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Episode 37: Elon's Bold & Fearless Reign Continues, Twitter Files Analysis & Woke Defunding Accelerating
Welcome to Episode 37! We start off with a deep dive into Elon's reign at Twitter, including the recently released Twitter Files. Elon is bringing free speech to the social media platform whether far left journalists and haters like it or not. We are now seeing that Twitter was essentially being used as an operating subsidiary of the government, which likely comes as no surprise to most Woke Antidote listeners, but nonetheless is excellent to see out in the open. We are both feeling quite positive about the direction of the country with Elon promoting free speech so heavily. (0-37:00)
Next we cover some large scale #DefundingTheWoke. Through a combination of economic weakness (thanks Bidenflation!), structural industry changes (people dropping cable TV subscriptions) and elevated investments in streaming (causing significant cash burn), media company earnings are down significantly. Every big company, including Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery (which owns CNN) is cutting costs drastically. While that will help - and a lot of woke employees are gone - we'll see if these companies fully embrace getting rid of wokeness to help their bottom lines. Disney's new (and former) beloved CEO Bob Iger is already signaling Disney will be going less woke, with DeSantis already having a cultural win against his predecessor in Florida. We then update our Trump vs. DeSantis thoughts, where SB is discouraged by the recent Trump NFT release. (38:00-1:06)
We next cover the FTX scandal, where it appears as if $10 Billion was stolen from customers and much of that was funneled into far left politicians and media outlets. The founder knew that donating to liberals would mean very little scrutiny of his companies' actions. (1:06-1:17)
We finish up with a Sports Corner on TB's Yankees/Giants and SB's Red Sox/Patriots (1:17-1:33) and a look at a bizarre show airing on TLC starting this January, before closing out with a message of hope for how positive things are going, but also how we need to progress from here. (1:33-1:47). Thanks for listening and please share with your friends and on Twitter, follow us on Twitter at @TheWokeAntidote and leave us a 5-star review!
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By The Woke AntidoteWelcome to Episode 37! We start off with a deep dive into Elon's reign at Twitter, including the recently released Twitter Files. Elon is bringing free speech to the social media platform whether far left journalists and haters like it or not. We are now seeing that Twitter was essentially being used as an operating subsidiary of the government, which likely comes as no surprise to most Woke Antidote listeners, but nonetheless is excellent to see out in the open. We are both feeling quite positive about the direction of the country with Elon promoting free speech so heavily. (0-37:00)
Next we cover some large scale #DefundingTheWoke. Through a combination of economic weakness (thanks Bidenflation!), structural industry changes (people dropping cable TV subscriptions) and elevated investments in streaming (causing significant cash burn), media company earnings are down significantly. Every big company, including Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery (which owns CNN) is cutting costs drastically. While that will help - and a lot of woke employees are gone - we'll see if these companies fully embrace getting rid of wokeness to help their bottom lines. Disney's new (and former) beloved CEO Bob Iger is already signaling Disney will be going less woke, with DeSantis already having a cultural win against his predecessor in Florida. We then update our Trump vs. DeSantis thoughts, where SB is discouraged by the recent Trump NFT release. (38:00-1:06)
We next cover the FTX scandal, where it appears as if $10 Billion was stolen from customers and much of that was funneled into far left politicians and media outlets. The founder knew that donating to liberals would mean very little scrutiny of his companies' actions. (1:06-1:17)
We finish up with a Sports Corner on TB's Yankees/Giants and SB's Red Sox/Patriots (1:17-1:33) and a look at a bizarre show airing on TLC starting this January, before closing out with a message of hope for how positive things are going, but also how we need to progress from here. (1:33-1:47). Thanks for listening and please share with your friends and on Twitter, follow us on Twitter at @TheWokeAntidote and leave us a 5-star review!