Hey, America's the greatest country in the world.

Thanks for being here, our latest special Politics by Faith, how to survive a broken world.

We live in a broken world and a broken culture. It's not going well. Things are

so broken, there is now an entire, all-encompassing category of death called deaths of despair.

Alcoholism, drug overdoses, and suicide suicide that should be a major warning sign that we

are missing the mark when deaths of despair is a term that people know we're just like a suicide

numbers 50,000 people killed themselves in 2022 it's a record high i. I don't know. Maybe someone's like,

oh, it's not that many. I don't know. Record high. How about this fact? Men, 75 and older,

had the highest suicide rate, nearly double the rate of people 15 to 24. That's interesting.

That's worth its own analysis. That men, when they reach 75 or older, like what happened in their life that they think it's worth ending it now? Is it regret? What's what's happening there? We can touch on that a little later in the show with some of our great guests. We've gotten very good at surviving as human beings.

We're good at surviving.

People can live a long time.

But we're not that great at thriving.

So in today's show, we're going to talk about how to not just survive, but how to thrive.

One more point before we get into it.

We talk about deaths of despair.

That's its own thing.

But what about life of despair?

People living in despair.

It's its own problem.

3.7 million kids.

12 to 17 had at least one major depressive episode in the last year.

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