Secretary: That nut who says he is the Pope is on the phone again!
PopeWatch: Holiness.
PF: Gringo, what do you know about Senor Musk?
PopeWatch: Assuming you are referring to Elon Musk Holiness, he is the richest man in the world. Makes electric cars. Has invested heavily in a private rocket project for space exploration. Just purchased Twitter. Has lots of kids. Oddball sense of humor. Doesn’t like to be pushed around. Left of center mostly politically, but an opponent of wokeness. The closest man we have to the fictional Tony Stark.
PF: Quien Tony Stark?
PopeWatch: The billionaire inventor and industrialist who is the secret identity of the superhero Iron Man.
PF: Ah, you gringos and your childish love of comic books!
Popewatch: Holiness, you do recall that you have met Elon Musk?
PF: It was a brief audience with an exchange of small talk. I do so many of them that they all blend together in my mind unless something unusual happens. Besides, you see one gringo or gringa and you have seen them all.
PopeWatch: I assume that there is some reason why you are asking me about Musk?
PF: I am being bombarded from an unknown source with e-mails and texts telling me to set up a meeting with Musk.
PF: What is that noise?
PopeWatch: That would be Dolly Parton singing Rocky Top. My phone system does that when it detects a third party listening to a phone call. I would suggest we end this call.
PF: Click.
