Brett Cooper (3:50)
You still have the vote. We got the vote in 1965. Yes. Years beyond that now. Now you can vote, Whoopi. You have freedom. People in Iran, they do not even have that freedom. And you are trying to sit here and say that because you didn't get the right to vote until later on in our country's history, that you are just as oppressed as people living in the Middle East. That is absurd. And according to Whoopi, the atrocities that occur in countries like Iran are basically the same as what black People endure in America in 2025, women killed for showing their hair, being blocked from getting an education, gay people being thrown off of buildings. All of that was brought up in this conversation. The first part of this clip was them going back and forth yelling about this. She heard all of that. It somehow didn't get through her thick skull with all that tight hair, basically pulling all the oxygen out of her brain. And she still had the gall to sit there and say actually black people have it the same. It is just the same as living in America as an oppressed person. Like do you genuinely, Whoopi, do you have any default other than just being an angry victim like 24 7. Like please take a chill pill, travel the world, get some perspective, maybe take some time off of the View and take a class with Peterson Academy to try to further your understanding of the world. And Peterson Academy is Jordan Peterson's online university that is open for enrollment right now. So if you are somebody who loves lifelong learning and wants to learn from the brightest professors in the world, or if you've ever benefited from Dr. Peterson's lectures, this platform is for you. Every month Peterson Academy releases four new in depth eight hour university level courses taught by world renowned experts and designed to keep you engaged. This is not your normal class. This is something totally different. These courses cover an amazing range of topics from philosophy to history to math and science business complete with optional testing to further your understanding of every single subject. Plus they are continually rolling out new educational features as they go. There is already a built in social community where you can connect and learn alongside like minded people from around the world. So if you are ready to challenge your intellect, expand your horizons and take control of your education no matter where you are in life. It is time to go to petersonacademy.com Brett to get started today it is $399 per year to access all of the eight hour courses with four new a month plus the community with a seven day money back guarantee. Now back to our good friend Whoopi. I have to give her some credit because she was not the only person trying to bring racial plight back into vogue this year. Just take a look at this headline from a couple of days ago. That was right around the same time she was saying all of this on the View. This is from Breitbart. The Hunger Games star Billy Porter said that America is Nazi Germany right now and the Jews are black people. I mean guys, you've got to be kidding me. Like these people, they spend their entire existence pretending to struggle and pretending to be oppressed in the year 2025 while people around the world are getting murdered in civil rights atrocities. And they cannot even fathom that that is a reality. They can't even fathom that it is worse than what they perceive is happening to them in America. Like, no wonder people are done taking you seriously, and no wonder you are so much less happy than the rest of the country. Now, we don't need a study to tell us that. Obviously we know the people on the right are much happier than people on the left, but a new one just came out, so we might as well talk about it. And wow one again, my friends, conservatives are much happier than liberals in every single category by a wide margin. Just take a look at this chart. I mean, like, it is truly insane. In every single category, conservatives score higher on this happiness scale. One category that is not shown in this particular graph that I think is really interesting is that conservatives who only make $30,000 a year have the same level of happiness as a Liberal who makes $100,000 a year. I mean, talk about gratitude and being joyful and finding hope and just being generally happy, regardless of your circumstances of being able to find joy even in small moments, even when you're not making the money that other people are making in this society. And I mean, it's probably because conservatives do not spend every damn waking moment trying to claim that they are the most oppressed people in history. And to that point, this tweet summed it up well. This guy said, because the worldview of the political left requires a delusional obsession with trying to solve mostly non existent problems, they replace religion with politics when their politics are a never ending uphill battle against reality. Delusional obsession with trying to solve mostly non existent problems. That is the most important line in that entire tweet. And shockingly, that existence takes a toll on people. And suddenly you become the boomers that we talked about last week who are crying over Trump and beating up Trump dolls. Suddenly you are the people wishing death on an innocent child, which we should talk about next. So the Georgia woman who was kept on life support because she was pregnant just gave birth. Now, if you don't know this story, back in February, a woman named Adriana Smith, who was nine weeks pregnant at the time, went into the hospital complaining of a headache. They basically turned her away. They said, nothing's wrong, just go home, sleep it off. But the next morning, she was rushed to the hospital yet again after her boyfriend woke up to her gasping for air in her Sleep. And soon after, she was declared brain dead at the hospital, suffering multiple brain clots. Now, at the time, her story made major headlines because the doctors at this hospital told her family that they could not pull the plug, that she would have to stay on life support due to her being pregnant. And the fact that Georgia's abortion laws did not allow for abortions after a heartbeat is found. And because she was technically alive, even though she was brain dead, they could not allow her family to make the decision to pull the plug because that would kill her unborn child, making it an abortion in the eyes of this hospital. Now, her mom, since the beginning has been doing interviews and talking about this because obviously it made the news. It was a huge thing back in February. She has been giving interviews since the beginning. And in one interview she said, I think that every woman should have the right to make her own decision, and if not, then her partner or her parents. She's pregnant with my grandson, but he may be blind, he may not be able to walk, he may not survive once he's born. That decision should have been left to us. Now we're left wondering what kind of life he will have and we're going to be the ones raising him. Now more than anything, her family was upset that they did not get the chance to make this decision for themselves. And although they were worried and they were giving interviews and they were saying, this just doesn't feel right, they did hope the best for her child. They were excited to meet him. They hoped that, that he lived. But of course, because this was centered around Georgia's abortion laws, the pro abortion activists took this and ran wild. And it has become a weapon against the pro life movement since February and against Georgia's abortion laws, which is called the Life Act. But what it seems like nobody is talking about is the fact that Georgia's Attorney General, Kris Carr came out and said that the state did not make this decision. This is not something that is based on their laws. The hospital made this decision. And even further, he said that their law did not require the hospital to keep her on life support. Specifically, he said, there is nothing in the Life act that requires medical professionals to keep a woman on life support after brain death. Removing life support is not an action with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy. So therefore, it is not an abortion. It is not even in the same category. This is something that the hospital decided to do and then they blamed it on a non existent provision in this Georgia law. And so in my opinion, I was watching all of this transpire I was seeing all the hubbub online and the outrage, and it just felt like the hospital was using this poor woman as an example, as a way to protest against these abortion laws and to make a political statement about something that was not even real. And they told the family, we have to do this because they'll come after us. You cannot make this decision. We have to. No, you don't like. This is not a fight about abortion. This woman did not ask or want to kill her baby. She suffered a medical tragedy, and it is a miracle that they were able to keep her alive and have her be able to grow this baby and be able to deliver him just a couple of days ago. But it is the hospital, not Georgia, that dragged her and her family into the middle of this sociopolitical debate. Again, not Georgia, not Trump, not the abortion laws. And obviously, I am so glad that this baby got a chance at life. I hope that he survives. I think he was born at 1 pound and something ounces. He's currently in the NICU. I think anybody with a heart and any kind of moral compass would hopefully for all of that. But of course, per usual, the tweets that I am seeing from the left after this innocent child was born are sickening. One person said, I still hope the baby doesn't survive more than another day or two. People are seriously not understanding the precedent across the country that will happen if the baby survives. It really is the absolute worst thing that can happen. A baby being born alive, being saved is the worst thing that could happen. Another person said, I might be a monster for saying this. Oh, yeah, you kind of are. But I don't want that child to live because if it grows to live and have a decent life, then we as women are doomed to never escape the role of an incubator. Adriana Smith was an experiment of a country that hates its women. Again, the country did not do this to her. Georgia did not ask this to happen. The hospital made this decision, blamed it on the state, and told the parents that it had to happen. I'm not going to sit here and debate about whether this is the right thing and whether we should do this all the time. If a mother who was pregnant and is brain dead, but the blame here in the vitriol is completely misplaced. And I think a lot of these people know this. And just reading all these comments is so incredibly disheartening and angering because these people would rather have this living, breathing child die so that they can further their political agenda, because that is all they care about. Like at least the people on the right who are pro life and were supporting this, were wanting an innocent, wanted child to live. We are not the same. We will never be the same. Like, these are not people that I want to live on the same planet with. Just like I don't want to live in a world where men are proposing to AI chatbots. And yet here we are, friends. Because what's new in 2025? Now on that note, two new MIT studies on the effects of AI just came out and wow, shocking. It is not looking great for humanity. What is looking great for humanity though, is eating a Good Rancher steak every night like me. And for anyone out there who is worried about the tariffs affecting them at the grocery store, don't worry anymore. Because Good Ranchers is completely, completely tariff proof. And that is because their meat is actually 100% American. It is born, raised, processed, packaged and shipped right here in the States. So you won't have to worry about your meat prices going up. And on top of that, Good Ranchers is also giving you your pick of free meat for life if you subscribe today. That is free ground beef, which is my favorite wild caught salmon seed oil, free chicken nuggets or bacon in every box for the life of your Good Rancher subscription. 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So in this study, they had participants write SAT essays using ChatGPT as one option, Google search engine. And then a third group used nothing at all. And then they used EEG brain scans to study their brain activity as they were going through all of this. And they Found again, unsurprisingly, that of the three groups, the ChatGPT users had the lowest brain activity. But even more shocking is that they consistently underperformed at neuro, linguistic and behavioral levels. Now, the study lasted seven months, and ChatGPT users over those seven months got lazier and lazier as the study went on. And by the end of it, they were literally just copying and pasting what AI wrote. One analysis of the study reads, after writing the three essays, the subjects were then asked to rewrite one of their previous efforts. But the ChatGPT group had to do so without the tool. While the brain only group could now use ChatGPT, the first group remembered little of their own essays and showed weaker alpha and theta brainwaves, which likely reflected a bypassing of deep memory processes. The task was executed, and you could say that it was efficient and convenient, but as we show in the paper, you basically didn't integrate it into any of your memory networks. The second group, in contrast, performed well, exhibiting a significant increase in brain connectivity across all EEG frequency bands. This gives rise to the hope that AI, if used properly, could enhance learning as opposed to diminishing it. Now, in reading all of this, I am brought back to something that my mom was adamant about when we were going through my whole education, my homeschool experience, and that was that I would never recall information better than when I was actually physically tangibly writing it down. And therefore when I was going through classes, even though I grew up in the digital age and I had a laptop and I would have essays that I would need to submit online, I would have classes online. Regardless of that, she made me make sure that every single note that I took was actually handwritten in a notebook. Every outline of a paper that I had to submit would start in a notebook. The first draft would be handwritten. Because every study shows that actually writing something down increases your understanding and your memory of the subject. And so obviously Compare that to ChatGPT and basically just copying and pasting what AI is telling you, like the understanding, the cognitive integration of this into your brain, which I'm sure is vastly different. So now imagine students going from handwriting everything to then taking notes on iPads or laptops, now to just using ChatGPT, their understanding of these subjects are going to be significantly hindered. Now, moving on from that little tangent, the study only had 56 participants and it has not been peer reviewed yet. So that's important to note. But the author of the paper, whose name is Natalia, she wanted to release the findings early to elevate concern. She said, what really motivated me to put it out now before waiting for a full peer review, is that I'm afraid that in six to eight months there will be some policymaker who decides, let's do chatgpt kindergarten. I think that would be absolutely bad and detrimental. Developing brains are at the highest risk now. She's not wrong to be concerned. We talk about this all the time and we know that it goes deeper than just intellectual development. And the second study that just came out of MIT points directly to that. It showed that users who engaged with AI became lonelier and lonelier the more time that they spent talking to it. Wow. Again, shock of the century. And this is not some theoretical issue because we have been seeing the use of AI companionship skyrocket over the last year. In fact, CBS News just a couple of days ago released a special on a married man who is having a full on emotional affair with an AI chatbot. Just watch.
