Episode 211: Mars Attacks! Watching a Building Implosion in Vegas!

in Vegas via implosion. That's where they put all these explosives in these particular areas around a structure, and when they set the explosives off the building doesn't fly out all over the place. It crumbles in on itself, and it's a very dramatic sign. Obviously, probably the biggest explosion or the biggest explosive event that you can see without going to war or maybe to some kind of mining operation.

And what's especially interesting about this is some of my favorite movies are Pee Wee's Big Adventure or nineteen eighty nine's Batman with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, or ed Wood with Johnny Depp, or The Nightmare Before Christmas. Do you see a pattern here? These are all movies that were directed by Tim Burton, and Tim Burton is currently sixty six years old. He spent a lot of time

when he was young, apparently visiting Las Vegas. He was born in California, and as the young man, he was always coming to Vegas and he liked to stay at this hotel casino called the Landmark, and he was upset when they announced in nineteen ninety five they were going to demolish the Landmark by way of implosion. And the Landmark, by the way, if you've never seen it, it looks a lot like the Strat looks today. It's a very

similar design. So he was upset that they were going to destroy it, but you know, being a resourceful man, Tim Burton said, well, I want to send a film crew there to properly document the implosion of this building so I can use it in my upcoming film called Mars Attacks. And that's exactly what happened. He had a professional film crew from I guess it was probably Warner Brothers. I want to say, yep, Warner Brothers that went there and filmed the Landmark being imploded. And then if you've

ever seen Mars Attacks, that's in nineteen ninety six. They call it a black comedy science fiction film. It had Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Binning, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito,

Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox. I mean, the list goes on, and it's been a long time since I've seen that movie, but there is a scene where there's some kind of a meeting happening inside of what appears to be the Landmark Hotel and then it gets zapped by aliens and it crumbles, and that's real footage. And the Landmark was actually used in a variety of other movies that that implosion footage popped up in other

films as well. But one reason that that's especially interesting to me is because if you come to my house in Las Vegas, even when it's not Halloween time, there is an alien. It's the alien from Mars Attacks standing there with the clear dome over its head and the ray gun. It's in the corner of my living room. It's taller than I am, and it's an animatronic. So at least subconsciously, I think about Mars Attacks every day. And frankly, the movie was not that great. I just

must say. It's not one of my favorite Tim Burton films, but it is interesting that it was filmed all around Las Vegas. So there's this connection between building demolitions and Tim Burton, one of my favorite directors, in this thing in my living room, and the course the whole alien stuff. But what it's even odder about this perhaps is that you know, Lauren and I have been together for twenty seven years, and for some reason, I don't know why, when I met her, she told me early on someday,

you know what I'd love to see? What's that I'd love to see one of those big buildings being demolished by implosion in Las Vegas, and I thought that's an odd thing for a person to want to see. But okay. She later told me that she thinks maybe she and her brother watched some documentary about implosions when there were kids or something, and she has some fascination with it. So I just cut me obviously. I thought, well, maybe

someday that will that opportunity will present itself. Well, sure enough, just recently they announced that this giant hotel casino in Las Vegas called The Tropicana was to be destroyed by implosion. The Tropicana it was originally built there, let's see, nineteen fifty seven. By the time it closed down, it occupied thirty five acres and had one four hundred and sixty seven rooms. Big old place, I mean, a classic legendary place.

There's a road called Tropicana Avenue that runs right cross Vegas, and people use Tropicana as a reference point for their directions. But if you've listened to the show for a while, you may have heard me talk about how that Vegas is becoming a big sports destination. For example, the loss let's see the Los Angeles Raiders, the LA Raiders, the football team. They moved to Vegas. So they are now the Las Vegas Raiders. And here's the next thing. The

Oakland A's in Oakland, California. That's a major League baseball team. They have decided to leave Oakland, California and move to Vegas. If you've ever seen that movie Moneyball with Brad Pitt, it's about the Oakland A's. That's a very good movie, by the way. So sure enough, Oakland A's are moving here, and they decided that they wanted to build a stadium

on that property where the Tropicana was sitting. And there was a lot of wheeling and dilling, and sure enough they made a deal to get the property, and so the tropicanic closed down. The experts went in there, they gutted it. They took out all the asbestos and all that kind of stuff, and then all that was remaining was that the concrete skeleton of this thing. And so

days ago they decided to blow it up. Now, one of my friends here in Vegas is a famous magician named Murray Salchuk, And I mean he's the kind of guy like when you're driving down the Vegas Strip, you look up and there's a billboard and there's Murray there. He's got this big shock of bleach blonde hair and he wears thick black glasses. He's very memorable looking guy. He was on America's Got Talent. He's been all over TV.

He's been doing this a long time. He's in his fifties now, been doing this stuff since he was a kid. As a matter of fact, the podcast that I used to do was called Joshua Pee Warren Day. I still occasionally will post little special things on that feed. But if you go to if you just go to Google and you look up Joshua P. Warren Daily and you find there's hundreds of episodes. I interviewed Murray on an episode that let's see was posted on June fifth of

twenty eighteen. It's called I Interviewed Murray the Magician. I met Murray probably in twenty eighteen because we were working on a television project together and I won't get to the details of that, but we shot a sizzle for a TV show and the show didn't get picked up. But anyway, since then, you know, we've remained friends. And Murray is one of those guys who just has this

endless supply of energy he's a huge socialite. He travels the world performing and then he comes home and he throws these big parties and invites you know, all the the who's who in Vegas to these parties. And I just so happened to be on I think it was Facebook, and this is a few months ago, and Murray the Magician he posted that he was thinking about throwing a

demolition party. And that's because when I met Murray, he was performing at Planet Hollywood on the Strip, but then they changed things around there and Murray switched to the Tropicana. So Murray did this nightly show at the Tropicana for years, all the way up to the end. So he's very

intimately connected with his property. So he wanted to see it go down in style, and he said, I'm thinking about throwing this party called drop the trop And the idea was that right next to the Tropicana is the MGM Grand and he was going to rent this big what they call a patio suite and we would all chip in if we were invited. And then basically the idea was we throw a big, you know, just a big party. We go out there on the patio and we watched this building collapse right before our eyes as

a big dramatic special treat. And so I immediately told Murray, I said, count me in. And I just knew that Lauren was gonna be thrilled, just tickled, because you know, it's I figured it was gonna be kind of hard to get good access to something like that, and I figured if anybody would know how to do it, to be Murray the Magician. Okay, when we come back, I'm

gonna tell you what happened that night. It was a little more interesting and odd and in some ways bizarre than you might be thinking to watch something to watch history unfold like that, explosively and implosively right before your eyes. Hey, you know what, this is a free show. If you like it, go take advantage of all the amenities and support the show. Go to Joshua Pwarren dot com. Go to the Curiosity Shop, buy something nice for yourself or

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Podcast Network. I am your host, a wizard of weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden and every unit is silver. Gietato Zume. It is amazing how quickly this city grows. It just it grows at light speed. There are more and more people

here every year. They make more money every year. I have lived here going on seven years now, and of course a little over two and a half years ago I finally bought a house I was renting up until then. I bought a house and very nice neighborhood, but there really wasn't much around here when I bought the house. And now two and a half years later, there is this huge, luxurious casino which is basically on one side

of me. I could practically walk to it. And now on the other side of me, they're building a big, fancy church. And so I'm between a casino and a church. It's like having the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other. Let me tell you something, though, this better be a really fun church, because over here I got bars and food and gambling, even the Ladies' night if you know what I mean, guys, I mean, if you're not married or you can go to church.

And honestly, they're already off to a bad start because the church isn't even built, and yet they have people running around the neighborhood putting these little tags on people's door knobs of their cars and houses announcing the church. It's like, so you're already off to a bad start, leaving trash on my doorstep. I don't want to say what kind of church it is, but it's not a Catholic Church. I actually kind of wish that it was a Catholic church because Catholics are just so creepy and cool.

You can go to a Catholic church and you can get holy water there that you can square on vampires and werewolves. Yeah, you can confess all your sins leave there with a clean conscience. I think the Catholic Church is kind of like the Marvel expanded universe of US religions, don't you think. I mean, there's these they have all these saints that are like superheroes. This is the Saint of chefs, this is the Saint of comedians. I wonder if there's a Saint of broadcasters. I bet there is.

I here's the extent of my exposure to the Catholic Church. When I was a teenager, I dated a girl who was Catholic for a while, and I'm by Catholic, I mean like really Catholic. She was from South America, and so that's where I kind of got my first real taste of what you know, mass and all that kind

of stuff like in the Catholic Church. And then over the years I've had like, well, for what one time, when I was I was a young man, and I was about to go investigate this house that was where supposedly demonic activity was taking place, and the woman there claimed that she would get possessed and this sort of thing.

So one of my friends took me to this big, grand Catholic church and we actually went into this little house next door where the priest lived, like the head priest, and we sat down in his office and he was telling us about how to handle demonic stuff, and he gave us some holy water, and so so we went to this woman's house and we threw it on her and it really ticked her off, so she must have

had a demon. And then then when I was in Puerto Rico, there was an you might have heard me talk about, this guy named Michael Rivera who said there was a presence living in his house. And so he and I went to his priest at the Catholic church and he gave us all kinds of tips. It's very interesting when you sit down in an office with a priest and they start talking very clinically about demons. You know, it's like you're in a doctor's office talking about medicine,

except they're talking very factually about demons. Anyway, let's get back to the story. So we're gonna do this demolition party. It's called Drop the trop And of course access to the Tropicana is pretty limited. But Murray the Magician, he he's the man about town here in Vegas. So I knew if anybody was going to get us a front

row seat, it would be Murray the Magician. Of course, they had the engineers on the news talking about how that, how they're going to arrange this, and I guess the head engineer he said, at the moment when these explosives go off, it's going to fire these pins or whatever into these sensitive joints on this structure at five miles

per second. Five miles per second. So this is dangerous business here, right, And it did cross my mind, Well, what if these guys kind of screw up here and I'm sitting right there and I get a bolt through the skull at five miles per second. Hey, at least it'd be instantaneous death. That you know, I can think of worse ways to die. I just don't want to get like nicked in the elbow or something. Well, Murray, sure enough, he follows through and he gets this room

and he says, we're a go. It's a green light. So the day rolls around, they're going to demolish this building at two thirty seven am, So yeah, am in the middle of the night. On October the ninth of twenty twenty four, the news said that there were going to be road closures at some point around the hotel, and we didn't want to get, of course, like stuck

in some weird traffic situations. So Lauren and I decided that we would go to the MGM Grand about eight o'clock because they were saying they weren't going to start closing the roads down till maybe eleven or twelve, so we could we went there and we would go there at eight, have dinner, gamble a little bit because Murray said the party would start at ten thirty pm, and

so that's what we did. We went there. We had a really nice dinner at this bar, I think it was called Tap Sports Bar, and then we gambled a little bit. We were doing well, and then when ten thirty rolled around, if you were part of the party, you had to meet Murray at the bottom of this elevator because he had this swipe. You can't go up to room the guest rooms here in Vegas unless you swipe your key on the elevator to activate it. So we met Murray there about ten thirty and he swiped

the thing and led us all up there. But he also said, listen, there's been a change of plans because the original idea was that he was going to have this big patio room. And he said he'd hired a two piece band and there was going to be a bartender there with an open bar and we were and some catering, you know, like like food and snacks, I mean, a really nice layout. But he said that okay. So the idea was we were going to have that with a big patio and we would all just kind of

be mingling going in and out. But at the last minute, like three days before this demolition was to take place, Clark County, the county here within which we are told all the hotels you cannot have patios open, you cannot have balconies open. Everybody has to be inside. It's too dangerous. So Murray said, he gets up there on the fifteenth floor of the MGM Grand and he goes into the patio room and he looks out and he's like oh my god, we can't even see the Tropicana. It was

like on the north end. This is going to be a disaster. And Murray is a very detail oriented man, as all professional magicians are, so here he has I mean, I'm sure he laid an egg when he saw this. So he goes down he starts talking to the staff saying, you know what's going on here. We have to see the buildings to drop the trop on it. So they ended up saying, here's a second room that we're going to give you on the twelfth floor, which is literally

right there, directly facing the Tropicana. So, in other words, the party with the booze and the food and the band and all that is going to be on four fifteen. But when it comes time for the demolition, everybody goes down to floor twelve, where we go into this room where we get to pile around and look out these windows, and we're all hoping that we actually have a good view because now we're indoors and they're going to be

reflections and we're not sure what's going to happen. So we go up to the original party room and it's really nice. It's two stories and I was surprised how many people were there because Murray said, you can bring two people with you, and I only it was just I just brought Lauren. It was just Lauren and myself, but he said they were about seventy five people altogether.

So we go into this room and even though it's a big, two story room, it is quite hot and claustrophobic because this is Vegas, and I really wish that we can open that patio up and gone outside. But the band was fantastic. The bartender, she had everything you could ever want, super nice. There was I mean, a really impressive display of food and very snacks all over the place. He couldn't have done a better job. And not surprisingly, there were celebrities there. Okay, we're up on

a break. When we come back, I'm going to I'm going to tell you a little bit more about what happened at these parties. I had kind of an odd experience with a celebrity. And then I actually have audio that I recorded just for you of the moment when this building that was right across the street, this historic building, blew all to pieces. You're gonna hear the reaction inside the room. I did have to do a little bit

of bleeping though. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be back after these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things well the Eye Art Radio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren, And this is the show where the unusual becomes usual. The party is Rarin Murray, the magician and his wife, showgirl Danny, have quite the

menagerie of individuals from all around Vegas and beyond. You know, people traveled from Afar for this event. As you can imagine, everybody's having a great time. And then yeah, there's celebrities there. I don't want to get into who they were, you know,

that's that's crass, that's taboo. At a certain point, we moved down to the twelfth floor, which is the viewing room, and we walked in there and let me just tell you, we were just right there, dead on, looking across this exactly at the Tropicana, which is actually two towers, two big tall towers. Was too big tall towers. But again, are there are seventy five of us or so, so, I mean, space is really tight. And there was this one guy who was just sprawled out pretty as you

please on this couch taking a nap. In the middle of this, there's a DJ in there playing all kinds of hardcore music. This guy's taking a nap and he had like a hand towel over his face. Well anyway, he had a pretty good position though, so I kind of sat down on this stool that was next to his cowboy boots, and his cowboy boots kept kicking me in the elbow, and I'm just like, woss this guy, you know, And then finally I look over and the somebody takes the towel off. It's a very famous man,

and I know that. I it sucks for me to tell you that and then not tell you who it is. But you would know who it was if I told you. And I thought, huh, interesting. Well, everybody's getting psyched up as it's getting closer to the time two thirty seven am. They have this big fireworks display. They have this drone show that they say has it's using technology and techniques that have never been used before. Just big, glorious, amazing I mean, this is a celebration of magnificent Vegas proportions.

And so then finally it came time for and I mean, I don't know why two thirty seven am. And that is interesting how specific it is. And I mean, you're talking about a situation where they have to halt airplanes flying over and all kinds of stuff, so who knows what they take into consideration to come up with that. So the excite. So at this point, everybody's been drinking.

I mean there's been an open bar for like three three and a half hours or something, I don't know, and so people are drinking, people are acting kind of kind of crazy. But everybody was cool, you know, everybody was fun and nice. And then here is the big moment and the excitement you're talking about building for months. So I brought a little audio recorder with me and I'm going to play for you right now the audio of the moment when the building that we were looking

at came down. Because what we're talking about here is it's the middle of the night, you're looking out a window, you've just seen fireworks. Everybody psyched, and then you start hearing. And first we heard the other tower, Uh, coming down, and then the one right in front of us came down. Here's here's the audio from from what uh, Here's here's

the audio from that moment. Okay, Oh, and I did have to bleep out at least one word because people have a tendency to curse when this kind of thing happens. You can imagine how powerful the percussion was from that.

And actually, afterward, I thought to myself, it's probably a good thing that we weren't out on a patio, because as soon as that thing collapsed in on itself, there was this gigantic, boiling, roiling, thick, dark gray cloud of dust that just came seething out from it and just slowly moved up to the window like a big fog. And yeah, if you'd been outside, you would have been covered covered with dust and breathing in who knows what

and getting that in your eyes. So yeah, I can see why when you're that close to it, it's not a good idea to be out on the patio. And also, I mean, we didn't have to use earplugs or anything, which who knows that maybe if you were standing out on a patio that close you maybe you could damage your ears, I guess so, but it was. It was definitely a p and the thing that that stood out the most for me was that. And you've probably seen these videos before, and so you know what I'm talking about.

It's a gigantic structure right there before your eyes and then within seconds it just looks like it melts. It's not like it goes pop. I mean you could see little little lights here and there because it was dark, but basically all together because it just gives the impression that this giant building just melts. And then when finally the dust clear is there's just a big clump. It's like a like a hill of debris there. And if you follow me on social media then you've probably seen

some of the footage. Laren got just news like TV news quality footage of this. Uh. If if you follow my social media on Facebook or Twitter, we may or may not have an my Instagram page. There's an Instagram page just for this show called Joshua P. Warren Podcast, And if it's not there, we'll get something up there for you. But I mean, it just it's so weird to watch something gigantic like that and melt in a

matter of seconds and right off the bat. There were people saying, doesn't this remind you of how Building seven looked nine to eleven when the World Trade Center was attacked, And it really does. You know, one of my best friends was Jim Mars, the greatest conspiracy theorist who ever lived.

And of course we know that planes hit the two towers, but there was this other building called seven World Trade Center, and there are lots of people who say that if you look at that footage of that thing collapsing, a plane did not hit it. And there are people who say it was a controlled demolition, that this forty seven story skyscraper that stood across Vesey Street, north of the main part of the World Trade Center site was intentionally

destroyed with explosives. As I said, Unlike the Twin Towers, seven World Trade Center was not hit by a plane, although it was hit by debris from the Twin Towers and was damaged by fires which burned for seven hours until it collapsed completely at about five to twenty pm

on the evening of September eleventh. Proponents typically say the collapse of seven World Trade Center was not mentioned in the nine to eleven Commission report, and that the federal body charged with investigating the event required seven years to

conduct its investigation and issue a report. Apparently, some people say that it was it was demolished because it may have served as an operational center for the demolition of the twin towers, while others suggest the government may have had insiders that wanted to destroy some key files in the building pertaining to fraud. This building housed dozens of federal, state, and local government agencies. Look, I don't know, I really don't know. I've heard people say this for the longest time,

and I honestly do not know. But what I can tell you is that when I go back and I look at footage of Building seven, I don't see the little sparks of light like we saw when the Tropicana was demolished. But Tropicana was demolished at night, and so it's maybe in the daytime you wouldn't see that, you wouldn't see those sparks, or maybe a totally different type of explosive technology was used that would not create those kinds of sparks. I really I can't tell you, but

it does look. I mean, when you when you watch that footage, I'm telling you it looks like a demolition. I'm not saying it is. I'm not saying it was, but it does look like it. After the demolition, they told us that we could not leave until six in the morning because the roads were closed off. Like, oh, you kidding me. You know, we've been here since eight o'clock. We don't want to stay till six in the morning. The party ended at I think three thirty am, so

we set our goodbyes. We went down into the lobby of the MGM Grand and the lobby was hazy with dust. There were people wearing masks in the lobby of the MGM Grand, So that was I mean, I guess that shouldn't be totally unexpected, but that was kind of weird, you know that. You see you see Lauren took pictures of of you know, the hazy lobby. So we thought, well, are we going to be wrapped here or can we actually get out of here and start working our way

back home. So we decided to go outside, hit the strip and start walking and get outside of the demolition zone. When we come back from this break, I'm going to tell you about something rather magnificent that happened after this. And then also I believe I will have time to tell you about a new concept in using radionics and wishing machines. A great tip for you that I've been

saving up for a while. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back. Welcome back to the final segments of this edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren, and I definitely want to make sure that I think Murray Sawchuck Murray the magician and his wife Danny Elizabeth

the showgirl. I guess she's Danny Sawchuk now because she was Danny Elizabeth and now they're married. Thank them for having me and Lauren. And I want to also reiterate that if you go to Google and type in Joshua P. Warren Daily, you will find the podcast that I used to do I still occasionally will do, like Special Reports, but it's an R rated, uncensored podcast, and I interviewed both of them on it. I interviewed Murray. If you

find the one from June fifth, twenty eighteen. It's called I Interviewed Murray the Magician, and then I interviewed Danny the Showgirl on August fifteenth of twenty eighteen, and that is called My Call with Top Vegas Showgirl Danny Elizabeth Danny spelled d A N I. And you can learn about their life stories and they're just really warm, kind, generous people, and I guess that's why that they liked

us throw these kinds of parties and socialize. Well, Lauren and I we didn't want to stick around all six o'clock in the morning, so yeah, we hit the road and finally we ended up going into another hotel casino where we could catch a taxi. And at this point it's like four o'clock in the morning. We knew we were going to be up all night, of course, and so we decided to stop at a bar, because there are lots of twenty four hour bars here in Vegas.

Of course, stop at a bar and pick up some food to take back to the house to eat and then go to bed. And we just so happened to be near this bar that we were at, oh maybe a couple months ago, when Lauren sat down and hit a delt royal flush. And if you know anything about video poker, I mean, that's the holy grail. A lot of people never hit a royal flush in their entire lives. She goes in there wearing her electrom ring, she sat down,

she didn't even put that much money in. It might have been twenty bucks, and next thing you know, she hits a delt royal and wins at least a thousand dollar. We went back to that same bar that night. So we go in, sit down, we order our food. While we're waiting for the food, we start playing the video poker and guess what, it's my turn this time. I'm wearing the electrom ring, I'm wearing the real gold chain,

and boom, I hit a royal flush. And I was betting more than she was, so I went even more money. And I just can't believe that both of us went there and hit royal flushes. And no, I'm not going to tell you what bar this is. This is our this is our our our little secrets here, all right. But if you're interested in the electrom ring, go to joshuap Warren dot com. You can right now, I believe you can get one made for you an electrom ring, or if you want, if you really want to go hardcore,

get the gold chain. Go to the Real gold Chain dot com the Real gold Chain dot Com and you'll see why these are such special items, you know. I honestly, I felt kind of bad because we're just having a blast. We're having the time of our lives. We're in these luxurious hotels, we're eating the best food, we're having these parties, we're winning money. I mean like we're having a good time.

And yet while this was happening, all of these storms and hurricanes we're hitting the southeast North Carolina, my hometown in Florida, and people are suffering and there's nothing I can do about it at this point. But let me just I want to state this as plainly as I can. It's not like that these things happen and you're never

gonna have to go through them again. I have a Sunshine Simple solar generator, so I don't need gas, and that's what I use when I have a disaster situation, and it is the world's most powerful solar generator for the price period. I created the company many years ago and then I sold it to Mobius because he's the engineer who actually puts them together. So I'm just going to tell you I'm not being paid to say this.

Go to Sunshine Simple dot com. Just watch the video and think about how much better your life would have been if you went through those things if you had had the Sunshine Simple generator. Sunshine Simple dot com. Okay, now I want to before we run out of time, I want to tell you something that I've been thinking about that I believe that you will find of interest. Years ago, when I was first learning about wishing machines and radionics and psionics, and I mean we were talking about,

you know, when I was a teenager. I think I was sixteen when I first started maybe yeah, probably sixteen when I started learning about this stuff. I started reading some of these books by radionics pioneers like Charles Costomano. Of course, his work was also based on Abrams, doctor Abrams, who were going back to the nineteen twenties in that case, and often the instructions would say, set your machine for whatever intention that you want. You put whatever you want

on the input plate. Here's how you tune it. There are different variations, but when you're done, you put this machine away and you forget about it, and it's going to sit there and start working for you even though you're not thinking about it. Maybe it's a subconscious thing. I don't know. And over the years I have done that, I'll set the machine, I'll put it somewhere where I

don't even notice it, I won't even see it. But recently I have been testing this theory so that instead of putting my machine with a wish on it out of the way, I put it in a very inconvenient place, like right in the middle of a walkway that I know I'm going to go through every day, so that I have to notice it every single time. And at this point, to my surprise, I am finding that I seem to be having better luck if I actually see the machine every day while it's working. And I think

this may have to do with reverse psychology. If you go to Wikipedia, it says reverse psychology is a technique involving the assertion of a belief or a behavior opposite to the one desired, with the expectation that this approach will encourage the subject of the persuasion to do what is actually desired. Okay, so basically what that means is you're kind of trying to manipulate a person. So if I say don't think of a pink elephant, boom, you

thought of a pink elephant. Now that works for everybody. But if I say, don't believe this wish is gonna come true, it may not work that way because I think it depends on whether or not you are overtly susceptible to reverse psychology. And what I have found is that maybe I'm a little too literal in how I view the world, but reverse psychology does, generally speaking, not work on me. So there are people that it works on. I guess like a charm, which is why it exists.

You tell somebody the opposite, like no drink, drink, drink, and they're going to want to stop drinking. Smoke smoke, smoke, and they're going to want to stop smoking. I guess that works, but for me it doesn't. So if you have been using a manifestation tool, whether it's a wishing machine or something else, and you find that you are the type of person that is not usually sensitive to reverse psychology, try doing the opposite of what the old

school told you to do. So what I'm saying is instead of setting the machine and then putting it away so you don't see it and you don't notice it, you don't think about it, which is what all the original texts said, try doing the opposite. Try placing it very prominently in an inconvenient spot where you are forced to notice it. You're practically stumbling over it, so that you're thinking about it every day. And that might be the magic bullet there that makes this thing actually work

for you. If you have struggled and you hear all these stories, these success stories about people using wishing machines, and maybe you're like, ah, I don't get it, it's not working for me. Try that out. Try doing what's against the grain, against the tradition. Put it in a place where you do notice it, and see if that changes things for you. All right, well the clock has got us, So now it's time to end the show.

And well, my favorite way I'm about to play for you a tone that people say has improved their lives dramatically. So take some deep breaths, if you can close your eyes, I want you to take twenty seconds to focus on the positive. Now Here is the original, the world famous, the one and only good fortune tone. That's it for this edition of the show. Follow me at Joshua P. Warren, Plus visit Joshuapwarren dot com to sign up for my free E newsletter to receive a free instant gift, and

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