Bret Weinstein on Odysee

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Tariffs, Trump, AI, nature, and science. Are the tariffs insane, or brilliant? Will Trump actually bring manufacturing back to the U.S.? How are the “reciprocal tariffs” calculated, what game is everyone playing, and how long will it take to know who wins? Then: AI marches us further into the Cartesian Crisis; can we restore our humanity? Scientific American claims that too much nature is bad for you (it’s not), and finally, some words from County Highway, and why we should consider being quiet and listening to Aslan.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Tucker Carlson & Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: https://x.com/tuckercarlson/status/1908204378613248067

Jeffrey Sachs – Trump is uniting the world against the U.S.: https://x.com/AskBabaDog/status/1908232709417402724

Ross Perot in 1992, and the “giant sucking sound:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRr60nmDyu4&t=1s

Balaji on “nuking supply chains,” quote-tweeting Flexport’s graph of the formula used to generate “reciprocal tariffs”: https://x.com/balajis/status/1907645443221463105

AI alignment on tariffs: https://x.com/krishnanrohit/status/1907587352157106292

AI turns images into full-body animations: https://x.com/minchoi/status/1907799412094427205

Scientific American warns against spending too much time in nature: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-spent-in-nature-is-good-for-your-brain-but-an-excess-can-negate-these/

Zagnoli et al 2022. Is Greenness Associated with Dementia? A Systematic Review and Dose–Response Meta-analysis. Curr Envir Health Rpt 9: 574–590: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40572-022-00365-5

County Highway: https://www.countyhighway.com

Ralston College’s Sophia Lectures: https://www.ralston.ac/events/the-sophia-lectures-with-bret-weinstein-and-heather-Heying

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Welcome
00:02:03 Sponsors: CrowdHealth, Pique’s Nandaka, Sundays
00:11:49 Tariffs
01:12:54 AI: What the hell happens to evidence?
01:24:34 Touch Astroturf
01:37:30 “No Time for Words”
01:43:03 Closing
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Bret Weinstein argues that level playing fields are the sine qua non of the West – they work in science, markets, politics, everything. Internet algorithms in their current state are, in comparison, anti-Western.

Watch the full episode: https://youtube.com/live/cOFwgT0asf8?feature=share

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In this week’s episode, we discuss ridiculous op-eds and letters to the editor in Nature this week, and the concept of fairness. First: gender equity for female scientists in war zones, and for women in mining. Are these laudable goals? Also: is division of labor between the sexes inherently objectionable? How does the concept of homeostasis relate to a body being given pharmaceutical interventions, a society being given equity interventions, or a government being given bureaucratic interventions? Then: level playing fields are the sine qua non of the West – they work in science, markets, politics, everything. Internet algorithms in their current state are, in comparison, anti-Western. Using the analogy of a card game, we discuss luck.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Track gender ratios in research to keep countries, institutions and publishers accountable: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00891-w

Give grants to female scientists in war zones: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00926-2

How to get more women into mining: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00925-3

Murdock & Provost 1973. Factors in the division of labor by sex: A cross-cultural analysis. Ethnology 12(2): 203-225: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3773347

Ralston College’s Sophia Lectures: https://www.ralston.ac/events/the-sophia-lectures-with-bret-weinstein-and-heather-heying

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Spring is Cooking Along
00:11:25 Sponsors: ARMRA, Manukora, and Helix
00:18:20 Tracking Gender Ratios
00:32:55 Elon Derangement Syndrome
00:44:05 Grants to Female Scientists in War Zones
00:47:08 Women in Mining
00:57:00 Division of Labor by Sex
01:04:37 Bret Explains "Random Distribution of Unfairness"
01:20:12 Internet Algorithms are Anti-Western
01:27:35 Bret Responds to Candace Owens' Statements
01:36:34 Closing
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Bret Weinstein speaks with Charles Eisenstein on the subject of blackmail in American politics. They explore the complexities surrounding Zionism, the implications of antisemitism in political discourse, and the psychological mechanisms of coercion and blackmail that influence public figures.

Find Charles Eisenstein on X at https://x.com/ceisenstein and on his website at https://charleseisenstein.org.

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

Thumbnail: Jon Cherry / Stringer Getty Images News via Getty Images"

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Mentioned in this episode:

RFK Jr tweet: https://x.com/seckennedy/status/1904259440544743427

Bret’s Segment on RFK Jr. on Episode #269 https://youtu.be/Ms1p_WDJunA

Bret’s piece in Salon on terrorism: https://www.salon.com/2015/11/15/lets_not_get_it_wrong_this_time_the_terrorists_won_after_911_because_we_chose_to_invade_iraq_shred_our_constitution

“Rabbi tells Senate hearing on anti-Semitism that it's ‘not enough’ to be ‘not anti-Semitic.’" Tweet: https://x.com/infolibnews/status/1906536666635850188

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Welcome Charles Eisenstein to DarkHorse
00:01:03 Is RFK Jr. Being Blackmailed?
00:04:15 Clarifying the Term “Zionist”
00:06:49 RFK Jr.’s Israel Support
00:12:24 The Abuse of the Term “Anti-Semitism”
00:18:26 Explaining the RFK Jr. Blackmail Question
00:21:23 How Collecting Blackmail Material Works
00:57:34 Reciprocity vs. Lineage Against Lineage Violence
01:29:14 Amnesty: Overcoming Blackmail
01:56:47 Anti-Anti-semitism
01:59:38 Closing
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Bret Weinstein questions RFK Jr.'s recent tweets on anti-semitism under the official Secretary of Heath and Human Services X account.

"We need to figure out how to free Bobby Kennedy and everybody else so they can go back to doing the public's bidding from their high offices and that involves thinking about this in game theoretic terms.

So my argument is we have to actually figure out how to give amnesty to the people who are supposed to be our representatives in government and that is not something that we can do willy-nilly." - Bret Weinstein

Watch the full Evolutionary Lens Episode #269, "23andYou:" https://youtube.com/live/Xwu5PjHxYbg

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Mentioned in this segment:

RFK Jr tweet: https://x.com/seckennedy/status/1904259440544743427

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Timestamps:
00:00 The State of MAHA Post-Election
03:42 What is Creating Anti-semitism?
06:14 How to Free RFK Jr. — Bret's Argument
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