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The Dumbest Buyout

okay look it's April 20th a date that for some reason Elon Musk finds really funny 420 is a pot smoking reference that in the real world isn't funny but it's really hilarious if you're either a 15 year old boy or a tech billionaire the only thing funnier than 420 to people like this is of course the number 69. look I don't know I guess I'm telling you this because I'm recording this video obviously on April 20th and it's about Elon musk's Whimsical attempt to buy Twitter and I guess I'm just trying to warn you that this video could be really dumb now I probably should Google 420 and tell you guys a little bit more about it but I don't really need to do that as the comment section will be filled with hundreds of comments starting with the word actually and in truth I really don't want to know much about it because I worry that if I fill my head up with nonsense like this that there's a risk that it'll push out some actually useful information and my channel will eventually degrade into me discussing the genius of using rocket technology to build tunnels which would likely make the channel a lot more popular so we get to use rocket technology to build tunnels but my overall goal with this is to forget having made this video almost as soon as it's uploaded and I'll probably do that by listening to Razzle Khan music on repeat play until I've forgotten pretty much everything and then I can get back to my longer term goal of having a YouTube channel that's mostly about rap and of course rapping [Music] the real struggle here is that trying to apply Financial Norms to Elon musk's proposed takeover of Twitter is truly pointless and I guess before digging into this story I'm trying to warn viewers that if you don't know about why he finds 420 funny and if you don't know about his possibly jokey offer to buy Twitter for 54.20 per share maybe watching a different video is a good idea the world might make more sense to you if you never hear about any of this stuff so anyhow you've been warned over the last few weeks Elon Musk the inventor of the light bulb and the tunnel disclosed that he had bought ...

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