Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast. I am Brett Weinstein and I am sitting here

with Eric R. Weinstein, PhD, who happens to be my brother and I am going to attempt to

interview him and raise in discussion many topics on which he may be the most interesting

voice that we have access to in civilization. So here goes nothing. Eric, welcome to the

Dark Horse Podcast. But no pressure. No pressure. Great to be here on the Dark Horse.

So some people have seen us together on occasion, episode 19 of the Portal. They will have

seen a discussion in which you force me to reveal things about my scientific past that

were little known before that episode. I have to say it was a scary episode but arguably

one of the more interesting podcasts of all time I would say thanks to your story and

your work. Well, it was quite an adventure. And anyway, I want to thank you for doing

that. It absolutely added an important dimension to my life, especially my public life, in

an area where I had more or less shelved prior work and I think it was time that it returned.

We'll come back to that story later. I of course know a great deal about your history.

I also find out frequently that there are things I don't know about your history that

emerge in conversations with other people on podcasts and things. So anyway, I'm wondering

what it is that I should be asking to reveal that which I do not yet know. For our listeners

and our viewers, you are a PhD in mathematics. Yes. Your degree came from Harvard. Correct.

Your advisor was. I didn't have an advisor but Wikipedia claims that it is the person

who signed my thesis who was Raoul Bott. Raoul Bott, a very famous mathematician. And an

interesting good man arguably could have maybe his periodicity theorem could be argued

to be the theorem of the 20th century. I could make that case but he was not my advisor.

Highly regarded, a friend of yours, but not your advisor. Now I should say those who did

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