Now it's time for the Anchorman podcast. This is Matt Gates. I am so excited about our episode today. So we are not going to do the normal news of the day. What I'm so excited about this podcast is that we're able to explore features of the human conditions. So if you want news of the day with the major newsmakers,

we've had them on this program. We had Glenn Greenwald last week, but check out the Matt Gates show.

It's every night on One America News, 9 o'clock Eastern, 6 Pacific. We would love to have you each and every

night. But the human condition means talking to people who've had different experiences and then learning from those experiences about our own humanity.

And so while you may not have found every person the most relatable, whether it's the cage fighter we had on,

whether it is the former federal prisoner who my co-host actually used to work for,

whether it is the comedian, the legendary comedian,

Louis Dix, or even a member of California's homeless community, we hope that you found a little

bit about yourself.

And one of the things that we have really been following closely on this podcast is the loneliness

epidemic in this country.

Never before in my life have I seen more people who are

wonderful people with exquisite traits lonelier than ever before. And we were promised that the

internet was going to make us more connected, that it was going to give us this great opportunities

to have new relationships and connections and communications. In reality, I see a generation growing up that is more distant than ever.

And I think about one of the most fundamental choices anyone makes in a life,

and that is who your partner is.

Whether that partner is a spouse, whether that partner is someone who is fundamental to your formation as a human

being, how you think about love, how you think about relationships with one another.

These are absolutely critical questions.

And so I met someone here, a recent friend in the California community who had all kind of

great stories to tell me about what it's

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