Liz and Brace kick off with hunger-strike humor—"night eggs" fads and bedside lint-roller essentials—before pivoting to Palantir’s Peter Thiel in The Dork Enlightenment, teasing a deep dive into his tech empire. The episode blends absurdity (pretend-texting habits) with sharp analysis, setting up Noah Colwyn’s critique of Silicon Valley’s dystopian undercurrents. [Automatically generated summary]
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Intermittent Hunger Strike
00:02:56
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| I'm really hungry, baby, so I'm not going to be funny for this. | |
| You know what? | |
| I'm hungry too. | |
| Yeah, I'm on strike. | |
| What should I eat? | |
| Are you on hunger strike? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, so listen, if you can be like, I know I've talked about this on the show before, but this is a good thing. | |
| Are you doing your intermittent fasting bit? | |
| If you can do the fucking, if you can call just not eating breakfast intermittent fasting, then I get to call me being hungry and being grumpy intermittent hunger strike. | |
| The same lie. | |
| So it's just like you're going on strike for periods and then you're breaking strike and then you're going. | |
| Exactly. | |
| So you call it in the morning, you have break strike. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Yeah, exactly. | |
| I cross the picket line to my kitchen and eat several hard-boiled eggs that I've made throughout. | |
| At the beginning of the month, I boil about 300 eggs. | |
| And then I kind of just keep them around my kitchen like Easter eggs. | |
| Like I remember salt jar. | |
| Wait, do you remember the thing about night eggs? | |
| No, what? | |
| No. | |
| What? | |
| Wait. | |
| Was it a tweet or a piece? | |
| I can't remember if it was a tweet or like, or like an article or something. | |
| Let me know. | |
| It's like women have been laying eggs in the night now. | |
| No, no. | |
| It was, it's gross, sir. | |
| It was like some woman was saying that she kept, she got hungry in the middle of the night and she kept peeled hard-boiled eggs next to her bed and she would eat them and she called it night eggs. | |
| Jesus. | |
| Most women I found just keep Italo Calvino books, a lamp, and some like crystals next to their bed. | |
| This is, this is, I don't know if this is an evolution or a devolution. | |
| You want to know what I got on my bedside table right now? | |
| I got a magazine. | |
| I got a lint roller and I got a some Neosporin. | |
| I keep them there at all times. | |
| Sounds lovely. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, I gotta, it's the, yeah. | |
| It's, it's, I found that it's a real show of dominance when you have, when you have not being funny anymore. | |
| You're too hungry to be funny. | |
| I'm too hungry. | |
| I can't do it anymore. | |
| You know what? | |
| Cue the intro, all right. | |
| So I ate some more of my pubic hair and I am now full and i'm ready to do the actual intro now. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, hello, everyone. | |
| That was disgusting. | |
| I'm Liz. | |
| I thought it was pretty good. | |
| I'm Brace and we are joined by producer Young Chomsky. | |
| This is the podcast Truan On podcast available on Apple, iTunes, podcast apps. | |
| Also Stitcher. | |
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Why Another App?
00:02:02
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| Why do people use different ones? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I just use the one that comes with. | |
| Me too. | |
| It's like when you see somebody has exactly, you see somebody's got like another like internet thing on their phone. | |
| It's like, what? | |
| How did you do that? | |
| Also, it's not even how did you do it. | |
| It's like, were you that bothered? | |
| What's wrong with the one that comes with? | |
| Just go with the... | |
| What? | |
| You care that much about your applications? | |
| How many podcasts are you listening to? | |
| Well, I shouldn't ask that. | |
| What are you doing on your phone? | |
| What's going on there? | |
| You know what I do? | |
| Is I what I do is if someone's texting me, I go into there and I type a bunch of stuff so it looks like I'm texting them back and then I don't send it. | |
| So they're like, what was he going to say? | |
| That's so awful. | |
| Yeah, people love that one. | |
| Or I say hold up. | |
| You really are Dennis the Menace. | |
| If you search my phone for hold up, there are thousands of people that I've just ended conversation with. | |
| You fucking said that to me, you asshole. | |
| Well, yeah, I know. | |
| I actually do. | |
| Well, because I can text for like five minutes and I have to do something now. | |
| I don't understand how text is supposed to work. | |
| Because if you're texting, you have to look at your phone the whole time. | |
| But if like, if I'm having like a conversation with someone over text, then I have to look at my phone for like 30 minutes. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Straight. | |
| Yeah. | |
| People like looking at their phones. | |
| I just assumed you had like another way to do that. | |
| No. | |
| Okay. | |
| So last week we talked about Palantir with Noah Colwyn. | |
| And if you got to the end of the episode, you realized that we had more to talk about. | |
| And so welcome. | |
| That's this episode. | |
| We are calling this the dork enlightenment. | |
| Apparently that, yeah, that's what we're calling it. | |
| And Noah Colwyn is back to talk about the man, the myth, the legend, Peter Thiel. | |
| So let me do it this time. | |
| So let's just, let's just start it right here. | |
| You like that? | |
| Yeah, let's get to it. | |
| What? | |
| What? | |
| No! | |
| No! | |
| Hold on! | |
| No! | |