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Add Episode 350 of The Evolutionary Lens with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying, “Let’s Get This Party Started” to your podcast playlist:

Bret and Heather discuss prepping, governmental fear-mongering, and a new political party in America.

The media would have us believe that we are being told to stockpile food by the government—but we’re not. We go through a history of U.S. governmental injunctions to stockpile (or not), before arriving at FORTRESS—Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply, and Survivability—announced September 30, to ensure continuing operations if supply chains are cut.

Then: a new political party is being formed, and you are invited to join. The American Liberty Party is for patriots who believe in common-sense constitutionality.

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Add Episode 349 of The Evolutionary Lens with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying, “Constitution in the Crosshairs” to your podcast playlist:

Bret and Heather discuss threats to our Constitution, due process, informed consent, and mRNA shots, through the lens of a legal argument just made public at covidpenalty.com.

Also: what is it to be human, and how do we protect our humanity in the face of technological advances that make our lives easier, but remove us from our selves? Is there not value in waiting for some things—perhaps for most things?

Related: we should care about all the human things: every morsel that we eat, walking, sharing memories, and making plans.

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6 days ago | [YT] | 102

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Add Episode 348 of The Evolutionary Lens with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying, “Is Racism Necessary?” to your podcast playlist:

Bret and Heather discuss migration, race, and the West.

First: the Mercator projection is unsatisfactory, and there’s a new map available, but no map of the globe can be perfect. Every home should have a globe.

Then: what do we do with things in which the first step is neutral or good, but it seems inevitable that we end up in a dire situation once the first step has been accepted? Examples include abortion, lobbying, advertising, informed consent, EULAs, and utopianism. Another example may be racism: we should not be racist, but we should retain our ability to see difference, and note when people who are showing up on our doorstep are not interested in collaboration, or in the experiment of the West.

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1 week ago | [YT] | 50

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Add Episode 347 of The Evolutionary Lens with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying, “Where Cheaters Prosper” to your podcast playlist:

Bret and Heather discuss the ballot initiatives and voter id in the state of Washington.

On this November’s ballot, WA has 3 measures: 645 (which would repeal the new income tax), 638 (which would keep girls’ sports single-sex), and 001 (which would return parental rights). We discuss—and support—all three. In every case, reading the arguments for and against, it is clear that one side must be lying—the “facts” are inconsistent.

Cheaters will keep winning until more of us start voting against them—even if they seem to be on “our” side. We also discuss why Washington doesn’t check voters for citizenship.

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 93

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Add Episode 346 of The Evolutionary Lens with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying, “Ancient Crimes in Modern Times” to your podcast playlist:

Bret and Heather discuss the Cornell 7, sex in modern times, and the plague.

Civil charges have been brought against seven men and several institutions, including Cornell University, by a woman who claims to have been drugged and gang-raped in a fraternity house on campus in October 2024. We go through legal documents and journalism about what happened and discuss consent, drinking and drugs, the Greek system, and what sex has and has not become.

Then: a woman has died of plague in Russia; is a global pandemic coming? We discuss what to look out for.

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3 weeks ago | [YT] | 47

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Add Episode 345 of The Evolutionary Lens with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying, “The Raw, Unprocessed Truth” to your podcast playlist:

Bret and Heather discuss immigration, AI, and rawness.

First: a new Harper’s article chronicles the effects on local people of the mass migration across the Darién Gap in Panama between 2021 and 2025, and what has happened since the number of people coming up from Colombia has dropped to a trickle. The reporting on the ground is excellent—human and honest—while the political analysis is naïve at best.

Then: what is it to be raw, how is it inherently human, and what is its relationship to grief, and to AI?

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1 month ago | [YT] | 70

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Add Episode 344 of The Evolutionary Lens with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying, “Lions, New Tigers, and Bears, oh my” to your podcast playlist:

Bret and Heather discuss new cats, fat bears, and overwhelmed frogs. The tilcayo, a newly named species of cat from Bolivia, is part of a group of New World “tiger cats” that live on the outskirts of the Amazon basin. We discuss Carnivoran relationships, cats more specifically, and what is known about the history and ecology of the tilcayo in particular.

Then: it’s fat bear week at Katmai National Park in Alaska, where grizzlies are fattening themselves on salmon for the Winter ahead; we discuss hibernation, reproductive diapause, and general chonkiness in bears.

Finally: female Cope’s gray treefrogs have a harder time choosing good mates when there’s a lot of noise, and when there are too many suitors—kind of like how women often make bad choices when confronted with chaos and wingmen.

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1 month ago | [YT] | 59

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Add Episode 343 of The Evolutionary Lens with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying, “Just Asking Questions” to your podcast playlist:

Bret and Heather discuss logic and scientific thinking, as it is done on politically hot topics (e.g. 9/11, Charlie Kirk), and on calmer topics like whether retrievers like to fetch (or just think that we like them to fetch), and whether domestic cats see people as big, clumsy cats. Putting all the hypotheses on the table, working hard to falsify even—especially—your favorite ones—and ending up with one left standing, is the scientific way, and how we arrive at answers that are most likely to be true.

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1 month ago | [YT] | 64

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Add Episode 342 of The Evolutionary Lens with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying, “Where Feminism Went Wrong” to your podcast playlist:

Bret and Heather discuss men, women, and feminism; and the love of our pets.

Gloria Steinem died at 92 this week. She exposed working conditions at Playboy clubs in the 1960s by going undercover as a bunny; founded Ms. Magazine in the 1970s; took Ms. ad free in the 1990s, and became a feminist icon. We discuss her legacy, both good and bad.

Then: cats, dogs, and the differences between them.

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1 month ago | [YT] | 111

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Add Episode 341 of The Evolutionary Lens with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying, “Lives Well Lived” to your podcast playlist:

Bret and Heather discuss two lives well-lived, both of which ended on August 31, 2026: our beloved labrador Maddie, and Wendell Berry.

Maddie was adventurous and loyal; she helped raise our children; and she gave unconditional love.

Wendell Berry was a writer, an environmentalist, and a philosopher and defender of the land, and of traditional ways of being and doing. He died at 92 at his home in Kentucky, having lived a deep life farming, thinking, and writing.

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