DEEP DIVE: PETER THEIL’S SUPERVILLAIN LIST

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.5 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We’ve got two very important topics to talk to you about today. One, hackers revealed Peter Theil’s “list”, aka the people who meet up in black cloaks at 3am and chat about how they’re gonna make money while they ruin the world. And second, Alexis is officially an author! We talk about her latest trip to NYC for Rex Heuermann’s sentencing and what we can expect with Between the Devil and the Tide. 🎟 Catch up to FOUR bonus episodes per month plus full video episodes over on Patreon: patreon.com/thefirstdegree 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/thefirstdegree 🕺 TikTok: tiktok.com/@thefirstdegreee 👤 Facebook: facebook.com/thefirstdegree 📓 Substack: http://thefirstdegree.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:32.9	Welcome to the deep dive. The difference between a conspiracy and the truth is six months.
1:44.0	It's me, Jack. I'm here with Alex. It's another Thursday. Shit just keeps getting crazier, wilder. The conspiracies are all turning true. It's just another day in paradise. Yeah, especially in
1:46.1	L.A. where this warehouse fire has been burning for like a week. Wait, tell me about this.
1:52.2	Apparently, so in Boyle Heights, and this is, I bring this up because there's a big conspiracy theory
1:56.3	surrounding it. Oh, I don't even know about this. Yeah, there's this crazy fire that's been
2:00.7	burning for, I guess, like know about this. Yeah, there's this crazy fire that's been burning
2:01.0	for, I guess, like a week now in a warehouse downtown in Boyle Heights, and no one can put it out.
2:07.2	It's 11 acres big. What? And everyone's saying there's like a weird Karen Bass conspiracy that, like,
2:13.3	there's fires popping up all over. It's hard to know what's going on over here in L.A.
2:19.1	Yes, it definitely is hard to know what's going on in L.A.
2:22.1	But what was at the warehouse?
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