Michael Jackson’s last guitarist, Australian Orianthi has a new album, and tales of how she got from Down Under to the international radar screen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/orianthi/id1316200737?i=1000687098778       https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/c4194786-84b0-42d6-858b-f1e284a6908e/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-orianthi

Last night I started reading the new Adam Ross book “Playworld.” It’s gotten great reviews, best of the year so far, and I loved his previous novel “Mr. Peanut.” And I was hooked by the very first sentence: “In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah […]

We are looking for great. I spent all day in the cancer ward at Cedars getting an infusion of IVIG for my pemphigus foliaceus. As the fourth doctor I saw in eighteen months who finally diagnosed it said… Don’t Google it. In any event, IVIG cleans out the toxins from the blood so you itch […]

578,000. That’s how many people watch CNN during primetime. If you had that number of streams on Spotify, you’d keep your day job. If you only got that number of views on YouTube or TikTok, you might call yourself an influencer, but you wouldn’t be that influential. But conventional wisdom is CNN is this monolith […]