The Power Hungry Podcast: Peter Zeihan

Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist and the author of four books, including most recently, The End of the World is Just the Beginning. In this episode, Peter talks about the civil unrest – and pending demographic collapse -- in China, why “Apple has refused to see the writing on the wall” in China, Mexico as America’s most important trading partner, why he is investing in commodities, and why -- despite the unraveling now underway in many parts of the world -- he believes “the American system will thrive.” (Recorded December 2, 2022.)

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[Baasicstuff]

US Navy 20 years here my AOR was global for 15 years Peter is the only one that I can stomach listening too. He has a wonderful understanding on how all this works together

[paulschock]

I've listened to Peter Zeihan being interviewed dozens of times. You did the best job by far. I found myself wanting to ask a question, and then you asked it every time, and you did so in intelligent, yet common sense ways that made listening to this easy and incredibly informative.

You rightly praised Peter for his grasp of so much, but in Caddyshackese, you're no slouch yourself. You have a new fan.

[Chironex_Fleckeri]

Peter is extremely concise. It really isn't easy to talk about such broad topics without oversimplification. Kudos

[WhatNowChris]

I came here for Peter! I watch him religiously. Peter is incredibly accurate in an era of bs.

[matthewmaccaughey]

THIS IS Thank you so much for having Peter on Robert! I can't wait to listen to this!!!

[scottfletcher]

Dude Peter, if nothing else, is incredibly entertaining. Whether he’s half right about most things doesn’t even matter to me. He is absolutely hilarious. Love his videos.

[Guanaalex]

Peter is an absolute Genius. Thank you so much for such a high caliber premium guest. Outstanding interview.

[DiamondLil]

The End of the World is a fascinating book that provides a very lively and accessible introduction to vast array of interconnected themes. Zeihan does not provide the last word on anything, nor would he claim to, but he gives his reader a great point of departure in any number of directions.

[VMac-egfb]

This has been one of the most dynamic, comprehensive, best interviews I have experienced with Peter. I have attended more than a hundred, don't think I missed a word due to the relevance of one word to the next. Thank you Mr. Bryce. Will be tuning to your future interviews.

[esquared]

I've watched several interviews of Peter. This is by far the best. Good job!

[alansnyder]

I try to watch all of the Peter Zeihan interviews I see online and think this is a good one. I've read all of his books and do recommend them. If you can only read three chapters, I would read Chapters 6, 7, and 8 from the Absent SuperPower which was written 8 years ago.

Chapter 6 is about the current Ukraine War which is happening now.
Chapter 7 is about The (next) Gulf war which hasn't started yet.
Chapter 8 is about The Tanker war which also hasn't started yet.
In both cases, the shoes are about to drop.

[Clone]

This is the only interview of Zeihan that actually probes basics, like the size of the team behind him and his history at Stratfor. He's usually presented as some kind of one-man oracle, an image he seems to cultivate. Thanks for injecting some humility from the onset, the detour from his press kit talking points was long overdue. I like his analysis but every good guy needs a punch in the shoulder from time to time.

[AP-zyvy]

I just discovered Peter last week. Must have watched couple dozen of his interviews and speeches since. We all have a limited scope of real knowledge, and an even greater scope of beliefs where our real knowledge falls off. I noticed starting with myself, the less knowledge you have you fall back to talking about what you beleive in. And I seem to talk in simple, general terms when citing my beliefs. Whereas when I talk from my knowledge, I talk about specifics, numbers and facts. Notice our politicians more often talk in general terms...beliefs. Peter spends his words on facts, graphs, figures and in detail describes the logical connections between all these. Breath of fresh air after listening to our inept politicians for the past 40 years since I started watching the news in high school. So if this guy runs for president, I'm voting for him. He proves there are some capable Americans left.

[martinfoss]

Listened to Peter for a while. He sounds like a record.😊One of my favorites.

[RadhakrishnanMudliar]

Here for Peter Zeihan.
He makes so much sense even if he does not mention India very often.

[musimedmusi]

Great interview—Zeihan expanding on his book and filling in and updating even more details. Excellent interviewer.

[donthetrader]

This has been one of the BEST interviews I’ve ever heard….Thanks !

[giscone]

Peter Zeihan is an extraordinary speaker. As commented at around 56 minutes he is able to marshal an amazing amount of facts while speaking for extended periods. I am 75 years old and. because of eyestrain, gave up reading books and started almost exclusively listening to audiobooks. I have learned to avoid books read by the authors. They are almost always bad even when the books themselves are quite good. An example of this is Maggie Haberman's latest book on Trump. Her reading of her book is terrible, almost unlistenable in my opinion. On the opposite end of the spectrum are Douglas Adams readings of his Hitcher's Guide books, absolutely marvelous. Peter Zeihan's reading of The End of the World is Just the Beginning is in later category. It is incredibly well read, there is no feeling that he is reading from a book. One thing that I notice about Peter Zeihan is that if I close my eyes while listening to him speak I swear that he sounds just like Jon Hamm. Maybe that is just me.

[matbob]

Peter is most interesting guest in all spectrum of information. Absolutely astonishing outspokenness, I got like half the brain of modern human yet I’m able to understand more than my usual 10%

[justwhenithought]

Good interview. It's good to hear personal questions for Peter as well. No one else has done that.