Le Show For The Week Of February 16, 2025
Le Show
Harry Shearer
4.6 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here it is! |
| 0:02.0 | From deep inside your audio device of choice. |
| 0:07.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, you may have noticed that Elon Musk has a, a weakness, a fondness for the letter X. |
| 0:20.0 | He's renamed Twitter X. He named the four-year-old son. He |
| 0:24.2 | brandished in the Oval Office this week, X in a number of other letters following that are |
| 0:31.3 | even harder to figure out. So he's, you know, he's a serious guy. |
| 0:39.8 | He's a businessman. |
| 0:41.1 | He's 53 years old, old enough to, you know, know something. |
| 0:46.8 | And certainly he's taken on a very serious task in putting a lot of people who used to work in the federal government |
| 0:57.5 | out of work, out of their jobs. |
| 1:01.0 | There may be other consequences to education and health care yet to be formally defined. |
| 1:12.2 | But he also has another side. |
| 1:19.3 | This week, according to the economist, he changed his ex-account name to Harry B-O-L-Z. |
| 1:30.4 | Second time he's adopted this alias. |
| 1:33.2 | In case you're wondering how that's pronounced, here's Dana Bash of CNN to help you. |
| 1:40.1 | Now, the disruptor-in-chief, Elon Musk, who apparently has adopted the alias. |
| 1:45.3 | At least he changed his social media handle to Harry Balls. |
| 1:49.1 | After which, Musk tweeted, quote, made them say my name, unquote. |
| 1:57.2 | He's 53. |
| 1:59.9 | The economist says he briefly changed his username to that a couple years ago |
| 2:07.4 | and uh at the time he said quote to be honest i'm just hoping a media org that takes |
| 2:14.2 | himself way too seriously writes a a story about Harry Balls, unquote. |
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