Is Netflix the New Cable? Mega Deals, Paramount Drama & Why You Should Hold Long-Term

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4:27Um, yes. I mean, I think that's an easy target for them to hit. Um, but I think the falling of Netflix is a canary in the coal mine for what's to come. But the reason why I keep telling people to double down now, cause you see all the companies doing it. Troy, you just brought up infrastructure and data centers, but even for Paramount to come back and say, well, Larry ellison would personally guarantee yours okay so when people ask what's a moat netflix having that fight this weekend and all the investment that they're going to put into future content to now become our generation's version of cable is them building a moat in front of our face will they go back to 100 yes are we going to still see the 35 40 year-over-year gains probably not but could they eke out 15 to 20 gains yes is netflix a buy yes they are the verb in the category um and probably one of the best run companies in the media space like you look at what everything netflix has done disney has dropped the ball on what they should have done now there's a lot of regulatory reasons and personal vendettas inside of why but would i get back to 100 yes hope for long term yeah you gotta i mean you'll be fine you gotta you gotta hold uh netflix i mean netflix is coming to an interesting time obviously the stock split happens and then the the potential merger here um it's interesting what if mind control is real if you could control the behavior of anybody around you what kind of life would you have can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car when you look at your car you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you?

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10:02Because this is their quarter. This is the quarter where you start to see what they're rolling out for their future. obviously another fight, more live sports with the NFL happening on Christmas here. Stranger Things is blowing out all of its expectations. But inside of that, they got the Diddy documentary. I know we can say what we want, how we feel about it, but you're talking about over 3 billion views for a documentary that you didn't even expect to be on the docket. Yep. And so that tells you, all right, there's growth here. people are really watching it and people are subscribing at records and then you go into the iHeart deal and it's like, okay, well, that's significant because now they want to be a part of your daily life.

10:47Because when you watch Netflix, you watch a show, you're done with it in a day. How can I become a part of your daily life? If I don't have sports every day, what are people doing every day? Well, a lot of people are listening to podcasts on a daily basis. If they have the video component, you're probably watching it on a daily basis or at some point during the week. so if I can be part of your weekly schedule as opposed to hey Stranger Things is done I watch it all or it's seasonal it's seasonal I'm done with it remember when Narcos was a thing we're done with that in a weekend how can I become part of your everyday ritual if I can't do it in live sports I'm going to do it in something that is also entertaining you which is podcasts which is a huge business obviously we're a part of that business the growth is there the potential is there this merger has kind of curveballed it a little bit but I still like Netflix long term I got a few positions in Netflix hold for the long term yo but we've been screaming the same thing just hold, be faithful to your portfolio so you can be free, put it in chat none of this 3 month bullshit 6 months, everything has to be 5 years, like everyone in tech is playing 20 and 30 year games right now Larry Ellison is personally guaranteeing billions of dollars for the benefit of his fucking son.

12:03And people are worried about a three-month run. I've been telling you since the beginning, hold for five years. Stay inside, because a lot of y 'all who popping it on the gram, you're hurting right now. Derek just told you. I can see who living through the business. You got lifestyle businesses, and then guess what? They keep raising the prices on everything. No need to go to lifestyle games. The Larry Ellison thing is, I mean, we've been talking about him for a year now in terms of the moves that he's making, obviously, from Stargate and then with TikTok. TikTok. Quietly, like, all the news with the Paramount potential merger with Warner Brothers, you know, they got approved and now they got 50 % ownership in TikTok, which, you know, kind of said, like, if you look at who's doing the cloud server for TikTok, it was Oracle in 2020.

12:51They got that deal. They were going to be the leader to be an investment. but him saying look i'm putting 40 billion up guaranteed it's interesting because two weeks ago when the cfo of netflix was on he said that that was not part of the deal two weeks later now they got a personal guarantee for 40 billion which tells you how important to them having that network is in terms of spreading the messages that they want have a control of the messages that they want and having media so one thing that the lcn group and i say group because david is the son at the head of skydance and paramount larry is obviously the dad and head of oracle they don't have a media arm the way that they want to right and i told during that class look paramount does not make money skydance does make some money but not enough to have this merger where were they going to get the back end dad said look i know i'm worth 250 is 40 guaranteed i put up all cash deal all cash deal because in the next election if you can go back into that white house and say well i can get you 36 more million viewers per month that'll secure the financing that you need for the other ventures to go well this is war games that's why like the tone that you it's like it is not time to play at all notice in the people who sold off their companies in the last few years the UFC selling was interesting.

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