A Weinstein World Detour
Added 2021-05-18 21:23:07 +0000 UTCHi guys,
It's been a week so here's an update on the episode schedule.
First, we have already started recording the Jordan and Bret crossover extravaganza. And the revolutionary thinkers certainly are colliding in the night.
However... as part of the episode we made the somewhat ill advised choice to intro the episode by looking at Bret and Heather's recent vaccine hesitant/straight up anti-vaxx conspiracy laded DarkHorse content, using clips from recent episodes.
This was supposed to be a 15 minute diversion but ended up being over an hour long because... well there was a lot of ground to cover. So our current plans are to extract that segment with amended intros and outros (which we've already recorded) and release that on Friday.
Then the full length Peterson and Bret episode will drop the following week.
So this is going to be a Weinstein heavy two weeks...
Sorry about that! I know some of you love Weinstein content and some of you do not, so we will be pleasing some and disappointing others.
We do have plans to get out of the culture war weeds with the next episode after Bret and Jordan, before returning with another lefty guru.
Also covered in the episode releasing this week is feedback on the O'Fallon episode and Eric's recent tweets on aliens.
Hope you guys enjoy and thanks for the support!
Comments
Had me laughing for a minute. The reluctant way he said it, like someone made him do it.
Lukas Annerer-Walcher
2021-05-26 10:37:03 +0000 UTClol via Knowledge Fight!
Christopher Kavanagh
2021-05-26 05:49:49 +0000 UTCHere I thought that it couldn’t get any worse than Scott Adams, but at least he is honest about what he is. Could the Weinstein persecution complex get any stronger? Do they understand that the best thing that ever happened to them was getting chased out of Evergreen?
DavidtheG
2021-05-24 06:28:34 +0000 UTCAnother fun one - really helping me through this lockdown (fingers crossed) home stretch. First time I’ve heard the use of a time machine in a podcast. One quick question: are we all choosing to ignore Chris’ admission that he listens to Alex Jones “week in, week out”...?
LTO
2021-05-23 21:02:27 +0000 UTCFair points! But on 2) while I think the reality of politics always being a relevant force in science is true... we can still lament that during a pandemic, political biases are interfering with whether people will take an effective vaccine or on an unproven anti-parasite drug.
Christopher Kavanagh
2021-05-23 19:48:17 +0000 UTCGood episode. I agree that it's ok to get mad when the guru BS moves into advocating for stupidity that gets real people really killed. Also that its ok to care about science because that relates to the first point. On that, 2 things: 1) As Matt pointed out, there's a fundamental cake/eating problem with their basic gambit of... a) Trust us, we're scientists. We speak with the authority of science. b) Most of science is a bunch of corrupt sellouts, engaged in a giant conspiracy and the biggest crime against humanity, evah. You can't trust scientists! Like... pick one. A more open point - Matt (again, iirc) posed this, why is the culture war moving into domains that - apriori - would seem to have nothing to do with left/right contentions? This is an interesting one, particularly with the underlying presuppositions - 1) the culture war is a legitimate expression of the immediate stakes of the political dichotomy. 2) science is innately non-ideological and therefore an inappropriate terrain for partisan political conflicts. I don't have a definitive answer in either case. But for starters I'd say, re 1) the culture war is a proxy war, an epiphenomenon relative to the actual social antagonisms (in marxist terms, the culture war is not really the class war, even if a lot of grad students and twitterers wish it was). And re 2) - lots of other folk have written on this, but all I can say is, it seems overly simplistic
Paul Bowman
2021-05-22 22:36:24 +0000 UTCThe Weinstein’s are insufferable! That being said, I would not be opposed to you guys turning this podcast into “Decoding the Weinsteins”, a la Knowledge Fight and Alex Jones...
Kim Hendig
2021-05-22 17:59:52 +0000 UTCThat was a crazy episode, it was bad take after bad take. Looking forward to it.
MaxPlan
2021-05-20 00:06:22 +0000 UTCWhat do you think?
Christopher Kavanagh
2021-05-19 17:04:29 +0000 UTCThey have this habit of saving the last 5 minutes to reference actual research on biology and animal behaviour. They then explain (every time) that this is what they really want to focus on but instead they had to dedicate 95% of the time to culture war topics or the coronavirus vaccines or whatever. So the animal references function in a similar way, to illustrate the breadth of their biological and evolutionary knowledge.
Christopher Kavanagh
2021-05-19 10:41:27 +0000 UTCI tried to listen to the Dark Horse episode. I would drift off for a moment and they find they were comparing humans to spiders. As a mere social scientist I obviously don't have the skills and objectivity appreciate the genius of their intellectual romp.
Nina Davies
2021-05-19 07:36:35 +0000 UTCCan’t get enough Weinstein. Looking forward to both!
DavidtheG
2021-05-19 02:45:28 +0000 UTCDid they actually say that, “a silent majority …”?
Grammaticus Gore
2021-05-19 00:31:51 +0000 UTCAs always, can’t wait!
Daniel Reed Miller
2021-05-18 22:53:48 +0000 UTC
