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pleasure, the dopamine hit I think makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it's amazing. It's going to happen now. Go. Well I was telling the people on the Locals platform before you joined here on YouTube and Spotify that, well first of all I saw a news story that drinking three cups of coffee will make you live longer. I haven't read it but since the headline agrees with m…

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was in 2004. And the reason is that it held a number of predictions about what was going to happen, and the predictions are close enough to reality that it's going to freak you out. It freaked me out just reading it because I didn't remember all the things I'd written. And as I read it I thought, "Oh jeez, its relevance just increased." So I might read it. I don't know. I have the digital rights to it so I might read it into YouTube or Locals or something at some point.

That was self-indulgent. That had nothing to do with you whatsoever. Why would you come here to listen to me talk about myself?

Here's the coolest news of the day. NASA's Perseverance rover, they've got a really clear picture of something that's sitting on the Mars surface right by the rover and it's a bundle of string. Wait, what? No, seriously. It's a real, a very clear picture of a bundle of string. I'm not making that up. And do you know what NASA said was the explanation? The explanation was it was some kind of debris that fell off the rover itself. And so they say it's something about the device itself. Now I'm no engineer but I'm trying to think what could possibly fall off a spacecraft that is also string. Was there some point during the building of the rover where they said, "We've been using rivets for this. We've been using rivets. But on this one component I think we should wrap it with a string." How in the world is there any string as part of the rover? Please, can anybody explain how string is part of any part of this?

Here's my theory. As you know the moon landing was faked with puppets. Most of you know that by now, right? The moon landing never really happened in 1969. That was faked with puppets. It was actually an elaborate puppet show. And now I think we

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're seeing evidence that the Mars rover is not real. It's never been real. Clearly it's just another puppet show and one of the strings fell off the puppets and then got captured on camera. And now they're doing this scramble. You know, NASA's like, "God what are we going to do? They got our string." And so now they're trying to sell you that some of your finest Mars missions do involve string as…

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