I just listened to one of my favourite podcasters interview a brilliant man, and it was awful. The podcast was:
Eric Weinstein (Ex-Harvard Physicist): The Collapse Has Already Started! Jeffrey Epstein Was A Front! On The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett.
Steven asked some great questions and Eric was intent on not answering any of them directly. In two and a half hours of constantly waiting for it to get better, the interview went nowhere.
If you asked Eric to be interviewed again with the soul intention of derailing the interview, he would be hard pressed to do a better job than this version.
It was so sad. A brilliant man on a meandering rant about how people can’t say what they want to say, and yet all he wanted to say was absolutely nothing meaningful.
That’s 2.5 hours of disappointment I can’t have back. I’ll continue to listen to the DOAC podcast, but I’m really done with trying to listen to Eric Weinstein… which is sad, because I think he has a lot of interesting things to share, but he seemed totally unwilling to do so.
Felt the exact same way, to the point I Googled “DOAC Eric Weinstein interview terrible” to see if anyone else shared this point of view.
I actually bailed on the “interview” (i.e. Eric evading every question / being difficult for whatever reason) after about 15 minutes. Just didn’t think it would end up going anywhere interesting / enlightening based on what I had heard up to that point, so thank you for confirming my suspicion.
You were smarter than me to end so early!