Me. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.

Episode 144. Oh, It's the end of the year and I am out and about doing holiday things so I felt that for the final show of 2018

I would replay the most popular show of the last 12 months which was by far the fourth installment in the Backfire Effect series.

So that will play in just a second and before it does I'd like to load you up with some

information. First I'd like to say thank you to everyone who has emailed and

tweeted to me and everyone who I've met at the lectures that I've done this

year and all the other stuff that's happened over the last few months and a special

things to all the people who are helping keep the show going by

contributing on Patreon. This is a one-person operation and your patronage is

really, really helpful.

So if you'd like to pitch in,

you can head to Patreon.com slash you are not so smart.

Pitching in at any level gets you the show ad free,

but at the higher amounts you get posters and t-shirts and signbooks and all sorts of other cool stuff and so yeah you are not so smart has grown into something all its own

something I could never have foreseen when it started six years ago yes six

years and I'm excited to announce that it's only going to get better in fact in

2019 you are not so smart will we'll be going on the road.

That's right, live shows on a stage in front of an audience where I can see your eyeballs.

The first few will be in New York and I'll share details about that in the next

few episodes. And also coming in 2019, a series about fake news, a series about IQQ and Genius shows about everything from the psychology behind how people

greet each other, the influence of hormones on reasoning and decision-making, the science of cringe, habit formation,

fandom, and all sorts of other weird stuff. Also, also, also, in 2019 I'll be

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