Netflix

The streaming company hosting the festival and the subject of Dillon's commentary.

“E- everyone takes criticism in stride, even Netflix. I, I've had a relationship with Netflix, but Netflix, like everyone, like myself, has good and bad in them, right? It's complex. It's not just amazing and great, and that's it. We must be introspective and l…”

The platform that hosted the roast event.

“I just... This is what I... The agents basically reach out, and they're just like, you know, "Hey, we heard it's gonna happen. Like, are you down?" And I had talked to, like, Netflix about some other whatever, and, um, and I just had to make a decision between…”

The roast event was hosted by Netflix as part of their comedy festival.

“One of the cool... There was a lot of good ones. One of the cool things that was happening at the Netflix is a Joke, uh, Fest was a lot of the comedians were trying their jokes out- Yeah... during that week. Yeah.”

The platform that hosted the roast and potentially contracts writers.

“I also, I wonder if Netflix contracts writers just in general.”

The platform that hosted the roast featuring Tom Brady.

“... at the roast.”

Andrew Schulz mentions performing at the Netflix Is A Joke Fest.

“Exactly. Also, all of our shows, very quickly, Salt Lake City this coming weekend. Thank you, guys, so much. All shows are sold out. I love you, Salt Lake. Uh, June 5th and 6th, we're gonna be at Virginia Beach. June 5th and 6th, so go grab tickets for that. A…”

The hosts mention Netflix roasts as a venue for rapid-fire, clever, and biting comedy.

“Like, I love all the Comedy Central roasts. I love the Netflix roasts. Like, I just enjoy, like, just rapid fire, clever jokes.”

Implied context of the 'roast' discussion, which the hosts praise as a successful event.

“Yeah, the roasts are fantastic. Con- congratulations everybody who crushed it on the roast. You gave me unbelievable FOMO. And, uh, and keep killing it. Yeah, I think we just need more roasts. I also like the idea of like every other year.”

Ted Sarandos is identified as the person who runs Netflix.

“So for those of you who don't know, Ted Sarandos, who owns Netflix, or runs Netflix-”

Mentioned as the host of the festival where the live show took place.

“Netflix Is A Joke Fest.”

Streaming platform for the show Very Bad Thoughts.

“... streaming right now on Netflix”

Bert Kreischer jokes that Netflix should follow Kevin Ryan's chaotic life as a reality show.

“I would... I don't know how Netflix doesn't follow this.”

The platform hosting the reality show 'Age of Attraction'.

“Uh-huh. It's called Age of Attraction. It's on Netflix.”

Theo Von mentions a new special featuring Mike Tyson is coming out on this platform.

“'Cause I just got back from Lexington, right? Lexington, Kentucky, and they, they have the, the Derby race there. And it's a beautiful place. We just shot a, a special for Netflix, actually, that's coming out, uh, in, like, about two months, so I'm excited abo…”

Mike Tyson mentions a documentary about him is coming out on this platform.

“Yeah. You, you have a, a documentary that you're starting that's coming out this year on Netflix, is that right?”

Mentioned as the platform hosting a documentary about the Jail Blazers.

“I just watched the, uh, Jailbreak, Jail, uh, the Jail Blazers documentary on Netflix.”

The hosts mention they cannot show certain copyrighted artwork on their Netflix channel.

“As Lipi and her fellow restoration experts started carefully comparing what they had in hand to that high-resolution photo, they realized that not all of the pieces were going to be usable. Even with all 615 pieces, this would've been a partial restoration, bu…”

Mentioned as a company using AV1 video encoding.

“And just this one has 240,000. Um, it's a video line project, of course. Um, and it is optimized at the maximum because the motto when we're starting the project is every cycle matters, right? Every cycle matters because David is used in VLC and in some softwa…”

Kempf notes that if a company like Netflix had approached them for a legitimate integration, the outcome for VLC might have been different.

“For example, if Netflix arrived at some point and say, "Well, we want to put Netflix inside VLC," probably the story would have been different, right? But they didn't. The only people who came to us were shady ads company.”

Mentioned alongside YouTube as a company impacted by high patent licensing fees.

“... where, a point where... And there was uncapped pad. And so for YouTube or Netflix, we could talk about hundreds of millions of dollars of licensing for patents per year. And they said, "You know what? At [chuckles] hundred millions, uh, per year, you know,…”

FFmpeg is described as the invisible backbone behind Netflix.

“The following is a conversation all about FFmpeg and VLC with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Cunha. FFmpeg is an open source software system that is the invisible backbone behind YouTube, Netflix, Chrome, VLC, Discord, and basically every platform that touches…”

Netflix is mentioned as one of the major platforms that relies on FFmpeg for video processing.

“So the thing that we're talking about is everything around video codecs, video encoding, video decoding, video streaming, video player client that I'm wearing on my head, the entire ecosystem enabling free media. Uh, we'll talk about FFmpeg, we'll talk about V…”

Developed VMAF as a machine learning model to measure psychovisual quality in video encoding.

“That's what, that's what Netflix have been trying to do with VMAF. They say they've used a machine learning model.”

Employs many engineers whose primary role is optimizing video encoding parameters.

“A ton of people that you see at YouTube, at Netflix, at Meta, and so on, they're not writing codecs. They're just like finding the right parameters for the file they have, for the format they have, right? Because like something that is for a movie or something…”

Mentioned as a member of the Alliance for OpenMedia working on the AV1 codec.

“So AV1 is this codec that is done by the Alliance for OpenMedia, right? Where there is, uh, Google, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, uh, VideoLAN, where we try to make a royalty-free very good codec, right? And now it's being deployed. But actually, the codec was finis…”

Mentioned as one of the companies that pushed for royalty-free codecs like AV1.

“Um, because it's very mathematical, and you can get great gains and so on. Um, so Google and Meta and Netflix wanted something where it was royalty-free. There are people who say that they have patents outside, but they are fringe patents, right? So m- it's mo…”

Referenced as a platform currently hosting shows about Skinwalker Ranch.

“We could've, we could've continued it. Um, all these conversations that we were having about the ex- the, the Skinwalker Ranch, now there's shows on Netflix about Skinwalker Ranch. Um, the UAP stuff, you know, coming out, the hybrid programs, the reverse engin…”

Tim Dillon mentions he was wearing the costume for a project involving Netflix.

“... pretend real estate agents for a Netflix thing that no one cares about. It's not haute couture. Now, in someone's mind it might be haute couture, and that's very lovely. I'm glad that she has that belief in herself, but it's not haute couture. I mean, the …”

The hosts mention that the documentary 'Trust Me, The False Prophet' is streaming on this platform.

“... of, like... And this was just basically thrown in because, um, Trust Me, The False Prophet is now streaming on Netflix-”

Mentioned as the platform hosting the series Squid Game, which drew inspiration from Escher's staircases.

“Yeah, exactly. If you turn the, turn the print around also, it really doesn't go anywhere, to be honest. No, it's a really, it's a really funny print in that sense because, uh, people are walking in that print and living in that print like nothing is going on,…”

Mentioned as the platform hosting the Chimp Empire documentary series.

“Like if, um, that series that was on Netflix, the Chimp Empire series. Did you watch it?”

A hit show on this platform is credited with boosting the popularity of Formula 1 in the United States.

“On any given Sunday, millions of fans tune in to see which driver will take the checkered flag in America's favorite motor sport, NASCAR. For decades, it's been the undisputed king of the track. Loud V8 engines, packed ovals, drivers trading paint at 200 miles…”

Suggested as a platform for watching favorite shows as a form of self-care.

“two, this is how you figure out your reset. Whatever word you got from that younger version of you, if it was a hug, okay, to me that represents love, warmth. What is a reset in your real life? Don't think this is cheesy. This is awesome. What's a, what's a hu…”

Mentioned as a potential platform for adapting Keefe's work.

“You managed to become a famous magazine writer at a time when magazines can feel like anachronisms, as, as you noted, with a few exceptions, New Yorker, I would say Vogue, and New York Magazine is going pretty well. Atlantic is. Um, uh, Say Nothing was adapted…”

The platform where the WrestleMania event is available.

“A little something happened. We don't worry about that, though. It's all behind us. Um, okay. I mean, guys, what a fucking episode we've had. And there's only one way to end an episode like this, and believe it or not, it's probably not how you think. Uh, Will…”

Dax Shepard mentions being hired by them for a guest judge role on a cooking show.

“But they were like, "You know, of course they're gonna still pay you." I was like, "Okay, that's kinda cool." And then that same week, Netflix called and they're like, "Do you wanna be a guest judge on this cooking show? And it's X amount of money." So I just …”

Dax mentions that students are watching Netflix and are generally well-informed about the world.

“But I don't, I... They're all watching Netflix. They're all listening to the news. Like, they know what's going on in the world. They know there's murderers. They know people-”