# Episode 308: Homeopathy: The TRUE Story!

An episode of [The Best of Coast to Coast AM](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1206175991), 14 Sep 2026, 51 min.

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## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Welcome to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal
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[0:54] Speaker 3: Get ready to be amazed by the Wizard of Weird.
[0:58] Speaker 1: This is Strange Things with Joshua P. Warren. I am
[1:08] Speaker 1: Joshua P. Warren, and each week on this show, I'll
[1:10] Speaker 1: be bringing you brand new, mind-blowing content, news, exercises, and
[1:15] Speaker 1: weird experiments you can do at home, and a lot more.
[1:19] Speaker 1: On this edition of the show, homeopathy, the true story. Now,
[1:27] Speaker 1: I may be exaggerating a little bit here because, look,
[1:31] Speaker 1: I don't have a background in homeopathy. I'm just an
[1:35] Speaker 1: old redneck from Western North Carolina with a microphone. So
[1:39] Speaker 1: don't hold me to anything I'm about to tell you.
[1:43] Speaker 1: But I have been fascinated by homeopathy for a long time,
[1:48] Speaker 1: and I'm going to do my best to kind of
[1:49] Speaker 1: break this down for you according to what I understand,
[1:55] Speaker 1: because it's much more interesting than people generally think. And
[2:00] Speaker 1: I want to tell you right up front that I'm
[2:02] Speaker 1: not here to promote homeopathy. I'm not going to sell
[2:06] Speaker 1: you some homeopathic treatment. This is just a very strange
[2:10] Speaker 1: and interesting concept for us to explore, because I'm willing
[2:14] Speaker 1: to bet that many of you listening might walk into
[2:19] Speaker 1: a store, and yes, it could be a totally legitimate drugstore, pharmacy,
[2:25] Speaker 1: and you see some kind of a quote-unquote homeopathic treatment
[2:30] Speaker 1: there on the shelf, and you just think that means, well,
[2:33] Speaker 1: this is something that's all natural and homegrown. That's kind
[2:37] Speaker 1: of the impression that many people have from just hearing
[2:42] Speaker 1: the word or seeing the word homeopathic. But it turns
[2:46] Speaker 1: out it's much more bizarre than that. So I'm going
[2:51] Speaker 1: to do my best to tell you kind of what
[2:53] Speaker 1: I've learned about this and some of my experiences, my
[2:56] Speaker 1: personal experiences experimenting with this, because it actually does have
[3:01] Speaker 1: a paranormal bend to it, believe it or not. So, okay,
[3:08] Speaker 1: here's kind of like what I've come up with. All right,
[3:12] Speaker 1: in 1796... there was this German doctor named Samuel Hahnemann.
[3:21] Speaker 1: And Hahnemann was understandably disappointed with the mainstream medicine of
[3:29] Speaker 1: that time in the late 1700s, because a lot of
[3:33] Speaker 1: it just didn't work. And he thought it was ineffective
[3:38] Speaker 1: and often harmful. And so he had a different kind
[3:42] Speaker 1: of view of what medicine and its relationship with the
[3:46] Speaker 1: body might be all about. And some people say that
[3:50] Speaker 1: this is called a vitalistic view, meaning that living organisms
[3:58] Speaker 1: are differentiated from the non-living by the presence of forces
[4:03] Speaker 1: or properties or or powers that may not just be
[4:08] Speaker 1: expressed according to physical or chemical elements. See, nowadays, our
[4:14] Speaker 1: medical science is based upon primarily chemistry, which is a
[4:20] Speaker 1: very physical thing. You can look at the chain reaction,
[4:23] Speaker 1: cause and effect under a microscope. But he thought that
[4:28] Speaker 1: it went a level deeper than that. That yes, there
[4:32] Speaker 1: may be a level of chemistry there, which is visible.
[4:36] Speaker 1: But behind that is some kind of a fundamental force.
[4:41] Speaker 1: And that's almost what we would consider scientifically a paranormal
[4:44] Speaker 1: concept today. It kind of borders on the idea of
[4:48] Speaker 1: chi or ki or prana, some kind of a bioenergy
[4:52] Speaker 1: that can be affected. And so he began experimenting with
[4:58] Speaker 1: this concept of like cures like. And what that means is,
[5:06] Speaker 1: He began to notice that often if you would give
[5:10] Speaker 1: someone a remedy for some problem, that that remedy was
[5:19] Speaker 1: also capable of creating that problem. Which sounds very weird
[5:25] Speaker 1: at first, but I don't know how often, like, if
[5:29] Speaker 1: you look at your modern-day medicine boxes and bottles, and
[5:34] Speaker 1: let me tell you, you better have a magnifying glass
[5:41] Speaker 1: if you really want to read the fine print. I'm
[5:43] Speaker 1: not exaggerating there. You really do. I have a magnifying glass,
[5:47] Speaker 1: and before I take something, And it's not just because,
[5:51] Speaker 1: you know, I'm getting older here. I mean, like, I
[5:54] Speaker 1: have to take it out because the fine print is
[5:56] Speaker 1: getting smaller and smaller. Have you noticed this? And what
[6:01] Speaker 1: you find is that usually if you take something for
[6:03] Speaker 1: a headache, it will say possible side effects could cause
[6:07] Speaker 1: a headache. Or you take something for an upset stomach.
[6:12] Speaker 1: Possible side effect could cause an upset stomach. It's very
[6:16] Speaker 1: weird how... I can't think of many examples where you
[6:21] Speaker 1: can take a medicine and read the fine print where
[6:24] Speaker 1: it doesn't say possible side effect as it could create
[6:27] Speaker 1: the effect that you're trying to cure or prevent or whatever.
[6:35] Speaker 1: So he was kind of onto something with this idea
[6:38] Speaker 1: that maybe if you take a little bit of something
[6:43] Speaker 1: that caused the problem and you introduce it to the body, well,
[6:48] Speaker 1: then it might somehow help the body to adjust to
[6:53] Speaker 1: it and then fight it off. And you might look
[6:56] Speaker 1: at that and say, well, Josh, duh, that's what vaccines
[7:02] Speaker 1: are all about. And you're right. That is absolutely correct.
[7:08] Speaker 1: And I know that there are a lot of you,
[7:10] Speaker 1: you hear the word vaccine right now, and you don't
[7:14] Speaker 1: like it because of what we went through with the pandemic.
[7:18] Speaker 1: But the reality is, I mean, there have been vaccines
[7:22] Speaker 1: all throughout history that have saved many, many lives. I mean,
[7:28] Speaker 1: the smallpox vaccine, that was a huge one. It was
[7:31] Speaker 1: developed by Dr. Edward Jenner in 1796. They call it
[7:38] Speaker 1: the most powerful and successful vaccine in history. And it
[7:42] Speaker 1: saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide. And smallpox was
[7:49] Speaker 1: just absolutely horrible, okay? When you got smallpox back in
[7:53] Speaker 1: those days, you'd get, of course, you had a high,
[7:55] Speaker 1: high fever. It would cause severe pain, headache, backache, muscle fatigue,
[8:02] Speaker 1: lots of nausea and vomiting. You would get mouth sores,
[8:08] Speaker 1: big flat red spots would first appear on your tongue
[8:11] Speaker 1: and then inside your mouth, and then those would turn
[8:13] Speaker 1: into bigger sores that would break open. You'd get a
[8:16] Speaker 1: rash on your face. that would start spreading then to
[8:19] Speaker 1: your arms and legs and hands and feet. You'd get
[8:21] Speaker 1: blisters that would turn into these firm, raised, fluid-filled vesicles
[8:27] Speaker 1: that would fill with pus. I mean, I know this
[8:29] Speaker 1: is gross. Trust me, I have a weak stomach. And then,
[8:33] Speaker 1: you know, if you made it through it, if you
[8:35] Speaker 1: didn't die, then these pustules would crust over into scabs. eventually,
[8:42] Speaker 1: and then they would fall off, and then they'd leave
[8:44] Speaker 1: these deep-pitted scars. I mean, this is some horrible, nightmarish stuff.
[8:50] Speaker 1: And one thing that I've always found interesting about American
[8:52] Speaker 1: history is that George Washington took a risk during the
[9:00] Speaker 1: Revolutionary War, and he ordered the mandatory inoculation of his
[9:07] Speaker 1: army to using a procedure at that time they called variolation.
[9:15] Speaker 1: And what that meant was that they would take something
[9:17] Speaker 1: like pus from an active smallpox blister, and then they
[9:23] Speaker 1: would go to a soldier and they would make a
[9:26] Speaker 1: little scratch or incision on that healthy soldier's skin and
[9:33] Speaker 1: rub that nasty old diseased pus in there. And believe
[9:38] Speaker 1: it or not, By by introducing the virus through this
[9:44] Speaker 1: little superficial scratch rather than something like the lungs, it
[9:48] Speaker 1: would usually produce a much milder case of smallpox that
[9:52] Speaker 1: they could get over. And then they were granted lifelong immunity.
[9:58] Speaker 1: And it is said that because. of this, we may
[10:02] Speaker 1: have won the Revolutionary War. That he took that decisive decision,
[10:08] Speaker 1: and some even say it was a secretive step, to
[10:11] Speaker 1: mandate this to his troops. And so many people say
[10:15] Speaker 1: that if he had not done this, then his whole
[10:18] Speaker 1: continental army would have been destroyed by disease. That is
[10:22] Speaker 1: a form of vaccination. Of course, we have things like
[10:27] Speaker 1: the polio vaccine introduced by Jonas Salk, 1955, stopped worldwide
[10:36] Speaker 1: paralysis and death in children. So look, I'm not here
[10:40] Speaker 1: to argue vaccines are But what I can tell you
[10:44] Speaker 1: is that this guy in the 1700s, this German guy,
[10:50] Speaker 1: let's see, what's his name again? Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. I
[10:56] Speaker 1: think he was thinking about this concept. And he said,
[11:00] Speaker 1: you know, you can take a little bit of the
[11:02] Speaker 1: thing that hurts somebody and introduce it to their body,
[11:09] Speaker 1: and it will actually work. cure them or heal them,
[11:13] Speaker 1: so to speak. And you could make a case for
[11:17] Speaker 1: that being scientifically acceptable by the standards I just explained
[11:21] Speaker 1: to you. But then, then he started getting really creative.
[11:28] Speaker 1: And that's when some people think he may have kind
[11:31] Speaker 1: of gone off the rails because he decided to add
[11:34] Speaker 1: another step into this. And I'll tell you about that
[11:38] Speaker 1: step when we get back from this break. Hey, you
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[13:12] Speaker 1: to Strange Things. On the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
[13:33] Speaker 1: AM paranormal podcast network, I am your host, the Wizard
[13:37] Speaker 1: of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain
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[13:53] Speaker 1: the old doctor there, Samuel Hahnemann, lived to be 88
[13:57] Speaker 1: years old. He was born in 1755 and died in 1843.
[14:04] Speaker 1: That sounds like a pretty ripe old age for that
[14:07] Speaker 1: period of time, especially, don't you think? I'm looking at
[14:11] Speaker 1: him right now, and he looks like Ebenezer Scrooge. So, okay,
[14:18] Speaker 1: here's what I was getting at. So, I think, if
[14:24] Speaker 1: I'm understanding this correctly, I think that the doctor was
[14:29] Speaker 1: saying that there is a concept which is very similar
[14:35] Speaker 1: to what we would now call vaccination, that a little
[14:40] Speaker 1: bit of the thing that hurts you might heal you.
[14:45] Speaker 1: In my neck of the woods, we call that hair
[14:47] Speaker 1: of the dog. Just kidding, but not really. So here's
[14:53] Speaker 1: where he kind of got a little creative and went
[14:55] Speaker 1: off the rails some. Well, Some people say this is
[14:59] Speaker 1: where he went into total, absolute pseudoscience. Instead of taking
[15:07] Speaker 1: little substances of the problem thing and introducing it to
[15:15] Speaker 1: the problem. And I mean, we're talking about the word homeopathy.
[15:21] Speaker 1: It comes from two Greek words. Homeo means like homeopathy.
[15:27] Speaker 1: And pathi means suffering, so like and suffering. He had
[15:33] Speaker 1: this concept of what he called miasms. And he wrote
[15:41] Speaker 1: about this, apparently. And he called them infectious principles, a
[15:48] Speaker 1: derangement of vital force. That a miasm is.
[15:55] Speaker 1: Some kind of an energy that's associated with the disease
[16:01] Speaker 1: and that it doesn't have to necessarily be reliant, reliant
[16:06] Speaker 1: upon the chemical of the disease itself, but the energy
[16:10] Speaker 1: of the disease. And so what he started doing was
[16:14] Speaker 1: instead of just taking a substance that would be considered
[16:20] Speaker 1: a vaccine, uh, and rubbing it into a wound or whatever,
[16:25] Speaker 1: he would take that substance and he would mix it
[16:28] Speaker 1: with water and dilute it and dilute it and dilute
[16:32] Speaker 1: it and dilute it and dilute it. And then say
[16:37] Speaker 1: that it didn't matter how much of the substance, the
[16:43] Speaker 1: offending substance was in there, because what mattered is that
[16:46] Speaker 1: the water would have some kind of a memory of
[16:48] Speaker 1: that energy. And it would work based upon that. So
[16:57] Speaker 1: let me just read one definition of this critical definition.
[17:02] Speaker 1: Homeopathic preparations are termed remedies and are made using homeopathic dilution.
[17:11] Speaker 1: In this process, the selected substance is repeatedly diluted until
[17:17] Speaker 1: the final product is indistinguishable from the dilutant. Often not
[17:25] Speaker 1: even one single molecule of the original substance can be
[17:29] Speaker 1: expected to remain in the product. Between each dilution, homeopaths
[17:36] Speaker 1: may hit and or shake the product, claiming this makes
[17:42] Speaker 1: the dilutant remember the original substance after its removal. And
[17:51] Speaker 1: practitioners claim that such preparations upon oral intake can treat
[17:56] Speaker 1: or cure disease. One scientific journal says all relevant scientific
[18:02] Speaker 1: knowledge about physics, chemistry, biochemistry, and biology contradicts homeopathy. They
[18:09] Speaker 1: call it a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. And quackery, fraud,
[18:20] Speaker 1: And they say that clinical studies have not led to
[18:23] Speaker 1: any scientific evidence that this is distinguishable from placebos. Okay,
[18:30] Speaker 1: so let me kind of recap this again. So it's
[18:32] Speaker 1: my understanding that– you know how a saying like George
[18:35] Speaker 1: Washington would take some pus from a smallpox wound and
[18:43] Speaker 1: then make a little scratch on a soldier's arm and
[18:45] Speaker 1: rub it in there? Well, I think that probably– Dr.
[18:50] Speaker 1: Schumann here, or I'm sorry, Samuel Hahnemann here, I think
[18:54] Speaker 1: that what he would have done is take that pus
[18:58] Speaker 1: and put it into some kind of vial or container
[19:01] Speaker 1: of water and shake it up and dilute it and
[19:04] Speaker 1: then pour it into another container and shake it up
[19:07] Speaker 1: and dilute it and keep doing that until it was
[19:10] Speaker 1: so diluted that you can't even measure the original substance.
[19:17] Speaker 1: But then say it doesn't matter because the energy of
[19:19] Speaker 1: the substance is in there, and now it will do
[19:22] Speaker 1: the same thing. So it's almost like an energy vaccine
[19:26] Speaker 1: in my mind. That's how I see this. And so
[19:30] Speaker 1: that is why the scientists say, look, we don't see
[19:35] Speaker 1: any evidence that something that is that diluted– can do anything,
[19:41] Speaker 1: especially if they say that it gets to the point
[19:44] Speaker 1: of dilution sometimes where you cannot even find evidence, one
[19:48] Speaker 1: single bit of evidence of the original product that was
[19:51] Speaker 1: put in there. Here's another way of recapping it. Like
[19:56] Speaker 1: cures like. The belief that a disease can be treated
[20:00] Speaker 1: by a substance that produces similar symptoms in a healthy person. Okay,
[20:04] Speaker 1: like I say, to me that's like a vaccine. And
[20:07] Speaker 1: then there's the law of minimum dose, the belief that
[20:10] Speaker 1: lower or more diluted doses of a substance are more effective.
[20:18] Speaker 1: So remedies are repeatedly diluted and shaken, often until no
[20:22] Speaker 1: molecules of the original material remain. So did you know
[20:30] Speaker 1: it was that weird? Did you know that when you
[20:33] Speaker 1: were looking at something on the shelf that says homeopathic,
[20:38] Speaker 1: we're talking about something that is not just kind of
[20:43] Speaker 1: like a vaccine, perhaps, but like a vaccine that works
[20:50] Speaker 1: by carrying the energy of what was the original problem component. Now, look,
[20:58] Speaker 1: people talk about placebos as if it's an insult. I
[21:02] Speaker 1: think placebos are absolutely fascinating. I think that placebos may
[21:06] Speaker 1: be more interesting than than what we consider modern medicine.
[21:11] Speaker 1: And that's because when you have a placebo effect that works, well,
[21:16] Speaker 1: it's not supposed to, but it does. So explain that.
[21:20] Speaker 1: We need a lot more work done on placebos because
[21:26] Speaker 1: people who study this kind of stuff, if they just
[21:29] Speaker 1: write off something and say, well, 95% of the time
[21:33] Speaker 1: we can explain why this worked, but 5% of the
[21:36] Speaker 1: time we can't, but it still worked. Well, that's really interesting.
[21:40] Speaker 1: Why don't we focus a little more on that 5%
[21:42] Speaker 1: of the time when it worked, but we can't explain it?
[21:46] Speaker 1: I mean, the placebo effect is fascinating because it makes
[21:50] Speaker 1: you think that maybe there is something to this concept.
[21:56] Speaker 1: And I, okay, let me give you a little bit
[22:01] Speaker 1: of my opinion at this point on this. I am
[22:04] Speaker 1: a bit of a wacko, of course, as you may
[22:06] Speaker 1: have gathered. You're listening to a show called Strange Things.
[22:11] Speaker 1: It's hosted by me. I actually do happen to believe
[22:16] Speaker 1: that water carries memory of some kind. And I say
[22:21] Speaker 1: that because that a human being is primarily water and
[22:25] Speaker 1: empty space. So if you're primarily water and you have
[22:30] Speaker 1: memories and you have feelings and you have reactions, then
[22:36] Speaker 1: I think there's a connection between water and consciousness, and
[22:39] Speaker 1: water stores things in a very special way. I've talked
[22:43] Speaker 1: about this before. I don't want to get off the
[22:45] Speaker 1: rails too far and get into it right now, but
[22:49] Speaker 1: I've done experiments like Dr. Masaru Emoto did. I've tried
[22:52] Speaker 1: to reproduce some of that, where you see if emotions
[22:57] Speaker 1: will change the crystalline form of freezing water. I mean,
[23:01] Speaker 1: I've done it. You can go back and look at,
[23:04] Speaker 1: shows that I've done on this podcast called strange things
[23:06] Speaker 1: where I, I've, I'll, you know, I report on that.
[23:11] Speaker 1: But as far as water is concerned, I mean, you know,
[23:14] Speaker 1: we live on a water planet. Your body is made
[23:18] Speaker 1: of water. And so I'm open to the idea that
[23:23] Speaker 1: the water has a memory, whether or not it's in
[23:27] Speaker 1: a human body. And then you have creatures out there
[23:31] Speaker 1: like amoebas that, And what is an amoeba? It's mainly
[23:35] Speaker 1: just a little bubble of water, but it's alive. You know,
[23:40] Speaker 1: it remembers things. It knows how to find food. It
[23:43] Speaker 1: avoids certain things it doesn't like. It doesn't have a brain,
[23:46] Speaker 1: doesn't have a nervous system, doesn't have a sense of humor.
[23:50] Speaker 1: And yet, and yet, it is able to be a
[23:56] Speaker 1: living thing that retains some kind of memory. So I'm
[23:59] Speaker 1: open to that. So scientifically, though, I mean, I understand
[24:04] Speaker 1: why they say this doesn't make any sense, that you
[24:07] Speaker 1: would dilute something to the point to where we can't
[24:09] Speaker 1: detect it, but it would still work. But on the
[24:11] Speaker 1: other hand, maybe technology will change at some point and
[24:15] Speaker 1: we will be able to detect something if we look
[24:17] Speaker 1: more into this. When we come back from this break,
[24:19] Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you about my personal experiences with
[24:22] Speaker 1: this stuff. and my final conclusion at this point. And
[24:27] Speaker 1: then I have an experiment that I want you to do.
[24:29] Speaker 1: That's part of the fun of this show. It's simple,
[24:33] Speaker 1: but you might find it really fascinating if you try
[24:37] Speaker 1: this out with one of your friends or loved ones.
[24:40] Speaker 1: It might actually tell you something about the way the
[24:43] Speaker 1: human mind works. And you might be able to use
[24:48] Speaker 1: it to tell if somebody is lying to you, or
[24:52] Speaker 1: to tell if somebody is... up to snuff in a
[24:57] Speaker 1: certain regard or not depending on the situation you'll see
[25:01] Speaker 1: what I mean I'm Joshua P. Warren you're listening to
[25:05] Speaker 1: Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
[25:09] Speaker 1: Paranormal Podcast Network and I'll be back after these important.
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[25:58] Speaker 1: I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren, and this is the
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[27:54] Speaker 1: it would be better for them to start selling tickets
[27:57] Speaker 1: at Beer Zombies instead of just having to go online
[28:00] Speaker 1: and do all that. So it's a win-win for everybody.
[28:04] Speaker 1: But that's neither here nor there. Just go to hauntedbouldercity.com.
[28:09] Speaker 1: And I think they're going to do some extra special
[28:12] Speaker 1: stuff with that tour this year as well. All right,
[28:17] Speaker 1: let's get back to the topic at hand. Homeopathy. So
[28:21] Speaker 1: how do I stand on all this? Well, like I've
[28:24] Speaker 1: told you, I get the whole concept of, you know,
[28:30] Speaker 1: as they say in the Greek, like and suffering. The whole, like,
[28:37] Speaker 1: idea that something that causes pain can cure pain to
[28:41] Speaker 1: some degree is hair of the dog phenomenon. But, you know,
[28:47] Speaker 1: what's especially strange for me is that, yes, I do
[28:52] Speaker 1: have respect for the placebo effect. I do believe that
[28:58] Speaker 1: water retains memory. And yet, it all boils down to
[29:05] Speaker 1: a very simple thing. Does this work? And There are
[29:13] Speaker 1: so many successful businesses out there that use homeopathy that
[29:17] Speaker 1: have made tons of money off of homeopathy that it
[29:21] Speaker 1: would be hard to believe that there weren't something to it.
[29:25] Speaker 1: And what I can tell you is that I have
[29:27] Speaker 1: only used homeopathic remedies just a couple times in my life,
[29:35] Speaker 1: and they tend to work. As a matter of fact,
[29:38] Speaker 1: the first time I ever used a homeopathic remedy, I
[29:41] Speaker 1: went to a major pharmacy and I walked in and
[29:48] Speaker 1: I had a stye on my eye. One of the
[29:52] Speaker 1: more unpleasant things in life. And I bought something off
[29:58] Speaker 1: the shelf that said homeopathic. And I said, why not?
[30:03] Speaker 1: And it was an eyedrop, a homeopathic eyedrop. So scientifically,
[30:08] Speaker 1: you should put this thing under a microscope, and there
[30:11] Speaker 1: should be nothing in this dropper. But I put this
[30:15] Speaker 1: dropper on my eye, and pretty much within 24 hours,
[30:21] Speaker 1: that sty was gone. And I was shocked, because I
[30:25] Speaker 1: had no faith whatsoever that it was going to work.
[30:28] Speaker 1: I just was trying whatever. And it worked. And it
[30:34] Speaker 1: worked quickly. And then since then, I have used homeopathic remedies.
[30:41] Speaker 1: For example, before I sat down to record this show,
[30:46] Speaker 1: I went to my medicine cabinet and I was like,
[30:47] Speaker 1: what do I have in here that might be homeopathic?
[30:50] Speaker 1: And I found this box. I have it here in
[30:52] Speaker 1: my hands. It's a nausea relief product. For upset stomach, vomiting,
[30:59] Speaker 1: or stomach flu. Now, I'm not going to give you
[31:02] Speaker 1: the actual name of this because I don't want to
[31:04] Speaker 1: be seen as endorsing or promoting a particular brand. But
[31:09] Speaker 1: it says here, homeopathic medicine, no known drug interactions. No
[31:17] Speaker 1: aspirin or caffeine. Yeah. So that's one of the nice
[31:20] Speaker 1: things about selling homeopathic stuff. You can be like, nope,
[31:23] Speaker 1: there's nothing there yet. It's not going to interact. There's
[31:26] Speaker 1: nothing you're going to find in here that the FDA
[31:28] Speaker 1: is going to have a problem with. Just water, as
[31:32] Speaker 1: far as they're concerned. It says here, adults and children,
[31:36] Speaker 1: two plus years. And then you turn it over on
[31:40] Speaker 1: the back. And these are little things. Tablets that you
[31:46] Speaker 1: kind of melt in your mouth. And you take two
[31:50] Speaker 1: of them. And, you know, they list the active ingredient
[31:53] Speaker 1: because obviously the tablet's made of something. But what's interesting
[31:57] Speaker 1: is at the bottom, it says claims based on traditional
[32:03] Speaker 1: homeopathic practice, not accepted medical evidence, not FDA evaluated. And
[32:14] Speaker 1: then it gives you a website where you can look
[32:16] Speaker 1: into homeopathic dilutions. So did you realize how strange this is? And,
[32:26] Speaker 1: and this, this stuff, I actually, I believe that on
[32:31] Speaker 1: some occasions when I took it, it worked and some
[32:34] Speaker 1: occasions it didn't. So, you know, but regardless, I mean,
[32:38] Speaker 1: I would be really interested in hearing some of your
[32:41] Speaker 1: thoughts because these businesses could not have stayed in business
[32:46] Speaker 1: for all these hundreds of years, I guess, if there
[32:50] Speaker 1: weren't something to it. There was a big resurgence, I guess,
[32:53] Speaker 1: I was reading about in the 1970s or something like that,
[32:58] Speaker 1: when you look at the history of homeopathy here in
[33:02] Speaker 1: the U.S., kind of the New Age revival, where all
[33:07] Speaker 1: this kind of came back. You can go do all
[33:09] Speaker 1: that research for yourself, but We're talking about the idea
[33:16] Speaker 1: that you can have medicine that has an energy field
[33:21] Speaker 1: that's doing all the work. Kind of reminds me of
[33:24] Speaker 1: in radionics and wishing machines. I've told you that there
[33:27] Speaker 1: are people who claim that you can take a bottle
[33:32] Speaker 1: of liquor and put it on the input plate of
[33:35] Speaker 1: a wishing machine. And then you can take a bottle
[33:39] Speaker 1: of water and put it on the output plate of
[33:42] Speaker 1: a wishing machine and you can tune it. and let
[33:45] Speaker 1: it sit there for 24 hours. And then after that,
[33:47] Speaker 1: you drink the water and you feel drunk. You're not
[33:51] Speaker 1: actually taking any of the alcohol in. It's the same
[33:54] Speaker 1: kind of thing to some extent, you know, this idea
[33:57] Speaker 1: of energy being transferred.
[33:59] Speaker 3: I don't know.
[34:03] Speaker 1: So, you know, as you get older, your mind opens
[34:08] Speaker 1: up and you go, yeah, you know, I like the
[34:10] Speaker 1: idea of being able to maybe take medicines and things
[34:13] Speaker 1: that are not as a hardcore. This I'm going to,
[34:20] Speaker 1: on October 25th of this year, 2026, I will turn
[34:25] Speaker 1: 50 years old. And, uh, if you're over 50, you go, well,
[34:29] Speaker 1: that's no big deal. But if you're under 50, you go, yeah,
[34:32] Speaker 1: that guy's a half a century old. And it's kind
[34:35] Speaker 1: of funny. And I was reminiscing the other day about
[34:39] Speaker 1: some of the things I put into my body and, uh, specifically, uh,
[34:45] Speaker 1: cafeteria school pizza that I grew up with. Now, this
[34:50] Speaker 1: is going to probably be boring to some of you,
[34:54] Speaker 1: but when I was in school in the 1980s and 90s,
[35:01] Speaker 1: you'd go to the cafeteria and they would have these
[35:04] Speaker 1: pizzas that were cut into these little rectangles, and they
[35:09] Speaker 1: had a unique taste, a very specific flavor of cheese
[35:16] Speaker 1: and pepperoni and sauce that you just don't find out
[35:20] Speaker 1: there anywhere else in the world. And I swear to you,
[35:25] Speaker 1: this is not a commercial, but I, I, the other
[35:28] Speaker 1: day I started craving that and I found this website
[35:31] Speaker 1: and this is not a commercial. They should pay me
[35:33] Speaker 1: for saying this. If you're one of those people who
[35:36] Speaker 1: misses that old, like rectangular cafeteria pizza, the website is
[35:41] Speaker 1: called Gwinther's. G-U-I-N-T-H-E-R-S. Gwinthers.com. And I ordered some of this,
[35:50] Speaker 1: and they sent me a box of these frozen, old-school, like,
[35:55] Speaker 1: lunch lady little rectangular pizza things. And, you know, you
[36:03] Speaker 1: just put it in the oven, you heat it up,
[36:05] Speaker 1: and by golly, it does taste like that. And, you know,
[36:11] Speaker 1: my wife and I, you know, we're within a four-year
[36:15] Speaker 1: range of each other. And so we both were like, okay,
[36:19] Speaker 1: this is not going to last very long. And so
[36:22] Speaker 1: it's weird how that there are little things like that
[36:25] Speaker 1: that stand out in your mind. If Gwinther says the
[36:29] Speaker 1: king of nostalgia, they have all kinds of stuff like that.
[36:32] Speaker 1: They should sponsor me. But it is funny how that
[36:36] Speaker 1: you start looking back and you go like, huh, there
[36:39] Speaker 1: was a time when there were things available that are
[36:43] Speaker 1: no longer available. Well, you know what? I told you
[36:46] Speaker 1: I was going to give you an experiment that I
[36:48] Speaker 1: want you to do. And I am. And it comes
[36:52] Speaker 1: from a CIA operative. But I talk too much. So
[36:58] Speaker 1: we're up on a break. When we come back from
[36:59] Speaker 1: the break, I'm going to tell you about this experiment.
[37:02] Speaker 1: And then maybe since it's kind of getting spooky season
[37:06] Speaker 1: a little bit for me right now, maybe I'll give
[37:10] Speaker 1: you a creepy story or two. I always love to
[37:15] Speaker 1: get into the mood. It's kind of hard when you're
[37:17] Speaker 1: in the desert. I live in Las Vegas, but I
[37:20] Speaker 1: don't know. It's pretty spooky out here in its own way.
[37:24] Speaker 1: I'm Joshua P.
[37:25] Speaker 3: Warren.
[37:25] Speaker 1: You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
[37:29] Speaker 1: to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. And I will be
[37:33] Speaker 1: right back. Welcome back to the final segment of this
[38:11] Speaker 1: edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
[38:14] Speaker 1: Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua P.
[38:20] Speaker 3: Warren.
[38:21] Speaker 1: And sometimes I watch... Some of these guys on YouTube
[38:25] Speaker 1: who have channels and these guys are like, oh, I'm
[38:29] Speaker 1: a former CIA agent. Let me give you some tips.
[38:35] Speaker 1: And I mean, honestly, they seem to be credible. I mean,
[38:39] Speaker 1: because over time you see them on TV shows and
[38:42] Speaker 1: such and you think, well, I bet the CIA don't
[38:45] Speaker 1: take kindly to saying you're former CIA if you ain't. Well, anyway,
[38:52] Speaker 1: here's this tip that I got off of one of
[38:54] Speaker 1: these CIA guys. Okay, I'm going to ask you a
[38:57] Speaker 1: question right now. And if you're alone, take note of
[39:02] Speaker 1: how you react to this. Or if you're with another person,
[39:07] Speaker 1: take note of how the other person reacts to this.
[39:12] Speaker 1: So here I have two questions for you. Question number
[39:15] Speaker 1: one is, imagine that you were going to Design a
[39:22] Speaker 1: beautiful wedding dress for a princess who's about to have
[39:29] Speaker 1: the great. day of her life. All right. Now think
[39:32] Speaker 1: about that. Think about what that, what you would design,
[39:36] Speaker 1: what that would look like, what color it would be,
[39:39] Speaker 1: what jewels would be on it, or, you know, just
[39:44] Speaker 1: think about it in as much detail as possible for
[39:46] Speaker 1: a second. All right, so now let me ask you
[39:51] Speaker 1: question number two. Question number two is, what is 550
[39:57] Speaker 1: divided by two? Think about that one for a second.
[40:04] Speaker 1: What is 550 divided by two? Now, according to this
[40:11] Speaker 1: one CIA guy, you know how you always hear about
[40:15] Speaker 1: the right brain being the more creative imaginative one and
[40:18] Speaker 1: the left brain being more logical one. So supposedly in
[40:24] Speaker 1: many cases, if you got asked the first question, like
[40:29] Speaker 1: how would you decorate the wedding dress? Well, that's a
[40:33] Speaker 1: creative question. So you should look to the right. And then,
[40:38] Speaker 1: Because that's the right brain firing off. And then, of course,
[40:42] Speaker 1: with what's 550 divided by 2, well, then you have
[40:45] Speaker 1: to turn to the left because the left brain is
[40:48] Speaker 1: being activated. That's what he said. Now, I don't know
[40:53] Speaker 1: if that's true or not. I tried it out on
[40:55] Speaker 1: my wife, Lauren, and it was kind of wishy-washy. But
[40:59] Speaker 1: now that I've given you this technique, I want you
[41:01] Speaker 1: to just spring it on somebody who doesn't know anything
[41:05] Speaker 1: about this. And let me know if it actually works,
[41:09] Speaker 1: because this guy was saying that if somebody is lying
[41:11] Speaker 1: to you, that they have a tendency to look to
[41:15] Speaker 1: the right and get all creative because they're coming up
[41:18] Speaker 1: with some kind of BS answer. But if it's more
[41:22] Speaker 1: logical than if they're telling the truth, that's just like
[41:26] Speaker 1: cut and dry facts, then they'll look to the left.
[41:30] Speaker 1: So I don't know. I'm just tossing that out there
[41:32] Speaker 1: as an experiment for you to do. And. Obviously, it's
[41:36] Speaker 1: not going to work so well if you if you
[41:38] Speaker 1: know about it in advance. But that's why I say
[41:42] Speaker 1: try it out on your kids or something. And just
[41:44] Speaker 1: how I'd be curious to know what you think. I
[41:47] Speaker 1: get a ton of emails, a ton of emails, and
[41:51] Speaker 1: it's impossible for me to answer everyone. But I do
[41:55] Speaker 1: my best to read them all. And you'll be able
[41:58] Speaker 1: you'll find my email address there on the homepage of
[42:00] Speaker 1: Joshua Pete Warren dot com. All right. It's getting spooky season.
[42:05] Speaker 1: Let's see what kind of stories I might be able
[42:07] Speaker 1: to pull out for you. How about this one? This
[42:13] Speaker 1: is a message I got from Susan. She's retired. And
[42:20] Speaker 1: let's see. I don't know if she lives in Mexico
[42:23] Speaker 1: or if this happened in Mexico. She said, my dad
[42:27] Speaker 1: had passed away in 1998. Okay. So she said this
[42:31] Speaker 1: happened in 2003. Okay. My dad had passed away in 1998,
[42:38] Speaker 1: and my son Roberto was too young to be able
[42:41] Speaker 1: to remember him. Roberto was playing outside and came in
[42:48] Speaker 1: and said, I seen Pa. My dad was commonly called Pa.
[42:53] Speaker 1: And I asked, well, what was he wearing? Because my
[42:56] Speaker 1: dad only wore jeans and a white T-shirt. And Roberto
[43:01] Speaker 1: said he was wearing jeans and a green T-shirt. And
[43:06] Speaker 1: I said to myself, well, that wasn't Dad. He only
[43:09] Speaker 1: wears white t-shirts. I was on the phone telling my
[43:13] Speaker 1: sister about it. And I said I knew it wasn't
[43:16] Speaker 1: Dad because he didn't have a white t-shirt on. And
[43:20] Speaker 1: my sister said, Susan, Dad was going to the doctor
[43:25] Speaker 1: the morning he died. He wanted to dress up a little.
[43:30] Speaker 1: And so he put on a green t-shirt and then
[43:34] Speaker 1: had A heart attack. All right. Thank you, Susan. Does
[43:48] Speaker 1: that give you a little bit of a goose bump?
[43:50] Speaker 1: It kind of gave me a bit of a goose bump.
[43:56] Speaker 1: Here's a message I got from Timothy from Nevada City, California.
[44:02] Speaker 1: This incident happened apparently around 2003. He says, the old
[44:06] Speaker 1: Northern California home where I was living for a few
[44:09] Speaker 1: months had once been an old brothel in a former
[44:13] Speaker 1: lively gold rush era town. It was also reportedly haunted.
[44:21] Speaker 1: My roommates had filled me in on the reported encounters
[44:23] Speaker 1: with ghostly apparitions. These included footsteps on the stairs, strange
[44:29] Speaker 1: sounds reminiscent of female laughter and whispers that would resound frequently.
[44:35] Speaker 1: through the three-story house. This house was old and worn,
[44:42] Speaker 1: and when you entered, you felt a chill and an
[44:44] Speaker 1: uneasy feeling like the walls were watching you. One weekend,
[44:51] Speaker 1: my daughter came to visit me, and I showed her
[44:54] Speaker 1: through the house and began to explain to her that
[44:58] Speaker 1: I thought the house was haunted. And as we made
[45:02] Speaker 1: our way to the rear of the house... The family room,
[45:06] Speaker 1: as we called it, I suddenly jumped. Something that could
[45:11] Speaker 1: not be seen had grabbed the back of my neck
[45:14] Speaker 1: and put its fingers around me. It was icy and electric,
[45:18] Speaker 1: and my hair stood on end. My daughter, who was
[45:23] Speaker 1: in front of me, opened the sliding glass door to
[45:26] Speaker 1: go outside. And as she was in front of me,
[45:30] Speaker 1: she went outside and the sliding glass door slowly closed
[45:34] Speaker 1: itself when no one was even near it. This door
[45:39] Speaker 1: did not move freely and had to really be forced
[45:43] Speaker 1: with two hands to close. It closed right before my
[45:47] Speaker 1: eyes as the icy hand released its grip off the
[45:50] Speaker 1: back of my neck. My daughter believed in ghosts after that.
[45:55] Speaker 1: And I have never visited that haunted place again. Okay,
[46:04] Speaker 1: I'm going to try to squeeze in one more. Thank
[46:07] Speaker 1: you very much for that story. Here is Elizabeth, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
[46:13] Speaker 1: Also 2003 era. I lived in a little house in
[46:18] Speaker 1: a quiet neighborhood with my son, Daryl. Since we had
[46:21] Speaker 1: moved into the house, there had been odd little noises.
[46:25] Speaker 1: Things would be moved around, and sometimes I would hear
[46:28] Speaker 1: my name being whispered. My son worked nights, and I
[46:31] Speaker 1: would be home by myself. I had seen shadows from
[46:36] Speaker 1: the corner of my eye many times, but never paid
[46:39] Speaker 1: much attention to them. I simply thought it was my imagination.
[46:44] Speaker 1: One night I was fast asleep when the blanket was
[46:47] Speaker 1: jerked off the bed. I sat up quickly and saw
[46:51] Speaker 1: a figure standing in the doorway, and I shouted out, Daryl?
[46:55] Speaker 1: What do you think you're doing? The figure in the
[46:59] Speaker 1: doorway looked back over his shoulder and said, I'm not Daryl.
[47:05] Speaker 1: I'm going to rest now. That was when I remembered
[47:11] Speaker 1: Daryl was at work and I was the only one
[47:13] Speaker 1: in the house. And this was the last unexplainable event
[47:19] Speaker 1: that occurred in the house. Would you stay in a
[47:25] Speaker 1: house like that? You know, it makes me wonder how
[47:28] Speaker 1: many people stay in a haunted house just because that
[47:33] Speaker 1: it's such a pain to move. You know, people go
[47:36] Speaker 1: through all of this to, to, to move it to
[47:40] Speaker 1: a house. And then God, you find it, you find
[47:44] Speaker 1: out it's haunted. I've met a lot of people who've
[47:49] Speaker 1: said like, I don't want to move. I just want
[47:51] Speaker 1: to get rid of this thing. Can you help me?
[47:53] Speaker 1: And I say, well, look, I did hundreds and hundreds
[47:57] Speaker 1: of investigations, and I would say I'm not a ghostbuster.
[48:01] Speaker 1: But let's see if we can help you. And sometimes
[48:03] Speaker 1: we could, and sometimes we couldn't. Oh, well. All right,
[48:08] Speaker 1: my friends. As usual, this show has kind of jumped
[48:11] Speaker 1: all over the place. But, well, that's what makes it fun, right?
[48:17] Speaker 1: So let us all end in a meditative state, if
[48:22] Speaker 1: we can. If you're able to, close your eyes. Certainly
[48:25] Speaker 1: take a deep breath or two. Let's think about all
[48:31] Speaker 1: of us listening to this show having the best next
[48:34] Speaker 1: week ever as we meditate on this, the good fortune tone.
[49:05] Speaker 1: That's it for this edition of the show. Follow me
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