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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

EXPERTS ON EXPERT: Bret Weinstein

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.668.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Summary

Bret Weinstein is an American biologist and Evolutionary theorist. Bret sits down with the Armchair Expert to discuss the boundaries of empathy, the concept of metaphorical truth and the bonding dynamics between males and females. Dax and Bret advocate for the protection of intellectual discourse and the two agree that there isn't a universally effective human diet. Bret talks about the evolvement of monogamy, the trajectory of gossip over time and Dax teaches Bret about the mechanics of the hall pass. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody welcome to armchair expert

0:03.4

Boy do we have a juicy protein brain bomb for you today. Yeah, do we like this guest?

0:14.0

He's joining the top rung of our favorite intellectuals who've come on here and made time fly.

0:20.0

We may want him to come on as a recurring guest.

0:23.4

We're thinking about having him as much as he'll stop by.

0:26.2

Brett Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist.

0:31.1

We discovered him on another podcast where he just is the most well-spoken person we've ever heard ever you can throw any topic at him and he will just start

0:40.3

Monching on it. He was a professor as well. At Evergreen, where there was a very exciting

0:48.3

protest in his classroom. It was filmed on YouTube and by all accounts he prevailed in that interaction people trying to silence his speech

0:56.8

he thinks about everything with the most unique perspective right we were just kind of

1:01.9

launching bizarre things at him and he would run him through his little evolutionary biology

1:07.3

calculator and he has such an interesting take on everything. Yeah, and I do want to say what we said about some of the other

1:15.1

guests we've had on that you might not agree with everything he says and you

1:20.5

also might bristle at some of the things he says but it's his

1:26.9

lens and lens and his knowledge base

1:31.6

he views the world through evolutionary terms.

1:34.6

Yes.

1:35.6

That is how he is making sense of the world around him and it is a fascinating pair of glasses

1:40.6

to slap on for a couple hours.

1:42.6

Very.

1:43.6

So without further ado, please enjoy who we hope will be a recurring guest,

1:48.0

Brett Weinstein.

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