Bret Weinstein on Odysee

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss the repurcussions of Flock cameras going up all over America. The stated goal is to track license plates, but our privacy and civil liberties are at stake. Or is it more?

Watch more from Episode 334 "What the Flock" here on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD6ol262NFI


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Mentioned in this segment:

Flock: https://www.flocksafety.com

Deflock: https://deflock.org

Flock CEO: https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/2075624572540338269
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"If you look at the push towards tokenization of assets, towards central bank digital currencies—that is programmable money that can be turned off if you displease the powers that be.

If you look at the creation of these massive data centers, is that really about citizen use of AI?

Maybe some of it is, but is it really about creating a storehouse of information that will allow you to be controlled and locked down?

That’s certainly the impression I have. We didn’t have a discussion about any of this. This is happening, and then we have to react to it because it’s all on a freight train headed down the line… and we’re always playing defense. So it’s pretty frightening stuff.

And at some level, we have a moral right to object. We’re not being given the opportunity to object..."

Watch the full episode, "What the Flock" here on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD6ol262NFI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9DXvKH36rY

Catnip is as effective as DEET in dissuading mosquitoes (but you might end up attracting cats).

Watch the Full Episode, "Gen Z Rising?" on Youtube: https://youtube.com/live/amFTaHd_M_M

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Mentioned in this segment:

Catnip as bug repellent: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/07/catnip-lotion-as-effective-as-deet-at-repelling-mosquitoes-study-finds

A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: https://amzn.to/3AGANGg (commission earned)
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Data centers, surveillance cameras, and the Cartesian Crisis: our health, privacy, and civil rights are all at risk, and it's ever more difficult to know what's true.

In this 334th 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 Sonia Elijah on the subject of her book, 3/11: Viral Takeover, covering the Covid pandemic.

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00:00:00 3/11: The Biological Sequel
00:04:08 The Blueprint for Mass Compliance
00:07:41 Sponsor: Sundays for Dogs
00:09:32 Sponsor: Sundries Farm
00:12:26 Event 201: Drill or Foreknowledge?
00:17:24 SARS-CoV-2’s American Origins?
00:25:23 HIV Inserts & Fauci’s Emails
00:28:17 Sponsor: Xlear
00:30:36 The Papers That Buried the Lab Leak
00:36:25 How Lockdowns Were Sold
00:43:15 Digital IDs and the Censorship State
00:50:53 The Emergency That Unleashed mRNA
00:59:02 Why Early Treatments Had to Fail
01:09:20 PCR Tests and Manufactured Fear
01:20:18 Where Are We Now?
01:33:26 Where to Find Sonia Elijah’s Book
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Bret Weinstein and Heathery Heying question whether Gen Z is really doing better than the generations before it (as some research and headlines proclaim).

In Episode 333 of The Evolutionary Lens on DarkHorse (available wherever you subscribe to podcasts) Bret and Heather discuss Gen Z, but also cover how to avoid mosquitoes without DEET (coming from former field biologists), and how the co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, has now been permanently blocked from the site.
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On this, our 333rd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss how to avoid mosquitoes without DEET, whether Gen Z is really doing better than the generations before it (as some research and headlines proclaim), and what the hell happened to Wikipedia. First: catnip is as effective as DEET in dissuading mosquitoes (but you might end up attracting cats). Next: New research suggests that GenZ is doing great, financially, but dig just a little, and find the research deeply flawed. Finally: Larry Sanger named and led Wikipedia in 2001, and he has now been permanently blocked from the site. It has become an ideological racket rather than an encyclopedia, but we need an encyclopedia. How do we get it back?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Catnip as bug repellent: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/07/catnip-lotion-as-effective-as-deet-at-repelling-mosquitoes-study-finds

Is GenZ earning more than millennials?: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/jun/22/gen-z-earning-more-millennials-same-age-resolution-foundation

Phil Harper responds: https://thedigger.co/p/gen-z-is-out-earning-millennials

The Guardian publishes a lot from the Resolution Foundation: https://www.theguardian.com/business/resolution-foundation

Larry Sanger: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4638304/larry-sanger-wikipedia-co-founder-banned-anonymous-mob/
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"They could go naming people and, you know, malfeasance aplenty and they would mean nothing to us 250 years later. This means everything to us because it isn't mired in the particulars of even this instance of tyranny.

It's made as an argument against when tyrants do this, you have the right to respond in this way. That's where it comes from.

And they, of course, knew that their right to respond this way did not protect them from being killed by the crown for saying these things. They all understood that. It was very explicit. Franklin himself, I believe, said, 'we must hang together or surely we will all hang separately.' Right?

They understood they were putting their lives on the line. But they also understood that they had the right to make that gamble and in some sense, the obligation to do it because the tyranny was intolerable."
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Dr. Bret Weinstein shares the important distinction between what it means to be a patriot versus a nationalist.

"Patriotism is a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of something.

Nationalism is the desire to use a something, like a nation, to advance your agenda.

So in other words, do you want to use your nation in order to accomplish something? Or are you willing to sacrifice for your nation because you think it's that important?

They are not the same thing. They are almost the inverse.

And I think they are very well captured in John F. Kennedy's quote:

'Ask not what your country can do for you' — nationalism.

'Ask what you can do for your country.'

Your country is the lifeblood of your population. Your willingness to sacrifice to keep it going and to improve it is the fundamental thing.

It's not like he was saying, give everything to your country and it's not required to give anything back. The point is it's already giving you so much back. Ask how you can advance IT."
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We are a big, brash, diverse, loud country that has certainly made lots of errors. But frankly, the enthusiasm that you see in the parts of the country where the World Cup is, is extraordinary.

The fact is that, especially for Europeans—and the other Western countries—coming here and seeing the scale… the fact that the West, and the Mountain West, and the Midwest, which is not really the West at all, and the Northeast, and the South, and then Texas and Florida, which are places unto themselves—and that’s just the continental 48, and the Great Plains. It’s so diverse, not just geographically, but culturally and culinarily. It’s an incredible landmass with an incredible diversity of people.

And yeah, have we had an arrogance that made “ugly Americans” a thing all over the world. Like, okay, here come the people who think that by just speaking English louder, anyone will be able to understand English. Yeah, that’s true about a lot of Americans.

But it has been pleasurable to see the joy that people coming to the United States taken in what it is that we are.

- Dr. Heather Heying, Episode 332 of The Evolutionary Lens, “The American Experiment at 250” on DarkHorse.

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