In this episode of the podcast, I talk about the concept of "identical twins" and how they are the missing piece in the puzzle that unravels the mystery of why there are so many identical twins in the world. I also talk about why there is no such thing as an identical twin, and why we should all be obsessed with them. I also discuss the movie, "Three Identical Strangers" and the similarities between identical twins raised in the same home and those raised in different countries, and how this movie changed the way we think about twins and their relation to each other. Finally, I answer the question, is there a difference between 80/20 nurture and 20/20 nature? or is it more like 80:20 nature and 20:00 nurture? What's the difference between the two? I'll tell you what, it's more than likely 80:00. I think you'll agree with me that nurture is more important than nature, and that nature is the most important thing in our lives. And that's what we should be focusing on, not what we're born with. You're born who you are, not who we are. We're all born who we're meant to be. Let's figure it out together, shall we? Enjoy! Timestamps: 3:00 - Identical Twins (3 Identical twins (3:00) 4:30 - Why are they so similar? 5:20 - How do they look like each other? 6: What are they different? 7:00- Why do they have so much in common? 8:40 - Who are they have the same dog? 9:10 - What is more alike than you? 10:00 11:20- What do they do the same thing? 12:30- Is there a commonality between them? 13:10 14:40 15:20 16:30 17: How can they be so different than you and I don't have a carpenter? 16 - What are we all be the same? 17 - What do we all have in commonality? 18:20? 19:00? 21:00 | What would you like to know? 22:30 | What do you like about the other one? 20:40 | How do you know you're born Who you are?
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00:00:00.000Every argument comes down to nature versus nurture.
00:00:04.000Everything comes down to that, really, when we're talking about humans, or as the experts call it, sociobiology.
00:00:13.000I saw this movie the other night, Three Identical Strangers, and it's about these triplets who were separated at birth.
00:00:54.000And they say, this guy's a criminal, this guy's doing bad, because he had a rough upbringing, and if he had the right opportunities, and the right experiences, and the right education, he'd be an upstanding citizen.
00:01:47.000You can make a stereotype about a group as long as you reboot the hard drive and every time you meet someone, you don't assume that they're part of that group.
00:01:57.000So when you meet one Irishman, you don't assume that he's going to be a drunk and he's going to be mean when he drinks whiskey.
00:02:04.000However, when talking about millions of Irish, you can go, eh, take it easy with those millions.
00:03:10.000And then they get uncomfortable towards the end of the movie and they go, but, uh, one of them reads comic books and the other doesn't know what a comic book is.
00:04:33.000The you that's listening to this right now, I could have thrown you out of a helicopter in Vietnam.
00:04:38.000You'd speak Vietnamese, but you'd basically be you.
00:04:42.000If you're a carpenter, you'd be a carpenter.
00:04:44.000Like there's these other twins that are actually in the movie Three Identical Strangers, and they did a movie or a book together called Identical Strangers.
00:04:52.000They discovered each other, uh, one grew up poor, one grew up rich, same car, same income, husbands look the same, same fucking dog?
00:05:03.000Let that sink in, as Paul Watson would say.
00:05:07.000Um, and one did film reviews, and was a film critic, and the other worked in film.
00:05:13.000They're both totally obsessed with film.
00:05:15.000That's how much of you is predetermined.
00:05:34.000Actually, me and my dad joke about it all the time.
00:05:36.000There's a horror movie that was big in the, I think it was the early 80s, and it was called The Beast Within.
00:05:41.000And it's about this invisible guy who goes and rapes people, women.
00:05:47.000And then they get pregnant, they have a baby, and the baby's fine.
00:05:51.000And then when it turns 18, it becomes an invisible rapist, goes and rapes some other lady, she gets pregnant, and so on and so on and so on.
00:06:14.000Now, I don't think I necessarily was predetermined to be doing, like, this talkie show or the podcast or the show on CRTV.
00:06:23.000That's not necessarily predetermined, but it was definitely going to be something media-related, pop culture-related, and I definitely was going to be continually fired and, you know, ostracized because I think I make trouble for myself, and I think that's a genetic trait.
00:06:40.000My dad always got fired from his jobs.
00:09:03.000My dad was, uh, had a high IQ, and I don't think his siblings did.
00:09:08.000working-class guy and that's pretty common in big Irish families it's and they were Scotch Irish it's called the spike and out of say six kids you'll they'll all be sort of the same IQ and then they'll be one who has a crazy IQ and I think that was my dad but he married a bimbo and so I am half bimbo half genius
00:09:31.000So he did his O-Levels at 14, and they just go, oh, you're a genius, okay, you go to this school, you guys are all dumb, you go to trade school.
00:09:43.000If it was Obama, they'd all be going to fancy colleges, and going to university, and getting in debt, and having no trade, and the result of that is they drop out, they feel stupid, or what a lot of colleges are doing now is they're lowering the quality of education.
00:09:58.000To the history of rap and how it conflates with rock and roll.
00:10:36.000So anyway, they either lower the standards and do all that crap, or these guys drop out.
00:10:40.000And then they're just wandering around dropouts with tons of debt.
00:10:43.000Whereas in my version of events, and we recognize that only 95%- only 5% should be intellectuals, then, uh, those guys would have a trade, they'd have a life, they'd have a culture.
00:10:55.000You know, being a plumber is more than just being a plumber.
00:10:58.000You've got your union, you've got your gang, you've got your guys, you've got your inside jokes.
00:11:03.000There's a lot of shitty trades out there.
00:11:05.000Like Anthony Kumi and knockin' tin, that sucks.
00:11:08.000But there's a lot of awesome trades, like electrician, where you can be creative.
00:13:55.000But I want to add one thing about the five percent.
00:14:01.000So I said five percent of people are funny, right?
00:14:06.000Isn't it funny that a hundred percent of comedy
00:14:10.000Stand-up comedy at big cities like Chicago, New York, LA, probably even smaller cities like Madison, but basically all of stand-up.
00:14:20.000I know there's The South and there's Larry the Cable Guy and all that, but they don't get included in, you know, the Rolling Stones Top 50, even though they sell a lot.
00:14:26.000So the kind of comedy that we all see, like Louis C.K.
00:15:08.000When you think that 5% of America is funny, yet this group that probably represents in the political spectrum in America, they probably represent like 25% of the country, these far lefties, but they represent 99% of the comedy.
00:16:39.000And, uh, it's a review of a book called, Blueprint, How DNA Makes Us Who We Are.
00:16:44.000In Blueprint, how DNA makes us who we are, Robert Plomnim makes the case that genetic differences cause most variation in psychological traits, things like personality and cognitive abilities, the way your parents raise you, the schools you attend.
00:16:56.000They don't have much effect on those traits.
00:16:58.000Children are similar to their parents, but that similarity is due to shared genetics rather than shared family environment.
00:17:03.000That's a good example of this, by the way, is that baby Einstein.
00:17:07.000Parents, they've noticed, who played kids' classical music, these baby Einsteins, ended up being smarter.
00:17:13.000Yeah, because smart parents are curious about things like baby Einstein, and will play it for their kids, and these kids would inherit the genetics anyway.
00:17:24.000Now, I think the reason this has fallen out of fashion is, and the Swedes used to do it in very intense ways in Northern Europe, but I think it fell out of fashion because in the 50s, post-World War II, we were evil.
00:17:40.000And the Nazis, the World War II, had raised the bar on horror.
00:17:47.000And people were just darker human beings.
00:17:49.000Like when I watched this through Identical Strangers, and you'd see people that were involved in this thing.
00:19:04.000Puerto Ricans, the whole New Yorican thing, there's sort of some animosity there, where they're like, no, I'm not a New Yorker, I'm a Puerto Rican.
00:19:12.000Puerto Rican Day Parade, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, we speak Spanish here, we're not part of New York.
00:19:16.000There's a sort of unwillingness to assimilate.
00:19:18.000And you go, what's the animosity from?
00:19:25.000In the 50s, we encouraged Puerto Rican women to sterilize themselves.
00:19:34.000Someone up top decided that Puerto Ricans aren't a huge asset to the city, so they would encourage these women to permanently tie their tubes or whatever with a financial incentive.
00:20:06.000Now, I don't know the exact stats, probably 100% of liberals, yeah, 100%, I would say 90, well, let's go back to my 95-5.
00:20:14.00095% of the people who do that retard test where they see that it has a thick spine, they get an abortion.
00:20:20.000I would even wager a lot of pro-lifers who are Christian,
00:20:25.000and talk a big game, when they actually see the, whatever it's called, ultrasound, and the doctor says, this is someone who will be retarded, um, and you'll be looking after them for the rest of your life, and after you die, they will ideally die, but they won't be able to take care of themselves.
00:20:42.000And I think a lot of pro-lifers might secretly do that.
00:20:44.000Now, Christians, I'm not calling Christians hypocrites.
00:20:47.000I'm sure most Christians who say they're pro-life are doing it, but, I don't know, man.
00:22:22.000Now with Down syndrome, it's far more intense.
00:22:24.000And with abortion, you're also going to see these sort of lesser cultures, more primitive cultures coming in here and going, oh gosh, we just did an ultrasound and it's a girl.
00:23:34.000But once again, when the chips are down and someone is about to put sperm into their body, now all of a sudden they want to know the race, they want to know his background, they want to know his IQ.
00:23:47.000IQ is an undiscussable subject when you're talking about people walking around.
00:23:52.000But when it comes to sperm in your body, all of a sudden you care.
00:23:57.000And you want to know what it is, and you want to make sure it's well over a hundred.
00:24:01.000So they're all... It's one of those subjects where everyone avoids it, but if you were to, like, get them alone in a room and give them four beers, they'd go, yeah, I believe that it's 80-20 at least.
00:24:15.000Anyway, so you can look up that article on your own, but let me play you the trailer.
00:24:18.000Now, the reason I've avoided talking about this movie until now, even though that's kind of what I want to talk about the whole thing, the whole time, is because I have mad spoiler alerts, yo.
00:24:28.000So if you want to see Three Identical Strangers, and you don't want to have any spoilers, I would stop listening to me now, press pause, note the time, we're 25 minutes in, and then come back later.
00:24:43.000Okay, so, I'm gonna play some of the trailer for you.
00:24:47.000And I'm gonna- this is all spoilers coming up.
00:27:10.000I think if I was going to adopt a baby, and I had no kids, my wife was infertile, I'd go, why don't we just do the triplets, we'll get three out of the way, boom.
00:27:19.000And of course, you're scared of the trauma of separating triplets, and these guys did go through brutal trauma.
00:27:25.000Now I don't know if this is typical of a lot of adopted kids, but um,
00:27:30.000They were banging their heads against the crib after they were adopted.
00:28:01.000They were separated on purpose as a nature nurture experiment.
00:28:06.000Some psychotic Jewish guy who survived World War II and is part of that demographic I was just talking about where they're just cold and callous.
00:28:16.000Basically, the boomers in the 50s, I don't care if they were in World War II, I don't care if they were in New York and they were talking about Puerto Ricans, or if they were Jews who survived, or they were German soldiers who survived, basically the whole Western boomer world was callous, cruel, and cold.
00:28:35.000Because they had just seen the apocalypse.
00:31:34.000It was like I I know like when I talk about Satan and stuff I keep it very metaphorical and some people more Christian than me are just like oh no that guy has Satan in him or Satan did that like they get real When I'm watching this I was like I saw Satan like I was like this is not a metaphorical Satan this is like people with red skin who look like Hellboy like they have pointed tails and the parents
00:32:01.000Uh, we're sort of where you were about 20 minutes ago where you went, wait a minute, why did they separate triplets?
00:32:05.000So the parents go into this adoption agency and they go, um, why did you separate the kids?
00:32:11.000And the loving dad was like, I would have taken all of them!
00:32:15.000And they said that lie about how it's easier to separate kids.
00:32:53.000Like a picture of his kid going to school or something?
00:32:56.000It would be very unfortunate if your child was to disappear, don't you think, Mr. Sloopin' Pops?
00:33:03.000Um, so they couldn't sue them, but when the parents left in a rage, right, from this fancy, beautiful adoption center that's in, like, the, on, on, you know, Central Park, they go back in, because one of them forgot his umbrella.
00:33:15.000I'm ruining the movie for you, sorry about that.
00:34:27.000That's why I always tell people to box if you want to be an entrepreneur, because generating income, especially in New York City, it's constantly sparring.
00:34:38.000And you don't be sparring with your brothers.
00:34:42.000And someone, always, whenever you run a business with someone, this is a whole other podcast, but you're always the one who busts your ass, and they're always the ones not working.
00:34:50.000And the other guy sees it the opposite.
00:34:52.000He's the one out there knocking on doors, and you're the one sitting on your ass all the time.
00:34:58.000You need a hipster, a hacker, and a hustler, and they all have to work exactly equally, and you need all kinds of backup plans for when some guy does end up being a lazy piece of shit.
00:35:07.000Anyway, so they split, and they also, by the way, all have mental problems.
00:35:13.000The depression, you know, nothing too drastic, but one of the guys shot himself.
00:35:19.000I guess, you know, you and I have ups and downs, but I think manic depressives, they have bigger ups than us, and then when they have downs, they go really down.
00:35:28.000You can synthesize this if you become a cokehead, where your ups will be super high and your downs will be super down.
00:35:32.000That's why a lot of cokeheads end up killing themselves.
00:36:09.000And by the way, for the record, folks, when you're doing this Nature or Nurture stuff, and you come to that horrible place where it's like, oh, blacks must be inferior.
00:36:38.000And by the way, the beauty of being a libertarian is you never have to face any of this uncomfortableness because you just go, most qualified person for the job, I don't give a shit who it is.
00:36:47.000I don't care if, like we have this new law that women have to be CEOs, a certain percentage of CEOs have to be female.
00:37:04.000You don't have to discuss eugenics, or when you don't enforce this pizza pie where everything is a perfect representation of the demographics, then you don't have to confront these spooky truths.
00:37:18.000And again, my spooky truth is not that some races are superior to others.
00:37:23.000It's a liberal obsession, affirmative action, that sort of enforces the bigotry of low expectations.
00:37:29.000So I would argue that it's the left and their fear of this whole world that makes them the racists because they're so petrified of things not turning out perfectly.
00:37:40.000Some people are better at other things.
00:37:41.000There's not a lot of short, fat Chinese guys in the NBA.
00:37:45.000Look at Massa—like, they talk about wealth, too.
00:37:47.000This pisses me off, where they go, 4%, oh, 90% of the world's wealth.
00:38:50.000They add another nature thing in, too, where they go, the mother had mental problems because she had to give up her triplets, and then they all had mental problems because they were separated.
00:39:01.000Now, I would argue that women who give their kids up for adoption are disproportionately not all.
00:39:11.000Because you're gonna say, I can't handle my own life, I was in a loony bin for a year, I can't handle these kids.
00:39:18.000More stable people are gonna be like, this sucks, I'm 18 and I have triplets, but let's go, I got a strong family and I've never been committed.
00:39:26.000So, the reason she's a drunk now, they found the mother by the way, and they didn't really care.
00:39:35.000The reason she's a mess is because she was always, she's a genetic mess.
00:39:38.000She's 95 nature, she was born a loony.
00:39:41.000And the reason they all had mental problems, and they totally, the other two brothers just ignore this part of it too, was because they inherited the mental problems from their mother.
00:39:50.000Now, people who have mental problems, they probably face suicide, and it's sort of like Russian Roulette, and this guy got a little too low, you know?
00:39:58.000It's just like walking on thin ice, and he stepped out on a particularly weak spot and went under.
00:40:07.000That doesn't mean that you can ignore all the other endless similarities with these three, but the movie does!
00:40:14.000And the movie goes, his dad wasn't there for him.
00:41:11.000And now my wife and I had a sort of an argument about it that night, and she says, well, maybe if he was nurtured by the dad, then he would have not killed himself because he would have been stronger.
00:42:27.000They talk to some of the researchers who were doing all this, and just like I was talking about earlier with this total apathy that you get from boomers who were exposed to World War II, they're laughing through it.
00:42:40.000One of the guys, he's rubbing his hands together, almost like a racist caricature of a Jew.
00:42:49.000And he's sitting kind of weird and arrogant with one leg off the side of the chair and he goes, yeah, I was sitting talking to these kids and I felt like it was so weird because I didn't tell them that they had another triplet a hundred miles away.
00:43:01.000This is a guy that, sorry, I forgot this whole part.
00:43:03.000They would go and do experiments with these kids and test their cognitive abilities and how they could test their IQs regularly to make sure they were still the same kids the whole time.
00:43:40.000Like, I understand you did a horrible thing because it was a different time, but can you show some remorse, please?
00:43:45.000And then they had this other woman who was a secretary, and she's showing pictures of her with Michelle Obama and stuff, and she goes, Yes, well, the experiment turned out to be all nature, and, you know, I lived in Sweden now, and look, this is my plate collection.
00:46:44.000It's hard to be stuck in the car for an hour, much less weeks at a time, but sadly many families right here in our community call their cars home.
00:46:53.000Wouldn't it be nice to help them find an apartment instead, or a bed, or even a shower?
00:46:58.000Well you can, by giving to The Salvation Army.