Peter Thiel praised Nashville on Joe Rogan's podcast

1. His starting point was cities in states with no income tax. Thiel said he likes Texas as a state but is not that big a fan of Austin, Dallas or Houston.

• He said Houston is good if you're in the oil business, but otherwise not so much. Dallas has an inferiority complex to New York and Los Angeles, according to Thiel.
• "Austin is a government town and a college town and a wannabe hipster San Francisco town. So in my book, three strikes and you're out."

What he's saying: "I think Nashville is sort of its own real place," he said. "From fifth grade onward since '77, I lived in California. So I'm just a sucker for the weather."

• "Nashville's great. I could live in Nashville, no problem," Rogan responded.