Bret Weinstein on Odysee

In this 341st 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 answers a question from the chat in a recent Locals Private Q&A on what Coalition of the Reasonable is.

Find out more about Bret's Coalition of the Reasonable on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bretweinstein
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In a recent DarkHorse Private Q&A Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, both PhDs in biology, answer a Locals Member question about boogers.

Q: "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."

Bret Weinstein starts by summarizing his answer: "Two adaptive explanations, for which I do not have a high confidence …

One, it's a resource and this is a way of recycling it.

Two, it may contain information and that information may have an adaptive utility."

A Q&A is coming up this Friday, join the DarkHorse Locals community to participate https://darkhorse.locals.com/support
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Bret Weinstein, Viva Frei, and Jimmy Dore work through the drone claims surrounding Charlie Kirk's killing.

Watch the full episode "Was Charlie Kirk Killed With a Drone?" https://youtu.be/TO76X9CFhUI

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Mentioned on this segment:

Drone evidence mentioned by Bret: https://x.com/I_Am_JohnCullen/status/2090282476623286463

Jimmy Dore's Interview with Joe Kent https://youtu.be/9EqB1OLESEw?si=N9gdgjSf9USzhKS7

Chris Martenson https://x.com/chrismartenson

John Cullen https://x.com/I_Am_JohnCullen

Brian Harpole on Shawn Ryan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpVrZbiEyi4

Frank Turke mentions drone footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVaxvKtw5NQ&t=2576s
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Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss a new paper that reconstructs NOAA data from 1,200 weather stations from over 100 years, uses a different metric than NOAA does to describe the data, and concludes that the world—or at least the coterminous U.S.—is not heating up in the way we have been told.

Heather circles back to a point that was made at the opening of the episode "Sudden Flood in Tibet," on the importance of paper.

"We still have the original reports that were written on with ink by people over 100 years ago. And if we were just trusting what NOAA was telling us the data were, those would be missing."
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What does a flood in Nepal have to do with Dry Falls? Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying share footage of the disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border, and what it reveals about a flood no one alive ever saw.

Watch the full episode "Sudden Flood in Tibet" https://youtube.com/live/CZoEAu4fs5Q

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Mentioned in this episode:

New York Post on flood: https://nypost.com/2026/08/26/world-news/flood-hits-china-nepal-border-leaving-many-dead-and-missing/

Flood video: https://x.com/weaponizedwheat/status/2092652586935763289?s=46

More flood video: https://x.com/charlesarthur/status/2092613128387211617?s=20
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Bret Weinstein shares his model for why extremism is breaking out on every topic all at once.

Watch the full episode, "The Strange Rise of Fanaticism" https://youtube.com/live/uBUL61FEFPM

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Bret Weinstein sat down with Nathan Cofnas (a philosopher of biology and self-described race realist) on DarkHorse to discuss race, evolution, and what explains differences in intelligence.

WEINSTEIN: "Let me sum this up so that the audience knows what the hell we're disagreeing over.

I am not arguing that differences in capability in a language don't exist at an individual level. They're profound. I'm not saying that intelligence doesn't differ between individuals. They are profound differences. What we disagree over is what the likely explanation is for how those differences came about.

And my point would be we see profound distinctions in facility and language, for example, that are clearly the result of developmental differences. I mean, the most obvious of them is that you don't grow up in China and find yourself speaking Swedish. Your facility in Chinese has everything to do with the fact that Chinese is what's in the air around you.

And my point is that we are underrating — because we can measure genes and because they seem very powerful to us — we are underrating the largely still mysterious mechanisms of cultural evolution that shape the way we think, the way we communicate, the way we partner in thinking. All of those patterns are staring us in the face. They are profoundly important and likely explanatory of many of the differences that I hear you attributing to genes.

And so that's where the question goes. What is the causal explanation for the distinctions you're pointing to, not whether the distinctions are real?"
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