Elon Musk and the man who wants to take on Trump
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We'll be looking at sex, lies and Downing Street later in this episode with a writer who worked in Number10 - and we'll be asking if politicians REALLY want an honest conversation about Immigration - but we begin with the newest launch failure by Elon Musk.
This one involved not a rocket but a presidential candidate - who thinks he can beat Donald Trump.
If that was ever true, it feels much more unlikely today after the campaign launch went up in flames.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | We're following some breaking news this hour. |
| 0:18.4 | SpaceX's Starship rockets suffered what the company is calling a, quote, |
| 0:21.9 | rapidly unscheduled disassembly, which means to you and me, the launch was a failure. |
| 0:26.2 | Remember that? |
| 0:27.6 | The SpaceX launch that crashed and burned. |
| 0:30.7 | Well, Elon Musk did it again last night. |
| 0:34.1 | This time, it involved a man, Ronda Santos. |
| 0:37.5 | He was going to launch his presidential campaign on Twitter. Last night. This time, it involved a man, Ronda Santis. |
| 0:42.6 | He was going to launch his presidential campaign on Twitter with Elon Musk. |
| 0:50.7 | It would be modern. It would be social media friendly. It would engage a new generation of people, maybe not that interested in politics. |
| 0:59.4 | Except, rather like SpaceX, it suffered a rapid, unscheduled disassembly. This is what it sounded like. |
| 1:04.3 | 25 minutes of pure shambles. You might not think you're interested in the latest presidential campaign hopeful, but you won't want to miss this one. |
| 1:15.9 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:20.4 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:22.7 | It's John. |
| 1:23.7 | It's Emily. |
| 1:24.6 | And later in the podcast, we're going to be hearing about the net migration |
| 1:28.2 | figures and the continual promises that they would be coming down instead of which they just |
| 1:33.2 | continue to rise and rise. But we're going to start, not with a rocket launch, but with a car crash, |
| 1:39.9 | because this was what happened to much fevered anticipation last night, |
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