Special Episode: Entering the Portal

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Matt take a peak behind the curtain at Guru Community dynamics in the Web 2.0 era in an extended interview with Dan Gilbert, a self described 'Discord creature'. Dan provides insights from his long term participation in Eric Weinstein's 'Unofficial Portal' Discord and reveals the mystery behind the 'mentally unstable' community member!

If you ever wanted to learn about the intricate distinctions between Geometric Unity, and Geometric Marginalism or the ill fated outcome of Eric's 'Experts only' forum... now is your chance.

We will be back next week with our regular episode on Contrapoints.

Dan's apology song to Eric
Follow Dan on Twitter (@thebadstats)
Episode Art used with permission of Michael M. AKA Pineapplemikel

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this special edition of Dakota the
0:16.0	Gurus listeners I got a call on the Bright Red emergency
0:20.8	Guru's phone from my colleague Christopher letting me know that there was an important
0:25.7	interview that we needed to do. It's with a fellow named Dan Gilbert who got in touch with us because he wanted to share his experiences on the unofficial
0:36.4	portal discord server that is the portal associated with Eric Weinstein. God is it Weinstein. Weinstein.
0:43.0	God, is it Weinstein or Weinstein?
0:45.0	We get that constantly wrong.
0:47.0	It's Weinstein, like Einstein.
0:49.0	Einstein.
0:50.0	Yeah, so I had it right.
0:51.0	I had it right.
0:52.0	I had it right. Hi Chris it right. Um, hi Chris, welcome. How are you?
0:54.0	I'm doing all right as usual, and I noticed you called me Christopher, which means that this is definitely serious.
1:02.0	I don't think I've ever heard you call me Christopher
1:05.5	before. Yeah, yeah, Christopher Cook isn't your name? Is it Christopher Cook? No, it's Kavanaugh. Of course course it's Kavanaugh isn't it?
1:13.7	What yeah what is this what's this man what's this?
1:17.8	Liam she mean is this retaliation?
1:20.8	Listeners you may not be aware if you don't follow Chris,
1:24.6	fanatically, that he was interviewed on another podcast and in, it was nice,
1:30.4	he gave a shout out to this podcast and mentioned me, which was nice, I thought.
1:34.1	But then he dropped the ball pretty badly by getting my name wrong,
1:37.7	listeners, getting it wrong. What did you call me?
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