Hello, you found the portal. I'm your host Eric Weinstein and this is sort of an unusual

edition of the portal because it's coming at the beginning of a new decade and I wanted

to set some intentions and also to sort of recap where we've been for the last half a

year that the show has been on the on the air and on the internet. There are no notes,

there's nothing planned. What I'd like to do is to just try to speak directly about

some of the things that have been on my mind and give you all my thoughts on your feedback

on the show and where I think we're going to be going to next. So with your permission,

let's begin. It's been a pretty interesting half of a year. The show has built up a fairly

sizable audience and what's more, there are a lot of influential and important voices

within our audience. So I know that when I'm speaking, I'm reaching a lot of the people

who would be on my dream list of people to interview, to talk to, and in fact to plot

next steps with. So I think we've had a pretty successful run of it. We can still grow

the show bigger, but the show is now large enough that I actually don't mind losing

some of our listeners and some of our viewers by going into more challenging topics.

And so I don't think that our primary goal is going to be building the audience quite

as much as it was during the first six months. Furthermore, I think what's been somewhat

confusing is that we've had, if I recall correctly, 16 different interview episodes and

one solo episode so far. And I don't think that that is exactly what the portal was intended

to be. In fact, you could argue that the portal has not even begun. What we've done is

to build up an audience and to habituate the audience to a different style of interaction.

I think we had to figure out what we were going to do if we wanted to bring you certain

high level concepts that often get lost because the admonition to make sure that you don't

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