Welcome back to a pre-Dominion/Fox edition of What I’m Hearing.

Programming notes: This week on The Town, Lucas Shaw and I welcomed Max to the streaming wars, First Amendment litigator Doug Mirell pre-gamed Dominion vs. Fox, and I parsed some Murdoch family politics with Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman. Subscribe via Spotify or Apple.

Discussed in this issue: Kevin Costner, Zack van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, Jen Salke, Gerry Cardinale, Rupert Murdoch, Warren Buffett, Bob Iger, Dan Webb, and Sarah Paulson’s multi-million-dollar mobile home.

Before we begin, Puck’s legal expert Eriq Gardner is in Wilmington, Delaware for the Dominion vs. Fox trial, which starts this week. He’ll have great coverage in his newsletter The Rainmaker (sign up here), and tonight I asked him for a quick primer on the key players…

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