i am sorry, chris marangi this is all about game theory. ter had to do this deal because they were inconsequential if they did not, right? chris: there are only so many women in the bar. tom: altice, the french/israeli backed method. sometimes people do mergers for reasons that are not visible. why did john malone five -- find $5 billion of cheap money for this transaction? chris: overblown fears about regulation and secular change. these are the hedge funds, and john committed. they put their money where their mouth is. i have not run all the terms. tom: i think it is just fascinating, the gain -- the game theory involved. brendan: we have john nash to thank, in a way, for the way we think about game theory. it was a mathematical way of looking at things in the 1950's. it was john nash who made it more acceptable to economists more as a principal easier to grasp there it tom: he wrote a 32 page paper at age 21. there is a huge controversy at princeton. as you say, it is a part of everything we do now. i look at it as, what is behind the cur