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Well, the news is all interesting today. News out in Palm Springs, California, is that an amnesia patient who woke up 14 months ago and could only speak Swedish, which was not his natural language, was found dead in his home. So for 14 months, for reasons that are a mystery, he could only speak Swedish. How do we explain this? How do we explain this? What would be a possible explanation of why the news would report that he suddenly only spoke Swedish?
Well, I don't want to blow your dreams of what the reality is, but I have a hypothesis. It never happened. It never happened. Yeah. Did they find him dead holding the secret sonic weapon that attacks the embassies? Did they find him dead on one of the UFOs in that big warehouse full of captured UFOs? No. It's like the breatharians. When in the '70s, when I was a kid, the breatharians went on The Tonight Show and claimed that they found a way to live without eating, that they would find nutrition just from breathing the air. And when I was a kid, I remember a lot of people believed it. Like, how do they do it? Could we learn to do that? What if other people could learn to eat just by breathing the air? Yeah, yeah, he woke up and he spoke Swedi
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sh. That totally happened. Yeah, no. The most obvious explanation is it didn't happen. Do you know what the most obvious explanation is whenever something amazing and hard to believe happens? That it didn't happen. It's almost always the case that if it's that remarkable, yeah, it didn't happen. Or there's some context missing. Well, my mind was blown by a video by Elon Musk yesterday. So you kn…
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