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Live Streamed on January 18, 2026 2:01 PM ET
Private Q&A | LIVE January 18th

00:00:00 Holding Screen



00:05:24 Stolen: Rainbows, Prime, Grok, and Amazon



00:08:34 Bret, you have talked about your experiences to enhance your capability for lucid dreaming. You have also hypothesized that some psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia could be caused by the brain not adequately distinguishing dreaming from reality. With that in mind, do you think it's risky to try to manipulate the boundary between awake and dreaming?



00:14:57 Potatoes in the chat: cooking methods for lower glycemic index potatoes and rice



00:23:26 Tricks to get to lucid dreaming in the chat



00:26:25 You’re critical of health metrics, and especially the long-term dependence and the incentives behind them. But is there value in temporary use of medical devices to train lived bodily awareness? Many people struggle to notice what their bodies are doing or to connect cause and effect. I (a non-diabetic) used a glucose monitor briefly and learned patterns I can now feel and recognize without the device. Could tools like this help train awareness rather than replace it? if so, how would we avoid sliding into dependence?



00:40:13 Heather, I need you to give me a good conscience. I am French, and I have an unreasonable love for bread (I bake my own organic sourdough). The problem is, all I hear is that grains are basically poison for us and that we should banish them from our diet. Is that really the case? More seriously, is it reasonable to think that good bread (and sometimes home baked cakes, etc.) can be a part of an otherwise healthy and varied diet? It didn’t cost me much to ditch the seed oils because I was always a butter girl, but the wheat is a hard one. Signed, an otherwise very healthy 42 year-old mom with a bread addiction.



00:51:15 Hi Brett & Heather, I’m a mom to 3 kids and at their last wellness appt. our pediatrician, who thankfully “thinks outside of the box”, recommended doing a parasite cleanse for our kids and family (including our 2 dogs). She mentioned that in many societies/countries it is the norm to occasionally cleanse and she believes it should also be standard practice in developed countries as well, regardless of how low the perceived risk of parasite infection is. Thoughts? 



00:58:09 Do you know why people seem to need to keep taking probiotics in order to maintain the effects? Is there some key problem in modernity that stops the beneficial bacteria from colonizing long-term? Are bad bacteria and fungi killing them? I want to reach homeostasis. Thanks, love you guys! 



01:04:11 My wife and I always disagree about sun exposure. She believes 20 minutes a day of direct sun is healthy, but beyond that she avoids it or uses sunscreen, and I can never convince her otherwise. She recently had a basal cell spot removed, which made me back off a bit. She’s 40 now but was always in the sun and getting burned often until around age 30. She has fair skin and looks great with some color, but now worries about the aging effects and more skin cancer. What would you guys recommend as an appropriate amount of sun for someone with her history and skin type?



01:13:55 On Rogan, you said that according to Pierre Kory, 38/40 people who won their case and received Ivermectin lived, and 2/40 who lost their case lived. That means 38 out of 40 people who did not receive Ivermectin would have died, which seems extreme. Was Covid so bad that 38/40 people in any group would be dying? It doesn't seem like the underlying data for this is available anywhere - would this be worth deep diving to make sure this statistic is true? Because if it is true, it's a really big deal! But if not it probably shouldn't be spread around, right?



01:17:50 I have a good friend that has a notable covid vaccine injury. I have encouraged her to see Peter McCullough about getting detoxed and input about next best steps. She asked her personal physician about McCullough and was told he is a quack. She looked him up and told me that his early treatment protocols were discredited, etc, etc.

I want to offer her a short rebuttle and possibly a short animated video about the spike protein and how it affects the body after the injection, along with some information about pertinent studies, and why the system rejects McCullough and his peers. I am concerned for her life. Can you recommend any """"easy"""" websites, possibly a few sentences of response? And any other help you think of? 



01:21:51 Hi Heather and Bret. Vaccines -how to compile a case for consideration of a partner who hasn’t yet appreciated the risks involved. We’re planning on having children and while my partner is generally open-minded she’s quite stuck on this issue but she’s never been presented with the case against. Could you do a standalone show, even privately here on locals, as a dedicated source which presents evidence that one should consider when evaluating the choice to vaccinate or not? Or in the meantime, some accessible papers, books, or podcasts?

Ps thank you both for answering our questions with such detail and critical thought. All the best to you both and your family. Greetings from Colombia



01:31:25 My wife is increasingly frantic that our 3 month old child is not 'protected' by vaccination. She is a physician (infectious disease) and believes that the burden/risk of disease outweighs the undefined risks to health from vaccination. The enormous failures of Vioxx, Oxycontin, Glyphosate, Talc/Asbestos, DES, MRNA, etc... do not translate from outliers to commonplace. With two competing fears - obvious illness vs uncertain ill health - I am at a loss to sway her from consensus scientism.

Most are not willing to risk disease if current vaccines both do harm and prevent some disease. When lies become too big to truth, how can I break through to someone whose stature, livelihood, and child's well-being seem to depend on getting in line?



01:38:47 Multiple Vaxx on same day/week. ? Do multiple injections result in multiple doses of ADJUVANTS? THX -Marco from Central OR



01:41:08 Model check: 1986 NCVIA protects bad manufacturer in USA. Shouldn't we expect lawsuits in other countries? It's hard to believe the same playbook can work across countries without similar protections. 



01:43:53 I work in the animal health industry and have had questions regarding the safety of our industry's K9 vaccines ever since you discussed their human counterparts a number of years ago. Many of these vaccines are adjuvanted and while they MAY reduce the risk of Leptospirosis (for example), I fear that they are increasing the total number of dogs who suffer from allergic dermatitis. Allergic dermatitis is the number one reason a dog visits a veterinary clinic. In the back of my mind, I believe that a large percentage of dogs BECAME allergic as a direct result of their heighten immune repones to these adjuvanted vaccines. Can you put my mind at ease or do I have cause for concern? 



01:48:33 Have you made any new progress on vitamin D supplements and the contaminants / adjavents that seem to be prevalent in most vitamin D capsules? The last time you discussed the vitamin D supplements issue, you seemed skeptical about the benefit to risk ratio in these, given they don't seem to be what they're advertised as (cod liver oil)



01:52:11 Allan Savory is 90 years old. His memoir "UnSavory" will soon be published. He has been attacked for ~50 years for his views. Would you please reach and interview him before it's too late. It seems clear to me that he published a solution to a problem, that if not reversed, could put our civilisation in peril, in the same way many have in the past; part of which being, how to feed the cities of that civilisation after centuries of raping the land (And yes, full disclosure, I'm working with 3LM one of the Savory Institute hubs in Ireland).



01:54:21 I am 27 year old male who has recently entered a long term committed relationship with woman that had been going very very well overall. However sometimes we enter into disagreements about sex, gender, and other issues and sometimes I give way to my emotions and lose my composure. What advice do you have for maintaining love for the other while engaging in such arguments?

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Heather Heying explains:

"These are such clowns. These judges are such clowns. And one of them’s a woman who apparently gives no fucks about the women and girls as young as 13, who might go to this amazing spa and be exposed to a very confused and mentally unstable man who’s got his balls and dick out.

More likely, frankly, most of us who once went to this amazing business are not going to go anymore. They’re going to have put out of business a Korean family who happened to be conservative Christians because of what? ...

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NEW on DarkHorse - Look for Episode 317, "Is Cell Phone Radiation Good For You?" wherever you subscribe to podcasts.

"From your perspective, how good are your AirPods for you?

The answer is: that depends if you’re a mouse that was bred in one of these idiotic protocols.

If you are a mouse, where do you get AirPods? You probably want AirPods, maybe more than one set.

If you’re not a mouse, then this is an indicator that it’s actually dangerous.

The fact that the mice live longer is not good news.

It’s bad news because a toxin that you will not tolerate well will function like chemotherapy, or in this case like radiation therapy does on a cancer patient."

00:00:34
New Paper CONFIRMS Bret Weinstein's Prediction About Aging

Clipped from Episode 316, Bret and Heather discuss a new paper that finds infection tends to lead to greater frailty in older people. This reverses the causality of Terrain Theory of Disease (frailty of the body leads to greater susceptibility of infection), and also provides support for a prediction made by Bret and his co-author Debbie Ciszek in the unpublished, longer version of their reserve capacity paper from 2002.


Mentioned in this segment:

Ragusa et al 2026: https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gerona/glag043/8497853

Weinstein & Ciszek 2002: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11909679/

00:32:58
March 20, 2026
DarkHorse Locals, this week's Q&A with Bret Weinstein Heather Heying is timestamped and ready for replay.

Watch it here: https://darkhorse.locals.com/post/7779157/locals-exclusive-q-a-live-march-18th

Join them in the chat for the next one on Sunday, March 29th!

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The Parasite of Tomorrow

How history repeats itself

Based on the image, (assuming you read it) what does the word “groupeur” sound like?

According to Nesta Webster in her book World Revolutions, a groupeur is someone who helps gather a crowd around a message—often by drawing attention to it in a way that appears natural or spontaneous. Their role is to amplify and focus public attention, turning passive observers into an engaged group.

The term “groupeur” appears in her account of the French Revolutionary period, particularly around the movement associated with Gracchus Babeuf (which I'm learning about)

I don’t know… but doesn’t that sound a bit familiar?

To me, it resembles Nick Fuentes and the Groypers—how they’re able to capture the frustration of everyday people and channel it in a particular direction.

(As an aside.. did anyone else notice how Nick Fuentes, and the groyper army.. used all their power to smash Tucker and Candace in the moments after Charlie Kirks death?)

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