nightcrawler in los angeles

Chapter 230 Disney's Gauntlet
Thomas' mind was in turmoil along the way.

When he drove to the door of the house, he didn't even know when he got home.

But just before he parked the car and entered the house, he suddenly heard the voice of his eldest daughter.

With a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, Thomas shook his head helplessly and pushed open the door.

"Dad!"

Before Thomas could react, his eldest daughter jumped at him.

"Annie!"

"Oh! My God! Dad, why do you have such a disgusted look on your face?"

In order to prevent this from being his hallucination, Thomas looked at his wife in surprise.

"Anne! It seems that your father is not used to your sudden visit!"

"Thomas, how is your student loan application today?"

Thomas was greeting his eldest daughter happily, but his wife's words made him stunned for an instant.

He was embarrassed to say that he did not get the loan.

This is the responsibility of a man and the responsibility of a father.

"Oh, there are a lot of people today, I want to go tomorrow."

As soon as Annie heard that his father didn't make it through, she immediately put her arms around his father's shoulders with a happy face: "Dad, it's a good thing you didn't make it through, hahahaha."

"Well, it's okay, I'll go tomorrow. Huh? Fortunately, I didn't make it through?"

"Yes!"

Annie was so surprised to see his father's usually calm expression today, Annie immediately happily took out a piece of paper from her satchel.

[Dear Ms. Anne Ken.

You are welcome to join MGM Studios' Outstanding Undergraduate Study Program as a reward for graduating and joining MGM Studios Technology.

MGM Studios will pay your tuition for the next 4 semesters and provide you with $1000 per month for living expenses. 】

"MGM Studios hired you?"

"Yes! Dad, after I graduate, I will be an employee of MGM Studios. Since my sophomore year, I have to go to MGM Studios for an internship every month!"

Thomas, staring wide-eyed, looked at the [Invitation Letter] in his hand in disbelief.

MGM Studios of course he knows!
He liked "Top Gun" a few years ago. Thomas heard from his teammates that the CD of that movie was sold all over the world by MGM!

Thomas, who was a little bit happy in his heart, was about to ask something more, when her daughter directly put a stack of envelopes in front of him.

When Thomas saw the hot dog logo on the envelope, he felt a little bad feeling in his heart.

"what is this?"

"Internship salary!"

Thomas tore off the Neil's Hot Dog logo on the envelope, revealing $300 in cash: "You haven't gone to work yet, where did you get the internship salary!"

Thomas' wife looked at his husband with a look of surprise that he had such a big reaction.

Annie didn't notice his father's abnormality, but replied with a happy face: "Who said I didn't! USC School of the Arts accepts the sponsorship of MGM Film Studio, and I only need to participate in MGM Film Production during class time." I have a subsidy for the studio's cartoon creative workshop."

"Then why does the MGM Studios envelope that pays you have a Neil's Hot Dog label on it."

Seeing her father's skeptical expression, Annie replied calmly instead of worrying: "Hahaha, you don't know that, MGM Studios has long been acquired by the Neil Group!"

"what???"

Thomas's words broke the sound immediately. Thomas' wife had seen his husband's abnormality long ago, but because of the presence of her eldest daughter, she didn't say anything, but said to Annie: "Okay, okay, Annie, you Hurry up and review your homework, doesn't your company still have a bus to take you to school this afternoon?"

Annie seemed to realize something, and hurried to her room in a hurry.

Seeing his daughter leave, Thomas rubbed his own face vigorously: "Oh, there are so many things recently, I also encountered this morning."

Thomas didn't finish his sentence, but stared at the [Yellow Pages Convenience Magazine] in his wife's hand with his big eyes.

"Well! Who did you meet? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Have we always had this magazine at home?"

Thomas' wife glanced at the magazine in her hand and replied with a smile: "Yes! It has always been there. The sewer dredging and anti-theft doors in our house are all workers found on this, and those who come to repair are all It’s a veteran, they found out that I’m a member of the military and gave you half of the fee!”

"Oh"

"Then why are you still looking at this? Just throw it away." Thomas raised the water glass in his hand and said to his wife absent-mindedly.

"No, No, No,"

"Thomas, the Yellow Pages Convenience Magazine is very friendly to us military members. I plan to spend 9.9 dollars to enter this union. After our baby is born, we can not only enjoy three-month pregnant services, but also call ambulances for free. car!"

"Oh, by the way, Thomas, who did you just say you saw today?"

Thomas Ken rubbed his hands with a complex expression and didn't answer, but his wife picked up the phone and made a call.

"Hi, hello, I would like to inquire about [North American Locksmiths Union], what do I need to provide for military members to join?"

Thomas was a little annoyed to hear that his wife had actually gone to make a phone call to join the bloody capitalist camp.

He who was only a little melancholy didn't know what to say now!

That damn [North American Locksmiths Union] wrapped his life from all directions like a fishing net.

"Yes! I'm a nurse, I'm...Really! Is it in Los Angeles County? It's not far from us, can you provide accommodation? That would be really great!"

After Thomas's wife hung up the phone, she happily sat next to Thomas: "Hey, dear, do you know? This union actually opened a welfare hospital in Los Angeles County, and the treatment is very good. They know that I am a The nurse then invited me to see the working environment there."

Thomas was tired of this kind of thing.

The muffled Thomas asked with a gloomy face, "Didn't you work very well at Newz Hospital?"

"Oh! Thomas, the wages there are not enough for our expenses every month. Although I don't know whether I am pregnant with a boy or a girl, shouldn't we work harder for Ta?"

"It's a boy!"

"And our mortgage. What. Boy? How do you know Thomas!"

It's not very windy at night in California.

Some insomniac Thomas sat in front of the phone and called Tao Xi: "Hi, I'm looking for Mr. Tao Xi, um, I am"

The creation of the California Locksmiths Union Benefit Hospital and its cost didn't bother Tausi.

Some money should be spent!

And things like trade unions are of great benefit to him. After all, they are all flexible workers, and he doesn't take any money from the work content and salary of those people.

He is just an intermediary!

The recent actions of MGM Studios are a bit big, because Disney's overreaction has caused MGM Studios to siege Disney frantically recently.

Although on the surface everyone thinks that MGM Studios has the support of Panama Sunshine Commercial Bank, but only Tao Xi knows the real pain.

"What! You are going to buy a computer factory just for a cartoon?"

Tausi's voice nearly cracked because goddamn Peter Lamont bought a computer factory just to fight Disney.

Now the computer business in the United States can be said to be in full swing, and the listing of Microsoft has made the entire market very hot, but Tao Xi feels that this kind of thing is just like deceiving people.

"Tausi, you have to know that Disney invests hundreds of millions of dollars every year in order to make the cartoons in their hands more beautiful and clear. If we are thrown behind by them in this area, it will be terrible. Not good news."

"Now we have an opportunity. A computer company called AMD. One of their businesses is the manufacture of computer chips. Their market value is not high. If we can invest 7 million US dollars, not only can we become their largest shareholder, we can also They can use their technology to serve MGM."

"This is a lot of money, and now Hollywood's special effects technology is also developing very fast."

"MGM Studios is bound to get involved in it. Instead of us investing more than one billion in research and development technology, why don't we just buy a company to serve us."

Tao Xi saw that Peter Lamont, a little old man, used to be a stingy old man who wanted to "spend every penny twice". Today, Tao Xi was frightened by his breathless expression when he said 7 million US dollars.

"No money!"

"no!"

"I really have no money!"

"Tao Xi, if you don't give me this support, I'll have a meeting and file for bankruptcy with MGM when I go out."

"you dare?"

Peter Lamont was not at all nervous to see Tausi like this.

He had secretly asked Old West, and the Panama Sunshine Commercial Bank still has nearly 30 billion US dollars in liquidity.

If he can't take down that AMD to serve him, he is really unwilling.

He bragged in the media yesterday that he wanted to add color to Hollywood's animation career.

It would be great if he could ask AMD to tailor a computer for processing pictures for MGM. Not only would it save labor, but it might even create some new special effects.

"AMD is a listed company, and its main business is profitable. Haven't you seen how easy it is for Microsoft?"

"Besides, your younger brother studied computers in college. Wouldn't it be fine to manage that company directly after your younger brother graduates from college?"

"Marco is the owner of a car factory, you can't favor one over the other."

Tao Xi rubbed his temples with a depressed face.

In fact, there is not much money on the company's books.

Although the establishment of a welfare hospital and the purchase of equipment do not cost much, he can imagine that when the welfare hospital of the [North American Locksmiths Union] is completed, many veterans who have no choice will definitely come to see the doctor!
Medical care, drugs, labor, all of these need money.

Peter Lamont's suggestion is equivalent to stealing half of Tao Xi's plan. Although there is a lot of money, the radio has been silent for a long time recently.

If he really wanted to do something, what would he do if he had no money in hand.

"Tao Xi, it's really an opportunity. They are a Fortune 500 company. If it wasn't for the stock market crash and their internal operation problems, they really wouldn't accept our acquisition."

Tao Xi was frowning and seriously thinking about Peter Lamont's suggestion.

"Go, go, when the time comes, let West pay attention to debts and other content. As for the distribution of equity, we must pay attention to it. Don't really let entrepreneurs become our workers, or we will spend so much money in the future to acquire What if the company loses its vitality?"

When Peter Lamont heard Tao Xi say this, he immediately grinned.

But I have to say that Peter Lamont's idea really inspired him, since MGM Films can acquire technology companies in order to update his special effects technology and animation production technology.

So why can't he buy some pharmaceutical factories in order to reduce his medical costs?

Thinking of this, Tao Xi immediately became interested. He planned to chat with the old guy who was recently called a "stock god" to see if he had any good investment targets.

He's not as stupid as Peter Lamont.

Investment is so exciting, low-cost investment and high-cost recovery, if the other party has no potential or is of no value to him, just sell it directly.

"Hey, Mr. Buffett, long time no see."

"Yeah, I suddenly had an idea recently, I don't know if you have any pharmaceutical companies there"

"Switzerland! Great Switzerland!"

"Okay, I'll book a ticket to Switzerland right now, and we'll meet there then."

Only then did Tao Xi, who hung up the phone, realize that the most powerful industry in Switzerland turned out to be pharmaceutical chemicals, but it would be nice to have someone to guide him.

Tao Xi happily gave various instructions to the secretary.

But when Tao Xi was happily preparing to go to Switzerland for vacation, Disney's Kaden Warren directly released a big move!
[Paris Disneyland will start construction on the 30th of this month]

[Industrial Light and Magic will join hands with Disney to shoot a new animation film, and Spielberg is expected to be the producer]

[Disney directors speak to the outside world, no one can stop Disney's progress, even the former loser MGM! 】

These three consecutive pieces of news, like a blockbuster, completely disrupted the originally peaceful Hollywood.

Tao Xi looked at the newspaper that the secretary had just delivered and muttered in bewilderment: "Let me save you some face, if you don't want it, you have to overturn the table!"

(End of this chapter)