Hi everyone, it's Amy Polar, and I'm launching a new podcast called Good Hang.

In preparation for that, I asked some of my friends to send in some videos and give me some advice.

Just be yourself, and the guests will come.

Don't be the celebrity that this is their, like, six things they're doing.

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It is Tuesday, October 14th. What exactly is Apple doing in Hollywood? That's a question you hear a lot around town.

It's not that the world's most valuable company isn't a welcome presence in the entertainment

business. Since 2019, Apple TV Plus has been one of the biggest buyers of premium,

often ultra-premium TV shows and movies, usually with major stars and known creators involved. In 2021, Apple became

the first streaming service to win the Best Picture Oscar for Codagh, and the services had some

momentum lately with Severance and the studio scoring a combined 50 Emmy nominations, the studio

winning the top comedy award. But the questions persist around Apple TV Plus, which was rebranded this week as just Apple TV.

Apparently, it's cleaner.

And that's because the business model around these services is not totally clear, at least

not to people in Hollywood.

The economics of streaming, for the most part, are about a race to scale.

And while Apple has hundreds of billions of dollars

at its disposal, it has refused to do things that would help it grow and increase engagement,

like build up its service with a library of movies, or premium sports rights like the NFL or

NBA, though it does have soccer and baseball. And according to my colleague, John Arand at Puck,

they're about to pick up

F1 rights as well. Apple used to give its bigger movie releases a robust theatrical run, but after a few

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