Peter and the Antichrist, Chapter One: "It's the End of the World, As We Know It."
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Amid the rarefied air of tech billionaires, Peter Thiel carves a larger-than-life figure in the modern world. To some, he's a philosopher king. To others, a supervillain. One thing's for sure: pretty much everyone is baffled by his continual rhetoric about the 'antichrist' -- so, what exactly does he mean? In the first part of this two-part series, Ben, Matt and Noel dive into the deep, Biblical waters surrounding a man who, according to critics, seeks to upend democracy as we know it.
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.5 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:12.0 | A production of IHeartRadie. Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:27.2 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:28.2 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:29.3 | They call me, Ben. |
| 0:30.7 | We're joined with our guest super producer, Max the Freight Train Williams. |
| 0:35.0 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:37.2 | You are here. That makes this |
| 0:39.4 | the stuff they don't want you to know. And friends and neighbors, children and olds alike, |
| 0:47.2 | who doesn't love progress? You guys like progress? Sure. Yeah. I think so. I think that's why |
| 0:53.8 | I like video games so much because that perception that you're making progress either in a character or in a world. Game-fied progress where you're actually just sitting in the same place the whole time. I love it. True story, you guys. I'm sure this has happened to a lot of us in the crowd tonight, but I was playing a game called Ghost of Yotai, which is... |
| 1:13.6 | Know it? Good. |
| 1:14.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.7 | People love it. |
| 1:15.9 | A descendant of Ghost of Sushima. |
| 1:18.1 | And I reached a moment where playing the game was just soothing to me, especially on mute as I was doing QA's for various shows. |
| 1:28.2 | And I realized I was dragging my feet at the game because when it was over, |
| 1:33.3 | my sense of progress would be done. |
| 1:35.7 | I would leave that universe. |
| 1:37.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.7 | I'll tell you. |
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