Bring in show music please.

This is Squack Pod and I'm C. NBC producer Cameron Costa.

On today's episode, a lot of letters and one very big deal.

WME buying W. W. W. W. W. E. to combine U.F.C. I mean, O. M. G.

W. E.'s fighting chance.

The C.N.

The C. reporter who broke the story, Alex Sherman.

There's a lot of really big personalities now involved in this company.

Dana White is a big personality. Vince White is a big personality,

Vince McMahon is a big personality,

Ari Emanuel is a big personality,

I mean the board group meetings

may be worth televising.

And Senator Joe Manchin is fed up.

He's talking debt limit, inflation reduction, and finding middle ground.

Now all of a sudden there is no reasonable responsible sensible middle with the extremes of the party,

both Democrat and Republican.

And that's what I don't believe in,

and that's what I'm pushing against.

Those conversations, but first, labor issues at Starbucks and at McDonald's, and OPEC surprises everyone

with cuts to production, which complicates things here in the U.S.

This is inflationary. It could mean that the Fed has to stay higher for longer on things too so this has a lot of ripple impacts.

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