I'm very glad someone brought this up. The whole talk is kind of weird. David is extremely nervous, drinking all the time, and then (spontaneously) bursts into

I'm very glad someone brought this up. The whole talk is kind of weird. David is extremely nervous, drinking all the time, and then (spontaneously) bursts into tears in the end. One comment read that he was 'high', and, while there's no way (or point) to verify this, it describes his abnormal nervousness pretty well. Adding to this the fact that this achievement hasn't been verified, leads to a very strange TED Talk. So, I started wondering, whether a deliberately bad TED talk can be considered a good magic trick...?