Hello and welcome to the Carol Markowitz show on the Clay and Buck Podcast Network on I Heart Radio.

One of the things we're going to be talking about a lot on this show is how we're lied to about marriage and kids and generally about

family life. There was a viral video on Tik-Tok recently. Now I'm not on Tik-Tok I'm on

Instagram like a grown-up and so I see the Tik-Tocks as reels three weeks later.

But I saw this one and it really stuck with me. In it the girl is accepting an engagement ring and as she

pushes her finger through the ring it flashes to her life becoming one of drudgery. She's doing laundry, she's washing floors,

she's rocking a baby, and when she takes her finger out of the ring,

it's back to her regular life. The ring is what locks her into this terrible difficult life.

So the conversation around this clip is that some people believe it's anti-marriage propaganda from China.

And maybe it is.

I should ask my ex-CIA friend Buck Sexton what he thinks.

But I have a few thoughts overall on this clip.

So first of all, does this woman not do laundry or clean her house currently. I remember single life

it was a lot of doing laundry alone and making my bed alone and cleaning do the majority of the housework.

But I also work at my job a lot fewer hours than my husband does at his. And I absolutely have help from him. Like,

babe, can you put the clothes in the dryer, babe, can you unload the dishwasher?

Yes, we call each other babe. But two, it's interesting that people

think this is propaganda from China. Now why would China want to discourage

Americans from getting married?

Aren't they afraid of independent girl bosses

and 50-year-old men who act like they're 20 in the club?

It's believable that a video like this would come from an adversary because deep down, no matter how many videos Chelsea

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