Three minutes after ten is the time and the gasm, the vacuum in my knowledge, is being filled.

His dad half owned a Zambian emerald mine, apparently.

So it's fair to say you've been born three nil up if your dad half owned, had a half own.

Well, four nil up, I suppose, if he owned all of it, or six nil, but we don't need to break it down too much.

So I was just trying to work out where Elon Musk's pot

came from, where his steak money came from. The man's clearly some form of genius, but precisely what

form I do not know. And one wonders where he might be now if he hadn't been born to a parent who

owned half of an emerald mine in Zambia. Who knows?

So, I mean, I can't imagine there's anyone listening to this program

who doesn't know that I'm rather partial to a bit of Twitter.

I think it's mostly brilliant.

If you are deeply embedded on it, as I am, I've got quite a few followers.

It's all relative, isn't it?

But I should hit a million in the next few months.

If I stay, because apparently the libs are going to be furious that Elon Musk has bought Twitter,

although I have no idea why.

That's going to be one of the first questions I ask you today.

And you can obviously

avoid much of the toxicity, even toxicity that's directed personally at you by blocking and

muting and various other measures. Quality filter is underused. And if you have a blue tick,

which just, I think, means you've been verified. No, let's not be immodest. It means you're

enormously important and incredibly famous if you've got a blue tick. That's generally how it is. Isn't it? Isn't that what it? No, no. What? Who? Really? Oh. Oh, that's spoiled it for everybody else, hasn't it? I think it's great. I mean, you've got to be careful, as with all things that give you dopamine hits, not to get addicted, not to spend too much time on it. And in the early days, you've got to be very careful not to waste your energy dealing directly, actually responding to people who are on, how can I put it politely?

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