now that the predictions were actually before the pandemic, right before. So you might want to check that out. I think you'll be amused. See what I got right, see what I got wrong.

Well, I would like to get your brains ready for the rest of the show with a little bit of an exercise. All right. Those of you who are my regular viewers, I would like you to give me the answer to the question I haven't asked yet. Go. If you're new, boy, are you going to be impressed. Watch this. All right, everybody. The answer to the question before I ask the question. Go.

There it is. That is the correct answer: 25.

Well, Rasmussen polling company says that 73% of likely US voters believe that requiring a photo ID to vote is a reasonable measure to protect the integrity of elections. So let's see. If 73% think it's a good idea, and there are a few people who don't know what they're doing, but 21% disagree. 21% think it's not reasonable to check ID. But I will give you full credit for 25% because, you know, margin of error.

Well, according to New Atlas, one diet soda a day increases type 2 diabetes risk by 38%. According to a new landmark study, 14-year study. So let's see. If a diet soda can give you type 2 diabetes or make your risk of it much higher. Let me check. Okay. Yes. Yes. 100% of the things I was told as a kid have turned out to be wrong. All of it.

I don't know about you, but I learned you can't eat a sandwich and go swimming for an hour. Totally made up. I don't know about you, but I learned you have to drink eight glasses of water every day. Totally made up. Totally made up. I learned that the safest thing you could do for your health is put on sunscreen before you go out in the sun. Well, maybe the jury is still out on that, but the smartest people I know are not using sunscreen because apparently it's just a chemical that gets in your body.

Then, of course, there was the food pyramid. You all remember that, right? Completely upside down and wrong and probably still is. Let's see what else. Then there was what we believed about carbohydrates. There was alcohol is good for you in moderation which turned out not to be true. So yes, 100% of everything I was taught as a young person was made up. All of it. My whole first part of my life was just fake.

But thank God that you're here and I'm here at this time when finally we have all the correct answers to all the scientific questions. Am I right? Yeah. Just think about how lucky that is that after, I don't know, let's say the last 1.5 million years of evolution where we were completely wrong about reality. Just totally wrong. Didn't have a clue. And then during my childhood, we were still wrong. During my life, still wrong about everything. But thank goodness I'm still alive when we figured out everything and now we're not wrong about anything. Right? Right?

How many of you have fallen for the illusion that we used to be wrong in the past, but now we've got things pretty well figured out? I used to believe that. I used to believe that humans were fundamentally desperately wrong about all the important questions for 1.5 million years in a row. But thank goodness, thank goodne