The 50th podcast. That’s fun to type. We’re closing in on a year at Men in Gorilla Suits…and that matters to us. Not that anything comes with hitting the 50th weekly show without fail, or even crossing the one-year mark on February 6. (The first show went up Thursday, February 7.) What matters is no matter what, we’ve put out a weekly show longer than many podcasts last.
Whether slammed with overtime at work, sick, busy with other things, or just wanting blocks of time off where we do nothing, we’ve proven our motto — that it really is as simple as chilling the fuck out…and making the damn thing!
The damn thing we’ve made for you this week is a podcast about…intelligence!
We start off defining what we see as intelligence, before discussing our own battle stories with IQ tests (and the results that followed taking the tests). After that, we ask the question: do we all start from different, measurable levels of intelligence? Without IQ tests, are there ways to measure intelligence?
Obviously, it’s rarely a simple thing, and we address that as we talk about different kinds of intelligence (book-smarts vs. street-smarts; survival mode vs. contemporary life). Some other questions:
- Does the intelligence of someone in a city scale if they find themselves lost in a jungle?
- Is the mechanic working on your car more intelligent than a college professor?
- Can one become more or less intelligent, or is it pretty much the same throughout one’s life?
- Is learning or education different from intelligence?
Then it’s genius time. Were Mozart and others like him a genius? How do average people stack up to those historically deemed geniuses? Is there even such a thing as genius, or is it all hype or adoration? Flipping genius on its head, does stupidity exist — and if it does, is it measurable? Are some people just more intelligent than others?
Finally, we wrap it all up by discussing the most intelligent person we each know (and, in the process, Gorilla Shawn settles a life-long family dispute)!
So put on your thinking caps and hit the comments to discuss your thoughts about…intelligence!
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