Stranger Things and Top Gun Maverick are cool, but when are we going to get something brand new that blows us away? What’s happened to creativity? Where is the counterculture and what is its relationship to “woke” content and confrontational strategies by celebrities and the big studios? Is waging war with your customer, the Mandalorian Way? Jeff and Alan dive back into the tumultuous change of previous pop culture eras and youth behavior today to puzzle through the answers.

Jeff and Alan talk about the complexity of building out a transmedia universe through the lens of the latest Dr. Strange movie and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Bottom line: an instruction manual ought not to be required to navigate a mass media story world! Apologies for the delay getting this one out.

Building on their streaming discussion, this is amazing: CABLE CHANNELS are now considered LEGACY BAGGAGE….in some ways more than the three networks. We are watching an entire platform, possibly two in cable and network channels, vanish before our eyes! 

Also, a great exploration of the contrasts in expectations for success that Jeff and Alan were brought up in.  

And the extraordinary value of writing something down. 

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