Bret Weinstein
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It will come back.
This connects to the A24 story.
That's right, yeah.
Because now we're seeing a rebirth of the industry with new creators.
Snyder.
One sense you're kind of saying, I'm setting this up because I know I'm a terrible father.
I don't trust my children to take over the family business.
And maybe they know their kids well.
But what Tom says is exactly right.
But even if you do raise good children, there's still going to be conflict.
Say you groom your son to be or your daughter to be to take over your family empire.
They're going to have their own ideas anyway.
There's always going to be a clash.
They should be.
But you can also make the other argument that when you have a beneficial economic interest, but you don't have active control, you're just a passive investor, there's always going to be legal and natural tension there.
So I think the thrust of the story is you're inviting trouble, but there is no good solution to this other than to be a better father.
Yeah, look, this is a simple story.
Like you said, Tom, it's the business never showed up.
Everybody had pie-in-the-sky predictions about where EV adoption was going to be, and it just never happened.
I mean, look at all the big carmakers, the legacy carmakers that made billions of dollars in investments in EV that this last year they've been writing off because the business just wasn't there.