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Timcast IRL #501 - Elon Musk Buys LARGEST Twitter Stake With 9.2%, Defends Free Speech w/Amber Athey

Timcast IRL

Timcast Media

News, Society & Culture

4.57.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Tim, Ian, and Lydia host journalist and commentator Amber Athey to discuss Elon Musk's latest acquisition (Twitter), Amber's experience being fired over a tweet, the man who won't be charged after killing his girlfriend's ex, and Madonna's bizarre video displaying her insane plastic surgery.

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0:00.0

You're about to hear a preview of the Jordan Harbinger show with the world's best counter-fitter.

0:05.0

How long does it take to print $250 million?

0:10.0

Five months. It needs to be worthwhile. It's going to need to be perfect.

0:15.0

12,500 kilos or over eight Toyota Camrys or six Ford F-150s.

0:25.0

That is multiple metric sh-tons of cash.

0:28.0

You must have been f-ing stoked, man, because you knew you were going to put $20 bills all over all of that and then just never work again.

0:38.0

Yes. By designing, there are people specifically looking for you all the time. This is all they do.

0:45.0

You can tell them whatever you want. They're not dummies. I mean, this is as high as a goat. It's just a cup of a line.

0:51.0

For more on how Frank Barrasa printed his own fortune and got away with it, check out episode 488 on the Jordan Harbinger show anywhere you get your podcasts.

1:00.0

Elon Musk is now the largest stakeholder in Twitter. He bought 9.2%, which is just about $3 billion worth of the company.

1:10.0

And I don't know if it means he can do anything, but he was just talking about on Twitter about free speech. He's on Twitter.

1:16.0

Talking about the importance of free speech, everybody was like, yo, start up a company and Mike's turn to Vitch was like, buy Twitter.

1:22.0

And then Elon Musk was like, I'll buy a lot. A lot of people are saying Donald Trump should buy a stake in Twitter, but $3 billion, I think that's Trump's actual net worth maybe a little bit less.

1:31.0

So he couldn't buy 10%, but he could buy maybe one if you wanted to sink a couple hundred million into it, perhaps.

1:37.0

But this is big. Maybe free speech will be returning to the platform. Aside from that, we got a big story on Black Lives Matter.

1:43.0

Apparently, they secretly purchased a, I think it was a $6 million mansion, so they could film YouTube videos or something like that.

1:51.0

And man, the more we uncover about how they were, I don't know, misusing funds, the crazier things get.

1:58.0

So we'll talk about all that. We got some crazy stories. Georgia has their own version of the parental rights and education bill.

2:04.0

Of course, the left is calling it. They don't say gay bill, but this one's a little different. I'm surprised they haven't already come out and start screaming about this one.

2:11.0

We also got, now I believe if there's 25 states that are constitutional carry, if Florida moves forward with their special legislative session, we could have 26 states, constitutional carry.

2:22.0

Let's talk about all this stuff and a whole bunch of other stuff, I suppose, joining us to discuss these issues is Amber Athe.

2:28.0

Hey, so glad to be here. Who are you? Shall I introduce myself? Yes. Great.

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