Netflix and HBO: A United Front in a Time That Is Changed

HBO's leadership has for the most part been intact since Bella joined I think in 2020 or 2019 from NBC, but they've not been cycling through CEOs and for cheap content officers. Ted Saranda's been there since 2003 or 2002. Hastings just left that he had been there since the founding. They're two totally different companies and two totally different brands. But you will get what Bella has done in the last few years it's pretty amazing.

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Part of our mission with Making Media is to highlight great content across the internet. Earlier this year, we talked about influential business essays with one of our favorite writers, Packy McCormick. Today, Web Barr joins us to review the best of what we’ve seen, read, and heard so far in 2023. Web is a formidable media operator. He is a multiple-time Webby Award and Communication Arts winning producer at National Geographic magazine, was the Head of Content at Meet Cute, and is currently building something new in the media industry. He is one of the best curators of content we know. Enjoy!

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Show Notes

(00:03:06) - (First question) - How Web curates his media for recommendations

(00:04:21) - Web’s previous recommendation to read the screenplay for Get Out

(00:05:58) - Web explains why he enjoys reading screenplays eg. Interstellar and Everything Everywhere All At Once

Podcasts

(00:07:19) - Web: Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin. Guest: Jimmy Iovine

(00:13:19) - Dom: One Perfect Story: Wright Thompson on Writing about Michael Jordan

(00:17:16) - Matt: The Rewatchables: Whiplash with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessy

Books

(00:22:00) - Web: The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew

(00:27:48) - Dom: Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

(00:30:18) - Matt: Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maitre D’