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Timcast IRL #510 - Twitter Adopts POISON PILL To Block Elon Musk Takeover w/Brett Cooper & Ben Stewart

Timcast IRL

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News, Society & Culture

4.57.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Tim, Ian, and Lydia host Brett Cooper of the Daily Wire and Ben Stewart of benjosephstewart.com to discuss how Twitter is mulling the 'poison pill' option to prevent Elon Musk from gaining the upper hand, the metaverse and its implications, Russian state TV saying that WWIII is already here, Warner Bros. choosing to omit a key part of a movie to appease China, and Joe Biden's continued decline.

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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 Barrossa 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

So Elon Musk tries to buy Twitter, right?

1:03.0

And he offers up this legitimate offer, $54.20 per share to buy everybody out.

1:08.0

Instead of going to the shareholders, the board announces what's called a poison pill, which basically bars Elon Musk from buying up the company through public means.

1:18.0

They may still entertain his offer, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

1:22.0

And it looks like we are about to see one of the biggest culture war battles the most significant we've ever seen.

1:29.0

I think Elon Musk has exposed so much dirty dealing, and it says a lot about how wealthy, billionaires, corporate interests are manipulating the public and don't care about money because they're getting money from the Fed.

1:41.0

They don't care about the cost. They want the power and the influence. Even recode of Vox.com blog says exactly this. That Twitter is where journalists and politicians get out their message while surprise surprise.

1:53.0

Guess who is getting banned? Yeah, it's mostly the right. It's mostly libertarians. Sometimes their anti war leftists and some left wingers who will get banned, but typically not. That's the power and they know it.

2:04.0

We got a couple other stories. You know, it's funny. We're talking about Elon Musk because a World War III apparently started.

2:09.0

Russian state TV said the sinking of the Russian flagship, the Moscow, Moscow. I'm sorry, not specifically, but after this they said the weapons we are up against are from NATO.

2:21.0

They're trying to maintain that the ship sank due to a fire, but the Ukrainians are saying we basically hit it with a Neptune missile.

2:29.0

We'll talk about that. We definitely got to talk about the secrets of Dumbledore. It's Friday. We're going to get into it. I haven't seen it, but joining us to explain what's wrong with the plot is Brett Cooper.

2:40.0

Hey guys, how are you? I mean, okay, so well, you don't we don't need to get it to right now.

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