Bret and Heather 178th DarkHorse Podcast Livestream: Cheating as National Pastime

In this 178th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

Should men be competing in women’s sports? Do men who do so exhibit sophistry and cheating? What are the implications of Trump’s arraignment, and of the fact that MSNBC would not live broadcast his speech afterwards? What is going on with carnivorous plants? How are they like mangroves? Do they ever switch between being carnivorous and not? And what about that species in Borneo that collects the poop of tree shrews?

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Q&A Link: https://rumble.com/v2up9up-your-questions-answered-bret-and-heather-178th-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html?mref=256aqg&mc=eh4u2

Mentioned in this episode:

Celebrating the Cheater: How to beat women in the 21st century: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-cheater

Rachel Maddow on MSNBC’s decision not to live-broadcast Trump’s speech: https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1668787223871750146

Inducible Carnivory: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj0816
Givnish, T.J., 2015. New evidence on the origin of carnivorous plants. Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences, 112(1): 10-11. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1422278112
Clarke et al 2009. Tree shrew lavatories: a novel nitrogen sequestration strategy in a tropical pitcher plant. Biology letters 5(5):632-635: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781956/

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Wait
(05:31) Welcome
(07:23) Sponsors
(16:31) Sports and trans
(38:34) Ultimate frisbee
(53:11) Trump indictment
(01:14:21) Tucker Carlson
(01:21:46) Carnivorous plants
(01:36:09) Second carnivorous story
(01:47:51) Wrap up