History of the Portal

The intention of this page is to consolidate a list of important events surrounding the Portal, the associated Discord server and this wiki.

Categories

• Blue: Events related to the podcast, "The Portal".

• Green: Events related to "The Portal - Unofficial Discord"

• Red: Real world events related to the Portal.

Notable Portal-relevant Events

2019

• 6/24/2019 - "The Portal" podcast is launched on iTunes, Spotify, and several other podcasts.

• 7/17/2019 - The Portal Episode 01: Peter Thiel is released.

• 7/19/2019 - [[2: What Is The Portal?

|The Portal Episode 02: What Is The Portal?]] is released.

• 7/25/2019 - The Portal Episode 03: Werner Herzog is released.

• 8/20/2019 - The Portal Episode 04: The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception is released.

• 8/30/2019 - The Portal Episode 05: “So a Rabbi and an atheist walk into a podcast...” is released.

• 9/7/2019 - The Portal Episode 06: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual is released.

• 9/29/2019 - The Portal Episode 07: Bret Easton Ellis - The Dark Laureate of Generation X is released.

• 10/2/2019 - The Portal Episode 08: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate The Media Wants You To Ignore is released.

• 10/30/2019 - The Portal Episode 09: Andrew Yang - Bryan Callen - Cracking Wise is released.

• 10/31/2019 - The Portal Episode 10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree is released.

• 11/15/2019 - The Portal Episode 11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends is released.

• 11/21/2019 - The Portal Episode 12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine is released.

• 11/23/2019 - The Portal Episode 13: Garry Kasparov - Avoiding Zugzwang in AI and Politics is released.

• 11/30/2019 - The Portal Episode 14: London Tsai - The Reclusive Dean of The New Escherians is released.

• 12/6/2019 - The Portal Episode 15: Garrett Lisi - My Arch-nemesis, Myself is released.

• 12/16/2019 - The Portal Episode 16: Tyler Cowen - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized is released.

• 12/20/2019 - The Portal Episode 17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique” is released.

2020

• 1/15/2020 - The Portal Episode 18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal & Chapter 2020 is released.

• 1/17/2020 - The Portal Episode 19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC is released.

• 1/20/2020 - The Unofficial Portal Discord is created.

• 1/24/2020 - The Portal Episode 20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy is released.
• 1/31/2020 - The Portal Episode 21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart is released.