sts in the government, and I know we've got some good ones, then he might be doing their bidding and tracking the thing that the economists in the government want to have tracked. So we'll see. That could turn out to be a good thing.

Here's some science for you. Did you know that fewer than 8 percent, just 8 percent, of successful couples consist of a Democrat and a Republican as a couple? Does that surprise you that only 8 percent of couples are opposite politically? That feels just about right to me. I'm not saying it's good or bad. I'm just saying, yeah, that sounds about what I'd expect, about 8 percent. It would be pretty hard to have a marriage with somebody who disagreed with you on the real basic stuff. That would be tough. So I think that's good.

And according to this study, most individuals do seem to screen for political alignment. How many of you did that? How many of you said, "I better get some political alignment here." Did you do that when you were looking for your mate back whenever it was? Well, I don't think I ever have. I can't think of any time where I explicitly had that thought. But I've also been lucky that in my relationships, the people I've been involved with were not super political in preference. So it just sort of doesn't come up or didn't come up. And so it worked for me to just sort of ignore the whole political thing. But I would expect that's probably an exception.

All right, here's another little piece of science. Let's see if you can do this. The University of Montreal is talking about this: that young adolescents, especially boys, who participated in organized sports between the ages of six and ten are less likely to defy their parents, teachers, and other authority figures. Does that track with your experience in life? That the young boys who play sports are more, I don't want to say obedient, but that's sort of what it is. They're less likely to defy their parents and teachers and authority figures. Does that make sense? That makes sense. But what I don't know is if participating in sports is what causes them to, let's say, be more compliant with the authority figures, or did they start that way? And the thing that makes them interested in sports is whatever the same thing is that makes them the way they are. So I don't know if this is real science. They may have cause and effect backwards. But whenever I see a young boy who is very involved in sports, I always assume that they've got their act together, don't you? Not every time. I mean, it's not 100 percent. But if you see somebody who plays three sports and they can organize their life well enough to make it to practice and figure out what position they want and try to optimize it, and then they're making friends and they're learning how the game works, I think there's a really high correlation between people who are successful in navigating life and people who are successful in navigating sports. So again, I don't know what causes what, but the correlation is pretty high.

All right, how about this? There's a new study that finds that political differences predict lower relationship quality. Oh, that's the same one I was talking about. I put my notes in two places. If you're just joining, I was explaining that I don't know if it's because of the new meds I'm on or what, but I fell asleep five times this morning just putting my notes together. And so I probably put 20 perce