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gning off, it looked like it was a little more extreme than going to bed, if you know what I mean. No, I was just going to bed. I won't be clever about it. I promise you. Here's my promise. If it ever comes to the point where I'm doing a final message, you will know it's the final message, right? There won't be any ambiguity. So I promise I won't be cute. All right? So if you thought, "Oh, he's be…

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studies, which everybody's already looked at a million times. Is there somebody who didn't know that if you looked at all the coffee health studies that the net would be that yeah, coffee is good for you? Is there still somebody who didn't know that in the world? Well, at least my audience knows it. Yes, that is the lamest research you could ever do. Nobody should ever give you money for that. Next time, you know who to ask? Just ask Scott.

Well, here's another one. Let's see if I could have done a better job than science on this one. Northeastern University according to Cody Mello-Klein did a little study and they found out that 78.6% of people they surveyed agree with at least one conspiratorial idea. So did they have to do that study to find out that almost 79% of people believe at least one conspiracy theory? Well, if they had asked me, they would have gotten a better answer because the answer is not 79%. Does anybody know what the answer is of what percentage of people believe in conspiracy theories? It's a hundred. It's a hundred. You don't have to study it. It's a hundred.

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know why the researchers didn't get the answer 100? Because researchers don't know what's true. They only have an opinion of what is a conspiracy. You know, some of them they might have a good enough debunk that they know for sure. But there's no such thing as a researcher like a living human being who knows what all the conspiracies are and which ones are not conspiracies. That's not a thing. Tha…

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