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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Hour 1 - Elon Musk’s Master Class in Trump-Style Media Relations

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Politics, Daily News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.311.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk shuts down reporter by asking for a single example of “hate speech” on Twitter. Biden takes along Hunter to Northern Ireland, a slap in the face to America. Trump shows Newsom love for praise early in covid, but all governors were praising him then. Clay embraces possible Arab and African ancestors. First GOP debate set for August. Imagine a Trump-Biden donnybrook. Alvin Bragg files suit against Congressman Jim Jordan. Succession spoiler alert!

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0:00.0

Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xt and Show podcast.

0:04.8

Welcome in Wednesday edition. Clay Travis Bucks Xt and Show appreciate all of you

0:10.8

hanging out with us as we roll into the chaos that is the modern America universe.

0:18.8

Hunter Biden hopped on a plane to go visit Ireland with his dad and absolute insult to anyone

0:26.4

out there who wonders why the FBI hasn't prosecuted him in three and a half years.

0:31.0

Elon Musk goes off on the BBC and we're going to play a cut for you on that momentarily.

0:37.6

The first Republican debate is going to be on Fox News and Rumble in Milwaukee in August.

0:43.0

Trump set down with Tucker and NPR has abandoned Twitter because they find that their feelings were

0:50.7

hurt over being branded as state-affiliated media. But Buck, you and I spend a lot of time.

0:56.5

Talking about how fundamentally dishonest much of the media is in their coverage.

1:02.0

And I'm not talking primarily when I say that about people who share their opinions.

1:06.6

Right? I'm talking about how the narrative gets set, how it all gets baked, how many people

1:14.4

out there come to believe what they believe even when there is not a substantial basis of support for

1:22.3

and I woke up this morning and I saw you looking at it watching it.

1:26.8

It certainly has gone viral in general. Elon Musk set down for an interview with the BBC

1:34.3

and there are a bunch of different angles on this story. But I wanted to hit this one in particular.

1:41.0

The BBC reporter said that Twitter was, quote, full of hateful content. We're going to play this

1:46.0

audio for you in a moment. But maybe more significant, Buck, is that Elon Musk has now cut

1:53.2

the Twitter employees from 8,000 Twitter employees, which is how many there were when he purchased

2:00.0

the company to 1500. He has cut roughly 80% of all of Twitter employees. And what's fascinating is

2:09.7

he says that on a cash flow basis, Twitter was on the way to losing $3 billion that is being

2:18.0

wildly unprofitable. And based on firing 80% roughly of all the Twitter staff, he now is set to

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