Archive for the 'The Media' Category


Dan Beck-This Week’s Podcast

Dan Beck was Michael Jackson’s product manager and has written a book about the experience, “‘You’ve Got Michael’: Living Through HIStory.” If you want to know what it was like working at a record label in the pre-internet era, this is the place. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan-beck/id1316200737?i=1000768901251 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/8aed22c2-dda8-4684-af71-e4d4864ad6ef/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-dan-beck

Paul McCartney On SNL

Does he know how bad he was? Is he in a bubble, is it the emperor’s new clothes, does he not know how he comes across? In case you missed it, try this: It’s positively sad. Then again, athletes retire, why not musicians? Then again, musicians never retire, they say they do a few times, […]

Elizabeth Strout’s New Book

What kind of crazy, f*cked up world do we live in where we get a better description of, understanding of, delineation of, modern society, from Covid to Trump, in a book as opposed to any other entertainment medium, even the news! Now at this point Elizabeth Strout is mostly known for “Olive Kitteridge,” an award-winning […]

Joanna Stern’s AI Book

They should probably change the name. Most people believe AI actually thinks, akin to a human being. It does not, and if it ever will…that ability is years off according to the experts. No, what AI does is send out queries and assembles an answer from what comes back. So, when you hear about training… […]