Rise of the Cosplaymanauts: The 272nd 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

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 143 minutes

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This week in women: the UK Supreme Court declares that transwomen are not women, and women are lauded for putting on matching jumpsuits and being launched into space for a minute. In Britain, rapists can no longer pretend to be women; in the United States, we are asked to celebrate one of the oldest plays in the book—attractive woman attaches herself to wealthy man and attains power—and pretend that it represents female empowerment, while conveniently forgetting actually skilled women who hav...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast, live stream number 272.
0:14.8	That's right, 272.
0:16.0	I am Dr. Brett Weinstein.
0:17.6	I am, of course, sitting with Dr. Heather Heying.
0:20.1	We have been off, not really off,
0:23.6	but occupied with other things. And so there's been a gap and we are back and there's, of course,
0:28.8	no shortage of new things happening in the world that we should be talking about. We will talk
0:33.2	about several of them. This week and women. This week and women, of course. Podcastistan. The first
0:39.0	weekly this week in women. The first weekly this week in women. This was a big week for women.
0:43.7	It was a big week for women. Yay, yeah, yeah, women. Podcastistan. Is that the term?
0:48.1	Podcast stand? We will be talking about podcast to stand. And then we're going to finish up today
0:51.5	talking a bit about where we were for a week while we were gone, which was at the amazing Ralston College in Savannah, Georgia. And then we'll be back in a few short days on Wednesday to resume our Wednesday schedule.
1:05.5	Yes. All right. Yeah, I know. And I got back to the island and got it cold.
1:11.0	So, uh, apologies, my voice is huskier than usual.
1:13.7	And what?
1:14.9	Spring cold isn't even a thing.
1:16.4	Summer cold.
1:17.7	But spring cold.
1:19.0	Yeah, I don't know.
1:19.8	There's a lot of people sick on the island.
1:22.3	Uh, I'm a lot less sick than the other people I'm hearing about.
1:25.5	I, it's, hmm.
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