but you know dear listener you're going to be so glad that you tuned in this week because we are going to give you the answers yes and one of those answers is something that we've sort of been keeping from you everybody we've been sort of you know it's something that we kind of knew but we didn't really want to tell you we didn't think you were ready to hear it yet now although you've probably intuited it because you're that kind of person who can sense when someone better than you is telling you something and doug just kind of let the cat out of the bag there because what we need to tell you this week is that we're better and smarter than funny business and was just really sort of say it we are smarter than everybody else and we can do things that you can't do yeah now how do we know and how could we prove to people that we're smarter than they are oh it's very simple if it weren't true we would be terrified and we don't want to deal with that so therefore we are definitely smarter than everybody yeah as a good point you know we wouldn't want to look any other reality in the face yeah if we have fear on one side and a way of seeing the universe in another which way are you going to pick body the winning way so therefore we have proved to you and to ourselves that we are smarter than everyone else so i want you  just say nyet just say nyet to voter suppression just say nyet to nazis and those who love them just say nyet to foreign agents using social media to influence your children to teach them hate just say nyet to killing immigrants and people of color just say nyet to guns for toddlers just say nyet to your confused friends and relatives make your choice make your statements just say nyet to the hate machine big thing that's we need to love each other because loving each other is the way of loving yourself welcome back to the tom and doug show and we've revealed something you know you kind of knew it i could see it in your eyes all those years and we're telling you that we are smarter than everyone else and very everyone we are able to make decisions and understand things that you can only pretend to understand so when we do something that you think looks stupid yeah it's just because you don't get it because your not like us you just don't get it if you could see things from our viewpoint you would first of all be amazed how tall you are but then secondly you would say wow it's like pulling back the curtain and seeing how everything works and therefore i about my business without paying attention at all because you have the ability to understand things better than anybody else it is something that people really should learn from ok tom yes one of the ways that people prove to themselves and everyone around them that they're smart is through criticism if i can criticise something that proves to you that i can see it in a way that's smarter than your so and so listening to that song i'm going to criticize it because it didn't have enough of me singing in it and you know that's a really valid point that you're pointing out is there a way that we show how  are is to make criticisms of all the lesser ideas so for instance as an academic you would you probably know this that if any person who has studied let's say physics or something if you criticize that idea you have automatically placed yourself above all those years of study exactly i didn't need to do any of that study and yet see i'm already smarter they could write something other paper and publish a paper on the internet and you could write a comment at the end of it just dismissing the entire thing and that would demonstrate that you are smarter and sometimes because people are pretty dumb you have to spell it out and so in the comment you have to tell people that this guy is stupid but don't you think it would be useful to actually get into an argument among these comments about you useless and stupid things would that be helpful well yeah because that is the proving ground for intelligence because the more you can just attack relentlessly and especially here's the here's the key thing that most people not as smart as don't realize is you have to do it without any proof whatsoever and if you can do that you are really smart ok so that's what we need to do who needs proof when we have smarts and we can say you know i dismiss all your proof because i'm smarter than you because we are smarter than everybody else because we are us and everybody else is them therefore we are smarter than that in so let's play another song and this is going to be a really smart song and we'll see on the other side ouch that song smarts well we are so incredibly smart to play a song like that and see that's the other thing about smarting is that sometimes you're so smart it hurts yeah it does hurt and you look around you see just how dumb everyone else in the world is except you and that's kind of painful so what if we ever have a bad moment we doubt our own smartness maybe there's a moment where we say hey maybe i'm really not smarter than everybody else what should we do at that point well that technically would be called wisdom rather than smart or intelligent and who wants that no one wants that this show is so helpful t have a buddy we're back yes you've been waiting for us for a whole song and here we are and we are then that was smart of you because we are smarter than everybody else so we want you to behave in a way that accepts our smartness is this is this is the point tom the flip side to the hell of showing people how smart you are by criticizing everything else is when you recognize that someone smarter than you then you jump on their bandwagon and you go out and you tell people oh i just heard the best radio show the smartest radio show you need to listen to it and then you could be as smart as me by listening to it the more people that recognize how smart we are the more smart we are and the smarter you get to by association is going to make everything a little bit easier quite a bit easier if you just sort of recognize how smart we are and then you'll be willing to wait a whole week just to get your next installment of tom and doug smart attitude is yes anyway we love how you feel this way about us and we love when you support us in this matter and it's reciprocal i mean as much as you love us we love us too and we want you to know that we are behind you when we're rooting for you yeah when you're out going around your town holding that sign saying tom and doug a really really super smart we're smiling we're smiling about you are right well we will see you smartly next week thank you so much and you have a good week