Join Bret and Heather for their next Q&A on March 29th. Add it to your calendar here: https://www.darkhorsepodcast.org/calendar
00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:01:44 Next episode, winter will be coming.
00:03:32 Q: In light of your (Bret's) recent comments on the myth of the myth of race, what are some other Lysenkoist misrepresentations or outright falsehoods that you think the record needs to be set straight on?
00:09:00 Q from Heather for Bret: What's a shrift?
00:12:21 Q: B & H thank you for all that you do and greetings from overly warm and dry Northern Colorado.
My wife and I are raising a currently 9 month old daughter. The hospital staff snuck a Hep B vaccination past us in the minutes following birth. Aside from that we’ve not given her any vaccinations and have no plans to.
I wonder if you might discuss best practices for avoiding exposures and recognizing issues that need addressing as well as infectious diseases which pose the most actual threat.
I’ve come to respect the extremely thought out opinions of the two of you on most issues discussed today and I appreciate your thoughts on this.
00:26:22 Q: Why do humans love domesticated animals like dogs? I’ve been pondering this lately. I love my dog. He’s got a great temperament, is obedient, and can do enough impressive tricks for both our enjoyment. But he’s a freeloader, and doesn’t contribute to the household except through … well, I can’t quite put my finger on the explanation for the joy he brings us. He just does. But I’m curious how the evolutionary lens can explain this. Is there something about cross-species collaboration that explains why there is so much joy derived from a relationship like this?
00:39:59 Q: Can you explain how moles are formed and when in life? Why do some people have freckles? Are moles hereditary? Also, why do some moles become cancerous and how? Do people who have more moles also have less tendency to develop cancer? Thanks! Much love to you two.
00:55:03 Q: "My brother happily sent me a news story about a man who used AI to create a bespoke mRNA vaccine for his dog’s cancer. It sounds like the ideal story for warming up the public to new mRNA vaccines. I’m the family bummer: I find it very foreboding. I wonder who funded this story, to what end, and whether it’s as promising as it seems. Thoughts and reactions? Thanks, love you guys!
https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/health/tech-pro-saves-his-dying-dog-by-using-chatgpt-to-code-a-custom-cancer-vaccine/"
01:00:00 ...do what needs did.
Olympus Spa, a traditional Korean nude spa for women in the Seattle area, was told by the state of Washington, now upheld by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, that they must let men in, so long as those men think they’re women. Judge VanDyke’s dissent correctly summarizes the issue as one of “swinging dicks.”
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? ...
"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."
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/
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!
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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