot of people 295 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: are not sold on acupuncture, and then a lot of 296 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: people think that Western medical institutions are suppressing acupuncture any 297 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:42,479 Speaker 1: natural alternative medicine. So we we know those two sides 298 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: of the argument. Or there, let's let's bracket that for 299 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,199 Speaker 1: a second and get into some of the weirder stuff 300 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,439 Speaker 1: with the idea that practitioners of che gong are able 301 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 1: to direct the effects of ch just by using their 302 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 1: minds and their hands at racky massage right energy redirection. 303 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: Feel like reiky is kind of a low level version 304 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: of some of the key Goong practitioners I've seen, at 305 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,199 Speaker 1: least on videos. Now, I'm not trying to diminish reiki 306 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: at all, know several people it's just a different thing. 307 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: It's a different thing. The key Goong masters that I've 308 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 1: seen are the ones that say they can create heat 309 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 1: they can actually create heat with their mind in their hands, 310 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: and a couple other things. I think magnetism was another idea. Oh, 311 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: remind me at the end of the episode, because I can, 312 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: I can explain some of that. Excellent, Okay, So another thing, though, 313 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: these are not the only claims you'll see. People who 314 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: are young doctors or master's claim to channel their own 315 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: energy or air into another person's energy kind of network, right, 316 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: correcting blockages as you can imagine, ladies and gentlemen. Surprise, surprise, surprise. 317 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 1: West Stern Medicine takes a dim view of many of 318 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: these claims. But we've we've seen enough so far to 319 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: know that without going into acupuncture, making this an acupuncture podcast, Uh, 320 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 1: we know that the definition of CH, of what is 321 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: CH isn't something as cut and dry due to all 322 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 1: these misconceptions. So maybe it's best to understand SHE in 323 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: terms of its functions and its activities. Right, So it 324 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: as the uh, we'll just walk through it as the 325 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: qualities of both matter and energy, right for those who 326 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 1: believe it exists, and as substance without structure. It possesses 327 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,160 Speaker 1: qualities of energy, but it can't be measured. I hear 328 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: so many people on the other side of the microphone 329 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: now groaning or on the other side of this, because 330 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: you should be able to measure something, right if it's energy. 331 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: So they would say via analogy. There's a great comparison 332 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: in one of our articles that the force of a 333 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: thunderstorm could be understanding understood in terms of its chi 334 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: because you could measure the power of the chi in 335 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 1: the fallen trees and buildings in the storms aftermath. I 336 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: get it, but I'm a little hesitant with I'm a 337 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: little hesitant to uh totally subscribe to something because of 338 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: an analogy. Well yeah, and it makes me that analogy 339 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: in particular makes me think of the possible misinterpretation of 340 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 1: g as uh not energy but air, or you know, 341 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: the idea that you can't see the wind, but you're 342 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: pretty sure that that tree was standing up earlier. Right now. 343 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: There's also we can kind of skip past the Meridians 344 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 1: stuff here, but you know, we mentioned those meridians or 345 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: those nodes and the way that she is supposed to 346 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: travel from no to no passing through meridians. You'll hear 347 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: people say there's a cycle of twenty four hours, and 348 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: that there's certain times where wherein a certain organ is 349 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: is more powerful that the flow is strongest there. So 350 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 1: the concept here is that she is supposed to pass 351 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: through all the major channels or nodes and meridians of 352 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 1: your body, and manipulating these points with pressure, heat, needles, 353 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: et cetera is the crux upon which so much of 354 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 1: this treatment hinges to have the energy flow through those 355 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:33,360 Speaker 1: points correctly. Um. So, so we've talked about this, let's 356 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: talk about other functions, or the main functions. Oh yeah, yeah, 357 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 1: there are five, right, yes, So the first one is transformation, 358 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: and this is the idea that she transform one type 359 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: of substance into another. Okay, so let's say the spleen, 360 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: she transforms food into ch and blood right, Okay, that 361 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:57,719 Speaker 1: the body and the body can use that, so use 362 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 1: uses both of these things that she to make everything 363 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: else work. And then the blood, well, the blood to 364 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: make everything else working. Right. Uh, the kidney she transforms 365 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 1: fluids into pure essence and wastewater. And then you know, 366 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: in the same way you keep going on down to say, 367 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 1: the long transforms air into the energy to sustain life. 368 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: So transformation is the first one movement would be the 369 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 1: second all movement accompanied by its own CHI including growth, development, walking, breathing. 370 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:29,400 Speaker 1: Thinking that she is the commander of the blood as 371 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: you might have heard before. What's the third one? Third 372 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,920 Speaker 1: one is protection, the idea that she protects the body 373 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,120 Speaker 1: against attacked by diseases, UM and other things. If if 374 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: a person's che is weak, that person may experience frequent 375 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: illnesses because they're white blood cells or chi aren't doing 376 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: so uh, and then they're the fourth wound be retention, 377 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: the fourth function of CHI. That's the idea that she 378 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: keeps the organs in their proper place. So that's the 379 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:00,199 Speaker 1: reason that you're not vomiting up your hearts or some thing. 380 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 1: Thank good. That and numerous anatomical facts. But the uh. 381 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: The idea here is that deficiency can lead to prolapse, 382 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: bleeding disorders, excessive sweating or urination. And there's one last one. 383 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: The last one is warming the yang aspect of kidney 384 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: CHEE keeps the entire body warm, which is pretty nice. Um. 385 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: When it is deficient in this way, chronic cold extremities 386 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,719 Speaker 1: like cold extremities as in your arms or your legs, 387 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: mostly uh, you will have decreased function in all activities 388 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: that require warmth, such as digestion or other things that 389 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: go on inside your innards. Okay, so we know that 390 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 1: g is at least attributed to doing a whole host 391 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: of things for the human body and of all other 392 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: living entities inside their bodies. We also know that as 393 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 1: we went through there, we were saying things like the lungs, cheating, 394 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: spleen ch that's weird, right, Yeah, those are different types 395 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 1: of chi because Chinese medicine typically divides in the various 396 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,640 Speaker 1: types depending on source and function. So the original source 397 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: of this force would be your parents, and that she 398 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:17,360 Speaker 1: inherited from them is known as prenatal chi. So this 399 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: is the basic constitution of a human being. It depends 400 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: upon genetics, the quality of the parents lives at the 401 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: time of conception and during pregnancy. This, ladies and gentlemen, 402 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: if you believe in she is your heritage. It cannot 403 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: be replenished. A healthy lifestyle, diet and breathing practices, however, 404 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: can conserve prenatal chi and slow down its depletion. That's 405 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: really cool. So I'm almost thinking of it as in 406 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: terms of stem cells or something. You're stem cell chi, right, 407 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: or maybe the way that a woman only has a 408 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: certain number of eggs in her life and those can 409 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: be depleted. But a um, but the argument here of 410 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 1: worse being that there are certain actions one can take 411 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 1: to slow that loss. But there's another type of g 412 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: there that's just as important. Yes, once you are postnatal, 413 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 1: you get the postnatal she. And this is she that's 414 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: acquired or derived from food you're eating, the stuff you're drinking, 415 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 1: the air you're breathing. This, when combined with prenatal CHI, 416 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 1: forms the totality of the body's power to perform all 417 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: of these things we're talking about, all the vital functions 418 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: of your body. And then there's lung, cheese, spleen she 419 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 1: true she, which is the totality of CHI, the results 420 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 1: from the combination of the prenatal and the postnatal stuff. 421 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,719 Speaker 1: This is responsible for all the functions of the body. 422 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: Takes different forms. Uh, there's there's also uh nutritive she. 423 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 1: You can hear about these different types of CHI. But 424 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: what what I would like to get to is, uh, 425 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 1: the the claims attributed to these chich young masters, right, 426 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: so called sometimes self professed, let's be honest, sometimes self 427 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: professed and we're you know, We're not here in any 428 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: way to denigrate serious practitioners of something that people believe in, 429 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: but we will tell you that there are quite a 430 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 1: few claims made by people who also claim to be 431 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 1: che Gong masters. And uh, all these claims are not 432 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 1: created equal. I mean you can start with stuff like 433 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 1: someone is an acupuncturist, right, Uh, that's that's believable. People 434 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: around the world again engage in acupuncture, and I know 435 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 1: some people think it's utter bunk, some people swear by it. 436 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 1: But this is not an acupuncture episode because we're going 437 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: further afield, right, We're going to the people who claim 438 00:27:56,119 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: that they have superpowers. Essentially, I'm very I'm very as 439 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: you know, I'm very interested in having superpowers. So we're 440 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 1: aware of right, So I looked into this, uh, and 441 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,120 Speaker 1: I just I don't want to spoil this surprise for anybody, 442 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 1: but let's take a closer look at some of these, right. So, 443 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 1: so checking can the idea that it can give you 444 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: superhuman abilities, particularly when it comes to a standing pain. 445 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 1: You'll see people being beaten with. Uh. Once you hear 446 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:32,679 Speaker 1: the air quotes here, iron bars, you'll see and and 447 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 1: they may indeed be iron You know, I wouldn't want 448 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: to test it out, That's all I'm saying. Right, Yeah, 449 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 1: you definitely have to train. You know. It's like the 450 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 1: whole thing with when people say wrestling is fake, it's 451 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: there's still trained professionals, those athletes. Watch yourself, right, and 452 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: then and then it is true that there are people 453 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: who are trained to take massive amounts of damage that 454 00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: would seriously injure another person. Right, absolutely, but maybe not 455 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 1: to a superhuman degree. You'll often hear skeptics Darren Brown's 456 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: one who attribute these sorts of performances to just that 457 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 1: performances stage magic. Right, But there's another bigger one that 458 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: that goes back to our friend Noel the Iron Fist Brown. 459 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: Oh yes, Ben, that would be the no punch knockout. 460 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: You may have seen videos of guys who were wearing 461 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: like the master belts in some kind of martial arts garb, 462 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 1: and there are a bunch of people running up to 463 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: them and they're just knocking them over. You may have 464 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: seen this. I watched the video like that recently because 465 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 1: I would. I somehow was watching an mm A video 466 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: and then it was on one of the you know, 467 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 1: on the right rail. Uh. It was kind of kind 468 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: of upsetting. Actually, it was one of these practitioners who 469 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: it's a video of the master and his students, and 470 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: he's just demonstrating how he can knock out all of 471 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 1: his students without the watching them. And then and yes, 472 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: and then he challenges and m M A fighter and 473 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 1: wagers lots of money and says that he can beat 474 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,959 Speaker 1: him up without touching him, and the m M A 475 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: Fighter proceeds to break the guy's nose and hurt him 476 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: really badly. Uh is this one where the um it's old? 477 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: Is this the one where the guy says he'll put 478 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: up a force field? Remember? Yeah? I so this. Yeah, 479 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: this is a thing that's unfortunately fairly common to see 480 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: online now. And it is true that people can break 481 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: wood or cinder blocks with their bare hands. Yeah, they're 482 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: doing it. They used to do it as a kid. 483 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 1: What the as like martial arts? We're angry? Yeah, it 484 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 1: was both. Oh okay, did you did you break a 485 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 1: center block? Really? No, I've never got a center block. 486 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: Buddy Scott did, though. Wow, man in right, And that's 487 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: completely possible for someone to break cinder blocks with their 488 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 1: bare hands. Listeners, if you train yourself right, and you 489 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 1: are safe, and you are assiduous, and you practice and 490 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 1: practice practice, then you too can eventually break cinder blocks, 491 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: but in a very specific way. You you will probably 492 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: still injure yourself if you go up to a wall 493 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: of cinder blocks and say, hey, guys, watch this, I'm 494 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: gonna go and guarantee that that will happen. Yeah, it's 495 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: gotta be. There's there's a science to it. But when 496 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 1: it comes to the idea of knocking someone to the 497 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 1: ground without touching them, there is a glaring commonality for 498 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: all of the people supposedly affected by these no touch 499 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: super punches, and it is this, they are true believers. 500 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: They believe this stuff really works. That's and that's not 501 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 1: saying Ben and I aren't saying that these videos you 502 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: were watching they're just a bunch of people making and 503 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 1: acting as though they're getting punched out. They believe so 504 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: wholeheartedly that this this master has these abilities or even 505 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 1: they perhaps have the abilities, that it makes it true 506 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 1: for them. Right. Yeah, it's the power of suggestions, similar 507 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: to hypnosis. There being sincere. It's kind of like gloss alia, 508 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,320 Speaker 1: which is the five dollar word for speaking in tongues. Right, 509 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: and what happens during that If you've ever seen footage 510 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: of this, and Matt, you and I have watched the 511 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 1: documentary stuff with this. I have seen people do it 512 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Uh. Some people do it in churches as well. Yeah. 513 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 1: And what this speaking in tongues UH thing is is 514 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: supposed to be in in various belief systems, is a 515 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 1: direct touch of the divine right, perhaps speaking or assumed 516 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:04,239 Speaker 1: to be speaking uh in in a coherent manner, in 517 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: a language that the human I guess medium for this right, 518 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 1: the human vessel for this has has no knowledge of Uh. 519 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: We've seen some great research on glass Alelia that that 520 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: proves it is a real thing. And the people who 521 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 1: are undergoing this, just like the people who are falling 522 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 1: to a no touch knockout punch, uh, believe that it 523 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: is happening there. Sincere they're not trying to you know, 524 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: be cool or something. It's not like Craig is saying, 525 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: all I better fall down so I get promoted in 526 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 1: this thing or whatever. It's it's a real thing. They 527 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 1: believe on some level that this is the way they're 528 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 1: supposed to act. So every and you know, maybe I 529 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: would be so excited if I found somebody could really 530 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,280 Speaker 1: do this, and if you know someone, please send them 531 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: our way. Yeah, we'd love to we'd love to see 532 00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 1: it happen in real life. But in the fact of 533 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 1: the matter is, at this point, we we haven't found 534 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: anything like that. Uh, let's go to ah. Yeah, yeah, 535 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,239 Speaker 1: you've seen this and you know what's coming up. Yeah, 536 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,959 Speaker 1: there's another one you've probably seen videos of. Now, thank 537 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:18,839 Speaker 1: goodness for YouTube, Thank you YouTube, where where someone can 538 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 1: use their cheap powers to ignite a world piece of paper, 539 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:29,359 Speaker 1: a newspaper, some form of flammable substance. And Okay, so 540 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: I we just have to get started and say there 541 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,719 Speaker 1: are several of these that are obvious hoaxes that we 542 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 1: have seen him been proven to be hoaxes. Um this, 543 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 1: there's this chemical reaction that you can obtain. I think 544 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: Darren Brown didn't turn around cover this scam school or 545 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 1: something like that. The chemical reaction is, here's what happens 546 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:58,680 Speaker 1: that the person the claiming to have these amazing supernatural 547 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,480 Speaker 1: abilities holds up in newspaper. Behind the newspaper, there's a 548 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 1: little plastic baggy and in that bag there there's glide 549 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:12,520 Speaker 1: glycerol I believe, and potassium man unite seven and when 550 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: they crumple it up, they combine the two elements, which 551 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 1: creates a combustion, right reaction, And it will take a 552 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 1: second for the newspaper to catch a fire, but newspaper, 553 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,759 Speaker 1: of course, being highly combustible, does catch a fire. And 554 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,040 Speaker 1: then the people just sort of sort of stick for 555 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,760 Speaker 1: you de roy around it, you know, David Copperfield stage 556 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,120 Speaker 1: magic stuff. You can check out that video for free 557 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,640 Speaker 1: online to see how that happens. What these are just 558 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,239 Speaker 1: a few examples of the outlandish stuff. And yeah, can 559 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 1: I just take a second to say though at this point, 560 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,359 Speaker 1: that I think it is so profoundly offensive to consciously 561 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:55,279 Speaker 1: misinformed people about something that's thousands and thousands year old tradition. 562 00:35:55,480 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 1: You know, this idea that breathing, exercise, razing, being mindful 563 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 1: of what you eat and how you live. Like, who 564 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,719 Speaker 1: could argue with that. That's a great idea. Call it, 565 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:08,919 Speaker 1: call it what you want, you know what I mean. 566 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:16,040 Speaker 1: But don't don't uh, don't try to swindle people by 567 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:21,439 Speaker 1: telling them that you will have superpowers. That's very Yeah, 568 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,799 Speaker 1: I completely agree, it's very scientology to me. They're also 569 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,479 Speaker 1: claims about the health benefits of gong right, yes, Ben, 570 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:33,320 Speaker 1: Like we said, acupuncture people swear that that acupuncture works 571 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,480 Speaker 1: not only to relieve pain, but to relieve other symptoms 572 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:41,720 Speaker 1: of problems that they're having. But currently, unfortunately, the scientifically 573 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:46,560 Speaker 1: scientifically sound studies like pure reviewers, ones that you could 574 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 1: point to and say, okay, well, I really understand this, 575 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,399 Speaker 1: and then other people in the field understand that this 576 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:55,239 Speaker 1: is what is happening. They they're severely lacking currently, at 577 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 1: least by the standards of Western medicine and research well 578 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,800 Speaker 1: and also by the standards of some members of the 579 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:07,120 Speaker 1: Chinese scientific community. As a thing called the China Association 580 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:11,880 Speaker 1: of Science and Technology or CASTE that has been conducting 581 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,719 Speaker 1: that had conducted wide ranging studies of various che going 582 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:22,640 Speaker 1: practices or practitioners and we're trying to eliminate the fake ones, 583 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,920 Speaker 1: and they found that there was a wide variance of stuff. 584 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:29,120 Speaker 1: There's a guy named Dr Stephen Barrett who noted that 585 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:35,760 Speaker 1: many practice practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine will separately see 586 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:40,239 Speaker 1: the same patient presenting the same symptoms or or you know, 587 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,000 Speaker 1: telling them the same symptoms and have well why widely 588 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:50,719 Speaker 1: varying diagnoses um far beyond what you would call a 589 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:55,200 Speaker 1: second opinion, just just very different stuff. And at this point, 590 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,680 Speaker 1: you know, I have to ask, I have to ask you, man, 591 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,799 Speaker 1: what do you think about she? It's a tough one. 592 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,600 Speaker 1: I currently this is the way I'm going to couch this, Okay, 593 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,719 Speaker 1: I currently have no evidence to believe that she is 594 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:17,719 Speaker 1: anything outside of the elements, the chemicals and biological functions 595 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,879 Speaker 1: of the natural world and my body. Okay, Well that's 596 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:26,760 Speaker 1: that's what the text of Ancient China saych is anyway. 597 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,200 Speaker 1: Oh sure, I mean they just they just call all 598 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,840 Speaker 1: of these things together g and that's and that's cool. 599 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 1: I'm down with that. It's just I don't believe that 600 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:40,400 Speaker 1: it is a separate thing. I guess right, I I see, 601 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,920 Speaker 1: I see what you're what you're saying. Um, I definitely 602 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:50,720 Speaker 1: think it has been just woefully misrepresented in at least 603 00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:55,600 Speaker 1: here in the West. You know. Uh, it's it's gotta 604 00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,400 Speaker 1: be surprising. I'd love to hear um from from some 605 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,239 Speaker 1: of our other listeners here. It's gotta be surprising sometimes, 606 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:07,600 Speaker 1: especially if you yourself. If we have anybody who practices 607 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,759 Speaker 1: alternative medicine or is an authority on it, I'd love 608 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,840 Speaker 1: to hear from you, because I'd love to hear the 609 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,640 Speaker 1: misconceptions that you feel people in the West have. Yeah, 610 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,680 Speaker 1: I might have this completely wrong in my viewpoint of it. Well, well, 611 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,080 Speaker 1: it's just like while we were looking at this, and 612 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,080 Speaker 1: when I was looking through Western research about she one 613 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,799 Speaker 1: thing that got me at that I started wondering, you know, 614 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:34,560 Speaker 1: was is this sort of like the old Chinese restaurant problem? 615 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,920 Speaker 1: You know when I was at when I was in college, 616 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,640 Speaker 1: I would hang out with some of my friends were 617 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:45,279 Speaker 1: four nationals right then from China, and we went to 618 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,799 Speaker 1: a Chinese restaurant one time, and their reaction was very 619 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,480 Speaker 1: much like what the hell is this? It was so 620 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,840 Speaker 1: it was like, this is not Chinese food? Yeah, what 621 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,759 Speaker 1: why are you pouring sugar on everything? You know, which 622 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,960 Speaker 1: is actually common reaction for people outside the stakes to anything. 623 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:05,680 Speaker 1: But I wonder how much of it is misinterpreted as 624 00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:10,560 Speaker 1: for the question of whether it is real, and then 625 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:15,160 Speaker 1: it has to go back to um double blind studies 626 00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:21,480 Speaker 1: that can prove a statistically significant thing. But of course 627 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,439 Speaker 1: you're listening to this show, you want to know. If 628 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,040 Speaker 1: there's stuff they don't want you to know, then what 629 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,920 Speaker 1: could it be? We found two possibilities, ladies and gentlemen. 630 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:38,000 Speaker 1: One possibility being that, uh that it's bunk that the 631 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,759 Speaker 1: thing that the they and the stuff they don't want 632 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:45,040 Speaker 1: you to know are the self professed uh cheong masters 633 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:50,040 Speaker 1: who will charge you money to listen to the air 634 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:54,120 Speaker 1: quotes here teach you the no knockout punch. Yeah, well, 635 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,879 Speaker 1: or anyone who profits off of it being a real thing, 636 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,600 Speaker 1: right right. That's that's one. That's one option. Another option 637 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,360 Speaker 1: is that they would be uh the A m A 638 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:13,000 Speaker 1: or other Western medical institutions who repress alternative therapies in 639 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:19,680 Speaker 1: hopes of continuing the great, um, the great and brutal 640 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:25,200 Speaker 1: cycle of profiting from people's health their lack thereof right, Uh, 641 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,360 Speaker 1: that one hurts just the way you said it, even, 642 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,080 Speaker 1: I mean I can, I can clearly see some validity 643 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,680 Speaker 1: and in that at least in that the brutal cycle 644 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,520 Speaker 1: does exist. Right. Maybe somebody doesn't want you to know 645 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:44,000 Speaker 1: that we're all interconnected with this energy, ben and we 646 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,839 Speaker 1: all are have powerful keygong masters inside of us. Don't 647 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:58,560 Speaker 1: avatarmy man. Okay, sorry, it's uh, I'm I'm joking. That's 648 00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,320 Speaker 1: that's possible. But then I would somebody want to repress 649 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,880 Speaker 1: something like that, so they can control us Ben through 650 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:10,440 Speaker 1: through that common connection, through that zeitgeist. Maybe there's a 651 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,920 Speaker 1: film there for sure. We could definitely do that before 652 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,560 Speaker 1: before we go into this thing, I wanted to want 653 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,080 Speaker 1: to go back to the stuff we've mentioned at the top, Uh, 654 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:25,800 Speaker 1: the idea that people could control magnetism, right or project heat. Yes, 655 00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:33,400 Speaker 1: so these things are partially true. These are real superpowers, Asterix. 656 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,640 Speaker 1: And you already know some of this, right because one 657 00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:40,120 Speaker 1: of the things that intense meditation teaches people to do. 658 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,960 Speaker 1: And this is just this is amazing. I would be 659 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,279 Speaker 1: cursing up a storm if this were not in all 660 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:51,479 Speaker 1: ages show, because I am just really very excited. Yes, 661 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,759 Speaker 1: Matt sees me almost cursing here across this. Uh. What 662 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:59,600 Speaker 1: what we find is it is possible to gain control 663 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:07,759 Speaker 1: over your normally involuntary bodily functions if you meditate frequently, 664 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:12,880 Speaker 1: and and they're they're numerous monks of varying different religions 665 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,799 Speaker 1: who are capable of doing this. You can raise and 666 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:21,239 Speaker 1: lower your body temperature, you can uh increase and decrease 667 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,960 Speaker 1: your heartbeat, right, and you can see this stuff and 668 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,560 Speaker 1: this is this is real. This is not any kind 669 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:34,040 Speaker 1: of um stage magic. You can see footage of monks, 670 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,440 Speaker 1: for instance, who practice the thing called I think Troumo 671 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:42,400 Speaker 1: or tomo where they they're having ice cold wet sheets 672 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,160 Speaker 1: thrown on them and they just start meditating. Yeah, and 673 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,560 Speaker 1: they steam them dry, they steam dry to stuff or 674 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,200 Speaker 1: and there was I think there's one European who learned 675 00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:53,960 Speaker 1: to do that and now he just jogs around. I 676 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,799 Speaker 1: swear this is this guy was just jogging around uh 677 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:04,000 Speaker 1: in like shorts. Yeah, and then just antarctic weather and 678 00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,319 Speaker 1: whether that would have given other people frost bite and 679 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,759 Speaker 1: his extremities were not suffering frost bite because he had 680 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,040 Speaker 1: this control over his body. You also see people getting 681 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,600 Speaker 1: buried alive with their their hands in the in the 682 00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,879 Speaker 1: praying position and just lowering their body responses almost like 683 00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:25,320 Speaker 1: they're in hibernation. That's real. That's spooky to be able 684 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,480 Speaker 1: to do that. So okay, okay, sorry, uh. The other 685 00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,040 Speaker 1: thing I've got to go on a rant here. The 686 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:35,600 Speaker 1: other the other thing is the ability, the magnetic ability. 687 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:41,520 Speaker 1: When I was looking at various possible real superpowers, there's 688 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:45,640 Speaker 1: this there's this friction thing that's actually happening. You remember, 689 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,480 Speaker 1: do you read about this. Yeah, it's a it's not 690 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:53,399 Speaker 1: a magnetism, it's a stickiness, which is so much grosser. Yeah, yeah, 691 00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,879 Speaker 1: it really is. And it's genetic, so it's kind of cool. 692 00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:00,120 Speaker 1: You might see the the videos of a person and 693 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,240 Speaker 1: putting a spoon or other metal objects on the body, 694 00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,680 Speaker 1: on their face, on their nose, on their chests, all over, 695 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,240 Speaker 1: and it's like, oh man, this guy is a magnet. 696 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:14,200 Speaker 1: Holy moldy and his children have the same power. What 697 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:19,240 Speaker 1: race of mutants? Well maybe, well, it's just the genetic 698 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:23,520 Speaker 1: condition that alters your skin. Yeah, and they have a 699 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:29,160 Speaker 1: higher have a higher frictive ability. I believe things, things 700 00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:31,200 Speaker 1: are just more likely to stick to them. They are 701 00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:37,400 Speaker 1: stickier people. That is, that is the actual thing that's happening. There, 702 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,759 Speaker 1: the the other, the other thing. And I think perhaps 703 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,640 Speaker 1: one of the most important takeaways from this, because I 704 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:47,120 Speaker 1: know we spent a lot of time today talking about 705 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:54,439 Speaker 1: how untrue a lot of the claims might be right 706 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:59,520 Speaker 1: and how unfair it might be too. You know, someone 707 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,120 Speaker 1: who knows nothing about this stuff too to hear these 708 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:07,400 Speaker 1: outrageous things first and then be inevitably disappointed. Here here's 709 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,279 Speaker 1: the amazing thing. And I think you and I have 710 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,359 Speaker 1: talked about this on the show, but I'll just wave 711 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:17,160 Speaker 1: the flag again because, Uh, it's fascinating. There really is 712 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,040 Speaker 1: such a thing as mind over matter. It is literal. 713 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,480 Speaker 1: The way you think, just by the virtue of the 714 00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:28,040 Speaker 1: thought alone changes the physical world in the most direct, 715 00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:33,600 Speaker 1: amazing and terrifying way, which is it changes the structure 716 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:38,120 Speaker 1: or the ratios of areas of your brain. We we've 717 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:42,279 Speaker 1: talked before about studies of London cab drivers, right, Uh, 718 00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,920 Speaker 1: London cab driver's background have to take a test called 719 00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:48,760 Speaker 1: the Knowledge, and the knowledge is super ridiculously hard. People 720 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:53,000 Speaker 1: are expected to fail at several times. But and the 721 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,200 Speaker 1: reason so hard is because you you cannot use the GPS, etcetera. 722 00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,560 Speaker 1: You have to memorize all these different routes in the 723 00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:02,800 Speaker 1: way they interconnect. And after people have become lending cabbies 724 00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,640 Speaker 1: for you know, decades, the area of their brain that's 725 00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:11,040 Speaker 1: associated with spatial memory is larger than an average person. 726 00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,600 Speaker 1: The same thing happens with I think there was a 727 00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:18,160 Speaker 1: study Buddhist monks who were meditating for for the same time, right, 728 00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,840 Speaker 1: and the area of their brain with associate with compassion 729 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:27,799 Speaker 1: or empathy was larger, not like a little bit, like 730 00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:32,640 Speaker 1: noticeably the way that you would look at someone who 731 00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:36,279 Speaker 1: only worked out their left arm and notice how much 732 00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,720 Speaker 1: bigger their left arm is. And now, just to clarify, 733 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:45,200 Speaker 1: we're not talking about the secret style positive thinking getting 734 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,760 Speaker 1: a lot of money because you think possibly you're finding 735 00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,480 Speaker 1: that's not at all what we're saying here. Yeah, we're 736 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,520 Speaker 1: talking about the kind of thoughts you have literally changing 737 00:47:55,520 --> 00:48:00,719 Speaker 1: the way your brain grows are changing. Um m m, 738 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:06,480 Speaker 1: brain grows very slowly, changing the uh the function perhaps 739 00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:09,240 Speaker 1: is more fair way to say it. But still that 740 00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:12,360 Speaker 1: that isn't that is an amazing thing. And if the 741 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:16,680 Speaker 1: techniques of various forms of cheng can help you achieve 742 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:20,640 Speaker 1: that kind of thing, or if they help you overall 743 00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:25,360 Speaker 1: in your life and your wellness and they uh lengthen 744 00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:27,760 Speaker 1: your lifespan or at least length in the good parts 745 00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,839 Speaker 1: of its, right? Was it like Dennis Leary who used 746 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,279 Speaker 1: to say, you know, I don't want to live till 747 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,560 Speaker 1: I'm ninety or whatever, because those last few years are 748 00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:39,520 Speaker 1: gonna suck. I think Dennis Leary said that, but I 749 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,000 Speaker 1: it always makes you nervous quoting him, because I always 750 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,440 Speaker 1: feel like somebody else said it first. Whoa way is 751 00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:49,200 Speaker 1: that a yeah, a little too much of a Louis 752 00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:53,960 Speaker 1: c k. You used your cheek to burn him. The 753 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:58,799 Speaker 1: skin is sizzling. He got a burn. Notice had a 754 00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:03,520 Speaker 1: pop culture reference? Really nice. By the way, have you 755 00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,520 Speaker 1: seen the show this is Apropo nothing? Have you seen 756 00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:10,560 Speaker 1: the show Mr Robot on USA Network? I have not. No, 757 00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,120 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't watch a lot of dude. They 758 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,040 Speaker 1: made that show for us and our listeners, and I'm 759 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:19,000 Speaker 1: not getting paid to promote the show. Just I'm saying 760 00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:23,680 Speaker 1: give it a chance, because it's it's basically like fight 761 00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:29,400 Speaker 1: Club and the Matrix smash them together, plus uh, the 762 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:34,680 Speaker 1: illuminatis in there. It's crazy. I love it all right, 763 00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:39,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna check out Mr Robot and and Christians later. 764 00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:45,200 Speaker 1: By the way, who's Christians later on sea? Did you 765 00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:50,400 Speaker 1: hear that? Sound cute? That can only mean one thing. Hey, 766 00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:53,920 Speaker 1: it's our moment with nol So. I watched the trailer 767 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:55,640 Speaker 1: for Mr. Robot the other day and it looks looks 768 00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:57,479 Speaker 1: really good. I haven't seen it yet, but like there's 769 00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:01,680 Speaker 1: like an anonymous esque oh yeah, anonymously about it really 770 00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:05,160 Speaker 1: with a slightly different mask to more of a mustache 771 00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,560 Speaker 1: because they didn't want to get sued. Can you imagine 772 00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:13,399 Speaker 1: Anonymous taking someone to court? Guys, I wanted and I'm 773 00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,920 Speaker 1: glad we're all here. I wanted to read a couple 774 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:23,319 Speaker 1: of tweets from our from our last podcast because we 775 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,279 Speaker 1: had some people talk, remember our podcast that we were 776 00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,120 Speaker 1: trying to figure out which animals. Well, we had some 777 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,479 Speaker 1: people right to us with their choices. Do you guys 778 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:36,560 Speaker 1: want to hear them? Yes? Please? Okay, let's see there's 779 00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:42,959 Speaker 1: one rather strange one. They Uh, somebody wanted to eat 780 00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,319 Speaker 1: be a small animal, eat coffee. Yeah. Shout out to 781 00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:51,799 Speaker 1: a baby lion cub who said the baby lion cub 782 00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:55,880 Speaker 1: chose to be an Asian palm civet because eating and 783 00:50:55,920 --> 00:51:00,600 Speaker 1: pooping out coffee beans all day is the ultimate dream job. Man. Now, 784 00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:05,640 Speaker 1: is that the coffee that's really expensive? Yes? What's good 785 00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,359 Speaker 1: about it? Is it and give you animal powers? It's 786 00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,560 Speaker 1: just like it's supposed to taste really good. It's of 787 00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:22,160 Speaker 1: its kind A certain mommy, yes, certain, a certain you mommy. 788 00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:27,600 Speaker 1: Uh and then uh then uh kelsey Eto writes to us, says, 789 00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:29,560 Speaker 1: if I could be in the animal, I would turn 790 00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:34,520 Speaker 1: into ter topsus dorney and be immortal that's a little jellyfish. Right, 791 00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:40,160 Speaker 1: fish turns into a baby continually. And then we had 792 00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,120 Speaker 1: we had some folks right in, Uh say, don't be 793 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,600 Speaker 1: a cow. Uh. Jake Collins road In says, I know 794 00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:48,439 Speaker 1: it sounds weird, but I'd love to be a duck 795 00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:53,440 Speaker 1: skin walker, able to fly, swim and be cute beyond reason. 796 00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,600 Speaker 1: So kind sort of a one upping of mine. I mean, 797 00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:57,319 Speaker 1: I didn't think about that, but it's like, if you're 798 00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:00,720 Speaker 1: a duck, then you can fly and you can swim 799 00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:05,920 Speaker 1: and corkscrew thing. I don't know about that. We're family 800 00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:11,920 Speaker 1: show Family, Look up duck cork screw. Uh. Yeah, ducks 801 00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,560 Speaker 1: are horrible people. If ducks were people, they would be 802 00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:18,680 Speaker 1: bad people. Um, I just based on their behavior and 803 00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,480 Speaker 1: like they would mainly just swimming giant pools of golden coins. 804 00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,359 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah. Did you know that you will 805 00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,280 Speaker 1: be seriously injured if you attempt to do that? Yeah. 806 00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:32,280 Speaker 1: For some reason, there was a study whereas the one said, 807 00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:36,280 Speaker 1: how would this work, just just in case I've wasted 808 00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,640 Speaker 1: all my time on paper? Punt would be less of 809 00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:43,440 Speaker 1: a splash and more of like a yeah, yeah, well no, 810 00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,680 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I just I was excited to uh talk 811 00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,400 Speaker 1: more about the kind of animals who we would be, 812 00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:52,839 Speaker 1: because I clearly have my priorities aligned. But but what's 813 00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,400 Speaker 1: on your mind with this, with this whole cheese stuff. 814 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,200 Speaker 1: Oh I don't know, man, I was too busy playing 815 00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:01,160 Speaker 1: the new Fallout Shelter iPhone game. What have you guys 816 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,680 Speaker 1: seen this? You guys familiar with the Fallout games? I mean, 817 00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,000 Speaker 1: I know Fallout. Yeah, so there's a there's an iPhone 818 00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:09,920 Speaker 1: Fallout game that's sort of like a Fallout version of 819 00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,160 Speaker 1: the SIMS where you have your little vault dwellers and 820 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:16,640 Speaker 1: you organize them in these various underground Fallout Shelter compartments. 821 00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,759 Speaker 1: And it sounds really cool. It's really But are are 822 00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,560 Speaker 1: you admitting to just sitting there and playing a game 823 00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,960 Speaker 1: while we Ben and I are having this philosophical discussion 824 00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,600 Speaker 1: about the energy inside all of us? I'm half admitting it, 825 00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:29,960 Speaker 1: but I'm not fully admitting it. Oh listen, I know. 826 00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:31,960 Speaker 1: I actually I've got a thing. You want to hear 827 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:33,719 Speaker 1: my thing? I want to hear it? Yeah, I have it. 828 00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,759 Speaker 1: I literally have not slept. Man, give you something. No, 829 00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:38,759 Speaker 1: you got it, and you got This isn't very good, 830 00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,200 Speaker 1: But you know the band Tool you guys familiar with 831 00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:46,800 Speaker 1: the band. So their singer Maynard James Keenan, who I 832 00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,480 Speaker 1: think mainly just makes wine. Now. I don't think he 833 00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,359 Speaker 1: actually sings anymore, that's not sure. I'm kidding. I think 834 00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,200 Speaker 1: still refuses to wear a shirt that well. Yeah. Um. 835 00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,279 Speaker 1: But a friend of mine a long time ago who 836 00:53:57,280 --> 00:54:00,560 Speaker 1: lived in Los Angeles told me the story about being 837 00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,200 Speaker 1: with somebody and running into Maynard James Keenan on the 838 00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,000 Speaker 1: street and for whatever reason, like you do, his friend 839 00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:09,319 Speaker 1: decided he'd shoot a bottle rocket at him. He just 840 00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:12,439 Speaker 1: happened to have one, and maybe it wasn't a bottle rocket, 841 00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,480 Speaker 1: it was a it was a firecracker. Let's let's let's 842 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,440 Speaker 1: just it's pretty fat. But here's what happened. So he 843 00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:21,080 Speaker 1: throws the firecracker at James Maynard James Keenan's feet and 844 00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,359 Speaker 1: Maynard kind of looks at it and it goes out, 845 00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,560 Speaker 1: and the guy's like, whoa, what what do you happened there? 846 00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,759 Speaker 1: And Maynard goes I put it out with my mind, man, 847 00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:39,319 Speaker 1: So I think Maynard's got some serious That's great, as 848 00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:44,000 Speaker 1: long as he can't ignite the firecrackers. I'm I don't know. 849 00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:47,600 Speaker 1: But I also don't throw firecrackers at strangers. No, it's 850 00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:49,640 Speaker 1: an odd story. It almost sounds made up, but I 851 00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,440 Speaker 1: like to tell it. That's a fun story. It's like 852 00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,680 Speaker 1: that getting tackled by Bill Murray in the hallway of 853 00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:57,400 Speaker 1: the hotel story, you know, where whispers is like in 854 00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:00,040 Speaker 1: your ear, like no one's going to believe you. Oh yeah, no, 855 00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,520 Speaker 1: I don't believe you. I often wonder how many of 856 00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:06,280 Speaker 1: those stories are true. We didn't get to everybody who 857 00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:09,960 Speaker 1: rode in to say which animals they would transform to, 858 00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:14,319 Speaker 1: but we got some. We got some fantastic suggestions. They 859 00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:17,160 Speaker 1: made me, uh, they made me rethink, you guys, I 860 00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:22,279 Speaker 1: I really, um, well, I well, I think we ended 861 00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,640 Speaker 1: on an octopus. I don't know, I think we really. 862 00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:28,200 Speaker 1: I kind of screwed us when I said no fictional animals. 863 00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,840 Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, there's so many of those, though, it 864 00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,480 Speaker 1: would have taken me a week to really narrow down 865 00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:37,520 Speaker 1: what I wanted to be. Yeah, well, let's keep thinking 866 00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:41,080 Speaker 1: like the octopus. Things seem cool because you know, there's 867 00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,319 Speaker 1: certain types of octopusts that can transform in different thing 868 00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,200 Speaker 1: as a try serah corn, because there should be tri 869 00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:52,320 Speaker 1: seric oh man, Yeah, wait is it a dinosaur horse? Well, 870 00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:55,680 Speaker 1: that's all up to your imagination. And yeah, it's a 871 00:55:55,800 --> 00:56:01,920 Speaker 1: three horned unicorn U dinosaur like creature. So all the 872 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:05,520 Speaker 1: powers of those creatures combined. I love it. Uh. That 873 00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:08,640 Speaker 1: that's that's fantastic. I hope it doesn't have scales, but 874 00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:12,520 Speaker 1: that is that is fantastic. All right, So let us 875 00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:16,960 Speaker 1: know what you think about she and thank you so 876 00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:20,400 Speaker 1: much for listening. We mentioned a couple of different articles 877 00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,520 Speaker 1: that are on our website or parent website, how stuff 878 00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:25,640 Speaker 1: Works dot com if you want to learn more about this, 879 00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:28,520 Speaker 1: if you haven't checked out the video we had that 880 00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,600 Speaker 1: came out earlier this week, our our classic video on 881 00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:37,480 Speaker 1: the alleged Dragon family. And you'd like to hear about 882 00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:44,120 Speaker 1: Big Brother type world domination conspiracies, money printing and laundering, 883 00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:49,680 Speaker 1: World War two lost treasures, or counterfeiting, Uh, then check 884 00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:51,880 Speaker 1: it out. I think the best teaser for that, if 885 00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:56,120 Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, is that oh several years back 886 00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,960 Speaker 1: and you and I think it already started the show. 887 00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:05,560 Speaker 1: But several years two thousand nine exactly, Uh, several several 888 00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:14,160 Speaker 1: different foreign nationals were arrested on their way to Switzerland 889 00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:16,840 Speaker 1: or Yeah, one was arrest in Switzerland. Want to arrest 890 00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:23,040 Speaker 1: in Italy attempting to smuggle what the Treasury Department says 891 00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:28,520 Speaker 1: were clearly counterfeit uh billion and billion dollar notes, but 892 00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:33,760 Speaker 1: they were either professionally aged or they really were old 893 00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:37,320 Speaker 1: counterfeit notes. They were spelling errors. There were spelling errors, 894 00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:41,160 Speaker 1: which isn't ted give away uh or this is absolutely bunk, 895 00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:44,720 Speaker 1: but this is a fascinating story. Do check it out. 896 00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:46,960 Speaker 1: Let us know what you think. You can find us 897 00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:48,720 Speaker 1: on Facebook and Twitter, where you can see a lot 898 00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:51,720 Speaker 1: of stories that don't make it to the air for 899 00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:55,080 Speaker 1: one reason or another. But do check it out. We're 900 00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:57,600 Speaker 1: active on their conspiracy stuff at both of those. 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