Pearl - July 16, 2026Michael Knowles Is A SIMP!
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Summary
The birth rate has been on a long-term decline since 1971, and it s only gotten worse since then. In this episode, I talk about why this is happening, and how to fix it, and why women are just not going to reproduce with average men anymore.
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desire to bring a bunch of women. Women have more of that desire than is previously thought.
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We had a marketing campaign because if men knew that true nature, would they really want to
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provide for us and protect us in any way? No. So society only functions if they don't know that
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about us. So men like Michael step up to the plate while his wife gets gay in college and now
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he can, you know, take care of her after. What's up guys? Welcome to my reaction series. So Michael
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Knowles is a super simp and I did a debate with him a few years ago and during it he said it was
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wrong for women or men to question their wives and get a paternity test which is actually incredible
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so he you know he's kind of a believe women at all costs get married marriage is good he always
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insinuates he's a better person because he's a married and has kids yada yada okay anyways so
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moving on um does he correct women no um is he really how do i put it it's all performative he's
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just part of the trad conic and anyways so they've kind of danced around the women being terrible for
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years and now uh the rubberism at the road because it's getting too bad it's just in the last few
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years only fans has become normal um and you know i'm interviewing guys that graduated high school
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with women that are on only fans so anyways all right so now um he's got to talk about how women
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are terrible but before we start the reaction guys there's a google form in the description if you
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forum, like the video, let's go. It's the fourth day in the octave of American independence. I hope
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everyone got some downtime over the weekend. Some of you are extending the festivities this week.
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Maybe you're going to the beach, just taking a few days off work. Whatever you're doing,
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I hope you are taking this reprieve from your ordinary responsibilities to find a lady,
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if you're a guy, or to find a guy, if you're a lady, and that you are getting together and
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making babies because we are in a dating marriage and baby recession. It is the worst that it has
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ever been. And I think I know the reason why and how to fix it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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Michael Knowles Show. The reason why is that women are not going to reproduce with average
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men and you can't beat biology. So, um, there's nothing he can do to convince women to give
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average men a chance and reproduce with them. Shacking up enough. Okay. You're not called to
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serve. One of the things that makes the program especially unique is the setting. Students.pepperdine.
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Shacking up enough. Okay. You're not making it happen. There's a study out of the Institute for
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Family Studies, the state of our union's dating recession. And the picture is very, very bleak.
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And everybody is offering all sorts of explanations as to why this is happening.
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I think they're kind of missing the obvious one.
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So birth rates have been on a long-term decline.
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Obviously, we've been below replacement in terms of our birth rates since 1971.
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That long-term decline accelerated after the global financial crisis.
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So after 2007, things really started to get bad.
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the births in 2025, according to the CDC, 3.6 million births. That is down 1% from 2024.
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2024, which is down from the years before that, down, down, down, down, down. If we're losing
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1% of births a year, that is not going to bode very well for us. So what's the general fertility
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rate. The GFR for 2025 is a little over 53 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44. So you don't really
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want a lot of 15-year-olds getting pregnant. And a lot of the decline in the birth rate and the
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fertility rate, there are people who are coping and say, no, it's really a good thing because
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teenage girls aren't getting pregnant anymore. And that's after years of education. So it's
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actually, it's fine. It's a good thing. But the problem is not the 15 to 19, it's everyone after
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that because the trend is really pronounced in women all the way up to 44.
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So whenever women get leveraged, they're not going to reproduce with average men.
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So now a smaller and smaller chunk of men, and women just don't like kids.
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We'd rather whore do anything else rather than raise kids.
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The GFR is down 1%, another 1% from what it was in 2024.
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We are truly just like the frog being boiled slowly.
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since 2007, the general fertility rate is down 23%.
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Well, slowly, Michael, I told you about this stuff.
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And then they're like, Pearl, you're just exaggerating.
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And it's not like it was so hot in 2007 either.
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So, then the total fertility rate hit a low in 2024 of 1.6.
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So, 1.6 babies per couple, well below replacement.
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And these are all based on provisional data, so it might actually be worse than that.
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This is well below the replacement rate, which is 2.1.
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well over a quarter of the drop in the fertility rate.
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The births to women in their 20s have declined.
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Rates for women in their 30s and 40s have risen modestly.
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This is the women, the consequence of feminism,
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They're told from the time they're in kindergarten.
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women choose what we want so again he's trying to blame men blame institutions but if anything men
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are told they're the problem women are told they're awesome and can do anything and women
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have all the choice to do whatever we want and now we're seeing what women want to do that they
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should put off having children put off getting married prioritize having a career prioritize
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going to college and then get that graduate degree get another graduate degree go work for
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Mr. McGillicuddy in the Excel spreadsheet factory. And then when you're 40, then try to have a kid.
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But the problem is that, okay, even if the rates for the 40-year-olds are ticking up a little bit,
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it's just not enough to make up for the decline everywhere else.
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What are the patterns here? Women are delaying having kids and then a lot of them are not having
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kids at all. So you get a little tick up after COVID. People had a lot of pent up energy after
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COVID, but the trajectory is just a collapse. So what do they find in this study? What do they
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find in the overall state of our births? Quote, overall, we found evidence that many young adults
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are experiencing a dating recession during their prime dating years. So it's not just
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a birth rate recession. It's not even just- It's going to be a dating recession because again,
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women are sharing Chad. So those women aren't going on dates. So they're like never going to
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haven't had a real relationship or any of that. And then, um, the men, there's more men being
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iced out. So it's like the dating recession is just, there's a P like women are sharing the
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same men and there's men getting iced out of the game. A marriage recession that they're putting
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off getting married. They're not even dating. The, the kids and the young adults are not even
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dating. Most young adults are not dating much. And many are struggling with significant barriers
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to initiating dating relationships and pursuing their desire to one day marry and have a family.
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What percentage of young adults do you think are dating right now?
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You know, with all the weird sex stuff, especially during the transgender craze and with all the pride
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movements, you would think that everybody's just hooking up all the time. It's not true.
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that's not true because again uh the uglier women can't like chad's not available all the time he's
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busy with hotter women so there's going to be periods of celibacy there's going to be yeah
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like that's going to be the mids that aren't like that attractive um and like how much time is chad
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really going to spend with the mids where the hot women um again they'll have left like
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they don't have to put out as often because they still get like enough attention like women
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don't need to put out when they get enough attention. So when women are young, there's
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periods of celibacy. I know they say it doesn't exist, but I would say it does just based on what
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I've seen. And there's a bunch of men that are just getting iced out. And there's the fat women,
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like fat women, they're getting attention from online and they're not hot enough to get attention
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from chat in real life. So they're just slapping on these fake filters and now they get attention
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from chat, even though it's like a fake avatar, but they believe it looks like them and it's just
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been dating. The vast majority of young adults are not even going on dates. The real, the real
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number is 30%. And that's not even just like going steady, pinning the varsity pin on your
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sweetheart, even casual dating, even like hookups and situationships totally collapsed,
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which really upends the view that a lot of boomers and older people have of the kids who they think
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are all just like total sex freaks and polycules having orgies all the time they're not even doing
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that it would be bad if they were doing that but this is technology women have dildos um so
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i know they they always say that like men are the ones that are going to replace women with
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sex bots and i think it happens but i honestly see more women replacing men with uber eats
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social media and dildos so both of the genders don't need or like each other as much as we
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originally thought actually somehow worse in in some ways at the population level it is actually
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worse they're not even dating young adults they just don't have any libido maybe they don't have
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any interest maybe they're too selfish maybe they're just they're content not to be dating
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maybe they're asexual or eunuchs or something but it's not that most young adults say that they want
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to start a relationship 51 of adults according to at least this survey which is based on a lot of
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data, say they want to be in a relationship, and yet only 30% of young adults are even casually
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dating. Why is this? The researchers ask the question. They say, why is it, there's this
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obvious delta between what you say you want to do when it comes to love and marriage and all that,
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and what you're actually doing. So why is it? The top reason that young people are not dating
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is a lack of confidence. It's 49%. The second reason is bad. It's because women don't want
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average men and women are fat. Dating experiences in the past. And getting cheated on. Everyone's
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been cheated on at this point. 38%. And I think those are obviously both related, but they speak
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to different problems that you have. Because one thing, when you talk to Zoomers, I travel around
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to a lot of college campuses. I talked to a lot of Zoomers, even members of the creme de la creme
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writing in, into the mailbag. And one thing you hear from the guys in particular is they say,
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well, I don't want to date an OnlyFans girl. Michael, you boomer. You caught the last chopper
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at Anam when you married sweet little Elisa. But for us, all the dating is on the apps and we live
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our whole life. He's under the belief that his wife is special, different, and there are special
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women, but all women have the capacity, ability, and desire to be whores. We just don't like
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consequences. And, you know, it kind of makes sense. Like a lot of men, you know, deep down,
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if they're honest, have the capacity, ability, and desire to bang a bunch of women. Women have
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more of that desire than is previously thought. We had a marketing campaign because if men knew
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that true nature, would they really want to provide for us and protect us in any way? No.
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So society only functions if they don't know that about us. So men like Michael step up to the plate
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and now he can, you know, take care of her after.
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there are girls in my high school who are on OnlyFans
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and I don't want to date a girl who's an online prostitute.
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didn't even discourage men not from dating Nala.
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they're not interested in getting jobs or settling down or what have you. They want to put off
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getting married as well. But this weird number came out just last year. I think we talked about
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it on the show, which is that for the first time ever, you had more high school senior boys
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looking forward to getting married than high school. Yeah, because the thing is men actually
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like routine. Women like chaos. So women like to try new different things and that includes dick,
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right um men like to eat the same thing and do the same thing every day so i actually think
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monogamy benefits men more than women because women's strategy is to date like 10 percent of
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men and reproduce with them and share it share them where men's strategy is to get a woman you
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know as many women as possible but if biologically speaking your you would reproduce with zero women
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it's a benefit to you to get more than one or to get any woman you know what i mean so
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they're kind of, uh, you know, you can, you just can't be biology in your girls.
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That is totally topsy turvy. The high school girls are supposed to be, you know, kicking their
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legs back on their bed at night, writing out, you know, their first name with the last name of their
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crush, Mrs. Jane's. Yeah. Okay. But again, before you only had to compete with like 10 men in your
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town. Now you got to compete with all the men she sees on social media. So like women and you have
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to compete with the ego of a woman with a filter, Botox, any plastic surgery and a filter
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Now you have the guys who are, who are more interested in getting married than the girls,
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More than half of the people who were, who were responding to the survey agreed that
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their breakups have made them more reluctant to begin new romantic relationships.
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And this kind of ties in with the, I don't want to date an OnlyFans girl, which is, I've talked to young men about this. They say, it's hard for me to get past the fact that these girls that I would date have a high body count. These girls that I would date have had.
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uh well really the solution is to get laid and make your body count so high as a man and also
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ask for forgiveness after because like you know what i mean if you're not banging women uh it's
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just you know all the churches require virtue for men but not for women it's like wouldn't god
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forgive you if you banged a bunch of women and said sorry after too if they forgive all these
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ladies a lot of relationships and you know they're not just uh going up and watching a drive-in movie
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or something. They're getting down to business and that's icky and I don't want that. Furthermore,
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think about the girls. So many of these girls have been in sort of bad relationships or whatever.
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And then the more guys they date, the harder it is for them to date. And eventually some of them
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become lesbians. So that's a topic. I don't know if we're ready for that yet. That's a topic for
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another time. I find that lesbian, like again, women would prefer a woman over than an average
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man, the attention of a woman. So to me, lesbians are just women that are too damaged to get
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chad anymore or ugly. In any case, what this is speaking to is a very basic fact of anthropology,
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which we learn in the Bible and which anyone with any kind of spiritual sense is known for
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all of history, which is that when you have sex with someone, it's about more than just
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physicality. It's not just bumping uglies. Christians believe that a kind of spiritual
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bond is formed and the two become one flesh. I was just speaking about this with my friend
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father, Dan Rehill, who's a Catholic priest here in Nashville and an exorcist. So it's not just a
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psychological hangup. A girl has a bad breakup. And so it's harder to get over that ex-boyfriend
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and it's hard to get in the mood for another relationship or whatever. There is a spiritual
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reality to that as well that a lot of people roll their eyes at in liberal modernity because we
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don't believe in spiritual things anymore but it is real on top of that on top of that everyone's
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dating online and so I think the chief criticism when it comes to modern dating is that everyone's
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too materialistic they're just concerned about the flesh they don't recognize things like the
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spiritual name it's just kind of incredible how he's talking about how we're materialistic
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when you're in a clearly expensive suit in a clearly expensive set
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ninja please you know what i mean nature of love they don't they don't recognize the
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sacramental reality of marriage you know they're just they're too material in our
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but do you recognize the sacramental reality of marriage if you use it to build your brand
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i don't think so our materialistic view of the world and i think actually that what the data
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show, and I haven't, I don't think I've heard anyone else say this, with the data shows, the
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problem for the dating recession is exactly the opposite. So before we restore balance to nature
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and the animal kingdom and the cycle of life, I want to tell you about balance of nature.
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Go to balanceofnature.com, use promo code Knowles, K-N-W-L-E. Yeah, we're skipping this.
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Get out of here. Have ever used a dating site or app to the whole health system or any of their
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other subscriptions, get an additional 10% to SSRS polls. 37% of US adults have ever used a
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dating site or app. Six to 7% are currently using one. This is obviously much higher among young
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adults. The majority of young adults have tried the apps. And meet online. I got the last shop
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right at NAMM, so I was never on the apps. But 51 to 65% of 18 to 29-year-olds have tried the apps.
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and the apps sometimes do lead to marriage. It's not just all hookups. I've been to
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weddings of people who met on the apps. 27% of couples who married last year, two years ago,
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first met through dating apps and websites. Okay. So then what's the problem? What's really
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driving it? I think the answer is not too much materialism. Like the church ladies will scold
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you. Like the boomers will scold you. I think it's actually too little materialism. I think
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that the dating recession, uh, you understand the whole thing when you realize the role of apps in
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all of this, because one, it means that you're, you're dating effectively mediated by a device.
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So your dating is, is not driven by the look and touch of your loved one. It's not how your loved
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one smells. I don't know, whatever, you know, like Joe Biden style smell the hair. It's, it's all
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kind of virtual. It's all clinical. It's all at a distance. Yeah. Cause women, here's the thing,
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women are attracted to other things outside of just looks, but the apps make it just looks
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because it's difficult to display your personality. Although you can do videos and talking. That's
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why I think a lot of women like commentators because we can see more of a man's personality
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and it's like an environment where you can see them in a way that you wouldn't normally in normal
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social situations. It doesn't make use of your whole person, which is your body. So that leads
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I like how Dolez is finally acknowledging this.
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Your wife's nudes are on another ninja's phone.
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And pictures of them dating other people all around the internet.
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The real problem for the dating recession is not too much materialism.
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And I think there's a really simple way to correct this.
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I don't know if it's easy, but it's a simple way to correct the problem,
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Do you know the main thing marriage is about?
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And we don't believe that anymore because Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court writes
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romantic poetry about how marriage doesn't have to do, certainly not with sexual difference,
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There are a lot of people today, even conservative people, who will say,
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The old idea was that there's a marital debt that actually spouses have the right to have
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sex with each other. Sorry, I try not to go blue too much. Viewer discretion if you've got young
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kids watching right now. But that's what it's about. Yeah, again, so I think he's going to go
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into that. This is going to be Riz, right? That we just need to Riz. Here's the problem. Women
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will not reproduce with average men. Riz is going to help, but it's still not going to fix the
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problem. It's either arranged marriage or you give women choice. Which do you want?
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To be with you. I think that's like God's question in a way. Does he want people to love him because
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it's forced or because they want to. And now we're in a society where women don't have to love men
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we don't want to. And it turns out we're big fat slut whores. Creation and education of children
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for life. It's a lifelong union. That's what distinguishes it from all the other kinds of
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relationships. And so it's not that complicated. And if marriage is about sex, that means that
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dating has to take place in person. It has to be about the body. It's not just about the body.
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You're not just going out to find that little baddie, you know, at the, at the club.
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You're not just, uh, you know, measuring the height of the giga chat.
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If you're a chick, there's, there's more to it too, but it is largely about the body.
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So if you're spending all of your time on apps, texting each other, uh, swiping, right,
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sending even pictures, which has more to do with the body, but it's still just glittering
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You're, you're setting yourself up for failure and you're creating all sorts of impediments
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to your future relationship and to your marriage.
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It's not just when you're dating online virtually
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with all the pictures and all the texts and everything,
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you are in a way robbing your future spouse of something.
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that like are the most in front of them and unfortunately it's dating apps now that's how
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people are meeting these are going to be all all around the internet and furthermore you are not
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actually testing the things that marriage is about because you should not be married
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over the phone so you have to do it in person this ties in hot girls are at home though
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with this other social scientific uh study that came out just a few months ago which is that
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teenagers are drinking less. And everyone thought that was a great thing, but it's actually a very
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bad thing. People shouldn't be drinking underage, I guess. But the problem is that's an indicator
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of socializing. The reason that they're not drinking is not because they're the new temperance
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movement. The reason they're not drinking- Most men aren't going to buy drinks anymore because
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women aren't giving them a chance and they're super insufferable, even the young women.
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Because they're not hanging out because they're just- And it starts really in the home with the
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fathers because they never correct the daughters chilling on their own all the time all right
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all right i'm gonna i'm gonna stop it there i think he goes into saying that it's riz maxing
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but the whole point of this reaction really was to say that honestly finally the daily wire has
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to admit water is wet the sky is blue women are big fat slut whores like the video guys
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