#2503 - Eric Weinstein
5/21/20262 hr 59 min
Eric Weinstein, PhD, is a mathematician, former managing director of Thiel Capital, and a manager of the Galileo Project research team. He is the originator of the Intellectual Dark Web and creator of Geometric Unity: a proposed geometrically unified theory of fundamental physics.www.youtube.com/@EricWeinsteinPhDwww.geometricunity.orgwww.eric-weinstein.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Visit https://squarespace.com/ROGAN to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. MANSCAPED® 15% OFF your entire order. Visit https://manscaped.com/joeroganexperience Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsJoe Rogan· Host0:01
Joe Rogan podcast, check it out The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. [upbeat music] Um, I was like, "There's only one way to do this. I have to just not drink for a while." So I took, like, eight months off, and then I had, like, a margarita at dinner once, so I was like, "Ooh, I miss this." And then I had a glass of wine here or there.
Eric Weinstein· Guest0:24
I was wondering how that was gonna hold up.
Joe Rogan· Host0:25
Yeah. It was eight, about- But, yeah, but I- but you're, you're not ca- I know that you're not captured by it. No, no, I'm not.
Eric Weinstein· Guest0:30
Neither am I, but like- It was different ... my religious observance requires it, so to speak.
Joe Rogan· Host0:34
You require abstinence or no drinking?
Eric Weinstein· Guest0:36
No, we, no, we drink.
Joe Rogan· Host0:37
What, when do you have to drink?
Eric Weinstein· Guest0:38
Shabbat, every come f- any Friday.
Joe Rogan· Host0:40
How much do you drink on Shabbat?
Eric Weinstein· Guest0:42
I probably have two and a half glasses of wine.
Joe Rogan· Host0:45
Is there, like, a number that you're supposed to hit- No, there's a communal cup that we- ... otherwise you're a bad boy?
Eric Weinstein· Guest0:48
[laughs] What? Well, that, that's Purim.
Joe Rogan· Host0:50
What is- We should get into Purim. We're getting into it.
Eric Weinstein· Guest0:53
All right.
Joe Rogan· Host0:53
Do we need glasses? You wanna have a drink?
Eric Weinstein· Guest0:55
Uh, usually I r- we- you, you and I tend to go a while, so we usually do that at the end.
Joe Rogan· Host1:00
Well, let's, let's get some ice and some gla- are we rolling already?
Jamie Vernon· Host1:03
I've been rolling, yeah.
Joe Rogan· Host1:04
Okay.
Eric Weinstein· Guest1:04
Oh, shit.
Joe Rogan· Host1:05
Let's get some... Tell Jeff to get us some ice and some glasses.
Eric Weinstein· Guest1:06
Okay, I didn't know we were- And a bottle of, uh- Yeah. I hope I didn't say anything wrong ...
Joe Rogan· Host1:09
um, Buffalo Trace.
Jamie Vernon· Host1:10
Do you wanna wait till I get back to start? 'Cause we either haven't started or we started.
Joe Rogan· Host1:15
We started. Fuck it.
Jamie Vernon· Host1:16
Oh.
Joe Rogan· Host1:17
We started. Let's just roll. Well, get Jeff to do it.
Jamie Vernon· Host1:19
I have something for your head.
Joe Rogan· Host1:21
What's that?
Eric Weinstein· Guest1:22
I don't even have headphones.
Joe Rogan· Host1:23
Are we rolling still?
Eric Weinstein· Guest1:24
Are we doing headphone shit?
Joe Rogan· Host1:25
We can. Headphones, no headphones.
Eric Weinstein· Guest1:27
You tell me.
Joe Rogan· Host1:27
I don't give a fuck.
Eric Weinstein· Guest1:28
I don't give a fuck.
Joe Rogan· Host1:28
We, we mix it up.
Eric Weinstein· Guest1:29
Okay.
Joe Rogan· Host1:29
You know?