Why the muppets ???? Answer: Rossi's grandchildren did that for Grandpa working with the one of his adult female children who is moderately talented in that sort of stuff.
5:00 pm, same day.Rossi's peanut gallery is busy theorizing why after 3 months of prep work Rossi did such a poor job of his demo.
The main thought from the peanut gallery is that he did it on purpose, not wishing to over-alarm the stock markets, or those whom he views as competitors or set off those troll types who are inimical to him or his company.
Rossi is also obviously a sick old man in failing health -- that part came across very clearly as well.
He rehearsed that trash with Frank Ackland for over a day -- think about it, rehearsal after rehearsal to get the presentation garbaged up just right ......
If you listen close, up at the first after the calculations show up you can hear Rossi talking "off microphone" to Frank Ackland -- referring to the calculations page as "the rest of that bullshite" .....Rossi wants you to discount him and his equipment and to ignore him as a buffoon -- if you were a Rossi competitor or a Rossi detractor.
He succeeded in his goal, if that was indeed his goal. Justin flat questions why he is even still alive, and now I sense Rossi really wants to remain that way and if that means being considered incompetent and senile, well, he can do that too.After note: The presentation was indeed intentionally electronically voice garbled, a clearer version does exist and can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw_oa8MvdQk&feature=youtu.beSupposedly this audio version is good enough for Closed Captioning to turn on and work automatically if you choose to turn it on. Google's AI can apparently recognize Rossi Speak as it is consistent even if it gets too faint for you to understand.
Rossi's voice is indeed very weak and very rough and likely will never recover completely from his surgeries.