s. That would be the entire excess death. The entire excess deaths would be explained by extra loneliness which causes heart problems. Where? Everywhere. Everywhere. Yeah it's everywhere. It would be every age because remember part of the thing we didn't understand about the excess deaths is it appears to be everywhere and it's the everywhere part that's weird. Which also makes you think it's COVID or vaccinations because those are two things that are so widespread. But there is one other thing that's pretty widespread and the thing that's pretty widespread and definitely worse is loneliness.

And I'm seeing lots of it with my Locals subscribers because a lot of what I do on Locals is a solution to loneliness. I'm basically a virtual friend. And what I do, my evening podcasts or live streams, that's when you see it the most. So when I do my live streams from my man cave where it's more casual, we're not talking about the news, it's more like spending time with a friend. And I see from my audience on Locals, not all of them of course but many of them, are really lonely. And it really does make a big difference that I do this every morning. I never miss a morning. That's why I do it. That's part of the reason that I don't miss a morning because I realize that a lot of people use it as part of a social asset I guess. And so I don't want you to lose that.

So that's your whole solution right there. Because these are things that nobody would argue with. All right, I don't believe there's any scientific argument that extra loneliness would cause extra heart disease. Does anybody doubt that? Does anybody doubt the basic concept? Loneliness equals heart disease. Are we good with that?

Then the only other, if that's true then the only question is, is the extra loneliness enough to explain all of the excess deaths? And also is the loneliness worse than when we were locked up? Because it might be. Might be worse. Because here's what the weird thing that happened. When the lockdowns ended, a lot of telecommuting remained. And I got a feeling that there were a lot of houses where the man and the woman and the kids were all in the house at the same time and maybe you drove each other crazy but you weren't lonely. You're all in this house all day. Now you take, okay the wife is off doing something or the husband, make it non-sexist, kids are in school and you're just sitting home telecommuting and you're just all by yourself. It's pretty horrible actually.

You know, since the pandemic there are days when I don't talk to anybody all day. Now that's probably unusual but I actually have days where I don't talk to any human being in person. Maybe I communicate by digital means but I have no human contact some days. Not even unusual. Maybe once a week I have no human contact. I don't plan it. It just sort of happens. It usually means that I had something planned that fell through because I try to fill my schedule with a little bit of human contact but sometimes something gets canceled or whatever. And then you're like, oh well I guess I didn't talk to any people for 24 hours.

Please seek professional help. What, does anybody think I'm not happy? I swear to God I haven't had a bad day in months. Like I don't even have a bad day. When I said that I didn't see people all day, did it sound like I was sad? It's usually fine. But like if it were three or four days in a row I'd probably go insane. But one day without human contact, that's fine. It's a good day. Yeah. So yesterday I had almost no human contact. Almost none. I talked to one person at the gym for three minutes. That was it. That was it. But I had a really good day. Yeah, yesterday was a good day. So I practiced my guitar and my drums and I exercised. I took the dog out. It was sunny. Weather was perfect. Got a bunch of stuff done. Went to Starbucks. I guess I talked to the cashier, told her my order. That's about it.

All right, so that's the solution for the excess deaths as far as I know.

We have this question about whether students using AI and the ChatGPT thing for school homework, whether there was some way to identify when the student didn't do the work and AI wrote it. So I saw a real, and I can't guarantee this is all true but I think it's true, that there is a piece of AI that can spot things made by AI. So if you use ChatGPT the teacher can use another AI that I won't mention, I forgot to write it down, that will spot it. But the student can use ChatGPT but know that they'll get caught. So there's another AI, a separate one, that rewrites the first one to make it undiscoverable. Now at the moment I don't think there are too many stu