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For February 27th, 2020.

Six.

My name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there. She's got such a rosy view of the future. It's Ashley Burns. Say hi to Ashley, buddy. Look, it's all up, right? We're all going up. There was a news story that kept me up last night. There aren't many that keep me up. You know what I mean? Like trying to like think through the ramifications of it and all. And no, it's not Pakistan declaring

that they are now an open war with Afghanistan. What? Yeah, Pakistan is like after a series of

air strikes in recent days. They're now saying what they are in with the conflict is now an

open war with Afghanistan, which they are now accusing

the Taliban of not focusing on their people and becoming a colony of India, which is not

something that was on my radar at all. And obviously there's been a very longstanding.

I feel like I've missed a lot. Yeah, series of conflicts between Pakistan and India. Yeah, more or less, like since Pakistan became Pakistan. But it's just another country now saying, yeah, we got a war too. This is our war as well. Oh, geez. What a mess. What a mess. And here I thought that the whole Netflix, Paramount Warner Brothers thing was the big mess. Which, by it, can I just say, Bernie, you called it? Was it what, like, two days ago you were talking about, like, how high would the price have to go before Netflix was like, I don't have it? Like, I'm not doing this, but, and I don't have it, but I'm fine not having it because you've done enough damage to yourself to get it.

Hey, hey, good luck.

And now with the new offer that Paramount has made for Warner Brothers, Warner Brothers has now declared it the superior offer.

They gave Netflix four days to respond and like two hours later Netflix responded with like, nah.

It would have been nice to have it, but it wasn't like we had to have it.

Yeah, that was like, just rub a little salt in Paramount's wounds over there.

They were like, you know, we always thought this would be a nice to have at the right price.

But this was never a must have for us.

And meanwhile, like Paramount's like fighting for their fucking lives, like leveraging everything

they've got to the hilt to try to like get this through.

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