Let’s Get This Party Started: The 350th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

On this, our 350th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss prepping, governmental fear-mongering, and a new political party in America. The media would have us believe that we are being told to stockpile food by the government—but we’re not. We go through a history of U.S. governmental injunctions to stockpile (or not), before arriving at FORTRESS—Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply, and Survivability—announced September 30, to ensure continuing operations if supply chains are cut. Then: a new political party is being formed, and you are invited to join. The American Liberty Party is for patriots who believe in common-sense constitutionality.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-countries-urging-residents-to-stockpile-food-12629524

Grandma’s Pantry on wheels (1956): https://civildefensearchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/grandmas-pantry-goes-on-wheels.pdf

In Time of Emergency (1968): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15158

Coronavirus Rumor Control (2020): https://www.kellykeislingtn.org/post/coronavirus-rumor-control

National Preparedness Month: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/09/presidential-message-on-national-preparedness-month-6e71/

Ready.gov: https://www.ready.gov/stand-ready

FORTRESS: https://media.defense.gov/2026/Sep/30/2004009303/-1/-1/1/ESTABLISHMENT-OF-FORTRESS-AMERICA-AS-A-DEPARTMENT-OF-WAR-PROGRAM-FOR-THE-DEFENSE-OF-THE-AMERICAN-HOMELAND.PDF

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Number 350, If I Am Led to Believe
00:05:46 Sponsor: Ridge
00:08:20 Sponsor: Redmond Salt
00:11:19 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:13:54 Why All the Prepping Talk?
00:22:59 Three Days Is Dipping Your Toe In
00:29:38 We Have But One Police Force
00:35:53 Grandma's Pantry Goes on Wheels
00:39:21 1968: Waiting for the All Clear
00:43:20 Was Y2K a False Alarm?
00:48:28 Your Gas Tank Is a Strategic Reserve
00:53:21 2006: Plan for a Pandemic
00:55:17 Quarantine the Sick, Not the Well
00:59:10 A Fact That Begins With Please
01:01:12 A Condition of Austerity
01:02:51 Preparedness Month vs. FORTRESS
01:06:56 Grid Down, Then Meltdown
01:18:47 The Low-Hanging Fruit
01:23:08 So, Bret, What Do You Propose?
01:25:03 Not a Third Party, a Second Party
01:27:10 The American Liberty Party
01:41:55 Why I Kept This From Heather
01:45:36 Recruit Massie
01:47:27 Common Sense Constitutionality

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