From Civil Rights to Hollywood to Academia

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Jonathan 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.