Hey, everybody, how's it going? Thanks for joining me this afternoon. I am Oren McIntyre.

If you didn't know, Palantir is a very interesting company. Is of course founded by Peter Thiel and

Alex Carp. Peter Thiel is well known as a really influential tech billionaire. Someone who

actually tends to lean right of center,

is often credited to some extent with the rise of people like J.D. Vance is well known as a

backer to several different initiatives, including things like napcon. And he's a guy who has

had a lot of influence across the tech sphere and across conservative politics.

It's a rare billionaire that actually spends quite a bit in the conservative arena.

However, Peter Thiel also has a lot of controversy around him.

There's a lot of questions about what Peter Thiel actually wants. What is he trying to

bring about? What is all this level of influence for? Obviously, he wants to sell a lot of the technology

he's invested in, but is he also looking to reshape the world? He's released some very interesting

talks and essays. He wrote an essay called The Strowsian moment, which maybe we'll go over one day.

And I've also been to NatCon when he was speaking. And it's very clear from Peter Thiel's

understanding in that conversation. He's talking about Cartesian dualism and how that set us

down the road we're at now. This is a guy who understands things at a relatively high level.

I don't know if I'd call him a philosopher, but this is certainly a gentleman who has

interrogated larger questions and isn't just thinking about making money.

He has wider ambitions for the way the world should look and how it's going to operate

and how we need to respond, which makes his efforts with Palantir very interesting. Palantir

is a company, which is named after the evil spyglass, you know, like that ball that, you know,

the Lord of the Rings characters look into to try to

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