Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.

I'm Brian McCullough.

As promised, here's Recodes, Peter Kafka, the Dean of the Media Reporters, someone we should have had on

this podcast a long time before this.

Do check out his podcast.

It's excellent.

He's the best in the business. It's called Recode Media with Peter

Kafka, but we have a ton to talk about so let's not waste any more time.

Peter, we were saying offline that this is perfect timing. We delayed talking yesterday because the news actually broke, but man, just when I was ready to be like, you idiots, you destroyed that Tiffany brand of HBO to be what, what you know an also ran in streaming they go and do a thing like this and

basically guarantee I'm going to be a subscriber so did you see this coming I mean someone was going to do this at some point

right but them and now I don't

know that someone was going to do this at some point I know that all the studios have

been spending since March a lot of time figuring out what the heck, can we swear on this?

Sure.

What the point they're going to do, and all of them basically punted at the beginning,

but they're all trying to model out what does

this mean well but I mean this is inside baseball stuff but for the last couple months

there's been all sorts of reorgs people being fired essentially and that sort of pointed

towards everyone getting the streaming religion as their main business

model right? I don't know some of this was announcing you know like Disney announced a

reorg that I think there's less there than meets the eye it's certainly important

for all the big media companies to tell Wall Street that streaming is very important to

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