Portal:History of the Portal

The intention of this page is to consolidate a list of important events surrounding the Portal, the associated Discord server and this wiki.

Categories

 * Blue: Events related to the podcast, "The Portal".


 * Green: Events related to "The Portal - Unofficial Discord"


 * Red: Real world events related to the Portal.

2019

 * 6/24/2019 - "The Portal" podcast is launched on iTunes, Spotify, and several other podcasts.


 * 7/17/2019 - The Portal Episode 01: Peter Thiel is released.


 * 7/19/2019 - The Portal Episode 02: What Is The Portal? is released.


 * 7/25/2019 - The Portal Episode 03: Werner Herzog is released.


 * 8/20/2019 - The Portal Episode 04: The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception is released.


 * 8/30/2019 - The Portal Episode 05: “So a Rabbi and an atheist walk into a podcast...” is released.


 * 9/7/2019 - The Portal Episode 06: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual is released.


 * 9/29/2019 - The Portal Episode 07: Bret Easton Ellis - The Dark Laureate of Generation X is released.


 * 10/2/2019 - The Portal Episode 08: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate The Media Wants You To Ignore is released.


 * 10/30/2019 - The Portal Episode 09: Andrew Yang - Bryan Callen - Cracking Wise is released.


 * 10/31/2019 - The Portal Episode 10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree is released.


 * 11/15/2019 - The Portal Episode 11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends is released.


 * 11/21/2019 - The Portal Episode 12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine is released.


 * 11/23/2019 - The Portal Episode 13: Garry Kasparov - Avoiding Zugzwang in AI and Politics is released.


 * 11/30/2019 - The Portal Episode 14: London Tsai - The Reclusive Dean of The New Escherians is released.


 * 12/6/2019 - The Portal Episode 15: Garrett Lisi - My Arch-nemesis, Myself is released.


 * 12/16/2019 - The Portal Episode 16: Tyler Cowen - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized is released.


 * 12/20/2019 - The Portal Episode 17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique” is released.


 * 1/15/2020 - The Portal Episode 18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal & Chapter 2020 is released.


 * 1/17/2020 - The Portal Episode 19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC is released.


 * 1/24/2020 - The Portal Episode 20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy is released.


 * 1/31/2020 - The Portal Episode 21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart is released.

2020

 * 1/27/2020 - Eric Weinstein creates a "women-of-the-portal" channel on the Discord channel with the intent of addressing why disproportionately few women are currently involved with the project: "Don't know how to solve the problem or even if there is one. Maybe there isn't!" Both the existence of this channel and its nature and purpose are much debated over the next few days.


 * 2/5/2020 - Several channels on the Discord server are marked to-be-deleted, including the 'women-of-the-portal' channel, which was deemed not to have worked out.