297: Musk, Trump and the rage against free speech
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🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and we're delighted to the spike podcast I'm phrase Meyers with me this week as ever we have |
| 0:04.3 | Spikes editor Tom Slater and we're delighted to be joined by a legend of journalism |
| 0:09.5 | a the former literary and national editor of the Atlantic it's Benjamin Schwartz. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm delighted to be here spiked as one of my all-time favorite publications you're doing |
| 0:18.9 | God's work. |
| 0:19.9 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:20.9 | It's very sweet of you. |
| 0:21.9 | So we've got plenty to discuss today. We'll be talking about when |
| 0:24.0 | Donald Trump met Elon Musk, the crisis of free speech in Europe and Britain, and the |
| 0:30.9 | beatification of Comila Harris. |
| 0:33.0 | There was a huge live stream, |
| 0:38.8 | probably one of the most watched live streams ever |
| 0:40.8 | in the world took place earlier this week featuring Donald Trump and |
| 0:45.4 | Elon Musk. This kicked off quite an extraordinary reaction Ben. Do you want to talk |
| 0:51.0 | about this? Considering this was just at the end of the day a conversation |
| 0:54.4 | between you know a billionaire and a presidential candidate? |
| 0:57.1 | In a way the the American elite has been sort of for a long time torn between its desire to have |
| 1:05.8 | Tesla's and its repulsion against Elon Musk and in some ways at least in my |
| 1:11.9 | leafy liberal suburb, |
| 1:14.2 | this has been reconciled by going full, |
| 1:17.8 | full bore against Elon Musk and buying Polestars instead, which is kind of odd since it's a |
| 1:23.8 | it's really a Chinese vehicle. I would say from Trump's point of view, Trump, like |
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