Does tap water make you stupid?
Episode 8 · June 16, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min
What if they've been lowering our IQ through the tap water? XO digs into fluoride: why it ended up in the water, the studies linking it to lower IQ, what "mildly intellectually disabled" actually means in points, and a tongue-in-cheek 500-year plan to make everyone easier to herd.
About this episode
What if they've been lowering our IQ through the tap water? XO digs into fluoride: why cities started adding it to water in 1945, the research linking high fluoride exposure to lower IQ in children, and why the tap matters even if you only drink it in coffee.
XO breaks down what IQ numbers actually mean, Einstein's estimated score versus the average American's, whether IQ can be raised, and a tongue-in-cheek theory about a 500-year plan to make everyone easier to herd.
- Fluoride
- Tap water
- IQ
- Public health
- Conspiracy theories
Key moments
- 0:00Is the water making us dumber?
- 3:06Fluoride in your coffee
- 6:11Where's the long-term data?
- 12:20Fluoride in toothpaste and in the tap
- 18:18Old pipes
- 21:25Einstein's IQ vs. yours
- 30:4030 points from "mildly intellectually disabled"
- 39:591945: the first fluoridated city
- 49:32Can you raise your IQ?
- 58:59A 500-year plan
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0:00What if I told you that the powers at be have been lowering the IQ of society using the water that we all have access to? And it sounds like something straight out of a movie or something like some hardcore villain You know, we're making people effectively more stupid through the water that they actually drink and shower with and make their coffee with and boil their noodles in and etc, etc. It sounds like something that is so kooky that it would have to be made up, but there is actually in fact something that is added into our water that is actually known to lower IQ. Fluoride, you might have heard of it. You might have brushed your teeth with it this morning. Hopefully, I hope you brushed your teeth this morning.
0:55At least, you know, society as a whole will benefit from more toothbrushers and uh yeah, I approve of that message. But fluoride has actually been known to lower the IQ. But what's fluoride got to do with water? What's fluoride got to do with people actually becoming more stupid in society? Is this a real thing? This can't be true. This has to be something that if we are becoming more stupid, we have to be able to point at things like social media and, you know, before that the television and before that the radio and whatever the that you want to point at to say that this is the reason why we're becoming more stupid. And you might be right. This might not be one of those there's only one answer. It might be D. All of the above. There's multiple reasons why we're actually becoming less and less intelligent, but let's let's actually just so you don't think I'm like just some conspiracy coupe that is uh just riffing off some random let's let's actually look at the effects of fluoride.
2:09All right, so fluoride effects on the brain. This can't be real, right? This can't be on some James Bond villain Like, I'm going to put fluoride in the water. And the only reason that I will give the public of why it is used is because we need to prevent tooth decay. You got to make sure your smile is white and shiny and you don't have any cavities, man. You got to make sure that everything is fine, you know? So, you might become a little bit less smart. I'm not going to say stupid, but you won't be as intelligent. You would think that we could just keep our intelligence and keep our extra IQ points, and that would give us the smarts enough to brush your goddamn teeth, but whatever. But studies exploring the potential effects of fluoride on the brain have yielded varying results. Particularly, particularly, See, that's that goddamn water.
3:06I've been drinking coffee every day. And what you think I'm putting bottled water in that I probably should because I can't even say particularly. Particularly, this is concerning, but particularly concerning the impact on cognitive function, especially in children. That's scary. Not just everybody, but the kids. Let's get the kids. Ain't that some evil demonic If we're going to go after anybody, we're going to go after the that are still developing. the people that are going to be the future of our society. Right. And it says potential for negative cognitive impacts. Research suggests a possible link between higher fluoride exposure and lower IQ scores in children. Studies in areas with high fluoride levels. Many studies have focused on populations with high levels of fluoride in their drinking water. Often in countries where natural fluoride levels are high.
4:01So this isn't something where, you know, we're making fluoride in a lab and then we're putting it into our water system. It's it is naturally found in in the world. So, it's it is natural. We we'll say that. But if we're sitting here doing studies and we're seeing that it's actually lowering the IQ points of children nonetheless, you know, just our most innocent of humans amongst us, you know, it. Why not just affect the kids? It's okay. Jesus. um association not causation. So these are like just different bullet points that uh the AI overview on Google is trying to give me. Um it is crucial to remember that studies suggesting these associations between fluoride and lower IQ do not definitively prove a cause and effect relationship. And it says that we need further research and more research is needed to fully understand the relationship between fluoride exposure and brain development, especially concerning the effects of low fluoride levels like those commonly found in US water supplies.
5:11Um that's that's kind of what's wrong. Not let's see again it's one of those D all of the above. That's one of the things that is wrong with America. Um we we have decided to be one of those countries that you have to prove uh beyond reasonable doubt or whatever for a fact that A affects B in order to get A out of society. Um kind of like think of the the different food dyes that uh that obviously has been pretty controversial here recently. It's things like this that where in other countries you would actually have to prove that it's safe first and then you can, you know, bring it to society. That makes a lot of sense. Somebody hasn't been drinking their tap water. Or you can switch it completely flip the script like the United States and say, "You know what?
6:11No, we'll introduce it to everybody and then go ahead and and give me some tests of years worth of data to prove that this is actually the exact causation." Cuz again, what does it say? Association, not causation. Like it could be there, but is it causing it? Because you actually need to cause it in order for us to pull it. My thing is if there is already fluoride in natural like spring water or whatever the case is um that's that makes sense that you know what I mean you would drink that if that's all that's available or there is like some sort of like it's a common fact like hey you can technically drink that water just know that it's high in fluoride. I feel like it needs to be a PSA type of thing where obviously you do whatever the you want. In my opinion, you should be able to put a damn needle in your arm and shoot up whatever the hell type of thing you want into your system.
7:07You feel me? Like, if it's not affecting somebody else, I mean, why? I don't approve. You know, it's the same type of thing. Like, I don't approve. um person like I wouldn't want to go and drink a whole bunch of high fluoride level water, you feel me? I wouldn't want to inject anything. I don't care what the it is into my body. Um but you do you. You know what I mean? PSA. Hey, by the way, drugs are bad. You know, heroin, not even once. Let's not do that one. It's not It's not the same as the weed, Johnny. Um, or maybe I'm just just being very hateful right now. And I'm sorry. I don't even know what those people are. Is that is that a just like a junkie? I don't know. That's a universal term. I'm sorry for anybody that decides to partake in that. Maybe I'm just being ignorant.
8:02Like, you don't know, man. The feeling you get cuz I mean, let's be real. There's people that think the same thing about marijuana that I feel about some hardcore like that or like maybe like psychedelics. Like why you do magic mushrooms? You're out of your mind, man. It might be the same type of like uh let me let me teach you a little bit. I don't know, man. Just off uh off topic. See, I I can't even offend the the junkies now. Got to watch out. Got to watch out. But if there's natural fluoride in the water around, okay, cool. You know what I mean? Drink what you want. Like, in fact, there's like a few miles away, there's this natural like spring water where I every time I drive past it, there's like a whole line of cars where they go down into this little I've never been.
9:04So, it's it just looks like some I don't know, like some rocks. I don't I have no clue. They just go into this hole and they come out with jugs of water. So, from what I've heard, it's like spring water, some natural water. I've tasted it before. It tastes pretty good. What I'm saying is people could still go and get the water that is high in fluoride, but for you to take the city water that everybody is, you know, the tap water that's going through everybody's sinks to actually put fluoride in to go out of your way and put fluoride in it. That's a little That's a little crazy, right? That's a little crazy. And then if you look up, why do we have fluoride in our water? Fluoride is added to public water supplies in many communities to prevent tooth decay, especially in children. It's a naturally occurring mineral that strengthens teeth and makes them more resistant to acid, which bacteria in the mouth produce.
10:01This helps reduce the risk of cavities and promotes better overall oral health. Cool. I like all of those. And see, that's that's what's really scary about this where it's like really it's really nice and pretty. It's all wrapped up in a bow, right? You don't just give a dog a pill. You wrap some cheese around that and be like, "Here, spot. Here's your cheese. Here's your food. Eat up." And then that's how it takes its medicine. Um, all of that sounds good. Like, wow. helps prevent cavities and tooth decay in children of children like I said the most innocent amongst all of us humans of course we want to protect them we want to make sure that their mouths are protected because you know what not everybody gets to go to the dentist you feel me and then we we we've tried um all these different ways where you actually technically can you know use the government like Medicaid for at least as a child, go and get your your uh dental care.
11:12But either way, there's going to be some children that don't get their dental work like they should, that are actually, let's say that they do get their dental work, but what's what's a visit twice a year really going to do? You know, there's going to be some kids that their parents just won't make them brush their teeth and we there there can't be any children left behind. So, what we're going to do is we're just going to add the fluoride to the water. And I know what you're thinking. Wait a minute. Fluoride sounds good. Except if you look at your toothpaste, look at the children's toothpaste. Look at all the different toothpaste that have fluoride in it. And what is it going to say? Do not ingest. And it's probably like, you know, if you if you looked it up, I don't know, it's probably says something about your stomach might hurt or whatever the the fact that there has been links association not causation to higher fluoride and lower IQ's amongst children.
12:20Even if it isn't one of those, hey careful, don't swallow our toothpaste because you might become a dumbass and your kids might just start flunking out of everything. It might not be one of those. Um, but that doesn't mean that that's not still something that happens. Like, you know what I mean? It's not one of those things that still if if you just continue to eat tube after tube, you would end up being a dumbass. Honestly, if you are eating tube after tube after tube after tube of toothpaste, you're probably 9.9 times out of 10 already a But but it doesn't mean that you should continue to get more of your IQ lowered. That's not saying like, oh well, if you have fluoride in the in the damn toothpaste, that should all be banned.
13:18That's not what I'm saying. That's not what I'm saying at all. Because if it does help prevent cavities, if it does help all of this it's just like don't swallow your your mouthwash either. You're not supposed to swallow mouthwash. You feel me? Like that could upset your stomach, too. I don't know. You got some 12-year-olds over here. Oh, there's a little bit of alcohol in my mouthwash. So, they're chugging down their mouthwash trying to get drunk for the first time, man. But you're really not supposed to be drinking that. It's supposed to just help your overall dental health. The same thing can be said for your toothpaste. Fluoride is cool. just don't put it in the water. And it's like, okay, who who is worried about this that's really drinking tap water? I mean, honestly, B, it's in my coffee. And I don't I don't know if as you brew the coffee if that changes anything like with the fluoride in the water.
14:22But there's fluoride in the water that I use to make my coffee. There's fluoride in the water that I use to um boil my noodles. What am I supposed to do? Take bottles of water and just And honestly, I could see having filtered water for for your your coffee. But are you supposed to do that every single time when you when you boil noodles and any other type of you know what I'm saying? Like where you rinse off your your vegetables and your fruit when you get it from the store. You go to rinse it off. I I hope if you don't rinse off your goddamn there's a whole bunch of pesticides there because, you know, you have to prove you have to prove that there is causation, not just association, You have to prove it in America. So, you're rinsing off all of your produce. You're using it to cook with.
15:18You're using it to brew coffee or tea and all of that. I don't have to be drinking glasses of tap water to be ingesting it. And yes, they do have filtration systems that you can either like have like a brea filter or you can even have it where it's built in to your actual sink and like that. But who are the people that are not going to be able to afford that? First of all, like if you are below a certain income level, you're probably not going to have a house where you've installed an entire water filtration system. And the brittle of things, they're not they're not that expensive, to be honest. So, there's not much of an excuse, but it is something else to keep up with. It would be an extra expense. It's not just one of those, especially if you are a household that you're just drinking tap water. Like I drink just bottled water and then it's just like I swear to God you have to go and get another couple packs every every damn few weeks.
16:20It's ridiculous. But I don't know. There's like this taste in the tap water and then maybe that's just me being bougie. Maybe it's the fluoride And maybe it's both. See, it could be D. All of the above. I don't know. It's It's one of those where the people that are being affected the most are going to be the children in the lower income households. And in the studies, because I've looked this up before, it's not like it's not like it's a whole bunch of points. Um, how much IQ points dropped from fluoride? See, it's just like giving me this at this point.
17:18Um, because I actually saw I remember I saw an actual number for it that these studies often focus on higher levels of fluoride exposure than the recommended.7 milligrams per liter. See, you're recommending these things. Who knows? I never have heard about that. I never heard about that growing up. And then it's like it's not just what you're doing at the house. Think about again it's children. It's known where children are affected more than anybody else. Like more than anybody else. And what do they do when they go to school? I'm thirsty. Well, there's a water fountain. Remember that? That nasty ass thing that you would get water from? I don't know about you, but I swear off of them I've seen enough people making out with that little sticking out, the little metal thing that I don't want no water. I don't I don't know where this has been. I don't know. And then that's not just to mention the actual water. Like let's say you have water coming out now.
18:18It has fluoride in it and what other whatever other minerals. And that's again still not it. Let's think about all of the pipes that you have. If you have um I don't metal pipes, there's probably like metal particles in there. If you're using the plastic pipes, now you're having microlastics coming out through your water. It's so scary. We already have all this We already have all these things that are going into our food and our water and it's in the air that we breathe and everything. But now we are purposefully adding fluoride to our water in order to what? Oh, it's tooth decay. You want to help prevent cavities amongst children. Okay. Yeah, that's that makes sense. Um, so it's insufficient to definitively state whether the low level of.7 milligrams per liter has a negative impact on children. See how much IQ points drop.
19:23Trying to find. Does fluoride lower IQ in children? If so, how much? Got to be exact, I guess. Yes. Research indicates a possible association, not a causation. I do want to discern the the difference. Now, we're going to ignore the fact that in any other circumstances, you can be associated. Imagine like you were associated with like a gang. Like, oh, that's that's a person known to be associated with the gang. I don't know. I I just I think it's funny how they use these like tricky little words where if it was used in another circumstance, especially when it's to put a in jail or prison, you know what I mean? That's when you start to you start to switch the rules.
20:20Um, so it says a meta analysis found that for every 1 milligrams per liter increase in urinary fluoride, there's a decrease in 1.63 IQ points in children. So some studies suggest IQ could be 2 to five points lower in children with higher exposures. And I hope the evil thing that popped in your mind wasn't that's not that much, bro. It's not even evil. That's not I hope the ignorant thing. And I mean the actual literal definition of it, you know what I mean? Like you just you just you're not you're not aware. You're not knowing. You're not aware of what that actually means. Yes. Whether it's one point, 2 point, 3 point, four point, or five points lowered IQ, that's not that much.
21:25And how much IQ does Einstein have compared to the average person. Okay. So, news articles often site an IQ of 160 around 160 to 180 is okay. I guess he never actually technically got discovered. So somewhere between a 160 and 180. And then the average person is between 85 and 115. Average IQ in America, a miracle. The average IQ in the United States is generally considered to be around 100. And bear with me on this. I know this is going to sound a little up, but how much IQ should be mentally stop giving me uh results?
22:37Okay. How much IQ to be mentally I'm sorry. Historically, intellectual disability. How impolitical of me. Oh, previously called mental retardation. So, I'm not off like the script did get changed. Okay. I thought I knew my lines here. I thought I knew my lines and then um I guess I was gas lit to believe that hey, this whole time you were a for saying those lines. Um here here's uh the actual script. But no, it was a revision. You revised some But um Oh my goodness. Yeah, because I just scrolled down. So it says mild is 50 to 70, moderate is 35 to 55, severe 20 to 40, profound 20 to 25. My god.
23:37Um so to be mildly how do they say it now? to be mildly intellectually dis disabled. Um, previously called mental retardation. You notice how it taught me Google was on some woke right there. It's like, "Hey, just to get you in the loop, you bigot. You Nazi." Um, but no, so what's crazy is to be mildly intellectually disabled, it's between 50 and 70. Just 30 50 or Okay, 30 to 50 points less than the average American IQ points.
24:34We don't have a lot to work with. You feel me? Like it's and then I understand where it's like okay if Einstein was between 160 and 180. You feel me? We are closer to being mildly than we are to being Einstein's. Did I say it wrong again? Mildly intellectual. That's too much. That's too much. That's too much. But damn, that's crazy. We don't have we don't have a lot to work with. So, let's say as your formative years, as you are developing, when you are a child, you are honestly, let's be real, when you're a kid, you are ingesting the most amount of tap water probably. Again, like I said, you you're you have no problem drinking the water fountain.
25:34You know what I mean? It's just it's when you get older that you're like, h maybe this isn't the most hygienic thing. Maybe I shouldn't just be cupping uh my hand and drinking the the water out of out of the sink after I brush my teeth. It's these little things. Um but yeah, so these are the years where you give the least amount of really. And I mean like as far as your hygiene, you just really don't care when you're a kid under 18. I mean, hopefully you end up starting to even out before you hit 18, but Jesus, like my kids, they just don't like my my daughter, my son, they don't care. They don't they will literally let their food get like I I I can't even explain it. There's it's just some nasty where it's just like, what's wrong with you? What's what's wrong with you? Why are you allowing this to happen? You're just going to You're just going to drink your drink after you've backwashed and I can see chunks of food.
26:33You need to chew. You need to chew and you need to swallow. It's disgusting. You turn this into like good god. It's gross. They don't care. And then they're still growing. They're still And that's and that's a part of it, right? They're still figuring out like what is it to be what is it what does it mean to be a human? Who am I as a person? So all of these things that are happening as you're already growing up and then you're adding in some fluoride. Just a little bit of sprinkle. Sprinkle a little bit of fluoride. Jeez. It's picture day. I want to make sure you don't have any cavities. It's picture day. Cheese. You're welcome. It's cuz of that fluoride. And I know you didn't know this and I had to I had to bring it to your attention cuz you're a dumbass. Because we made you Oh, cuz we made you intellectually disabled.
27:36I'm sorry. Because And I don't know if IQ can be one of those things that it's genetic cuz you can have a dumbass family and then have a smart child, right? And then the opposite, like I have a whole bunch of genius geniuses, doctors and lawyers. Not to say that those professions automatically make you a genius, you know? Don't always trust your doctor. Definitely don't always trust your lawyer. But let's say you have a whole bunch of top tier intellectual beings in a family and then, you know what I mean, the redhead stepchild ends up being born last and they end up just being a swing and a miss, man. Like they're just not there. You know what I mean? Bro's batting like a good 80 IQ. He's right right above that mild. Right above it. So, I don't know if IQ is genetic.
28:38Should we look this up together? I feel like I've been doing a lot of research today. Um, is IQ There you go. Yes, there is a significant genetic component to intelligence though it's not solely determined by genes. Okay, so it says with the heritability estimates ranging from 50 to 80%. So a good bit of it is like the whole nature versus nurture or is like some of that is just the rest of is you being a special snowflake and your environment. Either way, that's good to know. Genes play a factor into your DNA. But is it good to know? Because I feel like it's very easy to be what's the that main character syndrome where it's like it's all about me or even like if you do want to look more holy, it's about us. It's about the time we're in right now, the people that are alive right now. What about the people and the if you're the main character in the movie?
29:38What about the sequel or the this movie number eight? You know what I mean? How many generations down until you stop giving a Cuz it says what what was it? One to five uh IQ. And it's not definitive. You know what I'm saying? Association, not causation. Let's just say to be safe, too. Every generation it gets lowered by two. If you're in an area with high fluoride in your drinking water, in your tap water, and that's to say, like we're just talking about ingesting. What about when you're in a shower and it's like, you know what I mean? Your eyes open for a little bit and water technically goes into your eye or honestly, you do swallow a little bit of water when you're in the shower or some like that. You're brushing your teeth, a little bit of water technically got swallowed. These are very minuscule amounts of water, which would be even smaller amounts of fluoride, but still, man, this adds up, right? When we're talking about lowering our IQ, we're we're already only batting a 100.
30:40We're already only 30% away. America is 30 points away, rather from being mildly intellectually disabled. That's crazy. Like, that's a that's a crazy statement to be true. And then plus, you add on all the other health problems, you know? So, it's not just our minds, it's our bodies, too. But of course, why would we take care of our bodies? We're just becoming more and more stupid. Why would we? It takes a certain amount of intelligence to be like, "Hey, I need to take care of this body that I'm in." And not in one of those like, you know what I mean? Some bro meatthead type of, you know, oh, got to work out, bro. You know, all that No, I'm not saying as a way to escape or this is my identity or anything like that. But those people that are saying, you know what, it's not my favorite thing to work out or eh, I'm indifferent about it.
31:37However the you feel about it, it doesn't matter. But the main driver is because I want my body to be optimized. I want to be able to live as long as I can. I want to be as healthy as I can. That takes a certain amount of intelligence. So if one generation you're lowering the IQ by two and it's already what 50 to 80% like IQ goes through our genes, man. And then the next generation again we're lowering it by two. We're lowering it by two. I said that we're 30 points away. That's what 15 generations. 15 generations. If we were to go through that thought experiment of two points being lowered every single generation, that means after 15 generations, we we have literally a society full of mildly people.
32:38And not in any type of joking way, but in a dead ass, bro. That is scary. That's scary, bro. How much? How many? See, because 15 generations isn't 15 years. You feel me? So, it's a good bit. And this is why it's just like you were just passing the baton like, "Oh, it ain't going to be us, though." You know, we might be a little bit dumber, but ain't going to be as dumb as them It's okay. What? How many years is 15 generations? is 300 to 450 years and it might be like one of those man do you hear yourself 300 what like I what was it I' been drinking a little bit too much fluoride 300 to 450 years let's just say let's meet in the middle let's say 400 years 400 years from now what was 400 years ago was like what the 1700s, right?
33:491721 or 1725 rather. What am I talking about? 1725. We didn't have none of the basically that we have now. But we weren't in We weren't in the stone age. We weren't cavemen. We still had society. You know what I mean? Like we still had religion. That's that's scary. And they are coming up with all of this these new amazing fascinating things where we're possibly going to be able to regenerate ourselves kind of like the immortal jellyfish and actually be able to potentially live forever. So it might be one of those, oh yeah, we'll just pass the baton. I don't give a But man, what if let's say forget you, maybe you you like me can try to step outside yourself.
34:50Let's step outside of ourselves right now. Let's say we don't quite make it, right? Oh yeah, whatever. Live forever. Okay. Like they're doing some crazy sci-fi It's crazy. It's crazy. What about the just the next generation? You know, what if they live forever? What if it's not even just the next generation? It's actually it's going to be like 50 years from now. The next next generation. Well, damn. Do you love your grandparents? Did your grandparents love you? Cuz that's what we're talking about. Your future grandchildren. You feel me? The people that actually might have to deal with this might be your grandchild. Wow. They may be able to live forever.
35:46Even if you don't think that we'll be able to, which I think that we will, but doesn't every generation think that? Every generation thinks it's going to be crazy. But man, it's starting to feel like we're right. 400 years. That's insane because it won't affect everybody. And this is one of those things that yes, it's common knowledge. You can just Google the effects of fluoride so people can be aware of it. But I wonder I wonder if it's kind of like one of those things where if you grow up in a like a 1% type of house um you know what I mean?
36:44You're you know how to play the money game or at least your people know how to play the money game. So, some of those money games that aren't taught to a lot of people, well, they're handed down to you. And that basically means you can just have a little cheat code to skip past a whole bunch of things. And oh, that's not fair. that. Shut up. Shut the up. Cuz you would take it if that was your if that was the cards you were dealt, You would take that You would take it. Don't be salty. Tax the rich. Shut the up if you was rich. God, don't get me started on that tax the rich I'm might have to save that for another episode cuz that's some dumbass right there. But what if it is one of those secret things like, "Hey, actually don't make sure you get a full water filtration."
37:48Um, that will actually lower that. Like it'll make your kids a little bit less smart. I don't know. I feel like it might be one of those things where yeah, 15 generations from now, there's going to be some groups of people whether it's just luck based off of where they happen to to live like, oh, this city just didn't add as much fluoride or they didn't add any at all or this city just happened to be naturally high in fluoride already, so sorry about your luck, Chuck. Type But man, I feel like if we mapped that out, like it was a part of like, you know what I mean? Something where we could actually see the different regions, just how we have separated, we've drawn invisible lines in the sand and called them countries and states and like that. If we actually divided up the map based off of fluoride levels, maybe people would actually be able to have a better judgment on where they should live, where they should raise their family and like that.
38:56So 400 years from now, whether it is by one of those hidden secrets that oh just don't go over there. You know what I mean? like just you end up becoming stupid, end up having great great grandkids over there and you just be shaking your head, wishing that you live somewhere else. Come over here. The water's fine. The water is fine. It's good. Even if it's not, get a filtration system. I'm telling you. So there's going to be people that either by luck, by coincidence, by whatever fortune that has come their way where they don't get affected as much. And then the halves and have nots become even more divided. We don't have the IQ points to spare, man. We don't. Um, and another thing I really wanted to look up, when did we start adding fluoride to water?
39:59What year was this? 1945. Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first city to implement water fluoridation. Fluorideation. Oh, and they did that after studies showed that areas with naturally higher fluoride levels had lower rates of tooth decay. Well, that damn tooth decay. I just don't think it's worth it. I don't think it's worth it. Brush your teeth. Get your Get your kids to brush their teeth. Take that out of our water. There's no reason why we we should be doing this. You know what I mean? Cuz if you were so worried about that then, you know what I mean? Like it's just there's so many other things you could do take away.
40:57You feel me? Is tooth decay really the top of your priority? And maybe this seems a little bit like a conspiracy. Maybe it's just like, bro. And honestly, I'm not saying that it is. I'm not saying it's some grand conspiracy where there's malicious powers that be that are trying to make everybody slower and dumber and more docile and like that. No, that's not technically what I'm saying. Like it's 100% for a fact. You know, maybe maybe kind of glass half full being optimistic about society and about humanity overall. Maybe it was with good intentions. Like, wow, tooth decay is is actually is going down. What do you think that is? Oh, we have naturally higher fluoride. So, by the way, avoid Grand Rapids, Michigan, apparently.
41:54Didn't know that did you? Cuz we don't have the maps. Maybe we do. Maybe we do. I'm not looking that up. I don't know. But you can check the fluoride levels in your water in your local area. Just look it up. Look it up. So maybe it did start from a good place. Does it really matter? Does it really matter that the 50-year-old man that went to a bar had just had a very very shitty day at work and went to this bar to unload and actually ended up talking with some of the other people there and they all started having fun and having a good time and it made his day completely better. He actually felt like he could go home and feel stress free after a shitty day at work, after multiple drinks with these people that weren't friends, but he was able to be friendly with that human companionship that we all yearn for, right?
43:04It's not his fault that on his way home to have his stress-free night, he ended up being so drunk that he crossed over the medium and hit somebody. And it was a family and they ended up dying immediately on impact. And now there are four filled caskets going six feet deep. It doesn't really matter that at the beginning this all started with you just trying to do right. I had things were a little bit bad, you know. Had a shitty day at work. I wanted to feel better. I got some drinks, chilled with some other people. I had good intentions going out in the night. I didn't start tonight thinking like I'm going to get hammered and go smack head first into a oncoming car full of an innocent family. I didn't know.
44:04So at a certain extent it doesn't really matter how or why fluoride first got introduced to our water. But a part of me does wonder if it's kind of like hey studies have kind of indicated let's just put associated not you know an actual cause. There's no causation here, but it actually does look like this fluoride is dropping IQ points, too. Really? H by how much? I mean, as little as one point and as much as five points for everybody. No, it's mainly the children. H So, you mean as these kids grow older and kids already say the darnest things, right? like you're still they're still figuring out where their intelligence is going to lie. It's easy to deceive if it affects them the most, not the adults that have already their brain is already formed for the most part.
45:07H we actually might be able to get away with this where we would lower the IQ of these children and then the parents are just going to assume, oh, this is the actual IQ of my child. Who Who's to say? I'm still developing. I'm still becoming an adult. And honestly, at the end of the day, who wants their kids to have cavities? Who wants their kids' teeth to decay? Who wants their teeth to decay? Nobody. Nobody. And it adds that to So, okay, here's how we're going to spin it. tell everybody that we're going to get America to have a shiny smile again. We're going to have the man the best campaign all around avoiding tooth decay, avoiding cavities, making sure that your children are drinking their fluoride.
46:09And if anybody ever tries to do any studies or bring up anything dealing with the uh association of the lower IQ points in children one, it's already going to it's it's going to take a little minute for this to affect. So it's not one of those immediately. People are going to be able to tell eventually they'll be able to tell and by then we'll be able to say prove it. Prove that it's not other things. prove that it's not these new things that we're introducing to our food, into our air. You know, now we have social media and TV. Maybe your kids are just getting a little bit too much tablet time. Maybe you should put down the iPad, Karen. Put the iPad down and try to read a book with your kid. Maybe. Maybe it's your fault. Maybe. Maybe it is that sinister because godamn again maybe they're looking at a much longer time horizon than we expected.
47:21This happened in 1942 is what it said. Is that what it said? It was 194 something. 1945. That happened in 1945, which is what 80 years ago. That means basically a 500year plan could have been implemented at that moment. Hey, within 500 years, which might seem like a lot. I get it. But I mean, you grow to be what's the average age? Like 75. 500 years divided by 75 that's says 6.6 Six. That's kind of weird, too. 666 on that Like seven people. And about seven people from birth to death. And about seven people, we will have a good amount of society, especially the lower income that's causing all the the problems, the riff raff.
48:23And you know what we're talking about. You know what we're talking about. We got to we got to keep them in line. within 500 years, we could bring them down so many IQ points to where they're basically mildly You know how easy it'll be to her these sheep by then? To have them do whatever the we want them to do, to have them fall in line, say all the things that we want them to say. And you can actually kind of feel it, right? You can feel it. It's like it's the things that you're you're supposed to say. How many people get in line and start signaling their virtue? I I wear a mask. I have the black screen on my Instagram. And I don't say mentally I say that they have an intellectual disability.
49:32How easy is it for you to be molded into whatever the they want you to be as your intelligence goes down? And it might not be one of those things where you don't feel it. I'm not what you're talking I'm not stupid. I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure a dog doesn't feel like it's stupid, which there are some smart dogs out there. You know what I'm saying? Sorry to use your species as the punching bag. But I'm sure a dog doesn't feel like it's stupid. It probably feels like it has. You know what I mean? My dog just likes to do this whenever you talk. Like what? Like it's figuring some out. Like he he doesn't feel stupid. He feels aware probably. He feels like, "Oh, outside. Outside. Yes, I'll go outside. Eat. Eat. Yes, of course. I like to eat. I'm aware of this. It's not until you've already become smarter, become more enlightened, become somebody that has information that they didn't have before that you can say, "Wow, I really thought I knew it all."
50:44That's why you can look at your younger self and it's like, "Man, I thought I knew everything, man. I thought I was a little grown up. And then eventually you get to the point where you notice that c or that u that pattern happening over and over again and it's like okay I'm probably going to keep feeling this way within another 5 10 even one year from now whatever I'm probably going to look back and be like man I've become a little bit smarter and wiser I know a little bit more and I feel a little bit more prepared. I feel like I have better context with the world. That's all we're doing when we're born, right? We're trying to get context of the world around us. Babies trying to What are you saying? If I If I make a noise from my face hole, you'll actually come and give me this thing that I want. I don't even know what it is.
51:41What is a bottle? A tit milk. Huh? That's crazy. So, we're constantly just looking for context. We're constantly trying to iterate how we move about the world. And yes, when some people get to a certain age, or maybe it's not an age thing, maybe it's just sometimes people just check out cuz I guess you could do it young, you could do it older, but you get to a certain point in your life, a lot of people where they just get rigid, they get stuck in whatever frame of reference that they currently have. This is how I will always see the world. This is how I will always move about the world because this is what I've decided as the correct way to do things, the correct way to see things. That's scary. But I bet that that is something that is more common in people with lower IQ, you know, and that's not like throwing any shots.
52:46I don't know. Can you raise your IQ? Can you become just smarter? Like just by like learning more I don't know. Maybe IQ isn't one of those things where how many facts do you know? It's your ability to critically think possibly. So if your IQ lowers and with that your ability to critically think lowers, it's going to be harder and harder to be like, "Wait, why why would I question this? Oh, wait. How? What are we supposed to do? This? This way. Left foot. Right foot. Left foot. Right foot. Okay. Cool. I'm in line. Awesome. I'm in trouble. I stopped. I can't do this. Left foot. Right foot. Left foot. Right foot. Okay, cool. I bet it's really easy to just be like, "Okay, this is life. Don't ever question it. Make sure you don't go out of line. Look at that over there.
53:44They went out of line. They went out of line. Can't do that. My word. There's just some people that do things that I'm just not built for. Built for built for built. Built built for built. Sorry. Rebooted. Okay. Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot. You can't question anything. You can't even look at other people questioning things. It's like, ah, don't don't go towards the light, man. Just drink some tap water. It's It's going to be okay. Just drink some water. The water's fine. Smile. We fixed your teeth and you're welcome. I do want to say that within 400 years this will be our world.
54:47What if it was like yes, this is an evil movie. This was our master plan that we started in 1945. Here it is 2425. It's been 400 years. Finally, we're ready. Damn, man. And it's not even like you could look around for the rest of society and be like, "Come on, guys. Look what they're doing to us." The people that haven't had their IQs lowered as much and are able to think a little bit more critically and question the things that are around them and the powers that be. And maybe, just maybe, you don't know cut in stone the exact right answer. And everything that you say isn't something that should be written in stone. Maybe. But then you look around and you start saying, "Guys, we got to we got to rise up and then everybody around you just turn into sheep, man.
55:52They're all sheep. They've all gotten down to the IQ points low enough where they're just mildly functionable. You thought they're still able to get around. They're still able to take care of themselves, but we've lowered their IQ enough to make it where they don't question anything. When you go to ask for your brothers and sisters in arms, look what's happening. Can't you see we're being manipulated? We are actually being controlled even more. This is some sort of tyrannical being that has taken over. And they've just acknowledged that this has been an almost 500year mission started by their great great great great great great greatgrandfather up in Grand Rapids, Michigan to make us more stupid. And they're just all sheep people that are floating through life as much as we already see that now.
56:59As much as when I'm driving down the street and I see somebody in their car by themselves with a mask on and I don't know their I guess I don't know their circumstances. I guess I'm just questioning what the that's supposed to help. As much as we see like that, it's like oh my god. Like you're just fully indoctrinated. Like you're not you might not even be real. You might just be we we we think about all these bots on social media. Sometimes I feel like there are bots as people and that could be twisted and like bots, robots. He thinks robots are amongst us. And I'm not talking about the robots that are actually being built right now. But yeah, bots. I think there are bots, but not in the standard definition that we might like to give it. Not nuts and bolts. You take away their skin and inside it's just screws and metal and like that.
58:00No, I think that because we are so malleable, people can be turned into bots, robots, zombies, sheep, whatever word you want to use, NPC characters through their brain, whether it's lowering their IQ or all these different manipulation tactics that are used through social media and, you know, television just in general. all of the different tricks that are successful on so many. And yes, there are people that's like, "Wait, what? Like, you're really falling for this? Like, this is like, wake up. You're talking about woke, Wake up." As much as we see that now, this is us as smart as we're going to be from here on out until we take that fluoride water out. And no, it's not like you take that out and we will become smarter.
58:59We will be the species we're supposed to shut the up, man. Of course not. There's more out there. There's more things up with this world. This plan has many arms. Potential plan. I'm sorry. Powers of be going to come and get my ass, man. Is D all the above? No. If we take fluoride out, we're not going to immediately within generations, we'll see that we're smarter. I think there's multiple. I think, like I said, it's in our food, it's in our air, it's in so many different things. Why Why wouldn't it be? It's in our water. Again, it's always wrapped up so pleasantly with a nice pretty ribbon. See? helps prevent tooth decay.
59:55It's for your teeth. So, if we're already going through life and we're looking around and we're seeing these people, like I said, we're like, damn, you are a walking living bot. It's going to be so much more when we've dropped another 30 IQ points within just the next 500 or 400 years rather. And it's going to get worse before that. Again, they said Einstein was 160 to 180. To be mildly uh mentally challenged, you're 50 to 70 points. So even like a 15 point bump like you'll notice a difference. You know what I mean? is not just like boop boop like so even 200 100 years 200 years like as the the centuries go the decades go you would actually maybe that's why it's like god what's wrong with these kids growing like what's what's happening their IQ is getting dropped man they're drinking the fluoride bingo take that
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