Those tax incentives were tied to hiring a certain amount of people and maintaining those hires. So it is. I did not know this. Yeah. So this is like, it's very easy. Colbert doesn't lose money. It makes like $50 million a year, unfortunately. Cost 100 to make. Why does it cost 100 to make? Because you have seven different unions you got to run. It was making 80 or 90 million dollars back in the day. (2:37:59–2:38:04)
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