Welcome to Axis ProRot, where we take just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the

conclusion of tech, business, and politics.

I'm Dan Pramak.

On today's show, Philadelphia's oil blues and Apple erases podcast stars.

But first, the hack heard round the world.

So if it weren't for the ongoing impeachment,

the country's biggest story right now

would probably be allegations,

endorsed yesterday by the United Nations,

that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

hacked Jeff Bezos' phone,

extracting a massive amount of data

over a period of several months in 2018.

Here's the quick timeline.

On April 4, 2018, Bezos and MBS meet at a dinner party.

Weeks later, MBS sends Bezos a video message via WhatsApp and allegedly includes a secret piece of code

that had been created by an Israeli spyware firm called NSO Group.

This is at around the same time

that Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi is writing critically of Saudi Arabia in the Bezos-owned

Washington Post. A few months later, Khashoggi gets murdered by the Saudi government, with the CIA

concluding that MBS himself was involved. Soon after that, the National Inquirer exposes that Bezos

is cheating on his wife, and

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