Welcome to Inside the Hive. This is your co-host, Joe Hagen. I am here today with two people

who are in my business. They're both reporters who I have an immense respect for, who have

written a book that is just simply unputdownable. I immediately emailed about halfway through,

but it only took me a few hours because I was ripping through it. I emailed James Stewart,

the co-author of this book, along with Rachel Abrams, to say that this is an instant classic.

Unscripted the epic battle for a media empire and the Redstone family legacy. Okay, so

Sumner Redstone, head of Viacom and CBS, I had read about him. I knew just enough to get

the surface of the news about, but you never really could piece together what the deal

was. He was having a fight with his daughter, Sherry Redstone, or maybe there was some conflict

over the control of this company. It was coming in and jubs and drabs, and finally,

it's been consolidated into one book called Unscripted, and it is frickin' juicy, man.

It is like a 19th century novel, or it is like a serialized TV show. It is, in fact, divided

up that way into chapters, seasons and episodes. It reads like that. It is an incredible

page churner, and it is by, like I said, two extraordinary reporters in James Stewart,

is a hero of mine, an legend, author of many books, including Den of Thieves, which is one

that I remember reading and loving. Welcome to the program, James Stewart and Rachel Abrams.

Thank you so much for having us. Thanks, Joe. Yeah, I'm excited to have you here. This

book is like a cross, I know I'm raving, okay? But it's like a cross between succession

and white lotus. It's like subplots within subplots. You got sex, greed, extremely cheesy,

scheming, amoral characters, just basically all over the place. And, you know, at the center

of it is Sumner Redstone. Maybe we could just start by establishing the profile of the

main character here. Sumner Redstone, this sort of, like, storied media mogul, very brilliant

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