The Lucas Bean Show

“America First!”

“Close the borders!”

“No more immigrants!”

Cool story bro.

America is literally named after an Italian immigrant.

The United States of America.

Named after Amerigo Vespucci.

An Italian immigrant who sailed here in the 1490s.

He was the first European to figure out this was a new continent, not Asia.

A German mapmaker named it after him in 1507.

Your entire country is named after an immigrant.

The Statue of Liberty? Sent by France as a gift to celebrate immigrants.

Your Constitution? Written by descendants of British immigrants.

Your favorite foods? Pizza from Italy.

Tacos from Mexico.

Hamburgers from Germany.

Your infrastructure? Built by Irish, Chinese, and Mexican immigrants.

Your tech companies? Founded by immigrants from India, Russia, and everywhere else.

Everything you love about America was built by immigrants.

You scream “America First” while standing on land named after an immigrant.

You wave a flag sewn by immigrants.

You eat food made by immigrants.

You drive cars designed by immigrants.

You use technology invented by immigrants.

Your entire identity is built on immigration.

So next time you yell “close the borders”

Remember:

If we actually closed the borders when your ancestors showed up, you wouldn’t be here.

America was built by immigrants.

America was named after an immigrant.

And you’re too dumb to see the irony.

So…You’ve been fired.

Science just proved again what we already knew:

conservatives lack empathy.

“Why should I care about them?”

“They’re not our problem.”

“America First.”

Cool story bro.

You’ve been fired.

Researchers from Northwestern, NYU, and Boston College studied over 30,000 people.

They asked one simple question:

Who do you care about?

Liberals said: family, friends, strangers, animals, and the environment.

Conservatives said: my family and people who look like me. That’s it.

Conservatives extend empathy to 70% fewer people than liberals do.

Science has already proven that conservatives have larger, overactive amygdalas.

That’s the fear center of your brain.

When your brain runs on fear, you can’t expand your empathy.

You see outsiders as threats, not people.

Now people keep asking me

Is it biological? Were they born this way?

Or is it from authoritarian parenting where you learned empathy gets you hurt?

Science says: both.

Your brain can get wired for fear

through childhood trauma and authoritarian parenting.

But once you’re an adult, you get to choose whether to stay that way or not.

They COULD expand their circle.

They COULD work on their empathy.

They just don’t.

Why? Because being cruel is easier than doing the work to change.

This explains everything.

You don’t care when people suffer.

You don’t care when protesters get shot.

You don’t care when people can’t afford healthcare.

Anti-immigration? Who cares not our tribe.

Anti-welfare? If its not our family who cares.

America First? Only people who look like us.

Conservative politics is built on cruelty and a lack of empathy.

So what do you do with people who have no empathy for others?

We make sure they never hold power over us again.

And stop pretending they’re good people.

They’re not.

If they were they would reflect and admit they were wrong.

They will go down with the ship before they feel that shame.

So with that said.

You’ve been fired.

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Reference to study: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heatmaps-indicating-highest-moral-allocation-by-ideology-Study-3a-Source-data-are_fig6_336076674

you ever notice how some people react to change like it’s a personal attack?

New ideas.

New cultures.

New people.

And instead of debating, they panic, rage and scream about “tradition”?

There’s a biological reason for that.

And it explains everything.

Neuroscientists ran multiple peer reviewed studies and they scanned the brains of thousands of people

to see if there was a correlation between the brain scans and political affiliation:

And what they found was wild.

Conservatives have a larger, more reactive amygdala.

That’s the fear center of your brain.

It processes things like fear, anxiety and rage.

Liberals show more activity in the anterior cingulate cortex

the part of the brain that handles complexity and critical thinking.

Go figure.

This was so accurate…

The scientists were able to guess a person political affiliation 82% of the time

82% OF THE TIME!!!!

Now Before you go screaming ‘fake news,’

this isn’t one study.

It’s multiple independent studies across different countries,

published in journals like Nature, Neuroscience, and Current Biology.

This is empirical scientific evidence. not opinion.

Conservative brains run on fear.

Liberal brains runs on curiosity.

The amygdala’s job is simple:

detect threats and freak the f**k out.

Fight. Flight or Freeze.

When the amygdala is oversensitive, everything new feels dangerous.

Brown people moving into your neighborhood? Threat.

Spanish guy on a Super Bowl stage? Threat.

Being chill and not rage watching newsmax? Threat.

Not because there IS a threat.

But because their amygdala MANUFACTURES a threat.

This is why facts don’t work on conservatives.

You’re not debating ideas.

You’re debating their terrified lizard brains.

You present data. They feel attacked.

You offer logic. Their nervous system screams DANGER.

Every racist policy. Every immigrant based rant. Every culture war panic.

It all traces back to the same thing: a hyperactive fear response.

The border “crisis”? Amygdala.

The trans “agenda”? Amygdala.

The war on Christmas? Amygdala having a meltdown.

And here’s the part they’ll hate:

This means progressives literally have a more evolved brain.

Comfortable with change.

Openness to differences

Ability to update long held beliefs

Meanwhile, conservative brains are stuck in caveman threat-detection mode.

Perfect for 50,000 BC.

Horrible for a modern society.

Does this mean conservatives are stupid?

No.

Does it mean conservatives are evil?

No.

Does it mean that their political beliefs are driven by primitive fear

instead of rational thought?

Yes. Exactly that.

So next time someone screams about immigrants, or DEI, or pronouns

Don’t debate them.

Their amygdala won’t let them hear you anyway.

Just remember:

you’re watching a frightened primitive brain try to make the scary new world go away.

And it isn’t working.

Sources: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3092984/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3572122/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72980-x

https://news.osu.edu/brain-scans-remarkably-good-at-predicting-political-ideology/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-liberal-brains-might-have-some-real-differences/

If you’re someone who has normal human empathy like me,

it’s probably getting really hard to watch what’s happening in the United States right now.

You’re not crazy.

But I wanted to find out exactly what’s going on here.

So, I did some research on why some people seem like they have no empathy.

What I found out was crazy

So I put together a list, and I want to share it with you.

Authoritarian regimes try exploit people’s empathy.

This is their number one tactic.

Empathy is the brake pedal on cruelty.

Most people don’t want to see other people suffer.

But authoritarian regimes exploit this by dehumanizing groups of people.

They call them enemies, traitors, invaders, illegals

And once you start dehumanizing people, anything becomes justifiable.

Low empathy plus high fear equals an authoritarian mindset.

Most of these people who seem to have no empathy

grew up in households where love was conditional

authority was absolute

and questioning the authority (your parents) was consistently punished

They learned safety comes from obedience, not connection.

Authoritarian followers crave order, fear chaos, and react strongly to perceived threats.

They have a very large over-active Amygdala, that’s the part of the brain that controls fear.

authoritarian households reward go along to get along or else.

So their group identity replaces empathy.

The leader becomes their father figure.

When a group of people fuse their identity to a person or a movement, facts become hostile.

Any criticism is seen as a personal attack.

The only language that is spoken is one of loyalty to the leader. OR ELSE YOU’RE OUT OF THE GROUP, OSTRACIZED, PUNISHED or worse.

That is why you cannot disagree with any of these people.

Propaganda just needs to make you stop caring about the targeted group.

Once that happens, fear and loyalty take over completely.

Radicalization spreads through group reinforcement.

Dehumanizing jokes, slurs, threats, and loyalty signals that normalize cruelty over time.

That’s why the rhetoric keeps escalating.

If you try and hold the leader accountable, followers see it as persecution of the leader.

If you don’t hold them accountable, the leader escalates the cruelty.

People without empathy don’t experience that pain, guys. They don’t. They literally don’t feel it.

That’s why they can celebrate when others get hurt.

If you feel exhausted, it’s because you still have empathy.

You feel the real world harm, the breakdown of human decency.

If you’re someone who feels empathy like I do, you’re not weak.

You’re normal.

You’re just in a reality where empathy is being exploited.

I keep hearing people say

"If you're in America, speak American."

"Stop speaking Spanish, this is America."

"Speak the right language or get out."

Cool story bro.

“American” isn’t even a language.English came from England.You know, the country you supposedly fought a revolution against.

Spanish has been spoken in North America for over 500 years.English only 400 years

So if we’re playing the “original language” game you’re losing by about 100 years.

And before BOTH of them?Native Americans. For thousands of years. Their own languages.But sure. Let's “Speak American.”

The states you love so much?Florida. Nevada. New Mexico. Colorado. Montana. Arizona, California

All Spanish names. Every single one.

Half this country was literally Spanish-speaking territory before it was American territory.

Half of America was owned by Spain.

The Rio Grande? Spanish.Los Angeles? Spanish.San Francisco? Spanish.

The land itself basically speaks Spanish.

And here’s the part you’re gonna hate:

There are more Spanish speakers in the United States today than in Spain.

The United States is the second largest Spanish-speaking country on earth.

So when you scream “speak American”

You’re not defending tradition.

You’re just scared of a language that was here before your ancestors were.

So next time someone tells you to “speak American”

Just smile.

And remind them:

this land was speaking Spanish before their ancestors even knew it existed.

Estás despedido.

If facts worked, this would be over already.

They don’t and there’s a reason.

Most people think some supporters ignore facts because they’re uninformed.

That’s not what’s happening.

The mechanism is identity fusion.

Identity fusion is when a person’s sense of self merges with a group or a leader.

At that point, criticism doesn’t feel like disagreement.

It feels like a personal threat.

So judgment changes.

Standards apply to everyone else but us

Behavior they wouldn’t accept from anyone else gets excused, minimized, or reframed as necessary.

Not because their values disappearedbut because defending the group feels like defending themselves.

That’s why evidence doesn’t work.

You’re not debating facts.

You’re triggering a threat response.

And once identity is on the line,truth stops being the priority.Belonging is.

That’s not ignorance.That’s fear overriding judgment.

Bad Bunny is the halftime show at the Super Bowl in 2026

And a certain segment of America is losing their f-cking minds.

“This is America’s game!”

“Where’s the rock and roll?”

“I’m boycotting the NFL!”

Cool story bro

But you’ve been fired.

You can’t boycott the NFL they

already fired you as a customer already.

The NFL did the math.

They looked at their audience and more importantly,

they looked at their FUTURE audience

and realized something you’re too scared to admit:

They don’t need you anymore.

Bad Bunny isn’t just the biggest Latin artist in the world.

He’s the biggest artist in the world. Period.

Most-streamed artist on Spotify for multiple years running.

Selling out stadiums globally in minutes.

And here’s the kicker: He represents the actual America.

The NFL drew a line in the sand.

They said: You’re either with us, and recognize that that America is evolving,

that Latin culture IS American culture,

that the future is bilingual and bicultural

Or

you’re FIRED!!!!!

The Stats

Hispanics are the youngest demographic in America.

They’re 20% of the population and growing.

They have over $3 TRILLION in buying power.

The NFL isn’t pandering. They’re not being “woke.”

They’re being smart.

You Got Dumped

I know it must suck to get dumped by football.

They’re just not that into anymore bro.

It’s not you. It’s your read hats and hate.

You’ve always got your rage watching NEWSMAX and FAUX NEWS

Don’t worry, you’ll be alright.

Meanwhile, the rest of us?

We’re going to enjoy the show.

We’re going to celebrate American culture.

We’re going to watch the biggest artist on the planet

perform on the biggest stage in America.

Because it’s never a bad time to do the right thing.

The NFL made the right choice.

And whether you like it or not…

You’ve been fired.

Today I sit down with Jonathan Butterworth.

Jonathan is a former fortune 200 executive turned entrepreneur. In this episode we unpack what it really means to redefine success, face fear, and build a life on your own terms. From selling his first business in college to rediscovering his purpose after corporate life, Jonathan shares raw lessons on leadership, courage, life, meaning, purpose and the psychology of fulfillment.

Key Topics Covered:

Breaking free from fear and societal conditioning

Lessons from climbing the corporate ladder

Managing people vs. truly leading them

Turning layoffs into life-changing opportunities

How confidence and curiosity drive success

The underrated power of relationships and mentors

I Love this episode and I'm happy to call Jonathan a friend. 

Enjoy everyone. 

Today we chat with Tarik DiDomenico a friend an AI Specialist at RedHat. He's Ex-Sony, MUFG, EY works in AI for Enterprise, former Exec Media, Entertainment and Fintech Exec. 

He previously worked with me at Sony Pictures and he's just a very smart guy. 

We chat about: 

This is an amazing conversation with a wicked smart guy and all around good dude.