#0052 - Bret Weinstein: What's wrong with evolution
The Know Rogan Experience
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4.8 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's December 2025 interview with Bret Weinstein.
Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2427
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode, we cover the Joe Rogan Experience 2427 with guest, Brett Weinstein. |
| 0:08.1 | Again, No Rogan Experience starts now. |
| 0:11.1 | Music Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:29.5 | This is a show where two podcasters now with 156 hours of Rogan experience, get to know Joe Rogan. |
| 0:35.8 | It's a show for those who are curious about Joe Rogan, his guests and their claims, |
| 0:39.3 | as well as for anyone wants to understand Joe's ever growing media influence. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm Cecil Zizarello. |
| 0:44.9 | That's Michael Marshall. |
| 0:46.1 | And today, we're going to be covering Joe's December 17th interview with Brett Weinstein. |
| 0:53.2 | So, Marsh, how did Joe introduce Brett in the show notes? Brett Weinstein. So Marsh, how did Joe introduce Brett in the show notes? |
| 0:57.6 | Brett Weinstein, PhD, is an evolutionary biologist, author, and co-host of the Dark Horse |
| 1:04.2 | podcast with his wife, biologist Heather Heying. They are the co-authors of a hunter-gatherers |
| 1:09.4 | guide to the 21st century, |
| 1:11.5 | evolution and the challenges of modern life. |
| 1:14.5 | Is there anything else we should know about? |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah, so obviously we've covered Brett Weinstein in the first series. |
| 1:20.3 | So listeners will be familiar with who he is. |
| 1:22.9 | He's an IDW intellectual dartweb figure. |
| 1:26.0 | He made his name after he left a liberal arts college because he |
| 1:29.5 | objected to an anti-racism protest, essentially. And then he subsequently mischaracterized that |
| 1:36.0 | whole escapade and turned it into a career as an anti-woke, heterodox thinker, podcaster, and would-be |
| 1:43.9 | public intellectual. That's kind of his vibe. |
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