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Matt Lewis Can't Lose
Elon Musk, Federalism & The Future of America I Jonathan Taplin interview

Matt Lewis Can't Lose

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2025 54:37


Jonathan Taplin returns to talk with Matt about the increasing influence of billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel on government and society. Taplin dives into Musk's corporate tactics, his political influence, and the ideology behind his push for Mars colonization. They also discuss Timothée Chalamet's performance as Bob Dylan in "A Complete Unknown." Don't miss this deep dive into power, influence, and the future of democracy.

The Jay Jay French Connection: Beyond the Music

Jay Jay welcomes writer, film producer & scholar Jonathan Taplin back on the podcast! We are especially fortunate to have Jonathan be able to join us this week, as he very recently lost his Los Angeles home in the Palisades fire this January. Jonathan shares his experience with the fires & needing to run away from his own home, & gives an update on the recovery efforts surrounding his neighborhood. Jay Jay & Jonathan get into discussing the recent Bob Dylan biopic - & who better to ask about the film than Jonathan, not only because he is a member of the academy and is a legendary film producer - but because he was Dylan's tour manager in the 60's & was there at Newport in 65.' This leads to them discussing Jonathan's book 'The End Of Reality.' One of the reasons “A Complete Unknown” received so many Academy Award nominations was because it it such a strong example of how powerful a counterculture can be. His new book posits that we are just at the beginning of a new counterculture in current day. Be sure to check out Jonathan's new book, which you can learn more about on his website below, & don't miss this timely conversation, only on The Jay Jay French Connection: Beyond the Music! www.jontaplin.com Produced & Edited by Matthew Mallinger

Matt Lewis Can't Lose
What Tech Billionaires Want

Matt Lewis Can't Lose

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025 42:15


Jonathan Taplin, director emeritus of the Annenburg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California, and author of "The End of Reality: How 4 Billionaires Are Selling A Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto," talks with Matt. Support "Matt Lewis & The News" at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mattlewis Follow Matt Lewis & Cut Through the Noise: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MattLewisDC Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattklewis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattklewis/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVhSMpjOzydlnxm5TDcYn0A – Who is Matt Lewis? – Matt K. Lewis is a political commentator and the author of Filthy Rich Politicians. Buy Matt's book: https://www.amazon.com/Filthy-Rich-Politicians-Creatures-Ruling-Class/dp/1546004416 This video is packed with SEO-friendly keywords like "David French," "TikTok security risks," "Pornography laws," "Pete Hegseth nomination," "cultural extremism," "anti-wokeness," "free speech," and "American politics." Copyright © 2024, BBL & BWL, LLC

Matt Lewis Can't Lose
Why Ousting Speaker Mike Johnson Would Backfire

Matt Lewis Can't Lose

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2025 19:42


Speaker Mike Johnson can only afford to lose two Republicans during Friday's vote. Can he survive? On this episode, Matt explains why Republicans would be stupid to dump him, even though they might. Next, Matt talks about the new Bob Dylan biopic, 'A Complete Unknown,' and shares a past conversation with Jonathan Taplin, who worked as Dylan's road manager in the 1960s. Watch to Matt's past discussion with Jonathan Taplin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4S6Mk1peKQ&t=301s Check out Taplin's memoir, "The Magic Years": https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Years-Scenes-Rock-Roll/dp/1597145254 Support "Matt Lewis & The News" at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mattlewis Follow Matt Lewis & Cut Through the Noise: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MattLewisDC Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattklewis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattklewis/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVhSMpjOzydlnxm5TDcYn0A – Who is Matt Lewis? – Matt K. Lewis is a political commentator and the author of Filthy Rich Politicians. Buy Matt's book: https://www.amazon.com/Filthy-Rich-Politicians-Creatures-Ruling-Class/dp/1546004416 Copyright © 2024, BBL & BWL, LLC

Keen On Democracy
Episode 2268: David Rowell on how new technology is making us dislike new music

Keen On Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024 42:20


Yesterday, we featured a conversation with Jonathan Taplin about the dearth of high quality contemporary music and movies. The music writer, David Rowell, agrees with Taplin, but goes one step further, suggesting that we no longer even like new music. In his new book, The Endless Refrain, Rowell the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms has so decimated the musical landscape that all we want to listen to now are the old hits of our youth. New music then, for Rowell, is being destroyed by new technology. The internet has frozen culture into a nostalgic mixtape of greatest hits. David Rowell grew up in North Carolina and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For nearly 25 years he was an editor at The Washington Post Magazine and has taught literary journalism in the MFA department at American University. He is currently a senior editor at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. His books include the novel The Train of Small Mercies, Wherever the Sound Takes You: Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making and The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music. He lives with his wife just outside of Chapel Hill.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Keen On Democracy
Episode 2267: Jonathan Taplin on the coming cultural renaissance in America

Keen On Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024 44:11


A few months ago, I interviewed David Leonhardt, author of Ours Was the Shining Future, about the death of the American dream which, he argued, can be dated from on 5 June 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. And it's on that infamous date that I begun my conversation with Jonathan Taplin about the rebirth of the American dream. According to the Los Angeles based Taplin, who is now working on a book about an upcoming renaissance of American culture, the vehicle for a revitalized United States will come from a Sixties style explosion of cultural vitality. Bright new music, film and books will create a bright new America, Taplin predicts. I hope he's right.Jonathan Taplin is a writer, film producer and scholar. He is the Director Emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California and was a Professor at the USC Annenberg School from 2003-2016 in the field of international communication management and digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese's first feature film, Mean Streets, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and 12 feature films including The Last Waltz, Until The End of the World, Under Fire and To Die For. His films were nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times. In 1984 Taplin acted as the investment advisor to the Bass Brothers in their successful attempt to save Walt Disney Studios from a corporate raid. This experience brought him to Merrill Lynch, where he served as vice president of media mergers and acquisitions. In this role, he helped re-engineer the media landscape on transactions such as the leveraged buyout of Viacom. Taplin was a founder of Intertainer and has served as its Chairman and CEO since June 1996. Intertainer was the pioneer video-on-demand company for both cable and broadband Internet markets. Taplin holds two patents for video on demand technologies. Professor Taplin has provided consulting services on Broadband technology to the President of Portugal and the Parliament of the Spanish state of Catalonia and the Government of Singapore. Mr. Taplin graduated from Princeton University. He is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the Author's Guild Council and the Board of the American Music Association. Mr. Taplin was appointed to the California Broadband Task Force and the City of Los Angles Technology and Innovation Council. He was named one of the 50 most social media savvy professors in America by Online College and one of the 100 American Digerati by Deloitte's Edge Institute.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Earlier this year I read a book called The End of Reality  by the writer Jonathan Taplin. The book is a meditation on the outsize power and influence of four billionaires: Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, and Elon Musk. After the election I rang Jonathan up for a special post election conversation about his book and our new Oligarchy.  Also, Radiotopia is running its annual fundraiser right now, we only do this once a year. If you can donate please do! Support this show and indy podcasts. 

Keen On Democracy
Episode 2150: Jonathan Taplin on why American Exceptionalism lies in its Powers of Creativity

Keen On Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2024 33:10


So what's exceptional about America? According to the writer, film producer and scholar Jonathan Taplin, American exceptionalism lies its uniquely global cultural influence. For Taplin - the tour manager for Bob Dylan & producer of Martin Scorcese's masterpiece Mean Streets - this reflects what he calls America's right-brain power which dominated the world in the second half of the 20th century. Today, however, he says, left-brained tech magnates like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are all powerful and, as a consequence, are triggering an existential crisis of creativity in America. In this age of the algorithm, Taplin worries, the US will be just another unimaginative player in the global race to control the digital economy. Jonathan Taplin is a writer, film producer and scholar. He is the Director Emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California and was a Professor at the USC Annenberg School from 2003-2016 in the field of international communication management and digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese's first feature film, Mean Streets, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and 12 feature films including The Last Waltz, Until The End of the World, Under Fire and To Die For. His films were nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times. In 1984 Taplin acted as the investment advisor to the Bass Brothers in their successful attempt to save Walt Disney Studios from a corporate raid. This experience brought him to Merrill Lynch, where he served as vice president of media mergers and acquisitions. In this role, he helped re-engineer the media landscape on transactions such as the leveraged buyout of Viacom. Taplin was a founder of Intertainer and has served as its Chairman and CEO since June 1996. Intertainer was the pioneer video-on-demand company for both cable and broadband Internet markets. Taplin holds two patents for video on demand technologies. Professor Taplin has provided consulting services on Broadband technology to the President of Portugal and the Parliament of the Spanish state of Catalonia and the Government of Singapore. Mr. Taplin graduated from Princeton University. He is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the Author's Guild Council and the Board of the American Music Association. Mr. Taplin was appointed to the California Broadband Task Force and the City of Los Angles Technology and Innovation Council. He was named one of the 50 most social media savvy professors in America by Online College and one of the 100 American Digerati by Deloitte's Edge Institute.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Reader's Corner
"The End Of Reality" By Jonathan Taplin

Reader's Corner

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2024 37:23


An interview with Jonathan Taplin, author of The End of Reality. The book is a scathing critique of the worldview being sold by four American billionaires.

Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone
Ep. 303 - We Get Unreal with Jonathan Taplin

Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 109:50


Author Jonathan Taplin is here to talk about his book, “The End of Reality” and the four billionaires who are trying to bring on that end. And speaking of ends, we're on the receiving end of your thoughts, and they go straight to our head. It's “Mailbag! Concussion Edition.” GUEST Jonathan Taplin jontaplin.com HOUSE BAND Casey Bozell @keepclassicalweird SPONSORS Go to Quince.com/nobody for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns! Go to HelixSleep.com/Paula for up to 30% off all mattress orders AND two free pillows! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Background Briefing with Ian Masters
February 26, 2024 - Katherine Stewart | Jonathan Taplin | Sevag Kechichian

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 59:07


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The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Taplin: The End of Reality

The Bulwark Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2024 37:23


Four billionaires—Musk, Zuckerberg, Thiel, and Andreessen—are part of an antidemocratic turn in the tech world. This interlocked directorate of Silicon Valley has helped bring us to this time of post-truth reality, online chaos, and mob violence. Jonathan Taplin joins Charlie Sykes. show notes: Jon's "The End of Reality"

You Had To Be There
The Last Waltz

You Had To Be There

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2024 57:14


Introducing the debut episode of You Had To Be There. This week, host & producer Julia Thompson goes on a 48 hour journey to find & interview an eyewitness to Martin Scorsese's iconic concert film The Last Waltz.  This episode includes interviews with: Nadia Szold, Nicole McCormick, Steven Prince, Jonathan Taplin, Bartees Strange, and Mike Dubois. Enjoy! CREDITS You Had To Be There is a Hi Barr Production.  The Last Waltz was written & hosted by Julia Thompson. Produced by Julia Thompson & Web Barr.  Co-Produced by Teeny Lieberson. Edit, Sound Mix & Engineering by Teeny Lieberson. Original Score by Teeny Lieberson.  Artwork by Dylan Lathrop. Special thanks to our parents, friends, & to our Story Consultant & The Band Super Fan Nicole McCormick. Last, thank you to the artists who've inspired us because…they had to do it. Did you attend The Last Waltz & want to tell us your story? Let us know! Shoot us an email! Subscribe to Hi Barr's newsletter & follow us on Instagram & X.   For Business Inquiries, please email: contact@hibarrmedia.com Correction: Steven Prince's character in Taxi Driver is named Easy Andy; not Easy Edie as mentioned in the episode. Thank you for your support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hi-barr/message

Talk Cocktail
Jonathan Taplin vs. the tech billionaires

Talk Cocktail

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2023 30:42


Jonathan Taplin, a film producer, scholar, and director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab, is a vocal critic of excessive techno-optimism. In his book, "The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto," he argues that the California-centric billionaires Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen are diverting public attention from critical issues. He criticizes the media's role in glorifying them and advocates for a cultural shift that emphasizes real solutions over escapist narratives. My California Sun podcast with Jonathan Taplan:  

California Sun Podcast
Jonathan Taplin vs. the tech billionaires

California Sun Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2023 30:43


Jonathan Taplin, a film producer, scholar, and director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab, is a vocal critic of excessive techno-optimism. In his book, "The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto," he argues that the California-centric billionaires Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen are diverting public attention from critical issues. He criticizes the media's role in glorifying them and advocates for a cultural shift that emphasizes real solutions over escapist narratives.

The American Writers Museum Podcasts
Episode 167: Jonathan Taplin & Michi Trota

The American Writers Museum Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2023 63:56


This week, writers Jonathan Taplin and Michi Trota discuss the profound implications of AI for the future of writing and creative expression. They are interviewed by Allison Sansone, Program Director at the American Writers Museum. This conversation originally took place November 10, 2023 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum. Taplin's latest book The [...]

AWM Author Talks
Episode 167: Jonathan Taplin & Michi Trota

AWM Author Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2023 63:56


This week, writers Jonathan Taplin and Michi Trota discuss the profound implications of AI for the future of writing and creative expression. They are interviewed by Allison Sansone, Program Director at the American Writers Museum. This conversation originally took place November 10, 2023 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum. Taplin's latest book The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto is a brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century—the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism—being sold by four billionaires (Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk), leading to the degeneration and bankruptcy of our society. AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOME More about the panelists: JONATHAN TAPLIN is a public intellectual, writer, film producer, and scholar. He is the director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California and was a professor at the USC Annenberg School in the field of international communication management and digital media entertainment until 2017. Since his graduation from Princeton University in 1969, his extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century: he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band, producer of major films such as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, an executive at Merrill Lynch, creator of the Internet's first video-on-demand service, and a cultural critic and author writing about technology in the new millennium. MICHI TROTA is a five-time Hugo Award-winning Filipino American writer, editor, and narrative expert. Her work explores empowerment, representation, storytelling, and autonomy, and how to exercise those tools for collective liberation and to dismantle oppressive institutions, not just survive them. Her publications include the Wing Luke Museum 2018-19 exhibit Worlds Beyond Here: Expanding the Universe of APA Science Fiction and Chicago Magazine, and she's been featured in The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, and CNN: Philippines. She is also a member of the Filipino Young Leaders Program 2022 Immersion cohort and a fire performer with Raks Geek/Raks Inferno Fire+Bellydance.

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
Jonathan Taplin on THE END OF REALITY

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2023 53:41


In The End of Reality¸ Jonathan Taplin provides his perspective into the personal backgrounds and cultural power of these billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreesen (“The Four”) —and shows how their tech monopolies have brought middle-class wage stagnation, the hollowing out of many American towns, a radical increase in income inequality, and unbounded public acrimony. Meanwhile, the enormous amount of taxpayer money to be funneled into the dystopian ventures of "The Four," the benefits of which will accrue to billionaires, exacerbate these disturbing trends. Join us when film producer and scholar, Jonathan Taplin shares what he calls - the great con job of the twenty-first century—the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism—being sold by four billionaires (Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk), leading to the degeneration and bankruptcy of our society, on this installment

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List
Tech Titans and the Dystopian Dream

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2023 39:27


This week on The Enemies List, Rick is joined by prolific author and film producer Jonathan Taplin. Together, they unpack a dystopian reality orchestrated by tech moguls Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, and Elon Musk. Taplin's book "The End of Reality" serves as a chilling beacon, illuminating the dark side of the Metaverse, AI's unchecked rise, and the folly of Martian dreams. Taplin reveals a stark vision where technology, fueled by greed and power, threatens the fabric of society. Jonathan's new book, "The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto", is available now. Timestamps: [00:01:55] The four players in silicon valley [00:06:24] A techno monarchist [00:12:17] The Metaverse [00:16:16] The Reality Distortion Field [00:18:12] The desire to be a crypto baron [00:24:13] The demonic energy [00:29:34] The twitter aquisition Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hacking Creativity
226 - La fine della verità (DAILY)

Hacking Creativity

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2023 11:30


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The Ankler Hot Seat
'A Culture of Dystopia and Nihilism'

The Ankler Hot Seat

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2023 58:24


The world has no shortage of villains, and according to Jonathan Taplin, author of The End of Reality, Hollywood is currently up against four: Silicon Valley billionaires Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk. “We have right now a culture of dystopia and nihilism,” says Taplin, who argues that ‘The Four' are wreaking havoc yes, on politics and economics, but also popular culture by creating their own model of escapism, a role once filled by Hollywood. For more news about the entertainment business, subscribe to our daily newsletters at TheAnkler.com/subscribe. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theankler.com/subscribe

Progressive Voices
Free Forum Jonathan Taplin 09-24-2023

Progressive Voices

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2023 60:00


JONATHAN TAPLIN's new book THE END OF REALITY picks up where MOVE FAST & BREAK THINGS left off. It documents how - rather than confront and solve the critical challenges we face - some of our wealthiest and most powerful men are plotting their escape - from transparency and regulation with crypto, from real life with the metaverse, from earth with colonies on Mars, and from death with transhumanism and cyborgs. This fantasy/nightmare is being sold by four billionaires - Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreeson, and Peter Thiel.

Free Forum with Terrence McNally
Episode 614: The NOT Great Escape-JONATHAN TAPLIN-THE END OF REALITY: Four Billionaires’ Fantasy of the Metaverse, Mars, Crypto, and Immortality

Free Forum with Terrence McNally

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2023 60:00


JONATHAN TAPLIN's new book THE END OF REALITY picks up where MOVE FAST & BREAK THINGS left off. It documents how - rather than confront and solve the critical challenges we face - some of our wealthiest and most powerful men are plotting their escape - from transparency and regulation with crypto, from real life with the metaverse, from planet earth with colonies on Mars, and from death itself with transhumanism and cyborgs. This fantasy/nightmare is being sold by four billionaires - Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreeson, and Peter Thiel.

Progressive Voices
Free Forum JONATHAN TAPLIN 2018 Inteview 09-18-2023

Progressive Voices

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2023 60:00


JONATHAN TAPLIN is former tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, producer of two Martin Scorsese films, MEAN STREETS and THE LAST WALTZ, and Director Emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. Next week I'll talk with him about his new book, THE END OF REALITY: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, And Crypto. How better to warm up for that than by replaying our 2018 conversation about his earlier book MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy.

The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood
Fantasy Culture and the Flight from Reality

The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2023 47:39


This week I'm rejoined by Jonathan Taplin, author of The End of Reality: How 4 Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto, to discuss the ways in which popular culture may be leading the public down a dark road. Mr. Taplin has previously been on the show to talk about his career in the entertainment business, from tour manager for Bob Dylan to producer of early Martin Scorsese classics Means Streets and The Last Waltz to his early efforts to introduce video streaming, so he knows a thing or two about the ways in which politics is downstream from culture. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to share it with a friend!

Free Forum with Terrence McNally
Episode 613: MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS-JONATHAN TAPLIN (2018)-How Facebook, Google & Amazon Cornered Culture & Undermined Democracy

Free Forum with Terrence McNally

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2023 60:00


JONATHAN TAPLIN is former tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, producer of two Martin Scorsese films, MEAN STREETS and THE LAST WALTZ, and Director Emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. Next week I'll talk with him about his new book, THE END OF REALITY: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, And Crypto. How better to warm up for that than by replaying our 2018 conversation about his earlier book MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. You can learn more at jontaplin.com

Dnext
Dnext Jonathan Taplin

Dnext

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2023 39:13


Jonathan Taplin is a writer, film producer and scholar. He is the Director Emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California and was a Professor at the USC Annenberg School from 2003-2016 in the field of international communication management and digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese's first feature film, Mean Streets, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and 12 feature films including The Last Waltz, Until The End of the World, Under Fire and To Die For. His films were nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times. In 1984 Taplin acted as the investment advisor to the Bass Brothers in their successful attempt to save Walt Disney Studios from a corporate raid. This experience brought him to Merrill Lynch, where he served as vice president of media mergers and acquisitions. In this role, he helped re-engineer the media landscape on transactions such as the leveraged buyout of Viacom. Taplin was a founder of Intertainer and has served as its Chairman and CEO since June 1996. Intertainer was the pioneer video-on-demand company for both cable and broadband Internet markets. Taplin holds two patents for video on demand technologies. Professor Taplin has provided consulting services on Broadband technology to the President of Portugal and the Parliament of the Spanish state of Catalonia and the Government of Singapore. Mr. Taplin graduated from Princeton University. He is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the Author's Guild Council and the Board of the American Music Association. Mr. Taplin was appointed to the California Broadband Task Force and the City of Los Angles Technology and Innovation Council. He was named one of the 50 most social media savvy professors in America by Online College and one of the 100 American Digerati by Deloitte's Edge Institute. HIS NEW BOOK, THE END OF REALITY: HOW 4 BILLIONAIRES ARE SELLING A FANTASY FUTURE OF THE METAVERSE, MARS AND CRYPTO

The Realignment
402 | Jonathan Taplin: Reality vs. Dystopia - The Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, & Crypto

The Realignment

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2023 64:05


Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comFoundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiJonathan Taplin, author of The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto and The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life, joins The Realignment. Marshall and discuss and debate whether the Metaverse, Crypto, and the mission to Mars are worthy projects, how politics is downstream from culture and technology, and his time managing Bob Dylan's tours in the 60s, producing with Martin Scorsese in the 70s, and work on Wall Street and the tech industry during the 80s and 90s. 

Off Script with Chris & Robbie
Episode 167 - JONATHAN TAPLIN

Off Script with Chris & Robbie

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2023 23:19


One man, a myriad of dream jobs! Jonathan Taplin, currently works in academia -- but his CV includes being Bob Dylan and the Band's tour manager, and producing Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, he talks to Sonal about all that, and so much more.  Read Jonathan's work "The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock and Roll Life" and "The End of Reality: How 4 Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars and Crypto".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Background Briefing with Ian Masters
September 3, 2023 - Samuel Moyn | Jonathan Taplin

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2023 61:04


What Happened to America's Liberals and Can They Reimagine a Vision For the Future? | The Greatest Threat to Our Politics, Economy and Culture From Big Tech's Billionaires Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg and Andreessen backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Matt Lewis and the News
Jonathan Taplin on The End Of Reality

Matt Lewis and the News

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2023 45:37


Jonathan Taplin was tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band in the '60s, producer of The Concert For Bangladesh and major films in the '70s for Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders and Gus Van Sant, an executive at Merrill Lynch's Media Mergers and Acquisition Group in the '80s, creator of the Internet's first video-on-demand service in the '90s, and a cultural critic and author writing about technology in the new millennium. On today's podcast, he talks with Matt about his new book, The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto.

Keen On Democracy
Silicon Valley's Destruction of Reality: Jonathan Taplin on how 4 tech billionaires are selling us a fantasy future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto

Keen On Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2023 36:06


EPISODE 1685: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jonathan Taplin, author of THE END OF REALITY, on how 4 tech billionaires - Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen - are selling us a fantasy future of the metaverse, Mars, and crypto Jonathan Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese's first feature film, Mean Streets, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and 12 feature films including The Last Waltz, Until The End of the World, Under Fire and To Die For. His films were nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times. In 1984 Taplin acted as the investment advisor to the Bass Brothers in their successful attempt to save Walt Disney Studios from a corporate raid. This experience brought him to Merrill Lynch, where he served as vice president of media mergers and acquisitions. In this role, he helped re-engineer the media landscape on transactions such as the leveraged buyout of Viacom. Taplin was a founder of Intertainer and has served as its Chairman and CEO since June 1996. Intertainer was the pioneer video-on-demand company for both cable and broadband Internet markets. Taplin holds two patents for video on demand technologies. Professor Taplin has provided consulting services on Broadband technology to the President of Portugal and the Parliament of the Spanish state of Catalonia and the Government of Singapore. Mr. Taplin graduated from Princeton University. He is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the Author's Guild Council and the Board of the American Music Association. Mr. Taplin was appointed to the California Broadband Task Force and the City of Los Angles Technology and Innovation Council. He was named one of the 50 most social media savvy professors in America by Online College and one of the 100 American Digerati by Deloitte's Edge Institute. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Lewis and the News
Jonathan Taplin on The Band’s Robbie Robertson and The Hypnotist 

Matt Lewis and the News

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2023 52:27


With the death of Robbie Robertson, the chief composer and lead guitarist for the Band, I thought this was a good time to revisit my 2021 talk with Jonathan Taplin, who was tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. Taplin shares many stories, including a good one about Robbie Robertson and a hypnotist. (This episode originally aired on April 29, 2021.)

Background Briefing with Ian Masters
July 6, 2023 - Brian Concannon | Jonathan Taplin | Blake Zeff

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2023 61:07


The US Secretary of State and the UN Secretary General to Send an International Police Force to Haiti to Prop Up a Corrupt Government in League With the Gangs and Repugnant Elite | The Battle of the Billionaires As Zuckerberg's "Threads" Challenges the Future of Musk's Twitter | The Maker of the LOAN WOLVES documentary Which Shows How and Why 43 Million Americans Were Trapped Into $2 Trillion in Student Debt backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Hollywood Gold
MEAN STREETS: Martin Scorsese's Launch and the birth of the Modern Mafia Film

Hollywood Gold

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2022 63:39


In this episode, Daniela's personal and professional lives intertwine as she interviews her father Jonathan Taplin. A producer, manager, writer, and professor, Jonathan began his career in film by producing Martin Scorsese's iconic Mean Streets. Having sunk his entire life savings into financing this film by a then unknown filmmaker, a combination of passion, ingenuity, talent, and luck led to the success of the film that would launch Scorsese's long and storied career.

Background Briefing with Ian Masters
April 24, 2022 - Michael Weiss | Tom LoBianco | David Andelman | Jonathan Taplin

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2022 63:49


Putin's Russia Now a Complete Mafia State | Will Kevin McCarthy Pay a Price For Being a Liar and a Coward? | An Update on the French Presidential Election | The Shakeup Among Streaming Services and Obama's Charge Silicon Valley is "Turbo-Charging Humanity's Worst Impulses" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Keep The Dream Flowing - Celebrating the History of Woodstock 1969
Episode 72 --- The Band and Beyond with Jonathan Taplin!

Keep The Dream Flowing - Celebrating the History of Woodstock 1969

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 88:38


As we see March out the door for another year, we here at KEEP THE DREAM FLOWING LABS INC. have a truly special treat for you! Are you a fan of THE BAND? Of course you are. JONATHAN TAPLIN, our guest for this episode, was the road manager for The Band starting in 1969 and continued his relationship with the group through to THE LAST WALTZ and beyond! Some wonderful conversation is in store for you, folks! What was it like to be there at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when BOB DYLAN went electric? Find out here! Jonathan's new book, THE MAGIC YEARS – SCENES FROM A ROCK-AND-ROLL LIFE, takes a deep dive into his years in the rock and roll industry, and is required reading! The link for the book, which was just released in paperback, will appear below as the first comment. Go get it!

Understanding IP Matters
The High Cost of ‘Free' Content

Understanding IP Matters

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2022 26:09


Film producer, Wall Street dealmaker and ex-Bob Dylan tour manager Jonathan Taplin says we need to treat content and content creators better or pay the cost.

Background Briefing with Ian Masters
October 4, 2021 - Oliver Bullough | Gwen Goodmanlowe | Jonathan Taplin

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2021 59:00


The Pandora Papers Trove and South Dakota as an Onshore Haven For Dirty Money | The Latest Devastating California Coastal Oil Spill | Facebook Offline and in the Hotseat Following Whistleblower on "60 Minutes" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Treatment
Jonathan Taplin: ‘The Magic Years'

The Treatment

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2021 29:32


Author and producer Jonathan Taplin on joining the circus of rock and roll in the 1960's.

Rock N Roll Pantheon
Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan: Jonathan Taplin

Rock N Roll Pantheon

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2021 47:44


Jonathan Taplin, former road manager for The Band, has done it all. He set up the equipment for Dylan's electric set at Newport in ‘65 (“the soundcheck lasted ten minutes”) and was production manager for Dylan and The Band at the Guthrie Tribute in '68. He organised the groundbreaking Concert For Bangladesh and produced the concert and film of The Last Waltz. Oh, and he was responsible for Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets getting made.Jon “was brought into the circle” by Albert Grossman (“after Bob left and Janis died, Albert got his heart broken”). He saw “all the junkie signs” when he met Keith Richards in the South of France and left Rock behind when he saw what drugs were doing to his friends and the music he loved. He passionately blames illegal Napster downloads for Levon Helm's financial problems (“the record world dropped off a cliff”). With a cast list including Scorsese, Clapton, Robertson and Dylan (“Bob was a really good teacher”), Jonathan Taplin tells us definitively where it was at.Jonathan Taplin is a writer, film producer and scholar. He began his entertainment career as tour manager for the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and organised Bob Dylan and The Band's appearance at the Isle of Wight Festival. Between 1973 and 1996, Taplin produced many television documentaries and feature films including Under Fire and To Die For. His films were nominated for Oscars and Golden Globes and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times. His book “Move Fast And Break Things” (2017) is subtitled “How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy”. His latest book “The Magic Years” (2021) is about the rock ‘n' roll side of his life. Jon is the Director Emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California.WebsiteTrailerTwitterSpotify playlistListeners: please subscribe and/or leave a review and a rating.Twitter @isitrollingpodRecorded 7th June 2021This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan

Jonathan Taplin, former road manager for The Band, has done it all. He set up the equipment for Dylan's electric set at Newport in ‘65 (“the soundcheck lasted ten minutes”) and was production manager for Dylan and The Band at the Guthrie Tribute in '68. He organised the groundbreaking Concert For Bangladesh and produced the concert and film of The Last Waltz. Oh, and he was responsible for Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets getting made.Jon “was brought into the circle” by Albert Grossman (“after Bob left and Janis died, Albert got his heart broken”). He saw “all the junkie signs” when he met Keith Richards in the South of France and left Rock behind when he saw what drugs were doing to his friends and the music he loved. He passionately blames illegal Napster downloads for Levon Helm's financial problems (“the record world dropped off a cliff”). With a cast list including Scorsese, Clapton, Robertson and Dylan (“Bob was a really good teacher”), Jonathan Taplin tells us definitively where it was at.Jonathan Taplin is a writer, film producer and scholar. He began his entertainment career as tour manager for the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and organised Bob Dylan and The Band's appearance at the Isle of Wight Festival. Between 1973 and 1996, Taplin produced many television documentaries and feature films including Under Fire and To Die For. His films were nominated for Oscars and Golden Globes and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times. His book “Move Fast And Break Things” (2017) is subtitled “How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy”. His latest book “The Magic Years” (2021) is about the rock ‘n' roll side of his life. Jon is the Director Emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California.WebsiteTrailerTwitterEpisode playlist on AppleEpisode playlist on SpotifyListeners: please subscribe and/or leave a review and a rating.Twitter @isitrollingpodRecorded 7th June 2021This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

Rock N Roll Pantheon
The Band: A History - Jonathan Taplin

Rock N Roll Pantheon

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2021 68:26


Fans of The Band may know Jonathan Taplin from his time as a road manger for The Band, but Jon's career spans several decades in multiple industries. A Princeton grad who marched with Martin Luther King, he was drawn to folk music from people like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and soon found himself working for Albert Grossman, Dylan's manager.Not long after he went on to work with The Band for several years during their seminal years making their second album, playing Woodstock, Isle of Wight and much more. He left The Band in 1971 to do a number of things from his time with the Rolling Stones, producing movies like Mean Streets with Martin Scorsese to coming back into the fold and producing The Last Waltz. Jonathan is now an academic and author and his latest book "The Magic Years: Scenes From A Rock N Roll Life" is coming out May 14. You can learn more and pre-order the book here.This show is a part of Pantheon Podcasts.

The Band: A History
Interview: Jonathan Taplin

The Band: A History

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2021 68:26


Fans of The Band may know Jonathan Taplin from his time as a road manger for The Band, but Jon's career spans several decades in multiple industries. A Princeton grad who marched with Martin Luther King, he was drawn to folk music from people like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and soon found himself working for Albert Grossman, Dylan's manager.Not long after he went on to work with The Band for several years during their seminal years making their second album, playing Woodstock, Isle of Wight and much more. He left The Band in 1971 to do a number of things from his time with the Rolling Stones, producing movies like Mean Streets with Martin Scorsese to coming back into the fold and producing The Last Waltz. Jonathan is now an academic and author and his latest book "The Magic Years: Scenes From A Rock N Roll Life" is coming out May 14. You can learn more and pre-order the book here.

Jim and Mike TALK
THE LAST WALTZ review - THE BAND, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond - Top 10 - April 1976 - SHOW #17

Jim and Mike TALK

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 67:20


Today Jim and Mike talk about the 1976 film THE LAST WALTZ and end the show with the US Top 10 from the week ending April 10th, 1976.   ABOUT THE LAST WALTZ The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The Last Waltz was advertised as The Band's "farewell concert appearance", and the concert saw The Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including their previous employers Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan as well as Paul Butterfield, Bobby Charles, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, and Neil Young. The musical director for the concert was The Band's original record producer, John Simon. The event was filmed by director Martin Scorsese and made into a documentary of the same title, released in 1978. Jonathan Taplin, who was The Band's tour manager from 1969 to 1972 and later produced Scorsese's film Mean Streets, suggested that Scorsese would be the ideal director for the project and introduced Robbie Robertson and Scorsese. Taplin served as executive producer. The film features concert performances, intermittent song renditions shot on a studio soundstage, and interviews by Scorsese with members of The Band. A triple-LP soundtrack recording, produced by Simon and Rob Fraboni, was issued in 1978. The film was released on DVD in 2002 as was a four-CD box set of the concert and related studio recordings. The Last Waltz is hailed as one of the greatest documentary concert films ever made,[3] although it has been criticized for its focus on Robertson.  In 2019, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ************ Also Jim and Mike go over in detail the TOP 10 songs from the week ending April 10th, 1976 which were: 1  - DISCO LADY - Johnnie Taylor  2 -  DREAM WEAVER -  Gary Wright  3  - LONELY NIGHT (Angel Face)  - The Captain and Tennille  4 -  LET YOUR LOVE FLOW - The Bellamy Brothers  5  -  RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM - Maxine Nightingale 6  - DREAM ON - Aerosmith  7 -  BOOGIE FEVER - The Sylvers  8 -  ONLY SIXTEEN -  Dr. Hook  9 -  SWEET LOVE - The Commodores  10 - GOLDEN YEARS - David Bowie 

The Emergent Order Podcast
From Dylan to Disney and Beyond with Jonathan Taplin

The Emergent Order Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2019 127:30


In this episode of the podcast, John Papola and Jon Taplin discuss philosophy, literature, and life lessons learned throughout Taplin's extensive and varied career. Taplin has done everything from going on the road as a tour manager with Bob Dylan, to producing movies (including once being a key part of a massive Disney deal), to being one of the entrepreneurs behind the first video on-demand service: Intertainer. He then took these experiences into his career as an educator and author. More from our guest: Personal Website Amazon Author Page Wikipedia Page Annenberg Bio Twitter Page Medium Blog IMDb Page References from this episode: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg "Ideological Dorks" with Jonah Goldberg on Libertarianism.org's podcast Move Fast and Break Things by Jonathan Taplin The Triumph of Conservatism by Gabriel Kolko Mean Streets (movie) Under Fire (movie) Wings of Desire (movie) Paris, Texas (movie) To Die For (movie) Cadillac Desert (series) Shine (movie)

The Harper’s Podcast
The Progressive Case For States' Rights

The Harper’s Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2018 55:04


By 2040, 70 percent of Americans will live in 15 states. The Republican Party, led by a president elected by a minority of voters, is advancing a set of policies that fewer and fewer Americans support, and with four sitting Supreme Court justices appointed by either President Trump or President George W. Bush, who also lost the popular vote, the impact of this imbalance of power is likely to be felt for decades to come. With political divisions seemingly becoming ever more intractable, are fears that the United States is on the brink of a second civil war really so far-fetched? In his November cover story “Rebirth of a Nation,” Jonathan Taplin proposes that, in order to protect and advance the interests of the majority, progressives must fight to counter federal power, in favor of a new emphasis on states' rights. In this episode, Taplin joins web editor Violet Lucca to discuss why decentralization is the way forward, how states like California are leading the way, and why he is not optimistic about the so-called blue wave in the upcoming midterm elections.

Business Daily
Netflix vs the Silver Screen

Business Daily

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 17:28


Does Netflix threaten to wipe out the traditional cinema in much the same way that it already annihilated video rentals?The online streaming service is spending a lot of money on producing original movies, and its refusal to give them a public screening has led to a bust up with the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. But are these arbiters of the art of the silver screen right to fear Netflix's encroachments?Manuela Saragosa speaks to Hollywood producer Brian Udovich, author Jonathan Taplin and film critic Jason Solomons.(Picture: Empty cinema auditorium with popcorn strewn across the floor; Credit: Ingram Publishing/Getty Images)

Scheer Intelligence
Jonathan Taplin: Move Fast and Break Things

Scheer Intelligence

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2017 37:47


The professor and music industry insider discusses the downside of the tech industry's rise.

The String
Jonathan Taplin / Col. Bruce Hampton

The String

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2017 59:59


  The dream of a democratic internet has become a dystopia of unregulated monopolies. Creators are being devastated - deprived of their income and control by a handful of tech behemoths. That's the analysis of Jonathan Taplin in the new book MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. Taplin is director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California. He's had a wide-ranging career that began in the 1960s as road manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, movie producer for Martin Scorsese, and - as a consequence - he was the executive producer of The Last Waltz, the landmark 1976 concert film documenting the final show by that The Band. Our conversation took place before a live audience at Nashville's City Winery in March 2017 as part of a book tour stop presented by Nashville's Who Knew speaker series. Taplin outlines his case against Google, Facebook and Apple and offers some ideas to tilt the playing field back toward the interests of creators. Also in this hour, an unaired interview with Col. Bruce Hampton and a historic return to the Ryman Auditorium by Emmylou Harris.