Paramount and Netflix Come for Warner Bros.; Mamdani's Plan to End Homeless Encampment Sweeps; Eating Well Today; Shop Listener 2025: Under $50
The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 9, 2025
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On today's show:
- Rohan Goswami, business reporter at Semafor and Katie Campione, senior tv & labor reporter at Deadline, discuss the recent merger talks for Paramount and Netflix to buy up parts of Warner Bros. Discovery, including news of Paramount’s "hostile" bid of $108 billion — one of the largest ever.
- Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced that he will end targeted sweeps of homeless encampments and tents as mayor. Dan Rivoli, politics reporter at Spectrum News NY1, discusses the polarized response to this announcement, and what alternative to these sweeps Mamdani has planned instead.
- Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health emerita at NYU and the author of many books, including her latest, What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters (North Point Press, 2025), talks about her newly revised classic and how to navigate the food landscape today.
- Shop Listener is back for the 2025 holiday season. Listeners call in to shout out the holiday gifts they sell that are under fifty dollars, for a Brian Lehrer Show listener-sourced gift guide.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
