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Back to episode — Episode 2749 CWSA 02/13/25

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you were expecting to be watching this on YouTube or Rumble, that won't be happening this morning, but we'll probably post the finished show after it's live. Might take a little while. Well, story number one. There's a study at the University of Zurich that shows that hypnosis does alter brain activity and neurochemistry. Do you know who they could have asked? Huh? I wonder if hypnosis will alter…

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on your actual brain, it wouldn't be doing anything.

There are a lot of people who think that hypnosis is just, uh, what is it that Penn Jillette says? I think he said some while ago that hypnosis was two people lying to each other. The hypnotist pretending to be a hypnotist and the subject pretending to be hypnotized. But no, there is a change in the brain, and that's the longest known thing that every hypnotist has known. It's just obvious anyway.

There's another tragic terrorist attack, it looks like, over in Germany. An Afghan man drove a car into a big crowd. He's injured. I think at least 28 people, some of them really badly. We don't know an

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ything about the motives yet, but yeah, I'll tell you, the car-related attacks, they seem to kill as many or more people than bombs. So maybe this is the beginning of a very long, terrible trend. I don't know. Let's talk about hostage releases because that's a better story. So I was listening to the U.S. envoy for hostages, and his name is, his name is not written down on my notes, so just imagin…

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