Bret and Heather 74th DarkHorse Podcast Livestream: Nothing to Ad

In this 74th 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. This episode marks the first episode in which we broadcast ads. After speaking two ads at the top of the show, we devote the rest of the episode to a critique of advertising, a history of ads in nature (bird plumage or song, bright coloration or patterning on a toxic frog or butterfly), and a discussion of how ads have been used to drive editorial content in some places, notably magazines aimed at women and girls. We then provide eight pro bono ads: products or things that we think are awesome (or not), and why we think so. This was fun; we hope you think so, too.

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Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.

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Gloria Steinem’s 1990 essay, “Sex, Lies & Advertising” published in (by then adfree) Ms. Magazine

If you have a library of print books that you read and return to, and you don’t know about bookdarts, you should

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Beautiful pottery by Matthew Kelly

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Beautiful leather work (including Dark Horse coasters)

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