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ing that happened. Nobody's opinion got changed, I don't think so. All right. So Biden's now polling, according to the New York Times poll, a 33 percent approval. Have we ever seen a president at 33 percent? Is there anybody who's got access to Carter — I'm sorry, I read the name Carter going by in the comments. Does anybody have access to Google? Was somebody at 28? No. But there's another poll…

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ou because of politics. And I think I was misleading. He didn't unfriend me over politics. That didn't happen. I unfriended him over politics because he couldn't leave me alone. Every day it seemed like every day I get some lengthy message telling me that I was a monster for supporting Trump. And you know, I get the point. I caught on to his opinion fairly early on by hearing it every day. It was more than I could handle. So I had to just basically ghost him.

So I'm wondering, should I reach out? Because now that you've seen Biden as the alternative to Trump, I'm wondering if he would say, well, I'm sure glad we don't have Trump in there. Or would he say, well, okay, it's better than having Trump, yet it's a disaster. I don't know what he would say. I don't know what he's saying. I don't think I would do a told-you-so victory dance. I think that would be a little over the top. But I think he should have developed some humility about his opinion by now. And I'm wondering if that would help us have a productive conversation.

But just thinking about it, if you're thinking about reaching out to any of your friends you lost, this might be a good time. I think the timing is good to make your friends back.

All right. Do any of you live in a fake news personal life that's as bad as the fake news politics? I'm just wondering. All right. Have any of you had an experience where your actual life turned out to be a fake life? I say yes. I wouldn't expect many of you to say that. Yes. Explain. Yes, that your actual life turned out to be a fake life.

Well, I don't like to get too deeply into my personal life, but I'll just tell you one thing that happened to me that just reminded me that we don't live in the same reality. All right. So most of you know, because I'm a public figure, that I'm going through completing a divorce now. It's newer news for you, but it's older news for me. So it's like a year in the process. So I'm kind of beyond all the ugly part. I'm in the reflection part. No, stop saying you're sorry. My point is that it's old news to me, right? So we've both moved on very much, right? So we've moved on about as much as you can move on. So everything's good. We've worked out the details and stuff. So everything's good.

And I saw her the other day and I thought to ask this question: Did she know why we were getting divorced? And she wasn't sure. And then she described a specific situation in which she thought I had been reacting to a story about us. And she thought that maybe that story that had been on the internet had influenced me to want a divorce. And I said, what? I'd never even heard of it. I didn't even know what the story was. And in fact, when she told me, it was the first time I'd ever heard it.

So a year into a divorce, she didn't know why. It wasn't even close. Isn't that weird? Because I didn't even know, like even in the general ballpark of the reason. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm pretty sure we discussed it. But now I don't want to get into my situation because that's not really the point. The point is, do you have any situations like that in which somebody who's actually that close to you and your personal life is living, at least in their mind, a completely different life? Yeah, it's fairly common, you know.

And I think that once you see it, you can't unsee it, right? Once you start tuning yourself to the fact that we're living in different worlds. Because you used to think that people were only temporarily living in different worlds. That if you inform them and you talk to them, you'd end up in the same world. Maybe you had different information. It's not that. It's not that. I think we've gone to a higher level of awareness when we realize that we're all just living in different worlds. And it's not because we're stupid. It's not because we're under-informed. We might be those things too, but that's not what's causing us to live in different worlds. It's just that we all make up our own world. That i

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s really important to understand. We just make up our own world. It doesn't matter how smart or well-informed you are. Once you get that, everything is easier. Your whole life will be more stress-free when you realize that we're not creatures of reason and thought and data. We try to be, but we're not close. We're nowhere in the neighborhood of being those people. But we'd like to be. All right.…

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