Sep 25, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min · 15 segments
Recorded live Friday September 25, 2026 Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis break down a brutal week for the free press. Axel Springer chief Matthias Döpfner publicly honored Trump…
Julie RoginskyHost
Jeff JarvisHost
Michelle KinneyHostTonight, I have the pleasure to introduce a man whose life and whose character embodies what I think of as the quintessential American spirit.
Heretical, driven, audacious, pioneering, innovative, entrepreneurial, original, eccentric, and above all, ferociously independent.
And that, of course, is Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel is many things.
He is a center of gravity in Silicon Valley, a vanguard of the counter elite.
He's a man whose name itself has become a Rorschach test the world over, including judging from the protests down the street here in Berlin.
But above all, I would say Peter Thiel is free.
The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd once called Thiel a walking oxymoron.
And in a certain light, it can certainly appear that way.
Is he a traditionalist or a transhumanist?
So let me just, before we get to the substance of what she said, the beauty of Barry White is that she's never met a billionaire she hasn't sucked up to for her next job.
And
clearly she is... hedging her bets that if for whatever reason that listens get rid of her, and there's a small possibility they might, um, that this is her next gig that she's going to somehow have Peter Thiel fund.
Tonight, I have the pleasure to introduce a man whose life and whose character embodies what I think of as the quintessential American spirit.
Heretical, driven, audacious, pioneering, innovative, entrepreneurial, original, eccentric, and above all, ferociously independent.
And that, of course, is Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel is many things.
He is a center of gravity in Silicon Valley, a vanguard of the counter elite.
He's a man whose name itself has become a Rorschach test the world over, including judging from the protests down the street here in Berlin.
But above all, I would say Peter Thiel is free.
The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd once called Thiel a walking oxymoron.
And in a certain light, it can certainly appear that way.
Is he a traditionalist or a transhumanist?
So let me just, before we get to the substance of what she said, the beauty of Barry White is that she's never met a billionaire she hasn't sucked up to for her next job.
And
clearly she is... hedging her bets that if for whatever reason that listens get rid of her, and there's a small possibility they might, um, that this is her next gig that she's going to somehow have Peter Thiel fund.
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