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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 he just bought it a while ago and has sort of, you know, made it his house.

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

He lives there now.

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

He livesβ€”

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

He owns and lives in Hawaii.

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

Yeah, he surfs with his surfs.

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

Yeah.

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

So his son, David Ellison, who's I think 42 or so, is a sort of like succession style heir to the throne who has, I don't know what he's done in his life.

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

I mean, he's an environmentalist.

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

David, his son, was the guy who essentially, backed by his dad and others, bought Paramount Studios and Skydance as the other sort of entity.

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

And very quickly after that acquisition, Paramount had declined significantly in value.

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

And so he sort of scooped that up and took on a ton of debt.

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

And now he's trying to roll that into buying Warner Brothers under the Paramount Skydance banner.

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

And in order to accomplish that, he has assembled a true just legion of doom of financial backers, including, I

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

qatari royal wealth fund maybe the folks from abu dhabi and also very importantly jared kushner son-in-law of current my guy yes yeah that's joe's guy yeah joe loves jared who is very clearly part of this bid because they believe that part of their advantage here is an inside track

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

to president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, who has announced boldly and publicly that he intends to essentially decide how this all plays out.

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

It's not a job typically undertaken by the sitting president of the United States to just rub his hands together in glee and say, who wants my approval here for a deal like this?

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

But he's made it clear that that is the case.

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

And so that group believes that they have the inside track through, among other things, Jared Kushner and his side door access to the Oval Office.

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

Nafli.

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

Yeah, Nafli.