Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Crunch. My name is Ethan. Peter, do you want to say hi? Can you say something?

No words. That's okay. If you're watching on YouTube, here's my son, Peter. If you're listening on the podcast, Peter's with me, and you might hear him smack the microphone here in just a second.

But I wanted to hop on before the episode. Just let you know we're in for a great treat. It's a great episode. Patrick and I answer a ton of dating questions.

I think there's, we talk about cohabitation before marriage and how to stop doing the sin

that you can't stop yourself from doing and how to deal with kind of the emotional ramifications

of that. We talk about if someone in your family is marrying a Jewish guy, what to do about that. And I think there's a few other questions of like, how do you get a third date after you have a second date or how do you get a second date after a first date? Just some really, there's some good content in there that you're going to want to enjoy. So welcome to the dating corner. Hope you stick around. One thing that I do have to let

you know is that around 15 minutes into the episode, my audio, for whatever reason, through this

microphone, stops working. So you have my phone audio and Patrick's real microphone audio. So it kind of

sucks. I'm sorry, but I'd rather put this episode out so you guys can listen to it rather than not upload anything at all.

Or, as the good people on Instagram at the Crunchcast said, that I should re-recorded a whole episode by myself.

I have not had time to do that this week.

So we're just going to post it, and I hope you forgive us.

And if you want to continue to support the podcast, one of the best things that you can do is leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. That really lets the algorithm know that more people are listening, more people are liking it, more people want to see it, suggest it on their feeds, go on to Apple Podcasts, leave us a five-star review or on Spotify. If you listen on Spotify, that would really, really help us out if you followed and left a review. So without further ado, let's get into Dr. Ethan's Dating Corner. I got two, I was talking, I was at a B&I meeting today, I was like, dude, I got two theology degrees. I can't do anything. I got them for free. So like, I'm not in debt, but but, like, I did only get two theology degrees. So it's not like I'm going to be building any submersibles anytime soon. Or maybe I am. Apparently, that's the threshold now. You never know. Two submersible episodes in one week. No, we're not doing it. That's the content that people want. I don't think anybody wants to more submersibles.

Oh, do you think if we do that, our podcast is going to go under?

I'm going to do the rest of the podcast like this.

Oh, you got a haircut.

You got a haircut.

And I think it's better this way.

I didn't even notice.

Because now I don't have to hear him say stuff like that ever again.

He took off his headphones.

You can't.

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