Speaker 1: Swipe right. It's one more thing. I'm strong and getty.
Speaker 1: One more thing.
Speaker 2: We've already get into swiping Wright left, which I only
Speaker 2: know about from hearing people reference it.
Speaker 1: I've never done it myself.
Speaker 2: Before we get to that, here's a little John Stewart
Speaker 2: from the Daily Show earlier this week.
Speaker 3: And the Harris campaign has a massive ground game, fifty
Speaker 3: thousand volunteers.
Speaker 4: This is the first time some Democrats have told me
Speaker 4: they've ever heard of people knocking on the same doors
Speaker 4: a second time or a third time.
Speaker 3: You know, if there's one thing people love more than
Speaker 3: someone appearing randomly at their door once, it's that same
Speaker 3: in Parson coming back two or three times to talk politics,
Speaker 3: even though everyone from vacuum salesman to Jehovah's witnesses, No,
Speaker 3: that's a losing strategy.
Speaker 1: In fact, they own that for decades.
Speaker 3: Let's just spend a quarter of a billion.
Speaker 1: Dollars on it.
Speaker 3: You know what Democrats should do, whatever money is left over,
Speaker 3: send those same people back to those voters' doors and
Speaker 3: just knock again during dinner, and when the homeowner comes
Speaker 3: to the door, go, what the scot.
Speaker 1: I thought we connected? Wow?
Speaker 2: John Stewart as usual pointing out the obvious that everybody
Speaker 2: miss misses. That was a different era, back when campaigns
Speaker 2: built their their ground game with door knockers. Who it's
Speaker 2: the same with answering your phone. Nobody answers the phone
Speaker 2: if it's a number they don't know. And most people
Speaker 2: in the modern era, probably not for better, probably for worse,
Speaker 2: but don't like people coming and knocking on their door,
Speaker 2: Like John Stewart's how about that person coming back a
Speaker 2: second time?
Speaker 1: Really makes you want to vote for that candidate, doesn't he.
Speaker 2: This is a second time you've knocked on my door
Speaker 2: until I finally got up and came and answered the door,
Speaker 2: hoping you would go away.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's just getting back to the.
Speaker 5: Incomprehensible amount of money that the Harris campaign spent well
Speaker 5: over a billion dollars for a crushing defeat. I mean, God,
Speaker 5: bless you. If you want to give away your money
Speaker 5: to a political campaign, that's up to you entirely. But man,
Speaker 5: that's a lot of money spent for naught. Of course,
Speaker 5: anybody who got it is thinking, yeah, I'm loving this trend.
Speaker 5: I don't even have to win, and they give me
Speaker 5: a you know, they spend a billion dollars. But and
Speaker 5: certainly in the advertising industry it's appreciated. But holy cow,
Speaker 5: how much would they have lost by if they'd only
Speaker 5: spent as much as Trump?
Speaker 4: Right, there was a video that went viral right before
Speaker 4: the actual election took place of Kamala going to some
Speaker 4: family's home and she was going to do get a
Speaker 4: video of a door knock, and one of the people
Speaker 4: somewhere around the scene took a cell phone video of
Speaker 4: her having the family go back inside so they could
Speaker 4: get a better take of her doing a door Nah,
Speaker 4: that's like it's.
Speaker 5: A reality TV show.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Times change.
Speaker 2: There was a time when I guess you would have
Speaker 2: been perfectly happy to have somebody knock on your door
Speaker 2: and you open the door and you engage them in conversation.
Speaker 2: That people aren't that way anymore.
Speaker 1: Also, the way couples meet.
Speaker 2: This gets to the swipe left or swipe right thing
Speaker 2: that I teased a Have you ever seen those graphs?
Speaker 2: I usually see them on YouTube, but it's a moving
Speaker 2: graph and you see how things shift over time.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen those graphs? Are really cool?
Speaker 2: Like I saw one of the most dominant websites and
Speaker 2: it started in like nineteen ninety five, and you'd have
Speaker 2: the biggest.
Speaker 1: Long bar graph.
Speaker 2: At the top was was AOL, And then as the
Speaker 2: months and years went by, the AOL graph kept shrinking.
Speaker 2: But then all of a sudden, a Yahoo shows up,
Speaker 2: Then a Google shows up and moves a clear fossile
Speaker 2: screen and dominates it. Can you just see how things
Speaker 2: change over time?
Speaker 5: I came acrossos animations, They're really cool. I've come across
Speaker 5: some like world population, Yeah, immigration flow and that's right thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, IDP.
Speaker 2: This one was how couples met, and it started in
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty and it went until now. And I screen
Speaker 2: captured a couple of different points which I thought were interesting.
Speaker 2: But starting in nineteen thirty, how couples met almost two
Speaker 2: thirds from one source, well, three sources put together, but
Speaker 2: they're kind of similar ish sort of things. Family number one,
Speaker 2: school number two, friends number three. Almost two thirds of
Speaker 2: couples met from family, school, or friends. And then you
Speaker 2: get to twenty twenty four, and that's only eighteen percent
Speaker 2: of people meet through family, school and friends. The two
Speaker 2: thirds replaced little by little over time. Obviously you guessed
Speaker 2: it with online. I didn't realize that almost two thirds
Speaker 2: of couples now meet online. It's the most most common
Speaker 2: way to me. I think some of that trend probably
Speaker 2: has to do with age. You know, if you're going
Speaker 2: to form a permanent or would be permanent life relationship
Speaker 2: at age eighteen, say to twenty one, you're going to
Speaker 2: do it differently. I think, Well, I got to believe
Speaker 2: if you eliminate, you know, people fifty and up, maybe
Speaker 2: this number of online couples meeting goes up.
Speaker 1: Probably it might Jesus might be eighty.
Speaker 2: Percent or something for forty and under. I don't have
Speaker 2: any idea. Do you have any sense of that, Katie?
Speaker 2: Like most of your friends do they single? Friends?
Speaker 1: Do they meet people online? Most of them online?
Speaker 4: Actually, I've got one friend who met her fiance at
Speaker 4: work and then the rest of them have been online dating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody I know who's single, they really only talk
Speaker 2: about online dating. I mean, as if that is the
Speaker 2: option for meeting people, and it might be. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I haven't tried it, and I'm scared to death of
Speaker 2: trying it for a variety of reasons, and I don't
Speaker 2: think I ever will. But if that's how everybody else
Speaker 2: is meeting it, does you know what scares you about it?
Speaker 1: Being ending up in a vent as all.
Speaker 2: That being a minor celebrity makes it weird in some ways. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't want anybody getting any personal details about me
Speaker 2: and you know, just screen capturing and.
Speaker 1: Posting them or whatever. I mean that just that weirds
Speaker 1: me out a lot.
Speaker 2: And then I don't know, it just sounds like a
Speaker 2: lot of work and people I know who do it,
Speaker 2: and maybe if you're an extrovert, it's awesome. You go
Speaker 2: on a lot of dates and get to meet a
Speaker 2: lot of people, and then it either goes from there.
Speaker 4: I just had to I've been on two online dates
Speaker 4: and they were both hillacious, So you're not really missing
Speaker 4: a hole.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess you have to weed through a lot
Speaker 2: of hilatious to get to the one that is great,
Speaker 2: and you know you end up together for a while
Speaker 2: or forever, which doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong. Isn't hilacious apart positive?
Speaker 1: I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm right.
Speaker 2: I thought it was awful. Yeah, you had drinks, fell
Speaker 2: in love and hooked up. That's a hlatious date.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not quibbling for the point of quibbling. I
Speaker 5: just love words, but hilatious. So I understood perfectly well
Speaker 5: what you meant, and I get it very.
Speaker 4: Great, bad or overwhelming. There was a hilacious hailstorm.
Speaker 5: Well you're right, it means extraordinary, remarkable, Yes, Michael, thank you,
Speaker 5: thank you. So you used a Prochael, who was the
Speaker 5: editor in chief of the Oxford English Dictionary for twenty years.
Speaker 1: Katie used the probably, but they learned that one.
Speaker 2: They were bad because what I picture is you both
Speaker 2: know within two seconds that you don't want to do this,
Speaker 2: and you still got to go through with the half
Speaker 2: hour cup of coffee or meal or whatever it is
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, my The worst one for me was this guy.
Speaker 4: He was beautiful online. I mean he was in a suit,
Speaker 4: he was wakeboarding, and he seemed super outdoorsy and fun.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, cool.
Speaker 4: He showed up to this really nice restaurant wearing the
Speaker 4: longest jean shorts I've ever seen in my life. Wow,
Speaker 4: a Lakers jersey down to his knees and a flat
Speaker 4: built hat worn crooked, and I went, what the f right?
Speaker 4: And it turns out he was in a suit because
Speaker 4: he was a bodyguard at a strip club across the
Speaker 4: street from the radio station where I worked.
Speaker 5: So, oh, there you go.
Speaker 1: He could have hung Yeah, the.
Speaker 2: People that the people that mislead the real them, because
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want.
Speaker 1: To do that, be God.
Speaker 2: The last thing I would want is to walk into
Speaker 2: a room and see the look of disappointment in their eyes.
Speaker 1: I just it just sounds horrible. I wouldn't.
Speaker 5: I've seen that so many times. I've seen it enough
Speaker 5: for me too.
Speaker 2: I just I can't have I can't imagine wanting to
Speaker 2: over sell myself to that point.
Speaker 1: But I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know, I know, I know
Speaker 2: it's a very very common thing. I heard from men
Speaker 2: and women.
Speaker 5: You know, Katie. A man who's willing to rock the
Speaker 5: extra long jorts is got confidence.
Speaker 2: And showing up to a restaurant which is a tank top.
Speaker 2: He knows who he is exactly, which is fine. But
Speaker 2: why wouldn't you want to portray who you are in
Speaker 2: the picture to people that might like who you are,
Speaker 2: might think cool. They want a guy dressed like that.
Speaker 2: I see attractive women with guys dressed like that. There
Speaker 2: are women out there who want that just wasn't you.
Speaker 1: Right, not me?
Speaker 4: And that Yeah, there was not one photo of I
Speaker 4: think there were like eight or nine on his page
Speaker 4: that indicated that that was his sense of style at all.
Speaker 1: So when he showed up.
Speaker 4: And Greg Gory, who we had on the Extra Long,
Speaker 4: Extra Large Prora the podcast, he came with me as
Speaker 4: like a covert guy that was sitting at another table,
Speaker 4: just to make sure I was safe.
Speaker 1: And I looked over at him and went, I got
Speaker 1: I gotta get out of here so bad. It was
Speaker 1: so bad now.
Speaker 5: To cover wing Man. I like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'd go with in my description single parent.
Speaker 2: I've got roughly thirty minutes every two weeks to spend
Speaker 2: time with you, and I'm angry most of the time.
Speaker 2: So line up over, take a number exactly.
Speaker 5: Let them to the left, Ladies. I'm thinking about my kids,
Speaker 5: two of whom are in stable relationships, one of whom
Speaker 5: is not at this point, and it was school and
Speaker 5: they're in their mid twenties to early thirties, school mutual friends.
Speaker 5: And my son is not currently in a stable relationship,
Speaker 5: but his last girlfriend that was mutual friends. I think
Speaker 5: now maybe it's they grew up under me. In a
Speaker 5: family slash cult that makes the Amish look like the jetsums.
Speaker 5: So maybe that rubbed off on them and they've gone
Speaker 5: old school.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: My whole life is made up of almost entirely friends
Speaker 2: acquaintances through things like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyway, I've been to two weddings this year, both
Speaker 1: of them Tender. Really Yeah wow? Now is Tinder still
Speaker 1: a uh?
Speaker 2: Because it had the reputation originally of being more of
Speaker 2: a hookup app than a meet.
Speaker 1: People to get married? But is that still the case?
Speaker 1: I don't have any idea.
Speaker 4: I believe there's one that came out in the last
Speaker 4: couple of years post Tender that is more of the
Speaker 4: hookup app.
Speaker 1: Now, I can't remember what a lot of people I
Speaker 1: know talk about. Bumble that's the one. Oh really?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Bumble is the one that I've heard is more
Speaker 4: for hooking up. Really, Or there's Bumble and Hinge. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't I think, Yeah, take your word for it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, these names are increasingly random. I'd ringe.
Speaker 2: I'd never thought about it before, but that actually would
Speaker 2: be a stumbling block.
Speaker 1: So say, for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: They're not appalled by my photo and uh, and we
Speaker 2: and we decide we want to meet and uh, and
Speaker 2: my immediate aggression doesn't turn them off. We just want
Speaker 2: to meet. I would say, let me get in my
Speaker 2: calendar two Thursdays after next between one and three in
Speaker 2: the afternoon, before I pick up my kid. I think
Speaker 2: if you're in my neighborhood, we could meet for a
Speaker 2: little while.
Speaker 1: I'll make it least.
Speaker 5: We could pull up next to each other to stop
Speaker 5: light and say, how are you doing good? How are
Speaker 5: you good?
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2: I gotta go pick up my kid from school, and
Speaker 2: I got some laundry to do in a meal to prepare.
Speaker 1: I'm hungry. You can follow me through the Mickey D's
Speaker 1: drive stream as well. We'll do that thing where I
Speaker 1: buy your meal the car ahead of you. I'll pay
Speaker 1: it forward to your meal behind me, and then see
Speaker 1: you later.
Speaker 5: You want to do a bang bang, No, that's not sexual, Well,
Speaker 5: let me explain.
Speaker 1: It's two different kinds of meals. And never mind true
Speaker 1: love over a mcflurry. Well, I guess that's it.