From the podcast (typed by ear by me):
Burja: By the late 19th century it was rare for someone to be doing science outside of a universities uh context.
Landau-Taylor: Right, and like Einstein was. And the universities could still get the science from him, but that was like unusual and surprising in his day. And today I don’t think they could accept the contributions from an Einstein who was outside of the system at all.
Burja: So if a patent clerk today actually came up with better theory of gravity, they probably would not recognize it.
Landau-Taylor: Yeah, like they’d publish on weird blogs and like after four years some guy with a phd would rewrite the thing and then they could take it seriously.
So that’s the Man-German story.
Then he brings up Guzey’s refutation of Why We Sleep as an example.