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Explore episode Jul 15, 2026

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Disrupting Hollywood's In-House Model

At 10:31 · chapter starts 10:00

Chuck explains that before LaFontaine and Peterson, film studios handled all their own promotion in-house — there was no external trailer industry to speak of. Their success demonstrated that independent producers could do this work better, and that model became the norm. Chuck, in describing this shift, uses the word 'disrupt,' which provokes Josh into a gleeful tirade about how 'disruptors' became the most insufferable Silicon Valley buzzword of 2013. The joke lands because it's absolutely true — LaFontaine and Peterson were genuine disruptors, in the real historical sense, decades before tech bros weaponised the term. Chuck concedes the point with good humour.

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