Arroe Unplugged Page One Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty The Daily Mess

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
Sometimes I think that Lockdown made us all crazy, this
binge watching thing. I have created such a bad habit
with it. And yet here's how I really feel. When

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my wife and I sit down to have lunch together,
we binge watch a show. And it's not that we
have to have the television on. It's just something that
we can really relate with. Because during the lockdown, when
the world felt like it was falling apart, the one
thing that we had to create communication with were the
shows that we were binge watching. And so it's become

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a part of our lifestyle to just have thirty minutes
and then we talk about the episode. We break it down.
How could we have done it a little bit better?
What would have been the twist here? Did they really
need to put that cliffhanger there? Just having a conversation.
Where does yours begin? Hey, Taro, this is the Daily Mess,
a chronological walk through in everyday world. I am a

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daily writer, I am a silent wolf. I'm watching life.
I study it. I take a lot of notes, and
we create conversations. This is the daily mess. When old
feels new, Hm, When old feels new, it almost feels
like a oxymoron. Right, every season of Scrubs has returned

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to the streaming networks. These old shows, they're not rocking
my memories. In other words, I don't remember them, so
they feel brand new to me. I shared this with
Peter Biskin, a cultural critic and film historian. His new book,
Pandora's Box a brilliant book. It puts a lot of
attention on how streaming is having a tough time right

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now trying to keep up with what They started talking
to him about Scrubs and Oranges the New Black, and
he simply replied, I am, I'm so sorry. Streaming companies
have to fill in the voids in the blanks, and
I have fallen right into that pit. I do wonder
if my parents felt the same way when cable TV

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came into play and they were watching their old westerns
and black and white cop shows. All of those shows
once experienced were now on their TV set. Some of
them were still black and white, a few were colorized,
but they still had the old shows. And here's the
strangest thing about it. With us streaming things like Scrubs

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and Oranges the New Black, does that mean that nobody
is buying as many Blu ray DVDs? Somebody is losing money.
I'm guilty watching these old shows. And I had to
do some research our people losing money because of these
streaming platforms, and the answer is yes, they are. It

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was one of the things that was heavily talked about
with the writer stripe and the actors strike because they're
not making what they should be when it comes to
protecting their own pockets as the entertainers of our life,
how do we, as the viewers learn to respect the
actors and the writers, the directors, and the producers even more.

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Now I have to deal with this because when streaming
hit radio all of a sudden, I had to give
everything away for free. It didn't belong to me. And
when I place it on a platform, they can do
whatever they want with it, make as much money as
they want, even though they are charging me to put
me on their platform. You got to have a lot

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of magic and a lot of something to make that money.
And musicians are going through it as well with the music,
streaming changed their entire platform because we all want music free,
we all want podcasts free. This is not a guilt trip.
I'm just trying to understand the relationship and the connection
of when things that are old feel new. Those that

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are ahead of streaming are playing with our emotions. They're
giving to us what we think is free. But if
you've looked at how much you're paying for that app
every month, and now Disney is teaming up with Hulu,
what's next? How are we going to create the new
level of entertainment and the acceptance of what we're doing
to the industry of all forms of entertainment. We think

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we're paying for it, but according to research, none of
these streaming companies are making one penny. Somebody's making money.
How do we have these shows and nobody is making money?
Do we go back to the Blu ray? What do
we do in the future so that all the actors,

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all the directors and producers, everybody involved is making money.
I'm ryl and that's the daily mess