Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream 319.

No, come on.

319.

How would, no, too many things divide into it.

So many.

It's not a huge number, but it's more than two. Four, in fact. Four. All right. I have no idea what they might be. Eleven and 29. 11 and 29. Yeah. That's beautiful. Okay. Well, I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are Dr. Heather Heying. It is April Fool's Day. April Fool's Day. And you're not going to see this coming, but everything we're going to talk about is true as far as we know. I am actually... But some of it, a lot of it may be. We wish wasn't. We wish this were April Fool's episode. We wish these were jokes. Yes.

I will say I am now resolutely against April Fool's Day on the basis that every day is now April Fool's Day.

And we do not need to compound the problem with one day in which we pretend that the outlandish things that we are faced with are not true.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, because so much that we are told is not true.

Yeah, you get like, it's almost like there's holiday creep.

Certainly there has been with Halloween.

You're not referring to me.

There's holiday creep.

And with Halloween, which is a holiday that I've never understood, I've been interested in,

but, yeah, as a kid, you know, dressed up and whatever, but it just, I've never understood adults' fascination with it, except that it speaks to some of the same things that, like, Mardi Gras does,

that exploring the liminal, taking on a different

role, being some, you know, putting on a different, a different persona for a period and seeing

how it goes.

But that has obviously become a year-round phenomenon for many people as well.

So, you know, how many of these?

Okay. How about St. Patrick's Day?

Well, some people are just drinking all the time.

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