f Charlie Kirk, his name is Tyler Robinson. He's 22. But when he was in high school, he had a 4.0 average and he even had a scholarship to college, but I guess he didn't last long in college. So he's living at home. And probably you're wondering, how could somebody with a 4.0 average be so stupid and so hypnotized to do what he did. And I can tell you one thing that's really useful to go through life with. Intelligence does not protect you from influence. It just doesn't. You're sure that it should, right? You're positive that it should. Yeah. He dropped out of college. You're sure that the smarter you are, the more invulnerable you'll be to influence, but just look around. There are people who are literally geniuses who are on completely opposite sides of things. How is that possible? If intelligence got you to the right answer more often, wouldn't all the intelligent people be on the same side? But they're not.

Even if you looked at the geniuses that were part of the PayPal original team, you know, the Elon Musk, the David Sacks, Reid Hoffman, you've got Reid Hoffman on the far left and funding things, and you've got Elon and Sacks on the right. They're all geniuses, but they're not immune from being influenced by something in the environment. There's just no protection whatsoever. That's my official word as a trained hypnotist because hypnotists learn that the smarter you are, the easier it is to hypnotize you. Let me say that again. Hypnotists learn in school. We're actually taught that the smarter and more confident the subject is, the easier it is to hypnotize them. I don't know why. I wouldn't even speculate, but it's a known phenomenon. It's well enough known that it's actually taught in school.

As far as we know, but I think it's still a little fog of war, the perpetrator, the shooter, was a far-left kind of guy. You might be seeing online some rumors that I think are unsubstantiated that he was actually further right than Charlie Kirk. I believe that's all unsubstantiated stuff, but there's enough to it that I would say you better wait and find out more about this guy because it's not impossible. Just almost anything that you're sure you know about this story might be wrong. We're at that point in the story where really there could be really basic fundamental things that we find out are just not true. So as far as we can tell, he was a far-left guy, but maybe not. We'll see.

One of his friends from high school says he's definitely far left. And to me, that's pretty convincing. I feel like if his good high school friend said, "Oh yeah, he's way left," that's probably dependable. That seems like a reasonably strong statement. It's unlikely that he went from high school far left to a few years later far right. That doesn't seem likely.

So as you know, we're in sort of a contest to blame whatever you think is the other side. So of course conservatives are blaming the left for all the dangerous talk that looks like it may have encouraged people to get violent. And of course the left is arguing that Trump's rhetoric is the root cause. Unbelievable. Yeah. You know we always joke about the Democrats projecting. Like if they murder you, they will accuse you of murder as they're stabbing you, right? How many times have we seen that example? As they're stabbing you. "Stop murdering me. Stop it. You're murdering me. Stop it." And you know, I'm just in a different movie, so all I see is them murdering us. But they're apparently, I don't know if they believe their own movie. What do you think? Do you think the hosts of MSNBC believe that Trump is really the root cause here and that they're not? And that they believe they're not? Do you believe they believe that?

It's possible because of cognitive dissonance. So cognitive dissonance won't allow you to form an opinion of yourself that's too negative if you have a healthy ego, if you're not mentally ill. So if you're perfectly normal, your brain is working the way it should, it will malfunction when you're presented with a situation where you have obviously done something s