OA590: Musk Buys Twitter. The Deal Is Done. Or Is It?
Opening Arguments
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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The answer may surprise you! When it was announced that Elon Musk bought Twitter, I had a billion and one questions for Andrew about it. Andrew being Andrew, he commenced deep-diving and turned up a ton of interesting info about this deal and the legality around deals like this. And to his surprise... it's FAR from a done deal! Listen in for the dive so deep that it actually will require a surprise bonus episode! This is part 1, part 2 will be out as soon as thomasly possible to edit and release it!
Links: Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk, Elon, you have no idea what the hell you're talking about, 15 US Code Chapter 2B - SECURITIES EXCHANGES, 17 CFR Part 240, 17 CFR § 243.100 - General rule regarding selective disclosure, 17 CFR § 243.101 - Definitions, Form 8-K, 17 CFR § 240.10b-5 - Employment of manipulative and deceptive devices, Basic, Inc. v. Levinson, 485 U.S. 224 (1988), Twitter's 8k, material agreement with Musk
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| 0:00.0 | The Magna Carter. Carter, meaning quite literally charter, a magna, meaning Japanese animation. |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, come on! A good lawyer couldn't win this case! |
| 0:23.2 | There's this vampire larvae also have a local vampire here on the council this evening, Colin Covenson. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello! |
| 0:32.4 | I was a possible that you've never heard about James Simpson. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, as I explained, I just awoke from a 22-year coma and was driven directly from the hospital to this courthouse. |
| 0:45.2 | You had no idea what to report meant, and when I asked you to explain to six the amendment, you pled the fifth. |
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| 1:11.7 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is Episode 590. I'm Thomas, and holy smokes do we have so much to tell you? |
| 1:24.8 | So much to cover. I know we always say that, but this time, as much or more than ever, how's it going, Andrew? |
| 1:30.1 | It is going fantastically well, Thomas. How are you? |
| 1:32.5 | Good. I just, I want to get to it. I want to let people know that we did lot-awful movies on my retailer, Green. |
| 1:40.1 | It was delightful. Now, I want to clarify, I think there are some people who, I don't know, reacted a certain way to us doing that, |
| 1:47.6 | maybe because they haven't heard the show before despite being a patron. |
| 1:51.2 | We lost a patron, yeah. |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah, we're not just jumping on to, like, say, ah-ha-ha, this idiot. |
| 1:56.0 | Like, the legal issue is something we've covered and is interesting. |
| 1:59.2 | And also, it's a lot-awful movies of how tough she was and how much she can't remember anything allegedly in her testimony. |
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