Out Of Prison – Back At Work

Good morning.

As many of you at the studio know (mostly just Senior Management), I have been in a Seychelles maximum security prison for the past two years.

Don’t feel too bad for me, the prison was on the beach and the food was decent (though the king crab was shitty). I was allowed to have my personal chef cook for me after a couple of months because I paid El Presidente a cool eight hundred bucks. The only caveat was my chef – Andres – had to stay with me in prison in a non air conditioned cell next to me.

Seychelles Maximum Security Prison

While Manka Bros. senior management was aware of my imprisonment, most of the rest of the 100,000 global employees were told that I had testicular cancer.

That was not true but I didn’t want to tell the work force (and, especially, the Board of Directors) that I was in jail for tax evasion in my adopted country – The Seychelles.

In my defense, I was not aware taxes had to be paid in The Seychelles. Why, the fuck, would anyone live there unless it was to avoid taxes?!

Anyway, I didn’t have cancer and now I’m back!

So… starting today we’re going to do things A LOT differently.

Here the basic message: THE OLD MOGULS ARE BACK, MOTHERFUCKERS!

Sorry, “new” Hollywood – or whatever anyone under 30 is calling it. Me, Bob Iger, Rupert, Bakish – we’re not going anywhere and we’ll decide what happens in this town. Capisce?

To paraphrase Logan Roy – “WE HAVE YOU BEAT!”

FIRST, THE WGA STRIKE:

Good news, Writers. We are going to settle the strike. I mean, duh, of course we are.

And if I may echo “The Who” – “Meet the new deal… same as the old deal!”

Yep, we’ll settle and you’ll get nothing new or maybe a couple of measly percentage point minimum boosts, and we’ll both figure out how to spin it as a WGA victory. But we know the #Truth – and we know you’ll settle just like it’s 2007.

Sorry. #Truth.

On top of that… we’re going to do things the same way.

We’re putting movies in theaters.

We’re putting TV shows on TV.

We’re making video games and will still sell the majority of them on cartridges.

We’re spending billions on football, baseball, basketball, hockey – because that’s what 60+ year old people want to watch!

So fuck off!

SECOND, AI:

Yeah, we’re keeping that one for ourselves. You’re welcome to use it if it helps the studios but we own this shit and we’ll do with it what we want.

Manka Bros. has been ahead of the A.I. curve for years. You may remember we replaced our CFO David Chang with A.I. about five years ago. This has worked like a charm. I’ve learned that I don’t need a highly-paid human to tell me that our business sucks.

And… I can shoot as many of those machines as I want after hearing bad news and then just plug a new one in once I’ve calmed down. Incredible!

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There’s no turning back and it’s about to get even more disruptive.

Imagine if I need a first draft of a reboot of “Dadbot.” I’m not going to hire Scott Frank for a few million dollars just for a serviceable first draft. ChapGPT is doing the first draft for free and then I will hire some hack to punch it up, add a few jokes that the under ten-year-olds might find amusing and that’s it. It’s a freaking movie about a robot dad raising four human children under the age of twelve. I don’t need Scott Frank for this. I need a machine to pump it out and we make an easy profit. That’s the risk we’re now willing to take.

THIRD, MankaGoNow:

Manka Bros. is going to rebrand MankaGoNow into a more generic service – something that no one is really going to care about but will be too lazy to cancel – like an old dial-up AOL subscription.

The rebranding announcement and new name is coming hopefully in July.

It seems people were confused by “Manka” being in the channel name so we’ll probably go with something like “Go” (Disney owns, though) or “Now” – much less confusing – but new name and brand to come soon.

We paid millions to a branding agency who came up with possibilities for the name such as “GoNow” and “NowGo” – we’re getting close to a final decision.

Oh, yeah, and we’re doing massive layoffs and cost-cutting… details to come.

So… there we are. I’m out of jail, back in Burbank – safely in America – and ready to roll.

Is Hollywood ready?

Khan Manka, Jr., Chairman & CEO – Manka Bros. StudiosThe World’s LARGEST Media Company

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2022 – Day 3 – The Elon Has Landed

Today, was a day in Sun Valley unlike any we’ve ever seen.

Over the years, we’ve had Mogulympics.

We’ve had the horror of Burning Mogul.

We’ve had a group Acid Trip.

We’ve had a Build A Bike session.

We’ve had harrowing white water raft trips in which many of us were close to dying.

We put on a production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

We’ve had a speech from my daughter, Connie, about how Gen Z was coming to destroy old Hollywood’s business.

And we did a disastrous Improv Night.

I could go on and on – just look at the archive posts at the bottom of this post for examples.

But, I can now say, nothing was as weird and pathetic as what happened tonight.

To set the stage…

Elon Musk arrived in Sun Valley tonight.

His Space X / flying Tesla car rocket landed on a barge on the Duck Pond which was cleared by Sun Valley Lodge Security. Supposedly, all the ducks were put in a neutral area (or in a cooking pot claimed off-the-record from a couple of intern kitchen workers on social media).

Once he landed, it wasn’t the pending Twitter acquisition he wanted to talk about, or the mounting criticism about his politics – he wanted to talk about a play he had written.

A play set on Mars.

He described it as “Our Town” but set on Mars amongst the first settlers there.

Elon Musk: It’s called “My Mars” (based on a play by a non-futurist socialist without a clue how the world works). 

Why he decided to take a shot at a long-dead Thornton Wilder at a conference for billionaires is beyond me – but he still did it.

His condition on coming to Sun Valley was that this play would be mounted with some of the moguls as actors and Herb Allen agreed.

This play was written by Elon Musk. (Based on a play written by a ‘dead white guy’ – Elon’s description.)

Directed by Elon Musk.

Produced by Elon Musk.

The role of the Stage Manager to be played by… Elon Musk.

I later learned there were billionaire Hollywood and Silicon Valley moguls who had been rehearsing this play in a secret location for weeks and it was to be performed tonight in the “Great Hall of The Moguls” (Ballroom B).

The food and drink for the audience was going to be things that would survive on Mars without spoiling after several months of space flight – Cheetos, Slim Jims, and Jim Beam.

These were not bad alternatives considering how horrible Herb Allen’s BBQ & Smores-toporia was… which was our lunch.

Those of us not in the play were brought to the ballroom around 7:30.

The set was bare – floor painted red (for Mars) and just a few “Mars” rocks placed around some taping on the stage to give the actors directions. There was a painted backdrop with the solar system behind with a center focus of the planet Earth.

Elon Musk was sitting on a Mars rock reading a virtual book, ignoring the audience.

The Jim Beam and beef jerky were very popular and the audience was getting quite loose.

At exactly 8:00 – everything went BLACK.

And then it went RED.

And then a pin spot on Elon – reading. He looked up, surprised.

Elon Musk: Oh, hello… I didn’t see you there. I wasn’t expecting an audience tonight. I was just reading “The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury. Funny stuff. Kind of a joke, really. Would you… like to know what life is really like on Mars?

With that line, several of the Tech and Hollywood moguls came onto the stage.

No reaction from the billionaires in attendance. A couple of coughs and more drinking and bored doom scrolling on their phones.

John Stankey of AT&T in overalls and a Mars oxygen helmet.

John Stankey: Over there is the rock were I live in my oxygen powered sleeping bag and eat my rations. Mars is incredible!

Elon Musk: Here on Mars we keep to ourselves. Brian Roberts doesn’t have to worry about cable prices or churn, he just has to worry about supply chain and whether the next rocket will make it with the food needed to survive.

Brian Roberts: But, of course, it will make it – it’s a Space X rocket, right?

Elon Music: Of course, your Tang is on its way!

This went on and on and on and on… but because he was worth over $100 million (not counting recent plunges) Herb Allen wouldn’t pull the plug.

But a few of us had to leave.

Me and the Bobs from Disney split – as well as almost all Hollywood moguls.

The others, who thought they needed Elon in some way down the line, I suppose, had to sit there.

The rest of the night was me, Barry Diller, Rupert Murdoch, Bob Iger and a couple other older moguls sitting in the bar and lamenting that there was once a time when we released big summer movies that made a lot of money which made it very easy to take August off in Hawaii.

Those days appear to be over.

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Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2021 – Vlad The Impaler

It has been a long time since I’ve interacted with people.

I’ve been at my house in the Seychelles for 16 months. I was terrified to leave my house because the locals there were hoping to get Covid and die because of their miserable lives working in the service of billionaires living on their islands.

My life is not miserable. So I wasn’t ready to die.

Herb Allen reached out to me in May and said he was having the Sun Valley Mogul conference and knew that if I came, so would Bezos, and Gates, and Zaslav and Iger, etc.

So it was up to me if this conference as going happen. So I, reluctantly, said yes. Even though my mind is not right. My mind is fucked up because of Covid. I live in a world where the ‘paranormal’ seems ‘normal’ these days.

I’m starting to believe that there are vampires walking among us and many of them are media moguls.

While many will say this is a paranoid fantasy concocted in my own brain, I know, for a fact, this is the truth. It sounds like the babbling of a crazy man – but it’s not.

(While I did call this blog ‘Vlad The Impaler’ there is really onto one mogul who would actually impale the heads of his fellow moguls on a pike outside of his castle – and that is Barry Diller.)

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But I digress.

Last night, at the Drankin’ Hole, I actually saw Bill Gates drink blood from a glass and it wasn’t a Bloody Mary. While that is not normal, I get it. I’ve been through a horrible divorce and once contemplated drinking blood (though I didn’t actually do it).

But Gates is an actual vampire.

He drank the blood of a start-up founder he helped to fund (because what start-up founder wouldn’t donate their own blood to Bill Gates for a check?!) and it had nothing to do with his divorce situation.

And my great friend, the greatest bartender the world has ever seen – Bin Tran, has confirmed this fact.

Under a promise that I wouldn’t blog about it (fuck that), he confirmed that he had a gallon of human blood behind the bar just for Bill Gates and a quart of human blood just for Charlie Munger (he’s not a vampire – it’s just to keep his heart pumping with new blood that actually works).

Things are not right here. It’s all fucked up. And it may just be my own mental state right now, but I actually believe that people’s lives are in danger here.

In my history and life in Hollywood, I have never seen the level of murder-lust than I have this year. So many moguls want to kill other moguls.

I mean, I understood it in the 1970s when people wanted to kill Jack Warner – but now, everyone wants to kill everyone. And mostly just because their TV show didn’t win an award.

And now the only thing that seems to keep media moguls happy is the chance to go into space. What the fuck kind of middle age crisis is happening. I’m past middle age and have no desire to die in space (or even live in space). I want to go to Cannes, drink cocktails and watch fucking movies.

Jeff Bezos told me that he was terrified of going into space and has arranged for a blue screen film production to make it look like he actually does go to space without having to sit on top of a rocket that could explode. This was, also, confidential information that I could give a shit whether it comes out.

This is my current mental state.

I give no fucks.

I think I’ll leave Sun Valley tomorrow – not wanting to participate in the ‘Life After Covid In Media’ panel which promises to suck.

To really suck.

You want to know what ‘Live After Covid In Media’ is?

It’s media. It’s film. It’s television. It’s games. It’s the fucking same!

I’m tired and worried that Bill Gates wants to suck my blood. Hopefully he goes after others first.

Good night. Worst Allen & Co. event ever!

Khan Manka, Jr. – Chairman & CEO – Manka Bros. StudiosThe World’s Largest Media Company

 

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Good afternoon.

This is THE BIG ONE.

Manka Bros. – the World’s Largest Media Company (and getting bigger every day!) is planting the biggest fucking content flag in Hollywood… suck on that!

As you all know, Manka Bros. announced we are going over-the-top with a new SVOD service MankaGoNow. We made the announcement over a year ago and we’re finally getting close to launch.

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AND WHAT A LAUNCH IT WILL BE!

In 2020, Manka Bros. will be producing OVER 400(!) new multi-year series, event series, mini-series, animated series, feature films, documentaries, reality shows, talk shows… every goddamned format on the planet – and it’s ONLY available on MankaGoNowthe soon to be world’s largest (and, therefore, best) OTT service.

That’s not a platitude – that’s a motherf-ing fact!

[MB Lawyer note: Whether that’s a fact or not is TBD.]

We read everyday the exorbitant numbers being spent on new content: Netflix spending $12 billion a year; Amazon spending $8 billion a year… Disney, HBO Max, Peacock, etc. Every day it’s some new crazy number.

But from what we’ve seen so far, they are all producing bull shit and WE are produce good shit. So suck that again, Hollywood!

And don’t get me started on Jeffrey Katzenberg’s silly little streaming folly that will lose investors at least $2 billion!

At Manka Bros., we are taking an opposite (read: smarter) approach – MORE CONTENT FOR LESS MONEY!

We must have heard over a seven hundred pitches – but only four hundred or so made the cut and got a greenlight!

It’s a long… long… long list – more content produced in one year that any studio ever!

So get yourself comfortable, grab a glass of wine or do a line of coke (whatever your thing might be) and get ready to SUBSCRIBE!

[MB Lawyer note: We don’t recommend any of the above behavior. Alcohol and drugs are bad. Also, some shows below are still under contract negotiation and are only being announced under a mutual agreement between the parties involved.]

  1. MankaGoNow Awards (live event): Annual award show honoring the best shows on MankaGoNow.
  2. Burbank’s Thursday Afternoon Book Club For The Fucking Unmotivated (multi-year series, comedy): A group of losers who can’t seem to accomplish anything they talk about live in a shitty Burbank apartment, read a book every week and then podcast about it.
  3. Trouble Clef (movie, drama): Someone is killing the great 12-tone composers of the world. Probably someone who had to listen to that shit.
  4. Mac McCord – Double Down (live event, music): Country superstar Mac McCord puts a pause on his world tour to go LIVE for MankaGoNow subscribers this Arbor Day from the fabulous Tonga Hut in North Hollywood, California, to regale fans with some of his most beloved plantinum hits including “A Crazy Kind Of Love,” “It’s The Super Bowl, Bitch,” “She Put The ‘C’ In Country,” and “The Lord IS My Jesus.” #CMA
  5. Portland PodiFiles (multi-year series, drama/romance): What happens in those woods? Bigfoot erotica. “We’ve all imagined.” A “Beauty and the Beast” story that actually gets it right – out of the sewer and real! #bigfoot, #bigfooterotica
  6. The A.I. Blockchain Virtual Reality Variety Hour (multi-year series, variety): Comedy skits, magic tricks, songs and bits all produced and performed by artificial intelligence.
  7. Dearly Departed (multi-year series, comedy): Old cantankerous couple goes to random funerals every day and reviews / podcasts about the funeral and, in particular, the eulogy. They become a hit and when they have to explain to friends and family why they do this, they always respond with a shrug and say “It’s a living.”
  8. Chou Vindication (movie, drama): A baker takes his controversial cake to the Supreme Court. Directed by Ganache D’Souza.
  9. Married Alive (multi-year series, comedy): Carla and Sonny were matched to be married since they were in pre-school on Staten Island. They hated each other until high school. Then had sex. Then had to get married. And now, they’re married, and it’s a total disaster.
  10. MiddleApril (limited series, drama): Manka Bros.’ 11-part sequel to George Eliot’s classic novel “Middlemarch.” 
  11. Craptastic! (reality series, talk): Two theater reviewers seek out America’s worst Community Theater and mercilessly rip apart a new production every week.
  12. Justinian’s Jugheads (animated series, kids): Manka Kids presents The Original Coder! The hilarious life of this sixth century upstart coder and his voracious band of sidekicks! Justinian writes killer (but civil) code, and together with his crazy tribe, break all the rules as they eat and pillage their way across the globe – in the good sense.
  13. Lowering the Barre (multi-series, comedy): Mockumentary-style comedy series set inside the world’s shittiest ballet company. Directed by Christopher Guest. [MB Lawyer: Mr. Guest is not officially attached as he hasn’t read the script… yet.]
  14. You Call That Brain Surgery? (reality series, competition): World-class brain surgeons compete against each other in front of a panel of judges, with one winner to be crowned “World Greatest Brain Surgeon.”
  15. Giiiihad!!! (musical, live theater): Starring Gigi Hadid with music and lyrics by [MB Lawyer – composers have requested names be redacted and are terrified for their lives]. Jihad – Broadway-style. Gigi’s dad, Mohammed Hadid, fights the Malibu HOA to get his hideous McMansion built.
  16. 2nd Act Black Friend (movie, comedy): In a normal romantic comedy, the 2nd Act Black Friend has a scene or two with the white male lead and delivers a poignant line or two to get him back on track. We’re giving the 2nd Act Black Friend his own movie – and his 2nd Act Friend will be gay.
  17. The Incubator (movie, horror): A reclusive billionaire serial killer is funding start-ups just so he can kill the founders, one by one.
  18. Rampage Of The Stegosaur – The Musical (live event): Direct from Broadway, the soon to close “Rampage Of The Stegosaur” musical (based on the live-action “Rampage Of The Stegosaur” theatrical blockbuster) will live stream for MankaGoNow subscribers only.
  19. Get In The Goddamn Motherfucking Bathtub! (animated, short): Unauthorized sequel to children’s publishing sensation “Go The Fuck To Sleep.” [MB Lawyer: No legals issues here, completely different story.]
  20. Sinheritance (movie, comedy): Sadistic rich uncle Larry dies and leaves behind a will – that can be claimed by only one relative. To earn the inheritance, the winner must commit the Seven Deadly Sins (and record it) in the fastest amount of time.
  21. Sans Serif (multi-year series, comedy): Publishing house employees have hilarious battles about layout, font choices and the Oxford comma which doesn’t stop them from dating, hating and, yes, killing each other.
  22. Seamus’ Pub Stops (live events, music): International music phenomenon Seamus travels the world and plays the world’s biggest arenas – but did you know he also shows up at local pubs and does pop-up shows? Throughout the year, MankaGoNow, follows Seamus to his drunken pub crawls and records the shows exclusively for subscribers!
  23. Crimea River (limited series, comedy): True to her word, after her presidential candidate fails to be elected, a faded mega pop star from Brooklyn moves to a five-star Crimea river resort on the Black Sea. She throws the people of Ukraine under the bus after falling in love with a Russian occupier. #barbra
  24. Wishdasher (movie, family): Some people don’t deserve to have dreams – and the Wishdasher (Jane Seymour) makes sure they never come true for those people.
  25. Mind Kampf (movie, drama): A contemporary man is thrust back in time, incarnating the body of Hitler’s publisher. Will he be able to stop the horrors to come?
  26. All Hands On Dick (multi-year series, comedy): Dick is a massage therapist by day (with a very wealthy older female clientele), and an exotic dancer at night. He solves other people’s problems first with his hand, and then with their hands on him.
  27. The First Supper (short, comedy): Christ throws a party for his friends in his new apartment. #housewarming
  28. Boytoyevsky (movie, biography): A lightly researched biography of Russian writer Vladimir Doystoyevsky and his crazy sex life when he wasn’t working on the world’s greatest novels.
  29. What’s In The Shed, Ma’am? (reality series, investigative): Actors hired by Manka Bros. dress as policemen and go to houses in rural Arkansas demanding to know… “What’s in the shed, ma’am?” Most of the time, it’s sometime truly horrifying.
  30. Allah’s Challahs (reality series, food): Regional chefs concoct dynamic Middle Eastern fusion cuisine filmed deep in the heart of Riyadh and its surroundings (if our crew can get out!). #cliffhanger
  31. Zapruder Presents (reality series, news): The exact opposite of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” Abraham Zapruder’s (from the classic Manka Bros. series “Zapruder’s Roving Eye”) grandson, Jacob, introduces clips of horrible things happening to good people, with a studio audience.
  32. Morbidness (movie, horror): Charles Yang, a macabre book store owner in San Francisco increases his sales after people start getting murdered in his shop.
  33. Ballerina Boot Camp (movie, family): A sadistic ballet mistress puts all the little princesses, little monsters and sweetie pies through the rigors of the most physically demanding ballet classes these six-year-olds have ever had.
  34. Culinary Conundrums Of Great Literature – Hosted By M.O.M. Fischer (reality series, culinary reenactment): Did it seem odd to you that on his first night in Dracula’s Castle solicitor Jonathan Harker is served Hungarian Goulash by the Count? Impossible! A necessary ingredient of Hungarian Goulash is Garlic, and, the stinking rose is an existential threat to Dracula! Pulitzer Prize winning food writer, M.O.M. Fischer will search for the meaning of Bram Stoker’s tasty tease, as well as other careless culinary continuities throughout literature’s great works. #mfkfisher, #HungarianGoulash, #dracula
  35. I, Juror (event series, drama): After democracy has been abolished from every country that has… democracy, one juror from the decaying system’s final trial, Euroa Unione is “elected” to be in charge of everything that happens on the planet… and he’s a real prick.
  36. Send In The Nouns (live-action series, kids, educational): Manka Kids afternoon show in which lovable characters in the shape of punctuation symbols teach kids about grammar.
  37. Hippotist (animated series, kids): Shelly is a lonely hippopotamus in the Sacramento Zoo. She is also a hypnotist – and uses that skill to hypnotize other zoo animals into playing with her.
  38. Christian Lions (animated series, faith): Manka Faith inspirational children’s show about Lion missionaries bringing the word of Christ to other animals.
  39. Protect Yourself At All Times (reality series, sports): The amazing Dr. Rich is THE doctor in the pro boxing and MMA world. The crusty New York doctor, working alongside his refined upper-crust Wife, are the Tracy and Hepburn of medicine.
  40. LinkedIn Presents “Resumates – HookIn’ Up” (reality series, dating): A dating show that attempts to pair couples via their LinkedIn resumes.
  41. Proust Office (short, drama): Every memory you’ve ever had can be rediscovered at the Proust Office. A favorite candy from childhood… Proust Office. A favorite smell from a restaurant that has long since closed… Proust Office. A person’s phone number that you had a crush on as a child but can’t seem to locate and it would be so great if you could show up at that person’s door as a “surprise”!
  42. The Prairie (documentary): Epic 400-hour series based on the history of the American prairie.
  43. The Harmer In The Dell (movie, horror): The Harmer kills the wife. The Harmer kills the child. The Harmer kills the nurse. The Harmer kills the cow. The Harmer kills the dog. The Harmer kills the cat. The Harmer kills the mouse. The Harmer eats the cheese.
  44. Who Or What The Fuck Is Tekashi 6ix9ine? (reality, investigative): Manka News does a deep investigation into whatever or whoever Tekashi 6ix9ine is.
  45. Grandfather Cock (movie, teen comedy): He’s a legend… the grand kids are so embarrassed.
  46. Pringles Sour Cream & Onion Presents “The Mahabharata” (live theater event): Revival of Peter Brook’s award-winning nine-hour staging of the Hindu epic. It will be streamed live April 26 without a break or intermission. (Thanks to the great folks at Pringles for their generous support.)
  47. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Presents “This Is Bullshit” (reality series, music): Series follows the band around to all the shitty venues they must play just to survive because they haven’t had a hit since 1976 (and they didn’t even write it!).
  48. Writer’s Rooms Throughout History (reality, comedy): Manka Bros. re-imagines what it must have been like to be in a writer’s room when they all came up with Norse Mythology, The Bible, Star Wars, when they helped Shakespeare “break” Hamlet, Oedipus, etc.
  49. Martha Stewart Mysteries (multi-year series, drama): Martha Stewart’s first foray into the true crime genre. Each week, another four-course meal is prepared and another crime is solved by Detective Stewart.
  50. Chuck & The Man (multi-year series, comedy): All white reboot of 1970s comedy series “Chico & The Man.”
  51. Build-A-Bear (animated series, kids): Frankenstein story for kids in which a 5-year-old boy dresses up as a mad scientist and decides to build-a-bear from scratch using pieces of other bears. It comes to life and they have amazing adventures.
  52. Jonah & The Whale And Other Bullshit Stories About Bullshit (limited series, anti-faith): No God Productions (NOT affiliated with Manka Faith) presents this nice alternative (for our atheist subscribers).
  53. Hey, Culligan Man! (multi-year series, comedy): Period sitcom set in the 1950s in which the Culligan Man delivers water and fucks anything that moves.
  54. Iceberg (animated movie, kids): Jewish ice that floats around the Atlantic Ocean feeling really guilty about sinking the Titanic – and looking for redemption.
  55. The Much Younger Lady Who Lived In A Shoe (animated series, kids): Prequel to the ‘Little Old Lady Who Lived In A Shoe.’
  56. The Bronze – A History Of Third Place (documentary, sports): Manka Sports takes a hard, critical look at those who weren’t good enough for Gold or Silver.
  57. Kareem Abdul Ja-Bear (animated series, kids): Reboot of the beloved 1980s Manka Kids series about a very wise, very tall bear (voiced again by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).
  58. Get That Moose! (movie, kids): There’s one talking moose in all of Nova Scotia – and he got away. Are you kidding me?! That moose is worth a million dollars on the interview circuit – but first we have to save him from the first day of hunting season!
  59. Tony Mastrantanianio – Vegas Boss (event series, comedy): During the Las Vegas growth explosion of the 1950s there were casino moguls and then there was Tony Mastrantanianio – the most violent and ruthless casino boss to ever walk the Strip.
  60. Wazoom! (multi-year series, fantasy): Beloved MC Comics’ character Wazoom! finally gets his own series. Wazoom! is faster than the Flash, stronger than Superman, and is the only superhero with the power of Wazoom!
  61. #Dad = #Bullshit (multi-year series, comedy): Single dad, Ray, is having a hell of a time raising 12-year-old Carson.
  62. Joey Chestnut’s Christmas Miracle (movie, holiday): Competitive eating champion Joey Chestnut has to eat all the food at the North Pole so that Santa can slim down a bit before his Christmas toy deliveries.
  63. Je Le Que Toi, Mon Cherie (movie, musical, drama): Unsuccessful singer-songwriter trio from Keokuk, Iowa, decide to reinvent themselves as French chanteuses in Paris. Problem: They don’t speak French. They don’t sing well. And they don’t have heart. But Paris is a city of magic and even suck ass, no talents can find a way.
  64. The Death Of Jesus (documentary, faith):Our Manka Faith documentary group sends a crew to the Middle East to find out what really happened to Jesus.
  65. Fakeover (reality, fashion): Bullshit Cinderella-style makeovers that only last until midnight.
  66. Nuncompoop (multi-year series, comedy): “No, Sister Margaret, Abraham wasn’t one of Jesus’ apostles!” Series set in a convent in Hershey, Pennsylvania, young Sister Margaret doesn’t know anything about God. (Tagline: “She’s just so stupid!”)
  67. Roommating (multi-year series, comedy): These goddamned millennials change their roommates more often than a terrified chameleon changes color (read: all the time!).
  68. Teri, The Terrified Chameleon (animated series, kids): Everything seems to scare poor little Teri causing her skin to change color all the time, which freaks out her cute little jungle friends.
  69. Bargainauts (movie, family): If we can make jokes about the Albanian Army, we can certainly make jokes about the Albanian space program.
  70. Paint Drying (reality, slow-tv): A Manka Slow-TV production of actual paint drying over several hours.
  71. The Rainbeau’s Invade Vietnam! (documentary, music): Beloved Manka Kids superstar singing group The Rainbeau’s toured Vietnam last summer – and we’ve got all the footage.
  72. Toke-yo (multi-year series, comedy): Imported Japanese sitcom that takes place in a Tokyo pot shop (based on the Chinese series ‘Shang-High’).
  73. Fantine’s Revenge (or Les Miserables 2) (movie, horror): The ghost of Fantine gets her bloody revenge on all those who were horrible to her during her life.
  74. One Bad Apple (reality series): We throw one really bad person into a perfectly happy household to see if one bad apple really does spoil the whole bunch… girl.
  75. Cavalier Bedfellows (multi-year series, drama): In the 1700s, two swashbuckling swordsmen must keep their forbidden love secret as they fight for the King of France.
  76. Doggo Saves The World (movie, family): Thank God for good boye Rusty Dog who, against all odds, saves the world from a nuclear meltdown.
  77. A Flock Of Seagulls Presents ‘Hedda Gabler’: (live theater event):The 1980s New Wave band is now producing live events!  This year, on July 4th, it will be Henrik Ibsen’s ‘Hedda Gabler’ – featuring a yet be announced cast of stars.
  78. Detourist (movie, horror): A young couple on their honeymoon in Arkansas follow a detour sign only to find that it was a trap set by a family a cannibals.
  79. Jack Courted Hannah (movie, drama): Past tense in the title is because, yes, Jack “courted” Hannah (and, in flashback there was real love) – but now they’re divorced and despise each other but still have to talk because of their shared dog that neither want to give up.
  80. Ig-Lou (multi-year series, comedy): Lou Jacobson, a Jewish baker from Queens, decides he needs to change his life in a dramatic way, so he moves to the Arctic to live among the Eskimos.
  81. The Rise And Fall Of The Third Rich (multi-year series, drama): The third Rich Kent in the family is the first to go to college.
  82. Dr. Dracula (limited series, horror): If you’re sick, you have no other choice – he’s the only doctor in town.
  83. Bacon Wrapped Scallops (reality series, food): Food series set on a food truck where they serve only one item.
  84. Hyena Pups (animated series, kids): Even hyena pups are cute… and they have a band!
  85. Will Rogers Never Met A Man He Didn’t Like (documentary): The secret gay life of America’s cowboy humorist icon.
  86. How To Make $1 Million In 25 Minutes… Guaranteed (reality, educational): 25 minute educational video on how to make $1 million in 25 minutes… guaranteed.
  87. Wandmill (movie, fantasy, kids): There is a legendary windmill in the hills above Consuegra, Spain. This windmill – said to have magic wands as its blades – has never been discovered… that is until a peasant girl named Maria Alonzo happens upon it while searching for her lost pig, Horatio. Her life will never be the same.
  88. Horrible Mysteries (multi-year series, drama): Really bad mysteries, badly told. Sorry.
  89. Harlem Knights (multi-year series, drama): Deep in the heart of Harlem in the 1970s, there was one group that even police were afraid to confront – the Harlem Knights. True their names they wore suits of armor in public and road around on horses. Goddamn they were vicious but deeply loved by the community.
  90. The Rise & Fall Of The Roman Empire (multi-year series, drama): Roman Arnold is the starting high school quarterback for the Center High School Yellowjackets in Kansas City, Missouri. The series covers his amazing high school years in which he could bully anyone he wanted and have sex with any girl he wanted… to the rest of his life, uneducated, fat and working at a furniture store.
  91. So The Japanese Won World War 2… Now What? (limited series, drama): Alternate history series about what would happen if Hirohito was EVERYBODY’S Emperor.
  92. Shit That Makes Me Cry (multi-year series, documentary): Based on the Manka Bros. podcast, heartbreaking stories from around the world that will make everybody cry (animals, kids, death, etc.).
  93. 12U Girls Lacrosse (reality, live sports): Manka Sports has secured worldwide rights to the California 12U Girls Lacrosse League.
  94. Welcome To The Jingle (reality series, game show): Re-imagining of “Name That Tune” where contestants vie to name that advertising jingle from the beginning of radio to the newest products of today.
  95. Cat Box Horror (reality series, competition): Contestants race to clean out the most disgusting cat boxes from around the world. Barf rises!
  96. A-Ha! (reality series, music): The band A-ha!, that hasn’t had a hit in 30 years, shares an apartment in Oslo, plotting their comeback.
  97. Santa Ana Anne (multi-year series, drama): That sweet little old lady waving to elementary school kids every morning from her front porch has some dark fucking secrets.
  98. Penny’s From Heaven (multi-year series, faith): Manka Faith’s blatant rip-off of “Touched By An Angel.”
  99. The Waiting Game (reality series, competition): Competitive waiting show where contestants see how long they can wait for the dentist appointment before losing their minds.
  100. Rock Hard, Ride Hard (reality, sports): Equestrian daughters of the Rich and Famous are completely out of control.
  101. Unidiversity (multi-year series, comedy): A college in upstate New York in which each class is only allowed one of a particular race or ethnicity. One white, one black, one Hispanic, one Asian, etc. It’s not really funny – but it’s important.
  102. Hickory Dickory ROCK (reality series, kids): Dimebag Darrell, founding member of death metal band Pantera, hosts this kids series in which nursery rhymes are played as hardcore metal rock while 4-7-year-olds thrash around on the dance floor.
  103. And Then There Were 47 (reality series, competition): Forty-seven people of diverse backgrounds (of producer-chosen nationalities) live in a studio apartment in Queens – each week a new one turns up dead. The winner… gets to live.
  104. The Monster In Room 604 (multi-year series, comedy): The Asian family in Room 602 hate the monster in Room 604. They hate the monster’s hygiene and its off-color, inappropriate sense of humor… but sometimes, you just need to borrow a cup of sugar.
  105. BuzzFeed Presents “War & Peace” (limited series, drama): Snack-able one to two minute scenes of the Tolstoy literary masterpiece. (Current plans have the series finishing in 2065.)
  106. The Terrence Malick Hour (reality series, talk): Terrence Malick hosts this beautifully shot daily morning talk show. Mr. Malick interviews guests about current fashion, food trends and YouTube influencers’ life passions.
  107. Limberjack (reality, health): If you’re a lumberjack – or just someone who wants to get healthy – this show is for you. World champion logger Billy Jorgunson gets you up at 4:00am to GET LIMBER before you log roll or cut down those trees!
  108. Vlade Divac’s Tales Of Mystery And Woe (limited series, drama): Following the lead of Steph Curry, LeBron James and Kevin Durant, former Laker Vlade Divac (in an exclusive deal with MankaGoNow) presents this horror anthology series based on folk tales from his native Serbia.
  109. Remixed Martial Arts (live sports): Manka Sports presents a series of live boxing matches featuring MMA stars who have NOT been cleared to fight in the regular MMA because of concussion, injury or mental debilitation.
  110. Amtrak’s Look Out Any Of Window (reality, slow TV): Based on The Grateful Dead’s ‘Box of Rain,’ a glorious, calming view out of the bar car in Amtrak’s Southwestern Chief line. Twenty-six hours of beauty and bliss streamed every day (except Christmas & July 4th – F you Netflix!).
  111. Lagos Chic (multi-year series, drama): Rich kids from Nigeria bully non rich kids with their jewelry, their money and their fashion. Making the poor more miserable is their only goal in life.
  112. Monday Morning Football (live sports): MankaGoNow has the exclusive Monday morning rights to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Sure, no one cares and we don’t expect anyone to watch because it’s the goddamned Jaguars but…  #babysteps #livesports.
  113. Forgotten Years – 1985 (documentary, educational): It was the year of “Back To The Future” – and that’s about it. 12-part documentary series from Manka News dives deep into that year to see if anything else of substance happened.
  114. The Devil Went Down To New Mexico (movie, comedy): Shitty-ass sequel to “The Devil Went Down To Georgia.” (Of course it’s going to be terrible, but, to our credit, we still made it.)
  115. Moscowito (movie, fantasy): MC Comics’ half mosquito / half Russian superhero working for the US during the Cold War must decide between country loyalty and what is right.
  116. The Rising Tide Pods (documentary movie): What American teenage boys don’t realize is that eating Tide Pods gives you a giant dick and loads of confidence. Controversial because of its subject matter and danger to society, “The Rising Tide Pods” can only be seen on MankaGoNow!
  117. The Naked Nun (limited series, fantasy): Based on an episode of the Manka Bros. podcast ‘Lies & Legends,’ ‘The Naked Nun’ follows a group of conspiracy theorists who attempt to prove ‘The Naked Nun’ legend – that she walks naked around Columbus, Ohio, every August 22nd.
  118. The Fourth House From The End (movie, YA): Based on the Manka Books’ YA novel of the same name, an awkward teenage girl must learn to deal with the humiliation of growing up next to the more popular girl who lives in the Third House From The End (a much bigger house with a really great pool for parties).
  119. Warriors For The Working Day (reality series, education): Reality series focusing on jobs that no one wants to do (including almost everyone doing those jobs) and we follow them around with cameras and lights.
  120. Heatseeker (movie, action): Manka Bros. 1980s action star Drake Derek makes his action movie return as a spy who… never mind, it sucks (and he’s totally out of shape – big mistake).
  121. 90 Pounds In 90 Days (limited reality series, health): Jeremy vows to lose 90 pounds before his high school reunion – which is in 90 days!
  122. Kenya Feel It (reality series, music): African rock band from Nairobi makes its first tour of the U.S. and Manka Docs captures every beat.
  123. Pig Sister (movie, family): It’s gross that somehow Grace is your younger sister (because your father screwed a pig and that pig gave birth to her) but she’s the best thing that ever happened to you and the only reason you haven’t committed suicide.
  124. My Dog The Cat (movie, young adult): Opening paragraph: “When I was five years old our family got a cat – but I called it a dog. My parents said I must be a idiot because I didn’t know the difference between dogs and cats. But I did know, they’re the idiots – and ever since then, I’ve always called cats ‘dogs.’ But that doesn’t mean I know shit about algebra.”
  125. Dunkin’s Open Mic Night (reality series, comedy): Manka Bros. has partnered with Dunkin to live stream open mic comedy nights every Friday from all of the 8,000 Dunkin Donuts stores across America (some nights are better than others).
  126. Manchester Grit (limited series, drama): The baddest hombres in Manchester, New Hampshire, don’t spit tobacco in a bio-degradable cup and they don’t like Vermont maple syrup.
  127. You Cannot Learn Golf! Jesus Fucking Christ! (reality, sports): Host John Perry can show you how to swing a golf club – but you’ll never – EVER – be good at it. [Tagline: “Golf sucks!”]
  128. Roofies (multi-year series, comedy): Sitcom set in the world of a roofing contractor and takes place on various suburban roofs during a normal workday.
  129. Timon Of Chicago (multi-year series, drama): Shakespeare’s ‘Timon Of Athens’ is updated to modern day Chicago – where Timon ruthlessly rules the town.
  130. The Murder Of Margie Louise (movie, mature audiences): Adapted from the popular Manka Bros. true crime podcast, Crunching Leaves, the unsolved murder of former 1920s “It” girl on the Manka Bros. studio lot remains a fascinating cold case.
  131. Trout Of This World (reality, sports): Manka Sports follows some of the world’s top fishermen as they attempt to catch the mythological Uncle Ben – a trout said to weigh 120 pounds lurking somewhere in Crowley Lake, California.
  132. Golden Gate Bridget! (multi-year series, comedy): A throwback 1970s-era comedy featuring bubbly girl Bridget – who moves to San Francisco to start a new job – and is ready to take the town!
  133. Tartuffe’s Uxorian (live theater event): Fictional play written by fictional character, Tartuffe, written by Moliere, performed by real actors – presented by the new Ford F150.
  134. Cats vs. Millennials (multi-year series, comedy): Two old cats, rescued by Thad and Amber, comment on the lives of 20-somethings (in both thought balloons and very New York voices) in an upscale area of Brooklyn.
  135. Night Of The Long Fast (short): The thought of not eating food from bedtime until breakfast is absolutely terrifying for Greg Stillman. The night sweats, the vomiting – it all adds up to one long night.
  136. Josephine Loves The Ump (multi-year series, comedy): Classic rom-com from the producer of “My Wife Left Me For Bucky Dent,” tells the story of diner waitress Josephine and her love for minor league umpire, Jerry. She wishes all those baseball fans who call him and “a bum” and “blind” knew the real Ump.
  137. Brain Dad (movie, comedy): Brain switching comedy in which father and son discover they both watch a lot of pornography.
  138. The Plumbers (multi-year series, drama): Secret CIA division whose only job is stop leaks… from the CIA.
  139. God Should Just Box Me With His Long-Ass Arms (live theater): Sequel to “Your Arms Too Short To Box With God” – presented by Fabreeze.
  140. My Fabulous 40th Birthday Party With My Rich Fucking Friends! (movie, mature): It’s a perfectly magical night for Kaitlyn and her amazing friends until a long lost high school acquaintance shows up driving a JETTA!
  141. Jam Band (animated short, kids): Presented by Smuckers to urge kids to eat more jam, singing jars of fruit jam sing original songs… about jam.
  142. Jonah Hangs Eleven (movie, family): Surfer comedy set on Maui’s north shore. Jonah, 14, is living his perfect life. He lives, literally, on his surf board. He is home schooled by his parents who also live on their surfboards. Hurricane Pedro changes everything.
  143. The Goalie (documentary, sports): The soccer goalie is the loneliest position in all of sports – and even worse when you’re 9-years-old. Manka Sports dives deep into the psychological trauma associated with playing youth soccer goalie.
  144. Alexa vs. Siri (movie, sci-fi): Two hundred years into a dystopian future, the two main artificial intelligences that have enslaved humanity fight for total world dominance. This includes the moon. And maybe Mars.
  145. Worthless (multi-year series, drama): A 56-year-old man leaves L.A. for his old hometown and takes care of his 84-year-old father and wonders what happened to his 20-year-old self who wanted to be a famous actor/writer.
  146. Too Cool For School (reality series, investigative): Manka News secretly follows a group of high school friends who skip school every day and play Fortnight, smoke weed and search for the next big game to play. A new game every season!
  147. PC High (multi-year series, drama): An LGBTQ group of kids (one Hispanic, African-American, Polynesian, Korean, etc.) work to make sure that nothing taught in class by their “Nazi teachers” will trigger them.
  148. Old Dude Pony Tail (multi-year series, comedy): Roger Stone, corporate titan, leaves the financial world behind with an enormous golden parachute severance package. He immediately grows a old dude pony tail and hangs out at Starbucks with “the kids.”
  149. Club Rokk (or Vomit On The Bathroom Floor At Five A.M.) (documentary, music): One crazy night at Reykjavik’s famous music venue Club Rokk where the local punks snort some sort of black powder and vomit constantly.
  150. I Don’t Have Cancer, I Just Got In Shape (movie, mature): Marjorie’s friends refuse to believe that she actually lost weight because of diet and exercise because she’s never had discipline. They all believe she is very sick.
  151. Grave Diggers (reality series, competition): Manka Sports travels to countries where they still actually have grave diggers. Whoever digs the fastest grave wins a cash prize (or, in some cases, food).
  152. The Little Young Lady Who Lived In A Shoe (animated series, kids): Prequel to the ‘Little Old Lady Who Lived In A Shoe’ which explains how got there and why she’s living in a shoe.
  153. Aladdin’s Christmas In Mecca (animated holiday special): It’s a magical night for Aladdin, his Monkey friend and all the rest of the gang!
  154. Clayton Kershaw’s Tales Of Torture (reality series, historical): The first series produced under the blanket producing deal MankaGoNow has with L.A. Dodger’s pitcher Clayton Kershaw. In this disturbing but eye opening series, Kershaw takes us through time, telling stories of the most horrific cases of torture in history.
  155. Darryl On The Block (multi-year series, comedy): The neighbor from across the street keeps trying to sell a young family cocaine – but they’re Mormons, who may (someday) succumb to Darryl’s charms and then invite him in to a drug-fueled three way! Explain THAT to your kid!
  156. After The Pancakes (multi-year series, drama): The only thing widower Pete Robinson has to look forward to is his morning pancakes at the local diner. Because “after the pancakes,” his day has peaked.
  157. Ali-Gator Goes To Six Flags (live-action special): Beloved Muslim kids puppet, Ali-Gator, and his friends, take a trip to Six Flags where they love to ride the roller coasters and eat churros.
  158. Waylon Flowers & Madam – The Killing Floor (movie, biography): A historically accurate re-telling of the horrific true life tale of this 1970s variety show train wreck of a partnership.
  159. Hamlet’s Brother (movie, historical): True story of Hamlet’s brother, Roy, who lived far away from Denmark in an area we now know as Long Island, New York.
  160. Raw Ray Loves The World (reality series, music): Manka Music Group’s Korean KPOP music sensation Raw Ray loves everything about the world and wants to show us.
  161. Fox Hole (multi-year series, comedy): Period World War 1 sitcom set in a fox hole during the Battle of Verdun.
  162. Commute (multi-year series, comedy): A sitcom set in a car where a carpool sits in the same goddamned traffic, every goddamned day.
  163. The Darkness (movie, horror): Between sunset and sunrise is… THE DARKNESS!
  164. Black Kramer vs. Black Kramer (movie, drama): African-American remake of “Kramer vs. Kramer.”
  165. Murder House (movie, horror): Everyone who has owned it has been murdered. Who the Hell would buy this house!? Oh, yeah, the Smithsons.
  166. Tensions In Des Moines (movie, thriller): This was no normal Tuesday. In fact, it was Wednesday and the town was on edge. Goddamned, why did it have to be so hot and why is the Governor coming to town?
  167. Flamenco Detective (multi-year series, crime drama): In Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, Flamenco dancers, guitar players and palmas performers are being murdered on a daily basis. Spain’s top cop, Jose Carrasco, goes undercover to find the killer and finds his own life-changing duende along the way.
  168. The Amputeer (limited series, drama): If you need a leg amputated in 1870s Phoenix, there’s only one doctor to go to… The Amputeer.
  169. Cranburied (movie, drama): The death/murder of cranberry mogul Lord Ocean Spray, Sr. has never been solved. Many say the ruthless berry baron had it coming. Other say, he simple fell in the bog and drowned. All of the true answers are in this movie.
  170. BYOBrunch (movie, family): None of older women in the little town of Love, Georgia, likes to cook – but they sure do love brunch, and gossiping about their neighbors. But someone’s about to show up with a poison sweet potato pie.
  171. The Grind Canyon (limited series, comedy): The hottest area strip club for frustrated “dad tourists” who spent most of the day staring at the Grand Canyon – and only thinking of the Grind Canyon.
  172. Belly Up To The Bar Exam! (reality, educational): Studying for the bar exam doesn’t have to be boring. It can be so much fun – especially if Carmen Electra is your “bar” tender.
  173. Photos With Al Franken (documentary): Manka Docs does a deep dive, behind the scenes look into some of the more notorious Al Franken photos – from early SNL drug photos, to photos with Presidents, to groping photos with sleeping female soldiers – we cover it all.
  174. The Panhandle (limited series, drama): Goddamn, what the Hell are a bunch of pissed off 15-year-olds supposed to do in this hellish north Texas landscape of cows and crap. Outside of the 72-ounce steak place (where if you can finish its free!), there ain’t a freaking thing to do.
  175. She Wore A Crown (movie, drama): “But that don’t make her the real queen!” Family comedy about a dad who doesn’t understand why his five year old daughter would want to play dress-up as a queen when there’s no way she will ever be queen. It’s mostly a story of a painful divorce.
  176. Evil Toasters (movie, horror): They said the internet-of-things (or smart appliances) would make our lives better. Tell that to Lester family who won’t find peace until they die. And even then…
  177. I No Longer Care About Sports (reality series, home improvement): Host John Perry does anything and everything around the house during the weekend to distract him from sports on TV. It’s not easy – since his beloved Kansas City Chiefs & Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Kings & Los Angeles Dodgers all seem to choke – every fucking year! Yard work will cure the anger!
  178. Nuclear Sperm (working title) (movie, sci-fi): The last of Earth’s human scientists work together to create a superhuman who can defeat Alexa and/or Siri in a last ditch effort to save our existence.
  179. Jugglers For Peace (movie, documentary): Several California jugglers travel to the Congo to “juggle for peace” in an effort to stop the bloody civil war. All are killed.
  180. Fuck Paris (movie, mature audiences): Anti-romcom about how shitty a town Paris is, especially for lovers. Make that former lovers (Jen and Jay) who are breaking up over a long, painful week.
  181. Rockem Sockem Robots Hit People In The Groin (reality series, comedy): Rockem Sockem robots have been programmed to approach humans in a shopping mall and, when they’re not looking, punch them in the groin.
  182. Cork Asians (multi-year series, dramedy): The racist winemakers of Napa really don’t want the Morimotos from Kyoto to open a winery. When they do, and succeed, the racist Northern Californians hate them even more and do everything they can to destroy them.
  183. Professor Hinkle (animated special, mature content): After melting Frosty The Snowman in a horrific act of pure torture, Professor Hinkle returns to his life as crappy elementary school teacher – until one day, the local snowmen rise up and MELT Professor Hinkle. (Not suitable for children.)
  184. This Time, You Really Are There (reality series, sci-fi, VR): Reenactment with a twist. Exciting multi-generational series clones some of history’s most notorious and vaunted figures to reenact great historical moments.
  185. James, Autistic Lawyer (multi-year series, drama): Zachary, through his autistic superpowers, has memorized every law in the United States (and some in Canada) – will he EVER lose a case?
  186. Shecky And Rose (movie, comedy): Disgraced comedienne, Roseanne Barr, hightails it to Las Vegas to seek wisdom and comfort from the biggest comedian of his day, Shecky Greene.
  187. Second Communion (movie, comedy): Sequel to Manka Bros.’ wildly successful 2013 comedy “First Communion.”
  188. Happy Returns (movie, drama): Disgraced pedophile circus clown, Happy, attempts a comeback after prison and rehabilitation. Suicide might have been a better option.
  189. SparTEN (movie, fantasy): After every Spartan is killed except for TEN, the Ten vow to kill every Persian before the SparTEN die. But first, they need to procreate with as many Spartan women as possible to keep the race going.
  190. Sauce Box (limited series, comedy): The inventor of the “Sauce Box,” a cardboard box that’s supposed to hold really hot sauces and food without feeling hot to the touch, is sued by every customer that bought it because of horrible burn injuries they received. His road to redemption comes in the form of inventing advanced burn therapy treatments.
  191. Spacey Jam (short, comedy): Kevin Spacey stars in a loose remake of “Space Jam” with Pepe Le Pew – the only Looney Tunes character willing to work with Spacey (because, as we’ve seen, Pepe is a well known sexual abuser in his own right).
  192. This Week In Right Field (reality series, sports, kids): It gets pretty slow in right field if you’re 6-years-old in Little League. Manka Sports interviews the kid in right field during the game (because no ball will ever make it out there).
  193. Unexpected Discoveries (reality series, educational): Like a $5 bill in your jeans from the dryer, unexpected discoveries give us pure joy. Like the people who found the Dead Sea Scrolls. They must have been happy, right? We tell you the history behind all those happy moments.
  194. Dragoneers (multi-year series, comedy): With a super cool secret eighth grade club name like “Dragoneers,” you would think they would never get bullied. You would be wrong.
  195. Knock Down My House – Build A New One (reality series, home improvement): The Barnes brothers travel the country looking to level people’s shitty houses and build them new awesome houses. It’s amazing and the homeowners are ecstatic… until the Barnes brothers shows the homeowners the bill.
  196. Witch Is The Warlock? (reality series, game show): Wicca-inspired game show in which real witches are mixed with pretend “actor” witches. The expert real witches on the panel need to guess “Witch Is The Warlock?”
  197. Killennial (movie, horror): Some sadistic fuck is killing all the millennials (one at a time). It’s up to a Gen X, nearing retirement, detective to decide if he wants to try to find the killer.
  198. Teen Between (movie, teen comedy): Scientists say the night time hours between the age of 19 and 20 are drunkest hours a kid will ever have. This movie is about that drunken, crazy, fucking night and how this kid, Rich, ever survived to see the sunrise.
  199. Latrine Doody (multi-year series, comedy): Stupid ass, moronic sitcom about a scrappy group of misfits who work their way through World War II – never seeing combat and constantly assigned to the latrines – and being stuck deep in the – you know. M*A*S*H with poop.
  200. Born On Third Base (multi-year series, drama): Privileged white kids in the Hamptons are still not happy because what they’ve been given is still not enough – but their social media presence is huge!
  201. Hell On Rye! (short, documentary): Based on the crusty owner of New York’s famous Carnegie Deli and his seedy (and possibly not Jewish – just saying) beginnings.
  202. Putt A Sock In It (reality series, competition, kids): Created by 5-year-old Molly Stager, kindergarten kids roll up their socks in a ball and attempt to putt them into a giant hole in the middle of their fun mat. The winning kid wins $10,000.
  203. Run The Gamut (reality series, game show): This is not a request, it is an order – an order to run the most challenging running course on the planet. Contestants will run through fire, blizzards, oceans and tornadoes. The winner receives bragging rights and a customized “I Ran The Gamut” T-shirt.
  204. Troilus & Juliet (movie, drama): Sequel to “Romeo & Cressida” – a continuation of the great Shakespeare universe mash-up experiment.
  205. Romeo & Cressida (movie, drama): Shakespeare universe mash-up in which many worlds exist in the same space. In this one, Romeo dumps Juliet for Cressida, breaking Troilus’ heart and creating real tension in the universe.
  206. The Rifleman (multi-year series, drama): Re-imagined, rebooted classic series from the 1960s, Lucas McCain openly carries his AR-15 around town and scares the shit out of everyone – killing anyone he wants because… he’s the Rifleman.
  207. Oh! That Titanic! (limited series, comedy): Alternative universe comedy in which the Titanic didn’t sink and everyone has such a great time! It’s the greatest boat in the world! Children love it the most, the “Rearranging The Deck Chairs” game is their favorite.
  208. Hellicops (animated series, kids): Animated talking helicopters from Hell are the only option to save certain animals and kids from death when the “Paw Patrol” has failed.
  209. MetroGnomes (multi-year series, kids): The first thing you think about when you think about Gnomes is NOT that they have perfect rhythm. But they do and they will teach your toddler music theory!
  210. Grand Theft Lotto (movie, drama, heist): Inspired by “Ocean’s 8,” movie about a group of high-powered pilate moms who plot to steal the $200 million won in the lottery by a school teacher from Des Moines.
  211. Streamer’s Digest (reality, daily): MankaGoNow daily talk show about how things are going on MankaGoNow and what shows are trending (what’s good – what sucks).
  212. Roam In A Day (reality series, travel): How far can you walk, drive, fly in a day? This series takes you all around the world, to the places you could visit – if you had unlimited funds – in a day.
  213. Diving For Dollars (reality series, sports): Soccer players from around the world flop and flail about on the pitch, like little bitches, trying to draw a foul. Manka Sports exposes them and attempts to ruin their lives for the frauds they are.
  214. The End (limited series, drama): A group of doomsday cultists have wacky adventures in the jungle with their charismatic leader, Zagmut, until [SPOILER ALERT] the last episode when they are “drink the Kool-Aid.” (Series generously supported by “Kool-Aid” – OH YEAH!)
  215. Show Gun (limited series, drama): Organized crime boss, Hideko Morimoto, terrorizes the region to become the ruler of the land of the rising sun. But what he always wanted to do was dance – and dance he did – in “42nd Street” in Kyoto. And he was good. Strange story.
  216. Odditeens (multi-year series, kids): Teenagers are odd, yes, but these teenagers are really odd… really… really odd.
  217. SOLD! (reality series, home improvement): Garage sale auctions in your city. We’ve hired an actual auctioneer to come to your garage or yard sale to really get the highest price out of your shitty old DVD player.
  218. Zhe Said What? (limited series, drama): Ouigars settle into their new homes to live, learn and love. Or else. [The first American produced Ouigar series in actual Ouigar language.]
  219. Why?!? (reality series): If you’re suicidal, this is the series for you. Cameras catch people when they’ve reached the end of their rope and fall to their knees yelling “Why?!?” There are no happy endings.
  220. Below The Beltway (multi-year series, drama): Power is a bitch and her name is Penelope Landers. She’s the top lobbyist in Washington DC for the world’s biggest companies. Screw her over and you can screw your life. Seriously, if you watch this show and don’t like her – she will mess you up!
  221. The Van Halen Chronicles (mini-series, music): Exhaustive 30-part mini-series based on the “Guitarist Chronicles” by Eddie Van Halen explores the inner-thoughts, the torment, the food, the drink, the OCD and the tragedy of one of rock’s greatest guitarists.
  222. Off The Grid (reality series, nature): Ben and Kyle Hunt have been off the grid for two years now – living in a forest. They don’t even know they’re internet sensations because they’re… off the grid. All proceeds from their lives and show goes to… Manka Bros.
  223. New Bible – Fixing The New Testament (reality series, faith): There’s a new Jesus with a new Bible with new Apostles and they’ve written a new Bible. This series tells you everything that changed from the old Bible and what we can expect when the world ends.
  224. Drunk Tales From Irish Pubs (reality series, food): Stories told by the drunks from Irish pubs around Ireland – reenacted by actors so the audience can understand what the Hell they’re saying.
  225. Torture Stadium (movie, horror): Why did we buy tickets to a game at a stadium named “Torture Stadium.” There, obviously, wasn’t a game, there wasn’t an exit and most will not survive.
  226. Spineless Pussy (documentary short): Manka News follows around a cowardly boss who fires long-time employees over the phone… because he’s a spineless pussy.
  227. WTF?? (multi-year series, comedy): A 70-year-old man lands a job in an IT department at a major tech company because the company had a “diversity policy.” As he tries to understand 20-year-olds and how to turn on a “computer,” he learns that he’s actually wiser than his colleagues because of his life experience (though he still doesn’t know shit about IT or how to fix computers – which is a problem).
  228. Bagdaddy (movie, drama): Organized crime boss in Iraq terrorizes the region to become the ruler of the desert region. When J-Lo turns down his request to sing at his birthday party, he reevaluates his life choices.
  229. Scare-ousel (movie, horror): In a remote area in a forest outside of Budapest, Hungary, there is a carousel that only operates one day a year. Only a few tickets are sold though demand is huge. The lucky ones DON’T get a ticket.
  230. Corporate Offsite (movie, mature audiences): Old white men do horrible PowerPoint presentations and get completely trashed for three straight nights. No plot – that’s it – but the presentations are about the future of advertising on local cable channels and billboards.
  231. Taz-U-Oh (animated, movie): Taz the cat has an alter-ego, Taz-U-Oh… ninja warrior! His sensei constantly lives in his head giving him ghostly advice as he fights evil.
  232. The Fantastic Mr. Griff (movie, drama): Mr. Griff lives in a complete fantasy world. He thinks he’s a great teacher… he’s not. He thinks everyone loves him… they don’t. He thinks he’s the world’s great lover… every woman said “you mean ‘worst'”? So why is he called “The Fantastic Mr. Griff”? Watch the movie.
  233. For The Love Of Antifa! (short, documentary): Gripping documentary of Giovanni Gentile’s influence on today’s activities.
  234. Nutrition For Dummies (reality series, food): Dummies don’t know shit about nutrition and neither will you after watching this worthless show.
  235. Dad Kicked Me In The Nads (multi-year series, comedy): That’s the first line in this coming of age family comedy… and in the series finale (after 10 years or so)… it will be the last.
  236. In The Pew (reality, faith): Every week, in the pew, Manka Faith brings you the latest the world of religion. We’ll have interviews with Catholics, Lutherans, Presbyterians… and all the rest.
  237. Goldfish Bowl (reality, slow-tv): Manka Slow-TV brings you a 12-hour live stream of a goldfish… swimming in a bowl.
  238. Ride Me Like A Horse (movie, drama): Movie based on the hit country song “Ride Me Like A Horse” by country superstar Mac McCord.
  239. To The Moon, Bud! (movie, documentary): In pursuit of riches lost, washed up pensioner, ex-casino owner [MB Lawyer – Sorry, name cannot be mentioned because of potential lawsuit] schemes to grab onto the next big thing – and always mucks it up!
  240. Patchouli Madness (multi-year series, comedy): Set in a more gentle time in the world, 1992, trust fund kids go to school in Missoula, wear dreadlocks, play hacky sack, and basically bother everybody.
  241. Abori-Jeanine (movie, drama): An Aborigine baby is stolen by a young couple from Sacramento during their honeymoon in Australia. They name the baby Jeanine and everything is great until the Aboriginal family tracks down the family and Jeanine realizes the U.S. is shit for Aborigine people. Jeanine is reunited with her real parents and they murder the U.S. kidnappers. No charges are filed! Happy ending!
  242. We’re Here, We’re Queer! (limited series, drama): Young gay punks kick everyone’s ass – even if there wasn’t a gay slur spoken. They just like to beat up people – because they’re punks.
  243. Jack Welch’s Winning (movie, documentary): Documentary about how Jack Welch’s book “Winning” is bullshit – especially considering the company he left is basically worthless.
  244. Tech Support Morons (multi-year series, comedy): Ru-ru, Lil’ Wayne, and Obese Johnny terrorize their law firm by being complete jerks and doing everything in their power to never do their IT jobs. Assholes.
  245. Turdpedo (animated short): A group of whales roam the Pacific launching giant turd projectiles to destroy whalers and save Green Peace – with fart noises (for the toddlers) and life lessons (for the teenagers).
  246. Kai-Jew (event series, sci-fi): Genetically engineered Ashkenazi Jewish giants rise up from the seas to destroy humanity – only Transformer-type machines (piloted by humans) can stop them.
  247. Beans On Toasts (multi-year series, comedy): Delightful series about British retirees moving to Spain for the weather but changing local customs (and the lives of the locals) to suit their routines.
  248. Virtue Signals: “We’re Better Because We Care” (reality series): Hollywood’s kids hilariously guide us on how to fit in amid the complexities of cognitive dissonance of virtue signaling.
  249. Hahs-Beens (reality series, drama): The sad, pathetic, painful decline of once great comics who can’t seem to grasp or figure out what makes comedy club audiences laugh today.
  250. The Oblivious (movie, thriller): Indian coders working in a basement in Bangalore are completely clueless when anything dramatic happens in their lives. When a terrorist attempts to steal mainframe computers from the basement, they just let them take it. Why take a chance? There’s always another mainframe computer, there’s not always another Indian coder.
  251. Tallahassee (multi-year series, drama): Most people think Tallahassee is just some bullshit town in a bullshit state – but actually it’s a hotbed for really TALL people (thus the name). Basketball scouts from around the world converge every fall to pluck the top players.
  252. Grass Growing (reality, slow-tv): Manka Slow-TV presents actual grass growing. Over eight weeks of a constant video stream watch grass growing from a half inch tall to two inches while electronic Icelandic music heals your soul.
  253. Shaw In A Cul-De-Sac (live theater): Once every three months, the Manka Bros. Pop-Up Theater Troupe appears on a random cul-de-sac in a random town and performs an entire George Bernard Shaw play. The performance is filmed and streamed on the MankaGoNow platform.
  254. A Country Lawyer In New York (multi-year series, comedy): He ain’t “no fancy big city lawyer from some fancy Ivy League school”… which means he, basically, loses every case he tries in New York.
  255. The Toastmaster Stumbles (reality series, comedy): Some of the greatest horrible toasts from weddings, graduations, family dinners, etc. There’s heart attacks, vomiting, expletives, grandma farts – all the classic hilarious moments caught on tape – and in one show.
  256. Undead Reborn (movie, horror): Oh good God, it’s happening again. Zombies are giving birth to real live babies… and then eating their brains.
  257. The Songs Of Helen (movie, drama): The Songs of Helen always made him cry. Until one day, years later, The Songs of Helen made him want to throw her freakin’ ass out of their apartment..
  258. Puppetears (documentary): In the late 1960s, there was a puppet troupe from Paris that performed plays of unbearable sadness. Puppets died. Animals died. Parents died. The great emotion was said to scar children’s minds for years and make fathers want to kill the Puppetears.
  259. A Dane In The Life (multi-year series, comedy): Carl Gunderson, a perfectly chiseled, tall, muscled Danish man moves into a Brooklyn apartment creating all sorts of chaos from the single people in the building – gay, straight, black, white – everybody wants this man. They don’t care that he’s stupid as shit.
  260. Bobby Brummel (limited series, drama): The story behind the Detroit mob boss who transformed Las Vegas and invented the World Series of Keno.
  261. Method (reality series): Boy wonder Jay Nelson’s series digs deep into the disturbingly realistic world of Hollywood as we follow a Method actor who will do anything to get a role. Anything.
  262. Hallucinogenic Pugs (animated series, kids): A spin-off from the Manka Kids hit series Psychedelic Dogs, Hallucinogenic Pugs is perfect for 6-10 year olds who really want to go deep… really want to see what the universe is all about.
  263. The Lost Weekday (movie, drama): Sequel to Universal’s 1945 best picture “The Lost Weekend,”The Lost Weekday shows that dudes alcoholism is really really bad.
  264. The Boy She Loved (short): There was only one boy she ever loved and would die lonely without him. But he decided to stay from relationships, choosing to masturbate to porn instead.
  265. Treevil (movie, horror): The people of Bend, Oregon, have wanted to cut this evil tree down for years (but it’s protecting under Oregon environmental laws) – children have gone missing near the tree, animals who pee on it are never seen again – but this Halloween, no one will survive.
  266. The Purr-ly Gates (movie, animated): All dogs go to Heaven, sure, but cats have a very strict policy of getting in, and it’s controlled by Sparkles – the most indifferent cat in all of Christendom.
  267. Prom Night Of The Stars (reality series): Want to see Julia Roberts’ parents video tape of her senior high school prom – including a dress mishap that if anyone saw back then she would have killed herself? We’ve got it. Big stars parents share embarrassing videos of their famous kids.
  268. In Spades (reality, holiday special): F David Spade and his freaking idea (for which MankaGoNow paid a shit load of money) to do a Thanksgiving “Spade Family Holiday.” Manka Bros. sent a camera crew to the Spade family house in Arizona and got nothing but prick ass behavior from David Spade. He wouldn’t even offer the crew a glass of water from his toilet. Seriously, F that guy. (And it will probably be very popular because of this rant.)
  269. Cul-De-Sacagawea (movie, drama): The sad, sad story of the great, great, great, granddaughter of the great explorer icon Sacagawea who now lives a suburban life, as a homemaker, on a cul-de-sac. Her only adventure now is when she goes to Ralphs.
  270. Devoutrageous! (multi-year series, faith): You gotta feel it, people! Get up! Get up! The world’s biggest mega-church has pull-up bars above every pew and a tight ass funk band to fire up the crowd. My God, if Jesus don’t exist at least we’ll all be in shape!
  271. The Knight Shift (limited series, fantasy): There are Knights that fight (and die) in battle to protect the King. And there are Knights lay their lives on the line to guard the Queen; and there are Knights that sit out by the moat during the night, making sure nobody tries to cross it. This series is about those Knights.
  272. Randy Morgan Walks Around The Earth (reality series, adventure): Randy Morgan tried to walk around the earth in a 1990s series (but sprained his ankle outside of Victorville, California, after only 12 hours). This year, feeling stronger, he tries it again.
  273. Power Moms In The Mist (multi-year series, comedy): A new family moves to Westport, Connecticut, from Montgomery, Alabama, and the mother of the family of three soon realizes that the moms of Westport are something she has never seen.
  274. He/She Touched Me (reality, news, investigative): New college campus sexual assault accusation are investigated each week by Manka News.
  275. Brunch Line (multi-year series, comedy): Every year, it seems the brunch line at St. Louis’ Heritage House Buffet gets longer and longer. Thank the good Lord the multi-ethnic regulars have a lot to talk/complain about.
  276. Sagebrush Heights (multi-year series, drama): The richest families in Albuquerque, New Mexico, live in Sagebrush Heights – and they really hate those that don’t live in Sagebrush Heights.
  277. Love And Knishes (reality series, food): Hosted by Barry and Ruth Greenwald from their house in Queens. Both are 70-years-old, 4′ 10″ and it’s simply the cutest f-ing cooking show you’ve ever seen.
  278. Queen Of The Nile (reality series, historical): Modern day anthology following disparate stories of people who believe they are the the reincarnation of Cleopatra. Of course they’re nuts – but sometimes it’s fun to watch crazy people.
  279. Genitales (documentary): Grandma had a LOT of men in her time… and each had a story.
  280. Man And W1F3 (movie, sci-fi): This programmer’s wife may have left him, but his advanced A.I. simulation of her will be around till death do them part.
  281. Little Liar (reality, game show): Parents (and the studio audience and viewers at home) against adorable little kids to find out if they are telling the truth or are they Little Liars.
  282. Desirony (movie, drama): When she was interested in him, he failed to reciprocate. Oh how the tables have turned.
  283. Rover and Out (movie, holiday): When his elderly owner takes a nasty fall down a flight of basement stairs, a French Bulldog named Claude desperately looks for a way to get help. His only option, his master’s ham radio. A story of love, persistence, and mortality.
  284. P (re) SP (movie, family): In a rough town, a slightly gifted cop fights crime harnessing the power of his fifth and 1/2 sense.
  285. Book Paste With Cyrus Weinstein (reality series, educational): Weekly book club discussion with a famous author (whose book is being discussed) and President of the Manka Bros. Publishing Group Cyrus Weinstein.
  286. Rapture Checkers (multi-year series, faith): Ten percent of those taken in the rapture was a mistake. This squad of rapture checkers investigate if the right ones were taken and drag back the Earth the ones that shouldn’t have gone.
  287. Kill The Messengers (multi-year series, drama): Every week in New York someone kills a messenger – Amazon delivery, bike food delivery, etc. It’s gotten so bad, the NYPD has set up a special division to stop the killing of the messengers.
  288. Yangtze Doodle Dandy (documentary): After the Warner Bros. movie “Yankee Doodle Dandy” came out in 1942, China, in an attempt to match America’s patriotism created by the movie, produced a film which featured peasants harvesting crops and smoking a lot of cigarettes.
  289. Brain-Eating Amoeba (movie, horror): I mean, there’s really nothing more to say. It’s in the brains of every human. It just depends on when it decides to eat your brain and, if it does, what you’ve done to provoke it.
  290. Terry Bradshaw – Alone (live theater event): One man show featuring NFL legend Terry Bradshaw. [Tagline: “My goddamned… what was I talking about… oh, yeah… Wait… what? Oh, yeah, my life story!”]
  291. Scott Golden’s Commercial Life (reality series): Manka Docs cameras follow L.A. actor Scott Golden as he books every acting job he auditions for!
  292. SpouseWives (reality series, drama): Everyday is a throw down, knock out brawl between Mormon sister wives who are married to the same man.
  293. Trainsformation (animation, special, kids): Insecure train, Celia, decides to get a makeover. It turns out to be a huge mistake and she is made fun of by other trains because “trains should learn to love themselves just as they are.”
  294. Jacob’s Bris (documentary): Jacob’s parents, Marvin and Deborah, didn’t even want pictures taken much less a whole fucking documentary about their son’s bris.
  295. Rob My House (reality, competition, special): Once a year, a few of the top armed robbers in the country are released from prison to compete against each other on who can rob the most houses in 24 hours. The winning robber gets his/her freedom and the stolen goods are given to charity.
  296. Miss Beehive’in (movie, animated): It’s that time of year again, the time when we crown Miss Beehive – the most well-rounded and confident bee in the hive.
  297. Kinball (reality series, games): Members of contestant’s family are placed in a large arena, pinball style, as a large metal ball is shot out of a tube and must be kept alive and score points (by hitting others in the family) before scratching down the middle.
  298. Cats In Boxes (reality series, comedy): Each week, we show video of around fifty different cats jumping into boxes. If you’ve had a bad week, the show makes it all better.
  299. Totsky (movie, biography): Biopic about Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist Leon Trotsky as a toddler. In this days, he didn’t want to share his toys.
  300. Hin-dude (multi-year series, comedy): Sixteen-year-old Aditya moves with his parents from Bangalore to Malibu and immediately fits in with the surf punks… and the coders.
  301. The Impotence Of Reason (limited series, drama): Gripping series adapted from Orianna Fallaci’s final work. One world governance drives this fascinating view of a global citizenry..
  302. James K. Polk’s African Adventure (reality, educational): Little is known about the disastrous foreign policy trip the 11th President of the United States took to Africa. What is known is in this documentary special.
  303. Slippery Slope (multi-year series, comedy): Life in Mammoth, California, as lived by the seasonal employees.
  304. Arroyo-lty (multi-year series, comedy): Before European whites invaded California and settled in current day Pasadena, there was a very proud people, who lived very rich lives. This is a sitcom about them.
  305. Beatnook (documentary, music): Deep-dive, historical documentary about the hottest jazz club in Bangor, Maine – the legendary Beatnook.
  306. Terror Shift (multi-year series, drama): In the basement of a undisclosed building in Washington (or is somewhere else?), an elite group of analysts are focused on one thing, the ever shifting War on Terror – and where do we fight next. This group is called Terror Shift (or is it?).
  307. A Fine Kettle Of Fish (reality series, food): Quirky Scottish host Fiona McBride isn’t the best cook around, but that’s part of her charm. When she screws up, she says, “That’s a fine kettle of fish!”
  308. The Future (reality series, science): Each week, we get to hear about all the things that were promised by science but will never be delivered (flying cars, 10-hour work week, cure for cancer, etc.).
  309. Larry Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzlarry (multi-year series, comedy): Two gay Irishmen, Larry and Patrick, are fish IN water when they move to West Hollywood.
  310. Alexa, Cook Lasagna (reality series, food): In a continued effort to replace humans with machines, MankaGoNow is experimenting with an all A.I. cooking hosted Amazon’s Alexa [still under negotiation].
  311. Tailgate (multi-year series, comedy): The best damn BBQ in the south is always at Grambling State home football games – and the characters that gather there are hilarious.
  312. Dixon Butts (multi-year series, drama): Prosecuting attorney Dixon Butts puts criminals away while dealing with his crazy co-workers who can’t stop making fun of his name. But he gets the job done. [Tagline: You’re going to prison, pal, and now you’ll really experience Dix-in Butts!]
  313. Cockeyed (movie, drama): Poor Billy McKay was born without eyelids and the rumor was that as a baby, eyelids were grafted on using donated foreskin – which resulted in the nickname “Cockeye.” Kids can be cruel.
  314. Passion Of The Chris (multi-year series, comedy): The adventures of a missionary, Chris, as he travels the world and encounters colorful heathens while going door to door.
  315. Leisure Lee (series of shorts): Leisure Lee is Lee Muldoon, the chillest man in the world. He sits on the porch with a cold one and looks out as neighbor spouting Zen philosophy with a Matthew McConaughey vibe.
  316. Sierra Leon (movie, drama): 12-year-old Leon Koroma flees his home from the civil war in Sierra Leone and moves to a remote ski town in the Sierra Nevada mountains..Needless to say, this is not a world he understands.
  317. Gregorian (multi-year series, comedy): Set at a monastery in 10th century where the Gregorian Monks were writing the Gregorian Chants.
  318. The Mountain’s Out Today (multi-year series, drama): Growing up in Seattle means growing up in rain. To Frankie, awkward and about to start the painful years of middle school, the weather adds more suckage to that suck ass time. But… when the “mountain’s out,” it means it’s not raining and it could be a good day.
  319. Sod Awful (reality series, home improvement): Ever wish you could make fun of people’s lawns and get paid for it?! Sod Awful is the show for you. Grass experts travel around the country to make fun of people’s lawns – and do nothing to help them.
  320. Oscar Host (reality series, competition): Potential Oscar hosts are put through the ringer to see who will host the next show. Past social media posts, interviews and racist stand-up acts will be dredged up to determine if any one in the world is actually qualified to host.
  321. Ska The Roof Dog (animated shorts): Remakes of the class “Ska” series of animated shorts from the 1930s (and artfully recreated in glorious black & white), Ska, the beloved black & white Australian Shepherd hops from roof-to-roof enchanting children and helping those in need.
  322. True Stories Of Interstate 405 (reality series): Everybody who lives in Los Angeles has a traffic story – these are the best (or worst) of them.
  323. Optic Aura (documentary, music): Behind-the-scenes of the Manka Music super group from Iceland during their legendary 1998 World Tour.
  324. Been There, Done That (reality series, travel): Cynical world traveler, Rachel Steinman, is not impressed with anything around the world. This series sends her to Paris, Rome, Madrid and try to find SOMETHING she thinks is interesting and that she hasn’t done.
  325. Bossfights (reality, sports): “My boss can beat up your boss!” That classic office is finally coming to fruition. Weekly MMA fights between some of Fortune 500’s top CEOs is appointment viewing at the highest  level. Week 1 will be Larry Ellison vs. Mark Zuckerberg. LET’S GET READY TO… [MB Lawyer: Sorry, deleted – copyrighted phrase.]
  326. Golfin’ Round (reality series, sports, travel): Most people have to play hooky from work or be retired to get in a round of golf. The host of this show, Randy Dick, gets travel to the world’s finest golf courses and play a round (with a few cocktails thrown in) – and THAT’S HIS JOB!
  327. Food Truck Derby! (reality series, food, sports): Food truck owners are notorious bad asses (both women and men) who live on the edge. Just a boring old show about a food truck serving Korean tacos wasn’t enough – but throw in Food Truck serving Korean tacos that’s also a Demolition Derby – solid gold, baby!
  328. Ruth Or Dare (movie, teen comedy): A story of female empowerment in an age of… just kidding, it’s a teenage sex comedy – exactly what it sounds like.
  329. Mr. Fisticuffs (movie, holiday): The toughest goddamned teacher on Chicago’s south side, and he’s not afraid to punch a kid in the face until he’s nearly dead – but, shit, if he’s not the best teacher they’ve ever had. [Tagline: “God bless you, Mr. Fisticuffs!”]
  330. God? (reality series, faith): Manka Faith interviews victims of accidents, robberies, and horrible health issues who share their views on the existence of God. [Bottom line – they ain’t a fan.]
  331. The Sponge Was Porous (movie, sci-fi): “The sponge was porous”… what did that mean? But it took me down a rabbit hole of time and space – and, holy mother of fuck – the Earth is gone – everything… is gone!
  332. What A Rack! (multi-year series, comedy): Heather, a former beauty queen in Wyoming must handle being the only single woman in town and having the best GUN RACK in her truck. [Tagline: “You filthy people thought the title meant something else.”]
  333. FU! (multi-year series, comedy): Franklin Unger tries to teach a diversified group of inner-city junior high students who are only fixated on his initials – which he signs on all the homework papers he grades.
  334. I Beg Your Pardon (reality, politics, fantasy): Manka News follows President Trump’s cabinet and family members as all are indicted on Federal charges and sent to prison.
  335. Puttin’ On The Gritz (reality series, food): Everyone laughed when the owners of a new diner in Macon, Georgia, said it should be called “Puttin’ On The Gritz” (their spelling) – but then came the social media backlash which nearly drove the owners to suicide. But, as it turns out, they have the best gritz south of the Mason-Dixon Line – and they have the last laugh (and a TV show!).
  336. The Gray Penumbra (movie, sci-fi): They said the penumbra was never supposed to be gray. They also said the sun would never burn out and the earth would survive the year 2021. How could everyone be wrong?!
  337. Improv Your Life! (reality series, comedy): Manka Improv Workshop Brigade (MIWB) brings ordinary people into the world of improv and helps to improve their performance at their jobs at the insurance company – or whatever other place they waste their lives.
  338. Rocket Stuff Is Hard (movie, comedy): Miraculously, Chad got a perfect score on his SATs even though he never did good in school – but because of his SAT score, he got accepted to Cal Tech – and that’s when he realized “rocket stuff is hard.”
  339. The Routeens (multi-year series, drama): These impressive teens in Atlanta, Georgia, do nothing wrong. They stick to a full schedule of sports, academics and extra-curricular activity. They never get into trouble. They get into great universities and end up having great lives? Do these kids exist? In this show they do.
  340. He Started Loving Her Today (movie, drama): Prequel to George Jones’ hit country song “He Stopped Loving Her Today” – featuring all the happy times, not the sad.
  341. From Underneath (movie, horror): There is a horror that comes from above. There is a horror that comes from the right. There is a horror that comes from… the left? But there has never been a horror that comes From Underneath. Holy mother of God! It’s actually happening.
  342. Nunja (movie, thriller): Notorious French gang, Le Meurtre, picked the wrong day to rob the Mont Saint-Michel monastery. Black belt badass nun Sister Maria Theresa was only visiting for quiet Heavenly prayer and reflection – but ends up sending many new souls to Hell!
  343. Dartistry (reality series, sports): Manka Sports brings you the #1 weekly highlight show in the growing sport of Champion Pub Darts.
  344. Vandal With Care (documentary): Manka News follows a group of black hooded “positive” graffiti artists who destroy property, true, but with messages of hope for the world.
  345. Rover And Out (animated series, kids): General Trainer has to quickly whip up a scrappy group of young pup cadets as they prepare for battle in Cat-alonia. (Based on the holiday movie ‘Rover And Out’ – but in name only.)
  346. Dawn In The Dumps (multi-year series, drama): Dawn Kerritsky hates her life, she’s twice divorced and in a deep mid-life depression – and it only gets worse when she inherits the family garbage dump and put in charge.
  347. Word A Day – The Series (reality series, shorts): Everyday we learn a new word through a little skit that has been put together by the “Word A Day” team.
  348. Wayward Monkeys (documentary series, nature): In the heart of the Amazon there is a group of monkeys that are crazier than all other monkeys. In English, the are called the “Wayward Monkeys” and they’ll either hug you are eat your face. The Manka Docs crew experienced a little of both during this grueling, life-losing, shoot.
  349. Shao Linda (multi-year series, drama): Imported from China, this series tells the story of Linda Rothschild, an American prep school blue blood from Greenwich, CT, who leads a peasant revolt before the Communist Revolution in China. They called her… Shao Linda.
  350. Pop, Goes The Weasel (movie, mature audiences): CIA spy, code name “Weasel” is captured by a shadowy Saudi Arabian counter-intelligence “kill squad” and tortured, killed and dismembered for two hours. The two hour torture and dismemberment of “The Weasel” IS the movie. Mature audiences… seriously – this shit is disturbing.
  351. Santa Claus and the Yuletime Killer (movie, holiday): Based on Manka Books’ Santa Claus Detective Series by Lindsey Siegal, Santa teams up with a rookie detective (Sarah Jenkins) to solve a series of holiday murders.
  352. Dracula’s Daughters (multi-series, drama): No cliche Dracula stuff at all in this series. His three daughters are in school – eighth, tenth and twelfth grades. Just normal teenage angst growing up in northern Romania. Yes, they are raised by Dracula but have no knowledge of his blood sucking life after dark. 
  353. Candy Turns Us Into Fat KIds (documentary, educational): Manka Docs does a deep dive into the connection of sugar and obesity. The connection is real. Oh, and lack of physical movement is also a factor.
  354. Madeline Albright’s Nights In White Satin (documentary, music): Narrated by the former Secretary of State about her favorite band – The Moody Blues.
  355. Jesus V Mohammed (reality series, faith): It’s a battle to the finish. The true Messiah will be revealed at the end of the season.
  356. Bure The Lead (multi-year series, drama): Former NHL all-star Pavel Bure stars as a crime reporter in Nova Scotia trying to uncover police corruption. (We ain’t gonna lie – this show is terrible and Bure is not a good actor… at all.)
  357. Heartstrings (movie, drama): Story of a seeing eye dog for a lonely widower. The seeing eye dog is also losing its sight. Perhaps the saddest movie in the history of movies.
  358. Rolf (live theatre, musical): Manka Broadway presents this sequel to “Sound of Music” focusing on Nazi character Rolf and his rough life as a Hitler disciple after Germany loses World War 2. Presented by Kaiser Permanente.
  359. A Star Is Dead (documentary): Once great movie stars, cinematographers, teamster truck drivers and extras all die – and some, very few, actually qualify to die in Woodland Hills, in the motion picture home.
  360. All Systems Goat (animated series, kids): Bill E. Goat is the first goat to make it through the NASA astronaut training program – but still no one believes in him. He is bullied, left out of astronaut BBQs and not given prestigious assignments. Until one day, Bill E. Goat is given the mission to Venus – which ever other astronaut turns down because it’s too dangerous. Bill E. Goat survives and is loved by all.
  361. Bridge Crossers (reality, philosophy): “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it” has been a phrase that has comforted procrastinators for hundreds of years. This show is for those who have reached the metaphorical “bridge” and, sorry, you either cross the bridge or die. It’s time – suck it up or suck it down.
  362. She Breeds (reality series): Janet [MB Lawyer: Last name redacted], mother of seven children, dreams of breaking the Duggar’s record of having 19 children. Manka Docs follows her on her journey.
  363. Spectacle (documentary, music): Manka Docs explores the creative process of creating Elton John’s eye wear in the 1970s and 1980s.
  364. Green Screen Lacrosse (reality, sports): Between the green field, green uniforms, and the magic that can be accomplished with modern video technology, this league ain’t your grandad’s lacrosse!
  365. When I Was A Girl (movie, mature content): A woman on her death bed looks back on her life and loves in 1940s Minnesota where she attempts (and fails) at at solo swim across the Lake Of The Woods.
  366. Pot Watchers (movie, drama): Based on the Broadway play by Scott Golden, two Cambodian guardians sit outside the cell of Pol Pot as he awaits his execution and discuss their experiences in the killing fields. One thing they agree on, Pol Pot is an asshole.
  367. Space Kiddets (multi-year series, kids, action): In the year 2545, on a training mission for kid kiddets a hyper-drive fails and flings the kids into the furthest quadrants of the galaxy. Through interaction with aliens and learning to cooperate, they must find their way home.
  368. The Deepest KISS (documentary, music): After years of reticence, Gene Simmons tells the story of the rise of his band and the rumor of his fake tongue.
  369. Popcorn (movie, thriller): Popcorn’s real name is Bradley Foster. He was given the nickname “Popcorn” as a kid because always ate popcorn at the movies. Years later, Popcorn’s job is to protect the Pope – but he no longer believes in God – and he no longer eats popcorn. 
  370. The Chicago Fire… Again (movie, disaster): Sequel to the original Chicago fire in 1871. They said it couldn’t happen again – “they” are a bunch of fucking idiots.
  371. Middle School Show Choir Throw Down! (reality series, competition): Middle school show choirs from around the country come to Hollywood for one shot at greatness!
  372. Grandma’s Tails (limited series, kids): Each cat she had over the years has a story.
  373. Knights Of The Square Table (movie, heist): Period Las Vegas heist movie. As hip and cool as the Ocean’s 11 crew was, the Knights are just a pack of “losers and squares.”
  374. Get Drunk With Rita (reality series, food): Produced by the Manka Food & Drink Channel, this weekly series is exactly what it says in the title. Rita has one hour to get as drunk as she can. 
  375. Hey! This is Mahler! (limited series, music): Fun journey through Gustav Mahler’s nine symphonies (that “discovered” tenth one doesn’t fucking count) hosted Sven and Yan, two Scandinavian millennials with way too much energy.
  376. Doug The Moron (multi-year series, comedy): The King’s head is cut off. The Queen is poisoned. Doug The Moron is the new King.
  377. Ray & Rachel (reality series, food): Older, recently divorced guy decides to work his way through the Rachel Ray cookbook, doing a new recipe every day.
  378. Ulterior Motives (movie, drama): The rise and fall of Anthony Scaramucci.
  379. Bullied – The Stories Of Pathetic Nerds (reality series): Written by former high school quarterback and now billionaire Rock Thornton, these stories show the other side of the whole “stop-bullying” movement.
  380. Predicated (movie, drama): This lawyer’s case is contingent upon many things.
  381. Kafka’s Last Birthday Party (movie, drama): Remake of the 1952 Manka Bros. film. Story of Franz Kafka on his 10th birthday (July 3, 1893). It was a sad, morose affair with no children present other than young Franz. His parents looked in once or twice at an old clown entertaining the boy by crawling around like a cockroach. This goes on for two hours.
  382. Fucked Up, Friday (movie, comedy): R-rated (millennial) reboot of a story similar to Disney’s “Freaky Friday.” [MB Lawyer: There are no similarities – totally original story.]
  383. Poconos Justice (multi-year series, drama): There’s one homicide detective in the Poconos – and, on weekends, he’s a stand-up comic.
  384. Belligerence (short, comedy): A waitress finds her tips go through the roof when she starts treating people terribly.
  385. Fat, Drunk Lizzy (documentary, music): Behind-the-scenes documentary chronicling the reunion tour of 1970s super group “Thin Lizzy.”
  386. Crazy From The Meat (reality series, food): That’s a fine cut of meat. Let’s cook it… and eat it.
  387. The Last Redneck (movie, short, fantasy): In a crazy alternate universe, everyone in the south has finally accepted the results of the Civil War… except for Caleb.
  388. Shit Storm (movie, disaster): So gross. And we didn’t think it could get any worse in Galveston.
  389. The Clean & Jerk (movie, horror): Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde story set in the world of competitive bodybuilding. Amy has to choose between clean-cut Chad, awesome bodybuilder and really nice guy, and Chad, a total asshole who kills people with barbells and thinks she is a conniving bitch.
  390. The Night The Lights Went Out In Kentucky (movie, thriller): Really shitty sequel to “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia” (which was pretty shitty in the first place). Sorry for this one. The music’s not bad.
  391. What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor? (reality, game show): Drunken sailors compete “American Ninja Warrior”-style for cash and prizes – or just more alcohol.
  392. Lambasted (movie, horror): A movie critic finally gets what’s coming to him.
  393. Space Time Continuum (movie, sci-fi): One possible future dovetails with another possible future, and a past that may never have happened.
  394. The Rainbeau’s Mysteries (late night, kids): Late-night kids show (for kids who stay up way past their bedtime) in which international singing group The Rainbeau’s solve mysteries like “Who stole my teddy bear?” and other young sibling crimes like that.
  395. Blue In The Face (movie, young adult): A girl with a blue face moves to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and tries to fit in at a new middle school.
  396. Walla Walla (movie, thriller): One-by-one, someone is killing all the ADR loopers in Hollywood.
  397. Golden Receiver (movie, family): As a publicity stunt, a dog is taken in the first round by the NFL expansion team San Antonio Hounds… and ends up Rookie of the Year.
  398. Taracotta (reality series): Tara Reid goes to Xi’an, China, to unwrap the mysteries of the famous Terracotta Soldiers – but, basically, just ends up doing shots with local dudes instead.
  399. First Christmas Home (movie, holiday): Shot in the style the “24” drama series, one 24-hour-day in the life of Jenny, who is returning home for her first Christmas after going away to college the previous August.
  400. Raymond and Herbert Disney – The Two Other Disney Brothers That Didn’t Get Shit From The Disney Empire (documentary): Walt and Roy Disney had two other brothers, and they didn’t get jack fuck from the growing Disney empire.
  401. Pucker Up (movie, older audiences): Set in the 1950s, a bored housewife teaches kissing at the local adult education center.
  402. Red Sky In Morning (movie, disaster): The sailors on the ill-fated Varuna fishing boat out of Portland, Maine, left too early, before sunrise – so they didn’t see the sky … they’re fucked.
  403. Linguini & Clam Sauce (animated series, kids): Kids series about crime fighting food – always worried they’ll be eaten by Big Carmine before they solve the crime.
  404. The Lochness Monster’s Tales From The Deep (animated series, kids): Anthology series of under the sea tales, narrated by The Lochness Monster.

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Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2019 – Day 3 – Deliverance

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2016, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Justin Trudeau, Iggy Azalea, 2017 Herb Allen Sun Valley Conference 2017, Usain Bolt

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2019 – Day 1 – Life Support

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2019 – Day 3 – Deliverance

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I am back from Sun Valley and safely in my office at Manka Bros. in Burbank.

There wasn’t much news out of Sun Valley this year because a) the conference sucked and, b) many of us nearly lost our lives last Friday and Herbie “Super Fly” Allen wants both of those points to be kept quiet.

Well, I’m not keeping it quiet, Herbie – non-disclosure agreement be damned!

All I can say is last Friday in Sun Valley was the most bullshittingest fucking day of all the bullshittingest fucking days in all the bullshittingest fucking world!

Let me back up.

Herbert Allen, our host at Sun Valley, of Allen & Company (sidebar: does anyone really know what this company does?) decided that on Day 3 – we should have a Mogul Challenge..

So… at 5:00am Friday morning, the Dawn Of The Mogul (written by Michael Eisner – when he was an actual mogul – many years ago) was blasted from the loudspeakers at the Sun Valley Lodge.

“Rise, Rise, Rise with the Sun.
We are Moguls.
The World We Run… etc. etc.”

Like hungover Norse Gods crawling to Ragnarok unable to resist the call, we Sun Valley moguls rolled out of our beds and stumbled zombie-like to the Great Pitch Of The Moguls (for mortals, it’s the green lawn area outside the Sun Valley Pavilion).

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2016, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Justin Trudeau, Iggy Azalea, 2017 Herb Allen Sun Valley Conference 2017, Usain Bolt, Jeff Bezos, flyover, Lauren Sanchez, Delivrance, Burt Reynods

Herb Allen, spry, in a referee uniform and too-tight bicycle shorts, pulled out a bear horn and gave it a long, annoying BLAST to get our attention. (Herb is a professional drinker who handles every morning like a Mormon who didn’t get hammered the night before… but we all know the truth.)

As the sun rose, I’m fairly certain there has never been a larger congregation of hungover and pissed off billionaires. (It seems like there should be a joke here… but, seriously, there hasn’t – though put your obvious jokes in the comments.)

Herb Allen paced back and forth like a Drill Sergeant even though we weren’t standing in formation or even paying attention.

Herb Allen: How are you supposed to change the world if you can’t even change the shape of your stomachs!

He pointed directly at my stomach – which was an insult as I was standing right next to Reid Hoffman – and, I mean, come on….seriously?

Herb: Today, we’re going to do things a little different. We have a challenge – an anonymous challenge from three moguls who will not be named. A challenge to determine who is the strongest, toughest mogul at Sun Valley.

With that, the opening riff of “Rock You Like A Hurricane” blasted from somewhere just off the pitch.

Almost in unison, the assembled moguls turned to see–

–Jeff Bezos and Tim Armstrong approach, arms jacked, wearing sleeveless black vests (think Burt Reynolds from ‘Deliverance’), dark glasses and “fuck you” expressions.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2016, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Justin Trudeau, Iggy Azalea, 2017 Herb Allen Sun Valley Conference 2017, Usain Bolt, Jeff Bezos, flyover, Lauren Sanchez, Delivrance, Burt Reynods

Walking with them was a Young Lackey holding an Echo device which was blasting the AC/DC song.

A few steps back, wearing the same tough guy gear, was Barry Diller – not quite rocking the look as much – arms not jacked – more like jello arms, sort of jowly, slathered in thick white sunscreen.

The assembled moguls looked at this group with smirks, envy and disdain.

Then, perfectly on cue, an Air Force flyover of five jets screamed a couple hundred feet over the assembled, slamming a perfect punctuation on the entrance!

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2016, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Justin Trudeau, Iggy Azalea, 2017 Herb Allen Sun Valley Conference 2017, Usain Bolt, Jeff Bezos, flyover

After the smoke had cleared, Bezos summoned his inner Clint Eastwood and said: “Alexa… stop.”

The music stopped on the word “Rock!”

The Young Lackey backed away sheepishly, trying not to make eye contact with anyone.

Herb Allen: You ordered an Air Force flyover… for yourself?

Jeff Bezos: Who gives a fuck… let’s just do this!

Herb Allen: Hold on, Bezos. No one knows what we’re doing yet.

Bezos cocks a fist and jerks forward to kill Herb Allen. Armstrong holds him back.

Tim Armstrong: Stop! He’s not worth it.

Jeff Bezos: Get on with it, prick!.

Herb Allen stares down Bezos and Armstrong and continues to pace.

Herb Allen: Today, we embark on a battle to end all battles. A journey to end all journeys. Ragnarok. Götterdämmerung. One of the–

Bob Iger: The fuck, dude, get to it.

Herb Allen: It’s a whitewater raft race down the Salmon River, one of the most dangerous in the world. A river that has claimed scores of lives over the years. Your survival is not guaranteed. That’s why you signed all those releases!

Herb Allen laughed – no one else did.

Bezos and Armstrong slam their hands together in a violent high five – clearly the steroids were working.

Behind them, Barry Diller wasn’t paying attention. He was being interviewed on CNBC by Julia Boorstin.

Herb Allen: The winner… will receive a prize. Those who don’t win – or the losers – will not be guaranteed an invite back to my conference… unless your name is Warren Buffett.

Herb Allen then approached Jeff Katzenberg, who wore an ill-fitting bathing suit from what looked like a Coney Island postcard from 1905 with a large medallion hanging from his neck.

Herb Allen: Jeff, are you sure you want to wear your Medal of Freedom while rafting?

Jeff Katzenberg: I never take off my Medal of Freedom… Herb. I’m sure you wouldn’t either… if you had one.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2016, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Justin Trudeau, Iggy Azalea, 2017 Herb Allen Sun Valley Conference 2017, Usain Bolt, Jeff Bezos, flyover

They lock eyes for a moment. Herb Allen moves on.

Herb Allen: There will be five rafts – six on each raft. The Captains are Jeff Bezos, Bob Iger, Rupert Murdoch, Sheryl Sandberg and GoPro guy – whatever your name is.

There was a general commotion among the moguls as everyone was slowly starting to figure out what the fuck was going on.

Herb Allen: The Captains will choose their teams based on childhood Brooklyn stick ball rules. One chosen at a time, from the pack, until everyone is chosen.

Let’s cut to the chase.

I was in Bezos’ boat with Tim Armstrong, Marissa Mayer, Barry Diller, Evan Spiegel (Snapchat dude) and, yes, I was chosen last for my raft.

To my credit, I wasn’t the last mogul chosen – that honor went to… Jeff Katzenberg in the Sheryl Sandberg raft.

I’m going to skip over the treacherous helicopter ride to the mouth of the Salmon River where our competition would begin.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2016, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. 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FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Justin Trudeau, Iggy Azalea, 2017 Herb Allen Sun Valley Conference 2017, Usain Bolt, Jeff Bezos, flyover, Lauren Sanchez, Delivrance, Burt Reynods, Salmon River

I’ll also skip over the various high dollar wagers and physical threats that happened before the race and all the X-rated smack that was thrown out between the moguls.

I’m sure one day that will all come out in Meg Whitman’s autobiography – because she’s mainly the one who gave and took the brunt of the abuse.

Moving forward to the actual “race.”

Bezos and Armstrong were so amped up they had the raft in the river long before anyone else – and their violent energy made it vibrate like a Sharper Image chair.

Jeff Bezos: Let’s go, fuckers! What the fuck!

The rest of us on the Bezos team stumbled awkwardly into the raft, finding a seat in the back while Bezos and Armstrong barked orders at us.

Jeff Bezos: If you’re not going to contribute, you’re going overboard. If you don’t contribute in a way that is satisfactory to me, you’re going overboard. There’s very little chance you won’t be going overboard..

Armstrong: LET’S DO THIS!

Armstrong then drained a water bottle filled with a thick red liquid that looked like it could be some form of blood – hopefully not human blood… hopefully not blood at all. He licked the red that dribbled off his chin and his eyes rolled backwards in ecstasy.

The other raft Captains were not as intense.

Really, only GoPro guy (thanks to my assistant Vicky Adler-Modry – she used the internet to find out his name is Nick Woodman – so we’ll call him that for the rest of this story) was the only other Captain that seemed to know what a raft was.

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FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Justin Trudeau, Iggy Azalea, 2017 Herb Allen Sun Valley Conference 2017, Usain Bolt, Jeff Bezos, flyover, Lauren Sanchez, Delivrance, Burt Reynods, Nick Woodman

Woodman had the proper gear – a GoPro on his head – of course – but he didn’t have the bloodlust in his eyes that Jeff Bezos and Tim Armstrong had. He was very mellow. Probably stoned.

I really felt this was our competition to lose – not that I care, I’m just regretting that I actually showed up this year.

Bob Iger and Rupert Murdoch were in a heated argument and not paying attention to the whitewater challenge. This was surprising since I thought everything was solid with them since Disney bought Fox.

Sheryl Sandberg was desperately trying to get her group to focus – which was a problem when you have Katzenberg just talking about his Medal of Freedom and Quibi all the time.

Herb Allen stepped to the edge of the raging Salmon River and attempted to get everyone in line.

Herb Allen: The Salmon River is no joke – and you will have no help. If you die… you die. If you’re in trouble, no one will help you. After I blow my whistle, I will return to the Sun Valley Lodge to drink dirty martinis from the great Vin Tran until I pass out. Capisce?

We all gave a half-hearted nod.

Herb Allen: The winner will be given the first place prize award by my summer intern, Talia. Good luck. Is everyone ready?

The five rafts holding thirty billionaires were ready to go. The hired Lackeys were straining to hold the enormous weight on the banks until the “go” command was given.

Jeff Bezos: Start this fucker – you mother fucking fucker!

Herb Allen: OK, and… go!

The Lackeys let go of the ropes and the rafts slowly break free, heading aimlessly down the Salmon River.

Herb Allen watched for a moment, then boarded the only remaining helicopter and flew back to the hotel.

We started off in fairly calm water – a very nice, smooth ride.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2016, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. 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FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Justin Trudeau, Iggy Azalea, 2017 Herb Allen Sun Valley Conference 2017, Usain Bolt, Jeff Bezos, flyover, Lauren Sanchez, Delivrance, Burt Reynods

I had a paddle in my hand and didn’t think I had to do – or should do – anything until I heard–

Jeff Bezos: Khan, could you fucking paddle, you mother fucking Bulgarian asshole?!

I started to paddle, not because he bullied me – but because… I felt he would kill me if I didn’t paddle.

Evan Spiegel, in the back corner, pulled out a ukulele and started playing a song that sounded like “Rainbow Connection” but he didn’t sing.

Marissa Mayer leaned over to me and started talking, but because she hasn’t fixed the nodules in her throat and can barely speak above a whisper, I found it very hard to understand her.

Khan Manka, Jr.: Marissa, I have no idea what you are saying.

Marissa Mayer: (clearing her throat – really scratchy) I said, this seems so like “Deliverance” the movie. Don’t you think?

Khan Manka, Jr.: Manka Bros. made a movie very similar to “Deliverance” and ours came out a year before!. It was called “Plug That Hole” about four men going down a river for the final time. Their boat started to sink and wouldn’t have sunk if they would have “plugged that hole.”

Marissa Mayer: (completely disinterested) Oh, yeah?

Khan Manka, Jr.: Yeah, and ours had hillbillies and butt rape and everything that “Deliverance” had – but no accolades. Where was our parade?

Jeff Bezos looked back at me – noticing that none of us were using the paddles to propel us down the river.

Jeff Bezos: Can you fucking concentrate, Khan? We are trying to win the ultimate prize and you… are dead weight. If any of you fuck up, I will not hesitate to throw you overboard to certain death.

Bezos turns back to concentrate on steering the raft down river.

Evan Spiegel plays a little louder and starts to sing.

Evan Spiegel: “Why are there so many, songs about rainbows…?

The singing put Bezos over the edge. He handed the steering over to Armstrong and moved toward us at the back of the raft. He picked up Evan Spiegel by his high-end REI raft vest and threw him overboard.

Jeff Bezos: There aren’t that many fucking songs about rainbows – you fucking idiot! “Over The Rainbow” and “Rainbow Connection”! That’s it!

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Marissa Mayer was horrified to see Evan Spiegel gasping for breath to keep his head above water – but didn’t do anything to help him.

None of us did.

Evan Spiegal and his ukulele struggled in the rapids but finally fought his way safely to the shore.

Barry Diller: Are you just going to leave him there?

Jeff Bezos: Fuck him.

Barry Diller: (shrugging) Who wants an Old Milwaukee?

Diller has cracked open his beer cooler and starts passing around beers Finally, a civilized person has emerged.We started draining Old Milwaukees as fast as we could – to get drunk as fast as we could. Marissa Mayer is my new hero and CEO crush. She probably pounded six beers in six minutes.

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As far as the whitewater challenge went, it really wasn’t much of a competition – and the rapids weren’t too bad yet.

We were the lead raft by about twenty yards in front of Nick Woodman’s boat. The rest were much further behind.

And then, a high-pitched SCREAM echoed throughout the canyon.

We all looked back to see–

–Bob Iger, two rafts behind us, holding his leg in agony – an arrow protruding from his thigh – blood gushing everywhere.

In the boat behind Iger, Rupert Murdoch had just fired an arrow from his hunter’s bow. He was attempting to reload when he was tackled by Meg Whitman and easily disarmed.

Meg Whitman: What the fuck, Rupert?! Are you trying to kill him?

Rupert Murdoch: Yes! Mother fucker stole my company!

Bob Iger: (in total agony) We paid you $61 billion!

He then fell back into the raft and was attended to by his team.

Reid Hoffman: We have to sterilize the wound and pull the arrow out.

Shari Redstone grabbed a bottle of vodka from her purse: “This will work.”

She poured the vodka over the wound.

Reid Hoffman: Bob, you might want to bite down on something.

Bob Iger: (through gritted teeth) Just pull it out.

Hoffman braced himself against the side of the raft for leverage and pulled out the arrow with a mighty tug. Iger’s face barely changed expression.

Shari Redstone: That was bad ass, Bob. You’re a tough son of a bitch.

For the next few minutes, there was chaos on the river.

After the drama died down a bit, the whitewater challenge was down to two rafts – Bezos and Sandberg.

Iger and Murdoch’s rafts were now, basically, a crime scene – so they, effectively, stopped competing.

And Woodman’s raft appeared to stop moving. From my vantage, it looked like a floating yoga studio with Reed Hastings and Tim Cook in the lotus position.

In the same raft, Randall Stephenson of AT&T and John Legere and T-Mobile were staring at each other’s phones – apparently, comparing the number of reception bars – or some such shit.

We maintained a fairly healthy lead – though we would soon be reaching the most dangerous part of the river – with terrifying whitewater rapids and waterfalls.

Sheryl Sandberg was shouting out commands to her crew – trying to close the gap.

Sheryl Sandberg: Thiel! Get your Trump-loving in ass in gear. A little more effort and little less Instagram!

Peter Thiel rolled his eyes, flipped her off and paddled a little until she turned around.

Katzenberg sidled up next to Sandberg and whispered something to her. He then pointed at my raft and made a motion of a boat sinking.

Khan Manka, Jr.: (shouting) What are you planning, Katzenberg?

Jeff Katzenberg: None of your bees-wax, Manka. All I know is you’re going to down.

Jeff Bezos: Shut up, Katzenberg!

Jeff Katzenberg: No problem.

He then gave a little Cheshire Cat grin and patted his Medal of Honor.

Jeff Bezos: (shouting) Waterfall coming up on the right! Push to the left or we are fucked!

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We all leaned to the left as though that would do something for the raft. None of us knew how to do any of it – and, frankly, don’t ever want to know.

Bezos and Armstrong wedged their paddles against large rocks and pushed our raft to the left. On the right side about twenty yards away was what appeared to be a straight drop-off down a waterfall.

Marissa Mayer: That’s got to be a hundred foot drop.

Tim Armstrong: (snarky) That’s why we don’t want to go down it, Marissa.

Sandberg’s raft closed the gap on our raft and was now only a few feet away. Katzenberg leaned over the side trying to grab our boat but was still barely out of reach.

Diller smacked Katzenberg’s hand with his paddle.

Barry Diller: What are you doing, Katzenberg? You’re gonna fall out for Christ’s sake.

Jeff Katzenberg: THIS is what I’m doing! Quibi says ‘hello’!

With a SCREECH, Katzenberg grabbed his Medal of Honor and forcefully brought down the sharp edge of it into our raft –  puncturing a hole in the side.

Jeff Bezos: The fuck, Jeff!

Armstrong moves to punch Katzenberg in the face. Katzenberg SCREAMS like a hyena and tries to get back in his raft.

Armstrong lunged after him and was able to grab the Medal of Freedom dangling from Katzenberg’s neck – pulling him backwards.

Jeff Katzenberg: Let go of my Medal of Freedom, you Frankenstein freak!

Tim Armstrong: Fine.

With that, Armstrong flipped it up in the air, end-over-end. It flew off Katzenberg’s neck, arcing over the raft and disappeared down the waterfall.

Jeff Katzenberg: My Medal of Freedom!

Not thinking, Katzenberg leaped out of the raft and flew down down down the waterfall.

A beat. Everyone sort of looked at everyone else.

Peter Thiel: That was unexpected.What are we gonna do?

Sheryl Sandberg: Leave him. We’ve got a race to win. He was a pain in my ass.

The Sandberg raft easily maneuvered around our raft as Bezos was frantically trying to plug the hole. But it was no use, the damage was done. We were sinking.

As the Sandberg raft continued up the river–

Sheryl Sandberg: So long, fuckers.

With that, she left us there to die.

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Khan Manka, Jr.: Should we try to swim to the shore?

Jeff Bezos: You can try. But you might get swept over the falls.

Evan Spiegel had walked along the shore, shadowing our raft. He was laughing while flipping us off and doing some strange bouncy dance.

As the raft started to take on water, we were quickly becoming submerged – everyone except Bezos, who seemed to be floating zen-like above the water – as though he were some kind of deity.

Jeff Bezos: (at peace) Well… it doesn’t appear to be our day.

With that, he pushed a RED BUTTON on his fitness band.

We sat, sinking, quiet for moment.

Jeff Bezos: So, Khan, any plans for the rest of the weekend?

Khan Manka, Jr.: I’ll be at the house in Malibu then back to the studio at–

Suddenly, zipping through the canyon, banking across the river was a Black Hawk Helicopter – the powerful whirring sound drowning out everything.

Bezos smiled and waved a hand toward it as stopped and hovered a hundred feet over our sinking raft.

I could see it was Lauren Sanchez, Bezos’ new $38 billion girlfriend, piloting the helicopter.

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Marissa Mayer was the first to be raised up in the rescue basket. Then Barry Diller. Then me. Then Tim Armstrong.

What followed was something that I will never forget and what most likely should have been from a dream – but we all saw it.

The rescue basket remained in the helicopter and then Bezos just ascended on his own on what can only be described as a blanket of light. He glided effortlessly into the helicopter and gave a loving wink to Lauren Sanchez.

Jeff Bezos: Love you, babe.

Lauren Sanchez: Let’s blow this popsicle stand.

She then banked hard to the left and flew directly toward the sinking sun.

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I heard Sheryl Sandberg’s raft took another bad turn and wound up in a cave where they have yet to be found. Jeff Katzenberg is also missing – but I’ve also heard no one has started looking for him.

The winner of the contest? Nick Woodman’s raft – just because they finished.

They received a $25 gift card from Starbucks.

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Manka Bros. To Replace CFO David Chang With A.I.

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A. 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Good morning from the Seychelles

I’m in the last few days of my May-July vacation, slamming hard drinks for people who want to get drunk fast.

This is a revolutionary and amazing day at Manka Bros. and, I would imagine, a pretty crappy day for the growing Chang family. By the way, congrats, Dave, on the twins you have on the way!

Next week, I return to the States to attend Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Retreat… againAnd, because the old days are gone, I will have to deal with a millennial crowd who prefers mango seltzers and planking over pounding shots and dog racing.

But we’ll get to that next week.

Today, I am announcing INDUSTRY-SHATTERING NEWS that will have Hollywood shaking and Silicon Valley screaming with envy.

(Get ready techno nerd bloggers, I know you love this bullshit techno stuff!)

David Chang, Manka Bros.’ CFO for the past few years, has been replaced effective immediately by an A.I. unit that will be called BARB GONZALEZ.

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A. 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I chose the name ‘Barb’ because I was insistent on a FEMALE-VOICED A.I. unit (and Barb sounds like a friendly Canadian librarian on the surface – but don’t get me wrong, she’ll cut you a new one if you cross her) and I also wanted an Hispanic last name because #DIVERSITY.

#SuckThatBobIger

However, as great and historic as this announcement is – this was not an easy decision.

After weeks of exhaustive research at the Manka Innovation Center Encino (or M.I.C.E. – in fairness, the building is in Van Nuys but Encino made a better acronym), it has been proven within a thirty percent range, A.I. can improve the performance of a human CFO by sixteen percent after the first five years of installation (plus, no health benefits or retirement plans necessary!) #FUCKING-A

At Manka Bros. this percentage goes up WAY more when you plug in “David Chang” and his unfortunate performance over the past few years. (Apologies, again, to David Chang and his family at this difficult time in his life and career.)

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FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Hamilton, SVOD service comparison

So, how did we get here?

After an offsite a couple of months ago at the Montage Resort & Spa in Laguna Beach, CA, where I was working with Senior Management on ways to cut costs, I was shown several Keynote presentations which all came to the same conclusion… (except for Jay McBee’s awful TV presentation. I don’t know what the fuck that guy was talking about!)… IT’S EITHER KILL OR BE KILLED.

I’ve decided to kill.

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A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Hamilton, SVOD service comparison

There were brainstorms – breakout groups – morning meditations… we met and met and met… and met some more – looking, searching for the knockout blow that would drop the other studios to their knees.

Until, finally, the idea of replacing quality workers with higher-quality A.I. was floated in a recent meeting by some person – I don’t even know the name (though someone who will eventually be replaced with A.I. – HA!). That’s when I quickly realized this is a no-brainer for the studio. And a no-brainer for me.

That said, I realize the human cost this sort of massive technology disruption can cause – especially for David Chang who probably won’t find another job after this humiliation.

But the future is… the future. The past… blows.

If anyone is concerned about the security of Manka Bros.’ highly-confidential financial records, don’t worry – we have contracted with Google to ensure all of Barb Gonzalez’s most sensitive work is completely safe and hack free!

If you have any questions about this decision or want to comment or just need emotional support, please contact Barb Gonzalez or follow her on Twitter.

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P.S. – Barb is the FIRST female-voiced A.I. CFO in the entertainment industry and we hope Hollywood and Silicon Valley will take our lead in achieving equality in male / female A.I. voices. (And, Hollywood, fyi… it’s so much cheaper to use a female A.I. voice!)

It Was Another Year

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A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Hamilton, SVOD service comparison

Greetings from the Seychelles!

Christmas on the Indian Ocean is pretty much a non-event.

Let’s just say there’s not a lot of chestnuts roasting on Anse Lazio Beach.

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A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Hamilton, SVOD service comparison

But, being a non-practicing Jew (I practiced enough when I was a kid), and never practicing non-Christian, I don’t really care.

But just to cover the bases, in the house, I’ve got a giant Christmas tree imported from California, a giant Menorah (that can burn a hell of a lot longer than eight nights), and some sort of weird island Native Bush that I threw some lights on.

Pretty festive, and pretty goddamned diversive, wouldn’t you say Hollywood?

My daughter, Connie, is with her mother (who shall not be named) until after Christmas, then she comes here for New Year’s. Then I’ll reluctantly drag myself back to the office at some point in January.

My girlfriend (who said I cannot name her because she didn’t like the way I casually mentioned previous girlfriends Mariska Hargitay, Leann Womack and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera when it wasn’t public information) will be joining me as soon as the jet gets clearance for take-off at Teterboro.

So, for now, I’m in the Seychelles, by myself – having a few drinks (the booze really works here) in my massage chair, watching the dying embers in the fireplace start to… die.

This feels like the perfect time to reflect on the year we had at Manka Bros. (or hadn’t as many suck-ass analysts on Wall Street might say).

From my forty years in show business – what I know to be true is this:

Movies succeed and movies flop.

TV shows get great ratings and TV shows flop.

That’s the business we’ve chosen.

The important thing, at this special time of year, is knowing that those who made the flops are no longer with the company.

Let’s start with the POSITIVES:

  • We’re still in business.

Moving on to the NEGATIVES:

I have a list of bullet points which, on reading, don’t seem too “joyful” in a “Holiday Spirit” kind of way. But it’s really more a list of “things we must improve on” – which, in a way, is a VERY positive message.

And helpful, to anyone who wants to keep their job – in this soon to be shitty economy.

  • Good news (though I’m putting in the negative column) is that we are still the World’s Largest Media Company. But our lead is shrinking! AT&T/WarnerMedia and Disney are nipping at our heels – which is why we recently announced that we are PRODUCING 400 MOVIES AND TV SHOWS for our new MankaGoNow streaming service in 2019 to compete with their shitty new services. It’s a HUGE risk – but has to be done for us to survive. Don’t fuck it up!

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2013, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Hamilton, SVOD service comparison

  • Manka Bros. Theatrical: Our MC Comics movies did not perform at all – and missed our box office budget projections by over 80%. That said, we’re continuing on with our strategy this year and staying the course. Our plan is to PRODUCE 157 COMIC BOOK MOVIES through the year 2050 – and, by God, we’re going to stick to it.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2013, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Hamilton, SVOD service comparison

  • Manka Bros. Television: OK, even Norman Lear had a bomb. Although, I think it was “a” bomb over his entire career. We had thirty-six (36) bombs in 2018 alone. That won’t happen in 2019. Let me repeat that – THAT WON’T HAPPEN IN 2019.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2013, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Hamilton, SVOD service comparison

  • Manka Music Group: Fine, I get it, music is hard. You don’t have to tell me, I come from music. Before I took over Manka Bros. after my dad died, King Khan was one of the great young bands. It’s in my blood – and may be in my future if you guys keep producing crap.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2013, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Hamilton, SVOD service comparison

  • Manka Bros. Publishing: I’m still bullish on mankazines and books (and, yes, David Chang, I realize the margins on the business are -18%). I blame the writers and editors more than I blame the format.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2013, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Hamilton, SVOD service comparison

  • Manka Kids & Consumer Products: I look around my neighborhood (not here – I can’t even see my neighbors here – but back in Bel Air) and, all day long, it’s nothing but packages being delivered. Tons and tons of packages. Why can”t one of them be something we make? Is that too much to ask? (Though I am encouraged by the traction, finally, we’re seeing with Red Dot. Red Dot is the real deal and must build and become a break-out kids character in 2019!)

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I’m going to cut our Theme Park and Broadway divisions a break a) because it would be a waste of time and, b) I’m moments away from blacking out and want to get this uploaded tonight.

Chief Operating Officer (and pain in my ass) Lloyd Grohl thought I should end on a hopeful note to help improve morale.

So I leave you with this… hopefully, next year, if things improve (and they must), we will be able to give out annual bonuses again and we won’t have to cancel our Holiday party again.

Look, there is still CURIOSITY and WONDER in this world! And, yes, I’m talking about THIS world.

For instance, I move the Elf On The Shelf around my own house, even though I’m the only one that looks for it in the morning. (It’s actually a challenge considering I black out nearly every night.)

That’s the sort of child-like mentality we all need this time of year. Even as you sit in cubicles working on Christmas Eve.

STAY CURIOUS. STAY WONDER… OUS.

And get some sleep – because next year, there will be no sleep.

Happy Holidays.

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Manka Bros. To Abandon Theatrical Tentpole Strategy

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Good morning.

As many of you know, the entertainment industry is in total disarray. Netflix is producing films that get praised at Cannes. Amazon is winning Emmys.

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It’s a drop-kick to the groin to all of us in “traditional media.”

In Hollywood, we all thought – we’ll just outspend the competition because bigger means quality. High production values means you get the biggest audience because that’s what those mindless fuckers want.

The mindless fuckers have called “BS” on us.

So… Manka Bros. is going to “pivot.” That’s right, I Silicon Valley buzzworded that shit.

We are abandoning our tentpole strategy – the foundation being the 157 movies based on MC Comics characters we were going to produce through the year 2050.

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And this has nothing to do with all the production problems you have no doubt been reading about in the fake media. This is a full blown industry-changing strategy shift.

So, what does it mean for the average moviegoer?

Well, it means this year you’re not going to enjoy $200 million money pits such as “Sheetah: Harvest of Sorrow,” “T.O.R.N.A.T.O.: Midnight Storm,” “The Javelin 2: Heroes Unwelcome,” “Pebble Boy: Who Is Pebble Boy?” 

(You can see all the future movies you will miss right here: Scheduled MC Comics movies through 2050.)

It was a solid strategy when I came up with it – but then everyone in town had to do it also. It has gotten so bad that f-ing Arbor Day weekend is now a battleground for a release date.

So what now? Going forward, what can audiences expect from the Manka Bros. Theatrical Group?

Instead of one $200 million dollar movie – we are going to make fifty $4 million dollar ORIGINAL movies. That gives us fifty more chances to have a hit.

Hell, maybe we’ll produce 400 movies a year. The sky’s the limit when you don’t bet everything on one horse.

And, worse case scenario, if these stupid little movies suck as much as last year’s “Doctor Proctor: Aliens Unite” or “The Jacobeans: Copernican Revolution,” we won’t lose $400 million (including P&A), we’ll only loose $4 million (and we may not even have P&A), we might just stream this shit on our MankaGoNow platform and forget movie theaters altogether.

I mean, the hell with it, right? That’s where the industry is headed – might as well get a head start on my old media competition.

While my friends at the rival studios continue to struggle with how the hell a freak in a tiny costume with a bow and arrow can bring down Norse Gods and space ships, I’ve decided to go all Jane Austen on this bullshit.

So… MANKA BROS. IS GOING BIGGER BY GOING SMALLER. 

You may be thinking – didn’t you famously say Original Films Fail?

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Yes, I did. [the expletive “fuck you” has been deleted.] But times are changing. Audiences are bored.

Manka Bros. is going to unbore the audiences with a revolutionary approach to film production.

We’re going to produce a series of films based on Anthony Trollope books (dude wrote about 5,000 books – all public domain – and you can use the same costumes over and over).

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FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Justin Trudeau, Iggy Azalea, paintball guns, Anthony Trollope

We’ll do Nicolas Sparks-type movies where all you need are a couple of crying teenagers and old people walking on the beach one last time.

We’ll do horror movies featuring serial killer clowns and serial killers who kill clowns.

We’ll video tape high school productions of “Death of a Salesman.” Let the kids in the show tweet out the link to all their friends. That’s free marketing! Throw a couple of ads against that shit – make a few bucks.

The point is, everything is on the table.

I have seen the future. And the future is throwing shit onto a wall to see what sticks.

Adam Fogelson, Alan Spoon, Alexander von Furstenberg, Angela Bromstad, Ari Emanuel, Arthur Martinez, Barry Diller, Ben Silverman, Bob Iger, Brad Grey, Brian Roberts, Bryan Lourd, Chase Carey, Craig Smith, David Geffen, David Rosenblatt, Donald R. Keough, Donna Langley, Edgard Bronfman, Electus, Ezra Kucharz, fairy tale movies, Graham Stanton, Greg Blatt, Greg Morrow, Greg Stevens, Gregg Winiarski, Hans Woolley, Harry Sloan, Hey Diddle Diddle, Jason Stewart, Jay Herratti, Jeff Sagansky, Jeff Weiner, Jeff Zucker, Jeffrey Immelt, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jill Kennedy, Joanne Hawkins, Joey Levin, John C. Malone, John Ferriter, John Foley, John Malone, Josh Abramson, Jr., Kara Swisher, Khan Manka, Louis Castle, Manka Bros., Mark Stein, Michael Eisner, Michael Schwerdtman, Michael Zeisser, Nikki Finke, Notional, On Medea, OnMedea, Paul Telegdy, Peter Chernin, Phillippe Dauman, Richard F. Zannino, Rick Finkelstein, Ricky Van Veen, Ron Meyer, Rupert Murdoch, Scott Garell, Scott Savitz, Shana Fisher, Sharon Waxman, Stacey Snider, Steve Burke, Steve Jobs, Steven Spielberg, Sumner Redstone, Terry Semel, Thomas J. McInerney, Tina Brown, Tony DiSanto, Victor KaufmanKhan Manka, Jr. – Chairman & CEO – Manka Bros. StudiosThe World’s Largest Media Company

P.S. In the coming days / weeks, we will be releasing our revised slates from our various Theatrical Production Labels. In the coming months, you will see the other studios do the same thing.

 

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2016 – Day 2 – Burn, Hollywood, Burn

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2016, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg

OTHER SUN VALLEY 2016 POSTS: 

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2016 – Day 1 – Welcome To The Terrordome

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2016 – Day 2 – Burn, Hollywood, Burn – Part 1

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2016 – Day 2 Keynote – Burn, Hollywood, Burn (Or How The Plurals Generation Is Coming To Destroy Your Business)

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2016 – Day 3 – Fight The Power

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2016 – Day 4 – It Was A Good Day

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According to my daughter, Connie, Hollywood doesn’t have a future and Silicon Valley is now the center of the CREATIVE universe. Considering she is on the Board of a major Hollywood studio, this is a horrible, filthy thing to say. Because of that, she didn’t get to go to the chocolate fountain with the other moguls last night.

Her presentation later today on the “Plurals Generation” is one of the most anticipated of the conference.

First, I must recap a few highlights from last night’s drunkening at the bar. In terms of crazy Sun Valley highlights, I would this one right up there with Burning Mogul (which was truly one of the most bizarre nights of my life).

  • Herb Allen’s nickname in college was “Peaches” – apparently because he could cans and cans of Libby’s canned peaches in one sitting.
  • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was able to catch 57 popcorn shrimp in his mouth (from all angles and distances). Amazing. What a site to see several drunk media and tech titans cheer as each shrimp was caught by the Prime Minister. He finally dropped when Phillippe Dauman tried to throw him one from the Frogger machine and it was such a pathetic throw there was no chance. Dauman was booed by his fellow moguls in a really ugly way.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2016, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg

  • LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman does a spot-on Sia impersonation – his rendition of “Chandelier” was stunning. King Abdullah of Jordan wanted to hire him as the entertainment for an upcoming family wedding.
  • Sergey Brin is NOT good at impressions. After a few too many Micelob Ultras, he launched into his Ryan Reynolds as “Deadpool” which he wouldn’t stop even after everyone lost interest.

That’s just a sampling of the shenanigans at the ol’ Drankin’ Hole on any given night at the Herb Allen retreat.

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But today is a new day.

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2016 – Day 2 – Burn, Hollywood, Burn

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2016, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg

The Dawn Of The Mogul (the ridiculous “mogul anthem” written by Michael Eisner years ago) wake up call was particularly early and painful this morning – 5 a.m.

Herb Allen (or “Peaches” as we learned last night) was very adamant about staying on schedule today and it’s a very ambitious agenda (including my daughter Connie’s “Plurals Generation” presentation later today which should rile a few feathers).

We gathered near the Duck Pond for calisthenics led by the GoPro dude Nick Woodman. No one except Bob Iger and Sheryl Sandberg were able to keep up with him or even try. Dude had way too much energy – like he consumed a six-pack of Red Bull before sunrise.

After that, we picked up our (cold) breakfast burritos (out of a bin) and very weak orange juice (out of one of those summer camp machines) and trudged inside for a day of mind-numbing presentations about Brexit and global warming and the future of media, blah blah blah.

Then it’s a taco cart lunch back at the Duck Pond featuring (I’ve heard) magicians who will go from table-to-table to doing close-up magic.

Then we go right into the ping pong tournament (Mark Zuckerberg always wins)…

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2016, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Justin Trudeau

 

Followed by an ax throwing contest (Brian Roberts of Comcast usually wins that) and, finally, log rolling (surprisingly Barry Diller is very good at this) before we can get our first cocktail of the day.

My plan is to go to my daughter’s presentation and sneak away from the other bullshit.

So – the day is set – my assistant, Vicky Adler-Modry will post my daughter’s presentation as a separate entry later today after a transcript has been prepared (plus this post is getting rather long).

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Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2015

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2014

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2013

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2012

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2011

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2010

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2009

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2008

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM-PNrZfiU8

 

Manka Bros. Bringing Irish Potato Famine Drama To Comic-Con!

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2013, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Comic-Con 2016, Comic Con

Good evening from the Seychelles!

Normally I don’t make these little announcements about a film going here or premiering there – we have a team for that. But I just saw a first cut of our upcoming end of year Academy Award-type movie “Gorta Mor: Whilst Ireland Weeps” (heads up Theatrical Marketing – that horrible title is changing).

In a word: It’s spectacularly sad; spectacularly uplifting; it’s just spectacular.

Actually there are no words to describe it.

Many of you may be thinking – hey, isn’t Manka Bros. the studio that said “fuck you” to the Oscars (multiple times) and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences?

Isn’t Manka Bros. also the studio that said “fuck you” to Comic-Con?

Yes and yes – guilty as charged.

But this film has restored my faith in shitty Hollywood organizations and dumb ass conventions full of dorks that don’t shower.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Herb Allen's Sun Valley Conference 2013, Sun Valley Lodge, Bin Tran, Vin Tran, Lee S Ainslie III, Yousef Al Otaiba, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Paul G Allen, James Anderson, Marc Andreessen, Michael Angelakis, Tim Armstrong, Nikesh Arora, Neil M Ashe, Emilio Azcarraga, Manvinder S Banga, Lionel Barber, Craig R Barrett, Willow Bay, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Marc Benioff, Jeffrey Berg, James Berkus, Michael S Berman, Mark Bertolini, Gary Bettman, Jeff Bewkes, Jeffrey P Bezos, Aneel Bhusri, The Right Honorable Tony Blair, Gregory R Blatt, Anthony H Bloom, Michael R Bloomberg, Steven R Boal, Scott A Bommer, Cory A Booker, Jeffrey H Boyd, Sergey Brin, Glenn Britt, Tom Brokaw, Michael J Brown, Howard G Buffett, Susie Buffett, Warren Buffett, John Burbank, Stephen Burke, Erin Burnett, Ursula Burns, John E Bush, Jeanie Buss, John A Canning Jr., Chase Carey, Wences Casares, Mark Casey, Kenneth Chenault, Peter Chernin, Brian Chesky, Richard Chilton, Chris Christie, Lewis Cime, Adriana Cisneros, Gustavo Cisneros, Vittorio Colao, Timothy Collins, Patrick Collison, Timothy Cook, Anderson Cooper, David Corkins, Delos Cosgrove, Dick Costolo, Cristian Croitoru, Henry Crumpton, Jose Luis Cutrale, Will Danoff, Philippe Dauman, Christopher Davis, Alfonso de Angoitia, John DeGioia, Diego Della Valle, Brian Demain, Andre Desmarais, David DeVoe, Feroz Dewan, William DeWitt, Barry Diller, Daniel Doctoroff, Jonathan Dolgen, John Donahoe, Jack Dorsey, Michael Duke, Mathias Dopfner, David Ebersman, Wesley Edens, Marvin Edwards, Eric Eisner, Michael Eisner, John Elkann, Thomas Evans, Randel Falco, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Michael Ferror, Niall W. A. FitzGerald, Thomas Friedman, Michael Fries, Tommy Frist, Daniel Fulton, Michael Fux, Mala Gaonkar, Whitfield Gardner, William Gates, Melinda Gates, Julius Genachowski, Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Giovine, David Goldberg, Roger Goodell, Bing Gordon, Donald Graham, Brian Grazer, Brad Grey, John Griffin, Andreas Halvorsen, Reed Hastings, General Michael Hayden USAF, James Heavener, John Hendricks, John Henry, John Heyman, Kazuo Hirai, John Hock, Reid Hoffman, Won Pyo Hong, Lisa Hook, Ben Horowitz, Drew Houston, Robert Iger, David Ignatius, Martin Indyk, Phillip Jackson, Eli Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, Robert Johnson, Salar Kamanger, Peter Karmanos, Alexander Karp, Michael Karsch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Keating, Brian Kelly, Muhtar Kent, Joseph Robert Kerrey, Dara Khosrowshahi, Seth Klaman, Joel Klein, Peter Klein, Philip H Knight, Victor Koo, Robert Kotick, Robert Kraft, Henry Kravis, Ynon Kreiz, Blake Krikorian, Ananda Krishnan, Stan Kroenke, Daniel Lamarre, Michael Larson, Martin Lau, Michael Leavitt, Jay Lee, Eric Lefkofsky, Theordore Leonsis, Max Levchin, David Levin, Phil Libin, Martin Lipton, Bryan Lourd, Kenneth W Lowe, Michael Lowenstein, Dan Lufkin, Dennis P LYnch, Michael Lynton, Maurice Levy, John Malone, Robert Marcus, Morris Mark, Donald Mattrick, Kathleen A McCarragher, General Stanley A McChrystal, Andrew McKenna, General Montgomery C Meigs, Lorenzo Mendoza, Ron Meyer, Roberto Mignone, Hiroshi Mikitani, Bill Miller, Kenneth Miranda, Thomas Monahan, Leslie Moonves, Luis Alberto Moreno, Dan Moskovitz, Craig Mundle, James Murdoch, Rupert Mudoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Nathan Myhrvold, Michael Neidorff, Jonathan M Nelson, Vivi Nevo, Sam Nunn, Michael E O'Hanlon, Daniel J O'Keefe, Don O'Neal, Ronald L Olson, Evan Osnos, CL Butch Otter, Michael Ovitz, Larry Page, Stephen G Pagliuca, Saul Pannell, Mark Papa, William Pappendick, MIchael Pausic, Minxin Pei, Francois-Henry Pinault, Mark Pincus, Laurene Powell, Lawrence F Probst, Rebecca Quick, Thomas Rabe, Jay Rasulo, Jerry Reinsdorf, Danny Rimer, Richard Riordan, Ambassador Charles H Rivkin, Brian Roberts, James Robinson IIi, James Robinson IV, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brian Rogers, Congressman Mike Rogers, Charlie Rose, Daniel Rose, Wilbur L Ross, Haim Saban, Karim Sadjadpour, Sheryl Sandberg, Ricky Sandler, Ted Sarandos, Fayez Sarofim, Nassef Sawiris, Eric Schmidt, John Schneider, Christopher Schroeder, John Scully, Allan Selig, Nicole Seligman, Eric Semler, William Siegel, Herbert Siegel, Ben Silbermann, Christopher Silbermann, Louis Simpson, Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, Andrew Sorkin, Sir Martin Sorrell, Thomas Staggs, Cristina Stenbeck, David Stern, Michael Stone, Sir Howard Stringer, Robert Swan, Peter Thiel, Mark Thompson, Sebastian Thrun, Thomas Tull, Peter Ueberroth, Joseph Vacanti, Jeffrey Van Harte, Owen Van Natta, Martin Varsavsky, Leftie Vaughn, Michelangelo Volpi, Alexandre Von Furstenberg, Dian von Furstenberg, Casey Wasserman, David Weinberg, Judd Weinberg, Jeff Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, Wallace R Weitz, Robert Werbel, Michael White, Meg Whitman, Jim Wiatt, James Williams, Fred Wilpon, Jeffrey Wilpon, Fred Wilson, David J Winters, Nicholas Woodman, Major General Amos Yadlin, Jerry Yang, Jed York, David Zaslav, Dirk E Ziff, Gianfranco Zoppas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Tony Wible, Marissa Mayer, General Stanley McChrystal, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Comic-Con 2016, Comic Con

Corporate PR is taking over the next part of this post:

The movie is based on the devastating book “Gorta Mor: Whilst Ireland Weeps” written by best-selling author Alison Fogle (“Carrier Pigeons”) and tells the story of a family struggling to survive during the Irish Potato Famine in the 1850s. The movie is directed by David Mahane (“Flaccid Trip”) and stars Ray Fayton (of TV’s “My Wife Left Me For Bucky Dent”) and Hannah Egan (“Forensics”). Music is composed by international recording superstar Seamus who draws deep on his Irish heritage to create a truly remarkable score.

So you can see why I am so excited to get the word out – even if means going back to Comic-Con this year after the bullshit reception I got a couple of years ago.

“Gorta Mor: Whilst Ireland Weeps” should be fascinating for those freaks who attend Comic-Con who obviously know nothing about what it’s like to starve to death or even know what it’s like to go more than 15 minutes without eating some sort of salty snack.

Manka Bros. is attempting to secure Hall H as we feel the buzz surrounding this movie should create a “must see” vibe at the convention (and at theaters around the world).

I hope to see you there – from a distance – the VIP suite is for VIPs only.

Adam Fogelson, Alan Spoon, Alexander von Furstenberg, Angela Bromstad, Ari Emanuel, Arthur Martinez, Barry Diller, Ben Silverman, Bob Iger, Brad Grey, Brian Roberts, Bryan Lourd, Chase Carey, Craig Smith, David Geffen, David Rosenblatt, Donald R. Keough, Donna Langley, Edgard Bronfman, Electus, Ezra Kucharz, fairy tale movies, Graham Stanton, Greg Blatt, Greg Morrow, Greg Stevens, Gregg Winiarski, Hans Woolley, Harry Sloan, Hey Diddle Diddle, Jason Stewart, Jay Herratti, Jeff Sagansky, Jeff Weiner, Jeff Zucker, Jeffrey Immelt, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jill Kennedy, Joanne Hawkins, Joey Levin, John C. Malone, John Ferriter, John Foley, John Malone, Josh Abramson, Jr., Kara Swisher, Khan Manka, Louis Castle, Manka Bros., Mark Stein, Michael Eisner, Michael Schwerdtman, Michael Zeisser, Nikki Finke, Notional, On Medea, OnMedea, Paul Telegdy, Peter Chernin, Phillippe Dauman, Richard F. Zannino, Rick Finkelstein, Ricky Van Veen, Ron Meyer, Rupert Murdoch, Scott Garell, Scott Savitz, Shana Fisher, Sharon Waxman, Stacey Snider, Steve Burke, Steve Jobs, Steven Spielberg, Sumner Redstone, Terry Semel, Thomas J. McInerney, Tina Brown, Tony DiSanto, Victor KaufmanKhan Manka, Jr. – Chairman & CEO – Manka Bros. StudiosThe World’s Largest Media Company