Should You Have an Arranged Marriage? | Smart Nonsense #356

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🕘Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro(0:47) Part II of the love and marriage saga(1:25) 7 hours a day on marital research(2:08) Tim ferris is a serious goose, not a silly goose(2:44) Getting adults to arrange things is impossible(3:25) The book of answers (our new bible)(3:55) The isosceles we have: Competing vs. slugging(6:05) The joe rogan jiu-jitsu analogy(6:45) Our approach to marriage is wrong(8:23) The case for arranged marriages(11:59) We marry families, not people(15:15) The enlightenment and romantic love(18:35) How the lower class started dating (19:21) Hollywood propagating romantic love(21:05) America is a bunch of rebellious teenagers(23:09) The girlfriend's grandma on the lips(25:44) Marrying for passion vs. values(30:52) Why we should be more family-centered(32:23) How arranged marriage was portrayed as evil

Recorded August 5, 2025

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