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That guy works the lesbian look so beautifully. I've told him this to his face. I'm like, you look like a lesbian I used to date back in the eighties. everyone, this is Pivot from New York magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Kara Swir. Scott is off again. Who knows where he is? He's floating around in some yacht and some Italian area, I think. Uh and but I brought in someone who was much smarter than him, Matt Bellany, journalist, founding partner of Puck, and host of the Town Podcast. Welcome, Matt. Thanks for having me. I don't know about that comparison to Scott, but I'll take it. No, he's really smart. But I the in the topics that we're gonna be talking about, and there's so many of them, you are you are just do an amazing job and an amazing reporter on Hollywood and more and and broader. You talk about AI and a manner all manner of things. And I just wanna put a also a shout out to Eric Gardner, who writes with you sometimes on the legal stuff. Yep. Riveting. He's great.

Yeah, once a week at Paki's great. I gotta tell you important, actually. It's stuff I didn't know about. And I you know, you understand how especially around copyright and things like that. Anyway, it's really good. I've been having a one of the things reason I want to have you on, because you really have written some of the smartest stuff around a lot of these mergers and more to come. And so I want to sort of get a preview of where you think are going, but I wanna you recently I wanna bring something up. You recently said Can Lions is a tacky business conference. How did that go? I agree with you, but how did that go over? Uh okay.

Jackie, I would the wine is lovely. But it's not a good thing. So listen, I did an intro my newsletter a couple of weeks ago during Can Lion, which I called it a soulless corporate boondoggle and that I would not be attending that year. Uh it seems to have triggered everybody who was there because I kept hearing from people that it was coming up at different panels. Ben Smith asked um Alex Cooper about it on his panel. And listen, I I think it was a little misunderstood. I don't mind a boondoggle. Like I love a good boon boondoggle. The problem with Can Lion is that they call it a

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