You're going to be. Hello and welcome to a special edition of Dakota the Gurus. All our

podcast episodes are special I think but this is a very special one a rapid response to quickly developing shit that's happening in the online sphere I'm Matt Brown as usual and with me also as usual is Chris Kavanaugh. you doing Chris not bad cool I don't have

everything clean up I'm afraid so that's that's okay that's okay I'm on a roll so

but you have initiated this special edition

because there's developments that, you know,

it's important to respond to in a prompt manner.

So what are we gonna be responding to now?

Yeah, so I called you on the decoding the Guru's

red emergency phone because there was some amazing nonsense that had appeared on the internet.

So I thought you needed to be alerted.

And that nonsense happens to be in this case,

Eric Weinstein, who we covered on the inaugural episode of the podcast,

released a new over four hour episode with Douglas Murray, the conservative social

commentator called Heroism 2020 defense of our own civilization. That episode itself could be the subject of a later episode looking at Douglas Murray and what he does, but what caught my eye was the 18 minute audio essay,

as Eric describes it, that he put at the beginning of the podcast.

An audio essay, you say, and this is in the broader context of heroes defending our civilization.

That doesn't sound like Eric at all, it sounds very self-reggrandizing and hyperbolic.

Yeah, it's uncharacteristic for him certainly, but yeah, the little intro seems completely independent from the discussion with Douglas Marie,

except that it's laced with the same themes of societal importance and Eric and his friends being at the center of all such things.

But Eric has been releasing these little audio essays or, you know, mini diatribes at the beginning of the portal episodes since probably about I don't know

episode 15 or there but I can't remember we started doing that but the really interesting from our podcast point of view because they're

super condensed, conspiracism and Guruisms all neatly packaged into these 10 to 15 minute condensed audio

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