There's this ongoing joke that there's two actually.

One is, I don't know, at some point in 2016, the Large Hadron Collider in Europe fired up and shattered reality,

accidentally making Donald Trump the president, and now we're trapped in some strange, fragmented universe where nothing quite makes sense.

And you get the Mandela effect and all that.

But the other joke is that there are writers who are writing everything that's going on.

And people often say the writers of season two are rehashing old ideas or whatever that may be.

But what's funny about this is the joke behind all of it is that certainly we live in a constructed reality of some sort

because it is much too interesting right now with everything that's going on.

I have to make the point that we've lived through, I don't know what, 50 historical moments this year alone.

I don't know if 50 is the right number, but I mean, at least in the past decade, it's been some substantial number. We've got never before a candidate with no policy positions put in

a few months in advance. The former president was nearly assassinated. You've got January 6th.

I mean, just the list is crazy. So perhaps it's actually quite simple. We live in reality.

Everything is what it is.

And it's just the internet has sped up the rate of communication resulting in it feeling like history is smashing us in the face.

Or perhaps this is all part of God's plan and something significant is happening and we are here and facing a test.

Or additionally, we're in a simulation and people are watching.

Now, I like the idea that we're in a simulation and we're just entertainment for some species somewhere else,

just watching and enjoying the show and laughing that Donald Trump is president.

But we're going to have a big conversation about religion, spirituality, simulation theory,

all of these things.

And so we've got a couple of guests who are joining us. I don't know if you want to go first, Roman, introduce yourself.

Sure. I'm Roman Yompulski. I'm faculty at a university. I do research on computer science,

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