On this episode, we cover the Joe Rogan Experience 2269, nice, with Brett Weinstein.

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I'm Cecil Cicero, and I'm joined by Michael Marshall, and today we're going to be covering

Joe's February 6th interview with Brett Weinstein.

How did Joe introduce Brett in the show notes?

So according to Joe, Dr. Brett Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist,

podcaster, and author. He co-wrote a hunter-gatherer's guide to the 21st century, evolution and the

challenges of modern life, with his wife, Dr. Heather Haying, who is also a biologist, and they both

horse the podcast, The Dark Horse podcast. Okay, so that's the show notes, but is there anything else that we should know about Brett?

I think so. There's some background, I think.

So Brett Weising used to teach biology at Evergreen State College until in 2017, he objected to an anti-racism protest, essentially.

Because for decades at Evergreen, ethnic minority students would

voluntarily observe a day of absence every year in order to highlight the contributions they make to

campus life. But 2017, there was a lot going on with race issues in the world. So at that point,

someone suggested that how about that year? What if it was white students who chose to voluntarily be absent for the

day instead? And in response, Weinstein emailed the entire campus email list of all faculty and

students to object to this proposal, calling the suggested voluntary absence, quote,

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