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Back to episode — Episode 2943 CWSA 08/30/25

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aking of that, I watched two-thirds of the new movie F1. I'll finish the rest of it, but if the rest of it is as good as the first two-thirds, it's a really good movie. I'm pretty sure I'm going to recommend it when I'm done, but I'll finish it sometime this week and I'll tell you. After the show today, Owen Gregorian will be hosting, as he usually does on Saturdays, a spaces event on the X platf…

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of two people who were warm, in other words they were warm parents, what are the odds that you picked up that gene? Well, pretty good. And then what are the odds that you would imitate adults who are your parents in figuring out how to navigate social situations? Well, 100 percent.

So between the genetic likelihood that you would just inherit that ability to feel warmth around other people, because keep in mind that's not a learned behavior. If the way you feel around other people lifts you and makes you feel lighter, you're clearly going to be better at social things in the future. And if other people make you feel like, "Oh god, when's this other person gonna leave?" then you're probably not going to develop the best social skills. Probably. You didn't need to study this. Just ask me or any of you. You all would have known that.

Americans are having less sex than ever. There's a new study out. And I guess that applies to everybody, young and old, married or single. They're all having a lot less sex. And the experts are trying to figure out why. Do you think they'll do a big expensive study to find out why? Or they could save money. Don't do that study. Just ask me. Go outside and look at the people who walk by. Would you want to have sex with any of them? Probably not. We all got fat and unpleasant. So half the country took itself offline to the other half just by having some political point of view. And then we eat ourselves into total unattractiveness. Of course we're having less sex.

And the women that everybody would want to have sex with, they follow the money and they become OnlyFans girls. And so yeah, between that and online porn, it does seem to me that everything is lining up for Americans to have less sex than ever. Sure enough, I feel like in the 50s everybody tried to look thin and well-dressed. And don't you think that would increase the amount of sex you had? And they didn't have phones, so if they got together it was all about the other people. So those might seem like our golden years.

According to the American Psychological Association, people who are at the extremes of the political right and the extremes of the political left, their brains work in a similar way. And that similar way involves getting way more physical sensation, in other words emotions, from politics. So the people who dominate the extremes, either the left or the right, they feel politics. If you show them some new political story they might be elated or they might be disgusted, but they really feel it, you know, just like a stomach ache they would feel it. Whereas the entire middle of the country, the ones who kind of care what happens in the news but it doesn't affect them physically, it's just something they heard, they don't have the same brain impact or body impact.

So does that surprise you? No. Because as I've tried to teach Ben Shapiro, the facts don't care about your emotions. So your feelings are of course what drives everything. So it makes s

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ense that the people who are extremists either right or left is because they feel something that's a reward. So if they get revulsion from looking at what the other team is doing but it's still sort of a competition and you like your team and you can't wait to talk to them about that thing the other side is doing that's so bad. Yeah, that's just pure emotion. And you would expect that those peopl…

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