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multaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Ah, that is some good hypnosis right there. Can you taste the persuasion? I think you can. I think you can. Well, are you surprised that I'm here? Anybody? Because I did my best to get canceled yesterday. Here I am. Here I am. Now, in case anybody missed it, I was essentially taking a challenge. The challenge was that I could say things that violated the main…

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nclusive is a little bit too much to say, but was it useful? Yeah, Colin, I hear you. Not yet. Not yet. Okay, well, maybe I'll get canceled later.

So a lot of the concern that I'm getting from both the reasonable critics and the unreasonable ones is that I talk too much about COVID. And on top of that, too much about my own critics. Would you say that's fair criticism? I agree with that completely. But have you seen the news lately? Do you know what the biggest news story is today? It's snow. That's it. That's it. That's all that's happening. The biggest news story today is snow. We'll talk about that in a little bit.

I would like to tell you that unfortunately, since I talk about the headlines, I'm a little bit captive to what's going on there. And I would talk a lot less about myself, I hope, if something interesting were going on in the world. But there isn't at the moment. I mean, it'll heat up. I mean, this is going to be a good year. 2022 will be lit for politics. But let me give you one partial defense.

When I'm talking about the pandemic, I don't feel like I'm talking about the pandemic. And apparently that's not getting through. Do you know what I mean by that? That all of my pandemic talk, you know, unless I'm just telling you some new update or something, but when I'm talking about the meat of it and how we deal with it, it's not really about the pandemic at all. It should be about how we determine who's hallucinating and who is thinking clearly. That's what it's supposed to be about.

If I have confused you to make you think that I am either persuading you to do or not do something in the pandemic, none of that's happening. None of that is happening. Or at least intentionally. I don't have an intention or a really even a motivation to give you medical advice or anything like that. So none of that's happening.

But there is a fascinating thing that's happening at the moment that does involve me. I'm in the middle of something that I consider fascinating. But to be honest, I don't know if you will. If I can be honest, everything's more fascinating when it affects you personally. But I believe you will learn something as I talk about this today. So I think you're going to see something that may open your eyes a little bit. And it will look like I'm just defending against my critics, and there's some of that certainly. But I'm going to go a little deeper and try to teach you something that's seriously useful. Okay?

So if you stick with me, you're gonna hear some topics you're sick of. And God, I'm sick of them. I am so sick I don't even want to hear the word vaccination again for the rest of my life. We're all sick of it. But my promise will be if you stick with me, I'm going to give you at least one really, really useful tip

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for discerning what's real and what isn't. So just stay with me. See if I can deliver that. Okay? But first, some other things. I saw a tweet from Michael Sokolow on Twitter. He says it's interesting how NBC is plugging the Winter Olympics, and apparently they're not mentioning that it's in Beijing or China. So NBC is maybe at least allegedly, we don't know what's in their minds, but Michael goes…

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