I've always wondered why I feel such deep affinity for Russians, and I think Anna nailed it with this: "Russians are optimists masquerading as cynics; Americans are cynics masquerading as optimists."
I like how they rarely victimize themselves and take accountability for their actions. They rarely whine and get what needs to be done without excessive yapping drama.
@@jzen1455 I can already tell that you have a huge victim complex and have never taken responsability for anything. Anyone who goes on self righteous screeds about "the victim mentality" and "personal responsability" is like that. You just project your weak, childish, lazy, irresponsible mentality onto the left. And it is always the left that you people whine about.
Eric...you kinda lost me for an episode or two...but this here is pure gold. Anna is some top-shelf millennial reflectionism. Well chosen guest, good dialogue.
@@fuhq5121 - "The earth is flat" - "I reject that hypothesis" Feels like an appropriate time for example. Not all ideas/arguments are worthy to take seriously.
“…Motherhood, the most noble and wonderful work on the planet…”. The bedrock of this conversation that translates into fundamental improvement in our culture.
Sadly, the only brosponse is the Reddit monetizable sort. Indeed, the podcast (that damn Neo-Lib Sleep Pod commercial is like a fucking coffin, so I cannot say 'pod' in good conscience) makes me laugh harder than just about anything else out there. A Handmaidens Tradding Places would be a good film parody, don't you think? Rather than old white stock market tycoons, it's mid managerial Cuntocrats making a 1 Bit$ bet on which womb they can appropriate, with which seed. The bathroom scene would be priceless. Cash App and phones instead of a dollar bill. Quick, b/f Eddie Murphy gets too old. Can he do drag?
A glimpse of what the discussion about feminism and masculinity could be like. I did not expect to actually be intrigued by this particular topic. These podcasts are great Eric. Aptly named indeed. Peace and love from Scandinavia.
The entire conversation was gangbusters, but the bit about how the lack of mystique kills libidinal energy and the jag that followed was really pure gold. Amazing episode. More like this please.
Nicholas Fevelo do you not think that maybe all movements are just a finger pointing at the fact we haven’t got it right yet ?? I’m not about utopia but I am about balance ☯️✌️
I find it completely insane that I'll think I have no time to watch a movie but I'll happily listen to a 5 hour podcast or I'll binge a whole series on Netflix. I feel that in terms of say podcasts and audiobooks its a primal form of art that harkens back to tribal storytelling.
You heart and your brain knows what's nutritious to you, and seek them out, whether it's mentally stimulating podcast full of eye opening ideas or a restful zone out time to binge Netflix, you get to choose to fit yourself. Unlike movies that were created to maximise profit from the collectivist idea of an average man ironically less and less average men finds appealing according to box office numbers 😂
For me, listening to podcasts has a soothing, almost childlike quality to it. Especially if I feel like I “know” either one of the speakers, listening to them speak without feeling the expectation or need to respond puts me in a receptive position similar to that of a kid within earshot of a self-aware conversation my parents would have with friends
@@ghy518 Awesome analogy man. My favourite thing now days is listening to a podcast on my way to work. Ass crack of dawn no one on the road and just something to get my mind going.
Can I just say, I love that the episode's descriptions have a non-redundant quality that enriches the episode rather than being something you don't have to read if you've watched the video?
Every episode is a breath of fresh air. Thank you! So many great moments here, but the one that stuck with me is at 36:00 - "Magic happens when people pass power back and forth. If you retain all your power then you don't get to the magic of giving your power to somebody else and having them give you an equal amount of a different kind back. [We] never actually build those super powerful relationships when we're hoarding our power saying 'I'm not going to give anything up.'" ...Yes! In relationships, in business, in the arts, etc.
@@bridge12582 London Tsai video caused the delay here - video has some distortion that they tried to correct - couldn't correct - took time to decide whether they should upload that video as is - that caused the backlog
You know when you are about o skip over a podcast for the third time, but instead you finally click to check it out. And are rewarded with pure gold. 👍😃
Thank you Eric for inviting the most interesting personalities to converse with you. This creates the true picture of today’s America and thanks for keeping the spark of the Russian Culture glowing!
I love, love , love your show. As a young girl, I was very abstract and tremendously interested in physics. My Mother strictly deterred me from that direction, making sure that I knew if I was too smart, I would not get a man. Without a man, you were useless, and no man wants a smart woman. (This was the '60s) I regret that I was afraid to be who I was. I missed out on all this incredible, juicy stuff you're doing/discovering NOW. Thank you for being here !
This is a very important one. The fact that Eric wants to have more russian people on is great because I think there's an extreme need for dialogue between russians and americans that's basically nonexistent right now. I hope he sticks to that idea so that we can at least start breaking the ice and communicating despite all the propaganda on both sides. Kudos from Mother Яussia!
I'm realizing something. We somehow have to wake up people the way Neo was woken up in the Matrix? We're all Neo, and Eric is Morpheus!!! In turn, we gotta then be Morpheus for everyone else. They could be the one?
@@stormshadowvlad2012 Well, she was literally born in Moscow, and even though she's spent most of her life in the United States you can clearly see how she hasn't forgotten her Russian roots. It's not about the formal nationality, you see.
Russian named half Spanish here, much appreciated those words, Eric. And ''what makes Spain economically inviable is what makes it morally redeemable" is SPOT ON.
I have been waiting for the video for this one, thank you! Being of Soviet Jewish descent myself - but not left wing at all- I found her take both familiar and refreshing and not represented in the sjw oppression olympics. Long live Camille Paglia; glad other women are taking her bright light forward.
David McCarthy - you’ve been copying and pasting that exact phrase for many different people. Your intelligence is low if you think you can deal with complex diverse people with a simplistic repeated single phrase. This UA-cam channel is a real community with real people. Deal with us as individuals.
He's talking about "deep" relationship also being "transactional" but in layers of indirection. Meaning, instead of "I do something for you in direct exchange of you doing something to me, you have I do something for you and some time in the future, maybe, you do something for me, and then we repeat these a million times without anyone keeping track of it, trusting that in the end it will have been an equal give and take.
@@AlexOfCR Am I misunderstanding, or is Eric being quite cynical here? It seems like he's saying no matter how deep a relationship is, it is still transactional at its core; those layers of indirection are just there to obscure that fact and help delude us into believing it's something special. Or is it simply the act of not believing it's transactional, yet still remaining invested, the thing that makes it special?
@@Exuma73 It's not cynical. The idea is that a relationship composed of incalculable transaction, becomes more than that what we commonly refer to a transaction, because it involves trust in the other person and their character. - Maybe I'm not the best person to define what is an is not cynical, though. I have a pretty deterministic view of the world, and I don't see it as cynical. Maybe you could ask your self, what do you mean by "special?"
@@Exuma73 far be it for me to say exactly what he means but here's how I understand him (and you tell me if you think I'm right): he's merely pointing out that all relationships are transactional but that those layers of indirections and the trust that they require ARE the very thing that makes relationships special, beautiful and deep. The acknowledgement of them still being transactional is just a way to grant that one is not an idiot for thinking of relationships as such and to then point out that ONLY thinking of them that way - and removing those layers of indirection - robs you of a life with beautiful relationships. Let me also point out that it's been a few days since I listened to this podcast but this is the way I remember perceiving his point.
This woman is the antithesis of what her upspeak and vocal fry indicated she would be at first. Thanks for having her on it was a refreshing dose of unexpected intellectual and human discourse
An ASMR guy like you must be exceedingly adept at gaining insight into the character of an individual solely based on intonation and vocal drag. What a wonder it is that she so thoroughly overrode your well-programmed audio-personal indicators😹
"Trump knows, the Liberal mind is automated, and as soon as you break through one of it's shibeloths, it has an automated non-thinking reflexive reaction, and he can map that. So he can say ok i will do something that will cause the reflexive action but I will put something in place which is totally different so that when you have that reflexive reaction you will be shown to be an NPC" Eric Weinstein
Antony Roberts it’s amazing how incredibly intelligent people can be such horrible judges of character. Such people, instead of recalibrating their perception of judgment, will recalibrate an entire reality construct to reinforce their perceptions. It’s the epitome of blind arrogance. Instead of questioning the data they are fed, they remain absolute that the data they perceived was correct because they stamped it as correct so it must be so.
@@charlesp7504 I used to say to our audiences: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Upton Sinclair. The data they parrot comes from the institutions they've respected, if not worshiped, and worked for their entire lives. If they start questioning the source material, some of them they will inevitably start questioning the nature of the institutions, and we all know where this leads. I'd like to believe this is the goal of The Portal podcasts.
Completely over thought. The accrediting of genius to Trump's ability to make the left look incompetent is nothing more than the exposure of the weakness of liberal ideology versus the proven success of conservative ideals in the real world of practical application of said ideals in a free society. It's why western conservative nations will always rein supreme over left leaning ones as long as they are led by brave men.
@Johnny Crustacean "We're too caught up in sides and not looking to our brightest minds for guidance" I think this is an incredibly important point in our current era. We have so many brilliant minds available at the touch of a button or a screen, but we'd rather give in to our tribalistic instinct. Nuance and rigorous objective critique is heinously undervalued.
I _LOVE_ your guest, Anna :) She is fun, honest and is not caught up in the sexism war of so many today. I especially appreciated her take on man-splaining as it is cute. Both men and women bring their unique qualities to each other and far too many spend far too much time critiquing the other as a way of molding them into something different. Damn.... that would be boring as hell :)
I absolutely can not get enough of the Portal.. I have been a fan of Eic for a while, but this podcast clearly illustrates that he is playing on a different field and one in which we should all aspire.. Eric, you are broadening my perspectives one amazing guest at a time.. I can not properly put into words how valuable this has been and no doubt will continue to be in my life. You are a force for reality and for good that I could not concieve was possibble before I discovered you.. Please keep up this experiment.. I can already feel it having a prfound impact. I am one tiny person that is grateful better and broader for listening.
This is one of the most interesting and insightful conversations I’ve listened to. And I’ve listened to MANY. I have come back to this chat probably a half dozen times and each time come away with something new to ponder and put up against my worldview/philosophy. Would love to hear a part 2.
Please don't tell me I was the only one googling a word/author/theory every 5 minutes? Still loved this, learned so much, this conversation certainly broadened my horizons.
You could almost smell the chemistry between them, intellectual sparks were flying, in a good way. I listened first instead of watching but there was something about her voice which made me need to see what she looked like! She is smart, funny, and impossible to stop listening to. I think Eric was completely charmed by her on so many levels ...
She's not it's mmhhmmm.... you know the sound ppl use to acknowledge that you are following someone else's speech when in conversation with them.... jeeze talk about hearing what you want to hear and cognitive dissonance smh 🤦♂️
As one who's payed the price for remaining true to the chivalrous yet concurrent post 60s perceived chauvinistic concept of masculinity, I'm so pleased Anna is resurrecting the incredibly beautiful and very powerful notion of feminine mystique. Excellent, honest interview.
Neal Murfitt - Uh...yes! I'd love to see if Eric could dominate the conversation because he just doesn't allow his guests to do that. Ha!! Eric is in Red Pill territory, but doesn't know it yet. I've predicted the Red Pilling of a few high-profilers. His amazing mind can't possibly stay in the nonsensical gutter with his "soon-to-be former" progressive friends who've seriously gone off into Marxist revolutionary mode. He can't take it any longer. It's going to happen after election night. His brother, Bret, will stay a progressive. I have such high respect for both of them.
The conversation around 2:02:40 reminded me very much of a Ukrainian saying I heard often while living there, "the man may be the head of the family, but the woman is the neck" which given the context of so much else in this discussion about being Russian, and the problems with feminism, etc, I found striking and is one of many cases where we in the 'west' are really doing ourselves a disservice when we reject the wisdom of more traditional 'norms' and ways of being and interacting. This has been just a PHENOMENAL discussion! Thanks so much both of you!
Oh my god, this feels so good. I don't know how else to say it, but it feels so good to hear someone else that is "woke," but in what is probably the literal meaning.
Clearly an elder millenial, we've replaced "aspergian" with "spergy". On a serious note, highest quality analysis of western intersex relationships I've yet to hear/read. Thank you.
Fantastic conversation!!! What an intelligent and beautiful guest, looking forward to checking out her podcast as soon as I finish this, I am sending this episode to everyone I know. Thanks for the excellent interview with, and 1:06:00, lol, those people definitely don't listen to your podcast That's for sure
The left had it right overall. We only laugh at them cuz they got it wrong super recently. Don’t pretend that the right wingers had or have a great track record of accuracy and humor. The right is still pretty filled with humorless religiosity and totally inaccurate retelling a of left wing view. The left has failed and is pushing people right. But the right has its own problems. The pendulum will swing as it always has.
Sitting through this is so scary. Understanding the things they are talking about makes relationships complicated to such a degree that I am worried whether or not I will ever be able to negotiate a lasting one. Edit: and she hits this point exactly at 2:07:00
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I've always wondered why I feel such deep affinity for Russians, and I think Anna nailed it with this:
"Russians are optimists masquerading as cynics; Americans are cynics masquerading as optimists."
I like how they rarely victimize themselves and take accountability for their actions. They rarely whine and get what needs to be done without excessive yapping drama.
@@jzen1455 I can already tell that you have a huge victim complex and have never taken responsability for anything. Anyone who goes on self righteous screeds about "the victim mentality" and "personal responsability" is like that. You just project your weak, childish, lazy, irresponsible mentality onto the left. And it is always the left that you people whine about.
They’re bringing to life so many thoughts that bounce around in my head only as half baked feelings and intuitions.
Eric...you kinda lost me for an episode or two...but this here is pure gold. Anna is some top-shelf millennial reflectionism. Well chosen guest, good dialogue.
@Chad Canada I don't, so do tell!
@Chad Canada damn Agent Smith 😂 let him go
Two last episodes were incredible
@Chad Canada well come on creepy internet stranger, who?!
@David McCarthy explain please
The Portal is really hitting its stride. Thank you for doing this Eric.
I love plants
@@Highdealist me too. I water such seed :-D. J/K . I typed Jessus in search bar and found the W in einstein.
Yes indeed
@David McCarthy Explain? I doubt it but some leads could make your claim sensicle
@@Highdealist up
"I reject that hypothesis" is a useful phrase to pull out at times.
Only if you actually know other more useful phrases.
@@fuhq5121 - "The earth is flat"
- "I reject that hypothesis"
Feels like an appropriate time for example. Not all ideas/arguments are worthy to take seriously.
@@pistolen87 yes they are. It's the time you put in.
Reminds me of when David Deutsch told Sam Harris on his podcast - “You made 2-3 points there, and all of them are wrong”
What an excellent woman.
Maizy T SAME
My favorite line from the interview: "Just because god is dead doesn't mean you should get your septum pierced and cover yourself with tattoos."
Mine is "going whole hog with Buttigieg"
@@jonahwoodward3623 "He signs an NDA before sex"
Eric "I was gonna write this book about Marie Curie called Radium Slut" Weinstein
“…Motherhood, the most noble and wonderful work on the planet…”. The bedrock of this conversation that translates into fundamental improvement in our culture.
here you are with all 3
This is peak podcasting. I feel like I'm nearly smoking crack.
Great episode. Watch Eric pretty regularly but somehow missed this one. Came over after seeing her on Tim Dillon.
Same.
Same.
Same lol
Same 😔
Yess!!
That kind of conversation makes me happy just by knowing it has happened.
Anna Khachiyan somehow managed to make Eric look cool. That's magic. Thanks, both of you :)
Eric's super cool by default.
Hey! Eric is f***ing cool! But I get what you're saying. I love it when someone brings out his boy-ish side.
Eric is cool when he's playful and free-flowing, but less so when he's adulting and serious 😂
It takes a real woman to bring out the truest version of a good man
BalkanEcologyProject Not sure 'cool'- lucky to be there yeah- hell ya
This guest is quite fascinating.
hot af
Joe Fletcher I would
Sadly, the only brosponse is the Reddit monetizable sort. Indeed, the podcast (that damn Neo-Lib Sleep Pod commercial is like a fucking coffin, so I cannot say 'pod' in good conscience) makes me laugh harder than just about anything else out there. A Handmaidens Tradding Places would be a good film parody, don't you think? Rather than old white stock market tycoons, it's mid managerial Cuntocrats making a 1 Bit$ bet on which womb they can appropriate, with which seed. The bathroom scene would be priceless. Cash App and phones instead of a dollar bill. Quick, b/f Eddie Murphy gets too old. Can he do drag?
@David McCarthy Take your haldol.
EW: "This is a three-dimensional projection of a four-dimensional convex polytope..."
AK: "OK."
EW: "And, I find it transcendent."
AK: "Uhuh."
These podcast are so UNDERRATED its depressing that it's not as popular as it should be. I try to share it as much as I can.
What about this conversation specifically did you enjoy?
Well it’s on the way up now ! Nearly a year after your comment.
This is the most interesting podcast I've heard in months.
All the Portal Podcast have been Incredible """
A glimpse of what the discussion about feminism and masculinity could be like. I did not expect to actually be intrigued by this particular topic.
These podcasts are great Eric. Aptly named indeed. Peace and love from Scandinavia.
The entire conversation was gangbusters, but the bit about how the lack of mystique kills libidinal energy and the jag that followed was really pure gold. Amazing episode. More like this please.
Anna is the kind of person that will take down this social justice movement.
I think you're wrong.
Nicholas Fevelo do you not think that maybe all movements are just a finger pointing at the fact we haven’t got it right yet ?? I’m not about utopia but I am about balance ☯️✌️
Anna is the kind of person people tend to use the DeMurro phrase on.
Nicholas Fevelo - So right!! Wow, what an unusual person she is. Can't WAIT to get to her podcast!
Her superpower is that she *looks* like she would do that
I find it completely insane that I'll think I have no time to watch a movie but I'll happily listen to a 5 hour podcast or I'll binge a whole series on Netflix. I feel that in terms of say podcasts and audiobooks its a primal form of art that harkens back to tribal storytelling.
You heart and your brain knows what's nutritious to you, and seek them out, whether it's mentally stimulating podcast full of eye opening ideas or a restful zone out time to binge Netflix, you get to choose to fit yourself. Unlike movies that were created to maximise profit from the collectivist idea of an average man ironically less and less average men finds appealing according to box office numbers 😂
@@helveticalouie Damn good point
For me, listening to podcasts has a soothing, almost childlike quality to it. Especially if I feel like I “know” either one of the speakers, listening to them speak without feeling the expectation or need to respond puts me in a receptive position similar to that of a kid within earshot of a self-aware conversation my parents would have with friends
@@ghy518 Awesome analogy man. My favourite thing now days is listening to a podcast on my way to work. Ass crack of dawn no one on the road and just something to get my mind going.
@@MIKE_THE_BRUMMIE Imagine a world without all this convenient stuffs? Would be quite boring huh?
Thanks for having Anna on, and bring her back for more!
I’m just addicted to hearing Anna’s lovely voice on a matter of different subjects.
I think her voice is great too, people hate. She also has the most wonderful vocabulary.
Those that hate are impossibly ignorant.
Great interview....she has a beautiful voice and a great mind
Can I just say, I love that the episode's descriptions have a non-redundant quality that enriches the episode rather than being something you don't have to read if you've watched the video?
Every episode is a breath of fresh air. Thank you! So many great moments here, but the one that stuck with me is at 36:00 - "Magic happens when people pass power back and forth. If you retain all your power then you don't get to the magic of giving your power to somebody else and having them give you an equal amount of a different kind back. [We] never actually build those super powerful relationships when we're hoarding our power saying 'I'm not going to give anything up.'" ...Yes! In relationships, in business, in the arts, etc.
Damn man you're pumping these podcast out like a crack mill
Absolutely. Eric aught to be arrested slang'n this much crack! 😉😎
The videos are late. This has been up on podcast app for awhile. I assume they're just getting around to the vids and putting them all up
@@bridge12582 London Tsai video caused the delay here - video has some distortion that they tried to correct - couldn't correct - took time to decide whether they should upload that video as is - that caused the backlog
You know when you are about o skip over a podcast for the third time, but instead you finally click to check it out. And are rewarded with pure gold. 👍😃
Commenting in case it helps this video perform better with youtube's algorithms. Excellent talk.
Thank you Eric for inviting the most interesting personalities to converse with you. This creates the true picture of today’s America and thanks for keeping the spark of the Russian Culture glowing!
Inb4 referencing the algorithm invalidates the comment
I've only recently gotten into Anna's stuff, and I'm eternally grateful that she exists. Such a breath of fresh air.
Fantastic. Thank you for introducing me to the Red Scare podcast.
I love, love , love your show. As a young girl, I was very abstract and tremendously interested in physics. My Mother strictly deterred me from that direction, making sure that I knew if I was too smart, I would not get a man. Without a man, you were useless, and no man wants a smart woman. (This was the '60s) I regret that I was afraid to be who I was. I missed out on all this incredible, juicy stuff you're doing/discovering NOW. Thank you for being here !
This is like the best ever episode of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
This is a very important one. The fact that Eric wants to have more russian people on is great because I think there's an extreme need for dialogue between russians and americans that's basically nonexistent right now. I hope he sticks to that idea so that we can at least start breaking the ice and communicating despite all the propaganda on both sides. Kudos from Mother Яussia!
Couldn't hurt....
I'm realizing something. We somehow have to wake up people the way Neo was woken up in the Matrix? We're all Neo, and Eric is Morpheus!!! In turn, we gotta then be Morpheus for everyone else. They could be the one?
She’s american
@@stormshadowvlad2012 Well, she was literally born in Moscow, and even though she's spent most of her life in the United States you can clearly see how she hasn't forgotten her Russian roots. It's not about the formal nationality, you see.
@@stormshadowvlad2012 Is it the way she sips her wine or her intellect?
This is a truly fascinating (and dangerous) conversation. I'm grateful to you and your guest for being brave enough to have it.
As an Armenian Kurdish person I am so happy to watch this episode. My best regards from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
What a breath of fresh air! Authentic and likable...
This is an incredible conversation.
Damn, really pumping out the content. This has been one of my favorites, I could watch this for many more hours.
"How is that (Kantian)?" is going on a bumper sticker on the back of my car. Eric is the best 😂😂😂
Great guest. Thoroughly innovative and brilliant conversation
Russian named half Spanish here, much appreciated those words, Eric. And ''what makes Spain economically inviable is what makes it morally redeemable" is SPOT ON.
I feel improved and developed from pod casts like this one. thank you , thank you than k you
I have been waiting for the video for this one, thank you! Being of Soviet Jewish descent myself - but not left wing at all- I found her take both familiar and refreshing and not represented in the sjw oppression olympics. Long live Camille Paglia; glad other women are taking her bright light forward.
Was waiting for Eric to say, "Jamie, can you pull that up".
Who needs Rogan to be invited anyway? Jamie should be the next guest
Shit she's smart. Thoroughly enjoyed this conversation.
@David McCarthy are you ok? Here if you need someone.
David McCarthy - you’ve been copying and pasting that exact phrase for many different people. Your intelligence is low if you think you can deal with complex diverse people with a simplistic repeated single phrase. This UA-cam channel is a real community with real people. Deal with us as individuals.
"Those layers of indirection are essential to a rich life" just stunned me. Anyone else or am I being stupid?
He's talking about "deep" relationship also being "transactional" but in layers of indirection. Meaning, instead of "I do something for you in direct exchange of you doing something to me, you have I do something for you and some time in the future, maybe, you do something for me, and then we repeat these a million times without anyone keeping track of it, trusting that in the end it will have been an equal give and take.
@@AlexOfCR Am I misunderstanding, or is Eric being quite cynical here? It seems like he's saying no matter how deep a relationship is, it is still transactional at its core; those layers of indirection are just there to obscure that fact and help delude us into believing it's something special.
Or is it simply the act of not believing it's transactional, yet still remaining invested, the thing that makes it special?
@@Exuma73 It's not cynical. The idea is that a relationship composed of incalculable transaction, becomes more than that what we commonly refer to a transaction, because it involves trust in the other person and their character. - Maybe I'm not the best person to define what is an is not cynical, though. I have a pretty deterministic view of the world, and I don't see it as cynical. Maybe you could ask your self, what do you mean by "special?"
@@Exuma73 far be it for me to say exactly what he means but here's how I understand him (and you tell me if you think I'm right): he's merely pointing out that all relationships are transactional but that those layers of indirections and the trust that they require ARE the very thing that makes relationships special, beautiful and deep. The acknowledgement of them still being transactional is just a way to grant that one is not an idiot for thinking of relationships as such and to then point out that ONLY thinking of them that way - and removing those layers of indirection - robs you of a life with beautiful relationships.
Let me also point out that it's been a few days since I listened to this podcast but this is the way I remember perceiving his point.
Second time through this conversation and man....there is so much here.
Dude you’re on fire great podcast!!!
That "Kant-y" vs "Cunty" exchange made my week
haha yeah my exact thought when I heard it was "did she say Kanty or cunty??"
Patrick Landon Lol- was a riot
I in fact heard 'cunty' right away
Lol agreed 😂
I liked this guest
I might even listen to her pod.
She’s a great find. I’m going to look her up.
The conversation gets especially good towards the end, I didn’t want it to end.
This woman is the antithesis of what her upspeak and vocal fry indicated she would be at first. Thanks for having her on it was a refreshing dose of unexpected intellectual and human discourse
An ASMR guy like you must be exceedingly adept at gaining insight into the character of an individual solely based on intonation and vocal drag. What a wonder it is that she so thoroughly overrode your well-programmed audio-personal indicators😹
@@ghy518 It was a comment Eric made .... in the pocast
Been re watching these and getting more and more each time I watch. Hope to hear the portal again when the time is right!
"Trump knows, the Liberal mind is automated, and as soon as you break through one of it's shibeloths, it has an automated non-thinking reflexive reaction, and he can map that. So he can say ok i will do something that will cause the reflexive action but I will put something in place which is totally different so that when you have that reflexive reaction you will be shown to be an NPC" Eric Weinstein
Antony Roberts it’s amazing how incredibly intelligent people can be such horrible judges of character. Such people, instead of recalibrating their perception of judgment, will recalibrate an entire reality construct to reinforce their perceptions. It’s the epitome of blind arrogance. Instead of questioning the data they are fed, they remain absolute that the data they perceived was correct because they stamped it as correct so it must be so.
@@charlesp7504 I used to say to our audiences: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Upton Sinclair.
The data they parrot comes from the institutions they've respected, if not worshiped, and worked for their entire lives. If they start questioning the source material, some of them they will inevitably start questioning the nature of the institutions, and we all know where this leads. I'd like to believe this is the goal of The Portal podcasts.
Completely over thought. The accrediting of genius to Trump's ability to make the left look incompetent is nothing more than the exposure of the weakness of liberal ideology versus the proven success of conservative ideals in the real world of practical application of said ideals in a free society. It's why western conservative nations will always rein supreme over left leaning ones as long as they are led by brave men.
@Johnny Crustacean "We're too caught up in sides and not looking to our brightest minds for guidance"
I think this is an incredibly important point in our current era. We have so many brilliant minds available at the touch of a button or a screen, but we'd rather give in to our tribalistic instinct. Nuance and rigorous objective critique is heinously undervalued.
What does he mean by NPC there?
This has quickly become my favorite program. Always really, really good content.
Agree they are.
I have a crush on Anna after watching this podcast... she's brilliant and funny.
John B Seriously the crush-ing is unreal
Yep. Smart and Russian, very hot
That's disgusting.
John B I hear ya brother
DaZugZug Incredibly so
I _LOVE_ your guest, Anna :)
She is fun, honest and is not caught up in the sexism war of so many today. I especially appreciated her take on man-splaining as it is cute. Both men and women bring their unique qualities to each other and far too many spend far too much time critiquing the other as a way of molding them into something different. Damn.... that would be boring as hell :)
I absolutely can not get enough of the Portal.. I have been a fan of Eic for a while, but this podcast clearly illustrates that he is playing on a different field and one in which we should all aspire.. Eric, you are broadening my perspectives one amazing guest at a time.. I can not properly put into words how valuable this has been and no doubt will continue to be in my life. You are a force for reality and for good that I could not concieve was possibble before I discovered you.. Please keep up this experiment.. I can already feel it having a prfound impact. I am one tiny person that is grateful better and broader for listening.
Thank you, Eric!! Great show - awesome guest! I'm now going to be a "Red Scare" listener/fan.
I could've listened to you & Anna another 2 to 3 hours!
Spectacular Eric at the Joe level on this one. Breaking the ice with some vino is a step in the right direction and Anna is wonderful to listen to!
Khachiyan and Angela Nagle never fail to deliver as podcast guests. Eric please get Angela on. Listen to her on Russell Brand or Red Scare.
Thank you Eric, these podcasts are great.
Thanks, Eric, love the interview..
Please keep doing these podcasts. It’s the last bastion for intellect on UA-cam.
This is one of the most interesting and insightful conversations I’ve listened to. And I’ve listened to MANY. I have come back to this chat probably a half dozen times and each time come away with something new to ponder and put up against my worldview/philosophy.
Would love to hear a part 2.
Out of the park. Far and away one of Eric's best yet.
Please don't tell me I was the only one googling a word/author/theory every 5 minutes? Still loved this, learned so much, this conversation certainly broadened my horizons.
You weren't the only one!
I just found Red Scare and I'm so tickled with Anna. It sounds like I'm listening to a real adult conversation for the first time.
Certainly the most personally useful conversations I've heard in a long time, and one of the most generally interesting, too.
when eric tells the advertising thanks for being here, I almost spit my drink out lol
Don't know how I missed this one if February, but this was a great conversation. Anna has a new fan in me!
this was a sensational conversation. thank you, eric, for exposing me to the red scare.
This is one of the best podcasts so far.....blown away
08:34 'intersectional shakedown'
32:49 'metacognitive distance'
38:59 'the Ginger Rogers principle'
43:35 'the distributed idea suppression complex'
50:46 'gated institutional narrative'
1:07:18 'the robot'
1:07:26 'metacognitive perch'
You have some of the best conversations on-line currently. I am a fan. Thank you. Tip of the spear to cultural influence lets go!!
I love that he can go from physics to literary criticism, Eric is amazing as a podcast host.
such a good conversation - thanks Eric / Anna
I love these podcasts.
Truly enjoyed this podcast. Think I'll listen to it again tomorrow. Interesting, stimulating, informative- got it all. Thank you.
You could almost smell the chemistry between them, intellectual sparks were flying, in a good way. I listened first instead of watching but there was something about her voice which made me need to see what she looked like! She is smart, funny, and impossible to stop listening to. I think Eric was completely charmed by her on so many levels ...
This is the best podcast online today. They’re not spoon feeding ideas to the McDonald’s masses while not being elitist. Bravo Eric.
I have to say that my brain is still in recovery mode from taking in so many high level, important ideas
My mind and heart was racing throughout the entire episode
Loved the conversation. When will we be discussing possible solutions
Only halfway through but can already say this is my favorite episode so far. Awesome conversation.
Is she saying "whamen" Pewdiepie-style consistently?
yes on purpose
Yes Sir, that is correct
awesome
She's not it's mmhhmmm.... you know the sound ppl use to acknowledge that you are following someone else's speech when in conversation with them.... jeeze talk about hearing what you want to hear and cognitive dissonance smh 🤦♂️
@@metatron5199 she's been known to spell it as "wammin" on instagram and twitter
One of your best yet Eric.
I’m a proud Norwegian, Scandinavian, European 😊 Great show Eric.
As one who's payed the price for remaining true to the chivalrous yet concurrent post 60s perceived chauvinistic concept of masculinity, I'm so pleased Anna is resurrecting the incredibly beautiful and very powerful notion of feminine mystique. Excellent, honest interview.
Camille Paglia on the podcast please :)
Neal Murfitt - Uh...yes! I'd love to see if Eric could dominate the conversation because he just doesn't allow his guests to do that. Ha!!
Eric is in Red Pill territory, but doesn't know it yet. I've predicted the Red Pilling of a few high-profilers. His amazing mind can't possibly stay in the nonsensical gutter with his "soon-to-be former" progressive friends who've seriously gone off into Marxist revolutionary mode. He can't take it any longer. It's going to happen after election night. His brother, Bret, will stay a progressive. I have such high respect for both of them.
Yesssss!!!
I second this!
I come back to this conversation on a regular basis
"The Benjamin Button of neoliberal critique" Love it.
The conversation around 2:02:40 reminded me very much of a Ukrainian saying I heard often while living there, "the man may be the head of the family, but the woman is the neck" which given the context of so much else in this discussion about being Russian, and the problems with feminism, etc, I found striking and is one of many cases where we in the 'west' are really doing ourselves a disservice when we reject the wisdom of more traditional 'norms' and ways of being and interacting.
This has been just a PHENOMENAL discussion! Thanks so much both of you!
To quote a line from Twin Peaks, this was *Damn Fine (Conversation)*
Oh my god, this feels so good.
I don't know how else to say it, but it feels so good to hear someone else that is "woke," but in what is probably the literal meaning.
Clearly an elder millenial, we've replaced "aspergian" with "spergy". On a serious note, highest quality analysis of western intersex relationships I've yet to hear/read. Thank you.
Metacognition is the one word I learned in school and automatically knew it's importance to human contact. True key to dry humor and objective vision.
I love her podcast more than most
If I look forward to a Tuesday, it’s a good podcast
Fantastic conversation!!! What an intelligent and beautiful guest, looking forward to checking out her podcast as soon as I finish this, I am sending this episode to everyone I know. Thanks for the excellent interview with, and 1:06:00, lol, those people definitely don't listen to your podcast That's for sure
"You have to get something right before you can parody it."
That brilliantly sums up the Left's failure at humor for the past few years
Humor is relative. If you’re not laughing go find something else.
The left had it right overall. We only laugh at them cuz they got it wrong super recently. Don’t pretend that the right wingers had or have a great track record of accuracy and humor. The right is still pretty filled with humorless religiosity and totally inaccurate retelling a of left wing view. The left has failed and is pushing people right. But the right has its own problems. The pendulum will swing as it always has.
Super ep. Anna was a great guest. Keep them coming...
Sitting through this is so scary. Understanding the things they are talking about makes relationships complicated to such a degree that I am worried whether or not I will ever be able to negotiate a lasting one.
Edit: and she hits this point exactly at 2:07:00
Thank you! Putting into words my anxieties about this age so well