Right this moment’s episode is an audio model of The Reason Livestream, which takes place each Thursday at 1 p.m. Jap on Purpose‘s YouTube channel.
The subject this week was the strikes by Hollywood writers and actors and the visitor was Rob Long, whose lengthy and storied profession within the leisure business contains stints writing and present operating for the basic sitcom Cheers, amongst many different issues. He is additionally a longtime contributor to Nationwide Evaluate, a columnist for Commentary, a co-creator of the net neighborhood and podcast platform Ricochet, and the host of the weekly radio commentary Martini Shot.
Zach Weissmueller and I talked with Lengthy about how the studios and streaming platforms like Netflix introduced most of their issues on themselves; whether or not fears of synthetic intelligence taking on Hollywood are overblown (spoiler alert: they’re); why studios and manufacturing firms refuse to create extra mass-audience content material just like the Roseanne reboot and High Gun: Maverick; and why Rob believes we’re in what he calls an “age of blunder,” the place actually good individuals in cost make actually horrible choices on every little thing from COVID-19 to overseas coverage to the creation and distribution of TV reveals and flicks.
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