Unf*cking Flashback: What’s the deal with Peter Thiel? Sociopathic billionaire man-child wants to eat the world.
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In October of 2022, we released this episode on Peter Thiel. The last line of the story is that he’s a monster. At the time, we were focused on his personal selections and funding of Congressional candidates, one of whom was none other than JD Vance. Far from his purported hillbilly roots, the country quickly came to know that JD is little more than a huckster who grew up pretty well and became a go-to hedge fund guy for Peter Thiel. Amazingly, Thiel is still on the backburner of people’s awareness and given Vance’s sudden rise to VP prominence, it’s important we continue to bring him forward.
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I’m not a doctor. But even I can certainly see that Peter Thiel is a sick, sick person. Bright, awkward and successful, Peter Thiel has risen to prominence in American society on the gamble that he can break it. The product of an elitist system who wants to take it down. A gay man who backs candidates that would degrade his civil rights. A hedge fund tech investor who thinks Silicon Valley hasn’t done anything innovative in 50 years. A Trump backer and advisor who walked away when he got what he wanted. Peter Thiel is known as a contrarian, but it may be simpler than that. He might just be a nihilistic asshole.
Chapters
2024 Update: 00:00:00
Intro: 00:01:18
Chapter One: So who the fuck is this guy? 00:05:21
Chapter Two: Where did all his money come from and can I have some? 00:14:26
Chapter Three: We’re all just pawns on Peter’s board 00:22:11
Chapter Four: Bring it home, Max. 00:33:11
Post Show Musings: 00:39:09
Outro: 00:46:56
Resources
The Atlantic: Peter Thiel Hates a Copycat
Founders Fund: Portfolio
The Intercept: How Peter Thiel’s Palantir Helped The Nsa Spy On The Whole World
The Wall Street Journal: Tech Tycoon Peter Thiel Shies From Trump Re-Election Campaign
SEC: Palantir Technologies Inc.
Cato Unbound: The Education of a Libertarian
The Intercept: The New New Right Was Forged in Greed and White Backlash
Daily Beast: Blake Masters’ Views on Gay Marriage May Surprise His Political Master Peter Thiel
Book Love
Max Chafkin: The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power
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| 0:00.0 | Hey and fuckers, it's Max. I'm still on quasi break, but I snuck into the studio to record a quick |
| 0:05.2 | introduction to this re-release. I'm a little under the weather, so I apologize for the nasally sound. |
| 0:10.8 | In October of 2022, we released this episode on Peter Thiel. The last line of the story is that |
| 0:17.2 | he's a monster. At the time, we were focused on his personal selections and funding of |
| 0:22.1 | congressional candidates, one of whom was none other than J.D. Vance. Far from his purported hillbilly |
| 0:28.0 | roots, the country has quickly come to know that J.D. is little more than a hoxter, who grew up |
| 0:33.0 | pretty well and became a go-to hedge fund guy for Peter Thiel. Amazingly, Teal is still on the backburner |
| 0:39.8 | of people's awareness, and given Vance's sudden rise to VP prominence, it's important we continue |
| 0:44.7 | to bring him forward. One note of housekeeping. I made an error in this piece that was caught |
| 0:48.9 | by an astute listener when I repeatedly refer to Stanford as an Ivy League school. It's not, but it is elite. So apologies |
| 0:56.2 | on that one. With respect to upcoming content, we have some really good stuff planned as usual. |
| 1:01.7 | And when I'm a bit more on the mend, we're planning a family meeting live stream that will give |
| 1:05.3 | plenty of notice on. By the time it happens, we'll know who Harris's VP pick is and a host of new |
| 1:10.6 | developments, presumably. But we'll work on them all together. For now, he'll know who Harris's VP pick is and a host of new developments, |
| 1:11.3 | presumably. |
| 1:12.3 | But we'll work on them all together. |
| 1:14.1 | For now, here's our episode on the monster, Peter Thiel. |
| 1:19.4 | This is the story of a political pundit who looked at the world around him and just said, |
| 1:26.2 | fuck it. |
| 1:26.8 | Gives the middle finger to authority and says, kiss my ass. |
| 1:30.7 | But instead of a revolution, he started a podcast. |
| 1:34.5 | Just what the world needs. |
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