opportunity to expand our brands, our audience, in cleese -- increase fan engagement and address the fact that sports betting has become endemic to the overall experience for the sports fan. >> that was the chairman of espn and sports content over at walt disney. he spoke a little bit earlier exclusively with us. let's bring in chris to talk more about what is going on. you will talk in depth later about the gambling side of this but i'm curious about the viewership side of this. we have seen viewership fall during the pandemic and engagement fall. there are concerns that with these tv companies like disney and espn having these big contracts, that they have locked into for years with some of these sports leagues that the viewership is not there at the level that would justify some of these billion-dollar contracts. >> a couple of things on that, one is that we saw they were getting a record price for the super bowl ads in february. that is even though the super bowl average viewership has been down for 10 years. the reason is advertisers are still flocking to these big shows because

in in cleese -- an increase in jobless claims for the third week in a row which is a little bit high the situation. remember how many people in congress said we will see a lot more people getting jobs because the extended federal benefits went away. in this case they did not. we do see a huge drop in the number of people getting benefits. this is the first week where we get the data because it is delayed on what happened after february 6. when the extended benefits go way the drop is 6 million 222,000 -- 6,222,000 people no longer getting federal jobless benefits. a year ago it was 27 million. a big change in number of people getting jobless claims in the number of people filing first-time claims goes up for the day. we also got the third read on second-quarter gdp. up by 1/10. personal consumption, are spending marked up 12% from 11.9%. that is probably much of how that is accounted. good news but definitely rearview mirror. today is the last day of the third quarter. will be looking at the third quarter gdp numbers which are not particular good. jonathan: wrong kind of upside suppl