Well, hello listeners and welcome back to the Love Life podcast. I am Stephen Hussie.

We've got in the room in Los Angeles live on the feed, Matthew Hussie. How are you, sir?

Steve, I'm good. I've got a new microphone. Jameson is here, masked up behind the screen.

He's got me a new microphone, Steve, so I'm finally competing with your podcast tech.

Yeah, on our visual, Matt's in sort of this sunny, idyllic LA looking background and I

look like I'm in a cave. Like a goblin, because I'm in a much darker England right now.

I wouldn't say like a goblin, Steve. Fair enough. I'm sort of some sort of bowel

rug. Very sweet, say. So what I wonder bring to you, Matthew, is something you were chatting

about on YouTube, which is coping with disappointment in dating. I think this video seemed to really

resonate with people. People talked about how they go over value people early on. They end

up projecting an image of someone in their mind. And I think you and I have also been really,

I don't think surprised is the word, but we've seen over and over again throughout our career,

how people can build a story of someone off of so little. I think that's sometimes been

shocking is how people have managed to project an entire future with someone. Sometimes off

of someone they haven't even met yet. Someone they talked to online. Someone that they went on one

date with or hooked up with once on a trip. What happens here? Do you think that people,

there's a certain kind of person who gets really overexcited and projects onto someone new,

or is this a human flaw that whenever you meet someone who seems to take a lot of your criteria,

you just invest a lot because this doesn't happen very often. What do you think?

Well, I think it's a combination of things. We are a biased judge when we really want to meet

someone. When we want to find someone, we become an unreliable judge in many ways. It's not

unlike when you really want to recruit someone for your company. If you've got a spot to fill

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