Alright, what's the craziest thing your daddy ever bought you?
For David Ellison, son of Ora Clary, the answer would be Warner Brothers.
Not the actual brothers.
Larry Ellison bought his best boy, David, the studio.
Larry had already bought David Paramount the studio,
and Paramount the studio just beat Netflix out in a long, drawn-out saga to acquire...
The WB!
The debt-ridden studio that owns Batman, Bugs, Harry, Carrie, Mad Max, The Matrix,
Tony, Tyrion, All Six Friends, The Lego Cinematic Universe, and the Lisan Al-Gaib.
Lisan Al-Gaib?
Oh, and CNN, you just bought Wolf Blitzer.
Blitzer.
The biggest night in Hollywood is around the corner,
but we're going to talk about the biggest deal in Hollywood and why it's probably going to be bad for you on Today Explained.
How can we understand the decisions facing the United States and Israel and Iran
as they weigh next moves in this war?
War that was meant to prevent from reaching a bomb eventually might push them beyond the Rubicon and to have that bomb.
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And I'm Jake Sullivan.
And we're the hosts of The Long Game, a weekly national security podcast.