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Le Show For The Week Of June 23, 2024

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Politics, News, Society & Culture, Sports, Music, Tech News

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us regular features like News of Musk Love, What the Frack?!, News of the Atom, News of the Godly, News of the Olympic Movement, News of Microplastics, News of Smart World, and The Apologies of the Week. We’ll also hear some good news about the Iberian Lynx and help recognize Queen City, a lost community near Arlington, Virginia.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here it is.

0:01.0

From deep inside your audio device of choice.

0:07.0

Looks like what's

0:15.0

Yes, it does. enough Musk love to go around.

0:19.0

You remember last year when uh, Tesla and SpaceX chairman Elon Musk told a group of advertisers

0:28.9

you can go F yourselves and he spelled out the word I mean he pronounced the whole word

0:35.1

well it's a different year and a different approach from Elon Musk towards

0:42.2

advertisers he doubt from Elon Musk towards advertisers.

0:44.0

He dialed back that comment to advertisers,

0:48.0

saying he only meant the message for brands that would not enable free speech.

0:53.0

See? See how he did that?

0:56.0

He was at the Khan Lions Festival this week.

1:00.0

That's an festival of advertisers and people who want to woo advertisers in Khan.

1:08.0

Yes, it's glamorous in a different way.

1:12.0

He's trying to win back advertisers after many fled X, formerly

1:19.4

Twitter, after Musk's on controversial posts.

1:25.0

Brands ceasing advertising on Musk, I'm sorry, on X over such concerns were effectively committing Blackwell,

1:37.0

Blackwell, Black Mail, he said last year.

1:40.8

But this week speaking on the stage, Musk took a softer tone, touted the

1:46.4

platforms influential users and ad targeting capabilities. They're looking at you.

1:53.3

Most clarified that his previous comment was not, quote, to advertisers

1:58.4

as a whole, but rather to those insisting on censorship."

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