Bret Weinstein on Odysee

On this, our 340th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the recent flash flood on the border of Nepal and Tibet, climate science, and the nature of evidence. What commonalities are there between a glacial dam breaking and flooding the valley below, taking out towns and villages; Dry Falls and the Columbia River Gorge in Washington state; the Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean; and the 2011 earthquake that resulted in the destruction of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan? In some cases we have to infer what happened; in some cases we have direct observation; in all cases we have to construct a plausible story that fits all of the evidence. Meanwhile in climate science, a new paper 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. We discuss.

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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

Christy 2026. Declines in hot and cold daily temperature extremes in the conterminous US, 1899–2025. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 157(5): 309: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-026-06200-3

Epoch Times: https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/climatologist-says-a-century-of-weather-data-contradicts-claims-of-record-heat-6072358
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZoEAu4fs5Q

Bret Weinstein speaks with philosopher of biology Nathan Cofnas on the subject of race realism and the implications of genetic differences among populations.

Find Nathan Cofnas on X at https://x.com/nathancofnas and on Substack at https://ncofnas.com.

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Mentioned in this episode:

DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge

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Tiemstamps:

00:00:00 The Rules of Engagement
00:03:46 Race Realist?
00:08:47 Lineage vs. Race
00:13:58 The Euphemism Treadmill
00:16:38 Is Morality Real?
00:24:51 Westermarck and the Kibbutz
00:35:34 The Incest Taboo Test
00:41:53 Where Moral Beliefs Come From
00:52:34 Wokeism as an Existential Threat
00:57:54 Darwinism Applied to Humans
01:02:21 Does Winter Make You Smarter?
01:07:53 Inuits and Ethiopians
01:10:46 Why Aren't We All Von Neumann?
01:18:10 What About West African Sprinters?
01:24:37 The Black Cats in the Dark
01:28:21 The Longest Childhood on Earth
01:35:07 Everything Is an IQ Test
01:40:59 What Slavery Broke
01:45:21 Ethiopia, Korea, Japan, China
01:49:32 The Second Mode of Inheritance
01:54:18 What We Actually Disagree About
01:57:47 The Arms Race Has No Ceiling
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVN_IPPI5YA

Bret Weinstein discusses the Charlie Kirk assassination with Viva Frei and Jimmy Dore on the newest DarkHorse Podcast Inside Rail.

"We ought to all be interested in figuring out what happened to Charlie Kirk. It's profoundly important at a historical level.

And that means that anybody who comes into that discussion as an honest broker, and is sorting through evidence in a good faith fashion, is part of the solution. We are sorting out the question — and there is no justification for leveling a moral accusation against us for doing that."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwLbWls5P1E

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgMfbw93ta0

Bret Weinstein speaks with Viva Frei and Jimmy Dore on the subject of the Charlie Kirk assassination discussing the paved-over crime scene, the missing microphone, the ballistics, drones, and what a functioning investigation would have looked for.

Find Viva Frei on X at https://x.com/thevivafrei and at https://vivafrei.com
Find Jimmy Dore on X at https://x.com/jimmy_dore and at https://jimmydore.com

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Mentioned on this episode:

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

Judicial Watch UVU Cleanup Records https://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-university-releases-documents-on-clean-up-of-charlie-kirk-assassination-site/

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

Rode Wireless Pro https://rode.com/en-us/user-guides/wireless-pro/on-board-recording-and-32-bit-float

Charlie Kirk on PBD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ9VOlaBBeo

Chuck Schumer on intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3p2zKPQSgI


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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Three people, three positions, one killing
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00:05:27 Where each of us has landed as of today
00:05:47 Viva Frei: it was a bullet from the Losee roof
00:08:41 Jimmy Dore: the case for a cover-up
00:16:41 When a Question Becomes an Accusation
00:18:15 Morality as a Substitute for Argument
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00:22:42 A Biologist's Toolkit
00:25:35 George Zinn and the Reflex to Confess
00:29:42 Paving the Courtyard
00:38:11 The Exploding Microphone
00:45:09 Joe Kent Says He Was Stopped
00:46:50 The Mic That Should Have Recorded It
00:52:58 O'Neill, the Hamptons, and 39 Minutes
00:57:28 "You Don't Have an FBI"
00:59:26 Butler and the Roof Nobody Covered
01:06:27 Harpole, Shawn Ryan, and the Drones
01:11:48 The Prosecutor's Fallacy
01:15:29 Drones and a Plane at 200 Feet
01:22:06 Foreign Nexus, or Domestic
01:29:07 Retroactive Continuity
01:33:21 What Ballistics Can and Cannot Show
01:38:10 A Potemkin Explanation
01:44:14 TPUSA After Charlie
01:49:20 Iran, Motive, and What Charlie Opposed
01:51:26 "Who I Fear Is the People..."
01:56:31 A Nation, or Whatever Controls It
02:00:43 The Phone, the Necklace, the Car
02:04:39 The Emergency Cleanup Order
02:07:20 When No Answer Will Be Believed
02:09:34 Conspiracy Psychosis
02:10:47 Closing Thoughts
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO76X9CFhUI

Bret Weinstein on the Jason Arday tragedy:

BRET: Can I say something terrible that I think is true, but it's just awful?

He was Cambridge's mascot. He was like a pet. He was like somebody they could trot out and bring to dinners and he would do tricks for them. And the point is, your pet has certain expectations, right? They were treating him in this way because he was doing something for them. And so he was reaping the rewards from doing what he had been asked to do. And I do think that's a freaking tragedy.

HEATHER: I agree, that is a tragedy.

I think you're right, it does sound horrible. And I think you're right — he was effectively their mascot. He was effectively their pet. But he was also a man. He was also a human being.

BRET: But my point is, the men we admire get there through a route that punishes them for doing the wrong thing, for taking the shortcut, for being cowardly, whatever it is, and rewards them when they delay gratification and they invest in something and they tough it out and all of the things that turn you into a man. And if you create the developmental environment that does the inverse of this, you will get the inverse.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln_J7O2bofc

Bret Weinstein explores the rise of fanaticism and how it feels from the inside.

Covid vaxxers vs anti-vaxxers; traditionalists vs libertarians; and climate science deniers vs enthusiasts.

Bret explains, "the experience for somebody who tries to do the analytical work on any one of these topics that have been evaporatively cooled — the experience is, 'Wait a minute, why am I suddenly defending my decency? Why is my morality in question?'

And this is the hallmark. You can watch it happen. There's some question. Is the evidence consistent with the official narrative, or is it more consistent with a conspiracy? That's an analytical question. But if you are on the wrong side of it, the suspicion about you is that you are morally defective. There's something wrong with you that you would see it that way.

And the wrong thing is not about analytical disagreement. It's not about the weighting of evidence. It is about your character."

Hear Bret's full model for looking at fanaticism on Episode 339 of The Evolutionary Lens, available wherever you subscribe to podcasts.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_dndlDN8lA

In this 339th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss fanaticism, focusing on the particular example of Jason Arday, with an evolutionary lens.

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Bret Weinstein shares why Flock is the shallow end of the privacy pool with Toka, an Israeli firm backed by Andreessen Horowitz and co-founded by a former Israeli prime minister, which sells governments the ability to reach any internet-connected camera, alter what it recorded, and conceal that anything was altered. This is based on Josh Walkos's research pulled together on an X thread.

Watch the full episode, "We are Beyond Flocked" on Youtube: https://youtube.com/live/9QkBjYK-HYg?feature=share

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Josh Walkos thread on Toka: https://x.com/JoshWalkos/status/2085785810754785715?s=20
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Biologists Dr. Heather Heying and Dr. Bret Weinstein discuss how defending observable reality became a "conservative" position, and why the fight over women's sports is really a fight about whether we can still agree on anything at all.

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Mentioned in this segment:

WNBA press conference: https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2026-08-08/wnba-commissioner-says-league-will-continue-discussing-issue-of-transgender-participation
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlw8TzFFR0g