Episode 535 Promo - It Was All A Stream (w/ Alvaro Bedoya)
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4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Former FTC commissioner returns to Bad Faith to explain the Netflix/Paramount battle over Warner Brothers, and what media consolidation means for the price of streaming services, censorship, the quality of media content and the future of movie theaters.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
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| 0:00.0 | you know, Netflix has a particularly bad reputation among actors for this kind of thing. They don't |
| 0:05.9 | just have a bad reputation among writers, but they have a bad reputation of actors for being very |
| 0:09.8 | aggressive for the way they use their likeness for the residuals that are used, that actors are |
| 0:15.0 | which is a separate issue. But this is not just going to be bad for people just paying that |
| 0:19.8 | monthly streaming bill. It'll be bad for people just paying that monthly streaming bill. |
| 0:21.3 | It'll be bad for this whole workforce that our country is known for and that you would hope a lot |
| 0:27.1 | of elected officials would care a lot more about. |
| 0:29.2 | There's a couple pieces here. |
| 0:30.4 | There is the question of why do you think it is that more politicians, especially ones that |
| 0:36.3 | are 2028 hopefuls, don't see this as an opportunity |
| 0:40.2 | to score some much-needed points among a very defeated and deflated and angry democratic base, |
| 0:47.4 | especially when I really take your point, believe me, that the increases in the price per month |
| 0:52.9 | and Netflix is in some ways of the footnote to |
| 0:55.5 | the story. But it also is something that is directly affecting the lives of many Americans in the |
| 1:00.0 | way I have had many an argument. Many a tirade has been had in my vicinity about the cost of |
| 1:07.3 | Netflix and oh, they don't want to share anymore and all they want to squeeze every |
| 1:10.9 | blood from the stone, you know, every drop of blood. So it does seem like a very relatable issue in the |
| 1:16.9 | way that so many consumer issues are. But Democrats, Republicans, too, of course, but nobody seems to |
| 1:22.7 | want to touch it. Yeah. Let's talk about this because I actually think we can zoom out and identify some |
| 1:28.9 | stuff that is all across the economy. And look, obviously, you know, Democratic electeds have the |
| 1:35.3 | same problem Republican electives have, which is they wake up in the morning and the thing they do |
| 1:39.5 | the most minutes every day is call extremely rich people for cash. You know, every summer they go to a literal |
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