In terms of her business judgment in a cumin, I think it's fair to say that we do know.

I mean, she was pushing to merge the Vycom and the CVS companies into one larger company.

And I think she's pretty much been vindicated on that. There was no question today with the rise

of the giant streaming services that, you know, size and scale in the entertainment industry now

counts for more than it probably ever has in the past.

I'm Chris Hill and that's James B. Stewart, a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the New York

Times and co-author of the new book, Unscripted, the epic battle for a media empire and the redstone

family legacy. Warren Buffett made a clear bet on this company's future. Berkshire Hathaway

owns 91 million shares of Paramount Global, the resulting media empire at the center of this book.

My colleague Katie Piper caught up with Stewart and co-author Rachel Abrams to talk about the

challenges facing Paramount Global's current chair, Sherry Redstone, and stories involving the

media conglomerates founder, who just happens to be her father, some near Redstone, like the time he

fired Tom Cruise after a bad interview. So there are so many riveting threads from your book that I

could highlight for our audience. I was absolutely gripped while I was reading through it.

There's made for reality TV drama of some some near Redstone's romantic affairs to the behind-the-scenes

politics of CBS and Viacombs boardrooms, politics that as a consumer I realized affected all of us.

But yet the thing that struck me most was just the tragic figure of Redstone at the end of his life.

Here's this billionaire mogul who built this vast empire and was often fairly brazen in his

attitude. And yet you guys kept relating these stories of him crying and his

astrangement from his family. Not to start us off with such a hot topic, but what would you

guys say he regretted most towards the end of his life? Well certainly, I mean one of the things

that was like it was really interesting to experience it while working on this book is here is a guy

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