Part Three: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy
Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 15.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 98 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Robert tells Noah how Peter Thiel went to war against Gawker and also completely whiffed on profiting from the 2008 financial crash. Bonus: how Palantir enabled a bunch of creepy corporate security types to stalk their girlfriends, each other.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Cool Zone Media. |
| 0:04.7 | What's dying in darkness? |
| 0:07.4 | My Democracy? |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Robert Evans, host of Behind the Bastards. |
| 0:11.3 | We're coming on, recording this the day that the Washington Post is getting attacked |
| 0:15.2 | online for not endorsing anybody in the election, which I'm grateful for because it means that no one has |
| 0:21.7 | noticed that Cool Zone has also not put in our endorsement for the 2024 election, which is |
| 0:28.1 | really good, because every year, you know, we advise people to vote for the same man, Richard |
| 0:34.3 | Milhouse Nixon. Now, to talk about our greatest president, and I think our greatest future president, Noah Shackman, Noah, how are you feeling? |
| 0:44.3 | Do you think Nixon's got it this year? |
| 0:45.8 | You think he's going to pull out a win? |
| 0:48.4 | I thought you were saying I was your greatest future president. |
| 0:52.8 | You could be. |
| 0:53.7 | You could be. You could be. |
| 0:54.3 | But you need to be a little more Nixonian, you know? |
| 0:57.3 | Right. |
| 0:58.0 | Have you considered trying to destroy the world while drunk and only Henry Kissinger |
| 1:02.1 | being the one that can stop you? |
| 1:07.8 | No, I haven't. |
| 1:09.3 | So I guess I'm not qualified. Bummer. That is a bummer. Noah, you haven't. So I guess I'm not qualified. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.3 | Bummer. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.