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Higher & Wider.
Craig's back from the desert and stuck at a four — buoyed by the World Cup, dragged down by the "National State Fair" spectacle. Nick's at a seven, and it's one man's fault.
We open on Elon Musk, who in a single week became the world's first trillionaire — SpaceX went public June 12th — and put his hand in a pogrom. We try to make "a trillion dollars" mean something (spoiler: if he gave each of his fourteen kids a million dollars a day, he could've started in 1830 and still be writing checks today), and then turn to Belfast, where Musk poured his megaphone onto anti-immigrant riots that…
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