The Official Joe Budden Podcast Thread

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

I found out today that Zubac is right up there with wemby and jokic, and possibly WCF MVP on their way to a championship

 

[Uchiha God]

I hate how these dudes are so fixated with money that they just worship or salute anything whenever they hear big sums. I just started and I’m at the Netflix/Warner segment and all I’m hearing is “I can’t get mad at that”, “big dogs”, “salute” and praise like recap of Netflix history and what they could do - cool, then Marc said “some people are unhappy though” and instead of letting him present a different perspective they immediately got dismissive. Joe was like “who could be mad at this? Don’t politician me to death Marc” - and that’s just disappointing and anti-intellectual. You don’t have to disagree with the acquisition but at least hear everything first.

Consolidation is seldom good for the consumer. Less competition and a monopolized market allows the big dog to run unchecked - even more so than what they already do. There’s always loss of jobs as positions become redundant/obsolete and Netflix will have their own people they want to run shyt. Creators have less outlets to platform their stuff and give them fair deals, and that’s without even broaching Netflix wanting to kill the cinema going experience. There are genuine arguments/considerations to be had, but Ish and Joe like “ah, it’s the old guard that’s mad”, “the world is changing”

 

[Uchiha God]

Joe alluding to wanting a Drake documentary or Jay...

Joe budden community is full of dummies. Just pulling shyt from thin-air and re-affirming themselves.

A dude that walks around calling himself Hovenger is alluding to wanting to see a damning/expose Jay-Z documentary - and you stay posting this dumb shyt here

 

[threattonature]

I hate how these dudes are so fixated with money that they just worship or salute anything whenever they hear big sums. I just started and I’m at the Netflix/Warner segment and all I’m hearing is “I can’t get mad at that”, “big dogs”, “salute” and praise like recap of Netflix history and what they could do - cool, then Marc said “some people are unhappy though” and instead of letting him present a different perspective they immediately got dismissive. Joe was like “who could be mad at this? Don’t politician me to death Marc” - and that’s just disappointing and anti-intellectual. You don’t have to disagree with the acquisition but at least hear everything first.

Consolidation is seldom good for the consumer. Less competition and a monopolized market allows the big dog to run unchecked - even more so than what they already do. There’s always loss of jobs as positions become redundant/obsolete and Netflix will have their own people they want to run shyt. Creators have less outlets to platform their stuff and give them fair deals, and that’s without even broaching Netflix wanting to kill the cinema going experience. There are genuine arguments/considerations to be had, but Ish and Joe like “ah, it’s the old guard that’s mad”, “the world is changing”

Add in they are likely biased as fukk and wanting to stay on Netflix's good side after seeing that Netflix is wanting to invest in podcasts.

 

[Lord Beasley]

I hate how these dudes are so fixated with money that they just worship or salute anything whenever they hear big sums. I just started and I’m at the Netflix/Warner segment and all I’m hearing is “I can’t get mad at that”, “big dogs”, “salute” and praise like recap of Netflix history and what they could do - cool, then Marc said “some people are unhappy though” and instead of letting him present a different perspective they immediately got dismissive. Joe was like “who could be mad at this? Don’t politician me to death Marc” - and that’s just disappointing and anti-intellectual. You don’t have to disagree with the acquisition but at least hear everything first.

Consolidation is seldom good for the consumer. Less competition and a monopolized market allows the big dog to run unchecked - even more so than what they already do. There’s always loss of jobs as positions become redundant/obsolete and Netflix will have their own people they want to run shyt. Creators have less outlets to platform their stuff and give them fair deals, and that’s without even broaching Netflix wanting to kill the cinema going experience. There are genuine arguments/considerations to be had, but Ish and Joe like “ah, it’s the old guard that’s mad”, “the world is changing”

I agree with most of what you said here; however, too many options is also seldom good for consumers. We got all these streaming apps that maybe produce 2 or 3 shows you'll watch on the regular. Unless you're pirating or cycling trials, you pay about $5 to $15 on average for each of these services. And the vast majority of folks aren't neurotic enough to micromanage subs.

I'm not a fan of the merge, but if they give me Netflix & Max bundled for 25ish dollars, id 🫡 it

 

[Deltron]

I agree with most of what you said here; however, too many options is also seldom good for consumers. We got all these streaming apps that maybe produce 2 or 3 shows you'll watch on the regular. Unless you're pirating or cycling trials, you pay about $5 to $15 on average for each of these services. And the vast majority of folks aren't neurotic enough to micromanage subs.

I'm not a fan of the merge, but if they give me Netflix & Max bundled for 25ish dollars, id 🫡 it

yeah

the big and only plus i see is app consolidation and possible bundles.

I got the Hulu/d+/max bundle right now

 

[threattonature]

I agree with most of what you said here; however, too many options is also seldom good for consumers. We got all these streaming apps that maybe produce 2 or 3 shows you'll watch on the regular. Unless you're pirating or cycling trials, you pay about $5 to $15 on average for each of these services. And the vast majority of folks aren't neurotic enough to micromanage subs.

I'm not a fan of the merge, but if they give me Netflix & Max bundled for 25ish dollars, id 🫡 it

That's only thinking short term though where it may benefit. But long term once they've done all the consolidating down to only a couple main streaming giants then they'll start to squeeze consumers and raise them prices up like crazy now that there aren't as many options left to go to.

 

[Lord Beasley]

That's only thinking short term though where it may benefit. But long term once they've done all the consolidating down to only a couple main streaming giants then they'll start to squeeze consumers and raise them prices up like crazy now that there aren't as many options left to go to.

We all we got. I know what they got planned long term, so I'm trying to get on them grandfather deals till they purge them. We all peasants to them mang

 

[Uchiha God]

I agree with most of what you said here; however, too many options is also seldom good for consumers. We got all these streaming apps that maybe produce 2 or 3 shows you'll watch on the regular. Unless you're pirating or cycling trials, you pay about $5 to $15 on average for each of these services. And the vast majority of folks aren't neurotic enough to micromanage subs.

I'm not a fan of the merge, but if they give me Netflix & Max bundled for 25ish dollars, id 🫡 it

I’m not going to argue you down about this - and I don’t think I even spoke to where I land concerning this acquisition. I was just speaking to how legitimate concerns regarding it exist and how dismissive these dudes were. However; fundamentally I’m against the notion that options are bad for consumers. They may not be suitable for you or me at a specific time or situation but over a broad spectrum options are generally >> no/less options.

The segmentation of streaming platforms and their content/shows may be a hassle to manage, but in the context of anti-trust and the negatives of monopolies - I’d personally take having the option to subscribe to abc service to watch xyz show and cancel when I’m done and subscribe to 123 service to watch 789 show, rather than potentially have to be locked into a sub/contract (since competition is diminishing) at exorbitant rates, and content access/removal/deletion as well as price hikes at the whim of the megacorp

 

[valet]

Flip turning into Workout Bro

 

[Uchiha God]

That's only thinking short term though where it may benefit. But long term once they've done all the consolidating down to only a couple main streaming giants then they'll start to squeeze consumers and raise them prices up like crazy now that there aren't as many options left to go to.

People tend to employ short-term and individualistic thinking in these situations. “Oh shyt, I’m getting Netflix+HBO for $45?! Let’s go acquisition!”

No consideration for the potential countless people that have a set budget and are OK with paying under $20 for Netflix for entertainment/escape for them or their kids but couldn’t give a fukk less about Sopranos/GoT or afford more than $20. I don’t think it’s done with malice, people just think about “what does this bring to me/my situation?”

Less options though

 

[Uchiha God]

Flip turning into Workout Bro

Was gonna cook him, but can’t make fun of a breh improving himself. Hopefully he sticks with it