Hamgate: The 266th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

In this week’s episode, we discuss travel, Spain, ham, and MAHA. How do we travel, how has it changed over time, and what is the point? From the Alhambra to street altercations, what can we learn from the places that we go, and how we interact with them? Then: one cannot bring iberico ham into the United States from Spain, the USDA says, “because there are special restrictions.” We suspect the ham lobby. Also: past interactions with border control, over vanilla, and dart-poison frogs. And: MAHA should rally around RFK Jr., rather than splintering over headlines and tweets. He needs our support now as much as ever.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Travel and its Discontents: Exploration in the Age of Self-Obsession: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/travel-and-its-discontents

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/traveling-with-ag-products/meats-poultry-seafood

RFK Jr on measles, on Fox: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/robert-f-kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-call-action-all-us

RFK Jr tweet: https://x.com/seckennedy/status/1896722453189034130

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:07:05 Welcome
00:08:31 Sponsors: ARMRA, Manukora, Caraway
00:19:02 Travel has Changed
01:11:24 HamGate
01:31:44 Measles & RFK Jr.
01:42:16 Closing