How Thiel, Musk, and Other Tech Billionaires Bought the Liberal Media / Eoin Higgins

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Journalist and historian Eoin Higgins, author of the new book, "Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Eoin's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	I'm gonna
0:02.0	Yeah You're welcome
0:23.6	You're welcome, Neil. This is hell. This is hell.
0:39.3	The old world is dying and the new and the new world struggles to be born.
0:58.8	Now is the time of monsters.
1:01.5	This is hell.
1:03.4	And the monsters we will be talking about today are the tech billionaires who are currently
1:07.2	infesting the United States government and have been welcomed by the Trump administration.
1:11.2	Don't get me wrong, they were also invited by the Obama and then Biden administrations as well.
1:16.5	But there's more to the Silicon Valley disruption and corruption currently taking place to force the U.S. to be far more far right wing. It's not just tech billionaires like
1:31.5	Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Mark Andreessen. It's the members of the media that they have bought
1:38.1	and now own and the media ecosystem they are creating by silencing any alternative to their techno feudalism, as so many
1:46.2	are calling it.
1:47.9	One of the places that is not calling it, techno feudalism, is Google's AI, which when I typed
1:53.5	in techno feudalism, its suggestion for the actual word was techno-sexualism.
2:00.6	Huh. Huh.
2:01.0	Huh.
2:01.9	Something I've never heard of.
2:04.0	There's got to be something in the middle of that Venn diagram.
2:06.6	Yeah.
2:07.1	Yeah, the word techno.
2:09.9	The thing I don't get is what the hell is going on with Google AI?
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