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Speaker 2: But enough with that, let's get to the show. Hello everybody,

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Speaker 2: it is little after seven pm here on the East Coast.

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Speaker 2: We have just knocked off Crystal from the Ron DeSantis

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Speaker 2: Elon Musk.

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Speaker 3: David Sachs couldn't take it anymore.

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Speaker 2: Couldn't take any more. At this point, I think I

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Speaker 2: literally have brain and ear cancer. For the uninitiated, it

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Speaker 2: was a total and a complete disaster. We are not

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Speaker 2: exaggerating glitches. From the very beginning. We have a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a highlight reel for everybody.

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Speaker 4: Let's take a listen, hight, I'm pleased introduce to individuals

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Speaker 4: who've done more to loosen the grip.

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Speaker 5: All right, Sorry about that. We've got so.

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Speaker 4: Many people here that I think we are we are

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Speaker 4: kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign.

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Speaker 4: Might have surprised many, but not those of us who've

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Speaker 4: known to work with Elon for nearly a quarter century

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Speaker 4: into freedom and to put his money off his mouth is.

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Speaker 6: Let's see so well, yeah, I think so, just to

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Speaker 6: simplify that, there's three in an eighty two thousand people

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Speaker 6: learn all right, great, so let's see, it's just keep

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Speaker 6: crashing him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I think we've got.

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Speaker 7: Just a massive number of people online, so it's serve

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Speaker 7: as restraining somewhat. All right, we're just reallocating more service

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Speaker 7: capability to be able to handle a load here. It's

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Speaker 7: really going going crazy. So yeah, I'm super excited to

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Speaker 7: have governed status. Uh, make this up.

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 4: I think we're broadcasting man, I think we melted the

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Speaker 4: internet there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was insane. Sorry.

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Speaker 7: We actually doing this from David TeX's Twitter account because

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Speaker 7: it looks like doing it from mine basically broke the

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Speaker 5: Governor Santis are you there? Can you get us? I

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Speaker 5: think you're breaking right here? I know. I think I

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Speaker 5: think you broke the internet there.

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Speaker 4: We had over half a million people in one Twitter

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Speaker 4: space and it was growing by like fifty thousand a minute.

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Speaker 4: So congrats on on breaking the internet there.

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Speaker 7: Well yeah, yeah, I mean you try some you know,

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Speaker 7: new things that you're going to Yes, it's adventurous, so yes,

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Speaker 7: But I think the value here is actually really high

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Speaker 7: for people to hear directly from presidential candidates and to

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Speaker 7: answer a Q and a live and you can get

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Speaker 7: a sense for how a candidate really is, you know,

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Speaker 7: and and where it's not just can speeches and telepronters.

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Speaker 7: It's in fact you can tell by the you know,

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Speaker 2: My personal favorite, Crystal is whenever they keep forgetting to

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Speaker 2: pause and they're like basically on a hot mic before

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Speaker 2: everybody else. So after exactly twenty five minutes of glitches,

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Speaker 2: we finally did get to hear from the candidate, the candidate,

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Speaker 2: Governor DeSantis, whose Twitter video actually went out at six pm.

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Speaker 2: By the way, we'll be breaking all that down tomorrow

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Speaker 2: in our morning show. But read's straight up Crystal off

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Speaker 2: of a script basically from his campaign at an entirely

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Speaker 2: five minute long presentation, and then from that point forward,

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Speaker 2: David Sachs and appear clearly this was a coordinated event,

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Speaker 2: calls on DeSantis surrogate's people like Thomas Massew's already endorsed

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Speaker 2: doctor j Bodataria. I mean, none of that is bad,

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Speaker 2: I guess, but you know, ostensibly this is effectively a

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Speaker 1: So I'm agree that's like the nicest thing you could say.

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Speaker 1: That's like so diplomatic, not to his strengths. I mean, okay,

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Speaker 1: so first let's go through the blow by blow because

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Speaker 1: regardless of like what happened after the initial disaster, already

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Speaker 3: Says Ron disaster.

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Speaker 1: You've got Fox News, which has been in DeSantis's corner,

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Speaker 1: but they feel snubbed over the fact that he decided

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Speaker 1: so let's go through a little bit of the blow

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Speaker 1: by blow. So first of all, they launched the Twitter spaces.

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Speaker 1: Then I think you were able to get in, yes,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like static noise if feeble recorded.

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Speaker 1: There were Twitter and employees talking about servers and what

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Speaker 1: I mean, just total disaster.

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Speaker 3: At some point, DeSantis leaves the whole thing, yes, several Yeah,

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Speaker 1: To relaunch with the new spaces and apparently Elon, even

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Speaker 1: And the initial spaces that had crashed had over half

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Speaker 1: David Sacks keep kept making these proclamations like this is

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Speaker 1: the most people ever gathered on social media. It's like, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not. It's not even close to that. And this

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Speaker 1: is for audio only. It's not even video. Okay, it's

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Speaker 1: audio only. So it's obviously catastrophe for Elon and Twitter.

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Speaker 1: It's a complete catastrophe for Ron DeSantis. I cannot imagine

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Speaker 1: how he is feeling, Like the amount of rage and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I have.

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Speaker 1: Never seen a political event be this much of a disaster.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing I was saying, you do use

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Speaker 1: this was a horrible idea.

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Speaker 3: Yes, like it had all of.

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Speaker 1: The energy people are saying online and this is not original.

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Speaker 1: It had all the energy literally of a zoom conference

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Speaker 1: focused on him. All these other characters were coming in

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Speaker 1: bad ad, since it was such a disaster for Twitter

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Speaker 1: and Twitter spaces. You have even his surrogates, Thomas Massian's

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Speaker 7: Are you on?

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Speaker 3: You're so great?

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Speaker 8: So great?

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Speaker 3: What you're doing for the what are we doing here?

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Speaker 3: This is the presidential campaigns.

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Speaker 2: We have a little bit that, Crystal. We have some

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Speaker 2: some portions of this where they're basically just talking about

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Speaker 2: how great Twitter and Twitter spaces is. Let's take a

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Speaker 5: What made you want to kind of take the chance

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Speaker 4: This way as opposed to just doing on cable bs

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Speaker 9: Well, when COVID hit, I had to make decisions about

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Speaker 9: when Elon must stepped up to purchase Twitter, he paid

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Speaker 9: a lot of money for it, and I'm sure because

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Speaker 9: he's a good businessman, Elon, I'm sure you'll end up

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Speaker 9: making money off it. But the bottom line is you

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Speaker 9: had to put your money where your mouth is because

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Speaker 9: I think you recognize that you can't have a free

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Speaker 9: society unless we have the freedom to debate the most

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Speaker 9: happen during COVID. The truth was censored repeatedly. And now

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Speaker 9: that Twitter is in the hands of a free speech advocate,

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Speaker 9: that would not be able to happen again on this

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Speaker 7: Well, thank you. Yeah, We're absolutely committed to freedom speech

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Speaker 7: and level playing field and just a vigorous debate and

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Speaker 7: hopefully this can be a platform that brings people of

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Speaker 7: I mean, the amazing thing about Twitter and things like

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Speaker 7: my account was actually just too much interest. My account

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Speaker 7: was breaking the system. But it's it's a There's really

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Speaker 7: never been a mechanism before where someone could address the nation,

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Speaker 7: So this is a I think this is a really

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Speaker 7: profound change. Whereas with a public digital town square like

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Speaker 7: the narrative. It empowers the people instead of a very

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Speaker 7: tiny elite cabal, which I don't recognize the irony of

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Speaker 7: using that phrase, but but nonetheless it's it's true, and

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Speaker 10: First of all, let me say a big thank you

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Speaker 10: to Elon Musk for buying Twitter and expect all of this.

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Speaker 10: By the way, I've never met Elon Musk, but I'm

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Speaker 10: one of your biggest fans. I'm the first congressman to

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Speaker 8: Elon, if I put down money on January first, twenty

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Speaker 8: bastion of free speech on Earth, brother, I'd be about

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Speaker 8: I mean, it's incredible, and Elon, I have to say

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Speaker 8: thank you for taking the arrows and for unthrottling the

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Speaker 8: accounts of all of us who got in trouble for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was one of my immediate takeaways. Chrystal. I

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Speaker 2: actually tweeted this at the time, and I just said, hey,

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Speaker 2: you know, with respect to Elon into Sacks, why would

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Speaker 2: DeSantis want his campaign launch to basically be an ad

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Speaker 2: for Twitter spaces like announcements should not be an advertisement

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Speaker 2: for the medium. And once again, look, I considered David

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Speaker 2: sachs afriend. I think he's a nice guy. I really do.

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Speaker 2: this is literally not true. I mean, like YouTube has

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Speaker 2: held events where millions of people are watching synchronously in

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Speaker 2: just that's video way actually harder to pull off. So clearly,

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Speaker 2: you know, Twitter completely shit the bed. Yeah, in their

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Speaker 2: role out of this, the infrastructure was a nightmare. And

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Speaker 2: I also think this is a big indictment of the

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Speaker 2: DeSantis campaign. Nobody picked up the phone and said, hey,

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Speaker 2: are you guys sure, Like are we good to go?

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Speaker 2: Can we do a test? Like can we make sure

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent? There's no you know, this is literally

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Speaker 2: you know this also crystal, like anytime candidates and others

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Speaker 2: when we interview people, they you know, their team will

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Speaker 1: Personally, I don't know if I've ever enjoyed a presidential

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