All right, Stephen rolling

you from Free Domain.

Hope you're doing well.

I hope you having a lovely, lovely day.

Have a little better time before my Wednesday night live

this year of our recent 17th of December 2025.

So here's a question or, I suppose, a series of observations around dating.

I'm really quite fascinated about sort of the modern dating market. So trying to understand

why it's become so asymmetrical. Why is it that women have become so picky? Why is it

that men have become quite bitter? And women have become bitter as well

because they can't find suitable partners. Men can't find suitable partners. So what I want to do, of course,

is I want to go into the backdrop or the backstory of how dating evolved in society. Dating is kind of a modern thing as a whole, where you just

go on a couple of dates, see if you like each other, maybe you become boyfriend girlfriend,

maybe this goes on for years, maybe you get married, and so on. We're really not designed for any of that,

as I'm sure you're aware. We're not designed to choose our own partners from a kind of void of knowledge, right?

That's not really a thing that we are designed for.

So the way that it worked in your village or your tribe or your farm or whatever,

your little community is that you would know the girl, you'd

grow up with the girl, you'd know her well, you'd know her family, and there wouldn't be much

guesstimating. There wouldn't be much guesswork in who it is you're going to marry.

And this is why there's a particular ring to the phrase, you know, we were high school sweethearts, right?

We were high school sweethearts.

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