Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, anxiously awaiting the end of this tropical storm/earthquake hellscape, and for Ronan Farrow’s opus on Elon Musk to drop tomorrow.

Programming note: This week on The Town: Lucas Shaw and I debated the best path for ESPN, and profit participation expert John Mass explained how Mission: Impossible 7 will make money. Subscribe here and here, and tomorrow we’re making predictions for the “September surprise” in Hollywood, so email me if you’ve got good guesses.

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Discussed in this issue: Carol Lombardini, Ron Meyer, Bela Bajaria, John Powers Middleton, Barry Diller, Tiffany Haddish, Burke Magnus, Kim Harris, Michael Lewis, Jason Sudeikis, Bryan Freedman, Bradley Cooper’s nose, and… Jadon the intern.

But first…