Bret Weinstein on Odysee

DarkHorse community, please check out Episode 321 of The Evolutionary Lens https://youtube.com/live/iUHSXGa7r1E

Rethink what you know with Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
on:

1. AI: the Mythos model threat

2. Trump & his threat against Iran and the fragile ceasefire

3. Nature of emergencies in Washington state

4. Memories of the Covid era
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On this, our 321st Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss AI, Iran, Trump, emergencies in the state of Washington, and stories from the Covid era. Anthropic, which makes Claude, announced that they are halting the release of their latest model due to unexpected capacities it has revealed. We discuss trade-offs, exploration, and game theory as they pertain to bats and planes, cats and humans, and LLMs. Then: did Trump make a genocidal threat against Iran? And: what emergency in the state of Washington could possibly apply to college tuition, out-of-state militias, accurate representation of sex on government IDs, and responding to pandemics? Answer: all the legislature has to do to make their ideas referendum-proof is declare that they are responding to an emergency—they do not even have to say what the emergency is. Finally: our memories of the Covid Era have begun to fade and morph, but it is important that we keep them alive.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Bret on Trump on Iran: https://x.com/BretWeinstein/status/2041543705325347266

Glenn Greenwald on Lebanon: https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2041906094818156646

Nguyen op-ed in Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/im-not-a-millionaire-i-dont-think-we-need-a-millionaires-tax/

Nguyen on X: https://x.com/VietQNguyen

Nguyen’s WA tracker: https://picsterola.github.io/wa-ec-tracker/#/

Covid Era Stories: https://naturalselections.substack.com/s/covid-era-stories

The Symptoms I Carry: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/the-symptoms-i-carry

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Introduction to Global Stories
00:02:41 Sponsor: Xlear
00:06:39 Sponsor: Caraway
00:10:25 Sponsor: Puori
00:15:04 AI Alarm: Mythos & Zero-Day Risk
00:20:49 Anthropic: Truth or Marketing?
00:24:42 Hidden Toggles & AI Limits
00:28:50 Game Theory is Breaking Out
00:37:42 AI & Phases of Innovation
00:49:03 Trump, Iran & Nuclear Risk
00:57:03 Strait of Hormuz Impact
01:07:28 WA Emergency Bills
01:17:22 Identity, Mandates & Power
01:29:33 COVID Stories & Memory
01:40:01 The Relationship COVID Broke
01:46:47 Rebuilding Trust
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUHSXGa7r1E

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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD7b6IkojXk

On this, our 320th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss whether it can happen here, or again. It is genocide. Growing up in a secular Jewish household in the 1970s and ‘80s, Bret remembers many discussions of whether it could happen again, and where, but it seems to be assumed that the repeated targets of atrocities cannot themselves ever engage in atrocity. Is this true? We discuss lineage selection, the nature of history and memory, diaspora, Israel. Also, the belligerence of the U.S. again Iran. Then: Washington state is allowing non-citizens to become peace and corrections officers, but if any in those positions make mean gestures or social media posts, they can be fired. Toxicity of both stripes—masculine and feminine—are in command in our political landscape, and we seem to have no good options.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here: https://www.alibris.com/It-Cant-Happen-Here-Sinclair-Lewis/book/3376310?qsort=p&matches=117

Let that sink in: https://x.com/LibyaLiberty/status/2039695385464017281

Trump on Iran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LJMfd0gYc8&t=992s

WA state bill 5068: https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5068.SL.pdf?q=20260404090142
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05DWeBTjmnc

Reflect Orbital is a young company that hopes to put tens of thousands of mirrors in orbit around the planet, and deliver “full moon to high noon” levels of light anyplace on Earth, on demand (for the right price). What could go wrong?

Full episode: https://youtube.com/live/t3U-d3KNkW8

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Mentioned in this segment:

Reflect Orbital: https://www.reflectorbital.com

Dark Sky International’s take: https://darksky.org/news/organizational-statement-reflect-orbital/
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Washington state has voted in the first ever income tax (for high earners), quick on the heels of its first ever capital gains tax, while still having some of the highest estate, sales, property, and fuel taxes in the country. Meanwhile, the cost of living is skyrocketing, and the quality of services declining. Our highways are third worst in the nation; our cities are filthy and unsafe; our schools are miseducating children (at best). Is the money being used for anything useful?

Watch the full episode: https://youtube.com/live/t3U-d3KNkW8

"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 Weinstein

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Mentioned in this segment:

WA’s affordability crisis: https://www.waroundtable.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/WRT_AffStudy_FINAL_3.20.26.pdf

Ferguson signs the millionaire’s tax into law: https://x.com/BobFergusonGov/status/2039085857655951831

WA senate bill 6346: https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/6346-S.PL.pdf

WA capital gains tax: https://dor.wa.gov/forms-publications/publications-subject/special-notices/new-tiered-rates-washingtons-capital-gains-tax

NPR podcast (KUOW’s Booming) on millionaire’s taxes: https://podscan.fm/podcasts/booming/episodes/is-millionaire-migration-really-a-thing-lessons-from-states-that-already-tax-the-rich
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In this 319th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

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Bret Weinstein speaks with Dr. Jessica Rose on the subject of what it’s like in Israel today.

Find Jessica Rose on X at https://x.com/JesslovesMJK and on Substack at https://jessicar.substack.com

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Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.

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Mentioned in this episode:

What Jessica Rose Knows: Dr. Jessica Rose on DarkHorse https://youtu.be/Bmwp9gkPQhs

Israeli Surfers Unfazed as Missiles Strike Near a Surf Break https://www.theinertia.com/surf/israeli-missiles-surf-session

Iran's propaganda machine trolls Trump https://www.npr.org/2026/03/26/nx-s1-5760944/iran-war-propaganda-memes-trump

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Surfing in a War Zone
00:05:21 Life Under Sirens
00:09:34 Missiles, Shrapnel & Risk
00:15:30 Is the Damage Real?
00:20:47 Conversing in Bunkers
00:28:57 Divided Israel
00:33:17 Is War Inevitable?
00:38:17 Why the U.S. Is Involved
00:43:25 Winning or Losing?
00:48:52 Meme Warfare
00:54:16 The Fog of War
01:00:17 Mass Manipulation
01:08:50 Power & Scarcity
01:15:46 The World We Want
01:23:27 The Western Model
01:36:32 Human Dignity
01:44:42 Gaza & Moral Authority
02:00:43 Why Monsters Rise
02:10:16 Surf or Die
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