Mike Schur

of the library of warner brothers and all of the ip that it controls and all of the movies they release and all the tv shows and all the franchises harry potter and the flintstones and batman and everything else that is part of this that is the latest move in their quest to essentially be the only entertainment company that exists in the world and that's cool

Okay, so this is my next point, and I'm sorry to ramble so much, but this is top of mind for me and pretty much everyone else out here.

This is the thing that everyone needs to understand, and this is true whether the winner of this is eventually Paramount Skydance or Netflix or anything else.

When companies at this level in this industry merge, it is bad for everyone.

And I literally mean everyone.

It is bad for writers and actors and directors and crew members who work on shows and movies.

It is bad for the executives who work in these companies because many of them are about to lose their jobs one way or the other.

Like these are the right-sizing, efficiency, redundancy kind of buzzwords that you always hear.

There's a person who's the executive VP of development at Warner Brothers.

There's an equivalent person at Netflix or Skydance Paramount.

And when the companies merge, someone gets fired.

It is also, and this is really key to understand, it is terrible for consumers.

People who just like to watch things, people who watch TV shows and movies, it is terrible for you because A, less stuff will get made.

And B, the stuff that does get made will be the same as all the other stuff.

Like these places have playbooks that they run and they have things that work for them on their service or platform.

And everything gets kind of squished to the middle.

There is something about

these folks that if you want to be sort of, I don't know, benefit of the dowdy or glass half fully or something like David Zaslav, who took over this iconic company, like he like bought Jack Warner's old desk.

And he sat and he moved that into his office.

And he met with folks.