Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number 170 something, right?

170 on the nose. Wow, that's quite a thing on the nose. And here we are. We are back after

a week away in the amazing sun. So I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. This is Dr. Heather Heing and we've already

said it's the Dark Horse Podcast. So where we had it? Where we had it? Well, I think I want to talk a little bit about the sun today.

In natural selections this week, I wrote about near infrared radiation and and and some of its benefits that we are coming to understand.

So I want to just talk a little bit about that and then all in service of Earth Day, which is today. So I have a few excerpts to share.

Earth Day is today. I thought every day was Earth Day. No. All right. All right. I've heard that I did not check my source, but that has been I've been told that.

Yeah. Yeah. Although we're that the case, we'd probably be treating the place better. Yeah. I don't I don't see any evidence that we would be.

But because we're not right. Right. So it is Earth Day today. And I'm going to share some excerpts from this fabulous book, The Uncedaling of America Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry,

first published in the 70s and fresh and unfortunately as he writes in the afterward to the third edition in 1995, and just as true then. And now just as true today as it was when he first wrote it.

So we're going to use that as a jumping off point to talk about some of the things that we really ought to be doing if we were in fact honoring Earth on on this day, a day named for it, I guess, and on every day.

And then there's a couple other little little things we might talk about with the heck of the Biden administration doing with mortgages.

MIT just dropped its COVID mandates. We might we might we might get there. But yeah, so a couple little things also, but mostly Earth, they, what does that mean? Why do we like to celebrate it and then not do anything that actually makes it look like we either understand or give a damn about it.

So that's that's part of where we're going today. All right. All right. So before we do those some some housekeeping upfront, we're going to do a Q&A this week. We will be back again next week. We will not do a Q&A. So we've got a little bit of an unusual schedule happening right now. But this week we're going to talk to you guys that you guys for a while. Take a break and come back with a Q&A. You can ask questions at darkhorse emissions.com.

I encourage you always to go check out natural selections where I write weekly and we're talking a little bit about what I wrote there this week again with regard to the near infrared radiation.

We have a store we can get merchandise darkhorse store dot org lots of cool pins and stickers and shirts and backpacks and other other awesomeness.

We have in fact I have a short excerpt indeed from our book as well and talking about Earth Day 100 gatherers guy to the 21st century. This is the first time we've seen it. It says New York Times best seller even though that happened within days of publication.

So you know, it only took a year and a half to be revealed on the actual cover covers of finally caught up.

Yes, they have finally cut up. But there are signed copies here on the islands where we are and not everywhere. You can't just like come to the San Juan Islands and be like, hey, I'm looking for my signed copy but that Darvels on orcas Island not just signed but signed by us.

Yes.

So I buy orcas maybe you know, you could be a lot of people, but in this case, despite the odds it was actually it was actually us and as it turns out orcas being notably deficient in fingers that aren't encased in fleshy protuberances don't do a good job signing books.

Yeah, and they get them really sloppy and you can even if you're not real familiar with work of morphology, you can detect that they do not have fingers by the absence of reports of strangulation of their trainers.

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