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All right. I have a question which has been bugging me all night, and I can't wait to ask you, so I'll be looking at the comments for your answers. So on Twitter I presented a challenge. It's a psychological challenge and something you can do at home, and I'm wondering if any of you have done it yet.

The challenge is to find somebody who believes the Charlottesville fine people hoax, someone who believes that the president actually called the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville fine people. Find somebody who believes that's absolutely true, and then show them the transcript. But here's the key part: ask them to read the transcript, the specific sentence in which Trump said, "I condemn totally the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists."

And my hypothesis is that if you ask somebody to actually read it aloud to you, that they won't be able to do it. And when I say they won't be able to do it, I don't mean that they'll be weasels and they'll change the topic or they'll simply claim it's not true. Those would be sort of normal things. My hypothesis is that they actually physically can't do it. Let me say that again. The hypothesis is that somebody who is very invested in that being true will not be physically able to read it out loud, and that there will be a cognitive phenomenon which, as a hypnotist, I've seen many times, but most of you have either never seen it or never noticed it when you saw it.

So as a hypnotist this is a very predictable thing which, you know, in a lot of different contexts I can manufacture this effect, but most of you have never seen it and you'll never see a situation probably this perfect, as this clean and simple, in which you can just say, all right, I'm gonna induce intense cognitive dissonance. I'm gonna make your worldview that you think is solid and definite, I'm gonna make it dissolve right in front of you, and then I'm going to watch your reaction. You'll never get that opportunity in the normal world, but you have one.

So if you saw my Twitter feed, you saw the transcript is there. You can just print it out or show it on your phone and say to somebody, I want you to just see if you could read this out loud. I believe that they will look at it and they will immediately find an excuse. That they're busy. They will tell you that I'm not going to play your little game. They will say, what kind of trick are you up to? They will say, well this doesn't really matter because it's about something else. But the hypothesis is that they would be unable to actually voice the words on the page.

Now that doesn't mean it will work every time, but I would guess something like 80 to 90 percent of the time. Somebody said, I tried it. It's true. It will freak you out. It will freak you out to see the person read the sentence and then watch their eyes,