element of the food. The food would be bad and you'd see it in some demographic more than others. So I don't think it's food. I don't think it's anything that affects all of us all the time.

So if it's not our lifestyle and it's not the food, what about the COVID itself? Well Europe had COVID and we had COVID but Europe is doing better so it's the same COVID. So it's probably not COVID.

And then your obvious question is the vaccinations. But I don't know this for sure but I strongly suggest that the vaccination status would be the main thing people are looking at. It's so obvious. So don't you think that we would know by now if the unvaccinated were a demographic group that were doing fine? Don't you think if we really knew that unvaccinated people just weren't having this excess death rate wouldn't we know that by now? I feel like we would because it's the most obvious thing you look at, right?

I don't think it's more sugar because that didn't change much. So I don't think it's food. I don't think it's Big Pharma. I don't think it's just that we got fatter although we did because that doesn't happen fast enough. What do you think it is?

All right I've got two hypotheses that I don't have a lot of confidence in but the fact that it's across all demographics that's the sketchy part. Here's what I think. Number one it's a data collection problem. So either Europe is doing a bad job of collecting death data or the US changed their mechanism or is doing a better job or a different job. So if I had to guess, the fact that it's across all demographics and it doesn't affect Europe as much that strongly suggests the data is just wrong. That we maybe we changed the way we collect it or something like that. Yeah so here's one possibility. It's a bad data collection. Say some kind of change that affected everybody the way they do it maybe. But I feel like we'd know that. Don't you think we'd know that by now? Don't you think somebody would have said hey the data collection changed? I feel like that would have bubbled up. So probably not that.

But there is one thing that affects all people in America in a way that doesn't affect Europe. What is it? What is something that does seem unique to America that's not affecting Europe as much? Loneliness. Loneliness. Now that's a hypothesis. That Europe has a different culture and may simply be more social. Is that true? Would you say that Europe is simply more social? I don't know if that's true but if they are that would explain it because we do have a loneliness problem in the United States. And it's the only thing I can think of that is across all demographics. Every demographic is lonelier now. Our shutdown in the pandemic apparently made a big difference to our permanent habits.

So another story in the news is that people are not using their cars as much. We have the same number. We actually had more cars than we had before the pandemic. So the number of cars went up but the miles driven dropped like a rock. Do you think that miles driven dropping like a rock is entirely work related? Because some of it is. So a lot of people are working at home so that increases your loneliness. You have more, you know the technology is better all the time so that increases your options. Humans are worth less to each other. I think it's loneliness and the depression that comes with it.

Anybody want to offer another alternative? What do you think it is? Is it pharma, food, obesity, data, vaccination, dehydration, alcohol? Well Americans, relative. So I think Americans are drinking way less or actually maybe the ones who are drinking are drinking more but there are fewer people drinking at all and more people quitting so they're less social.

All right let me ask you this question of all of you. You ready? Do we have a problem here? Locals looks like the locals comments are having a problem so I'm going to open up the locals comments on my other device. That usually works. All right just a moment. Where am I? Hold on just a second. There we go. All right yes I have your comments now on my other device. Can you see me? I think you can see me but the comments are delayed. All right so I got all your comments now.

There was a change in data. Media scoops. Yeah maybe. Yep yep. Hey John you're kind of an, I just want to tell you that for Christmas guy named John you're a total. Thanks. Thanks for joining. Quitting alcohol is the best thing you've done for yourself. Good.

All right well we've already ruled out the vaccination because I think that would have been noticed. Yeah I don't know if it's depression but let me, here's the question I was going to ask. Let me look at the comments. The question is this. How many of you have increased loneliness since before the pandemic? How many of you have increased in loneliness? All right I'm seeing lots of no's but there are lots of yeses. I know. Oh my God sorry about that. Yeah some people got widowed. Yep. So some of it is retirement and all that other stuff. Okay. Oh we got our comments back. Well that's my guess.

All right here's a Sam Altman prediction. So he was bragging about his prediction. He said 27 months ago he made the following prediction. He said that by 2030, so now just six years away, it will become clear that the AI revolution and renewable plus nuclear energy are going to get us there which is near zero cost for intelligence and energy. Near zero.

So what Sam Altman is talking about is I think fusion made some breakthroughs and there are a lot of green energy breakthroughs and now you have the AI breakthrough which he suggests. And he said in a comment that at some point ChatGPT will be free except for the newest version. So you'll be able to get like a really really useful free one but if you want the really really useful one maybe that's connected to more services or something. You'd pay a few bucks a month. So at some point most people will have free AI. Just think about that. Free AI. It won't be the best you can buy but you know for 20 bucks a month you probably get that too.

And then we're heading towards free energy. So the answer to your question what do you do about a national debt that is so high you can't even imagine any scenario in which it would be paid back? Free energy would get you there. If energy approached free then the cost of all products would drop and suddenly everything gets fixed. So it is a once in a civilization change. Only once in all of human civilization will energy costs go from real expensive to almost free. Only once. It will never happen again. But only once have we run up debt that looks impossible to pay off. Luckily it happened at the same time. One of the things that makes me think we're in a simulation. Like how could that be? How could it be a coincidence that the one time you have a crushing impossible to pay off debt you have a once in history of the universe ever this