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Android Central writer and Disney super-fan, Ara Wagoner, is here to give us the skinny on everything Disney+ that was unveiled by the company this week. It launches November 12 for $7 per month and will offer an extremely deep back catalog along with new content.

Phil and Are also talk about the recent price increase of YouTube TV and the value it adds for subscribers.

Links:

• Disney+: Everything you need to know about Disney's streaming service | CordCutters

• YouTube TV plans and pricing | CordCutters

This week Phil and Russell try to make some sense out of the latest Apple event, with a new Apple TV app that looks a lot like the current one, and Apple TV+ channel thing that might be good — or not — and all the ramifications that come with it.

Captain Marvel is in theaters. Disney+ — the massive streaming service that will comprise all of the company's offerings, along with Marvel and Star Wars and a million other things you probably didn't realize Disney owns — is waiting in the wings and will be available later this year. So Phil sat down with two of the biggest Marvel and Disney brains he knows to suss it all out.

NOTE: Between the time we recorded this podcast and the time it was published, Tablo has changed its plans for guide subscriptions yet again. Important update, folks!

We're back after a little break for a super exciting interview — Jon Rettinger, and old friend of the pod (and friend in general). Jon and Phil talk up cord-cutting and how they introduced it to their families, what worked and what doesn't, and what's good on TV these days.

If somehow you haven't seen Jon's work on YouTube, definitely check it out, and also be sure to swing by his new channel, The Apple Circle.

The CordCutters.com Podcast is a bi-weekly (that is, ever two weeks) venture from Phil Nickinson (ye olde @mdrndad on Twitter, and Modern Dad on YouTube), and whomever else happens to join that week.

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CES — the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — is a mess. More TVs and gadgets than should be allowed by law. But the real surprise came from someone who usually sits out CES: Apple. Rene Ritchie from iMore and Vector hopped on the line to hash it all out, and frame what's to come.

You can't end a year (and start a new one) without making a list of all the best things from the prior year. And so we've done that. But we also were reminded that it's not quite that simple in the world of cord-cutting, where we have so many great options that it really comes down to more than just what we deem "the best."

Thanks to Nirave Gondhia (@nirave) for joining!

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• CordCutters.com — the website!
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