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right, so a couple of days ago on the show, I said that it felt like a memo had been sent out to all of the feminist mouthpieces in the feminist machine. The young women are getting too happy. They're in love with men. They're getting married. They're consuming too much ballerina farm. Brett Cooper, Content they're buying the ev magazine milkmaid dresses. We have to do something. We have to stop that and make them lean in. Thank you, Sheryl Sandberg. And suddenly, again, it's literally just happened over the course of like three days. But suddenly, the most insufferable people that I could think of in the media were comparing marriage to slavery, saying, we gotta pull out the whips. They were celebrating hookup culture, which in 2026 feels like so 2016, in my mind, they were saying on the View that it is reckless to encourage women to have children. But apparently that little memo from last week, it was just not taking it far enough because it seems like they don't wanna just stop with preventing women from getting married and having children, but they want to actively blow up the already happy marriages that are in existence. And so now, a week later, now my timeline is full of people celebrating infidelity all in the name obviously, of feminism and empowerment. Now, the cherry on top of this entire story has been the real life example of this through the viral, rumored, alleged affair between Diana Rossini, who is a NFL reporter, and head coach Mike Vrabel. Just diving into the next level of this memo Again, they saw whatever statistics were going around last week of, like, women are choosing tradwife over girl boss, which, by the way, those are, like, two very distinct buckets. Maybe I should do a whole, like, newsletter on that. I felt like that survey was just a little bit weird, but still, maybe the feminists saw it and they went, oh, no. Oh, no, we have to do something. And so the Cut published an article this week titled, the Secret to a Great Marriage Crushes on other people. Now, first of all, I'm like, this is not the time in our culture to release this article because, like, have you people learned nothing from the secret? Wives of Mormon wives sleeping around with other people, opening up your marriage crushes. I mean, not just as you wives and Mormon wives. Lindy west, what we talked about a couple of weeks ago, her. Her husband, her husband's other wife. It is a mess, and nobody's happy. Anyway, sorry, had to. Moving on from that. You might see this article. You might think, okay, Brett, this is some clicky headline. They do this all the time. You might think that maybe the author is talking about the fact that, you know, humans will always notice the attractiveness of other humans. Maybe they are talking about, you know, finding a celebrity attractive. You know, celebrity crushes, whatever it is. No, no, it is none of those things. It is having crushes on real people in your real life, like your coworkers while you are married. Just listen. So the author, who is a married woman with children, said this. She said, at my last job, I had a crush on a coworker named Phil, whose name has been changed so as not to embarrass him or more importantly, myself. Honey, you are already embarrassing yourself by writing this article. Phil looks like a swarthier Jake Gyllenhaal. And the first time he spoke to me, I remember being genuinely confused as to how this person had ended up in print media, since he was too attractive to know what the phrase nutgraph meant. I did not and do not know Phil well. By the time we stopped working together, we had exchanged maybe 40 words in total, the vast majority of which were about Steely Dan. But my husband, to whom I had been married to for almost 10 years, heard about him every once in a while. Occasionally, when I got home from work, he'd ask if my office crush was in that day. Once I was putting on some lip tint and mascara before a zoom meeting, and he asked if it was because Phil was on the call. He wasn't, but I would be lying if I said I didn't Spend an extra few seconds on my hair on days when I knew he was going to be in the office. I'm sorry. This is so, so weird. Like, I don't know what kind of weird lib marriage you are part of. Like, this is openly admitting to emotionally cheating on your spouse. This is not when you lean into it and write an entire article about it and joke about it with your husband. No, this is when you make the choice with yourself to respect your marriage, to use your moral compass, which I hope that you have. This woman might not. We'll get into that. But to know that you need to shut that thought down out of the respect and love you have for your husband and the commitment, more importantly, that you have made to each other. It's when, love him or hate him, you should adopt the Pence policy. Now, if you don't know this, Mike Pence has a rule that he does not dine alone with a woman who is not his wife. He will not attend events with alcohol without his wife. Maybe some of the women we're gonna be talking about today, the other women in this article should try that. This author continues because again, remember guys, this is apparently the key to lasting love. So listen up. She writes, the whole point of having a crush is that it causes a little friction of nervous energy, one that tends to dissipate when you are in a long term relationship. K. There has to be another way to spice things up. Have you heard of date night? Have you heard of doing something a little fun and fancy for your husband? That's a great idea that does not involve having crushes on other people. Anyway, sorry, getting ahead of myself. She puts a quote in here. A crush while you're married is like a sweet little snack that gets you through the 4pm slump. My friend Cara told me, like all of the horny monogamous people refer to in this piece. Cara asked to use a pseudonym. She's been married for four years and she has a crush on a New York Times critic whom she's met a few times through friends. It is harmless and invigorating and reminds you you're alive and kicking and yearning and thinking her husband doesn't mind, as is the case in my relationship, and it serves as fodder for in couple jokes. It's harmless and invigorating. So thinking about being attracted to fantasizing, that's what having a crush is. Fantasizing about somebody who is other than your husband. That's harmless. No, actually that's very harmful to you and him and your relationship again. There has got to be another way to get you through the 4pm slump. How you know that you are still invigorated and yearning and thinking is by going on a date with your husband. Do you want me to pay? Do you want me to get you a gift card? Send you out to a nice Italian restaurant with a little candle in the center and a glass of wine? I will happily do that if it keeps you from cheating on your husband. Anyway, she goes on, she continues to share more and more women in her life that she's met who have various crushes on friends, baristas at the coffee shop that they go to every morning, coworkers. And then she concludes the article by suggesting that her female readers, women in monogamous, monogamous marriages like herself, have these crushes on rotation like an NBA roster and just wait. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but the roster jokes, the sports commentary will come back. It will be relevant in the next 10 minutes. You will see. So this is her conclusion. I call bullshit on all of this. This will never end well. It is not harmless. It is the wrong kind of invigorating. This is nothing to aspire to. But I do want to say we should not be surprised about this advice when we consider who the author of this article is. Her name is E.J. dixon. Now if that name rings the bell, it's probably because she wrote a now infamous hit piece on Candace, also for the cut, which resulted obviously in Candace ripping her a new one. And bringing up EJ's past where she once wrote an article advocating for child sex robots to help cure pedophilia. Listen to that again. Using child sex robots child to help pedophiles because rather than ostracizing them from society, putting them behind bars, we should give them something to simulate having sex with because it's just a mental condition that we should help them with, is what she's promoting in this Washington Post article. This woman, E.J. dixon, is a mother. She is trying to give marriage advice. So yeah, I don't think so. Based on your past, I will not be taking any of your advice. I also just, all that aside, won't be taking your advice because it is just so ridiculous. But obviously other people have other people are in line with what she's saying. And in another viral clip this week, again, it was like a memo went out. Comedian Nikki Glaser went on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper and she said that she and her boyfriend actually take these crushes to Another level. But in this case, it's because she wants to hear about her boyfriend and other women. So let's just walk through this whole interaction.