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.

2020

 * 1/09/2020 - Eric hosted the first Live Portal show at The Ice House Comedy Club.
 * 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.


 * 1/20/2020 - The Unofficial Portal Discord is created.


 * 1/24/2020 - The Portal Episode 20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy is released.
 * 1/27/2020 - This wiki was born. Yay!
 * 1/31/2020 - The Portal Episode 21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart is released.
 * 02/15/2020 - The Portal Episode 22: Ben Greenfield - Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness is released.
 * 02/24/2020 - The Portal Episode 23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits is released.
 * 02/28/2020 - The Portal Episode 24: Kai Lenny - To Play and Flirt with Giants is released.