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🗓️ 29 October 2024
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Robert sits down with Noah Shachtman to discuss the life and times of Peter Thiel, the demon investor of Silicon Valley and would-be assassin of democracy.
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0:00.0 | Call's media. |
0:02.0 | What's Dick My Chaney's? |
0:08.0 | This is Behind the Bastards, a podcast where every week we talk about the great decisions being made by the Democratic Party, |
0:15.6 | which this week includes really, really burnishing their Dick Cheney credentials. |
0:20.9 | We'll see how that works out at about three weeks. With me to talk about, you know, |
0:26.2 | something related to this election is our lovely, yeah, is our lovely guest today, a |
0:32.3 | contributing writer at Rolling Stone and contributing editor at Wired, |
0:37.0 | Noah Schachtman. |
0:40.0 | Noah, welcome to the podcast program, show. |
0:43.8 | You gave this very confused look in between my first and last name. |
0:47.1 | What was I at that? |
0:48.1 | I wrote the stuff you wanted me to, |
0:51.3 | because we have a different intro for you this time I wrote it up at the |
0:54.4 | top of the piece and so the top of the piece is just the words Peter Teal because that's the |
0:59.7 | subject of our episodes so at the top of my article it says contributing |
1:03.3 | Rilingstone contributing editor at Wired Pete Tiel and I was like wait a second |
1:07.0 | what? So I had to like catch my brain and fix it in between. That's incredible. |
1:12.0 | Look I welcome my new colleague. |
1:15.0 | Yeah, Peter Teal would be a great guest on the program, but I wouldn't do Peter Teal for the |
1:19.2 | pea. |
1:20.2 | You know what, I might do Dick Cheney for the Peter Teal episode. |
1:23.0 | I thought he does me. |
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