by Robinson Erhardt
Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between. https://linktr.ee/robinsonerhardt
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April 13, 2025
<p>Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is Richard’s eighth appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In his last appearance, episode #243, he and Robinson discussed 2025 and the first weeks of Trump’s presidency, as well as what’s to come. More particularly, they discuss the irrelevance of Donald Trump, his domestic and global policies, China, narratives on the right and left, and the future of the United States. In this episode, they continue the discussion by diving deeper into recent events, Doge, Elon Musk, the relationship between Trump and Hitler, and important historical Marxists. Richard’s latest book is Understanding Capitalism (Democracy at Work, 2024).</p><p><br></p><p>Understanding Capitalism (Book): <a href="https://www.democracyatwork.info/understanding_capitalism" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.democracyatwork.info/understanding_capitalism</a></p><p><br></p><p>Richard’s Website: <a href="https://www.rdwolff.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.rdwolff.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>Economic Update: <a href="https://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate</a></p><p><br></p><p>OUTLINE</p><p>00:00:00 Introduction</p><p>00:01:27 What Do Trump and Hitler Have in Common?</p><p>00:09:42 Is This the Democratic Party’s Worst Crisis?</p><p>00:14:58 Is Trump’s Economic Policy a Hail Mary?</p><p>00:26:29 The Mexican Deportation Crisis</p><p>00:30:19 Global Retaliation Against American Tariffs</p><p>00:33:29 America’s Big Mistake with Russian Sanctions</p><p>00:40:50 Trump’s Big TikTok Mistake</p><p>00:47:05 How Adolf Hitler Came to Power in Germany</p><p>01:08:40 Does Elon Musk Symbolize the End of America?</p><p>01:16:07 How Bosses Lie When They Fire You</p><p>01:23:08 On Elon Musk’s Chainsaw Public Relations Disaster</p><p>01:28:52 On the Drowning American Empire</p><p>01:34:36 On Elon Musk and the Self-Destruction of Tesla</p><p>01:39:27 Feudalism, Communism, and the Death of Capitalism</p><p>01:46:22 Does China Represent a New Breed of Capitalism?</p><p>01:55:16 What Can the United States Do to Beat China?</p><p>02:03:46 What Makes Mao an Important Marxist?</p><p>02:17:56 Richard Wolff’s Mediocre Ivy League Education</p><p>02:23:59 How Mao Made the China of Today</p><p>02:40:39 The Myth of European Global Dominance</p><p>02:52:08 On Antonio Gramsci and Mussolini</p><p>02:57:03 Why Is Gramsci One of the Great Marxists?</p><p><br></p><p>Robinson’s Website: <a href="http://robinsonerhardt.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://robinsonerhardt.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University.</p>
March 30, 2025
<p>Dr. Nolan is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has published over 350 research articles and is the holder of 50 US patents, and has been honored as one of the top 25 inventors at Stanford University. He specializes in groundbreaking cancer and immunotherapy research. Yet Garry is also a world-renowned UAP investigator and Executive Director of the Board at the Sol Foundation, one of whose unofficial mottos is: Science, Policy, and Public Education for a Post-UAP World. In this episode, Robinson and Garry discuss the evidence that aliens exist and have already visited Earth. More particularly, they discuss various hypotheses about what aliens are—interdimensional travelers, visitors from other planets, Boltzmann Brains, and others—the Atacama Mummy, Garry’s own UFO encounter, the relationship between aliens and national security, the Pentagon Videos, the Fermi Paradox, and more. Keep up with Garry through X and the Sol Foundation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Garry’s X Account: <a href="https://x.com/GarryPNolan" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/GarryPNolan</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Sol Foundation: <a href="https://thesolfoundation.org/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thesolfoundation.org</a></p><p><br /></p><p>OUTLINE</p><p>00:00:00 Introduction</p><p>00:01:23 Garry’s Interest in Aliens</p><p>00:05:03 How Garry’s Medical Research Turned into Alien Investigations</p><p>00:14:44 The Alien Controversy Around the Atacama Mummy</p><p>00:24:08 What Is the Definitive Proof for Aliens?</p><p>00:29:34 What Are UAPs</p><p>00:32:46 What Are Interdimensional Aliens??</p><p>00:36:03 What Are Ultraterrestrial Aliens?</p><p>00:40:01 The Time-Traveling Alien Hypothesis</p><p>00:41:13 The Angry-Monkey Alien Hypothesis</p><p>00:43:35 The Panspermia Alien Hypothesis</p><p>00:48:20 Could Intelligent Aliens Have Come to Earth?</p><p>00:54:50 Garry’s Background in Genetics</p><p>00:57:13 Does Extraterrestrial Life Need Air and Water to Live?</p><p>01:07:16 What Is the Fermi Paradox?</p><p>01:15:56 UFOs and Government</p><p>01:22:23 Garry’s UAP Experience</p><p>01:35:27 On Telepathy and Paranormal Abilities</p><p>01:39:31 On the Credibility of Alien Witnesses</p><p>01:41:34 Does the Government Suppress UFO Reports?</p><p>01:49:11 Why Are Aerospace Companies Hiding UFO Data?</p><p>01:51:53 Does the Government Possess Alien Metals?</p><p>01:58:29 Is Knowledge of Aliens a National Security Threat?</p><p>02:02:15 On Alien Abductions and Animal Mutilations</p><p>02:06:28 The Violent Changes to Brains Exposed to UFOs</p><p>02:17:56 Garry’s Top Secret Clearance</p><p>02:19:15 The Truth About the Tic-Tac UFO Incident</p><p>02:37:25 What Is the Skywatcher UAP Contact Program?</p><p>02:46:01 The Sol Foundation</p><p>02:58:24 Why Alien Research Can Prevent Nuclear War</p><p>03:02:03 What Are Transmedium Alien UAPs?</p><p>03:04:50 Are UAPs Biological Threats?</p><p>03:06:31 On Avi Loeb’s Pioneering UAP Research</p><p>03:12:49 Is Jacques Vallee One of the Most Important Alien Researchers?</p><p>03:18:17 What Should You Tell Someone Who Doesn’t Believe in Aliens?</p><p><br /></p><p>Robinson’s Website: <a href="http://robinsonerhardt.com" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://robinsonerhardt.com</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University.</p>
March 16, 2025
<p>Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. This is Tim’s seventh appearance on the show. He last appeared on episode 237 for a masterclass on Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity, explaining it from the ground up and elucidating some common misconceptions. In this episode Tim returns for a discussion of another of Einstein’s major impacts on physics: his theory of general relativity. More particularly, Tim and Robinson discuss black holes, time, paradoxes of distance, Penrose diagrams, figures like Leonard Susskind and Richard Feynman, the curvature of space, and more. If you’re interested in the foundations of physics, then please check out the JBI, which is devoted to providing a home for research and education in this important area. Any donations are immensely helpful at this early stage in the institute’s life.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tim’s Website: <a href="http://www.tim-maudlin.site" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.tim-maudlin.site</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The John Bell Institute: <a href="https://www.johnbellinstitute.org" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.johnbellinstitute.org</a></p><p><br /></p><p>00:00:42 An Extended Prelude</p><p>00:05:08 Naming Names</p><p>00:10:02 The Difference Between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity</p><p>00:13:46 Einstein on General Relativity and Metric</p><p>00:27:21 More on Coordinates</p><p>00:40:26 A Novel Coordinate System</p><p>00:46:25 What Is Special Relativity?</p><p>00:50:30 The Conflict Between Quantum Theory and Relativity</p><p>01:02:00 Doing Physics with Geometry</p><p>01:12:38 Geometry and Special Relativity</p><p>01:30:20 More on Geometry and Relativity</p><p>01:36:19 Lorentz Frames</p><p>01:46:56 Simultaneity</p><p>02:02:03 John Bell and Special Relativity</p><p>02:11:00 Paradoxes of Distance</p><p>02:22:12 A Penrose Diagram</p><p>02:27:47 Introducing General Relativity</p><p>02:32:23 The Most Important Experiment About Gravity </p><p>02:45:52 Changing the Geometry of Spacetime</p><p>02:55:28 Curvature of Space</p><p>03:02:03 Be Careful with Diagrams in Science </p><p>03:05:45 The Basic Idea of General Relativity</p><p>03:10:23 The Equivalence Principle</p><p>03:19:40 Clocks and Gravity</p><p>03:28:09 Richard Feynman on General Relativity</p><p>03:37:00 The Cosmological Constant</p><p>03:41:56 What Are Black Holes?</p><p>03:50:45 What Steven Weinberg Got Wrong About General Relativity </p><p>04:01:01 Black Holes and the Centrifugal Force Paradox</p><p>04:06:32 Curved Black Holes and Gödel Spacetime</p><p>04:19:34 The John Bell Institute</p><p><br /></p><p>Robinson’s Website: <a href="http://robinsonerhardt.com" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://robinsonerhardt.com</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University.</p>
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