All right, he had a lovely morning. Welcome to today's Mid-Arikenna podcast, the 21st of April, 2022.

Happy almost Friday, Thursday. That's getting closer, right? That's closer.

I am Derek Hunter. I am your host. I appreciate the use of your ears. And thanks for spreading

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only five bucks a month. It helps me out immeasurably. All right, I don't want to ramble on too long

because I'm going to ramble on too long during the show. So let's get on with the show.

There's a lot going on today. And I'm sitting here and I just had, you know, it's one of those

things where you're like, I know this is started. What was I going to say? And I can't remember,

it's weird. So I'll remember a quote from high school. I'll remember all this garbage from

the past and sit there and you go, what was I thinking about 30 seconds ago? And you know, it's lost,

it's lost. I have no idea. Anyway, welcome to the program. There's a lot of ground to cover.

A bunch of stuff going on. Are you a, I'm kind of, I've never had a Netflix account. I have Netflix.

The wife has had Netflix, but Netflix is losing people. It's hemorrhaging people apparently.

And you look at why and it's pretty obvious. For a while there, the streaming revolution

was a great thing, especially for creative people. There's a lot of crap that wasn't being made

because the networks that would have made it have these sensibilities, you know, you've got to

check these, like the new Academy Award rules where they're like, well, if you don't have enough

diversity in your cast or crew, you're not qualified to win an award. Well, what if it's the best?

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