Peter Thiel
speaker
1,088 appearances
12 recordings
11 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 15 Jun
Peter Thiel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Don't minimize that.
But we need these Houthis. It feels like we need these groups. We had ISIS. We had then ISIL. Now, you know, we had the people in Syria. I forget their names, something. But we need these little groups. And this is what we do. We just choose because all of these groups are not even they're just people hanging out. And then we give them weapons and get them going. They're just guys in a bar.
A lot of these groups are guys in a bar in Syria.
And we show up and we start arming them and giving them stuff. And it's like that Bill Hicks joke where it's like, pick up the gun. Are the Houthis an existential threat to the United States? That feels crazy.
This is the problem. We could get rid of all of these threats in five minutes. But we don't seem to want to.
No, the Houthis are good. If you're doing stand-up, you've got to go once a year. You've got to go once a year, once every 18 months. And I like the Houthis because they feel it's like a new... But they're not sticking. No one's believing it. So now they're back to Hezbollah. Hezbollah wears the fatigues. If you get up Hezbollah, they're scary looking. The Houthis are not that scary.
The Houthis look like a bunch of dudes in a bazaar, like you said, like in a flea market. They're on a boat. They're holding up guns. No one cares. Hezbollah looks genuinely like, okay, let's not fuck with these people.
They couldn't do jumping jacks. They couldn't do anything. But that's the whole thing. It's this weird global chessboard of like, you know, as someone said to me once, there's like a dial. You turn it up. You're like, more war, less war.
Cedar fever? I think you got to do cocaine. Yeah.
Yeah, maybe Zyrtec or something. That's no fun. What is it, the cedar? I don't know what it is. I think people say cedar fever.
What a great book. Well, not only the Tom O'Neill book, but then this Dave McGowan book, Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon. I lived up there when I was living in LA. I lived up there. And I'm telling you, that is the creepiest vibe of any area that I've ever been to in my life. It's a weird vibe. They have that fucking military installation, that lookout mountain. Jared Leto owns that.
Okay. He's a good guy. I'm sure he is. I'm not saying it's bad to have a cult.
I lived there for three years. I didn't get one text. I had not one. I used to drive by and point at it and go, look, it's the thing. What do they do? What does Jarrett Little's?
Just a bunch of people eating shellfish in Long Island being racist.
I have no issue with that at all.
Yeah.
Do you think – you know, I was on the All In podcast the other day, and they were talking about these chips, these NVIDIA chips, and how what's interesting is people are setting up – Because we have these export controls that don't allow us to send certain chips to China because they're able to like manipulate them and then become like the world's largest semiconductor producer.
But now all these fun fake companies are starting in like Bhutan or Cambodia and they're buying the chips or Singapore and then they all get back to China.
Whoopsies. And so they were talking about, like, is it better to send them the chips or is it better to, if you don't send them the chips, then it spurs their innovation and they make the chips?
Can there be anything done to stop their rise? Nah.
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