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Speaker 3: lot more on this edition of the show. What is instinct? From?
Speaker 3: Where does it come? I believe this is a profound question.
Speaker 3: How is behavioral info automatically passed along through physical matter genes?
Speaker 3: Now let me repeat that, how is behavioral info automatically
Speaker 3: passed along through physical matter genes? And what is the
Speaker 3: orig of this info? Does it mean that there is
Speaker 3: a god that there is an intelligent design. If not, well,
Speaker 3: what is the source of instinct, because we toss that
Speaker 3: word around a lot, Well, why does an animal behave
Speaker 3: in a certain way? It's just instinct? Oh okay, end
Speaker 3: of story, end of discussion. Just an instinct. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: we're talking about more or less a blob of cells here.
Speaker 3: You know, with DNA, the scientists will say, we put
Speaker 3: this under a microscope. It's a physical thing, and yet
Speaker 3: when it evolves and develops, it has this behavior. This
Speaker 3: is actually I think this topic is so important that
Speaker 3: I'm almost intimidated to try to explore it because I
Speaker 3: don't think I can do it accurately. So let's just
Speaker 3: start with the ban shall we. Let's go to the internet,
Speaker 3: and let's just read what the basic you know, like
Speaker 3: Wikipedia sort of standard definition is of what instinct even is.
Speaker 3: We'll start here. Instinct is the inherent inclination of a
Speaker 3: living organism towards a particular complex behavior, containing both innate
Speaker 3: That means inborn and learned elements. That's kind of interesting,
Speaker 3: but it says The simplest example of an instinctive behavior
Speaker 3: is a fixed action pattern also known as a fat FAP.
Speaker 3: A fixed action pattern in which a very short to
Speaker 3: medium length sequence of actions without variation are carried out
Speaker 3: in response to a car corresponding clearly defined stimulus. Now,
Speaker 3: don't worry that if that didn't make perfect sense. It's
Speaker 3: a very clinical way of looking at it. So it
Speaker 3: says any behavior is instinctive if it is performed without
Speaker 3: being based upon prior experience, that is, in the absence
Speaker 3: of learning, and is therefore an expression of innate biological factors. So,
Speaker 3: for example, sea turtles newly hatched on a beach will
Speaker 3: instinctively move toward the ocean. A marsupial climbs into its
Speaker 3: mother's pouch upon being born. Other examples include animal fighting,
Speaker 3: animal courtship behavior, internal escape functions, and the building of nests.
Speaker 3: Though an instinct is defined by its invariant innate care characteristics,
Speaker 3: details of its performance can be changed by experience. So
Speaker 3: for example, a dog can improve its listening skills by practice. Okay,
Speaker 3: so let me pause for a second. So what they're
Speaker 3: basically saying here is that a behavior is instinctive if
Speaker 3: it is performed without being based upon prior experience the
Speaker 3: absence of learning. But an instinct can, however, be augmented
Speaker 3: with learning, so it can be changed. But that's kind
Speaker 3: of getting off on a bit of a tangent. Let's
Speaker 3: stick with the good old fashioned, pure definition of what
Speaker 3: we're talking about here, a behavior performed without being based
Speaker 3: upon prior experience or learning. Instincts are inborn, complex patterns
Speaker 3: of behavior that exist in most members of the species
Speaker 3: and should be distinguished from reflexes. So again, and I'm
Speaker 3: going to pause here, an instinct is not the same
Speaker 3: thing as a reflex. They say. A reflex is a
Speaker 3: simple response of an organism to a specific stimulus, such
Speaker 3: as the contraction of the pupil in response to bright light,
Speaker 3: or the movement of the lower leg when the knee
Speaker 3: is stapped. So a reflex is just like one reaction
Speaker 3: that automatically happens based upon a stimulus, whereas an instinct
Speaker 3: deals with the complex behavior that occurs the absence. Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't want to I don't want to get too
Speaker 3: too deep here because this is a podcast. But basically
Speaker 3: it says that we're not just talking about animals. However,
Speaker 3: most people do talk about animals when they talk about instincts,
Speaker 3: but instinctual behavior in humans also occurs and we're going
Speaker 3: to get to that in a minute, because I think
Speaker 3: that's especially interesting. How much of how you behave is
Speaker 3: based upon instinct and stuff that you haven't even really
Speaker 3: thought about and perhaps that you could modify. And this
Speaker 3: is almost like programming. You hear people talk about a
Speaker 3: human be getting a download and being programmed. Well, that's
Speaker 3: kind of what we're talking about here. And it also
Speaker 3: makes you wonder how far does this go. But let's
Speaker 3: take a look real quick at the origin of all this.
Speaker 3: There was a French scientist named Jean Henri Fabre who
Speaker 3: was born in eighteen twenty three died in nineteen fifteen,
Speaker 3: said to be the first person to study small animals
Speaker 3: and insects. It and he was looking for this thing called,
Speaker 3: you know, instinct, And I guess he was the one
Speaker 3: who was talking about, you know, the unconscious response to
Speaker 3: external conditions. And he concluded that a significant difference between
Speaker 3: humans and animals is that animals cannot reason. Now that's
Speaker 3: what he said. You know, I guess, you know, we
Speaker 3: could go down this whole philosophical roote of like, well
Speaker 3: what is reasoning? But I think you get the idea
Speaker 3: of what he's what this guy was saying. He came
Speaker 3: to the conclusion after observing how insects and wild birds
Speaker 3: continued to repeat a certain behavior in response to a
Speaker 3: novel situation, and said that while these instinctive behaviors appeared complex,
Speaker 3: the insects and animals did not adjust their behavior despite
Speaker 3: it not helping them necessarily in a novel situation. So
Speaker 3: the following are some instinct and animal behaviors that Fabrae
Speaker 3: observed and labeled instinctive because he said these do not
Speaker 3: involve reasoning. One is maternal instincts, the attraction to a
Speaker 3: mother figure. One is metamorphosis. We all change, you know,
Speaker 3: it's not just caterpillars and butterflies. We all change. Mimicry,
Speaker 3: the tendency to copy something. Playing dead. Now, that's interesting,
Speaker 3: isn't it, because you could apply that to a lot
Speaker 3: of different scenarios. Yeah, it could be the possum playing dead.
Speaker 3: But you hear about people playing dead also when they
Speaker 3: realize that, like they're in a really dangerous situation. And
Speaker 3: then there's this thing called taxis. Let's see, what is that?
Speaker 3: The movement of an organism or response to a stimulus
Speaker 3: such as light or the presence of food. Okay, So anyway,
Speaker 3: so he kind of like got this whole line of
Speaker 3: scientific inquiry going on, and then there's a whole list
Speaker 3: of other scientists who came along, and we're trying to
Speaker 3: draw other conclusions. One scientist was talking about facial expressions.
Speaker 3: For example. One scientist concluded that it was interesting to
Speaker 3: look at the facial expressions of babies trying to avoid
Speaker 3: and we're talking human babies I think here trying to
Speaker 3: avoid unpleasant emotions because there was something unpleasant in their mouths,
Speaker 3: like they didn't like the taste of something. And then
Speaker 3: of course the scientists say, well, this is just a
Speaker 3: product of natural selection. Okay, fine, even if it is
Speaker 3: natural selection, what is the origin of this and how
Speaker 3: is that thing passed along? We're almost up on our
Speaker 3: first break time here, and when we come back, I
Speaker 3: want to talk a little bit specifically about how that
Speaker 3: humans exhibit instinctual behavior and you know what some examples
Speaker 3: of this are, And then of course we're gonna dig,
Speaker 3: like I say, even deeper into this idea that maybe
Speaker 3: nothing that is a behavior that we all have in
Speaker 3: common can just spontaneously emerge. Maybe there is some intelligent
Speaker 3: source behind all of it, and maybe maybe it's continuing
Speaker 3: to develop in all of us and some people have
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Speaker 3: Ziatato zoome, and I'm talking about the mystery of instincts
Speaker 3: and the origin of instincts. Let's talk about instincts in
Speaker 3: human beings. According to Officialdom here one is congenital preparedness.
Speaker 3: Congenital means from birth congenital preparedness for developing fear of
Speaker 3: snakes and spiders was found in six month old babies. Wow,
Speaker 3: isn't that intriguing? I and I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 3: take the time to go into the study of that.
Speaker 3: But huh, so you have an instinct in most cases
Speaker 3: to be afraid of snakes and spiders. Well, I got
Speaker 3: that instinct. I wonder if everybody gets it and some
Speaker 3: people overcome it, or if some people just don't have it.
Speaker 3: But that's that's intriguing. I can see why because even
Speaker 3: though they may not be as dangerous as we think,
Speaker 3: there's there's something there that there's something telling us inside
Speaker 3: stay away from that. Number two is the cry is
Speaker 3: believed to be a manifestation of instinct the infant cannot
Speaker 3: otherwise protect itself for survival during its long period of maturation. Okay.
Speaker 3: Number three, the herd instinct is found in human children
Speaker 3: and chimpanzee infants. So that's how that seems to be
Speaker 3: something that unfortunately sticks with most people for life. Don't
Speaker 3: you think the herd instinct to just do what everybody
Speaker 3: else is doing? And I realized that in most cases
Speaker 3: that that works for you. But with the advent of
Speaker 3: modern technology, maybe it's time for the instincts to change
Speaker 3: a little bit because it's too easy to find a
Speaker 3: herd that's on the wrong track. But so then, you know,
Speaker 3: here's another one. Hygiene behavior and humans suggested to be
Speaker 3: partly instinctive based on emotions such as discussed. Let's see
Speaker 3: next year, we have the maternal bond. Next is self
Speaker 3: preservation and then fight or flight. Okay, I think we
Speaker 3: can all relate to fight or flight. Next we have
Speaker 3: cooperation that has been considered a social instinct necessary for
Speaker 3: the future survival of people. This is interesting. How about
Speaker 3: this one? Resistance toward change is the difficulty experienced by
Speaker 3: a person when they are trying to push against the
Speaker 3: suggestions made to change behavior or accept treatments regardless of
Speaker 3: whether it will improve their condition or not. And then
Speaker 3: that it kind of conflicts with this other instinct that
Speaker 3: humans have adaptive behavior. Adaptive behavior to environment is an inherited,
Speaker 3: innate phenotypic Characteristic examples are mating searching for food, situational
Speaker 3: awareness establishing a pecking order, and vocalizations.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: And then, of course, you know, again we get back
Speaker 3: to the difference between you know reflexes, but I don't
Speaker 3: want to. You know, I've already explained what that is,
Speaker 3: all right, So where do these instincts come from? Well,
Speaker 3: before we get to that, let's ask ourselves this question.
Speaker 3: Is an instinct the same as an intuition, because a
Speaker 3: lot of people who consider themselves to have psychic ability
Speaker 3: or something like that think of themselves having intuition. Well,
Speaker 3: let's look up intuition and see what that is. Here's
Speaker 3: the definition. Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without
Speaker 3: recourse to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation. Well, that
Speaker 3: sounds like the same thing, doesn't it. Different fields use
Speaker 3: the word intuition in very different ways, including, but not
Speaker 3: limited to, direct access to unconscious knowledge, unconscious cognition, gut feelings,
Speaker 3: inner sensing, inner insight, to unconscious pattern recognition, and the
Speaker 3: ability to understand something instinctively without need for conscious reasoning.
Speaker 3: But intuitive knowledge tends to be approximate. So whatever this
Speaker 3: thing called instinct or intuition is, it seems like that
Speaker 3: we all have it to some degree. And if we
Speaker 3: are always evolving, as even the most materialistic scientists say, well,
Speaker 3: then instincts should be constantly evolving as well. So is
Speaker 3: this where we get into the realm of psychic perception?
Speaker 3: And is this evolution of instinct and intuition more advanced
Speaker 3: in some people than others? For example, anybody can throw
Speaker 3: a ball, not everybody can be a professional baseball player.
Speaker 3: Anyone can strum a guitar, not everyone can be a
Speaker 3: rock and roll star. Anyone can actually sing, not everyone
Speaker 3: can sing well. Okay, So yet we know that you
Speaker 3: can tap into and develop your instincts and intuitions, and
Speaker 3: some people may simply be more apt to be able
Speaker 3: to take their intuitions and instincts and develop them. Does
Speaker 3: this mean that it all goes back to some initial
Speaker 3: source of intelligence that is being transmitted through our genes.
Speaker 3: I tell you something, I've never done this before. I
Speaker 3: looked up intelligent design. Have you ever done that before?
Speaker 3: I was really surprised at what it says here. Wikipedia
Speaker 3: says intelligent design is a pseudo scientific argument for the
Speaker 3: existence of God, presented by its proponents as an evidence
Speaker 3: based scientific theory about life's origins. Now, let me stop
Speaker 3: for a second again. I've never looked up what an
Speaker 3: intelligent design to me just meant more of a vague
Speaker 3: idea that there is a pattern, there's an architecture of
Speaker 3: the universe. I never realized that if you looked it up,
Speaker 3: the first word it would basically use as pseudo scientific.
Speaker 3: Now that is meant to be an insult to intelligence,
Speaker 3: which I actually think if you know the history of humankind,
Speaker 3: the word pseudo scientific can be quite flattering because that
Speaker 3: you could take any great scientists today and put that
Speaker 3: scientist on a time machine and send that scientist back
Speaker 3: to the Middle Ages, and that scientist would be burned
Speaker 3: at the stake for being a heretic. At very least
Speaker 3: they would say you're a pseudo scientist. They really wouldn't
Speaker 3: because that terminology didn't exist. But it's the same thing.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's actually flattering to be called a pseudoscientists because
Speaker 3: a lot of people who talk about themselves as scientists
Speaker 3: actually have no real grasp of what the scientific method is,
Speaker 3: at very least they don't use it. But they call
Speaker 3: themselves scientists and call other people who might actually be
Speaker 3: using the scientific method pseudo scientists because it's a put
Speaker 3: down and it's an insult. And I'm surprised is that
Speaker 3: this term intelligent design has been associated with that, and
Speaker 3: it goes on to say, well, this is connected to
Speaker 3: a Christian think tank, and look, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: But if that's the case, I still think that it's
Speaker 3: a very interesting term that can be used outside of
Speaker 3: that context, because we may be talking about the idea
Speaker 3: here that there is some organization to the universe, whereas
Speaker 3: the idea of God is a very subjective and nebulous thing.
Speaker 3: Like you can view God in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 3: God the Father, God, the Mother, God, the Thing, the Energy,
Speaker 3: the all being, the Almighty, the Great Architect. So let
Speaker 3: me just ask you this. You know you have instincts,
Speaker 3: So do your instincts tell you that there is a
Speaker 3: God and that you have a spirit? Some people say
Speaker 3: they have the opposite instinct, a belief in atheism, that
Speaker 3: that is not the case at all, that this is
Speaker 3: all just some kind of process that's played out. Well,
Speaker 3: how about you, now, I think you can tell my
Speaker 3: personal instinct is that there is a God. I don't
Speaker 3: define that God because I think God is incomprehensible and
Speaker 3: that I also my instinct makes me believe that we
Speaker 3: each have an immortal spirit and that this world is
Speaker 3: filled with spirits. Many of them unseen, and that this
Speaker 3: world is a classroom in which we are supposed to
Speaker 3: learn something. So you do a good job and you
Speaker 3: try your best to constantly learn to be a better person.
Speaker 3: And I think that that goes back to some original
Speaker 3: information that was passed through my genes. But you know what,
Speaker 3: what do you think that's what's important? How do you
Speaker 3: what is your instinct to tell you? Where does that
Speaker 3: even come from? This intelligence? When we come back from
Speaker 3: this break, I ask a question on Facebook. I said,
Speaker 3: what is the best piece of advice you've ever gotten
Speaker 3: and who gave it to you? And when we come back,
Speaker 3: I'm going to give you some of those pieces of
Speaker 3: advice from people all around the world. And then, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know me, I have plenty of other goodies for you.
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Speaker 3: unusual becomes usual. Personally, I have seen enough evidence to
Speaker 3: believe that evolution is real. That is to say that
Speaker 3: things change over time. I've seen enough evidence to believe
Speaker 3: that natural selection and artificial selection occurs in order to
Speaker 3: help those changes along. But if we just take it
Speaker 3: all the way back to the very beginning, can we
Speaker 3: can we believe that something comes from nothing? That kind
Speaker 3: of defies everything we know about the fact that energy
Speaker 3: can be neither created or destroyed. I know we're digging
Speaker 3: into some concepts that are close to infinity, and again,
Speaker 3: this is stuff that we can't understand. I believe it
Speaker 3: goes beyond the human brain to grasp and so we
Speaker 3: should not close off any options when considering the possibilities.
Speaker 3: But if we have intelligence, even if it's in the
Speaker 3: form of some spontaneous instinct, and it's yes, it's changed
Speaker 3: and developed, but still does it just come from nothing?
Speaker 3: Can something come from nothing? I don't think.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: I don't pretend to understand all the answers, but I
Speaker 3: wish I could do a better job of exploring the
Speaker 3: origin of instinct with you. But at least maybe I've
Speaker 3: gotten your thinking. And that's the best I can do
Speaker 3: in a podcast. Well, you know what, let's get practical
Speaker 3: for a minute. So Marie D. Jones is a great writer.
Speaker 3: She's a wonderful author. And I've never met her in person,
Speaker 3: but I have interviewed her over the years and we've
Speaker 3: corresponded a lot, and she's quite prolific. And she recently
Speaker 3: got onto Facebook and she asked her friends on Facebook.
Speaker 3: She says, what is the best piece of advice you've
Speaker 3: ever gotten and who gave it to you? And I thought,
Speaker 3: you know, that's an interesting question, and I'm going to
Speaker 3: ask the people who are Facebook friends that as well,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to steal that from her, and let's
Speaker 3: just see what kind of feedback I get. So I'm
Speaker 3: just going to go down and just sort of jump
Speaker 3: around a little bit, and I haven't prepared much for this,
Speaker 3: and let's just see what kind of feedback that we
Speaker 3: have here. What do you think about some of this stuff?
Speaker 3: Let's see here. Vance Pollock says, sometimes a good day
Speaker 3: writing poetry is striking out a line you wrote yesterday.
Speaker 3: That's from George Garrett. Chris Hensley says to not take
Speaker 3: life super serious and enjoy your time here for why
Speaker 3: you can. Your ego is not who you truly are.
Speaker 3: He says that was told to him from DM t Entities.
Speaker 3: David Kleman says, my grandfather he always said, travel in
Speaker 3: the middle of the road of life and you will
Speaker 3: always have more happiness and fulfillment. Always travel in the
Speaker 3: middle of the road. I guess that has a lot
Speaker 3: to do with the idea of always in moderation. My
Speaker 3: sister Jessica Warren said, an African man at Epcot Center
Speaker 3: when I was a teenager said to me, never look
Speaker 3: down upon anyone unless you are picking them up. Kim
Speaker 3: Brookes said, if you truly believe in something, stick your
Speaker 3: toes firmly into the dirt and stands your ground. She
Speaker 3: said that was told to her by her ex mother
Speaker 3: in law because she divorced her son. Victoria Kira said,
Speaker 3: my grandmother, my mama always say if you don't don't listen,
Speaker 3: you have to feel. She says, turns out that's been
Speaker 3: applicable in many situations in life. Marie Barrager says, don't
Speaker 3: put your meat where you get your bread and butter.
Speaker 3: My mom gave me that advice. Molly and Kasden said
Speaker 3: words don't tell you about a person, They show you
Speaker 3: with their actions. She got that from a CB that
Speaker 3: named Freddy. Stephanie Key said, think twice about doing anything.
Speaker 3: You know. That's all very interesting, isn't it very interesting?
Speaker 3: Maybe one of these will resonate with you. Let's see
Speaker 3: some of the things that Marie d. Jones folks told her.
Speaker 2: That. Uh, let's see.
Speaker 3: Nicole Relic said, my dad always said to have a plan. Okay.
Speaker 3: Rebecca slaughter Boyer said, my dad told me nothing is
Speaker 3: insurmountable except death. Missy cohen Fife said, this too shall pass.
Speaker 3: That was from her dad. You know, people say that
Speaker 3: this too shall pass, and I know that that's supposed
Speaker 3: to be comforting, but sometimes it kind of uh, I
Speaker 3: don't know, it's kind of a letdown, isn't it, because
Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, I know this, you know you're gonna
Speaker 3: so this is this is gonna be rough for a while,
Speaker 3: but just hang in there. Ralph Holman said, my friend
Speaker 3: John Donahey said, wherever you go there you are sort
Speaker 3: of existential bit of wisdom there. Janet d let's see
Speaker 3: Janet m defeat, said her dad. Boy A lot of
Speaker 3: people talk about their dad giving them, said her dad said.
Speaker 3: Don't let somebody else's bs become your bs. Okay, well,
Speaker 3: I'll just read one more. Laryn Scranton said, my sixth
Speaker 3: grade teacher told us do not touch anything you do
Speaker 3: not want to buy again. I think there's probably some
Speaker 3: wisdom in that. Right. Well, that's just you know, some
Speaker 3: stuff to think about. Hopefully, hopefully that will that will
Speaker 3: all bring you some little bit of wisdom that you
Speaker 3: can reflect upon, and you're perhaps at a time of
Speaker 3: confusion or need because my goodness, speaking of scientists, even
Speaker 3: the greatest scientists just don't know what the heck is
Speaker 3: going on right now. Here's this story that was posted
Speaker 3: at coast tocoastam dot com from Unexplained Mysteries dot com,
Speaker 3: and uh, it's quite intriguing. The headline here is does
Speaker 3: the Earth reside within the depths of a black hole?
Speaker 3: By T. K. Randall? And it says that might sound unthinkable,
Speaker 3: but is our universe simply the interior of a black
Speaker 3: hole that is situated within another universe? Now I understand
Speaker 3: where you're like listening right now and you're like, what
Speaker 3: is it? What is this? What is this guy talking about?
Speaker 3: So here's basically the idea. What ultimately happens to everything
Speaker 3: that gets consumed by a black hole? Well, it's it's
Speaker 3: a mystery, you know. They say it's all compressed into
Speaker 3: this infinitimally small point in space. But does it then
Speaker 3: emerge somewhere else? Is the inside of a black hole
Speaker 3: like a universe unto itself? Is it possible that we
Speaker 3: are inside of one? Right now? Physicists have been trying
Speaker 3: to understand the nature of our universe for centuries, but
Speaker 3: one theory that has not really been discussed much is
Speaker 3: that Earth, and by extension, our entire universe, is actually
Speaker 3: situated inside of a black hole, which is itself located
Speaker 3: within another universe. Like Russian nesting dolls. Perhaps universes can
Speaker 3: exist inside one another and black holes are the key.
Speaker 3: Is it true that if you get sucked into a
Speaker 3: black hole you're just spaghettified? You know, you've seen that,
Speaker 3: You're just like, you know, shredded or do you just
Speaker 3: pop out? So look, this is one of those stories that, uh,
Speaker 3: you can just go on and on with it. But
Speaker 3: it may be the case. And you know, there are
Speaker 3: so many weird things that are flying around us all
Speaker 3: the time that we can't explain, you know, whether or
Speaker 3: not these could be parts of a multi dimensional or
Speaker 3: inter dimensional thing. You know. John Carter, he is a guy,
Speaker 3: he's a friend of the show, and he lives in
Speaker 3: Canada and he makes a lot of great UFO videos
Speaker 3: UFOs worldwide. He just recently published this new book called
Speaker 3: the UFO Identification Handbook Preventing Misidentifications, and it has a
Speaker 3: SkyWatch Journal included, and it's got a whole bunch of
Speaker 3: information about me and Mobius and Jason Saraci. It's really interesting.
Speaker 3: If you go to Amazon dot com and you may
Speaker 3: have seen this on my social media, and you look
Speaker 3: up the UFO Identification Handbook Preventing Misidentifications by John Carter
Speaker 3: c R t Er, you can read all these stories
Speaker 3: about this, you know, from this guy who's an expert,
Speaker 3: who's breaking down for you all the bizarre things that
Speaker 3: are flying around out there and how you can compare
Speaker 3: them to what we now know to be you know,
Speaker 3: modern stuff like drones and everything. But look, I don't
Speaker 3: mean to go off into all kinds of crazy directions.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, when we come back from
Speaker 3: this brig, I want to read you at least one
Speaker 3: or two spooky stories. But I also want to squeeze
Speaker 3: in this special little mental manner that I do once
Speaker 3: in a while that my wife Lauren just loves. It's
Speaker 3: called it's time to make my wife mad. You know,
Speaker 3: I hope she doesn't listen to this. She probably will,
Speaker 3: But sometimes I use my podcas cast to try to
Speaker 3: try to get a point across in my relationship we'll
Speaker 3: see if it works. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening
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Speaker 3: Hey, it's not and you're listening to the iHeart Radio
Speaker 3: and Coast to Coast AM Ironormal Podcast Network. Welcome back
Speaker 3: to the final segment of this edition of Strange Things
Speaker 3: on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
Speaker 3: I am your host, Joshua P. Lauren, and I told
Speaker 3: you that I hope that my wife Lauren doesn't hear this,
Speaker 3: and I'm actually joking because she listens to every show.
Speaker 3: And I do this segment sometimes at the end of
Speaker 3: the show I call a mental manna, which just gives
Speaker 3: me an opportunity to just talk about whatever kind of
Speaker 3: random things are are on my mind. And so I
Speaker 3: have this philosophy that if I do this segment once
Speaker 3: once in a while called it's time to make my
Speaker 3: wife mad. The idea is that if I, if I
Speaker 3: ridicule Lauren on this podcast, then our relationship will be
Speaker 3: better and she will love me more. And I'm sure
Speaker 3: that I mean, Am I right? Ladies? Doesn't that make sense?
Speaker 3: I'm joking. I'm joking. Please do not send me hey emails. No, No, honestly, honestly,
Speaker 3: I've Lauren and I have been together more than half
Speaker 3: of my life, and we both tease each other and
Speaker 3: and I it's a kind of relationship where we have
Speaker 3: a great sense of humor. And if I were a
Speaker 3: stand up comedian then she would not mind a bit
Speaker 3: if I got up there and told, you know, wife
Speaker 3: jokes and stuff like that. But so what I actually do, however,
Speaker 3: is sometimes I bring up some kind of a marital issue.
Speaker 3: Because I could sit here and tell you, like, oh,
Speaker 3: let me tell you how much I love my wife,
Speaker 3: nobody wants to hear that. No. Instead, I want to
Speaker 3: bring up a conflict that we have and let's see
Speaker 3: if we can we can get your feedback here and
Speaker 3: settle this and see who's who's right and who's wrong. Okay,
Speaker 3: are you ready? Well, Lauren and I we are always
Speaker 3: hanging out. Of course, I mean, we're together way more
Speaker 3: than I believe most married couples are. We don't have kids,
Speaker 3: so you know, anytime we're gonna be focused on another person,
Speaker 3: that's usually each other. And so anytime we go out
Speaker 3: to I don't know, a restaurant, a store, especially like
Speaker 3: a restaurant though, because we get to a lot of
Speaker 3: restaurants together. So when it comes time to leave, we'll
Speaker 3: we'll always go to the to the bathroom before we leave,
Speaker 3: which is a good piece of advice, by the way,
Speaker 3: because you never know what's gonna happen, if you're gonna
Speaker 3: get stranded on the side of the road or stopped
Speaker 3: in traffic or anyway. So we go to the bathroom.
Speaker 3: I go to the men's room. She goes to the
Speaker 3: lady's room. So then here's what often happens. I will
Speaker 3: come out of the men's room and I'm standing there
Speaker 3: waiting for her outside of the lady's room, and I
Speaker 3: wait and I wait and I wait, and I go, man,
Speaker 3: I hope she's okay in there. And sometimes, now this
Speaker 3: has got to be pretty extreme, but sometimes I will
Speaker 3: even open the door of the lady's room and just
Speaker 3: say Lauren, and then at some point she will call
Speaker 3: me or shout to me and say she is at
Speaker 3: the front door or possibly even in the car. This
Speaker 3: whole time, I'm standing outside the lady's room and she
Speaker 3: has abandoned me. She's gone all the way out, and
Speaker 3: see like, to me, that doesn't even cross my mind.
Speaker 3: When I come out of the bathroom, I figure I'm
Speaker 3: just waiting for her. And then I go out and
Speaker 3: I say, Lauren, I can't believe that, you know, you
Speaker 3: just ran off to the you know, and left me.
Speaker 3: And she goes, Do you think I'm gonna say, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to stand in front of the bathroom? She says,
Speaker 3: that's weird. I'm like, no, it's not. People do that
Speaker 3: all the time when a couple goes to the bathroom.
Speaker 3: In my mind, and this is again, this is instinct
Speaker 3: to me. If you go to the bathroom and then
Speaker 3: you come out, you just stand there and you wait
Speaker 3: for the other person outside the bathroom. She says, Nope,
Speaker 3: that's too weird. So now I never know when I
Speaker 3: come outside the bathroom if she's still in the bathroom
Speaker 3: or if she's on the other side of the property,
Speaker 3: because she finished at lightning speed. She thinks that her
Speaker 3: thoughts on this is normal, and I think that my
Speaker 3: thought on this is normal, and I think that it's
Speaker 3: respectful to wait outside the bathroom and nobody's going to
Speaker 3: care when you wait for the other person. But you know,
Speaker 3: she has the opposite opinion, and she's just not willing
Speaker 3: to budge on this, and you know, I guess she's
Speaker 3: not willing to budge. I guess eventually I'll have to
Speaker 3: just acquiesce. But you know, sometimes you might get a
Speaker 3: call or a text and it doesn't come through. So
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just gonna like leave it up
Speaker 3: to you. If you want to give me your opinion
Speaker 3: on that, you can email me or message me through
Speaker 3: social media and maybe we can settle this situation of
Speaker 3: like what are you supposed to do in that situation?
Speaker 3: So you see, it's not that bad. It's actually kind
Speaker 3: of interesting, isn't it. So there is my mental manner.
Speaker 3: Time to make my wife man okay before we have
Speaker 3: to go, let me go to emails and let me
Speaker 3: see if I can read a creepy story or two.
Speaker 3: How about that. This is from David, who is an
Speaker 3: entrepreneur in Michigan. He said. I was living with a
Speaker 3: woman friend and walked past a bay window in her
Speaker 3: living room. Out of the corner of my eye, I
Speaker 3: saw an old woman sitting outside at her patio table,
Speaker 3: and when I tried to look directly at her, she
Speaker 3: was gone. I told my friend about it, and she
Speaker 3: asked me to describe the old woman. I told her.
Speaker 3: She wore a fancy dress with flowers on it with
Speaker 3: lace along the edges. She was wearing a brooch and
Speaker 3: had her grayish white hair in a bun. My friend smiled,
Speaker 3: led out a little chuckle, and then got up and
Speaker 3: a few minutes later came back with a picture. And
Speaker 3: when she showed it to me, goosebumps shot all over
Speaker 3: my body. It was the old woman, her mother, just
Speaker 3: as I described. I love stories like that, where it's
Speaker 3: like instant verification. Welcome to the club. You've seen a ghost,
Speaker 3: all right? Let me squeeze in one more from Christopher Anton.
Speaker 3: He is a mechanic in Fresno, California. When I was
Speaker 3: nine years old, my two brothers and I were playing
Speaker 3: hide and seek. We were outside with our parents and
Speaker 3: they were doing yard work because nobody was in the house.
Speaker 3: I figured that would be the best place to hide,
Speaker 3: so I ran inside and vanished into the living room closet.
Speaker 3: As I was standing in the very back corner, I
Speaker 3: felt something hit my leg. I wondered what I had
Speaker 3: knocked over, so I turned on the light, but nothing
Speaker 3: was there. The area around me was clear, so I
Speaker 3: didn't think much about it and turned the light off
Speaker 3: and went back to the very back corner. Well. Suddenly,
Speaker 3: a large hand grabbed my ankle and pinned it against
Speaker 3: the corner. My stomach was in my throat. I opened
Speaker 3: the door and grabbed onto the door jams. I had
Speaker 3: one leg out and the other leg being pulled into
Speaker 3: the corner of the closet. I looked to see what
Speaker 3: had me that. I was only able to see half
Speaker 3: of my leg as the rest was in complete darkness.
Speaker 3: Finally I managed to break free. I ran across the
Speaker 3: street and sat on the curb, staring at the house.
Speaker 3: At that moment, it occurred to me that if it
Speaker 3: was the devil I had encountered, this meant he was real.
Speaker 3: This initially scary epiphany, however, meant that God was real too. Wow,
Speaker 3: that's an interesting way of looking at it, huh. Thank you,
Speaker 3: Christopher and David. Yeah, I guess you know, maybe maybe
Speaker 3: that's part of it, right, Like you have negative experiences
Speaker 3: to awaken you to the idea that if bad things
Speaker 3: are real, then good things are real as well, and
Speaker 3: that will help inspire you to go towards the good things.
Speaker 3: It's like putting your hand in a flame. It seems
Speaker 3: like a bad thing because it burns you, but it
Speaker 3: actually is a good thing that you feel that pain
Speaker 3: because it tells you to move away from it. You
Speaker 3: get this information, you get these indications in life. It's
Speaker 3: always a matter of perspective and context, isn't it. Well, Okay,
Speaker 3: you know what time it is. It's time to end
Speaker 3: the show, and I'm gonna do it with our original
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Speaker 3: and then drink it after. But anyway, close your eyes,
Speaker 3: take a deep breath, relax, and enjoy the good Fortune tone.
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