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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Mayer Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:14.8 | Coming up on today's show, Mayor-Elect Mom Dani says he will end the Adams policy of homeless encampment sweeps. |
| 0:21.5 | Is that good for the people living there? |
| 0:23.5 | Is it safe for everyone else? |
| 0:25.6 | We have the food politics icon Marian Nessel today. |
| 0:29.3 | She will revisit her classic book, What to Eat. |
| 0:32.4 | The new one is called What to Eat Now. |
| 0:34.7 | It's dietary advice with a generous helping of how the food industry affects |
| 0:39.7 | our diets and our democracy. Also today, your stories and feelings about self-checkout. That's all |
| 0:46.2 | coming up. But let's begin here. If you're anyone from a baby boomer down to Gen Z, |
| 0:52.3 | what American media giant does this song make you think of? Yes, that's right. It's the Mary Melodies cartoon theme, as some of you recognized. |
| 1:20.9 | So you might have thought first of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, upon hearing that theme. |
| 1:27.4 | But if you remember the visual, upon hearing that theme. |
| 1:32.8 | But if you remember the visual, it said, Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. |
| 1:34.7 | Presents Warner Brothers. |
| 1:38.2 | And so most of you have probably figured out already where I'm going with this, |
| 1:42.2 | but we don't know where that Warner Brothers theme will be going. |
| 1:45.6 | Maybe it will be going to live with this little theme. |
| 1:56.3 | Much less fun, but more contemporary, right? The Netflix. A Dome. Maybe a decent mix. Who knows? Even though so many people think Netflix already broke Hollywood and think a Warner Brothers |
| 2:02.0 | Discovery Netflix merger, which would also sweep in HBO, would put too much of the streaming |
| 2:07.8 | business, too much control of cultural content in one ginormous company's hands. Or maybe the silly |
| 2:15.3 | cartoon theme, did I mention Porky Pig or Treebird, |
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