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The Joe Rogan Experience

#970 - Bret Weinstein

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

Bret Weinstein is a biology professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Currently he is in the middle of an intense controversy that has been documented by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and several other mainstream media outlets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Four.

0:06.0

All right, we're live.

0:07.0

Brett, thanks for doing this.

0:08.0

Appreciate it, man.

0:09.0

Very glad to be here.

0:10.0

You look great.

0:11.0

Despite all this pressure, you're smiling as a for people that don't know

0:16.1

what's going on let's lay out all of all the events that have transpired.

0:23.0

Essentially, you were being asked to step away from your college for a day, is that what it was?

0:31.7

Is it one day?

0:33.0

Well, this goes back farther than that.

0:35.0

Yeah, let's lay out the whole thing.

0:37.0

Okay, so we couldn't possibly lay out the whole thing.

0:40.0

But it's just for people that have no idea what's going on.

0:42.6

Right.

0:43.2

They're listening right now, and they're like,

0:45.0

who's this Brett Weinstein guy?

0:46.6

So the core of it surrounds a tradition that we have at Evergreen

0:51.2

called Day of Absence.

0:52.3

And this tradition

0:52.9

stretches back long before I was ever at the college. I've been there 15 years.

0:56.4

This tradition stretches back into I think the early 70s and it's it's built around a play

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