{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Handsome Hour","title":"Episode 14 - The World's Most Dangerous Group Project","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4281,"description":"This week on The Handsome Hour, Wes, Cody, and Stony welcome Joshua Lisec — author, ghostwriter, persuasion guy, Ohio Nationalist, and accidental \"Dear Abby\" for men getting destroyed by modern divorce and dating discourse.The conversation starts with the \"White Claw\" body-count discourse: what happens when a man is expected to court a woman like a gentleman after learning she used to hook up casually with men who put in far less effort? Wes argues that men need some perspective and shouldn't treat every past mistake as a lifetime disqualifier. Joshua pushes back from the conservative-Christian agnle, where \"purity,\" forgiveness, social incentives, and public redemption arcs can create a very perverse dating market.From there, the conversation widens into marriage, divorce, modernity, incentives, therapy culture, consumerism, dating apps, and whether Western civilization has been engineered to make men and women hate each other. Joshua brings a long view of marriage — from tribe, kin, and children to civil contracts, no-fault divorce, co-CEO households, prenups, and the legal machinery that can turn \"till death do us part\" into the world's most dangerous group project.The guys debate whether marriage is still the best institution we have for raising children, even if it's badly mismatched to a world of infinite options, dating apps, sexual liberation, therapy-speak, and consumer choice overload. Joshua introduces ideas like termed marriages, \"diseases of abundance,\" and the claim that if the current system can't be fixed, maybe it has to be pushed to its terminal stage: embrace and amplify.Finally, they return to the dating question underneath it all: does body count matter, why does it matter, and what exactly are men reacting to? Is it biology? Sacredness? Jealousy? Fear of being played? Or the humiliation of being treated like the \"safe\" guy after other men got the wild version? The episode ends right as the debate gets most dangerous — which means Joshua...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/QmmW8Li3th_UedzbxY1jVGiEbIxvnsw__3uzErTkInM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xODgw/ODcyZDQ0OWI4ZWNl/YmZhYWEyZTA5NWFi/YjdkNy5QTkc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}