well greetings and salutations everybody welcome to the best damn movie

relay show on the planter at the john campy show coming right here in our quaint little

studio this is take two we had a technical error when we try to get the show started a little

bit ago i'm joined of course by jonathan boyko oh deja vu similar cat by writer director producer robert

mire burnett i just missed the gig the line is is it a similar cat or the exact same cat

and then i say the exact same cat and i have euro pussy pussy on screen. That was the bit, Rob.

I, I, I, I miss Euro pussy. I really do. And of course, some of you have been around long enough to know what that means. Most importantly, of course, you guys are here. Thank you so much for being here making our little show part of your day. And we've got a lot of stuff to talk about here. so let's not waste any time since we're already a little bit behind schedule and start off with this. Now, of course,

the biggest story that's been going around the world of the movie industry the last six

months has been the impending merger of Warner Brothers with Netflix with Param Paramount, at one point it was Paramount,

then it was Netflix, and now it's Paramount again. But a lot of attention now has been put in

place of like the role David Zazlap has played in this. And you know, David Zazlav is

already a very rich man, but he's going to be an even richer rich man when this is all done as an article and variety came out today.

Look at that.

Look at that.

There it is.

That he's getting like $500 million.

Half a billy from this deal.

Now, of course, part of that is because when they restructured his deal, he gave up a bunch of salary in order to take stock options.

And now with Paramount buying at $31 a share, although stock options are going to equal a lot, plus as an executive, he gets a golden parachute and all that kind of stuff.

But the interesting thing about this article, at least in the headline, he said, he actually wanted to stay.

He wanted to stay. And this was a really good article and variety that I went through. Now, of course, you guys got to understand when David, I'm a fan of David Zaslav. Now, I understand that's an unpopular position to take sometimes, but like I always say, it's often lonely being right. But I've been a big fan of David Zaslov. A couple of things that I think people need to keep in mind when thinking

about David Zazlav's era here. And it's pointed out in this variety article that once they acquired

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