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This week Dennis leads off with Vivek Wadhwa, the Silicon Valley author, Harvard academic, and friend of Elon Musk who lets loose with startlingly blunt criticism of his old friend. According to “The Vivver,” Musk is partying too much, is surrounded by idiots giving him bad advice, and is taking too many drugs that are “eating away his brain.” Wadhwa also says Musk will never make his $44 billion deal pay off, that he should have paid a $1 billion kill fee to back out of the deal. And then returned with a bid of only $20B or $30B. Dennis also talks with wealth advisor Ed Butowsky, a former 20-year Wall Street veteran who has managed hundreds of millions of dollars in client portfolios. He says Wall Street always has been bad at assessing risk, and FTX shows the results: a $200 billion wipeout in the value of various crypto coins and the bankruptcy of FTX, worth $32 billion only months ago. "Eddie B” also talks about short-term bonds---everyone else says buy them now, and he disagrees. And he offers a few alternatives. Listen to the entire podcast here! https://ricochet.com/podcast/whats-bugging-me/bad-advice-and-eating-brains/

Ryan Petersen, CEO of Flexport, joined us to talk about the supply chain crisis and the deeper problems with American businesses. https://ricochet.com/podcast/ricochet-podcast/ship-happens/

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, takes questions from Ricochet members on the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic. Join Ricochet.com to participate in future shows! https://ricochet.com/join Coming soon: David M. Drucker of the Washington Examiner with former Fox News analyst Chris Stirewalt and James Lileks, co-host of the Ricochet Podcast with Babylon Bee Editor-in-Chief Kyle Mann

David M. Drucker of the Washington Examiner joins hosts Rob Long and James Lileks to talk about the very large shadow Donald Trump casts over the Republican Party for both good and ill on this week's Ricochet Podcast.

RealClear Education's Nathan Harden joins hosts James Lileks and Rob Long to discuss the latest College Free Speech Rankings and the state of academic freedom at America's colleges and universities. Recorded as part of the Ricochet Podcast October 22, 2021. For more visit ricochet.com