Hello and welcome to Positively Dreadful with me, your host, Brian Boyler.

So Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, you've probably heard, and it got me and everyone else

thinking about this concept called duration risk.

Something that everyone who's bought a home with a fixed straight mortgage is sort of

intuitively familiar with.

But the idea is that fluctuations in just kidding, we're going to talk about the movies.

But before you skip over the show, thinking it's going to be an Oscar's recap or criticism

of the motion picture academy for not recognizing the movies we happen to like the best, rest

easy, that's not the idea.

So what's the idea?

Here's a slightly long-winded explanation.

I think a bunch of factors have contributed to the shrinking of the movies and the Oscars

in recent years.

The film industry itself has changed, streaming services became fixtures in most households,

COVID-19 happened, social media wrecked everyone's attention span and came to compete with

every other kind of media for what was left of that attention span.

But I think social media contributed in another headier way by tribalizing the collective

experience of movie watching and entertainment awards.

It tends to create multiple camps within which there's only one right answer to the question

of whether this or that movie was good or bad, which movie was best, which actor deserved

to win.

And I think you can see that some of these problems are starting to dawn on the entertainment

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