Crystal ball

It hasn't been published yet, so you may be the only one who ever sees this or hears it.

And he got the nickname Larry's Crystal Balls when he predicted the outcome of 433 of 435 contests and 32 out of 34 Senate races.

And he's weighed in and, oh, you know, you just forget it.

Your Republican congressperson could be running unopposed and Larry thinks you're going to lose.

All right.

So how to use a crystal ball, a beginner's guide to psychic scrying.

Have any of you guys ever done any scrying before? I have.

I even made a scrying mirror.

You don't have to paint the mirror if you don't want to.

You could sit in front of it, black room, you know, and all that, and just zone out into the mirror, stare at it for a little while, and then You might start to feel funky and you might see visions and things like that.

Another scrying I think is with the crystal ball, which I've never...

Okay, I can't see that.

They could not lie, though they could be manipulated by very strong minds to show only some things while obscuring others.

In this adaptation, it seems as though the Palantiri are serving more as a stereotypical crystal ball to show each individual different images of their possible futures, as we discussed in episode five.

Scrying is an ancient technique.

but it is designed to offer insight into the person using it, not predictions for their future.

That really wouldn't make any sense to me.

So I'm really, really hopeful that they don't do that.

When it comes to the use of the Palantir on Numenor, I worried a little bit that it was being overused and that, like you said, that it was just like a generic crystal ball.

Here is the future kind of thing.

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And in our main segment, we peer into the crystal ball.

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Jamie, I really appreciate your ad-loving when you had the oh shit look on your face when you realized that you hadn't actually changed the written intro.

It's so wild to me.

I really don't get it.

Like if, if, if I said to you, Oh Donna, by the way, in tonight's crystal ball, when do you think Nomad Lounge is going to get to go mobile ordering of churros? Would we ever have landed on that?

If that would have been in the crystal ball, I think we both would have,

if you wanna call it that, or a conference.

Um, but the most interesting thing happened, and that was after many years of owning crystal balls that were, I'll say, kind of perfect crystals, right? They were clear.

They were polished.

They were, you know, um, flawless.

Yeah

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in the book reading, uh, crystal balls or crystals with inclusions and why that actually helps you.

Yeah.

Madame Tussaud and her silver whatever.

You know, the s- the, the crystal ball.

But the crystal ball now is your phone.

Your phone runs on a silicon-based chip.

It, that's your crystal ball right now.

And you told me that, like, it doesn't matter if you use ChatGPT or a different...

You can basically open it on any of them.