2020 has been a year of surprises, impeachment, riots, plague, murder hornets, and perhaps most shocking of all,

a progressive is joining verdict. I'm Michael Knowles. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Such a pleasure to be here, as always, with the senator and our progressive guest.

Actually, I don't know that that term totally encapsulates our guest.

Eric Weinstein, mathematician, managing director of Teal Capital,

founder of the intellectual dark web, and the title that you suggested to me, Imposter.

Guilty. Thank you very much for being with us. Michael, great pleasure to be here,

and thank you, Senator, for inviting me. Thank you for joining us. So you suggested impostors, that leads to the natural question.

Imposter at what? Just about everything. I mean, I think that part of the problem is that

credentialism has given us a culture of silos, and therefore, because everyone's terrified of

violating the Dunning Kruger

principle effectively we don't have people roaming around the cabin or with all access passes.

So assume theoretically that there's one listener out there who may be a lawyer and an elected

member of the Senate who doesn't know what the

Dunning Kruger principle is.

The idea that people in general, when they're not very talented, tend to overestimate their

competence in various fields.

They explain why I didn't know what it was.

Well, it'll show up in the comments of the YouTube version.

All right.

All right.

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