DarkHorse Podcast

On this, our 349th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss threats to our Constitution, due process, informed consent, and mRNA shots, through the lens of a legal argument just made public at covidpenalty.com. Also: what is it to be human, and how do we protect our humanity in the face of technological advances that make our lives easier, but remove us from our selves? Is there not value in waiting for some things—perhaps for most things? Related: we should care about all the human things: every morsel that we eat, walking, sharing memories, and making plans.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Brian Ward’s letter to Senator Moody: https://covidpenalty.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Senator-Moody-Letter-Oct-26.pdf

NYT on Melissa Mayer’s AI: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/style/marissa-mayer-ai-assistants-women.html

The Gastronomical Me: https://link.amazon/B0f91KrCu (commission earned)

HEH on MFK Fisher: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/things-that-caught-my-eye

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 We Digress, If Not Confess
00:04:13 Sponsor: BUBS Naturals
00:06:21 Sponsor: Mars Men
00:08:29 Sponsor: Helix
00:10:19 Brian Ward's Letter to Senator Moody
00:21:31 Ninth Circuit: Inject Anything?
00:29:38 PolyHeme: Consent by Armband
00:32:27 The World Is a Battlefield
00:35:36 Can a Constitution Be Facultative?
00:49:33 Why the Powerful Find Rights Galling
00:53:45 How the Supreme Court Picks Cases
00:59:31 Claude vs. Conspiracy Theory
01:02:54 An AI to Describe Your Daughter
01:18:05 The Death of Longing
01:27:31 Oh, Anything? M.F.K. Fisher Says No
01:33:04 Washington: Yes on 645, 001, 638

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On this, our 348th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss migration, race, and the West. First: the Mercator projection is unsatisfactory, and there’s a new map available, but no map of the globe can be perfect. Every home should have a globe. Then: what do we do with things in which the first step is neutral or good, but it seems inevitable that we end up in a dire situation once the first step has been accepted? Examples include abortion, lobbying, advertising, informed consent, EULAs, and utopianism. Another example may be racism: we should not be racist, but we should retain our ability to see difference, and note when people who are showing up on our doorstep are not interested in collaboration, or in the experiment of the West.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Scientific American on maps: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mathematical-impossibility-of-making-a-perfect-world-map/

Šavrič et al 2019 (Equal Earth): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2018.1504949

Muckraker documentary: https://www.muckraker.com/articles/replacing-europe-documentary/

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 No Chance of It Being Prime
00:05:24 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:07:10 Sponsor: Mars Men
00:11:24 Sponsor: Branch Basics
00:13:57 Kicking Ass and Taking Names with Maps
00:21:24 The UN Adopts Equal Earth
00:26:25 Every Home Should Have a Globe
00:34:03 Is the West at War?
00:37:57 Abortion and Where to Draw the Line
00:46:34 The Lobby and the End of the Republic
00:50:49 Advertising and the Orwell Department
00:53:33 Informed Consent and Fake Blood
01:01:34 Secularism, Utopianism, Liberalism
01:08:39 Is Racism Necessary?
01:13:58 Racism vs. Xenophobia
01:17:51 Colorblind and Not Allowed to Notice
01:23:13 The Danger of the Drifter
01:26:46 Mama Bear Energy and Oxytocin
01:29:27 Cosmopolitan vs. Multicultural
01:35:14 An Honest Discussion About Migration

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Bret Weinstein speaks with Anthony Rubin on the subject of mass migration into Europe and the United States: who facilitates it, who profits from it, and why the mainstream press has left two brothers with cameras to document it.

Find Muckraker on X at https://x.com/realmuckraker and watch his documentary on Youtube at https://youtu.be/svJUbYFCRPc

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Mentioned in this episode:

Replacing Europe: Following the World's Deadliest Migration Route - FULL DOCUMENTARY https://youtu.be/svJUbYFCRPc

Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN) https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda

Migration and the 2030 Agenda: A Guide for Practitioners (IOM) https://migrationdataportal.org/tool/migration-and-2030-agenda-guide-practitioners

International Organization for Migration (IOM) https://www.iom.int

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency https://www.unhcr.org

HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) https://hias.org

Norwegian Refugee Council https://www.nrc.no

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies https://www.ifrc.org

Open Society Foundations https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 From Mauritania to the English Channel
00:02:00 Three Routes Into Europe
00:03:47 Sponsor: Caraway
00:05:08 Sponsor: Ridge
00:06:19 Migration or Invasion?
00:08:15 Mauritania: Nothing to Lose
00:10:11 The UN at the Top
00:11:46 Rape Kits for the Darién Gap
00:14:13 Migration as an Inherent Good
00:15:50 Agenda 2030 & "Agents of Development"
00:17:22 Who Profits When the Flow Stops?
00:20:58 Suicidal Empathy in Calais
00:22:56 Foot Soldiers vs. Architects
00:25:09 Too Big to Shut Down?
00:27:47 The End of the Nation-State
00:28:44 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:29:57 Ukraine, Iran, and Manufactured Chaos
00:33:03 Theater on the French Coast
00:34:58 When to Call It an Invasion
00:37:46 Lineage Selection
00:39:58 Why Isn't the Press Covering This?
00:41:12 Cartels vs. Governments
00:44:13 No Excuses for the Press
00:45:50 Invasion Meets Anti-Natalism
00:46:41 Smoky Room or Societal Decay?
00:50:32 The IOM Worker on El Hierro
00:53:21 Everyone Claims to Be From Mali
00:54:04 The Smugglers He Didn't Report
00:57:49 Did Trump Abandon Mass Deportations?
01:00:37 Knocking on Doors for Missing Minors
01:03:46 Same Play, Same Players
01:05:55 Too Afraid to Be Called Racist?
01:09:33 The West Is the Only Alternative
01:12:34 Racism Against White People
01:13:12 Fighting-Age Men by the Numbers
01:15:41 The Cowardice of the Academy
01:17:45 The Asch Conformity Experiment
01:20:24 Milgram and the Power of One Dissenter
01:21:41 Evolutionary Biology's Blind Spot
01:22:45 Yuri Bezmenov and Ideological Subversion
01:25:17 Why Isn't It Already Obvious?
01:27:50 Skin in the Game
01:28:34 Be the One Who Breaks Ranks
01:29:48 Where to Find Muckraker

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On this, our 347th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the ballot initiatives and voter id in the state of Washington. On this November’s ballot, WA has 3 measures: 645 (which would repeal the new income tax), 638 (which would keep girls’ sports single-sex), and 001 (which would return parental rights). We discuss—and support—all three. In every case, reading the arguments for and against, it is clear that one side must be lying—the “facts” are inconsistent. Cheaters will keep winning until more of us start voting against them—even if they seem to be on “our” side. We also discuss why Washington doesn’t check voters for citizenship.

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Mentioned in this episode:

WA state initiatives: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/voters/proposed-ballot-measure-information

Churches w traditional views of gender: https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2108696643646226634

No hate in WA state: https://nohateinwastate.org

Auditors in WA state: https://x.com/thehoffather/status/2108326733414039633

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Timestamps: 

00:00:00 347: A Prime Episode
00:03:12 Signed Books from the DarkHorse Store
00:04:38 Sponsor: Redmond Salt
00:08:38 Sponsor: Ethos
00:09:48 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:13:43 The State of the State of Washington
00:21:23 I-645: Repealing the Income Tax
00:27:48 The Emergency That Was Never Defined
00:29:52 The Marriage Penalty
00:34:16 How Are Lies Allowed on the Ballot?
00:39:53 The You-Go-Girl Response at Brunch
00:48:17 I Will Vote Against the Liars
00:53:04 I-638: Boys Out of Girls' Sports
01:01:59 Walking Off in Camas
01:06:51 What Does Cheating Get You?
01:08:13 Tearing Down the Athletic Girls
01:12:51 Is Your Church an Extremist Group?
01:19:54 You Wouldn't Have to Cheat
01:21:34 I-001: Parental Rights
01:30:07 The Family vs. State Power
01:34:09 Miserable or Menacing?
01:40:47 Voting on the Honor System
01:49:25 Which Error Do You Prefer?
01:54:25 The March of the Lunatics

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Bret Weinstein speaks with Josh Walkos on the subject of Toka, a company that says it can alter surveillance video without a trace, and the wider network of surveillance and targeting tools being built with no public consent. 

Find Josh Walkos on X at https://x.com/JoshWalkos and on Substack at https://wethefree.substack.com

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Mentioned on this episode:

- Josh Walkos thread, “Inside Toka and the New Age of ‘Frictionless Surveillance:’” https://x.com/JoshWalkos/status/2085785810754785715

- The Great Cyber Pandemic (Josh Walkos, We The Free) https://wethefree.substack.com/p/the-great-cyber-pandemic

- Toka https://tokagroup.com

- Flock's biggest investor also backs a company that can rewrite camera footage (TechSpot) https://www.techspot.com/news/113395-flock-biggest-investor-also-backs-company-can-rewrite.html

- This 'Dystopian' Cyber Firm Could Have Saved Mossad Assassins From Exposure (Haaretz) https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2022-12-26/ty-article-magazine/.premium/this-dystopian-cyber-firm-could-have-saved-mossad-assassins-from-exposure/00000185-0bc6-d26d-a1b7-dbd739100000

- Epstein Could Have Made $100 Million On A Secret Police Tech Investment (Forbes) https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/02/10/epstein-police-surveillance-investments-with-ehud-barak/ 

- Flock Safety https://www.flocksafety.com

- Axon https://www.axon.com

- How Texas Police Spent $4.5 Million on Four Chevy Tahoes (Cognyte's FalcoNet, The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-texas-police-spent-4-5-million-on-four-chevy-tahoes

- Pentagon to Designate Palantir Maven AI as Program of Record (GovCon Wire) https://www.govconwire.com/articles/pentagon-palantir-maven-ai-program-of-record

- Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed (WikiLeaks) https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ 

- Grassley Questions FDA's Sanction of Blood Substitute Study Without Patient Consent (PolyHeme) https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/grassley-questions-fdas-sanction-of-blood-substitute-study-without-patient-consent

- Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification (1977 Senate hearing) https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/95mkultra.pdf

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy https://link.amazon/B0f7h8uAJ (affiliate link)

- Bret Weinstein on the Julian Dorey Podcast https://youtu.be/DMfPxmw3Y9Q?si=Nj8QymGYNK8KDgvl 

- DarkHorse Podcast episode where Bret raised Toka https://youtube.com/live/9QkBjYK-HYg

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Who Controls the Camera?
00:01:28 From Flock to Toka
00:03:30 Sponsor: Sundays for Dogs
00:04:53 The End of Video Evidence?
00:07:12 Framing the Innocent
00:10:14 J6, Epstein, Kirk, and Butler
00:12:48 The Cryptic Powers of an Emperor
00:14:29 Why the Silence on Toka?
00:17:28 Whitney Webb Was Already on It
00:20:57 Sponsor: Ethos
00:22:00 Fake Cell Towers and Spy SUVs
00:26:33 Worse Than a Panopticon
00:28:56 Ehud Barak, Epstein, and Toka
00:30:35 Where's Your Evidence It Was Used?
00:34:05 An Open Invitation to Toka
00:36:48 Maven and the OODA Loop
00:41:19 Clean Hands, Distant Wars
00:44:59 PolyHeme Without Consent
00:49:47 The Hitchhiker's Guide to Consent
00:54:16 If It Were Your Child
00:57:45 The Banality of Evil
01:01:36 Faking CCTV Is a Question of Price
01:09:52 When AI Takes the Jobs
01:12:43 Billionaire Bunkers and Police Drones
01:15:18 Fight It at the Level of Rights
01:18:46 Five Revolutions, One Lifetime
01:22:07 Gen Z Is in the Bullseye
01:27:32 Where to Find Josh Walkos

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On this, our 346th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the Cornell 7, sex in modern times, and the plague. Civil charges have been brought against seven men and several institutions, including Cornell University, by a woman who claims to have been drugged and gang-raped in a fraternity house on campus in October 2024. We go through legal documents and journalism about what happened and discuss consent, drinking and drugs, the Greek system, and what sex has and has not become. Then: a woman has died of plague in Russia; is a global pandemic coming? We discuss what to look out for.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Anna Bower at Slip Opinion with Cornell 7 docs (including the DA, the Civil Suit, and Kretzschmar petition): https://annabower.substack.com/p/read-the-cornell-7-documents

NYT on what transpired at Cornell in the Fall of 2024: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/nyregion/cornell-rape-accusation-reporting.html

Cornell has a sex ed problem: https://jaredlederman.substack.com/p/cornell-has-a-sex-education-problem

Jennifer Bilek: https://x.com/bjportraits/status/2107171941014536280?s=20

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Signed Copies in Seven Languages 
00:05:34 Sponsor: SaunaSpace
00:08:55 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:10:33 Sponsor: Caraway
00:14:05 The Cornell 7 Case: A Misleading Name
00:18:23 Believe Women, or Wait for Evidence?
00:23:46 Why Sue Everyone? The Strike Price
00:30:11 Naive About Frats? Not Since 1987
00:36:03 In Everyone's Care, Custody and Control
00:42:31 Regret Is Not a Lack of Consent
00:45:41 Blame Cornell, Blame the Bar?
00:52:38 Kretzschmar's Negative Hair Test
00:59:05 Her Sworn Statement vs. the Lawsuit
01:07:23 How Her Account Changed
01:14:05 What Rape Once Took From a Woman
01:21:49 Two Strategies for Men, One for Women
01:27:25 Cornell's Sex Ed: Yes, No, Maybe So
01:36:28 Why Sex Belongs Behind a Closed Door
01:39:27 A Special Prosecutor and Mob Rule
01:42:07 Why Are We Fed These Stories?
01:50:38 Plague: A Lab Worker Dies in Siberia
01:53:15 Pneumonic, Bubonic, and a Starving Flea
01:57:56 Is This the Next COVID?
02:06:15 Watch the Tabletop Exercises
02:11:10 Tiger Cats of the Andes

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Bret Weinstein speaks with Jeffrey Tucker on the subject of the COVID story the establishment is willing to tell, and the much larger one it isn't.

Find Jeffrey Tucker on X at https://x.com/jeffreytucker and Brownstone Institute at https://brownstone.org.

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Mentioned on this episode:

- Brownstone Institute https://brownstone.org
- Cries for Help Buried in V-Safe Data https://brownstone.org/articles/cries-for-help-buried-in-v-safe-data/
- All-In Summit: Bill Gurley https://x.com/theallinpod/status/2101106499527282815
- React19 https://react19.org
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025–2030 https://realfood.gov
- Moderna product pipeline https://www.modernatx.com/research/product-pipeline

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 The Covid Story They'll Tell
00:06:03 Sponsor: SaunaSpace
00:08:26 Sponsor: VanMan
00:10:19 The Middle Ground Scramble
00:15:01 Why Great Barrington Had to Be Crushed
00:19:01 DEFUSE: An Answer Before the Inquiry
00:22:37 mRNA Was Supposed to Be Dead
00:27:45 Sponsor: Redmond Re-lyte
00:30:23 What Is a Vaccine Supposed to Do?
00:34:38 Why Wall Street Loves mRNA
00:42:18 Is Every Booster a Roll of the Dice?
00:56:21 V-Safe: The Injury Reports CDC Ignored
01:08:47 Sam Harris Asked: Where Are the Bodies?
01:12:07 Inflated Deaths and Rewritten Definitions
01:22:14 Can RFK Jr. Beat the Pharma Goliath?

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On this, our 345th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss immigration, AI, and rawness. First: a new Harper’s article chronicles the effects on local people of the mass migration across the Darién Gap in Panama between 2021 and 2025, and what has happened since the number of people coming up from Colombia has dropped to a trickle. The reporting on the ground is excellent—human and honest—while the political analysis is naïve at best. Then: what is it to be raw, how is it inherently human, and what is its relationship to grief, and to AI?
 

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Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan

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Mentioned in this episode:

Minding the Gap: https://harpers.org/2026/09/general-interest-minding-the-gap-belen-fernandez-jasmine-liu/

Fernández – At the Edge of Empire: https://harpers.org/archive/2026/10/at-the-edge-of-empire-belen-fernandez-panama-immigration-towns/

Heying – Raw: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/raw

Crawford, Why We Drive: [can you create an affiliate link for this] https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Drive-Toward-Philosophy/dp/0062741969/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y-PChdMBwHIDKvANAvihY7QLld0SKDGsAFdX8CZrjpTCa4LSx-TBsJo41Sl6JPbm-Ag2zIDy2woM-RCOjRAS0caXHPTH9ozjlifRrjsqc9Q.XcCZSCGXxdZVue61CBJ8YSVti4Emu5qyMkb7a1mFUiw&qid=1790800365&sr=8-2

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00:00:00 Boredom Makes the Time Go Slow
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00:12:05 Fat Bear Week: The Prepper's Mascot
00:16:40 Back to the Darién Gap
00:18:52 Invasion or Migration? Both.
00:24:24 How America Carved Panama From Colombia
00:30:33 Is a Boom Now a Right?
00:35:41 Where Did the Aid Organizations Go?
00:40:53 The Surge Was Too Fast to Be Organic
00:44:41 Why There's No Road Through the Darién
00:46:31 Great Reporting, Bad Geopolitics
00:51:00 Mayorkas, HIAS, and the Chinese Camp
00:52:10 Deport Only the Worst of the Worst?
00:58:09 This Is All of Us
01:02:12 Migration as Osmotic Pressure
01:06:15 The Feminization of Systems
01:10:01 Raw: Unprocessed, Unfiltered, Unclothed
01:21:02 The AI That Couldn't Lace a Wheel
01:27:27 Speedometer vs. the Wind in Your Hair
01:33:16 The Rawness of Grief
01:35:41 Why Can't Sociopaths Fake Grief?
01:39:59 Real Grief Is Raw. AI Is Cooked.
01:42:34 Playgrounds With Nails Sticking Out

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Bret Weinstein speaks with John Cullen on the subject of the unanswered questions surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.

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Mentioned on this episode:

- Was Charlie Kirk Killed With a Drone? Viva Frei and Jimmy Dore on DarkHorse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO76X9CFhUI

- How Many Shooters? John Cullen on the Trump Assassination Attempt (July 2024): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hKuo2qW6uE

- Multiple Shooters? John Cullen & Clay Martin (TPC #1,538): https://rumble.com/v592bhg-multiple-shooters-john-cullen-and-clay-martin-tpc-1538.html


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00:00:00 Can You Trust a Man With a Pen Name?
00:01:39 Tyler Robinson, Acting Alone?
00:03:42 Sponsor: Lovebird Cereal
00:05:33 Why John Cullen Is Irrelevant
00:22:10 Sponsor: Mars Men
00:23:07 A Pentagon Spy Plane at UVU
00:32:24 Back 25 Minutes After the Shot
00:57:31 The Drones Nobody Wants to Explain
01:10:42 Bird of Prey: A Rifle That Flies
01:17:55 The Round Left on the Roof
01:37:34 Why Was There No Exit Wound?
01:43:27 Butler and the Spiral of Silence
01:50:42 Wouldn't Someone Have Seen It?
01:59:37 Las Vegas: No Shots From the Window
02:05:31 Was the Real Target MBS?
02:19:47 Three Women, a Minivan, 24 Guns
02:27:35 Flushing Out the Crown Prince
02:39:46 Who Broke the Window?
02:47:01 The Deadliest Gunman in History?

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On this, our 344th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss new cats, fat bears, and overwhelmed frogs. The tilcayo, a newly named species of cat from Bolivia, is part of a group of New World “tiger cats” that live on the outskirts of the Amazon basin. We discuss Carnivoran relationships, cats more specifically, and what is known about the history and ecology of the tilcayo in particular. Then: it’s fat bear week at Katmai National Park in Alaska, where grizzlies are fattening themselves on salmon for the Winter ahead; we discuss hibernation, reproductive diapause, and general chonkiness in bears. Finally: female Cope’s gray treefrogs have a harder time choosing good mates when there’s a lot of noise, and when there are too many suitors—kind of like how women often make bad choices when confronted with chaos and wingmen.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Lescroart & Nogales-Ascarrunz et al 2026. Phylogenomics and museomics reveal five distinct species of tiger cats in South America. Current Biology 36: 1-15: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)01110-3

National Geographic’s tilcayo pics: https://news.nationalgeographic.org/photos-new-wild-cat-species/

Meet the bears: https://explore.org/meet-the-bears#h_75305921118711789688140871

Hemingway et al 2026. Choice overload constrains mate choice independent of energetic masking. iScience 29: 1-13: https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-0042%2826%2902464-8 

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 It Smells Like Autumn

00:01:42 Cats, Fat Bears, and Overwhelmed Frogs

00:05:23 Sponsor: Cowboy Colostrum

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00:12:01 Sponsor: Branch Basics

00:16:00 The Tilcayo: A Brand-New Cat

00:20:30 An Orphaned Kitten in the Andes

00:23:45 Inside Phylogenetics

00:28:19 Carnivores vs. Carnivorans

00:29:56 Hyenas: Cat Adjacent, Not a Cat

00:37:36 The Answer Is Software

00:44:48 Meet the Tilcayo

00:46:51 Five Cryptic Species of Tiger Cat

00:50:01 Why So Many Little Cats?

00:59:15 Sympatric, Allopatric, or Parapatric?

01:01:47 Apologies to the Dog People

01:03:57 80% Neurotic, 10% Psychotic

01:07:37 A Raccoon, a Lemur, and a Wild Kitten

01:13:33 Fat Bear Week

01:18:12 The Bears' Cupboard Strategy

01:23:45 Yes, Bears Have Diapause

01:26:26 Strategy, Luck, or Dominance?

01:33:26 Overwhelmed Frogs

01:39:19 Why Are Frog Choruses So Loud?

01:45:29 What Counts as a Good Choice?

01:47:07 Clubs, Wingmen, and Bad Decisions

01:51:05 Hot Guys With Less to Say

01:52:02 Be Good to the Ones You Love

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