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Wicked Smart w/ Lucas Bean
by Lucas Bean
Welcome to Wicked Smart w/ Lucas Bean hosted by Entrepreneur, CEO, Investor, Digital Marketing Expert Lucas Bean. On this podcast you’ll find we talk about dotcoms, startups, how to start your startup, ideas for side hustles, I give great advice to people who reach out, I interview cool people from huge dotcom’s, startup founders & celebrities and some special random current ideas and thoughts recorded just for this podcast experience. You think you know but you have no idea, this is Wicked Smart w/ Lucas BeanWith 20 years of Experience Lucas Bean has been through 4 dotcom acquisitions 3 of which were over $450 million, He Ran Marketing for Sony Pictures Crackle & Global Marketing for Atari. He’s raised $26 million in venture capital & currently runs Beanstalk Labs.
Episodes
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MAGA is a Daycare for Adult Children
In the summer of 2025, psychologist Craig Neumann did something no researcher had done at this scale before. He measured the empathy profiles of over 9,000 American adults, mapped those profiles against their political affiliations and views of Donald Trump, and published what he found in the...
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Fox News Is Making You Dumber
In 2012, a research team at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind poll set out to answer a straightforward question: how well do Americans who consume different news sources understand basic current events? The study was not designed to embarrass any particular network. It was designed to...
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Why Losers Loved Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk never graduated from college. He applied to West Point, was rejected, and instead of trying again somewhere else, he built a career telling other people that college was the problem. That decision, and the audience it attracted, is one of the cleanest real-world examples of a...
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The Psychology of Narcissistic Collapse
In 1975, psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg published Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism, a book that would reshape how the field understood the most dangerous personality structure in clinical psychology. Kernberg, working at Cornell University’s Institute for Personality Disorders…
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The Biology of Fear: Why Your Brain Picks Your Politics
Something doesn’t add up about American politics. Millions of people vote against their own healthcare. They vote against their own wages. They vote against clean air and clean water in their own neighborhoods. And when you show them the data, when you lay out the numbers, when you present the...
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How to Stop Fascism
Most people who recognize what is happening in their country right now share one thing in common. They don’t know what to do about it. They vote. They post. They argue at Thanksgiving. And then they go back to their lives and hope someone else figures it out. This is not cowardice. It is the...
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The Weight of the Person You Never Became
There is a particular kind of anger that has nothing to do with what is happening in front of you. It is not a reaction to a policy, a headline, or a specific event. It is older than that. It sits underneath everything else, coloring every interaction, turning every perceived slight into proof of…
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Conservative Culture Produces Weak Men
In 2012, researcher Brené Brown at the University of Houston published Daring Greatly, the result of over a decade spent studying shame across thousands of interviews. What she found about men was not what she expected. Brown went into her research focused on women. Shame in women, she found,...
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Why Conservative Men Can’t Spell
In 1963, historian Richard Hofstadter sat in his office at Columbia University and wrote a sentence that described MAGA sixty years before MAGA existed. He defined anti-intellectualism as “resentment of the life of the mind, and those who are considered to represent it; and a disposition to...
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A History of Trump Violence: Trump Incites Violence
A timeline of Trump Stochastic Violence and laws broken at the bottom ↓↓ There is a reason political violence in America keeps happening and nobody in power ever takes the blame. It is not an accident. It is not random. It is not mental illness. It is a system. And it has a name. In 2021, FBI...
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Christianity Is the Oldest Conspiracy Theory in Human History
Something happened 100,000 years ago that changed everything. A bolt of lightning split a tree in front of a group of early humans. The tree exploded into fire. The ground shook. The air cracked with a sound louder than anything they had ever heard. Nobody died. But the brain needed to know why....
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The MAGA Cult Is All Feelings and No Facts
The MAGA Cult Is All Feelings and No Facts There is a question that haunts every person who has ever tried to have an evidence-based conversation with a MAGA supporter. How can they believe something with zero evidence behind it? The election was stolen. No evidence. Exposed in over 60 courts.…
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Why Weak Americans Run Towards Fascism
In 1941, a man who had just escaped Nazi Germany sat down at Columbia University and tried to answer the most important question of the twentieth century. It was not “how did Hitler take power?” Historians had already begun documenting that. The question Erich Fromm needed to answer was…
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The Space Between Ignorance and Fear: Why MAGA Conspiracy Theories Flourish
There is a direct relationship between how well a person understands a system and how susceptible they are to conspiracy theories about that system. The relationship is not a subtle one. It is nearly mechanical. The less someone understands about how something works, the more likely they are to...
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MAGA is Incapable of Complex Thought
There is a way to measure how simply or complexly a person thinks. Not what they think. Not whether they are right or wrong. How their brain processes information. Whether it can hold one idea at a time or several. Whether it sees the world in two categories or twenty. Whether it can sit with a...
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Why Trump Supporters Cannot Sit With Uncertainty
Conspiracy theories are not beliefs. They are painkillers. In 1949, psychologist Else Frenkel-Brunswik at the University of California, Berkeley published a study that would reshape how we understand the relationship between personality and political behavior. She was not studying conspiracy...
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Trump Has Not Been Held Accountable for What He Says
There is a technique in rhetoric that allows a person to make the most dangerous, most inflammatory, most destructive statement possible and never have to defend a single word of it. The technique is simple. Say the outrageous thing. Wait for the reaction. When challenged, retreat to a safer...
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Why Some People Can Never Admit They Are Wrong
You’ve been in this conversation before. Someone does something wrong. You call them on it. With the thing they did right in front of both of you. And somehow, within five minutes, you are the one apologizing. You walked in holding the evidence. You walked out wondering if you were the problem.…
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Why MAGA Cult Boomers Are Selfish
There is a particular kind of hypocrisy in American politics that we usually explain as selfishness. Someone takes advantage of a government program, then votes to eliminate it. Someone receives financial assistance, then complains about other people receiving financial assistance. Someone…
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Is This Fascism? Yes
In 1922, 30,000 men in black shirts marched on Rome and demanded control of the Italian government. The King of Italy could have used the military to stop them. He did not. He handed power to their leader, Benito Mussolini, rather than risk a civil war. Within three years Italy was a one-party...
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MAGA Thinks The Performance of Being Smart Is Actually Being Smart
You’ve seen it happen in real time. A Trump supporter walks into a debate, a comment section, a family conversation, or a live stream with total confidence. They say something that sounds like a position. It has the shape of an argument. It has the rhythm of someone who knows what they’re talking...
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Why MAGA Cult Have No Self-Awareness
Why Trump Supporters Have No Self-Awareness There is a question that haunts every person who has tried to have a real conversation with a MAGA supporter. How can you not see this? The lies are obvious. The contradictions are public. The cruelty is on camera. The promises are broken in plain…
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Why the Media Keeps Putting Liars on the Same Stage as Experts
There is a practice in American journalism that has done more to destroy public understanding of reality than any propaganda campaign, any conspiracy theory, or any social media algorithm. It is practiced every day, on every major network, by journalists who believe they are doing their jobs...
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MAGA Bullies Need An Audience
In 1951, psychologist Solomon Asch at Swarthmore College ran an experiment so simple it barely seemed like an experiment at all. He put a person in a room with seven other people. He showed them a card with three lines on it and asked which line matched the one on the left. The answer was…
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You Can Disprove Everything a MAGA Believes and They Will Still Believe It
You have done it. You know you have. You sat across from someone and laid out the facts. Calmly. Clearly. With sources. With data. With court documents. With video evidence. You dismantled every claim they made. You proved beyond any reasonable doubt that what they believed was false. And they…
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Why Narcissistic MAGA Boomers Chose Fascism
Why Right-Wing Baby Boomers Chose Fascism Over Their Own Families Your parents chose a political movement over you. They chose a man they have never met over the child they raised. They chose Fox News over Thanksgiving. They chose conspiracy theories over their grandchildren. And when you set a...
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MAGA Supporters Gave Up on Themselves a Long Time Ago.
There is something about MAGA supporters that most political commentary gets wrong. The common explanation is that they are angry. That they are hateful. That they chose cruelty because cruelty is what they wanted. Some of that is true. But it is not the full picture. Underneath the rage,...
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Trump Supporters Think Like Children
There is a stage of brain development that every child goes through. Before the age of eleven, the human brain processes the world in concrete terms. One cause. One villain. One answer. Good guys and bad guys. Simple rules that never bend. Most people grow out of this stage. Their brains develop...
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Narcissist MAGA Parents Using Fascism for Vengeance
There is a moment that millions of adult children in this country can describe in almost identical detail. You set a boundary. Maybe it was about how they spoke to you. Maybe it was about how they spoke to your partner. Maybe it was about what they said at the dinner table or what they posted on...
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You Can Disprove Everything a MAGA Supporter Believes and They Will Still Believe It
You have done it. You know you have. You sat across from someone and laid out the facts. Calmly. Clearly. With sources. With data. With court documents. With video evidence. You dismantled every claim they made. You proved beyond any reasonable doubt that what they believed was false. And they…
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Why MAGA Stupidity is Dangerous
In April of 1945, a German pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged at Flossenburg concentration camp. He was 39 years old. The camp was liberated days later. Bonhoeffer had been arrested in 1943 for his involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. While he waited in his cell for…
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MAGA Was Always This Hateful
In 1971, Philip Zimbardo ran an experiment at Stanford University that was supposed to last two weeks. It lasted six days. He took 24 college students, screened them for psychological stability, confirmed they were ordinary, healthy, well-adjusted young men, and then randomly assigned them roles....
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Why Republican Rhetoric Keeps Producing Violence
On October 27, 2018, a man walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered eleven people during Sabbath morning services. In the weeks before the shooting, he had been consuming a steady stream of online content that described immigrants as invaders and Jewish organizations as…
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Conservatives Pretend To Be Things They Aren’t
There is a difference between being something and wearing the costume. A strong person doesn’t need a Punisher sticker on their truck. A smart person doesn’t need to use big words they can’t define. An athletic person doesn’t need to wear someone else’s jersey to feel like an athlete. A patriotic...
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The Reality Filter MAGA Never Built
There is a question that comes up every time you watch a Trump supporter defend something that is obviously, provably, measurably false. It is not why do they believe this. It is something more basic than that. How can a grown adult not see that this is nonsense? They believe vaccines cause…
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Why MAGA is Obsessed With Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk applied to West Point. He was rejected. He enrolled at a community college outside Chicago. He dropped out after one semester. Then he spent ten years walking onto real college campuses with a camera crew, screaming at teenagers, and building a media empire by telling millions of…
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Why Ordinary People Do Terrible Things
In April 1961, Adolf Eichmann sat in a glass booth in a Jerusalem courtroom and told the world he was just following orders. He had organized the deportation of millions of Jewish people to concentration camps. He had managed the logistics of industrialized murder. And his defense was that he was...
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The Alarm That Never Shuts Off
Every few days a new video surfaces. A grown man screaming at a barista because the coffee cup is the wrong color. A woman filming herself sobbing because a store put up a rainbow flag. A father losing his composure in a school board meeting over a book his child was never assigned to read. A...
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What Happens When Trump Is Gone
There is a question that almost nobody is asking about MAGA, and it is the only one that matters in the long run. Not whether Trump will lose power. But what happens to the millions of people who made him part of who they are when he is no longer there to hold it all together. This is not a new...
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MAGA Can’t Handle You Pushing Back
You have seen it a thousand times. A Trump supporter says something vicious. Cruel. Deliberately provocative. They mock a deportation. They laugh at someone losing their healthcare. They celebrate federal agents brutalizing people in the streets. They say it loud, in public, with zero hesitation...
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Conservatives Are Lazy Thinkers
Scott Eidelman went into a bar and proved something that most of us already suspected. In 2012, Eidelman, a psychologist at the University of Arkansas, wanted to test a simple idea. What happens to a person’s political beliefs when they stop thinking hard? Not when they change their mind. When…
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Why the Right Celebrates When People Suffer
In 2009, neuroscientist Hidehiko Takahashi at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Chiba, Japan published a study in Science, one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed journals in the world, that showed for the first time what happens inside the human brain when someone takes…
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Why Everyone in Trump's Cabinet is Desperate
Every authoritarian regime in modern history has faced the same problem. The leader needs subordinates to govern. But competent subordinates are dangerous. A competent deputy has options. A competent deputy has leverage. A competent deputy can build their own power base and, if the moment comes,...
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The MAGA Simulation: MAGA Lives in A Delusional False Reality
There is a question that sits underneath every argument you will ever have with a conservative, and it is not the one you think. It is not why they believe false things. It is why the true thing, once you show it to them, so often makes them trust you less. You produce the document, the footage,...
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MAGA Loves The Show
There is a comforting story the left tells itself about the people who vote for Donald Trump. In this story, they are dupes. They were lied to, they believed the lies, and the remedy is therefore simple. Supply the missing facts, expose the falsehoods, and the spell will break. It is a reassuring...
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How MAGA Cult Ends
Every cult in history has ended. The Peoples Temple. Heaven’s Gate. The Branch Davidians. Aum Shinrikyo. The Rajneeshees. NXIVM. Every single one. The leaders told their followers this movement was different. That this time it was real. That this community would last forever. It never does. The...
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MAGA Supporters Blame Everyone Else for Their Problems
If you watched the video, you already know what locus of control is and why it explains how Trump built his entire political movement around people who refuse to take responsibility for their own lives. This Substack goes deeper into the research, the real-world mechanics, and why millions of...
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The Internet Lets the Dumbest People in America Find Each Other.
Before the internet, every town in America had them. The guy at the end of the bar who thought the moon landing was faked. The woman in the break room who swore the government was hiding aliens. The neighbor who bought every tabloid at the grocery store checkout and believed every word. Before…
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MAGA Blames You For Trump
Gas prices went up. They blamed Biden. Tariffs are killing small businesses. They blame the media. Their retirement accounts are collapsing. They blame the deep state. Grocery prices are through the roof. They blame immigrants. The economy is contracting. They blame Democrats. Never Trump. Never...
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MAGA Is a Narcissistic Family System
A Republican senator says something mildly critical of Donald Trump. Within hours, MAGA is flooding their social media with death threats. A journalist reports a fact that contradicts the official narrative. They’re called an enemy of the people. A former ally, a former attorney, a former cabinet...
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Welcome to Wicked Smart w/ Lucas Bean hosted by Entrepreneur, CEO, Investor, Digital Marketing Expert Lucas Bean. On this podcast you’ll find we talk about dotcoms, startups, how to start your startup, ideas for side hustles, I give great advice to people who reach out, I interview cool people from huge dotcom’s, startup founders & celebrities and some special random current ideas and thoughts recorded just for this podcast experience. You think you know but you have no idea, this is Wicked Smart w/ Lucas BeanWith 20 years of Experience Lucas Bean has been through 4 dotcom acquisitions 3 of which were over $450 million, He Ran Marketing for Sony Pictures Crackle & Global Marketing for Atari. He’s raised $26 million in venture capital & currently runs Beanstalk Labs.
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