minute. It's about five minutes. Somebody says a few minutes I guess. And you use the power of first impressions basically because first impressions are weirdly reliable in terms of attraction.

So here's my prediction. I don't think that online dating can be a viable long-term solution. And you know that's been well discussed. You know that the most attractive guys get 100% of the female interest and that leaves everybody scrambling for the scraps I guess.

But on top of that, is there anybody here who uses online dating? Is this even a category that anybody watching this cares about? Some of you. All right. I want to see if I can get a confirmation of this. Everybody's lying, right? Or are the men not lying about their height and their income and showing old pictures? And are the women not lying about their appearance and taking the one photograph that makes them look like a different person or using the photograph from 15 years ago?

And so I wouldn't believe anything I saw on an online dating profile. So the whole point of online dating is that you get more and better information about alternatives and you can contact them, right? The whole point is more and better information about your alternatives and the ability to contact them. But once you remove any honesty there is no information. All it is is you contacting a random person who may or may not have something in common with that online profile.

So it's basically just turned into the phone book. Online dating is just the phone book from the 70s. If you had a phone book in the 70s you could flip through and randomly dial a number and ask for somebody for a date. The problem with that is you would have no idea who you were calling. Just like online dating in 2023. Just because the profile says they're a certain thing it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't have any informational value whatsoever. You have no idea who you're getting. It's just a phone book.

So I'm not surprised that in-person dating would have a comeback. I feel like that has to happen because people don't give up on mating. You know, young people aren't going to say, well, online dating doesn't work so we just won't do it anymore. I think it has to move back to in person. Wouldn't you say? What do you think? Is it not inevitable that all the online stuff is broken so it will become less important? Now we'll see.

Well, there's a Harvard study or study of Harvard people I guess. They've been studying 260 Harvard sophomores. They started studying them in 1938, you know, trying to find out various things about their lifestyle and health and happiness. And they basically just track this little group. What they believe they found, and I believe that they of course did not find it, but what they believe they found is that the people who had the best social lives were the happiest by the time they reached 80. The people with the best social experiences, you know, the best satisfying social lives were the happiest at age 80.

What's wrong with that study? It's the whole correlation causation problem every time. Every time. Because I have a feeling that the people who are able to have satisfying social lives are probably different kinds of people. Does somebody who weighs 400 pounds have the same ac