Name: Is Social Media Affecting the Success Rate of Marriages?
Uploaded: 2023-09-29T19:10:56.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is Social Media Affecting the Success Rate of Marriages?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is Social Media Affecting the Success Rate of Marriages?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-29. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- I wonder what the percentage of, like,
success rate in marriage is gonna be in about five years.
- That's a really good question
because I was watching YouTube the other day
and a clip popped up that I didn't watch,
but it was Lex Friedman, had some guy on,
and the guy was explaining how Instagram
is essentially an infidelity accelerating machine.
Because if you think of, like, how many,
I mean, I know guys who are married,
and their wife's page is all their wife
sticking their titties out and sticking their butt out.
I mean, it's literally the whole page.
It's like these girls, and I'm not talking about girls
who are, like, professional fitness influencers
that are just showing how good their body is.
I'm just talking about just regular gals.
Like, if you're a professional fitness person
and, you know, maybe you train people
or something like that, yeah,
of course you should show your body.
That's what everybody wants.
- Yeah.
- You're literally advertising by, look,
if I did this to me, I can help you do this to you.
But some of them are just ass and titties
and, like, do you like my feet?
Like, it's like, and, like, they're married, right?
So you know they're getting bombed on in the DMs,
like, constantly.
And if something goes wrong in the marriage,
they have, like, probably so many options.
Like, pro athletes are DMing 'em and who knows, you know?
- God, same with the guys, too.
- 100%.
- How easily those relationships are just available.
- When I was talking about that last night
with the dating apps, like, when someone,
in one of those bottom-of-the-barrel shows,
one of the questions was Hinge, which was a dating app.
And I was like, how much are you gonna be invested
in trying to figure somebody out if you've got, like,
100 people that you swiped on that are also ready to go?
And then you could just, like, leave this date sucks.
Like, text this person, like, hey, something just came up.
I just got out of a meeting.
Dude, do you wanna go have a late drink?
And then you go meet that person.
Like, all right, we're trying again.
And then if you're really that person that's, like,
it's gotta be addictive like everything else
on social media is addictive.
- Yeah.
- And addicted to just meeting people
and just swiping and they all look hot.
Like, let's fucking go.
Yeah, it's dangerous.
- I mean, marriage is such a tough, crazy thing.
Do you know a lot of people that have successful marriages?
- I know people that have successful marriages.
I wouldn't say I know a lot.
I think, look, what is the divorce rate?
We know that. - Like 40-something percent?
- I think it's higher.
I think the national divorce rate is close to 50%.
And Chris Rock always had a great bit about that.
He goes, and that's just the people
that had the courage to get out.
How many cowards stay and suffer?
- Especially when they have kids
and they're just staying together,
being miserable with kids.
And they don't even know those kids are sitting there
looking at how they interact with each other.
It's just affecting them.
- They just feel the interactions.
If it's not genuine, it's just there for the kids.
It's like, fuck.
- Yeah, if they feel like a bitterness between them.
And then also they'll identify future relationships
like that too.
You know, that's like a scary thing about people
who grow up in abusive households.
Like if the mother and father are abusive to each other
and verbally abusive to each other,
then they'll probably pattern that as they get older.
And they just think you're supposed to fight and then make up.
Fight and then make up.
And then people get caught up in that cycle of fighting and make up.
'Cause it feels good to make up.
You know, and the make up sex is amazing.
But the fighting part is just like, people get brutal.
They insult each other and break each other down.
It's like...
- Yeah, we're so lucky.
'Cause I've been with my girl almost 13 years now
and you've been with Danny for almost 10.
- Yeah.
- But I bet being like the star you are now,
trying to find a chick that, I mean,
the guys that are stars trying to find actual love.
- Yeah, that'd be tough.
- It's possible.
I think it's probably easier if you're a guy
to find a good girl than you have a girl to find a good guy.
- Well, yeah.
- I would think so.
Because, I mean, to be sexist and to talk in sexist terms,
women think of a man as a provider.
Like, so you just want a guy who can keep it together.
Right?
You want a guy who you're gonna have children.
You're gonna want a guy who's gonna be able
to keep it together financially, be stable, be disciplined,
do all the things he's gonna do, not fall apart,
not become a drug addict, not fucking do something
really stupid and lose his job and not like just give up
because of that and then everybody gets on welfare.
Like, you have to like count on someone
unless you want to work yourself.
So there's this like evolutionary aspect.
And I think it's hard.
Like, if you're a guy, what do you want out of a woman?
I want her to be nice.
- A fat ass.
- I want her to be interesting, fat ass.
All the physical things.
But you want her to be a good person, a nice person.
I don't need them to be successful.
- Yeah.
No guy cares.
Like, I do not care at all.
Like, I would not care at all.
Like, if I was a single guy and I met a gal and she was
like a bartender, I did one to like, oh, just a bartender.
- Yeah, that's a good point.
- You don't have any businesses.
Like, no one cares.
No one cares.
Like, are you nice?
Are you nice?
Are you cool?
Are you fun to be with?
Do I enjoy spending time with you?
Then who cares?
So, but, but a woman like Taylor Swift is not going to marry
a bartender, right?
- That's fucking so true.
- Bitch, get the fuck out of here.
I sell out stadiums.
Yeah.
What do you do?
You make drinks for people?
- Well, that's why she's talking with what?
That Travis Kelsey guy, though.
Like, gotta do something big time.
- Gonna share vaccines.
- That's a good point.
Thought about that.
- Yeah, who knows?
It's a, it's a tiff.
I think it's a tougher road for a woman to find a good man.
That's what I think.
- Yeah.
- If I'm guessing.
'Cause I don't know that many good men.
I know a lot of cool women.
- Yeah.
- In terms of, like, the all, overall number of men
that I know, like, how many of them are going for it?
- Yeah.
- I'm lucky I know a lot of cool people.
- Yeah.
- I meet a lot of cool people.
But just, like, general folks, like, how many of these
general folks are keeping it together?
- There's lazy fucks.
- A lot of lazy fucks.