Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. Elon Musk said what? GFY. It was a big old GFY. If you know what I'm talking about, you know what he said. If you don't know, you've got to stay tuned. Mike Benz has a response. He is knowledgeable about all things cyber, you know, online censorship, all the rest.

This guy's pretty brilliant.

You're going to want to hear it.

And you're going to want to hear Elon Musk say it.

We'll play it for you next.

It's time for the Michelle Tofoya podcast.

Let's welcome Mike Benz. You can find him at Mike Foya podcast. Let's welcome Mike Benz.

You can find him at Mike Benz, B-E-N-Z, Cyber, all one term on X, where you were last

night pontificating, just giving this great response to Elon Musk, which we'll get to

in a minute.

Mike, I want our audience to understand your background precisely from your point of view.

Because you do comment on all things cyber.

Give us a little sense of what your professional background has looked like.

Sure.

So I started off as a corporate attorney, mostly representing technology firms and finance.

And then I moved into government during the Trump administration.

I was a speech writer for Secretary Dr. Ben Carson at HUD, and I advised on economic policy there. I was called up to the White House

to be a speechwriter for President Donald Trump. And then from there, my portfolio on that,

on the comm side, was talking about foreign policy, national security and technology. And I worked

very closely with the NSC folks there, the National Security

Council folks. And I had been very attuned to issues of internet censorship for several years

before that. It had been something I was writing a book on and was doing a documentary on.

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