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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

Division, Radicalization, and the Real Crisis Facing American Men | The Tom Bilyeu Show Live

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

Impact Theory

Education, News, News Commentary, Philosophy, Technology, Society & Culture, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu. In this episode, Tom and his co-host Drew jump straight into the thick of current societal and political tensions ripping through America—from digital manipulation and global disinformation, to the divisive battles over identity, gender, and violence. Drawing from recent news cycles and online controversies, Tom and Drew dig into how global powers exploit social media to stoke division, and challenge their audience to ground themselves against the rising tide of emotion-driven narratives dominating discourse today. Together, they dissect the psychology and biology behind polarization, fulfillment, and violent tendencies, weaving insights from neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and history. They also address why anger is such a motivating force—and such a dangerous one when unchecked—while mapping the intersections of male identity, cultural radicalization, gender roles, and the persistent confusion of contemporary masculinity. Part 1 promises a candid, unflinching look at how our minds, biology, and society collide, and why understanding our “biological experience” is essential to navigating the chaos of the modern world. SHOWNOTES 00:00 - Welcome & Introduction: Global Division and Disinformation 00:09 - Russia, RT, and Digital Manipulation 00:37 - Distraction from Big Political Moves 01:11 - Economic Reality vs. Emotional Outrage 01:38 - Strategies for Grounding Yourself Amidst Division 02:51 - Biological Experience & The Rules of Human Behavior 04:05 - Harnessing the “Dark Side” Responsibly 04:47 - Identity in the Aftermath of Violence and Assassinations 05:54 - Anger as Short-Term Focus, Long-Term Consequences 07:30 - The Danger of Colliding Values & Cultural Conflict 08:33 - Grounding the Social Media Debate: The Unseen Gen Z 10:08 - The Importance of Insider Voices in Cultural Discourse 12:12 - Why Is Violence Predominantly Male? 14:21 - Evolution, Gender, and Violence: The Biological Roots 17:08 - Physical Extremes, Gender Differences, and the Justice System 18:33 - Exploring Women’s Evolutionary Choices and Hypergamy 21:11 - The Breakdown of Male-Female Partnership in Modern Society FOLLOW TOM BILYEU: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu FOLLOW DREW: @DrewDynamite04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Tom. Bill U Show live. I am joined by my co-hosts,

0:05.6

as always, Drew. What's going on? Drew, how are we doing?

0:08.6

chilling. Happy Wednesday right back at you.

0:11.7

RT, the Russian Times, retweeted a black kid jumping on the statue and like making like

0:18.7

Charlie Kirk gestures in the middle of like a visual.

0:21.4

And I just kind of said, I sat back and I was like, people don't even know the RTs are Russian

0:26.0

Times. So somebody's going to see this and it's going to keep stoking that division. So going

0:29.6

back to your China point, there is incentive on the global level for us to be divided,

0:35.8

conquered, distracted, all these things. Through this last election cycle, we've been so focused on Charlie Kirk's assassination. We didn't realize that the Pentagon, the Senate just passed a law that you can't boycott Israel. We just passed a law. Is that true? I'm going to have to see that. That is so wild. I'm at the poll of a bill. So there's a lot of things that are happening in the background. We're not talking about inflation. We're not talking about making housing more affordable. We're not talking about these trade deals. We're getting caught up in the feeling and the motion of something that happened that people forget the global economy still moves. Rent is still due. Mortgage is still due. You still got to go to work tomorrow tomorrow so as much you want to argue with me in the comments make sure you go change those fries um so there's a lot of different things that like drew is starting to get spicy in you motherfuckers i just tell you this right now three people that like specifically but we're going to get to that i got a whole segment for you let's go let's go anyway um I say all that to say is that we're getting so caught up

1:29.2

in the division of it all. How would you tell people to ground it? How do you tell people to stop

1:33.1

trusting themselves so much in a way that you think they would listen with the extremes of both sides

1:37.5

yelling in their ear right now? Literally, the thing that I want on my tombstone is you're having a

1:43.2

biological experience. I am trying to get

1:45.4

people to understand that they exist inside of a set of rules. Now, you can say that those rules

1:50.4

were given to you by God? Great. You can say that those rules were given to you by evolution. Great.

1:54.6

You can say that we live inside of a simulation and that's just how the computer program was designed.

1:59.4

Great. Whatever. But like anybody that says that we don't operate under a system of rules is so retarded.

2:05.7

I don't know what to do with it.

2:06.8

So it's like once you understand, oh, there is a set of rules.

2:10.5

My brain works in a certain way.

2:13.7

Cool.

2:14.4

How does my brain work?

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