Gurometer: Peter Thiel *Patreon Preview"

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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'Tis a New Year (sort of), and amidst all the chaos in the world, we thought we'd offer a small glimmer of light by making this Patreon episode available to everyone! If you enjoy it, consider joining us on Patreon—or not, it's your call!

In this episode, Matt and Chris scry through the portents and ponder the apocalyptic insights of the tech and finance titan Peter Thiel. We all know that Thiel is an urbane gentleman of great refinement with a collection of revolutionary ideas but does he make the Gurometer sing? Tune in to find out—and, as a bonus, learn more than you ever wanted to know about the intricacies of academic grading systems.

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0:00.0	I'm joining me today on the coding the gurus we have a man an arbeian man a spectacular man
0:32.3	someone of great learning inside with a man who has revolutionized several fields that he's been
0:39.5	involved with and today he will be discussing with us apocalyptic figures and prophecies from
0:45.7	the Bible. Matthew Brown, welcome. Welcome to Decoding the Guru's Gerometer edition.
0:52.7	Thank you. Thank you, Chris. Clearly you're familiar with my work.
0:56.9	I'm glad about that.
0:59.1	Yeah, I'm happy to be here.
1:01.6	Happy to dispense my wisdom.
1:03.7	I've got so much wisdom accrued from the school of hard knocks throughout my life.
1:09.1	You were, I feel too coherent and not enough halting there to Ipe, Peter Thiel.
1:17.6	There should have been more, well, the thing is that, yeah, the Bible.
1:24.8	Well, actually, we've got to go back to some guy you've never heard of.
1:27.7	I've got to talk about him first.
1:29.5	Why is no one talking about this, Matt?
1:30.8	Why is no one talking about this?
1:33.3	There's no one talking about it.
1:35.4	Yeah, we did Peter Thiel.
1:37.4	Peter Thiel, how can a man be so inarticulate and yet also such a blathering mess. He should at least have the decency to be
1:45.7	eloquent like a Jordan Peterson or even a Weinstein. I'll hand it to them. I do feel that it was
1:52.3	right to do him and Curtis Irvin as a package deal because they are essentially mirror images
1:59.8	of each other, right?
2:01.2	Like, some of them have distributed their ability points in slightly different stacks,
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