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DarkHorse Podcast

#169: Free Speech & Friendly Fire (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

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

In this 169th 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 sports bras, Twitter, AI, electric unicycles, and AIDS. Sports bras are a useful item of clothing for women engaged in certain kinds of sports; they are not a fashion accessory, but are being used as such, and as a weapon in the culture wars. Then: Substack announced a new product that will be compete with Twitter, and Twitter responded with chaos; “friendly fire” between two of the few companies that seek to protect free speech is bad for everyone. Also: what are electric unicycles, and how fun and safe are they? Finally: discussion of Celia Farber’s book, Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS, with some comparisons to what happened during Covid.

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Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Norris et al 2021. How the characteristics of sports bras affect their performance. Ergonomics, 64(3) 410-425: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140139.2020.1829090

A brief history of the sports bra: https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a20860634/a-brief-history-of-the-sports-bra/

Is Dylan Mulvaney trolling us? https://www.instagram.com/p/CqgTftujqZc/

Substack introduces Notes (a Twitter competitor): https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes

Farber 2006. Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS. https://www.amazon.com/Serious-Adverse-Events-Uncensored-History/dp/1645022072

Chelsea Green just republished the book: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/serious-adverse-events/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome to the 7,314th Dark Horse live stream podcast.

0:14.3

It is Saturday here.

0:16.8

It's actually the 169th podcast, is that correct?

0:19.6

It is.

0:20.6

Nonetheless, either way, I'm still Dr. Brett Weinstein, you are Dr. Heather Heing and we are

0:25.4

going to chat about some of, chat is no longer a term that we are ever going to use.

0:31.7

We are going to discuss some of the circumstances of the era and events of the day and all

0:41.1

those sorts of things.

0:42.5

All right, I tripped myself up, I said chat, my blood pressure left about four times and

0:49.6

I'm back.

0:50.6

I feel I'm calm again.

0:52.9

So there's that.

0:54.9

All right.

0:55.8

We're going to, we have a lot to talk about.

0:58.6

We're going to be relatively rapid here today.

1:02.0

We are not going to be doing a Q&A today and we are not going to be back here next week.

1:06.0

So you will see us next two weeks from now.

1:10.0

But we do have a number of interesting things to talk about today.

1:16.0

Twitter and sports brawlers.

1:18.5

Wow.

1:19.5

Yeah.

1:20.5

Yeah.

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