So does anybody consider AEW a sport beyond it being on TNT Sports? I

mean, I've known David Ellison since 2011.

I don't think I've ever heard him say the word wrestling.

By the way...

By the way, my new partner, Tarek Tomei, his father, Dr. Tomei Tomei, raised a ton of money.

He raised $5 billion in capital for Tom Barrack and Colony Capital back early 2000s, back before Skydance was established.

herrick's father was asked to get on a plane with david to the middle east and to raise money for skydance back this was late the late oh the late 2008 nine before maybe 2010 um i don't think they brought an investor at that time but i mean that's how deep the relationships are uh you know in various ways i you know david ellison likes he loves aviation he loves movies and obviously you love this this whole paramount warner brothers transactions about ip it's about scale it's about competing with the netflix's and the the the amazons and combining the the streamers that get 220 million subscriptions from paramount plus and uh you know warner's uh max subscribers subscriber base combining all the ip combining uh all of the i mean it's it warner brothers has some of the best ip of anyone in in hollywood it's it's that's why that's why they're doing it allison was on cnbc and sitting in december uh back when this was still a a live auction and he was he was telling them he valued the linear cable channels at one dollar per share when like zazloff won five dollars per share he didn't give a fuck about the tv stations so um at least at least that's what his public statements are that i would take away from them um it's not it's not why they did the transaction but also like you know would listen to the order or like the chronology of this introduction i've known david ellison i've worked with him well then he says nfl films so a couple years ago david ellison and scott ance did a 50 50 joint venture with nfl films it's called skydance sports um skydance sports is 50 50 owned with nfl uh the nfl nfl films is not part of the overall skydance hierarchy uh in terms of it's not under paramount it's a separate separate company skydance sports it's 50 50 ownership When he says NFL films, what do you mean he worked well? He bought 50-50 ownership of NFL films and you were introduced to him.

Fucked.

"You've been warned of handful of times." Whatever the fuck they wrote

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but do, do you understand, do you understand how like these corporations like, especially like those, those firms work? I mean, um, they have to send whatever sort of, um, files for your, uh, or letters for your HR, or file, whatever it is, just to make sure that there's optionality in case they ever want to go in whatever direction, you know, later down the road.

Uh, I always kinda thought it was a joke 'cause most of the agents in anywhere in the major agencies are under, uh, multi-year contracts.

And, um, long before like COVID and, um, all of the consolidation I would say, and like the people like losing jobs and the const- like again, like I think the 20% or so of the industry across the board, uh, lost different jobs.

I was at will on purpose.

So if you send someone a HR letter, whatever, and they're at will, like it just, it's kind of like contradictory.

Yeah