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Speaker 1: I am now pleased to welcome to the show for

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Speaker 1: an exclusive interview founder, chairman and CEO of Gabelli Funds,

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Speaker 1: Mario Gabelli, and Mario, we're so pleased to have you

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Speaker 1: here on a week which maybe is the last week

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Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about the Warner Brothers Discovery

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Speaker 1: Netflix deal. Now that Netflix has bowed out, and it's

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Speaker 1: paramount raining as the winner. You have holdings of all

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Speaker 1: of these stocks, and you're a close follower of media deals.

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Speaker 1: Were you surprised to see Netflix fold and bow out

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Speaker 1: as quickly as it did?

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Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't exactly quickly.

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Speaker 3: On the other side, somebody always wins, somebody always backs out,

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Speaker 3: and it was obvious that unless they matched the materially

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Speaker 3: higher proposal and the simplification of the proposal and the

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Speaker 3: timing and adjusted their deal for the timing of getting

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Speaker 3: my cash back for my client. So the winnow was

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Speaker 3: Zaslov David conducted an auction. Stock has done extremely well,

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Speaker 3: so we thank him significantly for that. And now the

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Speaker 3: question is for Netflix. Their stock is also it was

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Speaker 3: down as seventy eight, it was up to ninety sixty

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Speaker 3: other day, and so there are a lot of individual

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Speaker 3: winners here for all of those involved in this bidding.

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Speaker 1: War, I would say, I mean, what does Netflix do now, Mario,

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Speaker 1: or what would you like to see them do now

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Speaker 1: they have a nice little two point eight billion dollar

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Speaker 1: breakup fee? Do you think that now they don't have

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Speaker 1: Warner Brothers Discovery? Would you like to see them go

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Speaker 1: after various ip and things of that nature.

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Speaker 3: The notion of taking their screaming and delivering it globally

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Speaker 3: and looking at how much they're spending on content of

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Speaker 3: twenty billion dollars, let them bring the content and show

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Speaker 3: that they're willing to keep it in the theaters for

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Speaker 3: that forty five day window. The second thing I would

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Speaker 3: like them to see is to learn Japanese and think

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Speaker 3: about knocking on Sony's door because of the anime that

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Speaker 3: does Sony is doing and figuring out a way to

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Speaker 3: partner on that.

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Speaker 2: For example, Sony's buying not getting into that one right now?

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Speaker 1: No, go ahead, please you? I mean, should they buy

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Speaker 1: something from Sony just a partnership? What would you propose?

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Speaker 3: I'm not proposing anything, and you know this is not

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Speaker 3: right now. My focus is for my clients that are taxable,

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Speaker 3: make sure they are long term to start thinking about

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Speaker 3: looking at other opportunities for their warner holdings. And right

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Speaker 3: now there's so many that will be announcing financial engineering.

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Speaker 3: For example, you had Janis on earlier, and that is

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Speaker 3: another example from.

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Speaker 2: Wearing an arbitrage hat.

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Speaker 3: You know what, since you mentioned that, we wrote a

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Speaker 3: book and it's now in about eight different languages on

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Speaker 3: M and A, one of the few books written. And

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Speaker 3: then we did a follow up and that deals with

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Speaker 3: like Elliott what is he doing in Tokyo? If you

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Speaker 3: want it, it's and Kate Welling and I prepare the

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Speaker 3: one on merging masters. So there's a lot going on,

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Speaker 3: and we expect a lot more going on. So this

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Speaker 3: is terrific time. M and A is vibrant, unlike appreciating.

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Speaker 2: Well last year.

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Speaker 3: Last year, for example, someone sabotaged the deal for a

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Speaker 3: company called I Robot. That stock was in the fifties

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Speaker 3: today at sixth sense, the arbitrary jures are not experiencing

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Speaker 3: those potholes because of the more attention of you know,

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Speaker 3: the benefits of globalization and benefits of consolidation, and you're

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Speaker 3: going to see more financial engineering.

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Speaker 2: Splitting off companies.

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Speaker 3: Why shouldn't I do a spin off and look at

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Speaker 3: what does that mean for the shoulders, because that's the

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Speaker 3: benefit of not paying the tax.

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot going on. This is terrific time.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well tell me Mario, I love this. This

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Speaker 1: is perfect time for you to be on the show too.

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Speaker 1: You share your your investors, get the money from Warner Brothers.

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Speaker 1: Discovery mentioned something Netflix might do. Janis Henderson, what would

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Speaker 1: you say, here's the top pick. Here is where the

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Speaker 1: corporate transformation and financial engineering is going to happen. And

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Speaker 1: I want to get them into that arbitrage?

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Speaker 2: What is your top call?

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Speaker 3: If you want to get into Harvard College and they're

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Speaker 3: rather see them go to the University of Virginia.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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Speaker 3: So from that point of view, whenever someone wants to

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Speaker 3: do we finance that? So that's important. And you saw

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Speaker 3: From my point of view, tomorrow you'll be an announcement

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Speaker 3: for a company called Myers located in Akron, Ohio, like

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Speaker 3: forty million shares of a twenty three dollars stock. I

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Speaker 3: started following it because they have an autoparts distribution business.

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Speaker 3: Right now, there's one billion vehicles on the road. Does

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Speaker 3: three hundred million vehicles on the road in the United

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Speaker 3: States four tires per vehicle more or less, So that's

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Speaker 3: one point two billion opportunities to sell products. And the

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Speaker 3: average age of the vehicles are getting older. So what

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Speaker 3: companies help the tire being replaced? What happens when there's

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Speaker 3: that would be a company that we're looking at very closely.

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Speaker 3: We owned it for a long period of time. There's

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Speaker 3: so many like that. For example, you saw the spinoff

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Speaker 3: from Comcast of versuon That stock was drubbed mercilessly by

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Speaker 3: the index funds selling it, and the stock, for example,

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Speaker 3: got as low as twenty seven eight. It was a

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Speaker 3: spinoff financial engineering gator. A great opportunity to sit there

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Speaker 3: the fundamentals that Mark Lazars running it is going to

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Speaker 3: do a very good job of harnessing those values. So

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Speaker 3: those are the things that we liked, particularly where the

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Speaker 3: index funds.

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Speaker 1: Mario sell it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, particularly, I'm finished spinoffs, and.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say you are You are the

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Speaker 1: ultimate value investor, and you have been throughout your entire career.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about where the other value might be unlocked.

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Speaker 3: You were talking.

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Speaker 1: About this, but MSG Sports, I said, one of the best.

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Speaker 1: That's not what I said, Mario. You're a veteran of

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Speaker 1: this industry ATMSC. I know you as well.

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Speaker 3: Of like Buffett, you know value and even MSG Sports. Basically,

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Speaker 3: there is twenty four million shares the Dolan family owns

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Speaker 3: for a plus million, but they have control.

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Speaker 2: Of the vote.

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Speaker 3: Before you used to have a Jimmy Dolan discount. But

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Speaker 3: when the Sphere has gone, which was a spinoff, has

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Speaker 2: They're saying that, Hey, this is a creative individual.

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Speaker 3: He is not going to sell the knicks of the Rangers,

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Speaker 3: but he's splitting them off his two separate companies, assuming

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Speaker 2: So those are the things that we like.

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Speaker 3: And tonight is a big night for the Knicks because

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Speaker 3: they're playing a team out of Oklahoma and they didn't

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Speaker 3: The Rangers are not doing well. But that's okay.

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Speaker 1: The values are still may on, Mario.

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Speaker 2: We are owners of Madison's running on. Is it Oka

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Speaker 1: Hey, Mario, do you think that that does 'tenough to

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Speaker 1: unlock the value splitting the Rangers in the Knicks or

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Speaker 1: would you like to see more? Do you want to

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Speaker 3: Due?

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Speaker 2: Really? What you know?

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Speaker 3: You're just sort of the Miami Dolphins. Somebody said they

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Speaker 3: sold a piece of it at evaluation of X. The

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Speaker 3: notion of having sports franchises, whether it's the NFL, whether

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Speaker 3: allow ten percent of that NFL to be owned by GPL.

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Speaker 2: And they structure LP interests.

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Speaker 3: You know, we are have a fund that is going

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Speaker 3: out and buying all of these companies in live events

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Speaker 3: Formula one racetrack, for example, watching Worldwide wrestling. Which are

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Speaker 3: And we have a conference coming up in June a

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Speaker 1: Hey, Mario, you also are involved in a lot of

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Speaker 1: different publicly traded sports stocks. I know it's something you like. Again,

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Speaker 1: unlocking value. What do you what do you think is

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Speaker 3: those are things that you think about. What other soccer

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Speaker 3: So man You has one hundred and seventy five million

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Speaker 1: Okay, Just to wrap things up, Mario, and given what

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Speaker 1: a great environment it is to one read all of

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Speaker 1: your deal's books, but two play them in this market

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Speaker 1: and do the corporate arbitrage as you do. So well,

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Speaker 1: are you thinking right now? About deals that might happen

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Speaker 1: that could never even have been dreamed of in past administrations.

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Speaker 1: How different is it this time around?

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Speaker 3: No, it's not that they weren't dreamed about in the

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Speaker 3: last administration. And the free market system with oliflaws and

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Speaker 3: rule of low, with olaflows, you're constantly looking at what

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Speaker 3: do you want to do globally and what do you

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Speaker 3: want to do domestically to get synergies to grow your business? Okay,

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Speaker 2: Point that it will close.

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Speaker 3: They will hopefully go through and go through the Heartscot

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Speaker 3: Redino just the oj rules and by the way, those

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Speaker 2: A dollar thirty.

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Speaker 3: So the sportsmen and those that were busted deals. Uh,

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Speaker 3: That's a different dynamic. They always wanted to do it.

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Speaker 3: Now they feel more comfortable in saying it's going to

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Speaker 1: Waits are you think that there are deals that are

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Speaker 1: fomed by the wayside that you think will be revert

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Speaker 1: what those.

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Speaker 3: We have several of them that we're focusing on. So

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Speaker 3: we're working on that. We'll see some of the other

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Speaker 3: ones that where companies bought them like SJM. Schmuckers bought

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Speaker 3: how that could also maybe be re examined. In the

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Speaker 3: case of Myers, they bought a company called Signature, one

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Speaker 3: of the competitors of Signature, which puts down on construction

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Speaker 3: Texas has gone from five dollars to fifteen and so

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Speaker 3: the world is starting to see that Connexpo right now

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Speaker 3: is going on in Las Vegas, and individuals and companies

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Speaker 3: be another example Myers. For example, another company in Buffalo,

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Speaker 3: New York, which I've liked forever, is called National Fuel

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Speaker 3: and Gas. They land in the Marcellus and with LNG

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Speaker 3: being exploited, with Negast being a source of power for

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Speaker 3: the data centers in terms of electricity, they could sell

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Speaker 1: It's a hot Hey Mario, I'm just going to have

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Speaker 1: to jump in. I hate to do this because we're

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Speaker 1: up against a hard break, but you are fantastic. Please

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Speaker 1: come join us again soon. The one and only Mario Gabelli, Founder, chairman,

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Speaker 1: and CEO of Gabelly Funds.