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, sixth thing they're doing.

I love true crime and cooking podcasts. Is there any way you could combine the two?

Well, everyone has an opinion and a podcast. So, join me for good hang. It's rough out there.

We're just trying to lighten it up a little.

It is Thursday, August 14th. It's the question that dominates conversations all around town.

What is Paramount going to be exactly?

David Ellison now owns the studio and he's got his Skydance media team running the film and TV groups, but we haven't heard a lot about what kind of movies they want to make, where they want to put

those movies and theaters around streaming, and whether the shows on CBS and Paramount

Plus will change that much. Yesterday, I trekked over to the Paramount Commissary on the lot.

The cookies were very tasty, and I sat with a bunch of other media to hear directly from

Ellison and his team. That included Jeff Shell, the company's new president, Dana Goldberg

and Josh Greenstein are running the

studio, the streaming chief, Cindy Holland. She's in charge of Paramount Plus and Pluto,

and she came from Netflix. Plus, George Cheeks over TV, among others. A lot of it was kind of

meaningless platitudes. Ellison has his talking points on hot button subjects, like he's for

truth and unbiased news at CBS News,

without many details about how he'd handle thorny political subjects.

And he wants to work with the best creators and artists and top-level IP,

a few specifics about the types of artists, or what budgets he's comfortable with,

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