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🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 197 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, welcome back. We have our guest, Dr. Ted Bear. He is founder and publisher of movie guide. |
0:13.0 | Many of you know that before I got into this, Karen and I used to own several video stores. |
0:20.0 | And so I used to rely on his publications quite a bit. |
0:24.2 | And I'm really excited to talk to Dr. Bear, you know, because of the influence that our movies have on our culture. |
0:31.8 | And that's really how he is focused. |
0:33.8 | His tagline is, he who controls the media controls the culture. And, of course, politics and everything else is focused. His tagline is he who controls the media controls the culture. And of course, |
0:39.5 | politics and everything else is downstream from culture. I think when we look at this, we have to |
0:44.9 | be wise consumers if we're going to be consumers at all of media. And of course, |
0:50.5 | it's inescapable that we're going to consume it. So thank you for joining us, Dr. Bear. |
0:55.2 | Appreciate you coming on. |
0:57.0 | It is a great pleasure to join you, especially somebody who comes from the video |
1:02.5 | store of business. |
1:03.6 | Yeah, that was a lot of fun while it lasted. |
1:06.5 | Yeah, it was. |
1:08.1 | Yes. |
1:09.1 | Well, you know, what we have right now really is kind of a great reset of distribution, isn't it? |
1:13.8 | You know, they changed the distribution. |
1:15.7 | They got rid of the video stories, which they were never really very happy about, frankly. |
1:19.7 | But now, you know, I think they put the bullseye a few years ago, many of them. |
1:24.7 | You know, there's a disagreement within the industry, but they kind of put a bull's eye on |
1:27.8 | the movie theaters. And now we've got, we got number two, Regal has declared bankruptcy chapter 11. |
1:34.3 | You've got number one AMC with a thousand movie theaters. They are trying to, you know, issue some |
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