The Portal Podcast

The Portal Podcast was launched by Eric Weinstein on 24 June 2019. Its name taking inspiration from "portal story" motifs in literature, the show aims to bring its audience into contact with the most fundamental and transcendent aspects of reality, to break the almost-universal intellectual stasis that pervades our institutions, to foster individual sense-making, and to galvanize the search for a more hopeful, transformative future. Since launch, the podcast has released 43 episodes: 36 interview episodes, 6 solo episodes, and 1 special.

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Mission

"The Portal is an exploration into discovery, including conversations with thought leaders. Host Eric Weinstein, Managing Director of Thiel Capital, brings his unique expertise and diverse roster of guests for a wide range of discussions, including science, culture, business, and capitalism. The show will feature people whose lives demonstrate that portals into what we would normally consider impossible, are indeed possible."

Episodes

#	Title	Guest	Air Date
42	42: Cashing Out My Trump & IDW Positions	None	1 December 2020
41	41: Douglas Murray – Heroism 2020: Defense of Our Own Civilization	Douglas Murray	23 October 2020
40	40: Introducing The Portal Essay Club - What if everyone is simply insane?	None	12 August 2020
39	39: Admission To Sugar Baby U.	Kimberly de la Cruz	29 July 2020
38	38: Mass Media, Markets, and Human Malware: A Portal Q&A	None	10 July 2020
37	37: Surfing the Wake of The Woke	Andrew Marantz	1 July 2020
36	36: Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz	Stephon Alexander	11 June 2020
35	35: Balaji Srinivasan - The Heretic & The Virus	Balaji Srinivasan	21 May 2020
34	34: Zev Weinstein - On Parenting, Boys & Generation Z	Zev Weinstein	13 May 2020
33	33: Josh Wolfe - The Mind Financing The Future	Josh Wolfe	3 May 2020
32	32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares	J. D. Vance	29 April 2020
31	31: Ryan Holiday - Conspiracy, Manipulation & other Pastimes	Ryan Holiday	23 April 2020
30	30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall	Ross Douthat	16 April 2020
29	29: Jamie Metzl - The Bio-Hacker will see you now, Ready or Not	Jamie Metzl	12 April 2020
Special	A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look	None	2 April 2020
28	28: Eric Lewis - The Singular Genius of Elew	Eric Lewis	28 March 2020
27	27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses	Daniel Schmachtenberger	27 March 2020
26	26: James O’Keefe: What is (and isn't) Journalism in the 21st century	James O’Keefe	19 March 2020
25	25: The Construct: Jeffrey Epstein	None	7 March 2020
24	24: Kai Lenny - To Play and Flirt with Giants	Kai Lenny	28 February 2020
23	23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits	Agnes Callard	24 February 2020
22	22: Ben Greenfield - Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness	Ben Greenfield	15 February 2020
21	21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart	Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid)	31 January 2020
20	20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy	Sir Roger Penrose	24 January 2020
19	19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC	Bret Weinstein	18 January 2020
18	18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal and Chapter 2020	None	15 January 2020
17	17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique”	Anna Khachiyan	20 December 2019
16	16: Tyler Cowen - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized	Tyler Cowen	16 December 2019
15	15: Garrett Lisi - My Arch-nemesis, Myself	Garrett Lisi	6 December 2019
14	14: London Tsai - The Reclusive Dean of The New Escherians	London Tsai	30 November 2019
13	13: Garry Kasparov - Avoiding Zugzwang in AI and Politics	Garry Kasparov	23 November 2019
12	12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine	Vitalik Buterin	21 November 2019
11	11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends	Sam Harris	15 November 2019
10	10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree	Julie Lindahl	31 October 2019
9	9: Bryan Callen - Cracking Wise	Bryan Callen	30 October 2019
8	8: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate the Media Wants You to Ignore	Andrew Yang	2 October 2019
7	7: Bret Easton Ellis - The Dark Laureate of Generation X	Bret Easton Ellis	29 September 2019
6	6: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual	Jocko Willink	7 September 2019
5	5: Rabbi Wolpe - “So a Rabbi and an atheist walk into a podcast...”	Rabbi David Wolpe	31 August 2019
4	4: Timur Kuran - The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception	Timur Kuran	20 August 2019
3	3: Werner Herzog	Werner Herzog	25 July 2019
2	2: What is The Portal	None	19 July 2019
1	1: Peter Thiel	Peter Thiel	17 July 2019
0	0: Welcome to The Portal	None	24 June 2019

Reception

Before the show's launch, it held the top of the iTunes podcast charts.