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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And I said to my dad once, I was like, maybe 10 or 11. And this is a weird thing to say to a 10 or 11-year-old. I was like, who are these people? My dad goes, these people run the world. I was just very fascinated by all these, like, People that were so different because in Long Island, where I came from, everyone was loud and, you know, fighting all the time.
And, you know, my best friend, Josh, who lived two houses down from me, his mother, Eileen, would scream at his father in the front yard. And he was like a... conductor for the railroad, and she would just go, why didn't you do it?
And then you would go to Manhattan, and a lot of these restaurants that my uncle had, you'd see these kind of quiet people, and they were all very well-dressed, and they were in suits. In Manhattan, they live in these stone townhouses like Epstein did. They live in these little mini stone townhouses. And I was just fascinated. I was like, it's very interesting. These people are interesting.
100%.
And that to me is an interesting thing. It's like, why are certain people in certain positions what role do the politicians play and what role do these really quiet rich people play that are kind of waspy and could be Jewish, could be anything. They're just kind of like, you know, they're quiet. They don't really want you to know too much about them. They really value their privacy.
So it's funny with the kids doing standup comedy to me, And even these rich people that go on these reality shows, it's interesting that it used to be sacrilegious, the idea that you would show people how much money you had or that you would talk about yourself. And a lot of that started to change. A lot of these rich people just want to be famous. It almost feels like it's the last thing left.
I totally get it. If you're a young kid, you go on YouTube, you go, I want to be David Dobrik. I don't want to be... Who's that? David Dobrik. He's like a big guy on YouTube. Oh, okay. He does... Mr. Beast? He's like a Mr. Beast type. He's not as big. Mr. Beast is like a planet.
But Dobrik's big, you know, or whoever. Like they look at these young and they entertain like younger people. He does fun videos about like, hey, whatever. I don't know that. It's always the same. It's like, what if I fill the pool with M&Ms? Whatever. It's like that type of thing. It's not like the Ukraine deep dive or whatever. It's a fun, goofy thing.
And kids look at that and go, well, that guy's making a lot of money. He has a great car. He's got a hot girlfriend. He lives in a big mansion. I want to be that guy. Of course. But I think they missed the idea that that guy works really, really hard. Right. That's the thing that I think people don't understand about these social media people.
They do have a crazy constitution in terms of how much they post, how hard they're working. Now, you might say, okay, the stuff they do is ridiculous or silly or not valuable, and I might agree on a lot of those things, but they are always putting it out.
How do you feel about – can you teach people to work hard? I'm sure you can. What do you think – because I've seen so many people that are super talented but they – for whatever reason, they're not – that muscle of working hard or the dedication to it.
That's why I thought that show Dance Moms was good, that fat woman who screamed at those kids and demanded greatness and would make them cry. I thought that was good. You never saw Dance On?
This woman, Abby Lee Miller, she screamed at these young kids, and one of them became Jojo Siwa, so it's not like there was any damage done. And, you know, I think it's good. I like to see greatness demanded of children. This lady, look at her hair. Watch this woman. Push the envelope.
By the way, I guarantee you she can get a seat at Roscoe's. Really? That's the one place she can get. If you saw her, you wouldn't sit her on Roscoe's? The first thing, I would kick someone out for her in Roscoe. But yeah, it is interesting that a lot of these kids now, they just look at... you know, the followers.
How do you feel about, you're a parent, when the Jonathan Haidt book comes out and he goes, we should get rid of phones for kids until they're 16. Does that make sense or not really? No, because then you alienate your kids.
People that give up their phones always talk about that.
It is good to detach. It is interesting. Imagine if you just didn't even engage, like didn't really look, weren't in it at all.
So you think it would be miserable to just be happy somewhere?
You have to be connected because you have to build followers to get booked now because these clubs are like, we've got to book people with followers. You're not necessarily looking at who's working hard or who's good. And I feel for a lot of younger people because they have to, you know, they have to have a social media presence early on, maybe even before they figured out what they want to say.
Maybe, you know, before they figured out how to say it the right way, they have to have this social media presence. And I think people become, and it's a dopamine hit, right? To do things. I get it. Like you get followers, you get rewarded. It's a whole system. But it also could take over your life.
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