Summary
Why is Elon Musk taking over Twitter?
Adam is joined by Jill Lepore, presenter of the Podcast Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket, and Tim Higgins of the Wall Street Journal, to discuss the man, the myth and the $44bn deal.
Also… as the cost of living continues to rise, we get an update on our basket of goods with Fraser McKevitt at Kantar, who tells us that the price of dog food is starting to bite.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Alix Pickles, Lauren Stanley and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery and the assistant editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, there were just some Twitter exchanges that just really offered the ages. |
| 0:09.9 | Here is one from the 21st of December 2017. |
| 0:14.2 | Elon Musk I love Twitter and the reply came from Dave Smith who's co-host of the Refresh |
| 0:20.8 | podcast from Insider. |
| 0:23.0 | He replied, you should buy it then. |
| 0:25.6 | To which Elon Musk replied, how much is it? |
| 0:29.0 | One Dave's here now. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, Dave. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey, how's it going out of here? |
| 0:32.0 | So that was the 21st of December 2017 and he followed your advice. |
| 0:36.8 | Yeah, different world back then, but here we are. |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah, how does it feel to have basically potentially inspired one of the biggest business |
| 0:44.4 | deals in tech? |
| 0:46.7 | Potentially is the keyword here. |
| 0:49.0 | Very weird. |
| 0:50.0 | It feels very odd. |
| 0:51.8 | Borderlines to real. |
| 0:52.8 | Could you imagine the world where actually Elon Musk was ever going to buy Twitter? |
| 0:57.4 | Honestly, no. |
| 0:59.4 | Back then, I really meant that as an off-handed joke. |
| 1:03.3 | Like Elon Musk and I had some random Twitter exchanges talking about Monty Python and video |
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