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00:00:00 A Cool Moose
00:04:04 Why didn't Covid decimate the homeless population? You would think from the narrative of the time, they would be wiped out. Easy to list all the reasons it should have. Maybe this has been covered and I didn't hear it.
00:10:24 Hello Heather and Bret. Bret I remember you once explaining the development of the immune system from infancy and how impressive a phenomenon it was. In my mind it seemed synonymous with the synaptic pruning that occurs in the brain also from youth throughout life. I’m not sure if I have that correct but could you please remind us of this miraculous concept and how it might help us to consider the practical implications of it? As always, thank you both for what you do.
00:17:35 Hello! Question about the full moon, does it have a measurable effect on animals, plants & humans during one? Behavioural and or physical? Thank you and much love to you as always!
00:26:21 I’d appreciate your thoughts on blood pressure as a health marker. I’m 50 years old. My doctor has asked me to measure my blood pressure at home, morning and evening for seven days, and report the results. Not that I think he suspects a problem; probably because it's a routine check at this age. I’ve become so suspicious of doctors and the medical system that anything to do with the medical system makes me super nervous. Just looking at the blood pressure monitor raises my pulse, and I suspect it elevates my blood pressure as well. I’m worried this will produce artificially high readings, which could lead to those quacks wanting to medicate me, which I want to avoid at almost any cost. Super grateful for you & your advice.
00:33:56 Rabbi Shmuley's recent vist and stirring up of controversy in Iceland reminds me of an issue perhaps 10 years ago; Iceland's parliament considered outlawing male genital mutilation (circumcision) of infants and children (anyone under 18), already a rare practice in the population of "indigenous," predominately Lutheran, Icelanders. Yet Judeo-Talmudic authorities around the world then brought great pressure on Iceland to defeat the legislation. Studies have found the trauma of infant circumcision impacts early brain development/ "wiring," mother-infant relations and; in adulthood, related nerve and tissue loss adversely impact pleasurable sensations otherwise experienced by men and women during intercourse. Discuss bio-geo-politics.
00:37:49 Hey Bret and Heather! I’m a 28 year old male trying to find a long term romantic partner. If you were young and stuck in the modern dating environment what criteria would you use to sort a potential good partner from a potential bad partner? There are so many crazy beliefs and ideologies out there now, so how do you sort wheat from chaff?
00:47:10 From Leverett - Cool prime Darkhorse episode numbers!
337, 373, and 733
337 is:
-prime.
-prime when read left to right and when read right to left (an emirp - which is ‘prime’ spelled backward),
-a permutable prime (with 373 and 733). By way of review, a permutable prime remains prime no matter how its digits are ordered.
373 is:
-prime.
-a right- and left-truncatable (two-sided) prime. (As each individual digit is removed from the left or right side of the prime, what is left is still prime.)
-a permutable prime with 337 and 733.
-also a palindromic prime in 3 consecutive bases: 565 (base eight) = 454 (base nine) = 373 (base 10).
733 is:
-prime.
-a permutable prime with 337 and 373.
-also an emirp.
00:52:20 Funny one. Why do kids pick their boogers and eat them? Is there an evolutionary advantage? Forgive me if you've already answered this one. Love you both! Thanks for all you do.
00:54:59 I'm an avid listener of both this podcast and Dave Smith's Part of the Problem and I've noticed an interesting overlap in your views. Dave is an advocate of Austrian economics, while you often discuss Complex Systems Theory. I recently learned that the Austrian school founders, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, saw markets as complex systems as they built up their discipline. (Brett, I was especially excited a week or so ago when I heard you describe prices as signals, exactly as Austrian economists do.) Earlier today, I asked Dave on his members-only stream if he'd ever sit down with you to discuss the intersection of these ideas, and he said yes. I guess this my long-winded pitch to have him as a guest on Inside Rail!
00:59:08 Given the recent text messages released by Rand Paul and Ron Johnson and Trump Executive Order reducing the number of vaccines recommended for children, do you see the overton window shifting for MAHA? It feels like it is to me, curious your thoughts.
01:02:32 Why do people get “colds” when it’s cold? Apart from the Vitamin D correlation and the indoors contagion, is the body less resistant to viruses when it has to keep itself warm?
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."
Bret and Heather discuss Russell Brand: his history, his character, his recent convictions and sentencing. What does consent mean in the modern era—is it a concept that can possibly do what it needs to do? Other concepts under discussion are rape, statute of limitations, charisma, and redemption.
Then: how a story of a failed co-op reveals deep divides.
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A funny thing happened to me the other day. I was talking to a former coworker about why I think mass immigration into the country is harmful in many ways. We had a friendly exchange, and I thought the conversation was going well. Eventually, she said she enjoys talking about politics, which shocked me. To me, how is that political? It's not like anyone voted on it, and nobody knew about it until far too late. But somehow, even expressing concern about it is a Republican thing to do?
I find the same line of logic when it comes to being injected with chemicals. Most people I know frame it as a political position, not as a question of personal health and safety in the least (never mind concepts like informed consent and bodily autonomy, which many of them are passionate about when it comes to reproductive rights).
I really take offense at being called an anti-vaxxer, even though that's ...
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How overnight, the entire ecosystem that is Candace Owens crashed
I’ll admit it. I was one of those dirty Candace Owens fans. Kinda still am, maybe? Still making sense of what is happening.
What hooked me was her series on French President Macron’s wife, and specifically her penis, built on the reporting of Xavier Poussard. An American podcaster taking on the president of France over his wife’s anatomy. I thought it was the most American gangster thing I’d ever seen. I was in.
For a while, watching Candace felt like watching Jordan Peterson in the early days, or Joe Rogan before he got involved with the gambling industry, or DarkHorse, of course, of course. You know, a dissident speaking truth.
Then, almost overnight, it all fell apart.
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Here’s the setup. Candace was heading into maternity leave pregnant with her fifth child, a boy she announced back in June. Meanwhile, a fight was brewing that seemingly had nothing to do with her....
