In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady tackles the Paramount-Skydance merger–and how it marks a new age in the politics of pop culture.

The big story: Zelenskyy travels to DC.

The markets: Mixed sentiment as investors wait for a deal.

Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune .

Good morning. My first job in the U.S. included covering Martha Stewart and World Wrestling Entertainment during the dot-com boom. Stewart was a multimedia influencer and doyenne of domesticity; Vince and Linda McMahon had transformed wrestling from a traveling circus of showmen and athletes into a superstar-studded global entertainment phenomenon. Today’s “ trad wife ” phenomenon or “manosphere” populated by the likes of Joe Rogan are not without precedent. Pop culture always reflects and respond

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