. >> ryan, i think theyty, they would say marriage is love. >> right. >> so could you address marriage is love? >> three people can love each other, and you can love each oh while also sleeping with other people, and you can love each other for a temporary time period. i love lots of people that i'm not married to, right? [laughter] so the idea is that marital love is a distinct type of love, so what distinguishes majority until love from this amorphous love equals love, right? and i think one of the biggest downsides of just equating marriage with love and this kind of ambiguous sense is that it actually belittles other forms of serious human relationship. we used to have a much richer tradition of friendship than we do. we now just view marriage as the most intention relationship that you can have in life and everything else as lesser forms. so as a result, if you're not married, it means you haven't yet reached the peak of human existence, and it makes your friendships seem less valuable. when you read through diaries and journals from prior parts of history, you see lots of people

theyty people in washington, if they're not serious, have fallen into it by accident. you have, you run with it. i think you have seen a pickup in corporate spending in part because of the u.s. budget situation. >> we will leave it there. rick, thank you for. that drew, thank you. talk to you guys, soon. >>> when we come back, we are watching shares of tesla. the stocks up sharply after the company reported better tan expected earnings in revenue, look at that, up 15% right now. we will talk to auto industry journalist paul ingrassia. "squawk box" will be right back. . f-f-f-f-f-f-f. lac-lac-lac. he's an actor who's known for his voice. but his accident took that away. thankfully, he's got aflac. they're gonna give him cash to help pay his bills so he can just focus on getting better. we're taking it one day at a time. one day at a time. [ male announcer ] see how the duck's lessons are going at aflac.com i'm bethand i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can