Eric Weinstein

It's incredibly bold and daring in its creativity.

It mixes irreverence and reverence like nobody's business.

It's elitist, as the day is long.

It's elitist in multiple senses, both in the landed sense, which I don't love, but it's part of your system, and in the sense of being a meritocracy.

I love the fact that when you guys can't do things initially, you do them better.

For example, you can't grow wine to save your life.

So what did you do?

You turned France into a parlor game where you could guess the vintage and...

and the Chateau, and you created French wine.

You don't think of it that way, but you did.

And then when they went to war with you and you couldn't get access to French wine, you created your own wine houses in Portugal where they didn't have any noble grapes.

So what did you do?

You created crazy numbers of minor grapes as if they were noble grapes to create port.

That's why they all have English.

I mean, just one cool thing.

Or the blues.

I'm very proud of what we did with the blues up until...

skiffle which was terrible you guys came up with skiffle and i think it's almost unlistenable i mean it produced the beatles but let's not get into that it produced a lot beyond the beatles um the aftermath of skiffle was the elevation of the blues into this unbelievable virtuosic art form we didn't know what we had and you sent it back that's what the british invasion

is in large measure the UK telling us what we had and didn't appreciate it in ourselves.

We had to send you Jimi Hendrix before we understood what he was.