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ROCCO CASTORO: Hi, I'm Rocco.
I'm an editor here at VICE.
And today we're going to go out
to Westchester to check
out the amazing Amega wand, It's
made out of granulated
minerals and other fun stuff.
Supposedly it will stimulate
your bioenergetic fields and
do everything from cure muscle
aches and back aches and
kidney problems to transform a
$5 glass of box wine into the
tastiest vintage you've
ever drank.
That's wild.
I can't believe that.
I think it's going to be
something like a Botox party
where people get wanded and they
try to sell you the wand.
So I'm not sure what
to expect, but
it's going to be weird.
So we're here now
Paul's house.
He's going to be hosting the
wanding party tonight.
PAUL SAENZ: Rocco.
ROCCO CASTORO: Hi, how
are you doing, Paul?
He's also a representative
of Amega Global.
And he sells the wands, shows
you how the wands work.
He's going to wand me.
He's going to wand everybody.
And it's going to be awesome.
So what are you wanding
right now?
PAUL SAENZ: He's had
shoulder pain, like
when he throws a baseball.
ROCCO CASTORO: And is this the
first time you've been wanded?
MIKE: Yeah, yeah.
ROCCO CASTORO: And what were
your thoughts on it?
What are you feeling
right now?
MIKE: You know, general
tingling.
Tinglingness.
Little bit.
But--
ROCCO CASTORO: I just didn't
expect you guys to be wanding
right when we came in,
so it's great.
PAUL SAENZ: The wine's
right there.
Grab a glass.
-Is this unwanded wine?
ROCCO CASTORO: One of the
principles that the Amega wand
claims to operate on is
something called zero-point
energy, It's a very complicated
quantum physics principle.
If it actually uses zero-point
energy, it's breaking several
fundamental concepts of physics,
and it's a major
breakthrough.
BRAYDEN OLSON: Uh yeah, I can
seriously feel something.
Like for real.
PAUL SAENZ: I'm kind of a
semi-pro, I guess, musician,
and I also work in construction
as a project
manager, installing wireless
cellphone sites.
Which is kind of ironic
considering this whole thing.
I mean the technology and the
idea behind the Amega,
basically, is to strengthen
your bioenergetic fields.
We're getting blasted by the
cell tower down the street, by
the cell phone in our pocket
that we're putting up to our
heads all the time, what they
call electropollution,
something that's new
to mankind in the
last 50 or so years.
I got into it from a friend
that I was working with in
wireless who turned
me on to some
multi-level marketing programs.
I asked them if they had
anything else it was new that
they want to turn me on.
They told me about Amega, and
I got my wand a month later.
It's stainless steel, and inside
from about here up
there is a mixture of crystals
and minerals that they put
through a process called AMized
fusion that's Amega's
proprietary technology.
Works on any food, any liquid.
ROCCO CASTORO: And what does
it do to the food?
PAUL SAENZ: It makes
it taste better.
It basically oxidizes it.
I've tried it with wine, water,
soda, fruit juice.
And it basically kind
of takes away that
back end bitter taste.
It makes it smooth.
Smooths it out.
ROCCO CASTORO: I'm
going to try the
unwanded wine first here.
It's definitely bitter.
Yeah, you're right about
the back end.
PAUL SAENZ: It's smooth.
ROCCO CASTORO: It does taste--
PAUL SAENZ: It's smoother.
ROCCO CASTORO: That's
a little weird.
PAUL SAENZ: Do you feel
zero-point energized?
CHASE: Seems like people haven't
really heard about it.
Because if they had, then it
would be like something that's
bigger than it already is.
I mean if this is truly healing
people and making this
wine better, I wonder why
people-- why it's not like--
it should be like peanut butter
or something, right?
PERS: It's like 100 years ago if
you said, I'm going to send
a TV show invisibly through
the air, people would say,
you're not going to do that,
because you can't do that.
So that's like, to me, the wand,
is like, yeah, you're
not actually making any physical
contact, but there's
so much out there that is
unseen to the naked eye.
PAUL SAENZ: Before I got
the wand, I was pretty
skeptical about it.
And I was like, OK, I'll believe
it when I see it.
I've had miraculous experiences
with this.
And today, what's your
pain level at?
Zero to 10, 10 being got to call
911, go to the hospital?
BOBBIE JO: I'd say
about a six.
PAUL SAENZ: Wow, so that's
pretty high.
ROCCO CASTORO: So we're wanding
Bobbie Joe right now.
Some lower back problems.
BOBBIE JO: The nerve damage is
caused by a type of bone
cancer I have which is called
Ewing's sarcoma.
ROCCO CASTORO: A bone cancer?
BOBBIE JO: Yeah.
ROCCO CASTORO: They
don't claim to
cure or heal anything.
But they say it's zero-point
field energy.
It's accessing the zero-point
field energy in your body and
enabling your body to
kind of heal itself.
BOBBIE JO: I feel a heck of a
lot better, I have to say.
ROCCO CASTORO: How far down
could you go before this?
BOBBIE JO: To here.
And then to go any further
I would be--
ROCCO CASTORO: --excruiting
pain
BOBBIE JO: --holding myself
going, OK, stretch.
ROCCO CASTORO: And now you
can touch your toes?
BOBBIE JO: Yeah.
ROCCO CASTORO: Now I realize
this is proprietary but where
does this-- do they explain
where they discovered?
Is it AMized?
Is that how you say it?
PAUL SAENZ: AMized fusion.
ROCCO CASTORO: And that's
pretty secretive
then, I would imagine.
PAUL SAENZ: That's the secret.
They don't really tell
you much about it.
You basically read as much
as I know about it.
ROCCO CASTORO: As much
as you know.
How many have you sold, if
you don't mind me asking?
PAUL SAENZ: Umm, I
don't know six?
ROCCO CASTORO: Six?
PAUL SAENZ: Six or
seven, yeah.
ROCCO CASTORO: How much does
it, what's it retail for?
PAUL SAENZ: It retails
for $305.
Are you familiar with multilevel
marketing at all
and how it works?
ROCCO CASTORO: Somewhat.
PAUL SAENZ: It's basically
like a pyramid,
ROCCO CASTORO: Yeah.
PAUL SAENZ: The guy who
started selling
this on January 1.
I'm five generations
down from him.
His name is Sam Adams.
He's making like $3,600 a day.
ROCCO CASTORO: Jesus.
Just googling around, I actually
found a company in
Hong Kong called Quantum.
Their product was a pendant.
It was actually banned by the
government because it was
found to have uranium
and thorium in it.
Has that ever worried you or
anything, that it might
contain anything radioactive?
PAUL SAENZ: No, no.
I mean, they say they're
completely green.
ROCCO CASTORO: I want to do my
back, because that's where I
do have pain.
PAUL SAENZ: You should feel it
then, you should try the back.
ROCCO CASTORO: OK, let's
try the back.
PAUL SAENZ: Where are
we at with time?
-About three minutes?
Maybe a little bit more
than three minutes.
I've been counting for
three minutes.
PAUL SAENZ: Trying to notice
the difference.
ROCCO CASTORO: Give me
a couple of minutes.
Give me a couple of minutes for
the powers of persuasions
to wear off, if there are any.
So we just got finished with
the wanding party.
Had some different outcomes.
I didn't really feel too much.
I didn't want to be impolite, so
I didn't say it didn't work
at all, which is kind
of what I felt.
BRAYDEN OLSON: When they were
waving it over me that there
was a sort of magnet.
ROCCO CASTORO: I didn't feel
anything like that.
-I didn't really
feel anything.
ROCCO CASTORO: It's still
very interesting.
Even the powers of persuasion,
that it's just a piece of
metal, and there's nothing
special, that people can be
convinced that they
feel better, which
obviously Paul is.
And he's a very nice guy.
And he seems to genuinely
believe that the wand was
helping his health and his
well being and his mood.
But what is it?
I would really like to get my
hands on a wand and find out
what the fuck this
thing is made of.
So it's been a few weeks since
the wanding party, and we
actually just got some copies of
the embargoed issue today,
which features the
wanding story.
And between the party and now
a couple things happened.
Paul let me borrow a wand
for about a week.
And I wanded everything
in sight--
myself, my friends, apples,
oranges, everything.
And I didn't notice
any differences.
Before I returned it, I actually
took it down to the
New York Polytechnic Institute
and had a Geiger counter put
on it, because I suspected
that it might have some
radioactivity.
Fortunately, that
wasn't the case.
And we also put an
RF meter on it.
And it wasn't emitting any kind
of megahertz, which was
something else that Paul and
other Amega representatives
have claimed.
I did also speak with other
Amega representatives after I
couldn't get a hold of Sam
Adams, whose the head
distributor in North America.
He didn't return any
of my phone calls.
The other guys I talked to had
nothing but great things to
say about the Amega wand and
claimed that it's helped their
health, their friends' health,
and helped their
pocketbooks a lot.
The final person I talked to
is renowned astrophysicist
Bernard Haisch.
BERNARD HAISCH: Hello?
ROCCO CASTORO: Hello, Bernard?
BERNARD HAISCH: Yes, speaking.
ROCCO CASTORO: Hi,
this is Rocco.
Just with your professional
background and expertise in
the subject, could you summarize
zero point energy?
ROCCO CASTORO: As far as Amega's
claims that their
AMWand can harness or focus
this energy, what do
you think of that?
ROCCO CASTORO: Well, thank
you so much, Bernard.
You just debunked everybody
in three minutes.
BERNARD HAISCH: OK.
ROCCO CASTORO: Bye-bye.
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