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All right. So yeah, that's Oakland. The murder rate in Oakland is so high that there's only been one murder that I can remember in my town and it was a resident of Oakland who drove all the way to my town just to kill somebody. True story. I'm only aware of one murder in my town and I don't know how long. There was an Oakland guy came here to shoot somebody at Home Depot. So yeah, I'm glad they've got that Hamas situation all figured out.

Well, there's some reports that suicides are hitting an all-time high in America. And people are asking themselves why. Why have suicides hit an all-time high? To which I say, how many reasons do you want? That's not funny. Somebody said married men. No they're not all married. 75%, but they're not all married. No that's not true. They're not all married. That's none of that true. How many can you think of? I tried to start a list of how many reasons I could think of why suicide would be higher, and like I got like I ran out of time.

Reason number one, easier to get a gun. I'm pro-Second Amendment, but I think it's nonetheless a fact that men — first of all are mainly the ones killing themselves. So it's you know there's a bigger uptick in men. Men are the ones using guns. Guns are easier to obtain. There are more people have guns. I don't know if it's easier but there are more of them. So I would say if you increase the opportunity for anything there'll be more of it. Doesn't mean there should be fewer guns, but there's always a trade-off.

How about social media? Do you think generally speaking the effects of social media make it more likely somebody wants to off themselves? Absolutely yeah, because it makes some people, a lot of people, sad.

How about — here's one you didn't see — how about the fact that people live longer? I would think that one thing that would increase suicide is people living longer but they're unhealthy during that part of life. They're like why the hell am I going to — you know let's say you were, let's say your physical situation was terrible at 75 but you were going to live another 20 years. Suddenly you know you start looking at your options, right? So life expectancy being longer probably works against trying to keep the suicide level low.

How about loneliness? We've reached an all-time high in loneliness. For me that would be number one. Yeah, I think loneliness. What about chronic illnesses? Aren't there more chronic illnesses than ever before? Like you're just in pain all the time. You've got inflammation all the time. You're just sore all the time. You're stressed all the time. You've got anxiety all the time. You've got depression all the time. Like more than ever now. Part of that is also people living longer and obesity, right? Obesity. And how about drug use? Of course.

How about — this is Jordan Peterson's thing — having no purpose. When I was young it was always super clear what I needed to do. You will go to school. You will go to college. You will try to do well in the career of your choice. You know you will contribute to the country. It was all very clear. But now maybe not. Now nobody even knows if you need a ceasefire in Oakland or not. Are the UFOs coming? Will AI make everything irrelevant? Will I ever get a job? Can I ever own a house? I mean I could certainly understand how young people feel like they've lost a sense of purpose.

Now I would add to this that a lot of — I believe a lot of fentanyl drug deaths are not just accidental. I think some of them are intentional. And what I mean by intentional is that people go right up to the line where it would be an overdose and they don't give a because they just don't care. And I suspect my stepson who died of a fentanyl overdose at 19, I suspect he was in that category of people who knew there was a risk and knew it was a lethal risk. He was still okay with it because at that point in his life he took a lot of risks. I saw him driving once because I just happened to be walking where he drove by and I thought, oh my God, like that was a dangerous driver that just went by. That was my own stepson. So he was risk averse to the point where I'm not sure how much is intentional. You know if you're walking right up to that line and you know you're doing it. Yeah.

All right. So ladies and gentlemen that's a tight one hour of the best live stream you've ever seen. So proud of myself.

Bad diet, yeah. Toxins in the environment. A lot of reasons. It would be amazing if suicide were going down. That would be the amazing thing. And another — oh also less religion, right? Don't you think religious people might be less inclined to off themselves because they feel more purpose, they might have more hope, that sort of thing. So as religion is going down. How about the number of people living alone? Not just loneliness but literally being alone in your apartment with a gun or some pills. Yeah, if you have people in your space all the time the odds of you taking out your loaded gun and looking at it, you know sort of holding it in your hand and saying you know do I want to do this while the family is in the other room? Yeah, not really. So I think living alone almost certainly would increase your odds of going through with something you wouldn't normally go through with. A lot of reasons.

That's you. Somebody says that's me, alone in the apartment with pew pew pew pew being the gun sound. Pew pew. This is also depressing.

Well, do you need some good news? Let me give you some good news because I feel like there's too much bad news. Here's the good news. Every one of these things that's terrible — and I mentioned a bunch of terrible things today — every one of them is trending good. Every one of them. Here's what I mean. I believe this censorship complex, now we understand it and now we can deal with it. The X platform is the one free speech place but it's robust and growing, right? The X platform looks like even without the advertisers — I think you'll get them back — but looks like it'll survive. I think it will.

Basically everything. I think climate change looks different than it looked a year ago, meaning that there's more — let's say there's more acceptance that we can manage whatever problem there is no matter what it's caused by. I think that's becoming more of a consensus opinion that we can figure it out because even Bill Gates — remember even Bill Gates said the rise in temperature is manageable. Bill Gate