e he was lying to me. Right? Because I'm pretty good at seeing if people are weasels. And he doesn't have any weasel energy whatsoever. That's the weirdest backhand compliment I've ever given. He has no weasel energy. Like you can tell weasel energy when you see it, can't you? Like even if they're not lying to you at the moment you say to yourself but they could lie to me. Like they have that potential. Maybe not now but they have that potential. Yeah, SPF, he has that potential. But Jack doesn't look or have that energy at all. At all. Like it's just completely absent. So yeah, if I'm wrong about that I'm the worst judge of character in the world. But I don't think I'm wrong.

Some shocking information about the mental health of teens. The CDC found that 45% of high school students were so persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 they were unable to engage in regular activities. Almost one in five seriously considered suicide. Almost one in five. And 9% surveyed tried to actually do it. They tried to actually take their lives. So the conclusion of this is that the pandemic increased teen suicide. Correct? Is that the conclusion? Thank you. Thank you.

Over on Locals a well-educated person just said, what was the baseline? Do you know what the baseline was? The same. Yeah, it's the baseline. Now it is higher. All right, let me be more technically accurate. It's a little bit higher but it's not shockingly higher. It's about a little bit higher like you would expect, right? It didn't double it, right? Like not 9% attempting it is actually baseline. I mean it's hideous that it's baseline but it is. When I first read that one in five seriously considered suicide, do you know what my first impression was? That seemed low. I thought that was lower than the baseline. You tell me. Only one in five teenagers consider suicide? Really? Just one in five? I don't believe that. I think it's at least two in five. I think it's at least double.

But that gets down to the definition of consider, doesn't it? You know, I gave a whole description of what that means. And in my view I literally consider it every day and then I completely rule it out. Completely rule it out. So am I considering suicide? If you say that out loud, yeah, you're going to be immediately put into the channel of people who look like they're going to do it any minute because nobody's going to take a chance on that. But I don't know. How do kids answer the question? Did you consider it? Well suppose they thought about it for a little while and then ruled it out. If you ask them if they considered it, are they going to say yes? Are they going to say I thought about it and then I ruled it out? Does a kid know that that would be called considering it? I don't know. I think one in five is low.

Now if they said, you know, how serious were you? Did you make an actual plan to do it? And then that would get a whole different kind of answer.

All right. So what percent of Americans, according to Rasmussen, what percent of Americans believe that the vaccinations were a good idea? What do you think? Well let me put it this way. And by the way I'm going to do a demonstration for anybody who's new to this live stream. I'm going to do a de