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DarkHorse Podcast

Fires, Facebook & Free Speech: The 259th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, News, Adaptation, Modernity, Culture, Politics, Science, Evolutionary Biology

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, we discuss the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, which has destroyed the neighborhood where Heather grew up. Why does California burn, how are fires different now than they used to be, what happens now? We discuss the Getty Villa and Palisades Village, and why we should care what happens to a wealthy neighborhood in West LA. Also: did the LA Fire Chief drinking the DEI Kool-Aid contribute to the devastation? And when are natural disasters not entirely natural? Then: Zucke...

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 259.

0:12.8

I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are Dr. Heather Heying. We are here in our new studio.

0:17.9

Still working out the various kinks and idiosyncrasies but um anyway obviously a lot

0:24.4

going on in the world uh we will always this week we're going to talk about fires and free speech

0:30.1

fires and free speech various kinds of fires um yeah the neighborhood that i grew up in and almost

0:37.4

everything that i knew as a child is burning in L.A.

0:41.1

And it's quite something.

0:42.6

Yeah, it's really a remarkable moment to see how many iconic places are, many cases, just simply gone.

0:50.2

Yeah, many cases just simply gone, as you say.

0:53.6

And then, of course, Zuckerberg came out with a big

0:56.2

announcement about Facebook meta with regard to changing policies for censorship and fact-checking

1:02.6

and content moderation. So we'll talk about those two big things. There are a number of other

1:09.2

things going on that I had thought we might talk about,

1:11.2

but that's going to cover us for today.

1:13.6

We will follow it up with a Q&A, live Q&A, available only on locals.

1:18.2

Watch parties going on locals right now.

1:20.3

Please join us there.

1:22.6

In the Q&A this week, we'll be looking at questions as they as they come in and you know we'll probably be

1:29.7

preferentially addressing those that are responsive to what we're talking about now so fires and free

1:34.8

speech fires and free speech and I will just say you know I had planned this long before we knew

1:40.1

what topics we'd be talking about today but our our long-time viewers will notice that I am

1:44.6

wearing a quarter zip, and I'm doing that in order to attempt to start a backlash against the

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