Dear Reader,

I think we are doomed. The more time I spend online, the more idiots I find. I truly worry for the future of our society.

And no, today, I’m not talking about politics, I’m talking about women. Go figure.

I’m not sure if anyone else caught wind of this story last weekend, but take a look at this TikTok:

@allison.neivel

POV Mike the lineman’s phone after viral video surfaced. 🫣😳 #mikethelineman #mike #lineman #cheater

Now, in case you’re like my husband and refuse to download the TikTok app and can’t watch the video, let me explain.

A woman posts a video of a man and friend dancing, kissing, and canoodling at a bar, and writes:

This video now has 10s of millions of views and almost 2 million likes. Hoping for a happy ending? You shouldn’t.

Because here’s the issue. Mike has a wife. Mike has two children.

And when you open the comments section on that video, she will be right there waiting for you:

And yes, if you check her profile, you’ll find photos of her with Mike.

So here is why everyone in this story is an idiot:

First of all, to the drunk women from the bar, the man HAS HIS RING FINGER TATTOOED. Maybe he told you he was divorced, but if he was your SOULMATE and you didn’t leave with his number, maybe you should have thought back to the circumstances and the tattoo and put it all together.

Secondly, Mike. You idiot asshole. It is the day of the internet. You’re out drunk at a bar, meeting women, cheating on your wife, clearly being FILMED - I mean he literally looks straight at the camera multiple times, and that didn’t sound off the alarms for you?

You’d rather throw away your wife and family for a rando at a Lineman’s Rodeo afterparty?

Now unfortunately, this little situation has become a trend. Girl meets boy at bar. Girl - or a friend - posts about it, and then boom, the boy’s significant other shows up in the comments section. And sometimes, there isn’t even any infidelity! They’ll post videos of men they spot from across the room!

So maybe we’re all concerned with the wrong kind of Big Brother. We’ve been focused on Zuckerberg, Palantir, and Elon, maybe we should be focused on TikTok addicted individuals with their cameras rolling! 

But in this case, maybe our surveillance state was for the better.

Now as a solution - since maybe a 2am rodeo afterparty isn’t the best place to meet your soulmate, could I offer… church?

Apparently, young people are flocking to the Catholic church. Specifically I’ve seen videos of lines wrapped around the BLOCK as New Yorkers flood into young adult masses around the city.

In speaking with some of the men, Washington Post wrote about the faith like it was the city’s hot new dating scene:

Now obviously, the hope of finding love shouldn’t be your ONLY driving factor in getting your butt into a church pew, but let’s just say, there might be perks. And while I can’t promise that the after-mass-wine-social will be free from the “Mikes” of the world, I think you might have better luck than out at a musty bar.

Of course, if that still isn’t your thing, there’s always a run club.

Talk soon, 

BC

P.S. This week I’m going to start reading Kat Rosenfield’s new novel How To Survive In the Woods, and if our son will fall asleep at a reasonable hour, I might even get some TV time, in which case, this new PBS Masterpiece series THE FORSYTHES seems extremely up my alley.

LIVE SHOW TICKETS

Nashville, TN - 4/8

Nashville, TN - 5/19