Ron and Elon: A Failed Launch?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
It’s Elon Musk’s latest launch… not a rocket this time, but Ron DeSantis’ campaign for president, live on Twitter! But after some technical hiccups, is it a failed lift-off? The Americast team reviews how it went and tries to answer whether Florida's governor can win the White House.
And after dining with Sarah and Anthony in DC, J Smith-Cameron, who plays Gerri in Succession, meets Marianna in London ahead of the show’s finale, and turns the tables by asking her what reporters can learn from how the show portrays the media.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUEST: • J. Smith-Cameron, ‘Succession’ actress
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This episode was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Ivana Davidovic, Alix Pickles and Natasha Fernandes. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.5 | Now it's quiet. |
| 0:08.9 | We've got so many people here that I think we are kind of melting the servers. |
| 0:13.2 | It's just a simplify this, I think we're just going to use your... |
| 0:16.3 | There's too many 2,000 people there. |
| 0:21.4 | Alright, great. |
| 0:22.9 | So let's see. |
| 0:23.9 | It's a bit of a steep crash. |
| 0:26.0 | Alright, we're just reallocating more sort of a capability to be able to handle load here. |
| 0:30.5 | It's really going crazy. |
| 0:32.6 | Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:40.6 | Alright, I think we're broadcasting. |
| 0:44.6 | Man, I think we melted the internet there. |
| 0:46.6 | That was amazing. |
| 0:48.6 | Governor Santos, are you there? |
| 0:51.6 | Can you hear us? |
| 0:52.6 | I'm here. |
| 0:53.6 | I know, I think you broke the internet there. |
| 0:56.6 | What just happened? |
| 0:57.6 | Oh my goodness, there was an attempt to launch a rocket recently from SpaceX, the company |
| 1:02.8 | the Elon Musk owns. |
| 1:04.6 | The rocket suffered what they described as a rapid, unscheduled, disassembly shortly after |
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