Reminder this is who Eric Weinstein of the "intellectual dork web" unironically promotes as a great genius. This is pernicious: when you give attention to such people, you're not giving it to real physicists, engineers who deserve it.
There is no evidence the people on your show are geniuses. Many think Neil Tyson is, or the Theranos gril was. Also, given your particular industry and social groups, you have possibly been made to think that others (of whatever race) in tech are geniuses when they're not