July 14- 19, 2019

After a long and unannounced hiatus, I'm resuming this series with two recommendations. The first is the pair of episodes ((pub)1 and (pub)2) of the Very Bad Wizards podcast in which the hosts (Tamler Sommers and David Pizarro) riff on two of the most popular cult movies of the last 25 years: Pulp Fiction (1994) and The Big Lebowski (1998). If you are a fan of both movies, you won't learn much, but discussions about rewatchable movies don't have to bring any novelty. The second is the first episode of (pub)The Portal, the new podcast of one of the founders of the so-called intellectual dark web, Eric Weinstein [for the Portuguese crowd, it's pronounced "uainstáin" as opposed to the "uainstiin" in Harvey Weinstein]. He has a Ph.D. in physics but did not pursue a career in academia and likes to present himself as an outsider, in a growing tension with Sean Carroll, a man from the scientific establishment  and - apparently - Weinstein's nemesis. Oddly, the anti-establishment Eric infant terrible Weinstein decided to make the first episode with... his boss. However, who would miss the opportunity to interview (pub)Peter Thiel?