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Speaker 1: Let's go into this Netflix Warner brother situation. What's your thoughts.

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Speaker 2: I think it's really fascinating.

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Speaker 3: Going back to the debt conversation, I don't know what

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Speaker 3: the parameters were, but my first thought was, as an executive,

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Speaker 3: is I'm happy. I would be happy to not have

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Speaker 3: the service a ninety billion dollar debt bill. Like, just hypothetically,

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Speaker 3: if the debt was two percent, what does that payment

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Speaker 3: look like. There's a lot of conversation about if Netflix

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Speaker 3: should have forced their way into a bid. But sometimes

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Speaker 3: the best investment is the one that costs so much

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Speaker 3: that is going to be a burden or a headed

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Speaker 3: to you. And also too, I know Larry personally guaranteed

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Speaker 3: the debt, but I want to ask you, guys, being

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Speaker 3: the media mogus that you are, is this investment in

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Speaker 3: linear TV worthd it? I get the swath of companies

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Speaker 3: being bundled together. This reminds me of the Big Short,

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Speaker 3: when you're having credit to false fops put together in

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Speaker 3: a bucket. It's like a media index fund they put together.

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Speaker 3: But in lending the television, is that worth what they

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Speaker 3: paid for it? So I think it's a win for Netflix,

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Speaker 3: but I want to get you guys perspective on the

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Speaker 3: media side, should they have paid as much? And was

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Speaker 3: Netflix smart to stay out of this deal?

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Speaker 4: A couple of things. I think, what was that Wednesday shot?

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Speaker 4: It came over to my house. I said, look, I

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Speaker 4: typed up this this piece you know about Netflix and

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Speaker 4: Warner Brothers. I think they might walk away from the

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Speaker 4: deal today. I was just like, I just had the

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Speaker 4: way things are looking the four days, you know, David

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Speaker 4: Ellison being at the State of the Union, tes Sarrahos

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Speaker 4: being at the White House the next day, I'm just like.

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Speaker 3: You're just ritting and Susan Rice if you guys get

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Speaker 3: the deal.

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Speaker 4: It just felt like all those things are happening, and then,

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Speaker 4: you know, it reminded me of the conversation we've been

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Speaker 4: having all twenty twenty five about Larry Elson and the

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Speaker 4: fact that he is one of the wealthiest people in

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Speaker 4: the world that doesn't have a quote unquote form of media.

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Speaker 2: They've all done it right.

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Speaker 4: Like Zuckerberg has it, Bezos has it, obviously, Elon has it,

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Speaker 4: and here is Larry Ellison without any form of media. Yes,

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Speaker 4: he's known for software, obviously in an oracle. I think

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Speaker 4: he was willing to pay whatever it took to get this.

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Speaker 4: In fact, that's why they made the bid so ridiculous

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Speaker 4: that Netflix said, you know what, sometimes walking away is

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Speaker 4: the best deal. And so they got CBS and they

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Speaker 4: got CNN right inside this deal, amongst other properties for sure,

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Speaker 4: But I'm just talking from the media standpoint. You got Fox,

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Speaker 4: and now you got CBS and you got CNN now

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Speaker 4: controlled by supporters of you know, the current administration, which

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Speaker 4: is interesting, and I think that was Larry Ellison's you

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Speaker 4: know goal the whole time for Netflix. Though, why I

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Speaker 4: thought like this would be a good opportunity for them

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Speaker 4: was that, Okay, you were on the hook for seventy

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Speaker 4: two billion, and now that goes back to the company.

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Speaker 4: In addition to that, you get two point eight billion

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Speaker 4: from walking away.

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Speaker 2: So now your next you got seventy five billion back

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Speaker 2: into the company. What does that do? Well?

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Speaker 4: How long is it going to take Warner Brothers in

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Speaker 4: sky Dance paramount to become profitable from this deal?

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Speaker 2: You want to talk about that.

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Speaker 3: How long they remind people how much they paid for

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Speaker 3: it one hundred and ten billion.

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Speaker 4: I don't they bought it at thirty two dollars a share.

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Speaker 4: All types of incentives. How long you think it's going

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Speaker 4: to take for them to become profitable? Right, Netflix goes

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Speaker 4: back into regularly schedule programming. Now they have actually more

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Speaker 4: money to now go out and pursue live sports to stay.

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Speaker 2: Further ahead in the streaming space.

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Speaker 4: I thought it was a great opportunity for them to say,

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Speaker 4: all right, let's walk away, Let's continue what we were doing.

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Speaker 4: We were going down the right path, let's keep going.

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Speaker 4: If you watched since day and now this merger, they've

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Speaker 4: been down twenty three percent. They've been hit hard. Obviously

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Speaker 4: they had to split. Like this is a good opportunity

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Speaker 4: for them. Sometimes walking away is the best thing you

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Speaker 4: can do. I like this for Netflix.

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Speaker 1: Netflix stock is up twenty one dollars this week. So

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Speaker 1: what's the what's the what's the trajectory for next for nextel?

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Speaker 1: For Netflix stocks.

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Speaker 3: I think they've gotten beaten up unfairly.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: The number one thing that investors love a certainty. So

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Speaker 3: now that you know that this chess piece isn't on

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Speaker 3: Also too, for Netflix, like Trump said he was going

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Speaker 2: You don't want any.

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Speaker 3: Political combatants coming after your company. So now you're out

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Speaker 3: of the clear. Right, you survived, and like el Mincho,

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Speaker 3: from this corporate battle, they did a great job going

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Speaker 3: back to CAPEC spending of not over spending and also

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Speaker 3: too like said, they have capital. Now if they start

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Speaker 3: to make a creator's fund or pay creators more at Netflix,

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Speaker 3: which is one of the weaknesses of their alliance, I

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Speaker 3: think they can get some great headwinds. I think we

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Speaker 3: them and Meta are the two companies I'm looking to

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Speaker 3: Netflix and Meta are my two canaries in the coal

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Speaker 3: mine for twenty six to see how this market shakes out.

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Speaker 3: But shoddy for you, Like do you think this is

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Speaker 3: a great investment on Paramount? Like if you had one

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Speaker 3: sixty laying around, right, would you paid one ten for

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Speaker 3: the swath of companies that Paramount got and that deal?

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Speaker 3: Like I went and looked, I'm like, there are no

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Speaker 3: hit shows on none of them fucking broadcasts they have.

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Speaker 2: I get don't at the HBO. Don't do that to

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Speaker 1: Definitely definitely outdated, But I also think that it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: I saw the I forget exactly what he was his title,

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Speaker 1: Netflix in the UK, like high like president or something

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Speaker 1: like that, and he was saying that I talked about YouTube,

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Speaker 1: put their content on YouTube for free yep. So he

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Speaker 1: was like, he was like, how can we compete? How

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Speaker 1: through AdSense, but YouTube is not paying for their content.

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Speaker 1: They would never put their content on Netflix for free.

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Speaker 1: Netflix has to license one hundred million dollar deals to

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Speaker 1: So it's like, yeah, to answer your question, I don't

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Speaker 2: That's why they're gonna have those on Netflix. Yeah, all

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Speaker 1: Well, the Mike Tyson and Floyd one, I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't know if if this model is really sustainable long term.

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Speaker 4: I think they're so far ahead the difference between the

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Speaker 4: free content that the paramounts of the world, the comcasts

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Speaker 4: ABC Disney would be an example of that, right Like

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Speaker 4: right now, if you don't have Hulu, how do you

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Speaker 4: Right, Like you gotta wait, right, So, like they'll they'll

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Speaker 4: make specific things. I think what Netflix has done has

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Speaker 4: a door and they've they've done it, like every year

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Speaker 4: Apple model where it's like, yeah, we could bring new

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Speaker 4: That's always been my thing with Netflix. How do we

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Speaker 3: Yeah, at some point I think it'll get to like

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Speaker 3: how are they going to five x or eleven x?

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Speaker 3: This rash out to your point, Netflix has to figure

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Speaker 3: out a business model where you're paying zero for the

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Speaker 3: content and it's high produced so you keep the same standards,

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Speaker 3: and you have to incentivize creators.

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Speaker 2: Bring me a hit show that.

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Speaker 3: Is shot, well lit, well edited, everything that you need,

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Speaker 3: and we'll pay you on the performance model, because how

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Speaker 3: much longer can you continue to pour out twenty to

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Speaker 3: them to be like I don't hear nobody talk about

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Speaker 3: video game? There's no back end model and it sucks

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Speaker 3: just from a cost basis to put all this money

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Speaker 1: Days and you could, yeah, you could watch the show

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Speaker 1: in four days. That's that's why they got podcasts, because

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Speaker 1: it's low cost and it's something that you could it's

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Speaker 1: sustainable for years.

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