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Speaker 1: Tell you what, I'm trying to work out which I

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Speaker 1: like least at the moment, Elon Musk or Disney. Elon

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Speaker 1: bought Twitter, turned it into X. He paid forty four billion.

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Speaker 1: They say it's worth about ten billion. Now he doesn't

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Speaker 1: care it's worth ten billion because a lot of corporates,

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Speaker 1: of course, bailed because of its ugliness. He argues, it's

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Speaker 1: free speech, but it's free speech at the lowest level,

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Speaker 1: so it's ugly. He still defends it. It makes life

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Speaker 1: for a libertarian like me difficult because I like the

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Speaker 1: idea of truly free speech, and as a result of

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Speaker 1: that belief, I have nothing to do with X, of course,

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Speaker 1: because I have standards. But it's also apparent that as

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Speaker 1: good as a concept may be that free speech is

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Speaker 1: good to have, when left to its own devices, it

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Speaker 1: is indeed an ugly place and vulnerable people get hurt.

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Speaker 1: So that's Elon. Disney were one of those who bailed

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Speaker 1: because they didn't like what they see. But the Financial

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Speaker 1: Times suggests that they are heading back to X now

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Speaker 1: that Trump has won, and Trump likes Elon, and Elon

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Speaker 1: might be spending a lot of time at the White House,

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Speaker 1: so Disney wants in on the action and the influence. Now,

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Speaker 1: if that's true, and it's not just Disney, of course,

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of corporates that makes them hypocrites and

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Speaker 1: hypocrites of the worst sort, high and mighty, but only

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Speaker 1: when it suits, full of principle, As long as they

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Speaker 1: end up on the right side, whatever the current right

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Speaker 1: side happens to be, they are fair weather, flipping and

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Speaker 1: flopping with the times they when hopelessly woke, of course,

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Speaker 1: in their movies, until Bob Ayger came back and said,

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Speaker 1: the reason I'm back is because you're losing money, and

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Speaker 1: you're losing money because you woke. Having principles. Once upon

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Speaker 1: a time, of course, was quite the thing that was expected.

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Speaker 1: It was common until it wasn't. These days, corporates too

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Speaker 1: often don't know who they are, so they end up

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Speaker 1: moral blemonge. We saw it here during COVID, furious. They

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Speaker 1: were furious at the government and private pussycats in public.

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Speaker 1: You would hope there's a lesson there somewhere that they

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Speaker 1: might want to learn and do something about. Elon is

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Speaker 1: at least reasonably consistent. You don't have to like it,

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Speaker 1: but he is true to his word and it's CoStim

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Speaker 1: thirty five billion an expert. Then he found Donald and

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Speaker 1: the balance has been more than rectified. Of course, so

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Speaker 1: what does he care, which I guess ultimately means it's Disney.

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Speaker 1: I like Disney less than I like Elon, and that's

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