The Portal

By Eric Weinstein

Society & Culture Education

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Welcome to The Portal. This podcast does something different. Hosted by Eric Weinstein. Coming July 2019.

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12.02.2020

In this solo episode, Eric shares three related audio essays. In the first essay, Eric admits that he has spent the last four years asserting that Donald Trump represented an Existential Risk, but without the usual contempt for his supporters. ...

The Portal episodes:

12.02.2020 42: Cashing Out My Trump & IDW Positions In this solo episode, Eric shares three related audio essays. In the first essay, Eric admits that he has spent the last four years asserting that Donald Trump represented an Existential Risk, but without the usual contempt for his supporters. ...
10.24.2020 41: Douglas Murray - Heroism 2020: Defense of Our Own Civilization If you don't know Douglas Murray, in the estimation of the The Portal, this may well be the most important voice you will hear from the United Kingdom for some time. In the tradition of De Tocqueville and Alistair Cook's ...
08.12.2020 40: Introducing The Portal Essay Club - What if everyone is simply insane? If you have ever wondered whether you were crazy when everyone else claims to see things differently than you do, this is the episode for you. Book clubs are everywhere and we are always asked for book recommendations. But what ...
07.30.2020 39: Admission To Sugar Baby U. One of the pillars of the American Dream has been that of seeing your children go to college. And, for the many families that can't afford the cost of soaring university tuitions, a new controversial institution has arisen to address ...
07.10.2020 38: Mass Media, Markets, and Human Malware: A Portal Q&A With this release, we try something a little different on The Portal. We begin an initiative to search for ways to feature members of the vibrant Portal sub-communities as part of the podcast itself, by requesting that listeners send in ...
07.01.2020 37: Andrew Marantz - Surfing the Wake of The Woke New Yorker writer and book author Andrew Marantz and Eric became friends shortly before the 2016 election when Andrew set off to write the first profile of Eric and Geometric Unity, his theory of Physics. Coming from similar ethnic and ...
06.11.2020 36: Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz Stephon Alexander is a first class jazz musician as well as a first rate physicist and a professor at Brown University. As the New President of the National Society of Black Physicists, Eric sits down with Stephon over a good ...
05.22.2020 35: Balaji Srinivasan - The Heretic & The Virus Investor Balaji Srinivasan is a highly original thinker in Silicon Valley on Biotech to Blockchain and everything in between. Most recently, he was quite early in warning us about the Corona virus and was ridiculed for his efforts by many ...
05.13.2020 34: Zev Weinstein - On Parenting, Boys & Generation Z This is the first episode of The Portal which was 100% recorded at home, during quarantine, under social isolation. The guest is none other than my own son Zev Weinstein and the recording was timed to straddle his midnight transition ...
05.03.2020 33: Josh Wolfe - The Mind Financing The Future Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital is a leading mind in the current wave of venture capitalists making waves. While aware of each other for some time, in this episode Josh sits down with Eric for their first meeting. Together the ...
04.30.2020 32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares It is said that there is not one American dream but many, and few have lived more than JD Vance. Growing up in Appalachia on the border between poverty and the lower working class, JD knew economic fear first hand ...
04.23.2020 31: Ryan Holiday - Conspiracy, Manipulation & other Pastimes Ryan Holiday is a master manipulator with a cool head, and keen eye for social observation and a big heart. Eric sits down with the Author of "Conspiracy" and tries to get a self-confessed former manipulator and one of the ...
04.16.2020 30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall Just before the great indooring due to the Pandemic of 2020, Eric sat down with conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss his book "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success." Over champagne ...
04.12.2020 29: Jamie Metzl - The Bio-Hacker will see you now, Ready or Not Former National Security analyst turned author Jamie Metzel has written a book called Hacking Darwin. The book attempts to use storytelling to explore where we are as the new era of rewriting our cells and ourselves gets into full swing. ...
04.02.2020 A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
03.28.2020 28: Eric Lewis - The Singular Genius of Elew Eric Lewis is an open portal, a wonderful friend and one of the most important pianists in the world by our measure. As such, we will not bother with further notes for this episode. If you love the quest of ...
03.27.2020 27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses In this second episode of the Portal to be released during shelter-in-place restrictions during the Corona Virus Pandemic, we release an older discussion with Daniel Shmachtenberger on whether there is any plausible long term scenario for human flourishing confined to ...
03.19.2020 26: James O’Keefe - What is (and isn't) Journalism in the 21st century James O'Keefe is a dangerous man. He records people without their knowledge and publishes the results using the full power of our technological toolkit. He is well versed in the details of the law as to what can and cannot ...
03.07.2020 25: The Construct - Jeffrey Epstein Over half a year ago, immediately following the reported death of Jeffrey Epstein, Eric recorded a solo episode that he never released in hopes that its subject matter would be overtaken by investigative journalism. As this has not happened, it ...
02.29.2020 24: Kai Lenny - To Play and Flirt with Giants In a world which is often slow-moving and even stagnant, there are always sectors and individuals who buck the trends. In this episode of The Portal, Eric sits down with his favorite surfing hero Kai Lenny who is pioneering a ...
02.24.2020 23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits Philosopher and University of Chicago Professor Agnes Callard sits down with Eric on this episode of the portal. Agnes is a champion of the philosophical tradition of attempting to detach the capacity for inquiry and reason from the fog of ...
02.16.2020 22: Ben Greenfield - Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness Eric sits down with leading fitness geek, guru, thinker and human guinea-pig Ben Greenfield to learn how one of the world's most highly regarded trainers and fitness experts cuts through the nightmare that is our medical literature. The academic and ...
02.01.2020 21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart Historically, fighting obscenity and indecency charges has always been a central part of the free speech movement. Jim Morrison, Mae West, Lenny Bruce and George Carlin have all been arrested for exciting the public in ways that authorities have found ...
01.25.2020 20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy Roger Penrose is arguably the most important living descendent of Albert Einstein’s school of geometric physics. In this episode of The Portal, we avoid the usual questions put to roger about quantum foundations and quantum consciousness. Instead we go back ...
01.18.2020 19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC All of our Mice are Broken. On this episode of The Portal, Bret and Eric sit down alone with each other for the first time in public. There was no plan. There was however, a remarkable story of science at ...
01.15.2020 18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal & Chapter 2020 This "housekeeping" (cough cough) episode of The Portal is only for the hard core listeners who launched this experiment with us. This year we begin to take on the idea of the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex or "DISC". From "Terms ...
12.21.2019 17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique” Somewhere on the road between Stalingrad and Forever21, something essential got misplaced amidst the bathos. Eric works through a bottle of Red wine on air with social, literary and artistic theorist Anna Khachiyan (co-host of the explosive and popular Red ...
12.17.2019 16: Tyler Cowen - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized In this episode, Eric sits down with Tyler Cowen to discuss how/why a Harvard educated chess prodigy would choose a commuter school to launch a stealth attack on the self-satisfied economic establishment, various forms of existential risk, tech/social stagnation and ...
12.06.2019 15: Garrett Lisi - My Arch-nemesis, Myself. Garrett Lisi, the so called "Surf Bum with a Theory of Everything (or T.O.E.)", is a PhD theoretical physicist who has refused to be captured by the theoretical physics community. By making shrewd investments, he has avoided holding meaningful employment ...
12.01.2019 14: London Tsai - The Reclusive Dean of The New Escherians What happened to the Mathematical and Scientific art movement after MC Escher? It went underground. In this episode of the Portal, Eric begins tracking down the leaders of this hidden movement; one that is smuggling higher level science into transcendent ...
11.23.2019 13: Garry Kasparov - Avoiding Zugzwang in AI and Politics In this cordially combative episode, Eric sits down with Russian chess legend, multiple-year champion and (inarguably) one of the greatest players of all time, Garry Kasparov. The two discuss transcending AI-induced demotivation, AI brilliancy (and lack thereof), the perilous time ...
11.21.2019 12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine In this episode, Vitalik Buterin sits down with Eric to discuss ethereum, the wider world of crypto and heterodox economics. Taking note of the new development of blockchain in 2010, Eric wrote an essay called “Go Virtual Young Man”. A ...
11.15.2019 11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends On this episode of The Portal, Eric talks to one of his closest friends, neuroscientist, philosopher and meditation-guru, Sam Harris. When Sam and Eric sit down they generally agree about a large number of things. So in this experiment of ...
10.31.2019 10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree Eric sits down with Julie Lindahl, author of "The Pendulum". What happens when an ethnically German girl growing up in Brazil gets curious to finally make sense of her family history to stop the cycle of dysfunction? Julie Lindahl’s new ...
10.31.2019 9: Bryan Callen - Cracking Wise Eric sits down with friend, philosopher, comic, actor and fighter Bryan Callen for a wide ranging conversation on camaraderie, conflict and comedy. Over the course of 2+ hours, the two discuss difficult topics like the holocaust, gender dynamics and the ...
10.02.2019 8: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate The Media Wants You To Ignore In this episode of the Portal, Eric checks in with his friend Andrew Yang to discuss the meteoric rise of his candidacy; one that represents an insurgency against a complacent political process that the media establishment doggedly tries to maintain. ...
09.30.2019 7: Bret Easton Ellis - The Dark Laureate of Generation X Eric sits down with Bret Easton Ellis; the two Gen X’ers graduated from rival high schools in a disaffected 1982 Los Angeles that inspired Ellis’ first novel “Less Than Zero”. In this conversation, they reflect on LA, Generation X, and ...
09.07.2019 6: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual Jocko Willink is a man who radiates decency. He is also part of a community of warriors drawn to test themselves in the crucible of deadly combat against an evil and implacable foe. Eric sits down with Jocko Willink to ...
08.31.2019 5: Rabbi Wolpe - “So a Rabbi and an atheist walk into a podcast...” Beyond New Atheism: is a constructive adult relationship possible between atheism and religion? On this episode of the portal, Eric hosts leading conservative rabbi David Wolpe and explores the possibilities for, and problems with, a new synthesis of atheism and ...
08.20.2019 4: Timur Kuran - The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception What if everything we are taught in economics 101 is not only wrong, but may even be setting us up for populism, dictatorship or revolution? On this episode of the Portal, Eric is joined by renegade Economist Professor Timur Kuran ...
07.25.2019 3: Werner Herzog Episode 3 of The Portal is with film director Werner Herzog. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
07.19.2019 2: What Is The Portal? What is the portal? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
07.17.2019 1: Peter Thiel Welcome to The Portal. Episode 1 is a conversation with Peter Thiel. Please subscribe to The Portal anywhere you listen to podcasts, and leave us a rating and review in Apple Podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
06.24.2019 Welcome to The Portal The Portal is hosted by Eric Weinstein. Subscribe in iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Portal episodes:

42: Cashing Out My Trump & IDW Positions

41: Douglas Murray - Heroism 2020: Defense of Our Own Civilization

40: Introducing The Portal Essay Club - What if everyone is simply insane?

39: Admission To Sugar Baby U.

38: Mass Media, Markets, and Human Malware: A Portal Q&A

37: Andrew Marantz - Surfing the Wake of The Woke

36: Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz

35: Balaji Srinivasan - The Heretic & The Virus

34: Zev Weinstein - On Parenting, Boys & Generation Z

33: Josh Wolfe - The Mind Financing The Future

32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares

31: Ryan Holiday - Conspiracy, Manipulation & other Pastimes

30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall

29: Jamie Metzl - The Bio-Hacker will see you now, Ready or Not

A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look

28: Eric Lewis - The Singular Genius of Elew

27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses

26: James O’Keefe - What is (and isn't) Journalism in the 21st century

25: The Construct - Jeffrey Epstein

24: Kai Lenny - To Play and Flirt with Giants

23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits

22: Ben Greenfield - Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness

21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart

20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy

19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC

18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal & Chapter 2020

17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique”

16: Tyler Cowen - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized

15: Garrett Lisi - My Arch-nemesis, Myself.

14: London Tsai - The Reclusive Dean of The New Escherians

13: Garry Kasparov - Avoiding Zugzwang in AI and Politics

12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine

11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends

10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree

9: Bryan Callen - Cracking Wise

8: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate The Media Wants You To Ignore

7: Bret Easton Ellis - The Dark Laureate of Generation X

6: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual

5: Rabbi Wolpe - “So a Rabbi and an atheist walk into a podcast...”

4: Timur Kuran - The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception

3: Werner Herzog

2: What Is The Portal?

1: Peter Thiel

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