Hi, it's Eric Weinstein. Just to put it simply, we're blown away. We've just released the first episode

of the portal, which is my new show, and we had a response and a reaction that we really couldn't

have imagined. So while we have several shows in the can and we have some great interviews lined up,

instead one of the producers asked me to simply come in and do an extended,

extemporaneous riff to say what the show is likely to be about. Now there was no script, there was

no preparation, and there'll be a little bit of light editing. But more or less, what we thought

might be interesting is to have you in on the ground floor. If you're listening and subscribing at

this point in our history, you deserve to know how we're thinking, what's up next without having

all of the rough edges rounded and polished for your listening pleasure. So it's going to be a

little bit imperfect, but I hope you'll enjoy what comes next, which is an improvisational riff

on where we may be going with the show, the portal. Hope you like it.

Hello, I'm Eric Weinstein, and you've found the portal. This is our second episode,

and perhaps you caught our first one, which I interviewed my friend Peter Teal.

In that conversation, Peter and I discussed a great many things, but one of the, let's say,

overarching themes is that somehow the world around us seems to have been completely misexplained,

and not only misexplained for a short period of time, but perhaps misexplained for decades without

anyone much noticing. At least that was our contention. The contention is that because of a dizzying

amount of change in a small number of sectors, we have misinterpreted what is going on much more

generally as change across a great number of sectors. Likewise, while we have generally enjoyed

a period of relative peace and prosperity, we have been somewhat inert to the growing danger that

comes from the sheer amount of violent potential that has so far been kept under wraps in the

stasis that followed World War II. So these two features of our world, that is a generally

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