Good evening, everybody. How y'all do? And starting off the week, well, we got you covered.

Got a great show plan, but we always do. We're going to be talking about how to flirt.

It's how we're going to open the show. God bless it. I'm telling you, I never get tired of talking about this stuff.

But before we get into anything, DMs always open. So we're going to glide on into them,

courtesy of Astroglide later. So if we got a DM first dropping the DMs on our Loveline IG page,

and past episodes of Loveline over at we are channelcue.com. So flirting, bum, bum, bum,

listen to all, it is 2021. We are pushing on the boundaries of gender, right? We are no longer

making expectations upon someone based on what we think their gender is. Listen, this is what's,

this is what is wild about the current state of dating, romance is, um, actually, let me go

backwards. Let me, Let me broaden this story.

So I'm not going to mention any names, but a very popular, let me see if I can jump through

all these hoops of confidentiality.

A very popular set of books approached me, and everyone would be very familiar with the grand heading of

these genre of books and they have a specific one centered around dating and they said,

hey, Dr. Chris, we'd love for you to update it, do the new version.

I think it's been about, I can't remember now.

The last one was less than 10 years old, but, you know, again, we're not always up to date on everything.

And I was looking through the book and I thought, oh my God, this is, this is not an update.

This is a complete rewrite. Everything was truly, truly written in a perspective of toxic masculinity, just really, really,

really, really offensively and very sexist. All men do this, all women do that. The book literally

only identified everyone as straight and cis. It was just wild. It's like you do realize

that, you know, we have a new wave of

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