Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

a guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change me a little.

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

Welcome, welcome to Fearless with Jason Whitlock. I am Jason Whitlock your host. Happy day before Friday, happy Thursday.

The weekend is almost here. Man, for me it was a late late night last night. I was on Tim Pools, Timcast IRL.

I didn't make it home till like 10 p.m. Oh my God, that's a very late night for an old man like myself.

But I'm here refreshed and have an awesome fantastic show playing for us today. We're going to lean into a lot of our regular contributors,

our Fearless soldiers Royce White, Chimicam Michelle, TJ Mo, Dave Shannon will all be here to help me unpack a fire starter about Elon Musk and his bid to take over Twitter.

I've got an interesting spin on that. We will touch on in this fire starter, we will touch on all the major topics I think going on in culture and sports and I don't you know we're going to touch on Frank James,

we're going to touch on I think it's Patrick Lioia, the young man that was tragically shot in Grand Rapids and will be the next face of Black Lives Matter, we'll touch on Tony Dunjie, we're going to touch on a lot.

And we're going to unpack, but it's all going to fit under the Elon Musk Twitter umbrella and then we're going to have Uncle Jimmy I'm looking forward to him coming on at the end we'll do an approval rate on the Elon Musk and we will unpack with Uncle Jimmy who spent 17 years in law enforcement,

the Patrick Lioia Grand Rapids situation, Jimmy again 17 years in law enforcement will get his professional opinion that the videos out of the tragic shooting obviously you know what's our Twitter is taking, we'll have a bit of a different take I would imagine, but anyway let me start this fire without further ado Royce is waiting for me to get to him and I can't wait to get the Royce.

10 days ago when we learned that Elon Musk bought a 9% stake in Twitter, I argued that the richest man in the world could not save and or transform the toxic platform.

Perhaps I was wrong early Monday morning must post it on Twitter his SEC filing to purchase the social media apps remaining 91%.

The company private is intent is to save Twitter by making it a free speech platform again. I'm still unsure if Twitter can be saved and I'm really not all that comfortable with one man having so much influence over public discourse.

But the news of Musk 43 billion dollar takeover bid has me feeling a bit optimistic must can't make must can't make Twitter worse can he?

The platform's hostility to truth amplification of secular values and promotion of identity politics have undermined the principles that inspired American freedom and liberty. Twitter not Donald Trump the proud boys or even Tucker Carlson's brilliant monologues.

Twitter is the existential threat eroding our democracy by pushing this toward violent racial conflict.

Black Twitter the informal community of users who allegedly represent the identity of black people is the bane of American society.

Black Twitter is the online version of the Ku Klux Klan the enforcement arm of the racist democratic party political strategy that silences truth, descent and biblical values with Twitter lynch mob.

...