IQ isn’t just a number—it’s a battleground of nature vs. nurture, privilege vs. potential, and logic vs. emotion. Join Jason & Mark for another Consciously Unmasked, as we unpack what IQ really measures, its flaws, and whether a high score actually guarantees success. From cultural biases and the Flynn Effect to the battle between IQ and EQ, we explore the paradoxes, myths, and moral traps of intelligence. Can you boost your IQ? Do smart people fall for dumb ideas? And what if intelligence isn’t what we’ve been measuring all along? Buckle up—because we’re turning intelligence against itself.
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(0:00) Yeah, if you got them queued up so we can just like blast it out. (0:04) We’re going to blast it out for sure. (0:07) Welcome.Welcome. (0:08) Welcome, everyone, to another edition of Consciously Unmasked. (0:13) That I’ve got this down now.(0:15) That is Jason. I’m Mark. (0:17) So before you even start this, please (0:21) follow, subscribe, drop the mask on X (0:27) and I dropped the mask pod on the mask pod.(0:30) Glad you know that you get the. (0:32) Did you lock down your rumble special (0:36) email address yet or rumble slash? (0:39) No, I still have a weird combination of letters and numbers. (0:42) But you know, you can you can do that now, right? (0:44) You’re big enough.(0:46) You’re big enough. (0:47) Yeah. You got 20 followers, man.(0:50) I mean, you’ll need 20. (0:52) Hey, rumble. I have like 50.(0:54) But yeah, I know you got 50. (0:55) I’m just saying you only need 20. (0:57) There are literally dozens.(0:59) Please, please follow us as well. (1:01) Please follow both. (1:03) So Mark, all the letters, drop the mask at Mark Sean Pulse on X. (1:08) Is it the same or is it Knocked Conscious on rumble? (1:10) It is rumble dot com slash Knocked Conscious, please, if you will.(1:14) But Mark Sean Pulse does get my main channel, (1:16) which has like three sub channels or something, but it all combines. (1:20) But this is the big thing, everybody. (1:21) Jason is has a clip 50.(1:24) I’m at 80. (1:25) We need to get to 100 because we need to start getting on them (1:28) on the rumble and starting getting in their algorithm (1:30) so we can share these messages of freedom, liberty, all these great ideas. (1:34) As soon as we get there, we’re going to be subscribed as premium members.(1:38) And then at least we’ll get just more more of the message being spread (1:42) because we have done nothing monetizing or anything. (1:44) We’re just trying to get the message spread. (1:45) And it’s happening.I can see a change. (1:48) I don’t know if you’ve seen your numbers. (1:50) Yeah, they’re going up.(1:52) Surprisingly, I don’t know why anyone wants to watch me. (1:54) But hey, if you guys like it, I’ll keep doing it. (1:59) Well, yeah, and we love to have it.(2:00) We are so grateful that people are coming on once again today. (2:04) We have a special episode, as we do every now. (2:06) It’s Mondays now, Mondays at 8 p.m. (2:08) Eastern because of the time zone, five o’clock Arizona time.(2:12) Jason, what are we talking about today, my friend? (2:15) I just want to side before we get into that. (2:18) I feel like you have a great name for a show like I know it’s polls, not polls, (2:23) but it could be like the polls with Mark, something like that. (2:28) It’s funny, I was actually going to call it the push with polls.(2:32) Oh, wow. That’s good. (2:34) Because I was going to push people right on their questions like the push.(2:37) Yeah. Oh, man. OK.OK. (2:40) Well, thank you. (2:40) I that’s kind of like that mock the week (2:42) we were talking about the mock the week thing.(2:44) We’re kind of playing with. Yeah. (2:45) Like I was going to do Mark the week only because the name was the same, (2:48) but then it was like mass the week and it’s all these different things.(2:51) But like, I just want to have fun with stuff now. (2:53) I think you and I are having a really interesting way of doing some. (2:57) You know, it’s obviously blends into the politics (3:00) and the other messages we have.(3:02) But these are like general concepts (3:03) that help us understand and navigate through the world better. (3:07) And I think it keeps us sane to (3:11) say in our insane (3:13) as some days it’s one or the other. (3:16) Yeah.You can’t do politics every day, man. (3:18) No, not every day. (3:20) But did you see there’s some libertarians doing a game show type thing? (3:24) Have you seen that? (3:25) I think they did.Are you smarter than a politician (3:27) for the last few weeks? (3:29) But yeah, they do a lot of fun. (3:31) They get a panel of people on there. (3:33) We got to do something like that.(3:35) Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun. (3:36) I’m I’m I think what’s happened and once again (3:39) to everyone who’s watched yourself and me, (3:42) it’s because of this collaboration that it’s totally jumped. (3:45) I can tell you last month I had 216 people on Rumble, (3:49) whatever those verified ad, whatever.(3:52) We’re not even a full month in here. (3:54) I have three hundred and eighty eight. (3:56) So it’s like one hundred and seventy more in one month.(3:59) And it’s clearly from the (4:02) I hate to say work because like it’s kind of a passion project for both of us. (4:06) But it really is the work that you and I have put into like making, (4:09) like curating messages and like ideas and trying to keep them (4:13) structured in a way that’s just not like this sucks and that blows. (4:17) You know, so thank you for helping us do that, (4:19) because I’m really seeing a growth in that.(4:23) Oh, we put in the work, you know, it’s the best. (4:27) That’s the worst thing ever. (4:29) Yeah, man, I don’t want to just shoot the shit.(4:30) I mean, I like this to warm up and stuff, but some people go on (4:34) and they just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. (4:36) Oh, did you see that? (4:37) OK, no, man, we got we got structure here. (4:40) We got things going on.(4:41) We have to do a theme. (4:43) We don’t want to waste your friends are for the friends are a bullshit session, (4:46) right? Yeah, we’re well past that. (4:49) So now we’ve got we’ve got 10 people on, man.(4:51) So let’s start. Let’s start. (4:53) All right.Speaking of not wasting your time, we’re going to talk about IQ today. (4:56) That’s the main theme. (4:58) But before we get there, something we had to bring up (5:01) because it’s been everywhere.(5:02) Tim Walz, he’s been making some noise this week. (5:06) There’s a clip. I don’t know.(5:07) I’m sure you guys have seen it where he was making some speech. (5:10) And he’s like, I set an alert on my phone. (5:13) I when Tesla stock goes down, I just it gives me a little boost (5:17) throughout the day that was around everywhere.(5:20) First of all, I mean, just fuck you, man. (5:23) Like it’s not just Elon Musk. (5:26) I get that you hate the guy, but you’re playing with people’s (5:29) like their money, their livelihoods.(5:31) Like everyone’s 401k probably has Tesla stock involved in it. (5:35) So it’s not just hurting the one guy, you know. (5:39) By the way, it wasn’t just Tesla stock that was down.(5:43) It was everything. (5:44) The whole market was down. Bitcoin was down.(5:46) So like and also the next day after that thing, Tesla just shot right back up. (5:52) He was like, oh, yeah, it’s 225 and dropping. (5:55) And then it bounced right back up.(5:57) And I checked today, it was like almost 280. (6:00) So it’s right back up there. (6:03) Maybe he had some kind of reverse psychological effect.(6:06) I don’t know. Or is that just normal market fluctuation? (6:09) It’s Streisand effect. (6:10) But remember when he smoked weed and it dropped six percent on Rogan (6:14) and then it was like, bye, (6:16) because it’s going to come back.(6:17) You knew, you know, you knew the positive backlash from that (6:20) was going to be bigger than the six percent loss. (6:22) Not only were they going to make that six percent back, (6:23) but you knew that was going to have a net positive effect (6:26) because like the stock market is some kind of it is psychological (6:30) to some extent, right, to some people, right, (6:32) especially the people that don’t know it very well. (6:35) It’s very psychological.(6:36) So it is interesting to watch that. (6:38) But my mom calls me this morning. (6:39) She’s like, do you have ten thousand dollars? (6:43) And I’m like.(6:44) I mean, who’s asking the IRS, right? (6:48) Yeah, I have nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine IRS. (6:52) But she’s like, buy Tesla right now. (6:54) It’s a 270 and it just hit the double.(6:57) It hit the double the double thing where it hit these two lines (6:59) that it didn’t dip below. (7:01) She’s like, the next one it breaks is going to just skyrocket. (7:04) And I’m like, I don’t I got I got it.(7:05) I got it. I don’t have an account. I got it.(7:07) So I’ve been scrambling all this. No time. (7:09) I still don’t have an E-Trade account, everybody.(7:12) But what the hell, man? (7:13) Not even Robin Hood. You got to get on that. (7:15) I used to have a stash, but I I cashed out last to buy precious metals.(7:20) You know, like a couple a couple months ago, actually. (7:23) You like to be safe and all that. (7:25) That’s weird.(7:26) No, I don’t know anything, man. (7:28) I honestly look, we’re going to talk about IQ today. (7:31) I’m the fucking retard.(7:33) So like, I get it. (7:35) I’m a degenerate gambler, apparently. (7:37) You’re a genius, actually.(7:39) That’s why you can get away with it. (7:40) We’re going to figure this out today once we get it in these numbers. (7:42) If I could get away with it, I’d be a lot richer.(7:46) So my friend, we’re talking about walls anyway. (7:49) Yeah, we’re talking about walls. (7:50) OK, this guy, all he does is virtue signal.(7:53) Yeah, right. It’s all virtue. (7:56) They have zero action.(7:59) I watched the Am I a racist this week? (8:02) And I called him my girlfriend a couple of times. (8:04) She she stayed and watched a lot of it. (8:06) She was very sweet to do it.(8:07) And I’m I’m not a he. (8:09) I, I like Matt Walsh, but I’m not like a Matt Walsh follower. (8:14) Like, I know some of the stuff’s total BS, right, that he does.(8:17) But I watched the thing where he talked Robin DiAngelo into giving (8:20) pulling out of her wallet to give his producer money. (8:24) And then I watched what was Ben and Jerry. (8:28) I watched Ben on on Jimmy Dore or something (8:31) or on Piers Morgan or something.(8:33) And these fucking leftists, I’m sorry. (8:36) These fucking people are like, wait a minute. (8:39) Why are you doing direct action? (8:40) I want you to do it through the system.(8:43) Yeah, like both of them clearly state it tells you how fucked up the idea. (8:48) Like she’s like, wait, that’s weird. (8:51) You’re you’re giving direct reparations to someone that you wronged.(8:55) I I don’t understand that. (8:56) No, you’re supposed it’s systemic. (8:58) You you’re not.No, you don’t grasp. (9:00) No, it’s system. (9:01) We need now we need everyone to be forced to do this.(9:04) You don’t it’s not just about them getting it’s compliance to everybody. (9:09) It’s not just right. (9:10) And then I watched Ben do it in the same thing.(9:12) The Ben guy from Ben and Jerry. (9:14) And he’s like, I don’t actively blah, blah, blah. (9:17) I want the system to handle.(9:19) It’s like you don’t fucking understand. (9:21) That’s what the evil is, man. (9:23) That’s what the evil is, is the system.(9:25) So these are geniuses that are telling us right there. (9:29) They they filter through our our our logic track. (9:31) And we look at them like, oh, my God, they’re genius businessmen.(9:34) They must have these great ideologies. (9:36) But we’re going to go into IQ and how it positively affects us to succeed. (9:41) Negatively affects us right with biases and things like that.(9:43) So I’m really excited about this conversation. (9:46) Now, I’m excited. (9:47) Walsh is a prick.(9:49) Walsh is a prick, and he’s going after Musk. (9:51) I don’t I really don’t understand why. (9:54) Why are we supposed to hate Elon Musk so much? (9:56) Like he’s wrong about some things he doesn’t.(9:59) I don’t know. (10:00) Maybe he’s doing a little bit in the government that’s just not. (10:04) I don’t know.(10:05) Not what libertarians would approve of anyway. (10:08) But what do you specifically not like about him? (10:10) Is it just that he’s friends with Trump? (10:12) I think that’s it. (10:13) Yeah, and that’s the thing is like, I’m sorry, wasn’t he a darling? (10:18) Not that long ago.(10:19) It’s not like he’s raping children. (10:22) It’s funny, like they’re protecting child rapists in Hollywood, right? (10:26) This guy they’re attacking when he was amazing (10:30) a few years ago because of his electric car. (10:32) So it’s like pick a lane, people at least pick, I don’t know, (10:36) or at least be consistent.(10:37) The hypocrisy just absolutely kills me on ideological level. (10:41) Yeah. And normally I don’t like just blasting specific people, (10:46) but Walls has been such a (10:49) everywhere this last week or so that we just had to do it (10:52) because he’s such a shit, such a fucking asshole.(10:55) He is an asshole. (10:56) And we actually did have to do it. (10:58) We actually show I’m glad you didn’t pull any Michelle clips (11:00) because I would have just fallen asleep.(11:02) But you also pulled Gavin and watching. (11:05) Watch the hand jive, everybody. (11:06) Watch the hands.(11:08) Yeah, I cut off most of it. (11:09) But he was a little shimmy. (11:12) It’s and when you watch them with the L.A. (11:15) Fire thing, I’m telling you, it’s not like this.(11:18) He’s not telling. (11:19) He’s not using his hands in the way that you would use your hands. (11:22) He’s like it’s like avoidance, like he’s shaking off the lies almost.(11:26) Like he’s like, oh, if I if I move around, it’ll it’ll make me look (11:30) less suspicious or something like he’s like a tweaker. (11:33) I don’t know. It’s really odd.(11:34) What do you think of Trump’s weird hand thing, though? (11:38) With a two hand jerk off is not his dance where he’s always talking. (11:43) It’s like, yes, we close it down. (11:45) We’re saying it down to the middle.(11:48) Yeah, it’s the best ever. (11:51) Yeah, well, that’s the thing, though. (11:52) That’s spiring, too.It’s like a reverse spire, right? (11:54) So like Vanessa Van Edwards, who I’ve been begging to come on our show. (11:57) I mean, Vanessa Van Edwards would be the get one of the gets and gets like (12:01) that’s a Carol Roth for economics. (12:03) That would be that would be this for like queues.(12:06) And how to like hand test or how to meet people and how to talk to people. (12:10) She’s a genius. She’s brilliant.(12:12) And she does the hand gesture stuff. (12:14) And I find myself doing the things that she talks about. (12:17) And I always have.(12:19) I’ve always had very demonstrative hands. (12:21) So I’ve been lucky that way, but I don’t do I don’t do the potato (12:24) hand jive and the and the scuba dive thing that Gavin does. (12:29) But to your point, man, let’s close in on walls before we play this.(12:32) Final thoughts on this on this guy. (12:34) Like he’s trying to rise to some prominence, telling us (12:37) he’s a man by being a man. (12:39) But how do you do that? How do you do that? (12:41) Yeah, well, let’s get in the clip because we’ll get to the man stuff.(12:44) All right, my friend. Yeah. (12:48) But I think this notion of I think it’s (12:50) this notion of toxicity and masculinity needs to be separated.(12:54) And I think it’s been conflated. (12:55) And I think we’re going to have to work on that a little bit. (12:59) And I think there’s look, there is a crisis.(13:01) Some of us scare them. (13:02) I think I scare them a little bit why they spend so much time on. (13:05) No, I’m serious, because I can’t fix a truck.(13:07) They know I’m not bullshitting on this. (13:09) I’m not putting this in people’s grill. (13:11) I don’t know if my identity is not hunting.(13:14) My identity is not football coaching. (13:16) My identity is not, you know, a beard and a truck. (13:20) I think they’re scared of me.(13:24) What do you think, man? (13:25) Are you scared? (13:26) Man, I’m 50. (13:28) No, I’m not, actually. (13:30) I watched him handle a shotgun.(13:33) I am not fearful of that man. (13:35) Yeah. (13:35) So he’s on Gavin Newsom’s podcast, right? (13:38) He’s with a buddy, somebody who’s on his team.(13:41) So, OK, they’re going to be a little friendly, kind of messing around a little bit. (13:44) I’ll give him a little slack. (13:46) But it’s just like, no, nobody’s scared of Tim Walz.(13:49) Nobody is, is that guy? (13:52) Oh, because I can fix a truck. (13:54) They’re afraid of me. (13:56) It reminded it reminded me of that ad that we also clipped.(13:59) That Kamala and and Tim put out for the presidential campaign. (14:05) You mean with all the fruity fellas, with all the light fellas (14:09) that are manly, manly men, the the one that gets me. (14:13) OK, before we even look at that clip, (14:15) there’s one that always sticks out to me from that commercial.(14:19) You got the fat dude who works on carburetor, eats carburetors for breakfast. (14:22) You got this other guy. (14:23) You got this like really fit black dude who braids (14:26) the fuck out of people’s hairs and shit.(14:28) You got all these other things. (14:30) The one which is the one that sticks out to you. (14:32) If you had one of the characters like close your eyes, (14:34) like I know one that pops up right in me in my hair.(14:37) Yeah, it’s the guy on the truck. (14:40) There’s the guy in the truck. (14:40) OK, mine is the guy who sits sideways with the orange shirt.(14:43) Yes. On the truck. (14:45) Yeah, he’s the rare the rare ribeye.(14:46) And he gets a full throated endorsement. (14:48) My friend, I ain’t afraid of bears. (14:53) All right.(14:53) Let me play it because we got to play this forever. (14:55) You just got to get it. (14:57) We we’ve got 15 people on today.(14:59) We’re talking about IQ. (15:00) We’re just getting into it. (15:02) But here’s here’s one more clip that we’re going to share (15:04) before we get into this to to do.(15:06) I’m a man. (15:07) I’m a man. (15:08) I’m a man, man.(15:09) And I’m man enough. (15:11) I’m man enough to enjoy a barrel proof bourbon meat. (15:14) Man enough to cook my steak rare.(15:16) Man enough to deadlift 500 and break that on my daughter’s head. (15:20) You think I’m afraid to rebuild a carburetor? (15:22) I eat carburetors for breakfast. (15:23) I ain’t afraid of bears.(15:24) That’s what beer hugs are for. (15:26) I’ll tell you another thing. (15:27) I sure am not afraid of women.(15:30) I’m not afraid of women. (15:31) I’m not afraid of women. (15:33) I ain’t afraid of bears.(15:34) I’m not afraid of women. (15:37) Had to repeat it at the end there. (15:38) That wasn’t even the whole thing.(15:40) But man, you get the idea. (15:42) Oh, they’re not afraid of Tim Walton. (15:44) I ain’t afraid of bears.(15:45) So so we’re not afraid of Tim Walz because he’s not a man. (15:49) But that dude is afraid of touching that fucking truck, man. (15:53) He is like, there’s dirt on it.(15:56) And he’s like, I eat carburetors for breakfast. (15:58) I’m like, dude, you eat a lot for breakfast. (16:01) Yeah, you ate the whole damn car, brother.(16:04) You eat a car for breakfast, not a carburetor. (16:08) Oh, man, that’s great. (16:10) Oh, my God.I’ve just yeah, it cracks me up. (16:13) That guy on the truck, especially. (16:15) And what what do they think? (16:17) Do they think that just whitewashing or I don’t know, manwashing over this stuff (16:21) like we’re going to I mean, do they think we’re that stupid, too? (16:25) I think that they this is literally what they think men are.(16:30) Men are a character caricature in in the minds of the progressive. (16:35) Right. They because they have so divorced masculinity, they’ve so ostracized it.(16:40) They’ve said that masculinity is toxic, that this is their imagination of what a man is. (16:46) Oh, we ride in trucks and we I don’t know, we eat steak. (16:50) We braid the fuck out of hair and we’re not afraid of women.(16:54) That’s that’s all they can imagine. (16:58) It’s crazy how. (17:02) Like, OK, guy guys don’t generally talk.(17:09) They generally just do. (17:12) Mm hmm. And many times guys who talk (17:16) don’t get the respect of the guys who do.(17:21) Yeah, it’s just like they just don’t because like you’d be like, hey, (17:25) I’ll be there for you. (17:26) And then every time it comes down to brass tacks, you’re not there for him. (17:28) What good is telling him that you’re there for him, that you’re cool or whatever? (17:32) You know, I’m a man.I’m a man. (17:33) I was like, you’re telling me that you’re a man. (17:36) Why do you have to tell me? (17:37) I think that’s scary that you have to tell me that.(17:40) Yeah, it’s like Game of Thrones where Jaffe’s like, I’m the king. (17:43) And then his dad or his grandpa is like, no, if if you’re actually the king, (17:48) you wouldn’t have to say that. (17:49) Mm hmm.The true king. (17:51) What is it? Ghetto boys, you got to act like it. (17:55) Like, it’s kind of like you got to like live that part or something.(17:57) Yeah, man. So I think they rolled out. (18:00) Well, it was going to be a gangster, I think.(18:01) It was real gangsta gangsta. (18:03) They don’t talk crap because they have it right. (18:05) They’ve got to run fast.(18:07) Exactly. Yeah. (18:08) So I think the Democrats rolled out Tim Wells (18:10) because they thought that, oh, this is a man.(18:13) This is what we’re missing. (18:15) That’s a beacon of masculinity. (18:17) And Tim Walz, let’s go to the next clip, (18:20) because he’s got a little bit more on Gavin Newsom’s show.(18:25) And this guy was in the National Guard. (18:27) Like, I totally understand. (18:29) And first of all, I want to say I respect anyone who’s served anything (18:32) like it’s amazing props to that.(18:34) I know he stepped back when the shit kind of hit the fan or whatever. (18:37) I don’t I don’t know too much about that. (18:39) I’m not here.(18:39) I’m here to only criticize what I know about him. Right. (18:42) But I can tell you 100% that a guy who’s been in the National Guard (18:46) for so long should not not know how to handle a firearm.(18:50) It is. It was scary the way he was even holding it. (18:54) And it’s like that’s not even how you’d hold a firearm of any sort.(18:58) You know what I mean? (18:58) Like, it’s just it’s kind of scary when they’re telling them, (19:01) telling us we don’t know what we’re doing. Right. (19:03) So.All right. I’ll continue, sir. (19:05) Go ahead.(19:07) This notion of fight it. (19:08) Well, this this most of their ass. (19:11) I do.I don’t know if we’re going to talk about Trump supporters. (19:17) OK, we challenge you to do it. (19:19) You know, a WWE fight here type of thing.(19:24) I just had to share that, because just the idea (19:26) that he thinks he can kick anyone’s ass is ridiculous. (19:29) He’s frickin Elmer Fudd. (19:32) He’s allowed to think that everyone who fights and goes into a fight (19:36) should think they should think that there’s no way on God’s green earth.(19:39) Anyone should tell anybody like anybody like that should tell anybody (19:43) that they’re afraid I’m going to kick their ass. (19:46) Do you see Joe Rogan walking around going? (19:50) I know people could come at me and I’d kick their ass. (19:52) No, because no one would fuck with him because he would kick their ass (19:56) if they came in him.(19:57) That’s why that happens. (19:58) You know what I mean? (20:00) Even though Rogan’s like five feet tall. (20:02) Right.And once again, I’m sure the dude’s tough, (20:05) but you have to tell me that. (20:07) I mean, telling me is like challenge is like ask like challenge accepted. (20:12) Now, now we’re going to find out how tough you are, buddy.(20:14) You just told me that you’re tough. (20:15) Let’s find out how tough you are, right? (20:17) Like that’s how that that’s how that game is played, right? (20:20) Exactly. Yeah.(20:22) Yeah, man. I don’t know. (20:23) He says WWE.(20:24) Donald Trump was in WWE, actually in WWE in the 80s, right? (20:30) Yes. Yeah, but that’s very real. (20:33) What Tim Walz is doing is totally fake.(20:37) 100. I got one more of Walz, just a real quick one. (20:42) Just he’s got a new outfit.(20:44) I don’t know if you guys have seen this out there, but (20:47) yeah, it’s pretty nice, actually. (20:49) All right. Give me one second.I’m pulling it up. (20:53) It is a nice outfit. (20:54) Look very nice.New outfit. Look at this. (20:56) Oh, wow.Oh, my Lord. (20:59) Oh, there we go. There we go.(21:00) All right. Here we here we go. (21:04) I’m sick of wearing my brand new (21:07) hoochie daddy shorts today, (21:09) and I’ve been called 17 times, like, hey, boy, (21:13) what’s that pee pee do? I don’t know.(21:15) It pees. It’s small. (21:19) I’m sorry, man.(21:20) I had to I had to throw that one in there because it just (21:23) the resemblance is uncanny. (21:25) It’s uncanny. (21:26) We I think we can groom him to be the new Sean Parash for Tim Walz.(21:30) I know I sound a little like Tim Walz when I say they’re scared (21:34) that I can kick their asses. (21:36) I can even work on carburetors and even because I’m a coach (21:39) of a football team thinks that I can be a tough guy. (21:43) I’m working on it.(21:44) I’m working on is that also like is that the only car part (21:47) that they are aware of? (21:48) Like everything is a carburetor. (21:51) Everything’s a carburetor. (21:52) I’m like, dude, you got EFI now.(21:53) What do you do at EFI? (21:54) How old your car? (21:56) Oh, it’s past 80, like 89. (21:58) OK, yeah, you don’t even have a carburetor on there. (22:00) All right.No. Yeah, that’s. (22:02) Yeah, I’m glad.What what what what car is it? (22:05) You’re OK. Also, an aside before we move on. (22:10) I watched a CNN.(22:13) I watched a CNN news article where the woman (22:17) who has a Tesla was called a Nazi a-hole in a parking lot, (22:22) and she traded her Nazi mobile from Elon (22:27) for an a Mercedes wagon. (22:30) Oh, no. Yeah, exactly.(22:32) One of the three. (22:33) There’s only three that the actual Nazi mobiles, (22:35) Mercedes Daimler, right? (22:37) Mercedes, BMW and fucking Volkswagen. (22:40) And these people are actually trading in their (22:44) Nazi a-hole Elon Teslas (22:48) for actual Nazi mobiles.(22:51) It is the most uncanny thing. (22:53) These people are not real. (22:54) They’re not real.(22:55) And we’ll get into it, obviously, because I think these people are too smart (22:58) to be they’re just too smart to be stupid. (23:02) Yeah, it’s almost unbelievable, right? (23:04) There’s some effect that we’ll get into, but it seems like there’s a grouping (23:09) of some level of intelligence around those kinds of people. (23:14) I don’t want to give anything away, so I’m leaving it vague on purpose.(23:17) But why they thought this stuff was good. (23:20) Why was thinks this message is good? (23:23) Why? Like, did they think that was going to pull people in? (23:26) I don’t know. (23:26) I think maybe it proves that there’s an actual limit to intelligence in humans.(23:33) And I think I think we’re going to get into it today, (23:36) because the point is, it’s like, do you really think (23:40) everyone who has this ideology is dumb? (23:44) I know. No, I can’t say that because like everyone’s functional. (23:50) You know what I mean? (23:51) We’re all functioning through society, have jobs or whatever, working through.(23:55) So like, it’s funny, though. (23:57) But like, how do they think this is going to work? (23:59) And I think they’re going to work the way we’re going to see the biases (24:02) play out right through IQ. (24:04) Yeah, I think a lot of them are actually very smart.(24:07) They just are. (24:09) They have blind spots like everyone like you and I do, too. (24:12) We all have blind spots, for sure.Yeah. (24:16) So we’re talking about it. (24:18) Yes.Well, it depends how smart. (24:22) If you’re smart enough, you know that you’re a freaking idiot. (24:27) But we’re talking about intelligence today.(24:30) So one thing that got me interested in this is that for a while, (24:34) for several decades, intelligence, as we measure it, (24:38) seemed to be going up steadily through the generations. (24:41) People are getting smarter, smarter. (24:43) Three or four or three or four points a decade, something like that.Right. (24:49) Now, that appears to have slowed down or completely stopped. (24:54) And regressed in some cases.(24:56) Yeah. Sorry. Slowed or actually reversed.Yes. (25:00) Yeah. So we know there’s always a variance in how and.(25:06) People’s intelligence, we know that measuring it is difficult. (25:09) There’s not one, probably one real good way to measure it. (25:13) But the tests we have do tell us something, I think.(25:17) So that’s why I’m interested. (25:18) I don’t know if that’s your case or why did you want to talk about this today? (25:23) Well, there’s this book called The Bell Curve, and. (25:28) It is very controversial.(25:31) But and people started looking at IQ as a thing, but the problem was. (25:37) Different races had different ranges of IQ. (25:40) The the problem with that was people thought, wait a minute, (25:43) are you saying that this race is average stupider? (25:46) But it’s like, no, remember, these are like crossovers of ranges, people.(25:50) There is more IQ difference within a race than between the races. (25:55) You know what I mean? (25:56) Like this is variance. This is humanity, right? (25:59) But we find IQ was a measure of some kind of determinant of (26:05) whether you can see pattern recognition or computation or process (26:11) abstract thinking out of the box.(26:13) And we’ll talk about it, because what’s funny is we took a mini IQ test. (26:17) We’ll share the results. (26:18) But it was specifically a pattern recognition only.(26:21) It was not anything but pattern recognition, which an IQ test is. (26:25) It is that plus other factors as well. (26:28) But on the pattern recognition, that’s your score, which is a hugely amazing score.(26:33) Does you know those things at the end? (26:35) We’ll talk about that. (26:36) But it is interesting because it is about just because someone has a higher IQ. (26:40) But that is true.(26:41) There’s a variance of IQ, people. (26:43) And sometimes people do not grasp. (26:46) They cannot understand what you are telling them.(26:49) And when you look at some people, they’ll use analogy to try to (26:53) like simplify an idea. (26:55) And those people with those variants of IQs are able to like abstract (27:00) mold it into a way that might be digestible to people (27:03) who might not understand the initial concept. (27:05) So all of this is really important because we have to interact with each other.(27:09) And it’s not about greater or worse, (27:10) because we’re going to talk about other things as well. (27:12) Other fact. (27:14) Yeah, the tests are interesting.(27:16) Like I said, I think there is big variance in how people do (27:19) on certain parts of those tests, like the one the one we took is just all patterns. (27:24) So like I’ve been in school for 19, 20 years, like 20 years of schooling. (27:30) So I’m trained to take tests.(27:32) That doesn’t mean I’m smart at anything else. (27:34) But I have trained how to take tests (27:36) because that is the end goal of public schooling and college even. So.(27:42) Yeah, I’ve taken a lot of tests. (27:44) I figured out how to do them well, but I don’t know (27:48) if that’s actually applying to me being that smart. (27:50) I don’t I don’t think so.(27:53) Well, I know your number, and I actually would have put you right there. (27:56) I would have put me where you are. (27:57) I would put you a little bit higher, actually.(27:59) So, yeah, but it turns out I know I know yours is higher than what what came out. (28:05) That’s for sure. (28:06) I really hope so, because I’m barely able to hold a rifle (28:09) and point in the right direction right now with my man.(28:12) Just shave your head. You could be Tim Walzer. (28:15) So you were you were talking about that.(28:17) You were talking about this thing about the increase. (28:19) Now, the increased IQ thing. (28:21) Well, this is where it makes sense to me.(28:23) You’re in the 1890s and light bulbs haven’t been have haven’t happened yet, right? (28:27) You got these kerosene burners and lamping up, you know, lighting up the streetlights. (28:31) All of a sudden, this incandescent bulb comes in. (28:33) Well, those children born under the incandescent bulb (28:37) are going to have that intelligence or that information (28:40) already in them as they culturally grow up.Right. (28:44) So as society becomes more complex, (28:48) there are more things into which you grow that are complex. (28:52) So you I would think just naturally that complexity would happen (28:56) as an evolutionary piece.(28:58) What are your thoughts on how why that IQ keep kept right? (29:02) Keep rising. (29:06) So, yeah, and doing some research on this and from what I’ve seen before, (29:09) also, Jordan Peterson talks about this and he’s of the opinion. (29:14) I hope I’m not jumping ahead too much, but he’s of the opinion (29:17) that you can’t actually boost your IQ, but you can retard it.(29:23) And I say that word lovingly. (29:26) Oh, really? I didn’t I didn’t see that about the retarding part. (29:30) Yeah.So so he says his opinion and he’s when he talks about psychology stuff. (29:35) I I tend to respect his opinion. (29:37) He’s very good on that subject.(29:39) I agree. He says that, yes, you can take all these tests (29:43) like people try to do brain training and all these games and stuff (29:46) that doesn’t actually make your IQ go up, (29:51) but you can slow it down with poor nutrition, (29:55) the lack of exercise, environmental factors like you grow up (29:59) in a poverty environment like where you’re focused on just surviving (30:04) rather than like learning and doing things. (30:08) Not getting any education is probably bad.(30:11) It probably would slow it down. (30:13) Although, again, if it’s just like pattern recognition and stuff, (30:18) that should be mostly like in your head, a part of natural development anyway. (30:23) So I don’t think it’s something that school necessarily tackles.(30:27) But so I tend to agree with that. (30:29) I’m not 100 percent sure. (30:31) But I think that I think that’s right, that you can’t actually grow your IQ.(30:36) But we’ve removed some of the factors that were inhibiting (30:40) people’s IQs from expanding to their full potential. (30:44) Yes, I think it’s a great point you were making, and I apologize, (30:48) I didn’t recall the exact clip, but now I do. (30:50) It was about him saying you just get good at playing the mind games, (30:53) the brain games.(30:54) You don’t actually improve the actual functionality. (30:58) But I would argue that that does keep the brain, (31:02) the blood flowing through the brain, like keeping it active, (31:05) like exercise and like going for a walk. Right.(31:07) I wouldn’t say it directly affects the IQ. (31:10) I think the IQ is a thing, right? (31:11) Like a kind of a fixed thing is probably in your genetics of some sort. (31:15) But, you know, it has a little bit of cultural, too, obviously, (31:18) with how you grow up.(31:18) It’s like if you grew up with like getting to play with little things, (31:21) you probably have good aptitude of mechanics, right? (31:24) How like and that’s part of the IQ function, too, is not just pattern (31:27) recognition, but it’s like if this pulley is going this way, (31:30) what’s the direction that one goes? (31:31) What’s the direction or what directions that you’re turning? (31:34) If this third gear is turning that way, you know, kind of thing (31:37) when they all touch. (31:38) So it gets to be really interesting in that way as well. (31:42) But to your point is like, yeah, the IQ thing is.(31:47) I think when it comes to pattern recognition, (31:48) I don’t think you can learn pattern recognition (31:51) outside of your ability of pattern recognition, (31:54) like because it is abstract. (31:56) There is an outside the thought, like some of those patterns (31:58) that we saw at the end there. (32:00) I was like, my head, I couldn’t even.(32:03) I had no idea. (32:04) I’m like, there is nothing here. (32:06) This is right.(32:07) I think I just saw everything in one. (32:11) But yeah, you can get better. (32:12) You can get better at doing those tests.(32:14) Like once you start to see how those patterns work, like if you take it (32:18) and then somebody shows you afterward, like, oh, yeah, this is how you do it. (32:21) If you took it again, you’d be better at the test. Right.(32:24) But does that mean you’re you’re actually smarter? (32:27) Not really. (32:28) Exactly. So you want me to share the Flynn effect (32:31) and what we talk about, how how the IQ is increased? (32:35) Absolutely.(32:37) The Flynn effect describes a fascinating phenomenon (32:39) where IQ scores have consistently increased by about three points (32:43) per decade throughout the 20th century. (32:46) Researchers discovered that each new generation was performing (32:49) significantly better on intelligence tests than their parents and grandparents. (32:54) One major theory suggests that improved nutrition, (32:57) health care and education have contributed to this cognitive (33:00) enhancement across generations.(33:03) Another explanation points to our increasingly complex (33:06) visual and technological world, (33:08) which may be enhancing our ability to solve abstract problems. (33:12) Modern life demands different cognitive skills than previous generations, (33:16) potentially training our brains to process information more efficiently. (33:21) However, recent studies suggest this upward trend might be slowing (33:25) or even reversing in some developed countries, adding new complexity (33:29) to our understanding of human intelligence thoughts.(33:38) Yeah. So this is the Flynn effect that we talked about. (33:41) Nutrition being better.(33:43) Oh, and now we’re poisoning each other. (33:44) But basically, if you look like Civil War pictures, (33:47) like the soldier, like five, six, five, eight, dude, we got people six foot (33:50) and taller, like, you know, I mean, kids are hitting puberty quicker. (33:53) It’s a different it’s a different world.(33:55) Like we’re not we’re not scarcity world like we were before. (33:58) That’s part of it. (33:59) Obviously, to your point, the food desert totally been addressed (34:02) with some kind of delivery system.(34:04) And as well as the world around us has got more advanced. (34:07) So you’re you’re entering a more advanced world than your parents did. (34:15) Yeah.Plus, you got Alex Jones selling all these supplements. (34:18) He’s got super male vitality. (34:21) That’ll get you get your brain flowing, get you a little bit smarter.(34:26) Exactly. So I have not been paying attention to the comments, everybody. (34:30) I’ve been so focused on the IQ thing.(34:32) And once again, once we go into my IQ, we talked about it. (34:34) It’s pretty low. (34:35) So welcome, everyone.(34:36) We’ve got Zach on. (34:38) We’ve got a wall Aaron on. (34:39) We’ve got that Valkyrie again.(34:43) We’ve got Valkyrie in here. (34:45) What’s so much anybody, anybody we need to pull up here (34:49) that we need to talk about? (34:50) Maybe the mechanic, something like this. (34:54) Mechanic, you can fix anything, but barely read.(34:57) That’s a real good example, right? (34:58) We talk about that with IQ. (35:00) All right. Yeah.(35:01) So we’re going to get into that, Aaron, about this, the specialties of that, (35:06) because we’re going to talk about other concepts as well. (35:09) But that was that was a Flynn effect. (35:10) So over time, it’s about three points per decade.(35:15) But to your point, we are now regressing. (35:17) And if you look, we don’t read and write. (35:19) We don’t write stuff down anymore.(35:21) So some of these tactile skills that we grew up with (35:26) that actually contributed to hand eye coordination, (35:28) probably to a hand brain triggering these things, we don’t do anymore the same way. (35:34) So these this might be affecting us along with how TikTok works (35:37) and how that rewires the brain and all these other ways that we’re finding. (35:41) The other thing I’m curious about on that is that they (35:46) they regress the distribution of IQs to the mean.(35:50) So 100 is always in the middle. (35:52) So if IQs are going up, are they be adjusting the mean? (35:55) So now like what was a 140 IQ (35:58) would now be considered like 130 or I don’t know. (36:02) Technically, yes.(36:03) My girl, when I showed the results of our IQ test (36:07) and I was like throwing shit around the house about how stupid I was. (36:12) Not kidding. (36:13) Literally, I shat in my hand and threw it against the wall.(36:15) I act like a monkey. (36:16) But she’s like, I’m like, that’s not what I was before. (36:20) I was in the gifted class.(36:21) They kept asking me. (36:23) She’s like, they totally, totally retested now. (36:25) It’s totally different than it was when you were young.(36:27) And I’m like, see me, bitch. (36:29) So, yeah, it is a little bit. (36:31) But the I’m sure that curve is a good book.(36:33) Yeah. When you take the test, like, are you hungry? (36:36) Kind of like the judge thing that we talked about with the reasoning, right? (36:40) Like, are you hungry? (36:41) Like what’s going on in your mind? (36:43) You have something else you’re thinking about (36:45) that could totally affect the score when you take the test. (36:48) So absolutely.(36:49) And I can tell you with without the one we took, for example, (36:53) I was of the same thing is like, how much focus do I actually have to have? (36:56) I know it’s timed. (36:57) Knowing it was timed ahead of time really helped that. (36:59) I knew that I needed to get it done.(37:02) Yeah. But even by the time, like the 13th question, I’ll be honest, (37:06) was it 35 questions by like 13, 14? (37:09) Your eyes start. (37:10) These start like the patterns start crisscrossing.(37:13) And then you start thinking about dinner and then you’re like thirsty. (37:16) And that’s right. I got to pee.(37:18) It’s not excuses, man. (37:20) It’s like we all went under the same conditions. (37:22) Now that we were under duress, taking the damn thing.(37:24) But, you know, there were factors, to your point, if we were, you know. (37:29) Yeah, exactly. (37:29) So, I mean, but we are seeing evidence of decline, like real evidence.(37:33) So like some stats I pulled, Norway (37:37) found that IQ fell seven points per generation after 1975. (37:42) That’s a huge drop. (37:44) Denmark and Finland and the UK had similar dips, about point (37:48) three points per year.(37:50) So after 10 years, three points a year or three points a decade, sorry, (37:55) in young adults. (37:56) So they’re they’re adjusting for the age. (38:01) And we don’t really know why.(38:04) Like there’s all kinds of theories. (38:05) There’s a million factors that could be in play. (38:08) So we can look at some of them.(38:11) Like, what would you think? (38:12) Like just off the top of your head, what would you think is causing this? (38:21) Yeah, the benefit. (38:22) OK, one of the benefits of I hate to say school or history (38:26) or whatever is like memorization. (38:29) When you have every answer at your fingertips and you’re not required (38:33) to memorize, remember that game of memory? (38:37) There’s got to be some pattern recognition there.(38:40) There’s some, you know, where it you know, I mean, where it’s located, (38:43) a spatial right where it’s located on the on the board. (38:46) Things like that. (38:46) I would think a lot a lot of those things get less utilized.(38:52) So dates you don’t have to memorize. (38:54) Yeah, we hated memorizing dates in school was the stupidest thing, (38:58) but it had to have triggered some part of the brain. (39:00) I’m not saying positive or negative, but I’m saying it’s part of the total (39:03) total grouping of what your brain is capable of doing, right? (39:06) It’s like it could access that part.(39:09) And I remember these kids are now like, I can just look stuff up. (39:11) What? I have to remember anything. (39:13) And I think that almost turns you off to like wanting to even absorb information (39:17) when you get it, wanting to like share it because you can just look it up anytime.(39:22) So I think it’s almost a convenience thing. (39:24) So the technology factor. Yeah.(39:27) Yeah, I think that’s got to have something to do with it, right? (39:30) Like we’ve got Internet, we’ve got attention spans are way lower. (39:34) You don’t have to memorize as you as you were saying, (39:38) even that I think you could train. (39:40) Can you train memorization skill? (39:43) That’s got to be something you can get better at.(39:46) Yeah, you can enhance memorization. (39:48) But I and once again, is is memorization even technically part of IQ? (39:53) If I knew the answer in my head, just seeing a question in the end, (39:56) I know the answer. (39:57) I had to memorize that answer.(40:00) Like I didn’t process that answer. (40:01) I like it’s like I just know it before I even see the, you know, I mean, (40:04) kind of thing, even if you just look at pictures like the memory game (40:07) you’re talking about where you flip two cards over. (40:09) OK, those don’t match.(40:10) But you remember if you can remember where all those cards are, that’s like (40:14) I think that would be a sign of high IQ and maybe something that you can’t (40:18) really train. Yeah, it would totally be spatial. (40:21) And I think you can train.(40:24) I mean, I think you can sharpen the skills. (40:27) I don’t think you can go up like like Jordan Peterson. (40:29) I don’t think you up a variance.(40:31) You know what I mean? (40:31) We’re talking like you’re not going to five IQ points over that. (40:35) But if you have. (40:37) But the thing is to remember, IQ is a potential.(40:40) If you don’t access those IQ points, if you have them like (40:43) and I don’t mean IQ points like the points, but I mean like the the access, (40:47) the certain parts that make up the IQ, they atrophy anyway. (40:51) Like they have to be. (40:52) They have to be used, right? (40:54) That’s true.(40:55) So maybe the use of memory, just playing the game or having to memorize (40:59) for people with higher IQs, the activation happens more often. (41:05) That would make sense, then, with what we talked about before, (41:08) where it’s like you’ve shaken off some cobwebs, you’re (41:11) bringing back something that you may be regressed on, (41:14) but you still have kind of a cap where you. (41:17) That’s just who you are, I think.(41:19) As far as I know, I think that’s true. (41:21) As far as everything I’ve read and seen, people, psychologists (41:24) just tend to agree that there’s not a whole lot you can do (41:28) about raising your your cap of IQ. (41:32) And to be clear about that, everybody, that’s not anyone’s fault.(41:37) It’s not it’s not like anyone’s better. (41:41) The number’s higher. OK, yes.(41:43) But there are certain things that come with that. (41:46) So it would be so nice for people to not be like, I have an IQ. (41:52) You’re a moron.I can control you. (41:54) As well as the people who, unfortunately, don’t aren’t gifted (41:58) with the a certain IQ to be like, you know what? (42:02) I might need some help understanding certain concepts that I just can’t grasp, (42:06) even though I think I know them. (42:08) Yeah, it might be your parents fault for whatever they did to you (42:11) while you were in utero.(42:13) I won’t talk about it, bro. (42:15) I won’t talk about my I love my parents. (42:16) They’re great, but I won’t talk about it.(42:18) We won’t talk about it. (42:20) I got German parents. (42:21) You think I was ever right? Come on.(42:23) Yeah, yeah. (42:25) Well, so there’s also more evidence of the decline. (42:28) Educational outcomes are going down.(42:31) So test results. (42:33) I know there’s always issues with these standardized tests, (42:35) but the results are going down. (42:37) They’re either flat or declining in the U.S. and Europe.(42:41) Math scores are dropping. (42:43) Literacy in the U.S., especially, is just way down. (42:46) I don’t think that’s because of IQ, but we could talk about that.(42:50) Um, let’s do it. (42:52) Let’s let’s cut in there now before we before we continue. (42:54) OK, we certainly know.(42:56) OK, math and math and reading scores. (42:59) Yeah, please. (43:00) I have a feeling I know we’re going to go with this, but let’s do it (43:03) because it’s part of it.(43:04) Well, the schools suck. (43:06) That’s pretty much it. (43:07) I also covered recently.(43:10) I mean, yeah, they’ve gone consistently down, (43:12) but we’re seeing the government like education sucks. (43:16) Yeah. And yeah, but even before that, they were going down even before.(43:21) Yeah. Yes. And the problem here.(43:23) Once again, the message I think that you and I want to share. (43:27) The government does not make things better. (43:31) They do not.It’s it’s OK, but they do not make things better. (43:36) Do not look to them to substitute your parenting for a child learning. (43:41) Do not substitute the government or a teacher (43:44) to they are there to be tools and guides to help the full (43:50) the full maturation of your child, not to replace the parent.(43:54) And my concern, what I’ve seen, what I know this isn’t I’m not a parent, (43:59) so I’m not here to criticize parents, but I think it would be very easy (44:02) if the state came in and said, I can help take care of that for you, (44:06) that I would be like, OK, I’m sorry. (44:08) I probably would. Right.(44:09) You can’t let that happen. (44:11) We need to always fight that giving up of our personal control (44:17) over our knowledge, our education. (44:21) So just as an aside, one other thing I didn’t want to think (44:24) I didn’t think about nutrition wise sugars.(44:26) I’m wondering if obesity and the sugar issue (44:30) that it’s not the brain bleed issue, the you know, the brain barrier, (44:34) blood brain barrier, all those issues about learning. (44:37) I’m wondering if those are also. (44:39) I might put that at number one.(44:41) I don’t know. We’re going to see. (44:43) We’re going to look through a few more, I think, a few more examples, (44:45) but that might be the biggest indicator or the biggest cause.(44:51) Why? Why these scores are going down? (44:53) Because, yeah, schools like we spend so much time in schools, kids in the US, (44:57) I think, spend more time, more hours in school than any other country. (45:00) I think we spend more money on schools than any other country per student. (45:05) So like spending more time in schools, (45:08) throwing more money at schools is not helping.(45:11) And part of that is just the encroachment of I’m using big words today. (45:15) So people think I’m smart. (45:17) The encroachment of just these bullshit ideologies (45:21) into schools that everyone knows about the woke stuff, the, you know, (45:25) talking about, oh, we have to love transgender people because they’re special (45:29) and blah, blah, blah.Like, OK, what about two plus two? (45:32) Can we do that? Can we read like people can’t even fucking read. (45:36) What are we doing? Yeah. (45:39) And we can go in a slight of the D.I. (45:43) thing.I mean, diversity. (45:47) I heard something very interesting about it, and it makes total sense. (45:51) When countries are their own country (45:56) and aren’t a mishmash to the extent that countries have become mishmashes, (46:01) that’s real diversity.(46:03) Like I can go on a flight and I can go to Brazil and it’s Brazilians, man. (46:08) It’s not all one homogenous group of people. (46:11) It’s Brazilians.(46:13) It’s not like all everyone from all around the world, the same gray people. (46:17) You know what I mean? Or whatever. I don’t know.(46:19) But it’s something about that cultural stuff. (46:21) Like there is a nationalism. (46:23) Like I grew up in America and part of the libertarian ideology for me, (46:28) the freedom stuff, it.(46:30) I think the libertarian stuff is an American ideology, (46:33) but America is also a nation. (46:34) So it’s like weird that we dance this thing of the country of the nation (46:39) and the kind of ideology of the freedoms. Right.(46:41) So we’re just lucky to be here. (46:43) But yeah, diversity, I think D.I. stuff that did it to like, look at who’s (46:48) who’s they’re failing upward. (46:51) All you see is failing upward all all across the board.(46:54) And when it’s OK, (46:57) I, I, I would like to think this. (47:00) We should look at the number of politicians. (47:02) And if we really want to go into race, look at the percentage (47:06) of the population to the percentage of that race (47:10) within a political organization, for example.(47:13) Like if white people make up 50 percent, then 50 percent of the politicians (47:19) would arguably be white, correct? (47:21) Like that just seems normal. (47:23) I don’t I don’t think that’s the case, though. (47:25) And I’m not I’m not saying white.(47:27) This isn’t a white black thing. (47:29) This is not about that. It’s not about that race thing.(47:32) But we’ve talked about even IQ with races and things and like diversity (47:35) isn’t always the strength that can actually hurt us in a way. (47:41) Yeah. Reminds me of that Louis C.K. (47:43) joke where he’s talking about some guy like going to China and he’s like, (47:47) well, look at all the minorities here.(47:50) It’s like, man, yeah, diversity is fine, but who cares? (47:55) Yeah, exactly. (47:56) And that and that’s things like it’s not about shunning people (47:59) who want to be part of that. (48:00) You know what I mean? (48:01) Because like to you and I, the ideology, like my parents are German.(48:03) They came here because they believe the America thing. (48:05) They really need it. (48:06) They wanted to they wanted to strive.(48:08) They wanted to thrive. (48:09) You know, my grandfather dragged my mom over here, you know, so I get it. (48:14) Anyway.Yeah. (48:15) Anyway, we got a little off topic, but what are we talking about schools? (48:19) So, yeah. So in addition to sugars.(48:21) Yeah. Sugars in schools. (48:23) Screwing schools.(48:24) Oh, man. Now I don’t know what’s number one for me. (48:26) I think it’s a tie between schools and bad nutrition.(48:30) Well, schools have food programs, too. (48:33) So we can it’s kind of a double whammy, right? (48:35) They implement the bad nutrition. Yeah, right.(48:38) Remember Ronald Reagan? (48:39) I don’t know if you remember this, but in the 80s, there was a (48:42) budget shortage about food program. (48:46) Ronald Reagan in 87. (48:47) And so I don’t.(48:49) Fuck you. Fuck you. (48:51) I think he implemented this before 87.(48:53) You son of a bitch. (48:54) But basically, and you can look this up. (48:57) Everyone Google, everyone get on the Googs right now.(48:58) 50 people. All right. Welcome, everybody.(49:01) So we’ve got. (49:03) OK, so on the Googs, you can look it up. (49:05) Ronald Reagan officially made ketchup a vegetable.(49:11) He decreed ketchup, ketchup, a vegetable. (49:14) That way they wouldn’t have to buy the vegetable. (49:16) And and who sponsored it? Of course.(49:18) Heinz, right? Heinz. (49:19) So it’s like just going through. (49:22) I didn’t even know that, but I could guess immediately.(49:25) Yeah, exactly. All right. Exactly.(49:27) I don’t even know. I think I’m stabbing at that one, (49:29) but I’m pretty sure I’m pretty confident on that. (49:31) So and then John Kerry married Teresa Heinz.(49:34) But we don’t have a plane. (49:35) My family has a plane, but I don’t have a plane. (49:37) I mean, my family, my wife and my kids have a plane.(49:39) I mean, I’m on it all the time, but it’s not my plane. (49:42) I don’t have a plane. (49:43) But also we sold the plane.(49:45) So it’s not even our plane anymore. (49:46) So we sold it. So we don’t have a plane.(49:47) We just rent it back and have private flights, that’s all. (49:53) Jet jet set or whatever, net jet. (49:56) But we buy carbon credits.(49:58) So we offset and we offset with our carbon credits. (50:00) Why you why you monkeys just sit there shitting in your hands. (50:04) I get it.Yeah. (50:05) Yeah. You can’t afford gas to get to work.(50:07) But hey, we’re flying around the world saving your life. (50:11) Brought to you by Carl’s Jr. (50:15) Keep Carl’s out of this. I like that.(50:17) No. Oh, sorry. (50:19) Star burger.(50:20) I know the famous star is superstar is the best hangover burger. (50:25) When I was in college, when you were fucking son of a bitch, (50:30) you were five years old, you little son of a bitch. (50:32) When I was up in Prescott at Embry-Riddle and we get hung over, (50:37) we go to the good old Carl’s Jr. (50:38) and get one of them famous superstars.(50:40) It would be a lot. (50:41) Remember, it was all globby and the catch. (50:43) It just like makes such a mess.(50:45) And now I’ve had one recent man. (50:48) It’s take a pause and I’ve had to go to Carl’s Jr. real quick. (50:52) Yes.Maybe that’s what we should meet. (50:53) We should maybe do a podcast from the Carl’s Jr. (50:56) That’s the closest between us. (50:58) I like it.I like it. (51:00) We’re coming up with all kinds of ideas today. (51:03) So you were talking.(51:04) We talk diet, nutrition, but there is another effect, right? (51:08) We talk genetics and technology and technology, right? (51:11) But then we’ve got this other one that we talk about to genetics. (51:15) This genetics is what they call it. (51:18) This is the idiocracy effect.(51:20) So talk to me about this. (51:22) What is what is this effect? (51:25) This genetics, maybe we should just pull that clip. (51:28) But I do want to play the clip, but I’d love to maybe have a little bit more.(51:32) Should we do serious after? (51:33) Because the clip’s so good. (51:35) It’s funny. I’ll pull up.(51:37) I’ll set it up while you’re pulling it up. (51:39) So basically, it’s it’s the idea that the people who are lower IQ (51:44) and less successful tend to have more kids. (51:48) And the people that are smarter are like, I’m going to wait.(51:50) I can’t like, oh, this isn’t a good time. (51:52) I want to advance my career first before I think about having kids. (51:56) So the smart people don’t have kids.(51:58) And then the the people that are perhaps a little bit less intelligent (52:03) to keep it PC here, they have tons of kids. (52:07) And those kids multiply and those kids multiply. (52:09) And it goes on and on until you’ve got (52:12) a thousand offspring from one line and maybe five from the other.(52:16) That’s smart. (52:17) So it could be that this has an effect. (52:22) Well, and it and before I forget it, (52:26) please get me back on track, but also inbreeding with monarchy.(52:29) I want to talk about that. We didn’t even talk about that. (52:32) So it just popped into me with this dysgenics (52:34) because it’s also a reversion of of genetic code, right? (52:37) You don’t have to be a monarch, by the way, to be an.(52:40) No, you can be in Alabama. (52:43) Yeah, you just be in Alabama or something like that or Tucson. Yeah.(52:48) Well, we have friends in Tucson. (52:49) We love you guys. (52:51) We love you guys in Tucson.Sure. Yeah. (52:53) You should see my boomer Facebook social network, dude.(52:55) It’s all littered with Tucsonians who have too much (52:58) fluoride in their lead pipes in their water. (53:00) It’s like it’s crazy. (53:02) All right.We’re going to share this now once again about this, too, is like (53:06) the the IQ pieces. (53:08) I’ve always said that low IQ equals effing and fighting. (53:13) That’s it’s just a weird I know that sounds very base.(53:16) But like when you think about it, when you don’t have intellectual (53:20) overcoming of carnal things, right, and you’re back in the base (53:24) reptile, the brain, those two things, effing and fighting (53:27) are your two driving forces, right? (53:30) Basically for survival, propagation of species and survival. (53:34) Those those are the two. (53:35) So I’ve always said that when I look at nationally (53:39) and and this is where it gets controversial, right? (53:41) Because I’m basically telling you the people with an average IQ that’s low.(53:45) And if you look at some of the countries, you go, wow, (53:47) there’s a lot of effing and fighting out there. (53:49) There’s a lot of children dying and blowing up in those places. (53:52) And you’re like, whoa, this is really odd.(53:55) But it is somewhat correlative. (53:58) But it’s hard for us white boys to talk like that. (54:00) So I’m just going to hit this clip.(54:02) Go ahead. (54:04) As the 21st century fornicating human evolution was at a turning point. (54:10) Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, (54:14) the fastest reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process (54:17) which had once favored the noblest traits of man now began to favor different traits.(54:23) Most science fiction of the day predicted a future (54:25) that was more civilized and more intelligent. (54:29) But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. (54:33) A dumbing down.(54:34) How did this happen? (54:36) Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. (54:39) With no natural predators within the herd, it began to simply reward (54:42) those who reproduced the most and left the intelligent to become an endangered species. (54:48) Having kids is such an important decision.(54:51) We’re just waiting for the right time. (54:53) It’s not something you want to rush into. (54:55) Obviously.No way. (54:57) Oh, shit, I’m pregnant again. (54:59) I got too many damn kids.(55:01) I thought you was on the pill or some shit. (55:03) I thought you was on the pill. (55:08) Oh, Zach.(55:09) Zach said low IQ people don’t know how sex works. (55:12) That’s not true. (55:13) Low IQ people can’t have sex.(55:14) That’s why they have babies so much, because they don’t know how sex works. (55:18) They don’t have to know how it works. (55:19) They just do it.(55:21) Even monkeys can do that, but they can’t find the clitoris. (55:24) That’s the hard part. (55:26) No one can find it.(55:29) It’s a mystery. (55:29) I’m sorry. (55:30) That was just a total aside.(55:31) That’s what I was told. (55:32) I was told it’s impossible. (55:35) Yeah, my girlfriend reassures me every time.(55:37) It’s OK. You’re not supposed to find it. (55:39) You’re not supposed to think it’s at the bottom.(55:44) But I thought you’re going to play the whole clip. (55:46) But if no one saw that, if no one saw that once again, everybody go on the gooks. (55:52) Type in idiots, idiocracy intro.(55:55) Go watch the movie. (55:56) The rest is good. (55:57) And it is so good.(55:59) And Mike Judge, once again, when you talk IQ, (56:03) he literally saw a future and made a movie that we are actually living. (56:08) Like 15 years ago, he made this movie and you couldn’t guess (56:12) that it would have accelerated this quickly to this level. (56:14) And he’s literally he’s literally living much sooner than he said, (56:19) because that was what, like 100 or 200 years in the future.(56:22) Yeah, but it’s like 20. (56:25) He saw that pattern and where it goes. Right.(56:27) And that’s the thing kind of we were talking about is like if you I was talking (56:30) with Aaron about it a while, Aaron, on Thursday is like if you can’t see three, (56:34) four or five steps ahead of when you push this, that goes there (56:37) and this goes that and that has cause and effect, then you’re you’re (56:40) you’re just chasing the next problem that your reaction does. (56:45) And that’s what government is. (56:46) Everybody, once again, message learning every four years or every two years.(56:50) It changes. (56:51) So you never get consistency. (56:53) You know, then why trust it when you don’t get that stability and consistency? (56:59) This is why we keep I know it keeps coming back.(57:02) It’s the ability. Yeah. (57:03) The ability to be able to look ahead more than one step, one variable.(57:07) It was like the covid stuff. (57:09) Like we got to do everything we can to stop this virus. (57:12) It doesn’t matter that we’re going to starve millions of people (57:15) by shutting down food production.(57:17) Like that was that’s how they think. (57:19) And that’s a low intelligence thinking. (57:22) That’s what you get in government.(57:23) It’s one variable. They don’t think ahead. (57:25) They’re not even incentivized to think ahead if they even if they could.(57:29) So this is what we get. (57:31) Great examples, masks. (57:33) Hey, guys, let’s wear masks.(57:35) Is it an airborne virus? Yes. (57:38) Has has an airborne virus ever been stopped by masks? (57:41) No, let’s wear masks. (57:43) But it might work for us.(57:46) What? Right. (57:47) Do you like it’s like, oh, yeah, we can we can we can fail upward (57:51) better than you can. (57:52) You know, it’s like it’s once again, guys, we all these concepts (57:57) that you and I have gone into the media, all these like even assimilation, (58:00) all these tie back into how we process this crazy world (58:04) that we’re living in right now and how we and how we can navigate our life, (58:09) how we can help other people navigate their lives and just look at it (58:12) from a different perspective than.(58:14) Yeah, we have to have these overlords sitting over us, (58:16) because if not us, then or not them, then who? (58:19) Maybe nobody, guys. (58:20) Tax the rich. No tax.(58:22) No one. (58:23) Like we got to break all. (58:25) We’re trying to break all those those stigmas that we have.(58:28) The only way we can get what we want is by stealing it from other people. (58:34) Oh, yeah. (58:35) So but I don’t know about this dysthenics thing.(58:37) It seems like it makes sense. Right. (58:40) But the correlation doesn’t quite line up because this has been happening, (58:44) I’d say, at least since the Industrial Revolution.Right. (58:47) Technology started increasing. (58:49) People had more time to be educated and all that.(58:52) And this was happening 100 years ago. (58:56) But we only are just seeing the effect. (58:58) So it could be a lag.(59:00) But I think the correlation is not quite there for this. (59:03) So I would put that lower on the (59:06) the totem pole for how much this contributes to the decline of IQ. (59:12) Did you watch the Peterson clip where he said, (59:15) if you want to estimate your IQ, (59:18) you take the average of your two parents and actually go a little lower.(59:23) No, I saw something like that, but maybe not specific to that clip that we share. (59:27) So everyone that we were on here. (59:28) So once again, we’re talking about IQ.(59:30) We’ve got more than 50 people on, guys. (59:32) Thank you so much for joining us, man. (59:35) This is we’re almost up to Mark’s IQ.(59:38) We’re almost up. Yeah, we’re almost there, guys. (59:40) When you hit it, I’ll hit a bell.(59:41) If we hit it, I’ll hit a bell. (59:43) If we hit Jason’s, I’ll have a heart attack. (59:46) It’s going to be the cliffhanger.(59:48) Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. (59:51) Anyway, so but now I lost my train of thought. (59:57) Oh, I don’t know.(59:58) We’re talking about the idiocracy, the dysgenic. (1:00:00) Oh, the idiocracy. (1:00:01) Oh, the dysgenics.(1:00:02) You’re the average of your parents. (1:00:04) Over time, dysgenics might happen. (1:00:05) Yeah.You take the average of your parents and then you slightly go lower. (1:00:09) Now, some cases you do higher because the average just as a whole is higher. (1:00:12) So if the average IQ is higher than your parents, you average and go up.(1:00:18) And if the average IQ is lower than the average age of your parents, (1:00:21) you go down from that average. (1:00:22) And that’s what you are allegedly. (1:00:23) So he had some general thing, but it makes sense.(1:00:26) But ruralization, urbanization, this is what really affect. (1:00:30) I mean, the destruction of the family is what affected birth rates, (1:00:34) I would say, more than anything else. (1:00:37) Once again, the state coming in urbanization, right? (1:00:40) When you have a farm, you have eight kids, 10 kids.(1:00:43) It’s not an intelligence. (1:00:44) They can they know how to repair farm work like equipment. (1:00:49) They know how to till and do these other smart in these other ways possibly.(1:00:52) And that’s genetic from their, you know, from their ancestors (1:00:55) who learned those trades over time. Right. (1:00:57) And we even think some memories might even be trapped in DNA, (1:01:00) like fears, like phobias.(1:01:02) So we’re not sure. (1:01:04) But that’s a possibility as well. (1:01:06) So when you looked at the urbanization of things, (1:01:09) children became less and less.(1:01:11) And the people who are more who had higher IQ, (1:01:14) who are the bookie smart people, not the hands people. (1:01:17) They were the book people. (1:01:18) They became the IQ people.(1:01:22) Right. In a in a in a in a testable way. (1:01:26) The intellectual way.Yeah. (1:01:28) Right. I mean, you’re telling me a farmer is less capable than you.(1:01:31) I’d I’d say a farmer can probably do everything, everything repair. (1:01:34) Oh, we all I think we all know, like a mechanic or a farmer, (1:01:37) somebody who does a trade like that, who’s a frickin genius (1:01:41) and is much smarter than any college professor out there. (1:01:45) 100 percent.100 percent. (1:01:47) So and that’s what it is. (1:01:49) So there there is that, too.(1:01:51) And as we urbanized, we got to a lower birth rate as well. (1:01:54) It turns out the intellectuals are the ones who urbanized. (1:01:59) Yes.So it’s very correlated with the testing of the IQ, (1:02:04) along with the where they ended up with that urbanization. (1:02:07) There’s another factor or another aspect of it. (1:02:10) Like we’ve protected kids a lot more from growing.(1:02:15) And that’s part of the school system as well. (1:02:17) Like just being so sheltered, being so protected from having to think (1:02:23) like you don’t develop. (1:02:24) So I I’m still thinking that schools are number one.(1:02:28) And part of that is parents allowing it and enabling it. (1:02:33) I don’t know. You think that’s right? (1:02:37) Absolutely.It. (1:02:40) Can you can you rephrase that just one more time? (1:02:43) I, I, I lost the structure of that. (1:02:45) Got to listen, man.(1:02:46) I’ve been working so hard on learning how to talk to people. (1:02:50) And when I do, no one even listens. (1:02:55) Anyways, what I was saying is.(1:02:58) Now, I forgot the last my train of thought. (1:03:03) I wasn’t listening to myself. (1:03:05) I had it.I swear I had it. (1:03:07) And then I caught a I caught a Zach comment, man. (1:03:09) I’m sorry.What I was saying is (1:03:12) that an aspect of what you were talking about is kids are too protected. (1:03:17) So they’re overprotected, sheltered, not having to think. (1:03:21) And they grow up thinking like you just have to focus on school.(1:03:25) You just have to remember this math problem (1:03:28) and you’re going to get the best job ever. (1:03:29) Or you just have to remember 1776 and the Pledge of Allegiance. (1:03:34) That’s what we think is intelligence.(1:03:37) That’s what our education system is. (1:03:39) It’s kind of bullshit. (1:03:41) The coddling of the American mind.(1:03:43) Jonathan Haidt, great example. (1:03:45) Yes, 100 percent. (1:03:46) We lower test scores instead of pushing them to to get better grades.(1:03:51) Right, right. (1:03:52) So all of a sudden we’re now expecting less, (1:03:54) so they’re just going to live down to the expectations as well, right? (1:03:56) Like one of the one of the Jonathan Haidt, if you had seen that book, (1:04:00) once again, coddling of the American mind, it is an amazing book to listen to. (1:04:04) I just did audio book.(1:04:05) It’s so easy, but it’s so easy to listen to. (1:04:07) I’ve done a couple of his real good. (1:04:09) But basically it opens up with once again, to your point about IQ.(1:04:13) Hey, we’re thinking about removing peanuts from whatever (1:04:16) because people have peanut allergies. (1:04:17) So Jonathan Haidt’s like, does anyone in our school have peanut allergies? (1:04:21) They’re like, uh, no. (1:04:24) And they’re like, so let’s implement the peanut allergy thing.(1:04:27) It’s like, how stupid, why? (1:04:28) Why would you do that? (1:04:30) Like how stupid that kind of concept is, right? (1:04:34) Like you actually implement a problem because you never had it to begin with. (1:04:38) You actually create the problem. (1:04:39) And this is like where IQ can be dangerous ideologically.(1:04:43) Yeah, absolutely. (1:04:45) People that think they have solutions, people that think they know the answers (1:04:49) because they are pretty smart, but they’re not not as smart as they think they are. (1:04:53) That’s definitely a thing.(1:04:55) Yeah. And we should all know that we’re not that smart. (1:04:59) We’re going to talk about Bating Manning, Bader Manning and Motten Bailey.(1:05:05) And we’re going to talk about the Dunning-Kruger, right? (1:05:08) And one of the future ones. (1:05:09) Dunning-Kruger is directly correlated to IQ, everybody. (1:05:11) It’s one of these really interesting ones.(1:05:13) So stay tuned. (1:05:15) Yeah. Speaking of Jonathan Haidt or Haidt, is it Haidt or Haidt? (1:05:18) I don’t know.I think it’s Haidt. (1:05:21) Yeah, he also wrote that book, The Righteous Mind, which. (1:05:25) Righteous Mind is the other one.(1:05:26) Kind of explains that effect, right? (1:05:28) It’s like something I talk about all the time is like we don’t we’re not rational. (1:05:33) We’re rationalizing. (1:05:34) We think about things after the fact, the reasons why we do something.(1:05:37) And a high IQ person, I think, is much more able to rationalize things. (1:05:44) And that may not necessarily be right. (1:05:46) In fact, often it’s wrong because we don’t know what the reasons are, you know.(1:05:51) So a very smart person can say that. (1:05:58) Yes, this is the reason this is why we do this, (1:06:01) and it could make absolutely no sense, but they’re able to convince themselves (1:06:06) that that is the reason. (1:06:08) I can’t think of a good example right now, but, you know, it’s more like a lawyer, (1:06:12) like making a case for something, just making it sound good, (1:06:15) making it sound like you’re talking about free speech.(1:06:18) But that’s a great this is a great example in today’s world. (1:06:21) Let’s call let’s drag Ben fucking Shapiro, please. (1:06:25) God damn it.I’m fucking just absolutely sick of this shit. (1:06:28) So so someone digs up an old post of him. (1:06:31) War in Iraq is good for America or something from 2005.(1:06:34) And I just posted on Facebook, not because of that’s what he thought back in 2005. (1:06:38) Because guess what? I thought that in 2005, I posted it (1:06:41) because he hasn’t fucking changed because he’s a piece of shit. (1:06:44) That’s why.So basically, I put it up there. (1:06:47) And these ideological pricks who two seconds ago (1:06:51) were talking about how much they were being censored about covid (1:06:55) are defending Ben Shapiro and his bullshit Zionistic thing. (1:06:59) And they’re like, well, he was only 21 when he wrote that.(1:07:01) How about giving him a little grace? (1:07:03) I go, he’s fucking 40 now and he’s still writing that shit. (1:07:06) So like, let’s not care. (1:07:07) I grew the fuck up, everybody.(1:07:09) Like I know I get angry and I get very vocal and like frustrated and just. (1:07:13) But this is how it is, man. (1:07:15) We’re trying.(1:07:16) These are the people that we know we can we that are smart. (1:07:19) We know we can get to if they just would break from the thing (1:07:24) that they’re stuck in. (1:07:25) And it’s not fun to break, guys.(1:07:28) It really isn’t. (1:07:29) But once you get it started, it is so liberating. (1:07:33) I feel so liberated that I don’t feel like I have to say something (1:07:37) about abortion in a certain way or about the death penalty (1:07:41) or about gun control because I’m with this group (1:07:44) and I don’t have to say something different because I’m with that group.(1:07:47) I just say what’s right. (1:07:48) I just say what’s right. (1:07:50) And I go independent, baby.(1:07:52) Honesty and truth, at least the best to my knowledge (1:07:55) and open to changing my mind if someone can actually compel me to. (1:08:00) But to your point, these people have the idea. (1:08:03) Shapiro, good daily wire, OK.(1:08:06) So we got to defend it when they when they call out hate speech. (1:08:09) But they called out for censorship before. (1:08:11) And you’re OK with them saying it’s censorship.(1:08:13) It’s like, no, no, no, no. (1:08:15) That’s hypocrisy. (1:08:16) We just up with which we will not put my friend.(1:08:20) Speaking of changing your mind, (1:08:21) where are we with intellectual property? (1:08:23) Should we get into that or another time? (1:08:26) Yeah. Yeah. (1:08:26) Can we can we at least get through this before? (1:08:28) Can we get through one subject before we totally intellectual? (1:08:32) We definitely do need to talk about that.(1:08:34) I mean, OK, go ahead, man. Let’s do it. (1:08:36) Let’s get it.I was getting I was getting. (1:08:38) No, no. We’re talking about IQ.(1:08:41) But Ben Shapiro is a good example. (1:08:43) I think he has a very high IQ, right? (1:08:44) He’s yes. Processing power is very good.(1:08:47) He can memorize a whole bunch of shit. (1:08:49) He can speak really fast. (1:08:50) That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s right.(1:08:53) But he his brain works quickly. (1:08:55) That’s at least something we could say about Ben Shapiro. (1:08:58) But yeah, he’s a Zionist show.(1:09:01) And I’m only pulling this up just to have it up for ready for next time, (1:09:04) because I don’t know we’re coming to this. (1:09:05) But how about Stephen A. (1:09:08) Smith is a great example of the left that is coming up. (1:09:11) If you watch him now, he’s kind of making a presidential run.(1:09:14) You see him kind of kind of flirting a little bit with you. (1:09:17) Show me no American people. (1:09:20) And I can make it happen because I am Stephen A. (1:09:23) Smith from Philadelphia, and I am good.(1:09:25) I just cannot stand that guy. (1:09:27) But yeah, he talking about idiocracy. (1:09:29) He’s going to be that president.President. (1:09:31) Come on, Jerry fucking Cruz. That’s exactly right.(1:09:33) But I mean, come on. (1:09:35) But Hulk Hogan took a tour shirt off a week before Trump got elected. (1:09:39) Madison Square Garden, man.(1:09:41) We already had it happen. (1:09:42) Like, let’s not go. (1:09:43) And Trump was in WrestleMania.(1:09:45) I mean, for God’s sake, so. (1:09:48) But but the thing is, like watching those guys like Stephen A. (1:09:51) Smith, the confidence that he exudes (1:09:53) does not mean there’s intelligence behind that company. (1:09:57) Yeah, I think confidence is not necessarily (1:10:01) necessarily related to your IQ.(1:10:02) It should be if you’re smart. (1:10:04) I think it’s negatively correlated, actually. (1:10:06) I think a lot.(1:10:07) Once again, Dunning Kruger, right? We talk about. (1:10:08) There’s kind of like an inverse effect, like low, very low IQ. (1:10:12) People are probably super confident.(1:10:14) And if you get to the middle, your confidence increases. (1:10:17) But when you go back up a super high IQ, your confidence is gone (1:10:20) because at that point, you know, you’re just an idiot. (1:10:23) Like everyone, all humans are idiots.(1:10:27) We are all idiots. (1:10:28) We are human, too. (1:10:30) So maybe admit it.(1:10:31) I won’t admit to that. (1:10:33) That’s true. (1:10:33) I yeah, we were a bit alien.(1:10:35) I will not admit to being a human. (1:10:38) All right, man. (1:10:39) Anyways, what are we getting into here? (1:10:42) I don’t remember.(1:10:44) This is why I believe stupid people believe smart things. (1:10:48) Smart people believe stupid things. (1:10:50) We got it backwards.(1:10:51) So let’s set this up, sir. (1:10:53) Why do smart people believe stupid things? (1:10:57) We’re talking about the Jonathan Hite thing. (1:10:58) That’s that’s part of it is like I’m able to rationalize my opinion (1:11:02) no matter what it is.(1:11:04) And if you’re smart enough, you can rationalize anything. (1:11:07) So that’s that’s definitely part of it. (1:11:10) There’s something else, though, I think.(1:11:13) Well, let’s let’s watch the clip and see what they say, (1:11:15) because I don’t remember exactly what’s in here. (1:11:17) Yeah. And one one last point on Ben Shapiro is like (1:11:21) the way you talk about the rationalization.(1:11:23) I’ll give you two examples. (1:11:24) You just use it like I don’t really care about JFK. (1:11:26) Why do I care about JFK? (1:11:27) JFK is happening 60 years ago, 60 years ago.(1:11:30) It’s like a very long time. (1:11:31) That’s about as much as I care about McKinley or anyone else. (1:11:33) It’s like 60 years ago.(1:11:35) But why do I care about that? (1:11:36) And then that’s his rationalization. (1:11:37) It’s old. (1:11:38) Like that’s how that’s like his starting point.(1:11:40) And that’s like a that’s like a hundred IQ to start it old. Right. (1:11:44) But if you got pushed on that, it’s like, what does age have to matter with it? (1:11:48) Then he processes and he goes a level deeper.(1:11:51) And that’s how many steps he can go down that rabbit hole (1:11:54) to rationalize the fact that it doesn’t matter that the Zionists killed JFK. (1:12:00) Like, you know what I mean? (1:12:01) Like and the Zionists didn’t shoot on the USS Liberty (1:12:04) because that was like 50 years ago. (1:12:05) So why would it matter that 50 years ago a ship happened? (1:12:07) A ship was in the street in the ocean and it just got shot at 50 years ago.(1:12:10) Why would that why would that matter to me? (1:12:12) Like that? And that’s once again, that’s like the simplest level. Right. (1:12:15) And we could probably go into like what depth of even IQ would be to like, (1:12:19) you know, those meta levels where they start talking about concepts.(1:12:22) Yeah. If you if you threw out a point, a counterpoint that worked, (1:12:26) he would not just say, oh, maybe I was wrong. (1:12:29) He’s smart enough that he’ll find another rationalization for why he was wrong (1:12:33) and keep going down levels and levels like, yeah, just like you said.(1:12:38) Exactly. I also wanted to practice my Ben Shapiro. (1:12:40) Did that work? Did that sound good? (1:12:42) Yeah.You just have to talk fast. (1:12:44) Sound like a little high, little bit. (1:12:46) Talk.And I have to wear it. (1:12:47) I wish I have to wear a yama on my head. (1:12:49) All right.So let me let me play this. (1:12:51) We’ll get going. (1:12:52) You got to make your wife sleep in a different room when she’s on her period.(1:12:57) Have the oven on before sundown on Friday. (1:12:59) I’m not going to get it. All right.I’m going to shut up. (1:13:01) All right. In 2013, Yale law professor Dan Kahan conducted an experiment.(1:13:06) Kahan wanted to test how intelligence affected political bias. (1:13:09) So he measured participants reasoning abilities (1:13:11) with something called the cognitive reflection test. (1:13:14) The results were shocking.(1:13:15) The highest scoring individuals, those deemed the most intelligent, (1:13:18) were the most likely to show extreme political bias. (1:13:20) The smarter you were, the more likely you were to twist facts (1:13:23) and reasoning to fit your ideology, whether liberal or conservative. (1:13:27) And it didn’t stop there.(1:13:28) Kahan and his team found that when the same participants were given (1:13:31) statistical data that related to a neutral topic like skin rash treatments, (1:13:35) they were able to objectively analyze the data. (1:13:38) But when that same data was framed around a divisive issue such as gun control, (1:13:41) those who scored highest in numeracy, those who were the best at math and logic (1:13:45) exhibited the greatest bias. (1:13:47) This isn’t an isolated finding.(1:13:48) In study after study, researchers have uncovered a disturbing trend. (1:13:52) The more intelligent someone is, the better they are at rationalizing their beliefs. (1:13:56) This doesn’t mean they are more rational.(1:13:58) It means they’re more skilled at crafting complex justifications (1:14:02) for what they already want to believe. (1:14:07) Yeah, that’s exactly what we’re talking about, right? (1:14:09) On the political thing, do you think? (1:14:12) Do you think there’s a correlation? (1:14:14) I know if you’re a partisan, you’re going to think that (1:14:18) everybody on the other side is an idiot. (1:14:19) That’s why they believe in Team Blue or, you know, if you’re on Team Blue, (1:14:23) everyone who’s a Republican is an idiot.(1:14:27) So people are primed to believe that. (1:14:28) But do you think there’s actually a correlation in IQs to which party? (1:14:33) And let’s just keep it left or right for simplicity. (1:14:36) Do you think there’s a correlation there? (1:14:42) OK, I think there is.(1:14:45) So once again, IQ takes a whole grouping of things into account. (1:14:50) OK, I’m going to make the very bold, assertive statement (1:14:55) that the physical, mechanical, mental people (1:15:01) are more conservative minded, have that IQ of the hands on and that. (1:15:06) And the elitist book minded people now have kind of taken over the lap.(1:15:11) That used to not be the case because a lot of the trade unions (1:15:14) think about like the plumber and the electrician. (1:15:17) Those guys may not be able to string a sentence together on a piece of paper, (1:15:22) but I’ve never rewired an entire house before. (1:15:26) You know what I mean? (1:15:27) Like I’ve never worked an energy schematic or something like that, you know? (1:15:31) So I would I would argue that, yes.(1:15:34) It’s funny because they were to remember, (1:15:36) they talked about the left and right with Barbie and open Oppenheimer (1:15:39) and more Republicans watched Barbie and more Democrats watched Oppenheimer. (1:15:45) But like the one was about war and the one was about like frilly things, (1:15:49) but like it seemed oddly. (1:15:53) Different for the audience, I would have guessed like if I would have guessed, (1:15:56) I would have guessed that (1:15:57) like the Republicans would have been like all up in on Oppenheimer for some reason.(1:16:01) Yeah, because it’s more of like the, you know, save the country. (1:16:04) World War Two, patriotic. (1:16:07) Yeah.And then it was like a feminist message. (1:16:11) Yeah, a little bit. Right.(1:16:12) A little bit had a little bit of a message. (1:16:13) So I found that very interesting. (1:16:14) But I and I do.(1:16:16) I do think that the elitist people do think they are smarter (1:16:20) and they do think they know better. (1:16:22) So there’s also a style to the ideology. (1:16:25) Whereas like I think Republicans are like, I’ll listen to anything.(1:16:27) Like when when someone sends me something like crap, I have to listen to it now. (1:16:31) Even if I hate them, like I, I watch Gavin Newsom. (1:16:34) I watch Michelle Obama.(1:16:35) I’ve watched I’ve watched recent Ben Ben Shapiro stuff that I just it cringes. (1:16:40) But I force myself because I need to watch that. (1:16:44) Now, most people don’t have that energy.(1:16:46) It’s easy to not ruffle feathers. (1:16:49) You had a long day. (1:16:50) Maybe you just agree with stuff and you go, I’ll just watch (1:16:53) what everybody else watches and then you believe it.(1:16:55) But this is what gets me. (1:16:56) I have people on Facebook calling me a Trump supporter (1:17:00) and a Trump crazy MAGA dude. (1:17:04) And then my next post is about his overspending of six point six trillion (1:17:09) in 2020, and I get a like I get a thumbs up from the same guy (1:17:13) who just called me a MAGA like MAGA Republican, (1:17:17) who I guess if I were a MAGA Republican, I’d be backing everything he said, (1:17:21) wouldn’t I like the the ideological stupidity that they can’t bifurcate (1:17:26) two separate ideas that I have an issue with versus, once again, your point, (1:17:31) that ideology, but then it’s tribal.(1:17:33) I mean, there’s so many factors. (1:17:36) You don’t want to be on the outside. (1:17:40) What are your final thoughts on that? (1:17:41) I think that’s a big thing of something we’re going to talk about in a minute.(1:17:45) There’s kind of a group of people who are (1:17:49) call themselves intellectuals and are probably, again, like I said, pretty smart, (1:17:53) but they’re not quite above the level where they can actually think critically (1:17:58) or they choose not to, maybe, you know, but there’s a yeah. (1:18:03) So right now, I think it’s just because it is critical (1:18:07) is tribal, like you said. (1:18:08) There’s a group of people who have captured academia, the intellectuals, (1:18:13) and they have said that this team blue is the right opinion.(1:18:18) This is the correct opinion. (1:18:19) This is when you’re allowed to have. (1:18:21) Right.It’s not it’s and it could have easily been the other way. (1:18:25) It could have been. (1:18:26) And there’s some difference in personalities, I think, (1:18:29) like you’re saying between right and left.(1:18:31) So maybe they tend not to do that, but it could have easily been (1:18:35) the right wing dominated the institutions and said, this is the correct way. (1:18:40) And the people that are in that island of semi semi genius, maybe they (1:18:47) they would have fallen in line with that opinion just because it’s socially acceptable. (1:18:52) So there’s something to that where it’s like, (1:18:55) I think some level of intellect where you’re able to say that (1:18:58) I don’t need to be part of this.(1:19:00) I don’t I don’t need to be in a team. (1:19:02) I want to experience both sides. (1:19:04) I want to hear both opinions.(1:19:06) I want to hear the third opinion. (1:19:07) I want to hear the fourth. (1:19:08) Like there’s more than just two, obviously.(1:19:10) But again, trying to keep it simple here. (1:19:14) There’s some like Valkyrie says here, it’s biology, how our brain works. (1:19:18) Cherry picking till half her brain goes gray.(1:19:21) Yeah. So you do what you’re comfortable with. (1:19:23) You do what’s socially acceptable.(1:19:26) And I don’t think. (1:19:29) Blue team, red team has anything to do with intelligence. (1:19:32) They’re very smart people.(1:19:33) There’s very fine people on both sides. (1:19:38) So what do you think about that? (1:19:41) One hundred percent. (1:19:43) It’s it’s like how and but I do think I really do think (1:19:48) the elitist think they know better.(1:19:51) They really do. (1:19:53) Now, yes, the thing is, I think the right thinks that God knows better. (1:19:57) They both have some authority that they look to, right? (1:20:00) Like, I don’t want to minimalize the conservative movement, (1:20:03) but they look to God for morale, morality.(1:20:06) And the left looks to the statement for morality or something like that. (1:20:09) It’s kind of how it is. (1:20:10) So the elitists just think they know better.(1:20:12) Like, don’t drink sugary drinks. (1:20:13) Don’t smoke. It’s bad for your behavior.(1:20:16) But that’s because they know better. (1:20:18) The other ones are like, God will smite you if you don’t. (1:20:20) So don’t say curse words.(1:20:22) I mean, all right. (1:20:23) Like so I do. Once again, it’s it’s style.(1:20:25) And and once again, let’s bring it back to the politics, guys. (1:20:30) The message here, two wings of the same bird. (1:20:33) These are not different people.(1:20:35) They are all we we are all the same people who actually live in the middle. (1:20:42) But we’re pulled to the extremes by these fucktards. (1:20:46) And I can’t even I don’t even know who they are.(1:20:48) But whatever it is, it’s some real crazy ideology. (1:20:52) And we need to break from that. (1:20:53) That’s what we need to break from.(1:20:55) And it’s and we all meet in the middle. (1:20:56) We all we always govern through the middle, though. (1:20:58) We never govern within the middle.(1:21:00) And that’s where we basically live. (1:21:03) Yeah. So if we actually had like a free system (1:21:05) where things weren’t pushed by the politicians, (1:21:08) like if there really was a natural democracy, people would kind of fall (1:21:13) into camps anyway.(1:21:14) There would be a left and a right and, you know, different variations within those. (1:21:18) But we would have this naturally. (1:21:21) There are people with different personality traits, people with like high openness (1:21:24) or something tend to be on the left.(1:21:26) People with high industriousness or whatever you call it, (1:21:30) tend to be on the right. (1:21:31) That’s just differences in personality, nothing to do with intelligence. (1:21:37) So I think that would be more of an explainer (1:21:40) than than any IQ relationship to politics.(1:21:44) Exactly. And and to put a bow in that is like when we talk style, (1:21:48) the left want to help with entitlements and welfare, Medicare for all and all that. (1:21:53) The right want to do it through war or at least wanted to.(1:21:55) I know it’s now gray. (1:21:56) It’s a real gray area right now. (1:21:58) I’m really confused about who’s doing what.(1:21:59) I think we’re all evil now. (1:22:01) I think we all just we’re all they all got mixed together now. (1:22:04) Yeah.You have to differentiate between people and political parties (1:22:07) like the politicians are all the same. (1:22:10) They’re all evil. (1:22:11) But people have different opinions and they think that their politicians (1:22:15) are going to actually help them accomplish those things.Right. (1:22:19) But that’s not how it works. We know that.(1:22:21) You might share in that comment from Zach. (1:22:24) I got a comment. I got something to say.(1:22:25) Yeah, Zach is definitely we can. (1:22:28) Essentially, we can effectively make ourselves stupid (1:22:30) by not diverging other ideas, not. (1:22:33) Yeah.If you don’t look into other ideas, if you never challenge yourself, (1:22:36) you will definitely be stupid. Yes. (1:22:38) So there’s a quote, a famous quote by William Gaddis.(1:22:42) Once again, you can Google it, everybody. (1:22:44) William Gaddis said stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. (1:22:50) So when you it’s exactly what Zach asked, if you it’s kind of like (1:22:54) the person who can’t read is just as ignorant as a person who refuses to read.(1:22:58) Right. Because you’re not getting the information either way. (1:23:02) So it’s very interesting when and this happens very ideologically.(1:23:06) This is what will happen. (1:23:07) I will get into a boomer social network argument with a guy named Carlton White. (1:23:11) I’ll call him out.I don’t care. He’s a nice guy. (1:23:13) But all he’ll do is say, stop.(1:23:16) He’ll just reply. Stop to like to a thing. (1:23:18) I go, well, this is exactly how it is.(1:23:21) And he’ll write like the Steele dossier, something about, oh, yeah, (1:23:23) the Steele dossier was totally fake and the Hunter laptop was totally real. (1:23:27) Or, you know, something like that or whatever. Right.(1:23:29) It was like the flip flop of that. (1:23:30) And he’s like, stop. And I go, well, which part’s incorrect? (1:23:33) Please share with me what you think so I can help understand (1:23:37) what the conversation is.Right. (1:23:39) And he goes, blah, blah, blah, man. (1:23:40) And he goes, Trump doing this.(1:23:42) And I’m like, what does Trump have to do with the thing about the two things (1:23:44) I’m specifically talking about? (1:23:46) And then he literally just does not want to hear. (1:23:48) He just will. He refuses to hear anything about it.(1:23:52) And he goes, yeah, I’m not I don’t need to explain why I’m right. (1:23:57) And I’m like, well, that’s not that kind of ruins the debate now, doesn’t it? (1:24:01) Well, that’s dumb. (1:24:02) Yeah, it’s like, don’t show you’re going to engage.(1:24:05) Yeah. Yeah. So and once again, (1:24:07) I actually do try to actively reach out to these people.(1:24:10) I act there’s there’s a handful of names that I have up there. (1:24:13) And like, I know exactly who they are. (1:24:15) And like when they return on one of my posts, I’m like, oh, (1:24:18) this is going to be a good week.(1:24:19) But but it’s fun to watch that because it’s so ideological. (1:24:23) Like, I’ve got a guy calling an AR-15 a weapon of mass destruction. (1:24:28) Yeah.And he retired as Luke, as a lieutenant in the Tucson Police Department. (1:24:34) Oh, God, a weapon of that. (1:24:36) I’m sorry.Did we invade Iraq over fake AR-15s (1:24:40) that were all over the place as weapons of mass destruction? (1:24:42) Like it’s it’s probably about all they can do. (1:24:45) It’s three levels of stupid, right? (1:24:47) Like it’s so beyond dumb that can kill many people. (1:24:52) Well, the five, five, six round was actually intended to injure, not kill.(1:24:55) But, you know, I’m glad that you think that, you know, (1:24:57) it’s like you can keep going back with logic and they just get more. (1:25:01) No, but it’s all emotion. (1:25:03) And to your point, they will rationalize what they feel (1:25:06) much more than rationalize what is or what facts.(1:25:10) You’ve got some mental fortitude for being able to put up with that, man. (1:25:13) I I can’t do it. (1:25:15) I just not I don’t have the stomach for it.(1:25:18) I do it to help sharpen me (1:25:21) because we’re doing this to try to communicate effectively. (1:25:24) And if we can’t once again, this is the message. (1:25:26) If we can’t get the message out, it’s, you know, it’s a moot.(1:25:31) But if we can get a couple of people, just a couple of people (1:25:33) to just raise their ears a little bit, take a second, look, look something up. (1:25:36) That’s that’s what it is. (1:25:38) And I really do want to reach out to these people (1:25:40) because I need to understand what the other thoughts are.(1:25:45) So I can help to your point, like debunk or work around them, (1:25:50) maybe see it their way. (1:25:51) But, you know, yes. (1:25:52) And right.Stop doing a butt thing, but doing yes. (1:25:54) And, you know, I got friends like. (1:25:57) What’s that? (1:25:58) Is it really that or do you just want to win? (1:26:00) You just want to dunk on it? (1:26:01) No, I actually I. (1:26:03) And if you notice, many of my conversations do come to a point (1:26:07) where it’s like, all right, man, that’s cool.(1:26:08) I really appreciate your time that you took your time out to do that. (1:26:12) Now, I I do that now. Don’t get me wrong.(1:26:13) There’s times when some people come on and I’m like, I’m licking my chops (1:26:17) because I know they’re just coming in to troll or something (1:26:20) and they’re just going to get destroyed. (1:26:21) Like there’s this guy, some guy, I forget. (1:26:25) He’s on Twitter or X. (1:26:27) And he asked something about I repost some about Scott Horton, (1:26:31) something Zionist, whatever.(1:26:32) And I knew from his name. Sorry. (1:26:35) I knew from his name that this was going to be a fun one.(1:26:38) So I I said, like a couple of things. (1:26:40) I go, OK, before you call me an anti-Semite, (1:26:44) let me just explain how he likes. (1:26:46) I go through the thing.(1:26:47) And the last thing the guy writes is, well, I really I really like (1:26:50) the anti-Semites to share, to express themselves as anti-Semites (1:26:54) and not hide like you. (1:26:55) And I’m like, there it is. (1:26:57) Once again, you you just come in with a with a goal.(1:27:00) I actually come in. (1:27:01) I post stuff to spark the engagement. (1:27:03) I want people to go back and forth.(1:27:05) And a lot of times I’ll watch what other people say because I might not have an idea. (1:27:08) This IP thing that we’re going to get into in the future, dude, (1:27:11) my head is spinning on that one because I don’t know how to how to feel about that. (1:27:16) Yeah, I wonder if I’m being a coward.(1:27:20) But sometimes people just they’re so stupid. (1:27:23) Like people will comment on my Twitter stuff sometimes. (1:27:26) And I’m just like, you’re not even on the same subject.(1:27:29) Like, I’m just not going to respond because it’s such a waste of my time. (1:27:34) I don’t know. (1:27:34) No, those you have to write.(1:27:36) You have to let those go. (1:27:37) And that’s the thing. (1:27:38) I’m not doing this to get a feeling out of it.(1:27:40) I but I just when I’m like, what do you you know, when when you get just responses? (1:27:46) And it’s funny because it is it’s regional, too. (1:27:48) Like, I kind of want to see what our audience is. (1:27:51) So on Facebook, Tucson Flagstaff, (1:27:54) you’re going to get a lot more people who are about gun control (1:27:57) and a lot more people who are about really, you know what I mean? (1:27:59) They’re just a little bit more.(1:28:03) To your point, the open consciousness, right? (1:28:05) The consciousness, the openness, the big five inches. (1:28:08) Yeah. Yeah.The constant and the openness, right? (1:28:10) The openness to whatever. (1:28:11) But and then you get to the Phoenix people, you get maybe a little more (1:28:14) conservative in the Scots area, but then you might get a little bit more liberal (1:28:18) in like the Tempe area because it’s like the university and stuff like that. (1:28:22) So it is interesting.(1:28:22) Different conservatives, too, right? (1:28:24) Like the Scottsdale, the rich people that are just like hands off my money. (1:28:29) We don’t want to pay taxes. (1:28:30) That’s different.Those are not rich. (1:28:32) Those are rich liberals. (1:28:34) Like, it’s not true.(1:28:36) Yeah. But I mean, there are those people out there. (1:28:39) I know some of them.(1:28:40) But yeah, then there’s like the the hick, the redneck conservatives (1:28:45) that is kind of the stereotype, right? (1:28:48) There’s different kinds. (1:28:49) And those are those are probably two very different IQ levels normally. (1:28:57) So we’re having a nice little chat conversation here between Valkyrie and and Zach.(1:29:03) It’s about 24 perspectives going on at one time. (1:29:07) A square has four sides until you look at it from the side, (1:29:10) and it’s a cube with 12 to 24 sides. (1:29:13) Interesting.I have to look at that. (1:29:15) And you have to bring it to visualize that. (1:29:17) I have to, you know, Valkyrie, if you have a YouTube video or something (1:29:20) about that phenomenon, if you could post that in the comments, (1:29:25) if you happen to know something real quick, that would be awesome (1:29:27) because that would be cool to see if I could see that visually (1:29:30) because I’m trying to yeah, my head’s already swimming (1:29:32) from all the other stuff we’re talking about, but it’s pretty cool.(1:29:36) Zach says Forrest Gump was right. (1:29:38) Stupid really is as stupid does. (1:29:40) The left is blowing Tesla’s and the right is bowing before technocratic (1:29:44) communism.(1:29:45) If in a nation of idiots. (1:29:47) Yes, that was the one. (1:29:49) There’s the Tesla thing is like you’re allowed.(1:29:51) Wait, you’re calling for violence, but you are trying to fight democracy. (1:29:55) But Kyle Rittenhouse was the bad guy. (1:29:58) But blowing up a Tesla is OK.(1:30:00) Blowing up a whole dealership’s OK. (1:30:02) But but that doesn’t hurt the environment by burning those batteries. (1:30:06) But electric cars help save the environment.(1:30:08) But how do you wrap your head around these being like these? (1:30:13) What do you wrap around here around this ideology? (1:30:16) Like you have to do mental gymnastics of the most. (1:30:19) And that’s the thing is it. (1:30:20) That’s your point is like they can’t conceptualize (1:30:23) that these things directly contradict each other.(1:30:27) They are two opposing ideas constantly throughout a certain ideology (1:30:32) and how that’s not seen. (1:30:34) And it’s on the other side, too. (1:30:35) Let’s not kid ourselves once again.(1:30:37) It’s a different way, but it’s still there. (1:30:42) Absolutely. Yeah.(1:30:43) People see a Tesla that some liberal could have bought five years ago (1:30:46) before they knew that Elon Musk was going to do a Nazi salute on stage. (1:30:51) And they’re just like, I’m saving the world because I have an electric car. (1:30:54) No, no CO2 emissions.(1:30:57) And their Tesla gets bombed. (1:30:59) And you want to hear the bullshit, the can’t the bullshit cancel culture. (1:31:03) I’m all about the Bud Light not buying it.(1:31:05) I’m all about don’t buy a Tesla. (1:31:07) Fine. Don’t buy one.(1:31:08) OK, but they’re giving Uber drivers who have Tesla’s zero stars (1:31:14) as reviews that directly affect their livelihood (1:31:18) when they bought a fucking Tesla four years ago, dude. (1:31:23) Jesus Christ, man. (1:31:25) Like lay off like seriously like that.(1:31:28) And that’s their people like those are your people. (1:31:31) You’re struggling with your gig economy people in this shitty (1:31:35) fucking economy that keeps getting devalued. (1:31:38) And and we sit there and we’re sitting or asking, giving away more shit to control.(1:31:44) Like, no, take it back. (1:31:46) Take it back, everybody. (1:31:48) Stop listening to these people.(1:31:50) Yeah, it’s it’s so sad. (1:31:52) It’s sad. (1:31:53) It’s just like a retarded knee jerk reaction like, oh, Tesla, Nazi.(1:31:57) Yeah, yeah. (1:31:59) That’s like as much as people think, right? (1:32:02) That’s their level of intellect. (1:32:04) It was I had a it was a meme of a of a Ralphie from The Simpsons (1:32:08) drawing a swastika on the scratching a swastika on the side of a Tesla.(1:32:12) And he’s like, I’m helping, you know, it’s like, yeah, it’s so fucking idiots. (1:32:18) And I even shared that on Facebook because I’m like, if I look, (1:32:22) it got by on X’s platform if the swastika get by. (1:32:24) Let me see if we can get through the filters.(1:32:28) Did it work? Did they take it down? (1:32:30) No, it’s still up. (1:32:30) And it’s gotten some fun. (1:32:32) It’s gotten laughs because it’s it’s literally a frickin joke, man.(1:32:35) The whole this whole thing’s a joke. (1:32:36) Let’s not kid ourselves. (1:32:38) I don’t know.(1:32:39) I mean, seriously, Elon, let’s it’s let’s blow up. (1:32:42) Let’s blow up cars. (1:32:44) Let’s like literal fucking absolute terrorism (1:32:48) while they drag out parents who complain at a PTA meeting.(1:32:53) Right. Yeah, it’s like I’m we’re in a we’re in a simulation, man. (1:32:58) We’re in idiocracy.(1:33:00) Yeah, it’s idiocracy, for sure. (1:33:02) I’m only pulling this one. (1:33:04) I don’t know how far we’re coming up to this.(1:33:05) Yeah, this is a good time, actually, because this this is the people (1:33:09) that are clinging to those semi intelligent. (1:33:12) We’ll say intelligent, but not, you know, not super intelligent. (1:33:17) There’s a level where people think they know everything.(1:33:21) They have all the right answers. (1:33:22) We’ve been talking about this, this phenomenon. (1:33:26) I couldn’t remember the name, but I had heard it before.(1:33:28) It took me a while to find it. (1:33:29) But this is Bill Whittle. (1:33:31) He’s talking about the Island 120.(1:33:34) So people that are around 120 (1:33:36) tend to kind of group together and and pull people up a little bit to follow them. (1:33:40) But we’ll see what he’s talking about. (1:33:44) Also known as the midway is what I like to call it.(1:33:47) Yes. Yeah. (1:33:49) Hello.Hi. (1:33:52) OK, OK, so let’s share this once again. (1:33:55) I’m getting better.(1:33:56) We’ve got 60 people on today. (1:33:58) Thank you again so much for being on another Consciously Unmasked. (1:34:01) Jason and I are so grateful.(1:34:03) Jason’s down there, everybody. (1:34:05) Go to at drop the mask pod on X at drop the mask pod on X. (1:34:12) Follow subscribe. (1:34:13) Go to his YouTube, go to his Rumble channel, drop the mask on Rumble.(1:34:18) Go on there. (1:34:19) So make sure that you go. (1:34:20) OK, that’s what we need to do.(1:34:22) Please follow us. Subscribe. (1:34:24) We are so grateful.(1:34:25) We’re talking IQ once again, Bill Whittle, the Island 120 problem. (1:34:33) My theory is called Island 120. (1:34:35) OK, it’s called Island 120.(1:34:37) And my and my general thesis is this. (1:34:41) People with an IQ of 100 or above, 105, 108, 110, somewhere in that ballpark, right? (1:34:45) They all want to seem smart. (1:34:46) They listen to smart people and they don’t want to be seen (1:34:49) to be stupider than those people and the people that they’re listening to, (1:34:51) guys like Bill Maher and, you know, and Michael Moore and this kind of thing.(1:34:54) These guys might have an IQ of 120, something in that general ballpark. (1:34:56) So all of all of the cultural forces on these intellectuals (1:34:59) is to move them up to Island 120, where everybody thinks the same on this island. (1:35:03) Everybody votes the same.(1:35:04) Everybody believes in the same things. (1:35:06) Everybody’s there to save the planet while they fly their own private jets. (1:35:08) Everybody is there to, you know, to have a special ribbon on their thing.(1:35:11) Everybody votes Democrat. (1:35:13) Everybody loves Michael Moore. (1:35:14) Everybody, you know, laments the lack of diversity in the Oscars.(1:35:18) And that’s what everybody on Island 120 believes, (1:35:20) because there’s so many people want to be seen to be on that island. (1:35:23) When you get into breakout intelligence, it’s like guys like Thomas (1:35:26) Soule or Victor Davis Hanson or some of these other philosophers. (1:35:28) They don’t I don’t see any philosophers on the left.(1:35:29) As Norm Chomsky is one hundred and nine years old. (1:35:32) And I never thought his political ideas had any value as linguistic ideas did. (1:35:36) But my point is, once you hit a certain level of cognitive ability, (1:35:41) Island 120 is behind you and things that seem so (1:35:45) so much the part of this kind of liberal intellectual mantra, (1:35:48) like socialism, for example, once you blow past that, (1:35:51) it’s like this doesn’t make any sense at all.(1:35:53) It doesn’t make any sense that it doesn’t work. (1:35:54) People believe it because it’s trendy to believe. (1:35:56) They make you think you’re smart if you believe in it.(1:35:58) But it doesn’t make any sense. (1:36:00) And yeah, that’s what I’m talking about, man. (1:36:04) The trendiness, that’s kind of separate from intelligence.(1:36:07) But also, like if you had higher intelligence, (1:36:10) you definitely would be able to see past that. (1:36:13) Once you get past a certain point, like you said, you look at socialist (1:36:16) stuff and realize, no, it actually sucks. (1:36:18) It actually doesn’t work.(1:36:21) I don’t know if you can hear my dogs barking on me. (1:36:24) I know your feet are your feet are hurting. (1:36:26) No, I can’t hear him at all.(1:36:29) How many dogs you got? (1:36:31) I got two, two little Chihuahua Pomeranian mutts. (1:36:36) Oh, there it is. I hear now.That’s OK. (1:36:38) You know, you got cool. (1:36:40) I bring them up.(1:36:41) They should join the conversation. (1:36:44) Yeah. So you make point this one 20 thing.(1:36:46) Bring them up. (1:36:47) Bill Maher is a great example. (1:36:49) He brought that when how many times a week? (1:36:51) Bill Maher and and and Sam Harris or whatever.(1:36:55) And it’s like, you’re right there. (1:36:56) You’re right there. (1:36:57) Oh, you missed it.(1:36:59) Like, I think Mars, like on the upper edge, he’s like a one twenty five. (1:37:02) He’s like, he’s right there. (1:37:04) I know, but he’s like to break out of it.(1:37:07) Come on. Oh, man. (1:37:08) But my buddy.(1:37:09) But then you get him in with a room like a Roseanne Barr, (1:37:12) who when she opens her mouth, you’re not thinking IQ. (1:37:16) You’re just not. No offense.(1:37:18) You’re you’re thinking woman who spat during the fucking national anthem (1:37:22) or whatever, during the first bit, whatever. (1:37:24) You’re thinking all this weird shit about Roseanne. (1:37:26) You’re not thinking she got hit and has a TBI and got a frontal lobotomy (1:37:29) and like has some weird genius up in there because she’s got some.(1:37:32) She’s accessing some interdimensional craziness. (1:37:35) But when she sits there and talking about MK Ultra with Bill (1:37:38) and he’s like, yeah, what’s that? (1:37:40) Hmm. What’s that? (1:37:41) She’s like, Google it, Bill.(1:37:43) And it’s like, dude, Bill Maher knows what he’s said. (1:37:47) He knows it really well. (1:37:48) But do I watch that show on purpose? (1:37:51) I force myself and I’m yelling at the screen for 45 fucking minutes (1:37:56) because I’m like, you’re right there, buddy.(1:37:59) You’re right there. (1:38:01) Take a half a step back and a quarter step to the left (1:38:04) and up a little bit, and you’re right there. (1:38:08) And Jimmy Dore, Jimmy Dore still thinks somehow (1:38:12) we can have national health care and that the government can care (1:38:15) and be good and care.(1:38:17) Dude, he’s right there, man. (1:38:19) He’s right there from knowing that no one’s coming to save you, buddy. (1:38:24) And we should all be in this together.(1:38:27) And that’s really what it is, is that we need to be in this together (1:38:32) and that we are. Yeah. (1:38:34) And the more we separate through this political stuff (1:38:37) and the other stuff, it just separates us even more.(1:38:40) I think Bill Maher might even have more than he lets on publicly. (1:38:43) You know, he might be a little more advanced than he shows. (1:38:47) I watched him in his in his cabin show, and you would think he would show that.(1:38:52) Then you think that intellect would like the ones with Sam Harris and stuff. (1:38:55) And he had some of that. (1:38:56) But the one with Roseanne, he got taken to school with Julian Michaels.(1:39:00) The one with, you know, anyone of intellect who once again, (1:39:04) these are left wing people who would be who you would call Democrats (1:39:07) who just from experience know that the world doesn’t work the way (1:39:12) you’d utopianly like it to. (1:39:14) It just doesn’t work that way. (1:39:16) We’ve just realized that the life cannot work the way we want.(1:39:21) It has to be experienced the way we do it. (1:39:24) Like, yeah, you know what I mean? (1:39:26) There is no utopia. (1:39:27) Yeah, maybe.Right. (1:39:28) I do think, like I said, he’s kind of on the breakout level of that island. (1:39:33) So I think what he is is he’s one of those people that can.(1:39:36) He can change what’s acceptable, not by himself. (1:39:40) They will go to him and say like, hey, this position is run its course. (1:39:45) We cannot maintain this position anymore in our 120 left wing bubble.(1:39:51) We have to change it. (1:39:52) So he’s the one that they let actually go (1:39:55) beyond that and start to push a little bit against it. (1:39:58) And then that gives people permission to follow.(1:40:02) So 100 percent. (1:40:04) And he is on to your point. (1:40:05) He’s on the trans stuff.(1:40:07) And, you know, and where they failed, right, where the Democrats fail, (1:40:11) he actually is addressing points where they failed. (1:40:14) Now, I agree with that, but he is a classic Democrat. (1:40:18) But the true point, the really smart person (1:40:21) does understand that maybe we should not allow these people (1:40:25) to have any power or less power, because when they can use it for you, (1:40:30) they can do it to you.(1:40:31) It’s it’s and this is how history is like. (1:40:34) You can’t be this fucking stupid to think you can do it better. (1:40:37) And that’s a hubris.(1:40:39) That’s an arrogance, I think. (1:40:41) And that, I think, is where you talk about the intellect. (1:40:44) That’s where they think they’re better than you.(1:40:46) I can do socialism, right? (1:40:49) I can do communism, right? (1:40:50) Marxism? No, it’s not. (1:40:52) Marxism isn’t Marxism. It’s just a way.(1:40:54) I mean, I heard Jimmy Dore like defend like the word Marxism. (1:40:56) And I’m like, it’s actually from the fucking paper, man. (1:41:00) I’m sorry.That’s what Marxism is. (1:41:02) You can’t use it for a light Marxism. (1:41:06) There’s just a Marxism or there’s then do something else, right? (1:41:09) Whatever you want to call, but it’s not that.(1:41:11) And you shouldn’t want to be associated with that (1:41:15) because you know that’s fucked up. (1:41:16) So maybe you should be associated with an idea that’s yours, (1:41:19) that you can you know what I mean? (1:41:21) But and this kind of comes to the IQ to conceptually, how much broader (1:41:25) can you think outside the box that you’re stuck in? (1:41:30) All my anarchist buddies are at least 140. (1:41:34) All your all your friends are at least 140.(1:41:38) I’m still trying to be your friend, man. (1:41:40) Well, if you come to the dark side, I’ll let you get to that 140 club. (1:41:44) Well, I’m on the dark side.(1:41:46) I just don’t know if I can reach your level of IQ, my friend. (1:41:50) No, no. Well, I mean, is that it for intellect? (1:41:54) I mean, people talk about other things like emotional intelligence, EQ, (1:41:59) the emotional intelligence quotient.(1:42:01) Is that what you call it? I don’t even know. (1:42:03) Yeah. What do you think of that? (1:42:04) That’s like your self-awareness, your empathy, your sympathy, (1:42:10) social know how.(1:42:12) What do you think about that? (1:42:15) So I have a million, unfortunately, a million thoughts about this. (1:42:18) Do you mind if I play the clip about this little what is EQ? (1:42:22) What is it? Yeah. (1:42:23) And yeah, let’s do that.We’ll talk about it. (1:42:25) I want to collect my thoughts a little bit. (1:42:27) Thank you.I really appreciate that. (1:42:29) And once again, thank you to everyone’s joining us. (1:42:31) We’re having a great conversation about IQ, EQ and all these things.(1:42:36) Predictor of success, what they mean for us and everything like that. (1:42:39) So thank you so much for joining. (1:42:41) That was a hard segue.So I apologize for that. (1:42:43) No, no, it’s it’s perfect. (1:42:45) It’s just I have a lot of thoughts about it.(1:42:47) Keys to the ability to recognize, understand, (1:42:51) manage and influence one’s own emotions and the emotions of others. (1:42:55) It involves several key skills, including self-awareness, (1:42:58) self-regulation, empathy, social skills and motivation. (1:43:03) Unlike IQ, which measures cognitive abilities, EQ is focused on emotional (1:43:08) and social competencies that contribute to effective communication, (1:43:13) relationships, decision making and leadership.(1:43:16) IEQ helps individuals navigate social complexities, (1:43:20) manage stress and make decisions that are emotionally informed, (1:43:24) leading to better personal and professional outcomes. (1:43:36) EQ, emotional intelligence. (1:43:40) So they’re saying it helps you first.(1:43:42) Yeah. What are your thoughts on EQ about that sharing part on that? (1:43:50) OK, my opinion yesterday or last week was a little bit different. (1:43:55) I think it’s real.I’ll say that (1:43:59) there’s something separate from just intelligence, right? (1:44:03) That lets you understand people because they’re very, very smart people (1:44:07) who can’t relate to anybody. (1:44:09) They’re basically useless because they have super high IQ, (1:44:12) but they can’t relate their ideas to anyone. (1:44:15) So there’s got to be something else, right? (1:44:17) There is something that’s not just pure brain processing power.Right. (1:44:24) I didn’t mean to make you cry there. I’m sorry.(1:44:26) No. Oh, yeah. I had to put eye drops in.(1:44:29) I’m just kidding. Yeah. (1:44:30) I just lost another IQ point.That’s why I’m sad. (1:44:34) Well, it happens to the best of us as we talk. (1:44:39) Yeah.But anyway, I don’t know. What do you think, man? (1:44:42) Yeah. So you’re absolutely right.(1:44:44) But this is the thing, though. (1:44:46) OK. Merit meritocracy.(1:44:49) Wait a second. Right. IQ is measurable.(1:44:53) Right. IQ is measurable. (1:44:54) Meritocracy we’re looking for.(1:44:56) Can you hear me OK or no? You’re right. (1:45:03) So anyway, so I’m going to keep talking (1:45:05) until Jason gets hooked up again. (1:45:07) But basically, we’re talking about EQ.(1:45:09) We’re talking about IQ and everything. (1:45:11) Jason, let me know when you can hear me again. (1:45:13) I think he’s resetting now, but basically, (1:45:17) let me go through some of these comments.(1:45:19) Anybody have any questions or anything online while Jason gets (1:45:22) rescheduled or reset for his sound? (1:45:27) Anyone, anyone? So anyone welcome again. (1:45:30) We’re talking about EQ, IQ predictions for success. (1:45:33) Are you good again, Jason? (1:45:37) I think he’s still resetting, so he’s trying to set up his piece.(1:45:42) We’re talking about EQ. (1:45:44) We just played this video about EQ. (1:45:46) And basically, EQ is the emotional quotient.(1:45:49) So other than the intelligent quotient, it’s. (1:45:55) Sensitivity, intuition, (1:45:57) all these other types of feelings that you have (1:46:01) and how you interact with people and all these other things. (1:46:04) And I know that’s a lot of questions, (1:46:04) and I’m waiting for Jason to get back on because I do want to bounce (1:46:08) a couple of ideas off him.(1:46:10) But once again, we’ve we’re an hour forty five into this. (1:46:13) Thank you again to everyone who’s joined us for another Consciously Unmasked. (1:46:17) It’s been a pretty amazing couple of months.(1:46:19) We we’re just so grateful that people are watching, tuning in (1:46:22) and sharing their thoughts with us as we as we do this stuff live. (1:46:26) So thank you so much for this stuff. (1:46:28) But in the meantime, once again, emotional quotient is where (1:46:33) it’s more of like the feel side of it.(1:46:35) Now, I do have thoughts about the merit versus the. (1:46:40) It almost feels like. (1:46:43) It’s been captured in a way or been taken over.(1:46:47) But anyway, I’ll wait for Jason to get back. (1:46:50) But in the meantime, let me see if I have anything else we can. (1:47:06) All right.(1:47:07) So meanwhile, I have I bought this before. (1:47:10) It was a Tesla. (1:47:11) I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy.(1:47:14) And my buddy wrote, I want to make a nobody cares sticker (1:47:16) to put on all the Tesla’s with that sticker. (1:47:19) So I thought that was pretty funny. (1:47:22) So that’s something I share.Oh, Jason’s back in. (1:47:25) Oh, I can hear you. (1:47:26) Sorry, man.(1:47:28) Totally OK. I totally I’ve been drowning. (1:47:30) I left you hanging in.(1:47:32) It’s my bad. That’s OK. (1:47:34) I don’t know what happened when I was Kyle, too.(1:47:36) I don’t know. (1:47:36) The audio suddenly cut out. (1:47:39) I had to was it is a battery in the earbud.(1:47:41) Maybe I don’t think so. (1:47:43) But because I wasn’t I was just on speakers last time. (1:47:46) Yeah, I’m using speakers now.(1:47:48) I don’t even use earbuds. (1:47:49) It’s really interesting. (1:47:49) I’ve I’ve stopped.(1:47:50) I love the headphone. (1:47:52) And like when I hope when we eventually do get into it, (1:47:54) like get to go face to face, (1:47:56) we’re going to be like all like muffed up and everything. (1:47:58) But like this is working great.(1:48:01) So well, at least till we do we fix it. (1:48:03) So EQ, where were your thoughts? (1:48:07) You were you had some thoughts on EQ. (1:48:09) Now, I do agree.(1:48:10) There is something. (1:48:12) But this is the this is the problem. (1:48:14) I think like climate, like (1:48:17) the trans thing, it’s like been captured.(1:48:21) Right. So like these people aren’t smart. (1:48:24) They’re not registering well on IQ and they’re not.(1:48:26) They don’t have merit of this, (1:48:27) but they’re warm and they’re friendly and they’re cuddly. (1:48:31) So maybe that should be we should make all managers (1:48:36) who have real important decisions to make warm and cuddly (1:48:39) because they feel good around the office. (1:48:42) Right.So it almost felt like that was an excuse. (1:48:45) And I, I, I don’t want to say because I do think that EQ, (1:48:50) once again, we’re going to play a Jordan clip about EQ (1:48:52) before we call it a night, right, about him saying it’s not even a thing. (1:48:55) But in that weird way, to your point, I’ve gone back and forth from (1:48:59) is it a thing? Is it a not a thing? Is it a thing? (1:49:01) Now, I do think warmth, but like if you’re smart and disagreeable, (1:49:06) disagreeableness keeps people on edge when you’re smart and competent.(1:49:10) And that works because it’s kind of how the hierarchy works in humanity. (1:49:14) It’s kind of like a little bully, a little alpha, right? (1:49:18) Like disagreeable works. (1:49:20) The friendship stuff that puts you within the group (1:49:23) that doesn’t make you atop the group that does not put you on top the group.(1:49:27) So I have a feeling that I think they hijacked that (1:49:31) whatever that component is, whatever the special thing it is. (1:49:34) We can call it EQ, fine. (1:49:37) But they hijacked it as like it’s almost a replacement for IQ.(1:49:44) Like, oh, if you have a high EQ, but low IQ, that’s OK. (1:49:48) But if you have a high IQ and low EQ, well, we’ll get through with that. (1:49:51) You know what I mean? (1:49:52) It’s almost like to make it more acceptable.(1:49:53) What are your thoughts? (1:49:54) Like that’s what’s been swimming through my head is smart people down. (1:49:57) That’s what it is. (1:49:59) It’s a it’s a way to make stupid people feel good because, oh, well, (1:50:03) I can relate to all the other stupid people in my company.(1:50:07) But I don’t have to be smart to be successful because I can relate. (1:50:11) We can talk. We can be friends.(1:50:13) It’s like, no, like I’m not friends with my employees. (1:50:17) Yeah, we get along. (1:50:19) There’s no like there’s no hard feelings or anything, but like (1:50:22) we’re not really hanging out outside work or, you know, occasionally (1:50:26) we’ll have a work event or something.(1:50:27) But again, that’s work to me. (1:50:30) It’s not like these aren’t the people I’m going to go hang out with. (1:50:33) You know, these are people who work for me.(1:50:35) They have to do a job if they don’t do a job. (1:50:38) Then they’re out, you know, or you don’t get the right rating (1:50:41) at the end of the year or whatever. (1:50:42) But it’s just like.(1:50:44) If you’re friends with them, it makes it harder. (1:50:47) So leadership and (1:50:49) an EQ should not be correlated, should not. (1:50:53) But they are a little bit because look, the people that get along right.(1:50:58) The yes, people. (1:50:59) I mean, come on. (1:51:00) How much middle management’s full of yes, people? (1:51:02) Yeah.Right. (1:51:04) Like I once again, I think about the story. (1:51:06) My boss is amazing.(1:51:09) OK, I am the person who makes the horrible first impression. (1:51:14) I make a worse second impression and probably even a worse third impression (1:51:18) before I like warm them up. (1:51:19) Like I’m like I’m like mold or a moss.(1:51:22) Like I’m like I grow on people. (1:51:24) It takes it takes a while because I have a independent spirit in me. (1:51:30) Let me put it that way.(1:51:30) But like once again, I just started working (1:51:33) and I was just in the office and I bump in the boss like it’s boss brand (1:51:37) first week and he go he had a new person there and he’s like, hey, Mark, (1:51:42) I heard you like to sing. (1:51:43) How about giving us a couple notes? (1:51:44) And I’m like, I don’t do it on command. (1:51:46) And I walked out the door now.(1:51:49) Fucking stupid. (1:51:50) Hello. I walked out that door and I’m like, you fucking now.(1:51:55) I think that generally people with IQ can overcome that with some training. (1:51:59) They can realize that they can get that EQ, right? (1:52:02) They know they see the signs of warmth if they look for it, (1:52:06) but they generally don’t focus. (1:52:07) I think people with high IQs don’t focus on that stuff (1:52:10) because they really do by the competency.(1:52:13) They don’t because that emotion stuff isn’t what drives them. (1:52:17) They don’t see it. (1:52:17) It’s just not in their wheelhouse.(1:52:19) So it doesn’t but it doesn’t make them less or more competent. (1:52:23) It’s differently compliment. (1:52:24) Like once again, if I’m a nurse, I want a high IQ (1:52:29) and I want to I want a competent high IQ person.Right. Right. (1:52:34) I don’t need a rocket scientist.(1:52:35) I don’t need there is something like you as a manager, as a leader. (1:52:40) You do have to have something like (1:52:43) some way to relate to your employees and to communicate with them (1:52:46) in a way that they will respond to and everybody’s different. (1:52:50) So if you don’t have that, that can be a failing as a leader.(1:52:54) But to just say like, oh, it has to be all (1:52:58) lovey dovey and hug and no, that’s that’s not it. (1:53:02) Right. And and it is it’s like.(1:53:06) We have replaced the compassion as it’s gotten easier to live (1:53:09) has made it easier to rise in the compassion area. (1:53:12) And we talk about the weaponization of compassion, the coddling of it. (1:53:16) I mean, we go back to height to these all these all pieces all interconnect.(1:53:20) And there’s a toughness that we’re not showing our children. (1:53:23) And it’s like it’s like the toughness is for your benefit, (1:53:27) not for anyone to be tough on you. (1:53:31) Like, but it’s it’s either forced upon you, right? (1:53:36) Like if if, oh, if it’s tough, then you must have, you know, (1:53:39) tyrannically forced the toughness on me.(1:53:41) It’s like, no, times get tough. (1:53:45) You got to learn some stuff, you know? (1:53:46) Anyway, so that’s that. (1:53:48) Do you want to play the Jordan clip before we call it a day? (1:53:51) And about this? (1:53:52) Yeah.As I said before, I respect, you know, about God. (1:53:55) He’s talking about, you know, about EQ and how it’s not a thing. (1:54:02) It’s just not.(1:54:03) Oh, go ahead, man. (1:54:04) That’s something that’s different. (1:54:06) No, I can’t do, Jordan.I’m sorry. (1:54:07) You can do it. (1:54:08) No, you just got to get back in the voice and you can talk about God.(1:54:14) Have you heard about the Daily Wire thing, by the way? (1:54:16) You have a little crack in your voice. (1:54:18) And the Canadian a little peppy, peppy, the frog frog from God. (1:54:24) It’s really hard to do the quad thing.(1:54:26) People said I sound like Kermit the Frog, and they were right. (1:54:30) Kermit the Frog. (1:54:31) It’s not easy being green.(1:54:35) Dude, I can do all this. (1:54:37) Anyways. (1:54:37) Hello, Kermit the Frog here for IQ.(1:54:40) Miss Piggy is such a smart little piggy. (1:54:43) She knows all the things she can do. (1:54:48) Anyway, so have you heard about the Daily Wire (1:54:51) and what’s going on about them going bankrupt? (1:54:53) Did you see the video? (1:54:53) Yes.Oh, did you share the video? (1:54:56) Jeremy Boring is gone. (1:54:58) He is gone. (1:54:58) OK, look, can you share a little bit on the update before we call this? (1:55:01) Because I know we’re going to call us a night right after this pretty much.(1:55:04) I don’t pay attention to the news at all, but I did see that Jeremy Boring, (1:55:08) the CEO, former now CEO of Daily Wire, stepping down. (1:55:13) I think that was forced. (1:55:14) And it sounds like they’re in some monetary trouble.(1:55:18) It sounds like they may not be able to to pay their people. (1:55:21) I don’t know if Israel (1:55:23) lowered their donation, their funding of Daily Wire. (1:55:28) But yeah, something’s going on there.(1:55:30) They’re not doing so hot. (1:55:32) Yeah. Allegedly.(1:55:33) Well, you shared the Ian Carroll video right with me. (1:55:36) Yes. Yeah.(1:55:37) OK, so I watched that and that’s where I got all my info. (1:55:40) And so Boring’s out now. I didn’t know that.(1:55:43) So the last thing I heard is basically he’s like 50 million in the hole (1:55:46) with his stupid movie that he’s trying to make. (1:55:48) And he’s basically bleeding off. (1:55:50) He paid.He robbed Peter to pay Paul. (1:55:53) Yeah, not very fiscally responsible. (1:55:57) Yeah, you know, Jordan Peterson joined the Daily Wire.(1:56:01) That was kind of not the start, but that was kind of the nail in the coffin (1:56:05) for me following him too much. (1:56:08) It was just like, man, now you’re definitely compromised. (1:56:12) You’re saying things that aren’t true.(1:56:13) And he talks about that so much, like how saying things that are untrue (1:56:17) just kills your soul. (1:56:19) And so it’s very disappointing to see that because I don’t (1:56:23) I don’t even think he believes some of the things he says on that topic. (1:56:27) And we don’t have to get into all that.(1:56:30) He is good on psychology. (1:56:32) But we do have to get in all that because like you and I, (1:56:36) from what you and I’ve shared, like we highly admire Jordan Peterson. (1:56:41) If anyone got us to look at like (1:56:45) all sides or just to watch a debate or just to watch how he dissects (1:56:52) an issue and the way he talks about stuff, it’s beautiful.(1:56:56) I went to him. I went to his thing. (1:56:59) It was election night, midterms, 2022 at Federal Theater.(1:57:03) He was half red, half blue. (1:57:05) And I’m sitting there mouthing along with him like and my girlfriend’s like, (1:57:08) you’re such a fucking nerd. (1:57:09) And I’m like, yes, but it’s like, oh, the ideas, (1:57:13) like the thoughts, you know what I mean? (1:57:14) Like, it excites you to think like this.(1:57:18) And then to your point, same thing. (1:57:20) It’s like when Tim Poole right talk before he talked about just about to jump (1:57:23) when he didn’t. (1:57:24) I was like, it’s over.(1:57:24) And, you know, you see where that’s gone to, right? (1:57:26) Like same thing. (1:57:28) Peterson jumped on daily right now. (1:57:30) Allegedly, they have they have like they’re definitely (1:57:32) trying to get out of that stuff.(1:57:33) They got lied to or something. (1:57:34) But when you saw him join the likes of Shapiro and Walsh and everything, (1:57:38) you’re like you saw Candace get out. (1:57:40) You’re like, well, should probably get out next.(1:57:42) He’s trying and they wouldn’t let him go. (1:57:44) You know what I mean? (1:57:45) And then they replace they replace that one woman (1:57:48) with her product producer like no one’s going to fucking notice (1:57:53) someone who built up like a million person following. (1:57:56) Sure.Just sweep them under the rug. (1:57:57) I’m sure they they didn’t have anything right. (1:57:59) I’m sitting on Twitter for four years with eighteen hundred followers.(1:58:02) Someone has a million. (1:58:03) Oh, yeah, that’s a nothing. (1:58:05) That’s a nothing burger.(1:58:06) You know what I mean? (1:58:07) Like that’s something you could just easily replace, right? (1:58:10) Yeah. I don’t know who you’re talking about. (1:58:11) Who’s the who’s the lady? (1:58:13) It was she taught Carol talked about it in the end of that thing.(1:58:17) And it’s a woman. (1:58:18) She went on. (1:58:19) She went and spoke with him after the fact.(1:58:21) But basically, she has a show and I forget her name. (1:58:25) I think it starts with a B and I feel really bad that I don’t remember her name. (1:58:28) But her producer, literally, she just replaced her and took over (1:58:31) her TikTok account and just they replaced her with her (1:58:35) like and didn’t pay the wire.(1:58:38) Yeah, it was through the Daily Wire. (1:58:40) I didn’t really have a Carol video. (1:58:42) Yeah.Oh, anyway. (1:58:44) All right. Anyone who’s who’s a nerd now? (1:58:48) You’re looking at me.(1:58:49) You call me. Yeah. (1:58:51) Oh, yeah.Bro. All right. (1:58:53) Well, anyway, thanks again.(1:58:55) 60 people joining us tonight for another episode of Consciously Unmasked. (1:59:00) Jason, before I play this item, did you ever watch Mrs. (1:59:04) Davis? I think I told you about that a long time ago. (1:59:07) Mrs. Davis.No. (1:59:08) Yeah. Oh, it’s a show on.(1:59:10) I think it’s on Peacock. They only did one season. (1:59:13) It’s crazy.It’s weird. (1:59:15) But people should go watch it. (1:59:16) I mean, that’s where they are.(1:59:18) The fucking nerd. That was the line. (1:59:20) I quote that often and nobody knows what it is.(1:59:23) So I don’t know why I like it. (1:59:25) Well, we get nerds from Revenge of the Nerds, which was out before you were born. (1:59:29) Just FYI.(1:59:32) Yes, it was. (1:59:32) You get it from Ogre. (1:59:38) So we get it from we get it from what’s his John Goodman and what was his name? (1:59:45) Jefferson, Jefferson, the guy, whatever.(1:59:48) Anyway. All right. (1:59:50) We’re going to play this clip before we call it before we play this clip.(1:59:52) Call it a night, sir. (1:59:53) All your socials, everyone follow this gentleman, share all your stuff. (1:59:57) How can we get a hold of you, Jason? (1:59:58) Hey, find me on X at Drop the Mask Pod.(2:00:01) You can find all my highlights. (2:00:03) There I make video clips of my podcast. (2:00:06) So if you’re not sure about it, you want to check out a little clip first.(2:00:09) Go there a couple minutes of your time. (2:00:13) I’ve got some great guests, including Mark. (2:00:16) He’s one of the guests.(2:00:18) I don’t know about great, but yeah, follow Mark to guys. (2:00:22) Mark Sean pulls on X Knocked Conscious podcast. (2:00:26) Go subscribe.He’s doing numbers. (2:00:28) He’s doing these live runs for us, running the show, doing the production. (2:00:33) It’s all very good.He talks to everybody. (2:00:38) He talks about all kinds of stuff. (2:00:39) He knows he knows about everything.(2:00:42) He knows people and things that I have no idea what he’s talking about. (2:00:46) So definitely go follow Mark, guys. (2:00:50) He is a nerd, but that’s OK.We like nerds. (2:00:54) Thank you, sir. You’re very kind.(2:00:55) And once again, I really love that we’re working together. (2:00:59) I hate to like call it a collaboration. (2:01:01) I feel like it’s like a thing now.(2:01:02) I don’t feel like it’s a collaboration. I feel like it’s a thing. (2:01:05) But the way we approach it from different angles, (2:01:08) I really admire the way you think too.(2:01:12) So we did take our IQ test. We took it. (2:01:15) It was the it was something through the mints of something, (2:01:18) but it was a pattern recognition only 35 questions 12 minutes.(2:01:23) You had to pick an answer. (2:01:24) It was a point of question that wasn’t weighted. (2:01:27) You just had to answer the questions right or wrong.(2:01:29) That’s all it was. Jason, how did you score, sir, on your IQ? (2:01:35) 98. No, you liar son of a bitch.(2:01:40) No, I got 135 on that one. 135. (2:01:44) And I can verify we might we might put those up, (2:01:46) but basically Jason got a 135.Very well done. (2:01:49) And it was solely pattern recognition, but it is really interesting. (2:01:53) Some of them, I would probably guess, Jason, (2:01:56) you probably saw some of them was like, oh, I know that like that.(2:01:59) And then some of them just were like, there’s no way I’m even going to start. (2:02:04) Yeah, someone one of them. (2:02:05) I think I stared at for like 10 full minutes out of the 30 minute time limit (2:02:09) or whatever it was and I was like, what is happening? (2:02:14) Yeah, you got I got caught up in one of the words at the end.(2:02:17) I think 34 really took me for a loop. (2:02:20) Anyway, I scored drumroll 110, everyone. (2:02:24) I am a below midway, so I did not score so well.(2:02:28) But now I’m also got dementia. I’m 51. (2:02:30) I’m 50 turning 51 this year.(2:02:33) So I don’t know, but I did score 110. (2:02:37) And Jason scored 135 Valkyrie. Thank you.Very nice. (2:02:42) Nice. But yeah, man, I know you’re above 110.(2:02:47) That’s just stupid. Did you ever take that other one? (2:02:50) I did not. But I’m look, I I scored such a variance from like one 125 to 155 160.(2:02:59) And so and I’m like, dude, that’s not right either. (2:03:01) And to your point, the EQ thing is like there is an intuition outside the intelligence. (2:03:11) You know what I mean? Like and it might be tied in some way to pattern recognition.(2:03:17) Where you’re like something doesn’t smell right. (2:03:20) Something’s off. You know, there’s something you just you’re taking in.(2:03:24) Somehow your subconscious taking in all the information. (2:03:26) Something’s off, you know? Yeah, I don’t know. (2:03:30) So there is something to it.But anyway, here’s Jordan Peterson talking about. (2:03:34) He’s going to talk about how EQ doesn’t mean a good gosh darn thing. (2:03:38) And if you think something that it means buckle, (2:03:41) you think that you think that you can make it happen.(2:03:44) You better think something else there buckle. (2:03:46) All right, let me hit this guy. I’m going to get a good Peterson voice.(2:03:52) Not only does that probably not exist because it’s agreeableness, (2:03:57) you know how you always hear you need emotional intelligence to thrive in the workplace. (2:04:01) It’s like turns out that’s exactly backwards. Disagreeable people do better as managers in the workplace.(2:04:08) So it’s actually if you lack emotional intelligence, (2:04:10) you’re more likely to be an effective manager. (2:04:13) So an emotional intelligence is a great, you know, indicator of sort of pathology and psychology (2:04:19) because it was invented by a journalist. (2:04:21) You know, you can’t just have some word invented by a journalist (2:04:24) and then go make a whole bloody, you know, enterprise out of it.(2:04:28) You got to find out if it’s really there. There’s not a lot of evidence that it is. (2:04:32) And what does it mean anyways? Emotional intelligence.(2:04:37) What does that mean? I can infer what you’re feeling? (2:04:41) Well, is that IQ? Like are smart people better at that? (2:04:45) Or like am I mirroring you in some way? Or do I care for you? (2:04:49) Like maybe I can figure out exactly what you’re feeling and I just don’t give a damn. (2:04:53) You know, is that still emotional intelligence? (2:04:59) You know, I just don’t give a damn. Is that intelligence? (2:05:12) I don’t know if you’re muted, buddy, but I can’t hear again.Can you hear me? (2:05:17) I’m muted, dude. That went through the whole thing. That’s so beautiful.(2:05:20) This is why I have an IQ of 110, everybody. (2:05:23) This is why I have an IQ of 110. You know, it’s so good to do the Jordan Peterson.(2:05:28) You just got to sound like Peter Brady before he’s balls drop. (2:05:33) Then he’s going to be just fine. It’s like Kermit, but with like, (2:05:37) yeah, the voice cracking and you got to throw the Canadian mannerisms in there.(2:05:44) Thank you, Valkyrie. I’m going to work on it when we’re not live and I’ll come back. (2:05:48) I’ll get it.There we go. Well, hey, look, Donald Trump can always close us out. (2:05:54) I feel like I’m out of practice on that one, too.I’ll skip it. (2:05:57) Man, Jason, we’re putting you on the spot. (2:05:59) So, so gentlemen, ladies, everyone, thank you so much for joining us.(2:06:04) We got another 60 people, Jason, like the messages I really think. (2:06:09) And once again, we are just messengers here, man. (2:06:12) But this all these things tie into how we think ideologically, (2:06:16) politically, whatever, and how much we need to break from these from these tribes.(2:06:22) Absolutely, man. And intelligence isn’t everything. (2:06:24) It’s just it’s one thing like like we said, you see all kinds of smart people that can’t do shit (2:06:30) because maybe they’re just too smart for their own good and they can’t relate to people (2:06:33) or maybe that their intelligence has gotten them by to a certain point, (2:06:37) but they haven’t learned any other skills to be able to actually get things done.(2:06:41) So it’s not everything. There’s definitely other factors. (2:06:46) Your personality comes into play.Just your upbringing. (2:06:51) Definitely, though, you know, there are things that hold you back. (2:06:54) So take care of that.Take your kids out of public schools. (2:06:59) So, you know, I I don’t know about the homeschooling thing, (2:07:04) but definitely there are charter school. There are schools that teach.(2:07:09) There are schools to teach. I do know that. So find that for your child.(2:07:13) Teach teachers. You know what? Don’t expect others to take care of your child. (2:07:19) If you had a child, chances are you wanted to have a child.(2:07:23) I’m going to guess. And if you kept it, chances are you wanted to keep it. (2:07:29) Just I’m spitballing here.Maybe we’re not all Casey Anthony, right? (2:07:33) We can’t all be Casey Anthony. (2:07:35) But the truth and why, by the way, we watched that Valley Girl (2:07:38) and Biddy had an awesome Casey Anthony two and a half hour podcast yesterday. (2:07:43) We’ve invited them on our show as well.Hopefully they’ll come on. (2:07:45) But that was really cool. But like watching that stuff is crazy.(2:07:48) But like like you, you took a whole week off for your stepchild. (2:07:53) To take him to the zoo and take him to the trampoline park (2:07:57) and all this cool stuff, man, (2:07:58) because you want to you want to how much do you think he learned in this little week (2:08:03) that you spent that beautiful quality time with him? (2:08:07) Way more than he does at school, I think. (2:08:11) So, you know, and that’s so important.(2:08:13) So and that’s great is we do need to localize the things more, (2:08:16) you know, and that’s really what it is. (2:08:18) So on that note, I’m going to say my goodbyes. (2:08:22) Thank you everyone again for joining another Consciously Unmasked.(2:08:25) We talked about IQ. I am a dumb idiot and I’m a midwit, (2:08:30) but hopefully I’m not so much anymore, (2:08:32) but I’m highly disagreeable, so I totally make up for it. (2:08:36) Thanks for coming, everybody.It’s been the best show that we’ve ever had. (2:08:39) Well, because of you, I do it for you. You’re the best.(2:08:43) Have a good night. I got to run. Donald’s coming through at the last minute.(2:08:48) Donald comes up and he just closes out the show just like it’s the craziest time. (2:08:54) All right, sir. Thank you again.Thanks everybody for watching. (2:08:58) Love you guys. Next week.I’m not sure what we’re doing (2:09:02) because I am for I am had talked about coming on (2:09:06) but his he has a podcast at the exact same time that we have a podcast. (2:09:11) So I have no idea how that’s going to work. (2:09:13) So what I might do is I might do have him on a Knocked Conscious (2:09:17) or we can do a separate one on a Thursday or something, (2:09:20) but I might just do that but you’re welcome to join as well.(2:09:22) Jason. We want to jump in. I have no idea what we’re going to talk about.(2:09:25) I was just going to shoot the shit with him to be honest, (2:09:27) and he’s a genius. He’s a really smart guy. (2:09:29) He’s got a really interesting story about his son who has a terribly high IQ (2:09:33) and has a very challenging part of life time with life.(2:09:35) I am really interested that especially coming out of this conversation. (2:09:39) I think that would be really valuable to have for all of us. (2:09:44) I would guess you’d be talking about some existential things judging by his name.(2:09:50) You know, well, it’s will I am I am for I am cool. (2:09:56) I think therefore I am yes. Drop the mask.(2:09:59) Everybody drop the mass pod at drop the mass pod. (2:10:02) Make sure you sign up everybody and we got on folks. (2:10:07) Thank you.Thank you. (2:10:08) Also, we got that right guys. (2:10:12) Go subscribe to Zach at the legacy, right? (2:10:15) Zach get it jump on with that legacy.(2:10:18) Gemma Valkyrie. (2:10:19) You got a wall era a Ron a Ron who else we got up in here. (2:10:24) So thank you.(2:10:25) Yes, make sure and Zach’s correct. (2:10:28) We all love William, but the League of Friends. (2:10:29) This is this is a monthly project.(2:10:31) We have with Zach Andrew. (2:10:34) They both do a podcast with I am for I am every every week. (2:10:38) I think if I’m not mistaken, we’ve got Jason.(2:10:41) We got Sean our buddy Sean and then myself and it is a group of people just (2:10:45) and we just kind of we heard cats. (2:10:48) I think is what we do. (2:10:49) You guys have been doing other podcasts.(2:10:53) I’m offended. (2:10:54) What’s that? (2:10:55) I said you guys have been doing other podcasts without me without us. (2:10:59) We said you know, when do we do without you? (2:11:02) I’m kidding.(2:11:03) I’m kidding. (2:11:03) Never never. (2:11:05) I totally do that.(2:11:06) I would totally never announce it. (2:11:08) I do it behind your back and never mention it. (2:11:10) Are you kidding me? (2:11:11) You know, I’m going to find it.(2:11:12) Yeah, you put it up. (2:11:13) You’re like, hey man, did you do this podcast? (2:11:15) I get no. (2:11:16) Why is it? (2:11:17) Why is it timestamp? (2:11:18) I don’t know.(2:11:20) I don’t do it. (2:11:20) I was messed up. (2:11:22) Hey, I was probably a year ago.(2:11:24) They’re after me. (2:11:25) So anyway, welcome again, everyone. (2:11:28) Thank you again.(2:11:28) It’s been another Consciously Unmasked. (2:11:30) We’re going to do. (2:11:31) I think the League of Friends is about Enneagram Big Five personality.(2:11:35) I do think we should probably get into Dunning-Kruger the Mott (2:11:38) Bailey stuff. (2:11:39) If you want to talk about that next time Jason or once again, we had (2:11:41) another topic. (2:11:43) I think we’re going to talk about so I’ll talk about ice cream.(2:11:46) Nice cream. (2:11:47) I’m ice cream man. (2:11:49) Stop a lot passing by.(2:11:51) Oh, yeah, I’m ice cream man. (2:11:54) Stop a lot passing by. (2:11:56) I got enough on it to survive.(2:11:59) Now, I’m down there push-ups too. (2:12:01) I’m your ice cream man. (2:12:02) Stop a lot passing by.(2:12:04) I got 31 flavors. (2:12:06) Guaranteed to satisfy. (2:12:08) Whoo.(2:12:09) All right, that’s my cue. (2:12:11) I’ll show you how to go. (2:12:12) Good night guys.(2:12:12) Take care everybody. (2:12:13) Bye. (2:12:14) Bye everybody.