#193 The Reactionary Clap Trap (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2023
⏱️ 109 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this 193rd 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.
In this episode we discuss the middle-ground scramble by the mainstream media to defeat those who would think for themselves by inventing slurs like “conspiracy theorist influencer” and “reactionary trap.” Harper’s says that “insurgency” is threatening the Democratic Party. The Atlantic invokes a world in which “mistakes don’t matter, and no one feels shame,” not realizing that they’re talking about themselves. And the New York Times goes after Bret for observing inconsistencies in official stories. As Isaac Asimov famously said, “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but that’s funny…’”
*****
Our sponsors:
MUD\WTR: is a coffee alternative with mushrooms and herbs (and cacao!) and is delicious, with 1/7 the caffeine as coffee. Visit www.mudwtr.com/darkhorsepod and use DARKHORSEPOD at check out for 15% off.
PaleoValley: Wide array of amazing products, including SuperFood Golden Milk and beef sticks. Go to https://paleovalley.com/darkhorse for 15% off your first order.
Hillsdale College: Since 1844, Hillsdale has been providing an education focused on freedom and character. Go hillsdale.edu/DARKHORSE to register for any of 39 free on-line courses.
*****
Join us on Locals! Get access to our Discord server, exclusive live streams, live chats for all streams, and early access to many podcasts: https://darkhorse.locals.com/
Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com
Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://a.co/d/dunx3at
Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org
*****
Mentioned in this episode:
Harper’s: Against the Current: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/10/against-the-current/
The Atlantic: From Feminist to Right-Wing Conspiracist: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/10/naomi-wolf-klein-doppelganger-book/675120/
The New York Times: How to Argue Against Identity Politics Without Turning Into a Reactionary: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/opinion/identity-politics.html
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number one ninety three. |
| 0:21.7 | I am Dr. Brett Weinstein, you are Dr. Heather Heine, I am still recovering from what was |
| 0:27.3 | a very unpleasant case of COVID, which I am hoping to stave off the coughs that are |
| 0:32.5 | dogging me even almost a couple of weeks out here. |
| 0:36.5 | I will just say because obviously this is relevant for people who have been following |
| 0:41.5 | our trajectory. |
| 0:42.9 | I did take hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin when I got sick with COVID. |
| 0:47.7 | It's been a long time since you've been on Ivermectin probably. |
| 0:51.2 | A long time. |
| 0:52.2 | It just was unsustainable because I mean in addition to it not being good for you to be |
| 0:56.3 | on any drug permanently they made it very hard to get and so one had to judge your ability |
| 1:01.1 | to respond to a case of COVID rather than prevent one. |
| 1:05.9 | So I wasn't on a proflactically but I did take it. |
| 1:10.6 | It did not save me from a very unpleasant case. |
| 1:14.8 | I think it probably did radically shorten that case. |
| 1:17.8 | It was literally two very bad days and then what I have left over is I think just the damage |
| 1:26.0 | when you get sick with a virus, it invades cells, those cells then get attacked and destroyed |
| 1:30.5 | by your immune system and so it leaves wounds and we call those wounds lesions. |
| 1:36.3 | Anyway, I believe I just have lesions in my lungs that are taking time to heal and they're |
| 1:41.4 | sensitive. |
| 1:43.0 | But let me say that everyone knows themselves best and everyone will have some part of their |
| 1:50.6 | body that will tend to get affected with illness like, oh, your brother gets this, you |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.