Eric Weinstein
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No, actually, I was really trying to hook.
So he's taking notes.
Hey, guys, I got some other things to do this afternoon.
oh my god so oh jesus but yeah i wanted you know cp snow did this uh famous essay called the two cultures and it was about how um literary intellectuals and scientific intellectuals used to be one group and then they moved apart and so now we can't hear each other across the chasm
I really wanted to create a pipeline of not the seven scientists we see on all of the podcasts, but choose who you want to talk to, who's doing cool shit.
The comedians belong in our science departments.
Otherwise, how are people going to know what's going on?
There's funny shit happening.
And by the way, the UFO thing that's now blowing up, there's going to be some crazy science collision with the UFO narrative.
There's no way of stopping it at this point.
So you've turned a corner on this.
Let's talk about that because I saw you on Jesse Michaels' show and you were talking about how just a few years ago you thought that the entire narrative was complete nonsense.
Probably five, six years ago by now.