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It's Monday August 20th.

Welcome to Market Flory.

I'm Cressil joining me in studio,

Jason Moser.

Are you ready?

I'm ready.

Hey listen, I was ready at like 5 o'clock this morning. I got up to take my mom back to the airport and so I saw this news bright and early.

I woke up to emails from listening so you're going to talk about this right? Yeah, we've got restaurant news and we've got sports media news,

but it is merger Monday, and we're starting with the news, of course,

that Pepsi is buying Soda Stream for the cool sum of 3.2 billion dollars.

Pepsi is paying 144 dollars a share.

It has been a really good year for So to Stream shareholders

because it started the year at just under 70 a share.

Yeah, it's a lot of Seltzer. I mean, it's, uh, Soda Stream has had a very interesting,

let's just look at the last five years.

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