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ron howard has announced a "happy days" reunion. 46 years after the reunion.t's a funds raiser for wisconsin democrats. chichi tweeted out it's shameful. >> laura: i love that. this is all they have. they did this with hillary. remember, they had all of these celebs out for hillary. ben affleck went out for john kerry. they always do this. they send these people out there and to limited effect i think in the end. >> my problem, laura, they're using nostalgia campaigning. they're bringing us apart and ripping us apart with politics and diffusing the things we love them for. it's a bad move. there's fascinating things happening on the pop culture front with black and latino votes. okay? 50 cent and ice cube have endorsed trump. what they think of their work, they're hugely influential in the community. the sentiment is showing up in the polls. in 2016, trump attracted 10% of young black voters. ucla's nation scape poll has trump now at 21% with those same black voters which is pretty amazing. >> laura: i hope that holds. i hope they continue to build on that. th

it is ron howard, for heaven's sake david looks at it and realizes, that's jim's right, i got to watch that the first time, the first time that david's looked at me in 22 years like, one of those -- like a scooby-doo he did a scooby-doo on me. >> well, jim, your point is good in that hastings has long talked about various forms of competition that are nontraditional, sleep being one of them. last night he did specifically reference hbo and tiktok listen to that >> we compete so broadly, we compete for time against, you know, tiktok and youtube as well as hbo as well as fortnite really the limit for us is what is the quality of our service, how often, how many nights do you say, i want to go to netflix and watch the next show? >> well -- >> this morning, jim, more suggestions about pricing power, phasing out free trials, don't try setting up new gmail account to get a few months free, those things in north america look maybe like they're coming off. >> yeah, listen, don't try to pry my netflix from my cold dead hands. netflix is rather remarkable he welcomes these guys, he welcomes them

they have a ron howard movie, "hillbilly elegy" and no other competition.>> there is no alternative rich, let's talk about snap and this other story that julia just set up with it. >> incredible. >> you did say a year ago today that you were initiating coverage on this stock with a $20 price target you took some heat for that. obviously we're well past that now, especially with the gains that we see overnight on this. is this a pandemic story you think about kids who use this so heavily not being able to do so many other things they would. very few outlets for where kids can spend their attention these days is this something that outlasts the pandemic >> sort of the funny thing is that this wasn't really about user growth in the u.s daily active users, which is the dau metric, the u.s. was flat. this wasn't about skyrocketing numbers of users in the u.s. overseas i think they grew a lot in india and that was very helpful. the real story here is that advertisers are embracing snap chat and i think the team that's been hired, jeremy gorman who came over from

get in line, let me switch gears about happy days reunion a buzz this morning scott cast member ron howardit show in support of democrats 2020, the samos weighed in asking to play your character you remid should not you take care of aunt bessie, the full house colori lock lan. >> i think the samos always wanted to be him instead of second fiddle to 3-year-old. and, when it comes to -- here is what i don't get to take a show like happy days, that represented traditional american values good morals slice americana to use that show and those ideals to promote two people in joe biden's, kamala harris condone, are encourage foment rioting looting is bizarre to me. maria: gentleman and you don't agree with it, your character, you should have the right to say i don't agree with this i am not onboard, bottom line. >> i am not onboard, obviously, i don't believe in socialism and marks i have the good to snow the samos is part of the hollywood elite marxist crowd. >> unbelievably scott baio we love you fans of yours, rooting you on see you soon scott baio joining us this morning back in a minute. .