t how people work. They just don't. I wish they did but they don't. So that'll never happen but might be the only way to survive.

There's a new study that says two of the things that predict a marriage lasting. There are two factors psychologists found. One is that the man has high verbal intelligence. Does that surprise you? If the man has high verbal intelligence what goes along with high verbal intelligence? Is there anything else correlated with that besides long marriages? I see the suggestion a huge penis but I don't think that's what I was going for. Well I don't know let's see if there is anything else about the second thing that suggests a long marriage. See the second thing is that the man in the marriage is able to buy new and more expensive cars. That also signals longevity. So what would having the ability to buy new expensive cars have in common with a man who has high intellect and verbal abilities? Could it be that money makes people stay? The person with the high IQ and the high verbal ability probably has a good job. That's what that gets you. If they're able to buy new cars probably got money, good job. And women like to be in stable situations of course everybody does. But the researchers said at least the car part has something to do with signaling higher social status, money. The car is just a signal of money. It's not the car although women do like, women do see their mate and the mate's car as their accessories. By the way this is one of the best ways to think about this. I know people and I used to be one how dumb I was when I was young. I used to think that I would not be judged by the quality of my automobile. I know pretty stupid. I used to think women aren't going to care. They're going to care about my wonderful personality, my empathy, my conversation style, my ability to engage things you know maybe my clever thoughts yeah my haircut you know my I thought those are the things that would really influence women but it turns out it's your car. Your car yeah. And I've told you the story of how I learned that the hard way when I was in my 20s I guess I had the worst little you'll never get laid car in the world. I mean I'm not even going to describe it but it was sad. No nobody would ever get in that car and think you know I sure want to have sex with the owner of this car. I guarantee you nobody ever had that thought. So one day when things were going a little bit better in my career, this was before Dilbert but my corporate career was advancing on time and I bought a very old BMW but it was still a BMW. And one day I pulled it into the parking garage. It was brand new to me and I wanted to get the opinion of some other people. And my neighbor had a couple of girls who were twins who happen to be hanging out in the parking lot and I knew them pretty well because they lived right across the hall. And I said to them they noticed the new car and they said something. I said all right what do you think of the car and they're like oh we love it we love it. And I said do you think that women will like me better because I have this car? Now remember these are like 9-year-old twin girls and the 9-year-olds said oh yeah oh yeah yeah and like their eyes got big and like for sure no doubt about it. And I'm thinking it starts that early. The 9-year-old girls are completely aware that if I don't have a good car I'm not going to get any action. At 9 years old they knew that. And once you understand that your car is a reflection of the woman who's in it like she's not going to want to be painted with the embarrassment of your automobile that the paint is falling