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Aaron G Thompson: Bridging the Gap between the Afterlife and Real Estate
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Ever pondered the mysteries of the afterlife? Our guest today, Aaron G Thompson, an afterlife researcher, has been on this journey for 24 years and his insights are mind-blowing. Our conversation takes a deep-dive into his paranormal investigations, his interesting theory about spirits being biological reactions of consciousness, and his firm belief that there's no such thing as a coincidence. Aaron’s unique perspective on life, death, and the unseen world promises to stir your curiosity and might even alter your perception of the afterlife.
But the intrigue doesn't stop there. Aaron is now embarking on a new journey - a career pivot into the world of real estate. He is excited to apply his passion for unraveling puzzles in this challenging landscape. We discuss his plans to ace the real estate classes and the importance of networking and building relationships in the real estate business. Aaron is also engrossed in the book 'The Go Giver', a popular read among real estate professionals. Tune in as we follow Aaron’s thrilling transition from investigating the unseen world to navigating real estate - a shift as exciting as it is unexpected.
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Welcome to The Brad Weisman Show, where we dive into the world of real estate, real life, and everything in between with your host, Brad Weisman! 🎙️ Join us for candid conversations, laughter, and a fresh take on the real world. Get ready to explore the ups and downs of life with a side of humor. From property to personality, we've got it all covered. Tune in, laugh along, and let's get real! 🏡🌟 #TheBradWeismanShow #RealEstateRealLife
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Hello, this is Brad Weisman. You're listening to Real Estate and you, we are back in the studio. It is now October and we are doing a show that is very appropriate for this month very appropriate. I got a guy here that reached out to me and he said you know what? I am somebody that does afterlife researching, but I'm also thinking about getting my real estate license and I'd like to have you document my progress or my trip through this whole thing. And I said you know what? That sounds good. Then I started digging deeper and I was like, oh my gosh, this guy's legit. He was on like Netflix with a show and everything. So I'm gonna introduce you to Aaron G Thompson. Right now he is on the Zoom here. It's great to meet you, man.
Aaron G Thompson:Thank you so much for responding. By the way, that's it, brad. Yeah, I've been listening to you. As you stated, I'm on a journey and I just thought listening to the shows and at this point I've got to say I'm close to 200 episodes of different podcasts, video format just to get the narrative of moving into, and yours really connected with me and I'm super stoked when you replied, so I'm like, oh nice, awesome.
Brad Weisman:Well, you know what's funny, I get a lot of now afterwards, this is close to our 150th show. I don't know if it is the 150, but I'll have to look into that but it's close to the 150th show. Been doing it for three years and I weed through a lot of the shows of people that reach out. There's a lot of companies out there that manage guests for podcasts which I never knew until I started my own, and what's interesting is I get a lot of them and this one, of course, really stood out. One of the things you said that really stood out was that or my daughter and you have the same birthday first day, not year but yeah, so it was May 14th and I thought that was cool and it just that hit me. So you did a great job writing that email.
Aaron G Thompson:Well and thank you, and it's all you know. It's true, 100% true. I was sitting on the idea, I think, a few days prior, just thinking that this would be kind of cool. But you know, it's a new water I'm treading, what can I do? And I kept pushing towards that. Then, all of a sudden, I heard the episode that's weird, right and right when I was in that thought process and I'm like you gotta be kidding me. I didn't get enough for like a couple more episodes. And I'm like you know what I'm pulling over, cause I was listening and I'm just sending the message that you know that's really cool, and especially cause of what you do now.
Brad Weisman:You know, I think you're probably one that is a custom to listening to the whispers. You know what I mean? Like, a lot of people don't listen to the whispers, they just ignore them, and I think that's what do you want to call it? Gut feeling, what do you want to call it? You know, a super yeah, exactly. So that's interesting, and so that's what you heard, and that's why I reached out, and that's why we're having this podcast, which is really amazing. So let's just talk about what you're doing now and then we'll get into what we wanna we wanna follow you do over the next months. So right now you're an afterlife researcher. What in the world is that?
Aaron G Thompson:Well, I don't even know. I'm still driving in myself. So that's my. I tell people I train myself wrong as an adult, cause this is a subject matter that I'm very comfortable with. For 24 years, you know, I've been fucking away. That's probably why I did TV, cause I still look young, so I can kind of pull back and keep me for a couple of seasons, right, but the passion was there, and I like puzzles, I guess, cause somehow this is the world's hardest puzzle to figure out. You know what happens when we're not in this vessel on the shell. But it led to so many other opportunities and I tell you what. I first started doing this what was the first?
Brad Weisman:let's talk about that. What's the first? Like when was it? You were like, okay, you know what I, this is what I'm gonna start doing. This is it there was. Was there a sign? Was there somebody said something to you, or you saw something, heard something?
Aaron G Thompson:They use the curse word coincidence so often. That was my knowledge base. If something like happened, I might call it coincidence and I just disregarded way too often. But I had a fear of death. Honestly, I was in my teens and for some odd reason I had this fear and it was irrational, just because it just it just came up. I don't know why I was thinking these big picture scenarios Right right. And I wanted to. Honestly, I wanted to find out if ghosts were real, because it seemed plausible and that was my gateway drug to after I've ultimately. But I didn't know, know it at that time and I didn't know there's so many different layers of religious outlooks and there was, you know, the metaphysical and the pseudo science, and even even some science scenarios that that poll and psychology.
Brad Weisman:I mean it's just so much right. There is a lot around that.
Aaron G Thompson:And it was just me challenging the normal and trying to be unbiased as possible and I still pride myself on being very unbiased with this discovery point or, I guess, process and yeah, it led me to having these crazy Indiana Jones adventures and these great aha moments. In these scenarios where I'm, my head explodes. I'm like oh my God, monsters exist, wow. In some context it's bizarre, but the big thing is that superpower that I figured out about 10 years after I jumped in, which was a coincidence Like there's no such thing as coincidence, that's a curse word. There's no coincidence.
Brad Weisman:And of course I said it right off the bat, hugo, I said the curse word. Yeah, right away I said the curse word. I always thought it was just the F word. That was the real bad.
Aaron G Thompson:No, no, that's fine.
Brad Weisman:It's the other C word.
Aaron G Thompson:That's the long yeah you gotta spelling that doctor. So, that's interesting.
Brad Weisman:So so you're a hundred percent convinced, because of the work you do, that there's. There's something going on around.
Aaron G Thompson:It's what's funny I'm speaking at a convention today. So I'm on the East coast and I'm doing this awesome event. With the Halloween season coming up and and the popularity of the TV show and just my work in general. I'm in, I'm on the East coast and in Massachusetts I tell people I joke about I'm probably the most unpopular ghost hunter, if you know, if we want to use the marketing term, because I'm the only one that'll tell you that ghosts and spirits do not exist in the context that we feel that they do. I saw that quote. I just love it because it matches data and it sounds like the most plausible buildup. So I tell people spirits and ghosts. They tend to be a biological reaction of the consciousness, separate from the vessel upon expiration. So what?
Brad Weisman:the hell does that mean?
Aaron G Thompson:It's like an echo right an emotional burst, or an imprint that has AI capability. So Graham Graham's, perfectly fine, but Metallica got it right. This could think about emotions. So by biology, a hundred percent emotions are biological. The box system should not follow you when you pass away. It's it's you know, it's like your clothes, it's your heart, it's your meat. Suit my heart's called a meat suit? Yeah, exactly so. I've never had the pleasure of interviewing someone who's stated or who's had confirmed after death experiences. They all say they're at peace. What you do is void of emotions, it's null of emotions. So if you think about it, they're just shedding this shell and they're just jumping into the ether. The great scenario, and whether that's I call it one consciousness, it explains in my studies prayer, well wishes, good vibes, tomato, tomato is what? What's your intense right, your intense, huge um. It's your focus point, it's, you know, one consciousness. But is that a one? Do you get any type of scenario, is it? You know? There's a mechanic that goes beyond that, but I'm, you know, I'm trying to dig into the uh questions and ghosts and spirits. I mean, there's those scenarios out there, yeah, um. However, I feel they're more man created, um, like we create our own monsters.
Brad Weisman:Well, we have to put a label on it, we have to have it mean something, absolutely yeah, that's human nature, yeah.
Aaron G Thompson:And these cultures have have, uh, and don't call me exactly on the number, but I want to say like 36 different names for spirits and me is, just go spare Poltergeist and I keep it as simple as that. Um, but they have a pretty much an extreme emotional reaction as a different name. Yeah, um, like the suicide spirit, you know. Okay.
Brad Weisman:So with all this, being said what are you looking for when you go into a building? What are you? What are you listening for? What are you looking for what? What is it? No-transcript.
Aaron G Thompson:And it's funny because I'm different than I think. Well, a good amount of the the fill Asians that do roll in with me I'm just because I'm on a different Base. Yeah, I don't need my buy-in at this point. I'm not looking for the buy-in, so I'm looking for. Mechanics is repeatable mechanics? Okay, I use these taboo devices that's so bizarre. On why it would pull multi syllable direct responses out of the ether. So it does. And I try to reverse engineer that in conversation in clear direct responses on site and Just try to see if we can get matching instrument reactions. Wow, say, we have radiation detectors. We call them, oh wow, field detectors. They're basically a detect radiation. The phenomena there is that it picks up a free floating anomaly Whether it's a ghost or spirit, that's a different conversation. However, by behavior of emitting energy and radiation, it radiates from a source. We can't find the source. That's pretty spectacular.
Brad Weisman:Gotcha, gotcha, yeah cuz yeah, exactly because obviously if there's, if there's something there radiate, radiating, then something, yeah, it doesn't just come out of pure thin air.
Aaron G Thompson:And I still question whenever those moments happen, because it's mind-blowing. I I offer the most bizarre options. I do a lot of actionable scenarios on site to see to get a response and and it speaks up more often than none. When it does, it's like oh, I should be ready. What's going on here? So so talk about your Netflix show that you have it was an honor, it was an honor to be associated with it, with the project. It really was so Netflix. We hit, I believe, were the most viewed paranormal theme show in history. It was the avenue, not saying we're the best or, where, the most well-received right but we had the most eyes on us were on Netflix. We hit number five first week. We're out there, I believe number four in UK and I think what's number six worldwide and that's awesome, a lot of eyes on me. Super cool. Yeah, those are neat. We're seeing that pop up a little bit. This ox over again. It was exhausting.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, it was. So how many shows did you guys do? I mean, was it? Was it several shows?
Aaron G Thompson:It was. It's only broken out of six episodes. Okay, there is three different teams, so I was a part of one unit, gotcha, that went to a location and the house is actually built in 1776. Wow, never, I mean, I wow Midwest we don't have.
Brad Weisman:We don't, I was gonna say, cuz typically that's on the east coast.
Aaron G Thompson:Yeah, that's it. I was in Connecticut Preston, connecticut yeah, and we didn't. I didn't know where I was going. It's about three days before we started doing filming, right. So I got the plane ticket. I'm going to Connecticut. So I went there, they blindfolded me and they drove me to the to the location with two other people. Wow, interesting. We were isolated. We were isolated for 28 days and that was all legit. I had no cell phone, no internet. I couldn't talk to my little girl, which was rough.
Brad Weisman:Oh, that's really tough.
Aaron G Thompson:And we just kind of I just had these two other people, you know occasional executive producer comes in or you know see through, walks by, but other than that it was, it was an isolation and our, so they get an afraid with clothing on. Well, okay, yes, but we had cameras in the bathroom and, for whatever, whatever reason, in the bath. Well, no, not in the bathroom. What kind?
Brad Weisman:of show is this I'm a venture, okay. And.
Aaron G Thompson:I, I was. You know if I do my morning routine, so I do pushups and you know I'm in my underwork sense, how I sleep comfortably. Yeah Well, I never thought they're going to use those scenes, but yeah, so they got transitional scenes with me and my underwear a few times. Oh, that's hilarious. Funny thing is, I'm more of an Egon. If you, if you afford, label me as a ghostbuster character. I'm more of an Egon. I got these big ideas, I got these experiments, so I got these really smart things to say. And then here I am doing pushups in my underwear and that's kind of like my character. I appreciate all the other talent. I'm like well, guys, someone had to be the heartthrob. Step up Like man. Dirty Netflix no, I'd find with it, but it's six episodes, it's three hours. It's super easy to watch. You know, any of your viewers go and watch it. I would say I only see it once and and what's your call?
Brad Weisman:again, what's the name of the show? Again 28 days haunted 28 days haunted and it's on Netflix. We can search it. We can watch it on there. I'm going to definitely check it out. I haven't gotten a chance to do that yet.
Aaron G Thompson:And think about the, the locations being the characters, not not the talent, not the humans, but the locations being the characters. And I think it will. It will fall in place a lot.
Brad Weisman:That's cool. Well, 1776 is really even for the East Coast, I mean, I should we have some that are from the 1600s around here, but 1700s is definitely. That's that's old. It's cool. Was it a log? Was it a log home or a log building?
Aaron G Thompson:It had and I don't know what it throughout the years. Of course you know it had a renovation, sure, so it wasn't straight log, but it might have started off.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, a lot of times what they did is they covered them. They covered the logs usually with other types of surfaces later on.
Aaron G Thompson:We had some original nails we found in a location which was interesting, On the patio, like day one, we're walking around and my foot goes right through one of the one of the plates.
Brad Weisman:Oh no, so tell, so tell me. so now you got in touch with me, not for the, for paranormal, not for the afterlife research stuff, obviously, because my show is not about that. You got in touch with me because you're looking to change or not change, add to your list of careers or add to your list of things that you want to do. Real estate has become something you're interested in and you, you came to me and said, hey, you know what about documenting my process or my journey? I guess it would be my journey going from from thinking about real estate. I even have it actually, I actually printed out exactly what you said to me and basically you said how about this? You said you know we would do the first show would be which would be? This show here about you're, about learning about you and your life and then how you would be getting into real estate. Second would be is it still a desire, are there classes in? How the teaching in the class is going? And then you said the third would be, you know, basically taking the test, seeing how that goes, and then it would be after that, going okay, did you do anything with it? Did you make any money? Did you sell a house, whatever? And you know it's an interesting concept and that's what we're going to go on here, because I don't think that's been documented with anybody before that I know of.
Aaron G Thompson:And I was listening, and when I was listening, mind you, I'm listening at a different capacity, right, I think why your listeners are in the business. Yeah, I mean, you're giving a lot of great information and I'm asking questions, I'm looking up the best I can, but I'm just thinking to myself how neat would it be if I were to kind of seen. I hear about the success stories that we know after you know the top one producers, which is awesome, but what? What about the origin story? You know? Yeah, yeah.
Brad Weisman:And it's interesting you say that because you know we have a like kind of like a statistic in our business uh, one in 10 make it past the year. Yeah, you're looking at 10%, and now it that also depends on the company that you go to after you get your license, because the training has a lot to do with it, the, the, the culture of the company that you go to, and that's something that Keller Williams, I'm not gonna just, you know, to our own horn, but I want to because it's a great company, calla. Williams is known for the culture. They're known for their educational Ways of doing things. So you know, our, our thing here in our office is probably like three out of ten make it, or three or four out Of ten, so we have a really good ratio. So talk about so you're. You're already looking into the classes, right?
Aaron G Thompson:Yeah, actually I'm reaching out to. You know the reference that you threw through my way, which was awesome, so I'm actually looking to I'm still following up with her. See about a full scholarship yeah, in the process, which would be huge. Yeah, so hopefully we get that kind of.
Brad Weisman:You have an issue with that, let me know because I think I can help.
Aaron G Thompson:Yeah, absolutely, and Beyond that, once I get that, I'm gonna plan out, you know, ten days plus days, whatever needs to do, and I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna hit all everything right then I've already planned that period. My goal is to step In a house in December. I want to say December 1st, that's bold, yeah, you know, yeah, that's you could, you can do it, hitting for absolutely big. The thing is, I'm so motivated I've already had, I have a buddy locally who's a contractor and I've already sat down with him and he has houses he buys, he flips, he needs real tour to sell them. Yeah, I mean, I'm just reaching out to see who's who's doing what. I'm smart, already know that that this is a thing. Networking's always been a thing for me. I used to train customer service in a call center environment, yeah. So yeah, I'm passionate about people and that's what stared me wrong, I think about Ten years ago, because I've always looked at realty, yeah, but I've never committed it to the bit. I would say, because there's other Proceeded priorities that took flight and I had a narrative in my hips I didn't talk or communicate enough about it that it was more of a sales job, and the more I'm watching it, the more I'm talking to friends who are into it. Yeah, it's absolutely not a sales job and I love that. Yeah, it's because that's, that's how I do do business. I mean me. I shake hands, I build relationships and support one another, and the growth has always been Expedential it's serving, it's serving and relationships serving. I'm reading a book right now. This one suggests that I was reading on the flight. I'll probably finish it after this call. It's called go giver and I know I.
Brad Weisman:What's funny is that I haven't read it yet, but that's one that's going around the real estate world right now.
Aaron G Thompson:It's threw me. Threw me off because I was it's. I'm used to like reading science books. You know it's not that. So I was expecting like a Diagram and just like facts and this and that. So that's what I went in for which I was fine with right, but it's in story format and I gotta say I appreciate it. Yeah, so it's throwing off, but after reading I'm like you know what? This is fun and their points are hitting.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, yeah, it's supposed to be a really good book, really good book, now before we got a wrap to substitute. So one of the things I want you to do is I want you to, I want you to talk to Aaron Yourself, but I want to talk to yourself in the future and answer this question. Yeah, okay, so you're gonna talk to yourself in the future. Why, what do you think real estate's gonna be like for you? Like, why are you getting in it and what do you think it's gonna be like?
Aaron G Thompson:I'm getting in it to To serve right and I know that we've just talked about that, but I think this is the best, the best word out there. I've hosted in the Two Christmases in a row, I hosted something called holiday spirits, keeping the theme of what I do a few years ago for COVID, and it was basically me just crowdfunding and dropping a lot of money on someone's bill or someone's. You know a single father who unfortunately lost his wife to cancer. Now I has five kids. You know he's raising a adult. So I just got a lot of money I provided for the holidays. So I call holiday spirits give. That was awesome to me, but I lost. I lost that ability when 2020 hit. I've been kind of on the. I've been on. I've been on a path you know I've. The goal is always there, but I've lived almost. I lived out of my car, you know, with my parents basement. I've just I even rented my cat a hotel because I couldn't work with the cat, so I would get their cat there and then I come back. I mean it was just bonkers and what I do, but I'd always smile. You know, I wasn't like, I wasn't depressed or unhappy in that time for him. I had a lot of control. So, though I was hustling all day, I was busy, I was making things happen. You know, on the line, I had control and realty provides that hustle, that constant hustle that I desire. Yeah, it pulls the idea where I can get out of, you know, the basement off the streets and actually build my life, take care of my little girl, and I'm in my 40s Now. I just want a good career where I can put in the work and get the return and give back and even fuse a little bit of my ghostly humor in with the scenario. Absolutely, you can feel as it even really touch bases that I found, but yet everyone seems to be on this, this, this vibe type of mentality, which is awesome. But yeah, there's a community out there.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, well, and that's what you're going to find with the new modern realtors in our, in our business. The ones that are succeeding at a higher level and are also sustaining their business at a higher level are doing things that are different than the others, and it's basically this business is all about taking who you are and building relationships based on who you are. It's not being anybody else, it's not trying to be a salesperson, it's being exactly who you are. We just had in here the other day. The guy's name is the bearded realtor. He was just on the podcast. He was just on the podcast recently and you know, he, he, basically you know he's like look, I wear my hat backwards, I have a long beard, I have tattoos, up to which I notice you have tat, a tat sleeve too. I think too he's got tattoos and so and he's like you know what, and he's he's producing at a very high level and you know why. He's not trying to be anybody else, being himself. So you should definitely work into your, your marketing or into your sphere. When you start networking and start selling yourself as as a real estate professional, use what you do because that's what people are going to buy.
Aaron G Thompson:And the one thing that kind of came to my head with real T two, real quick, is so when a 2020,. You know I was losing control of everything. You know what seemingly. So what I want to do is I want to gain control. So what bubble of control can I get? So me, you know, I control my body. So that's Jim eating right. So I started eating right, I started doing Jim, but I chose not to do the like scale, like weight, weight myself, because those numbers just always mess me up. So I just hit the behaviors and results happen. And that's my game plan. You know, even going into this, I'm going to hit the behaviors aggressively, positively, just keep doing it and the return, return thumbs.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, you're any, you're exactly right. If you do the work, it will definitely come. And if you follow the rules and you follow up, not the rules, follow the systems and models that are already set up it'll work. But you just want to do it in your own way. But, yeah, what a great, great conversation. I'll tell you what. So what we're going to do now is we're going to have you come back as you're when you're ready to take the test. Okay, I want to set up a podcast for you to come back and I want to find out what you've learned. You know, the things that you've done so far, like reading the books and doing all that work. I want, I want you to come back and I want to see how, what you think of the business so far, because I think, I think you're going to find that things are going to change in your mind. You're going to think things, think of things differently, and I think it's funny, because the stuff, stuff you're going to learn in the books and the tasks, everything has nothing to do with what you're going to do the rest of your life. It's really just. It's really just to get your license. It really is. It's funny, right, so but yeah, I'm excited to see this whole journey.
Aaron G Thompson:Thank you, and thank you so much for for allowing me to be a part of the show.
Brad Weisman:Absolutely, absolutely, all right. There you have it. That is Aaron G Thompson. I got to make sure I keep that G in there, right?
Aaron G Thompson:Right, I got to keep those G's flying.
Brad Weisman:That's right, man. All right, talk to you later, man. Have a great night. All right, there you have it. We're going to bring him back. That's Aaron. Yeah, what, what an amazing story goes from you know ghosts and and all these different things. And now he's getting into real estate. And the good thing is is maybe when he goes into the houses he'll be able to tell people hey, you know what? I'm not feeling anything here. If you're afraid of any of that stuff, it looks pretty good. So there you go. It's a little different feature that he's going to be able to sell. All right, that's about it. We'll see you next Thursday at seven o'clock.
