Hi and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on IHeartRadio.

And welcome to my new time slot, not going to be new for that much longer.

The Carol Markowitz show now airs Wednesdays and Fridays so you can get this non-political

podcast, The Carol Markowitz Show, on Wednesdays and Fridays.

And then normally the political podcast I co-host with Mary Catherine Ham every Tuesday and Thursday.

You only don't get me on Mondays.

My co-author on my one and only book, Stolen Youth, Bethany Mandel, is always causing a ruckus online.

She's been on this show, and we've talked about some of her attempted cancellations that people have tried on her. Her latest one wasn't a cancellation

exactly and she didn't trend, which is already big for her, but seemingly out of nowhere,

this writer guy, James Hurwiki, who wrote Wisdom of Crowds,

he screenshotted one of her tweets and caused a little flurry. So Bethany's tweet said this.

Yesterday I was talking to my nine-year-old son and asked him how many kids he wanted. He replied,

well, it's not up to me. It's my wife's

choice. I told him, no, it's not. You don't marry someone who wants different things out of life than you.

James had a problem with this extremely obvious, at least to me, statement. He responded, and again,

it was really weak the way he screenshotted her tweet instead of just responding directly to her, but, you know, whatever.

But this is what he wrote.

One of the interesting things about the right-wing discourse on relationships is the essential indifference to the idea of love.

So if Bethany's son is in love with a woman who doesn't want the same number of kids as he does,

he should dump her. Someone else will come along. So there's this insane idea, even among, you know,

seemingly grown up people like James, that you're walking around, living your life and whoops,

you've fallen into love. That's just not how it works. And I love love. I'm all about love.

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