Past Awkwardness Vs Modern Dating Are We Weirder Now

You spend half a day figuring out how you're going to talk to the girl who worked at Heidi's frozen yogurt. I mean, that was, that was the, the extent of, you know, growing into, you know, you know, a, a sexual person, you know, as, as adolescents. And now, you know, these kids, they just go straight from, I mean, zero to freaky deaky, you know what I mean? There's no trying to figure out even how to, how to talk to a girl. So I think it's, I think it's making us a little weird, man. I think it's making this a little weird. Growing up, I was in my 20s, and there was a pretty girl named Morgan. I remember this girl very clearly. She probably was Indian, but she was very pretty. I'm like, I'm going to ask this girl out. She worked at a record shop. I went in every day for a week, and I bought new CDs all the time. I chatted her up, and I finally got the courage to ask her out. I think I shocked the shit out of her so much that I didn't play it right. She just instantly said no as a default. And I was like, damn it. And then I walked out. I never went back to that store to ask that girl out again. But I said, if I would have approached it differently, I would have got that date. The point being, not only did I have to figure out and screw up this. And I asked all kinds of girls out on dates. This girl just may be a little bit more nervous than usual. But I had to figure that out. I had to have the confidence to do it. And this confidence that we lack and this. And I'll tell you what, the lack of tolerance is You know, if we can learn to talk to take intolerance is easy. It's a default behavior for humans. I don't like that. It's not what I do. Therefore, it's no good. It's bad. It's evil, whatever it is, whether it's political, religious community, whatever it is. And tolerance requires a callous. It requires some muscle. It's not comfortable to look at something. And you and I have looked at people that are odious people that are doing terrible things. And you have to sit there and say, this is this person's existence. I'm not trying to validate what they're doing, but I am trying to work here. And so I've got to work with this guy that has sex with young boys on Friday that, you know, abuses his wives or whatever it is going to be. We had to get past that because to get things done in the real world, you have to work with people you don't agree with. I think that, I think the sad part about it is that, or, you know, first of all, let's give a shout out to all the guys that do that hard, that hard work. Because it's not everybody's cup of tea. And whatever, you know, when you're doing that type of work, it's not like it ever goes away. I mean, you know, for as long as your memory exists, you're going to be, you know, constantly re-exposed to those memories. And that's not easy. And I think that's where a lot of respect for warfighters and law enforcement gets taken. people don't understand what they're respecting them for. They just feel like they should. Well, what you're really respecting them for is the fact that they're willing to carry memories that you weren't. And, you know, that doesn't end when they retire. That doesn't end when they go home. And so they're carrying memories of things that you'll never know anything about. And so when you want to show your respect, you know, for people in those types of jobs, you know, define what you're really doing. you know, you're giving respect because they're going to walk around with memories that you'll never know exist. Yeah, no, it's totally true. One of the things that goes with that is if you're a cop, you're seeing, I mean, every day, maybe half of your shift, depending on where you work, you're seeing the worst that humanity has to offer. You're seeing a person on the worst day of their life, whether they've done something horrible and now will regret you seeing all of this poison. And then, and then you ask those guys, Would you walk around unarmed after they've seen the worst in humanity?