Ep.220 – Comic-Con, YouTube & Peacock, and the Latest in the Paramount Deal

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We are at the tail end of July now.

I'm just not really totally sure how that happened, but that's okay.

Um, it's a big week for the movies, which I'll get into in just a moment.

But we have some, some industry stuff that we need to cover this week, starting with Comic-Con because Comic-Con happened this past week or weekend, I guess.

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... and there was some things going on.

Not quite as much as we have come to expect from past Comic-Cons, but there's definitely some things to talk about.

A lot of little tidbits of Marvel information that we will be going into, uh, to start this episode.

We also have to talk about YouTube once again.

We're talking about it more and more as the streamers start to kind of-

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... try and figure out what to do.

Uh, YouTube and Peacock, or I guess I should say NBC Universal, are striking up a deal that, uh, is fascinating and we'll try and, uh, hypothesize what goes on there.

And then of course, the longest-running saga on the podcast, I do believe, which is the Warner-

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Brothers Discovery and Paramount Sky Dance deal, which is now currently on pause, which could mean a whole bunch of different things.

But we will get-

For, for now.

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For now.

Uh, s- but we will get into all of that right after I run through our weekly releases.