Episode Highlights

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This is only for quotes of things said during the show. the main purpose is having quotes of the guests, but quotes from Eric are also welcome (be sure to add them to Eric Weinstein Quotes as well).

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00:00:00, Speaker name: "Quote"

Guests

Ep. 35: Balaji Srinivasan

Ep. 34: Zev Weinstein

00:02:16, Eric Weinstein : "We are loosing a sense that our central tastes are shared and so we are looking to control each other through the appeal to rights, rules and laws."

Ep. 33: Josh Wolfe

Ep. 32: J. D. Vance

Ep. 31: Ryan Holiday

Ep. 30: Ross Douthat

Ep. 29: Jamie Metzl

Ep. 28: Eric Lewis

Ep. 27: Daniel Schmachtenberger

Ep. 26: James O’Keefe

Ep. 25: The Construct: Jeffrey Epstein

Ep. 24: Kai Lenny

Ep. 23: Agnes Callard

Ep. 22: Ben Greenfield

Ep. 21: Ashley Mathews

Ep. 20: Sir Roger Penrose

Ep. 19: Bret Weinstein

Ep. 18: Slipping the DISC

Ep. 17: Anna Khachiyan

Ep. 16: Tyler Cowen

Ep. 15: Garrett Lisi

Ep. 14: London Tsai

00:03:40, London Tsai : "Once I discovered mathematics, I found that it was more artistic than anything that I'd ever seen before."

Ep. 13: Garry Kasparov

Ep. 12: Vitalik Buterin

Ep. 11: Sam Harris

Ep. 10: Julie Lindahl

Ep. 9: Bryan Callen

Ep. 8: Andrew Yang

Ep. 7: Bret Easton Ellis

Ep. 6: Jocko Willink

Ep. 5: David Wolpe

00:21:26 , David Wolpe : "The word revolution has both meanings. It means to change everything. It also means to come around again in a circle. And what purists almost always discover is that human structures are much harder to overhaul than they suspected at the beginning. And also, I thought of a there's a beautiful quote from William Stafford, who's a poet about about this danger, he said, If you purify the pond The water lilies die. And I always thought there are, you know, this was Burke's insight there are human institutions grow for lots of reasons and nobody has a comprehensive enough intellect to understand if you radically change them with all the implications of that change will be. So you have to change carefully. Not and without, without contempt for everything that has come before you."

Ep. 4: Timur Kuran

Ep. 3: Werner Herzog

00:21:56, Werner Herzog : "And he [Jesse Ventura] said: Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat."

Ep. 2:

Ep. 1: Peter Thiel

02:26:08, Peter Thiel : "You could say a nation state contains violence in both senses of the word contain. Because it contains it as it limits it, it channels it in certain ways, but then it's also part of its very being."