ady had two movies that lived permanently and they were opposites. That the childhood vaccinations were bad versus the childhood vaccinations were unambiguously good. And they lived. They lived completely as two realities.

All right, here's my take. Neither of those realities are true. Do you know why I say that? Because none of the realities are true. Everything you see is sort of like a user interface for something you don't understand. So when you use your computer and you're punching an icon you see the icon but that's not what the computer is. The computer is zeros and ones organized in ways you don't see and don't understand, right? You're at the user interface level. That's a user interface level. You don't know if what's behind it is Unix or Mac OS or some Windows thing, right? If all you see is a screen because yeah you can make a browser look like anything.

So I don't believe in an objective reality that we have access to. There might be an objective reality but I believe that whether vaccinations work or don't work is not a base reality. Then neither of those are base reality. Their base reality is just something you don't understand. But as long as you can live a world where internally everything is consistent, if you're in the world where vaccinations are good or the world where they're bad, as long as you can live your life and reproduce that's all you need. It's all you need. But neither of you are right. You're just at the user interface level.

So here's what you're arguing. You'll hear two buttons on the screen. You're saying no this is the button to do the thing and the other person said no this is the button to do the thing. But you're only talking about buttons. You're not talking about anything in base reality because we don't have access to it.

Time lapse, charts, here. What's the truth? I want the truth. You're never going to get it. A reality has forked.

So I asked on Twitter, I did a poll and I said did you fall for the mass hysteria generated by trolls that said I personally was pro-vaccine and pro-mask? And I'm going to give you a little test to see how good you are predicting roughly what percentage of the public who answered the poll believed the mass hysteria that I was pro-vaccine and pro-mask. Very good. Very good guesses. Yeah about a quarter. Yeah roughly 25 percent. But about a quarter. Yeah. Didn't see that coming. Total surprise. When I ran the poll I could never have anticipated that result. If you knew the livestream none of this makes sense but trust me it's a very funny inside joke.

All right, somebody called me a fence sitter on vaccinations. The fence sitter. Isn't that very similar to somebody who's waiting for enough information to have a good decision? Yeah. Could you be, is it bad to be a fence sitter when the information is not? What would be the smarter way to go? Huh? We don't really know what the future holds therefore I'll be positive. If you're positive that you can determine the future I don't think the problem's on my end. I will defend my inability to discern the future but you need to defend your ability to discern the future because I don't have that.

So Kerry Lake's lawsuits, I guess two of her ten claims are going to go forward. One of them involving the printers malfunctioning on Election Day and the other involving the chain of custody for some of the ballots. But do you have any hope that that will change anything? I feel like all of these complaints of corruption they get slathered on the bureaucracy and then the bureaucracy just squirms around for a while and then nothing happens. Like I feel like the court is where everything goes to die. Well if you want nothing to happen take it to court. You'll get a nothing there. So I don't think anything's going to happen from these. Like I'm glad she's pressing the case because wouldn't you like to know more? Of course you would. I'd like to know more about this situation. If a lawsuit's the only way we can get to the next level of understanding then I'm all for it. But I wouldn't be optimistic. Not at all.

Right, ladies and gentlemen I believe we've covered all the news that's fit to sip. That's my new, that should be my new tagline. All the news that's fit to sip. And I think that we need another sip because as this 2022 comes to a close I feel like we're going to have to spend some days on some let's say aggressive positivity. What do you think? I think I'm going to start bending my presentation toward gratitude just so we could get a little dose of Christmas spirit. A little bit of appreciating each other. Maybe a little less of the bad. And so I will be complimenting people that maybe I've disagreed with because I think that's good practice. I will be telling all of you how much I appreciate you.

Now well let me do that now. I mean I'm sure I've done it before but you can't get enough of it can you? I think you kept me alive. Like I think you just kept me alive because I had some tough medical stuff to go through this year, you know on top of personal stuff. But oh my God I can't imagine going through this year without this experience. So being connected to you in this way is my fuel, right? And it also gives me something to look forward to when I wake up in the morning. The first thing I think is oh boy I get to do this.

I don't know. I'm not sure how other podcasters feel about what they do. Does Joe Rogan think it's work or does he just still love it? I hope he loves it. But I don't think of this as work. Like it doesn't feel even a little bit workish. And I put more energy into this than anything else I do and none of it feels like work. And it's because of the interaction. It's because it feels like something important. It feels valuable. It feels like it's helping. And that sort of connects me to my most basic, if you want to say evolutionary, my basic biological need is to be useful.

And yeah I wish I could turn it off. If I could turn it off and not need to be useful I could have a pretty good life. Just go spend my money and sit at the beach or something. I don't. I hear people like that but that's not for me. Like I just have to be useful or my day doesn't work. So that's why I do this and it's fun.

Yeah and I do feel like we've formed some kind of mutual responsibility accidentally. I mean certainly voluntary. You know nobody's making you do anything. But I feel like at least based on the comments people say that I've helped some people this year and wow if you helped me you have helped me so much I can't even tell you.

And let me tell you what that does. Let me tell you what that does. So as you know I just finished a book that won't be out until September but that book was written primarily for you. Meaning that you know my interaction surfaced the reframes where I reframe a topic so you just feel better about it or it could be more effective. That really made a difference. And so I put a bunch of them in a book and am I dying? No I