Musk Rules Everything Around Me
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk reached a deal with Twitter on Monday to take over the company for roughly $44 billion. Mike Isaac, a tech reporter for the New York Times, joins us to discuss how we got here and what comes next.
And in headlines: President Biden plans to nominate Bridget Brink to be the next ambassador to Ukraine, the Supreme Court will take up the case of Rodney Reed, and Beijing officials began mass testing its residents for COVID.
Show Notes:
NY Times: “Elon Musk and Twitter Reach Deal for Sale” – https://nyti.ms/3xPdgyX
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, April 26th. I'm getting a resin. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Josie Deppie Rice and this is What a Day. |
| 0:11.6 | We're we're entering the free love era of sharing our Netflix login. |
| 0:15.8 | Yes, we don't know how much time we have before the crackdown. |
| 0:20.1 | So we basically are going to turn our Netflix account into one big commune while we still can. |
| 0:24.9 | We are all one and we are all watching. Is it Kate? |
| 0:31.1 | On stage show President Biden will nominate a new ambassador to Ukraine. |
| 0:35.0 | Plus, New York State is holding Trump in contempt of court until he cooperates with its investigation into his company. |
| 0:41.4 | But first, the big news of the day, Elon Musk and Twitter. |
| 0:46.6 | We have some breaking news right now. |
| 0:47.8 | Elon Musk has agreed to buy Twitter for $54 and 20 cents a share. |
| 0:52.2 | This means that the world's richest man is going to effectively control one of the most influential platforms. |
| 0:58.9 | Taking the social media company private and taking the free speech debate in America to a new level. |
| 1:04.9 | Honestly, Gideon, what could possibly go wrong? |
| 1:07.4 | That's what I want to know. Nothing. |
| 1:09.2 | We've been talking quite a bit about Musk and Twitter over the last few weeks. |
| 1:12.0 | But Gideon, this all seems to have accelerated really, really quickly in the past 48 hours or so. Is that right? |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:18.1 | The deal was ultimately reached yesterday after this really bizarre saga where Musk had bought up all the shares at one point |
| 1:26.1 | then he made this offer without financial details. |
| 1:28.6 | And it seemed like Twitter was going to rebuff it. |
| 1:31.2 | And then he ultimately got the funding in order to make this happen all in quick succession. |
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