DarkHorse Podcast

By Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

The DarkHorse Podcast is hosted by Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. Bret and Heather both have PhDs in biology, and they seek truth and explore a wide variety of topics with their evolutionary to

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Number 1: Where Feminism Went Wrong: The 342nd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
On this, our 342nd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss men, women, and feminism; and the love of our pets. Gloria Steinem died at 92 this week. She exposed working conditions at Playboy clubs in the 1960s by going undercover as a bunny; founded Ms. Magazine in the 1970s; took Ms. ad free in the 1990s, and became a feminist icon. We discuss her legacy, both good and bad. Then: cats, dogs, and the differences between them. ***** Our sponsors: Caraway: Non-toxic, highly functional & beautiful cookware and bakeware. Save up to $230 on their 12 piece cookware set, and visit http://Carawayhome.com/DarkHorse for an additional 10% off your next purchase. Add their minis duo, and save up to $350. CrowdHealth: Pay for healthcare with crowdfunding instead of insurance. It’s way better. Use code DarkHorse at http://JoinCrowdHealth.com to get 1st 3 months for $99/month. Helix: Excellent, sleep-enhancing, American-made mattresses. Go to http://www.HelixSleep.com/DarkHorse for 27% off sitewide. ***** Join us on Locals! Get access to our Discord server, exclusive live streams, live chats for all streams, and early access to many podcasts: https://darkhorse.locals.com Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3AGANGg (commission earned) Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free License to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net ***** Mentioned in this episode: NYT obit of Steinem: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/politics/gloria-steinem-dead.html A Bunny’s Tale: https://archive.org/details/a-bunnys-tale/page/n15/mode/2up Heying 2022: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02278-0 Support the show
September 04, 20261h 42min
Number 2: Lives Well Lived: The 341st Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
On this, our 341st Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss two lives well-lived, both of which ended on August 31, 2026: our beloved labrador Maddie, and Wendell Berry. Maddie was adventurous and loyal; she helped raise our children; and she gave unconditional love. Wendell Berry was a writer, an environmentalist, and a philosopher and defender of the land, and of traditional ways of being and doing. He died at 92 at his home in Kentucky, having lived a deep life farming, thinking, and writing. ***** Our sponsors: Timeline: Accelerate the clearing of damaged mitochondria to improve strength and endurance: Go to www.timeline.com/darkhorse and use code darkhorse for 20% off your order. Cowboy Colostrum: Get 25% Off Cowboy Colostrum with code Darkhorse at https://cowboycolostrum.com/darkhorse. CrowdHealth: Pay for healthcare with crowdfunding instead of insurance. It’s way better. Use code DarkHorse at http://JoinCrowdHealth.com to get 1st 3 months for $99/month. ***** Join us on Locals! Get access to our Discord server, exclusive live streams, live chats for all streams, and early access to many podcasts: https://darkhorse.locals.com Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3AGANGg (commission earned) Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free License to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net ***** Mentioned in this episode: Wendell Berry in 2012 in Humanities: https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/mayjune/conversation/wendell-berry-landsma Berry obit in NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.htm The Peace of Wild Things: https://amzn.to/4zQkzE6 (commission earned) The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture: https://amzn.to/4zTQV0S (commission earned) ***** Timestamps: 00:00:00 A Rough One Today 00:02:07 Sponsor: Timeline 00:06:01 Sponsor: Cowboy Colostrum 00:09:09 Sponsor: CrowdHealth 00:11:22 We Lost Maddie on Monday 00:14:01 Why Does She Love Me Unconditionally? 00:15:38 Dogs May Save the World 00:18:03 The Longest-Standing Domesticate 00:20:53 Cats See Mothers, Dogs See a Team 00:23:43 Please Wait for Dad to Get Home 00:30:50 Why We Buried Her Ourselves 00:37:26 Sun Lakes and a Dog With a Job 00:43:09 Photographs of Maddie 00:45:57 Grief Is the Downside of Love 00:48:07 What We Surrender to the Market 00:55:58 Wendell Berry, 1934-2026 01:01:02 The Unsettling of America 01:02:25 Monoculture of Crops and of Ideas 01:07:23 The Cult of the Future 01:13:53 Manifesto: The Mad Farmer 01:16:46 A Meeting, and Goodbye Support the show
September 02, 20261h 19min
Number 3: How Real is Race? Dr. Nathan Cofnas on DarkHorse
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. ***** Join DarkHorse on Locals! Get access to our Discord server, exclusive live streams, live chats for all streams, and early access to many podcasts: https://darkhorse.locals.com Check out the DHP store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://www.darkhorsestore.org Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free License to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net ***** Mentioned in this episode: DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge ***** 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 Support the show
August 26, 20262h 3min
Number 4: Sudden Flood in Tibet: The 340th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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. ***** Our sponsors: Ethos: Protect your family with life insurance from Ethos. Get up to $3 million in coverage in as little as 10 minutes at https://ethos.com/darkhorse Caraway: Non-toxic, highly functional & beautiful cookware and bakeware. Save up to $230 on their 12 piece cookware set, and visit http://Carawayhome.com/DarkHorse for an additional 10% off your next purchase. Add their minis duo, and save up to $350. Puori: Clean and safe supplements, lab tested and guaranteed. Go to http://Puori.com/DarkHorse for 32% off grass-fed whey protein with a subscription. DarkHorse code works on all products! ***** Join us on Locals! Get access to our Discord server, exclusive live streams, live chats for all streams, and early access to many podcasts: https://darkhorse.locals.com Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3AGANGg (commission earned) Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free License to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net ***** 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 ***** Timestamps: 00:00:00 When Can You Trust Your Own Eyes? 00:03:49 Sponsor: Ethos 00:05:31 Sponsor: Caraway 00:10:35 Sponsor: Puori 00:12:55 Infinite Paper for a Paperless World 00:18:38 Disaster on the Nepal-Tibet Border 00:22:19 Only 10% of Those Who Get Wet Survive 00:28:25 Dry Falls, the Largest Waterfall Ever 00:33:13 But Where Did the Water Come From? 00:35:27 Glacial Lake Missoula Explodes 00:41:58 The Flash Flood That Nearly Killed Us 00:44:26 Flash Flood vs. Mountain Tsunami 00:48:10 Japan Built Below the Stones 00:55:52 The Huascarán Debris Avalanche 01:00:45 What Boxing Day Taught the World 01:05:35 Declines in Hot and Cold Extremes 01:14:02 Means vs. Extremes 01:17:34 The License to Discard Outliers 01:22:55 The Records NOAA Left Out 01:27:33 Systematic vs. Random Error 01:31:12 How It's Supposed to Be Done 01:36:28 Frogs Next Time Support the show
August 26, 20261h 39min
Number 5: Was Charlie Kirk Killed With a Drone? Viva Frei and Jimmy Dore on DarkHorse
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 ***** Sponsors: SaunaSpace: deep radiant heat from red and infrared incandescence—detox and decrease pain, reverse screen fatigue and improve your mood. http://Sauna.Space/DarkHorse for 10% off sitewide. MUD\WTR: Start your new morning ritual & get up to 43% off your @MUDWTR with DARKHORSE at http://mudwtr.com/DARKHORSE #mudwtrpod Helix: Excellent, sleep-enhancing, American-made mattresses. Go to http://www.HelixSleep.com/DarkHorse to get 27% off site wide for the Labor Day Sale (exclusive for DarkHorse listeners). ***** Join DarkHorse on Locals! Get access to our Discord server, exclusive live streams, live chats for all streams, and early access to many podcasts: https://darkhorse.locals.com Check out the DHP store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://www.darkhorsestore.org Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free License to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net ***** 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 Support the show
August 23, 20262h 12min