Welcome everybody to the tech meme ride home podcast show the experience.

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Welcome everybody to the... It's not like I haven't done it many times.

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Welcome everybody to the Tech Mem Ride Home Experience for April 21st, 2021.

We are here today joined by at Loudmouth Julia to talk about what is going on

with Netflix and the streaming wars and whatever came up in my mouth from vomiting a little bit about what happened

in their earnings report.

But Julie, why don't we start with you just introducing yourself, your I know you've been on the show before but for folks who

Are coming back to you for the first time or I guess it doesn't make sense but anyways you get the idea. Say hello. Yeah.

Hi, I'm Julia. I am a senior strategy analyst at Parrot Analytics and I work with a number of clients across the OTT space, many of whom you subscribe to their

platforms for. Before that I worked at The Verge.

Shout out, I see my buddy Phil Esizito in listening and I used to work at the

verge and then at Polygon and I again and I was covering streaming and so I made the

transition from reporting on it to effectively consulting their strategic

roadmaps on it.

So Julia, what I wanted to start off with was that you're one of my favorite people in media. I read everything that you do and I'm making a liar out of that by realizing that I didn't know that you had transitioned to to where you are now so congratulations.

Thank you.

Chris can I can I tee it off please and dive in. Super simple Julia. WTF Netflix. I think maybe the the easiest

way into this is there's some famous quote that maybe a peacock

guy or one of them suits said a couple years ago that like it's going to be an interesting five years for

Netflix because all of the competition was coming for them and I mean is that is

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