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But I think the development of full artificial.
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Intelligence would spell the end of the human race.
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It's a fine object, but we don't know what it is.
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I'm glad the Pentagon is looking at.
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This, because if it poses a threat, I want them
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on top. Well, the craft generates its own gravitational field.
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The internet has become the command center for criminals and terrorists.
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That's what we're instructed to say. Roswell, Area 51.
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Alien kept deep under the ground. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
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7, 8, 9. The media doesn't have.
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The best interest in mind. The government is self-serving. You're
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here for a reason. You're listening to Trouble Minds Radio.
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Broadcasting live from the secret bunker just off the extraterrestrial highway.
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Somewhere in the.
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Desert sands outside.
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Of Las Vegas.
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From somewhere in space-time loosely labeled.
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Generation X on planet Earth.
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And asking questions of you.
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Good evening and welcome to Troubled Minds Radio.
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I'm your host, Michael Strange. We're streaming on YouTube, Rumble, X, Twitch,
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and Kik. We are broadcasting live on the Troubled Minds
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Radio Network. That's KUAP Digital Broadcasting out of Las Vegas, Nevada,
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and 88.4 FM, Auckland, New Zealand. Tonight, we're taking your
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calls as we get weird, as we normally do. I
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was thinking... Many ways we look at the universe and
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talk about aliens. We talk about demons. We talk about
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all manner of entities, including up to and including the
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primordial beginning of... cthulhu of the lovecraft lovecraft mythos and
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the idea that these entities are so far removed from
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us that they need to break into our mind's eye
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somehow to present themselves here and again that means probably
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not a lot unless of course you've seen these things
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you've seen these entities you've seen them present themselves to
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you in dreams as lovecraft talked about quite often As
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part of his writings. Now, the weird part about this
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is that it's not necessarily about Cthulhu or those primordial
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old ones, the great old ones. Instead, it's more about
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the idea of. contact through your dreams. Now, is it possible? Now,
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many of us have, we talked about prophetic dreams. We've
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talked about a great manner of dreaming in different ways.
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The fact that you, for some reason, people do not
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seem to recall seeing a cell phone in their dream
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as if a cell phone, that, that piece of technology
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is not allowed in the dream space. Somehow we did
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a whole show on that in the past. This one
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kind of fits all of that in this particular space.
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And we're talking about this individual. His name is St.
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John Boscoe. the Apostle of Youth, as he's known. And
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this is the inspiration for the entire thing. I'll read
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you the whole poem here in a second, because it is...
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That's creepy. It's creepy. This is from creepy.org on Twitter X.
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And I saw this and was like, OK, you know,
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there's a lot here. So let's just let's tackle it
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and get we'll leave you with some unsettling images of
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not just the individual there, but the entity that we're
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talking about. Now, this is an entity from Mr. Bosco's dream. OK,
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now they are watching the screen here. If you're watching
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on the live stream. That entity is like a slender
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man meets the devil type of thing, right? Okay, very,
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very tall, very, very thin, got the devil horns, sort
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of masked in shadow entirely. But he's got this bizarre
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device in his hand that kind of looks like a
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cell phone. And he's projecting images to the children. Now,
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I'll read you the entire thing. First, let me read
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the little blurb from creepy.org because they deserve it, because
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this is where the inspiration came from. In 1865, St.
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John Bosco had a strange dream. He was in a
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church full of young people when he noticed a tall
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black figure
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with horns standing near the altar, holding a
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magic lantern. Through it, the figure showed each of them
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something different. Their favorite games, books, hometowns, families, friends, and
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even sinful scenes. Don Bosco said the device distracted them
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so much that it kept them away from the sacraments,
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especially communion. The Dream is recorded in Volume 8 of
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Father G.B. Lemoyne's Biographical Memoirs of St. John Bosco, and
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anyone can read it for themselves. And, of course, that's
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going to be linked down below. As you would expect,
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all the sources are always going to be linked. in
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the description box below. If you want to follow up
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on me and kind of check on these ideas, then you're,
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you're in the right place. That's exactly the point of
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doing this. And, uh, talking about these ideas together is
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to share where the, this stuff came from. And, uh, yeah,
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that's what's going on today. That's where we start. And I'll,
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let me, let me dig up the full poem for
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you here. And we'll read the thing in its entirety,
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because that's the weird part is, uh, that was the brief,
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but actually I'll read it when we come back after
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the break, because we're going to take a break in
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just a second here, but it's sorry for starting late, uh,
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windows update. Hopefully everything's working. Test one, two. Can you
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guys hear me out there? Yes, I hope. I mean,
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everybody hasn't left, so I hope you're hearing me. But yeah,
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so I had to go through and, you know, juggle
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all the stupid things that break when a Windows update happens.
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But I'll leave it there. I'll leave it on the
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spooky images of this entity. But so it got me
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thinking a lot of directions. Fine on Discord. Thank you
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for that. It got me thinking in a lot of
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directions and specifically the idea of contact through dreams and
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not just, you know, we've talked about tandem dreaming in
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the past. Can you actually meet somebody else from the
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human world in your dreams somehow in some capacity or elsewise?
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Can you can you meet entities in your dreams that
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are not human at all? Maybe we call them dream
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natives or whatever these mythologies kind of look like or
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feel like. Because, of course, the feeling aspect of this
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comes in heavy when you talk about these ideas. And
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our intuition certainly plays when you're talking about the dream
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realm because it's as yet unmapped, let's call it that.
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But anyway, so that's where we start. And we're talking
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contact in your dreams. And specifically, too, the weird part
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about this dream that I... Not just that the entity
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and the children and the, you know, the whole bit
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of the space, the space is the weird part. They're
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in church. Has anybody ever had dreams of church? I
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was just asking Mrs. Strange this before we started and
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she couldn't remember, but I mean, you know, we don't
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really go to church. So, you know, have mercy on
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our souls and all the rest of that. And I mean,
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you guys out there, but I don't either. I don't
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remember having a dream about church ever at all. Although
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I do dream, you know, not as much as I
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should or probably could. So anyway, just just a couple
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of questions to start. And I'm calling this tonight a
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lantern at the rail, the oldest algorithm. And we're going
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to get into some nostalgia stuff and some other wild
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and weird tales that kind of fit into this, because
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that's really what we do. And just just to reiterate,
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all the disclaimers do apply. There's no truth to be
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found here. This is just ideas. This is just people
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talking about things. mythology and folklore and some of these
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old things that really don't get talked about as often
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as they should.
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Okay.
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In my opinion, look, my humble opinion, I'm just one guy.
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So there is no truth here. It's just a conversation
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about wild ideas by dark of night. If you're here
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for truth, you're certainly in the wrong place. That's that.
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I hope you guys are doing well tonight. We're going
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to get a quick break in this case. It will
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be the stoic minutes. Don't go anywhere. More trouble blinds
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in just a moment. Once again, sorry for starting late
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windows update. You can stuff it. You never know when
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it's going to sneak up on you and force you
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to do it. But there you go. The software cost
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it tonight. Anyway, be right back. More Troubled Minds in
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just one moment. Don't go anywhere. Catch you after the
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Stoic Minute. Feeling stressed?
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Overwhelmed?
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In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to get swept away
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by our emotions. Take a breath and find your inner
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strength with the Stoic Minute. You have power over your mind,
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not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.
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The ancient Stoic philosophers understood that we can't control everything
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in life, but we can control how we react. The
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happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Focus on what you can influence.
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Cultivate a positive mindset and let go of what you
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can't change.
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Find your inner strength.
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Live each day with it. courage, wisdom, justice, and moderation.
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Embrace the Stoic virtues and find peace within. The Stoic Minute,
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brought to you by Jack in Oregon.
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Welcome back to Troubled Minds. I'm Michael Strange. Let us continue,
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shall we? Okay, so we're talking about this again. His
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name is St. John Bosco in this strange dream. Now,
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I'm going to read you the dream as translated from
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Italian in full. Okay, translated from Italian to English. I'm
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going to read this in full so you guys know
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exactly what we're working with. And there might be some
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tidbits in this that stand out maybe more to you
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than they did to me. And as usual, we are
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taking your calls tonight if you want to be part
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of the conversation. Love to have you guys jump in
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here because that's really what makes this show go. It's
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powered by you. And the number to call is 702-857-6939.
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Click the Discord link at troubledminds.org. We'll put you on
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the show. It's as easy as that. Here's the dream. Now,
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this is the recounting of, again, one John Bosco, St.
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John Bosco, of this particular dream he had translated from Italian. Begin.
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I dreamed I was in church. The church was packed
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with boys, but few were going up to the Holy Communion.
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Along the altar rail stood a man, very tall and
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very black, with two horns sprouting from his head. He
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held a magic lantern in his hand and showed different
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things to different boys. To one he showed recreation time,
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full of games, and drew him into his favorite pastime.
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To another he showed games already played, the losses he'd taken,
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and his hope of winning next time. To this one
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he showed his hometown, with its walks, its fields, its house.
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To some he showed their studies, their books, the ranking exams.
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To some, the fruit, sweets and wine they had stashed
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in their trunks. To some, their relatives or friends, or
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something worse, their sins, and the money they hadn't turned in.
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So few went to the sacraments. Some saw the outings
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and the holidays, and setting everything else aside, stopped to
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gaze at the old companions of their fun. And he
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continues writing, Do you know what this dream means? It
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means the devil does everything he can to distract boys
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in church and keep them from the holy sacraments. And
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boys are such suckers that they stand there watching. My sons,
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we have to break this lantern of the devil. Do
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you know how? take a look at the cross and
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think that staying away from communion is the same as
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throwing yourself into the devil's arms.
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there's going to be a little bit of a hyperbole here. He's,
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you know, you gotta, you gotta be a little doom
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preachy to get people to go sometimes. And, you know,
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and children are not the best attendees when it comes
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to church. And, you know, at least for myself, I
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can speak for myself. I was not enthused to go
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to church when I was a young man. Now, Beyond that,
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the weird part about this, or this stacks weird parts,
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is very specifically that we have this entity that's keeping
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them at bay, okay? It's keeping them from doing what
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they should be doing in the place in which they're
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doing it, which is, you know, the sacraments, the prayer,
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all the things, following along, paying attention to, again, what's
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the guy's name? John Bosco. And instead... This devil, whatever
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this entity is, if you want to call it the devil,
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it's devil-shaped for sure. It's sort of the devil meets Slenderman,
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as I suggested. But also, he's showing them images of
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nostalgia spaces with what appears to be described as a
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magic lantern or, in modern parlance, a cell phone. I mean,
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look at this thing that clearly the image here was
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done to look exactly like that. And I was looking,
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you know, back to, they had magic lanterns back in
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the day where this was, you know, in the 18th century,
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they did exist then. But beyond that, you know, certainly
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cell phones didn't. And, and I don't know. So, so,
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so that's where we begin now, lots of things here,
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and we can start with just the basic questions about dreams,
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because this is a dream. This is a sort of
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a prophetic dream. Because it stacks it. There's a second
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version and a third version that come years later to
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the same man. And so that's where we start. What
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do you know about the dream space here? And is
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it is it possible that information can come through somehow
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from some other
entity, some some some what would you
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call it? Some influence from somewhere else? That's what I'm
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thinking about. That's what's on my mind tonight. And that's
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where we begin, because this is a creepy, spooky story
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that I had never heard. And I'm always interested in
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learning more things and chasing down some of these ideas.
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And certainly there are troubled minds themes here. So, well,
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welcome and let's do it. If you want to be
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part of the conversation tonight, give us a call at OneMoreTime702. com.
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You can click the Discord link at TroubledMinds.org. We have
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one caller on hold. I see you there, so hang tight.
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We'll get to you momentarily. But James beat you, so
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let's go to James Salcido. What's up, brother? Salcido Paranormal,
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you're on Troubled Minds. How are you? Let's hope there's
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no echo. If not, I think I know how to
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fix it.
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Welcome.
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How are you doing tonight, sir? And go right ahead.
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I'm okay. Hopefully you can hear me. I do hear
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an echo.
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Okay, cool. I can fix that. That was the Windows reset.
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Sorry about that. One moment, please. let me fix this
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okay hold on guys the last time i didn't know
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how to fix it because it was a new new
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thing i know how to fix it this time so
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one momento all right right about there all right try
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now james okay uh still there oh really okay uh
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about that try that okay and it's better Okay, perfect.
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And you're sounding a little more crispy as well.
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Welcome.
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Sorry for the jumping through a couple hoops. You're on
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Troubled Minds. What do you know about this? Is this
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one you've heard of? The old St. John, what's his name?
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St.
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John Bosco here. It's brand new to me. So I'm
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kind of taking a little leap of faith here to
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hope I can kind of get through this tonight because
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I don't know a ton about this story. But it
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certainly stood out for a bunch of reasons when I
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just read through it the first time. I was like, damn,
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we got to touch on this because why not? But
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do you know about this? And of course, what else?
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What do you got to start? Go right ahead, sir.
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Yeah, and I hadn't heard of this.
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I haven't. And partly because I think I've always tended
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to look more into broader topics.
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Not so much like.
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Any kind of specific religion or religious-oriented material. So that's
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probably why I haven't really come across this yet. Nothing
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against it, just not what I've been looking into. But yeah,
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it's a fascinating thing. I did want to comment, and
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I think I mentioned this before, on the cell phone aspect.
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didn't act the way that it should have. And that dream,
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I think it's because it was a visitation from a
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loved one who was sort of producing the experience or
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directing it. And the image on the cell phone screen
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was not necessary, or at least maybe they didn't think
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it was necessary. Or they didn't know how to project
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it or how to make it appear in my mind
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to me.
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But I have had that happen once with that.
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It still worked.
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I could still hear sound through it. But the screen
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never lit up.
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Yeah, which is in and of itself weird. So let's
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add that wrinkle, too, because we haven't talked about it
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since we did that show. Have any of you had
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a dream where a cell phone presented itself? And as
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James is describing, did it work properly if you saw it?
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Because the article we did, I'll see if I can
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pull it up as we go, which inspired that older show,
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was that people are not seeing the cell phone in
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their dreams. Even though it sort of dominates our waking life,
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why doesn't it present itself in such a massive way
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in our dream space? It was kind of a mysterious
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thing that, you know, the dreamologists or whatever the hell
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you call those guys actually couldn't figure out. And that's
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still probably ongoing. Sorry to interrupt.
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Go ahead, James.
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What else you got? No, it's fine.
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I do have more, but I'm happy to sit back
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now and just sit in for the show and talk
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when there's time.
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We got tons of time. Got about five minutes. If
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you have four minutes before the bottom of the hour.
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So just to get us back on the clock. So
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if you do have more, we certainly have time.
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Go ahead.
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Yeah, well, I could just describe that experience real quick
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because it is fascinating to me. It was after my
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grandma had passed away, just not long after at all.
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And I had this, what I thought was a dream
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at first, even though it felt really vivid, of being
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in the house that used to belong to my grandparents.
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At the time, my older sister and her family were
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buying it. And so there was a transfer of stuff
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that was coming in and going out, from my grandparents'
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stuff going out to my sister's family's stuff going in.
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But in this dream, I was sitting in the living
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room and all their furniture was My grandparents' furniture was
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still there, but all of their belongings, all the things
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that they would have on the tables and everything, that
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was all gone, except for my grandma's cell phone that
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was sitting on the living room coffee table. And it
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started making a sound like it was ringing, like it
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was getting a call. And I picked it up, but
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the screen never lit up. I just put it next
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to my ear and said, hello. My dad, who is
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very much still alive, said, we'll be there.
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In a minute.
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I said, okay.
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I put the phone back down on the table, and
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family started pouring in. and all family that is very
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much alive, until my grandma walked in into the house.
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She walked in without any difficulty, even though she didn't
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have the cane or a walker that she had to
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use for the last 15, maybe 20 years of her life.
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she walked in without any difficulty at all. And I
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could just sense it was her. Everything else, all the
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rest of my family, that was just images and sounds.
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But I was sensing, picking up on her presence. And
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so everyone else just bowed into the house, and several
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people went back to the kitchen, almost like they were
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getting ready to make food for a gathering, which would
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have been normal. And and we just all went to
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the dining room and she sat in her favorite chair
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and looked all around and was looking at everybody. But
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she kept looking back at me as she was smiling
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at everybody. And I just kept on doing that until
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everything faded away, and I just woke up, of course,
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crying because it was just after she had passed. But
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I was not sad so much. I was just happy
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that she was okay. And that phone was her cell
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phone that she had gotten. She had been given by family,
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I don't know, 10 years or so before she had passed. And,
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of course, she was very new to those kinds of devices.
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She never had one until that phone. And she never
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even had a computer until that phone. So she was
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still getting used to it, I think, in her time
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that she had with it before she passed. So, again,
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it's a phone, but it's also odd because it feels
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like it was just part of the dressing for the event.
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Yeah, and that right there, I want to point this out, too.
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I'm reading some of the chat as you go, hence
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my weird response time. But Matt's also said this, too,
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and I want to add this to what you're
describing.
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So Matt, he says, whenever I have a dream about
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a cell phone, it doesn't work right. And so we
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have a theme here. We already have a theme before,
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before we even got anywhere, really. I mean, when that's
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absolutely amazing that same thing happening to James here in
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the same space. I mean, it's, um, This is weird.
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This is where we begin, okay? And great stuff, James.
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Can I take a break? And you're welcome to sit
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as usual, and we'll talk to you momentarily here. But
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fascinating experience, fascinating dream, and the weirdness of not just
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the family coming and going, grandma, all the rest of
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the stuff with technology, but the thing not functioning properly.
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Is that what goes on in dreams with cell phones?
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Have you guys ever dreamed of a cell phone? And
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we'll start there, too, because I think it's, like I said,
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highly fascinating when you get to this stuff. But as usual,
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if you want to be part of the conversation, give
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us a call at 702-857-6939. You can click the Discord
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link at TroubledMinds.org. We'll put you on the show. It's
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as easy as that. Tonight, I'm calling it a lantern
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at the rail. I'm the oldest algorithm. And we'll talk
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about that algorithm when we come back. The algorithm. Shout
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out Mike in Colorado. The wild part is, well, there's
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a lot. So what do you know about dreams? What
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do you know about entities and content? Is it possible
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that the dream realm is something other than very simply
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an overactive mind at work? One more time.
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702-857-6939.
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This is Troubled Minds. I'm Michael Strange. Be right back.
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You're tuning into Troubled Minds, the show where mystery knows
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no bounds. Stay tuned for revelations that'll keep you questioning
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the fabric of reality.
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Candles burned in turin town the church was full the
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boys knelt down but.
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At the rail where the bread was laid a tall
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man waited in the shade two horns rose from his
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midnight hair.
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A lantern swinging in He showed one boy the games
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he played The.
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Bets he lost, the bets he made He showed one
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boy his mother's door The fields he walked the year
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before He showed the one hidden in the chest.
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The coins he kept, the sins unconfessed.
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And every life.
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Was a different life Every child saw his own delight
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And nobody rose and nobody went.
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Up to the rail where the hour was spent.
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Where will your eyes go first?
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When the lantern starts to blow He never lays a
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hand on you He only lets you know Every friend
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you left behind Every summer gone to dust Where will
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your eyes go first When the light is made.
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For us.
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The desert monks knew him at noon when the sun
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stood still like a nailed down moon.
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He called them to the window.
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Welcome back to Troubled Minds.
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I'm your host, Michael Strange. We're streaming on YouTube, Rumble, X, Twitch,
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and Kik. We are broadcasting live on the Troubled Minds
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Radio Network. That's KUAP Digital Broadcasting out of Las Vegas, Nevada.
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And of course, 88.4 FM, Auckland, New Zealand. Tonight, in 1865,
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a priest told a room full of boys in Turin
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about a dream. A tall horned figure stood at the
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communion rail holding a magic lantern, and he showed every
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boy something different. Their games, their hometowns, their secret money,
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their old friends. Almost nobody went up to the altar
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in the dream. Now, we're talking about a lot of things. Now, specifically,
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prophetic dreams comes to mind as part of this, but
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entity contact in some way. Now, if we talk about
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the unseen realm and these influences, as I like to
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call them, control mechanisms, influences that are not just human influences.
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Of course, we have tons of those
swirling around us
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all the time. But beyond that, the next level becomes
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and it's been heavily debated. And, you know, we talk
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about spiritual wars and things like this. But maybe just
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maybe there are entities at at play or at war
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with for our minds and our hearts and our souls.
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And this is where this really becomes an interesting tidbit,
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because if again, John Bosco, let me read you a
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little bit about John Bosco, by the way, because there's
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a there's an important part here. He was he was
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a good man. Listen to this. So here we go.
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Popularly known as Don Bosco. So he was an Italian
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Catholic priest, educator and writer. While working in Turin, where
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the population suffered many of the ill effects of industrialization
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and urbanization. Another liminal time, right? So we're kind of
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moving into one of those, aren't we? He dedicated his
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life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile
477
00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:47.730
delinquents and other disadvantaged youths. He developed teaching methods based
478
00:27:47.809 --> 00:27:50.829
on love rather than punishment, a method that became known
479
00:27:50.890 --> 00:27:55.390
as the Cilician Preventivist System. Okay, so that's an important
480
00:27:55.430 --> 00:27:57.549
part to lay down as part of this, because he
481
00:27:57.609 --> 00:28:00.630
isn't just some rando. He's working with the people that
482
00:28:00.650 --> 00:28:03.759
need it the most, the people that society has left behind,
483
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:08.490
that their parents have left behind. Like I said, if
484
00:28:08.509 --> 00:28:11.490
you've ever worked with any children in any capacity, it's
485
00:28:11.549 --> 00:28:13.349
difficult to begin with. But then when you work with
486
00:28:13.369 --> 00:28:15.829
the ones that have been sort of left and are
487
00:28:16.230 --> 00:28:20.099
lashing out because for a lot of reasons, maybe they're undiagnosed.
488
00:28:20.130 --> 00:28:22.700
We have autism today. They didn't even know what that
489
00:28:22.740 --> 00:28:24.980
was back then. There's so many different things to look at.
490
00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:28.200
ADHD is... And I'm not saying any of that stuff
491
00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:31.480
is even relevant here. I'm just saying that we're diagnosing
492
00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:33.740
things that they had no idea about back in the 17th, 18th,
493
00:28:33.740 --> 00:28:34.180
19th century.
494
00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:34.259
So.
495
00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:39.440
Just as an example. But so Don Bosco again. So
496
00:28:39.480 --> 00:28:42.079
he's a Saint Don Bosco or John Bosco. They call
497
00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:48.309
him Don for the endearing term. But his name is John,
498
00:28:48.349 --> 00:28:51.089
John Bosco. And so that dream, again, was a church
499
00:28:51.130 --> 00:28:53.609
full of young people, this tall black figure with horns.
500
00:28:53.670 --> 00:28:56.690
He's shining this magic lantern at these children and he's
501
00:28:56.730 --> 00:29:00.049
distracting them. And they're becoming distracted from the lessons, from
502
00:29:00.089 --> 00:29:04.259
the sacrament, from actually prayer and being close to God,
503
00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:08.119
for lack of a better term there. And look, I
504
00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:10.240
don't know what this means, other than like I'm talking
505
00:29:10.259 --> 00:29:13.640
about when we discuss dreams and prophetic visions and maybe
506
00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:17.849
contact to these entities through. And this weird cell phone device,
507
00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:20.880
the cell phone-like device that's showing these children different things,
508
00:29:20.940 --> 00:29:23.650
there's a lot to unpack just in the dream itself.
509
00:29:24.089 --> 00:29:28.269
But like I said, this dream recurred two and three
510
00:29:28.329 --> 00:29:31.589
times in different ways with the same entity showing up
511
00:29:31.650 --> 00:29:36.049
doing different things. So dressed differently and presenting differently. So
512
00:29:36.329 --> 00:29:37.569
we'll talk about that as we go. But what do
513
00:29:37.589 --> 00:29:39.470
you know about this? Do you think it is possible
514
00:29:39.490 --> 00:29:42.960
to contemplate? have an entity contact us from the other
515
00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:45.599
side of the dream realm or from within the dream realm?
516
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:47.809
We've talked about this a lot and I know, but
517
00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:50.309
it is one of those things that everybody is fascinated
518
00:29:50.349 --> 00:29:53.970
with because people, everybody has dreams in some capacity that
519
00:29:54.210 --> 00:29:56.869
There's lucid dreamers every single night. There's some people that
520
00:29:56.910 --> 00:30:00.690
dream sporadically, but everybody dreams. And that's why this is
521
00:30:00.750 --> 00:30:02.829
one of those ones that kind of hits hard because
522
00:30:02.869 --> 00:30:05.730
this guy was doing God's work literally out there helping
523
00:30:05.779 --> 00:30:09.339
disadvantaged youth. And beyond that, he's having these dreams about
524
00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:15.140
these entities trying to keep the youth from actually locking in. Yeah,
525
00:30:15.700 --> 00:30:17.819
that's where we start. Anything else to add, James? And
526
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:19.480
we'll go to the phone call. Thanks for being patient, friends.
527
00:30:19.700 --> 00:30:22.640
You're on Troubled Minds. Welcome back. And sorry to space
528
00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:23.900
case you there at the end. I was just reading
529
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:26.869
some chat and got a little sidetracked. But welcome back.
530
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:28.589
How are you feeling? Hope everything's well. And go right ahead.
531
00:30:28.609 --> 00:30:28.990
What else you got?
532
00:30:30.569 --> 00:30:31.069
That's fine.
533
00:30:31.170 --> 00:30:31.609
You're fine.
534
00:30:32.029 --> 00:30:33.670
My voice is trying to go out of me, but
535
00:30:33.769 --> 00:30:37.609
other than that, I have come across accounts from people
536
00:30:37.650 --> 00:30:43.420
before who have said they've seen shadow figures or the
537
00:30:43.940 --> 00:30:47.099
same figure that they don't recognize in their dreams, like
538
00:30:47.140 --> 00:30:51.130
a regular looking person, but Someone they don't recognize at
539
00:30:51.210 --> 00:30:55.309
all in their dreams before. I've come across that in, again,
540
00:30:55.329 --> 00:30:59.259
the research I've done for finding reports of anomalous experiences
541
00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:00.619
for the podcast I do.
542
00:31:01.460 --> 00:31:02.809
And so it is a phenomenon.
543
00:31:02.829 --> 00:31:04.009
I don't know.
544
00:31:04.650 --> 00:31:07.140
I've never come across anything like that where there's this
545
00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:12.000
entity trying to distract anyone or get anyone to pay,
546
00:31:13.079 --> 00:31:15.480
basically like having a device that tries to get their attention.
547
00:31:16.059 --> 00:31:19.519
But I have come across the pattern of people seeing
548
00:31:20.099 --> 00:31:22.220
unrecognized figures in their dreams before.
549
00:31:23.069 --> 00:31:23.269
Yeah.
550
00:31:23.470 --> 00:31:25.309
And that's that's one of the big ones, too, is
551
00:31:25.349 --> 00:31:27.670
that not just that, like I said, this this weird
552
00:31:27.740 --> 00:31:30.599
melding of the slender man meets meets the devil.
553
00:31:30.660 --> 00:31:30.819
Right.
554
00:31:30.859 --> 00:31:33.640
Sort of a silhouette aspect. It's a lot. It's a lot.
555
00:31:33.700 --> 00:31:35.289
And you talk about these entities and all the things
556
00:31:35.309 --> 00:31:37.859
you're describing to you. As usual, how do you define
557
00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:40.349
these things and how much of this is real? And
558
00:31:41.150 --> 00:31:42.569
when I talk about this stuff, too, and I think
559
00:31:42.609 --> 00:31:45.170
about these ideas, I certainly think about the influence it
560
00:31:45.210 --> 00:31:49.109
has on ourselves in our mind space, in our mind's eye. And,
561
00:31:49.250 --> 00:31:51.759
you know, let's say, for instance, as just a thought experiment,
562
00:31:51.779 --> 00:31:53.119
don't do this because I don't want you to do
563
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:55.759
this or be bad. Don't be bad, people. Be good.
564
00:31:56.660 --> 00:31:58.460
But if you're always like the devil, the devil, the devil,
565
00:31:58.500 --> 00:32:02.279
the devil, certainly the devil creeps in. Like even if
566
00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:04.799
you don't believe the devil is real, it's irrelevant. You
567
00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:07.680
start to sort of embody the archetype of the devil.
568
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:12.240
Like he's with you. He's watching. He's encouraging you to
569
00:32:12.309 --> 00:32:14.670
do bad things or whatever. You see what I mean?
570
00:32:15.089 --> 00:32:19.029
So we have this ability as humans to delude ourselves
571
00:32:19.089 --> 00:32:20.589
in a lot of ways. And like I said, throw
572
00:32:20.609 --> 00:32:22.390
the spirituality out of it and look at it just
573
00:32:22.410 --> 00:32:25.450
from the materialist side there. We can do this anyway.
574
00:32:25.650 --> 00:32:27.779
We don't need a devil. We can just conjure one
575
00:32:27.819 --> 00:32:29.759
on our own. And so that's why I like to
576
00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:31.660
think about these ideas and sort of break them down
577
00:32:31.700 --> 00:32:33.829
and not to discount the fact that the devil may
578
00:32:33.849 --> 00:32:35.970
be real. Look, I'm down with that, too. I think
579
00:32:35.990 --> 00:32:40.430
there's probably a lot that backs that up in the
580
00:32:41.089 --> 00:32:43.950
historical record, but also not. So it just depends on
581
00:32:44.329 --> 00:32:46.750
what you believe, how you believe, and how we have
582
00:32:46.769 --> 00:32:48.589
these discussions. So that's why I like to break it
583
00:32:48.609 --> 00:32:50.569
down and kind of look at things separately. And then
584
00:32:50.609 --> 00:32:53.940
also then bring them back together because... And regardless of
585
00:32:53.980 --> 00:32:56.059
what you do believe, we're still dealing with the devil
586
00:32:56.099 --> 00:32:58.559
here in some capacity. So I don't know. What do
587
00:32:58.579 --> 00:33:01.660
you know about this? Not just strange dreams, prophetic dreams,
588
00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:05.460
the idea of meeting entities, being influenced by entities from
589
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:08.829
the dream realm. And this weird story about John Bosco
590
00:33:08.849 --> 00:33:12.170
having this dream in church where the youth are being,
591
00:33:13.589 --> 00:33:20.009
interestingly enough, they're being distracted by nostalgic images of their
592
00:33:20.049 --> 00:33:23.829
own lives. Isn't that isn't that wild? Anything else, James?
593
00:33:23.849 --> 00:33:24.309
We'll go to the call.
594
00:33:26.259 --> 00:33:28.900
Yeah, no, it seems it seems like one of those
595
00:33:29.819 --> 00:33:33.099
best ways to get someone's attention is with that nostalgia.
596
00:33:33.740 --> 00:33:36.470
I mean, what does that remind us of anything today?
597
00:33:37.329 --> 00:33:38.150
Or everything today.
598
00:33:38.250 --> 00:33:42.180
Everything today. Exactly. Everything today. Every damn thing we do
599
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:46.380
is
like is a remake of something because they want
600
00:33:46.420 --> 00:33:48.460
us knuckleheads to go back and buy the ticket, even
601
00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:50.779
though they did it 10 times worse. And many of
602
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:52.859
us knuckleheads do go buy the ticket. Anyway, let me
603
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:54.920
hear your thoughts on this. I'm calling this the oldest algorithm,
604
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:56.069
a lantern at the rail.
605
00:33:56.769 --> 00:33:56.900
702-857-6939.
606
00:33:56.920 --> 00:34:01.029
Click the Discord link at TroubleMinds.org. I think you should
607
00:34:01.049 --> 00:34:02.789
be good, James. Just hang tight until we get through
608
00:34:02.809 --> 00:34:03.869
the call. Let me know if you can hear them
609
00:34:03.890 --> 00:34:05.829
when they come on. What's up? What's your first name?
610
00:34:05.849 --> 00:34:07.529
Where are you calling from? You're on TroubleMinds.
611
00:34:08.210 --> 00:34:08.590
Go right ahead.
612
00:34:09.329 --> 00:34:11.090
I don't hear anything. Sorry about that. I'm going to
613
00:34:11.110 --> 00:34:12.389
hang up on you. If you call back, I'll go
614
00:34:12.789 --> 00:34:14.969
right back to you right away. But I'm not sure
615
00:34:15.030 --> 00:34:15.469
it's working.
616
00:34:15.820 --> 00:34:16.079
Hold on.
617
00:34:16.099 --> 00:34:16.659
Can you hear this, James?
618
00:34:17.460 --> 00:34:17.679
Yes.
619
00:34:18.019 --> 00:34:19.440
Okay. So if you can hear that, that means we
620
00:34:19.460 --> 00:34:23.110
should hear them coming through. That's the same channel, so
621
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:25.449
I think it's a bad connection. Call back, and we'll
622
00:34:25.469 --> 00:34:27.889
put you on the show. Sorry about that. The technology
623
00:34:27.929 --> 00:34:33.030
does have a mind of its own sometimes, and that's that. 702-857-6939.
624
00:34:33.230 --> 00:34:36.159
Click the Discord link at TroubledMinds.org. Algorithm on the phone line.
625
00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:38.500
Thank you. The smart guy pops over to test the
626
00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:40.380
phone line. Are you there? Oh, you're on Troubled Minds.
627
00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:42.619
How you doing, brother? Pretty good. I hear you loud
628
00:34:42.659 --> 00:34:43.440
and clear. Can you hear him, James?
629
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:44.119
Yes.
630
00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:47.099
Perfect. Thank you for testing the phone line. Algo was
631
00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:49.039
on the Discord and was like, hand up. And he's like, hey,
632
00:34:49.059 --> 00:34:51.400
I'm going to just call the phone line. Appreciate it, brother. Welcome.
633
00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:53.400
What do you got on this? Tons of ways to
634
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:55.380
take this as usual. That's how we like to do it.
635
00:34:55.960 --> 00:34:57.920
Thank you for calling in and testing the phone line
636
00:34:57.940 --> 00:35:00.039
and proving that it actually works. What you got?
637
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.300
Go right ahead, sir. I, as a.
638
00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:06.539
Child, I had reoccurring, not good dreams, but reoccurring dreams.
639
00:35:07.059 --> 00:35:09.489
I've had dreams interrupted where I woke up and then
640
00:35:09.510 --> 00:35:13.730
I fall back asleep and the dream continues. So dreaming
641
00:35:13.809 --> 00:35:17.739
is not a new phenomenon to me. The explanations of
642
00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:21.719
the dream books I find silly and nonsensical and ways
643
00:35:21.739 --> 00:35:25.639
to sell books because I can't even imagine they could
644
00:35:25.699 --> 00:35:29.239
know what my dream meant because they don't know my life.
645
00:35:29.340 --> 00:35:32.769
So I kind of throw that aside. All that being said,
646
00:35:32.789 --> 00:35:38.650
that amazing story you told really tripped my trigger for
647
00:35:38.710 --> 00:35:45.389
simulation theory in the way that all of the... stuff
648
00:35:45.449 --> 00:35:48.030
is out there it seems which is why it repeats
649
00:35:48.090 --> 00:35:54.369
a lot we keep focusing into a certain version of
650
00:35:54.469 --> 00:35:57.559
it so it keeps coming back into us i think
651
00:35:57.619 --> 00:36:01.380
it's a choose your own experience interactive like that one
652
00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:03.559
video game i think i can't remember what it was
653
00:36:03.599 --> 00:36:06.820
something quest then i had this goofy guy in the
654
00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:10.070
80s it was a cartoon and the controls are really
655
00:36:10.110 --> 00:36:12.329
slow but if you went the wrong way you died
656
00:36:12.369 --> 00:36:13.750
if you went the right way you got to continue
657
00:36:13.769 --> 00:36:18.440
the game And so if it is a simulation of
658
00:36:18.539 --> 00:36:21.940
sorts and all of this energy is out there waiting
659
00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:25.440
to be brought to us, that photograph on the right
660
00:36:26.300 --> 00:36:29.840
with the demon with the pocket computer and the children
661
00:36:29.860 --> 00:36:35.880
is like completely representative of what I think our society
662
00:36:35.900 --> 00:36:40.739
is experiencing right now. And I mean, that's my jumping
663
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:43.460
off point. The second thing I have is nostalgia programming
664
00:36:43.659 --> 00:36:49.059
is the most powerful programming, according to the MKUltra documents
665
00:36:49.079 --> 00:36:53.219
and different things I've researched and read. So be mindful
666
00:36:53.260 --> 00:36:58.329
of nostalgia programming. If it rings to you and you think, oh, man,
667
00:36:58.389 --> 00:36:58.969
I long.
668
00:36:58.769 --> 00:37:03.429
For that, it might be programming. It might just not
669
00:37:03.510 --> 00:37:07.800
be a cool nostalgia trip. So everybody be wary. And
670
00:37:07.929 --> 00:37:10.139
I guess the final thing that I would say about
671
00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:12.880
all this is I totally appreciate that you have.
672
00:37:12.820 -->
00:37:15.880
A show about this. A lot of people are leery
673
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:19.039
of talking about dreams and I'm super excited to talk
674
00:37:19.059 --> 00:37:19.920
about dreams all the time.
675
00:37:19.940 --> 00:37:24.070
Yeah, no, glad to have you. And I, I, I
676
00:37:24.110 --> 00:37:26.929
can tell from your energy from, from how you're speaking here. And,
677
00:37:27.010 --> 00:37:30.690
and this, this is wild though, because it, and a
678
00:37:30.730 --> 00:37:33.289
very good point, Saul, and I want to echo what
679
00:37:33.309 --> 00:37:35.449
you're saying there regarding this is, it seems to be
680
00:37:35.489 --> 00:37:37.789
a sign of the times and, And even into the
681
00:37:37.849 --> 00:37:41.360
simulation theory bit, because if, again, so let's detach from
682
00:37:41.380 --> 00:37:43.400
reality for a second. Let's just sort of put up
683
00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:46.400
our mind space in simulation and say that there is
684
00:37:46.460 --> 00:37:50.199
some sort of bleed through in the computer space, the
685
00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:54.119
compute space of our living life and our dream life.
686
00:37:54.500 --> 00:37:58.019
And maybe even they're separate computations, but there is some
687
00:37:58.179 --> 00:38:00.900
entanglement there that we deal with and we catch these
688
00:38:00.940 --> 00:38:03.960
images that come through. And in this particular case, this
689
00:38:04.019 --> 00:38:08.329
is an old story from 1865. that is very poignant
690
00:38:08.650 --> 00:38:11.269
of exactly what's happening today. Like you're describing this, this
691
00:38:11.429 --> 00:38:16.389
entity that's showing these children, this like a mind brainwashing device,
692
00:38:16.429 --> 00:38:19.800
like mind control device that looks exactly like a cell phone.
693
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:22.840
I mean, he called it a magic lantern in his
694
00:38:22.980 --> 00:38:25.599
description from the dream, because of course there were no
695
00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:27.280
cell phones. So what do you, what do you call
696
00:38:27.340 --> 00:38:31.039
a cell phone beaming nostalgic images into people's heads when
697
00:38:31.059 --> 00:38:32.849
you don't know what it's called? In this case, it
698
00:38:32.929 --> 00:38:36.110
turned into a magic lantern and this nostalgia programming, dude.
699
00:38:36.849 --> 00:38:39.469
That's very well said. And I'm going to quote a
700
00:38:39.550 --> 00:38:42.570
very wise man. His name is Mike. He lives in Colorado.
701
00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:45.400
And he always says when he calls in, shout out
702
00:38:45.460 --> 00:38:49.059
Mike in Colorado, he always says, control your mind or
703
00:38:49.179 --> 00:38:51.840
someone else will. And this is a perfect example of
704
00:38:51.900 --> 00:38:55.719
that because nostalgia programming does draw you back to places
705
00:38:56.260 --> 00:39:00.519
which are not always healthy. And I appreciate you pointing
706
00:39:00.539 --> 00:39:02.969
that out. And for jumping in here, Firestuff as always, brother,
707
00:39:03.010 --> 00:39:04.590
what else you got? If anything, all yours.
708
00:39:05.699 --> 00:39:07.940
You know, all of that said, I don't know that
709
00:39:07.980 --> 00:39:10.239
I have a whole lot more other than I hope
710
00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:16.360
everybody who listens to the broadcast, and I think most
711
00:39:16.409 --> 00:39:21.530
people understand you're on an exploration mission, a seven-year mission
712
00:39:21.570 --> 00:39:25.230
to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly
713
00:39:25.250 --> 00:39:26.949
go where no podcaster goes before.
714
00:39:27.010 --> 00:39:27.530
But.
715
00:39:28.889 --> 00:39:32.159
As we go through the things we're going through from
716
00:39:33.019 --> 00:39:36.679
what seems to be not a great future for a
717
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:42.000
lot of people, all of that stuff can change tomorrow.
718
00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:45.659
It can always be better. It doesn't have to be,
719
00:39:46.340 --> 00:39:49.030
I'm pretty black pilled for people that know me, but
720
00:39:49.090 --> 00:39:53.690
I'm always hopeful because I do know that we as
721
00:39:53.969 --> 00:39:56.630
men and women of this realm are probably one of
722
00:39:56.650 --> 00:39:59.369
the most masterful creations that we could even imagine, even
723
00:39:59.429 --> 00:40:02.639
if it is a simulation and God is a computer
724
00:40:02.659 --> 00:40:07.860
program or whatever a person thinks that It's not bad.
725
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:10.940
It doesn't have to be bad. Yes, there's bad things
726
00:40:11.519 --> 00:40:15.079
and bad things happen all the time. But overall, if
727
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:18.500
you set your mind to a place where you're going
728
00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:20.449
to make it and it's going to be good, then
729
00:40:20.489 --> 00:40:22.769
guess what? You're going to make it and it's going
730
00:40:22.789 --> 00:40:23.150
to be good.
731
00:40:24.670 --> 00:40:24.949
Amen.
732
00:40:25.449 --> 00:40:28.329
Even look, even, even Dr. Black pill can slip a
733
00:40:28.349 --> 00:40:30.730
white pill from time to time. And, and, and this is,
734
00:40:30.730 --> 00:40:33.559
this is the best part about that is, is manifesting
735
00:40:33.860 --> 00:40:36.940
that future is it's, it's about you. And look, I'm
736
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:39.679
not saying that all positive thoughts only lead to positive things.
737
00:40:40.019 --> 00:40:44.949
You know, nostalgia is a positive emotion, but as you described, yeah,
738
00:40:44.989 --> 00:40:46.829
it can be used against you. And so this is,
739
00:40:46.849 --> 00:40:49.469
this is, this is the point. And so do manifest,
740
00:40:50.789 --> 00:40:52.829
the best is going to happen to you. Because if
741
00:40:52.869 --> 00:40:55.409
you don't allow for the possibility of it and even
742
00:40:55.469 --> 00:40:58.820
repeat the possibility, certainly it
won't. So I think all
743
00:40:58.840 --> 00:41:01.480
that is incredible and on point and something we need
744
00:41:01.500 --> 00:41:04.519
to hear today because these are trying times, are they not?
745
00:41:05.420 --> 00:41:08.019
They seem to be, yeah. More so for people that
746
00:41:08.059 --> 00:41:12.650
don't have any kind of foundational belief of what they're
747
00:41:12.690 --> 00:41:15.989
doing here and why they're here. And that doesn't mean
748
00:41:16.030 --> 00:41:19.449
religion and that doesn't mean God. It can, but it
749
00:41:19.489 --> 00:41:23.199
doesn't have to. If a person doesn't have those things,
750
00:41:23.260 --> 00:41:27.400
I think it's even harder because it's crazy AF out there.
751
00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:32.739
Just every day there's 15 things that are insane that
752
00:41:32.860 --> 00:41:35.539
don't resonate to anything that we knew in the past.
753
00:41:36.269 --> 00:41:38.309
Like the simulations cracked or broken.
754
00:41:38.650 --> 00:41:39.690
The code's repeating.
755
00:41:39.809 --> 00:41:43.079
It's on fast forward and we can't find the remote.
756
00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:45.500
There's just like a whole bunch of stuff going on.
757
00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:49.440
And it's scary and it's hard. And I think we're
758
00:41:49.500 --> 00:41:51.579
all in it together if we understand we're all in
759
00:41:51.599 --> 00:41:52.280
it together, you know?
760
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:52.969
Amen.
761
00:41:53.349 --> 00:41:53.650
Amen.
762
00:41:53.710 --> 00:41:56.670
And that's the point. Don't forget it. Things are scary.
763
00:41:56.710 --> 00:42:00.409
Things are accelerating. But find a base, whatever the base is.
764
00:42:00.769 --> 00:42:02.449
Find a home base you can kind of retreat to.
765
00:42:03.010 --> 00:42:06.519
and center yourself, whether that's a meditative state, whether that's prayer,
766
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.920
however you do those things, do those things because you're
767
00:42:09.940 --> 00:42:11.599
going to need them. We are, we are coming into
768
00:42:11.639 --> 00:42:14.559
trying times. It is trying times now. It is accelerating.
769
00:42:14.739 --> 00:42:17.699
And so, well said all that. I appreciate you very much, brother.
770
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:20.630
All right, my friend, keep, keep it up and we'll
771
00:42:20.650 --> 00:42:21.369
talk to you next time.
772
00:42:21.710 --> 00:42:25.590
Thank you very much. Always a pleasure. Mike in Colorado, Algorhythm,
773
00:42:25.630 --> 00:42:26.969
as you know him. Thank you for the call. Have
774
00:42:27.010 --> 00:42:29.800
a fantastic night. And please give him a follow. Look,
775
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:31.639
this is why we do this. We talk to people
776
00:42:32.059 --> 00:42:35.440
to get these ideas together. And look, wildly enough, you
777
00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:37.960
know me, I like to look at all the possible angles.
778
00:42:38.059 --> 00:42:40.539
I didn't even consider simulation theory
tonight as part of this.
779
00:42:41.139 --> 00:42:43.780
But you see, there are angles of these things leaking
780
00:42:43.860 --> 00:42:46.500
in as part of these stories. And again, I'm not
781
00:42:46.519 --> 00:42:48.159
even saying the story is true or the story is
782
00:42:48.219 --> 00:42:50.989
false or anything. Look, I'm not making claims here. I'm
783
00:42:51.010 --> 00:42:52.860
not saying we live in a simulation. I'm saying once
784
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:56.400
you open the possibility. suddenly things start to take on
785
00:42:56.440 --> 00:42:59.039
different forms. And that's really what this is all about.
786
00:42:59.380 --> 00:43:02.760
Please give Mike in Colorado, a good friend for a
787
00:43:02.780 --> 00:43:05.820
long time, an old buddy at this point in the
788
00:43:05.900 --> 00:43:09.610
trenches doing streams and talking about these wild ideas. And
789
00:43:09.650 --> 00:43:11.969
even Dr. Darkpill can slip you a white pill from
790
00:43:12.010 --> 00:43:15.110
time to time. Troubleminds.org forward slash friends. Scroll down just
791
00:43:15.150 --> 00:43:18.210
a little bit. And it's under... Actually, it's right at
792
00:43:18.230 --> 00:43:20.610
the top. Don't even scroll down. Right at the top. Algorithm.
793
00:43:20.650 --> 00:43:22.070
It's right there right above my head if you're watching
794
00:43:22.090 --> 00:43:25.000
the stream. Fire call. And yes, all of that plays.
795
00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:28.000
And this is all important. And we're going back to
796
00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:30.179
this story once again, if you're just joining us, this
797
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:33.420
story of St. John Bosco, the apostle of youth. And again,
798
00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:35.360
by all accounts, historically, he was a good man. He
799
00:43:35.409 --> 00:43:38.050
wasn't collecting kids to do terrible things to them. He
800
00:43:38.070 --> 00:43:40.170
was trying to get them out of the streets and
801
00:43:40.210 --> 00:43:41.210
put them back on track.
802
00:43:41.710 --> 00:43:41.949
Okay.
803
00:43:42.349 --> 00:43:44.630
And look, I'm not so cynical that I want to call,
804
00:43:44.690 --> 00:43:47.889
you know, every, every historical figure that worked with children,
805
00:43:48.329 --> 00:43:51.630
a monster. I'm sure there's some. But I'll take this
806
00:43:51.690 --> 00:43:53.190
at face value. And I'm not going to dig any
807
00:43:53.230 --> 00:43:56.349
deeper than necessary here for the sake of the conversation.
808
00:43:56.389 --> 00:43:59.710
But I know you know what I know that you
809
00:43:59.750 --> 00:44:01.789
know what I'm thinking. But I'm not going to do that.
810
00:44:01.909 --> 00:44:03.349
I'm not going to do that right now. We're going
811
00:44:03.369 --> 00:44:06.289
to white pill this. And instead, hey, look, reaching out
812
00:44:06.349 --> 00:44:09.840
to the youth is good. And, you know, the Big
813
00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:14.159
Brothers program, you know, just had
an idea anyway. Lots
814
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:18.550
of really good stuff here, because this is what the
815
00:44:18.610 --> 00:44:20.889
basis of reality is about. What do you believe? Do
816
00:44:20.909 --> 00:44:23.170
you believe the dream realm is just simply a figment
817
00:44:23.190 --> 00:44:26.969
of our imagination, an overactive, resting mind? Or do you
818
00:44:26.989 --> 00:44:30.260
think it's something deeper? Because this individual got these dream
819
00:44:30.340 --> 00:44:37.679
impressions of this devil-like entity distracting children with nostalgic propaganda
820
00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:39.480
from going to church.
821
00:44:40.599 --> 00:44:40.760
Hmm.
822
00:44:41.780 --> 00:44:45.019
The plot thickens. And of course, there are additional dreams
823
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:47.239
and additional angles, which we'll get to as we go tonight.
824
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:49.559
That's what we do. Open it up to the entire
825
00:44:49.699 --> 00:44:52.559
lexicon of folklore and mythology and look at this through
826
00:44:52.579 --> 00:44:55.030
a different lens. And that's the point. Thank you again
827
00:44:55.050 --> 00:44:57.070
to Mike in Colorado for testing the phone line. It
828
00:44:57.110 --> 00:44:58.690
does work. So if you want to call into the
829
00:44:58.730 --> 00:45:03.610
phone line, you're welcome to 702-857-6939. Click the Discord link
830
00:45:03.650 --> 00:45:06.849
at Troubleminds.org. James, anything to add? We got about four
831
00:45:06.869 --> 00:45:08.489
or five minutes left. If you got anything, if not,
832
00:45:08.849 --> 00:45:11.090
I certainly can add some other things because there's a
833
00:45:11.110 --> 00:45:12.300
ton of stuff here. Welcome back.
834
00:45:13.070 --> 00:45:15.949
Yeah um i don't know if you probably didn't get
835
00:45:15.969 --> 00:45:18.309
to see when i said uh i could hear uh
836
00:45:18.849 --> 00:45:20.889
algo there was no echo.
837
00:45:20.670 --> 00:45:25.030
For me oh yeah yeah yeah so yeah okay so
838
00:45:25.050 --> 00:45:27.860
we're fixed so we're don't touch anything mike everything's fixed
839
00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:28.980
okay don't touch.
840
00:45:28.860 --> 00:45:33.420
Don't don't don't say we're fixed i'm just saying.
841
00:45:32.340 --> 00:45:35.800
Okay perfect and i didn't i didn't i didn't click
842
00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:38.460
or unclick anything after he left so Okay. So we're good.
843
00:45:38.500 --> 00:45:40.260
So I'm going to take notes on exactly how it
844
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:42.130
should be. This is, this is how I usually do it.
845
00:45:42.139 --> 00:45:45.429
Like I'll, I'll stress test everything audio wise, and then
846
00:45:45.449 --> 00:45:47.210
I'll just keep like a, like a sticky note of
847
00:45:47.250 --> 00:45:49.469
like how it is, but then when something changes, there's
848
00:45:49.510 --> 00:45:52.130
new audio plugins or something like a virtual audio cables,
849
00:45:52.210 --> 00:45:54.510
it messes everything up. Then I have to go back
850
00:45:54.550 --> 00:45:56.449
to square one and start over. So here we are.
851
00:45:56.829 --> 00:45:59.780
I'm going to take notes. Don't jinx us, James. Thank
852
00:45:59.820 --> 00:46:02.079
you for pointing that out. A few minutes left. If
853
00:46:02.099 --> 00:46:03.659
you got anything to add to what Algo said.
854
00:46:04.510 --> 00:46:06.650
Yeah, great call. Great to hear from him as well.
855
00:46:08.309 --> 00:46:13.269
And yeah, I think the fascinating thing about dreams and
856
00:46:13.329 --> 00:46:19.449
about just, again, reports of people's experiences is that, and
857
00:46:19.469 --> 00:46:21.250
I can't remember if I brought this up on these
858
00:46:21.289 --> 00:46:23.949
shows before or not, I have come across posts from
859
00:46:23.989 --> 00:46:28.039
people who have said, hey, I've seen the sky change
860
00:46:28.099 --> 00:46:32.539
color and I've seen lines appear, like a grid line,
861
00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:37.210
like again, like the holodeck from Star Trek, a piece
862
00:46:37.230 --> 00:46:40.389
of it appearing in the sky for a time and
863
00:46:40.409 --> 00:46:42.190
then fading out and going back to normal again.
864
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:44.159
Make of that what you will.
865
00:46:44.420 --> 00:46:46.780
I have no idea what that is for sure, but
866
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:51.699
it's just fascinating, the possibilities there. And when it comes
867
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:56.829
to dreams, I mean, it seems like there's so many
868
00:46:57.590 --> 00:47:02.579
other anomalous experiences people can have while they're dreaming. And
869
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:04.420
that is something I know we've talked about before, but
870
00:47:05.820 --> 00:47:08.860
I do think there are just regular dreams that we
871
00:47:08.900 --> 00:47:13.510
have that are just us, just ourselves, no other outside contact,
872
00:47:14.230 --> 00:47:18.329
no nothing else. But I also feel like there's just
873
00:47:18.969 --> 00:47:22.730
so many weird experiences people have, and I've had with them,
874
00:47:22.969 --> 00:47:26.280
with dreams that turn into, I don't know what else
875
00:47:26.300 --> 00:47:31.179
you'd call them, something else. And yeah, I've just had
876
00:47:31.219 --> 00:47:34.659
so many of those myself. that I think all that
877
00:47:34.739 --> 00:47:38.860
is out there, including possibly other entities. I had a
878
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:43.179
week once a while ago where I had just every night,
879
00:47:43.260 --> 00:47:44.940
four or five days in a row, five, six days
880
00:47:44.980 --> 00:47:47.679
in a row, where every time I went to sleep
881
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:52.409
at late night, early morning, I had nightmares. It was
882
00:47:52.429 --> 00:47:57.369
just nonstop nightmares. And I hardly ever get those. I
883
00:47:57.409 --> 00:47:59.409
hardly ever get bad dreams that are that bad to
884
00:48:00.269 --> 00:48:06.329
where
it's... I wake up so quickly and so I
885
00:48:06.369 --> 00:48:09.519
had a feeling like there was someone or something that
886
00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:13.539
was doing that to me and as I said before
887
00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:16.920
I ended up putting a couple different kinds of quartz
888
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:19.579
crystals under my pillow because I just had a feeling
889
00:48:20.219 --> 00:48:22.710
that's what I had to do and it stopped it
890
00:48:23.010 --> 00:48:26.210
and I don't know how or why but the point
891
00:48:26.250 --> 00:48:29.469
for that is not so much the solution but the
892
00:48:29.489 --> 00:48:31.550
problem it was a problem and I feel like it
893
00:48:31.590 --> 00:48:32.369
was not just me.
894
00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:35.139
Yeah, I remember that. I remember we were talking about that.
895
00:48:35.619 --> 00:48:38.039
This was a couple, a few years back, maybe, but
896
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:39.300
you and I were talking about that when it was
897
00:48:39.320 --> 00:48:42.500
going down. And I think I even suggested, you know,
898
00:48:42.739 --> 00:48:45.480
I've read if you put some crystals under the pillow, right?
899
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:47.929
Like something like that. And I think amethyst, they say,
900
00:48:47.949 --> 00:48:51.969
is the dream crystal, I believe. Anyway, I'm exposing myself
901
00:48:52.010 --> 00:48:54.030
as a crystal nerd here, but I'm not that deep
902
00:48:54.070 --> 00:48:56.570
into it. But I think we did, right? Like you
903
00:48:56.610 --> 00:48:58.170
kind of went through that experiment and it did kind
904
00:48:58.210 --> 00:49:00.510
of cleanse some stuff. That's wild, man.
905
00:49:00.590 --> 00:49:00.789
Yeah.
906
00:49:02.010 --> 00:49:02.780
Yep, it was.
907
00:49:02.860 --> 00:49:05.050
It was amazing. And I've never had to do that
908
00:49:05.070 --> 00:49:06.010
before or since.
909
00:49:06.929 --> 00:49:09.050
So that's another reason why I feel like there was
910
00:49:09.070 --> 00:49:11.690
something going on there, you know, that was just that
911
00:49:11.809 --> 00:49:12.250
one time.
912
00:49:13.070 --> 00:49:15.710
Amen. Amen. Great stuff. What do you guys think? So
913
00:49:15.750 --> 00:49:18.289
we're talking dreams tonight, but not just dreams like you think.
914
00:49:18.309 --> 00:49:23.889
This is not your granddaddy's dream. These are dreams wherein entities,
915
00:49:24.929 --> 00:49:29.349
however you define them, might bring a message through. Now,
916
00:49:29.369 --> 00:49:34.349
we're talking about St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesian Society, again,
917
00:49:34.389 --> 00:49:39.809
by historical accounts, a good man, helping people. underprivileged youth
918
00:49:39.909 --> 00:49:42.250
is what the modern term would be. But he had
919
00:49:42.269 --> 00:49:45.170
this dream about this entity that came into the church
920
00:49:45.329 --> 00:49:49.519
and was broadcasting through some magical lantern into the faces
921
00:49:49.559 --> 00:49:54.179
of the children nostalgia propaganda to keep them from God
922
00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:57.230
and the sacrament itself. So what the hell's going on here?
923
00:49:57.250 --> 00:49:59.429
What do you know about dreams? How weird does this get?
924
00:49:59.829 --> 00:50:02.210
And have you ever heard of St. John Bosco? Be
925
00:50:02.829 --> 00:50:04.860
right back. More Troubled Minds on the way. Do not
926
00:50:04.909 --> 00:50:06.679
go anywhere. Nobody online. If you guys want to jump
927
00:50:06.699 --> 00:50:08.380
in here, thank you to Algo for the call. Thanks
928
00:50:08.420 --> 00:50:09.679
to James for being the glue of the show. Be
929
00:50:10.099 --> 00:50:13.179
right back. More Troubled Minds in just one moment.
930
00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:28.480
This is Troubled Minds. Your host, Michael Strange, the master
931
00:50:28.579 --> 00:50:33.159
of the mysterious, is here to guide you through.
932
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:44.989
The shadows of the unexplained.
933
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:49.510
Welcome back to Troubled Minds. I'm your host, Michael Strange.
934
00:50:49.530 --> 00:50:53.639
We're streaming on YouTube, Rumble, X, Twitch, and TikTok. We
935
00:50:53.679 --> 00:50:56.079
are broadcasting live on the Troubled Minds Radio Network. That
936
00:50:56.139 --> 00:51:00.760
is KUAP Digital Broadcasting out of Las Vegas, Nevada and 88.4
937
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:04.920
FM Auckland, New Zealand. Tonight, we're going deep, deep into
938
00:51:04.940 --> 00:51:08.360
the memory banks of history and talking about one St.
939
00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:13.280
John Bosco in 1865 who had a strange dream. He
940
00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:15.539
was in church with a lot of young people and
941
00:51:15.699 --> 00:51:19.219
a tall black figure with horns was standing near the
942
00:51:19.340 --> 00:51:22.980
altar with a magic lantern. What was this entity doing
943
00:51:23.019 --> 00:51:27.719
with the magic lantern? He was just literally shining propaganda
944
00:51:28.110 --> 00:51:30.309
into the heads of these children that should have been
945
00:51:30.789 --> 00:51:35.730
paying attention in church. It was nostalgia spaces of all
946
00:51:35.769 --> 00:51:39.710
manner of things. Games they would be playing, games they lost,
947
00:51:40.250 --> 00:51:44.090
money they had made, on and on, right? But, he says,
948
00:51:44.130 --> 00:51:46.289
Don Bosco said the device distracted them so much that
949
00:51:46.329 --> 00:51:50.659
it kept them away from the sacraments, especially communion. Now, clearly,
950
00:51:50.780 --> 00:51:52.380
if you're trying to get kids in church, this would
951
00:51:52.420 --> 00:51:55.329
be weighing heavily on your mind. But when we talk
952
00:51:55.349 --> 00:51:59.050
about dream entities and actual influence of the human mind space,
953
00:51:59.610 --> 00:52:02.230
I do wonder how much of this actually clicks. And again,
954
00:52:02.269 --> 00:52:05.130
the
description of this thing is very Slenderman meets the
955
00:52:05.150 --> 00:52:09.500
devil himself. And this magic lantern he described as part
956
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:12.800
of the dream looks very much through the mind's eye,
957
00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:15.820
of course, because nobody had an actual drawing. But it's
958
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:18.599
a cell phone. It's showing you whatever you want.
959
00:52:20.039 --> 00:52:20.659
Weird, right?
960
00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:24.159
It seems very, very for the times. And don't forget,
961
00:52:24.179 --> 00:52:27.000
the weird part about this, well, one of the weird parts,
962
00:52:27.019 --> 00:52:29.300
because there's a lot of them, is very simply that
963
00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:31.059
he was not just a good man like I described,
964
00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:33.360
you know, when the population suffered many of the ill
965
00:52:33.380 --> 00:52:38.219
effects of industrialization and urbanization, a liminal time, he was
966
00:52:38.340 --> 00:52:42.320
helping street children, juvenile delinquents, and helping them not just
967
00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:45.530
find God, but find purpose. And that was very well
968
00:52:45.570 --> 00:52:48.730
said by Algorithm when he called in. Purpose is incredibly
969
00:52:48.780 --> 00:52:51.920
important for people because otherwise, what are we doing? What
970
00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:54.340
are we doing and what is your purpose here? If
971
00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:58.820
you can't answer that in a sentence or two, maybe
972
00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:01.179
it is time to find Jesus. And I mean that
973
00:53:01.199 --> 00:53:02.630
in the nicest way. I'm not trying to be a
974
00:53:02.670 --> 00:53:06.170
punk or a jerk or anything. I'm just suggesting we
975
00:53:06.190 --> 00:53:09.650
should have a purpose. And that's what brings me back.
976
00:53:09.670 --> 00:53:11.610
That's why I'm here. James, anything to add? And we'll
977
00:53:11.630 --> 00:53:13.809
go to Derek in Massachusetts. Welcome back. Thanks for being patient.
978
00:53:13.969 --> 00:53:15.230
And what you got?
979
00:53:16.250 --> 00:53:19.239
Yeah, I think purpose is a good way to put it.
980
00:53:19.250 --> 00:53:22.429
I hadn't thought of it that way, but yeah, that
981
00:53:22.469 --> 00:53:23.789
works for what I do as well.
982
00:53:24.030 --> 00:53:27.010
So great calls. Looking forward to Derek and all the rest.
983
00:53:27.579 --> 00:53:32.219
Amen. And purpose is good. Find your purpose. And here's
984
00:53:32.239 --> 00:53:36.239
an interesting conundrum, too. If you're struggling to find purpose,
985
00:53:36.860 --> 00:53:40.440
look to your nostalgia space, right? Because it feels comfy.
986
00:53:40.949 --> 00:53:43.230
It's where you came from and it's, it's where your
987
00:53:43.269 --> 00:53:48.159
most formative feelings actually adapted and made you who you are.
988
00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:50.920
It's why I'm here. Look, this is a nostalgia space
989
00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:54.380
for me, not just the art bell vibe, but beyond that,
990
00:53:54.599 --> 00:53:57.510
the D and D vibe and mythology. And this is,
991
00:53:57.550 --> 00:54:01.050
this is where I came from. And so you recognize
992
00:54:01.090 --> 00:54:03.449
that it doesn't always have to be a trap. It
993
00:54:03.469 --> 00:54:04.829
could be something incredible.
994
00:54:05.550 --> 00:54:05.909
There you go.
995
00:54:06.269 --> 00:54:07.530
If you want to be part of the conversation, give
996
00:54:07.570 --> 00:54:12.500
us a call, 702-857-6939. Click the Discord link at TroubledMinds.org.
997
00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:14.539
We'll put you on the show. Just like this, let's
998
00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:16.400
go to Derek in... It's just going to get... I
999
00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:22.210
did it again. Massachusetts. The Night Stalker. As we just
1000
00:54:22.250 --> 00:54:23.989
get weirder and weirder and weirder.
1001
00:54:24.190 --> 00:54:26.840
I like that one too, though. You're going to combine
1002
00:54:26.860 --> 00:54:27.780
that one with the beat now.
1003
00:54:27.980 --> 00:54:28.380
Yeah, right.
1004
00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:29.219
Kind of a mashup.
1005
00:54:29.480 --> 00:54:29.820
Totally.
1006
00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:34.619
Derek in Massachusetts as Terrence McKenna comes on to rap. Perfect.
1007
00:54:35.619 --> 00:54:37.730
Welcome back, brother. Glad to hear your voice. Thanks for
1008
00:54:37.750 --> 00:54:40.349
popping in here. What do you know about this? This
1009
00:54:40.449 --> 00:54:43.210
is an oldie but a goodie. And I literally just
1010
00:54:43.230 --> 00:54:45.010
learned about this today. So, like I said, don't hold
1011
00:54:45.050 --> 00:54:47.639
me accountable for not being an expert. But St. John Bosco.
1012
00:54:48.329 --> 00:54:51.710
And this weird entity with the actual, what's it called,
1013
00:54:51.730 --> 00:54:54.909
the magic lantern. And the nostalgist, man, there's too much
1014
00:54:54.949 --> 00:54:57.739
going on here that's too much trouble of minds. Welcome, brother.
1015
00:54:57.760 --> 00:54:58.500
What do you got? Go right ahead.
1016
00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:01.800
Yeah, there's a lot. I never heard this story before.
1017
00:55:01.820 --> 00:55:05.179
I only know Bosco from his more popular chocolate syrup
1018
00:55:05.460 --> 00:55:09.980
that everyone knows. You know, the St. John Bosco chocolate syrup.
1019
00:55:10.639 --> 00:55:13.289
Small joke, but yeah. I was going to go into
1020
00:55:13.889 --> 00:55:17.469
the magic lantern of the Green Lantern War and stuff.
1021
00:55:17.860 --> 00:55:21.199
Before the Green Lantern Corps was created and they turned
1022
00:55:21.219 --> 00:55:24.079
the Green Lanterns into space cops and stuff, it was
1023
00:55:24.119 --> 00:55:26.340
originally just a magic lantern that this guy found. It
1024
00:55:26.360 --> 00:55:28.360
was like a space rock he molded into this magic
1025
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:31.260
lantern and then it creates these constructs based on the
1026
00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:34.960
will of the person. Whatever the mind's eye sees then becomes,
1027
00:55:35.900 --> 00:55:38.599
then just pours out of this magic lantern and it's
1028
00:55:38.679 --> 00:55:41.739
used to fight people and stuff. It's kind of the opposite.
1029
00:55:43.159 --> 00:55:48.059
positive constructs and positive illusions in order to fight evil.
1030
00:55:48.800 --> 00:55:50.969
This demon thing in the story is using it as
1031
00:55:50.989 --> 00:55:54.170
the opposite, kind of evil constructs in order to entrance
1032
00:55:54.630 --> 00:55:57.949
good people into doing bad stuff. But then I got
1033
00:55:57.969 --> 00:56:00.030
off of that, and I decided to talk more about
1034
00:56:00.050 --> 00:56:04.090
the algorithm aspect of it. We talked about this before,
1035
00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:09.820
but at least an esoteric interpretation of the origin of
1036
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:13.800
the word algorithm is based on Al Ghul, the demon star.
1037
00:56:14.539 --> 00:56:19.820
In Batman mythology, Ra's Al Ghul is called the demon,
1038
00:56:21.050 --> 00:56:23.690
with Al Ghul being the demon star, the winking star,
1039
00:56:24.349 --> 00:56:27.230
and algorithm being based on that. So we talk about
1040
00:56:27.250 --> 00:56:31.769
all the time this kind of algorithmic driven decline of society.
1041
00:56:31.789 --> 00:56:35.599
People can just get... Time sucked, mind sucked by looking
1042
00:56:35.619 --> 00:56:38.099
at their phone and then all the brain rot stuff.
1043
00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:42.010
And no, brain rot is not immediately associated with the algorithm,
1044
00:56:42.050 --> 00:56:44.849
but it's being caused by just getting your brain sucked
1045
00:56:44.909 --> 00:56:47.829
out through just constant scrolling. And the algorithm is feeding
1046
00:56:47.869 --> 00:56:50.599
that scroll constantly. And the hate clicks, the time sucks,
1047
00:56:50.619 --> 00:56:53.190
the clickbait, the thirst traps and stuff, it's like the
1048
00:56:53.269 --> 00:56:56.210
algorithm is acting as some kind of digital siren just
1049
00:56:56.230 --> 00:57:00.349
taking you down to the digital depths of your own shadow,
1050
00:57:00.409 --> 00:57:03.039
you know? That it's kind of acting the same way.
1051
00:57:03.380 --> 00:57:05.659
It's kind of a modern day interpretation. I think that's
1052
00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:08.980
basically what you're talking about, how it's the oldest algorithm
1053
00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:14.360
and it's kind of just showing us the... weird shadows
1054
00:57:14.449 --> 00:57:16.480
of our own mind and using it to kind of
1055
00:57:16.519 --> 00:57:19.199
distract us completely. And it's doing a great job with it. Yeah.
1056
00:57:19.219 --> 00:57:21.539
A hundred percent. And very well. So with the sirens,
1057
00:57:21.699 --> 00:57:24.559
because that was, again, the sailors were terrified of the
1058
00:57:24.599 --> 00:57:28.019
sirens because it wasn't necessarily sort of the seduction aspect
1059
00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:29.820
of it. It was the fact that they could, they
1060
00:57:29.840 --> 00:57:32.780
could make them insane and literally drive them into the
1061
00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:37.199
rocks themselves by disorientation, by, you know, just this other stuff,
1062
00:57:37.219 --> 00:57:38.980
you know, the sirens call was one of those things
1063
00:57:39.019 --> 00:57:40.780
you hear it and you're like, Oh crap, we're done for.
1064
00:57:41.179 --> 00:57:47.219
And suddenly, uh, A very talented Mariner is suddenly in
1065
00:57:47.260 --> 00:57:50.840
disasterville because just one siren's call takes them off of
1066
00:57:50.860 --> 00:57:53.179
their game so much because they know what comes next.
1067
00:57:53.639 --> 00:57:55.900
And it is Davey Jones' locker, as we've talked about
1068
00:57:55.940 --> 00:57:57.539
quite a lot in the past. But yeah, Firestar, brother,
1069
00:57:57.659 --> 00:57:57.860
go ahead.
1070
00:57:57.940 --> 00:57:58.260
It is accurate.
1071
00:57:59.219 --> 00:58:03.530
And they know, at least like Odysseus and the Odyssey,
1072
00:58:03.550 --> 00:58:06.809
they know to not look. They know to not listen
1073
00:58:06.829 --> 00:58:08.670
and to cover their ears and kind of stuff, to
1074
00:58:08.710 --> 00:58:11.070
not pay attention to those things. But then once it
1075
00:58:11.110 --> 00:58:13.659
comes around, they can't help themselves. They're still like, I
1076
00:58:13.679 --> 00:58:16.099
need to do it. And how often do you catch yourself...
1077
00:58:16.579 --> 00:58:19.360
you know that you're just like doom scrolling. You know
1078
00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:21.559
that you're just losing time and losing all this stuff
1079
00:58:21.900 --> 00:58:25.079
by just mindlessly scrolling your phone. But constantly I'm finding
1080
00:58:25.099 --> 00:58:27.139
myself just picking, like anytime a commercial pops up or
1081
00:58:27.179 --> 00:58:29.699
anytime there's kind of a lag in anything, I find
1082
00:58:29.739 --> 00:58:31.719
myself reaching for my phone and I got to stop
1083
00:58:31.739 --> 00:58:34.619
myself being like, why? I was just holding it. Like
1084
00:58:34.619 --> 00:58:37.070
10 minutes ago, I just scrolled. I just finished my,
1085
00:58:37.110 --> 00:58:39.130
like I just got to the end of my newsfeed metaphorically.
1086
00:58:39.170 --> 00:58:41.130
Like there's nothing else that's going to pop up there
1087
00:58:41.170 --> 00:58:43.369
in five minutes. Why did my mind just go, why
1088
00:58:43.389 --> 00:58:44.789
did my hand reach over to that phone? And I
1089
00:58:44.829 --> 00:58:47.579
got to like, use just mindfulness to kind of stop
1090
00:58:47.599 --> 00:58:50.780
myself from doing it but that's it's it's really a
1091
00:58:50.780 --> 00:58:53.969
dark thing um but to the nostalgia aspect of it
1092
00:58:54.489 --> 00:58:59.110
um uh like randomly
the algorithm popped up or fed
1093
00:58:59.150 --> 00:59:01.670
me today and i love how it's called like this
1094
00:59:01.730 --> 00:59:04.110
is coming up in regular conversation not just conspiracy and
1095
00:59:04.170 --> 00:59:08.369
esoteric talk but people describe your newsfeed as the algorithm
1096
00:59:08.789 --> 00:59:11.400
fed me blank it feeding me this. It feels like
1097
00:59:11.420 --> 00:59:15.239
some kind of animal farm. We're just being fed this, like,
1098
00:59:16.039 --> 00:59:18.380
we're just pigs in a trough being fed just this
1099
00:59:18.480 --> 00:59:21.550
empty calories of just nothingness in order to just occupy
1100
00:59:21.650 --> 00:59:25.409
our minds for who knows what. But today it fed
1101
00:59:25.449 --> 00:59:28.210
me a meme and I just scroll past it. But
1102
00:59:28.230 --> 00:59:30.550
just remind me when you talk about the show that nostalgia,
1103
00:59:30.570 --> 00:59:32.389
I think it was Freud or Young or something like that.
1104
00:59:32.409 --> 00:59:35.989
Some psychologist said that nostalgia is like a sign of
1105
00:59:36.130 --> 00:59:39.889
a collapsing civilization and stuff. And I just scroll past it.
1106
00:59:39.889 --> 00:59:41.699
I didn't look at it at all. But you're talking
1107
00:59:41.739 --> 00:59:44.840
about this kind of negative nostalgia. And I consume a
1108
00:59:44.840 --> 00:59:47.739
lot of content, but I feel like since the pandemic,
1109
00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:51.420
maybe I've just been consuming primarily nostalgia content. And a
1110
00:59:51.460 --> 00:59:53.869
lot of, sometimes I got to like, even that's almost
1111
00:59:53.889 --> 00:59:57.760
too painful for me. And I call it like painful nostalgia, um, like,
1112
00:59:57.920 --> 00:59:59.980
or nostalgia with like a G, like a, like a
1113
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:03.550
gnosis nostalgia, um, where it's like a painful twinge to it.
1114
01:00:04.199 --> 01:00:06.500
And I looked, uh, I looked up for like painful
1115
01:00:06.539 --> 01:00:10.449
nostalgia or nostalgia traps a minute ago. And this came
1116
01:00:10.469 --> 01:00:13.670
up in a psychological science.org article. In the 17th and
1117
01:00:13.750 --> 01:00:16.690
18th century, nostalgia was viewed as a medical disease, complete
1118
01:00:16.730 --> 01:00:20.409
with symptoms including weeping, irregular heartbeat, and anorexia. By the
1119
01:00:20.449 --> 01:00:23.750
20th century, nostalgia was regarded as a psychiatric disorder with
1120
01:00:23.769 --> 01:00:26.719
symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, and depression. And it wasn't
1121
01:00:26.739 --> 01:00:30.000
until recently that scientists decided to look at it as
1122
01:00:30.539 --> 01:00:34.219
possibly a positive thing. But just to have a weaponized
1123
01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:38.289
form of nostalgia and kind of creating some kind of
1124
01:00:38.389 --> 01:00:41.110
malaise in you, some kind of like, I don't know, I'm...
1125
01:00:41.110 --> 01:00:44.809
36
and i'm getting like hit by this nostalgia like
1126
01:00:45.170 --> 01:00:47.679
the 90s kids are obsessed with nostalgia like it pops
1127
01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:50.579
up constantly in my feed and it hurts me now
1128
01:00:50.619 --> 01:00:52.519
it's like it had this weird painful twinge and i
1129
01:00:52.519 --> 01:00:55.219
don't know it's like it's uh i can see how
1130
01:00:55.260 --> 01:00:58.239
it could be used kind of as this like representation
1131
01:00:58.260 --> 01:01:01.219
that you're talking about and kind of a um a
1132
01:01:01.260 --> 01:01:04.340
good distraction or like a good method of distraction if
1133
01:01:04.380 --> 01:01:06.719
you wanted to like kind of take people like take
1134
01:01:06.739 --> 01:01:09.280
people's attention away i'm rambling but anything about that no.
1135
01:01:08.980 --> 01:01:11.440
You're good yeah and that's that's really the point here
1136
01:01:11.480 --> 01:01:14.840
is that so that that oldest algorithm is the distraction
1137
01:01:14.860 --> 01:01:17.110
space and recognize that it can it can come from
1138
01:01:17.389 --> 01:01:19.710
you know if you're if you're seeking purpose like we
1139
01:01:19.750 --> 01:01:23.690
were describing there that it can come from jogging you
1140
01:01:23.730 --> 01:01:25.889
from the purpose and it doesn't necessarily have to be
1141
01:01:25.929 --> 01:01:27.610
you know the devil made me do it or this
1142
01:01:27.630 --> 01:01:30.530
you know this entity with the the spooky things and the,
1143
01:01:30.670 --> 01:01:32.710
you know, the, the, the, the cell phone shining it
1144
01:01:32.769 --> 01:01:35.429
on you, whatever this thing was, a magic lantern. It doesn't,
1145
01:01:36.090 --> 01:01:39.039
it matters less because it's, it's really under your control.
1146
01:01:39.099 --> 01:01:42.719
It's under my control, your personal control. And so we're,
1147
01:01:42.900 --> 01:01:45.260
we're basically fighting with ourself. And when you, when you
1148
01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:48.059
say the devil made me do it, the old trope
1149
01:01:48.099 --> 01:01:50.360
of the devil on one shoulder, the angel on the
1150
01:01:50.440 --> 01:01:54.269
other is constantly trying to guide you through the, just
1151
01:01:54.309 --> 01:01:57.489
the ridiculousness of what life is in itself, just dealing
1152
01:01:57.510 --> 01:02:00.159
with other people all the time. But on top of that,
1153
01:02:00.179 --> 01:02:06.639
any distraction at all is devoid of purpose. Because like
1154
01:02:06.679 --> 01:02:09.989
you said, it's basically empty calories of content. And so
1155
01:02:10.030 --> 01:02:12.769
we do this. And many of you know, like you said,
1156
01:02:12.789 --> 01:02:16.949
the thirst traps, I try very hard to keep bikini
1157
01:02:16.969 --> 01:02:19.130
pics out of my feeds and stuff because the second
1158
01:02:19.150 --> 01:02:21.820
you click on it, it's crazy. The second you click
1159
01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:26.480
on one
Salma Hayek thing, just suddenly the whole Google
1160
01:02:26.500 --> 01:02:28.400
feed is just showing you like, I'm like, who are
1161
01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:31.039
these people? I'm like, oh, those boobs are nice. You
1162
01:02:31.059 --> 01:02:32.719
know what I mean? It's just like, here we go.
1163
01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:34.900
So now you have to go scrub the whole feed again.
1164
01:02:34.920 --> 01:02:36.659
You're just like, come on, stop it. So I try
1165
01:02:36.719 --> 01:02:38.920
very hard to just keep that stuff out because the
1166
01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:41.139
second you let it in, it's a flood. And the
1167
01:02:41.179 --> 01:02:43.550
second it's a flood, now it's a challenge and you
1168
01:02:43.570 --> 01:02:46.429
get distracted, stupid, and it's just like, we're human. And
1169
01:02:46.489 --> 01:02:48.769
it's like, come on now, stop it. But this is
1170
01:02:48.809 --> 01:02:51.789
the point is that we are kind of stuck. And
1171
01:02:51.889 --> 01:02:55.110
based on that algorithmic influence that you're describing, that I'm describing,
1172
01:02:55.840 --> 01:03:00.590
And look, why aren't we pushed into the algorithm? We
1173
01:03:00.630 --> 01:03:05.130
talk about so many incredible things that nobody touches. Thank
1174
01:03:05.170 --> 01:03:06.889
you to Algo for pointing out, you know, we are
1175
01:03:06.929 --> 01:03:09.710
the podcaster going where no podcaster has gone before. That's
1176
01:03:09.750 --> 01:03:12.849
the point of this. Like we're taught, we're pressing the
1177
01:03:13.010 --> 01:03:17.469
envelope of what modern society is and looks like. in,
1178
01:03:17.590 --> 01:03:20.889
in conversation. And, and well, you know, we get, you know,
1179
01:03:20.909 --> 01:03:22.590
you get a new follower here or there. I mean,
1180
01:03:22.630 --> 01:03:25.550
like what the hell is going on? Anyway, go ahead. Yeah,
1181
01:03:25.590 --> 01:03:25.949
go ahead.
1182
01:03:26.010 --> 01:03:27.760
Go ahead. But like to that point, like there's, there's
1183
01:03:27.780 --> 01:03:30.039
a lot of like dark tech, dark tactics you can
1184
01:03:30.059 --> 01:03:32.119
then use to try to get yourself into that algorithm.
1185
01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:34.139
And people are using it all the time by using
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01:03:34.179 --> 01:03:38.489
these like ridiculous thumbnails of like people's faces. Uh, like
1187
01:03:38.510 --> 01:03:41.760
today in the nerd world, uh, yesterday whatever it was
1188
01:03:41.800 --> 01:03:44.780
days are all blurring together james gunn was fired um
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01:03:44.820 --> 01:03:46.840
so now it's all kind of the snyder people are
1190
01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:48.460
in a tizzy just the gun people are in a
1191
01:03:48.500 --> 01:03:52.179
tizzy there's a war amongst the superhero dc world and
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01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:55.570
stuff so all the thumbnails become just ai pictures of
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01:03:55.630 --> 01:03:58.730
james gunn red face and crying or like people fight
1194
01:03:58.750 --> 01:04:01.389
like like jack snyder punching james gunn and some kind
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01:04:01.409 --> 01:04:04.329
of like picture or whatever and or or the other
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01:04:04.349 --> 01:04:07.239
version of that is just like showing a girl in
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01:04:07.260 --> 01:04:11.239
a bikini on these pictures or or like pushing the
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fights and stuff that they use the lowest common denominator
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01:04:13.420 --> 01:04:16.519
that they use these like sticky things like a hate
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01:04:16.579 --> 01:04:19.320
click like a rage bait like a thirst trap and
1201
01:04:19.340 --> 01:04:21.769
these things in order to get your attention so you're
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01:04:21.789 --> 01:04:23.369
like well what am i like who cares if i'm
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01:04:23.409 --> 01:04:24.630
doing it i mean i got to try to like
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01:04:24.989 --> 01:04:27.070
get some get some clicks here somewhere so whatever i
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01:04:27.110 --> 01:04:28.909
mean who cares if i'm using a little bit of
1206
01:04:28.929 --> 01:04:30.969
a rage baby thumbnail whatever it's just i'm just one
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01:04:31.010 --> 01:04:33.030
person i'm trying to get in the algorithm and that's
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01:04:33.090 --> 01:04:42.329
fine but if crank it up and I'm sure people's
1209
01:04:42.369 --> 01:04:46.389
rage bait and hate clicking like stuff is more potent
1210
01:04:46.409 --> 01:04:48.710
than it was a few years ago because as the
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01:04:48.769 --> 01:04:51.139
climate changes you have to stick out more and more
1212
01:04:51.920 --> 01:04:54.480
and just this weird doom loop you know and like
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01:04:55.019 --> 01:04:57.139
another type of doom loop would be the nostalgia doom
1214
01:04:57.159 --> 01:05:00.000
loop and people like pointed Hollywood being like they're not
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01:05:00.019 --> 01:05:05.260
making anything new and I don't know. What's the cause
1216
01:05:05.280 --> 01:05:07.429
of that? Is that because everything's a reboot and a
1217
01:05:07.429 --> 01:05:11.050
remake and stuff? And why is that? Is that because
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01:05:11.269 --> 01:05:13.989
people aren't happy in the current time? So then they're
1219
01:05:14.010 --> 01:05:16.989
chasing these past pleasures and these past moments where they
1220
01:05:17.010 --> 01:05:20.360
felt happier. And then in that chase to the past,
1221
01:05:20.500 --> 01:05:23.500
ignoring the present, which then in turn makes the present worse.
1222
01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:26.139
So then you look to the past further and then
1223
01:05:26.199 --> 01:05:28.539
ignore the present more and then look to the past
1224
01:05:28.579 --> 01:05:30.460
further and it just creates this doom loop where where
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01:05:30.480 --> 01:05:35.050
you're ignoring the present and it's correct. Like, I don't know. Um,
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01:05:35.650 --> 01:05:37.730
the church would say you're, it just creates this doom
1227
01:05:37.750 --> 01:05:40.110
loop where you're like denying yourself the Holy spirit or whatever.
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01:05:40.139 --> 01:05:42.119
That's not where I'm going, but that's just how I'm
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01:05:42.159 --> 01:05:44.179
sure it was framed back in the day.
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01:05:45.380 --> 01:05:48.840
And I can see that, too. Like, not a religious guy. Again,
1231
01:05:48.860 --> 01:05:53.119
you know, more spiritual than religious, sort of detached from
1232
01:05:53.139 --> 01:05:56.550
those control mechanisms. But I see it, you know, like
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01:05:56.610 --> 01:05:59.670
I said, you all need to find Jesus. And I mean,
1234
01:05:59.750 --> 01:06:02.570
like I said, I don't mean to be disrespectful with that.
1235
01:06:02.940 --> 01:06:07.530
I'm saying that purpose is important. And if Jesus is purpose,
1236
01:06:07.550 --> 01:06:10.769
then by all means, go get it. Like go, absolutely
1237
01:06:10.809 --> 01:06:12.909
go get it. And so it does like, that stuff
1238
01:06:12.929 --> 01:06:15.110
doesn't bother me. And I get that. It's so polarized
1239
01:06:15.150 --> 01:06:18.090
today that the second you say you invoke Jesus, people
1240
01:06:18.110 --> 01:06:21.570
get mad. Or the second you don't, people get mad. Look,
1241
01:06:21.590 --> 01:06:24.670
I don't care. Get mad. You have, you have my
1242
01:06:24.730 --> 01:06:27.489
official permission to just get mad, but recognize it has
1243
01:06:27.530 --> 01:06:28.949
nothing to do with me. It has everything to do
1244
01:06:28.989 --> 01:06:31.429
with you if you're mad. So just stop being mad,
1245
01:06:31.489 --> 01:06:33.489
you know, like, and I know it's easy to say,
1246
01:06:33.989 --> 01:06:37.510
when we're doom scrolling and the doom is again, accumulating
1247
01:06:37.570 --> 01:06:40.389
as part of this, this process. But Hey, I mean,
1248
01:06:40.429 --> 01:06:43.929
purpose is good. Purpose is good, man. Look, look, you
1249
01:06:43.949 --> 01:06:46.199
have a purpose here. I have a purpose here. James
1250
01:06:46.239 --> 01:06:48.340
has a purpose. All the amazing people that are part
1251
01:06:48.360 --> 01:06:51.659
of this, there's a purpose here, but you recognize what,
1252
01:06:51.679 --> 01:06:55.559
where that purpose comes from. It comes from an unyielding
1253
01:06:55.780 --> 01:06:58.679
effort to press that purpose forward. You have, you have
1254
01:06:58.699 --> 01:07:00.300
to have a vision. You have to have faith in
1255
01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:03.389
the vision. And look, I could do all the dirty
1256
01:07:03.449 --> 01:07:05.309
tricks you're describing. I was talking about this a couple
1257
01:07:05.329 --> 01:07:06.760
of shows ago. I don't know if you've been listening, but...
1258
01:07:07.780 --> 01:07:11.099
the dumb YouTube, you know, Oh, like the, like this
1259
01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:13.909
type of stuff, like the YouTube face and like the
1260
01:07:14.110 --> 01:07:17.610
dirty tricks and the, you know, like the, why? Like,
1261
01:07:17.849 --> 01:07:19.190
like really sweating, whatever.
1262
01:07:19.250 --> 01:07:19.510
Yeah.
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01:07:19.550 --> 01:07:22.050
So you stand out, but then the people that come
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01:07:22.090 --> 01:07:25.130
are like, Oh, you know, a boomer slop or what,
1265
01:07:25.150 --> 01:07:26.869
you know, and they could, because, because they want like
1266
01:07:26.949 --> 01:07:29.860
a 12 second dopamine hit because that's what they're used
1267
01:07:29.880 --> 01:07:31.699
to when they get that type of thumbnail. Like you
1268
01:07:31.719 --> 01:07:35.099
can play those dirty tricks, but do they last i
1269
01:07:35.139 --> 01:07:37.920
mean you know they certainly brain rot everybody but anyway
1270
01:07:37.960 --> 01:07:40.139
i digress but go ahead sorry about.
1271
01:07:40.019 --> 01:07:46.809
That again those things are small in or like are
1272
01:07:46.869 --> 01:07:49.090
fine in like these small cases and stuff but then
1273
01:07:49.550 --> 01:07:51.989
so like you can be you can just justify it
1274
01:07:52.039 --> 01:07:54.139
yourself well i gotta try to compete or what's a
1275
01:07:54.239 --> 01:07:56.619
small thing or just what's a little bit provocative of
1276
01:07:56.659 --> 01:08:02.639
a thumbnail what's YouTube feed or whatever. Just every single thing.
1277
01:08:02.679 --> 01:08:07.159
And there's an entire economy of nerd content where they're
1278
01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:11.690
just targeting those people. And it's all images like that.
1279
01:08:11.730 --> 01:08:14.670
It's all kind of hate, rage bait stuff mixed with
1280
01:08:14.829 --> 01:08:17.930
the occasional cleavage pick and stuff tossed in there. It's
1281
01:08:17.949 --> 01:08:21.329
really some really siren stuff. Which is the religious thing.
1282
01:08:22.550 --> 01:08:24.850
I think that's kind of the metaphor that can be
1283
01:08:24.949 --> 01:08:27.039
used with the Holy Spirit. I was listening to Grant
1284
01:08:27.060 --> 01:08:30.439
Morrison talk about this. But he's like... The point, kind
1285
01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:33.659
of the origin of the Holy Spirit is that we're
1286
01:08:34.119 --> 01:08:36.449
surrounded and it ties into the muses and where ideas
1287
01:08:36.470 --> 01:08:40.850
come from and stuff, but like that witchcraft or spellcraft
1288
01:08:41.189 --> 01:08:44.689
and these rituals and trying to invoke entities is that
1289
01:08:44.729 --> 01:08:49.569
there's like, quote unquote, spirits or energies or like intelligences
1290
01:08:49.689 --> 01:08:52.949
all around us and when you're trying to like talk
1291
01:08:52.989 --> 01:08:55.350
to Hermes or talk to these ancient gods or whatever
1292
01:08:55.630 --> 01:08:58.789
you're essentially clearing the room of anything besides these energies
1293
01:08:58.970 --> 01:09:01.300
to try to like get a jolt of the hermes
1294
01:09:01.359 --> 01:09:02.979
energy if you're trying to like be a writer or
1295
01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:04.680
something like that or these different types of energies if
1296
01:09:04.699 --> 01:09:08.119
you want to do a task but he's like that's
1297
01:09:08.439 --> 01:09:10.819
kind of an active process but if you're in a
1298
01:09:10.859 --> 01:09:13.640
passive process these energies are coming in and out of
1299
01:09:13.680 --> 01:09:15.729
you all the time whether you like it or not
1300
01:09:16.270 --> 01:09:20.399
so you have to kind of being mindful or being
1301
01:09:20.520 --> 01:09:23.960
active or like guarding yourself in that process was equated
1302
01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:27.850
with the Holy Spirit that to choose what you want,
1303
01:09:28.510 --> 01:09:31.449
what kind of news or what kind of inspiration is
1304
01:09:32.229 --> 01:09:35.840
the word that you want in you. or it'll be
1305
01:09:35.859 --> 01:09:39.199
chosen for you that like you that you're constantly being
1306
01:09:39.239 --> 01:09:42.430
divinely quote-unquote inspired by these energies all of the time
1307
01:09:42.829 --> 01:09:45.670
so unless you choose the quote-unquote holy spirit just for
1308
01:09:45.689 --> 01:09:49.310
the metaphor then these other spirits these other distractions these
1309
01:09:49.390 --> 01:09:52.090
other forces will come and take you to places that
1310
01:09:52.409 --> 01:09:56.380
you might not necessarily want to go um i don't
1311
01:09:56.399 --> 01:09:57.800
know it's kind of the kind of the armor of
1312
01:09:57.859 --> 01:09:59.949
god thing you talk about a little bit Yeah, no.
1313
01:10:00.100 --> 01:10:02.619
And I think it's incredibly important. And it plays whether
1314
01:10:02.640 --> 01:10:05.539
you're talking about AI psychosis, whether you're talking about purpose,
1315
01:10:05.560 --> 01:10:08.520
whether you're talking about any of this stuff, like, like, Hey,
1316
01:10:08.619 --> 01:10:10.340
if you, if you feel, if you sit in this
1317
01:10:10.420 --> 01:10:13.079
world and you feel like you don't belong here, you're
1318
01:10:13.100 --> 01:10:15.380
doing something wrong. There's something out of alignment because I
1319
01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:17.840
promise you, and I keep saying this, this is your
1320
01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:20.779
world too. You're here and you belong here. You're here
1321
01:10:20.819 --> 01:10:23.539
for a reason. So if you are fumbling, trying to
1322
01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:27.020
find that reason, Hey, come hang out. Come talk to us.
1323
01:10:27.550 --> 01:10:31.210
I'm not saying there's a miracle cure here, but also
1324
01:10:31.550 --> 01:10:33.550
there's a lot of purpose going around. There's a lot
1325
01:10:33.569 --> 01:10:36.229
of ideas. There's a lot of things that we recognize
1326
01:10:36.270 --> 01:10:39.869
together and can combat together as a group. It's important.
1327
01:10:39.890 --> 01:10:41.869
This stuff is really important. So do find that armor
1328
01:10:41.890 --> 01:10:45.649
of God, however you find it. And just because the
1329
01:10:45.729 --> 01:10:48.109
AI tells you something, don't take it as truth because
1330
01:10:48.149 --> 01:10:49.850
it still
hallucinates quite a bit.
1331
01:10:50.670 --> 01:10:52.550
Yeah, and try to be mindful of the fact that
1332
01:10:52.569 --> 01:10:58.140
there might be these like horned metaphorical demons around with
1333
01:10:58.180 --> 01:11:00.890
these metaphorical magic lanterns all around trying to get your
1334
01:11:00.899 --> 01:11:03.880
attention so that if you're not actively paying attention to
1335
01:11:03.899 --> 01:11:06.380
where you're paying attention i mean like a better word
1336
01:11:06.399 --> 01:11:09.649
to where your attention goes and it's more easily like
1337
01:11:09.770 --> 01:11:12.270
gobbled up so i watch so much tv and i
1338
01:11:12.310 --> 01:11:14.050
watch so many movies and stuff and i know all
1339
01:11:14.090 --> 01:11:17.850
the negative aspects of hollywood but the way i kind
1340
01:11:17.890 --> 01:11:19.970
of like justify it to myself is that well you
1341
01:11:19.989 --> 01:11:23.520
can be passively watching and then all these like rituals
1342
01:11:23.569 --> 01:11:26.539
and these like subliminal messages and stuff will just like
1343
01:11:26.579 --> 01:11:28.119
flow right into you but if you at least if
1344
01:11:28.140 --> 01:11:35.960
you're aware that it's into your head, then maybe you
1345
01:11:35.979 --> 01:11:37.560
can try to avoid it a little bit. That's the
1346
01:11:37.720 --> 01:11:43.439
exoteric versus esoteric interpretation of it. But to the magic
1347
01:11:43.470 --> 01:11:46.909
lantern thing, to the lantern magicka part of the write-up,
1348
01:11:47.390 --> 01:11:52.930
it reminded me of like the idea of Hollywood and
1349
01:11:52.949 --> 01:11:56.359
like a magic wand and stuff. So when I looked
1350
01:11:56.439 --> 01:12:00.399
up Lanterna Magica, it's obviously Latin for magic lantern. It's
1351
01:12:00.420 --> 01:12:03.039
an early type of image projector that served as a
1352
01:12:03.100 --> 01:12:08.319
direct historical precursor to modern cinema. So modern cinema, Hollywood
1353
01:12:08.359 --> 01:12:13.010
is a massive distraction. And like esoterically, they talk about
1354
01:12:13.310 --> 01:12:16.430
Hollywood as the wood of the holly tree being used
1355
01:12:16.590 --> 01:12:21.369
for magic wands. Um, so the, uh, and I just looked,
1356
01:12:21.430 --> 01:12:23.850
I asked the AI to help me, um, like give
1357
01:12:23.869 --> 01:12:25.609
me the rundown for the wood of the Holly tree thing.
1358
01:12:26.170 --> 01:12:31.279
So Holly is, uh, Lex, um, Aquifolium was sacred to
1359
01:12:31.300 --> 01:12:34.340
Druids in, uh, in Roman Saturnalia. It's wood was considered
1360
01:12:34.380 --> 01:12:36.539
one of the best for making magic wands along with
1361
01:12:36.619 --> 01:12:39.279
Oak and Willow because it's pale, hard and evergreen. It
1362
01:12:39.300 --> 01:12:41.739
stays alive in winter when other trees look dead. A
1363
01:12:41.779 --> 01:12:44.649
magic wand is just a tool for directing attention and will, uh,
1364
01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:47.430
So a wand made of Hollywood is a tool to
1365
01:12:47.510 --> 01:12:51.550
fascinate or entrance. And then the Latin word fascinum means
1366
01:12:51.850 --> 01:12:56.909
both spell into fascinate. So fascinum, also fascinus, is a
1367
01:12:56.949 --> 01:13:00.850
Latin word meaning an amulet, a spell, witchcraft, or a
1368
01:13:00.930 --> 01:13:03.770
phallus-shaped charm used in ancient Roman religion. So this phas,
1369
01:13:03.829 --> 01:13:06.250
like a magic lantern, this thing that the demon had,
1370
01:13:06.670 --> 01:13:10.289
would be an example of a fascinum, some kind of amulet, spell,
1371
01:13:10.750 --> 01:13:13.109
piece of magic, a piece of witchcraft, or whatever, anything
1372
01:13:13.149 --> 01:13:18.079
to entrance and distract. So Hollywood, therefore it's a forest
1373
01:13:18.119 --> 01:13:21.180
of wands pointed at the audience to entrance or distract.
1374
01:13:21.779 --> 01:13:24.079
And then Hollywood uses like mass media in terms like
1375
01:13:24.159 --> 01:13:29.569
program or broadcast, like spellcast, um, in order to entrance
1376
01:13:29.630 --> 01:13:33.590
and to, to fascinate stuff. So, um, I don't know
1377
01:13:33.609 --> 01:13:36.170
where I'm going with that other than like just giant
1378
01:13:36.590 --> 01:13:38.960
magic lanterns all over the place. And we have a,
1379
01:13:39.270 --> 01:13:42.359
like the Hollywood, like the cinema one, the mass media
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01:13:42.420 --> 01:13:43.880
one has been going on for a hundred years, but
1381
01:13:44.279 --> 01:13:48.079
now we have these even more powerful magic lanterns.
1382
01:13:48.380 --> 01:13:51.640
Now they call it IMAX. They've pumped it up to
1383
01:13:51.920 --> 01:13:54.859
4k and increase the light, the light power by 10
1384
01:13:54.859 --> 01:13:56.510
X and it's now called IMAX.
1385
01:13:57.289 --> 01:13:59.720
Yeah. And gave us, gave us pocket ones that have a,
1386
01:14:00.359 --> 01:14:02.039
have these magic lanterns in our, in our own homes,
1387
01:14:02.100 --> 01:14:04.220
all over the place and in our pockets and everywhere.
1388
01:14:04.279 --> 01:14:06.600
We can't, we can't, we can't, uh, go down the
1389
01:14:06.619 --> 01:14:09.180
street without seeing it like 10 different types of magic
1390
01:14:09.199 --> 01:14:12.319
lanterns at all times. Crazy world. Like I would have
1391
01:14:12.340 --> 01:14:13.779
been a Bosco would have been, would have been a,
1392
01:14:14.119 --> 01:14:15.689
we've been screaming.
1393
01:14:16.020 --> 01:14:19.189
Oh yeah. He's rolling in his grave. That's absolutely for certain.
1394
01:14:19.270 --> 01:14:21.350
He's like, that, that was in my dream.
1395
01:14:22.189 --> 01:14:22.550
Yeah.
1396
01:14:23.010 --> 01:14:24.409
And everybody has one in their pocket.
1397
01:14:24.449 --> 01:14:25.010
Yeah, totally.
1398
01:14:25.090 --> 01:14:25.369
Totally.
1399
01:14:26.020 --> 01:14:26.979
That's all I got, though.
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01:14:27.119 --> 01:14:27.579
You're the best.
1401
01:14:27.600 --> 01:14:27.939
You're the best.
1402
01:14:27.960 --> 01:14:29.739
I'm glad to hear your voice. Thanks for popping back
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01:14:29.779 --> 01:14:32.460
in here. You're the best. Always a pleasure. Derek in Massachusetts,
1404
01:14:32.479 --> 01:14:34.100
The Night Stalker. Please give him a follow. You know
1405
01:14:34.439 --> 01:14:36.899
how to do that. I say it all the time.
1406
01:14:37.060 --> 01:14:39.159
Let's help our friends. That's what this is all about.
1407
01:14:39.590 --> 01:14:44.510
Growing together, sharing ideas, sticking our neck out for society,
1408
01:14:44.550 --> 01:14:46.949
for ourselves. Like I said, this is your world, too.
1409
01:14:47.850 --> 01:14:50.880
In your world, you should be following Derek in Massachusetts,
1410
01:14:50.939 --> 01:14:53.939
The Night Stalker. Troubleminds.org. Scroll down just a little bit.
1411
01:14:54.390 --> 01:14:57.789
It's a, it's under N follow Night Stalker. It's right there,
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01:14:58.109 --> 01:15:00.149
right above my head. Please, please give him a follow
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01:15:00.189 --> 01:15:02.329
in all the places. And, uh, he's got a YouTube channel.
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01:15:02.350 --> 01:15:04.800
It's free. Did I mention it's free? Did I mention
1415
01:15:04.840 --> 01:15:07.560
it's free? Please go give Derek a follow. Like I said,
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01:15:07.579 --> 01:15:09.159
at this point, if you're, you've been listening to the
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01:15:09.180 --> 01:15:11.260
show for a long time and you're not following all
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01:15:11.300 --> 01:15:15.060
these amazing people, Derek included Derek specifically, he just called, please,
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01:15:15.239 --> 01:15:18.039
please do it. You're hurting my feelings. Don't, uh, don't
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01:15:18.060 --> 01:15:20.970
hurt my feelings. It's a, it's a bad thing. I, um,
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01:15:22.439 --> 01:15:24.680
Mike with his feelings hurt is not where you want
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01:15:24.699 --> 01:15:27.960
to be. In any case, we're talking, look, this is
1423
01:15:28.000 --> 01:15:31.119
weird because it's, we're talking not just dreams. We're talking
1424
01:15:31.140 --> 01:15:33.739
the nostalgia space. We're talking again, the armor of God.
1425
01:15:33.779 --> 01:15:37.250
We're talking, find Jesus, but not in the way you think,
1426
01:15:37.289 --> 01:15:39.689
but also maybe, you know, you don't have to be
1427
01:15:39.729 --> 01:15:42.189
religious at all to say the term and the Christ
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01:15:42.250 --> 01:15:45.930
consciousness certainly plays here, but we're talking about purpose and
1429
01:15:45.949 --> 01:15:49.579
what purpose means to you. And again, Don't forget, this
1430
01:15:49.739 --> 01:15:52.439
is your world, too. We're talking about St. John Bosco,
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01:15:52.500 --> 01:15:55.859
founder of the Salesian Society. By historical accounts, a good
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01:15:55.899 --> 01:15:58.260
man helping the youth, the troubled youth of the world.
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01:15:58.920 --> 01:16:00.890
What do you know about it? And how weird does
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01:16:00.939 --> 01:16:04.409
it get when you talk about dream incursions, entities from
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01:16:04.430 --> 01:16:08.529
the other side, and distractions of the cosmic sense? This
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01:16:08.590 --> 01:16:11.090
is Troubled Minds. I'm Michael Strange. Be right back. More
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01:16:11.170 --> 01:16:12.489
on the way. Do not go anywhere.
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This is Troubled Minds. Your host, Michael Strange, the master
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01:16:28.470 --> 01:16:30.909
of the mysterious, is here to guide you through the
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01:16:30.949 --> 01:16:32.119
shadows of the unexplained.
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01:16:46.260 --> 01:16:51.020
Welcome back to Troubled Minds. All the places, all the things, yada, yada. Troubledminds.org.
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01:16:51.500 --> 01:16:53.579
That's where you find all the information about what we're
1443
01:16:53.619 --> 01:16:56.060
doing here. You can follow the sub stack from there.
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01:16:56.750 --> 01:17:01.489
Check out over 1,200 episodes. Can you believe we're at 1,200 episodes?
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01:17:01.590 --> 01:17:07.310
My God. That's almost embarrassing. Eight years now? I lost count.
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01:17:07.500 --> 01:17:09.840
Are we coming up on 10? I don't know. 1,200
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episodes of TroubledMinds.org. It's all there. And check out TroubledMinds.tv
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01:17:16.220 --> 01:17:19.760
as well. Lots of things happening. Tonight we're talking, look,
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01:17:19.899 --> 01:17:23.449
I'm calling this, what am I calling this? The oldest algorithm,
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01:17:23.810 --> 01:17:26.930
a lantern at the rail. And we're basing this on
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01:17:26.970 --> 01:17:30.270
the dream that one St. John Bosco had, where he
1452
01:17:31.010 --> 01:17:36.800
envisioned this entity that's Slenderman mixed with the devil. just
1453
01:17:37.380 --> 01:17:40.460
shining this magic lantern as he described it, because there
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01:17:40.479 --> 01:17:43.260
were no cell phones back then, but a very cell
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01:17:43.279 --> 01:17:47.060
phone-like device shining it into the faces of children as
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01:17:47.100 --> 01:17:51.060
they were in church, blocking them from the sacrament itself. Now,
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01:17:51.199 --> 01:17:53.239
like I said, you don't have to be religious to
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01:17:53.300 --> 01:17:55.960
understand the implication of what this is and what this means,
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01:17:56.560 --> 01:18:01.260
because clearly the distraction space from purpose itself is what
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01:18:01.300 --> 01:18:03.539
we're talking about. But not just that, the dream realm
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01:18:03.560 --> 01:18:10.539
is Now, looking at this as hindsight 2020, was this
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01:18:10.779 --> 01:18:15.819
thing we're looking at a prophetic dream? Because I wonder.
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01:18:16.590 --> 01:18:19.649
It seems very cell phone-esque when we're talking about this
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01:18:19.710 --> 01:18:24.369
magic lantern as described. And again, back to the terminology
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01:18:24.390 --> 01:18:27.529
of the day, it had been invented around this time
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01:18:27.770 --> 01:18:29.729
and it had been in limited use, so the term
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01:18:29.770 --> 01:18:32.720
magic lantern was actually a thing. Links in the description
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01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:35.060
if you want to fact check me on that. But
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01:18:36.420 --> 01:18:40.859
this happened in his dreams. And it was not specifically
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01:18:41.060 --> 01:18:43.789
the magic lantern of the technological space of the time.
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01:18:43.810 --> 01:18:49.949
It seemed almost cell phone-esque. Broadcasting propaganda into the faces
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of children to distract them from purpose itself. Weird, right?
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01:18:55.979 --> 01:18:56.279
Or nah.
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01:18:56.619 --> 01:18:56.939
I don't know.
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You tell me. Jameson, anything to add to what Derek
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01:19:00.199 --> 01:19:03.079
said there? Or any ideas that you have? Welcome, and
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01:19:03.119 --> 01:19:05.020
thanks for being patient and cool and chill and the
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01:19:05.060 --> 01:19:07.500
best as you are. What do you got for us tonight?
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Go ahead.
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01:19:09.550 --> 01:19:10.289
No, you're the best.
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01:19:10.529 --> 01:19:13.470
But also Derek is the best. But, you know, great call.
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01:19:13.489 --> 01:19:17.250
I'm joking, but not joking. But great call from Derek.
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01:19:17.390 --> 01:19:20.270
And I thought he was going to say Bosco Sticks
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01:19:20.289 --> 01:19:23.489
when he mentioned Bosco. He has another reference to that
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01:19:23.510 --> 01:19:24.880
name because that's the only place I've ever heard of
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01:19:24.939 --> 01:19:29.899
them before. It's kind of like bread, cheese stick things,
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01:19:29.939 --> 01:19:36.779
which are just... They're sirens in their own way, unfortunately. But, yeah,
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01:19:37.140 --> 01:19:40.520
it's just really... I think that the prophetic dream thing
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01:19:40.560 --> 01:19:44.560
is a thing that people experience. I know I've had
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01:19:44.619 --> 01:19:47.170
dreams of places I've been to before. Well, no, I've
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01:19:47.189 --> 01:19:49.970
been to... I've had dreams before of places I've been
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01:19:50.050 --> 01:19:53.890
to in the dream, didn't recognize it, went there in
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01:19:53.930 --> 01:19:56.409
person months or years after the fact.
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01:19:57.310 --> 01:19:58.189
So there's some.
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01:19:58.369 --> 01:20:00.729
Again, just another example of one of the weird things
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01:20:00.789 --> 01:20:04.770
that people... And I've heard similar cases before, experiences before.
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01:20:04.869 --> 01:20:08.739
So another example of how weird... um the dream space
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01:20:08.760 --> 01:20:09.899
can be but that's it for.
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01:20:09.819 --> 01:20:14.479
Now absolutely you're the best and uh dreams like like
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01:20:14.520 --> 01:20:16.739
i said you we dreams into anything and suddenly a
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01:20:17.079 --> 01:20:20.899
compelling narrative presents itself what do you know i'm calling
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01:20:20.920 --> 01:20:23.560
it a lantern at the rail the oldest algorithm and
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01:20:23.600 --> 01:20:26.100
of course that would certainly just be the distraction space
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01:20:26.810 --> 01:20:29.430
very simply if you want to you know look at
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01:20:29.470 --> 01:20:31.090
all look at all these words go read the write-up
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01:20:31.130 --> 01:20:34.340
it's actually very good But, you know, words, words, words,
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01:20:34.359 --> 01:20:36.020
what do they say in Beavis and Butthead? You know,
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01:20:36.050 --> 01:20:38.229
they look at a thing and go, words, words, words.
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01:20:38.270 --> 01:20:41.590
But very simply, the distraction space is the oldest algorithm.
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01:20:42.270 --> 01:20:49.630
And distracting you from what? From what? Clearly, we stated
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01:20:49.689 --> 01:20:53.500
it several times tonight, your purpose. So what is your purpose?
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01:20:53.739 --> 01:20:58.920
Have you asked yourself what that is? Have you revisited recently?
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01:20:58.939 --> 01:21:01.380
Yeah.
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01:21:01.710 --> 01:21:04.289
I think it's important. Like I said, I make 40
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01:21:04.289 --> 01:21:06.869
cents a show or something. So I'm not here to
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01:21:06.909 --> 01:21:08.750
get rich and famous and laid and all the things.
1517
01:21:09.550 --> 01:21:12.329
I'm not expecting to be Leo DiCaprio on a yacht
1518
01:21:12.369 --> 01:21:18.649
with supermodels. I'm doing something a little different. I think
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01:21:18.670 --> 01:21:20.909
it's important. Do you?
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01:21:20.930 --> 01:21:22.409
702-857-6939.
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01:21:23.750 --> 01:21:26.640
Click the Discord link at TroubleMinds.org. We'll put you on
1522
01:21:26.649 --> 01:21:28.569
the show. It's as easy as that. Let's go to
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01:21:28.609 --> 01:21:30.409
Joe in Florida. What's up, brother? You're on Trouble Minds
1524
01:21:30.430 --> 01:21:32.670
with Mike and James. How are you, sir? Welcome. Go
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01:21:32.710 --> 01:21:32.970
right ahead.
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01:21:33.210 --> 01:21:33.710
Good evening.
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01:21:33.869 --> 01:21:34.810
Can you guys hear me okay?
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01:21:35.050 --> 01:21:35.310
Yes, sir.
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01:21:35.489 --> 01:21:35.890
Loud and clear.
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01:21:37.409 --> 01:21:41.170
Good topic. A little bit late to the show. Great call, Derek,
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01:21:41.409 --> 01:21:44.829
and all the other calls. I had seen something a
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01:21:44.850 --> 01:21:47.390
couple of weeks ago on this Father Bosco, I believe.
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01:21:49.789 --> 01:21:52.609
First off, you know, we were talking about simulation theory earlier.
1534
01:21:52.630 --> 01:21:54.449
Big bang.
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01:21:55.369 --> 01:21:58.399
We've all said it before. there was a Big Bang,
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01:21:58.869 --> 01:22:04.449
whether it was electronic, like turning a TV on, or,
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01:22:04.729 --> 01:22:08.430
you know, in space, however you define it, it's possible
1538
01:22:08.449 --> 01:22:15.590
that all probabilities in this timeline have already
occurred. So
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01:22:16.550 --> 01:22:19.850
some people have deja vu, or they might see possible futures,
1540
01:22:21.340 --> 01:22:25.659
like this priest. But it's very interesting, the black screen
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01:22:25.680 --> 01:22:31.069
mirror We've talked about all those things. What I find
1542
01:22:31.109 --> 01:22:33.670
kind of funny is I've been reading, it's a very
1543
01:22:33.729 --> 01:22:37.890
dry reading, but it's a book called We Have Been Harmonized.
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01:22:39.010 --> 01:22:41.029
Probably should have read it eight or ten years ago
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01:22:41.050 --> 01:22:46.800
because it's about China in a surveillance state. And I'm
1546
01:22:46.840 --> 01:22:50.060
about halfway through the book and started getting into the
1547
01:22:50.100 --> 01:22:54.520
cell phones and the cameras. And even I highlighted it.
1548
01:22:57.180 --> 01:22:59.939
places where if you go to the public restroom it
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01:23:00.050 --> 01:23:05.949
only the toilet paper dispenser only allows a certain amount
1550
01:23:05.970 --> 01:23:09.189
of toilet paper if you can't do your thing with
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01:23:09.220 --> 01:23:11.539
that you've got to wait nine more minutes.
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01:23:13.420 --> 01:23:19.680
Dear god you just described my my purgatory The endless
1553
01:23:19.699 --> 01:23:24.020
drippy ass and the toilet paper dispenser that makes you wait.
1554
01:23:24.039 --> 01:23:26.279
Well, you know, and when you go to Japan, almost
1555
01:23:26.340 --> 01:23:30.689
every place has a bidet. That's a whole other ecological thing.
1556
01:23:31.090 --> 01:23:34.029
But while I was reading the book, laying in bed,
1557
01:23:34.050 --> 01:23:38.770
the literal digital cage, we always hear about it. We've
1558
01:23:38.810 --> 01:23:41.569
talked about it here. But literally in my head, I
1559
01:23:43.109 --> 01:23:47.510
pictured a digital cage and In China, you know, they're communists,
1560
01:23:47.569 --> 01:23:51.750
not communists. Maybe they're godless or they're not. But the
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01:23:51.789 --> 01:23:57.569
worship in China is the government, one party. And reading
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01:23:57.590 --> 01:23:59.600
the book with some of the perspectives from Chinese people
1563
01:24:01.279 --> 01:24:03.760
was very, very interesting. So, you know, I'm reading this
1564
01:24:03.779 --> 01:24:06.699
book yesterday and I'm like, oh, my God, it is
1565
01:24:06.739 --> 01:24:10.000
a literal digital cage. And then I thought about it.
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01:24:11.960 --> 01:24:15.239
It's happening here. And we always talk about who's going
1567
01:24:15.260 --> 01:24:19.119
to be in charge of that digital cage. And I
1568
01:24:19.159 --> 01:24:22.420
think to myself, which we've all seen it, Terminator, all
1569
01:24:22.479 --> 01:24:28.060
those things, but maybe these evil gods are going to
1570
01:24:28.119 --> 01:24:30.319
manifest through the leadership that's here if you want to
1571
01:24:30.340 --> 01:24:34.260
believe that it's a god or just the archons or
1572
01:24:34.300 --> 01:24:37.850
people who are living here that are just bad people, narcissists.
1573
01:24:38.819 --> 01:24:41.930
But what happens if they decide to, you know, just
1574
01:24:41.970 --> 01:24:44.970
like the Truman Show, They decide that, hey, my car's
1575
01:24:44.989 --> 01:24:46.890
not going to start today, and I'm going to have
1576
01:24:46.909 --> 01:24:51.289
these issues. And then we talk about feeding on the loosh.
1577
01:24:51.869 --> 01:24:56.130
I know Derek mentions that a lot. So now you do,
1578
01:24:56.189 --> 01:24:59.319
it starts to get past this point of going back
1579
01:25:00.140 --> 01:25:02.859
where you can't go back. You know, right now we
1580
01:25:02.880 --> 01:25:06.020
could put the phone down, okay? I could put my
1581
01:25:06.060 --> 01:25:09.880
phone down and not look at it. That's not always
1582
01:25:09.939 --> 01:25:12.699
for me because I'm on call a lot. So really
1583
01:25:12.739 --> 01:25:16.340
the phone stays with me almost all the time. But
1584
01:25:17.359 --> 01:25:19.920
when I'm not on call, like tonight, by the way,
1585
01:25:19.939 --> 01:25:24.510
went to go see Godzilla. It's pretty good. And it
1586
01:25:24.550 --> 01:25:26.470
was nice. I came out relaxed. I wasn't all nervous.
1587
01:25:26.489 --> 01:25:28.090
I didn't have to look at the phone. I didn't
1588
01:25:28.109 --> 01:25:30.449
have to do anything. I was able to focus on
1589
01:25:31.149 --> 01:25:36.479
something on the big screen and enjoy myself. But all
1590
01:25:36.520 --> 01:25:39.760
these things feed emotion. You don't look up. You don't
1591
01:25:39.819 --> 01:25:46.289
get in touch with yourself. time goes by, you know,
1592
01:25:47.069 --> 01:25:49.569
what was the movie? Good luck, have fun, don't die.
1593
01:25:50.170 --> 01:25:51.939
In the beginning of the movie, if you didn't see that,
1594
01:25:53.460 --> 01:25:56.100
the main guy, you know, the main character goes, you
1595
01:25:56.140 --> 01:25:58.079
used to get up in the morning, you check your Facebook,
1596
01:25:58.100 --> 01:26:01.140
you check your phone, and you were done. But it
1597
01:26:01.180 --> 01:26:02.859
got to a point in the future where you just
1598
01:26:03.399 --> 01:26:06.409
stay there looking at it. And Hey, nothing got done.
1599
01:26:06.720 --> 01:26:09.180
And we were just trapped. Start fighting with people you
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01:26:09.220 --> 01:26:14.659
don't know over nonsense. That's the ultimate distraction. And this
1601
01:26:14.720 --> 01:26:16.380
is the thing, too. Like I said, and I point
1602
01:26:16.399 --> 01:26:19.189
this out a lot. I try to be as apolitical
1603
01:26:19.229 --> 01:26:21.829
as possible. But in the political space, this is exactly
1604
01:26:21.869 --> 01:26:23.989
what they're doing. They want us to fight over the
1605
01:26:24.050 --> 01:26:26.670
nonsensical stuff because the thing that makes the most sense
1606
01:26:26.710 --> 01:26:28.869
that we all agree on,
they don't want us talking
1607
01:26:28.890 --> 01:26:31.409
to each other and agreeing on. That's the whole game.
1608
01:26:31.489 --> 01:26:34.130
That is the entire game here and fits into exactly
1609
01:26:34.149 --> 01:26:35.609
what we're talking about tonight. Sorry, go ahead, yeah.
1610
01:26:35.909 --> 01:26:38.630
No, no, you're exactly right because what I'm saying is
1611
01:26:39.350 --> 01:26:42.449
the truth doesn't come out because everybody's an expert. Does
1612
01:26:42.470 --> 01:26:44.590
that make sense? I'll give you an example of that.
1613
01:26:45.090 --> 01:26:49.649
I'll see posts on Facebook, on my local town feed,
1614
01:26:50.100 --> 01:26:55.199
need a funeral director, need this, need that. And I
1615
01:26:55.220 --> 01:26:58.079
don't ever tell people where I work. I just give
1616
01:26:58.119 --> 01:27:01.779
them the facts. But you'd be surprised about how many
1617
01:27:01.819 --> 01:27:05.760
people go, go get the cremation for $ 600. And it's like,
1618
01:27:05.859 --> 01:27:09.399
that's not what they're asking. But everybody's an expert. So
1619
01:27:09.439 --> 01:27:12.760
the shame about this is, I'm the one that's a professional.
1620
01:27:13.220 --> 01:27:15.359
But guess whose opinion you're not going to get? My
1621
01:27:15.399 --> 01:27:20.840
opinion anymore. So the truth, which might be from me
1622
01:27:20.859 --> 01:27:24.100
and my industry, or from you and your industry, or
1623
01:27:24.119 --> 01:27:27.479
from James and what he does, you may not get
1624
01:27:27.550 --> 01:27:30.430
it because... Everybody else is an expert out there.
1625
01:27:31.029 --> 01:27:34.399
Yeah, the false expert. The phony expert. Yeah, the phony expert.
1626
01:27:34.409 --> 01:27:37.100
Yeah, they're all phony. They're phony experts. You know, they're
1627
01:27:37.119 --> 01:27:38.060
absolutely phony experts.
1628
01:27:38.100 --> 01:27:38.800
You know, I'm.
1629
01:27:40.380 --> 01:27:42.880
Here in Florida right now. You know, there's a big
1630
01:27:42.899 --> 01:27:47.949
political thing with the taxes and the governor. And I
1631
01:27:48.130 --> 01:27:52.189
was on Facebook posts saying this was not a citizen's initiative.
1632
01:27:53.729 --> 01:27:57.109
So this is going to screw us. It's not a
1633
01:27:57.140 --> 01:28:00.340
citizen's initiative, and he was making a big homestead exemption
1634
01:28:01.359 --> 01:28:03.260
because housing prices. So he was giving everybody a big
1635
01:28:03.300 --> 01:28:05.939
tax break. You don't do that out of the goodness
1636
01:28:05.979 --> 01:28:10.199
of your heart. Well, it came out that he didn't
1637
01:28:10.239 --> 01:28:13.119
expect it to pass. The only reason why he did
1638
01:28:13.140 --> 01:28:16.189
it was to get a certain segment of the voting
1639
01:28:16.529 --> 01:28:19.770
party to come out and vote. And they voted for it. Now,
1640
01:28:19.810 --> 01:28:23.109
guess what? It's going to be in the Florida Constitution.
1641
01:28:23.890 --> 01:28:26.119
And Now we have to figure out how to pay
1642
01:28:26.159 --> 01:28:28.479
for things in small. And then here's the other thing.
1643
01:28:29.000 --> 01:28:31.470
If you're a small county, you might have to let
1644
01:28:31.510 --> 01:28:34.029
a data center come in so they could fund you
1645
01:28:34.130 --> 01:28:36.050
and give you property tax revenue. But that's a whole
1646
01:28:36.130 --> 01:28:39.670
other thing because people don't bother to do the research.
1647
01:28:40.010 --> 01:28:43.170
see the headline and they just fucking go. I'm so
1648
01:28:43.229 --> 01:28:47.310
aggravated with it. I'm sorry. But seeing dreams, getting back
1649
01:28:47.329 --> 01:28:51.810
to all of that. Yes, the algorithm, the phones, they're
1650
01:28:52.189 --> 01:28:54.510
going to keep us trapped. And we know with flock
1651
01:28:54.529 --> 01:28:58.329
cameras and all of that, that digital cage is here
1652
01:28:58.449 --> 01:29:03.909
or already coming. And maybe that pastor was either really
1653
01:29:03.949 --> 01:29:06.829
intuitive Or he did speak to somebody. I think it's
1654
01:29:06.850 --> 01:29:11.710
probably a combination of both. You know, I've had dreams.
1655
01:29:12.329 --> 01:29:16.260
I've kept some dream journals on my phone. But there's
1656
01:29:16.270 --> 01:29:17.699
some that I don't need to tell you that I
1657
01:29:17.699 --> 01:29:19.859
don't need to write down. But like I dreamt that
1658
01:29:19.880 --> 01:29:22.739
I met my wife before I ever met her, before
1659
01:29:22.779 --> 01:29:25.640
I ever knew her. And I just told her that
1660
01:29:25.659 --> 01:29:30.529
after like 15 years of luckily being married. Well, 16 years.
1661
01:29:30.909 --> 01:29:32.470
I told her that this past year. She was, you
1662
01:29:32.489 --> 01:29:33.689
had a dream of me? I said, yeah, it had
1663
01:29:33.729 --> 01:29:37.270
to be you because you fit what I was seeing
1664
01:29:37.310 --> 01:29:41.340
in my dream. And that was years down the line
1665
01:29:43.500 --> 01:29:47.439
after I had my first girlfriend that died.
1666
01:29:47.039 --> 01:29:49.060
Back in 1993. I'm pretty sure you've told me this before.
1667
01:29:49.800 --> 01:29:52.239
Yeah, I'm sure. I saw her standing on the beach.
1668
01:29:52.270 --> 01:29:52.779
She was really.
1669
01:29:54.930 --> 01:29:56.850
And where I live, there was not really a beach.
1670
01:29:57.010 --> 01:29:59.750
So it's like I'm in Pinellas County. So we have
1671
01:29:59.789 --> 01:30:02.689
all the beaches, Clearwater, St. Pete, all of it. And
1672
01:30:02.750 --> 01:30:05.810
I saw her there. Or the image of that, I
1673
01:30:05.829 --> 01:30:09.680
didn't see, I don't usually see faces, but you know,
1674
01:30:09.689 --> 01:30:11.640
you have a dream and you're like, I know that
1675
01:30:11.680 --> 01:30:13.659
was my father. Or I know that was this dead person.
1676
01:30:13.680 --> 01:30:15.159
You just
have that feeling.
1677
01:30:16.069 --> 01:30:16.250
Right.
1678
01:30:16.609 --> 01:30:18.770
So that's where that kindred soul comes, because we could
1679
01:30:18.789 --> 01:30:21.510
probably be when we come back, we probably have different faces.
1680
01:30:22.130 --> 01:30:27.489
But it's that soul. It's that feeling. It's that, you know, familiarity,
1681
01:30:27.550 --> 01:30:32.310
familiarity that you get. But but yeah. So the thing is,
1682
01:30:32.390 --> 01:30:35.020
is how do you tune into it? I've tried lately
1683
01:30:35.060 --> 01:30:38.239
at night, but I haven't been able to. And I'll
1684
01:30:38.260 --> 01:30:40.439
be honest with you, the last few nights I've been
1685
01:30:40.460 --> 01:30:42.500
very nervous. And I think it is because of the phone.
1686
01:30:43.039 --> 01:30:46.130
I've got a lot of funerals scheduled. But there's definitely
1687
01:30:46.170 --> 01:30:48.770
some kind of energy that is kind of dragging me
1688
01:30:48.789 --> 01:30:49.750
down a little bit lately.
1689
01:30:50.130 --> 01:30:51.630
I'll tell you what it is. I know what it is.
1690
01:30:51.649 --> 01:30:54.149
You ready?
1691
01:30:54.289 --> 01:30:54.529
Go ahead.
1692
01:30:55.029 --> 01:30:55.210
Yeah.
1693
01:30:56.130 --> 01:31:01.970
I think, so you were at, let's call this a
1694
01:31:01.989 --> 01:31:08.659
Ghostbusters episode. You were at ground zero of Boomerville's dying.
1695
01:31:10.250 --> 01:31:13.149
And it's, it's, it's going to amplify. Like we are,
1696
01:31:13.239 --> 01:31:15.960
we are in the space of the boomer generation, the
1697
01:31:16.020 --> 01:31:20.300
largest by number generation. They're in that, they're all in
1698
01:31:20.340 --> 01:31:23.640
that pocket and they're all again, you know, everybody has
1699
01:31:23.659 --> 01:31:26.369
to go at some point. And, and you are literally like,
1700
01:31:26.909 --> 01:31:31.750
it's like, like a landslide of death. And not, not
1701
01:31:31.789 --> 01:31:34.310
trying to be morbid, just trying to point out the obvious.
1702
01:31:34.569 --> 01:31:36.390
And so I think you are literally standing at that
1703
01:31:36.430 --> 01:31:39.770
crossroads right now and feeling it before it happens. Cause
1704
01:31:39.949 --> 01:31:41.659
it's going to happen, dude. Like if it's not now,
1705
01:31:41.739 --> 01:31:43.300
it's going to be a year from now, two years
1706
01:31:43.340 --> 01:31:44.539
from now, three years from now, and you're going to
1707
01:31:44.560 --> 01:31:45.750
have so much work. You can't handle it.
1708
01:31:46.420 --> 01:31:49.199
Well, it's funny you say that just because last week
1709
01:31:50.680 --> 01:31:52.390
we had a girl that used to go to the club.
1710
01:31:53.390 --> 01:31:58.239
She did go to the club and she, You know,
1711
01:31:58.270 --> 01:31:59.930
when you could tell she like she would walk in.
1712
01:32:00.069 --> 01:32:01.789
I never said a word to this. She was way
1713
01:32:01.829 --> 01:32:04.270
above my league. But she would walk into the room.
1714
01:32:06.510 --> 01:32:09.890
And again, never spoke a word to her. But I
1715
01:32:09.930 --> 01:32:12.729
could just tell that this person was special. Like you
1716
01:32:12.750 --> 01:32:17.300
could just tell. And I only let my feelings known.
1717
01:32:17.840 --> 01:32:20.340
Like I had other friends like, who is that? Because
1718
01:32:20.359 --> 01:32:23.319
she just seems and they would tell me. Well, last week.
1719
01:32:24.489 --> 01:32:26.880
there was a bank robbery. My mom comes out. She's like, Oh,
1720
01:32:26.899 --> 01:32:28.439
there was this bank robbery. It was a shootout. And
1721
01:32:28.479 --> 01:32:31.100
I kind of, I kind of blew it off. Well,
1722
01:32:31.159 --> 01:32:34.319
one girl got shot and it was that girl. So
1723
01:32:34.340 --> 01:32:38.479
that was the first one. And to see all of my,
1724
01:32:38.500 --> 01:32:41.159
I didn't go to the club last week because I
1725
01:32:41.220 --> 01:32:43.340
knew that emotionally that energy was going to be draining
1726
01:32:43.359 --> 01:32:46.180
to me because I do it all the time. Right.
1727
01:32:47.579 --> 01:32:50.479
And then literally like four days later, the light guy,
1728
01:32:50.960 --> 01:32:54.670
this guy, Richard, we love him. Uh, He was taking
1729
01:32:54.689 --> 01:32:57.560
care of this girl that was not doing well. She
1730
01:32:57.600 --> 01:33:00.760
died in the hospital. So two in one week, it
1731
01:33:00.779 --> 01:33:06.479
were affecting my friends. And then I had some pretty
1732
01:33:06.520 --> 01:33:09.470
sad stories come through the funeral home. Like literally yesterday,
1733
01:33:09.489 --> 01:33:13.449
I had a woman pretty much crying to me about
1734
01:33:13.510 --> 01:33:16.750
how her sister's house got stolen by a guardian. Just
1735
01:33:16.810 --> 01:33:17.770
weird stuff. But anyway.
1736
01:33:24.159 --> 01:33:24.520
We do.
1737
01:33:24.640 --> 01:33:27.600
It's draining. And usually I'm okay with it. Usually I'm
1738
01:33:27.640 --> 01:33:30.180
fine with it. But I think these last two weeks
1739
01:33:30.300 --> 01:33:32.850
I've been eaten up by it. And that's probably why
1740
01:33:32.859 --> 01:33:36.449
I'm going to go play ice hockey tomorrow. And go
1741
01:33:36.470 --> 01:33:38.710
have lunch with a friend. Maybe go to a strip
1742
01:33:38.729 --> 01:33:41.069
club for an hour. And then have my doctor's appointment
1743
01:33:41.109 --> 01:33:43.710
in the afternoon. And say, fuck it. That's it.
1744
01:33:44.189 --> 01:33:48.359
Hey, stop it. Stop it. Hey, we're on the precipice
1745
01:33:48.420 --> 01:33:53.720
of radio bill. Stop with the F-bombs. Hey, you're a
1746
01:33:53.720 --> 01:33:56.340
little too comfortable up in this hizzy. Settle down.
1747
01:33:57.100 --> 01:33:58.779
You know, it usually don't cost, but it's been rough.
1748
01:33:59.020 --> 01:34:01.829
That's okay. I understand. You are, like I said, at
1749
01:34:01.850 --> 01:34:05.750
the crossroads of this deluge, the incoming deluge. It's not
1750
01:34:05.770 --> 01:34:08.029
a good place to be. I mean, you know, like
1751
01:34:08.090 --> 01:34:10.630
business is booming, but when business is death, that's just,
1752
01:34:10.829 --> 01:34:14.289
I mean, you're, you are, uh, sort of being drawn in,
1753
01:34:14.649 --> 01:34:16.850
in a lot of, a lot of ways in a moment.
1754
01:34:17.069 --> 01:34:20.710
And I understand. So, so, uh, I forgive you of course, but, um,
1755
01:34:20.890 --> 01:34:22.489
you know, fire stuff. I appreciate you being here. What
1756
01:34:22.529 --> 01:34:23.270
else you got for us tonight?
1757
01:34:24.069 --> 01:34:27.979
Um, that's it. You know, it's interesting. Try to write
1758
01:34:28.000 --> 01:34:30.569
your dreams down. Uh, I used to be scared and,
1759
01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:32.180
you know, when I try to sleep on my back
1760
01:34:32.199 --> 01:34:35.220
sometimes and I will get lucid dreaming, I'm trying to
1761
01:34:35.260 --> 01:34:38.689
get back into that. And that's what I think everybody
1762
01:34:38.710 --> 01:34:40.289
should try. I mean, what else are we doing?
1763
01:34:40.710 --> 01:34:40.930
Right.
1764
01:34:41.310 --> 01:34:43.710
Spend 20 minutes nodding off. Try to see if you
1765
01:34:43.729 --> 01:34:47.939
can answer yourself a question or, you know, see the future.
1766
01:34:48.800 --> 01:34:48.979
So.
1767
01:34:50.939 --> 01:34:51.600
I'll leave you with that.
1768
01:34:52.840 --> 01:34:54.680
Do the best. Appreciate you. Thanks for staying up late
1769
01:34:54.699 --> 01:34:58.260
with us. And thanks for enduring the political swings that
1770
01:34:58.300 --> 01:35:03.819
we're all dealing with. And I know you're over there and. Well,
1771
01:35:04.079 --> 01:35:08.079
we'll reconvene at some point. You, sir, do your best.
1772
01:35:08.100 --> 01:35:11.100
And this one goes out to you, by the way.
1773
01:35:12.899 --> 01:35:17.350
The whole space of finding purpose and finding the armor
1774
01:35:17.390 --> 01:35:21.140
of God for the coming onslaught. you are standing in
1775
01:35:21.180 --> 01:35:23.779
that space. So this, this whole one, we, we, we
1776
01:35:23.819 --> 01:35:27.140
dedicate to Joe tonight because there's going to be, he's
1777
01:35:27.159 --> 01:35:29.039
got a lot of work coming. And like I said,
1778
01:35:29.060 --> 01:35:31.600
I'm not trying to be morbid. I promise you. Like I, I,
1779
01:35:31.810 --> 01:35:34.550
I'm just recognizing, like I said, I've had some in
1780
01:35:34.609 --> 01:35:36.890
my family, we've, we've had some heavy losses this year
1781
01:35:36.930 --> 01:35:40.270
from the boomer generation and they are the largest generation.
1782
01:35:40.390 --> 01:35:43.159
And so it's going to come in a, in a,
1783
01:35:43.449 --> 01:35:46.399
in a flood. And I'm not happy. There's nothing good
1784
01:35:46.439 --> 01:35:49.890
about this. It's just that Joe is literally a funeral director.
1785
01:35:49.909 --> 01:35:51.329
If you don't know, if you're, if you, if you
1786
01:35:51.369 --> 01:35:53.970
haven't been following the mythology of troubled minds, as we've
1787
01:35:54.010 --> 01:35:56.869
built it over the years, Joe is a funeral director.
1788
01:35:57.390 --> 01:35:59.529
And so he's when things like this happen and he's
1789
01:35:59.550 --> 01:36:02.109
got some COVID stories, by the way. So, you know,
1790
01:36:02.310 --> 01:36:05.569
all kinds of stories, all kinds of stories. So, I mean,
1791
01:36:06.270 --> 01:36:08.760
when this stuff happens, he's at the crossroads of it.
1792
01:36:08.949 --> 01:36:12.960
And so a prayers for you and the fam. And just, just,
1793
01:36:13.060 --> 01:36:17.119
just remember, remember, Remember the purpose. Whatever the purpose is,
1794
01:36:17.140 --> 01:36:19.359
go back to the nostalgia space in the safest way,
1795
01:36:19.579 --> 01:36:22.050
not the darkest way. And you're the best, bro. I
1796
01:36:22.069 --> 01:36:22.710
appreciate you being here.
1797
01:36:23.609 --> 01:36:25.390
Have a good night, guys. Everybody have a good week.
1798
01:36:25.569 --> 01:36:28.310
And hug your loved ones and friends.
1799
01:36:28.810 --> 01:36:29.130
Amen.
1800
01:36:29.590 --> 01:36:29.909
Amen.
1801
01:36:30.090 --> 01:36:32.880
Because you never know. You never know. Tomorrow is never guaranteed.
1802
01:36:32.899 --> 01:36:33.819
That is true.
1803
01:36:34.470 --> 01:36:34.750
Amen.
1804
01:36:34.930 --> 01:36:36.670
You're the best. Have a great night. Appreciate you very much.
1805
01:36:36.689 --> 01:36:39.449
He's a shout out. Kelly was the first guy to
1806
01:36:39.470 --> 01:36:41.829
call us and call us back. Joe was the second
1807
01:36:41.850 --> 01:36:43.850
guy to call us and then continue to call us back.
1808
01:36:43.890 --> 01:36:46.289
These guys have been friends for years. Literally. I'm not
1809
01:36:46.329 --> 01:36:49.229
kidding you. Like, is it eight years? I don't know.
1810
01:36:49.250 --> 01:36:50.909
I lost count eight years, nine years.
1811
01:36:50.989 --> 01:36:51.350
I don't know.
1812
01:36:51.489 --> 01:36:55.569
Like, Hey, the mission is incomplete. And so the years
1813
01:36:55.840 --> 01:37:01.939
matter less because the future is what's important. Yeah. Hey,
1814
01:37:02.359 --> 01:37:05.039
I'm at the oldest algorithm. A Lantern at the Rail.
1815
01:37:05.640 --> 01:37:07.279
Lots of things here. Like I said, if you're interested
1816
01:37:07.300 --> 01:37:10.260
in a larger narrative, there is a larger narrative. Go
1817
01:37:10.319 --> 01:37:13.850
read the write-up. Words, words, words, Beavis and Butthead style.
1818
01:37:14.289 --> 01:37:16.029
Always cracked me up when they were like, you know,
1819
01:37:16.149 --> 01:37:17.510
gave them a book and they just flipped it and
1820
01:37:17.529 --> 01:37:19.670
were like, words, words. I didn't read a single word
1821
01:37:19.689 -->
01:37:25.609
of it. But you can. Go check it out at TroubledMinds.org.
1822
01:37:26.170 --> 01:37:29.229
Click the newsletter link on the top. You can join
1823
01:37:29.260 --> 01:37:31.420
it for free. If it pops up and says, pay money,
1824
01:37:32.310 --> 01:37:33.909
you can also say, Nope, I'm going to join it
1825
01:37:33.930 --> 01:37:34.229
for free.
1826
01:37:34.369 --> 01:37:34.670
It's free.
1827
01:37:35.210 --> 01:37:37.350
So if you want to support the show, you can
1828
01:37:37.369 --> 01:37:39.560
also say, yep, I'll, you know, kick in nine bucks
1829
01:37:39.600 --> 01:37:42.619
a month or something, whatever. James, anything to add? Lots
1830
01:37:42.659 --> 01:37:45.279
of things in play here. Lots of ideas swirling. And, um,
1831
01:37:45.979 --> 01:37:47.180
I don't know what to make of it other than
1832
01:37:47.199 --> 01:37:49.520
I feel like we're on the tip of the spear
1833
01:37:49.539 --> 01:37:53.760
of the energy space. And, uh, you know, uh, ego wise,
1834
01:37:54.319 --> 01:37:57.840
you know, whatever, like, uh, I don't know, but, uh,
1835
01:37:58.250 --> 01:38:00.550
beyond that, I think that there's a lot of things
1836
01:38:00.590 --> 01:38:04.569
we talk about that nobody else talks about. And so, yeah, let's,
1837
01:38:04.770 --> 01:38:06.350
let's wind this down. Thanks for being here, brother. You're
1838
01:38:06.369 --> 01:38:06.630
the best.
1839
01:38:08.229 --> 01:38:08.430
Yeah.
1840
01:38:08.470 --> 01:38:09.510
No great calls from everyone.
1841
01:38:10.590 --> 01:38:12.770
I'm not, I mean, not coming up with a lot
1842
01:38:12.789 --> 01:38:14.649
more than just like I said earlier, there's so much
1843
01:38:14.710 --> 01:38:20.140
to do with dreams. The, the, the devices and, and the,
1844
01:38:20.939 --> 01:38:24.260
the images and all that, that is fascinating to me.
1845
01:38:25.180 --> 01:38:29.930
Sort of, It's not even just like it was a
1846
01:38:29.970 --> 01:38:34.369
lantern showing images random images to all these people in
1847
01:38:34.409 --> 01:38:37.760
that dream it was specific so it was showing them
1848
01:38:37.909 --> 01:38:42.979
again that mirror aspect but also it was not just
1849
01:38:43.000 --> 01:38:46.680
a regular mirror in that it wasn't just showing them
1850
01:38:46.720 --> 01:38:48.939
themselves at the moment as they were and I know
1851
01:38:48.960 --> 01:38:52.659
this is getting way deep into details into a dream,
1852
01:38:53.399 --> 01:38:56.680
but it was showing them nostalgia, and it was showing
1853
01:38:56.699 --> 01:39:00.979
them things that, again, made them feel certain ways.
1854
01:39:01.979 --> 01:39:03.779
And that, again, to me is.
1855
01:39:04.539 --> 01:39:09.710
What I'm wondering is if the implication or the meaning
1856
01:39:09.770 --> 01:39:14.609
was that this magic lantern, whatever it was, was showing...
1857
01:39:15.609 --> 01:39:18.930
possibly the worst, or at least what this entity thought
1858
01:39:18.970 --> 01:39:24.489
was the worst aspects of these people. The most evil
1859
01:39:24.569 --> 01:39:28.039
aspects of it, or the most sort of negative aspects
1860
01:39:28.079 --> 01:39:32.300
of these people. And for some people, there wasn't much negative.
1861
01:39:32.319 --> 01:39:36.319
It was pretty plain. But, yeah, I'm just really curious
1862
01:39:36.340 --> 01:39:39.029
about that as well, as far as how much of
1863
01:39:39.109 --> 01:39:41.829
it was a mirror and how much of it was actually.
1864
01:39:43.319 --> 01:39:45.239
Not a mirror. It was a transfer of some kind.
1865
01:39:45.920 --> 01:39:50.380
Yeah, recognized, too, when you talk about the algorithm. Shout out, algorithm.
1866
01:39:50.600 --> 01:39:53.619
What's up, Mike in Colorado? But when you talk about
1867
01:39:53.649 --> 01:39:56.609
the actual algorithm itself, it is kind of a mirror.
1868
01:39:57.390 --> 01:39:59.510
And we talked about sort of the ugly face, you know,
1869
01:39:59.529 --> 01:40:04.630
the YouTube face or whatever. These types of things, like
1870
01:40:04.670 --> 01:40:07.810
the dirty tricks people play to kind of get what's
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called CTR, which is click-through rate. There's I mean, there
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are there are tricks people are using. And it is,
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you know, I mean, I think I think probably at
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some point I'll go through and do like the modern
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alchemy bit of what this looks like in the digital space.
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But if you can game the the click through rate,
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which means that the percentage of people that see the
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thumbnail that actually click it. you basically won the game.
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And this is why things are just getting more and
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more ridiculous. And you see that like the really big
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faces and the, once again, the YouTube face, the, Oh,
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I'm shocked. Everything's insane or cracked. I've said this before,
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but it is sort of modern.
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I don't know about alchemy, but modern. How would you
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say like, I mean, the brainwashing comes after the click,
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but the click itself is sort of the sorcery that
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draws you in.
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It's the, you know, like, oh, this is my jam.
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This guy is really shocked that it says that this
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is the most crack thing you've seen in this decade.
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I mean, it's definitely a draw in the human space
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and a
manipulation. And by the way, too, I've been
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thinking about this a lot. Sidebar. People that wear suits,
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think about this, like rewind your life when you were
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like 20 years old. And the suit was the sort
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of signal to the world that you were ready to
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play ball.
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Right?
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You, you wear the suit, you put the tie on, you, you,
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you know, you, uh, yeah, you're, you're in the business,
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you're in the business swing. But now all I see
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is it's like the, the jester suit. It's like the clown,
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the clown outfit. Because you see all the worst people
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in the world, and what are they wearing? Suits. Like
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it's supposed to fool us at this point. Like, hey,
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maybe in 1982 it would fool us. Like, hey, I've
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arrived to play ball. I'm old enough to buy a
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fitted suit, a tailored suit. Oh, yeah? Now you're just
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exposing yourself as a clown, sir. And by the way,
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the people out there that wear suits for their jobs
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and stuff, I'm not coming at you, bro. but you
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get what I'm saying. Like suddenly, like the signs are
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all there. Hey, I show up in a black t-shirt
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and I'm ready to play ball. Anyway, don't forget the
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armor of God, whatever it looks like to you, wear it.
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Final thought, James, let's get out of here.
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Well, I did remember something that Derek reminded me of
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earlier is that lately I've been, um, I had been
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watching this, uh, again, nostalgia, the, uh, Justice League, DC
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Comics Justice League cartoon series from the late 90s, early 2000s.
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And I found myself watching that like three or four
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episodes at a time and didn't realize it until I
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started noticing, wow, my eyes are bothering me more.
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Why is it happening?
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Nostalgia.
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Because I remember that series so well and I enjoyed
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it so much. And it was available to me with
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commercials And so I was checking it out. And so
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I had just, I got way down on that. And
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now I just watched one or two when there's time
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between things. And, uh, so they got me, but, uh,
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you know, I fought back, I guess you could say.
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Yeah.
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Well, just, just take back your cognitive Liberty. That's what
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this is about. That that's look, and that's the entirety
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of this entire, like if you go back 1200 episodes,
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that's what we're always talking about. If there's one singular theme, um,
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about all the things we could discuss, it's about that.
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It's about your cognitive liberty. Do you actually press forward
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who you are and who you want to be? Or
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are you living someone else's dream because you've been told
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that's the dream you should live? It's a simple concept,
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but recognize how deep these ideas go and how tentacled
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they are into our minds, our hearts, and our souls.
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Please do me a favor. Follow our friends. Follow James.
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Go buy his books. Let's get together and talk about
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these ideas. Absolutely. I appreciate each and every one of
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you being here, staying up late with us. Untethering your
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mind from the people wearing suits that are ready to
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deal business. And instead, considering what's possible outside the paradigm
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of of natural thought unnatural thought uh i don't know
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i'm not sure i'm gonna have to think about that
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one deeply i'll write a whole thing on it but
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you get my point it does not matter what somebody
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tells you to do when you want to do what
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you want to do it's good this is good think
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about it deeply look i do every single day Every
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single day. Why am I here? What is my purpose?
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How are we going to get through this together? Every day.
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And what do I do? I come up with fantastical
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stories to talk about. But recognize what's happening as we
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weave those narratives, the counter narratives into those
stories, the
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oldest stories even. I'm telling you, there's some power here.
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And don't forget, as I always say, this is your
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world too. If you want to help us, help our friends. Troubleminds.org
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forward slash friends. Go follow James. SalcidoParanormal.com. S-A-L-S-I-D-O Paranormal.com. Go
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check out his website. Absolutely amazing stuff over there. He's
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written books. He's done over a thousand podcasts. Years of work.
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He's a paranormal expert with Troubleminds. And, dare I suggest it,
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the most comprehensive paranormal archive on the internet. If you're
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into this stuff and you're not following James, you're doing
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it wrong.
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Do it.
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Salcido Paranormal. I'll show you.
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Let's go.
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Let's go straight down to the thing. Scroll down. Troubledminds.org.
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Follow James right there. Where's the James link? There it is.
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Boom.
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Oh, there's a link tree. Takes you to Salcido Paranormal.com.
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Help our friends. Go spend some time. If you want
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to help us, help our friends. Go spend some time.
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Make some accounts in the places you don't have them
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and follow these people and encourage them. Help them.
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Network.
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Talk about ideas. Get each other on each other's shows.
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And I know a bunch of that has happened. And
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I'm extremely proud to be in the middle of a
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bunch of that. If you want to help us directly,
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spread the word. Let people know a conversation is happening,
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but we're not going to tell you who to vote for.
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Every single conversation does not devolve into some binary political
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nonsensical slap fight.
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That's it.
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Troubleminds.org. Click the support link. There's buy me a coffee.
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There's all this stuff there. Troublefans.com. If you like the merch,
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buy the hats, buy the shirts. Like I said, I'm
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not here as a carnival barker to try and whip
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up some money out of nothing. I'm here to whip
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up some inspiration out of desperation in a fading society
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that need not fade. Thanks for being here. Thanks for
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being cool and chill. Thanks for hanging out. As we finish,
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this one goes out to Joe in Florida. Be sure,
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be strong, be true. Thank you for listening. From our
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troubled minds to yours, have a great night.