This Reflects Badly: The 319th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
4/1/20261 hr 24 min
On this, our 319th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss space mirrors and the state of Washington state. Reflect Orbital is a young company that hopes to put tens of thousands of mirrors in orbit around the planet, and deliver “full moon to high noon” levels of light anyplace on Earth, on demand (for the right price). What could go wrong? Also: Washington state has voted in the first ever income tax (for high earners), quick on the heels of its first ever capital gains tax, while still having some of the highest estate, sales, property, and fuel taxes in the...
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First 90 secondsBret Weinstein· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hey, folks. Welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast livestream 319.
Heather Heying· Host0:10
Brett- I...
Bret Weinstein· Host0:12
No. Come on. [laughs] 319? How would... No. Too many things divide into it. Um- So many ... it's not a huge number, but- It's- ... more than two. Um, [laughs] Four, in fact. Four. All right.
Heather Heying· Host0:27
Yeah.
Bret Weinstein· Host0:27
I have no idea what they might be, but- 11 and 29. 11. 11 and 29.
Heather Heying· Host0:31
Yeah.
Bret Weinstein· Host0:31
That's beautiful. Um, okay. Well, I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are Dr. Heather Heying. It is...
Heather Heying· Host0:38
April Fools' Day.
Bret Weinstein· Host0:39
April Fools' Day, and you're not gonna see this coming, but everything we're gonna talk about is true as far as we know. I'm actually- But some of it, a lot of it maybe, we wish wasn't.
Heather Heying· Host0:50
We wish this were an April Fools' episode.
Bret Weinstein· Host0:51
We wish these were, these were jokes. Yes. Um, I will say I am now resolutely against April Fools' Day on the basis that every day is now April Fools' Day, and we do not need to compound the problem with one day in which we pretend that the, uh, outlandish things that we are faced with are, uh, not true, ha ha ha, because so much that we are told is not true.
Heather Heying· Host1:14
Yeah. You get, like, um... It's almost like there's holiday creep, ce- certainly there has been with Halloween, uh, a- You're not referring to me. There is holiday creep. Uh, and with Halloween, which is a holiday that I've never understood