On today's show, we discuss the latest in the Elon Musk takeover of the company, and the fallout from it. We also talk about the new committee created by the Senate Intelligence Committee, and why it's a good thing we have a committee at all. Also, we talk about why we should all be worried about what's going on in the world of government spying, and whether or not it's really as bad as we think it is. And, of course, we finish the show with a special guest interview with Alex Blumberg, the host of the popular conservative podcast "The FiveThirtyEight". Thanks to Pale Fire and Mossad for sponsoring this episode! If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, Like, and Share to stay up to date with the latest episodes! Timestamps: 5:00 - Elon Musk's takeover 6:30 - What's next for the company? 7:15 - Who's the real threat to the U.S. government 8:40 - Who is the real Alinsky? 9:20 - Is the FBI colluding with the Russian oligarch? 10:00 11:30 What's the biggest threat to us? 12:00 | Who's being paid by the Russian government? 13:15 | What's going to win in the election? 14:00: What do we know about Russia? 15: Is the real Russia hoax? 16:30 | What are we should do now? 17:40 | What we should we know? 19: Should we do about it? 21:10 | What s going to happen next? 22:00 // 21:40 26:10 27:00 +23: What s the best thing we can do about this? 25:20 | What do you think we should be doing in the future? 26 - What s our role in the Russia hoaxes? 35: Is there a church committee? 31:00 & 27:30 // 26:20 32: Is it a church Committee? 36:40 +33:30 +35:00 / 35:10 +35? 37:40 Is it possible to be a victim of the Alinskyism? 39:30 & 35:30?
00:00:00.000I mean, I look today at what happened at Twitter.
00:00:02.000I don't believe Elon thought they were doing that much.
00:00:05.000Now he gets in the middle of Twitter, and all he's doing is releasing the information, and now people are trying to vilify him.
00:00:12.000Well, you know what's interesting with Twitter?
00:00:13.000It was sort of amazing, because it came back.
00:00:15.000We have Truth Social, and it's been a great platform to say what you want.
00:00:19.000But Twitter, I actually like being in that fight because I'm sort of adversarial, and that's what I do, and that's sort of made a reputation of it.
00:00:25.000When he even started talking about the takeover, it's like they were burning the documents.
00:00:30.000My engagement went through the roof, the files went through, you know.
00:00:32.000You had no growth and all of a sudden- I had no growth for years.
00:00:36.000I was getting, and they were like, you know, four years ago, I'd say, listen, they're screwing with the algorithm, they're messing up.
00:00:40.000Well, how do you know? It's like, because yesterday I was getting 10,000 retweets and today I'm getting three.
00:00:44.000Like not 3,000, like three, single digit.
00:00:49.000Then he took over. And for like two months, I was getting great growth and engagement.
00:00:52.000But it does seem like, and again, I don't know if he's maybe not as focused on it.
00:00:55.000Yeah. But that engagement and the engagement of a lot of other conservative accounts has gone back down to like pre-Elon levels.
00:01:02.000Yeah, we got to watch. We got to see it.
00:01:03.000I'll talk to him. I mean, it's interesting just because it felt great to have a free speech platform.
00:01:08.000And we have like an actual competitor.
00:01:10.000And I stay on the platform because I want to engage.
00:01:12.000Well, I see the engagement. I don't want to ever seed one of these platforms.
00:01:15.000Yeah, you want to be... Well, when I talk to Devin over at The Truth, you can see the engagement is greater than any other platform that you have.
00:01:22.000It's just people are passionate about it.
00:01:25.000This is where they want to go. Yeah, and they may have changed a policy, but the reality, the employees at Twitter are still going to be 99%.
00:01:31.000You see it in the donations, and so...
00:01:33.000And he's seen that. He's been able to change it.
00:01:35.000I hope they recognize that because all the guys that were actually, if I say even excited about what was going on, like, hey, just give me a chance to compete on a level playing field.
00:01:42.000I'll even take a little disadvantage because by nature of the following, I'm already at a disadvantage.
00:01:47.000But, like, that seems to have gone back down to almost worse.
00:02:31.000That's back, by the way. Yeah. And they go back and they look, hey, these guys are doing all this stuff in other countries, everywhere else in here.