Companies/network_studio
Paramount
Tim’s take
He treats Paramount mainly as an example of media consolidation that changes nothing — cable and appointment viewing are already dead, so merging Paramount with Warner Bros just makes a bigger corpse rather than a business 28:01. He calls the strategy behind it "too big to fail," with executives smashing studios together to diffuse blame while still firing the actual people who make anything, like Chuck getting escorted out so they can keep Mission Impossible 35:17 36:56.
Once Larry Ellison's family is running Paramount and buying CBS, his tone shifts from industry cynicism to something more pointed: he frames it as an ideologically driven takeover, installing Bari Weiss to deliver what he calls Israeli propaganda and gut standards and practices, complete with a blacklist of actors who'll never work at Paramount 52:10 31:25. He still folds in the Gulf financing and the Netflix bidding war as further evidence nobody involved actually cares about the product, just the leverage 13:44 1:18:59.
Every Reference (11)
"available for I believe our third show that we've entered at the Paramount and Long Island and Camp Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey"
Tour Dates, Studio Update, and Dino as Studio Designer — #281 - Hewlett Harbor Holiday | The Tim Dillon Show+15s into the segment"money they want to make. and the streamers Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, Hulu, Disney, Fox and others. They have the money and the writers"
WGA Strike: Reading the Demands as a Billionaire's Rep — The Negotiator | The Tim Dillon Show #345+52s into the segment"they're they're they they came to see me uh you know at the Paramount they were like they're just such happy people and they're so"
American Royalty and the 9/11 Bit — The Return Of Shame with Dan Soder | The Tim Dillon Show #363+46s into the segment"the merger of Warner Brothers and Paramount all of these companies in uh in this space uh a lot of them have"
Warner Bros-Paramount Merger and the Death of Cable — A Christmas K-Hole | The Tim Dillon Show #374+1s into the segment"big daddy zaz wants let's make it so big let's get Paramount Paramount plus get Yellowstone we'll merge it with Warner Brothers Warner"
Big Daddy Zaslav and 'Too Big to Fail' Mergers — A Christmas K-Hole | The Tim Dillon Show #374+67s into the segment"you're done we want Mission Impossible we don't want Chuck at Paramount we want Mission Impossible now go get the ketamine therapy that's"
Banks, Goldman Sachs, and Emmett Till on Ice — A Christmas K-Hole | The Tim Dillon Show #374+186s into the segment"nor am I. I want to thank the Ellison family. I want to thank Paramount. I want to thank um everybody who invested severely in me and"
Cold Open: CBS News Desk as a Rabbi, Thanking Barry Weiss — Tim Dillon Joins CBS, Mazel! | The Tim Dillon Show #460+72s into the segment"buying they're what what is it? You correct me here. They're Paramount and they're buying they own Paramount. They own CBS and now they're"
Barry Weiss, CBS News, and the Paramount-Warner Buyout — The Silencing Of Charlie Kirk | The Tim Dillon Show #461+136s into the segment"They've already got a blacklist of actors who will never work at Paramount. It doesn't matter. No one cares. Nobody watches any of this"
Bari Weiss Guts CBS Standards and Practices — Lame Duck Donald & The Immigration Nation | The Tim Dillon Show #470+222s into the segment"on that. Now I think Netflix offered what 96 billion. I think Paramount came in with 108. Who will run these slop the brain rot slot"
Barry Weiss Should Do a Pancake House Town Hall — Erika Kirk, Bonnie Blue & The Brain Rot Slop Factory | The Tim Dillon Show #474+14s into the segment"Paramount, CBS are now buying Warner Brothers which the Trump administration kind of got involved in that deal because Netflix was going to buy them."
Gulf States' Embassies, Frozen Airports, and the AI Bubble Financed by Gulf Money — Emergency Podcast: Iran, Israel, & Imminent Destruction | The Tim Dillon Show #486+160s into the segment