A planned World Cup winning goal perhaps?

Very occasionally, I watch sports. Two days ago, I watched the FIFA World Cup final match between Spain and Argentina. The halftime show and the thirty minutes of overtime play were great!

Early in the game, the cameras showed some of the celebrities in the stadium crowd. At one point, the camera showed actor Will Ferrell then went directly to Pharrell Williams, which was a fun recognition of the similarity of their names.

As the game progressed, it became less amusing that the cameras had singled out for notice to the viewing audience the names "William" and "Ferrell".

The only goal made (and allowed to stand) was made by Spain's Ferran Torres with help from Nico Williams. Because of this goal, Spain won the World Cup.

Ferran. Williams.

If I were into gambling on sporting events, this coincidence would have instantly cured me of throwing my money away. With all I have learned about wireless neuromodulation advances, the name coincidence is too improbable not to raise suspicions. 

Especially when I just happened across the Official FIFA World Cup 26 Kids' Handbook this morning and saw that page 42 (a meme number connected to "revelation") had the name Ferran Torres encoded--literally, it's a decoding puzzle page--on it.

I'm no gambler. For those who are, what are the odds?!

Playing the weight loss "shell game"

My experiences with food journaling have provided evidence that there is a kind of weight loss "shell game" going on in the US food supply.

Per wikipedia:

The shell game (also known as thimblerig, three shells and a pea, the old army game) is a public gambling game that challenges players to follow the movement of a marker hidden under one of several covers (shells). In practice, the game is almost always run as a confidence trick that uses sleight of hand to transfer the marker between covers. In confidence trick slang, this swindle is referred to as a short-con because it is quick and easy to pull off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_game

In this case, the markers are molecules that contribute to weight loss/maintenance, which appear to be being put in and out of different foods, and even in or out of the same foods but in different packaging (especially seasonal treats) or with different dates on them.

Since I lack access to a powerful, truthful AI engine that will help me identify these molecules myself, I am left playing the weight loss "shell game" along with everyone else. (I was reluctantly amused to notice after one Thanksgiving that some of these molecules appeared to have been in the canned, name-brand cranberry sauce.)

Right now, I'm trying out mixtures of cocoa, taurine (plain), isoleucine (plain), and grape seed extract (plain, but sprayed and processed in ways that I can't possibly find out). Taurine especially seems promising.

[Update: August 16, 2026: I think an older ("best by 3/21") bottle of Swanson fucoidan extract might have helpful weight loss molecules. I had a little in the morning a few days ago, and the following day achieved a one-pound drop down off a weight plateau. I'll keep you posted. With all these GLP-1 drugs coming out now, I know that no one needs my updates except to show that food and supplement companies have been "hiding the ball" for some time. Which, come to think of it, is pretty big news after all.]

[Update 8/20/2026: Two more unexplained pounds lower with a tiny bit of Swanson fucoidan extract in the mornings this past week. Sigh. This looks like it could be proof that there has been intentional withholding of important health-related information from the public and research communities.

How many people in the supplement industry have been sneaking hidden weight loss molecules into some of their products? And for how long? Have pharmaceutical and food companies been doing it, too?

When I think of all the people suffering from weight-related problems, it makes me sad that the suffering was and continues to be so unnecessary. Swanson and other such companies should not be allowed to get away with hiding what they have been doing. Information about chemicals in the products that they sell to the public must be fully disclosed.

I wonder what law enforcement/firefighters will think of having been expected to protect the owners and and property of companies that have been profiting off of allowing society's guardians and their families to be burdened by excessive weight and related chronic illnesses?]