What does Eric Weinstein do? He rambles about every subject, positing awkward contrarian points of view, mixing in politics, physics (not just any physics but "

What does Eric Weinstein do? He rambles about every subject, positing awkward contrarian points of view, mixing in politics, physics (not just any physics but "theory of everything" physics), mathematics, Jeffery Epstein, BLM, beefs about higher education (specifically Harvard)-- ALL within the same long discussions/monologues. Does that mean he's a crackpot? Well, he's definitely an outsider. He tends towards obfuscation and using turgid, roundabout rhetoric to say simple things. He will also sometimes throw out PHD level arcane mathematics vocab when he's talking to a general audience without trying to explain what he's actually saying. He devises acronyms like "DISC" and just uses them like everyone already knows what they mean. The thing I simply don't understand is how come he can get so much exposure? He was on Lex Fridman twice (maybe 3 times?), Joe Rogan, and has had relatively healthy traffic on his podcast. The backstory is he cofounded something called the "intellectual dark web". Looking closer that just appears to be a loose coalition of vaguely libertarian folks that are neither intellectual, nor "dark" (they all have high profiles and don't have secret identities), nor really "a web" because its a relatively small number of people. What has he _actually_ done? He's PHD from Harvard, so certainly he's smart. He's been working a day-job as a managing director for a Peter Theil money thing, so he's probably wealthy. Other than that, he appears to be a good cocktail party conversationalist, with probably more people laughing at him than with him (the guy is utterly humorless). Does that make him a crackpot? He's not worthy of the attention he gets, IMHO, and that makes the question moot.