In this week’s episode, we discuss the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, which has destroyed the neighborhood where Heather grew up. Why does California burn, how are fires different now than they used to be, what happens now? We discuss the Getty Villa and Palisades Village, and why we should care what happens to a wealthy neighborhood in West LA. Also: did the LA Fire Chief drinking the DEI Kool-Aid contribute to the devastation? And when are natural disasters not entirely natural? Then: Zuckerberg announces changes to fact-checking, filters, and trust and safety teams at Meta. It’s not an apology. Are the changes politically motivated, or market-driven, or philosophical, and will they stick? At the same time, Musk announces plans for algorithmic deboosting on X. Zero is a special number.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Scope of the LA fires from The Lookout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjE9xVU4eUA
Heather’s childhood LA fire experience: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/antipode-chapter-1
Jacob Soboroff on the Palisades Fire: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEkTEKdJxe9/
Fox News in Palisades Village: https://x.com/BigFish3000/status/1877008354008035683
Getty History: https://www.getty.edu/press/pdfs/Getty_History_and_Timeline.pdf
DEI LA Fire Chief: https://x.com/amuse/status/1876873508006842709
Zuckerberg announces changes: https://x.com/andrewcurran_/status/1876624442643878065
Musk does too: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1875355425601999255
Fact checkers aren’t scientists: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/coming-soon
We have "cartesian blinders being put on us so that we are trying to make sense out of scraps of information and hints." - @bretweinstein
WEINSTEIN: I mean, even if you have your villains who are engaged in the behavior that motivated this war in Iran, even if that's the story, presumably most of the people in the path of these ferocious bombings that he is describing are not deserving of going back to the Stone Age.
In fact, I distinctly remember him telling us that part of what we were up to was liberating the people of Iran from their tyrannical regime.
So if it's the tyrannical regime that justifies the ferocious bombing, then it's a tragedy that other people are going to be sent back to the Stone Ages with them. Right?
HEYING: It's it's not a narrative. It's an incoherent set of talking points.
WEINSTEIN: Yeah, it's a kind of cheerleading that is completely inappropriate from the perspective of the president.
Bret Weinstein discusses the Trump administrations "back to the stone age" recent remarks in the latest episode of The Evolutionary Lens, Episode 320 "Are we back in the stone age?" on DarkHorse.
Bret Weinstein explains, "If you stop businesses from starting here, and if you drive people so that they move elsewhere—even though it's difficult to do—then the point is the tax base dries up, which then forces you to become even more predatory for the people who stayed.
And that's really the thing, right? They're setting themselves up so that they have to go after more and more people, because the people who are starting new businesses are not going to do it here."
If they were sincere in their fear of Hantavirus then they would remove the homeless from the streets, as if a communist dictator was arriving. It's spread by rats and the homeless have the greatest exposure to rats and rat shit. Not to mention that it probably spreads by human shit too and so the Freedom Crappers would be another vector of transmission as a homeless person becomes infected from rat shit and then shits on the sidewalk themselves forwhich whomever steps in it becomes infected.
Are they cleaning up the homeless camps? Of course not.
Where Have All the Joe Rogans Gone?
May 11, 2026
During Covid, I loved the UFC, Dana White, and Joe Rogan. To me, they felt like a bulwark for free speech—people willing to get in the faces of woke leftists who were constantly trying to lecture everyone else on how to talk, think, and behave.
But ever since Trump got elected, it feels like the UFC has become strangely absent, and the same goes for Joe Rogan. Don’t get me wrong—I’m grateful Joe hosted Bret. But did anyone else notice that the very next guest was Bob Lazar? Why does it suddenly feel like everyone is trying to shove aliens and UFO narratives down our throats? At times, it almost feels like a humiliation ritual.
Am I the only one noticing that a lot of the old guard now seem to spend their time strategically ignoring certain current events? It’s not always that they reverse their positions outright—it’s more like they go quiet until it becomes socially or politically fashionable to engage. And at the same ...
