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🗓️ 5 July 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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0:00.0 | Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley. |
0:17.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 368 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. |
0:24.0 | Our guest today is Ryan Holiday. |
0:26.0 | He's a media strategist whose clients have included American apparel and Google, |
0:30.0 | as well as many best-selling authors such as Tony Robbins and Tim Ferris. |
0:33.7 | He's also the author of six books, including The Obstacle is The Way and Ego is the Enemy. |
0:38.8 | And we'll be speaking with him today about his new book conspiracy, |
0:41.8 | a true story of power, sex, and a billionaire secret plot |
0:44.9 | to destroy a media empire about Hulk Hogan's lawsuit |
0:47.9 | against Gocker. |
0:49.2 | And if you're not familiar with this case, |
0:51.0 | basically what happened is that Gocker was a gossip website that was |
0:53.6 | notorious for its take-no-prisoner's attitude. After they published a sex tape of Hulk Hogan, |
0:58.9 | which had been recorded without his knowledge, Hogan sued Gocker for for invasion of privacy and 1-150 million dollar judgment that bankrupted |
1:06.1 | the company. |
1:07.1 | It later emerged that this lawsuit had been secretly funded by Silicon Valley billionaire |
1:11.2 | Peter Teal, who for years had been incensed by |
1:13.6 | Gocker's coverage of him and his associates. And I'm especially interested in |
1:17.3 | his case because both Peter Teal and Nick Denton, the founder of |
1:20.5 | Gocker, are big science fiction fans. |
1:23.1 | And it seems to me that their love of science fiction |
1:25.0 | has profoundly shaped their world views |
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