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Hello, I am Joshua P. Warren, and this is Joshua P. Warren Daily. And I'm going to do something I think you'll find kind of interesting. I'm going to play a song for you, and I want you to see if you can guess who the singer is. Now I will tell you that the guy singing this also wrote it and is playing this. So this is a one man performance. So here we go. Open your ears. Let's see if you can guess this singer. Here goes.

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My world is a sad word. Often wonder if there's plenty. Everyone says crazy food. Not knowing what to do. Such a fool.

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No, no one to blame.

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Okay, so that was quite a soothing piece, wouldn't you say? A peaceful sound. Do you know who you were just listening to? Alright, I'm gonna tell you now, if you have a bet going, you you'll want to pause this. That was Charles Manson. Yes, the infamous Charles Manson, who history knows as a sort of cult leader who inspired his followers to commit the Tate Labianca murders in the nineteen sixties in Los Angeles, and as a matter of fact, maybe this year you saw the movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is uh based upon that. And you might say, My God, why did you play that for? Well, I'll tell you why. I I had heard for years that Charles Manson was uh a singer-songwriter, and he was kind of a Pied Piper, they say, that he used his musical abilities to lure people and to make friends and to sort of create this family. Um and of course, Manson himself would deny all of that, but nonetheless, without getting into the story of Charles Manson, what I will tell you is that here he was as a young man in Hollywood, and he had that level of talent to s to such an extent that one of his songs was actually purchased by the Beach Boys and turned into a Beach Boys song. Um it sounded quite different when the Beach Boys did it, but still, I mean, I think in compensation, they give him gave him a motorcycle and you know X amount of dollars or whatever. That particular song that I just played was called My World. Yeah, my world. And so everybody has been sort of into true crime lately, and I I I'm just as interested in that as anybody else. I mean, you know, I watch Discovery ID and you know, I watch all this stuff on Netflix where they're talking about like these serial killers and stuff because it's just so weird. I mean, you can't relate to it. If you are a reasonable, normal person, you just really can't relate to it, and you're trying to find a way, and you can't. And it makes it even stranger when you consider that a guy like Charles Manson had this degree of talent that he was able to play and sing. And there are, if you go to YouTube, there are a number of Charles Manson songs, you know, that you can listen to that he played in the same manner, and you think to yourself, why is it? Why is it that a person who can do that, who is in LA at this critical time, who already has a relationship with the Beach Boys, who who could you know, see this whole other path, this whole other avenue of life, in which he eventually becomes a significant figure, who who's out there, you know, either writing songs or or playing or singing or whatever. Like this was a path that this guy could have taken. Instead, however you explain it, he went down another path, a dark path, that led him to prison for the rest of his life. And I scratch my head, I'm literally scratching my head, and I'm thinking, what is it? You know, what is it that happens in somebody's head when they have like all these opportunities that are aligning for them in one direction where they have talent and they don't take that route. Instead, they go this other route and ruin their lives, basically, you know. What what is that? And and honestly, the more I think about it, I think it has to do with the fact that just about and I I I could say everybody, but I'll say just about everybody has some kind of a talent. And the funny thing is, if you have a talent of some kind, then you are almost doomed to underestimate the value of your talent. So that is to say, maybe it's so easy for you to sit down and draw a picture that you say, well, pfft, why would anybody ever want me to draw a picture? It's it's so easy. They can just do it themselves. Why would anybody pay me to do this? Because something comes so easy to you, it's difficult for you to step outside yourself and see the value that you have to somebody who doesn't have that talent. And I and by talent, I'm talking about a huge spectrum of possibilities. I mean, think about yourself. What are your talents? So I'll you know, I'll give you an example. Maybe you're you you say, I don't have any talents, but maybe you're good at speaking, maybe you speak well, and you could be a very you know warm, informed tour guide, or you could be a therapist who just sits there and helps other people sort of work through their thoughts and feelings. Or maybe you're good at web design. And or you know, you you understand social media, and you might think, well, everybody understands social media, so what's the big deal? Well, there are lots of people who don't understand social media who would love to have your talent there. Uh again, you know, drawing or you know, driving. I tell you what, I I think driving is a talent. Professional drivers are amazing at what they do, and I mean they're very critical and crucial to this world. Or maybe, you know, your talent is taking pictures. You just may not be able to see the talent that you have. And you might be sitting on a gold mine that you're not aware of. And the unfortunate thing is if you embrace your talent and you just stay steady with it, then eventually somebody will notice that. And sometimes you have to help the process along yourself by getting out and just making things happen. I mean, like, hey, if if nobody will hire you to speak at their venue, maybe you save up some money and you rent the venue and then you know, you you do your own thing and you promote it. I mean, there are different ways of making progress in life. But the point, the the important thing here is to consider that you have a talent which you can use to make people feel good, to help people who don't have that talent, to in enrich them and enrich yourself. And uh, I mean, you can do all this positive stuff that you might not even be aware of right now, and maybe it's just a lack of self-confidence or self-esteem or whatever. Okay, that's fine. But the first the first stage here is recognizing that you actually have something you can do that other people cannot do to to the same degree. And in that regard, you have to think like, what throughout my whole life have people always told me that I'm good at? You know, uh fishing, you know, playing a sport. I mean, like, what is it that people just have always told me, well, you're good at that, you know? And that's a clue for you as to a direction that you should consider taking in your life. And yeah, you might not immediately see how this is going to benefit me in some way or reward me. You know, they talk about people who are writers being, oh, the typical poor writer or the poor indie filmmaker or whatever. But look, how how much money do you need to have? You might be able to make at least enough money to pay your bills if you just embrace a positive sort of angle on the talent that you have. And I'm not just talking about you and your talent, though. Here it this may be the most important lesson that we can learn from listening to Charles Manson perform one of his songs. It's possible that if he had been reinforced enough and told, like, you have real potential here, you can go somewhere with this, use this for positive purposes, that history may have turned out differently. That if people had actually, you know, confirmed for him, no, you should go down this road and make people happy and do positive things with it, we might live in a different world where the name Manson is not associated with you know psychotic murderous stuff, and we might say, Oh, Charles Manson, yeah, the the the the great uh the great singer, the great musician, whatever. So if you know somebody who is struggling right now, and when when people are struggling, they become very dark. Because when when somebody is struggling, they get frustrated and they get impatient and they get depressed, and it's very, very difficult for them to see a light at the end of the tunnel. So if you know somebody who is struggling right now, and you see a talent that that person has, uh I hope that you will praise and encourage that person and say, Look, here is my advice on the direction that you need to go. Like, take this direction. And we may not see how all this turns out, like step by step, but it's kind of like when you get in a car and you know you're driving a thousand miles, you don't see the whole trip at once. You see what's right in front of you, moment by moment. Imagine driving at night, you've got your headlights on, right? All you can see is what's 20 feet in front of you. You don't see the end of the trip, you deal with it 20 feet at a time, and then that's where you just have to say, Hey, if I if I make this next 20 feet good, then I keep doing that, and eventually I'll be there. And that's why it's interesting to me over the years, I've had a lot of people who have contacted me and asked me for an idea for a project or you know, a TV show or book or whatever, and there's a part of me that says, like, oh, I've got some great ideas, but I'm gonna save these all up for another time. Well, that's not the way to look at it. No, when you have an opportunity, you go for it and you say, What am I saving it up for? This is the time to use this, and you deal with every opportunity that you have on a day-by-day basis. And so I think you get the picture that maybe there would be less Charles Mansons in the world if we addressed how to take our own talents and turn them into something positive, and we encouraged other people to do the same. And hey, if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. But what is the harm in trying to identify what somebody else's talent is because he or she might not be able to see it? You know, you have to be that outside person that says, I see this in you, and here is you know, here's where where you should go. What's the harm in doing that? And how much better might our society be if we approach each other with that mindset and we reinforce each other's positive skills and talents and attributes. Right? That's what I think of when I hear a song like that one. So just wanted to bounce that off you real quick. Uh, I will leave you with uh a couple other things. For one thing, I should in less than a week have a new product available by demand. I only have eighty-nine of them, however. If you want to be the first person who gets to know about this when I debut it in the next few days, you gotta go to joshua pwarren.com. JoshuaPWarren.com, sign up for my free e-newsletter. Also, indeed it is confirmed, I personally will be opening the Creepy Vegas Ghost and UFO show here in Las Vegas at the Big Shockfest, which is this coming Friday night, November 22nd, 2019. And my presentation lasts an hour, and it starts at 8 p.m. sharp. You don't want to be late. Go to the website, I think it's shockfilmfest.com. I've told you this before. Let me make sure. Yep, shockfilmfest.com. Get your ticket for $20, and if you put in the discount code CreepyVagus, all one word, it'll knock 20% off of that. And so you can be there this coming Friday to hang out with me. Darren Evans has said he's gonna be there. You know, Corby Waste is gonna be there, Clive Barker, John Zapfus, a bunch of celebrities, and and it's a big hangout session, but you definitely want to be there. If you can make it to Vegas this Friday night, November 22nd, 2019. Get there at about you know, 7 p.m. So you have plenty of time to get a good seat, and you are going to experience a fascinating presentation. I'll be standing right there in front of you, giving you the creepy Vegas Ghost and UFO show. So I hope that you'll do that as well. So uh that's it for now. I have a lot more to tell you about in the coming days. You know, if you go to joshua p.com, you'll find a lot of cool stuff there, including a link to this podcast called Joshua P. Warren Daily. Always short, always free, independent, uncensored. You click that link and you will find that you can subscribe through various means or just follow me on Twitter at Joshua P. Warren, at Joshua P. Warren, and I will tweet when a new one is available. So, thank you for listening. Thank you for your interest and support. Thank you for staying curious, and I will talk to you again soon.