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Dec 2022
2h 21m

364: ‘Spooky Hole’, With John Moltz

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Friend of the show John Moltz returns to talk about Elon Musk steering Twitter into a multi-issue spat with Apple, Mastodon, and some streaming TV recommendations.

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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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