Welcome listener to premium chapter 220 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the Palantir

to the Moon episode.

As always we are your host Julian Field, and Travis Vue.

Hello friends, today we are going to be diving into a melted reddit community of

stockpumpers and meme makers obsessed with a very specific company known as Palantir.

Now as some of you may already know, the word Palantir and its plural Palantiri comes from

the Lord of the Rings, in which it refers to a set of stones used to spy on others from

afar, see into the past or future, and even engage in manipulation and propaganda on

a mass scale.

As Gandalf the Wizard once said, a Palantir is a dangerous tool, Saruman.

Yep, it's sad.

So what kind of creep would name his company something so simultaneously nerdy and evil?

Well, no surprise here, it was friend of the show, billionaire, venture capitalist, and

right-wing power broker Peter Teal, who we previously covered in the premium episode

151.

Since it's founding in 2003, Palantir has come to be associated with a variety of dystopian

horrors, mass surveillance, drone assassinations, and the tracking and targeting of immigrants

among them.

So, in this episode we'll be briefly exploring the history of Palantir before jumping

into the online community getting carried away with PLTR, it's publicly traded stock,

with the help of our guest reporter Katie Natopoulos, who recently wrote an article for

Fast Company entitled, How Palantir's Stock Developed a Weird, Passionate, Mean Crazy

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