Spencer Pratt in the Era of Degenerate Intellectual Communism: The 327th Evolutionary Lens

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 113 minutes

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On this, our 327th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss West coast politics, propaganda, and AI. First: the insurgent campaign of Spencer Pratt in the race for mayor of Los Angeles is going strong. He is by far the best hope for Los Angeles, given fires and filth, homelessness and crime, drugs and corruption. Then: propaganda from Iran is remarkably compelling. And: Bret proposes that the model of AI that we are living under is degenerate intellectual communism, and that we have been give...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 327.
0:10.0	I have just learned.
0:11.0	I am Dr. Brett Weinstein.
0:13.0	I'm of course sitting with Dr. Heather Heying.
0:16.0	And we have an exciting show plan.
0:19.0	We will be talking about the insurgency of Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles,
0:25.4	the city of our birth. We will also be talking about AI and a new way to think about AI and its
0:33.3	relationship to us little people. So that's going to be fun also.
0:39.4	It is indeed.
0:40.5	Yes.
0:41.2	Well, actually, I can't speak to how much fun AI, the future, is going to be, or AI, the conversation here is going to be because you're going to lob something that I don't know what it is.
0:51.5	I'm going to just see how it goes.
0:52.7	I'm going to lob a grenade.
0:53.9	I had an epiphany as I was on the ferry yesterday.
1:00.0	And it was like, oh, my God, why didn't I see that before?
1:03.9	So I'm going to lay the epiphany on you all.
1:06.4	Such is the way of epiphanies.
1:08.4	Yes.
1:09.1	Obvious in retrospect.
1:10.5	Obvious in retrospect, exactly. I'm hoping other people will resonate with it and rise up in response. All right. But first, as you said, we're going to be talking a bit about Spencer Pratt, who is running for mayor of Los Angeles, seemingly out of nowhere, but maybe not quite as out of nowhere as it would seem.
1:28.7	Out of nowhere, out of the Pacific Palisades, real.
1:30.9	Out of, out of the Pacific Palisades, not just the larger city of our birth, but he grew up in exactly the same little part of L.A. that I grew up in.
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