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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

It's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Held joining me this week's senior

analyst Jason Moser and Ron Gross. Good to see you as always, gentlemen.

Patty. Doing Chris. We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street. We'll get a report on the automotive industry

from veteran journalist Paul Linert. And as always, we've got a couple of stocks on our radar.

But we begin with another deal in the media landscape. This week Amazon bought MGM studios for $8.5 billion.

MGM was founded nearly a century ago and the studio library includes 17,000 TV shows and more than 4,000 films,

including the James Bond and Rocky Balboa franchises. Jason pretty much everyone thinks that Amazon overpaid for MGM.

Let's face it, they need the content and they've got the money.

Yes and yes, they do need the content and they do have the money. And I agree. It is probably, it's easy to look at the

studio and at least in the near term and feel like maybe they overpaid. But I also, I feel like this is sort of a, as

much as we love Disney for their vast catalog of IP, this to me is an investment on that same wavelength.

And so what I'm getting at here is the while it looks like today, they're paying it off a lot for a content that may or may not

be paying out in the near term. It also does give them, I think, a really long tail of opportunity in taking this content,

taking this IP in a number of different directions, right? Backstories. Doing all of that stuff that Disney does so well with all of its

IP, making new stories out of content that they already have. I mean, this gives Amazon at least the potential to do that,

which I think is encouraging. And then the other side of this deal, you know, it's not like they're going to get access to

everything. I mean, licensing video content is a very, it's an involved affair and it's difficult to always connect all the

dots. So while you might not see all of this content, immediately making its way to Amazon's distribution, I think that what it does do,

it giving Amazon ownership of it, even though you may see that content on other channels, it at least gives Amazon the opportunity to monetize it to some extent.

So I just think this requires looking a little bit further out than probably many would like to.

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