Neil Freiman

So there is a lot of question marks about how big and the behavior of this particular audience.

And I don't want to be hyperbolic, but yesterday might go down in history as a watershed moment for the media industry, the day when digital upstarts actually became the kings of the industry.

Because not only did YouTube take over the Oscars from Disney,

But we also had Warner Brothers rejecting Paramount from its new offer and still opting for Netflix.

And Netflix is taking over if this deal comes to fruition, HBO and Warner Brothers Movie Studios.

So you have Warner Brothers Movie Studio, HBO Max and the Oscars all going to YouTube or Netflix potentially in what really is a historic day for the changing of the tides in media.

And will be interesting to see like whether they YouTube-ify it up like is Mr. Beast going to host?

That's the question, you know.

But also there's going to be no length limits.

That was a big contention between ABC and the Academy was ABC was saying we got to go to our other programming.

We want you to tighten this up.

to maybe like three and a half hours.

They also had limits on language and what could be shown in a 10 second delay and all that.

And that all goes out the window with YouTube where it might be a bigger free for all.

So things could get a little even crazier than they actually are.

Yeah, tensions are absolutely soaring down there in the Caribbean.

Last Wednesday, there was a tanker that was traveling across the Caribbean Sea carrying crude from Venezuela to Cuba and China, which is where all of Venezuela's virtually all of Venezuela's oil exports go.

And it was seized by the United States because it was a quote unquote sanctioned vessel.

You might be wondering, OK, what is a sanctioned vessel?

Which kind of