Sagar and Marshall here welcome back to the realignment.

If you understand the business, you understand why you get the content you get.

These companies are being judged based on the success of their streaming service.

Disney stock is way up because of the growth of Disney+.

And it's being valued the way that Netflix is being valued.

So these companies care first and foremost about how many subscribers are adding and retaining to their streaming services.

Today's episode with Ben Fritz, Westcof Pyrrishi for the Wall Street Journal is an episode that Sagar and I have wanted to do for a really long time.

He wrote a couple years ago the big picture, the fight for the future of movies, and Sagar actually included that in his best of 2020 reads.

Go to our workshop to go check it out for more.

But we are obsessed with this topic because it's an example of how the realignment idea applies to more than just politics.

You've probably heard this on rising, you've probably heard this in the news.

Americans as a whole are less and less focused on political news during the Biden era.

So a question for the two of us as host is how can we tell stories and bring on guests that focus on the idea of the show,

the idea that our world is shifting and all of the institutions that it is before are struggling to work with those changes.

How do we tell about story in a way that just isn't about day to day politics because honestly that's boring.

Focusing through movies is exactly the way to do this.

That's exactly right Marshall.

There couldn't be an industry that is changing more rapidly and more applicable to what we talk about here than the movie business.

Two years ago was already a rapid shift in content consumption because of streaming.

Now we have the pandemic on top of that.

The most important thing that Ben says in this episode is that you have to understand the business of content in order to understand the content that hits your eyes.

How the Mandalorian, how the Queen's Gambit, how we don't see movies like the hangover and step brothers anymore.

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