Mergers and Inquisitions

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Today we discuss Paramount Skydance's seemingly successful outbidding of Netflix in the race to purchase Warner Bros. and the grim reality of a media that refuses to adapt to the shifting digital landscape. Plus, the massive American military buildup in the Middle East as war with Iran inches closer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the best.
0:08.8	Expect the worst.
0:10.9	Some drinks can pay.
0:12.9	Some die of hers.
0:15.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best.
0:20.5	Expect the worst.
0:22.6	Oh, for the best.
0:24.1	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.2	Today is Friday, February 27th,
0:31.6	26. I'm John Podhorst.
0:33.7	The editor of commentary here to apologize for yesterday's unbelievable blunder in which I
0:39.1	told the world that the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People was the industrialist
0:44.5	Andrew Carnegie as opposed to the sort of snake oil salesman Dale Carnegie. And that was really
0:51.6	stupid. And it kind of totally ruined the point I was trying to make about how Americans
0:56.9	have tended to worship at the altar of the latest hip industrialist and that wasn't who Dale Carnegie was
1:06.3	and that was really embarrassing. So you can stop emailing me about how stupid I was because I realized that I was stupid.
1:13.4	You know who is not stupid are my co-panelists here today, executive editor, A. Greenwald,
1:19.3	hi, Abe.
1:20.4	Hi, John.
1:21.1	I'm sometimes stupid.
1:22.5	Neither is senior editor Seth Mandel.
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