#72: Dogs, Frogs, and Viral Analogs (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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In this 72nd 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. It’s the Spring equinox, and there are frogs—frogs who are anatomically able to tune out some of the voices of other frogs whom they have no interest in. Then: Bret’s challenge to Ibram Kendi, which includes a simple proof involving dogs and anti-racism. And: the left are increasingly gullible; we provide an example from a ...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number E. What number is it?
0:18.0	72.
0:19.0	72. I used a variable, so we could slot 72 in there. It'll be seamless.
0:23.1	That was a seamless slot on your part.
0:24.8	Yes, that was pretty close to seamless. So anyway, we're getting good.
0:29.4	Now, today is the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere.
0:33.3	In the northern hemisphere?
0:34.3	It is the fall equinox in the southern hemisphere.
0:36.5	So that sounds inequitable.
0:40.2	No.
0:41.2	No, it's not inequitable.
0:43.2	No.
0:44.2	I don't actually, okay, here's a challenge. To all of you critical race theorists out there,
0:48.9	figure out how that's inequitable.
0:51.2	Well, it's inequitable because spring is dawning and that is like 16 different kinds
0:57.2	of awesome. And the southern hemisphere is actually watching winter dawn, which is, which
1:04.8	is daunting.
1:05.8	Fall.
1:06.8	That falls, excuse me.
1:07.8	But in any case, winter is coming for them. And so therefore that does sound rather
1:12.7	unfair.
1:13.7	I mean, all right. I'm abandoning this line of reasoning, having driven us into into
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