Hollywood. Some call it Tinseltown. Some call it La La Land. The Big Easy, the Big Apple, the Rose City, Bean Town. People call Hollywood a lot of things these days, but what they don't call it is a town with the thriving entertainment industry. This week, we decided to talk about that, about the rocky state of the broader entertainment

industry from film and TV to, of course, video games.

I'm Kirk Hamilton.

I'm Maddie Myers.

And I'm Jason Trier.

Hello.

Hello.

Hey, guys.

You want to hear about my weekend, guys? Always. It's really, I guess I do. It's really quite a weekend. I got a little preview before we recorded. It sounded exciting. Well, I didn't tell you the really fun part. So I've been sick the last few days, but on top of that, there was a water outage in my neighborhood, and we didn't have water for about like 30 hours or

something like that. Wow. You don't really, water is one of those things where you live in a house and you're like, yeah, the water is just going to just going to come. You don't really think about it until it's gone. And then you're like, oh, okay, I can't shower. I can't run the sink. I can't flush the toilet. I can't

actually, like,

you get ice or anything like that.

I have a drink of water. I can't run the sink. I can't flush the toilet. I can't actually, like, you get ice or anything

like that. I have to drink out of bottles. But then on top of that, my boiler also needs water to

function. So I had to turn off the heat. It was below freezing in New York. That's it like sitting in a

freezing house. Sick, freezing, no water, no showers. It was very very fun 30 hours i was just checking the

facebook page for my town i've never been on facebook so much my entire life every 20 minutes for

updates from people and everybody else is freaking out too about the lack of water so water is one of

those things that you really you really start to appreciate when it's gone so true and that

reminds me of when we lost power for three or four days,

wait, a few years ago now in my neighborhood during a really intense winter storm and just that feeling of, oh, I'm in a survival situation, kind of.

I was in my comfortable house and now I'm worrying about, you know, how to keep warm and I don't know, not asphyxiate with the wrong heater overnight.

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