Episode Transcript: #1022 - Eric Weinstein
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Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Boom. Yes? We're live. Hello, Eric.
Hello, Joe. Thanks for doing this, man.
Jamie had a question. You're not related to that other fellow,
the other Weinstein fellow that's in trouble right now?
Brett Weinstein? No, that's your brother. The other guy.
Oh, Weinstein? The other guy. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know him. Okay. The other guy's in trouble.
Okay.
Two more women, Angelina and Joe Lee, and they both came out today.
Yeah, I don't think it's going to stop there.
Seems like you might have had a little bit of an issue.
Isn't it amazing that someone can get away with something like that for so long,
and then one or two people come clean and then the walls come down?
The oppressive fist of just his fucking tyranny, whatever that guy did.
Yeah, I mean, I think it does speak to the idea that power really exists in an industry in a town like this.
Well, it's always been the, that's been the cliche, right? The casting couch, right?
Yes, but I didn't know in the modern era how much power anyone still had.
Yeah, I wonder, you know, it's just, and it's also like super left-wing guy, you know,
like really politically connected to social justice ideologies, fighting gun control,
I mean, you know, promoting gun control and stumping for Hillary and all this.