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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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 ...

The Portal episodes:

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.
07.19.2019 2: What Is The Portal? What is the portal?
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.
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.

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The Portal episodes:

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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