Travis Hoium

When we come back, we're going to talk about potential other buyouts that would be interesting in 2026.

Welcome back to Motley Fool Money.

In this segment, we like to have a little bit of fun with investing.

Since we've been talking about the Netflix paramount Warner Brothers Discovery drama, we thought, what other deals or mergers make sense or might even be fun?

I'm going to throw out a few ideas for you guys.

We'll just throw out a spicy one for us that I'm excited about a little bit later.

But I want to get your thoughts on this and whether these would be good ideas.

Let's start with one that I've been talking about for a while.

That is Spotify merging with Ticketmaster.

John, does this make any sense to you?

Or maybe you're the savior.

Everybody hates Ticketmaster, but very few people hate Spotify.

So maybe you're the savior.

You lower your fees a little bit.

I don't know.

Maybe it's a good thing.

It just is one of those things that every time I get an email from Spotify about some artists that I listen to and go, you know, hey, there's a concert coming to your area.

I just think there's so many commonalities between those companies that it makes a lot of sense.

But I think at the end of the day, every time I look at it, Lou, I sort of come down to where you are, where would it be worth the price?

Live Nation, ironically, isn't actually all that profitable.