The Oligarchs Strike Back: The 326th 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

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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On this, our 326th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss government and tyranny, environmental toxins and the media, eminent domain, and memories of childhood. Former Washington state governor Christine Gregoire says the state doesn’t have an income problem, it’s got a spending problem—and that unpredictability from legislators is making it impossible for the business community to plan. Stochasticity is impossible to adapt to—for humans, and for other species too. In the most expensive Con...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast, live stream.
0:08.9	I think it's something to 326.
0:10.7	Because we told me that moments before we went out of air.
0:13.4	Yeah.
0:13.7	It seems right.
0:15.3	Yeah.
0:17.5	It does.
0:18.6	It does.
0:19.2	I mean, not that we've been here before.
0:20.4	But here we are now. And it feels like 326. What is going on?
0:28.6	Well, I will keep talking. You want to share mine?
0:31.6	Can you?
0:32.6	Okay.
0:34.6	Hey, folks. Welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast i am dr brett weinstein you're
0:40.5	dr heather hiring this is live stream 326 we had a rare microphone technical difficulty at the
0:47.2	beginning sorry about that but we're up and running yes we are yeah um boy my notes say qA today, but that's not true. That happened to last week, right?
0:57.7	Hold your cues, people. Yeah, we have a Q&A next Sunday. Sunday. Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday,
1:03.3	Sunday, Sunday, Super Sunday. For all you Los Angeles. On locals, and we have a watch party going on there now so join us on locals we appreciate
1:13.7	we're going to be talking about unpredictability in state legislatures and in primary elections
1:20.9	and a little bit about maybe insecticides and we're going to be talking about tyranny from like six different angles.
1:30.5	It all is kind of one weird story.
1:33.0	But no, because we're going to finish with something that has absolutely nothing to do with
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