Pearl - Religious Decline And Low Quality People Are Hard Reality For The Modern Day

00:00:00.000 So any trait you see now that you don't like, just know it'll be worse in 10 years.

00:00:05.140 It will not get better.

00:00:07.420 Yeah, so today we're going to talk about personality traits and if they change over time.

00:00:16.540 Now this show was actually inspired by a tweet that I saw, but if you guys want, you know,

00:00:22.440 you don't have to.

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00:00:45.160 Okay, so this tweet that I saw was from that guy that's trying to live forever.

00:00:54.940 Let me pull it up.

00:00:56.060 Brian Johnson, I think his name is, and Brian Johnson is this guy basically who, he made

00:01:06.800 like a billion dollars on, I think, PayPal or some app.

00:01:10.980 Who cares, right?

00:01:12.560 And then he decided that he was going to, you know what's funny?

00:01:16.260 I watch his show and I always think that this is something autistic that looks like something 1.00

00:01:22.180 the guy would do, the Brian Johnson guy, if you see his page, this guy.

00:01:26.980 He has this like don't die thing where he's like trying to live forever.

00:01:31.360 And he just autistically like measures every level of health.

00:01:37.580 And I was laughing when I saw it because, you know, I would explain this to normal people,

00:01:43.320 like maybe more well-adjusted, less online, and they would say that's a crazy thing to

00:01:49.080 do, but I thought it was kind of cool.

00:01:50.380 Anyways, that's neither here nor there.

00:01:53.080 He had a post about his high school reunion.

00:01:57.760 And he said, I had my 30-year high school reunion last night.

00:02:01.880 These sorts of events had a way of inviting a unique sobriety of observation.

00:02:08.700 First, the vast majority of everyone that had left the Mormon church.

00:02:12.840 This is very surprising given the deeply religious adherence of our small 30,000 person town during

00:02:19.400 our childhood.

00:02:20.720 If my class is representative of Mormon membership, generally the religion is evaporating, at least 1.00

00:02:26.480 in this geography and demographic.

00:02:29.100 I wonder if that holds true for other religions.

00:02:31.600 So I would agree with this sentiment in general.

00:02:35.960 I would say people are less religious.

00:02:37.500 The religious crowd, if you find, they tend to get studies from, like, very right-leaning

00:02:43.640 institutions.

00:02:45.940 But generally, if you look at the general trends of church attendance, it's mostly down.

00:02:51.400 Second, everyone was basically the same as when we graduated.

00:02:56.640 After 30 years of life, the similarities of behavior were fun to see.

00:03:01.560 This isn't surprising, as evidence shows the stability of personality,

00:03:06.060 excluding substantial life-changing events.

00:03:11.440 Third, given the stability of personality over a lifetime, if you're not happy with your

00:03:16.340 behavioral patterns, best to be sober about the challenges of changing oneself, because

00:03:22.000 you will inevitably become your patterns.

00:03:26.300 30 years is 10,950 days.

00:03:29.560 And I left concluding, one needs to live each day, as if that day will one day determine

00:03:35.980 where they will be 30 years from now.

00:03:38.440 Fourth, statistically, by our 30th reunion, we'd expect to have lost less than 20 of our

00:03:43.960 classmates.

00:03:44.740 But I think we've lost more many to suicide.

00:03:47.520 In the next 10 years of age 50 to 60, it's expected we'll lose 20 more and 40 more from

00:03:53.540 age 60 to 70.

00:03:54.940 Only 250 out of the 400 will still be alive when we are 80.

00:03:59.960 Fifth, our childhood experiences deeply affect our life outcomes.

00:04:04.200 Middle school, junior high, and high school can be especially brutal, and some people never

00:04:08.900 recover or overcome.

00:04:10.740 This led many to not attend.

00:04:12.500 For those that did, we found a vibe together last night that allowed for some long-needed

00:04:17.260 healing.

00:04:18.200 It's insane how fast life happens.

00:04:20.740 I'm still struggling to comprehend how 30 years has passed, and many of my classmates

00:04:25.500 are now grandparents, and I'm not too far off either.

00:04:28.420 I loved my childhood.

00:04:29.940 I loved my friends.

00:04:30.760 Of course, I'm exhibiting a bias of favoring the positive.

00:04:34.620 However, in contrast to the world my children grew up in, I'm grateful that we had so much

00:04:39.380 freedom to explore, play, be independent, and not be imprisoned to our devices.

00:04:43.220 I wonder if social media and device addiction is really the next great plague that we can't

00:04:48.860 or refuse to see.

00:04:49.880 Well, I think we all know that social media is messing up our brains, but you can't really.

00:04:55.620 I mean, I was thinking about this the other day.

00:04:57.320 I think most relationships start either through social media or dating apps.

00:05:02.020 So if you don't do it that way, you're kind of left behind.

00:05:05.700 I mean, you might die alone.

00:05:06.840 Not always, but I'm just, I'm saying that's a huge pond there.

00:05:10.700 And if you don't do it that way, you're kind of cooked to some extent.

00:05:17.520 So this show, you know, what I thought was the most interesting about this topic is what

00:05:23.940 he said about personality traits and how people consistently, even if it had been 30 years,

00:05:31.520 had the same core personality traits.

00:05:34.700 And this really got me in like deep thought for like two days.

00:05:40.820 I don't, I don't think that this is what social media is rotting our brain.

00:05:44.240 I don't think it should have had me thinking for two full days, but I thought so much.

00:05:49.860 I just thought I must, I have to do a show on this topic.

00:05:52.860 Now, my dad, he's the wisest guy I've ever met in my life.

00:05:58.820 I am so delusional that I literally think my father is smarter than Donald Trump.

00:06:04.340 I do.

00:06:05.660 And my dad, I say this to him sometimes, and my dad is just like, what is wrong, you know?

00:06:11.380 But I do.

00:06:12.400 I'm like, I don't think, I'm like, if I wish I could have a camera following my father for

00:06:19.880 a day because that is the most productive, most intelligent, and just good-natured man

00:06:27.200 I've ever met, really.

00:06:29.220 I mean, it's kind of what made me in a way less religious because my dad, he's not really

00:06:35.440 the most religious guy, and he's the most moral person I've ever met in my life. 0.92

00:06:41.360 And the religious people I would meet would be batshit crazy. 1.00

00:06:45.220 Not all, but just enough, especially the women, if I'm being honest. 1.00

00:06:50.400 If I'm going to be, like, for real here. 0.99

00:06:52.620 Women are the worst marketing for any religion, ever. 1.00

00:06:57.200 Ever. 0.99

00:06:57.720 If you want people to come to your church, there's this idea. 0.91

00:07:00.540 And maybe the boobs will get the men in for a little bit, but then once the women crash 1.00

00:07:05.120 out, anyways, neither here nor there. 0.81

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00:08:47.240 So, a couple of years ago, this story doesn't make me look the best, but I'm going to tell

00:08:53.580 it anyway.

00:08:54.800 I was dating this guy.

00:08:56.100 My dad just was not the biggest fan.

00:08:58.620 This was, like, in my early 20s.

00:09:01.040 And, you know, I was talking to my dad about him, and I was like, Dad, do people change?

00:09:08.340 You know, like the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, young little pearl, right?

00:09:12.360 And he looks at me, and he said, yeah, people do change.

00:09:16.160 They get worse over time.

00:09:19.480 I got to stop banging the desk, don't I?

00:09:21.820 And he said, they get worse over time.

00:09:23.700 So, any trait you see now that you don't like, just know it'll be worse in 10 years.

00:09:30.240 It will not get better.

00:09:33.100 And this really had me thinking.

00:09:35.940 At the time, I did end up breaking up with this guy.

00:09:39.200 I did end up dumping him, but it got me thinking about what I'd seen in terms of people's personality

00:09:46.720 traits.

00:09:47.220 But when you're young, you know, I think there's just a level.

00:09:50.180 And this is why men love the young women.

00:09:51.880 We're just so full of hope back then, you know.

00:09:54.440 We're so naive.

00:09:56.080 We're so, like, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

00:09:59.640 But I personally know what it's like to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and have people,

00:10:04.480 and I should say movements, take advantage of that in a way.

00:10:09.160 You know, they sell you a future.

00:10:10.700 They sell you hope.

00:10:12.080 When really, no one can really say for sure what's going to happen.

00:10:15.120 But if we follow where the trends are going, it's all pretty much not great, if I'm being

00:10:20.040 honest here.

00:10:23.460 Neither here nor there.

00:10:25.020 I got to stop going down this.

00:10:27.060 So anyways, at the time I was in my young 20s, and when my dad said this to me, I didn't

00:10:35.300 really have the life experience or the perspective to know if that was true or untrue.

00:10:41.100 But I have to say, whenever somebody has done me wrong in life, whenever there's been somebody,

00:10:48.620 and I keep saying this on the show, whenever there's been somebody that has done something

00:10:54.260 negative towards me, I keep saying my enemies, they have a tendency to take themselves out.

00:10:58.900 There was a woman, not even going to say her name, but she's been crashing out on me for 1.00

00:11:03.320 years, and I would say mercilessly has bullied me.

00:11:06.760 And, you know, I choose to be here, so I'm not playing victim.

00:11:11.480 I'm just saying objectively, I think she made videos pinpointing every little detail of what

00:11:19.000 is wrong with my face.

00:11:20.320 You know, it's like I'm just trying to talk, and she has a video nitpicking every little

00:11:27.940 part of my face. 1.00

00:11:29.040 I'm like, can a bitch exist? 1.00

00:11:31.900 You know, that's how women are. 1.00

00:11:34.760 And it turns out, you know, I'm not even going to the rumors about her, but I'll just say

00:11:39.880 they're 10 times worse.

00:11:42.620 And the things I found out about this woman, I'm like, you have to deal with yourself.

00:11:52.220 I don't even have to get revenge.

00:11:55.260 And I think that's really been true for the most part in life, is people that have a super

00:12:00.080 negative trait about them, it tends to not change, and I would say it tends to just get

00:12:05.660 worse over time.

00:12:06.720 Now, I do think people have ideological shifts.

00:12:11.680 So I do think, I have seen men and women go from conservative to liberal and liberal to

00:12:17.800 conservative.

00:12:18.400 And I do at times, not Nala, but I do at times think there's genuine change in those shifts.

00:12:26.560 But, you know, for example, I have a close friend who, he's a, I love him, but he's a

00:12:33.720 libtard, you know what I mean? 1.00

00:12:35.560 He is who he is.

00:12:37.340 And, but he used to be very far right.

00:12:42.260 And I would say the people that tend to go one way and go another, it's more of a personality

00:12:47.140 trait where they're just very open-minded, you know?

00:12:50.480 They're very, and while they might believe one thing or another, maybe they're really

00:12:54.420 naive, and they're just that kind of person that is a naive person, and that can be easily

00:13:00.480 swayed one way or another.

00:13:01.900 Where, you know, I've always, I've always envied, in a way, people that could just have

00:13:10.180 an opinion and not have to talk about it or think about, and think about every angle for

00:13:14.320 three hours.

00:13:15.020 Because I guess I make money doing this now, but in an average world, you know, when I

00:13:20.460 was younger, I used to not go out to bars.

00:13:24.260 Like, I would be invited to events, and I wouldn't go because I wanted to binge YouTube.

00:13:30.040 Like, I think something is off with me.

00:13:32.600 Do you know what I mean?

00:13:34.360 I'm like, that's not normal for a 23-year-old woman to do, like, you know?

00:13:40.260 And I remember my friends, they would, they would ask me to go to stuff, and I would just

00:13:44.860 be really bored by the idea of, like, going to this event where I'm going to do what?

00:13:49.600 I'm a bad dancer.

00:13:51.440 Now I have to get all these calories.

00:13:52.980 I'm going to have to work off later.

00:13:54.320 I should just hang out and do YouTube.

00:13:55.660 I've heard the Zoomers are worse than the Millennials. 0.90

00:13:58.720 I'm almost a Zoomer, but not quite.

00:14:02.220 So, but it still gets me thinking.

00:14:04.920 I think people's core traits are the same, but at times there is a skill deficit.

00:14:11.060 Give you another example.

00:14:12.500 I was never the type to really shake it and move on the dance floor.

00:14:16.580 I never, I was always kind of grossed out.

00:14:19.440 But, you know, when I was younger, it was really grinding or nothing, and I'm like, why

00:14:24.900 does it, why do these have to be my choices?

00:14:27.180 It's like grinding, or like white people jumping. 0.88

00:14:31.100 I'm like, well, these are my choices.

00:14:32.780 So I never liked dancing.

00:14:34.700 But then I learned the skill of salsa dancing, and I actually thought it was really fun because,

00:14:42.000 you know, it was more of like a framework, and I'm kind of athletic.

00:14:45.840 So I may act different in that environment, and in an environment I normally would just

00:14:52.320 be off to myself because I had a new skill.

00:14:55.560 And I think that's true sometimes with men and women, where men, I mean, women are kind

00:14:59.560 of scary, and I think men know that from a young age.

00:15:02.240 You know, the woman says you hit her even though she hit you five times first in the playground,

00:15:07.320 and now you're grounded, right?

00:15:09.700 So men learn from a young age. 0.59

00:15:11.460 It's like women have all this power. 1.00

00:15:12.660 Or she'll insult you, and then the second you insult her back, your mom's like, what

00:15:17.120 are you doing?

00:15:17.820 You meanie? 0.93

00:15:18.420 And you're like, are you kidding me?

00:15:21.280 So I think men kind of start, you know, kind of afraid of women.

00:15:25.660 And there are men that that's kind of something they have to overcome to approach women in

00:15:29.680 public or like say hi to them, whatever.

00:15:32.760 That's a skill.

00:15:33.580 But if you ask any of the people that know them, who they are at their core, you know,

00:15:39.460 they're either friendly, the friendly guy in the group, the, you know, there's always

00:15:44.140 the leader in the guy group because men naturally can have a hierarchy. 0.98

00:15:48.380 Women's leader in the friend group is usually the bitch, where men's leader in the friend 1.00

00:15:52.820 group is usually the most competent one or charismatic, I'd say, in general, because 0.99

00:15:58.580 men naturally can organize themselves a little better.

00:16:01.580 Where women, it's like, who can get away with the worst behavior? 1.00

00:16:05.000 We're going to put her on top. 0.99

00:16:09.220 But neither here nor there.

00:16:13.840 I think people's core is pretty much the same from the time that you're a young age.

00:16:21.220 And the amount of time it would take, like I'll give you, I'll use me as an example because

00:16:27.160 it's just easier.

00:16:28.660 And I'll use someone else in a second.

00:16:30.260 And I've always been a friendly, talkative person.

00:16:33.300 I've always, you know, I could always talk someone's ear off.

00:16:36.260 I've always, I've always been the smile.

00:16:38.340 You know, when I was in college, I don't think most people knew I was conservative, but I was

00:16:43.140 always the type.

00:16:43.860 Like, I don't think it would surprise people that I'm a YouTuber now.

00:16:47.240 Like, I used to rollerblade on campus with my dog and like a tie-dye shirt.

00:16:51.400 I'd have cat shirts.

00:16:52.220 So I think people might've thought I was a hippie.

00:16:54.940 Do you know what I mean?

00:16:56.460 Because of the way I, I used to be big into the cat shirts actually.

00:17:00.560 But if you talk to me, my core, you know, was an outgoing person.

00:17:06.100 And the amount of time it would take me to be introverted, I'd rather just kill myself.

00:17:10.340 Like, it would just, like the amount that I would have to fight to be something I'm not.

00:17:17.240 And, you know, and I think that's like a lesson you have to go through in life. 0.99

00:17:22.340 If you're a polite person, being a bitch is just not going to come to you. 1.00

00:17:26.540 You probably can't do it. 0.98

00:17:28.440 You can learn skills to maybe that people don't take advantage of you as much. 1.00

00:17:34.340 But if you're a bitch, you might as well be a bitch for a good cause. 1.00

00:17:37.220 I saw this crazy woman on Twitter. 1.00

00:17:39.840 And this was a woman obviously addicted to social media, obviously a trad con ethot. 0.90

00:17:45.760 And to the point where there was the, she put like a selfie next to the park's shooting, right?

00:17:54.360 And that's a disgusting thing to do.

00:17:56.360 I'm a lighthearted person, so I'm saying this probably in the wrong tone. 0.99

00:17:59.960 But, you know, when she's doing this, I'm thinking this woman's crazy. 0.99

00:18:08.200 But this same crazy woman got like 400 liberals fired. 1.00

00:18:12.360 And I'm thinking that's a woman using her crazy for good at least. 1.00

00:18:16.420 But the amount of time it would take her to undo the crazy impossible.

00:18:20.400 I mean, some guy would have to wrestle it out of her. 1.00

00:18:23.880 Good luck.

00:18:24.920 She'll do that to you. 1.00

00:18:25.860 To be fair, she will do that to you when you guys break up, whoever's dating her. 1.00

00:18:29.160 So, you know, I'd, you know, I'd be warned.

00:18:32.820 But, and so that's really what I was really thinking of.

00:18:38.920 And I was wondering if you guys had the same experience, if you've seen people change or

00:18:43.560 if they generally say the same.

00:18:45.620 I've seen people maybe have slight ideological changes.

00:18:50.100 I've seen at times maybe certain environments change people.

00:18:54.740 But, and I've heard people say the military changes people.

00:19:00.400 Now, I don't know.

00:19:01.540 I need you guys to call in.

00:19:02.860 I know there's a lot of military people that watch this show.

00:19:06.200 And I cannot, I've never been in the military.

00:19:08.500 So I cannot speak to that.

00:19:10.980 And I know this comparison I'm about to make is a terrible comparison to the military.

00:19:16.480 This is not the same.

00:19:18.640 This is not the same.

00:19:19.820 I'm going to, but this is the only comparison I have based on what I've seen.

00:19:25.060 Okay.

00:19:26.160 So please don't roast me.

00:19:27.800 But this is, so when I did volleyball, this is not the same, but we did have volleyball.

00:19:35.980 Like we did have very extreme workouts in volleyball.

00:19:40.080 Now for women, I will say, but we had like three minute. 1.00

00:19:44.620 I actually picked my school because I've just naturally, I'm a very passionate person.

00:19:52.260 And I've realized in life this at times can be my greatest strength and my greatest weakness.

00:19:58.060 But I really wanted a volleyball school that was going to push me.

00:20:01.960 And I actually picked the school I did because they didn't follow NCAA guidelines.

00:20:07.720 I think they got in trouble later.

00:20:09.660 But I wanted to be in the gym more because I was like, this isn't enough.

00:20:13.340 I get like two hours a day. 1.00

00:20:14.640 This is bullshit. 1.00

00:20:15.340 Women whine and then they limit your gym time. 1.00

00:20:18.480 They say you can't be in the gym longer.

00:20:20.760 And these coaches, they did not care.

00:20:22.520 They did not.

00:20:23.120 So if you wanted to be anyway.

00:20:27.500 So hang on.

00:20:29.440 It's all right.

00:20:30.540 So we would have like 50 burpees I think we had to do in like a certain amount of time.

00:20:36.980 I think it was like two minutes or something.

00:20:39.460 You had to do 50 burpees.

00:20:40.480 You had to do the beep test over a certain number.

00:20:45.080 You had to do an 800.

00:20:47.200 And there were women that worked harder than I would say they normally did. 1.00

00:20:52.440 But I would still say if you looked at the group of women, you could pick out the three women that usually worked the hardest. 1.00

00:21:00.160 And the three women that usually like there is this one girl and I knew she was going to be a balloon. 1.00

00:21:04.500 And I knew she was going to be fat because we would have to do these group workouts. 1.00

00:21:08.720 And oh my gosh.

00:21:10.380 Oh my gosh.

00:21:12.420 She would always like we would have to do I think it was 50 burpees in four minutes.

00:21:16.420 I would have to look at the book.

00:21:17.660 I don't remember.

00:21:18.860 But there is one way you did the burpees where it was like 100 and it was like a group of six or three or I don't know.

00:21:26.300 But all I remember is we kept having to restart this challenge because of this young woman who was just very lazy. 1.00

00:21:34.800 I think that's actually the worst trait you can have in the wife is a lazy woman. 1.00

00:21:38.760 I know hardworking is more of something women select for. 1.00

00:21:41.880 But when I look at my brother's girlfriends, I just can't stand lazy like women to be honest. 1.00

00:21:48.180 So. 0.83

Pearl - September 18, 2025

Religious Decline And Low Quality People Are Hard Reality For The Modern Day

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