Peter Thiel
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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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But, you know, isn't Isn't the other really big thing he needs to box Melinda in and force her not to get that much out? Because all the money is going to the foundation anyway. Melinda has to say, you know, I want – why do you want half the money? It's all going to the Gates Foundation anyway. We're not leaving our kids anything. And then when you lean into COVID –
How does that work in the – it's somehow – in theory, Melinda has a really strong hand. She should get half. That's what you get in a divorce with no prenuptial. But then if you make it go overdrive on COVID, Melinda, are you a – I don't know – are you like some crazy anti-science person?
And so, I don't know, my reconstruction is that you should not underestimate how much of it was, you know, About just controlling his ex-wife and not about controlling the whole society.
They can both be correct. Sure. There's many factors. But mine lines up really well with the timeline.
Really? Interesting. And she should have gotten half. It's amazing he got it down that much. Wow. Interesting. But I think she was just boxed in. Every time he went on TV talking about COVID, she was boxed in with all of her left-wing friends.
Probably should have had a prenup, but yeah.
Was he having extramarital affairs through Epstein or maybe Epstein was – from Melinda's point of view, would it be worse for Epstein to facilitate an extramarital affair or would it be worse for Epstein to be advising Gates on how to ditch Melinda without giving her any money?
And I think... How'd you get introduced? It was Reid Hoffman in Silicon Valley introduced us in 2014. But it was basically... And, you know, Chuck didn't ask enough questions about it. But I think there were sort of a lot of things where it was fraudulent. I do think Epstein knew a lot about taxes.
And there were probably these complicated ways you could structure a nonprofit organization, especially in a marital context that I think Epstein might have known a decent amount about. How – when you were introduced to him? I don't think Epstein would have been able to comment on super string theory or something like that.
But I think this sort of thing he might have actually been pretty expert on.
He was described as one of the smartest tax people in the world.
And I probably—it probably was my moral weakness that I— Well, how could you have known back then?
No, this was 2014. It was post-arrest. Oh, so his arrest was the first arrest, right? Yeah.
Okay. And so... But, you know, you assume he didn't go to jail for that long. Right. It was probably not as serious as alleged. There certainly was the illusion that there were all these other people that I trusted. Reed, who introduced us, was, you know, he started LinkedIn. He was, you know, maybe too focused on business networking. Right. But I thought he always had good judgment in people.
I've thought a lot about it as a result, yeah.
Well, I think it was – I think a lot of it was this strange commentary on – You know, there was some secret club, secret society you could be part of. Right.
Again, that wasn't explicit, but that was the vague vibe of the whole thing.
Yeah, I think there were probably different things that were pitched for different people. Sure. You know, I was pitched on the taxes. I think, you know, there were probably other people that were, you know, more prone to the, you know, the social club part. And then there were probably people – yeah, and there was probably – A fairly limited group where it was, yeah, off the charts bad stuff.
And we still don't have it on the Kennedy assassination. That's crazy. JFK.
I haven't studied that one that carefully, but isn't. You know, there are all these alternate conspiracy theories on who killed JFK. It's, you know, the CIA and the mafia and the Russians and the Cubans. And, you know, there's an LBJ version since he's the one who benefited. So all these happen in Texas. And you have all these alternate theories.
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