Peter Thiel
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1,088 appearances
12 recordings
11 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 15 Jun
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economic realities that and then you're saying to these people, OK, you know, go figure it out. It's what we said to Russia. But they did. Right. They got closer to China. They got closer to Brazil. They traded with India. You know, they started an industrial economy. They started producing their own, you know, munitions and things like that. So they were able to.
kind of start to weirdly build out this middle class this was the worst i think it's the worst thing if you don't want a country to keep invading other countries you certainly wouldn't put them in the position to be stronger while they were doing it yeah it's all very weird too with like the killing of that pipeline yeah like don't aren't more people reliant now on russian energy because of that all of this seems to have had the opposite effect
All of it seems to have had the opposite. Opposite from intended effect.
We should have a day where if the Russian-Ukraine war has ended, we give all the oligarchs back their boats, and they do like a regatta, like a thing where they all, with their boats... down in Florida or Palm Beach, and they all just are reunited with their boats.
We were performing in the UK, and we took a little break to go down to France for two days. And we're walking around Monaco, and we said to the guy, there's all these yachts in Monaco, and we said...
um who owns these yachts and he goes well he goes if you look up online the names of these yachts you can trace them back to businesses and you trace that business back to a person and i said so that person owns yeah he goes no you'll never find out who owns these
Yeah, it's a show. He goes, it's very hard to find out who owns the yachts. And he goes, even if you think you know, you may not know. Or it might be more complicated than you think. There it is. There's Monaco. Wow. They like a super yacht. I mean, it's just such an interesting, just a haven of international crime.
Just something fun about it.
Yeah, this is a haven of international criminality. And look how close they park to each other. No income tax, no property tax.
And it's a small spot, too. Well, they like it like that. They keep it nice like that. Yeah.
I don't think they would have put us together. But all the tech people would have magically became Democrats again.
They are no longer good places to learn how to defend liberalism. Maybe they're good places for training conservatives. If you go to Yale Law School, if you're one of five people in the class of 170 who's still conservative at the end, you'll be pretty good at understanding what's wrong with liberalism. You'll have thought about it a lot and you'll be a more thoughtful person.
And so it will actually train you well to be a conservative. And we're right to value the small number of conservatives who come out of that gauntlet as quite talented people.
The ancien regime that is liberalism. is really exhausted. The 1990s are over. The 20th century is over. The 2020 election was not a return to normalcy, but it was, in retrospect, a last stand for the ancien regime with its very ancien president. And I think that's kind of what's over.
I talk about it all the time. But, you know, it's always talk is often a substitute for action. It's always does it lead to action or does it end up substituting for action? That's a good point. But I have endless conversations about leaving. And I moved from San Francisco to L.A. back in 2018. That felt about as big a move away as possible.
And I keep – the extreme thing I keep saying – and you're going to have to keep in mind talk is a substitute for action. The extreme thing – I keep saying is I can't decide whether to leave the state or the country. Oh, boy. If you went out of the country, where would you go? Man, it's tough to find places because, you know, there are a lot of problems in the U.S.
and most places are doing so much worse.
As fucked up as this place is. But I keep thinking I shouldn't move twice. So I should either – I can't decide whether I should move to Florida or should move to New Zealand or Costa Rica or something like that.
But can't decide between those two. So I end up stuck in California.
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