Episode Transcript: #1919 - Bret Weinstein
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Do you get weirded out when you do podcast now?
No.
Is it was, was there a time in the beginning when you did where you were like, OK, here we go.
Yeah, I suppose at the beginning it was nerve wracking, but I also think I have a really
weird relationship with fear, I guess.
And so I think I have reason to think that in places where I'm particularly anxious, some
part of me feels that my conscious mind is not allowed in on that so I can do what I have to do.
Did this come after Evergreen or before?
Definitely before, although right as Evergreen erupted into the public consciousness, there's
this one incident, actually the incident that brought me to public attention where I
was standing in the hallway and I was being confronted by these 50 students who I had
literally never met and they were accusing me of racism and demanding that I resign or be fired.
We should explain to people that don't know because we were starting off this way.
The backstory of the Evergreen, so it started off where there was an appreciation day for
people of color where they did not have to show up for work, right?
Yeah, that's true.
That's not exactly the story, but there is this event called Day of Absence, which was a
longstanding event at the college where basically at first black people and then later on more