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Mike Schur

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Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

And that necessarily sands off the edges of what is possible and what is creatively exciting.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

Wait, but I did just think of a show idea called Wet Suits.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

Well, I know about Bryce Underwood, current quarterback of Michigan.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

Yeah, he plays for Michigan, so I guess it worked.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

I didn't follow it very closely.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

I will say, though, that of all of the things that we want our billionaires spending money on, this is by far the best, in my opinion, right?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

It's like the college athletes in general being conscripted labor for organizations and groups that have made billions and billions and billions of dollars.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

and have never gotten anything, no healthcare, no salary, nothing.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

The NIL era has at least made it so that they are profiting from their own work.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

And when I read this, I was like, yes, Larry Ellison, focus on this.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

Focus on the University of Michigan quarterbacks and the problem.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

And while you're at it, go pick up a few offensive linemen.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

Go see if there's a running back who needs some money.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

I would rather Warner Brothers own Warner Brothers, frankly.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

That doesn't seem possible.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

It was bought by Zaslav and Discovery and saddled with, I think, $45 billion in debt, which meant it was only a matter of time until he, you know, stripped away and sold off the copper wiring and then flipped it to someone else.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

I believe he also paid himself $250 million as like a bonus finder's fee when he bought the company, which is pretty amazing.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

The report I read said

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

couple days ago is that by the time this is over he will be a billionaire which is probably all that he really ever wanted at some level Time Warner and Warner Brothers are you know

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Bizarro Sporting Class: How to Buy a Hollywood Studio

old venerable entertainment companies.