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DarkHorse Podcast

Can the internet make you sick? The 297th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Today we discuss the experience of returning home after timeway—culture shock, social media, and seeing your home with fresh eyes. Then a difficult set of topics: anorexia, physician assisted suicide, “terminal” diagnoses, social contagions, and what people have a right to do with their own lives. Finally: AI has been used to predict potentially useful drug combinations to fight cancer. What does this mean for the future of medicine, and AI? 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: https://988life...

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast, live stream number 297.

0:11.9

297.

0:12.8

297.

0:13.6

Prime?

0:15.1

Yes.

0:15.9

No.

0:16.3

No.

0:17.9

All right.

0:18.6

Well, I'm over it.

0:20.2

300 minus 3. That's how you know it's not prime right there so you just

0:23.4

got like a right so you know 399 9 and 27 no 9 and 33 11 and 27 yeah yeah all right well

0:32.6

okay so it's not prime yeah good right that actually takes actually takes the pressure off. It does, I think. Yeah. This is our second live stream in a few days. I will say on the last live stream, I was headed in a bad direction getting sick. And I am now still sick, but headed in a better direction, getting better. And you are now getting sick. So, anyway. Oh, man, I'm right in the middle of it. Yeah. I hope. So apologies. Apologies for that. We are, we both, I guess you picked something up on the plane, one of the planes on the ride home, as often happens. But here we are. Check out the watch party on locals. And you had a

1:13.2

Patreon conversation this morning. I'll have another one tomorrow morning. It was off the hook,

1:17.9

by the way. Was it? It was off the hook. What does that mean? Well, it means that we made some

1:23.2

interesting progress. It feels like it means you lost the fish. Oh, gosh. No, it's a phone reference, which... Still. Well, to make progress with the phone, it has to be off the hook, or at least it did back when phones were on hooks. I... That's weak. Do you ever the... I mean, it's true, but it's weak. So I feel like off the hook has this like really strong sense of like, man, that was awesome.

1:48.6

But a pre-condition for success, most of which won't result in success does not strike me as the same as like that was off.

1:58.9

I agree.

1:59.5

That phone call was totally off the hook.

2:02.2

Like, duh. Yeah. Okay. It was off the hook. Was it any good? Interesting thing. We don't know

2:07.8

anything on the basis. So I feel like it's neither a fish reference nor a phone reference. I think

2:12.4

it's a third thing that we don't know. That's possible. Do you remember? No. The band X and the song, your phones off the hook,

2:22.4

but you're not? I don't. It was a favorite of mine. That was a good song. It's at least a good line.

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