Notable Guests
AM
Andrew Marantz
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AM
Ashley Mathews
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CW
Cracking Wise
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DW
David Wolpe
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GL
Garrett Lisi
1x
JV
J. D. Vance
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Recent Episodes
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Eric examines his four-year position that Trump represents existential risk while respecting his supporters, finally clarifying this nuanced stance
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Douglas Murray presented as crucial British voice offering honest critique of America, compared to De Tocqueville and Alistair Cooke's tradition
Douglas Murray
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Portal Essay Club inaugurated to discuss profound essays, interviews, and intellectual content suited to modern attention spans
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Sugar Baby University explored as controversial solution to student debt crisis, enabling young attractive individuals to secure financial support
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Portal Q&A format debuts featuring listener questions around theme of mass media, markets, and human malware
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New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz discusses rise of alt-right and internet trolling from his 2019 book Antisocial
Andrew Marantz
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Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander discusses intersection of particles, politics, blackness and STEM over extended conversation
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Balaji Srinivasan discussed as early and correct predictor of coronavirus threat despite initial ridicule from institutional voices
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Eric interviews his son Zev Weinstein at age 14-15, first episode recorded entirely during COVID quarantine
Zev Weinstein
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Venture capitalist Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital explores what makes great VCs: rigor, breadth, flexibility, openness and mental courage
Josh Wolfe
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J.D. Vance reflects on multiple American Dreams experienced through Appalachian poverty, Marine Corps service, Yale Law, and venture capital
J. D. Vance
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Author Ryan Holiday discusses manipulation, conspiracy and social observation from his background in marketing and media
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Conservative columnist Ross Douthat discusses his book The Decadent Society about how American success creates distortions of the Dream
Ross Douthat
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Former National Security analyst Jamie Metzl discusses his book Hacking Darwin on rewriting cells and human biology
Jamie Metzl
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Special presentation of Eric's Geometric Unity physics theory
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Pianist Eric Lewis (Elew) characterized as open portal and important musical voice embodying authentic soulful expression
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Daniel Schmachtenberger addresses whether plausible long-term scenarios exist for human flourishing on single shared planet
On Avoiding Apocalypses
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Journalist James O'Keefe discussed as willing to risk prison and ruin to capture stories using legal recording technology
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Eric shares bizarre 2004 encounter with Jeffrey Epstein and hypothesis that Epstein was likely intelligence agency construction
Jeffrey Epstein
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Big wave surfer Kai Lenny pioneering new approaches to surfing using latest technology, hydrofoils and kite boards
Kai Lenny