Tim Miller

Yeah.

So, uh, you know, I guess, so just at like the meta level without getting into, you know, kind of whatever, like the latest deal talk, like what, what's your sense of the consolidation debate and what we're seeing in media consolidations?

Oracle stock's not doing that great.

And so the question is- Paramount does.

Yeah.

Yeah, I want to talk about the political analysis, but just on the antitrust, the merger stuff, because I'm like, there's certain areas of the economy where I'm sympathetic to the kind of antitrust lefty populist crowd.

Yeah, but there's some of those people that they're like, you know, everything's a nail.

You know, they're they're an antitrust hammer and everything's a nail.

My point was that there are certain industries that make sense.

This is one where I don't... I get that there are people that have nostalgic feelings about movie theaters and they're sensitive to the fact that Warner Brothers merging with one of these streamers might mean that it might hurt movie theaters.

And I like going to the movies.

I went to the movies last week.

But...

As a consumer, there's this notion, I think, on the populist, so-called populist anti-Trump's left, but it's mostly like a bunch of DC nerds that they're like, people don't like these big companies.

And I'm like, I think regular people are confused by the amount of streamers they have.

For me, I think a lot of people want consolidation.

I don't know how to find the basketball game anymore.

The Oscars are going to be on YouTube next year.

Sorry.

I feel like people want some consolidation.