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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:22):
and we are back.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome back, you beautiful bitches.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Doing some Friday content on this late evening, nine o'clock.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, I'm tired.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
We never ever go live this late. No, we are
going to read an article today that has made its
rounds across a whole lot of social media accounts. I've
seen probably six different YouTube creators pull up the article
and talk about it. Really yep, all of them were.
They didn't read the article, they just talked about it.

(00:53):
But I was able to see the article found it
that we can talk about it.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's just like a juicy thing. I've everyone taking a bite.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Well, let me pull up the the screen so you
can see it. You see the title of the article. Okay,
American women are giving up on marriage. I'm gonna have
to make that bigger so you can see it.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Huh yeah, I don't got my glass, all.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Right, let me go make that bigger real.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Quick, Thank you, babe. Beautiful bean footage.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
No, it's the roll that beautiful bean footage from Bush's
Baked Beans with the dog Where.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
The dog would I feel like this is a bean commercial.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
A yeah, roll that beautiful bean footage. All right, stupid,
it is stupid, but it stuck with me, so it
was it was it was good marketing.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
The red robin y.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah. So we can't see the chat right now, guys,
we're gonna read this article and then we'll interact with
the chat afterwards. All right, So again, this is an
article by the Wall Street Journal. Uh, and it's called
just to reiterate America. American women are giving up on marriage.
Major demographic shifts have put men and women on divergent paths.

(02:04):
That's left more women resigned to be single. The numbers
aren't netting out, is what it says.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Netting out. What does that mean? Do you know what
that means?

Speaker 3 (02:13):
I don't know. Aren't netting Probably just not aligning. Okay,
all right, baby, do your I'm.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Curious, let's find out. After a handful of underwhelming relationships
and dozens of disappointing first dates, Andrea recently called off
a search for her husband. The twenty nine year old
always thought she'd have found her life partner by now. Instead,
she's house hunting solo and considering having kids on her own.
I'm financially self sufficient enough to do these things myself,

(02:42):
she said a who is a Boston based accountant. I'm
willing to accept being single versus settling for someone who
isn't the right fit.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Okay, so, I mean that's a fair statement.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
It makes sense.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
But what is the right fit at twenty nine years old?
What are you really trying to get in a marriage? Right? Like,
your values are what should be aligning right now in
your life, right not career paths like this should be
because you're still under thirty, Like you still have a
whole lot of life to live. Oh yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
She sees her plans for an independent future as making
the best of a lowsy situation. I don't want to
sit here and say I'm one hundred percent happy, but
I feel happier just accepting my reality. It's mentally and
emotionally a sense of peace. American women have never been
this resigned to stay single. They are responding to major
demographic shifts, including huge and growing gender gaps and economic

(03:37):
and educational attainment, political affiliation, and beliefs about what a
family should look like.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Okay, so before we go any further, the political affiliation
has become such a big deal that people won't date
somebody that's on the opposite side of the fence. Yeah,
they have divided us so far as a country that
that's no longer a thing.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
And we've allowed it to happen, right.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Because we allow the politics in the news to mold
and manipulate us into hating each other. People who are
able to have an honest conversation about politics and not
get upset always find a common ground. The how we
get to where we're trying to go always looks different,
but the goal is almost always the same.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Didn't somebody with a mustache once say that if we
come to a two party system, it's failed.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
I mean, we are a two party system.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Right, But I'm almost certain that somebody said that.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
You have your phone on you I do? Can you
google that? Because I was just thinking, wouldn't it make
more sense just to have people that we can elect
versus assigning them to a party, Like, just campaign for
what you think is right and the people will vote
for you. They won't, But what's the point of a
political party?

Speaker 3 (04:52):
It says the statement, if we've come to a party,
if we come to a two party system. We've already
lost reflex a common concern regarding the state of American democracy.
But it doesn't say who said it. It's just the
AI thing. Okay, anyways, thank you for looking. The reality
is is politicians actually did their jobs, we wouldn't need politicians.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Damn.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
It's the truth. Yeah, if the healthcare system made us healthy,
we wouldn't need the healthcare system anymore. So like, it's
not ever going to solve itself. It's all a fucking
smoke show. But the fact that people get to the
point where they get so wrapped up in their political
affiliations that they're not willing to date just goes to
show how fucking blind we are to what's really going

(05:34):
on out there.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, continuing, the numbers aren't netting out the Daniel Cox,
director of the Survey Center at American Enterprise Institute AEI,
a conservative think tank. He ticked off. The data points
more women than men are attending college, buying houses, and
focusing on their friendships and careers over dating and marriage.

(05:56):
I think is that is Okay, I'm processing a lot.
I ask some question. The first question is what does
netting out mean? The second question is what is a
think tank.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
The think tank is a group of people that I
get together to try to solve problems.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Okay, and then if more women are attending college than men,
my mind would go to men are going straight into
the workforce.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Then you're hung upon the netting out thing. It means
to calculate a net or final result by subtracting or
offsetting certain amounts from the gross amount. It's a way
of simplifying complex figures to arrive at a clear net value,
often involving the deduction of cost expenses or other liabilities.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Okay, yeah, there's a reason I'm not a client test
or something. Yeah, but did you hear the thing I
said about going into the workforce.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
So it said more women than men are attending college,
and my mind goes through that it's because men are
going straight into the workforce.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
They are, well, they should be, I hope. So I
think we're at a point now where more men are
realizing that you can make money and trade jobs. Then you, like,
way more than you'll ever do in a liberal arts
degree or getting a degree in photoshop. Yeah, like the
amount of people who go to college and spend tens
of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars on useless

(07:12):
fucking degrees that they're never going to use. Is astonishing.
Every single person that I know that's gone to college,
besides one, never got a job in their field. They
went to college, guys or degree and went and did
other shit. It's just the way that it is, right,
you know, you got to think that the really popular
college courses on all the people that go into that,
those jobs are so oversaturated. People don't want to get

(07:34):
out there and do carpentry or plumbing or electricians you
know what I mean, or welding because it's not a
glorified job. But those jobs are easy to get in
their high demand, high pay, whereas you can get a
fifty thousand degree and photoshop never use a shit, oh
the government fifty thousand dollars in school school loans and
then end up working at McDonald's or fucking you know,

(07:55):
digging ditches or something. He ticked off the data. At
points more women than men are attending college, buying houses,
and focusing on their friendships and careers over dating and marriage.
I think there's a whole lot of reasons for that.
Elaborate I think that the stronger. The stronger a woman gets,
the less she's going to tolerate a frail man.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
I agree.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
But women who are going to college and getting educated,
they're buying their own home and then focusing on their
friendships and their careers. There's no time for dating. So
at that point, if they're just waiting for the right
guy to come along that checks their boxes, they're not
settling for a shitty relationship. Like, I understand that. I
don't think anyone should settle for a shitty relationship. You're struggling.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm really struggling.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
We shouldn't have waited to Dole.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, this should have been an earlier in the day
kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah. Well, now we know.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Stories of women complaining about the lack of quality men
having long infused pop culture, from Pride and Prejudice to
Taylor Swift's Overear over over over year. Yeah, women throughout
history rarely question how they're finding and securing a romantic
partner should be a primary goal of adulthood. Over half
of single women said they believe they were happier than

(09:07):
their married counterparts, and a twenty twenty four AEI survey
of five thousand, eight hundred thirty seven adults. Just over
a third of surveyed single men said the same. A
twenty twenty two Pew survey of single adults showed only
thirty four percent of single women we're looking for romance,
compared to fifty four percent of single men, down from

(09:30):
thirty eight percent and sixty one percent in twenty nineteen.

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Men were also more likely than women to say they
were worried that nobody would want to date them.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Okay, so let's let's pause because there's a whole lot
in that one paragraph. We know that both genders are
removing themselves from the dating game, like that's not a secret.
They're saying that most men up until thirty years old
are staying completely single. So knowing that that's a big
trend in social media and all the shit that you
know on YouTube and on TikTok, you see all of that.

(11:48):
Pew survey of single adults showed that thirty four percent
of single women were looking for romance compared to fifty
four four percent of single men, down from thirty eight
percent and sixty one to twenty nineteen. So like men were,
it says men were Also, more men were also more
likely than women to say they were worried about nobody
would want to date them. That was the thing that
I really wanted to talk about. We know that that's

(12:11):
the case. Women can get on tender and get thousands
of connections, men get on tender and don't. It's a
lot fucking harder for a guy to find a relationship
than it is for a women to find a relationship.
And with those numbers being the case, that's so skewed.
It means that there are more men in the dating
pool desperate than women.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's a good point. Wait, it was
it the same amount of men and women interviewed or surveyed?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Well, it said that one It said a third over
a third of this of surveyed single men said the same.
So it was they didn't They didn't give us the
data on if it was you know, half women half men.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Okay. A rise in earning power in a decline in
social stigma for being single has allowed more women to
be choosy. It would rather be alone than be with
a man who holds them back.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Cox said, I wonder what that looks like.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, I think a better way to phrase that in
my opinion, right, my opinion is not fact the way
that I would a phrase that is, they would rather
be alone than be with a man who abuses them,
be with a man who puts some in dangerous situations,
be with a man who doesn't want to be a teammate.
Are you looking me like that?

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Well, it said hold them back, right, So does this
mean in terms of a career finding a man thinking
he's the right one, find out his credit is not there,
So it's hard for you to buy a house Like
this sounds more about your social stature and where you're
falling in the hierarchy of success whatever that looks like,
versus abuse or a bad relationship. Yeah, it sounds transactional.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
For young women, especially who teut their boy sober and
off the market status on TikTok and other social media,
the focus has shifted towards self improvement, friendship, and the
ability to find happiness on their own. Surveys show a
decline in teenage relationships and gen z jen Z is
having less sex than previous generations. That was a lot

(14:10):
of essays according to the data from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. You know, go ahead, boys sober?

Speaker 3 (14:19):
What is that? Why? So they're not messing boys all right,
they're not getting that the idea of Gen Z having
less sex and previous generations the dating and marriage declining
and the population declining. We're going to get to a
point that there's not going to be enough young people
coming into the work. Forced us to make sure that

(14:40):
our countries right survive and it's going to population control
is happening because of it, and this could all be
part of a bigger plan, you know, if you want
to get in conspiracy theories, like, you know, we are
way over populated right now, our planet, our resources are
running low.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
You know, is not in Japan right now.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
I don't know if it's still a thing in Japan.
I know that at one point somewhere in Asia they
had a one child policy. I think it was China.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
I want to say that was China. But I'm almost
certain right now in Japan that they have they have
a low birth rate, and there's a really big worry
that that's going to happen.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
It's not it will happen. Yeah, if there's not enough
people to take the jobs that are out there, eventually
an economy is going to collapse right.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
The issue in Japan right now is that I'm seeing
a lot of things. So my TikTok is like reading
and crafts and relationships stuff, and then it's foreign things.
And I see a lot of people just talking about
how they so in Japan, I think over half of
them make fifteen hundred dollars a month and that's not

(15:45):
enough to even have a pet and be able to
stay afloat and make sure you have all the necessity
that you need. And like they a lot of people
are saying, how we're we supposed to have a family
if we can't And he worked from seven am. He
left us at seven am and didn't go home until
about ten thirty at night.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
He was where he was dressed nicely, so it was
like an office job where he was able to sit down.
But that's absolutely insane. Even if you were making the
money to have a family, there's no time for it,
right if both parents were working, what's what's the point?
Crisis of connection? The share of women ages eighteen to
forty who are single that is neither married nor cohabitating

(16:26):
with a partner was fifty one point four percent in
twenty twenty three, according to an analysis of census data
by the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, up from forty one
point eight percent in two thousand.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Okay, so there was a ten percent drop, ten percent
increase in twenty three years, ten percent increase from of
women who are single living alone. Yeah yeah, that is,
neither married or cohabitating.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
These numbers don't specify whether women are looking for love
or swearing it off, but more nuanced surveys show oh
how single women appear less interested in getting married now
than they used to be. They also seem less keen
on getting hitched than their male peers. In twenty twenty
three Pew Research Center survey of five thousand seventy three
US adults, forty eight percent of women said that being

(17:16):
married was not two or not at all important for
a fulfilling life, compared with thirty nine percent of men,
up from thirty one percent and twenty eight percent in
twenty nineteen. In a twenty twenty four Wall Street Journal
NORC poll, fifty eight percent of women aged eighteen to
twenty nine said marriage was at least somewhat essential to

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their vision of the American dream, compared with sixty six
percent of.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Men when you really think about it, the narrative has
shifted so much where men are still get married, have
a family, provide, protect, lead, and women have moved so
far away from wanting to be a wife that like,
the numbers are so skewed now that the good men
that want that kind of thing thing may never find
that that family because of the way the numbers are.

(18:04):
It's crazy to think about.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
It is insane to think about on.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
The marriage aspect too, and with finances that you know
thatst statistics have shown that men who are married make
more money, they live longer, they have better health, you know,
better immune systems. I'm gonna have to edit this and
then when we clip this episode, we're going to have
to clip it the old school way where it's full screen,

(18:31):
because every time I start talking, you close your eyes.
Somebody told me today on one of the TikTok videos
that I dominate the conversation and you are totally checked
out when we're talking.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
I close my eyes so I can focus.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
I know, I just that's right. We're gonna have to
go back to the other form of clipping.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
That's so stupid, isn't it. I can't have real life subtitle.
So I can't get distracted if my eyes are shut
and I'm just focused on what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Let's get back to it.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
You're done.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
That was it. I was just it's it's just crazy
to me that men men perform better in life in
every facet if they're married, because we have a reason
to live.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, marriage rates for both men and women are in decline,
in part owing to less pressure to pair off and
higher expectations for a would be matched. Dating apps make
people feel like there might always be a better option,
said Melissa Karney Kearney, an economist Oh Gosh economist oh

(19:26):
is it? Economists at the University of Maryland. They view
looking for a marriage partner the same way you view
looking for a job candidate, but men seem more satisfied
with their options than women. A twenty twenty three AEI
survey of college educated women found that half blamed their
singlehood largely on an inability to find someone who meets

(19:47):
their expectations. Less than a quarter of single men said
the same.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
So that speaks to the expectations of women versus men.
Rule of sixes. Yeah, we don't have that. We look
for somebody that's going to bring us piece that's going
to enrich our life. We're not looking for somebody that
has one hundred thousand dollars a year income that is,
you know, the perfect banging body and like a great
career and.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Like five three right, we're not double D.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Right. And with the the app thing that they had
mentioned there, they're always being a better option. Women getting
connected the way that they do versus men, of course
they're going to feel like there's always another option and
men are not going to feel that way because the
dating apps don't favor men.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
What didn't we do a whole episode about how they
won't even get showed in the algorithm they can go
weeks or months within zero hits.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yep, yeah we did. There was actually a woman who did.
She created a man profile on tender to see how
it worked out, and she said that she it took
her like two or three months before she finally got
a match, and when she finally got a match, it
was somebody asking for money, trying to like hustle, like
I need money for my bills, darling, that kind of thing,

(21:01):
and she said that it completely blew her mind how
little interactions men get compared to women, because like she
created the profile from a pretty decent looking dude, Like
she pulled a It was all like as an experiment
or whatever, but percientific catfish. Yeah, I mean that's what
it was for. But she said it kind of broke
her heart a little bit knowing that men are treated

(21:21):
the way that they are on those apps because there
was no real connections. It took her a year before
she finally found like an actual connection. Yeah, that was
a real person that was looking to connect, that wasn't
looking to take advantage of him.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
That's insane. That's absolutely insane.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
All right.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Continuing the extent that some women are staying single because
this is what they want, that's great, said Kearney, but
we have to take seriously the likelihood that many are
doing it as a plan B because they're not finding
what they're looking for, and that should make us concern.
Boyfriends for Christmas by Christmas? Oh, by Christmas? I was like, wow,

(21:57):
what a what a thing? Okay, boyfriends by Christmas? So
are we rushing this process? Let's find out. Last year,
Michelle told her three adult daughters she wanted them to
have boyfriends by Christmas. She had a dream. She told
them that each of them was standing in front of
a lit up tree next to a hunk who liked

(22:17):
to ski and went to a good school. This dream
went unfulfilled, admitted Katie, who is thirty and runs Loomy,
a leadership coaching startup out of New York City. Maybe
we're doing it wrong. So much pressure to put on somebody, right,
I have a boyfriend by Christmas. I don't care who
fits the role. I just need you to have somebody

(22:38):
so I can I don't know, take aesthetic photos, fill
my vision and feel like I'm doing something. I would
rather my children find fulfilling relationships versus catering to what
would make me feel good as a parent.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Right, Okay, I wouldn't want to do this alone. Right
Like my life is enrich because of you. Right. So
the idea of us having never gotten together because I'm
not I'm just one inch under six foot or I
don't have a six pack like that that could have

(23:14):
been enough based off of the societal standards of what
you're supposed to have in a man, that, like I
could have missed out on all of this, you could
have too, like and I don't think that either one
of us settled by any means. No, but like there
are people out there whould view our relationships us settling
for each other. Yeah, that's insane to think about. People

(23:36):
are going to live their lives and be fucking miserable
and find out that they're the crazy cat lady at
fifty years old and look back on their lives and
been like, damn, I worked. I sold fifty years of
my life, for thirty years of my life to a corporation,
and all I have to show Ford is a little
bit of money. I don't have. I don't have lifelong relationships.
I don't have children, I don't have security in my

(23:56):
future because of it. There's no legacy, there's no bloodline,
there's there's nothing. I'm going to end up alone and
all that money is going to end up in the
bank account while I'm in a retirement home. Yeah, if
you even make it that long, you know what I mean, Like,
where's the life living at that point?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Continuing yep, Katie spent the first half of twenty twenty
four going on three or four dates a week with
men she met on apps such as Hinge and Bumble
in the hopes of finding a husband. For turning thirty.
By the end of the year, she had ramped down
the search, calling it the only thing you could put
ten thousand hours into and end up right where you started.

(24:33):
I disagree with that. That's ten thousand hours of recognizing
what you don't want in a partner. That's ten thousand
hours of learning more about yourself and the expectations that
you have in life and for the future. Yeah, it sucks.
That sucks. What straight camel dick? Were they saying? Step brothers?

Speaker 3 (24:55):
I don't remember. I'm not a big Stepbrothers fan.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
No, I've heard you quote it sometimes. No, y'all know
what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
She said ten thousand hours, but she only went for
half of twenty twenty four, three or four dates a week.
There's no way she has a ten thousand hour mark,
So she has no idea. That's a very pessimistic mindset.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Many of the men Katie met, she said, either seemed
turned off by her ambition or weren't career orientated enough
for her. You felt discouraged by just how many of
her male friends similarily said they expected fuck. I got
caught up on the word and I messed up The
next one.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
You're good their future wives to prioritize their families over
their jobs. So what she's saying is is she found
a whole bunch of men that wants to have traditional family,
traditional values, that the nuclear family, that's what most men want.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
I understand that most women don't want to be in
a household. There are a whole lot of women out
there that want to be in the workforce, but there's
also a whole lot of women who don't. And the
women who don't maybe the only ones who are left
looking in the dating pool Like, yeah, I don't.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Know continuing yet, Katie's luck may be changing. She recently
started dating a man she was set up with who
seems interested in starting a family and supportive of her career.
She admitted she was wary at first. I thought it
was too good to be true. The challenges the funding
romantic partner have been more complicated by a growing divide
in education and career prospects between men and women. In

(26:26):
twenty twenty four, forty seven percent of American women ages
twenty five or thirty four had a bachelor's degree, according
to Pew, compared to thirty seven percent of men. So
I'm going to say again, I strongly believe it's because
men are going straight into the workforce and they don't,
like you said, see a purpose in going to college.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
I think it's funny that they're using a growing divide
in education and career prospects. You can get a degree
and be a fucking idiot. Oh yeah you Congratulations, you
remembered how to pass a test, or you're really good
at this one subject.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Congratulations, you made a left.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Turn, right, like I don't. That's not that, that's not
the I have a seventh grade education, right, you have
a better education than I do. So by that definition,
you are more educated than I am. Right, if we
were on our first date and you were like, I
got I got a bachelor's degree, and I'm like, yeah,

(27:23):
I fucking dropped out before I even really made it
to high school, and that was the end of the
conversation because you think that I'm an uneducated oath that
doesn't have any type of real skills or ability in life.
And that was the end of the conversation, and you
just kind of pacified the rest of the evening. You
would have no idea of all of the accomplishments that
I've had. Right, that's a fucking stupid statement.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, you know, I think the context of why the
man wants his wife to stay home and raise a
family matters.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Right.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
If he is a good man and want those things
and wants to give his wife the world to make
sure his children are raised properly, and it is the
man that we describe, I think that's okay.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
And I know that some women are becoming frustrated by
that or feel like that's oppressive. I disagree with that.
I live a really good life. I don't feel oppressed.
I don't feel like I have anything being taken away
from me or or part of me is being snuffed
out because I am not working a corporate job or
leaving the house every day to do something. Now, if

(28:34):
this is a man who's abusive and wants to financially
control you and does not view you as a human
and all of the very negative nasty things, I agree
with not getting married or being in a relationshim. Right.
I don't know what the dating game looks like, so
I don't know what kind of scumbags are out.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
There right now, right, Well, there's always going to be
abusive people, yeah, period, male and female. It doesn't matter.
I mean, it matters. Obviously, nobody should be in an
abusive really relationship. But that's not the norm. That's an
outlier like it. You know. I just don't believe that
every person that's on the market that wants a traditional
value relationship is trying to abuse somebody. It's just not
the case.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
I agree.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
This thing went on to say that a bachelor's degree
increases net lifetime earnings by an estimated one million dollars,
according to a twenty twenty four report from Georgetown University.
If you only make a million dollars in your lifetime,
you're not doing so great. You figure the average person
works for for sixty years, right, fifty years from from
twenty eighteen to sixty eighteen is to seventy depending. So

(29:37):
you're working forty five to sixty years. And if that's
the case of sixty hours a week, right, if that
and you and you can only make a million a year,
you really fucked up in life, or a million over
that timeframe.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
A lifetime earning.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
I know a lot of blue collar workers that can
do that in a decade. Oh yeah, and they don't
have a bachelor's degree. And if they got a bachelor's degree,
it doesn't I don't think that they would have made
the money that they're made now. They could, obviously depending
on what their bachelor degree was in. But like you
get a guy that learns how to build homes, learns
how to do the plumbing and electric and it opens

(30:11):
a contracting business without a bachelor's degree, he could make
millions of dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
So I understand that these statistics are real. They're obviously
a thing because there's been fucking studies done on it.
But I don't think that you need a degree to
make real money like that. I just don't.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Continuing, Yep, women are doing comparatively well when it comes
to education in their early years in the labor force,
and men are doing comparatively badly, said Brad Willcook's a
fellow at the Conservative Institute for Family Studies and a
sociology professor at the University of Virginia. This creates a
mismatch because people prefer to date in terms of comparable

(30:52):
education or income.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
The income I understand, yeah, the education, I don't, because again,
you can have a degree and be a fucking idiot.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I agree. I think some people, not everyone. So if
you get butt over this, I would ask yourself why.
I think some people who do go and get educated
to a certain point get pious.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
About it sometimes sometimes.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
And look down on people who haven't hit their level.
Even people who are above average and IQ, they still
treat them as if they're idiotic.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
The income aspect, though, we know, again because of social
media and all the shit that's been spouted since we
started the podcast, is women are trying to date men
who make more money than them. Yeah, and that's why
they have the six figure rule for dating. Well, if
you're not making six figures, what makes you think you
deserve a man of six figures? If that's the status

(31:50):
that we're using, that's a good question.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Men's economic struggles seem to be having the biggest effect
on women without a college degree, whose marriage rates by
age forty five have plummeted from seventy nine percent to
fifty two percent for those born between nineteen thirty and
nineteen eighty. According to research by Cornell University economicists Benjamin Goldman,

(32:14):
young men without a degree are struggling so much as
a group that there simply aren't enough with steady jobs
and earnings for non college women to date good Goldman.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
So I don't think that that's a steady job thing.
I think that's a workless thing. I think that comes
down to lack of men in the home, lack of
proper mentorship, too many men being raised by women that
are allowed to come home doing that fucking you know,
stay at home sun bullshit because it's easier than to
have to, like, you know, parent. Well. I love my son.

(32:48):
I don't mind if he lives in my basement until
he's sixty.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
I don't want him to have a hard life.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Right, I just want to have the life I never had.
I understand that it's hard out there. He's my baby, right,
So of course he can't keep a fucking job because
he's never hit rock bottom and doesn't have to. And
now that would actually increase this. If the women out
there are getting and higher paying jobs and are just
looking for a man that can fall into the stay

(33:12):
at home dad role or stay at home husband role,
those type of neck beards will fit that role perfectly.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, but they're not the quality of man that they're looking.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
For, right. But the relationship also wouldn't work out because
they would get tired of that lazy bullshit, especially with
a motivated, driven person.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Ambitious, right, all those things like they mentioned earlier. For Christina,
a thirty one year old wild land firefighter in rural
Republic Washington who didn't go to college, buying a house
with confirmation she didn't need a partner to be content,
paid ninety thousand dollars for a two bedroom on a
half acre of land in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Got I have to look into that little area.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah, that's not bad. Nope, I'll have it paid off
in the next two years. So I don't feel like
I need to be tied financially to somebody, she said.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
So that's how she views a relationship, a marriage is
being tied to somebody financially.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Well, when you think about it, a lot of people
are getting into relationships. I'm moving in out of that
financial need.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Well, younger people are, yeah, I get that. Younger people
are definitely doing that. She's thirty one years old. When
I think of younger people doing that, I'm thinking of
people under twenty five, you know, I'm thinking of the
people who are fucking seventeen people in a two bedroom
house and you know, living in a flophouse.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
You could have kept talking. I don't know why you.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Because I wasn't sure what you were doing. You were
looking in the other direction.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
I was yawning, so I wasn't Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Your leafs and everything blocks your face, and when you
turned your head, I couldn't see you at all. So
you're breaking stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
That really spooked me. It's because I'm slouching because I'm tired. Continuing.
After her last relationship ended in twenty twenty three, when
she discovered he was still on tender, she doubted she
would find someone else who aligned with her progressive views
and her conservative tent.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Oh see, there you go. There's the politics.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Yeah, even if he wasn't actively chatting with somebody on tender,
having the account, I view that is cheating.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I think those things should be deleted
when you get into a relationship.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Continuing, so she stopped looking. If I need companionship, I
volunteer at the dog shelter. I mean that's definitely a
way to handle it.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
If dogs don't replace a man, No.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
No, they don't. I actually don't like that statement. Yeah,
it puts us and it puts men in a very
low standard.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Single people in large cities where home prices have surged
in recent years are finding that their marital statuses has
hampered their finances. Although the wealth gap between single men
and women appears to be shrinking, real estate prices have
held drive a near doubling of the wealth gap between
singles and couples from twenty ten to twenty twenty two.
Married couples had three hundred and ninety three thousand in

(35:57):
median wealth in twenty twenty two, according to the Saint
Louis Federal Reserve, while unmarried people, including those who are
partnered but not married, had eighty thousand.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
People do better when they're married.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yes, Economists say married couples are more likely to have
assets such as homes and cars, which i've grown in
value faster than wages in recent years.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, because they're working together as a team. Yes, And
that teamwork sometimes looks like one person doing all the
work outside of the home and somebody doing all the
work inside the home. If you can have somebody that's
business minded that needs help and other facets of their life, like,
that's the team work.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Continuing different worldviews for Alicia, not having anyone else to
financially depend on or split rent with is the worst
part of being single? Is this all just about financial stuff?

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Well, this is the Wall Street Journal, so there's always
going to be you know, finances in there. But she
just said the worst part about being single is she
doesn't have anybody to help pay a rent. That sounds
like a fucking great person that I would reall.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Just yeah, that just sounds like you need a roommate.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what it is.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
The worst part about not having somebody for me is
the lack of emotional connection, the lack of daily support
from somebody who I know loves me, right, Yeah, I
wouldn't want to just loan right continuing, especially with the
threat of layoff. That's much more stressful being a single person,

(37:25):
said Jones, who is thirty eight and works in communications
for the real estate company in Washington, DC. Her last
long term relationship ended two years after over conflicting views
of their shared future. He wanted the white picket fence
and me at home with the kids. Jones said this
despite the fact that her salary was nearly fifty percent

(37:45):
higher than his. Jones, who identifies as politically moderate, thinks
coupled with kids should split household and childcare responsibilities equally.
It will never be equal, no, okay. She was surprised
by just how few of the men she has encountered
and DC share this view. Either they held traditional ideas
about marriage or were extremely crunchy liberal and wanted to

(38:08):
live in a van and drive across the country. Before
she pulled back from dating. Last year, Jones tried her
luck at a singles event. She left with three numbers,
all belonging to women who became friends, whom she now
meets for drinks or dinner multiple times a month. The
men at the event, the four women agreed, seem more
interested in the breweries' board games than the people in

(38:29):
the room. They spent the night getting to know one
another instead.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Well, I mean, you're wanting somebody to pay your rent,
and you don't want a traditional man. And everything this
article has stated is that most men want traditional relationships
and most women don't. Right, That's what this whole article
is saying.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Yeah, and that's not the men's problem. Yeah, right, Like,
if you, as a woman wants something different, asking a
man to bend to that and sacrifice what he wants
is pretty fucked up, right, And vice versa course.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
But why would you expect men to give you attention?
And at a singles event, if you're having your conversations
and finding out that you're anti everything they want, why
the fuck would they give you attention?

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Right?

Speaker 3 (39:14):
And even more than that, all of the things that
you think you're bringing to the table to a man
doesn't fucking matter, because we don't care about any that shit. So, like,
if you have an upity attitude or you think that
you're some fucking my shit, don't stink kind of person,
and like you're condescending with the way that you talk
because you make a little bit extra money and your
values don't align, of course they're not going to give
you attention. Furthermore, if you're not attractive, you're not getting attention, right.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
A growing political divide between men and women has compounded
the challenges of finding love. Around thirty nine percent of
women ages eighteen to twenty nine identified as liberal in
twenty twenty four, according to Gallup, compared with twenty five
percent of their male counterparts. This gap has more than
tripled in a decade. Thirty two percent of women and
twenty eight percent of men have called themselves liberal in

(40:01):
twenty fourteen. These differences aren't merely about preferences or votes,
explains University of Denver psychology professor Balina Rhodes, who researches
romantic relationships. Rather, politics have become an expression of one's
core values about everything from economic inequality to bodily autonomy.

(40:24):
They are reflective of people's world views, said Roads.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
I actually agree with that. Yeah, but that's just because
they've used identity politics to fuel the hatred in the
political parties.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
Right, what was politics before this, before it came a
part of people's personalities and shit.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Well, I mean up until the nineties, people didn't talk
about their politics. MTV made you know, Rock the Vote, yeah,
and all of that shit. That was to choose something. Anyways,
they that was when politics became openly discussed. Before that,
people didn't talk about their politics. It is rude. It
was like talking about religion. You don't do that.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
So continuing the latest presidential election in the first months
of Trump administration have intensified this ideological riff. Rachel Gozzetti,
a thirty three year old real estate agent and Savannah,
said she broke up with her boyfriend, with whom she
shared a five year old son over a year ago,
because she was tired of doing most of the childcare, cooking,

(41:28):
and scheduling while also earning almost double her boyfriend's salary.
He has yet to date anyone else, in part because
she worries about living in a red state. Was six
week abortion ban? I have a child that I can't
leave behind a drive to Virginia if I have a
pregnancy scare and definitely can't afford ano their child as
a single mom.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
What a bullshit statement. With all of the ability that
you have to not get pregnant, the contraceptions right, prophylactics,
all of it, there's no reason for that to even
be a thing. You can get on birth control, you
can news plan B, right, you know you can. There's
a whole lot of shit you can do that that's
not even a thing. And if that's your excuse for

(42:07):
not dating you, you're fucking totally brainwashed. Yeah, you should
leave that red state. You should just move out of it,
go live in California where you can kill your baby
at fucking nine months old, or however the hour old
it is there now unreal.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Others are intentionally heading into motherhood a solo. Why we're
gonna find out. Tina, who is thirty four and works
for a health startup, still hopes that one day she'll
be swept off her feet, but she says she has
spent much of the past year trying to talk herself
out of her fantasies of a romantic, happy ending. Realizing
she was rushing into relationships out of fear of running

(42:41):
out her biological clock, that her favorite part of dating
had become debriefing with her friends. The next day, Wow,
she decided to separate her desire to find a partner
from her desire to become a mom.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
It's no wonder that people are so fucking miserable in
the dating pool right.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Now, uh knew. He who split a new High who
splits her time between New York City and San Diego,
has lately spent hours researching the single Mothers by Choice
movement and started saving for a baby with a high
yield savings account. Parenthood and romantic love doesn't have to
be intristically linked, she said. The only hurdle getting her

(43:19):
traditional family on board. At first, they try to convince
me that I still had plenty of time to find somebody,
but they seem to have come around.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
I mean that was the end of the article. I
am I really, I have never looked into this whole
single mother by choice movement. Yeah, but I have a
real fucking problem with that one. Like, I have a
huge problem with that one. I don't think that there
should be single parents. Like. I understand that people are
going to get divorced, right, But in a perfect world,

(43:49):
the parents would work their shit out and a child
would have a mom and a dad in a house together. Yeah,
because you get something from both parents. And by choosing
to have a baby and not be in a relationship
and not having a man in the house with them,
we've already seen how bad that goes. Yeah, Like, that's
not a good environment for a child to grow up in.
Every single statistic goes through the fucking roof when men

(44:11):
aren't around, Rape goes up, drug use goes up, people
dropping out of school, more likely to go to prison,
more likely to be addicted to drugs. Like those rates
go through the fucking roof.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Right. I don't think that women shouldn't become moms just
because they don't have a man in their life, or
shouldn't be moms because something happens. I do believe that
there should be some sort of strong male present there,
whether it be an uncle, male, best friend, grandpa, whatever

(44:45):
the case may be. Women, I'm exhausted. This is a
lot for me to process. I've been a single mom
and that shit was hard. Yeah, and having a lack
of a good support system made it even harder. And
I don't I don't understand, right, because it's not just
hard on the single mom, it's hard on the kids.

(45:07):
It can be hard on my kids. Now, if you're
a single mom who's making seven hundred thousand dollars a
year doing what you're doing, I can see why you're
making that choice. It might be easier for you. You can
hire nannies, do the thing, take more days off of
work if you need to for sick days. But if
you're a mom who is working two jobs to stay afloat,

(45:28):
you can't just take a day off of work or
hire a nanny or go to daycare.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Right.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
So, I know that being a mom is a big
goal for a vast majority of women. I know some
women don't want to have kids, and that's school. I'd
rather you not bring a child into a situation. You
know that's not good for them, or I've seen women
say that I'm not emotionally mature enough to have kids. Aroun,
I'm too selfish, And I'm glad that you can recognize
that and not have children. I love that. Oh, I

(45:56):
don't remember what I was saying. What was I saying?

Speaker 3 (45:59):
Tell about emotions maturity? Before that, you were talking about
moms not being able to make enough money as a
single mom and the difference.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Oh yeah, if you're in a position where you're already
struggling for yourself and you decide to have a child
while being a single parent, you're put that child through struggle.
If you have a lack of a good support system,
you're gonna have that child a lack of a good
support system.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
I think both of those situations are gonna end up
with a fucked up kid when you intentionally have a
child just because your biological clock is ticking, whether you're
a woman who can't afford to take care of that
child and you have to work all the time, and
the kid's got to grow up in the public school system,
in daycares and living with aunts and uncles or grandmas,
and you know what I mean, And that that whole
thing because you chose not to have a man in

(46:46):
your life, or you're the seven hundred thousand dollars a
year a worker who's traveling all over the world and
doing all of these things, that has a nanny and
you know, private schooling and all of that shit. You're
not parenting anyway, So what's the fucking point, right, there's
not a fan there. You're literally just having a baby
because you know that eventually you're not going to be
able to have a baby.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Right, it's more of an accessory.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Look at my little handbag child.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
Yeah, I was becoming forty and I got scared, so
I had a kid. Meet Greg.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't like that article.
I don't obviously don't like that that's becoming a thing.
I hate that, Yeah, because I really thought that we
were on a swing back to traditional values. We swung
so far away from that ship. And like we know
that everything does that.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
It breathes, expands and contrast.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
Right, and we got so far away that it's got
to come back in and we're going we're going to
get back to somewhat like some form of normalcy. Like
we can't just keep doing what we're doing. So I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
I'm not trying to correct you to frustrate you. I
just want you to know that.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
Yeah, I know it's normalcy, but normality sounds better to me.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Oh hell yeah, get it, bab, I'm here for that shit.
I say things wrong too if I think it sounds better.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
Yeah, like scenario or salmon.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Oh. So there's things that I wanted to touch on.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
So I have not completed a single episode of Star
Trek Discovery. Yep, I have not watched a single episode
of it. Last night, I mean I have not watched
a single episode of it period. Last night, my husband
put on the series finale, and I'm sitting here like

(48:40):
quietly sobbing into my pillow as my husband snores because
these this shit's ending. I have no idea who these
people are. I have no idea what connections they have.
And they're like being super meaningful and there's this part
where they're like reflecting on things, and I'm like like

(49:02):
I'm bad in my eyes and shit like this is
so stupid because it's just like the human experience. I
literally know nothing about the show. I know that one
guy is like full angies fell out. Yeah, and that's it.
And the main chick is named Michael, and I thought
it was Michelle, but it's not.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
No, it's not, it's Michael.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
It's Michael. And there's a guy named book Ye Booker, yep, yep,
I know that she got transferred to a ship with.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
Book Why were you crying.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Because the show ended? Relationships ended? I got, I got
emotionally invested in the last forty five minutes of a
years long television series, and I cried, and then, oh gosh,

(49:52):
what was it. Our kids, they say the most ridiculous shit.
Our daughter said today. So I have got and the
children into skincare routine. It's been going good, right, They're
not being hectic, they're not making messes. And our daughter
is really on board with the lotion. Yeah, like it
makes me feel soft. I'm delicate, I'm a princess. She

(50:17):
was sitting in the kitchen as I was cooking dinner,
and she walked in and she had her little lotion
bottle and she was like, Mommy, is like if I
sit in here and put on my lotion, And I'm like, yeah,
you're good. And she's doing her thing over there and
she was like, is this a good amount. I'm like,
you're doing great. Baby. She always shows me the amount
so she doesn't overdo it.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
And this is crazy because she fucking wastes every she does.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
She really does. She knows I'll take it away and
I'll be serious about I'll use it in front of
herm and be like, yeah, you lost great. And she's
back there and she she's doing her thing. All I
hear say is yeah, I rub it into my skin
real good.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
I turned around.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I was like, what did you just say. She was like,
my lotion, I'm doing a really good job brub it
in there. I was like, get it. And she's like,
do you want some lotion? And I was like, yeah,
I can hike my pants up. She put lotion on
one of my legs, just the front part of the
shin and kind of the back of it behind me
like it wasn't even a coherent that's funny. White. Yeah. Oh.

(51:21):
And another thing. We were in the car today and
they're so dramatic. Our son got a scratch on his leg.
I have not seen this scratch, but he was like
it's healing. I'm good, We're fine. And our sissy, oh,
I asked the children. I was like guys, what is
something you're scared of? Like I asked some random questions

(51:41):
just to gauge where they're atting and know them on
a deeper level. And our son said something and I
was like, yeah, that makes sense. And our daughter said
being itchy. And I was like why, Like what about
being itchy makes you scared? And she was like, it
reminds me of open wounds and bleeding and just hay
she did that, and I was like, okay, but I

(52:02):
don't understand, Like how does itching correlate to an open wound.
It was like, it's it because it's itchy when it heals,
and she was like, no, it's just gross. Like so
she couldn't connect the dots there. But then our son
hiked his leg and he was like a wound like
this and like pointed out his booboo and she went put,

(52:24):
I don't like it. I can see the bone And
I was like, you can't see the bone and she
looks at me she's like, but it feels like I can.
And I was like, it's just insane being a parent
and I get dramatic like that, and seeing her being dramatic,
I love that you deal with me.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
That was a whole lot to get to that last part.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Yeah, well I have fun with the kids. Yeah yeah,
so me telling me these stories is fun for me.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Yeah. Your garden's almost done.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Yep, the garden's almost done. We have to get the
roof on, put dirt in there. I made a tick today.
I looked absolutely, I don't know, like I was a
hot banana peel left out in the sun on the
beach and pelicans picked at it for a few days.
I had chopped lips, I was sweating, my hair was

(53:15):
a mess with flyaways. And I made a TikTok and
it was a really good TikTok. I was like, look
at this. My husband loves me. He's great meditation bench.
Look at the door. I really liked the door out there.
And then I asked, so, you know how people are
like I am I the asshole. I was like, help
me with home setting. And I didn't post it because

(53:38):
of how I I need to clean up a little bit.
But I asked, like, what should I plant in my garden.
It's like I have an outline, but there's a lot
of room out there.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
It was the whole point.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
So I was like, for like, what is the staple
in your garden that you think everybody should have and
whomever I come across, and I was like, oh, yeah,
like that Kelly is like garlic when I plant the
garlic seeds and be like, yeah, Kelly told me to
do that.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
So it's like a little shout out every time we
talk about the garden of whomever did that. And I
think that's gonna be fun. We've been doing a whole
purge of the house.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Yeah, slowly, but surely.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
We have the kitchen table again.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
Yeah, which is nice because the kids are eating our
meals instead of plane and watching television.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Our table looks good and I feel like it looks good.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
Zach said. Tomatoes. We got tomatoes growing.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
And they taste fantastic. Tasting one this morning, it was
a little unripe, a little crunchy, but it tasted great.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
And I posted a video of all of that to
the life account today. And I posted a video of
what the man cave is looking like right now. Yeah,
so we still don't have internet. For those of you
who are are paying attention to our internet debacle. I
was told yesterday or on Monday that it will take
once the fiber company lets know, that the final installation

(55:02):
was done. They have it'll be up to five business
days before Comcast reaches out to me to schedule them
coming out to install a router.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Geez.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
So them telling me that we would have internet by
five twenty eight and then six twenty three and it
both being wrong has completely fucked us. Yeah, and we
got rid of the studio very prematurely, and it's it's
creating a whole lot of stress in me. It took
me forty eight hours to upload the last episode. We

(55:32):
did it just it just finished. I can't the tattoo shop.
I would have to bring my laptop and sit there
the entire time. There's no I'm not doing that. Yeah,
a lot of dumb shit.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
Can we sue Comcast?

Speaker 3 (55:47):
You know, I gotta be honest. I thought about it.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Like, this is now disrupting our work life and we're
having a loss of income because of their fucked up
installation day.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Yeah, but it's Comcast and they've got a lot more
money than we do. You my big time as always, guys.
Remember you are the author of your own life. Grab
a pen and we will see you on the next one.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Bye, guys.