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Has Bret Strayed from Reason? Bret Speaks with Robert Wright on Darkhorse

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Bret speaks with Robert Wright on the Darkhorse Podcast. They discuss Robert’s suggestion that Bret’s ideas have strayed from plausibility.

Find Robert on Twitter: @robertwrighter (https://twitter.com/robertwrighter)

Find Robert on bloggingheads: https://bloggingheads.tv/

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introductions

(00:50) Motivated reasoning

(06:17) Sponsors

(11:08) Trump era and media

(14:30) Bret was pissed off. And inverse of correct response

(19:37) Military podcast quotes

(32:15) Alternative hypothesis for military mandates

(53:20) mRNA injections to children

(01:07:20) More hypotheses

(01:18:27) Foreign influence and China

(01:26:00) Why Robert doesn't trust Bret's COVID analysis

(01:35:30) Robert Malone and censoring dissidents

(01:42:30) Absolute corruption of the system

(01:54:35) Podcast invitation and wrap up

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast. I am sitting this morning with Robert Wright,

0:08.9

who is the author of Non-Zero, The Moral Animal, and other books. Robert, what else have

0:17.1

you written?

0:18.2

Most recently, why Buddhism is true before that, the evolution of God, and my first book

0:24.6

was called Three Scientists in their Gods. There you go. So you and I are meeting this

0:31.7

morning in part because you raised my hackles with a tweet that you made effectively in

0:40.6

not such subtle terms, suggesting that I might have lost my marbles. Does that actually

0:49.0

make you think that you should put it that way? I'm glad mission accomplished. I got

0:55.6

your attention. I noticed that, you know, so I tweeted about a tweet that featured a video

1:02.1

segment of your show. I might as well, I'll just read the tweet and then we can get to

1:09.1

the interpretation of it because I know that you and Heather disagreed about the interpretation

1:13.9

and I think she was a little closer to my intention. But anyway, my tweet says, so Brett

1:21.0

Weinstein is seriously suggesting that Democrats have maintained the vaccine mandate for

1:25.5

the military because their goal is, quote, degrading military readiness, unquote. In the

1:32.3

past, I've argued that some of his crazy sounding theories aren't completely crazy. I'm

1:38.0

not arguing that now. And the disagreement between you and Heather was whether I was saying

1:44.6

now I'm arguing he's Brett is completely crazy. Heather said, well, maybe he's just saying

1:49.6

this one thing you said was crazy. Actually, but she's closer to right. In fact, if you

1:55.9

look at my tweet, I think you'll find it's like 219 characters long. If I recall correctly,

2:00.2

I'd first written, I'm not arguing that in this case didn't fit. And I changed it in

2:05.1

this case to now. Now that said, I should say that, you know, I don't listen to your

2:12.5

podcast regularly. I'm sure you don't listen to mine regularly. So neither of us needs

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