Price Discrimination is expanding into new frontiers!!

From AMC's seat-based pricing, Netflix'ss push to block password sharing, Twitter Blue, and the newly announced Meta Verified (announced a couple of days after we recorded), the media and entertainment business is taking another round at using the good ol' concept to organize customer offerings based on willingness to pay. In this episode, Eitan and Carl break down AMC and Netflix's latest attempts.

Before that, Eitan joins the Babylon Hive. Will Carl try to pull him? Would he encourage it? Listen to find out!

2023 is up and running. Layoffs, antitrust, and even already a correct prediction by one of the hosts!

After catching up on some of the latest musings, Carl and Eitan go through the Oscar nominations they found surprising (for either positive or negative reasons). 

Carl & Eitan place their bets on the trends & developments that will shape media & technology in 2023. They have a wide-ranging discussion from *sigh* 3 different Disney-adjacent predictions to Netflix to Apple's expected entry into VR. 

Spoiler: One of Eitan's predictions already came true!

It's 2023!

This means it's time to look back at our predictions for 2022 and try to find ways to prove them right. Eitan and Carl go through each other's predictions and share why things panned out the way they did.

After that, they shared some of their favorite highlights of the past year in the world of media and entertainment.

Come listen and help us decide if 2022 was a good year.

Note: Eitan's audio is not great in this episode, but he is back to his regular setup and things should be back to normal by next episode!

In classic Stuck in Development fashion, Carl & Eitan spend their first episode of 2023 catching up with each other about their favorite books & films they devoured during the holidays. Discussed are the novel Babel, or the Necessity of Violence as well as films Glass Onion, Avatar: The Way of Water and Wendell & Wild.

After a thrilling 10-minute discussion about credit card benefits, Carl & Eitan visit dramatic new developments in some pet interest areas:

An episode with a check-in on the tech world, movie reviews, box-office analysis, and bold Netflix-related predictions? This is a prototypical SID episode.

After Eitan shares some exciting personal news the boys go through the now usual Twitter Twitter, the still baffling decision by Netflix to release Glass Onion for only a week, the reaction to Disney's Strange World, and a quick WAA of Bones and All, The Fablemann's and the aforementioned Knives Out sequel.

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Eitan & Carl discuss the implosions of Twitter & Harry Potter before touching on the impending World Cup. They also check in with each other on a host of recent films: Bardo, Armageddon Time, The Banshees of Inisherin and Black Panther.

Most importantly……Star Wars might be good now?

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Drama at the House of Mouse! Chapek out, Iger in. Out with new, in with the old-that-is-also-new.

As if Carl and Eitan didn't already love Disney's executive history, they can finally react live to this market-shaking moment.

In this emergency episode, they explore what might have led to this move, how Chapek's time will be remembered, and what is likely to be at the top of Iger's to-do list.

Join us!

What a week. Carl and Eitan are confused.

Box Office? Confusing. Everything happening at Twitter? Confusing. Netflix's ad-tier having a super bumpy roll out? Very confusing.

Join the boys in this episode as they try to make sense of this topics and more!