Hey, folks, welcome to the 307th Dark Horse podcast live stream.

I am Dr. Brett Weinstein.

You were Dr. Heather Heying.

I was doing a little research before the show, and it turns out today is the last day of the year.

Yep.

The eve of the first day of the year. Yep. The eve of the first day of the year.

Nope.

We have the curtains drawn, but if you were to open them, you would see it is daylight

out there, therefore it's the last day of the year.

New Year's Eve is coming up.

I hope everyone is prepared, has plans, reservations, whatever you need.

You know, in Hong Kong, it's already the new year.

That is true. Is that true? Wait. How many time zones ahead are they? Like a billion. A billion. Then that's not even the next year. I don't know, but it's something between 15 and 20, I would think. Okay, okay. All right. Well, happy New Year to our viewers in Hong Kong.

Yeah, something like that. Yeah. All right. I'll go with that. Yeah. It's New Year's Eve somewhere. So if you're drinking, that explains it. Here it is, but not in Hong Kong.

Right. It was New Year's Eve in Hong Kong. So they already know what it's like. I hope 2026 is treating all of our listeners in Hong Kong very well so far.

We're going to finish today by talking a bit about, about 2026 and about 2025.

Yeah, so if you want this sort of recap, big picture stuff, hang out, and we'll get there.

But first, we are going to be talking about some research that has come out, actually,

the thing you found is from a few years ago, but it's timely because it's only getting worse.

And there's some research from this year about sort of things we maybe ought to be keeping an eye on,

not that there is any shortage of things to keep an eye on. But first, as always, we pay the rent. We should do that. Yeah, we have

three sponsors at the top of the hour. As always, this is when you hear our ads. And you can be sure

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