WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:06.679 Michael, You're still saying it wrong. It's bogada bogada bogadah. 2 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:11.279 Did you teach Bush how to say nuclear bogue ada, 3 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:14.800 not bowd googa bogada? 4 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:17.719 So she flipped both the D and the G and 5 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:20.199 the emphasis and everything. 6 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:25.600 We need to We need to get Joel a panic button. 7 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:26.320 Yeah, we do. 8 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:28.760 He's got a bogada out there, he does. 9 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:32.000 We We have an account exact that has h on 10 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:35.079 the opposite side of his little cubicle. He set up 11 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:35.840 a little. 12 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:38.799 Bodega in the empty desk, but we have empty desks 13 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:42.679 around here behind him that he actually has space to 14 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:44.439 put a bogada. 15 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:46.880 Weird. You and I could put a super Walmart right 16 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:52.960 out here. Joe's got a little Joe's got a little 17 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.840 bodega in the empty cubicle behind him. You and I 18 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.039 could bill an f and Super Walmart out here in 19 00:00:59.079 --> 00:00:59.920 this empty space. 20 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:02.600 That's fantastic. 21 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:04.840 By the way, what time is it you? Did you 22 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:05.400 check the clock? 23 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:07.680 What time is it? Eight fifty eight. 24 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:10.959 Fifty Yeah, that's what time it was. When I checked it. 25 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:13.640 Too, twenty minutes ago, it was still eight to fifty. Huh. 26 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:15.840 My My son and daughter in Ella have o'clock in 27 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:20.680 there in there like dining area, and it's battery operated, 28 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:22.920 and they're always forgetting to change the battery. 29 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:26.000 Yeah, I got one over the kitchen table, but it's 30 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:27.920 really I need I need to get the ladder out 31 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:28.480 to get it done. 32 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.000 But so you never you never change the battery, do you. 33 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:33.280 So the clock just stay, it just stays. 34 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:37.280 It's still got the daylight saving time or standard times. Yeah, 35 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:39.840 we're not in Well, there will die it's an hour and. 36 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:41.760 It will go there for dinner. It'll be the same time. 37 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:44.280 You know, first of all, it stays the same throughout dinner, 38 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:46.159 and then I'll realize, oh, this was the same time 39 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:47.560 it was when the last time I was here. 40 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:50.599 It never changes, It's just a decorative piece at this point. 41 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:54.000 No, I finally, I think I finally bugged him about 42 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:55.959 it so much they finally put a battery in it, 43 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:59.319 and then I noticed that it was working. And then 44 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:01.280 the last time I was over there, which just like 45 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:03.799 I don't know, maybe a week ago, I don't think 46 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:06.280 it was working again. So maybe I should just buy 47 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:08.199 a pack of batteries and just tape them to it 48 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:09.120 or something. Someday. 49 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:12.159 At least there's easy to get to Yes, yeah, it's 50 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:14.560 very easy, said mine. I have to get the step 51 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:16.360 ladder out in order to get to it because it's 52 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:18.840 it's pretty high up on the wall. But you know, 53 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:20.919 I've got an excuse. Your kids don't. 54 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:24.159 Yeah, they don't have an excuse. They just don't care. 55 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:28.560 They just don't care. You know, I talk about stupid 56 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:29.319 people a lot. 57 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:32.120 And why are you looking at me? 58 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:36.759 Well, like I said, I talk about I talk about 59 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:38.479 and two stupid people a lot. 60 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:43.800 But while you're looking at the window. 61 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:49.199 Everywhere, okay, I should you know. I was walking down 62 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:50.520 the hallway this morning when I. 63 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:52.439 Said those days, it's one of those days. 64 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:55.560 It is one of those days. So I won't say 65 00:02:55.599 --> 00:03:01.080 which one of our newspeople, but one of our newspeople 66 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:07.240 was coming back, I assume from the restroom or something. 67 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:09.639 And you know, it was kind of dark because it's 68 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:12.159 you know, it's like five o'clock in the morning or something. 69 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:13.800 And smart it doesn't like to turn on any lights 70 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:14.680 around here, right. 71 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:18.560 And and I just made some joke about you're kind 72 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:23.599 of slinking or loitering around, and I know he heard me, 73 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:26.199 but he just turned his head and looked down like, 74 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.080 oh oh, I got caught like, like I really caught 75 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:33.000 him loitering. That was just being a wise ass, And 76 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:36.840 I thought, man, are we that we that touchy around 77 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.479 here that we're afraid that somebody's going to accuse it? 78 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:41.800 I mean, you and I loiter for four hours every morning, 79 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:45.360 very much. So yeah. So, oh, but I do talk 80 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:49.560 about stupid people a lot that whole last hour. You 81 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.639 think about how stupid that is in terms of, oh, 82 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:58.120 we're going to close down food trucks because they attract crowds. Well, 83 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:01.520 if the problem is they attract crowds that want you to 84 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:03.960 shut down the bars and the restaurants in downtown Denver, 85 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:07.159 because obviously the cops and the mayor and the governor 86 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:11.000 believe that there's a causal link between crowds and crime. 87 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:14.919 So you get rid of if that's a causal link, 88 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.959 then you get rid of the crowds by getting rid 89 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:24.199 of the cause of the crowds. Oh, there's a story 90 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:31.439 that it's a Brittish story from nineteen oh six Plymouth, England. 91 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:37.800 A polymath which is just a brilliant person. Sir Francis 92 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:42.879 Galton was at a country fair in Plymouth, England, and 93 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:47.680 a bull had been tethered for slaughter. Eight hundred locals 94 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:50.600 were invited. I think it was a bull. It may 95 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:54.639 have been, you know, a big elk or something, but 96 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:59.680 the town local has been invited to guess the dressed weight. 97 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:05.160 Let's just say it was a bull. To eight hundred 98 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:09.319 locals invited to guess the dressed weight, how heavy was 99 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:14.439 it going to be after they butchered it? So, Sir 100 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:20.319 Galton was an obsessive measure of people, weather intelligence, and 101 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:22.600 he liked to gather all the entries. He liked to 102 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:27.600 gather all the info. He was always doing calculations that 103 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:34.519 I would say are about intelligence or conversely stupidity. 104 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:35.360 Well, he. 105 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:40.560 Gathered all of the calculations of all of the eight 106 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:45.399 hundred citizens of this little local town that had gathered together. 107 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:49.279 Ill like guessing the number of you know, jellybeans or 108 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:55.480 something in a jar, Well, guess the weight. He calculated 109 00:05:55.480 --> 00:06:02.839 the average and found something amazing. Crowd's collective estimate came 110 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:09.639 within a single pound of the actual weight. Now that's 111 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:14.879 pretty amazing, but it became one of the founding truisms 112 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:20.040 of modern democratic thought. Galton has shown that while individuals 113 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:25.319 may make mistakes, the group written large the group in 114 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:32.600 the aggregate can reason with uncanny accuracy impressions. He had 115 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.399 discovered the wisdom of crowds, and that's where we get 116 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:42.959 that phrase, the wisdom of crowds. Twenty years later, after 117 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.560 that occurred, back in nineteen oh six, much of the 118 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.959 Western world had granted the vote to all adults univals. 119 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:56.920 We then had universal suffrage. But that quaint rural fair 120 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:01.759 was more than a century ago. We're in twenty twenty five. 121 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:07.319 We're almost a twenty twenty six today. What are the 122 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:11.120 masses doing, whether they're not getting a way to lifetock, 123 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:18.079 everybody's hunched over their smartphones, everybody's rage posting about vaccines. 124 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:25.759 Everybody's chasing TikTok or Facebook video dopamine hits. I find 125 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:28.480 it fascinating when I see every once in a while 126 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:34.519 iub doing doing show prep, will find like videos about 127 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:40.399 new math adding fractions or understanding graphs X and y axes, 128 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:47.800 and they're really struggling to do so. They are, in 129 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:54.399 my opinion, we are, in my opinion, getting more stupid. 130 00:07:54.879 --> 00:08:03.439 And that's a problem for any sort of representation, representative democracy, 131 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:10.959 a constitutional republic, because the dumber people get well, that's 132 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:12.319 the kind of government we're going to get. 133 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:15.560 Yeah, the movie Idiocracy was supposed to be satire, not 134 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:16.600 a guide book. 135 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:22.160 Right, not exactly, that's exactly right, Dragon. So first, the 136 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:29.040 data on cognitive decline is unambiguous. IQ scores across the 137 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:32.879 developed world have been falling for decades. Their studies out 138 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:36.840 of Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, and yes, 139 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:40.720 even here. According to a twenty twenty three study in 140 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:48.480 the journal Intelligence US, IQ's declined significantly. I don't know, 141 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.919 I don't know why, but the greatest decline was between 142 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:55.559 the years two thousand and six and twenty eighteen are 143 00:08:55.919 --> 00:09:01.039 a mere what ten seven years ago, and the losses 144 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:07.360 were most acute in people under the age of twenty. Now, 145 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:15.440 this is frightening to me, dwelling IQs. There is actually 146 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:18.320 a name for it. I you know, this is what 147 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:20.919 I love about AI and doing show prep. There's actually 148 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:24.879 a name for this. It's called the reverse Flynn effect. 149 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:29.720 A psychometrician by the name of James Flynn in New 150 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:32.639 Zealand came up with it. He's the first one that 151 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:36.679 detected that IQ's had been rising throughout the twentieth century, 152 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:42.120 and then observed that the trend had suddenly spiraled downward, 153 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:48.000 it had gone negative. Of course, if this was merely 154 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:52.399 an issue with IQ we it would just be an 155 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:58.200 interesting statistical study. Maybe IQ tests are too crude of 156 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:02.440 a mismeasure of man, of the mismeasure of our actual intelligence. 157 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:08.480 But the problem goes deeper. John burn Burn Murdoch, who's 158 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:11.080 a data editor to the Financial Times the Ft the 159 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:15.799 Pink Paper, compiled international test scores in reading, math and science, 160 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:18.759 and he found that they peaked around twenty twelve and 161 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:22.399 they've been falling ever since. And he believes that the 162 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:24.120 fall He hasn't been able to prove it yet, but 163 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:28.039 he thinks that the decline is accelerating. In other words, 164 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:30.960 we're getting doune or faster, particularly in reading, math and 165 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:38.240 science in high income countries. Fully, of twenty five percent 166 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:43.440 of adults can't use basic mathematical reasoning. They're unable to 167 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.559 verify a statement like if a jacket originally costs two 168 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:49.320 hundred dollars and is now on sale for twenty five 169 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:51.720 percent off, the new price is one hundred and fifty 170 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:59.120 dollars in this country, and I'm not very trust me. 171 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:03.200 I'm not very good at math. I've got to really 172 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:06.919 stop and think about, like, if you present me with 173 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:11.559 a with a Now that one's easy, two hundred dollars, 174 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.159 you're taking a fourth of it off. Okay, yeah, how 175 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:18.840 two hundred dollars divided by four is what fifty? 176 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:21.159 You didn't even need to take off your shoes to 177 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:22.039 do that math problem. 178 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:24.720 Yeah, that was That's an easy one for me. But 179 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:31.480 they calculate that the section of American society that is 180 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.799 mathematically incapable, not just slow and stupid like me, but 181 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:43.240 absolutely incapable, is fully a third of the country. And 182 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:47.919 then you know this is true because once again I 183 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:50.399 would say that even Dragon and I are have a 184 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:55.080 problem with this. Attention spans have absolutely collapsed. 185 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:57.080 What did you say, I wasn't paying attention. 186 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:59.360 See, you're honor. I rest my case. 187 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:00.480 I heard my name. That's all I got. 188 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:04.039 That's all he got. Because and I'm one of these 189 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:10.200 guys that also maintains that you really can't truly multitask. 190 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:14.279 That you might be able to do different things at 191 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:18.720 the same time, but your brain is in nanoseconds jumping 192 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:22.720 back and forth between those different tasks. That your brain 193 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:25.759 is not at the same time, focusing on all of 194 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:27.759 those things at the same time. But you know, I 195 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:30.039 might be wrong about that. That's the three that I've got. 196 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:36.720 There's a study conducted by the University of Michigan that 197 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:41.600 since the nineteen it's called Monitoring the Future attract eighteen 198 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:46.679 year old's self reported ability, self reported ability to think, 199 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:51.519 concentrate to learn, and their responses. They've been doing this 200 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:57.080 since the nineteen eighties. The responses were stable for decades 201 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:04.679 until twenty fourteen, when the numbers reporting cognitive difficulty began 202 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:09.200 to accelerate. Now, at the same time, less than fifty 203 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:14.240 percent of Americans say they read books. In the United Kingdom, 204 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:18.000 thirty five percent of adults are what they refer to 205 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:21.039 as lapsed readers. They used to read, but now they've stopped. 206 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.360 As of twenty twenty three, thirty six more than a 207 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:27.600 third of Spaniards reported that they never are almost never 208 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:32.840 read books. So if you scroll back, that means that 209 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:41.080 across Western civilization we are passively scrolling instead of actively pondering, 210 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:47.960 We're reacting instead of reasoning. We're slowing down, and we're 211 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:51.679 becoming more and more distracted. So what does all they 212 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:58.519 had to do with politics. If if a democratic republic 213 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:04.120 depends on the wisdom of the crowd, the sir Gallic idea, 214 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:08.879 I'm sorry, the Sir Galton idea, that the electorate is 215 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:13.320 on average capable of advanced rational thought. What happens if 216 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:17.639 that assumption goes away? What happens when asked the audience 217 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:23.480 is stupid? Now, you think in theory we'd be okay, 218 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:27.879 because democracy is and I think to a certain degree 219 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:31.720 still is self correcting. And I think we just saw that. 220 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:34.279 I think that in the most recent leg in the 221 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:37.679 November twenty twenty four election, I think we saw that 222 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:45.759 the Democrats pushed so dramatically Progressives pushed so far toward Marxism, socialism, communism, 223 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:50.440 all the isms that we had a visceral reaction to that, 224 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:53.559 and the crowd, if you will, said no, we're not 225 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:55.879 going to do that. You know. Now, granted it was 226 00:14:55.919 --> 00:15:00.120 a small majority, but thankfully at least it was a majority. 227 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:05.720 So the crowd still did react and we did self correct. Now, 228 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:12.600 my fear is that because we doomsday scroll all the time, 229 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:17.399 or we doomsday listen to the sound bites all day long, 230 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:24.440 that the in fact, there's a story where they talk 231 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:29.879 about how Trump is doing nothing. But I think again 232 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:32.960 on one of my sound bites for this morning, where 233 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:37.919 all they talk about is Trump's just creating chaos. Well, 234 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:42.759 if you're doom scrolling or you're just listening to the 235 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:46.559 cabal and all they're doing is feeding you, which is 236 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:50.279 essentially the same thing as doom scrolling, then you're going 237 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:55.320 to believe that. Oh yeah, indeed, we're just in a 238 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:59.879 period where it really is just chaos here. It is 239 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:02.440 Michigan Secretary of State, Listen to. 240 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:08.519 This, Larry Ben said, tell me about Michigan right now. 241 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:12.799 You know the beginning of the Trump administration of this state. 242 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:16.519 You know that has gone both ways the last couple 243 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:21.840 of elections, but always closely what are what are voting 244 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:25.679 voters thinking about it? I say, watch the beginning of 245 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:27.080 this administration unfault. 246 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:29.480 Oh in the last one hundred days has been nothing 247 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:32.519 but chaos and confusion for all of our residents. 248 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:38.360 Whether now, if that is all you hear, If if 249 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:40.559 you've been sucked up into the cabal and the only 250 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:43.399 thing that you hear is this happens to be MSNBC 251 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:47.320 and that's all you hear, then pretty soon that becomes 252 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:51.080 like a self fulfilling promisee or it certainly is confirmation 253 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:54.480 biased because you didn't like Trump to begin with, which 254 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:58.120 is why you're over at MSNBC and you're being you're 255 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:02.120 being told, yes, you're believe your gut feeling that there's 256 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:04.880 a lot of chaos or confusion around here. I'm here, 257 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:09.960 as the Michigan Secretary of State to affirm your perception. 258 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:13.240 They voted for the president or not, because the reckless 259 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.000 tariffs and the other economic policies we've seen come out 260 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:18.720 of Washington have only increased the cost of living in 261 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:21.160 our state. When a lot of these voters who supported 262 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:23.559 the president, we're expecting him to drive down the cost 263 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.960 of living. But whether it's affordable housing or being able 264 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:29.519 to simply just buy eggs and pay for childcare and 265 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:29.839 not have. 266 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:32.200 To seize between the two, all of that is. 267 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:34.960 Front of mine for people right now. And it's really 268 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:36.880 confirming because. 269 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:41.720 The point is cable television is no different than doom 270 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:47.920 scrolling through X or Facebook. 271 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:52.079 Michael, it seems like blaming food trucks violence. It's the 272 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:57.839 same kind of logic that blames comes for violence. It 273 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:03.000 misses the reality all together that it's people that are 274 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:03.680 treating wild. 275 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:10.480 Yeah, and to argue that somehow the food trucks attract 276 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:15.799 crowds and that therefore leads to the crime. Then if 277 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:19.160 you wanted to apply their logic, then you would eliminate 278 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.440 the source of the crowds, which would include the bars 279 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.000 in the restaurants. But they don't want to do that 280 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:28.119 because why the bars in the restaurants are members of 281 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:31.119 you know, chambers of commerce. They've got you know, they've 282 00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:34.599 got the uh, they got the elites behind them. Who 283 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:37.359 wants to shut down you know, the favorite speakeasy and 284 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:41.319 speakeasy and lodo who wants to do that? Well, the 285 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:43.799 Mayor's not going to do that. But we can go 286 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:48.920 after someone who's, you know, working to make a halfway 287 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:54.200 decent living running a food truck. Well, they don't have 288 00:18:55.359 --> 00:19:01.480 any political muscle. They're just food truck owners. They're the 289 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:05.400 little people. So of course Denver goes after them. I mean, 290 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:11.319 I just find it despicable. And don't forget nobody, nobody. 291 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:15.519 I don't care whether you look at four seven nine 292 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.400 or thirty one or even PBS and Denver, nobody draws 293 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:23.319 any sort of correlation between oh, sixteenth Street mall sucks 294 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:29.880 and we've got shootings going on right in the same area. 295 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:33.279 Whether it's Market Street or Sixteenth Street or Blake or Larimer, 296 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:37.680 it's the same area, which is why I don't like 297 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:41.880 to go down there anymore. Nuts. You know, the story 298 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:44.759 I'm talking about is how we are all becoming dumber 299 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:48.200 and dumber. But I haven't become that dumb yet. So 300 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:51.480 back to the idea that these IQs are dropping off, 301 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.160 that nobody's ready anymore, that we're all doom scrolling through Facebook, 302 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:58.799 or we're just you know who, staring at the at 303 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:01.680 the boob tube all day and just feeding what, you know, 304 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:07.039 just swallowing whatever it is that the cabala is feeding you. Yes, 305 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:11.160 I do think that democracy and the republic is generally 306 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.359 self correcting, and I think that's what we just went through. 307 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:21.880 But the problem is, think about what we're just talking 308 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:27.599 about with regards to Denver, because we are led by 309 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:37.119 people who themselves are often pretty vacuous, vacant, stupid themselves, 310 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:44.920 and when they're not, they pretend to be so they 311 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:47.440 you know, they do stupid things, like you know, Polus 312 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:52.000 is always posting things about you know, he's all into gaming, 313 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:55.119 and he's all into say don't. I'm not saying there's 314 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:58.559 anything wrong with gaming. I'm just saying that he tries 315 00:20:58.640 --> 00:21:02.200 to present himself as being something other than the elitist 316 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:05.079 he is. Now. I don't know what police's reading habits are. 317 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:08.839 I do know he's on excell lot because I you know, 318 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:10.759 and whether he's doing it where he's got a staff 319 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:12.680 for doing it, I don't know. Some of them seem 320 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:15.039 to be fairly personal, so I think, and he has 321 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:18.559 both a personal and an official account, but they don't 322 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:21.599 want to look, you know, elitists or smug on Facebook 323 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:25.119 or Instagram or ex or anything else. But that begs 324 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:33.240 the question why is or why why are our IQs declining? 325 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:39.079 I couldn't find a single explanation. There's lots of different reasons. 326 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:46.559 What they're given migration between countries that have varying average IQs. 327 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:51.839 In other words, people who come from craphole third world 328 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:58.039 countries that invade another country bring with them their lack 329 00:21:58.079 --> 00:22:04.400 of education, their kind of backass word culture, and they 330 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:08.839 bring it into a first world country. So if you 331 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:13.039 imagine a first world country just like the United States, 332 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:19.960 and it's a glass and we are three fourths of 333 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:23.440 the way full because of declining birth rates and everything else. 334 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:29.000 And then you take another glass of water that is 335 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:35.599 from all mixtures of third world countries where they're uneducated, 336 00:22:36.039 --> 00:22:38.720 where they don't have the same values and principles that 337 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:41.680 we do, and you pour it into the water the 338 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:47.880 glass that contains the United States. It dilutes us, and 339 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:57.960 we become less intelligent. It degrades the culture. Now some people, 340 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:00.519 I've read some stories where they are well, there aren't 341 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:05.240 enough smart people having enough babies, so called dysgenic drift. 342 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:11.240 Dysgenic drift. I'd never heard that phrase before. But then 343 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:16.480 if they're smart, why aren't they having babies? And then 344 00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:19.279 other scientists, which is part of the Make America Healthy 345 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:25.519 Again movement, looks to nutrition, industrial toxins, that exposure, maybe 346 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:29.519 a change in educational styles. But none of these things 347 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:32.839 cover all the bases. In other words, we can find 348 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:38.039 individual reasons and then collectively throw them all together into 349 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:41.640 a big stepot. Then we might realize that it's all 350 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:46.720 of this stuff that is causing an actual decline in intelligence. 351 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:50.839 By the way, somebody asks where the source of this 352 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:56.920 monologue is and the origin of it is The March thirteenth, 353 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:00.759 twenty twenty five Financial Times, the Pink Paper, which count 354 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:03.160 me digging into all of this, but I don't it's 355 00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:04.880 I don't think they have free version. 356 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:07.920 Yeah it is paywalld. But I have found a companion 357 00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:10.519 article in Yahoo, so I was able to look that up. 358 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:12.200 Michael says, go here at the time. It's got a 359 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:13.400 lot of similar information. 360 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:15.039 Can you see me because I haven't seen them? Can 361 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:16.519 you send me that link? Can you have a chance 362 00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:23.640 to thank you? So for some people there is one 363 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:28.119 obvious culprit. Let's go to the Michigan Cognition Data because 364 00:24:28.119 --> 00:24:31.680 they're the ones that've been doing the longest study. Twenty fourteen. 365 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:37.319 That is the year, coincidentally that Instagram exploded, and the 366 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:40.319 saying goes for a lot of those decline, they coincide 367 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:42.920 with the advent of the iPhone and then all of 368 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:45.000 the apps that we all now put on our iPhone. 369 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:49.960 So it's it's not hard to jump to a conclusion 370 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:54.000 that the invention of social media, along with the advent 371 00:24:54.039 --> 00:24:55.839 of the so called which is kind of funny, the 372 00:24:55.920 --> 00:25:02.440 smart phone has done something bad to attention spans while 373 00:25:02.440 --> 00:25:08.359 eroding the need to attain and retain knowledge. I think 374 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:15.119 about this. I don't know my daughter's cell phone number. 375 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.799 If if I, if I were laying, you know, dying somewhere, 376 00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:22.279 I barely know tam or cell phone number. I don't. 377 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:24.079 I have to only know it because I pay, I 378 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:27.440 pay our cell phone bills every month. I don't know 379 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:31.440 dragon cell phone number. I don't. I honestly don't know 380 00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:36.160 my mom's cell phone number because on my iPhone, I've 381 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:42.680 got Mom Home, Mom Mobile. So neither one of my children. 382 00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:46.200 I don't know those phones. But I could tell I 383 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:53.119 can still tell you my grandparents' home phone number, because 384 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:57.839 I had to know that I didn't have something over 385 00:25:57.880 --> 00:26:01.240 here that I could just look up grandparents and hit 386 00:26:01.799 --> 00:26:07.839 dial and it would just dial it four oh five, three, 387 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:11.000 three eight, blah blah blah blah. I know exactly what 388 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:14.960 the number was. They've been dead thirty years, forty years. 389 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:17.400 I know what their numbers. I know what their phone 390 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:25.400 number is. And then you think about mental arithmetic, how 391 00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:28.359 many times you know? Sometimes I do this just to 392 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:34.119 exercise the brain. So there might be a complicated, not complicated, 393 00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:39.000 but a not a simple multiplication problem like nine times six. 394 00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:42.400 But if I got a multiplication problem that is one 395 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:46.640 hundred and thirty seven times twenty two. I will rather 396 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:50.480 than go to my phone just to exercise the brain, 397 00:26:51.039 --> 00:26:55.839 I will go work it out or division, I'll go 398 00:26:55.880 --> 00:26:58.960 work it out otherwise, or if I'm in a hurry, no, 399 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:01.680 I'll just quote do it on the phone. The point is, 400 00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:05.559 why bother with mental arithmetic? Why bother with mental math? 401 00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:08.799