"the following is a conversation with eric weinstein the third time we've spoken on this podcast he is the wise turtle master oogway to my kung fu panda one of my favorite people to talk to in this wor..."

"weinstein who's the greatest musician of all time would you say we were just off camera talking about eddie van halen he unfortunately passed away who's the greatest musician of all time yeah jonathan..."

"larry cohen yeah can we just i the things i feel when i listen to hallelujah by leonard cohen or anything by him really but that one what do you want to get into it let's go what what does it that son..."

"honestly you've been doing an amazing job in this space one of the reasons i'm super excited to do this podcast again is that i've learned some things about what i don't do well and i also have sort o..."

"a few people asked about depression and suicide it's a this this is a russian program so we'll have to go there and i think about leonard cohen and one of the things that always kind of um broke my he..."

"i mean let's have the jimi hendrix conversation i don't know that we can do anything to it that hasn't already been done to it maybe that's not true maybe the idea is that every generation has to have..."

"you know it's kind of reminiscent i'd love to hear actually your opinion this is reminiscent of the goodwill hunting story what do you think about that that movie that movie it's about it's mit yeah i..."

"i i do think that we're in a really terrifying and depressing time and i think that part of it is we don't know if something huge is about to get started and we don't even know what this is i mean we ..."

"give you an alternate version of this dystopia i do think that there are people who are capable and there's still places to play and cause things to happen that progress the story forward but if you l..."

"i'll tell you what really concerns me about your perspective i think that there are a lot of genius ideas inside of people who don't have the stomach for conflict and derision and i think a lot of tho..."

"the reason i was i was kept bothering you kept bothering to have this conversation is i'm really worried about the next couple of months no kidding and uh if there's anybody in this world that could h..."

"the responsibility that you carry that i carry this is where joe rogan generally removes himself from being i'm just a comedian this idea of i'm just a comedian i'll do that but at this moment in hist..."

"think 2021 can uh could make us feel good about the trajectory of society so like where we emerge from this year feeling good like there's a smile and there are quests on his face and the next time we..."

"one of the reasons that i try to come up with unifying explanations is that you know if you look at the number of wildfires in california let's say that we've just seen if you treat them all as sponta..."

"is something in my little universe is something a lot of people really love and it moves them they draw a lot of meaning from it and also especially in difficult times and they it gives them a comfort..."

"by the way in terms of money i'll never have a villa yeah no i will always give away everything i own don't do that no sorry uh invest into like things you like you mentioned awesome things invest fin..."

"can i talk to you about roger penrose sure you've talked to roger on the portal but also in between the lines and offline just everything you've said about roger penrose for people who don't know he j..."

"can we talk a little bit about evil sure i haven't actually talked to you about this topic and it's been sitting on my mind mostly because everybody at mit is quiet about it which is jeffrey epstein i..."

"master uh he says a couple things i'd like to bring up with you so one as part of a longer quote recommends that you should find a battle worth fighting we've talked about several battles just now wha..."

"as a small aside i think this is not the right time to take the full journey but i feel like you'll guide me like master uh did and i'm the kung fu panda at some they only have one conversation we're ..."

"on that let me with one last question bring back master oogway the probably the most famous quote of his right with the yesterday's history tomorrow's a mystery but today is a gift that is why it is c..."

"you know at the drop of a hat and i'm really grateful i think this is the end of something profound and it's the beginning of whatever is next and whatever is next could be terminal whatever's next co..."

"i mean it was a good life find the last indian jewish girl left who knew uh you're a lucky guy well let me just say actually there's something i wanted to just say before you get to that yes i forgot ..."

"version of the tango um one of the most romantic periods of my life that doesn't fall into most people's experience there was a chance to see something totally unexpected haven't really had it since b..."

"to to uh reverberate i think in the at least in the 2021s and and beyond even if it takes a brief pause we're pausing at the moment we've recorded some for future episodes and i'm recording for you i ..."

"chess board because if nobody's going to talk about jeff epstein there need to be people if nobody's going to talk about various things that we've talked about on these programs i want to make sure th..."

"um yeah i think that the the desire of the old system to defend itself uh through reputational destruction is one of the most pernicious aspects of the new america and we have to fight the ability to ..."

"first of all beautifully put second of all way to end the conversation and the disagreement which is how you hook them for the next conversation to be continued when lex says eric it's a huge honor th..."