Certain People Just Shouldn’t Go on Podcasts

Certain People Just Shouldn’t Go on Podcasts

Hi,

This is Dr. Weinstein. I was a guest on your podcast last week. Who can I speak to about getting the title of my episode changed?

The reason I ask, primarily, is because I do not believe “How PORN Destroyed this MATHEMATICIAN’S entire LIFE” is an accurate description of our conversation, and perhaps even betrays some of the vulnerability I displayed, at your encouragement, on a topic you relentlessly steered the conversation towards. 

As you know, I was not enthusiastic about appearing on your program in the first place. I didn’t understand how promoting my new book about the history of applied mathematics would resonate with your audience of young males looking for sports gambling advice. But, you assured me we would “be keeping it loose.” I admit, I had a wonderful time. So much so that I opened up about a short and defined period of my life where I indulged in healthy, normal, behavior for a teenage boy, after which I found my true vice: Mathematics, and the history of it. If anything destroyed my life it wasn’t pornography, but the Agamemnon Equation that drove me to the brink of madness, inebriated on the very possible– perhaps provable!– proposal that all non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function have a real part equal to 1/2. 

I noticed you left that portion of the conversation out. You did, however, manage to leave in my offhanded remark about Muslims. 

I was told by your producer that titles cannot be updated once they’re published, but I find it difficult to believe. The first title you used, “The Possibility of INFINITUDE with a NOBEL PRIZE Winner, HUSBAND, and FATHER of Six,” seems to have indeed been edited once the views stalled at 48. Now, 3.5 million views later, my colleagues and family have some questions I’m having difficulty answering. I was told that a Nobel Prize winner has never been officially condemned before, but the committee is meeting in Stockholm to discuss their options.

Despite how lovely and free ranging our conversation was, I’d really like to keep my Nobel. And although Bari Weiss offered me a column in The Free Press, I’m not confident she can provide the same stability as tenure at MIT and the annual stipend from the MacArthur people. (That being said, Bari and everyone she works with are lovely and independent-minded people who are committed to real journalism in an age of censorship in a deeply divided country).

If you don’t respond within 24-hours, I’ll be forced to review the YouTube video with thumbs down. I don’t want to have to do that, but I might. 

Anyway, please let me know.

All the best,

Dr. Weinstein

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