Adam Lane Smith

You're connecting with terrified, angry, scared, traumatized women.

They're going to just run you through the ringer.

You're going to feel alone.

A lot of guys are going to be left out in the lurch.

We're looking at massive rates of guys who can't even get a girlfriend, can't even have a conversation with a woman anymore.

They're checking out, so...

I think it's different flavors of hard.

I think our nervous systems are screaming no matter what we are, and it's screaming in different ways.

We know that men are more lonely throughout the course of their life.

We know that men are less likely to be able to find a partner, but we know that women report a lot higher rates of anxiety and stress and overthinking.

We know that about one quarter of American women is on an anti-psych medication right now for anti-depression, anti-anxiety.

We know that our nervous systems are not doing well.

It's just pick your flavor of misery.

I am.

I wish that I could say the rural areas are doing better.

I wish I could say that cities are the problem, get out of them.

But we are seeing that as people condense into cities, you know, back in the 1920s, most Americans shifted into cities and rural areas are smaller.

We're seeing the economic hit over the last decade.

Well, let's just say several decades.

We've never really recovered even from post-World War II boom.