My dear, you have a wonderful set of teeth and a love for the phonograph.

I say we get married.

Welcome to the Council of Trent.

Mondays and Wednesdays we talk apologetics and theology.

But today I want to talk about personal ads from the 19th and early 20th century.

I think they're really cute.

They're very interesting.

And they help to reflect how even as things change, they still remain the same. So it's Friday,

free for all Friday. We talk about whatever I want to talk about. And Mondays and Wednesdays,

there's all apologetics, theology, all of that good stuff. So let's hop into our subject today,

personal ads. As I said, it reminds me of what's going on today. I'd like to think about this,

because when it comes to dating, I love being married to Laura.

I love the fact that I have been blessed to the beautiful family, beautiful children.

When I see other people who are striking out in the dating world today, I feel like many other elder millennials that I got on the last lifeboat off the Titanic, the last helicopter out of Saigon.

Like, oh, goodness, I'm glad that I am not in the midst of that.

So I feel blessed.

And I feel bad for everyone nowadays because I've looked at statistics showing where people have met.

And 100 years ago, you primarily met people through family and then through friends.

And that was really the way through friends and through coworkers.

And then things really start to change in the 2000s and especially the 2010s people being meeting online.

It's a tiny bit of online meeting people in the 90s, but not really that much.

But 2010 onward, that's the majority.

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