#147 Why Musk Matters (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, News, Adaptation, Modernity, Culture, Politics, Science, Evolutionary Biology

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

In this 147th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss Colombia—what was it like in the 1990s, versus now? Building on our experiences in Latin America for the last few decades, and Bret’s trip to Colombia last week, we discuss approaches to Covid, to food, and to life. Also: hummingbirds. We also discuss the American Federation of Teachers, and PEN America—an organization that supports literature creation and production—and how their political biases are badly affecting their ability to report on mis- and dis- information. In related news: Elon Musk has taken custody of Twitter, and some people are freaking out. Finally: how are Donald Trump and Elon Musk not the same?

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Mentioned in this episode:

PSA to the Mama Bears: Defend Your Children: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/psamamabears

From PEN America: Reading Between the Lines: Race, Equity, and Book Publishing. https://pen.org/report/race-equity-and-book-publishing/

L.A. Times op-ed: Op-Ed: How Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter could threaten free speech: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-10-27/elon-musks-twitter-free-speech-disinformation
AFT Washington: We’re pulling together to end the pandemic: https://www.aftwa.org/news/were-pulling-together-end-pandemic
Caitlin Johnstone: The Official narrative on Ukraine: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/10/29/the-official-narrative-on-ukraine/
Steve Kirsch: Dr. Peter McCullough is being progressively stripped of his medical credentials: https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/dr-peter-mccullough-is-being-progressively

Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome

(10:35) Sponsors

(17:55) Bret's trip to Colombia

(25:00) Colombia's COVID strategy

(40:35) CDC recommendations for childhood vaccine schedule

(55:25) Bret's trip into Andes

(01:10:00) AFT Washington - is disinformation political?

(01:24:20) Elon Musk buys Twitter

(01:45:40) Suicide search on phone

(01:53:14) Wrap up

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number one forty seven, which is a pseudo prime number.
0:09.8	It's not prime. No, it's not prime. It's not pseudo prime.
0:13.2	Well, it seems like it should be prime. So it seems like it should be prime.
0:16.8	It's rather a different thing. I don't think so.
0:18.6	As we were talking about in the long run up to today, we are incidentally
0:23.2	Heather Hying and Brett Weinstein. I was I was gonna explain that.
0:26.2	Talking about how it's three less than 150 and 150 being a multiple of three.
0:29.6	Clearly, it's not prime, but 49 by three, seven by seven by three,
0:34.1	21 by seven. That is a wicked method you've got there.
0:36.2	Yeah, I'm gonna have to adopt that method.
0:39.9	There'll be fewer pseudo primes if I do.
0:42.4	Don't know. This is not a good category.
0:45.0	No, it's not a good category. But you know, the the era of good categories is over.
0:49.9	No, wrong. Here we are. Part of the reason we come to you every week
0:54.3	is in defense of this is the sounds but all and uninteresting, but in defense of good
0:59.4	categories and defense of the concept that there are real categories in the universe
1:04.4	that are therefore both can be can that can be understood and are there for
1:10.7	worth defending as categories. Well, I know from people who come up to me and say this
1:15.5	and I know they come up to you and say this also that the role we
1:19.7	seem to be playing is keeping people sane. Now, I notice that nobody ever says we made them sane.
1:26.4	Right? It's a matter of preserving a sense. Hold them on to. Yeah.
1:30.1	Hold them on to what sanity they still have rather than generating or strapping sanity from
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