I'm Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Brightport News, and this is the Brightport News Daily podcast.

Today we begin the show with the breakdown of Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter and some other media news, including CNN's pathetic ratings, despite the fact that we're only two weeks from an election.

And then we get into all of the latest political updates, which you won't want to miss.

It does feel is that the red wave is upon us.

Very exciting times. And I think, uh, the opening will get you jacked up.

We have two guests today, Ken Fock, who is the founder and CEO of Boulder Crest Foundation.

He's a 21 year combat veteran of the U.S. Navy explosive ordinanceive Ordinance Disposal Division, which is amazing stuff,

really brave guy. He's getting an unbelievable story, but he also does work on behalf of people

who really need it, first responders, particularly those who've gone through a trauma. And it's an

inspirational conversation, definitely one of my favorites of the year.

And then we speak to Robert Cahaley, senior strategist and pollster of the Trafalgar group,

which might be the best pollsters around. Sounds like a good show to me. Let's get into it.

Music I'm going to do something that I am not done in many shows, which is I'm going to start with a non-political story, though in a way, just like everything else, is wildly political in some ways, which is that Elon Musk has now owns Twitter.

So this is very significant for journalists in particular,

journalists as you know, that is their favorite of the social media platforms and all of them

are repulsive to one degree or another, but for whatever reason, Twitter is the one where

most of the journalists have

congregated left, right, or center, and it has been under attack from these anti-free speech

woke mob, and they had control. And they had control officially until yesterday. And let's see

if they're able to retain control. Elon Musk famously bid for Twitter in what

appeared to be a joke, a troll, where he offered $54.20. And we know it's a joke because he

included in that random number 420 in it, which is an homage to marijuana smoking, which Elon

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