General Family Dollar tieup goes through, the combined company would have 20,000 stores in 46 states, a total of about 28 billion in revenue. Now, heres the important part the synergies on this transaction, which contrast to the other one and i know were talking about dollar tree and Dollar General and Family Dollar, its confusing. Dollar, dollar, dollar. Dollar, dollar, dollar. Heres whats happening. On the Dollar General Dollar General tree. On the Dollar General proposal, they would have 550 million to 600 million in synergies annually. That would happen three years after the close. That is in contrast to what was 300 million in synergies on the other dollar tree deal. Now, the dollar tree is a much Smaller Company than Dollar General, and thats one of the reasons theyre not able to have the type of synergies. A lot of analysts had wanted Dollar General to come forward with this deal. Were surprised that they havent. Apparently, if you look through some of the filings on the origina
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An egg on the sidewalk, assuming that you like your eggs over hepatitis. [laughter] seriously, it is unbelievably [bleeped] hot here. Now, to take our minds off the heat, we have a very exciting election looming in the city, and this is why tonight were going to start off our special campaign coverage. Yes, oh yes. [applause] thats the big question. Who will be the next new York City Comptroller . Im actually being told that its pronounced controller. Im now being told that thats matter of some linguistic dispute. [laughter] im now being told that absolutely nobody cares how its pronounced because its the most boring job on the planet. Now, a week ago it was all but certain that the position would be filled by manhattan borough president scott somebody or other. Nobody knows. It doesnt matter. And a week ago it was also all but certain that there was no way that we would be covering this race on this show, but then this happened. The former new York Democratic governor Eliot Spitzer is
He is currently waiting to emerge from Kate Middletons vagina. Push, princess, push our guest tonight, author of the new look zealot about the life of jesus, the fantastic reza alsan is with us. [cheering and applause] john yes, indeed, yes, indeed. Friend of the show. But we start tonight in new york city, where it is so hot and this is a true story, that on my way to work this morning, i saw a squirrel stab a pigeon over a piece of ice. [laughter] it is so hot here, you can cook an egg on the sidewalk, assuming that you like your eggs over hepatitis. [laughter] seriously, it is unbelievably [bleeped] hot here. Now, to take our minds off the heat, we have a very exciting election looming in the city, and this is why tonight were going to start off our special campaign coverage. Yes, oh yes. [applause] thats the big question. Who will be the next new York City Comptroller . Im actually being told that its pronounced controller. Im now being told that thats matter of some linguistic dis
Wow, that is so complex and trippy and cool. Well, now that weve uncovered mackeys source of hoarding, we can finally move on to yours, stan. Are you ready for your therapy . I think i have a better idea. Stan, did you find out the reason youve been hoarding . Whatever it is, i dont want to know. Im just gonna throw this crap away like i should have to begin with. But, dude, there must be something in your past youre not dealing with. Dont care. After going through all that crap and seeing what happened to mackey, i dont want any part of therapy. How do you know that wasnt your therapy . Boom boom Doo Doo Doo Doo doo doo boom boom Doo Doo Doo Doo doo captioning by captionmax www. Captionmax. Com captioning sponsored by Comedy Central from Comedy Centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central [theme music playing] [cheering and applause] john welcome to the daily show. I am john oliver. Jon stewart, im afraid