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It is Monday, September 8th.

Greetings from Toronto.

I'm here for the film festival.

But the news around town isn't just which films are getting longstanding ovations here.

Spoiler alert, all of them.

We're going to talk about a couple different topics today.

First, it's officially the fall TV season, which doesn't really mean anything anymore, except it's NFL season, which definitely means something.

It's the first NFL season where every single game is available on a streaming service.

Big implications there.

We have big numbers from the YouTube exclusive game on Friday.

We'll get into that.

Also, there was some pretty interesting and surprising numbers from the first

couple weeks of the Wizard of Oz at the Sphere in Vegas. If you remember, James Dolan,

the proprietor of the sphere, he spent about $100 million editing down the famous movie to 70 minutes,

some would say, butchering it, and using AI to enhance it to an interactive experience. He's charging up to $200 a pop in

Vegas. People are paying it to the tune of $2 million a day. So we'll break that down. Also,

we've got some interesting comments from this past week from John Malone. You're not familiar.

He's the billionaire media investor and so-called cable cowboy who helped engineer the merger of Warner Brothers and Discovery.

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