Chris Paul. Mary covers this for us out in Hollywood and he joins us right now to kind of make sense of this. I mean, there are a lot of moving pieces to this, but at the end of the day, we're talking about two or I guess we should say at least one newly formed media company potentially gobbling up one of its biggest competitors.Yeah, huge deal. And we'd heard about this a little while ago and we're just still trying to figure out. That made sense because, you know, David Ellison has only just taken over Pa ...

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