Decoding the Gurus

Mick West & Eric Weinstein: UFO Tango

Jul 14, 2023

02:56:35

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Episode guests

Mick West

Eric Weinstein

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Episode notes

Introduction

5min

The Culture War Storm

5min

The Disadvantages of DRSI

2min

Joel's Letter to the Overton Window

6min

Necromancers and the End of the World

5min

The Importance of Numbers in Religious Numerology

3min

The Magic Numbers

2min

The Negative 48 Number

5min

The Harms of Green Drinks

5min

10.

The Evidence of UFOs

5min

11.

The Mixed Role of Eric in the UFO Community

2min

12.

The Importance of Confusion in the UFO Case

3min

13.

The Importance of Balance in Relationships

5min

14.

The Importance of Flexing

3min

15.

The Manipulative Passive Aggression of Mick

4min

16.

The Dismissal of UFOs

3min

17.

The Importance of Indirect Evidence

3min

18.

The Problem With Indirect Evidence

2min

19.

The Importance of Hearsay

4min

20.

How to Tell a Highly Conserved Story

4min

21.

The Culture of Silence in UFO Reporting

5min

22.

The Bad Heuristics of Witnesses

2min

23.

The Role of Metaphor in Disinformation

4min

24.

The Five That Have Risen to the Top of Mick West's List

2min

25.

The Debunking Energy of Drones

3min

26.

Heterodox Guru Bingo

2min

27.

The Limits of Eyewitness Testimony

2min

28.

How to Avoid Confrontation With Eyewitnesses

5min

29.

The Role of Debunkers in the Anti-Social Negative Movement

3min

30.

The Bunker of Skepticism

5min

31.

How to Deal With Interpersonal Drama

5min

32.

Eric's Social Justice Card

5min

33.

Meck's Disingenuous Interaction With Eric

4min

34.

The Importance of Being Aware of Strange Things

4min

35.

How to Be More Charitable to People Who've Been Lied To

4min

36.

Eric's View on UFOs

2min

37.

Eric's Motivation to Believe in UFOs

2min

38.

The Einsteinian Limit on Travel

2min

39.

The Anti-Gravity Research Foundation

2min

40.

Anti-Gravity: A Head Fake?

2min

41.

The Government's Secret Projects

5min

42.

Why Do We Not Have Our Best People on This Topic?

2min

43.

The Importance of Repudiating the Stigma

5min

44.

The Discourse Rules: More Love and Understanding

3min

45.

The Future of Science

5min

46.

The Importance of Transparency

5min

47.

How to Deal With Negative Conversations

2min

48.

The Importance of Skepticism

5min

49.

The Conspiracy Hypothesizers

3min

50.

The Galaxy Green Gurus

3min

We are back with a double-bill decoding!

That's right like moths to the flame, or aliens to a Unified Geometric Field drive, we are back in Weinstein world.

This time we are looking at a conversation between the irrepressible (ex?) podcaster & mathematician, Eric Weinstein, and skeptical investigator, author, and recent guest on the show, Mick West.

The conversation here concerns the evidence for UAP/UFOs and the reaction of skeptics and advocates. It had the potential to be something forensic and transcendent but sadly it gets mired in the messy 'interpersonal drama' that Eric just hates so much and tries to avoid at all costs.

Nonetheless, there is much that can be learnt here, including: the linguistic complexities of the word 'flex', the precise levels of passive aggressiveness that a human mind can tolerate, if there is already secret anti-gravity tech, and whether our obsession with Einsteinian physics is what is stopping us from really understanding what is going on with UAPs.

We don't have answers. We are just asking questions... honest!

Also featured: a recent kerfuffle in the online psychology world over DEI statements, the numerology spectrum, the potential harms of green drinks, and much much more!

So join us, won't you, as we boldly venture through the outermost reaches of the gurusphere.

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