1299 Gil Duran (Very Important Conversation)
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody. It is Wednesday afternoon, February 19, and I think there might still be time, chance, and maybe it's Dr. Strange Odds. |
| 0:12.6 | MCU universe reference anybody, but I think there's time. I think there's a chance to save our country and our children's future and our own. |
| 0:22.9 | And it comes towards the end of my conversation with Gil Duran, that hope and inspiration. |
| 0:29.7 | But this is one of the most important conversations I've had with anybody in a really long time. |
| 0:35.4 | Kind of reminds me of the canary and the coal mine that our friend epidemiologist, Dr. |
| 0:39.6 | Megan May, was for us back in December of 2019. |
| 0:43.4 | I think it was warning about the pandemic. |
| 0:46.6 | Gil Duran has been covering the tech pros and their ideas for a while for the New Republic, |
| 0:53.6 | as well as for two independent outlets that |
| 0:57.4 | he writes for the nerdrike.com and with the great linguist George Lakoff, who you're probably |
| 1:02.6 | familiar with theframelab.org. But I feel like I got ahead of the mainstream, the legacy media, the corporate media with this |
| 1:12.7 | conversation with Gil Duran. |
| 1:14.5 | I think as we talk about, they're still not on the right track, but I think they're |
| 1:19.3 | getting there. |
| 1:20.0 | And he does too, more importantly. |
| 1:22.1 | But Gil is a really interesting guy, a really smart guy. |
| 1:24.8 | And like I said, one of the most important conversations I've had in a really long time, which is why I wanted to post it up here for the podcast and on YouTube.com slash standup with Pete right away. And I hope that you'll share it everywhere. He's got a really interesting background, which we talk about at the top. But his work right now is as important as any journalists out there. |
| 1:45.3 | So I think that's all I have to say. Basically, the tech pros are now in power. |
| 1:50.0 | Peter Thiel, who made J.D. Vance, who was inspired by people like Curtis Yarvin and David |
| 1:56.7 | Sacks and Mark Andreessen. You've heard these names, but what are their ideas? We get into it. |
| 2:02.1 | It's very important. More important now than almost any other story. And we need to be talking |
| 2:08.4 | about it. I'm getting started right now. Not too little too late. I hope. Here it is. Right now, |
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