I sometimes think Herzog comes across as someone who's almost surprised to still be here and he carries all the wisdom that that brings. He's definitely someone who's lived a thousand lives.
Werner has bigger balls than nearly every other director/producer in the world, only equaled by a very few other actual auteurs (of which there are maybe 20 in all of the history of cinema...writer/directors who singularly create their own bodies of work). He's a living testament to the power of having total confidence in one's convictions, and of course, he is irreproducible, a singularity, a gift to humanity.
Stephen Bove I 100% he has knowledge and so much information from many ancient cultures that his sensitivity, creativity and wisdom are far beyond anyone in Hollywood
@@tarponwranglertheangler6364 Dear sir or madam, at first I thought your screen name said, "Tampon Wrangler". I was simultaneously amused and horrified. :-)
Bret and Werner use same reading glasses, fascinating. Eric sits in complete disbelief and wonder ! German 'sensibility' is so disarming and riveting. This is a must watch.
I love how Eric is such a gracious interviewer.. He sits deeply in his chair probes and prods just sets off Cascades of stream of consciousness emerging out of Herzog all of which forms a matrix or a kind of netting he operates in. It's very sound. Explains why he's subjected himself to so much danger with decades of his hazardous filming and yet has never been really injured or hurt. There's something subtlety superhuman about him. Eric has the depth in the respect to respond orthogonally shifting and sieving the sands of Herzog's mind. Two eccentrics.
Everyone *needs* to watch Herzog's "Encounters at the End of the World". It is a documentary in the Antarctic McMurdo station concerning the human condition (in my opinion). Best doco ever made.
@@dickcancer9689 Dammit. It used to be on Netflix. That's where I saw it. Beautifully shot and looked amazing on my 65" LCD. I loved that film, as well as his cave painting and internet docs also. Why the fuck does a company with infinite storage need to remove movies from their catalog? So annoying.
Accomplished artists are often quite difficult to define. I get the feeling Werner is constantly conscious of this fact. He disagrees regardless of the proposition in order to give himself the opportunity to frame it in a surprising way, even if the answer isn't surprising at all. An intellectual sleight of hand. I think spending a lot of time with this man would be exhausting.
As someone not familiar with his film work, I didn't find him a particularly interesting speaker or thinker. I'm sure his artistic work is good and he's done amazing thing, but I didn't think his storytelling was compelling or his insights thought-provoking.
So you're basically saying he's pretentious in the event that he eludes you in what is 'often a difficult task,' 'defining people', for which purpose you invent the idea that Werner Herzog is contrary just for effect. As well as saying you say you found the statements of this accomplished artist 'surprising'(?) but dismissable as 'intellectual sleight of hand.' What is your remark if not 'intellectual sleight of hand'? Werner Herzog is not up to your standard although you can't be sure because he has somehow eluded your legendary defining ability. Hollow boasting, isn't it?
Eric Weinstein on The Portal: "We need to be able to dream again of space exploration and eternal life, and we're going to invite guests to discuss these these things." Guest on The Portal: "Yeah that's not gonna happen." XD
I'm hyped about this podcast. I have a suggestion. As viewer I was a little surprised, -annoyed and -distracted because of Eric's cellphone use when during the show. My request would be: drop the phone during the podcast.
Around 32:00 Herzog claiming that he's very prudent and considerate of others, he lists a litany of people who never got seriously injured: his actors and production people who were very close to him. Is anyone going to mention the deaths and injuries of the local indigenous people who participated in the film? It's quite egregious that he would say essentially "no one got hurt in my 70 movies", completely ignoring all the actual people who got hurt, but who happened to be not his friends or actors, when he's probably the director with whom most people got hurt in movies....
Danielius Jakutis the plural of medium in this application is “media.” Unless you are talking about mediums, as people who supposedly are able communicate with the dead.
Joe Rogan has reported that to view episode two, one must smoke 50 milligrams of dimethyltryptamine, in order to “break-through” and be visited by “machine elves” that are the gatekeepers for the second episode.
Or just check Spotify and the like, and you'll find it there, 'cause it does exist, I've listened to it, it's half an hour long and describes what the portal podcast is all about.
James Cairney if you listen to this so-called “Episode #002”, Eric Weinstein, states that “one of the producers” asked him to “come in and do an extended extemporaneous riff to say what the show is likely to be about.” Therefore, I stand by my previous statement, that this was an announcement; not a true episode of “The Portal”, where Eric Weinstein engages in stimulating conversation with a fascinating guest.
To the people who think Eric was just "on his phone" during the interview, I think you are mistaken. I saw that, too, but assumed he was just scrolling up his notes to the next question he was going to ask. I don't think Eric would actually disregard his guest as simply as you are all implying he would. "Rude" or "disengaged" are probably the last adjectives I'd use to describe the Eric Weinstein I see in his many appearances online.
I have faith, I'm sure whatever he was doing was either relevant to the conversation or so goddamn important it couldn't wait. As Eric himself says, "Never be rude on accident."
I liked the last interview. I've got a minor gripe about this one though. Let's see if anyone considers it reasonable. I think the numerous instances where Werner had to correct your assumptions about him shows you not only had a bad read on him from the start, but weren't able to adapt to the new information, at least not as quickly as your otherwise mercurial mind would typically serve you. Those assumptions were: he's a risk taker, and he's a bit mad, both aspects of him which he repeatedly denied, giving good reasons. It was a bit frustrating seeing how you didn't go with the flow but kept coming back to those erroneous assumptions.
Herzog is a contrarian. My guess is the creative part of him gives him license to be interesting by contradiction - I doubt many people come off well in interviewing him. Personally I'm ok with an interviewer not being well researched as long as their questions are interesting.
Yes at approx 37 min....Eric if you are going to insult your guest like that please at the very least keep a long shot on your guest so the audience is not aware of how big a dick you're being... just an fyi....I'm sure it was critically important but unless we understand the critical nature of it you might wanna hold off on Chess with Friends until after the interview....😋😁
Glad someone else noticed this. I was a bit disappointed, and thought it was rather risky doing that to a man who would call you out with devastating effectiveness.
Every time I think about entering the portal I imagine Shang Tsung yelling "it has begun" and then the Outworld becomes dinner with The Intellectual Dark Web and Sam Harris is wearing Mileena's outfit.
Great to see more content, I listened to episode 2 and got the chills all over. Can't wait for more, can't wait to be challenged Intellectually. :) Thanks eric
Really enjoy Eric on many levels. That is a problem of our times, prioritising. Eric broke a golden rule right there. Redemption can be earned, he has done that in the soon to follow ART OF CHARM interview. It is a must watch/listen and understand it's depth. UNITY2020
Ani Jose you can also find it on iTunes, but don’t expect it to be an actual episode. It’s merely an announcement, and should not have been designated as an episode. This is a rookie error on behalf of Eric Weinstein’s novice podcast team, however, they will likely rectify this by filming an actual podcast and designating it as episode two.
"obscuring the sky for a wide, wide area, is something that should not happen... not only a crime against the human race but a crime against creation.." exactly Mr. Herzog! Wonderful interview! (Grizzly Man is his movie I love.)
Wonderful podcast Eric, thanks for introducing me to such a wonderfully interesting filmmaker and I look forward to your continued interviews. Best of luck!
Thank you for making this content, Eric! Loved the first episode with Peter. You get straight to the good stuff with very little fluff and this is much appreciated. I'm sure this interview was a tough one to host since, although a great film maker, Herzog seems to be a terrible interviewee... either way, keep em' coming!
Werner's comments about walking coincide with an author whom I heard speak within the past few years (I wish I could remember the name of the author, as I was listening to a radio show). That is: one of the things that virtually all geniuses had in common was putting one foot in front of the other, walking, for long distances. Whether it was Aristotle, Mozart, Einstein, or any other number of intellectually amazing people, a great many of them walked. A lot.
The most important thing I learned from Werner Herzog is "the poet must not avert his eyes." I've also learned that it's not always an easy maxim to live by. Many times I've looked away when I should have stared.
Werner is much funnier than I would have thought. That accent just makes people sound so serious! He's getting more laughs from the crew than Bryan Callen did and he's an actual comedian!
Longtime personal hero. For any of you out there that would like a couple good starting Herzog films, "Fitzcarraldo" and "Aguirre the Wrath of God" are really good. Fitzcarraldo currently is available to watch for free with Amazon prime.
Eric! What the hell was so important that you would overtly use your phone while Werner Herzog explains, in a way only he could, how after reading a pamphlet at Carnac, he was driven to live like a neolithic human to prove early humans, not ancient aliens, moved and erected the monolith stones located at the site....which in turn gave him the confidence to move a 300 ton ship over a mountain. That's Herzog GOLD right there ... didn't seem your style to appear so unengaged to someone so legendary being his legendary self...so what gives?
Eric Weinstein and Werner Herzog in the same conversation. I'm not sure my puny brain is set up to handle this. Eric, if you read comments at all i want you to know that you're amazing.
Guys, Eric said that he had like a dozen of these podcasts / interviews done already, and he was experimenting with format the whole time until he found what worked well. This happened weeks or months ago by now. So just sit back and enjoy watching him figure this whole system out, it should be fun.
This is why people like Sam Harris are smart for not including video. People get way too distracted by the visuals, especially if they aren't interesting. You'll pay much closer attention and really appreciate the content more if you aren't devoting some of your brain power to watching stuff that doesn't matter.
@@Bleakr0se Ha, lol. He has a wife and kids, so it's very possible it's just family stuff. I don't think it's necessarily wrong to text here, depending on the circumstance. If it's frivolous texting, sure. But maybe it's his kid needing to be picked up somewhere. But we don't know, so why bother. It all just distracts from the content. It isn't like he's smoking a doobie with Elon Musk.
“Despair must be kept quiet” This quote gave me chills. So completely antithetical to current acceptable mainstream cultural narratives and radically individualistic.
Nowhere near enough people highlighting the importance of reading fiction and the classics as Herzog has done here. More and more find myself surrounded by people who discredit such works in favour of pure science/non-fiction reading in the blind pursuit of truth. As Herzog noted, understanding the truth doesn't necessarily mean one understands the reality of things.
That was an enjoyable episode. Herzog - for someone who relishes the tortured process of creativity, how curious his comments on David Blaine lol. Eric's reactions looool.
Eric, we need your voice today's world, so don't mind me suggesting you to take better care of your physical shape (workout, loose weight). We need you around for a long time.
Werner Herzog's movies and the man himself are a pair. The man is part of what makes the movies and vice versa. I've always identified with this guy, since I saw Grizzly Man. "Burden of Dreams" is probably what made me a devotee-- however, it's really HIM I'm most interested in. His philosophy etc.
I am watching everything at 1.5, after some times you get used to it. Would be great if we could have custom control of the speed. Something like 1.6 would be optimal.
I found myself wishing for more back and forth with E.W. Clearly a difficult task with Herzog. Possibly Eric still finding his podcast "voice" early in The Portal, and or the dynamics of an audience? Interesting content nonetheless.
