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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you about. Nicole Strickland is an afterlife

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Speaker 2: and paranormal researcher, best selling author, podcaster, speaker from San Diego, California.

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Speaker 2: She's the founder and director of the San Diego Paranormal

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Speaker 2: Research Society and the California coordinator to the Ghost Research Society.

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Speaker 2: Nicole has been featured in a number of media outlets

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Speaker 2: and is known for her research of the legendary RMS

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Speaker 2: Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. She obtained a BA

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Speaker 2: from the University of Arizona and an MS degree from

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Speaker 2: National University. Her book is called The Afterlife Chronicles.

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Speaker 3: Nicole Welcome, Welcome, Yeah, thank you so much. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 3: this is such an honor to be on this show.

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Speaker 3: So thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad we've got you here. I've been on the

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Speaker 2: Queen Mary a couple of times. That ship is haunted.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god. I know some people don't believe it.

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Speaker 3: I do, right, and then you do.

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Speaker 2: But absolutely there's a little girl down there near the

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Speaker 2: engine room. What is she doing down there? You know?

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Speaker 3: I think I'm sure you're referring to Jackie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And it's interesting because in my research and even some

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Speaker 3: of my colleagues, there's really no origins to really let

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Speaker 3: us know where she came from. There's this I don't

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Speaker 3: know where this who put this out on the internet

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Speaker 3: that her last name may be Torin. I've tried to

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Speaker 3: look into that. I can't find any verifiable information that

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Speaker 3: would support that. So we don't really know who she

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Speaker 3: is or where she comes from. But she seems to

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Speaker 3: be very intelligent, very interactive, seems to be drawn to

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Speaker 3: certain people. I've seen her myself. She almost looks very

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Speaker 3: similar to like a Shirley Temple, around six or seven

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Speaker 3: years old. Likes to play and sing, responds a lot

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Speaker 3: to nursery rhymes and songs like London Bridges or Twinkle Twinkle,

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Speaker 3: Little Star. And she's seen often in the former first

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Speaker 3: and third class pool, but she's also been seen and

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Speaker 3: interacted with on other areas of the show.

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Speaker 2: And during World War Two, that ship was loaded with soldiers,

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Speaker 2: wasn't it absolutely?

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Speaker 3: In fact? On its July twenty fifth, nineteen forty three, voyage.

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Speaker 3: It hit a record and it still holds that record

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Speaker 3: today of sixteen thousand, six hundred and eighty three souls

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Speaker 3: including servicemen and crew. So it's pretty incredible.

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Speaker 2: Wow, what a ship. How did n Carl Strickland get

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Speaker 2: involved in the paranormal?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: My goodness.

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Speaker 3: Let me try to summarize this. I've always, even from

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Speaker 3: a child, I've always had this interest in the unknown,

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Speaker 3: specifically ghosts and spirits. I have always, like I said,

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Speaker 3: been a tra to studying the unknown and would pretty

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Speaker 3: much read or watch anything I could about the paranormal.

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Speaker 3: And so that interest stayed with me throughout my elementary,

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Speaker 3: middle and high school years. And it almost culminated after

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Speaker 3: I had a very profound experience with my maternal grandmother,

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Speaker 3: Helen low Pinto, and she called me the night before

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Speaker 3: she passed, and then the following day, my mom, of course,

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Speaker 3: her daughter called me and I knew from the tone

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Speaker 3: me that she had passed on and transitioned, and so

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Speaker 3: I after a few days, I went back to San

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Speaker 3: Diego to attend her services. I was going to the

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Speaker 3: University of Arizona at the time, and so when I

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Speaker 3: odd experiences in my apartment that I couldn't explain. So

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Speaker 3: I thought, am I projecting this? Is this some sort

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Speaker 3: of bereavement hallucination on my part? Don't Now that I

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Speaker 3: and that's really what catapulted me into active investigation of

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Speaker 2: And you jumped in in a big way because you

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Speaker 2: are very heavily involved in all these things, aren't you. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I've been doing this for about twenty years, give or take,

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Speaker 3: and I've had the pleasure of working with different teams

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Speaker 3: and so we've been going strong. We've obviously investigated historical

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Speaker 3: We did fundraising paranormal tours there for about ten years

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Speaker 2: Nicole, what do you views on the paranormal? Just what

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Speaker 2: do you think it is?

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Speaker 3: Well, there's so many you know, there's different facets. You know,

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Speaker 3: you have the study of you know, ghosts and hauntings

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Speaker 3: and spirit communication, you have ufology, cryptozoology, you have the

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Speaker 3: study of a cult, you know, paranormal. Some people think

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Speaker 3: that it is more of a pseudoscience. Other people think

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Speaker 3: that it can legitimately be a science. I'm kind of

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Speaker 3: that we can't necessar fairly explain one hundred percent by science.

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Speaker 3: But I'm of the belief that there's almost a connection,

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Speaker 3: But I just feel that it's there's information out there,

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Speaker 3: and I think that when we pass on, speaking of humans,

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Speaker 3: death occurs in our soul lives on, I think that

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Speaker 2: So what are your thoughts of the paranormal research teams

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Speaker 2: and some of the equipment they use and things like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's some teams are are a mix that utilise

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Speaker 3: a mix of science based methodology, some teams and metaphysics

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Speaker 3: employing psychic mediums, and other people use one or the other,

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Speaker 3: they use both. There's so many different types of teams,

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Speaker 3: the San Diego Paranormal Research Society we like to concentrate

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Speaker 3: the word science or scientific, but I'll use it. But

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Speaker 3: more science based like methodologies, so spirit photography, audio experimentation,

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Speaker 3: even employing psychic mediums. Of course that needs to be

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Speaker 3: want to go thrill seek. Now there's nothing wrong with that,

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Speaker 3: there's so many different aspects of that. You have what

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Speaker 3: that that's, in my opinion, can almost delineate, not delinea

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Speaker 3: more theories and hypotheses.

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Speaker 2: Well with fair normal investigator Nicole Strickland. Our website is

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Speaker 2: her name linked up at coast tocosdam dot com and

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Speaker 2: her book is called The Afterlife Chronicles. Tell us a

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know. I tell people that really it

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Speaker 3: took less than a year to write, but really it

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Speaker 3: took my entire life span so far, pretty much because I.

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Speaker 2: Had I was going to say, less than year is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was about a year. But I've

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Speaker 3: that's the one thing that people really like. So I

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Speaker 3: a chapter on there. I think it's chapter four, where

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Speaker 2: What do you think the afterlife really is, Nicole? I mean,

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Speaker 2: what does it function for I?

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, this is let me try to condense this.

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Speaker 3: I do think that when we pass on that our

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Speaker 3: soul or our true essence does survive physical death. There's

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Speaker 3: a near death experiences, there isn't really there's no proof

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Speaker 3: of the afterlife. Some people believe that consciousness and the

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Speaker 3: afterlife is dependent on our beliefs. Does it exist regardless,

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Speaker 3: Some say there's no scientific evidence of the afterlife.

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Speaker 2: Others do.

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Speaker 3: I do feel that it's a place of where we

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Speaker 3: and they often say that where they go, they've encountered

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Speaker 3: departed loved ones. They've recalled their animals running up to

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Speaker 3: So I do think it's a place that we evolve.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a beautiful place. I'm not going to

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Speaker 3: say it's heaven, right, but it's I do think it exists,

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Speaker 3: but we just can't. We're not yet at that point

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Speaker 2: Have you ever had a situation that just scared the

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Speaker 3: Scared? You know, that's a good question. I haven't. I've

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Speaker 3: at asylums, sanitariums like Waverley Hills. Let's see what else,

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Speaker 3: abandoned hospitals, you name it, prisons. I haven't really ever

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Speaker 3: There was one, oh gosh, I think this was around

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Speaker 3: I can recall where I was like, oh, maybe.

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Speaker 2: A little bit, just a little bit, just a little bit.

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Speaker 2: What have been some of the weirdest stories some of

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Speaker 2: your investigators have told you.

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Speaker 3: On my investigations are just people on other people telling.

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Speaker 2: Me people in general, Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 3: I've had a lot of experience or people telling me

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Speaker 3: where they've well after life paranormal, let's see, I've from

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Speaker 3: starting with me, I've had a lot of experiences where

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Speaker 3: profound experiences like with the part of loved ones, dream

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Speaker 3: visitations with loved ones. But I think shadow figure. A

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Speaker 3: lot of investigators that I've talked to have had a

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Speaker 3: lot of interesting experiences with shadow figures. And we don't

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Speaker 3: you know, there's the classic shadow figure that is thought

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Speaker 3: to be maybe related to the MiB or men in

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Speaker 3: observe the living. It's either really tall or really short.

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Speaker 3: I've had a lot of investigators share some unique stories

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Speaker 3: about about shadow figures and how they just seemed to

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Speaker 3: like be here to observe the living. I'm trying to

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Speaker 3: think of like really really odd stories. I have one.

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Speaker 3: It's not really paranormal per se, but it really does

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Speaker 3: support the idea that all investigators should have some sort

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Speaker 3: of emergency plan in place. And this was we were

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Speaker 3: actually investigating let's see, I'm not going to say the

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Speaker 3: name of the restaurant, but it was up in Ocean side.

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Speaker 3: It's actually built on top of a Native American burial ground,

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Speaker 3: and so we were there. We were about an hour

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Speaker 3: and the other team radioed me and said, stay where

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Speaker 3: you are. This place has just been robbed. And so

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Speaker 3: what happened is two men actually came right through the

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Speaker 3: guess going to steal or whatnot. And so we had

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Speaker 3: there's so many to so many different types of experiences.

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Speaker 2: Listen a lot. I had one a couple days ago,

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Speaker 2: this is weird. Two days ago, I have not thought

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Speaker 2: of the actor James Earl Jones in five or ten years.

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Speaker 2: Oh right, But a couple of days ago it just

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Speaker 2: hit me, is he still with us? What's he up to?

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Speaker 3: Oh? My god?

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Speaker 2: It was weird. And then the next day he dies

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Speaker 2: at the age of ninety three, and it's big news

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Speaker 2: all over the place, and I'm going, I haven't thought

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Speaker 2: and the next day he dies. What's that all about?

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Speaker 3: That? You know? That's those types of things have happened

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Speaker 3: to me as well, and I've heard stories like that

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Speaker 3: from others. It's I think we can just sometimes tap

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Speaker 3: a premonition? I don't know, but I just I think

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Speaker 3: it has to do with this idea that we're all connected.

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Speaker 2: I mean, clearly, I asked myself the question, is he

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Speaker 2: then I checked and he was alive except the next day.

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Speaker 2: The big story is he dies at the age of

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Speaker 3: That is incredible, absolutely incredible. My grandmother actually had this

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Speaker 3: ability to where she would know certain things. I don't

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Speaker 3: want to say it's an ability. It may have been coincidental.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I believe in coincidences.

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Speaker 2: There are no coincidences.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I say that I kind of I guess

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Speaker 3: in a safety sort of way because I agree with

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Speaker 3: that as well. I don't think that. I don't believe

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Speaker 3: in any coincidences. I think everything happens for a reason.

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Speaker 3: But my grandmother sometimes would envision things or say, oh,

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Speaker 3: this is going to happen, and then it does. So

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Speaker 3: it's really bizarre how that happens.

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