has decreased greatly in recent years that matches observation doesn't it? If I had to ask you I'm not going to show you any studies but what do you think? You know just sort of look around what do you think? Do you think the testosterone level is a little lower? I think most people would say yeah it looks like it. And so the science and the observation match. Doesn't mean it's true but it's better than not matching.

Well there's always a new scare when it comes to the coronavirus and here's my favorite in the news. India has discovered a new quote double mutant variety of COVID-19. That's right. No longer will we be simply dealing with a single COVID problem. We're going to have a double special mutant. And when the double special mutants come after you well you're in trouble.

Now how worried should you be about all these double mutant monster COVID things? Well I wouldn't be unworried. It seems like a reasonable thing to be worried about. I would expect that most of these will be susceptible to the virus and or to the vaccinations etc. But I will just add this to the story. The only thing I want to add to the story is this. This story would have happened no matter what. So if you say to yourself oh there's a story about a double mutant variant do you say to yourself that now I should worry about it? Well maybe. But I would submit to you that there always was going to be this story and maybe not with the same words but there's a guarantee because of the nature of the press and the media that they needed to find the extra scary thing when the scary thing was starting to diminish. So that the nature of the press guaranteed this story would exist. But what is not guaranteed is that there's any substance to it or that you really need to worry about it. So to make yourself feel better about these double mutant variants which sound pretty scary just know that the story would have been here whether there was any danger or not.

And that is just about what I want to talk about. I'm going to look at your comments for a moment here. Just looking at some of your comments here.

How is 1984 coming? So I told you I was going to read the book 1984 which amazingly I'd grown to this age without having read yet and I bailed out. So I'm not going to finish the book because it's unfinishable. And here's the reason why. I do not consume media that is a bummer that makes me feel bad. I got the sense of it. I could read the cliff notes. I don't need to live in the world of this guy who's suffering for an entire book. And anybody who does that I don't understand why you do that. Are you reading the book for entertainment? So when it stops entertaining and it just starts hurting like it actually just hurts to read that book because it makes me feel bad. So why would you read a book that makes you feel bad? Why would you watch a movie with sad things in it? It's just bad strategy. Why would you listen to music that makes you feel bad thinkin