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

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

you written?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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