Gutfeld! Monologues - Gen Z’s Lack of Intelligence

Episode Date: February 10, 2026

As seen on Gutfeld!, a Superbowl streaker causes chaos on the field.  Meanwhile, Gen Z is less intelligent than their predecessors, according to neuroscientist, and Greg has the details you won’t want to miss! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your glee is understandable. Good evening, everyone. So during the fourth quarter of last night's Super Bowl, a half-naked male streaker ran onto the field. He's only half-naked. He left his pants on, leading everyone to believe that he has a small penis. I just say him.

New England Patriots star Stefan Diggs once again turned his back on the American flag during the national anthem. Although... Oh. Although one man liked it better when the athletes. athletes were kneeling. The couple who appeared to get married during the halftime show were legitimately wedded.

And get this, by the fourth quarter, she was already pregnant. Young kids. Known for his crazy outfits, Patriot star Mack Hollins arrived at the Super Bowl wearing a prison jumpsuit and shackles. Needless to say, most bystanders assumed he played for the NBA. Despite being a crushing bore, the Super Bowl was watched by over. 130 million people. To put that in perspective, that's 130 million more than the audience watching Britt Hume's only fans. Yeah, it's hard, literally. President Trump posted that Bad Bunny had one of the worst halftime shows ever. I disagree. The worst halftime show ever was the four years of Joe

Biden in between Trump. Seattle Seahawks kicker Jason Myers made Super Bowl history with five field goals during the game. Wow, that guy hit five three. in one night. Don't do it. Reminds me that evening I hooked up with a view. Wow. Oh, that was offensive? No, the entire audience looked at me when you said that joke.

All right, finally. Anti-ice activists in Minneapolis are now sticking dildos on their heads to protest against ice. But one man said he's already on top of it. All right. We'll be back with more Gutfeld. This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus. A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told.

Listen and follow now at Fox News Podcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. Let's do a monologue. So according to neuroscientists, Gen Z is the first generation that is less intelligent than the one before it. And that's saying something since the previous generation, eight long. laundry detergent. But kids born between 97 and 2010 underperformed on basically every cognitive measure from basic attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, numeracy, whatever, executive function and general IQ.

And the culprit, of course, they blame the evil screens. It's true. So many are looking at their phones constantly that there's been a huge increase of me running them over. Of course, whenever something goes wrong in America today. We blame the rectangle. Kids can't read. Must be the iPad.

Can't do math. It's the phone. Kids aren't watching Fox and friends. Well, maybe it's because they have eyes. But here's the thing. Tools don't make you dumber. They make you smarter. It's what separates humans from animals.

Think about it. When was the last time you saw a kangaroo change a tire? Or a cow use a vibrator. Wrong picture. People. Now, blaming technology for being dumb is like blaming your hair trimmer for the dollar sign shaved on the back of your head. It's a tool. It's not the tool to blame. It's the system handing kids the tool after removing discipline,

standards, and critical thinking. It's like handing a drunk his car keys and then being surprised he ended up driving through the front of a 7-Eleven. Remember, it was the teachers' unions who pushed the lockdowns and they kept schools closed, kids isolated, parents scrambling, and now they're shocked that test scores collapsed like J.B. Pritzker running after an ice cream truck. Social media also wasn't behind the political activism and trans mania that took over classrooms. That was activists masquerading as instructors. So now we hear from the same experts saying, wow, these kids are behind. Must be Instagram.

No, it's because you replaced education with identity and made victimhood a path to recognition. Look, an iPhone has never told teens to walk out of class to protest something they can't even define. And an iPad didn't tell teens that gender is fluid and math is racist. Schools did without any accountability in the last. Last time I checked, it wasn't the Republican Party running all that crap. It was Democrats and guys like this. But it's become the reflex to blame social media. Perhaps as a way for those truly responsible to escape culpability.

Meanwhile, look at what social media has accomplished. Musk's X provided the avenue for truth tellers to expose narratives as they took shape. Remember when they said videos of a bubbling Biden were deep fakes? Wasn't social media telling us that? that. It was the mainstream media. And it was the dissemination of truth through X that debunked like that within hours. In the old days, if someone staged a fake hate crime, the media would run with it for months or years. Now the internet investigates in real time. Without social media, Justice Smolet would still be a civil rights hero instead of a known sugar daddy for Nigerian

bodybuilders. Sure, the internet can suck, but never in history have people been exposed to more ideas, narratives, and counter narratives of every sort. So this idea that screens just make kids stupid ignores reality. The real brain rot comes from teaching kids what to think instead of how to think. It starts with pushing orthodoxy. You either believe this or you are evil. Then school becomes repeat after me instead of think for yourself, which means that this generation, hopefully, may end up being the smartest of all because they're figuring out that those in charge of the truth are all full of... Let's welcome

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