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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Eric Weinstein: UFOs, Crypto, Fatherhood, & The Portal Podcast Reboot ​(#204)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 140 minutes

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It's been a phenomenal year for some folks; a tough year for others. Join us live to review the year that was and look forward to 2022 too! A wide-ranging, fun, free for all conversation with my friend Eric Weinstein! 00:00 Topics: 05:00 Eric and Project Galileo investigating UFO/UAP 30:00 Woit's TOE as discussed with @Lex Fridman https://youtu.be/nDDJFvuFXdc Geometric Unity and Chern-Simons 45:00 Wolfram Physics Project 1:00:00 Raising kids to succeed in STEM Opportunities and Threats to our future Thoughts on Bitcoin/Blockchain/NFT for science Brian's Assayer Project Maxwell Trial Covid-19 2:00:00 Should Eric Revive the Portal? Get us gifts: Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel, just click here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 Please subscribe to Eric's YouTube Channel, just click here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/EricWeinsteinPhD/?sub_confirmation=1 Please join Eric's mailing list https://ericweinstein.org Please join my mailing list; just click here 👉 http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝 Follow Eric on Twitter at https://twitter.comEricRWeinstein Follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Get my new book Into the Impossible: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: Lessons from Laureates to Stoke Curiosity, Spur Collaboration, and Ignite Imagination in Your Life and Career https://amzn.to/2UPTxOI 📺 Watch my most popular videos:📺 A New Contender is Here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6A6myur--c Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Eric Weinstein and Stephen Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM 🏄‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast.php A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Please contact [email protected] to learn more about sponsoring Into the Impossible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

0:11.6

Open the pod bay doors.

0:13.0

Hello everybody listening out on YouTube on

0:17.0

on Twitter spaces in the multiverse in the metaverse. I think this is quite fun to do.

0:27.0

We should take advantage of all the good technology and bring together good friends and people of goodwill and good faith. And so with that in mind I want

0:36.1

to close out the month of December the year that was 2021 with a with one of my best friends. I won't say oldest friends, I will say one of my best

0:47.4

looking friends and that is the way he needs to be addressed and that is of course Dr. Eric Weinstein. Let me bring him in over here. How are you sir? You are now...

0:59.8

Brian, good to be with you. It's great to be with you and we have a lot of people watching all over the universe and I wanted to first kind of give you some hearty congratulations because you have had a really significant year of many

1:15.4

accomplishments and we're going to get into those accomplishments. In

1:19.0

particular you have just recently I I noticed, joined the research wing of the so-called Galileo Project

1:28.2

or Project Galileo, led by a mutual friend, Professor Avi Loeb, a man who is not shy from controversy and I want to ask you

1:38.4

what was your decision-making process? Walk me through the process that led to you

1:46.5

really joining up, joining forces and partnering with an institution that you don't necessarily have a lot of love for.

1:51.8

But... Okay okay so talk us for the process yeah I believe that in essence there's a story

2:01.7

about the night I ate a plate full of sauteed mushrooms at Isidore Singer's house because I couldn't figure out how to say that I wasn't an adult to his lovely wife Rosemary.

2:12.0

And I feel like with UFOs... to his lovely wife Rosemary.

2:15.2

And I feel like with UFOs, I really, I came to hate the topic

2:17.8

while growing up, never took an interest,

2:19.5

wasn't a big science fiction person.

2:22.2

And then, you found that people around me who I

2:27.8

thought well of were taking this more seriously than I was. And I found that the ridicule that I was reflexively

2:38.1

doling out for the topic was being met

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