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DarkHorse Podcast

Are we back in the stone age? The 320th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2026

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

On this, our 320th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss whether it can happen here, or again. It is genocide. Growing up in a secular Jewish household in the 1970s and ‘80s, Bret remembers many discussions of whether it could happen again, and where, but it seems to be assumed that the repeated targets of atrocities cannot themselves ever engage in atrocity. Is this true? We discuss lineage selection, the nature of history and memory, diaspora, Israel. Also, the belligerence of the U.S. a...

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0:00.0

Hey, folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 320.

0:10.9

Nailed it.

0:12.5

I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein.

0:14.6

Your Dr. Heather Heying, spring rages on here before anyone has returned to the Stone Age.

0:22.4

And I don't know, these are exciting times.

0:26.1

I'm kind of nervous about, well, everything from the markets to the Straits of Hormuz,

0:34.4

which ordinarily I don't think enough about, but boy, am I focused on

0:38.0

him at the moment.

0:39.7

And we have a lot of interesting things to talk about from the philosophical to the kinetic

0:46.4

to the descent into tyranny as viewed from right here in the state of Washington.

0:54.5

Kinetic, huh?

0:55.9

Yeah, there's a lot of kinetic.

0:58.7

And, you know, depending upon who you ask, the kineticism of the war in Iran is either going

1:05.4

brilliantly or catastrophically, and presumably the truth could lie somewhere in between those. But

1:12.7

nonetheless, all of our futures seem to be hanging in the balance of a story that I don't know

1:19.3

anybody who's really got a grasp on exactly what's happening. And I will say the degree to which events that should be very hard to conceal

1:32.3

are actually obscure to us in, in the West, is shocking. We can talk about anything, but we know

1:41.1

very little. And I think that that's...

1:45.0

So describes nearly the entire world at this point. Yeah. I mean, that's right. If it

1:50.9

were showing up anywhere... To the degree that people are trying to make meaning from their

1:54.0

screens. None of it is, as we've said before, none of it is eyewitness. You don't know anything

1:59.4

that comes to your screen as to whether or not it's actually true.

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