People had long been searching for a real-life, cursed film. But is it possible that a cursed film has been hiding right underneath our noses this entire time? And then we take a look at the story of a man who has defied all the odds. A man who has pushed past reality itself and changed his life.
When a 16-year-old boy decided he had had enough of the nicknames and decided to make the change, little did he realize he may not be simply going up against the laws of reality. He may have made himself a target of an unknown group, and they never miss their targets. Today I'm a dead rapper. Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Dead Rabbit Radio.
I'm your host, Jason Harper. I'm having a great day. I hope you guys are having a great day too. I hope you guys are having a great day too.
I hope you guys are having tons of fun. Doing whatever you're doing. We got a ton of stuff to cover today. So first off, running into Dead Rabbit Radio with me and everyone getting on your feet.
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Duncan was our shout-out person on the last episode, but I spent the entire time at a very depressing quasi orphanage. I was in an orphanage of both the parents and the child who are living there, probably not. That's what they called. Actually, they called their booth house.
But anyways, we spent so much time talking about the booth home. We didn't get a chance to play the carboner copter. So Duncan Allen is back. If you guys want to support the show, but you can't do it financially, that's totally fine.
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We're headed all the way out to the movie theater. Inca, Inca, Inca, Inca, Inca, Inca, Inca, Inca. It's a long way. It's the movie theater.
There's a lot of movie theaters here. We went to the one up hills. So Duncan's really building those cabs up. I see petals in the entire fluffle up this giant hill.
So this movie theater. We get there. It's popcorn time. Get your popcorn.
Get your sodas. Maybe some candy, right? You got to pay for that though. The candy is too expensive.
I will buy the popcorn. We buy it in bulk. Let's all go to the movies. Last week, no, it probably wasn't last week.
It was the week before somewhere around there. I did a Dead Rabbit Radio recommends on a movie called 8-2-5 Forest Road. And I really, really liked it. It was creepy.
And the ghost was one of the more powerful ghosts that I can recall seeing in a movie. Because she haunted the entire town. It's not like if you were across the street, this ghost would be chasing you around your house as well as her haunted house. No.
She actually affected the local economy. That's how scared of her. They were in this movie. So much so at one point, before the movie started, the city council was deciding whether or not to renovate or do something with the witch's house.
Like she had this house. She was a witch ghost. Her old house was still in town. And the city council was deciding what to do about the house.
Everyone in the city council just disappeared. Like middle of the day, middle of the day during a meeting, they vanished. They either vanished or they all mysteriously died. I mean, either way, right?
You want to be like, oh, we found them. There's the lair. Their faces are twisted in a mortal grimace of pain. But I guess it probably wasn't the witch.
The map of the city had actually shrank. Not through any supernatural means. The people in town just goes, well, maybe it's just better. Maybe it's just better if she's not in her city limits.
Maybe let's get another city council to vote on this. Anyone want to join the city council? We're going to vote out her property. It's a really good movie.
I've never seen anything by this director before. His name is Steven Cognetti. Pretty young guy younger than me, you know, one of the new fresh faces of horror. And I saw that he had done a series of movies.
So when I was doing the H-24's Road Dead Radio Recommend segment, I go, it looks like he's done a series of movies called Hell House, LLC. So over the weekend, I watched all four of them back to back. They're all available on Shutter. I have my monthly Shutter subscription.
I highly recommend that to anyone who's really into horror films. Remember my Shutter subscription? I go, oh, okay, look at all four Hell Houses are up on here. So what I normally do on Friday night, right?
That's my night off from the podcast. It's my night off from work. It's kind of my only day off. Start up some Minecraft, throw in some movies.
This particular night, I was organizing my Magic Cards, my Dusk Morn collection. I'll go, I'll watch, I'm going to watch all four of those Hell House LLC movies tonight, I said to myself. About seven, eight hours. They're fairly short.
Let's do it. So I fired up the first one, Hell House, LLC. It wasn't long. Remember, most of my attention is not on the movie to begin with.
If it's a good movie, I will direct more attention to the movie, less attention to my Magic Cards. But if it's just a background movie, within 20 minutes, I didn't want to watch the Hell House too closely. It was so eerie. It felt like I shouldn't be watching it.
It felt wrong. I'll compare it. I don't think Stephen will like this comparison. This morning I woke up and I found out Kanye West, yay, has a new song out called Cousins.
And if you don't know what that song's about, we're going to cover it in an episode because there's a lot of people coming out and saying the Illuminati forced Kanye's hand to release this song. But some of you guys probably already know what the context is. I'm not going to go into it here. But I start watching the video where the Kanye West song Cousins.
The video is so weird, which makes sense, right? Because that's the type of artist he is. The subject matter for the song is jaw-droppingly shocking. But the video itself, you're watching it and you're almost waiting to see a real-life person get their head blown off.
You're waiting for it to become a snuff movie. To the point that I was watching the video at like five in the morning, and I'm thinking, should I be watching this? Should I be watching this before I go to work? Because I'm pretty sure I'm about to watch gore footage.
I'm pretty sure that in the middle of this really weird video that Kanye West has put out that they're about to show someone get shot in the face. Because it comes pretty close. You see people doing dangerous things. You see a guy, and it's real footage.
It's not like stage. It's not like I'm watching heat. I'm like, run people around. Oh my god, this is the most violent thing I've ever seen.
I'm going to see an internet cover. It's a bunch of like homemade footage, but some of it is so close up or obscured. You can't really tell what's going on. And I'm watching and I remember I stopped it in the middle and I go, I feel like I'm about to see someone get a head blown off the shotgun.
I'm so much and I feel uncomfortable watching this Kanye West video. Now imagine that. Imagine that for seven to eight hours. Because Stephen Cognetti in his Hell House LLC series.
Especially the first one, but it does carry through to the other three. It feels wrong. It feels like you're watching something that you shouldn't be viewing. The whole setup of the whole series is about this satanic cult trying to summon a demon.
And what you learn in later movies is that they actually attract found footage crews and journalist crews to this house. Because by recording it and showing it to other people, you're giving the demons power. The house is almost completely normal all the time. Unless someone goes in with a camcorder.
That's when the haunting starts. And it's not like a boo. There's no jump scares in the entire series. It's so unsettling.
Basically every setup, every scare is like this. I think one of the best ones was in the fourth movie where a guy is home alone in the Carmichael Manor. And he hears a ball. It's just him upstairs and he hears a ball bouncing downstairs.
And so he knows he's alone in the home. It's not his home. They're doing a ghost hunting thing. The other two people have gone to the store to get stuff.
It's the middle of the day. Here's a ball bouncing downstairs. He starts calling out for his sister. No response.
But he clearly hears something downstairs. We only see the hallway upstairs. So we see the hallway and then we see where the staircase ends. The bright summer sun shining in, making a large sunlit mark on the upstairs hallway wall.
He hears the ball bouncing downstairs. He calls out. No one responds. He calls out again.
No one responds. We then begin to hear footsteps come up the stairs. And as the footsteps are getting closer, he's continuing to call out. There's no answer.
And now we're actually starting to see a silhouette of here against the wall. And it's getting taller and taller as the person walking up the stairs is getting closer and closer and closer to the stairway hallway. And then it just stops. The sound of walking up the stairs stop.
And now we just have this large silhouette of a human standing on the stairs out of sight from this man who's videotaping this. That's all scared. That's it. There's obviously someone there, but they're not responding to anything.
Do you then walk to the staircase and look to see if someone's there? Or do you just stand there and wait for them to do something? Like you're 100% in that position. You would have to think, what are you going to do as well?
The very idea of that is terrifying. And what these movies are, it's almost like a collection of short films. There's so many little moments like that that you could have just taken that scene. And you can release that as its own short film.
And then it ends. And you're like, well, that's terrifying. And listen, I watch a ton of scary movies. I watch a ton of this stuff.
I basically shovel it into my brain all the time. There is something on a different level that is so, and maybe it's because it doesn't do the jump scares. Jump scares relieve the tension. They don't do that spread across eight hours.
It's just this constant tension building, tension, tension. There's never any release. There are payoffs, right? That's not a whole plot.
There are things going on. These demons are trying to enter the world. There's obviously climaxes to these movies. But when you're watching it, you feel like you're watching something that you shouldn't.
It feels off. These movies are low budget, which always can kind of make them feel weird. Some of them, no offense. Steven, you did a great job.
Some of them though, the acting is rough. I didn't particularly care for the ending of the third one. I understand kind of why I think he went in that angle. But this isn't a movie review podcast.
You're like, Jason, you're talking about this movie. Bring on the ghost. And here's the thing. I watched these movies.
It wasn't until halfway through the fourth one. So at this point, it's maybe like four or five in the morning. I've been up watching these. Magic cards are put away.
I have nothing else to distract myself. Now I have to finish watching these. I realized that I hadn't gone into my bedroom since I started the first movie. My bedroom light doesn't work.
It hasn't worked for a couple months. The ceiling's too high and I don't have a ladder. So to turn on my lamp, I have to reach in around my door and get over by the air conditioner and stuff like that. So a lot of times I just watch the bedroom.
It's dark. And for the first time in recent memory, I didn't want to go into my bedroom. I felt that something was off. I felt like the feeling from watching these movies had transferred into the real world.
I didn't want to go into my bedroom. I had to because I had to go to the bathroom. But just, you know, my bedroom is not large. Just the idea of traversing that darkness for about five or six feet to get to the bathroom door.
I didn't want to do it. What's interesting too is the movie, they do have like some recurring characters that are villains, like some of like the guy, I forgot who he was, but the guy summoned the demon to the first place. Then they have these clown mannequins that keep showing up. I'm not afraid of clowns.
I've never had a fear of clowns. But when I walked into my room, I wasn't afraid that I'd see the clown mannequin sitting on my bed. I think about it. That doesn't sound terrifying.
I wasn't afraid I'd see the clown mannequin in my bed. I wasn't afraid that the tall cult leader would be standing behind me. I was afraid of, and afraid's not even the right word. I keep saying afraid.
I was unsettled. I was unsettled by the mere idea that something was in there. But I went and I used the bathroom and as quickly as I could, I got back out of my bedroom. I used to say that because my bedroom floor is a little messy.
As quickly as I could, it's slower than most people could leave a room. And for the first time, I can't even remember the last. I think about it. Probably the last time I made a decision like this was when we've done episodes on this in the past.
When I knew for a fact my apartment was haunted and I didn't know the intentions of the ghost in my bedroom closet. We're chill now. I'll put that episode on the show notes. Actually being afraid sometimes I'll sleep on the couch just because it's more comfortable sometimes I'll sleep on the couch because I'm watching a movie.
I don't have a TV in my bedroom. But the other night I slept in my recliner. I wasn't going to go back in my bedroom until the sun came up. I haven't been that unsettled by a movie in a long time.
In a long time. And from the beginning to the end of the fourth one, I felt like maybe I shouldn't be watching these. The whole idea of them being that they are recorded to extend the power of the ritual. That is why it happens.
The house is constantly looking for more people to not only enter the house, but to be curious about the house to be talking about the house. It felt like I shouldn't have been watching it. In a way it felt like it probably shouldn't have even been made. I like it as a horror series.
They're coming out of the new one. But at the same time there's just something behind it. You know what I mean? And I think that would be the perfect way to hide demonic power.
Is that it's an underlay. It just feels like there's something else in the movie that is affecting the viewer. Something doesn't feel right about these movies. But you go Jason I watched them or you watch them after hearing this and you go I didn't really like it.
I didn't think it was that scary. I'm actually not even arguing. I enjoyed them. I do like found footage movies.
I like low budget movies. I'm not arguing that they're good films. I thought they were. But if you watch it and you don't like it as a movie, that's fine.
If you watch it and you don't like it scary, that's fine too. It's the thing underneath. I really think there's something there. So if you are going to watch this, which you may have noticed, I did not give this series of dead rabbit radio recommends because it may actually be troublesome.
It may actually be cursed. If you do decide to watch these though, and I do really enjoy the movies. Normally I would give them a dead rabbit radio recommend. I feel like there's something more dangerous underneath.
And I don't necessarily accusing Stephen Cognetti. The writer and the director of doing this. It'd be really easy to do this as a joke where you make a scary movie and then you say, you know what? Let's take a demonic chant and we're going to add it to the audio mix and then we're going to dial it down so much that nobody can hear it, but they'll hear it.
Or let's put all this subliminal imagery painted on the walls. It's like an old abandoned house. They do have a bunch of that. They have a bunch of graffiti on the walls and stuff like this and have these lines that are said that don't make sense.
But when you listen to them in a particular order and your brain is picking up on it, it's some sort of incantation. It'd be really easy to do this as a joke. It'd be even easier to do it if you were serious, but I don't know if Stephen Cognetti did it on purpose. I don't know if Shutter is testing some sort of new demonic possession streaming service.
Here's the thing. I don't want to say it tested for yourself because here's my gut instinct is that there's something seriously wrong with these movies. That's my gut instinct I get. But we've always the old rumor of a cursed film may simply be streaming on Shutter.
And it may not be a movie that you watch it and then all of a sudden you rip your eyes out and then you grab a hammer and you go next door and beat their teenage daughter to death while you're screaming out. I've seen everything. The world is blood. I mean, that would definitely qualify.
It's a cursed movie. That would be 100% you would have any debate about that. What was the last thing you saw before you ripped your eyes out? I think I was watching a retitary.
And there'd be no question that that would be a cursed film, especially if it was happening all over the world. This movie might simply be opening up some sort of gateway. I've felt mildly unsettled since I've watched it, but that could also just be anything. Think about what I do.
Think about what I read all the time. Read all this ghost stuff. But again, I read all this ghost stuff anyways and I still feel more unsettled since I've watched this movie. I do not like walking through dark rooms.
And I used to be able to. You give me my cell phone flashlight. I'm good. I go walk through dark room.
I don't like walk through dark rooms in no light. So you get my flashlight. I'm fine. But the other night I was over to friend's house and I was locking everything up and I was shutting the lights off and I had my cell phone light.
And I was afraid I was going to see something. I was afraid I was going to see something. And it wasn't the generic boogeyman. I was afraid I was going to see something from that movie.
And I don't mean a character from that movie. I don't mean a boogeyman from that movie. There was something in me that said that that movie might have opened something and now something is here with me in the dark. Not the creepy little girl ghost.
Not the clown mannequin. Not the cultist or their tall leader. It wasn't anything specific. It was an unnameable thing.
It's something that I didn't even see in those movies. But something attached to those movies. This is the first time I think I'm vocalizing that. I don't think I ever processed that before.
It wasn't that I was afraid I was going to see something from the movie. One of the characters. It was afraid that something from the movie came and is with me now. In the dark.
Not right now. In the dark. I'm afraid. It's interesting.
I never actually processed that in my head. I'm not afraid of any of the scares from the movie. Just that something that's hitting a ride on that film is now with me in the dark. It's really creepy.
It's super unsettling. It's very, very unsettling. And sometimes when people make demonic movies, they go, I'm going to make this most realistic movie. We're going to use like real chants and stuff.
It does happen from time to time. Authors do it. Musicians do it. And nine times out of ten.
No harm, no foul. You add a little bit of authenticity to the movie. Sometimes you get it just right and that you've turned your research into a key and you turned your audience into the doorway. You're like, wait, what?
I just want these things. Yeah, there's a key flowing out of the screen. Oh, my belly button. It opens up a portal.
Basically what I'm saying, maybe I didn't say it in the most succinct way. But if you want to give it a shot, if you want to give it a shot to be, again, not scared, but unsettled. And feel like you're watching an eight hour long Kanye West video at four in the morning. Be my guest.
Be my guest. But report back your findings either way, right? You go watch and go, I was a big deal. But again, I asked you to not think of whether or not you liked it, but whether or not there's something hiding in that movie, maybe even hiding in plain sight with all the demonic imagery.
And now it is attaching itself to you. Yeah, let me know. Let me know if you're currently being chased through the darkness. Duncan Allen, I'm going to talk to you the keys of the world famous Carboner Copy.
We're saying goodbye to the movie theater. And most of you have been able to climb on board some of you. I see you're being dragged off into the darkness to start on your own found footage movie. But you don't have a camera.
It's just you getting beat up in hell or eternity. But hopefully not a lot of you. Hopefully most of you guys made it. Duncan Allen, fly us out of there.
You know what? Let's turn around and save this guy. Actually, let's go back in and go to hell. We save everybody.
We beat a couple demons up, kick him in the nards. Okay, now we're ready to go. That was a little heartless. I'm just about to abandon part of the fluffle to eternal damnation.
Now everyone, climb on board, climb on board. Duncan Allen, take the Carboner copter straight out of hell and fly us all the way out to Brazil. Maybe. Headed all the way out to Brazil, maybe.
I think that's where this guy lives and based on the subject matter, probably should it be move guess. Probably should be helping identify where this guy lives, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Now long time listeners of Deadassy exhale radio may get a little a little déjà vu.
I tell the story. It's not that I've told it before, but it's really interesting to think about it. We've told the possible ending before. before if that makes sense you're like no it doesn't and either does a key and me being a doorway well let's go check out this story we're about to meet a young man we don't have his real name we'll call him Tony he's 16 years old and this is 2024 2023 2024 around there he's 16 years old and he has a nickname that I think most men would never want to have applied to them and that's shorty I know that's a big topic I guess it's always been a big topic you know I'm five foot 11 and people go oh you've got to be 66 those directors Stephen cognitive he's like oh yeah 666 like my movie hell house LLC watch it takes your eyelids open it's like event horizon but happening in your living room no 666 I'm sure you guys have heard of this uh well I know you guys have heard of that but the idea that every man has to be six feet tall make six figures and have at least a six foot long not every man has to have be six feet tall make a six figure income and have a six inch long schlong minimum like six inches oh yeah that's easy on that one six inch minimum but I know a lot of men are criticized for being short they're made fun of for being short I've seen the YouTube videos I've seen the TikToks I have friends that think of themselves as being short and they hold it in they hold it in their heart and it hurts them and what it does is it prevents them from being happy it's just tough right I've never considered myself short I'm not six feet so by the 666 standard I'm short but you know whatever it's never been like a big issue for me however I know a lot of guys who are and I know a lot of guys too who like they're getting ready to go to college they want to play lacrosse at college lacrosse is really big up here in Hood River I'd never even seen a lacrosse stick before now they're everywhere but I know dudes are like yeah dude I want to go to college but I need to grow an extra couple inches so I can play lacrosse there so sometimes it's like a thing a standard they have to meet or an athletic thing so I get it I think it sucks at such a such a a marker in culture but that's what Tony's dealing with Tony he's been called shorty he's had this nickname his entire life he's always been the shortest member of his family even growing up well obviously right he's a baby they're all grow grow grow he's like eh but now he's 16 years old and he's five foot seven which doesn't sound exceptionally short but he's the shortest member of his family he's the shortest member in his class you know he has this desire to be taller he's trying to figure it out at one point though he talked to his doctor when you know he's 16 years old he talks to his doctor about and he goes so doc do I have any hope of getting taller than I am right now and the doctor said well uh no no your bones are starting to fuse you've reached your max height you're not going to get any taller than five foot seven so you know he's a distraught about that he doesn't know what to do but then he finds the law of attraction we've done a ton of episodes on this I love this I use it myself it's super successful I'll never tell anyone not to do law of attraction sometimes it came back well put that episode in the show notes as well same thing with weightlifting right a guy goes hey should I start lifting weights yeah you should totally start lifting weights and then he gets injured lifting weights well you don't feel bad about it I mean you might you might feel better you're sitting there in the gym you're like more more it's like this is my first day you don't have to egg them on but anyways you know I have always seen more positive come out of it than negative especially my own life so Tony finds out about the law of attraction for the first time he goes I can manifest anything like I can change my job I can have more money I can have this or that if I can do that can I manifest myself to become taller because what does the universe know about how tall I should actually be if I believe I am taller then the universe will make me taller it sounds foolish right when you say it when you say it at its most base level and when you over explain it it sounds foolish no matter what but it works Tony goes you know what I'm going to do I'm going to use a lot of attraction to be taller I want to be the tallest member of my family my brother who we will call Adam is six foot one inches so Tony says I am going to be six foot four inches tall no I am six foot four inches tall that's a key component to the law of attraction you have to believe that it's already true and that was very hard for Tony it's hard for a lot of people that's why a lot of people don't successfully use the law of attraction because Tony goes here's the thing what I would do is I would look at things around the house or I'd look at other people who were taller than me or taller than five foot seven and I would see myself at that height so that shelf that's always been really high up but it's about at my brother's eye level when I looked at that shelf I saw it at my eye level I believed without a doubt that that shelf was at my eye level I believed it but for the first month he's believing things that aren't real and any objective observer would see Tony going oh don't worry guys I'll get that off that high shelf and they're like Tony you can't reach it and he's like I'm banging into because any objective observer would clearly see that Tony is five foot seven and he his conscious brain saw it as well when he was looking at his brother in the eyes as they were talking he's looking up at a don't make me do math seven three five he's looking at up at a six inch height difference that's what his conscious mind is registering that is the reality of everything that is the reality of everyone else and up until this moment Tony and that's a physical difference he's looking up and it was really really difficult for the first month because he was telling himself he was taller than his brother he was actually three inches taller so while he's looking up at his brother he has to be rewriting his brain and instead of looking up he's actually looking down at his brother with a three inch difference and you go well how do you do that your brain is obviously seeing something that's like grabbing a red pin and riding with it and going this is a blue pin you told me to fill out this form with a blue pin well I am sir I am and you look down is the ink red or blue that goes to a question of what is reality does the view of the objective view or even matter or is it your view does it even matter what other people are seeing but this is where a lot of people get tripped up because it's really hard to go I have a million dollars in my bank account I'm rich I'm successful I'm everything that I ever wanted to be you want to be more specific than that last statement but but then you're sitting there and you're like oh I don't know if I'm gonna be able to afford gas this week I have enough money to buy a bunch of top ramen and denizens chili beans and that'll get me through but you know what happens after that how do you have a thought that you're immensely wealthy and at the same time you're sitting in your place and you're hungry and you don't know if you're gonna be able to get enough gas for your my trick this is what I've talked about for an episode is that you go you know what I do have a million dollars I hundred percent of a million dollars there's no question in my mind however that money is tied up in the stock market you're like one of a million dollars anymore but cross my fingers on that one I have a million dollars but you know a lot of it's in the stock market then I got those savings accounts and got all that gold in the safety deposit box and I can access that money right now but it's kind of not worth the trouble like I'd have to call it Johnny Johnny my money guy and he'd send it over and it'd take a couple days for the transfer anyways so I'm just gonna sit here and enjoy this can of denizens chili but I do have a million dollars I hundred percent of million dollars it's just tied up in investments and I won't be able to get it out today anyway so I'm just gonna eat this chili you see how you're able to believe one thing while you're looking at a different situation but you have to believe in that one thing you have to 100% believe and I'm telling you guys it works and Tony kept plugging away he kept saying you know what I know that I'm taller I know that I'm taller I am 6 foot 4 you kept using I am statements and then he started doing a state akin to sleep I'll put a tutorial of that in the show notes but basically it's where you give yourself sleep paralysis kind of you trick your body and I think you're asleep while you're consciously still awake and you live out a scenario in your head and you're basically bridging the conscious on the subconscious you're reliving a memory of the situation you want to be in so you remember that time you were invited to that swanky party and you were the funniest guy there and the answer also the best answer there and everyone's clapping for you and you're out like this rich person party and you remember it you remember when that chicks spilled club soda all over the carpet and everyone laughed he did a little dance y'all rubbed it into the carpet it's a memory that didn't happen but you believe that it did and you keep telling yourself it happened it happened it happened and you're doing this before you go to sleep rewrites the universe rewrites reality Tony does that Tony works with subliminals he kept on saying I am as tall as that shelf I am taller than my brother I see that I'm taller than these items even though my brain and my conscious mind is saying no you're not I'm working through that I'm rewriting reality on the fly his conscious mind kept saying no you're not you're not buddy and sometimes the world will throw obstacles at you as well he didn't specify this in his narrative but I could almost bet you that first month when he was really focusing on this and wasn't telling anyone about it because of course you would feel like a failure if it didn't work and everyone be telling you it doesn't work I bet you anything the first month he was trying this he got more short guy insults than he had in any previous month sometimes reality will try to remind you what is true when you are setting up these building blocks you got to keep pushing through it well what happens is over the course of the next year people started going hey Tony have you got taller yeah just a little bit a little bit you know yeah yeah you look good man huh pretty interesting how many 16 year old to the growth spurt this kept happening every so often someone would be like Tony wow dude you like wearing lifts or something no no I'm just uh getting taller oh okay yeah oh looks good you look good man thank you and this continues over time he's getting taller a little bit at a time but taller nonetheless his brother Adam went on a three month work trip to Argentina and Tony's still just doing his law of attraction listening to his subliminals researching more law of attraction tips and techniques when Adam came back from the three months trip in salt Tony he goes Tony what you're taller than I am now bro how did you crazy man and Tony looked at his brother looked down Tony's now six foot four and he goes I don't know if I got taller Adam I I think you got shorter I'm too rather sure to laugh over that it works but what's interesting is we've covered this topic before not Tony's story but a similar set of circumstances this story may not have a happy ending it may be going great right now but in the end Tony might have some serious problems before we get into that though I thought this was interesting I want to share this with you and because this is important is that one of the thing you have to use your IM statements you he used subliminals I'm gonna put a couple of those in the show notes it's just you know music playing and then there's really low voice saying you will get taller you're getting taller right now you will get taller I mean here's I believe in law of attraction I believe that if you listen to subliminals working with a law of attraction it should work I've never used it but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't my problem was the one I was listening to the most was because of the video accompanying it was a super hot blonde and from some sitcom it might have been Chuck I'm not for sure but it had this hot blonde girl walking around in a bikini so obviously my tension is I'm not playing Minecraft at that moment I'm watching this video then it cuts the like Victoria's Secret models walk another runway so I watched this video a couple times right maybe too much information I was like oh a video or later in the evening watching this video a couple times but this one was for whatever reason specifically to get your legs and your arms to grow not me torso nor my neck so if anyone ever doesn't see me and I have assumed the shape of a ring of thing just know that I have over watched that video but I'll put those videos on the show notes if you want to try the subliminal growth exercises one of the key things and this is important and then we'll move on to the dire circumstances this young man's facing he may very shortly disappear one of the other interesting things is that you can't be excited when you're doing these law of attraction exercises you can't get excited about it I mean here's the reason why if I told you tomorrow you were gonna have 10 million dollars and all your money problems were gonna be solved 10 million dollars plus all your money problems being solved let's do that but it's gonna come in two days how would you feel you'd be excited we're excited for things that we don't have yet now thank for the past four years you've been sitting on 10 million dollars and all of your money problems have been solved and you're just sitting in your living room watching TV you've had it for two years all your money problems have been taking care of are you excited you might be watching an exciting movie right you might be watching LLC you're like yes my master what must I do next you want to be excited because it's your reality that's how you have to approach the law of attraction you have to believe that it's already happened and we don't get excited for things that have already happened we get excited for things that are going to happen that's how you work reality but anyways all of this stuff may be for not because we covered this topic a long time ago I found a list of people or is a list of experiences of people who I'm trying to find this episode I'm sure it's out there I hope it also hasn't met the same thing but I covered a group of people who believed you could use a lot of attraction to do radical changes to the physical body we had people who said that they had grown in height we said there were people I think who had gotten prettier people whose noses had gotten smaller these are all cosmetic changes to their body he had a bunch of people post about them and all of them went off the grid none of them can be located none of them are no longer online every single person who was posted about using a law of attraction to change their physical body outside of bodybuilding bodybuilders use it all the time bodybuilders go I manifested this body like when I'm working out I imagine how my calves would look but you'll hear any bodybuilder talk about that they'll go I actually knew I was gonna have this body Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about it all the time in his early career but for the average person we go yeah you manifested it you imagine it but you also lifted weights for three to four hours a day so your body was gonna look like that regardless but the bodybuilders go that's not true I know bodybuilders who have lifted just as much as I have for longer than I have and they don't look nearly as good as I do they have nowhere near the growth or definition that I do it's not just a matter of lifting weights three to four hours a day you have to visualize it you have to believe that's what your body is all right but again the average person goes whatever whatever the point is is that you spent a long time in the gym therefore you have these results it'd be a lot different if someone came out and said it last year like an adult let's say someone's 25 years old they were 5 foot 7 and you run into them a couple months later and they're six foot four and you go what happened they go well I use the law of attraction I use a law of attraction to get bigger even when this guy posted even when Tony posted this on the law of attraction subreddit people go what did you eat what did you eat see they're looking for a rational answer to it as well and he goes here's the thing I did eat a lot of food but I don't even told him I'm my doctor that my maximum height was 5 foot 7 he goes I ate a lot of food and I slept more than I normally do however he says I did those things because I felt like the universe was telling me to do these things but what Tony really meant was this is interesting because you have to trick yourself he knows it's impossible to grow what was the math again seven had three makes it ten and two more that's five plus four he knew that the grow nine inches wasn't possible at the age of 60 he knew that was impossible so by eating more and exercising it was a way for him to go well maybe I'm getting taller because I'm eating more not exercising sleeping the opposite of exercise because maybe I'm getting taller because I'm eating more and I'm sleeping his brain gave him that out but even then you could have eaten double tripled your diet you're not going to grow nine inches in a year at age 16 so it was weird how that all played out right had he not done anything he probably still would have grown the nine inches but his own body would have been but his own conscious mind would go this is magic this is a real you can't grow nine inches unless I don't know maybe you eat some extra green beans at dinner time if you have a business that takes off out of nowhere if you spend hours in the gym and you just get completely swole if you visualize yourself winning that race that track meet and you do it nobody freaks out about that stuff because they know that you put in hard work and sometimes the luck of the draw comes into it as well especially in the business arena if you use law of attraction and you never told anyone no one would think of it if you grew nine inches in a year at the age 16 people would think that was weird people would think it was super odd that it worked so much so that if you'd started telling people hey you know you can grow taller or you know you can have bigger boobs or you know you can have a smaller nose or you know you can have bigger hands or you know you could have a longer than six inch dick you can reshape your body using a law of attraction you can change reality and end up making these changes yourself you don't have to get a boob job you don't have to have your nose carved off you don't have to hang a metal weights from your genitals you can do it yourself all the other people who talked about this have vanished and in that episode i go i don't know if they're being silenced because we don't we don't know if all hypothesis are going to go i don't know if they're being silenced or if they're being removed i don't know if they're being told not to talk about it anymore or if that choice is even being taken from them and at the same time i go i don't know who would be doing that is there's some sort of government agency definitely governments would not want people to start shifting reality constantly if everyone lived in their own like how would you even how would you even tax that i know it's a little more nuanced than that it's kind of a jokey way to talk about it but a government wouldn't want a population that had the ability to reshape the universe and it's kind of a no-brainer but it could also be reality itself silencing or removing these people it could simply be too much of a shock to the system if you woke up tomorrow and there was a hundred million dollars sitting in your house and you couldn't explain how it got there nobody could you just had it sitting there you'd be like what and it turns out the universe just took a hundred million dollars and plopped it into your house you would look at it as some sort of brain-breaking glitch you wouldn't be able to make sense of it no one would now though let's say you use law of attraction and one day you get a letter and it turns out that you have a long lost great uncle who died and for whatever machinations whatever sort of legal strings are going on this is far more believable a hundred million dollars just magically appearing in your living room or it turns out that you and just you not your siblings and not your parents you are the sole inheritor of a hundred million dollar estate now you can make sense of it now your brain goes okay well maybe i didn't really law of attraction this maybe my uncle my green uncle was gonna die anyways and i was gonna get the money it just turned out to be a big coincidence that i was trying to manifest extreme wealth at the same time that this happened you see the difference if you sat there and were using the law of attraction and then the amount you asked for just appeared in your room then you go magic exists and i can actually reshape the universe to my whim at that point you're not a practitioner of the law of attraction you're a wizard you break the rules in such a way that the universe may simply have to remove the rule breaker where in the other way you got the same thing that you would rationalize it well you know maybe it would have gotten it anyways just the way the world works sometimes and the universe would continue to hum on you don't actually know for sure like tony he can always say as he gets older he goes well maybe it wasn't law of attraction maybe it was just diet and sleeping and my doctor was wrong maybe i was bound to hit six foot four some of the listeners could be saying the same thing i was just a coincidence we can wrap our head around that if you go oh my god i actually can change my body and i'm going to show other people how to do the same thing i'm going to share these tips online like tony's been doing he may be silenced i very rarely reach out to people i feature on this show for a variety of reasons but i very rarely if i'm looking for stuff online if i find an account very very rarely do i hit someone up and go hey you know i did what tony i shot him a comment and said hey i do a podcast i never say the name of the podcast i'm not trying to get a new listener anything but i said hey i didn't even add the link to the episode because i couldn't find it and i'm sure he'll find out one way or the other but i go hey really cool story however i have covered on my podcast about people who have used the law of attraction to make dramatic physical changes and all of them have gone offline in both senses of the word like no one knows what happens to them they've vanished so basically you might want to keep an eye out for what though i think for what a hit squad from a government taking out all the most successful people who use the LOA for physical changes dynamic physical changes or just the universe writing him out of existence both of them would be fairly hard to stop so tony for better or worse is our canary and the coal mine i've actually been kind of keeping up on his posts and what he's talking about and we'll see right he goes offline if all of a sudden we lose contact with him i think the other thing too with the people who were posting about the body changes but i remember correctly a lot of those accounts were like in a drop box i don't even i think they already disappeared offline right at post and stuff like that they were gone i mean it was pretty weird how it was going on i don't remember the specificity of that detail but it was something like that so we'll keep watching i mean we're not stalking them we're not stalking them but we'll keep an eye on tony and hopefully nothing happens hopefully that was a one off or a ten off event when all those other people disappeared hopefully tony is totally fine and he's able to continue to live his life out as a six foot four man but he should be careful because we don't know exactly what is happening to people who do this but it does seem like something is happening to people who use the law of attraction like this we don't know who or what but it doesn't seem like it has the best intentions