Joe Rogan Experience #1320 - Eric Weinstein

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

July 4, 2019

Duration

3h 28m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Eric Weinstein is a mathematician and economist, and he is also the managing director at Thiel Capital. His new podcast "The Portal" is available now on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portal/id1469999563

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Joe Rogan

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• Eric Weinstein

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• Guest (fourth voice, minor)

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• Guest (fifth voice, minor)

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Eric Weinstein, Joe Rogan Experience #1320 - Eric Weinstein explores Eric Weinstein and Joe Rogan explore portals, power, and peril This wide-ranging conversation moves from light banter about names and old comedy into a deep examination of modern life, technology, and attention. Weinstein and Rogan explore how constraints like Shabbat or rigorous routines can paradoxically create freedom in a world overwhelmed by digital communication. They dive into topics such as marine intelligence, the ethics of captivity, cannabis and sensory deprivation, and Weinstein’s “portal” metaphor for transformative ideas in science and culture. The episode culminates in Weinstein’s concerns about stalled theoretical physics, existential risk from our own technologies, and his announcement of a new podcast, *The Portal*, as a vehicle to explore these deeper questions.

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