Episode 219: Here’s a Wild Grab Bag of Stuff to PONDER: Mental Manna!

kind of all over the place. That is, because when you do a show like this professionally on a regular basis, it really is a job that never ends. I mean, I spend every waking hour of every day sort of scanning the world around me, looking for ideas, topics to talk about and explore experiments that I can do or that you can do. I'm always thinking about something that can come across well on the show, and especially because as you know, this is not really an interview show.

I mean, occasionally, rarely I'll interview somebody, but for the most part, I don't do interviews on this show because everybody else does that I'm doing something different, and honestly, I can say that for me, this job is kind of a twenty four to seven job because even when I'm sleeping, I'm vividly dreaming, and those dreams sometimes make it into the show. So here's what I end up with.

I end up with thousands of notes all around me all the time, whether they're on the phone or scribbled on pieces of paper, just things that I think of that are interesting to me, that I jot down and say maybe at some point I'll find an opportunity to talk about this on the show. And I sat down just the other day and I was looking at a bunch of these and I thought, you know, I'm not

sure that anything could tie all this stuff together. There's no common thread that I can see other than the fact that these are all things that I'm interested in. So I said, you know what, let me just do a show where I just take some of these things that I have thought about that I think are interesting and just toss it out there to you and get your feedback. This is what I call mental manna, similar

to just those things that make you go hmm. And so I'm not even sure where we're going to go on the show, but let's just dive right into it see what happens. One thing I believe we can all relate to is something that was brought up recently and a conversation that Bill Maher had on his podcast with the actor Malcolm McDowell, who, of course is most famous for playing the lead role in the Stanley Kubrick movie

at Clockwork Orange. They were talking about the way that technology has developed, because both of these guys are up there in years, and I believe it was Malcolm McDowell,

I'm not sure it may have been Bill Maher. One of them said that, you know, television was the Internet of its time, and now you see how things have changed and how we've not only gotten into this you know, internet age, but we also have this attention span that's getting shorter and shorter because of how quickly information travels. I mean, we're now sort of in I mean, look in a text. Some people don't even write a full sentence. They just basically put some symbols down there and some

leaps speak to get points across. It's almost like the old days of telegraph even faster though, or the whole Twitter mentality that's just you know, get it out there in a line or two. Because you're so bombarded with information. The attention span is so short that you know, I remember when I was a kid, you would order something and you knew that maybe it was going to show up in a couple of weeks. Now you order something from Amazon and it might be there the same day

or the next day. And so people get frustrated if they have to wait a couple of weeks for something because they order it from a normal person. And you know, I was talking about the experiment that I've been doing with the time camera and how that and this again is probably a little more relevant to people who are maybe forty years old or older. But you know, back when you were younger, when people were still using polaroid cameras.

You know, you'd push the button this was would pop out, and it was like a miracle because you could develop your own film right there on the spot. And so I've recently started working with polaroid again and I asked people, so, how long has it been since you developed the polaroid photo? They say, well, probably been twenty years, thirty years. And I say, how long do you think it takes for a polaroid picture to develop? And they usually say, like, I don't know, two or three minutes. It turns out

it's ten or fifteen minutes. And when you wait for a polaroid to develop now for ten or fifteen minutes, it takes it seems like it takes forever. This is just an example of how again I think art Belt called this the quickening, this increase and the frequency of all action and information and everything that you're thinking about and interacting with and everything that you're expecting to come to you. And it's getting faster and faster. Even in

the Internet. You may remember dial up internet. I mean, if you had to wait around for internet that's that slow these days, you would throw your computer out the window. We expect things instantaneous, and you know what, we are almost going to have instantaneous computing. You know, right now they're working on quantum caning, and that should be basically instantaneous. At some point there will be no delay whatsoever. Look at the history of aircraft. How that aircraft, I mean,

it just keeps getting faster and faster. I don't know how fast the Wright Brothers plane could go, but you know now we're shooting off rockets into outer space to

go twenty five thousand miles per hour. I mean. And if you follow that train of thought and you start imagining that as civilizations evolve and develop, that things happen faster and faster and faster, and then you imagine that some of these UFOs that we see flying around are from extremely advanced civilizations of some kind, then it would kind of make sense that their aircraft could travel at rates that are are mind boggling to us, almost instantaneous.

And you know that we think sometimes about like, well, it's but there are still physical laws. There's no way that a UFO could just teleport itself from here to there or travel, you know, a thousand miles per hour, accelerating from one to two seconds and all this kind of stuff. It's it's physically impossible. Well, you know what, a lot of scientists used to believe that breaking the sound barrier was impossible as well. Have you ever seen

the movie The Right Stuff They dig into that. There were people who thought that if you were in an aircraft and you could somehow go faster than the speed of sound, that it would just destroy everything. It was. It was it was a wall that could not be broken, and it seemed that way for years until finally Chuck

Yeger did it. So I'm thinking that maybe our understanding of the laws of physics is not complete and that these advanced craft can travel at these high rates of speed because that it is part of the natural progression

of the evolution of civilization. And that's also why that I've captured some of my most interesting UFOs by going outside and using a high speed camera which shoots at least one thousand frames per second, so that you can actually capture things that are otherwise moving too fast for the human eye to see the naked human eye. It slows things down as you're actually videotaping it. And when you consider however, that we have all these amazing tools.

It's like I saw some meme the other day, and I can't remember exactly how it was set up, but there was a sort of a googly eyed school teacher there and the caption was teachers in the nineties, and the teacher was saying, you're not always gonna have a calculator on you, ha ha. Little did they know, right,

we pretty much always have a calculator. And that's probably why people are, I would imagine, worse at math than ever now, because I mean, how was the last time you had to really read an old fashioned map and memorize a route from A to B to C when you're driving your car? I mean, you know, you just punch it in and follow the Google the Google instructions or whatever you use. So are humans, despite the fact that we're becoming more and more advanced, are we individually

becoming smarter or dumber? And I guess you could say the same thing collectively in a way, I mean, the collection is made up of the individual. So are humans becoming smarter or dumber? Look at what the ancient people knew, and look at the things that they accomplished, the things that they understood the time that they took to observe the sky and memorize things and look for patterns, And now,

like I say, people can barely do math anymore. When we come back from this break, I want to tell you a story that's kind of funny, but it's about something that annoyed me the other day when I went to a restaurant and it kind of leads into something you've probably heard about before, called the Peter principle. And you know, the longer I live, the more I believe in this thing called the Peter principle. Who knows what we're going to get into on this show. Hey, you know,

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a m paranormal podcast network. I am your host, the 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 night is silver. Agiatato Zoom. And here in Vegas, out west, there is a chain of restaurants in a few states I was going to I thought about telling you the name of the restaurant, and I've just decided not to do it because I don't think this is worth causing any problems

for a business. You know, I say something on a forum like this and a lot of people are going to hear about it. But it's a chain, it's small chain. There are fifty eight locations of this restaurant out west, and I'm not even going to tell you the type of food that they serve. That would give it away in a heartbeat. But here's here's what's kind of interesting about this type of restaurant. And you know, gosh, there are thousands of restaurants in Las Vegas, a lot of

places to pick and choose from this particular place. It's one of those establishments that's it's set up kind of like a high class fast food restaurant. So what I mean by that is when you walk in, you know, it has the counter just like at McDonald's, where you go up and you place your order, but then it takes a long time for them to make the food. You sit there with your number, and they also have beer and wine, so you see what I mean. It's like a little step up in some regards from like

your traditional fast food establishment. So I went in there recently with my wife Lauren, and here was my plan. Knowing that I was going to have to wait for them to prepare the food a bit, I figured, well, while I'm waiting, I will sit down and drink a beer. So I walked in. I was going to go up to the counter to order, and this young lady who works there sort of rushed up and says, oh, you can use the kiosk. Oh go okay. I said, well,

because you know how it is these days. I'm sure you've seen the fast food kiosk with the touchscreens, even though you're standing inside there and I'm talking to an employee. Use the computer here, okay. And I said, well, but here's what i'd like to do. I would like to place my order and then sit down and drink a beer while I'm waiting for the food to be prepared. And she goes, yeah, okay, you could just just order

on the kiosk. And I said, so I can order a beer through the kiosk, and she says, yeah yeah. I was like, huh, that's surprising, because you know, I usually it's I'm sure at some point I'm gonna have to show an ID to somebody. I guess but and I go, all right, fine, So I go over to

the kiosk. I order everything, get to the beverages. There's no alcohol listed there, so I order everything except the alcohol, and I say to her, excuse me, excuse me, there's no place to order a beer, and she goes, yeah, there isn't know there. So she comes over and she looks and she goes, huh, okay, well you'll have to go over there and order at the counter. Then okay, that's what I was going to do. So then I finish up my order on the on the kiosk for

everything else. Now I have to stay and in the line behind some other people. And then when I get up there in line, I say I would like just to order a beer, you know, and they're like, okay, thanks, have a seat, we'll bring it out to you. So then I go and I sit down, and oh, I would say, about eight minutes later my food came out, and then like nine minutes later my beer comes out, and I'm like, this makes no sense. I actually have just been able to walk in there and be like,

I'll take the beer right now, here's my order. I'll be over here, let me know when the food's done, and I'm done with that beer by the time. Now look, I know you're thinking, Josh, you're making a mountain out of a mole hill here, But it's just an example of the way that we are substituting technology for common sense these days. It reminds me of this time I was at an airport and I can't remember where I was,

but I same kind of thing. I went into a bar and I ordered some you know, glass of wine or something like that while I was waiting for a flight. And then after I sat down, there was this man behind me and he was every bit of ninety five years old. Okay, this is one of the oldest looking men I've ever seen. And he orders a beer and the guy, who's like twenty five years old, says, I

got to see your ID. And the old man just looks at him for a second goes, are you serious and he says yeah, and he goes, well, it's in it's in my in my suitcase. He's like sorry. He makes this old man get down on his hands and knees and open unzip his suitcase and pull through all of his clothes to get just like, this is not a rubber mask. And I know they're like, well, I'm on camera. I'm on camera, and I have to do this. Okay, Fine, that's probably what the Nazis said, that the guarding the

camps just following orders. I don't know. I think that there should be a little more common sense used in some of these occasions, on some of these occasions nowadays. But when you start looking at the quality of businesses these days, and you start thinking about the fact that you know, there are people who are like my parents' age, and maybe I'm just becoming a grumpy old man. You know, I'm getting closer to fifty and so. And you might think, well, Josh,

you are always just mister optimist. You're always talking about the power positive thinking. It's like, yeah, because that doesn't come natural to me. I have to work on it. That's why I need tools and I need techniques, and why I share stuff with you that helps me, because I'm not naturally the most optimistic person. I'll get back to that a little bit later, actually, but it anyway, when you consider that like people my parents' age, they used to they'd get a job somewhere and they'd make

a career out of it. They'd be there for who knows how long, maybe they'd be there for thirty years or something like that, and they would retire and then go off and maybe they can travel and make some of their dreams come true. Now, people just they come and go from like you go to a business, head back to that business six months later, totally different group

of people. And all this reminds me of this thing you probably heard of called the Peter principle, But do you know what that really means and where that really comes from. The Peter principle is a concept in management that was developed by a man named Lawrence J. Peter. That makes sense right, and he died in nineteen ninety. He was a Canadian educator and he was sort of a I guess you could say a bit of a

psychologist who studied how people organized their thinking. And he developed this concept which observes that people in any kind of a hierarchy tend to rise to quote a level of respective incompetence. So what that means is that employees are promoted based upon their success and previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent as skills in one job do not necessarily translate

to another, and then they stay there. And he wrote this book, the Peter Principle, along with another man named Raymond Hole, and they kind of at first intended this to be satire, but it rang so true that it became really popular because it made a very serious point about the shortcomings of how people are promoted within organizations. So here's a nice little summary of exactly what it is. Now think about this. The Peter principal states that a person who is competent at their job will earn a

promotion to a position that requires different skills. If the promoted person lacks the skills required for the new role, they will be incompetent at the new level and will not be promoted again. If the person is competent in the new role, they will be promoted again and will continue to be promoted until reaching a level at which they are incompetent. Being incompetent, the individual will not qualify for promotion again and so will remain stuck at this

final placement, or what they call Peter's plateau. So you could also just say, in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. How many people do you know out there who have reached Peter's plateau? Is it possible that most of the people that you encounter in this day and age are at Peter's plateau? I kind of feel like that that makes perfect sense

to me. And because you know, the right thing to do, I guess would be to go to this person and be honest and say, instead of firing them or just keeping them where they are, say you were doing a much better job where you were before. So I know that that's you know, it hurts people and it even destroys them sometimes to think they're going to get a demotion.

But I think if you are demoted back to where you were performing well, well, for one thing, you're gonna be happier, You're probably gonna have more job security, and you might even make yourself so valuable that you end up getting more money for doing that position. So look, I'm just tossing all this stuff out there as a guy who has hired a lot of people for various

roles over the years. But when we come back from this break, but also when it comes to leadership, you know, where do you think this term comes from the Head Haun Show. This guy's the head Haunt Show. I want you to think about this during the break. What language do you think that word honchho comes from. It's got a really interesting story behind it. I'm going to tell you that when we return. And then also I have a tell a historic tale for you about something that

happened to the great Benjamin Franklin. They call it the Cockpit Incident. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I'll be back after these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua Pee Warren, and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual. Hey, here's another story for you real quick.

So there's this movie theater I like to go to here in Vegas and it has a bar, and uh, I think I just found one of the one of the common threads in these stories. It's about me going to bars and drinking. It's Las Vegas, and you know they don't call it sin city for nothing. Everywhere you go around here, you can drink and gamble twenty four

to seven. I mean the grocery store, the I mean gas stations, and and if you're a smoker, I mean, I think it's almost unheard of these days in our country, but you can go into tons of bars and casinos and smoke indoors to your heart's content. And I am not a smoker, but I'm just letting you know that. I mean, this is the most free place, perhaps you'd

say the freest place in the country. And yet at this particular movie theater, a lot of times when I go to see a movie, I will go to the bar if they have one, and I will order a drink, an alcoholic drink to take into the movie theater. So there is at this one bar I walked up the very first time. Actually, let me just put it this way. There's this lady there. She's always the bartender at this bar. So the first time I met her, I walked up to her and I told her that I wanted to

get I think it was a glass of wine. So anyway, so she gives me a glass of wine after she cards me. And that's not common in Vegas to get carted, so she looks at my ID and then then I go to the movie. And then it was a long movie, and it was kind of a boring movie, and I think, like Lauren wanted to watch the rest of the movie, and I didn't really care that much. So I go, I'm gonna go get another glass of wine. So I go back to the bar and I order from her

another glass of wine. She asked for my ID again and I said, well, and we had just I had like a long conversation with her. By the way, I was like the only customer at the bar, and I said, you got to see my idea again, and she goes yeah, And I goes, what do you what do you think I have an identical twin and even if I did, he would still be my age. She goes, oh, sorry, I gotta do it. The camera is watching me, all right. So I had to take my ID out and show

it to her for my second drink. And since then, over the years, I've gone back to this theater and every time I go in, this woman always wants to see my ID, even if I order, you know, two drinks during one movie. Anyway, Yeah, common sense, I wish do we just let computers and cameras rule every decision that we make these days. So what language do you think the word honcho comes from? Well, it actually is Japanese.

And from what I've found, during World War Two, when a lot of Americans were serving in the Pacific, they became aware that hancho was the Japanese word for leader. And so if somebody were let's say a group of guys were taken captive, then they would want to know who the head honchho was. Who's the head leader in charge of this group? You know, which may sound a little redundant, but you know, there's different levels of hierarchy. So this word made it back into the US. It

continued to become popular. So the head hot show is just the top leader, and that's a Japanese I always I love those kinds of stories where you dig into the word origins. Well, let's move on to something else, now, shall we. Now it's time for something completely different, maybe not actually, you know, I'm talking about leadership and the way that organizations are set up. And I don't, as you know, I do my darnness to avoid talking about politics on this show. You don't need to hear that here,

you get it everywhere else. But it is interesting to think about the role that our government's played and why that these governments are here, and what it says about the world that we live in, because you know, there was a one of the I guess one of the popular writers back during the period of the American Revolution was Thomas Paine, and he said that government is a

necessary evil. Government is a necessary evil. I've always thought that was fascinating to think about that because there are lots of people out there who believe that we are actually living in a rung of hell. And that may sound pretty extreme, but you have to realize, like, even if your life is great, that doesn't mean there aren't people out there who are not having a horrible experience right now. But the one thing we all have in common is that life is full of suffering, whether it's fntal,

physical or mental or emotional. I mean, like your body he breaks down. Eventually, everybody that you know and love is going to perish. They're going to be they're going to be in the ground, or who knows what. And it's sad. It's said, so is is this actually a rung of of hell? And there. You know, there's a passage from the Federalist Papers attributed to James Madison, and he wrote, if angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. Let me

read that again. He said, quote, if angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. End quote, the implication being, well, but angels are not governing governing men, and so we need some controls. That this is the fact that we need government to prevent humans, in theory from doing bad things. Means that that is the tendency of humans, which kind of goes back to the idea of original sin, that we all

are here because that we have something to learn. You know, we have some bad baggage in our spirits and we are here to learn to be better beings. And part of that is it is dealing with suffering without flipping out and doing something crazy, being able to handle it and learn from it. I guess that's the idea. And this reminds me a lot, for some reason, of this incident that happened in the life of Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin, of course, was just one of the greatest geniuses who

ever lived. He was a beloved figure among the Americans and the founding fathers. Benjamin Franklin he lived from seventeen oh six to seventeen ninety, and you know, long life, and so during that period of time he was extremely famous. He was beloved. And you also have to understand that during that period of time, America was one of the

British colonies. And so what that means is that people who lived here, who grew up in most of the seventeen hundreds, they thought of themselves as being a type of Englishmen. They weren't because they were born here in many cases, but because it was a British colony, they thought of themselves as an extension of that. And Ben

Franklin he kind of idolized the English culture. He went to England when he was a very young man, and he ingratiated himself with the people there, and as he got older, he was spending in many cases just as much time in England as he was America. And when tensions started to rise between America and Britain, which of course would eventually culminate in the Revolutionary War, he was doing whatever he could to try to alleviate some of the pressure. He thought war would be a horrible idea,

because he was smart. By seventeen seventy four, though, there was so much dissatisfaction with the British rule in America, sort of growing that Franklin, who was then Postmaster of the Colonies, he was in England and he was doing everything he could to try to urge some compromise there. And there was this one guy who just did not like him, this Englishman named Alexander Wedderburn, and he disagreed. Well, he didn't like Franklin's celebrity. He looked down upon Franklin

for being an American. He thought of him as being kind of a redneck. And so he asked Benjamin Franklin to show up for a meeting in front of all these distinguished British politicians at this place they called the cockpit because back in the day they used to have

cock fights there. So Franklin thought he was walking into this room full of Englishmen just so that they could talk about compromise instead that he got kind of ambushed, and this guy, Alexander Wedderburn gets up on a pulpit there and he just spends an hour talking about how he does not like Benjamin Franklin. What a disgrace Benjamin Franklin is. He literally says that, Okay, we got to take a break. We come back. I'm gonna explain to you why that I'm telling you this story. It's very

meaningful and it's kind of inspirational in a way. And then also trivia question for you, where do you think is the only place in the world where you might find a wild red wolf. 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 segment 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 never forget what comedian Stephen Wright said, half of the people you know are below average. That is true. That is true. Maybe maybe I shouldn't say half the people you know, but half the people out there are below average. Probably half the people you know. Hey, here's some here's a quick mental manna tip. I found that if you want your doctor to do a better job

and be very careful with you. They they do a better job if when they start doing whatever they're gonna do, you just scream really loud like ah. Now they're used to hearing regular screaming, so you've got to take it to eleven. And then they go, whoa, we got a screamer here. And then they kind of wake up and they start telling the rest of the staff, and everybody takes really good care with you. Know, they're very careful

with you, So don't forget that lesson. Benjamin Franklin was standing in this arena, so to speak, called the cockpit, with this Englishman just absolutely telling him he was a disgrace. The englishman said, quote, Franklin has forfeited all of the respect of societies and of men, end quote. Throughout this whole hour, they say that Franklin just stood there still.

I'm sure he was in shock. He was showing no emotion, said he was conspicuously erect, without the smallest movement of any part of his body, his unchanging expression tranquil, placid. And when this was over, Franklin, they asked Franklin if he wanted to be cross examined and Franklin just said nope,

and he turns around and walks out the door. There's no telling how damaging and this was to Franklin because he had such admiration for the English and he thought he'd sort of been adopted by them, and this just hurt him to the very core because he admired the English culture so much. But historians say that terrible experience

for him. That was the day when Benjamin Franklin became a true American and that's when he left and he went out and he started raising money left and right and inspiring people and organizing things that would help to create the American Revolution. And if Franklin had stuck with trying to, you know, create some compromise with the English, there may have never been a war. A lot of people say, this guy, Alexander Wedderburn is possibly the man

who cost England America because of this one jerk. And you know, Benjamin Franklin was never a president. Some people. You know, I talked about Benjamin Franklin a while back, and I said that, you know, Grizzly Adams named his bear Ben after Benjamin Franklin because people were really into the presidents. I wasn't insinuating that Benjamin Franklin was a president, just that he hung out with all of the first

presidents and he was part of that culture. He very easily could have been a president, and he probably only was not a president just because he was too old by the time all of that went down. My point is that this terrible experience for this great man was what was necessary in order for him to go out and do something that was very, very difficult, but ended up creating this wonderful country that I live in and

the freedom that I enjoy here. And this is again the mystery of optimism, that you can't always just take something bad at face value and just allow yourself to stay down on the dumps. You have to look at it as motivation for you to go out and do something pausive. As they say, when one door closes, another opens, no matter how bad it is. And that's how you

also kind of have to think about even dying. I mean, even if this is some rung of hell or whatever, we know we're going to die, and I suppose that you have to be optimistic by having faith in a rewarding afterlife. But you know what, even if you don't even if you're an atheist and you don't believe in anything. Mark Twain said, quote, I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience

from it. End quote. So, hey, I guess whether you believe in nothingness or in afterlife, there's the potential for it to be positive when you move on. There is also the potential that you've been a bad person and you're not gonna like what happens to you next, which is why you better avoid that and do the best you can to be a good person. The mystery of optimism isn't that funny? Again? It's like a big classroom. You're supposed to maintain that mindset. I ask you a

trivia question before the break. Where do you think is the only place in the wild where red wolves are found? You know what a red wolf is. Let me just tell you a red wolf. Its size is intermediate between the coyote and the gray wolf. I'm looking at a picture of one right now. Yep, looks pretty wolfy. And you know it's even though they call it a red wolf. I mean it's kind of a mix of kind of reddish and grayish, maybe a little orangition there. Well, here's

the thing this surprised me. The only place where you can find I'm looking right now at the official Wildlife Federation site, the only place you can find confirmed wild red wolves in existence is North Carolina, where I'm from. I said, red wolves used to roam throughout the Eastern Seaboard from Pennsylvania to Florida and as far west as Texas, but today North Carolina's Albemarle Peninsula is home to the

only confirmed wild red wolves in existence. But listen to this says that in uh, let's see here, in the last decade, they have declined so much from one point thirty down to fifteen wolves. There are only fifteen wolves left there. If you look at the chart of extinction, like I guess, conservation status status they are they are one wrung before you start getting into the extinct territory. So that's I guess that's not good unless they eat people.

I doubt that. So I just thought that was fascinating. Who would have I'd never even heard of wolves in North Carolina. Well, okay, I guess before the clock has got us, uh, since I've had a little bit of a drinking theme going on here. You know what a mich alata is. Some people call it a mich aalata, some people call it mik a lotta. They're very popular in the American Southwest. It's a refreshing, low alcohol drink,

often called a Mexican bloody marry. It's made with tomato juice, some spices, usually some hot sauce and savory seas seasonings. But instead of vodka, it uses a cold Mexican style beer and they are absolutely delicious in my opinion, And usually they have some kind of salt or chili chili pepper kind of stuff around the rim. Michlatta's. If you've never had to meetch a lotta, go out there and find a good bartender somewhere and say make me a met you a lota, especially if you like, you know,

bloody Mary's. I was always wondering where did this come from, though, like again, go back to word origins. The most popular theory is that it was invented by a man named Mikhail Esper. He was a member of this club called the Club Deportivou Potosino in San Luis Potosi and Mexico in the nineteen sixties. It said that he liked to have his beer with limes, salt, ice, and a straw, which resembled lemonade, and some club members began calling it

Michel's lemonade, which eventually became shortened to mikilada. Of course, they say it also may have been doubly named because in Spanish michela helata means my ice cold beer, So I guess it may have worked on two fronts. But I guess this guy, Michel espere uh, he was the inspiration for the Mikilada. Well, I hope you've enjoyed that selection of mental manna. Kind of all over the place, but also sort of fun to go through and check some of the things off I've been wanting to talk

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