Careful Thinking in Reckless Times: The 318th 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

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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On this, our 318th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss how to understand our universe: through logic, intuition, and probability, through keeping track of what we believe, and being willing to change our minds. Avoiding certainty is difficult, but necessary. Using examples of who killed Charlie Kirk, and whether the venue where he was speaking suggests black magic, we discuss how to make sense of the world in a scientific way. Meanwhile in Washington: a $1 bill is booked into evidence. ...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 6,000.
0:09.5	What number is it actually?
0:12.0	318.
0:13.0	I don't think it's 318.
0:16.0	Did I make that up?
0:19.0	I don't know.
0:20.0	Somebody made it up. It's 318.
0:21.2	It's 318.
0:22.1	All right.
0:22.4	Not prime.
0:23.2	Very simple. It's going to be that kind of a day, huh? Despite. Like, you're wrong. Really? Am I not wrong? Where did that come from? Man, it's just, it's crazy out there. I'm trying to keep my head above water, which is part of what we are going to be talking about today.
0:38.6	How do you keep your head above water when everything is so
0:41.6	confusing? One thing to do is do what you're doing right now, which is just to remain on solid ground.
0:46.7	Terra firma. I say it every time I get off the ferry or the airplane. Terra firma. So that's
0:52.2	really what we're about. Terra firma. How do you get to cognitive terra firma in an environment that is basically like intellectual
1:02.5	quicksand across the board?
1:07.2	Across the board is probably the wrong metaphor for quicksand, but so be it.
1:14.5	Yep.
1:16.0	So I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein.
1:17.2	You're Dr. Heather Heying.
1:17.9	Yeah.
1:19.1	That's right.
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