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Back to episode — Episode 2913 CWSA 07/31/25

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now that the predictions were actually before the pandemic, right before. So you might want to check that out. I think you'll be amused. See what I got right, see what I got wrong. Well, I would like to get your brains ready for the rest of the show with a little bit of an exercise. All right. Those of you who are my regular viewers, I would like you to give me the answer to the question I haven'…

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ss I was born in the time when we finally got everything right. There's almost no chance that the things you believe are true and right are true and right. There's almost no chance. It's never been true. We've never been right about anything important. But it would make you crazy to imagine that we were just wrong about everything. So you tell yourself this weird little story that well we were wrong for 1.5 million years in a row but finally got it right just when you were born. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Well, CJ Pearson has an opinion piece in Fox News. CJ's talking about the war on hot women. I could tell you what month it is by telling you what stories are the top stories. It's summertime, people. It's summertime. So the big story is the war on hot women. And somehow the pundits have managed to turn it into an actual story by pretending that Sydney Sweeney, who did the advertisement, the sexy advertisement for American Eagle, which apparently worked really well and they sold out of their jeans. They sold out. If you wanted to buy some of those jeans, couldn't do it. It was so successful.

And finally we're allowed to be common sensical again even if it hurts people's feelings. So apparently the ugliest people are very unhappy that Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle would be talking about jeans. Even though it was a joke and even though we can clearly see that that young woman has good genes, we're not allowed to say that anybody has good genes. You're not allowed to say it because if you did, it would sort of change all of society because then you might say, "Well, you know, maybe things are the way they ought to be because the people had the good genes did the best." Uh-oh. Can't say that. Cannot say that.

You know how I always tease the billionaires when billionaires are asked what's the secret of their success? Do you know what they never say? Well, to be perfectly honest, I'm just smarter than the people who didn't do as well. Because that plus hard work will explain a lot. Mark Zuckerberg, was he successful just because he tried hard? No. Although he did try hard, he's really smart. Elon Musk, is it because he worked hard? Well, he did work hard. Still does, but he's smarter than the average person. And that could go down the line and you would find that all these super successful people are unusually smart. And we're supposed to ignore that, right? And act like none of that mattered.

All right. All right. Fine. But the Sydney Sweeney thing does show that apparently there's a little bit of common sense that's coming back. But if you were one of those people who is, let's say, jealous and angry that Sydney Sweeney's getting attention for being attractive and being born that way mostly, I would give you this following consolation. There has never been an easier time to be in the top 10% of attractive

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adults. Still hard to do it if you're young because you know that's just what you're born with. But if you want to be in the top 10% of attractive adults, all you have to do is eat right and go to the gym. That's it. You know, maybe put a little attention in what you do with your haircut and maybe learn a little bit about how to dress, but oh my god, it's never been easier to be in the top 10%. So…

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