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🗓️ 11 April 2022

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Twitter’s board was going to look a little different. Not so much anymore. (0:22) Tim Beyers joins Deidre Woollard to discuss: - The potential reasons why Elon Musk is jumping off Twitter’s board. - Warner Bros. Discovery’s first day as a publicly traded company. - A potential seller’s strike at Etsy. (20:05) Matt Argersinger joins Deidre in a discussion on how rising interest rates could impact Zillow and Redfin, and what those companies are doing differently from each other. Stocks discussed: WBD, T, DIS, TWTR, ETSY, ABNB, RDFN, ZG Host: Deidre Woollard Guests: Tim Beyers, Matt Argersinger Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl, Annie Franks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Motley Full Money.
0:06.6	Today we're looking at the debut of Warner Brothers Discovery on the market, Elon Musk
0:10.5	and his relationship with Twitter's board and potential seller revolt on Etsy.
0:15.3	I'm Deidre Ward sitting in for Chris Hill and I'm joined by Motley Full Senior analyst
0:25.4	Tim Byers.
0:26.4	Hi Tim, welcome to the show.
0:28.3	Nice to see you again Deidre.
0:29.9	Nice to see you too.
0:30.9	So today is the first day that Warner Brothers Discovery trades on the market as ticker WBD.
0:37.1	So this is after the $43 billion takeover of Warner Brothers from AT&T.
0:41.5	It's an interesting mix of brands that it brings together because this new company brings
0:46.3	together HBO, CNN, TBS and the Warner Brothers Studio.
0:50.8	Then on the other side with Discovery you've got Food Network, HDTV, Magnolia, a whole
0:55.6	bunch of things.
0:57.0	So I think this is really interesting when you start thinking about the streaming wars,
1:01.8	the potential for streaming fatigue.
1:04.3	HBO has HBO Max, CNN's got CNN Plus, there's Discovery Plus.
1:09.1	What are you thinking about all of this and this new company?
1:12.4	Well, I think it's interesting and I think it's necessary.
1:17.0	I think what's the most interesting thing about it is it pulls together a lot of discrete
1:21.9	and different content into a bundle of content that I think at least these executives
1:30.1	are hoping they get some scale out of because you've been trying to sell HBO Max separately
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