Oh, hello people in podcast land. Welcome back. My guest today is Nareena Hertz, author

and economist, and we're talking about the loneliness epidemic. Even before social distancing

was a word, loneliness was a huge crisis. More people than ever before have failed

attached in a world that's never been so connected. It seems so converse, right? We have

ubiquitous global instant communications access to everybody. And yet there is a huge surge

in self-reported loneliness. So today expect to learn the dramatic health impacts of loneliness,

the extreme lengths that some people are going to just in an effort to feel connected with

other humans. Why 16 to 24 year olds are at higher risk and much more. Before I get

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