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Just a few days until Christmas.
We're so excited.
We're live from the TVP and Ultradown.
The Temple of Technology, the Fortress of Finance, the capital of capital.
No travel until Christmas, baby.
No travel until the new year.
We're in the Ultradome hanging out.
We're monitoring the situation.
We're monitoring the Paramount Netflix Warner Brothers situation
because this is one of the most fascinating deals.
The deal has gone hostile.
Paramount has launched a hostile bid to acquire.
Warner Brothers. That's an all-cash offer, 77.9 billion. Really, really. And it's a fun one because
I feel like it's obviously tech-adjacent, but it's not the story that people have been monitoring
all year. We've been talking about foundation models. That whole story has just gotten a little
bit stagnant. Like I see media said, they got tired of not getting enough attention. Exactly.
Let's spice it up a little bit. Let's spice it up. Here's something new to learn about. So
everyone's having fun. Everyone's learning new things. And I could tell because when I came in today,
I had a bunch of questions that people were throwing at me about how all of this works.
Why isn't Warner Brothers just going with the highest price?
Like when I sell a stock, I don't care if Citadel or Jane Street's buying it.
If I'm selling 80 bucks of stock, just give me the best price.
But when you're selling an $80 billion company, there are other considerations.
And it goes beyond just maximizing shareholder value.
And so I wanted to break down a few of those.
So I did that in today's newsletter.
We can run through that and then we can run through some of the news.
This question, you know, it seems obvious.
The board has a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value.
That's legal requirement to take the higher offer.
And yet that's not what's happening.
Like yesterday we saw that Ellison and Paramount came in with over $100 billion.
Of course, that included the CNN, the TV assets.
But even when you broke it out, it seemed like it was very clear
that Ellison was willing to pay more money and make a higher offer.
offer. So under what circumstances can a board whose job it is to maximize shareholder value
not take the higher offer. They can't just, it can't just be whoever we had the better dinner
with, right? Which is part of the news, of course. They went out to dinner and Paramount CEO David
Ellison sent a text to David Zaslov, who's running Warner Brothers after they made a hostile bid
today to buy Warner Brothers. And David text the other David and says, David,
But I guess he misspelled his name, even though that's his name, which is just funny.
But anyway, he says, I appreciate your underwater today.
So I wanted to send you a quick text.
Know that despite the noise of the last 24 hours, I have nothing but respect and admiration for you in the company.
It would be the honor of a lifetime to be your partner and to work and to be the owner of these iconic assets.
He's talking about foghorn, laghorn.
He's talking about Porky Pig.
He's also talking about Batman and Superman, obviously.
And Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings and a million other iconic assets,
is true. If we have the privilege to work together, you will see that my father and I are the
people you had dinner with, which I like that. I think that's cool. They had dinner.
It's a fantastic text. Yes, yes, yes. It's a great one. There are two main reasons why you
don't just take, why your size might not be size. Directors at a company like Warner Brothers,
they have to maximize shareholder value, but maximizing shareholder value is an expected value
calculation. So if you come in with a $100 billion offer, and I think there's a 75% chance
that you're going to deliver that, and someone else comes in with an $80 billion offer,
and I think there's a 100% chance that they're going to deliver that, well, the expected
value of your bid is $75 billion. The expected value of their bid is $80 billion. I go with
the $80 billion, even though it's like a lower headline number, it has a higher expense.
How much of the calculus do you think is just a deal that will actually get done?
A deal that doesn't get done could still have value because of a
a breakup fee. You could, in theory, go into a deal that you know is impossible. And the example
that I gave is, what if Bight Dance came in? And they were like, hey, you know, we're a $400 billion
media company. We'd love to own porky pig. We'd love to own these iconic assets. Let's,
let's pick up Warner Brothers. We'd love to own CNN, too. You know, who knows what we'd put on
the TV. You already own TikTok. We already own TikTok. Why not CNN also? Why not Sharkweed?
But obviously, the government would block that.
And we have Siphyas, which is an organization in the U.S. government that determines whether or not an international buyer can take an American company because of intellectual property, all sorts of geopolitical considerations.
We don't want another country cornering a market on a really key piece of the supply chain, like the Nvidia H200, for example.
Then there's also just the FTC.
So certain deals, like I gave you the example yesterday, like Disney, Disney would be so blocked, I think, that that deal doesn't even get kicked around.
No one even talks about it.
And because it would get blocked by the FTC, but it would maximize shareholder value if Disney came and said, yeah, we'll give you a $10 billion breakup fee and we want to try and buy you for $200 billion or a trillion or $200 million.
Like you would immediately say yes because you just want the breakup fee.
But having, being in this turmoil and being in this limbo and not being able to sign deals with other, that has an opportunity cost, right?
And so you might want to back off of that.
And so basically the...
Yeah, look, you look back at the Figma acquisition.
Adobe paid a billion dollar breakup fee.
So that's effectively like non-dilutive financing for Figma.
That has a happy ending because they were able to, you know, re-accelerate, get out into the public markets.
but there was another situation where they went through a rough patch and actually really needed that capital to get through.
There's basically two buckets of risk that I think most deal makers would be considering in this situation.
First is financing risk.
So will they come through with the money and what money are they paying with?
Because the initial offer, this is the history, there's actually been six offers put forward by Paramount.
David Ellison is putting on a clinic
of just not taking no for an answer
because all the way back on September 14th
he offered $19 a share
and 60% of that was cash.
So 60% cash offer.
Then September 30th, two weeks later he comes back,
$22 a share and ups the amount of cash
to 66.7%.
Zazlov is doing a masterclass
in making your opponent negotiate against himself.
100%.
It's actually great.
And so October 3rd, 2350 a share,
80% cash.
then November 20th, 2550 a share, 85% cash.
Then finally, December 1st, 2650 per share, 100% cash.
December 4th, $30 a share, 100% cash.
Now, why does this matter?
Well, it's because you get locked into owning the shares of 40% of the shares is paramount,
and then while it's closing the stock trades down,
you wind up getting less value.
And so the $80 billion today might wind up being $70 billion later.
And that doesn't maximize shareholder value.
There's also just the question of like, can you actually marshal the cash?
Just like if somebody comes to you and you're about to sell your house to them and they say,
yeah, I'm definitely going to get a loan for this.
Well, that's a financing risk.
Maybe they don't.
Maybe they back out of the deal.
That's why cash offers oftentimes.
Exactly.
If you can just prove that you have the cash, that makes a difference.
And, I mean, he's effectively gone and done that because he's teamed up with Jerry Kushner, reportedly,
and gone around the world, got a whole bunch of different sovereign funds and just really people,
Any one of big deep pockets has kind of, you know, said, yes, I'm down to come along on this ride and put up a bunch of the capital.
The capital has been marshaled.
It seems like it's ready to go.
And then also you have Larry Ellison, who has three times as much money, I think, than the whole deal value.
Something like that, $275 billion to his name.
And he's only trying to put together.
Assets, not cash.
Assets, not cash.
But he should not just, I know they want it, but do not market sell your Oracle position, please.
Yeah, but he's like, I'm actually going all cash now.
But he's effectively acted as backstop.
And so everyone who's come in and said,
okay, I guess I'm good for $10 billion of that $80 billion,
but only if everyone else is in,
Larry Ellison reportedly has come in and said,
well, you know, if there's one person in the bunch
that backs out of their slug at the last second,
I'll jump in and get that.
He's not saying he's going to put up the whole 80.
He's just saying he's backstopping it.
David Ellison feels very, you know,
good because he's done what Zazlov wanted him to. He said, hey, they wanted an all-cash
offer. I brought them an all-cash offer. I brought them an offer that's higher. And we believe
that there's no reason why factor number two should come into play. And factor number two is
regulatory approval. And so there's been this question about will Netflix get approved? If there
was a different buyer, it would have even more regulatory risk. And so you don't want to,
even if the price is higher, you don't want to accept a higher price with a lower check.
of actual, actual conversion. Bobby thinks NLE CHAPA might up his offer to 100K of cash and get back
in the minute. In that scenario, at least you know that the 100K cash is real and it's going to be
delivered on the day of close. Maybe in actual cash. Probably. I think that was the, that is funny
because that was the joke of that meme was that he was giving like actual cash. When we're saying
cash offer here, of course we are not talking about physical cash. Is Tyler doing money spread? What
guys. Did Christmas come early for you? So I had a question though. What makes the
Paramount offer like hostile? Is it that it's like reacting to the Netflix offer? Is that the
Netflix board or sorry the Warner Brothers board went with Netflix and they're coming, it's
hostile because they're saying screw the board decision we want to go to the shareholders.
Okay yeah because it sounds like they had a nice dinner and the texts were like kind.
Yes yes yes no no no no hostile in the sense of like not accepting the final
The final decision there and then and then also there is a there is a point where you can appeal directly to the shareholders and and make the you can actually make the legal case that the board is not acting in in their fiduciary duty and in their in the interest of shareholders
But again these things need to be argued in shareholder lawsuits because it is fuzzy like if I say I'm offering you a hundred billion and someone else is offering 80 billion and the board says yeah, but that hundred billion has only a 75% chance of going
through, you have to discount that. Now, now the board says it's worth 75. But whoever made that offer can say, no, we're actually good for it. You need, you should apply a 10% discount rate and treat our offer as if it's 90% or 100%. And so all of those arguments, those can be made in the court and the shareholders can, you know, react to that. And if the shareholders align and say, yeah, actually, we think we'd be getting more money here with this, with this deal, then they can push back against the board at a certain point. But yeah.
friend of the show, high-powered media exec says Zazlov has been architecting the situation
for the last 12 months, sitting pretty, and he's a wily old fox and has what he has been
shooting for. Two heavy hitters fighting over a deal. Don't doubt there will be a couple more
turns here with the price or even another bidder coming in sideways. Which is remarkable
because the price is so high already compared to where it was six months ago.
Zazlov, it really feels like it's coming together that he will be remembered as like an incredible business executive for this deal.
Possible deal guy at the year?
Possible deal guy.
He's in the conversation.
He's definitely in the...
Sam was...
Sam looked like he was running away with it over the summer.
That's true.
Early fall.
And he lost ball control.
He lost ball control, yeah.
There is a wrinkle that people haven't really been considering, which is the fact that Warner Brothers Discovery holds
massive, a massive, often underrated vault of masculine cinema. And if this falls into the wrong
hands, it could be, what is masculine cinema? Masculine, masculine cinema would be. Okay, so they own,
they own a bunch of Clint Eastwood films, Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, the Enforcer, Heartbreak Ridge,
American Sniper, letters from Iwo Jima, Unforgiven, Grand Torino. They also own Rambo,
the whole service is to loan the cobra demolition man the specialist tango and cash bullet to the head get carter the 2000 remake
they also own mad max lethal weapons uh all of the lethal the lethal weapons the matrix blade mortal combat
300 rush hour pacific rim and a number of uh dad and military shows band of brothers the pacific generation
kill there's a whole host they should release the full DVD set just called guys being dudes
Yes, they also own some Jason Statham properties, the Meg franchise, where Jason Statham fights a big shark.
Whoa.
Wrath of Man.
I guess most of the Guy Ritchie films are actually with Lions Gator MGM.
And I think this could be a big political hot button of what happens to the Rambo franchises, the Hollywood hunks.
No one's talking about the Hollywood hunks.
Everyone's focused on the Looney Tunes characters.
But if the Hollywood hunks fall into the wrong hands, it could swing our entire culture potentially.
You're hiding in-ordered amounts of Middle Eastern funding sources and your takeover bid. Are you not? Says boring business and not hiding it. It's out in the open. Like this is this is like the playbook for these big deals.
But again, it's double double that of the amount of equity that the Allisons are putting in, putting it around. Yeah, I mean, I think everyone assumes that there'd be a lot of Middle Eastern funding in this. That has become the standard funding instrument these days. Like EA Games, we just followed that story a little bit.
that was obviously a huge amount of Saudi money. And that is part of the modern deal-making playbook
these days. A lot of venture funds have raised money over there. A lot of the big AI companies
have raised money over there. That seems like a foregone conclusion. If you need money, you go
where the money is. Why do bank robbers rob banks? Because that's where the money is.
Trump says that the United States will allow NVIDIA H-200 chip sales to China and get a 25% cut.
pretty big change. I mean, we were talking about not selling. I mean, I guess it's not
Blackwell, right? It's Hopper, so we're still a generation behind. But was this, it was like
a pretty nerfed chip before. We're getting less nerfed. We seem to move, we seem to be moving
in a more thumbs up direction, more, let's actually get the chips over to China. At the same
time, AI is fake, so it doesn't matter, right? That's the take. The approach,
nine I take is that it's sass or it's not it's not like this nuclear bomb that's going to destroy
everyone so it's harder it's getting harder to make the uh the the the the manhattan project
argument and it feels impossible to make the argument that we're going to get them addicted
to the u.s. ai supply chain and they'll never develop uh their own capabilities and so we want
that oh i disagree with that i think that that argument actually holds that that argument holds for
Sure. I mean, I totally disagree. I think China's smart enough to know they don't want to be dependent on any foreign country to produce any critical.
Yes, but I still think there's enough of like a market force within China that if we flood the market with cheap Nvidia chips, it'll just be expensive for them to keep propping up their local industry.
Even if they are aware of it, even if they know that they have to, it's a cost.
and it's something that a lot of AI researchers over there will just say,
you know what, it's so much easier, the NVIDO ecosystem is so great,
I'm just going to stick with that.
I'm a little bit skeptical that, like, there's no advantage to selling NVIDIA chips there.
I'd become more receptive to that argument in particular, even though you have not.
Tyler, what were you going to say about this?
Yeah, I was just going to say, I mean, we kind of joke about this,
but it is kind of crazy the extent to which you can basically bake down all, like, AI policy,
questions to like if you are aGI-pilled yeah because like if you are if you're dario yeah i mean
you shouldn't be giving stuff to china you also shouldn't you like if you are a gig pilot aGI piled
you should be thinking about safety all these things like we had keithra boy on yeah he's doesn't seem
super a pill he's also like oh safety's a hoax et cetera stuff like this um well let's read through this
wall street journal article on the on the details of the new nVIDia deal notable that this seems
to have been completely priced in already because nvita is actually down half a half a point today
Yes, it's been such a dramatic story all year, and yet it's always felt like a complete footnote in the overall financial performance of NVIDIA.
They're growing so fast that, you know, I don't know how many, we're going to get into figuring out how many H-200s they sell, but they would need to sell a lot to actually move the needle on this behemoth of a business, what is the world's largest company in the world.
President Trump said he would let NVIDIA export its H-200 chip to China and that the U.S. would receive,
25% cut his latest bid to make money for the government in an unusual agreement with a private
company. I have informed President Xi Jinping of China that the United States will allow
Nvidia to ship H-200 products to approve customers in China and other countries under conditions
that allow for strong national security. 25% will be paid to the US of A. The move is a boon for
Nvidia, which has fought for months to maintain access to the world's second largest economy. The company
had agreed earlier this year to give the U.S. 15% of China's sales from a lower performing chip
only for the Chinese to scuttle those plans as part of continuing trade talks between
the two sides. Chips from the world's most valuable company have become a prize geopolitical
tool. The H-200 has higher performance than the H-20 that NVIDIA was previously allowed to
sell. Even with the U.S. government taking a cut, the decision could be worth billions of dollars
in sales to NVIDIA. In the most recent fiscal quarter, NVIDIA reported gross margins
of 73.4% on $57 billion in sales.
That is crazy.
They can totally afford 25% for the big guy.
Yeah, right around that time too,
Lutnik was on CNBC, and this was the quote
that originally ticked off the Chinese.
He said, we don't sell them our best stuff,
not our second best stuff, not even our third best.
He said, you want to sell the Chinese enough
that their developers get addicted
to the American technology stack.
That's a thinking.
CCP basically immediately said, we don't want any of them now.
Trump said that the government would take a similar approach to exports from
Nvidia competitor, AMD, as well as Intel, in which the government now has a 10% stake.
We exported a ton of Teslas to China, and B.D and Huawei have now, it appears...
But arguably, completely leapfrogged.
Completely leapfrogged.
They did not become addicted to the American electric bar stat.
That was the point I was making earlier.
Yeah.
You can make the art, like, almost with every single.
product. They've said, we'll work with you to make this thing that you want to make. We're
really good at making things. Yes. And then they ultimately just make a better version of said
product and make it for cheaper. And in the case of cars, right now we're obviously not allowing
these cars to be imported into the US. You know, they can simultaneously say, we're happy to keep
making you these things. We're also going to compete with you directly. Yeah. You don't and you don't
allow Tesla to export the amazing Model S or Model 3, does that slow down B-YD's development of
their car or?
My understanding is they were able to basically get a paid education making Teslas and they
were able to leverage that into making.
But that's about making the car there.
And V-I has a Shanghai-
But that's research.
That's not made there.
That's not made there.
It's very different when you're saying, okay, we're going to go and produce this product
there and like you are going to get educated there and the workforce there. I think it's different but
you remember we've gone through this before China's like five year plans to create a domestic
chip industry. You've been doing five year plans for 60 years. I know they're building that's what
I'm saying and I would argue that it's working they're not caught up but they're certainly made
you know massive amount of progress it made more progress than any other country on earth. I think if you
want to think about like getting the Chinese addicted to our chips it's like how addictive are the chips
Because if you can make a comparison between, like, you have the Nvidia chips and then you have the Chinese or, like, TPU, right?
Because the TPU is, like, in some ways, it's harder to use.
The open source is not as good.
But if it's just more economical, like, if the actual hardware is just, like, a little bit cheaper, then it doesn't really matter how worse the software is.
People will eventually move to it.
So it's like the, I don't think there is actually that much, like, soft power in the kind of general open source stuff, like, that in regard.
to like NVIDIA, it doesn't seem very addictive outside of it just being cheaper.
At the same time, like, we are, America is very much addicted to Chinese solar panels right now.
Like the Chinese solar panels come here, they're cheap.
And so we don't wind up buying or building a domestic solar panel industry because just to get anything off the ground,
you have to go in and say, okay, we're going to deal with having no margin forever and no venture capital.
can underwrite it and no private equity firm can underwrite it. And so it just doesn't really
happen. It's pretty far up. Gavin knew we needed a new narrative. He said after the fateful
BG2 episode ended the AI trade, we needed a new trade. And now we're getting the space data
center trade. Okay. Let's hear the space data center. I think the most important thing that's going to
happen in the world in the next three to four years is data centers in space. If you think about it
from first principles, data centers should be in space.
What are the fundamental inputs to running a data center?
They're power and they're cooling.
And then there are the chips.
The inputs to making the tokens come out of the magic machines.
So in space, you can keep a satellite in the sun
24 hours a day.
Pretty cool.
And the sun is 30% more intense.
And this results in six times more irradiance
in outer space than on planet Earth.
So you're getting a lot of solar energy.
Point number two, because you're in the Sun 24 hours a day, you don't need a battery.
This is a giant percentage of the cost.
So the lowest cost energy available in our solar system is solar energy and space.
Second, for cooling in one of these racks, a majority of the mass and the weight is cooling.
And the cooling in these data citrus is incredibly complicated.
You know, I mean, the HVAC, the CDUs, the liquid cooling, and space.
cooling is free. You just put a radiator on the dark side of the satellite.
It's fucking gold. And it's as close to absolute zero as you can get. So all that goes away.
And that is a vast amount of cost. What are you going to connect those racks? Well, it's funny.
In the data center, the racks are over a certain distance connected with fiber optics.
And that just means a laser going through a cable. The only thing faster than a laser going
through a fiber optic cable is a laser going through absolute vacuum. So if you can link
these satellites in space together using lasers, you actually have a faster and more coherent
network than in a data center on Earth, okay? The user experience, you know, when I asked
Grok about you and it gave the nice answer. This is crazy, though. They've done a podcast together
five times. Why is he asking Brock about Patrick? I was like, what is going on? I would like to,
I would like to know how much SpaceX exposure Gavin has.
You just put a radiator on the dark side of the satellite.
Thermal engineers in absolute shambles right now.
Yeah, people are not, I don't know, people are so split.
Casey Hammer says, to be fair, this is a big satellite.
You need basically a lot of mass in order to dissipate enough heat.
There's some massive news from Gulfstream Aerospace.
The G400 introduces next-gen gulfstream tech to its class.
How has Mark Burns not been on the show yet?
Here we go.
Clearly don't have a no-render policy over here.
They're render-reacting.
You think they're just not at...
You think they could just be adding special effects?
What do you mean?
This is the most rendered video I've ever seen.
This looks like it was rendered in 2010.
You think this is real, though?
Bring Gulfstream performance standards.
No, this is not a green screen.
cabin class.
Damn.
Filling our customers needs for a product line to see every trip.
Look at this.
You're like this is real.
This is what it looks like.
With Gulfstream's signature combination of range, speed, and cabin comfort.
The G400 will provide unrivaled efficiency.
Thanks to the combination of the advanced practice.
This is going to be a hot Christmas gift this year.
Absolutely.
People have been wondering.
I think this will be top of, this will be under the tree for a lot of people.
of people. Mark Benioff says, LLMs are the new disc drives, commodity infrastructure, you hot swap
for whoever's cheapest plus best. The fantasy that the model is the moat just expired.
Mark Benioff having fun on the timeline. I love that he's having fun. I love that he's taking
shots. Don't they have an AI lab, to be clear? They were working on Einstein for a while,
but I think that they are very much happy to be a rapper, happy to be a buyer of LLM.
at this point. Everyone that knows anything knows this. Open AI is the next Netscape, doomed and
hemorrhaging cash. Microsoft is still trying to keep it afloat while keeping it off balance sheet
and sucking out the IP. So why do they keep getting funded? The whole industry needs a $500 billion
IPO ASAP. This post would go super hard if you don't understand the Microsoft Open AI relationship.
The dynamics of the of the competition here feels like there will still be a lot of
value. Even if it is somewhat commodity infrastructure, it's like, you know what else is commodity infrastructure?
AWS, GCP, Azure. You get a, you know, like a server with some hard disk on it. Like,
that is commodity, and yet they all have 30% margins. Yeah, it's interesting too. I mean,
Burry has, you know, positioned himself of just hating any company that's overheated,
chat GPT, having close to a billion weekly actives. And ultimately, even,
if they just compete in search, right?
At least it's a multi-tillion dollar opportunity, whether or not they fully execute against
that is another thing.
A hedge fund was ordered to pay a bonus to a trader who made 97% of its revenues.
This is hilarious because when I read this at first, I thought it was he had made, like his
target bonus was let's say 10 million and he brought in 9.7 million and they were like,
you didn't hit your bonus buddy, you don't get the bonus at all.
And I was like, oh, that sucks, but like, that's kind of the deal that kind of makes sense.
But evolution capital management has to pay him because he made a hedge fund that was sued by a trader for refusing to pay a performance-related bonus, despite him making 97% of its revenue, has been ordered to pay him $5.4 million plus interest by the high court in London.
When I read the headline of the story, I expected it to not be in the mid-seven figures.
Would you expect?
I mean, I was hoping at least eight.
He's not getting a G400 off of this.
Robert Gagliardi sued his former employer,
Evolution Capital Management in London,
alleging that it acted in bad faith
by denying him a $7.5 million discretionary bonus
after he had generated more than $60 million for the firm.
Wow.
There are some harsh words here.
Gagliardi, a block trading specialist,
alleged that he was told in early 2021
that a return of 10 million,
dollars over the rest of the year would be an excellent result when gagliardi asked the fund's
founder michael lurched for the payout in 2022 he responded i'm not going to pay you the bonus
f you sue me so gagli already did yeah and he won uh Saudi Arabia is loosening alcohol rules
letting non-muslim foreign residents earning over 13,000 dollars uh you can buy alcohol
this is such a galaxy-brained idea it could only come from a mind totally disconnect
from normal material reality.
It is interesting.
It's like, hey, if you want to do, you know, drugs, if you want to consume alcohol, that's fine,
but you have to be putting up numbers.
Cannabis should be like $10 million a year on your W2.
I was about to say, but you know what happens then?
Everyone in America, you know, you turn 17, 18, 19, you're not 21 yet.
You get a fake ID to try and buy some booze.
You're going to need a fake W2 as well.
You're going to fake your income estate.
Your fake W-2 to the corner liquor store just being, and they're just like looking through every line.
In Saudi Arabia, so you're in Saudi Arabia, and let's say you're making $1,000 a year, USD, or, you know, you're making $10,000, you need to go and set up a circular contract where you're a 17-year-old, somebody else is 17-year-old, I pay you 10,000, you pay me $10,000, and then we get a couple times.
Exactly, we do it a couple times, then we're earning enough to go by alcohol, we can go get drunk together.
That is crazy.
That is truly galaxy-brained.
Nazari says they got their hands on some North Korean cigarettes.
They did?
They got them in a D-P-R-K,
stayed-owned restaurant from a waitress who is from Pyongyang.
Basically impossible to find any background info on them online.
They taste and look 100%.
But I like the packaging.
The packaging goes pretty hard.
It feels very...
But I can't support it because I don't support North Korea.
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